The changes amend regulations regarding scale tickets to
reduce redundant wording and clarify weighing procedures, add swine contractors
to the list of firms that must comply with reweighing, and add feed to the list
of items that may need reweighing.
Additional changes include amendments to regulations about weighing
livestock and poultry to include the weighing process for feed, add a specific
timeline for weighing poultry, and add swine contractors to the list of firms
that must comply with care and promptness requirements. The purpose of these amendments is “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.”
GIPSA is an agency of USDA which was established through a
joining of the Federal Grain Inspection Service and the Packers and Stockyards
Administration in 1994. GIPSA is part of
USDA’s Marketing and Regulatory Programs working to ensure a competitive and productive
global marketplace for U.S. agricultural products. GIPSA’s mission is “[t]o facilitate the
marketing of livestock, poultry, meat, ceareals, oilseeds, and related
products, and promote fair and competitive trading practices for the overall benefit
of consumers and American Agriculture.”
For more information on GIPSA, please visit their website.
The final
rule can be found in the August 21, 2013 Federal Register.
Written by Alyssa Looney – Research Assistant
The Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center
@PSUAgLawCenter
September 20, 2013
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