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NPPC Pushes to Reauthorize Mandatory Price Reporting
Jul 15, 2005 12:00 PM,
by Joe Vansickle, Senior Editor (952) 851-4670; jvansickle@primediabusiness.com
In a congressional hearing June 22, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) urged members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry to support a five-year reauthorization of mandatory price reporting to provide an accurate and timely marketing price reporting system. The system expires Sept. 30, 2005.
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