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The Time Has Come

By Laura Rance-Unger March 12, 2009

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but the Manitoba government may have poked a hornet’s nest with its proposal to make membership in a general farm policy group mandatory. If the current proposal comes to pass, farmers would register their operations and be required to directly support a general farm operation sanctioned by

Cereals, News

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

Cereals, News

Railway Overpayments Remain In Limbo

By Alex Binkley, Ron Friesen February 5, 2009

“What can I do to leave a legacy to Western Canadian agriculture? This is it.” – Ed Rempel Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the federal government won’t consider any action on a request to refund railway overpayments to farmers until a court case in concluded. “The money has been put in a trust while the

Opinion

Celebrating Perseverance

By Laura Rance-Unger February 5, 2009

Jack Wilkinson, one of the most respected veterans of national and international efforts to give farmers a policy voice, was eloquent in his brief description last week of the crossroads farmers in Manitoba faced a quarter-century ago. “It was not obvious that Keystone would be successful,” he told farmers and dignitaries gathered for the 25th

Livestock, News

Premises ID for food safety to move forward

By Ron Friesen February 5, 2009

Another building block toward a national livestock traceability system has fallen into place with the announcement of a premises identification system for Manitoba. The province will spend $400,000 on a database to pinpoint and register all Manitoba farms that produce livestock by geographic location. The premises identification database will tie into livestock ID systems, which

News, Other livestock

U. S. farm leader defends COOL

By Ron Friesen February 5, 2009

A North Dakota farm leader has suggested U. S. meat packers are exaggerating the extra costs with which obeying country-of-origin food labelling (COOL) will allegedly burden them. Robert Carlson, North Dakota Farmers Union president, said he doesn’t believe it’s as hard or expensive to segregate animals at slaughter plants according to their country of origin

Forages, Livestock, News

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

Livestock, News

MCPA proposes its own environmental program

By Ron Friesen December 4, 2008

“ALUS is a great idea but it does not help us as cattle producers.” – MARTIN UNRAU, MCPA Manitoba cattle producers are proposing a new program to reward them financially for environmentally friendly farming practices. The program, called Envi ronmental and Rural Stewardship Program (ERSP), would pay producers up to nearly $127 million annually for

News

Flooded cattle producers ineligible for tax deferral

By Ron Friesen November 27, 2008

Flooded Manitoba farmers who are selling off cattle and hoping for an income tax break are out of luck unless Ottawa changes the rules. Producers may defer income from livestock sales for one year only if they are forced to sell animals because of drought, not flood. That leaves out flooded cattle farmers who are

News

Safety message tough sell

By Bonnie Baltessen November 20, 2008

For the province’s farm safety co-ordinator, throwing a Farm Safety and Health meeting once meant booking a hall, picking up dozens of doughnuts and a coffee urn, then presenting to a near empty room. Glen Blahey quickly learned not to take the low turnouts personally. Having a farm background himself, he knows that while most

Daily Network News

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