National Pork Producers Council comments regarding Docket No. AMS-LPS-15-0070, Livestock mandatory price reporting: reauthorization of livestock mandatory price reporting and revision of swine and lamb reporting requirements

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Heimerl, James R. (author / Vice President, National Pork Producers Council)
    Format:
    Testimony
    Publication Date:
    2016-04-28
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11027
    Subject Term:
    government policies, information control, information issues, information services, livestock, market information, markets, regulations, pork, market reports, USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), livestock communication, and National Pork Producers Council
    Notes:
    Comments in the February 29, 2016 Federal Register, pages 10132-10138. 2 pages., Comments on behalf of the National Pork Producers Council championing the proposed revisions providing market participants with more specific information about the buyer and seller interactions and better representing the market in which producers function. "Overall, these changes represent a positive step forward in allowing information to flow throughout the marketplace and among participants."

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