The U.S. is faced with an historic trade deficit for produce and impending opportunities for farm system change. In a poll conducted by GQR on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, voters across the spectrum called for food, not feed.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell and Basel Musharbash shared evidence suggesting that dominant egg companies are using supply chain disruptions like the avian flu as an excuse to gouge consumers.
Willie Cade, a Farm Action Local Leader and right to repair advocate, is concerned Deere is only agreeing to the memorandum to publicly placate critics.
Fertilizer corporations blamed 2022’s record-breaking prices on market disruptions, but Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says monopolistic practices are to blame.
USDA Secretary Vilsack should be helping U.S. corn farmers access a premium market, says Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says USDA should stop defending genetically modified corn and help farmers transition to non-GM methods, which would put “more money in their pockets.”
Allowing foreign corporations unlimited access to U.S. farmland drives up property values and prices Missourians out of farming, says Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
The Justice Department’s consent decree “enforces the law against brazen violations that have gone unchecked for decades,” Farm Action said in its comment.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell hopes an uptick in concern among legislators over foreign corporate farmland ownership may lead to guidelines for foreign investment.
Farm Action’s research shows that in the past 17 years alone, foreign farmland holdings have doubled in the U.S. and the trend shows no signs of slowing.
