The National Chicken Council, the National Turkey Federation and the North American Meat Institute have requested a 180-day extension for comments for the proposed Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity Rule under the Packers and Stockyards Act. The industry associations claim that Agricultural Marketing Service is exceeding its authority and a number of legal questions need to be addressed in comments. The letter submitted by the four industry associations addressed to Bruce Summers, Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service, suggested that the Agency withdraw the proposal along with the June 8th rule relating to broiler contractors and establish a single proposal with an appropriate comment period.
Subscribers are referred to the editorial in EGG-NEWS posted on October 7th relating to motivation by the current Administration to attempt to address nonexistent problems.