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What’s Included in the House Farm Bill?

Published May 1, 2026

The House-passed farm bill is a comprehensive piece of legislation. It includes a doubling of funding for the Market Access Program and Foreign Market Development trade promotion programs, improvements in the Conservation Reserve Program and updates for precision agriculture. Lesser-known…

Prop 12 Fight Continues

Published April 17, 2026

Researchers at North Dakota State University's Agricultural Risk Policy Center found price increases due to California’s Prop 12 have continued two years after the law was implemented. California consumers have seen pork prices up an average of 20 percent compared…

Pork Producers Back Plan to Curb Prop 12

Published February 18, 2026

House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn 'GT' Thompson’s Farm Bill 2.0 proposal included updates that would overturn or severely limit California’s Prop 12 impact on out-of-state producers. National Pork Producers Council President Duane Stateler said the move would greatly reduce costs…

Prop 12, Q3 Policies Addressed in Farm Bill Proposal

Published February 15, 2026

Controversial state policies, such as California’s Prop 12 and Massachusetts Q3, are addressed in the new farm bill text. It says state and local governments cannot impose regulations on how livestock is produced outside their borders, protecting farmers and ranchers…

Prop 12, Q3 Addressed in Farm Bill Proposal

Published February 14, 2026

Prop 12 Challenged

Published September 26, 2025

St. Joseph, Missouri-based Triumph Foods is suing the State of California over Proposition 12, alleging it unfairly discriminates against out-of-state pork producers. Triumph had success with a similar case challenging the Question 3 animal rights initiative in Massachusetts. Triumph Foods…

Food Fight-Policies are Starving Productivity

Published August 23, 2025

Policies supporting biofuels, organic agriculture and small farms may be putting food security at risk. That’s the premise of a new book written by Sandstone, Minnesota native Richard Sexton called Food Fight. Sexton, who is an ag economics professor at…

Dems Take Steps to Protect Prop 12 and Q3

Published July 15, 2025

A group of 32 Democratic senators has signed off on a letter of ‘strong opposition’ to a farm bill that would overturn state laws, like California’s Prop 12 and Q3 in Massachusetts. If included in the ‘skinny farm bill,’ the…

NPPC Asks Congress to Intervene on Prop 12

Published February 27, 2025

In testimony before the Senate Agriculture Committee, National Pork Producers Council President Lori Stevermer said American Agriculture is being put at risk by California’s Proposition 12 "which has increased farmers' operating cost, created business uncertainty, and raised pork prices at…

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Healing Still Needed

Published June 8, 2024

Increasing retail pork prices might lead some Californians to regret their vote on Proposition 12. "I'm not sure that consumers have made the connection with what they're seeing at the grocery store and what they voted on back in 2018,"…

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What’s Included in the House Farm Bill?

Prop 12 Fight Continues

Pork Producers Back Plan to Curb Prop 12

Prop 12, Q3 Policies Addressed in Farm Bill Proposal

Prop 12, Q3 Addressed in Farm Bill Proposal

Prop 12 Challenged

Food Fight-Policies are Starving Productivity

Dems Take Steps to Protect Prop 12 and Q3

NPPC Asks Congress to Intervene on Prop 12

Healing Still Needed

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