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SRDC puts crosshairs on innovation

The Southwest Regional Development Corporation  is looking to get creative with rural development

By Alexis Stockford April 17, 2017

The two words used most at a regional development meeting in Brandon last week were “innovation” and “challenges.” The Southwest Regional Development Corporation (SRDC) met in Brandon April 6 for its annual conference. The organization is still recovering from funding cuts in 2012, when the provincial government cut off funds to seven rural and northern

Crops, Livestock

Non-tariff trade barriers remain major obstacle

They’ve become a favourite tool to block trade now that tariffs are out of fashion

By Alex Binkley March 27, 2017

While tariffs on agri-food products are declining around the world, non-tariff trade barriers are sprouting up like weeds, the Commons agriculture has been told. “While we are seeing progress in lowering tariffs, non-tariff trade barriers are frequently waiting, or newly created ones are set in place to be the next wave of protectionism that we

CAFTA’s Claire Citeau says the organization is less enthusiastic about Canada’s trade deal with Europe, unless outstanding issues can be cleared up prior to implementation.

News

CAFTA less enamoured with Europe trade deal

Deal doesn’t solve trade barriers, making it less attractive to the sector, longtime trade champion says 

By Alex Binkley January 11, 2017

The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance says its support for a Canada-Europe trade deal is now conditional. The longtime enthusiastic backer of the deal says high tariffs and other headaches won’t be quickly resolved. Claire Citeau, CAFTA’s executive director, told the Commons trade committee that it expected the deal would generate $1.5 billion in new Canadian

Livestock

Trade talks set to divide farm communities

Some groups want a trade deal even if it means sacrificing supply management

By Alex Binkley May 27, 2015

High-level negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) scheduled for Guam this month have opened a rift in Canada’s farm community that successive governments have tried to prevent. Livestock and grain groups have gone public with a demand the federal government fully engage in the talks and, while they don’t actually say it, essentially be prepared

Hogs, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

Farm groups applaud start of trade talks with Japan

By Alex Binkley March 29, 2012

Farm and food industry groups were quick to praise the launch of negotiations for a Canada-Japan free trade deal by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihiko Noda. Japan is the third-largest economy in the world and is Canada’s second-largest agriculture market. The market is worth almost $4 billion for Canadian farmers and

Livestock, Livestock Markets

Live cattle exports to the UAE

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 17, 2012

The federal government has reached a new agreement for exporting live cattle to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — a market valued at $40 million in sales annually, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has announced. “This announcement instantly provides new export opportunities for Canadian producers, and is a significant step toward regaining access to other key

Opinion

Letters – for Nov. 11, 2010

November 11, 2010

Ron Doering, former head of CFIA, suggests in the Nov. 4 Manitoba Co-operatorthat the reason that there are almost no Canadian agri-food products in grocery stores in China is simply because we are too timid to grasp this golden opportunity. Solution: more trade missions, more marketing effort in China. His views will go over well

Livestock

Alberta Develops Eat-Local Option

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 11, 2010

The Alberta government has launched “Explore Local,” to help promote and pull together the various threads of Alberta’s local food sectors. “Explore Local presents new growth opportunities for agriculture food products and services in Alberta and helps connect and support the many different people and players involved or interested in Alberta’s local market sector,” provincial

News

Waskada Group To Build Hemp Oil Plant

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 28, 2010

Agroup of Waskada entrepreneurs had received $4.895 million from the federal gover nment and another $75,000 from the province to build a hemp oil-processing plant in the community. “This is a great day for Waskada and the R. M. s of Brenda, Arthur and Winchester,” said Keith Hannah, president of Farm Genesis Group Marketing Inc.

Crops, Oilseeds

Canada/EU WTO Dispute Over

By Resource News International July 23, 2009

The formal end of Canada’s WTO trade dispute with the European Union over genetically modified organisms (GMOs), announced July 15, will benefit the country’s canola sector, according to an official with the Canola Council of Canada. “The Canadian government has worked really hard on this and we really appreciate all their efforts,” said JoAnne Buth,

Daily Network News

Russia’s top agriculture official blames low global grain prices for export slowdown

U.S. livestock: Cattle rebound on technical buying

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as rapid harvest overshadows China trade hopes

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