Poultry Demand Is Rising. Can Your Operation Keep Up?

Jul 10th 2026

Walk the protein aisle today and one trend is hard to miss: poultry is becoming the everyday protein of choice. As beef prices continue to climb and chicken prices remain comparatively stable, shoppers looking for value are shifting their baskets accordingly. For poultry processors, that creates both an opportunity and a challenge. Demand may be moving in your favor, but growth on paper only matters if the plant can scale outp …
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Dumpster Diving for Dollars

May 20th 2026

We regularly field requests to source new products for our customers. Reasons include facing increasingly long lead times, rising prices on top of what already feels too high, product quality issues, or a combination of all three. This is really why Packers Supply exists: we provide high quality products, competitive pricing, and carry stock of nearly everything so we can ship them when you need them.  In most cases, …
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Tariffs Could Reset in July. Here’s How Smart Plant Buyers Are Getting Ahead of It

May 6th 2026

Tariffs are back in operational conversations — this time with a clearer but still evolving timeline. Administration officials are signaling potential tariff reinstatement as early as July, giving manufacturers and processors a narrowing window to prepare. This follows a February Supreme Court ruling that invalidated earlier tariff programs, forcing a rapid shift to new trade authorities and creating a compressed window for policy reset. Ta …
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Entering a Bold New Chapter: Three Decades of Change Squeezed into 33 Months

Mar 31st 2026

Packers Supply Company launched in 1990. There was no email. There was no website. There were no internal systems. There were no processes. There was no warehouse. Just one guy on the road visiting packing plants and solving problems. There were good products and good people. There was sufficient stock in hand and there were good prices.   One may surmise that only the last four points above remain&nb …
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Packers Supply at IPPE: Fixing Problems Before They Happen

Mar 5th 2026

Packers Supply hit the road at the end of January for our first‑ever trade show: IPPE. There was a lot to see and a lot to learn. For example, don’t overpack—you’ll have to haul it all into the building and back out again. More importantly, our team had the opportunity to speak with processors, corporate buyers, and industry partners over several days. We found that conversations consistently circled around the same concerns: k …
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