A first-generation pork producer says his family hasn’t made any changes to their operation to become compliant with California’s Proposition 12.
Mark Legan has a breed-to-wean facility west of Indianapolis. “As my daughter would say, we had open pen gestation before it was cool,” he says. Proposition 12 is the law that requires pork sold in California to be raised under strict guidelines. He tells Brownfield retrofitting their operation didn’t make sense. “Moving to a Prop 12 compliance system would increase our cost somewhere between 20% and 25%,” he says.
