Tyler Fulton, a cow-calf producer from Birtle, Man., is the newly-elected president of the Canadian Cattle Association. Fulton steps into the role at a critical time for Canada's integrated beef supply chain with the U.S. — an issue he sees as the most pressing facing the sector, given that half of Canada’s beef production is... Read More
Category: Agriculture Policy
"Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities." - Roy T. Bennett I am not sure what your plans were for U.S. "Liberation Day," but I was tied to a TV to listen to what U.S. President Trump was going to say about his tariff strategy. Through a Canadian lens, I would say... Read More
Canada and Mexico were spared new tariffs in the U.S. president's "Liberation Day" announcement on April 2. Speaking from the Rose Garden with most of his cabinet accompanying him, President Trump announced so-called "reciprocal" tariffs ranging from 10 to 50 per cent on a long list of countries starting April 9, with a baseline 10... Read More
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has named David Thompson as its new executive director, effective April 7, 2025. Thompson has worked with the NFU-Ontario for the past five years in various capacities including policy research and analysis, conducting farmer interviews and managing programs. In that time, he also coordinated the International Programs Committee (IPC) working... Read More
If tariffs are meant to deter imports by making them more expensive, eventually imports will decrease. Logic would have it, then, that depending on tariff revenue in the long-term would be folly, as it's intended to decrease over time. The tariff-income-as-monetary-policy is just one sticking point in the U.S. administration's new trade policy arc. Oliver... Read More
On March 27, RealAgriculture and the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) hosted a webinar to discuss the future of the Canada-U.S. trade relationship, as the Trump administration's trade agenda has become the prevailing issue in the Canadian election campaign. The webinar started with Shaun Haney getting a firmer understanding of the White House's strategy in... Read More
Vive Crop Protection has received expanded Canadian registration for AZteroid FC 390. Canadian potato growers first gained access to fungicide in 2024 to fight rhizoctonia and black scurf. The updated registration now allows sugar beet and radish growers to add the fungicide to their disease control toolboxes. Vive chief technology officer Dr. Doug Baumann says... Read More
Top-ups to the cash advance and AgriStability programs for farmers are nice, but they don't go far enough in mitigating the impact of China's retaliatory tariffs against Canadian agricultural exports, according to the executive director of Grain Growers of Canada. "What producers are looking for — this is what I'm hearing from most grain farmers... Read More
It's a long way from official, but a pre-election promise to boost AgriStability payout limits and speed-up payments could go forward to help farmers deal with tariff impacts. AJ Gill, national leader of ag risk management resources for MNP, says that it is definitely possible the increased cap and larger interim payment for the 2025... Read More
While most Canadian eyes and ears have been tuned to the U.S. and its president's next move, the U.S. markets have been focused on China. So much of the current news cycle has been centred on the U.S. tariffs on Canadian products, but there is another U.S. policy looming — on incoming Chinese and Chinese-made... Read More