Source: Jerry Hagstrom, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 4/8/22

Lawmakers proved more receptive to the National Pork Producers Council's arguments that American pigs must be protected from foreign diseases than they were to calls for immigration reform and trade challenges, NPPC officials said Thursday after the group's first fly-in to Washington in two and a half years. NPPC President Terry Wolters, owner of Stoney Creek Farms in Pipestone, Minn., told reporters that more than 100 members had visited with members of Congress and asked for more funding to fight African swine fever (AFS) which has appeared in the Dominican Republic.

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