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Shifting tides bring change to agriculture

Summer Series: Will short-term pain cause long-term gain for Canada’s ag industry?

By Evan Shout August 11, 2025

Reading Time: 4 minutes Warren Buffet once said, “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” Well, the tide is going out in primary producer agriculture. Who will be left with clothes on? Is the shifting tide due to the highest cost of production ever? The changing policy discussions? The geopolitical factors that come […] Read more

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit. (RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images)

News

Canada’s trade deficit narrows in May, US exports drop to lowest since pandemic

Exports to countries other than U.S. rise, but not enough to offset losses like canola exports to China

By Promit Mukherjee, Reuters July 3, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada's trade deficit in May narrowed after a record-breaking deficit in April as total exports rose and imports fell even as the impact of U.S. tariffs dented shipments south of the border, data showed on Thursday.

Features, Guide Business

Riding the tariff rollercoaster

What are producers doing to minimize the risk created by ongoing trade uncertainty?

By Angela Lovell June 27, 2025

Reading Time: 3 minutes Farmers are accustomed to roller-coaster years. But the current geopolitical windstorm is something else entirely. On his cattle operation near Birtle, Man., Tyler Fulton is making good use of livestock price insurance and has filed his annual application for AgriStability, a margin-based, federal business risk management (BRM) program that helps Canadian producers manage large income […] Read more

News, Reuters

EU and Mexico revive stalled trade deal as Trump tariffs loom

The two parties are seeking to add farm produce, services, investment and other goods to the agreement

By Philip Blenkinsop, Reuters January 17, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes The European Union and Mexico revived a stalled free trade agreement on Friday, days before the return to the White House of Donald Trump, who has threatened both sides with tariffs.

Canola, Markets

ICE Weekly: Canola market suddenly in a very bad position

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 4, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes China caused a great deal of turmoil in the canola market on Sept. 3, leading prices to tumble on the Intercontinental Exchange. To senior market analyst Mike Jubinville of MarketsFarm, China dramatically changed canola’s outlook in fell swoop. The Chinese government announced that it was launching an investigation into alleged canola dumping by Canada. This […] Read more

Canola, Reuters

China hits Canada with anti-dumping probe on canola imports in response to EV tariffs

By Mei Mei Chu September 3, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes Beijing | Reuters – China said on Tuesday it plans to start an anti-dumping investigation into canola imports from Canada, after Ottawa moved to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, lifting prices of domestic rapeseed oil futures to a one-month peak. Canada has followed the lead of the United States and European Union, and announced […] Read more

Hogs, Reuters

EU pork industry faces ‘nightmare’ if China restricts imports

By Michael Hogan June 14, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hamburg | Reuters – Europe’s pork industry faces a “nightmare scenario” of lower prices and falling profitability if China restricts imports from the region, industry executives and analysts said on Friday. Chinese firms have asked for an anti-dumping probe into pork imports from the European Union, state-backed Chinese media reported on Friday, escalating tensions after the bloc […] Read more

Canadian chickpea exports in April were down from the previous month. Photo: File

Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly: Canadian pulse exports slowing

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 11, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Canadian pulse exports are showing signs of slowing down entering the final months of the 2023/24 marketing year, as end users turn their attention to the looming availability of new crop supplies. Canada has exported 1.286 million tonnes of lentils during the crop year-to-date, running about 25 per cent behind the pace […] Read more

News

U.S. shuns free trade agreements

Senators rake the U.S. Trade Representative over the coals for the Biden administration’s trade policy agenda

By Sean Pratt May 1, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes Virginia Houston, director of government affairs with the American Soybean Association, says president Joe Biden’s administration feels FTAs pit U.S. domestic industries against one another. 

A file photo of cattle mustering in Australia’s Outback. (Hypedesk/iStock/Getty Images)

General, Markets, Reuters

Australia says China has lifted some restrictions on meat imports

Aussie trade minister calls it a positive step in improving relations between the countries

By Reuters December 12, 2023

Reading Time: < 1 minute Australia's trade ministry said on Tuesday that China had lifted restrictions on imports of meat from three Australian abattoirs, in the latest sign of improving relations between the two countries.

Daily Network News

Health Canada stops sales of coccidiosis medication Deccox on procedural issue

Canadian cattle herd sees first annual increase since 2018

Olymel parent company sees increased earnings in 2025

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