Many beef producers currently leasing Crown land are questioning whether their organization’s lobbying efforts, adopted by the previous Pallister government, have achieved any of the organization’s expectations of “advantaging young producers” and making the system “more flexible and transparent.” “Modernization” has relieved the current minister of agriculture of any responsibility for the reported annual increases
Letters: ‘Be careful what you ask for’ on Crown lands
Crown land leaseholders are frustrated and financially drained, but industry lobbying is what set the ball rolling on the changes they blame
Letters: Bigger not better
The recent closures of meat-packing plants in Alberta, Quebec and several American states due to the COVID-19 pandemic are shedding light on the tremendous expense of this style of massive meat-processing operation. The expense borne by the workers at the plants is the greatest of all, their health threatened so severely, even causing death to
Comment: On Crown Lands, we get what we ask for
Why is anyone surprised by the recent changes to Crown land allocation?
The Oct. 10 front page of the Manitoba Co-operator read “Feeling Betrayed: Crown land tenants voice opposition” and the article describes a series of events that began at the Manitoba Beef Producers annual general meeting held in Brandon February 2017. A resolution was presented to the convention demanding MBP lobby the provincial government to replace
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