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SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 | Vol. 71, No. 49
CWB facility
purchase raises
concerns
Some worry farmers are
funding privatizing the
government’s company
By Allan Dawson
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AMM delegates want to
take province to court
co-operator staff
Sixty per cent of delegates at November convention want AMM to pursue a legal challenge
C
By Lorraine Stevenson
WB Ltd. is buying handling facilities, but some
farmers are wondering
who’s paying the bill.
CWB announced last week
that it would purchase Mission
Terminal, Les Élévateurs des
Trois-Rivières and Services
Maritimes Laviolette for an
undisclosed amount. Some
have concerns that the former
Canadian Wheat Board’s contingency fund, which farmers
claim as theirs, will bankroll the
government-owned grain company’s privatization.
The contingency fund was
created in 2001 to backstop
the now-defunct Producer
Payment Options. Surplus earnings from hedging and related
activities were used to offset
hedging losses.
The deal, to be completed by
year’s end, is being financed
through CWB retained earnings
and non-government guaranteed borrowing, CWB president
and CEO Ian White said in an
interview.
Federal legislation requires
CWB Ltd., created when the
Canadian Wheat Board’s marketing monopoly ended, to either
privatize by 2018 or wind down.
Some farm leaders, includi n g Ke y s t o n e A g r i c u l t u ra l
Producers (KAP) president
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t’s being called a last resort, but delegates at last week’s annual municipal convention have voted in
favour of taking the province to court
over forced amalgamation.
Sixty per cent of delegates voted yes
to a late resolution calling for legal
action now that the AMM has failed
every other attempt to prevent the
province from forcing the issue.
The Modernization of Municipalities
Act, which became law in October,
requires municipalities with less than
1,000 to submit a plan for amalgamation by December 1. The boundaries
are to be redrawn in time for municipal elections in October 2014.
Most municipalities have drawn up
plans, but remain vehemently opposed
to the top-down approach the province is taking for boundary reform.
No choice
Archie Heinrichs, mayor of Plum
Coulee, whose council brought forward the resolution calling for court
action, said they’re left with no other
choice.
The province has “very unreasonable timelines” in place and the 1,000
threshold is unfair, he said.
“It should be our residents who
make that decision, and they have had
no input into the decision,” Heinrichs
said. “There’s been no listening by
the province.”
“The province has shown no respect
to us at all,” added RM of Glenwood
councillor, Walter Findlay who was in
favour of taking court action. “What
is the next thing on their agenda that
they are going to try to jam down our
throats when they know they can get
away with this? Challenge them, it’s the
only way they’re going to learn.”
An amendment put forward asking AMM to first find out if the challenge had any merit was resoundingly
defeated.
But Doug Dobrowolski, AMM president said later the association’s board
must first seek legal advice before
moving forward. They’ll know shortly if
it’s feasible, he later told reporters.
See AMM on page 7 »
Sixty per cent of voters supported a resolution asking the AMM to take the province to court
over forced amalgamation. photo: lorraine stevenson
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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 5, 2013
INSIDE
Did you know?
LIVESTOCK
Land remains a good spot
to park spare cash
Judicious use
of antibiotics
Veterinary association
calls for tighter
controls
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Staff
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and remains a “safe
deposit box with a view”
for the ultra-wealthy,
according to the publication
2013 Land Report 100, an
annual survey and ranking of
the largest private landowners in the United States.
CROPS
Pushing the
limit on barley
Alberta researchers
target 180-bushel
yield
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FEATURE
AMM
unhappy with
amalgamation
Struthers says it could
have been handled
better
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CROSSROADS
How to kill
your community
Coffee shop
naysayers part of
the problem
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Editorials
Comments
Livestock Markets
Grain Markets
Canada’s Irving family among top owners of land in the U.S.
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What’s Up
Weather Vane
Classifieds
Sudoku
It says that in 2012, the country’s top 100 landowners cumulatively increased their private
holdings by 700,000 acres to a
total of 33 million acres, nearly
two per cent of U.S. land mass.
Liberty Media chairman John
Malone tops the list with 2.2
million acres, edging out CNN
founder Ted Turner, who has
more than two million.
Rounding out the top five in
order were the Emmerson family, Brad Kelley and Canada’s
Irving family.
The report says this year Stan
Kroenke elevated his position
from No. 10 to No. 8 after his
recent purchase of the historic
Broken O Ranch, described
nationally as “one of the largest
agricultural operations in the
Rocky Mountain West.” Kroenke
also owns the 540,000-acre Q
Creek Ranch, the largest contiguous ranch in the Rocky
Mountains.
Media mogul Ted Turner likes to keep a few bison in his backyard. photo: thinkstock
New additions to the top 100
list included No. 28, Dan and
Farris Wilks, billionaire brothers who recently purchased
more than 400 square miles of
land, mostly in the eastern half
of Montana. The Wilks brothers, oilfield services entrepreneurs, own the prized N Bar
Ranch in Montana, which is
known for its wildlife and fishery resources.
Another new addition is No.
96, Arthur Nicholas. The cofounder of Nicholas Investment
Properties owns Wyoming’s historic Wagonhound Land and
Livestock, an AQHA Ranching
Heritage Breeder.
The report can be downloaded at http://fayranches.
com/blog/2013/10/01/2013land-report-100-sponsored-fayranches.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 5, 2013
Sikh family eager to put down
roots on Manitoba farm
Multi-generational Sikh immigrant family eager to start farming in southwestern Manitoba
By Daniel Winters
“The main principle is to
work hard at honest work.
Second is share with others,
and the third is to remember
God.”
co-operator staff / Oak Lake
T
he Khosa family has followed an
age-old mantra for those looking to
make a fresh start in a land of plenty.
They’ve come west.
On a quarter section of rolling grain
land just east of Oak Lake, the Sikh family
that spans three generations is keen to put
down roots. They’ve lived in Toronto for
nearly two decades. But about 18 months
ago, the Khosas decided to try farming —
not for the money — but more to experience the “fun” of growing food.
“I am trucking right now, but maybe
next year we will start farming as well,” said
Harbinder Singh Khosa, 47.
All vegetarians, they are excited about
growing their own food. This past summer they planted a vegetable garden, but
for now have opted to rent the rest of their
acres to a neighbour until they can buy
enough machinery to grow their own crops.
An engineer by training and an experienced diesel mechanic, Harbinder is planning to open a repair shop on the property,
which lies right next to the Trans-Canada
Highway.
But right now, he’s been busy replacing
the block on one of the three semi-trailers
parked in the yard.
With no roof overhead, working in God’s
Great Garage doesn’t bother him — so long
as it doesn’t get any colder than -8 C. Still,
it’s not much fun when tools or stray bolts
fall in the snow, he said.
Harbans Singh Khosa is the family patriarch. A schoolmaster in his native Punjab,
the spry 78-year-old with twinkling eyes
and a ready smile credits a vegetarian diet
for his excellent health.
“I can take meat and eggs, but I find
that I don’t need it,” he said, adding that
the Sikh religion doesn’t prohibit meat
consumption.
In Punjab, most farmers grow crop rotations of wheat-pulse-rice, but with no prior
Harbans Singh Khosa
Grandparents Harbans Singh Khosa and Harbans Kaur Khosa pose for a picture in their home with
son Harbinder Singh Khosa and his wife Shaminder Kaur Khosa, along with sons Harsimarjit Singh
Khosa and Prabhsimarjit Singh Khosa. (In Sikh cultural tradition, Singh denotes a man, while Kaur
means woman.) photo: Daniel Winters
experience at farming, they plan to start out
with the same crops that their neighbours
have good success growing, he said.
He is looking forward to bringing his
other son, Parmpal, 44, over from India to
help out.
“One and one makes 11,” he joked,
meaning that two brothers working
together can accomplish as much as 11
men.
Most people are unfamiliar with the
Sikh religion, but Harbans does his best to
explain the salient features at every opportunity. Monotheism, the belief in an all-
powerful god, is the core of the religion,
followed by a firm belief in the universal
equality of all humans.
“The main principle is to work hard at
honest work. Second is share with others,
and the third is to remember God,” said
Harbans.
Sikhs make up only two per cent of the
population of India, but under British rule,
they made up a large proportion of the military due to their “boldness and bravery,”
he said.
Harbinder hopes that their farming
venture is a success and that his two sons,
4-H launches new video
of Youth Ag-Summit
Staff
4-H Canada and Bayer
CropScience have posted a new
video that highlights the global
4-H Youth Ag-Summit held in
Calgary last August.
As part of 4-H Canada’s 100th
anniversary celebrations, 118
young delegates from 18 to 25
gathered from 24 different countries to discuss how their generation can overcome the challenges
of feeding a growing world population of over seven billion people.
4-H members discussed the
theme of “Feeding a Hungry
Planet” and tackled topics such
as food waste, climate change, the
growing human footprint, con-
sumer awareness of agricultural
practices and farming efficiencies.
The final vision reached by
attendees was “to increase sustainable access to nutrient-dense
food for women and children
worldwide to alleviate global
hunger.”
“We were very proud to have
had the global network to help
facilitate bringing these bright
minds to Canada,” Kamel Beliazi,
president and CEO of Bayer
CropScience said in a release. “We
need new and fresh thinking to
solve these problems — the future
relies on these young minds.”
The video can be accessed
a t w w w. y o u t u b e . c o m /
watch?v=QW9tYXDdc7k.
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Canada’s Annual Ag Outlook Conference
February 24 & 25, 2014
The Fairmont Winnipeg
Get detailed outlooks for all the crops we grow in western Canada.
Speakers include:
Every farmer has been a marketing
genius for the last two years. 2012
saw a good crop and the best prices
we’ve ever had. 2013 saw the best
crop ever grown in western Canada
and still decent prices.
You’ll have to sharpen your pencil
for 2014 however. Two years of good
prices have farmers around the world
producing to the max. Making money
will be a challenge in 2014.
As part of 4-H Canada’s 100th anniversary celebrations, 118 young delegates
from 18 to 25 gathered from 24 different countries in Calgary last August.
aged four and five, currently enrolled in
the local school, may one day be part of an
expanded family operation.
But for now, he’s pleased to give the boys
the opportunity to run and play outdoors
in the farm’s wide-open spaces.
The latest Statistic Canada report, entitled “Get to know Canadian farmers and
their families,” states that of the roughly
45,000 immigrant farmers in Canada that
make up about seven per cent of the total
farming population, about eight per cent
listed their mother tongue as Punjabi.
In comparison, the most common
mother tongues for Canada’s immigrant
farm population were English (34.5 per
cent), Dutch (17.8 per cent), German (16.7
per cent), and French (3.8 per cent).
According to numbers gathered in 2011,
of the almost 550,000 Indian immigrants,
only 3,785 of them became farmers. What’s
more, most of them settled in the balmy
climes of British Columbia.
Roman Catholic was the most frequently
reported religious affiliation for the immigrant farm population in each province,
except for British Columbia where Sikh was
the most frequently reported religion.
Of the immigrant farm population
reporting a religious affiliation, the most
frequently reported religions were Roman
Catholic (30.4 per cent), Sikh (9.9 per cent),
and Christian (7.2 per cent).
Arm yourself with information on the
market outlooks for the various crops
we can plant in western Canada. Wild
Oats Grainworld 2014 will provide you
with detailed outlooks from traders
who handle the crops.
- Canola - Tracy Lussier, Dreyfus
- Feed Barley – Jim Beusekom, Market Place Commodities
- Durum – John Griffith, CHS
- Red Spring Wheat – Trevor Letkeman, Parrish & Heimbecker
- Oats – Randy Strychar, Ag Commodity Research
- Soybeans – Karl Skold, Bunge
In addition, hear Charlie Mayer on the value of farmers, an
international panel of grain customers, a review of where the seed
industry is headed and Dennis Gartman, publisher of the Gartman
Letter, on financial policy.
Join us at the Fairmont Hotel at the corner of Portage and Main
in Winnipeg. Early-bird registration is $400 and includes all
sessions and meals. Register at wildoatsgrainworld.com or call
1-800-567-5671.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 5, 2013
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Cell companies bad,
railways good
J
ust as there’s good stress and bad
stress, there’s good excitement and
bad excitement. There’s the good
excitement you get when watching the
Grey Cup, especially if you’re a Riders
fan. Then there’s the other kind of excitement (as in riled up) you got watching
this year’s Grey Cup commercials about
how the Harper government is stomping
John Morriss
on those big bad cellphone companies.
Editorial Director
This follows the speech from the
throne, in which we were told the government would defend citizens against those evil cable
providers. Isn’t it nice to know that a “conservative” government that preaches the virtues of free markets and
staying out of citizens’ business will pass an act of Parliament to let you subscribe to the Space channel without
having to pay the full three bucks a month to get Spike,
History and Bravo as well? And then use your tax money
to tell you about it?
If you were a grain farmer watching the Grey Cup, it might
have occurred to you that it seems odd that the Harper government has one attitude toward competition in the cellphone business, but another toward the railways.
Speaking to the Grain Industry Symposium in Ottawa
last month, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said he hasn’t
seen any evidence that the railways aren’t performing.
Apparently the grain companies reporting a weekly shortfall of between 1,000 to 2,000 cars isn’t evidence.
However, “I’ve asked (the grain companies) to keep me
up to speed on what’s working, what’s not working, so I
can flow it through to Transport Canada and directly to
the railways to make sure they understand that we are
watching.”
The reference to flowing through Transport Canada
directly to the railways is particularly telling. Mr. Ritz
may not be aware that in certain quarters, the joke is that
Transport Canada is otherwise known as the railways’
unofficial lobbying office in Ottawa.
The minister is also a fan of removing the revenue cap on
grain shipments, which would be the railways’ final victory
in a long-running campaign to get absolutely everything
their way. Perhaps it’s ancient history now, but some of us
remember when the railways hinted if not outright promised that if the government got rid of the Crow rate, they
might be able to afford to improve service. The railways
also said they could improve efficiency by getting rid of all
those old wooden elevators and all those branch lines.
So let’s go back to 1983-84, when there were 3,000
elevators, not 300, and most of the cars were boxes, not
hoppers. In the final week of that year, Thunder Bay took
off 9,672 cars, and Vancouver unloaded 3,000-plus. Back
then, 5,000 unloads would have been a disaster. Today it’s
considered a good week.
So the railways got what they wanted. The Crow is gone.
The boxcars are gone. The branch lines are gone. The
wooden elevators are gone. The wheat board is gone. But
the railways are shipping half as many cars as they did
30 years ago. Their solution to improve things — and one
apparently shared by Minister Ritz — is to get rid of the
revenue cap so they can charge even more.
Did we mention that the revenue cap is set at a level to
guarantee a profit, and is adjusted for inflation?
The theory behind this, by the way, is that by allowing
the railways to charge more in total, they could raise rates
at some points to encourage more efficiency in the system. When there are four elevators in Western Canada —
one per railway at the foothills of the Rockies and at the
Manitoba-Ontario border — perhaps the system will be
sufficiently efficient from the railways’ point of view.
The wholesale deregulation of the system over the
past 30 years was marked by a number of reports, many
prepared with helpful support from the railways’ lobby
office in Ottawa… er, Transport Canada. One of the last,
by retired Supreme Court Justice Willard Estey, supported
continued deregulation. However, it’s somehow been
forgotten that he also made another recommendation to
encourage competition, which was that the rail system be
deregulated in the same way as telecommunications, and
that there be joint running rights. In other words, anyone
could start a railway and run it on CN and CP tracks.
Well, that didn’t happen, but the current government
ad campaign tells us that it wants at least four cellphone
companies competing in every region of the country —
and sharing cell towers.
In kowtowing to the railways, the Harper government is
only carrying a tradition followed by previous Liberal and
Progressive Conservative governments. But never have
we seen such a stark ideological contrast. You must have
the choice of four cell companies, but two railways are
enough.
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Big Ag and Big Data meet Big Iron
An algorithm may determine
crop insurance payments
in the future
By Alan Guebert
E
very day, according to the coconut milkdrinking nerds in Silicon Valley, the world
generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of electronic
data.
Think two, comma, five and then 17 zeroes.
You get the idea. Big data is really big and Big
Ag is investing big bucks in what it sees is the next
big thing on your farm or ranch.
On Nov. 1, Monsanto Co. completed its
$930-million cash purchase of The Climate
Corp., a San Francisco-based tech company
that, under Monsanto’s umbrella, hopes to
change global farming. A profile titled “Climate
By Numbers” in the Nov. 11 New Yorker magazine explains how.
The company, writes author Michael Specter,
“hopes to transform the weather business… into
a system driven solely by numbers. And there
are a lot of numbers. Company scientists process 50 terabytes” — 52.43 million megabytes —
“of weather information every day… The data
include eight years’ worth of soil, moisture and
precipitation records for each of the 29 million
farm fields in the U.S.”
A Climate Corp. “algorithm divides the country
into nearly a half a million plots, then generates
10,000 daily weather scenarios for each of them.
This information is used to create individualized
insurance policies for corn, soybean and wheat
farmers covering major perils…
“When data show that a field is too wet, for
instance, or that hot nights will interfere with the
growth of a crop, an insured farmer simply gets a
cheque. No claims, forms, adjusters, or negotiations are required.”
OUR HISTORY:
O
Climate Corp.’s whiz-bang crop insurance
scheme stands on two pillars. First, it lifts buckets
of free weather and yield information from the
National Weather Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and, second, Monsanto’s
2012 purchase of Precision Planting, an Illinois
firm that specializes in on-the-go seed selection
and placement.
Together it’s Big Data meets Big Seed meets
Big Iron and the pairings will drive your tractor,
select and place your seed (from personalized
varieties) by the foot or metre and fertilize, irrigate and insure the crop while you’re monitoring
it all from your kitchen or farm office.
This isn’t a touch screen, agronaut fantasy. In
July, Informa Economics floated an investment
prospectus to underwrite a broad study of what it
called “AgInformatics.”
The offer listed Deere, Dow, Monsanto, Pioneer, and Syngenta — “on the verge of going ‘all
in’ on data collection, analysis and operational
planning.”
No one, however, will go boldly into a datadriven tomorrow alone. Climate Corp. was
approved to peddle heavily subsidized — and,
very likely, expanding — U.S. crop insurance
three months before Monsanto bought it. Deere
already owns a crop insurance arm.
None of this is free. Climate Corp. “charges
roughly $40 per acre to insure crops,” notes the
New Yorker. Monsanto believes the $1 billion it
spent on the company will yield $20 billion in the
coming years.
Curiously, that big money will be spent to do
pretty much what small-farm agriculture has
done for millennia: grow better crops and livestock through small plot management using soil
and weather knowledge gained over years of
farming and ranching.
The Farm and Food File is published weekly in more
than 70 newspapers in North America. Contact Alan
Guebert at [email protected].
December 1971
ur issues in 1972 carried a series of products available
from Frank Lawson and Sons Ltd. in Brandon. This
hammer mill was advertised in our Dec. 7 edition.
That was the year of the “Great Grain Robbery” when the
Soviet Union had cleaned an unsuspecting U.S. out of grain,
and there was strong demand and high prices for remaining
supplies. Speaking to the annual meeting of Alberta Wheat Pool,
wheat board chief commissioner Gerry Vogel said the board was
planning to send a questionnaire to all permit book holders to
get a better idea of what remained to be sold.
A revolution in grain handling had begun that month. The first
200 of an order of 2,000 government hopper cars were on their
way to the West Coast. Previously all grain was hauled in boxcars.
The previous summer had seen a test of trucking grain to large
government terminals at Saskatoon and Moose Jaw to determine
whether it was more efficient than using local elevators. The
Palliser Wheat Growers Association hailed the experiment as a
success, but a wheat board analysis reported on that week said it
resulted in an extra 12 cents per bushel in trucking costs.
Elsewhere we reported on a new method of making silage by
sealing it in plastic bags, and a Manitoba Department of Agriculture
study which indicated a favourable future for faba beans.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 5, 2013
COMMENT/FEEDBACK
Municipal amalgamation: why all the fuss?
What is the point of sticking so closely to the past that the future appears identical?
By Duncan Stewart
T
Letters
he provincial government’s edict
that small rural municipalities
must amalgamate has caused
great consternation, but there is reason
to examine resistance to the idea.
Manitoba RMs have been operating
under the same policies for over 100
years — since the days horse and buggy
were the preferred mode of transportation to our meetings. It seems to me,
after a century, only the most incorrigible Luddite will argue some tweaking of our policies is not necessary, and
this is all the province was suggesting.
The imposition of a requirement that we
must do it was necessary as well.
The directors of the Association of
Manitoba Municipalities have insisted
they are not opposed to amalgamation,
but it should be voluntary. This, as they
had to know, would happen only on a
similar timeline to the second coming
of Christ.
Dissenters insist municipalities were
“forced to confront ideas with which
we don’t agree” and “we were having
unpalatable policies rammed down our
throats.”
What ideas? What policies? We were
told we must choose partners and formulate an amalgamation plan, but the
content of this plan was left entirely to
us. We were given the chance and we
blew it.
There are many reasons for this.
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Organic support for
trade misguided
I was happy to hear of the federal
government’s support for the organic
sector in your Nov. 28 paper until I
learned that most of the money will
go to improve international trade.
There was no mention of support for
organic farmers whose crops may be
contaminated by blow-overs from
GMO crops nearby.
The money will mainly go to support increased trade which is always
high on the Conservative agenda. If
the Conservative MP Robert Goguen
was serious in a quest to assist
organic growers more and the federal
government’s interests less, then the
support would be more diverse.
A government with more wisdom
would see that organic farmers hold
greater promise to help feed people
than the factory farming model now
practised in most locales in Canada.
Increasing trade is good, but it would
be better if we provided healthier
food.
Barry Hammond
Winnipeg, Man.
It seems to me, after a century, only the most incorrigible
Luddite will argue some tweaking of our policies is not
necessary, and this is all the province was suggesting.
One is the reluctance of a conservative population to accept change. This
becomes most evident if one examines
the content of the plans submitted to
date: most, if not all, adhere very closely
to policies in place before amalgamation — same number of wards, same
number of councillors. In other words,
they stick so closely to the past that the
future appears identical. Some progress!
The fact that this “change” makes it
more likely incumbent councillors will
retain their seats, can’t be a reason for
it — or can it?
My own RM of Brenda amalgamated
with the town of Waskada; this eliminated one council, but made no change
to the municipal map or to efficiency.
I’ve seen the same happen with other
RMs.
The process was further complicated by the inappropriate involvement
of some chief administrative officers.
A minority took an active part in their
council’s policy discussions, a role way
beyond their job description.
Many councils wanted ratepayers
involved in the deliberations. Ratepayers’ wishes have to be considered, but at
the end of the day “the buck stops with
us.” We were elected to make the right
decision when thorny issues arise. If it
turns out the decisions are wrong, well,
that is what the next election is for.
Amalgamation should result in
municipal government best suited for
the 21st century. Not some warmed-up
rehash of 100-year-old policies.
And we have — right under our noses
— a template for a much better system
of municipal government.
In the early 1900s, North Dakota and
Manitoba were roughly at the same
stage of political development. But the
state and province chose radically different systems to open up their local governments. Manitoba chose the method
which has resulted in what we see today
— 116 RMs of varying shapes and sizes,
with no apparent rhyme nor reason for
their boundaries. They have, as of 2011,
a population of 259,000.
North Dakota has 53 counties, with
borders appearing to be symmetrical
and designed to fit the topography of
the state. Their population is 672,591.
Each N.D. county has an elected government of not more than five commissioners, including a chairperson. Each
county has a county seat, in which there
is an office housing their auditor (equivalent to our CAO), and several staff.
North Dakota’s system is not perfect.
It has divided its counties into a large
number of townships for which they are
having difficulty finding volunteers.
It seems to me a combination of our
two systems could result in a much
improved municipal government which
uses the good elements and discards the
weak.
This letter may seem intemperate to
some, and for that I apologize. It is written in frustration at the fact we had an
offer — unique I believe in the annals of
provincial legislation — to manage our
own local municipalities in a way that
could have been a major improvement
over our antiquated system of government. We failed to take advantage of this
offer.
No future provincial government is
going to allow our present chaotic and
inefficient system of municipal government to continue for much longer. It will
certainly change it, and this time it is not
likely to ask for our advice.
Duncan Stewart is the reeve of the RM of
Brenda. The views expressed here are his
own.
Farmers fare better under
right-of-centre governments
Fiscally tight Conservatives tend to be liberal with farm support
FARE Share newsletter
A
new study shows liberal fiscal policies for agriculture are common under Conservative leadership. Tor Tolhurst and Shuang Li, M.Sc. students,
FARE and John Cranfield, professor, FARE examined the
seemingly contradictory nature of Conservative fiscal
support for farmers.
Known for espousing small government and fiscal
conservatism, Conservative governments in Canada
have instead shown a consistently “leviathan” approach
to agriculture.
The researchers examined data — specifically the
number of Conservative-held seats in Parliament relative to direct and indirect federal transfers — over a
25-year period from 1986 to 2010 using figures from the
organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
They also included controls for state of the agricultural economy, trade negotiations, importance of
agricultural trade and the general state of the Canadian economy. The study demonstrated a statistically
significant and positive relationship between transfers to agricultural producers and Conservative Party
power.
The researchers then went on to ask the natural followup question, “Why are governments of the right
— against party ideology and rhetoric — leviathan for
agriculture?”
They outline several theories espoused in research
literature, including: successful, well-organized farm
group lobbying; vote pandering; and the relationship
between the tax burden of farm support relative to
national income, among others.
But these theories don’t address the question of
“why Conservative parties?” in particular. For this, the
researchers found a number of authors who support
the notion of a long history of agrarianism that took
root over time.
This trend was developing at the same time that Liberal parties were aligning themselves with urban and
labour interests.
The researchers concluded that these theories might
be overly simplistic due to the complexities of the
ever-changing makeup of political parties in Canada.
Instead, they pointed to their data that suggests the
best use of political resources was to capture social conservative and fiscal liberals among agricultural producers.
More specifically, investment in agriculture equalled
votes from individuals in the margins.
It might surprise some Canadians to know how much
of their taxes go to support those in the agriculture
industry; it might surprise them even more that the
data supports the reality that Conservative governments are often the leviathan for the industry.
The FARE Share Newsletter is a collection of research articles written
by graduate students in the department of food, agricultural and
resource economics (FARE) at the University of Guelph. It can be
found online at: http://www.uoguelph.ca/fare/institute/newsletter.
html.
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FROM PAGE ONE
CWB Continued from page 1
CWB’s planned purchase of grain handling and port terminal assets from the
Soumat arm of Toronto’s Upper Lakes Group Inc. has renewed calls for the
wheat board’s contingency fund to be paid to farmers.
Doug Chorney, worry the contingency fund is being misused.
“They (federal government)
should be paying for this (purchase), not farmers,” Chorney
said in an interview. “That’s
an opinion I’ve heard a thousand times from all farmers I’ve
talked to.”
“We’re certain that money is
not farmers,’” White said in an
interview. “I know that farmers
felt that was their money but
in actual fact it was never their
money. It wasn’t quite right to
be saying at the time that it was
their money. There was always
a view put around that the
CWB was farmer owned, but in
effect the CWB was farmer controlled by a board of directors.
The ownership was always ultimately with the government.”
According to former farmerelected wheat board director
Stewart Wells, the contingency
fund belongs to the farmers.
“Every cent of that money
was made because of grain
sales made for farmers,” Wells
said. “It was made in the normal operations that the wheat
board had marketing grain
from western Canadian farmers. Period.”
Grain Growers of Canada
president Stephen Vandervalk
said his personal view is that
the money is farmers’.
“There was a precedent for
that because they (wheat board)
did give some money back...
when they had too much (in the
fund),” he said. “It’s pretty hard
for them to say it’s their money
when the one year they did give
it back (to farmers).”
That was in 2005 when the
fund exceeded the $60-million cap by $7.5 million. Later
the cap was increased to $200
million.
However, Vandervalk said he
is so pleased the government
ended the wheat board’s marketing monopoly, he is willing
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money.
“I contend overall most farmers are happy with the final
outcome and we want a strong
competitor out there in the
CWB and to do that they need
some export capability because
they’re struggling to get into the
West Coast,” Vandervalk said.
The Western Canadian Wheat
Growers Association holds a
similar view, said president Levi
Wood.
“If we can’t get equity out of
the CWB it’s important to note
that at this point as farmers
we’re benefiting from an open
market as well as having the
CWB being a strong competitor
in the market,” he said.
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White said because of the high
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company, the CWB will also
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The Western Grain Elevator
Association doesn’t oppose the
CWB’s purchase because the
financing isn’t government subsidized, said executive director
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AMM Continued from page 1
“This is clearly a last resort,”
Dobrowolski said. “We are
under no illusions that this
action will prevent amalgamation from happening. We’re
going to be consulting with
our lawyers to see what is
appropriate.”
Passionate
Sixty per cent of 700 delegates at the convention supported the action, but those
opposed to the idea were
equally passionate — and
not just because a court challenge could become a costly
undertaking.
“I think this is a very, very
slipper y slope,” said Rick
Pauls, mayor of KillarneyTurtle Mountain Municipality
who called it “a sad day” and
“American politics coming to
Manitoba.” Pauls said the AMM
board needs reminding it’s supposed to represent all municipalities, and there are others
who agree boundary reform is
necessary.
“If they’re going to fight
things like this then they have
to take a look at the entire
structure of the AMM right
now,” said Pauls. “I am in an
amalgamated municipality. And
I don’t want my municipality
named in a lawsuit suing the
province for something that we
think is the best thing to happen for Manitoba.”
Pauls said this matter will
only further divide leaders on
what’s already a deeply divisive
issue.
“I really think this is the
beginning of the end of the
AMM,” he said.
Dobrowolski acknowledged
the dissension among AMM
members. AMM has repeatedly
said it is not against amalgamation, but wants the province to
back off and let amalgamation
occur at a slower pace and by
community choice, he said.
EU, North
African states
seek to increase
food investment
They’ve tried to convince the
province to do so without success, he said.
“I firmly believe our members
would not have come to this
decision if they had any other
options,” he later told reporters. “The province has left us
with no choice. We have tried
many, many times to make suggestions and offer compromises
which would allow municpalities and their citizens to follow a smoother path toward
amaglamation.”
Botched
Garry Wasylowski, reeve of the
RM of Armstrong is among
those who say the province
has botched the transition
with a top-down approach.
But he doesn’t think AMM
is right to take the matter to
court either.
“Municipalities are a creature
of the province,” he said. “We
are there by provincial legisla-
tion and the province has the
right to do what it’s doing. I
truly believe they (the province)
have made some mistakes in
this, and I think consultation is
something we need to do. But
legal action is not going to bring
on consultation. It’s going to
have two parties drawing lines
in the sand.”
Reeve of the RM of Brenda,
Duncan Stewart called the
prospect of court action
“ridiculous.”
In a scathing opinion piece
recently published in the
Winnipeg Free Press Stewart
takes his colleagues to task for
submitting plans that comply
with the province’s Dec. 1 deadline, redrawing the map and
enlarging municipalities — but
not eliminating existing wards
or council positions.
He thinks the root of resistance to amalgamation is turf
protection. Leaders don’t want
to lose their jobs.
“I don’t want my
municipality named
in a lawsuit suing
the province for
something that we
think is the best
thing to happen for
Manitoba.”
RICK PAULS
Mayor of KillarneyTurtle Mountain
“That’s what an awful lot of
this boils down to,” he said.
“Rather than look at what is
best for the municipality, and
what is best for the southwest, and we do need a lot of
improvements out here, they’re
thinking of what’s good for
themselves and being able to
keep their positions.”
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Get ahead and
stay ahead
Food security concerns
remain after 2011 Arab
Spring revolts
By Hamid Ould Ahmed
ALGIERS / REUTERS
E
uropean Union and North
Africa countries agreed
Nov. 27 to work together
to reduce the Maghreb region’s
reliance on food imports and
improve security of supplies,
especially in cereals.
With scarce fertile land to
feed a fast-growing population, the Middle East and
North Africa is the largest foodimporting region in the world.
Years of rising food prices
helped fuel social tensions
that burst in early 2011 as disgruntled populations rose up
in rebellion against rulers from
Tunisia to Yemen.
France, the EU’s top grain
exporter, has a special interest
in the region as a major supplier
to Mediterranean countries.
Algeria is its main wheat export
market.
“We want to boost investment
and raise output in importing
countries,” French Agriculture
Minister Stephane Le Foll said
in Algiers. “This involves all
foodstuffs including cereals,
milk, meat, among others.”
Le Foll was speaking at a
meeting of agriculture ministers from Algeria, Tunisia, Libya,
Morocco, Mauritania, France,
Spain, Malta, Portugal and Italy,
to discuss agriculture and food
security issues.
The ministers from the socalled 5+5 Euro-Med countries
agreed to create a food security
mission to examine production and supplies. The findings
will contribute to a meeting in
February to propose specific
areas to develop.
The mission will encourage private-sector investment
and look at legislation to ease
investment terms.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 5, 2013
Bayer says ‘plant health compound’ combats stress
Exact nature of the product is still a secret but it is neither a pesticide nor a fertilizer
By Allan Dawson
“This is a tool to
help us get more out
of our production
system in our current
environment.”
co-operator staff / banff
I
t sounds almost to good
to be true — spring wheat
yields averaging 6.5 per cent
higher when treated with what
Bayer CropScience calls a “plant
health compound.”
Bayer has yet to disclose the
exact nature of the experimental product, but says it boosts
yields by reducing plant stress.
The results are based on 19
trials in North America conducted in 2011 and 2012 with
more than 80 per cent of the
data points showing a positive yield response, says Kelly
Patzer, Bayer CropScience’s
cereals development manager.
“This is big,” Patzer told
invited agronomists and reporters attending Bayer’s “The Science Behind” conference Nov.
26 to 28.
“Just to put that into perspective... if we were looking
at this from a plant-breeding
perspective with conventional
plant-breeding technology this
represents at least a decade of
yield improvement,” he said.
“This is from a single seed
treatment. To do this reliably this is enormous in the
big scheme of things so there
is potentially big opportunity
here.”
In an interview later Patzer
d e s c r i b e d t h e exper imen tal plant growth compound
as “unique,” and “unprecedented,” so much so it’s
Kelly Patzer
Kelly Patzer, Bayer CropScience’s
cereals development manager, says
Bayer’s plant health compound
shows a lot of promise and is
expected to have its biggest impact
in Canada because crops here are
usually under more stress than in
other growing areas around the
world. Photos: Allan Dawson
unclear how it will be regulated
because it’s not a herbicide,
insecticide, fungicide or fertilizer and therefore falls outside
the regulatory mandate of the
Pest Management Regulatory
Agency.
“So it’s really paradigm shift,”
Patzer said. “ What’s really
interesting about it is what
we are essentially aiming to
do is increase crop efficiency
— increase yield — by removing abiotic stress. So it’s essentially getting more with the
In this Alberta trial Bayer CropScience says its “plant health compound”
boosted spring wheat yields 15 per cent. Two years of trials showed an
average yield increase of 6.5 per cent.
same resource, which is really
exciting when we talk about
productivity and resource management.”
Abiotic stresses come from
the environment and include
temperature extremes, drought
and high winds — stresses
farmers can’t currently combat
with chemicals.
Commercialization
Patzer said it’s unclear how
soon this experimental product
will be commercially available.
“But clearly this is not in the
too-distant future,” he said.
“We are preparing all the
evaluations that would normally be required to register a new product — all the
environmental work as well
as the research work on how
it behaves in the plant and of
course all the toxicology work
will be done,” Patzer said.
“There is such an opportunity here for industry and growers that we would be remiss if
we didn’t pursue this. Exciting
times ahead.”
Experiments with foliar applications of the plant health compound have also boosted yields,
he said. The product will likely
be available in a tank-mixable
form or as a co-pack allowing
farmers to apply it when spraying conventional pesticides, as
well as a seed treatment.
Bayer’s research is so new
patents are still pending.
Canada is leading the
research, and as it turns out, its
farmers will likely reap the most
benefits because of the harsh
environment crops are grown
in, Patzer said.
“These materials relieve abiotic stress and limitations on
crop yield and by dealing with
those we have the most to gain
and in fact that’s what we’re seeing with our research,” he said.
“We see a proportionately better benefit in Canada than in
some of these other key producing areas.
“And in fact what it will do is
help our growers close some
of those yield caps that we see
when we compare to say, northern Europe.
“This is a tool to help us get
more out of our production
system in our current environment.”
Officials from Bayer CropScience also discussed their
work on new canolas that are
resistant to clubroot, less prone
to pod shattering and tolerant
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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 5, 2013
Struthers says amalgamation
could have been handled better
The newly appointed minister of municipal government says the province will help
with the amalgamation process
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff / brandon
T
he room was pin-drop quiet as
Stan Struthers, Manitoba’s new
minister of municipal government,
addressed the Association of Manitoba
Municipalities convention here last week.
His speech largely focused on fence
mending after a year of tension between
the province and municipalities over
forced amalgamation.
Most of his 40-minute talk was spent
defending the province’s decision to
push for mergers, but Struthers also
said things could have been handled
better.
“I regret that you were taken by surprise,” he told a room of about 800
local leaders. The 2012 throne speech
announcement, made without prior
consultation, said all municipalities
with populations under 1,000 must
begin an amalgamation process in
time for 2014 elections.
St r u t h e r s , a f o r m e r p r ov i n c i a l
finance and agriculture minister who
took over the municipal government
file in a cabinet shuffle in October,
said his government also knows how
unpopular the idea is.
“A few of you thought it was about
time and you’ve told me that,” he said.
“But I’m under no illusion that that’s a
majority here. The majority of you have
expressed your displeasure. You’ve all
been honest telling me that you don’t
like it.”
Struthers said he recognizes
the toll the deadlines have taken on
both elected officials and municipal
staff.
“I understand that when you put
deadlines in place and we ask you to,
without consulting with you beforehand, meet those deadlines that we are
asking a lot of you,” he said.
“You have CAOs who have taken
this on the chin as well,” he continued. “They are very talented people
who work hard, who have shouldered
a good chunk of the burden of our ask
to move toward amalgamated municipalities.”
Will work with RMs
December 1 was the deadline for
municipalities to submit merger plans,
and Struthers said “the vast majority”
of leaders he’s been working with will
meet it.
His job now is to work with AMM
executive and find ways to ease implementation, he said.
“I want to be very clear that we’ve
got you into this mess and we’re not
going to just walk away now,” he said.
“I’m looking forward to talking with
(AMM president) Doug (Dobrowolski) about ideas about how we can
be helpful in the next stage which is
implementation of the plans before
us. “
Struthers also said he wants to see
the province rebuild a relationship
with municipal leaders.
“The majority of you have
expressed your displeasure.
You’ve all been honest
telling me that you don’t
like it.”
Stan Struthers
AMM president Doug Dobrowolski says
the relationship between the province and
municipalities has deteriorated. Supplied photo
“Most importantly, I am looking to
rebuild the kind of relationship that I
think is necessary between our government and your AMM executive,” he
told delegates.
In an speech prior to Struthers’,
AMM president Doug Dobrowolski
said the relationship between the province and municipalities has deteriorated.
“Last year I said I know the province
wants to see municipalities grow and
prosper,” he said. “It angers me that I
can no longer make that statement one
short year later. The relationship has
eroded over the past year and trust has
been lost.”
Dobrowolski told delegates they’ve
tried, without success, to convince
the province there were other ways to
approach amalgamation, including
highlighting successes of voluntary
mergers while providing more assistance to those that wanted go forward.
“That would light the path for others,” he said.
What AMM wants at this point is to
“get fair treatment through the rest of
this amalgamation process,” he later
told reporters.
Municipalities say they’re going to
need more resources if they’re going
to get this job done, including more
help answering difficult technical and
financial questions that have arisen.
“We need better resources,” he said.
“This shouldn’t be an unfunded mandate.”
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118.00 - 140.00
(701-800 lbs.)
125.00 - 154.00
(601-700 lbs.)
140.00 - 161.00
(501-600 lbs.)
150.00 - 174.00
(401-500 lbs.)
170.00 - 188.00
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
—
(801-900 lbs.)
110.00 - 129.00
(701-800 lbs.)
110.00 - 123.00
(601-700 lbs.)
122.00 - 144.00
(501-600 lbs.)
130.00 - 155.00
(401-500 lbs.)
135.00 - 165.00
Heifers
Alberta South
126.50
—
65.00 - 75.00
59.00 - 70.00
80.61
$ 133.00 - 145.00
138.00 - 149.00
140.00 - 156.00
145.00 - 163.00
154.00 - 172.00
168.00 - 190.00
$ 118.00 - 131.00
123.00 - 136.00
125.00 - 139.00
130.00 - 145.00
135.00 - 152.00
144.00 - 166.00
($/cwt)
(1,000+ lbs.)
(850+ lbs.)
Futures (November 29, 2013) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change
December 2013
133.10
1.65
February 2014
134.10
1.75
April 2014
134.70
1.63
June 2014
128.62
1.25
August 2014
127.07
1.17
October 2014
129.35
1.25
Cattle Slaughter
Feeder Cattle
January 2014
March 2014
April 2014
May 2014
August 2014
September 2014
Cheaper feed and ample forage encourage buyer interest
CNSC
Close
165.32
165.15
166.00
166.80
167.37
166.25
Change
1.95
1.88
1.70
1.80
1.57
1.00
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
Previous
November 23, 2013
Year­
Canada
48,220
45,799
East
12,400
13,959
West
35,820
31,840
Manitoba
NA
NA
U.S.
623,000
581,000
Week Ending
November 23, 2013
666
20,572
12,791
559
793
12,122
116
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Previous
Year
570
21,927
12,674
795
657
8,451
15
Hog Prices
Source: Manitoba Agriculture
(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)
Current Week
166.00 E
157.00 E
154.87
157.64
Last Week
167.43
156.16
156.55
160.35
Futures (November 29, 2013) in U.S.
Hogs
Close
December 2013
85.80
February 2014
90.47
April 2014
93.80
May 2014
98.45
June 2014
100.17
Last Year (Index 100)
154.13
143.04
142.19
144.89
Change
-0.45
-0.10
0.55
0.68
1.02
Sheep and Lambs
$/cwt
Ewes Choice
Lambs (110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
Chickens
Minimum broiler prices as of May 23, 2010
Under 1.2 kg................................... $1.5130
1.2 - 1.65 kg.................................... $1.3230
1.65 - 2.1 kg.................................... $1.3830
2.1 - 2.6 kg...................................... $1.3230
Turkeys
Minimum prices as of December 8, 2013
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.920
Undergrade .............................. $1.830
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.905
Undergrade .............................. $1.805
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.905
Undergrade .............................. $1.805
Tom Turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A..................................... $1.820
Undergrade............................... $1.735
Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.
C
attle volumes across Manitoba’s auction
yards were strong during the week ended
Nov. 29, but Dave Nickel of Gladstone
Auction Mart said he sees volume slowing down
as the holiday season approaches.
Usually Manitoba’s fall cattle run starts to slow
down at the end of November, but a delayed
harvest, along with producers deciding to keep
their cattle longer because of low grain prices,
have led to a later run than normal.
“We’ve been running a full house all fall,”
Nickel said, noting that volume was slightly
down from last week. “I’d say we’ll have another
week (of strong volume) and then I think it’s
going to start slowing down.”
In terms of buying interest, Nickel said it was
status quo again this week.
“I think interest was pretty normal this week,”
he said. “We had some local farmers buying
pretty good this week, with interest also coming
from the east and west.”
Farmer buying interest is due to the completion of harvest, cheap feed prices and good forage supplies heading into the winter.
According to the Alberta Canola Producers
Commission, Lethbridge barley was valued at
C$156.48 per tonne on Nov. 29, making it the
cheapest feed option for the Prairies.
Feed wheat is another viable option for producers, as it was valued at $159.85 per tonne
at Lethbridge. Competition between the two
options could push prices even lower heading
into the new year.
Along with cheap western Canadian feed
prices, Manitoba farmers also grew strong forage
crops which have allowed them to be aggressive
in terms of buying the past few weeks.
According to Manitoba Agriculture, Food and
Rural Development, producers will have adequate forage supplies heading into the long winter months.
While U.S. interest wasn’t overly strong,
dave nickel
Gladstone Auction Mart
Nickel expects that to change next week, with
Canada’s dollar significantly weaker than its U.S.
counterpart.
“There’s not a lot of U.S. interest right now, but
I anticipate that interest from (U.S. buyers) will
start to pick up,” he said.
At the start of the week, the Canadian dollar was valued at US95.02 cents before closing
Friday at 94.16. The loonie dipped even lower on
Dec. 2, falling below the 94-cent level.
Transportation has been an issue all fall with
the high volumes of cattle being auctioned, but
last week it was the weather that affected transportation, as Manitoba got its first major snowfall of the winter.
“Transportation has been pretty good this
week,” Nickel said, despite the snowy conditions
earlier in the week. “The cattle have been moving out pretty well.”
In terms of prices, Nickel said there was a
slight decline seen in the butcher market this
week.
“Butcher cows and bulls were a little off this
week,” he said. “I noticed they were starting to
soften a bit.”
However, the feeder market was much steadier despite the large volumes, as demand keeps
prices from declining.
“It was very steady,” Nickel said. “The good
cattle were selling well and the plainer cattle
were a little bit under pressure. Good feeder cattle demand is still fairly strong.”
Brandon Logan writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
briefs
Other Market Prices
Winnipeg (head)
(wooled fats)
—
Next
Sale
Is
Dec. 4
—
“There’s not a lot of U.S. interest
right now, but I anticipate that
interest from (U.S. buyers) will
start to pick up.”
Brandon Logan
Ontario
$ 105.02 - 133.11
120.56 - 130.65
52.62 - 75.70
52.62 - 75.70
70.23 - 89.84
$ 127.73 - 159.26
124.05 - 160.03
132.42 - 162.55
137.96 - 171.83
138.93 - 184.25
149.99 - 198.89
$ 119.35 - 134.99
125.07 - 144.91
119.00 - 142.51
121.93 - 150.89
126.63 - 162.00
125.05 - 165.59
$
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
E - Estimation
MB. ($/hog)
MB. (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)
MB. (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)
ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)
P.Q. (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)
$1 Cdn: $ .9435 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.0599 Cdn.
COLUMN
(Friday to Thursday)
Slaughter Cattle
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
November 29, 2013
Toronto
68.86 - 93.00
133.44 - 160.99
168.66 - 179.73
165.65 - 183.89
130.16 - 233.68
—
SunGold
Specialty Meats
15.00
Staff
Eggs
Minimum prices to producers for ungraded
eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the
Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board
effective June 12, 2011.
New
Previous
A Extra Large
$1.8500
$1.8200
A Large
1.8500
1.8200
A Medium
1.6700
1.6400
A Small
1.2500
1.2200
A Pee Wee
0.3675
0.3675
Nest Run 24 +
1.7490
1.7210
B
0.45
0.45
C
0.15
0.15
Goats
Kids
Billys
Mature
Winnipeg (head)
(Fats)
—
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
130.92 - 235.61
—
82.59 - 193.73
Horses
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
New videos
on smart pig
handling
Toronto
($/cwt)
11.00 - 29.40
14.75 - 41.21
The Manitoba Pork Council
(MPC) has released a new
“Smart Pig Handling” series
of six videos on safe, lowstress pig handling.
MPC says the information
will help to lessen stress on
both workers and livestock,
prevent workplace injuries,
improve workplace satisfaction, reduce in-transit losses,
improve meat quality and
ensure animal well-being.
The videos are available
on MPC’s YouTube chan-
nel (MBPorkfan) and on
its website. MPC says producers can also request an
extended version of the videos, which are customizable
to any farm type.
“This training video will
help equip stockpeople,
both new and practising,
with tools to handle pigs in
a manner that minimizes
stress for pigs and people,”
Laurie Connor, department
head of Animal Sciences at
the University of Manitoba
said in a release.
Marcel Hacault, executive director of Canadian
Agricultural Safety
Association and a former hog producer, said,
“Understanding animal
behaviour and identifying
proven handling methods
reduces stress on both workers and hogs, promoting
safe practices in agriculture,
which is a great use of FCC
Ag Safety Fund dollars.”
Development of thee
videos was supported by
Alberta Pork, Sask Pork,
Ontario Pork and FPPQ.
It was also supported by
Grow i n g Fo r w a rd 2 , a
federal-provincial-territorial initiative, and the
Government of Alberta. The
project’s main support came
from the FCC Ag Safety
Fund, administered by the
Canadian Agricultural Safety
Association with funding
from Farm Credit Canada.
Looking for results? Check out the market reports
from livestock auctions around the province. » PaGe 16
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GRAIN MARKETS
Export and International Prices
column
Weaker loonie couldn’t
break tight range on canola
Crop issues in Argentina supported U.S. wheat values
Phil Franz-Warkentin
CNSC
I
CE Futures Canada canola contracts
held within a very narrow range during
the week ended Nov. 29, but finished
with small losses in the most active nearby
contracts despite gains in CBOT soybeans.
Canola remains right in the middle of a
well-established range, with the January
contract facing very solid support to the
downside at around C$490 per tonne and
resistance the other way at $500. It will
likely take some sort of outside influence
to break values out of that range, as the
large supply situation remains a burdensome influence on the upside but good
demand is lurking at the lows.
Weakness in the Canadian dollar, which
dropped by nearly a cent relative to its U.S.
counterpart during the week, was supportive for canola. However, soyoil futures
dropped to the low end of their recent
trading range and the net impact on crush
margins was relatively neutral.
U.S. markets were shut down Thursday,
Nov. 28 for Thanksgiving and only opened
for a shortened session Friday. The holiday
kept some participants to the sidelines and
led to some choppy activity overall.
Supposedly there is an old saying among grain traders that “the bulls
get Thanksgiving and the bears get
Christmas.” The first part of that adage
held true for soybeans this year, with
nearly all of their gains coming Friday.
Good weekly export demand provided
the trigger for the rally in beans, but there
Week Ago
Year Ago
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
240.67
238.65
319.36
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
252.34
256.93
342.14
Coarse Grains
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
163.48
166.23
295.87
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
236.84
239.27
233.92
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
491.08
484.84
532.00
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
886.85
907.58
1,097.43
oilseeds
was some uncertainty over how long the
advances may hold up.
U.S. soybean exports are running well
ahead of the previous year’s pace, although
much of that buying interest has come
from China. In the past, China has been
a bit of a wild card in the market and has
been known to cancel purchases if it can
get a better price by doing so.
For the grains, Chicago and Kansas City
wheat futures moved higher during the
week, while Minneapolis futures were
unchanged in the most active months and
corn settled slightly lower.
Issues with Argentina’s wheat crop were
somewhat supportive for the U.S. futures,
as the country’s government pegged production well below other official estimates
at only 8.5 million tonnes.
Chart-based buying kept wheat underpinned as well, as the Chicago futures
managed to move above nearby resistance.
On the other side, global wheat supplies
remain large and the International Grains
Council raised its projection for the world
wheat crop in 2013-14.
The gains in wheat and soybeans were a
little supportive for corn, but the recordlarge U.S. crop kept corn prices under
pressure for the most part. The March
contract in Chicago held within a narrow
10-cent range during the week, just above
three-year lows of US$4.20 per bushel. A
move below that point could trigger additional speculative selling, although steady
export and domestic crusher demand
should provide some support.
Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
For three-times-daily market reports from
Commodity News Service Canada, visit
“Today in Markets” at www.manitobacooperator.ca.
Last Week
All prices close of business November 29, 2013
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business November 29, 2013
Last Week
Week Ago
December 2013
barley
152.00
152.00
March 2014
154.00
154.00
May 2014
155.00
155.00
Canola
Last Week
Week Ago
January 2014
490.60
492.70
March 2014
500.00
501.90
May 2014
507.50
509.10
Special Crops
Report for December 2, 2013 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan
Spot Market
Spot Market
Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)
Other (Cdn. cents per pound unless
otherwise specified)
Large Green 15/64
22.00 - 23.00
Canaryseed
Laird No. 1
20.25 - 22.00
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
13.75 - 17.75
Desi Chickpeas
23.00 - 23.75
—
20.90 - 22.00
Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1
Fababeans, large
—
Feed beans
—
11.80 - 12.50
Medium Yellow No. 1
6.40 - 6.85
Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Feed Pea (Rail)
5.00 - 5.50
No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans
44.00 - 44.00
No. 1 Great Northern
60.00 - 60.00
Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)
No. 1 Cranberry Beans
64.00 - 64.00
Yellow No. 1
37.75 - 38.75
No. 1 Light Red Kidney
55.00 - 55.00
Brown No. 1
35.75 - 37.75
No. 1 Dark Red Kidney
60.00 - 60.00
Oriental No. 1
27.30 - 28.75
No. 1 Black Beans
38.00 - 38.00
No. 1 Pinto Beans
35.00 - 36.00
No. 1 Small Red
Source: Stat Publishing
SUNFLOWERS
No. 1 Pink
—
40.00 - 40.00
Fargo, ND
Goodlands, KS
NuSun (oilseed)
FH 19.55/LH 19.80
18.90
Confection
32.00* Call for details
—
Report for November 29, 2013 in US$ cwt
Source: National Sunflower Association
China will gradually let market decide grain prices
Government interventions have driven up cheaper imports
beijing / reuters
C
hina will gradually let the
market decide grain and
other major crop prices
instead of the gover nment setting levels that have driven up
cheap imports of commodities
including cotton, sugar, rice and
corn, the China Economic Times
reported.
China’s agricultural price incentives triggered traders to import
in large volumes over the past two
years, and in 2012 its cotton and
sugar imports hit the highest ever.
Its corn and rice imports this year
are also likely to hit new record
highs. China is the world’s largest
cotton buyer.
Beijing has since 2004 set floor
pr ices for r ice and wheat, and
stockpiled corn, soybeans, sugar
and cotton at fixed prices to protect farmers’ margins and encourage output.
“Grain prices have come to the
stage to be decided by the market,”
the China Economic Times cited
Fang Yan, head of rural department
of the National Development and
Reform Commission (NDRC), as
saying.
“( The existing policy) has supported domestic grain prices to rise
only but not fall, which is against
t h e b a s i c r u l e o f v a l u e,” Fa n g
told a conference, the newspaper
reported.
China’s leaders pledged to let
markets play a “decisive” role in
the economy when they unveiled a
reform agenda for the next decade
earlier this month.
Bu t B e i j i n g m a y t a k e a s l ow
approach for staple grains such as
rice and wheat, and “will gradually
allow the market to decide prices
of major agricultural prices,” Fang
said.
Dur ing the shift, gover nment
authorities will still be looking
into target prices on major crops
plus more subsidies and insurance incentives to help boost
farmers’ income, she said, without
elaborating.
Industrial officials had earlier
expected Beijing to scrap a controversial scheme to stockpile cotton
as early as next year, but concern
over grain and food security could
drag on grain price reform.
file PHOTO
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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 5, 2013
LIVESTOCK
AGRICULTURE & ANTIBIOTICS
h u s b a n d r y — t h e s c i e n c e , S K I L L O R ART O F F AR M IN G
Producers slowly
becoming aware of
antimicrobial resistance
Despite repeated calls for action on growing antimicrobial resistance, the status quo remains
By Shannon VanRaes
“We haven’t changed
anything from the
regulatory side, but
we are certainly
continuing on with
the education and
awareness program.”
co-operator staff
T
heir misuse has the power
to render the most powerful tools in modern medicine impotent, yet in Manitoba
there is more regulation around
the sale of pesticides than antimicrobials used in livestock
production.
Mounting evidence points to
an increase in antimicrobialresistant diseases worldwide,
and a research paper published
recently in The Lancet calls for
greater political oversight, as
well as more judicious use of
antibiotics in human medicine
and animal agriculture.
But government action has
been slow or non-existent.
“We’ve been actively lobbying
the provincial government to
get some controls over antibiotics, how they’re distributed,
making sure that when they’re
dispensed, that they’re dispensed with some appropriate
advice to the producer,” said
Wayne Tomlinson, president of
the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association. “This is such a
multi-layered issue, you’ve got
the federal jurisdiction, you’ve
got provincial jurisdiction,
you’ve got the international
community dealing with this,
it’s a huge issue.”
Glenn Duizer
MAFRD
Call for improvement
Nearly two years ago, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s
then chief veterinary officer
Brian Evans, made an impassioned call to improve usage
of antimicrobials to avoid
the development of resistant
organisms and keep antibiotics
in the disease-fighting tool box.
In 2011, the World Health
Organization warned that civilization is on the cusp of losing
its “miracle cures” to the development and spread of drugresistant diseases, while the
World Organization for Animal
Health identified antimicrobial
resistance as its top priority in
2012.
But governments, including
Manitoba’s, have not moved
forward with new regulations.
Currently, Manitoba Agric u l t u r e , Fo o d a n d R u r a l
Development does not track
antimicrobial resistance in the
province, nor does Manitoba
Health, although some human
p a t h o g e n s a re re p o r t a b l e
if found to be drug resistant,
including methicillin-resistant
staphylococcus.
A worker collecting cucumbers inside a greenhouse in La Mojonera, southeastern Spain, June 2, 2011. An outbreak
of antibiotic-resistant E. coli contaminated vegetables in Europe that year, killing 17 and sickening more than 1,500
in 10 European countries. Antibiotic-resistant bugs are linked to overuse of antibiotics in human medicine and
agriculture. Photo: REUTERS/Francisco Bonilla
The federal government does
monitor antimicrobial resistance, but it does not control
production, distribution or use
of veterinary drugs in Canada;
that role belongs to the provinces.
More regulation
Tomlinson said he would like
to see regulation in Manitoba
around veterinary antibiotics
that is similar to the pesticide
licence. “Where we can make
sure that the people who are
dispensing pharmaceuticals
have some training, so that they
can help guide the people who
are using them,” said the veterinarian.
But he doesn’t believe a
nationwide regulatory system
is the way to go, preferring to
focus on awareness and education for producers.
“ We’v e b e e n p r o m o t i n g
evidence-based usage of antibiotics,” he said. “So let’s use
the right antibiotic at the right
dose, at the right time.”
Glenn Duizer, an animal
health veterinarian with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and
Rural Development (MAFRD)
agrees that education is key for
producers and veterinarians
when it comes to stymieing
antimicrobial resistance.
“We haven’t changed anything from the regulatory side,
but we are certainly continuing on with the education and
awareness program,” he said,
adding producers also have onfarm food safety programs, and
veterinary advice to guide them
in the responsible use of antibiotics and other antimicrobials.
But the 26 researchers who
auth o re d t h e re c e n t L a ncet article — titled “Antibiotic
Resistance: the need for global
solutions” — go further, calling for the banning of non-prescription antibiotic sales, and
the curbing of non-therapeutic
antibiotic use in animal agriculture.
Bad rap
To m l i n s o n s a i d t h a t t h e
amount of antibiotics used
at sub-therapeutic levels has
decreased greatly in recent
years adding that human medicine is still responsible for the
bulk of antibiotic-resistant
organisms.
“I think our livestock producers are getting a bit of a bad rap
here,” he said. “That doesn’t
mean that we can’t improve
and certainly, we are trying
to make headway in making
improvements in our management systems so we reduce our
reliance on antibiotics, through
proper nutr ition, through
proper ventilation and through
proper housing. We’re making
tweaks to reduce our need for
antibiotics.”
Lead author of the Lancet
piece, Professor Otto Cars, of
Uppsala University in Sweden
and ReAct Action on Antibiotic Resistance, notes that finger pointing has been an issue
when it comes to finding solutions.
“We need to move on from
‘blaming and shaming’ among
the many stakeholders who
have all contributed to the
problem, towards concrete
political action and commitment to address this threat,” he
said in an excerpt from the article.
But even if calls to action
haven’t resulted in sweeping
reforms, they have resulted
in a greater awareness among
producers about the issues surrounding antimicrobial resistance and responsible antibiotic
use.
“I think it’s slow, but we’re
seeing producers who are more
and more concerned about it,
I think that producers are realizing that it’s no longer just
about residue... that it’s moved
beyond just a food safety concern, that resistance is applicable to all of us, from animals
to people, to the environment,”
Duizer said.
[email protected]
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column
Horse hay quality is in the eyes of the beholder
The overall health and appearance of your horse tells you a lot about the quality of its feed
Carol Shwetz, DVM
Horse Health
H
ay is one of those products that does not come
with a label, feed tag or
guaranteed analysis, yet what is
in “it” or even what is not in “it”
are valuable questions when
meeting your horse’s dietary
needs. Since forage comprises
the largest volume, and at
times, all of your horse’s diet,
hay assessment is a worthwhile
exercise.
Seemingly simple parameters
such a how the hay “looks,”
“feels” and “smells” can be surprisingly effective at assessing
its quality. Hay with the best
combination of desirable physical characteristics will generally
be of good nutritional value.
Although numbers generated
by forage test stations are valuable and at times necessary, they
play a role of secondary importance to the physical qualities
of hay.
Understanding the physical nature of hay enables horse
owners to match ideal hay with
horse type and demands. Typically the nutritional needs of
individual horses will be better
suited towards certain forage
species.
Timothy grass hays may fall
short of meeting the nutrient requirements of highproduction life stages, but
is an excellent hay for horses
that require bulk in their diet.
Timothy, alfalfa, orchard grass,
fescue, brome and clover all
have easily recognizable physical characteristics and distinct
nutrient profiles. Weeds and
noxious plants will also have
readily distinguishable charac-
teristics. Their identification in
a hay crop is equally important.
Stage of maturity
The stage of maturity when the
plant is harvested will be of next
importance to the horse. As a
plant matures towards seed
formation, its growth pattern
changes from leaf production
to stem formation. Hays cut
shortly after emergence of seed
heads, are “soft” to the touch
and leafy. They are relatively
high in protein content, nutrient dense and of good palatability. Early-maturing hay may
be ideal for growing horses and
lactating mares, yet may not
be the best choice for horses
requiring less nutrients. These
horses are better matched to
mid- to late-maturing hays.
Me t a b o l i c a l l y c h a l l e n g e d
horses, sedentary horses or
horses in light work thrive on
coarse mature hays.
The colour of hay reveals its
plant type, stage of harvest, and
its growing and storage conditions. The natural green colour
is preferred as such indicates
absence of rain damage, weathering, moulds and heat damage.
Hay rained on or weathered
will turn pale. A little rain soon
after cutting does little harm to
hays and may even be favourable to some horses as up to 30
per cent of a hay’s sugars can be
washed away with the rain.
Ideally hay is baled when its
moisture content is 15 to 17 per
cent. Hay put up with a higher
moisture content is at risk for
heating and provides ideal
growing conditions for mould.
Although mould can show itself
as patches of darker discolouration, it is not always visible.
Follow your nose
A sharp, musty, and/or metallic
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to move material containing biotech traits across boundaries
into nations where import is not permitted. Growers should talk
to their grain handler or product purchaser to confirm their buying
position for this product. Excellence Through Stewardship® is a
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odour will alert one to mould.
Learn to recognize the ‘right’
weight range for a bale of hay.
Hay baled too dry will be very
light and have leaf shatter and/
or crumble when touched or
disturbed. Its nutritional value
will be limited.
These bales will often be very
dusty. When a single bale is
‘very’ heavy to lift it may have
been baled too moist and is
now heating, breeding mould,
and caramelizing/degrading
the sugars and proteins. Once
again your sense of smell will
alarm you. Avoid dusty and
mouldy hays as both cause
damage to the horse’s respiratory system.
Horse owners are encouraged to have their hay further
analyzed by a laboratory when
the quality of the hay is of concern, rations require balancing
or supplementation or when
a nutritional problem is perceived.
Fortunately most hay dealers
will eagerly provide a laboratory analysis for their hay. If not,
many local agriculture extension services or feed stores offer
analysis services.
One might also consider
sending a sample to Equi-Analytical Laboratories (http://
w w w. h o r s e c h a n n e l . c o m /
redirect.aspx?location=http
per cent3a per cent2f per cent
2fwww.equi-analytical.com
www.equi-analytical.com).
Sa m p l i n g re q u i re m e n t s ,
numbers provided and inter-
pretative support offered to
horse owners varies significantly between laboratories.
Equine nutritionists and vete r i n a r i a n s a re a d d i t i o n a l
resources available to interpret
results generated by foragetesting stations. The services
of specialty labs may also be
necessary when the levels of
trace mineral and vitamins are
in question.
Remember to include the
health and appearance of the
horse(s) as feedback when
assessing forage quality. Ultimately this is the true determinant of forage quality.
Carol Shwetz is a veterinarian
specializing in equine practice at
Westlock, Alta.
Important Changes to the
Farmland School Tax Rebate
What they mean to farmland owners
As part of the Manitoba government’s ongoing commitment to
support the rural economy and provide tax relief to farm families,
you are eligible to receive up to an 80% rebate of the school taxes
levied on your Manitoba farmland.
Here are some of the recent changes to the rebate:
•
New deadline for 2011, 2012 and 2013 rebates –
Your deadline to apply is now March 31, 2014.
•
Applying for the 2010 rebate – Your deadline to
apply is December 31, 2013.
•
Changes to the 2013 rebate – Budget 2013 introduced
more changes starting with the 2013 property tax year:
» the rebate will be available only to owners of eligible
farmland who are Manitoba residents
» the annual rebate is limited to $5,000 per applicant
and their spouses, common-law partners and
controlled corporations
•
Applying for the 2013 rebate – If you received a
rebate for 2012, an application was mailed to you
in October 2013.
Rebate application forms can be downloaded online.
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CFIA flubs food failure followup
The agency doesn’t do an adequate job making sure recalls aren’t repeated
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
C
anada’s auditor general
has identified weaknesses in how the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
manages recalls of contaminated foods and its followups
with processors to prevent further incidents.
“While illnesses were contained in the recalls we examined, I am not confident that
the system will always yield
similar results,” Auditor General Michael Ferguson said in
his fall report to Parliament.
Even with the experience of
two massive food safety incidents and numerous smaller
ones, he said the agency has
too many shortcomings in its
food safety management system.
Ferguson said the agency
does a good job of reacting to
food safety issues and removing tainted product from the
marketplace, “the weaknesses
we found in decision-making
and followup stand in the way
of the continuous improvement of a system intended to
deal with food safety incidents
in Canada.”
He also said CFIA inadequately verifies “that inspectors
were conducting investigations and recalls according to
its policies. We found that
the CFIA did not conduct all
of the quality assessments it
had planned in 2010, 2011 and
2012.”
Ferguson’s findings bring
added attention to CFIA as it
works its way through a massive rejigging and operational
streamlining to fulfil the terms
of C52, the Safe Food for
Canadians Act, passed earlier
this year by Parliament. Food
processors have expressed
frustration with some of the
consultations the agency is
conducting.
Last year’s massive recall of
beef products from XL Foods
in Alberta and the deadly listeria outbreak in 2008 highlighted CFIA’s problems in
collecting data from processors which are vital to ensuring all contaminated product
is removed from the market.
Ferguson said stronger measures are needed to make clear
what information processors
must provide. “For registered
establishments, inspectors
should regularly validate that
the information maintained
by the establishment is complete and accessible.”
The CFIA doesn’t have a
clear process for ensuring all
recalled product is properly
disposed of rather than finding its way back into the food
system, Ferguson noted.
CFIA also falls short of following up to verify that recalling firms had corrected the
underlying cause of the recall
on a timely basis.
Meat processors should be
required to correct problems
within 60 days, Ferguson said.
At the same time, CFIA needs
to continue monitoring companies involved in a recall
to make sure the corrective
actions are fully completed.
CFIA’s implementation of
emergency response plans
to deal with major recalls has
created confusion among
staff at headquarters and in
the regions, the report said.
“Important food safety decisions were not communicated
to key stakeholders, including many food safety experts
within the agency,” Ferguson
said.
Both the food industry and
CFIA staff are not familiar with
a draft plan for managing food
safety incidents.
Ferguson was also critical
of reviews conducted by the
agency in the aftermath of a
major recall. Three reviews
PHOTO: THINKSTOCK
conducted during 2012 didn’t
meet the CFIA’s own requirements for completeness.
“These reviews should include
the perspectives of key stakeholders and should examine
the strengths and weaknesses
of the investigation, the recall
process and the emergency
management process.”
He said the CFIA needs to
do a better job of keeping the
paperwork up to date during a food safety investigation
and recall, and it must ensure
it’s getting the information it
needs to monitor the progress.
“Incomplete record-keeping
limited the agency’s ability to
track investigation… We found
many examples of incomplete
documentation.”
As well, a lack of information “limits the agency’s ability
to develop a national picture
of how well it is delivering its
recall activities and areas for
improvement,” Ferguson said.
Pricey calves threaten U.S.
feedlot return to profitability
Drought last year whittled the national herd to its
lowest level in more than 60 years
By Theopolis Waters
CHICAGO / REUTERS
A
sharp drop in feed corn
prices caused by the huge
U.S. harvest last month
has put the nation’s cattle feedlots in the black for the first time
in more than two years.
But analysts warn those profits could soon disappear as
the prices they pay for scarce
lightweight calves remain near
record high.
Feedyards and packing plants,
such as Cargill Inc. and Tyson
Foods Inc., are drawing from
a shallow pool of cattle after
multi-year droughts in the country whittled the herd to its lowest
in more than 60 years.
The Denver-based Livestock
Marketing Information Center
(LMIC) calculated that feedlots
in October, on average, made
about $39 per head on cattle sold
to meat companies. That compares with a loss of $21 per head
in September, which was the 29th
consecutive month of losses.
Feedlots last month saw less
red ink on their books largely
because farmers reaped a bountiful fall harvest, which sank the
price for corn, the main ingredient in livestock feed, to its lowest
in three years.
In October, the prices for
651- to 700-lb. yearling steers at
the benchmark Oklahoma City
National Stockyards Company
peaked at their highest ever at
$174 per hundredweight (cwt),
according to stockyard sources.
“We have ratcheted
up feeder cattle
prices to such high
levels that we won’t
see that euphoria
for placing cattle
in feedlots in the
months ahead.”
JIM ROBB
Those prices have since come
down to an average of about
$169 per cwt last week, based on
USDA data. That price reduction
coincided with costs for slaughter-ready cattle that pulled back
from last month’s record high of
$132 per cwt to roughly $130 to
$131 last week.
Feedlots made money on
feeder cattle that they purchased
four to five months prior to
them surging in October, said
the Denver-based LMIC’s director Jim Robb.
Even with the decline in the
costs for feedstuffs, cattle feeding returns will be tempered by
record-high feeder cattle values,
said Robb who forecast a likely
return to losses by feedyards as
soon as December of this year.
“We have ratcheted up feeder
cattle prices to such high levels
that we won’t see that euphoria
for placing cattle in feedlots in
the months ahead,” Robb said.
Armed with less-expensive
corn, feedyards continue to
snatch up available feeder cattle to offset surplus feeding pen
space. They are also guided by
the belief those animals will be
worth even more as ranchers
restock herds amid tight supplies.
“With roughly 10 million cattle
on feed in feedlots that can hold
more than 1,000 head, you’re
only using about 60 per cent of
bunk or feedlot capacity,” said
Elaine Johnson at CattleHedging.com in Denver, Colorado.
“You’ve got a lot cheaper corn
than you used to and most feedlots are selling cattle with a little
profit, which has ignited competition to fill the feedlots.”
John Nalivka, president of
Sterling Marketing Inc. in Vale,
Oregon, said that, even though
corn prices have come down
well below a year ago, feedlots
have had to invest the margin
opportunity in feeder cattle as
those supplies have tightened,
likely resulting in little or no
profit gain.
Nalivka calculated feedlot
break-evens for the young cattle
currently being placed on feed
in the low to mid-$130s. These
break-evens compare with the
upper $120s for cattle that are
now being marketed and is the
result of record prices paid for
feeder cattle and calves, he said.
“It’s a hustle to make as many
of these $100-per-head margins
as possible before the hammer
comes down again, and it will,”
Nalivka added.
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column
China’s pork industry reflects economic revolution
China is making the transition from backyard herds to larger modern operations
Bernie Peet
Peet on Pigs
I
have just come back from my
fourth visit to China inside 18
months and am now beginning to understand the structure
of the pork industry in this rapidly
evolving and fascinating country. The scale of change in China
has to be seen to be believed and
is witnessed by myriads of construction projects, from high-rise
apartment blocks and industrial
buildings to shopping malls and
new roads.
In the pork industry, the transition from traditional “backyard”
production to large-scale industrial farms, often within integrated
companies, has been taking
place at a speed that can only be
defined as revolution, rather than
evolution.
China has a slightly smaller
land area than Canada, with 9.6
million square kilometres, compared to Canada’s 9.9 million. But
Canada’s 34 million population is
eclipsed by the 1.4 billion people
in China, roughly 20 per cent of
the world’s population.
While the government’s “one
child” policy has contained population growth compared to many
western countries, that is still a
lot of mouths to feed. It is hardly
surprising that a key part of the
national government’s policy is to
ensure that its people have access
to affordable staple foods such
as rice and pork. In fact, it intervenes directly to control the supply of pork and consequently the
price, through a variety of means
such as increasing or decreasing
imports and purchasing pork as a
price-support mechanism.
Half the world’s pigs
Estimates of the number of pigs in
China vary, but are in the region of
455 million, or half the world’s pig
population. Sow numbers totalled
just over 50 million in September
2013. The number of hogs slaughtered each year is not so easy to
quantify, with the National Bureau
A typical barn in southern China, with open sides and hand-adjusted curtain
ventilation.
of Statistics of China giving a figure of 698 million for 2012 and
the Ministry of Commerce saying
355 million. The discrepancy is
likely due to the large numbers of
hogs that are slaughtered on farm
or by small-scale butchers, which
is difficult to quantify. Assuming
the higher figure is correct, this is
equivalent to an average of just 14
pigs marketed per sow per year.
Average carcass weight is relatively low at 76 kg, but anticipated
to rise to 80 kg by 2015.
Meat consumption in China
has risen more than fourfold since
economic reform started in the
late 1970s and now stands at 37
kg of pork, 13 kg of poultry and
nine kg of beef and sheepmeat
per capita. Although pork is still
the most popular meat, its share
of total meat consumption has
fallen from 80 per cent in 1985
to 64 per cent in 2012. Growth in
pork demand has now slowed to a
rate of one or two per cent per
year.
The rapidly changing structure of the pork production and
processing sectors has been the
most important development
over the last 20 years. There has
been a massive exodus of backyard producers, which are being
replaced either by independent
specialist producers or large-scale,
often integrated operations. This
reflects China’s urbanization,
whereby people have left villages
in the country to get jobs in the
cities.
The modernization of the pork
industry has been supported
by the government because it
wants the industry to become
more professional and efficient,
while improving food safety. A
per-sow subsidy was initiated in
2007, withdrawn in 2010-11, then
reintroduced again at a rate of 100
yuan ($15) per sow. In addition,
there are a variety of incentives,
grants and tax breaks that encourage structural change. Official statistics show that the percentage of
pigs produced on backyard farms
— those marketing less than 50
pigs per year — fell from 73 per
cent in 2002, to 34 per cent in
2010.
Herd size increasing
Independent “professional” producers — typically those with
10 to 100 sows — have taken up
the slack and still represent the
majority sector in the industry. Herd size is increasing as the
industry consolidates, but there
are still a lot of farms with 20 to 30
sows. Breeding herd productivity averages about 13 to 14 pigs
weaned per sow.
A worker feeds gruel to recently weaned piglets at a farm in southern China.
Large-scale, or “commercial”
farms are defined as those producing more than 3,000 pigs per
year, and this sector is expanding the most. A number of major
processors have established their
own farms to create vertically
integrated systems, often sending pigs from their own breeding
units to contract finisher farms,
which they also supply with feed.
These companies are developing
rapidly, building new farms which
utilize North American or European technology and genetics.
However, while the newer
farms provide excellent facilities,
productivity is constrained by a
shortage of skilled and experienced staff. Typically, these farms
are weaning about 20 pigs per
sow, so have a lot of potential for
improvement.
Over the past 18 months, I have
been working with two integrated
companies to train staff in modern pig production techniques,
and also teaching them to deliver
training in production skills to
workers on their farms. While
many of the staff are well educated, they lack knowledge about
pigs and the processes involved
in production, and so are not
equipped to achieve the performance levels we expect in the West.
However, the production companies are very aware that this is
an issue and are now starting to
address it, opening up the opportunity to improve performance
significantly in the future.
Finally, a word about economics. Since 2006, hog prices have
increased considerably, partly
because the development of
large-scale operations failed to
keep up with the reduction in
backyard producers. Also, diseases such as PRRS, Circovirus
and PEDv have led to large production losses and tight pork supplies, notably in 2008 and 2011.
While high feed prices bit into
margins in 2012-13, currently producers are making good profits,
with the hog price at $3/kg carcass
weight, double that of 10 years
ago.
Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain
Consulting of Lacombe, Alberta and a
director of U.K.-based Pig Production
Training Ltd.
NOTICE TO CATTLE
PRODUCERS IN MANITOBA.
EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2013 MCEC HAS STOPPED COLLECTING
THE $2.- PER HEAD LEVY ON CATTLE SOLD.
CATTLE PRODUCERS ARE ENTITLED TO APPLY FOR A REFUND ON ALL
LEVIES COLLECTED BETWEEN:
1 DECEMBER 2012 – 31 AUGUST 2013
THE REGULATIONS REQUIRE THAT THE APPLICATION MUST BE RECEIVED
BY MCEC WITHIN 1 YEAR AFTER THE MONTH END IN WHICH THE FEE
WAS DEDUCTED.
However, we would like for those eligible to apply for refunds within this
time period, to do so as soon as possible, in order for MCEC to be able to
process as many refunds as possible in a timely manner.
THE REFUND FORM IS AVAILABLE ON THE MCEC WEBSITE:
Go to www.mancec.com then click on “Refunds”. Please ensure that in order
to process your application quickly, all supporting documents ( receipts) are
included, and the name of the applicant(s) is the same as the name on the
receipts. The application also needs to be signed by the applicant(s).
THE REFUND FORM IS ALSO
AVAILABLE THROUGH YOUR
LOCAL AUCTION MARTS OR
YOU CAN PHONE THE
MCEC OFFICE
TOLL FREE: 1.866.441.6232
OR 204.452.6353
Are you having trouble
managing your farm debt?
We can help. Mediation may be the solution.
The Farm Debt Mediation Service helps farmers overcome financial
difficulties by offering financial counselling and mediation services.
This free and confidential service helps Canadian farmers get their
debt repayment back on track. Financial advisors and qualified
mediators help find a mutually acceptable repayment arrangement
between farmers and their creditors.
For more information on how the Farm Debt Mediation Service can help you:
Call: 1-866-452-5556 • Visit: www.agr.gc.ca /fdms
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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Feeder Steers
Nov-27
Nov-26
Nov-26
Nov-28
Nov-27
Nov-25
Nov-28
Nov-29
No. on offer
2,855
1,241
562
2,629
4,302
990
1,830
1,000
Over 1,000 lbs.
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
900-1,000
n/a
105.00-136.00
n/a
n/a
124.00-138.00
n/a
n/a
110.00-135.50
800-900
n/a
120.00-141.50
125.00-141.00
130.00-143.00
130.00-144.75
130.00-148.00
135.00-147.50
125.00-144.50
700-800
142.00-154.00
135.00-156.00
132.00-145.50
145.00-155.00
141.00-154.00
144.00-157.00
140.00-160.00
130.00-156.00
600-700
135.00-175.00
140.00-170.50
140.00-155.00
145.00-160.00
144.00-162.00
150.00-165.00
155.00-165.50
142.00-161.00
500-600
140.00-176.00
150.00-174.50
148.00-166.00
155.00-170.00
154.00-168.00
160.00-176.00
160.00-176.00
150.00-171.50
400-500
150.00-185.50
170.00-188.00
160.00-192.50
175.00-197.00
168.00-194.00
170.00-190.00
165.00-185.00
160.00-181.00
300-400
n/a
175.00-203.00
185.00-225.00
180.00-205.00
180.00-206.00
175.00-209.00
165.00-196.00
170.00-196.00
900-1,000 lbs.
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
115.00-127.00
n/a
n/a
100.00-128.00
800-900
n/a
100.00-121.50
110.00-124.00
120.00-130.00
124.00-136.00
n/a
120.00-130.00
110.00-131.00
700-800
111.00-133.25
110.00-136.75
120.00-134.00
122.00-133.00
126.00-136.00
n/a
120.00-137.00
115.00-130.00
600-700
120.00-152.00
120.00-143.25
128.00-142.00
130.00-138.00
129.00-141.50
133.00-148.00
130.00-147.00
125.00-157.00
500-600
127.00-152.50
130.00-149.00
135.00-149.00
135.00-148.00
132.00-146.50
140.00-153.50
135.00-151.00
130.00-155.00
400-500
130.00-159.50
140.00-164.00
145.00-172.00
145.00-164.00
136.00-167.00
145.00-163.00
140.00-157.50
140.00-164.00
300-400
n/a
140.00-165.00
160.00-180.00
140.00-170.00
145.00-170.00
n/a
137.50-160.00
150.00-160.00
300
1,241
228
178
4,302
990
285
450
Feeder heifers
Slaughter Market
No. on offer
D1-D2 Cows
60.00-67.00
n/a
n/a
65.00-72.00
62.00-67.00
50.00-58.00
64.00-69.50
62.00-68.50
D3-D5 Cows
45.00 and up
n/a
n/a
55.00-65.00
58.00-62.00
n/a
n/a
57.00-63.00
Age Verified
68.00-73.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
67.00-72.75
60.00-70.00
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
72.00-90.00
65.00-80.00
78.00-79.00
78.00-85.50
77.00-85.75
n/a
n/a
82.00-87.00
Butcher Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
105.00-112.00
106.00-113.25
n/a
n/a
n/n
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
104.00-111.00
105.00-111.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
70.00-90.00
n/a
70.00-82.00
n/a
n/a
68.00-78.00
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
62.00-68.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
55.00-64.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
* includes slaughter market
(Note all prices in CDN$ per cwt. These prices also generally represent the top one-third of sales reported by the auction yard.)
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Communications
breakdown added
to emergency
Firefighting made more
dangerous without
communications
By Lorraine Stevenson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
V
olunteer firefighters racing to reach fire-threatened Vita last week passed
hundreds of vehicles headed the
other direction and wondered
what they were headed into, said
veteran firefighter Alain Nadeau.
“I’ve been doing this for 33
years and this was the scariest I’ve seen,” said the weary La
Broquerie fire chief on Friday
after an exhausting week.
The air was so smoke filled
around the southeastern village
“we could barely breathe,” he
said.
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By Daniel Winters
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R
ising corn acres and severe
drought in the Midwestern
United States may crimp
supplies of popular corn
seed varieties for the com-
ing year.
“It’s really short,” said Ron Rabe, a
Dekalb agronomist, who gave a brief
talk on corn production in Manitoba
at a recent WADO field tour.
Derek Erb, who farms near Oak
Bluff and sells Pioneer Hi-Bred corn
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Corn seed might be
tight next spring
Rising demand and dismal growing conditions in
the drought-stricken United States may limit supplies
seed, said farmers looking to secure
seed for next spring should act
quickly to secure their supplies, even
if it means placing orders earlier than
usual.
Pioneer Hi-Bred’s top varieties,
which include D95 and D97, account
for roughly half the acres seeded in the
province. Erb said that with the harvest and quality testing still underway
in some areas, it’s difficult to estimate
how much corn seed will be available
for next year.
One thing’s for sure, waiting until Ag
Days in January to secure supplies will
be too late. “I would pretty much bank
on that,” said Erb.
Dry conditions throughout the province have seen the corn harvest arriving about a month earlier than usual,
and seed orders have started coming
in sooner than usual too.
Even with the possibility of a shortage of corn seed, Erb doesn’t expect
the price of Pioneer’s supplies to rise
much more than it has in recent years.
Rob Park, of RJP Seeds in Carman,
who deals in Hyland seed varieties,
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How high can
barley yields go?
The Barley 180 research project focused on plant growth regulators,
nitrogen and fungicides in a bid to grow 180 bushels an acre
By Jennifer Blair
STAFF / ACME, ALBERTA
T
hey didn’t reach their goal, but
researchers in the Barley 180
project came pretty close.
“We just said, ‘OK, let’s see if we
can hit 180 (bushels per acre).’ And
we hit 156,” said Steve Larocque of
Beyond Agronomy, an agronomic
services company in Three Hills,
Alta.
Alberta’s Agricultural Research
and Extension Council has been
running barley trials on four locations since 2011.
“We saw 15 to 20 per cent yield
increases with the work we’re doing
with inputs,” Larocque said at a
recent Alberta Barley Commission
regional meeting.
“Plant growth regulators, nitrogen
rates and fungicides are the three
things that we’re focusing on now
that will probably give us the biggest
bang for our buck.”
Plant growth regulators
Larocque’s primary focus was on
plant growth regulators (PGRs).
“You already hear a lot about
them,” Larocque said. “Well, you’re
going to hear even more about them
and the opportunities that they
bring, especially with barley.
“It’s not a guaranteed recipe for
no lodging, but we’re really encouraged by PGRs and their ability to
shorten the crop and keep it standing.”
Larocque tested two products —
Ethrel and Cycocel. Both regulate
hormones in the plants, helping
them grow fatter instead of taller,
but Larocque will be using Ethrel
going forward, even though it’s
tricky to use.
“The finicky part about Ethrel is it
has to be applied when the awns are
just starting to emerge. Not later, not
before.”
That’s not a big issue in a trial, but
applying it on a large scale is a different story.
“The difference between awns
emerging and awns emerged under
the right conditions is maybe a cou-
FILE PHOTO
ple of days,” said Larocque. “How do
you take a product that’s so finicky
at timing and scale that out to 800 or
1,500 acres? It’s doable, but risky.
“PGRs are what we call a ticking
time bomb. If used improperly, you
can hurt yield.”
Larocque said he had to sign a
waiver before using the two products, but the results are promising.
At the trial at Crossfield in 2011, he
saw a yield increase from 133 bushels per acre to 156, with a five bu./
ac. increase in 2012 and an eight
bu./ac. increase in 2013.
“There’s really good promise in
it,” Larocque said. “I’m not going
to say there’s no risk involved, but
it’s something we need to figure out
how to use going forward.”
Split nitrogen applications
The results of split applications of
nitrogen have been less definitive.
“We thought we’d go with a split
application of nitrogen because
we didn’t want so much up front,”
TOTAL
PERFORMANCE
said Larocque, who applied 100
pounds initially with another 60 to
70 applied later as a top dress.
“But what we’re finding is a tremendous amount of variability in
response from top-dressed nitrogen
in barley,” he said.
At the Morrin site, heavy rains
following application in every year
except 2012 resulted in a 20-bushelper-acre response. But at Crossfield,
the same methods only added one
more bushel per acre.
“You can really knock it out of
the park one year, but in another
area, with another variety, even if
your timing’s perfect, it’s still not
responding,” said Larocque. “Split
applications do work, but streaming
it on like we have been, it’s far too
variable to count on.”
Fungicides
Fungicides play “an absolutely crucial role” in the whole package, said
Larocque.
“Yes, they help control disease,
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but the right fungicides can actually
keep the plants greener longer so
they’re able to utilize that additional
nitrogen.”
In 2013 at Crossfield, there was a
yield increase from 108 bu./ac. to
116 bu./ac. with the PGR alone and
to 123 bu./ac. with the fungicide
alone. When combined, the yield
increased to 126 bushels per acre.
“We bumped it up an additional
three bushels by combining the
three,” said Larocque, adding the
average yield in the area is around
80 bushels per acre.
And while the project didn’t
achieve its lofty target, it showed
major yield increases are possible,
he said.
“At the end of the day, it’s not realistic to go for 180 across the farm,”
said Larocque. “But maybe it is realistic to go for 120 or 130. That 180
target is going to happen once in a
while, but 130 I think we can do.”
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COLUMN
Spring wheat prices continue down a slippery slope
Prices have been pressured since a ‘tweezer top’ developed in July 2012
David Drozd
Market Outlook
MGEX wheat weekly nearby
Chart as of November 26, 2013
W
heat prices have been
d r i f t i n g l ow e r f o r
the past five weeks,
taking back the 65-cent gain
experienced during the seas o n a l r a l l y i n t o O c t o b e r.
Spring wheat futures prices
a t t h e Mi n n e a p o l i s G ra i n
Exchange have slid to a threeyear low of $6.93-1/4 per
bushel, a price not seen since
October 2010.
Pr i c e s h a ve b e e n u n d e r
pressure since a Tweezer Top
developed in July 2012 with the
market topping out at $10.35
per bushel. A Tweezer Top is a
technical formation that indicates a change in trend and it
materializes when a market
posts the same high in two
consecutive periods. This pattern is illustrated in the MGEX
weekly nearby chart accompanying this article.
Since then, the market has
been putting in lower lows
a n d l ow e r h i g h s a n d t h i s
price action has subsequently
evolved into a downtrending
channel.
trend can be identified and
followed to its conclusion, it
translates into opportunity.
The use of trendlines is a valuable tool for accomplishing
this.
In a falling market, for a
trendline to be both valid and
reliable there should be at
least three points of price conDowntrending channel
During the course of a trend tact, each of which coincides
and all the fluctuations which with a rally high, and each
compose it, there is a well- topping out at a progressively
obser ved characteristic for lower level. Beyond the miniprices to closely follow a slop- mum of three contact points,
the more times
a trendline
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path. During
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reactions. When an emerging
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highs depicted in the channel
I’ve illustrated in the accompanying chart. Similarly, the
longer the trendline continues without being penetrated,
the greater becomes its technical significance.
In a downtrend, the channel’s upper boundary is the
downtrend line. It is drawn
across the highs. The lower
boundary is the return line
and it is drawn parallel across
the lows of each progressively
lower
decline.
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studying the
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prices start
toorders
display an
inability to reach the return
line, this could prove to be an
important first indication that
the current trend is waning.
Market psychology
Price activity that lends itself
to trendline and channel construction reflects a particular
sequence of behaviour. As a
n e w d ow n t re n d b e g i n s t o
emerge, sell orders materialize but many are at a limit
price above the market. In
the normal ebb and flow of
the market some of this selling is satisfied when prices
bounce. However, a portion of
the offers are too high to be
filled and when prices again
begin to move down, some of
these sellers jump in for fear
of missing the move. The balance of unfilled selling will
continue to trail the market in
hopes of catching a price reaction. Most of these sellers will
gradually lower their offers as
the market declines.
Some profit-taking and
short covering emerges on
price bulges and as this
occurs the offers which had
trailed the market are gradually being absorbed. When the
price finally does turn up for
real, trendlines will be broken
because the selling has totally
dried up or the volume of buying simply overpowers what
little selling remains.
After a per iod of downward movement, one must
be on the alert for any subtle changes in this repetitive
process, as they will show up
clearly on the price charts.
When price declines begin to
fall short of the lower channel boundary, it is a clue that
the existing price trend may
be waning or at least getting
ready to consolidate.
Send your questions or
comments about this article
and chart to info@ag-chieve.
ca.
David Drozd is president and senior
market analyst for Winnipeg-based
Ag-Chieve Corporation. The opinions
expressed are those of the writer and
are solely intended to assist readers
with a better understanding of technical
analysis. Visit Ag-Chieve online at www.
ag-chieve.ca for information about grainmarketing advisory services, or call us
toll free at 1-888-274-3138 for a free
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IGC raises forecasts
for 2013-14 wheat,
maize crops
The global maize crop to rise 10 per cent
to record 950 million tonnes
london / reuters
T
he International Grains
Council increased its
forecast for the 201314 global wheat crop Nov. 28,
reflecting upward revisions for
China and the United States.
The IGC, in a monthly report,
projected a 2013-14 crop of 698
million tonnes, up two million
from its previous forecast and
now seven per cent above the
prior season’s 655 million.
Global wheat consumption
was expected to rise by just
three per cent in 2013-14 to 692
million tonnes, leading to an
increase in stocks of six million
tonnes to 181 million by the end
of the season from year-earlier
levels.
The IGC raised its forecast for
China’s wheat crop to 120 million tonnes, up from a previous
forecast of 118 million and now
barely changed from the prior
season’s 120.6 million.
The U.S. wheat crop was also
upwardly revised to 58 million
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The IGC raised its forecast for
the 2013-14 global maize crop by
two million tonnes to 950 million
tonnes, sharply above the prior
season’s 863 million.
“Global (maize) production is
expected to expand 10 per cent
year on year to a record 950
million tonnes mainly due to a
rebound in the U.S.,” the IGC said.
The U.S. maize crop was estimated at a record 355 million
tonnes, up from a previous forecast of 352 million and sharply up
from the prior season’s 273.8 million.
Global maize stocks were seen
rising 21 per cent, year on year, by
the end of the 2013-14 season to
157 million tonnes.
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More downside risk than upside
potential for corn prices?
USDA export forecast depends on U.S. capturing 90 per cent of world import demand increase
By Daryll E. Ray and
Harwood Shaffer
I
n the week after the United
States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) November 8, 2013 World Agricultural
Supply and Demand Estimates ( WASDE) report, corn
prices initially rose, only to
begin a week-long decline.
The immediate response can
be attributed to U.S. corn production numbers that were
slightly below trade estimates
while the utilization numbers
were above the levels in the
September WASDE report —
there was no October report
because of the government
shutdown.
In 2009 a year-ending stockto-use ratio of 13.9 per cent
resulted in a season average
price paid to farmers of $3.55,
while the USDA projects a
mid-range price for the 2013
crop to be nearly $1 higher
($4.50) on a stocks-to-use ratio
that is higher as well — 14.6
per cent. This alone suggests
that there is more downside
price potential for the current
corn crop than the other direction.
While a year ago corn crop
prices and crop insurance protection levels were well above
the cost of production, for
many if not most corn farmers, the Friday, Nov. 15, 2013
nearby futures closing corn
price of $4.22 is likely below
the full cost of production.
In this situation, a slight
increase in the final production number or a modest
decrease in utilization could
have serious consequences
f o r c o r n f a r m e r s a n d by
extension other crop farmers
if the prices of the other crops
follow corn on a downward
path.
All it takes is a 100-millionbushel increase in the yearending corn stocks for the
2013 crop to increase the
stock-to-use ratio to 15.3 per
cent. An increase of this size or
greater could easily be in the
offing and send price downward.
The USDA is projecting that
corn exports will essentially
double from 731 million bushels shipped out of port in the
2012 crop year to 1.4 billion
bushels for the current crop.
For that to happen, the U.S.
would have to capture 90 per
cent of the increase in worldwide corn exports, even as the
non-U.S. production of grains
— including corn and other
feed grains — is projected to
increase by five per cent.
Closer to home, the USDA
projects that feed and residual
utilization will increase from
4.3 billion bushels in 2012 to
5.2 billion bushels in the 2013
crop year. While the residual
portion is hard to quantify,
feed is less problematic.
With the high corn prices
of recent years, cattle numbers are down, continuing a
decline that began in 2008.
Lower cattle numbers means
fewer cattle making their way
to feedlots to consume corn
and DDGs. Even with lower
corn prices, it will take several
years to rebuild the cattle herd
to the point it is significantly
increasing its use of feed.
Dairy use of feed has been
on a decline since 1984.
While swine numbers are
currently projected to increase
in the next 13 months, there
are clouds on the horizon. In
the past couple of months,
the porcine epidemic diarrhea
virus (PEDV ) has begun to
take its toll on the U.S. swine
herd, reducing the number
of pigs per sow in infected
herds. Steve Meyer, in an article “PEDV may thwart pork’s
chance to grab beef market
share” on the National Hog
Farmer website writes that
his best guess in that secondquarter 2014 hog numbers will
be “near or just below those of
2013.”
That would leave the heavy
lifting in corn feed demand to
Even with lower corn prices, it will take several
years to rebuild the cattle herd to the point it is
significantly increasing its use of feed.
poultry, and poultry produces
more pounds of meat per
pound of feed than either cattle or swine. So with a 498,000tonne increase in poultr y
production and a feed conversion rate of 2:1, we will need
about one million tonnes or 40
million bushels — out of the
900 million additional bushels the USDA projects for feed
and residual utilization in the
coming year — of corn to feed
the extra chickens.
Everything considered, there
seems to be more downside
risk than upside potential for
corn prices in the months
ahead.
Daryll E. Ray holds the Blasingame
Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Policy,
Institute of Agriculture, University of
Tennessee, and is the director of UT’s
Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC).
Harwood D. Schaffer is a research
assistant professor at APAC. www.
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Manitoba leads
country in farm
receipts gain
Useful relics
Increasing farm cash receipts don’t tell the
whole story, as the cost of inputs like fuel and
fertilizer continue to rise
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
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arm cash receipts are up
in Manitoba for the first
nine months of 2013. Way
up.
According to numbers
released by Statistics Canada,
Manitoba has seen an increase
of 14.7 per cent or $500 million
— the largest increase in Canada — over the same period last
year.
Farm cash receipts for Canadian farmers totalled $39.9
billion between January and
September, up 1.9 per cent from
the same period in 2012. This
follows an 8.5 per cent gain
between the first nine months
of 2011 and 2012. Farm cash
receipts include market receipts
from the sale of crops and livestock, as well as program payments.
“There’s no doubt that Manitoba producers grew a big crop
on average across the province.
There are some areas where production challenges affected outcomes, but by and large it was a
big crop here and in Saskatchewan and Alberta,” said Doug
Chorney, president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers.
And those numbers only represent the tip of the iceberg.
The bulk of the 2013 crop is still
making its way to final destinations as farmers deal with a
plugged transportation system.
“The farm income numbers
that were released this week
don’t really reflect that,” Chorney said, noting only early 2013
crops such as winter wheat
were delivered in the first three
quarters of the year.
Much of what has increased
cash receipts for 2013, has actually been the old crop from
2012, he said.
“On average, 2012 was a
pretty decent crop for Manitoba
as well, but more importantly
we had high commodity prices,
so regardless of tonnes, the dollars were there for most people
on a gross basis,” said Chorney.
“The crop we grew in 2013
will now be sold through the
balance of 2013 and into 2014,
and with the transportation
problems that may be dragged
out right to the end of the crop
year, so I expect to see pretty
strong numbers for the next
reporting period as well,” he
added.
But the KAP representative
cautioned that farm receipts
don’t tell the whole story in
Manitoba, or any other province for that matter.
“We also saw a ver y big
increase in expenses, with fuel
and nitrogen fertilizer... we had
very good gross income numbers, but net income was not
“We also saw a
very big increase
in expenses, with
fuel and nitrogen
fertilizer... we had
very good gross
income numbers,
but net income was
not positive, in fact it
declined in the same
period.”
Doug Chorney
positive, in fact it declined in
the same period,” he said.
Farm receipts also include
money received from government support programs.
And while 2013 will go down
as a harvest to remember for
Manitoba’s grain farmers —
crop receipts grew by a whopping 28.7 per cent, livestock
producers only saw an increase
of 2.9 per cent.
Chorney notes the biggest
reason for the increase seen in
Manitoba grain farm receipts
this year dates back to 2011.
Widespread flooding that year
saw 25 per cent of the province’s
cropland go unseeded, while
an additional half-million acres
were flooded out. That reduced
farm cash receipts throughout
2012.
“So comparably it looks really
good, that’s why it appears
to show such a significant
increase,” he said.
A 2012 drought in the U.S. has
also helped to increase prices,
again leading to higher cash
receipts for farmers in Manitoba.
“It really depends on conditions, but we seem to have hit
a new plateau of commodity
prices for coarse grains and oilseeds worldwide,” Chorney said.
The data also shows that
on a commodity basis, canola
continues to be the top crop in
Canada by way of cash receipts,
but its performance declined
nearly 12 per cent over the
same period last year as marketings fell 16.7 per cent.
Canola receipts totalled $5.3
billion, accounting for 24 per
cent of total crop receipts.
Wheat (excluding durum)
receipts totalled $3.9 billion
from January to September, up
$980 million or 33.5 per cent
higher than the same period
in 2012. Both a 25.9 per cent
increase in average prices and
a six per cent gain in marketings contributed to the strong
growth.
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Wheat researcher gets 30-bushel bump
from dual fungicide applications
Provincial agronomy researcher tested 48 management practices in test plots this summer and says
fungicide application had the biggest impact on wheat yields
By Jennifer Blair
staff
L
ooking for higher wheat
yields? Then consider
upping the budget for
fungicide.
That’s the advice of Sheri
St r y d h o r s t , a n a g r o n o m y
research scientist with Alberta
Agriculture and Rural Development.
This past summer, Strydh o r s t e va l u a t e d 4 8 d i f f e rent management practices
to determine the economic
benefits of stacking agro nomic practices for maximum
wheat yield. Only fungicide
application had a significant
impact.
“Su p p l e m e n t a l n i t r o g e n
didn’t significantly affect yield,
nor did the growth regulators,
Agriculture and Rural Development’s Bill Chapman watches Sheri Strydhorst speak about the effect of fungicide on
stripe rust occurrence during a plot tour in Willingdon this summer. Photo: Alberta Wheat Commission
With Fuse fungicide, it doesn’t stand a chance.
but the fungicide really had
the most profound impact,”
she said.
The research was conducted
on small plot sites at Lacombe,
Willingdon, and Barrhead.
Yields at Barrhead ranged
between 106 to 148 bushels
per acre. Applying Headline
fungicide at flag leaf boosted
yields by 20 bushels over the
check, while Prosaro fungicide
applied at head emergence
added 21 bushels.
But the “real winner,” Strydhorst said, came from applyi n g b o t h . T h a t t re a t m e n t
increased yields by 30 bushels
an acre.
“That was the real big winning management practice
at Barrhead, and we saw the
same trend at Lacombe, just
with slightly different yield
numbers.”
At Lacombe, yields ranged
between 102 and 151 bushels an acre. Headline applied
at flag leaf added 23 bushels
compared to the check, and
Prosaro applied at head emergence added 25 bushels.
“But when we applied both
Headline and Prosaro, there
was a 33-bushel-per-acre yield
increase,” said Strydhorst.
There was a major boost to
the bottom line, too.
“At Barrhead, with those
yield increases that we’re seeing with the dual fungicide
less the cost of applying it,
we’re seeing a return of $111
per acre,” said Strydhorst. “At
Lacombe, because we did have
the slightly higher yields, the
return was $144 per acre. It’s
a really wonderful return with
these dual fungicide applications.”
Varietal difference
But results varied on the four
w h e a t va r i e t i e s t h a t we re
tested, she added.
“ We certainly need a lot
more data here because if certain cultivars don’t respond
to the different management
practices, it’s obviously not
worth putting the input costs
into those particular varieties.
We definitely have some work
to do there,” said Strydhorst,
who plans to continue the
research in 2014.
This type of intensive management also requires a solid
understanding of growth staging and plenty of field scouting.
“We’re making that first fungicide application that’s truly
effective around flag leaf, during the last week of June,” she
said.
“So (in) the middle of June,
you have to be out in your
field, really looking at things.”
Producers should consider if
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probability of disease.
And when that crop is ready,
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NEWS
U.S. sees 2013
farm income
highest since
1973
Net income has
been on an almost
unbroken upward
trend
washington / reuters
U.S. farm income will hit
a 40-year high in 2013,
driven by gains in livestock income, according
to a new forecast from
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture on Nov. 26.
U S D A’s E c o n o m i c
Research Ser vice estimated net farm income
of $131 billion for 2013,
up significantly from an
earlier forecast of $120.6
billion and up 15 per
cent from $113.8 billion
in 2012.
After adjusting for
inflation, net farm
income for 2013 is
expected to be the highest since 1973, USDA
said. Net farm income
has been on an almost
unbroken upward trend
since 2002.
Cash crop receipts
will fall three per cent
in 2013, USDA said, as
some of the year’s larger
crops, especially corn
and soybeans, will not
be sold by year-end.
That decline, as well
as rising expenses, will
b e p a r t i a l l y o f f s e t by
an almost six per cent
i n c re a s e i n l i v e s t o c k
receipts.
Ne t c a s h i n c o m e i s
forecast to decline by 3.4
per cent on the year, to
$129.7 billion, although
that estimate has been
hiked by almost $9 billion since August.
Production expenses
continue to climb, up
three per cent to $352
billion, but rising at a
slower pace than in 2012
and 2011.
USDA said increases
in farm asset values are
expected to continue to
exceed increases in farm
debt, leading to another
re c o rd h i g h f o r f a r m
equity.
Farm asset values —
chiefly farmland — are
expected to rise by seven
per cent in 2013 and
farm sector debt by 3.3
per cent, pushing farm
equity up by a strong 7.4
per cent.
“Farmland values are
expected to continue
rising, given the relative
strength of commodity
prices, accommodating interest rates, and
expectations of continued favourable net
returns both from the
market and from government programs, includi n g c r o p i n s u r a n c e ,”
USDA said.
Small disasters wait under Agriculture
Canada disaster relief program
It seldom meets its own targets for delivering assistance under Agri-Recovery
By Alex Binkley
co-operator contributor
A
g r i c u l t u re Ca n a d a i s
good at delivering
financial help to farmers caught in large-scale disasters but rather tardy in
assisting in smaller incidents,
says Auditor General Michel
Ferguson.
“Providing quick assistance
to agricultural producers is a
key goal of the Agri-Recovery
program,” Ferguson says in
his fall report to Parliament.
Timeliness is important to getting farmers back in operation
and was one of the key reasons
the federal-provincial program
was established.
“While Agriculture Canada
has delivered assistance to
producers for large disasters
within their targeted timeline,
those producers impacted by
disasters with smaller total
payouts often wait more than
a year for financial help.”
The odd situation raises
questions about how adequately the department manages Agri-Recovery, Ferguson
says. For starters, it seldom
meets “a 45-day target for
assessments necessary to
deliver quick, targeted assistance to get producers back
in operations.” In one-third
of the instances, Agri-Recovery took an average of 15.5
months to make payments. Its
goal is 10.5 months.
“We found that the department did not have an adequate
process to monitor timeliness,
lacked real-time identification
of delays, and did not monitor the timeliness of initiatives
in the assessment phase,” Ferguson said. “The department
does not ensure that it gets the
information it needs to assess
the timeliness of payments.”
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Auditor general
gover nment programming,
and to provide quick, targeted
assistance to agricultural
p ro d u c e r s s o a s t o f a c i l i tate their return to business
as rapidly as possible. Since
the launch of Agri-Recovery
in December 2007, federal
and provincial governments
have committed $1.2 billion
to 37 disaster relief initiatives
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not done enough research
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to assess how well Agri-Recovery helps producers recover. It
doesn’t even “have a streamlined process for smaller init i a t i ve s e ve n t h o u g h t h e y
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“Natural disasters impose
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emitted in the United States,
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The study, conducted by scientists at several institutions and led
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greatest in south-central United
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measurements by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and
others.
The researchers said their findings also “cast doubt on the EPA’s
recent decision to downscale its
estimate of national natural gas
emissions by 25 to 30 per cent.”
The EPA is in the middle of setting federal limits on greenhouse
gas emissions, and accurate measurements of methane — the second most prevalent greenhouse
gas — are essential, the report’s
authors said. States will be asked
to devise their own plans to carry
out those rules.
The report said methane emissions are likely to be 1.5 times
higher than EPA’s estimate, and
1.7 times higher than that of the
international Emissions Database
for Global Atmospheric Research.
Methane is produced in a variety
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oil and gas production to manure
from livestock.
The scientists’ approach differed from the EPA’s because they
measured what is in the atmosphere using meteorological
data and statistical analysis. The
government agency’s method is
based on estimated emissions per
cow, for example, or per unit of
coal or gas sold.
“Effective national and state
greenhouse gas reduction strategies may be difficult to develop
without appropriate estimates of
methane emissions from these
source sectors,” the report said.
The EPA said it is reviewing the
PNAS study and appreciates the
fact that new data is available to
the public.
“EPA is committed to using the
best available data for our inventory and continually seeks opportunities to update and improve
our estimates,” the agency said in
a statement.
“Research studies like these
will add to our knowledge base
of greenhouse gas emissions and
will help us refine our estimates
going forward.”
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Journal withdraws controversial GMO study
Hundreds of scientists criticized French research paper for having a small sample size
By Kate Kelland
london / reuters
T
he publisher of a controversial and much-criticized study suggesting
genetically modified corn caused
tumours in rats has withdrawn
the paper after a year-long investigation found it did not meet scientific standards.
Reed Elsevier’s Food and
Chemical Toxicology (FCT) journal, which published the study
by the French researcher GillesEric Seralini in September 2012,
said the retraction was because
the study’s small sample size
meant no definitive conclusions
could be reached.
“This retraction comes after
a thorough and time-consuming analysis of the published
article and the data it reports,
along with an investigation
into the peer review behind the
article,” the journal said in a
statement.
“Ultimately, the results presented — while not incorrect —
are inconclusive, and therefore
do not reach the threshold of
publication for Food and Chemical Toxicology.”
At the time of its original publication, hundreds of scientists
across the world questioned
Seralini’s research, which said
rats fed Monsanto’s GM corn
had suffered tumours and multiple organ failure.
The European Food Safety
Authority (EFSA) issued a statement in November 2012 saying
the study by Seralini, who was
based at France’s University of
Caen, had serious defects in
design and methodology and
did not meet acceptable scientific standards.
Within weeks of its appearance in the peer-reviewed journal, more than 700 scientists
had signed an online petition
calling on Seralini to release all
the data from his research.
In its retraction statement,
the FCT said that, in light of
these concerns, it too had asked
to view the raw data.
Seralini “agreed and supplied
all material that was requested
by the editor-in-chief,” it said.
The journal said that, while
it had received many letters
expressing concerns about
the validity of the findings,
the proper use of animals and
even allegations of fraud, its
own investigation found “no
evidence of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of
the data.”
“However, there is a legitimate cause for concern regarding both the number of animals
in each study group and the
particular strain selected,” it
said.
Researcher protests
Seralini, who works in Caen
with a group called CRIIGEN,
the Committee for Research
and Independent Information
on Genetic Engineering, said
the journal’s criticisms of his
work were “unacceptable.”
“Were FCT to persist in its
decision to retract our study,
CRIIGEN would attack with
lawyers, including in the United
States, to require financial compensation for the huge damage
to our group,” he said in a statement.
Other scientists, however,
welcomed the journal’s decision, although some said it had
come too late.
“Ultimately, the
results presented —
while not incorrect
— are inconclusive,
and therefore do not
reach the threshold
of publication for
Food and Chemical
Toxicology.”
Reed Elsevier’s
Food and Chemical
Toxicology (FCT) journal
“The major flaws in this
paper make its retraction the
right thing to do,” said Cathie
Martin, a professor at John
Innes Centre. “The strain of rats
used is highly susceptible to
tumours after 18 months with
or without GMO (genetically
modified organisms) in their
diets.”
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New German government reviews maize for biopower
It will pursue more use of waste products to reduce competition for land with other crops
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G
e r m a n y ’s n e w g ra n d
coalition government
will curb the cultivation
of maize (corn) for bioelectricity production, the new
coalition showed on Nov. 26.
Under the agreement, the
new government will limit
any expansion of bioenergy
production to use only waste
or leftover materials as feedstock.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s
conservatives and the centreleft Social Democrats (SPD)
agreed a coalition contract
that puts Germany on track
to have a new government in
place by Christmas.
German farmers cultivate
large volumes of maize for
electricity, often selling to
power utilities from on-farm
generators and benefit from
high feed-in tariffs introduced
to stimulate Germany’s switch
to renewable energy.
But the huge expansion of
A cornfield in front of wind turbines at the western town of Fuechtorf.
PHOTO: REUTERS/INA FASSBENDER
maize cultivation, mostly outside official harvest figures,
has generated criticism about
a one-sided agricultural policy.
Using more waste for biopower would protect nature,
prevent maize dominating the
countryside and reduce competition for land with other
crops, the coalition agreement said.
The agreement also confirmed the new government
would seek tougher regulations in the European Union
for labelling meat from farm
animals fed on genetically
modified (GMO) crops.
“We recognize the reservations of the majority of the
population against agricultural genetic technology,” it
said.
“We will seek an EU labelling duty for products from
animals which have been fed
with genetically modified
plants,” it said, confirming
a draft coalition agricultural
p o l i c y d o c u m e n t s e e n by
Reuters Nov. 25.
Any such policy would have
to be agreed and approved by
the EU, which is likely to be a
lengthy process.
If introduced, labels could
potentially have a significant
impact on livestock production as many European con-
sumers may be reluctant to
k n ow i n g l y e a t m e a t f r o m
GMO-fed animals.
Currently most soy-based
animal feed, mainly imported
from the United States and
South America, contains
GMOs while other grains that
are often domestically grown
for feed mostly do not. Soybased feed is widely used for
its high protein content.
A new coalition would
retain the policy of zero tolerance of non-approved GMOs
in human food, it said.
The coalition contract
made no mention of whether
the current German policy
restricting GMO crop cultivation would be continued.
The draft had said the parties were unable to agree on
the issue.
Former agriculture minister
Ilse Aigner took a tough stand
against GMO cultivation but
she left the government after
the September elections to
return to local politics.
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it upped PROs for durum,
a release from the company said Nov. 28.
PROs for wheat in the
Winter Pool were lowered
by $1 to $2 per tonne
compared to the previous
report on Nov. 7, due to a
sharp drop in U.S. wheat
futures prices recently.
Good conditions for the
U.S. winter wheat crop and
a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency
to reduce its U.S. ethanol
mandate were bearish.
However, some concerns
about crop production
problems in Argentina and
Australia kept a firm floor
under prices.
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to market their wheat
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Winter Pool from the previous report. Much of the
recent strength in prices
is due to strong nearby
demand and logistical
issues in moving the large
crop in Canada.
PROs for canola in the
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Canadian canola crop
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Canadian dollar and
strong demand are supportive.
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Japan to phase out rice subsidies
as part of farm reform
The government is attempting to overhaul its agricultural policy
By James Topham
TOKYO / REUTERS
J
apan is to end a rice subsidy scheme designed to
cut excess crops that dates
b a c k m o re t h a n 4 0 ye a r s,
the Far ming Ministr y said
Nov. 26, as the government
embarks on an overhaul of
agriculture, one of the country’s most protected sectors.
T h e m ove i s u n l i k e l y t o
have an immediate impact
on rice trade due to Japan’s
high import duties and cost
of production, but it will help
competitiveness of the farming sector as the government
negotiates to join the TransPacific Partnership ( TPP), a
U.S.-led free trade area.
It may also help the countr y fend off pressure from
the United States, Australia
and others to lift tariffs and
remove other barriers to trade
in protected areas such as
agriculture.
The government will abolish the long-standing “gentan” production adjustment
system for rice by the year
ending March 2019, an official
in the Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries said.
It will begin phasing out
the program — under which
the government pays farmers subsidies in exchange for
reducing rice output to adjust
supply and protect prices —
by halving the payment from
the fiscal year that starts in
April 2014, the official said.
Under the program, introduced in 1970, farmers who
re d u c e s ow i n g t o g ove r n ment-set limits receive about
150,000 yen ($1,500) for each
hectare (2.5 acres) under cultivation.
Rice in Japan is farmed on
relatively small plots. The
farming population is aging
and shrinking as young people move to the cities for
alternative work.
“Exports are not likely to
rise even if the government
stops the subsidy to farmers
as Japanese rice is extremely
e x p e n s i v e,” s a i d a To k yo based trader. “They don’t have
any cost competitiveness.”
The price of sticky or glutinous rice in Japan is about
$2,000 per tonne, compared
with $1,000 in the United
States and $940 in China, the
trader said.
Japan exports very little of its
rice, with overseas sales totalling just 16,403 tonnes valued at 1.3 billion yen in the
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according to the Ministry of
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harvested 8.5 million tonnes,
according to the Farm Ministry.
In contrast, India, the biggest rice exporter in 2012,
shipped about 10.5 million tonnes, while Vietnam
exported 7.2 million and
Thailand seven million.
Many businesses are keen
for Japan to join the TPP trade
area so that exporters can
compete with overseas rivals,
but powerful agricultural lobbies oppose participation for
fear that it will let in a flood of
overseas farm products.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
is pushing economic reform
along with aggressive expansionary policies aimed at ending deflation and two decades
of stagnation.
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U.S. moves to rein in ethanol expansion
Local livestock producer groups laud U.S. environmental watchdog’s proposal to slash ethanol requirement
By Daniel Winters
“It shouldn’t be
too big of an issue
for us. We’re lucky
because most of our
corn stays in the
province.”
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T
he U.S. government’s decision to scale back ethanol
targets could affect prices
but it won’t lower demand for
Manitoba-grown corn, an official with the Manitoba Corn
Growers Association says.
“It shouldn’t be too big of an
issue for us. We’re lucky because
most of our corn stays in the
province,” said Morgan Cotts,
the association’s field agronomist. Most of the corn produced
in the province is used for seed,
animal feed or the Husky ethanol plant in Minnedosa.
Less overall demand for corn,
however, could weigh on prices,
she added.
For the first time since 2007,
the United States government is
scaling back ethanol targets set
in 2007 by the Bush administration, citing difficulties in meeting them.
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has
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proposed to reduce its 2014
Renewable Volume Obligations
(RVO) for corn-based ethanol
by well over a billion gallons.
For 2014, the EPA has proposed cutting the renewable fuel
target from 16.55 billion gallons
(BG) to 15.21 billion gallons.
It has also proposed a cut to
the so-called advanced biofuel
requirement from 2.75 BG to 2.2
BG, hold biodiesel at 1.28 BG,
and set the cellulosic biofuel
category at 17 million gallons.
The changes, which must first
pass a 60-day comment period,
represent a significant setback
for the ethanol lobby which
had long been pushing for an
expanded mandate that would
have seen the inclusion rate in
gasoline raised to 15 per cent,
up from the current 10 per cent
known as E10.
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and corn ethanol at 15 billion
gallons by 2015.
“This is the first time the
U.S. government has bowed to
petroleum industry pressure
and cut renewable fuel targets,
setting a dangerous precedent
for the global biofuels industry,”
stated Bliss Baker, spokesperson for the Toronto-based Global Renewable Fuels Alliance, in
a press release.
Canadian Renewable Fuels
Association president W. Scott
Thurlow said in a statement
the policy would undermine
biofuel use and lead to severe
economic and environmental
impacts, but that the Canadian
industry would not be affected.
“We do not expect Canadian
ethanol producers to be negatively impacted by the EPA proposal,” he stated, noting that a
five per cent blend is still mandated in Canada.
Canadian ethanol plants are
producing almost two billion
litres of ethanol a year. Annual
consumption of ethanol in
Canada stands at close to 2.8
billion litres per year. Most of
the additional ethanol comes
from the U.S., but even with the
proposed reduction, he did not
expect imports to rise further.
Provincial livestock associations welcomed the developments south of the border.
Manitoba Pork council general manager Andrew Dickson
said that if less corn is soaked
up by ethanol producers, the
result will likely be lower prices
for livestock users.
That’s because the legislated requirement that gasoline
refineries buy ethanol to add
to gasoline has created a “floor
price” for corn that in turn lifted
the price of all feed grains as a
consequence.
“There’s still a huge pile of
corn that’s going into ethanol
and it’s of questionable value to
the environment,” said Dickson.
The EPA decision is just one
part of an overall “good news
story” that began with this fall’s
bumper crop in the Midwest
Corn Belt that has brought feed
grains prices down and boosted
profitability for the beleaguered
pork industry, he added.
If pork prices stay “decent”
and feed costs dip, there is a
good chance that margins for
hog producers will stay at $10$20 per pig for at least two years
until U.S. producers respond by
expanding their sow herd.
“But to be honest, we need
two or three years in a row of
good margins to recover to
where we were seven or eight
years ago,” said Dickson.
Cam Dahl, general manager
of the Manitoba Beef Producers,
said the cattle industry has long
been critical of the legislated
requirement to add ethanol to
gasoline due to its potential to
distort feed grains prices.
If the intent of the law was to
create a viable, self-sustaining
ethanol industry, then clearly,
it’s high time to declare mission
accomplished and move on, he
added.
“I think it’s always good to
have a second look at policies
over time,” said Dahl. “When
government policies disrupt
and distort the normal market
signals, that always creates difficulties.”
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Academics with
pharma links
more likely to
promote drugs
Competing interests should be declared — and reported —
to maintain credibility of public health, say researchers
Staff
A
cademics with links
to the pharmaceutical
industry were more likely
to talk up the risks of the 200910 swine flu pandemic in the
media and promote the use of
drugs than those without these
ties, says a study published
online in the British Journal of
Epidemiology and Community
Health.
During the 2009-10 swine flu
pandemic, the U.K. spent a billion British pounds on pharmaceuticals, including antiviral
drugs (neuraminidase inhibitors) and an H1N1-specific vaccine. Pharma made £4.5 billion
to £6.5 billion out of H1N1 vaccines alone.
Concerns were subsequently raised about the links
(competing interests) experts
on influential scientific advisory committees, including
the WHO’s Emergency Committee, had with drug companies.
Researchers retrospectively
analyzed U.K. newspaper
print coverage of the HIN1
swine flu pandemic, to assess
the extent of competing interests among sources quoted
on the topic between April
and July 2009 — the period
when major decisions were
being made about how best
to respond to the emerging
threat.
Daily, Sunday, tabloid, middle market, and broadsheet
publications on both sides of
the political spectrum were
included, to reflect a range of
perspectives and reporting
styles. Broadcast media were
excluded on the grounds that
print media offered more indepth analysis and more divergent viewpoints.
The final sample of 425 articles was scrutinized for the
sources quoted, the assessment of the risk to the population made by each source, and
the promotion or rejection of
drugs/vaccines.
Competing interests for each
named academic quoted were
then unearthed, using conflict
of interest statements, funding sources detailed on profile
pages, Google searches, and
funding declarations on all
publications in the previous
four years.
Grants, honoraria, speakers’
fees, consultancies, advisory
roles, employment, and directorship/stock ownership were all
considered competing interests.
The analysis showed that
during the study period, health
ministers were the most frequently quoted source (34 per
cent) in media articles on swine
flu, followed by academics (30
per cent). Sixty-one academics
were quoted, (30 per cent) of
whom had competing interests.
Academics promoting the use
of antiviral drugs in newspaper
articles were eight times more
likely to have pharma industry
links than those not commenting on their use.
The researchers acknowledge
that the interviews may have
contained more nuanced views
than appeared in print, and that
journalists may have sought
divergent views to balance a story
or increase its newsworthiness.
But academics are a trusted
and accessible source of comment for journalists and are in
a unique and powerful position
during emerging public health
threats, they say.
“Our results provide some
evidence that the provision of
higher-risk assessments and the
promotion of (antiviral drugs)
are associated with (competing
interests) among academics,”
they write.
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“These add to the growing
body of literature highlighting the
potential influence of the pharmaceutical industry on policy
decisions through multiple avenues, including advisory commit-
tees, drafting of guidelines, and
media commentary,” they note.
“Academics should declare,
and journalists report, relevant
(competing interests) for media
interviews.”
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BRIEFS
Jan Slomp new
NFU president
Jan Slomp of Rimbey, Alta.
was elected by acclamation
as president of the National
Farmers Union at its 44th
annual national convention in Ottawa, Nov. 27-30,
succeeding Terry Boehm of
Allan, Sask.
Ann Slater of St. Marys,
Ont. was acclaimed as first
vice-president (policy).
Coral Sproule of Perth, Ont.
was acclaimed as second
vice-president (operations).
Joan Brady of Dashwood,
Ont. was acclaimed as
women’s president and
Marcella Pedersen of Cut
Knife, Sask. was elected as
NFU women’s vice-president.
Alex Fletcher of Victoria, B.C. was acclaimed as
youth president and Lisa
Lundgard of Grimshaw,
B.C. was elected NFU youth
vice-president.
Menopausal rats could prove
solution to rodent problem
The invention has proven it can successfully reduce rodent populations,
but a cash injection is needed to scale it up
By Shannon VanRaes
“I don’t care how
many times you
shower in and out of
those facilities, it’s
going to spoil your
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rat that is carrying
that disease.”
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SenesTech CEO Loretta Mayer
told a crowd at the annual Agri
Innovation Forum in Winnipeg
last month, explaining the compound her company has developed essentially causes female
rats to prematurely enter menopause.
The result? No more baby rats.
And as a brown rat can produce
five to seven litters of seven to 14
babies each year, and their offspring will start doing the same
within four months — shutting
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neighbouring rat populations
simply move in to capitalize on
the sudden increase in available
resources, Mayer said.
However, if you decrease a rat
population more slowly, through
attrition and natural death without reproduction, remaining
rats become territorial, preventing new rodent hordes from
encroaching. The rodent population is reduced to a tiny fraction of
its previous level, and there is no
risk of a rebound effect.
Using poison to control rat populations also carries the risk that
other species, including humans,
can be affected by the poison,
Mayer said. She noted 16,000 children accidently ingest raticides
each year in the U.S. In developing countries the risk of inadvertently ingesting rat poison is even
higher.
So far the SenesTech compound has been tested in the New
York City subway system, as well
as in hog barns in North Carolina,
where swine dysentery is spread
by the rodents.
“I don’t care how many times
you shower in and out of those
facilities, it’s going to spoil your
day when you find a rat that is carrying that disease,” Mayer said.
Granaries, and other food storage areas could also benefit from
a rodent sterilization program.
Although rats may be most
closely associated with times past,
Mayer notes current food production levels are working in favour of
a growing rat population.
“On behalf of rodents everywhere, I would like to say thank
you for increasing your crop yield,
it’s a banquet for rodents,” she
said.
Bu t t h e f o r m e r c a rd i a c
researcher, who first developed
the rodent sterilizer for a research
project, is still searching for funding and partnerships to get the
novel compound to market.
“We are looking for partners,
global partners who can help us
get this technology out into the
global market,” the CEO said,
adding the company is currently
looking for about $10 million in
equity capital.
She hopes the uniqueness of
the rodent control product will
draw in interested investors.
“We’re a very odd company,”
Mayer said. “We accelerate that
natural process of aging the
gonad.”
The compound developed by
the researcher also breaks down
in soil and water into two harmless compounds, allaying fears of
unintended consumption.
“This compound does not
work in any species above a nonhuman primate,” she said.
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WHAT’S UP
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events to daveb@fbcpublishing.
com or call 204-944-5762.
Meat industry singled out
for new penalties
Dec. 9: Keystone Agricultural
Producers District 10 meeting,
7:30p.m., Arborg Bifrost Curling
Club, Arborg. For more info call
204-697-1140.
Meat council expected regulations would also apply to all food producers
Dec. 9-11: Canadian Forage and
Grassland Association conference,
Pomeroy Inn and Suites, Olds
College, 4601-46th Ave., Olds, Alta.
For more info call 204-726-9393
or visit www.canadianfga.ca/
events/current-events/.
T
Dec. 10: Keystone Agricultural
Producers District 4 meeting, 1:30
p.m., Real Canadian Superstore,
Hwy. 12 N., Steinbach. For more
info call 204-697-1140.
Dec. 10: Keystone Agricultural
Producers District 5 meeting,
7:30 p.m., Community Centennial
Centre, 11 Thompson Ave., Garson.
For more info call 204-697-1140.
Dec. 11: Keystone Agricultural
Producers District 6 meeting, 1:30
p.m., Fair Board Office, Portage la
Prairie. For more info call 204-6971140.
By Alex Binkley
co-operator contributor
he Canadian meat
industry was surprised
by an out-of-the-blue
announcement by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
that it is being singled out for
a financial penalty regime for
food safety infractions.
Jim Laws, president of the
Canadian Meat Council,
says the agency had said the
administrative monetary penalty system (AMPs) would be
introduced to the entire food
industr y at the same time
after consultations on its
implementation and operations. AMPs are used in other
sectors regulated by government to impose penalties on
businesses and consumers
when the government wants
to avoid the expense of taking
people to court.
“So we’re surprised that the
CFIA has moved more quickly
to implement this system on
us,” Laws said. His group has
fully participated in consultations with CFIA on a new
regulatory regime to implement the provisions of C52,
the Safe Food for Canadians
Act, passed earlier this year
by Parliament. “We’re looki n g f o r w a rd t o d i s c u s s i n g
with government on how the
system will be applied to us.
We want a fair and efficient
administrative monetary penalty system for meat products.”
L a w s s a i d t h e m ov e i s
especially frustrating for the
industry because it has been
waiting for years for the
gover nment to implement
changes in agreed-to meat
container labelling regulations.
The new food safety law
included a clause that enabled the gover nment to
bring in an AMPs program
for p ro c e s s o r s o f a l l f o o d
categories.
“Consumers want a strong
and reliable food inspection
system on which they can
depend to provide safe food.
Introducing these new penalties demonstrates our commitment to ensuring that
Canada’s stringent food safety
requirements are being followed,” Health Minister Rona
Ambrose said in announcing
the change.
She said the AMPs could
provide CFIA inspectors “with
an additional enforcement
option when working with
the meat industry. For example, they may be applied if
a company withholds information, such as a positive E.
coli test result, or records that
are needed as part of a food
safety investigation, or if a
company is regularly identified for not complying with
requirements.”
Martine Dubuc, chief food
safety officer and CFIA vicepresident, said AMPs “provide
an additional option for dealing with the small number of
food producers that fail to follow federal food safety regulations.”
The government is planning
to have the new food safety
act come into effect in 2015.
It has yet to put any of its proposed regulations into the
Canada Gazette, which gives
them official status.
Dec. 11: Keystone Agricultural
Producers District 3 meeting, 7
p.m., Legion Auxiliary Hall, 28 First
St., Carman. For more info call
204-697-1140.
Dec. 11-12: Manitoba
Agronomists Conference, 172
Agriculture Building, 66 Dafoe
Road, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg. For more info visit
www.umanitoba.ca/afs/
agronomists_conf/.
Let your flag leaf fly.
Dec. 11-12: Manitoba Seed
Growers Association annual meeting and trade show, Victoria Inn,
1808 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg.
For more info visit www.seedmanitoba.ca/news.html or call
204-745-6274.
Dec. 12: Hog Days, 10 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Keystone Centre, 1175-18th
St., Brandon. For more info visit
www.hogandpoultrydays.com/
hogdays.html or call 204-9376460.
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Zero Tillage Farmers Association
annual workshop and trade
show, Holiday Inn Riverside, 2200
Burdick Expwy. E., Minot, N.D. For
more info visit www.mandakzerotill.org or call 701-223-3184.
Jan. 8-9: St. Jean Farm Days, St.
Jean Baptiste. For more info call
204-746-2312.
Jan. 14-16: Red River Basin
Commission’s Land and Water
International Summit, 1635-42nd
St. S., Fargo, N.D. For more info visit
www.redriverbasincommission.
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Jan. 29-31: Keystone Agricultural
Producers annual meeting, Delta
Winnipeg, 350 St. Mary Ave.,
Winnipeg. For more info call 204697-1140 or visit kap.mb.ca.
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WEATHER VANE
“ E v e r y o n e tal k s ab o ut the weathe r , but n o o n e d o es a n y thi n g ab o ut it . ”
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We ride the temperature roller-coaster
Issued: Monday, December 2, 2013 · Covering: December 4 – December 11, 2013
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
B
y the time you read this
forecast, we’ve either
just dodged a big winter
storm to our south or are just
starting to dig ourselves out of it!
The weather models have been
pretty consistent with bringing
a strong, slow-moving storm
system across the northern U.S.
during the middle of this week.
Whether this system hits us or
not, we’ll definitely see a major
shot of cold air later in the week.
As the strong area of low
pressure pulls out to our northeast on Thursday, we’ll see a
large area of arctic high pressure begin dropping southward. The centre of this high
looks like it will track through
Saskatchewan and then move
through the Dakotas over the
weekend. This should keep
us from seeing the really cold
temperatures, but we are still
going to be cold. In fact, with
the departing low to our east
and strong high pressure to
our west, it looks like Thursday
and Friday will also be fairly
breezy. Combine these winds
with temperatures in the -15 to
-20 C range and wind chills will
become an issue, with values
expected to drop into the -30s.
The cold weather looks like
it’ll stick around for at least
the first half of next week as
another arctic high drops
southward, bringing with it
a reinforcing shot of cold air.
Highs are only expected to be
in the -16 to -20 C range to start
the week, with overnight lows
in the -25 to -30 area, near the
bottom end of the usual temperature range for this time of
the year.
Looking a little further ahead,
the weather models are keeping
cold air in place right through
to the weekend before another
storm system is forecast to move
in off of the Pacific. This will
allow for some milder air to begin
moving back in. Along with the
milder temperatures will come
the chance for more snow!
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, -17 to -1 C;
lows, -27 to -9 C.
Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession
with a BA (Hon.) in geography,
specializing in climatology, from the
U of W. He operates a computerized
weather station near Birds Hill Park.
Contact him with your questions and
comments at [email protected].
WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA
1 Month (30 Days) Percent of Average Precipitation (Prairie Region)
October 29, 2013 to November 27, 2013
< 40%
40 - 60%
60 - 85%
85 - 115%
115 - 150%
150 - 200%
> 200%
Extent of Agricultural Land
Lakes and Rivers
Produced using near real-time data that has
undergone initial quality control. The map
may not be accurate for all regions due to data
availability and data errors.
Copyright © 2013 Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
Prepared by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s National Agroclimate Information Service (NAIS). Data provided through partnership with
Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and many Provincial agencies.
Created: 11/28/13
www.agr.gc.ca/drought
This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that fell across the Prairies over the 30 days ending Nov. 27. Southern Alberta,
Saskatchewan and pretty much all of Manitoba saw below-average amounts during this period. Central and northern agricultural
Saskatchewan saw well-above-average amounts during this time, as did much of central Alberta.
A cold and snowy month ahead?
Last month turned out to be both cooler and drier than the average November
By Daniel Bezte
co-operator contributor
A
nother month has come and
gone and 2013 is quickly coming to an end. While it is a little
too soon to make a summary of this
past year’s weather, it’s time to see
how November’s numbers added up.
November started off fairly nice,
with daytime highs pushing the 10 C
mark in the first few days. Temperatures then began to cool down a bit,
with highs dropping down to around
+2 C and overnight lows slipping
down to around -14 C. Along with
the colder temperatures came a little
snow, at least in some regions, but for
the most part, accumulations were
less than five centimetres. With some
s n ow a ro u n d , t e m p e ra t u re s we re
able to really cool off, with overnight
lows pushing -20 C by the 11th of the
month.
Luckily these cold temperatures didn’t stick around for long, as
highs by the 13th were once again
approaching +10 C. These mild temperatures stayed around for about
four or five days before a system came
along and dumped five to 10 cm of
snow across a good portion of southern and central Manitoba. A push of
cold air behind this system, combined
with the fresh snow cover, allowed
temperatures to really drop during the
third week of November. Overnight
lows were in the -25 C range, with
some locations making it to -30 C. The
Overall, it was a pretty
quiet month, with no major
storm systems.
recorded. The only areas that came
close to seeing average amounts of
precipitation during the month were
the far eastern regions, along with the
Interlake. Overall, November 2013 will
go down as a cooler- and drier-thanaverage November.
Who called it?
last week of the month saw average
late November temperatures, along
with a few light dustings of snow here
and there.
Overall, it was a pretty quiet month,
with no major storm systems. When
all the numbers are added up, southern regions saw slightly below-average temperatures for the month, with
both Winnipeg and Brandon experiencing a mean monthly temperature
of about -6.5 C, about 1° below average. Farther north, around Dauphin,
it was a little milder, with a mean
monthly temperature of -5.7 C, right
around average.
With no major storm systems hitting
our part of the world during November it is not surprising that all three
regions saw below-average amounts
of precipitation. The Brandon-toWinnipeg corridor saw around 15
millimetres of precipitation recorded
during the month, but areas farther
south were very dry, with fewer than
five mm reported in most regions.
Dauphin was pretty dry as well, with
only about six mm of precipitation
Which of our four different forecasters were able to predict this? Well, it
appears that the winner is… my forecast! Environment Canada had called
for above-average temperatures and
near-average amounts of precipitation, with above-average amounts
the farther north you went, so they
were off by a fair bit. The Old Farme r ’s Al m a n a c h a d a l s o p re d i c t e d
a b ov e - a v e ra g e t e m p e ra t u re s a n d
near-average amounts of precipitation. The Canadian Farmers’ Almanac went in the opposite direction
and had predicted a colder-thanaverage month along with aboveaverage amounts of snow. Finally,
here at the Co-operator, I did predict above-average temperatures for
the month, but mentioned we could
see some cold weather move in during the second half of the month. In
regards to precipitation amounts, I
predicted we would see a below-average month. So, while I wasn’t the outright winner, my forecast, I think, was
the closest.
Now on to December’s forecasts:
Environment Canada calls for belowaverage temperatures for the month
along with near-average amounts
of precipitation (snow) over southern regions and above-average in the
northwest. The Old Farmer’s Almanac is following EC’s forecast, with
a prediction of below-average temperatures and near- to above-average
amounts of snow. The ever-so-easyt o - f i g u re - o u t C a n a d i a n Fa r m e r s’
Almanac appears to also call for
below-average temperatures as it
mentions cold several times. Along
with the colder temperatures it looks
like the Almanac calls for a snowy
month, with snow or heavy snow
mentioned several times. So, all three
forecasts are for a cold and fairly
snowy month.
Last but not least is my forecast.
Based on the medium-range weather
models, it looks like we will have a
pretty cold first half of the month, and
I think we’ll have a hard time making
up for the cold during the second half
of the month. So, I have to go with
the other three forecasters and call
for below-average temperatures. As I
always point out, monthly precipitation forecasts in the winter are super
tough. The general pattern setting
up at the moment looks to be fairly
active, though, so I think I’ll have
to go along with the two almanacs
and call for a snowier-than-average
December. I will have to do some back
checking, but I think this might be
the first time all of the forecasts call
for the same thing! Could we all be
wrong? Only time will tell.
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CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S
How to
kill your
community
A marketing strategist warns local leaders
of what comes from rejecting change and
acting ‘dumb’ so less is expected of them
People want to genuinely love the place they live, marketing strategist tells Manitoba municipal leaders. photo: Thinkstock
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
Brandon
All small-town coffee shops
should have a designated ‘be
happy’ section, says Chris
Fields.
Coffee shop critics with all
their “nattering and chittering”
are part of what’s killing rural
communities, says Fields, a senior marketing strategist with the
Alberta-based Twist Marketing
Firm, and author of 13 Ways to
Kill Your Community a guide to
helping municipal leaders identify ways to make the places
they govern stronger.
“Coffee shops are horrible
places for that. They’re the bane
of rural existence. It’s where all
the, ‘this can’t work’ and, ‘that
can’t work’ talk goes on,” the
marketing strategist told about
900 municipal leaders at their
annual convention in Brandon
last week.
Headquartered in Calgary,
Fields’ firm helps towns and cities across Canada and the U.S.
become better places to live
and more attractive to investors
and tourists.
His presentation, equal parts
entertaining humour, sarcasm
and rebuke spoke of how local
councils likewise wreck communities, when they shoot
down new ideas, resist change,
and “act dumb so people ask
less of you.”
Fields criticized government
in general, and local government in particular, for their tendency to hunker down to manage and maintain, rather than
set vision and new direction for
their communities.
Local-level government is
best positioned to do the bold,
original, creative stuff people
want for the places they live,
because it’s government closest
to people, said Fields. Trends
that bode really well are the
buy-local movement and an
emerging ‘creative class’ across
all of North America — people
who are seeking real meaning and engagement with the
places they live.
“My argument is we’re the
closest thing for people to be
able to achieve meaning in
these places,” Fields said.
But what local councils do is
ignore youth, put up roadblocks
“Government has
become a very
efficient operational
services provider,
and not much more.”
Chris Fields
to business, live in the past, and
reject change — contributing to
the community-killing culture
of naysayers that dominates the
local coffee shop.
“Government has become a
very efficient operational services provider, and not much
more,” he said. Too much time
is spent producing incomprehensible reports and plans that
are basically “jumble puzzles”
no one would even attempt to
read, he said.
“It’s where we’re really lacking. You’re investing all of this
energy in strategic planning
but, by the way, there are 47
plans. A councillor in Stony
Plain, west of Edmonton six
months ago said to me, “We
have so many goddamned
plans I don’t know what we’re
doing.”
A council fails to engage the
public in what they’re up to at
their peril. His firm has surveyed people about how they
perceive municipal-level government in general and logged
words such as “boring.” When
asked how confident they were
in their current representatives
a third replied they “don’t know.”
It leads to the dismally low
voter turnout in municipal elections, he said, citing a 25 per
cent voter turnout in Alberta
during its recent elections.
“And how many people do you
have at your council meetings
these days?” he asked AMM convention delegates. “One? Two?
Are they even alive back there?”
He challenged community
leaders to take a lesson from
history, when political life was a
high calling, and town leaders a
century ago were building places
of beauty and aspiring to leave
a legacy to serve generations to
come.
It is about government setting
direction, and providing services
at a price people are willing to
pay, he said, noting it’s the setting direction part that is failing,
he said.
“You need to be asking yourselves what plan are you producing that creates that emotional engagement with your
community,” he said. Sixtynine per cent of Canadians
don’t live in the town they were
born, and seven per cent live
in a place they first visited as a
tourist.
“Think about this as a matter of communities,” he said.
“When I work with communities on their brand, I ask these
questions: Why do you matter,
to a visitor, to regular folks, to
an investor?”
Their citizens are craving a
place to live that matters. It’s
government’s job to imagine a
community that’s different and
better than what they currently
have.
“We all secretly want to love
where we live,” he said. “A
barometer of whether we’re
happy or not tends to relate to
where we live.”
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Manitoba Co-operator
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Carman, Man. ROG OJO
or email: [email protected]
Raising the bar
Lorraine Stevenson
Crossroads Recipe Swap
I
t’s been about a year since we told you about
Colleen Dyck, the Manitoba farmer launching her GORP energy bar made with the
hemp, oats, flax, sunflower seeds and honey
and other ingredients grown on her Niverville
farm.
Colleen was gearing up production after
more than seven years creating the recipe and
marketing strategy for GORP bars, and she had
high hopes her product would score. So did we,
so it’s been great to hear of her recent marketing
successes, including finding customers among
the Winnipeg Jets, who now nibble on GORP
bars as they train.
“Someone got it into their hands… and then
the Winnipeg Jets just started ordering,” she
said in a recent CBC interview, adding that she’ll
happily take credit for their recent wins.
GORP bars also fuel the team Manitoba
sends to the Canadian Wheelchair Curling
Championships. “We just love them,” said Team
Manitoba’s skip Dennis Thiessen. “We chew on
them during our game or between games and
the energy in them is fantastic.”
More GORP is around the corner. They’re
about to go national with a big shipment going
out in January to Mountain Equipment Co-op
stores. Colleen said she’s also targeting other
small chains across the country. Right now
about 40 stores and gyms, plus chiropractors’
and naturopaths’ offices are stocked with GORP.
That’s ramping up production to anywhere
from 2,800 to 5,000 bars a week, but Colleen isn’t
making them all herself anymore. Demand has
created about six new jobs in Niverville, offering
flexible hours in the small food-processing
plant she had constructed in the lower level
of her home. A mother of four herself, Colleen
knows working parents need hours that fit with
the rest of their lives.
“It’s mostly stay-at-home moms working
here, so we try to make the hours really flexible
so that they can get their kids off to school,
come in, work a shift and then be back home
before the kids are off the bus,” she said.
The story of this bar, and the farm family
behind it is as good as it gets. ‘The Great Gorp
Project,’ as she’s called it on a blog, is about
what it’s like to raise a family, build a house,
farm and generally embrace life with joy and
energy. I encourage you to stay tuned with
what’s next for this big little company, and log
on to www.gorpworld.com/home. And try one
of these bars yourself. The Peanut Butter and
Apple is my favourite.
There’s a saying that if we were really meant to
pop out of bed in the morning, we’d all sleep in
toasters. You’ll want to get up early these frosty
early days of winter when there’s a hot breakfast waiting. Here’s a few recipes and breakfasts
and mid-morning snacks to get you moving.
Quinoa-Oatmeal
Breakfast
Carol Morris sent us this made-in-acrockpot breakfast porridge made from
quinoa and steel-cut oats. I tried it
recently and it gently cooks overnight
into a warm mash that’s really good
with some prunes, raisins or apricots,
and honey added the next morning. You
could try substituting Red River cereal if
you don’t have quinoa. Thanks Carol!
1/2 c. steel-cut oats
1/2 c. quinoa
1 apple (unpeeled, cut up)
2 c. water
Generous amount of cinnamon
Dash of sea salt
Add a handful of dried apricots, blueberries, raisins, or nuts such as walnuts or
slivered almonds or pecans to the mix
in the morning. Fresh fruit is great too.
Serves about 4.
Flax Molasses Muffins
A flax snack of any kind will deliver excellent omega-3 and fibre nutrition — along
with great taste. Did you know that one
tablespoon of milled flax contains as
much total dietary fibre as a slice of
whole wheat bread? I love anything made
with molasses and these muffins are
yummy.
1/2 c. dark raisins
1-1/2 c. all-purpose flour
2/3 c. milled flax
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2/3 c. brown sugar
1 egg
1/4 c. molasses
1 c. skim milk
Preheat oven to 350 F. Cover raisins
with hot water and soak for 1/2 hour.
Combine flour, milled flax, baking powder and salt; mix well. In a separate
bowl, beat together brown sugar and egg
until sugar is dissolved. Add molasses;
mix. Add skim milk and mix. Add dry
ingredients to liquid; gently stir until dry
ingredients are thoroughly moistened.
Drain raisins. Add raisins to batter and
stir. Spray muffin tin with non-stick vegetable spray. Fill each muffin cup with
1/4 cup of batter. Bake for 20 minutes or
until inserted toothpick comes out clean.
Remove from oven. Cool on wire rack for
five minutes. Remove from tin and cool
to room temperature. Yields: 12 muffins.
Source: Flax Quick Snacks/Flax Council of Canada
Sunrise Egg Sandwiches
I found this recipe among Egg Farmers
Favourites, a recipe booklet of Egg Farmers
of Canada. It’s from Curtis Somerton, whose
family is third-generation egg farmers in
Portugal Cove, Newfoundland. If you think
this is a little “fussy” to make on a weekday,
keep it as a treat for the weekend, or serve it
as a simple meal any other time of day.
3 tbsp. light mayonnaise or salad dressing
2 tbsp. milk
1 tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. grated lemon rind
4 eggs
1 medium tomato, thinly sliced
4 slices multi-grain, French or Italian bread
Place mayonnaise in small microwavesafe bowl; whisk in milk. Microwave on
medium just until hot, about 45 seconds,
stirring after 30 seconds. Whisk in Parmesan
cheese, lemon juice and rind until smooth.
Set sauce aside. Spray large non-stick skillet with cooking spray. Heat skillet over
medium heat. Crack eggs into skillet. Break
yolks with edge of spatula. Cook eggs to preferred doneness. Place tomato slices on two
slices of bread. Top with fried eggs. Spoon
about 1 tablespoon warm sauce over each
egg. Cover with second slice of bread.
Smoothies For The
Breakfast Challenged
Kim Rempel sent us this recipe recently
with a note that eating first thing in the
morning doesn’t help her digestion, so she
drinks smoothies instead. Kim sends this
recipe for all the other non-breakfast eaters
out there. Thanks Kim.
Her morning mix includes...
1 c. frozen berries
1 c. cold water
1/2 banana
1/2 scoop chia seeds
1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder
Yours can include...
1 c. fruit
1 c. liquid (water, milk, fruit juice)
1/2 - 1 c. thickener (a banana, avocado, yogurt)
RECIPE SWAP
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suggestion please write to:
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“
Y
ou’d think after 50 years I’d be used to
this.” Rose Jackson pulled the hood of her
parka over her head as she stepped outside. Freshly fallen snow crunched under her
boots as she walked across the porch and down
the steps. “Every year there’s that day when
I step outside and go, ‘How the heck did this
happen?’”
Andrew, who was a step behind his wife,
laughed. “It’s like the Spanish Inquisition,” he
said. “Nobody expects it.”
“Even though everybody knows it’s coming.”
Rose stopped and gazed up at the leafless elm
tree on the front lawn, its branches now covered
in crisp white snow. Drifting flakes reflected
the light of the late-afternoon sun, sparkling
and shining like a million falling stars. “Hard to
believe it can be so beautiful,” she said.
“Everything is beautiful in its own way,” said
Andrew. He grinned. “I just made that up,” he
added.
“Sure you did,” said Rose. She shivered. “Get
me to the car,” she said, and made her way
through the snow to the vehicle which waited in
the yard, engine already running. “I can’t believe
after all these years we still don’t have a garage,”
she said opening the door and getting in.
Andrew closed the door and walked around
the car to get in behind the wheel. “You know
how it is,” he said. “Every winter you think, next
summer we really have to build a garage, but
then summer comes and you forget all about
it. Who wants to think about winter when it’s
sunny and 25° outside.”
Rose pulled the hood of her parka back and
attempted to straighten her hair. “You know,”
she said, “you could build a garage, and instead
of thinking about winter, just think about building the garage.”
Andrew put the car in gear and spun the tires
as he made a neat U-turn out of the yard. “We’re
not even going to be here in a year,” he said,
“and if Randy wants a garage he can build his
own.”
“No doubt he will,” said Rose. “And every time
we come to visit we’ll think we should have
done it years ago.”
“Oh I don’t know,” said Andrew. “Wouldn’t you
The
Jacksons
BY ROLLIN PENNER
miss the sweet homey feeling of stepping into
a toasty warm house when you’ve just walked
from the car and it’s -30 with a wind chill of -45?
You’d never have that if you could just drive into
a warm garage and go straight into the house.”
“It would take me about 10 seconds to get
used to the sweet homey feeling of driving into
a heated garage,” said Rose.
“You have a point,” said Andrew, and the two
of them lapsed into silence as he steered the car
onto the highway and headed towards the city.
“That was the best concert ever,” said Rose,
many hours later. Night had fallen and the snow
continued to do the same. The lights of the city
gleamed brightly, the softly falling snowflakes
creating a halo around every shining point of
light. “Look at it,” said Rose. “It’s like a Thomas
Kincaid painting.”
“On l y l e s s c h e e s y,” s a i d A n d re w. “ Yo u
enjoyed the show?”
“How could I ever not enjoy Emmylou
Harris?” said Rose. “She played all of my
favourite songs. Except for ‘Save The Last
Dance For Me.’” She reached for her husband’s
arm and held it tightly as they walked. “Thank
you so much for taking me,” she said.
“It was my pleasure,” said Andrew. “And I
mean that.”
“When she came out for her encore,” said
Rose, “I kept saying please play ‘Boulder To
Bir mingham’ under my breath. And then
she did.” Rose glanced up at Andrew’s face.
“And I imagined that I hadn’t seen you for
like, a year, and I changed the words of the
song in my head to ‘I would walk all the way
from Brandon to Boissevain, if I thought I
could see your face.” She pressed her cheek
against Andrew ’s shoulder. “I would,” she
said.
“ Yo u w o u l d n’t h a v e t o,” s a i d A n d re w,
“because I’d be coming to meet you. You’d only
have to walk to about the junction of the No. 2
and the No. 10.”
“I’d like that,” said Rose. “But if I had to, I
would walk all the way to Boissevain.”
Andrew looked down at her. “Just to see my
face?” he said.
“Just to see your face,” said Rose.
“I believe you,” said Andrew. They walked in
silence till they reached the car.
“Gus Pankratz could build us a garage in a
week,” said Andrew.
“Randy and Jackie would be very happy,”
said Rose.
“I was thinking more about you,” said
Andrew.
Rose tur ned her face towards him and
reached up to kiss his cheek.
“I believe you,” she said.
Learning from mistakes
What started as a careless accident ended as a learning experience
By Albert Parsons
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
S
ometimes I make a mistake
or an accident happens and
after I stop beating myself
up about it, I take stock of what
I might learn from the mishap.
Such was the case in mid-October
when I was cleaning up the sunroom after it had been the centre of activity for several weeks
— preparing show exhibits, creating Thanksgiving gourd baskets
for sale by our local horticultural
society, and potting up and bringing plants indoors for the winter.
One of the things I was cleaning
up was the pile of amaryllis bulbs
I had lying on the floor on an old
blanket to dry off before going
into storage.
One of the bulbs had sent out
a bud and so I potted it up and
had it sitting on the coffee table.
During the hustle and bustle of
my cleaning efforts, I accidently
brushed past the plant and broke
off the bud. I had never considered amaryllis as a cut flower but
I thought I had nothing to lose so
I put the bud — it had broken off
leaving only an eight-cm stem —
into a bud vase accompanied by
an amaryllis leaf to complement
the bud.
I had my doubts about whether
the bud would open and flower,
since most flowers with hollow
stems do not perform well as cut
flowers. The bud was showing colour but had not started to open.
I took the vase into the house
where it sat for a week or so with
little noticeable change. Then
the buds began to open — there
where two buds on the flower
stalk — and both opened fully
and flowered for about a week.
They lasted almost as long as they
would have if they had still been
attached to the plant.
During the hustle and
bustle of my cleaning
efforts, I accidently
brushed past the
plant and broke off
the bud
My accident had taught me
something — that amaryllis
buds, if cut when showing colour, will perform well in a vase.
This might be useful information
in the future. Sometime amaryllis plants, particularly old bulbs
that have been kept over for a
few years, don’t make the most
attractive plants. As well, amaryllis plants are quite large and don’t
necessarily lend themselves to
being displayed where you want
to have a flowering plant.
In the future, if I have a relatively unattractive amaryllis plant
or one too large for where I want
to display the flowers, I will wait
until the buds show colour and
cut them to use as cut flowers. Of
course I will have a longer stem
to work with so that the vase will
be more attractive than the one
resulting from my accident. So
all was not lost by my carelessness — I gained an attractive vase
of bloom for display in the house
and I learned of a new way to display amaryllis flowers. I learned
from my mistake!
Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa,
Manitoba
A broken-off amaryllis bud became a successful cut flower.
PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
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Reena answers your questions
Plus, reader feedback and tips
ness, pour each guest a cup of hot chocolate garnished with a dollop of whipped
cream, sprinkle with shaved chocolate
and add a candy cane to the mug.
Rena Nerbas
Household Solutions
Dear Reena,
Feedback from caring reader:
Hi Reena,
After a while, the collars of my husband’s
shirts tend to turn yellow. I haven’t been
able to find a product that works well.
Any ideas?
– Nadia
Dear Nadia,
A great trick for getting rid of ring
around the collar is to rub the stain
with white chalkboard chalk. Doing this
absorbs the grease that causes the mess.
Next scrub the stain with shampoo and
wash as usual. Washing soda is also a
great solution for zapping ring around
the collar.
Dear Reena,
I respect and appreciate your solutions to so many household problems.
I purchased a black TV stand with side
shelves as a surprise for my mother’s
birthday. All went well except for the
piece reeks of PVC vinyl plastic. It is so
strong, I have had the windows open for
days now and have put out many dishes
of vinegar but the smell is still overpowering. She is sleeping with her door
closed and a window open, but I fear for
her health. Do you have any idea how
long it takes for that smell to dissipate or
any way of eliminating it? I would appreciate any advice, as returning the unit
would be difficult because it is assembled (we initially thought the smell was
from the packaging). Thank you!
– Gwenda
Dear Gwenda,
Setting bowls of vinegar might help a
little but PVC products contain VOCs
(volatile organic compounds) so that the
plastic can be shaped and formed during
the manufacturing process. The smell
Hot chocolate over the holidays is sure to be a popular beverage. photo: thinkstock
will fade over the next few weeks. In the
meantime, into a spray bottle combine
15 drops of tea tree oil with water. Spray
the furniture and wipe to overpower the
plastic smell. Tea tree oil may be purchased at most grocery or health food
stores.
Hello Reena,
What is the best method for cleaning
and returning oven racks to their original
steel colour after being left in the oven
during an auto-clean cycle? Thanks!
– Joanne
Dear Joanne,
The easiest solution is to wipe them with
good old-fashioned white vinegar. This
should remove any deposits and leave
your oven racks looking great.
Dear Reena,
Years ago you printed a recipe for, The
World’s Best Hot Chocolate. I lost the recipe; can you reprint it?
– Thanks, Darren
Dear Darren,
I e n j oy m a k i n g t h i s r e c i p e a t
Christmastime. In your slow cooker,
combine 2 cups unwhipped cream,
6 cups milk, 3/4 teaspoon vanilla and
one 12-ounce package of white chocolate chips. Cook on low for two hours
(stir every 15 minutes). When this holiday
delight has melted into a big pot of good-
The smell of perfume does not just
bother me, I quit breathing around perfume. Obviously, this is extremely annoying — and might kill me someday. There
should be a criminal charge against people who stink of perfume. All perfume
stinks and none of it smells good. In my
opinion, perfume was invented to cover
up body odour. Take a bath if you stink of
body odour. On another note, please encourage your
readers to reuse or recycle anything they
can. Christmas cards, books, paper, gift
bags, blank paper, and especially magazines can be donated to public schools or
day cares. Never, never throw magazines
away; your magazine could help a child
read. Always, always recycle clothes. Most
optometrists recycle glasses and some
retailers recycle: ink cartridges, televisions,
VCRs, DVDs, computers, record players.
When you buy a new phone, ask where
old phones can be recycled. Most computer stores will recycle old computers.
Encourage your readers to call their local
paper or MP and ask for a comprehensive
list of recycling venues.
–Love your column, Marisa
Fabulous tip of the week:
• While cooking homemade soup, consider not skimming off the foamy solids
that rise to the top of soup pots. The
solids are packed with flavour and nutrition. Sieve the broth towards the end of
cooking, just before adding veggies.
I enjoy your questions and tips, keep
them coming! Missed a column? Can’t
remember a solution? Need a speaker
for an upcoming event? Interested
in grocery coupons? Check out my
brand new blog/website: reena.ca.
Let it snow!
These snow globes are inexpensive to make for yourself or a gift idea
By Patricia Gerbrandt
Freelance contributor
A
n ornament or figurine breaks. Perhaps some
small Nativity figures have disappeared. There
is hope! Treasured miniatures can be beautiful,
even if they are not perfect. If you get hooked on this
craft, as I did, you can find tiny treasures at thrift shops!
With inexpensive supplies, you can create a lovely snow
globe for yourself, or for a last-minute gift.
Supplies:
• A glass jar with tight-fitting lid or small plastic jar,
such as peanut butter jar, washed in hot, soapy
water, rinsed well and dried
• Miniature figures (glass, porcelain, or plastic are
best)
• Bits of plastic greenery, such as trees or snippets
of artificial garland
• Sculpting clay (optional — for minor repairs)
• Pebbles, seashells, or coloured stones, if desired
• Artificial snow, or finely crushed eggshell
• Glitter
• A glue gun or epoxy
• Spray paint, ribbon, or felt, cut about 1 inch larger
than lid
• Embellishment to cover ribbon seam (optional)
• Distilled water
PHOTO: PATRICIA GERBRANDT
Instructions:
Carefully washed and dried eggshell, crushed with a
rolling pin, serves nicely as “snow.” Use a colander to
sift out bits of membrane.
If your figurine or greenery has any metal (such
as hangers from tiny ornaments), remove it if possible. Rust is not pretty! Use pliers to remove tiny wire
hangers. Modelling clay serves for very simple reconstruction on chipped figures. Make sure the clay has
a chance to set. Brush a bit of clear-drying glue on
repaired areas for waterproofing.
If you plan to spray paint the lid, do it now. Other
finishing will be done later.
Experiment with arrangement before gluing pieces
in place. If the lid is deeper, build up the base with
glue, adding shells, pebbles or other suitable material as desired. Make sure the jar is deep enough
for your finished design. When satisfied with the
arrangement, glue components in place. Let hot glue
set just a little, then apply more glue to the bottom of
the figure and position it. Add another round of glue
to finish the base and sprinkle glitter on it immediately. When the glue has set, carefully fill the jar with
water and add snow and glitter. Don’t skimp on glitter; some may get stuck in greenery.
Tighten the lid, and test before sealing it. If you
plan to update the design, or if accidental opening is
not an issue, you can skip this step. Add a tiny bead
of glue around lid to seal it. After the seal has dried
add felt circle cover or ribbon trim. Put some glue
on the felt circle, centre the lid on it and then work
in sections to glue the edges, working ripples evenly
around the lid. Make sure to overlap raw ribbon
edges just a bit, and add an appropriate embellishment to cover the joint… maybe a tiny bell or bow.
Christmas themes are popular, but you could also
design a sea-globe using shells and aquarium figures.
Tiny collectible toys become keepsakes in the magical sphere of sparkly water globes. Let it snow!
Patricia Gerbrandt writes from Grunthal, Manitoba
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TRIBUTES / MEMORY
FOR SALE: JD 2130 - 3pt, re-built engine w/146
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BUILDINGS
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204-752-2069.
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BUILDINGS
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FARM MACHINERY
Grain Elevators
ENGINES
855 CUMMINS, 7000-MI on complete overhaul
plus new injection pump, water pump, turbo.
335-HP decompression start. Asking $6000. Phone
Don (204)767-2334 evenings.
FARM MACHINERY
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FARM MACHINERY
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MURPHY SALVAGE New & used parts for tractors,
combines, swathers, square & round balers, tillage,
press drills & other misc machinery. MURPHY SALVAGE (204)858-2727 or toll free 1-877-858-2728.
Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd.
1-866-729-9876
5150 Richmond Ave. East
BRANDON, MB.
www.harvestsalvage.ca
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SCHULTE SDX960 C/W HYD deflector, like new,
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Tractors Combines Swathers
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Available at:
Twin Valley
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Birtle, MB
(204) 842-5274
www.dseriescanola.ca
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(204)683-2221.
NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS
NEW COMBINE PARTS
CARBIDE DRILL POINTS & openers for air drills.
VW Manufacturing Ltd Dunmore (Medicine Hat)
(403)528-3350 US: Loren Hawks Chester, Montana
(406)460-3810 www.vwmfg.com
Large Inventory of
new and remanufactured parts
FOR SALE: JD 610 41-ft. deep tiller w/Summers
mulchers & ammonia kit, $12,000 OBO. Phone
(204)745-7445.
Available at:
Redfern Farm
Services Ltd.
Eden, MB 204-966-3221
Fax: 204-966-3248
Check out A & I online parts store
www.pennosmachining.com
FOR SALE: KUHN ROTOSPIKE tiller w/crumbler,
9-ft. 6-in. wide, 3-pt., 1000 PTO, 2-SPD gear box,
great for breaking land up, $6,000 OBO.
(204)648-7136
STEINBACH, MB.
Ph. 326-2443
Minnedosa, MB
JD 1770 16 ROW 30-in. planter, 1 season on discs,
new chain & bearings on drive shaft, liquid fertilizer,
$46,000. (204)746-4555.
Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727
Fax (204) 326-5878
Web site: farmparts.ca
E-mail: [email protected]
(204) 867-2679
CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.
Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103
or E-mail Requests [email protected]
www.dseriescanola.ca
NEW MC DRYERS IN STOCK w/canola screens
300-2,000 BPH units. Why buy used, when you get
new fuel efficient & better quality & control w/MC.
Call Wall Grain for details (204)269-7616 or
(306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662.
AC 3400 DOUBLE DISC (22-in) 34-ft; Powermatic
tine harrows 130-ft; 8-in PTO grain auger 56-ft; 10in x 70-ft PTO auger w/hopper; Richard Wilcox
14x20 overhead door 1 glass panel w/hardware;
Portable Lincoln welder w/Chrysler 6-cyl engine.
Phone toll free 1-866-736-2609 for info.
WaTRoUs, sK.
Fax: 306-946-2444
Rebuild combine table augers
Rebuild hydraulic cylinders
Roller mills regrooved
MFWD housings rebuilt
Steel and aluminum welding
Machine Shop Service
Line boreing and welding
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Dryers
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Tillage
The Real Used FaRm PaRTs
sUPeRsToRe
Over 2700 Units for Salvage
• TRACTORS • COMBINES
• SWATHERS • DISCERS
Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN
(306) 946-2222
monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
WATROUS SALVAGE
Penno’s Machining & Mfg. Ltd.
BIG BINS & FLOORS at old prices, 20,000-56,000bu. bins holding prices until spring. NEW MOISTURE CABLES! Call Wall Grain for details
(204)269-7616 or (306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662.
36-FT JD 730 DOUBLE Disc w/1900 TBT Cart,
$34,000; JD 787 TBT Cart $12,500. Can Deliver.
Call Brian:(204)856-6119 or (204)685-2896. MacGregor, MB.
“For All Your Farm Parts”
Rebuilt Concaves
FERTILIZER SPREADERS: 4-TON $1,500, 5-ton
$4,000, 6-ton $6,000, 8-ton $7,000-8,000; Vicon
3-PH spreader $450; Valmar 240 $1,500; Valmar
PT
$5,500;
Small
Valmar
$700.
Phone:
(204)857-8403.
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Air Drills
www.fyfeparts.com
POPLAR LANE FARM
of Gladstone
Repairing, Rebuilding,
Servicing, Buying, Selling
and Parting Out.
JD round balers
Contact Gerald Wall
(204)385-2347
(204)872-2347
Fergus, ON: (519) 787-8227
Carman, MB: (204) 745-2951
Davidson, SK: (306) 567-3031
Tillage & Seeding
1-800-667-9871 • Regina
1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon
1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg
1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton
FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Various
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
FYFE PARTS
TracTors
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – 2 Wheel Drive
FARM MACHINERY
Salvage
Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds.
Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our
friendly staff, and don’t forget to ask about our prepayment bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free!
1-800-782-0794.
GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528
or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.
STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in
JD tractors in need of repair or burnt, or will buy for
parts. JD parts available. Phone: 204-466-2927 or
cell: 204-871-5170, Austin.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
SPECIAL EDITION
Manitoba Ag Days Taking place
Jan. 21, 22 & 23, 2014
at the Brandon
Keystone Centre
The Manitoba Co-operator is presenting
a great opportunity for you to feature your
business, products or booth at Manitoba Ag
Days in the Jan. 10th edition.
The Manitoba Ag Days Show is a winter indoor
exposition of agricultural production expertise,
technology, and equipment held in Brandon every
January. The Show attracts exhibitors and visitors
from across Canada and North Central United States and provides an annual opportunity for
producers to comparison shop for everything they need for their agricultural operations.
DEADLINE: JAN. 2nd · ISSUE DATE: JAN. 9th
Contact your Manitoba Co-operator Sales
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Email: [email protected]
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RISKS AND
REWARDS
OF FALL
GREAT GORP
PROJECT
Triathlete creates home-grown
energy bar » PAGE 44
The pros and cons of
applying in dry soil » PAGE 17
OCTOBER 11, 2012
Communications
breakdown added
to emergency
Firefighting made more
dangerous without
communications
By Lorraine Stevenson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
V
olunteer firefighters racing to reach fire-threatened Vita last week passed
hundreds of vehicles headed the
other direction and wondered
what they were headed into, said
veteran firefighter Alain Nadeau.
“I’ve been doing this for 33
years and this was the scariest I’ve seen,” said the weary La
Broquerie fire chief on Friday
after an exhausting week.
The air was so smoke filled
around the southeastern village
“we could barely breathe,” he
said.
See GRASS FIRES on page 6 »
SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 | VOL. 70, NO. 41
GOT
SEED?
By Daniel Winters
CO-OPERATOR STAFF / MELITA
R
ising corn acres and severe
drought in the Midwestern
United States may crimp
supplies of popular corn
seed varieties for the com-
ing year.
“It’s really short,” said Ron Rabe, a
Dekalb agronomist, who gave a brief
talk on corn production in Manitoba
at a recent WADO field tour.
Derek Erb, who farms near Oak
Bluff and sells Pioneer Hi-Bred corn
|
$1.75
MANITOBACOOPERATOR.CA
Corn seed might be
tight next spring
Rising demand and dismal growing conditions in
the drought-stricken United States may limit supplies
seed, said farmers looking to secure
seed for next spring should act
quickly to secure their supplies, even
if it means placing orders earlier than
usual.
Pioneer Hi-Bred’s top varieties,
which include D95 and D97, account
for roughly half the acres seeded in the
province. Erb said that with the harvest and quality testing still underway
in some areas, it’s difficult to estimate
how much corn seed will be available
for next year.
One thing’s for sure, waiting until Ag
Days in January to secure supplies will
be too late. “I would pretty much bank
on that,” said Erb.
Dry conditions throughout the province have seen the corn harvest arriving about a month earlier than usual,
and seed orders have started coming
in sooner than usual too.
Even with the possibility of a shortage of corn seed, Erb doesn’t expect
the price of Pioneer’s supplies to rise
much more than it has in recent years.
Rob Park, of RJP Seeds in Carman,
who deals in Hyland seed varieties,
See CORN SEED on page 6 »
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FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
1999 FORD F250, 7.3 dsl., extended cab, 4x4,
6-spd trans, new paint job, $9,000; Flat deck trailer
8x24, Pinto hitch, 4-whl dbl axle, $2,500; Manure
bucket w/grab fork, $1,000. Phone:(204)444-2997.
30-FT WHITE TANDEM DISC, new front blades,
also a New Holland 116 Haybine. Phone Jack:
(204)526-2857. Holland, MB.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
SOLD FARM & RETIRED
ONLY A FEW PIECES LEFT
PRICED TO
SELL!
BELT ELEVATOR, 80-ft long w/undercarriage,
PTO driven, excellent cond, $7,500; 5 tanks for liquid fertilizer storage, choice of 15,000-gal. or
20,000-gal. capacity. Hutch cleaner w/unload auger. Phone Morris:(204)746-8851.
John Deere 1830 41 Ft
Air Seeder with 1910
Seed Cart
Seeded approx 5000 acres
John Deere TRACTOR
8360 R, 1104 Hrs, FWA
2008 DEGELMAN BALE KING 3100 bale shredder, RH discharge, w/controls, not used last 2 seasons,
as
new,
asking
$12,500.
Phone
(204)534-7401.
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GRAINVACS BRANDT 4500, $7500; Rem 552,
$3000; Rem 2500HD, $9500; Walinga 510, $950;
8x30 auger, $900; New 9-ft 3-PTH blade, $950; 10ft box scraper, $2250; 12-ft, $2450; 12-ft Leon front
blade, $3500; 10-ft Leon blade, $2000; 150-bu
Snowco feeder cart, $750; Sudenga weigh-wagon
digital scale, $3500; Haybuster bale shredder,
$6000. Phone (204)857-8403.
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TD9 PARTS FOR SALE including dozer tracks &
other misc parts. Phone (204)378-2763.
GRAVITY WAGONS NEW 400-BU, $7100; 600-bu,
$12,000; Double compartment type & tarps
available used. 750-bu Parker, $14,000; JM750,
$14,500; Parker 500, $6000; Parker 616-bu,
$10,500; Kilbros 375, $3000; 250-bu Daicon,
$2500; Grain carts 450-1100-bu large selection
priced to sell. Phoenix Harrow, $9500; Mixmills
Artsway, $1500; Henke 36-in rollermill, $5000;
Champion
rollermill
20-in,
$2000.
Phone
(204)857-8403.
PLOWS MELROE AUTORESET 8-18, $3000;
8-16, $3000; 7-18, $3000; 8-16 w/coulters, $4500;
White 5F rollover, $3500; I-H 5-16 Semimount,
$750; 3-PH JD-4-16, $1000; JD 3F 3-16, $850; JD
drainage V-Plow, $1500; VFT rotary pitcher, $1250;
Degelman 14-ft rock rake, $7500; Haybuster L-106
picker, $2500; Case 450 skidsteer, 1260-hrs,
$18,000; Tractor cab, $600; Phone (204)857-8403.
1-800-782-0794
Stretch your ADVERTISING DOLLAR!
John Deere Guidance
System
2013 Harriston 8 Row
Potato Planter– “NEW”
Never Used
36” spacing, Rear GPS
Steering Axle
Contact: 204-834-3704 home | 204-476-0480 cell
JD 3970 HARVESTER, $8900; NH890, $2500; I-H
781, $2000; JD Hay head, $3000; 3R Corn head,
$3000; NH 822 head 2R, $2000; NH 3R adjustable,
$3000; I-H 2R corn head, $800; Harsh 350 feed
cart, $5000; Mohrlang 420 feed cart on truck,
$5000; KR feeder cart, $2000; Snowco feeder 150Bu cart, $750; Haybuster 256+2 bale shredder,
$6000;
Weigh
wagon,
$2500.
Phone
(204)857-8403.
SNOWBLOWERS: LORENTZ HEAVY DUTY 8-ft
$1,700, JD 7-ft $1,500, 8-ft single auger $1,000, 6-ft
V-type $250; Skidsteer NH 865LX $12,900; 6x16
bumper pull stock trailer $3,000, 6x16 GN $3,500;
Powder River squeeze chute $1,600; 10-in skidsteer tracks $750; Tractor cab $600; Balzer forage
wagon front conveyor $3,000; Harsh 350 Auger
feed cart $5,000. Phone:(204)857-8403.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Wanted
WANTED JD 530 MODEL, row crop; Also looking
for an International Super WD6. Phone Gordon
(204)268-2392.
WANTED: SCALE FOR WEIGHING cattle and/or
round
bales.
Phone
(204)548-2932
or
(204)648-7383.
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140 Red Sim & Fleck Feb Calving Cows
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25 Blk & Gray Mar Calving Cows
December 16
D & E Falk Farms 204-873-2247
60 Red & Blk Feb Calving Cows
Brian Lee 204-634-2232
50 Sim/Angus Feb Calving Cows
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Bbf cows and 10 Black heifers bred Black Simmental.
• DISPERSAL FOR D & L HOEHNE
of 50 Black cows and 6 heifers.
• DISPERSAL FOR ROBERT SOANNES
of 40 mixed cows bred Red Angus.
• DISPERSAL FOR THE ESTATE
OF DARWIN MINTY of 60 Red/Char cows bred Black
& Red Simmental.
• DISPERSAL FOR STORLIE FARMS
• Plus others
For more information please call Whitewood
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at www.whitewoodlivestock.com for more
information and pictures on this sale
GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK
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GRUNTHAL, MB.
AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING
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every TUESDAY at 9 am
Dec 10th & 17th
HOBBIE & HANDICRAFTS
FULL LINE OF COLORED & galvanized roofing,
siding & accessories, structural steel, tubing, plate,
angles, flats, rounds etc. Phone:1-800-510-3303,
Fouillard Steel Supplies Ltd, St Lazare.
• DISPERSAL FOR JEAN DECORBY of 50 /Bwf/
• 25 Black & Horned Hereford Heifers bred
Red Angus & Hereford
1-204-388-6150 • Toll Free 1-855-897-7278
FREE STANDING CORRAL PANELS, Feeders &
Alley ways, 30ft or order to size. Oil Field Pipe: 1.3,
1.6, 1.9, 1 7/8, 2-in, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2. Sucker Rod:
3/4, 7/8, 1. Casing Pipes: 4-9inch. Sold by the piece
or semi load lots. For special pricing call Art
(204)685-2628 or cell (204)856-3440.
20 Black Angus cows bred Red Angus.
December 12, at 11:30 AM
killarneyauctionmart.com
IRON & STEEL
• DISPERSAL FOR RICK EISLER of 50 Red Angus,
of 70 Char X, Red Angus X cows bred Red Angus.
Friesen Built Inc.
A. B. COINS COMPANY
1418 MAIN ST. WINNIPEG (204)339-4988
[email protected]
Friday, December 13, 11 am
KILLARNEY AUCTION MART LTD
BRED COW SALE
Bill Magwood 204-523-8854
SPECIAL BRED COW &
HEIFER SALE
Monday, December 9
* See our ad for full details in the Various
Cattle section*
NEXT BRED COW &
HEIFER SALE
Friday, December 20 @ 1:00 pm
This will be the last sale of 2013!
Gates Open:
Mon.-Wed. 8AM-4PM
Thurs. 8AM-10PM
Friday 8AM-6PM
Sat. 8AM-4PM
Saturday, December 7th
Wilkinridge Production Sale
1:00 pm
Monday, December 9th
Sheep & Goat Sale with
Small Animals & Holstein Calves
12:00 Noon
Saturday, December 14th
Bred Cow Sale 10:00 am
COMPLETE HERD DISPERSAL
MONDAY DECEMBER 9 at 11 am
DUNCAN GANO
MEADOW PORTAGE, MB
204-732-2454
• 190 RED & BLK COWS, BRED
ANGUS, DUE END OF FEB - MARCH
(35 HFRS & 130 COWS UNDER 5 YR OLD)
*20 Purebred Red Angus Cows (Papered)
PAUL VEGHEAGHE
STE ROSE DU LAC, MB
• 20 BLK & BWF HEIFERS
• 5 RED, RDWF & BRKL FACE HEIFERS
ALL BRED BLACK ANGUS, DUE MID FEB
ROY & ROBIN FLOWER
STE ROSE DU LAC, MB.
• 20 BLACK & BLACK SIMX, RED SIMX
HEIFERS - DUE MID MARCH
* 2 - TWO YR OLD BLACK ANGUS
BULLS
For pictures and videos click on
www.srauction.ca
or contact 204-447-2266
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
20 PB ANGUS COWS & heifers for sale. You pick
out of 40+; culls already gone. Call Don
(204)422-5216, evenings.
Top producing Black and Red Angus Breeders
present the 25th Annual Keystone Klassic Red
and Black Sale Sat. Dec. 7, 1:00pm at the Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB. Featuring fancy heifer
calves and an elite selection of bred females. For a
catalogue or more info contact T Bar C Cattle Co.
Ltd. (PL # 116061) at (306)220-5006. View the
catalogue online at www.BuyAgro.com
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
HIQUAL INDUSTRIES
FOR SALE: REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS bulls
low birth weight, very quiet, hand fed, no disappointments, EPD’s & delivery avail. Amaranth
(204)843-2287.
For on farm appraisal of livestock
or for marketing information please call
FOR SALE: REGISTERED BLACK Angus heifers,
bred to calving ease Black Angus bull, to start calving in April. Also Registered polled Hereford heifers
bred to Hereford bull. Call Don (204)873-2430
Sales Agent for
We also have a line of Agri-blend all natural
products for your livestock needs.
(protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc)
Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250
Auction Mart (204) 434-6519
MB. Livestock Dealer #1111
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FARMING IS ENOUGH OF
A GAMBLE...
We have 7 to 10 local buyers and
orders and 7 to 8 regular order
buyers on our market.
“Where Buyers & Sellers Meet”
For more information call: 204-694-8328
Jim Christie 204-771-0753
Scott Anderson 204-782-6222
Mike Nernberg 204-807-0747
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www.winnipeglivestocksales.com
SPECIAL BRED COW
& HEIFER SALE
Bred Cow & Heifer Sale
Highway #1 West, Whitewood, Sask.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
HERD DISPERSAL 18 BLACK Angus heifers, 7
young Black Angus cows for sale. Bred to easy
calving Black Angus bulls. Will be preg checked &
vaccinated. Call Jeff (204)612-1734.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
HAMCO CATTLE CO has for sale a strong group
of Red Angus bred heifers, A.I.’d & bull bred to
calve Feb, Mar, & April 2014. Contact Albert, Glen,
or
Larissa
Hamilton
(204)827-2358
or
(204)526-0705 or David Hamilton (204)325-3635.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
PB BULLS & HEIFER calves born Feb & Mar. Also 1
1/2-yr old bulls. Phone Jack: (204)526-2857. Holland, MB.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
FOR SALE: REGISTERED POLLED Hereford
Heifers, bred to calving ease Hereford bull, to start
calving in April. Also Registered Black Angus heifers bred to Black Angus bull. Call Don
(204)873-2430
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Maine-Anjou
WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM Annual Female Sale
Dec. 7th, 1:00pm Grunthal Auction Mart. Selling 52
PB Red, Black Maine Anjou bred heifers & several
commercial bred heifers. Catalogue & videos of the
heifers can be viewed www.wilkinridge.blogspot.ca
or www.dlms.ca online bidding avail. Visit DLMS
website or call Mark Shologan (780)699-5082 for
instructions. For more info call Sid Wilkinson
(204)373-2631.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
140 SIMMENTAL & SIMMENTAL Charolais cross
heifers. Bred Red Angus, home raised, start calving
March 25. Full herd health program. Fisher Branch
(204)372-6492 or (204)372-8801.
FOR SALE: 30 HEAD of PB & percentage Simm
heifer calves, weaned since Sept 23rd, vacc & Ivomec’d, weight 725-800-lbs. Boynecrest Stock Farm
(204)828-3483 or (204)745-7168 Stephenfield, MB.
SIMM/ ANGUS OPEN HEIFERS & Simm open
heifers. Contact (204)767-2327.
SIMMENTAL & SIMMENTAL RED Angus heifers
bred
Black
for
February
calving.
Phone
(204)748-1366
Stretch your
ADVERTISING DOLLAR!
1-800-782-0794
Monday, December 9
Regular Butcher & Feeder Sale at 9:00 am
BRED SALE at 10:30 am
This sale will feature:
• 21 Simmental Char Cows Bred Red Angus
• 80 Black and Red Cows Bred Red and Black
• 10 Char Cows/Calf Pairs and 30 Char Cows
Bred Char
• 30 Black, BWF and Red Cows Bred Saler
• 12 BWF and Bruckle 2nd Calvers Bred
Horned Hereford
• 27 Choice BWF and Bruckle Hereford Bred
Black
• 25 Char Cows Bred Red Angus
All dispersals are 2 to 8 years old.
Expecting 150 to 200 other
consignment
For more information or to leave an
order call: 204-694-8328 or 204-207-0747
www.winnipeglivestocksales.com
Licence #1122
20 GOOD QUALITY BLACK & Red Angus X bred
heifers for sale. Start calving March 12th, 2014.
Bred
w/easy
calving
Black
Angus
bull.
(204)379-2408.
25 BRED HEIFERS Simm Angus X, exposed from
May 1st-July 3rd to Red or Black Angus bulls, full
vacc & Ivomec. Norman Lussier (204)345-8492,
Lac du Bonnet.
2 CHAR X COWS w/2, two week old calves, $1,200
OBO; 6 Char X cows. Phone (204)825-8354 or
(204)825-2784.
30 BRED YEARLING HEIFERS, Red & Black Angus X, exposed July 1st to Aug 15th to easy calving
Angus bulls, $1,500 each. Phone (204)278-3372,
(204)485-1490.
500 BRED HEIFERS, REDS, Blacks & Tans, start
calving April 5th, 2014. Had all shots, preg
checked, Ivomec, pelvic measured, weigh approx
1100-lbs. (204)325-2416, Darlingford.
65 BRED HEIFERS, BLACK Angus, Angus Hereford cross, some Red Angus. From our own range
calving herd, bred to calving ease, Black Angus &
Angus Hereford cross bulls. Start calving mid-Feb.
All shots, Ivomec. $1,200. (204)873-2525 evenings,
Clearwater.
BRED YEARLING HEIFERS FOR SALE: Red &
Black Angus cross. Exposed from Jun 14-Aug 14
to easy calving bulls. Your choice: $1,700/ each;
50 or more, $1,650/each, or $1,600/each for all 90.
St. Lazare, MB. Phone: (204) 683-2208.
FOR SALE: 15 RED Angus cross Simmental heifers, bred to Red Angus bull, due to calve
March/April. Heifers are 1000+ lbs & very deep
bodied. Call (204)746-0377 or (204)347-7490, St Malo.
FOR SALE: 18 ANGUS Cross cows & heifers, bred
to easy calving Black Angus bulls. To start calving
May 15. Asking $1450. Phone (204)758-3374, St Jean.
FOR SALE: AN AWESOME group of fully vacc
Red, Red White face, Blacks & Tans Char bred
heifers. Bred to proven easy calving Red Angus
bulls, hit the ground running & yet wean heavy. My
2012 calves off 1st calf heifers weaned at 635-lb
steers & 588-lb heifers, bred for 60 day calving
starting Mar 6th, 2014, your pick $1,700. Also have
a select package of all black heifers bred to Black
Angus 45 day breeding program to start Apr 1st,
2014, your pick $1,750. All heifers have been preg
checked using ultrasound. I guarantee if you come
to have a look you won’t be disappointed. Call Jason (204)724-6093 or (204)466-2939.
FOR SALE: RED ANGUS & Red Angus Cross
bred heifers, bred to easy calving Red Angus bulls,
March/April calving. Phone: (204) 873-2530 or
(204) 825-8419.
LAZY RAINBOW RIVER RANCH has for sale complete herd of 130 heifers, 77 second calvers,
43rd-5th
calvers.
$1200-1500.
Phone
(204)372-6945.
PUREBRED & COMMERCIAL SIMMENTAL heifer, bred w/A.I. dates. Also 2-yr old polled Simmental bulls. Bruce Firby (204)867-2203, Minnedosa.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Wanted
WANTED: ALL CLASSES OF feeder cattle, yearlings & calves. Dealer Licence# 1353. Also wanted,
light feed grains: wheat, barley & oats.
Phone:(204)325-2416, Manitou.
TIRED OF THE
HIGH COST OF
MARKETING
YOUR CATTLE??
800-1000 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400
Ben: 721-3400
Don: 528-3477, 729-7240
Contact:
D.J. (Don) MacDonald
Livestock Ltd.
License #1110
LIVESTOCK
Sheep For Sale
PUREBRED CLUN FOREST RAMS for sale. Born
March. Ready to breed this fall. All breeding lines
from Imported British Genetics. For more information about our Cluns go to www.oakwoodgrange.ca
$250-$300. Phone:(204)722-2036. (Virden area)
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PETS
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
YOUNG EWES, 100 SUFFOLK Dorset cross, 25
Katahdin Dorper cross, $125 each or trade for bred
cows/heifers
or
lite
calves.
Call
Rick
(204)646-2157.
PETS & SUPPLIES
NOTRE
DAME
LAND FOR
SALE BYUSED
TENDER OIL
Completed
Tenders
& a $20,000
Deposit of the
&
FILTER
DEPOT
Tender Price are invited to be received up to
17th, 2013
• Buy12:00pm
Used Oil(noon) on •December
Buy Batteries
(the “Deadline”) on the property described below,
• Collect
Used Filters • Collect Oil Containers
which Tenders & Deposits shall be received at:
Brown &and
Associates
Law Manitoba
Office
Southern
Western
Box 1240, 71 Main St
Tel:
204-248-2110
Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Attention: Mona Brown or Nichole Hiebert
Phone: (204)745-2028
Property for sale: All or any of:
S 1/2 of NW 1/4 22-8-3W (80 acs)
W 1/2 of SW 1/4 22-8-3W (80 acs)
(together, the “Land”)
-Located in the Rural Municipality of Grey
-No buildings
Conditions of Tender
1. Completed tenders, in the form prepared by
Brown & Associates Law Office, must be
received by the Deadline to be considered.
2. Each Tender must be accompanied by a
certified cheque, money order or bank draft,
payable to Brown & Associates Law Office
(in trust), in the amount of $20,000.
3. Highest Tender or any Tender need not
necessarily be accepted.
4. The Possession date & the due date of the
balance of Tender Price shall be
the 23rd day of December 2013.
5. Tender forms & further information with regard
to the Land are available at the above referenced
address & telephone number.
6. The deposit of $20,000 will be forfeited if a
successful Tenderer does not finalize
or complete the terms of the
Agreement of Purchase & Sale.
7. The maker of any Tender relies entirely upon
his/her personal inspection & knowledge of the
Land, independent of the representations made
by the vendor or the solicitor & agent of the
vendor. The Land will be sold “as is” & the bidder
is solely responsible to determine the value &
condition of the Land, Land quality, Land use,
environmental condition & any other information
pertaining to the Land.
Horses
LIVESTOCK
Horses – Donkeys
3, 2013 MAMMOTH JENNY’S for sale, 2 black, 1
blond. Check out: ridgesideredangus.com or Call
Don:(204) 422-5216.
AUSTRAILIAN SHEPHERD PUPS FROM working
trial champion lines, Hangin Tree & Las Rocosa
breeding. Available to farm & ranch homes, ready
to go w/vaccinations & vet exams. Phone
(204)859-2167 or [email protected]
REAL ESTATE
REAL ESTATE
Cottages & Lots
Swine
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
WANTED:
BUTCHER
HOGS
SOWS AND BOARS
FOR EXPORT
P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD.
728-7549
Licence No. 1123
Specialty
LIVESTOCK
Livestock Equipment
ALTERNATIVE POWER BY SUNDOG SOLAR,
portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind
generators, aeration. Carl Driedger, (204)556-2346
or (204)851-0145, Virden.
FOR SALE: 2 NEWLY rebuilt Bobsleighs w/2.5-in
wide runners for horses, $1000 each OBO; 1 smaller Bobsleigh, newly built, $500; 1 single horse
cutter, almost new, $300. Call Leon (204)866-4141.
FOR SALE: BALE KING 3100 Bale processor, excellent condition, will do partial trade for JD-4240 or
JD-4040 w/loader. HAY FOR SALE: 1400-lb ALFALFA/Brome round bales. Phone:(204)733-2436,
Ochre River.
KELLN SOLAR SUMMER/WINTER WATERING
System, provides water in remote areas, improves
water quality, increases pasture productivity, extends
dugout
life.
St.
Claude/Portage,
204-379-2763.
THANK YOU
To all our Customers
& Happy Holidays!
1-888-848-6196
www.realindustries.com
MUSICAL
FOR ALL YOUR MUSICAL instruments & accessories, shop Hildebrand Music, Portage La Prairie
Mall. (204)857-3172. Large variety of student & professional instruments, famous name brands, new
arrivals weekly, strings, sound equip, keyboards,
percussion, band & wireless.
ORGANIC
ORGANIC
Organic – Grains
M&M ORGANIC MARKETING: Now buying milling
oats & these feed grains: oats, flax, soybeans,
peas. Phone:(204)379-2451.
Bioriginal Food & Science Corp., based
in Saskatoon, is actively buying
Organic Flax from the 2013 crop year.
If interested, please send an 8lb sample* to
the following address:
Attn: Sandy Jolicoeur
Bioriginal Food & Science Corp.
102 Melville Street
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7J 0R1
*Please state the Variety & Quantity for Sale
For more information,
please contact Sandy at:
306-975-9251
306-975-1166
[email protected]
PERSONAL
MISSING A GREAT RELATIONSHIP? CANDLELIGHT MATCHMAKERS can help. Confidential,
Photos & Profiles to selected matches, Affordable,
Local. Serving MB, SK, NW Ontario. Call/Write for
info: Box 212, Roland, MB, R0G 1T0,
(204)343-2475.
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Wheat
LAKEFRONT COTTAGE AT LAKE of the Prairies:
1,104-sq.ft, w/full finished walkout basement. 3bdrms, 3-bths, Vaulted ceiling. Low maintenance
exterior, Deck, Infloor Heat & FA furnace. Built
2013. $395,000.00 Karen Goraluk, Salesperson.
Northstar Ins. & Real Estate. (204)773-6797.
www.north-star.ca
LAKEVIEW COTTAGE AT LAKE of the Prairies:
864-sq.ft w/3-bdrms, 1-bth. Deck, Great View, Well,
Septic holding tank. $155,000.00. Karen Goraluk,
Salesperson. Northstar Ins. & Real Estate.
(204)773-6797. www.north-star.ca
REAL ESTATE
Houses & Lots
READY TO MOVE HOMES -1,320-sqft, 3 bdrm,
master bedroom has ensuite & walk-in closet, main
floor laundry, kitchen has island & corner pantry.
$75,000.
Call
MARVIN
HOMES
INC:
(204)326-1493 or (204)355-8484. Steinbach, MB
www.marvinhomes.ca
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
CROP LAND - N 1/2 & SW 1/4 of 27-12-16W in the
RM of North Cypress. Rick Taylor (204)867-7551
HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc.
[email protected] www.homelifepro.com
FOR SALE: WOODSIDE 160-ACS fenced pasture
w/1982 built bungalow, 1056-sq.ft, efa, $164,000.
2) PLUMAS 1,156-sq.ft. 2+ BDRM MODERN
HOME 4.17-ACS, ca c vac, WORKSHOPS &
MORE! 2) ARDEN 5-acs 2+ bdrm renov. Home dbl
garage. Also 2-ac lot only $8,000; 4) 1 section of
pastureland NE of GLADSTONE, fenced & dugouts, $269,000; 5) GLADSTONE, 157-acs Lakeland, fenced, arable. older home, outbldgs,
$360,000. 6) Acerage w/3-bdrm home w/trucker’s
shed 72x36, in OBERON, $229,000. Phone
Liz:(204)476-6362 or John:(204)476-6719. Gill &
Schmall Agencies.
KOMARNO 1,200-AC BEEF RANCH, solid 3-bdrm
home; Inwood 1,020-ac, ranch only $500,000; Fisher Branch 574-ac grain, 1,800-sqft bungalow; Eriksdale 640-ac, right on Hwy 68, $150,000; Dallas
1,000-ac, presently hayland, good for grain;
2,061-ac N of Fisher Branch, 600-ac cultivated,
very reasonable; 1,260-ac Red Rose, 500 in hay,
only $360,000, offers. See these and others on
manitobafarms.ca. Manitobafarms.ca sells Manitoba farms, so list yours now. Call Harold:
(204)253-7373. Delta Real Estate.
GRANT TWEED
Your Farm Real Estate Specialist.
Developing a successful farm takes years of
hard work. When it’s time to sell there are many
factors to consider. I can provide the
experience & expertise
to help you through the process. To arrange a
confidential, obligation free meeting,
please call (204)761-6884 anytime.
Website; www.granttweed.com
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Wanted
GOOD QUALITY GRAIN & Cattle Farms wanted
for Canadian & Overseas Clients. For a confidential
meeting to discuss the possible sale of your farm or
to talk about what is involved, telephone Gordon
Gentles (204)761-0511 www.homelifepro.com or
Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753, www.homelifepro.com Home Professional Realty Inc.
GRAIN & CATTLE FARMS wanted for both overseas & Canadian buyers. Call me to discuss all options & current farmland market prices. Rick Taylor:
(204)867-7551. [email protected] Homelife Realty, Brandon, MB.
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
FARM LAND FOR SALE: 4 quarters hay land & 4
quarters pasture, $500,000. Phone (204)646-4226
FARM LAND FOR SALE. SW 33-5-2W, 160-acs,
SE 33-5-2W, 160-acs in the RM of Morris. Deadline
for bids December 13, 2013. Highest or any bid not
necessarily accepted. Mail bids to Bill Rempel, Box
81 Rosenort MB, R0G 1W0. Ph:(204)746-2092,
Fx:(204)746-2112.
FOR SALE 320-ACS IN the RM of Clanwilliam only
1-mi east of Otter Lake, & 3-mi from Riding Mountain National Park. One of the quarters is bush &
native pasture & would be great for recreation or
hunting. The other quarter has 120-acs of cultivatable land & is presently sown to hay. Tel: Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511. HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc.
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
640-ACS PICTURESQUE FARM LAND adjacent to
Turtle Mountain near Boissevain in the RM of Morton. All land is well drained, could all be broken, or
left for good wildlife viewing, or wildlife hunting. Can
be purchased as a package or in separate units.
SW 3-2-20 80-acs, 50-acs broke, rest wooded pasture, w/10-yr old home, 2,400+ sq.ft., 30-ft.x80-ft.
biotech; SW 3-2-20 80-acs w/50-acs broke, the rest
wooded pasture, w/restored older home, 3,900+
sq.ft.; NW 3-2-20 160-acs w/69-acs broke, the rest
partially wooded pasture; NE 4-2-20 160-acs
w/94-acs broke, rest partially wooded pastures; SE
4-2-20 160-acs w/125-acs broke, rest wooded pasture. (204)534-6979
LARRY & PHYLLIS HENRY of Ste. Rose du Lac,
MB intends to sell private lands: NE 31-24-12W, NE
30-24-12W, SW 32-24-12W to John & Deana Martin & Katherine Lansdell who intend to acquire the
following agricultural Crown land leases: Sec
7-23-11W, S1/2 18-23-11W, W1/2 20-24-12W Sec
29-24-12W, S1/2 31-24-12W, NW 31-24-12W,
W1/2 31-24-12W, NE 18-23-18W, W1/2 12-25-31W
by Unit Transfer. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this purchaser please write
to: Director, MAFRI, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO
Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or Fax
(204)867-6578.
QUARTER SECTION NEAR GRANDVIEW, MB.:
163-acs, pasture w/rolling hills, mix of spruce, poplar trees, 20-acs of hay. Very scenic, Good hunting,
$95,000.00. SE 8-25-25 W1; Karen Goraluk, Salesperson.
Northstar
Ins.
&
Real
Estate.
(204)773-6797. www.north-star.ca
New “Straight Cut”
204-825-2000 | www.seeddepot.ca
Farm Land for Rent by
Tender R.M. of Lawrence
Legals: West 1/2 15-26-15WPM,
W 1/2 22-26-15WPM, NE 1/4 21-26-15 WPM
Acres: 780 - Cultivated
Two Crop Years - 2014 and 2015
Directions: All land is located 13 miles north
of St. Rose & boarders Highway 276
Payment Dates: April 1st & November 1st
Tenders Close: December 6, 2013
Fax Tenders To: 1-204-745-6525
or send to
Golden Plains Realty
Box 1019
Carman, Manitoba R0G 0J0
Attention: Melvin Towes
Tel: 1-204-745-3677
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
FARM LAND FOR SALE BY TENDER
FALL CLEARANCE SALE, Save Now! Good selection 5th wheels & travel trailers. Call John Williams @ GNR Camping World:(204)233-4478 or
Toll Free:(800)448-4667. Email: [email protected]
Sealed, written tenders for property in the RM of
Pembina will be received by:
SELBY LAW OFFICE
351 Main St., PO Box 279
Manitou, MB. R0G 1G0
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
Campers & Trailers
Parcel 2: SW ¼ 2-4-9 WPM Excepting
firstly: Mines and Minerals
Excepting secondly - Water
Pipeline Plan 797 MLTO
(being approximately 156.5
acres) including four (4) steel
bins, all on cement and 40’ x 60’
quonset with cement floor
TENDERS CLOSE: December 18, 2013.
For further information contact
Larry J. Selby at
Phone:(204) 242-2801
Fax: (204) 242-2723
Email: [email protected]
We BUY used oil & filters
Collection of plastic oil jugs
Glycol recovery services
Specialized waste removal
Winter & Summer windshield
washer fluid
Peak Performance anti-freeze
( available in bulk or drums )
The only company that collects,
recycles and re-uses in Manitoba!
888-368-9378 ~ www.envirowestinc.com
PEDIGREED SEED
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Various
DURAND SEEDS: CERT CARDALE, Carberry &
Harvest wheat; Souris & Stride Oats; Conlon Barley; CDC Bethune & CDC Glas Flax; Mancan, AC
Manisoba & Koma Buckwheat; Canola, Forage &
lawn seed. (204)248-2268, (204)745-7577, NotreDame,MB.
LARGE QUANTITY OF CERTIFIED harvest wheat
for sale, wholesale pricing & selling in truckload lots
only. Also certified Newdale 2-Row malt barley. Inland Seed Corp. Binscarth MB. (204)683-2316.
MORE SELECTION
MORE OFTEN
MORE
OVER
DEALS... 43,000
PIECES OF
AG
EQUIPMENT!
Find it fast at
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PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Wheat
PROPERTY
Parcel 1: NW ¼ 2-4-9 WPM Excepting
firstly: Mines and Minerals
Excepting secondly: Water
Pipeline Plan 797 MLTO
(being approximately 159 acres)
BuyUsed
Used Oil
Oil
••Buy
NOTRE
•• Buy
Buy Batteries
Batteries
DAME ••Collect
CollectUsed
Used Filters
Filters
• Collect
Oil
Containers
•
Collect
Oil
Containers
USED
• Antifreeze
OIL & Southern,Southern
Eastern,
and Manitoba
Western
Western
FILTER
Manitoba
DEPOT Tel: 204-248-2110
HIGHEST OR ANY TENDER
NOT NECESSARILY ACCEPTED.
ROY FORSYTH OF EDDYSTONE, MB intends to
sell private lands: NE 01-25-13W, SW 06-25-12W,
SW 08-25-13W to John & Deana Martin & Katherine Lansdell, who intend to acquire the following
agricultural Crown land leases: SW 05-25-12W,
N1/2
10-25-13W,
SE
18-25-12W,
Section
11-25-13W, Section 35-24-13W, NW 13-25-13W,
NW 07-25-12W, S1/2 13-25-13W, NW 01-25-13W,
E1/2 14-25-13W, Section 02-25-13W by Unit Transfer. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this purchaser please write to: Director,
MAFRI, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286,
Minnedosa, MB R0J 1E0; or Fax (204)867-6578.
FOR SALE: 604-ACS OF vacant land, of which
500-acs is good grain land, only 12-min from
Brandon in the RM of Daly. Tel: Gordon Gentles|
(204)761-0511. HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc.
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Wheat
REAL ESTATE
Land For Rent
RECYCLING
Proud Supporter of Manitoba Businesses & Municipalities
LIVESTOCK
Sheep For Sale
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Wheat
New
t Cut”
h
g
i
a
r
t
“S
Cardale
“More Wheat...Less Shatter”
Manitoba Cardale Dealers
“Working Hard To Earn Your Trust”
John M. Smith
Seed Depot
825-2000
Agassiz Seed Farm Ltd. 745-2868
Avondale Seed Farm Ltd. 877-3813
Boissevain Select Seeds 534-6846
Catellier Seeds
347-5588
Clearview Acres Ltd.
748-2666
Court Seeds
386-2354
Dauphin Plains Seeds Ltd.638-7800
David Kohut Ltd.
483-3063
Durand Seeds Inc
745-7577
Ellis Farm Supplies Ltd. 824-2290
Ens Quality Seeds
325-4658
Fisher Seeds Ltd.
622-8800
Friesen Seeds Ltd.
746-8325
Gagnon Seed Service 447-2118
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Wheat
CARDALE
“More Wheat...Less Shatter”
Hulme Agri Products Inc. 685-2627
Inland Seed Corp.
683-2316
J.S. Henry & Sons Ltd. 566-2422
Jeffries Seed Service
827-2102
Keating Seed Farms
773-3854
Kletke Seed Farms
886-2822
L&L Farms
324 5798
MB Seeds
746-4652
Miller Agritec
267-2363
Nickel Bros.
773-6734
Pitura Seed Service Ltd. 736-2849
Pugh Seeds Ltd.
274-2179
David Hamblin
746-4779
Redsper Ent.
328 5346
Riddel Seed Co
227-5679
Rutherford Farms Ltd.
467-5613
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Wheat
Bob Wiens
Seine River Seed
Sierens Seed Service
Smith Seeds
Southern Seeds Ltd
Swan Valley Seeds
T&S Seeds
Timchishen Seeds
Triple “S” Seeds Ltd.
Unger Seed Farm Ltd.
Westman Aerial Spray
Wheat City Seeds
Wilson Seeds Ltd.
Zeghers Seed Farm
736-2951
355-4495
744-2883
873-2248
776-2333
734-2526
548-2117
376-5116
546-2590
467-8630
763-8998
727-3337
246-2388
526-2145
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Wheat
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We won’t pull the wool
We won’t
pull eyes!
the wool
over your
over your eyes!
LARGE ROUND BALES, APPROX
Phone (204)857-7156, Portage.
1300-lbs.
LARGE ROUND FIRST CUT alfalfa/grass bales,
avg weight 1,650-lbs. Good quality, reasonably
priced. Phone:(204)212-0751. Kelwood, MB.
LARGE ROUND WHEAT STRAW bales, trucking
available. Phone:(204)325-2416. Manitou.
STRAW FOR SALE: 5 x 6 hard core round bales of
barley & oat straw. $12/bale loaded. Also have corn
straw
available,
$15/bale
loaded.
Call
(204)738-2251
Available at:
Redfern Farm
Services Ltd.
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Grain Wanted
Brandon, MB
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NOW BUYING
Old & New Crop
Confection & Oil Sunflowers
Licensed & Bonded
0% Shrink
Farm Pick-Up Available
Planting Seed Available
Specializing in:
•Corn,wheat,sunflower,canola,
soymeal,soybeans,soyoil,barley, rye,flax,oats(feed&milling)
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Toll Free 1-888-835-6351
Deloraine, Manitoba
1-877-250-5252
Vanderveen
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A Season to Grow… Only Days to Pay!
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Soybean Crushing Facility
(204)331-3696
Head Office - Winkler
(888)974-7246
Jordan Elevator
(204)343-2323
Gladstone Elevator
(204)385-2292
Somerset Elevator
(204)744-2126
Sperling Elevator
(204)626-3261
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www.delmarcommodities.com
Toll Free: 888-974-7246
Farming is enough of a gamble, advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator classified section. It’s a sure thing.
1-800-782-0794.
WE BUY OATS
Call us today for pricing
Box 424, Emerson, MB R0A 0L0
204-373-2328
We are buyers of farm grains.
• Vomi wheat • Vomi barley
• Feed wheat • Feed barley
• Feed oats • Corn
• Screenings • Peas
• Light Weight Barley
You can deliver or we can
arrange for farm pickup.
Winnipeg
233-8418
Brandon
728-0231
Grunthal
434-6881
“Ask for grain buyer.”
FOR SALE: 2, 900-20 front tires, like new, $175
OBO; FOR SALE: 14-ft. box & cancade hoist,
$600. Phone (204)825-8354 or (204)825-2784.
TRAILERS
Grain Trailers
FOR SALE: 2 SETS of ‘09 Super B Lode King
Prestige grain trailers, c/w air lift axles, 22.5 tires,
asking $50,000. 2004 Super B Lode King Prestige
trailer, asking $37,500. (204)857-1700, Gladstone,
MB.
Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK.
Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK.
Phone 306-455-2509
Phone 306-455-2509
TRAILERS
Livestock Trailers
For Pricing ~ 204-325-9555
NOW BUYING
Confection and
Oil Sunflowers,
Brown & Yellow Flax
and Red & White Millet
Edible Beans
Licensed & Bonded
Winkler, MB.
Andy Vanderveen · Brett Vanderveen
Jesse Vanderveen
5 LOCATIONS to serve you!
Call For Pricing
Phone (204)747-2904
“ON FARM PICK UP”
TIRES
NEW EMERALD GRAIN TRAILERS made in MB
36-ft. 2 hopper t/a air ride 24.5 tires on bud
wheels manual tarp. Starting as low as $34,000
or lease to own for as low as $725 per mth.
Side chutes & dual crank hopper openings avail.
Financing avail o.a.c
For more details call Glenn (204)895-8547.
37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Ph. (204) 745-6444
Email: [email protected]
www.zeghersseed.com
PEDIGREED SEED
Oilseed – Various
• Competitive Prices
• Prompt Movement
• Spring Thrashed
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Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0
Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0
Phone 204-737-2000
Phone 204-737-2000
Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
2013Toll-Free
Malt Contracts
Available
1-800-258-7434
2013
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Agent: M &Contracts
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SK.
Box 238
Letellier,
MB. R0G 1C0
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Box 238
Letellier,
MB. R0G 1C0
Phone
306-455-2509
Phone 306-455-2509
204-737-2000
Phone
Phone 204-737-2000
Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers
Other Crops
• New Cardale!
• Conlon Barley
• Carberry
• Souris Oats
• Glenn
• Lightning Flax
• Kane
• Meadow Peas
• Harvest
• Red Millet
Brett Young - Canola’s and Forages
Canterra - Canola’s
North Star Seed - Forages
Delmar Legend - Soy beans
BUYING:
HEATED & GREEN
CANOLA
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FOR SALE: BROME ALFALFA 4x6 round bales,
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Edmund (204)843-2769 Amaranth, MB.
MALT BARLEY
BARLEY
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Grain Wanted
*6-Row*
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We buy feed barley, feed wheat,
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Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0
Phone 204-737-2000
Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK.
Phone 306-455-2509
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Various
FARMERS, RANCHERS,
SEED PROCESSORS
BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS
Heated/Spring Threshed
Lightweight/Green/Tough,
Mixed Grain - Barley, Oats, Rye,
Flax, Wheat, Durum, Lentils, Peas,
Canola, Chickpeas, Triticale,
Sunflowers, Screenings, Organics
and By-Products
√ ON-FARM PICKUP
√ PROMPT PAYMENT
√ LICENSED AND BONDED
SASKATOON, LLOYDMINSTER,
LETHBRIDGE, VANCOUVER,
MINNEDOSA
1-204-724-6741
$1000 REBATE AVAILABLE ON ALL EXISS
LIVESTOCK TRAILERS. 2013 Stock on Sale. Mention ad and receive extra $500 off. 7-ft wide x 20-ft,
18-ft & 16-ft lengths. 10 Year Warranty. SOKAL INDUSTRIES LTD. Phone (204)334-6596. Email:
[email protected]
MULTI-PURPOSE 22-FT 5-TH WHEEL trailer.
Front 9-ft is horse trailer, back 13-ft is flat deck.
Tandem 7,000-lb torsion bar axles, new brakes,
bearings checked & new wiring harness. Asking
$4,000. Phone:(204)633-1579 or (204)799-7648.
TRAILERS
Trailers Miscellaneous
ADVANTAGE AUTO & TRAILER: Livestock,
Horse & Living quarter, Flat deck, Goosenecks,
Tilts, Dumps, Cargos, Utilities, Ski-doo & ATV, Dry
Van & Sea Containers. Call today. Over 250 in
stock. Phone:(204)729-8989. In Brandon on the
Trans-Canada Hwy. www.aats.ca
WATER PUMPS
Cudmore Bros.
Farm King Augers
Meridian Hopper
Bins
CRYSTAL CITY, MB
204-873-2395
www.cudmorebros.com
CAREERS
CAREERS
Help Wanted
TIRES
WANTED: A HERD MANAGER. We have a modern 200 cow milking herd in the Lake Francis, MB
area. We are looking for a hard working, responsible, patient individual. Breeding, herd health &
computer data some responsibilities in addition to
some milking. Housing is available. Please phone
(204)383-5249 to express your interest or for more
info.
FEDERATION TIRE: 1100X12, 2000X20, used aircraft. Toll free 1-888-452-3850
Hit our readers where it counts… in the classifieds.
Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifed
section. 1-800-782-0794.
PEDIGREED SEED
Specialty – Various
Bioriginal Food & Science Corp., based
in Saskatoon, are looking to contract
Borage acres for the upcoming 2014
growing season.
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Great profit potential based on
yield, prices and low input costs.
Attractive oil premiums and free
seed delivery and on-farm pick-up.
Flexible contracting options
available as well.
For more information,
please contact Carl Lynn P.Ag.
of Bioriginal at:
306-229-9976 (cell)
306-975-9295 (office)
[email protected]
EssEntial tools for farmErs
COMMON SEED
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Forage
FOR SALE: ALFALFA, TIMOTHY, Brome, Clover,
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Leonard Friesen, (204)685-2376, Austin, MB.
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