Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 6/18/21


Eleven months after President Trump took office, the USDA said it lacked the authority to implement livestock welfare rules for organic farmers, despite having spent years working on them. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Thursday that the USDA will reconsider that 2017 interpretation, a step that could lead to a revival of the regulation to give chickens, pigs, and cattle on organic farms more elbow room than they commonly get on factory farms. The Trump-era decision to withdraw the organic livestock rule is under challenge in federal court.

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