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[0] Rural Manitoba [Hugh McFayden PC] Review crop insurance programs to ensure that they reflect the costs of producers. Implement an Ecological Goods and Services program. Exempt the purchase of value-added or processing agricultural machinery from the PST. Make sure the milk tax does not proceed. End the $2/head "cattle enhancement levy," an NDP tax on producers that has accomplished nothing to benefit the industry since it was introduced. [James Beddome Green] 
Implement programs to help farmers reduce or eliminate their use of natural-gas based fertilizers. Invest in rail transportation. Increase research funding and public education for organic and natural farming systems. Redirect subsidies from larger farmers towards start-up and small farms. Prevent the approval of new factory farms and phase out high-risk operations immediately. Legislate against the introduction of genetically-modifed crops.
2011 Manitoba Provincial Election
James Beddome Green