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In Brief… – for Jun. 16, 2011

By Reuters June 16, 2011

Road repairs underway: Assessments are still underway, but repairing roads and bridges damaged during this year’s flooding could cost $40 million, Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton says. Advances of up to 60 per cent or $100,000, whichever is greater, of repair costs will be made to municipalities against disaster financial assistance claims. These advances

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Jun. 16, 2011

June 16, 2011

Ritz is wrong Gerry Ritz, the agriculture minister is claiming the recent election is a plebiscite on the future of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). I call this B.S. In case Ritz wasn’t aware, the election was about many issues, the least of which in the mind of the majority of voters was the fate

News, Oilseeds

Lake Winnipeg Bill Targets Hogs

By Ron Friesen June 16, 2011

Manitoba farmers fear new provincial legislation aimed at protecting Lake Winnipeg is a foot in the door toward controlling commercial fertilizer use in the province. Bill 46 (the Save Lake Winnipeg Act), introduced June 2 in the legislature, could be used to regulate the amount of fertilizer applied on cropland, not just to prevent hog

News

Whitemud Drainage Case Against Province To Continue

By Ron Friesen June 16, 2011

Adecades-old legal battle against the Manitoba government over damage caused by drainage in the Whitemud watershed will continue despite efforts by the province to end it. A Manitoba Queen’s Bench court last week postponed the government’s motion to dismiss the action by local landowners after it appeared at least some of them are willing to

News

Lake Manitoba Residents Forced To Flee Flooding

By Ron Friesen June 9, 2011

Tom Teichroeb was busy last week moving the last few cattle off his flooded farm near the shores of Lake Manitoba. When he’s done, he’ll move his family out, too. Teichroeb, his wife and two young daughters had rented a house in town and were moving in furniture when shifting flood waters would let them.

News

Summer Forecast Is Hot And Wet For Manitoba

By Dwayne Klassen June 9, 2011

The slow start to seeding in Western Canada and cool temperatures are providing anxious moments for producers. Seeding operations in western Saskatchewan and much of Alberta are essentially completed, but producers in eastern regions of Saskatchewan and western areas of Manitoba continue to be slowed by excessively wet conditions. Environment Canada’s forecast for June through

Opinion

Export Sales Will Pay For Bipole III Route

By Rosann Wowchuk June 9, 2011

When it comes to Manitoba Hydro, reliability is everything. It powers our economy to the tune of half a billion dollars every year, and it does so while providing the lowest power rates in North America. This huge benefit is good for families and businesses all around the province. The Hydro project, Bipole III, will

News

Special Flood Aid Welcome: KAP

By Allan Dawson June 2, 2011

Daily talks between the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) and Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers about flooding appears to have paid off, says KAP president Doug Chorney. The province adopted KAP’s call for 100 per cent compensation for farmers artificially flooded, including lost income, in the Manitoba government’s Flood 2011 Building and Recovery Action Plan announced May

Opinion

Making Election Hay

By Laura Rance-Unger June 2, 2011

Although some were cautious in their praise, few in the farming community had any quibbles with the special compensation package the province announced to help farmers cope with losses related to flooding and livestock lost in the late-April blizzard. And rightly so. The package, at least on the surface, is comprehensive and goes beyond what

Opinion

Farmers Should Be Paid For Stewardship Role

By Terry Fehr June 2, 2011

Amid the extensive coverage local and national media provided recently of high water on the Assiniboine River, one phrase kept echoing in my memory, “Never waste a crisis.” General Rick Hillier, retired Canadian chief of defence staff, uttered that profound advice and it is something Manitoba farmers should take to heart. For a moment we

Daily Network News

Canadian drought conditions improve in March

PMRA renamed as Pesticides Regulatory Directorate

U.S. deputy farm secretary to meet with Mosaic amid high fertilizer prices

Tag Archives Manitoba

In Brief… – for Jun. 16, 2011

Letters – for Jun. 16, 2011

Lake Winnipeg Bill Targets Hogs

Whitemud Drainage Case Against Province To Continue

Lake Manitoba Residents Forced To Flee Flooding

Summer Forecast Is Hot And Wet For Manitoba

Export Sales Will Pay For Bipole III Route

Special Flood Aid Welcome: KAP

Making Election Hay

Farmers Should Be Paid For Stewardship Role

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