Insights and Stories on General

Leading in the community

Apr. 12, 2019 at 9:19 am CDT

When Max Kaiser decided to try for municipal council four years ago, he harkened back to a famous and fairly recent moment in farming history. As he’s a crop and chicken farmer (in the Town of Greater Napanee near Kingston, Ont.), it was fitting — but also a great strategy. […]

Titan expands Goodyear R14T crossover tire line

Mar. 21, 2019 at 4:22 pm CDT

By Staff

Farm groups see something for everyone in federal budget

Mar. 19, 2019 at 9:25 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

U.S. Midwest’s catastrophic floods cause widespread damage

Mar. 19, 2019 at 5:12 pm CDT

By Karen Dillon

U.S. farm belt slammed by floods, heavy snow from bomb cyclone

Mar. 18, 2019 at 5:56 am CDT

By Karl Plume

Market access, trade priorities for Canada’s new ag minister

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

Buhler to build bigger Kubota tractors in Winnipeg

Mar. 14, 2019 at 7:26 pm CDT

Kubota’s highest-horsepower tractors yet for the North American farm market are going to be made in Canada. Winnipeg manufacturer Buhler Industries, the maker of Versatile tractors, on Thursday announced a “long-term” original equipment manufacturer (OEM) deal with Japan’s Kubota Corp. to “develop and produce a new tractor platform in the […]

By GFM Staff

B.C. grants late AgriStability enrolment for 2018

Mar. 13, 2019 at 7:18 pm CDT

Fire, flooding and a drop in raspberry prices in 2018 have spurred the federal and British Columbia governments to trigger the AgriStability late-participation mechanism. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and her provincial counterpart Lana Popham, at an event Monday in Vernon, B.C., invoked the new late-participation rule for the 2018 AgriStability […]

By GFM Staff

Trump budget proposes steep subsidy cuts to U.S. farmers

Mar. 11, 2019 at 4:23 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget on Monday proposed a 15 per cent cut for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, calling its subsidies to farmers “overly generous” at a time when they are going through the worst crisis in decades because of depressed commodity prices and […]

By Humeyra Pamuk

Mexican farmers urge ‘mirror’ tariffs on Trump’s rural base

Mar. 5, 2019 at 9:32 pm CST

Mexico City | Reuters — Leaders of Mexico’s agricultural sector are urging “mirror measures” on U.S. farm imports in politically sensitive products such as yellow corn and poultry, in an effort they argue would counter decades of subsidized imports from the United States. The three-month-old government of President Andres Manuel […]

By Sharay Angulo