Trade
18Mar’20
Trade injury letter to Minister Hardeman – NFU-O & CFFO
February 21, 2020 Dear Minister Hardeman, As Ontario farmers prepare their cropping, livestock and business plans for the 2020 farming season, the obvious lessons of weather and disease challenges in […]
03Oct’19
Farming as Collateral Damage in the Age of Trade Wars
Current trade tensions between China and the United States continue unabated while the trading world watches anxiously. The US. will pay its farmers $16 billion USD for the hurt of […]
22Aug’19
Submission re Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Agriculture Meeting
July 5 2019 Canada’s Food Policy Concerns – Focus on developing domestic markets and localized distribution systems with direct, fair, and transparent distribution chains; – Provide incentives and support […]
15Jun’18
Milk Busting Myths and Slaying Demons
Canada’s supply management system has come under fire recently after the US President’s visit for the G7 summit. While there are five supply managed commodities, milk has faced the most […]
31Mar’16
Op Ed: Bottling Canada’s Food Policies – What the debate over ketchup says about the future of farming
by Emery Huszka I’ve been watching with interest the recent social media splash made over French’s ketchup. It highlights what the National Farmers Union (NFU) has been talking about for […]
26Jan’17
Op Ed: To Farm or Not to Farm – What will farming look like in 2050?
by Emery Huszka, NFU-O President The year 2050 will be here before we know it! What will Ontario farms look like? Who will be farming them? What food choices will […]