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Tom Vilsack speaks to farmers at a rural agricultural co-operative at Guira de Melena in Cuba on Nov. 13, 2015. (Photo: Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini)

USDA can steer farm aid money to fight climate change, Vilsack says

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume February 3, 2021

Reuters — The White House wants to tap a pool of funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corp. (CCC) to support on-farm efforts to fight climate change, Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the USDA, said Tuesday. The Depression-era program of up to $30 billion in annual funding was tapped

News, Poultry

China finds coronavirus cluster in chicken-processing plant

Some concerned consumers are already avoiding the product and one grocer has pulled it from shelves

By Dominique Patton January 29, 2021

Reuters – China reported its first cluster of COVID-19 cases among workers in a meat-processing plant, raising fears among local consumers who have until now mainly worried about the safety of imported foods. Ten confirmed cases were found in a factory which slaughters 50 million chickens a year in the northeastern city of Harbin and

Markets

U.K. to ask to join Trans-Pacific trading bloc ‘shortly’

Bilateral deals signed or in works with several CPTPP members

By GFM Network News January 21, 2021

London | Reuters — Britain will soon submit its application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade bloc, trade minister Liz Truss said on Wednesday. Since deciding to leave the European Union, a process it completed at the end of 2020, Britain has been seeking out new trading arrangements around

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy farmers must register to get further trade compensation payouts

Expect letters soon explaining process, AgMin says

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 20, 2021

Dairy farmers wanting to get in on a three-year, $1.405 billion federal compensation program for market share lost to free trade deals must register for the program by March 31 in each of those years. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Tuesday laid out further specifics for the Dairy Direct Payment Program, which is set to

Mississauga MP Omar Alghabra is Canada’s new federal transport minister. (Omar Alghabra video screengrab via YouTube)

Markets, Other

Trudeau names new transport, foreign affairs ministers

Garneau to handle foreign policy; Omar Alghabra takes transport

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News January 15, 2021

Ottawa | Reuters — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named new ministers for foreign affairs and transport on Tuesday ahead of an election that insiders in his Liberal Party say is likely this year. Trudeau’s hand was forced when Innovations Minister Navdeep Bains, 43, unexpectedly announced he was resigning from politics for family reasons. Bains, who

File photo of snacks, produce and assorted street food loaded on a motorbike in Bali, Indonesia. (Lina Moiseienko/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

Canada consulting at home toward Indonesia trade deal

Possibility of broader Southeast Asian pact also looms

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News January 15, 2021

Continuing to seek out free trade deals in the Asia-Pacific region, Canada has launched public consultations on the merits of a potential bilateral pact with Indonesia. “Deepening trade ties with Indonesia would benefit Canadian businesses of all sizes and lead to economic growth and prosperity for years to come,” International Trade Minister Mary Ng said

File photo of domestic hogs on a German farm. (FooTToo/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Weather

EU farmers could get cash to curb emissions from belching livestock

By GFM Network News, Kate Abnett January 15, 2021

Brussels | Reuters — Farmers should get European Union funding to reduce methane emissions from livestock or increase organic farmland, the European Commission said on Thursday, under plans to make agriculture greener. The EU is nearing the end of a two-year battle to overhaul its massive farming subsidies scheme, to attempt to align the agriculture

Weather

Manitoba to consolidate and shut agriculture, MASC offices

Province announces 'new rural service delivery model'

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 7, 2021

Updated, Jan. 7 — Manitoba’s agriculture and resource development department and crop insurance and ag lending agency will close their offices in 21 communities and consolidate others this spring, in a bid to reduce their “physical footprint.” Agriculture Minister Blaine Pedersen on Wednesday announced what the province billed as “a new rural service delivery model

Crops

Bibeau promises help to farmers on rising carbon tax

Funds expected to help farmers cut emissions

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News December 17, 2020

A steadily rising carbon tax has a lot of Western Canada’s grain farmers wondering how they’ll compete in world markets against competitors not subjected to a similar tax. “I think the world market is also looking towards a greener economy and always more sustainable agriculture,” federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said when the question was

Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, with Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna (l) and Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault (r), speaks at the Dominion Arboretum in Ottawa on Dec. 11, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)

Crops, Weather

New greening programs planned for ag alongside carbon tax hike

Carbon price to hit $170 per tonne by 2030

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News December 15, 2020

A new federal climate plan which further cranks up taxes on carbon emissions also includes pledges of new programs to help sink more carbon into farmland. The government on Friday released the sequel to its 2016 Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change — a “strengthened” climate plan, titled A Healthy Environment and a

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soy rally continues after Trump says China to expand purchases

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures fall after strike authorization vote

U.S. farm income set to fall in 2026 despite surge in government payments

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