date:Aug 29, 2014
J antitrust division Assistant Attorney General in charge Bill Baer, Farmers are entitled to competitive markets for their products. Today's proposed settlement will help ensure that hog breeders in the United States will continue to receive the benefits of vigorous competition when selling sows.
Without the divestiture, the proposed acquisition would have eliminated a significant customer for farmers' sows and likely would have resulted in less competition in this important agricultural market