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The Biden administration and some cattle groups blame meat industry concentration for producers getting a smaller share of consumer dollars for beef than they did decades ago. The Meat Institute disputes such claims.

A new year brought with it another attack on North Carolina’s pork industry. This one arrived in the form of a 16-minute video from an online outfit called Vox. It produced the video with money from an activist group.

Fed cattle markets have seen challenges in January. The Omicron variant is pressuring packing plant efficiency through increased worker absence, resulting in much smaller slaughter totals so far this month.

Iowa State University research seeks alternatives for saturated animal fats that retain the original products’ desirable qualities of taste, texture and appearance and offer more choices to health-conscious consumers.

The developer of a new beef processing plant targeted for western Iowa says the project expects to receive funding from the Biden Administration’s recently announced Meat and Poultry Supply Chain Action Plan.

On Monday the People’s Bank of China also announced a 0.1 percentage point cut to two of its key policy rates. It acted after GDP grew by more than 8% in 2021, but slowed down in the fourth quarter.

George Spencer served at the Executive Vice President of the American National Cattleman’s Association for eleven years beginning in 1969, working to strengthen the beef industry and unify competing organizations.

The upcoming USDA Cattle Inventory report - due Jan. 31- will detail how much America’s beef cow herd has declined given the 2021 cow culling rate was the highest since 2011.

Absenteeism at major packing plants due to coronavirus has again helped create a backlog of market-ready fed cattle. Packers used that fact to push fed cattle prices lower last week.