Corporate Concentration and Price Fixing in Agriculture With Deputy Secretary of Ag Stephen Vaden
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Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan sit down with the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Vaden inside the USDA studios, to talk about the current investigations into corporate consolidation in different agriculture industries.
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0:00 Intro. Where Stephen is from
3:15 How he ended up in Washington DC
8:23 Fertilizer prices and the current investigation
10:53 Commodity prices vs. inputs
13:17 Current investigations
19:17 Farm equipment manufacturers meeting
27:00 Comparing farm equipment and auto industries.
32:26 Property law
34:00 Meat packing investigation
44:44 Working towards a solution
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