Agri Stats and the Future of Agricultural Data Sharing

Overview

For decades, antitrust enforcement focused primarily on what competitors said to one another. Regulators searched for evidence of explicit agreements, secret meetings, price-fixing schemes, and market-allocation arrangements. But in today’s data-driven economy, federal antitrust authorities increasingly view a different concern as equally important: what competitors know about one another.

When competitors gain access to detailed and timely information about rivals’ production, inventories, pricing, labor costs, and profitability, competitive behavior can change dramatically.  According to …