Efforts to trace the bovine tuberculosis case discovered last fall have put several farms in quarantine and under financial pressure.
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Sask. producers say bovine TB compensation inadequate
Those affected by quarantines and eradication policies want more financial assistance from the federal government
Innovation adoption lags in farming
Every innovative product of technology that is commercialized eventually reaches what is known as “full adoption.” This is the point at which the peak percentage of society has adopted an innovation. Some innovations reach the point of full adoption more rapidly than others or have higher full adoption rates. The adoption rate of seatbelts in […] Read more
Predation program accepts any scanning system
A 10-year-old Saskatchewan initiative to reduce sheep losses to predators has expanded its RFID technology acceptance
A change to the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp.’s RFID Sheep Policy is making participation easier for sheep producers. The pilot began in 2014 with a goal to provide producers with a goal to compensate producers for predation and to prove without physical evidence that an animal was missing. To do so, it used data from […] Read more
Trade compensation details unveiled for feather sectors
Canada’s chicken, egg and turkey farmers are expected to soon receive long-awaited programs that will compensate them for market losses stemming from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Producers had already been told they would be getting $691 million over 10 years, but on April 13, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau revealed details of the funding, which […] Read more
Dairy farmers want compensation action
Canada’s dairy farmers are calling on the federal government to make good on its promise to compensate producers after giving up market share of the supply-managed industry to more foreign competitors. The Liberal government has told Dairy Farmers of Canada compensation is coming as a result of three major trade deals: the Comprehensive Economic and […] Read more
Sask. still debating wildfire assistance
The Saskatchewan government is still weighing whether it will provide assistance to producers who lost animals and property in October’s wildfires. Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart said the province has already agreed to help pay for the burial of what is now estimated at 770 cattle killed or euthanized as a result of the fires in […] Read more
Ranchers to get compensation for TB quarantine
The cattle in quarantine cannot be sold, and Ottawa is offering financial assistance with winter feeding costs
Financial assistance will be available to help Alberta and Saskatchewan ranchers cope with expenses from having cattle in quarantine during a bovine tuberculosis investigation. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay made the commitment Nov. 24 in the House of Commons. “I am pleased to confirm that, working with the province, we are committed to compensate these […] Read more
