Rule ensures market competitionWASHINGTON — In today’s economic
climate, we are talking a lot about jobs. Unfair practices by
large packing companies have forced 1.2 million livestock
operations out of business. The GIPSA rules would preserve and
create jobs in rural America. By: Roger Johnson, WASHINGTON — In
today’s economic climate, we are talking a lot about jobs.
Unfair practices by large packing companies have forced 1.2
million livestock operations out of business. The GIPSA rules
would preserve and create jobs in rural America. In June 2010,
the U.S. government provided simple clarifications to the law
that governs the relationship between livestock producers and
the meatpackers and processors who buy their animals. This
proposed change, known as the Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration rule, would help ensure fairness for
individual producers and restore competition to agricultural
markets. Predictably, it prompted immediate and vigorous
backlash from meat processors. What does the