⚠️Feeling confident lately? Most US consumers aren’t: confidence fell in October more than expected!
- The scenario reveals how high prices and fears of recession are leaving everybody on the tips of their toes. And with just two weeks until midterm elections, President Joe Biden has to keep an eye on this situation.
- The main drivers for the concerns about inflation are gas and food prices (no surprises here). The job market is to blame too, and vacation intentions have retreated. ...
🥩 Meat sales exploded in 2020, and since then, dollar growth continues while units/volumes remain ahead of 2019 pre-pandemic levels.
- All the high prices, fears, and inflation considered, it’s impressive – like, a lot – how food service has come back to a large extent and in such volumes.
- The study that revealed the growth gathered data from February to May, and involved several stores and retailers throughout nearly 100 cities.
🥓 Good news for the swine industry: there’s bee...
In a swine operation, everything has immediate, long term, or ripple effects – so it’s crucial for producers to be able to foresee the potential impacts of their decisions before making them. So what do you do when you want to take a peek at the future? Well, you use Watson!
- Watson is a customized intelligent tool created by Trouw Nutrition to help you gain better insights and make informed decisions by providing the predictive analysis needed to model current production systems, optimi...
In the US, the two main ingredients used to meet the protein requirement of pigs are soybean meal and synthetic amino acids. For the most part, whether to rely on one or the other depends on how the market is behaving – but do pigs respond differently to each method? In this episode, I talk with Dr. Henrique Cemin about a study he performed that tested two diets with different soybean meal inclusion rates for grow-finish pigs in order to better clarify this issue.
Meet the guest: Dr. Henri...
2023 will be fertile ground for trouble… Puns aside, fertilizer is by far the most complex market that farmers encounter currently, and its prices are set to rise next year!
- According to Ben Brown, University of Missouri Senior Research Associate for the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, although US prices for fertilizers were promising in the period between June and August, it’s unlikely they’ll remain low.
- An inflated gas market due to restricted European supplies...
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obody likes a snitch… but in this case, being a tattletale is good! Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) can infect mosquitoes, horses, and humans. However, experts say if the US were to have an introduction of the virus, it would most likely be detected first in the country's domestic swine industry.
- According to specialists, JEV in humans looks exactly like other viruses in terms of the infection and symptoms, so it’s likely people would be mistakenly diagnosed with other diseases. Then,...
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), in partnership with the industry, is aiming to transform the online shopping platforms of supermarkets across the UK.
- The easier, the better, huh? Latest research shows that more households in the UK are switching to online shopping and having their groceries delivered to their homes.
But it seems red meat isn't reaching its full potential...
So here’s a list of recommendations for retailers:
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