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“Be aware that once this land is taken from agricultural use, chances are it won’t come back to ag production.” – Bill Campbell, KAP.

From fields to houses: As Manitoba’s population grows, so does the desire to convert farmland

The province’s growing population needs homes, and frequently they’re built on former farmland

By Alexis Stockford November 18, 2021

Over the last 20 years, Manitoba has shaken off decades of slow growth and posted sustained and significant population expansion. In 2000 there were 1.14 million citizens, according to figures from the most recent report on population by the provincial government. As of July of this year the same report estimated there were 1.41 million

George Graham said he and other landowners asked Manitoba Hydro to build transmission towers along the property line where it would be less of a hazard to machinery.

News, Other

Farmer says Manitoba Hydro disregarded safety in placing new lines

If farmers choose to farm public road allowances, it’s their job to take safety precautions says Hydro

By Geralyn Wichers April 29, 2021

A Foxwarren-area farmer says Manitoba Hydro’s high-handed treatment has left his farm less safe and caused him to relinquish leased land he says is now too dangerous to work. “We as citizens need to be aware of Hydro and Hydro lines and avoid contact, but Hydro doesn’t seem to take any interest or responsibility to

Manitoba’s education tax phase-out begins

Budget pledges a 25 per cent rebate cheque in 2021; existing farmland school tax rebate to be reduced

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 8, 2021

Manitoba’s latest budget follows through on a move the government telegraphed in last fall’s throne speech, by starting a phased removal of education tax on farm and residential properties. Finance Minister Scott Fielding’s budget, released Wednesday, calls for about $248 million in education tax rebates in 2021 alone for about 658,000 property owners. Owners of

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Saskatchewan to pare school tax mill rate for farmland

EPT mill rates to rise for residential, other properties

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 7, 2021

Saskatchewan’s latest budget taps down the education property tax (EPT) mill rate it sets on farmland, while raising those mill rates on other property classes. The provincial government, in Tuesday’s budget, set the provincewide EPT mill rate on agricultural land for 2021 at 1.36, down slightly from the previous rate of 1.43. EPT mill rates

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Farmland appreciation continues through pandemic year

FCC report puts Canada's average land value increase at 5.4 per cent

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 15, 2021

Economic churn across Canada from the global COVID-19 pandemic didn’t faze the country’s real estate market — nor its farmland market in particular — in 2020, according to the latest review from the federal farm lending agency. Farm Credit Canada on Monday released its 2020 Farmland Values report, showing an average increase of 5.4 per

News, News & Opinion, Other

Manitoba farmland values higher again in 2020

FCC says, on average, this province's land prices rose 3.6 per cent versus 5.4 per cent nationally

By Allan Dawson March 15, 2021

Average Manitoba farmland prices were up 3.6 per cent in 2020, slightly below the Canadian average increase of 5.4 per cent Farm Credit Canada (FCC) announced in a news release Monday. A combination of low interest rates, which cut the cost of borrowing money to buy land, and higher farm cash receipts, especially for crops,

File photo of a rye field in Kazakhstan. (Stsmhn/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Other

Kazakhstan’s president orders ban on foreign ownership of farmland

By GFM Network News, Reuters February 25, 2021

Almaty | Reuters — Kazakhstan will permanently ban foreigners from owning or renting farmland in the vast central Asian nation, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Thursday, ending a lengthy dispute that once prompted anti-government protests. Kazakhstan is a major producer of grains, oilseeds and meat in the former Soviet region sandwiched between China and Russia

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Manitoba crop conference recovers allegedly phished funds

Court order frees event organizers' money from frozen account

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff February 4, 2021

The organizers of one of the last big Prairie farm events held before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have recovered funds temporarily lost to an alleged phishing scam. The CropConnect Conference — an annual crop production and farm management conference co-organized by Manitoba grain, oilseed and pulse grower groups — has received back almost

Michelle Schram, with her young son, on the farm she co-runs with husband Troy Stozek near Cartwright.

Farmit Manitoba

Women more likely to run non-conventional farms: report

By Geralyn Wichers November 21, 2020

EQUALITY | Access to land, social capital and difference in interests, skills may account for the trend

While women are less likely than men to farm in Manitoba, inequality appears to be lower for women in direct marketing or non-conventional farms, according to a recent report from the University of Manitoba. “There is a dynamic that women face that young men don’t face entering farming, but I also think that that’s changing

File photo of a tobacco crop in Zimbabwe. (Munya Chawora/iStock/Getty Images)

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Zimbabwe says foreign white farmers can apply to get back seized land

By GFM Network News, Reuters August 31, 2020

Harare | Reuters — Foreign white farmers settled in Zimbabwe whose land was seized under Robert Mugabe can apply to get it back and will be offered land elsewhere if restitution proves impractical, the government said on Monday. Last month, Zimbabwe agreed to pay US$3.5 billion in compensation to local white farmers whose land was

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans continue gains on Trump’s China comments

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher on tight supply

Pea, lentil outlooks have some positive signals – Penner

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