Insights and Stories on Bibeau

Ag ministers withdraw AgriStability reference margin limit

Mar. 25, 2021 at 5:25 pm CDT

In a move expected to provide $95 million in additional farm support per year, Canada’s ag ministers have agreed to remove the reference margin limit from the AgriStability farm income stabilization program. “That’s it! The ‘reference margin limit’ of the #AgriStability program is over! And it will be retroactive to […]

New federal program to help develop on-farm carbon sinks

Mar. 18, 2021 at 8:36 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Yes or no now on AgriStability changes, ag minister says

Mar. 17, 2021 at 9:47 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Carbon tax rebate on grain drying fuels coming

Mar. 3, 2021 at 6:28 pm CST

By Allan Dawson

Advisory council named to steer national Food Policy

Feb. 19, 2021 at 8:24 pm CST

By D.C. Fraser

Dairy farmers must register to get further trade compensation payouts

Jan. 19, 2021 at 8:22 pm CST

Dairy farmers wanting to get in on a three-year, $1.405 billion federal compensation program for market share lost to free trade deals must register for the program by March 31 in each of those years. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Tuesday laid out further specifics for the Dairy Direct Payment […]

By Dave Bedard

Provinces’ feet held to fire on AgriStability

Jan. 19, 2021 at 6:09 pm CST

The co-chairs of Canada’s agriculture ministers’ meeting are pushing to get proposed improvements to AgriStability in place sooner than later. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and her Ontario counterpart, Ernie Hardeman, “urge all provincial and territorial ministers to support the proposed changes to the AgriStability program,” they said in a […]

By Allan Dawson

Bibeau says government committed to federal plant breeding

Dec. 16, 2020 at 9:22 pm CST

The Canadian government is committed to plant breeding, federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau told members of the Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation on Tuesday. Some farmers and seed industry officials suspect Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) variety development work, along with many other programs, will be on the chopping block post-COVID-19 […]

By Allan Dawson

Bibeau promises help to farmers on rising carbon tax

Dec. 16, 2020 at 9:06 pm CST

A steadily rising carbon tax has a lot of Western Canada’s grain farmers wondering how they’ll compete in world markets against competitors not subjected to a similar tax. “I think the world market is also looking towards a greener economy and always more sustainable agriculture,” federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau […]

By Allan Dawson

AgriStability proposal could have hidden cost, Pedersen warns

Dec. 1, 2020 at 7:31 pm CST

Ottawa’s proposal for an improved AgriStability program could give farmers short-term gain for long-term pain, Manitoba’s agriculture minister Blaine Pedersen warns. At the online federal-provincial-territorial agriculture ministers’ meeting on Friday, federal Agriculture Minister Marie Claude Bibeau proposed dropping AgriStability’s maximum reference margin, and increasing the compensation rate from 70 to […]

By Allan Dawson

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Insights and Stories on Bibeau

Ag ministers withdraw AgriStability reference margin limit

New federal program to help develop on-farm carbon sinks

Yes or no now on AgriStability changes, ag minister says

Carbon tax rebate on grain drying fuels coming

Advisory council named to steer national Food Policy

Dairy farmers must register to get further trade compensation payouts

Provinces’ feet held to fire on AgriStability

Bibeau says government committed to federal plant breeding

Bibeau promises help to farmers on rising carbon tax

AgriStability proposal could have hidden cost, Pedersen warns

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