Meat, Fish & Dairy Processing Industry News: United States
30 April 2015

US - Hog and pork prices are recovering from the effects of larger-than-expected supplies in the first quarter of the year,...
29 April 2015

US - Easter is in the rear view mirror, and cash hogs should start to move higher as we head into summertime hog slaughter...

US - Integrated poultry and meat processing giant Tyson Foods is striving to end the use of human antibiotics from its US...

US - Is it time to pull the trigger on hog prices? That’s a question hog producers should ask themselves at least weekly....

US - Avian influenza continues to march through the upper Midwest with USDA reporting confirmed cases in six more flocks...
27 April 2015

US - The latest USDA cold storage report had bearish implications for the meat market going into the spring, write Steve...

US - There were 669 million pounds of pork in cold storage at the end of March. That is the third most for any month, ever....

US - Chicken Myths and Facts was one of the highlights of the second Chicken Media Summit, sponsored by the National Chicken...

US - Cattle feedlots and cold storage beef stocks are fuller than a year ago, report economists at Missouri University. ...

US - Cheaper, and many would argue downright “cheap”, hogs have been of little solace to pork packers this spring, write...
24 April 2015

US – Growing demand for animal proteins will result in an $11 billion packaging segment for the US in four years....
22 April 2015

US - Discussing the impact of recent avian influenza outbreaks, Hormel Foods says it is “experiencing significant challenges"...

US - Your Pork Industry Investment is the theme of the annual US Pork Management Conference to take place in June in New...

US - This is getting a little old and a lot annoying. But is it bad and can anything be done about it? No, I’m not talking...
21 April 2015

US - As the annual Earth Day was celebrated on 18 April, a US veterinarian says that modern meat production is environmentally...

US - The International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) has been recognised as one of the Top 50 US trade shows....

US - USDA recently issued its biannual review of global livestock and poultry markets, providing historical supply and trade...

US - Retail pork prices peaked in September and have declined each month since. But the rate of decline has been slower than...
20 April 2015

US - Weekly beef and pork export data were released this morning and, given all the attention currently on red meat export...

US - The Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has filed a lawsuit Fruitland American Meat, LLC, a Jackson meat-processing...