STRIKE AT CANADIAN PORK PLANT HAS PIGS GOING ACROSS BORDER

A workers’ strike at a pork plant in Quebec is allowing U.S meat packers, who are struggling to find enough domestic pigs, to make some Canadian bacon instead. While workers on strike since April were marching through Quebec City demanding higher wages, hogs that would typically be slaughtered at Olymel’s plant in Vallee-jonction were getting trucked over the border into the U.S. The surge in imports of Canadian hogs is helping to temper a rally in the U.S. pork market, with wholesale prices for the meat at the highest levels since the record peaks of 2014, according to Department of Agriculture data. The shipments are also stemming losses for hog producers in Ontario who have lost access to their Quebec market amid the strike.