Insights and Stories on Slaughterhouses

U.S. livestock: June cattle limit up on surging beef prices, meat shortages

May. 7, 2020 at 7:13 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures surged by their daily trading limits for a second straight session on Thursday on soaring beef prices and concerns about meat shortages because of recent packing plant closures due to the coronavirus. Shuttered slaughterhouses across North America due to the pandemic have […]

Trump asks U.S. Justice Department to look into meat price disparities

May. 7, 2020 at 1:51 am CDT

By Reuters

Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector

Apr. 28, 2020 at 3:24 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise as traders hope slaughterhouses reopen soon

Apr. 14, 2020 at 10:34 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: April hogs limit down, cattle ease

Mar. 30, 2020 at 6:04 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. under pressure to keep slaughterhouses open

Mar. 16, 2020 at 5:53 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking to reassure meat producers it will keep slaughterhouses staffed with federal inspectors as fears about potential shutdowns due to the COVID-19 coronavirus hammer livestock prices and fuel concerns about food supplies, meat industry groups said on Monday. Livestock markets […]

By Tom Polansek

Insights and Stories on Slaughterhouses

U.S. livestock: June cattle limit up on surging beef prices, meat shortages

Trump asks U.S. Justice Department to look into meat price disparities

Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise as traders hope slaughterhouses reopen soon

U.S. livestock: April hogs limit down, cattle ease

U.S. under pressure to keep slaughterhouses open

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