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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, December 23, 2024
Members of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association voted Wednesday to specifically state their opposition to cash trade mandates, adding clarity to an explicit part of a bill being pushed by a bipartisan group of senators on Capitol Hill.
JBS has agreed to settle claims it conspired to limit supply in the beef market in order to drive up prices, which could spur other settlements in the lawsuit also brought against Tyson, Cargill and National Beef.
A fire broke out overnight at a Nebraska beef packing plant owned by JBS USA, interrupting production at the facility as workers stayed home from Monday shifts.
JBS, the largest meat producer in the world, is venturing into seafood with the purchase of Huon Aquaculture, an Australian salmon farming company, for $313 million.
A wide-ranging executive order that President Joe Biden signed Friday seeks to address consolidation throughout the economy and includes a special focus on actions the Department of Agriculture could take to address the meat industry and antitrust enforcement.
The Agriculture Department says it will spend more than $4 billion to address supply chain issues in the farm sector highlighted by the COVID pandemic and the recent cyberattack on meatpacker JBS.
A veteran senior Senate staffer, Fitzhugh Elder, will be taking over as GOP staff director for the Senate Agriculture Committee next month, sources tell Agri-Pulse. He will replace Martha Scott Poindexter, who’s moving to the U.S. Dairy Export Council.
Brazilian meatpacker JBS has purchased Vivera, the third largest plant-based food company in Europe, in a deal worth about 341 million euros ($410 million).
