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America’s four largest beef packers face another lawsuit claiming antitrust violations since 2015, this one filed by a California distributor seeking treble damages.

After a software error caused beef carcasses to be inaccurately reported for grades and weights, JBS is a paying a fine and reimbursing producers who were impacted.

After a software error caused beef carcasses to be inaccurately reported for grades and weights, JBS is a paying a fine and reimbursing producers who were impacted.

Farmers dismayed that USDA delays fair practice rule

The U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed rules on Wednesday it said will help protect chicken producers from mistreatment by the small group of meat companies that control most of the country's production.

After a six year period of dormancy, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack has sent a draft of rules changes to the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) act to the White House for final review.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has notified livestock industry groups that it will move forward with proposed Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Act (GIPSA) rules proposed in 2010.

Congress voted on a $19.8 billion 2012 agricultural spending bill that includes language blocking USDA from implementing the rule.

A letter, signed by 147 Congressional members. asks USDA about the time line on the economic Impact analysis and re-proposal of livestock marketing rule.

During a House Agriculture Committee hearing Friday, two committee members questioned Secretary Tom Vilsack about a timeline for completion of an economic analysis.

In W. Edwards Deming’s theories of management, there is a basic tenet that strikes me as immutable: You can’t inspect quality into a product; you must build quality in throughout the production process.

One of the largest cattle dealers in the country leaves farmers in 30 states empty-handed

On Friday, USDA-GIPSA charged Eastern with a number of violations.

Study shows proposed new regulations from USDA will cost the broiler chicken industry more than $1 billion over five years.

USDA-GIPSA provides steps to take for producers who have not received payment due from Eastern Livestock Commission.

The study by Informa Economics Inc. showed that the rule would result in job losses of more than 22,800, with an annual drop in gross domestic product by as much as $1.56 billion and an annual loss in tax revenues of $359 million.

Eastern Livestock, LLC., one of the oldest and the biggest cattle order buyers in the U.S., has some $81 million in bad checks.

The rule could cost 104,000 jobs and reduce the national GDP by $14 billion.

R-CALF USA supports Vilsack’s decision to decline the request by Congress to complete a comprehensive economic analysis of proposed GIPSA rule.

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack ignored requests for a comprehensive economic analysis of GIPSA's proposed rule on livestock and poultry marketing.

Several House members call for a comprehensive economic analysis of proposed rule on livestock and poultry marketing.

Obama promised fundamental change, and GIPSA is planning to deliver a big dose of just that

The Department of Justice is holding the fourth workshop to address the issue of competitiveness in agriculture.

The workshop, to be held Aug. 27 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, is the fourth in a series of five joint USDA/DOJ workshops focused on competition and regulatory issues in agriculture.

The USDA Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration is extending the comment period for the regulations