“It is a personal feeling”: Canadian farmers deal with Chinese definitions on canola and peas

Canola passes deeply to the Margaret Regitie farm in southern Saskatchewan.

Her grandfather was among the first to grow the bright yellow flower crops in the 1970s, and it was the main element since then.

“For a large part of the Saskatchean, the farm economy was driven by Canola,” says Regitie, director of Saskoilseeds, in an interview at home near Moose Jaw.

“It is a personal feeling when people come after Canola, just because it is a Canadian story, such a Western Canadian story, like the story of Saaskashwan and such a story here on my farm.”

China struck Canadian farmers with 100 percent of the customs tariffs on canola oil, canola and peas in response to Canada slapping Beijing with drawings on Chinese electric cars, steel and aluminum.

Producers are also unknown to US President Donald Trump’s tariff. Trump has imposed drawings on Canadian aluminum, steel and cars, while contemplating the application of additional duties.

Products that fall within the Canada-Mexico Convention, including agricultural commodities and energy, are not subject to American definitions. Canada took revenge on counter -measures.

Rigetti has television news in its living room. She says she was seeing her often to keep pace with the latest developments.

“We have seen challenges before, but we were not in the intersection among our biggest commercial partners,” she says.

She pulls a book on her family’s history, turning into a page with a picture of capturing canola spaces. Under it, he reads excerpts, “the new crop that changes everything”.

Canola is the word Portmanteau that combines Canada and no, which means oil. Saskatchewan and Manitoba researchers developed the crop in the 1970s to address ERUCIC acid issues in its predecessor, seeds.

Canola is used to cook oil, high -protein animals and vital lodes. The evolution of the crop led to grace today of the pocket book for farmers, with more than half of which grew in Saskatchewan.

In RIGETTI Square, there are huge steel boxes where her husband and son’s seeds are dark brown canola in a truck. They are outside to deliver the product to the grain station.

Regetiti says her son will cultivate his first field in Al -Kanola this year.

“We have to be careful to keep things right and not to intimidate our children,” she says.

“I am trying to keep focusing on what we can already control, which cultivates a crop, cultivating the best crop we can grow, manage our costs and manage our mental health.”

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On a farm near Filmur, southeast of Regeina, producer Chris Brocke says history is repeating itself.

“We are unfortunately again in the midst of a commercial conflict that we have not affected or not created, and we left the bill,” says Brookik, Vice President of the Agricultural Producers Association in Saskashwan.

He also says there will be greater problems if the United States imposes fees on agricultural goods. Canadian crops and potash go south and farm machines come north.

Brukik says that the federal government should provide financial aid or other support to farmers who have been affected by the trade war.

He says, “There is not really a place for the axis,” he says. “The entire farm is under a commercial conflict, and we have no control on how these things appear.”

The farmer has faced the opposite winds from China.

In 2019, Beijing prevented Canadian canola imports from two companies, referring to pollution issues, although he believed that this step was in response to Canada Meng and Achto, Executive Director of Chinese Business. Canadian Michael Spagor and Michael Kovrij were also arrested on China’s days after the arrest of Warshou.

Wanzhou and Canadians were released to their countries in 2021. China raised its ban on Canola next year, but the Canadian economy was estimated at about two billion dollars as a result of the conflict.

“The farmer can withstand some short -term pain,” says Regitie. “If it continues for a longer period, it calls things a question.”

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