Attorney General Mayes Announces First Delivery of Eggs to Yuma-area Food Banks as Part of Price-Fixing Case Settlement

PHOENIX — Attorney General Kris Mayes announced today that Cal-Maine Foods delivered 17 pallet loads (183,600 eggs) to the Yuma Community Food Bank last Friday, marking the first delivery of eggs secured through her office's price-fixing settlement with major egg producers.

"Many Arizonans are struggling to make ends meet because of illegal tariffs, inflation, and corporate greed,” Attorney General Kris Mayes. "When major egg producers engaged in illegal price-fixing that drove prices up even further, my office stepped in to stop them. This delivery is proof that when companies break the law and drive up costs for Arizonans, we will hold them accountable and get real relief for Arizonans."

The Yuma Community Food Bank is one of four regional food banks in the Arizona Food Bank Network — alongside St. Mary's Food Bank, United Food Bank, and Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona — that redistribute large donations to more than 1,000 smaller organizations across the state. The eggs delivered to Yuma will be distributed to food banks, food pantries, and other partner agencies throughout Yuma County and La Paz County.

The delivery follows 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.