The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) is asking the Biden administration to appeal a federal court ruling that struck down faster harvest facility line speeds.
Andrew Baily, science and technology counsel with NPPC, says the ruling leaves pork producers “scrambling” to find other processors as harvest capacity diminishes. “This creates a tighter market in terms of shackle spaces at hog harvest facilities, which makes it tougher for producers to find places for their hogs and runs the risk of especially the smaller producers losing the contracts they have and going out on the open market.”
NPPC says USDA has until the end of August to file an appeal after the regulation went into effect Wednesday.
