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U.S. pork processors face higher costs, slower speeds after court ruling

They’re asking the USDA to push back against the court ruling the agency failed to evaluate the effect of new rules on worker health

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Reuters – An industry group representing North America’s biggest meat packers has pushed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to appeal a Federal Court decision that cancelled an agency rule that allows pork plants to slaughter pigs more quickly. The decision issued on March 31 in U.S. District Court in Minnesota could raise costs for meat
Workers disinfect a conveyor belt, part of the measures installed to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Seaboard Foods pork-processing plant in Guymon, Oklahoma, May 17, 2020.
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U.S. court slams brakes on Trump-era hog slaughter line-speed rule

Union cheers ruling, saying faster line speeds harm processing plant workers

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Reuters – The largest U.S. meat-packing union is celebrating a recent victory in Federal Court that it said invalidated a Trump-era rule allowing hog slaughter plants to run without line-speed limits. A lawsuit brought against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and three of its local chapters
Some areas of Western Canada might already be past the point where “pig free” is even possible, says a University of Saskatchewan researcher.
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Losing the war with wild boar

Forget eradication. For some parts of Manitoba it’s now a containment game

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It’s time to up our efforts in the battle against wild pigs, according to a leading voice in the field. Ryan Brook of the University of Saskatchewan has spent years studying the rise of the invasive species in Western Canada, and has also spent years raising the alarm. He has watched as sounders — the
Pigs are seen at a backyard farm on the outskirts of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, 
China, Sept. 5, 2018.
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China to crack down harder on fake African swine fever vaccines

Industry insiders believe use of illicit vaccines has caused a new, chronic form of the disease

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Reuters – China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs says it will crack down further on illegal production and sales of African swine fever vaccines in a sign of the extent of a problem that is damaging the world’s largest pig industry. The ministry, which has been warning against such behaviour since 2019, said tougher measures were needed
German pig prices up again
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German pig prices up again

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German pig prices have risen again as sales inside the EU help markets recover from Asian import bans on German pork, traders and industry sources said on Wednesday. German pig prices on March 3 rose to 1.40 euros a kg slaughter weight from 1.30 euros the previous week, said the association of German animal farmers
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South Africa African swine fever outbreak expands

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South Africa’s Western Cape region has reported its first cases of African swine fever at two small farms, after outbreaks in other parts of the country, the provincial head of agriculture said. Recent outbreaks have also been reported in the Free State, Eastern Cape and Gauteng provinces, agricultural authorities said. “A survey to determine the
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China’s first hog-breeding ETF listing capitalizes on pork industry boom

As the sector scales up and industrializes there are opportunities — and risks

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Reuters – China’s first hog-breeding exchange traded fund (ETF) made its debut on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on March 5, the first of three tied to the country’s booming pork sector that is rebuilding after African swine fever decimated herds in 2018. Penghua Fund Management Co.’s CSI Livestock Breeding ETF, as well as similar funds to be
Workers at Seaboard Foods’ pork-processing plant in Guymon, Oklahoma, seen here in a May 2020 file photo, 
say line speeds are causing worker injuries.
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As pork plant speeds up slaughtering, workers report more injuries

The need for speed seems to be at the expense of employee health

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Reuters – One of North America’s leading pig slaughterhouses is running faster than ever as meat packers hustle to keep pork in grocery stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plant worker Hector Ixquier says it’s time to slow down. Ixquier said he sought medical treatment in January for tendons he strained in his right arm while
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Livestock, Markets

Canada’s year-end cattle herd continues shrinking

Slaughter beat pre-pandemic pace in second half, StatsCan says

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Year-over-year contraction continued for Canada’s cattle herd at the start of 2021, while newborn piglet counts kept Canada’s hog herd on the rise during the same period, according to Statistics Canada. StatsCan on Monday reported 11.2 million cattle on Canadian farms at Jan, 1, 2021 — down one per cent from the year-earlier date and
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Canada’s active PED case count dwindling

Affected Manitoba farms now all presumptive-negative

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The number of active outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) on hog farms in Canada has shrunk to a few in Eastern Canada, with affected sites elsewhere now believed negative for the disease. Manitoba Pork announced Wednesday that the last of the premises to report a PED outbreak in that province in 2020 has now

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