Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee yesterday hammered USDA Chief Economist Joe Glauber about the livestock marketing rule proposed by USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration...More
The House of Representatives passed its fiscal year 2012 agriculture appropriations bill, which would limit USDA’s ability to finish the proposed Grain Inspection and Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) rule on livestock and poultry marketing....More
The House of Representatives is expected to consider the fiscal year 2012 agriculture appropriations bill this week. An issue may be the proposed Grain Inspection and Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) rule on livestock and poultry marketing...More
Few issues have generated as much controversy as USDA’s proposed rule for overhauling the U.S. livestock marketing system. USDA has received more than 60,000 comments on the GIPSA rule, with about 16,000 of them attributable to the pork industry....More
The House Appropriations Committee late yesterday passed a 2012 Appropriations Bill that includes language to prevent the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from finalizing the livestock marketing rule...More
The FY ’12 agriculture appropriations bill passed by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture would not allow any funds to be made available to “write,...More
Despite the bi-partisan support of 147 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he will not withdraw a proposed rule on buying and selling livestock and poultry...More
Over one-third of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives (147 Congressmen) are calling on Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to withdraw the proposed Grain Inspection and Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) rule on livestock marketing and issue a new...More
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) Wednesday praised 147 members of the House of Representatives for urging Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to withdraw a proposed rule on buying and selling livestock and poultry...More
Farm activist groups contend the proposed GIPSA (Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration) marketing rule is all about creating a level playing field for farmers...More
“As a meat scientist for more than 40 years and now as the president of the American Meat Institute Foundation (AMIF), I take great pride in talking about the ways this industry makes good meat even better. Unfortunately, recently proposed rules could undermine this point of pride and the greater economics across the country,” says AMIF President James Hodges...More
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack has said the agency plans to conduct a more thorough cost-benefit analysis of the livestock marketing rules proposed by the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA)...More
A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agency lacked or exceeded its authority to promulgate a proposed rule on buying and selling hogs, says the National Pork Producers Council in comments filed Friday....More
Rep. Ike Skelton (R-MO) has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reconsider conducting a comprehensive economic study of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) proposed livestock procurement rule...More
Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) joins a growing chorus of congressional members expressing strong opposition with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration’s (GIPSA) proposed rule dealing with livestock marketing...More