More than 100 pork producers from 20 states traveled to Washington, D.C., in mid-September to call on Congress to deliver an urgent legislative fix to California’s Proposition 12, which is driving up costs for consumers, threatening small family farms and disrupting interstate commerce.

The event was sponsored by the National Pork Producers Council, but Farm Bureau has also been heavily involved in this issue.

Producers met with members of Congress and staff to share firsthand accounts of how Prop 12’s costly requirements are forcing sweeping changes across the pork supply chain.