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Editorial: Customers, not competitors, come first

By John Morriss September 29, 2014

Is there anyone out there who thinks it’s a good thing for Canadian agricultural representatives to join with their competition from other countries to criticize their best customers? The answer is almost certainly no, but on the other hand we didn’t hear any objections when the Canadian Pork Council did exactly that earlier this month.

Man speaking into microphone at conference

Hogs, Livestock, News

COOL not going away

Supporters will move quickly to replace if it is struck down

By Shannon VanRaes April 17, 2014

Even if Canada wins its battle against country-of-origin labelling at the World Trade Organization (WTO) this summer, Canadian livestock producers could still lose the war. Congressman Collin Peterson, the ranking member of the U.S. house committee on agriculture, told reporters here last week there are groups in the U.S. that support COOL regulations and want

Livestock, Livestock Markets

Weekly livestock auction

For week ending Nov. 22, 2013

November 27, 2013

The first real snowfall of the year, seen on Nov. 17, didn’t keep the cattle away at Manitoba’s auction yards during the week ended Nov. 22. The snow made for some messier conditions and caused a few cancellations here and there, but overall didn’t interfere too much with cattle marketing in Manitoba during the week.

Dennis Stephens, secretary of the International Grain Trade Coalition, says grain trading is at risk so long as importers don’t have a policy allowing a low-level presence of unapproved GM crop traits. photo: allan dawson

Crops, Oilseeds

Canada leads efforts to convince importers to dump zero tolerance

By Allan Dawson November 27, 2013

Canada is leading efforts to get an international agreement that would see countries accept small amounts of unapproved genetically modified (GM) crops in their imports, says Dennis Stephens. And the Oakbank-based secretary of the International Grain Trade Coalition credits Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz for leading the charge. Ritz, along with Canada’s flax industry, experienced first

Beef cattle, News, Other livestock

Australian kangaroo exporters look to hop into meat-hungry China

By Colin Packham November 27, 2013

Once considered pet food, kangaroo meat could soon be sold to China as a luxury product, to encourage Chinese consumers to do something few Australians will — eat it. With a booming middle class, China’s appetite for meat is expected to rise nearly 17 per cent over the next eight years, the World Trade Organization

Ranchers from the Oak Lake area attend the recent Manitoba Beef Producers District 6 meeting at the  Legion Hall. photo: Daniel Winters

Beef cattle, Livestock

Ranchers hear good and bad news on trade front

By Daniel Winters November 14, 2013

Checkoff increase proposal approved at Manitoba Beef Producers district meeting as organization deals with decline in checkoffs from shrinking cattle herd

The Lord works in mysterious ways. Imports of communion wafers are apparently one of the Canadian beef industry’s trump cards in its ongoing battle to overturn Washington’s country-of-origin labelling Law (COOL). “It’s not that the government of Canada doesn’t like Catholics,” Manitoba Beef Producers general manager Cam Dahl said at the recent District 6 meeting.

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Please, let’s not win again

By John Morriss June 19, 2013

Traceability is a fact of life for almost every other commodity that consumers buy; yet somehow we have not embraced traceability’s potential in the world of food. I cannot buy an iPhone that does not have complete traceability back to its basic components; yet what we put into our bodies is rarely traceable to source.

Beef cattle, Hogs, Opinion

Trouble on the trade front

June 12, 2013

The federal government has issued a long list of U.S. imports that could be targeted for retaliation if Canada’s biggest trading partner fails to comply with the WTO ruling on its country-of-origin labelling rules. That list of 40 or so items includes live cattle and pigs, meat products, corn, processed foods containing spent fowl, chocolate,

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

Ottawa again turns to the WTO in battle over U.S. labelling law

By Alex Binkley May 29, 2013

Canada will go back to the World Trade Organization — rather than impose sanctions — to try and get Washington to change or scrap its country-of-origin labelling law rules that discriminate against Canadian beef and pork. “There is a WTO process we intend to follow that takes time,” said Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. “We will

Beef cattle, Crops, Hogs, Oilseeds

Canada wins China canola access, sees Russia meat barriers

By Rod Nickel April 26, 2013

Canada has not ruled out WTO action against Russia for banning meat  from Canadian plants over ractopamine

China has softened its three-year-old import restrictions on Canadian canola, while Russia is set to erect barriers to some of Canada’s biggest meat-packing plants, Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said April 16. China approved one additional oilseed-crushing plant, the 600,000-tonne CNOOC-Biolux plant in Nantong, Jiangsu province, to accept shipments of Canadian canola seed, a crop

Daily Network News

Canadian alpacas impress American judge at Agribition

U.S. grains: Chicago grains firm as traders gauge China purchases

U.S. livestock: Futures rally ahead of U.S. Thanksgiving

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