The National
Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and 20 of its state
affiliates-representing 95 percent of the U.S. hogs
marketed-recently urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to
take steps to lower livestock feed prices and ease the pressures on U.S. pork producers. Since
October, the pork industry has lost nearly $2 billion. NPPC
representatives met with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed
Schaffer to ask that USDA support a waiver of the biofuels
mandate, support the elimination of or significant reduction
in the ethanol blender's tax credit, support the elimination
of or significant reduction in the tariff on ethanol imported
into the United States, immediately, and without penalty,
release non-environmentally sensitive acres from the
Conservation Reserve Program and allow crop farmers to plant a
harvestable crop on those acres that could not be planted this
spring due to weather conditions, even though the farmer may
have collected a disaster payment on the ground. Under federal
energy policy, the ethanol industry this year is required to
produce 9 billion gallons of corn-ethanol.
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