Today, Competitive Markets Action, the Institute for Legislative Analysis, and the Organization for Competitive Markets, proudly announced the launch of the first Limited Government Agriculture Scorecard. This initiative is designed to combat cronyism in agriculture and hold lawmakers accountable to the needs of small and independent family farmers who have long-been working to fight foreign multinational conglomerates and the Global Meat Cartel’s corporate capture of the U.S. agriculture.

Joe Fraser, in the Minnesota Republican primary for Senate. Fraser has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to his country and the people of Minnesota through his almost 26 years of military service. As a veteran, Fraser understands the necessity of protecting American values, and that starts with American agriculture. He believes in defending the security of our nation’s food supply chain and keeping foreign interests like China from shutting down the last remaining American family farmers in Minnesota.

Today, Competitive Markets Action (CMA) announced their endorsement of Representative Anna Paulina Luna, R-St. Petersburg, for Congress in Florida’s 13th Congressional District. Luna has been an unwavering leader against the China-backed EATS Act, H.R. 4417/S. 2019, led by Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-IA, and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-KS.

Today, Competitive Markets Action (CMA) announced their endorsement of Representative Andy Ogles, R-Columbia, in the Tennessee Republican primary for Congress. Ogles has demonstrated outstanding support of agricultural transparency, fair market practices, and unwavering dedication to fostering competition in the marketplace.

Today, the Alabama Contract Poultry Growers Association, Organization for Competitive Markets, and Competitive Markets Action released the following statement in response to the USDA's announcement of proposed Stockyards and Packers Act regulations that provides workable guidelines on how the USDA can fulfill its statutory obligations to ensure fair and competitive national livestock and poultry markets:

Friday, farmers from across North Alabama gathered at Top O’ the River, for the national Enough Is Enough Tour to call on Congress to deliver a farm bill that shifts power back to America’s producers. The event was sponsored by the Alabama Contract Poultry Growers Association (ALCPGA), Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM), and Competitive Markets Action (CMA) in collaboration with Farm Action, the American Grassfed Association, and other farm groups across America. Representatives from the offices of U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-AL, and U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-AL-04, joined as well.

"We applaud the USDA for finally stepping up to prevent exploitation of contract poultry growers across America and hope to see these regulations swiftly finalized," said Marty Irby, president at Competitive Markets Action and secretary at the Organization for Competitive Markets who also represents the Alabama Contract Poultry Growers Association as their lobbyist. "American family farmers are in peril and this encouraging news gives our producers hope amidst the fallout of House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson's Farm Bill that would decimate small and medium sized producers."

"Chairman's Thompson's Farm Bill is exactly what we expected and is a direct reflection of the continued corruption in the swamp that has put countless American family farmers out of business decade after decade. The measure panders to industrial agriculture monopolies like the Chinese-owned Smithfield, the National Pork Producers Council, and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and would nullify countless state laws across the country that protect the last few remaining independent pork producers in our nation with its slimmed down version of the EATS Act.”

The John Helmuth Award – Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) highest honor named in remembrance of OCM’s late co-founder John Helmuth, and presented on select occasions – was awarded to OCM Board Director and Secretary, Marty Irby, president and CEO of Capitol South, LLC, and Competitive Markets Action, in Washington, D.C. Helmuth was instrumental in forming OCM and laying the intellectual groundwork for analyzing meatpacker market power.

Members of the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM), met in the Southeastern U.S., for the group’s annual conference, general membership meeting, and election of officers. The group was blessed with a raft of speakers that included Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson, Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Michael Kades, and Andy Green, Senior Advisor to the Secretary at the U.S. Dept of Agriculture.

Today, the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM), and Competitive Markets Action (CMA), called on President Joe Biden and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, to dismiss USDA’s Pork Checkoff Board Member Stewart Leeth, the chief sustainability officer at Smithfield Foods, a company wholly owned by the Chinese group 万洲国际, and whose purchase in 2013 was financed directly by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).