Insights and Stories of Allan Dawson

Mar. 15, 2019 at 9:32 am CDT

Ensuring market access, including getting Canadian canola into China, and promoting trade, are top priorities for Canada’s new agriculture minister, Marie-Claude Bibeau. “I already understand we have ongoing market access issues that I have to get into really quickly… ” Bibeau, sworn in March 1, told reporters after her first […]

By Allan Dawson

Mar. 7, 2019 at 8:41 am CST

Montreal — The Canadian government is working hard to reopen Richardson International’s Canadian canola markets in China, says Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s minister of foreign affairs. “We’re working closely with Canadian farmers and Canadian industry,” Freeland said in a brief interview after speaking at the Canadian Crops Convention (CCC) here Wednesday. […]

By Allan Dawson

Mar. 5, 2019 at 9:59 pm CST

Montreal — Canola industry leaders attending the first Canadian Crops Convention here this week say they don’t know why China has abruptly blocked imports of Canadian canola from Richardson International, Canada’s biggest grain company. But according to a senior Richardson official it’s in retaliation to the diplomatic spat between China […]

By Allan Dawson

Jun. 23, 2018 at 2:28 am CDT

Wheat sales are expected to soon resume to Japan and South Korea. Both nations suspended Canadian wheat imports following the June 15 announcement that Canada had discovered several genetically modified (GM) wheat plants in southern Alberta. But both are expected to come back to the market shortly, while exports to […]

By Allan Dawson

Jun. 15, 2018 at 2:52 pm CDT

Western Canadian farmers should deliver certain wheat varieties before July 31 or risk getting a lower price. Starting Aug. 1, 25 wheats in the Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) class and four in Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR), move to the Canada Northern Hard Red (CNHR) class (see variety list […]

By Allan Dawson