Chickens Archives - Page 32 of 37 - Manitoba Co-operator

Tyson Foods raises prices, scrambles to keep up with inflation

By Praveen Paramasivam, Tom Polansek August 24, 2021

Reuters – Tyson Foods cannot increase prices for chicken and prepared foods fast enough to keep pace with rising costs for raw materials like grain, chief executive Donnie King said Aug. 9, after the company reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings. The meat company lifted its 2021 revenue forecast due to strong beef demand as sales of

Antimicrobial resistance isn’t one of the hot issues of the day, but neither producers or feedlot operators can afford to lower their guard when it comes to prevention.

Beef cattle, Livestock

A battle the beef sector can’t afford to lose

Antimicrobial resistance in cattle isn’t going away, so proper use of livestock drugs is critical

By Jennifer Blair August 18, 2021

Glacier FarmMedia – There’s a microscopic war raging in your soil, and these bacteria will do whatever it takes to protect and expand their territory. “It’s like a little arms race that goes on naturally in the environment,” said Reynold Bergen, science director for the Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC). “They’re using antibiotic resistance to

Cargill, Continental Grain to buy chicken producer Sanderson Farms for $4.5 bln

By GFM Network News, Praveen Paramasivam August 9, 2021

Reuters – Commodities trader Cargill Inc and agricultural investor Continental Grain Co will buy chicken producer Sanderson Farms Inc for $4.53 billion, the companies said on Monday, at a time when meat prices have been soaring due to strong demand. The deal would see Sanderson Farms, the third-largest poultry producer in the United States, join

News

France bans crushing and gassing of male chicks from 2022

By Reuters July 30, 2021

France will ban from next year the killing of male chicks by crushing or gassing, a practice denounced as barbaric by animal welfare groups, and will push for a similar measure at the European level, the agriculture minister said. Each year, 50 million male chicks are culled in this way, Julien Denormandie said in an

News

Beyond Meat brings back alt-chicken offering

By Reuters July 21, 2021

Beyond Meat has brought back a chicken offering to its product portfolio with the launch of plant-based chicken tenders. The faux-meat maker looks to capitalize on booming demand for meat alternatives amid a shift towards healthy eating in the pandemic. The company is launching the product in around 400 U.S. restaurants, more than two years

File photo of the produce section at a Canadian grocery store. (FatCamera/E+/Getty Images)

Industry-led code of conduct for food retailers on horizon

Fees create 'uncertainty' for producers, processors

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News July 19, 2021

A report from a federal-provincial working group says the retail sector has levied an increasing number of fees on suppliers, and is proposing the formation of a code of conduct as a potential solution. Canada’s agriculture ministers are now calling on industry to lead the process. They had formed the working group to study the

News

‘Free meat for a year’ offered in JBS U.S. vaccine sweepstakes

By Reuters July 12, 2021

Want free meat for a year? Get a COVID-19 shot. Meat packer JBS SA will give away beef, pork and chicken for the next year to 50 U.S. families that participate in company-sponsored vaccination clinics over the coming weeks. The Brazilian company’s arm in the United States and Pilgrim’s Pride, a U.S. chicken company mostly

U.S. President Joe Biden tours a manufacturing lab at McHenry County College during a visit to northwest Chicago suburb Crystal Lake on July 7, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)

Markets

Biden seeks to lift limits on U.S. farmer dealings with tractor makers, packers

Executive order to address corporate 'abuses of power'

By GFM Network News July 7, 2021

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden wants to give that country’s farmers more power in negotiating the sale of livestock to big processors and in deciding who repairs their tractors, the White House said on Tuesday. The executive order, expected within days, will also address such competitive issues as delayed airline baggage, cellphone

Smoke rises from a wildfire over a hill at Kamloops, B.C. on July 1, 2021, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. (Nicole Ritter via Reuters)

Livestock, Weather

B.C. presses for ranchers to register before wildfires hit

Premises ID helps protect livestock in emergencies, province says

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News July 3, 2021

British Columbia’s provincial ag ministry hopes to shore up ranchers’ participation in the Premises Identification program against the risk of further wildfires this year. About two-thirds, or 5,200, of B.C.’s non-supply managed livestock producers, and all the supply-managed dairy cattle and poultry premises in the province, are registered in the program, the province said Wednesday.

Livestock

Maple Leaf takes up Ontario poultry plant

Option exercised on Cericola Farms' remaining facility

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 29, 2021

A southern Ontario processing plant specializing in organic and antibiotic-free poultry products has gone to Maple Leaf Foods in a postscript to a previous sale. Toronto-based Maple Leaf announced Friday it had closed its purchase of the Sure Fresh Foods poultry plant at Schomberg, Ont., about 30 km north of Vaughan, for an undisclosed sum,

Daily Network News

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

Chickens

Tyson Foods raises prices, scrambles to keep up with inflation

A battle the beef sector can’t afford to lose

Cargill, Continental Grain to buy chicken producer Sanderson Farms for $4.5 bln

France bans crushing and gassing of male chicks from 2022

Beyond Meat brings back alt-chicken offering

Industry-led code of conduct for food retailers on horizon

‘Free meat for a year’ offered in JBS U.S. vaccine sweepstakes

Biden seeks to lift limits on U.S. farmer dealings with tractor makers, packers

B.C. presses for ranchers to register before wildfires hit

Maple Leaf takes up Ontario poultry plant

AgCanadaTV

AgCanadaTV: Your Agriculture News Recap for Dec.19, 2025

Cyber-Savvy Farmer

Latest Market News