Food Price Fixing Is Still Rampant. DOJ’s Agri Stats Lawsuit Could Change That.
Agri Stats, a behind-the-scenes agriculture data and analysis company, is being called out for orchestrating an industry-wide price-fixing scheme.
Agri Stats, a behind-the-scenes agriculture data and analysis company, is being called out for orchestrating an industry-wide price-fixing scheme.
Vilsack is shielding our food system from meaningful reform and is propping up the sector’s most powerful corporations. Farmers are tired of his broken promises.
The proposed updates will empower the FTC to quickly and accurately identify threats to competition in agriculture and across our economy, said Farm Action.
In our report card grading the administration’s efforts to increase food system competition and level the playing field for farmers, USDA got a “C.”
“It is unfortunate that it took a letter from Congress to shake USDA’s tree and get them to respond to the farmers they should be accountable to,” said Farm Action’s Angela Huffman.
The Congressional letter comes after Farm Action and the National Dairy Producers Organization exposed the missing reports in June.
His misleading return-on-investment studies prop up the legitimacy of the beef checkoff program and protect NCBA’s largest source of funding.
The pork checkoff is supposed to work for the entire industry, but Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says the research it funds only benefits the biggest companies.
Renewed antitrust enforcement will revitalize critical protections for the liberty and welfare of America’s farmers and workers, consumers and small businesses.
Our government is supposed to represent its citizens and look out for our best interests. Instead, it bows to the monied interests of big business lobbyists.