The Agriculture Department is taking another shot at rewriting regulations restricting how meat and poultry processors can treat producers, and familiar battle lines are being redrawn ahead of an ...

REVA, S.D. -- Many livestock organizations representing our livestock industry are at odds over the correct interpretation and the intent of the proposed GIPSA rules. Battle lines have been drawn and ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 – Dudley Butler, administrator of USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), has tendered his resignation, effective Jan. 26, Agri-Pulse learned ...

Sonny Perdue continues to wait for the U.S. Senate to return from vacation to vote on his confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture, which now scheduled for April 24. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

REVA, S.D. -- Throughout history, "the last frontier" has been associated with the settling of the West during the 19th century. As children, this time of history was narrated through history books ...

FORT MORGAN – New regulations proposed by the USDA’s Grain Inspection Packers & Stockyards Administration – GIPSA – will hurt large and small cattle producers alike and if implemented, it will be ...

It was one of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s first major farm policy moves since taking office, but advocates for small farmers are worried that scrapping proposed GIPSA protections for poultry ...

USDA TO REVISIT GIPSA RULES IN 2019: USDA is planning to revive a rulemaking process aimed at balancing power between meatpacking companies and contract growers, more widely known as the GIPSA rules.

It is countdown time for the USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, or GIPSA’s proposed rule that would protect small family livestock farmers and ranchers from the historical ...

On December 11, USDA published the final rule for Undue and Unreasonable Preferences and Advantages under the Packers and Stockyards Act. This rule is the culmination of a multiyear path originating ...

For almost a month now, we’ve watched what DTN Ag Policy Editor Chris Clayton calls “the visceral political fight” over three changes to livestock marketing rules proposed by the U.S. Department of ...

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