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Dairy farmer Marie-Pier Vincent feeds her dairy cows at her farm in Saint-Valerien-de-Milton, southeast of Montreal.

Dairy downer

On Canadian dairy farms, fear and frustration as U.S. demands trade concessions

By Allison Lampert, Rod Nickel October 4, 2018

Reuters – Marie-Pier Vincent, a fourth-generation Quebec dairy farmer, worries it will be even harder to make ends meet as Canada allows more tariff-free imports of milk products from the United States under a reworked North American Free Trade Agreement. Vincent, 28, is already looking for a second job to pay back the money she

Comment, Dairy cattle, Opinion

Comment: Authors of their own misfortune

Canada’s dairy industry is about to lay in a bed of its own making

By Hugh Stephens September 28, 2018

Remember the early days of the NAFTA renegotiations, when all Donald Trump wanted to do was “tweak” the agreement as far as Canada was concerned? That seems like a century ago now. A lot has happened to poison the well between then and now, including the U.S. president’s over-the-top reaction to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s

Canadian dairy cows produce roughly 8,500 litres of milk per cow per year.

Dairy cattle, Opinion

Opinion: Counting cows

By Suzanne Armstrong September 18, 2018

Comparing the shelf price of milk in other countries is far too simplified a way of trying to compare complex differences between complete systems of producing and marketing milk. The CFFO prides itself on considering agricultural issues not only from an economic perspective. Last week’s commentary considered the social impacts of Canada’s supply management system,

Comment, Opinion

Opinion: The whole dairy picture

By Suzanne Armstrong September 11, 2018

The current press frenzy around Canada’s supply-managed dairy system is mostly thanks to the rhetoric of politicians south of the border. However, debate about the system has gone on within our own Canadian media for a long time too. Media debate around supply management often focuses on the issue of price for product on the

News

Rising consumer demand benefits dairy farmers

The growing market pull comes in the wake of lower prices and the face of trade uncertainty

By Alex Binkley August 7, 2018

The first half of 2018 has brought positive signs for dairy farmers but it’s hard to predict what the rest of the year will bring, says Farm Credit Canada. Butterfat production increased six per cent year over year to the end of April, bringing higher total revenues to producers even with a lower milk price,

Comment/Feedback, Opinion, Other

Donald Trump has it wrong on the Canadian dairy system

The president is in reality championing a globalized system that will disadvantage U.S. dairy farmers

By Anthony Pahnke July 30, 2018

Anthony Pahnke is vice-president of the Family Farm Defenders and an assistant professor of international relations at San Francisco State University. This piece appeared in a recent issue of Wisconsin State Farmer. President Donald Trump is wrong on dairy because he supports free trade. At first, this may appear incorrect, especially with the trade disputes

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Ontario to host plant for U.S. lactose-free milk maker

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 6, 2018

A lactose-free milk brand distributed by Coca-Cola will be produced at a new dairy processing plant to be built at Peterborough, Ont. by early 2020. The facility’s first product will be Fairlife Ultrafiltered Milk, a lactose-free product billed as providing 50 per cent more protein and 50 per cent less sugar than traditional milk. Canada

News

Canadian farmers deny U.S. dumping allegations on dairy

Low milk prices in the United States are due to overproduction, not a lack of access to Canada’s dairy market, says Dairy Farmers of Canada

By Allan Dawson April 19, 2018

Canada exports some skim milk powder, but it’s not dumping, says Thérèse Beaulieu, the Dairy Farmers of Canada’s assistant director for policy communications. “We can export as long as it is the same price as the domestic market,” Beaulieu said in an interview April 13 in response to American allegations that Canada dumps surplus skim

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Why all the fuss?

By Laura Rance-Unger April 12, 2018

Canada’s dairy system has figured prominently in the rhetorical storm surrounding NAFTA renegotiations. The Canadian government has so far remained steadfastly opposed to any significant change. Two documents that surfaced recently help explain why. The first, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “Regulatory Economic Impact Analysis of the Final Decision to Establish a California Federal Milk

Dairy farmer Lisa Dyck, shown here in 2013, launched Cornell Creme that year producing hand-crafted ice cream made from milk from the dairy farm she and her husband own between Beausejour and Anola. (Co-operator file photo by Lorraine Stevenson)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Eastern Manitoba ice cream maker closes shop

By GFM Network News, Lorraine Stevenson April 12, 2018

An eastern Manitoba dairy farmer who began producing a specialty ice cream with the farm’s own milk in 2013 has closed shop citing rising production costs. Lisa Dyck, owner of the Cornell Creme ice cream brand, began producing a line of hand-crafted ice cream in 2013, using milk from the family dairy farm northeast of

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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