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Strip steak with mushrooms. (Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)

Pacific pact spurs Canadian ag sales to Japan as U.S. watches

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News January 10, 2019

Winnipeg | Reuters — At the Canadian embassy in Tokyo last month, beef promoters flew in a chef from Canada to cook New York strip steaks for hungry Japanese importers and restaurant suppliers. The annual Canadian beef buffet reception attracted 126 people, up sharply from the usual 30 to 40. A trade deal among Pacific […] Read more

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

General, Markets

USMCA costs Canada sovereignty in ag policy, critics warn

By GFM Network News November 30, 2018

Changes to Canadian dairy supply management in the final text of the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement give up oversight of the system to the U.S., Canada’s dairy farmer group warns. The trade deal, signed Friday in Buenos Aires by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexico’s outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto, now goes […] Read more

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

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

U.S., Canada, Mexico sign trade deal after last-minute brinkmanship

By GFM Network News November 30, 2018

Buenos Aires | Reuters — The leaders of Mexico, Canada and the United States signed a North American trade pact on Friday after brinkmanship over the final details of the deal continued through the eve of the signing. They agreed on a deal in principle to govern the more than trillion dollars of mutual trade […] Read more

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, shown here Nov. 1 at a press conference in the occupied West Bank, says Canada’s objective remains getting to a Friday signing for the USMCA. (Photo: Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Dairy issue nags as U.S., Canada prepare to sign trade pact

By GFM Network News November 27, 2018

New York/Ottawa | Reuters — Dairy remains a sticking point between the United States and Canada as the countries prepare to sign a new North American trade pact this week, according to four sources familiar with the matter. U.S. objections to Canada’s protected internal market for dairy products was a major challenge facing negotiators during […] Read more

A Shanghai container terminal. (Chuyu/iStock/Getty Images)

General, Markets, Reuters

Canada to work with China on trade deal despite USMCA clause, Trudeau says

By GFM Network News November 15, 2018

Singapore | Reuters — Canada and China will continue to work together toward an “eventual” free trade deal, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday. This is despite the country being a signatory to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which specifies that if one of its partners enters a free trade deal […] Read more

Cattle on pasture in the Philippines. (LeoLee/iStock/Getty Images)

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Sheep/Goats

Canadian cattle’s access to Philippines restored

By GFM Network News October 18, 2018

The regulatory path has been cleared to resume exports of live Canadian cattle to the Philippines, reopening a market worth an estimated $8 million per year. The federal government on Monday announced the resumed export clearance, along with new market access for Canadian sheep and goat genetics exports to both Indonesia and the Philippines. The […] Read more

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell addresses a MAGA rally in Richmond, Ky. on Oct. 13, 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

General, Markets, Reuters

U.S. Senate will not vote on USMCA in 2018, McConnell says

By GFM Network News October 16, 2018

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Senate’s top Republican said on Tuesday that senators will not vote to approve a revised North American trade pact in 2018, leaving the issue to the next Congress. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell told Bloomberg Television that the Senate will not have time to take up the new United […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Trade certainty doesn’t translate to higher loonie

By GFM Network News October 12, 2018

CNS Canada — Even with more certainty around trade with the U.S., Canadians shouldn’t expect to see the dollar flying in value. “It’s hard for me to see the Canadian dollar gain value against the U.S. dollar in the short term, unless the Bank of Canada totally revises its stance towards interest rates,” said J.P. […] Read more

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

ICE November 2018 canola (candlesticks) and October 2018 soybean oil (green line). (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Soyoil, not weather, main influence on canola

By GFM Network News October 4, 2018

CNS Canada — Wet and snowy weather now plaguing the Prairies isn’t to blame for the canola market’s recent upswing, according to one trader. “Canola’s been firm but it really hasn’t shown any reaction whatsoever to the weather; it’s going up because bean oil’s going up and it’s lagging the bean oil gains by quite […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle tick lower in thin pre-holiday trade

U.S. grains: Wheat extends gains on short covering, war risk

Prairie forecast: Plenty more chances for snow over Holidays

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