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Cargill to restart High River beef plant Monday

Over 750 workers confirmed with COVID-19

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 30, 2020

Ottawa | Reuters — Cargill said Wednesday it will start to reopen its beef processing plant at High River, Alta. on Monday after the plant was forced to close down because hundreds of workers had become infected with the coronavirus. In a statement, Cargill said it would resume operations after a 14-day temporary shutdown, with

Water vapour imagery from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES East satellite on April 10, 2019 shows a powerful late-season winter storm expected to bring heavy snow and high winds to parts of the north-central U.S. Plains and the upper Midwest. Bright blue and white areas indicate high water vapour or moisture content. (Satellite map courtesy NOAA)

Crops, Weather

Blizzard forces closure of some U.S. grain processors, elevators

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 11, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — A second “bomb cyclone” blizzard hitting the United States was limiting the movement and processing of corn, soybeans and wheat around the Midwest and Plains on Thursday. Grain trader Cargill said it was closing three of its grain handling facilities in Minnesota, two in South Dakota and one in Nebraska on

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

JBS expands Utah beef plant as cattle supply squeezes rivals

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 29, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– JBS USA, one of the top U.S. meat processors, said Thursday it will expand a Utah beef processing facility, even as some of its rivals have been shuttering plants because of tight cattle supplies. The project is notable because the U.S. cattle herd has fallen to its smallest size since 1951,

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

MCEC Moving Ahead Following Funding Loss

By Shannon VanRaes September 1, 2011

Anew beef slaughter facility is still on track to open in Winnipeg in 2012, despite losing $10 million in funding from the federal government. “We’re as anxious to get out there and make an announcement as anyone else, and we hope to soon. Everyone is kinda anxious,” said David Wiens, a director with the Manitoba

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

Federal Funds Diverted From Beef To Hogs

By Laura Rance-Unger July 21, 2011

While Manitoba’s hog industry celebrated some rare good news last week, the beef sector was reeling from yet another setback in the bid to re-establish federally inspected beef slaughter capacity here. Citing unspecified problems with the Keystone Processors Ltd. business plan, the federal government has withdrawn $10 million in financing it promised the beef-processing company

Beef cattle, Livestock

Goal Shifts Away From Hooks, Slaughter Capacity

By Daniel Winters December 23, 2010

AWinnipeg beef-processing plant being retrofitted to supply premium-paying markets at home and abroad reflects the new reality for beef processing in Canada, the executive director of the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council says. Canada’s shrinking beef herd means that simply expanding slaughter capacity is no longer the priority it once was, Kate Butler told a producer

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Hog Producers Remember Departing Premier For Bill 17

By Ron Friesen September 24, 2009

“I know my friends in the hog industry don’t agree with me.” – GARY DOER He reduced education taxes on farmland. He doubled agriculture spending during his 10 years in office. But many Manitoba farmers will remember Premier Gary Doer for one thing: Bill 17. The famous (or infamous) bill, passed exactly one year ago,

Beef cattle, News

National Beef To Go It Alone As JBS Bid Abandoned

By Bob Burgdorfer March 5, 2009

National Beef Packing Co. intends to operate as an independent company now that Brazilian beef company JBS SA has abandoned its attempt to buy the No. 4 U. S. beef producer, National Beef’s chairman told Reuters Feb. 20. While disappointed the deal was cancelled, National Beef chairman Steve Hunt said the company would move forward

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Low prices no mystery, says NFU

By Daniel Winters February 12, 2009

The National Farmers Union is hoping to make hamburger from some beef industry sacred cows with a series of meetings publicizing the findings of its report into the root causes of the Canadian cattle industry’s woes. The first of six meetings around the province was held in Oak Lake, where a small crowd of ranchers

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Winnipeg beef plant gets new corporate structure

By Ron Friesen December 11, 2008

“If they can make it work, great. We’re in favour of it.” – Martin Unrau, MCPA Manitoba’s newest beef processing project has a new name and a new corporate structure. Natural Prairie Beef Inc. and the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council are joining hands to form Keystone Processors Ltd., which will kill cattle and process beef

Daily Network News

Moroccan fertilizer maker OCP expects output to drop 30 per cent in Q2, sources say

Feed Grain Weekly: Demand rises despite war uncertainty

How farmers can manage stress, anxiety during spring seeding

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