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Aid refusal fuels flames of western alienation

Our History: November 1999

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 8, 2017

Farm income, or the lack of it, dominated our pages in the fall of 1999. The November 4 issue reported on angry comments from a group of western farmers who had visited Ottawa to ask for $1.3 billion in aid. They met with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief and other ministers, and

Our History

Agricore does its best to maintain service during Grain Services strike

Our History: November 1999

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 19, 2015

This Agricore ad from our Nov. 18, 1999 issue said the company was doing its best to maintain service during a strike by Grain Services Union staff. Agricore was formed a year earlier by a merger between Alberta and Manitoba Pools, and in 2001 was taken over by United Grain Growers to become Agricore United.

Livestock

Ont. group to weigh school models for Kemptville

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 18, 2015

The Ontario government has set up its working group to consider options for the Ontario Agricultural College’s Kemptville campus beyond this year. The University of Guelph, which operates OAC, announced in spring 2014 it would wind down operations at its Kemptville and Alfred satellite campuses and consolidate its ag education and research operations at its

Livestock

Trade talks set to divide farm communities

Some groups want a trade deal even if it means sacrificing supply management

By Alex Binkley May 27, 2015

High-level negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) scheduled for Guam this month have opened a rift in Canada’s farm community that successive governments have tried to prevent. Livestock and grain groups have gone public with a demand the federal government fully engage in the talks and, while they don’t actually say it, essentially be prepared

Crops, News

Should farmers pay for protection against grain company defaults?

The Canadian Grain Commission has proposed setting up a security fund paid for by grain companies,  but Rob Brunel says Ontario’s farmer-funded model has merit

By Allan Dawson January 6, 2015

Rob Brunel knows farmers aren’t keen on more checkoffs, but the Ste. Rose du Lac farmer believes that’s the best way to replace the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) current security program. “My preference has been to set up something like Ontario has,” the chair of Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) Grains and Oilseeds Committee said in

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle rebound on technical buying

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as rapid harvest overshadows China trade hopes

Good weather pushes Alberta harvest along

Tag Archives Lyle Vanclief

Aid refusal fuels flames of western alienation

Agricore does its best to maintain service during Grain Services strike

Ont. group to weigh school models for Kemptville

Trade talks set to divide farm communities

Should farmers pay for protection against grain company defaults?

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