# Industry warns of meat price spike and hunger as SA faces supply crisis | The Citizen

> South Africa faces a meat supply crisis after the Brazilian chicken import ban, the collapse of Daybreak Foods into business rescue after culling 350,000 chicks, and a foot-and-mouth diagnosis on Karan Beef feedlots. Industry players warn that meat prices could spike over winter.

- Date: 2025-06-06 · published 2025-06-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region South Africa · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/24370-industry-warns-of-meat-price-spike-and-hunger-as-sa-faces-supply-crisis-the
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md), [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Combined protein supply losses in South Africa raise domestic meat prices and could increase demand for substitute proteins, though the effect on global feed commodity prices is limited.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bullish ▲
- LCATTLE: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LCATTLE | 2026-06-01 | [An economist says the loss of Mexican feeder cattle is hitting U.S. feedlots hard, tightening supplies and driving up beef prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/19393-an-economist-says-the-loss-of-mexican-feeder-cattle-is-hitting-u-s-feedlots.md) | -0.3% | +1.6% |
| LCATTLE | 2026-04-06 | [Feeder Cattle Rally Over $30 in Three Weeks in the Face of Tight Supplies](https://feedsoft.ai/events/10272-feeder-cattle-rally-over-30-in-three-weeks-in-the-face-of-tight-supplies.md) | +3.1% | +3.6% |
| LCATTLE | 2025-07-01 | [Low inventory, high prices, rising threats are all part of current cattle industry - Agweek \| #1 source for agriculture news, farming, markets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/6103-low-inventory-high-prices-rising-threats-are-all-part-of-current-cattle.md) | -1.3% | +3.0% |
| LCATTLE | 2025-09-29 | [Supply-side factors at play in the cattle sector](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23002-supply-side-factors-at-play-in-the-cattle-sector.md) | -1.2% | +0.9% |
| LCATTLE | 2019-03-06 | [Boston Herald - Boston news, sports, politics, opinion, entertainment, weather and obituaries - EXCLUSIVE: Cattle industry chief warns flesh-eating fly menaces US herds as Mexico yields on pest fight](https://feedsoft.ai/events/60054-boston-herald-boston-news-sports-politics-opinion-entertainment-weather-and.md) | -0.9% | -1.7% |

## Sources

- citizen.co.za: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/industry-warns-of-meat-price-spike-and-hunger-as-sa-faces-supply-crisis/

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