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Wildfire-damaged grazing areas up for Saskatchewan aid

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 8, 2017

Saskatchewan’s provincial disaster assistance program (PDAP) will be opened up to cover southwestern grazing areas damaged by this fall’s wildfires. The province’s government relations minister, Larry Doke, on Wednesday announced producers who incurred wildfire damage on “tame and native lands” intended for grazing may now apply for assistance to get feed for affected livestock. Winds […] Read more

The Verkhovna Rada building, home to Ukraine’s parliament, in Kiev. (Cia.gov)

Crops, Reuters

Ukraine’s parliament extends ban on farmland sales

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 7, 2017

Kiev | Reuters — The Ukrainian parliament voted on Thursday to extend a ban on the sale of agricultural land by one year, delaying what financial backers say is a key reform essential to Ukraine’s long-term economic growth. The bill was backed by 236 lawmakers, narrowly over the 226 required to pass. Currently Ukraine’s more […] Read more

Province House, home of the Nova Scotia Legislature, as seen in 2008. (NSLegislature.ca)

General, Reuters

Nova Scotia to help black residents get land titles

By Reuters, GFM Network News September 28, 2017

London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Historic black communities in Nova Scotia will be given funds to establish legal ownership of land where they have lived for generations, the government said, in a drive to solve what critics call a case of long-running discrimination. The provincial government will spend $2.7 million over two years to […] Read more

Crops, Livestock, Reuters

Want free farmland? Grab your parka and head North

By GFM Network News July 25, 2017

Toronto / Thomson Reuters Foundation – In Canada’s far north, the government of Yukon Territory wants to attract small farmers to the frigid region with a simple pitch: free land. And as global warming makes Canada’s northern regions more hospitable to agriculture by opening once frozen land to farming, the opportunities are growing. Bordering on Alaska […] Read more

Columns

Taking that big leap to “landowner”

Choosing to buy land is a big decision. Especially when it’s your first land purchase

By Toban Dyck May 23, 2017

It was just a text. The setting wasn’t formal. There were no lawyers present. We were in Arizona. The sun was shining. A pot of coffee had just been brewed. My wife, Jamie, was sitting outside reading. I was about to join her. But it was closing in on the eleventh hour and our final […] Read more

Columns

To buy or not to buy? The land dilemma

Toban and Jamie Dyck are deciding whether or not to purchase farmland

By Toban Dyck May 4, 2017

Fatigue. It’s on my mind. It’s the end of March. The snow is beginning to melt. Seeding is around the corner, and I’m struggling to find time. But, that said, it’s exciting to daydream and fast-forward a month from now when full days will be spent outside working, prepping, planting. I’m sure you’re thinking the […] Read more

The UPA mounted a public campaign to put pressure on the provincial government to reconsider its plans for the farmland tax credit program. (UPA.qc.ca)

Livestock

Quebec’s winter trails to remain open as tax reform halted

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 3, 2017

Snowmobile trails going through farmland owned by members of Quebec’s Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) will remain open as the province hits the brakes on changes to its farmland property tax credit plan. UPA members had recently pledged to revoke previously-permitted access to their land for snowmobile trails starting Monday (Feb. 6) in a dispute […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Brazil to open farmland, airlines to foreign buyers

By GFM Network News January 30, 2017

Brasilia | Reuters — President Michel Temer will propose legislation to lift restrictions on foreign ownership of airlines and agricultural land in Brazil as he strives to pull the economy out of a two-year recession, government sources said on Monday. Temer’s centre-right government plans to send Congress a bill allowing 100 per cent foreign ownership […] Read more

Quebec’s Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis announced funding for L’Arterre at winery Cassis Monna et Filles of St-Pierre-de-l’Ile-d’Orleans, Que., accompanied by (l-r) Catherine et Anne Monna and Land Bank agent Leslie Carbonneau and other dignitaries. (Groupe CNW/MAPAQ)

Crops

Quebec service to match farmland sellers, young buyers

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 30, 2016

The Quebec and federal governments are putting up funds for a different kind of online match site: one to connect aspiring young farmers with producers who are either retiring or wanting to sell or rent farmland. The two governments on Tuesday announced $300,000 for the Centre de reference en agriculture et agroalimentaire du Quebec (CRAAQ) […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters

China money, market spur Canadian blueberry deluge

By GFM Network News August 5, 2016

Richmond, B.C. | Reuters — An aging mansion sits vacant on an estate outside Vancouver, the garage overtaken by a blueberry sorter and a walk-in cooler packed with the fruit. The owner, an investor from mainland China, leases the estate to Fred Liu at such a bargain the farmer grows blueberries in its fields even […] Read more

Daily Network News

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