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Manitoba Agriculture Minister Blaine Pedersen speaks at Ag Days in Brandon on Jan. 21, 2020. (Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Alexis Stockford)

AgriStability proposal could have hidden cost, Pedersen warns

Manitoba's ag minister warns Bibeau's plan may hurt crop insurance, AgriInvest funding

By Allan Dawson December 2, 2020

Ottawa’s proposal for an improved AgriStability program could give farmers short-term gain for long-term pain, Manitoba’s agriculture minister Blaine Pedersen warns. At the online federal-provincial-territorial agriculture ministers’ meeting on Friday, […] Read more

Livestock

Tighter timeline set for dairy farmers’ trade pact compensation

Feather sector compensation pledged with $691 million in programs

By Dave Bedard November 29, 2020

Compensation to Canada’s supply-managed farmers, to offset domestic market share dealt away in two recent free trade pacts, will now move more quickly to dairy farmers — and will take […] Read more

No BRM breakthrough reached at ministers’ meeting

AgMins fail to find solution to business risk management program woes

By D.C. Fraser November 28, 2020

No consensus on changes to business risk managements (BRM) programming was reached during the latest round of federal-provincial-territorial agriculture ministers’ meetings. After the meetings ended Friday, federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude […] Read more

Livestock, Markets

Dairy farmers press feds on compensation promises, again

By D.C. Fraser October 27, 2020

Canada’s dairy farmers are again 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 […] Read more

File photo of a tobacco crop in Zimbabwe. (Munya Chawora/iStock/Getty Images)

Zimbabwe says foreign white farmers can apply to get back seized land

By Reuters August 31, 2020

Harare | Reuters — Foreign white farmers settled in Zimbabwe whose land was seized under Robert Mugabe can apply to get it back and will be offered land elsewhere if […] Read more

Livestock

Poultry, egg farmers renew call on feds for CPTPP compensation

No timeline yet provided for remaining funds

By D.C. Fraser March 15, 2020

Canada’s poultry and egg farmers say they are disappointed no compensation has yet been put in place for domestic market share given up under the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership […] Read more

Crops

Zimbabwe offers land as compensation for 800 seized farms

By Reuters March 13, 2020

Harare | Reuters — Zimbabwe’s government will offer land as compensation for nearly 800 farms it seized under its land acquisition policy since 2000, according to regulations published on Thursday. […] Read more

File photo of a pumpjack in an Alberta field. (ImagineGolf/E+/Getty Images)

Machinery

Alberta farmers warned against oil well tampering

Advocate warns off 'reckless advice'

By GFM Staff February 4, 2020

Alberta’s Farmers’ Advocate Office (FAO) is warning any farmers and ranchers in dispute with resource companies over compensation for well sites not to go in and tamper with the taps. […] Read more

Markets/Business

B.C. to punch up AgriStability

Reference margin limit eliminated for 2019, 2020

By GFM Staff February 2, 2020

British Columbia plans to make another $9 million available to farmers through “enhancements” to AgriStability for the 2019 and 2020 program years. The province on Thursday announced it will increase […] Read more

In a photo posted Nov. 6, incoming Berthier-Maskinonge MP Yves Perron meets with the riding’s outgoing NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau to pick up active files from her constituency office. (Facebook)

Livestock

Bloc Quebecois president tapped as party’s ag critic

By GFM Staff November 13, 2019

The Bloc Quebecois will head into the House of Commons next month with a new critic handling the agriculture portfolio. Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet has named Yves Perron, the rookie […] Read more