Canadian farmers want more certainty on canola tariff deal

Scott Perkin is a longtime farmer in southwestern Manitoba. He farms a mixed array of crops, including wheat, oats, and soybeans. He also has a pure-bread cattle operation on his farm in Elgin, Man., which is about 250 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg. He also farms canola, which makes up between 25-to-30 per cent of his crop rotation, depending on the year. “Canola is a pretty big part of our rotation,” he said. “The tariffs that were in place and the geopolitical things that were happening, certainly made it uneasy growing canola.” He closely followed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit…