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US Slaughter Update - Packing plants in the US have been relatively quick to get processing rates back to near pre-COVID-19 levels. In the last couple weeks, weekly kill levels were estimated slightly above a year ago (actual US slaughter data is released with a two-week delay). The largest weekly kill of 2020 was just under 685,000 head, the largest weekly kill since 2011. Five weeks after this large kill ...
Ontario Fed Market and Seasonality - The Coronavirus has taken its toll across the North American market, but the Ontario cattle market was able to manage through the situation much better than most other regions. Packers in the east were able to run at full capacity, but there were still some disruptions at times on the cull cow market and for some fats that were destined to the Northeast US plants that were impacted by slowdowns/closures ...