The Minnesota Pork Producers Association will be setting their state legislative agenda and discussing issues important to the industry in 2018 at their annual meeting on January 15 in Minneapolis. Minnesota Pork Executive Director Dave Preisler says one resolution will look at transportation funding sources in the state, with the heavy reliance on modern rural roads and bridges to get hogs to market.

Another resolution involves a program to require packers and pork producers to be involved in mandatory animal identification.

Preisler says there will also be some key legislative shifts and races in Minnesota in 2018 that will be important to agriculture.

And National Pork Producers Council President Ken Maschoff will also speak at the annual meeting on federal policy, including trade and the ongoing NAFTA renegotiation talks.