🥩 In case you were wondering, no, there’ve been no capitalization mistakes in this title! We’re not talking about those FADs, as in "Foreign animal diseases", but a fad, with lowercase letters, as in "a short-lived, widespread enthusiasm for something". And you wanna know what is a fad in the meat industry? Plant-based meats.

    • At least, according to Gregory Bloom – read his whole opinion piece here.

👀 This is why they’re a fad, and this is how they’ll fade: 

    • Since 2019, the number ...

📉 Well, quite the opposite, actually… Let’s talk about Ukraine again? Yes, let’s do it. So far in the 2022/23 season, grain exports are down 31.9% in comparison to the same stage of the previous season...

    •  That volume includes tonnes of wheat, corn, and barley. Click here to see all the numbers.

     •  Ukraine’s exports are down from last year’s record numbers because of the loss of land to Russian forces and lower yields.

🇺🇦 After an almost six-month blockade caused by the Russian inv...

👑 Who wants to rule the world? Everybody?? (Turning up the volume) This time, the team at Canada Pork does: with the goal of becoming the world’s preferred supplier of good-quality pork, it has developed a multipronged strategy.

     • In short, they want to prioritize quick resolutions of technical market access issues, support a business-focused partnership between the pork industry and the government, support trade agreements that involve pork, and collaborate with industry stakeholders to d...

📄 Filling up some tanks with ethanol rather than pouring the fuel on the fire, that’s the idea! The Senate apparently wants to resolve confusions at the gas pump, so the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act was introduced this week. The bill would ensure permanent, full-market access to E15 – which of course, is in all producers’ best interests.

     • This comes as a result of several ag groups and the American Petroleum Institute having joined efforts to push forward the idea of permanent ac...

💸Grain prices were lightly mixed this week: traders are holding onto their seats as they await fresh signals on several fronts – whether China will ease current COVID-19 restrictions, what South American weather forecasts hold in store, and how the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine will unfold. Here’s an overview of the situation:

     • Corn prices suffered a small technical setback in overnight trading and closed with losses of around 0.4%. Corn basis bids were mostly steady across the cent...

🏔️ Ever went hiking or mountaineering? The first thing you learn is that finding the right footing is key. If you don’t mind your steps, hitting the ground is unavoidable – and making it to the end of a track or reaching the top of a mountain is impossible. And so you’ve got to have all the necessary skills and all the best equipment… 

     •  Sounds familiar? In the swine industry, it works exactly the same way. 

🏅 When trying to climb the mountain of difficulties we find on our farms and rea...

🥩 What would you do if pork started falling from the sky? As delicious or scary that idea may be (we guess it depends on the perspective), that’s not exactly what’s happening, but a considerable amount of pork has been donated to food banks.

    • The US National Pork Board, several state pork associations, Farmland – a brand of Smithfield Foods, and country music superstar Luke Bryan have partnered to donate an estimated total of 1 million servings of pork. To see the list of food banks that r...