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Hay from the Maritimes could make its way to the Prairies later this week as livestock producers in Western Canada struggle with devastating drought conditions.
By Jim Smalley
Time is running out on improvements to the agristability support plan for 2020.
Federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she needs two-thirds of the provinces to agree to the proposed enhancements to agristability.
Bibeau wants a decision by the end of the month to enable the improvements to be retroactive to 2020.
Saskatchewan is concerned about the cost of the enhancements and still has not made a final decision.
Ottawa is pushing for a response to an offer to remove the reference margin limit and increase the compensation rate from 70 to 80 percent.
Bibeau made her comments during a virtual meeting of Manitoba’s Keystone Agriculture Producers.