To listen to the full interview, please head to CBC.

That sort of language doesn’t impress Ryan Cardwell.

Governments don’t trade with other nations, says the University of Manitoba agricultural economist. An individual business in Calgary or Vancouver sells products to customers in other countries, not the federal government in Ottawa.

To read the entire article, please follow the link to The Western Producer. 

“The degree of uncertainty that has been created by the last few months of policy change in the United States, I think has done permanent damage,” he said.

“It’s all very troubling and creates a lot of uncertainty and barriers to trade that have not existed for a very long time between Canada and the U.S.”

To read the entire article, please follow the link to CBC Manitoba.

Starting in 2021, five major investments into canola crushing and additional processing plants were forecast to expand processing capacity by 60 per cent across four years. Some of the world’s largest grain companies, including U.S. giant Cargill Inc. and France-based Louis Dreyfus Co., alongside Canadian heavyweights like Winnipeg-based Richardson International, promised new canola crush plants.

To read the entire article, please follow the link to The Globe and Mail.

“If more American supply-managed products were allowed into Canada, that would result in lower prices and probably wider selection of products in Canada,” he told CBC News. “But to be honest, I don’t really anticipate much of that happening anytime soon.”

To read the entire article, please follow the link to CBC Manitoba. 

Al came to teach at the University of Manitoba in 1969 after completing his PhD at the University of California in Berkely. At that time his Department was called Agricultural Economics and Farm Management. He focused on marketing as an instructor.

A colleague from those days, Dr. Barry Prentice, noted he was he was very dedicated to his students and in making sure that those returning to the farm had a good understanding of marketing. Barry attended some farm meetings with Al and observed he was well-respected in the commercial farm community.

Dr. Loyns contributed to the discipline in the areas of market regulation in the agricultural and food industry, especially in the Canadian grain sector. He was an expert witness in the Charter Challenge on the Canadian Wheat Board in 1996 and in the Charter Challenge in 1998.

Al left the Department in 1998 to farm and work as a consultant. He remained focused on policy issues and continued to contribute to our discipline for many years after retirement, writing a brief about the CWB for the CD Howe Institute in 2011. In 2011 Al was named a Fellow of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society.

Read the obituary here.

CBC’s Ellen Mauro meets concerned Canadian dairy farmers and explains why the system has the U.S. president-elect so riled up. She also spoke to University of Manitoba, Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics professor Dr. Ryan Cardwell.

To hear Professor Cardwell’s analysis, please follow the link the CBC National’s Youtube page and scrub to the 4:52 mark of the story. 

“Durum’s much the same,” he said.

“Nothing in the extreme west or Alberta goes that direction because the freight is not advantageous.”

Derek Brewin, an agricultural economics professor with the University of Manitoba, doubts the tariffs will have much impact on CWRS prices.

“I don’t think a small reduction in flows to the U.S. will hurt Canada as much as the tariffs will hurt canola oil, where the U.S. is their major buyer,” Brewin wrote in an email.

“There is a huge share of Canadian Hard Spring that flows out of Vancouver to final customers in Asia and the Middle East and west coast Latin America. If the U.S. adds a tariff on our wheat, it is more likely to drive up U.S. hard spring prices than have much effect on those trade flows or prices at the West Coast.”

To read the entire article, please follow the link to the Western Producer. 

Provinces are also interested in protecting their homegrown industries. In this way, the LCBO shelters the Niagara Peninsula, Canada’s largest wine-producing region, said Mr. Carlberg.

But this restriction still doesn’t make sense to Mr. Sawler. The B.C. industry is small in comparison to Ontario’s Niagara region, which produces 80 per cent of Canada’s grapes and wine. Direct-to-consumer sales from B.C.’s niche industry are also “pretty small potatoes” compared with international imports. The LCBO is among the largest purchasers of alcohol in the world.

To read the entire article, please follow the link to the Globe and Mail. 

Yang Liu
Yang Liu joined the Department of Entomology as Assistant Professor. Her research  explores insect systematics: integrative taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny (leafhopper, tumbling flower beetle/Mordellidae, and more); she uses micro-CT and Electron microscope to identify similar species. She is also focused on insect diversity and monitoring, agricultural and forest entomology, and ecology.

Jiating Li
Jiating Li joined the Department of Biosystems Engineering as Assistant Professor in Digital Technologies for Agri-food Production. Jiating will be delving into a broad range of digital technologies to advance Canadian agricultural and food production systems. Through intensive collaborations with crop breeders, plant physiologists, soil scientists, animal scientists, and computer engineers, Jiating aims to develop robust systems that promote agricultural productivity as well as sustainability. 

Tengda Gong
Tengda Gong joined the Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics as Assistant Professor in Agribusiness Finance. His upbringing in a farming village in China inspired his pursuit of agricultural economics. Tengda’s  research focuses on understanding how public policies and market mechanisms affect the functioning of agrifood systems amid market imperfections and climate change, with a focus on welfare implications. 

Alistair Brown
Alistair Brown joined the Department of Soil Science as Manitoba Analytical Solutions (MASS) Lab Director and Assistant Professor. Alistair has a range of research and technical experience in pesticides and UV filters in water, agricultural nutrient loading, pharmaceutical metabolites in water, antibiotic impacts on bioreactor microbes, and perfluorinated compounds in air and dust.

Jessica Rutherford
Jessica Rutherford has been hired as Instructor II in in Applied Human Nutrition and Dietetics in the Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences. A UM alum and a Registered Dietitian, she completed her dietetic internship through the Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program with a focus on rural and Indigenous communities. She most recently played a lead role in development the new UM Master of Applied Human Nutrition program. In her current role, she is responsible for undergraduate and graduate nutrition course delivery.

Nuria Morfin
Nuria Morfin joined the Department of Entomology as Assistant Professor in Apiculture and Honey Bee Biology. Her expertise includes Integrated Pest Management, selective breeding, and honey bee pathology, with extensive research experience that spans North America. Nuria is committed to enhancing the understanding of honey bee biology and promoting sustainable practices to support pollinator health and the beekeeping industry.