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Farm and food goodies in federal budget well received

Farmers will get an increased capital gains exemption when they sell the farm

By Alex Binkley May 1, 2015

Farm groups are welcoming federal budget provisions that offer long-sought-after increases in the capital gains exemption on farm sales, the manufacturing equipment depreciation allowance and trade expansion programs. Increasing the capital gains exemption to $1 million from $813,000 has been on the Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s wish list for years. Implementing it immediately will “have

Farmers like Karen Friesen, who are engaged in small-scale food processing and direct marketing, are encouraged that the province has committed to helping their sector prosper. Friesen and her husband Jonathan operate Valleyfield Acres near Morden, selling farm-raised vegetables and preserves.

Local news

Province promises new supports for smaller farmers and processors

The report says support to grow food-processing sector  must extend to all sizes of players

By Lorraine Stevenson January 23, 2015

A new report aimed at supporting local producers and small-scale pro-cessors is being praised as an important step towards fostering a better working environment for new entrants to farming and food processing. Advancing the small scale, local food sector in Manitoba, a path forward, a 65-page report that includes 21 recommendations, was released last week

Country Crossroads

How to grow a food business

Small-scale food product makers are capturing business opportunities  in a market hungry for locally made specialty and niche products

By Lorraine Stevenson January 21, 2015

Natalie Dueck recalls the day she won gold at the Great Manitoba Food Fight. She’d just accepted a $15,000 cheque at the 2011 event for a snack food made with hemp seed and realized this meant no turning back from becoming a small-scale food processor. At the time, the New Bothwell mom was doing a

Local news

Innovative food processors get funding kick-starts

Growing Forward 2 funding aims to help this province’s unique processors  and agribusinesses grow, says provincial agriculture minister

By Lorraine Stevenson January 7, 2015

A small on-farm processor hoping to start selling milk in old-fashioned recyclable glass bottles is one of seven companies to receive Growing Forward 2 funding supporting investments in made-in-Manitoba food products. Dairy farmers Jim and Angie Appleby, who farm with Jim’s family near Steinbach are developing an on-farm micro-creamery to pasteurize and bottle milk and

Opinion

Animal industry entering a mini-boom period

By Chris Hurt January 2, 2015

In 2007, meat consumption per person in the U.S. was 219 pounds for the big four of beef, pork, chicken, and turkey. Current USDA estimates for this year are down to 199 pounds per person, nearly a 10 per cent decrease in seven years. In percentage terms, consumption of beef has been down 17 per

Livestock

Antibiotic-resistant genes pass between bacteria

Solving the problem of increasing antibiotic-resistant organisms will require stakeholders to move beyond the blame game and collaborate

By Shannon VanRaes November 21, 2014

It’s a microscopic problem with huge repercussions, repercussions that could end a way of life humans have enjoyed for seven decades. Experts say that antibiotic resistance is on the rise, including resistance to antibiotics important to human health. “It is indeed a crisis, the evolution of antibiotic resistance is occurring at an alarming rate, outpacing

Hogs, News, Oilseeds

Report sounds alarm for food processing in Manitoba

Trouble in the pork and potato industries could put a $100-million  drag on food processing in Manitoba, a new report says

By Lorraine Stevenson August 28, 2014

Manitoba’s food-processing sector could take a $100-million nose-dive by 2020 if challenges faced by two of its three biggest players — pork and potatoes — aren’t addressed soon. That’s the worst-case or “business-as-usual” scenario laid out in a recent study by the Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Brandon University. Researchers gathered data from Statistics Canada

Beef cattle, Livestock

Meat processors applaud tenderized beef labelling

But they say ground beef should also carry cautionary labels

By Alex Binkley June 4, 2014

Meat processors are welcoming Health Canada’s regulations for mandatory cooking advisory labels on all mechanically tenderized beef (MTB) products but wonder why retailers aren’t required to put similar labels on ground beef packages. Jim Laws, president of the Canadian Meat Council, said in an interview the department’s MTB labelling order, which comes into effect Aug.

Hogs, Livestock, News

Another hog stabilization program rejected

By Shannon VanRaes April 11, 2013

The provincial government has refused to back a hog stabilization program proposed by the Manitoba Pork Council to help producers through ongoing financial turbulence. “While the province continues to work with the Manitoba Pork Council on possible solutions, their recent proposal is too much of a financial risk during these uncertain economic times,” the minister

Cereals, Crops

Ottawa urges Canadian grain industry to pull together

By Allan Dawson April 10, 2013

Danny Penner, the iconoclast who wants Canada’s farmers to get their voices together, has a fan in high places. “I read your blog. I think it’s great,” Greg Meredith, an assistant deputy minister with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada told Penner during a question period April 2 during the Canada Grains Council’s annual meeting in Winnipeg.

Daily Network News

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Bayer’s bid to curb Roundup cases

Canada-China roundup: Producer groups applaud tariff relief; pork left out; mix of criticism and praise from Trump administration

Opinion: Is a closer trade relationship with China a security risk?

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