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Farmer Cooperatives "Take Cover": The Capper-Volstead Exemption Is Under Siege, Donald M. Barnes, Jay L. Levine
Farmer Cooperatives "Take Cover": The Capper-Volstead Exemption Is Under Siege, Donald M. Barnes, Jay L. Levine
Arkansas Law Review
"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization." There can be little dispute that food production is of vital interest to any nation’s security and economy. For this reason, the United States Congress, like many other legislatures around the world, has accorded special treatment to the agricultural industry, and particularly to farmers. One example of this special treatment is the Capper-Volstead Act, which provides farmers with immunity from antitrust liability for joint conduct undertaken by and through an “association” of producers.
Regulation Of Business - Antitrust Laws - Exemption Of Agricultural Cooperative, Dean L. Berry S.Ed.
Regulation Of Business - Antitrust Laws - Exemption Of Agricultural Cooperative, Dean L. Berry S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Defendant agricultural cooperative, organized under the authority of section 6 of the Clayton Act and section I of the Capper- Volstead Act, engaged in alleged predatory practices claimed by the government to constitute an attempt to monopolize and lessen competition within the ban of the Sherman and Clayton Acts. In a civil action by the government setting forth three separate claims for relief from such activities, held, the first cause of action, alleging monopoly, dismissed on the merits. In the absence of a combination or conspiracy with persons who are not within the purview of the Clayton and Capper-Volstead …
Cooperative Associations And The Public, John Hanna
Cooperative Associations And The Public, John Hanna
Michigan Law Review
The American Institute of Cooperation at its first summer meeting in Philadelphia in 1925, devoted many hours to a consideration of the definition of agricultural cooperation. Even at that time cooperative associations had been described, if not defined, by federal legislation. The Bureau of Internal Revenue, the War Finance Corporation and the Intermediate Credit Banks, had also been compelled on numerous occasions to decide whether or not a particular association was entitled to the privileges accorded cooperatives. A determination of the nature of a cooperative was implied in the standard marketing acts adopted in nearly all of the American states. …
Power Of Agricultural Co-Operative Associations To Limit Production, Milton J. Keegan
Power Of Agricultural Co-Operative Associations To Limit Production, Milton J. Keegan
Michigan Law Review
Farmers within recent years have recognized the necessity of combining in larger and still larger numbers, and great cooperative farm organizations have been formed, some of them with sales reaching $100,000,000 each year. These organizations in 1923 did a combined business estimated at $2,200,000,000. "Giant marketing associations, covering whole states, and even groups of states, have been organized with startling rapidity in the great cotton and tobacco growing states." Co-operative marketing legislation has given these groups great and far reaching powers to attain the end of making agriculture more profitable and to secure better returns to the producers of farm …