Impacts of weather, dollar, trade driving meat prices
Both pork and chicken inventories should keep prices down heading into winter – and there could be room for U.S. retail pork prices to head lower. And drought-breaking rains this year in most of the Great Plains are keeping cow-calf producers in expansion mode. Heifers are staying on the ranch and out of the feedlot.
Dean plant's shutdown to cost Indiana city lost revenue, 130+ jobs
May layoffs followed Meijer’s opening of a $100 million dairy processing facility for milk, cottage cheese and yogurt at its Tipp City, Ohio, warehouse complex.
“There are a number of problems here, but success to me would be to push back and have the EPA stay within their primary responsibility – that is, navigable waterways and those areas that lead directly into a waterway.”
Michigan reinstating produce collection of $2 per $1,000
The failure of a grain company last year resulted in 108 claims - $3.5 million - being parceled out to farmers who did not get paid for delivered grain.
