Meat, Fish & Dairy Processing Industry News: United States
04 February 2015

US - Cargill Pork is 11 months ahead of its own schedule for completing the conversion to group housing for sows at company-owned...

US - A major contributor to strong pork demand has been the prices of competing meats over the past couple of years, writes...
03 February 2015

US – US beef processor JBS USA, is to invest $75 million in the expansion ofits Hyrum, Utah, beef processing complex....

US - The nation's cattle producers are expanding the herd at a somewhat faster rate than had been anticipated. In the semi-annual...
02 February 2015

US - USDA's January 1 cattle inventory survey said the herd was 1.4% larger than a year ago with beef cow numbers up 2.1%...

US - The work slowdown at west coast seaports appears to be a growing drag on wholesale meat prices, write Ron Plain and...

US - A key issue facing US livestock and poultry companies this year will be the appreciation of the US dollar....

US - The flow of hogs and cattle to harvest is driven by a constant interplay of incentives. Producers must have the incentive...
30 January 2015

US - Although it is still early in the year, some market analysts are starting to talk about hog weights for 2015. Everyone...
29 January 2015

US – US meat processing giant Tyson Foods is to makeking major improvements to its Vienna, Georgia poultry plant....

US - US food and meat processing giant Hormel Foods Corporation is celebrating a record financial year in 2014....

US - The US National Pork Producers Council has thrown its support behind renewal of the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA),...

US - Livestock and meat markets have reminded us lately of the Anne Murray hit song of the ‘70s entitled “Sure Could...
28 January 2015

US - Imported lean beef prices in the US import market rose slightly last week, led largely by Australian exporters looking...
27 January 2015

US - The latest USDA cold storage report had bearish implications for beef and chicken prices while we think it was neutral...

US - What happened to the hog market? That was a big question on a lot of minds last week at the Minnesota Pork Congress,...
26 January 2015

US - The economic downturn that sapped consumer demand — not Country-of-Origin Labelling (COOL) — caused decreased demand...

US - The aims of the recently announced US proposal to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter on poultry parts have been welcomed...

US - US poultry processor Perdue Foodservice has launched seven no-antibiotics-ever chicken products for school lunch programmes. ...

US - Americans are forecast to eat 1.25 billion chicken wings for Super Bowl Sunday on 31 January, with wholesale prices...