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Jevtic/iStock/Getty Images Bloomberg | Apr 30, 2021 By Isis Almeida, Michael Hirtzer and Kim Chipman Feeding the world’s chickens, pigs and cows has gotten so expensive it’s upending global trade flows. As grain prices surge, American chicken giant Perdue Farms Inc. took the rare step of buying soybeans, an American staple, from rival Brazil. BRF SA, Brazil’s top poultry producer, turned to neighboring Argentina for corn, while feed makers in China and the U.S. are buying wheat more commonly used for bread. These tactics and others by the world’s top food companies...

(Bloomberg) -- Feeding the world’s chickens, pigs and cows has gotten so expensive it’s upending global trade flows. As grain prices surge, American chicken giant Perdue Farms Inc. took the rare step of buying soybeans, an American staple, from rival Brazil.

Climate Change Once we consider these themes, the next question I ask everyone reading this is how can we better steer the narrative toward positive aspects of cattle ranching, land management, climate, beef production and nutrition? There is clearly an agenda here that is building, and we can either become victims of whatever that may look like or we can take an active role in countering negative attacks and doing our own public relations efforts. And our approach should not from a defensive standpoint but from a proactive offense! We have an incredible story to tell! Are we ready to tell it...

"It's survival of the fittest right now," Tyler Beaver, a founder of brokerage Beaf Cattle Co. in Arkansas, told Bloomberg

It’s so cold that calves’ ears are falling off For those who make their living cultivating animals – and crops – the weather is disastrous. By Michael Hirtzer, Isis Almeida and Kim ChipmanBloomberg Share In Arkansas, ranchers are fitting pantyhose over the heads of calves in a desperate attempt to keep them warm. In Montana, they’ve been duct-taping calves’ ears to their necks to stop them from falling off. In Oklahoma, newborns arrived onto snow-packed frozen ground and perished while ranchers were reportedly sticking the hardest-hit animals in the front seat of pickup trucks a...