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Crops, Local news

New drainage regulations in Saskatchewan ‘good first step’

Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency’s phased-in approach over 10 years will lead to more 
carefully planned drainage and reduced downstream impacts

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A new approach to drainage regulation rolled out this month by Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency is being called a good first step, but rural leaders say they’re anxious to hear more details. Herb Cox, provincial official responsible for the WSA said September 1 new regulations are the first phase of an agricultural water management strategy
Stephen Harper in a discussion at a conference
Crops, News

Harper says railways can’t be allowed to misuse market power

The order-in-council requiring minimum grain movement expires at the end of March

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Western Canadian farmers and grain companies have a new supporter for their argument that the railways have too much market power — Prime Minister Stephen Harper, no less. A year after the Canadian cabinet in an unprecedented move passed an order-in-council requiring Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP) railways to ship a weekly minimum
News, Opinion, Weather

It’s time Manitoba becomes a leader on the drainage issue

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Flooding was a problem not only in Manitoba this past year, but it was also a major issue in Saskatchewan. Both provinces faced enormous costs associated with lost crops, washed-out roads and culverts, and in some cases, people lost their homes. In fact, flooding in Manitoba will cost taxpayers $1 billion in damages and flood-fighting
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

New Fund Supports Agricultural Innovation

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The federal government has announced a $50-million Agricultural Innovat ion Program (AIP) which will boost the development and commercialization of innovative new products, technologies and processes in the agricultural sector. The Agricultural Innovation Program, announced in Budget 2011 as part of the Next Phase of Canada s Economic Action Plan, will support industry-led science and
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Producer Cars Face Obsolescence

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As many of you know, every time you ship a producer car, you are using The Canada Grain Act, which allows an alternative system or safety valve method of shipping grains. This means, if and only if there is someone at port position prepared to sell it, then you can ship any grain in a
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In Brief… – for Apr. 28, 2011

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New president:Sinclair Harrison of Moosomin, Sask. has been elected president of the Hudson Bay Route Association (HBRA). Harrison, longtime president of the Farmer Rail Car Coalition and former president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, was named to the position at a board of directors’ meeting in Virden following the HBRA’s 68th annual convention
Crops

Saskatchewan To Test Drive Beaver Dam Removal Plan

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The Saskatchewan government is spending $500,000 in a one-year pilot program to help its rural municipalities get rid of problem beavers and beaver dams. The program, to be administered by the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM), will target areas where beaver dams have swamped rural infrastructure, farmland and other private property. The pilot program

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