farm support programs

Livestock producers considering compensation for incurring extraordinary costs related to feed and/or transportation last year, due to drought conditions, have two extra weeks to apply to the Canada-Saskatchewan Feed Program. The provincial government announced Tuesday that the application deadline has been extended to March 15; that date would also apply to eligible expenses incurred from […]

Topics were wide ranging at an APAS prairie farm leaders forum Thursday in Regina. The forum included farm leaders from the three prairie provinces and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture vice president from Ontario. Trade, harvest weather and farm support programs dominated the discussion. Manitoba’s Bill Campbell talked about the amount of crop severely downgraded […]