OPINION MLA discusses changes to beef regulations

On Monday, July 10, the Government of Alberta took vital action in ensuring that Alberta’s cattle producers are able to continue producing the world’s best beef.

Last week, Agriculture Minister RJ Sigurdson amended regulations in the Feeder Associations Guarantee Act to give feeder association members more options to purchase and market livestock and to generate better cash flow for their operations.

I am proud to share that these amendments will raise individual and joint membership loan limits, under the Feeder Associations Loan Guarantee program, to $3 million from $2 million (excluding advances).

Dating back to 1936, Alberta’s Feeder Associations Loan Guarantee

Program helps local, producer-run cooperatives get competitive financing to ensure they can continue being a player in the global market. The program has provided capital to farmers for the feeding of cattle through relatively easy access to low interest, leveraged financing backed by a government guarantee.

Beef is Alberta’s biggest agri-food export, with our province being home to 45 feeder associations representing about 2,100 total members. Since the start of the year, cattle prices have increased 25 per cent and are expected to keep rising. Raising loan limits will help beef producers keep up against rising livestock prices and continue to thrive.

As a rural MLA, resident, and passionate rural advocate, I am thrilled to see that Alberta’s livestock feeding sector will be more accessible to our young

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Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia. Sixty years later, Jess is summoned her back to Sydney after her beloved grandmother, Nora, suffered a fall. While in Nora's bedroom, Jess discovers a true crime book, chronicling the police investigation into a long-buried tragedy. It is only when Jess farmers and producers.

Rural Alberta serves as the foundation for our province’s economic diversification, creating opportunities that ripple across industries and foster sustainable growth.

These changes will allow thousands of new and current producers to have access to the capital they need to keep Alberta’s vital beef industry thriving.

Most importantly, with increased opportunities to enter the Alberta beef market, our local farmers and businesses will have a greater capacity to contribute to the economic growth of their home regions and support their local communities.

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skims through the book that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this once-infamous crime.

Train Beyond the Mountains: Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer

Rick

Antonson

Everything Rick Antonson thinks he knows about train travel changes when he boards the Rocky Mountaineer. As the train winds over trestles and through tunnels, each mile of track uncovers stories of dynamite and discovery, surveyors and schemers, explorers and visionaries, and the people who helped to build Canada against the odds of geography and politics. Surrounded by a wild landscape that sparks imagination, fellow passengers recount train travels in other countries, get nostalgic for the era of steam locomotives, and consider life's unfinished journeys.

Simply Lies: A Thriller

David Baldacci

Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life similar to that of many moms: juggling

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the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats. When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson, she thinks nothing of Arlene’s unusual request for her to go inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who cheated ProEye’s clients and fled. That is, until she arrives at the mansion to discover a dead body in a secret room—and that nothing is as it seems. Not only does the arms dealer not exist but the murder victim turns out to be Harry Langhorne, a man with mob ties who used to be in Witness Protection. What’s more, no one named Arlene Robinson works at ProEye. In the blink of an eye, Gibson has become a prime suspect in a murder investigation— and now her job is also on the line until she proves that she was set up. Before long, Gibson is locked in a battle of wits with a brilliant woman with no name, a hidden past, and unknown motives—whose end game is as mysterious as it is deadly.

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