Author: Dr. Laura Hayes

The wholesale pricing by packers shifted from being consistent with a perfectly competitive pricing in the pre-cartel period to being consistent with the oligopoly and monopoly pricing in the cartel period. The retail pricing by food retailers was consistent with an oligopoly pricing in both periods.

US Cattle Herd Shrinks to 73-Year-Low in Blow for Lovers. Number of cows shrank to the lowest amount since 1951. Price of has risen as drought-stricken cow herds dwindle. A cow in …

Although grass-fed is touted as the environmentally and ethically best choice for eaters, feedlots often outperform on both fronts. “Grass-fed” is increasingly marketed as more environmentally friendly and ethical than produced from feedlots. But is it really? Whether we agree that can be an environmentally sound or ethical …

The labour shortage across the entire supply . chain may impact the productivity of the herd, while transportation and staff shortages within processing plants also remain . significant for to manage. There is the potential for the Australian dollar to appreciate, placing upward pressure on the export prices and ’s

(I should note that the likes to quote other feed-to- conversion numbers (like 5:1 or 7:1 or 10:1) but they are looking at the weight of the entire animal — including bones, organs, and hides — not the edible food that it produces, either in terms of calories or protein. Moreover, they don’t include the grass or milk …

The in developing countries from southern Africa is highly dualistic with communal, subsistence or small scale farmers and large commercial farmers all coexisting. This duality poses …

This may also include probiotic metabolites from the fermentation of meat, potentially exerting physiological and biological effects, yet unidentified. The aim of the present paper is to present and discuss the current knowledge and to identify research gaps when assessing the health effects of meat in the human diet. 2.

Fed cattle traded $2 higher compared to last week on a live basis. Prices were largely $186 to $188 on a live basis and mostly $300 on a dressed basis. The 5-area weighted average prices thru Thursday were $187.03 live, up $1.78 compared to last week and $300.00 dressed, up $5.00 from a week ago.

Critics have charged, however, that the new system is inhumane to the animals and may have created new health risks. For a look at the pros and cons of the industrialization of the business …

Staples like ground are still seeing higher prices, the Wall Street Journal reported. Business Insider reports that prices were 15.6% higher in the last week of May than they were the …

Worth more than A$3 billion ($1.94 billion), Chinese demand for Australian surged in 2019, fuelled by a growing middle class and as consumers switched to eating as pork availability fell …

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In fact, as our other research has shown, U.S. sales of medically important antibiotics for cattle and pigs exceed sales for human use by 44 percent ( 10.8 million pounds of antibiotic ‘active …

Thus far in 2020, the lowest U.S. Feeder Cattle Index Price occurred on April 14th. On that date, feeder cattle prices for an 800-pound feeder steer had declined by $33 per hundredweight, or $264 per head from January 10th, when the crisis began impacting U.S. Exports. For a load of 60 head of 800-pound feeder steers, that amounts to a …

The is facing unprecedented challenges related to animal welfare, environmental impact, origin, authenticity, nutritional benefits and eating quality of . These may affect the whole , especially its farmers. It is therefore essential to bring the together to spread best practice and better exploit …

Abstract. Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is one of the most common and costly diseases of cattle. Much research has been conducted to understand prevention, treatment, and economic impacts of this syndrome. Impacts from BRD occur in multiple phases of the including both pre- and post-weaned calves.

The connected with production and consumption of meat have important role in solution of this challenge. About 8% or 627 trillion kcal from 8 quadrillion (8 × 10 15 ) kcal annually consumed energy of food belong to meat, which concede scientifically based physiological consumption level around by 40%, and this varies twofold and …

The involves multiple actors located throughout the U.S., even though only a few states contain the majority of the operations—mainly the Plain States 2 . In the , cattle cycles also occur with an average length of 11.8 years, during which the number of cattle is expanded and then reduced, impacting the …

In 2022 alone, manufacturing in the UK generated approximately 10.2 billion British pounds. This figure has seen continuous growth in recent years. Globally, the United States and Brazil are …

The primary drivers of deforestation in supply chains are cattle ranching and the expansion of pastureland. As global demand for rises, particularly in emerging economies, there is increased pressure to clear forests for large-scale cattle farming. Economic incentives, often fuelled by international markets, contribute to converting …

Food production in Brazil, the world’s biggest and soybean exporter, accounted for 74% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, according to a study released Tuesday by …

The “gigantic” power of the meat and dairy industries in the EU and US is blocking the development of the greener alternatives needed to tackle the climate crisis, a study has found.

In 2021, the Meat and Poultry produced 1: 27.95 billion pounds of – a record volume. 27.67 billion pounds of pork. 53.2 million pounds of veal. 138.4 million pounds of lamb and mutton. 50.4 billion pounds of poultry.

The article focuses on the Mexican and cattle . Mexico continues to develop as a major exporting country. In recent years, Mexican production has continued to grow while total domestic consumption has been relatively stable leading to growing exports from the country. Current USDA projections for 2023 have Mexico as …

“The U.S. is currently projected to be the No. 2 global exporter and the No. 2 global importer.” He also noted the COVID-19 pandemic revealed to both consumers and producers that the supply chains for the retail grocery and food-service are “largely separate, very specialized and quite complex.”

JBS, which sources cattle from the Amazon for its massive global market, has annual revenues of $50bn (£37.5bn) and slaughters almost 35,000 cattle a day in Brazil alone.

More questions about . House ag leaders ask USDA to evaluate cattle market structure, price discovery, price reporting and purchasing mandates. House Agriculture Committee leaders Collin Peterson and K. Michael Conaway sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, asking him to address a variety of surrounding the …

Every $100,000 in new processing sales provides an additional $122,000 to Missouri’s economy. Covered Feeding of Cattle in Missouri There are several reasons why covered facilities have piqued interest of Missouri stakeholders. Shelter can protect cattle from weather events, and it may mediate like heat

In the study of production systems, the environmental impact is often expressed in terms of carbon footprint CF, such as in [ 1 ]; in this case, the goal was the evaluation and the comparison of the CF of two Chianina production systems in Central Italy: a conventional and an organic one.

Dry by . By Lindsay Campbell on March 7, 2020. They suggest paying farmers not to farm. Researchers find that irrigation of cattle feed crops is the greatest consumer of river water in the western United States. Photography courtesy of University of Delaware.

A relatively small number of plants process much of the and pork in the United States, and some of them have closed because workers are getting sick. A Smithfield Foods plant in 2017 …

According to the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, it takes up to 10 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of meat, and in the United States alone, 56 million acres of land are used to grow feed for animals, while only 4 million acres are producing plants for humans to eat. More than 90 percent of all Amazon rainforest land cleared …

The goal of this checkoff sponsored symposium was to provide clarity regarding cattle well-being, research, the current state of the , and the future of cattle transportation in North America. In today’s marketing programs, feeder calves might be transported as many as 6 times.

On June 25, 2021, Rounds hosted a roundtable discussion with South Dakota retailers and cattle producers on facing the , including the “Product of USA” label loophole. On July 1, 2021, Rounds issued a statement praising USDA’s decision to launch a full-scale review of the “Product of USA” label.

Implications. Abstaining from consuming meat, but not dairy products, is regarded by many to be a sign of compassion towards animals. Here, we show that food products derived from the most common dairy production systems (dairy or meat) are rated by cattle welfare experts as more harmful to the welfare of animals than consuming products derived from the most common production systems.

Figure 1. The nexus between environmental impact per unit of produced and cattle welfare. Items listed in the nexus are that can be “win-wins” (e.g., if the heat stress cattle experience can be mitigated, their productivity improves, thereby decreasing environmental impacts per unit of ). *Adapted from Place and Mitloehner …

Food production and manufacturing are widely dispersed throughout the U.S. and there are currently no wide-spread disruptions reported in the supply chain. and the Food and Drug Administration are closely monitoring the food supply chain for any shortages in collaboration with and our federal and state partners.

1.1. Literature Review. Production of food from animals has accelerated during the last 100 years, in response to growing demand [].Throughout the world approximately 70 billion animals are reared as domestic animals annually, with more than 6 million animals killed for food each year [], and approximately 56 billion mammals and birds slaughtered each year [].

Between 2010-2019, the average measure of concentration was 0.128 (0 is highly competitive and 1 is highly concentrated). When the Chinese stepped in and started buying U.S. beginning in 2020, the measure of concentration changed from 0.152 to 0.146 in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Year to date, the measure of concentration in 2022 is 0.149.

Sales of fresh grass-fed soared from $17 million in 2012 to $272 million just four years later, according to Nielsen data published in an April report from Bonterra Partners, an investment …

But the pandemic took things up a notch, analysts said. As the pandemic escalated last winter and spring, packing plant shutdowns led to temporary shortages and empty meat shelves at some grocery stores. CME live cattle futures tumbled over 40% from the start of 2020, touching a 14-year low at about 76 cents a pound in April 2020.

Those four companies now control 85% of the market and 70% of the pork market. Bar charts showing increasing proportion of and pork industries controlled by the top 4 companies.

Mark Lauritsen, head of the food processing, packing and manufacturing division of the United Food and Commercial Workers, said meatpacking plants will continue to produce less meat for grocery …

The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing (also spelled meatpacking or meat packing ) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.

In a global that is worth more than $2 trillion and represents about 5.6% of U.S. GDP, meat and dairy producers are pivoting to plant-based options to complement their portfolios and keep …

Nourish Food Marketing’s annual roundup of the top trends in the food and beverage (as well as some agricultural trends), offers food system stakeholders guidance on how to turn these trends into opportunities. The 2023 Trend Report, titled “The Future is Transformative,” is available for download on the Nourish website.

Conversely, 2016-2020 average annual unprepared imports were 2.30 billion pounds, import value was $5.8 billion, and implied import price was $2.52/lb. These statistics clearly indicate participation in the global market provides a net economic gain. Export volume as a percentage of domestic production has grown substantially in recent …

This paper presents the results of a study of social sustainability in the U.S. with a focus on the pre-harvest, cattle ranching portion of the . Using an integrative literature review and interviews with fifteen thought leaders in the field, we synthesize key indicators of social sustainability and provide a framework to be used in analyzing social sustainability in the …

Download. Hormones are naturally produced by the endocrine system of humans and other animals, and regulate growth, development, and reproductive processes. Plants also produce hormones, or plant regulators, which are chemical substances that influence growth and specify cell function. Hormones and their metabolites are excreted out of the body …

Kevin Good, vice president of relations and analysis at CattleFax, reported that 1.2 million head of cattle were liquidated in 2019-2020 after a 6.3 million head expansion between 2014 and 2018. Even with fewer cattle in the system, production still increased.