NCBA Cheers Packers & Stockyards Act Extension
With your Southeast Regional Ag News, I am Haylie Shipp. This is the Ag Information Network.
Well, it happened. The U.S. Department of Agriculture just announced a 45-day extension of the comment period for the proposed rule titled, “Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity Under the Packers and Stockyards Act.” The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is welcoming that extension. NCBA Senior Director of Government Affairs Tanner Beymer…
“The filing spreads 180 pages of the federal register. And producers need the opportunity to unpack all of those little nuances in the preamble and in the rule itself. We also need to respond. The rule making asked 44 specific questions to commenters and only gave folks sixty days to respond to those questions.”
While he was celebrating the extension, Tanner did say he wasn’t sure if another 45 days would still be enough time…
“This is one of several rules that the Department has alluded to over the next couple years. And these rules all speak to one another, right, so they are all in the same section of the code of federal regulations. They’re going to play off of each other. And it’s difficult for us to put together comprehensive comments on one rule when we don’t know what the other ones are that are going to play off of each other in practice.”
Again NCBA Senior Director of Government Affairs Tanner Beymer.
