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U.S. Plans Rule to Protect Livestock Farmers from Company Retaliation

Through its role in the to increase competition in the for mistreatment because of tract chicken growers. The
President’s Competition highly concentrated meat in- their race, gender, sexuality rules aim to improve on pre-
Council, the U.S. Department dustry as part of a broader or religion, the agency said. vious USDA efforts to protect
of Agriculture is proposing effort by the Biden adminis- The rule would revise regu- farmers.
regulations to prevent meat tration. lations under the Packers and In February, JBS SA
companies from retaliating USDA said its new rule Stockyards Act, a century-old (JBSS3.SA) agreed to pay
against livestock and poul- would prohibit meat compa- law meant to protect farmers $52.5 million to settle litiga-
try farmers who speak out on nies from retaliating against from unfair market practices. tion accusing meatpacking
practices such as price-fixing. farmers and ranchers who It would identify "unlaw- companies of conspiring to
USDA also said it will work take part in "lawful communi- fully deceptive practices" limit supply in the U.S. beef
with state attorneys general cations" and whistle blowing that violate the act, including market in order to inflate
to investigate anticompeti- on price-fixing or who partici- those related to the formation prices and boost profits. Sepa-
tive practices in the agricul- pate in associations. It would and termination of contracts rately, executives who worked
tural sector that contribute also seek to protect farmers between farmers and meat for Pilgrim's Pride (PPC.O)
to inflation. The moves aim who may be at a higher risk companies, the USDA said. and another poultry producer
In May, the USDA proposed were found not guilty of fixing
another rule that would re- prices in the poultry sector
quire poultry companies to be this year.
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