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Letters: Crown land leaseholders deserve vote
Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: Crown land leaseholders deserve vote

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Since 2016 Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) and Manitoba Ministers of Agriculture have badly served 1,700 Manitoba Agricultural Crown Land Lease holders and destroyed the points-based unit transfer system. This is a scandal. It is a scandal that was disguised as ‘red tape cutting’ and driven by the erroneous idea that agricultural Crown land access for
“We have some better pricing than what we’ve seen in a few years. Our industry certainly needed it, but we’ve had a lot of increasing costs of everything else.” – Matthew Atkinson.
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Manitoba Beef Producers names new president

Matthew Atkinson takes the reins from Tyler Fulton

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Matthew Atkinson chose an interesting time to join the board of the Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP). It was spring 2020. In the beef sector, issues around Crown lands were at full boil, following the drop of a new regulatory system the previous fall. Leaseholders in the Parkland and Interlake were furious about changes to their
Dr. Gillian Muir, dean of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, at a 2022 funding announced by Manitoba’s provincial government.
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Beef producers push province on veterinary funding

More money for rural clinics, more seats at vet college key to addressing shortfall

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Manitoba’s beef producers want a second look at funding for veterinary service districts. A late resolution brought before the Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) annual meeting Feb. 2 hoped that would ensure government contribution “is more reflective of the actual cost of delivering the needed rural veterinary services that are so important to the livestock sector and others.”
Manitoba Beef Producers general manager Carson Callum.
Beef cattle, News

Crown lands, disaster aftermath top MBP’s advocacy agenda

Manitoba Beef Producers launched its fall meeting season in late October

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Agricultural Crown lands continue to be a top priority for the Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP), says general manager Carson Callum. “This is an important file for MBP,” he said. “MBP continues to advocate in our submissions for things like the continuation of unit transfers, adjustment to the auction process, and better ways to value the
“Our focus is on sustainable protein and growing that industry, including the beef sector, and we’ve had a lot of announcements that we’ve done here recently that will help with that.” – Derek Johnson, Manitoba Agriculture Minister.
Livestock, News

Johnson not giving up on cattle numbers

It’s been a tough few years for the cattle sector, but the government still has hopes of bringing it back to its former glory

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Manitoba Agriculture Minister Derek Johnson hasn’t abandoned the idea of getting Manitoba’s cattle herd back to its pre-BSE size. “Of course it’s still on the table,” he said, as he sat outside a veterinary clinic in Ste. Rose du Lac, the heart of the province’s cattle country. “It’s a very vibrant industry here in Manitoba.
Dale Myhre feeds heifers housed on his leased Crown Land near Crane River, Man. Like many farmers in the area, most of Myhre’s land base is actually leased Crown Land.
Livestock, News

Crown lands to get rent relief

Weather and rent increases have been a double whammy for Crown land leaseholders

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Pasture and forage Crown land leaseholders say they sense progress after the province announced rental relief for the next three years. Leaseholders can expect rents to be halved for 2023, the province said Sept. 28. Rates will gradually ramp up over the final two years, to 77 per cent of current levels in 2024 and
All auction sites up and running
Livestock Markets, Markets

All auction sites up and running

Strong beef demand is expected to run up against a smaller supply

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All eight of Manitoba’s cattle auction sites hosted regular sales for the first time in months during the week ended Sept. 16. Killarney Auction Mart was the last holdout in the province until it held its first sale of the fall run on Sept. 12, nearly three months after the start of the summer break.
“There’s no doubt that cash flow has been extremely tight in the industry, especially after the drought last year, there’s not a huge appetite to be buying in at current prices when everything is just so fresh.” – Tyler Fulton, Manitoba Beef Producers.
Beef cattle, News

Cattle crunch: Tug of war on herd rebuilding prospects

Better prices mean a better outlook for the cattle sector, but will that be enough for producers who feel like they’ve had enough?

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It was a tough spring, coming off a tough winter, coming off an even tougher drought year in 2021, but there is finally pay off in the sales ring for cattle producers. Tyler Fulton, president of the Manitoba Beef Producers, estimates that local calf prices are 30 to 50 cents per pound higher than at
Manitoba forage growers face a very different problem compared to the dire feed situation last summer.
Crops, Forages

The good news, bad news scenario on hay

Forage has rebounded from last year’s drought in a big way, although those putting up dry hay face hurdles

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For the first time in a long time, there’s hay in the field and lots of it. The problem has been getting to it. Tyler Fulton, president of Manitoba Beef Producers, says yields are some of the best he’s seen, but moisture has been a serious issue for putting up dry hay. “We’re struggling,” he
Local conservation officers speak during a field day hosted by the pilot project on June 21.
Livestock, News

Predation project set to bear results

Mitigation strategy pilot filling up, but a few slots remain for producers

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Ray Bittner, lead of the predation pilot project being spearheaded by the Manitoba Beef Producers, is looking at a lot of ways to keep a healthy distance between livestock and predators. There is special penning, with seven strings of electric wire and predator-resistant gates to keep problem animals out. There are game cameras, able to

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