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Feds back pork producers with new levy on imports

New national pork agency to be up and running next summer

By GFM Network News November 6, 2020

A new agency will use funds from a new levy on imported pork to pay for research and promotion for the Canadian pork sector. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie Claude Bibeau on Thursday officially announced the creation of the Canadian Pork Promotion and Research Agency (PRA). The Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC) and Agriculture and […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

China’s pork imports seen doubling in 2019 on swine fever impact

By GFM Network News March 22, 2019

Wuzhen, China | Reuters — China’s 2019 pork imports are set to double from last year to two million tonnes, a Rabobank analyst said on Thursday, as African swine fever hits production of the meat in the world’s top hog market. China has reported 113 outbreaks of the contagious disease since last August, though farmers […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Mexico hits back on U.S. steel, slaps tariffs on pork, bourbon

By Reuters, GFM Network News June 6, 2018

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico responded in kind to U.S. President Donald Trump’s metals tariffs by imposing its own duties on U.S. steel on Tuesday, while also targeting politically sensitive agricultural products from pork to bourbon. Mexico’s peso tumbled to its weakest level since February 2017, leading losses among major currencies due to the […] Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in August 2016. (PM.gc.ca)

Livestock, Reuters

Trudeau says will keep exploring trade deal with China

By GFM Network News December 4, 2017

Beijing | Reuters — Canada will continue to explore a free trade agreement with China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, as it weighs its options after the U.S. threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Speaking after a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Trudeau said if “done […] Read more

Chef Jonathan Collins cuts up a pork leg, foot included, to prepare ginger and black vinegar hog trotters in a video for Canada Pork International. (Video screengrab from CanadaPork.com)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Canada beats U.S. in pork sales to China – feet, elbows and all

By Michael Hirtzer, Rod Nickel, GFM Network News June 5, 2017

Winnipeg/Chicago/Beijing | Reuters — Canada has overtaken the United States as the top North American supplier of pork to China as farmers and meat packers in both nations battle for lucrative shares of the biggest global market. Canada’s pork sales to China, after a sharp rise last year, exceeded those of the U.S. in the […] Read more

Le Botanique, a Brussels-area greenhouse facility repurposed as a cultural centre and live music venue. (CIA.gov)

Livestock, Reuters

Belgian regions set to block CETA over farm concerns

By GFM Network News October 11, 2016

Brussels | Reuters –– Southern Belgium is set to block a planned EU-Canada free trade agreement, threatening to undermine the European Union’s entire trade policy and serving as a warning to British hopes of a speedy deal after Britain has left the European Union. EU trade ministers will vote in a week on the Comprehensive […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Korea finds hogs infected with foot-and-mouth

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 12, 2016

Seoul | Reuters –– South Korea has detected foot-and-mouth in a southwestern hog farm, the first such discovery in nine months and a blow to authorities pushing to contain the disease. The case involved a type of the disease that animals are inoculated against in South Korea, with all 670 hogs at the infected farm […] Read more

U.S. grains: Soy futures set six-week low as China buys Argentine cargoes, snubs U.S.

U.S. livestock: Hogs rally ahead of USDA report

Canadian Barley Research Coalition pledges $1.8 million to USask Crop Development Centre

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Soy futures set six-week low as China buys Argentine cargoes, snubs U.S.

U.S. livestock: Hogs rally ahead of USDA report

Canadian Barley Research Coalition pledges $1.8 million to USask Crop Development Centre

Tag Archives pork imports

Feds back pork producers with new levy on imports

China’s pork imports seen doubling in 2019 on swine fever impact

Mexico hits back on U.S. steel, slaps tariffs on pork, bourbon

Trudeau says will keep exploring trade deal with China

Canada beats U.S. in pork sales to China – feet, elbows and all

Belgian regions set to block CETA over farm concerns

Korea finds hogs infected with foot-and-mouth

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