Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new partnership with attorneys general in 31 states and the District of Columbia to increase competition within the agriculture sector. The Agriculture Competition Partnership will focus on anticompetitive market structures and practices within agriculture. It will also address the lack of choices for consumers and producers as well as conflicts of interest, misuses of intellectual property and other anticompetitive barriers.
“By placing necessary resources where they are needed most and helping states identify and address anticompetitive…