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Flooded Livestock Farmers Win Tax Deferral Battle

By Ron Friesen March 12, 2009

“To help just on one extreme and not the other really didn’t make sense.” – JOE BOUCHARD, MCPA Manitoba producers who couldn’t harvest hay last summer because of excess moisture will now qualify for income tax deferrals on proceeds from livestock sales. The measure announced March 5 corrects an imbalance between flooded farmers, who previously

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Oat market is hammering out a bottom

By Allan Dawson March 5, 2009

“Nobody has done that analysis. The minister himself told me they haven’t done it in their department, which is kind of strange.” – ian wishart The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) will stop grading grain at western Canadian country elevators, even if it’s being exported directly to the United States, starting Aug. 1, 2009. Critics say

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Ritz Asks CWB To Allow Full Federal Audit

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 5, 2009

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has taken the Canadian Wheat Board up on its invitation to have federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser review its risk management practices. Going one further, however, Ritz also wants Fraser’s office to conduct “a full audit of all operations” at the CWB, the minister said in a release last Thursday,

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Ritz Rips CWB Over Barley Pool Closure

February 19, 2009

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz slammed the Canadian Wheat Board over its decision to close down its bulk barley pool in the interests of keeping prices high for those already in the program. “I’m very concerned when I see them put out a press release saying they’re closing the bulk barley pool because they don’t

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MP Wrong About CWB Contingency Fund

By Allan Dawson February 19, 2009

News that Prairie farmers earned a record $7.2 billion through the Canadian Wheat Board last year was buried last week beneath allegations that the board had mismanaged the Producer Payments Options program (PPO). Conservative MP David Anderson charged the board lost $130 million of farmers’ money, an allegation CWB chair Larry Hill says is untrue

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CFIA under fire over plant and meat inspection

By Ron Friesen February 12, 2009

“The agency lacks an effective, integrated risk-management approach to plant and plant product imports.” – Sheila Fraser, Auditor General Last week was a rough one for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency with the auditor general criticizing it and a group of veterinarians suing it. Auditor General Sheila Fraser released a report faulting the way CFIA

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Lobby intensifies for cattle tax deferral

By Ron Friesen January 8, 2009

“I’d just as soon see this happen sooner rather than later.” – James Bezan, MP James Bezan says he is having an uphill battle persuading the federal Finance Department that losing hay to a flood is the same as losing it to a drought. “It’s a matter of convincing people within the department that the

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LETTERS – for Dec. 18, 2008

December 18, 2008

Protect rural residents from ILOs It was gratifying to read about a recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling whereby companies can be sued for polluting, despite operating within government regulations and that this could have ramifications for agriculture. The report “Polluters liable for excessive annoyances,” by Ron Friesen in the Manitoba Co-operator Dec. 4 also

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Speaker allows Anderson letter

By Allan Dawson December 18, 2008

“The chair has concluded that there are not sufficient grounds for finding a prima facie breach of privilege in this case.” – PETER MILLIKEN Conservative MP David Anderson did not breach his parliamentary privileges by mailing a letter instructing Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) bal lot holders to vote for pro-open market candidates in the recent

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Single-desk support unchanged

By Allan Dawson December 11, 2008

Pro-single-desk directors continue to hold the balance of power at the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) following the most contentious wheat board election since they began in 1998. Four of the five directors elected want the CWB’s monopoly on the sale of western wheat and barley for domestic human consumption or export to remain. That includes

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Flooded Livestock Farmers Win Tax Deferral Battle

Oat market is hammering out a bottom

Ritz Asks CWB To Allow Full Federal Audit

Ritz Rips CWB Over Barley Pool Closure

MP Wrong About CWB Contingency Fund

CFIA under fire over plant and meat inspection

Lobby intensifies for cattle tax deferral

LETTERS – for Dec. 18, 2008

Speaker allows Anderson letter

Single-desk support unchanged

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