# Poultry companies face another price-fixing lawsuit | Meatpoultry.com | May 17, 2018 16:34 | MEAT+POULTRY

> A group of meat distributors and grocers filed a federal antitrust suit in Illinois against major US broiler producers and Agri Stats. It alleges a cartel curtailed breeder flocks and manipulated the Georgia Dock benchmark from 2008 to 2016.

- Date: 2018-05-17 · published 2018-05-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/65161-poultry-companies-face-another-price-fixing-lawsuit-meatpoultry-com-may-17-2018
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Litigation could bring legal costs and possible damages for producers, but it does not change current broiler supply, so near-term price effect is modest.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: neutral

## Sources

- meatpoultry.com: https://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/19491-poultry-companies-face-another-price-fixing-lawsuit

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