The Nationwide Cattlemen’s Beef Affiliation (NCBA) praised the Home Appropriations Committee for advancing the Fiscal Yr 2024 Agriculture, Rural Improvement, Meals and Drug Administration appropriations invoice, which is able to present funding for important applications that help cattle producers whereas defending towards overreaching laws.
“We’re happy the Home Appropriations Committee confirmed such sturdy help for a lot of cattle business priorities, together with defending producers’ capacity to seize premiums by nullifying USDA’s overreaching Packers and Stockyards guidelines and reducing cattle producers’ value burden in implementing animal illness traceability,” stated NCBA Senior Director of Authorities Affairs Tanner Beymer. “NCBA thanks Chairwoman Granger and Chairman Harris for his or her management and urge swift adoption of this invoice on the Home flooring.”
The invoice is a win for cattle producers and would defund the U.S. Division of Agriculture’s dangerous Packers and Stockyards guidelines. These guidelines would open cattle producers to frivolous complaints and lawsuits and, if applied, would hurt cattle producers’ capacity to seize premiums from their high-quality cattle.
Moreover, the invoice would supply $10 million for the acquisition of digital identification (EID) tags and associated infrastructure to help the implementation of animal illness traceability. A number of different business priorities are included within the laws comparable to reviews on cell-cultured meat, the Cattle Contracts Library Pilot Program, and the Asian Longhorned Tick, and funding for the Nationwide Animal Well being Laboratory Community, feral swine eradication, and wholesome canine importation screenings.
The invoice now goes to the complete Home of Representatives for consideration. NCBA is urging each the Home and the Senate to help these key agricultural provisions.
