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DFM’s Phil Veldhuis says a mentorship program will make mentorship more accessible than informal arrangements.
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Mentorship program sought: DFM

Direct Farm Manitoba will explore developing a program to transfer knowledge in 2018

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Direct Farm Manitoba will look at developing a mentoring program for its membership this year. The need for a formal program that links new and existing farmers was raised when members met before Christmas to discuss priorities needs and direction for the organization in 2018. They’ve asked the DFM board to place organizing a formal
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Which chicken, in what pot?

Supply management doesn’t fit well with speciality production and a proposed new quota program is a misstep

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Over 50 farmers gathered at the St. Norbert Community Centre on November 1 to hear Wayne Hiltz, executive director of the Manitoba Chicken Producers, present the new Annual Specialty Quota Program announced in September. The new program is designed to serve niche markets in the province with fresh Manitoba-raised chicken year round. This is done
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Direct Farm Manitoba wants more marketing freedom for farm products

Direct Farm Manitoba, organized in March 2016 to represent farms producing and selling direct 
to consumers, holds first meeting with provincial ag minister

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A first meeting with the provincial minister of agriculture has gone well, says a spokesman for a new organization representing direct marketers of farm products. Phil Veldhuis is spokesman for Direct Farm Manitoba, a group organized this spring to promote an improved policy environment for direct-to-consumer farm business. They sat down last week with Ralph
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Direct farm marketers are forming a new association

The former farmers’ market association is broadening its mandate

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The Farmers’ Markets Association of Manitoba has a new name, new classes of voting memberships and a new mandate. Voting delegates of the former FMAM, organized in 2007, agreed last week to change its name to Direct Farm Marketing Association of Manitoba Co-op Inc. so it can represent the broader interests of all those who
New farm organization for direct marketers proposed
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New farm organization for direct marketers proposed

Discussions now focused on possible partnership with 
Farmers Market Association of Manitoba

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The Farmers Market Association of Manitoba (FMAM) may change its name and become the new farm organization called for in a report delving into supports needed for farms that direct market. About 50 people met last fall for a day-long meeting and consultation on how to create a more formalized group. “What we’re looking at
Business development support was good to get their small honeybee apiary and meadery up and running in Alberta, 
says Cherie Andrews, who co-owns Chinook Arch Meadery with her husband Art.
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For direct-farm marketers, Alberta is a great place to operate

Support includes help to finance travel and research, and allowing sales of alcohol in farmers’ markets

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Direct-farm marketers in Alberta have their share of regulatory hurdles to gripe about, but they have distinct advantages and supports which marketers in other provinces would envy. When apiary owners Cherie and Art Andrews were first eyeing prospects to start making mead (honey wine), the province gave them several kick-starts, not the least of which
Bailey Gitzel sells her cookie sandwiches and French macaroons at the opening day of the Carman Farmers’ Market June 19. The 17-year-old Graysville entrepreneur also sells honey produced from her own beehives. She plans to study agriculture at university.
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New specialists, more online resources for small-scale production

The government must act quickly to keep up with needs of a fast-emerging sector, says report chair

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Manitoba is acting on the recommendations for improving the working environment of small-scale farmers and processors, says Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Minister Ron Kostyshyn. Last week he and other MAFRD officials were at the St. Norbert Farmers’ Market to introduce the two business development specialists being reassigned in the department to work with these

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