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When You Hear There's Another Ag Supply Chain Issue:
There’s another shortage in the agrifood value chain, and this one is sure to ruffle some feathers. The culprit: chicken. Boneless...
May 11, 2021


A Beef/Cattle Market Teetor Totter
That moment when your body launches to the top of the seesaw at top speed? Beef packers, please remind us what that feels like. Beef...
May 7, 2021


Cows... All The Cows
The dairy industry has been on a wild ride as of late. Videos of farmers dumping milk spread across social media feeds early on in the...
May 4, 2021


A Swing for the Vences
Thanks to a recent $12 million investment in a San Diego startup, a whole boatload of ranchers will soon be rotating their herds across...
Apr 29, 2021


China Is Trying to Think Postive-ish
China pork producers are playing a never-ending game of Whack-a-Mole with African Swine Fever. Three years into the war against the...
Mar 15, 2021


Not Your Average Milk-Making Method
Scientists in the Land Down Under may soon be putting your morning glass of milk under a lot of pressure. The rundown: Naturo, an...
Mar 15, 2021


Cattle Markets' Transparency Test
Show me the cattle market transparency. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced the Cattle Market Transparency...
Mar 8, 2021


Canada's #Buttergate Conundrum
The Canadian dairy industry is telling its 10,000 farmers to ‘ pause the palm oil .’ The issue: Buttergate . Backstory: In late 2020,...
Mar 8, 2021


Chicken Is On The Menu
The crispy chicken sandwich wars just got re heated. A lil mom & pop shop entered the arena last week and has Chick-Fil-A and Popeye’s...
Mar 1, 2021


The Dairy Squeeze
U.S. dairymen and women dream of the good ole days where market volatility and supply chain snafus were as common as oat milk. But...
Feb 25, 2021
It's Baaack
Asia just can’t seem to shake the African Swine Fever. After new strains of the virus popped up across China last month, now Hong Kong...
Feb 16, 2021


Herd Notebooks Be Gone
U.S. ranchers can wave ‘ bye-bye ’ to those handwritten herd notebooks. AgriWebb, a ranch management software, is placing roots in...
Feb 16, 2021


The RFID Rift
Welcome to the acronym party... Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA) and the USDA’s...
Feb 12, 2021


Who Run the (Egg) World? Girls.
In the world of eggs, females are at the top of the pecking order. You know, since males can’t lay eggs and all. And an innovative idea...
Jan 5, 2021


The China Pork Playbook
Go big or go home: the mantra of China’s top pig producer. Muyuan Foods is building the largest single site hog farm in the world....
Dec 11, 2020


Broken Record Alert: Poultry Price Fixing
Target and Chick-fil-A are the two newest faces to join the poultry price fixing saga in the past week. Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride, Perdue...
Dec 11, 2020


No Thanks, Dean Foods
Nearly 500 dairy farmers are up in arms over a legal shakedown with the ghost of Christmas past, Dean Foods. The estate of the former...
Dec 8, 2020


US Pork Fears an ASF-Infected Feed Fallout
For two years, the US pork supply chain has pulled all the levers to halt African Swine Fever from reaching the homeland. Their next ...
Dec 1, 2020


Beef – It’s What’s for Dinner, Right?
Flashback: It’s February 2020. You’re at a dine-in restaurant, surrounded by family and friends. The biggest decision you have to make:...
Nov 19, 2020
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