Keith Collins Quotes

While it's serious to individual producers, from a national perspective, Katrina won't have much impact... The consumer won't feel it. Millions of chickens have been lost, but in Mississippi alone, you slaughter 5 million a day. - Keith Collins

While demand remains strong, the farm economy will be challenged by large stacks of crops built up by abundant harvests the last two years, livestock expansion, higher interest rates and energy costs, animal-disease issues and weather. - Keith Collins

We've been at the zenith of the agricultural cycle, and we're not going to stay there. - Keith Collins

We're still expecting poultry exports year-over-year to go up. Our major poultry export markets are places like Russia and Mexico and China, and they continue to buy from us. - Keith Collins

We probably really are not going to get a test on what happens with cattle prices until we get into next week, and we start to see the normal resumption of cash market trading. - Keith Collins

U. S. meat exports continue to be heavily influenced by animal diseases. - Keith Collins

Their loyalty is not to the United States financially. On the other side, nobody's going to do the work that they do ... without health benefits. - Keith Collins

That's where we will see how big a push the White House really has in mind. - Keith Collins

Tells us that we ought to be importing beef from (a country) where the beef is safe regardless of what that country does. - Keith Collins

Sharply higher energy prices are cutting into net farm income and will likely continue to affect production input and marketing costs in 2006. - Keith Collins

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