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Gas taxes are up, riparian credit is gone and nutrient management gets a 10 per cent tax credit in Manitoba’s 2012 budget
Farm leaders were underwhelmed by the first budget from Manitoba’s former agriculture minister. “I was with other farm leaders afterwards and we really didn’t have much to talk about,” said Doug Chorney, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers. Finance Minister Stan Struthers’ budget included a top-up of $15 an acre for Excess Moisture Insurance but thatWithout fresh funding, the animals will be euthanized and their genetic material put into cold storage
Pigs that might have become the world’s first genetically modified animals approved for human consumption may instead face an untimely end, as key backers of Canada’s “Enviropig” project withdrew their support for the controversial engineered animal. Scientists at the University of Guelph, 90 km west of Toronto, bred the first GMO pig that was developed
