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Whos Feeding Our Elected Officials, Anyway?

2013-03-01 21:03:00| National Hog Farmer

March 1 has arrived, meaning that, apparently, as of today, the United States is all in on the budgetary sequester that has been in the news for weeks. As you probably know by now, sequestration is an across-the-board reduction in spending mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011. Dire predictions have been made by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack about furloughing meat inspectors as part of the budget reduction process, thus jeopardizing pork marketing channels in coming days. National Hog Farmer Blog read more

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