Tyson CEO Expects U.S. Protein Consumption to Continue Decline The COO of Tyson Foods, today told attendees at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2012 Global Agriculture Conference that the amount of animal protein available to U.S. consumers will decline for the foreseeable future. According to Jim Lochner, U.S. per capita consumption of protein has declined by 11 percent since its high in 2006.Mr. Lochner, consumption has fallen because there is less available to consume. That partly is because of strong export growth for pork and poultry meat. It also is due to the fact that less meat being produced because sharply higher feed ingredient prices negatively affects livestock and poultry producers' profitability. He intimated that as meat...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt is the largest importer of Brazilian maize in the first six months of 2026. Egypt imported about 28.4 percent of maize exports, or about 1.7 million MT. Iran was the third-largest importer at 14.5 percent, or 900,000 MT, fol...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
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