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

Target Trump’s base if trade spat worsens, Mexican farm lobby says

By David Alire Garcia, GFM Network News, Sharay Angulo May 31, 2019

Mexico City | Reuters — The Mexican government should target agricultural goods produced in states that have voted for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Republican Party if the trade conflict between the two neighbours worsens, the head of Mexico’s main farm lobby said on Friday. Bosco de la Vega, head of Mexico’s national farm council CNA,

Hogs, News

Pork suffering indirect trade woes

Canada’s canola producers have been in the headlines, but Manitoba’s pork sector says it has been fighting against Chinese tariffs bubbling over from the U.S.

By Alexis Stockford May 25, 2019

Manitoba’s pork sector wants more attention to its own trade issues with China. The canola sector has dominated the agricultural headlines since sales to China ground to a halt earlier this year. But George Matheson, Manitoba Pork Council president, says pork producers have been fighting the impact of Chinese tariffs for a year. Why it

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with steel workers at Stelco in Hamilton on March 13, 2018. (File photo: Reuters/Mark Blinch)

Markets

U.S. boosts trade pact’s outlook lifting tariffs on Canadian, Mexican metals

By David Lawder, GFM Network News May 17, 2019

Washington/Ottawa | Reuters — The United States struck deals on Friday to lift tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada and Mexico, the three governments said, removing a major obstacle to legislative approval of a new North American trade pact. The separate agreements, which will not impose U.S. quotas on Canadian and Mexican metals

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Hands up!

By Gord Gilmour May 16, 2019

As someone who just turned 50 this past winter, I have no personal memories of the Great Grain Robbery of the summer of 1972, only what I’ve heard and read. The tongue-in-cheek name references the Great Train Robbery nine years earlier, when a Royal Mail train from Glasgow to London was relieved of 2.6 million

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

China cancels U.S. pork import order as trade war drags on

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter May 16, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — The same week U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping increases on tariffs against Chinese goods, Chinese buyers dropped orders for 3,247 tonnes of U.S. pork — the biggest cancellation in more than a year, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data released on Thursday. The cancellation came during the week ended

Federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on April 10, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Chris Wattie)

Markets

Canada needs ‘reset’ on China, Scheer says

By GFM Network News May 7, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s opposition leader on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for being too soft on China and said there needs to be a “total reset” on relations with the Asian powerhouse. Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer spoke amid an escalating diplomatic dispute that has followed Canada’s arrest of Huawei Technologies chief

CME June 2019 lean hogs with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs mixed, nearbys up on export hopes

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume May 2, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures ended mixed on Thursday, with nearby futures contracts building on strong gains in the previous session on expectations that China would soon sharply accelerate imports of U.S. pork. Deferred contracts were pressed down by active spread trading that featured buying of June futures and selling of October

Crops, Markets

Canadian farm exports hit new Chinese obstacles amid diplomatic dispute

By GFM Network News, Hallie Gu, Rod Nickel April 29, 2019

Winnipeg/Beijing | Reuters — An expanding list of Canadian farm exports is hitting obstacles at Chinese ports, leaving sellers of soybeans, peas and pork scrambling amid a bitter diplomatic dispute. China has already blocked Canadian canola from Richardson International and Viterra, two of Canada’s biggest farm exporters, saying that shipments had pests. Other China-bound canola

HyLife Foods staff work in the recently expanded integrated pork-processing plant in Neepawa.

Hogs, News

HyLife to hand over to Thai conglomerate

Over half of HyLife Foods stock will belong to Thai-based conglomerate CPF once the deal closes

By Alexis Stockford April 26, 2019

Manitoba pork giant HyLife Foods will soon have someone else calling the shots. The company announced a deal with Thailand-based exporter Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF) for 50.1 of the company’s stock April 22. The $498-million deal adds HyLife to the conglomerate’s list of companies, which span 17 countries and include hogs, chickens,

African Swine Fever was an overarching topic during the April 11 Manitoba Pork Council annual meeting.

Hogs, News, Other

Plugging the holes on African swine fever

Canadian officials hope to hold the line on African swine fever

By Alexis Stockford April 23, 2019

Officials are hoping an ounce of prevention will mean no cure is needed when it comes to African swine fever (ASF). Prevention has so far been a building block of Canada’s plans against the deadly swine disease. The highly contagious disease can be carried in blood, tissues, manure and stay viable in deadstock and fresh

Daily Network News

Export flurry boosts EU barley market to ease grain glut

OPINION: Glyphosate — What Indigenous communities have suspected for years about the dangers of the herbicide

U.S. grains: Soy rally continues after Trump says China to expand purchases

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