Bringing Equity to Agricultural Input and Output Markets

Stephanie A. Mercier and Steve A. Halbrook ()
Additional contact information
Stephanie A. Mercier: Farm Journal Foundation
Steve A. Halbrook: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Chapter Chapter 10 in Agricultural Policy of the United States, 2020, pp 143-159 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Farmers are price takers and there is a natural distrust of merchants and middlemen in the agricultural community. Farmers look to the government to level the economic playing field. This chapter examines the development of market regulation starting with the Granger laws and regulation of railroads through the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts and the Federal Trade Commission Act. It also reviews the direct regulation of agricultural markets by the Packers and Stockyards Act and the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. The Capper-Volstead Act and the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 gave farmers the power to act collectively.

Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:psachp:978-3-030-36452-6_10

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9783030364526

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36452-6_10

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().