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AMM president Kam Blight speaks to media at the Legislature after the province released its 2023 budget March 7.

Provincial budget good for municipalities, unremarkable for agriculture

Budget 2023: Increased education property tax rebates, funding for vets, lab testing among ag highlights

By Geralyn Wichers March 17, 2023

Rural municipalities were winners amidst a somewhat mundane provincial budget for the agriculture sector. Why it matters: Agricultural issues were not front and center in the 2023 budget, although a few line items are worth noting. In this year’s budget, tabled March 7, the province thawed a seven-year freeze on municipal operating funding, increasing it to $217

We need to provide our input while policies are being drafted, because reacting after the election is called or after the policy platforms are published is too late.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: The election hasn’t been called but the campaign has begun

Farmers should be meeting with candidates now to ensure their views are heard

By Cam Dahl March 13, 2023

Sometime before Oct. 24, Manitobans will go to the polls to elect the next provincial government. While we don’t know the election date, the campaign has already begun, or at least, it should have begun for farmers if we want to see agriculture’s needs reflected in the parties’ policies. The political parties are getting prepared

The thorny issue of Crown lands is shaping up to be an election issue for rural voters later this fall.

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Crown lands an election issue

By Gord Gilmour March 9, 2023

If the goal of changes to Manitoba’s Crown land rules was to get more young producers into the cattle business, it’s been an unequivocal failure. And that was one of the major justifications offered for the 2019 changes that shortened leases, did away with unit transfers, raised rents and added an auction component to win

Crown land lease auctions have seen much of the available land go to large and established operations, members of the Manitoba Crown Land Leaseholders Association say.

Livestock, News

Enter the bidding wars for Crown land

Crown land leaseholders decry what they say are a few big names taking up more than their share of forage leases

By Alexis Stockford March 9, 2023

For producers like Shelley Dyck and Dakota Sorensen, the results of the 2023 Crown land lease auctions were disappointing but not unexpected. Those results illustrate concerns that they and other members of the Manitoba Crown Land Leaseholders Association have had for years. With few exceptions, almost all available parcels in the area around Ste. Rose

Left to right: Brenna Mahoney, general manager Keystone Agricultural Producers; Carson Callum, general manager, Manitoba Beef Producers; Cam Dahl, general manager, Manitoba Pork.

News, Other

Start engaging with your ag leadership

Producer groups set sights on looming election

By Don Norman March 1, 2023

With a provincial election coming at some point this year, producers should not wait to engage with their representatives. “From my perspective, the election has already begun,” said Cam Dahl, general manager with Manitoba Pork. Dahl was part of a panel of industry leaders talking about the impending election at an event hosted by the

Percent ranking precipitation from November 1, 2021 to February 21, 2023, compared to historic record.

News, Other, Weather

Some flooding possible in Red, Assiniboine river basins

Flood picture still dependent on weather

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 1, 2023

According to the province’s flood outlook, for farmers in the Red River and Assiniboine River basins, there is a low to moderate risk of flooding this spring. Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation’s Hydrologic Forecast Centre released their outlook on February 28. The report also advised of a moderate flood risk in the Interlake region along the

Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: Crown land leaseholders deserve vote

By Ian L. Robson February 28, 2023

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

Comment, Letters

Letters: Reverse senseless Crown land policies

By Dale Myhre February 3, 2023

It is sad and disheartening to see how the Manitoba government has treated the small cattle ranchers who are the stewards of our grasslands. They forced most of the First Nations ranchers out of business with the Portage Diversion flood of 2011. The people and the land have never recovered. In the last three years,

Left to right: New Deputy Minister of Agriculture Brenda Serrano, Agriculture Minister, Derek Johnson, outgoing deputy minister Dori Gingera-Beauchemin.

Farmit Manitoba, Other

Retiring deputy minister of ag a hard act to follow

New provincial deputy minister of agriculture “digging in” to new position

By Don Norman January 31, 2023

Agriculture Minister Derek Johnson says he’s unconcerned that his new deputy minister has little agricultural experience. In December, the provincial government announced it would appoint Brenda DeSerrano as deputy minister to replace Dori Gingera-Beauchemin upon her retirement. It isn’t standard practice for deputy ministers to have experience in the ministry they head, but Gingera-Beauchemin did.

Leases and permits are available to farmers and ranchers to provide additional land base for agricultural activities.

Livestock, News

Crown land auctions headed online next month

Provincial government says going digital will mean potential lessees will have equal access

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 20, 2023

The Manitoba government’s agricultural Crown land lease and permit auctions will be held online Feb. 6 to 10. “Manitoba’s agricultural Crown lands play a vital role in supporting a vibrant and sustainable agricultural sector. The online approach ensures Manitoba producers have equal opportunity to rent lands that will support their farming operations,” said Agriculture Minister

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soy hits 17-month high, corn to four-month top as trade braces for U.S. data

Federal budget shows remaining disconnect between agriculture, policymakers, panelists say

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures continue downward

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