The first Department of Justice/USDA workshop on competition in agriculture takes place in Ankeny, Iowa Friday.
Agricultural competition is one of those “hot button” topics, one that evokes some very strong emotions. Corning, Iowa farmer Ray Gaesser, vice-president of the American Soybean Association will be part of a workshop panel discussing seed competition issues. He says there’s fine line between too much and too little regulation.
“We think there is a need to review what’s going on in our industry—but at the same time, we have concerns that we go too far and stifle innovation,” Gaesser says, “so it’s really a fine line that we must walk on to make sure that we have competition, but at the same time that we don’t over-control and stifle competition.”
How great is the interest in this subject? DTN reports that, prior to the workshops, Justice and USDA asked for public comments and received more than 15-thousand responses—so many that DOJ has been unable to post all of them.
AUDIO: Ray Gaesser (2 min MP3)
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