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Biden administration plans tougher action to rein in meat prices

U.S. plans to funnel money towards smaller meat producers and workers

By Trevor Hunnicutt September 22, 2021

Reuters – The Biden administration plans to take a tougher stance toward meat-packing companies it says are causing sticker shock at grocery stores. Four companies control much of the U.S. meat-processing market, and top aides to President Joe Biden blamed those companies for rising food prices in a blog on Sept. 8. As part of a set

Livestock, Markets

As meat demand rises, processors raise pay for farmers, workers

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek March 24, 2020

Chicago | Reuters –– North American meat processors said on Monday they would pay extra money to farmers and slaughterhouse workers as the companies scramble to meet surging demand from consumers unnerved by the spread of the new coronavirus. Companies such as Tyson Foods and Cargill want to ensure their slaughterhouses remain supplied with cattle

Livestock

Canada dilutes plan to limit temporary foreign workers

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 23, 2016

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s Liberal government on Thursday watered down measures to limit the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers firms can hire after complaints the restrictions would cause major labour shortages. Under rules introduced by the previous Conservative administration, the number of low-skilled foreign workers a firm could employ would have dropped to

Beef cattle, Opinion

Editorial: Beef production and the view from Alberta

By Laura Rance June 22, 2015

The view is different out here — and it’s not just the scenery. Granted, Co-operator staff had the rare opportunity last week to visit with ranchers in and around Calgary that were specifically selected by their colleagues at Alberta Farmer Express specifically because they do things a little differently. Nevertheless, it was an eye-opener listening

Beef cattle, Hogs, News

Pressure mounts for changes to country-of-origin labelling

WTO ruling sets the stage for U.S. repeal of COOL

By Alex Binkley, Jennifer Paige, Reuters May 28, 2015

The United States has three months to repeal its country-of-origin labelling program on beef and pork imports before Canada and Mexico will proceed with billions of dollars’ worth of retaliatory tariffs on American goods. In the wake of the World Trade Organization’s final decision May 18 that COOL violates international trade rules, the House of

Local news

The meat of the matter in making sausage

Workshop at Food Development Centre helps both professionals  and amateurs learn the craft of sausage making

By Lorraine Stevenson February 19, 2015

Otto Von Bismarck famously once said, “Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made.” But the Prussian statesman wasn’t in the sausage-making business. Those who are, or simply experimenting at home with new methods, ingredients or recipes, need to know — and seeing is believing. That’s what drew 15 participants

Beef cattle, Opinion

Editorial: Winning at the WTO for real

By Laura Rance November 3, 2014

Canadian livestock producers won something to crow about but little else in the latest WTO ruling to support their claim that the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labelling rules are unfair and discriminatory. The ruling was accompanied by the now-familiar volley of press releases from Canadian livestock and meat producers, and more sabre-rattling by federal politicians about

Beef cattle, Livestock

Meat processors applaud tenderized beef labelling

But they say ground beef should also carry cautionary labels

By Alex Binkley June 4, 2014

Meat processors are welcoming Health Canada’s regulations for mandatory cooking advisory labels on all mechanically tenderized beef (MTB) products but wonder why retailers aren’t required to put similar labels on ground beef packages. Jim Laws, president of the Canadian Meat Council, said in an interview the department’s MTB labelling order, which comes into effect Aug.

Beef cattle, Livestock

CFIA flubs food failure followup

By Alex Binkley December 4, 2013

Canada’s auditor general has identified weaknesses in how the Canadian Food Inspection Agency manages recalls of contaminated foods and its followups with processors to prevent further incidents. “While illnesses were contained in the recalls we examined, I am not confident that the system will always yield similar results,” Auditor General Michael Ferguson said in his

The draft code for care of pigs in Canada says long-term stays in gestation crates should be phased out.

Hogs, Livestock, News

New pig care code brings change

By Shannon VanRaes June 5, 2013

The much anticipated draft Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs released by the National Farm Animal Care Council signals change is coming to the industry’s use of sow gestation stalls and other herd management practices such as castration. “In well-managed and -designed housing systems, it is possible to achieve equal or

Co-op to capture carbon at ethanol plant, refinery

Britain, New Zealand strike free trade deal

‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels

GFM Network News