Understanding Market Volatility in the prices of feed ingredients: A Copper Example

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In this insightful episode of Coffee in the Barn, we delve into the complexities of market volatility in the animal nutrition industry, with our special guest Louis Li, Marketing Director at Beans Nutrition. Louis and hosts Casey Bradley and Aryeri Bardales discuss the growing challenges and opportunities in the feed ingredient sector, particularly in the amino acid and copper markets, both essential to swine and poultry nutrition. As we approach #porktober24, these topics are especially relevant to pork producers navigating feed price fluctuations.

As global markets become more interconnected, agricultural industries must face a range of unpredictable factors that can significantly affect feed ingredient pricing. Louis walks us through the specifics of these changes, including the volatility in the copper market impacted by drivers such as geopolitical events, technological shifts (e.g. electric vehicles), and the supply-demand balance for copper in industrial applications.

Listeners will gain a unique perspective on the fluctuating nature of essential feed ingredients like lysine and threonine, as well as the importance of logistics in ensuring a steady supply to farmers at competitive prices. Beans Nutrition’s approach to leveraging amino acid distribution as a vehicle to offer other technical products like tri-basic copper chloride showcases their strategy of creating value-added solutions in the feed industry.

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