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Nationwide, weekly harvest that had kept up in March and dipped only a bit going into April, was suddenly running two-thirds of prior harvest and year-ago levels.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Uncharted waters

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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Evidently, you all in Canada experienced some similar difficulties to ours. The meat supply that kept up with oversized demand in March and early April suddenly fell short in the second half of April into May. Our local meat cases in Colorado went days with virtually nothing in the way of steaks and roasts. Ground […] Read more
A key part of R-CALF’s WTO-compliant proposal is forcing mandatory country-of-origin labelling for all food service beef and processed or prepared beef dishes.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: R-CALF still considers mCOOL salvation

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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It is astonishing, really, that R-CALF does not exist in a Communist country, because they seem totally ignorant of free market economics. They do not understand any other segments of a production chain besides themselves but really prefer a command-and-control economy, directed by… themselves, of course. They have not given up on mCOOL, despite a […] Read more
North American countries have a key advantage over the other major advanced economies – access to both the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: The interplay of politics and economic growth

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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Economic growth can come from many places and politics can shape it in different ways. A recent article examined the ways immigration has contributed to economic growth in Canada, especially given that much of your immigration is screened to boost productivity. Another column examined how the uproar in Canada uncharacteristically has escaped the borders of […] Read more
Now that Brexit has happened, the U.K. can negotiate a trade deal with the U.S.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Surveying the field of international trade

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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Okay, the web says Canada is a “constitutional monarchy” with a “Westminster-style parliamentary democracy.” Exactly how do Canadians expect mere Americans to savvy all that? The question occurred to me reading that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump appear to have the same respect for the rule of law, when it comes to […] Read more
A new study examines challenges facing both federally and provincially inspected beef processors in Alberta.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: From the Golden Globes to R-CALF

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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Hollywood’s Golden Globe awards telecast is mostly about movies I haven’t seen and actors I don’t know. But my wife came and got me for something disturbing.The very first award winner, before thanking anyone, thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for making the pre-show dinner all-vegetarian to demonstrate how critical climate change is to the […] Read more
Dittmer: Why the U.S. wants to reform the WTO
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Why the U.S. wants to reform the WTO

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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Being an export-oriented beef industry and veteran of the mCOOL fiasco, Canadian cattle producers know what the initials WTO stand for (World Trade Organization). The mCOOL deal boldly illustrated one of the major problems with the WTO — it takes forever to get anything resolved. Our joint experience with mCOOL was not the worst example. […] Read more
Dittmer: China back on the plus side
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: China back on the plus side

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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In the last couple of columns I had referred to speculations that China lifting its ban on Canadian beef and pork might be tied to Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s preliminary hearings in September or extradition hearings in January. After all, the alleged discovery of ractopamine residues in a shipment of alleged Canadian pork accompanied by […] Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump appears with China President Xi Jinping at the G20 leaders summit on June 29, 2019.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Opening trade wars vs. getting the lid back on

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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Cattle producers have historically fretted at being regulated and taxed by politicians in some distant capitol. I believe Canadian cattle producers agree. Down here in the States, we sometimes ponder giving up on draining the swamp and just adding lots more water. But Canadians actually get a double dose. You not only have to deal with Ottawa […] Read more
The trade picture between the U.S. and China has ‘more twists and turns than a cow’s G.I. tract.’ – Steve Dittmer.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

The trade and politics stampede

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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This trade circus reminds me of the chuckwagon races at the Calgary Stampede. The U.S. and China keep going round and round and ending up at the same place. President Trump threatens more tariffs and then like the outrider in the chucks, he closes in the last few yards from the finish and pulls them back […] Read more

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