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Ag groups welcome O’Toole to new role

Erin O’Toole has won the leadership race for the Conservative Party of Canada,so what does that mean for ag?

By D.C. Fraser September 9, 2020

Agricultural groups say they are eager to start working with the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC). Erin O’Toole’s Aug. 24 victory means a new face for producers to lobby on the issues important to them. A new name at the head of the Conservative Party of Canada means the ag sector

Letters, Other

Letters: Quarry fight reveals undermining of democracy

By John Fefchak September 8, 2020

In response to letters by Jon Crowson and Ruth Pryzner in the Aug. 6 Manitoba Co-operator: Democracy — It was paid for by the blood and casualties of veterans and those who paid the supreme sacrifice, who now lie in graves in distant lands, far from their loved ones, family and homeland. I am a

News

Pork producers call for a more targeted AgriStability

The Canadian Pork Council wants to leave AgriStability’s trigger where it is, but bolster compensation levels

By D.C. Fraser September 7, 2020

Canada’s pork producers are offering up a new solution to long-standing frustrations from industry over the AgriStability program. In a letter to federal, provincial and territorial (FPT) agriculture ministers, the Canadian Pork Council is calling for an increase to the compensation rate offered under the business risk management program from the current 70 per cent to

News, Other

Safety concerns prompt call for pork plant closure

NDP, union and workers all say a short-term shutdown would be the best plan

By Geralyn Wichers August 20, 2020

NDP Opposition leader, Wab Kinew, continued to call for a short-term shutdown of Brandon’s Maple Leaf Foods, August 13, and for “surveillance testing” of employees against the novel coronavirus. “Manitoba’s agri-food industry is successful only when Maple Leaf workers and the wider Westman community, are safe and healthy,” Kinew said in an emailed statement to

Comment, Comment/Feedback

Comment: Public investment needs to return public good

Change is coming and farmers need to get ahead of the curve

By Alan Guebert August 19, 2020

If the ill-tempered and deadly first half of 2020 had been a first-calf heifer on the dairy farm of my youth, my father would have ticketed it for the freezer a month ago. His yardstick of heifer potential was short: If she lived up to her breeding, she was a “keeper”; if she “put more

Livestock, News

U.S. farm state senators in a beef over livestock bill

COVID price downturn has some saying the market isn’t transparent enough

By P.J. Huffstutter, Tom Polansek August 14, 2020

Reuters – Two senior Republican U.S. senators from top farm states have locked horns over legislation intended to make North American cattle markets more transparent, after the COVID-19 pandemic tanked livestock prices. U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa and a bipartisan group of colleagues introduced a bill in May that would force meat packers like

News

American biofuel sector may have to rely on U.S. agriculture secretary for relief — senator

By Stephanie Kelly August 14, 2020

Reuters – The U.S. biofuel industry may have to depend on U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue for aid assistance, Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa said August 4 after Senate Republicans unveiled a COVID-19 relief package that did not include more specific appropriations for the industry. A provision of the US$1-trillion HEALS Act, introduced by Senate Republicans in late

Ag Minister Blaine Pedersen speaks to producers in Neepawa during a tour of the province in this photo posted to Twitter.

News, Other

Manitoba ag minister asks for producer engagement ahead of annual ministers’ conference

AgriStability among issues top of mind during Pedersen’s tour of province

By Geralyn Wichers August 14, 2020

The province is asking farmers to give their opinions on several topics ahead of October’s annual meeting of provincial ag ministers. “We are committed to bringing the voices of farmers forward,” said Blaine Pedersen, minister of agriculture and resource development in an Aug. 4 news release. Through an online forum, the province is inviting producers

The proposed quarry site, currently a sunflower field and abandoned farm site. A barn and a house on the site were demolished this spring.

Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: The ugly side of Bill 19

By Jon Crowson August 10, 2020

Geralyn Wichers needs to be commended for her in-depth reporting on the Lilyfield Quarry controversy. After all that has transpired in the RM of Rosser, one has to wonder what part of “no” the quarry developer has trouble understanding. Now, under Bill 19, we face the prospect of the ruling Conservatives’ proxy, in the form

Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: Quarry fight reveals Bill 19 undermines representation

By Ruth Pryzner August 10, 2020

The people in the RM of Rosser are experiencing first hand what those who opposed Bill 19 understood was the real purpose of the bill. To reduce people’s ability to protect themselves from certain developments contrary to their interests and for municipal councils to properly represent them. The message is clear. People and their quality

Daily Network News

Canadian Cattle Association won’t back traceability changes

Farmers’ Almanac rescued from closure; fate of Canadian content unknown

Do More Ag to fund rural groups’ mental health workshops

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