US challenges Canada’s dairy quotas in first test of new trade agreement
Claims Canada’s distribution of its tariff-rate quotas is unfair to American farmers.
More funding for dairy, poultry, egg farmers hurt by free trade deals
Follows previously announced $1.75 billion for the dairy sector that came in effect in 2017 and 2018.
Dairy farmers facing losses due to CUSMA will be compensated: Trudeau
They’ve received a multi-year commitments for trade deal losses from EU and Pacific Rim agreements, but not North American deal.
COVID-19 pandemic creates M&A opportunities: Saputo CEO
Dairy processor’s fourth quarter profits hit by COVID-related shift in consumer demand.
Dairy processors to lose $100M if USMCA takes effect in July: Plett
Processors stand to lose upwards of $100 million if the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement takes effect as scheduled.
Dairy industry warns of price hike as a result of NB Saputo plant closure
Farmers will have to ship their milk as far as Victoriaville, Que., or Dartmouth, NS, for processing.
Australian dairy signs licensing deal to use EnWave dehydration technology
Ballantyne has exclusive rights to produce dairy products in Australia using radiant energy vacuum process.
Another major US dairy seeks bankruptcy protection
Borden has filed for bankruptcy protection, the second major US dairy to do so in as many months.
Cheese factory co-op gets $1.5M from federal dairy fund
Will help with modernization of equipment as co-op prepares for market changes resulting from CETA.
Saputo enters U.K. dairy market by closing $1.7B deal for Dairy Crest
Dairy Crest manufactures and sells cheese, butters, spreads and oils.
Saputo buying UK-based Dairy Crest Group for roughly $1.7B
Manufactures cheese, butters, spreads and oils under British brands Cathedral City, Clover, Country Life and Frylight.
Thousands march in Montreal in support of farmers, against USMCA concessions
Dairy farmers expressed dissatisfaction with the new trade deal.
Dairy farmer anger over trade deal gets awkward for one Liberal MP
Pierre Breton offered support to farmers in his rural riding at a protest that opposed his government’s trade policy.
The winners and losers in the new NAFTA
The new deal is preferable to economic chaos.
Supply managed farmers to get compensation as a result of continental trade deal
Trudeau said conversations with the industry are already underway to determine what fair compensation will look like.
