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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, January 31, 2025
The Agriculture Department has finalized a rule limiting poultry integrators from paying reduced rates to producers through tournament ranking systems while still allowing for bonuses, the agency announced Tuesday.
The incoming Trump Administration could be consequential for determining the fate of a slate of Biden Administration agricultural competition policies, including its efforts to update rules under the Packers and Stockyards Act.
USDA announced several actions today to promote fair and competitive markets, including new rulemaking steps under the Packers and Stockyards Act and increased access to seed germplasm.
The Agriculture Department on Tuesday proposed new definitions for practices that can be deemed "unfair" under the Packers and Stockyards Act, allowing the livestock antitrust law to prohibit conduct that “harms market participants” and “harms the market."
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.
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