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Pork producers await next move on GIPSA
Pork producers are anxiously—and, in some cases, nervously—awaiting the USDA’s next move on the proposed GIPSA marketing rule.
The USDA has rejected recent calls to hit the reset button on its proposed GIPSA rule. Indiana pork producer Mark Legan , who heads up the Competitive Markets Committee of the National Pork Producers Council, says he expects USDA to release the proposed—and possibly revised—rule by the end of the year.
“We really don’t have a good handle on when that will be exactly,” Legan says. “We’re really not hearing much from USDA. The ball is in their court, so to speak. They did receive 60-thousand comments on the proposed rule—and we’ll just have to see what comes out of their shop.”
As a producer, Legan says his concerns with GIPSA haven’t changed.
“It would impact the way I do business with the producers in contracting my production,” he says, “and also would affect marketing agreements that I would have with packers.”
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