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nterlake ranchers attending
the Manitoba Beef Producers
district meeting here became
the first in the province to get
details on a new suite of forage insurance programs offered
under AgriInsurance in 2014.
“I have to say I am thrilled,”
said MBP general manager, Cam
Dahl. “I really do think the forage insurance program that was
announced is going to make a
significant difference.”
Under the new programs, producers will be able to choose
The revised codes have sparked producer concerns about who will pay for things like
enhanced housing, but experts say the public will likely want many more changes
By Alex Binkley
co-operator contributor / ottawa
W
ithin days of the wrap-up of this
year’s National Farm Animal
Care Council conference, news
reports surfaced about a disturbing case
of abusive treatment of layer chickens at
two Alberta farms.
The controversy over the secretly
filmed scenes shown on CTV’s “W5”
was a reminder of the “strong emotions
surrounding animal abuse,” said Jackie
Wepruk, the council’s general manager.
It also drove home the importance of
completing the codes, she said, noting
work on the layer industry code won’t be
finished before funding expires at the end
of the year.
“So then we will be waiting in line to see
if we can get the funding,” said Wepruk.
“We have no idea when it might come
through.”
The “ W5” program showed hens,
including dead ones, crowded in cages
and chicks being killed by being hit
against hard surfaces. The Egg Farmers of
Canada called the practices shown in the
video an “aberration,” CBC reported.
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Livestock producers hoping new animal
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about their industry are going to be
disappointed.
Expert after expert at the recent National
Farm Animal Care Council conference said
the codes are just a start, and will likely
increase scrutiny of the industry.
In this special report, the Manitoba
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further look at what was said at the conference
and what it means for the livestock sector.
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ou might think a wagging tail is a wagging tail, but for dogs there is more to it
than that. Dogs recognize and respond
differently when their fellow canines wag to the
right than they do when they wag to the left.
The findings reported in the Cell Press
journal Current Biology show that dogs, like
humans, have asymmetrically organized
brains, with the left and right sides playing
different roles.
The discovery follows earlier work by the
same Italian research team, which found that
dogs wag to the right when they feel positive emotions (upon seeing their owners, for
instance) and to the left when they feel negative emotions (upon seeing an unfriendly dog,
for example). That biased tail-wagging behaviour reflects what is happening in the dogs’
brains.
Left-brain activation produces a wag to the
right, and right-brain activation produces a
wag to the left.
But does that tail-wagging difference mean
something to other dogs? The latest study
shows that it does.
The researchers showed dogs videos of
other dogs with either left- or right-asymmetric tail wagging. When dogs saw another dog
wagging to the left, their heart rates picked up
and they began to look anxious. When dogs
saw another dog wagging to the right, they
stayed perfectly relaxed.
“The direction of tail wagging does in fact
matter, and it matters in a way that matches
hemispheric activation,” says Giorgio
Vallortigara of the Center for Mind/Brain
Sciences of the University of Trento.
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Vallortigara doesn’t think that the dogs are
necessarily intending to communicate those
emotions to other dogs. Rather, he says, the
bias in tail wagging is likely the automatic
byproduct of differential activation of the left
versus the right side of the brain. But that’s
not to say that the bias in wagging and its
response might not find practical uses; veterinarians and dog owners might do well to take
note.
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A new
name and
a new
direction
Manitoba’s agriculture
minister sets a course for
economic development
and value-added
products in rural areas
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
F
or the third time
since taking office in
1999, Manitoba’s New
Democrats have changed
the name of the provincial
department responsible for
agriculture.
During a mid-October
cabinet shuffle, Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Initiatives became Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development (MAFRD).
“Rural development goes
hand in hand with agriculture...
so we’re refocusing on the rural
economy and the name change
reflects that,” said Minister
Ron Kostyshyn, who retained
the portfolio during the shuffle. “The biggest thing is how
can we — through our new definition — provide opportunities for farm-related industry,
the rural economy and small
communities.”
T h e d e p a r t m e n t’s n a m e
began as simply Manitoba
Agriculture. Food was added
in 1999. Rural Initiatives was
tacked on in 2003.
Kostyshyn made it clear that
valued-added products would
be central to the new push for
the development of the rural
economy, citing hopes for new
products in the biomass sector, such as flax-based building
materials.
“We wanted to get the message out that initiative was
the seed, rural development
is now — let’s work together,
let’s bring your ideas forward,”
he said.
The minister did not comment on what costs might be
associated with name change,
including new signs, stationery
and promotional material.
“It will be a transition, no
doubt about it, but it’s not going
to happen overnight,” he said,
adding, “We’re there to work
with the rural economy, not
that we weren’t before, but we
want to just reset that button
and send a message out — let’s
work with your ideas and hopefully we can develop the rural
economy.”
Farm stress line offers
online counselling
Chat Support Line an alternative for those who may feel uncomfortable calling the stress line
By Lorraine Stevenson
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F
armers and others living in rural or
northern communities who need to
talk to someone can now reach out
through a new confidential online counselling service offered by Manitoba Farm
and Rural Support Services.
In addition to their telephone lines,
they are now offering an online Chat
Support Line to anyone who may prefer
this way to communicate, says MFRSS
program manager Janet Smith.
The MFRSS continues to provide its
traditional telephone service. This is a
new option and has been added as an
alternative for those who, for any reason, feel they cannot pick up the phone,
Smith said.
“Even though our telephone line services are confidential, this seems to be a
less stigmatizing way for some of reaching out for help.”
Smith said MFRSS has been piloting
the Chat Support Line for about a year
and finds it is a very good way to communicate with a counsellor. People seem
to be less inhibited when they are writing
down their concerns, she said.
“People tend to be very honest about
what’s going on. You might just feel a little less restricted about what you can
say.”
Users of the Chat Support Line are
linked with a counsellor to have the private and confidential online conversation in ‘real time.’
Like the telephone service, this is a safe
and completely confidential service with
MFRSS’s trained counsellors listening,
providing support in non-judgmental
ways and enabling the expression of feelings, thoughts and options.
Users do not identify themselves but
are required to register a postal code and
indicate their gender to use the service.
They must also agree to terms of service
including the use of respectful language
and avoiding chit-chat.
Smith said the MFRSS staff started
thinking about offering the Chat Support
Line after observing that more people of
all ages seek help through other online
venues such as Facebook, email and
Twitter. Other counselling agencies say
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online counselling has increased use of
their services.
“So we thought we should really try this
in our centre too,” she said.
The Chat Support Line is available during MFRSS’s operating hours from 10
a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Friday.
For more information about the Chat
Support Line or any other MFRSS’s free
counselling services log on to www.rural
support.ca or call 1-866-367-3276 toll
free.
The MFRSS also offers a volunteer
training program, Farmer-to-Farmer
Information and Support Group, and a
Suicide Bereavement Support group. The
MFRSS also makes available a variety of
resources including books, videos and
articles related to agricultural behavioural health.
“Even though our
telephone line services are
confidential, this seems to
be a less stigmatizing way
for some of reaching out
for help.”
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OPINION/EDITORIAL
As we remember…
I
don’t know a lot about my grandfather’s experiences as a sergeant with
the horse brigade in the First World
War. He didn’t talk about it with us; I doubt
he talked about it much to anyone. It just
wasn’t done in those days.
I do know that while he never fought
in the trenches, his brigade was charged
supplying the front lines and he received
recognition for front-line duty. I also know
Laura Rance
that in his army-issued spurs, the rowels
Editor
had been replaced with nickels.
A lifetime later, after he’d returned to
Canada, taken up dairy farming, married and raised four
kids, served a quarter-century as the secretary of the Winnipeg District Milk Producers Association and retired, he
gave me a book titled The Horseman’s Friend and Veterinary
Adviser.
It was a special edition, with an added chapter on “The
Breeding in Canada of Horses for Army Use” (circa 1900)
written by J.G. Rutherford, Canada’s chief veterinary officer.
It advised breeders on what to look for and encouraged
them to consider raising horses for military supply.
“While the supply of horses suitable for military use has
always, even in times of peace, been a serious question,
the experience of our South African troubles has given it an
importance altogether new and somewhat startling,” the
chapter begins.
An online article by the South African Military History Society says the British army sent 520,000 horses and
150,000 mules to help defend its Empire in the Boer War
(1899-1902), of which 350,000 horses and 50,000 mules perished. The British were looking for more and, according to
Rutherford, the Dominion hadn’t been contributing “her fair
share.”
Those service animals were later honoured with a statue
in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, a memorial that carries these
words — “The greatness of a nation consists not so much in
the number of its people or the extent of its territory, as in
the extent and justice of its compassion.”
It seems an odd tribute to lowly creatures. But it speaks to
the reality that in those times there was a strong connection
— a relationship — between humans and the animals with
which they worked. In combats that spared neither man nor
beast, they shared each other’s pain.
A poignant account of that relationship is found in this
First World War excerpt cited in an article by G.R. Duxbury
in the Military History Journal. It comes from a letter written
by a gun driver, who was later killed in action, talking about
his horses.
“I had driven them for three years. I tell you I could talk to
them just as I am talking to you. There was not a word I said
that they did not understand. And they could answer me —
they could indeed. I was never at a loss to know what they
meant. When I was astride one of them — why, I only had to
THINK what I wanted him to do and he would do it without
being told.
“Early in the Retreat from Mons (the long, fighting retreat
by Allied forces to the River Marne, on the Western Front
early in the First World War) a big shell crashed right into the
midst of the section. The driver in front of me was blown to
bits, but I was thrown clear unhurt. My gun was wrecked, I
was ordered to take the place of a casualty in the other. As I
mounted the fresh horse to continue the retreat I saw my two
poor horses with the blood coming from them struggling and
kicking on the ground to free themselves. I could not go back
to them. I tell you it hurt me. Suddenly a French chasseur
dashed up to them, cut the traces and set them at liberty…
“Those horses followed me for four days. We stopped for
hardly five minutes, and I could not get back to them. There
was no work for them, but they kept their places in the line
like trained soldiers. They were following me to the very end,
and the thought occurred a thousand times, ‘What do they
think of me on another horse?’ Whenever I looked, there
they were watching me so anxiously and sorrowfully as to
make me feel guilty of deserting them. Whenever the word
‘Halt!’ ran down the column I held up my hand to them and
they saw it every time. They stopped instantly.
“Whether they got anything to eat I do not know. I wonder
whether they dropped out from sheer exhaustion. I hope
to heaven it was not that. At any rate one morning when
the retreat was all but over I missed them. I suppose I shall
never see them again. That’s the sort of thing that hurts a
soldier in war.”
As we take time November 11 to remember the sacrifices
of those who served in combat, we acknowledge their contribution to the freedoms and choices we have today. Perhaps one of the lessons of that time is a reminder that our
changing and evermore complex relationship with animals
— as companions, service animals, and food sources —
reflects our own humanity. What we do to them, we do also
to ourselves.
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Politics versus long-term value: Buffett
By Alan Guebert
I
n a recent television interview, famed Wall
Street investor Warren Buffett characterized
the October federal government shutdown as
“totally irresponsible” and said the failure of leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives to raise
the nation’s debt ceiling until moments before
possible default was “just plain stupid.”
Unlike most stock market billionaires, Buffett
wasn’t talking “his position”; the tough opinions
were tied to his patriotism, not his investments.
“The debt ceiling is a political weapon of mass
destruction,” he told TV interviewer Charlie Rose,
“it shouldn’t exist. It’s nuts. It’s like nuclear weapons; it can’t be used, and both (political) parties
should say, ‘It’s off the table,’” in future budget
talks — including current talks between House
and Senate negotiators.
And the national debt, asked Rose, isn’t it a
national calamity?
Today’s net national debt, explained the Oracle
of Omaha, is about 70 per cent of gross domestic product. Just after the Second World War, he
noted, it was “something like 120 per cent,” so
we can “handle the debt relative to our current
output” today.
The problem, Buffett continued, “isn’t that the
country has become poorer. It’s, in fact, become
richer. A lot richer. The problem is that we’ve
overpromised in some cases and are unwilling to
raise the revenue (to pay) for some of the promises we’ve made.”
A balance between the two — the need to
trim some of the promises and increase some
revenues — is the best, fairest way to secure the
future, he suggested.
Buffett, of course, is famous for becoming one
of the richest people in the history of the world
through “value investing,” buying securities of
firms he believes are fundamentally undervalued
in the market.
OUR HISTORY:
According to a recent Wall Street Journal
analysis, Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway,
invested $25.2 billion in six firms after the 2008
stock market collapse (Swiss Re, Goldman Sachs,
Dow Chemical, General Electric, Bank of America
and Mars/Wrigley). To date the total return on
these six investments stands at $9.95 billion, or 40
per cent.
This market and this Congress do not seem to
get his fundamental message: bypass short-term
fads and invest in long-term value.
For proof, look at the companies Wall Street
has fallen madly in love with lately. Social networking Facebook has a market value of $122
billion, projected earnings of 0.18 cents per share
and, as such, a share price 218 times more than
earnings.
Twitter, the newest social network, is about to
“go public,” and sell shares in the company. If the
offering goes as expected, Twitter will raise $11
billion even though the firm has no profit whatsoever.
Meanwhile, Apple, a company that actually
makes something, saw its stock price slapped 13
per cent lower Oct. 29, the day after it reported a
nine per cent drop in quarterly earnings. Apple
did make money, a net profit of $7.5 billion in just
three months. And it has $147 billion in the bank,
in cash, right now.
The short-termers in Congress are little different
than the stock jockeys of Wall Street. They chase
after fads, fashion and public opinion with little
thought to long-term value or long-term impact.
And, in the process, they’ve short sold America
and, especially, American farmers and ranchers
who have been waiting two years for a timely,
updated Farm Bill. That’s totally irresponsible.
In fact, it’s just plain stupid.
The Farm and Food File is published weekly in more
than 70 newspapers in North America. Contact Alan
Guebert at [email protected]
November 1971
A
pparently some things are cheaper than they
used to be — today a pressure system such as
this one advertised in our Nov. 4, 1971 issue can
be had for around $400. Adjusted for inflation, $139.95
for this system is equivalent to $818 today.
In his editorial ahead of Nov. 11, editor Bill Morriss
took issue with American plans to detonate a hydrogen
bomb underground in one of the Aleutian Islands off the
coast of Alaska, ignoring a vote of condemnation by the
Canadian Parliament and a protest by one of the original
Greenpeace vessels. The Americans had said it was not
Canadian business. Morriss countered that Americans
had considered the islands Canadian business in the
Second World War, when he had been stationed with
the RCAF in Alaska for a year to protect the Aleutians
from Japanese invasion. Five of his fellow RCAF members
had been killed in the campaign.
In that issue, we reported that the British Parliament
had voted to join what was then called the European
Common Market. Here in Manitoba, Agriculture Minister
Sam Uskiw announced that an Egg Producers Marketing
Board would be established Dec. 15. He said the
new system would “ensure the maximum number of
egg producers have a sufficiently large and cost-free
quota to enable them to earn a decent living.”
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COMMENT/FEEDBACK
Oil at 600 yuan a barrel
It’s time to get loonie and de-Americanize our currency
By Ryan Lijdsman
edmonton, alta. / troy media
T
Letters
he U.S. debt ceiling debacle laid
bare the inherent and true costs
to international trade from the
outdated world reserve currency system.
Virtually every international transaction that non-American businesses complete, from importing Chinese-made
TVs to the proposed selling of Canadian
LNG to Malaysia, must be done in U.S.
dollars. The Canadian loonie does not
directly convert into the Chinese renminbi or the Malaysian ringgitand;
their currencies do not convert into
the Canadian dollar.
China and many other countries are moving away from this
U.S.-dominated system to a basket of reserve currencies that
includes the Chinese renminbi
(yuan). China is also making
direct currency swaps with
trading partners that support
and encourage their bilateral trade. If Canada does not
adopt similar reserve currency
reforms, its companies will be at
a long-term competitive disadvantage in
Asia and around the world.
The origin of the U.S. dollar as the
world reserve currency was the 1944
Bretton Woods agreement. The greenback was guaranteed by gold and other
currencies were made fiat ones (having
no intrinsic value but declared legal tender by their governments) and pegged
to the value of the dollar. This system
initially worked quite well, but became
unsustainable as global trade grew and
more dollars were required than could
be guaranteed by gold reserves.
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Consumers are voting
with their dollars
I’m writing in response to Cam Dahl’s
recent article “The good old days —
not always so good.” It seems to me
that Cam doesn’t get the point of the
current food movement.
It has nothing to do with “romanticized trends” or producing food as
it was produced in the ’30s. No one is
crying out for houses with “no running water, wood heat, a standard of
living below poverty, etc.”
This is not a fight. The best part of
what’s happening with food today is
it’s bringing people together. Hunters and vegan-hippies, right-wingers
and lefties alike have finally found
some common ground. Everyone
has the right to know where the food
we eat comes from and can easily
become activists in creating sustainable agriculture by doing only one
thing — paying for what they want.
Our money is our vote and, if today’s
In the 1970s, the U.S. reached an
agreement with the House of Saud to
accept only dollars for its oil, maintaining the U.S. dollar’s supremacy in
trade and eliminating the need for it to
be guaranteed by gold. Since then, the
world has been on an informal Black
Gold standard, known as the petrodollar. Trading oil in U.S. dollars made it the
logical choice for countries and international business to use for other trade
and firmly established it as the world
reserve currency.
China understands and acknowledges the risk of a U.S.-dominated financial system
on its stability
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and future
growth. It is rapidly
moving towards a more internationalized yuan and has made currency
swaps with nearly 20 countries including Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Japan,
Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia,
Singapore, South Korea, the EU, and the
United Kingdom. But not with Canada.
These swaps are becoming increasingly important to China’s bilateral
trade. By moving to a direct swap, it
saves at least one per cent on transac-
marketing trends are any indication,
we’re voting for “Local. Organic. Hormone free.”
Cam refers to recent trends as the
“indulgences of a rich society.” Yes,
organic food costs more, initially.
Organic farmers get no government
subsidies or handouts so budget
for the fact that your tax dollars are
paying for all that “cheap” food.
Paying more for sustainable healthy
practices now can cost us less in the
long run.
I’m particularly upset by the argument that sustainable farming practices will have a negative impact on
those who are unable to pay more for
food. We produce 1.5 times enough
food for everyone on the planet, yet
nearly a billion people go hungry
while over a billion are malnourished. Something is wrong with the
current system!
Cam asks, “How can anyone
consider it humane not to treat an
animal that has become sick?” I,
personally, don’t have a problem
eating meat from an animal that
has received an antibiotic treatment
because it was actually sick. What I
do have a problem with are animals
being fattened up quickly with a
high-grain diet, forcing their rumens
(the specialized stomach chamber
in grazing animals’ stomachs that
digests fibrous foods, such as grass)
to become too acidic. This is only
one example of the current need for
preventive, blanket antibiotic treatments.
Hopefully, when he says modern
agriculture should “show our urban
cousins the effort we make to protect the environment and to care for
our animals,” he doesn’t persuade
himself into believing that his ill-
tion costs and reduces its U.S. political
risk exposure. In the case of China-Japan
bilateral trade, the saving is estimated to
be US$3 billion per year. There are also
spillover effects including the simplification of bilateral investment and the
creation of new opportunities for smalland medium-size companies.
Currency swaps taken individually are
not of great importance, but the combined impact is resulting in a transformational change to the world financial
system. In the first quarter of 2011, the
Chinese renminbi surpassed the Russian
ruble in trading volume for the first time.
This year, Britain became the first
G-7 country to set up an official currency swap
line with
China. Vene z u e l a ,
Su d a n a n d
Angola are
expected in
the near future
to sell oil in the
yuan. Both Russia and Iran are
already using it for
oil sales to China. This
helped accelerate a new
US$85-billion ChinaRussia oil and gas deal that
will be transacted in rubles and yuan,
not U.S. dollars.
Canada’s bilateral trade with China
was nearly $70 billion in 2012. Without a direct currency swap it loses
at a minimum $700 million a year
in transaction costs and is adding a
level of complexity that is harming
investment. When China wants to buy
resources from Canada it has to pay
informed article has done this. I
found a lot of his “arguments” insulting and illogical.
Heather Hagen
Minnedosa, Man.
GMOs are no solution to
food problem
The article, “Lack of consumer acceptance plagues biotech science,” failed
to mention the projected, but largely
unrealized, increase in food production due to biotech science and it
failed to mention the fact that thalidomide was shown to be perfectly safe
until years later when it had ruined
the lives of many people.
Obviously consumers are wiser
than the genetic modifiers who cannot convince people to buy their
product. The article talks often about
the need for more food, but nothing
I have read convinces me that GMOs
will help this problem. Also, saying
that the short-range safety record
indicates no long-range problem is
overlooking history.
The 2013 World Food Prize ought
to have been given to urban food
producers who have a greater hope of
feeding people than do GMOs. Save
us from short-sighted, profit-oriented
companies.
Barry Hammond
Winnipeg, Man.
Perspectives on CETA
Two interesting perspectives are
offered in the Oct. 31 articles about
the Comprehensive Economic Trade
Agreement with the EU. The first
by beef producer Ian Robson has
It is not enough anymore
to simply sign free trade
agreements and blindly
believe that trade will
grow. Canada must
become proactive in its
approach to trade.
the transaction costs to convert its
currency into U.S. dollars then U.S.
dollars to Canadian dollars, something
it is less willing to do every year and
something it does not need to do with
a growing number of other countries
that directly compete with Canada in
the resource sector.
It is not enough anymore to simply
sign free trade agreements and blindly
believe that trade will grow. Canada
must become proactive in its approach
to trade. It is time to move away from
the antiquated U.S. reserve currency
model and to think not only in terms of
oil at $100 per barrel, but also in terms of
it at 600 yuan per barrel.
Doing so will create the conditions
for a more successful trade relationship
with China and other Southeast Asia
countries that are quickly embracing a
new basket of reserve currencies that
includes the renminbi and new multipolar trade models.
Ryan Lijdsman is a Canadian-based
international business consultant.
www.troymedia.com
an eyes-wide-open attitude when
he states quite clearly that the EU
accepts only beef that is hormone
free and that Canadian beef falls
short of this requirement. Currently
Canada has a minimal supply of
beef that can in fact be exported to
the EU regardless of any free trade
deal. Trevor Atchison, president
of the Manitoba Beef Producers
acknowledges this issue and clearly
states that a change regarding the
use of hormones will have to be
developed along with a system of
certification.
On the other hand you have Karl
Kynoch of the MPC talking about a
great new heavily populated market,
good news apparently as Manitoba
exports about 85 per cent of its pork.
He fails to mention that the EU has
already, or is in the process of transitioning to open or group housing in
lieu of sow stalls used here. What happened in Australia may also happen
in the EU. Retailers in Australia refuse
to sell imported pork that is raised in
the stall system in order to support
their own farmers who have been
mandated to open or group housing.
What happens to the 85 per cent of
exported pork market if EU retailers
make the same stand?
Both these subjects clearly show how
far Canada is down on the animal welfare global curve and that we had better
pick up the pace or lose out. The countries that acknowledge the concerns of
their purchasing public are the countries that will benefit, whether change
is voluntary or government mandated.
Leslie Yeoman, Co-founder,
The Humane Education Network
(THEN),
106 Lipton Street,
Winnipeg, Man.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
FROM PAGE ONE
Show us
you care,
Tim Hortons
tells farmers
NEW CODES Continued from page 1
“ We n e e d t o e n g a g e
Canadians in an open, positive and honest conversation,
like we’re sitting across from
one another over coffee,” said
Cr ystal Mackay, executive
director of Farm & Food Care
Ontario.
“Farming and food are not
typically among the top-ofmind issues keeping consumers up at night. But their attitudes and perceptions related
to agr iculture do have an
increasing impact on what they
buy.”
But many producers are concerned about who will foot
the bill for changes aimed at
re d u c i n g p u b l i c c o n c e r n s
about animal welfare.
Manitoba Egg Farmers have
banned the installation of conventional cages after Dec. 31,
2014. While enhanced housing provides birds with more
space, perches, scratching
surfaces and private nesting
boxes, they cost 20 to 25 per
cent more. Hog producers face
“Farming and food
are not typically
among the topof-mind issues
keeping consumers
up at night. But
their attitudes and
perceptions related
to agriculture do
have an increasing
impact on what they
buy.”
CRYSTAL MACKAY
Executive director of Farm &
Food Care Ontario
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA
T
Consumer perceptions and attitudes about how animals are treated in agriculture increasingly influence what they buy,
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even higher costs — an extra
$820 to $1,155 per sow — for
group housing and reduced
use of gestation crates. Add in
additional labour and training costs, and it’s estimated
the change could cost the
Canadian pork industry $500
million.
Bu t t h e y a l s o ra i s e t h e
bar, Weary told conference
attendees.
“Canada is a world leader
in the development of animal
care codes and with that comes
both rising expectations and
new opportunities around
farm animal care,” he said.
That’s why the codes need
to be considered “a work in
progress,” added Caroline
Ramsay, the co-ordinator for
the assessment framework, a
tool for objectively determining whether the codes are benefiting animals.
“With them in place, we have
to start asking where we go
next,” she said. “Farm groups
will have to think about the
future now that this framework is in place and anticipate
Who pays?
Should those costs fall entirely
on producers?
“How much of it is a public
good and how much should
commodity groups be expected
to pay for?” Wepruk asked.
The new codes, along with
an Animal Care Assessment
Framework are “tremendous
a c h i e v e m e n t s ,” s a i d D a n
Weary, an animal biology professor at the University of B.C.
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where the pressure for change
will come from.”
The assessment framework
is expected to be ready next
year, and livestock groups will
be required to use it. The process will be closely watched, she
predicted.
“It’s likely the rest of the food
chain will be pushing for an
assessment of the effectiveness
of the care programs,” said
Ramsay.
Intense scrutiny
Scrutiny of the livestock industry is not only intensifying, but
taking the sector on to new
ground.
The livestock industry is
under a lot of pressure from
“the rest of the world” to get
better at measuring animal pain, said University of
Calgary professor, Ed Pajor, an
expert in animal welfare and
behaviour.
There are procedures for
animals such as dehorning and
castration to reduce suffering,
but researchers are trying to
accurately measure pain in
livestock and looking at how it
can be reduced further, if not
eliminated, he said.
“Have we done everything
possible to make the process
animal welfare friendly?” Pajor
asked conference attendees.
Among the alternatives
under study is gene editing,
which could produce animals
requiring fewer stress-creating
procedures. Pajor noted the
EU wants to end castration of
male pigs using current techniques by 2018.
“Pain mitigation in livestock production will be
more important in the coming years,” he said. “That will
include less stress for animals
at weaning. We need more
research on this and that will
take time.”
In the meantime, farmers
must look for ways to reduce
animal stress, he added. “It
would be a dangerous strategy
for the industry to do nothing until more research can be
conducted,” said Pajor.
“A g r i c u l t u r e i s a l r e a d y
regarded as being slow to
change. Agriculture has to
change to avoid animal welfare activists. Producers will be
heavily scrutinized.”
— with files from Shannon VanRaes
he food-service
industry is under
pressure from
shareholders, consumers,
and activists to get behind
improved animal welfare
practices, says Tim Faveri,
director of sustainability
and responsibility for Tim
Hortons.
“Ever y quick-ser vice
chain like ours is hit with
animal welfare resolutions at annual meetings
and in the social media,”
Faveri said at the recent
National Farm Animal
Care Conference.
To respond to those
demands, his sector needs
proof that animal care
codes are making a difference down on the farm.
“ Fa r m a n i m a l c a r e
today is part of a growing
focus on corporate social
responsibility and sustainability in the food-service sector,” he said. “One
of the most important
aspects of this is being
clear and transparent with
the customer. We interface
with the customers and
we have to be able to tell
the story about where our
products come from.”
Faveri acknowledged
farmers and food suppliers are already suffering from audit fatigue on
welfare and environment
issues.
But his advice was to get
used to it.
“This is about a journey — not a destination,”
he said. “It has to be a
journey of continuous
improvement.”
He praised the
Canadian livestock sector for developing new
animal care codes, saying
the animal welfare debate
between farmers and consumers is not highly polarized here compared to the
U.S.
He also said the food
industry has to be careful not to let all the certification costs fall on
producers.
But passing on those
costs will be a challenge, said Susie Miller,
director general of the
Sector Development and
Analysis Directorate at
Agriculture Canada.
“Consumers are willing
to only pay so much more
for their food,” she said.
Nevertheless, the livestock industr y has to
“keep moving” on developing the codes and
showing that they are
working, Miller said.
“They have to be transparent and keep up
with the science being
developed around animal welfare,” she said.
“And you have to keep
working at the credibility of the codes. Nothing
worth doing is ever easy.
Change takes time, costs
m o n e y, a n d re q u i re s
commitment.”
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FORAGE Continued from page 1
Farmer-run
helplines key
to preventing
‘wrecks’
By Alex Binkley
co-operator contributor / ottawa
Alberta and Ontario have
established farmer-run
helplines for struggling livestock producers and their
accomplishments indicate similar services are needed across
the country, says the man who
runs the Alberta operation.
“Every province should have
one of these,” Darrell Dalton,
interim registrar of the Alberta
Veterinary Medical Association,
told the National Farm Animal
Care Conference.
Alberta Farm Animal Care
was launched in 1993 by 17
livestock groups and the vet
college at the University of
Calgary. Its board has representatives from all livestock
groups plus vets and provincial
agriculture officials.
Its ALERT line allows people
to confidentially report situations when they fear livestock
aren’t being properly cared for,
instead of calling the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.
“When a report is received,
we get volunteer producers in
the area to pay the producer a
visit,” said Dalton.
“They find everything from
farmers in financial distress
to having mental problems. A
lot of times we can help the
producer, but if there are dying
or distressed animals, we have
to turn the situation over to the
SPCA.”
Ontario started its Farm
Animal Care Helpline through
Farm & Food Care, said Kristen
Kelderman, the organization’s
animal care co-ordinator.
It offers a similar service,
calling in the Ontario Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals only as a last resort,
she said. But it can’t deal with
every incident, she added.
“The helpline does not have
the mandate or resources to
respond to the estimated 1,400
farm animal calls answered
by the OSPCA every year,” she
notes.
Dalton said his organization
tries to intervene before farms
“become wrecks,” and has
vets who are willing to work
with struggling producers who
aren’t clients.
“They don’t heal the animals
but help educate the farmer,”
he said.
The Alberta group is also
working on a euthanasia
project that is an alternative to
an inspector or police officer
shooting a distressed animal
with a revolver.
It has purchased 25 special euthanasia devices with
Growing Forward 2 money
while the province has
acquired 25 for the use of
“vets accredited for emergency
slaughter.”
These kinds of services
should be seen as a public
good and be eligible for government funding, Dalton said.
“The biggest barrier to
expanding this program is
funding,” he said.
between select hay insurance,
which provides quality and production guarantees for different
forage types on an individual
basis, and basic hay insurance,
which insures against production losses on a whole-farm
basis at a lower cost. Other
options include a harvest flood
option for coarse hay, if excess
moisture prevents harvest, and
individualized relative feed values for alfalfa producers.
Existing features such as forage establishment insurance
and pasture insurance will continue to be available to producers. However, the option of 50
per cent coverage is no longer
on the table.
“The trigger was 50 per cent
of your comparable production,
so I consider having half a crop
a disaster, and when you have
half a crop you still don’t have
50 per cent of your comparable and there’s still no payout
— so how effective is that?” said
Rheal Bernard, a manager with
Manitoba Agricultural Services
Corporation (MASC).
“Now it is effective... there
are only two triggers, which
are at 70 and 80 per cent,” he
said, adding he believes the
new programs will lead to more
producers purchasing forage
insurance.
“I definitely, truly believe that
we have a product that is salable, and we hope to double our
acres,” Bernard said. “It offers
more flexibility, you can select
some crops and deselect others under one program... and
it’s affordable, the premiums
are lower than under the old
program.”
The response from farm
organizations to the new programs was enthusiastic.
“It’s certainly something
our members have been asking for — and it appears MASC
has responded to most of their
requests in creating this revolutionary program,” said Doug
Chorney, president of Keystone
Agricultural Producers. “It
means that producers in this
province will now have a good
risk management tool for both
forage crops and pastures.”
Wanda McFadyen, executive
director of the Manitoba Forage
and Grassland Association, participated in the consultation
process leading up to the new
forage insurance programs. “It
will be a huge benefit to our
members,” she said.
But reactions were more
mixed when it came to the
brand new hay disaster benefit, which is provided to those
with either select or basic hay
insurance.
“It’s meant to cover the associated costs with a province-wide
shortfall; basically it’s meant to
replace ad hoc programming,”
said the MASC representative.
The hay disaster benefit is
triggered when 20 per cent of
insured producers have a yield
that is less than 50 per cent of
a province’s long-term average.
Flooding in the years 2003 and
2009 would have triggered the
benefit had it existed at that
time.
However, many in attendance
at the Ashern meeting experienced severe flooding in 2011.
They believe the new benefit
leaves them high and dry.
“We saw flooding because
water was diverted from
Winnipeg,” said Reg Schwartz.
“Now those acres are probably
totally uninsurable.”
Others questioned how effective the trigger level would be in
providing protection.
“I have concerns with the disaster component,” said rancher
Rick Yanke. “Especially when
they talk about a province-wide
trigger, because quite often
“To make it
affordable for
everyone else, we
kind of had to... limit
our liabilities in
some instances.”
Rheal Bernard
there’s a problem in one area of
the province while other areas
are fine... I thought it should be
more of a regional trigger.”
Bernard said the trigger point
is substantial because the producer pays no premium for the
disaster benefit. It’s fully funded
by the federal and provincial
governments.
But he acknowledges it isn’t
perfect.
“To make it affordable for
everyone else, we kind of had
to... limit our liabilities in some
instances where we’re not
accepting cattails, we’re not
accepting black dirt as insurable, whereas in the past... they
possibly could have insured
those acres,” Bernard said.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
Go slow on variety registration changes
Rob Brunel says more time is needed to assess the impact of the changes already made
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
T
he Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) doesn’t want any
radical changes to how Canada
registers new crop varieties, especially
milling wheat.
“We’re really just looking for some
tweaking of the registration process,”
said Ste. Rose du Lac farmer Rob
B r u n e l w h o c h a i r s K A P ’s G r a i n ,
Oilseeds and Pulse Committee. “We
feel there are ways to improve upon it,
but really feel they don’t need to be any
drastic changes.”
The committee met Oct. 29 in Winnipeg to discuss the registration process
currently under review by the federal
government. The public has until Nov.
30 to express its views. KAP is preparing its submission.
Some farmers and seed companies
say the current registration system
delays the introduction of new, higheryielding varieties. But others maintain
the current approach is an integral part
of the quality control system responsible for Canada’s reputation as a supplier of high-quality wheat.
“As an industry we have to decide
what our Canadian wheat brand is
worth, and if it is worth saving, and
how can we do so?” Brunel said.
In his view, recent changes to Australia’s variety registration system cost
that country its reputation for selling
high-quality wheat.
Currently new milling wheat varieties in Western Canada undergo at
least two years, and usually three, of
independent pre-registration testing.
During that time agronomic, disease
susceptibility and milling and baking
data is collected. If the wheat devel-
“We’re really just looking for some tweaking
of the registration process.”
ROB BRUNEL
oper believes the new variety has merit
he or she will present the data to a
committee of experts, including farmers, who vote whether it should be recommended for registration.
Critics say the process is time consuming and potentially subjective.
Supporters counter it takes time to
gather data and that the process is
transparent and fair, protecting farmers and end-users from poor varieties.
The registration system has recently
undergone a lot of changes and not
enough time has passed to assess the
impact, Brunel said.
For example in 2008 kernel visual
distinguishability (KVD) was dropped
as a prerequisite for registering new
milling wheats in Western Canada.
Ending KVD was supposed to make it
easier for wheat breeders to develop
higher-yielding varieties.
In 2009, the federal government
implemented a new “flexible” threetiered crop registration system. Now
if those representing a specific crop
value chain agree they can drop the
current requirement for pre-registration merit assessments.
The introduction of an open market
for wheat Aug. 1, 2012 has also resulted
in more flexibility, Brunel said. Now
grain buyers and farmers are free to
negotiate wheat prices, no matter what
class the variety is in. As a result some
wheats that are higher yielding, but
lower in milling quality, are as economically attractive has high-quality,
lower-yielding milling wheat.
“There are a lot more options in the
open system we have now, but hard red
spring wheat has certain qualities that
some want and we don’t want to jeopardize the quality of that class,” Brunel
said.
Some obser vers say Canada can
keep its reputation for producing highquality wheat, while allowing farmers
to grow lower-quality, higher-yielding
varieties. The key is a registration system that assigns new wheats to the
right class and grain-handling and
transportation system that keeps them
segregated.
A discussion paper prepared by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
(CFIA) and the Canadian Grain Commission lays out four options for the
registration system.
Option 1: The status quo.
Option 2: Streamline the process by
requiring all crops meet minimum registration requirements with the option
for some crops to have merit assessment through an independent assessment process.
Option 3: Streamline the process by
KAP doesn’t want any radical changes to the
variety registration system, says Rob Brunel,
chair of KAP’s Grain, Oilseeds and Pulse
committee. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON
maintaining a minimum level of federal government oversight similar to
the current Part III and eliminate any
merit assessment or performance data.
Option 4: Withdraw federal government oversight allowing the industry or third parties to fill the role.
Crop purity standards would still be
required and overseen by CFIA.
Find the discussion paper at:
<http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/about-us/
public-opinion-and-consultations/
crop-variety-registration-engagement/
crop-variety-registration-in-canadaissues-and-options/?id=1374783569676>.
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More talk of Canada
signing UPOV ‘91
If it happens should farmers own the research
their checkoffs help fund?
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
While some see Canada’s variety
registration system as an impediment to introducing new wheat
varieties, others say the culprit is
a lack of a return on
investment.
To address the latter there’s
increasing speculation the
Canadian government will sign
UPOV ‘91 (International Union for
the Protection of New Varieties of
Plants) — an international agreement that provides stronger rights
for plant breeders, including the
ability to collect end-point royalties when farmers deliver grain to
the elevator.
“UPOV ‘91 could be contentious
in the farm community depending
on your appetite to invest in
research,” said Ste. Rose du Lac
farmer Rob Brunel who chairs
KAP’s Grain, Oilseeds and Pulse
Committee. “That becomes
another checkoff.”
Delegates at KAP’s general
council meeting last month discussed whether farmers should
own all or part of the new crops
their funds help generate.
“I think that will be the biggest
question we have to decide on
as producers,” Brunel said. “Are
we going to accept an end-point
royalty and are we going to own
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Winter market in downtown
Winnipeg a test run for more?
Views sought on offering a year-round farmers’ market
By Lorraine Stevenson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
this research or just pay for this
research?
“Personally, if I am going to pay
a checkoff I’d prefer to have some
ownership in that versus just continuing to pay for it.”
The National Farmers Union is
vehemently opposed to UPOV ‘91.
“When it comes to companies
patenting crops, it isn’t a partnership it’s control and there’s more
expense as a result,” said Deleau
farmer and NFU Region 5 coordinator Ian Robson. “And that’s
all we’ve been getting now even
without the new model.
“My canola seed is nearly $60
an acre for next year. We used
to pay $15 to $20 an acre for the
same yield.”
The NFU has asked Manitoba
Agriculture Minister Ron
Kostyshyn not to approve a
checkoff for a new wheat and
barley association in Manitoba. It
wants the Manitoba Agricultural
Services Corporation to collect
the checkoff for farmers to fund
wheat and barley research.
“We know from observing
existing crop commissions that
the direction of their work can be
easily captured by agribusiness
interests and this frequently does
not actually help farmers,” Robson
said in a release.
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mid-November farmers’ market coming to the
Manitoba Hydro Place Gallery in downtown Winnipeg is a
one-day-only event, but it could
be the start of things to come, say
its hosts.
On Nov. 14, the Downtown
BIZ’s farmers’ market will offer
an indoor location enabling Winnipeggers to stroll the vendors’
booths and shop for the fresh produce and crafts they offer regardless of weather.
The holiday market is the latest
event of the downtown markets
that began operating this year and
which have proved more successful than anyone first imagined,
says a Downtown BIZ spokesman.
The summer weekly markets,
which ran from July to September,
had hundreds of visitors and there
were vendors on waiting lists.
After the Nov. 14 market, organizers want to continue discussions with vendors, producers
and farmers about the feasibility
of doing this throughout the year,
said Jason Syvixay.
“We want to hear from the
community and as many people
as possible to see if there’s a need,”
he said.
“The November 14 market is
the only one that’s lined up (for
winter) so far, but we’re having
ongoing discussions with vendors
and producers and farmers about
Downtown BIZ wants to hear from those interested in a permanent farmers’
market established in downtown Winnipeg. PHOTO: SHANNON VANRAES
the feasibility of a permanent
one.”
The Downtown BIZ market
launched in July this year. It was
supposed to end in early September, but was so busy and popular organizers added three more
days that month. It was hugely
popular, both with visitors and
vendors.
“People kept talking about
it so we said let’s try November
as a pilot to see if it works,” said
Syvixay.
The indoor market, which featured 40 vendors throughout
the summer months, was spearheaded by Downtown BIZ with
support from Manitoba Hydro,
CentreVenture, and 102.3 Clear
FM.
These groups are also “very
excited” about the prospects of a
year-round market in downtown
Winnipeg, said Syvixay.
“If this is something that people
really want all year round that’s
something that we’ll definitely
explore,” he said.
The Nov. 14 winter market will
be held from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the Manitoba Hydro Plaza (by
Edmonton Street and Graham
Avenue) and will feature a selection of fresh produce as well as
crafts, baked goods, and gifts.
Downtown BIZ promotions
of the farmers’ market say it has
added “a unique destination” to
the downtown and contributed to
the vibrancy of downtown Winnipeg streets and sidewalks, attracting business for nearby stores and
restaurants.
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LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Cattle Prices
Winnipeg
November 1, 2013
Cattle values stay strong
despite fall run volumes
Steers & Heifers
—
D1, 2 Cows
73.00 - 77.00
D3 Cows
68.00 - 73.00
Bulls
84.00 - 90.00
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
110.00 - 134.00
(801-900 lbs.)
130.00 - 147.25
(701-800 lbs.)
135.00 - 150.00
(601-700 lbs.)
145.00 - 162.00
(501-600 lbs.)
155.00 - 179.00
(401-500 lbs.)
175.00 - 195.00
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
100.00 - 127.50
(801-900 lbs.)
120.00 - 141.50
(701-800 lbs.)
125.00 - 144.00
(601-700 lbs.)
130.00 - 150.00
(501-600 lbs.)
128.00 - 153.00
(401-500 lbs.)
135.00 - 160.00
Heifers
Alberta South
$ 123.00 - 124.00
124.00
69.00 - 80.00
60.00 - 71.00
85.89
$ 132.00 - 143.00
139.00 - 152.00
144.00 - 159.00
150.00 - 166.00
156.00 - 175.00
170.00 - 195.00
$ 119.00 - 131.00
125.00 - 138.00
128.00 - 141.00
131.00 -146.00
136.00 - 156.00
145.00 - 170.00
($/cwt)
(1,000+ lbs.)
(850+ lbs.)
(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.)
Futures (November 1, 2013) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change
October 2013
134.50
1.70
December 2013
132.72
-0.15
February 2014
134.20
-0.12
April 2014
133.77
-1.15
June 2014
128.60
-0.52
August 2014
126.92
-1.18
Cattle Slaughter
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
Feeder Cattle
October 2013
November 2013
January 2014
March 2014
April 2014
May 2014
Tyson’s moratorium has less impact on Manitoba markets
Phil Franz-Warkentin
Ontario
$ 101.06 - 130.52
116.44 - 128.08
51.60 - 77.89
51.60 - 77.89
68.93 - 90.30
$ 131.38 - 156.89
133.78 - 157.64
137.65 - 164.78
144.31 - 174.30
151.39 - 191.31
156.73 - 199.78
$ 113.94 - 135.32
121.56 - 144.91
118.59 - 145.00
126.72 - 155.38
134.19 - 163.98
143.24 - 170.88
Close
165.32
164.37
163.67
164.50
165.75
165.85
Change
-0.23
-2.58
-3.03
-1.30
-1.05
-1.45
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
October 26, 2013
48,401
12,666
35,735
NA
618,000
Previous
Year­
39,047
12,202
26,845
NA
646,000
Week Ending
October 26, 2013
555
19,672
16,708
929
928
9,071
124
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Previous
Year
288
17,880
13,387
749
774
5,351
17
Hog Prices
Source: Manitoba Agriculture
(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)
E - Estimation
MB. ($/hog)
MB. (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)
MB. (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)
ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)
P.Q. (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)
Current Week
177.00 E
163.00 E
169.81
174.21
Futures (November 1, 2013) in U.S.
Hogs
December 2013
February 2014
April 2014
May 2014
June 2014
Last Week
177.64
165.59
171.34
171.79
Close
89.17
92.02
93.37
98.00
99.20
Last Year (Index 100)
163.36
151.18
151.34
157.42
Change
-0.43
0.17
0.45
1.35
0.35
Other Market Prices
CNSC
“Hopefully some guys
background and we’ll still have
something to sell in the spring.”
C
allan munroe
Killarney auction mart
attle auction yards across Manitoba
were busy during the week ended
Nov. 1, with the fall run in full swing
and prices looking relatively strong.
There were so many animals to move
during the week that the Killarney Auction
Mart held a rare second weekly sale just to
keep on top of things.
“There are tremendous volumes moving
through the system right now,” said Allan
Munroe at the Killarney market. He added,
“The market is staying incredibly strong,
given the volumes we’re seeing.”
The demand for all of the animals is primarily coming from the East, with Ontario
buyers looking to source as many cattle
as they can “if they can find the trucks,”
he said, noting a major bottleneck in the
logistics.
“It’s always a challenge (at this time
of year), but I think this year is a little
tougher.”
The lateness of this year’s harvest likely
has something to do with both the large
numbers of cattle and the logistical issues
getting them out of the province. The fall
run is probably three weeks behind, with
everyone getting off the combine and looking to sell ahead of the winter at the same
time.
Cattle numbers are up on the year, but
prices are also strong as well. Munroe said
six-weight steers were averaging $158 per
hundredweight, which compares with the
U.S. feedlot cattle
placements rise as feed
costs declined
chicago / reuters
Winnipeg (head)
(wooled fats)
—
—
Next Sale
November 6
—
—
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 November 3, 2013
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.975
Undergrade .............................. $1.885
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.960
Undergrade .............................. $1.860
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.960
Undergrade .............................. $1.860
Tom Turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A..................................... $1.875
Undergrade............................... $1.790
Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.
Toronto
64.53 - 91.45
117.40 - 144.68
157.80 - 175.91
152.69 - 173.37
112.58 - 223.71
—
SunGold
Specialty Meats
20.00
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
best prices a year ago of about $147. The
situation is similar with heifers, as the
spread between steers and heifers is much
tighter this year compared to last year.
“Hopefully some guys background and
we’ll still have something to sell in the
spring,” he said.
Some producers lost money backgrounding over the past winter, he said, and were
looking to move their animals instead
this year. However, at the same time, feed
supplies are much more plentiful, which
should aid profitability for those who do
background this year.
O n t h e b u t c h e r s i d e, t h e m ov e by
Tyson Foods in the U.S. to no longer take
Canadian slaughter animals was putting
some pressure on markets, although the
company is still buying feeder animals from
Canada.
The fact that not many cattle were finished in Manitoba to begin with was also
distancing the province from the impact of
the Tyson decision to some extent, Munroe
said.
Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
briefs
By Theopolis Waters and Meredith Davis
Sheep and Lambs
$/cwt
Ewes Choice
Lambs (110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
$1 Cdn: $ .9576 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.0443 Cdn.
COLUMN
(Friday to Thursday)
Slaughter Cattle
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
November 1, 2013
T
he number of cattle placed in U.S.
feedlots in September increased one
per cent from a year earlier, a government report showed Oct. 31.
Analysts attributed the rise to lowerpriced corn, which reduced the cost of fattening cattle in feedlots. Also, higher prices
for slaughter-ready cattle improved margins and drew more animals into feedlots.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
showed September placements at 2.025
million head, up one per cent from 2.004
million a year earlier. Analysts, on average,
expected a 1.2 per cent increase.
Although up from last year, September
placements were the second lowest for the
month since USDA began the current data
series in 1996. USDA reported the feedlot
cattle supply as of Oct. 1 at 10.144 million
head, down eight per cent from a year earlier. Analysts, on average, expected a 7.3 per
cent drop.
The supply has been declining and is now
at the lowest level for the month in 15 years.
The number of cattle marketed to packers
in September was up six per cent from a
year earlier at 1.695 million head.
Analysts viewed the report as neutral
to mildly bullish for Chicago Mercantile
Exchange live cattle futures.
“There was not much difference between
the estimates. It is pretty neutral for the
market,” said Ron Plain, University of
Missouri livestock economist.
The September marketings were encouraging, which were slightly higher than trade
expectations, he said.
The increase in cash prices during the
last two weeks in September and improved
feedlot profitability as corn became more
affordable attracted cattle into feedyards,
said Allendale chief strategist Rich Nelson.
The placement data suggests the trend of
low placements will continue into the first
half of 2014, which should help support
deferred CME live cattle futures, he said.
Goats
Kids
Billys
Mature
Winnipeg (head)
(Fats)
—
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
85.95 - 214.35
—
110.66 - 225.52
Horses
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
10.00 - 26.00
12.08 - 40.16
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GRAIN MARKETS
Export and International Prices
column
U.S. markets rangebound
pending new USDA estimates
Canola futures also remain aimless in the meantime
Last Week
All prices close of business November 1, 2013
Week Ago
Year Ago
Wheat
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
245.27
255.92
319.09
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
268.32
276.31
346.55
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
168.59
173.32
295.67
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
214.14
223.22
246.56
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
470.42
481.25
572.59
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
911.33
906.92
1,111.98
Coarse Grains
oilseeds
Terryn Shiells
CNSC
C
anola futures on the ICE Futures
Canada trading platform moved lower
during the week ended Nov. 1, though
the market bounced around on both sides of
unchanged throughout the week.
Spillover pressure from the losses in
Chicago soybeans, the advancing U.S. soybean harvest and expectations of a recordlarge South American oilseed crop were
bearish.
The large Canadian canola supply situation also continues to overhang the market,
as many traders still believe that the crop is
larger than Statistics Canada’s record-large
estimate of 15.963 million tonnes. How big
the 2013-14 Canadian canola crop turns out
to be won’t be confirmed until Dec. 4, when
StatsCan releases its next production report.
However, general weakness in the value
of the Canadian dollar, as it remained below
the US96-cent mark during the week, was
supportive, as was spillover support from the
gains seen in outside vegetable oil markets.
But overall, canola futures were lacking
direction during the week amid a lack of fresh
news. Though there are still fundamentals at
play, most of them have already been priced
in, or are close to being priced in.
Canola futures should continue in a
choppy, directionless pattern until some fresh
news is released — namely the Nov. 8 world
agricultural supply-and-demand estimates
(WASDE) report from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. Until then, any gains will be seen
as good selling opportunities — and losses as
good buying chances.
The Nov. 8 report will be USDA’s first in
two months, as there was no October data
released due to the U.S. government shutdown. Because the market was missing the
October information, even more importance
will be placed on the Nov. 8 data.
Traders in the U.S. are also waiting for the
upcoming WASDE report before making any
big moves, so Chicago corn and soybeans and
all three wheat futures should also continue
in a rangebound pattern overall until it is
released.
For three-times-daily market
reports from Commodity
News Service Canada,
visit “Today in Markets” at
www.manitobacooperator.ca.
Chicago soybean futures moved sharply
lower during the week, with much of the selling linked to the advancing U.S. soybean harvest and expectations of a record-large South
American soybean crop.
There is still a little bit of uncertainty surrounding how big the U.S. crop will be, due
to the missing USDA October report, but
yields and production estimates should be
confirmed in the Nov. 8 report. Pre-report
expectations are calling for a 3.298-billionbushel soybean crop, which is up from
USDA’s previous estimate of 3.149 billion
bushels.
Some traders expect that the U.S. corn crop
will be larger than 14 billion bushels this year,
which is why the Chicago corn futures continued their downtrend slide during the week.
USDA’s current estimate calls for a 13.843-billion-bushel corn crop.
All three U.S. wheat futures moved lower
during the week, as traders didn’t see any reason to keep prices up at recent highs amid a
lack of fresh news. Oversold price sentiment
and speculative selling were also bearish for
wheat futures.
The upcoming USDA report will also be
important for U.S. wheat futures, as it will
help shine some light on how big the global
wheat crop will be.
There have been reports of problems
for wheat crops in the Black Sea region,
Argentina and Australia recently. The report
should show how much of an impact those
recent problems will have on global wheat
production.
Terryn Shiells writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business November 1, 2013
barley
Last Week
Week Ago
December 2013
152.00
152.00
March 2014
154.00
154.00
May 2014
155.00
155.00
Canola
Last Week
Week Ago
November 2013
481.70
485.40
January 2014
491.40
495.90
March 2014
499.40
503.90
Special Crops
Report for November 4, 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
20.00 - 21.00
Canaryseed
Laird No. 1
20.00 - 21.00
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
14.25 - 18.25
21.75 - 23.75
—
Desi Chickpeas
21.90 - 23.00
Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1
Fababeans, large
—
Feed beans
—
12.30 - 12.50
Medium Yellow No. 1
6.40 - 7.25
Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Feed Pea (Rail)
No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans
5.00 - 8.60
42.00 - 42.00
No. 1 Great Northern
—
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
54.00 - 54.00
Brown No. 1
34.75 - 37.75
No. 1 Dark Red Kidney
55.00 - 55.00
Oriental No. 1
27.30 - 28.75
No. 1 Black Beans
40.00 - 40.00
No. 1 Pinto Beans
40.00 - 40.00
No. 1 Small Red
Source: Stat Publishing
No. 1 Pink
SUNFLOWERS
—
40.00 - 40.00
Fargo, ND
Goodlands, KS
19.80
19.20
32.00* Call for details
—
Report for November 1, 2013 in US$ cwt
NuSun (oilseed)
Confection
Source: National Sunflower Association
CME defends end-of-day settlement rules
Open outcry traders say the new rules make the pits irrelevant
By Tom Polansek
chicago / reuters
C
ME Group Inc. chief executive Phupinder Gill on Nov.
1 denied that the exchangeoperator changed its settlement
rules to give electronic grain traders an advantage over veterans of
the Chicago trading floor, who have
sued the company, saying its new
rules are killing their business.
Gill testified as the trial opened
in a lawsuit filed by traders who
work in the open-outcry pits on the
Chicago Board of Trade’s 140-yearold agricultural trading floor. They
sued CME in June 2012 to halt new
end-of-day settlement rules that factored in transactions executed electronically, where most of the volume
takes place.
Prior to the change, CME had a
centur y-old tradition of settling
futures prices for crops like corn and
soybeans based on transactions executed in the pits. CME, the largest
U.S. futures market operator, owns
the CBOT.
T h e s e t t l e m e n t m e t h o d s we re
changed “to reflect where the activity took place,” in electronic markets, Gill said in response to a question by the plaintiffs’ attorney on the
first day of a trial over the rules in
Chicago.
T h e U . S . Co m m o d i t y F u t u re s
Trading Commission, which oversees CME and the CBOT, expressed
concerns about the practice of basing end-of-day settlement prices
solely on open-outcry activity, he
told Cook County Circuit Cour t
Judge Jean Prendergast Rooney.
Open-outcry traders have argued
CME should not have implemented
the new methods without a vote of
approval by a majority of certain
holders of CBOT memberships.
The lawsuit represents the last stand
for traders on the floor, who traditionally did much of their business at the
close of trading and say the new procedures are making the pits irrelevant.
Anthony McKerr, a plaintiff in the
case and a trader in CBOT’s corn
futures pit, testified that his income
had dropped more than 80 per cent
because of the revised rules.
Before the change, floor traders
had already seen business dwindle
during the past seven years as a vast
majority of trading has migrated to
electronic platforms.
Lawyers for CME said it did not
need members to vote on the settlement rules. And the new methods did not encourage customers
to trade in electronic markets as
opposed to the pits, said Al Hogan,
a lawyer representing the exchange
operator.
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LIVESTOCK
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
Making sheep
behaviour
work for you
Gord Schroeder says sheep are
intelligent animals and their
behaviour becomes a lot less
frustrating when you understand
what triggers their actions
By Alexis Kienlen
staff / edmonton
An effective handling system can save labour and stress. photo: ©thinkstock
Structure your sheep
operation to save
time and labour
Anita O’Brien says saving a few minutes here and there
during the day really adds up over the course of a year
By Alexis Kienlen
staff / leduc
A
good handling facility for
sheep is well worth the investment, says veteran sheep producer Anita O’Brien.
“Handling facilities don’t have to
be fancy, just effective,” O’Brien said
at the recent Alberta Sheep Breeders
Association conference.
The producer, who runs 425 ewes
on her pasture-based operation in
Ontario, estimates her facility saves
her 45 minutes a day — or nearly 40
hours over the course of a year.
For example, having a digital scale
allowed her to increase the number
of lambs she can weigh to 170 per
hour from 80, said O’Brien, a former
sheep and goat specialist with the
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture who
has been working with sheep for 25
years. Having a visible permanent
mark on sheep also saves time when
handling them, she said.
A good facility goes hand in hand
with an effective cull strategy in creating an efficient operation, she said.
Detailed records allow her to identify poor performers, such as ones
that have parasite problems and
“On a small flock, on
an annual basis, we’re
saving 37.5 hours of
labour by having a
handling system.”
Anita O’Brien
Sheep producer and former sheep
production specialist
need to be dewormed several times
a year. O’Brien uses pregnancy scans
and culls every ewe that does not
get pregnant or raise a lamb. Ewes
are also culled for age, broken teeth,
inadequate udders, or the inability to maintain body condition. Ear
notches are used to mark cull sheep.
“Once that’s done, I don’t check
the records to know if she was a good
ewe in the past,” said O’Brien. “She’s
a cull today. This makes it easier and
allows you to not get involved in the
emotions. This sounds heartless and
ruthless, but it works for our system.”
T h e re a s o n s f o r c u l l i n g a re
recorded to highlight potential problems in the flock. Ewes that need
extra help at lambing time are bred
to terminal sires, so their genetics
are not kept in the flock.
“All those lambs off of her are
going to the market,” she said.
Ewes are broken into ideal group
sizes for lambing, and O’Brien synchronizes her ewes and lambs out
over shorter, tighter time periods.
“One of our big expenses in our
breeding system is what we’re paying for rams,” she said. “I strongly
believe one of the easiest ways of
managing lambing time labour is to
pull the rams out. Set it out for what
works for you, and then be committed to pulling the rams out of the
ewes so you don’t have stragglers
for weeks and weeks after lambing
should be over.”
Rams on her operation are usually left with ewes for two cycles
or approximately 34 days. This
translates to a lambing per iod
of 40 days, making management
throughout the rest of the year eas-
Anita O’Brien, sheep producer and former
sheep and goat specialist with the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture. Photo: Alexis Kienlen
ier as lambs can be in much tighter
groups, she said.
To save time and labour, O’Brien
tries to restrict the use of feeding
pails in her operation, and she recommends raised feeding floors or
feeders that are easily accessible
from a barn alley. Communal hay
feeding that covers four lambing jugs
or small areas are also efficient.
An automated watering system,
preferably one that provides ewes with
constant access, is a good investment
and saves labour, particularly at lambing time. O’Brien matches forage storage to the flock size and picks bale
sizes that best suit the needs of the
flock. Her animals stay on pasture for
as long as possible. Lastly, she said she
is a big believer in using herding dogs
to save labour.
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Sheep aren’t stupid — just misunderstood.
The woolly animals are as intelligent as pigs
and cows, and if you understand how they
relate to stimuli, they’re much easier to manage,
Gord Schroeder said at the recent Alberta Sheep
Breeders Association conference.
“If you’re working with sheep and you want
them to do something, change the environment,” said Schroeder, executive director of the
Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board and a
28-year veteran of the sheep industry.
“When they are doing something, they are
responding to something. You need to figure out
what the response is and what they want.”
Sheep are highly social, so ones that isolate
themselves from the flock may have health issues.
Knowing their flight zone and understanding their
instinct to move towards other sheep makes herding less stressful for both animal and shepherd.
Chutes should be designed so they only see others
moving forward in front of them, and sheep will
avoid areas that are in shadow or poorly lit.
“The easiest way to move sheep is to put your
chute in a direction that is facing the outside lit
area,” said Schroeder. “They will work much better
that way.”
Sheep respect solid barriers, and will not jump
plywood or panels. They bunch up to protect
themselves, so it’s best not to have corners in
chute systems or alleyways, and they don’t like it
when the flooring texture changes, so it should be
consistent, said Schroeder, who said he finds gravel or straw bedding is superior to concrete flooring.
“If it changes, they will stop moving or balk,” he
said. “Every time something changes in your chute
system, they will stop and examine it before they
continue to move.”
When grazing sheep on grass, Schroeder uses
an electric fence about 18 inches high, decorating it with ribbons to pique the sheep’s curiosity.
One touch is usually sufficient as they have good
memories, he said.
Other factors to consider is that sheep have
excellent hearing and are therefore very sensitive
to loud noises, and they have lousy depth perception, so even a puddle can make them balk as
they’re not sure how deep it is.
If a newborn lamb needs to be warmed in a
bath, then Schroeder always places the animal in
a plastic bag so its mother will recognize its scent.
A mother can be tricked into adopting an orphan
by smearing a stool from one of her lambs on the
orphan’s rear end, and then preventing the ewe
from smelling the tail of her own lamb for a couple
of days. After two days in an extension pen, she
will usually accept the orphan because of the similar scent.
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Gord Schroeder, executive director of the Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board. Photo: Alexis Kienlen
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column
briefs
Roundworm is one of pasture’s mainstays
Heavy or resistant infestations are particularly
hazardous to foals, but can be tricky to treat
Carol Shwetz, DVM
Horse Health
M
easures taken to
l e s s e n t h e b u rd e n
of equine Ascarids,
also known as roundworms,
are wrought with pitfalls due
to the tenacious nature of
the roundworm, its increasing resistance to chemical
dewor mers, and the naive
population of horses it targets.
Roundworms are typically
a problem in young horses,
especially foals, weanlings and
yearlings, where it can take
advantage of inexperienced
immune systems. Adult horses
develop a good immunity
and thus rarely have a problem. However, they do retain
enough worms to continually
shed eggs onto the pastures.
Due to the particularly hardy
nature of the roundworm egg,
pastures can accumulate an
unusually high number of Parascaris eggs over the years.
Eggs can remain infectious in
the environment for several
years even under the harshest of conditions. The egg also
possesses a sticky coating
which enables it to travel on a
horse’s hair coat and remain
on buildings, fences and feeders.
It is likely that foals become
exposed very early in life as
they nuzzle their dam during nursing or snuff around in
their newfound environment.
The adult roundworm is
large and easily visible to the
naked eye. It can be 20 to 30
cm in length and resembles
a large earthworm. Ascarids
live in the small intestine
where the female is a prolific
egg layer, laying up to 200,000
microscopic round eggs a day.
The eggs are passed out in the
feces and remain in the environment until ingested.
When ingested, the eggs
hatch into the larval form and
continue with their life cycle
migrating through the lining
of the intestinal wall into the
internal organs. Once the larvae reach the lungs, they are
coughed up and swallowed
back into the digestive tract
where they mature into the
adult roundworm. Considerable damage can occur in the
liver or lungs as a result of larval migration. Heavy burdens
of adult roundworms in the
gut have the ability to block
the intestinal tract and trigger life-threatening colic. This
colic can also be triggered by
a deworming treatment when
the paralyzed worms fall away
from the intestinal lining and
create an impaction.
Young horses harbouring
the migratory phase of the
parasite often exhibit signs of
respiratory distress, including fever, coughing and nasal
d i s c h a r g e. In a d d i t i o n t o
respiratory illness and varying degrees of colic, common
symptoms of roundworm
infestation are poor body
condition, depression, loss
of appetite, anemia, failure
to thrive and gain weight, a
rough hair coat, pot-belly, and
diarrhea.
Roundwor m infestations
become common when foals
are raised on the same pastures year after year. Therefore
the soundest course to reduce
infestation in young stock is
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Horsemeat
found in canned
beef at two U.K.
retailers
The product was
canned in Romania
earlier this year
The roundworm is often referred to as the “spaghetti” worm.
accomplished by raising foals
on different pastures from
year to year. It is also advisable to segregate yearling and
two-year-olds from mares with
foals. Deworming expectant
mares 30 days before foaling
further reduces the new foal’s
exposure to parasites.
In addition to pasture
hygiene, a strategic dewormi n g p ro g ra m i n vo l v i n g a l l
horses out at pasture is often
necessar y. Parasite resistance to chemical dewormers is becoming an extremely
important problem. Levels of
resistance have been documented to ivermectin, moxid e c t i n a n d m o re re c e n t l y
pyrantel.
Resistance has not yet been
confirmed in benzimidazole
drugs. The label on this class
of drugs will show the active
ingredient to be either fenbendazole, oxfenbendazole,
or oxibendazole. Currently it
appears to be the best choice
for Parascaris treatment on
many premises.
D e w o r m i n g i s g e n e ra l l y
started when foals are seven to
eight weeks old, and treatment
is performed at regular intervals until the foal is about one
year old.
Extra care is taken when
young stock becomes heavily
infested. Decision-making can
become increasingly complicated as levels of infestations
rise, a foal’s health declines,
and resistance is discovered.
Deworming heavily infected
foals with a potent dewormer
may cause shock or obstruction to the bowels.
As a result veterinarians
generally recommend a double course of fenbendazole.
The first dose at half-strength
has been shown to kill a proportion of the worms, part i a l l y re d u c i n g t h e w o r m
burden. A followup higher
dose is then given a week
or two later to remove the
remainder.
Ve t e r i n a r i a n s a r e u s u ally asked to intervene
when resistance to chemical
dewormers becomes apparent and/or when young stock
becomes heavily infested.
Decision-making takes into
account farm history, age and
health of animals infested,
deworming schedules, and
fecal egg count analysis.
Carol Shwetz is a veterinarian
specializing in equine practice at
Westlock, Alberta.
london / reuters
A batch of canned sliced
beef containing horsemeat has been removed
from the shelves of
retailers Home Bargains
and Quality Save,
Britain’s Food Standards
Agency said Oct. 31.
Routine tests by local
government trading
standards officers in
Lincolnshire, eastern England, found
the product, which
was manufactured in
Romania in January
this year, contained
horse DNA at a level of
between one and five
per cent.
“Horsemeat is not
identified in the ingredients list and therefore
it should not have been
present in the product,”
the agency said in a
statement.
The beef tested negative for the drug phenylbutazone, or ‘bute,’
the anti-inflammatory
painkiller for sporting
horses which is banned
for animals intended
for eventual human
consumption as it is
potentially harmful, the
agency said.
A scandal broke
around Europe in
January when traces of
horse were found in frozen burgers sold in Irish
and British supermarkets, including those
run by market leader
Tesco.
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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Feeder Steers
Oct-30
Oct-29
Oct-29
Oct-29
Oct-30
Oct-28,30
Oct-31
Nov-01
No. on offer
2,642
1,300*
1,698
2,943*
1,513*
1,900*
2,508
1,675
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
105.00-125.00
Over 1,000 lbs.
900-1,000
121.00-141.00
105.00-134.00
n/a
n/a
127.00-138.00
n/a
n/a
110.00-130.00
800-900
120.00-150.00
115.00-144.50
130.00-143.75
125.00-137.50
134.00-150.00
135.00-147.00
135.00-152.00
120.00-143.00
700-800
125.00-151.00
130.00-153.00
137.00-149.00
145.00-158.50
142.00-155.00
145.00-156.50
140.00-157.000
120.00-152.00
600-700
120.00-163.00
135.00-157.00
142.00-160.50
150.00-168.00
148.00-167.00
153.00-170.00
150.00-164.50
128.00-160.00
500-600
140.00-182.00
145.00-169.50
155.00-170.00
155.00-172.00
155.00-173.00
158.00-179.50
160.00-183.00
145.00-165.00
400-500
150.00-193.00
155.00-190.00
165.00-190.00
175.00-190.00
167.00-194.00
168.00-190.50
155.00-190.00
160.00-190.00
300-400
n/a
160.00-200.00
170.00-230.00
180.00-195.00
175.00-205.00
175.00-209.00
165.00-199.00
180.00-225.00
900-1,000 lbs.
116.00-128.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
116.00-129.00
n/a
n/a
105.00-122.00
800-900
125.00-139.00
120.00-135.50
120.00-136.00
120.00-130.00
126.00-139.25
n/a
120.00-133.50
112.00-136.00
700-800
132.00-141.00
125.00-145.00
128.00-140.00
130.00-141.00
129.00-141.00
127.00-139.00
125.00-139.75
120.00-141.00
600-700
109.00-149.00
130.00-144.50
130.00-150.00
130.00-143.00
130.00-143.00
132.00-146.00
130.00-153.25
130.00-147.50
500-600
110.00-153.00
135.00-155.50
140.00-169.00
135.00-150.00
133.00-151.00
137.00-152.00
135.00-157.00
132.00-155.50
400-500
115.00-164.00
145.00-173.00
150.00-167.00
140.00-165.00
138.00-160.00
142.00-170.00
140.00-180.50
140.00-162.00
300-400
n/a
140.00-170.50
160.00-197.00
145.00-169.50
142.00-168.00
135.00-175.00
137.50-185.00
140.00-174.50
200
n/a
157
n/a
n/a
n/a
253
325
Feeder heifers
Slaughter Market
No. on offer
D1-D2 Cows
62.00-69.00
50.00-86.00
70.00-83.00
70.00-76.50
70.00-74.00
58.00-65.00
55.00-75.50
70.00-78.50
D3-D5 Cows
45.00 and up
n/a
50.00-61.00
63.00-70.00
50.00-70.00
n/a
n/a
66.00-72.00
Age Verified
70.00-76.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
71.00-77.50
64.00-71.00
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
75.00-90.75
78.00-85.50
80.00-88.25
83.00-90.00
80.00-88.50
82.00-87.00
80.00-87.00
84.00-90.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
105.00-111.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Steers
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
103.00-108.75
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
70.00-83.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
75.00-85.00
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
66.00-72.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
58.00-64.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
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U.S. cattle heading to slaughter are slimmer
but prices have never been higher
Analysts say record cattle and beef prices should continue well into next year
By Theopolis Waters
chicago / reuters
C
attle are entering U.S. packing
plants slightly thinner than a year
ago as feedlots rush the animals
to market to cash in on record-high
prices and are no longer feeding them
the growth promotant Zilmax, analysts
and economists said.
The lighter cattle produce less beef
at a time when there are fewer cattle
going to slaughter. The combination of
less beef and fewer cattle should mean
record cattle and beef prices at least
through the coming year, analysts said.
Recent droughts in the U.S. Midwest
and Southwest plus record-high feed
prices caused a reduction in the U.S.
cattle herd, which is now the smallest in
more than 60 years.
Year-to-date U.S. cattle slaughter, as
of Oct. 26, was down 1.5 per cent from
the year-earlier week, according to the
U.S. Department of Agriculture. That
decline helped drive prices for some
slaughter-ready cattle in late October to
an all-time high of $132 per hundredweight (cwt).
Slaughter steer prices, on average, for
2013 are on pace to set a record for a
fourth straight year at roughly $125.70
per cwt. Another record is expected
in 2014, with prices averaging around
$129.75, said Ron Plain, a University of
Missouri economist.
During the week of Oct. 5, the latest
weight data from USDA showed steer
weights on a carcass basis at 875 lbs.,
down five pounds from the same period
a year ago. During that same period,
heifers shed 11 pounds to 796 lbs.
“Rising prices for slaughter cattle have
resulted in a return to profitability at the
feedlot level. This, then, is encouraging
them to sell cattle more quickly, holding down weights,” said Elaine Johnson,
analyst with CattleHedging.com in Denver, Colorado.
Other analysts and economists noted
a marked decline in cattle weights after
Merck & Co. decided in August to pull
its feed additive Zilmax off the U.S. and
Canadian markets.
Zilmax, the widely used and most
potent among a host of muscle-building
livestock additives known as beta-agonists, can add upwards of 30 pounds
of beef on cattle during their last few
weeks in feedlots.
Merck opted to suspended Zilmax for
further testing after the country’s leading meat processors Tyson Foods Inc.
and Cargill Inc. stopped buying cattle
“Rising prices for slaughter cattle have resulted in a return
to profitability at the feedlot level. This, then, is encouraging
them to sell cattle more quickly, holding down weights.”
Elaine Johnson
in September given the additive, citing
animal welfare concerns.
Since early September, some feedlots
switched to using a less-potent beta-agonist called ractopamine, made by Eli Lilly
& Co.’s Elanco Animal Health unit and
sold under the brand name Optaflexx.
Additionally, some feed yards mitigated year-to-year weight declines by
using more less-costly feed — the result
of this autumn’s bumper crop harvest.
Both options require more time to grow
cattle to heavier weight than Zilmax,
said economists.
“The driving force of the current
year-to-year decline in dressed steer
and heifer weights is the removal of Zilmax, and largely the switching over to
Optaflexx,” said Denver-based Livestock
Marketing Information Center director
Jim Robb.
He said the use of other beta-agonists
mitigated the decline in carcass weight
that would have possibly fallen as much
as 25 lbs. had the industry removed
both Zilmax and Optaflexx.
David Hales, president of Texas-based
Hales Cattle Letter, said in a recent
newsletter to his clients that cattle feeders seem to be relearning how to effectively market their cattle with Zilmax no
longer a part of the feeding equation.
Supplies of slaughter cattle in early
October were much tighter than anticipated and are expected to remain scarce
into December, said Hales.
“We suspect carcass weights peaked
during the week of Oct. 5 and will gradually work lower through the balance of
this year,” said Hales, citing forecasts for
a wetter, colder second half of the fourth
quarter than a year ago, which should
affect the performance of cattle in feeding pens.
Using genomics takes out cattle efficiency guesswork
Genomics help determine how animals gain and can result in a more efficient cattle herd
By Alexis Kienlen
staff / edmonton
D
espite all the talk about
genomics, many in the
cattle industry are confused by what it all means.
But the bottom line is pretty
simple, says William Torres,
researcher at Cattleland Feedyards in Strathmore.
“Cattle all gain different — you
don’t know what is underneath
the skin,” Torres told attendees at
the recent Livestock Gentec conference.
“All you’re doing is guessing
where they are going to be 150
or 200 days from now. If you use
genomics, you’re taking the guessing game out of the equation.
You’re going to more accurately
manage and predict how the cattle are going to perform.”
Torres is bull evaluator, cattle
manager, and researcher with
Cattleland Feedyards, operated
by the Gregory family. Its for-profit
research facility is home to North
America’s largest bull test centre
and Torres has managed about 38
contract research projects involving about 65,000 head since joining the company in 2008.
Much of that research involves
genomics and residual feed
intake, also known as net feed efficiency.
“It is defined as the difference
between an animal’s actual feed
intake and what is expected for
feed requirements — you know,
what you think it’s going to eat
and what it actually ate,” he said.
Since feed efficiency is a heritable trait, genomics can be used
to select better animals.
“If you point out to producers
the difference in amount of feed
consumed and then you start
translating that to dollars, that’s
when you start getting people’s
attention,” he said.
Tracking consumption
At Cattleland, researchers use the
Alberta-developed Grow Safe System, which uses a second electronic identification tag to record
feeding data. Since only one animal can eat from a bunk at a time,
the system tracks both how much
each one eats and how often they
come to feed.
Although Cattleland has eight
pens with 40 nodes, each test
takes about 100 days and producers must book a year in advance
to get a cow into the facility.
On the genomics side, Cattleland works closely with Saskatoon’s Quantum Genetics to
track leptin production in cattle.
The hormone, present in fat tissue, acts on the brain to regulate
food intake and body weight. In
cattle, there are three leptin variants: CC, CT and TT. Cows with
the CC version are lean animals
that have low body weight, TTs are
the ones that put on fat and are
more desirable, and those with CT
are in between. The difference is
huge — Cattleland has found TT
animals will reach the same end
point about 45 days sooner than
CC animals.
“That’s 45 days less feed
and 45 days less on earth,” said
Torres. “So less management,
less manure, and less headaches
because I can get them to market
faster.
“The other thing is that we
know what the yield is going to
be and we can predict what the
grade is going to be. So we were
able to work out better prices with
the packing plant and we got paid
a little bit more and then passed
that back on to our producers,
who were bringing us these animals.”
The leptin trait affects weaning
weight, milk production, accumulation of back fat, yield grade,
quality grade, and feed intake. TT
animals have more back fat at the
end of spring and prior to weaning, which relates back to a good
body score condition and fertility.
“We use what is called a Q-sort
system designed for feedlots,”
Torres said.
Cattleland staff also measure
back fat while using the system,
and also consider the age and sex
of the cattle as well as the hide
colour. The system sorts the animals into four different groups.
Animals in each group are given
different feeding regimes and
marketing dates.
“This increases the carcass
value and we know how to feed
the cattle more efficiently,” said
Torres.
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The potential to gain is all hidden under the skin, says a feedlot researcher.
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M a r k Tw a i n , 18 9 7
Expect a dry start to the month
Issued: Monday, November 4, 2013 · Covering: November 6 – November 13, 2013
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
L
ast week’s forecast turned
out pretty good, with the
only issue being the area
of low pressure forecast to track
across the southern Prairies last
weekend. The low did develop as
expected, but it tracked a good
200 to 300 km farther north than
originally expected. This allowed
warmer air to push farther north,
bringing fairly mild temperatures
to southern and central regions
over the weekend and keeping
any snow well to our north.
This forecast period looks to
start off cool and quiet, with no
major storm systems anywhere
near our part of the world. With the
lack of snow cover, any day we can
get a little sunshine should allow
temperatures to climb to around
the 3 to 5 C mark. There is a weak
system expected to track quickly
through our region on Friday or
Saturday, bringing with it clouds
and a few showers or maybe some
flurries depending on the exact
track and timing of the system.
Behind this system we’ll be in a
west-northwesterly flow that will
keep temperatures right around
average from Sunday through to
Wednesday. There will be a few
weak systems moving through
this flow that will keep skies partly
to mostly cloudy during this
period, and the odd shower or
flurry cannot be ruled out.
The weather models have been
fairly consistent with bringing an
upper-level low into the Pacific
Northwest sometime early next
week. This low is expected to help
develop a strong surface low in
the Colorado/Wyoming area by
Tuesday or Wednesday. The models are all keeping this storm to
our south, but at this time of the
year it is always wise to keep an
eye on these storms.
Looking further ahead, the
weather models aren’t showing
any strong push of cold air right
through to at least Nov. 20, but —
and there is always a “but” — I’ve
also seen the models switch from
a warm to a cold pattern quicker
than you can say “snow!”
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, -3 to 7 C; lows,
-11 to -2 C. Probability of precipitation falling as snow: 80 per cent.
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 2, 2013 to October 31, 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: 11/01/13
www.agr.gc.ca/drought
This issue’s map shows the amount of precipitation that fell across the Prairies during October compared to the long-term average.
Eastern regions of Manitoba were very dry while western regions were wet. Farther west, much of Saskatchewan and north-central
Alberta were dry with southeastern Saskatchewan and western Alberta being wet.
Warm and dry or cold and snowy November?
October 2013 came in slightly colder than average; precipitation varied by region
By Daniel Bezte
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
A
t the end of September
we looked back at what
was a pretty darned
nice month! At the time I compared this September to the
one in 2009, then hoped that
we wouldn’t follow 2009 with
a really cold October. Well, it
turns out October 2013 wasn’t
that cold, but it wasn’t that
warm either.
Thinking back on the
weather for October, to me it
didn’t seem as though it was
that cold. Sure, we had that
cold snap late in the month,
but it didn’t last for more than
a couple of days. Yet when I
looked at the numbers for the
month it turned out all three
main regions (Brandon, Dauphin, Winnipeg) had mean
monthly temperatures about 1
C below the long-term average.
Brandon was the cold spot,
with a mean monthly temperature of 3.6 C, which was
1.3 C below average. Dauphin
was the next coldest at 3.9 C,
0.8 C below average. Winnipeg
was the warmest, with a mean
monthly temperature of 4.5 C,
0.8 C below average.
Precipitation is always the toughest thing
to predict for any month and November is
probably one of the hardest months, as we
transition from fall into winter.
Looking back at the temperatures in a little more detail,
I found the first half of October saw above-average temperatures, with highs peaking
near or even slightly above 20
C on Oct. 9 to 11. Along with
the warm daytime highs during the first half of the month,
overnight lows also remained
fairly mild, with only a few
nights dropping a couple of
degrees below 0 C. By the middle of the month we started to
see a gradual cool-down take
place and by the 20th, daytime highs were struggling to
make 5 C and overnight lows
were now routinely in the -2
to -7 C range. These cool temperatures continued pretty
much to the end of the month,
resulting in our below-average
overall temperatures.
Precipitation was a little less
uniform across the region dur-
ing October. In the Winnipeg
region conditions were very dry,
with only seven millimetres of
precipitation officially recorded.
This was well below the longterm average of 36 mm. The
Dauphin region saw near-average amounts of precipitation,
with Dauphin recording 33 mm
— close to the long-term average of 36 mm. The Brandon
region was the wet spot with 41
mm recorded, compared to its
average of 28.
Who called it?
Overall, I would say October
came in slightly colder than
average with near- to slightlyabove-average amounts of
precipitation over western
regions, with below-average
amounts in the East. Looking
back at the different forecasts
for October it would appear
no one was able to get Octo-
ber’s monthly forecast right.
Everyone except the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac had
called for above-average temperatures, but it also called
for above-average amounts of
precipitation. So, even though
the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac didn’t call for the dry conditions over eastern regions, I
guess it would be the closest to
being correct.
Now, on to November’s forecast: according to Environment
Canada, November 2013 will
see above-average temperatures along with near-average
amounts of precipitation for all
regions, except the far northwest, which will see aboveaverage amounts. The Old
Farmer’s Almanac also calls for
above-average temperatures
and near-average amounts
of precipitation. Over at the
Canadian Farmers’ Almanac, it
calls for almost the exact opposite of the first two forecasts.
It calls for below-average temperatures with the mention of
cold conditions several times
along with above-average
amounts of snow.
Finally, here at the Cooperator, I am calling for
temperatures to be above
average as the lack of an early
snow cover should allow
temperatures to remain on
the mild side at least for the
first couple of weeks. There
are some hints of colder
weather moving in during the
second half of the month, but
the overall trend over the last
week or so is toward milder
conditions.
Precipitation is always the
toughest thing to predict for
any month and November is
probably one of the hardest
months, as we transition from
fall into winter. With that in
mind, it currently looks as if
November will see below-average amounts of precipitation
as the pattern does not look
to be that active over the next
couple of weeks. If we do see a
transition to cold weather for
the second half of the month,
these transitions are usually
accompanied by a day or two
of stormy weather that could
bring significant amounts of
precipitation, but that’s a lot of
“ifs,” so I’ll just stick with my
original forecast.
Next issue we’ll take a longer
look ahead and see what the
different forecasts are calling
for the rest of the winter.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
CROPS
Big opportunities in
agriculture, GM crops
Feeding an exploding population is a problem that’s attracting investment and
revenue to the sector, says the Fifth Annual Daryl F. Kraft Lecture series speaker
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
T
he “nine billion people problem” is a big opportunity for
agriculture, especially developers of genetically modified crops,
including wheat, North Dakota agricultural economist Bill Wilson says.
Crop consumption is growing at a
faster rate than yield increases and
agricultural research is earning a 25
per cent return on investment.
“That’s why agriculture is booming today,” the North Dakota State
University agricultural economist
and this year’s Daryl F. Kraft Lecture
series speaker, said Oct. 30 at the
University of Manitoba. “That’s why
everybody is investing billions of
dollars into agriculture. And that’s
why it’s such a great opportunity for
all you young people who are entering agriculture today.
“It’s a pretty positive story.”
The United Nations’ Food and
Agricultural Organization (FAO)
estimates food and feed production
will have to increase 70 per cent to
feed a population of nine billion
people by 2050.
Crop yield increases now average just 1.5 per cent a year versus
3.5 per cent in the 1960s, despite
farmers applying five times as much
fertilizer, said Wilson, who spends
much of his time consulting for
companies around the globe.
While crop yields continue to
increase in North America they
have stagnated in Europe and are
falling in Australia, he said.
Biotechnology, which Wilson
described as a “game changer,”
will play a big part in reversing that
trend. That’s why all the major seed
companies are investing billions
of dollars into genetically modified (GM) crops with traits such as
drought tolerance, increased nitrogen efficiency and higher yields.
Most of their investments are in
the United States because of strong
laws protecting intellectual property, Wilson said. However, AgriBio,
an Australian public-private venture, is four or five years ahead in
developing drought-tolerant GM
wheat. It yields 20 per cent better
than conventional wheat under dry
North Dakota State University agricultural
economist Bill Wilson sees big opportunities for agriculture and seed developers. Wilson, the Fifth Annual Daryl F.
Kraft Lecturer, spoke at the University of
Manitoba last week. He received his PhD
there in 1980.
PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON
growing conditions. AgriBio wants
a 25 per cent yield advantage before
commercializing it.
Resistance to GM wheat started
softening after the doubling and tripling of spring milling and durum
wheat prices in 2008, Wilson said.
“At that time the bakers in
America and bakers in other parts
of the world said, ‘we’ve got to do
something about this technology
because what currently exists is not
serving us very well,’” he said. “So
they held hands, arm in arm and
worked with the other entities and
embraced the development of new
technologies in wheat.”
Wilson told reporters opposition
to GM wheat still exists “but it’s not
insurmountable.”
GM technology is changing the
geography of crop production,
Wilson said — an observation not
lost on Manitoba farmers who are
steadily increasing their corn and
soybean acres.
Corn and soybean production
is steadily moving north and west.
Cass County North Dakota has the
Soybeans for
Maximum Yield
most soybean production in the
U.S., Wilson said. The state, once
famous for its spring milling and
durum wheat has seen acres of
those crops fall 40 and 20 per cent,
respectively.
It’s no surprise given last year’s
estimated returns for corn was $175
an acre and soybeans $100 per acre
compared to $50 an acre for wheat.
Private seed companies are now
turning their attention to wheat, he
said. In the U.S. universities have
done most of the wheat variety
development until now. In Canada
it has been the federal government
through Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada.
“It seems as though we’re having a lot of momentum towards privatization of breeding around the
world,” Wilson said. “This occurred
in Australia five or six years ago.
“There seems to be pressure in
this country (Canada) to do something... and my guess would be
towards further privatization in one
way or another.”
In the U.S. joint public-private
partnerships make sense, Wilson
said, because the universities have
the germplasm and the companies
have the technology, “they have
money and they have the motivation... and at the end of the day
we’re (universities) very poor marketers of these types of technologies.”
With great opportunity comes
increased risk. Grain markets are
now much more volatile than they
used to be, Wilson said.
“That means you can’t be winging
it by the seat of your pants in farm
management,” he said.
“Don’t get me wrong,” he told
reporters. “There’s no fat hog there.
For people who are smart, for people who are smart investors, smart
farmers, smart in technology, it’s a
good business. I don’t want to be
a raging bull because people lose
money doing that.”
But he said there’s a reason
why U.S. financial guru Jim Rogers says instead of getting MBAs,
young people should get agriculture
degrees.
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remembered
By Allen Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
The Daryl F. Kraft Memorial Endowment Fund was
established in the memory
of respected University
of Manitoba agricultural
economist Daryl Kraft who
died in 2003.
In addition to funding
an annual lecture on agricultural policy, the endowment provides a prize for
an agricultural policy paper
prepared by an undergraduate student and a fellowship for a graduate student.
During his career Kraft
served as the major adviser
to nearly 40 master’s degree
students. In May 2003 he
received the Teaching
Award of Merit from the
National Association of
Colleges and Teachers of
Agriculture.
Kraft was liked and his
work respected.
Both the American Agricultural Economics Association and the Canadian
Society of Agricultural Economics recognized Kraft’s
excellence in research.
The Canadian Society
of Agricultural Economics named him a fellow in
1999.
The University of Manitoba presented him with
an outreach award for
community service and
extension activities.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
Harmonization
effort a flop,
business
coalition
charges
LONG SERVICE AWARD
A 2011 initiative on
harmonizing cross-border
regulations has made
‘little or no progress’
Jim MacNair of Carman was
presented with an honorary life
membership at the recent Manitoba
Association of Agricultural Societies
convention in Brandon, honouring
his “long and meritorious service
with Manitoba Agricultural Societies
in the Dufferin Agricultural Society.”
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D
espite the backing of
President Barack Obama
a n d Pr i m e Mi n i s t e r
Stephen Harper, a cross-border
initiative to harmonize Canadian and American regulations
has made paltry progress, says
the Canadian Manufacturing
Coalition.
Announced with considerable
fanfare by the two leaders in
2011, the Regulatory Cooperation Council has made “little or
no progress,” the coalition says
in a letter to Robert Carberry,
assistant secretary of the council’s secretariat.
“Out of the thousands of
regulations that affect companies manufacturing and
selling products in each country, only a handful have been
aligned to allow for a product
to be designed, manufactured,
approved, and sold in both
countries through a single process,” the letter states.
Among the 27 national industry associations that signed
the letter are the Canadian
Meat Council, BIOTECanada,
the Canadian Animal Health
Institute, Food and Consumer
Products of Canada, the George
Morris Centre, the Canadian
Renewable Fuels Association
and the Association of Farm
Equipment Manufacturers.
The concerns have previously
been delivered privately to the
council, said Mathew Wilson,
vice-president of national policy for Canadian Manufacturers
and Exporters.
“The conversation is ongoing,” he noted. “The regulators in both countries control
the agenda and some are more
open to change while others are
not interested.”
Business leaders from both
countries have pointed to the
regulatory streamlining that
Australia and New Zealand have
accomplished as a model for
the North American neighbours
to emulate, he said.
When the council was created, it was given 29 priority
areas to work on, and it should
commit to wrapping those up
during the next year, the letter
says. It also calls for the federal
cabinet to press for speedier
progress on an issue that has
been an irritant to business
since the Canada-U.S. Free
Trade Agreement was signed a
quarter of a century ago.
“Despite the FTA, and deeply
integrated industries and supply chains, regulators did not
align to meet modern business
realities in the vast majority of
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
Foreign worker hiring headache?
BRIEFS
Churchill
enjoys busy
shipping year
By Phil Franz-Warkentin
COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA
Churchill is nearing the
end of a busy grainshipping season, with
the tonnage moving
through the northern
port expected to come
in well above the previous year.
“We’ll be wrapping
up in the next 10 to 12
days,” Darcy Brede,
president and chief
operating officer of
OmniTRAX, said last
week.
More than 500,000
tonnes of grain and
oilseeds had moved
through the port as of
the end of October, and
the final tally should
exceed 600,000 tonnes,
said Brede. That compares to 460,000 tonnes
last year and the fiveyear average of about
550,000. October’s
shipments of 270,000
tonnes would likely set
a monthly record, he
added.
Wheat accounted for
most of the grain loaded
during the season, with
some durum and canola
also moving, said Brede.
Following the demise
the Canadian Wheat
Board’s single desk in
2012, Ottawa set up the
$25-million, five-year
Churchill Port Utilization Program to encourage shipments. Five
companies used the
port this year, and while
the CWB is still a major
customer, Richardson
International was the
biggest shipper this
year, said Brede.
“The logistics are
a little more intense
because there are more
customers,” said Brede.
“But when it comes
to operations, we love
problems like that.”
Aside from grain
movement, the shipping
season also included
three vessels loaded
with resupply shipments for the northern
territory of Nunavut,
said Brede.
Potential exports of
crude oil are still being
investigated, he said,
and many potential customers have expressed
interest as the port
has good access to the
European market, said
Brede. Stakeholder
meetings are currently
taking place, and a test
shipment will likely take
place in 2014. A test run
originally set for this fall
was postponed in order
to allow for further consultations.
Farm labour shortages continue to be a problem across Canada and especially
on the Prairies where oil dollars lure workers away from farms
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
B
ill Martin’s phone has been ringing
off the hook.
The vice-president of Saskatoonbased Farmers of North America got 30
calls in the first two days after his organization launched a new initiative last
month to streamline the process of getting temporary foreign workers.
“Members started calling in immediately after receiving notifications,” said
Martin.
“The feeling I had was kind of, ‘Oh,
we’ve hit a sensitive spot here.’”
Prairie farmers have been scrambling
for years to find and retain workers,
many of whom are lured away by high
wages in the oilpatch.
“The labour situation has become
more difficult in recent years,” Martin
said. “Farmers just can’t compete with oil
money. They just can’t do it.”
After surveying their members and
hearing the challenges they faced, the
company looked for a business part-
ner adept at navigating the regulations
around temporary foreign workers. It
has now joined forces with International
Labour Canada, a company that brings
in workers from areas in Eastern Europe,
such as Ukraine, as well as from Ireland.
But it’s not cheap — with the fee typically running about $4,000 per worker.
Nor can you expect to save on wages,
which range from $14 to $34 an hour,
minus some expenses.
“To be clear, this is not an inexpensive
option for farmers,” Martin said. “Anyone
who might claim Canadian farmers want
to use the program to get cheap labour
are either misinformed or flatly malicious.”
But given the current labour shortage,
farmers don’t have much choice, he said.
The Canadian Federation of Agriculture estimates the country is short by
roughly 30,000 seasonal farm workers,
and the federal government also recognizes the problem. But the regulatory
burden is daunting.
“You know, Immigration Canada, and
Employment Canada may ver y well
“I’ve run across numerous
examples of farmers telling
me that, ‘Yeah, we’ve tried this
before. We’ve tried to do it on
our own and we’ve spent three
years trying to jump through the
hoops, and we ultimately gave
up in frustration.’”
BILL MARTIN
say that this is a simple process... but
it’s not,” Martin said. “I’ve run across
numerous examples of farmers telling
me that, ‘Yeah, we’ve tried this before.
We’ve tried to do it on our own and we’ve
spent three years trying to jump through
the hoops, and we ultimately gave up in
frustration.’”
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WHO confirms
four more cases
of Middle East
virus
LONDON / REUTERS
Three more people
in Saudi Arabia have
become infected with
the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
coronavirus and one has
died, the World Health
Organization (WHO)
said Oct. 31, and it also
confirmed the first
MERS case in Oman.
In a disease outbreak
update, the Genevabased United Nations
health agency said the
four new cases bring the
number of people worldwide struck by the MERS
virus to 149, of which 63
have died.
Health authorities and
scientists are still trying to figure out what
kind of animal “reservoir” may be fuelling the
MERS outbreak.
The virus, which is
from the same family
as the one that caused
a deadly outbreak of
severe acute respiratory
syndrome SARS in 2002,
is thought to have originated in bats.
One study published
in August found strong
evidence that it is widespread among dromedary camels in the
Middle East.
MERS, which was
unknown in humans
until this earlier year,
has also since been
reported in people in
Tunisia, France, Germany, Italy, and Britain.
The WHO said the
patient in Oman is a
68-year-old man from
Al Dahkliya region who
became ill on Oct. 26.
“Investigations are
currently ongoing to
determine what exposures might be responsible for his infection,”
it said.
The three patients
in Saudi Arabia, one
woman and two men, all
had underlying medical conditions but all
reported having had no
contact with animals
before falling ill.
One of the Saudi
patients, however, was
reported to have been
in contact with another
person infected with
MERS.
The WHO says MERS
patients to date have
most commonly had
respiratory disease as
their primary illness.
Diarrhea is commonly
reported among the
patients and severe
complications include
kidney failure and acute
breathing difficulties.
“Health-care facilities that provide care for
patients suspected or
confirmed with MERS...
should take appropriate
measures to decrease
the risk of transmission
of the virus to other
patients, health-care
workers and visitors,” it
said.
The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
SUN SETS ON HARVEST 2013
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
CN rail reaches tentative deal
with Teamsters union
The agreement with 3,300 Teamster employees has yet to be ratified but it should keep the trains running
TORONTO / REUTERS
C
anadian National Railway Co., the country’s
largest rail operator,
agreed to a new labour contract for some 3,300 conductors, trainmen, yardmen and
traffic co-ordinators represented by the Teamsters union,
the railway said Oct. 31.
The tentative three-year
deal, the details of which were
withheld pending ratification,
comes after a week of talks
with government-appointed
mediators. It averts the possible disruption of a cross-country network that ships goods
ranging from lumber to crude
oil.
Talks had earlier stalled over
issues such as working longer
hours and having less rest time
between trips, the Teamsters
Canada Rail Conference union
had said.
Montreal-based CN, which
reported market-beating
quarterly profit Oct. 29, has
said that none of its proposals would compromise worker
health or safety.
The Teamsters’ previous contract expired on July 22.
Labour peace at the railways comes at a particularly
good time for Canadian farmers, who have a record crop
that must move to market. The
Grain Growers of Canada had
asked the government to take
“swift and decisive” action in
the event of a strike.
Canada’s government has
been quick to intervene in
recent years, sending unionized staff at railways and air-
lines back to work several
times.
Last May, it used legislation
to end a Teamsters strike at
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.,
Canada’s No. 2 railway, forcing
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and traffic controllers back to
their jobs.
That strike, over pension
funding, would have cost the
Canadian economy an estimated $540 million in economic activity each week, the
labour minister said at the
time.
CN’s labour issues come
amid a renewed focus on rail
safety in Canada.
The company’s main line was
closed for several days after 13
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ntario Tory MP Bev Shipley is the new chair of the
Commons agriculture
committee, replacing former
Brandon MP Merv Tweed, who
resigned his seat to become president of OmniTRAX Canada.
The 66-year-old Shipley, first
elected in 2006, was a member of
the committee for several years
before moving to the international trade committee. Discussion of the tentative free trade
deal with Europe is likely to dominate upcoming committee hearings, he said, adding it will likely
focus on the U.S. country-of-origin labelling law in the new year.
Tyson Foods recently announced
it will no longer import finished
cattle from Canada because of
changes to the COOL regulations
have increased the cost segregating animals and labelling the
meat from them.
Shipley said he also wants
the committee to look at ways
to reduce the costs of government regulation on farmers. A
farmer before entering politics,
he pointed to the time it takes
to register new products and get
generic products on to the market as examples of regulations
adding unnecessary costs for
farms.
With the next federal election not scheduled until the fall
of 2015, Shipley, a cash cropper
and purebred dairy cattle breeder,
has two years to put his stamp on
the committee. Traditionally it
has been one of the least partisan
committees in Parliament.
Meanwhile, longtime NDP
Ag Critic Alex Atamanenko has
announced that he will not be
running in the next election.
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COLUMN
Corn prices continue to trend lower —
posting a three-year low
A record U.S. corn crop and tripling of carry-out stocks
is putting pressure on prices
David Drozd
Market Outlook
C
orn on the nearby weekly
futures contract has lost 50
per cent of its value since
rallying to a record high of $8.433/4 in August 2012. Cash prices
are closer to $3.50 per bushel — a
price not seen since July 2010.
Pressuring the market is the
United States Department of
Agriculture’s estimate of a record
13.84-billion-bushel U.S. corn
crop and a 1.86-billion-bushel
carry-out for the 2013-14 crop
year. This certainly alleviates the
tight ending stocks situation experienced during the 2012-13 crop
year when supplies were drawn
down to 661 million bushels.
The last time the U.S. had
a corn carry-out similar to this
year’s forecast was in 2009-10,
when the ending stocks were
1.7 billion bushels. During that
period, the nearby futures contract traded between $4.20 and
$3.20 per bushel.
Some are surprised prices have
declined to current levels, especially farmers who may be growing corn for the first time. Last
year’s record-high prices resulted
in corn being one of the crops
having the highest return. This
inspired first-time growers to try
their hand at producing a crop of
corn this year.
Others may not have been surprised by the downturn given the
reversal pattern that materialized
on the monthly nearby futures
candlestick chart, at the market’s
high, 15 months ago.
Introduction to
candlestick charting
Candlestick charting provides an
insight into market activity that is
not readily apparent with the conventional bar-type charts. When
you see a black candle you know
the sentiment is bearish. When
the candle is white, it is bullish.
The Japanese are regarded
as the true pioneers of market
technical analysis. They began
trading forward rice contracts
(Futures) in 1654 and by the
year 1750 had developed quite a
refined system for analyzing the
markets.
These same techniques have
evolved over 2-1/2 centuries into
an amazingly powerful modernday charting method called candlestick. The Japanese method
of charting is called candlestick
because the individual lines
resemble candles.
CBOT corn monthly nearby
Chart as of October 30, 2013
Basic construction of
a candlestick line
The daily line shows the open,
high, low and close. The thick
part or candle is called the real
body. It highlights the range
between the open and close.
If the close is above the open,
then the body will be white.
When the real body is black this
simply means the close was
below the open.
The lines above and below
the real body represent the high
and low ranges for the period
and are called shadows.
A long black body illustrates a
bearish period in the market with
an opening near the day’s high
and close near the day’s low.
A long white body is the
opposite of a long black body
and shows technical strength
with an opening near the low
and a close near the high in a
wide range period.
Spinning tops are lines with
small real bodies. The small
body represents a tight range
between the open and close.
Spinning tops are regarded
as neutral in most situations.
However, when combined with
other patterns they can be very
significant; such was the case
when the harami developed at
the top of the corn market.
Harami lines
The harami line is similar to
an inside day used in bar chart
analysis. However, this interpretation suggests a waning
in momentum and a possible
trend change. As illustrated in
the accompanying chart, the
short black body of the harami
must be contained by a long
real white body preceding it.
A reversal pattern of any kind is
more significant when it not only
occurs at a market high, but when
it appears on a long-term chart
such as a monthly or weekly chart.
Having a basic understanding of candlestick charting is
an invaluable tool for being
alerted to the major turns in
the market.
Send your questions or comments about this article and
chart to [email protected].
David Drozd is president and senior
market analyst for Winnipeg-based
Ag-Chieve Corporation. The opinions
expressed are those of the writer and
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New U.S.
beef import
rules could
also help
U.S. exports
Remembering those who served
The EU has welcomed
the move, saying it could
reopen a market that has
been closed to its beef
since 1998
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T
he United States issued
new impor t r ules for
cattle and beef Nov. 1
that will comply with international standards for the
prevention of mad cow disease, saying the step could
ultimately boost U.S. beef
exports.
The European Union said
the U.S. move would bring a
welcome reopening of a market closed to its beef since
January 1998.
Lawmakers and industr y
groups also welcomed the
news, saying it would help the
United States regain access to
markets that have been closed
for decades.
World trade in beef was
jolted in the 1980s by the discovery of mad cow disease,
a fatal brain-wasting disease
in cattle, formally known as
bovine spongiform encepha l o p a t h y. M a n y n a t i o n s
restricted imports, some of
which remain in place, out of
fear of a human version of the
illness.
“Making these changes will
further demonstrate to our
trading partners our commitment to international
standards and sound science,
and we are hopeful it will
help open new markets and
remove remaining restrictions
on U.S. products,” said USDA
chief veterinarian John Clifford.
As an example of the new
revisions, the U.S. Departm e n t o f A g r i c u l t u re s a i d
boneless beef could be
imported because research
has shown the meat poses
a negligible risk of mad cow
disease. Until now, imports
were restr icted from most
nations that had reported a
case of the disease.
The USDA said the new
revisions, which will be published in coming days and
take effect 90 days afterward,
would not weaken U.S. safeguards.
“ This effort is crucial to
breaking down other countries’ unfounded trade barriers, and reopening trade
markets that are closed to
U.S. beef,” said Debbie Stabenow, chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Stabenow said Mexico
employed a non-scientific
limit on U.S. cattle exports
by refusing to allow entry of
animals over 30 months of
age. She said U.S. producers lose an estimated $100
m i l l i o n a ye a r because of
the limit.
The National Cattlemen’s
Beef Association said the new
rules were “great news for the
U.S. cattle industry and integral to our efforts to further
expand international trade.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
U.S. meat-labelling law now Farm Bill target
Legislators say the risk of international sanctions is too high to justify
By Charles Abbott
WASHINGTON / REUTERS
M
embers of a select
House-Senate panel
have targeted for
potential repeal a U.S. meatlabelling law that Mexico and
Canada have challenged as a
violation of world trade rules,
and that U.S. meat packers also
oppose.
The country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law requires labels
on packages of beef, pork, poultry and lamb sold in U.S. stores
to carry specific information on
the source of the meat. The U.S.
terms it a “consumer information” program.
While favoured by consumer groups, COOL has been
a lightning rod for dispute for
more than a decade. Congress
approved meat-origin labelling
in 2002, but it did not become
mandatory until 2009.
The United States rewrote
the regulations this year in an
attempt to satisfy a 2012 World
Trade Organization ruling, but
has been challenged again at the
WTO.
At the first negotiating session on a final version of the
new $500-billion U.S. Farm Bill,
several lawmakers said COOL
should be revised or repealed, in
part because of the risk of international sanctions.
“I am hopeful that working together we can prevent the
imposition of tariffs on a wide
array of products important to
many states,” said House Agriculture Committee chairman Frank
Lucas in an opening statement.
Under congressional protocol, he
chairs the Farm Bill talks.
Canada and Mexico say the
law led to a decline in sales of
their cattle and hogs because of
additional costs to handle them.
U.S. meat packers say COOL is a
bookkeeping headache that also
drives up costs.
Defenders such as the
National Farmers Union and the
Consumer Federation of America say COOL helps shoppers
make informed decisions on
their meat purchases. They said
there is no need for Congress to
intervene.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says COOL is not a food
safety or traceability program.
Foreign food products must still
meet U.S. food safety standards.
Republican Senator Pat Roberts from Kansas, one of the
largest U.S. cattle states, said he
would support a House provision that was under development and expected to be a
repeal clause for COOL.
Senate Agriculture chairwoman Debbie Stabenow said
COOL “clearly is one of the
issues” for Farm Bill negotiators.
As the Farm Bill conference
kicked off, negotiators, with
a target of completing work
before year-end, remain divided
on potential cuts to food stamp
funding, but agree on many
other elements of the legislation.
President Barack Obama has
listed the Farm Bill as one of
three priorities for completion
this year. The administration has
not spelled out how it will take
part in the bill’s final stages.
Conservative Republicans
want to cut food stamps by $39
billion over a decade, the largest
cuts in at least a generation and
10 times the amount proposed
by the Senate.
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Eat your salmon and flax, but watch the pills
Researchers say omega-3 supplements may be too much of a good thing
W
hen it comes to
omega-3 fatty acid,
the dose may make
the poison, say researchers at
Oregon State University.
“Overall, we support the dietary recommendations from
the American Heart Association to eat fish, particularly
fatty fish like salmon, mackerel, lake trout or sardines, at
least two times a week, and
for those at risk of coronary
artery disease to talk to their
doctor about supplements,”
OSU associate professor, Norman Hord said in a release.
Flaxseed, either consumed
directly or as a feed supplement for meat and eggs, is
also a source of omega-3s.
Studies have shown that
omega-3s are associated with
lower risk of cardiovascular
disease. However, the OSU
researchers say that excess
consumption of omega-3
supplements on top of dietar y sources can lead to
inflammation such as colitis and reduced immune
response.
They say an increasing
amount of products, such as
eggs, bread, butters, oils and
orange juice, are being “fortified” with omega-3s. Hord
said this fortified food, coupled with fish oil supplement
use, increases the potential
for consuming these high
levels.
“We’re not against using
fish oil supplements appropriately, but there is a potential for risk,” Hord said. “As
is all true with any nutrient,
taking too much can have
negative effects. We need to
establish clear biomarkers
through clinical trials.”
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BRIEFS
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Cut in food
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By Charles Abbott
and Lisa Baertlein
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in food stamps, the first
across-the-board reduction
in the history of the decades-old federal program,
took effect.
But if conservative
Republicans in Congress
get their way, this week’s
pullback may be just a taste
of what’s to come for some
of the almost 48 million
Americans who receive
benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program.
SNAP, the largest U.S.
anti-hunger program,
is designed to help poor
people — most of them
children, disabled or elderly
— buy food. But enrolment has doubled and the
program’s cost has nearly
tripled since 2004, and has
remained at record levels even as the economy
improves and unemployment declines.
Critics say the surge
shows reform is vital as part
of federal deficit reduction.
Defenders say the high
enrolment is a sign of the
weak recovery from the
2008-09 recession and sluggish job growth.
The cuts Nov. 1 reflect
the expiration of benefits
authorized by the 2009
economic stimulus package, just as other temporary
elements of the package —
including a two-year payroll
tax “holiday” — have ended
over time.
The Center for Budget
and Policy Priorities, a
think-tank that explores
ways to reduce poverty, said
benefits would drop by an
average of seven per cent, or
$10 per person per month.
In fiscal 2012, the average benefit per person was
about $133 per month,
according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Ukraine loads
first maize cargo
to China
KIEV / REUTERS /Ukraine’s
state-run grain firm GPZKU
is loading a 70,000-tonne
maize cargo for China, the
first-ever Ukrainian maize
shipment to the Chinese
market, a government
source said Oct. 31.
The source said about
40,000 tonnes of maize have
been loaded as of Oct. 31
onto a vessel in Ukraine’s
Black Sea Port of Yuzhny.
Ukraine’s Agriculture
Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk told Reuters
this month that the former
Soviet republic would ship
its first maize cargo to China
by the end of October.
He said a second vessel
must leave Ukraine by
Nov. 30.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
Grain buyers busy during
U.S. government shutdown
Corn and soy net exports were sharply above trade estimates during the 16-day blackout
CHICAGO / REUTERS
C
hina and other big grain
importers embarked
o n a c o r n a n d s oybean buying spree dur ing
the U.S. government’s 16-day
shutdown last month, taking advantage of a lapse in
mandatory reporting of their
deals, data showed Oct. 31.
Figures from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture,
which had halted collection of
required weekly grain export
sales information during the
shutdown, showed purchases
in the three weeks to Oct. 24
had far outstripped analysts’
expectations, despite weeks of
market chatter about unusually large purchases.
“It does play out the notion
that when nobody is watch-
Pigeon
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Investors lost an
estimated $20 million
By Jim Romahn
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
T
he jury trial of
Arlan Galbraith,
founder of Pigeon
King International, began
Nov. 4 in Kitchener, Ont.
and is expected to last
until Christmas.
He started the business
in 2001, attracted thousands of investors to buy
breeding pairs for about
$500 and signed contracts to buy back all of
the offspring at highly
profitable prices, but
declared bankruptcy in
June, 2008.
About $20-million
worth of contracts
became worthless after
the bankruptcy. Investors from the Mennonite communities across
Nor th Amer ica were
prominent in the business.
Galbraith is insisting
on representing himself
without a lawyer, defying
persistent advice from
the judge who handled
the preliminary hearing.
Galbraith faces charges
of fraud and violating the
Bankruptcy Act.
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investors simply made a
bad business decision,
but laid criminal charges
after 2-1/2 years of investigation.
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ing, the Chinese will be in to
buy,” said Citigroup futures
specialist Sterling Smith.
Sales of corn and soybeans
for the three-week per iod
both topped 4.5 million
tonnes, exceptionally high
even on a pro rata weekly
basis. A slump in prices that
took benchmark U.S. corn
prices to their lowest in three
years probably also spurred
buying.
All sales to export U.S.
grain must be reported to the
USDA on a weekly basis, and
larger one-off deals must be
reported daily. This system
was instituted following the
1972 “great grain robbery” in
which the Soviet Union quietly arranged a series of big
export deals that drove up
U.S. prices.
But that system went on
hold during the shutdown.
Only on Oct. 31 was the
USDA able to release tabulated sales made during the
three weeks up to Oct. 24,
publishing the data in a single batch rather than as three
separate weeks.
Topping 4.5 million
Net export sales of soybeans
for the current marketing year
(2013-14) totalled 4,742,000
tonnes, well above the high
end of a range of estimates at
three million tonnes.
C h i n a , t h e w o r l d’s l a rg est buyer of soybeans,
bought nearly half of the soy
(2,112,300 tonnes), and there
was a large sale of 550,800
tonnes to an unknown destination. Mexico, Russia, Indo-
nesia, Taiwan and Japan also
bought large volumes.
Corn sales likewise were
huge at 4,555,500 tonnes for
the current marketing year,
nearly twice as large as the
high end of 2.5 million in the
range of trade estimates.
Me x i c o a c c o u n t e d f o r a
large purchase of 1,689,400
tonnes and also bought
734,400 tonnes for delivery
during the next marketing
year (2014-15).
“A big surprise was the very
big sales to Mexico,” Smith
said. “All in all, these export
numbers should provide at
least some suppor t to the
market.”
Japan also was a big buyer,
and China purchased 777,600
tonnes of cor n dur ing the
three-week period.
“Those are big export numbers, but the market reaction
is muted,” a Chicago trader
said. “I’m also hearing there
was more U.S. corn export
business done overnight, and
that shouldn’t be too surprising at these low values (U.S.
corn prices).”
C h i c a g o B o a rd o f Tra d e
corn futures have fallen to the
lowest level in three years as
U.S. farmers continue harvesting what is likely a recordlarge crop approaching 14.0
billion bushels.
The three-week total
for wheat exports stood at
1,308,800 tonnes, below
the low end of estimates at
1,500,000 tonnes.
“Wheat sales were about as
expected — market neutral,”
Smith said.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
Recommended malting barley
varietal list released
There are several up-and-coming varieties that could become dominant players in the future
Staff
T
h e Ca n a d i a n Ma l t i n g
Barley Technical Centre
has released the list of
recommended malting barley varieties for the upcoming
crop year.
The recommendations
are based on the varieties
expected to be selected by
grain and malting companies
for both domestic and export
markets for the 2014 harvest,
the centre says in a release.
Four two-row varieties, AC
Me t c a l f e, C D C C o p e l a n d ,
C D C Me r e d i t h , a n d C D C
PolarStar, are expected to represent 80 to 85 per cent of the
anticipated selections. There
are five up-and-comers, Newdale, Major, Bentley, Merit 57
and CDC Kindersley, that will
represent 15 to 20 per cent of
the selections next year and
could become dominant variSEC_CAR11_T_MC.qxd 8/26/11
eties in the future, it says.
Recommended six-row varieties are Legacy, Tradition and
Celebration.
The list is published on
behalf of the members of the
CMBTC, and other companies
that have provided their input.
CMBTC members are Alberta
Agriculture, Alberta Barley
Commission, Alfred C. Toepfer
Canada, The CWB, Canadian
Grain Commission, CANTERRA
SEEDS, Cargill AgHorizons,
Fedoruk Seeds, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Manitoba Liquor
Control Commission, Molson
Coors, Parrish & Heimbecker,
Richardson International, SABMiller, Saskatchewan Agriculture, Prairie Malt Limited, the
Public Malt Barley Breeders,
SeCan, Syngenta Canada and
Viterra.
“I would once again like to
thank all of our members as
well as the industry for helping
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us put together this list as it is
important information for the
producer, aiding them in making their seeding decisions for
the coming year,” said CMBTC
managing director Rob McCaig
in a release.
“With the changes made to
marketing of Canadian malting barley the generation of this
list was a challenging collaborative effort between all parts of
the malt barley value chain,” he
said. “With these changes the
list becomes even more important in providing the farmer
with a clear indication of the
requirements of the domestic
and international maltsters and
brewers.”
The recommendations are
based on feedback CMBTC
members received through
contacts with domestic and
international maltsters and
brewers as well as test malting
and brewing results from the
centre’s pilot-scale malthouse
and brewery. “The list clearly
indicates the increasing acceptance of our new Canadian barley varieties by the international
and domestic barley users,”
McCaig said.
The CMBTC, which started in
August 2000, is an independent,
non-profit organization funded
by members of the malting barley and malt industry. For more
information on this year’s list go
to: www.cmbtc.com.
Recommended Malting Barley Varieties 2014-15
These recommendations are based on the varieties expected to be selected by grain and malting companies for both domestic
and export markets from the 2014 harvest. Seeding decisions should be based on agronomic considerations and feedback from
your grain company representative, local elevator operators and malting companies. This list is published on behalf of the
members of the CMBTC, and other companies that have provided their input. Varieties not listed are not recommended. The
varieties are listed in descending order to the amount expected to be selected next crop year.
Recommended Two-Row Barley Varieties
VARIETY
DOMESTIC
EXPORT
AC Metcalfe4
Established
CDC Meredith4
Established
Limited
CDC PolarStar5 **
Established
Established
CDC Copeland4
Established
Established
Established
The four varieties above will represent 80 to 85% of the anticipated selections.
The varieties in the table below represent 15 – 20% of the anticipated selections and it is expected that several of them
will become dominant varieties in the future.
VARIETY
Newdale3
Major1
COMMERCIALIZATION STATUS
Established
Merit 575
Increasing
Increasing
Increasing
Bentley5
CDC Kindersley4
Increasing
Note: Norman, Cerveza, CDC Landis, ABI Voyager, and
AAC Synergy are not yet being grown for the commercial
market. Production is limited to quantities required for
testing and market development. **CDC Polarstar is
available only through a closed loop Identity
Preserved program offered by Prairie Malt
Limited/Sapporo Breweries and their agents.
Recommended Six-Row Barley Varieties
VARIETY
Legacy1,2,3
DOMESTIC
Established
EXPORT
Established
Celebration5
Limited
Limited
Tradition1,2,3
Established
Established
CDC Mayfair and CDC Anderson are not yet being grown for the commercial market. Production is limited to quantities required for testing and
market development. Please talk to your local malting company selector in regards to demand for Lacey and Robust.
“Domestic” as used in this publication, means barley selected for domestic processing into malt to supply domestic brewers as well as for malt
destined for export. “Export” is that malting barley designated for markets outside of Canada including the U.S., shipped as unmalted grain.
The following companies have pedigreed seed distribution rights for those varieties that are footnoted:
1-Viterra; 2- BARI-Canada; 3 – FP Genetics; 4 - SeCan; 5 – CANTERRA SEEDS
The CMBTC and its’ members recommends the use of Certified seed to ensure varietal purity and to
increase opportunity for selection.
CMBTC Members: Alfred C. Toepfer (Canada) Ltd., CANTERRA SEEDS, CWB, Canadian Grain Commission, Cargill
AgHorizons, SABMiller, Richardson International, Parrish and Heimbecker, Prairie Malt Limited, the Public Barley Breeders,
Syngenta Canada Inc, SeCan, Manitoba Liquor Control Commission, Alberta Agriculture, Saskatchewan Agriculture, Manitoba
Agriculture Food and Rural Development, Molson Coors, Alberta Barley Commission, Fedoruk Seeds, FP Genetics and Viterra.
Other organizations providing input to this list: BARI-Canada, BMBRI
Questions? Call your selector, seed company, grain handling company, or contact the CMBTC at
204-984-4399 ([email protected])
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Food giants pour
millions into defeating
GMO labelling measure
Vote was to be held Nov. 5, with a recent poll showing a close race
By Eric M. Johnson and Carey Gillam
Reuters
M
ajor U.S. food and
chemical companies are
pouring millions of dollars into efforts to block approval
of a ballot initiative in Washington state that would make it the
first in the United States to require
labelling of foods containing
genetically modified crops.
Despite early strong support
for the measure, a recent poll
suggests sentiment against the
measure, known as I-522, is growing amid an onslaught of corporate-financed advertising ahead
of the referendum which was to
be held Nov. 5. Voters will decide
whether many common grocery
items containing ingredients from
genetically altered crops should
be labelled as such.
Supporters say labelling foods
made from genetically modified
organisms (GMOs) would provide
information for consumers to
make informed shopping choices.
Food and chemical companies
say the wording would suggest
something is wrong with genemodified ingredients that the
companies believe are safe.
Many foods are made with
crops that have been genetically
altered. Corn and soy, two top
biotech crops, are key ingredients
in processed foods from cereal to
chips to cookies.
The Grocery Manufacturers
Association (GMA), which represents more than 300 food and
beverage companies, has put
roughly $11 million into fighting
the measure, or roughly half of
the nearly $22 million raised by
opponents of labelling, according to Washington Public Disclosure Commission figures as of
Oct. 29.
That far outstrips the roughly
$6.8 million raised by supporters
of the labelling initiative, according to the commission.
“They are making this the most
expensive race and are desperately adding last-minute money
to try and buy this election,” said
Liz Larter, spokeswoman for “Yes
on 522” campaign, a reference to
the ballot measure’s number.
federal government wrestle with
whether to require labelling.
A similar labelling measure narrowly failed in the 2012 election
in California by a vote of 51.4 per
cent against to 48.6 per cent in
favour.
Heavy spending
A consortium that includes General Mills, Nestle USA, PepsiCo,
Monsanto, DuPont and other
corporate giants, are the key contributors to the nearly $22 million
raised to campaign against the
bill.
Monsanto, the world’s largest
seed company and top developer
of biotech crops, has put in nearly
$5.4 million to fight the labelling,
including $540,000 added on
Monday.
In September, one poll showed
support for labelling led opposition by 45 percentage points. But
another survey released on Oct.
21 showed support leading by
only four points.
David Bronner, president of
Escondido, Calif.-based Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps and a supporter
of labelling, said the ballot initiative may lose in Washington state,
but he sees eventual victory in
some state or on a federal level.
The soap company is the chief
financial backer for the pro-labelling campaign, contributing more
than $1.7 million. It makes an
array of cleanser and lotion products it markets as organic.
“We’re in this for a long haul,”
Bronner said. “Even if we lose here
we’re still feeding the national
debate and conversation. We’ll get
it eventually.”
A consortium that includes General Mills, Nestle USA, PepsiCo, Monsanto,
DuPont and other corporate giants, are the key contributors to the nearly $22
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NEWS
BURNING ROADSIDE VEGETATION
U.S. judge tosses
lawsuit to block
horse slaughter
By Tim Gaynor
REUTERS
Burning stubble and roadsides near Warren last week reduced visibility for drivers.
PHOTO: SHANNON VANRAES
S
ALL M SERIE
A U.S. federal judge tossed
out a lawsuit Nov. 1 that
sought to block inspections of horses destined for
slaughter, potentially clearing the way for the resumption of equine killing for
human consumption.
A U.S. district judge in
New Mexico threw out a
lawsuit by the Humane
Society of the United States
and other animal protection
groups lodged in July that
sought to permanently halt
the slaughter of horses.
The suit alleged that the
Department of Agriculture
failed to carry out environmental reviews before it
gave approval to Roswell,
New Mexico-based Valley Meat Co., Responsible
Transportation, in Iowa, and
Rains Natural Meats, in Missouri, to slaughter horses for
human consumption.
In a 33-page ruling, Chief
United States District Judge
Christina Armijo concluded
“that the grants of inspection were properly issued.”
She dismissed the lawsuit,
and denied a request for
permanent injunction
sought by the plaintiffs.
The groups alleged in the
suit that horses are given
medications not approved
for livestock so the waste
products of slaughter plants
may include pollutants.
Following Armijo’s ruling, their lawyers lodged a
notice to appeal the ruling
to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Tenth
Circuit.
The Humane Society of
the United States said in a
statement it would “not only
appeal the decision, but
also work with the states to
block the plants from opening in Iowa, Missouri and
New Mexico and step up its
efforts in Congress to stop
the slaughter of American
horses.”
Horsemeat cannot be
sold as food in the United
States, but it can be
exported. The meat is sold
for human consumption
in China, Russia, Mexico
and other countries and is
sometimes used as feed for
zoo animals.
Congress effectively
banned horse slaughter in
2006 by saying the USDA
could not spend any money
to inspect the plants.
Without USDA inspectors,
slaughterhouses cannot
operate.
The ban had been
extended a year at a time as
part of USDA funding bills,
but the language was omitted in 2011.
Groups have argued for
years about whether a ban
on slaughter would save
horses from an inhumane
death or cause owners to
abandon animals they no
longer want or cannot afford
to feed and treat for illness.
Nearly 159,000 horses were
exported from the United
States to Canada and Mexico
during 2012, most likely for
slaughter, officials said.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
Good growing conditions allow
producers to replenish forage supplies
Alfalfa yields of 1.5 tonnes, or more, per acre were reported across the Prairies
By Brandon Logan
commodity news service canada
A
good year has allowed
Prairie producers to
replenish forage sup-
plies.
“For the most part, yields
were average to above average,” said Daphne Cruise,
regional crops specialist for
Saskatchewan Agriculture. “It
looks like we’re still fairly average in terms of quality.”
Alfalfa and alfalfa/brome
hay, which make up the
majority of forage crops in
Saskatchewan, averaged 1.7
tonnes per acre — far above
the 10-year average of 1.2
tonnes per acre, she said.
The big crop was desperately needed.
“A lot of producers, by the
time it came to putting cattle
on pastures this past spring,
had quite decreased stocks,
and in some cases, depleted
stocks,” said Cruise.
“I think going into the winter, it sounds like everybody
has enough hay, but I don’t
think there’s a lot of surplus
out there.”
Manitoba is also reporting
adequate to above-average
feed supplies, according to
Manitoba Agriculture, Food,
and Rural Initiatives.
In the Interlake, yields for
alfalfa were 1.75 tonnes per
acre for the first cut, 0.66
tonnes per acre for the second cut, and 0.25 tonnes for
the third and final cut. Alfalfa/
grass and tame hay yielded 1.5
tonnes per acre on the first cut
and 0.66 tonnes per acre on
the second cut. Native hay was
one tonne per acre for the only
cut and greenfeed was two
tonnes per acre for its only cut.
It’s t h e s a m e s t o r y i n
Alberta, said Ken Ziegler, forage specialist with Alberta
Agriculture.
“Overall, we’ve had good
yields and no hungry pockets
throughout the province,” he
said. “Many years there would
be districts that have timely
rains and good yields, while
another district a few hours
“I think going into the winter, it sounds like
everybody has enough hay, but I don’t think
there’s a lot of surplus out there.”
Daphne Cruise
Regional crops specialist for Saskatchewan Agriculture
away would have missed the
rains and their yields would be
less than what would be considered acceptable. We didn’t
experience that here this year.”
Most producers in Alberta
saw two or three cuts, leading to strong supplies for producers heading into winter, he
said.
“This would certainly take
care of any carry-over deficiencies,” he said. “I think we’re in a
good position. Another factor
playing in is the cost of grain.
Grain is plentiful and cheap
this year, so that’s certainly
going to be an alternative for
livestock producers to top up
as need arises.”
Kansas State
and Bayer
to develop
hybrid wheat
Bayer will have access
to K-State’s extensive
germplasm stocks
Staff
B
ayer Crop Science and
Kansas State University
(K-State) have signed a
wheat germplasm and technology
licence agreement to promote the
further improvement and development of hybrid wheat.
“Hybrid wheat is a difficult
technical challenge, but the payoff
will be in a substantial potential
for increased yields for growers,”
Ernie Minton, associate director
of research for K-State Research
and Extension said in a release.
K-State’s Wheat Genetic
Resource Center (WGRC) will help
identify traits that are potentially
useful for hybrid wheat production and that are naturally available in their extensive collection
of grass species which are closely
related to cultivated wheat. Bayer
will work with K-State researchers
and scientists to develop a traitdiscovery pipeline for efficient
hybrid wheat crop production
using K-State’s genetic stocks.
The agreement allows Bayer
CropScience to license K-State’s
germplasm and related intellectual property rights.
“Wheat is an ancient crop that
has gone through much change
and continues to undergo change.
With this agreement, our expertise in wheat genetics and genomics, combined with Bayer’s global
expertise and wheat leadership,
will help one of the world’s most
important crops to advance,”
John Floros, dean of the College of
Agriculture said in the release.
As part of the collaboration,
K-State also will establish an
endowed chair for wheat genetics research and breeding. The
endowed chair will be named
for Bikram Gill, university distinguished professor of plant pathology and director of the Wheat
Genetic Resource Center.
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WHAT’S UP
AUTUMN VISTA
Please forward your agricultural
events to daveb@fbcpublishing.
com or call 204-944-5762.
Nov. 7: Value of shelterbelts for
Prairire communities, Morden
Friendship Centre, 306 North
Railway Ave., Morden. For more
info call: 204-362-0352.
Nov. 7: Manitoba Beef Producers
District 6 meeting and elections, 6
p.m., Royal Canadian Legion, 291
Assiniboine St. W., Oak Lake. For
more info visit www.mbbeef.ca or
call 1-800-772-0458.
Nov. 7-9: Dairy Sheep Association
of North America symposium,
Cambridge Hotel and Conference
Centre, 700 Hespeler Rd.,
Cambridge, Ont. For more info visit
www.dsana.org.
This country road east of Deloraine in the Turtle Mountains invites a ramble.
Nov. 8: Manitoba Beef Producers
District 4 meeting and elections, 6
p.m., Ukrainian Home of Vita Hall,
209 Main St. N., Vita. For more
info visit www.mbbeef.ca or call
1-800-772-0458.
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Nov. 12: Manitoba Beef Producers
District 12 meeting and elections,
6 p.m., Westlake Community Hall,
Hwy. 68, Eddystone. For more
info visit www.mbbeef.ca or call
1-800-772-0458.
Get ahead and
stay ahead
Nov. 13: Manitoba Beef Producers
District 9 meeting and elections, 6
p.m., Sungro Centre, 360 Veterans
Lane, Beausejour. For more info
visit www.mbbeef.ca or call
1-800-772-0458.
Nov. 14: Manitoba Beef Producers
District 1 meeting, 6 p.m.,
Community Hall, 40 First Ave.,
Medora. For more info call 1-800772-0458 or visit www.mbbeef.ca.
Nov. 15: Manitoba Beef Producers
District 5 meeting, 6 p.m.,
Memorial Hall, 224 Second Ave.,
Carberry. For more info visit www.
mbbeef.ca or call 1-800-772-0458.
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Nov. 17-19: Manitoba Farm
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Portage la Prairie. For more info
visit www.manitobafarmwomens
conference.ca.
Nov. 18: Manitoba Beef Producers
District 7 meeting, 6 p.m.,
Community Hall, 315 The Drive,
Shoal Lake. For more info visit www.
mbbeef.ca or call 1-800-772-0458.
Nov. 20: Canadian Association of
Farm Advisors (CAFA) “Current &
Connected” conference, Heritage
Centre, 100 Heritage Trail, Niverville.
For more info call 1-877-474-2871
or visit www.cafanet.com.
Dec. 3-5: GrowCanada
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Dec. 9-11: Canadian Forage and
Grassland Association conference,
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College, 4601-46th Ave., Olds, Alta.
For more info call 204-726-9393
or visit www.canadianfga.ca/
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Jan. 29-31: Keystone Agricultural
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Boissevain men’s wear
store still going strong
after a century in business
Service and honesty are the keys to success for one of rural Manitoba’s
few remaining family-owned and -operated retail clothing stores
Rural retail circa 1898. Welch’s Men’s Furnishings occupied the same location in Boissevain until 2000, when Wayne and Ken Pringle moved the
operation to a new, larger shop on South Railway Street. PHOTO: SUBMITTED
By Daniel Winters
CO-OPERATOR STAFF / BOISSEVAIN
C
entury farms are rare enough,
but family-owned rural retailers
that have managed to survive —
and even thrive — in the era of big-box
megastores are even harder to find.
Pringle’s Men’s Wear, one of three
retailers awarded the province’s new
Century Recognition Business Awards,
has managed to buck the trend.
About a decade ago, at a time when
the decline of mom-and-pop stores
started to pick up speed, Wayne Pringle
and son Ken were moving out of the
old store the business had occupied
since 1898 and into a new location that
was twice as large.
“Our business gets bigger every year
— we draw from a huge area,” said
Wayne. “There’s basically no men’s
wear stores left anymore in rural Manitoba. Years ago, every small town used
to have one.”
On a Wednesday afternoon, the
immaculately dressed elder Pringle
could be seen gliding noiselessly across
the carpet of his 5,000-square-foot
store, cracking jokes, answering phone
calls, and serving a steady stream of
customers with a ready smile.
He and his brother Del bought the
operation in 1963 from the founding family that owned Welch’s Men’s
Furnishings, which originally specialized in shoe sales and repairs when it
opened shop in 1894.
Third generation
Now, three generations of Pringles
work in the store, along with a handful
of staff.
There’s a wide variety of work
clothes, shoes, and sporting goods —
not to mention about 150 complete
men’s dress suits on their rack that
are a notch or two higher in quality
than those sold by the chain stores
about 40 minutes away in Brandon.
And they also do trophy engraving,
sharpen skates, and repair the newfangled hockey sticks that cost $300
each.
After 51 years in the business,
Wayne has learned a thing or two
about retail.
Service is the key to beating the bigbox giants. That means no commission sales, and honesty in all dealings.
If something looks ridiculous on a
customer, he tells them. But gently, of
course.
“I’ve been to those big stores. It’s all,
‘Oh yeah, everything looks good on
you.’ And I think, ‘God are they colour
blind or what?’” Wayne said with a
laugh.
In a small town with a shrinking
population, a retailer can’t afford to
lose a single customer, said Ken, who
began his retailing education three
decades ago in “the school of Wayne”
at the age of 12.
“A lot of people can’t work with
their parents, but for us, we get
along good,” said Ken, who has since
brought his own son Jay into the operation.
The two key factors were his father’s
patience and his willingness to let him
make his own mistakes, he said.
Staples sell
For example, when they started going
to annual trade shows to book the
year’s orders and stay abreast of the
latest trends, Ken naturally was drawn
to items that caught his fancy — not
the “staple” articles that sell and pay
the bills.
“He used to say, ‘If you only buy the
things that you like, you won’t be in
business long enough to see a season’s
change,’” said Ken.
Tradition, and the store’s long history, add to the atmosphere at Pringle’s. Displayed atop high shelves are
wool suits from the 1920s, a pair of the
famous high-top felt boots that oldtimers still insist are without equal
in terms of winter warmth, a collection of antique hockey skates, and a
wooden tennis racket.
As a kind of good-natured prank,
the store also has a few pairs of women’s fancy high-button-up leather
shoes on a top shelf.
From another time, they appear to
be within an arm’s reach, but sadly out
of reach, for some.
“Ladies often say, ‘I wouldn’t mind
buying a pair of those.’ I tell them,
those little shoes are probably 75 to
100 years old, and I don’t have them
Wayne Pringle holds the Century Recognition
Business Award his store received for 100
years in business. PHOTO: DANIEL WINTERS
for sale,” Wayne said with a mischievous grin.
Old Mr. Welch, the previous owner,
was a rich merchant, and when they
took over, there was a lot of unsold
inventory in storage that he hadn’t
gotten rid of, he added.
That won’t cut it today.
When a line of shoes has dwindled
from over a dozen pairs to just a few
sizes left, Wayne whips out his red
marker and slashes the price.
“Once you get down to one size 7
and one 9, what good is that to you?
You’ve got to get rid of old stock. So
you dump them out,” he said, adding
that even though he takes a loss on
those items, they draw in the bargain
hunters and boost store traffic.
Ironically, the decline of the rural
retail trade in neighbouring towns has
boosted their fortunes. Wayne recalled
how just a few years ago, Pringle’s was
part of a buying group called Westman Clothiers that had six shops in
Russell, Virden, Neepawa, Minnedosa
and Souris.
“We’re the only store left. They’ve
all closed. The people who fold blame
the cities. But we carry good lines, and
I know that we can compete with the
cities,” said Wayne.
This year’s other winners of the
Century Business award were Brown
& Rutherford Co. in Winnipeg and
Reesor’s Jewellery of Brandon.
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Taiwan detects more U.S.
beef with banned feed additive
There are concerns zilpaterol is still being used despite
the manufacturer’s decision to pull it from the market
TAIPEI / REUTERS
T
aiwan detected cattle
feed additive zilpaterol
in U.S. beef, the third
such incident in less than a
month in Asia, heightening
concerns across the region
over banned animal growth
drugs.
Taiwan’s Food and Drug
Administration said Oct. 29
it found the beef tainted with
the growth enhancer in a restaurant owned by Wowprime
Corp., prompting authorities to increase checks on
U.S. meat imports. An official at Wowprime said it had
destroyed all of the 203 kg of
tainted U.S. beef.
There is zero tolerance
for feed additives such as
zilpaterol in much of Asia
and Europe due to concerns
about the side-effects of
such drugs, which are used
to add muscle weight to animals.
Feed additives have been
the focus of attention since
a v i d e o a p p e a re d i n t h e
Un i t e d St a t e s i n Au g u s t
showing animals struggling
to walk and with other signs
of distress after taking a
growth drug.
South Korea suspended
some U.S. beef imports
after detecting zilpaterol in
meat supplied by a unit of
JBS U.S.A. earlier this month
and authorities in Taiwan
found U.S. meat with the
same drug.
The detection of the additive has raised concerns that
it may still be in the supply
chain despite drug maker
Merck & Co. halting sales of
Zilmax, the top-selling zilpaterol-based additive, on
Aug. 16.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture has said a Swift
Beef Company plant in Cactus, Texas, is not eligible to
ship beef to South Korea
after the country detected
growth drug in meat supplied by the company.
Zilpaterol is a beta-agonist, a kind of feed additive
that can add as much as
30 pounds of salable meat
to an animal in the weeks
before slaughter.
Originally developed as
asthma drugs for humans,
beta-antagonists — in
a d e c a d e o f u s e — h a ve
helped bolster the ability
to produce more beef with
fewer cattle in the United
States.
Ever since the video of
distressed cattle appeared,
t h e C h i c a g o Me r c a n t i l e
Exchange has said it will
no longer accept deliver y
of cattle fed Zilmax to conform with exchange guidelines for deliveries against
CME live cattle futures.
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Cargill bans
Zilmax from
beef supply
until issues
resolved
The announcement
scuttles efforts by
the manufacturer to
reintroduce it to the
marketplace
By P.J. Huffstutter
CHICAGO / REUTERS
C
argill Inc., one of the
w o r l d ’s l a r g e s t b e e f
processors, threw a
wrench into Merck & Co.’s
plans to reintroduce its feed
additive Zilmax, stating it will
not accept Zilmax-fed beef
into the Cargill supply chain
“until we are 100 per cent
confident the animal welfare
issues are resolved.”
Cargill told Reuters Oct. 30
its ban on Zilmax applies both
to beef it processes, as well as
to cattle in its own feedlots.
In addition, Cargill said it will
not use Zilmax-fed beef “until
Asia and other trading partners accept it in their markets.”
Pharmaceutical giant
Merck told Reuters Oct. 29
that it is seeking to reintroduce Zilmax, the controversial feed additive
temporarily pulled from
the market in August after
reports that it caused lameness in cattle.
A spokeswoman for Merck’s
Animal Health unit said
that while “it is too early to
speculate on when we will
resume sales for Zilmax in
the U.S. and Canada,” Merck
was pushing for ward with
its quality control program
to ensure the drug was being
properly used.
Merck did not immediately
respond to request for comment on Cargill’s action.
Me rc k’s Au g u s t d e c i s i o n
came after Tyson Foods Inc.
said it would stop accepting
Zi l m a x - f e d b e e f a f t e r c a t tle were obser ved arr iving
for slaughter with signs they
were having difficulty walking or moving. Reuters had
reported in August that, at a
major cattle industry conference, an animal health expert
from JBS USA had shown a
video of lame cattle arriving
at its slaughterhouses.
Merck’s audit over how its
p ro d u c t h a s b e e n u s e d i n
the field is ongoing, according to the company. Merck
was “committed to completing this as quickly as possible, while also ensuring it
is conducted appropriately
and with rigorous scientific
measures,” company spokeswoman Pamela Eisele said in
an email.
Among other steps, Merck
has formed an advisory board
that includes representatives
from meat processors, cattle
feeder operations, producers, veterinarians, academics
and industry consultants to
review animal safety research
data on Zilmax. The company declined to say who had
been appointed to the board,
which convened for the first
time in October.
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It’s a highly nutritious and
long-season forage, but
can kale handle winter?
STAFF / RED DEER
G
razers growing kale for
forage will soon see how
the crop handles an
Alberta winter.
“It’s supposed to handle the
cold really well and still stand.
We got -10 here the other day and
heavy frost, and she’s still going,”
said Crossfield-area grazer
Graeme Finn at the recent Foothills Forage and Grazing Association crop tour.
Finn has grown brassicas
in his native Australia, and he’s
keen to know if kale, a member
of that plant family, grown with
a ryegrass for forage will work in
Alberta’s climate.
“It hasn’t got a lot of bulk, but
it’s got huge feed value,” he said.
“This would work really well
for rotational grazing.” Brassica
crops were used in a number of
feeding trials in the 1980s, said
Grant Lastiwka, an Alberta Agriculture livestock/forage business specialist. At the time, they
weren’t able to compete with the
higher-yielding cereals that were
available, but the results may be
different this time around, he said.
“We’re looking at it again with
some new cultivars and a little
bit of a fresh face to see where
it fits into our industry,” said
Lastiwka.
One of the benefits of a
brassica grown with a ryegrass
is the extended grazing opportunity, as both maintain their
quality and continue to grow
late into the fall. The mix has
16 per cent crude protein and
high energy levels.
“What we’re seeing there
in that combination is truly a
nice fit for calves to really give
them some excellent fall performance when they’re off their
mothers and to help keep the
costs down as we graze them
later into the fall,” Lastiwka
said.
And because kale will regrow,
it offers grazers a summertime
forage option as well. In his
trial, Finn seeded in mid-June
to see how the kale will overwinter, but had he seeded in
May, he might have been able
to get two or three grazings out
of it over the summer, according to Lastiwka.
“Grazing earlier in the year
could have been a good
Kale is an increasingly popular vegetable for humans, but some varieties have
animal feed potential as well. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK
opportunity to have a highquality forage in the middle
of the summer and then have
it regrow so that we can get
more grazing days out of it in
the late fall, when its quality
truly is a resource that other
forages don’t have as much
of,” said Lastiwka.
Overwintering in the plants
could be “problematic,” said
A 67-year-old farmer is the
second victim this month
BEIJING / REUTERS
C
A kale-ryegrass combination offers grazers extended grazing
opportunities in the fall and a summertime forage option, too
By Jennifer Blair
China reports
second H7N9
bird flu case in
October
PGG Seeds agronomist John
Snider, who is conducting trials of some brassica genetics
in Alberta.
“These are temperate plants, but I wouldn’t
have brought them up here
if I didn’t think they had a
chance.”
hina confirmed a
new human case
of the deadly H7N9
strain of bird flu Oct.
23, the second infection
reported in October after a
summer lull.
A 67-year-old farmer in
Jiaxing city in the eastern
province of Zhejiang has
been hospitalized with the
virus, the official Xinhua
news agency said, citing
provincial health authorities.
Zhejiang has recorded
the highest number of
H7N9 infections anywhere
in China. About 45 people have died from H7N9
flu, which was unknown
in humans until the first
cases were detected in
people early this year.
Chinese authorities
have reported at least 136
l a b o r a t o r y- c o n f i r m e d
human cases of the H7N9
infection.
While there were only
a handful of H7N9 cases
during the summer
months after a surge in
April, flu experts warn that
the threat posed by the
virus has not passed.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
Producers given graphic
warning of threat of Porcine
Epidemic Diarrhea
Transportation presents pork producers with significant challenge when it
comes to keeping Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea from crossing the border
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff / portage la prairie
P
hotos of skeletal, fecesstrewn piglets flash across
a large screen during a
recent pork producer meeting,
graphically illustrating the devastating effects of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED).
“We want people to see this
and know how serious it is,”
council chairman Karl Kynoch
told the audience at the William Glesby Centre.
“Everything you can do to
keep this virus out of here will
benefit the entire industry.”
Although no cases have
b e e n re p o r t e d i n Ca n a d a ,
about 800 American farms
in 18 states have been hit so
far. As that number rises, so
do concerns the disease will
cross the border via contaminated transport trailers or
trucks.
“Transportation we think is
the highest risk area for the
disease,” said Miles Beaudin,
the council’s manager of quality assurance. “It’s spreading
rapidly and it’s not seasonal.”
Transmission occurs primarily through the ingestion
of fecal matter, but Beaudin
noted airborne transmission
has occurred where there is
a heavy virus load and barns
are close together.
“But cross-contamination of
fecal matter is our biggest concern,” said Beaudin, adding the
risk is greatest when transport
trailers have not been properly
cleaned and disinfected.
Kynoch noted Maple Leaf
Foods is using large plastic “condoms” to protect loading docks
and trucks from fecal contamination during off-loading.
Boots, clothing and sorting
boards should also be disinfected and separated to prevent
cross-contamination. Heat is an
effective way to disinfect, with
the virus beginning to die off at
122 C, although a temperature
of 140 C is recommended.
“Just keeping this
disease out of your
barn could be the
difference between
actually making a
profit for the next
12 months and not
making a profit.”
Karl Kynoch
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Trucks coming from the U.S.
are the major concern.
“The Americans don’t have as
tight biosecurity as we do, so
they may have common shuttles between sows and nursery,
and nursery and finisher... so
you can see how infections do
cross over,” Beaudin said.
If a herd is infected, it won’t
take long to notice. In neonatal
pigs, the disease needs as little
as eight hours to incubate, with
death often occurring in about
five days.
“It’s basically like Draino,”
said Beaudin, explaining the
virus strips the intestines of
their villi — the tiny fingers of
cells that allow water and nutrients to be absorbed.
The disease also strikes sows
and feeder pigs, although with
less mortality.
It is possible to boost the
herd’s immunity by implementing a feedback program
using the blended small intestines of piglets that have died
from the virus mixed with nonchlorinated water. With this
system, all breeder pigs are
fed about one tablespoon of
the intestine slurry once a day
for a week to inoculate against
future infections.
In feedback trials, PED was
controlled in groups of sows
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A slurry is made from piglet intestines to prevent future infections. photo: Matt Ackerman
that received the feedback
treatment at least three weeks
before farrowing.
Despite the gory effects of the
virus on pigs, Beaudin said it’s
integral for the public to know
the coronavirus that causes
PED isn’t a food safety concern.
“It’s important to note that
PED is not zoonotic, which
means it does not affect people or other animals,” he said.
But an outbreak will affect a
producer’s bottom line, Kynoch said.
“It’s been a tough last three
or four years, and now we’re
finally making profits,” he
said. “Just keeping this disease
out of your barn could be the
difference between actually
making a profit for the next
12 months and not making a
profit.”
He added the number of pig
deaths in the U.S. has actually
increased the price of hogs.
“I think going forward we
need to take advantage of that
and we need to do everything
possible to keep those biosecurity protocols as high as
possible and keep this out of
the barns,” he said.
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Breeding a bigger
and better dandelion
German researchers say dandelion milks can make car tires
Those aren’t weeds — they’re raw material. photo: thinkstock
H
old on before you
fill the sprayer tank
next spring — German scientists say they have
found a new source of rubber to make tires — dandelions.
T h e G e r m a n re s e a rc h
organization FraunhoferGesellschaft and tire manufacturer Continental say
they’ve officially started
a five-year joint project to
commercialize the manufacture of tires from dandelion
rubber. The first prototype
test tires are scheduled to be
tested on public roads over
the next few years.
The researchers have been
growing several hectares of
a high-biomass dandelion
variety particularly rich
in rubber, which they say
matches the quality of the
conventional product from
rubber trees.
“We have amassed tremendous expertise in dandelion harvesting over the
last few years. With the aid
of DNA markers, we now
know which gene is responsible for which molecular
feature. This makes it possible to cultivate especially high-yield plants
m u c h m o re e f f i c i e n t l y,”
researcher Dirk Prüfer said
in a release.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 7, 2013
Maple Leaf
posts thirdquarter loss
GRAZING IS STILL GOOD
Earnings well below
analysts’ expectations
By Rod Nickel
REUTERS
C
anadian food processor
Maple Leaf Foods on Oct.
30 reported lower-thanexpected results for the third
quarter, hurt mainly by weakness in its meat business.
Excluding special items, the
company, which is undergoing
a major restructuring, posted a
loss of one cent per share, compared with a year-earlier profit
of 13 cents.
Analysts on average had
expected earnings of eight cents
a share, according to Thomson
Reuters.
The Toronto-based company,
one of Canada’s biggest pork
processors and bakers, said
revenue slipped 2.5 per cent to
$1.15 billion. Analysts had forecast $1.2 billion.
Shares of Maple Leaf fell 1.5
per cent to $15.07 in early trading.
Maple Leaf ’s results missed
expectations mainly because of
poor performance in the meat
division, said analyst Robert
Gibson of Octagon Capital.
“This is a very challenging period of transition for the
Maple Leaf organization, as
the short-term impact of volatile protein market conditions,
combined with the significant
cost of change, has been material,” chief executive officer
Michael McCain said in a statement.
Maple Leaf is carrying out a
multi-year program to upgrade
its meat operations by modernizing some plants and shutting
down others as it seeks to boost
profits and better compete with
U.S. rivals.
Third-quarter net income
from continuing operations
fell to $14,000, or a loss of two
cents a share to common stockholders. The company posted
earnings of $11.4 million, or six
cents a share, a year earlier on
that basis.
Maple Leaf has begun an
auction for its 90 per cent
stake in Canada Bread Co. Ltd.
It targeted Mexico’s Grupo
Bimbo, one of the world’s largest bread makers, and private
equity firms, as potential buyers, according to several people
familiar with the matter.
In August, Maple Leaf struck
a deal to sell its Rothsay rendering business to Darling International Inc. for $645 million.
Canada Bread also said earlier
that it would sell its fresh pasta
business Olivieri to Spain’s Ebro
Foods SA for $120 million.
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Old-time dance fever sweeping
across southern Manitoba
Bob Williamson has sparked a revival of dances such as the foxtrot and polka in southern Manitoba
Dancing at Glenboro School. photos: Ed Torz, Baldur-Glenboro Gazette
By Shirley Case
co-operator contributor
I
t began with an impromptu lesson for a couple of
students, but an old-time dance craze has been
started by shops teacher Bob Williamson — and it’s
spreading across southern Manitoba.
Williamson, who came out of retirement to teach
at Glenboro School, surprised two students hanging
around the shop door by asking, “Why don’t you learn
how to dance?”
Perhaps the hit TV show “So You Think You Can
Dance” helped them overcome their initial reluctance,
because they decided to try. Williamson, who plays violin and piano, taught them to waltz and polka. Then he
asked them to demonstrate their new skill at a variety
evening at the Cypress River church.
Their waltz on stage, gracefully performed, drew
a good round of applause. But when they started to
polka, audience members were soon on their feet, clapping and keeping time with the music. It was a huge
success and the talk of the town.
Things snowballed from there.
Williamson asked Glenboro School principal Kevin
Newton for permission to teach more students and
enlisted other teachers (after educating them on the
basic steps).
So before recess, students now practise their polka
steps: “1,2,3; 1,2,3... Now go for recess.”
Bob gets each class for 10 minutes a week, at a time
arranged with the teacher to be least disruptive to their
schedule. There they all learn to dance with a partner.
The rules are firm. Everyone is polite. The boy must ask,
“May I please have this dance?” and the girl must reply,
“Yes, you may.”
“I’m not trying to take away from sports, but dance
has its own positive impact,” Williamson said.
He often starts with younger students who tend to
be less inhibited. As for the older ones, he’s not above
bribing them with cookies or doughnuts to get them
started. Once he gets them dancing, most of them are
hooked and willingly continue.
They learn five dances: waltz, polka, foxtrot, schottische and butterfly. Some of the teachers are now
playing for the dance sessions. Student teacher Kelsey
Adams mastered the drums to become a vital part of
the program. She is so enthusiastic that she says she
will teach dance wherever she goes.
The excitement has spread to neighbouring towns.
Williamson now has classes (or sessions being run by
local dancers and musicians) at Swan Lake, Manitou,
Baldur, Bruxelles, and Holland. Even adults are asking to get in on the action so classes were held for
them over the winter. Community dances now have
three generations on the floor, ranging in age from
five to folks in their 70s and 80s. In April, they held
a dance marathon with students dancing in all five
schools for half an hour before noon.
Henry Martens, a longtime dance musician from
Baldur whose band has played for some of the
dances is impressed by the contagious enthusiasm.
“Dance has three things going for it: the social
aspect, music therapy and exercise,” he said.
Bob Williamson playing the fiddle at Glenboro.
The rules are firm. Everyone is polite.
The boy must ask, “May I please have
this dance?” and the girl must reply,
“Yes, you may.”
Williamson, who gives freely of his time and
resources, is modest about this accomplishment,
calling it a “team effort.” But even he is impressed by
the “tidal wave” of interest.
Dance has given many students a much more
enthusiastic attitude overall, said Newton.
Dancing “gives kids an opportunity to experience
new challenges and learn new skills, as well as gaining confidence as they work in a different way with
their peers,” says Newton.
The requests continue to roll in, as does the positive feedback from students, parents and other
teachers.
Williamson’s enthusiasm is contagious. He was
asked recently to give dance lessons in Deloraine and
he has added three new schools in his area for this
year. As well, he’s planning to have a street dance in
an area community sometime in the spring.
Bob Williamson works with two young students at
the Belmont hall.
Dancing at Baldur School.
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We need sun and
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Lorraine Stevenson
Crossroads Recipe Swap
I
inspected the houseplants the other day
and what a sorry, dried-up mess they were.
I’m surprised any survived. After all, they
were rarely watered, and sat behind blinds
keeping out the hot sun much of the summer.
Deprived of sunlight and liquids, the rest of
us don’t thrive either.
Statistics Canada studies have found about
two out of three Canadians suffer from low
vitamin D. The reasons vary. Many of us aren’t
exposed to the sun often enough, and we
don’t eat enough vitamin D-rich foods. Those
with darkly pigmented skin don’t produce the
“sunshine vitamin” in their skin so readily, nor
do most adults over age 50. Health Canada
recommends adults over 50 take a supplement
of 400 IU/day.
Vitamin D has long been known for its role
keeping bones and teeth healthy. Ongoing
research says the benefits may also include
fighting infections, reducing risks for heart
disease and even preventing diabetes,
multiple sclerosis, and some types of cancers
(especially colorectal cancer).
Dietitians say most of us can get enough
vitamin D if we eat enough vitamin D-rich
foods (even if we’re using sunscreen and
wearing hats).
More frequent watering wouldn’t hurt
the lot of us either. The exact amount of
fluid needed depends on our age, gender
and level of activity, but generally men
should consume about 12 cups of liquid
a day and women nine. Signs we aren’t
drinking enough can range from dry lips
and mouth to increased heart rate and low
blood pressure. That headache or general
crankiness we think is from stress may be
from dehydration too.
Not every bird flies south, and most of us
aren’t going to spend winter in a sunny spot
sipping fruity drinks. Don’t end up like my
houseplants. Here’s a few tips for staying
healthy and well watered during the drier,
darker months ahead.
PHOTO : DAIRY FARMERS OF CANADA
FOOD
FLUIDS
How much D a day?
Take a sip — often
Most people can get enough vitamin D if
they eat enough vitamin D-rich foods, even
if they protect themselves from the sun
by using sunscreen and wearing a hat, but
Canada’s Food Guide now recommends
specific supplements for women who may
become pregnant or are breastfeeding,
adults over 50 and those who smoke or are
on restricted diets.
Drink a glass of water in the morning or
before going to bed, keep water nearby
where you work, and drink a glass of water
before each meal. Make sure you have a
drink with each meal, such as a glass of
low-fat milk, soy beverage or water.
Which foods?
Only egg yolks and fatty fish such as salmon,
mackerel, sardines and tuna, naturally
contain substantial amounts of vitamin D.
Cow’s milk, infant formula, and margarine
have added vitamin D as required by the
Canadian government. Other common food
sources include yogurt and cheese made
with vitamin D-fortified milk. Goat’s milk,
plant-based beverages and some orange
juices may also have vitamin D added.
Check out the Nutrition Facts table on food
labels to see if a packaged food has vitamin
D. A food has a lot of vitamin D if it has at
least 15 per cent Daily Value (DV ) for vitamin D per serving.
How much is too much?
The total daily intake from food and supplements combined should not exceed:
1,000 IU for infants zero to six months;
1,500 IU for infants seven to 12 months;
2,500 IU for children one to three years;
3,000 IU for children four to eight years;
4,000 IU for children over nine years of age
and adults (including pregnant or lactating
women).
Source: Dietitians of Canada (www.dietitians.ca)
What’s the best source?
Fluids include water and other beverages
such as milk, juice, coffee and tea. Water
is one of the best fluid choices, but it is a
myth that you need eight cups a day to stay
healthy. Coffees and teas are not dehydrating. Limit caffeine to about 400 mg per day.
That is equal to three cups of black coffee
or four cups of black tea per day.
Why is it important?
Fluids help control body temperature, aid
digestion, circulate nutrients through the
body, and cushion organs and joints. Our
bodies lose water by sweating, breathing and eliminating waste. If you lose
more fluid than you take in, you can get
dehydrated.
Watch out for...
Signs and symptoms of mild dehydration
are: thirst, dry lips and mouth, flushed skin,
tiredness, irritability, headache, dizziness,
fainting, low blood pressure, increased
heart rate and dark strong-smelling urine.
Delicious Salmon
Vegetable Chowder
Soups are great ways to get more fluids and
this easy-to-make one is also chock full
of healthy ingredients including vitamin
D. Salmon is also rich in heart-healthy,
disease-fighting omega-3s.
1 tbsp. butter
1/2 c. chopped onion
1 garlic clove, minced
1/4 tsp. dried thyme
1/4 tsp. dried basil
1 can (10 oz./284 ml) condensed chicken broth
1 c. peeled, diced potatoes
1/2 c. corn (niblets)
1/2 c. diced zucchini
1/2 c. diced carrots
2 c. milk
8 oz. uncooked salmon filet, cut in small chunks
1/2 c. grated Canadian cheddar cheese
In heavy saucepan, sauté onions, garlic and
herbs in butter five minutes until still transparent. Add broth and all vegetables. Simmer,
uncovered, until vegetables are cooked 15 to
20 minutes. Add milk and salmon. Simmer,
until salmon is opaque, five to seven minutes. Do not boil. Season to taste. Divide into
4 bowls, sprinkle with cheese and enjoy.
Preparation time: 15 minutes. Cooking
time: 20 minutes. Yields: 4 servings.
Recipe source: Dairy Farmers of Canada
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S
“
o, I’ve been thinking.” Andrew Jackson
leaned back in his chair and gazed out of the
dining room window as he spoke. A blue jay
landed in the old elm tree in front of the house
and squawked noisily for a few seconds before
heading on its way, and a flock of geese winged
its way south over the mostly leafless woods at
the edge of the pasture.
Rose looked up from her book. “That can’t be
good,” she said.
“Sometimes I can’t help myself,” said Andrew.
“I do try to keep it to a minimum.”
“I know you do darling,” said Rose, “and I
appreciate the effort.”
“I was thinking about moving,” said Andrew.
Rose sighed. “You really shouldn’t do that,”
she said. “You’ll just get yourself all depressed.
Just because we’re going to have to move doesn’t
mean we have to think about it.”
Andrew nodded. “I agree that your approach
has its merits,” he said, “but I worry that if we
don’t think about it at least a little, then when the
time comes we will spend a lot of time standing
around and saying things to each other like, ‘I
wish we had thought of that sooner.’ And anyway, what I was thinking was that maybe there is
a way for us to move without actually having to
‘move,’ if you get my drift.”
Rose gave her husband a blank look. “I completely fail to get your drift,” she said, “and if
your plan has anything to do with filling thousands of balloons with helium and attaching
them to the house so we can fly it to where we’re
going, then I will have to forbid you watching
any more movies with your granddaughter.”
“Helium-filled balloons!” said Andrew. “What a
great idea!”
“I shouldn’t have said anything,” said Rose.
“You’re right,” said Andrew. “It’s not really a
practical solution. Not like my solution, which
is the most practical solution I’ve ever come up
with for anything.”
“Go ahead then,” said Rose. “Let’s hear it.”
Andrew leaned forward in his chair.
“Musical houses,” he said. “We should play
musical houses.”
The
Jacksons
BY ROLLIN PENNER
Rose was silent for a moment. “You really should
stop this thinking,” she said. “It doesn’t make any
sense. How would we play musical houses? And
with whom?”
“We would play with Randy and Brady obviously,” said Andrew. “Randy and Jackie are going to
move in here anyway. So Brady and Amanda can
move into Randy and Jackie’s place, and we move
into Brady and Amanda’s place. And instead of
moving everybody’s stuff, we just trade even up.”
There was another pause. “I don’t think I can fit
into Amanda’s clothes,” said Rose. “That’s where
your plan falls apart.”
Andrew looked crestfallen. “I hadn’t thought of
that,” he said, but then he brightened. “I know,” he
said. “I’ll just buy you new clothes.”
“All of them?” said Rose.
“All of them,” said Andrew.
“Well then, musical houses it is,” said Rose. “I
can’t believe we didn’t think of it sooner.” “She
paused.
“What about the fireplace and the hot tub?
Last time I was at Brady’s house it didn’t have
either of those.”
“I’ll put them in myself,” said Andrew.
“We’ll build a sunroom onto the back of the
house with a built-in hot tub and a fireplace.
It’ll be like our own little couples resort.”
“I like all of it,” said Rose, “except the part
about you putting in the hot tub and the fireplace yourself.”
“Are you questioning my abilities?” said
Andrew.
“Questioning’s not the right word,” said
Rose. “We should hire professionals for that,
that’s all I’m saying.”
“I can accept that,” said Andrew.
There was a long pause.
“Of course,” said Rose eventually, “this will
only work if Brady and Amanda want to move
out of town.”
“Amanda wants to move out of town,” said
Andrew. “I know because I asked her. So no
worries there, because Brady will be happy
to go along.” He paused for a moment. “So
here’s what we do,” he continued. “We go to
Europe on vacation for a month. As soon as
we’re gone, Randy and Jackie move in here
and Brady and Amanda move into their place.
Then the contractors go in and put the addition onto the house with the fireplace and
the hot tub. A month later we come back but
instead of coming here we just go to our new
place in town. So instead of moving, we have
a vacation.”
“You’re completely crazy,” said Rose.
“Crazy like a fox,” said Andrew.
“Crazy like a crazy person,” said Rose.
“Sometimes it’s fun to live in a fantasy
world for a little while,” said Andrew.
Rose picked up her book. “I’m with you on
that,” she said, and went back to reading.
Important to have good lighting
Each room has unique needs to be considered
Connie Oliver
Around the House
G
ood lighting is an important part
of a home and each room will
have its own needs based on:
• The activities performed in the room;
• How much natural light the room has;
• The desired ambience of the room
(romantic, bright, etc.);
• Any features or accessories/artwork
that need accent lighting (fireplace,
art, feature wall).
For installed lighting you may want to
visit a lighting store for guidance on
where, how much and what kind of
lighting is needed for each room. Once
you have a plan you can choose the
styles and finishes, and you may have to
hire a professional electrician to ensure
that the job is done to code.
Kitchens usually require a more complex lighting plan because so many
tasks are performed there. Use good,
overhead lighting that will light the
entire space for chores such as wiping down cupboards or washing the
floor. Recessed lights, like the ones in
the photo, are unobtrusive yet provide
the necessary general lighting that a
kitchen requires.
Task lighting for detail-oriented
chores like washing dishes or chopping
vegetables will keep the shadows away
while performing these daily tasks.
Pendant lights over an island or sink
are both functional and decorative,
and under-cabinet task lighting is also
unobtrusive yet effective.
In the bedroom, a warm light that is
flattering and restful is best. The use of
a dimmer switch for the main ceiling
light is a good idea and proper reading
light is a must if you read in bed.
In the bathroom, good lighting is
required around the vanity mirror for
daily tasks — maybe sconces placed
near face height. An overhead light on
a dimmer switch will allow for general
lighting as well as subdued lighting for
relaxing in the tub.
Dining rooms are one of the easiest rooms to light. Because most of
the action happens around the table,
a chandelier or pendant light over it
will meet the majority of the lighting requirements. A dimmer is a great
idea for the dining room as well. You
can use lower light for dinner parties
or flood the room with light for a casual homework station. A home office
requires plenty of task lighting. An overhead light on a dimmer switch is useful
to add brightness to the room when
working on cloudy days, and lamps on
a desk or work table are essential to
reduce eye strain. Accent lighting can
add a decorative touch to an otherwise
utilitarian space.
Kitchens require lots of different lighting because of all the different tasks that are done there.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF DULUX
If hard-wiring new light fixtures is
not in the budget then lamps and candles can help. There are lots of stylish
options in table and floor lamps so consider them a decorative accessory as
well as additional lighting.
Candles and candleholders are also
available in many styles, colours and
scents. Candles are great for ambient light-
ing or to add a soft glow in the evening.
When not in use, a stylish candleholder
will still add a decorative element to the
room. If safety is a concern, purchase noflame candles, which provide similar light
to the real thing without the worry.
Connie Oliver is an interior designer from
Winnipeg
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Visit the Shilo museum
With Remembrance Day approaching, this may be a good destination
By Donna Gamache
Freelance contributor
A
good spot to visit in
the fall, especially as
Remembrance Day
approaches, is the Central
Museum of the Royal Regiment
of Canadian Artillery (the RCA
Museum), located at Shilo. My
husband and I visited there
recently and were impressed
with the display of artifacts,
weapons and historical details
about Canada’s past. We hadn’t
planned it that way, but arrived
just before the official opening
of a new display in September.
A white United Nations tank
was being driven into the
museum just as we arrived.
The RCA Museum, a building more than 2,200 square
metres in size, was founded
in 1962 to preserve the heritage of Canada’s Gunners, and
today it is Canada’s National
Artillery Museum. There are
five sections to it: the National
Artillery Gallery, the Gregg
Gallery, and three smaller ones
— CF Heritage, the Weapons
Vault and the Manitoba Gallery.
Those interested in weapons
can check out the variety of
guns, while those more interested in Canada’s history can
read up on those details.
The National Artillery Gallery
is laid out in historical order,
beginning with symbolic fortress gates and a nine-pounder
smooth bore cannon. Next is a
nine-pounder gun used against
the forces of Louis Riel during
the 1885 Northwest Rebellion,
at the battles of Fish Creek and
Batoche. As you proceed there
are various dioramas, a German
mortar that had been captured
at the Battle of Vimy Ridge and
an interactive exhibit where
visitors can command a detachment. As you wander around
the exhibits you will discover
information and weapons from
the Boer War and then from
the First World War, from the
inter-war years, and from the
Second World War. Scattered
here and there throughout
the displays are panels outlining the lives of some famous
Canadian Gunners. Reading
the information there will
help visitors focus on the
people involved, not just the
weapons. Further displays
add details about the Korean
War, the Cold War Period, and
Canada’s work with the United
Nations Peacekeeping Forces.
Also throughout the displays
are lifelike mannequins, which
help give a size comparison
with the various weapons and
emphasize that people, not just
weapons, were involved in all
these wars.
One section of the museum
is used for temporary exhibits — usually displayed for
two to three months. The
new exhibit that opened in
September is called “Wars in
Yugoslavia,” and deals with the
Canadian peacekeeping tour
in the regions of the former
Yugoslavia, and present-day
Bosnia and Croatia. Canadian
troops served there with the
United Nations troops over a
21-year period, trying to bring
peace to this troubled region.
Over 40,000 Canadians served
in the area, of which 23 were
killed and 115 wounded. The
grand opening of the exhibit
w a s a c o m m e m o ra t i o n o f
the Battle of Medak Pocket
in Bosnia, which occurred 20
years ago in September 1993.
It runs until November 15,
so it will still be there during Remembrance Day ceremonies. Previous temporary
exhibits included a Diamond
Ju b i l e e e x h i b i t , a n d o n e
about the Canadian troops
doing peacekeeping work in
Afghanistan.
The Shilo museum is open
year round, Monday to Friday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Summer
hours, from Victoria Day to
Labour Day, include weekends
at the same hours.) Regular
admission is $5 for adults. The
museum also includes a gift
shop with a variety of items.
If you haven’t visited before,
consider a trip now, perhaps
as a way to remember the sacrifices of our nation’s armed forces.
Check out http://www.rcamus
eum.com/ for more information.
Donna Gamache writes from
MacGregor, Manitoba
A nine-pounder cannon. GAMACHE PHOTOS
UN tank on display.
Remembrance Day poppy
By Albert Parsons
Freelance contributor
I
PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
have a large vegetable garden on my brother-inlaw’s farm near Basswood, Manitoba and greatly
appreciate having the space to grow things I
could only dream of growing in my small town garden. My brother-in-law and his wife use a portion
but that still leaves more than enough space for my
wife and I to grow all the things we want to. When
my brother-in-law tills the garden in the spring, he
leaves patches of self-sown poppies and bachelor
button seedlings. Our gardens are planted to accommodate these.
During the summer these flowers put on a grand
display of colour; the great swaths of red and blue
attract butterflies and bees to the garden and every
time I go out there I stand and admire the beauty.
The flowers eventually go past and by August many
of them are removed, but there are always a few
new seedlings appearing here and there throughout
the garden and these we leave in place as we go about
our weeding. In late summer these individual plants or
small clumps of bachelor buttons and poppies burst into
bloom; their vivid colour being just as appreciated this
late in the growing season as it was in early summer.
I snapped this poppy picture in full bloom when
I was out to the garden in mid-September. The
sight of the brilliant-red petals and black centres
of the flowers caused me immediately to think of
Remembrance Day. So I share this photo of a most
enduring symbol as we remember those who gave
their lives for our country, enabling us to enjoy the
freedoms we have today.
Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba
May we never forget
Thoughts on Remembrance Day
By Joanne Rawluk
By Addy Oberlin
Freelance contributor
T
he poppy, representative of
the men and women who have
served in our armed services, is
worn to give tribute to the heroes of
this land — heroes who have laid their
lives on the line for our country. We
often take for granted those who serve
at home and abroad, whether at war
or peacekeeping. Wearing of the poppy
and the services that will take place on
Remembrance Day serves to remind us
of those who give their time and lives
for our country’s freedom and for all
Canadians. The loneliness, hardships
and sacrifices are remembered as we
pause for a moment on November 11.
We thank God for them and applaud
their bravery and valour. We also remember those left behind; the families left
without a father, mother, or the children
who grow up missing a parent. As we
honour them this year may we be grateful and appreciate each one who enlists,
each veteran who died and each one
who serves in our military today. They
truly are heroes. May we never forget.
Joanne Rawluk writes from Gypsumville,
Manitoba
Freelance contributor
R
emembrance Day came into
being after the First World War
and the poppy was significant
because they were blooming during the
worst battles in Flanders fields. It is still
popular till this day. We live in a free
country although there have been quite
a few wars since then in other areas.
Do we realize what our troops have
gone through over the years in trying to obtain or maintain peace in
other countries? Many soldiers have
come home maimed, hurt and some-
times mentally disturbed for the rest
of their lives. We have a responsibility to remember those who gave
their life and we need to look after
those who need help even to this
day. My memories are fond of the
Canadian soldiers who came to our
little country Holland and set us free
from the oppressor. We need to keep
Remembrance Day as a special day to
be thankful to God for the willingness
of the soldiers to give up their freedom
at home and fight for the freedom of
others.
Addy Oberlin writes from Swan River, Manitoba
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AUCTION DISTRICTS
Parkland – North of Hwy 1; west of PR 242,
following the west shore of Lake Manitoba
and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.
Westman – South of Hwy 1; west of PR 242.
Interlake – North of Hwy 1; east of PR 242,
following the west shore of Lake Manitoba
and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.
Red River – South ofHwy 1; east of PR 242.
The Pas
Birch River
Swan River
AUTO & TRANSPORT
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Auto & Truck Parts
GREAT PRICES ON NEW, used & remanufactured
engines, parts & accessories for diesel pickups.
Large inventory, engines can be shipped or installed. Give us a call or check us out at www.thickettenginerebuilding.ca Thickett Engine Rebuilding.
Ph (204)532-2187, Russell MB.
Minitonas
Durban
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Trucks
Winnipegosis
Roblin
Dauphin
Grandview
Ashern
Gilbert Plains
Parkland
Birtle
Riverton
Eriksdale
McCreary
Langruth
Neepawa
Gladstone
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Melita
1
Carberry
Brandon
Killarney
Pilot Mound
Crystal City
Elm Creek
Sanford
Ste. Anne
Carman
Mariapolis
Lac du Bonnet
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Vehicles Various
Beausejour
Winnipeg
Austin
Treherne
Westman
Boissevain
Stonewall
Selkirk
Portage
Souris
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Erickson
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Reston
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Hamiota
Virden
2000 FORD F250 XLT super cab, short box, 7.3
DSL, automatic, 2WD, 300,000-km, new tires w/5th
wheel hitch & tailgate, very nice condition, $6,500
OBO. (204)745-7445
Fisher Branch
Ste. Rose du Lac
Russell
St. Pierre
242
Morris
Winkler
Morden
Altona
Steinbach
1
Red River
OVER 200 VEHICLES LOTS OF DIESELS
www.thoens.com Chrysler Dodge (800)667-4414
Wynyard, SK.
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Electrical & Plumbing
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Electrical & Plumbing
WHOLESALE PRICES
• Plate Heat Exchanger • Radiators
• Boiler Pumps • Glycol • Push-Fit Fittings
• 1/2" Oxygen Barrier Tubing & More
FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Swathers
2013 JD D450 635D Header HIDs 650 tires, Dual
Knife, Full Poly, Very Low Hours. $160,000. Call:
(701)521-0581.
9260 HESSTON SWATHER W/2210 HEADER, like
new, 36-ft. Big Cab power unit, 2005. W/Swath roller. Very nice shape, best swather for Canola.
$70,000. (204)871-0925.
FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Various
Rebuilt Concaves
Call Willy: 204-346-4335
email: [email protected]
BUILDINGS
BUILDINGS
Rebuild combine table augers
Rebuild hydraulic cylinders
Roller mills regrooved
MFWD housings rebuilt
Steel and aluminum welding
Machine Shop Service
Line boreing and welding
Penno’s Machining & Mfg. Ltd.
ANTIQUES
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
ANTIQUES
Antiques For Sale
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Roofing
Check out A & I online parts store
www.pennosmachining.com
PRICE TO CLEAR!!
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Accessories
1/16 JD TOY COLLECTION including precision,
Lindman Crawlers, Case Steamer. Also the 10 Key
Series. Send for complete list Box 1023, Morris, MB
R0G 1K0, (204)746-8282.
75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard
100,000PSI high tensile roofing &
siding. 16 colours to choose from.
3 CEDAR DEMOCRAT completely restored, Oak,
Leather seats, mint. Wooden wheel wagon, rubber
tire wagon, bobsleigh w/box to fit all. (204)564-2513
Dropmore, MB.
Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft.2
Ask about our blowout colours...65¢/ft.2
Also in stock low rib white 29 ga. ideal for
archrib buildings
BEAT THE PRICE
INCREASES CALL NOW
ANTIQUES
Antique Equipment
FOUILLARD STEEL
SUPPLIES LTD.
WINTER PROJECTS FOR SALE: IH W4; IH WD6;
IH Farmall M; IH Farmall H; JD AR styled; JD 70
DSL, PS; JD R; JD 1929 D 2-SPD; Oliver 77 row
crop, arrow front; Oliver 880 DSL; MH 44 DSL row
crop; MH 55 DSL; Fordson Major DSL.
(204)745-7445
ST. LAZARE, MB.
1-800-510-3303
BUILDINGS
AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post
frame building company. For estimates and information
call
1-888-816-AFAB(2322).
Website:
www.postframebuilding.com
AUCTION SALES
Auctions Various
BE AN AUCTIONEER. (507)995-7803 www.auctioneerschool.com
1500 NH COMBINE, W/GAS motor, motor in good
running condition, would consider selling motor only. Phone:(204)434-6386.
B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2
MULVEY “FLEA” MARKET. Osborne & Mulvey
Ave E. Wpg. Sat-Sun-Hol. 10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.
40+ vendors. A/C. Debit, Visa, M/C. Table/Booth
rental info:(204)478-1217. mulveymarket.ca
AUCTION SALES
Eden, MB 204-966-3221
Fax: 204-966-3248
CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place &
finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any
floor design. References available. Alexander, MB.
204-752-2069.
AUCTION SALES
U.S. Auctions
AUCTION SALES
U.S. Auctions
BUSINESS SERVICES
FARM MACHINERY
Fertilizer Equipment
BUSINESS SERVICES
Crop Consulting
FLEX PLATFORMS- FALL SPECIAL- In Stock. JD
216, 920- 925- 930; JD 630- (04-06), 635 (09); CIH
1020 25-ft.-30-ft. CIH 2020 30-ft.-35-ft. Ready to Go
to Work. Air Reel Flex Platform- 2001 925 w/Crary
Air Reel, F.F., $18,900; 1998 930 w/Crary Air Reel,
$14,900; 2003 930 w/Crary Air Reel, $19,900. 3 NH
973 30-ft., one w/Crary Air Reel. Reimer Farm
Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
FARM CHEMICAL SEED COMPLAINTS
We also specialize in: Crop Insurance appeals;
Chemical drift; Residual herbicide; Custom operator
issues; Equipment malfunction; Yield comparisons,
Plus Private Investigations of any nature. With our
assistance the majority of our clients have received
compensation previously denied. Back-Track
Investigations investigates, documents your loss and
assists in settling your claim.
Licensed Agrologist on Staff.
For more information
Please call 1-866-882-4779
CHEMICALS
Available at:
Strathclair
Consumers Coop
Strathclair, MB
(204) 365-2491
Dealership Liquidation
www.dseriescanola.ca
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013 • 10AM
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
Location: 121 North Main Street, Makoti, ND
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.
AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Rensch’s Garage is closing its doors after 95 years in business. They would like
to thank their customers for their support and patronage. This will be a wonderful opportunity to purchase
good quality farm machinery, shop equipment and new parts. Live online bidding on major equipment.
Major equipment sells at 12:30PM. Registration, terms & details at SteffesAuctioneers.com.
S A L E O R DER
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
12:30 PM
2:30 PM
Parts & Shop
Support Items
Major Shop
Equipment
Major
Equipment
Finish with
Parts Inventory
Available at:
Paterson Global
Foods Inc.
Winnipeg, MB
For Complete Terms, Lot Listing and
Photos Visit SteffesAuctioneers.com!
(204) 926-9563
www.dseriescanola.ca
CONTRACTING
CONTRACTING
Custom Work
TRACTORS / WHEEL LOADER & SKID STEER
LOADER / HARVEST EQUIP. / GRAIN CART
SWATHERS / AIR DRILLS / TILLAGE EQUIP.
SEMI TRACTORS & TRUCK / PICKUPS
TRAILERS / SPRAYER / HAY EQUIP.
GRAIN HANDLING EQUIP. / SNOWBLOWERS
LAWN & GARDEN / LP TANK / SHOP EQUIP.
BINS, TABLES, BENCHES / PARTS
STEEL INVENTORY / OFFICE & MISC. ITEMS
RENSCH GARAGE INC.
Wayne or Darwin, 701.726.5698
Or Brad Olstad at
Steffes Auctioneers, 701.237.9173
TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before
removal of items. Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35
documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed. ND Sales Tax laws apply
Steffes Auctioneers Inc., 2000 Main Ave E, West Fargo, ND
Brad Olstad ND319, Scott Steffes ND81,
Ashley Huhn ND843, Eric Gabrielson ND890,
Randy Kath ND894 | SteffesAuctioneers.com | IQBID.com
FOR RENT: 24-FT. PULLDOZER daily & weekly
rates avail. Call (204)745-8909 or (204)242-4588.
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
1985 CASE 450C CRAWLER Dozer, 6-way blade,
ROP canopy, hydrostatic trans, 16-in pads, 65%
undercarriage, Cummins engine rebuilt, 0-hrs,
$18,500. Phone:(204)525-4521 www.waltersequipment.com
1990 JD 843 CORN Head, 8 Row, 30-in., Field
Ready, Fits All Deere’s, $11,500; 1997 JD 893 Corn
Head, 8 Row, 30-in., Knife Rolls, Field Ready,
$18,900; 1991 JD 843 Corn Head, 8 Row, 30-in.,
Totally Reconditioned, New Chains, Sprockets,
Paint, $14,900; 2002 JD 893 Corn Head, 8 Row,
30-in., Totally Reconditioned, New Sprockets,
Chains, Etc. Mint, $28,900; CIH 1083 Corn Head,
8 Row, 30-in., Totally Reconditioned, $14,900.
Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach,
MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.
Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103
or E-mail Requests [email protected]
PLAN FOR 2014, ORDER your new Brock bin with
winter discounts. Pour concrete now w/bin set up
as early as May. Call Valley Agro (204)746-6783.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Carts
GRAIN CARTS: BRENT 976, $29,000; Brent 974,
$28,000; Brent 874, $23,000; Brent 1084, $29,000;
Brent 774, $16,500; Brent 770, $15,000; Brent 674,
$15,500; UFT Hydraulic drive #750, $14,000; UFT
725, $17,000; Ficklin 700 Bu, $13,000; Gravity
Wagons, 250-750 Bu. Phone (204)857-8403.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Dryers
NEW SUKUP GRAIN DRYERS: 1/3 phase, Propane/
Natural Gas, Canola screens, various sizes. In stock
& ready for delivery. Also some used dryers available.
www.vzgrain.com (204)998-9915
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.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Elevators
80-FT. BUCKET ELEVATING LEG w/3 phase
10-HP electric motor. Phone (204)886-3304.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Handling
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
[email protected] www.arcfab.ca
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
FYFE PARTS
1-800-667-9871 • Regina
1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon
1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg
1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton
“For All Your Farm Parts”
www.fyfeparts.com
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
WaTRoUs, sK.
Fax: 306-946-2444
Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd.
1-866-729-9876
5150 Richmond Ave. East
BRANDON, MB.
www.harvestsalvage.ca
New, Used & Re-man. Parts
Tractors Combines Swathers
NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS
NEW COMBINE PARTS
Large Inventory of
new and remanufactured parts
2007 TOREQ 18000 SCRAPER 18-yd $30,000;
2008 Bobcat T250, 1,200hrs, CAH, HiFlow, Excellent Tracks, $29,000. Call:(701)521-0581.
FOR SALE: TD09 4-CYL angle dozer, needs undercarriage, not running at present. Phone:
(204)745-7548.
SINGLE OWNER RM INVITES tenders to purchase
1966 D6C dozer also 1983 613B scraper. Maintenance records available. Send tenders to RM of Edward attn Lisa Pierce to Box 100 Pierson MB, R0M
1S0 or by email [email protected]
AGRI-VACS
Tired of shovelling out your bins,
unhealthy dust and awkward augers?
Walinga manufactures a
complete line of grain
vacs to suit your every
need. With no filters to
plug and less damage
done to your product than
an auger, you’re sure to
find the right system to
suit you. Call now for a free
demonstration or trade in your
old vac towards a new WALINGA AGRI-VACS
Fergus, ON: (519) 787-8227
Carman, MB: (204) 745-2951
Davidson, SK: (306) 567-3031
STEINBACH, MB.
Ph. 326-2443
Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727
Fax (204) 326-5878
Web site: farmparts.ca
E-mail: [email protected]
FARM MACHINERY
Salvage
GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528
or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.
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.
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FARM MACHINERY
Snowblowers, Plows
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Wanted
6-FT. FARM KING SNOWBLOWER w/hyd chute,
very good condition, $900 OBO. (204)745-7445
FLAIL CHOPPER OR DIRECT cut forage harvester, right hand bar, rake or twin bar rakes; NH
273-278 or similar small square baler; JD 410 round
baler working or parts. (204)265-3476 call or text.
Tillage & Seeding
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Tillage
2008 BOURGAULT 7200 HEAVY Harrow 84-ft
$38,000. Call:(701)521-0581.
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.
ANNUAL
BRED
FEMALE
WANTED: 40 OR 45-FT grain trailer. Phone:
(204)638-8415.
PROSPECT
STEER &
HEIFER SALE
WANTED: 80-HP (+) TRACTOR w/ or w/o loader.
Phone (204)242-2362.
WANTED JD 530 MODEL, row crop. Phone Gordon (204)268-2392.
The Icynene Insulation
System®
FOR SALE: JD 610 41-ft. deep tiller w/Summers
mulchers & ammonia kit, $12,000 OBO. Phone
(204)745-7445.
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
2008 JD 9530T, 3,100-HRS, 36-in tracks, Powershift, PTO, 4Hyd, SCVs, HIDs, AT ready. $240,000.
Call:(701)521-0581.
FOR SALE: JD 1840 c/w high-low JD 146 loader,
3-PTH, 540/1000 PTO, 6-ft. bucket & bale forks,
8,300-hrs, good running condition, $12,000 OBO.
(204)278-3308.
FOR SALE: JD 2130 3-pt., re-built engine w/146
loader, painted; JD 2750 MFWD, 3-pt., 245 FEL,
painted; JD 2950 MFWD, 3-pt., painted, w/265 FEL;
JD 3155 MFWD, 3-pt., w/265 FEL; JD 4020 Synchro; JD 4250 MFWD, powershift w/o FEL; JD 4455
MFWD, 3-pt., quad shift; JD 4440 Quad, fact duals;
JD 4450 2WD, 3-pt., 15-SPD; JD 4450 MFWD,
Quad shift; JD 4450 MFWD, 15-SPD, power shift,
w/wo FEL; JD 4640 2WD, 3-pt., 3 hyd, Quad shift, 8
front weights w/bracket. All tractors can be sold
w/new or used loaders. Mitch’s Tractor Sales Ltd.
St. Claude, MB. Call: (204)750-2459. mitchstractorsales.com
JD 8400 POWER SHIFT, 1000 PTO, 3-PTH, 4
Hyd, 7,900-hrs, Performax Service Done, $64,900;
JD 840 Loader avail, $12,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer
(204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
JD 9120 POWER SHIFT, 1000 PTO, 3-PTH, 4
Hyd, GPS, Auto Steer, 6,900-hrs, Performax Service Inspection, $115,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer
(204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
ADVERTISING DOLLAR!
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Don’t be disappointed!
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Now available North American wide at prices never seen before
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Mastercard,
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You receive base pump, rad hose, insulation,
fittings, rust inhibitor PLUS our FC30HD (can
heat 1 building) WOOD WATER FURNACE
Some claim this is “North America’s Hottest Deal!”
Friesen Built Inc.
1-204-388-6150 • Toll Free 1-855-897-7278
2 1/8, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2-in oilfield pipe; 3/4, 7/8, 1in sucker rod; 4.5, 5.5, 7-in., 8 5/8, 9 5/8s casing
pipe. (204)252-3413, (204)871-0956.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – 4 Wheel Drive
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.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
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.
LIVESTOCK
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
30-FT WHITE TANDEM DISC, new front blades,
also a New Holland 116 Haybine. Phone Jack:
(204)526-2857. Holland, MB.
8 BALE LOW-BED, 9-FT x 26-ft, 6-in x 8-in steel
beams, $1,000; 41-ft, 7-in Westfield grain auger
w/Kohler 16-hwp motor w/starter, $850; 6-ft swath
roller, $175. Phone:(204)748-1024.
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.
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.
TD9 PARTS FOR SALE including dozer tracks &
other misc parts. Phone (204)378-2763.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Wanted
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
BRED COW & HEIFER SALE
MONDAY NOVEMEBER 18
HARRY DALKYE, MORDEN, MB
(204-362-4101)
• 140 (ALL 2ND CALVING) 3 YR OLD
BLACK COWS,
• 19 FIRST CALVING HEIFERS.
• BRED TO BLACK ANGUS BULLS
FROM THE SHORT GRASS BULL SALE
DUE APRIL/MAY
DUNCAN GEISLER, ASHERN, MB.
(204-768-2357)
• 35 BLACK HEIFERS, BRED BLACK
ANGUS, DUE MARCH
OTHER CONSIGNMENTS:
• 150-200 BLACK COWS/ HEIFERS
BRED BLACK ANGUS
For pictures and videos click on
www.srauction.ca
or contact
Myles Masson 204-447-2266
SPECIAL HEAVY
CALF SALE
REGULAR
CATTLE SALES
Friday, November 15th
NEXT SHEEP & GOAT SALE
Wednesday, November 20 @ 1:00 pm
Gates Open:
Mon.-Wed. 8AM-4PM
Thurs. 8AM-10PM
Friday 8AM-6PM
Sat. 8AM-4PM
REMEMBRANCE DAY - CLOSED
Please call in your consignment this
Fall to enable us to
promote your stock in advance to
prospective buyers.
every TUESDAY at 9 am
Nov 12th,19th
& 26th
Monday, November 11th
No Sale - REMEMBRANCE DAY!
Saturday, November 23rd
Bred Cow Sale
10:00 am
Sales Agent for
HIQUAL INDUSTRIES
We also have a line of Agri-blend all natural
products for your livestock needs.
(protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc)
For more information call: 204-694-8328
Jim Christie 204-771-0753
Scott Anderson 204-782-6222
Mike Nernberg 204-807-0747
Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250
Auction Mart (204) 434-6519
For on farm appraisal of livestock
or for marketing information please call
EZ-ON MEDIUM DUTY DISC, 20-26-ft, others considered; Late model 5020 JD tractor; NH 1475 haybine; L3 Gleaner combine. Phone:(306)876-4707.
www.winnipeglivestocksales.com
Licence #1122
WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
MB. Livestock Dealer #1111
LIVESTOCK
Horses – Donkeys
LIVESTOCK
Swine For Sale
PB BULLS & HEIFER calves born Feb & Mar. Also
1 1/2-yr old bulls. Phone Jack: (204)526-2857. Holland, MB.
FOR SALE: BERKSHIRE HOGS, bores & gilts plus
market hogs. Also some Tamworth pigs. Delivery at
cost.
Contact
Troy
&
Lee
Collingridge
(204)828-3317, (204)750-2759, (204)750-3082.
35 HEREFORD COWS & 12 bred hereford heifers.
All bred to start calving Feb 1st. Will keep cows until Jan 1st 2014. Contact Glen (204)436-3377, Elm
Creek.
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 – Limousin
MARK YOUR CALENDARS MB Limousin Association. Limousin advantage sale Nov 23rd, 2013 at
1:30pm. Hosted at Triple R Limousin, MacGregor,
MB. The best of the best will be on offer. Steers &
heifer calves, Bred heifers & proven cows w/some
commercial cows. Come & check out. Your source
for quality Limousin genetics. Art (204)685-2628,
Trav (204)838-2019, Bob
(204)274-2490, Cheryl
(204)736-2878,
Bill
(204)776-2322,
Len
(204)937-4980, Lawrence (204)838-2198, Kevin
(204)734-4797, Brad (204)638-8554.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
SIMM/ ANGUS OPEN HEIFERS & Simm open
heifers. Contact (204)767-2327.
80 RED ANGUS CROSS, Charlois cross, due to
calve March/Apr. Bred to PB Red Angus. These
cows are 2nd calvers & are age verified. Call
Ed:(204)385-2672.
AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING
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)
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK
AUCTION MART. LTD.
GRUNTHAL, MB.
LIVESTOCK
Sheep For Sale
2 MATURE FEMALE STANDARD Jennys, 2 standard 2013 Jennettes, 1 2013 standard Jack. Good
guardians, experienced w/cattle, sheep & goats.
Phone:(204)425-3131.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519
Contact:
D.J. (Don) MacDonald
Livestock Ltd.
License #1110
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.
Hit our readers where it counts… in the classifieds.
Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifed
section. 1-800-782-0794.
REGULAR BUTCHER &
FEEDER SALE
Every Friday 9AM
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
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
Introductory
Doorcrasher
Special
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.
Case 1070,107-HP, std trans, 6,180-hrs, $7,500;
1978 White 2-105, 6,780-hrs, 100-HP, Hydro-shift,
$7,500; 1982 IHC 5088, 8979-hrs, triple hyd, 1000
PTO, 18.4x38 duals, 1100 front, W/Leon 707 FEL,
$17,500. Phone (204)525-4521 www.waltersequipment.com
Stretch your
Factory Direct Outlet
IRON & STEEL
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Various
Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400
Ben: 721-3400
Don: 528-3477, 729-7240
www.maplelakestockfarms.com
Call Gerry Bertholet
204-858-2086 or 204-741-0340
Andrea 204-483-0319
Ward Cutler 204-851-2614
1-800-587-4711
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – 2 Wheel Drive
1976 8630 JD, PTO, 7950-hrs, good condition,
$13,500 OBO. Call Brian (204)981-6480.
REDS/BLACKS/BALDYS
SIMMENTALS & ANGUS
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
www.penta.ca
TIRED OF THE
HIGH COST OF
MARKETING
YOUR CATTLE??
800-1000 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
• 45 Bred Heifers
• 20 Bred Cows 3-5 yr old
Cows Bred to Maple Lake Bulls
Viewing anytime at the farm,
See Pasture Tour on website:
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – John Deere
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Wanted
November 28, 2013
at Grande Clairiere, MB
Sale at Grande Clairiere Hall at 2 pm
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Various
TracTors
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
80 RED COWS FOR SALE. Approx 40 will be having their 2nd calf Spring 2014, approx 40 of varying
ages. All bred to Black Angus bulls starting July 1st,
2013. Priced in small groups or as a whole unit.
(204)876-4798 Snowflake, MB.
COMPLETE HERD DISPERSAL, 130 Angus & Angus crossed cows, mainly black with a few reds,
bred to Black Angus & Black Simmental bulls,
$1,200/each. Call:(204)841-3633 or (204)386-2857.
FOR SALE: 30 ANGUS cross cows, bred to Black
Angus bulls, starting to calve Jan 15th. $1500 each.
Phone (204)822-3789, (204)362-6403.
FOR SALE: 30 YOUNG cows bred Red Angus, to
calve Mar5-Apr30, full vaccination program, $1,600
OBO. Also 6 Red bred heifers. Howard McDonald:
(204)834-2931 or (204)724-5673.
FOR SALE: 40 ANGUS cows mainly Black Angus
bred to Black Angus for May & June calving, asking
$1,600 per cow OBO. (204)247-0388, Roblin, MB.
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.
HERD DISPERSAL OF 40 young Charolais &
Charolais cross cows. Bred Charolais for Mar 04
calving. (204)638-8502 or (204)648-5186, Dauphin.
HERD DISPERSAL SALE: Angus crosses Red &
Black 50 cows, 10 bred heifers, 10 open heifers & 3
bulls, quiet. Call evenings (204)638-8561.
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
WANTED:
BUTCHER
HOGS
SOWS AND BOARS
FOR EXPORT
P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD.
728-7549
Licence No. 1123
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.
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.
ORGANIC
ORGANIC
Organic – Grains
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]
PETS
PETS & SUPPLIES
12 WK OLD MAREMMA puppy, will be large guardian dog, being raised w/sheep. $350. Phone
(204)367-8945.
BORDER COLLIE PUPS for sale. Both parents on
site, 3 females blk/w & 4 males, 2 are blk/w, 2 are
red/w, $125 ea, ready to go October 10th. No Sunday calls please (204)656-4430.
FOR SALE: AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD x Border
Collie pups. Black & white in color, ready Nov 10th.
$50/pup. Phone:(204)838-2397.
REAL ESTATE
REAL ESTATE
Houses & Lots
1,400-SQFT HOME, FULL BASEMENT, attached
& detached garage, 4 other bldgs, 2-ac lot, garden
plots, shows like new. Phone:(204)768-3044 or
(204)302-9106.
FARM HOUSE FREE APPROX 1,150-sq.ft. to be
moved or salvaged, excellent for cottage, Oak Bluff.
Phone (204)895-8326 or (204)895-0084.
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READY TO MOVE HOMES - Beautiful homes still
available for fall delivery. 3 bedrooms, walk-in closet & ensuite, main floor laundry. 1,320-sqft $75,000, 1,520-sqft - $90,000. Call Marvin Homes
Inc:(204)326-1493, (204)355-8484. Steinbach, MB.
www.marvinhomes.ca
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
FABULOUS WORKING CATTLE RANCH. Mostly
newer facilities w/320 deeded acs & 320 leased acs
w/1,124SF, 2 bdrm built 2010, attached insulated
double garage, 44’x32’ heated & insulated work
shop, older barn, elec fencing & more. Balmoral,
$645,000. Call Claudette @ L.J. Baron Realty,
www.ljbaron.com, 888-629-6700
For Sale: RM of MCCREARY 719-acs farm (cattle,
elk, bison) 1,064-sq.ft. bungalow & yard site,
outbldgs. 3) PLUMAS 1,156-sq.ft. 2+ BDRM MODERN HOME 4.17-ACS, ca c vac, WORKSHOPS &
MORE! 4) ARDEN 5-acs 2+ bdrm renov. Home dbl
garage. Also 2-ac lot only $8,000; 5) 1 section of
pastureland NE of GLADSTONE, fenced & dugouts, $269,000; 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 BY TENDER
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
PROPERTY
NE ¼ 3-2-8 WPM
Excepting M. and M.
(being approx. 160 cultivated acres)
TENDERS CLOSE: November 15, 2013.
For further information contact
S. Tristan Smith at
Phone:(204) 242-2801
Fax: (204) 242-2723
Email: [email protected]
FARMLAND FOR SALE BY Tender: The SE1/4
10-10-4 WPM located in the RM of Portage la Prairie, consisting of approximately 156-acs of cultivated farmland, is hereby offered for sale by tender.
Interested parties must forward formal tenders, together w/certified cheque for 5% of the tender price
payable to “D’Arcy & Deacon LLP in Trust” on or
before Nov. 21st, 2013. The Purchaser shall rely
entirely on their own inspection of the property &
shall be responsible for payment of the GST or
shall self-assess for GST purposes. Highest or any
tender not necessarily accepted. Closing of the sale
& transfer of possession of the property shall be
Dec. 15th, 2013 or earlier by mutual agreement.
For further info please contact John C. Stewart at
(204)925-5368. Tenders should be submitted to:
D’Arcy & Deacon LLP 2200-One Lombard Place
Wpg, MB R3B 0X7 Attn: John C. Stewart Tenders
Close: Nov. 21st, 2013
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
RECREATIONAL
VEHICLES
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.
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GUY & SUSAN JOHNSON of Eddystone, MB intend to sell private lands: SW 11-25-12W; NW
11-25-12W; NE 10-25-12W FR; SE 10-25-12W FR;
NE 02-25-12W; NW 02-25-12W; SE 02-25-12 W;
SW 02-25-12W; NE 03-25-12W; SE 03-25-12W;
NW 05-24-12W; SE 05-24-12W; NW 17-24-12W;
SE 33-23-12W to John & Deana Martin & Katherine
Lansdell who intend to acquire the following agricultural Crown land leases: N1/2 28-23-12W; NE
29-23-12W; E1/2 32-23-12W; N1/2 33-23-12W; SW
33-23-12W; W1/2 3-24-12W; Sec 4-24-12W; NE
5-24-12W; NE 08-24-12W; SE 08-24-12W; Sec
09-24-12W; NW 08-12-24W E1/2; SW 10-24-12W,
SW 16-24-12W; NE 17-24-12W; SW 08-24-12W
E1/2; SE 17-24-12W; SW 17-24-12W E1/2 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.
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is rolling has approx 38 arable acs & the balance is
bush & water, $45,000. Karen Goraluk Salesperson
(204)773-6797. NorthStar Insurance & Real Estate
www.north-star.ca
SW-5-25-14W RM OF ALONSA, 70-acres tame
hay. Good hunting (wildlife opportunity) Surrounded
by crown land, fenced in. Tender by Nov 22, 2013.
Mail to 48 Stradbrook Place, Dauphin MB, R7N
0M9.
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REAL ESTATE
Land For Rent
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.
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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
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FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER: Sealed,
written tenders for property in the RM of Morris will
be received by: HARRY WIENS LAW OFFICE
2-500 Main Street, P.O. Box 99 Winkler, MB R6W
4A4. For the following legally described property:
NW 1/4 33-5-2WPM, excepting Water Control
Works Plan 1242 MLTO. Being approximately
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knowledge of the property. 2.Tenders must be received on or before 5:00p.m. on Nov., 28, 2013.
3.Tenders must be accompanied by a deposit of
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any tender not necessarily accepted. The Vendors
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any Tender. 5.The purchaser(s) shall be responsible for payment of GST or shall self-assess for
GST. For CONDITIONS OF SALE & further information contact: HARRY J. WIENS or JOAN FRANZ
at: Ph. 204-325-4615 or by Fax. 204-325-6712.
Email:[email protected] or [email protected]
FARMLAND FOR SALE IN RM of Thompson, SE
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necessarily accepted. Mail bids to Bill Rempel, Box
81 Rosenort MB, R0G 1W0. Ph:(204)746-2092,
Fx:(204)746-2112.
LAND FOR SALE
Selling 100% shares
of Corporation
Shares consist of:
SE 8-4-4E - 160 acres
SW 4-4-4E - 160 acres
(both parcels are in the RM
of DeSalaberry)
Deadline for bids
November 30, 2013
Mail bids to:
Daniel & Terry Sabourin
Box 25
St. Jean Baptiste, MB
R0G 2B0
204-746-4028 - cell
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nostris la vissolutusa rei ficae ario, cul
consus mentrunum hos licaet inveren
tistebu saterit vis hoctand ientius tarta
ventren itamei publiem quitam ora publi
crum unrl h non
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