Largest US Egg Producer Cal-Maine Under DOJ Price Investigation

The company earned $508 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2025, a 245 percent jump from the year prior.

A woman shops for eggs at a store in New York on Feb. 17, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

Cal-Maine Foods Inc., the nation’s largest egg producer, on April 8 acknowledged that it is being investigated by the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division over the national increase in egg prices.

The brief admission in its newest financial report made headlines, and the company’s shares fell by about 4 percent in after-hours trading.