2023 in Review: Big Wins; Bigger Plans
Together with our supporters and allies, we made massive strides towards creating a fairer food system in 2023. We’re pleased to share our journey to achieve this year’s wins.
Together with our supporters and allies, we made massive strides towards creating a fairer food system in 2023. We’re pleased to share our journey to achieve this year’s wins.
“These new merger guidelines will help restore economic freedom and strengthen our democracy,” said Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
Here are the biggest stories of the year in our movement to take down monopoly power in the food system.
In a letter to the president, the advocacy groups said that USDA must swiftly restore the P&S Act to ensure our nation’s farmers and ranchers can thrive.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell is optimistic that the DOJ and FTC have an “appetite to deliver” their directives from the executive order on competition.
USDA should be using its federal food procurement dollars to jump-start the local food systems that were decimated by decades of industry consolidation.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says Mexico’s corn market “could pay over $80 an acre more on almost 4 million acres” and that USDA should be helping U.S. corn farmers access it.
USDA has more work to do to protect chicken farmers from monopolies. USDA’s latest rule “simply shows farmers the terms of their exploitation,” said Farm Action’s Angela Huffman.
This month’s announcements from the USDA that it will support farmers producing specialty crops show the department is succumbing to our collective pressure.
USDA is following through on directives from President Biden’s executive order on competition, said Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.