The long-delayed rulemaking process for the so-called “Undue Preference” rule delivers a win to powerful meatpacking companies after a nearly 15-year fight to level the playing field between farmers and big meatpacking companies.
Tyler Whitley
On the eve of our first presidential debate of 2020, we want to highlight a letter RAFI-USA and others sent to both presidential candidates on the issue of fair competition in the livestock sector for family farmers and ranchers.
Over the past two weeks, RAFI-USA joined more than 120 labor, farm, faith, and civil rights organizations to call on North Carolina government officials to take strong action to protect food workers. Our social media hashtag, #ProtectNCWorkers, reached tens-of-thousands of people.
A call to action to ask the USDA to stand up for farmers, rather than protect industry, by submitting comments on this undue preference rule.
The Federal Register published a rule set forth by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), which intends to satisfy provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill, written to establish criteria for the Secretary of Agriculture to use in determining whether meat packers are giving undue preference or advantage to specific producers.
Documenting RAFI-USA’s Stand with Farm Families project.
The RAFI-USA team received an anonymous letter from a farmer, regarding unfair poultry contracts that have plagued farms in North Georgia. According to the farmer’s account, many farm families have suffered at the hands of Tyson for years, and treatment of growers is getting worse.
Profile of North Carolina farmer, Reid Phifer.