Al Mussell

[CAPI - ICPA @CdnAgriFood]

Last evening, several CAPI staff were pleased to join the @CAES_AgEcon’s banquet to celebrate CAPI's former Director of Policy, Dr. Tulay Yildirim, on her induction as a Fellow.

We also extend our congratulations to Dr. John Cranfield, who was also honoured as a Fellow.

[The Western Producer @westernproducer]

Canada will not maintain food security without more support for innovation says an agriculture industry insider. https://t.co/NkoJxmWkcp #cdnag #westcdnag

[CAPI - ICPA @CdnAgriFood]

China's new Five-Year Plan names food self-sufficiency as a top priority, which could have significant consequences for Canadian exporters, who send $10B in ag products there each year. Read more via @CDNAffairs with insights from @AlMussell. https://t.co/dCX5h1To7a

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Economists @SoumayaKeynes and @ChadBown on whether the Trump administration launched a trade war without weighing the consequences

[Chad P. Bown @ChadBown]

The Trump administration has proposed a US-China "Board of Trade" as a deliverable for the Beijing summit between the two presidents this week. Details thus far are scant.

If I were a journalist on the trip, these are the first questions I would ask about any such US-China Board of Trade:

[The Grower @growernews]

Al Mussell has been appointed a Fellow-in-Residence by the C.D. Howe Institute. The founder and lead of Agri-Food Economic Systems has been appointed a Trade and Supply Chains Policy Scholar. @AgriFoodEcon
https://t.co/e830AuHDTz

[Al Mussell @AlMussell]

Kim McConnell on Canada’s spring mega project Calgary Herald https://t.co/EYRnppMcKv via @calgaryherald

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

Newfoundland in 1958

[DVdZ2🇨🇦 @DH22018]

Word of the day on the #potato #farm

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

Dolores Claman's 1968 song, "The Hockey Theme", performed by the Jerry Toth Orchestra. Dolores would later say she had never seen a hockey game in person before writing the song, instead imagining Roman Gladiators battling while writing it.

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

Donald Trump has vowed to strike Iranian power plants and bridges – saying the country would be “living in Hell” – if the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway, isn’t opened by Tuesday.

In Part 1 of our conversation, I discussed these threats w/ @CFR_org President Emeritus @RichardHaass & @TheEconomist Editor-in-Chief @zannymb:

[Agri-Food Econ Sys @AgriFoodEcon]

This war is unleashing resource nationalism. How do we understand adjustment in energy and food to conflict in the Middle East, and Canada's role? To learn more, read Agriculture on Spaceship Earth- a new policy note from Agri-Food Economic Systems https://t.co/dg3AAzBpqJ

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Incredible heroism revealed. An aviation expert explains how the pilots in the LaGuardia crash intentionally took the impact head on. They refused to veer away to prevent the fuel filled wings from hitting the truck & exploding. They sacrificed themselves to save the passengers

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

The Trump administration has threatened and cajoled Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, so far to no avail. What's next for oil prices and global trade? I discussed with @edwardfishman, author and senior fellow at @CFR_org:

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

In Iran, the future of war has definitively come into view.

Advanced military technology had already made war precise. Now with high-volume drone warfare in Iran, that precision is mass-produced.

My take:

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

If you invented a machine that could:

- Restore degraded land
- Build topsoil
- Sequester carbon
- Produce fertiliser
- Create complete protein
- Generate its own fuel
- Reproduce itself
- Require zero electricity

You'd win the Nobel peace prize.

Instead, we blame them for climate change.

These cows will be tending to their fields as they always have, while city-based career politicians discuss their impact on national climate agenda.

[Al Mussell @AlMussell]

@kevinki16180099 @TerryDaynard I get tired of hearing about how the EU is such a large agri-food exporter; if only we could be more like them. Similar to the orange juice story, the EU exports soy oil and meal. Based on their huge soybean acreage, right?

[Al Mussell @AlMussell]

@TerryDaynard It all depends what you want to measure. If you are looking at investment and capital, certainly value of trade is your metric. But if you are trying to connect a country's agricultural system and food security, I think tonnes is the better measure.