Canada's new agriculture minister has instructed the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to reduce red tape and harmonize certain regulations with trading partners. "I've established an agreement with the CFIA that they are going to be taking forward measures to reduce red tape, to be able focus on the registration of farm products more quickly,... Read More
Category: Livestock
The 16 Canadian farm groups that are members of the Agriculture Carbon Alliance (ACA) are welcoming Prime Minister Carney's order-in-council scaling down the federal consumer carbon tax to zero, but are calling for further legislative changes to provide long-term certainty. "The reduction of the consumer carbon price to $0 is a good first step for... Read More
Erratic is the word of the day and the markets are responding hour-by-hour, day-to-day, and week-to-week with the news, says Anne Wasko of Gateway Livestock Exchange in this episode of the Beef Market Update. In the southern U.S., cash markets bounced back last week and have managed to hold those gains. This follows a cycle... Read More
The day-to-day on a family ranch often means juggling many pieces in order to get the job done and raise the chances of making a profit. The Luthi Ranch, a 6th-generation family enterprise in western Wyoming, is no exception. On this episode of Ruminating with RealAg, Bryan Luthi joins host Amber Bell to discuss the... Read More
The cattle market is well known for its ebbs and flows with the availability of grass, and the lamb market follows a similar pattern, though to a lesser extent. The impact of drought on the lamb market is just one thing that Angus Gidley-Baird, animal protein analyst for Rabobank out of Australia, and RealAgriculture's Lyndsey... Read More
The European Union's Farm to Fork strategy has been all but abandoned following large-scale farmer protests in many European capital cities. The protests gained massive public support, with polls showing 70 to 90 per cent of non-farmers backing the demonstrations. What led to EU governments reversing their course on the Farm to Fork initiative? Were... Read More
The Saskatchewan government has updated its formula for calculating lease rates for grazing Crown land in 2025. The provincial agriculture ministry has introduced an amended formula that uses average price of cattle marketed between October 1 to November 30 of the five preceding years, as opposed to the previous formula, which was based on fall... Read More
Editor's Note: On Thursday, March 6th, Trump paused tariffs on some Canadian goods, but only those that qualify under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA/CUSMA). Steel and aluminum tariffs are still set for next week, and reciprocal tariffs are on for April 2, 2025. While many American farm groups remain publicly silent, some U.S. agriculture organizations are... Read More
The dairy industry has always provided a relatively small but consistent portion of the beef industry in the integrated North American market. As breeding technology has advanced, dairy producers have been steadily increasing the pounds of beef produced from the relatively same number of cows. Lance Zimmerman, senior animal protein analyst with Rabobank, says that... Read More
Update, as of March 6: Implementation of this second tranche of Canadian counter-tariffs has been delayed until April 2 or later. The Canadian government has published a proposed list of U.S. imports worth C$125 billion it intends to hit with 25 per cent tariffs after a 21 day comment period. Retaliatory levies on an initial... Read More