Congress seeks investigation into beef company price fixing

“For the past two years, I have been calling on the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of price-fixing, collusion and other unfair practices in the beef packing industry. Unfortunately, the Department of Justice has seemingly not made these concerns a priority and both consumers and cattle producers in South Dakota continue to suffer as a result,” says Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D. Rounds is a lead sponsor of a new bipartisan joint resolution that would direct the Federal Trade Commission to report to Congress…