The National Cattleman’s Beef Association is working on a suite of bills to increase and diversify shackle space.
NCBA’s Ethan Lane tells Brownfield they are focused on legislation that incentivizes state-inspected facilities to expand or bump up to federal inspection standards to market across state lines, including the BASIC Act which would provide grants to allow more small, producer-owned facilities and co-ops to expand. “It’s $100,000 per hook right now to build new hook space in this country,” he says.
