Pork groups are still looking for a legislative fix to California’s Prop-12.
The National Pork Producers Council tells AgInfo.Net that they are frustrated by piece-meal solutions.
According to their president, Duane Stateler:
“We don’t have a patchwork. In other words, we want to stop that there aren’t anymore Prop-12s in other statees, because we see what it’s done. I mean, i’ts raised anywhere from 20-40% depending upon the cut that you’re looking at now. We’ve had, you know, a year of this into it and we’ve seen what it has done to the prices and the reason... it not only does it slow me up as a producer because now at the place where we deliver our pigs, we have different time schedules.”
He says that those schedules becam a lot more complicated after Prop12 went into effect, because the packing plants have to sort between Prop-12 compliant and non-compliant lines.
They add that the fight is not about going against what voters called for. He says instead it boils down to consistency for the entire U.S. pork industry.
