The Biden administration has released new regulations under the Packers and Stockyards Act to protect producers against retaliation and discriminatory practices by meat processors.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says the proposed Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity Rules would no longer require a producer to prove the action impact the entire industry, which was burdensome to producers. “What we’re talking about is something that is induvial to the producer, some action that is taken directly at the producer if it is in fact retaliation, if in fact it is discriminatory, if it in fact reflects undue prejudice, then there ought to be a recourse.”
This is the second of three rules that the USDA is developing to protect farmers and ranchers from abuse and promote market integrity and competition in the livestock meats, poultry and live poultry markets.
