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Meat Meat retail
ByAuthor janettebarnard20Posted on February 20, 2023April 11, 2023
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Prime Future 140: Flip retained ownership on its tail.

Just for giggles, let’s play a game. Imagine a world in which packers borrowed the retained ownership model and applied it to the meat...
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Meat
ByAuthor janettebarnard20Posted on January 23, 2023April 11, 2023
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Prime Future 136: 1975 should call the pork people

Does the name H.A. Etling mean anything to you? Me neither, until recently. What about Certified Angus Beef, does that ring a bell? Of course. We’ve looked at...
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Meat Regenerative Agriculture Supply Chain
ByAuthor janettebarnard20Posted on October 3, 2022December 28, 2022
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Prime Future 120: Game over, polyester.

I don’t know if I’m just noticing it more, or if there has actually been a serious increase in buzz around the topic of...
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Meat Processing
ByAuthor janettebarnard20Posted on September 12, 2022December 28, 2022
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Prime Future 117: Walmart: 800 pound gorillas make really weird dance partners

In 2019, the now $371.4 billion market cap retailer announced that they were tired of being treated like the red-headed stepchild by major beef...
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Meat Processing
ByAuthor janettebarnard20Posted on August 22, 2022December 28, 2022
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Prime Future 114: Meatpacking isn’t rocket science.

It’s weird how often people/media say that meat supply chains broke during COVID. Were supply chains stress-tested? Absolutely. Did supply chains bend? Yep. Did supply chains...
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Markets Meat
ByAuthor janettebarnard20Posted on June 13, 2022December 28, 2022
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Prime Future 104: Oil based insights from ga$ price$

This April headline caught my eye: Although it’s a bit dated now since oil prices are back up, the article is still relevant as it answers...
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Business Model Innovation Meat
ByAuthor janettebarnard20Posted on May 2, 2022December 28, 2022
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Prime Future 99: Learnings from a rotisserie fueled flywheel

The only things certain in life are death, taxes, and the $4.99 Costco rotisserie chicken. Inflation in the US hit 8.5% in March 2022,...
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Meat
ByAuthor janettebarnard20Posted on April 11, 2022December 28, 2022
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Prime Future 95: Is lamb the Cinderella of the meat case?

With Easter approaching, lamb meat is on the move in grocery stores. It’s always bumfuzzled me that lamb doesn’t get much love in the...
D2C Meat
ByAuthor janettebarnard20Posted on July 20, 2021February 21, 2022
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Prime Future 60: Tighten the packer feedback loop

In early 2020 I went down the rabbit hole of exploring what D2C might mean for the meat business. Today I want to revisit...
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Business Model Innovation Meat
ByAuthor janettebarnard20Posted on June 24, 2021February 22, 2022
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Prime Future 57: The packers get Standard Oil’d. Then what?

This is neither political commentary or prediction. This is a look at the hypothetical implications of a hypothetical scenario that has a zero percent...

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I am bullish on animal protein & the technologies enabling the supply chain of the future. There are unique challenges facing each part of the supply chain, from the farmer to the processor to major food companies and retailers. And, for the consumer. Yet…. Technology can turn these challenges into opportunities, if the right minds rally around the right problems with pragmatic solutions.

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