The Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission (Sask Wheat) has welcomed two new and two incumbent directors to its board. Malcolm Carnegie and Emiley Saunders will join returning directors Rob Stone and Scott Hepworth on the Sask Wheat board, each for a four-year term. Hepworth and Stone are each serving their second consecutive terms. The terms of... Read More
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The University of Manitoba has announced the appointment of a new dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, effective January 1, 2026. Dr. Nazim Cicek will serve as the dean of the 119-year-old ag faculty. Cicek joined the faculty's Department of Biosystems Engineering in 2001, and has served as associate dean (research) since... Read More
The Chinese government has formally extended its anti-dumping investigation into Canadian canola imports by six months, until March 9, 2026. The investigation was launched in September 2024 shortly after the Canadian government announced tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, steel, and aluminum. It was due to be completed within 12 months, with the option of a... Read More
The Carney government's promise to update Canada's Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) could create an opportunity to block fraudulent used cooking oil (UCO) imports, according to the federal agriculture minister. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the government's intent to amend the CFR as part of a package of supports for "strategic sectors" affected by tariffs announced... Read More
Prime Minister Mark Carney today announced a series of new measures for specific industries and sectors most impacted by tariffs and trade disruptions. Several different measures will move ahead, the government said, including those surrounding workforce training, a Buy Canada initiative, and new loan limits for businesses; but for agriculture, it's all about canola. The... Read More
A Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Mark Carney will be joining the Saskatchewan government's delegation to China for meetings on agricultural tariffs in the coming days. Kody Blois, who formerly served as chair of the House of Commons' agriculture committee and as agriculture minister for a short stint prior to the last federal election, will... Read More
The Conservative Party of Canada, led by newly-re-elected MP Pierre Poilievre, is calling for an end to Canada's temporary foreign worker program, saying abuse and misuse by corporations hurts Canadians in search of work. In a press conference held September 3, Poilievre was joined by Michelle Rempel Garner, shadow minister for immigration, who roasted the... Read More
Argentina-based plant genetics company GDM says it has completed its acquisition of AgReliant Genetics as of Sept. 2, 2025. AgReliant, which was a joint venture between seed companies Limagrain and KWS, is the parent company of PRIDE Seeds in Canada and AgriGold and LG Seeds in the U.S. "Today marks a transformative moment in the... Read More
Welcome to this Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio! On today’s show, host Shaun Haney is joined by: Jim Wiesemeyer of Wiesemeyer Perspectives on the appeals court rejecting the Trump administration’s use of IEEPA for some tariffs; Warren Kaeding, the Saskatchewan Minister of Trade and Export Development, to talk about his upcoming trip to the Indo-Pacific;... Read More
A U.S. federal court on Friday ruled against the Trump administration's use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs. The ruling raises major questions about the future of the broad import tariffs imposed under Donald Trump. What happened? On August 30, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled... Read More