USDA Getting Looked at Some More

"WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The integrity and competence of the U.S. Department of Agriculture were called into question Thursday by U.S. senators concerned with the USDA's failure for several years to investigate anti-competitive cases in the livestock and meat packing sectors. "

From what I read at Cattle Network, it looks like maybe some action will be taken on the USDA's complete failure to make any effort to look into anti-trust complaints against packers and stockyards. Hope that they get that boar's nest cleared up and then investigate the big milk marketing companies (you know the ones that call themselves farmer owned cooperatives and then lobby in Washington for lower farm prices). When one company with more arms than a giant squid is allowed to buy out dozens of small milk plants until it controls most of the milk in the country, somebody should sure investigate something.

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