Reject California's Prop 50 and Mexico's New Screwworm Regulations
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**California Farm Bureau President Shannon Douglass is calling on the state’s farmers, ranchers and rural residents to reject Proposition 50.
If passed, the ballot measure, which goes before voters in a special election Nov. 4, would give partisan lawmakers permission to gerrymander California’s congressional map.
Douglass says Proposition 50 poses a threat to Farm Bureau members because it will undermine rural representation in Congress.
**National Farmers Union President Rob Larew reacted positively to a recent announcement from the USDA and Department of Justice.
He issued a statement applauding the news after the two agencies came together in a new initiative to scrutinize competitive conditions in the agricultural marketplace.
Larew says American agriculture is at a breaking point.
Rising input costs are hitting family farmers and ranchers hard, and corporate consolidation is a major cause.
**Mexico’s government instituted new regulations on livestock movement because of their New World screwworm infestation and as tensions with the U.S. continues to heat up.
Mexico’s meat chamber AMEG said restricting the movement of livestock from the south to the northern part of the country “threatens the economic viability of the sector that generated $192 billion in 2024.”
AMEG says recent measures jeopardize the supply chain of the meat production sector.
