U.S. pork producers form a new lobby group called the Producer Consent (PC) program. (Association News).U.S. pork producers form a new lobby group called the Producer Consent (PC) program. Industry officials say the program is aimed at developing and influencing public policy both domestically and internationally. The PC program, in contrast to the Pork Checkoff, asks for voluntary funds to be used by the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC NPPC - National Pain Patients Coalition NPPC - National Passport Processing Center (US) NPPC - National Pollution Prevention Center NPPC - National Pork Producers Council NPPC - National Postal Policy Council NPPC - Navy Programming Planning Council NPPC - Northwest Power Planning Council (Olympia, Washington) NPPC - Nuclear Power Plant Consultant NPPC - Numeric Parts Preference Code), Urbandale Urbandale, city (1990 pop. 23,500), Polk co., central Iowa, a residential suburb of Des Moines; inc. 1917. The growing city has light industry and warehousing., Iowa. Producers voluntarily started last year by contributing 10 cents on every $100 worth of sales. Officials say it has collected more than $200,000 so far this year. "NPPC will use the funds collected through Producer Consent to aggressively represent the interest of U.S. pork producers--and when necessary, to engage in legal and political combat," says Kara Kara (kär`ə), river, c.140 mi (230 km) long, NE European and NW Siberian Russia. It flows N from the N Urals into the Kara Sea, forming part of the traditional border between European and Asian Russia. It is navigable in its lower course. Flynn, NPPC director of communications. |
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