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Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s livestock and crop producers are expected to see improved trade opportunities and streamlined clearances and product approvals through a pair of joint action plans with the U.S. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama, meeting Wednesday in Washington, D.C., laid out a list of specific goals for what they’ve dubbed their joint […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Rising average values per acre for Canadian farmland are nothing new in recent years, but a much sharper increase in Saskatchewan over the first half of this year has pulled the national average along with it. In its latest Farmland Values Report, released Monday, Farm Credit Canada notes an increase of 7.4 per cent in […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute China, the world’s largest importer of cotton and soybeans, has topped Canada to become the No. 1 market for U.S. farm exports for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday. U.S. exporters sold $20 billion in agricultural products to China during the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, according to a […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s dairy producers are assured their government doesn’t plan to talk itself out of its supply management system for dairy, eggs and poultry for the sake of a major Asia-Pacific trade deal. The Canadian government on Sunday announced its intent to enter consultations with members of the nine-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) toward Canada’s "possible participation […] Read more