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Scooter LaPrise, 53, herds his cows into the milking parlour for the morning milking at EMMA Acres dairy farm, in Exeter, Rhode Island, U.S., 7 April, 2018. Scooter shouts “Come on, Ladies!” as he directs his cows from their stalls into the milking parlour. Scooter with his wife has about 30 cows on one of eight remaining dairy farms in Rhode Island.
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U.S. dairy farmers get little help from Canada trade deal

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen, Rod Nickel October 26, 2018

Madison, Wisconsin/St. Claude, Manitoba | Reuters – Minnesota farmer Paul Fritsche can no longer afford health insurance as he struggles to sustain a dairy farm that has been in his family for nearly a century. With U.S. milk prices in the fourth year of a slump due to chronic oversupply, Fritsche, 58, is unsure whether

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U.S. milk producers ask government for more aid, citing $1 bln tariff impact

By GFM Network News, Humeyra Pamuk October 25, 2018

Washington | Reuters – U.S. milk producers asked the government to increase aid payments to the industry to offset losses from foreign tariffs, saying dairy farmers have lost more than $1 billion in income since May. The administration of President Donald Trump in late May announced tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10

David Wiens says dairy farmers across the country are now asking ‘what’s their future?’ as they try to access the impact of the trade deal on the farm and processing sectors.

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Manitoba dairy producers reeling from USMCA trade deal

Trade deals are starting to add up when it comes to the impact on dairy farms

By Lorraine Stevenson October 18, 2018

Manitoba dairy farmers attending annual meetings this month are trying to understand the coming changes as a result of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). There are some serious questions being asked about what the new deal means for the family farm and their future, said David Wiens, a Manitoba dairy farmer and vice-president of

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Public support largely behind dairy farmers

Canadians are clearly signalling they value dairy farms

By Lorraine Stevenson October 18, 2018

Dairy farmers reeling from the uncertainty descending on their farms in light of the new trade deal can take heart in one thing, says Manitoba dairy farmer and Dairy Farmers of Canada vice-president David Wiens. “There’s one thing the government can’t take away from us with this trade deal, and it is the relationship we

Dairy farmer Marie-Pier Vincent feeds her dairy cows at her farm in Saint-Valerien-de-Milton, southeast of Montreal.

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On Canadian dairy farms, fear and frustration as U.S. demands trade concessions

By Allison Lampert, Rod Nickel October 4, 2018

Reuters – Marie-Pier Vincent, a fourth-generation Quebec dairy farmer, worries it will be even harder to make ends meet as Canada allows more tariff-free imports of milk products from the United States under a reworked North American Free Trade Agreement. Vincent, 28, is already looking for a second job to pay back the money she

Dairy cattle in Canada. (Pearman314/iStock/Getty Images)

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Dairy farmers unhappy after meeting Trudeau on USMCA

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 4, 2018

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian dairy farmers met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday to discuss his politically-risky move to open up the protected domestic market to U.S. industry but complained he had not given them details about compensation. As part of the talks to complete the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal, Canada

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Outrage, acceptance greet Son of NAFTA

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff October 2, 2018

Responses from Canada’s farm sectors range from acceptance to anger as concessions and market access granted under the successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) come into clearer view. Dairy: ‘Who needs an enemy?’ The new agreement, announced Sunday and dubbed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by the U.S. government, is expected to

A Holstein heifer on pasture in Quebec. (Lurin/iStock/Getty Images)

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Trudeau takes Quebec dairy gamble to preserve big trade deal

By Allison Lampert, David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 2, 2018

Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — With his political future at stake, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mount a charm offensive to placate dairy farmers who say he sold them out in order to win approval of a continental trade deal. Compounding Trudeau’s challenges in the influential province of Quebec, where many dairy farmers are based,

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Canada, U.S. deal saves NAFTA as trilateral pact

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News, Roberta Rampton October 1, 2018

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, US$1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century. In a big victory for his agenda to shake up an era of global

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit. (RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images)

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Canada, U.S. reach deal to update NAFTA, sources say

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News, Roberta Rampton September 30, 2018

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada reached a deal to update NAFTA and keep it a trilateral pact with Mexico, beating a midnight deadline with agreements to boost U.S. access to Canada’s dairy market and protect Canada from possible U.S. autos tariffs, two Canadian sources with direct knowledge of the talks said on

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U.S. dairy farmers get little help from Canada trade deal

U.S. milk producers ask government for more aid, citing $1 bln tariff impact

Manitoba dairy producers reeling from USMCA trade deal

Public support largely behind dairy farmers

Dairy downer

Dairy farmers unhappy after meeting Trudeau on USMCA

Outrage, acceptance greet Son of NAFTA

Trudeau takes Quebec dairy gamble to preserve big trade deal

Canada, U.S. deal saves NAFTA as trilateral pact

Canada, U.S. reach deal to update NAFTA, sources say

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