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1 1 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO.
1 2 BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION
1 3 RESOLUTION BY CHAIRPERSON IVERSON)
1 4 A Concurrent Resolution requesting that the Attorney
1 5 General of the State of Iowa vigorously enforce Iowa
1 6 corporate farming law which prohibits processors from
1 7 owning, controlling, or operating a feedlot in Iowa
1 8 in which hogs or cattle are fed for slaughter.
1 9 WHEREAS, under Iowa Code section 9H.2 of Iowa's corporate
1 10 farming law, it is unlawful for any processor of beef or pork
1 11 to own, control, or operate a feedlot in Iowa in which hogs or
1 12 cattle are fed for slaughter; and
1 13 WHEREAS, processors are attempting to circumvent the legal
1 14 prohibitions provided in Iowa Code section 9H.2 by using
1 15 various direct and indirect schemes to control feedlots,
1 16 including by providing financing to or executing production
1 17 contracts with persons who own or operate feedlots in Iowa;
1 18 and
1 19 WHEREAS, Smithfield Foods, Inc. has financed the
1 20 acquisition by Stoecker Farms, Inc. of the Iowa operations of
1 21 Murphy Family Farms; and
1 22 WHEREAS, it is the sense of the Iowa General Assembly that
1 23 the use by processors of various direct and indirect schemes
1 24 to control feedlots in Iowa in which hogs or cattle are fed
1 25 for slaughter constitutes the impermissible control of a
1 26 feedlot in violation of Iowa Code section 9H.2; and
1 27 WHEREAS, the Attorney General of the State of Iowa is
1 28 responsible for the enforcement of Iowa's corporate farming
1 29 law, including Iowa Code section 9H.2, by instituting suits on
1 30 behalf of the state to prevent and restrain violations of that
1 31 section and to seek civil penalties as provided in Iowa Code
1 32 section 9H.3; NOW THEREFORE,
1 33 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1 34 CONCURRING, That the Iowa General Assembly urges the Attorney
1 35 General of the State of Iowa to enforce the provisions of Code
2 1 section 9H.2 against processors who use any direct or indirect
2 2 scheme in order to own, operate, or control a feedlot in Iowa
2 3 in which hogs or cattle are fed for slaughter, including the
2 4 vigorous enforcement of provisions prohibiting processors from
2 5 providing financing to persons who own or operate such
2 6 feedlots or controlling such feedlots by use of production
2 7 contracts.
2 8 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, upon passage, a copy of this
2 9 Resolution be sent by the Secretary of the Senate to the
2 10 Attorney General of the State of Iowa.
2 11 LSB 3640XC 79
2 12 da/gg/8.1
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