Fifteen food and beverage associations sent a letter to President Donald Trump requesting priority access to COVID-19 vaccines to protect workers and keep the food supply chain running.
November employment data was called disappointing despite the unemployment rate dropping slightly. Retaining workers has become difficult even as employers raised pay, which eventually gets passed along to consumers.
Beef exports in July topped $1 billion for the sixth month in 2022. Pork exports were lower overall, but shipments to Mexico and and South Korea continued to strengthen.
Despite chatter about a global economic slowdown, U.S. beef exports remain on a torrid pace in 2022. Pork exports fell short of last year’s record pace.
Australian authorities said this week they have detected “viral fragments” of foot and mouth disease on a small number of products entering the country from Indonesia and China.
The U.S. Solicitor General and the attorneys general from 26 states are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision that upheld California’s novel Proposition 12.
Grocery retailer Giant Eagle alleges the nation’s large beef packing companies have exploited their market power to limit the supply of beef and raise prices in a new lawsuit filed in Chicago on Wednesday.
U.S. beef exports maintained a remarkable pace in April, topping $1 billion for the third time this year. April pork exports were well below the large totals posted a year ago.
