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Dairy sector gets $350 million from feds

The investment is intended to offset losses expected in the sector when CETA is implemented

By Alex Binkley November 22, 2016

Dairy farmers and processors are welcoming a $350-million investment in their sector ahead of the Canada-Europe Trade Agreement coming into force. The $250 million over five years, available through the Dairy Farm Investment Program, will assist farmers to update their equipment to improve productivity, said an announcement from Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay. The money would

Livestock, Weather

Drought-hit tax deferral zones named

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 22, 2016

Ottawa has seen enough drought in parts of southwestern Alberta, southern and eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec to offer deferrals on their ranchers’ 2016 income tax from breeding livestock sales. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Tuesday released the federal government’s initial list of municipalities designated for the 2016 deferral. In Alberta, those areas include Clearwater,

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy ingredients strategy starts to drive investment

By GFM Network News, John Greig November 21, 2016

Ontario’s Gay Lea Foods has announced $140 million in projects to be spent over four years to dramatically increase dairy ingredient processing in the province. The announcement last week in Teeswater, Ont., is the result of several years of work to bring revitalized ingredients processing to the province and to stem the flow of milk

Manitoba in the past decade has imposed restrictions on intensive hog production in a bid to reduce the nutrient load on the Red River heading north toward Lake Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)

Livestock

Investors press meat producers to cut water pollution

By GFM Network News, Lisa Baertlein November 21, 2016

Reuters — Forty-five large investors collectively managing C$1.6 trillion in assets are pressing some of the nation’s largest meat producers to set policies for reducing water pollution in their feeding, slaughtering and processing operations. The investors, who are members of sustainability non-profit advocate Ceres and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), sent letters to

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, in a video released Monday, pledges to serve notice in January of the United States’ withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (YouTube)

Livestock

Trump pledges U.S. withdrawal from TPP on ‘day one’

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 21, 2016

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to start the United States’ exit from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal on “day one” of his administration in January. In a video released Monday, Trump said his transition team had been directed to put together “a list of executive actions we can take on day one”

Gay Lea Foods CEO Michael Barrett (left) and co-operative chairman Steve Dolson. (Gay Lea Foods/Marketwired)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Gay Lea lays out dairy processing expansion plans

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 21, 2016

A dairy farmer co-op on an aggressive growth track has mapped out its next four years’ worth of expansions and upgrades, starting with a storied processing plant in southwestern Ontario. Gay Lea Foods Co-operative on Wednesday announced a budget of $140 million over four years to set up what it describes as an “innovative nutrition

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Tighter border programs eyed for poultry, dairy imports

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 18, 2016

Federal programs meant to give importers tariff breaks on certain imports and products destined for re-export are up for tweaks to better cover Canada’s supply-managed poultry and dairy sectors. The federal government said Friday it plans to launch consultations with “industry stakeholders” over potential changes to its Duties Relief Program (DRP) and Import for Re-Export

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe turns up more TB-positive cattle

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 18, 2016

Federal inspectors have confirmed a southeastern Alberta cow found with bovine tuberculosis in September was not just a one-off. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Friday reported five more cattle from the initial cow’s index herd in southeastern Alberta are confirmed to have been infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria — presumed to be to be

McDonald’s investor renews push to cut antibiotics in all meat

By GFM Network News, Lisa Baertlein November 17, 2016

Reuters — A McDonald’s Corp. shareholder is redoubling efforts to convince the fast-food chain to stop all of its global restaurants from serving the meat of animals raised with antibiotics that are vital for fighting human infections. More than 70 per cent of medically important antibiotics in the U.S. are sold for livestock use. Scientists

President-elect Donald Trump won a surprise victory Nov. 8, partly on promises to tear up trade deals like NAFTA.

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Trump’s triumph turns to ag trade trepidation

The U.S. president-elect has threatened to tear up the $1-trillion-a-year  North American Free Trade Agreement and says he won’t ratify the  Trans-Pacific Partnership

By Allan Dawson November 17, 2016

Canada’s trade-dependent economy, including agriculture, could be collateral damage in Donald Trump’s battle to make America great again. The president-elect says he’ll pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) if it can’t be renegotiated to give the U.S. a better deal. He also says he won’t ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which

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Dairy cattle

Dairy sector gets $350 million from feds

Drought-hit tax deferral zones named

Dairy ingredients strategy starts to drive investment

Investors press meat producers to cut water pollution

Trump pledges U.S. withdrawal from TPP on ‘day one’

Gay Lea lays out dairy processing expansion plans

Tighter border programs eyed for poultry, dairy imports

Bovine TB probe turns up more TB-positive cattle

McDonald’s investor renews push to cut antibiotics in all meat

Trump’s triumph turns to ag trade trepidation

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