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Bookmark or Share- Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the ...Agriculture is the world’s largest industry. Photograph: Jeff McIntosh/AP. Climate crisis. This article is more than 1 year old. Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying...
- Competitive Edge: Big Ag’s monopsony problem: How market dominance ...It is precisely Big Ag’s buyer power in agricultural markets—these firms’ “monopsony” power—that destroys jobs and suppresses small farmer and worker pay. Economic theory describes monopsony power as market power on the buy side of the market—it’s the analogue of monopoly power on the sell side of the market.
- Executive order targets ‘big ag,’ other ‘monopolies’ to help small ...Citing “abusive actions by monopolies,” including “big ag,” that “lead to mass layoffs, higher prices, [and] fewer options for workers and consumers,” President Joe Biden Friday signed ...
- Is It Time to Break Up Big Ag? | The New YorkerDispatch. Is It Time to Break Up Big Ag? Renewed attention to antitrust has been focussed on Big Tech, but concentration in agriculture may be an underlying source of rural America’s pro-Trump...
- Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and MathBig Ag is a major polluter. According to the EPA, it applies about a half million tons of pesticides, 12 million tons of nitrogen, and 4 million tons of phosphorus fertilizer to crops in the continental United States every year.
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