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Is History Repeating Itself?

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The wheat board isn t even dead yet, but that didn t stop some Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) delegates meeting here last week from wanting to resurrect it. I ve got an idea here, Arborg farmer Kyle Foster said during a discussion about lopsided contracts favouring grain companies Oct. 27. Why don t we pool
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KAP Bows Out Of CWB Fight

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The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), once a steadfast supporter of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), accepts the board will lose its single desk. Now Manitoba s largest farm group wants to ensure farmers benefit from the controversial change, says KAP president Doug Chorney. We re just facing the reality of the circumstances that we find
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A Majority For Single Desk

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The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) will fight Ottawa s plan to kill its single desk, a defiant CWB chair Allen Oberg said following a release of plebiscite results this week. Their message is loud and clear and cannot be ignored, Oberg, who farms at Forestburg, Alta., said during a news conference at a farm near
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KAP Calls For Provincial Water Strategy In Lead-Up To Provincial Election

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Farmers want a commitment from the next provincial government to create a province-water strategy for long-term and broad-based management of the entire watershed – not short-term crisis intervention during floods. Keystone Agricultural Producers rolled out the key issues farmers will be putting before candidates in this fall’s provincial elect ion dur ing their recent general
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KAP Wants Fair-Use Agreements To Harvest Volunteer Crops Negotiated

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Keystone Agr icul tural Producers want seed technology companies to recognize the income crisis farmers are facing this year and be willing to negotiate a fair-use agreement for volunteer crops. With so much land unseeded in 2011, volunteer canola from last year’s fields has, in some cases, grown into stands farmers consider viable to harvest.
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Farmers Shouldn’t Bear Cost Of CWB Winddown: KAP

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Keys tone Agr icul tural Producers want assurances farmers won’t be footing the bills associated with ending the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly. They also want key non-marketing services in research and market development, presently supported by farmers through the CWB, to continue. Delegates at the July general council meeting passed two carefully worded resolutions stating
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Flooded Farmers To Receive Government Aid

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Manitoba’s waterlogged farmers are being promised $194 million in government aid to help pay for crop losses and flood-related damage this year. MAFRI Minister Stan Struthers last week announced a recovery program aimed at topping up crop insurance, growing greenfeed for livestock and rehabilitating flood-damaged land. The AgriRecovery package still requires federal participation. Programs under
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Lake Winnipeg Bill Targets Hogs

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Manitoba farmers fear new provincial legislation aimed at protecting Lake Winnipeg is a foot in the door toward controlling commercial fertilizer use in the province. Bill 46 (the Save Lake Winnipeg Act), introduced June 2 in the legislature, could be used to regulate the amount of fertilizer applied on cropland, not just to prevent hog
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Manitoba Farmers Struggle To Seed

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Souris-area farmer Walter Finlay managed to seed two-thirds of his 2,900 acres in 2010. This year he hasn’t planted an acre. “It’s a combination of the fact that we were so wet last year and then we had 3-1/2 inches in October so we went into winter wet and then we had a bunch of
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Special Flood Aid Welcome: KAP

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Daily talks between the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) and Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers about flooding appears to have paid off, says KAP president Doug Chorney. The province adopted KAP’s call for 100 per cent compensation for farmers artificially flooded, including lost income, in the Manitoba government’s Flood 2011 Building and Recovery Action Plan announced May

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