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Duvall: Serious Concerns About Potential Market Manipulation

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Mike Tomko

Director, Communications

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Mike Tomko

Director, Communications


American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall says farmers have serious concerns about potential market manipulation of meat prices.

Duvall was in Des Moines, IA for a roundtable discussion with Vice President Mike Pence and meat packing and grocery store chain leaders. Duvall said ranchers are “frustrated by this disparity between the rock-bottom prices that we’re receiving and some of the sky-high wholesale prices that we’re seeing being charged.”

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