As WPI noted on 5 October, the first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) since April 2023 was reported in South Dakota. So far in October, there have been 34 reported cases according to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), and 92 percent of the birds affected were commercial turkeys. In all, about 870,500 birds have been affected.
There were also cases reported on breeding operations in Minnesota; 20,400 birds at one operation and 2,700 toms at another. This of course raises issues about the impact on Thanksgiving (23 November) demand, however, most of the supply for the holiday demand has already been harvested. Turkeys take a minimum of 14 weeks to grow for slaughter, and up to 18 weeks for...
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...
