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...
View ArticleOCM Briefing Paper: Money Talks!
followmoneybriefing OCM believes the meatpackers and their organizations are using age-old tactics to try to kill GIPSA’s proposed PSA rules and maintain their stranglehold on dysfunctional markets....
View ArticleOCM Changes 2010 Conference Agenda
PR_OCM_Conference In response to the controversy created by proposed new rules regarding the Packers and Stockyards Act, OCM has amended the agenda for its upcoming conference in Omaha, August 10-11,...
View ArticleContinue the March; No Time for a Unilateral Truce!
by Thomas F. “Fred” Stokes Over the past 30 or so years, there has developed a meek acquiescence to agricultural market concentration and anticompetitive practices and the resultant harm to family...
View ArticleOCM Support Counters Corporate Interests
OCM_PR_Outpouring_GIPSA_Support Consumer and Producer groups combined to show support for proposed regulations of the Department of Agriculture that would provide producers and consumers a break they...
View Article“The Big Lie”– Weapon of Choice for GIPSA Rule Opponents
Thomas F. “Fred” Stokes Executive Director The comment period for the proposed GIPSA Rules has ended and the 80,000 or so comments are in; — but the bare knuckled, back-alley fight continues. Pursuant...
View ArticlePackers and Stockyards Act; Nullified by Judcial Activism! – Must We Let It...
Thomas F. “Fred” Stokes Executive Director The Rule doesn’t reinvent the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 (PSA) but rather reinvigorates it”, so says David Domina, OCM General Counsel of the Proposed...
View ArticleLet’s Look at the Statute. Surprise! It’s Not About Efficiency!
By C. Robert Taylor and David Domina Many academic economists have blinders on: All they see is efficiency, efficiency, efficiency. This is true of recent comments about GIPSA proposed regulations and...
View ArticleReforming the Marketplace; What’s Next?
Thomas F. “Fred” Stokes Executive Director In a February 9th letter to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and Attorney General Holder, Senators Patrick Leahy and Charles Grassley state; “we would appreciate...
View ArticleAnother Market Reformer Quits
Thomas F. “Fred” Stokes President On January 26th, J. Dudley Butler resigned his position as the livestock industry’s top cop. It was a sad day for independent livestock producers and poultry growers....
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