Lawmakers and cattle industry representatives continue to push the US Department of Justice to complete their investigation into the meatpacking sector. The DOJ launched an investigation in May 2020 into the nation’s four largest meatpackers to find out whether or not anti-competitive practices have contributed to a persistent imbalance in the cattle markets.
Ethan Lane with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says there’s a lot riding on the results of the investigation. “We need to know as an industry what they have found,” he says.
