OCM_Post_Conference_ReleaseOCM’s annual conference focused on anit-competitive practices in agriculture and livestock industries. The conference featured many different speakers, including administration officials, antitrust experts and economists. The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) drew a record crowd of ranchers, farmers, feedlot operators, seed distributors and others for its annual conference held in St. Louis on August 7th. Attendees heard panel presentations concerning the ills of market concentration and anticompetitive practices and ongoing efforts to address these issues. Featured speakers included Read More …
Author: Mike Callicrate
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Phil Weiser’s Speech At OCM Conference
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Phil Weiser spoke to the crowd at OCM’s annual conference in held August 7th in St. Louis, Missouri. Weiser Addressed the need for a competition policy agenda for agricultural markets. Philip J. Weiser Deputy Assistant Attorney General Antitrust Division U.S. Department of Justice Remarks as Prepared for the Organization for Competitive Markets 11th Annual Conference St. Louis, Missouri August 7th, 2009 Download Entire Speech I. Introduction: I am very happy to be here with Read More …
OCM Applauds Joint USDA/DOJ Workshops
Lincoln, Nebraska – The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) expresses its pleasure at the announcement today by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Attorney General Eric Holder that they will hold the first ever joint workshops on agricultural market competition. The announcement states: “The workshops will address the dynamics of competition in agriculture markets including, among other issues, buyer power (also known as monopsony) and vertical integration.” This is the heart of OCM’s mission and we will cooperate Read More …
OCM Annual Conference To Confront Threats To Market Competition
The Organization for Competitive Markets will hold its annual conference and membership meeting, Aug. 7 – 8 in St. Louis, Mo., at the Westin St. Louis Hotel. The conference theme will be the essence of OCM’s mission, “Confronting the Threats to Market Competition”. A single fee of $50 includes registration, luncheon and banquet. “This is going to be a hard-hitting conference in which we will make our case to administration officials who can do something about our situation”, Read More …
OCM Deplores Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Reversal of Unanimous Jury Verdict and U.S. Marshals Posting Notice of Levy on Plaintiff’s Home
Lincoln, NE – The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) deplores the abuse of power that brought us to the circumstance today with Hermann Schumacher standing in jeopardy of losing his house. Mr. Schumacher and his fellow plaintiffs exercised their right to plead for justice by suing Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. and other meatpackers for damages inflicted. A jury of Mr. Schumacher’s peers found that Tyson and the other defendants had violated the Packers and Stockyards Act (PSA). Subsequently, Read More …
Butler Assumes Duties As GIPSA Administrator
LINCOLN, Neb. — May 14, 2009. This week, J. Dudley Butler was officially sworn into office and assumes his duties as administrator of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) at the USDA in Washington, D.C. OCM offers its hearty congratulations and full support for his daunting task ahead. Butler’s experience and personal qualities make him well suited to the task of putting this agency with its troubled past, back on the right path. GIPSA is an Read More …
OCM To Address D.C. Lawmakers Concerning Seed Concentration
OCM52009DCrelease_(5) The Organization for Competitive Markets will address lawmakers and other congressional staff in Washington D.C. concerning the ills of intense concentration in the patented seed industry.
Monsanto Looking To Restrict Choice In Seed Selection
OCM_Press_Release_may509 OCM is disappointed by Monsanto’s move to restrict choice in seed selection. OCM believes a quick resolution is urgently needed so optimum GAT trait technology can be available to farmer’s as soon as possible. OCM addressed Monsanto’s move to restrict choice in seed selection in this most recent press release.