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Eureka! At last, we have a renegotiated NAFTA

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

By Steve Dittmer November 1, 2018

While it seems like forever to us, these kinds of diplomatic trade battles usually take several years to settle, not just a little over a year. Of course, President Trump wasn’t around before now, pushing people’s buttons and impatiently demanding results like a business tycoon. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a major point that the […] Read more

CCA reports, News

CCA Report: USMCA is good news

From the October 22, 2018 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By David Haywood-Farmer October 25, 2018

The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) congratulates Prime Minister JustinTrudeau and Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on reaching an agreement that preserves and secures the duty-free access upon which the Canadian beef cattle sector has built over the past 25 years. This is particularly important as we enter the time of year when the majority of beef […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Reuters

U.S. milk producers ask government for more aid, citing $1 bln tariff impact

By Humeyra Pamuk October 25, 2018

Washington | Reuters – U.S. milk producers asked the government to increase aid payments to the industry to offset losses from foreign tariffs, saying dairy farmers have lost more than $1 billion in income since May. The administration of President Donald Trump in late May announced tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 […] Read more

Comment

Comment: What was all the fuss about?

By Gren Winslow October 23, 2018

Whew. That was close. As I write this we are at the end of the first week after NAFTA supposedly freshened up and became the USMCA. I can’t imagine what your first impression was when you got the news. Mine was relief, followed quickly by confusion. Is this all there is? Other than the whipping […] Read more

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer pose for a photo during a joint news conference on the closing of the seventh round of NAFTA talks in Mexico City, Mexico March 5, 2018.

CCA reports, News

CCA Report: International trade deals on the front burner

From the October 2018 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By David Haywood-Farmer October 12, 2018

The focus of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) was firmly fixed on trade liberalization throughout September. Renewed activity on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations arrived just ahead of the return of Canadian Parliament following summer break, and the sitting of the fall session where it’s widely expected the Government of Canada will […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Trade certainty doesn’t translate to higher loonie

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm October 12, 2018

CNS Canada — Even with more certainty around trade with the U.S., Canadians shouldn’t expect to see the dollar flying in value. “It’s hard for me to see the Canadian dollar gain value against the U.S. dollar in the short term, unless the Bank of Canada totally revises its stance towards interest rates,” said J.P. […] Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Make America Great Again campaign rally in Topeka, Kansas, U.S. October 6, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Down to the bitter end

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

By Steve Dittmer October 9, 2018

I’ve talked to a lot of cattlemen across America in the last year. To a man, or woman, they are not comfortable with some of President Trump’s brash New York style. Of course, one has to remember how his business career forged him. He has dealt with wealthy, egotistical national and international property owners; tough […] Read more

Taste-testing during a Canadian Beef Advantage Seminar in Shanghai in 2013. (Canada Beef via YouTube)

General, Markets, Reuters

Trade pact clause seen deterring China trade deals with Canada, Mexico

By David Lawder, GFM Network News October 3, 2018

Washington | Reuters — China’s hopes of negotiating a free trade pact with Canada or Mexico were dealt a sharp setback by a provision deep in the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that aims to forbid such deals with “non-market” countries, trade experts said on Tuesday. The provision specifies that if one of the current North […] Read more

CME December 2018 live cattle, with 20-day moving average in orange. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures jump on trilateral trade pact

By Tom Polansek October 1, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rose to their highest prices since April on Monday after the U.S., Canada and Mexico said they struck a deal on a trilateral trade pact. News of the agreement, reached over the weekend, eased concerns that the United States would exit the North American Free […] Read more

CBOT December 2018 corn (in black) and November 2018 soybeans (in green). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn, soy surge as NAFTA revamp outweighs big supplies

By Karl Plume October 1, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures rallied on Monday, reversing the prior session’s steep losses, after the U.S., Canada and Mexico announced they had reached a deal on a trilateral pact to replace NAFTA. Corn gained nearly three per cent and soybeans more than one per cent as news of the trade […] Read more

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn rebound on technical trading, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rally peters out on position squaring

Moe to go to China to discuss canola tariffs

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U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn rebound on technical trading, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rally peters out on position squaring

Moe to go to China to discuss canola tariffs

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Eureka! At last, we have a renegotiated NAFTA

CCA Report: USMCA is good news

U.S. milk producers ask government for more aid, citing $1 bln tariff impact

Comment: What was all the fuss about?

CCA Report: International trade deals on the front burner

Trade certainty doesn’t translate to higher loonie

Down to the bitter end

Trade pact clause seen deterring China trade deals with Canada, Mexico

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures jump on trilateral trade pact

U.S. grains: Corn, soy surge as NAFTA revamp outweighs big supplies

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