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...The energy division also houses Berkshire’s realtor, HomeServices of America, which is facing 11 antitrust lawsuits over how it and other brokers charged commissions....
...Some of the big dairy states are not particularly crucial to presidential politics, including Vermont and New York....
...“America is the breadbasket of the world; wheat markets are its heart....
...The claims echo those brought in recent civil litigation by distributors and farmers and other purchasers accusing the major US chicken producers of colluding for years to drive prices higher, including...
...The comment came after a dairy dispute bubbled up last week when Canada pledged to support domestic dairy farmers, who can sell their ingredients to Canadian cheese makers and yoghurt producers for less...
...This created an incentive for farmers and merchants to store grain — and potentially keep it out of the hands of customers such as Kraft....
...From tighter antitrust regulation, to harsher political scrutiny and a whole host of legal hurdles unique to the US, the challenges for those businesses wanting to buy a piece of corporate America have rarely...
...The US Department of Agriculture’s food and nutrition service found that food stamp recipients spend more than 85 per cent of their benefits on fruit and vegetables, grain, dairy and meat....
...The company collects the milk and turns it into cheese and other dairy products....
...A decade ago, he acquired for about €82m control of Entremont, a French dairy group and Europe’s biggest maker of Emmental cheese....
...The co-op, which is a leading shareholder in UK-listed Robert Wiseman Dairies, estimates that it has added 420 farmers to its membership of 2,400 since Dairy Farmers of Britain was placed into administration...
...The deal follows two years of negotiations and is expected to return hundreds of thousands of pounds to the dairy farmers who co-own Milk Link....
...In spite of the bad quarter, brokers maintained favourable stances on Parmalat to take into account their assessment of the value of litigation pending in the US and Italy....
...facing a wave of litigation in the WTO....
...But European Union exports have dropped sharply in recent years because of cuts in farmer subsidies and stronger local demand....
...Ironically, Big Tobacco’s ability to survive litigation over the nefarious effect of smoking could prove a boon for investors in dairy products popular among health-conscious consumers....
...Mickey Mouse himself will appear in the role of chef and farmer in store signs, and will give the thumbs up on nutritional labels....
...Their targets were dairy co-operatives such as the Dairy Farmers of America, the largest grouping in the country's second biggest agricultural sector, and multinational food companies such as Kraft Foods...
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