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Farmers Continue to Lobby Against Federal Carbon Tax

As winter turns to spring, many producers are hoping things dry up quickly to allow them to return to their fields and finish the harvest they started last fall.

Once off the field, the majority of those crops will need to be dried. Prairie farmers, especially those in Saskatchewan where the Federal Carbon Tax has been in place for a year, are seeing massive bills for fuel used to dry their crops.

For months now, there have been calls from many groups, asking the federal government to exempt those fuels used for grain dryers. But so far, there's been no response from the feds on that request. The Federal Ag minister says her department is still reviewing the situation.

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