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Pork producers warn of aging barns, permitting hurdles and disease threats to supply chain
Summary
Pennsylvania pork industry leaders said many confinement barns are aging while new barn demand has surged, permitting delays and financing gaps hinder construction, and disease threats (African swine fever, PRRS) make biosecurity and infrastructure investments urgent.
Coleman Wagner, president of the Pennsylvania Pork Producers Council, told the Agriculture & Rural Affairs hearing that Pennsylvania's hog industry faces an infrastructure inflection point: many confinement facilities are nearing the end of their useful life while demand for new barns has risen more than 40% since 2019.
Wagner said the industry relies largely on contract finishing arrangements and that new…
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