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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
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.
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved bills Wednesday authorizing USDA to mandate minimum levels of cash trading in cattle and establish a special investigator’s office in USDA to probe allegations of unfair marketing practices.
The Department of Agriculture is taking steps to increase competition in the meat processing sector and reform the poultry industry's contracting practices.
The House Agriculture Committee is split along partisan lines over a Democratic bill that would create a special investigator in the Agriculture Department to look into allegations of unfair practices by meat and poultry processors.
In this opinion piece, Julie Anna Potts with the North American Meat Institute discusses the “The Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act” and the possible cost to producers and customers.
USDA is far from the only part of the federal government with authority in areas affecting the ag and food industries. Farmers and agribusiness in general need to keep a close eye on what comes out of the Environmental Protection Agency, Labor Department, Interior Department and Food and Drug Administration.
President Joe Biden is once again taking aim at the nation’s largest meat and poultry processors, vowing to boost competition for America’s farmers and ranchers and reduce prices for consumers.