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NCBA Demands USDA Provide Chance to Respond to Economic Analysis on the GIPSA Rule Now Being Conducted

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:18:55 CDT

Colin Woodall, NCBA vice president of government affairs, is very concerned about the lack of any opportunity to have a final whack at the so called "GIPSA Rule" that is currently being evaluated by the US Department of Agriculture. On today's Beef Buzz, he explains the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration's (GIPSA) proposed rule on livestock marketing is apparently on a fast track to become finalized without anyone outside of the Department having any furhter say.


Woodall believes that the so-called GIPSA rule will be released before the end of the year and says it's vitally important for cattlemen to continue voicing opposition to this rule that NCBA believes will punish innovation and stymie profitability and consumer choice.


NCBA's biggest concern at this time is the continued refusal by US Secretary Tom Vilsack to allow any further comments to be made on the rule once the economic analysis that is being conducted by the agency is complete by Chief Economist Joe Glauber. Vilsack has said more than once that there have been plenty of comments and that there will be no more opportunity to weigh in once the analysis is done. It is also unknown if Vilsack will make the study public or not. A little more than a month ago, Vilsack offered that position as he was questioned by Kansas Senator Jerry Moran- click here to go back to our Beef Buzz on that conversation from March of this year.


Woodall calls on cattle producers to demand of their lawmakers and the USDA a chance to see the analysis and then to offer feedback on that Dr. Glauber and his team have concluded.


His comments are featured on today's Beef Buzz. (Our picture here is from the August 2010 meeting in Ft. Collins, Colorado where over a thousand producers gathered to weigh in, pro and con, on this controversial rule.)


The Beef Buzz is a regular feature heard on radio stations around the state on the Radio Oklahoma Network- but is also a regular audio feature found on this website as well. Click on the listen bar below for today's show- and check out our archives for older Beef Buzz shows covering the gamut of the beef cattle industry today.



   
   

Ron Hays Beef Buzzes with Colin Woodall of the NCBA on GIPSA right-click to download mp3

 

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