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Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Markets

Tariffs not on U.S. rancher radar

Cattle groups take their advocacy directly to U.S. livestock producers

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan March 9, 2025

Glacier FarmMedia — The Canadian Cattle Association says the threatened 25 per cent tariffs would cut Canadian wholesale beef prices by 13 per cent, but effects would be tempered slightly by a low Canadian dollar. “Obviously a huge blow to the benchmark beef price,” CCA vice-president Tyler Fulton says. “I think many of us would […] Read more

Disruption in trade with U.S. expected to continue for years

News

Trump triggers trade war with tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico

Canada to retaliate

By Andrea Shalal, David Lawder, Reuters March 4, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump's new 25 per cent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada took effect on Tuesday, along with a doubling of duties on Chinese goods to 20 per cent, sparking trade wars that could slam economic growth and lift prices for Americans still smarting from years of high inflation.

News

China launches WTO dispute over Trump tariffs

Additional measures possible

By Reuters February 5, 2025

China has launched a dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Chinese goods, the Geneva-based body said on Wednesday.

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Western Canadian feeder markets set fresh high amid tariff threat

By Jerry Klassen February 4, 2025

For the week ending February 1, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded steady to $8 per hundredweight higher compared to seven days earlier. In some cases, larger packages of quality genetics were up as much $15/cwt from the prior week.

General, News, Reuters

Markets tumble over Trump tariffs, world leaders brace for his next moves

By Bart H. Meijer, Daphne Psaledakis, David Lawder, Reuters February 3, 2025

Global financial markets fell on Monday over tariffs imposed on Canada, Mexico and China by U.S. President Donald Trump, while world leaders steeled themselves to respond to his next moves, with the European Union in the firing line.

Workers on a paint assembly line at Deere and Co.'s seeding equipment manufacturing plant at Moline, Illinois in 2016.

Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: Next order of business

By Dave Bedard December 3, 2024

Given all that’s known so far about the guy, I’m not optimistic. Whether you or I like him or not, though, by this time next month, he’ll again be president of the United States. To anyone suggesting Canadians should just clam up about this development south of the border and mind our own business, I’d […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. EPA denies nearly all biofuel blending exemption petitions

Refineries didn't prove hardship, agency said

By GFM Network News July 14, 2023

New York | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday denied almost all outstanding petitions from oil refiners asking to be exempted from mandates that require them to mix biofuels into their fuel. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has the authority to issue the exemptions, denied 26 petitions from 15 small refineries […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

U.S. considers faster hog slaughter paces based on staffing

Faster speeds seen as increasing injuries

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News October 12, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — The Biden administration is considering a proposal that could allow some pork plants to slaughter pigs more quickly if they boost staffing, a union official said, after a U.S. court struck down a Trump-era rule that removed line speed limits. The proposal put forward by Quality Pork Processors, operator of a […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

U.S. court tosses Trump-era rule expanding ethanol sales

By GFM Network News July 3, 2021

New York | Reuters –– A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a U.S. rule put in place under former president Donald Trump to expand sales of corn-based ethanol, drawing ire from farm and biofuel groups that vowed to work to ensure that such sales continue. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District […] Read more

Tom Vilsack speaks to farmers at a rural agricultural co-operative at Guira de Melena in Cuba on Nov. 13, 2015. (Photo: Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini)

Crops, Reuters

USDA can steer farm aid money to fight climate change, Vilsack says

By GFM Network News February 3, 2021

Reuters — The White House wants to tap a pool of funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corp. (CCC) to support on-farm efforts to fight climate change, Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the USDA, said Tuesday. The Depression-era program of up to $30 billion in annual funding was tapped […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit six-week low as Brazilian harvest looms; corn, wheat sag

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures end lower, hogs mostly lower

CFIA adds controls for imports of Spanish feed ingredients after African swine fever outbreak

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