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Lowe Farm farmer Butch Harder expressed concerns about changes to KAP’s checkoff legislation at KAP’s advisory council meeting in Brandon July 13.

KAP hopes improved checkoff ready for its next fiscal year

Under proposed changes, partial checkoff fees would stay with KAP rather than being refunded 

By Allan Dawson August 4, 2017

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) hopes Bill 35, legislation to amend its funding checkoff, will be law by the start of KAP’s new fiscal year Dec. 1, 2017. “I’m very hopeful that these changes, while not a wholesale overhaul of the (Agricultural Producers’ Organization Funding Act) and the way our system functions, will make things a

Transport Minister Marc Garneau will introduce promised amendments to the Canada Transportation Act this spring, a spokesman says.

News

New transportation legislation still set for spring introduction

While grain farmers and shippers look forward to legislation they want provisions under C-30 set to expire Aug. 1 extended until the amendments take force

By Allan Dawson May 11, 2017

Canada Transportation Act amendments will be introduced this spring before the House of Commons rises — but the grain industry is concerned key temporary provision may expire before legislation is passed. The confirmation came after a query to Transport Minister Marc Garneau’s office. “Minister Garneau is committed to introducing legislation this spring,” Marc Roy, Garneau’s

KAP’s advisory council further refined the general farm organization’s carbon tax policy at its April 20 meeting passing of a resolution to review all other options, including a GST-style approach so farmers could get carbon taxes in products they buy rebated. KAP’s standing policy to exempt agricultural production from the tax so farmers remain internationally competitive, credit farmers for their beneficial practices protecting the environment and for government to show where every carbon tax dollar is raised and spent, remains in place.

Local news

Keystone Agricultural Producers adds detail to its carbon tax policy

Some KAP delegates argued the farm group should oppose a carbon tax,  but others said since a tax was inevitable KAP should help government  create a tax that won’t make farmers uncompetitive

By Allan Dawson April 27, 2017

Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) carbon tax policy was further refined at its advisory council meeting here April 20. But an almost hour-long debate on five carbon tax-related resolutions revealed some KAP members want KAP to oppose a carbon tax. “We want to wait and get everybody (in competing agricultural countries) on board before we move

Crops

Keystone Agricultural Producers defends cash ticket deferrals

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 21, 2017

Manitoba’s Keystone Agricultural Producers has joined other farm groups in calling on the federal government to keep a regulation that allows farmers to defer grain sales into the following year for tax purposes. The government announced in its recent budget that it is considering eliminating grain ticket deferrals because it is a left over from

Livestock, Markets

Falling farm gate prices highlight ‘long overdue’ topic

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus February 28, 2017

CNS Canada — Statistics Canada’s latest Farm Product Price Index marks a year of annual declines, predominantly led by the cattle sector. The whims of the market are one source of losses, but two producer group heads say the data call attention to the country’s processing sector. Year-over-year declines in Canada’s Farm Product Price Index

Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler announced at Ag Days the province will explore changes to how Keystone Agricultural Producers collects membership fees from farmers. (Allan Dawson photo)

Manitoba surveying farmers on KAP funding system

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News February 27, 2017

The Manitoba government wants “farmers’ and stakeholders'” feedback on potential changes to Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) funding model — and fast. The deadline to fill out an online survey or download and email it in is March 9, the government said in a release Thursday. “The current approach to funding our province’s general farm organization

Local news

Carbon pricing focus of KAP resolutions

Carbon pricing continues to generate debate as Canada moves closer to climate change deadline

By Shannon VanRaes February 2, 2017

Carbon pricing is coming, but Manitoba producers are still trying to suss out exactly what that will mean for their farms. At Keystone Agricultural Producers’ annual general meeting in Winnipeg last week, three resolutions were put forward on the issue, including one asking for clarification on the organization’s position on the carbon pricing. That resolution

As soybeans break out of the Red River Valley, Westman looks to become a logical choice for any future crushing plant.

Crops, Local news, Oilseeds

Westman group exploring feasibility of soybean-crushing plant

Westman Opportunities Leadership Group chair Ray Redfern says with soybean production expanding and perhaps hog production too, a plant in western Manitoba could make sense

By Allan Dawson January 12, 2017

A group of community leaders is studying the feasibility of building a 5,000-tonne-per-day soybean-crushing plant in western Manitoba. The newly created Westman Opportunities Leadership Group (WOLG) is a volunteer group whose membership includes business, farm and civic leaders from the region. “Most of the (soybean) growth from here on in will certainly be in Westman,”

Crops

Duration limit lifted from foreign worker program

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 20, 2016

Canadian farm groups are among the sectors hailing Ottawa’s decision to axe the cumulative duration rule, or “four-in, four-out” policy, which stood to sideline temporary foreign workers from the Canadian market. The federal government announced last Tuesday (Dec. 13) it would lift the restriction, effective immediately. The cumulative duration rule had been in place in

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Point of pride

By Gord Gilmour November 24, 2016

Have you ever noticed how a lot of people feel like anyone who disagrees with them is too stupid to know better? Nowhere is this more widespread than the political realm and the trend seems to grow with each passing election campaign. Not only are people wrong if they disagree, they’re uniformed, irrational or biased

Daily Network News

Feed grain weekly: Barley bids rise with crude and corn

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Egg Farmers of Canada sees more hens, greater egg demand in 2025

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