Insights and Stories on Coronavirus

CFIA funded to build up inspection corps against COVID-19

Apr. 18, 2020 at 1:46 am CDT

Ottawa — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is spending $20 million to hire, train and equip additional staff members to limit disruptions resulting from COVID-19. With meat packers and food processing plants considering extended hours as they adjust to taking extra measures to combat the pandemic, CFIA was in […]

Joint U.S.-Canada border approach to pandemic seen as well-managed

Apr. 18, 2020 at 1:14 am CDT

By D.C. Fraser

U.S. announces coronavirus aid for farmers, food buys for poor

Apr. 17, 2020 at 6:59 pm CDT

By Karl Plume P.J. Huffstutter

Russia will suspend grain exports for six weeks if quota runs out mid-May

Apr. 17, 2020 at 6:52 pm CDT

By Polina Devitt

COVID-19 spurs new clash between Big Oil, Big Corn

Apr. 17, 2020 at 4:08 am CDT

By Stephanie Kelly

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rebound to one-week high

Apr. 16, 2020 at 7:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live and feeder cattle futures jumped to one-week highs on Thursday as the markets extended rebounds after diving recently on concerns about the new coronavirus backing up livestock on farms. Hog futures remained under pressure from disruptions caused by the virus, which has shut pork […]

By Tom Polansek

Third major Alberta beef plant confirms COVID-19 cases

Apr. 16, 2020 at 5:20 pm CDT

UPDATED, April 17 — Cases of COVID-19 have now been confirmed at three of Alberta’s major beef packing plants. Three cases of COVID-19 were confirmed Wednesday at the JBS beef packing plant in Brooks, said Tom Hesse, Local 401 president with United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada. JBS Canada […]

By Alexis Kienlen

‘Elbow to elbow:’ North America’s meat plant workers fall ill, walk off jobs

Apr. 13, 2020 at 11:21 pm CDT

Chicago/Winnipeg | Reuters — At a Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Alabama, workers recently had to pay the company 10 U.S. cents a day to buy masks to protect themselves from the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to a meat inspector. In Colorado, nearly a third of the workers at a […]

By Rod Nickel Tom Polansek

Cargill halts second shift at High River beef plant

Apr. 13, 2020 at 8:07 pm CDT

Cargill is temporarily idling its second shift at one of Canada’s biggest beef packing plants to “minimize the impact” of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The company announced Monday it would reduce shifts at its High River, Alta. beef plant, about 40 km south of Calgary, effective that day and until further […]

By GFM Staff

U.S. livestock: Futures slide as COVID-19 worries roil market

Apr. 9, 2020 at 8:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. livestock futures slumped again on Thursday, volatility roiling the market as it faced resistance over surging stocks and growing concerns that meat packers will close plants in the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Lean hog future prices slipped for a second session on concerns about the domestic […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

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