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The global food company JBS USA has recently announced it will be buying “certain assets” of an Iowa-based pork producer.

The world’s largest fast-food chain is taking a stance against the pork industry with a lawsuit filed just after Thanksgiving.

Trish and her husband Aaron own and operate CBL Farms in Winthrop Iowa

From 1982 to 2017, the number of hog farms in Iowa fell 86 percent—but that doesn’t mean the number of hogs in Iowa went down with it.

Prop 12 has been a big topic in the pork industry for a while now and with the new year, producers were preparing to see some big changes. Steve Meyer an Economist with Partners for Production Agriculture spoke to pork producers at the Iowa Pork Congress about the latest update on the law.

Kevin Rasmussen is the new president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association. Rasmussen is a pig farmer, finishing 8,000 head of hog a year in Humboldt County.

Market access is important to producers. According to the NPPC, over 25 percent of pork production is exported to other markets. In 2020, the US pork industry exported $7.7 billion in pork and pork products to over 100 countries.

India has agreed to allow imports of U.S. pork and pork products into its country.

According to Law Street Media, grocers such as Hy-Vee, Kroger, Albertsons, and U.S. Foods are accusing pork processors of conspiring prices of meat sold to them between 2009 and 2018.

Have your bacon and eat it too: why California's new animal cruelty laws give Iowa an advantage.