Federal antitrust enforcers have outstanding cases against AgriStats, Kroger and Albertsons, and Corteva and Syngenta. What will happen to them during a Trump administration?
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Next week’s Presidential election will have profound implications for food policy.
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Cattle producers want policies to protect competition in cash markets that set prices for the whole industry. USDA took a first step to do something about it, but it can’t finish the job before Biden’s term is up.
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Cooks Venture promised to be a different kind of poultry company. It used the same old abusive and reckless business tactics, hurting farmers and workers.
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Internal communications reveal instances when Kroger only lowered its prices after Albertsons did. Plus new evidence that C&S will struggle to manage over 550 divested stores.
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Candy giant Mars wants to buy Kellogg's former snacking division. Mars says this deal will improve product innovation and choices for consumers. Critics say the opposite.
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The European Commission approved Bunge’s takeover of Viterra on the condition that it sell off its Central European oilseed business. Judges begin to hear antitrust enforcers’ case against Kroger-Albertsons.
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Is the world’s largest e-commerce platform connecting small businesses with the government or “small-washing” a new monopoly tollbooth?
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Economist Isabella Weber makes the case that public food buffer stocks could mitigate price shocks in an increasingly unstable future.
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Rural grocers share challenges and innovations at bi-annual conference, and USDA better defines “unfair practices” under the Packers and Stockyards Act.
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Contract chicken farmers say that they aren’t paid based on their efforts. A new USDA rule aims to make performance-based pay more fair.
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The DOJ may have failed to block a major sugar merger, but documents from their trial raised red flags for sugar buyers who now accuse sugar companies of price-fixing.
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