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Meat industry calls on federal gov to ease foreign worker limits

By Geralyn Wichers May 29, 2024

Meat industry groups are asking the federal government to reinstate a program that expanded industry hiring limits for temporary foreign workers (TFWs) and lengthened the validity of paperwork needed for hiring, citing work shortages and impact on food prices.

Meat and poultry products are key components of our local food system, and we have to make sure we maintain the infrastructure needed to support livestock farming from the farm to the fork.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Meat processors key link in local food value chain

The labour issues in the sector didn’t pop up overnight

By Jennifer Doelman August 23, 2023

Labour shortages have long been a challenge for the meat processing sector. It creates problems for meat processing businesses and also makes it harder for farmers to access much-needed processing capacity for their livestock when animals are ready for market. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the skilled worker shortage, while driving an increase in consumer demand

News

Tyson Foods ends COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees

By Tom Polansek November 25, 2022

Reuters – Tyson Foods has confirmed it eliminated a requirement that employees receive COVID-19 vaccinations, a step the company said improved meatpacking operations after plants closed in 2020 due to outbreaks among workers. The biggest U.S. meat company by sales lifted the mandate on Oct. 31, one year after imposing it, according to a report

Livestock Markets, News

British meat industry warns new red tape could hammer exports to EU

By Reuters November 4, 2022

New U.K. government regulations set to come into force in December could prevent thousands of British meat producers from exporting to the European Union, the industry has warned. The British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said a requirement that farms wishing to export to the EU provide documents signed by veterinarians that confirm visits to farms

News

EU sees lower meat and dairy output

By Reuters October 19, 2022

Meat and dairy production in the European Union is expected to decline this year and next as livestock farms feel the effects of drought, disease outbreaks and rising costs, the EU’s executive said Oct. 5. A historic drought in Europe this summer has reduced availability of grass and grain to feed herds, increasing costs for

Livestock, Markets

U.S. packer profit margins jumped 300 per cent during pandemic, economists say

Increased costs don't explain higher profits, White House advisors say

By GFM Network News December 11, 2021

Washington | Reuters — Four of the biggest meat-processing companies, using their market power in the highly consolidated U.S. market to drive up meat prices and underpay farmers, have tripled their own net profit margins since the pandemic started, White House economics advisers said. Financial statements of the meat-processing companies — which control 55 to

News

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

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-Unger 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

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

Daily Network News

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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Meat industry calls on federal gov to ease foreign worker limits

Opinion: Meat processors key link in local food value chain

Tyson Foods ends COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees

British meat industry warns new red tape could hammer exports to EU

EU sees lower meat and dairy output

U.S. packer profit margins jumped 300 per cent during pandemic, economists say

Biden administration plans tougher action to rein in meat prices

Canada dilutes plan to limit temporary foreign workers

Editorial: Beef production and the view from Alberta

Pressure mounts for changes to country-of-origin labelling

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