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Canada’s variety registration and grading system focuses on delivering a high-quality and consistent product end-users can trust, says NFU vice-president Cam Goff.

NFU fears grain-grading system to be sacrificed under NAFTA

Cereals Canada says a deal can be reached to satisfy both Canada and the U.S.

By Allan Dawson September 27, 2018

Is Canada’s wheat quality assurance system under threat in the current NAFTA talks? The National Farmers Union says Canada needs to be on guard against U.S. efforts to destroy it. “Canada’s grain-grading system is the key to our international competitiveness, particularly for wheat,” Terry Boehm, chair of the NFU’s trade committee, said in a news

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference during the General Assembly of the United Nations in Manhattan on Sept. 26, 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Amr Alfiky)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Trump slams Canada over NAFTA, says rejected Trudeau meeting

By David Lawder, GFM Network News September 26, 2018

United Nations | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted Canada over the slow pace of talks over NAFTA, saying he was so unhappy that he had rejected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s request for a one-on-one meeting. The remarks by Trump, who repeated a threat to impose tariffs on Canadian autos, knocked

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer testifies at a Senate subcommittee hearing in Washington on July 26, 2018 on proposed budget estimates for the Office of the USTR. (Photo: Reuters/Mary F. Calvert)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Canada not making concessions needed for NAFTA deal, says U.S.

By David Lawder, GFM Network News September 25, 2018

New York | Reuters — Canada is not making concessions needed to reach a deal with the U.S. for a trilateral NAFTA pact and is running out of time before Washington proceeds with a Mexico-only agreement, a top U.S. official said on Tuesday. The administration of President Donald Trump has recently begun increasing the pressure

Manitoba pork producers are awaiting resolution on the trade front so they can return to profitability.

Hogs, Livestock

Trade wars cast a long shadow over hog industry

Trump tariffs a significant factor, NAFTA weighs in too

By Ron Friesen September 24, 2018

The ongoing trade war between the United States and the rest of the world is side-swiping Manitoba’s pork industry. Hog prices have tumbled since last spring, leaving producers worried about their future just as the industry is recovering from a decade of economic woe. “It’s pretty terrible. It’s about as bad as it’s been in

<p>The United Nations’ General Assembly Hall in Manhattan. (BWZenith/iStock/Getty Images)</p>

Livestock, Markets

Informal NAFTA talks seen likely in next few days at U.N.

By Allison Lampert, GFM Network News September 23, 2018

Montreal | Reuters — U.S. and Canadian officials trying to reach a deal on NAFTA are “very likely” to hold informal talks on the sidelines of a major U.N. meeting in the next few days, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday. With time running out ahead of a U.S.-imposed deadline of the end

A Mexican port-of-entry sign on Highway 92 near Naco, Arizona. (Rex_Wholster/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

Mexico says will seek deal with Canada if NAFTA talks fail

By GFM Network News, Reuters September 21, 2018

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico’s incoming government will pursue a bilateral deal with Canada if talks to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement falter, Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday. After more than a year of talks to modernize the NAFTA trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada,

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks with reporters in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2018 after meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to discus NAFTA auto negotiations. (File photo: Reuters/David Lawder)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

NAFTA talks grind on with little sign of deal

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News September 20, 2018

Washington | Reuters — Canada and the U.S. showed scant sign of being close to striking a deal on revamping the trilateral NAFTA that underpins US$1.2 trillion in annual trade, as Canadian sources played down talk of a U.S. quota on autos. Canada says it does not feel bound by a U.S.-imposed deadline for the

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a town hall meeting Jan. 10 in Hamilton. (PM.gc.ca)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Trudeau urges some U.S. flexibility in NAFTA talks

By David Lawder, David Ljunggren, GFM Network News September 19, 2018

Washington/Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday he wanted to see flexibility from the U.S. if the two sides are to reach a deal on renewing NAFTA, which Washington insists must be finished by the end of the month. Ottawa is pushing back against increasing pressure by the administration of

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,

Carrot hanging on the end of angled stick

Comment, Opinion, Other

The carrot, the stick, and U.S. farmers

Trade turmoil has the White House picking winners and losers in the U.S. farm sector

By Alan Guebert September 14, 2018

The Trump administration’s good cop/bad cop approach to U.S. trade policy was on full display Aug. 27 when President Donald J. Trump, the bad cop that day, announced a very incomplete NAFTA trade deal — fuelled by his heavy use of tariffs — that pointedly excluded Canada. That day’s good cop was U.S. Secretary of

Daily Network News

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Bayer’s bid to curb Roundup cases

Canada-China roundup: Producer groups applaud tariff relief; pork left out; mix of criticism and praise from Trump administration

Opinion: Is a closer trade relationship with China a security risk?

Tag Archives NAFTA

NFU fears grain-grading system to be sacrificed under NAFTA

Trump slams Canada over NAFTA, says rejected Trudeau meeting

Canada not making concessions needed for NAFTA deal, says U.S.

Trade wars cast a long shadow over hog industry

Informal NAFTA talks seen likely in next few days at U.N.

Mexico says will seek deal with Canada if NAFTA talks fail

NAFTA talks grind on with little sign of deal

Trudeau urges some U.S. flexibility in NAFTA talks

Opinion: Counting cows

The carrot, the stick, and U.S. farmers

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