March 31, 2026
Agri Stats Inc. has agreed to stop producing benchmarking reports for protein processors — or change how it puts them together — as part of proposed settlements ending three cases alleging price fixing in the chicken, pork and turkey industries, according to motions for preliminary approval filed Tuesday.
The deals offer consumers and purchasers “unprecedented conduct relief,” the pork consumers said in one of the motions, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Agri Stats’ conduct reform “substantially changes the scope of information sharing that would be permitted in the industry,” they said.
“Should Agri Stats resume its pork reports, Agri Stats has agreed to substantially reshape their form, including removing participant lists, stopping the sales reports altogether, aggregating critical plant-level fields and removing suspect fields altogether,” the consumers said. “Thus, the settlement puts a permanent end to the reports that this court concluded were ‘the most suspicious’ of Agri Stats’ products.”
Additionally, the pork consumers reached a $4.1 million settlement with pork processor Triumph Foods LLC, according to the motion.
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The chicken consumers are represented by Shana E. Scarlett, Steve W. Berman, Breanna Van Engelen and Rio R. Pierce of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, and by Brent W. Johnson, Benjamin D. Brown, Daniel H. Silverman, Alison Deich and Zachary Glubiak of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC.
Read Agri Stats Antitrust Deal Includes End to Benchmark Reports.