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In 2020, a total of seven workers at two JBS facilities in Colorado and Wisconsin died from COVID-19.

JBS U.S. units to adopt pandemic response plans after COVID outbreaks

Investigation finds that 269 workers in the U.S. died from outbreaks at packing plants

By Daniel Wiessner June 13, 2022

Reuters – Subsidiaries of meat processor JBS USA have agreed to implement infectious disease preparedness plans at seven U.S. plants, in the wake of a U.S. congressional report finding that the industry largely failed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among workers. The agreement was announced in late May by the U.S. Occupational Safety and

News

COVID curbs Chinese soy demand

By Dominique Patton, Hallie Gu June 7, 2022

Reuters – Plunging demand for soyoil in China is expected to cut consumption as COVID-19 lockdowns have shuttered restaurants and canteens, according to traders and analysts. China is the world’s top consumer of edible oils, with millions of restaurants guzzling about half of the country’s roughly 17 million tonnes of soyoil. But a two-month lockdown

News, Other

Price hikes help McDonald’s beat back inflation, costs from Ukraine war

By Hilary Russ, Uday Sampath Kumar May 10, 2022

Reuters – Menu price hikes and a new loyalty program helped McDonald’s beat estimates for quarterly sales and profit April 28, despite inflationary pressure on consumers, the war in Ukraine and COVID-19 lockdowns in China. Pinched by higher costs for gas, rent and groceries, lower-income customers are starting to buy cheaper or fewer McDonald’s menu

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: The weakest link

By Gord Gilmour May 5, 2022

As I sit here, writing this editorial, I’m recovering from the last lingering COVID symptoms. I’m hardly alone in this. One recent study suggested that as many as 50 per cent of Canadians have had an infection now. Based on anecdotal evidence from my circle of friends and family, I’m willing to believe that number,

Food literacy in Canada has increased since the start of the pandemic.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: COVID has changed us, but has it really changed the food industry?

Canada’s food landscape has changed as consumers have gained more food literacy

By Sylvain Charlebois May 3, 2022

The food industry is gathering now at different trade shows and events. It is the first time in two years that it has come together to figure out what consumers are now thinking, believing, hoping and most important, fearing. Trends, flavours, and tastes have changed since March 2020. But after more than two years of

The Bank of Canada has raised rates by half a percentage point and said more increases were coming to fight inflation.

News, Other

Canada inflation surges to 31-year high

Inflation left analyst expectations in the rear-view mirror in March

By Fergal Smith, Julie Gordon, Steve Scherer April 29, 2022

Reuters – Canada’s annual inflation rate accelerated faster than expected in March, hitting a 31-year high amid broad price pressures, official data showed April 20, pointing toward another oversized rate hike from the Bank of Canada in June. The headline rate hit 6.7 per cent in March, well above analyst expectations of 6.1 per cent

Markets, Weather

AgriStability enrolment deadline extended for 2022

Two-month extension in place for fourth year in a row

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 29, 2022

The deadline for Canadian farmers to enroll in AgriStability has been extended for two months — making 2022 the fourth year in a row with a enrolment deadline bump for the farm income stabilization program. The enrolment deadline without penalty for the 2022 program year was previously scheduled for this Saturday, April 30, but is

Crops, Markets, Weather

StatsCan predicts more Canadian wheat acres, less canola in 2022

Lentil, corn, soy acres are also expected up from 2021, barley down

By GFM Network News, Marketsfarm April 26, 2022

MarketsFarm — Canada’s farmers intend to seed more acres to wheat and less to canola in 2022, according to the first survey-based estimates from Statistics Canada for the upcoming crop year released Tuesday. Canola area is forecast at 20.9 million acres by the government agency, which would be down by seven per cent from the

Markets, News

Xi says China needs own seeds to guarantee country’s ‘food bowl’

By Dominique Patton April 25, 2022

Reuters – Chinese President Xi Jinping said the country needs to be independent in seeds to achieve food security, state media reported on April 11, reiterating growing concerns about China’s reliance on imports of food. Xi made the remarks on Sunday while visiting the Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory in the southern island of Hainan, a

Governments need to reform the current suite of business risk management programs so that they meet the risks farmers are facing today.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Disease, drought, and war – a time of volatility

Despite these challenges, farmers remain surprisingly optimistic

By Cam Dahl April 25, 2022

Anyone who tells you that they know where commodity prices will be six months from now is either being misleading or fails to have a firm grip on reality. We are in a time where contradictory pressures on supply and demand are combined with political upheavals. As a result, farmers can expect an extended period

Daily Network News

Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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