Insights and Stories on COVID-19

More Mexican beef headed to U.S. dinner tables as supply crunch bites

May. 13, 2020 at 11:37 pm CDT

Mexico City/Chicago | Reuters — More Mexican steaks and other beef cuts are headed north of the border after the coronavirus outbreak has hobbled U.S. meat processing plants, potentially offsetting fears of shortages affecting businesses from fast-food chains to grocery stores but angering U.S. ranchers. The Mexican industry chalks up […]

Australia requests China trade talks over beef, barley

May. 13, 2020 at 1:53 pm CDT

By Kirsty Needham

U.S. livestock: June live cattle limit up on soaring beef prices

May. 12, 2020 at 7:10 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Laid-off foreign workers may get conditional clearance for other jobs

May. 12, 2020 at 5:48 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentils stabilize with seeding underway

May. 12, 2020 at 3:23 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures lower on profit-taking

May. 11, 2020 at 7:58 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures closed lower on Monday, with some contract months falling their daily three-cent limit on profit-taking amid signs the U.S. meat-packing sector was stepping up beef production, traders said. Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) June live cattle futures settled down 1.975 cents at 92.675 […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Agri-food tech expected to be a post-pandemic growth industry

May. 11, 2020 at 3:59 am CDT

Ottawa — A researcher at the University of Guelph says the COVID-19 pandemic will spark agility – particularly related to technology – in agriculture. “(The pandemic) has re-emphasized the need to get access to some of the technology that exists in other sectors and are not easily accessible in agri-food […]

By D.C. Fraser

Cargill to shut Montreal-area meat plant temporarily

May. 11, 2020 at 2:31 am CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — The Canadian arm of U.S. agribusiness Cargill said Sunday it would soon temporarily shut a Montreal-area case-ready meat plant after 64 workers tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is at Chambly, a South Shore suburb of Montreal, one of the worst hit cities in Canada. Cargill […]

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cash cattle, futures up on beef packer scrutiny

May. 8, 2020 at 7:27 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures rose on Friday along with cash prices as the federal government probed the beef market. The price of cattle in the cash market has rebounded since U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had urged the federal Justice Department to look […]

By Tom Polansek

Canada’s growers look to reopening garden centres to salvage dire year

May. 8, 2020 at 2:21 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Hard-hit Canadian flower and nursery growers hope a surge in demand from budding gardeners in Ontario, the country’s biggest market, can help the industry avert disaster caused by the coronavirus with retailers reopening on Friday in the populous province. Most non-essential businesses in Canada were shut […]

By Kelsey Johnson

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