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Dairy farmers shoot back at critics

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 15, 2012

With their system of revenue under renewed jabs from various angles, Canada’s dairy farmers have compiled their retorts into a new online campaign. Dairy Farmers of Canada on Feb. 1 launched a website dubbed YourMilk.ca, which organizes the case for the country’s dairy industry into three sections: one on the industry’s benefits to the public,

Cereals, Crops, News

Wheat growers want no-cost buybacks to get grain moving

By Allan Dawson, Daniel Winters January 25, 2012

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has pledged to push the Canadian Wheat Board for no-cost buybacks for farmers who want to pre-empt the open market expected Aug. 1. Ritz told the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association meeting in Moose Jaw last week he would push for such an arrangement or changes to producer pricing options during

Cereals, News

Ending CWB Monopoly Brings Big Changes

By Allan Dawson October 27, 2011

Next August 1 ushers in what is arguably the most radical policy shift in Western Canada s grain industry since the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly was created nearly 69 years ago. Western wheat, durum and barley farmers will have marketing freedom. What then? Farmers and the industry are divided over whether it will usher in

News

Supply Management A Sticking Point In Trade Talks With Europe

October 27, 2011

OTTAWA/REUTERS / Canada and the European Union will need to put in quite a lot of hard work to settle several key differences in talks on a proposed free trade deal, according to senior officials. Recent talks, the ninth round to date, are aimed at finalizing a deal by next year. Both sides said significant

Cereals, News

Who’s Responsible For A Viable Open-Market CWB?

By Allan Dawson June 9, 2011

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the Canadian Wheat Board can survive in an open market, but it’s up to the board and the industry to figure out how. Ritz arrived for a half-hour visit at the board May 30 – his first-ever foray into its downtown offices – to inform officials there what he had

Opinion

Will The New Recipe Work?

By Ronald Doering June 9, 2011

On Feb. 4, Prime Minister Harper and U.S. President Obama created a U.S.-Canada Regulatory Co-operation Council (RCC) with a mandate to reduce regulatory red tape at the border. The leaders pledged to remove barriers to the trade of goods between the two countries, with specific reference to food. Food and agricultural products were highlighted because

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Will Farmers Support Voluntary CWB Canola Marketing?

By Allan Dawson March 24, 2011

Western farmers will soon be asked whether they’d like the option to voluntarily market canola through the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). A survey will be distributed via farm newspapers and the Internet this month or early next month, Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) director Butch Harder told about 70 farmers here March 15 at the

Livestock, Poultry

Mexico Begins U.S. Chicken Probe

By Robert Campbell February 17, 2011

Mexico, the top foreign buyer of U.S. chicken last year, said Feb. 8 it would investigate U.S. producers over dumping complaints lodged by Mexican chicken processors. Mexican chicken processors allege U.S. producers sold chicken legs and thighs on the Mexican market below their cost of production in 2010. Among the U.S. producers named in the

Hogs, Opinion

The “Level Playing Field” Of Trade

By Alan Guebert December 16, 2010

Some phrases just make the heart flutter. “Call the vet,” was one that always tripped my father’s ticker. “Level the playing field of trade,” has the same effect on me. Level the playing field of trade. Hmm, is it a negotiating strategy, a goal, an ideal? Wait a second: don’t I want an unlevel field

Cereals, News

NFU Campaigns To Block “Comprehensive” EU Trade Deal

By Allan Dawson October 21, 2010

Ayear ago Steve Verheul, Canada’s chief negotiator on the Canada – European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), lamented such an important deal should be attracting more public interest. The talks now have the National Farmers Union’s (NFU) full attention; based on a secret draft text obtained in July, the organization says an

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

Tag Archives North American Free Trade Agreement

Dairy farmers shoot back at critics

Wheat growers want no-cost buybacks to get grain moving

Ending CWB Monopoly Brings Big Changes

Supply Management A Sticking Point In Trade Talks With Europe

Who’s Responsible For A Viable Open-Market CWB?

Will The New Recipe Work?

Will Farmers Support Voluntary CWB Canola Marketing?

Mexico Begins U.S. Chicken Probe

The “Level Playing Field” Of Trade

NFU Campaigns To Block “Comprehensive” EU Trade Deal

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