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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, April 19, 2024
In this opinion piece, Jeff Kippley, Vice President of the National Farmers Union, challenges the recent opinion segment by the President of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) which addresses support for USDA efforts to bring fair rules to livestock markets.
In this opinion piece, Mark Eisele, Wyoming rancher and President of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, cautions against efforts to expand the Packers and Stockyards Act. and what he describes as harmful impacts on farmers and ranchers.
Through its first three years, the Biden administration has been moving – quickly in some cases, more slowly in others – to implement its regulatory agenda, the success of which will depend in large part on what happens in 2024.
The nation's fifth largest poultry processor has agreed to stop penalizing chicken farmers who exit their contracts to work for other companies, in a proposed consent decree with the Justice Department.
During the National Farmers Union's annual meeting, top Justice Department official says the Biden administration is taking an aggressive approach to agricultural antitrust issues, pursuing even particularly difficult cases to help protect American farmers and promote competition within the industry.
USDA has rolled out a series of steps to further the Biden administration's efforts to address consolidation pressure in agriculture, including a series of near-term steps detailed in a lengthy report about the current state of the American seed industry.
The Department of Agriculture provided 45 additional days to comment on its proposed rule to address market concentration and competition, the “Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity Under the Packers and Stockyards Act.
The Biden administration is taking new steps to protect producers from discriminatory practices, through a combination of new Agriculture Department regulations and funding to states for increasing enforcement of competition laws.
Three poultry companies have agreed to pay $84.8 million to compensate processing plant workers under agreements with the Justice Department that would allow a major acquisition to go forward and could spell trouble for the industry’s “tournament system” of paying growers.
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