The executive director of the Organization for Competitive Markets, OCM, says they’re disappointed an appeals judge has sided with the USDA in its decision to pull GIPSA rules. Joe Maxwell tells Brownfield Ag News without those rules, livestock producers are bound by the Packers and Stockyards Act without any recourse when harmed, unlike any other industry, “If they’re short paid like what happened at JBS here a few weeks ago – where JBS admitted they were co-mingling carcasses, under-weighing carcasses… If that was any other industry and you weren’t getting paid for full value of your product, you could bring litigation.
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