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Congressional hearings over the past several years have covered price gouging in the beef sector, and several of the companies named in the suit paid huge fines in recent years to settle price-fixing claims.

Another price-fixing lawsuit filed against meatpackers

Northern Ag Network / DTN
October 24, 2023
Agriculture

CHICAGO, IL – The four largest meatpackers were hit by a new price-fixing lawsuit from a group of small food distributors. The suit was filed on October 9 in the U.S. District Court in Northern Illinois against Cargill, JBS USA, National Beef, Tyson Foods and Swift Beef, claiming the packers have been conspiring to fix […]

The lawsuit says beef packers have been squeezing ranchers, wholesalers, grocery stores and consumers for years.

Grocery stores, wholesalers join lawsuit against beef packers

South Dakota Ag Connection
November 21, 2022
Agriculture

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Several large retailers and wholesalers (including Sysco, US Foods, Kroger, Hy-Vee, Albertson, Associated Grocers, Subway, SuperValu, and Cheney Brothers) recently filed claims similar to those brought originally in April 2019 by R-CALF USA and National Farmers Union (NFU) against the Big 4 packers. Those claims are that the packers’ efforts to jointly […]