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Even as North America’s new trade deal clears a major hurdle, the WTO faces an existential crisis.

Farmers caught in WTO crossfire

The U.S. is letting the global trade bloc wither on the vine, while it fights economic wars

By Allan Dawson December 19, 2019

As the World Trade Organization faces a crisis that renders it impotent and potentially on the verge of dissolving, Manitoba farmers are facing more trade uncertainty than ever. “We’re really in unchartered territory here,” University of Manitoba agricultural economist Ryan Cardwell said in an interview Dec. 12, while attending a trade meeting in Washington, D.C.

While Canadian agribusinesses have already successfully started to find new customers, markets for major crops such as wheat, canola, soy and pulses face "barriers to further diversification."

Markets, News

Crop exporters face growing competition

Diversifying Canada’s customer base won’t be easy, FCC says in new report

By Alex Binkley December 16, 2019

Canada’s agri-food sector is highly dependent on export markets and efforts to diversify the existing customer base won’t be easy in the coming years because of growing competition, says a new report from Farm Credit Canada. While Canada stands in fifth place among the current agri-food exporting nations and has ambitious plans to move closer to first, it’s

As the White House openly panders to its rural voters, China, wall or no wall, continues to play the long game.

Comment, Opinion, Other

Comment: U.S. trade policy hits the Great Wall

China plays the long game; United States keeps getting played

By Alan Guebert December 11, 2019

Several years ago, when Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Tom Friedman was asked to choose which rising Asian nation, China or India, he’d bet the farm on, Friedman didn’t hesitate to pick India. The reason, he explained, was that while both nations were on an expressway to the future, India, the world’s largest democracy, had an open

Hogs, Markets

China to waive tariffs on some U.S. soybeans, pork

Goodwill gesture is aimed at helping soothe ongoing trade tensions between the two nations

By Dominique Patton, Yawen Chen December 9, 2019

China has confirmed that it will waive import tariffs for some soybeans and pork shipments from the United States, as the two sides try to thrash out a broader agreement to defuse their protracted trade war. The tariff waivers were based on applications by individual companies, the Finance Ministry said in a statement, citing a

A truck unloads soybeans imported from Brazil on the quay of a port in Nantong city, east China’s Jiangsu province.

Markets, Oilseeds

Chinese importers scoop up Brazilian soybeans

Uncertainty over a U.S.-China trade deal has been causing buyers to lock up supplies

By Dominique Patton, Hallie Gu December 9, 2019

Chinese buyers scooped up at least 20 cargoes of Brazilian soybeans last week as uncertainty over a trade deal with the United States sent them rushing to lock in supplies, traders said Nov. 25. Importers also jumped on the new-crop Brazilian beans because of attractive margins, said two traders who declined to be identified. The purchases were for

News, Oilseeds

Canada working to diversify canola seed sales

This crop year exports to several countries have risen

By Allan Dawson November 12, 2019

Canada is working to diversify its canola seed sales, says Brian Innes, the Canola Council of Canada’s vice-president of public affairs. “As an industry we are doing what we can to diversify,” Innes said in an interview from Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 28 where Canada and China had their first face-to-face meeting over the canola dispute.

Markets, Other

Action needed on trade talks, supply/demand report out Friday

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 6, 2019

MarketsFarm – There needs to be some kind of firm, tangible action when it comes to the partial trade agreement between the United States and China, said Steve Georgy of Allendale Inc. in McHenry, Ill. He pointed to China, which recently said it wants some of the tariffs the U.S. has on its imports to

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping after a joint news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Nov. 6, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Jason Lee/POOL

China, France sign deals worth $15 bln during visit

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News November 6, 2019

Beijing | Reuters – China and France signed contracts totalling $15 billion during a visit by President Emmanuel Macron, a Chinese government official told a news briefing on Wednesday. Deals were struck in the fields of aeronautics, energy and agriculture, including approval for 20 French companies to export poultry, beef and pork to China. They also agreed to expand

Crops, News

Thailand’s chemical ban would hurt crop exporters

Thai farmers are also none too happy about losing crop protection tools

By Panarat Thepgumpanat, Patpicha Tanakasempipat November 4, 2019

Reuters – Thailand’s ban on three chemicals used in farming that its government deemed hazardous could threaten imports of American agricultural products into Thailand, a U.S. government official said in a letter sent ahead of the ban this week. Thailand’s National Hazardous Substances Committee recently voted to ban the use of three “hazardous chemicals,” including

The Canola Council of Canada hopes Canada and China’s first meeting on the canola seed dispute will lead to a resumption of Canadian canola seed exports to what was Canada’s biggest export customer. Photo: File/Greg Berg

Markets

Canada, China meet over canola stalemate

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News October 29, 2019

[UPDATED: Oct. 31, 2019] Glacier FarmMedia – Canada and China finally had a face-to-face meeting *Oct. 28 in Geneva on China’s de facto import ban of Canadian canola seed. The private consultation under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) went well, according to Brian Innes, the Canola Council of Canada’s *vice-president of public

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat futures climb on Black Sea tensions

Pulse weekly: Record Australian pulse crop expected

National Farmers’ Union proposes guaranteed basic income for farmers

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