Reading Time: 4 minutes Glacier FarmMedia is dedicated to covering the 2025 federal election with your interests as farmers as our lens. Our team of reporters will be speaking with politicians across Canada during the five-week election campaign. What do YOU want to ask them? Have your say below and we’ll update this page with your responses at bottom. […] Read more
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Blois in as agriculture minister
Kody Blois will take over the role of Canadian Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food in Mark Carney’s cabinet.
MacAulay bows out of coming election
Federal agriculture minister hanging up his skates after 36 years in office
Federal agriculture minister Lawrence MacAulay says he won't seek reelection in the coming election.
ADM quarterly profit falls on weak crush margins, announces layoffs
Chicago | Reuters – Grains merchant Archer-Daniels-Midland ADM.N reported a drop in fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday, pressured by weak oilseed crush margins and uncertainty over U.S. biofuel policy, and said it would be laying off up to 700 employees globally this year. Chicago-based ADM said it aimed to cut costs by $500 million to $750 […] Read more
Funding, collaboration among ag priorities for NDP
Election 2025, party by party: NDP ag critic says Canada lags other countries in research and development
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our latest in a series outlining the ag policies of major Canadian federal parties: NDP ag critic says Canada lags other countries in research and development
Trump tariffs would weaken loonie, then U.S. dollar
Canadian government missing in action
With Donald Trump set to become President of the United States on Jan. 20, uncertainty continues to swirl about his threat to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all goods the U.S. imports from Canada and Mexico as early as that Monday. Should Trump press ahead with his levies, the Canadian dollar would be caught up in the collateral damage.
Canadian election could short agriculture in 2025
Reading Time: 6 minutes Farmers will go to the polls during the 2025 Canadian federal election this year, but its not clear how signficantly the issues driving agriculture will feature in party platforms.
UPDATED: Agriculture groups react to Trudeau resignation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Agriculture groups react to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation, proroguing of Parliament and the uncertain fate of agriculture bills.
UPDATED: Agriculture groups react to Trudeau resignation
There were mixed reactions from Canadian farm groups after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would resign as Prime Minister and leader of the federal Liberals.
Canadian beef producers urged to lean into coalitions with U.S. producers to ward off Trump tariff threats
Relationships developed between Canadian, American and Mexican cattle producers during country-of-origin labelling discussions more than a decade ago may help protect Canadian cattlemen from damaging tariffs proposed by US president-elect Donald Trump, said the former head of the national cattle organization.
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