United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security explained

The U.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security is one of five subcommittees of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

This subcommittee has jurisdiction over legislation on foreign agricultural trade, foreign market development, as well as agriculture product promotion and domestic marketing programs. It oversees international commodity agreements and export controls on agricultural commodities, foreign assistance programs and Food for Peace, marketing orders, inspection and certification of meat, flowers, fruit, vegetables and livestock.

Name changes

The subcommittee was renamed for the 117th United States Congress (2021).It was previously:

• 115th–116th Congresses: Subcommittee on Livestock, Marketing and Agriculture Security
• 112th–114th Congresses: Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security
• Prior to 112th Congress: Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing, Inspection, and Plant and Animal Health.

Members, 118th Congress

Majority	Minority
valign=top	Kirsten Gillibrand, New York, Chair Peter Welch, Vermont Ben Ray Luján, New Mexico Dick Durbin, Illinois Cory Booker, New Jersey Sherrod Brown, Ohio	valign=top	John Hoeven, North Dakota, Ranking Member Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi Roger Marshall, Kansas Deb Fischer, Nebraska John Thune, South Dakota
Ex officio
valign=top	Debbie Stabenow, Michigan	valign=top	John Boozman, Arkansas

References

• Senate Agriculture Committee, Subcommittee Page