Insights and Stories on Business Risk Management

Alberta looks for feed, Ottawa promises cash for B.C.

Nov. 18, 2021 at 8:02 pm CST

Even though supplies are low because of drought, Alberta is looking for feed to send to B.C. livestock producers, while Ottawa will provide emergency financial assistance to farmers dealing with flooding and closed roads in the hard-hit province. “We’ve been working with the B.C. department of agriculture,” Alberta Agriculture Minister […]

Federal support for farmers focus of ag leaders’ debate

Sep. 11, 2021 at 10:31 pm CDT

By D.C. Fraser

Feds launch consultations on next ag policy framework

Jun. 7, 2021 at 2:40 am CDT

By D.C. Fraser

Yes or no now on AgriStability changes, ag minister says

Mar. 17, 2021 at 9:47 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Budget could include new BRM program, ag labour plan

Feb. 19, 2021 at 9:33 pm CST

By D.C. Fraser

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

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

No BRM breakthrough reached at ministers’ meeting

Nov. 27, 2020 at 7:57 pm CST

No consensus on changes to business risk managements (BRM) programming was reached during the latest round of federal-provincial-territorial agriculture ministers’ meetings. After the meetings ended Friday, federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau explained Ottawa was willing to maintain the current cost sharing of the programs at a 60-40 split between her […]

By D.C. Fraser

AgriStability in Bibeau’s sights as ministers’ meeting booked

Nov. 6, 2020 at 1:17 am CST

Federal, provincial and territorial (FPT) ministers of agriculture are scheduled to meet Nov. 20 and 27 to discuss improving business risk management (BRM) programs. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie Claude Bibeau said she is confident counterparts from Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia will be willing to contribute their share to make […]

By D.C. Fraser

Bibeau not considering closing AgriInvest accounts

Sep. 9, 2020 at 2:30 am CDT

Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau is not considering ordering producers to withdraw from their AgriInvest accounts. “Not in this way. All the options are on the table for the future, but I’ve never considered asking them to withdraw, to empty their accounts, to face COVID-19,” she said in an interview […]

By D.C. Fraser

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