Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, is leading an effort to reduce regulatory red tape to enable livestock auction market owners to invest in small meat packing operations with the introduction of the Expanding Local Meat Processing Act. The bill is a companion bill to the House’s A-Plus Act – the Amplifying Processing of Livestock in the United States Act.
Currently, livestock auction markets are not able to own, invest in, manage, or operate a packing plant or meat marketing business…
