Senate Committee to Hold Hearings on Proposed Agricultural Mergers

SUGAR LAND--September 20, 2016--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Just days after the announcement of the proposed $66 billion merger between agricultural giants Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) (St. Louis, Missouri), the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will be meeting this week over concerns about the impact on the agricultural sector between this and other large mergers. The merger that instigated the meeting was the $130 billion tie-up between Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) (Midland, Michigan) and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (NYSE:DD) (DuPont) (Wilmington, Delaware). Within this article: Details of these proposed mergers and who is concerned