Items Tagged with 'DOJ'

In this opinion piece, J. Dudley Butler, who was an administrator for the former Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, argues that the viability of rural America and its farms and ranches is at stake in the election.

Members of Congress are calling for justice and federal action for those impacted by a listeria outbreak tied to a Virginia Boar’s Head facility as the death toll rises. 

Responding to the Justice Department’s threat of a lawsuit, Dole and Fresh Express have agreed to abandon a deal in which Fresh Express would have acquired Dole’s Fresh Vegetables Division for about $308 million.

The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have finalized a new set of merger guidelines that lay out the framework the two agencies will use when investigating future mergers. 

The nation's fifth largest poultry processor has agreed to stop penalizing chicken farmers who exit their contracts to work for other companies, in a proposed consent decree with the Justice Department.

The Agriculture Department is partnering with 31 state attorneys general to look more closely into anticompetitive practices in the food and agriculture sectors as part of a broader White House initiative to promote marketplace competition.

A federal judge has sentenced two farm labor contractors to time in prison and another to eight months of home detention for their roles in a federal racketeering conspiracy that victimized more than a dozen Mexican H-2A workers.