News - KAP

Members of Keystone Agricultural Producers – many of whom are still reeling from the effects of last summer’s flood – are concerned over the inability of Excess Moisture Insurance to adequately cover their losses.

A soggy harvest season means farmers will be rushing to buy and install grain dryers, and then lining up to have the installation approved for use by the Office of the Fire Commissioner – and KAP advises them to begin the process as soon as possible to avoid delays later on.

Farmers at this past week’s Keystone Agricultural Producers general council meeting in Brandon expressed their dismay over the severe crop and pasture losses due to flooding from the record-breaking rains experienced by Manitoba and Saskatchewan in June.

Motorists and farmers will be using the same roads over the next few weeks and Keystone Agricultural Producers urges them all to play it safe.

Keystone Agricultural Producers advises farmers to utilize sound business practices when selling grain, especially if it’s to a company they have never dealt with before.

The legislation introduced by the federal government to address grain movement in the short and medium terms appears to give farmers a good deal of what they were asking for, says Doug Chorney, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers.

Keystone Agricultural Producers’ annual meeting will take place next week, Wednesday to Friday at the Delta Winnipeg, when delegates from across the province will gather to debate and pass policy that will guide KAP through 2014 and beyond.

All four farm leaders from the West have confirmed poor rail service is hindering the bumper crop produced this year from getting to market.

Keystone Agricultural Producers has highlighted the 2013 record-breaking soybean crop as an example of the contributions farmers make to Manitoba’s economy.

Keystone Agricultural Producers welcomes the announcement from Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh that the ban on burning coal in Manitoba will not be enforced until 2017.