Saskatchewan farmers will see some enhanced benefits to agristability, retroactive to 2020. Agriculture minister David Marit says the province has accepted federal proposals to remove the reference margin to the farm support program. That could cost the province an extra 20 million dollars. But he says the province has backed away from the proposed […]
A long-awaited federal provincial agriculture ministers meeting goes Thursday to discuss the future of the support program agristability. Agriculture Minister David Marit is hoping Saskatchewan’s concerns about program cost can be among the issues resolved. Ottawa says the reforms to AgriStability would result in an added $170-million in payments directly into farmers pockets. However, for […]
Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau is pushing for a clear answer from the three prairie provinces on agristability. She wants to eliminate the reference margin limit and boost the compensation rate to 80 percent. Bibeau says it has been 110 days since she proposed eliminating the reference margin and boosting the compensation rate to 80 […]
APAS is hoping for a speedy decision from government on changes to the agristability support program. President Todd Lewis says its good to know discussions are still underway but farmers need to know if the federal enhancements will be accepted by the provinces. “We need some certainty around Agristability, is it going to be the […]
Time is running out on improvements to the agristability support plan for 2020. Federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she needs two-thirds of the provinces to agree to the proposed enhancements to agristability. Bibeau wants a decision by the end of the month to enable the improvements to be retroactive to 2020. Saskatchewan is concerned […]
Canada’s minister of Agriculture is offering to hold a meeting with provincial agriculture ministers within weeks to discuss agristability. The proposal would remove the reference margin limit and increase the compensation rate from 70 to 80 percent. The Saskatchewan government is looking at an offer to improve agristability but worries about the high cost and […]
Saskatchewan’s minister of Agriculture is seeking another meeting with his federal and provincial counterparts to discuss Agristability. Ottawa is pushing for a response to an offer to enhance the farm business risk program. Saskatchewan is concerned about the cost. The assistant agriculture deputy minister for policy in Saskatchewan, Paul Johnson, says the province wants another […]
There’s more pressure on Saskatchewan’s minister of Agriculture to support proposed changes to the Agristability program. Federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has offered to remove the reference margin limit and increase the compensation rate from 70 to 80 percent, with a 60-40 federal-provincial split. The changes would result in a 50 percent increase, around 170 […]
Saskatchewan NDP agriculture critic Trent Wotherspoon is calling on the SaskParty government to sign on to fix the Agristability support program. Wotherspoon says Saskatchewan agriculture groups support the proposed federal enhancements and fixing agristability is important to producers, especially for the hard-hit livestock industry. He wants the SaskParty government to step up and support the […]
More pressure is being applied on provincial governments to fund proposed changes to Agristability. A wide range of farm organizations from all commodities held a ZOOM conference Thursday, urging provinces to fund the changes on the 60/40 basis. The proposal includes increase the compensation rate under AgriStability from the current 70 percent up to 80 […]
