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Tim Gibbons

Tim Gibbons

Tim Gibbons is communications director for the Missouri Rural Crisis Center, a statewide farm and rural organization dedicated to preserving family farms and promoting stewardship of the land and environmental integrity.

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Chickens in a Sanderson Farms chicken house. (Stephen Ausmus/Agricultural Research Service, USDA)

Merger of Sanderson Farms and Cargill is a bad deal for farmers and consumers

By: - August 19, 2022

Why conspire with your competitors when you can just merge? Over the last two years, giant corporate meat companies have been settling lawsuits to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars that allege they conspired with each other to fix prices, lower workers’ and farmers’ pay and raise the price of meat for both […]