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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
The Justice Department is seeking to shut down the operations of Agri Stats, alleging it has violated antitrust law by aggregating and sharing a wide range of pricing and other information with major chicken, pork and turkey companies.
Recent attention to the country’s meatpacking plants has illustrated that when the four dominant companies face disruptions to processing, smaller, independent operations don’t have adequate capacity to pick up the slack.
The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission are launching a broad “public inquiry” into whether and how should strengthen its enforcement of antitrust law and curb future corporate mergers.
