DOJ Clears Pork Industry's Plan to Collaborate on Euthanizing Hogs

After facing struggles with trade disputes and labor shortages, U.S. pork farmers were hoping to have a profitable year. Then the coronavirus outbreak drastically changed that expectation. As plants have temporarily shuttered to quell the spread of coronavirus among workers, the supply chain has backed up and hog farmers are hurting with no where to send their animals.With this new plan, the NPPC is hoping to help farmers and state governments identify sources for equipment to cull hog herds and set up centralized euthanasia and disposal areas, the trade group said. That process includes disseminating projections for the number of hogs those facilities can handle each day, as well as collaborating with the industry to discuss the most efficient euthanization process.