Canada: Overview of COVID-19 Impacts on Canadian Agriculture

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Canada’s effective national pandemic response has helped Canada’s food and agriculture industries settle into a relatively stable ‘new normal’ operating environment, despite acute disruptions early in the COVID era. Canadian food and agricultural industries appear to have avoided many of the dire predictions made in the spring of 2020, and the largest bilateral agricultural trade relationship is functioning relatively smoothly in spite of the continued border closure.


Canada: Overview of COVID-19 Impacts on Canadian Agriculture

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