Is There Price Fixing in the U.S. Peanut Industry?

Yuliya Bolotova

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2025, vol. 40, issue 01

Abstract: In 2020, U.S. peanut growers filed a class action antitrust lawsuit against the three largest peanut shellers in the country. The plaintiffs alleged that these peanut shellers engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy aiming to suppress and stabilize prices of peanuts paid to peanut growers beginning in 2014 and thus violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act (1890). This article examines competition (business conduct) issues revealed during the recent Peanut Farmers Antitrust Litigation.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Financial Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.348933

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