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With in five Canadians restricting meat in their diet, odds are that at least one person in your social group or family is a vegan or vegetarian.

Comment: Flexitarianism on the menu

A large and growing group of Canadians are becoming ‘part-time vegetarians’

By Sylvain Charlebois December 19, 2018

Restaurants are struggling to get a good handle on how consumers are rapidly shifting away from animal protein. According to a recent study by Dalhousie University, nearly one in five Canadians have decided to either reduce the amount of meat they consume or have outright eliminated it from their diets. Add the fact that 63

Arthritis comes on with age, but longevity can often be increased with proper diet and keeping cows in a good body condition.

Livestock

Lameness can have many causes

Beef 911: In some cases, knowing the cause and adjusting your management can prevent problems

By Roy Lewis December 18, 2018

This article will outline some of the more common arthritic conditions and touch on some preventive measures. A lot of these conditions of course are brought on by age. In order to get more longevity out of our cows, we need to look at lameness as it is one of the common reasons for culling.

“You give away a little piece here and a little piece there and every country wants that one per cent more than the other.” – Carol Boonstoppel

Dairy cattle, Local news

Spilled milk: Manitoba dairy producers worry for future

The immediate crisis is past but the long-term trends are worrying

By Don Norman December 17, 2018

Manitoba dairy producers who sat down with the Co-operator at the recent Manitoba Dairy Conference don’t look like bargaining chips — but lately that’s exactly what they’ve become. In successive rounds of trade deals they’ve repeatedly lost market share to imports from other jurisdictions, most recently in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). While they weren’t

Protesters wearing yellow vests, the symbol of a French drivers’ protest against higher diesel prices, occupy a roundabout in Cissac-Medoc, France on Wednesday. The slogan in pink reads “Urgent, purchase power, dignity for all.” (Photo: Reuters/Regis Duvignau)

Markets

France delays food price rise for farmers after protests

By GFM Network News, Sybille De La Hamaide December 5, 2018

Paris | Reuters — France, reeling from violent protests over the cost of living, said Wednesday it will delay a planned rise in minimum food prices, incurring the wrath of the main farmers group which urged street action next week. A powerful constituency in French politics, farmers have long complained of being hit by a

Sylvain Charlebois says increases in prices for meat-alternative proteins, such as pulses, should be expected. (Screengrab from John Greig video)

Crops, Markets

Report finds more Canadians turning to plant-based proteins

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin December 5, 2018

CNS Canada — Canadians are showing more and more interest in reducing meat consumption while increasing purchases of plant-based proteins, according to data from the latest Food Price Report. The report, prepared by the University of Guelph and Dalhousie University, predicted a 1.5 to 3.5 per cent increase overall in the average Canadian food bill

Dairy cattle in Canada. (Pearman314/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

USMCA costs Canada sovereignty in ag policy, critics warn

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff November 30, 2018

Changes to Canadian dairy supply management in the final text of the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement give up oversight of the system to the U.S., Canada’s dairy farmer group warns. The trade deal, signed Friday in Buenos Aires by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexico’s outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto, now goes

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit. (RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

U.S., Canada, Mexico sign trade deal after last-minute brinkmanship

By GFM Network News, Roberta Rampton November 30, 2018

Buenos Aires | Reuters — The leaders of Mexico, Canada and the United States signed a North American trade pact on Friday after brinkmanship over the final details of the deal continued through the eve of the signing. They agreed on a deal in principle to govern the more than trillion dollars of mutual trade

Bayer CEO Werner Baumann, shown here May 25 at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Bonn, is reportedly under pressure to boost the company’s share price. (File photo: Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay)

Livestock

Bayer to shed animal health division, others after Monsanto deal

By GFM Network News, Ludwig Burger November 29, 2018

Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer, the German drugmaker that bought U.S. seed company Monsanto, announced on Thursday the sale of its animal health business and a number of others, around 12,000 job cuts and 3.3 billion euros (C$4.98 billion) in impairments. CEO Werner Baumann is under pressure to boost Bayer’s share price after a drop

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Canadian dairies get significant control over imports under TPP

By GFM Network News November 27, 2018

Toronto | Reuters — Canada will give local dairy processors significant control over imports under a new trade deal with Pacific countries that opens the sheltered industry to further competition, according to a notice published by the federal government, which drew criticism from Canadian retailers. New quotas created by the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, shown here Nov. 1 at a press conference in the occupied West Bank, says Canada’s objective remains getting to a Friday signing for the USMCA. (Photo: Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Dairy issue nags as U.S., Canada prepare to sign trade pact

By Chris Prentice, David Ljunggren, GFM Network News November 27, 2018

New York/Ottawa | Reuters — Dairy remains a sticking point between the United States and Canada as the countries prepare to sign a new North American trade pact this week, according to four sources familiar with the matter. U.S. objections to Canada’s protected internal market for dairy products was a major challenge facing negotiators during

Daily Network News

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

CBOT Weekly: April supply and demand report a ‘nothing burger’

Canada blocks meats, dairy from Greece over foot-and-mouth disease

Dairy cattle