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Packers and Stockyards

The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration regulates livestock marketing activities at public stockyards and operations of meat packers and poultry dealers. The program was instituted in 1921 to promote fair and competitive trade of livestock, meat, and poultry.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program lacks well-defined internal processes to determine workload priorities, conduct effective investigations, evaluate investigative findings, and monitor industry activity to determine if regulatory reforms are needed.
  • The program lacks standard definitions to distinguish regulatory activities from investigative activities.
  • The program maintains inaccurate and incomplete tracking systems.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Conducting business process re-engineering to improve internal controls.
  • Developing baseline data that is in compliance with revised agency directives for defining agency regulatory actions and investigations.
  • Developing a long-term outcome measure that focuses on improving trade practices within the industry.

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