# HPAI Impacted Rendering Business | Red River Farm Network

> Farmers Union Industries CEO Dale Bernard says poultry rendering slowed in Minnesota over the past year because of the HPAI outbreak. Birds that died or were culled could not be rendered, so meat and bone and feather meal output fell. The piece describes rendering as a way to recycle packing-plant byproducts into feed protein.

- Date: 2022-12-13 · published 2022-12-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/38362-hpai-impacted-rendering-business-red-river-farm-network
- Commodities: [Meat & Bone Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MBM.md)

## Why it matters

Lower rendering volumes tighten supply of animal protein meals used in feed, which supports meal prices. The effect is regional and modest, but it adds to the bird flu pressure on poultry-based feed ingredients.

## Read by commodity

- MBM: bullish ▲

## Sources

- rrfn.com: https://www.rrfn.com/2022/12/13/hpai-impacted-rendering-business/

---
Data from Feedsoft AI (https://feedsoft.ai/). For information only; not investment advice.