Farmers and food businesses urge antitrust enforcers to strengthen merger guidelines and fight consolidation.
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The Capper-Volstead Act just turned 100 years old. What the future of farming could learn from this lesser-known law that established the legal foundations for agricultural cooperatives.
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In the name of supporting craft producers, a new Treasury Department report questions the very state laws that permitted the craft boom, some argue.
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Farm equipment makers face monopolization lawsuits and a new right to repair bill in the Senate.
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Claire Kelloway wrote about the role of food corporations’ market power in rising prices (and rising profit margins) for Time magazine.
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The Biden administration will invest $1 billion in new plants and issue new rules under the Packers and Stockyards Act. Will this help bring down meat prices?
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Troubles in the turkey industry predate the pandemic.
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Government subsidies to build methane biodigesters encourage a dirty industry to expand.
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Violating labor laws could be considered an unfair method of competition. The FTC has the power to clarify.
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The Iowa Farm Bureau sells itself as a member-driven organization, but dividends from a financial services firm pay most its bills and executives.
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As Big Ag gets into the business of buying and selling carbon credits, they also get access to lots of farm-level data.
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