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Poultry boards not letting their guard down as NAFTA preparations begin

The U.S. has a healthy trade surplus with Canada for eggs and poultry

By Alex Binkley August 22, 2017

Dairy may be getting all the attention in the upcoming NAFTA negotiations, but the chicken, egg and turkey boards aren’t letting their guard down as talks begin in mid-August. “The government has been clear in its support for supply management and we are confident it will continue to support and protect supply management during the negotiations

Cereals, Livestock, Poultry

U.S. Hog, Poultry Firms To Extend Use Of Feed Wheat

October 20, 2011

chicago/reuters The surprise drop in U.S. corn feed demand this summer may be only the beginning of a yearlong reduction as chicken and hog producers break a long-held aversion to blending more wheat into rations. What initially began as a summer fling sparked by an unprecedented premium for corn prices over wheat has turned into

Livestock, Poultry

$7 Corn Makes Chicken Producer Pinch Pennies

By Bob Burgdorfer April 7, 2011

High-speed dryers will replace paper towels in company washrooms at Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. as the chicken producer looks to save money as the price of feed corn rises. Rival Tyson Foods Inc. is replacing freezers with more efficient models, streamlining production, and reducing product movement between plants to help offset feed costs. U.S. chickens consume

Livestock, Poultry

U. S. Meat Trade Should Not Count On China, Russia

By Bob Burgdorfer March 25, 2010

“(Vladimir) Putin himself made a comment about the U. S. having to meet Russian standards. Now, if the chicken industry gets the attention of Putin, that is a little different ball game than what we have had to deal with in the past.” – Joe Sanderson, Sanderson Farms U. S. meat companies have banked on

Beef cattle, Hogs, News, Poultry

Investors Liking The Taste Of U. S. Meat Companies

By Bob Burgdorfer April 16, 2009

“Even though we may be at the bottom of the recession, we still have to climb out of it.” – JIM ROBB Investors like the taste of meat again, bidding up shares of Tyson, Smithfield, Hormel and Sanderson Farms as the spring and summer cookout season is about to heat up. While some of these

News, Poultry

U. S. Lawmaker Blasts China Food Safety

March 26, 2009

The United States has “serious issues” with food imports from China and needs to do more to prevent contaminated products from entering the U. S. food supply, an influential House lawmaker said March 18. At the same time, Washington needs to toughen up its own outdated food safety laws after a series of food recalls

News, Poultry

Pilgrim’s Pride Eyes 2009 Bankruptcy Exit

By Bob Burgdorfer March 5, 2009

U. S. chicken producer Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. has idled plants and is streamlining operations in hopes of exiting from bankruptcy protection by the end of 2009, CEO Don Jackson told Reuters on Feb. 27. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in December after struggling for nearly a year with high feed costs and low meat

News, Oilseeds, Poultry

U. S. farmers remain hopeful even as profits erode

By Karl Plume January 29, 2009

“With that kind of volatility you just lose track of fundamentals.” –Illinois farmer Garry Niemeyer Iowa farmer Gordon Wassenaar says he is optimistic about 2009, displaying a sometimes puzzling “glass half full” mentality needed in a profession in which Mother Nature can wipe out months of work overnight. He and other U. S. farmers notched

News, Poultry

A Pilgrim’s Pride bankruptcy may help rivals

November 27, 2008

Any bankruptcy filing by Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., the largest U. S. chicken producer, could support higher pricing for the entire poultry industry as capacity is taken out, Fitch Rating said Nov. 18. A Pilgrim’s Pride bankruptcy looks “pretty inevitable,” given that the company has hired a restructuring adviser and is exercising a grace period for

News, Poultry

Pilgrim’s bankruptcy “highly probable”

November 6, 2008

There is a high probability that major U. S. chicken producer Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. will file for bankruptcy protection as interest payments come due in December on bonds, the independent research firm CreditSights said in a note Oct. 29. The chicken processor said Oct. 27 it got a 30-day waiver on credit covenants and would

Daily Network News

U.S. finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27, cuts RINS for foreign feedstocks

U.S. corn planting seen down, soy acres up as Iran war inflates costs, analysts say

Producers affected by bovine TB receive extended tax deferral

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Poultry boards not letting their guard down as NAFTA preparations begin

U.S. Hog, Poultry Firms To Extend Use Of Feed Wheat

$7 Corn Makes Chicken Producer Pinch Pennies

U. S. Meat Trade Should Not Count On China, Russia

Investors Liking The Taste Of U. S. Meat Companies

U. S. Lawmaker Blasts China Food Safety

Pilgrim’s Pride Eyes 2009 Bankruptcy Exit

U. S. farmers remain hopeful even as profits erode

A Pilgrim’s Pride bankruptcy may help rivals

Pilgrim’s bankruptcy “highly probable”

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