
Tag Archives Agricultural subsidy
Editorial: Agriculture slips through the safety net

$16 billion pledged to U.S. farmers due to COVID-19
USDA predicts lower prices for most commodities, excluding wheat and rice

Editor’s Take: Farmers need better financial supports

Editor’s Take: Canada at a crossroads

Comment: Looks like 2019 is one of THOSE years
While the Canadian Prairies are dry, the U.S. is struggling with very wet conditions

Is it the end of the ag trade world as we know it?
Trade tensions, ad hoc American subsidies and surplus stocks raise the spectre of the 1980s — an era of grain subsidy wars and low prices

U.S. trade double standard confirmed
American trade expert Joe Glauber sees continued pressure on Canada’s supply management and rising domestic farm subsidies in developing countries

Look back to understand how low wheat prices are
Once inflation adjusted, today’s wheat prices are at historic lows, even below Depression-era prices

Editorial: Stuck in time

Canadian wheat growers hit by subsidy effects
Advanced developing nations subsidize wheat growers, hurting farmers from exporting nations