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IL Soybean Assn. opposes GIPSA rule
Taking advantage of technology, the Illinois Soybean Association sent a letter to the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) moments before the Monday, November 22, 4 p.m. deadline, voicing their opposition to the proposed GIPSA rule.
“Our policy group discussed and said yeah, we want to send a letter in opposition, so we had a couple of staff people sitting in the back of the room during the policy session that drafted a letter, it was read to the policy group, they approved the language in the letter,” said Ron Moore, Chairman of the Illinois Soybean Association. “Hopefully GIPSA will look at it and all the other comments and realize that maybe we need to re-look at these rules and see if they are as harmful as people think they might be.”
AUDIO: Ron Moore, Chairman, IL Soybean Association (8:00 MP3)
I agree that new and better technology should be adopted by any industry. The problem we have in poultry is the producers (who incomewise have been treading water for 10+ years) are expected to be the R&D and shoulder the enormous costs of adopting technologies that are unproven. We cannot continue to do so and it is unreasonable to expect us to continue. The GIPSA rule addresses that.