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KAP questions checkoff administrator

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The Keystone Agricultural Producers is miffed over a federal decision to appoint the Alberta Barley Commission as administrator for the new interim checkoff on western wheat and barley. “I can’t see why KAP couldn’t have handled it or why the Canola Growers or Corn Growers couldn’t,” KAP president Doug Chorney said in an interview last
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Farm community rallies around one of its own

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Manitoba’s rural community is rallying around a Ste. Rose farm family who lost their home to a fire April 28 while they were in Winnipeg receiving leukemia treatments for their critically ill toddler. Friends say Rob and Erin Brunel have been overwhelmed by outpouring of support. Brunel is well known for his activities in farm
Cereals, News

Province urged to speed up flood compensation

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The flood waters have long receded, but many flood victims are still stuck in limbo. “Some Lake Manitoba people have gotten full compensation, some have got none,” Plumas farmer Lorne Rossnagel told delegates at Keystone Agricultural Producers’ General Council meeting on April 10. “It’s just a real hodgepodge.” KAP has been pressing the province to
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Dominoes starting to fall as end of single desk draws nearer

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Research and market development, keeping an eye on the railways, 
and the fate of short line railways are just three of the issues KAP is trying to address

Manitoba’s farm leaders are scrambling to plug holes that will be left by the demise of the single-desk CWB. Research and market development, keeping an eye on the railways, and the fate of short lines were high on the agenda when Keystone Agricultural Producers delegates gathered at their General Council meeting last week. But challenges
Cereals, News

Flood erodes KAP memberships

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Many Manitobans are still suffering in the wake of last year’s flood, and so is the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP). The general farm organization projects a $4,600 loss in its 2012 budget largely due to a drop in memberships. But long-standing problems with its funding checkoff aren’t helping. As of March 31, KAP had 2,177
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It’s early, but a good time to fertilize

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Field work was underway in some parts of Manitoba late last week as farmers began applying fertilizer applications during one of the earliest springs people can remember. But while extension officials urged farmers to take full advantage of the province’s exemption to rules limiting fertilizer applications until after April 10, they cautioned against putting seed
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Checks and balances needed, post-CWB

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With the end of single-desk grain marketing in sight, producers and farm organizations are focusing on filling in the gaps and supporting a stable transition to an open market. “There are more questions than answers,” said Don Dewar, chairman of an ad hoc Keystone Agricultural Producers committee looking at issues grain producers will face in
Beef cattle, News

MBP Votes To Stay Out Of KAP

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CO-OPERATOR STAFF / BRANDON Manitoba Beef Producers shot down a resolution at its recent annual meeting calling on the board to rejoin Keystone Agricultural Producers. Minto farmer Bill Campbell spoke in favour of the resolution, which was conditional on MBP being treated as a full member with full representation on KAP s board of directors.
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City’s Sewage Discharges Detrimental To Lake Winnipeg

STAFF / Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) was quick to pounce on recent news reports that the City of Winnipeg has been discharging partly treated sewage into the Red River. The news that the City of Winnipeg s South End Water Pollution Centre has been discharging up to 60 million litres of sewage into the Red

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