WASHINGTON, D.C. (NAFB) – The Department of Agriculture already agreed to comply with a court order ending faster pork slaughter line speeds, but a top Ag senator says ‘hold on a minute.’

Iowa U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, who hails from the largest pork producing state, says the cost of the recent court order striking a Trump Administration rule allowing faster line speeds could be huge.

So, Grassley’s taking matters into his own hands, on the National Swine Slaughter Inspection System.

Grassley, meantime, met with Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow and Ag panel GOP leaders to press for a hearing before the August recess on cattle market pricing reforms. A bipartisan Grassley bill would require cash trades on half of cattle transactions, now largely contract deals by a handful of major packers.