Frigid weather hits meat plants, ports, citrus, and livestock

Snow and bitter cold damaged the citrus crop in Texas, slowed meat production in the Plains, and threatened to snarl grain exports through the Gulf of Mexico. Some traders have claimed force majeure, the unforeseeable inability to fulfill a contract, because of ice and cold weather in Houston and New Orleans, reported AgriCensus, a market… » Read More

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