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New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser, shown here last November, doesn’t expect a Trans-Pacific trade deal to kill Canada’s supply management systems. (Beehive.govt.nz)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

TPP not the death of supply management, N.Z. trade chief says

By Shannon VanRaes October 15, 2015

Hamilton, N.Z. | MCO — Canada’s supply-managed sectors should not worry about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, from where New Zealand’s Trade Minister Tim Groser sits. “I can understand why producer groups would wish to perceive this in a different way, but this is not the end of supply management,” he said here Thursday. “I don’t think […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Van Camp: Olive branches offered through new gaps in tariff wall

By Maggie Van Camp October 14, 2015

What do you get when you mix milk and eggs with a looming election? A “free” trade deal that gained major market access in Asia for Canada, but managed to keeps the tariffs for Canada’s supply-managed commodities. After all the barking from New Zealand, cows parading on Parliament Hill, tweets, heart-wrenching videos on Facebook, election […] Read more

Livestock, News

Wait times for import permit system grow shorter

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff October 13, 2015

Industry is satisfied for now that the CFIA is genuine in its effort to address inefficiencies that have been creating backlogs in issuing import permits through its new Centre of Administration (CoA). The CoA opened April 1, 2014, as a single point for commercial operators and travellers to apply for domestic and import permits, licences […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

EU lawmakers reject bill allowing opt-out from GM crop imports

By Reuters October 13, 2015

Brussels | Reuters –– European lawmakers rejected a proposal Tuesday that would have allowed countries to restrict or ban the use of imported GM crops that have secured EU approval. The environment committee of the European Parliament rejected the draft law by 47 votes to three, many arguing that the proposal was unworkable and would […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

California adopts tough rules for antibiotic use in livestock

By Lisa Baertlein October 12, 2015

Los Angeles | Reuters — California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill that sets the strictest government standards in the U.S. for the use of antibiotics in livestock production. The move from California, known for its leadership on public health and environmental issues, comes amid growing concern that the overuse of such drugs […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Canada now avian flu-free

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff October 9, 2015

With no new cases in poultry since April and no farms in quarantine since July, Canada has officially declared itself free of avian influenza. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday it has informed the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) that Ontario is free of notifiable avian flu. No new outbreaks of highly pathogenic […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Critics see TPP as edge of wedge for U.S. milk

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff October 7, 2015

A U.S. dairy sector economist is the latest observer to suggest Canada’s concessions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership may eventually lead to more imports of U.S. milk than Ottawa bargained for. Ag economist Andrew Novakovic of New York’s Cornell University said in a release that the TPP, for U.S. producers, marks a major opportunity in Canada’s […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

VanRaes: TPP deal seen shrinking supply-managed markets

By Shannon VanRaes October 5, 2015

CORRECTION, Oct. 7: Canada’s supply managed sectors can expect to lose $4.3 billion to foreign interests in the 15 years following the implementation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. After years of negotiations, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the U.S. and Vietnam reached an agreement Monday morning, which includes granting access […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Starbucks to switch to all cage-free eggs by 2020

By P.J. Huffstutter October 1, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Starbucks will switch to using only eggs laid by cage-free chickens at its North American locations within five years, the company told Reuters on Thursday. The company said it has been steadily working on making the switch since it began buying cage-free eggs in 2008. The pledge follows similar moves by […] Read more

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, shown here in February in Brampton, Ont., said farmers and processors would be “compensated” for losses incurred through any increased market access granted under a TPP deal. (Agr.gc.ca)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Canada to pay farmers for any losses under TPP deal, Ritz says

By Rod Nickel September 30, 2015

Reuters — Canadian farmers will receive government compensation for any losses resulting from a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, the country’s agriculture minister said Wednesday in a discussion about the nation’s protected farm sectors. The U.S., New Zealand and Australia want Canada to start dismantling a system of supply and import controls over dairy, poultry […] Read more

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TPP not the death of supply management, N.Z. trade chief says

Van Camp: Olive branches offered through new gaps in tariff wall

Wait times for import permit system grow shorter

EU lawmakers reject bill allowing opt-out from GM crop imports

California adopts tough rules for antibiotic use in livestock

Canada now avian flu-free

Critics see TPP as edge of wedge for U.S. milk

VanRaes: TPP deal seen shrinking supply-managed markets

Starbucks to switch to all cage-free eggs by 2020

Canada to pay farmers for any losses under TPP deal, Ritz says

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