Antitrust Chronicle® – Agriculture

Dear Readers,

Agriculture, once the archetype of decentralized production, now sits at the heart of today’s most pressing antitrust debates. In this Chronicle, we spotlight how consolidation, policy choices, and judicial interpretation shape the competitive dynamics of global and domestic food systems. The authors interrogate long-standing assumptions and emergent threats within agricultural markets—from seed monopolies to trade policy shocks, from poultry contracts to grain elevator mergers