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Ag Days cancelled for 2022

With no guarantee public health measures will be relaxed, organizers say they made a difficult decision

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Manitoba Ag Days has officially been cancelled for 2022. The event had been scheduled for Jan. 18 to 20, until it was derailed by Manitoba public health orders issued Dec. 27 that would have capped attendance at 250. In a Dec. 28 announcement organizers postponed the event until an undetermined later date. Now organizers say
Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate requires all truckers coming into Canada to be fully vaccinated or, if a Canadian driver who is partially vaccinated or unvaccinated, must face testing and quarantine upon re-entry.
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Empty roads a headache for hog producers

Truck drivers are at a premium and that’s a serious problem for the pork sector

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There have not been enough trucks on the road to keep the pork sector ticking smoothly, and the Manitoba Pork Council says it is seeing serious impacts. General manager Cam Dahl said that, as well as general transportation disruptions through the sector, there have been issues with trucks at the Canada-U.S. border. “I’m getting reports
The Ag in Motion site near Langham, Saskatchewan, will come to life again this summer.
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Ag in Motion to go live again in 2022

Organizers planning for in-person event this coming July

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Ag in Motion is set to go live again, after a two-year period focusing on digital events and online interactive content. The Langham, Sask.-based outdoor farm event, owned by Glacier FarmMedia who also owns the Manitoba Co-operator, has scheduled an in-person event for July 19-21, 2022. “On the ground and in person is where this
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Vaccine mandate to lead to inflation, empty shelves, trucking executives say

Parallel mandate for U.S. entry starts Saturday

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian consumers should soon see higher prices and some empty shelves in supermarkets and other retail outlets because of disruptions stemming from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers, top trucking executives warned this week. The mandate, imposed by Ottawa to help curb the spread of the virus, has cost six
CME February 2022 live cattle (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle and hog futures firm

Meat supplies remain tight

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle and hog futures rose on Wednesday, with tight supplies supporting prices after a slowdown in the pace of slaughter. Most actively traded February lean hogs rose 0.7 cent, to 82.3 cents/lb. Hog futures have risen for three days in a row, their longest streak of gains
A pandemic treaty must address roots of zoonotic disease
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A pandemic treaty must address roots of zoonotic disease

Land use, human-animal interaction just two key points to consider

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One Health is a concept that emerged in the early 2000s and recognizes the interconnections and health interdependencies among humans, other animals and the shared environments in which we live and interact. In some cases, these shared environments make it possible for infectious agents — such as viruses — to adapt and move between species.
A view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)
Markets

Cross-border supply chains still may face disruptions from vaccine mandates

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CLARIFIED, Jan. 13 — Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — COVID-19 vaccine requirements for foreign truckers at the U.S.-Canada border still could cause supply-chain disruptions if both countries do not decide to allow exemptions, the head of the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) said Thursday. Canadian truck drivers who aren’t vaccinated may enter Canada by right — but
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Editor’s Take: The sick man of the Prairies

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In the mid-19th century, the Ottoman Empire was in trouble. It had controlled much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa from the 14th century onward, but had now entered a period of decline and contraction. Emperor Nicholas I of the Russian Empire coined the phrase ‘the sick man of Europe’ to describe the
CME February 2022 lean hogs (candlesticks) with 20- and 100-day moving averages (pink and black lines) and CME cash lean hog index (dark red line). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Hog slaughter hits five-month low on Omicron spread

CME hogs up, cattle down

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rose on bargain buying on Wednesday, traders said, though U.S. pig slaughtering sank to its lowest level since August as rising cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant hit meat plants. Live cattle and feeder cattle futures slumped as traders remain concerned that the highly contagious
Workers exit the Smithfield Foods pork plant as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, U.S., April 16, 2020.
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U.S. meat plants relaxed some COVID-19 safety protocols after outbreaks

Unions say companies have quickly reverted and Omicron variant has raised dangers

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Reuters – Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, last year assigned a team of dedicated employees to enforce social distancing and sanitize surfaces at a South Dakota slaughterhouse where COVID-19 infected nearly 1,300 workers, the president of the local labour union said. Now, that role no longer exists, the company confirmed. The plant gradually moved employees who

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