Insights and Stories on Mexico

Mexico to phase out use of glyphosate

Aug. 13, 2020 at 2:56 am CDT

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico will gradually phase out use of the herbicide glyphosate by the time the current administration ends in late 2024, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday, following a ministerial spat over the product. Acknowledging differences between his agriculture and environment ministries over the […]

Non-essential travel limits extended at U.S. borders with Canada, Mexico

Jul. 16, 2020 at 6:39 pm CDT

By David Shepardson Steve Scherer

Mexico to resume sending farmworkers to Canada after safety agreement

Jun. 22, 2020 at 3:34 am CDT

By Reuters

TFW program to be overhauled after COVID-19 outbreaks on farms

Jun. 19, 2020 at 2:43 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

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

Jun. 16, 2020 at 5:13 pm CDT

By Reuters

COVID-19 cases, deaths lead Ontario to test migrant farm workers

Jun. 9, 2020 at 8:32 pm CDT

Toronto/Ottawa | Reuters — Ontario has started testing about 8,000 migrant farm workers for COVID-19 in a hard-hit rural region of the province after two young workers died and the coronavirus was found on at least 17 farms, according to the local public health authority. The Ontario outbreak has centred […]

By Allison Martell Kelsey Johnson

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

President’s cattle call finds expected marks in U.S.

May. 21, 2020 at 4:55 am CDT

U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks Tuesday about imports of live cattle into the United States resonated predictably among that country’s various cattle producer groups. At a White House event Tuesday, flanked by U.S. farm and ranch leaders and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue for a multi-billion-dollar COVID-19-related farm aid announcement, Trump […]

By Dave Bedard

Trump floats halt to U.S. cattle imports as pandemic hurts ranchers

May. 19, 2020 at 12:58 pm CDT

Washington/Chicago | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States should consider terminating trade deals under which it imports cattle as he looks to help U.S. ranchers hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak. The United States imports cattle from Mexico and Canada to supplement domestic supplies […]

By Steve Holland Tom Polansek

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 […]

By David Alire Garcia P.J. Huffstutter

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