Alert

I got my weekly update from Drovers Magazine today and two stories jumped right out. One is on the sale of banned beef products to Japan. Looks like the Japanese company actually deliberately ordered the illegal material, then cancelled the order. The USDA is still taking blame, but it looks to me to be shared.

The other is that Sen. Tom Harkin has introduced legislation that would put the burden of proof "in proving unfair actions away from the producers and onto the dealers, stockyards and packers. The legislation also would make several changes to the Agricultural Fair Practices Act, intending to prevent discrimination against producers belonging to an organization or cooperative. The American Meat Institute expressed opposition to “any expansion of existing authorities that would adversely inhibit producers’ and packers’ ".
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