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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers a pre-Thanksgiving speech at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, Nov. 25, 2020.
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Opinion: Keep expectations low for Biden

America-first policy unlikely to change with new U.S. president

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President-elect Joe Biden is a welcomed addition to the White House, but don’t expect America to change over night. United States President Donald Trump inflicted havoc on American trading partners and was the base of a deeply corrupted leadership that valued economic and personal gain over human life or common decency. He bullied Canadians into […] Read more
Comment: Universal internet access helps make food more sustainable
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Comment: Universal internet access helps make food more sustainable

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Consumers who want to reduce the carbon intensity of their food should advocate for better rural internet. Producers know most agricultural towns have broadband, but in the country, cell service fades. Telematics produced by farm equipment have to be stored, getting pushed to the cloud at the farmyards while IoT devices use networks, like LoRaWAn. […] Read more
A deal between the Canada and the U.K. will likely have to wait as U.K. negotiations continue.
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Canada, U.K. trade deal progress in doubt

The U.K. will be out of the CETA agreement by the end of the year and status of talks is unknown

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Glacier FarmMedia – As prospects of a trade deal between the United Kingdom and the European Union collapse, there is growing doubt a post-Brexit pact involving Canada can be completed by the end of the year. Why it matters: Trade between Canada and the U.K. has been governed by EU trade rules, and if no […] Read more
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Trump subsidies make up a third of U.S. farm income

Administration has used trade wars, COVID-19 as reasons to boost subsidies

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Reuters – U.S. President Donald Trump is assuring a bumper year for farmers as the Nov. 3 election approaches, with record government subsidies projected to make up more than a third of farm income in 2020. The aid programs could be key to Trump’s chances of success in swing states such as Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa […] Read more
During a Sept. 25 virtual appearance at Politico’s Agriculture and Food Summit, Marie-Claude Bibeau, Canada’s agriculture minister, said she would like Canada to benefit from CETA “which is not the case yet.”
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Industry, government play role in fixing CETA: Bibeau

Ag minister reminds European buyers about high quality Canadian food

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Glacier FarmMedia – Federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau says industry and government have a shared responsibility to fix a trade deal that hasn’t brought strong results for Canadian producers. Expected to generate $1.5 billion in new agri-food exports, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union has fallen short […] Read more
Ursula van den Heuvel O’Neil farms in Lambton County and has for years worked to obtain payment for farmers missed by the Ontario Cattle, Hog and Horticulture Payment program.
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Long-term lessons from a problem program

A farmer worries that conditions that led to the OCHHP program could still be in place

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Some Ontario farmers who failed to get a payment from an OMAFRA program more than a decade ago are concerned that the reasons the program failed could be replicated in new programs with the same poor results. They continue a sometimes lonely fight in the courts and in the court of public opinion to get […] Read more
About 70 per cent of Canadian pork is exported, so a border closure due to African swine fever would be a crisis.
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Hog producers look for swine fever investment

Arrival of African swine fever would be devastating to the Canadian sector

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Glacier FarmMedia – Canada’s hog producers are calling on the federal government to invest $50 million over three years to combat African swine fever. In an open letter released Sept. 11, the chair of the Canadian Pork Council Rick Bergmann spells out the impact an outbreak of the disease would have on the industry. The […] Read more
Canadian farmers can still count on the global market, despite threats to access that they have faced recently in various parts of the world.
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Comment: Battered markets are more resilient than they might seem

Trade and food demand still find a way despite political challenges

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China knows how to stick it to Canadian farmers. The Europeans know how to keep out Canadian farm products, but they do it with more subtlety and grace. With the United States, who knows what Donald Trump or Joe Biden will do with North American free trade in the next four years? It’s hard to […] Read more

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