October 2023 total red meat and poultry stocks were down sharply from September and were 6.4 percent below October 2022 as beef, pork, and chicken stocks continue to tighten. Once again, the big shock from the report was the decline in beef and pork supplies that pulled red meat stocks down 13.7 percent from October 2022. Total poultry meat inventories fell 6 percent from September, slightly less than their normal seasonal decrease, and were up 0.2 percent year over year (YoY). The report again highlights the diverging trends for red meat and poultry markets with chicken and turkey supplies remaining steady or increasing on industry expansion while multi-year declines in beef and hog herds continue to tighten supplies...
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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