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Tuesday, April 08, 2025
Broiler chicken growers would be guaranteed a base price for their birds under a proposed rule from the Agriculture Department aimed at reforming the poultry tournament system.
The House of Representatives cleared a pair of bills critical to the livestock sector Wednesday, but the measures might face different fates in the Senate.
Congress is facing a Dec. 3 deadline to avert another government shutdown. That’s when the continuing resolution that’s currently funding the government runs out. But Republicans say they won’t agree to a fiscal 2022 spending deal any time soon.
The House Ag Committee is slated to take up seven pieces of legislation today, including some priority issues for the top two members of the committee.
The nation’s largest beef producer group outlined its top near-term policy goals in a letter to lawmakers Tuesday that calls for reauthorization of the mandatory livestock price reporting system with at least one new provision to help producers with marketplace leverage.
Last week’s report from the Department of Agriculture offered a laundry list of reasons for why beef markets behaved the way they did after two cataclysmic events hit the sector in as many years. But the 21-page document also contained something else: a legislative and regulatory to-do list for an industry well-known for infighting and disagreement.
