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Coronavirus kills 15,000 U.S. mink

Affected states aren't planning to cull

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek November 11, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — More than 15,000 mink in the United States have died of the coronavirus since August, and authorities are keeping about a dozen farms under quarantine while they investigate the cases, state agriculture officials said. Global health officials are eying the animals as a potential risk for people after Denmark last week

Iowa, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Indiana are being considered swing states – each also ranks among the country’s top 10 agricultural-producing states.

Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Opinion: No winner for Canadian farmers

No matter the outcome of the U.S. election, subsidies are going to keep flowing

By D.C. Fraser October 30, 2020

No matter who wins the upcoming election in the United States, Canadian farmers can expect to continue facing tough competition from their heavily subsidized peers south of the border. Fairly early in his 2016 election bid, it became clear producers saw Trump as the favoured candidate. His nationalist rhetoric helped win farmers over. A candidate

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Now would be a good time for some honest dishonesty

As the U.S. election looms, it makes one pine for simpler political times

By Alan Guebert October 27, 2020

Somewhere in southern Illinois there’s a high school yearbook that contains a photo of me and another student leaning against a classroom wall on either side of a 1972 campaign poster of a smiling Richard Nixon. The caption writer, another student, notes that my buddy and I are “standing” with our man, the then incumbent

Family members of longtime JBS USA meat packing plant employee Saul Sanchez, from left, wife Carolina Sanchez, and daughter Estela Hernanez, Beatriz Rangel and Patty Rangel hold a photo of him. He died of COVID-19 in Greeley, Colorado April 10.

News

INSIGHT: Workers denied benefits for COVID-19 illnesses, deaths

Companies say employees can’t prove illnesses are work-related; workers say plant design all but guarantees transmission

By Tom Hals, Tom Polansek October 14, 2020

Reuters – Saul Sanchez died in April, one of six workers with fatal COVID-19 infections at meatpacker JBS USA’s slaughterhouse in Greeley, Colorado, the site of one of the earliest and deadliest coronavirus outbreaks at a U.S. meatpacking plant. Before getting sick, the 78-year-old Sanchez only left home to work on the fabrication line, where

With little recourse, most of the browbeaten and scared workers went back to work. As a result, says ProPublica, more than 43,000 were sickened by COVID-19 and “at least 195” died.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: The Big Meat Gang is getting awfully smelly

This U.S. lobby rewrote its country’s COVID response with a bit of pressure on the White House

By Alan Guebert October 13, 2020

In a year of too many dark days, Monday, Sept. 14 was a particularly dark day for two reasons. First, on Sept. 14, ProPublica, the non-profit, investigatory news group, published a 3,100-word exposé on how global meat packers used their clout this spring to get a White House order to keep workers on the job

News

US agriculture secretary says unsure if China will meet Phase 1 farm commitment

By Christopher Walljasper October 13, 2020

Reuters – China may fall short of annual agricultural product purchasing commitments made in its Phase 1 trade deal with the United States due to “non-agricultural trade issues,” U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said Oct. 2. “I’m not sure they’re going to make it, but they’re trying,” Perdue said during a town hall

Markets

Canada to keep U.S. border curbs until pandemic much less serious

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 3, 2020

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will maintain restrictions on non-essential travel with the United States until the coronavirus outbreak in both nations is much less serious, a senior government official said on Friday. The comments by federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair suggest that the ban on non-essential travel could stay for months to come,

Livestock Markets, Markets

China books record weekly U.S. beef purchases: USDA

By Karl Plume September 22, 2020

Reuters – China made its largest weekly U.S. beef purchases on record for the week ending August 21, followed by its biggest U.S. corn deals in almost a month the next week, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. The USDA, in its weekly export sales report, said China bought a net 3,315 tonnes of

Markets

China buys at least eight cargoes of U.S. soybeans

By Karl Plume September 21, 2020

Reuters – Chinese state-owned firms bought at least eight bulk shipments of U.S. soybeans recently, or at least 480,000 tonnes, for shipment in December and January, two U.S. traders familiar with the deals said. The bulk of the sales were for shipment from Pacific Northwest ports, with the remainder due to ship from U.S. Gulf

News, Poultry

China suspends poultry imports from second U.S. plant over COVID-19

By Tom Polansek September 18, 2020

Reuters – China has suspended imports from an OK Foods poultry plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas, because of coronavirus cases among workers, the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council said Sept. 15. China, the world’s top meat importer, has blocked products from some plants in foreign countries as part of an all-out effort to control

Daily Network News

Proposed Sask. poultry research facility gets funding influx

Agriculture Canada makes small balance sheet adjustments

Federal government funds Quebec organic fertilizer company

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