The board holds hearings when people complain about farm-related issues such as noises, dust and traffic and it determines whether or not they arise from normal farm practices.
Fuller is a lawyer who specializes in agriculture, business, wills and estates.
Tyson has agreed to pay $47 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged beef price-fixing.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of commercial and institutional indirect purchasers such as restaurants and covers purchases between Jan. 1, 2015, and May 6, 2026,
The covered products include brisket, chuck, loin, rib and round cuts, excluding ground beef, trim, USDA Prime products and further processed items.
The settlement involves Tyson Foods Inc. and Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. Tyson did not oppose the motion for preliminary approval.
The United States House of Representatives has passed a new farm bill that includes a provision curbing California’s animal welfare rules from impeding pork from other states that do not meet the standards set out in Proposition 12.
The National Pork Producers Council called the vote a “massive victory” but it must pass the Senate to become law.
Proposition 12 has hindered the sale of Canadian pork to the United States if the buyer sells into California.
Among Proposition 12 rules is a ban on housing sows in gestation crates and minimum space requirements for housing pigs.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has suspended the licence for Tig’s Legacy Collections Inc. of Longueuil, Que.
The CFIA said it failed to keep satisfactory import controls and traceability records.
The company’s main business is women’s fashion clothing.
Canada and Mexico have announced some trade bans on pork from the United States after a recent discovery of pseudorabies antibodies in breeding stock in Iowa.
Canada has banned pig snouts.
Mexico, which is the biggest export market for U.S. pork, is banning non-muscle pork.
The bans are still under negotiation, the U.S. said.
The United States Department of Justice has proposed a settlement of its lawsuit against Agri Stats that would require it to sell its reports and manuals to anyone, including livestock and poultry producers and meat-company customers.
It would also ban the sale of books revealing companies’ sales volumes and also reporting sales volumes other than to the company asking for its own sales data.
The proposals were revealed in a Minnesota court this week.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche described the agreement as a “historic settlement” and said the company’s business model contributed to higher meat prices.
Agri Stats was named in a number of class-action lawsuits alleging price-fixing among the largest chicken, turkey, pork and beef packers.
The agreement also imposes confidentiality and recency requirements on reporting data, including provisions requiring some reports to contain information from at least three meat processors and limiting the use of recent production data.
A court-appointed monitor would oversee compliance for up to seven years, while Agri Stats also would be required to implement an antitrust compliance program that includes employee training, whistleblower protections and mandatory disclosure of potential violations.
Federal officials announced the settlement proposal alongside broader discussions of ongoing antitrust investigations into the meatpacking industry, including concerns over market concentration and information-sharing practices.
The C.D. Howe Institute has chosen Dr. Al Mussell to be its Fellow-in-Residence and Supply Chains Policy Scholar.
Mussell is an agriculture economist who has published many research reports on Canadian Agriculture, trade and policy.
He is currently senior researcher for the Canadian Agri-food Policy Institute. He often co-authores reports with Ted Bilyea and Doug Hedley.
Mussell said “it is a distinct honour, and really quite humbling, to join a remarkable group of people as a Fellow-in-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute.
"I’m very pleased that the C.D. Howe Institute is taking a focused interest in agriculture, food and all that Canada has to offer, and to be given an opportunity to contribute my insights to its work in this critical area.’
Mussell has also been president of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, chair of the Ontario Pork Industry Council, and has served on the board of the Progressive Dairy Operators.”
He founded the George Morrris Center at the University of Guelph and Agri-Food Economic Systems.
He will continue to work with Agri-Food Economic Systems.