Source: FARM PROGRESS, 8/20/20


Days after announcing the permanent closure of its hog operations in 2021, Maxwell Foods LLC has filed a lawsuit against Smithfield Foods Inc., citing the company's "failure to provide Maxwell with most favored nation pricing as required by the Production Sales Agreement, its refusal to provide Maxwell a fair price and its failure to purchase Maxwell's output as required by the PSA, all have harmed Maxwell greatly and are intended to run, and are in fact unlawfully running, Maxwell out of the business." 

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