One company sells 80% of all canned pumpkin, one cooperative sells 70% of all cranberry sauce, and two companies sell 60% of all carrots. That’s not great for fair prices or resiliency.
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Next week’s Presidential election will have profound implications for food policy.
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Is the world’s largest e-commerce platform connecting small businesses with the government or “small-washing” a new monopoly tollbooth?
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Economist Isabella Weber makes the case that public food buffer stocks could mitigate price shocks in an increasingly unstable future.
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Rural grocers share challenges and innovations at bi-annual conference, and USDA better defines “unfair practices” under the Packers and Stockyards Act.
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New report shows special interests spent half a billion lobbying on the latest farm bill and chicken growers wage-fixing suit survives class certification.
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The FTC published a report confirming what many suspected about the role of profiteering in driving up food prices and aggravating shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Antitrust enforcers dealt two major challenges to corporate power at different ends of the food supply chain over the past two weeks.
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The California Air Resources Board is weighing a change to its low carbon fuel standard, which critics say overvalues gas from livestock manure lagoons.
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The federal government has tapped an unlikely accomplice, Instacart, to combat diet-related disease and expand “food as medicine” programs. Yet Instacart’s gig-worker business model drives the economic inequality at the root of nutrition disparity.
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A recap of some of our biggest stories of 2023 and a look ahead to antimonopoly action expected in 2024.
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USDA and DOJ collaborate to sue Koch Foods for restrictive contract termination fees. USDA also finalizes poultry contract transparency rule. Farmers say keep the foot on the gas.
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