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More than half of the pork board’s checkoff grants went to research at Iowa State University, which is located in the state that produces the most hogs in the country.

Chuck Grassley says measure will ‘make sure Iowa pork can be sold everywhere in the nation’

Animals built to move should be allowed to move. It’s an elemental principle behind California’s Proposition 12, which was just …

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Iowa farm groups are decrying a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday that upholds a California animal cruelty law that regulates livestock confinement practices. The law regulates the confinement practices of birthing sows, veal calves and egg-laying hens whose products are sold in California, including those produced outside the state.

The case before the court involved California’s Proposition 12, which voters passed in 2018. It said that pork sold in the state needs to come from pigs whose mothers were raised with at least 24 square feet of space, with the ability to lie down and turn around. That rules out confined “gestation crates,” metal enclosures that are common in the pork industry. The Iowa-based National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation sued.

There are 23.6 million hogs in Iowa, compared with the state’s 3.2 million people. Although this is a decrease in hogs of 1.3 percent in the last year, Iowa still is the top producer of swine in the country.

There are 23.6 million hogs in Iowa, compared with the state’s 3.2 million people. Although this is a decrease in hogs of 1.3 percent in the last year, Iowa still is the top producer of swine in the country.

American consumers and nearly every industry will be affected if freight trains grind to a halt next month.

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