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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.

Dairy cattle, News

Dairy downer

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)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

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)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

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)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

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

Comment, Dairy cattle, Opinion

Comment: Authors of their own misfortune

Canada’s dairy industry is about to lay in a bed of its own making

By Hugh Stephens September 28, 2018

Remember the early days of the NAFTA renegotiations, when all Donald Trump wanted to do was “tweak” the agreement as far as Canada was concerned? That seems like a century ago now. A lot has happened to poison the well between then and now, including the U.S. president’s over-the-top reaction to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer testifies at a Senate subcommittee hearing in Washington on July 26, 2018 on proposed budget estimates for the Office of the USTR. (Photo: Reuters/Mary F. Calvert)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Canada not making concessions needed for NAFTA deal, says U.S.

By David Lawder, GFM Network News September 25, 2018

New York | Reuters — Canada is not making concessions needed to reach a deal with the U.S. for a trilateral NAFTA pact and is running out of time before Washington proceeds with a Mexico-only agreement, a top U.S. official said on Tuesday. The administration of President Donald Trump has recently begun increasing the pressure

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks with reporters in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2018 after meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to discus NAFTA auto negotiations. (File photo: Reuters/David Lawder)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

NAFTA talks grind on with little sign of deal

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News September 20, 2018

Washington | Reuters — Canada and the U.S. showed scant sign of being close to striking a deal on revamping the trilateral NAFTA that underpins US$1.2 trillion in annual trade, as Canadian sources played down talk of a U.S. quota on autos. Canada says it does not feel bound by a U.S.-imposed deadline for the

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U.S. livestock: Cattle retreat, hogs rise

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Public support largely behind dairy farmers

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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

Comment: Authors of their own misfortune

Canada not making concessions needed for NAFTA deal, says U.S.

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