David Ekstrom One of the largest U.S. farm groups called for the incoming Biden administration to rescind a new fair play rule for livestock marketing, unveiled by the Agriculture Department on Thursday, that it sees as a setback for family farmers in dealing with the handful of companies that dominate the meat industry. In its early days in office, the Trump administration killed a broader-reaching Obama package that would have made it easier for producers to prove unfair treatment by processors. “Rather than offer farmers the very basic safeguards they’ve been asking for, USDA’s rule will inexplicably offer even more power to meatpackers, further tipping the scales in their favor,” said Rob Larew, president of the National Farmers Union. “The incoming administration must reverse this harmful rule and replace it with one that actually protects farmers from unfair, deceptive, and discriminatory practices.”
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Fair Competition Livestock Rule ensures producers can continue to use marketing arrangements after 12 years of proposed rules.
In an effort to ensure fair trade and competitive marketing of livestock and poultry, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service issued a final rule required under the 2008 Farm Bill. The rule has been tossed back and forth between the past two administrations and producer groups still remain mixed on the final product.
The rule clarifies the types of conduct prohibited by the Packers and Stockyards Act and sets forth several criteria the secretary of agriculture will consider when determining whether conduct by packers, swine contractors or live poultry dealers represents an undue or unreasonable preference or advantage.
Fair Competition Livestock Rule ensures producers can continue to use marketing arrangements after 12 years of proposed rules.
In an effort to ensure fair trade and competitive marketing of livestock and poultry, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service issued a final rule required under the 2008 Farm Bill. The rule has been tossed back and forth between the past two administrations and producer groups still remain mixed on the final product.
The rule clarifies the types of conduct prohibited by the Packers and Stockyards Act and sets forth several criteria the secretary of agriculture will consider when determining whether conduct by packers, swine contractors or live poultry dealers represents an undue or unreasonable preference or advantage.
Uber Wants Its Non-Employee Drivers to Get Early Vaccines
Industry trade organizations are lining up to lobby the CDC and states to get their workers high up in the queue of Americans waiting to receive the coronavirus vaccine, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who does not want to have to classify rideshare and delivery drivers as employees, wants those drivers to prioritized for vaccinations.
Uber and its app-based peers won out at the ballot box in November defeating Prop 22 at great expense in order not to have to provide health insurance or unemployment benefits for millions of app-based drivers. But now Khosrowshahi is tweeting his hope that states and the Centers for Disease Control will bump up these drivers in the prioritization line for the coronavirus vaccine.