Insights and Stories on COVID-19

Pulse weekly outlook: Pandemic may pose market opportunity

Jun. 17, 2020 at 2:28 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Plant protein products were steadily rising in popularity before the COVID-19 pandemic set in — but that industry could also get a boost from consumers shifting away from meat in a post-pandemic world. “There’s an increased level of awareness of hygiene issues in the meat industry,” Vishal Vijay, […]

Mexico to stop sending workers to Canadian farms hit by COVID-19

Jun. 16, 2020 at 5:13 pm CDT

By Reuters

CERB plan, U.S. border closure both extended

Jun. 16, 2020 at 3:21 pm CDT

By Kelsey Johnson Steve Scherer

U.S. meatpacking workers often absent after plants ordered to reopen

Jun. 15, 2020 at 8:38 pm CDT

By Andy Sullivan Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Futures up as meat production grows

Jun. 15, 2020 at 4:42 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

India’s levy cut on lentils part of balancing act

Jun. 12, 2020 at 7:52 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — To Pulse Canada, the recent move by the Indian government to temporarily reduce the import levy on lentils from 30 to 10 per cent is part of a balancing act between competing interests. Greg Cherewyk, president of Pulse Canada, explained that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “looking after […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures touch one-month low

Jun. 12, 2020 at 6:23 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures dropped to their lowest price in more than a month on Friday, weighed down by expectations for increasing meat production. Beef output has improved as slaughterhouses have resumed operations after closing temporarily in April and May due to outbreaks of the new […]

By Tom Polansek

Coronavirus threatens Chicago’s last remaining trading pits

Jun. 12, 2020 at 4:29 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago brokers and traders worry COVID-19 will kill more of the city’s once famous shout-and-gesture trading pits. CME Group, which owns the Chicago Board of Trade, said this week that most of the pits it closed in March because of the pandemic will remain shuttered indefinitely. […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Hogs weaken on expectations for abundant supplies

Jun. 10, 2020 at 7:46 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures fell on Wednesday on expectations for abundant pork supplies as meat processors work their way through pigs that backed up on farms when slaughterhouses shut due to the coronavirus pandemic. Traders expect meat packers to start eating into the backlog of hogs […]

By Tom Polansek

U.N. expert says ‘some are starving’ in North Korea

Jun. 10, 2020 at 12:38 pm CDT

Geneva | Reuters — A United Nations human rights expert voiced alarm on Tuesday at “widespread food shortages and malnutrition” in North Korea, made worse by a nearly five-month border closure with China and strict quarantine measures against COVID-19. Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the […]

By stephanie-nebehay

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Insights and Stories on COVID-19

Pulse weekly outlook: Pandemic may pose market opportunity

Mexico to stop sending workers to Canadian farms hit by COVID-19

CERB plan, U.S. border closure both extended

U.S. meatpacking workers often absent after plants ordered to reopen

U.S. livestock: Futures up as meat production grows

India’s levy cut on lentils part of balancing act

U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures touch one-month low

Coronavirus threatens Chicago’s last remaining trading pits

U.S. livestock: Hogs weaken on expectations for abundant supplies

U.N. expert says ‘some are starving’ in North Korea

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