In a public comment, Farm Action commended the Justice Department for putting a stop to corporate abuse and taking a critical step toward restoring competition in poultry markets.
The tournament system is intrinsically unfair because it lacks a base price guarantee. Furthermore, growers’ bonuses are not paid by the company, but are instead docked from other growers’ paychecks.
Farm Action and 23 allied organizations issued an urgent call to decentralize fertilizer production ahead of a global food crisis.
Farm Action submitted a public comment to the FTC and the DOJ setting out the legal and factual case for ending a 40-year failed experiment in antitrust law enforcement.
Farm Action urged the USDA to prioritize competition and fairness as it invests $500 million in local and regional meat processing capacity.
With these comments, Farm Action seized an opportunity to inform the USDA’s policy priorities as they develop new programs, continue to implement existing ones, and determine what changes must be made to realize a more resilient future.
While the comment addressed key issues identified by USDA, it went further to make policy recommendations that would center farmers and ranchers as a part of the climate solution while detailing the safeguards needed to deter the continued concentration of the food system.
Farm Action submitted a comment to the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, recommending how COVID stimulus grants should be developed, distributed, and implemented for small businesses throughout the food system.
Farm Action recommends broader checkoff reforms can be implemented that truly benefit farmers and ranchers: a return to a voluntary point of sale checkoff to allow farmers, ranchers and producers to opt into checkoff payments as they could when the programs were first established.
Farm Action submitted public comments to the USDA addressing the Proposed Rulemaking to expand the list of generic statements a company can make on a food label without those statements being approved by FSIS.
