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THE dairy industry, which is notoriously price inelastic--where small changes in supply or demand can cause large price movements--has been given a crash course this year on how supply and [...]

OVERALL, U.S. beef production has been boosted by some fairly large year-over-year placements, which began all the way back in the fourth quarter of last year and have persisted throughout [...]

NOT to be outdone by COV1D-19, African swine fever (ASF) reared its ugly head again in early September when Germany announced that it had discovered the disease in the carcass [...]

A LARGELY unexpected, fast-moving derecho storm system tore through several Midwest states in early August, leaving a path of destruction in its wake, particularly in agricultural areas. The U.S. Department [...]

A FEDERAL grand jury in U.S. district court in Denver, Colo., recently returned an indictment against four executives, including Pilgrim's Pride chief executive officer and president Jayson Penn, for their [...]

THE COVID-19 pandemic has ransacked every aspect of the global economy, particularly the U.S. livestock and meat industries due to foodservice closures, robust retail meat demand, packing plant slowdowns and [...]

RABOBANK says the world's current scenario is straight from an economics classroom--one that economists would call a 'black swan event.' However, the course of this particular event is extra challenging [...]

AFTER weathering the challenges of a trade war in 2018 and 2019, the U.S. pork industry began 2020 with high hopes of meeting the global animal protein deficit left by [...]

DAIRY, beef and pork industry checkoff leaders have been working tirelessly to help ease the crippling strain C0V1D-19 has placed on communities, farmers and the entire food supply chain. Plant [...]

THE U.S. poultry and egg sectors appear to be in a constant state of limbo these days as they navigate through marketing, social and political issues in an increasingly complex [...]

LEADING stakeholders--from farmers to physicians--recently came together to discuss the challenge of responsible antibiotic use in the 21st century. The forum, hosted by the National Pork Board and Atlantic LIVE, [...]

MORE growth is expected for the U.S. broiler sector in 2020, which will lead to 'two back-to-back years of modest to aggressive growth,' Brian Earnest, senior poultry analyst for IHS [...]

WHILE the current coronavirus outbreak has not been officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), its impact on human health and commerce has become more and more [...]

A SECOND large dairy company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in recent months, signaling continued trouble in the dairy sector. Borden, founded in 1857, announced Jan. 6 that it [...]

PORK production in 2020 will decline, although less so than in 2019, as the industry begins to recover from the effects of African swine fever (ASF), Rabobank reported in its [...]

ANIMAL protein production will grow across most of the globe in 2020, but the impact of African swine fever (ASF) in Asia will overwhelm the outlook as China's production losses [...]

THE plant-based meat alternative (PBMA) market is clearly at a 'tipping point' of consumer acceptance, David Ervin, vice president of alternative proteins for Tyson Foods, noted during a recent Center [...]

AT the beginning of the year, there was cautious optimism for a recovery in the U.S. dairy sector, but nothing 'really surprising' has transpired since then, Dr. Peter Vitaliano, vice [...]

AT the end of July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture rolled out the latest installment of trade aid to help farmers weather the storm brought about from the ongoing trade [...]

EVERY disruptive possibility has happened in the beef industry this year--a much different picture from what was expected at the beginning of the year, according to Don Close, senior analyst [...]

LAST fall, Adam Speck, commodity market analyst for IEG Vantage, provided an outlook on where the hog sector might be headed in 2019. At the time, the industry was still [...]

WALMART, the nation's largest grocer, announced April 24 that it is entering the beef industry by developing an end-to-end supply chain for Angus beef. The retailer said it has been [...]

PICTURES and videos of livestock rescues, aerial views of flooded land and damaged structures have inundated social media as Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, South Dakota and North Dakota continue to deal [...]

DECLINING cow numbers have led to consolidation in Texas livestock auction markets following devastating droughts during the past decade, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service study. 'Things change [...]

JBS USA and direct purchaser plaintiffs named in a pork price-fixing lawsuit recently filed a notice in the U.S. district court in Minnesota informing the court that they have reached [...]

THE American Egg Board (AEB) has introduced its new Strategic Vision & Five-Year Plan after it was approved by the AEB board at its annual board meeting in September. Implementation [...]

NEARLY one-fourth of u.s. consumers report eating plant-based meat, poultry or seafood alternative products, revealing that plant-based products are going mainstream and are no longer niche, market research firm Packaged [...]

U.S. pork exports to China have skyrocketed this year after African swine fever (ASF) eroded two-thirds of China's hog herd and drove its hog prices to record highs. In fact, [...]

DESPITE many setbacks and challenges in the supply chain, the U.S. food system performed incredibly well during the COVID-19 pandemic, Patrick Criteser, president and chief executive officer of Tillamook, said [...]

ALTHOUGH it has been a topic of much debate over the past several months, two industry stakeholders said during the recent Global Hog Industry Virtual Conference that all signs suggest [...]

FOR the first time in its 25-year history, the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) opened an overseas facility, the U.S. Center for Dairy Excellence (CDE), in Singapore. The facility has [...]

IN an effort to reach a younger generation of consumers, mainly Generation Z (approximately 15- to 20-year-olds), the dairy checkoff is launching an initiative to meet them where they are [...]

A FEDERAL judge in Minnesota has reopened lawsuits alleging that several large pork companies engaged in a price-fixing scheme from at least 2009 to the present. The case consolidates 13 [...]

MWC, a $470 million, state-of-the-art cheese and whey plant in St. Johns, Mich., began receiving milk from local farmers on Oct. 20, marking the first day of operations for the [...]

TWO separate plea deals involving companies associated with JBS, the world's largest meat packing company, were revealed Oct. 14. JBS announced that its controlling shareholder, J&F Investimentos S.A. (J&F), had [...]

RECENT beef supply chain challenges, including the Tyson Foods Holcomb, Kan., beef processing plant fire in August 2019 and the disruptions experienced during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, have [...]

TYSON Foods, Pilgrim's Pride, Perdue Farms, Foster Farms and Sanderson Farms are among several chicken companies named in new lawsuits filed in federal court during September. In separate lawsuits filed [...]

APPROXIMATELY 44,000 wildfires have burned more than 7 million acres in the U.S. so far this year--about 1 million above the 10-year average. Nationally, 75 large fires have burned 3.9 [...]

THE COVID-19 pandemic is expected to reduce U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by $2.5 trillion and employment by 19 million fulltime equivalent jobs over the next year, according to a [...]

JUNE exports of U.S. pork fell below year-ago levels for the first time this year, but exports remain on a record pace in 2020, according to data released by the [...]

OF 2 million acres that have burned recently, mostly in the western states, more than 1 million are in California, as below-normal precipitation and hot, windy conditions have made the [...]

A HOT and dry July, along with other factors, indicates that the U.S. is now in a La Nina weather pattern, according to Jeff Doran, agribusiness meteorologist and director of [...]