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By Larry Dreiling
A large focus of the recent Texas Cattle Feeders Association's annual convention in Oklahoma City was adding to the flood of comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration's proposed regulations on contract meat production.
As part of the 2008 farm bill, language was included directing GIPSA to issue regulations regarding poultry and swine contracts; arbitration use in contracts; and to establish criteria for the secretary to consider in determining whether an undue or unreasonable preference or advantage has occurred in violation of the Packers and Stockyards Act.
Nearly a year after the congressionally mandated deadline for release, GIPSA finally released their proposed rule on June 22. As an affiliate of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, TCFA is joined in NCBA's concerns tha tmany of the provisions in this rule are based on proposals and amendments that were defeated by Congress during debate on the 2008 farm bill. The components of this proposed rule hurt producers and could drastically change the way cattle are marketed in the United States. [Read More]

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