Big Business Rules American Agriculture—and Congress Doesn’t Seem to Care
the 2018 House Farm Bill is silent on steps to enhance compe ion or protect fairness in markets. The bill does nothing to challenge, or even consider, the impacts of consolidation.
Even worse, the bill has other provisions that inordinately benefit large agricultural firms.
For example, despite agreement across the ideologicalspectrum about the urgent need to solve poorly targeted crop insurance and commodity programs—which are both important drivers of farm consolidation—the House bill does nothing to address it.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2018/05/16/450990/big-business-rules-american-agriculture-congress-doesnt-seem-care/
So BigAg oligarchy buys the Farm Bill to enrich/empower itself even more, while small/medium farms, iow Trash's base, get screwed.