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Cairns Group Disapproves Of U. S. Dairy Subsidies

The United States has taken a “backwards step” by reintroducing dairy export subsidies, the Cairns Group of agricultural exporting nations said on May 27, condemning the move. The U. S. Agriculture Department said recently it would revive its dairy export subsidy program after five years of dormancy to help struggling farmers, saying European dairy export
Cereals, News, Pulses

Canada Pursues FTAs In Peru, Colombia

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Canadian wheat and pulse growers need Canada to ratify free trade deals with Peru and Colombia to stay competitive with Argentina and the United States. Wheat import tariffs have historically been as high as 17 per cent into Peru and 15 per cent into Colombia. Without a free trade deal, tariffs could cut Canadian grain
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Canada Working Toward Beef Settlement With EU

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Canada is discussing a possible settlement of its long-running beef dispute with the European Union, a spokeswoman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade says. The issue gained attention with the announcement in mid-May that the United States had reached a settlement with the EU, which will see more American beef enter the
Beef cattle, News

Canada’s Trade Hopes Raised

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Canada expects to increase its beef exports to Europe, now that the U. S. will be able to do so. The U. S. and the EU have reached a four-year agreement in principle to increase American shipments of hormone-free beef to Europe. In exchange, the U. S. will gradually eliminate certain tariffs on EU products.
Hogs, Livestock, News

Environmental Regulations Squeeze Spanish Hog Farmers

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“It was a successful model. It seemed like everybody was winning.” – VICTORIA SOLDEVILA Large-scale hog farming worked wonders for the Catalonian economy – for a while. Economically depressed for decades by a long civil war and later the rule of fascist dictator Francisco Franco, the Spanish autonomous territory bordered by France on one side
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Farmers Worry Bee Crisis Has Been Ignored Too Long

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“If cattle were producing 30 per cent less milk each year, it would not be acceptable. But that is what we have had to put up with.” Europe’s beekeeping industry could be wiped out in less than a decade as bees fall victim to disease, insecticides and intensive farming, international beekeeping body Apimondia has warned.
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U. S. Wants New WTO Process

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Big emerging countries like China, India, Brazil and South Africa must do more to open their markets to secure a new global trade deal, the U. S. trade chief said May 13. U. S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, who took up his job in March, was speaking after two days of intense talks with U.
Beef cattle, Opinion

Protecting The Canadian Brand

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Stéphane Dion may not exactly be a barrel of laughs, but the much-abused former leader of the Liberal party may soon get the last one. That will be when the U. S. imposes a carbon tax – which in some form, is probably what it’s going to do – and Canada,
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Canada Begins Trade Talks With EU

The European Union and Canada have agreed to launch talks on a trade pact worth an additional $27 billion each year to their combined economies, suffering from dwindling trade because of the financial crisis. “It is a great success today. We signed the start of a process leading to the deepening of our economic co-operation,”

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