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Income support programs not working for farmers

But they are being helped by the low Canadian dollar

By Alex Binkley February 25, 2016

AgriStability and AgriInvest, two key government programs to support farmers during periods of low prices, don’t do the job and many producers have dropped out of them, say Ontario and Quebec farm leaders. “Canadian farmers are asking governments to revisit our risk management programs,” Markus Haerle, vice‑chair, Grain Farmers of Ontario, told the Senate agriculture

Improving grain transportation and trade top the new Liberal government’s agricultural agenda. Photo: Allan Dawson

Crops, Livestock

New Liberal government has lots on its ag ‘to do’ list

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News November 3, 2015

Manitoba Co-operator – Grain transportation and trade top of the new Liberal government’s agricultural agenda, says veteran Saskatchewan MP and former agriculture minister Ralph Goodale. Other priorities include determining if farm aid programs are adequate, investing in infrastructure to protect soil and water and refocusing the government’s role in scientific research. The Canadian Wheat Board

KAP president Dan Mazier says participants in last week’s agricultural debate did a good job discussing important issues, while being civil to one another.

Local news

KAP president pleased with ag debate

Important farm issues were discussed respectfully

By Allan Dawson October 9, 2015

Farmers who watched the agriculture debate held in Ottawa Sept. 30 should have a clearer picture of where the major parties seeking election to the House of Commons stand on farm issues, says Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier. Mazier was pleased important agricultural issues were discussed, but also by the fact candidates were

Markets

Supply management the hot button at ag debate

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus September 30, 2015

CNS Canada — Representatives from Canada’s five main parties met Wednesday in Ottawa to discuss and debate farm policy ranging from risk management to transportation and rural infrastructure ahead of the Oct. 19 federal election. The hot button issue of the debate, however, was Canada’s supply management systems for dairy, poultry and eggs. The topic

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Markets

Quebec to halt ASRA for veal sector

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 12, 2015

Quebec’s farm finance and funding agency plans to remove the veal sector from the province’s ASRA income stabilization program starting next year. La Financiere agricole du Quebec (FADQ) announced Friday that its board had agreed to end ASRA (Assurance stabilisation des revenus agricoles) coverage for Quebec’s milk-fed veal calf operations, effective Jan. 1, 2016. Affected producers, after that

Crops, Livestock, Opinion

Editorial: Risk management on the farm

What does the future hold for farm stabilization payments in Canada?

By Laura Rance-Unger May 11, 2015

Changes to AgriStability three years ago that were designed to limit the exposure of federal and provincial coffers appear to have been more successful than politicians and bureaucrats ever imagined. The changes implemented for 2013 reduce the potential for a payment as well as the potential size of payment. It now appears the number of

Crops, Local news

Manitoba farmers dropping out of AgriStability

Changes to the program three years ago made it less effective

By Allan Dawson May 7, 2015

Changes three years ago to AgriStability have prompted some Manitoba farmers to abandon the income stabilization scheme because the cost is too high and the potential for payments too low. Federal statistics show the number of farmers enrolled in the program has dropped about nine per cent since 2012. However, if informal surveys by Keystone

Livestock

Third Ont. farm with avian flu cleared of birds

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 28, 2015

Updated, April 29, 2015 — Ontario is urging poultry farmers to look into the AgriStability income stabilization plan, after the province’s third poultry farm to catch H5N2 avian flu this month has put down all its turkeys. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Monday that “humane depopulation” has already been completed at the Bright, Ont.

Crops, Opinion

Editorial: The waiting game

Support is greatly needed for farmers affected by flooding, but what will it be and when?

By Laura Rance-Unger September 15, 2014

“May the odds be forever in your favour” is a memorable quote from the The Hunger Games, a popular book trilogy later made into movies. Although it is voiced as a cheery sendoff into competition, the irony is that the child protagonists face unspeakably cruel odds, pitted against one another in a fight-to-the-finish match from

Daily Network News

Prairie wheat bids mixed to start December

More U.S. soybean shipments to China due to load through mid-December

Prairie forecast: Northwest flow ushers in a wintery pattern across the Prairies

Tag Archives AgriStability

Income support programs not working for farmers

New Liberal government has lots on its ag ‘to do’ list

KAP president pleased with ag debate

Supply management the hot button at ag debate

Quebec to halt ASRA for veal sector

Editorial: Risk management on the farm

Manitoba farmers dropping out of AgriStability

Third Ont. farm with avian flu cleared of birds

Editorial: The waiting game

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