SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — When and how provincial beef checkoffs are increased continues to concern Saskatchewan producers. The Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association administers the checkoff and recently applied for a 75-cent increase on the provincial portion. If approved, the increase would take effect in August 2025. However, the application comes after a motion passed at the […] Read more
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Alta. beef producers target checkoff
CALGARY — Alberta Beef Producers is going to take another run at making its checkoff non-refundable. Members passed a resolution at its recent annual meeting directing the organization to take steps to move away from a refundable checkoff. Related stories: Alta. beef producers reduce CCA contribution ABP ponders cut to CCA funding ABP check-off refunds […] Read more
There is no accounting for some folks’ opinions
Farm commodities and farming in general are under tremendous pressure to be better and be better understood. Better able to stand a highly variable climate. Better able to meet rapidly evolving regulatory change. Better able to provide market demands for new nutrition and energy sources. Better able to produce ever-more with ever-less. And they need […] Read more
Checkoffs can be elusive
Seventy-two farmers in the Swan River, Man., district were members of Keystone Agricultural Producers general farm group in October 2020. In October 2021, that number had jumped to 237. Rather than being a sign that scores of new farmers had been discovered, it was evidence of the constant challenge of ensuring that grain buyers make […] Read more
