Dairy Farmers of Canada are not happy with President Donald Trump’s remarks and his taunting tweets at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following this weekend’s G7 summit in Quebec. The DFC says these attacks, whether on Prime Minister Trudeau, or dairy farmers in Canada, are founded more on rhetoric than fact. Based on Justin’s false […]

The Trump Administration has requested that the World Trade Organization (WTO) establish a dispute settlement panel to examine unfair regulations governing the sale of wine in grocery stores in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is challenging BC regulations that discriminate against U.S. wine and […]

Standing at Cayuga Milk Ingredients Monday, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer called on U.S. trade officials to make it a priority to secure a level playing field with Canadian dairy producers during the renegotiation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Schumer said Canada’s dairy pricing policies and high tariffs have effectively created […]

The Canadian government has ruled that Golden Rice poses no greater risk to human health than rice varieties currently available.

A congressional delegation headed up north over the weekend to meet with Canadian officials ahead of the next round of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations. Here’s what they had to say: “Our goal over the past two days was to ensure our Canadian counterparts understand that U.S. production agriculture has a keen interest […]

House Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway (TX-11) echoed U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue’s recent comments on NAFTA. Conaway is set to travel to Ottawa, Canada this weekend to continue negotiations. “Sec. Perdue hit the nail on the head when he said we need to stop circling the ring in NAFTA negotiations and begin […]

NAFTA re-negotiations should aim to modernize the agreement, rather than dismantle it. That was the message the American Farm Bureau Federation, The Canadian Federation of Agriculture and Mexico’s Consejo Nacional Agropecuario sent to Canadian, United States and Mexican government officials this week. The AFBF, CFA, and CNA agree that agriculture represents one of NAFTA’s biggest […]

After years of lobbying efforts by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association and national dairy organizations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will exercise enforcement discretion regarding the use and labeling of fluid ultrafiltered milk (UF milk) and fluid ultrafiltered nonfat milk (UF nonfat milk) to make standardized cheeses and cheese products. The FDA says its […]

Five tons of genetically modified salmon have recently been shipped up North, but some Canadian consumers might not realize they are buying it. Further to receiving regulatory approval from Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency last year, Aqua Bounty confirmed last week that they had sold approximately five tons of fresh AquAdvantage Salmon […]