{"id":180389,"date":"2026-08-24T07:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/180389\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T07:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:37:09","slug":"canada-avoids-tariffs-and-potato-sales-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/180389\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Avoids Tariffs and Potato Sales Stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCanada Avoids Tariffs and Potato Sales Stable<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Bob Larson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aginfo.net\/reporter\/33\/Bob-Larson\" class=\"thumb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Larson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/user_5d8d38ba8b19d301566462_300_300.jpg\" class=\"img-thumbnail float-right\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrom the Ag Information Network, I\u2019m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.<\/p>\n<p>**Canada has temporarily avoided a 50% U.S. tariff after reaching a last-minute agreement with the Trump administration, just hours before the higher duties were scheduled to take effect. <\/p>\n<p>The tariffs would have affected about $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, including wine and hockey sticks. <\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said substantial progress had been made toward a trade deal but added, more work remains. <\/p>\n<p>**Retail potato sales remained stable during the 12-month period from July 2025 through June 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>www.morningagclips.com reports data from Circana shows total retail dollar sales reached $20.0 billion, essentially unchanged from the previous year, with 15.2 billion pounds of potatoes sold.<\/p>\n<p>Total volume declined just a half a percentage point, while the average consumer retail price remained flat at $2.31 per pound.<\/p>\n<p>www.morningagclips.com\/us-retail-potato-sales-hold-steady-as-fresh-potato-volume-reaches-five-year-high\/<\/p>\n<p>**The National FFA Convention and Expo has been named to Trade Show Executive\u2019s Gold 100 Class of 2025, recognizing it among the 100 largest trade shows in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The annual event brought over 73,000 attendees to Indianapolis last October and generated an estimated $41 million in economic impact. <\/p>\n<p>The National FFA Convention will be honored at the Gold 100 Awards and Summit next month in Palos Verdes, California. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada Avoids Tariffs and Potato Sales Stable From the Ag Information Network, I\u2019m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45801,9349,7750,57193,24849,17,57199,57201,3522,57195,2186,57202,57200,56289,25160,57194,57203,290,42624,57196,57197,3783,1658,3573,57198,400,57192,401,28,2878,1649],"class_list":["post-180389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-45801","tag-administration","tag-agreement","tag-avoids","tag-before","tag-canada","tag-circana","tag-convention","tag-data","tag-deadline","tag-executive","tag-expo","tag-ffa","tag-hours","tag-last","tag-minute","tag-named","tag-national","tag-past","tag-potato","tag-remain","tag-retail","tag-sales","tag-show","tag-stable","tag-tariffs","tag-temporarily","tag-trade","tag-trump","tag-u-s","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}