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330 AG ORGANIZATIONS SEND LETTER TO SEN. JOHN BOOZMAN TO RESOLVE PROP 12
Jun. 30, 2026
Source: National Pork Producers Council (NPPC)
Des Moines, IA -- NPPC and 330 other national, state, and local agricultural organizations are urging the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee to include language in the panel's final bill to address the problems caused by California Proposition 12. Chairman John Boozman's (R-AR) discussion draft does not include a fix to Prop. 12.
In a letter to Boozman and committee Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the farm groups asked that a provision preempting Prop. 12 be added to the Senate farm bill. To read the letter click here.
The House on April 30 approved its farm bill with such language after NPPC sent a similar letter to House leadership.
The organizations pointed out that both the Trump and Biden administrations recognized the consequences of Prop. 12 - compliance costs, higher meat prices, lower production - are untenable. They also noted that in rejecting an NPPC-led lawsuit against the California initiative, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2023 ruled "only Congress has the authority to prevent chaos in the marketplace and provide farmers with the certainty they need" by addressing Prop. 12.
The House Prop. 12 provision would preserve the principles of interstate commerce, prohibiting states and localities, as a condition for selling meat and poultry products in their jurisdictions, from enacting or enforcing production standards for animals raised outside their borders.
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