Source: FARM PROGRESS, 7/12/21


The National Pork Producers Council filed comments July 12 in response to California’s Department of Food and Agriculture’s proposed rules for implementing for Proposition 12 – the voter-approved mandate specifying animal production space requirements. Although these rules to detail how producers could comply with the additional space requirements were due by September 2019, the agency only issued its proposal in May 2021, with comments due July 12. Prop 12 prohibits the sale in California...

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