Insights and Stories on Supply Management

Dairy sector still working toward ingredients strategy

Feb. 15, 2017 at 3:12 pm CST

The Canadian dairy industry has missed a self-imposed deadline for the Feb. 1 implementation of a national ingredients strategy — but work continues toward that implementation. The strategy is meant to create a lower-priced class of milk, Class 7, to encourage the use of skim milk powder in further-processed ingredients. […]

Lower feed costs weigh on supply-managed goods

Jun. 10, 2016 at 6:39 pm CDT

By Erin DeBooy

Agropur eyes further U.S. acquisitions

Feb. 10, 2016 at 1:06 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

TPP deal to pressure Canadian dairy farmers, Saputo says

Nov. 6, 2015 at 1:05 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

TPP not the death of supply management, N.Z. trade chief says

Oct. 15, 2015 at 5:55 pm CDT

By Shannon VanRaes

Van Camp: Olive branches offered through new gaps in tariff wall

Oct. 14, 2015 at 10:07 am CDT

What do you get when you mix milk and eggs with a looming election? A “free” trade deal that gained major market access in Asia for Canada, but managed to keeps the tariffs for Canada’s supply-managed commodities. After all the barking from New Zealand, cows parading on Parliament Hill, tweets, […]

By Maggie Van Camp

Critics see TPP as edge of wedge for U.S. milk

Oct. 7, 2015 at 8:27 pm CDT

A U.S. dairy sector economist is the latest observer to suggest Canada’s concessions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership may eventually lead to more imports of U.S. milk than Ottawa bargained for. Ag economist Andrew Novakovic of New York’s Cornell University said in a release that the TPP, for U.S. producers, marks […]

By Staff

Market access, income supports come with Trans-Pacific pact

Oct. 5, 2015 at 4:24 pm CDT

Canada’s federal government has pledged a suite of compensation programs for supply-managed dairy, poultry and egg sectors, against what it promises will be a mousehole in Canada’s tariff wall. Federal officials on Monday confirmed negotiations have concluded on the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership, now billed as “the largest, most ambitious free […]

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

Canada says TPP offers limited access to dairy market

Oct. 5, 2015 at 9:04 am CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada said on Monday that a major trade deal agreed by 12 Pacific nations would only allow limited access to protected Canadian domestic dairy and poultry markets, a politically sensitive issue ahead of the Oct. 19 election. Officials said the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would offer up […]