Delaware Code Title 3. Agriculture § 8551. Prohibited acts

(a) No person shall knowingly induce or attempt to induce any stockholder of an association organized under this chapter to breach such stockholder's marketing contract with the association, or maliciously and knowingly spread false reports about the finances or management thereof.

(b) Producers of agricultural products or commodities shall have the right to form or become stockholders or patrons in cooperative agricultural associations organized or registered under this chapter, and no person shall directly or indirectly interfere with, restrain or coerce such producers in the exercise of this right.

(c) Buyers of agricultural products or commodities from producers or from such cooperative agricultural association, whose stockholders or patrons sell all or any part of their agricultural products or commodities to or through the association or facilities created by it shall not:

(d) Nothing in this chapter shall preclude a buyer from making an agreement with a cooperative agricultural association (not established, administered or assisted by any action of the buyer) requiring membership or shareholding therein, becoming a patron, contracting or cooperating therewith as a condition of the purchase of a producer's agricultural products or commodities, if such cooperative agricultural association has as its stockholders or patrons a majority of the producers supplying such buyer with the agricultural commodity or products sold to such buyer.

(e) The word “buyer” as used in this section shall not include a buyer which is a cooperative agricultural association of producers.

(f) Nothing in this section shall prevent a cooperative agricultural association (not established, administered or assisted by any action of the buyer) or its officers or agents from bargaining with buyers or prospective buyers of their products with regard to prices therefor, and practices, terms, conditions, rules and regulations pertaining to the industry in which they are engaged.