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Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers

HAY MAKER

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UNITED STATES: R-CALF USA has joined a coalition requesting competition and concentration in the marketplace be addressed in the farm bill.

Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) announced this week it is joining a 200-plus members of a coalition of agricultural organizations to request that Congress address the issues of competition and concentration in the marketplace during discussions on the Farm Bill.

In a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking members of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate Agriculture and Judiciary Committees, the coalition implored Congress to address the growing horizontal market consolidation that “effectively eliminates free market competition to the detriment of independent family farmers and consumers.” To address these problems, the coalition urged committee members to champion a strong, comprehensive Competition Title in the 2007 Farm Bill.

“It is time for Congress to implement a strong Competition Title and make changes to the Packers and Stockyards Act (PSA),” said R-CALF USA Region II Director and Marketing Committee Chair Randy Stevenson, in a news release. “The Act needs to be strengthened and enforced.”

The coalition letter suggested that to increase fairness in the marketplace, the upcoming Farm Bill should include a captive-supply reform act, a prohibition on packer-owned livestock, mandatory livestock price reporting, mandatory country-of-origin labeling (M-COOL), as well as a clarification of “undue preferences” in the PSA.
 
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