This document summarizes the consolidation and lack of economic justice facing American farmers. It notes that the number of American farms has declined sharply from 1978 to 2007. It discusses how meatpackers and agribusinesses have consolidated power, breaking cash prices for hogs while selling pork at higher prices. Dairy farm numbers in Wisconsin dropped over 600 in one year. The document calls for restoring economic justice for farmers by taking away funding from opponents, reinstating country of origin labeling, and adopting contract grower protection rules. It encourages joining the Organization for Competitive Markets to fight for these issues.
A water marketing presentation provided to the Montana Farm Bureau Federation in Summer 2010. The objective of the presentation was to provide an overview of water marketing to the water committee members, so they better understand anticipated water marketing policy in state of Montana.
Livestock-Climate Change CRSP Annual Meeting 2011: Mali Poultry Project Updat...Colorado State University
An update on the Livestock-Climate Change CRSP's Mali Poultry Project and project status report. Presentation given by M. Lacy (University of Georgia) at the Livestock-Climate Change CRSP Annual Meeting, Golden, CO, April 26-27, 2011.
Own a quick service restaurant? If so, this Balboa Capital infographic is for you. It's jam-packed with interesting facts, figures, and trends about the QSR industry.
Duke Divinity School September 2013 Conference on Food, Farming, and the Life...Ranch Foods Direct
Scripture portrays God as a gardener, farmer, and shepherd. It describes Jesus as “the bread of life” who invites people to the Lord’s table so they can learn to feed his sheep. It is hard to read the Bible and not see that God cares deeply about food and agriculture.
Join plenary speakers Ellen F. Davis, Joel Salatin, Scott Cairns, and Norman Wirzba, and 12 workshop leaders, as we explore multiple connections between food, farming, and the life of faith. Discover how a concern for food and agriculture can deepen faith and heal our lands and communities.
This event is hosted by Duke Divinity School, Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Blessed Earth, Cherokee Gives Back, The Duke Endowment, The Humane Society of the United States, and Anathoth Community Garden.
Idependent Cattlemen of Nebraska (ICON) Annual Meeting 2010Ranch Foods Direct
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of the government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
A water marketing presentation provided to the Montana Farm Bureau Federation in Summer 2010. The objective of the presentation was to provide an overview of water marketing to the water committee members, so they better understand anticipated water marketing policy in state of Montana.
Livestock-Climate Change CRSP Annual Meeting 2011: Mali Poultry Project Updat...Colorado State University
An update on the Livestock-Climate Change CRSP's Mali Poultry Project and project status report. Presentation given by M. Lacy (University of Georgia) at the Livestock-Climate Change CRSP Annual Meeting, Golden, CO, April 26-27, 2011.
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Duke Divinity School September 2013 Conference on Food, Farming, and the Life...Ranch Foods Direct
Scripture portrays God as a gardener, farmer, and shepherd. It describes Jesus as “the bread of life” who invites people to the Lord’s table so they can learn to feed his sheep. It is hard to read the Bible and not see that God cares deeply about food and agriculture.
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Idependent Cattlemen of Nebraska (ICON) Annual Meeting 2010Ranch Foods Direct
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of the government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
Here is some more political history of U.S. Farm Bills and farm programs. It's an awesome history, but a forgotten, erased, history. We greatly need to know this today. Democrats have supported "living wage" or "parity" minimum farm price floors, backed up by supply reductions, as needed to balance supply and demand. No subsidies are needed in these programs. They also supported maximum farm price ceilings, backed up by reserve supplies, as needed to prevent price spikes. While the increasingly Republican farm programs have greatly lowered farm income and subsidized foreign countries with below cost sales, Democrats have favored making a profit on exports. While Republican subsidies, (to compensate farmers for trade wars where the U.S. loses money on exports,) are expensive and irrational, Democratic programs are much cheaper, and sometimes the programs have made a profit for the government, (for example, 1942-1950, during the parity years).
Rural Population Decline in Iowa's 1st District.pdfBrad Wilson
With the Decline of farming in Iowa, (as seen in my other slides shows,) Iowa has also had rural population decline. While the U.S. has doubled in population since 1950, Iowa has increased much less, dropping from 8 Congressional Districts to 4, because of significant decline all across Iowa's rural areas. Behind it all is the reduction (1953-1995) and elimination of minimum farm Price Floor programs, leading to much lower farm income.
‘Meeting of the Markets’ presentation held at the Isles Convention Hall in Lincoln, NE on May 17th 2012 with focus on market creation opportunities for farmers and ranchers that will create opportunities for consumers to access locally produced foods.
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This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
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f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
Getting started with Amazon Bedrock Studio and Control Tower
Mississippi November 2016
1. Where is the Justice?
Restoring Economic Justice for the
American Farmer
Presented by Joe Maxwell
November 15, 2016
2. OCM is Fighting to Stop the Extinction
of the American Farmer
According to USDA 2007 Ag Census: Total Number of Farms
0
500
1000
1500
2000
1978 1997 2002 2007
Number of American Farms
Number of
American Farms
3. “Smithfield is also solely owned by a Chinese
firm. Smithfield and the other major packers
systematically broke cash hog prices to 14-year
lows while at the same time selling pork at
higher prices.”
5. July 25, 2013
Dairy farm numbers drop in state
“Though Wisconsin's number of dairy cows
continues to hold steady, the state lost well
over 600 dairy farm operations in the last
year...”
7. You Might Be Paying Too Much for Your Chicken
Nov 3, 2016
“How chickens are priced has become a contentious topic as
the poultry industry has consolidated.”
Price per pound for whole chickens
• 10/31/16
• $1.10
• Georgia Dock
• $0.72
• Urner Barry
• $0.71
• U.S.D.A.
• composite
8.
9.
10. Reversal Of Anti-Trust Provisions
• 1981 Consent Decree of 1920 lifted
• Reagan Administration
– pushes efficiency model
– Conglomerate mergers are allowed in the name of
efficiency
– Reduced budgets for FTC and Department of
Justice
11. Candidate Obama
“By the time the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed in 1999,
the $300 million lobbying effort that drove deregulation
was more about facilitating mergers than creating an
efficient regulatory framework,” Mr. Obama said in a
speech on the economy at Cooper Union in New York in
March 2008.
“Instead of establishing a 21st century regulatory
framework, we simply dismantled the old one,” thereby
encouraging “a winner take all, anything goes
environment that helped foster devastating dislocations
in our economy.”
12. Concentration in Capital
The Clinton Years
• The Banking Act of 1994
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley reverses
Glass-Steagall
13. What We Get In Return
• Severe concentration of the markets
• Farmers off the land
• Businesses and wealth driven out of
our rural communities
17. How did it come to this?
According to USDA 2007 Ag Census: Total Number of Farms
0
500
1000
1500
2000
1978 1997 2002 2007
Number of American Farms
Number of
American Farms
21. The Real Enemy
• Statement by Scott George, NCBA president during last
farm bill debate:
• “We are finding a lot of support in the halls of Congress
for repealing this if this is not fixed,” he said. “There’s a
narrow window where this issue – mandatory country-
of-origin labeling [COOL] – and the GIPSA [Grain
Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration]
language could both be addressed in this farm bill. And
they need to take advantage of it, because if they
don’t, we will literally use all of our resources to kill
this bill.”
22. Meatpackers, industry groups seek repeal
of labeling law
Posted on Fri, Jan. 31, 2014
The American Meat Institute, National
Cattleman’s Beef Association, National Chicken
Council, National Pork Producers Council,
National Turkey Federation and North American
Meat Association, as well as big meatpackers,
lobbied to have the new Farm Bill change the
country-of-origin labeling law.
23. “The centralized food system that continues to
emerge was never voted on by the people of
this country, or for that matter, the people of
the world. It is the product of deliberate
decisions made by a very few powerful human
actors. This is not the only system that could
emerge. Is it not time to ask some critical
questions about our food system and about
what is in the best interest of this and future
generations?” Bill Heffernan, Rural Sociologist
24. The Days of the Trust Busting
• 1888 (125 yrs ago) US Launches 1st Federal
Investigation of Meat Packing “Big Four” Swift
Armour Wilson Morris 45 % of U S Slaughter
25. The Jungle
• 1906 Upton Sinclair publishes “The Jungle” “In
the national capital [the Meat Packing Trust]
had power to prevent inspection of its
product, and to falsify government reports . .
. In the commercial world it . . . wiped out
thousands of businesses every year . . . .”
26. Time Line to Success
• 1890 Sherman Act
• 1914 Clayton Act
• 1920 Court Issues “Big Four” Consent Decree Entered
compelling divestiture Prohibits…. “…any contract… in
restraint of trade…” “Owning an interest in any…
stockyard… or any… market journal….” “Having an
interest in… manufacturing… food products… not
related to Meat Packing” 30 percent of US is Farmers
• 1921 Packers and Stockyard Act
• 1977 Packer Concentration reached century long low
point – 20% of U S
27. Call to Action:
• Take away our opponents illegitimate funding
– Clean up the Checkoff programs by supporting the
passage of SB 3200 and SB 3201
– Sign the letter of support
28. Call to Action:
• Fight to have this administration reinstate
Country of Origin Labeling
• Fight to have contract grower protection
GIPSA rules adopted
• Fight to have meaningful anti-predatory
practices GIPSA rules adopted
29. Call to Action:
• Join The Organization for Competitive Markets
– Membership
– Encourage your family farm organizations to join
The Organization for Competitive Markets
National Collaboration