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People enter Smithfield Foods through a screening tent on April 16, in Sioux Falls, S.D. The plant is currently closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, sending shock waves through the hog sector.

Weanling barns wrestle with market free fall

U.S. market disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic has sent the swine weanling market diving

By Alexis Stockford April 23, 2020

One of Manitoba’s top livestock exports is in a tight spot after market implications of COVID-19 sent the swine market for weanlings into a tailspin. Hams Marketing put average ISO wean price at US$7.38 as of April 17, a dramatic drop from the end of January, when the company estimated average ISO wean price at

News, Other

Temporary foreign workers finally on their way

Workers remain a critical issue for Canadian farms, says CFA president Mary Robinson

By Geralyn Wichers April 23, 2020

International workers have begun to trickle onto Manitoba farms. On Beth Connery’s farm, near Portage la Prairie, seven Jamaican men were a few days into their 14-day quarantine when she spoke to the Co-operator on April 15. “It’s nice to get started,” Connery said. “This will get us going.” Each year, about 60,000 temporary foreign

An employee takes inventory at a grocery store amid coronavirus fears spreading, in Toronto March 13, 2020.

News, Other

Is Canada food secure?

One farm group says without government support for farmers, domestic food supplies aren’t guaranteed

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2020

COVID-weary Canadians have something else to keep them up at night — the spectre of a domestic food shortage. “(W)ithout immediate assistance from the federal government, the Canadian agriculture sector cannot ensure our domestic food supply will remain secure for the immediate and long-term benefit of all Canadians (because of COVID-19),” the Canadian Federation of

News

$16 billion pledged to U.S. farmers due to COVID-19

USDA predicts lower prices for most commodities, excluding wheat and rice

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2020

While the Canadian Federation of Agriculture asks for ad hoc subsidies to help Canadian farmers to offset lower incomes expected due to COVID-19, the United States administration could spend as much as $25 billion to help its farmers due to the pandemic. American farmers will receive billions of dollars of subsidies through direct payments. But

Traders and farmers alike will eventually need some sort of guidance as to what’s being planted in 2020.

Grain Markets, Markets

Farmers, traders will have to make do without crop area report

StatsCan isn’t sure it has enough information for a credible report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 23, 2020

Statistics Canada will not issue its crop area report on April 24 as originally scheduled. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the federal agency to rethink its tasks, and one major change was to postpone a number of upcoming agricultural reports. Ken Ball, a trader for PI Financial in Winnipeg, suggests the markets can do just

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Farmers should tread carefully when seeking more aid

By Laura Rance-Unger April 23, 2020

There is one stabilizing force for agriculture amidst all the uncertainties as the effects of pandemic management ripple through the food chain like an electrical shock to everything it touches. The recently released Farm Credit Canada report on land values, based on 2019 transactions, shows the value of farmland in Canada continues to rise, albeit

Markets

EU sets out COVID-19 support for farmers

Moves meant to stabilize markets

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 22, 2020

Brussels | Reuters — The European Commission proposed measures on Wednesday to support farmers hit by the coronavirus restrictions, including aid to store surplus dairy and meat products. Under the proposals, the Commission will grant aid for private storage of milk powder, butter and cheese as well as beef, sheep and goat meat for a

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

COVID-19 forces Tyson to shutter two major U.S. pork plants

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek April 22, 2020

UPDATED — Reuters — Tyson Foods is shuttering two pork processing plants, including its largest in the United States, to contain the spread of the coronavirus, further tightening meat supplies after other major slaughterhouse shutdowns. The closures are limiting the amount of meat the U.S. can produce during the outbreak and adding stress on farmers

Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Slaughterhouse closures lead to adjustments

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin April 21, 2020

MarketsFarm — The closure of one of Canada’s largest beef slaughterhouses will lead to adjustments in the cattle feeding sector, as animals will be fed longer but on different rations. Cargill’s meat processing plant at High River, Alta. slaughters roughly 40 per cent of all the cattle butchered in Canada. The plant is to be

Fresh bread in Egypt. (Goldream/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

G20 ag ministers say COVID-19 measures shouldn’t disrupt food supply

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 21, 2020

Dubai | Reuters — Agriculture and food ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) countries agreed at a virtual meeting on Tuesday that emergency measures to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus must not upend global food supply chains. Their extraordinary meeting came as coronavirus lockdowns across the world slow global food supply chains,

Daily Network News

ICE weekly: War news driving canola markets

War is increasing food prices, insecurity say IMF, World Bank and UN food agency

B.C. agrochemical startup gets $1.2M in federal funding

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