High Fuel Prices Squeeze Farmers. Oil Companies Reap Billions.
Trump’s executive order may ease short-term diesel costs, but it doesn’t address whether oil refinery consolidation worsened fuel-price spikes—or why oil companies’ earnings are soaring.
Trump’s executive order may ease short-term diesel costs, but it doesn’t address whether oil refinery consolidation worsened fuel-price spikes—or why oil companies’ earnings are soaring.
What really drove egg prices higher? A government investigation alleges a price-fixing scheme that calls for real accountability.
The government is forcing independent farmers to help promote the very system they must compete against.
The Trump administration says its beef import plan will lower prices. Farm Action will track whether savings reach consumers and how the plan affects ranchers.
Congress has a chance to restore mandatory country-of-origin labeling, but one of Washington’s most powerful beef lobbying groups is fighting to keep consumers in the dark.
The Cyclospora investigation shows how decades of corporate consolidation have concentrated America’s produce supply chain, leaving a handful of companies with an outsized role in feeding the country.
The Trump administration’s plan to roll back USDA competition rules shows how giant companies use their market power to shape policy and protect their control.
We exposed corporate price gouging in the egg industry, leading to federal investigations, proposed legislation, and lower egg prices for families.
Nebraska farmer Kevin Fulton broke free from a farming system dependent on costly inputs. He says the farm bill can help more farmers make the same transition.
Rural communities are being forced to give up farmland, strain local water and energy systems, and subsidize infrastructure built to serve tech corporations.