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Japan anxious at lull in Trans-Pacific trade talks

By Reuters, GFM Network News August 11, 2015

Tokyo | Reuters — Japan has expressed concern about a loss of momentum in talks on a pan-Pacific trade pact, after participants failed to agree to meet again this month to try to clinch a deal that would cover 40 per cent of the global economy. Ministers from the 12 nations negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Dairy farmers milk politics of Pacific trade pact

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News August 10, 2015

Reuters — New Zealand dairy farmers have a message for their Canadian counterparts, who worry a Pacific trade deal will throw them on the mercy of world markets and devastate their industry: It’s not so bad. But heavily protected Canadian farmers have reason for skepticism. A deadlock over dairy has emerged as one of the […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Japan wants N.Z. to make realistic offer on dairy goods

By GFM Network News August 4, 2015

Tokyo | Reuters –– Japan wants New Zealand to offer realistic proposals on dairy products as part of 12-nation talks on a pan-Pacific trade agreement, a Japanese negotiator said Tuesday. Ministers failed last Friday to clinch a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal to free up trade after a dispute flared up over auto trade between Japan […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, General, Livestock, Reuters

TPP talks fail to end in deal

By GFM Network News July 31, 2015

"The U.S. was on one side of the issue, while practically every other country were on the other side."

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

TPP — NZ wants dairy concessions from the U.S.

By GFM Network News July 29, 2015

Lahaina, Hawaii, July 28 (Reuters) – The United States, Canada and Japan have to make concessions on dairy trade before a wider Pacific trade deal can be wrapped up, New Zealand’s agricultural trade envoy said on Tuesday. Mike Petersen, a farmer who represents the interests of New Zealand agriculture, said the dairy part of the […] Read more

Dairy Cattle

Canada will not negotiate TPP in public: Ritz

Canada also paying attention to U.S. subsidy programs

By Shannon VanRaes, GFM Network News July 23, 2015

Canada’s agriculture minister says Canada won’t negotiate in public when it comes to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the proposed wide-ranging free trade agreement among a group of Pacific Rim countries. Responding to questions at an unrelated event in Winnipeg last week, Agriculture and Agri-food Minister Gerry Ritz said Canada has put forward strong proposals […] Read more

Canada’s agriculture ministers pose for their annual family photo in Charlottetown. (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada photo)

Livestock, Markets

Trade ‘balancing act’ in focus at ag ministers’ meeting

By GFM Network News July 17, 2015

With foreign governments urging Canada to open up its protected dairy, poultry and egg markets, the country’s provincial agriculture ministers are unanimously counter-urging in supply management’s defense. Pressure from trading partners and strong regional support in principle for supply management are nothing new. But Canada’s annual ag ministers’ meeting, held this week in Charlottetown, wrapped […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Architect of the Capitol, VisitTheCapitol.gov)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

U.S. said considering TPP trade deal without Canada

By GFM Network News July 10, 2015

Washington | Reuters — The United States, frustrated over the lack of progress with Canada over new rules for agriculture trade, is weighing “contingencies” that could include completing a Pacific Rim trade pact that excludes Canada, according to two sources familiar with the issue. One official familiar with the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiation said […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Pitting supply management against U.S. subsidies seen as ‘unfair’

By GFM Network News July 9, 2015

CNS Canada — How will Canada’s supply management system stack up against America’s domestic supports if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) comes to fruition? It’s a question that hasn’t been answered, say some experts from Canada’s farming institutions. “It would be completely unfair if we have to compete with lower prices, because those lower prices are […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Dairy farmers worry Trans-Pacific trade deal could hurt

By GFM Network News June 26, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s powerful dairy industry on Friday expressed concern it could suffer if talks to create a Pacific trade treaty open up heavily protected Canadian markets to more foreign competition. Some of the 12 nations taking part in negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) want Canada to start dismantling a system known […] Read more

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

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