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Manitoba’s pork sector is now facing the thorny question of where to send animals if Maple Leaf’s Brandon plant can’t stay open.
Hogs, News

Manitoba Pork, stakeholders make contingency plans to relocate hogs

There’s only limited capacity for excess pigs on the Prairies if Maple Leaf’s Brandon plant closes due to COVID-19 cases

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Every effort will be made to find space for hogs if Brandon’s Maple Leaf Foods plant shuts down, says the Manitoba Pork Council. As of August 13, the facility remained open as confirmed cases of COVID-19 among workers climbed over two dozen and many more staff were in self-isolation. About 2,000 people work at the plant, which processes up
News, Other

Safety concerns prompt call for pork plant closure

NDP, union and workers all say a short-term shutdown would be the best plan

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NDP Opposition leader, Wab Kinew, continued to call for a short-term shutdown of Brandon’s Maple Leaf Foods, August 13, and for “surveillance testing” of employees against the novel coronavirus. “Manitoba’s agri-food industry is successful only when Maple Leaf workers and the wider Westman community, are safe and healthy,” Kinew said in an emailed statement to
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Comment: Public investment needs to return public good

Change is coming and farmers need to get ahead of the curve

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If the ill-tempered and deadly first half of 2020 had been a first-calf heifer on the dairy farm of my youth, my father would have ticketed it for the freezer a month ago. His yardstick of heifer potential was short: If she lived up to her breeding, she was a “keeper”; if she “put more
(File photo by Dave Bedard)
Hogs, Livestock

Brandon pork plant’s exports to China suspended

Chinese protocols call for temporary pause, Maple Leaf says

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New Chinese rules for exporters and a number of COVID-19 cases among its workers have led Maple Leaf Foods to temporarily halt pork traffic to China from its biggest hog plant. The company said Tuesday it has “temporarily suspended pork exports to China on a voluntary basis due to recent protocols adopted by the Chinese
(Olymel video screengrab via YouTube)
Hogs, Livestock

Red Deer hog plant books first COVID case

One employee confirmed with virus, 13 isolating as precaution, company says

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A major Prairie hog slaughter and processing plant relatively untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic has marked its first case of the coronavirus in a production line worker. Olymel, the meat packing arm of Quebec ag co-operative Sollio, said an employee who reported for work Monday last week at its Red Deer, Alta. plant began showing
Kids explore farm machinery on display at Manitoba Ag Days 2020.
News, Other

Manitoba Ag Days cancelled for 2021

The 2020 event brought in about 45,000 people at Brandon’s Keystone Centre

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Canada’s largest indoor farm show will not go ahead as usual in 2021. The show was originally slated to run January 19-21, 2021 but is cancelled due to COVID-19 safety concerns. “The safety and well-being of our exhibitors, patrons, volunteers, contractors, board of directors and management team was paramount in our decision,” the organization said
(Dave Bedard photo)
Livestock

COVID-19 lands at another Cargill meat plant

Five cases linked to case-ready plant in Calgary

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Alberta provincial officials have declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Cargill’s meat further-processing plant in Calgary, with five cases of the coronavirus connected to the facility. Provincial chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw tweeted Friday that “there are five cases linked to Cargill Case Ready Meats in #YYC.” Provincial health officials “have visited the plant and
(JBSFoodCanada.ca)
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

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
Officials at the Aug. 13, 2020 rollout of the federal surplus food program included (l-r) Julie Marchand of Food Banks of Quebec, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, Claude Dulude of Nutri Group, Marie-Jose Mastromonaco of Second Harvest, Tania Little of Food Banks Canada and Serge Lefebvre of Nutri Group. (Photo courtesy Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Livestock, Markets

Feds line up projects for surplus food program

NGOs backed to gather, distribute 12 million kg of food

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The federal government has lined up eight projects to source and distribute perishable produce, meat, eggs and seafood piling up across Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the federal pandemic response, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in early May that Ottawa would budget $50 million for a food surplus purchase program. The
(Dave Bedard photo)
Beef cattle, Livestock

McDonald’s resuming all-Canadian beef supply

'Supply adjustment' ends next month, company says

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Updated, Aug. 18 — McDonald’s Canada’s pandemic-related “supply adjustment,” in which the burger chain cut its Canadian beef purchases to below 100 per cent, is set to end next month. The Canadian arm of the U.S. fast food giant announced Thursday it will resume its pre-pandemic policy of sourcing 100 per cent Canadian beef, starting

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