Chad Randick, director of strategy and current lead of the company's transformation and modernization initiative, succeeds Jeff Grev as VP of legislative affairs.
The legislation would invest in state-led conservation projects, push the US Fish and Wildlife Service to delist species that are recovered, and provide regulatory certainty for landowners who participate in voluntary species conservation agreements.
Both the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry are reviewing introductory legislation that could potentially impact the meat and poultry industry.
On Jan. 7, 2023, member-elects of the 118th Congress were sworn into the Senate and House of Representatives. Following the 2022 midterm elections, the Democratic Party retains control of the Senate, and Republicans reclaimed control of the House.
Although new tariffs and multimillion-dollar jury verdicts in North Carolina hog nuisance trials have garnered most of the agribusiness community’s attention over the past several months, there is another matter brewing in a St. Louis courtroom that may have substantial adverse consequences for the meat industry.
The Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF) hopes to convince President Donald Trump to sign an executive order reinstating mandatory COOL labeling for beef products.
Major media outlets and a handful of industry pundits quickly attached the "landmark" label to a recent multimillion-dollar jury verdict against Murphy-Brown, the hog production division of Virginia-based Smithfield Foods.