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Workers call strike at Olymel hog plant in Quebec

Producers urged to prioritize heavier hogs when shipping

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News May 1, 2021

Talks toward a new contract for unionized employees at meat packer Olymel’s hog slaughter and processing plant in Quebec’s Beauce region have ended in a strike. The Syndicat des travailleurs d’Olymel Vallee-Jonction-CSN, which represents over 1,000 staff at Vallee-Jonction, about 60 km southeast of Quebec City, called an “indefinite” strike effective Wednesday morning, the union

“You have to be resilient to be a potato grower.” – Dan Sawatzky, KPPA.

Crops, News

Manitoba potato growers look for brighter 2021

Industry coming off three straight challenging years

By Ron Friesen April 26, 2021

Beleaguered Manitoba potato growers are hoping for a normal crop this year after three consecutive years of adverse weather, unharvested acres, lower-than-expected yields and now the COVID-19 pandemic. Guarded optimism would be the best way to describe growers’ mood as they prepare for the 2021 crop amid weather and market conditions largely beyond their control.

Hogs, News

U.S. pork processors face higher costs, slower speeds after court ruling

They’re asking the USDA to push back against the court ruling the agency failed to evaluate the effect of new rules on worker health

By Tom Polansek April 21, 2021

Reuters – An industry group representing North America’s biggest meat packers has pushed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to appeal a Federal Court decision that cancelled an agency rule that allows pork plants to slaughter pigs more quickly. The decision issued on March 31 in U.S. District Court in Minnesota could raise costs for meat

Workers disinfect a conveyor belt, part of the measures installed to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Seaboard Foods pork-processing plant in Guymon, Oklahoma, May 17, 2020.

Hogs, News

U.S. court slams brakes on Trump-era hog slaughter line-speed rule

Union cheers ruling, saying faster line speeds harm processing plant workers

By Karl Plume April 21, 2021

Reuters – The largest U.S. meat-packing union is celebrating a recent victory in Federal Court that it said invalidated a Trump-era rule allowing hog slaughter plants to run without line-speed limits. A lawsuit brought against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and three of its local chapters

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland arrives to a news conference prior to delivering the budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa on April 19, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)

Weather

Federal budget to offer direct payments to farmers for carbon pricing

Other new 'green growth' funding also on deck

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

The federal government’s 2021 budget offers up new spending to support farmers combatting climate change through targeted investments — and, in some cases, direct payments. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland released the budget Monday, showing the majority of new spending will take place over three years and be largely focused on “green growth.” “Budget 2021 announces

CME August 2021 feeder cattle with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs down on demand concerns

'We got a little bit ahead of ourselves'

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub April 16, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — CME Group hog futures fell sharply for the second day in a row on Friday, with the most-active June contract sinking 2.9 per cent to its lowest since March 23. Cattle futures also were weaker, with the June live cattle contract notching its seventh straight losing session. The market was correcting

Livestock, Markets

Set-aside funded for Quebec hog, cattle, big game producers

Feds, province pledge $21.8 million AgriRecovery plan

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 16, 2021

Farmers tending feeder hogs, fed cattle and big game animals such as elk, red deer, bison and wild boar in Quebec can expect $21.8 million in AgriRecovery to compensate for COVID-19’s drag on the province’s slaughter capacity. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and her Quebec counterpart Andre Lamontagne on Thursday announced their governments’ respective 60-40

A worker at Cargill’s London, Ont. chicken plant demonstrates the deboning process for a 2014 McDonald’s video on the meat used to make McNuggets. (McDonald’s Canada video screengrab via YouTube)

Livestock

Cargill shuts Ontario chicken plant against COVID

Other packers being sought to take birds

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 15, 2021

Agrifood firm Cargill is seeking slaughter space for Ontario chickens at other processors after temporarily closing its London poultry packing plant Tuesday against an outbreak of COVID-19 among workers. The company said Tuesday it was “taking this step out of an abundance of caution as our local workforce deals with the community-wide impacts of COVID-19.”

Even with the pandemic’s end in sight, it is unclear if people will be comfortable going out and about and patronizing their favourite restaurants again.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: The great reset awaits for Canada’s restaurants

As the world ponders going back to normal the food-service sector has changed forever

By Sylvain Charlebois April 13, 2021

It was certainly a year to be forgotten for the food service. StatsCan numbers told us this week that sales in the food-service industry dropped by a whopping 32 per cent, from Q4 2019 to Q4 2020. The food retail/service ratio, an important metric to assess how important food service is in our lives, also

Markets, News

Chicken quota allocation up on demand optimism

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 13, 2021

Chicken Farmers of Canada (CFC) is planning to raise quota allocations in July on optimism for dining demand as the economy starts a “transition towards normalcy” out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chicken Farmers of Ontario on March 24 reported an expected national allocation increase of 1.75 per cent above its adjusted base for period A-170

Daily Network News

Court finds Sunterra liable to U.S. lender

Prairie forecast: Above-average temperatures across Prairies

Prairie CWRS wheat bids mixed to start February

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