Key Takeaways:
Offal represents an important segment of global meat trade by adding value to underutilized portions of livestock carcasses and improving overall resource efficiency. Strong export demand for products such as pork variety meats and chicken feet allows processors to maximize carcass value and create additional revenue streams. Heavy reliance on a small number of export markets creates risks from trade disruptions, disease restrictions, and shifting consumer preferences. Growing production from major exporters such as Brazil is increasing competition for global offal markets and reshaping trade flows. Rising interest in sustainability, nutrition, and nose-to-tail consumption could create new opportunities for offal in Western...
Easing tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, assuming the ceasefire holds, should bring fertilizer prices down, but it could be years before that actually occurs because fertilizer price shocks resulted from not one, but two wars in or near the heart of global fertilizer production. Those wars resu...
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