|
The 2024 MBP TESA Award was awarded to first-generation ranchers, Clayton and Shauna Breault. (pictured above at podium with Carson Callum, MBP General manager on right at MBP’s AGM on February 20, 2025 in Winnipeg.)
The couple, along with their children Jesse, Laine and Elektra, own and operate Breault Ranching, north of Ste. Rose near Toutes Aides, Manitoba. The ranch has a herd of about 4,300 cattle, including 2,500 breeding females, that run across 22,000 acres of pasture, including agricultural Crown land grazing leases on 16,000 acres.
The Breaults farming management system includes calving on pasture in June and July, and growing 1,300 acres of corn-intercropping and polycrops. They have been practicing regenerative agriculture and holistic management for 17 years, applying the principles of regenerative agriculture to their ranch such as minimal disturbance through no tilling. They have weaned the land completely from synthetic fertilizer, while increasing yield and maintaining quality.
The Breault's will now move on to compete at the national level with other provincial winners. The MBP TESA Award is the second significant acknowledgement of the way the Breault's farm in last few months as Shauna Breault was named to the MFGA Wall of Fame at the November 2024 MFGA Regen Ag Conference.
Read the full Cattle Country story on page 9: here
Minister MacAulay announces retirement; Minister MacAulay Announces interest-free limit under the Advance Payments Program will be set at $250,000 for 2025
Canada’s agriculture minister The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay will not seek the Liberal nomination in his PEI riding of Cardigan, which he has represented for over 36 years — making him the longest serving Liberal in the House of Commons.
MFGA wishes the Minister the best in all times ahead and congratulates the Minister on two separate terms served at the helm of Canada’s agriculture department.
Recently, MacAulay announced that the Government of Canada will set the interest-free limit of the Advance Payments Program at $250,000 for the 2025 program year. This is the portion of advances on which the Government of Canada pays the interest on behalf of producers.
The Advance Payments Program gives producers easy access to low-cost cash advances of up to $1 million, based on the expected value of their agricultural product. Under the program, producers typically receive the first $100,000 interest-free. The higher limit announced today will result in interest savings for producers while increasing access to cash flow to help cover costs until they sell their products. Read more: here
| 
