The Canadian pork industry and COVID-19: A year of resilience,Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics

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The Canadian pork industry and COVID-19: A year of resilience
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics ( IF 9 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 , DOI: 10.1111/cjag.12276
Ken McEwan ₁ , Lynn Marchand ₁ , Max Zongyuan Shang ₁

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While COVID-19 had the potential to be extremely disruptive to the Canadian pork supply chain, the sector showed resiliency by adjusting to market changes to ensure industry continuation. Unlike other non-agricultural firms that were mandated to close at times, the pork sector was deemed an essential service and allowed to continue operating throughout the pandemic. Evidence of this resiliency is seen in three main ways. First, market access to the United States was maintained for both live pigs and pork exports. Second, Canada not only maintained market share in global pork exports, but it also actually increased shipments because of strong demand from China caused by African swine fever. Third, the challenges of processing plant closures and labour shortages were overcome in a variety of ways including increasing interprovincial shipments and increasing live pig exports to the United States. Pork consumption on a per capita basis continued the historical downward trend, and it is expected that consumers will return to their normal consumption patterns (e.g., dining at restaurants) despite job losses. At the meat processing level, it is anticipated that there will be an acceleration in the process to automate.

更新日期：2021-05-28

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