theshelbyreport

Meat Institute Backs USDA Line Speed Rule Changes for Pork, Poultry

The Meat Institute has backed USDA FSIS proposed rule changes that would allow pork and poultry processors to increase line ...
Drovers

What is Sen. Schumer’s Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act?

Democrats plans to introduce a bill that would split meat processing operations and scrutinize foreign ownership.
MEAT+POULTRY

Meat Institute critical of bill that seeks to break up meatpacking monopolies

The Meat Institute issued a statement opposing the recently proposed Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act, authored by ...
Agri-Pulse

Schumer, Senate Dems go after meat industry concentration

N.Y., and a group of other Senate Democrats are aiming to break up major meatpackers by limiting them to producing meat in ...
High Plains Journal

Meat and Ag industry reacts to the Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is set to introduce the Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act that proponents say will lower meat prices for consumers, but is already being met with ...
The Journal

EPA to ease wastewater regs on meat processing plants

Over the Labor Day weekend, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was going to ease wastewater regulations on meat processing plants. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a final action ...
American Farm Bureau Federation

As Processing Facilities Struggle with Labor, Spread Between the Wholesale Price of Meat and Livestock Prices Widens

The self-distancing and quarantine protocols put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19 have reduced economic growth, shuttered consumers in their homes and changed the way Americans purchase and ...