April 28, 2020 UDAF to Allow Private Custom Meat Plants to Slaughter and Process Livestock for Commercial Sale Temporary Measure Designed to Partially Make Up for Reduced Production at Commercial Facilities(Salt Lake City) The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF) has taken action to alleviate the stockpile of animals from farms and ranches waiting…
Image via Shutterstock. Written by Claire Kelloway / Washington Monthly April 29, 2020 For many Americans, grocery shopping has become an intensely stressful experience. To maintain social distancing, people must queue before entering stores. Once inside, they must scramble to find increasingly scarce products, including household staples from milk and eggs to pork and beef….
Tyson Foods helped create the meat crisis it now warns against · JEN SKERRITT Bloomberg News 5.3.20 TYSON FOODS Workers trim beef at the Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Dakota City, Neb. in 2012. · Keith Myers, Kansas City Star John Tyson, the billionaire whose family business reigns as the largest meat processor in the…
9 Actions We Can Take Now to Strengthen Our Agriculture and Food System April 30, 2020 OCM Staff The Covid-19 Pandemic has had many effects on the economy of the United States, and particularly hard-hit has been the agriculture and food sector. Not since the Depression have we seen such a disparity between retail and…
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, May 3, 2020 Unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains! Alan Guebert For over a month now, nearly anyone who can lift a fork has asked what the “new normal” in American agriculture will be after Covid-19 loosens its terrible grip. Six weeks later,…
As Cases Mounted, Meatpacker JBS Kept People on Crowded Factory Floors May 1, 2020 With coronavirus outbreaks at two-thirds of the company’s beef processing plants, employees are asking, “Why didn’t they help protect us?” Esther Honig and Ted Genoways For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters. On her…
OCM Calls for Breakup of Big Four Meatpackers May 30, 2020 LINCOLN, NE: Today, Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) is calling for the breakup of the “Big Four” meatpacking companies: Cargill, JBS, National Beef, and Tyson. Together, these four companies control over 85% of the United States beef supply. Recent packing plant closures due to…
Ag industry tries to digest meatpacking order 04/29/20 5:40 PM By Philip Brasher and Spencer Chase President Donald Trump defended his actions to end a “bottleneck” in the food supply, but legal experts differed over whether an executive order aimed at ensuring meatpackers keep operating amid the coronavirus pandemic could override state and local objections…
Siouxland cattle farmers face challenges due to COVID-19 Local News by: Lydia Vazquez Posted: Apr 29, 2020 AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to WhatsAppShare to SMSShare to EmailShare to More SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) – The closures of packing plants are causing a series of challenges for Iowa farmers. “We are losing…
Farmers Union Cites Concerns Over Executive Order on Meat Plants Unions across the country say the meat processing industry should have enacted adequate worker safeguards long before the pandemic. (Adobe Stock) April 30, 2020 MADISON, Wis. — At least 20 meat processing plants have closed temporarily across the country, including one in Wisconsin, following the…