Time Is Running Out On AgriStability Proposal

Jan 27, 2021

As of Tuesday morning, Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau was still waiting for a response from the Prairie provinces regarding her AgriStability proposal.

The proposal was put forward during the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Agriculture Minister’s meeting in November. Ottawa is proposing to remove the reference margin limit for AgriStability, as well as increase the compensation rate from 70% to 80%.

She addressed the media during Keystone Agricultural Producer's (KAP) AGM.

"To make any significant changes as those I have proposed, we need two-thirds of the provinces to agree and the weight of each of province is based on the level of participation of the farmers of the province. For us to reach this two-third level, we need two of the three provinces."

Bibeau says they'll need a response in the next few days.

"I've said that if we want to make it retro-active for 2020, we can not go any further than the end of the month of January. I don't want to close the door for improvement for this year and next year, so the sooner the better."

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

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