The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking comments on proposed amendments to the Lamb Promotion, Research, and Information Order.
These amendments would “require market agencies (e.g., commission merchant, auction market, livestock market) in the business of receiving lambs to collect and remit on behalf of the producer, feeder, or seedstock producer, the ‘live-weight’ assessment on ovine animals sold and the ‘price-per-head’ assessment owed by the first handler when lambs are sold through these channels,” according to the Federal Register.
Comments can be submitted until Dec. 4 on regulations.gov using the docket number AMS–LP–19–0093 and the page number 62617 of the Federal Register.
