As regulatory agencies go, the USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, or GIPSA, generally stays out of the limelight. But lawmakers and agriculture commentators are sounding the alarm about regulations proposed this summer that they say would open up extensive new liability among livestock and poultry producers for marketing violations. Raising murmurs in particular: the Obama administration’s head of GIPSA, J. Dudley Butler, is a Mississippi trial lawyer who had made a specialty in private practice of suing livestock producers. Sample criticism: Troy Marshall/Beef Magazine; Steve Kay/Beef Magazine; Derek Hunter/Daily Caller; Bob Barr/The Hill; Greg Conko/Open Market.
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