Foreword

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FOREWORD

The Section of Antitrust Law is pleased to present this first edition of

the Agriculture and Food Handbook. Competition in the complex

markets related to the production and distribution of food and

government involvement in those markets raises unique andsignificant

antitrust policy and enforcement issues of global importance. The

Agriculture and Food Handbookprovides a comprehensive review of the

regulatory, antitrust, and consumer protection issues affecting food and

agricultural industries.

The Section is indebted to the many practitioners who contributed to

the Handbookand to the Section’s Agriculture and Food Committee for

the substantial time and effort devoted to this project. We are especially

grateful to Ryan Tisch and James Pizzirusso, Co-chairs of the

Agriculture and Food Committee, and August Horvath and Vandy

Howell, past Chairs, for their commitment to seeing the book through to

its completion. We also want to thank the principal editors, Daniel Ferrel

McInnis and Ian Conner, as well as Dina Older Aguilar, George Gasper,

Leslie Locke, John Snyder, and Kim Walker, who coordinated drafting.

Finally, we recognize the substantial contribution of Anne Layne-Farrar,

Kristin Anderson, Stephen Stack, and Kay Lynn Brumbaugh of the

Books & Treatises Committee, who oversaw preparation of the

Handbook for publication.

March 2019 Deborah A. Garza

Chair, Section of Antitrust Law

American Bar Association

2018-2019