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USDA launches partnership with states to address food price issues
Indiana has joined 30 other states, as well as the District of Columbia, in a partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state attorneys general to enhance competition, protect consumers and reduce anticompetitive barriers across the food and agriculture supply chains.
Through a framework established in consultation with the state attorneys general, the new partnership will assist states in tackling anticompetitive market structures in agriculture and related industries that are, according to the USDA, raising prices and limiting choices for consumers and producers.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the partnership earlier this summer at the White House Competition Council meeting, which marked the second anniversary of President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition.
“I’m pleased to see that a bipartisan group of states have committed to joining USDA in better protecting the fair and competitive markets that are a critical cornerstone of the American economy,” Vilsack said. A list of the states participating in the partnership is available through a link found on the AMS Fair and Competitive Markets webpage.
