Insights and Stories on Coronavirus

China reclassifies dogs as pets, not livestock

Apr. 9, 2020 at 1:39 pm CDT

Shanghai | Reuters — China has drawn up new guidelines to reclassify dogs as pets rather than livestock, the agriculture ministry said, part of a response to the coronavirus outbreak that the Humane Society called a potential “game changer” in animal welfare. Though dog meat remains a delicacy in many […]

U.S. grains: Corn slumps as ethanol production hits decade low

Apr. 8, 2020 at 4:17 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

Maple Leaf poultry plant shuts for ‘deep cleaning’

Apr. 8, 2020 at 2:13 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Universities can adapt to COVID-19, UCVM dean says

Apr. 7, 2020 at 11:32 am CDT

By Lisa Guenther

Canadian, U.S. farms face crop losses on foreign worker delays

Apr. 6, 2020 at 6:52 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper Rod Nickel

How COVID-19 is upending global food supply chains

Apr. 3, 2020 at 8:51 pm CDT

Satara/Singapore/London | Reuters — In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed strawberries to cows. It’s not a treat. They can either feed their crops to animals or let them spoil. And other […]

By Naveen Thukral Nigel Hunt rajendra-jadhav

Ontario drops weed from essentials list

Apr. 3, 2020 at 7:51 pm CDT

Reuters — Ontario’s government on Friday removed cannabis from a list of essential businesses allowed to operate during the lockdown, as part of its efforts to further restrict contact amid a deepening coronavirus crisis. The move comes after health officials projected 80,000 COVID-19 coronavirus cases and about 1,600 deaths by […]

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit 17-1/2-year low

Apr. 3, 2020 at 7:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures fell on Friday to the lowest point since late 2002 on tumbling pork prices and slowing slaughter rates as measures to control the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools and restaurants and sent U.S. unemployment rates soaring. Cattle futures also dropped as wholesale beef […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Wheat firms after four-day slide

Apr. 3, 2020 at 5:40 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rose on Friday, bouncing after a four-day slide, as traders weighed the threat of a deep economic downturn due to the coronavirus epidemic against supply tensions in some exporting countries. Corn extended a six-day drop, with May futures hitting the lowest for a […]