Urner Barry’s Consulting Division to Launch Egg Market Forecasting Report

Urner Barry, the leading provider of protein market news and information in the food industry, is pleased to announce the much-anticipated release of the Egg Market Forecast report.

Brought to you exclusively through Urner Barry Consulting, the report will provide forward-looking data and market intelligence on the egg market—allowing subscribers to identify trends before they happen.

UB Consulting’s Egg Market Forecast will be a subscription-based, bi-weekly report (every two weeks) that projects market conditions six months into the future. The report will feature historical and forecasted data, confidence intervals, charts, and...

REPORTER: FOODSERVICE: The Main Driver For Rising Prices

This article was originally featured in the Summer 2021 Edition of Urner Barry's Reporter magazine.

Foodservice is undoubtedly recovering faster than anticipated. Rapid price increases at the wholesale level are possibly the best indicator to help identify the recovery trend. The “pent-up” demand from foodservice operators as restaurants and bars reopen across the U.S. has been one of the main drivers for such price acceleration from late February and early March to early June. However, price trends during the previous months were still somewhat supportive for many animal proteins.

Chicken Wing Prices Reach Record Highs

UB Consulting Takes a Fundamental Look at What’s Behind the Surge

Chicken wing prices have been at the forefront of the conversation for several weeks now. Why? Because wholesale spot market prices have reached record highs and are behaving in a non-seasonal manner. Historical price seasonality suggests strong buying commitments are made around the end of Q3 into the beginning of Q4 when prices reach their seasonal peak. These purchases are made in the middle of football season and get another seasonal bump into January prior to the Superbowl and March Madness. Yet, as we all know, 2020 has been a year in which historical behavior has been notably in disarray—and 2021 has begun in a similar manner with prices well over their seasonal averages.

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UB Consulting: Foodservice in Hindsight and Into the Future

Many predictions made back when the pandemic began became true for the protein industry. From the immediate assumption of a demand shift from foodservice to retail, or the...

The Latest Market Briefing is Here! 

Breakdown the poultry, egg, red meat and seafood markets with exclusive analysis from UB Market Reporters

Urner Barry is the leading provider of protein market news and information in the food industry. Through daily canvasses of the trade and an unrivaled historical database, our analysts are uniquely positioned to report on the underlying conditions and significant disruptors to the market. In this Market Briefing, Urner Barry reporters outline the latest action in the commodity protein markets, highlighting seasonal factors, disruptors, and current supply and demand fundamentals...

UB Consulting: Assessing the Protein Landscape as 2020 Comes to a Close

In an attempt to close out a despairing year for the foodservice industry, we once again take a look at the indicators we have analyzed in past reports. Back in March 2020, industry estimates...