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Farmers file amended US antitrust claims in crop chemical case

( July 28, 2025, 18:12 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Plaintiffs bringing US antitrust claims against Bayer Corteva, Cargill, Corteva and other chemical producers over “crop protection chemicals” filed an amended consolidated class action complaint. “Defendants have entered into exclusionary ‘loyalty agreements’ with substantially all major crop protection product dealers (distributors and retailers) that deter those dealers from purchasing products produced by manufacturers other than defendants. The effect of those exclusionary agreements has been to lock lower-cost rival manufacturers out of the market and force farmers like plaintiffs to pay artificially inflated prices for the crop protection products that are essential to their business,” they claimed. See attached file. ...

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