Insights and Stories on General

U.S. set to widen trade war on EU front

Oct. 2, 2019 at 7:24 pm CDT

London/Brussels/Washington | Reuters — The United States won approval on Wednesday to impose import tariffs on US$7.5 billion worth of European aircraft and agricultural goods over illegal EU subsidies handed to Airbus, threatening to trigger a tit-for-tat transatlantic trade war as the global economy falters. The decision by the World […]

Federal minister for rural affairs among Tory pledges

Oct. 2, 2019 at 4:51 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

AGCanadaTV: In Case You Missed It – Your National Ag News Recap for the week ending September 27, 2019

Sep. 27, 2019 at 4:53 pm CDT

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

Trump says impeachment inquiry could derail North America trade deal

Sep. 25, 2019 at 4:44 pm CDT

By Anthony Esposito Jeff Mason

Hopes for trade breakthrough fade as China cancels U.S. farm visits

Sep. 20, 2019 at 4:09 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

AGCanadaTV: In Case You Missed It – Your National Ag News Recap for the week ending September 20, 2019

Sep. 20, 2019 at 3:35 pm CDT

Election 2019: Ag groups want the parties to pay attention

Sep. 18, 2019 at 8:07 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Two major national farm organizations want the political parties to pay more attention to agriculture as the federal election continues. However, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) and the National Farmers Union (NFU) have somewhat different takes as to what they see as paramount. “It’s really important that […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Food, farming not expected to be big election issues

Sep. 17, 2019 at 9:10 pm CDT

Canadians don’t think that food and agriculture will be a significant issue in the current federal election. A survey conducted Sept. 9 and released Tuesday by Angus Reid Global with the support of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab shows 31 per cent of Canadians believe food and agriculture will be […]

By John Greig

China to exempt U.S. pork, soybeans from additional tariffs

Sep. 13, 2019 at 6:19 pm CDT

Shanghai | Reuters — China will exempt some agricultural products from additional tariffs on U.S. goods, including pork and soybeans, China’s official Xinhua News Agency said Friday, in the latest sign of easing Sino-U.S. tensions before a new round of talks aimed at curbing a bruising trade war. The United […]

By Andrew Galbraith

Ag minister returned, ag critic downed in Manitoba vote

Sep. 11, 2019 at 1:15 am CDT

Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives easily kept their agriculture minister while hanging onto a marginally slimmer majority government in Tuesday’s provincial election. Ralph Eichler, the Tories’ ag minister since 2016 and the MLA for the Interlake-area constituency of Lakeside since 2003, defeated New Democrat challenger Dan Rugg of Elie on Tuesday night […]

By GFM Staff