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The Rural Development Institute at Brandon University is conducting a survey on the challenges rural residents face in accessing business support services.

Rural Development Institute seeks input from businesses

Brandon University’s Rural Development Institute hopes to gather input from food processors in rural Manitoba to make more innovation possible

By Jennifer Paige July 29, 2016

As a rural-based business, what challenges do you face in accessing resources? That’s the question Brandon’s Rural Development Institute (RDI) is seeking an answer for. “We are essentially looking at the problems that companies in rural Manitoba see, the barriers that they have faced and suggestions in ways they can overcome those,” said Gillian Richards,

KAP president Dan Mazier addresses members during the organization’s summer advisory meeting on July 13 in Brandon.

Local news, News

KAP lobbies for increased funding for GF3

Keystone Agricultural Producers passed 11 new resolutions at the recently held summer advisory meeting held in Brandon on July 13

By Jennifer Paige July 25, 2016

Members at Keystone Agricultural Producers summer advisory meeting here last week heard an update on lobbying efforts for the new Growing Forward 3 (GF3) program. “We have delivered our messages to senior policy staff from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Manitoba Agriculture in June and yesterday we attended an official stakeholders’ meeting,” KAP president Dan

Comment, News

The NFU’s views on the agriculture ministers’ meeting

Excerpts from an NFU brief sent to federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers  in advance of their annual conference in Calgary July 20 to 22

By National Farmers Union July 25, 2016

We expect the next agriculture policy framework will continue to have two main areas of focus: safety net, or Business Risk Management (BRM) programs for farmers, and Strategic Initiative funding to support programs with broader policy goals. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research has shown that AgriStability is used disproportionately by larger farms. When GF2 (Growing

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures shrug off early selling

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters July 18, 2016

Chicago / Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts settled higher on Monday after short-covering and futures’ discounts to late last week’s cash prices offset early-session losses, traders said. August live cattle ended 1.525 cents per lb higher at 112.450 cents, and finished above the 20-day moving average of 112.05 cents. October closed 0.775 cent

Lawrence MacAulay, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food.

News

Agriculture minister backs freer domestic trade

Canada loves international trade but has domestic barriers

By Alex Binkley July 13, 2016

Dismantling internal trade barriers will make Canada more competitive and is a priority for the federal government. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay told the Senate during his scheduled appearance for question period he’s been hearing about the issue since he was first elected in 1998, and it’s past time for change. “We’re big on international trade

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock

Last avian flu-related block on U.S. poultry lifted

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 12, 2016

The last of Canada’s temporary avian flu-related rules against cross-border travellers bringing in poultry and/or eggs from the U.S. has been lifted. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, live birds, raw poultry, eggs and certain other raw or less-than-cooked poultry products originating in Indiana may again be brought into Canada. Lifted effective June 27,

Livestock

Bird flu control zone set up around Ontario duck farm

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 8, 2016

About 14,000 commercial ducks at a farm west of St. Catharines, Ont. are being euthanized following confirmation of a low-pathogenic strain of H5N2 avian flu in the flock. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Friday confirmed the influenza subtype, the day after announcing the low-path H5 flu outbreak, the resulting quarantine and the plans for

Livestock

Ontario duck farm catches low-path avian flu

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 7, 2016

All the birds on a commercial duck farm in southern Ontario’s Niagara region are about to be euthanized after some were confirmed with a less severe form of avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Thursday said the strain of avian influenza found in the birds on the farm is a low-pathogenic (“low-path”)

Our History

‘Never worry about grain loss’ and supply management for eggs

Our History: August 1976

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 7, 2016

Supply management was top of mind in the August 5, 1976 issue, which lays out details of a hard-fought federal-provincial agreement to transfer control over egg marketing to the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency (CEMA). But getting the last two provincial holdouts — Manitoba and Saskatchewan — to relinquish control required a compromise. Manitoba’s Agriculture Minister

Livestock, News

Worker rules stifle agri-food, Eichler tells Senate committee

The new provincial agriculture minister was speaking to the Senate agriculture committee

By Alex Binkley July 5, 2016

Manitoba’s new agriculture minister says federal rules on temporary and seasonal workers are harming the agri-food sector. Ralph Eichler told the Senate agriculture committee there’s a shortage of skilled labour and regulatory changes are at least partially causing that. “Changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program have had significant impacts on the ability of Manitoba

Daily Network News

ICE weekly: War news driving canola markets

War is increasing food prices, insecurity say IMF, World Bank and UN food agency

B.C. agrochemical startup gets $1.2M in federal funding

Poultry

Rural Development Institute seeks input from businesses

KAP lobbies for increased funding for GF3

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures shrug off early selling

Agriculture minister backs freer domestic trade

Last avian flu-related block on U.S. poultry lifted

Bird flu control zone set up around Ontario duck farm

Ontario duck farm catches low-path avian flu

‘Never worry about grain loss’ and supply management for eggs

Worker rules stifle agri-food, Eichler tells Senate committee

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