The Daily Yonder | Senate Democrats take aim at antitrust and lack of competition in ag markets
Family farm groups are applauding a new proposal by Senate Democrats to strengthen antitrust enforcement and make markets fairer and more competitive.
Family farm groups are applauding a new proposal by Senate Democrats to strengthen antitrust enforcement and make markets fairer and more competitive.
Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar filed the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act. She says while the United States once had some of the most effective antitrust laws in the world, today’s economy faces a massive competition problem that can’t be swept under the rug.
Food & Water Watch and other consumer advocacy groups on Thursday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the body to enjoin Smithfield Foods from making “false claims” about its pork products and how the company produces them.
Joe Maxwell, President of Farm Action, has witnessed the shift from a functional capitalism to one that favors large monopolies at the expense of farmers, consumers, and the earth itself. He lays out the problems—and some ways forward—as we look to a new presidential administration.
A coalition of sustainable farming groups is calling on FTC to regulate use of the term, which it calls deceptive to customers and harmful to “truly independent farmers.”
President-elect Joe Biden plucked Tom Vilsack to serve as agricultural secretary, a former Iowa governor who filled the role under President Obama. But some farmers are sure to be outraged by the decision…
New populations of Americans have been made hungry by the pandemic. A recent report argues that food wasted by corporate monopolies could’ve fed them.
Thanksgiving week kicked off with complaints about how turkeys processed by some U.S. poultry producers are handled.
Consequences of increased agribusiness concentration became very evident with the COVID-19 crisis, and a new Farm Action report reveals shortfalls in the current system.
The agriculture industry, which has weathered economic blows over recent years from the coronavirus pandemic and trade wars, needs “a new vision,” said Joe Maxwell, a lifelong farmer and president of Farm Action Fund.