Insights and Stories on COVID-19

Sollio outlines pandemic recovery plan for food sector

Jun. 1, 2020 at 2:54 am CDT

Ottawa — One of Canada’s largest agri-food companies has laid out a five-point industry recovery plan for federal politicians to consider. During a meeting Tuesday of the Commons standing committee on finance, the president of Quebec-based Sollio Co-operative Group shared plans to limit consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the […]

Two national campaigns launched for food supply chains

Jun. 1, 2020 at 2:32 am CDT

By D.C. Fraser

Federal ag supports ‘too little, too late’ for mushroom growers

Jun. 1, 2020 at 1:55 am CDT

By D.C. Fraser

Organic prices largely steady despite increased demand

May. 29, 2020 at 9:39 am CDT

By OrganicBiz

Tyson to shut Iowa pork plant against COVID-19 outbreak

May. 29, 2020 at 3:55 am CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs lower on China tensions

May. 28, 2020 at 5:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures dropped by as much as the daily trading limit on Thursday on worries that rising tensions between Washington and Beijing could limit U.S. pork purchases by China, the world’s largest pork consumer. Sino-U.S. relations have worsened as the White House has threatened […]

By Karl Plume

Farm workers cram daily into U.S.-Mexico border tunnel

May. 28, 2020 at 3:24 pm CDT

Mexicali | Reuters — Every night, hundreds of farm workers in Mexico crowd for hours in a cramped tunnel to a border station to reach day jobs in Imperial Valley, California, with no social distancing enforced despite coronavirus cases saturating hospitals in the region. By 2 a.m. on Tuesday, tense […]

By Laura Gottesdiener

Huawei extradition ruling could unleash more Chinese backlash

May. 28, 2020 at 1:50 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — A British Columbia court ruling that could permit the extradition of a senior Huawei executive to the U.S. leaves Canada vulnerable to further retaliation from Beijing, analysts said. Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on Wednesday lost a challenge to a U.S. bid to extradite her […]

By David Ljunggren Steve Scherer

ICE weekly outlook: Extradition ruling not the only anchor on canola

May. 27, 2020 at 8:23 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Although ICE July canola finished $1.30 per tonne lower Wednesday, at $463.50, following a ruling on the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Wayne Palmer said there’s much more to the decline in the price. While Palmer, a trader with Exceed Grain in Winnipeg, called the ruling “a […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Crop commodities rangebound

May. 27, 2020 at 8:08 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Favourable growing conditions across most of the U.S. — and a good start to the growing season — have kept commodity prices on the Chicago Board of Trade locked in a sideways range. In the crop progress report released Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

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