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Trump’s Executive Orders part of cattlemen’s discussions

The recent flurry of executive orders issued by President Trump will give the nation’s cattlemen plenty to discuss at this week’s Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville.

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association president Tracy Brunner says most of President Trump’s actions last week didn’t come as a surprise.

And while not all of the executive orders were welcomed, like withdrawing the US from TPP negotiations, the NCBA was happy to see the delay of the GIPSA Farmer Fair Practice Rules.  “There’s a quality beef revolution going on in our industry today,” he says.  “It’s driven by the rewards that producers receive for value added programs.  The GIPSA rule would place in jeopard a processor paying anything more than an average price for all the cattle that they purchase.”

But he tells Brownfield those won’t be the only issues covered in Nashville this week.  “More and more – beef producers are growing concerned about a lack of a foot and mouth disease vaccine bank that would be adequate to control a potential foreign animal disease outbreak in the United States.”

Members of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association are in Nashville until Saturday.

AUDIO: Tracy Brunner, president NCBA

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