Former eastern Washington rancher Cody Allen Easterday may be permanently banned from commodity trading and pay a $1 million fine.
Legislators are urging the Department of Justice to move forward with their investigation into anticompetitive practices from meatpackers.
Tuesday evening President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that ordered meat processing plants to remain open, declaring them critical infrastructure.
Tyson Fresh Meats plans to indefinitely suspend operations at its Waterloo, Iowa, pork plant this week due to the coronavirus.
The USDA announced an investigation into beef prices after a plant fire earlier this month that shut down a Tyson Foods Inc slaughterhouse in Kansas.
Tyson has announced a hefty investment in Future Meat Technologies, a Jerusalem-based company that makes lab-grown meat.