DOJ announced that Bayer will stop problematic parts of its loyalty programs with seed breeders. Except Bayer voluntarily pulled these programs months ago. The agreement only pauses them for another 7 years. Advocates want more, meaningful guardrails.
Read MoreAdvocates hoped the Agri Stats case would set stronger limits on corporations that use a data-consultant to support collusion. State AGs felt a trial was too risky. The success of this complicated settlement hinges on a court-appointed monitor.
Read MoreUSDA’s proposal culminates a decades-long effort to shift inspection duties from government officials to plant worker and increase processing line speeds, benefiting industry.
Read MoreA group of small restaurant owners calls Sysco’s takeover of Restaurant Depot ”a gut punch to every neighborhood restaurant in America.”
Read MoreFarmer groups across the political spectrum criticized the decision, which runs counter to Trump administration pledges to protect farmers from dominant packers.
Read MoreFertilizer prices are rising as US and Israel’s attack on Iran closes the critical Strait of Hormuz. In theory, nitrogen fertilizer can be made all over the world, so why is the industry so consolidated and vulnerable?
Read MoreOperation Metro Surge expanded beyond the Twin Cities metro and chilled economic activity in rural Minnesota meatpacking towns with large immigrant communities.
Read MoreA new antitrust suit alleges that large cannabis companies made tit for tat agreements to buy each other’s products or allot each other shelf space in Ohio.
Read MoreMinnesota shows how small businesses can support their communities through crisis while large corporations make measured statements, or worse, cooperate with authoritarian overreach.
Read MoreOver 30 environmental organizations want USDA to stop subsidizing manure-to-biogas machinery that they argue entrenches large, polluting livestock operations, promotes farm consolidation, and wastes taxpayer dollars.
Read MoreTyson Foods and JBS agreed to stop making misleading climate action claims after environmental organizations and the New York Attorney General sued them for false advertising.
Read MoreAs consumers continue to struggle with rising food prices, an unsealed antitrust suit involving Walmart and Pepsi and a report on Instacart’s algorithmic pricing model demonstrate the ways large food corporations charge different prices to different consumers.
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