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Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Dairy farmers milk politics of Pacific trade pact

By Allison Lampert, Krista Hughes, Rod Nickel August 10, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Reuters — New Zealand dairy farmers have a message for their Canadian counterparts, who worry a Pacific trade deal will throw them on the mercy of world markets and devastate their industry: It’s not so bad. But heavily protected Canadian farmers have reason for skepticism. A deadlock over dairy has emerged as one of the […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Japan wants N.Z. to make realistic offer on dairy goods

By Kaori Kaneko August 4, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Tokyo | Reuters –– Japan wants New Zealand to offer realistic proposals on dairy products as part of 12-nation talks on a pan-Pacific trade agreement, a Japanese negotiator said Tuesday. Ministers failed last Friday to clinch a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal to free up trade after a dispute flared up over auto trade between Japan […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, General, Livestock, Reuters

TPP talks fail to end in deal

By Ami Miyazaki, Krista Hughes July 31, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes "The U.S. was on one side of the issue, while practically every other country were on the other side."

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

TPP — NZ wants dairy concessions from the U.S.

By Krista Hughes July 29, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Lahaina, Hawaii, July 28 (Reuters) – The United States, Canada and Japan have to make concessions on dairy trade before a wider Pacific trade deal can be wrapped up, New Zealand’s agricultural trade envoy said on Tuesday. Mike Petersen, a farmer who represents the interests of New Zealand agriculture, said the dairy part of the […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Architect of the Capitol, VisitTheCapitol.gov)

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

U.S. said considering TPP trade deal without Canada

By Richard Cowan July 10, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington | Reuters — The United States, frustrated over the lack of progress with Canada over new rules for agriculture trade, is weighing “contingencies” that could include completing a Pacific Rim trade pact that excludes Canada, according to two sources familiar with the issue. One official familiar with the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiation said […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

When being organic isn’t enough

Their consumers don’t just want organic, says Martin de Groot. They want animal welfare, cow comfort, energy self-sufficiency… and they want to see it all in action

By Helen Lammers-Helps June 29, 2015

Reading Time: 5 minutes With the milk from their 60-cow, mostly Holstein herd, Martin de Groot, his wife Ineke Booy and their family make their Mapleton’s Organic line of ice creams and fresh and frozen yoghurts in their on-farm dairy at Moorefield, Ont., shipping their winter surplus through Harmony Organic Dairy Products. What they sell is much more, however, […] Read more

Canola, Corn, Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters, Soybeans

U.S. FDA to cut trans fats from foods

By Ransdell Pierson, toni-clarke June 16, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington/New York | Reuters –– The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday made good on its proposal to effectively ban artificial trans fats from a wide range of foods, from microwave popcorn to frozen pizza, saying they raise the risk of heart disease. Under new FDA regulations, partially hydrogenated oils, which have been shown […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Global dairy demand seen picking up only slightly

By Naomi Tajitsu May 28, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Wellington | Reuters –– Global dairy prices are expected to pick up only slightly over the next 12 months, New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra, the world’s largest dairy exporter, said Thursday. Fonterra said the subdued outlook amid sluggish demand would likely slow the pace of New Zealand dairy output growth, and kept its forecast payout […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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

Supply-managed sectors bolster defenses against TPP

By Krista Hughes May 26, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Canadian farmers are stepping up their campaign against a nearly complete Pacific trade pact they fear will destroy protections for local dairy, egg and chicken producers and endanger jobs. Farmers in Quebec, which produces 40 per cent of Canada’s dairy products, ran full-page newspaper advertisements on Tuesday warning Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations threaten […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

EU farmers fear ‘roller coaster’ as milk market deregulated

By Conor Humphries March 6, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Belview Port, Ireland | Reuters –– Billions of euros and thousands of jobs will flow from the historic deregulation of Europe’s dairy sector, a string of Irish ministers promised at the opening this week of a vast new plant to make dried milk for developing markets. But elsewhere in the European Union, many farmers are […] Read more

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Tag Archives dairy

Dairy farmers milk politics of Pacific trade pact

Japan wants N.Z. to make realistic offer on dairy goods

TPP talks fail to end in deal

TPP — NZ wants dairy concessions from the U.S.

U.S. said considering TPP trade deal without Canada

When being organic isn’t enough

U.S. FDA to cut trans fats from foods

Global dairy demand seen picking up only slightly

Supply-managed sectors bolster defenses against TPP

EU farmers fear ‘roller coaster’ as milk market deregulated

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