Competition, Fairness, and Regulation in Food & Agriculture: A Conversation with Andy Green, Senior Advisor for Fair and Competitive Markets at the U.S. Department of Agriculture

About this episode

Randy Stutz interviews Andy Green about competition and regulation in the food and agriculture sector.

In this episode of Ruled by Reason, AAI President Randy Stutz sits down with Andy Green, the Senior Advisor for Fair and Competitive Markets at the U.S. Department of Agriculture . The two discuss how Green found his way to the USDA after beginning his career as a corporate securities lawyer and developing policy expertise in the financial sector (2:46), the new role created for a competition advisor at USDA (9:25), USDA's tools for implementing President Biden's Executive Order on Promoting Competition (11:02), USDA's coordination with the USPTO to strengthen patent quality and promote competition in seeds markets (29:25), USDA's coordination with the Antitrust Division of the DOJ to enforce the unique standards of the Packers & Stockyards Act (35:57), the interplay between Sherman Act claims involving collusive price setting through intermediaries and the USDA's pricing transparency rulemakings (41:48), and issues in food and agriculture that the next president of the United States will inherit (44:28).

People in this episode

Host: Randy Stutz

Guest: Andy Green

Topics covered

• food and agriculture
• competition
• regulation
• USDA
• antitrust
• policy

Keywords

• competition
• USDA
• agriculture
• antitrust
• policy
• President Biden
• Packers & Stockyards Act
• Sherman Act

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S. Department of Agriculture, USPTO, Antitrust Division of the DOJ, Packers & Stockyards Act, Sherman Act

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