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Comment: No room for raw milk

Bird flu infections in U.S. dairies underscore reasons pasteurization rules are a good idea

By Alexis Stockford April 25, 2024

I was on the edge of the conversation, waiting for the speaker at the ag-event-of-the-week to finish mingling so I could corner him for an interview. His conversation with a few of the event attendees had turned to dairy. The speaker came from the U.S., where rules on the sale of raw milk for human

Livestock

US detects avian flu in milk, says dairy supplies are safe

By GFM Network News, Reuters, Tom Polansek March 25, 2024

Samples of milk collected from sick cattle in Kansas and Texas tested positive for avian flu, but the nation's milk supply is safe, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Why Bill C-282 is an awful idea

Bill would hold nation’s economic future hostage for one small group’s benefit

By Sylvain Charlebois March 11, 2024

At the end of February, Bill C-282 sat in the Canadian Senate on the precipice of becoming law. It seeks to bestow immunity upon supply management from concessions in any potential future trade negotiations. In essence, it risks holding all other economic sectors hostage solely to safeguard the interests of a small, privileged group of

Canada may refuse to discuss supply management in any trade talks through legislation such as Bill C-282.

News

U.S. feels ‘betrayed’ over dairy deal

Former official says dairy dispute between U.S. and Canada about to erupt again

By Ed White March 6, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia – A senior American agricultural policy leader is cautioning Canadian farmers to expect a resurgence of the dairy dispute. “Watch out on dairy. I think that’s real,” Ted McKinney, a former undersecretary at U.S. Department of Agriculture, former Indiana minister of agriculture and current chief executive officer of the National Association of State

Dairy cattle

“Animal-free” milk gets green light in Canada

Company touts synthetic dairy as more environmentally friendly, healthy

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News February 5, 2024

In a news release today, Israeli startup Remilk, which uses the tagline "Real Dairy. No Milk," announced it had received a 'No Objection Letter' from Health Canada. This will "open the door for use of Remilk's protein in a variety of products with the same taste and texture as milk, ice cream, yogurt, cream cheese, and more," the company said.

(Noel Hendrickson/DigitalVision/Getty Images)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Farmgate milk price hike delayed to May

Stakeholders say increase should be postponed amid food inflation concerns

By GFM Network News, Karen Briere November 1, 2023

The farmgate price of milk will go up May 1, 2024, rather than Feb. 1, after a review of the national pricing formula and consultation with stakeholders. The increase will be 1.77 per cent, or about 1.5 cents per litre for milk going into processing plants, the Canadian Dairy Commission said Wednesday. The commission had

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Hold off on milk price hike, dairy farmers say

Dairy commission to consult again before making annual adjustment

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News October 17, 2023

The process to set the next national price adjustment for Canadian milk will now take an extra week, triggered by stakeholder objections, for a round of consultations — in which the national dairy farmer group plans to call for a delay on any increase. The Canadian Dairy Commission — the Crown corporation managing Canada’s milk

News

Britain’s Tesco cuts milk price

By James Davey April 24, 2023

Reuters – Britain’s biggest supermarket group, Tesco, has cut the price of milk for the first time since May 2020, a possible early sign that a surge in food inflation may abate in coming months. In March, grocery inflation in the U.K. rose to 17.5 per cent, according to market researcher Kantar. The price rise

Markets, News

India milk imports soar as disease hits local cattle

By Anushka Trivedi, Mayank Bhardwaj, Rajendra Jadhav April 18, 2023

Reuters – Milk prices in India could soon hit an all-time high, forcing the world’s biggest producer to step up imports to boost supplies and ease cost of living pressures. Farmers are wrestling with a double whammy: a lethal cattle condition called lumpy skin disease and a drawdown in market-ready cattle stock after pandemic conditions

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Canada can fix its milk dumping problem

A recent viral video has given the nation’s dairy sector a public relations black eye

By Sylvain Charlebois February 17, 2023

A video of an exasperated Canadian dairy farmer, Jerry Huigen, went viral last week. For probably the first time in Canadian history, a Canadian dairy farmer was filmed while discarding milk on his own farm. That video has now been viewed by almost 3 million people. It shocked many Canadians, who were wondering why this

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back as inventory hits 75-year low

Farm family income gains driven by off-farm earnings: StatCan

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