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Economists offer caution as Congress studies the beef industry

07/28/21 1:20 PM By Spencer Chase
KEYWORDS beef cattle Dustin Aherin House Ag Committee Jayson Lusk Jennifer van de Ligt Keri Jacobs packing plants processing capacity Purdue Rabobank Tom Vilsack University of Minnesota University of Missouri
Congress should be careful to avoid overbuilding processing capacity and instituting prescriptive marketing requirements as it studies its response to a pair of turbulent years in the beef industry, witnesses told a House Agriculture subcommittee Wednesday morning.
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