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Ag Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau speaks at Cigi in Winnipeg on March 13, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Future of ag policy remains unclear ahead of election

By D.C. Fraser October 18, 2019

Ottawa – If polls and pundits are to be believed, Monday’s federal election will result in a minority government — meaning no single party would alone be dictating the immediate future of agricultural policy in Canada. While the true results won’t be known until Monday night, most pollsters are speculating either a Conservative or Liberal-led […] Read more

Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil on Aug. 14, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

South America fires could disrupt its farm belt’s rainfall

By Monica Machicao October 9, 2019

Santa Cruz | Reuters — Forest fires that swept across Bolivia and Brazil this year could disrupt rainfall distribution across South America’s grains-and-beef producing regions in unpredictable ways for years to come, a scientist and meteorologist said. Recent rains in both countries have helped put out the wildfires, which were likely started by farmers and […] Read more

General, Markets

Liberals pledge revamp of federal farm lender

By GFM Staff October 7, 2019

The federal Liberals’ platform heading into the Oct. 21 election calls for an “expanded and enhanced” role for Farm Credit Canada in supporting the country’s agriculture and agrifood sectors. Platform documents released Sunday last week (Sept. 29) call for the merger of several existing federal financial and advisory services — which the Liberals said are […] Read more

Federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on April 10, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Chris Wattie)

General

Federal minister for rural affairs among Tory pledges

By Dave Bedard October 2, 2019

The federal Conservatives’ pre-election pledges for Canada’s rural communities include a plan to appoint a federal minister for rural affairs. Tory leader Andrew Scheer included that promise Sept. 7 in announcing a list of “specific measures he will take as prime minister to help rural communities across the country,” in the lead-up to a federal […] Read more

Burrows MLA Diljeet Brar, shown here outside Winnipeg’s Seven Oaks General Hospital in a campaign video screengrab, is the Manitoba NDP’s new critic for agriculture. (Facebook)

Crops

Ag extension staffer named Manitoba NDP ag critic

By GFM Staff September 27, 2019

A former Manitoba provincial ag extension co-ordinator will be the new critic for agriculture on the opposition New Democrats’ bench. Manitoba NDP leader Wab Kinew on Friday announced a new shadow cabinet, appointing Diljeet Brar as his critic for agriculture and for sport, culture and heritage. Brar, a rookie MLA elected Sept. 10 in the […] Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 20, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Trump questions request for Chinese delay on farm trip

By Steve Holland September 24, 2019

United Nations | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday questioned a decision by his top trade negotiators to ask Chinese officials to delay a planned trip to U.S. farming regions after trade talks last week, saying he wanted China to buy more U.S. farm products. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters at […] Read more

Green Party leader Elizabeth May walks off the set past moderator Paul Wells (l), Conservative leader Andrew Scheer and New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh after the Maclean’s/Citytv leaders’ debate in Toronto on Sept. 12, 2019. (Pool photo: Frank Gunn via Reuters)

General, Markets

Election 2019: Ag groups want the parties to pay attention

By Glen Hallick September 18, 2019

MarketsFarm — Two major national farm organizations want the political parties to pay more attention to agriculture as the federal election continues. However, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) and the National Farmers Union (NFU) have somewhat different takes as to what they see as paramount. “It’s really important that we uphold the quality of […] Read more

Manitoba’s agriculture minister Ralph Eichler, shown here at an Aug. 27 pre-election forum hosted by the Manitoba Farm Writers and Broadcasters Association, easily held his riding of Lakeside in the Sept. 10 provincial election. (Manitoba Co-operator photo by Geralyn Wichers)

General

Ag minister returned, ag critic downed in Manitoba vote

By GFM Staff September 11, 2019

Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives easily kept their agriculture minister while hanging onto a marginally slimmer majority government in Tuesday’s provincial election. Ralph Eichler, the Tories’ ag minister since 2016 and the MLA for the Interlake-area constituency of Lakeside since 2003, defeated New Democrat challenger Dan Rugg of Elie on Tuesday night by a spread of 4,340 […] Read more

An Iveco Trakker off-road transport. (Iveco.com)

General, Machinery

CNH to list truck and bus business in break-up

By Giulio Piovaccari September 3, 2019

Milan | Reuters — Industrial vehicle maker CNH Industrial has decided to split in two and list its truck, bus and engine division in an effort to boost asset values and streamline its businesses. The plan comes just six years after CNH Industrial was created when Fiat Industrial — spun off from the Italian carmaker […] Read more

File photo of a combine harvesting a wheat crop in Ukraine. (SergBob/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Reuters

Ukraine president plans farmland reform, large privatizations

By Reuters September 2, 2019

Kiev | Reuters — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ordered his new government to submit a draft law for land market reform by the start of October and to prepare large-scale privatizations of state companies starting in April next year. Zelenskiy has pledged to lift a longstanding ban on the sale of farmland, a move that […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Feeders set fresh highs, hogs mixed

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat, corn tick lower on continued supply pressure

AgTalk farmer mental health support platform sees partnership renewed

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U.S. livestock: Feeders set fresh highs, hogs mixed

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat, corn tick lower on continued supply pressure

AgTalk farmer mental health support platform sees partnership renewed

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Future of ag policy remains unclear ahead of election

South America fires could disrupt its farm belt’s rainfall

Liberals pledge revamp of federal farm lender

Federal minister for rural affairs among Tory pledges

Ag extension staffer named Manitoba NDP ag critic

Trump questions request for Chinese delay on farm trip

Election 2019: Ag groups want the parties to pay attention

Ag minister returned, ag critic downed in Manitoba vote

CNH to list truck and bus business in break-up

Ukraine president plans farmland reform, large privatizations

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