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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

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

“Our farmers don’t have access to the Canadian markets the way that they have access to us. Class 7 has to go.” – Sonny Perdue, U.S. agriculture secretary.

Dairy cattle, News

U.S. agriculture chief calls for end of Class 7 milk

Trump is talking tough, saying Canada has been ‘ripping us off’ for a long time

By David Lawder, David Ljunggren September 13, 2018

Canada must end its low-price milk proteins policy to reach a U.S.-Canadian deal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said Sept. 9. Canada has encouraged overproduction and flooded export markets for milk proteins used in cheese and yogurt, hurting U.S. dairy farmers, Perdue said in an interview aired

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau has indicated on several occasions to the U.S. administration that Canada's supply management system won't be touched.

Comment, Opinion

Comment: How we can avoid a devastating trade war with the U.S.

We need a smart, realistic strategy for negotiations, starting with our dairy supply management system

By Gwyn Morgan September 10, 2018

The importance of the North American Free Trade Agreement to Canada’s economy is staggering. Each day, $2.4 billion worth of goods and services cross the Canada/U.S. border. Some 78 per cent of Canada’s merchandise exports are destined for NAFTA partners. Now, the 23-year-old agreement is under severe threat from a hyper-protectionist American president. U.S.-Canada trade

Flags are pictured during the fifth round of NAFTA talks involving the United States, Mexico and Canada, in Mexico City, Mexico, November 19, 2017.

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: A new view on Canada/U.S. trade

By Gord Gilmour September 6, 2018

If you’ve been too busy on the combine to keep up with the latest developments or, like many, have simply become numb to the rhetoric and brinksmanship after nearly two years of threats and bluster, there’s been a big and not-so-good development on the trade front this week. It turns out those side negotiations between

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Beggar-thy-neighbour

By Gord Gilmour August 9, 2018

To steal a line from “Star Wars” filmmaker George Lucas, on the night of Nov. 8, 2016, I felt a ‘great disturbance in the force.’ The occasion, of course, was the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, and the subsequent horror of many. At the time I was more sanguine. He may arguably be

Comment, Opinion, Other

Tariffs not the answer to U.S. trade woes

By Kevin Paap July 30, 2018

Testimony by Minnesota Farm Bureau president Kevin Paap to the U.S. House Ways and Means subcommittee on trade, Washington, D.C., July 18. Agricultural exports are important economic drivers. Once you lose a market, it is really tough to get it back. In 2017, we exported $140 billion in farm products, which is $21 billion more

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

News, Other

Politicians to get an earful on CPTPP

Farm groups want passage of the bill to be a priority when Parliament resumes in September and will be making their feelings known

By Alex Binkley July 13, 2018

MPs and senators can expect to hear plenty from farmers all summer about the importance of quickly passing the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) bill, farm group representatives vow. They were in Ottawa June 21, the first day of summer, in hopes the politicians would see the light on the need to pass the

News

Trade war casualties? Across the line

Some Manitoba farm exports go almost exclusively to the U.S., raising questions about continued access as Donald Trump expands his global trade war

By Allan Dawson July 12, 2018

Manitoba farmers praying for good crops might do well to ask for divine intervention to keep their biggest customer — the United States. As U.S. President Donald Trump’s global trade war heats up, they could find their largest market for many of their products under fire. During the last five years (2013-17) this province’s agricultural

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle tick lower in thin pre-holiday trade

U.S. grains: Wheat extends gains on short covering, war risk

Prairie forecast: Plenty more chances for snow over Holidays

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