Six attorneys general joined the U.S. Department of Justice in a lawsuit against Agri Stats.  The lawsuit states that Agri Stats collects information from meat processors and creates and distributes comprehensive reports detailing competing processors’ pricing, margins, inventories, and operations.  Plaintiffs allege that by providing this information only to processors – and not the processors’ customers, farmers, workers or consumers – Agri Stats enables and encourages processors to use this information to weaken competition, curb production, and increase prices for purchasers.  The lawsuit brings claims that Agri Stats’s conduct violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act by stabilizing and increasing prices and reducing output in the broiler chicken, pork, and turkey markets.

In May 2024, the Court denied Agri Stats’s motion to dismiss the claims against it and Agri Stats’s motion to transfer.

In May 2026, the plaintiffs filed a proposed settlement with Agri Stats that would require Agri States to stop providing sales reports or non-public pricing information; stop reporting production, cost, and labor data at either the company or facility level; make most information that it distributes available to all interest domestic buyers on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms; follow timing restrictions on the information that is shared; report to a compliance monitor; and establish an antitrust compliance program.