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Saskatchewan To Test Drive Beaver Dam Removal Plan

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The Saskatchewan government is spending $500,000 in a one-year pilot program to help its rural municipalities get rid of problem beavers and beaver dams. The program, to be administered by the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM), will target areas where beaver dams have swamped rural infrastructure, farmland and other private property. The pilot program
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Compensation Plan Finalized

Landowners in the Assiniboine Valley affected by artificial flooding caused by operation of the Shellmouth Dam will be entitled to compensation under legislation and regulations announced Feb. 25 by Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick. “This legislation will provide fair compensation to landowners in the Assiniboine Valley if they are affected by artificial flooding caused by
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Organic Farmers Want More Crops Covered By Crop Insurance

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Organic farmers want the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation to add nitrogen-fixing and cover crops to the list of crops eligible for crop insurance in Manitoba. That’s the message the Manitoba Organic Alliance (MOA) took to the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) board of directors and crop insurance officials during a meeting Feb. 15. “They said
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Mar. 3, 2011

In “Delaying the drainage” (editorial, Feb. 3) you referred to the Red River Basin report about storing water upstream, with an estimated 885,000 acres of one foot of storage being adequate to reduce peak levels. This probably wouldn’t take up 885,000 acres because some storage would be more than one foot deep, but nonetheless it
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Farm Programs Need New Direction: Report

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About five years ago, a special committee reviewing Canada’s agricultural policy framework heard a novel idea from chair Ed Tyrchniewicz. Noting that roughly 60 per cent of government funding for agriculture went to business risk management (BRM) programs, Tyrchniewicz suggested spending more on other areas instead. Research, maybe. Or science, innovation and market development. The
Crops, Oilseeds

Agronomy Growing Focus Of National Sunflower Association

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The National Sunflower Association of Canada is upping its agronomy game with the addition of a new staff agronomist. Even though Ed Stroeder, who’s based in Gladstone, is barely a month into his new job, he was front and centre this week at the Manitoba Crop Symposium. Agronomy is a challenge for the Canadian industry
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McKnight Farms Wins Corn Competition Again

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McKnight Farms of Roland has won the Manitoba Corn Growers Association’s (MCGA) annual corn yield contest for the second year in a row with a yield of 245.29 bushels an acre. That’s almost five per cent higher than McKnight’s 2009 winning yield of 198.17. It was with the same corn hybrid, Pioneer Hi-Bred’s 39D97, grown
Crops, Opinion

New Revenue Insurance For Farmers

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Abrand new type of revenue insurance is being offered to grain farmers this spring. If it proves itself, it may decrease the need for crop and hail insurance. The company behind the offering is Global Ag Risk Solutions of Moose Jaw. Financial planner Grant Kosior is one of the founders. The others are Dean Klippenstein
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Better Drainage A Paying Proposition

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Ottawa and the provincial government are missing the boat by not investing in better drainage in farm country, according to the reeve of the Rural Municipality of Dufferin. At a panel presentation on water management issues at Ag Days, Shawn McCutcheon argued a well-executed drainage strategy would generate tens of millions of dollars’ worth of

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