Reported November meat sales data show meat department sales were positive and have remained so since Q1 of 2023. In all cases, dollar gains were from a combination of inflation and demand growth. Indeed, meat demand has remained remarkably resilient through 2025. On a per capita basis, chicken was up 4 pounds to 107.2 pounds, pork was up 1.6 pounds to 50.9 pounds, and turkey was up 0.3 pounds to 13.4 pounds. Only beef saw a slip, down 1.5 pounds to 57 pounds, but higher prices made up the greater demand.
Mirroring the total store patterns, volume sales were off during the first week of November. However, the second and third weeks of the month more than made up for the initial weak start. Volume sales increased nearly 6 percent in t...
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...
