Smithfield Foods and Seaboard Foods have settled with pork buyers for an undisclosed amount of money.
And in a separate deal they settled with supermarket chain Kroger, also for an undisclosed amount.
They are accused of rigging the pork market and prices between January, 2009, and until at least 2018.
In late 2022, Minnesota District Court Judge John Tunheim ruled to consolidate 27 cases involving 146 parties. The pork processors involved in the lawsuit control more than 80 per cent of the wholesale pork market.
