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Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

EU farming chief wants rapid Brexit talks, plans new dairy aid

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Hannover, Germany | Reuters — Europe’s agriculture industry, already grappling with a dairy crisis, wants rapid talks about Britain’s exit from the European Union to minimise disruption, EU farming commissioner Phil Hogan said on Thursday. “Farmers know better than anyone that you need stability and certainty to plan for the future,” Hogan said in a […] Read more
(CBSA-asfc.gc.ca)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Trump vows to renegotiate or withdraw from trade deals

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday promised to renegotiate international trade deals, withdraw from them if he is not satisfied and use executive power to remedy trade disputes with China if he wins the White House. Trump, speaking at an aluminum scrap metal factory in Monessen, Pa., south of Pittsburgh, said he […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Mexico to accept OTM Canadian beef this fall

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Mexico will resume “fully normalized” trade in beef products with Canada starting Oct. 1, accepting imports of Canadian beef from cattle over 30 months old (OTMs). The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and Canadian Meat Council announced the move in separate releases Tuesday, following a joint statement by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Prime Minister Justin […] Read more
Canadian breeding cattle exports, such as these animals en route to Croatia by air in a CLGA file photo, now have access to Turkey. (CLiveGen.org)
Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Breeding cattle get market access to Turkey

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Exporters of Canadian breeding cattle expect to see another $4.5 million per year in business from a new agreement for market access to Turkey, according to the federal government. Canada’s Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday announced an agreement with Turkey on export certificates for Canadian breeding cattle effective “immediately.” […] Read more
(CIA.gov)
Livestock, Markets

Loonie tanks post-Brexit, but benefits minimal for farmers

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — The Canadian dollar slipped after Britain voted Thursday to leave the European Union, a trend which one financial analyst expects to continue in an otherwise uncertain environment. But the loonie hasn’t fallen far enough to bring support to Canadian commodity markets. “Short-term, we’re going to be dealing with the day-to-day volatility and […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Livestock, Reuters

Canada dilutes plan to limit temporary foreign workers

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s Liberal government on Thursday watered down measures to limit the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers firms can hire after complaints the restrictions would cause major labour shortages. Under rules introduced by the previous Conservative administration, the number of low-skilled foreign workers a firm could employ would have dropped to […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Livestock, Reuters

Bayer crop unit apologizes to farmers after Twitter gaffe

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters –– Bayer AG’s crop science division apologized on Monday for a tweet that suggested reduced meat demand could benefit the environment, in a bid to appease outraged farmers who buy the company’s seeds and chemicals. The tweet, published on the official Bayer CropScience (@Bayer4crops) account on Sunday, linked to a Vox.com article […] Read more
(NBFairs.ca)
Livestock

Audit rips New Brunswick’s oversight of ag fairs

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Reading Time: 4 minutes New Brunswick’s provincial government plans to update the legislation governing agricultural fair associations, following an audit that criticizes several departments for lack of oversight on the fair organizations. Given ag fairs’ charitable gaming privileges and exemptions available for property and income taxes, Auditor General Kim MacPherson found “limited provincial processes to monitor compliance” with the […] Read more
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Diafiltered milk issue sours on slow federal response

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Two weeks after rallying on Parliament Hill to protest Trans-Pacific and European trade agreements, some dairy farmers say the government is still slacking when it comes to supporting their industry. The immediate crisis, according to Jan Slomp, a Vancouver Island dairy farmer and president of the National Farmers Union, is diafiltered milk. […] Read more
North Dakota’s Legislative Assembly in 2014. (Governor.nd.gov)
Livestock, Reuters

North Dakotans put ‘corporate’ farming to vote

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — North Dakotans are voting Tuesday in a referendum to repeal a law enacted last year that changed decades of family-farming rules in the state by allowing corporations to own and operate dairy and hog farms. The North Dakota Farmers Union and other groups that collected signatures to put the referendum on the ballot […] Read more

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