Meat
As Prime grading exceeds 17% of the mix, narrowing price spreads are shifting the profitability landscape for packers and producers alike.
With a focus on reducing regulatory burdens and improving customer service, the USDA’s new action plan and $60 million in MPPEP funding aim to fortify the domestic beef supply chain and support rural economies.
Jeff Schomburger will succeed Donnie King as Tyson Foods CEO in October as the company navigates rising cattle costs and supply challenges in its beef business.
Company cites ‘continued uncertainty’ as the reason for the May 20 lockout in Fort Morgan, stressing that the $33.4 million contract offer remains fair and competitive.
With Select supplies shrinking and consumer demand locked on higher-quality beef, the traditional Choice-Select spread no longer tells the real market story.
As the federal government settles with Agri Stats over data-sharing, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Secretary Brooke Rollins launch a high-stakes investigation into beef market concentration and potential price-fixing.
The beef industry is looking toward “Beef Month” to sustain the strongest market rally in history.
The Meat Institute’s latest brief empowers U.S. producers to replace generic global averages with precise, peer-reviewed data that reflects modern efficiency.
The state-of-the-art facility marks a new era for Idaho’s 100% job-placement meat science program, bridging the gap between academic research and industry needs.
Despite a historic 15% Prime grade achievement, heavier carcass weights and excess backfat are creating new hurdles for the Certified Angus Beef brand.
Senators Grassley and Smith introduce bipartisan legislation to study the economic impact of concentration in the livestock industry.
Joe Don Eilers shares how BQA principles drive consumer confidence and “mouthwatering” results for the food service giant.
As the Choice beef cutout nears the $400 mark, analysts eye supply chain disruptions and shifting consumer habits.
Thousands of union workers at the JBS Greeley, Colo., plant went on strike Monday calling for higher wages, safer working conditions and respect on the job.
In today’s beef industry, every ounce of meat matters. On the fabrication floor at Cargill’s Fort Morgan facility, getting one more ounce of meat off the bone can equate to roughly 600,000 quarter-pound servings.
Democrats plans to introduce a bill that would split meat processing operations and scrutinize foreign ownership.
Sales at a record high, Americans view meat as part of a healthy, balanced lifestyle.
Beef has built a rapidly widening price gap over competing meats in the grocery store. This trend has become increasingly pronounced since the early 2000s, but as beef supplies have tightened over the past three years, the pace of the widening price disparity has accelerated.
The beef industry has evolved and consequently, so are the drivers to the industry’s economics.
2026 will be a year of beef demand shifting not disappearing.
Rising incomes, population growth and a protein craze are reshaping demand for meat and dairy worldwide.
In 2026, imports decide how painful the grind gets, exports decide whether the carcass pencils, and policy decides how fast everything can change.