NCBA Lays Out Policy Priorities For The Year

During their Cattle Industry Convention in Phoenix last week, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association released its policy priorities for 2018.  The priorities center around five categories, including the 2018 Farm Bill, Trade and Market Access, Regulatory Reform, Antimicrobial Use, and Fake Meat.  NCBA will be working to make sure the new farm bill includes funding for a Foot and Mouth vaccine bank.  They also want to protect programs like EQIP and prevent market-disrupting policy like COOL.

The regulatory-reform efforts will focus on finding a permanent solution to an electronic logging devices mandate, modernizing the Endangered Species Act, and replacing WOTUS.

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