Rethinking Tariffs: Let’s Talk About What’s Really Happening with Ag Trade
Broad sweeping tariffs are counterproductive in today’s highly consolidated food and farm system. We need a strategic approach in order to protect our farmers.
Broad sweeping tariffs are counterproductive in today’s highly consolidated food and farm system. We need a strategic approach in order to protect our farmers.
With a staggering 177,000 lawsuits alleging Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate, causes cancer, Bayer has launched a campaign to restrict farmers’ and the public’s ability to hold them accountable.
The largest egg corporations are raking in profits as prices soar, but how are contract farmers getting along? As it turns out, not well.
Farm Action released a statement and informational memo in reaction to USDA’s latest Egg Markets Overview report and the recent decline in egg prices.
The Department of Justice launched an investigation into egg prices following Farm Action’s letter to federal agencies.
Farm Action’s letter to FTC and DOJ lays out new evidence on how the highly concentrated egg industry is ripe for manipulation by the dominant egg firms at the expense of both consumers and smaller egg producers.
Farm Action Fund’s Joe Maxwell says that while farmers have been paying billions into commodity checkoff programs, we have lost hundreds of thousands of farmers.
Farm Action says dominant egg producers have leveraged the bird flu supply disruption to raise prices, amass record profits, and consolidate market power.
“Dominant egg corporations are blaming avian flu for the price hikes that we’re seeing. But while the egg supply has fallen only slightly, these companies’ profits have soared,” said Angela Huffman, Farm Action’s president.
Farm Action has called for a deeper investigation into whether industry concentration and practices are behind this price spike.