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2009-08-10 | permalink
U.S. antitrust enforcers begin visiting farm belt
Philip J. Weiser, a telecommunications-law expert who was recently named deputy assistant attorney general, told a farmer gathering here that federal antitrust regulators are ”committed to examining” the level of competition in several agribusiness sectors, such as the marketing of genetically modified seed, dairy processing and meatpacking. [...] While Mr. Weiser didn’t single out any agricultural companies for criticism, his 30-minute appearance came in the hometown of St. Louis crop-biotechnology titan Monsanto Co., where he addressed the annual convention of a farmers advocacy group called the Organization for Competitive Markets.
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2009-08-10 | permalink
U.S. antitrust enforcers begin visiting farm belt
Philip J. Weiser, a telecommunications-law expert who was recently named deputy assistant attorney general, told a farmer gathering here that federal antitrust regulators are ”committed to examining” the level of competition in several agribusiness sectors, such as the marketing of genetically modified seed, dairy processing and meatpacking. [...] While Mr. Weiser didn’t single out any agricultural companies for criticism, his 30-minute appearance came in the hometown of St. Louis crop-biotechnology titan Monsanto Co., where he addressed the annual convention of a farmers advocacy group called the Organization for Competitive Markets.
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