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Loblaw beats profit estimates as online sales surge

By GFM Network News, Reuters July 23, 2020

Reuters — Loblaw beat quarterly revenue and profit estimates on Thursday, driven by a near-fourfold jump in online sales, as stay-at-home Canadians used the retailer’s pickup and delivery services to stock up on bread, milk and eggs. With consumers still limiting their trips outdoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company said it would invest

News, Other

Food affordability still top consumer concern: CCFI

COVID has only accelerated the desire to know where food is coming from

By D.C. Fraser July 22, 2020

Will Canadian farmers benefit from the ‘trust bump’ that’s been seen globally in the wake of COVID? The Canadian Centre for Food Integrity held a webinar recently to look at how to better earn public trust in food and farming, where the topic arose. Ashley Bruner, research co-ordinator for CCFI, said the COVID-19 pandemic has

Workers and excavators are seen at a construction site of a new pig farm in Beijing’s eastern Pinggu district.

Hogs, News

Cheek by jowl

China pork crisis spurs pig farms’ return to cities

By Dominique Patton, Hallie Gu July 22, 2020

Reuters – China is building industrial pig farms near its urban areas, reversing years of policies to relocate the livestock over waste concerns, as the government prioritizes food security over the environment after African swine fever decimated its herds. The world’s biggest pork consumer will add about 200 million pigs by constructing new farms around

Despite government-mandated quarantine and safety measures, hundreds of temporary foreign workers in Ontario have contracted COVID-19 and three men have died.

Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Ontario headlines on COVID-19 don’t tell the Manitoba farmworker story

Farmers who employ foreign workers say they are unfairly tainted by comparisons to modern slavery

By Geralyn Wichers July 21, 2020

Two Manitoba farmers say the media has misrepresented the situation of international workers and the farmers who hire them. “All of us employers are trying really, really hard to keep these guys safe because we depend on them, and they depend on us,” said Sam Connery, who farms near Portage. “They depend on us for

News, Other

Culinary in the age of COVID

There’s never been anything like it when it comes to Canadian restaurants

By D.C. Fraser July 21, 2020

Closures, layoffs, worry over how to pay the bills, slow reopening with limited seating and a very wary clientele that’s slow to return. That’s just some of the ‘new normal’ for Canadian restaurateurs, according to the University of Guelph’s sixth and final webinar in a series featuring agri-food experts about food and agriculture during the

CME August 2020 live cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Live cattle backslide amid cautious slaughter improvements

Lean hogs down on supply backlog

By GFM Network News July 20, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures closed lower on Monday, pulling back after a rally last week on signs that meatpackers may be working through backlogs of market-ready cattle, traders said. Although slaughter rates have returned to pre-coronavirus levels, cattle remain heavier after backing up in feedlots when processing plants closed this spring

Employees walk around with face masks at the JBS USA meat packing plant at Greeley, Colorado on April 14, 2020. (File photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

Livestock

U.S. meatpackers try air cleaning tech after COVID-19 outbreaks

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek July 18, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — Two of the world’s largest meatpackers said on Friday they have installed ultraviolet air cleaning equipment in some U.S. plants, as pressure mounts on food companies to protect workers amid growing concerns about airborne transmission of the coronavirus. JBS USA, owned by Brazil’s JBS SA and one of four major U.S.

Feds proposing to expand wage subsidy program

By GFM Network News, Reuters July 18, 2020

Ottawa | Reuters — The Canadian government wants to expand an emergency wage subsidy program so that all businesses suffering losses from the COVID-19 outbreak will benefit, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said on Friday. Morneau told a news conference that Ottawa would drop an earlier requirement stipulating that businesses needed to show a 30 per

CME August 2020 live cattle with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Live cattle end steady to firmer

Lean hogs dip after weekly advances

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen July 17, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures closed steady to firm on Friday, stabilizing after a two-session rally attributed to speculative buying and signs that meat packers may have worked through much of a backlog of market-ready cattle, traders said. Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) August live cattle futures settled unchanged at 103.275 cents/lb. and

Livestock Markets, Markets

Social distancing guidelines could pose challenging for fall cattle run

Slaughter values in the province have rebounded

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm July 17, 2020

When Manitoba’s fall run starts in September, Rick Wright of Heartland Order Buying Co. has a little bit of trepidation when it comes to the social distancing guidelines set by the province. “There are a percentage of people who are not respecting the social distancing requirements, and it’s putting the markets in a bad position,” Wright said, noting

Daily Network News

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

CBOT Weekly: April supply and demand report a ‘nothing burger’

Canada blocks meats, dairy from Greece over foot-and-mouth disease

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