Tag: Agriculture
EU Invites Comments On Draft Guidelines For Sustainability Agreements In Agriculture
The European Commission today launched a public consultation inviting all interested parties to comment on its draft proposal for Guidelines on how to design sustainability agreements...
Senate Agriculture Committee To Grill U.S. Financial Regulator Over FTX
The first congressional inquiry into what went wrong at FTX is happening today (Dec. 1).
In what is sure to be just one of many such hearings investigating the...
AGs Applaud USDA’s Initiative To Increase Competition In Agriculture
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller applauds the US Department of Agriculture’s announcement making $15 million available to state attorneys general to increase collaboration with...
National Farmers Union Plans To Fight Monopolies In Agriculture
National Farmers Union (NFU), a national organization advocating on behalf of nearly 200,000 American farm families and their communities, launched Fairness for Farmers.Â
The campaign...
The Rise (and Rise) of Concerns With Bargaining Power Imbalances: A...
Hard bargaining between two trading parties operating at different levels of the supply chain can be consistent with competitive markets and can deliver benefits...
Competitive Edge: Big Ag’s Monopsony Problem: How Market Dominance Harms U.S....
By: Hiba Hafiz & Nathan Miller (Washington Center for Equitable Growth)
Agricultural markets are among the most highly concentrated in the United States. The markets...
Antitrust Developments in Food and Pharma
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Antitrust Developments in Food and Pharma
By John M. Connor
Closing the loopholes of downstream application of the Capper-Volstead exemption in...
US: Platform Specialty Products selling agri-chem business for US$4.2b
Platform Specialty Products Corporation announced on Friday, July 20, that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Agricultural Solutions business, which consists...
South Africa: Corn millers fined for price fixing
Corn milling company Brenner Mills has agreed to pay a fine of 12 million rand (US$929,800) after being found guilty of price fixing by...
South Africa: Competition Commission pursues prosecution of seed potato supplier
The Competition Commission has asked the Competition Tribunal to prosecute Netherlands-based seed potato breeder HZPC Holland and its exclusive South African distributor Wesgro Potatoes...
