As Food Supply Chains Fail, Small Businesses Step Up to Fill in the Gaps

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Love real whole milk!

We used to buy it in Nebraska & we'd shake a jar of milk- while we watched a movie- & it would separate the cream & milk. Then we'd have our own homemade butter!

Good for you!

Most people are clueless as to what REAL whole milk is. They think the white fluid stuff at their grocery stores marked "whole milk" is actually whole milk, when in fact it is a highly processed commodity with only 4% cream added back in.

Sales of commodity fluid milk have been declining for years. The fat is the most valuable component of REAL milk, and people are getting tired of drinking the left-over fluid stuff.

By contrast, sales of butter have been increasing for years, and ice cream isn't doing too badly either....

 

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Good for you!

Most people are clueless as to what REAL whole milk is. They think the white fluid stuff at their grocery stores marked "whole milk" is actually whole milk, when in fact it is a highly processed commodity with only 4% cream added back in.

Sales of commodity fluid milk have been declining for years. The fat is the most valuable component of REAL milk, and people are getting tired of drinking the left-over fluid stuff.

By contrast, sales of butter have been increasing for years, and ice cream isn't doing too badly either....

Absolutely!

This is just all about more .gov control over what we can put into our bodies.

 

[tod evans]

"American" meat producer Tyson;


Tyson Foods to expand beef production in Kazakhstan

https://katv.com/news/local/tyson-foods-to-expand-beef-production-in-kazakhstan

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Tyson Foods’ fresh meat division signed an agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kusto Group to collaborate on a new beef processing plant in Kazakhstan, an emerging nation in Asia for beef and livestock production. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Government officials from Kazakhstan and the state of Arkansas met with Tyson executives in Springdale on Monday (Dec. 9) at the company’s corporate offices. They signed the agreement with an initial phase to plan the construction of a modern beef processing plant in Kazakhstan with an anticipated harvest capacity of 2,000 head per day. The plant is expected to help the country generate more than $1 billion U.S. dollars.

“We’re pleased to execute an agreement with the government of Kazakhstan and partner with Kusto,” said Steve Stouffer, group president Tyson Fresh Meats. “This opportunity supports one of our growth strategies to expand Tyson’s global business, and we look forward to bringing our expertise and capabilities to the country of Kazakhstan.”

Tyson Foods CEO Noel White has been trying to expand the company’s global footprint as the majority of protein growth on the planet in the next decade will occur outside the U.S. Earlier this year, Tyson Foods increased its stake in Grupo Vibra, a Brazilian poultry company, to help with increased demand in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

In the past two years, Tyson Foods has made investments abroad with the acquisition of Keystone Foods, which added operations in China and added a presence in South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia, and BRF poultry businesses in Thailand and Europe.

Kazakhstan is the first investment in global beef expansion since the company has been refocused on international growth. Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world by geographic area and has identified the livestock and the multi-protein export industry as a key growth market. The country has an established beef industry that serves the domestic population with exports to the region.

Tyson Foods said its agreement with the Kusto Group is part of a broader initiative by the Kazakhstan government to expand and modernize agriculture, beginning with meat production.

Tyson Foods officials have traveled to Kazakhstan, and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Askar Mamin, and representatives from the country have been to the U.S. to visit Tyson Foods headquarters, including one of the company’s major beef complexes.

“We are delighted to welcome Tyson Foods to Kazakhstan,” said Prime Minister Mamin. “Tyson is a world-class company with the expertise necessary to help Kazakhstan jump-start the transformation of our agro-protein capabilities and help us create an ecosystem that will increase our beef herd size and establish conditions to support thousands of new high-quality jobs in the country. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial collaboration.”

 

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"American" meat producer Tyson;


Tyson Foods to expand beef production in Kazakhstan

https://katv.com/news/local/tyson-foods-to-expand-beef-production-in-kazakhstan

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Tyson Foods’ fresh meat division signed an agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kusto Group to collaborate on a new beef processing plant in Kazakhstan, an emerging nation in Asia for beef and livestock production. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Government officials from Kazakhstan and the state of Arkansas met with Tyson executives in Springdale on Monday (Dec. 9) at the company’s corporate offices. They signed the agreement with an initial phase to plan the construction of a modern beef processing plant in Kazakhstan with an anticipated harvest capacity of 2,000 head per day. The plant is expected to help the country generate more than $1 billion U.S. dollars.

“We’re pleased to execute an agreement with the government of Kazakhstan and partner with Kusto,” said Steve Stouffer, group president Tyson Fresh Meats. “This opportunity supports one of our growth strategies to expand Tyson’s global business, and we look forward to bringing our expertise and capabilities to the country of Kazakhstan.”

Tyson Foods CEO Noel White has been trying to expand the company’s global footprint as the majority of protein growth on the planet in the next decade will occur outside the U.S. Earlier this year, Tyson Foods increased its stake in Grupo Vibra, a Brazilian poultry company, to help with increased demand in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

In the past two years, Tyson Foods has made investments abroad with the acquisition of Keystone Foods, which added operations in China and added a presence in South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia, and BRF poultry businesses in Thailand and Europe.

Kazakhstan is the first investment in global beef expansion since the company has been refocused on international growth. Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world by geographic area and has identified the livestock and the multi-protein export industry as a key growth market. The country has an established beef industry that serves the domestic population with exports to the region.

Tyson Foods said its agreement with the Kusto Group is part of a broader initiative by the Kazakhstan government to expand and modernize agriculture, beginning with meat production.

Tyson Foods officials have traveled to Kazakhstan, and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Askar Mamin, and representatives from the country have been to the U.S. to visit Tyson Foods headquarters, including one of the company’s major beef complexes.

“We are delighted to welcome Tyson Foods to Kazakhstan,” said Prime Minister Mamin. “Tyson is a world-class company with the expertise necessary to help Kazakhstan jump-start the transformation of our agro-protein capabilities and help us create an ecosystem that will increase our beef herd size and establish conditions to support thousands of new high-quality jobs in the country. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial collaboration.”

Looks like an older story from last December.

I corresponded with a guy on the East Coast I know who runs an independent USDA inspected beef processing plant. Like everywhere else, his business is way up and he is booked many weeks out.

BUT, he told me he is seeing lots of trucks there from other countries. So with the bottle neck in processing right now that is soon going to empty the grocery stores of meat, a lot of the meat that is being processed is apparently being shipped overseas.

And Trump keeps boasting at these press conferences about how he brokered a deal with China to bring in billions for American farmers.

Yeah, and now apparently to meet those contracts, a lot of US meat is allegedly being exported to China just when America starts hitting meat shortages.

What a totally screwed up system! Top down economic planning - how is this any different than Communism??

 

[tod evans]

Looks like an older story from last December.

I corresponded with a guy on the East Coast I know who runs an independent USDA inspected beef processing plant. Like everywhere else, his business is way up and he is booked many weeks out.

BUT, he told me he is seeing lots of trucks there from other countries. So with the bottle neck in processing right now that is soon going to empty the grocery stores of meat, a lot of the meat that is being processed is apparently being shipped overseas.

And Trump keeps boasting at these press conferences about how he brokered a deal with China to bring in billions for American farmers.

Yeah, and now apparently to meet those contracts, a lot of US meat is allegedly being exported to China just when America starts hitting meat shortages.

What a totally screwed up system! Top down economic planning - how is this any different than Communism??

December is a mere 6 months ago, and this meat will most likely be shipped "swinging" which means the deceptive marketers will label it "Packaged in the USA" and Bubba will cheer.

Either way, whether it's coming or going, meat is moving throughout the system and covid fears are being used by politicians to promote one agenda or another.

 

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December is a mere 6 months ago, and this meat will most likely be shipped "swinging" which means the deceptive marketers will label it "Packaged in the USA" and Bubba will cheer.

Yes, "a mere" six months ago, but that is an eternity with all that has happened since then. With the supply chain choking and processing plants not able to meet demand to fulfill contracts here in the U.S., it is not certain they will be able to do this.

But like you said, "Either way" they will do everything they can to take advantage of the COVID situation. But the public is about to get a huge education on the industrial food complex when the stores go bare - something I have been warning about for more than a decade.

 

[tod evans]

Worth the few minutes to watch a cattleman's perspective. (He's pissed!)