This report discusses how the USDA must improve regulation of agriculture markets to ensure fair competition and to counterbalance predatory corporate consolidation through statutes such as the Packers and Stockyards Act.
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Open Markets Institute published, “Building Food Systems Resiliency Through Different Business Scales and Forms,” a report, originally submitted in response to a USDA request for comments, discussing how to improve regulation of agriculture markets to ensure fair competition and to counterbalance predatory corporate consolidation.
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Sandeep Vanheesan, legal director, and Claire Kelloway, senior reporter, write in the LPE Project about the insufficient portrayals of antimonopoly policy in the field of agriculture. Their article shines a light on the misrepresented economic statuses of farmers across the states.
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Washington Monthly runs Claire Kelloway’s piece from Food & Power about how tech giants are trying to create a monopoly middleman on grocery deliveries.
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Claire Kelloway, senior reporter and researcher, speaks on a podcast about how agricultural monopolies have resulted in overproduction, degraded ecosystems, public health crises, all-time-high farm debt, and narrower opportunities for new farmers.
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Open Markets’ report, “Addressing Monopolization in America’s Food System,” was cited in an op-ed written by Gracy Olmstead about how to fix our food systems.
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Program manager for food and agriculture systems, Claire Kelloway, discusses why the meat industry is bad for farmers, workers, consumers, animals, and the environment.
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Senior reporter & researcher, Claire Kelloway, guest features on a podcast to discuss California’s Proposition 22 ballot initiative and Big Tech at large.
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The Open Markets Institute and a diverse set of environmental, family farm, farm policy and rural community organizations sent a letter to the White House requesting an executive order to enact a moratorium on mergers and acquisitions in the food and agricultural industries.
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Open Markets Institute and Family Farm Action Alliance host a virtual briefing on the groundbreaking report, “The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts,” written by Dr. Mary Hendrickson, a leading food systems expert.
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Claire Kelloway, senior reporter and researcher at the Open Markets Institute, writes in The Intercept about why Tom Vilsack is such a bad choice for Secretary of Agriculture.
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Open Markets Institute joins Family Farm Action Alliance in releasing a groundbreaking report titled, “The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts,” at a virtual event featuring Sen. Cory Booker. The report was authored by Dr. Mary Hendrickson, Dr. Phil Howard, Emily Miller, and Dr. Douglas Constance.
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The Open Markets Institute issued the following memorandum on how the next administration can and should reverse course to stop the handful of powerful, vertically integrated corporations from controlling entire agricultural markets, exploiting workers, and mining the countryside.
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Open Markets reporter and senior researcher Claire Kelloway writes in The Washington Monthly about how dairy cooperatives, originally meant to let farmers join forces to get a good price for their milk and stand up to powerful interests, now often squeeze the farmers that ostensibly own them.
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Open Markets Institute released a new report revealing how many farmer co-ops have subverted anti-monopoly measures and grown into monopolies that prey upon their members. The report, called “Redeeming the Democratic Promise of Agricultural Cooperatives,” proposes a set of reforms and increased antitrust enforcement that could rebalance agricultural markets to serve the public interest again.
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This Open Markets Institute report, “Redeeming the Democratic Promise of Agricultural Cooperatives,” highlights the vulnerability that farmers, as well as the agriculture industry as a whole, have to ever-expanding monopolistic corporations.
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Meatpacking giant JBS recently acquired the Mountain State Rosen (MSR) lamb processing plant in Greeley, Colorado. The plant processed as much as one-fifth of all U.S. lamb and served ranchers from 15 states, but JBS plans to shut it down, leaving ranchers stranded.
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Claire Kelloway writes about the overwhelming control exerted by delivery apps, and the sustainability of restaurants in the midst of this era.
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