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The most recent U.S. national security strategy characterizes China as “the only competitor with both the intent to reshape the international order…”
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Comment: Western leaders divided over relationship with China

The U.S. and EU are striking different paths when it comes to this world power

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European Council president Charles Michel headed to Beijing on Dec. 1, the latest in a procession of western leaders to seek an audience with Xi Jinping, in a year when the Chinese president has cemented his position as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Xi met more than 20 heads of government earlier
Cattle producers should have been big winners in the trade deal with Europe but the opposite has been true so far, says Dan Darling, who has represented the cattle sector on this matter for close to a decade.
Beef cattle, Livestock

CETA’s trail of broken promises

It’s been five years of frustration with the EU trade deal as Europe keeps doors largely closed to Canadian beef

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Glacier FarmMedia – Dan Darling remembers the tough slog of negotiations in free-trade talks with Europe — and the hope that they would end with major gains for Canadian beef. But five years after the signing of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) with Europe, talks continue and potential benefits remain unrealized. “When we were
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Brazil moves closer to China corn exports as Beijing approves traders

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Beijing/Sao Paulo | Reuters – Chinese customs updated its list of approved Brazilian corn exporters on Wednesday, a move a Brazilian agriculture official said could jumpstart sales of corn to the world’s second-largest economy. The approvals could reshape global trade flows and result in fewer sales for farmers in the United States, the world’s top corn supplier.
Markets, News

Argentina grain inspectors threaten to walk out over company conflict

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Argentina’s union for grain inspectors has threatened to walk out over disagreements with an agro-export company in protests that could disrupt the country’s critical grains exports sector. The union, whose members include port workers and technicians who review grains loaded on boats, is in conflict with food exporting company Desdelsur SA over what it says
Organic exports dipped in 2021
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Organic exports dipped in 2021

Canadians’ demand for organic products continued to increase last year

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Canada’s organic food exports saw a sharp drop in 2021 compared to 2020’s banner year. Export totals dropped to $417.3 million from nearly $608 million in 2020, according to new figures from the Canadian Organic Trade Alliance (COTA) presented in a Sept. 12 webinar. However, that drop doesn’t look as stark when compared to 2019,
Markets, News

Brazil firm laments zoonotic trade blocks

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Reuters – Unreasonable animal health risk assessments continue to hamper global meat trade, according to Joao Sampaio, the director of institutional affairs at Brazilian beef processor Minerva. In statements July 26, Sampaio cited Turkey, which refuses to import Brazilian beef due to foot-and-mouth disease worries, but does buy live cattle from the country, “…which is
Zaporizhzhia Region, Ukraine, July 5, 2022. Due to the ongoing hostilities, grains are harvested only on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia and part of Polohy districts which constitute one-sixth of the total area of the Zaporizhzhia Region, south-eastern Ukraine.
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Recovery from grain production shortfalls could take years

Many factors have weighed in to produce tight global grain stocks

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Reuters – Eric Broten had planned to sow about 5,000 acres of corn this year on his farm in North Dakota, but persistent springtime rains limited him to just 3,500 in a state where a quarter or more of the planned corn could remain unsown this year. The difficulty planting corn in the northern United
Canada needs a new in-depth approach to the Indo-Pacific region and that’s important to agriculture.
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Is Canada’s coming Indo-Pacific strategy too little, too late?

Canada has high hopes to grow its agriculture trade in the Indo-Pacific region but strategists say Canada must look beyond trade or face continued irrelevance

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If Canada wants to continue to grow its agriculture trade in one of the fastest growing regions of the globe, it needs a new strategy. It needs to reconsider its ‘trade mission’ diplomacy strategy in the Indo-Pacific region and become relevant to the countries there. “Economic interests can no longer be separated from broader foreign
Granaries in the Odesa region of Southern Ukraine, June 22, 2022. With ports remaining closed despite international efforts to reach a deal, harvests are getting underway with storages still loaded with last year’s crops.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Dead end for Ukraine grain

Ukrainian farmers may soon be forced to make hard decisions about next season

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Two years ago, when the coronavirus pandemic swept over the world, I didn’t worry about Ukrainian farmers at all. They calmly did their work, plowed the land, sowed and harvested. If in Ukrainian cities then there was a difficult situation with COVID-19, then the farmers almost did not notice it. A year earlier, Ukraine’s fields

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