If tariffs are meant to deter imports by making them more expensive, eventually imports will decrease. Logic would have it, then, that depending on tariff revenue in the long-term would be folly, as it’s intended to decrease over time. The tariff-income-as-monetary-policy is just one sticking point in the U.S. administration’s new trade policy arc. Oliver Ward,… Read More
Category: Canadian Agricultural Policy
On March 27, RealAgriculture and the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) hosted a webinar to discuss the future of the Canada-U.S. trade relationship, as the Trump administration’s trade agenda has become the prevailing issue in the Canadian election campaign. The webinar started with Shaun Haney getting a firmer understanding of the White House’s strategy in… Read More
Vive Crop Protection has received expanded Canadian registration for AZteroid FC 390. Canadian potato growers first gained access to fungicide in 2024 to fight rhizoctonia and black scurf. The updated registration now allows sugar beet and radish growers to add the fungicide to their disease control toolboxes. Vive chief technology officer Dr. Doug Baumann says… Read More
Top-ups to the cash advance and AgriStability programs for farmers are nice, but they don’t go far enough in mitigating the impact of China’s retaliatory tariffs against Canadian agricultural exports, according to the executive director of Grain Growers of Canada. “What producers are looking for — this is what I’m hearing from most grain farmers… Read More
It’s a long way from official, but a pre-election promise to boost AgriStability payout limits and speed-up payments could go forward to help farmers deal with tariff impacts. AJ Gill, national leader of ag risk management resources for MNP, says that it is definitely possible the increased cap and larger interim payment for the 2025… Read More
While most Canadian eyes and ears have been tuned to the U.S. and its president’s next move, the U.S. markets have been focused on China. So much of the current news cycle has been centred on the U.S. tariffs on Canadian products, but there is another U.S. policy looming — on incoming Chinese and Chinese-made… Read More
The Canadian Cattle Association has a new president and several new directors on its board for 2025-26. The national cattle producer organization held its annual general meeting in Ottawa last week. Tyler Fulton, who represents Manitoba Beef Producers at the national level, moved from vice-president into the president position. Fulton operates a 600 cow-calf pair… Read More
Saskatchewan’s provincial agriculture minister is criticizing his federal counterpart’s announcement of changes to the AgriStability business risk management program on the eve of the federal election campaign. Daryl Harrison tells RealAgriculture the federal government made the announcement “despite knowing they cannot unilaterally implement these changes, and that no changes can be made until after the… Read More
The Manitoba government is welcoming and on board with changes to the AgriStability program announced by the new federal agriculture minister on the eve of the federal election campaign. On Saturday, Kody Blois announced an increase to the AgriStability compensation rate from 80 to 90 per cent, as well as a doubling of the payment… Read More
Between trade wars, threats of annexation, and a wild swing in federal polling, there’s a lot going on in Canadian politics right now. We asked our RealAg audience on social media what kind of questions they have while we’re in the early part of this 36-day federal election campaign. Here are some of the questions… Read More