# Pilgrim’s Pride Highlights a Disappointing Chicken Industry

> 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.

- Date: 2026-11-09 · published 2026-11-09T06:08:15.542Z
- Category: market · region United States · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/88756-pilgrim-s-pride-highlights-a-disappointing-chicken-industry
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

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.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bearish ▼

## Sources

- foodinstitute.com: https://foodinstitute.com/focus/pilgrims-pride-highlights-disappointing-chicken-industry/

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