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Read. Follow. Verify.Indiana General Assembly urges Congress to establish agricultural price floors and break up agribusiness monopolies
Last action · February 9, 2026: First reading: referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentSponsors: Mitch Gore and 4 others
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What This Bill Proposed
The Indiana House of Representatives and Senate call on the federal government to set s for agricultural commodities, stabilize farm incomes, and aggressively enforce antitrust laws against dominant agribusiness corporations.
Directs formal pressure from the state legislature toward federal lawmakers to intervene in agricultural markets, aiming to alter how farm prices are set and how agribusiness mergers are regulated.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Indiana farmers
Independent producers are the intended beneficiaries of proposed federal pricing floors and antitrust enforcement designed to protect farm income.
Agribusiness corporations
Seed, fertilizer, chemical, meatpacking, and grain trading companies face potential antitrust breakup and increased federal regulation under the measures urged by the resolution.
Key Facts
- The resolution calls on the United States Congress and federal government to establish price floors for agricultural commodities that reflect production costs and prevent predatory below-cost pricing.
- It urges Congress and the United States Department of Agriculture to implement policies and pricing tools that stabilize farm income and reduce market volatility.
- It calls on Congress and the United States Department of Justice to enforce and strengthen federal antitrust laws to break up agribusiness monopolies and oligopolies.
- It urges robust federal enforcement actions to prevent anti-competitive mergers, market manipulation, price fixing, and abusive contracting practices.
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- It calls on federal regulators to increase market transparency and accountability so farmers can challenge unfair practices.
- It requests that Indiana's federal congressional delegation support federal legislation and enforcement efforts promoting fair competition and protecting independent producers.
- It directs the Principal Clerk of the House of Representatives to transmit copies of the resolution to members of Indiana's federal congressional delegation.
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This resolution did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Feb 9, 2026HouseIntroducedFirst reading: referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
- Feb 9, 2026HouseCoauthored by Representatives Bartlett, Campbell, Harris, Jackson C
- Feb 9, 2026HouseAuthored by Representative Gore
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 40)
- Controversy50Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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