Crop Input Makers, Wholesalers, and Retailers Antitrust Complaint

February 5, 2021

“Crop inputs” include both seeds and crop protection products, such as fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides. This antitrust class action brings suit against a group of manufacturer defendants—Bayer CropScience, Inc., Corteva, Inc., Syngenta Corporation, and BASF Corporation—and two other groups of wholesaler and retailer defendants, alleging the companies “have established a secretive distribution process that keeps Crop Input[] prices inflated at supracompetitive levels and … denies farmers access to relevant market information…”