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Canada Revives COOL Complaint

May 7, 2009

Canada has revived a complaint at the World Trade Organization about a U. S. meat-labelling law that Canadian producers have complained has hurt their hog and cattle sales, Canada’s Trade Minister Stockwell Day said April 27. Canada has complained a new mandatory rule that meat packers include the country of origin of their products on

Beef cattle, News

Canada Takes WTO Action On South Korean Beef Ban

April 16, 2009

Canada will request World Trade Organization consultations on South Korea’s ban on Canadian beef imports, a formal step which could lead to stronger action, Trade Minister Stockwell Day said April 8. South Korea banned Canadian beef in May 2003 af ter bovine spongi form encephalopathy (BSE) was found in a Canadian cow, but Day said

Dairy cattle, News

Chief Trade Negotiator Moves To New Portfolio

By Alex Binkley April 16, 2009

After years as Canada’s chief agriculture negotiator at the WTO, Steve Verheul has joined the team of Canadian officials working out a free trade deal with the European Union. Verheul, who was raised on a Southern Ontario dairy farm, has spoken to countless farm meetings since he took on the chief negotiator’s job in the

News

Wto Confirms New Zealander As Farm Talk Chair

April 16, 2009

New Zealand’s new ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO), David Walker, will take over as the next chairman of the WTO’s sensitive agriculture talks, the head of the WTO’s general council said April 8. Chile’s WTO Ambassador Mario Matus said in a statement to delegations that a consensus had emerged among the WTO’s 153

Livestock

Ustr Promises Action On Foreign Trade Barriers

By Doug Palmer April 16, 2009

The U. S. government will develop a list of the most significant barriers to U. S. exports and then prosecute those cases through the World Trade Organization or the appropriate bilateral forum, the U. S. Trade Representative’s office said March 31. “We must work to open new markets around the world for American farmers, manufacturers,

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Hogs, Livestock

New Label Law Shakes Up U. S. Meat Industry

By Bob Burgdorfer April 16, 2009

Bryan Karwal raises and sells 18,000 Canadianborn hogs a year on his Iowa farm, but a new food-labelling law designed to help consumers threatens that business because it has shut off key markets for the hogs. The law has also angered Canada and Mexico because they say it will hurt demand for their cattle and

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Dairy Farmers Avoid Livestock Industry Trauma

By Ron Friesen April 16, 2009

While hog producers experience an industry meltdown and beef producers struggle to emerge from BSE’s shadow, it’s steady as she goes for Manitoba milk producers. Figures released at an April 3 Dairy Farmers of Manitoba meeting showed an industry with no huge problems and only a few relatively minor hiccups. “We’re doing quite well,” acknowledged

Hogs, News

COOL Challenge Could Come Soon: CPC

By Ron Friesen April 16, 2009

U. S. plants are “very cagey.” – FLORIAN POSSBERG, CPC A Wo r l d Trade Organization challenge to U. S. country-of-origin labelling is virtually certain and recent remarks by U. S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack may have speeded it up, industry insiders say. A letter from Vilsack to U. S. meat processors in January

Hogs, Livestock, News

Keep Heat On COOL, Livestock Groups Say

By Alex Binkley April 16, 2009

Livestock groups and the processing sector must record any example of Canadian shipments to the United States being hampered by the latest iteration of America’s COOL program, say farm leaders and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. “The industry has to document any case that violates our trade agreements with the Uni ted States ,” John Masswohl,

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds, Pulses

Competitive Improvements Depend On Your View

By Alex Binkley April 9, 2009

Farm groups trying to answer MPs’ questions about improving the competitiveness of producers have a lot of similar suggestions mixed with the occasional poke at the Canadian Wheat Board. Most have told the Commons agriculture committee the industry needs more basic research, expanded trade deals, better transportation and more domestic processing. They share considerable optimism

Daily Network News

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