FAIR FARM MARKETS
AND ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN
A fair agricultural economy should allow farmers to earn a reasonable return for their work and give consumers confidence in the food they buy. This plan strengthens contract protections, exposes unfair pricing practices, and requires honest labeling that helps consumers identify American beef.
By holding powerful agricultural companies accountable and strengthening producers’ bargaining power, it works to prevent exploitation, protect independent businesses, and return a fairer share of the food dollar to the people who grow and raise our food.
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Prevents dominant agribusiness middlemen and processors from using market power to overcharge consumers while underpaying farmers.
Establish a reputable farmer share floor of final retail price, adjusted by product type, ensuring producers receive a fair portion of the consumer food dollar.
Allow civil penalties and corrective market actions against companies found to be artificially suppressing producer payments or inflating consumer prices.
Authorize USDA and the FTC to investigate excessive pricing disparities between farm-gate, wholesale, and retail markets across concentrated agricultural supply chains.
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Requires dominant agricultural processors, packers, distributors, and input suppliers to publicly report pricing data so farmers and consumers can see where money is being captured in the supply chain.
- Require quarterly reporting of farm-gate prices, wholesale prices, retail prices, processing costs, and profit margins.
- Require dominant processors, distributors, and retailers to publicly disclose the average percentage of every consumer food dollar returned to farmers and producers.
- Give USDA and the FTC authority to audit reports, investigate manipulation, and publish farmer-friendly market data. -
Protects poultry and livestock growers from unfair contracts, retaliation, and uncompensated investment demands while strengthening their ability to secure fair and dependable terms.
Requires contracts to clearly disclose payment formulas, required investments, renewal conditions, and termination rules before growers commit their land, facilities, or finances.
Prohibits retaliation against growers who report abuse, join producer associations, seek independent legal advice, or challenge unfair payment practices.
Requires compensation or enforceable contract guarantees when companies mandate major facility upgrades, including protection for unrecovered investments when companies terminate contracts early.
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Strengthens consumer trust and fair competition by ensuring American food labels accurately identify its origins and allow shoppers to recognize American production.
Requires clear country-of-origin labeling identifying where crops or livestock were grown or born / raised / and/or slaughtered and where the food was processed.
Establishes enforceable standards for American-origin claims and penalties for misrepresenting imported food products as American through domestic packaging, processing, or misleading branding.
Provides grants and technical assistance to small producers and processors for traceability, recordkeeping, and labeling compliance.