FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell looks at U.S. President Donald Trump holding a document during a tour of the Federal Reserve Board building, which is currently undergoing renovations, in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 24, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura/File Photo

Farm trade policy pundits lay CUSMA odds

What’s the future of Canada’s free trade agreement with the U.S. and Mexico? Policy experts try to read the stars on the issue

What’s the future of Canada’s free trade agreement with the U.S. and Mexico? Policy experts try to read the stars on the issue






A welder at work at the Deere manufacturing plant at Moline, Illinois. Photo: Deere and Co.

Farm equipment market unlikely to pick up

Sales have been slow and an unreliable U.S. administration makes trade certainty impossible

North America’s farm machinery sales have been slow and uncertain thanks to tariffs and trade disruption. There’s not a lot of hope for change in 2026.