The Center for Rural Affairs is anticipating that USDA and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will finalize the strengthened GIPSA rules and implement them immediately. In its submitted comments CRA called upon USDA to revise and strengthen the rule by simply, clearly and unequivocally disallowing purely volume-based premiums.
CRA's John Crabtree says opponents of USDA's GIPSA rule speak often about 'value-based marketing.' But, despite what large meatpacking corporations try to tell us, 'value-based' is not the same thing as 'volume-based,' and GIPSA would do well to make that point as clearly as possible.
Crabtree says progress comes when people of hope and vision put good ideas on the table of governance. "Secretary Vilsack and Administrator Butler have picked up a good idea and carried it forward," he said. "We urge them to have the hope and vision to take the final step."
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