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One of the sectors of the Ag community hit especially hard during the spread of COVID-19 last year was meatpacking plants nationwide. But, according to UC Davis, the impact was much more severe than initially thought. Researchers say an estimated 334,000 cases of COVID-19 are attributable to meatpacking plants, resulting in $11 ...

Registration is now open for the 2021 Chicken Marketing Summit. The annual executive conference, hosted by WATT Global Media, is scheduled for July 18-20, 2021, at the Omni Amelia Island Resort in Fernandina Beach, FL. This year’s Chicken Marketing Summit will focus on what consumers will be looking for from protein suppliers and what strategies will be most effective for chicken marketers going f

Another state will require egg producers to turn to cage-free production methods in less than four years. Last week, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed a bill that prohibits producers from confining hens in cages beginning on January 1st of 2025 ...

Poultry owners across Washington have been told to watch for a return of highly pathogenic avian influenza. The USDA has warned Washington and other states that conditions are similar to 2014-15, when bird flu moved across the country, resulting in the deaths of thousands of birds across Washington and millions across the county ...

The National Chicken Council says consumers will eat 2% more chicken wings during Sunday's Super Bowl. On Super Bowl weekend, Americans will devour an estimated record of 1.42 billion wings while watching the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers battle for the Lombardi Trophy ...

The USDA made primarily minor changes to its most recent meat supply and use balance sheet for 2020. "Looking forward in to 2021 with the tighter supplies especially of corn and soy beans and much higher prices that are expected to follow from that," said World Outlook Board Chair, Mark Jekanowski ...

Tyson Foods this week agreed to $221.5 million to settle claims related to price-fixing lawsuits. The settlements are with three consumer and commercial purchasing groups who bought chickens directly from Tyson and require a federal judge's approval ...

Back in 2018, California voters passed Proposition 12, which is scheduled to go into effect on January 1st, 2022. But several Ag groups are looking to stop the law before it starts. A Protect the Harvest release says the bill increases regulations on the egg, pork, and veal producers both in the state of California as well as any out-of-state producers that want to sell products in the state ..

The USDA has raised its estimates of beef, pork, and broiler production. "Basically what we're looking at here for both 2020 and this carries forward in to 2021 as well is just the fact that we are moving toward more of a normalized slaughter/capacity slaughter volume," said World Outlook Board Chair, Mark Jekanowski ...

CoBank says the recent rebound in the U.S. economy is real; the sharpest post-shutdown economic gains are almost certainly behind us; and a long grind to shore up a shaky economy lies ahead. Despite COVID-19, U.S. grain has been moving and basis has generally tightened since April 1st ...