Senators Seek Funding for Pork Producers Forced to Euthanize Livestock

US hog farmers in dire straits as farms face 'animal welfare crisis'

Hog farmer Mike Paustian interacts with some of his piglets in his farm in Walcott, Iowa, on May 17, 2019. REUTERS/Tom Polansek

U.S. Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with 12 of their colleagues, are calling in a bipartisan effort for additional financial assistance for Iowa pork producers who are enduring the brunt of restaurant and meat processing plant closures during the pandemic.

“The crisis is immediate," Sen. Joni Ernst said May 11. “I sent a bipartisan letter urging additional support for producers who are being forced to depopulate livestock herds.”