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Dairy farmers must register to get further trade compensation payouts

Expect letters soon explaining process, AgMin says

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 20, 2021

Dairy farmers wanting to get in on a three-year, $1.405 billion federal compensation program for market share lost to free trade deals must register for the program by March 31 in each of those years. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Tuesday laid out further specifics for the Dairy Direct Payment Program, which is set to […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Poultry, egg farmers renew call on feds for CPTPP compensation

No timeline yet provided for remaining funds

By GFM Network News March 15, 2020

Canada’s poultry and egg farmers say they are disappointed no compensation has yet been put in place for domestic market share given up under the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade pact. Egg Farmers of Canada, Chicken Farmers of Canada, Turkey Farmers of Canada and Canadian Hatching Egg Producers, in a recent release, said […] 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

Scooter LaPrise, 53, herds his cows into the milking parlour for the morning milking at EMMA Acres dairy farm, in Exeter, Rhode Island, U.S., 7 April, 2018. Scooter shouts “Come on, Ladies!” as he directs his cows from their stalls into the milking parlour. Scooter with his wife has about 30 cows on one of eight remaining dairy farms in Rhode Island.
Photo: Reuter/Oliver Doyle

Dairy Cattle, Reuters

U.S. dairy farmers get little help from Canada trade deal

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News October 26, 2018

Madison, Wisconsin/St. Claude, Manitoba | Reuters – Minnesota farmer Paul Fritsche can no longer afford health insurance as he struggles to sustain a dairy farm that has been in his family for nearly a century. With U.S. milk prices in the fourth year of a slump due to chronic oversupply, Fritsche, 58, is unsure whether […] 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

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Reuters

Canada, U.S. deal saves NAFTA as trilateral pact

By GFM Network News October 1, 2018

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, US$1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century. In a big victory for his agenda to shake up an era of global […] Read more

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland takes part in a news conference at the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 31. (Photo: Reuters/Chris Wattie)

Dairy Cattle, General, Markets, Reuters

U.S. to move ahead with Mexico pact, keep talking to Canada

By GFM Network News August 31, 2018

Washington/Toronto | Reuters — Contentious U.S.-Canada trade talks ended on Friday with no deal to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement after the mood soured, and President Donald Trump notified Congress of his intent to sign a bilateral trade pact with Mexico. U.S. and Canadian trade officials set plans to resume their talks on […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Fear, frustration on dairy farms as trade concessions sought

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News August 30, 2018

Winnipeg/Montreal | Reuters — Marie-Pier Vincent, a fourth-generation Quebec dairy farmer, worries it will be even harder to make ends meet if Canada allows more tariff-free imports of milk products from the U.S. under a reworked North American Free Trade Agreement. Vincent, 28, is already looking for a second job to pay back the money […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Saputo urges end to contentious Class 7 system

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News June 18, 2018

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Saputo, one of Canada’s largest dairies, supports ending a domestic milk ingredient pricing system that has angered the United States, CEO Lino Saputo Jr. said on Monday, showing a rare crack in solidarity among processors and the country’s dairy farmers. The Class 7 pricing agreement, struck in 2016 between Canadian dairy […] Read more

U.S. grains: Grains off highs with fed in focus, soyoil down more than two per cent

Health Canada proposes new restrictions for dicamba on soybeans

ICE Canada Weekly: More declines on horizon for canola

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Grains off highs with fed in focus, soyoil down more than two per cent

Health Canada proposes new restrictions for dicamba on soybeans

ICE Canada Weekly: More declines on horizon for canola

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Dairy farmers must register to get further trade compensation payouts

Poultry, egg farmers renew call on feds for CPTPP compensation

Dairy farmers to get direct cash payment as trade compensation

Supply-managed sector compensation details due before election

U.S. dairy farmers get little help from Canada trade deal

Dairy farmers unhappy after meeting Trudeau on USMCA

Canada, U.S. deal saves NAFTA as trilateral pact

U.S. to move ahead with Mexico pact, keep talking to Canada

Fear, frustration on dairy farms as trade concessions sought

Saputo urges end to contentious Class 7 system

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