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Letters: Manitoba government squeezing ranchers out

By Dale and Sharon Myhre April 20, 2021

This letter is in response to Agriculture Minister Blaine Pedersen’s recent misleading comments about Manitoba Crown lands. Let us tell you about a farmer, a real person who represents many small ranchers. This man worked hard all his life. He fished in the winter, he went to the mines, he drove trucks — anything to

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Governments need to provide clarity — quickly

By Gord Gilmour March 25, 2021

The past year has proven — on many fronts — that the actions, inactions and inattentiveness of government can have an outsized impact on farms. As our reporter Geralyn Wichers writes in the March 25 issue of the Co-operator, the federal government has finally clarified the rules around farmers bringing temporary foreign workers into the

Letters, Op/Ed, Other

Letters: Ag minister Pedersen should resign

By Shelley Dyck March 15, 2021

Recently my friend had a heart attack. Our young neighbour can’t sleep. A worried widow cries when her kids are in bed. They are ranchers whose operations use leased Crown land. The devastation you and your government have caused to this small group of hard-working Manitobans is unconscionable. The budget will hardly be balanced on

Dale Myhre, seen here feeding heifers in a 2019 photo, says valuing Crown land improvements needs to be systematically done to avoid conflicts.

Livestock, News, Other

Ranchers want cards on the table on land improvement values

A resolution from the Manitoba Beef Producers would have hard values for land improvements already assessed

By Alexis Stockford March 5, 2021

Manitoba’s beef producers want to know exactly how much those fences and dugouts are worth before Crown land parcels hit the auction block. Northern ranchers, many very dependent on Crown land, are pushing for a third-party assessment to be added to the Crown lands lease system — something they say would reduce the chance for

Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: Manitoba government callous to leaseholders

By Melanie Chewka February 8, 2021

It is early morning as I write this, and I am having my first cup of coffee. Normally, I would be enjoying this small luxury of peace and quiet while my children sleep. That was before. I now spend every minute worrying about how am I going to keep my ranch… my livelihood. The threat

Letters

Letters: Pedersen should listen to young producers

By Dakota Sorensen January 25, 2021

My name is Dakota Sorensen. I am 26 years old. My partner Kaitlin and I moved to Eddystone in June 2019, looking to build a ranch and raise a family in Manitoba. I put up everything I had to buy a ranch, composed largely of Crown lease land. Now, on top of large farm payments,

After Crown land changes were announced in 2019, producers flocked to a public meeting at Ste. Rose to express their concerns.

News, Other

Crown land leaseholders eye legal challenge

Forage leaseholders have started the legal wheels turning in their ongoing spat with the changed Crown land system

By Alexis Stockford January 22, 2021

The organizing voice for Manitoba’s Crown land leaseholders is considering whether they can take the provincial government to court. The Manitoba Crown Land Leaseholders Association now says they have raised almost $28,000 for a potential legal challenge against changes to the Crown land system. “We’ve basically raised enough to start the process with the lawyer,”

News

Agricultural Crown Land auctions move online

Digital auctions have been announced for February

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 22, 2021

Manitoba is going online for its next round of Agricultural Crown Land auctions. The province announced the move Jan. 11. Auctions will take place between Feb. 8-12 and will be hosted by Garton’s Auction Service out of Dauphin. In 2019, the province announced its first auctions under a greatly changed Agricultural Crown Lands system. Among

Letters

Letters: Manitoba ag minister is disingenuous

By Shelley Dyck December 22, 2020

Minister Pedersen’s explanation for the “muddling” of the unit transfer issue in a recent letter published on the Manitoba Co-operator website is deceptive at best. Of course the transitional regulation was not operational. Leaseholders were waiting for it to become so… as was promised October 2019. We know that unit transfer was not enshrined in

“The transitionary provision was never operative because the moratorium on unit transfers was never lifted.” – Blaine Pedersen, Agriculture and Resource Development Minister.

News

Muddled messages on Crown land transitional measure

Ag Minister Blaine Pedersen says the transitional transfer set to be repealed, to the dismay of leaseholders, was never operational

By Alexis Stockford December 3, 2020

Provincial Agriculture Minister Blaine Pedersen says a transitional measure on the chopping block under proposed Crown land regulations was never actually in play. Earlier this fall, forage leaseholders raised concern with the potential removal of the measure, which would have allowed those who held their lease prior to last year’s Crown land changes to transfer

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Tag Archives Crown lands — page 4

Letters: Manitoba government squeezing ranchers out

Editor’s Take: Governments need to provide clarity — quickly

Letters: Ag minister Pedersen should resign

Ranchers want cards on the table on land improvement values

Letters: Manitoba government callous to leaseholders

Letters: Pedersen should listen to young producers

Crown land leaseholders eye legal challenge

Agricultural Crown Land auctions move online

Letters: Manitoba ag minister is disingenuous

Muddled messages on Crown land transitional measure

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