Let Farmers Pay For Drainage: Kap Resolution

Farmers who find governments slow to fund drainage projects may start paying for the service themselves. Keystone Agricultural Producers last week called for a funding arrangement allowing municipalities needing drainage to levy local improvement fees on farmland to help pay for it. Such projects would still require cost sharing from Ottawa and the province, according


What’s Up – for Mar. 26, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 March 30 -April 4 – Royal Manitoba Winter Fair, Keystone Centre, Brandon. For more info visit www.brandonfairs.com. April 1-5 – Holstein Canada national convention, Hyatt Regency, 655 Burrard St., Vancouver. For more info visit www.holstein.ca April 4 – Rare Breeds Canada annual general meeting, 9 a.

Conservation leader Don Alexander passes

“Conservation efforts were very, very important to D. J. and he spent countless hours working with the Pembina Valley Conservation District.” – DONALD ORCHARD Don (D. J.) Alexander, one of Manitoba’s conservation leaders, died January 20 at his farm home near here following a brief illness. He was 74 years old. Alexander, chair of the


Province funds watershed planning

These plans are considered vital to the province-wide push to implement watershed plans. Four conservation districts have received additional funding to develop their Integrated Watershed Management Plans. These plans are considered vital to the province-wide push to implement watershed plans. Cheques of $25,000 were issued to four C. D. managers on the opening day of