Not just maybe.

If there's an industry, there's a cartel. Free-market competition is a fairy tale we tell consumers so they won't riot at having necessities price gouged by the billionaires.

In Canada there was bread price fixing. Honestly I wouldn't doubt everything is all a sham. I'm sure there are people trying to conduct business honestly, but all the biggest players? It's part of the game. If they get caught they pay their way out of it. Cost of doing business.

Until these business are fined heavily enough to drastically impact their businesses, they'll keep doing it. In the meantime they will continue to be leeches on society

Most farm products come from a few companies so duh