“We will not undercut standards in trade deals. The previous government did that with the Australia deal to the fury of the sector and we have ruled that out,” Reed told the National Farmers’ Union’s annual conference.

Reed said the import of hormone-treated beef, for example, would not be allowed.

Both Britain and the European Union currently ban the import of beef produced using growth hormones which are given to cattle in some producing countries including the U.S.

The European Union announced earlier this month it is planning tougher restrictions on imported crops treated with pesticides banned in Europe, a move that would impact suppliers including the U.S.

“I know that if British farmers and producers compete on a level playing field they can win but if that playing field is unbalanced they are at a huge disadvantage,” he said.

Reed was asked about the import of sugar produced using neonicotinoid pesticides that are now banned in Britain.

“We now need to go back and look at the trade deals because they need to line up with our commitment to not undercut UK producers,” he said, adding it was a work in progress.

NFU president Tom Bradshaw highlighted the issue during his speech at the conference.

“What the previous government did with signing these early trade deals forcing us to compete against food produced to lower standards was unworkable and wrong,” Bradshaw said.

“This new government has the opportunity to set a new course.

— Reporting by Nigel Hunt

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The measure, dubbed the tractor tax by critics and announced in the new government’s budget last month as it sought to raise funds, has drawn an angry backlash from farmers who say the ruling Labour Party does not understand rural communities.

The protesters held placards stating “no farmers, no food, no future” and “Starmer the farmer harmer”, in reference to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Police estimated about 10,000 protesters took part.

Farmer Emma Robinson, 44, said she was “absolutely livid” and would take part in measures to disrupt food supplies if the government did not back down.

Robinson said her farm in northwest England had been in her family for 500 years and she was going to pass it on to her children.

“It’s being taken out of my hands by someone that’s been in parliament for literally days,” she said.

The passing of farms down through generations was tax-free, but under the policy set out by finance minister Rachel Reeves, from 2026, 20 per cent tax would be paid on the value of a farm above 1 million pounds (C$1.8 million).

Existing personal allowances, which a married couple can combine, takes the threshold for a farm and associated property up to 3 million pounds (C$5.3 million).

Farmers say that while their land and machinery has a high value, the farms themselves have low profit margins, meaning their children would have to sell land to cover the tax bill.

Jeremy Clarkson, the former Top Gear presenter who owns a farm, was among those demonstrating and said his message for government was: “Please back down”.

The government has said the reforms would only target the most valuable farms while helping fund public services that farming communities rely on.

Environment Minister Steve Reed said he did not expect the majority of farmers to pay any more, adding: “There are a lot of figures flying around that I do not recognize.”

The government said the tax change would affect about 500 farms a year, based on the number of inherited farms in 2021-22, with the tax rate payable in instalments over 10 years. But farmers say the numbers affected will be much higher.

The government’s 500 figure does not include assets like livestock and tractors, they said. The Country Land and Business Association has estimated that 70,000 farms are worth more than 1 million pounds, and could be affected.

The backlash is only one part of a wider opposition to the Labour government’s first budget since it won an election in July, with businesses warning Reeves’ other tax-raising measures will fuel inflation.

Farmers say they are already suffering from unfair competition as cheaper imported produce does not have to meet the same environmental and welfare standards, while their incomes have also been squeezed by supermarkets and hit by climate change.

—Reporting by Sarah Young, Sachin Ravikumar and Paul Sandle

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The talks – which started in March 2022 – are among a number of negotiations Britain has launched around the world in the wake of its decision to leave the European Union, which excluded it from existing EU free trade deals.

“We are disappointed that negotiations with the UK are being paused. Their decision to continue to maintain market access barriers for our agriculture industry and unwillingness to reach a mutual agreement has only stalled negotiations,” said a spokeswoman for Canadian Trade Minister Mary Ng.

Ng has contacted British business minister Kemi Badenoch to express Canada’s disappointment, the spokeswoman added.

Canadian farmers complain they have been effectively shut out of the British beef market because of regulations banning the use of hormones.

In a statement posted on social media platform X, a British government spokesperson said “we reserve the right to pause negotiations with any country if progress is not being made”.

Before Britain left the EU trading sphere at the end of 2020, Canada rolled over existing trade arrangements to ensure free trade could continue.

One particular arrangement dealing with cheese access has now expired and a Canadian government official blamed Britain for the lack of an extension deal.

“Unfortunately, Britain did not act as fast as it should have in negotiations, and expects Canada to just give (it) these things,” said the official, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Both sides said they were ready to resume talks. According to official British data, total bilateral trade in goods and services was 25.9 billion pounds (CAD $44.4 billion) in the year ending June 30, 2023, when Canada was Britain’s 18th largest trading partner.

According to Canadian data, bilateral trade with Britain in 2022 accounted for just 2.7 per cent of the total.

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While the attaché pegged planted and harvest area for 2023-24 at 410,000 hectares — up from last year’s 364,000 — yields were forecast to drop from almost 3.74 tonnes per hectare to nearly 3.37.

Along with the projected output in rapeseed, the attaché estimated the U.K.’s imports of the oilseed at 750,000 tonnes. Altogether, the country’s total supply was projected to be short of 2.22 million tonnes, 1.6 per cent more than in 2022-23. Of that supply, the attaché placed the crush at two million tonnes, plus 80,000 in feed use. Ending stocks were projected to be 86,000 tonnes, the same amount coming into 2023-24.

The attaché estimate the U.K.’s rapeseed meal production at 1.14 million tonnes. Along with beginning stocks of 75,000 tonnes and imports of 200,000 tonnes, total supply of the meal was set at 1.42 million. Of that, 1.25 million tonnes is expected to be used domestically, which would be on par with the previous two marketing years. Meal ending stocks were set at 90,000 tonnes, 15,000 more than in 2022-23.

As for rapeseed oil, the attaché estimated the U.K. to produce 800,000 tonnes. With beginning stocks of 75,000 tonnes and imports of 90,000 tonnes, the total supply was forecast at 965,000. Of that, 780,000 tonnes is to be used domestically, with a carryover of 85,000, up 10,000 from 2022-23.

The attaché noted input costs in the U.K. increased due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but fertilizer and fuel prices have come down during 2023. The London desk stressed any major developments in the war could result in changes in the attaché’s assumptions.

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Federal Trade Minster Mary Ng on Thursday announced the conclusion of negotiations, making the U.K. the first accession applicant to reach that stage and “mark(ing) an important chapter in the development of the CPTPP.”

Ministers and trade reps from CPTPP nations met virtually Friday (Japan time) and declared “substantial conclusion” of talks with the U.K., which have been formally underway since 2021.

The CPTPP’s accession working group said in a statement Friday that the U.K. “has provided commercially meaningful market access offers of the highest standard on goods, services, investment, financial services, government procurement, state-owned enterprises and temporary entry for business persons.”

“As the first country to show support for the U.K.’s accession to CPTPP, we are pleased to see a longstanding friend and ally join one of the world’s most progressive trade agreements,” Ng said in her statement.

U.K. accession to the CPTPP, she said, “would build on our longstanding economic and people-to-people ties and shared values on open and rules-based trade (and) would provide further trade and investment opportunities for both countries, especially in the Indo-Pacific region.”

The U.K. has sought new formal trade pacts elsewhere since its “Brexit” from the European Union in 2020. Talks on a new bilateral Canada-U.K. trade deal have been formally underway since March last year.

Meanwhile, a Canada-U.K. Trade Continuity Agreement (TCA), which came into force in April 2021, upholds bilateral trade terms similar to those of the 2017 Canada-E.U. free trade pact (CETA).

But the U.K. has also sought entry since 2020 to the CPTPP pact, which Canada was fifth to ratify in 2018 and now also includes Japan, Australia, Mexico, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. The pact officially came into force for Malaysia just last Nov. 29.

The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA), a group of Canadian organizations representing export-dependent ag commodity sectors, has long said it “would be supportive of (U.K.) accession subject to them meeting the high standards of the (CPTPP) agreement.”

But CAFTA, in a 2021 submission for federal consultations on the matter, warned its member groups “cannot support an outcome where U.K. beef continues to have unlimited access to the Canadian market while Canadian beef is subject to a TRQ (tariff rate quota).”

Also, while the U.K. “continues to apply (E.U.) regulatory policies” on sanitary and phytosanitary barriers and a ban on livestock growth promotion technology, none of the 10 other CPTPP members have such restrictions “as they adhere to international guidelines on these products.”

Similarly, CAFTA said at the time, the Canadian pork industry would seek for the U.K. be “forced to abide by the same guidelines agreed upon by the current signatories of CPTPP.”

The Canadian Cattle Association, a CAFTA member, declared itself Friday to be “disappointed” with a market access agreement that will form the basis for the U.K. to join CPTPP “without achieving viable access for Canadian beef to the U.K.”

Specifically, the CCA said in a statement Friday, “we are aware that other members of the CPTPP have achieved unlimited beef access in their bilateral agreements with the U.K. We have been informed that similar access for Canada is ‘off the table’.”

Also, the CCA said, there’s “no current progress being made to address the main obstacle to the U.K. market – the full acceptance of Canada’s meat hygiene system, which is widely recognized as one of the finest in the world.”

The CCA said it “will draw a hard line that this barrier must be addressed in Canada’s bilateral agreement with the U.K.”

CCA president Nathan Phinney also warned Friday the U.K. entry to CPTPP “further disadvantages Canadian beef producers and is fundamentally unjust,” and if a ratification bill comes to Parliament without addressing U.K. barriers to Canadian beef, “CCA will approach all Parliamentarians to defeat that bill.”

Under the Canada-U.K. TCA, the CCA said Friday, British beef can enter Canada at a zero per cent tariff in “unlimited” quantities, while Canadian beef has a zero per cent tariff but only up to a TRQ of 2,708 tonnes fresh and 1,161 tonnes frozen per year.

Under those terms, the U.K. exported 2,733 tonnes of beef to Canada in 2021 and 4,414 tonnes in 2022, while Canada exported 657 tonnes of beef to the U.K. in 2021 and “zero in 2022,” the association said.

CCA said it believes a deal with the U.K. that leaves such barriers in place “does not meet the standard of the CPTPP and the U.K.’s bid to join should be rejected until they can do better to meet the progressive trade principles of the CPTPP.”

Enforcement

Among other organizations weighing in this week on U.K. entry to the CPTPP, Dairy Farmers of Canada acknowledged Friday the deal will provide U.K. dairy exporters with TRQ access to the Canadian market.

However, according to Global Affairs Canada, all CPTPP member countries share one fixed amount of TRQ into Canada for dairy, and the department has said it will “continue to honour the government’s commitment to not provide additional market access in our supply-managed sectors in any future trade negotiation.”

DFC said Friday it “expect(s) the Canadian government will be vigilant to ensure that the dairy products coming into Canada adhere to our domestic standards for food safety and production, and that any volumes allowed into Canada are enforced according to the terms of the agreement.” — Glacier FarmMedia Network

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A jump in gas prices has forced several domestic energy suppliers out of business and has shut fertilizer plants that also make CO2 as a byproduct of their production process.

The CO2 gas is used to stun animals before slaughter, in the vacuum packing of food products to extend their shelf life, and to put the fizz into beer, cider and soft drinks. CO2’s solid form is dry ice, which is used in food deliveries.

The CO2 crisis has compounded an acute shortage of truck drivers in the U.K., which has been blamed on the impact of COVID-19 and Brexit.

“My members are saying anything between five, 10 and 15 days supply (remain),” Nick Allen of the British Meat Processors Association told Sky News.

With no CO2 a meat processor cannot operate, he said.

“The animals have to stay on farm. They’ll cause farmers on the farm huge animal welfare problems and British pork and British poultry will disappear off the shelves,” Allen said.

“We’re two weeks away from seeing some real impacts on the shelves,” he said, adding that poultry could start disappearing even sooner.

Retailers hit

Allen said the government was working hard to try and resolve the issue and might be able to persuade a U.K. fertilizer producer to restart its plant.

The crisis is also having a more immediate impact.

Online supermarket group Ocado said it had temporarily reduced the number of lines it is able to deliver from its frozen range. Dry ice is used to keep items frozen during delivery.

Shares in processor Cranswick, whose products include fresh pork and chicken and gourmet sausages, were down 2.7 per cent after CEO Adam Couch said production could be halted.

The British Retail Consortium (BRC), which represents retailers including the major supermarket groups, said the CO2 shortage had compounded existing pressures on production and distribution.

“… it is vital that government takes immediate action to prioritize suppliers and avoid significant disruption to food supplies,” said Andrew Opie, the BRC’s director of food and sustainability.

Britain’s National Farmers Union said it was concerned about the shortages of fertilizer and CO2.

“We’re aware of the added strain this puts on a food supply chain already under significant pressure due to lack of labour,” said NFU vice-president Tom Bradshaw.

Foreign office minister James Cleverly said the government was looking to address short-term shortages.

“We will ensure that we are able to put food on the table, obviously that is a real priority,” he told Sky News.

Britain’s big four supermarket groups — market leader Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons — had no immediate comment.

— James Davey reports for Reuters from London, England.

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Steve Verheul, assistant deputy minister of trade policy and negotiations at Global Affairs Canada, told a parliamentary committee any deal between the two countries will be impacted by European Union-U.K. negotiations, which are unlikely to be completed this year.

“Any future relationship between Canada and the U.K. would be influenced by the terms of the agreement between the UK and the EU, as well as any unilateral U.K. approaches for after the transition period,” he said during a July 9 meeting of the Commons standing committee on international trade.

The U.K. left the EU on Jan. 31 and is in the middle of an 11-month implementation period. A trade deal between the two does not appear to be on the immediate horizon, however, as recent negotiations have been difficult.

Verheul reassured members of Parliament during his testimony that trade officials from Canada are in contact with their British counterparts to prepare for the post-transition trade relationship.

“Whatever the outcome of Brexit, the U.K. will remain a significant market for Canadian companies,” he said, noting the U.K. is Canada’s most important commercial partner in Europe.

But Canadian officials are challenged by a number of unknowns. The U.K. is prioritizing its negotiation with the EU, and once completed, is expected to enter into bilateral negotiations with a number of other countries, notably its larger trading partners.

There’s also the possibility the 11-month transition phase ends without the U.K. signing a trade deal with the EU.

“We are working closely now with U.K. officials to start to talk about how we can come up with a traditional relationship that would govern our bilateral trade going forward,” Verheul said. “We’re trying to position ourselves to make sure we have an agreement in place, an understanding in place, to deal with that possible event.

“There are various uncertainties here that we are having to monitor.”

If negotiations do begin between Canada and the U.K., Verheul told the committee the goal would be to replicate the Canada-European Union trade pact, or Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), as much as possible, while making it more tailored to the unique relationship between the two countries.

“We would look to, and the U.K. would as well, to translate into a bilateral agreement” said Verheul, adding a “large portion of that work has already been done.”

Discussions between the two nations stretch back to when Brexit was first becoming a reality, following the U.K.-wide referendum on ending EU membership in 2016, and Verheul noted a deal was almost struck early last year.

Claire Citeau, executive director of CAFTA, said CETA held promise for exporters when first signed but “continues to fall short” of its potential, because of the EU’s reluctance to remove technical and non-tariff trade barriers to trade over the deal’s three years of existence.

“Our view is that Canada should formally engage and seek to conclude negotiations of an ambitious (Canada-U.K.) free trade agreement that removes tariffs and non-tariff barriers, that provides liberal rules of origins, and secures the level playing fields,” she said, noting some other countries have done this and Canada needs “to be at the table as well.”

She expressed frustration over the pace at which Canada has been negotiating.

“Certainly, there’s been some anxiety that our members feel, not only on non-tariff barriers but also the pace of negotiations that some of our competitors have adopted when it comes to negotiating free trade agreements around the world… that has been the case with the U.K., but other countries as well,” she said.

“We know that we lose when our competitors are first to markets that we’re also after, so seeing the U.S., Australia, the EU engage with the U.K., it certainly raises eyebrows and questions.”

Andy Barr, head of trade and economics at the British High Commission in Canada, told Glacier FarmMedia in late January that he’d like to see the two nations “lock in the benefits of CETA and then boost the relationship from there.”

Doubts remain over how much any new trade deal between the U.K. and Canada will positively impact farmers.

Despite the EU being the world’s largest importer of agriculture and agri-food products, Canada’s market share has been minimal since CETA came into force in 2017.

— D.C. Fraser reports for Glacier FarmMedia from Ottawa.

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In the report, released Thursday, Coceral pegged total grain production for the European Union and United Kingdom in 2020 at 302.7 million tonnes, which would be down from the 2019 level of 308.9 million tonnes.

Of that total, wheat production (excluding durum) is forecast to be down five per cent on the year at 137.9 million tonnes.

The decline was linked to acreage reductions in France, Germany, Denmark and the U.K., after heavy rains hampered planting operations in the fall. Yield reductions are also forecast for France, Denmark and the U.K.

Coceral forecasts European barley production in 2020 at 60.8 million tonnes, which would be down from the 62.2 million tonnes grown in 2019, with most of the reduction linked to a return to average yields.

While wheat and barley production may be down on the year, the corn crop is forecast to rise by 6.5 per cent, to 65 million tonnes, as wet weather that hampered fall seeding for winter grains should see some extra area seeded to corn.

European rapeseed production is forecast at 17.1 million tonnes, which compares with the 16.7 million tonnes grown the previous year.

— Phil Franz-Warkentin reports for MarketsFarm from Winnipeg.

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This year, he fears uncertainty around Britain’s departure from the European Union will keep his eastern European workers away and the asparagus will stay in the ground.

Asparagus grown in Britain is feted by chefs as among the world’s best but the seasonal worker shortage threatens the country’s asparagus industry and the viability of Chinn’s Cobrey Farms business.

It is a predicament shared by many British fruit and vegetable farmers, almost totally reliant on seasonal migrant workers from EU member states Romania and Bulgaria taking short-term jobs that British workers do not want.

At Chinn’s farm, which turns over more than 10 million pounds (C$17.7 million) a year, the workers pick the premium asparagus spears that can grow up to 20 cm a day by hand. Sometimes they pick them twice a day before dispatching them to customers such as Marks and Spencer, and Britain’s biggest supermarket, Tesco.

“It is incredibly clear cut — there is no U.K. asparagus on your supermarket shelves without seasonal migrant workers,” Chinn, whose great grandfather started as a tenant farmer in 1925, told Reuters.

“We’re really at the point where we either import the workers or we import the asparagus.”

Britain’s asparagus season is short and early — traditionally running from April 23, known as Saint George’s Day, to Midsummer’s Day in mid-June. It will be the first big test of the 2019 seasonal labour crisis.

No-shows

This year Chinn’s team has had to work much harder to recruit Romanians and Bulgarians who are perplexed by the long Brexit process as Prime Minister Theresa May seeks parliament’s approval for a divorce deal with the EU. They are also wary of the welcome they will receive from Britons, who voted in 2016 to leave the EU.

Though Cobrey Farms has signed up 1,200 workers who are due to start arriving at the end of this month, Chinn fears many will not turn up. He does not think he will be able to harvest the entire crop, meaning valuable asparagus will be left in the fields.

“If we’re 20 per cent short of people then we will harvest 20 per cent less asparagus,” said Chinn. “U.K. agriculture’s not a high-margin game, so 20 per cent less means we’re in loss-making territory. Fifty percent could sink us.”

Chinn’s concern grew after 20 of the 100 or so workers due to help cultivate the crops in January failed to turn up.

Of 247 workers due to arrive between March 31 and April 6, 125 are yet to book flights, he said. They include 38 who have worked at Cobrey Farms before and stayed in the dozens of static caravans that stand at the foot of the hills on the farm.

Chinn, who voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum, said uncertainty over eastern Europeans’ employment rights and how long they can stay, combined with a fall in the value of the pound, meant Germany and the Netherlands were now considered more attractive destinations.

“They go somewhere which is most straightforward and any, even minor, hurdles you put in their way is just nudging them ever closer to going somewhere else,” he said.

With just 11 days to go until Britain is due to leave the EU, the government is yet to agree a withdrawal arrangement or an extension, meaning the risk of a disorderly “no-deal” Brexit cannot be ruled out.

If Britain agrees on a divorce deal, a transition period will kick in, maintaining freedom of movement until the end of 2020. In the event of no deal, EU citizens arriving after March 29 would need to register to work for more than three months.

Elina Kostadinova, a 28 year-old harvest manager at Cobrey Farms who is from Varna on Bulgaria’s Black Sea, said many workers were worried about coming to Britain because of Brexit.

“They don’t know if they will be welcomed in the country, how long they may be able to stay, how they may be able to travel and what the future may hold,” she said. “It would be wonderful if the U.K. government could make a decision, so we can relay this message.”

British farms typically pay workers the national minimum wage of 7.83 pounds (C$13.90) an hour plus performance-related bonuses.

Chinn said the idea of British workers plugging the gap was fanciful. He does not expect much help from the supermarkets, where sales volumes have already been negotiated for the season and prices have been fixed, barring exceptional circumstances.

Permit trial

Britain’s fruit and vegetable sector relies on up to 80,000 seasonal workers from the EU each year. Having previously been inundated with applications, labour agencies say interest dropped off in 2017 and 2018 as workers from Romania and Bulgaria opted to go elsewhere in the EU.

For the last two seasons, Britain has been short by around 10,000 workers, threatening the food supply and forcing farms to pay higher wages and bonuses. At the end of the summer as workers want to leave, farms will offer free accommodation and to pay the cost of flights to try to persuade them to stay on.

Concordia, a labour agency charity that finds EU pickers for British farms, said it now has to work much harder to recruit.

“U.K. agriculture is definitely entering into a crisis. No labour means no harvesting, which means no fruit and no vegetables on shelves in British supermarkets,” Chief Executive Stephanie Maurel told Reuters.

She was speaking in Moscow after the British government sanctioned a pilot trial for 2,500 workers to enter the country from Russia, Ukraine and Moldova for up to six months over the next two years.

Chinn, who has 3,500 acres of land, wants the government to increase the numbers to 10,000 this summer and over 50,000 in the next couple of years.

“We can’t change this natural cycle of the crop… the crop will come out the ground when it warms up,” he said. “So the key is about not waiting for a total disaster that wipes out large swathes of UK horticulture.”

— Reporting for Reuters by James Davey and Kate Holton.

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“Over the last 45 days we’ve saw this market spike, we’ll call it a buck a bushel that we’ve seen that increase from where we would typically would expect this market,” said Jeff Vipond, director for peas, canary and lentils with Scoular.

Fababean prices in Western Canada have hit the $7-$10 per bushel range in the last month, according to Vipond. A story by CNS Canada in May quoted fababean prices at the $5.50-$6.50 range, stating they had been around there for the past year.

While fababean production faltered in Canada this year, with only an estimated 96,400 tonnes, down from 99,800 tonnes last year, according to Statistics Canada, the price increase isn’t due to the lower production. Production issues around the world have led buyers to Canada pushing the price higher.

Australia and the U.K. are the major global exporters of fababeans. Australia’s crop has been slashed in half due to the country’s ongoing drought and the U.K. is facing quality issues with its crop. The largest importer of fababeans is Egypt, who has now been forced to find other countries to buy from.

“We’ve seen demand surface from that market that they’re looking to fill in the gaps there, that they’re missing out on due to the Australian and the U.K. issues,” Vipond said. “So it is providing an opportunity for western Canadian growers to participate in a market that’s not always there for us and get some decent values.”

However, Egypt will only buy high-quality fababeans and due to the delayed harvest some of Canada’s fababeans are of lower quality. Vipond said fababeans harvested before the wet and cold weather set in are great quality, while those left sitting in the field are lower quality.

“Something that people need to be aware of is that the price premiums that are being paid are for the high quality product that is still available out there,” Vipond said. “And I would say that I view it, this is going to be a pretty short term opportunity for growers.”

Once harvests in other parts of the world start to come off, Vipond expects the interest for fababeans will drop off early in the New Year.

This situation isn’t surprising, though, as Canadian fababean exports are normally sporadic. According to Vipond, Canadian fababean exports have varied year-to-year from hardly any to 25,000 tonnes.

“It really does fluctuate depending on the quality of those competing regions because they’re not going to come to us first,” Vipond said.

Domestically, fababeans are mostly used for feed as a protein source. There have been pushes in the last few years to use of more fababeans for feed. Vipond said feed fababeans are currently around the same value as feed peas, at $6 per bushel.

With the recent price spike for high-quality fababeans, Vipond has had more producers expressing interest in growing the crop next year — but he is cautioning producers against growing fababeans.

“If Australia has an average crop next year and the U.K. does as well, then our opportunity to participate in many of these markets isn’t going to be there. And we’re going to have to rely on the domestic feed market to utilize fababeans as a protein source,” he said.

— Ashley Robinson writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Glacier FarmMedia company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

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