The federal government says it will defend Canada's dairy sector after New Zealand escalated a long-running trade dispute over Canadian dairy market access.
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Canada will defend dairy sector against New Zealand trade dispute say ministers
New Zealand on Friday triggered mandatory negotiations over longstanding dairy disagreement
Butter stocks drive eastern dairy quota increase
Increasing demand for dairy products — including a need to build butter stock — has meant a one per cent increasing in saleable dairy quota, and incentive days from November to March 2018, for eastern Canadian dairy farmers. The P5 dairy farm boards, representing Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, announced
Eastern dairy farmers get big quota increase
The eastern Canadian provinces have approved a five per cent dairy quota increase — their largest one-time quota increase since the daily quota system was implemented in 1998. It will also be implemented quickly, on July 1. The five provinces — Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario — create quota policy
Market access, income supports come with Trans-Pacific pact
Canada’s federal government has pledged a suite of compensation programs for supply-managed dairy, poultry and egg sectors, against what it promises will be a mousehole in Canada’s tariff wall. Federal officials on Monday confirmed negotiations have concluded on the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership, now billed as “the largest, most ambitious free trade initiative in history.” The
Buy out dairy quota with a retail price premium?
A former Liberal MP and a University of Calgary researcher are calling for an immediate phase-out of quotas
Drop the price of milk to the U.S. level, but then add a temporary premium to compensate dairy farmers for the loss of their quota. That’s the plan proposed in a July 10 Globe and Mail opinion piece by Martha Hall Findlay and Jack Mintz of the School of Public Policy at the University of
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