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Jeff Veenstra grows vegetables on Wild Earth Farms near Birds Hill Park, northeast of Winnipeg.
Farmit Manitoba

Acreage requirement drop for veggie insurance first step for small-scale farmers

Move shows MASC is listening to call for scale-appropriate BRMs, says Direct Farm Manitoba

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A drop in acreage required to insure vegetable crops has opened a door for smaller-scale and direct-marketing farmers. “This has really changed our ability to be insured quite significantly,” said Jeff Veenstra who farms northeast of Winnipeg. On January 25, the province announced it would reduce the minimum required acres for vegetable acreage loss insurance
Greenleaf Foods, a subsidiary of meat processor Maple Leaf Foods, last month began providing its plant-based Lightlife Chick’n Tenders to convenience chain 7-Eleven in Canada. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

ADM releases alternative protein outlook for 2022

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MarketsFarm — Major U.S. agribusiness ADM released a report Tuesday identifying the seven biggest trends in the alternative protein market, ranging from creating new protein sources from fungi to making plant-based meat substitutes more affordable and palatable to the general public. The seven trends in the report were: introduction of novel protein sources, using microbial
File photo of a Prince Edward Island potato field. (Onepony/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

P.E.I. potato exports cleared for Puerto Rico

U.S. territory has no commercial potato production

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A U.S. territory with an appetite for Canadian potatoes and no commercial potato production to speak of will be able to resume imports of table stock potatoes from Prince Edward Island starting Wednesday. The resumption of exports to Puerto Rico, announced Tuesday, is a spot of good news for the province’s potato sector. Export certificates
Crop insurance figures growing fast
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Crop insurance figures growing fast

High crop prices now mean record coverage for the 2022, while last year’s drought will trigger record payouts on the 2021 crop

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Crop insurance figures keep getting bigger. The 2021 group season will generate around $650 million in payouts due to low yields during the drought. And the resulting higher prices will mean that is followed by a record $4.66 billion in crop insurance coverage for the 2022 growing season. That $4.66 billion in coverage is based
Maple Leaf Foods says all its plants — including the one in Brandon — are still in operation despite pandemic pressures.
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VIDEO: Manitoba ag sector wrestles with pandemic-driven staff shortages

The animals need to be fed and grocery shelves must stay stocked, but rising numbers of employees out sick mean have left those critical ag sectors with fewer staff

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The province’s agriculture and agri-food sector is feeling the crunch as more and more workers call out sick with COVID-19. The fourth wave of the pandemic, and the highly transmissible Omicron variant, continue to roll over Manitoba, with public health officials now suggesting that most Manitobans will likely be exposed to the virus in the
File photo of a Prince Edward Island potato field. (Onepony/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

‘Expedited’ potato wart survey helps make case for P.E.I., CFIA says

National survey done 'ahead of schedule'

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A national survey finding no potato wart in any “unregulated” Canadian fields should offer the reassurance on Prince Edward Island potatoes that trading partners such as the U.S. are now looking for, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says. CFIA on Thursday reported it has completed this fall’s national survey for the soil-borne fungal potato disease
A tractor-mounted snowblower runs through rows of piled-up surplus potatoes on a field near Victoria, P.E.I., about 35 km west of Charlottetown, on Dec. 20, 2021. The shredded potatoes are expected to break down over the winter as compost. (Screengrab from P.E.I. Potato Board video)
Crops, Markets

Feds put up funds toward managing P.E.I. potato surplus

Ottawa budgets $28 million for distribution and disposal

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Prince Edward Island potatoes locked out of the U.S. export market will go either to food banks or “environmentally-sound” disposal with new federal funding. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Monday announced $28 million “to support the diversion of surplus potatoes, including help to redirect surplus potatoes to organizations addressing food insecurity and support for
“The United States has made it very clear that if we restarted issuing export certificates right now, they would immediately sign a federal order that would have extremely damaging consequences for our farmers.” – Marie-Claude Bibeau.
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P.E.I. sees potato working group

Government, processors, producers and other agencies are on the roster after potato wart was found again in P.E.I.

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The ongoing fallout of potato wart in Prince Edward Island has led to the formation of a new multi-stakeholder working group. The first meeting of the Government-Industry Potato Working Group, held Nov. 24, was recently organized by the federal government. The member list spans Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Global Affairs Canada, provincial government
Canola and corn will see steep increases in the inspection fees for seed crops, but the CSGA says that reflects higher relative costs for inspecting those crops.
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Higher seed crop certification fees coming

Seed growers have endorsed the increase, but others in the industry say it’s going to undermine the competitiveness of certified seed

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The cost to certify seed in Canada is going up. And despite a vote overwhelmingly in favour of it, some stakeholders are unhappy at the news. Canadian Seed Grower’s Association (CSGA) members voted 111 to 16 to increase fees to certify Canadian seed crops starting in 2022 during a special general meeting online Nov. 24.

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