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IARN – California Proposition 12 may be here to stay, as the Senate Farm Bill does not include any legislation to address it. Several swine industry groups, including the National Pork Producers Council, expressed their disappointment in the decision and are working to get it included in the final version of the farm bill, but there are swine producers who have actually seen benefits in their swine operations after becoming compliant to Prop 12. One of those swine producers is Brent Hershey, owner and president of Hershey Ag, an independently owned diversified ag company that has been around since 1980. Hershey said he started out with gestation crates and was initially resistant to make the necessary changes to become Prop 12 compliant, but public perception led him to change his stance.
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