Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s federal government trumpets fiscal responsibility; their silence on a day of massive Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada cuts was baffling at best.
Government silence loud on AAFC cuts
Fiscal responsibility should mean owning the responsibility for fiscal decisions
Pragmatism prevails for farmers in Canada-China trade talks
Canola tariff reductions and a more even-keeled trade tone with China a positive for Canadian farmers, despite risk of irritating a volatile U.S.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s trade concessions from China a good news story for Canadian farmers, even if the U.S. Trump administration may not like it.
Emissions reduction needs a lifeline
Canadian farmers can’t extract added production costs from global markets
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nobody likes to change, especially not when they’re comfortable and things are going well. But that attitude can lead to complacency and inertia as the world passes by. This is the delicate balance that farmers are being asked to strike, with little evidence that it’s going to pay them dividends of any kind. The issue […] Read more
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