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Australia takes Canada to WTO over wine rules

By GFM Network News, Tom Miles January 16, 2018

Geneva | Reuters — Australia has complained at the World Trade Organization about Canada’s rules on wine sales, expanding a similar U.S. complaint against one province. In October, Washington accused British Columbia of providing an unfair advantage to local vineyards by giving their wine an exclusive retail channel in grocery store shelves and cutting out

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

TPP seen critical for beef sales growth in Japan

By GFM Network News, John Greig January 15, 2018

Canadian beef producers could be out millions of dollars in new exports if Canada is shut out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Why is it important? Beef exports, especially from Ontario, have been growing significantly to Japan and elsewhere in Asia. Allowing other competitors such as Mexico and New Zealand better access to that market,

Markets

Canada talks tough on trade as NAFTA talks’ endgame nears

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News January 11, 2018

London, Ont. | Reuters — Canada is talking tough with the U.S., stressing its determination to push back against what it says are unfair trade practices ahead of crucial talks to revamp the tri-nation North American Free Trade Agreement. U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials meet this month for the sixth and penultimate round of talks

A giant Mexican flag at Cozumel’s Puerta Maya. (CIA.gov)

Markets

Mexico will leave NAFTA talks if Trump triggers process to withdraw

By Anthony Esposito, David Alire Garcia, GFM Network News January 11, 2018

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico will leave the NAFTA negotiating table if U.S. President Donald Trump decides to trigger a six-month process to withdraw from the trade pact, three Mexican sources with knowledge of the talks told Reuters on Wednesday. Reuters reported earlier in the day that Canada was increasingly convinced that Trump would

Markets

Canada taking U.S. to WTO in complaint over trade remedies

By GFM Network News, Tom Miles January 10, 2018

Geneva | Reuters — Canada has launched a wide-ranging trade dispute against the United States, challenging Washington’s use of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties, Canada said in a WTO filing dated Dec. 20 and published on Wednesday. Canada appeared to be mounting a case on behalf of the rest of the world, since it cited almost

Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator, says the elements for a deal on agriculture through NAFTA are there without scrapping supply management.

News

NAFTA ag deal while keeping supply management possible

Mike Gifford says the negotiations are unique because agriculture doesn’t top the agenda

By Allan Dawson December 22, 2017

An agreement on agricultural trade under a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is possible without gutting dairy supply management, says Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator. The United States is Canadian agriculture’s biggest customer generating more than $50 billion in annual revenues. Terminating NAFTA, as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to

News

Export-oriented farmers need to boost lobby effort

Dairy farmers have done a great job influencing politicians, says a former Canadian ag trade negotiator

By Allan Dawson December 22, 2017

Export-oriented farmers should emulate dairy farmers if they want to get their policies implemented, says Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator. “If you want to influence politicians you basically have to spend money to lobby,” Gifford said during the Fields on Wheels conference Dec. 15 in Winnipeg. “That’s where the supply management sector,

Cereals, News

Complaints about Canadian grading of U.S. wheat justified: Gifford

By Allan Dawson December 22, 2017

American complaints that Canadian regulations unfairly block American wheat from entering Canadian elevators are justified, says Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator. “This is a classic issue of where the optics are awful,” Gifford told the 22nd annual Fields on Wheels conference in Winnipeg Dec. 15. “It seems to me it is an

A good way to minimize food waste this Christmas is concentrating on a few family favourites that always go over well.

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Cut food waste this holiday season

Prairie Fare: The first step is minimizing leftovers with proper planning and meal preparation 

By Julie Garden-Robinson December 22, 2017

As I peered in our refrigerator the other day, I noticed some small containers with dabs of leftovers that had just reached their “time to toss” phase. I always feel guilty when we throw away food in our home. To help use any extra servings, I eat leftovers almost every day at work. Unfortunately, sometimes

Other, Our History

During times of war, a message of courage

Our History: December 1943

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 22, 2017

The image on the front page of our December 15, 1943 issue carried a Christmas message to take courage during the bleak time of the Second World War. Among the news on the front page was that Manitoba’s total Victory Bond sales had reached $99,641,400, just short of the $100-million objective and that the Manitoba

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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Australia takes Canada to WTO over wine rules

TPP seen critical for beef sales growth in Japan

Canada talks tough on trade as NAFTA talks’ endgame nears

Mexico will leave NAFTA talks if Trump triggers process to withdraw

Canada taking U.S. to WTO in complaint over trade remedies

NAFTA ag deal while keeping supply management possible

Export-oriented farmers need to boost lobby effort

Complaints about Canadian grading of U.S. wheat justified: Gifford

Cut food waste this holiday season

During times of war, a message of courage

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