Livestock & meat news

Livestock farmers in the U.S. are in trouble as major meat processing plants across the country suspend operations due to rising cases of coronavirus. Without ongoing, just-in-time slaughter, livestock animals are gaining weight and piling up on farms. Farmers are staring at the twin, grim realities of financial losses…

Meat plants in the U.S. and Canada are reeling from the impact of the deadly coronavirus. Employees are staying away from work that is usually performed close to other workers in near “elbow-to-elbow” conditions. They are required to debone chickens, chop beef or slice hams, often without virus-protective gear which…

Britain’s minister for environment Theresa Villiers has said that parliament will during the month receive a farming bill that is meant to guide the UK’s agricultural sector following plans to exit the European Union.During the yearly Oxford Farming Conference, Villiers said the government would be focused on funding agricultural…

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