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Trade talks set to divide farm communities

Some groups want a trade deal even if it means sacrificing supply management

By Alex Binkley May 27, 2015

High-level negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) scheduled for Guam this month have opened a rift in Canada’s farm community that successive governments have tried to prevent. Livestock and grain groups have gone public with a demand the federal government fully engage in the talks and, while they don’t actually say it, essentially be prepared

Crops

Streamlined crop registration system approved

Gerry Ritz says quality control inherent in the current system will continue

By Allan Dawson May 19, 2015

Proposed changes to Canada’s crop variety registration system could take effect before year’s end or early in 2016 via order-in-council, federal officials say. The reforms will streamline the process and ensure red tape doesn’t delay or prevent farmers from getting new and improved varieties, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told the Canadian Global Crops Symposium here

Crops, Livestock, Local news

KAP seeks members’ input on Growing Forward 3

By starting early Manitoba’s general farm organization hopes to have more influence  over the outcome than it did with Growing Forward 2

By Allan Dawson May 12, 2015

Which farm programs are working and which are not? That’s what Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) staff is asking members as it and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture prepare for Growing Forward 3, the federal-provincial framework for farm programs to take effect April 1, 2017. “We felt we needed to be as proactive as possible to

Cereals, News

Clock ticking for company co-operation on grain price transparency

Gerry Ritz wants information posted starting Aug. 1 and John De Pape is confident the target can be met

By Allan Dawson April 29, 2015

John De Pape is trying to get all Prairie grain companies to give him their prices so he can post regional averages starting Aug. 1, but if they don’t the federal government might have to force them to. “It’s a stick the (agriculture) minister (Gerry Ritz) has,” De Pape, president of FARMCO, told the Keystone

Cereals, Opinion

Support for single desk wasn’t ‘cooked up’

And farmers won’t control  the voluntary CWB 

By Allan Dawson April 24, 2015

In the heat of debate it’s easy to forget a fact or dismiss your opponent’s argument out of hand. Perhaps that explains why Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz accused Lowe Farm farmer Dean Harder of citing a “cooked up” number when the two were sparring April 15 in Winnipeg over the privatization of CWB — the

National news

Newly created buyer G3 to take majority ownership of government-owned CWB

Farmers can earn equity in CWB by delivering grain but it won’t be farmer controlled

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2015

When the Canadian Wheat Board had a monopoly to market western wheat and barley, grain farmers controlled its operation. But they didn’t own it. Now farmers who deliver grain to CWB can collectively own up to 49.9 per cent through a farmers’ trust, but they will have no control and little input. Control is with

News

Supreme Court kills $17-billion suit to compensate farmers for scrapped wheat board monopoly

However, legal action concerning allegations farmers’ money was wrongly used  to restructure the post-monopoly board can continue

By Allan Dawson April 20, 2015

The Supreme Court of Canada has quashed efforts to mount a class-action lawsuit claiming $17 billion in government compensation for the Harper government’s decision to end the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly. The court last week ruled it would not hear an appeal of a lower court’s decision last October to throw out most of the

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Transport Minister Lisa Raitt

Crops, National news

Ottawa drops minimum rail shipping order

Permanent  improvements to grain transportation must come from the Canada Transportation Act review

By Allan Dawson, Dave Bedard April 2, 2015

The federal government’s order-in-council requiring the two major railways to ship a minimum amount of grain has expired, but can be reinstated if required, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. The first order last March compelled the railways to ship one million tonnes in total per week or face a fine of up to $100,000 a

Stephen Harper in a discussion at a conference

Crops, News

Harper says railways can’t be allowed to misuse market power

The order-in-council requiring minimum grain movement expires at the end of March

By Allan Dawson March 20, 2015

Western Canadian farmers and grain companies have a new supporter for their argument that the railways have too much market power — Prime Minister Stephen Harper, no less. A year after the Canadian cabinet in an unprecedented move passed an order-in-council requiring Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP) railways to ship a weekly minimum

Gerry Ritz, Canadian Agriculture MInister

Crops, National news

Strong support as Agricultural Growth Act becomes law

The main dissenter is the National Farmers Union. KAP wants farmers to be consulted on the regulations

By Allan Dawson March 5, 2015

There was applause here when plant breeders, seed companies and farmers at the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale heard the Agricultural Growth Act with its stronger intellectual property rights was about to receive royal assent. Immediately following the bill becoming law last week, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz tabled a treaty in Parliament

Daily Network News

Selling GMO tomato seeds to Canadian gardeners ‘reckless’ say advocates

U.S. grains: Wheat recovers on short covering, soy continues to fall

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures lower on falling beef prices, selling

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