Source: Jerry Hagstrom, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 6/16/22

The Senate Agriculture Committee chairwoman and ranking member announced the committee will hold a business meeting on June 22 to consider S.3870, the Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act of 2022, and S.4030, the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2022. S. 4030, the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2022 would require USDA to establish minimum levels of negotiated cash trade for fed cattle by dividing up regions of the country. The cash-trade floor would depend on the number of packers in a region, availability of fed cattle, and the number of contractual arrangements...

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