. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. FTC inquiry ends after ten years After 10 years in which thousands in pubUc and private monies were spent and appreciable amounts of legal brainpower were utilized, the door has been quietly shut on the Federal Trade Commission antitrust investi- gation of Ocean Spray Cranberries. The end came last December when Congress approved a rider attached to an FTC money authorization bill calhng on the agency to halt probes of agricul- tural cooperatives. Kenneth J. Beeby, vice president and general counsel at Ocean Spray, told CRAN- BERRI
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. FTC inquiry ends after ten years After 10 years in which thousands in pubUc and private monies were spent and appreciable amounts of legal brainpower were utilized, the door has been quietly shut on the Federal Trade Commission antitrust investi- gation of Ocean Spray Cranberries. The end came last December when Congress approved a rider attached to an FTC money authorization bill calhng on the agency to halt probes of agricul- tural cooperatives. Kenneth J. Beeby, vice president and general counsel at Ocean Spray, told CRAN- BERRIES: "We're happier not to have the FTC breathing down our ; He said the agency's probe had not changed the way the cooperative did business and the end of the investigation will not signal any change in conduct either. Charles P. Goldsworthy, president of Cranberry Products Inc., Eagle, Wise, and one of the independent producers who complained about Ocean Spray dominance in the cranberry market in the past, disagreed. He said he was sure the probe had an impact on the way Ocean Spray did business. Whether the effect will be lasting, he said, COVER PHOTO SCIENTIST John Koffin and banker Dick Poznysz work on their bog. Story begins on page 6. (CRANBERRIES photo by Carolyn Caldwell) "remains to be ; Currently, there is legislation in Congress that would restrict the FTC's activity with respect to farmer cooperatives. Bill McDonough, a lawyer in the FTC's Boston office, said the anti-antitrust climate in the present Administration is no guarantee that the Justice Department will remain aloof from consideration of all practices by agricultural coops. He explained that some cooperatives have become "enormous businesses" and that their nature "permits a certain amount of collusion among ; Maybe, he added, the Justice Department "will become interested in the ; In the meanwhile, the Boston FTC offic
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