Attorney General Mayes Announces Deliveries of Over 2.1 Million Eggs to Arizona Food Banks Through Price-Fixing Settlement

PHOENIX — Attorney General Kris Mayes announced today that Hickman's Egg Ranch will deliver more than 2.1 million eggs to three regional food banks throughout September, the latest round of egg deliveries secured through her office's price-fixing settlement with major egg producers.

Deliveries will go to St. Mary's Food Bank in Phoenix (1,318,860 eggs), United Food Bank in Mesa (489,960 eggs), and the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona in Tucson (361,080 eggs) throughout the month.

"No Arizonan should have to choose between buying groceries and paying their bills because corporations decided to break the law for their own profit," said Attorney General Kris Mayes. "These egg deliveries are a direct result of our office holding price-fixers accountable, and I'm proud that families across our state will see real relief on their tables this month."

“For families across Southern Arizona, eggs are a nutritious, versatile staple, and this delivery will make an immediate difference for neighbors working to put healthy food on the table,” said Natalie Jayroe, CEO of the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona. “We are grateful to Attorney General Mayes and her office for helping direct this food to communities statewide. These eggs will provide meaningful support to Southern Arizona families and the food pantries and partner agencies that serve them.”

St. Mary's Food Bank, United Food Bank, and the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona are three of the four regional food banks in the Arizona Food Bank Network — alongside the Yuma Community Food Bank — that redistribute large donations to more than 1,000 smaller organizations across the state. The eggs delivered this month will be distributed to food banks, food pantries, and other partner agencies across their respective service regions statewide.

These deliveries follow a settlement Attorney General Mayes announced on June 30, 2026, after a bipartisan multistate investigation with the U.S. Department of Justice found that Cal-Maine Foods, Versova/Centrum, and Hickman's Egg Ranch illegally coordinated to manipulate a daily egg price index, artificially inflating prices for retailers and consumers nationwide.

The investigation found that from approximately June 2022 to March 2025, the three companies secretly coordinated their bidding activity to influence benchmark price quotes published by Urner Barry, a pricing service widely used in egg supply contracts.

As part of the settlement, the companies agreed to donate more than 53 million eggs — at their own expense — to food banks and nonprofit organizations across the states that joined the investigation, in addition to paying a combined $3.3 million to the states. The companies also agreed to end their illegal coordination, adopt compliance measures, and submit to ongoing state oversight.

Additional deliveries as part of this settlement will be announced at a later date.