Insights and Stories on Dairy

California to limit pollutants from diesel exhaust to cow gas

Sep. 19, 2016 at 5:29 pm CDT

Reuters — California on Monday moved to restrict air pollutants from sources as diverse as diesel trucks and cow flatulence, the latest of several efforts in the most populous U.S. state to reduce emissions leading to climate change. Under a bill signed Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, the state […]

Australia competition watchdog to widen dairy investigation

Aug. 25, 2016 at 2:35 pm CDT

By Colin Packham

EU livestock farmers get compensation

Jul. 18, 2016 at 2:31 pm CDT

By Reuters

Louis Dreyfus ring-fences some units, considers options

Jan. 29, 2016 at 1:04 pm CST

By Dmitry Zhdannikov

Market access, income supports come with Trans-Pacific pact

Oct. 5, 2015 at 4:24 pm CDT

By Staff

Election shifts attention to trade deal as race narrows

Oct. 5, 2015 at 12:53 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters –– Trailing in second place with two weeks left before Canada’s election, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a new trade deal Monday that largely protects the key agricultural voting bloc, putting pressure on opponents who had hoped to have more to attack. Harper touted the Trans-Pacific […]

By David Ljunggren

TPP trade ministers push to wrap up ambitious trade deal

Sep. 30, 2015 at 8:23 pm CDT

Atlanta | Reuters — Pacific trade ministers readied on Wednesday to close the biggest trade deal in a generation but warned there was still work to be done on issues ranging from intellectual property to trade in dairy and automobiles. Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb said ministers from the 12 […]

By Ana Isabel Martinez Krista Hughes

Canada to pay farmers for any losses under TPP deal, Ritz says

Sep. 30, 2015 at 7:15 pm CDT

Reuters — Canadian farmers will receive government compensation for any losses resulting from a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, the country’s agriculture minister said Wednesday in a discussion about the nation’s protected farm sectors. The U.S., New Zealand and Australia want Canada to start dismantling a system of supply and […]

By Rod Nickel

Japan anxious at lull in Trans-Pacific trade talks

Aug. 11, 2015 at 7:13 pm CDT

Tokyo | Reuters — Japan has expressed concern about a loss of momentum in talks on a pan-Pacific trade pact, after participants failed to agree to meet again this month to try to clinch a deal that would cover 40 per cent of the global economy. Ministers from the 12 […]

By Reuters

Dairy farmers milk politics of Pacific trade pact

Aug. 10, 2015 at 6:26 pm CDT

Reuters — New Zealand dairy farmers have a message for their Canadian counterparts, who worry a Pacific trade deal will throw them on the mercy of world markets and devastate their industry: It’s not so bad. But heavily protected Canadian farmers have reason for skepticism. A deadlock over dairy has […]

By Allison Lampert Krista Hughes Rod Nickel