House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn GT Thompson heard farm bill priorities from farmers in La Crosse, Wisconsin Wednesday.
Familiar issues like protecting crop insurance, expanding base acres, trade, and labor were brought up, but pork producer AV Roth asked the chairman if the farm bill can address the state-by-state patchwork of regulations for raising hogs that began with California’s Proposition 12. “We have to be this way to sell in this state, and Massachusets is coming out with it, and Arizona.
