A national U.S. pork organization is lobbying the Canadian federal government to drop its tariffs on the U.S. pork industry. According to a blog entry on the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) website, the NPPC has written to Canada’s Department of Finance, noting that “tit-for-tat tariff exchanges” will disrupt supply chains built between the two […] Read more
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VIDEO: MacAulay boosts Canada at expo
DES MOINES, Iowa — Federal agriculture minister Lawrence MacAulay gave Canadian farmers and agriculture a big boost at this year’s World Pork Expo by touring the show, meeting American industry leaders and hosting a who’s-who of Iowa business leaders at a reception. The visit by a Canadian agriculture minister to this event was the first […] Read more
VIDEO: Quiet on ASF front doesn’t mean danger is gone
The North American hog industry has gone quiet on the ASF front, but that isn’t because the risk of infection from offshore is any less severe. As Dr. Anna Forseth, director of animal health with the National Pork Producers Council, tells us in this video, after years of preparation for an ASF outbreak, producers and […] Read more
Congress eyes overturning animal welfare law
Major U.S. hog pork producers are divided over whether federal lawmakers should overturn California’s Proposition 12
(Reuters) — Some big American pork producers who have spent money to comply with a California law requiring more living space for certain farm animals are lukewarm about legislation proposed in the United States Congress that would overturn the state law. The National Pork Producers Council, the pork industry trade group, supports the Ending Agricultural […] Read more
Traceability gaps hurt regionalization
North America’s African swine fever strategy is based on regionalization agreements, but U.S. behind in traceability efforts
With regionalization, rather than a whole country or continent being banned from the world market, only the region in which an outbreak has occurred would face the most severe restrictions, like a ban on hog movement.
