Pork, beef and other meat prices in Canada have been driven down over the past two months to where farmers are losing money on most animals they ship. The decline […] Read more
Can Canada break away from U.S. livestock pricing?
Canadian prices have plunged in concert with the U.S. market’s response to that country’s disruptive trade agenda. Some are asking whether Canada can decouple to a pricing mechanism more closely tied to global fundamentals
Editorial: Thinking big to solve agriculture challenges
I was recently in Manitoba on a tour of farms when I came to the new education hall of the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiative (MBFI). It’s a simple building […] Read more
The USMCA details: What we know
Poultry market access will continue to grow over years. Dairy exports capped
Here’s what we know so far on details for the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade deal. Most of these details are from the Office of the United States Trade Representative, […] Read more
Grains, hog farmers praise trade deal
Farmers outside of supply managed commodities are praising the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to modernize NAFTA. Stability of markets is important for trading commodities and a completed North American trade […] Read more
DFC hits back at politicians over dairy losses in trade deal
The Dairy Farmers of Canada is expressing angry discontent at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) is expressing its strong disappointment in the concessions given to the U.S. in the new USMCA trade agreement. “The announced concessions on dairy in the […] Read more
Trade deal kills Class 7, allows more U.S. milk access
Dairy pays heavy price for Canada to secure North American trade deal
A new North American trade deal agreement has been reached it and will have significant implications for Canadian dairy farmers. The deal, agreed upon last night, is now called the […] Read more
Ontario government caps minimum wage increases
Horticulture sector praises cap, but say some damage already done
The Ontario government has frozen Ontario’s minimum wage at $14, bringing praise from fruit and vegetable growers. Fruit and vegetable growers, especially, have been hard hit by the former Liberal […] Read more
Spinner spreaders get new swath control technology
The Salford Group BBI Sniper spreader can adjust on the fly to precisely apply fertilizer
The Salford Group has launched a new spinner spreader, called the Sniper, that enables farmers to control sections of spread for increasing accuracy, less overlap and less environmental impact. The […] Read more
Great Lakes Grain tour: Soys could hit record 54 bushels
The crop assessment tour predicts corn will be 183 bushels per acre
Great Lakes Grain is calling for record soybean yields in Ontario after its ninth annual crop assessment tour. Teams made up of 85 staff from Great Lakes Grain, AGRIS Co-operative […] Read more
Dry weather means large processing tomato harvest
Farmers have about 35 per cent more tomatoes in the field this year than usual
Ontario processing tomato growers are harvesting one of the best crops in 10 years, with one of the top two contracted volumes of the past 10 years. That’s despite political […] Read more
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