John Rust

Anti-Trump Indiana Senate Candidate’s Family Egg Farm, Other Major Egg Producers, Accused of Artificially Inflating Egg Prices

Indiana Republican John Rust officially announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate in a video last week focused heavily on the egg empire his family founded, Rose Acre Farms, but the company is one of several egg producers at the center of an antitrust lawsuit accused of a conspiracy to limit the domestic egg supply, therefore driving up prices. 

Eggs are displayed on store shelves at a local grocery store in Chandler, Ariz., Jan. 21,