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Ag Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau speaks at Cigi in Winnipeg on March 13, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Future of ag policy remains unclear ahead of election

By GFM Network News October 18, 2019

Ottawa – If polls and pundits are to be believed, Monday’s federal election will result in a minority government — meaning no single party would alone be dictating the immediate future of agricultural policy in Canada. While the true results won’t be known until Monday night, most pollsters are speculating either a Conservative or Liberal-led […] Read more

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney steps up to speak at Jumbo Valley Hutterite Colony on Oct. 3, 2019. (Video screengrab from Alberta.ca via YouTube)

Livestock

Alberta proposes heavier penalties for on-farm trespassing

By GFM Network News October 4, 2019

Alberta’s government proposes to discourage future on-farm protests — events in the style of an occupation held early last month at an Alberta Hutterite colony’s turkey farm — on pain of new penalties. Speaking Thursday at the Jumbo Valley colony near Fort Macleod, Premier Jason Kenney, Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer and Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Dairy payments to be based on quota at Aug. 31

By GFM Network News September 22, 2019

Canadian dairy farmers’ piece of the first year of a federal free trade compensation package is going to be based on quota they held at the end of last month. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on Sept. 6 announced more details for what’s been dubbed the Dairy Direct Payment Program, though a registration period hasn’t yet […] Read more

Canadian dairy farmers will get $345 million in direct payments in the first year of an eight-year, $1.75 billion support package. (John Greig photo)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Dairy farmers to get direct cash payment as trade compensation

By GFM Network News August 16, 2019

Canadian dairy farmers will be getting direct cash compensation after the government gave up dairy market access to other countries in recent trade deals. The compensation follows promises by the Trudeau government — and the Harper government before it — that dairy farmers would be compensated in some form for the loss of market. Why […] Read more

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau addresses the 2019 Dairy Farmers of Canada AGM in Saskatoon in July. (Photo courtesy AAFC)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Supply-managed sector compensation details due before election

By GFM Network News July 22, 2019

Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has pledged to lay out details on trade pact compensation for supply-managed sectors before the federal election in October. The pledge comes as the federal Liberals face pressure from supply-managed sectors and the federal opposition Conservatives to deliver on compensation for access granted to the Canadian market under Canada’s free […] Read more

Manitoba Conservative MP James Bezan (l) and ag and trade critics Luc Berthold and Randy Hoback (centre) meet with farm and canola sector representatives including Keystone Agricultural Producers president Bill Campbell (right) and canola grower Brian Chorney (second from left) on April 24, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Canola, Crops, Reuters

Canada promises farm aid amid China canola spat

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News April 30, 2019

Ottawa/Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said Ottawa would soon announce help for canola farmers hurt by a China ban on imports of the oilseed but brushed off calls to pull funding for a Chinese-led investment bank. China and Canada are locked in a diplomatic and trade dispute that has […] Read more

File photo of a tobacco crop in Zimbabwe. (Munya Chawora/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Reuters

Zimbabwe to start paying white farmers compensation after April

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 8, 2019

Harare | Reuters — Zimbabwe is to start paying compensation this year to thousands of white farmers who lost land under former president Robert Mugabe’s land reform nearly two decades ago, the government said, as it seeks to bring closure to a highly divisive issue. Two decades ago Mugabe’s government carried out at times violent […] Read more

A file photo of rapeseed fields near Vouziers in France’s Ardennes department. (Photopixal/iStock/Getty Images)

Canola, Crops, Reuters

French rapeseed farmers destroy 18,000 hectares over GMO risk

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 5, 2019

Paris | Reuters — French farmers destroyed a total of 18,000 hectares of rapeseed, more than double the area initially expected, following the discovery of a non-authorized genetically modified organism (GMO) in seeds, German group Bayer said on Friday. Bayer had announced in February that farmers in France and Germany were turning over thousands of […] Read more

Workers in protective suits disinfect a vehicle at a checkpoint on a road leading to a farm owned by Hebei Dawu Group where African swine fever was detected, in Xushui district of Baoding, Hebei province, China on Feb. 26, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Hallie Gu)

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Piles of pigs: Swine fever outbreaks go unreported in rural China

By GFM Network News March 20, 2019

Baoding, China | Reuters — When pigs on the Xinda Husbandry breeding farm in northern China began dying in growing numbers in early January, it looked increasingly likely that the farm had been struck by the much feared African swine fever, an incurable disease that has spread rapidly across the country since last year. But […] Read more

Dairy cattle in Canada. (Pearman314/iStock/Getty Images)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Dairy farmers unhappy after meeting Trudeau on USMCA

By GFM Network News October 4, 2018

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian dairy farmers met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday to discuss his politically-risky move to open up the protected domestic market to U.S. industry but complained he had not given them details about compensation. As part of the talks to complete the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal, Canada […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Soybean prices rise as China-U.S. truce assessed

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures post limit-down losses

ICE canola weekly outlook: Market rangebound

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