The threshold for humane livestock transport standards still varies widely between what what industry wants, what animal rights groups want and what federal regulators decide is good enough.
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Crop and livestock insurance changes revealed at Manitoba Ag Days
Changes for the 2025 AgriInsurance program in Manitoba, including changes to annual crop, forage and predation programs, were announced at Manitoba Ag Days 2025.
Weekend windstorm lifts soil airborne, damages grain elevator
Manitoba got another dose of wild weather June 15-16. Worries about sandblasting joined earlier hail damage over the Father’s Day weekend. A powerful wind storm blew into western Manitoba overnight June 15, followed by strong winds that whipped soil airborne. In Sinclair, 14 km west of Reston, high winds damaged a local elevator. Western Manitoba[...]
Trump win adds fire to Bill C-282 debate
Canada’s supply management bill had already drawn lines between supply managed and non-supply managed agriculture; U.S. election results likely gave that wedge another whack.
Assiniboine College grows its greenhouse
Assiniboine College has gotten another donation to help expand its greenhouse facilities.
Prairie Watersheds Climate Program posts record year
Manitoba farmers got $9.75 million for sustainable ag projects through the Prairie Watersheds Climate Program in 2023-24.
Manitoba to dig deeper trade foothold in Washington
Premier Wab Kinew has promised a Manitoba trade office in Washington D.C. to strengthen U.S. trade and offer a direct line to the incoming Trump administration.
Pork sector hopes Manitoba trade office will help address U.S. protectionism
Manitoba Pork hopes the province’s new trade office in Washington D.C. will help combat a rising tide of protectionist trade issues with the U.S.
Bird flu returns to Manitoba
Manitoba’s first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a year was found in a commercial poultry farm in the RM of Portage la Prairie in late November.
GST tax holiday is tone deaf
Items eligible for the Liberal government’s GST tax holiday don’t address Canada’s real affordability needs.
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