Entries by Minnesota Pork Producers Association

NPPC Wants Taiwan To Lift Ractopamine Ban

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2012 – In a letter sent today to Obama administration trade officials, the National Pork Producers Council expressed its strong objection to re-opening Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) negotiations with Taiwan because of that country’s continued failure to lift a ban on a widely approved dietary additive used in pork […]

Coalition Urges Waiver Of RFS Because Of Drought Petition Asks EPA for One-Year Waiver of Ethanol Production Mandate

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2012 – As drought conditions become the worst in 50 years and corn yields are expected to drop significantly, a coalition of meat and poultry organizations today asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to waive the federal mandate for the production of corn ethanol. In a petition delivered to EPA Administrator […]

NPPC Says Trade Barriers Need To Fall

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2012 – Pork producers and the U.S. economy are losing billions of dollars in exports because of non-science-based food-safety and health barriers erected by foreign countries, the National Pork Producers Council today told a House subcommittee. Testifying on behalf of NPPC, Jim Boyer, a hog farmer from Ringsted, Iowa, told the […]

EPA Withdraws Farm Database Rule

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2012 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today withdrew a proposed rule that would have required large livestock and poultry farmers to report information about their operations and undermined court decisions related to producer obligations under the Clean Water Act, a move applauded by the National Pork Producers Council. EPA’s proposed […]