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…
Lack of buyers forces temporary closure of local livestock markets Ross Becker Created: April 10, 2020 07:00 AM (ABC 6 News)-Livestock producers in southeastern Minnesota and north Iowa have nowhere to sell their livestock right now. For the first time since 1947, both the Decorah Sales Commission livestock auction and the Lanesboro Sales Commission auction…
One of the largest pork processing facilities in the US is closing until further notice By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Updated 12:42 PM EDT, Sun April 12, 2020 New York (CNN Business) One of the country’s largest pork processing facilities is closing until further notice as employees fall ill with Covid-19. The closure puts the…
Can We Afford the Economic Costs of COVID-19? By Dr. John Ikerd A crisis is a point in time when unforeseen circumstances force us to make decisions that will fundamentally affect our future, for either better or worse. We are in a time of crisis. I was shocked when I heard that governors confronted with…