Hagedorn Asks Perdue To Stop Meat Processing Discrimination

It’s time to address the emerging disparity in processing market-ready hogs and make sure independent farmers are being treated fairly, Minnesota Rep. Jim Hagedorn said in a letter to USDA Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on Friday.

“COVID-19 has inflicted unprecedented losses to the livestock sector, which has irreparably impacted countless producers and family farmers in Minnesota and throughout the nation. Many independent pork farmers are responsible for all input costs, putting them at grave financial risk if animals are not processed on-time,” Hagedorn wrote.