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CGC Bill Among Casualties Of Prorogue

By Alex Binkley January 14, 2010

Controversial legislation to overhaul the Canadian Grain Commission was among the legislation wiped out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to prorogue the current session of Parliament. The bill faced a bumpy ride through Parliament from the opposition parties, even if Harper does fill Senate vacancies with Conservative supporters. Introduced last spring, the bill was

Opinion

Green Box Subsidies Can Also Distort Trade

By Jonathan Lynn January 7, 2010

Efforts to overhaul agricultural support in rich countries are increasingly under challenge for failing to remove the unfair distortions in global trade that they purport to eliminate, a new study says. The study by agriculture and trade economists, published by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), questions the thrust of farm negotiations

Opinion

Development Policy Driven By Common Sense, Not Edicts

By Daryll E. Ray December 10, 2009

…most of the recommendations he identifies are drawn from the actual practice employed by many of the leading countries of the world as they went through their development phase. Alast-ditch effort to conclude the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations was held in the summer of 2008 in the hope that George W.

Country Crossroads

End To “Banana Wars” Seen Within Reach

By Darren Ennis December 10, 2009

Adeal to end the world’s longest-running trade dispute over import tariffs on bananas is virtually complete, but a final agreement may not be reached until next week, diplomats involved in the talks said Friday. The European Union and Latin America had hoped to wrap up a deal Friday to end the 16-year-old “banana wars.” An

Cereals, Opinion

WTO Draft Threatens Rights Of Prairie Farmers

By Larry Hill November 26, 2009

In every one of the CWB’s major markets, the WTO’s proposed new “bound” tariffs are in fact higher than the tariffs actually being applied. Talks have dragged on so long it’s tempting to think there won’t ever be a new World Trade Organization deal. But bit by bit, the elements of a final agreement are

News

WTO Panel To Hear COOL Dispute

November 26, 2009

The World Trade Organization set up a dispute settlement panel last Thursday to hear a complaint from Canada and Mexico that a recent U. S. food-labelling law is unfair. Washington’s mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) requires U. S. packers to notify customers of the country of origin of meat and other farm products at each major

Crops, Oilseeds

China To Restrict 70 Per Cent Of Canada Canola Exports

By Rod Nickel November 19, 2009

China’s measures against Canadian canola with blackleg disease will restrict 70 per cent of Canada’s canola sales to its biggest export market, the Canola Council of Canada said Nov. 10. China’s quarantine authority said importers of canola from Canada and Australia must apply for import permits before signing contracts as of Nov. 15 to prevent

Cereals, Opinion

Ritz Must Stand Up For Farmers’ Marketing Systems At WTO

By Colleen Ross November 19, 2009

The upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Geneva are targeting farmers’ marketing agencies – including supply-management and the Canadian Wheat Board single desk. I predict that Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz will return home from the current round of negotiations announcing that these so-called “state trading enterprises” are no longer legal under WTO trade rules

Hogs, News

Home Woes Plague Pork Producers

By Alex Binkley November 12, 2009

“Exports are critical for our industry,” he noted. “Canada represents about 20 per cent of the international trade in pork. Competition from cheap foreign meat and lower domestic consumption is hurting sales of Canadian pork at home but exports have held up despite Russian and Chinese efforts to curb imports, the Commons agriculture committee heard

Cereals, News

Tories Balk At Backing CWB At WTO: NDP

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 12, 2009

The federal NDP’s international trade critic says the Conservatives’ refusal to back a motion of support for supply management and the Canadian Wheat Board shows they can’t be trusted to protect either at the WTO. Burnaby-New Westminster MP Peter Julian moved at a Nov. 3 meeting of the House of Commons’ standing committee on international

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle futures climb on post-Thanksgiving trade

U.S. grains: Corn futures set June high on US export demand

California researchers create nitrogen-fixing wheat

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