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No Money, No Sale, Says MBP Resolution

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co-operator staff / Brandon Three resolutions aimed at protecting ranchers in the event of a dealer bankruptcy were the subject of debate at the recent Manitoba Beef Producers annual general meeting. The first, which called on MBP to lobby for laws making the transfer of ownership of cattle or commodities incomplete until payment is made
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Cattle Insurance In The Works

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The Manitoba government has set aside $200,000 for a livestock insurance pilot program for the province’s cattle producers. The allocation is hidden in the 2011-12 provincial budget brought down April 12 by Finance Minister Rosann Wowchuk. TheCo-operatorlearned about it during briefings by Treasury Board officials in a media lockup prior to Wowchuk’s budget speech in
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Hatching Egg Producers Seek Improved Disease Compensation

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Canada’s broiler hatching egg farmers are examining the possibility of an insurance program to protect them against uncompensated losses resulting from reportable diseases in their flocks. Canadian Hatching Egg Producers is investigating an insurance package that would cover lost product ion and income from flocks that have to be destroyed. So far, the invest igat
Hogs, Livestock

Production Insurance For Hogs Coming This Fall

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Pork producers will have the opportunity to purchase production insurance as early as fall 2011, Manitoba Pork general manager Andrew Dickson announced at the 25th Manitoba Swine Seminar. Production insurance has been a long-term goal of the organization, he said. “All we are asking for in the livestock industry is can we get some sort
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Major Revision Possible For AgriStability

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Canada’s key agricultural safety net program may undergo a redesign to make it more acceptable to a majority of producers who say it isn’t working for them. Agriculture ministers could consider turning AgriStability into something resembling an income insurance program without the highly unpopular financial margins underpinning it. The idea is only one of many
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Excess Rain Leaves 700,000 Acres Unseeded

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“We’re in the middle of making payments and we’re doing them as quickly as we can. Our adjusters are going like crazy.” – DAVID VAN DEYNZE, MASC About 700,000 acres of Mani toba cropland was too wet to seed this spring, which will trigger $29 million to $30 million in payments to waterlogged farmers through
Cereals, Crops

CGC Payment Security Alternative Closer

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“We still like the old one (program), there’s no question about that.” – ROB BRUNEL KAP is making headway on a “Plan B” should the federal government scrap the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) security program that kicks in when licensed grain companies fail to pay farmers. “We are going to be putting forward a policy
Livestock

Mcpa Pushes Cattle Price Insurance

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Manitoba cattle producers have renewed their call for a national cattle price insurance program based on a model operating in Alberta. MCPA officials made the pitch during an April 18 meeting with Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger and Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers, who responded “very favourably,” said general manager Sheila Mowat. “They’re very aware of it,”
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Mobile Phones Bring Insurance To Kenyan Farmers

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Kenyan farmers can now insure some of the costs of growing crops against bad weather by using mobile phone technology that links solar-powered weather stations to an insurance company. Farmers can cover the cost of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides at local agricultural supply shops by paying an extra five per cent of their value. If
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New Program Proffered To Improve AgriStability

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“It would be a bilateral agreement between the producer and the national government.” – BRYAN FERRISS Aproposed new farm income stabilization program developed for the Manitoba Pork Council is being touted as a solution to chronic problems with existing programs. The insurance-based program would incorporate production costs in the payment formula to help compensate for

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