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Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer attend a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Mexico City on Dec. 10, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Henry Romero)

Canada, U.S., Mexico sign agreement, again, to replace NAFTA

By GFM Network News, Sharay Angulo December 10, 2019

Washington/Mexico City | Reuters — Top officials from Canada, Mexico and the United States signed a fresh overhaul of a quarter-century-old trade pact on Tuesday that aims to improve enforcement of worker rights and hold down prices for biologic drugs by eliminating a patent provision. The signing ceremony in Mexico City launched what may be

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit. (RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images)

Markets

A ‘little more work’ needed on CUSMA deal, Trudeau says

By GFM Network News, Reuters November 29, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday said a little more work needed to be done on a new continental trade deal which has run into opposition from some U.S. Democrats over labour and environmental provisions. Officials are trying to agree on a series of tweaks to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (CUSMA)

Markets

Ag sector growth will take investments in skills, tech now: RBC

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff August 28, 2019

One of Canada’s big six banks bets the agriculture sector’s gross domestic product could rise by nearly 60 per cent over the next decade if it were to have enough people, capital and access to new technology where ag lives. A report released by RBC on Tuesday titled “Farmer 4.0” estimates Canadian ag GDP could

"Labour shortages in Canadian agriculture can only be addressed by taking decisive action.” – Portia MacDonald-Dewhirst, CAHRC executive director

News, Other

Farm human resources crunch to worsen

Grain, beef and horticulture production will be the hardest hit

By Alex Binkley July 19, 2019

There are no signs that Canadian agriculture’s labour crunch will be easing any time soon. In fact a recent labour market forecast from the Canadian Agriculture Human Resources Council (CAHRC) suggests the situation is set to worsen sharply over the next 10 years. That will limit future growth and delay expansion plans, the group says.

File photo of a cowboy herding cattle near a Mexican roadside. (GummyBone/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

USMCA dispute panel fix must be ‘across the board,’ Mexico says

By GFM Network News, Reuters July 11, 2019

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico sees a push to close a dispute resolution loophole in the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal as a way to protect its interests as well as helping satisfy demands by U.S. Democrats that the deal contain stricter labour measures, a senior official said on Thursday. Reuters reported last week that Mexico

(Canada Border Services Agency video screengrab)

Markets

USMCA deal modestly boosts U.S. economy, trade panel finds

By David Lawder, GFM Network News April 18, 2019

Washington | Reuters — The new North American free trade pact would modestly boost the U.S. economy, especially auto parts production, but may curb vehicle assembly and limit consumer choice in cars, a hotly anticipated analysis from the U.S. International Trade Commission showed on Thursday. The ITC report is a crucial step in the push

Finding workers for short-season employment in rural areas isn’t easy.

Country Crossroads, Local news

Making it work — or not

Direct Farm Manitoba speaker says farm owners need to look further afield —  to provincial job centres and settlement agencies — to find the staffers they need

By Lorraine Stevenson March 7, 2018

The labour shortage in agriculture affects all types of farms and enterprises with short-season, high-labour needs definitely feel the pinch of it. Pam and John Griffin need to hire people every summer to take off their strawberry harvest on their five-acre Glenboro-area Good Earth Garden and Berries farm. But not many want the job. “I’m

Markets

Sharp differences over labour surface at NAFTA trade talks

By Dave Graham, GFM Network News, Sharay Angulo September 4, 2017

Mexico City | Reuters — Tensions over sharp differences in pay between Mexican workers and their Canadian and U.S. counterparts surfaced on Sunday as negotiators discussed labour market rules in talks to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement. Canada’s biggest private-sector union said NAFTA should be scrapped if Mexico cannot agree to better labour

U.S. President Donald Trump and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue participate in a farmers’ roundtable event April 25, 2017 at the White House. (Video screengrab from WhiteHouse.gov)

Trump reassures farmers immigration crackdown not aimed at their workers

By GFM Network News, Kristina Cooke, Mica Rosenberg May 15, 2017

Washington/San Francisco | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump said he would seek to keep his tough immigration enforcement policies from harming the U.S. farm industry and its largely immigrant workforce, according to farmers and officials who met with him. At a roundtable on farm labour at the White House last month, Trump said he

Livestock

Pacific trade pact countries seek ‘progressive’ way forward

By GFM Network News March 15, 2017

Vina Del Mar, Chile | Reuters — The remaining members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are seeking a way forward on the trade pact, they said on Wednesday, as some emphasized the need for deals to address concerns about workers’ rights and other issues. The TPP, which originally covered some 40 per cent of global

Daily Network News

Prairie forecast: Warmer temperatures but east Prairies still cool

ADM to pay $40 million in U.S. SEC settlement, avoids criminal charges

Canadian Food Inspection Agency hit by job cuts

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Canada, U.S., Mexico sign agreement, again, to replace NAFTA

A ‘little more work’ needed on CUSMA deal, Trudeau says

Ag sector growth will take investments in skills, tech now: RBC

Farm human resources crunch to worsen

USMCA dispute panel fix must be ‘across the board,’ Mexico says

USMCA deal modestly boosts U.S. economy, trade panel finds

Making it work — or not

Sharp differences over labour surface at NAFTA trade talks

Trump reassures farmers immigration crackdown not aimed at their workers

Pacific trade pact countries seek ‘progressive’ way forward

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