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With stakes high, Brazil meat industry dominates delegation to China

By Ana Mano, Lisandra Paraguassu April 4, 2023

Reuters – More than a quarter of business leaders traveling to China with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva come from the country’s booming meat industry, highlighting the high stakes for a sector reliant on Chinese demand for most of its exports. With 69 of the nearly 250 executives traveling, meatpackers dominate a roster

Close-up of a McDonald’s double Quarter Pounder with bacon. (Corporate.mcdonalds.com)

Livestock, Markets

McDonald’s reported laying off hundreds of corporate employees

Layoffs don't include restaurant-level workers

By GFM Network News, Hilary Russ April 4, 2023

New York | Reuters — The number of corporate employees McDonald’s Corp. plans to lay off this week will tally in the “hundreds,” a source familiar with the burger chain’s thinking said on Monday, as the company moves forward with a previously announced restructuring. The fast-food company is closing its offices “out of respect,” and

‘We cannot allow further deterioration of supply management, and keeping supply management healthy does not have to be at the expense of other commodities that need more trade.’

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Bill C-282 supports supply management

Trade deals cannot keep picking at supply management protections

By National Farmers Union March 31, 2023

Bill C-282, which would amend the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, would ensure future trade deals do not weaken or eliminate the import controls that allow Canada’s supply managed sectors to function. On March 9, the Standing Committee on International Trade held a hearing on the bill, and the National Farmers Union recommended full

A cooked piece of cultivated chicken breast created at the UPSIDE Foods plant, where lab-grown meat is cultivated in January 2023.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Scaling up cellular is agriculture’s biggest challenge

If we perfect cultivated meat, we could hedge against food shortages

By Bianca Le March 29, 2023

It didn’t get much attention when U.S. President Joe Biden launched a biomanufacturing initiative last September. But it should have. Biomanufacturing is about harnessing nature’s factories – cells – to make just about anything. That includes food. As Biden pointed out, biomanufacturing could boost food security. How? By cultivating meat. Having a roast for dinner

Markets

Tyson Foods plant closure raises antitrust concerns among US farmers, experts

By GFM Network News, Leah Douglas, Tom Polansek March 24, 2023

Reuters – Tyson Foods Inc TSN.N gave its chicken suppliers two months’ notice of its plan to shut a Virginia processing plant in May, raising concerns among farmers and legal experts about the company’s compliance with antitrust regulations requiring it to give 90 days’ notice before ending a contract. The planned closure of the plant has left

File photo of young birds on a Canadian broiler operation. (Elena Bionysheva-Abramova/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Weather

B.C. farmers granted late entry for AgriStability

Avian flu, 'extreme weather' events considered

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 17, 2023

With bird flu outbreaks and last spring’s weather woes in mind, farmers and ranchers in British Columbia are now spotted until the end of June to enrol in AgriStability. The province and the federal ag department on Tuesday announced they’ve agreed on a late participation option for the 2022 program year. In this case, the

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock

High-path avian flu pops back up in southern Ontario

Three outbreaks in Canadian poultry this month, plus skunks

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 16, 2023

Feather industry officials are calling for “extreme caution” among poultry farmers after cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza turned up at two southern Ontario properties in the past week. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it has confirmed cases of the virus detected last Friday in a backyard poultry flock in the municipality of Chatham-Kent,

File photo of signage outside Maple Leaf Foods’ Lagimodiere Boulevard plant in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)

Livestock, Markets

Maple Leaf sees ‘inflection point’ beyond red ink of 2022

Packer books net losses in Q4, full-year

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 14, 2023

Another of Canada’s major pork and poultry packers has reported significant net losses in its 2022 ledger, but sees “green shoots” suggesting a return to normal pork markets and stable supply chains this year. Maple Leaf Foods on Thursday reported a net loss of $311.89 million on $4.739 billion in gross sales for its fiscal

Livestock

Meat lobby says U.S. voluntary label rule could spur trade action

Ottawa to review Washington's proposed 'Product of USA' rule

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 8, 2023

U.S. meat industry lobbyists say Washington’s proposed new rules governing voluntary ‘Product of USA’ or ‘Made in the USA’ labels would “impose the same standard” as that country’s now-defunct mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law — and frustrate U.S. packers who import Canadian meat or livestock. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Food Safety and

Avian influenza losses are causing a reconsideration of vaccinations for flocks.

Farmit Manitoba, Poultry

Bird flu alarm drives world towards once-shunned vaccines

It is a balance between preventing trade upset and limiting economic losses

By Sybille De La Hamaide March 6, 2023

Reuters – French duck farmer Herve Dupouy has culled his flock four times since 2015 to stop the spread of bird flu but as a wave of deadly outbreaks nears his farm once again, he says it’s time to accept a solution once considered taboo: vaccination. “The goal is that our animals don’t fall ill

Daily Network News

Canada, Philippines make African swine fever zoning agreement

Germany, Spain urge EU to back Mercosur trade pact, but France resists

U.S. livestock: Hogs, cattle fall

Chickens