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Manitoba caps school tax rebate for farmland

Reading Time: 3 minutes Manitoba farmers who get rebates on the education portion of the property taxes paid on farmland will see a lid placed on those rebates starting with this tax year. Finance Minister Stan Struthers’ budget on Tuesday capped Manitoba’s farmland school tax rebate at $5,000 — and also limited it to eligible farmland owners who are […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Richardson cleared for West Coast terminal expansion

Reading Time: 2 minutes Grain handler Richardson International plans to start work “immediately” on a $120 million, 80,000-tonne storage expansion project at its North Vancouver terminal after getting the go-ahead from Port Metro Vancouver. The Winnipeg company’s expansion, announced in October and billed as “the biggest investment in the Port of Vancouver in more than 20 years,” will see […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Sask. launches Growing Forward sequel’s programs

Reading Time: 3 minutes Saskatchewan has become the fourth province to sign on for its share of funding in the Growing Forward 2 (GF2) ag policy funding framework, with $388 million to put toward programs other than business risk management (BRM) over the next five years. Provincial Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart and his federal counterpart Gerry Ritz announced the […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery

Major Ont. dairy expo plans to upsize in 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Operators of the Canadian Dairy Xpo (CDX) say they plan to double the size of the Stratford, Ont. trade show for 2014, following their inaugural event in February. With co-operation from city officials, the 2014 CDX will take on the entire Stratford Rotary Complex, including both hockey rinks, organizers said in a release. A potential […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

B.C. greenhouse growers get permanent carbon tax break

Reading Time: 2 minutes British Columbia’s greenhouse growers will now get a permanent exemption from the bulk of the province’s carbon tax on their natural gas and propane use — with a similar break expected to follow for farm fuels. Telegraphed in the provincial budget in February, the new exemption announced Tuesday will come in the form of grants […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Satellite’s crop monitoring days may be over

Reading Time: 2 minutes Agricultural users of Canada’s first Earth observation satellite won’t be getting new data from the unit in the near future. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced Tuesday that RADARSAT-1 has entered into “safe mode,” a semi-dormant state to conserve energy, after it “experienced a technical anomaly” on March 29. Entering safe mode buys the CSA’s […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Third Sask. field joins clubroot club

Reading Time: 2 minutes Saskatchewan’s canola growers have been warned to seed with care as a canola field in west-central Saskatchewan has been confirmed as the third in the province to have clubroot. SaskCanola, the province’s canola development commission, announced Tuesday it had received confirmation from the provincial ag ministry of the new finding, discovered during an annual survey […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Recycling fees pumped into Ont. farm tires

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ontario farmers fear slow leaks of thousands of dollars each year as the province’s tire stewardship program moves to a cost-recovery model for the recycling fees levied on agricultural and other off-road tires. Ontario Tire Stewardship’s (OTS) executive director Andrew Horsman last month announced changes to the organization’s used tires program would kick in effective […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Extra teeth demanded for rail service bill

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Reading Time: 3 minutes What they describe as the worst rail service in three years has prompted shippers to propose amendments to toughen the federal government’s proposed Fair Rail Freight Service Act. A coalition of shippers laid out proposals Friday for new amendments to the Act, now proposed in federal Bill C-52, in a bid to help balance their […] Read more
General, Machinery

Pearce: Level of on-farm investment favours large Canadian farms

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The large keep getting larger, and they keep investing more, as well. That’s the one-sentence summary from a new study from the Ivey School of Business Agri-food Innovation Centre. The study, Investment and Growth on Canadian Farms 2001-2009, has determined that Canadian farms saw total investments increase by more than $3 billion during the height […] Read more

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