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Beef plants cannot operate efficiently without a steady supply of cattle from ranch to feedlot to plants.

Beef producers get a raw deal

Prime Cuts with Steve Kay

By Steve Kay June 19, 2020

North America’s cattle producers were the first in the beef chain to be impacted by the spread of the COVID-19 virus from epidemic to pandemic. Yet they are getting a raw deal from their national governments in terms of financial or other aid. The Canadian and U.S. governments were quick to declare that meatpacking was […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

JBS resumes second shift at Alberta beef plant

Out of 650 COVID cases at plant, 11 are 'active'

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News May 21, 2020

Meat giant JBS’s Alberta beef packing plant has resumed two daily shifts as of Thursday, as fewer than a dozen of its 2,600-plus employees are now sidelined by COVID-19. The JBS plant at Brooks, about 170 km east of Calgary, is “slowly returning to two shifts as of today,” the company said Thursday in a […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Cargill to restart High River beef plant Monday

Over 750 workers confirmed with COVID-19

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 30, 2020

Ottawa | Reuters — Cargill said Wednesday it will start to reopen its beef processing plant at High River, Alta. on Monday after the plant was forced to close down because hundreds of workers had become infected with the coronavirus. In a statement, Cargill said it would resume operations after a 14-day temporary shutdown, with […] Read more

Water vapour imagery from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES East satellite on April 10, 2019 shows a powerful late-season winter storm expected to bring heavy snow and high winds to parts of the north-central U.S. Plains and the upper Midwest. Bright blue and white areas indicate high water vapour or moisture content. (Satellite map courtesy NOAA)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Blizzard forces closure of some U.S. grain processors, elevators

By Reuters April 11, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — A second “bomb cyclone” blizzard hitting the United States was limiting the movement and processing of corn, soybeans and wheat around the Midwest and Plains on Thursday. Grain trader Cargill said it was closing three of its grain handling facilities in Minnesota, two in South Dakota and one in Nebraska on […] Read more

News, Prime cuts

Packers have another record year

Prime Cuts with Steve Kay

By Steve Kay December 28, 2018

Converting cattle into beef has never been an easy way to make money. Beef processing involves the need for large amounts of cash, the vagaries of the weather, the possibility of a product recall and the headache of running a plant with enough workers. These and other factors apply to packers both in Canada and […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Research

Beef’s shrinking water footprint

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

By Reynold Bergen January 23, 2018

In 2016 I received 10 letters like this: “Dear Dr. Bergen… My name is Emma. I am in 6th grade at Rime Street Elementary. My class found out on vegsource.com that it takes 2,500 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef. Another site said 25,000 litres… all these different answers are confusing. My […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

JBS expands Utah beef plant as cattle supply squeezes rivals

By Reuters January 29, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– JBS USA, one of the top U.S. meat processors, said Thursday it will expand a Utah beef processing facility, even as some of its rivals have been shuttering plants because of tight cattle supplies. The project is notable because the U.S. cattle herd has fallen to its smallest size since 1951, […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle regain losses, hogs rise

U.S. cattle ranchers criticize government for delayed reporting of human screwworm case

Pulse Weekly: AAFC raise dry pea, lentil production numbers

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U.S. livestock: Cattle regain losses, hogs rise

U.S. cattle ranchers criticize government for delayed reporting of human screwworm case

Pulse Weekly: AAFC raise dry pea, lentil production numbers

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Beef producers get a raw deal

JBS resumes second shift at Alberta beef plant

Cargill to restart High River beef plant Monday

Blizzard forces closure of some U.S. grain processors, elevators

Packers have another record year

Beef’s shrinking water footprint

JBS expands Utah beef plant as cattle supply squeezes rivals

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