Today’s WASDE shows total red meat and poultry production finishing the year slightly below last month’s forecasts, though up 0.3 percent from 2020. This month’s forecast increased beef production on increased slaughter and heavier slaughter weights, increased pork based on slaughter, and decreased broiler production on hatchery and slaughter rates.
But as we covered last week, broiler production is expected to rebound next year based on broiler chick hatching intended for placement. For year-over-year production, the WASDE forecast for broilers is an increase of 1.7 percent, though WPI believes it could be higher, at least for the first half of the year. Beef production in 2022 is forecast to come in about 3 percent be...
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...
