“We call on USDA to stand with farmers growing healthy food for Americans and fulfill the promise at the heart of the Make America Healthy Again movement,” said Angela Huffman, president of Farm Action.
Farm Action’s letter applauds and offers support for the USDA and DOJ’s MOU to scrutinize skyrocketing farm input costs.
Internal documents reveal that the USDA failed to meet legal oversight requirements for checkoff programs and enabled the misuse of funds.
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.
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.
USDA has not accounted for three years of spending by the nation’s largest checkoff program, which collects mandatory funds from struggling dairy farmers.
Farm Action’s Joe Van Wye said any increases in Price Loss Coverage reference prices will ultimately be captured by just a few large corporations, and urged Congress to tackle monopoly power instead.
Increasing reference prices will ultimately benefit just a few large corporations, further entrenching their power, said Farm Action and allied groups.
In response to record-high egg prices and just before testifying before the FTC, Farm Action urged the agency to open an investigation.
Farm Action’s letter urges the USDA to use changing priorities in agriculture to the benefit of farmers, instead of catering to multinational corporations.