# Tyson to Buy Animal Fats & Feed Business | Feed & Grain

> Tyson Foods agreed to buy the poultry rendering and blending assets of American Proteins for about $850 million. The deal gives Tyson four rendering plants in Georgia and Alabama and 13 blending facilities across the southeastern and midwestern US.

- Date: 2020-12-01 · published 2020-12-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/49768-tyson-to-buy-animal-fats-and-feed-business-feed-and-grain
- Commodities: [Meat & Bone Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MBM.md), [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Tyson is vertically integrating rendering to recycle animal products into feed and pet food as corn and soybean costs rise, which may reduce its reliance on purchased feed ingredients and modestly tighten supplies of rendered protein and fat.

## Read by commodity

- MBM: neutral
- CHICKEN: neutral

## Sources

- feedandgrain.com: https://www.feedandgrain.com/animal-feed-manufacturing/news/15397861/tyson-to-buy-animal-fats-feed-business

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