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By Alice McFarlane

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Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday February 1, 2023

Feb 1, 2023 | 9:41 AM

MELFORT, Sask. – The United States is filing another formal dispute over what it considers Canada’s failure to live up to its trade obligations to American dairy farmers and producers.

It’s the second time the U.S. has launched a dairy-driven escalation in less than two years.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said the new panel has become necessary because Canada has so far refused to take the steps necessary to properly address the first one.

The panel ruled in December 2021 that Canada was indeed violating the terms of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement with the way it was allocating import quotas for U.S. dairy products.

U.S. trade officials and dairy industry advocates say a large share of those quotas were being allocated to processors rather than producers.

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A property that includes fescue grasslands, forests, and wetlands near Waterton Lakes National Park in southern Alberta has been purchased by the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

The organization said the 2.5-square kilometre property between the national park and Twin Butte is its newest conservation site in Alberta.

It will become part of the 130-square kilometres of private conservation lands known as the Waterton Park Front, which is now about 75 per cent conserved.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada said the protected area will continue to be used for cattle grazing while being managed in a way that allows nature to thrive.

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