Dairy cattle in an indoor barn.

Supply management worth keeping: professor

An agricultural ecologist makes the case for building the supply managed model rather than losing it in trade talks

A Canadian agricultural ecologist says the supply management model is one worth building on, not destroying.

A group of young weanling pigs huddle close together with pink numbered tags in their ears.

Producer prices for pork hold steady

Canadian pork prices are tied to a U.S. base price and would be more affected by retaliatory tariffs from a U.S. trading partner

Canadian pork producers have seen prices hold generally steady despite all the uncertainty of tariffs and trade wars.






A dairy cow sticks its head through an opening in its pen to feed in an indoor barn.

Dairy defends against provincial trade barrier criticism

A debate has broken out in Canada over whether dairy supply management does or does not hinder interprovincial trade

Glacier FarmMedia – Canada’s interprovincial trade barriers have catapulted into the spotlight as trade relations with the United States and China sour. For agriculture, that has meant new attention on regulatory hurdles that, thanks to easy and lucrative access to the U.S. market, have lingered quietly for decades save for some short-lived fame during big […] Read more