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Keystone Agricultural Producers’ 32nd annual meeting will take January 27 and 28 at the Delta Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Keystone Agricultural Producers welcomes the 25 recommendations put forward by the Agriculture Risk Management Review Task Force in its final report released this past week.

Farmers at Keystone Agricultural Producers general council meeting this past week supported a resolution calling on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to halt a plan that pork producers believe will put their industry back at risk for porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.

Motorists are advised to take care around harvesting equipment on rural roads as Manitoba’s farmers work to bring in this year’s crop.

At a General Council meeting of Keystone Agricultural Producers yesterday, farmers expressed concern over the condition of roads in rural Manitoba.

Keystone Agricultural Producers is urging the Manitoba government to consult with farmers and rural municipalities when deciding how to spend an increase in infrastructure money announced in the recent budget.

Key among the wide range of farming topics discussed at Keystone Agricultural Producers’ General Council meeting this past week in Portage la Prairie was the upcoming Growing Forward 3 policy framework, a federal-provincial agreement that sets the terms and conditions for the majority of agriculture programming for farmers.

Delegates to Keystone Agricultural Producers’ recent annual meeting passed a resolution calling for the federal government to enable generic seed developers (which include farmers) to have access to off-patent plant traits at least seven years before these traits come off patent.

Keystone Agricultural Producers views the option for a fund-based model of producer payment security introduced through Bill C-48 as a step in the right direction.

An increase in safety inspections, an effort by the Manitoba government to reduce the high number of injuries and fatalities in the agriculture industry, has many producers concerned about what will happen when inspectors arrive on their farms.