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GIPSA issues final rule for weighing, feed, and swine contractors
Story Date: 8/30/2013
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Source: USDA, 8/21/13
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration 9 CFR Part 201 RIN 0580-AA99
Weighing, Feed, and Swine Contractors
AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, USDA.
ACTION: Final rule.
SUMMARY: The Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) is amending the regulations issued under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, as amended and supplemented (P&S Act), to ensure that payments by live poultry dealers and swine contractors to poultry and swine production contract growers are based on accurate weighing of both inputs and outputs. Specifically, we are amending a regulation about scale tickets to reduce redundant wording and to clarify weighing procedures. In addition, we are amending a regulation about reweighing to add swine contractors to the list of firms that must comply, and adding feed to the list of items for which reweighing may be requested. We are also amending two other regulations about weighing livestock and poultry to add weighing processes for feed, to add a specific time limit for weighing poultry, and to add swine contractors to the list of firms that must comply with care and promptness requirements. [[Page 51659]]
DATES: Effective Date: September 20, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: S. Brett Offutt, Director, Policy and Litigation Division, P&SP, GIPSA, 1400 Independence Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20250, (202) 720-7363, s.brett.offutt@usda.gov.
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