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Opinion: Emergency payments: Déjà vu all over again

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The Trump administration’s US$12 billion in “trade-dispute-related” emergency payments were a surprise. The current set of emergency payments was put into effect by administrative action while the earlier set of emergency payments were voted on by Congress and signed into law by the administration. Though there is a 17-year gap between the earlier emergency payments
milk and dairy cattle
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

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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
Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Self-reflection

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As the debate over the fate of the Canadian Wheat Board was coming to a head a few years back, one of the key points repeatedly raised was how Canada’s quality assurance system gave it a leg up. Having a centralized sales desk meant there was an entity with a rational reason for maintaining and
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Comment, Opinion, Other

Comment: September slips away — and so do political solutions

The clock is ticking on several U.S. policy decisions that could have global implications

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There are never enough days in September for farmers, ranchers, and pennant-chasing baseball teams. Every day, whether spent in a combine, pasture or batter’s box, brings change to what’s real today and what’s possible tomorrow. And it happens fast; September days don’t pass, they evaporate. The U.S. Congress, however, seems not to notice days, months
Opinion, Other

Opinion: Let’s get moving on CPTPP

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The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada The Honourable Andrew Scheer, leader of the Official Opposition and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada Sept 12, 2018 Dear Messrs. Trudeau,
Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Mission improbable

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It’s that time of year when all the hoping and wishing — or fear and loathing, depending on the year — gets put to the test. In a lot of grain-growing regions around the world this summer, our own included, most farmers probably weren’t predicting a bountiful harvest. From Europe to the U.S., Australia to
Canadian dairy cows produce roughly 8,500 litres of milk per cow per year.
Dairy cattle, Opinion

Opinion: Counting cows

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Comparing the shelf price of milk in other countries is far too simplified a way of trying to compare complex differences between complete systems of producing and marketing milk. The CFFO prides itself on considering agricultural issues not only from an economic perspective. Last week’s commentary considered the social impacts of Canada’s supply management system,
Carrot hanging on the end of angled stick
Comment, Opinion, Other

The carrot, the stick, and U.S. farmers

Trade turmoil has the White House picking winners and losers in the U.S. farm sector

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The Trump administration’s good cop/bad cop approach to U.S. trade policy was on full display Aug. 27 when President Donald J. Trump, the bad cop that day, announced a very incomplete NAFTA trade deal — fuelled by his heavy use of tariffs — that pointedly excluded Canada. That day’s good cop was U.S. Secretary of
Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Gone Hollywood

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One of the great issues of the modern hyper-wired information age is the perniciousness of false facts. It seems to be all but impossible to stamp out an untruth, once it’s been released into the wild. No matter how many actual facts one presents, there’s still going to be a cohort of people somewhere who
Technological advances, coupled with our pursuit of convenience, have given us a lot more time to think about food in a different way.
Comment, Opinion, Other

Comment: Why are consumers going meatless?

The answer has something to do with the economy

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We seem to be living in an era in which the pleasure of eating is quite simply overpowered by values-based narratives in food consumption. And this is happening at an astonishing pace. Vegetarianism and veganism are both coming into their own, allowing more people to “come out of the cupboard” to speak openly about and

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