AP Article - Livestock industry debates antitrust issues

By Catherine Tsai
August 27, 2010

"FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Meatpackers, feeders and hundreds of ranchers from around the country are attending a workshop Friday on proposed federal rules that would place the sharpest limits on meat companies since the Great Depression. Attorney General Eric Holder and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are also attending the daylong workshop at Colorado State University, one of five the administration set this year to hear about competition in a consolidating agriculture industry. The Obama administration has proposed new antitrust rules for meat companies that reflect a willingness by the USDA to shift the balance of power between farmers and processors and to regulate an industry long dominated by a handful of corporate giants..."

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