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Zimbabwe's H5N8 outbreak at an Irvines poultry operation outside Harare led to the culling of 140,000 birds, after an estimated 7,000 died. Botswana cancelled poultry import permits for Zimbabwean exporters, and Mozambique and South Africa moved to halt chicken product shipments from Harare.
Regional trade bans cut chicken import and export flows in southern Africa, which may shift demand toward other suppliers and weigh on local poultry margins.
thepoultrysite.comGlobal Ag MediaAug 3, 2017Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
