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Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a good deal for Canada?

The economic logic behind free trade is that ‘a rising tide lifts all boats’

By Robert McGarvey May 19, 2015

Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a bulwark of freedom as proponents claim, or is Canada about to be shoehorned into another free trade deal that will continue the hollowing out of our economy? It depends on your perspective. The TPP, championed by U.S. President Barack Obama as an important addition to the world’s free trade zone

Grain Markets, Markets

Canola trade seen remaining choppy until seeding done

U.S. corn, soy and wheat will keep trading on the weather

By Terryn Shiells May 15, 2015

The ICE Futures Canada canola market started off the week ending May 8 with a bang, seeing gains of nearly C$10 per tonne on Monday (May 4). But that’s where the excitement ended. The following days were all pretty uneventful, with quiet activity that led to prices chopping around within a fairly narrow range. Some

A worker collecting cucumbers inside a greenhouse in La Mojonera, southeastern Spain, June 2, 2011. An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant E. coli contaminated vegetables in Europe that year, killing 17 and sickening more than 1,500 in 10 European countries. Antibiotic-resistant bugs are linked to overuse of antibiotics in human medicine and agriculture. Photo: Francisco Bonilla, Reuters

Hogs, Livestock

Producers slowly becoming aware of antimicrobial resistance

By Shannon VanRaes December 5, 2013

Their misuse has the power to render the most powerful tools in modern medicine impotent, yet in Manitoba there is more regulation around the sale of pesticides than antimicrobials used in livestock production. Mounting evidence points to an increase in antimicrobial-resistant diseases worldwide, and a research paper published recently in The Lancet calls for greater

Opinion, Weather

Get used to it?

By Laura Rance-Unger June 26, 2013

Just as water and climate expert Bob Sandford began his keynote address at a Winnipeg conference about water management last week, he received a text from his son back home in Canmore, Alta. It was about a river gone wild. As Sandford spoke on the science of why weather patterns are becoming more turbulent, resulting

News

Municipalities need 3,000 people to prosper

By Lorraine Stevenson May 31, 2013

Municipalities need at least 3,000 residents and a hefty tax base in order to prosper, according to a new study by Brandon University’s Rural Development Institute. The study used census data from Manitoba to look at factors such as population gain, an expanding tax base, favourable demographics (such as a rising percentage of females aged

Kostyshyn told the Manitoba Farm Writers and Broadcasters Association May 1 he supports stable funding for general farm organizations but said later in an interview it was premature to commit to introducing legislation this spring. Photo: allan dawson

Local news, News

KAP ups ante on push for stable funding

By Allan Dawson May 7, 2013

The president of Keystone Agricultural Producers says it will seek the Manitoba ombudsman’s assistance to enforce current checkoff laws if the provincial government balks at introducing better legislation for funding farm organizations this spring. “We have to do, what we have to do,” KAP president Doug Chorney said May 3. “We’ll have no choice if

Protesting farmers used farm equipment to temporarily block access to the Portage Diversion April 29. Photo: shannon vanraes

Local news

Farmers, government spar over use of Portage Diversion

The channel ‘park-in’ demonstration by Lake Manitoba farmers and landowners  was aimed at bringing attention to the government’s handling of 2011 flood

By Daniel Winters May 7, 2013

A protest by 60 fed-up Lake Manitoba-area farmers and landowners at the Portage Diversion April 29 was still making waves this week as organizers prepared for a court hearing into the province’s injunction against them. Kevin Yuill, who farms about 3,000 acres north of Portage la Prairie, organized the event that saw tractors and heavy

News

Closure of MAFRI offices expected, but postponing school tax rebate upsets KAP leader

By Dave Bedard, Shannon VanRaes April 27, 2013

Manitoba producers hoping to get back all of the school tax they pay on farmland will have to wait until the province conquers its deficit. Last week’s provincial budget holds the farmland education tax rebate at 80 per cent, while introducing a new $5,000 cap to limit rebate expenditures, which came in at $34.5 million

Crops, Weather

Province expands subsidies to prevent basement flooding

By Manitoba Government Release April 26, 2013

Municipalities are offering up to $3,000 for homeowners to install sump pumps, pits and in-line backwater valves

The province is strongly encouraging homeowners across Manitoba to take advantage of the current subsidy program offered by 22 municipalities to help reduce the risk of basement flooding, Local Government Minister Ron Lemieux said in an April 15 release. “The threat of flooding has become an all-too-frequent reality facing Manitoba families and municipalities. That’s why

Hogs, Livestock, News

Another hog stabilization program rejected

By Shannon VanRaes April 11, 2013

The provincial government has refused to back a hog stabilization program proposed by the Manitoba Pork Council to help producers through ongoing financial turbulence. “While the province continues to work with the Manitoba Pork Council on possible solutions, their recent proposal is too much of a financial risk during these uncertain economic times,” the minister

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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