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Poultry compensation will pay for market development over 10 years.
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Dairy compensation coming quicker than expected

Poultry sectors finally get 10-year compensation plan

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Glacier FarmMedia – Canadian producers in supply-managed sectors received details of federal government plans to compensate them for recently signed trade deals and the money is coming sooner than later. Why it matters: Supply-managed sectors were forced to permit access to some previously protected markets during negotiations for international trade deals. In exchange, producers in […] Read more
A new report is calling for reforms to Canada’s dairy industry to make it more responsive to consumer and market demands and create a path to the growing global market for its products.
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Report pushes changes within supply management

System needs to better respond to consumer demand and create a long-term plan, report says

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A new report from Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph paints a way forward for the dairy sector within supply management. The report, called Supply Management 2.0, calls for four areas of reform of the system that sets production level for farmers in return for guaranteed pricing for milk. Why it matters: Milk is […] Read more
Opinion: Federal government knew impact of CUSMA timing on dairy
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Opinion: Federal government knew impact of CUSMA timing on dairy

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The federal government is willing to let Canadian dairy producers lose out on millions of dollars as a result of the new trade deal with the United States and Mexico. When MPs in Ottawa listened to testimony from agricultural leaders on the passage of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) in February, the bulk of concerns were […] Read more
The challenge with fluid milk
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The challenge with fluid milk

Processors struggle with fluid milk profitability while dairy farmers work hard to rebuild the market

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The profit and loss for fluid milk in Ontario is “already bust,” says a dairy processing company executive. Mark Taylor, president and chief executive officer of Lactalis Canada, the parent company of Parmalat, told the annual meeting of Dairy Farmers of Ontario that fluid milk consumption had a large drop in 2013 and has stagnated […] Read more
There were 9.2 billion litres of dairy production in Canada in 2019.
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Dairy farmers look forward to CUSMA compensation

Federal agriculture minister says the funds will come, but no timeline has been set

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Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau again committed to offering compensation to dairy farmers as a result of the CUSMA (Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement) deal. She told an audience at the Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) annual policy conference in Ottawa Feb. 4-6, that supply management is a “social contract” that needs protecting. Why it matters: Dairy […] Read more
Fairlife is selling its milk in Canada now, but it is imported.
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No special rules for supplying Fairlife

Peterborough milk processor remains on track for mid-2020 completion

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Milk currently available to the Dairy Farmers of Ontario from conventional producers, will be delivered to Coca-Cola’s Fairlife processing plant in Peterborough, as soon as it enters the commissioning phase of development. Representatives of DFO and Coca-Cola Canada made those assertions when contacted recently by Farmtario. Why it matters: The plant will employ 35 people […] Read more
In a photo posted Nov. 6, incoming Berthier-Maskinonge MP Yves Perron meets with the riding’s outgoing NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau to pick up active files from her constituency office. (Facebook)
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Bloc Quebecois president tapped as party’s ag critic

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The Bloc Quebecois will head into the House of Commons next month with a new critic handling the agriculture portfolio. Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet has named Yves Perron, the rookie MP for Berthier-Maskinonge, as the party’s critic for agriculture, agri-food and supply management. As the Bloc’s ag critic, Perron replaces Mirabel MP Simon Marcil, who […] Read more
The productivity growth on American dairy farms has increased the emphasis on exports.
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U.S. dairy industry continues to focus on exports

Milk price in the U.S. has increased slightly, providing some much-needed stability

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The American public is consuming more dairy products and that is, for now, using up any growth in milk production. That’s helped stabilize and even raise American milk prices for the first time in the past five years. Still, American dairy farmers continue to push aggressively into more export markets, says Tom Vilsack, president and […] Read more
Chicken farmers are looking for market development funding after trade deals resulted in the loss of some of their market.
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Chicken, egg farmers still looking for trade package

A package for dairy farmers was announced before the current federal election

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Chicken and egg farmers continue to wait for a trade compensation package, which they had hoped to see before the current federal election. Their supply management cousins in dairy got the announcement they were looking for with a $1.75 billion package that will pay out $345 million in the first year of the seven-year program. […] Read more
Farmer efficiency targets also help with areas of consumer concern.
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Consumer concerns driving livestock production discussion

Working towards trouble-free animals are often areas farmers are already working to improve

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Areas of consumer concern like climate change and animal welfare are driving the livestock discussion, but farmers are already regularly improving both areas while they make their farms more efficient. That was the message from recent interviews conducted by Farmtario with a member of the leadership team behind Lactanet’s annual ranking of herd management scores […] Read more

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