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Alberta pair gets twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity to start farming

Dec. 13, 2019 at 10:21 am CST

For most farm kids, taking over the family farm is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that’s too good to pass up. But for Jay Bruggencate and Mike Sulzle, it was a second chance that drew them back into farming — just not on their own family farms. Both men had “missed the […]

NFU paper lays out solutions for climate, farming challenges

Dec. 13, 2019 at 3:43 am CST

By MarketsFarm Team

Opposition MPs could delay CUSMA deal’s ratification

Dec. 11, 2019 at 7:44 pm CST

By David Ljunggren

Seeing is believing: Hog manure as fertilizer

Dec. 11, 2019 at 9:48 am CST

Canada, U.S., Mexico sign agreement, again, to replace NAFTA

Dec. 10, 2019 at 1:45 pm CST

By Andrea Shalal Sharay Angulo

Freeland, U.S. and Mexican officials to meet to pin down trade deal

Dec. 9, 2019 at 7:46 pm CST

Washington/Mexico City | Reuters — The Trump administration, Mexico and U.S. Democrats on Monday closed in on a deal for labour-related changes to a languishing North American trade pact that may soon allow it to proceed to a vote, as the window for passage this year quickly narrows. U.S. Trade […]

By David Lawder Sharay Angulo

U.S. seals demise of WTO appeals bench, trade officials say

Dec. 9, 2019 at 2:53 pm CST

Geneva | Reuters — The fate of the World Trade Organization’s top court was effectively sealed on Monday after the United States said it would not back a proposal to allow it to continue, trade officials said, although the WTO chief vowed to find a solution. The Trump administration has […]

By stephanie-nebehay

Vietnam considers CPTPP-level tariff cuts on U.S. ag products

Dec. 9, 2019 at 8:20 am CST

Hanoi | Reuters — Vietnam is considering cutting tariffs on several U.S. products, the ministry of finance said in a statement on Monday, after U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross urged Vietnam to reduce its trade surplus during a visit to Hanoi last month. Tariffs on chicken and processed chicken meat, […]

By Reuters

AGCanadaTV: In Case You Missed It – Your National Ag News Recap for the week ending December 6, 2019.

Dec. 6, 2019 at 4:56 pm CST

Throne speech kicks off Parliament with nod to agriculture

Dec. 5, 2019 at 2:40 pm CST

The federal throne speech opening the first session of Canada’s 43rd Parliament further committed the Liberal minority government to combating climate change, supporting natural resource sectors and removing international trade barriers. Including a pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, the speech, delivered Thursday in Ottawa, showed the government again […]

By D.C. Fraser