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Carbon pricing not having ‘significant impact’ on grain drying, Bibeau says

Conservatives, ag groups dispute government's numbers

Ottawa — Grain drying costs an average of $210 to $819 per farm in carbon taxes, according to federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau. Her department used data provided by grower groups – including Manitoba’s Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) and the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) – to arrive at the figures. The federal estimate […] Read more

Crops, Machinery & Shop, Weather

Carbon tax an eight per cent hit on net income, APAS says

By GFM Staff February 6, 2020

The average Saskatchewan farmer can expect to lose about eight per cent of his or her annual net farm income to the federal carbon tax to 2020 — and 12 per cent in 2022, the province’s general ag group says. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan on Monday released new estimates on the financial impacts […] Read more

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Manitoba Beef Producers president steps down

By GFM Staff August 13, 2018

The race to become the federal Conservatives’ candidate in Dauphin has claimed a second Manitoba farm leader. Dauphin-area rancher Ben Fox, president of Manitoba Beef Producers and the District 13 representative on the group’s board, announced Tuesday he had resigned as MBP president to seek a “federal party nomination.” MBP didn’t say which nomination Fox […] Read more

Crops, Machinery & Shop, Weather

Farm fuel to be exempt from Manitoba carbon tax

By Allan Dawson October 26, 2017

Farm fuel will be exempt from a carbon tax, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister said in an interview Thursday on the eve of announcing his government’s Made-in-Manitoba Climate and Green Plan. “It does exempt some farm costs — farm fuel, for example,” he said. “I know we’ll get pushback from some industry groups that are not […] Read more

Crops

Nitrogen looking cheap across Prairies

By Dave Sims October 17, 2017

CNS Canada — Farmers in Manitoba may be looking to fill up on nitrogen fertilizer this fall as prices reach lows not seen in over a decade. “One retailer I talked to said it was the cheapest nitrogen prices in 15 years,” according to Dan Mazier, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers. Prices also seem to […] Read more

Crops

Keystone Agricultural Producers defends cash ticket deferrals

By Alberta Farmer Staff April 21, 2017

Manitoba’s Keystone Agricultural Producers has joined other farm groups in calling on the federal government to keep a regulation that allows farmers to defer grain sales into the following year for tax purposes. The government announced in its recent budget that it is considering eliminating grain ticket deferrals because it is a left over from […] Read more

Canola, Livestock, Markets, Soybeans

Falling farm gate prices highlight ‘long overdue’ topic

By Jade Markus February 28, 2017

CNS Canada — Statistics Canada’s latest Farm Product Price Index marks a year of annual declines, predominantly led by the cattle sector. The whims of the market are one source of losses, but two producer group heads say the data call attention to the country’s processing sector. Year-over-year declines in Canada’s Farm Product Price Index […] Read more

General

Manitoba surveying farmers on KAP funding system

By Allan Dawson February 27, 2017

The Manitoba government wants “farmers’ and stakeholders'” feedback on potential changes to Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) funding model — and fast. The deadline to fill out an online survey or download and email it in is March 9, the government said in a release Thursday. “The current approach to funding our province’s general farm organization […] Read more

Crops

Duration limit lifted from foreign worker program

By Alberta Farmer Staff December 20, 2016

Canadian farm groups are among the sectors hailing Ottawa’s decision to axe the cumulative duration rule, or “four-in, four-out” policy, which stood to sideline temporary foreign workers from the Canadian market. The federal government announced last Tuesday (Dec. 13) it would lift the restriction, effective immediately. The cumulative duration rule had been in place in […] Read more

General

Manitoba farmers feel left out on farm policy tour

By Jade Markus October 4, 2016

CNS Canada –– Manitoba has been dropped from an upcoming consulting tour meant to lay the foundation for Canada’s next agricultural policy funding framework. That will limit the province’s producers, the head of an industry group says. The House of Commons’ standing committee on agriculture and agri-food is holding a consulting tour to hear from […] Read more

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Carbon pricing not having ‘significant impact’ on grain drying, Bibeau says

Carbon tax an eight per cent hit on net income, APAS says

Manitoba Beef Producers president steps down

Farm fuel to be exempt from Manitoba carbon tax

Nitrogen looking cheap across Prairies

Keystone Agricultural Producers defends cash ticket deferrals

Falling farm gate prices highlight ‘long overdue’ topic

Manitoba surveying farmers on KAP funding system

Duration limit lifted from foreign worker program

Manitoba farmers feel left out on farm policy tour

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