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Van Camp: Olive branches offered through new gaps in tariff wall

By GFM Network News, Maggie Van Camp October 14, 2015

What do you get when you mix milk and eggs with a looming election? A “free” trade deal that gained major market access in Asia for Canada, but managed to keeps the tariffs for Canada’s supply-managed commodities. After all the barking from New Zealand, cows parading on Parliament Hill, tweets, heart-wrenching videos on Facebook, election

News

Debate on agriculture generates few sparks

Trade, research spending and farm labour issues dominated the discussion

By Alex Binkley October 9, 2015

The National Agriculture Leaders Debate generated few sparks Sept. 30 in what seemed more like lengthy academic discussions than a rousing conflict of ideas from candidates in the Oct. 19 election. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and his New Democrat and Liberal critics — Malcolm Allen and Mark Eyking — got in a few jabs over

KAP president Dan Mazier says participants in last week’s agricultural debate did a good job discussing important issues, while being civil to one another.

Local news

KAP president pleased with ag debate

Important farm issues were discussed respectfully

By Allan Dawson October 9, 2015

Farmers who watched the agriculture debate held in Ottawa Sept. 30 should have a clearer picture of where the major parties seeking election to the House of Commons stand on farm issues, says Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier. Mazier was pleased important agricultural issues were discussed, but also by the fact candidates were

Opinion

Editorial: Trust us. Why?

By Laura Rance-Unger October 8, 2015

It was no small feat achieving the kind of Trans-Pacific Partnership deal that offers export agricultural commodity groups the kind of market access they were seeking with modest, but significant, concessions on supply management. If the early reports are to be believed (details were announced just before press time), Canada’s trade negotiators deserve kudos for

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Critics see TPP as edge of wedge for U.S. milk

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 7, 2015

A U.S. dairy sector economist is the latest observer to suggest Canada’s concessions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership may eventually lead to more imports of U.S. milk than Ottawa bargained for. Ag economist Andrew Novakovic of New York’s Cornell University said in a release that the TPP, for U.S. producers, marks a major opportunity in Canada’s

Beef cattle, Cereals, Dairy cattle, Hogs, Markets

Market access, income supports come with Trans-Pacific pact

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 5, 2015

Canada’s federal government has pledged a suite of compensation programs for supply-managed dairy, poultry and egg sectors, against what it promises will be a mousehole in Canada’s tariff wall. Federal officials on Monday confirmed negotiations have concluded on the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership, now billed as “the largest, most ambitious free trade initiative in history.” The

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Election shifts attention to trade deal as race narrows

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 5, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters –– Trailing in second place with two weeks left before Canada’s election, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a new trade deal Monday that largely protects the key agricultural voting bloc, putting pressure on opponents who had hoped to have more to attack. Harper touted the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a good deal

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Canada says TPP offers limited access to dairy market

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 5, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada said on Monday that a major trade deal agreed by 12 Pacific nations would only allow limited access to protected Canadian domestic dairy and poultry markets, a politically sensitive issue ahead of the Oct. 19 election. Officials said the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would offer up just 3.25 per cent of

A dairy farmer walks with his cow during during a protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada September 29, 2015.

Dairy cattle, News, Poultry

Federal candidates debate supply management as TPP talks continue

Opposition candidates repeatedly asked Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz why supply management is on the table

By Jade Markus September 30, 2015

Representatives from Canada’s main parties met Wednesday to discuss agricultural policy ranging from risk management to transportation and rural infrastructure ahead of the Canadian federal election. But the hot button issue of the debate was supply management. As the debate was unfolding at the Château Laurier in Ottawa, leaders from the 12 Pacific Rim countries

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, shown here in February in Brampton, Ont., said farmers and processors would be “compensated” for losses incurred through any increased market access granted under a TPP deal. (Agr.gc.ca)

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Canada to pay farmers for any losses under TPP deal, Ritz says

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel September 30, 2015

Reuters — Canadian farmers will receive government compensation for any losses resulting from a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, the country’s agriculture minister said Wednesday in a discussion about the nation’s protected farm sectors. The U.S., New Zealand and Australia want Canada to start dismantling a system of supply and import controls over dairy, poultry

Daily Network News

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U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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Van Camp: Olive branches offered through new gaps in tariff wall

Debate on agriculture generates few sparks

KAP president pleased with ag debate

Editorial: Trust us. Why?

Critics see TPP as edge of wedge for U.S. milk

Market access, income supports come with Trans-Pacific pact

Election shifts attention to trade deal as race narrows

Canada says TPP offers limited access to dairy market

Federal candidates debate supply management as TPP talks continue

Canada to pay farmers for any losses under TPP deal, Ritz says

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