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Ralph Goodale at a news conference in Ottawa on May 7, 2018.

Comment: Goodale’s election loss silences the western farm voice at the cabinet table

By D.C. Fraser October 30, 2019

A few weeks before the election, I was having a coffee in Ottawa with someone who advocates for a growers’ group. She apologized for coming solo, telling me the person who was supposed to join her couldn’t make it. That was because her colleague had flown to Regina for a meeting with Ralph Goodale. It

Livestock

Ottawa loses millions on import duties

By Alex Binkley July 14, 2017

A significant volume of dairy, poultry, eggs and beef was imported into Canada without a permit or paying the appropriate customs duties, hurting both the federal treasury and farmers, says Auditor General Michael Ferguson in his spring report to Parliament. Analyzing figures from Global Affairs Canada and the Canadian Border Services Agency found “authorizations, certificates,

An unauthorized outdoor cannabis “grow” operation found by RCMP northwest of Winnipeg in August 2013. (Photo courtesy Manitoba RCMP)

Crops

Canada to press U.S. on ‘ludicrous’ marijuana border policy

By GFM Network News September 9, 2016

Ottawa | Reuters –– Canada will push the United States to change a border policy that has banned Canadians who admit to having used marijuana from travel to the U.S., given Canada’s plans to legalize pot, a government spokesman said Friday. The case of a Canadian man barred from U.S. travel because he admitted to

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Keeping PEDv out

Plus, restoring prison farms to be studied

By Laura Rance-Unger June 16, 2016

Is it a coincidence that three Manitoba hog operations have experienced outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) within weeks after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reinstated protocols for washing trucks returning from the U.S.? We think not. During the height of the PEDv outbreak in the U.S. two years ago, the CFIA suspended a

Ralph Goodale says trade and improving grain transportation are at the top of the Liberals’ agricultural agenda.

Crops, Livestock, National news

The Liberal government’s ‘to do’ list on agriculture

Ralph Goodale says improvements to grain transportation and trade are top priorities, but safety nets and research are also on the agenda

By Allan Dawson November 5, 2015

Grain transportation and trade are top of the new Liberal government’s agricultural agenda, says veteran Saskatchewan MP and former agriculture minister Ralph Goodale. Other priorities include determining if farm aid programs are adequate, investing in infrastructure to protect soil and water and refocusing the government’s role in scientific research. The Canadian Wheat Board is not

News

CWB sale to be scrutinized by new Liberal government

But veteran MP Ralph Goodale says the wheat board’s monopoly won’t be restored

By Allan Dawson November 5, 2015

The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) won’t be restored under the new Liberal government, but farmers could finally see its books, kept secret since the government removed its marketing monopoly in 2012. “A number of farmers has raised the question and said the numbers just don’t add up,” Saskatchewan MP and former agriculture minister Ralph Goodale

Improving grain transportation and trade top the new Liberal government’s agricultural agenda. Photo: Allan Dawson

Crops, Livestock

New Liberal government has lots on its ag ‘to do’ list

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News November 3, 2015

Manitoba Co-operator – Grain transportation and trade top of the new Liberal government’s agricultural agenda, says veteran Saskatchewan MP and former agriculture minister Ralph Goodale. Other priorities include determining if farm aid programs are adequate, investing in infrastructure to protect soil and water and refocusing the government’s role in scientific research. The Canadian Wheat Board

Gerry Ritz, shown here in Winnipeg in April, may be a tough act to follow in the ag portfolio for a Liberal government with a limited depth chart in the ag sector. (Dave Bedard photo)

Markets

Binkley: Speculation swirls on Grits’ successor for Ritz

By Alex Binkley, GFM Network News October 20, 2015

The guessing game on whom the next agriculture minister will be is well underway in Ottawa although no obvious choice stands out. Whoever Justin Trudeau selects will find Gerry Ritz a tough act to follow. During his eight years in the portfolio, he has put an increasing production and export stamp on the industry. And

Local news

‘Disaster by design’ wreaks flood havoc on the Prairies

Meeting participants agreed the only way forward is to collaborate on a plan

By Lorraine Stevenson November 28, 2014

Some have coined the term “disaster by design” to capture how severe weather now impacts those farming and living on the Prairies. But improved long-term planning for times of excess and drought can reduce our vulnerability to the latter, said speakers at the inaugural Assiniboine River Basin Initiative conference in Regina earlier this month. “One

Cereals, National news

Opposition MPs decry decision to not make CWB’s 2012-13 annual report public

Wheat board critics, including the government, accused it of secrecy, but now  Gerry Ritz has deemed CWB’s activities are too commercially sensitive to release

By Allan Dawson October 3, 2014

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s decision to keep CWB’s 2012-13 annual report from the public is being criticized by opposition members of Parliament. Farmers and taxpayers have a right to see CWB’s financial statements Liberal MP Ralph Goodale and NDP Agriculture Critic Malcolm Allen said in separate interviews last week. “It should be remembered whatever revenue

U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

Tag Archives Ralph Goodale

Comment: Goodale’s election loss silences the western farm voice at the cabinet table

Ottawa loses millions on import duties

Canada to press U.S. on ‘ludicrous’ marijuana border policy

Editorial: Keeping PEDv out

The Liberal government’s ‘to do’ list on agriculture

CWB sale to be scrutinized by new Liberal government

New Liberal government has lots on its ag ‘to do’ list

Binkley: Speculation swirls on Grits’ successor for Ritz

‘Disaster by design’ wreaks flood havoc on the Prairies

Opposition MPs decry decision to not make CWB’s 2012-13 annual report public

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