Insights and Stories on Keystone Agricultural Producers

Former KAP president promoted at CGC

Dec. 21, 2020 at 8:18 pm CST

The acting chief commissioner for Canada’s grain handling regulator has formally levelled up to the chief’s role, while the GM of Manitoba’s general farm group replaces him at the second seat. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Monday appointed Doug Chorney — an agricultural engineer and grain and oilseed grower […]

Agrium, Potash Corp merger shouldn’t have much of an impact yet

Jan. 5, 2018 at 3:34 pm CST

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Cash ticket deferral option to remain unchanged

Nov. 7, 2017 at 4:06 pm CST

By Staff

Mixed reactions from farm groups to Bill C-49 progress

Nov. 6, 2017 at 9:12 am CST

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Succession planning at risk

Sep. 22, 2017 at 9:59 am CDT

By Shannon VanRaes

Keystone Agricultural Producers defends cash ticket deferrals

Apr. 21, 2017 at 4:56 pm CDT

Manitoba’s Keystone Agricultural Producers has joined other farm groups in calling on the federal government to keep a regulation that allows farmers to defer grain sales into the following year for tax purposes. The government announced in its recent budget that it is considering eliminating grain ticket deferrals because it […]

By Staff

Manitoba surveying farmers on KAP funding system

Feb. 27, 2017 at 5:45 pm CST

The Manitoba government wants “farmers’ and stakeholders'” feedback on potential changes to Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) funding model — and fast. The deadline to fill out an online survey or download and email it in is March 9, the government said in a release Thursday. “The current approach to funding […]

By Allan Dawson

Churchill layoffs in effect, uncertainties remain

Aug. 9, 2016 at 5:31 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Layoffs from Manitoba’s Port of Churchill are now in effect, but questions remain for those formerly employed by the port, the future of the town and the dynamics of Canadian grain handling. Answers to those questions aren’t coming from OmniTrax, the Denver-based railway that operates the port, […]

By Jade Markus

Farmers dismayed over Port of Churchill closure

Jul. 26, 2016 at 3:44 pm CDT

Manitoba’s largest general farm organization Keystone Agricultural Producers is calling on the federal government to keep the Port of Churchill operating until the end of the 2016 shipping season and beyond. Workers at the Port of Churchill were told Monday there would be no grain shipments going through the port […]

By MarketsFarm Team Staff