R-CALF USA urges cattle feeders to file claims in final weeks of $83.5M JBS antitrust settlement

On Aug. 15, 2025, the court granted final approval to the $83.5 million settlement with JBS in the In re Cattle and Beef Antitrust Litigation against JBS, Tyson, Cargill and National Beef. The settlement was reached in the class-action antitrust lawsuit filed in 2019 by R-CALF USA, four individual ranchers and the National Farmers Union, though litigation against Tyson, Cargill and National Beef continues.

The deadline for settlement class members to submit a claim form online or by mail is Sept. 15, 2025. The “Settlement Classes” include cattle feeders who directly sold fed cattle for slaughter to Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and/or National Beef from June 1, 2015 to Feb. 29, 2020, and/or for persons who held a long position in live cattle futures traded on the CME prior to June 1, 2015, and subsequently liquidated that long position through an offsetting market transaction at any point prior to Nov. 1, 2016.