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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

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After five years of negotiations, TPP talks near deal

By GFM Network News October 4, 2015

Atlanta | Reuters — A dozen Pacific nations closed in on a sweeping free trade pact on Sunday in Atlanta after a breakthrough over how long a monopoly pharmaceutical companies should be given on new biotech drugs. The issue has pitted the U.S., which has argued for longer protections, against Australia and five other delegations

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TPP deal near resolution, Japan says

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 2, 2015

Atlanta | Reuters — Japan’s Economy Minister Akira Amari said on Friday negotiators were close to reaching a sweeping Pacific Rim trade deal, citing progress on the remaining issues involving autos, dairy products and intellectual property protections for expensive biologic drugs. Amari, who spoke to reporters before a meeting of the 12 trade ministers represented in

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NDP would not feel bound by Pacific trade deal

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 2, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s main opposition party said Friday that if it won an Oct. 19 election, it would not feel bound by the terms of a major Pacific trade deal the ruling Conservatives are negotiating in the United States. The New Democrats, currently trailing third in the polls, said in a letter to

TPP trade ministers, shown here in July in Maui, have meetings in Atlanta on Wednesday and Thursday. (USTR.gov)

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TPP trade ministers push to wrap up ambitious trade deal

By GFM Network News September 30, 2015

Atlanta | Reuters — Pacific trade ministers readied on Wednesday to close the biggest trade deal in a generation but warned there was still work to be done on issues ranging from intellectual property to trade in dairy and automobiles. Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb said ministers from the 12 countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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)

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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

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Farmers, upset over TPP talks, take cows to Parliament

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News September 29, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters — Unhappy Canadian dairy farmers parked dozens of tractors in central Ottawa and walked their cows down the main street opposite Parliament on Tuesday to protest trade talks they said could cripple them. Canada is one of 12 Pacific Rim countries trying to nail down a trade deal in Atlanta this week.

(Tkeban Jahannes photo courtesy AtlantaGa.gov via Flickr)

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Producer groups lobby for TPP deal in Atlanta

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 29, 2015

Several Canadian grain and livestock commodity groups have representatives in Atlanta this week pressing for federal negotiators to keep Canada in play on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trade ministers from the 12 TPP countries — also including the U.S., Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam — are meeting in

Opinion

Agriculture should be plank of party platforms: CFA

Three main policy areas political parties need to address

By Cfa Release September 1, 2015

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) is calling on political candidates across Canada to show their support in the upcoming federal election for Canada’s farmers and the food system Canadians rely on each day. Canada’s farmers and farm organizations will be reaching out to candidates across the country — in-person meetings, mail-outs, and local events.

Livestock, Markets

Japan anxious at lull in Trans-Pacific trade talks

By GFM Network News, Reuters August 11, 2015

Tokyo | Reuters — Japan has expressed concern about a loss of momentum in talks on a pan-Pacific trade pact, after participants failed to agree to meet again this month to try to clinch a deal that would cover 40 per cent of the global economy. Ministers from the 12 nations negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans higher in technical bounce; wheat firms

Bring focused approach to target systems, not producers says animal activist

Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026

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Canada says TPP offers limited access to dairy market

After five years of negotiations, TPP talks near deal

TPP deal near resolution, Japan says

NDP would not feel bound by Pacific trade deal

TPP trade ministers push to wrap up ambitious trade deal

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

Farmers, upset over TPP talks, take cows to Parliament

Producer groups lobby for TPP deal in Atlanta

Agriculture should be plank of party platforms: CFA

Japan anxious at lull in Trans-Pacific trade talks

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