Contract Farming: Campaign Speech and Stockyards Administration

contract farming: Photo Drew Angerer/Getty Images In a campaign speech on Sunday at the Swine Arena in Osage, Iowa, Sen, according to The Independent. Bernie Sanders outlined an agricultural policy rooted in breaking the power of vertically integrated farm monopolies. Photo Drew Angerer/Getty Images Then-Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack testifies during a House Committee on Agriculture hearing regarding the state of the rural economy in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24, 2016. He called for breaking up consolidations in the pork, beef, corn, and soybean seed industries; an end to contract farming in which farmers raise livestock they do not own at low prices predetermined by agribusinesses; re-establishing the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration, which the Trump administration dissolved; and returning to a price parity system in which farmers can ensure a reasonable price above costs and supply is matched with demand. Sen. Sanders is not alone among 2020 candidates in targeting big ag. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.