Number: RL31553
Title: Livestock: A Ban on Ownership and Control by Packers
Authors: Jerry Heykoop, Resources, Science and Industry Division 
Abstract: This report provides a discussion of the packer ownership ban that was proposed in the Senate farm bill (S. 1753), but dropped in the finally enacted law (P.L. 107-171). The packer ban would prohibit packers from owning, feeding, or controlling livestock to such an extent that the producer is no longer materially participating in the production of livestock. Livestock producer-owned cooperatives and entities owned by such cooperatives, and producer-owned packers that slaughter less than 2 percent of U.S. totals were exempted from the ban.
Pages: 13
Date: Updated January 2, 2003