Comments on: We’re in an epic battle for control of our food supply and we need your support. https://competitivemarkets.com/were-in-an-epic-battle-for-control-of-our-food-supply-and-we-need-your-support/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:53:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: OCM – 2015 State of Ag and Food – What can we do? – News.MikeCallicrate.com | A NoBull News Service https://competitivemarkets.com/were-in-an-epic-battle-for-control-of-our-food-supply-and-we-need-your-support/comment-page-1/#comment-11849 Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:53:20 +0000 http://competitivemarkets.com/?p=3009#comment-11849 […] We’re in an epic battle for control of our food supply […]

]]> By: America Returns to the Jungle | Organization for Competitive Markets https://competitivemarkets.com/were-in-an-epic-battle-for-control-of-our-food-supply-and-we-need-your-support/comment-page-1/#comment-10053 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:52:53 +0000 http://competitivemarkets.com/?p=3009#comment-10053 […] box retailers, big food service companies like Sysco, and food management firms like Sodexo hold unprecedented market power and control over distribution; far greater today than during Upton Sinclair’s 1906 Robber Baron […]

]]> By: gregory whynott https://competitivemarkets.com/were-in-an-epic-battle-for-control-of-our-food-supply-and-we-need-your-support/comment-page-1/#comment-5095 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 00:56:43 +0000 http://competitivemarkets.com/?p=3009#comment-5095 Good men speak but there are no ears in Washington.

]]> By: John K. Hansen https://competitivemarkets.com/were-in-an-epic-battle-for-control-of-our-food-supply-and-we-need-your-support/comment-page-1/#comment-5092 Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:58:40 +0000 http://competitivemarkets.com/?p=3009#comment-5092 OCM President Mike Callicrate’s President Report below amounts to a State of the Ag Markets report. Why work on ag markets as an issue? Because, to the extent our markets work, they establish the price we are paid, whether or not we have a place to sell our products, the structure of our industry, and to a very substantial extent, the economic winners and loser in food production. While this battle is not an easy one to win, it is essential.

The current system of shared non-competitive markets amounts to a kind of sanctioned looting of rural America. Our livestock and grain producers have not gone out of business because they got tired of the work and challenges, they have been forced out of business because they have not been paid a fair price for their production because of non-competitive ag markets.

Those of us who believe in the values and benefits of our traditional system of independent owner operator agriculture need to think structurally, understand our primary economic interests, and build constructive working relationships with anybody that shares our core beliefs and interests if we are to gather the necessary financial and political resources necessary to effectively combat the power of the ag market “cartel” and their political friends.

There, my friends and neighbors is one of my New Year’s resolutions.

John K. Hansen, President
Nebraska Farmers Union
1305 Plum Street, Lincoln, NE 68502
402-476-8815 Office 402-476-8859 Fax
402-476-8608 Home 402-580-8815 Cell
http://www.nebraskafarmersunion.org

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