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Too Much Rain For Farmers

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“My experience has been crops at the early stage of growth are quite vulnerable.” – BOB WEI NS It never rains but it pours, and depending on where you were on the weekend, it poured some more. Most of agro-Manitoba received at least 23 mm of precipitation, with many areas getting 50 to 75 and
Cereals, Crops

Higher Threshold Requested

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“My biggest fear was that they would immediately go to the weighted ballot. I think this will actually stop that.” – IAN WISHART The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) says C-27 is a step in the right direction, but doesn’t go far enough to prevent hobby farmers from voting in Canadian Wheat Board elections.
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Manitoba Flax Growers Turn Thumbs Down On Bill C-474

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The Manitoba Flax Growers Association (MFGA) has decided it won’t support Bill C-474, a private member’s bill that would require market impact be considered before approving the release of new genetically modified (GM) crops in Canada. “It is a difficult issue,” MFGA president Eric Fridfinnson said in an interview May 6, the day after the
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Province Revises Sewage Ejector Rules

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“We’re very happy as an association that government listened to the concerns of our members and that they’ve come out with a positive result here.” – AMM PRESIDENT DOUG DOBROWOLSKI Rural landowners got some good news last week – the province is revising its policy to phase out sewage ejectors. The provincial government announced April
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Levy A Blatant Tax Grab, Says KAP

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Keystone Agricultural Producers has come out against the province’s proposed two per cent supply management quota exchange levy. At the recent general council meeting, a number of speakers came forward to denounce the levy as a tax grab which would offer nothing in return to farmers, and a resolution was passed to lobby the provincial
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Prairie Farm Groups Wrestle With Attracting New Producers

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“We need to see profitability, first and foremost.” – GREG MARSHALL, APAS How you gonna get ’em back to the farm? Adequate government programs and a better public image of agriculture would help a lot, say the Prairie provinces’ three major farm groups. Support for young and beginning farmers was a major subject at an
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Assistant CGC Commissioners Redundant?

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“Farmers have been well served by their efforts. There have been many instances where the intervention of the assistant commissioner has resolved disputes fairly.” – GLENN TAIT The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) has been operating fine without the six assistant commissioners historically appointed by the federal government and that will continue, a spokesman says. Remi
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KAP Receives Grant To Boost Farm Safety

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“This will be quite different than anything we’ve done before because we’ll actually be hiring a couple of people to go to the farms and to work with the farmer and their employees and go through the safety issues right there on the farm.” – KAP PRESIDENT IAN WISHART Farmers who employ workers now have
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Province Softens Approach To Minor On-Farm Drainage

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“It could have been an absolute nightmare.” – IAN WISHART, KAP In Oct. 2008, a Keystone Agricultural Producers council meeting was startled to hear farmers in southwestern Manitoba were getting letters from the province saying they would need licences to drain water from their land. The reason was Section 3(1) (c) of The Water Rights
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Is There Enough Certified Flaxseed?

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Planting certified flaxseed this spring instead of farm saved is part of a plan to flush traces of genetically modified (GM) CDC Triffid flax from the handling system and restore exports to the European Union (EU). But no one in the industry is sure what the supply or demand will be. “There’s enough (certified) seed

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