# Top Chicken Producers Facing Price-Fixing Claims: Explained

> A federal judge in Illinois is weighing allegations that major chicken producers, including Tyson, Sanderson Farms and Perdue, colluded through the Agri Stats information-sharing platform to keep chicken prices high. More than 150 individual suits have been filed over broiler prices in the last five years.

- Date: 2021-09-02 · published 2021-09-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/45213-top-chicken-producers-facing-price-fixing-claims-explained
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Litigation over alleged collusion could bring legal costs or pricing changes for large integrators, but any price effect is uncertain until the court rules. For now the case mainly adds risk to the chicken pricing outlook.

## Sources

- news.bloomberglaw.com: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/top-chicken-producers-facing-price-fixing-claims-explained

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