Open Markets Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway released a statement regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s move to block a merger between two of the nation’s largest grocers, Kroger and Albertsons.
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Open Markets Institute was mentioned in an article in support of Beth Baltzan, an adviser to the U.S. Trade Representative’s office and a former senior fellow at OMI, who is being targeted by Big Tech firms and the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway elaborates on the urgent issues that should be addressed in a new farm bill.
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Open Markets’ food systems policy director Claire Kelloway on new USDA rules for chicken tournament systems that leave out turkey farmers.
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Open Markets Institute was listed among the groups that have signed onto a letter opposing Koch Industries’ purchase of OCI Global’s Iowa Fertilizer Company for $3.6 billion, which would further consolidate the industry and damage competition and prices
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Marketplace quoted Open Markets’ food systems policy director Claire Kelloway on how the proposed merger between grocery store giants Kroger and Albertsons would increase the company’s negotiating power with brands.
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Food and agriculture systems program manager Claire Kelloway co-wrote a paper with senior fellow at American Economic Liberties Project, Matthew Buck, examining exclusionary payments as an unfair tactic used by dominant retailers to abuse their market power to corner food retail markets and marginalize new and community-based producers.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway argues that the main reason Kroger and Albertsons want to merge is to achieve Walmart’s monopsony power, and permitting mergers on these grounds will only harm suppliers, workers, and consumers.
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A new report by chef Kiki Louya, published by the Open Markets Institute, examines the peanut industry, where farmer-owned cooperatives like Premium Peanut have seen great success taking on the giant shelling monopolies, and explores how other farmers might use cooperatives to circumvent monopolists.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway co-wrote a piece covering the C&S divestiture take down of the Kroger - Albertsons merger.
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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway released a statement regarding the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the meat industry data company Agri Stats.
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The Open Markets Institute collaborated on a report with Kiki Louya, offering a deep dive into the case study of Premium Peanut.
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The Open Markets Institute and Farm Action updated their report card on the Biden administration’s work to address consolidation in agriculture.
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Open Markets will host a virtual event on Monday, July 17th to check in once again on the executive agencies’ progress on behalf of farmers, workers, & the American people. Our goal: to understand what the Biden administration must accomplish in its remaining time in office.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway published an article focusing on the implementation of bipartisan legislation regarding greenhouse gas emissions.
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Open Markets submitted a comment led by Claire Kelloway, to the USDA enthusiastically supporting their “Product of USA” labeling rule to make the case for why the agency, having the legal authority to do so, must finalize the proposal.
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In this issue, we look at the potential effects of the Supreme Court’s review of Section 230. We also describe a new Open Markets report that details the dangers of a new carbon credits scheme run by Big Ag.
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Claire Kelloway, food program director , and Jason Davidson, senior food and agriculture campaigner at Friends of the Earth, collaborate in this policy brief revealing the reality farmers face in the midst of carbon markets and the presence of Big Ag.
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Open Markets conducts a report by Claire Kelloway and Matt Buck sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Program.
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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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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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This report, “Food and Power: Addressing Monopolization in America’s Food System,” documents the degree of concentration found in different agriculture-related sectors of the economy and lays out solutions for policymakers.
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