farm supports

The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) commends the federal and provincial governments for including 10 more R.M.s into the Canada-Saskatchewan Feed Program. Both governments announced yesterday (Tues) the R.M.s of Sherwood, Bratt’s Lake, Lajord, Edenwold, Lumsden, South Qu’Appelle, North Qu’Appelle, Bayne, Rosthern, and Britannia were added to the coverage area.  “We know those areas are […]

Plenty of support programs are available to grain and livestock producers, but it can hard to keep track of all of them. That’s where the Lower Souris Watershed Committee comes in; they’re organizing a pair of meetings in Redvers and Whitewood this week to show support programs that producers may find helpful. “We have a […]

The President and CEO of the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association says a few things from Friday’s AgriRecovery announcement surprised him. The federal government announced a $77-million investment into Saskatchewan’s AgriRecovery program to help producers financially impacted by drought this season. Grant McLellan says he hoped the announcement came around the same time as the province’s in August, […]

Central Butte is the site of today’s (Wed) townhall meeting hosted by the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association. It’s the 5th meeting over the last few weeks, taking in producer’s thoughts on the drought conditions and what can be done to provide immediate and long-term relief for them. CEO of the Cattlemen’s Association Grant McLellan has been […]

APAS has launched a task force to work on a new five year federal-provincial agriculture funding agreement. President Todd Lewis says the federal-provincial agriculture ministers will discuss the next farm policy framework at a meeting next month. He says improvements are needed for farm support programs like agristability and agri-recovery. Lewis says increased funding is […]

  Agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has launched a federal consultation process for the next Agricultural Policy Framework. The framework is a wide-ranging federal-provincial agreement to replace the current 5 year, 3 billion dollar Canadian Agricultural Partnership, which expires in March 2023. The consultations launched this week are designed to gather ideas from various groups. These […]

  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 […]

  Federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says improvements are coming to farm support programs. After meeting with her provincial counterparts, Bibeau says farmers can use private insurance programs without being penalized through the agristability program. Saskatchewan agriculture minister David Marit welcomes the improvement. He says “we’re happy to hear that revenue from private insurance won’t […]

The president of APAS says farmers discussed three key issues at the recent annual meeting in Regina. Todd Lewis says a resolution passed unanimously calling on Ottawa to rebate any carbon tax payments on fuel used for grain drying this fall and winter. Lewis adds farmers are also pushing for improvements to agristability, with margin […]

  Farm support programs could see some enhancements in the coming year. Agriculture ministers from across the country wrapped up their annual meeting Friday in Quebec City. Saskatchewan agriculture minister David Marit says he was pushing for some enhancements to agristability. Marit says his counterparts agreed to look at the proposals. Marit sees some minor […]