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Producers Strongly Oppose New Quota Levy

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Manitoba’s marketing boards are demanding to know the reason behind a controversial provincial surcharge on the value of quota transfers between dairy, egg and poultry farmers. Producer boards and Keystone Agricultural Producers will meet with the government next week to seek an explanation for the new two per cent levy on successful quota sales and
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Conference Board Takes Aim At Supply Management

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Supply management blocks dairy farmers from competing in world markets and saddles consumers and processors with high costs, says a report from the Conference Board of Canada. Dairy farmers are engaged in defending their system from cheap imports when they “could otherwise be positioning the sector for future long-term domestic and global success including opportunities
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In Brief… – for Oct. 22, 2009

Mexico tries GM corn: Mexico, considered by many to be the cradle of corn, has issued permits to grow genetically modified corn for the first time in a bid to eventually boost production of the grain. Mexico’s Agriculture Ministry said the two permits will allow only experimental genetically modified (GM) corn crops, which will be
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Slow, Steady Progress For Manitoba Milk Producers

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“What we’re experiencing are very stable prices.” – DAVID WI ENS, DFM Dairy Farmers of Manitoba recently amalgamated their nine regional districts into three. This tripled the size of local milk advisory committees. Some producers feel the committees are now too large and unwieldy. That was as close to complaining about their industry as milk
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Consultations Held On Bill 7

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Bill 7 received second reading June 2 and underwent public consultations last week in a last-minute push before summer recess begins at the Legislature. The Food Safety and Related Amendments Act, which brings several pieces of food safety legislation under one new act, has been scrutinized by farm groups since its introduction last December. Groups
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Dairy Farmers Avoid Livestock Industry Trauma

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While hog producers experience an industry meltdown and beef producers struggle to emerge from BSE’s shadow, it’s steady as she goes for Manitoba milk producers. Figures released at an April 3 Dairy Farmers of Manitoba meeting showed an industry with no huge problems and only a few relatively minor hiccups. “We’re doing quite well,” acknowledged
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Another Report Repeats Attacks On Supply Management

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Anew report calls for the abolishment of Canada’s supply management system just as non-supply-managed American dairy farmers are suffering their worst economic crisis in years. The report by the Fraser Institute labels supply management “a growing financial burden for taxpayers and consumers (which) is unjustified.” It says “the only viable alternative is to remove the
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Single fluid milk price threatens provincial commission

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“The commission is concerned with the protection of consumer interests.” – CRAIG LEE, MMPRC CHAIRMAN A Manitoba agency formed during the 1930s to control the price of milk could vanish if plans for a uniform fluid milk price across the Prairies come to pass. The Manitoba government has agreed in principle to harmonizing producer milk

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