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NFU investigating farmers’ grain-grading complaints through survey

The Canadian Grain Commission says if farmers don’t like the grade being offered, ask the commission to grade it

By Allan Dawson March 17, 2017

The National Farmers Union (NFU) has launched a survey into grain-grading complaints from western farmers in the wake of what the farm group claims is “the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) reduced regulatory role.” “As a grassroots farm organization the NFU is starting to hear repeated stories of grain farmers being dissatisfied with their treatment by

Following the Brexit vote farmers are pulling in their horns and cutting investment plans.

International news

U.K. farmers hold on to cash, cut investment on Brexit uncertainty

Uncertain about trade access and farm programs they’re planning  to cut investments in machinery and land

By Mariana Ionova March 6, 2017

British farmers are holding back on big investments as they brace for the U.K.’s exit from the European Union, their largest market and a vital source of subsidies. Agriculture enjoyed a brief boost after Britain voted to leave the bloc last June, when a weaker pound lifted profits by about 12 per cent and subsidy

News

Mergers could make room for small players

Mergers are carefully considered, but agencies lack teeth when it comes to enforcing conditions

By Shannon VanRaes February 14, 2017

An erosion of both resources and clout limits the ability of governments to protect farmers from the effects of market concentration, a U.S. farm leader told farmers attending the recent Keystone Agricultural Producers meeting. “Enforcement is a big problem and a growing problem,” said Roger Johnson, president of the American National Farmers Union. “In the

Crops, Opinion

Opinion: Choice of voice needed for Manitoba

By Dean Harder, Ian Robson February 7, 2017

Provincial Minister of Agriculture Ralph Eichler plans to improve the efficiency of the checkoff system that currently funds Keystone Agriculture Producers, reducing red tape. Agriculture is a complex industry with many issues and different viewpoints to consider. A system like we have now supports just one organization’s perspectives, limits the public debate and reduces the

The Manitoba government will work with the Keystone Agricultural Producers to introduce a more efficient system for collecting its annual membership fees, Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler announced at Ag Days Jan. 17. The National Farmers Union wants in on stable funding too.

Local news

Province to discuss new stable funding formula for KAP

KAP welcomes the initiative and the National Farmers Union says it wants in too

By Allan Dawson January 26, 2017

The Manitoba government has promised less red tape — including how the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) collects membership fees. “The current funding structure creates needless and excessive administration costs for farmers and KAP and purchasers of agricultural products,” Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler said while speaking at Ag Days Jan. 17. “A review of the system

News

Changing landownership driving rural depopulation: NFU

More non-farmer landowners spells trouble for rural Canada, the organization says

By Alex Binkley January 11, 2017

Rural Canada is losing population and communities are suffering because of changing farmland ownership patterns and it’s time for governments to correct the situation, says Emery Huszka, president of the National Farmers Union of Ontario. “Landownership in addition to consolidation now sees pension funds, investment professionals and non-farm investors gobbling up ground as if it

Our History

Free trade between provinces far from a done deal

Our History: October 1987

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 6, 2016

The soon-to-be ratified Canada-U.S. free trade agreement was much in the news in 1987, but as indicated by this editorial cartoon from our Oct. 1 issue, free trade between provinces, as today, still seemed elusive. We reported that Canadian hog and cattle farmers were enthusiastic about the free trade deal, but that supply management producers

Irradiated ground beef, such as these burger patties, is expected to have a lower potential presence of harmful pathogens such as E. coli.

Livestock

NFU opposes ground beef irradiation

Irradiation will allow large companies to benefit from regulation and puts up another barrier to smaller packers, the NFU says

By Alex Binkley August 30, 2016

The National Farmers Union says Health Canada should kibosh its proposal to allow irradiation of ground beef and improve meat inspection instead. The department should also establish “appropriate and effective regulations that will support a diversified, regional food-processing strategy,” the NFU said. “These actions would increase Canadians’ confidence in meat packers to provide them with

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Prairie solitudes

By Gord Gilmour August 25, 2016

What is our country’s relationship with its indigenous citizens going to be in the coming years? This is an important question and probably more important to you than many. First Nations communities are predominantly rural and frequently are your neighbours. But as a good friend of mine pointed out a while back, while following the

Our History

Cereal Implements, first in self-propelled swathers

Our History: August 1986

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 18, 2016

Canadian Co-operative Implements Ltd. (CCIL) started in 1940 as a co-op to market equipment and later manufacture its own. In 1973, CCIL built a large plant in Winnipeg to manufacture combines, swathers, discers, cultivators, harrows and other equipment. The decision turned out to be a poor one for the company, and it struggled for several

Daily Network News

More canola, spring wheat likely to be seeded this spring

No way to segregate gene edited pigs Canadian Pork Council says as groups call for labeling

CUSMA: a guide to the review and what it means for the agriculture sector

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