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The nation’s largest food distributor is accusing the big 4 meat packers of fixing prices and manipulating markets. Sysco has filed a lawsuit against Cargill, JBS, Tyson and National Beef,…

A new webinar from USDA’s Economic Research Service looks at price spreads for beef, going back to the 1970s. The disparity between what retailers, wholesalers, farms and byproducts take as…

A big week for the cattle industry on Capitol Hill with hearings in both the Senate and House Agriculture Committees. The excitement began in the Senate where lawmakers discussed bills…

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker re-introduced his Farm System Reform Act, a bill he says would “transform a broken system.” Similar legislation was introduced in the House by Congressman Ro…

President Biden issued his much-anticipated Executive Order on Friday that aims to promote competition in the American Economy. The order includes 72 initiatives, several of which deal directly with agriculture.…

Leadership in the House and Senate Agriculture Committees are feeling more pressure for the cattle industry to address a number of barriers to profitability for cattle producers. The National Cattlemen’s…

The same day that cattle producer organizations released a joint statement on cattle market transparency, outlining their action plans to begin correcting the imbalance that exists between cattle and beef…

Last week, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), joined by Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to support small meat and poultry…

A federal grand jury has indicted four executives from major poultry companies for conspiring to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chickens from 2012 to 2017. A grand jury…

A new proposal is circulating amongst cattle producers and lawmakers in Washington to create a program to fund placing cattle on a maintenance diet while the industry waits for slaughter…