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Farmers defend grain commission’s role

WGEA says the CGC can continue to protect Canada’s brand by overseeing private grain inspectors

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The creation of the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) 107 years ago followed decades of farmer complaints that the grain trade cheated them on grades and diluted the quality of their grain when exported. Much has changed since 1912, but many farmers say the CGC is still needed. “The reasons why the CGC was invented in
Patty Rosher is the new general manager of KAP.
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Patty Rosher new KAP GM

The new general manager has held roles at Manitoba Agriculture and the Canadian Wheat Board

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Patty Rosher is the new general manager of the Keystone Agricultural Producers. The province’s general farm organization announced the hire in a recent press release. “I am very pleased to welcome Patty to KAP. She brings with her a wealth of experience in our industry and the ability to continue KAP’s work of making farms
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Editorial: Multi-tasking

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Manitoba’s farmers can chalk up a small victory in their battle to have the way education taxes are levied on farmland revised. At the recent Keystone Agricultural Producers annual general meeting, held in early February in Winnipeg, the provincial government delivered the clearest signal to date that this message is getting through to policy-makers. Provincial
District 6 farmer Rauri Qually spoke in favour of a resolution to give landlords an income tax break for renting land at a reduced rate to young farmers during KAP’s 35th annual meeting Feb. 5 in Winnipeg. The resolution was referred to a KAP committee for further study.
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Recent KAP AGM explored policy landscape

From tax breaks to help young farmers rent land to wild boar the discussion was wide ranging

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Class 1 licences, grain dryers, seed royalties, wild boars and a plan to make land rent more affordable for young farmers — all among the 19 resolutions Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) debated at the 35th annual meeting in Winnipeg Feb. 5 and 6. The land rent resolution proposed KAP work to set up a system
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KAP wants drainage regs changed to encourage on-farm storage

One farmer says he is successfully using excess water to irrigate crops instead of pushing downstream on others

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The Manitoba government promotes water retention on farmland, yet has policies that seem to discourage innovative and economic ways to do it, Deloraine farmer Kelsey Sunaert said during the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ 35th annual meeting in Winnipeg Feb. 5. Farmers like him, who want to consolidate water bodies on their own land and keep it
Bill Campbell, who was appointed KAP’s president July 31 after the post was vacated by Dan Mazier, was acclaimed to the position Feb. 6 during KAP’s 35th annual meeting in Winnipeg. KAP delegates also acclaimed two vice-presidents — incumbent Jill Verwey, who farms near Portage la Prairie and newcomer Mitch Janssens, who farms near Boissevain.
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KAP president Bill Campbell has lots to do

Campbell, who was acclaimed at KAP’s annual meeting, says farm issues get more complex the deeper one digs

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Leading Manitoba’s general farm organization is, and isn’t, like farming. A farmer’s work is never done. It’s the same for the president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP). But the deeper one digs into farm policy, the more complex it gets, Bill Campbell said in an interview Feb. 6 following KAP’s 35th annual meeting in
Manitoba farmers say local education taxes on farmland are unfair and want the provincial government to do something about it.
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Education tax model ‘flawed’ says Eichler

The agriculture minister agrees farmers pay more than their share, but says there’s not much he can do about it

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Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler concedes Manitoba farmers get a raw deal on farmland education taxes — but he also says relief won’t be immediate. “We know there are a number of funding models that would look better,” Eichler said during a question period following his speech at the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) 35th annual meeting
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KAP carefully considering seed ‘value creation’

KAP doesn’t have a set plan, but it has set out its principles on the issue

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The Keystone Agricultural Producer’s (KAP) policy on how farmers should fund new cereal variety development remains a work in progress. The seed industry has proposed two models — trailing and end point royalties. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has been consulting farmers about them. But KAP delegates attending their 35th annual meeting in Winnipeg Feb.
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Editorial: Staying safe on the farm

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Agriculture regularly tops surveys and studies of dangerous professions. Despite the process of going high tech, every season there’s still a heaping helping of manual labour, heavy equipment, confined spaces and moving parts. Add the exhaustion of long hours and mental stress and it can be a recipe for disaster. This all added up to
Manitoba Crown land grazing leases are going to be subject to new rules but the details are still vague.
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Livestock producers worried as grazing leases head to auction

Farmers say too many details are still undetermined as the new system gets closer to reality

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Producers are looking for details as the province hashes out its new Crown lands auction system. Bill 35, which introduced open auctions to allocate agricultural Crown lands and gave the province power to designate Crown lands and community pastures, received royal assent Nov. 8. Although approved on proclamation it has not yet come into effect.

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