SCA joins call for national tax deferral program
Calls for a national tax federal program to save Saskatchewan cattle producers, are getting louder.
The Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association (SCA) is now joining other groups like the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS), who have asked Ottawa to provide the program to producers who are facing a feed shortage this year. SCA Board Chair Rick Toney said his group is asking for an ongoing program every year.
“We have to have a program that is there every year and producers can put it in their tool box and the producer is the one who initiates it,” Toney said.
At the national beef industry conference last month in London, Ontario, all the provincial and territorial representatives voted in support of the tax deferral program. The final decision now rests in the hands of the federal finance minister. Toney said producers need an answer sooner than later.