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“We appreciate the hard work the agriculture minister’s office and department staff did on this file to get it done in such a short time frame, but they will have to forgive us if we watch warily for the implementation.” – Brent Benson, Manitoba Crown Land Leaseholders Association.
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Crown land leaseholders satisfied, for now

The province recently approved changes to the Crown lands system

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The Manitoba Crown Land Leaseholders Association is cautiously optimistic about recent changes to Manitoba’s Agricultural Crown Lands regulations. “We appreciate the hard work the agriculture minister’s office and department staff did on this file to get it done in such a short time frame,” said association president Brent Benson. “But they will have to forgive us
Leaseholders pack into a fall 2019 meeting in Ste. Rose du Lac soon after the release of new Crown land regulations.
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Crown land changes approved

Producers have been fighting to get the system changed for years

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Producers say they hope the latest changes to Agricultural Crown Lands regulations in Manitoba put an end to the controversy and confusion of the past four years. “I think these changes make the system a lot more workable,” said Manitoba Beef Producers general manager Carson Callum. “The changes that happened in 2019 were against the
Leaseholders pack into a fall 2019 meeting in Ste. Rose du Lac soon after the release of new Crown land regulations.
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Province asks for feedback on Crown lands amendments

Producers are cautiously optimistic, but over three years of fighting casts a long shadow

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The latest round of proposed changes to agricultural Crown lands has earned a tentative thumbs up from pasture and forage leaseholders. Leaseholders “were surprised by the changes proposed by the minister,” said Brent Benson, president of the Manitoba Crown Land Leaseholders Association. “After three years of obfuscation and defiance by previous ministers, it was refreshing to be
Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Slipping one in

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Many years ago, I saw a cartoon that caused my cynical inner journalist to chuckle. A man in a suit sat behind a massive desk, handing a paper to a lackey, saying “Take this, Henderson, and hide it from the public.” I laughed because even a wet-behind-the-ears cub reporter in the early 1990s could recognize
Leaseholders double down with Crown land survey results
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Leaseholders double down with Crown land survey results

Elimination of unit transfers remains massively unpopular

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A provincial survey on agricultural Crown lands put numbers to the issues, but to the Manitoba Crown Lands Leaseholders Association, there was little in the results that hadn’t been said already. “Every point they have in there is exactly what we told them four years ago,” said association president Brent Benson. Why it matters: Agricultural
Letters: Crown land changes botched
Letters, Op/Ed, Other

Letters: Crown land changes botched

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For the past seven years, ranchers and producers have seen their way of life undermined by the PC government. The changes brought in under Brian Pallister and his minister of agriculture, Blaine Pedersen, to the Crown Land Lease system were done without consultation or regard for the impact it would have on Manitoba producers. Ranchers
The thorny issue of Crown lands is shaping up to be an election issue for rural voters later this fall.
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Crown lands an election issue

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If the goal of changes to Manitoba’s Crown land rules was to get more young producers into the cattle business, it’s been an unequivocal failure. And that was one of the major justifications offered for the 2019 changes that shortened leases, did away with unit transfers, raised rents and added an auction component to win
Crown land lease auctions have seen much of the available land go to large and established operations, members of the Manitoba Crown Land Leaseholders Association say.
Livestock, News

Enter the bidding wars for Crown land

Crown land leaseholders decry what they say are a few big names taking up more than their share of forage leases

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For producers like Shelley Dyck and Dakota Sorensen, the results of the 2023 Crown land lease auctions were disappointing but not unexpected. Those results illustrate concerns that they and other members of the Manitoba Crown Land Leaseholders Association have had for years. With few exceptions, almost all available parcels in the area around Ste. Rose
Letters: Crown land leaseholders deserve vote
Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: Crown land leaseholders deserve vote

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Since 2016 Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) and Manitoba Ministers of Agriculture have badly served 1,700 Manitoba Agricultural Crown Land Lease holders and destroyed the points-based unit transfer system. This is a scandal. It is a scandal that was disguised as ‘red tape cutting’ and driven by the erroneous idea that agricultural Crown land access for
Comment, Letters

Letters: Reverse senseless Crown land policies

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It is sad and disheartening to see how the Manitoba government has treated the small cattle ranchers who are the stewards of our grasslands. They forced most of the First Nations ranchers out of business with the Portage Diversion flood of 2011. The people and the land have never recovered. In the last three years,

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