NAFTA ‘absolutely essential’ for U.S. dairy industry

Dairy executive fears U.S. could lose Mexican market share to New Zealand and EU

Excerpts from testimony by Stan Ryan, president and CEO of Darigold and the Northwest Dairy Association, to the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, July 18. As we look at how to ensure we can continue a positive track record of export sales supporting farms and good jobs back here at home, NAFTA,



Hands experimenting with wheat in a laboratory

Farm support programs undergo changes

But some farm leaders say more is needed

Growing Forward 2 will transform into the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) next year with some changes to the existing Business Risk Management (BRM) programs, the federal and provincial agriculture ministers agreed at their annual summer meeting July 19-21. The ministers also agreed to calls from farm groups for a full review of the BRM programs

Photo: Canada Beef Inc.

Livestock premises ID participation strengthens Canadian agriculture

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is considering changes to the Health of Animals Regulations for livestock traceability, the agency announced during PremisesIDWeek July 26, a federal release says. The changes would require all Canadian operators of premises where livestock may be loaded or unloaded from a vehicle to have a valid premises identification number for



KAP is frustrated with the Manitoba government’s lack of information on a 
made-in-Manitoba carbon tax, KAP general manager James Battershill told delegates at KAP’s advisory council meeting in Brandon July 13.

KAP frustrated by lack of detail on Manitoba’s carbon tax

A new Manitobans Against Carbon Taxes Coalition is pressuring the 
provincial government to join Saskatchewan to fight the tax

Frustration is growing over a lack of information on Manitoba government’s carbon tax. “We are a little bit sick and tired of starting to negotiate and discuss this issue in a vacuum without information from the province on what it is looking at,” Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) general manager James Bat­ters­hill told KAP delegates at



So long AIM — it was another good run

So long AIM — it was another good run

It’s all over now except for the crying, folks. Ag In Motion (AIM) 2017 is history. And really the only crying that might be done, is by the dedicated volunteers and employees of the show who stay on the AIM grounds near Langham, SK for another 10 days to two weeks to clean up and


Delegates from 35 countries take in an evening of local culture at the Canadian Museum of History during the Global  4-H Summit July 11-14, 2017, in Ottawa.

4-H’ers make international ties at global summit in Ottawa

Manitoba 4-H members were among representatives from 35 countries at the second Global 4-H Summit last week

They may have come from 35 different countries, but they had at least one thing in common — 4-H. Ottawa played host to 480 international delegates during the second Global 4-H Summit last week, about double the number at the first summit in Seoul, South Korea in 2014. “I think the most amazing part of