The attorney general for the state of New Mexico has launched a political witch hunt into beef processing companies, claiming ranchers are hurt by their size and anti-competitive practices. Financial Stress The trade press is hot on the stresses currently being felt in the agribusiness sector. The attorney general for the state of New Mexico has launched a political witch hunt into beef processing companies, claiming ranchers are hurt by their size and anti-competitive practices. Consolidation, though, is the exact economic dynamic that occurs when an industry is plagued by tight margins. The Kansas City Federal Reserve anticipated this many months ago and is hosting a conference next month on this very topic where it will zero in on tho...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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