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Canada says will defend dairy protection at TPP talks

By David Ljunggren May 11, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will continue to defend its system of tariffs and quotas that protect dairy farmers, a senior official said on Monday, in comments that could worry nations negotiating a Pacific trade treaty. Canada is under pressure at talks to create a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) because concessions sought by the other 11 […] Read more

Shown here Thursday in Istanbul, Ag Minister Gerry Ritz (front, second from right) says Canada plans to be at the TPP table to the “bitter end,” but U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack (front, second from left) says Canada has yet to make a “reasonable offer” on concessions. (USDA.gov via Flickr)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Election timing puts Tories in bind on Pacific trade talks

By David Ljunggren May 8, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa | Reuters –– Canada is facing a tough squeeze at talks on a major Pacific trade treaty because the concessions other nations want it to make could cause serious problems for the governing Conservatives in this October’s general election. Canada, one of 12 nations aiming to create the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is under pressure […] Read more

U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, shown here at the G20 agriculture ministers’ meeting Thursday in Istanbul, says Canada has yet to put in a “reasonable offer” toward a Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. (USDA.gov via Flickr)

General, Markets, Reuters

Canada risks being sidelined in TPP trade deal, Vilsack says

By David Dolan May 7, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Istanbul | Reuters — Canada risks getting left behind in a 12-nation Pacific trade deal because it has been reluctant to negotiate opening its markets, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday. Vilsack also told Reuters that longstanding disagreements with Japan over rice exports would not threaten the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and that the U.S. […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Greece wants Canada-EU pact changed to protect ‘feta’ name

By Robin Emmott May 5, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Brussels | Reuters — Athens will not back a multi-billion dollar trade pact between Canada and the European Union unless the deal is changed to specify that only Greece can use the term “feta” for its salty white cheese, according to a document seen by Reuters. After five years of difficult negotiations, Canada and the […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

Trans-Pacific ministers’ meeting set for May 26-28

By Reuters May 4, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Mexico City | Reuters –– A ministerial meeting aimed at working toward a deal for the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact has been set for May 26-28, the head of Chile’s trade body said on Thursday. “The meeting is agreed, from the 26th to the 28th of May,” said Andres Rebolledo, head of the […] Read more

Cereals, Guide Business, Livestock

Campaign season

With the federal election heating up, how nervous should Ontario’s dairy farmers and the West’s grain shippers start getting? By some accounts, quite nervous indeed

By Gord Gilmour March 31, 2015

Reading Time: 6 minutes There was a time when farmers were front and centre in federal election campaigns. But no longer, it seems. With only about two per cent of the population involved in primary agriculture, it’s hard for this important industry to break through. “The reality is, the days of elections being won or lost on agriculture issues […] Read more

Guide Life, Poultry/Eggs

Be a better farm ambassador

More farmers are developing strategies that actually do connect with consumers

By Helen Lammers-Helps March 25, 2015

Reading Time: 5 minutes In her other life as a school board trustee, Okanagan Valley chicken farmer Christina Coers sees the value of education. It’s a mindset that she brought with her when she and her husband Steven became chicken farmers under the new-entrant program of the British Columbia chicken-marketing board a year ago. Coers, 46, didn’t grow up […] Read more

Succession strategy

A team approach to farm succession

Getting their advisers to meet and work together as a team is helping drive the Tilstras’ succession planning

By Amy Petherick March 3, 2015

Reading Time: 7 minutes When Ted Tilstra imagined his retirement, he knew that he wanted it to continue to include having a coffee around the kitchen table with his brother and nephews. Tilstra Bros. have been running their parents’ dairy farm in Dunnville, Ont., for nearly 25 years. Together Don and Ted are milking 100 purebred Holstein cattle and […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

Two steps forward

Alberta’s Rhonda and and Brian Headon knew the farm needed diversification. Now, each heads their own very different farm enterprise

By Lisa Guenther March 19, 2014

Reading Time: 9 minutes It’s the classic Western Canadian love story. Boy and girl meet at a hockey game. Years later, they meet again at Alberta’s Ukrainian Pysanka Festival in Vegreville. They fall in love, they marry, they move back to his family’s farm, and they start a family. Also, like so many farming couples, Brian Headon and Rhonda […] Read more

Daily Network News

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