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WTO Should Seek Smaller-Scale Doha Deal

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The long-running Doha round of talks will fail to reach a deal to broadly liberalize global trade this year, and should instead seek a smal ler-scale agreement in the near term, Australia s trade minister said last Friday. The Cairns Group of 19 agricultural exporters, including Australia, Canada, Brazil and Argentina, met in Saskatoon last
Livestock

Cairns Group Looks To Break The Impasse

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Representatives of more than 25 countries are in Saskatoon this week looking for a way to break the deadlock in the WTO negotiations. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and his Australian counterpart are chairing the two-day Cairns Group meeting from Sept. 7 to 9. The group, which held its inaugural meeting in the Aussie city, has
Livestock

Cattle Herd Shrinks, Hog Numbers Increase

Canada’s cattle herd shrank as of July 1 to its smallest in 17 years, while the number of hogs rose by mid-year for the first time in five years, Statistics Canada said Aug. 22. Farmers had nearly 13.9 million head of cattle on their farms, down 0.8 per cent from a year ago, continuing a
Beef cattle, Livestock

Canadian Beef Expected To Re-Enter South Korea Soon

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The head of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association hopes Canadian beef exports to South Korea will resume later this year, following an agreement between the two countries to resume trade after an eight-year hiatus. Travis Toews called the agreement significant because South Korea was once Canada’s fourth-largest beef customer until 2003, when the discovery of BSE
Livestock

G20 Leaves Biofuels Industry Unscathed

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PARIS/REUTERS The biofuels industry emerged relatively unscathed from a meeting of G20 agriculture ministers June 23, which ignored advice to scrap biofuels subsidies on the basis they force up food prices. The warning against biofuels targets and subsidies in places such as Europe, Canada, India and the United States had appeared in a report to
Beef cattle, Livestock

Beef Sales To South Korea Could Resume

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Canada and South Korea moved closer to a deal that would partially restore Canadian beef access and end South Korea’s eight year-old ban, Canada’s agriculture and trade ministers said June 29. South Korea is the last major beef-importing country to agree to lower its restrictions on Canadian beef since a 2003 outbreak of mad-cow disease
Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Jun. 23, 2011

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Ethanol vote fails:A proposal to end subsidies for the U.S. ethanol industry failed a key vote in the Senate June 14. The Senate voted 59 to 40 against limiting debate on the measure from Republican Tom Coburn that would have ended the federal ethanol tax credit and the tariff on ethanol imports before they were
Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Jun. 16, 2011

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Road repairs underway: Assessments are still underway, but repairing roads and bridges damaged during this year’s flooding could cost $40 million, Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton says. Advances of up to 60 per cent or $100,000, whichever is greater, of repair costs will be made to municipalities against disaster financial assistance claims. These advances
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COOL Outcome At WTO Still Has Long Way To Go

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Don’t expect the U.S. country-of-origin labelling dispute to be over any time soon, despite a reported World Trade Organizat ion panel rul ing against it. A final outcome could still be years away, even if Canada does win the WTO case, said Kevin Grier, a livestock analyst with the George Morris Centre. “It’s going to
Beef cattle, News

Wto Backs Canada On COOL

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Canada appears to have won at least a partial victory in challenging a U.S. country-of-origin rule for labelling meat sold in grocery stores. Media reports last week said a World Trade Organization dispute panel ruling favours a trade challenge by Canada and Mexico against the COOL regulation. If so, it would overturn key portions of

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