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National Pork Producers Say GIPSA Rule is Bureaucratic Overreach

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 6:31:59 CST

National Pork Producers Say GIPSA Rule is Bureaucratic Overreach A U.S. Department of Agriculture agency lacked authority or exceeded it on certain   provisions of a proposed rule on buying and selling hogs, failed to support the need for the regulation with evidence of problems   in the pork industry and didn't consider its own studies showing that restricting contracts could harm the industry, said the National Pork Producers Council in comments filed today on the so-called GIPSA rule.


USDA's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration issued the rule June 22, 2010. A public comment period on it ends Nov. 22. The rule, which was prompted by the 2008 Farm Bill, would amend the Packers and Stockyards Act (PSA), which regulates livestock and poultry contracts and marketing practices.      


In its comments, NPPC, which has called the regulation a "bureaucratic overreach," said that GIPSA lacked authority to, for example, declare that no showing of injury to competition is necessary to establish a violation of the PSA. It pointed out that   federal courts have uniformly rejected that view and that Congress rejected a similar provision during debate on the 2008 Farm Bill.     


NPPC also pointed out that the rule was offered with no meaningful analysis of its impact on the pork industry. NPPC, along with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, National Meat Association and National Turkey Federation, last week released an   economic analysis of the GIPSA rule that found it would result in nearly 23,000 lost jobs and reduce gross domestic product by $1.56 billion. The cost to the pork industry would be $333 million annually after an initial $69 million expense.     


"In all my years in the pork industry, I have never seen a regulation proposed that would do as much harm to America's pork producers as the GIPSA rule would do," said NPPC CEO Neil Dierks. "There's no justification for imposing this rule on pork producers. It's based on anecdotes, not analyses."     


NPPC asked that GIPSA withdraw the portions of the proposed rule that will have an immediate and detrimental impact on the pork   industry. It also requested a thorough analysis of the affect on the pork producers of any new regulation.     


"As proposed, the GIPSA rule is bad for farmers and ranchers, bad for consumers and bad for rural America," said NPPC President Sam Carney, a pork producer from Adair, Iowa. "We'd like the agency to rewrite the rule, sticking to the mandates Congress gave it in the 2008 Farm Bill."



   

 

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