Matt Beeson

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Matt Beeson is founder and CEO of Beeson & Associates, a consulting firm that provides commodities risk management solutions based on price trends – working with commodity purchasing teams across the food manufacturing, foodservice, dairy and livestock industries.
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Broilers & Turkeys
Soybean meal prices: what’s ahead for rest of 2017?
Soybean meal prices – barring a rally on some unforeseen crop issues – could be around $280 per metric ton by December of 2017.
United Soybean Board
Broilers & Turkeys
Spring 2017 soybean prices: more upside than downside
Large South American soybean production and huge U.S. soybean acreage may not be as bearish as most expect.
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Broilers & Turkeys
US broiler industry to expand production in 2017?
Chicken buyers have taken notice that the U.S. broiler industry is placing more hatching eggs and an apparent expansion of chicken production is under way.
An expansion in egg sets could lead to a lower chicken prices in the first quarter of 2017. | marinini, Bigstockphoto.com
Broilers & Turkeys
Lower meat prices may edge out turkey this Thanksgiving
As Thanksgiving approaches, U.S. consumers may be pleased to see lower prices meat prices at the grocery store. But might competitive meats push turkey off the Thanksgiving table this holiday season?
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Broilers & Turkeys
Bumper corn crop doesn’t equal lower chicken prices
This year's feed costs will likely be the lowest since 2006. Does that mean cheap chicken?
The crop years 2003-04 and 2009-10 show that bountiful corn crops don’t necessarily lead to cheap chicken prices.
Broilers & Turkeys
Preparing for poultry-foodservice contracts in 2017
What’s good for the production side of the poultry business can lead to apprehension on the sales side of the poultry organization … with foodservice buyers watching both sides closely.
Anatolii, Fotolia
Broilers & Turkeys
Should poultry producers wait for lower grain prices?
With the price of key poultry feed ingredients at levels not seen since 2010, livestock operations need to consider risk management strategies prior to the growing season. The analyst continually hears, ‘How much lower can it go?’ or ‘Why risk summer weather when prices are so low?’ The best answer to those questions comes from simply looking at historical price movements and using that information as a predictor of market potential.
Buyers should have a plan in place for buying feed grains before the summer volatilty. | Bigstock
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