Source: FARM PROGRESS, 8/24/16

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley announced there will be a hearing on the increasing consolidation within the seed and chemical industry in late September. “The seed and chemical industries are critical to agriculture and the nation’s economy, and Iowans are concerned that this sudden consolidation in the industry could cause rising input costs in an already declining agriculture economy,” Grassley said in a media statement. 

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