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 Conference www...

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.urnerbar...

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 thi...

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!

This week on Market Digest Laura sits down with Andrei Rjedkin 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 busines...

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 session...

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 in...

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 Ex...

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 d...