Farmers and ranchers now can anonymously report potentially unfair and anticompetitive practices in the livestock and poultry sectors.
The Department of Justice announced that a Chinese national and former employee of Monsanto has pleaded guilty to attempting to steal trade secrets.
USDA shared its commitments to enforce federal competition laws that protect agricultural producers and growers from unfair and anticompetitive practices.
The Department of Justice defends socially disadvantaged farmers and their path to debt relief under the American Rescue Plan Act.
The Department of Justice provided guidance for collaboration among hog farmers to effectively address unprecedented challenges brought on by the pandemic.
Not everyone was pleased with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) approval of German drug and chemical giant Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto this week. After Bayer agreed to sell $9 billion worth of canola, soybean, and vegetable seed businesses, as well as its Liberty herbicide business to BASF, the DOJ gave the thumbs up to […]
Bayer has obtained conditional approval from the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) for the proposed acquisition of Monsanto. “Receipt of the DOJ’s approval brings us close to our goal of creating a leading company in agriculture,” said Bayer CEO Werner Baumann. “We want to help farmers across the world grow […]
Deere & Company and The Climate Corporation aren’t going to sit down and idly take the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit filed today to block Deere’s acquisition of Precision Planting. The duo said they plan to contest the legal action. The DOJ’s claims buck the November definitive agreement between Deere and The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of […]