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USDA Extends Comment Period for Proposed PSA Regulations

11/26/2022

Responding to Congressional pressure and requests by agricultural organizations, the USDA has extended, by six weeks, the comment period for responses to the proposed Packers and Stockyards Act (PSA) regulations.  The initial deadline for comment for the proposed regulations was January 17th.

 

The “Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity under the Packers and Stockyards Act” initiative would represent a revision to the 1921 Act intended to “prohibit certain prejudices against market-vulnerable individuals that tend to exclude or disadvantage covered producers in those markets”. The intended regulations date from the Obama Administration. The USDA, under then and now current Secretary, Tom Vilsack, function under the misapprehension that contract growers and raisers of beef and pork are disadvantaged by integrators and packers.  Accordingly, he and the USDA intend to restructure the livestock industry to resolve nonexistent problems but with the likely potential of generating disruption through unintended consequences.

 

The socialistic programs and intentions of USDA will be curtailed by the 118th Congress that, among other activities, will have to frame the Farm Bill that will deprive a number of current and intended USDA programs of funding.


 
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