Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday May 13, 2020

It is still up in the air if there will be any research going on at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada site south of Melfort this summer.

An email from the federal communications department stated there are currently two staff members on site at the Melfort Research Farm maintaining established forage trials. All other staff were sent home.

As discussions continue, no decision has been made yet with regards to field research projects and no timeline was given when a final decision will be made.

Several commodity groups, including SaskCanola, expressed concern last month the federal government was contemplating the suspension of all field plot research for the summer of 2020.

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The federal government has announced a new, temporary policy that will reduce the time it takes for a temporary foreign worker to start a new job.

While this policy is in place, a worker who is already in Canada and has secured a new job offer, can get approval to start working in their new job, even while their work permit application is being processed.

This will cut what can often take 10 weeks or more, down to 10 days or less.

Nearly 22,000 agricultural workers had entered the country by the end of April, compared with about 25,500 for the same time period last year.

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The union representing workers at the Cargill meat processing plant in southern Alberta has paid tribute to the second employee who died as a result of COVID-19.

51-year-old Benito Quesada was a union shop steward at the High River, Alta. plant.

He died in hospital last weekend after contracting the virus in April.

Nearly half of the 2,000 employees have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak began, which led to a temporary two-week shutdown of the facility.

Quesada had been working at Cargill since 2007.

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