Insights and Stories on KAP

Think outside the agriculture box for labour, ag and tech leaders say

Oct. 26, 2023 at 6:35 pm CDT

Ag and tech leaders encouraged employers to think outside the agricultural box when looking to hire workers in order to expand the labour pool. “I’m one of the lucky ones,” said Brenna Mahoney, general manager of Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP). Mahoney entered the industry with no agriculture experience. She had […]

PSAC federal worker strike could hit at grain transport

Apr. 28, 2023 at 4:17 pm CDT

By Don Norman

Manitoba to consolidate and shut agriculture, MASC offices

Jan. 6, 2021 at 8:37 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Former KAP president promoted at CGC

Dec. 21, 2020 at 8:18 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Carbon pricing not having ‘significant impact’ on grain drying, Bibeau says

Jun. 12, 2020 at 8:27 pm CDT

By D.C. Fraser

Carbon tax an eight per cent hit on net income, APAS says

Feb. 6, 2020 at 6:25 am CST

The average Saskatchewan farmer can expect to lose about eight per cent of his or her annual net farm income to the federal carbon tax to 2020 — and 12 per cent in 2022, the province’s general ag group says. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan on Monday released new […]

By GFM Staff

Manitoba Beef Producers president steps down

Aug. 13, 2018 at 7:39 pm CDT

The race to become the federal Conservatives’ candidate in Dauphin has claimed a second Manitoba farm leader. Dauphin-area rancher Ben Fox, president of Manitoba Beef Producers and the District 13 representative on the group’s board, announced Tuesday he had resigned as MBP president to seek a “federal party nomination.” MBP […]

By GFM Staff

Get grain moving again, KAP says

Mar. 19, 2018 at 9:05 pm CDT

Move western grain, ASAP. That’s the blunt and urgent message Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier told an emergency meeting of the House of Commons’ agriculture committee Monday in Ottawa. The 2013-14 grain shipping backlog cost Western farmers around $6.5 billion and the current one will cost billions again, […]

By Allan Dawson

Farm fuel to be exempt from Manitoba carbon tax

Oct. 26, 2017 at 7:00 pm CDT

Farm fuel will be exempt from a carbon tax, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister said in an interview Thursday on the eve of announcing his government’s Made-in-Manitoba Climate and Green Plan. “It does exempt some farm costs — farm fuel, for example,” he said. “I know we’ll get pushback from some […]

By Allan Dawson

Nitrogen looking cheap across Prairies

Oct. 17, 2017 at 4:03 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Farmers in Manitoba may be looking to fill up on nitrogen fertilizer this fall as prices reach lows not seen in over a decade. “One retailer I talked to said it was the cheapest nitrogen prices in 15 years,” according to Dan Mazier, president of Keystone Agricultural […]

By Dave Sims

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