Articles Tagged with ''Packers and Stockyards Act''

Cathryn Sanders fails to pay for 244 head of livestock purchased in the amount of $210,752.

AMS investigation reveals Lowell Livestock Auction Inc. tested its livestock scale on Aug. 9, 2022, and continually weighed livestock on it without a test until March 20, 2024.

Tina Livestock Market and Wright County Livestock Auction waive their rights to hearings and each pay a civil penalty of $1,000.

USDA's AMS hosts a webinar on April 9 at noon Eastern for livestock producers, poultry growers and regulated entities.

Rantoul Foods applies deductions to 69 livestock transactions without a seller notification on record.

AMS investigation shows that between August 2021 and January 2022, Happy Valley and Bill Chase issued 24 checks in payment for livestock to 21 different livestock sellers that were returned unpaid by the bank.

Payne County Stockyards failed to maintain its custodial account properly.

The final rule establishes clearer standards under the Packers and Stockyards Act for prohibited practices relating to discrimination, retaliation and deception in contracting.

The Meat Institute claims that currently pursued policies will directly hurt meat consumers.

The National Chicken Council claims the USDA and Biden administration are pushing an anti-business regulatory agenda.