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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, March 29, 2024
Poultry integrators will have to provide more financial information to prospective or current growers before entering into contracts with them, under a USDA final rule designed to increase transparency and prevent discrimination in the industry.
USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is collecting comments on a proposed rule and an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking related to poultry grower contracts and the use of a tournament-style system that ranks producers and impacts how much they get paid.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack assures lawmakers the Biden administration is holding China to account for its failure to fulfill “phase one” trade commitments, but he stopped short of saying what steps the administration would take.