Obama has let down family farmers
09.10.11
We are bitterly let down by the lack of leadership President Barack Obama and the Chaste House have demonstrated regarding America’s farm families and Arcadian communities. Major case in point — a proposed decree to increase competition in the livestock industry has been delayed under this president for almost two years.
As one's own flesh farmers, we see the trends in agriculture, aided by federal procedure, that have led us to greater concentration and consolidation in many sectors of the industry. Whether it’s corporate livestock operations, gargantuan cropping operations with tens of thousands of acres, undue clout of corporate agribusiness lobbyists or what amounts to monopolies in meatpacking and food processing, these trends are not careful for rural economies or our country.
Who has benefited from these trends? While tremendous meatpackers and food processors frequently report massive profits, relatives farm livestock producers ride a rollercoaster of prices that are in want more often than good. Our nation has lost hundreds of thousands of livestock farmers. With the negative cash flow death of those thousands of farming operations went thousands of additional satisfactory rural jobs that were dependent upon them. Farmers’ piece of the retail dollar has drastically decreased, and consumers haven’t won either as food prices carry on with to increase.
Source: Columbia Daily Tribune
Sugar Available To Food Processors
18.09.11
MANILA, Philippines — The home sugar industry is now willing and capable of selling their stocks to food processors that export their products.
This was made positive by Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) chief Ma. Regina Bautista-Martin in retort to a letter request by Export Development Council (EDC) supervisor director Senen Perlada who asked the SRA to make within reach quality local sugar to exporting food processors at world prices.
Martin told Perlada that the SRA meals has approved the reclassification of reserve sugar to export sugar to be sold directly to exporters and processors that are registered with the SRA. Established fees will be assessed by the SRA for those purchases in addition to their actual costs.
The advancement was a breakthrough in the relationship between the sugar barons and the country's food processors.
Sugar is a effectively regulated product in the country, and the only commodity that still enjoys prodigal tariff protection. In previous years, the SRA board was not itching in granting export-quality sugar to local food processors and beverage manufacturers at competitive prices.
Source: Manila Bulletin