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minniedriverstits t1_j058j6p wrote

Those poor star anise farmers; the price must have plummeted so hard. I hope Roche used their own exclusive plantations, at least.

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durrtyurr t1_j06ph1g wrote

It's actually a really good example of a monopsony, where there are many sellers but only one buyer. The only other example that I can come up with off the top of my head is barley in South Africa, where there are hundreds of farmers who grow barley but South African Brewing buys 90% of all the barley grown in the country.

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