Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) has submitted a list of recommendations to the Manitoba government for the 2020-21 provincial budget process.
KAP’s recommendations include:
-Committing to long-term plans that will increase funding for business risk management programs that’ll enable real improvement that reflect current income risk levels
-Maintaining the current AgriInsurance budget line
-Maintaining MASC’s lending mandate and the related operating budget
-Establishing the proper delegated financial authority to streamline approvals and administration of program funds
-Putting short-term plans in place to correct the imbalance in school tax assessments
-Expanding funding opportunities for Mandatory Entry-Level Training for Class 1 drivers
-Ensuring a possible Made-in-Manitoba carbon tax exempts fuel used for grain drying and heating barns.
-Increasing resources towards the enforcement and prosecution of trespassing on farmland.
-Filling the vacant Provincial Extension Vet position
-Maintaining the current level of support funding for Manitoban students at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine
-Keeping the previous Manitoba Agriculture budget lines separate in the presentation of the budget of the new department to maintain transparency.
