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Beef cattle feeding in Ontario. (DebraLee Wiseberg/iStock/Getty Images)

Ontario plugs holes in wildlife compensation plan

By GFM Network News September 12, 2018

Ontario’s agriculture ministry has patched a glitch in its wildlife damage compensation program, in which farmers’ claims risked rejection over the validity of their farm business registrations. “We heard livestock farmers’ concerns with the program so we’re making the first changes effective immediately,” Agriculture Minister Ernie Hardeman said in a release Monday. “We’re also continuing […] Read more

Chickpeas. (CalypsoArt/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Pulses

Some Canadian Exotic Grains customers compensated

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News August 14, 2018

CNS Canada — A few producers who did not receive payment from Canadian Exotic Grains Ltd. have been compensated through the Canadian Grain Commission’s Safeguards for Grain Farmers Program, the commission said Tuesday. Canadian Exotic Grain’s grain dealer license was revoked April 26 after the company was unable to pay producers. On June 4, Saskatchewan […] Read more

Tuberculosis bacteria under an electron microscope. (Janice Haney Carr photo courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.))

Beef Cattle, Livestock

All quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 12, 2018

The mystery of how six Prairie cattle caught a Mexican strain of bovine tuberculosis (TB) is now expected to remain a mystery indefinitely. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced quarantines have been lifted from all Prairie cattle operations tested during its probe of a bovine TB outbreak beginning in the fall of 2016. […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Bunge widens exec takeover payout scheme after Glencore approach

By GFM Network News November 22, 2017

Chicago | Reuters –– Grain merchant Bunge Ltd. has sweetened compensation packages for top executives in the case of a takeover, according to the company’s regulatory filings, around six months after rebuffing an approach by commodity trading giant Glencore. Bunge and its rivals have seen profits fall as several years of oversupply in global grains […] Read more

Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and B.C. Agriculture Minister Lana Popham met Wednesday in Victoria. (Photo courtesy AAFC)

Forages, Livestock, Weather

Options weighed for AgriRecovery in B.C. fire zones

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News August 16, 2017

Officials in British Columbia are now gauging what sorts of damages and expenses can be covered through an AgriRecovery plan for ranchers and farmers affected by wildfires. The federal and B.C. governments announced Wednesday they’re “working together to quickly assess the extraordinary costs farmers are incurring and what additional assistance may be required to recover […] Read more

Signs of CWD, as shown by this elk, include progressive weight loss, reluctance to move, excessive salivation, droopy ears, increased drinking and urinating and lethargy. (Wyoming Game and Fish Department photo, WGFD.wyo.gov)

Livestock

Federal response tightened for chronic wasting disease

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News July 1, 2017

Canadian ranchers raising cervids such as elk, deer and moose will soon have to get in on certification programs before they can be eligible for any federal help in the event of a chronic wasting disease (CWD) outbreak. One of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) family of nervous system diseases, such as BSE in cattle […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Quarantined Alberta ranches to get AgriRecovery

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 30, 2016

Ranchers in southeastern Alberta having to feed and maintain quarantined cattle they can’t move or sell can expect a federal/provincial AgriRecovery plan to help cover those costs in the next few days. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and his Alberta counterpart Oneil Carlier on Wednesday announced producers faced with “extraordinary costs” due to federal quarantines […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Federal Tories, NDP press for TB quarantine compensation

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 24, 2016

Under pressure in the Commons Tuesday, the federal government has committed to “look into options” to compensate Alberta and Saskatchewan producers having to feed cattle they’re prohibited from selling. Federal Conservative and NDP agriculture critics David Anderson and Ruth Ellen Brosseau separately took the government to task this week over the costs producers have to […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Dairy farmers, processors strike deal for future

By Alex Binkley, GFM Network News July 13, 2016

Ottawa — Dairy Farmers of Canada and dairy processor associations have reached an agreement in principle on how to evolve the Canadian dairy system for the future. The agreement was reached during meetings in Charlottetown following a year of talks, which followed previous attempts to open a dialogue over pricing and other issues. Details of […] Read more

A bill allowing state expropriations of South African farmland now goes to President Jacob Zuma, shown here Wednesday at Africa Day celebrations in Cape Town, for his signature. (South African Government GCIS photo via Flickr)

Crops, Reuters

South Africa’s parliament approves land expropriation bill

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 26, 2016

Johannesburg | Reuters — South Africa’s parliament on Thursday approved a bill allowing state expropriations of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership, an emotive issue two decades after the end of apartheid. Most of South Africa’s land remains in white hands and many commercial and small-scale farmers are currently facing tough times because […] Read more

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Tag Archives compensation

Ontario plugs holes in wildlife compensation plan

Some Canadian Exotic Grains customers compensated

All quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

Bunge widens exec takeover payout scheme after Glencore approach

Options weighed for AgriRecovery in B.C. fire zones

Federal response tightened for chronic wasting disease

Quarantined Alberta ranches to get AgriRecovery

Federal Tories, NDP press for TB quarantine compensation

Dairy farmers, processors strike deal for future

South Africa’s parliament approves land expropriation bill

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