USDA announced a new rule to the Packers and Stockyards Act. The Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity Rule aims to provide clearer standards and protect producers from discrimination, retaliation, and deception in livestock and poultry markets. “This is going to help producers and growers who have become increasingly vulnerable to a range of practices that unjustly exclude them for economic opportunity and disadvantage them and undermine market integrity,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack about the new rule which will take effect in May of 2024.
