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Jul. 31, 2025 at 4:36 pm CDT

American businessman vows to fund ostrich farm’s legal battle A New York-based businessman has pledged to fund a B.C. ostrich farm’s legal battle, as they dispute an order to cull the birds due to avian influenza. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered the cull after 69 birds died from avian […]

Jul. 25, 2025 at 12:05 pm CDT

Trump administration keen on managed trade system based on tariffs While U.S. officials may say that free trade isn’t dead, MarketsFarm analyst Bruce Burnett respectfully disagrees. The Trump administration’s recent moves have effectively taken the United States out of any type of free trade agreement, Burnett wrote this week. The […]

Jul. 18, 2025 at 10:50 am CDT

This week’s ‘In Case You Missed’ comes to you from Agriculture in Motion, held between July 15 and 17 in Langham, Saskatchewan. See all of our Ag in Motion coverage at the Western Producer. Canada’s chief trade commissioner, Sask. Premier talk trade at AIM Canada’s chief trade commissioner visited the […]

Jul. 11, 2025 at 11:40 am CDT

  Guelph researchers creating a more robust, transgenic canola Crop breeders from the University of Guelph are well on their way to creating a better yielding, more stress-tolerant canola variety. Early results are showing an increased seed yield of 35 per cent per plant. The researchers used gene editing to […]

Jul. 4, 2025 at 2:16 pm CDT

Tax walk-back avoids trade negotiation breakdown Canada scrapped its digital services tax on Monday after U.S. president Donald Trump threatened to end trade negotiations. In a social media post on Friday, Trump had called the tax a “blatant attack” and suggested he’d impose new tariffs. Negotiations resumed after the Carney […]