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Farm Bill 2012: El Dorado in Recession?

Mike Callicrate

Anita Poole-Endsley Executive Director In centuries past, Spanish Conquistadors searched for the famed city of El Dorado. El Dorado was rumored to be made of gold where riches abounded. El Dorado was never found, and may have never existed except in the minds of those hoping to satisfy their urges for financial security. Such is the quest for a farm bill in 2012. Agricultural producers are searching for an answer to secure their financial status through policy and Read More …

Letter from Langdon: Shhhh Farm Bill

Mike Callicrate

BY RICHARD OSWALD http://www.dailyyonder.com/letter-langdon-shhhhhfarm-bill/2011/11/21/3614 The less you hear about the farm bill, the more it’s going to hurt us all when it’s passed. There are just some things politicians can’t talk about ahead of ballot time. That’s why no one in Congress wants to utter those two little words “farm bill” before the 2012 elections. I could write pages on the farm bill, and anyone who’s never worked with one wouldn’t really understand. Most of us who have Read More …

Conference Wrap-Up

Mike Callicrate

Anita Poole-Endsley Executive Director The 13th Annual OCM Conference entitled “Voices Rising from the Land” was held on August 12-13, 2011 in Kansas City, MO at the Westin Crown Center. The meeting carried three themes which illustrate the strategy used by the organization to fight for fair, open and competitive markets: legislation, litigation, and alternative solutions. According to Fred Stokes, former OCM Executive Director and current OCM President, litigation has not been completely successful, and efforts at passing Read More …

Letter from Langdon: Voices Rising

Mike Callicrate

Published in The Yonder, 8/17/11 by Richard Oswald For the past 13 years, members of the Organization for Competitive Markets have gathered to talk about unfair markets and antitrust violations in the agriculture business. The voices were rising again last week in Kansas City. Agriculture and the people who build lives around it have never really been known to cry wolf. We seek understanding and occasionally we argue for fair treatment, but creating problems where none exist is Read More …

Robbers and Theives (c)

Mike Callicrate

By Richard Oswald Robbers and thieves won’t let me be, they want all of it just the same My land, my animals, my seeds– they even want my name Land is getting awfully high, an acre is like treasure But take away this poor dirt farm and my life will have no measure Robbers and thieves won’t let me be, they want all of it just the same My land, my animals, my seeds– they even want my Read More …

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Phil Weiser’s Speech At OCM Conference

Mike Callicrate

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 …