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CME July 2020 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs lower on China tensions

CME live cattle futures mostly higher

By Karl Plume May 28, 2020
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures dropped by as much as the daily trading limit on Thursday on worries that rising tensions between Washington and Beijing could limit […] Read more

Mexican agricultural workers queue in the early morning at the U.S.-Mexico border to enter Calexico, California from Mexicali on May 26, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Ariana Drehsler)
Crops

Farm workers cram daily into U.S.-Mexico border tunnel

Labourers line up hundreds deep for hours despite contagion risk

By Laura Gottesdiener May 28, 2020
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, […] Read more

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her family home in Vancouver in this May 8, 2019 file photo. (Photo: Reuters/Lindsey Wasson)
Crops

Huawei extradition ruling could unleash more Chinese backlash

More punitive trade measures expected

By David Ljunggren, Steve Scherer May 28, 2020
Ottawa | Reuters — A British Columbia court ruling that could permit the extradition of a senior Huawei executive to the U.S. leaves Canada vulnerable to further retaliation from Beijing, […] Read more

ICE July 2020 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Extradition ruling not the only anchor on canola

By Glen Hallick May 28, 2020
MarketsFarm — Although ICE July canola finished $1.30 per tonne lower Wednesday, at $463.50, following a ruling on the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Wayne Palmer said there’s much […] Read more

Detail from the front of the CBOT building in Chicago. (Vito Palmisano/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Crop commodities rangebound

By Marlo Glass May 28, 2020
MarketsFarm — Favourable growing conditions across most of the U.S. — and a good start to the growing season — have kept commodity prices on the Chicago Board of Trade […] Read more


Meat producer groups have been advocating for freer interprovincial trade in meat for years.
Livestock, News

Easier interprovincial meat trade could be allowed in a meat shortage

A process was recently created to allow meat that isn't federally inspected to move across provincial borders

By John Greig May 27, 2020
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will allow interprovincial trade of provincially inspected meat if necessary to alleviate meat shortages. Moving meat not inspected by the federal system across a […] Read more

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Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show cancelled, digital event planned

Social distancing would be challenging at such a large event with COVID-19 restrictions

By John Greig May 26, 2020
The largest event in Ontario agriculture will not go ahead in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show, which draws tens of thousands of farmers to its Woodstock […] Read more

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Outdoor Farm Show relocating to cyberspace for 2020

In-person event cancelled due to COVID-19

By Dave Bedard May 25, 2020
Another major event on Eastern Canada’s fall farming calendar has halted its up-close-and-in-person plans for 2020 but expects to follow its western sister event into virtual space. Glacier FarmMedia, the […] Read more


File photo of a farmed mink. (Konstantin Sokolov/iStock/Getty Images)
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Mink infected two humans with COVID-19, Dutch government says

By Toby Sterling May 25, 2020
Amsterdam | Reuters — Mink with the coronavirus have infected two people in the Netherlands in what are probably the first such cases of transmission during the epidemic, government and […] Read more

Large square bales wait for pickup during a previous hay season.
Crops, News

Hay market tight, but concerns with COVID-19-related demand

Significant market opportunities available in Canada and the U.S.

By Stew Slater May 25, 2020
Demand for Ontario-grown hay remains strong in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 global pandemic, but longer-term effects are more difficult to judge. “It’s not anything near what other people […] Read more

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