Patrick Thomas
Agriculture Business Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Reporter for @WSJ covering agriculture and the business of food | @MarquetteU grad | Send tips, complaints, comments, concerns to [email protected]
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4 days ago |
wsj.com | Patrick Thomas
EDWARDS, Miss.—About 30 miles outside of Jackson, Miss., employees at a secretive and little-known company recently gathered in the break room to watch a TikTok video. It lambasted their employer, Cal-Maine CALM 0.55%increase; green up pointing triangle Foods, which is being blamed for a massive frustration in America: the high price of eggs. Eggs are the most visible symbol of the toll that inflation is taking on U.S. consumers, and no one sells more of them than Cal-Maine.
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4 days ago |
finance.yahoo.com | Patrick Thomas
The price of eggs has tripled, and no one sells more of them than Cal-Maine. From his Mississippi operations, the CEO says America is ‘looking for a villain.’
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Patrick Thomas
The Trump administration's trade battles are slowing shipments of crops, vegetable oils and other farm products while eroding profits for commodity trading and processing companies, ADM executives said. Lower export volumes have created a glut of crops and pressured prices for products like soybean meal and seed oils.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Patrick Thomas |Dean Seal
Updated May 5, 2025 12:41 pm ETTyson Foods TSN -7.76%decrease; red down pointing triangle cautioned that tariffs and economic uncertainty are cutting into Americans’ appetite for steaks and high-price beef cuts. Tyson said its beef prices rose 8% in its most recent quarter, while its sales volumes slipped 1%. Rising costs are turning more Americans toward cheaper options, including ground beef, chicken and precooked meals, executives for the Arkansas meat company said Monday.
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1 week ago |
finance.yahoo.com | Patrick Thomas
The meat company said total sales in its fiscal second quarter were unchanged year over year as higher volumes in its chicken business were balanced out by declines in beef and other segments.
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