There were no major announcements affecting agriculture in Thursday's provincial budget.

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) was hoping to see the Farmland School Tax Rebate increased to 100 per cent, however there was no movement.

Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn said the government is committed to addressing the school tax rebate on farmland in the future.

"Our government, going back to 2003, we started off with a 30 per cent rebate. We are sitting at an 80 per cent rebate right now, a $5,000 cap. What we're saying is that we're investing those dollars into schools. We as a government are committed to keep schools open in the rural component."

PC Agriculture Critic Blaine Pederson says the budget was not a good one for rural Manitoba, describing it as a vote buying budget which will see Manitobans pay more and get less.

Pederson says his party was looking for an easing of the fees and regulations on agriculture.

"This government continues to pile on the fees," he said. "Remember when they increase municipal planning fees, that directly goes back into agriculture in Manitoba because the bulk of that is coming out of local municipalities and those municipalities have to make up those fees from somewhere and it's going to be from the rate payers. The biggest rate payers in our rural municipalities are land owners."

Pederson added that he was not impressed with the NDP's infrastructure investment announcements, noting that the government has underspent on infrastructure in the budget every year.

KAP Vice-President Glenn Young is hoping that a pre-election budget will include more for agriculture.