Urner Barry's Market Digest

This week on Market Digest, we have Dylan Howell Dealflow and Operations Manager, Americas for HATCH Blue, to chat about his work in aquaculture and the sector as a whole.

This week on Market Digest we have pork market expert Ryan Hojnowski discussing summertime demand! Ryan and Laura discuss this being the peak of seasonal demand for many items, wholesale and consumer demand, and their favorite thing to throw on the grill.

On this episode of Market Digest, we're featuring Thomas McQuillan, Chief Sales Officer of Do Good Foods. Laura and Tom discuss food systems and sustainability, the W word, starting out on the farm, and utilizing chefs to help consumers become more sustainably minded.

On this episode of Market Digest we're featuring Jonna Parker Principal at IRI Fresh Foods Practice and guest speaker at the Executive Conference. Jonna walks us through differences in generational buying patterns, learning the importance of adjusting to those differences, and consumer insights into Cage-Free eggs and inflationary pressures.Come see Jonna at Urner Barry's Executive Conferencewww.urnerbarry.com/executive

This week on Market Digest we're speaking to Urner Barry's COMTELL Product Manager Sarah! Sarah shows us how you can use COMTELL to connect the dots between market influencers, how it impacts your business, and exciting new features on the platform. Including the retail dashboard featuring scanner data from grocery stores throughout the United States.Click here for a Demo of COMTELL:www.urnerbarry.com/demo

This week on Market Digest Laura is joined by seafood expert Janice. The two shine light on what's happening across the various seafood markets through inventory imbalance across the country, discounts to help move product, the impact of Lent on the salmon market and more!For a demonstration of our services, go to:www.comtell.com/account/demo

This week on Market Digest we have researcher Todd Unger here to discuss the beef market. Todd gives us an update on decreased cattle weights from storms in the midwest, abnormal seasonality, supply and consumer demand, and more!Request to see COMTELL here:www.comtell.com/account/demo

Wing madness! This week on Market Digest we're discussing the best wing hot sauce, the impact of sporting events on demand, an uptick in retail due to consumers making wings at home, and cold storage items helping supply in the market. Market reporter Dylan Hughes touches base with Laura to give us this update.For a demonstration of COMTELL go to www.comtell.com/account/demo

This week on Urner Barry's Market Digest we're diving into the boneless beef market. Bill Smith, Market Reporter, gives us insight into elevated prices due to plant closures, weather event disruptions, pivoting between domestic and imported products to save costs, cold storage fluctuations, and how all of this impacts the 50s and 90s markets.Request a demo of COMTELL to stay up to date on all things center of the plate! www.comtell.com/account/demo

In this episode of Market Digest, expert Matt Busardo and host Laura gives us an update on the chicken market. We're starting 2023 by coming out of 52-week lows for chicken items, seeing wing demand ahead of the Superbowl, and an increased amount of activity at the retail level.

This week on market digest, host Laura Zinger speaks with Dan Roque of CIH! They discuss hedging and risk management in the protein markets, pork items filling the gaps in the poultry market due to HPAI, a supply side outlook, and more!

These week on Market Digest Laura sits down with Andrei Redjkin from Urner Barry's Consulting division. Andrei is an esteemed economist who leverages his expertise to create incredible forecasts for the egg market. In this episode, he enlightens us on how he helps create those forecasts, market volatility creating a great learning environment, and solutions UB Consulting can create for your business!

The egg market faces low output numbers due to HPAI as vacation season ramps up foodservice demand, and meets a surprising early interest in Egg Nog! This week on Market Digest Laura Zinger sits down with market egg-xpert Karyn Rispoli to discuss pricing and supply influencers. Featuring our new HPAI heat map, Urner Barry's COMTELL helps those in the egg industry overcome market challenges.

In this episode of Market Digest, host Laura Zinger chats with Executive Conference veterans Russ Whitman and Joe Muldowney to discuss the incredible benefits of attending the event. At the conference you'll hear thought provoking discussion from industry leaders on supply chain disruptions, labor, and more of the latest issues affecting the food industry. Followed by can't-miss networking sessions where you'll build relationships with the most influential people in the protein space.

This week on Market Digest Laura chats with Eric Ouellette of Semper Foods. They discuss how cosmetically imperfect items can still be used, companies fighting for value added product to store in freezer inventories, the food safety issue and how Semper Foods has contributed to food banks, whether chicken tenders are going away or not, and so much more!

This week on Market Digest we are introducing the brand-new cage-free egg quotation series, now available on COMTELL! Host Laura Zinger catches up with Karyn in the egg department to discuss these new quotations, explain how Proposition 12 might affect the egg market, and to introduce our newest egg market researcher Luke!

Covering white large, conventional shell eggs, breaking stock, and more of the most important quotes for the egg market, Angel Rubio of Urner Barry Consulting discusses the new Egg Market Forecast. In this episode, Angel and Laura cover the management of large data sets to produce accurate information, forecasting market influencers in order to forecast the egg market, the incredible confidence interval the forecast, and the expertise of Urner Barry Consulting.

This week on Market Digest our host Laura Zinger discusses the return to live events with our very own Nidha Jasrai and CEO Joe Muldowney. Topics include the "back to school" type feeling of going to an in-person event, the chance to golf with all-star athlete Bo Jackson after his keynote speaking session, and the overall superiority of networking in person.Follow this link to register for the Executive Conference!https://www.urnerbarry.com/executive/

This week on Market Digest, Host Laura interviews Mike Caughlan and Kevin Combs of Mckeany-Flavell to discuss the sugar market, mitigating market chain reactions, the difference between beet and cane sugar, and a look towards the 2022 refined and unrefined sugar markets.

This week on Market Digest Host Laura Zinger catches up with Glenn Smith, Director of Feed and Ingredient Procurement at Wayne Farms. Glenn discusses the increased volatility of grain markets, how the rise of plant protein affects the grain market, weather patterns affecting crop yield, updates in the WASDE Report, and much more.

This week on Market Digest Host Laura Zinger is joined by Joe Brooker and Chris Roeder from the Stable Group. They are experts of price risk management and specialize in hedging across multiple markets. They discuss adjacent price factors for finished goods, how their process works, and how they utilize Urner Barry's information in their day to day business activities.

This week on Market Digest, Host Laura Zinger and CEO Joe Muldowney talk high prices for imported beef, Australia emerging from their drought, China searching for product, cyber attacks, supply chain issues, return to live events and much more.

This week on Market Digest we are joined by Urner Barry COO and Market Reporter Jim Kenny. Jim and Laura discuss rising prices for seafood items, COVID-19 recovery for seafood and foodservice, consumer demand levels, logistical nightmares from production to shipping, and more

This week on Market Digest we are joined by Oscar Giron of Specialty Food Connections. Laura and Oscar discuss what Halal means, taking Halal mainstream, and how Halal standards have influenced livestock handling, retail trends, hygiene standards.

In this episode of Market Digest hosted by Laura Zinger, Senior CNBC Editor Lori Ann LoRocco details the issues that are impacting the protein supply chain and causing mass delays for consumer product across all industries. Topics she discusses include ports being at mass capacity and the grid lock that comes with it, the influx of import shipping containers, trouble finding space for product on domestic railcars, and some shipping alternatives that businesses can use.

This week on Market Digest we're joined by Martin Eckmann of The Alaska Sausage and Seafood Company. Martin and Laura discuss running a business in Alaska during the pandemic, how shipping times and logistics have been affected, and reindeer sausages.

Egg market guru Brian Moscogiuri fills us in this week on 52-week highs in the egg product market thanks to foodservice recovery, Avian Influenza in Asia affecting the export market, and the cage free movement’s impact on the shell egg and egg product markets. Hosted by Laura Zinger, the latest episode of Urner Barry’s Market Digest fills us in on the egg market in 2021.

In this week's episode of Market Digest, Michael Irgang President of Global Risk Management joins us to discuss hedging in the beef market and managing risk. Topics include the importance of taking positions (or not when appropriate), and some small steps that can be taken to test the hedging waters.

This week host Laura speaks with poultry market reporter Matt Busardo. Matt fils us in on plant closings due to severe weather, optimism in the export market, and post-Super Bowl highs for the wing market.

This week on Market Digest Laura is joined by restaurateur, entrepreneur, and advocate for food and plant Spike Mendelsohn. Spike gives a glimpse of life as a restaurant owner during the pandemic, why he decided to jump into plant-based protein, and insight into his impressive work in our nation's capital.

This week on Market Digest we are joined by founder and consultant Todd Thurman of SwineTex Consulting. Laura and Todd speak about African Swine Fever in China, The state of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, Long-term business planning with Strategic Foresight, and much more.

This week on Market Digest Laura is joined by Scott Tenner, Center of the Plate Protein Specialist, of Jacmar Foodservice. Scott discusses the importance of delivering quality ingredients to consumers, navigating a foodservice operation through the COVID-19 pandemic, and much more!

This week Mark Winkler of US Foods discusses their innovations and initiatives through the COVID-19 Pandemic. Between setting up ghost kitchens, helping small businesses adapt to a lack of indoor dining, and much more, US Foods has continued to support their customers through recovery and reopening.

This week we are joined by Cece Corbin, President of the National Poultry & Food Distributors Association or NPFDA. Cece and Laura discuss the power of networking in the protein industry, the effects of COVID-19 on the events industry, and more!

This week on Market Digest Laura speaks with CoBank Lead Protein Industry Analyst, Will Sawyer. Will brings his expertise to the plate as they discuss holiday demand for protein items, protein supply, The Beef Complex, Corn and Soy inflation, and his hopes for 2021.

This week on Market Digest Laura speaks with John Manzella, nationally syndicated columnist on global business, trade policy, labor, and the latest economic trends. In this episode we discuss expected affects of the U.S. election results, the trade war with China, investing in young farmers, and how to revitalize American capitalism.

This week we're joined by Brian Moscogiuri, Director of Marketing and Egg Market Reporter at Urner Barry. Brian and Laura discuss holiday demand, egg inventories, government buying and their affect on the egg market.

This week Sarah Beth Aubrey, Author, Executive Coach, Podcaster, and Owner of Elevate Ag, talks about the unique challenges for agricultural professionals that the pandemic has underlined. Engaging the workforce from the frontline up, communication expectations, and strengthening up and coming leaders are some of the hardest hitting topics covered this week.

In this week’s episode of Market Digest Laura sits down with Jorge Azevedo, Chief Growth Officer at Planterra foods. They discuss the growing popularity of flexitarian diets, plant protein at QSRs, bringing plant protein foods into the spotlight, and much more.

Glenn Smith, Director of Feed Ingredient Procurement at Wayne Farms, returns this week to Market Digest. Laura and Glenn discuss the increased demand for protein items as foodservice returns to normality, corn and bean crop production, the unexpected derecho in Iowa, and more.

In this episode, Laura interviews UK Shrimp and Beef Market Reporter Mike Nesbitt. They discuss transparency with Vannamei shrimp, expansion to UK Beef reporting, Trade Flows, and more.

What can protein producers be doing to get product into new and innovative channels? Laura sat down with Steve Johnson, the Grocerant Guru, to discuss just that. With extensive research and experience with ever-changing consumer trends, Steve shares his recipes for success.

Do you miss our faces? We miss yours! Brian Moscoguiri sat down to discuss the new Urner BarryExecutive Conference and Global Protein Summit coming in October. Pricing, Agenda, Key Note, and cocktail ideas are included in this segment.

In this week's segment Russell Barton discusses retail demand, slaughter, exports, African Swine Fever, and COVID-19.

This week, Laura sat down with Brian Moscogiuri to cover price fluctuations since record highs in March, rebounding COVID-19 cases impact on demand, cage-free production and trends, and the European egg market reaction to the pandemic. This is one sEGGment you don't want to miss!

This week we answered your requests for a show around beef with none other than Urner Barry CEO Joe Muldowney. Laura and Joe discuss international trade and demand impact on the imported beef market, consumer trends related to COVID-19 and QSR dining, and company updates.

Former Market Reporter Angel Rubio returns to Urner Barry to start our new venture, Urner Barry Consulting. Providing custom white papers, presentations, targeted research reports, and much more, Urner Barry Consulting is here to provide unique solutions for your business.

COVID-19 has caused shockwaves across the whole protein sector and chicken is no exception. Retail demand, unemployment, seasonal factors, and more discussed with Dylan Hughes and Matt Busardo.

Russell Barton joins the show (from a distance) to discuss the unprecedented volatility in the pork market due to COVID-19. This segment covers retail, foodservice, unemployment, exports, and more.

This week Laura returns to the show to discuss the volatility in the egg market due to Covid-19 with Brian Moscogiuri. They cover supply issues, retail demand, typical seasonal factors, and more.

This week Laura sits down with Todd Thurman of Swinetex to discuss the ASF situation in China and restocking efforts. With COVID-19 complicating an already serious situation, what can the pork industry expect?