The USDA Packers and Stockyards Division is extending an investigation into the wide separation between box beef and live cattle prices to include the current coronavirus pandemic. This investigation has been folded into a similar inquiry into beef margins following the August 2019 fire at beef packing plant in Holcomb, Kansas. A bipartisan group of senators is also asking the Justice Department to examine allegations of price fixing within the cattle industry.
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