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File photo of Smithfield Foods’ pork plant at Sioux Falls, S.D. on April 16, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

U.S. meatpacking workers often absent after plants ordered to reopen

"There's still so many risks"

By Andy Sullivan, Tom Polansek, GFM Network News June 16, 2020

Chicago/Washington | Reuters — Smithfield Foods is missing about a third of its employees at a South Dakota pork plant because they are quarantined or afraid to return to work after a severe coronavirus outbreak, according to the workers’ union. Tyson Foods was forced to briefly close its Storm Lake, Iowa plant — a month […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

R-CALF suit alleges U.S. packers conspired to suppress fed cattle prices

By Jonathan Stempel April 23, 2019

Reuters — Four of the largest U.S. beef-packing companies were accused in a lawsuit on Tuesday of violating federal antitrust law by conspiring to drive down prices they paid ranchers for cattle, even as retail beef prices hovered near record levels. Tyson Foods, Cargill, the JBS USA unit of Brazil’s JBS and National Beef Packing […] Read more

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs jump on short-covering

By Karl Plume April 9, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rallied more than three per cent on Monday in a short-covering and bargain-buying rebound from life-of-contract lows posted last week, traders said. Some contracts, including actively-traded June, rose by as much as the daily three-cent limit as a steady slide in prices over the past […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Marfrig to buy control of U.S.-based National Beef

By Ana Mano April 9, 2018

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s Marfrig Global Foods said Monday it would buy control of Kansas City-based National Beef Packing for US$969 million, in a deal that would make it the world’s No. 2 beef processor. Marfrig also said it was seeking to sell an existing U.S. unit, Keystone Food. The proceeds will be […] Read more

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CN, CP railways break grain shipping records

U.S. grains: Soybeans gain on weather concern; global demand pressures corn, wheat

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CBOT weekly outlook: Analysts await USDA crop estimates

CN, CP railways break grain shipping records

U.S. grains: Soybeans gain on weather concern; global demand pressures corn, wheat

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U.S. meatpacking workers often absent after plants ordered to reopen

R-CALF suit alleges U.S. packers conspired to suppress fed cattle prices

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs jump on short-covering

Marfrig to buy control of U.S.-based National Beef

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