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Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay says U.S. wheat will be treated exactly like Canadian wheat which means unregistered varieties will automatically receive the lowest grade.

MacAulay clarifies USMCA, wheat grading, dairy compensation

The minister also briefed reporters on his EU trade mission last week

By Allan Dawson October 19, 2018

American wheat entering a Canadian elevator will be graded like Canadian wheat under terms of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), says Canadian Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay. That means to be eligible for a Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) grade, wheat, whether grown in the U.S. or Canada, must be from a variety registered in Canada.

Cattle on pasture in the Philippines. (LeoLee/iStock/Getty Images)

Beef cattle, Livestock

Canadian cattle’s access to Philippines restored

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News October 18, 2018

The regulatory path has been cleared to resume exports of live Canadian cattle to the Philippines, reopening a market worth an estimated $8 million per year. The federal government on Monday announced the resumed export clearance, along with new market access for Canadian sheep and goat genetics exports to both Indonesia and the Philippines. The

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Leadership needed

By Gord Gilmour October 18, 2018

One of the most important roles of our political leadership is right there in the job title. We hire these folks to lead. Often that means making the hard decisions and telling people what they won’t want to hear. Naturally some are better at it than others. The late U.S. president Harry Truman popularized the

David Wiens says dairy farmers across the country are now asking ‘what’s their future?’ as they try to access the impact of the trade deal on the farm and processing sectors.

Dairy cattle, Local news, News

Manitoba dairy producers reeling from USMCA trade deal

Trade deals are starting to add up when it comes to the impact on dairy farms

By Lorraine Stevenson October 18, 2018

Manitoba dairy farmers attending annual meetings this month are trying to understand the coming changes as a result of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). There are some serious questions being asked about what the new deal means for the family farm and their future, said David Wiens, a Manitoba dairy farmer and vice-president of

Dairy cattle, News

Public support largely behind dairy farmers

Canadians are clearly signalling they value dairy farms

By Lorraine Stevenson October 18, 2018

Dairy farmers reeling from the uncertainty descending on their farms in light of the new trade deal can take heart in one thing, says Manitoba dairy farmer and Dairy Farmers of Canada vice-president David Wiens. “There’s one thing the government can’t take away from us with this trade deal, and it is the relationship we

Comment, Opinion

Opinion: How the USMCA democratized supply management

We’re 20 years behind the rest of the world’s industrialized countries and need to have a national conversation

By Sylvain Charlebois October 16, 2018

Nobody should be surprised. Concessions on dairy access during the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) negotiations were foreseeable. Americans went from wanting to “tweak” the deal last year to getting significant concessions from Canada. It is a deal we needed of course, but one must wonder how our supply management system will fare moving forward. And specifically, how our

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell addresses a MAGA rally in Richmond, Ky. on Oct. 13, 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Markets

U.S. Senate will not vote on USMCA in 2018, McConnell says

By GFM Network News October 16, 2018

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Senate’s top Republican said on Tuesday that senators will not vote to approve a revised North American trade pact in 2018, leaving the issue to the next Congress. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell told Bloomberg Television that the Senate will not have time to take up the new United

Bill Gibson is among those sheep producers to manage his herd through adaptive grazing.

Livestock

No wool over their eyes

Grazing preference, fencing, and parasite issues are among the quirks sheep producers deal with when attempting high stock density grazing

By Alexis Stockford October 15, 2018

Markus Wand can draw on a long family history of high intensity rotational grazing and adapting it to different species. His operation, Wand Family Farm near Powassan, Ont., has been rotationally grazing since the ’70s when Markus’s father, Klaus, bought a dairy farm and turned to the practice to help manage the farm’s purebred herd.

The general manage of Manitoba Beef Producers has the initial impression that the new USMCA is essentially what NAFTA was.

Livestock, News

Livestock opinions diverge on USMCA

Supply-managed sectors are calling foul on NAFTA’s successor, but livestock industries like pork and beef are welcoming the deal with open arms

By Alexis Stockford October 12, 2018

Livestock sectors are split on yet another free trade agreement, this one the successor to NAFTA. Canada’s dairy sector has made no secret that it is unhappy with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which promises new access for the U.S. dairy industry, an end to Class 6 and Class 7 milk products within six months

Canada’s dairy and poultry sectors are seen as most impacted by concessions made in the USMCA trade deal.

Dairy cattle, News, Poultry

Dairy and poultry farm groups discuss USMCA compensation

It could take more than money to settle the ruffled feathers of supply management groups, who say they were pawns in the negotiations

By Alex Binkley October 12, 2018

Within hours of announcing a new free trade deal with the United States and Mexico, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland were promising compensation for dairy and poultry farmers. While Trudeau and Freeland talked as if the compensation discussions had already started, Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay has just begun to arrange

Daily Network News

ICE weekly: War news driving canola markets

War is increasing food prices, insecurity say IMF, World Bank and UN food agency

B.C. agrochemical startup gets $1.2M in federal funding

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