GIPSA Rule Repealed Nine years of USDA rulemaking just went down the drain this week. On Tuesday, the Trump administration repealed the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration’s (GIPSA’s) rule on livestock marketing and contracting. The legislative authority for that rule was passed in the 2008 Farm Bill. This issue has been particularly contentious since 2010 when GIPSA first proposed a rule. Many, but not all, producer groups and most meat industry groups opposed it then over a difference in interpretation of the statutory language. As a result, the original proposal was blocked from implementation in every annual appropriations bill from 2010 until 2015, which is when Congress made the mistaken assumption...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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