California’s Department of Food and Ag has announced modifications to the implementation of Proposition 12, providing some relief to the pork industry.
Iowa State University ag economist Lee Schulz says the six-month grace period was welcome news. “We know now that the CDFA will not enforce it till the end of the year,” he says. “In their language, it’s really anything that is in production is going to be able to work through that supply chain.”
He tells Brownfield that will also allow producers a little more time to become Prop 12 compliant, but even more time may be needed. “I say that because when you think about the pork we’re consuming today, it was based on production decisions 10 to 18 months ago.”
Schulz says there are producers who have already started building or have modified current facilities to become compliant.
