New White House Action Plan Pledges to Open Up Consolidated Meat and Poultry Industries
The Action Plan honors recommendations made by our staff to improve competition and resilience by investing in local and regional food systems.
The Action Plan honors recommendations made by our staff to improve competition and resilience by investing in local and regional food systems.
In 2021, we mobilized our strategy to dismantle industrial agriculture and shift power into the hands of individuals all along the food supply chain.
Doubling fertilizer prices are wreaking havoc on farmers and may be a sign of market manipulation. Farm Action has asked the DOJ to investigate.
Farm Action called on the DOJ to investigate the fertilizer sector as recent record-breaking prices suspiciously coincide with an increase in income farmers are earning from commodity crops like soybeans and corn.
With higher grain prices, farmers have more dollars to pay for inputs — and Farm Action suspects fertilizer corporations may be taking advantage of that.
Farm Action applauds the Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act, which combats monopoly control across the food and farm system.
Over the first three days of November, Farm Action Fund led a coalition of farmers, ranchers, and rural advocates to meet virtually with more than 20 Congressional and Administrative offices, sharing their vision for a fair farm bill.
We’re pushing back against corporate-created myths: the components of a fair, competitive, and inclusive food system exist. We just need to prioritize them.
We’re pushing back against corporate-created myths: industrial agriculture is nothing more than the result of specific policy decisions, which can be reversed.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says corporate monopolies have been extracting wealth all along the supply chain. But farmers are getting sick of the scare tactics and bad contracts, and are joining a grassroots movement to tackle food system concentration.