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INDUSTRY | Dean Dias is the new CEO while former CEO Cam Dahl is the new chief strategy officer
Dean Dias is Cereals Canada’s new CEO. The old CEO, Cam Dahl, is the revamped organization’s new chief strategy officer (CSO). The appointments took effect Aug. 17. Dias worked at the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) for about a decade, including most recently as director of value chain relations and interim CEO, until Cigi merged
PROGRAM | Manitoba farmers weigh in on issues with AgriStability
The way some Manitoba farmers see it, they’d be better off if AgriStability didn’t exist. “AgriStability has never been there for cattle producers or grain producers, and definitely not there for the mixed producers,” said Mitch Janssens, who farms near Boissevain. Earlier this month, Ag Minister Blaine Pedersen said the program, long under fire fromFarmBeats from Microsoft hopes to put data-driven agriculture on the table for farmers balking at cost or hurting for bandwidth
FORAGE Hay yields are up compared to last year, but many areas are still a long way from ‘good’
Manitoba is seeing its best hay year in two years, but given how dismal yields were in 2018 and 2019, that’s a low bar. Poor growing conditions both last year and the year before had pastures fall short of production, hay yields in areas dropping to half or less of normal and dugouts drying. Producers
In an open letter, workers say the province and company are discriminating against immigrant workers by shuffling blame onto them
Latest policy note says policies of yesterday won’t work for today and tomorrow
In the meantime farmers and the seed industry are seeking consensus on how to proceed
Bradshaw, Halford, Harvey and Hedley tapped for 2020 induction
Move comes following cancelled winter and summer fairs
