Jon Tester: “I am actually in the specialty crop business personally. It has been well documented, I raise organic crops. I do not…”

“I am actually in the specialty crop business personally. It has been well documented, I raise organic crops. I do not raise organic beef, but I am around people who raise organic beef and market it freely. They will be able to continue to market it freely with the adoption of this amendment. So the folks, the Knights you talked about, in Kansas are still going to be able to market their hormone-free beef. It speaks specifically in the Packers and Stockyards Act about restraining commerce and creating a monopoly. They cannot have an alleged business justification to do that. When you are adding value to a product, you are increasing the value. When you are raising specialty crops or you are specializing in grass-fed beef or specializing in hormone-fed beef or antibiotic-fed beef, you still have access to those premium prices. What the Packers and Stockyards Act does is it protects the cattle producers and those feeders you talked about. It allows them to stay in business, to be able to get that premium price.”