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Soybeans damaged by dicamba. The Arkansas State Plant Board wants to ban in-crop dicamba use from April 15 to October 31 following almost 1,000 complaints about dicamba drift damaging nearby crops. The proposal needs approval from the Executive Subcommittee of the Arkansas Legislative Council.
Crops, News

Arkansas moving closer to in-crop dicamba restrictions

Its plant board wants an April 15 to Oct. 31 ban to prevent injury to crops from drift

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Arkansas farmers might not be allowed to apply dicamba in annual crops during the 2018 growing season. A regulatory change prohibiting dicamba applications between April 15 and Oct. 31, was approved by the Arkansas State Plant Board, Arkansas’ Agriculture Department said in a news release Sept. 21. Read more: U.S. EPA gives dicamba ‘restricted use’ label
Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler says government needs to have the right support programs to meet farmers’ needs.
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Analysis: AgriStability review welcomed, but can it be fixed without more money?

KAP says in 2013 the program switched from farm income stability to disaster relief

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After cuts to AgriStability five years ago, then Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Doug Chorney predicted “AgriStability will be losing support… from farmers because it really has got to be questionable if you’ll ever see a payment.” He was right. Participation is down. In 2013, there were 7,015 Manitoba farmers enrolled in the federal-provincial ‘business
overhead view of farmland
Local news, Other

Farmland school tax reforms may be coming

KAP officials sense the Manitoba government might make changes during its current mandate

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There was good and bad news on farmland taxes at the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) advisory council meeting here July 13. The bad news is KAP hasn’t convinced a single municipality or the Manitoba government to implement changes to reduce the tax burden on farmland. The good news is there are signs reforms to education
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says a made-in-Manitoba carbon tax will be better for farmers than one imposed by the federal government.
Local news, Weather

Manitoba’s carbon tax better for farmers than Ottawa’s: Pallister

The premier says farmers are price takers and he doesn’t want a plan
that will hurt farmers or the provincial economy

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Manitoba’s carbon tax will be designed either in Manitoba or Ottawa, and Premier Brian Pallister says his version won’t undermine the provincial economy or the competitiveness of Manitoba farmers. However, details of either plan remain. “(O)ur plan is going to be one that works far better for Manitobans,” Pallister said in an interview May 11.
Farm groups hope the legislation will continue to allow interswitching, 
the ability of railways to use each other’s tracks.
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New transport bill expected this week

Prairie grain shippers are counting on amendments to the Canada Transportation Act to improve rail service

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The federal government’s long-awaited proposals for improving railway shipping of western grain were expected this week in proposed amendments to the Canada Transportation Act. “An act to amend the Canada Transportation Act and other acts respecting transportation and to make related and consequential amendments to other acts,” was added to the House of Commons notice
"I understand from talking to Manitoba producers that in some areas grain shipping is as bad as 2013-14." – Dan Mazier
Local news

KAP alleges poor rail service in southwest Manitoba

However, the grain monitor says on the whole grain movement this crop year has been decent

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Rail service for grain in southwestern Manitoba has been bad in recent months, Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier said during the farm group’s advisory council here April 20. “I understand from talking to Manitoba producers that in some areas grain shipping is as bad as 2013-14,” Mazier said in his opening address. “Some
Spring seeding — one of Manitoba’s biggest mega-projects — about to begin
Crops, Local news

Spring seeding — one of Manitoba’s biggest mega-projects — about to begin

Progress will be delayed in parts of sodden western Manitoba, say KAP delegates

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A$2.6-billion mega-project will soon start in Manitoba — but it won’t likely make many headlines. It’s called spring seeding and it’s an annual event in Manitoba. “The more than $2.6 billion we (farmers) invest in fertilizer, fuel and seed dwarfs any other private sector investment in the province,” Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier
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Local news

KAP has a plan to tackle skyrocketing farmland taxes

But it’s going to require farmers lobby their municipal councils 
and then for farmers and municipalities to pressure 
the Manitoba government to act

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Last fall many Manitoba farmers were shocked by double-digit increases in municipal tax bills on farmland because of its higher assessed value, but Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) has a plan for relief. KAP, which has been studying the issue since last August, says on average the assessed value of Manitoba farmland in 2016 jumped 45
KAP’s advisory council further refined the general farm organization’s carbon tax policy at its April 20 meeting passing of a resolution to review all other options, including a GST-style approach so farmers could get carbon taxes in products they buy rebated. KAP’s standing policy to exempt agricultural production from the tax so farmers remain internationally competitive, credit farmers for their beneficial practices protecting the environment and for government to show where every carbon tax dollar is raised and spent, remains in place.
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Keystone Agricultural Producers adds detail to its carbon tax policy

Some KAP delegates argued the farm group should oppose a carbon tax, 
but others said since a tax was inevitable KAP should help government 
create a tax that won’t make farmers uncompetitive

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Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) carbon tax policy was further refined at its advisory council meeting here April 20. But an almost hour-long debate on five carbon tax-related resolutions revealed some KAP members want KAP to oppose a carbon tax. “We want to wait and get everybody (in competing agricultural countries) on board before we move
Dan Mazier says several aspects of the recently released provincial budget are designed to help grow Manitoba’s agricultural sector.
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New investments make provincial budget good for agriculture, says KAP

A few less used agriculture tax credits were axed in the recent provincial budget, 
but were more than offset by added investments

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Keystone Agricultural Producers is giving the provincial budget a thumbs up from the agriculture sector. Producers can expect few changes to how agricultural policy is funded in Manitoba, following the release last week. The province’s general farm organization said the budget is good for agriculture, with no cuts and some improvements on offer. “It does

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