U.S. Senate’s Farm Bill 2.0 Marked up without Resolving Prop 12
The group says Proposition 12 raises costs for more than 60,000 pork producers and wants a federal fix in the farm bill.
- On Wednesday, the Senate Agriculture Committee passed its Farm Bill markup along party lines, omitting a federal solution for California's Proposition 12 livestock rules that the National Pork Producers Council actively sought.
- The NPPC argues Proposition 12 increases costs and creates uncertainty for the nation's more than 60,000 pork producers facing conflicting state livestock housing regulations that threaten production practices.
- NPPC President Rob Brenneman stated producers need a five-year farm bill protecting them from differing state animal welfare laws, noting North Carolina's pork industry carries a $10.8 billion economic impact.
- The Humane World Action Fund welcomed the proposal's exclusion of the Save Our Bacon Act. "The Senate Agriculture Committee leadership pointedly refused to let special interests poison the Farm Bill," said President Sara Amundson.
- Reconciling the Senate's version with the House's Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 remains the next step, potentially involving secretive negotiations to resolve differences between the two chambers.
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