
According to a report from Yahoo News, 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden called for the strengthening of antitrust enforcement to protect farmers and ranchers as part of a broader plan targeting voters in rural areas, which have largely become Republican strongholds.
Biden, who is leading in most polls for the Democratic presidential nomination, released a “plan for rural America” as he campaigned in Iowa on Tuesday, July 16.
His plan notes, without giving specifics, he would also work to make US trade policy more favorable to farmers, especially as some are feeling the effects of President Donald Trump’s trade war with China.
To help small- and medium-sized farms, Biden would strengthen enforcement under the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts and the Packers and Stockyards Act, his campaign stated. Another contender for the Democratic nomination, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, has called for breaking up big agricultural businesses that supply farmers. “Consolidation is choking family farms,” she said in March.
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