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Cargill Partners With Nonprofits to Ensure Canada’s COVID-19 Resilience

Cargill is working with nonprofit and NGO partners around the globe to help address food security, health and safety needs and agriculture and industry challenges to ease the impact of…

Everything’s on the table: How COVID-19 Could Change Canada’s Meat Processing Industry

Outbreaks in big packing plants have been a painful lesson in the supply chain’s vulnerabilities, but solutions may be expensive for the industry and consumer by Naomi Powell – Financial…

Canada launches Agri-Food Immigration Pilot

The long-awaited Canadian immigration program will provide a pathway to permanent residence for workers in certain agri-food industries by Shelby Thevenot – CIC News Applications are now being accepted for…

North America Bulges With Cattle as Virus Leaves Retailers and Consumers Hungry for Beef

There is no room on the range for cattle, as shuttered slaughterhouses across North America due to the pandemic leave farmers nowhere to ship their animals Reuters Now fast-food chain…

Don’t Blame Farmers for Euthanizing Animals and Dumping Milk Because We Have the Food Industry We Deserve

Millions of litres of milk are being thrown away, more than two million eggs are eliminated from the food chain, and pigs and chickens are being euthanized. There is horror…

Livestock Profitability Tied to North American Processing Capacity

There was optimism in the red meat sector at the beginning of 2020. Cattle and hog prices were tracking higher than 2019 by Leigh Anderson – Farm Credit Canada (FCC)…

Meat Processing Disruptions Amid COVID-19 Spur Changes to Canadian Beef Supply

Just in time for barbeque season, beef analysts expect changes in meat prices and supply in Canada following disruptions to the industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic by Debbie Knight –…

Farm Credit Canada-Backed Fund Offers Innovative and Flexible Solutions for Uncertain Times

Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, on behalf of Farm Credit Canada (FCC), announced the launch of a $100-million Agriculture and Food Business Solutions Fund to support proven, viable…

Food Inspectors Could Face Sanctions If They Refuse Reassignment to COVID-19-Infected Meat Plants

The union representing Canada’s food inspectors says Ottawa is threatening disciplinary action against employees who refuse to be reassigned to work at COVID-19-infected meat plants by Kathleen Harris – CBC…

Ontario Meat Processors Applaud Governments $2.25 Million Investment in COVID-19 Agri-Food Workplace Protection

Meat & Poultry Ontario (MPO) welcomes the announcement made by the federal and provincial governments that they will invest $2.25 million to provincially licensed meat processing plants to protect employees…

Cargill to Shut Quebec Beef Plant Temporarily Due to Coronavirus Outbreak

The Canadian arm of U.S. agribusiness Cargill said on Sunday it would soon temporarily shut a meat-processing plant in the province of Quebec after 64 workers tested positive for the…

Messe Frankfurt Takes Over Management of Process Expo in Chicago

Messe Frankfurt is continuing its collaboration with the American industrial association FPSA (Food Processing Suppliers Association), owner of the trade fair Process Expo. As of 1 May 2020 Messe Frankfurt’s…

Swine Health Information Center Calls for Stakeholder Feedback

The Swine Health Information Center is inviting pork sector stakeholders to provide feedback on the usefulness of its monthly domestic and global swine disease monitoring reports by Bruce Cochrane –…

Canada’s Chicken Farmers Still Waiting for Support

While welcoming the Prime Minister’s government announcement regarding financial support for agriculture and agri-food, Canada’s chicken farmers believe that the government does not fully understand what they need to mitigate…

Workers at JBS Believe Huge Effort at Meat Plant Will Keep Them Safe

As the morning shift begins at the JBS meat-packing plant, workers line up leisurely and with appropriate social distancing at the back of the staff parking lot to pick up…

CCA Press Release: Prime Minister Announces Initial Payment to Beef Producers and Commits to Provide More

The Government of Canada (GoC) announced its initial support today for Canada’s beef industry amongst other agriculture announcements The portion of the announcement pertinent to the beef industry includes: $50…

CFA Says Rising Prices and Food Shortages Inevitable Without Increased Government Backing For Canada’s Farmers

While the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) welcomed today’s announcement from the federal government for $252 emergency funding, the amount is not enough on its own to avert negative impacts…

Temple Grandin on Why Big Meat Supply Chains Are Fragile

About five years ago, I was giving a lecture in my livestock handling class at Colorado State University about animal welfare, and when I turned to write on the whiteboard,…

COVID-19 Clouds Future of Food Processing Sector

The Chief Agricultural Economist with Farm Credit Canada says the COVID-19 crisis is testing the adaptability of Canada’s food processing sector by Bruce Cochrane – FarmScape Online Farm Credit Canada’s…

As Meat Plant Infections Rise, Canada Lets Packers Choose When to Close

In Cargill Inc’s High River, Alberta plant, supplier of more than one-third of Canada’s beef, 391 workers were sick with coronavirus when the company suspended operations, according to provincial health…

Our February 2025 Issue

In our February 2025 issue we look at, Dietary Guidelines including meat, AI at IFFA 2025, Trade challenges for the Canadian Beef Industry, Shifting Consumer Demand, Strengthening food security, Cattle Fax forecast, Eliminating internal food trade barriers, and much more!