USDA Pledges Beef-Processing Waivers for Ranchers, Expanding Cross-State Sales After Trump Floats Bypass
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Updated · The Guardian · Aug 28
USDA Pledges Beef-Processing Waivers for Ranchers, Expanding Cross-State Sales After Trump Floats Bypass
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 28
Summary
Brooke Rollins said USDA will make “big announcements” next week to waive beef-processing red tape and let ranchers process more of their own food.
The plan would also expand ranchers’ ability to sell across state lines, which Rollins cast as a way to curb the “nasty monopoly” of large processing plants.
Rollins framed the push as a national-security issue, saying the US must be able to “feed and fuel ourselves.”
The move follows Trump’s suggestion this week that ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected facilities, broadening a deregulation push in meat packing.
It also comes after Rollins defended a pause on higher tariffs covering 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef as a short-term price fix, even as she said she did not know the import sources.