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

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures inch up as plants reopen

Rising wholesale prices support futures

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter May 4, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog and live cattle futures closed higher on Monday, as meat processing facilities began to open after closures of more than 20 plants due to coronavirus illnesses among workers. Rising pork and beef cutout prices have also helped give futures a boost on Monday, said Mark Schultz, chief analyst

Pork producers say they’re suffering a financial crisis as COVID-19 has closed processing plants and sent the market into a tailspin.

Livestock, News

Pork sector calls for federal ‘fire crew’ as market goes up in flames

The pork sector says it is in critical need of financial support due to market disruptions from COVID-19

By Alexis Stockford May 4, 2020

Canada’s pork producers are asking for emergency federal aid as their market spirals downward. Market disruptions due to COVID-19 have landed the pork market in a bad place as of late April. Multiple plant closures in the U.S. have dried up markets for Canadian weanlings, a two-week plant closure of an Olymel facility in Quebec

News, Other

Pandemic a threat to global food supply: FAO

Supply chains are the weakest link and require massive collaboration

By D.C. Fraser May 4, 2020

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says COVID-19 is a threat to global food security that must be mitigated by ensuring supply chains are not disrupted. Agriculture ministers from G20 countries held a joint meeting, where FAO director general Qu Dongyu said preserving access to safe food and nutrition is an essential health response to the pandemic. “We need to

(Nadezhda_Nesterova/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock

B.C. health officials order two more poultry plants closed

Over 50 COVID-19 cases found at Superior Poultry

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News May 2, 2020

Health officials in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley have ordered two more poultry processing plant closed after multiple cases of COVID-19 were confirmed among employees. Fraser Health announced April 24 it had ordered Superior Poultry Processors of Coquitlam to close after two employees of the chicken processing plant tested positive for the coronavirus. The health district

Markets

CFA seeks $2.6 billion in support for producers

Federal officials sought specific numbers from ag industry

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News May 1, 2020

Ottawa — Canada’s agriculture industry is seeking an initial $2.6 billion in COVID-19-related emergency relief funding from the federal government. Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) officials put in the ask to the federal government on Thursday. According to second vice-president Chris van den Heuvel, federal officials asked the CFA “to go and put hard numbers

Livestock Markets, Markets

Beef-processing curbs drag on butcher cattle values

Buyers are reluctant to pick up cattle as packers slow their pace

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 1, 2020

Slaughterhouse shutdowns roiled North American cattle markets during the week ended April 24, with the bottleneck in the system likely to be felt at Manitoba auctions in weeks to come. “We got lucky this week,” said Allan Munroe of Killarney Auction Mart, which held its sale on Monday, April 20 — right before Cargill announced it

A chuckwagon outfit at the 2019 Manitoba Stampede.

News

Manitoba Stampede cancelled for 2020

One of the province’s major summer farm fairs pulls the plug

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 1, 2020

Organizers of the Manitoba Stampede and Exhibition, one of the province’s major summer agricultural fairs as well as the province’s “only professional rodeo,” have cancelled the event for 2020. In a letter posted April 21 on the event website, Norm Gauthier, president of the Valley Agricultural Society, said, “it was clear the health of our

Beyond the human-health issues associated with the pandemic, there are several concerns that transcend Canadian food and agricultural markets.

News, Other

Food and agricultural markets during a pandemic: Insights from economists

By Ryan Cardwell May 1, 2020

The global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is an unprecedented event that will affect Canadians’ lives in many ways. The effects of the pandemic are difficult to predict, but there are serious concerns about the effects of the pandemic on Canada’s economy. This has included concerns about food production, distribution, and food security (for example

Workers in the JBS beef plant at Brooks, Alta. appear in a screen shot from a 2018 corporate video. (JBS Canada video screengrab via YouTube)

Livestock

As meat plant infections rise, Canada lets packers choose when to close

Beef plants at heart of Alberta's largest COVID-19 community outbreaks

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel May 1, 2020

Winnipeg | Reuters — In Cargill’s High River, Alta. plant, supplier of more than one-third of Canada’s beef, 391 workers were sick with COVID-19 when the company suspended operations, according to provincial health officials. But Maple Leaf Foods decided to idle a poultry plant for eight days, in Brampton, Ont., after just three workers were

File photo of a New Brunswick blueberry field in autumn. (EdCorey/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

New Brunswick ag groups rip province’s ban on foreign workers

Risk during pandemic 'simply too great,' premier says

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News May 1, 2020

New Brunswick farmers who employ temporary foreign workers (TFWs) are calling for the provincial government to reverse its new COVID-19-related ban on entry of TFWs who haven’t yet arrived. The provincial government on Tuesday updated a mandatory order under its pandemic state of emergency to restrict TFWs from entering the province. The new restriction doesn’t

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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