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Report urges changes for Sask. crop insurance
A review of Saskatchewan crop insurance has resulted in 16 recommendations for improvement but contains no estimate of what those might cost or which should be done first. Agriculture minister Bob Bjornerud released the report Oct. 6, saying the province doesn’t know what the changes would cost, together or individually, but cannot afford to implement […] Read more
Feedlot opens gates as cattle finally arrive
SCOUT LAKE, Sask. – Rick Maddess sits on a five-gallon pail and Randy Clark leans against a wall stud. The office is far from ready, but the end is in sight for the general manager and board member of Rolling Hills Feedlot. The pens are built, feed is arriving and electricians and welders are putting […] Read more
MP accuses CFA of Liberal bias
WINNIPEG – Manitoba Conservative James Bezan said last week that the ability of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture to lobby the government has been undermined by perceived CFA ties to the Liberals. During a Manitoba agriculture debate broadcast on radio Oct. 2, the chair of the House of Commons agriculture committee in the last Parliament […] Read more
Alberta financial firm gets bigger
Western Financial Group Inc. in High River, Alta., is buying AgriFinancial Canada Corp. and its credit card division from C.A. Bancorp Inc. and Sentry Select Total Strategy Fund. The $18 million deal should be completed by November, said Bob Marshall, president of Bank West, a subsidiary of Western Financial, whose main focus is insurance and […] Read more
Farmers fret over market meltdown
Rob Brunel has a rotten choice to make. Does he lock in today’s crop prices on his near-dated basis contracts, or does he wait the few days remaining in the hope that markets will rebound instead of plunging lower? On Oct. 6, as the pace of collapsing crop prices increased, the farmer from Ste. Rose, […] Read more
Greens tout new plan for farming
OTTAWA – The Green party campaign in this election is an attempt to plant the seed of an idea that it hopes will change how farmers, farm leaders and Agriculture Canada consider their options. It is a plea that Canadian agriculture re-think the industrial, high output and high input model that has developed during the […] Read more
New safety net much like the old
Agri-Stability may be less of a mouthful than the Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization program, but experts say little has changed with the federal government’s primary safety net plan. “As far as an accounting perspective, there really aren’t many changes to the program,” said Carey Knight of Knight Accounting Service in Brandon. “The forms are almost […] Read more
New juncea canola offers drought, herbicide tolerance
A new and improved version of a drought tolerant canola will be made available to a restricted number of farmers next year. Juncea canola has been grown commercially for a number of years, but a new variety called Xceed is the first to include herbicide tolerance. The new variety, which is owned by Viterra, is […] Read more
Tory MP fights party on CWB
NEEPAWA, Man. – Four-term Conservative member of Parliament Inky Mark figures his strongest opponents and critics come from within his own party. The 60-year-old who has owned the northwestern Manitoba riding of Dauphin-Swan River since he took it from the Liberals in 1997 is a rebel inside a Conservative caucus not known for dissent. Mark […] Read more
