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a red tractor obscured in dust while working in dry soils. Pic: Alexis Stockford
Columns, Op/Ed

The double-edged sword of being an agricultural innovator

Canadian agriculture needs innovation and resilience, but being first in line also means taking on risk, sometimes without much of a safety net

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A new report suggests Canada’s farmers have been “overly reliant” on business risk management programs such as crop insurance, AgriStability and AgriRecovery as “the only risk management solution.” Should farmers now go out on a limb trying new ways to mitigate those risks?
Federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers met in Whitehorse, Yukon from July 17 to 19. Photo: Supplied
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Ag ministers discuss BRM changes 

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Canada’s agriculture ministers wrapped up their annual meeting in Whitehorse Friday saying they continue to look at changes to business risk management programs to make them more responsive.
Stuart Chutter, senior policy advisor with AFSC, is looking for a diverse group of cow-calf producers to participate in an analysis of the AgriStability program. Photo: Nicole Sendziak
Beef cattle, Livestock

Manitoba beef eyes Alberta AgriStability pilot

The program aims to identify how to close gaps for cow-calf producers

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Manitoba’s beef sector is hopeful an Alberta pilot program that addresses AgriStability’s position on cow-calf expenses might spread to other regions. “We hope to see it kind of nationwide as long as the pilot shows benefit to our industry, whether that’s reflecting pasture costs in the eligible expenses or looking at how they do the
In early December, the Saskatchewan River was at its second lowest level in the past 23 years. Photo: Alex McCuaig
Livestock

Alberta expands livestock drought recovery supports

Only a narrow band of the province remains exempt from the aid program

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The 2023 Canada-Alberta Drought Livestock Assistance initiative, funded through the AgriRecovery framework by the federal and provincial governments, offers payments of up to $150 per head to livestock producers who have 15 or more animals per type of livestock, and have altered usual grazing practices for more than 21 days due to drought.
The McDougall Creek wildfire burns outside West Kelowna, B.C. on Aug. 18, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Chris Helgren)
Crops, Livestock, Weather

AgriRecovery feed, freight, breeding herd aid set for Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C.

Feds, provinces announce combined $365 million in aid programs

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The federal and Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia governments are jointly putting up $365 million to support ranchers and farmers up against this summer’s drought and wildfire damage. The feds on Friday announced their 60 per cent, or $219 million, share of AgriRecovery program funding for the three westernmost provinces. “I’ve had the opportunity to
File photo of farmland around an abandoned farmstead near Swift Current, Sask. (ImagineGolf/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock, Weather

Saskatchewan front-loads AgriRecovery funding

Joint federal-provincial program development still underway

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The Saskatchewan government says it will put up to $70 million toward “immediate measures” to support livestock producers, ahead of an expected federal-provincial AgriRecovery program for that purpose. Application forms are expected to be available via Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. (SCIC) “in the coming days” for funding “to help offset extraordinary costs of feeding livestock
Editorial: Time to plug the BRM leak
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Editorial: Time to plug the BRM leak

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As reporter Don Norman notes in the front-page story of our Aug. 3 issue of the Co-operator, business risk management came up a few times when Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial ag ministers met in New Brunswick in July. That’s not unexpected. Farmers are being told to expect more volatile weather as a result of
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Harsh lessons

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I had an unexpected front-row seat to the unforgiving nature of… well, nature… this week. I was sitting in my backyard enjoying the cool of the evening and waiting for the sun to set when a songbird flew over my head. No sooner had its presence been registered by my eye, than a brownish-grey streak

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