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Might Trump be good for Canadian agriculture?

His anti-trade agenda risks shooting his own agriculture sector in the foot

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm February 13, 2018

As United States President Donald Trump follows his “American first” policy and pulls out of trade deals, it could spell future opportunity for the Canadian agricultural industry. That’s according to Dermot Hayes, a professor with the department of economics at Iowa State University. “In D.C. it’s chaotic. It’s the craziest situation I’ve ever seen, we’re

Closeup of the flags of the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA members on textile texture. NAFTA is the world's largest trade bloc and the member countries are Canada, United States and Mexico.

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Canada and Mexico now the two amigos

The countries are teaming up to sell NAFTA to the U.S.

By Dave Graham, David Ljunggren May 15, 2017

From launching a data-mining drive aiming to find supply-chain pressure points to sending officials to mobilize allies in key U.S. states, Mexico and Canada are bolstering their defences of a regional trade pact President Donald Trump vows to rewrite. Trump has blamed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for the loss of millions of

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Promises made, promises kept

U.S. farmers are reaping the whirlwind of their bargain with Trump

By Alan Guebert February 27, 2017

Of all the words used to describe President Donald J. Trump during his first weeks in office — bold, boastful, alternative facts — here are two that almost no person or pundit uttered: promise keeper. Love him or loathe him, Trump took no time in checking off key items from his unconventional campaign’s list of

Opinion

Elections come and go but we stay

By Alan Guebert November 18, 2016

The cold, grey drizzle of November finally found central Illinois on Election Day. No one complained, however, because the warm, dry harvest season had ended weeks before. Fifty or more years ago, that was never the case on the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth. In fact, if we were half done with harvest

Cereals, News

Dorgan Won’t Run Again For U. S. Senate

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 14, 2010

“It is a hard decision to make after 30 years in the Congress, but I believe it is the right time for me to pursue these other interests.” – SEN. BYRON DORGAN The U. S. Senate will lose a vocal opponent of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk and vocal supporter of COOL this

Opinion

Sleeping With The Fishes

By Alan Guebert September 10, 2009

If mega-biz is to be believed, the new antitrust chief in the Obama Department of Justice, Christine A. Varney, is really a hurricane whose chief ambition is to demolish the very foundations of modern American business. If the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, Varney’s first public comments on antitrust, offered in her May

Cereals, Hogs, News

U. S. election raises protectionist fears

By Ron Friesen November 13, 2008

Canadian agriculture officials fear an increased wave of U. S. trade protectionism following last week’s election of a Democratic president and a heavily Democratic Congress. Fairly or otherwise, Democrats are viewed outside the United States as much more protectionist than free -trade Republicans. The temptation to protect jobs at home becomes especially strong as the

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Might Trump be good for Canadian agriculture?

Canada and Mexico now the two amigos

Promises made, promises kept

Elections come and go but we stay

Dorgan Won’t Run Again For U. S. Senate

Sleeping With The Fishes

U. S. election raises protectionist fears

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