Insights and Stories on Dairy Cattle

Parmalat to buy Kraft’s Ontario cheese plant, brands

Nov. 16, 2018 at 5:25 am CST

U.S. food processing giant Kraft Heinz is taking one step back from the Canadian dairy processing business with a deal to sell its eastern Ontario cheese plant and the brands made there. The company announced Nov. 6 it has a deal in hand to sell its Canadian “natural cheese” business […]

U.S. dairy farmers get little help from Canada trade deal

Oct. 26, 2018 at 10:26 am CDT

By Julie Ingwersen Rod Nickel

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

Oct. 25, 2018 at 12:33 pm CDT

By Humeyra Pamuk

CAQ taps businessman as Quebec’s new ag minister

Oct. 19, 2018 at 8:33 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Dairy producers ‘deeply disappointed’ by USMCA deal

Oct. 5, 2018 at 3:40 pm CDT

By Alex Binkley

Dairy farmers unhappy after meeting Trudeau on USMCA

Oct. 4, 2018 at 4:16 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian dairy farmers met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday to discuss his politically-risky move to open up the protected domestic market to U.S. industry but complained he had not given them details about compensation. As part of the talks to complete the new United States-Mexico-Canada […]

By David Ljunggren

Trudeau takes Quebec dairy gamble to preserve big trade deal

Oct. 2, 2018 at 5:16 pm CDT

Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — With his political future at stake, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mount a charm offensive to placate dairy farmers who say he sold them out in order to win approval of a continental trade deal. Compounding Trudeau’s challenges in the influential province of Quebec, where […]

By Allison Lampert David Ljunggren

Canada, U.S. deal saves NAFTA as trilateral pact

Oct. 1, 2018 at 2:05 am CDT

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, US$1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century. In a big victory for his agenda to shake […]

By David Ljunggren Roberta Rampton

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit.

Canada, U.S. reach deal to update NAFTA, sources say

Sep. 30, 2018 at 9:49 pm CDT

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada reached a deal to update NAFTA and keep it a trilateral pact with Mexico, beating a midnight deadline with agreements to boost U.S. access to Canada’s dairy market and protect Canada from possible U.S. autos tariffs, two Canadian sources with direct knowledge […]