The Food Chain
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- Here's everything moving across the food and beverage network today.
- Here's everything moving across the food and beverage network today.
- A jalapeño-driven Salmonella outbreak has now pulled in nearly every major US grocery chain. USDA's August crop report delivered a genuine surprise. And Canada's wildfires are now an agricultural emergency, not just a wine story. Here's everything moving across the food and beverage network today.
- Five verticals, one morning. Here's the single most important story from each of today's Chain editions — plus where to go for the full breakdown on the segment that matters most to you.
- Ten stories, nine verticals, one morning. Here's everything moving across the food and beverage network today — and where to go for daily coverage of the segment that matters most to you.
- Ten stories, nine verticals, one morning. Here's everything moving across the food and beverage network today — and where to go for daily coverage of the segment that matters most to you.
- From a historic Rhine drought to Ukraine's grain export collapse and a $2.5B JBS deal — today's biggest moves across the global food and beverage chain.
- This comprehensive market report provides a data-driven global analysis of the animal protein, dairy, beverage, and seafood sectors for August 2026, highlighting major structural supply shifts, pricing trends, and corporate financial performances.
- The jalapeño outbreak has tripled since Wednesday. The supplier is now named. Plus: 23 seafarers died in the Black Sea last month, Diageo will spend $1.2bn to save $1bn, and the Hormuz toll question is not as settled.
- Gen Z is drinking again. Brazil isn't shrinking, it's redirecting. Alaska's shortfall is real after all. And Hormuz is reopening — the fight now is over who pays the toll.
- Chipotle pulled jalapeños after 110 salmonella cases — and the regulator cleared them. Aldi has put £100m into cutting 330 prices. And a $100bn market has emerged in tariff refund claims.
- Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak — the first US deaths ever recorded from the parasite. Tyson's beef volumes fell 15.9% while chicken grew for a seventh straight quarter. And Ghana just made cocoa farm encroachment a 20-year offence.
- A third of world wheat trade is now being held hostage.
- Grain stranded in the Black Sea, Brazilian beef locked out of China, Norwegian salmon hit with 12.5%, American butterfat the cheapest on earth. Four markets, one story.
- Two wars, tariffs & weight-loss drugs repricing your entire cost base.
- Corn's worst week since 2007, dairy components falling — and Coke's consumers staring at $4.56 gas.
- Brazil's beef ban kicks off in 67 days. Dairy prices cratering through 2027. Wild Alaskan salmon peaking right now. Coca-Cola earnings today set the sector tone.
- JBS in a Dutch court, PPWR live in 16 days, and Russian seafood quietly dropped — three stories, one pattern.
- Four shocks. One invoice. None of them due yet.