The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Company

Corteva, Inc.

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • AGR-5.10: Two seed companies accounted for 72 percent of planted U.S. corn acres and 66 percent of soybean acres in 2018-20. USDA's 2023 seed competition report counts Bayer, Corteva, ChemChina and BASF as owning 95 percent of corn, 84 percent of soybean and 74 percent of cotton plant intellectual property.
  • AGR-5.11: In 2017 and 2018 antitrust agencies cleared ChemChina-Syngenta, Dow-DuPont and Bayer-Monsanto only with divestitures. DOJ called the roughly $9 billion Bayer divestiture to BASF the largest merger divestiture ever required by the United States.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 632 March 2023. USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (with USPTO), report under Executive Order 14036: More and Better Choices for Farmers: Promoting Fair Competition and Innovation in Seeds and Other Agricultural Inputs
  • Exhibit 633 15 June 2017. DOJ Antitrust Division: Justice Department Requires Divestiture of Certain Herbicides, Insecticides, and Plastics Businesses in Order to Proceed with Dow-Dupont Merger