date:Jul 04, 2013
about 17 percent of U.S. wheat milling capacity, according to the American Antitrust Institute, a nonprofit group that advocates for competition in business.
AAI said in an April letter to the Justice Department that the proposed joint venture raises potentially significant competitive concerns.
Agriculture, already a fairly concentrated market, has a history of price-fixing, said Thomas Horton, a veteran Justice Department litigator who now teaches antitrust courses at the University of Sout