{"id":44027,"date":"2025-09-26T07:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44027\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:31:09","slug":"us-government-to-scrutinize-farm-input-suppliers-on-cost-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44027\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government to Scrutinize Farm Input Suppliers on Cost Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the US will investigate suppliers of crop inputs such as seeds and fertilizers for potential antitrust violations, sending share prices plunging. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0242416Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">agriculture<\/a> and justice departments have signed a memorandum of understanding to \u201ctake a hard look and scrutinize competitive conditions in the agriculture marketplace, including antitrust enforcement that promotes free market competition,\u201d Rollins said Thursday during a conference in Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the US will investigate suppliers of crop inputs such as seeds and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,39044,607,39046,15583,219,14934,20535,28414,39045,111,139,39043,69,135,11715],"class_list":["post-44027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cf-industries-holdings-inc","tag-china","tag-corteva-inc","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economy","tag-farming","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-missouri","tag-mosaic-co-the","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nutrien-ltd","tag-nz","tag-politics","tag-u-s-department-of-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}