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U.S. livestock: Hog futures rise to highest since late October; cattle firms

Dec. 23, 2020 at 3:21 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. hog futures rose to their highest in nearly two months on Wednesday, supported by a round of technical buying and tight pork supplies. After the market closed on Tuesday, the U.S. government released a report that showed that domestic frozen pork belly stocks as of […]

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures drop on fund selling

Dec. 22, 2020 at 4:45 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

Tyson fires seven managers after probe into COVID-19 wagering

Dec. 17, 2020 at 4:13 am CST

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures fall as accelerating pandemic stirs demand concern

Dec. 7, 2020 at 5:07 pm CST

By Karl Plume

Flush with cash, Chinese hog producer builds world’s largest pig farm

Dec. 7, 2020 at 4:02 pm CST

By Dominique Patton

Ontario hog set-aside plan underway

Dec. 7, 2020 at 11:42 am CST

Ontario hog farmers can now apply for AgriRecovery toward feed costs for hogs held back from sale when certain pork packers went into COVID-19-induced slowdowns. Agricorp, the province’s ag program delivery agency, on Nov. 25 announced the Canada-Ontario COVID-19 2020 Hog Maintenance Feed Initiative, which started effective Nov. 6 and […]

By Dave Bedard

Tyson suspends staff as suit alleges managers set up COVID pool

Nov. 19, 2020 at 8:58 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Tyson Foods said Thursday it suspended employees without pay and hired former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder to conduct an investigation in response to a wrongful death lawsuit that alleges managers at an Iowa pork plant took bets on how many employees would catch COVID-19. The […]

By Tom Polansek

Feds back pork producers with new levy on imports

Nov. 5, 2020 at 8:37 pm CST

A new agency will use funds from a new levy on imported pork to pay for research and promotion for the Canadian pork sector. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie Claude Bibeau on Thursday officially announced the creation of the Canadian Pork Promotion and Research Agency (PRA). The Farm Products Council of […]

By D.C. Fraser

Swine flu strain makes first jump to person in Canada

Nov. 4, 2020 at 2:44 pm CST

Further risk to people is believed to be low after a person in central Alberta was confirmed to have caught a variant of H1N2 swine flu, in the first case of its kind in Canada. The virus was spotted in mid-October after a patient sought medical care with “influenza-like symptoms,” […]

By Dave Bedard

Shutdown urged for Quebec pork plant after COVID-19 death

Oct. 23, 2020 at 3:24 am CDT

The union for over 1,000 workers at a major Quebec hog slaughter plant is calling on the owner to temporarily close the facility against a COVID-19 outbreak now blamed for the death of an employee. Le Syndicat des travailleurs d’Olymel Vallee-Jonction-CSN said Wednesday the death of a worker earlier this […]

By Dave Bedard