# COVID-19 and the beef supply chain: An overview

> Statistics Canada published an overview of how COVID-19 disrupted the Canadian beef supply chain. Plant shutdowns and reduced food service demand pushed consumer beef prices up while cattle prices received by ranchers fell. The release also notes that the supply chain largely held up and that some pandemic changes may persist.

- Date: 2020-11-17 · published 2020-11-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region Canada · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/50120-covid-19-and-the-beef-supply-chain-an-overview
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Processing bottlenecks depressed cattle values and lifted retail beef prices, so the disruption shows how plant capacity constraints can widen the gap between cattle and beef prices.

## Read by commodity

- LCATTLE: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LCATTLE | 2019-08-13 | [Tyson fire disrupts markets, supply chain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/7606-tyson-fire-disrupts-markets-supply-chain.md) | -4.8% | -9.9% |
| LCATTLE | 2025-11-24 | [Tyson Foods to close major US beef plant as cattle supplies dwindle](https://feedsoft.ai/events/6868-tyson-foods-to-close-major-us-beef-plant-as-cattle-supplies-dwindle.md) | +1.3% | +5.8% |
| LCATTLE | 2019-08-19 | [Beef, pork, poultry markets face new challenges: analyst](https://feedsoft.ai/events/57716-beef-pork-poultry-markets-face-new-challenges-analyst.md) | -0.3% | -5.7% |
| LCATTLE | 2019-08-20 | [Disruption in fed beef slaughter – Ohio Ag Net \| Ohio's Country Journal](https://feedsoft.ai/events/10658-disruption-in-fed-beef-slaughter-ohio-ag-net-ohio-s-country-journal.md) | +2.8% | -4.2% |
| LCATTLE | 2021-09-15 | [Feeder Cattle Price Seasonality \| Ohio BEEF Cattle Letter](https://feedsoft.ai/events/45197-feeder-cattle-price-seasonality-ohio-beef-cattle-letter.md) | -1.0% | -0.4% |

## Sources

- www150.statcan.gc.ca: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/45-28-0001/2020001/article/00086-eng.htm

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