Antitrust Status of Farmer Cooperatives: - USDA Rural Development ...

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CHAPTER 5. OTHER ANTITRUST LAWS ..................131
Naval Stores Amendme nts Fail .......................131
Cooperative Marketing Act of 1926 ....................133
Fisherman's Collective Marketing Act ..................142
Robinson Patman Act ...............................145
State Barriers Eliminated ............................147
CHAPTER 6. APPLICATION OF ANTITRUST LAW
TO FARMER COOPERATIVES .......................153
Early Court Interpretation ............................154
United States v. Borden ..........................155
Mary land & Virgin ia Milk Producers Ass'n ............162
Who Can Participate in a Capper-Volstead Cooperative? ...167
Person ........................................167
Member .......................................170
Members Must be Producers ......................172
Producer ......................................176
National Broiler Marketing Association ........176
De Minimis Rule for Ancillary Members ........185
Is Big Necessarily Bad? ..........................186
Integrated Entities ........................187
Processing Subsidiaries ....................189
Protected Producer Conduct .........................191
Any B usiness Structure Permissible .................191
Joint Marketing .................................192
Bargaining and Price Setting .......................194
Marketing Service Associations ....................202