Special Report
NPPC monitoring farm bill activities
The National Pork Producers Council has a keen interest in the 2012 farm bill. At a World Pork Expo news conference, one of the co-chairs of the NPPC’s farm bill task force, Sam Carney of Adair, Iowa, talked about items of importance to pork producers—including a catastrophic risk-management insurance program study, beginning farmer and rancher programs to allow better access to capital, and a reduction in the Conservation Reserve Program.
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