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.
