Insights and Stories on COVID-19

JBS able to pass on higher grain costs in North America

May. 13, 2021 at 3:14 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — JBS SA, the world’s largest meatpacker, has been able to pass higher grain costs on to consumer prices because food demand is strong in markets such as the U.S. and Canada, executives said in an earnings call Thursday. In Brazil, where higher feed prices have […]

Workers call strike at Olymel hog plant in Quebec

Apr. 30, 2021 at 9:50 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Federal budget to offer direct payments to farmers for carbon pricing

Apr. 19, 2021 at 4:50 pm CDT

By D.C. Fraser

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs down on demand concerns

Apr. 16, 2021 at 5:36 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Set-aside funded for Quebec hog, cattle, big game producers

Apr. 15, 2021 at 8:27 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Cargill shuts Ontario chicken plant against COVID

Apr. 15, 2021 at 1:25 am CDT

Agrifood firm Cargill is seeking slaughter space for Ontario chickens at other processors after temporarily closing its London poultry packing plant Tuesday against an outbreak of COVID-19 among workers. The company said Tuesday it was “taking this step out of an abundance of caution as our local workforce deals with […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. livestock: Live cattle, lean hogs set new contract highs

Apr. 5, 2021 at 5:34 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Strong meat demand pushed U.S. live cattle and lean hog futures to new contract highs on Monday. The cattle market benefited from increasing demand for beef as the U.S. is entering the summer grilling season, analysts said. Prices for choice cuts of boxed beef soared by […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. pork processors face higher costs, slower speeds after court ruling

Apr. 5, 2021 at 2:55 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters — An industry group representing America’s biggest meatpackers on Thursday pushed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to appeal a federal court decision that canceled an agency rule that allows pork plants to slaughter pigs more quickly. The decision issued Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Minnesota could […]

By Tom Polansek

JBS profit bolstered by weak currency, strong Chinese and U.S. markets

Mar. 26, 2021 at 9:34 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Meat processor JBS SA’s fourth-quarter profit rose 65 per cent from a year earlier, boosted by strong food sales in China and the U.S. and a sharp devaluation of Brazil’s real currency, the company said in a securities filing on Wednesday. For full-year 2020 its […]

By Ana Mano Nayara Figueiredo

Hog market recovering from pandemic lows

Mar. 26, 2021 at 8:21 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — In April 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, prices for lean hog futures dropped to their lowest point since 2002, falling below US$40 per hundredweight. Nearly a year later, the industry is in the middle of a speedy recovery. At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) […]

By Adam Peleshaty

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Insights and Stories on COVID-19

JBS able to pass on higher grain costs in North America

Workers call strike at Olymel hog plant in Quebec

Federal budget to offer direct payments to farmers for carbon pricing

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs down on demand concerns

Set-aside funded for Quebec hog, cattle, big game producers

Cargill shuts Ontario chicken plant against COVID

U.S. livestock: Live cattle, lean hogs set new contract highs

U.S. pork processors face higher costs, slower speeds after court ruling

JBS profit bolstered by weak currency, strong Chinese and U.S. markets

Hog market recovering from pandemic lows

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