Published Friday, April 17, 2020 Quiet Storm BY ART CULLEN Knives of anxiety cut to our quick as we pray for the workers processing turkeys and hogs into our food. At Smithfield in Sioux Falls, at least 545 of 3,700 workers tested positive for COVID-19. The plant shut down. The Smithfield CEO warned that there…
30% of Nothing is Still Nothing April 20, 2020 OCM Staff Currently there is a movement in the cattle industry calling for a mandatory beef cattle cash market volume of 30%. Corbitt Wall is touting it as the biggest thing to hit the cattle industry since Y-Tex eartags, while patting himself on the back like…
Coronavirus at Smithfield pork plant: The untold story of America’s biggest outbreak By Jessica Lussenhop BBC News 17 April 2020 How did the biggest cluster in the US emerge in a corner of South Dakota? Infections spread like wildfire through a pork factory and questions remain about what the company did to protect staff. On…
R-CALF USA Responds to Sudden Push to Lock-In Captive Supplies at 70% To: R-CALF USA Members and Affiliates From: CEO Bill Bullard Date: April 16, 2020 Background: There has been a sudden push to convince cattle producers that new congressional legislation should be introduced that will lock in the multinational meatpackers ability to maintain captive…
Argus Leader 4.15.20 Smithfield Foods now largest coronavirus hot spot in US, CDC in Sioux Falls to investigate A team from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has arrived in Sioux Falls to help with the Smithfield Foods coronavirus hotspot, which has become the biggest single-source of cases in the United States. Eighty of…
USDA approves imports of fresh citrus from China Tom Karst April 15, 2020 04:35 AM ( USDA ) Despite consistent long-term opposition from some U.S. citrus leaders, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved U.S. imports of Chinese pummelo, nanfeng honey mandarin, ponkan, sweet orange, and satsuma mandarins. USDA scientists believe the Chinese citrus varieties…
Woodward Livestock Auction, Inc April 13 at 1:34 PM Cattle Market, April 2020 April, 11th, 2020 To all cattlemen and the public, Why something has to be done very soon regarding the packer and retailer manipulating the cattle market and beef market. #1 There is a monopoly with 4 big packers (JBS, National Beef (owned…
Who’s to blame for China’s industrial stranglehold? Look in the mirror, America April 09, 2020 Editors Note: A mea culpa from a Wall St financier who offshored production to China. It’s clear that our medical supply chains are in complete chaos. Supplies are so short that some doctors and nurses in New York City reverted…
Governor closes Greeley, Colo., JBS plant News | April 13, 2020 rgabel Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said JBS’s Greeley processing facility would be closed for “as long as it takes.” In a press release, JBS said the facility will remain closed until April 24. Polis said he spoke to Vice President Mike Pence three times…