Issues

LMAT’s legislative advocacy and political involvement is exclusively focused on ensuring a strong livestock marketing environment for all Texas farmers and ranchers. To support this, LMAT monitors dozens of issues which impact all livestock marketers.

Current priorities include:

• NASS Cancellation of Critical Market Reports (click here to see our letter to USDA-NASS)
• Ensuring Robust Price Discovery
• Animal Disease Traceability
• Prompt Pay
• Beef Quality Assurance
• Dealer Statutory Trust
• Interstate Movement of Livestock
• Animal Health Regulations
• Labor and Employee Safety

Have a question about these priority issues. Contact us and let us know how we can help you!