Livestock Reproductive Sow Data Shows Extent of Industry Consolidation The recent corporate filings and announcements from China’s leading domestic hog producers not only show strong output but also greater market power. As of the end of Q3, the top 19 companies now account for more than 19.2 percent of China’s hog production capacity with a combined total of nearly 8.4 million reproductive sows. The top three domestic producers, Muyuan Foodstuff Company, the Wens Group, and New Hope Group reported sow inventories of 2.60 million head, 1.34 million head, and 850,000 head, respectively. Just behind these three, the De Kang Group, Twins Group, and Zhengbang Biotech Company have seen their inventories grow to 450,000 head, 380,00...
What You Need to Know Today: Russia rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, including a proposal to halt attacks on civilian shipping that could help restore grain flows from Ukrainian ports. Tyson Foods announced plans to permanently close its Joslin, Illinois, beef processing facili...
The big news in the cattle markets yesterday was Tyson Foods’ move to close two more beef plants. One of them, the Joslin, Illinois, plant was shuttered immediately after the announcement. The other, in Eagle Mountain, Utah, is a case-ready plant that does not slaughter cattle. Tyson also...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Wednesday. In July, the CPI rose 0.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, and rose 3.4 percent over the last 12 months, not seasonally adjusted. The index for all items less food and energy, or the “core” infla...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.