American Peanut Council Celebrates Jimmy Carter and Poultry Settlement
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**The American Peanut Council joined other groups in celebrating the life and contributions of Georgia peanut farmer and our 39th President, Jimmy Carter.
Carter, who passed away a week ago, was once quoted as saying, “The things I learned as a peanut farmer put me in good stead throughout my life’s work.”
National Farmers Union president, Rob Larew says Carter’s
background prepared him to serve the U.S. with “grace and compassion.”
**Nine of the nation’s largest poultry processors have agreed to pay settlements in a years-long antitrust lawsuit alleging they conspired to depress workers’ wages at their facilities.
The plaintiffs filed a memorandum on December 23 supporting a motion for preliminary approval of the nine new settlements by the defendants.
The suit was filed in 2019 and alleges that chicken companies and two consulting firms conspired to fix and depress hourly wages and benefits.
**A Continuing Resolution keeping the government fully funded through March 14, also included economic aid for farmers experiencing one of the biggest income drops in many years.
In fact, over the past two years, USDA projects that farmers will experience the steepest two-year decline in net farm income in history.
Meanwhile, due to an ineffective safety net, government help for producers is slated to be at the lowest level since 1982.
