( August 14, 2026, 16:37 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Cattle farmers filed US antitrust claims accusing Tyson Foods, JBS, Cargill and National Beef Packing of conspiring to suppress the prices paid for fed cattle. According to the complaint, the companies worked together to slash their respective slaughter volumes, curtail their buying of cattle in the cash cattle market, and effectively allocated the procurement of cattle, causing a collapse in prices and a simultaneous collapse in feeder cattle prices in mid-2015.See attached file. ...
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