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Some U.S. farmers who once raised chickens for Tyson Foods to slaughter are shifting to sell eggs instead after the meatpacker closed six plants, a move that left local suppliers with limited options for work.
Live pig prices in Vietnam have risen steadily since Typhoon Yagi and subsequent flooding affected several pig farms in the country, which has already been hit by African swine fever outbreaks in recent years.
An environmental group is suing Tyson Foods for allegedly misleading consumers by saying it will reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and marketing climate-friendly beef without meaningful plans to achieve those goals.
France has increased its surveillance of African swine fever along part of the border with Germany as the disease continues to spread among wild boar in much of Europe.
Hormel Foods cut its annual sales forecast, hurt by lower commodity prices and a production disruption at its Planters brand manufacturing facility in Virginia.
Pilgrim’s Pride, one of the largest U.S. poultry processors, agreed to pay $100 million to settle claims it conspired with rivals to underpay chicken farmers, the final and by far the largest settlement in the seven-year-old antitrust case.
The potential for additional demand from China as a consequence of any anti-dumping measures is welcome for Brazilian exporters.
China may impose provisional anti-dumping measures on pork imports from the European Union as part of a year-long probe that began on June 17, its commerce ministry said on Thursday.
China’s dumping probe into EU pork imports following duties slapped on Chinese EVs, caught Spain’s pig farmers on the hop this week, but the sector proved it is resilient and far less vulnerable than the car industry.
China has opened an anti-dumping investigation into imported pork and its by-products from the EU, a step that appears mainly aimed at Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, in response to curbs on electric vehicle exports.