Policy Solutions President Jay Truitt recognizes there are abuses within the packing and processing business, but remains leery about today’s White House announcement. “No matter what you do there is a cause and effect,” said Truitt. “If we start moving ourselves back into a commodity market we’re going to lose a lot of the value-added component that we’ve created and for some of us, that is the profit option right now.” Truitt is a longtime lobbyist for the livestock sector and describes the Biden Administration action plan as an ax when a scalpel is needed. “I have little confidence whether it is a Republican or Democratic administration that USDA is going to come up with a set of rules that will just fix the problem.”
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