
Pilgrim’s Pride’s profits fell more than 75% through the first three quarters of 2026, following a flat 2025, after earnings had surged in 2024. The article attributes the company’s earnings volatility to changing feed and fuel costs, poultry supply, and other market factors; majority owner JBS has also made a non-binding all-stock offer for the remaining shares.
Weak poultry-industry profitability reflects pressure from volatile production costs and supply conditions, but the story gives no new quantified feed-market driver. The reported profit decline is not, by itself, evidence of a directional change in feed-commodity prices.
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