Freedom to operate important to pork industry

The president of the National Pork Producers Council says freedom to operate is the biggest challenge facing the nation’s pork producers.

“If the pigs do well, we do well and that’s what drives us,” he says. “We need that choice.”

Scott Hays tells Brownfield federal and state regulations, including the Waters of the United States rule, makes farming more difficult.

“WOTUS is like that bad penny that keeps showing up.

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