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Dustin Peltier and Rachel Isaak say the province has blocked them at every turn in the process of bringing their traditional, Trappist-style cheese to market.

Artisanal cheese makers cheesed off

‘Complex, inconsistently interpreted regulations’ have left one couple near bankruptcy and other small food processors in limbo

By Geralyn Wichers November 22, 2019

A Manitoba couple says red tape has killed 100 years of cheese history and put them near bankruptcy. Husband and wife team Dustin Peltier and Rachel Isaak, along with Peltier’s parents Gary and Silver Peltier, say the province has blocked them at every turn as they’ve attempted to bring their traditional, Trappist-style cheese to market

Dairy cattle, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion

Opinion: With friends like this

Canada's dairy farmers getting a bad image

By John Morriss August 6, 2019

Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer was back in the headlines recently after a visit to an agricultural fair in Ste. Hyacinthe, Quebec, clearly intended to brand himself as a friend of Canada’s dairy farmers. This friendship may not be helpful. Scheer’s visit follows his widely reported comments to a Dairy Farmers of Canada meeting in

Dairy Farmers of Manitoba chair David Wiens says the silver lining in the recent USMCA is the upswell of public support for Canadian dairy farmers.

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Other

USMCA discussions dominate at Dairy Farmers’ AGM

Supply management is the hill we must die on – Alistair Johnston Canadian Dairy Commission

By Don Norman December 24, 2018

Dairy Farmers of Manitoba chair David Wiens minced no words in his address to the organization’s annual general meeting earlier this month. “This has been one of the most dramatic years,” he told the assembled delegates. He was of course mainly referencing the recently negotiated United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and how it has affected the

“You give away a little piece here and a little piece there and every country wants that one per cent more than the other.” – Carol Boonstoppel

Dairy cattle, Local news

Spilled milk: Manitoba dairy producers worry for future

The immediate crisis is past but the long-term trends are worrying

By Don Norman December 17, 2018

Manitoba dairy producers who sat down with the Co-operator at the recent Manitoba Dairy Conference don’t look like bargaining chips — but lately that’s exactly what they’ve become. In successive rounds of trade deals they’ve repeatedly lost market share to imports from other jurisdictions, most recently in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). While they weren’t

News, Oilseeds

Canola meal boosts milk performance in dairy cattle trials

The trial ration is competitive or even cheaper than the current diet

By MarketsFarm Team November 20, 2018

Feeding trials from Wisconsin dairies showed that cows produced more litres of milk per day with canola meal in their feed rations. On-farm trials carried out at two dairies by the Canola Council of Canada and GPS Dairy Consulting, a group of independent dairy nutritionists, replaced animal protein and high-bypass soybean meal with canola meal

Scooter LaPrise, 53, herds his cows into the milking parlour for the morning milking at EMMA Acres dairy farm, in Exeter, Rhode Island, U.S., 7 April, 2018. Scooter shouts “Come on, Ladies!” as he directs his cows from their stalls into the milking parlour. Scooter with his wife has about 30 cows on one of eight remaining dairy farms in Rhode Island.
Photo: Reuter/Oliver Doyle

Dairy cattle

U.S. dairy farmers get little help from Canada trade deal

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen, Rod Nickel October 26, 2018

Madison, Wisconsin/St. Claude, Manitoba | Reuters – Minnesota farmer Paul Fritsche can no longer afford health insurance as he struggles to sustain a dairy farm that has been in his family for nearly a century. With U.S. milk prices in the fourth year of a slump due to chronic oversupply, Fritsche, 58, is unsure whether

Dairy cattle

U.S. milk producers ask government for more aid, citing $1 bln tariff impact

By GFM Network News, Humeyra Pamuk October 25, 2018

Washington | Reuters – U.S. milk producers asked the government to increase aid payments to the industry to offset losses from foreign tariffs, saying dairy farmers have lost more than $1 billion in income since May. The administration of President Donald Trump in late May announced tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Leadership needed

By Gord Gilmour October 18, 2018

One of the most important roles of our political leadership is right there in the job title. We hire these folks to lead. Often that means making the hard decisions and telling people what they won’t want to hear. Naturally some are better at it than others. The late U.S. president Harry Truman popularized the

Dairy cattle, News

Public support largely behind dairy farmers

Canadians are clearly signalling they value dairy farms

By Lorraine Stevenson October 18, 2018

Dairy farmers reeling from the uncertainty descending on their farms in light of the new trade deal can take heart in one thing, says Manitoba dairy farmer and Dairy Farmers of Canada vice-president David Wiens. “There’s one thing the government can’t take away from us with this trade deal, and it is the relationship we

The challenge ahead for Canada's dairy sector is to make the case for their worth to the voting public.

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Seeking allies

By Gord Gilmour October 4, 2018

The rubber has hit the road in U.S.-Canada trade negotiations and the news isn’t good for Canadian dairy producers. It appears they’re set to lose as much as 3.5 per cent of their market to tariff-free U.S. dairy imports. That’s on top of similar concessions made during negotiations for the Canada-European trade deal that saw

Daily Network News

Pulse Weekly: No upside for peas until after New Year

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat sets fresh lows on supply pressure, Ukraine ceasefire talks

U.S. livestock: Cattle rise, hogs recoup losses

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