Farmer groups across the political spectrum criticized the decision, which runs counter to Trump administration pledges to protect farmers from dominant packers.
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Fertilizer prices are rising as US and Israel’s attack on Iran closes the critical Strait of Hormuz. In theory, nitrogen fertilizer can be made all over the world, so why is the industry so consolidated and vulnerable?
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Operation Metro Surge expanded beyond the Twin Cities metro and chilled economic activity in rural Minnesota meatpacking towns with large immigrant communities.
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A new antitrust suit alleges that large cannabis companies made tit for tat agreements to buy each other’s products or allot each other shelf space in Ohio.
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Minnesota shows how small businesses can support their communities through crisis while large corporations make measured statements, or worse, cooperate with authoritarian overreach.
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Over 30 environmental organizations want USDA to stop subsidizing manure-to-biogas machinery that they argue entrenches large, polluting livestock operations, promotes farm consolidation, and wastes taxpayer dollars.
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Tyson Foods and JBS agreed to stop making misleading climate action claims after environmental organizations and the New York Attorney General sued them for false advertising.
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As consumers continue to struggle with rising food prices, an unsealed antitrust suit involving Walmart and Pepsi and a report on Instacart’s algorithmic pricing model demonstrate the ways large food corporations charge different prices to different consumers.
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Antitrust enforcement could bring down grocery prices, but will Trump’s FTC and DOJ deliver? The agencies have been weakened by firings.
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Just three companies sell roughly half of all turkeys. Excessive consolidation increases the risk of price-fixing and harmful supply chain disruptions, both of which have come to roost in the turkey industry.
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Cities, small towns, and the federal government have all tried running public food markets and grocery stores. New York City can learn from the military commissary system and benefit from Robinson-Patman Act enforcement.
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President Trump’s plan to import more beef from Argentina hit a nerve with ranchers, not only because it sunk cattle futures, but because U.S. ranchers already feel threatened by unlabeled imports.
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