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Pork producers say they’re suffering a financial crisis as COVID-19 has closed processing plants and sent the market into a tailspin.

Pork sector calls for federal ‘fire crew’ as market goes up in flames

The pork sector says it is in critical need of financial support due to market disruptions from COVID-19

By Alexis Stockford May 4, 2020

Canada’s pork producers are asking for emergency federal aid as their market spirals downward. Market disruptions due to COVID-19 have landed the pork market in a bad place as of late April. Multiple plant closures in the U.S. have dried up markets for Canadian weanlings, a two-week plant closure of an Olymel facility in Quebec

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Maple Leaf quarterly profit beats estimates

Higher prices, growing demand have positively affected the balance sheet

By Reuters April 5, 2018

Maple Leaf Foods posted a fourth-quarter profit Feb. 21 that beat estimates, due to better pricing and high demand for its prepared meats and plant-based protein foods. The company, one of Canada’s biggest pork processors, is focusing on expanding into new businesses in the United States. Its latest acquisition was the US$120-million purchase of vegan

Canada’s pork sector has enjoyed rapid expansion of export markets.

Hogs, News

Pork posts positive export growth

The Canadian Pork Council says export growth will determine future industry growth

By Alex Binkley February 27, 2017

Canadian pork producers and processors have responded actively to new trade deals — and their success during the last decade has them looking for more opportunities. Statistics from the Canadian Pork Council show that in the decade ending in 2016, exports rose in value by 51 per cent to $3.8 billion from 2006 and by

Hogs, Livestock

Canada’s Maple Leaf Foods profit beats estimates

By GFM Network News, Reuters July 29, 2016

Canadian meat processor Maple Leaf Foods reported a quarterly profit that squeezed past estimates as lower operating costs and increased pricing more than offset a fall in volumes in its meat products business. The company, whose brands include Schneiders and namesake Maple Leaf, recently completed a program started in 2010 to boost earnings by shutting

Livestock, News

Worker rules stifle agri-food, Eichler tells Senate committee

The new provincial agriculture minister was speaking to the Senate agriculture committee

By Alex Binkley July 5, 2016

Manitoba’s new agriculture minister says federal rules on temporary and seasonal workers are harming the agri-food sector. Ralph Eichler told the Senate agriculture committee there’s a shortage of skilled labour and regulatory changes are at least partially causing that. “Changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program have had significant impacts on the ability of Manitoba

Hogs, Livestock Markets, US Markets

LIVESTOCK-Cheaper corn drives US feeder cattle to 6-month high

By Reuters July 16, 2013

* Speculative buyers push up live cattle futures * CME hogs spike amid futures' discount to cash By Theopolis Waters CHICAGO, July 15 (Reuters) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures hit a 6-month high Monday led by CME live cattle market gains and lower-priced corn, said traders and analysts. Favorable crop growing conditions in

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

Impact of Russian red meat ban uncertain

By Alex Binkley April 9, 2013

Russia plans to ban meat imports from most Canadian and Mexican suppliers from April 8 over concerns about the use of the feed additive ractopamine, Russia’s veterinary and phytosanitary service (VPSS) said. But it is not yet clear what the overall impact on the Canadian meat sector will be. VPSS, Russia’s veterinary and phytosanitary service,

Hogs, Livestock, News

No new funding for hog producers

By Shannon VanRaes November 9, 2012

Hog producers won’t be getting any additional government help. Weeks of talks between Ottawa, the provinces, and producer representatives have ended with producers being told to make use of existing support programs. “I was pretty disappointed to see that,” said Karl Kynoch, Manitoba Pork Council chairman. “This shows us that government is not taking the

Hogs, Livestock, News

Farm groups offer cautious support to Europe trade deal

By Alex Binkley June 5, 2012

As a posse of Harper cabinet ministers and MPs fanned out across the country to round up support for a free trade deal with Europe (CETA), several farm groups offered carefully worded backing for more trans-Atlantic trade. However, as the details of the trade deal are still being negotiated, the groups carefully stuck to the

Hogs, Livestock, News

Meeting the challenge of heavier carcass weights

March 14, 2012

The demand from pork processors for heavier carcasses has created a number of challenges for hog producers which need to be addressed in order to ensure that increasing the weight at which pigs are marketed is profitable. This was the message to producers from Dr. Eduardo Beltranena, with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, at the

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

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Alberta crop conditions improve: report

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Pork sector calls for federal ‘fire crew’ as market goes up in flames

Maple Leaf quarterly profit beats estimates

Pork posts positive export growth

Canada’s Maple Leaf Foods profit beats estimates

Worker rules stifle agri-food, Eichler tells Senate committee

LIVESTOCK-Cheaper corn drives US feeder cattle to 6-month high

Impact of Russian red meat ban uncertain

No new funding for hog producers

Farm groups offer cautious support to Europe trade deal

Meeting the challenge of heavier carcass weights

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