Richard Oswald http://www.dailyyonder.com/letter-langdon-you-dont-prune-roots/2011/10/04/3551 We liked the idea of hope. We would like better some action. An old rivalry was renewed again awhile back when my team, the Rock Port (Missouri) Bluejays traveled into Tarkio Indian territory for a game of football. Compared to Tarkio’s history, Rock Port always seemed modest. We have some nice homes in Bluejay country, but along just about every street in Tarkio there is at least one mansion. I suppose that dates back to Read More …
Day: November 1, 2011
Market Reform Efforts Held Captive to Politics?
by Fred Stokes At the OCM Annual Conference in St. Louis in August of 2009, Phil Weiser, Deputy to Antitrust Chief Christine Varney, and J. Dudley Butler, Administrator of the Grain Inspection and Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), laid out an ambitious and historic plan to reform the agricultural marketplace. For the first time in our nation’s history, there was to be a joint DOJ/USDA initiative to restore a competitive marketplace for agriculture. Our antitrust laws were finally Read More …
OCM Needs YOU!
Anita ENDSLEY Executive Director The Organization for Competitive Markets is working diligently on behalf of farmers and ranchers to provide for fair, open, transparent and competitive markets. Washington is ripe with strife and we are at a CRITICAL JUNCTURE which will decide the future of how business is conducted in agriculture! “Big Ag” is marshalling its considerable forces against the Producer Rights rule known as the GIPSA Rule. Industrial Ag leaders are lobbying your representatives to make decisions Read More …