Urner Barry's Market Digest

Urner Barry's Market Digest

Urner Barry is dedicated to being a timely, accurate and unbiased business publisher specializing in the reporting of market news and quotations for ALL segments of the food industry, while relentlessly pursuing innovation for the benefit of our clients.

Episodes

An Aquaculture Chat with HATCH Blue's Dylan Howell

July 12, 2023 • 13 mins
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.
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Summertime, the grillin's easy

May 16, 2023 • 10 mins
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.
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Don't call it waste

April 25, 2023 • 26 mins
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.
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Consumer insights and generational differences

April 25, 2023 • 19 mins
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.

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Innovating data aggregation for the protein industry

April 19, 2023 • 18 mins
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.

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Salmon market, Snow Crab supply, and Lent

March 29, 2023 • 9 mins
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!

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What's the beef? Demand, feed costs, storms, and seasonality

February 23, 2023 • 10 mins
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!

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Wing madness! Sporting events, hot sauce, retail demand and more

February 14, 2023 • 15 mins
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.

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Bun in a Million: Boneless Beef Market Update with Bill

February 2, 2023 • 12 mins
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.

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Chicken Market Update: Retail demand, Superbowl, HPAI

January 23, 2023 • 19 mins
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.
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Risk management, hedging, HPAI, and more with CIH!

October 17, 2022 • 20 mins
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!
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Forecasting the egg market, market volatilty, and being a good listener

September 14, 2022 • 19 mins
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 business!
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HPAI, inventory levels, and seasonal egg demand, oh my!

June 23, 2022 • 10 mins
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.
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2022 Executive Conference; Supply Chain Issues, Networking, Labor, and more

March 8, 2022 • 25 mins
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 ...
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Waste Not Want Not: Cosmetically Imperfect Items, Food Safety, and a Veteran Owned Business

January 5, 2022 • 53 mins
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!
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Urner Barry's All New Cage-Free Quote Series

December 9, 2021 • 14 mins
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!
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Forecasting the Egg Market with Urner Barry Consulting

November 11, 2021 • 26 mins
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 expert...
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Executive Conference 2021: The Return To In-Person Events, Networking, And Market Analytics

September 17, 2021 • 23 mins
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.

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Something Sweet: Sugar Market Insights With McKeany-Flavell Co.

August 25, 2021 • 39 mins
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.
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Feeding the Future: Updates on the Feed and Grain Sector

July 26, 2021 • 34 mins
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.
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