With a highly-concentrated industry and uncontrolled lobbying on elected officials, there is no way for ordinary people to expect their voices to be heard over the sounds of spending by huge vested interests. This document provides an overview of agribusiness spending in the 2016 election cycle. Read more.
Author: Mike Callicrate
Letter to OCM Members and Friends Concerning GIPSA Rules
ocmmemberfriends OCM Members and Friends: For many years there has been unprecedented concentration of the agricultural livestock marketplace with a corresponding decrease in competition and fair prices paid to farmers and ranchers. The result has been devastating to independent family agriculture and rural America. There has recently been a proposed reform effort issued by USDA’s Grain Inspection and Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA). Please read the letter below from OCM Executive Director Fred Stokes to OCM members and Read More …
Briefing Paper: When Small Is Big
By David A Domina & C Robert Taylor, PhD Livestock economists who look only at cash movement and do not analyze profitability outcome sometimes conclude that the effect of market power and captive supplies is “small.” They dismiss this “small” impact lightly, but ignore the fact that the impact they concede is the difference between profit and loss – the economic equivalent of the difference between life and death. Read more.
Briefing Paper: Distorted Incentives: The Simple Arithmetic of Captive Supply
Marketing agreements harm feeders selling on the cash market, and they also harm captive feeders who participate in these marketing agreements. This document explains how these agreements work. Read more.
Briefing Paper: GIPSA and Value-Based Marketing
Value-based marketing, or social responsibility marketing, appeals to consumers’ ethics and values. Proposed GIPSA rules, which would provide basic protections for poultry growers, signal a beginning, not an end to value-based marketing. Read more.
OCM Comments on Proposed GIPSA Rules
boardcommentsonGIPSAext Press Release stating OCM’s Board of Directors position on extending GIPSA Rule comments.
OCM Comments on Proposed GIPSA Rules
taylorgipsa OCM has a strong stand concerning the newly proposed GIPSA rules. Please read the documents below concerning the proposed changes.
American Meat Institute Requests a ‘Stalling Tactic’
amipressrelease The American Meat Institute has requested more time to comment on proposed USDA Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration rules. OCM urges denial of the request. AMI is a lobbying organization of the major meat processing corporations of the United States. OCM is a nonprofit organization devoted to market fairness for agriculture and consumer food products.