Cargill Ltd to 'temporarily idle' Alberta beef plant hit by COVID-19 outbreak

[LWeber]

Cargill Ltd to 'temporarily idle' Alberta beef plant hit by COVID-19 outbreak - Reuters News
20-Apr-2020 03:11:17 PM

April 20 (Reuters) - Cargill Ltd said on Monday it has begun the process of temporarily idling its beef plant in High River, Alberta due to a COVID-19 outbreak and encouraged all of its employees to get tested for the respiratory virus as soon as possible. The Canadian arm of U.S. agribusiness Cargill said the entire High River plant would be idled once it had finished processing the protein already on site to avoid food waste, spokesman Daniel Sullivan said in an email, adding there is no estimated timeline for when operations will resume.

[tweety]

Now people will see where food comes from.

More importantly, where it isn't.

[shtferbrains]

Now people will see where food comes from.

More importantly, where it isn't.

Comes out of a box.

Will say Product of Uruguay or some other source that they have a plant.

It would be bad business to not have arrangements already made.

The have lots of previous experience from situations like BSE.

They get open Quota as they can't supply from here and the people have to be fed or they will wonder where their food comes from.

Big margin opportunity.

Never waste a good crisis.

[DaneG]

Backlog of about 3000hd/day! Bet you that each day of shut down = 1 week of discounted fats and feeders prices.

[farmaholic]

Hey Zues Kreist....its just the flu, get back to work.

Grain transportation and port handling and loading next?

Spilt milk, but no sense crying about it, they got paid. Could have done a good will gesture and drove around and given it away, poor areas, homeless shelters, reservations, food banks, anyone and everyone.

[15444]

Meanwhile all the checkoff scammers can say is "Hold them back, don't sell any, too many in the pipeline."

Hold them back, with what? $100/ton hay? ****ing twits.

Edit: took my rage out on CCA and BFO on their FB pages again. Feel much better. Either on FB or Twitter, I encourage you all to call out the checkoff scammers as they pat themselves on the back. Really helps lower the blood pressure.

[makar]

As for as smarter urbanites there is no hope, wife gave a box of potatoes to to her niece with 3 kids and no man in sight, she threw them out because they were dirty, and that was two years ago.

[farmaholic]

As for as smarter urbanites there is no hope, wife gave a box of potatoes to to her niece with 3 kids and no man in sight, she threw them out because they were dirty, and that was two years ago.

Does she understand the concept of showering and bathing and what the goal of doing it is?

[the big wheel]

You guys jeez don’t you know you can order food from the internet?

[makar]

Does she understand the concept of showering and bathing and what the goal of doing it is?

Showering and bathing is what you do before your ski trip the boy toy is paying for.

[makar]

Showering and bathing is what you do before your ski trip the boy toy is paying for.

Both of them looking for sugar daddies if anyone interested, looks like 80000 won't cut it, these are the people that need to grow up quick.