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Ontario Ag Minister Releases Numbers of Appeals on AgriStability Decisions

Ontario PC Ag Critic Pushes Min. McMeekin to Report on Agricrop Cases

By , Farms.com

Shortly after an open letter that was sent from Ontario PC Agriculture Critic Ernie Hardeman to Agriculture Minister Ted McMeekin urging the Minister to reveal the number of appeals that have been processed for Agricrop’s AgriStability program, they finally released them.

According to the minister, the committee has reviewed 43 cases out of over 99 thousand applications since 2007 and out of those 43, more than half (23) sided with Agricrop. In 5 cases Agricrop accepted the committee’s decision, but upheld its original decision with the other 7. There are currently 8 cases still that haven’t been decided upon.

More details on the open letter can be found be reading the following story:

PC Agriculture Critic Urges Min. McMeekin to Address Issues Relating to AgriStability


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