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Small Hog Farmers Blamed For Destabilizing China Market

Small hog farmers have helped destabilize pork prices and played havoc with feed demand forecasts, according to the chairman of China’s top corn buyer New Hope Group. “Individual farmers, small in scale, have no plans in their breeding scale. Whenever the prices are good, they increase breeding and when prices are lower, they reduce pig
Livestock

Union Can’t Find New Inspectors

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The new workers “must be ghosts, no one can find them, they’re nowhere.” – BOB KINGSTON The wrangling between the Harper government and the union representing food inspectors at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is on again following the presentation in Parliament of a report that says the agency has added 93 inspectors to its
Livestock

Maple Leaf Foods Sees Higher Meat Costs Lasting

Higher raw meat costs for pack-e rs appears to be a long-term trend as Canadian hog farmers struggle to recover from money-losing operations, the head of a leading Canadian hog processor, Maple Leaf Foods, said May 19. “We actually think it is a new normal,” said president and CEO Michael McCain at the BMO Capital
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Smithfield Returns To Profit, Tops Street View

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U. S. hog and pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. posted its first quarterly profit since 2008 and said its hog unit, a longtime drag on results, should improve in the coming fiscal year. The company also said pork sales to China and Russia should resume soon, and restructuring its pork segment should boost earnings in
Livestock

Maple Leaf Deal Clarifies Duty To Foreign Workers

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Anow-ratified labour contract at Maple Leaf Foods’ main pork slaughter and processing plant at Brandon will lay out the company’s obligations to its imported workers, according to their union. The company’s new five-year deal with over 2,200 Brandon workers represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 832 offers improvements to pensions, wages,
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Maple Leaf To Conduct Hog Loading Site Inspections

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Maple Leaf Meats is increasing its surveillance of loading practices for hogs shipped to the company’s slaughter plant at Brandon. Maple Leaf will conduct assessments at loading sites in Manitoba between now and December 2010, a company official said. Sixteen farms randomly selected from Maple Leaf’s hog operation network will undergo loading assessments to ensure
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Maple Leaf Foods Posts Profit, Listeria Crisis Past

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Maple Leaf Foods Inc., returned to profit in the third quarter on strong performances at its bakery and prepared meats divisions as it recovered from the effects of a costly tainted meat recall last year. Maple Leaf said Oct. 28 it earned $22.5 million, or 17 Canadian cents a share, in the third quarter, ended
Livestock

Locked-Out XL Staff Keep Talking

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Talks have been scheduled in an effort to resolve a labour dispute between XL Foods and the company’s unionized members represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1400, an official with the union confirmed Sept. 29. “We have notified officials with XL Foods that the unionized members would like to get back to
Livestock

No Escape For Government Bodies In Listeria Report

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Health Canada, the Public Health Agency and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have all been cited for contributing to a breakdown in the food inspection system during last summer’s deadly listeria outbreak. To prevent a repeat of it, special investigator Sheila Weatherill proposed 57 recommendations to improve food safety. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said they
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Does Canada Need A National Food Standard?

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One re commenda -tion flowing from a Commons subcommittee report that resonates with the food industry is the need for a national food inspection standard. Michael McCain, president and CEO of Maple Leaf Foods and the face of food safety these days, says, “All food for sale in Canada, whether it is produced in federally

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