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Online voting an option for MCGA

There are four director slots up for grabs this year, so a formal vote isn’t a foregone conclusion

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Manitoba canola producers are poised to make history if an election is necessary this fall. The Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) is set to offer optional online voting along with traditional mail-in ballots if an election is needed this fall to fill four board of directors’ positions. MCGA approved a bylaw change allowing for online
Farmer in wheat field
Cereals, News

Column roils wheat grading controversy

Former NFU president Stewart Wells claims the system is under attack, 
but the grain trade says a small change will protect a big market

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Is the Canadian wheat grading system under attack? That’s the concern being raised by former NFU president Stewart Wells, who says the U.S. has painted a target on it, and the local grain trade is helping them zero in. Read more: Grading system needed to ensure proper compensation Wells wrote about his concern for the nation’s
Cereals, News

Grading system needed to ensure proper compensation

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Canada’s wheat grading system is essential so farmers get fairly compensated by grain buyers, says Stewart Wells. Without it grain companies can pay farmers different prices for the same quality of wheat. “It’s about transparency and farmers being paid properly and fairly for what they do,” Wells said in an interview Oct. 11. “If there
Manitoba Egg Farmers accepted the first Manitoba Farm Safety Award Sept. 27 in Winnipeg.
Local news, Poultry

Manitoba Egg Farmers scoop inaugural safety award

Manitoba’s new provincial safe work awards noted egg producers have developed an industry-wide plan

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Manitoba’s egg producers have been honoured for their industry-wide effort to develop an on-farm safety program. At a Sept. 27 event in Winnipeg, the inaugural agriculture “SAFEty” award was bestowed at a gala event that could be considered an Oscar night for work safety efforts in the province. The program is a cross-sectoral effort that
Manitoba hay crops see good year
Forages, Local news

Manitoba hay crops see good year

Growers across the province report good 
to great year despite dry conditions

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Manitoba forage growers are enjoying good yields this year and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Markets to the east and south are readily picking up any extra hay they can find, said Dave Koslowsky, chair of the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association. He said producers he has talked to across the province
Stand up for our grain grading system
Cereals, Opinion

Stand up for our grain grading system

It would be a mistake to alter the Canadian Grain Act to allow U.S. grain to enter our system

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In 2014, a longtime advocate for grain trade deregulation and a former researcher for the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association was quoted in the ag press as saying, “I don’t remember one serious conversation about market power and the dangers it imposed.” Apparently that conversation still hasn’t happened for the farmers who are lobbying to
Opinion: Donald Trump pulling Canada into a NAFTA quagmire
Opinion, Other

Opinion: Donald Trump pulling Canada into a NAFTA quagmire

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What’s the point of NAFTA or any of the other ‘free’ trade deals if craziness can simply overwhelm them? Take the most recent and nasty spat, over duties on Bombardier, that go well beyond even what U.S. aerospace manufacturer Boeing was seeking. The U.S. uses NAFTA when it’s convenient and overrides it whenever it chooses,
New research may eventually see plants created that can shake off insect damage on their own.
Did you know?, News

Some plants rise to challenge of cutting

Research findings could increase productivity and lower pesticide use eventually

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How would you like a canola plant that just got tougher as flea beetles tried to eat it? Eventually that may become reality if new research from the University of Illinois pans out over time. Researchers there have been studying a group of plants known as “overcompensators,” which react to being clipped by increasing their
Cereals, News

WCWGA searching for new executive director

Robin Speer, who has had the job since Nov. 2, 2015, joined CN Rail last month

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The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) is seeking a new executive director. Robin Speer, who took over the job from Blair Rutter Nov. 2, 2015, joined CN Rail in mid-September as manager for public affairs in Saskatchewan. Speer said in his new position he will work with Saskatchewan municipalities, industry organizations, city and provincial officials. “I will
Premier Brian Pallister says a legal opinion supports his decision for a made-in-Manitoba carbon pricing plan, rather than trying in vain to fight the federal government in court to block it from imposing a carbon tax.
Local news, Other

Legal opinion backs Pallister’s approach to carbon pricing

Manitoba’s ‘Green Plan’ to cut emissions will be out soon and the premier says he wants Manitobans’ feedback

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Manitoba’s decision to develop its own plan to cut carbon emissions, to be released soon, has been vindicated, says Premier Brian Pallister. “If we just say no, we get Trudeau,” Pallister told reporters Oct. 11 after the provincial government released a report prepared by Bryan Schwartz, a University of Manitoba law professor, that concludes the

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