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Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

Their quota of doubt

TPP may not have opened the floodgates, but it will let in enough imports to alter the outlook for Canada’s dairy farmers

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Reading Time: 5 minutes It would have taken a lot more than a butter knife to cut the tension on dairy farms across Canada this past year while the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiators were talking behind closed doors. So now that the deal is out in the open, and now that it appears — at least on the surface […] Read more
Despite higher costs, Canada can be competitive through higher productivity and diversification, say Cam and Stephanie Murphy, front, with her mother Carol, sister Lacey and father Dean.
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

Taking control of their dairy future

For this young couple, the future means a multi-pronged business strategy, with cost control, diversification and a focus on efficiency

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Just as the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement was being signed last fall, Cam and Stephanie Murphy were signing a very different sort of partnership agreement. They were becoming part owners of a 45-cow dairy farm near Hastings, two hours east of Toronto. Together with Stephanie’s parents, Dean and Carol Warner, they took on a seven-figure debt […] Read more
Increased efficiency and lower debt will also aid succession, say Jan and Tracy Bassa, here with oldest son Derrick.
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

Focusing on efficiency in dairy production

The good old days aren’t coming back, but the Bassas believe success is still possible for farms that focus from top to bottom on efficiency

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In 1991, Piet and Ina Bassa sold their dairy farm in Holland, packed up their family and headed to Canada, leaving not only Europe’s high costs but also its tough environmental regulations and manure quotas that made expansion almost impossible. Importantly, their sons, Jan and Kees, were keen to start farming, so the family bought […] Read more
“I want to get better instead of bigger,” says Kevin MacLean, farming an hour north of the New York State border.
Dairy Cattle, Guide Business

Profitability and sustainability in the dairy business

Kevin MacLean wants consumers and politicians to know how valuable supply management is for Canada

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Reading Time: 4 minutes For Kevin MacLean, the cost of quota is just part of being in a business he loves. “I’ve never seen quota as a risk. Just like you need land to crop, you need quota to dairy farm. It’s a long-term investment.” MacLean echoes a sentiment sometimes heard in country circles. There are two things you […] Read more
Tom Button
Opinion

Editor’s Note: A new think for supply management

If you haven’t re-thought your own attitudes about supply management, you’ll find it worth reading “Up for business”

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Reading Time: 2 minutes I never agree with everything that’s said in our pages. I don’t expect you to always agree either. The trickier issue is when we decide we don’t agree with a story before we read it. So we never get beyond the first paragraph. In this case I ask you to consider reading associate editor Maggie […] Read more
Herd of Holstein Friesian cows
Guide Business, Management

What will the TPP mean for your farm?

AME Management: Overall, Canadian farmers get increased market access from TPP, plus better dispute settlement

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The October 2015 Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is a substantial trade treaty for its 12 members, and like other trade treaties, it will introduce concessions on market access, such as tariff reductions and increased import quotas, as discussed below. But there is also considerable focus on food safety regulations as well as on biotechnology […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Agropur eyes further U.S. acquisitions

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Canada’s second-biggest dairy, Agropur Co-operative, said it is looking to grow in the U.S., possibly through acquisitions, in the face of an expected erosion of its market share at home due to recent international trade deals. Agropur, whose brands include Iogo yogurt and Oka cheese, and larger rival Saputo have already built U.S. […] Read more
Saputo’s Canadian dairy division includes brands such as Dairyland, Neilson, Nutrilait, Baxter and Armstrong. (Dave Bedard photo)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

TPP deal to pressure Canadian dairy farmers, Saputo says

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Canadian farmers will get squeezed between new trade deals that allow more dairy imports to enter the country and slow-growing domestic consumption, Saputo’s CEO said on Thursday. The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is expected to open access for New Zealand, the U.S. and other countries to 3.5 per cent of the Canadian market, […] Read more
New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser, shown here last November, doesn’t expect a Trans-Pacific trade deal to kill Canada’s supply management systems. (Beehive.govt.nz)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

TPP not the death of supply management, N.Z. trade chief says

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Hamilton, N.Z. | MCO — Canada’s supply-managed sectors should not worry about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, from where New Zealand’s Trade Minister Tim Groser sits. “I can understand why producer groups would wish to perceive this in a different way, but this is not the end of supply management,” he said here Thursday. “I don’t think […] Read more
(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Van Camp: Olive branches offered through new gaps in tariff wall

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Reading Time: 4 minutes What do you get when you mix milk and eggs with a looming election? A “free” trade deal that gained major market access in Asia for Canada, but managed to keeps the tariffs for Canada’s supply-managed commodities. After all the barking from New Zealand, cows parading on Parliament Hill, tweets, heart-wrenching videos on Facebook, election […] Read more

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