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MAY 29, 2014

SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 | VOL. 72, NO. 22

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Canola growers take on the railways A second level-ofservice complaint has been filed By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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second legal complaint has been filed alleging the railways provided inadequate grain-shipping service this crop year. And more might be coming. The Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA) filed a level-ofservice complaint with the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) May 26, accusing both Canadian Pa c i f i c a n d Canadian National railways of failing to fulfil their common carrier obligations for the movement of western Canadian grains and oilseeds this crop year. “What we’re saying to the CTA is they (railways) didn’t even come close,” CCGA CEO Rick White said in an interview May 26. “They didn’t do it on a weekly basis. They didn’t do it on monthly basis and they are not even going to do it on a yearly basis this year. We’re going to end up with a 23-million-tonne

After a late start to seeding, Manitoba farmers have been dodging showers as they try to get the crop in before crop insurance deadlines.

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Corn, soybean, sunflower seeding deadlines loom No extensions are planned, says the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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he crop insurance eligibility clock is ticking away as farmers scramble to get their acres sown before the deadlines for full coverage pass. Time has all but run out for grain corn and soybean acres. Depending on what part of Manitoba you’re in, the deadline for planting corn and soybeans and still get full coverage is as early as Friday, May 30. And there won’t be any deadline extensions. “A big review was done in the 1990s and since then the Excess Moisture Insurance program was developed and we provide extended (planting) periods based on agronomics so there is no talk of extending anything at this point in time,” David Koroscil, Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) manager of insurance projects and sales, said in an interview May 23. A cool and wet spring has delayed seeding for the second consecutive year.

Deadlines for planting sunflowers, edible beans, triticale and depending on the location, canola, are not far off either. See page 6 for a full list of deadlines. Farmers in Canola Area 1 must sow the oilseed crop by June 15 to get full coverage and by June 20 for coverage at 80 per cent. The Canola Area 2 deadline is June 10 for full coverage and June 15 for reduced coverage. Farmers in a very small portion of south-central Manitoba have until June 6 to seed both soybeans and corn and be fully covered. June 11 is the extended deadline with reduced coverage in Soybean Area 1 and Corn Area 1. (Note — MASC’s areas vary with each crop. See soybean area map on page 6.) Friday, May 30 is the planting deadline for full soybean and corn coverage in Area 2. Farmers in Area 2 can plant both crops until June 4 with a 20 per cent decrease in coverage. May 30 is also the deadline for seeding corn in Areas 3 and 4 and the test area, which is the rest of agro-Manitoba.

Farmers can still get full coverage on wheat, barley, oats and flax if they seed by June 20. The reduced coverage deadline for greenfeed is July 15. Canola seeded by air can potentially be insured so long as “it is incorporated into the soil by mechanical means and the crop establishes to a level that is equal to or greater than the insured producer’s coverage,” MASC’s website states. “The incorporation date will be deemed to be the seeding date, with all aerial seeded acreage required to be reported on the Seeded Acreage Report by June 22.” Farmers unable to seed due to wet fields are eligible for compensation under the Excess Moisture Program (EMI). It pays eligible farmers at least $50 an acre, less a minimum five per cent deductible. So for example, if a farmer had a 1,000-acre farm and all of it was too wet to seed that farmer would be paid on 950 acres, Koroscil said. See DEADLINES on page 6 »

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