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Feds, province invest $432,000 towards farm safety education and training

Keystone Agricultural Producers will administer the new program.  The hope is for sweeping change in attitudes towards safety, KAP president says

By Lorraine Stevenson November 15, 2016

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) will receive a major cash injection of $432,000 over the next two years to establish a broad-reaching and extensive new farm safety program. The funds announced by both provincial and federal ag ministers last week will flow through Growing Forward 2 and used to provide practical, on-farm expertise, resources and training

Dugald farmer Edgar Scheurer told the KAP advisory council the “entire (education taxation) system needs to be changed instead of seeking “band-aid solutions.”

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KAP says fund education through income tax and residences

Farmers complain about skyrocketing tax increases on farmland, even though province-wide  they are up only 15 per cent on average, according to a Manitoba government official

By Allan Dawson November 14, 2016

Keystone Agricultural Producers members have taken their stance on education tax reform one step further and are calling for the funds to be raised through income tax and a tax on residences. That adds to their long-standing call for removing the heavy tax burden on farmland and production buildings, and came during their annual advisory

Mario Tenuta, professor of applied soil ecology at the University of Manitoba predicts, among other things, that anhydrous ammonia and urea — popular nitrogen fertilizers — will be banned because they produce too much nitrous oxide — a powerful greenhouse gas.

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In the battle to mitigate global warming farmers’ nitrogen use will be scrutinized

But soil scientist Mario Tenuta says there are things farmers can do to help themselves

By Allan Dawson October 14, 2016

The fight to control global warning will bring about big changes in how Manitoba farmers farm, says Mario Tenuta, professor of applied soil ecology and chair and adviser of the B.Sc. Agroecology Program at the University of Manitoba. “I predict eventually they will outlaw anhydrous ammonia and urea and replace it with high-efficiency (nitrogen) fertilizer,”

KAP general manager James Battershill says a good carbon pricing plan can make farmers part of the solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and generate farmers some new revenues at the same time.

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KAP takes proactive stance on carbon pricing

The group says a good plan could help farmers be part of the  solution and generate new revenue while doing it

By Allan Dawson October 13, 2016

Pricing carbon to encourage fewer greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change will affect all Canadians, including farmers. How depends on the program each province implements. It could raise farmers’ nitrogen fertilizer and fuel costs, but sequestering carbon with zero-till or rotational grazing could earn credits offsetting some of those costs. And while some farm

Manitoba farmers feel left out on farm policy tour

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus October 4, 2016

CNS Canada –– Manitoba has been dropped from an upcoming consulting tour meant to lay the foundation for Canada’s next agricultural policy funding framework. That will limit the province’s producers, the head of an industry group says. The House of Commons’ standing committee on agriculture and agri-food is holding a consulting tour to hear from

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KAP submission says producer car facilities need not be licensed

Requirement for official scales is also an unnecessary burden that could limit loading options

By Allan Dawson September 19, 2016

The Keystone Agricultural Producers is calling for a middle ground on licensing producer car loading facilities. In a submission to the Canadian Grain Commission, KAP is calling for no licence requirement for facilities that strictly load producer cars, but licensing for facilities that add dealer cars into the mix. Historically ‘dealer car’ had a different

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Fertilizer merger highlights big-picture concerns

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus September 13, 2016

CNS Canada — A multi-billion-dollar merger between two major crop input companies is the latest in a string of consolidation efforts in North America’s agriculture industry, drawing attention again to the possible effects on the value chain. Agrium and PotashCorp announced Monday they plan to combine to create an integrated global supplier of crop inputs,

Prairie farmer groups want a meeting with federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau, shown here speaking in May at an international transportation summit in Leipzig, Germany.

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KAP, APAS seek meeting with Garneau

Consultations on amending the transportation act end Sept. 16 and farm leaders say the minister needs to hear directly from farmers

By Allan Dawson September 2, 2016

When the then newly elected Liberal government promised further consultation on changes to the Canada Transportation Act, farm groups reacted with relief. Now that relief is turning to frustration and worry. Neither the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), Manitoba’s general farm organization, nor the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, have met with Transport Minister Marc Garneau,

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PotashCorp, Agrium merger would send farmers to regulators

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer, Rod Nickel August 31, 2016

Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — North American farmers will pressure regulators to protect their negotiating leverage with fertilizer suppliers if PotashCorp and Agrium agree to merge, major farm groups said on Wednesday. The potential deal revealed on Tuesday would combine the world’s largest fertilizer producer by capacity, with the continent’s biggest network of farm retail dealers,

KAP president Dan Mazier addresses members during the organization’s summer advisory meeting on July 13 in Brandon.

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KAP lobbies for increased funding for GF3

Keystone Agricultural Producers passed 11 new resolutions at the recently held summer advisory meeting held in Brandon on July 13

By Jennifer Paige July 25, 2016

Members at Keystone Agricultural Producers summer advisory meeting here last week heard an update on lobbying efforts for the new Growing Forward 3 (GF3) program. “We have delivered our messages to senior policy staff from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Manitoba Agriculture in June and yesterday we attended an official stakeholders’ meeting,” KAP president Dan

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USDA attachés forecast some changes in China’s oilseeds, cereals

China urges hog producers to manage output, vows timely reserve adjustments

Farm Credit Canada offers aid to farmers, companies affected by Iran war price spikes

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