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Dairy farmer Marie-Pier Vincent feeds her dairy cows at her farm in Saint-Valerien-de-Milton, southeast of Montreal.

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On Canadian dairy farms, fear and frustration as U.S. demands trade concessions

By Allison Lampert, Rod Nickel October 4, 2018

Reuters – Marie-Pier Vincent, a fourth-generation Quebec dairy farmer, worries it will be even harder to make ends meet as Canada allows more tariff-free imports of milk products from the United States under a reworked North American Free Trade Agreement. Vincent, 28, is already looking for a second job to pay back the money she

Since talks began more than a year ago, it was clear Canada and Mexico would have to make concessions in the face of Trump’s threats to tear up NAFTA.

Dairy cattle, News

Dairy producers ‘deeply disappointed’

Canadian dairy farmers say Canada’s trade deals are progressively placing more pressures on their industry

By Alex Binkley October 4, 2018

Canadian dairy producers say they’ve been thrown under the bus in order for Canada to be part of the new United States, Mexico and Canada Agreement (USMCA) on trade. Piere Lampron, president of the Dairy Farmers of Canada, says it’s an especially bitter pill to swallow considering Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had repeatedly assured the

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

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy farmers unhappy after meeting Trudeau on USMCA

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 4, 2018

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian dairy farmers met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday to discuss his politically-risky move to open up the protected domestic market to U.S. industry but complained he had not given them details about compensation. As part of the talks to complete the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal, Canada

A Holstein heifer on pasture in Quebec. (Lurin/iStock/Getty Images)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Trudeau takes Quebec dairy gamble to preserve big trade deal

By Allison Lampert, David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 2, 2018

Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — With his political future at stake, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mount a charm offensive to placate dairy farmers who say he sold them out in order to win approval of a continental trade deal. Compounding Trudeau’s challenges in the influential province of Quebec, where many dairy farmers are based,

Dairy culls require careful management to ensure they don’t suffer when going to slaughter.

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Vets call for better management of dairy culls

The sector agrees better guidelines and improved transport conditions are worthy goals

By Alex Binkley October 2, 2018

The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) wants to see a better way of handling compromised cull dairy cows. It’s calling for greater co-operation amongst producers, their vets, as well as transporters, processors and cattle marketers. In a resolution adopted at its annual summer meeting, the CVMA says cull dairy cows “have an increased likelihood of

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Canada, U.S. deal saves NAFTA as trilateral pact

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News, Roberta Rampton October 1, 2018

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, US$1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century. In a big victory for his agenda to shake up an era of global

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

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Canada, U.S. reach deal to update NAFTA, sources say

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News, Roberta Rampton September 30, 2018

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada reached a deal to update NAFTA and keep it a trilateral pact with Mexico, beating a midnight deadline with agreements to boost U.S. access to Canada’s dairy market and protect Canada from possible U.S. autos tariffs, two Canadian sources with direct knowledge of the talks said on

Comment, Dairy cattle, Opinion

Comment: Authors of their own misfortune

Canada’s dairy industry is about to lay in a bed of its own making

By Hugh Stephens September 28, 2018

Remember the early days of the NAFTA renegotiations, when all Donald Trump wanted to do was “tweak” the agreement as far as Canada was concerned? That seems like a century ago now. A lot has happened to poison the well between then and now, including the U.S. president’s over-the-top reaction to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s

A view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Canada sticks to plan to stay at NAFTA talks despite Trump attack

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News September 27, 2018

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada on Thursday shrugged off U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticism that talks to modernize NAFTA were moving too slowly and made clear it had to keep negotiating as long as there was a chance of success. The prospects for a quick deal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement appeared

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference during the General Assembly of the United Nations in Manhattan on Sept. 26, 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Amr Alfiky)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Trump slams Canada over NAFTA, says rejected Trudeau meeting

By David Lawder, GFM Network News September 26, 2018

United Nations | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted Canada over the slow pace of talks over NAFTA, saying he was so unhappy that he had rejected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s request for a one-on-one meeting. The remarks by Trump, who repeated a threat to impose tariffs on Canadian autos, knocked

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Dairy downer

Dairy producers ‘deeply disappointed’

Dairy farmers unhappy after meeting Trudeau on USMCA

Trudeau takes Quebec dairy gamble to preserve big trade deal

Vets call for better management of dairy culls

Canada, U.S. deal saves NAFTA as trilateral pact

Canada, U.S. reach deal to update NAFTA, sources say

Comment: Authors of their own misfortune

Canada sticks to plan to stay at NAFTA talks despite Trump attack

Trump slams Canada over NAFTA, says rejected Trudeau meeting

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