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.
On Sept. 26, three federal judges from the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) decision last year to withdraw or withhold further action on three regulations put into play in the waning days of the Obama administration.