Insights and Stories on Competition

Kansas City Southern plans to accept CP’s bid

Sep. 13, 2021 at 2:09 am CDT

Reuters — U.S. railway Kansas City Southern said on Sunday it planned to accept Canadian Pacific Railway’s US$27.2 billion cash-and-stock acquisition offer as superior to its US$29.6 billion deal to sell itself to Canadian National Railway. CN now has until the end of Friday to submit a better offer or […]

U.S. railway’s board sticks with CN’s bid

Aug. 19, 2021 at 5:14 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Biden seeks to lift limits on U.S. farmer dealings with tractor makers, packers

Jul. 7, 2021 at 6:54 pm CDT

By David Shepardson diane-bartz

U.S. ag secretary backs proposed meatpacking investigator

Jun. 15, 2021 at 5:31 pm CDT

By Reuters

Rail shippers pick sides as CP, CN bid for Kansas City Southern

Apr. 26, 2021 at 8:28 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Pilgrim’s Pride strikes deal over U.S. chicken price-fixing charges

Oct. 14, 2020 at 8:01 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. poultry company Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. said Wednesday it will pay a US$110.5 million fine after striking a plea deal with the Justice Department over price-fixing charges on chicken products. The guilty plea makes Pilgrim’s Pride, mostly owned by Brazilian meatpacker JBS, the first U.S. chicken company to […]

By Reuters

Elanco gets EU’s conditional antitrust OK for Bayer deal

Jun. 8, 2020 at 8:30 pm CDT

Reuters/Staff — Elanco Animal Health secured antitrust clearance on Monday from the European Union to buy Bayer’s veterinary drugs unit, after pledging to sell some products to address competition concerns about the US$7.6 billion deal. The European Commission said the companies will sell either Elanco or Bayer’s products or those […]

By GFM Staff Reuters

Probe eyes possibility of ‘co-ordinated behaviour’ in Big Ag

Feb. 7, 2020 at 6:03 pm CST

Canada’s Competition Bureau is investigating leading agriculture companies for allegedly attempting to drive a California-based online farm-supply retailer out of the Canadian market. Documents filed in Federal Court show Federated Co-operatives, Cargill, Winfield United Canada, Univar Canada, BASF Canada Inc., Corteva and Bayer CropScience (and, by extension, Monsanto Canada) are […]

By D.C. Fraser

Pulse weekly outlook: FCC sees opportunities for exports

Nov. 26, 2019 at 6:26 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Farm Credit Canada (FCC) on Tuesday released a report titled Diversifying Canada’s agriculture exports, which included pulses and also looked at some of the pros and cons to diversifying Canada’s wheat, canola and soybeans. “Canada has done extremely well in establishing strong trade relations in a number of […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Canada clears Bayer’s Monsanto play, with conditions

May. 31, 2018 at 8:04 pm CDT

Canada’s Competition Bureau says it’s “actively reviewing” BASF’s suitability as a buyer of the crop seed and chemical assets Bayer has to sell to get the bureau’s blessing to buy Monsanto. The Competition Bureau said Wednesday it has an agreement with Bayer to deal with “concerns that the proposed transaction […]

By Staff

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