The Hagstrom Report | Open Markets, Farm Action Grade Biden on Food System Competition
Issuing a report card grading the Biden administration’s work to increase food system competition, Farm Action and Open Markets said time is of the essence.
Issuing a report card grading the Biden administration’s work to increase food system competition, Farm Action and Open Markets said time is of the essence.
Farm Action’s Angela Huffman says Congress should use every possible tool to stop monopoly abuses — including a 1914 act authorizing Congress to direct the FTC to investigate antitrust violations.
Farm Action’s Angela Huffman says false labels are dangerous to health and damaging to farmers, and called on the USDA to act swiftly.
Our data on the fertilizer industry suggests price spikes are due to concentration. Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says eventually, farmers forced to use less fertilizer will mean less food for all.
While monopoly meatpackers pay fines, Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says, as “the cost of doing business,” some ranchers are fighting back against the exploitation.
Farm Action is calling on the federal government to enforce antitrust laws against the powerful fertilizer manufacturers that remain in the highly-consolidated industry.
Farm Action joined advocacy groups to file an FTC complaint against Deere, because as our President Joe Maxwell notes, “half of America’s farmers [are] under the thumb and control” of the corporation.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says John Deere is using their technological equipment and outsized market power to hoard data points, stealing profit from farmers.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell notes that repeated payouts over price-fixing allegations come nowhere close to the true cost of damages for industry collusion.
Farm Action has been recognized by The Hill as an “influential force” in the movement to create more competition in our food and farm system.