Joe Hill produces cattle north of Fergus and like other local beef farmers, he's feeling the effect of the strike. He said the Guelph plant has to get up and running again.
RELATED: The employee walkout at Guelph’s Cargill beef processing plant is now in its second week. The director of the agri-food analytics lab at Dalhousie University, Sylvain Charlebois, joins Jaden Lee-Lincoln to discuss the impacts of this work stoppage – Jun 3, 2024A strike at the province’s largest beef processing plant is having a domino effect in Ontario’s beef farming industry, experts warn.
“If we haven’t cleared most of the backlog by that time, then it impacts our ability to replace cattle to market at the time we would normally market them next year,” Hill said., Beef Farmers of Ontario said “Cargill Guelph processes approximately 75 per cent of the cattle in Ontario.” The statement calling for a resolution to the dispute noted that beef farmers are “mitigating the impact of supply chain challenges by sourcing alternative facilities in Canada and the U.S.
Global News reached out to the provincial association’s Wellington County district but did not hear back by publication time.Hill said most producers are working with their regular cattle market dealers or truckers right now to come up with options.“I have my name on the list so that when they have loads going to various plants, I may be able to get one of those loads,” he said.
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