Insights and Stories on COVID-19

Pandemic to delay StatsCan’s agriculture reports

Apr. 8, 2020 at 6:51 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Farmers, commodity traders and market analysts will have to wait a while for agriculture-related reports from Statistics Canada in 2020. The main reason for the delay is the COVID-19 pandemic, said John Seay, an analyst with StatsCan’s agriculture, energy, environment and transportation statistics branch in Ottawa. “Given the […]

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

Klassen: Feeder market lacks buying interest

Apr. 7, 2020 at 4:49 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures drop as pandemic roils markets

Apr. 6, 2020 at 5:41 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

Federal carbon tax rises despite opposition, pandemic

Apr. 6, 2020 at 4:54 pm CDT

Ottawa — The federal government has pushed ahead with an increase to the carbon tax despite continued calls from the agriculture sector for reprieve from the program. The price on carbon rose from $20 per tonne to $30 per tonne effective April 1. The federal Liberal government is standing firm […]

By D.C. Fraser

Beef demand soars as consumers ‘aggressively’ stock up

Apr. 6, 2020 at 1:39 pm CDT

Canada’s beef demand has been strong during the pandemic. “Unlike previous disease outbreak issues, COVID-19 has not been about food safety or consumer confidence or issues with food products,” Canada Beef president Michael Young said during a recent online town hall. “Beef demand at retail is up 50 to 70 […]

By Alexis Kienlen

Canadian farmland trending less affordable in FCC report

Apr. 6, 2020 at 12:44 pm CDT

The average value of farmland in Canada is continuing to rise faster than farmers’ ability to generate revenue from it, Farm Credit Canada’s latest Farmland Values Report suggests. The report, released Monday, shows the average value of Canadian farmland rose 5.2 per cent in 2019 over 2018, the smallest year-over-year […]

By Dave Bedard

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

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

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