U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said Wednesday that the White House plans to look at consolidation within the seed industry, the next step in carrying out President Joe Biden’s order to increase competition within agriculture.
 
Vilsack, visiting Ankeny and Ames with Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arámbula, Mexico’s secretary of agriculture and rural development, said the administration had just started looking at consolidation within the seed industry, but had concerns about the length of patents some companies hold on technology.
 
The former Iowa governor, in Iowa with Villalobos ahead of a World Food Prize panel Thursday in Des Moines, said he understands that seed companies want to see a return on their investment in new technology, but that the “pace of change” could mean lengthy patents don't make sense.
 
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