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JBS to resume U.S. share listing plan after COVID-19 fallout

Management looking also for US$100 million in cost cuts

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Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s JBS SA is reviving plans to list shares on Wall Street after dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic’s fallout, CEO Gilberto Tomazoni said on Friday, as the world’s largest meatpacker reported strong quarterly results. Speaking on a conference call with analysts following the company’s second-quarter results, Tomazoni said the focus
Hogs, Markets

China June pork imports jump 128.4 per cent on year

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China imported 400,000 tonnes of pork in June, customs data showed recently, up 128.4 per cent from the same month a year earlier, as a months-long buying spree continued as importers try to help plug a domestic shortage. China’s pork output declined by about a fifth in the first half of 2020 after an epidemic
Brandon’s Maple Leaf plant is the site of Canada’s latest COVID outbreak in a packing facility.
Hogs, News

COVID-19 strikes Brandon pork plant

Growing COVID-19 cases among Maple Leaf Foods staff last week raised the first serious concerns of a meat plant closure in Manitoba

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The union representing workers at Brandon’s Maple Leaf Foods plant says it’s seeing echoes of Alberta. Late last week, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 832 pushed Maple Leaf Foods to close the pork plant after eight workers tested positive for COVID-19. Why it matters: Until now, Manitoba’s meat processors have largely dodged the
Contingency plans tentatively in place for Brandon pork plant closure
Hogs, News

Contingency plans tentatively in place for Brandon pork plant closure

No plans to close Maple Leaf Foods plant in Brandon despite COVID-19 cases, union calls to do so

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“Every effort” will be made to find processing capacity for hogs if Brandon’s Maple Leaf Foods plant closes due to a cluster of COVID-19 cases there says Manitoba Pork. “I want to emphasize there is no plan being put in place to shut down the plant in Brandon,” Manitoba Pork general manager Andrew Dickson told
With livestock diseases like African swine fever sweeping the globe, Canada is planning an industry-government partnership.
Hogs, News

Groups call for international response to African swine fever

Joint initiative launched on ASF

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Two international organizations are calling for global action to stop the spread of African swine fever (ASF). In a joint news release, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) called on countries to join forces against the disease. The organizations warn ASF may cause
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Hogs, Livestock

Union seeks temporary halt for major Manitoba hog plant

Four Maple Leaf plant staff now COVID-positive

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The union for about 2,000 workers at Maple Leaf Foods’ main Canadian hog slaughter and packing plant is calling for the company to put the brakes on production, pending further tests for COVID-19 among employees. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 832 said Thursday it was “made aware” late Wednesday night of three more
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Hogs, Livestock, Other

COVID-19 case confirmed at Maple Leaf hog plant

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A worker at Maple Leaf Foods’ hog slaughter and processing plant at Brandon, Man. is recovering at home after testing positive for COVID-19, the Manitoba Co-operator has reported. The company said it received word over the long weekend about the case. Citing its own review of the situation and consultation with public health officials, the
COVID-19 confirmed at Maple Leaf Brandon plant
Hogs, News

COVID-19 confirmed at Maple Leaf Brandon plant

The company received word of the positive result over the long weekend

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A worker at Brandon’s Maple Leaf Foods pork plant has tested positive for COVID-19, the company has confirmed. “We were very sorry to learn this weekend that a team member at our Brandon plant has tested positive for COVID-19,” a representative from the company said in an emailed statement. The company says the worker was

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