…moving of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration into one agency, the Agricultural Marketing Service. Other changes include: moving the food standards Codex office from the Food Safety and…
Secretary Perdue Announces USDA Improvements
…USDA and allow for greater efficiencies in the acquisition of commodities. Also, instead of having commodity grading and inspection in multiple USDA agencies, the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration…
Fresno County 2016 Crop Report Shows Drought, Market Impacts
…provide the only source of specialty crop and general county information. Data is gathered by crop report surveys from a random sample of growers, ranchers, processors, packers and other sources….
APHIS Publishes Final Rule to Allow Fresh Hass Avocado Fruit from Colombia into the Continental U.S.
…by growers, packers, and shippers that, in combination minimize pest risks prior to importation into the United States. In this case, the approved systems approach for avocados from Colombia will…
Chlorine Dioxide Pouches Can Make Produce Safer and Reduce Spoilage
…E. coli and other pathogens from the surfaces of fruits and vegetables. Worrell Water Technologies of Delray Beach, Florida, hopes to market the product to produce wholesalers and packers in…
Politico: Nebraska Ag Director Being Considered for USDA Under Secretary
…Packers and Stockyards Administration. Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey and Indiana Agriculture Director Ted McKinney are reported to be in the running for the newly created undersecretary posts for domestic…
Western View: COOL Lawsuit Ahead
…was a mite suspicious. Among the people most harmed by Country of Origin Labels were certain big meat packers. Very often, a cow would be born and raised in Mexico…
Withdraw ‘GIPSA’ Rule, Say NPPC, Pork Producers
…rule of the so-called Farmer Fair Practices Rules, which was written by USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA). The interim final rule is set to become effective Oct….
NFU Urges Immediate Adoption of Farmer Fair Practices Rules
…the intent of the Packers and Stockyards Act to provide individual farmers and ranchers with protection from the most egregious abuses by meatpackers. In some courts, contract poultry growers have…
GIPSA Seeks Comments on U.S. Standards for Beans and Lentils
U.S. Standards for Beans The USDA Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration is seeking comments on a notice proposing to revise the U.S. Standards for Beans published in the Federal…
Georgia Lawmakers Ask Perdue to Ditch GIPSA Rules
…from Georgia has sent a letter to Perdue urging the Secretary to withdraw two proposed rules under the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration. The lawmakers say the rules, currently…
New Spending Bill’s Impact on Agriculture
…rider that would block the USDA from enforcing three rules under its Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration designed to protect chicken producers in contracts with processors didn’t make it…
USDA Seeking to Advance Modernized Pork Slaughter
…has five U.S. pork packing plants participating in pilot programs. Enactment of a modernization rule would make the system available to all packers. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting…