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Cattle Producers Warn Against New Farm Group Plan

By Ron Friesen March 12, 2009

Manitoba cattle producers have expressed concern about a provincial government proposal requiring every farmer to belong to a general farm organization. The plan, still under discussion, would require all farmers in Manitoba to register their operations and select a general farm organization to belong to. Producers would then pay a mandatory direct membership fee instead

Livestock, News

Flooded Livestock Farmers Win Tax Deferral Battle

By Ron Friesen March 12, 2009

“To help just on one extreme and not the other really didn’t make sense.” – JOE BOUCHARD, MCPA Manitoba producers who couldn’t harvest hay last summer because of excess moisture will now qualify for income tax deferrals on proceeds from livestock sales. The measure announced March 5 corrects an imbalance between flooded farmers, who previously

Hogs, Livestock

Saskatchewan Program Worries Manitoba Livestock Producers

By Ron Friesen March 5, 2009

“We’re not happy about this.” – andrew dickson, mpc Manitoba livestock producers say a $71 million hog and cattle support program announced last week not only gives Saskatchewan producers an unfair advantage, it could lead to trade retaliation from the United States. “There’s a very real possibility,” said Andrew Dickson, Manitoba Pork Council general manager.

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Cattle Going To Alberta Need Age Verification

By Ron Friesen March 5, 2009

Manitoba cattle producers are being told to swallow their resentment and follow new livestock guidelines set in Alberta if they want to sell calves there. That includes age verifying animals as required by a new Alberta meat and livestock strategy. The $356 million program announced last year requires a mandatory traceability system for livestock in

Livestock, News

Farmers Need Not Fear Food Safety Act

By Daniel Winters, Laura Rance-Unger February 19, 2009

The grain can keep growing, the hens can continue laying and that pot of jam on the stove can keep bubbling away if the proposed Food Safety Act becomes law. Farmers raising grain and livestock for sale through conventional channels will not be considered “food premises” by the act, which has received first reading in

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Low prices no mystery, says NFU

By Daniel Winters February 12, 2009

The National Farmers Union is hoping to make hamburger from some beef industry sacred cows with a series of meetings publicizing the findings of its report into the root causes of the Canadian cattle industry’s woes. The first of six meetings around the province was held in Oak Lake, where a small crowd of ranchers

Hogs, Livestock, News

Farm Lobby Still Effective, Despite Changing Times – for Feb. 5, 2009

By Ron Friesen February 5, 2009

“Farm groups have punched way over their weight for some time.” – jack wilkinson When Bert Hall raised the gavel on January 15, 1985 to call the first annual meeting of Keystone Agricultural Producers to order, he recalled looking out over the smartly dressed, articulate audience and thinking, “What an impressive group of young people.”

Livestock, News

Premises ID for food safety to move forward

By Ron Friesen February 5, 2009

Another building block toward a national livestock traceability system has fallen into place with the announcement of a premises identification system for Manitoba. The province will spend $400,000 on a database to pinpoint and register all Manitoba farms that produce livestock by geographic location. The premises identification database will tie into livestock ID systems, which

Livestock, News

Wolves get around

By Glen Nicoll January 29, 2009

For every one they have confirmed there are probably two that they haven’t found or confirmed.” – RAY ARMBRUSTER CHAIR MCPA ANIMAL HEALTH COMMITTEE One of the 17 wolves trapped at the Sylvandale pasture north of Fisher Branch in early fall was a female that had travelled 600 kilometres north from central Minnesota. She was

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Red meat sectors get new government export initiative

By Ron Friesen January 15, 2009

“We need to negotiate in four or five continents, not just one market at a time.” – Travis Toews, CCA Ottawa is giving Canada’s hog and cattle producers a belated Christmas present by boosting its efforts to expand foreign markets. The government is creating a separate body with a mandate to improve foreign market access

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Tag Archives Manitoba Cattle Producers Association

Cattle Producers Warn Against New Farm Group Plan

Flooded Livestock Farmers Win Tax Deferral Battle

Saskatchewan Program Worries Manitoba Livestock Producers

Cattle Going To Alberta Need Age Verification

Farmers Need Not Fear Food Safety Act

Low prices no mystery, says NFU

Farm Lobby Still Effective, Despite Changing Times – for Feb. 5, 2009

Premises ID for food safety to move forward

Wolves get around

Red meat sectors get new government export initiative

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