Competitive Markets Action Closes Operations

The advocacy groups, which opposed farm bill provisions limiting state animal welfare laws, ceased activities after their boards determined funding was exhausted.

Updated on Nov. 2, 2026 in Agriculture

A long, unmarked livestock barn stands alone on flat prairie under overcast sky, with a gravel road leading toward it and dust in the air. — Competitive Markets Action and its affiliate PAC closed after their boards ran out of funds, ending a three-year fight against farm bill limits on state livestock laws. AI Illustration. Upload story photo >

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Competitive Markets Action and its affiliate Competitive Markets PAC have ceased operations effective immediately after their boards of directors decided their financial resources were exhausted. The organizations had advocated for three and a half years against the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act and the Save Our Bacon Act.

Why it matters

The closure removes a sustained advocacy voice from the national debate over whether states may set livestock production standards that affect producers in other states. The Save Our Bacon Act, introduced by Rep. Ashley Hinson in July 2025, would prohibit state and local governments from interfering with livestock production in other states, and its fate in a final farm package remains open.

The organizations sustained three and a half years of advocacy before closing, while the American Meat Producers Association has launched a multimillion-dollar electoral campaign against the Save Our Bacon Act. The source does not disclose the organizations' final budgets or whether any successor group will take up the fight.

The players

Ashley Hinson

Hinson is a Republican U.S. representative from Iowa who introduced the Save Our Bacon Act in July 2025, and she has been a prominent voice on agricultural trade and livestock policy in Congress.

Holly Bice

Bice is president of the American Meat Producers Association, the group that has launched a multimillion-dollar electoral campaign against the Save Our Bacon Act.

John Boozman

Boozman is the Republican U.S. senator from Arkansas who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee and has said he is optimistic a provision like the Save Our Bacon Act will make it into a final package.

Glenn Thompson

Thompson is the Republican U.S. representative from Pennsylvania who chairs the House Agriculture Committee and has said he is optimistic a provision like the Save Our Bacon Act will make it into a final package.

The details

Competitive Markets Action and Competitive Markets PAC ceased activities effective immediately on the decision of their boards of directors, which concluded that financial resources were exhausted. H.R. 467 was included in the House-passed farm bill but not in the Senate committee version, and the Save Our Bacon Act was previously known as the EATS Act and the Protect Interstate Commerce Act.

July 2025: Rep. Ashley Hinson introduces the Save Our Bacon Act.
November 2, 2026: Competitive Markets Action and Competitive Markets PAC announce closure.

Market Landscape

The Save Our Bacon Act is a federal response to California's Proposition 12, which sets livestock housing standards that reach producers in other states. The closure of Competitive Markets Action leaves the American Meat Producers Association's electoral campaign as the most visible force on this issue.

Livestock prices and the availability of certain meat products in the market depend partly on whether state production standards like Proposition 12 remain in force for producers who sell into other states. The outcome of the Save Our Bacon Act will determine whether those standards stay in place or are overridden federally.

The takeaway

The outcome of federal farm legislation will determine whether state animal welfare standards can keep shaping livestock production nationwide. Readers following agricultural policy should watch the final farm package for provisions resembling the Save Our Bacon Act.

What happens next

Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson say they are optimistic a provision or something similar will make it into a final package, though no date for that package is given in the source.