Major commercial egg producers, including industry giant Cal-Maine Foods alongside Versova and Hickman's Egg Ranch, have faced high-profile legal scrutiny, antitrust investigations, and class-action lawsuits regarding allegations of price-fixing, supply coordination, and artificially manipulating daily benchmark quotations. Federal antitrust enforcers and state attorneys general have targeted these coordinated practices, resulting in multi-million-dollar settlements and mandated charitable egg donations.