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Pilot Mound prosciutto
makers start over
Do you have
a licence for
that pig?
The Manitoba Pork
Council continues to
search for ways to instill
greater stability in the
swine sector
Dried meat seizure off the farm last summer brought a simmering debate to a boil
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
T
he search for greater
stability in province’s
hog industry has led the
Manitoba Pork Council to put
forward a proposed system of
producer licences.
Although in the early stages
of development, general manager Andrew Dickson shared
the concept with producers at
the annual Swine Seminar in
Winnipeg last week.
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S
ix months after food
inspectors raided their onfarm meat shop and seized
their award-winning prosciutto, a Pilot Mound couple
has learned all charges against
them have been dropped.
Clint and Pam Cavers,
whose old-world-style sausage earned top honours at
the Great Manitoba Food Fight
last year, have also been given
the green light to go back into
production.
“We’ve done a lot around
here to try and work with
MAFRD to make this come
out well for everybody,” said
a relieved Clinton Cavers last
week. “We’re probably now
within a month from being
able to start producing prosciutto again.”
Upgrades to their facility,
including new equipment and
other revisions to comply with
food safety regulations have
been approved in writing by
two inspectors from Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development who visited their
meat shop in January, he said.
That leaves them confident
they won’t face a similar problem in the future.
“We got caught in this trap
before, where everybody would
say, ‘just do this, and then we’ll
come and tell you if it’s OK,’”
he said. “Now (they can’t) come
and tell us we need to spend
another $10,000 on something
else they didn’t think of.”
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Pam and Clinton Cavers are eager to start making their value-added meat product again. photo: lorraine stevenson
The Cavers say they will
have spent considerably more
than that by the time the meat
shop’s renovations are done,
but the price tag isn’t the
$100,000 they initially anticipated last fall when the raid on
their farm thrust them into a
media spotlight.
Their $10,000 prize for winning the Great Manitoba Food
Fight, sponsored by the same
provincial department that
later stopped them from making prosciutto, was put towards
hiring Food Development
Centre consultants to teach
them how to document Good
Manufacturing Practices
(GMPs), said Pam Cavers.
It’s going to be onerous to
keep on top of it all, she said.
“We’re working on it. They’re
not easy. And I am a still little
(company) and I need to make
a living,” she said.
The Cavers’ predicament
caused a simmering debate
over how food regulations are
implemented in Manitoba
to boil over, as proponents
o f l o c a l l y p ro d u c e d a n d
processed food rose to their
defence.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
INSIDE
Did you know?
LIVESTOCK
IBM rolls out
‘Watson’ in Africa
“Swab
and test”
That’s the new motto
for hog producers
trying to keep PEDv out
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The supercomputer can talk to humans and analyze massive data
By Tim Cocks
lagos / reuters
I
CROPS
More than a
numbers game
Deciding when or
whether to spray is a
complex decision
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FEATURE
U.S. farmers get
climate “hubs”
Their government
is getting serious
about climate change
adaptation
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CROSSROADS
Vinegar
Valentines
More sour than sweet,
they were not sent to
someone you liked
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5
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10
Editorials
Comments
What’s Up
Livestock Markets
BM began rolling out its Watson supercomputer system across Africa on Feb.
5, saying it would help make agriculture
smarter and address continental development obstacles as diverse as medical
diagnoses, economic data collection and
e-commerce research.
The world’s biggest technology service
provider said “Project Lucy” would take 10
years and cost $100 million. The undertaking was named after the earliest-known
human ancestor fossil, which was found in
east Africa,
“I believe it will spur a whole era of innovation for entrepreneurs here,” IBM chief
executive Ginni Rometty told delegates at a
conference.
A s a n e x a m p l e, Ro m e t t y c i t e d h ow
Morocco had used sophisticated data mining for “smart agriculture” to improve how
crops are grown by predicting weather,
demand and disease outbreaks.
The Watson system, named after former
IBM president Thomas Watson uses artificial intelligence that can quickly analyze huge amounts of data and understand human language well enough to
hold sophisticated conversations. It beat
humans on the TV quiz show “Jeopardy” in
2011.
International Business Machines Corp.
has so far failed to convert that genius into
substantial revenue growth, with the system contributing just $100 million over
the past three years as overall revenues
declined.
The technology would enable poorer
parts of Africa to “leapfrog” stages of devel-
IBM chairwoman and CEO Virginia “Ginni” Rometty
speaks at an IBM Watson conference — the company’s new supercomputer, in lower Manhattan,
New York Jan. 9, 2014. photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
opment they have failed to reach because
they were too expensive, in much the same
way mobile phones took off across the
continent in places where there had been
virtually no landlines, said Michel Bézy, a
Rwanda-based technology professor who
helped develop the Watson system.
It could help with education in schools
that have few computer resources by
using smartphone apps that get access to
Watson’s analytical tools through cloud
computing, IBM’s chief Africa research scientist Uyi Stewart told Reuters in Lagos.
Roads in countries like Nigeria are often
so poorly maintained, traffic clogged or
flooded that it is impossible to predict how
long a journey will take. Stewart said the
system would help logistics companies
by telling them where potholes are, which
junctions are choke points and whether it
is raining.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
MBP votes to boost coffers
Increase to voluntary checkoff levy could boost annual revenues by nearly $500,000
By Daniel Winters
co-operator staff
C
attle prices may be soaring
to record highs, but ranchers selling their cattle after
July 1 of this year will find their
cheques $1 per head lighter due to
a hike in the checkoff deduction.
Citing decreased revenues
due to the shrinking provincial
cattle herd, the Manitoba Beef
Producers voted 71-5 in favour of
a resolution at their annual general meeting last week that would
raise the provincial per-head
checkoff to $3 per head, up from
$2. The national checkoff fee of $1
remains unchanged.
“From my perspective, this is an
enormous vote of confidence in
this organization,” said MBP general manager Cam Dahl, amid a
sudden outburst of applause that
immediately followed the vote.
Manitoba Beef Producers members vote 71-5 to increase the voluntary checkoff levy to $3 per head at the recent annual general meeting. Photo: Daniel Winters
Depending on the size of the
cattle herd in Manitoba, as well as
the number of ranchers requesting that the checkoff funds be
returned to them, the increase
could funnel as much as $500,000
more per year into the provincial
association’s coffers.
Two related resolutions, one of
which sought to make the checkoff non-refundable, and another
that would make only half of the
amount refundable, were defeated.
Currently, about 15 per cent of
all cattle sellers request checkoff
refunds, said Dahl.
The net value of the checkoff
was about $800,000 last year, and
the increase is expected to restore
the group’s finances to where it
was about five to seven years ago,
he added.
MBP has five full-time staff
including Dahl, who will be leaving MBP to become president of
Cereals Canada in March.
The money from the checkoff may be used to restore staffing levels that were cut back, as
well as fund a range of new initiatives such as a proposed beef
production demonstration farm
at the Brandon Research Centre
that Dahl described as still in the
“planning stages.”
Outgoing president Trevor
Atchison said that the vote to
increase the checkoff shows that
the membership is “happy” with
the association’s efforts, but that
the two defeated resolutions calling for the checkoff to be mandatory show that the members
wish to preserve a measure of
“accountability.”
“If they don’t like what we’re
doing, they can ask for their
money back,” said Atchison.
“Hopefully, if they do that, they
can also send us a letter to tell us
why so we can try to fix it.”
Calvin Vaags, a rancher and
slaughter plant operator from
the Carman area, said that new
opportunities for increased
trade with the European Union
and China, for example, mean
that the time is right for renewed
investments by the provincial
organization.
“With cattle prices the way
they are today, the percentage
that we would be paying for this
checkoff is actually a lot lower
than what we paid in the past,”
he said.
Steinbach-area rancher and
MBP District 4 director Heinz
Reimer was chosen as the new
MBP president.
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Bittersweet victory for
2014 OYF winners
Carman-area grain farmers Myron and Jill Krahn named
this year’s Outstanding Young Farmers
By Daniel Winters
co-operator staff / Elkhorn Resort,
Onanole
I
t was a bittersweet moment
for Myron and Jill Krahn, this
year’s winners of the annual
Outstanding Young Farmers
award.
In his acceptance speech,
Myron thanked the sponsors,
his wife and children, and his
mother, who was present.
But when it came to the role
that his father had played in his
farming career, words failed him.
“Mom, I’m glad you’re here,”
he said, before wiping away a
tear at the thought of his father,
who had passed away last
summer.
“I wish he was here,” said
Myron.
As the weekend-long event
wrapped up Feb. 8, participants
gathered for a banquet that celebrated the victories of the province’s three competing farm couples, and took time to remember
those who had passed on.
A moment of silence was
taken to honour the memory
of former winner Major Jay
Fox, who was killed in a tragic
farming accident in 2011. The
Eddystone rancher and his wife
Angela, who served as regional
administrator for this year’s
event, took the top provincial
farming award in 2008.
A scholarship in his name has
been created, with Oak Lakearea student Jay Rimke chosen
as this year’s winner.
Both farm kids from southern Manitoba, the Krahns met
while studying at the University
of Manitoba where they both
majored in agronomy.
After graduation, Myron
returned to the family farm in
2003. He also worked as a seed
production co-ordinator with
Proven Seed, and then as an
agronomist with Homewood
Co-op.
Jill worked with Advanta
Seeds and later with Monsanto
as a quality assurance assistant
before leaving to farm full time
with Myron in 2007 after the
birth of their second child.
Myron currently serves as
chair of the Manitoba Corn
Growers Association and sits
as a director of the Pembina
Consumers Co-op board.
In a presentation of their farm
operation, Myron said that everything they do revolves around
family, especially their two
daughters Cadence and Keira.
“We try to keep them very
involved, not just sitting beside
us in the combine for the day.
Hopefully, someday they’ll be
ambassadors for agriculture like
we are,” said Myron.
For 13 years, the Krahns found
winter work off the farm to supplement their income, but now
they devote themselves full time
to their corn, soybeans, canola,
cereals and grass seed operation.
In 2009, they started a corn
seed dealership that has
expanded into soybeans and
cereals, as well as an on-site
seed-treating system.
“There’s no better place to
raise a family than a farm, especially a farm like ours that allows
the children to be involved,” said
Myron. “We’re having such an
awesome time — it’s great.”
Competing entries were Yan
Lafond, a fourth-generation
grain farmer from St. Jean, and
Eric Gluck and Jodi Griffith,
who together run a certifiedorganic Community Supported
Agriculture near Lowe Farm that
delivers seasonal vegetables,
berries and grains to members’
homes.
Carman-area farmers Myron and Jill Krahn were named Outstanding Young
Farmers for 2014 at a weekend-long awards ceremony at Elkhorn Resort in
Onanole. photo: Daniel Winters
In his comments, local MP Bob
Sopuck pointed out the “cultural”
benefits of agriculture, where
lives are lived close to the land,
doors are never locked, and people are infused with the co-operative spirit that comes from working alongside neighbours and
community.
He recalled a funeral plot he
once visited near Basswood,
where he was struck by this fact.
“Etched on the headstone was his farm, with a
picture of him in his baseball cap, and the inscription
is something I’ll never forget:
Life’s Work Well Done,” said
Sopuck.
Last year’s winners were Tyler
and Dorelle Fulton, a ranching
couple from Birtle.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Critics should take
a position
T
his section of the just-passed new U.S.
Farm Bill gives you a bit of a chuckle:
The promulgation of the regulations and administration of this title and the
amendments made by this title and sections
11001 and 11012 shall be made without
regard to — (A) the notice and comment provisions of section 553 of title 5, United States
Code; S 954 PP 157 1 (B) chapter 35 of title 44,
United States 2 Code (commonly known as the
John Morriss
‘’Paperwork Reduction Act’’)
Editorial Director
Given that that sentence, let alone the document itself, which runs 1,024 pages, you can
certainly see that the Farm Bill was crafted without much regard
to paperwork reduction. But given that the bill must be renewed
every five years, and that it determines not only farm policy but
consumer nutrition and support programs (total: $956.4 billion
over 10 years), it’s not surprising that there is a lot of detail.
Of those 1,024 pages, 89 are devoted to U.S. dairy policy, and
those pages deserve some attention by Canadian dairy farmers. As
they well know, whenever some business columnists and editorial writers for national newspapers are short of a topic, they drag
out that old reliable — the supply management system. Coddled
Canadian dairy farmers are said to be making excess profits at
the expense of the consumer, and cheaper milk for children and
cheaper pizza for the country’s couch potatoes could be had if the
border were thrown open and U.S. supplies allowed to flow in.
Assuming that U.S. milk is cheaper — which it may not always
be — this raises another question which the editorialists always
avoid. Much of the Canadian market is within a few hours by
truck of major U.S. dairy production areas. If the border is thrown
open, should there be different subsidy levels for Canadian and
U.S. producers? It’s one thing to have different policies for grain,
which can be stored, and much of which goes for export. It’s
entirely different for a perishable product like milk that is used for
domestic consumption.
If the border were thrown open, either the federal government
would have to match the U.S. policy of direct government payments to producers, or watch Canadian dairy producers go out of
business. As for matching U.S. policy, well, if anyone thinks supply management is bureaucratic, they should have a look at the
dairy provisions of the U.S. Farm Bill. By the way, it now includes
an element of supply management through different insurance
premiums for different levels of production.
Canadian dairy farmers should use the passage of the new U.S.
Farm Bill as an opportunity to highlight the dilemma posed by
simply opening the border. Supply management may not be perfect, but the critics have been getting off too easily. They need to
take a position. Do they really want Canadian farmers to compete
directly with subsidized Americans? If not, what kind of support
should they receive?
[email protected]
Cooler heads have prevailed
I
t was heartening to read this week’s coverage of the ongoing effort by Clint and Pam
Cavers to develop their on-farm processing business in a regulatory environment that
could best be described as fluid.
All charges stemming from last summer’s
raid on their Pilot Mound operation and confiscation of their award-winning prosciutto
have been dropped. They’ve received the
green light from inspectors — in writing — to
Laura Rance
go back into production.
Editor
While it was disturbing to see one arm of
a government department rewarding their
efforts with a prize worth $10,000 in the Great Manitoba Food
Fight only to have another arm of the same department seize
their product a few months later, we suggest a more pragmatic
view is in order.
Those charged with protecting public safety should not be
restricted from their duties by other departmental interests such
as rural and small business development. In this case, it is probably a good thing for one hand of government not to know what
the other hand is doing.
That said, there remain lingering questions as to whether the
inspectors’ actions were overly officious or excessive. The decision
to not proceed with the charges and $700 fines levelled against
the Cavers would suggest that perhaps cooler heads have prevailed among Manitoba’s food safety regulators.
Manitoba passed new food safety laws in 2009 but has yet to
develop the regulations that go with it. Government officials
say consultations are ongoing and it could be 2015 before they
become law.
But the emerging framework appears to provide flexibility for
smaller-scale or artisan operations to meet with the act’s requirements without making large-scale investments. We applaud that
effort.
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Say it ain’t so Joe!
How low will corn prices go?
By Darrel Ray and Harwood Schaffer
A
s the 2013 U.S. corn crop was being
planted, futures prices were above $6 a
bushel with an occasional bump above
$7. Traders were concerned that the planting
problems farmers were experiencing would
result in reduced production. By the end of
July, with fewer concerns about the size of the
corn crop, the price dropped below $5.
Since then, the price has trended downward
so that in late January 2014, the March 2014
futures contract price for corn is $4.295. In
negative basis areas, the cash price of corn is
closer to $4.
Iowa State University estimates that for
fields of corn following soybeans and yielding
200 bushels per acre the total cost of production per bushel would be $4.24.
After all the talk about a new price plateau
and now with tumbling crop prices, could we
see corn prices between $2 and $3 in the near
future — with other prices at the same relative
level? Say it ain’t so Joe!
As farmers face lower prices, we hear assurances that farmers are not in the same situation that they were in the 1980s when lenders
were making asset-based loans. At that time,
land prices were increasing, pumping up net
worth even though some farmers had a negative cash flow. The result of the asset-based
loans in that atmosphere left farmers with a
high debt-to-asset ratio.
Today loans are based on profit and loss
statements and the ability to repay the loan.
As a result the debt-to-asset ratio for today’s
farmers is much lower than it was in the earlier period and thus the confidence.
The question that is often asked of military
leaders as they plan for the future is whether
OUR HISTORY:
or not they are really refighting the last war.
We wonder whether or not ag lenders are
refighting the last war.
Consider this for a moment: Suppose corn
production for both the 2013 and 2014 crop years
comes in at or above 14 billion bushels and our
export competitors continue to expand their production. In addition, let’s suppose that the major
importing countries don’t face significant production problems during the next couple years.
If those things were to happen, it would not
be unreasonable for corn exports in each of
the two crop years to come in at 100 million
to 200 million bushels or more below USDA’s
already low January projection for the 2013
crop of 1.450 billion bushels. (How low is the
January projection of 1.450 billion bushels?
Only in three of the last 38 crop years have
corn exports been below 1.450 billion bushels
— 1985, 1993 and last year.)
It is unlikely that the use of corn to produce
ethanol will increase much above current
expectations; probably it is more likely to fall
short than exceed current expectations.
In addition, suppose livestock disease problems reduce annual feed demand during the
2013 and 2014 crop years by 300 million bushels or so below 2013 crop year expectations.
If much of this were to happen, by 2014 the
year-ending stocks of corn could easily break
past 2.5 billion bushels. With that size carryover, the corn price would continue its fall heading toward the variable cost of production.
If above-trend harvests appear in the 2015
crop year, could we see $2 corn?
Say it ain’t so Joe!
Daryll E. Ray holds the Blasingame Chair of Excellence
in Agricultural Policy, Institute of Agriculture, University of
Tennessee, and is the director of UT’s Agricultural Policy
Analysis Center (APAC). Harwood D. Schaffer is a research
assistant professor at APAC. http://www.agpolicy.org.
February 1978
O
ur February 1978 issues gave some hint of a change in
future tillage practices — this Haybuster Micro Seeder
was used by some of the early zero-tillage adopters. If
you were wondering how to control weeds, then a small story
behind the classified section mentioned a new herbicide named
Roundup, which Monsanto’s Barrie Forbes had described at
Farm and Home Week in Saskatoon. However, it was said to not
be economic at the full rate for zero tillage — it would have to
be used at a lower rate with a broadleaf product added.
Car supply to the West Coast, with shipments slowed by
winter weather, was on the front page Feb. 6, as was a story
which said Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan was considering financial aid to the troubled Canadian Co-operative
Implements Ltd.
The Canadian Wheat Board had announced contracts for
Klages barley and Beacon barley, but had discontinued offering
contracts for Pitic 62, an experimental feed wheat.
An organization called the American Agricultural Movement
had been attempting to raise prices by holding back deliveries
of grain and livestock, and a Canadian version was proposing
to withhold cattle deliveries and close all packing plants by
Feb. 27. No success was reported in later issues.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
COMMENT/FEEDBACK
Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR) and Bill C-18
Despite what detractors say, both farmers and breeders will benefit
By R.K. Downey and B.L. Harvey
A
s public plant breeders with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
and the University of Saskatchewan for a combined total of over
100 years, we were pleased to see the
recently tabled Agricultural Growth Act
(Bill C-18).
This bill encompasses desirable
amendments to the present Plant
Breeders’ Rights (PBR) Act that will
bring Canada into conformity with the
1991 convention of the International
Union for the Protection of New Varieties (UPOV ’91).
Canada was a signatory to this convention back in 1992 but is just now
bringing the amendments into force.
Thus the amendments are not, as some
detractors would have you to believe,
something that has not been seen
before.
Indeed, Canada is a late adopter and
has been long out of step with our major
trading partners and competitors (U.S.,
E.U., Japan, Australia, South Korea, Russia, etc.) as well as many smaller and
developing nations. Indeed Canada will
probably need conformity with UPOV
’91 as part of any future trade agreements.
One of the most important amendments to the present PBR Act is a new
section that protects the producer’s right
to save, store, condition and propagate
the seed of a protected variety for his or
her own use. It is termed the “Farmers’
Privilege.”
The conditions are spelled out in Section 5.3 (2) of Bill C-18. The current legislation only permits a farmer’s use of
farm-saved seed by not expressly forbidding it. The new legislation specifically
enshrines this privilege.
Farmer’s privilege
Essentially this amendment allows a
farmer, once he or she has purchased
seed of a protected variety, to freely save
and store the harvested seed, send that
seed out to be cleaned, treated and to
plant that saved seed on lands under
Opponents to Bill C-18 claim, as they did when the original
PBR Act came into force in 1990, that producers will be held
hostage to private seed companies. That has not happened,
nor is it likely to happen with the new legislation.
upon the genetics of the protected variety and develop new superior varieties
without the necessity of obtaining permission from the right holder. In other
words, the genetics of the protected
variety are not locked up.
Copycat protection
his or her control, for as many years as
desired.
The amendments also make it clear
that the farmer may sell the harvested
grain into the domestic or foreign
market for commercial consumption
without paying any additional royalty,
so long as the seed was obtained legitimately.
These are the facts, despite the misleading claims of the National Farmers Union. However, the act prohibits a
farmer from selling or giving harvested
seed from the protected variety to his
neighbour or anyone else who may wish
to plant or further multiply it without
permission of the holder of the right.
Selling seed of a PBR-protected variety without authorization of the right’s
holder is an infringement under the
current act (based on UPOV ’78), and
continues to be an infringement under
the new act. The act also mandates that
farmers will always have a position on
the Minister’s PBR Advisory Committee.
It is true that there is a provision
allowing a right’s holder to exercise
rights (including a royalty) on a commercial crop, but only if propagating
material has been obtained illegally or
there has not been a reasonable opportunity for the right holder to collect royalties earlier in the sales chain.
This has been called the “reach
through provision.” Thus a right holder
would normally collect royalties on the
sale of seed or initial propagating stock
but in the exceptional circumstance
where this could not be done, there is a
provision for them to collect it later, but
only once.
Opponents to Bill C-18 claim, as they
did when the original PBR Act came into
force in 1990, that producers will be held
hostage to private seed companies. That
has not happened, nor is it likely to happen with the new legislation.
CFIA data show that about 45 per cent
of Canadian PBR applications for agriculture crops come from public plant
breeders and institutions.
Royalties
Royalties from these PBR-protected
varieties are a very important funding source for research and breeding at
Canadian universities as well as provincial and AAFC research centres.
Unfortunately that percentage will
likely fall as the federal government
continues to reduce funding and eliminate varietal release programs at its
research centres. However, with the
proposed changes to the act, privatesector investments in breeding are
expected to increase and hold promise
for additional funds to be channelled
into public breeding and public-private
partnerships.
There are also other important sections in the revised PBR legislation that
breeders need, such as the “Research
Exemption” and a “Breeder’s Exemption.” These are carried over from
the existing legislation but are made
more explicit in the amended version.
The research exemption gives other
researchers the freedom to conduct
research and experimentation on the
protected variety.
In addition, the breeder’s exemption
means that any breeder can use a PBRprotected variety to breed a new variety.
This allows other breeders to build
However, there is also an important provision that plant breeders have asked
for that prevents another breeder from
essentially reconstituting the protected
variety and claiming ownership. Thus a
breeder could not make a minor change
to a protected variety and then claim
it as a new variety without taking into
account the right holders’ right to the
original variety.
Opponents of the revised PBR legislation claim that we are dealing with
a zero sum proposition: if breeders
gain something then farmers must lose
something. The truth is that both the
breeder and the farmer benefit. A strong
and fair intellectual property framework
ensures that Canada is a desirable place
to invest in plant breeding, resulting in
more innovation, additional resources
and superior varieties in the marketplace.
Most western commodity groups
(e.g. Partners in Innovation) believe the
amended PBR legislation should benefit
farmers with a more competitive plantbreeding environment, resulting in a
greater choice of pest-resistant, highyielding varieties with good agronomics to meet their needs for sustainable
production and to compete in the global
marketplace.
We would encourage those interested
to read the amended PBR Act contained
in Bill C-18. It is a short read and you can
quickly pick out the areas of interest. We
think you will find it well balanced with
benefits for all parties. Go to: http://
www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/
Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1
&DocId=6378152).
Keith Downey is with the Saskatoon AAFC
Research Centre and Bryan Harvey is with the
University of Saskatchewan.
New U.S. Farm Bill fails to tackle big issues
It’s not a near miracle, not amazing and not very reforming
By Alan Guebert
H
ouse Ag Committee
chairman Frank Lucas,
a fast talker by birth
and trade, spared few superlatives when describing, in a telephone press conference Jan. 28,
the finally finished, modestly
named Agricultural Act of 2014.
“Historic in many ways,”
Lucas said of the pending law
as he shared the call with his
Senate counterpart, Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat from Michigan.
What’s more, he continued,
the three-years-in-the-making
legislation was “amazing” and,
in fact, “a reform bill.”
Caught up in his expansive rhetoric, Lucas finished
describing the law’s bigger elements with a flourish: “This is
not just a good Farm Bill, it’s
almost a miraculous Farm Bill!”
Truth be told, the 950-page
bill is not a near miracle, not
amazing, not very reforming
and, most definitely, not historic.
It is a very late, very dense,
and very status quo law that
further institutionalizes scale
over substance and insurance
over economics.
On the face of it, there’s nothing wrong with either growth
or insurance. Under this law,
however, the two are tied tightly
together; growth is all but guaranteed by heavily subsidized
revenue insurance. The market
is, well, in there somewhere.
How that policy will work is
certain to be tested in 2014.
Right now corn is scraping
along at $4 per bushel, ethanol is poised to lose some of
its government-mandated
demand, the export market is
increasingly crowded and competitive and U.S. farmers will
grow between 13.9 billion and
14.3 billion bu. of corn this year,
or about two billion bu. more
than forecasters predict will be
needed.
As such, Iowa State University economist Robert Wisner
estimates cash corn prices will
drop from an already-thin average of $4.40 per bu. in 2013-14
to a well underwater season
average of $3.75 to $3.90 in
2014-15.
The new farm law, with its
higher insurable levels and fatter insurance subsidies, makes
this corn-choking outcome
quite likely. So likely, in fact, that
the Jan. 29 Wall Street Journal
editorialized that the cost of this
new “shallow loss” insurance
program could “balloon to $14
billion a year” if overproduction
results.
Implementation, however,
hinges on whether the bill will
clear Congress and be signed
into law by the president (a near
slam dunk; the House passed it
Jan. 29 on a solid, 251-166 vote)
and if the rules to administer it
can be done in — what — no
more than 60 days?
Good luck on that second
thing, says a well-placed Farm
Bill watcher.
“The operating language of
what will be allowed under this
insurance program is very complicated,” the friend offers, “and
writing the rules for it will be
even more complicated.”
Complicated, yes. Different,
no.
And that’s the biggest irony to
this whole, bloody bill: there’s
nothing in it that might have
required the best part of three
years to write or provided all the
fuel to the fierce, bitter partisanship that dogged its every agonizing step.
After all, this bill never got
within a mile of very difficult
discussions on whether ethanol
still holds a place in America’s
renewable fuels future or how
a Farm Bill might address the
nation’s increasing health problems.
Moreover, Congress didn’t
convene one public hearing or
one ag committee meeting over
what the U.S. and its farmers
and ranchers can do to ensure
sustainable food production in
a world steeply challenged by
expanding population, increasing climate change and tougher,
narrower economics.
No, this Farm Bill was the
easy one — despite the delays
and politics — so we took the
easy way out.
The hard Farm Bill — the one
that tackles more than subsidized insurance and government-supported markets like
ethanol and sugar, the one that
views consumers and agbiz as
equals, the one that makes soil
and water as important as corn
and soybeans — lies ahead.
That’s the one that will be historic, reforming, amazing and a
near miracle.
The Farm and Food File is published
weekly through the U.S. and Canada.
Past columns, news, events and
contact information are posted at
www.farmandfoodfile.com.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
FROM PAGE ONE
PIG LICENCE Continued from page 1
PILOT MOUND Continued from page 1
“It’s a balanced production
model,” Dickson told seminar
attendees. “It’s not a quota system, it’s not supply management — it’s a way of making
sure that the number of licences
issued in terms of finishing
production in the province
matches the processing capacity of the plants.”
The system would not impose
any pr ice restr ictions, he
emphasized, noting that producers would be responsible
for negotiating their own prices
with processors.
But licences would be issued
by the council if its mandate
could be changed to accommodate a licensing system.
“We have marketing authority,” Dickson said. “Now we’d
need a new interpretation of
our marketing authority to be
able to do that, but it’s not a
major issue.”
The council is currently in
discussions with both levels of
government on the issue, he
said, adding the licence system is meant to allay fears put
forward by government that a
rebound in the hog industry
could lead to overexpansion.
The proposal seemed “to
strike a chord with a number
of key decision makers,” he
said, without expanding on who
those decision makers might be.
However, the council has
been seeking financial support from both the provincial
and federal governments on a
number of issues for more than
a year.
One is a proposed hog stabilization program requiring the
government to guarantee loans
administered by the organization’s financial corporation.
Dickson said at last week’s
meeting that there is still hope
A l t h o u g h t h e p r ov i n c e
passed a new food safety act
five years ago, MAFRD continues to hold public consultations on regulations. It
could be 2015 before the act is
proclaimed.
“Regulations still need to
be consulted on publicly and
then translated,” said MAFRD
spokesman Dr. Glen Duizer.
“There’s a fair number of
regulations involved. Once
those are done we can move
forward but it certainly takes
time to get that done.”
University of Manitoba student Colin Anderson, spokesman for a loosely organized
group of small processors,
farmers and university students who coalesced in support of the Cavers, said smallscale producers are discouraged or pushed underground
by the complexities of meeting modern food safety
regulations.
His group circulated its
criticisms widely through
social media and letters to
newspapers.
“A lot of the regulation,
though not intended to do
this, disadvantages smaller
processors,” he said in an
interview. “It has worked to
contain innovation and limit
innovation.”
But a spokesman for the
Manitoba Food Processors
Association (MFPA), whose
270 membership is mostly
small companies of one to
five employees, is reaching
out to food processors who
find themselves in similar
situations.
Executive director Dave
Shambrock said it is the association’s mandate to represent
the needs and interests of food
processors in Manitoba, and it
is looking for ways to specifically help business navigate
the regulatory landscape.
“It’s incredibly challenging
for any processor, regardless
of size, to be on top of this, but
especially the medium- and
small-size companies and you
really don’t have any choice,
if you want to be in the business of selling food,” said
Shambrock.
“A lot of the information
sites are just confusing to
work through. And there are
so many different food safety
mechanisms and systems that
are being developed,” he said.
T h e M F PA i s a p p l y i n g
through Growing Forward
2 for funding to develop a
program that would make
coaches or resource people
available to those smallerscale businesses that have neither the time, money or other
resources to devote to regulatory matters, he said.
“We’re looking at having this
network of consultants that we
co-ordinate and make available to individuals as needed,”
he said. “It would essentially
assign coaches or resource
people to smaller-scale businesses that need the help to
investigate, interpret and take
action on a regulatory framework appropriate to their
size.”
The need for help is only
bound to grow, Shambrock
added. Presently, food makers operate at one of three
levels, from using a basic food
safety program to using Good
Andrew Dickson, general manager of the Manitoba Pork Council speaks to a
full house during the 2014 Swine Seminar in Winnipeg. Photo: Shannon VanRaes
the program will come to fruition, and that they will continue
to pursue it with both levels of
government.
“We’re starting to get some
traction within government,” he
said. “They seem to understand
the issue and we think we may
be able to get some support
for this. Now it’s a long shot,
we realize that, but we need to
ensure that our producers have
sufficient cash on their farms
to meet things like feed costs,
wages, power on a monthly
basis.”
New investment
With the average hog barn in
the province being older than
15 years, Dickson said the
council is also looking at creative ways to encourage investment in new infrastructure
and an expansion of finishing
barns.
“What we’re proposing is
asking government to come in
and offer a partial guarantee
on 50 per cent of the debt on
a highly financed farm,” said
Dickson, adding guarantees on
working capital have also been
suggested.
But he emphasized that these
plans are merely proposals at
this stage and many details
need to be worked out, including how a licence system would
function.
Dickson envisions a licensing system similar to the one
for potato farmers engaged in
Manitoba’s french fry industry.
“You’d have to have a contract with a processor to ship
your pigs, if you stopped producing pigs, the plant would
say that there is spare capacity
and the board would monitor
that,” he said. “And if the producer is no longer producing
pigs, he would lose his licence,
if he had gone out of production for example, retired, then
that licence would come open
and another producer could
apply for it.”
Dickson said that discussions
with government will continue
while the remaining details are
sorted out.
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“We’ve done a lot
around here to
try and work with
MAFRD to make this
come out well for
everybody.”
Clinton Cavers
Manufactur ing Practices,
to the higher level HACCP
(Hazard Analysis Critical
C o n t r o l Po i n t ) p r o g r a m
which can cost anywhere
from $25,000 to $50,000 to
implement.
Shambrock says it is likely
only a matter of time before
HACCP is required for more
processing activities and
products.
“To my way of thinking it’s
not going to be long before
anyone selling food commercially, especially if it’s a higherrisk product, is going to have
to have some kind of HACCPbased regime in place,” he
said.
That’s what’s driving small
businesses underground,
according to David Neufeld,
an organic greenhouse grower
at Boissevain who also belongs
to the coalition calling for
clearer, simpler “scale-appropriate” food regulations.
Neufeld said as regulation
becomes more expensive and
complicated there will be less,
not more small-scale processing, and that runs counter to
all the widely documented
business trends showing
demand for closer-to-home
produced foods consumers
seek.
Prohibitive regulation is
sending a message to smallscale processors that they’re “a
threat to somebody,” he said.
“What we want is something
that assists the on-farm cottage industries to thrive,” he
said. “All we’re asking for is fair
amount of time and resources
put toward the smaller-scale
food culture or the local food
culture and the artisanal food
culture in Manitoba,” he said.
“It isn’t good for the economy if people aren’t encouraged to develop their products
and bring them to market,” he
said.
Meanwhile, the Cavers say
they just want to put what
happened behind them and
focus on making a good valueadded meat product.
“It feels like we kind of
wasted six months of time
with wrangling back and
forth,” said Clinton Cavers.
“This is kind of a bureaucratic
nightmare, without having
extra staff hired just to navigate it for you.
“But I think it’s highlighted
a problem that needs to be
addressed.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
New rules will be ‘outcome
based,’ MAFRD spokesman says
Regulation will recognize effective procedures rather than dictate methods
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
I
ncoming regulations to ensure
safe food processing in
Manitoba are designed not to
discriminate against small-scale or
on-farm processors, a senior food
safety official with the Manitoba
government says.
Dr. Glen Duizer, who works in
the Food Safety Knowledge Centre
of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and
Rural Development, said the regulatory focus is on the outcome of a
processing environment rather than
the specific mechanisms a processor
puts into place.
“The Food Safety Act and Regulations will be outcome-based legislation that is geared towards
processing plants,” said Duizer. “The
regulation will look at preventive programs to help control food hazards.”
Preventive programs are identified
as “HACCP based or HAACP-like,” he
said. HACCP stands for Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point and refers
to a food safety system designed to
identify and control hazards that may
occur in food production facilities.
The regulation will recognize effective procedures and methods used in
processing plants to control hazards,
rather than dictate which methods
must be used, he said.
“If it was prescriptive legislation it
would be more difficult, especially
for the small-scale processors to
meet, and it’s not,” he said.
“So instead of saying you have to
use a stainless steel table this high
and this wide or this long, it (regulation) says the food product that
you produce has to be produced in a
clean and sanitary environment.”
Duizer said small-scale processors
will need to demonstrate that they
are delivering a safe food product.
“It creates the opportunity for
on-farm small-scale processing to
occur,” he said. “If they are able to
demonstrate the outcome through a
process it will create the opportunity
for them to do it.”
There will be no distinction drawn
between on- or off-farm processing,
he added.
“O n - f a r m p r o c e s s i n g w i l l b e
treated the same as other small
processing operations,” he said.
In October the province launched
Growing Assurance – Food Safety initiatives as part of the federal-provincial
Growing Forward 2 agreement. The program is aimed at both farmers and processors, providing funding for adopting
food safety programs and traceability
systems including equipment upgrades.
Funding on a cost-shared basis is
also available for eligible applicants
to implement Basic Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), comprehensive GMPs, Hazard Analysis Critical
Control Point (HACCP).
WHAT’S UP
Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected]
or call 204-944-5762.
Feb. 24: FCC workshop: How to
benefit from agricultural cycles and
economic trends, 10:30 a.m. to 3
p.m., Victoria Inn, 3550 Victoria Ave.,
Brandon. For more info or to register visit http://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/
LearningCentre/workshops_mb_e.
asp.
Feb. 24-25: Wild Oats Grainworld
2014 conference, Fairmont Winnipeg,
2 Lombard Pl., Winnipeg. For more
info visit wildoatsgrainworld.com.
Feb. 25: Seminar: Growing Hemp on
the Prairies, 10 a.m. to noon, Carberry.
Lunch provided. To register, email
[email protected].
Feb. 25: FCC workshop: Minimize
taxes and maximize purchasing power, 1-4 p.m., War Veterans
Community Hall, 119 Sixth Ave. N.,
Swan River. For more info or to register visit http://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/
LearningCentre/workshops_mb_e.
asp.
Feb. 25-27: Canola Council of
Canada annual convention, San
Antonio, Texas. For more info visit
www.canolacouncil.org.
Feb. 26: Seminar: Growing Hemp
on the Prairies, 10 a.m. to noon,
Food Development Centre, Portage
la Prairie. Lunch provided. To register,
email [email protected].
Feb. 26-27: Manitoba Young Farmers
Conference, Canad Inns, 2401
Saskatchewan Ave., Portage la Prairie.
For more info call 204-825-4245 or
email [email protected].
March 4-6: Canadian Horticultural
Council annual general meeting,
Delta Grand Okanagan Resort, 1310
Water St., Kelowna, B.C. For more info
call 613-226-4880 or visit www.hortcouncil.ca.
March 4-7: Canadian Cattlemen’s
Association annual general meeting, Westin Ottawa, 11 Colonel By
Dr., Ottawa. For more info visit www.
cattle.ca.
March 5: FCC workshop: Top four
traits of a successful farm manager, 9
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Canad Inns, 2401
Saskatchewan Ave., Portage la Prairie.
For more info or to register visit http://
www.fcc-fac.ca/en/LearningCentre/
workshops_mb_e.asp.
March 7-8: Direct Farm Marketing
Conference, Steinbach. For more info
call MAFRD in Portage la Prairie at
204-239-3362.
March 8: Ecological Farming Day: “It
all begins with the seed,” University
of Manitoba Ian N. Morrison Research
Farm, Carman. For more info call 204474-6236.
March 20: Prairie Improvement
Network (MRAC) annual meeting,
11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Canad Inns,
2401 Saskatchewan Ave. W., Portage
la Prairie. For more info call 204-9824790.
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Life Skills for Leadership-Women in
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“If it was prescriptive
legislation it would be
more difficult, especially
for the small-scale
processors to meet, and
it’s not.”
Dr. Glen Duizer
MAFRD spokesperson
MAFRD staff began offering workshops in November to familiarize
those who participate with the principles and implementation of these
programs.
More information about Growing
Assurance programming is available
at MAFRD GO offices.
[email protected]
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
New on-farm meat shop near
Miami not swayed by regulation
The Williments say attitude is key to getting such ventures off the ground
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff Miami, Man.
I
Wayne and Colette Williment opened Hilltop Meats on their Miami-area farm last September. photo: lorraine stevenson
ElitE WilD OAt
CONtROl
is just the beginning.
t was a combination of pragmatism and philosophy that
prompted Wayne and Colette
Williment to set out a year ago
to build an on-farm meat shop.
Wayne had farmed organically and raised grass-fed beef
for over 18 years, while Colette
brought her background in
meat cutting to the enterprise.
Looking for a way to diversify their farm and new ways to
market their own beef, the couple also saw a need for a closerto-home facility to provide
services for other farmers.
They opened the doors to
Hilltop Meats on their Miamiarea farm last September after
extensive renovations to an
existing farm building, and now
operate an on-farm, government-inspected food-handling
facility specializing in custom cutting, wrapping of beef,
bison, pork, lamb as well as wild
game.
The Williments are also permitted to do on-farm slaughters
and work with local vet clinics
to harvest injured animals that
cannot be transported. Under
direction of inspectors, they retrofitted a van to transport animals to the meat shop.
Deciding to get into this business wasn’t done easily nor
quickly, says the couple, who
spent months mulling over a
business plan.
“Should we, or shouldn’t we.
We toyed with it awhile,” said
Colette Williment. “We realized
there’d be a big expense.”
“It doubled (what they initially anticipated),” says Wayne
Williment, adding that there
were costs they never anticipated, like a $3,500 weigh scale,
and the stainless steel sausage
stuffer they needed because
the cast iron one the family had
used to make their own sausage
wouldn’t do.
Now in full operation, Hilltop Meats is equipped with a
cooler designed and permitted to handle both inspected
and non-inspected meat as
well as wild game. The meat
shop is equipped with a commercial band saw, grinder, vac-
“I think there’s two
attitudes you can
have. You can either
try and buck the
system or go with
it. We want this to
work, so we have to
go with the system.
Whether we agreed
with everything or
not really doesn’t
matter.”
Wayne Williment
uum packer, and the required
number of stainless steel sinks.
There are also stainless steel
tables and a rail system to
unload and handle carcasses.
Infrastructure brought from
other plants had to be custom
sandblasted, and only foodgrade paint was allowed, says
Wayne. Floor linoleum runs six
inches up the walls.
“Some of the building
requirements caught me off
guard,” says Wayne. “I’m not
saying they were a big deal.
They just caught me off guard.”
Construction of Hilltop Meats
began last spring.
The costs were steep, says the
couple who declined to share
the full price tag for the venture.
“Let’s just say we’ve got enough
invested in this that it essentially has to work,” says Wayne.
But by taking a methodical
and careful approach to understanding the regulations, learning from others, and working
closely with provincial inspectors who guided them through
the process, they’ve now got the
farm-based business they long
dreamed of operating.
“I think there’s two attitudes
you can have,” says Wayne. “You
can either try and buck the system or go with it. We want this
to work, so we have to go with
the system. Whether we agreed
with everything or not really
doesn’t matter.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Cattle Prices
Winnipeg
February 7, 2014
Piglet virus, fuel costs
stymie cattle shipments
Steers & Heifers
—
D1, 2 Cows
76.00 - 82.00
D3 Cows
70.00 - 77.00
Bulls
88.00 - 95.00
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
145.00 - 160.00
(801-900 lbs.)
150.00 - 166.00
(701-800 lbs.)
158.00 - 177.00
(601-700 lbs.)
175.00 - 197.00
(501-600 lbs.)
190.00 - 222.00
(401-500 lbs.)
190.00 - 230.00
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
125.00 - 138.00
(801-900 lbs.)
136.00 - 146.00
(701-800 lbs.)
140.00 - 156.00
(601-700 lbs.)
148.00 - 177.00
(501-600 lbs.)
155.00 - 188.00
(401-500 lbs.)
160.00 - 190.00
Heifers
Alberta South
$ 138.00 - 138.50
138.50
75.00 - 93.00
68.00 - 79.00
—
$ 148.00 - 162.00
155.00 - 169.00
164.00 - 181.00
175.00 - 196.00
188.00 - 210.00
196.00 - 219.00
$ 130.00 - 145.00
140.00 - 154.00
147.00 - 166.00
155.00 - 174.00
165.00 - 184.00
173.00 - 193.00
($/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 (February 7, 2014) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change
February 2014
139.55
-2.60
April 2014
139.07
-1.46
June 2014
131.20
-1.03
August 2014
129.72
-0.56
October 2014
132.90
-0.30
December 2014
133.85
-0.50
Cattle Slaughter
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
Feeder Cattle
March 2014
April 2014
May 2014
August 2014
September 2014
October 2014
Local buyers came out looking for grass cattle
Brandon Logan
Previous
Year­
50,140
10,175
39,965
NA
619,000
Ontario
$ 119.72 - 153.43
133.52 - 151.39
63.87 - 89.92
63.87 - 89.92
86.83 - 104.11
$ 153.14 - 173.10
150.32 - 172.73
141.02 - 180.14
158.03 - 194.81
156.22 - 200.63
159.23 - 208.47
$ 141.00 - 151.57
137.51 - 153.27
125.80 - 154.00
138.30 - 165.11
131.77 - 166.13
131.20 - 172.23
Close
167.00
167.80
168.57
170.42
169.67
169.10
Week Ending
February 1, 2013
561
23,033
17,641
634
448
9,911
130
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Change
-1.70
-1.30
-0.86
-0.26
-0.36
-0.40
Previous
Year
549
21,976
15,766
500
680
9,884
10
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
179.00 E
166.00 E
167.29
169.04
Futures (February 7, 2014) in U.S.
Hogs
February 2014
April 2014
May 2014
June 2014
July 2014
Last Week
174.71
162.44
164.95
165.90
Close
86.50
94.20
102.50
105.05
104.25
Last Year (Index 100)
173.00 E
160.00 E
162.39
165.91
Change
0.13
0.58
0.78
1.70
2.10
Other Market Prices
Sheep and Lambs
$/cwt
Ewes Choice
Lambs (110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
Winnipeg (00 head)
(wooled fats)
70.00 - 75.00
135.00 - 142.00
140.00 - 153.00
150.00 - 165.00
150.00 - 160.00
175.00
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 February 16, 2014
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.910
Undergrade .............................. $1.820
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.895
Undergrade .............................. $1.795
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.895
Undergrade .............................. $1.795
Tom Turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A..................................... $1.800
Undergrade............................... $1.715
Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.
Toronto
66.57 - 99.86
146.86 - 161.60
162.58 - 182.92
170.17 - 192.92
157.37 - 243.77
—
SunGold
Specialty Meats
35.00
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
$1.8200
A Large
1.8500
1.8200
A Medium
1.6700
1.6400
A Small
1.2500
1.2200
A Pee Wee
0.3675
0.3675
Nest Run 24 +
1.7490
1.7210
B
0.45
0.45
C
0.15
0.15
Goats
Kids
Billys
Mature
Winnipeg (head)
(Fats)
160.00 - 180.00
265.00
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
77.49 - 293.03
—
96.20 - 235.25
Horses
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
“(Producers) need some cash, so
they’re dipping into the cattle a
little quicker than they normally
do.”
CNSC
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
February 1, 2013
52,899
12,534
40,635
NA
566,000
$1 Cdn: $0.9076 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.1018 Cdn.
COLUMN
(Friday to Thursday)
Slaughter Cattle
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
February 7, 2014
Toronto
($/cwt)
11.10 - 34.00
15.00 - 42.00
V
olume for cattle auctions across
Manitoba during the week ending Feb.
7 were seasonal to above seasonal, said
Rick Wright of Heartland Order Buying Co., noting transportation continued to be a problem.
“Transportation was an issue this week, it
has been an issue for the last couple of weeks,
and it will continue probably until the end of
February,” he said. “There are just not enough
trucks to take the cattle in a timely fashion, so
some of the eastern orders were deferring to
next week because they couldn’t get immediate
transportation.”
There have also been delays going to Western
Canada and south to the U.S., he added.
“This is something we don’t normally deal
with at this time of the year, as there are usually
lots of trucks,” he said. “But with the increase
in the price of diesel fuel and concerns about
the pig disease in Ontario, some of the transporters that would normally be moving cattle
from Manitoba aren’t coming out. Or they have
restrictions on what they can haul, where they
can haul and when they can haul, so it’s taken
a bit of trucks off the road. That’s made it more
difficult for the buyers to buy and move.”
Volume is expected to remain fairly strong at
Manitoba auction yards, as producers continue
to push cattle out earlier than normal.
“We will see good numbers until the end of
February, and then we certainly will see them
taper off,” Wright said. “We’re seeing producers pulling the cattle ahead of their normal
market time for a couple of reasons. First, the
price is good, so that has them paying attention. Secondly, cash flow is an issue with some
producers. They’ve got grain, but they can’t sell
rick wright
it or move it. They need some cash, so they’re
dipping into the cattle a little quicker than they
normally do.”
U.S. interest continued to be extremely
strong throughout the week, Wright said,
noting the weak Canadian dollar led to the
increased interest.
The loonie opened at US89.78 cents on Feb. 3
and closed at US90.59 cents on Feb. 7. This also
led to strong prices for both butcher and feeder
cows.
“The cow market was steady to slightly
stronger on the top-end cows, especially the
age-verified cows,” Wright said. “The feeder
market looked like the heavier cattle over 800
pounds had kind of came to a threshold. We
didn’t see any forward movement on them at
all. However, the lighter cattle under the 700lb. level certainly showed a little more strength
again this week.”
There was increased local buying seen during
the week, he added: “We saw local activity trying
to buy grass cattle to go to grass in the summer.”
U.S. futures prices also continued to stay
at extremely high levels during the week,
as live cattle futures closed Friday valued at
US$1.3955/lb., just slightly down from the
record-high price of US$1.439 seen on Jan. 23.
Brandon Logan writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
briefs
Small beef herd
could cause
plants to close
By Theopolis Waters
nashville, tenn. / reuters
Up to three more U.S. beefpacking plants could close
in the next two years as the
industry grapples with surplus packing capacity while
ranchers try to rebuild the
country’s smallest herd in 63
years, a leading cattle analyst
said on Feb. 6.
“To go from liquidation to
expansion over the next two
years, which we strongly feel
we’re in the process of doing,
you’re going to pull between
two million and 2-1/2 million cattle out of the harvest
mix by 2015 compared to
2013,” Kevin Good, a senior
analyst with closely followed
CattleFax, told Reuters on the
sidelines of cattle industry’s
annual meeting here.
“Given that decline, there
is the risk that one to three
packing plants could go in
the next 12 to 24 months,
depending on their size,” he
said. Good did not specify
which plants would likely fail
but warned that cow-processing facilities are at greatest
risk due to fewer cows being
culled — resulting in a smaller
supply for slaughter.
Beef cow numbers in the
United States have declined
16 out of the past 18 years,
according to Good. Since the
year 2000, slaughter or harvest rates for steers and heifers have decreased about one
per cent per year, he said.
The U.S. beef industry has
been struggling in recent
years with high feed costs,
coupled with drought and
reduced consumer demand
for beef.
As the industry moves
through 2014 to 2015, the
slaughter rate for steers and
heifers will drop two per cent
to three per cent as more heifers are being held back to
replenish the herd, said Good,
who projected cow slaughter
rates would fall eight per cent
to 10 per cent a year in 2014
and 2015.
Recently, National Beef
Packing Co. announced the
last day of operation on April
4 for its Brawley, California
beef-processing plant. The
company cited tight supplies
for the decision to close the
facility, which has a slaughter
capacity of about 2,000 head
of cattle per day.
Scarce supplies and costly
feed at the time prompted
Cargill Inc. to shutter its
Plainview, Texas, beef plant
early last year, with plans to
close a feedlot in Lockney,
Texas in the summer of 2014.
Looking for results? Check out the market reports
from livestock auctions around the province. » PaGe 14
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
GRAIN MARKETS
Export and International Prices
column
Rail jams continue to
weigh on canola futures
CNSC
C
anola futures on the ICE Futures Canada
trading platform moved lower during the
week ended Feb. 7, as logistics problems
moving the crop out of Western Canada continued to be bearish.
Confirmation of large Canadian canola supplies also put downward pressure on the market.
Statistics Canada reported record-large canola
stocks of 12.6 million tonnes as of Dec. 31, 2013
on Feb. 4.
The Canadian dollar also saw a bit of a recovery, climbing back above the US90-cent mark,
which discouraged some buying in the market.
Overall, canola futures continued to trade
in the same range they’ve been in for the past
month, and will likely continue in a rangebound
pattern for the next couple of months.
Analysts expect nearby canola futures to trade
in the $420- to $436-per-tonne area until the size
of next year’s Canadian canola and U.S. soybean
crops becomes clearer.
Prices could move lower than that range, but
won’t likely move higher as there’s not much
helping to underpin futures.
The one thing positive for canola prices is the
record-high crush margins seen in recent weeks
— but crushers can’t buy the supplies because of
the backlog in Canada’s grain-handling system.
One theory is that crushers aren’t able to receive
the canola because of the slow grain movement.
Another theory is they don’t have room to crush
any more, because they can’t move what they
have already processed out of their facilities.
Continued sentiment that canola is undervalued compared to other oilseeds is also supportive, but once soybeans start to turn lower, canola
futures will also come under pressure.
Chicago soybean futures were up sharply during the week, with strong export demand and
easing concerns about Chinese cancellations
helping to support prices.
However, once the South American soybean
harvest is in full swing, and cheaper supplies are
available from the region, U.S. prices will drop.
Corn futures are also expected to drop once
the crop from South America starts to enter the
supply chain, though they are well supported by
strong export demand for the U.S. commodity
for the time being.
Minneapolis, Kansas City and Chicago wheat
futures had an up-and-down week but all fin-
Week Ago
Year Ago
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
213.39
203.38
287.03
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
234.52
219.45
319.36
Coarse Grains
South America’s soybean harvest will add pressure
Terryn Shiells
Last Week
All prices close of business February 7, 2014
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
174.40
170.66
285.24
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
296.00
267.15
230.19
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
487.13
468.49
525.47
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
852.45
817.39
1,135.35
oilseeds
For three-times-daily market
reports from Commodity
News Service Canada,
visit “Today in Markets” at
www.manitobacooperator.ca.
ished higher compared to a week ago. Shortcovering following recent sharp declines helped
push prices up.
Weather scares in the U.S. during the first part
of the week were supportive, as were signs of
strong export demand for U.S. wheat products.
But the large global supply situation continues
to overhang the market, and will limit any upside
going forward.
Improving growing conditions in the U.S. will
also likely temper any rallies, as sufficient snow
cover fell in some U.S. growing regions during
the week.
Looking ahead
The next focus for all of the commodity futures
markets will be on the size of the 2014-15 North
American crops.
For canola, it will be interesting to see how
many acres are seeded — and how much is produced. The larger the crop, the longer it will likely
take to solve the logistics issues plaguing many
western Canadian growers this year.
Corn and soybean traders will keep a watchful
eye on estimates for the upcoming U.S. crops, as
that will give a direction to the markets once the
picture is clearer.
Wheat markets will be watching both
Canadian wheat and U.S. estimates for the 201415 growing season.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has already
released estimates for acreage and crop production for 2014-15, while Statistics Canada’s first
planting intentions report won’t be released until
April 24.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will
release its first estimates for planted area during
its Agricultural Outlook Forum conference in
Arlington, Va. on Feb. 20-21.
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business February 7, 2014
barley
Last Week
Week Ago
March 2014
126.50
126.50
May 2014
128.50
128.50
July 2014
128.50
128.50
Canola
Last Week
Week Ago
March 2014
425.60
430.20
May 2014
435.60
440.40
July 2014
444.80
449.00
Special Crops
Report for February 10, 2014 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan
Spot Market
Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)
Other (Cdn. cents per pound unless
otherwise specified)
Large Green 15/64
22.00 - 23.00
Canaryseed
Laird No. 1
19.50 - 22.00
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
14.00 - 16.00
Desi Chickpeas
19.00 - 21.00
—
19.00 - 20.00
Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1
9.80 - 11.00
Fababeans, large
—
Medium Yellow No. 1
5.00 - 6.25
Feed beans
—
Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Feed Pea (Rail)
No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans
5.00 - 5.50
42.00 - 42.00
No. 1 Great Northern
60.00 - 60.00
Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)
No. 1 Cranberry Beans
64.00 - 64.00
Yellow No. 1
34.00 - 35.75
No. 1 Light Red Kidney
55.00 - 55.00
Brown No. 1
33.00 - 34.75
No. 1 Dark Red Kidney
60.00 - 60.00
Oriental No. 1
27.30 - 28.75
No. 1 Black Beans
40.00 - 40.00
No. 1 Pinto Beans
35.00 - 35.00
No. 1 Small Red
Source: Stat Publishing
No. 1 Pink
SUNFLOWERS
—
40.00 - 40.00
Fargo, ND
Goodlands, KS
19.40
18.35
32.00* Call for details
—
Report for February 7, 2014 in US$ cwt
NuSun (oilseed)
Terryn Shiells writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
Spot Market
Confection
Source: National Sunflower Association
USDA cuts U.S. corn, wheat ending stocks on export demand
Strong export demand is expected to add a bullish jolt to markets
By Ros Krasny
washington / reuters
P
rojected U.S. corn ending
stocks for 2013-14 continue
to tighten on strong export
demand, the U.S. Agricultural
Department said Feb. 10, a bullish
jolt that helped Chicago corn futures
reach their highest levels in four
months.
U.S. wheat carr y-out was also
l ow e r o n t h e m o n t h o n r i s i n g
exports. Projected U.S. soybean ending stocks were unchanged from
January but Brazil’s crop and projected exports were raised, giving
the report a bearish edge.
“De m a n d i s s t a r t i n g t o s h i n e
t h r o u g h ,” M i k e Z u z o l o, G l o b a l
Commodity Analytics, said of the
corn and wheat data.
T h e U S D A f o re c a s t 1 . 4 8 1 b i l lion bushels of corn will remain on
hand when the new crop is ready
for harvest by late summer, well
above the drought-affected level of
2012-13 but down from 1.631 billion
projected in January and a second
consecutive substantial monthly
reduction.
“ The once-feared carr y-out of
over two-billion-bushel carry-out
is now under 1.5 billion bushels,”
said Don Roose, analyst with U.S.
Commodities.
Grain traders and analysts had
forecast corn stocks at an average of
1.619 billion bushels.
On the back of a 150-millionbushel hike in U.S. corn exports,
the stocks-to-use ratio for 201314 will be 11.1 per cent, the USDA
said, down from 12.4 per cent forecast in January and 13.7 per cent in
December.
In general, the lower the ratio,
the higher the potential for
prices to climb and the less marg i n f o r e r ro r f o r t h e u p c o m i n g
growing season.
“The 150-million-bushel corn
export adjustment higher was surprising. I think most people were
looking for maybe 50 million,” said
Jim Gerlach with A/C Trading.
The agency raised its forecast for
the average farm price of U.S. corn
by 10 cents per bushel, to $4.50.
U.S. wheat carry-out for 2013-14
reversed an increase from a month
ago, falling to a projected 558 million bushels from 608 million.
Reductions in stocks were spread
among the major classes of U.S.
wheat. The average trade forecast
was 603 million bushels.
USDA left the bottom line
f o r U . S . s oy b e a n s — p r o j e c t e d
2013-14 U.S. ending stocks — at
1 5 0 m i l l i o n b u s h e l s f o r a t h i rd
straight month.
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Human toll of PED
mortalities can’t
be discounted
Transportation is the weak link in the battle against porcine epidemic
diarrhea, but vigilant cleaning, disinfecting and testing may help
keep the disease out of Manitoba
By Shannon VanRaes
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anitoba hog producers are being urged to
“swab and test” everything from doorknobs to kitchen
floors in a bid to block out the
deadly pork virus making its way
through North American hog
herds.
“Swab and test, and test and
swab every high-risk area or
critical control point,” Dr. Tim
Blackwell, an expert in swine disease with the Ontario Ministry
of Agriculture told a standingroom-only crowd at last week’s
Manitoba Swine Seminar.
“What we found in our very
contaminated sites, was that it
was on the doorknob going into
the house, it was on the garage
door, it was in the kitchen, it
was in assembly yards and in
the women’s bathroom... it just
works its way into facilities once
they have been contaminated.
“Don’t just wash the truck and
think it is disinfected, prove to
yourself that it’s disinfected, and
show that there’s no PED virus
there,” he said.
It was a sentiment echoed by
several experts who spoke on a
hastily convened panel discussion about the looming threat.
It’s not just the trucks that
can carry the disease, producers
heard, it’s also those who drive
them.
“I have asked all my producers to wash and disinfect the
docks where the truck has just
touched, in case that it comes
with some contamination,
because you never know, and we
never let the driver come into
the farm... because they can
bring it with their boots,” said
Dr. Julie Menard of the Quebecbased F. Menard Inc.
Menard said the emphasis in
her province on swabbing and
testing has proven effective so
far. Only one positive test has
been recorded — at an Olymel
slaughter facility in Saint-Espirit
— but Menard said identifying
the presence of the disease early
allowed for a swift reaction, both
at the plant and at all farms that
were in contact with it.
However, eight cases of the
disease have now been identified in Ontario swine herds.
Blackwell suggested Ontario
may not have been proactive
enough in the lead-up to the
emergence of the disease.
“They have been trying to do
a lot of messaging and biosecurity,” he said. “I would rather
talk about... and what perhaps is
more appropriate, is what needs
to be done here.”
Advice to Manitoba
Industry representatives and
producers at the seminar were
provided with take-home videos
detailing the minutia of disinfection procedures to drive home
the message.
Dr. Glen Duizer, an animal health veterinarian with
Manitoba Agriculture, Food and
Rural Initiatives, said Manitoba’s
proximity to outbreaks of the
virus south of the border may be
the weakest link in the province’s
armour.
Iowa has the highest infection rate of any U.S. state,
while Minnesota is a close second. Livestock trucks regularly
travel between those states and
Manitoba.
“Even though we’ve come a
long way with biosecurity, we
know that any breakdown at any
one of these levels, whether it
be transport, on the farm, with
a system, or network, or even
a whole region, it provides the
opportunity for a disease like
this to enter,” Duizer said.
Manitoba’s Department of
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development has been working
with the Pork Council, as with
the Council of Chief Veterinary
Officers, the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency, the Canadian
Swine Health Board and other
organizations to prepare for, and
if possible prevent, porcine epidemic diarrhea from entering
the province.
“In Manitoba, are we prepared? Well, we’re trying. It’s
a co-ordinated effort,” Duizer
said. “On the broad strokes, we
have a good idea of what our
risks are.”
Dr. Mike Sheridan, a swine
veterinarian from southeastern Manitoba, said the disease
appears to be one of tiny mistakes, where even small lapses
can allow it to gain a foothold.
“But I think we do have an
opportunity over the next little while to get our ducks lined
up for what some say will come,
and others like us hope won’t
come,” he said, adding that the
mud and slush of the spring
thaw could bring producers
more challenges.
Dr. Julie Menard of the Quebec-based F. Menard Inc. speaks at the annual Swine Seminar in Winnipeg.
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“The more we do to
prevent it, the more
we will take the
opportunity of the
good price, because
in the U.S. it really is
the crisis right now,
they are missing
pigs, and that is why
the pig price is so
high.”
DR. JULIE MENARD
Spring challenge
Porcine epidemic diarrhea is
similar to transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE), which Sheridan
said has reared its head in
Manitoba in the past.
“It’s not every year we get it,
but when it happens it does so
in the spring,” he pointed out.
A proto-vaccine has been
approved for use against PED
in Canada, but its effectiveness
is not well documented and it
won’t protect against a newly
identified strain of the virus.
Menard said for now, producers’ best protection is prevention through biosecurity.
And the longer that prevention is on the side of producers,
the better able they’ll be to take
Dr. Glen Duizer, an animal health veterinarian with Manitoba Agriculture, Food
and Rural Initiatives, speaks about porcine epidemic diarrhea.
advantage of the high prices
the disruptions in U.S. production system are creating.
“The more we do to prevent
it, the more we will take the
opportunity of the good price,
because in the U.S. it really is
the crisis right now, they are
missing pigs, and that is why
the pig price is so high,” she
said. “So it’s the time to take
the opportunity in Canada to
keep our health, so that our pig
producers get the best of the
pig price.”
Keeping PED out of
Manitoba’s hog barns also
means that those who raise
and care for the animals won’t
have to face the emotional
wringer of seeing a disease
that can kill 100 per cent of
weanlings sweep through their
operation.
“When it comes to PED people don’t mention the human
cost that happens if you get a
highly infectious disease that
kills 100 per cent of your pigs
in your nursery,” said Terry
Whiting, manager of animal
health and welfare with the
Chief Veterinarian’s Office.
“Really the financial cost is
a small fraction of the actual
cost, because livestock people
are damaged by that kind of
trauma, and it doesn’t work in
our mathematical models and
we never... calculate that.”
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SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN
New-crop lambs arrive for sale Feb. 5
The first of the new-crop lambs were ready for the start of a new year
By Mark Elliot
Co-operator contributor
T
he sheep and goat deliveries to Winnipeg Livestock
Auction did not seem to
be affected by another cold day
for the Feb. 5 sale. Producers
delivered 300 sheep and goats.
Various classifications had
number limitations, but the bidding became serious between
the buyers. The first of the newcrop lambs were ready for the
start of a new year.
A group of six 139-pound
Dorper-cross ewes and
Katahdin-cross ewes brought
$97.30 ($0.70 per pound). A
240-pound Rideau-cross ewe
brought $100.80 ($0.42). The
ram classification was represented by only Cheviot crosses.
The 215-pound Cheviot-cross
ra m b r o u g h t $ 1 7 2 ( $ 0 . 8 0
per pound). The 270-pound
Cheviot-cross ram brought
$189 ($0.70). A 135-pound
Suffolk-cross lamb represented
the heavyweight classification
and brought $190.35 ($1.41 per
pound).
Three groups represented
the market lamb classification.
Seven 100-pound Dorper-cross
lambs brought $148 ($1.48 per
pound). Sixteen 101-pound
lambs brought $147.46 ($1.46).
Forty 98-pound Cheviot-cross
lambs brought $146.51 ($1.495).
The feeder lamb classification
dominated this sale. The prices
remained strong, as the lamb
quality was quite noticeable. The
price ranged from $1.48 to $1.60
per pound for weights ranging
from 80 to 92 pounds. The strong
bidding continued for the lightweight lambs but there appeared
to be differences between the
hair and the wool lambs. The
price ranged from $1.50 to $1.525
per pound for the hair lambs.
The price for the wool lambs
was $1.57 per pound. Four
65-pound Rideau-cross lambs
brought $109.20 ($1.68 per
pound). Two 45-pound Cheviotcross lambs brought $66.38. Two
new-crop lambs were delivered
for this sale. The interest from
the buyers kept the bidding to
reach $1.85 per pound. The scale
appeared to be incorrect, so the
recording could not be done.
The bidding on the dairy goats
was not as active on the does.
Quality does were receiving the
buyers’ interests. An exception
was a group of six 83-pound
Boer-cross (due in May) which
brought $124 ($1.49 per pound).
A 235-pound Boer-cross buck
brought $255 ($1.09).
Seven 91-pound Boer-cross
bucks were purchased for future
breeding purposes, according to
the buyer. These well-uniformed
bucks brought $121 ($1.33 per
pound).
Goat kids continued to attract
strong interest and the qual-
January 22, 2014
Ewes
$97.30 / $100.80
$69.75 / $131.20
$190.35
$164.30
95 - 110
$146.51 – $148.00
$145.02 – $154.55
80 - 94
$128.00 – $140.76
$115.02 – $132.99
$109.90 – $120.08
$99.90 – $114.76 (73 – 76 lbs.)
65
$109.20
$85.80 – $104.72 (60 – 69 lbs.)
45
$66.38
$56.00 / $58.20 (40 / 45 lbs.)
Lambs (lbs.)
110+
Under 80
70 - 79
ity was rewarded. The culls were
clearly affected by the lower bidding. Five 70-pound Boer-cross
goat kids brought $105 ($1.50 per
pound). A 70-pound Alpine-cross
goat kid brought $100 ($1.43).
Four 74-pound Boer-cross
goat kids brought $110 ($1.49).
Three 63-pound Boer-cross
goat kids brought $99 ($1.57).
Seven 65-pound Boer-cross goat
kids brought $97 ($1.49). Nine
48-pound Alpine-cross goat kids
brought $74 ($1.54). A 45-pound
Alpine-cross kid, not as fleshy,
brought $54 ($1.20). The three
45-pound Boer-cross Alpine kids
brought $40 ($0.89 per pound).
The three 32-pound Boercross kids were viewed as culls
by the various buyers. Little
interest at this sale.
Plea bargain dumped in favour
of jail time for cattle farmer
The former rancher caught up
in a family feud allowed his
purebred Hereford herd to starve
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
A
Manitoba judge has overruled a plea bargain
and sentenced a 49-year-old former rancher
to jail time after 67 cattle were found dead on
his family’s ranch in 2011.
Thomas Jeffery McLean pleaded guilty to 13
offences under the Animal Care Act last November,
including failure to provide adequate care, providing
inadequate medical attention and confining animals
where there is risk.
McLean had hoped that entering a guilty plea
would spare him time in custody, but provincial
court judge, Mary Kate Harvie sentenced him to
45 days in jail, a $10,000 fine and a lifetime ban on
owning animals.
“This sentence is really significant — this judge
put some teeth in the act,” said Winnipeg Humane
Society CEO, Bill McDonald, who added this is the
worst case of cruelty against livestock he has ever
seen.
Necropsies showed that the vast majority of animals on the McLean farm in southwestern Manitoba
died of starvation, although at least one heifer died
while calving alone in a locked shed. Some calves
also perished after becoming so imbedded in mud
and manure they couldn’t reach their mothers.
Rather than disposing of the corpses, McLean then
transferred them to a machine shop, in some cases
leaving them strewn over farm implements.
McDonald noted that McLean is the first person to be sent to jail for animal cruelty since the
mid-1990s, when a puppy mill operator from the
Steinbach area was jailed.
McLean’s sentence is also the first to be handed
down after amendments were made to the Animal
Care Act in 2010, which provided for stiffer sentences.
“The judge banned him from owning animals for
life — this is the first time that provision of the new
amended act has been used, so that significant prec-
“To prosecute somebody, they have
to do something that is appalling to
cattle farmers in general, and this
guy’s behaviour was beyond the
pale.”
GOAT DOES
price / lb.
animal weight
meat
$0.92 – $1.11
80 – 100 lbs.
dairy
$0.67
114 lbs.
meat
$1.09 / $1.33
235 / 91 lbs.
dairy
n/a
n/a
meat
$1.50 / $1.49
70 / 74
DAIRY
$1.43
70
meat
$1.57 / $1.49
63 / 65
meat
$1.20 / $0.89
45
DAIRY
$1.54
48
BUCKS
KIDS - Under 80
BRIEFS
Chance of El Niño
this summer
CPC maintained its outlook
that El Niño was unlikely
through the spring, but noted
that a change in temperatures
“portend warming in the
coming months.”
El Niño can cause flooding
and heavy rains in the United
States and South America and
can trigger drought conditions in Southeast Asia and
Australia.
reuters / U.S. weather
forecaster Climate Prediction
Center (CPC) said Feb. 6 there
was an increasing chance of
the El Niño weather pattern
after expecting neutral conditions through the Northern
Hemisphere spring 2014.
In its monthly report, the
Terry Whiting
edent has now been set,” McDonald said, adding
he believes the sentence will also act as a deterrent,
given the circumstances of the case.
“With McLean this was an out-and-out family
feud; he was just trying to get back at his brother
over the loss of the inheritance of the family farm
and he did it by killing these cattle... horribly,”
McDonald said.
Prosecutor Shaun Sass indicated that the Crown
believed McLean intentionally starved the cattle as
an act of revenge, after he lost a lengthy court battle
with his brother over their late mother’s estate.
McLean’s defence lawyer disputed that account,
arguing that emotional and financial distress had left
McLean unable to properly care for the herd.
Terry Whiting, a manager of animal health and
welfare with the Chief Veterinarian’s Office, investigated the case and said it was unlike other cases of
animal abuse he has encountered.
“This one was special, because the guy was fully
competent, and that never happens, or very seldom
in cattle starvation,” Whiting said, noting that many
animal neglect cases are tied to mental health issues
or elderly farmers who become unable to care for
their animals, but don’t want to leave the farm.
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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Feeder Steers
Feb-05
Feb-04
Feb-04
Feb-06
Feb-05
Feb-03
n/a
Feb-07
No. on offer
3,100
1,354
1,391
1,583
3,886
915
n/a
1,200
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
135.00-147.00
Over 1,000 lbs.
900-1,000
n/a
120.00-150.00
130.00-142.00
140.00-153.00
145.00-158.00
n/a
n/a
145.00-152.00
800-900
146.00-165.00
135.00-164.75
140.00-164.50
147.00-167.00
152.00-162.00
157.00-168.00
n/a
155.00-166.00
700-800
140.00-176.00
155.00-175.50
155.00-175.50
165.00-182.00
160.00-174.00
165.00-178.00
n/a
155.00-177.00
600-700
150.00-199.75
170.00-193.50
170.00-189.00
177.00-193.00
173.00-197.00
180.00-197.50
n/a
174.00-195.00
500-600
160.00-203.00
180.00-215.00
180.00-219.00
180.00-212.00
188.00-205.00
190.00-205.00
n/a
185.00-224.00
400-500
170.00-217.00
200.00-230.00
200.00-234.00
190.00-220.00
195.00-230.00
200.00-220.00
n/a
190.00-232.00
300-400
n/a
190.00-233.50
190.00-230.00
195.00-230.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
190.00-240.00
900-1,000 lbs.
n/a
n/a
n/a
120.00-135.00
124.00-136.00
n/a
n/a
125.00-135.00
800-900
n/a
120.00-139.00
125.00-143.00
135.00-147.00
138.00-147.00
n/a
n/a
135.00-143.00
Feeder heifers
700-800
120.00-155.00
130.00-157.00
135.00-159.00
143.00-155.00
145.00-156.50
148.00-161.00
n/a
142.00-155.00
600-700
130.00-175.00
140.00-177.50
145.00-166.00
158.00-172.00
150.00-172.00
158.00-170.00
n/a
150.00-175.00
500-600
140.00-182.00
150.00-183.50
160.00-185.00
165.00-180.00
158.00-179.00
165.00-178.00
n/a
158.00-185.00
400-500
178.00-188.00
155.00-185.50
175.00-195.00
170.00-185.00
163.00-187.00
165.00-185.00
n/a
170.00-190.00
300-400
n/a
160.00-188.00
180.00-243.00
175.00-190.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
170.00-205.00
324
1,354
141
223
3,886
915
n/a
350
Slaughter Market
No. on offer
D1-D2 Cows
69.00-77.00
n/a
n/a
76.00-84.00
75.00-81.00
65.00-70.00
n/a
n/a
D3-D5 Cows
55.00 and Up
n/a
n/a
62.00-75.00
69.00-74.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
Age Verified
76.00-84.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
78.00-83.00
83.00-94.00
n/a
70.00-82.00
Good Bulls
80.00-94.25
73.00-91.50
84.00-91.75
87.00-96.00
89.00-98.00
n/a
n/a
88.00-95.00
Butcher Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
115.00-129.00
113.00-120.00
n/a
n/a
128.00-132.00
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
112.00-124.00
110.00-118.00
n/a
n/a
118.00-122.50
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
72.00-80.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
60.00-69.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
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Probiotics, prebiotics and horses
It is important to understand that grass and hay are the
most important prebiotics for horses
Carol Shwetz, DVM
Horse Health
W
hen supplements or
products containing
live micro-organisms
are fed to horses the products
are called probiotics, and Latin
names like Lactobacillus, Acidophillus, Entercoccus, Bifidobacterium, and Saccaromyces will
appear on the product’s ingredients label.
While prebiotics have a similar intention to probiotics they
do not contain the actual microorganisms, rather substances
which have been extracted from
fermentation vats where selected
microbes have been grown. They
are indicated to help “feed” the
briefs
Horse industry
gets federal
boost
The federal government
is giving Equine Canada
(EC) $483,650 to promote
Canadian-bred horses
in export and domestic
markets.
T h e g o a l i s to help
Canadian horse breeders
compete effectively and
successfully in the international marketplace, a
federal release says.
EC will lead missions
to, and host visitors from
A r g e n t i n a , Au s t r a l i a ,
Brazil, China and South
Africa to enable Canadian and foreign stakeholders to meet face to
face. To capitalize on the
large number of international visitors expected
to attend the Pan Am
Ga m e s i n To r o n t o i n
2015, EC will also hold
a Pan American Showcase featuring Canadian
horses.
The release said there
are more than 900,000
horses in Canada, and
t h e i n d u s t r y i n vo l ve s
more than one million
Canadians involved with
their use for sport and
leisure, tourism, breeding, food production and
related industries.
The industry supports
more than 77,000 onfarm jobs for the breeding and care of horses.
Equine Canada president Michael Gallagher
said the money will be
put towards fulfilling two
main objectives: developing key export markets
with long-term potential
for the sale of Canadianbred horses and the rejuve n a t i o n o f d o m e s t i c
demand for those horses
by showcasing the wide
range of opportunities available to the new
generation of Canadian
horse owners.
Byproducts of the fermentation process provide
the horse with energy and micronutrients.
beneficial intestinal microflora.
Although the mechanism of
action for probiotics and prebiotics is poorly described, it is
thought they support or enrich
the populations of beneficial
microbes in the horse’s hind gut
and thus improve digestive health.
The health of horses is highly
dependent upon a thriving population of essential microbes in the
hind gut that produce enzymes
necessary to digest or break down
plant fibre. Their presence is
absolutely crucial to the horse, as
horses themselves lack these vital
enzymes.
Byproducts of the fermentation process provide the horse
with energy and micronutrients.
When in good numbers, these
microbes provide as much as
70 per cent of the horse’s energy
and synthesize enough B vitamins and vitamin K to meet the
horse’s needs. In exchange for
this energetic and nutritional
advantage billions of bacteria,
yeast and protozoa are housed
in the warm, moist confines of
the horse’s hind gut and are provided with a steady supply of
fibrous “plant food.”
It is important to under-
stand that grass and hay are
the most important prebiotics
for horses as plant fibre is the
ideal food source for hind gut
microbes. Any departure from
a steady influx of an all-forage
diet is detrimental to beneficial
populations of microbes and
thus the health of the horse.
The health of these essential
microbes is ultimately dependent upon this very specific
food source.
Many events in the life of a
domestic horse can upset the
delicate balance of the hind
gut. These include an abrupt
change in feed, high-grain
diets, processed feeds, weaning,
vaccination, deworming,
stress from training and travel,
changing companions, or a
course of antibiotics. Illnesses
such as colic, laminitis,
inappetence, diarrhea, fatigue,
ill-thrift, skin and hoof problems,
behavioural and performance
changes are often rooted in
feeding and management
practices which are detrimental
to the health of a horse’s hind gut.
Each horse develops a highly
individualized microbial population specific to their own diet,
their own environment and their
own biochemistry. They are virtually “supplemented” with a
variety of micro-organisms while
ingesting their feedstuff. Simply
adding more of the ‘good’ bacteria, even if we knew for sure
which ones these were, will be
limited by the health of the hind
gut first and foremost.
When hind gut health is not
optimal the application of probiotics and prebiotics may offer
temporary benefit until hind gut
health is restored. If a horse is
healthy, and has a healthy lifestyle, they will have a healthy
hind gut and will inherently be
able to support their own population of vibrant microbes.
Carol Shwetz is a veterinarian
specializing in equine practice at
Westlock, Alberta.
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Several chances seen for snow
Issued: Monday, February 10, 2014 · Covering: February 12 – February 19, 2014
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
A
s the weather models predicted, a large area of low
pressure has taken up residence in the Gulf of Alaska and
we’ll start to feel its influence
during this forecast period. This
low will help to spin up a couple
of clipper systems that will affect
our region during the middle of
the week. The strongest system
looks to move through North
Dakota late Wednesday and into
Thursday. Depending on the
exact path and strength of this
system, southern regions could
see around five centimetres of
snow, with lesser amounts the
farther north you go. There will
also be some gusty northerly
winds with this system, but it
doesn’t look like these will last
very long as the system moves
by fairly quickly.
It doesn’t look like we’ll see
cold move in behind this system as the weather models
predict another area of low
pressure to spin off of the western low over the weekend. We
should see our winds become
southerly on Saturday as the
low develops to our west. This
low is expected to take a more
northerly track through central Manitoba late Sunday and
into Monday. Temperatures on
Sunday could warm up to near
the 0 C mark before cooler air
moves in behind the low.
Fortunately, it doesn’t look
like the cold air will stick
around. The weather models
predict the main area of low
pressure off of the West Coast
will begin to move eastward.
This will allow for plenty of
mild air to be pulled up ahead
of it. High temperatures during the middle of next week
should be in the -5 C range with
overnight lows around -12 C.
Confidence is not that high on
exactly when this low will push
eastward and what track it will
take, but we’ll have to keep an
eye out for this system late next
week as the potential will be
there for some significant snow.
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, -18 to -3 C;
lows, -30 to -12 C.
GLOBAL TEMPERATURE DEVIATIONS
For this issue I have included a couple
of maps produced by the University
of Alabama in Huntsville. These maps
show global temperature deviations
from average for December and January.
You can easily see how most of the
planet saw average to above-average
temperatures during these two months.
It is also easy to see the coldest region,
compared to average conditions, was
located over North America.
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].
Will this be the coldest winter since 1918?
December, January and February have all been below the average just three times
By Daniel Bezte
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
T
here has been a fair bit of
talk and media coverage
on the cold weather we,
and much of central and eastern North America, have seen
so far this winter. For this issue
I thought I would dig into the
weather data and try to see just
how cold we have been.
First of all, I don’t think anyone can argue this hasn’t been
a cold winter. As we all know,
December 2013 was the second
coldest on record, with average
monthly temperatures running
5 to 7 C below the long-term
average. That said, while we
did see some really cold days,
very few cold records were set
during the month. What made
the month so cold was that we
never really got a break from it!
There are a number of different ways we can compare temperatures to try and determine
just how cold it was. One way
is to compare just how far we
were below average compared
to other places on Earth during December. I came across
a report that the University of
Alabama in Huntsville puts
out, that discusses global temperatures and their departure
from average. In the report they
point out which places or place
on Earth had the warmest and
coldest temperatures in regard
I think I’d rather have colder-than-average
temperatures in the winter, when it’s going to be
cold anyway.
to how much they departed
from the long-term average.
During December, the coolest
area globally turned out to be
in central Manitoba, near Lake
Winnipeg, where temperatures
in the troposphere (the lower
part of the atmosphere) were
5.37 C (about 9.7 F) cooler than
the long-term average. So, I
guess we could argue that we
were the coldest place on Earth
during December! I then looked
at January’s results and found
that the coldest region on Earth
shifted a little southeastward
and was now centred over farnorthern Michigan, covering a
larger area made up of most of
the eastern U.S. and Canada,
stretching from just south of
Hudson Bay through to the Gulf
of Mexico.
The University of Alabama in
Huntsville also produces a global map of the monthly temperature anomalies. I have included
January’s map here, and if you
take a look, you can easily see
just how far below average our
part of the world is. You can also
see that, besides our region, very
little of the world saw colderthan-average conditions. Now,
before we start crying “Not fair,”
we need to remember: eventually this weather pattern that’s
giving us these cold conditions
will change, and as you can see
on the map, we’ll likely switch to
a warmer-than-average pattern,
given the fact that most of the
planet is seeing warmer-thanaverage temperatures. Also,
when you think about it, I think
I’d rather have colder-than-average temperatures in the winter,
when it’s going to be cold anyway, rather than experiencing
them in late spring or summer.
OK, now back to looking at
the two-month cold snap we are
experiencing and how we can
determine just how cold it is. I
guess the tried-and-true method
is to simply go back into the
long-term weather records and
compare this winter’s temperatures to that of previous winters. I used Winnipeg’s data for
this as it has the longest period
of record, and when we have
cold weather, it tends to affect
all regions of southern and central Manitoba. The first thing
I looked at was the number of
times we’ve seen mean monthly
temperatures colder than -20
C. It turns out there have been
80 months going back to 1872
that have been colder than -20
C. When we compare December
2013’s mean monthly temperature of -20.9 C to these months,
I found that it falls into 65th
place, which means that we’ve
seen 64 colder winter months.
The most recent cold month
was January 2004, which had a
mean monthly temperature of
-21.7 C. The coldest month ever
recorded in Winnipeg was in
1875, when the monthly temperature for January was a frigid
-27 C. The second coldest was in
January 1966, with a mean temperature of -26.7 C. So, when we
look at it from this perspective,
December 2013 was not really
that cold.
How about if we combine
December and January and
see how they compare to other
years? As it turns out, we don’t
see two or more months in a
row with really cold temperatures that often. I only counted
11 times in 142 years of data
that had both December and
January reporting well-belowaverage temperatures. The
last time we had a really cold
December-January period was
in the winter of 1978-79, when
the mean temperature was -20.1
C. This compares to our mean
temperature for this winter of
-19.9 C. The coldest DecemberJanuary was in 1886-87, with a
mean temperature of -23.1 C.
The coldest modern-day winter
was in 1949-50 where, thanks
to a very cold January, the mean
temperature for the DecemberJanuary period was -21.1 C.
Through February?
If our cold weather continues
to the end of February, then
it will truly be a cold winter!
Looking back, I could only
find three winters (December
to February) that had all three
months reporting below-average temperatures. You have
to go all the way back to the
winter of 1916-17, when the
mean temperature for those
three months was -20.1 C. We
would have to see this February’s mean monthly temperature come in at -20.4 C to tie
this, and with a mean temperature of -21 C over the first eight
days, I guess it might be possible. The coldest winter ever
recorded was in 1886-87, with
a mean temperature of -22.9 C.
We would have to have a mean
February temperature of -29 C
to tie this record, so I think it’s
safe to say that this will not be
the coldest winter ever.
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To spray or not to spray
— it’s more than the numbers
Deciding what, when, how and even if to control pests is a complex decision
By Helen McMenamin
co-operator contributor / lethbridge, alta.
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Crunching the numbers
Rosaasen also thought about the effects of not
spraying. “Why not let ’em eat?” he asked. He
also considered the potential impact of a yield
hit from bertha army worm on their yield history and premiums for crop insurance.
With this information, the Rosaasens went
back to considering whether spraying would
pay. Their operating costs for spraying include
variable costs — fuel, labour of the sprayer
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It’s tough to see bertha army worms chewing on canola, but is it cheaper to let them have their share rather than
spraying to control them?
“What’s the yield penalty from
losing native pollinators in the
crop? What about the predators
and parasitoids?”
Nevin Rosaasen
operator and the water hauler and others.
Fixed costs include a share of the sprayer and
associated equipment.
This was measured against the “sunk costs”
— money already invested.
“Fertilizer, seed, herbicide — all the inputs
and work you’ve put into a crop to bring it
to this point in the year are gone and can’t
be recovered,” Rosaasen said. “That number
reminds you of what you’re protecting.”
Armed with a complete figure for spraying,
Rosaasen looked at the complete cost of spraying and chemical for the conventional insecticide and the eco-product. He and his brother
guessed they might have twice as many dragonflies and parasitic wasps to keep wheat
midge under control with the eco-product and
weighed that against its higher cost.
They also looked at the cost of aerial spraying compared to doing the job themselves.
The high-clearance sprayer tramples some
crop, in their case two per cent. That percentage of a 40-bushel crop gave the spray plane
a slight advantage, as long as the application
was timely.
That can be especially important for preharvest intervals and for fungicides. The timing of fungicide application against fusarium
head blight has almost as big an impact on the
bottom line as the decision to treat.
Including seemingly extraneous production
impacts may seem dubious, but formalizing
the process can lead to some surprising decisions if you have definite numbers, Rosaasen
said.
Based on all those factors, he and his brother
decided on the more expensive but environmentally friendly insecticide, and sprayed
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o spray or not to spray? There are published economic thresholds to help you
decide, but Nevin Rosaasen suggests
making your own calculations.
Rosaasen, a research economist with Alberta
Agriculture and Rural Development, says every
crop has different potential and every farm
has its own unique combination of short- and
long-term economic and environmental considerations.
In a presentation at the recent Farming
Smarter Conference in Lethbridge, Rosaasen
used an example from his family’s farm. His
brother had found bertha army worm larvae —
more than 11 per square metre — in a canola
field. According to Alberta Agriculture figures,
it pays to spray if it costs less than $8 per acre
and canola sells for $12 a bushel.
“Each bertha army worm cuts yield by .058
bushels (3-1/2 pounds),” Rosaasen said. “For
my dad, that’s all he needs to hear. He says,
‘Nuke those suckers.’
“My brother has a different opinion. He says,
‘I hate to apply insecticides, I want the option
to father healthy kids. How do you put a value
on your health?’”
There’s also the value of the beneficial
insects.
“What’s the yield penalty from losing native
pollinators in the crop? What about the predators and parasitoids?” Rosaasen asked. “A dragonfly can eat its own weight in insects in 30
minutes. And, this isn’t the only crop we have
to consider — the wheat across the road likely
has wheat midge in it — dragonflies can fly
over there if we don’t kill them.”
But Rosaasen said it’s difficult to come up
with firm numbers on the value of beneficial
insects, though yield benefits from being close
to honeybee hives have bees estimated as high
as 47 per cent.
He also compared the cost and benefit of
different insecticides. He said the least-toxic
product to control bertha army worm costs
more than twice that of commonly recommended insecticides, but it acts by coating
plants with a toxin that only affects insects that
feed on the crop.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
DuPont teams up with DTN Grain transportation
The major seed suppliers are competing to deliver information
By Carey Gillam
DuPont and DTN also will
combine technologies from
reuters
both companies to offer farmuPont Pioneer, the agri- ers electronic grain-trading
cultural seed unit of capabilities, officials with
DuPont, said Feb. 4 that both companies said.
The announcement comes
it signed a deal with DTN/The
Progressive Farmer to provide three months after DuPont
weather and market informa- i n k e d a d e a l w i t h f a r m
tion to farmers, along with machiner y company Deere
new grain-trading capabilities, & Co. that provides farmers
all accessed through mobile a wireless transfer system
for their data.
devices.
DuPont is racing rival Mon“Our customers are running
small businesses. Production santo Co. to capture marin the field is really important ket share in the burgeoning
as well as the business side. So “precision agriculture” arena,
this is just another step to being turning farm-related data into
able to address key needs,” said new profit streams by incorDuPont Pioneer director of porating analytics on an array
of data points, including soil
services Joe Foresman.
F o r e s m a n s a i d f i n a n - types, fungicide application
cial terms of the deal are not timing, weather patterns and
pest management.
being released.
Monsanto on Nov. 1 comDuPont Pioneer customers
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more seed, or less; where
they might have better moisture; more need for chemical treatments; and what type
of weather events they might
expect.
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2012 to 2013, filling a database that can churn out “yield
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hot button among
wheat growers
Delegates urged Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz
to consider ending the revenue cap or consider
running rights
By Alex Binkley
Co-operator contributor
T
he state of grain transportation dominated
the recent Western
Canadian Wheat Growers
Association annual convention in Ottawa last week with
producers calling on Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz to
take action.
In a brief presentation to
the convention, Ritz said there
had to be more accountability in the grain transportation
network. Afterwards delegates
peppered him with calls to
end the revenue cap, consider
running rights or require the
railways to dedicate more
locomotives and hopper cars
to grain movement.
Many delegates complained
the railways were only focused
on measures that improved
shareholder value with service to customers falling far
behind.
Ritz said he would be meeting in mid-February with
a committee of farm, grain
company and railway representatives charged with finding a way to increase grain
movements so Canada isn’t
burdened with massive grain
stocks next summer. “We need
a lot more knowledge about
what’s happening in the grain
transportation system. We
have to dig deeper than the
revenue cap.”
Don Solman, vice-president
of finance with Richardson
International said grain companies can’t make sales if they
can’t deliver.
“Rail is a big part of the
pipeline and we have to make
it perform better than it is
today,” he said in an interview.
This far, the railways “haven’t
lived up to their obligation.”
Grain companies “could sell
more if the railways could
deliver it. We can’t commit to
sales because of the lack of
service.”
The grain companies are
being hit with hefty demurrage bills for ships forced to
wait on the West Coast for
grain to arrive, he added.
“We’re working with the other
companies to get vessels
loaded as fast as we can.”
Initiatives by the grain
industry to find short- and
long-term solutions to the
delays are welcome because
“we have to become more
efficient,” he added. “We need
to find a way to deal with the
situation the industry faces.”
Pressed by NDP MPs in
question period about lost
sales and hefty ship demurrage bills, Ritz said the railways “have dropped the
ball. Going forward on this,
through the winter season, we
look to them to take up the
slack.”
One frustration for the
farm representatives and others in the controversy is the
silence of Transport Minister
Lisa Raitt and the rest of the
Harper cabinet on the issue.
“We need a lot
more knowledge
about what’s
happening in the
grain transportation
system. We have to
dig deeper than the
revenue cap.”
Gerry Ritz
Raitt was quick to impose
new safety rules on the railways after the Lac-Megantic
disaster last summer but has
said nothing or done nothing
about the grain transportation
fiasco, farm representatives
complain.
Transport Canada has the
power to order the railways
to take action while Agriculture Canada has none,
they add. Neither she nor
her parliamentary secretary
participated in a late-night
emergency debate in the
Commons about the grain
transportation problems.
Kicking off the emergency
debate, Liberal farm spokesman Mark Eyeking said the
Rail Freight Service Act passed
last year was supposed to create balance between shippers and the railways but the
grain situation shows the law
doesn’t work. “Many Prairie
farmers agree that the legislation needs to be amended to
make it easier to hit the railroad companies with fines
over these transportation bottlenecks.”
The railways claim to be
providing 5,000 cars each a
week. “However, that is not
even half as much as we
need… there are between
30 and 40 vessels waiting
to be loaded in Vancouver
alone,” he said. “We can see
that there is a big problem.
We have the crop. We have
the customers. We have the
ships. However, it is just not
getting there. Canadianbased grain companies have
been charged more than $20
million in fees for delays at
the Port of Vancouver since
August, according to the
Western Grain Elevator Association.”
Malcolm Allen, the NDP
farm spokesman, noted that
when Hunter Harrison took
over at CP last year, the railway
“got rid of 11,000 cars and 440
locomotives. He took capacity
out of the system right before
a bumper crop. CP made more
money, but it left farmers
stranded.”
Kevin Lamoureux, Liberal
MP for Winnipeg North, said
the delays will amount to “a
30 per cent, 40 per cent, 50 per
cent loss of revenue. Those are
incredible losses. Let us imagine having our own business
get hit with a 30 per cent to
60 per cent loss of revenue,
and the impact that is going
to have.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
Thorough examination of rail
transportation needed: KAP
Long-term solution to sluggish rail transportation may require new infrastructure,
but in the short term, producers should re-evaluate the terms of their operational loans
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
K
eystone Agricultural Producers meeting in Winnipeg late last month called
on the federal government to fine
the railways for failing to perform as Prairie farm leaders worried creditors will come calling
on farmers who can’t sell grain to
make loan payments.
With many bins still full, and
grain bags lying in fields across
the Prairies, some producers
won’t be able to repay last year’s
input loans, says Norm Hall, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan.
“Input loans that are coming
due at the end of this month, and
we put it out to producers... have
you talked to your financial institutions? Can you make those payments?” said Hall, speaking at the
annual Keystone Agricultural Producers meeting in Winnipeg.
“Some of the contracts that
you’ve signed, you get five per
cent interest, but if you go past
that deadline, it more than triples,
and... if you go into default, you
may not be eligible for financing
next year.”
But the responsibility doesn’t
lie solely with producers, farm
organizations across the Prairie
provinces have asked financial
institutions to extend the terms of
operational loans.
“We’re running into the same
problems, and have spoken to
FCC (Farm Credit Canada),” said
Lynn Jacobson, president of the
Alberta Federation of Agriculture.
And while FCC has been open
to extending loan terms for producers struggling to deliver grain,
Jacobson said other financial institutions have not been as receptive.
Doug Chorney, president of
Keystone Producers, said the
same situation is being faced by
farmers in Manitoba who are
fighting to get grain off the farm.
“There’s a huge cost to producers,” he said, adding that the
recent decline in commodity
prices is compounding financial
pressures faced by producers in
Western Canada.
Describing friends and neighbours as “shell shocked” by the
sharp drop, Chorney noted the
market price for some crops has
fallen by almost 50 per cent from
the same time last year.
However, much of the pressure on Prairie farmers could be
relieved if grain was flowing out
of the bins predictably and efficiently.
“We’ve been watching the trains
go by... and it used to be a few
cars of containers and a few cars
of bulk commodities,” said Hall.
“Now it’s lots of black tankers.”
Members attending the annual
Keystone meeting questioned
whether rail companies weren’t
passing grain shipments by in
favour of higher-value cargo, such
as hydrocarbons.
Others in attendance noted that
the loss of single-desk marketing
has left producers with less power
to negotiate with rail companies.
“What they used to do in this
kind of situation — it wasn’t
perfect — but they would get
together with industry on a
weekly or bimonthly basis and
allocate the cars so everyone can
A lot who are looking at it as farmers want
immediate response to our problem, but the fact
is this problem wasn’t created overnight and it
won’t be solved overnight.”
Doug Chorney
get their fair share of access,” said
Wilf Harder. “At least that way everybody would have some opportunity to deliver, of course we’re
away from that now.”
Chorney warned against oversimplifying the problem.
“The railroads have to make
money, farmers have to make
money, everyone has to be successful together,” he said. “There
is important work to be done to
define the problem properly and
respond to it properly, a lot who
are looking at it as farmers want
immediate response to our problem, but the fact is this problem
wasn’t created overnight and it
won’t be solved overnight.”
But in the meantime, farmers
can’t be asked to carry the burden alone, Chorney said, adding
assistance should be provided by
both levels of government.
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Norm Hall (l) of Saskatchewan speaks, while Doug Chorney, Lynn Jacobson
and Kelvin Heppner look on, during Keystone Agricultural Producers annual
general meeting in Winnipeg. Photo: Shannon VanRaes
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
Drought forces California farmers
to idle cropland
The price of California farm goods, including fresh fruits and vegetables is likely to rise
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES /REUTERS
D
rought-stricken California farmers facing drastic cutbacks in irrigation
water are expected to idle some
500,000 acres (200,000 hectares)
of cropland this year in a record
production loss that could cause
billions of dollars in economic
damage, industry officials said.
Large-scale crop losses in California, the No. 1 U.S. farm state
producing half the nation’s fruits
and vegetables, would undoubtedly lead to higher consumer
prices, especially for tree and
vine produce grown only there.
But experts say it is too soon to
quantify the effect.
Coming off its driest year on
record, California is gripped
in a drought that threatens to
inflict the worst water crisis in
state history, prompting Governor Jerry Brown last month to
declare a state of emergency.
He urged citizens to reduce
their water consumption by 20
per cent voluntarily.
California water managers
later said the drought would
force an unprecedented cutoff in
state-supplied water sold to 29
irrigation districts, public water
agencies and municipalities,
barring an unexpected turnaround.
Irrigation deliveries to another
group of agricultural districts
served by the state are expected
to be reduced by half, and an
even larger group of farmers
who get water from the federally
operated Central Valley Project
are likewise bracing for sharp
cutbacks this year.
“We’re in a dire situation that
we’ve never been in before,” said
Paul Wenger, president of the
California Farm Bureau Federation.
The state’s network of reservoirs that collect run-off of
rainfall and snow melt from the
Sierra Nevada mountain range
— the state’s biggest source of
fresh water — is badly depleted.
So too are the underground
aquifers that have provided
farmers reserves when water
was otherwise scarce.
Democrats and Republicans
in the state are sharply divided
on how to deal with the crisis,
and there is also division within
the ranks of each party.
At the Republican-led U.S.
House of Representatives, an
emergency bill by several California representatives that
would roll back environmental
protections for fish in the fragile
Sacramento-San Joaquin River
Delta in order to allow more
water to be pumped out in dry
years passed on Wednesday
roughly along party lines, 229191.
The bill, which will be immediately sent to the U.S. Senate,
has been harshly criticized by
Brown, who called it “unwelcome and intrusive.”
But supporters say environmental regulations caused the
water shortages in the first place
by limiting the amounts that
can be pumped out of the delta
when fish are threatened in drier
years.
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water supplies are being forced
out to the ocean instead of going
to our cities,” said Representative Kevin McCarthy, who represents agricultural and desert
areas north of Los Angeles.
“The issue demands immediate
attention and today’s vote represents House Republicans’ commitment to putting California
families over fish.”
Livestock producers are facing their own drought-related
difficulties, including scant
winter rain they rely on to grow
grass for grazing their herds,
industry officials say. Beef producers are being forced to ship
much of their stock back east,
while dairy producers face
higher costs to purchase hay
and feed.
CN Rail,
union
reach quick
deal after
government
threat
The federal government
was preparing to
stop a strike before it
happened
By Susan Taylor
TORONTO / REUTERS
C
anadian National Railway Co. reached a deal
Feb. 5 to avert a strike
by conductors and yard workers after the Conser vative
g ove r n m e n t s a i d i t w o u l d
use back-to-work legislation
to keep the country’s biggest
railway operating.
The Teamsters Canada Rail
Conference gave notice earlier in the day that it intended
to strike as soon as Feb. 8
after members voted against
a tentative agreement with
Canada’s biggest rail operator.
A new three-year agreement
is a modification of the tentative pact reached in October, union general chairman
Roland Hackl said.
“I’m glad there’s not going
to be a strike,” he said, shortly
after the deal was reached.
He said no details would be
released until the deal is ratified.
A work stoppage by about
3,000 conductors, train and
yard workers would have disrupted a vast cross-country
network that ships goods
ra n g i n g f r o m l u m b e r a n d
crude oil to grains and automobiles.
Kellie Leitch, the country’s
labour minister, had said at
a press conference in Ottawa
t h a t t h e g ov e r n m e n t w a s
preparing back-to-work legislation to “protect Canada’s
economy and Canadian grain
farmers.”
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Agriculture says is worth
about $600 per truckload.
The Pasadena Democrat’s
bill would also allow the
CHP to confiscate the trucks
of drivers who do not carry
the necessary paperwork.
Holden’s spokeswoman,
Wendy Gordon, said she
was not certain whether
the high penalties would
remain in the bill as it
makes its way through the
legislative process. But she
said the thefts are becoming
more common as biofuels
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It is already illegal to
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U.S. to launch ‘climate hubs’ to help
farmers face climate change
Climate hubs will act as information centres to help farmers handle risks
By Jeff Mason
washington / reuters
P
resident Barack Obama’s
administration is setting
up seven “climate hubs”
to help farmers and rural communities adapt to extreme
weather conditions and other
effects of climate change, a
White House official said.
The hubs will act as information centres and aim to
help farmers and ranchers
handle risks, including fires,
pests, floods and droughts,
that are exacerbated by global
warming.
The hubs will be located in
Ames, Iowa; Durham, New
Hampshire; Raleigh, North
Carolina; Fort Collins, Colora d o ; E l Re n o, Ok l a h o m a ;
Cor vallis, Oregon; and Las
Cruces, New Mexico, the official said.
Additional “sub hubs” will
b e s e t u p i n R i o P i e d ra s,
Puerto Rico; Davis, California;
and Houghton, Michigan.
The hubs are an example of
executive actions Obama has
promised to take to fight climate change.
The president has made the
issue a top priority for 2014
and has the authority to take
many measures that address
it without congressional
approval.
Se c re t a r y o f A g r i c u l t u re
To m V i l s a c k a n n o u n c e d
the “Regional Hubs for Risk
Adaptation and Mitigation to
Climate Change” at a White
House briefing, the official
said.
“For generations, America’s
farmers, ranchers and forest
landowners have innovated
and adapted to challenges,”
Vilsack said in a statement.
“Today, they face a new and
more complex threat in the
form of a changing and shifting climate, which impacts
both our nation’s forests and
our farmers’ bottom lines,” he
said.
Environmentalists want big
economies such as the United
States and China to reduce
t he i r e mi s si o ns of carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse
gases that scientists blame
for heating the planet, but
they have urged policy-makers around the world to take
action as well to help communities adapt to rising temperatures now.
T h e U . S . De p a r t m e n t o f
Agriculture says the effects of
climate change have led to a
longer crop-growing season
in the Midwest, a fire season
that is 60 days longer than it
was three decades ago, and
droughts that cost the United
States $50 billion from 201113.
T h e O b a m a a d m i n i s t ra tion is expected to announce
new rules later this year limiting carbon emissions from
existing U.S. power plants, a
major polluter. The president
is also under pressure from
environmentalists to reject
the Keystone XL pipeline,
which would transport crude
oil from Canadian oilsands
in Alberta to refineries on the
U.S. Gulf Coast.
Climate activists argue
the project would exacer-
“For generations,
America’s farmers,
ranchers and
forest landowners
have innovated
and adapted to
challenges.”
Tom Vilsack
Secretary of agriculture
bate global warming because
of the carbon emissions
involved in extracting the oil.
Proponents say the project
would create jobs and boost
U.S. energy security. A State
Department report released
last week played down the
project’s impact on climate
change.
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Neighbouring farmers fight
landmark Australian GMO court case
The Australian case could lead to changes on tolerances for organic certification
By Jane Wardell and Colin Packham
SYDNEY / REUTERS
T
wo neighbouring farmers, a
field of canola and a gust of
wind are at the centre of a
landmark court case in Australia that
could have consequences for the
controversial growing of genetically
modified crops in the country.
Steve Marsh is suing former childhood friend Michael Baxter after
har vested seed heads from Baxter’s genetically modified canola
crop blew onto Marsh’s farm in the
state of Western Australia, court
documents said, contaminating
land used for his organic oat and
wheat crops.
Marsh, stripped of his organic certification and export licence for his
oats, is claiming unspecified damages for loss of income in the civil
n e g l i g e n c e c a s e, w h i c h o p e n e d
Fe b. 1 0 i n t h e We s t Au s t ra l i a n
Supreme Court.
It is the first time in Australia one
farmer has sued another for negligence over contamination of organic
crops by genetically modified organisms (GMO) and will set a precedent
for future cases, lawyers said.
“People around the world are
going to be looking at this,” said
Michael Blakeney, a law professor
at the University of Western Australia who does advisory work for
the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. “It is testing whether a GMO farmer has a
duty of care to a neighbour who’s
g r ow i n g o r g a n i c c r o p s n o t t o
contaminate them.”
B a x t e r ’s l a w y e r, B r i a n B r a d ley, declined to comment ahead of
the trial, which is expected to last
three weeks. Marsh and Baxter both
declined to speak to Reuters. The
former friends have not spoken to
each other since the row erupted,
local media have reported.
Baxter bought the seeds from
Monsanto Co., the world’s largest
seed company.
After getting legal advice, Marsh
opted not to sue the U.S. firm
because of a non-liability contract
Monsanto signs with all farmers who
buy its seeds, said Scott Kinnear,
director of the Safe Food Foundation, an organic farming advocacy
group collecting donations to help
fund Marsh’s suit.
The case is likely to lead to regulations outlining boundaries between
farms producing genetically modified crops and organic farms, lawyers and agribusiness experts said,
potentially reducing the land available for cultivation. It could also
change Australia’s unique zero-tolerance status for contamination of
organic crops, they said.
Un l i k e t h e Un i t e d St a t e s, t h e
European Union and Japan, which
allow trace amounts of GMO in
organic foods in acknowledgment
of contamination by wind or pollen transfer, Australia maintains a
zero threshold.
“If the organic people don’t win
the case, there will be a lot of pressure brought to bear for a change to
the organic standard and that might
remove some of the difficulties of
co-existence,” said Joe Lederman,
managing principle at FoodLegal, a
Melbourne law firm specializing in
food and agribusiness, which has
represented both businesses and
farmers in the past.
Ill wind
Kojonup, a wheat and sheep district some 250 km (156 miles)
south of the West Australia state
capital Perth, is a quiet, tight-knit
community of farmers.
But the case brought by Marsh,
49, is splitting loyalties in the pastoral area where many farmers have turned to cutting-edge
GMO production.
GMO critics say the spread of
genetically modified crops hurts the
environment, most notably by fostering herbicide-resistant weeds,
and that food made with the crops
can harm humans. Proponents say
the crops are proven safe and that
the proper use of the chemicals
associated with the crops by farme r s ca n m i t ig a t e en v i ro n me n t a l
problems.
Marsh’s decision to sue Baxter, 48,
has garnered support from celebrity
chefs and gardeners. Law firm Slater
and Gordon is working pro bono,
on the basis the case has broad
public interest.
Marsh’s lawsuit alleges that harvested seed heads from Monsanto’s
laboratory-created Roundup Ready
canola seed blew from Baxter’s property across a dirt lane and over a
boundary fence in November 2010,
regerminating on Marsh’s land in
January 2011.
In the other corner, the Pastoralists and Graziers Association of
Western Australia is giving financial
support to Baxter.
“This is nothing more than antiG M p u b l i c i t y,” s a i d P G A We s t ern Graingrowers chairman John
Snooke, who is also acting as a
spokesman for Baxter. “Michael
and PGA of Western Australia both
b e l i e ve i n t h e f a r m e r’s r i g h t t o
choose what he grows.”
Monsanto declined to comment
on whether it was giving financial
assistance to Baxter for the legal
action, an accusation levelled by
Marsh’s supporters, saying only it
was not a party to the case.
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Small communities not ready for climate change
The highest proportion of communities with climate action plans are in Canada’s Prairie provinces
University of British Columbia release
D
ramatic differences exist
in how Canadian communities are preparing
for the effects of climate change,
says a UBC professor who helped
prepare a report by the National
Municipal Adaptation Project
(NMAP), a team of university
researchers assessing how Canada’s municipal governments are
planning for climate adaptation
and resiliency.
“The good news from our survey is that Canada’s major cities recognize the importance
of adaptation and are moving
ahead,” says Kevin Hanna, an
associate professor of geography
in the Irving K. Barber School of
Arts and Sciences at UBC’s Okanagan campus, and one of the
project’s leaders. “The bad news
is that many small communities
are not there yet, and they may
be the most vulnerable.”
While all Canadian cities with
populations greater than 500,000
have climate plans, 65 per cent
of small towns (5,000 people or
less) have no climate change plan
– even though roughly half have
experienced damage from flooding or extreme rainfall in the last
decade, the report finds.
The highest proportion of
communities without climate
action plans are in Canada’s
Prairie provinces (62 per cent),
the report finds. B.C. has the
highest number of local governments with climate action
plans, followed by Ontario and
Quebec.
The report finds that provincial policy has significant
influence on local planning.
“Provincial policy support is
critical, not only for adaptation
planning, but also for reducing
carbon emissions and developing alternative energies,” Hanna
says. “With its carbon tax, B.C.
has also been a policy leader on
climate change. However, it is
unclear whether B.C. will keep
the carbon tax.”
View the report at: www.
localadaptation.ca.
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U.S. Farm Bill
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By Eric Beech
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CN Rail Q4 profit stung as
winter chill adds to costs
But both railways recorded significantly higher earnings
By Solarina Ho
toronto / reuters
C
anadian National Railway Co., the country’s
largest rail operator,
reported higher quarterly
earnings Jan. 30, saying its
full-year volumes and revenue hit record highs, but
the results were tempered
by extreme winter weather
in December and came in
slightly below estimates.
CN Rail, which cautioned
the weather challenges continued into January, raised
its quarterly dividend by 16
per cent.
“The extreme cold weather
brought us higher labour
and higher purchased services and material costs in
De c e m b e r, w h i c h a t t h i s
point I would probably estimate to be approximately
$ 1 5 m i l l i o n ,” s a i d c h i e f
financial officer Luc Jobin.
“Unfortunately, this little twist of Mother Nature
is also extending itself well
i n t o Ja n u a r y a n d c o n s e quently we are having a similar monthly cost pressure
to contend with starting in
2014.”
The Montreal-based railway reaffirmed its full-year
2014 outlook, first issued
last month, when it said it
was targeting double-digit
growth in earnings per share
from the $3.06 adjusted
diluted earnings per share
in 2013.
The company said the
weaker Canadian dollar will
be a positive tailwind compared to last year.
T h e c o m p a n y ’s o p e ra t ing ratio, a key measure of
efficiency in the industry,
rose 1.2 points to 64.8 per
cent during the quarter. The
higher the ratio, the less efficient the operation.
While CN still reported
industry-leading efficiency,
the company said it faced
“significant headwinds” on
issues including pensions.
The railroad’s safety record
in 2013 improved nine per
cent with 33 main track accidents, CN said, even as it
dealt with a series of highprofile derailments, including two in New Brunswick in
January, one of which caught
fire and burned for days.
CN’s revenue for petroleum and chemicals jumped
file photo
during the quarter, helped
in par t by higher freight
volumes and market share
gains.
Despite strong grain
e x p o r t d e m a n d , re v e n u e
growth in that segment was
only three per cent due to
the cold weather.
Net income in the quar-
ter ended Dec. 31 rose to
$635 million, or 76 Canadian
cents per share. This compares with a net income of
$610 million, or 71 Canadian
cents per share, during the
same period a year earlier.
CN rival Canadian Pacific
Railway earlier posted
record quarterly results
despite also taking a hit from
extreme winter weather in
December.
T h e c o u n t r y ’s s e c o n d largest railroad also forecast
its adjusted earnings would
climb by at least 30 per cent
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Canada
wheat, canola
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after bumper
crops
The canola stockpile is
at a record high at nearly
12.6 million tonnes
By Rod Nickel
winnipeg / reuters
C
anada’s canola stockpile
swelled to a record high,
and wheat supplies were
the biggest in 20 years by the
end of 2013, Statistics Canada said Feb. 4, after farmers
reaped bumper crops.
Huge stockpiles came as no
surprise after ideal weather
helped farmers produce
unprecedented wheat and canola harvests last year that grain
handlers and railways have
struggled to move to port.
St a t s Ca n p e g g e d c a n o l a
stocks at Dec. 31 at 12.597 million tonnes, up 55 per cent year
over year, and all-wheat supplies at 28.381 million tonnes,
an increase of 38 per cent.
Durum stocks climbed 36 per
cent to 5.342 million tonnes.
StatsCan’s estimates looked
mostly in line with expectations, said Dave Reimann,
market analyst at Cargill Ltd.’s
grain-marketing services division.
“The outcome is still the
same, that we’re going to be
facing big (supplies) by the
end of July, and it’s going to
be a plugged pipeline for the
months to come,” he said.
Canada is usually the world’s
second- or third-largest wheat
exporter and the biggest shipper of canola.
A backlog of more than
40,000 railway cars since Aug. 1
has resulted in some grain handlers accepting few or no new
crop deliveries from farmers
until spring.
Farmers who live near the
C a n a d a - U . S . b o rd e r h a v e
avoided some of the bottlenecks by transporting crops
to buyers in the United States,
said Brian Voth, senior market
coach at Agri-Trend.
Canola in particular is flowing to U.S. crush plants in
Washington and Minnesota,
Voth said on a conference call
organized by Minneapolis
Grain Exchange.
Statistics Canada pegged
barley stocks at 6.695 million
tonnes, up 27 per cent and
oat supplies at 2.871 million
tonnes, a rise of 40 per cent.
Soybeans bucked the trend
of a huge increase in supplies.
Soy stocks edged up 2.4 per
cent year over year to 2.65 million tonnes. Stockpiles were
limited by the steady flow of
soybeans from Ontario and
Manitoba into the United
States, Voth said.
New video meant to inspire the
pursuit of agricultural careers
High school students are being encouraged to pursue a life in agriculture
Staff
A
griculture in the Classroom-MB Inc. (AITCM) has launched a
new video to inspire high
school students to consider a
career in agriculture.
The video, which will be
incorporated into the Made
in Manitoba breakfast program, is aptly named “Your
Life — Your Agriculture.”
The video tries to pique
students’ curiosity about the
many exciting and diverse
careers available in agriculture, while sharing some real
stories from those already
involved in the industry.
“We have seen the need
for a resource such as this
for quite some time,” said
Jo h a n n e Ro s s, e x e c u t i v e
director of AITC-M. “Any
engaging programming we
can offer high school students just adds to AITC-M’s
efforts to inspire young students to turn their heads
toward agriculture. By letting
them get up close and personal with other young people who love this industry,
we may just open their eyes
to opportunities they never
considered before!”
Ross added that the video
will provide exciting perspectives from a current
agribusiness degree student
as well as a well-known personality in a senior position
in the Canadian seed industry.
The video was made pos-
sible with funding from the
Monsanto Fund, the philanthropic arm of Monsanto
Canada. The Monsanto Fund
h a s p r ov i d e d m u l t i - y e a r
funding to AITC-M’s Made in
Manitoba breakfast program
since 2011, allowing AITCM to significantly expand
its programming to over 100
rural schools, reaching over
15,000 students across the
province.
“ The Monsanto Fund
is pleased to continue our
relationship with Agriculture in the Classroom and
bring exposure to the agriculture industry and all it
has to offer young people,”
said Tr ish Jordan, public
and industry affairs direct o r, M o n s a n t o C a n a d a .
“This industr y is exciting
and growing, and we are
going to need young people to fill countless roles in
all aspects of agriculture in
the future.
Employment opportunities in agriculture are set to
increase 15 per cent in all
regions across Canada over
the next five years.
The video will be used at
all high schools participating in the Made in Manitoba breakfast program and
will also be shared across
the province through social
media venues such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
View the video at www.
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or at www.aitc.mb.ca.
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CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S
Vinegar valentines
By Barb Galbraith
co-operator contributor
I
n today’s world, nasty messages sent anonymously are more likely to be associated with Internet bullying than Valentine’s Day cards.
Valentine cards reflect the popular culture era in which they are produced.
Wartime cards had images of soldiers. The Dirty ’30s cards referred to making do.
Those printed in the ’60s were heavily influenced by popular music, movies and
television shows.
During the Victorian era (1837-1901), inequalities were considered the result of
moral, not economic, causes. Guides to every social situation were published in
the hope of bettering the middle class. This was the birth of the self-help movement. This drive for improvement was the motivation for “vinegar” valentines,
popular in Canada, Great Britain and the United States from the 1840s to 1940s.
These were meant to enlighten the receiver about a personal shortcoming
through an unflattering caricature and a few lines of doggerel.
On account of your talk of others’ affairs
At most dances you sit warming the chairs.
Because of the care with which you attend
To all others’ business you haven’t a friend.
If you ever spent a dollar
Folks would think you went insane,
’Cause the way you squeeze a penny
Makes Abe Lincoln scream with pain.
You think yourself a picture,
You are — a sketch in paint,
You work for hours before the glass,
To look like what you ain’t.
Photos: Courtesy of The Strong, Rochester, New York
A Victorian
version of
online bullying
They were personal, nasty and anonymous
lectures on self-improvement
Mass produced, they were usually sent anonymously and not meant as a joke. The
cards offered a variety of styles for each of these failings as well as for flaws like
alcoholism, laziness, lechery, loose morals and henpecking. The latter could be
directed at either the offending wife or the suffering husband for not being man
enough to run his own home. Some took aim at the victim’s profession or trade:
Knowing as much as a pig about law,
You hope to carry your point by jaw,
But your chatter, though full of wind and fury,
Bores instead of convincing the jury.
You’re greasy as the pork you sell
And tough just like your beef —
Your customers who know you well
Hope you come to grief.
You weigh your hand in with the meat
And charge for bones and fat.
I’d rather go without food to eat
Than deal with a man like that.
Physical appearance was fair game, with cards labelled, “To a Homely Lady,”
“Bald Head” and, “Miss Antique.” Senders skewered what they saw as objectionable political views and underlined gender roles by criticizing feminists and
housewives.
Initially, the target of a vinegar valentine was expected to foot the bill for delivery as well as be insulted. Mailing costs were borne by the recipient as Canada did
not issue its first postage stamp until 1851.
Perhaps the criticism was well deserved, but by today’s standards, these
Victorian-era cards seem to have had more in common with modern online bullying than with valentines from other eras.
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RecipeSwap
Send your recipes or recipe request to:
Manitoba Co-operator
Recipe Swap
Box 1794,
Carman, Man. ROG OJO
or email: [email protected]
For the LOVE of food
Lorraine Stevenson
Crossroads Recipe Swap
I
’ve been thinking about the “foodie” lately.
The word itself has been with us since the
early 1980s, but it’s only been in the last
decade or so that foodies, and the gourmets,
and gourmands, gastronomes, and epicures
seem to be everywhere.
Some don’t like the word “foodie.” They
think it sounds kind of, well, ‘sillie.’ But the
deeper criticism of foodies (and company) is
that they represent a worrisome trend, which
is a deep divide or “disappearing middle
class” at the dinner table. Critics of foodie
culture will say it’s now only the well off and
well fed among us eating and obsessing
about exquisite, chef-prepared, green and
natural organic food — and everyone else,
including those who lack even basic skill
and knowledge about food and diet. It’s now
artisanal cheese for a few, Cheezies for the
rest of us.
Influential American vegetarian cookbook
author (Moosewood Cookbook, 1977, Enchanted
Broccoli Forest, 1982) Mollie Katzen put it
this way when asked about the rise of foodie
culture in a recent interview with Oldways, (a
U.S.-based food website) recently. She dislikes
the snobbery and exclusion it’s evoked.
“Foodie implies that there is something
novel and noteworthy about a person loving
to cook and eat,” she said. “I see the love of
food as a basic human trait that shouldn’t
be relegated to niche status. Big tent, not
boutique.”
I don’t call myself a foodie, but I love to cook
and eat, and so do you or you wouldn’t bother
to read this column. I think we have some
closer-to-home foodies among us to thank, for
making us appreciate the food around us. You
know who they are. Theirs is an unabashed
love of food and place and local culture, and
I’ve watched them share that love in order to
bring more of us into Mollie’s ‘big tent.’ Their
enthusiasm for food reminds us just how much
there is to love.
With tomorrow being Valentine’s Day
here’s three recipes — chocolate, of
course — that your children, spouse or
special friend, family and neighbours
will feel loved while they eat them!
Chocolate Coffee Pie
Chocolate and Coffee Mousse:
3 tbsp. hot water
3 tbsp. strong instant coffee
8 oz. semi-sweet chocolate
1-2/3 c. 35% cream
3 tbsp. sugar
Few coffee beans
Whipped cream
Chocolate Crumb Crust:
2 c. crushed Graham crackers
1 tbsp. cocoa powder
1/3 c. + 1 tbsp. melted butter
3 tbsp. icing sugar
Chocolate Chocolate
Chip Cupcakes
1-1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. cocoa powder, sifted
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg
1 c. milk
3/4 c. packed brown sugar
1/3 c. melted butter
2 tbsp. corn syrup
1 tbsp. lemon juice or vinegar
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 c. chocolate chips
To prepare Chocolate and Coffee Mousse: In
cup, dissolve coffee in hot water. Set aside. In
double boiler, melt chocolate, over low heat.
Remove from heat and let stand. In bowl, whip
cream until firm. Stir in liquid coffee and sugar
and whisk for 30 seconds. Stir melted chocolate
into coffee mixture and continue whisking until
smooth. Pour mousse into Chocolate Crumb
Crust and refrigerate for one hour before serving. Garnish with whipped cream and coffee
beans.
To prepare Chocolate Crumb Crust: Preheat
oven to 350 F. In bowl, mix well all ingredients.
With fork, press mixture into a 9-inch pie plate.
Bake for 8 minutes. Remove from oven and let
stand. Serves 8. Prep time: 10 minutes. Cooking
time: 8 minutes. Refrigeration time: 1 hour.
Source: Dairy Farmers of Canada
Preheat oven to 375 F. Lightly butter or line
12-muffin pan with papers; set aside. In bowl,
combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder,
baking soda and salt. In separate bowl, beat
egg; mix in milk, brown sugar, butter, corn
syrup, lemon juice and vanilla extract.
Pour wet ingredients over dry; mix until
smooth. Stir in chocolate chips. Spoon into
prepared muffin pan. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes
or until cake tester inserted in centre comes
out clean. Transfer to rack to cool. Decorate
cooled cupcakes with your favourite icing. Add
sprinkles or candies if you like.
PHOTOS: DAIRY FARMERS OF CANADA
S’mores Creme Brulee
Kids will love the twist on campfire
s’mores with the gooeyness of just toasted
marshmallows — so will adults!
1-1/2 c. 35% cream
3 oz. bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
4 large egg yolks
3 tbsp. granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Topping:
2 graham crackers, coarsely broken
1 c. mini marshmallows
1 oz. bittersweet chocolate, melted or chocolate chips
Preparation: Preheat oven to 350 F. In a saucepan, heat cream to a boil. Remove from heat;
whisk in chocolate until melted and smooth.
In a medium bowl, whisk egg yolks with sugar.
Gradually whisk hot cream mixture into eggs.
Whisk in vanilla. Divide mixture among 4 sixoz. ramekins. Place ramekins in a large shallow
pan; pour boiling water into the pan to come
halfway up sides of ramekins. Bake for 25 to 35
minutes or until edges are set but centres still
jiggle slightly. Remove from water; let cool on a
rack. Cover and refrigerate for about two hours
or until chilled or for up to 24 hours. Divide
graham crackers evenly among ramekins; top
with marshmallows. Place on a baking sheet.
Broil for 10 to 45 seconds or until marshmallows are lightly golden and starting to soften.
Drizzle chocolate or chocolate chips over
marshmallows. Serve immediately. Preparation
time: 10 minutes. Cooking time: 40 minutes.
Refrigeration time: 2 hours. Serves 4.
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Roses for your valentine?
Tips to extend their life so they can be enjoyed as long as possible
By Albert Parsons
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
I
f roses are purchased for
Valentine’s Day, red would
be the colour of choice
because of the romantic connotations associated with red
roses. Extending their vase life
will ensure that the blooms are
enjoyed for as long as possible.
Roses should be unpackaged as soon as possible
after purchase as they will
not be in water. Before placing the stems in tepid water,
cut a few centimetres off the
bottom of each with a sharp
knife. Make the cut on a slant
to expose more bare stem to
the water and do not use scissors which might crimp the
stem, impeding water uptake.
Of course, if you are dealing
with an arrangement from a
florist shop, simply make sure
that there is adequate water
in the container when you get
it home.
If the flowers are going to be
displayed as long-stemmed
roses in a tall vase, clip off
any leaves that will be below
the waterline as foliage submerged in water creates bacteria that will shorten the life
of the flowers. Add a floral
preservative to the water —
all reputable florists include
a packet with any cut flowers they sell. Floral preservatives contain an acidifier to
enhance the ability of the cut
flowers to take up water, a
food source, and a disinfectant
to inhibit the growth of bacteria, fungi and algae.
If the water has floral preservative in it, don’t change
it; simply top it up as needed.
If the water becomes brackish, however, you should
change it and you may not
have another packet of the preservative — so make your own.
Add 4 tablespoons of white
vinegar (the acidifier), 2 tablespoons of white sugar (the food
source), and a couple of drops
of bleach (the disinfectant) to a
litre of water. Mix this up before
putting it into the vase and
adjust the amounts depending
on the quantity you are making,
but keep the proportions the same.
If you do
change the water
in the vase, take
the opportunity to snip off
the bottoms
of the stems
again to facilitate uptake in
case it has been
impeded. Roses,
like any other cut
flowers, will keep
longer if they are not
subjected to high temperatures, so try to locate
the vase in as cool a spot
as possible. Taking the flowers to a quite cool location at
night, such as a heated garage
or basement, will help to further extend the vase life of the
flowers. By giving them proper
care, you will be able to enjoy
the roses for well over a week
before they finally flag and
must be discarded.
Albert Parsons writes from
Minnedosa, Manitoba
PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
SOME EASY UPDATE IDEAS
Freshen up the look of your home in just a couple of days
carry a band of the darker colour around the room if
desired. Use good painter’s tape and take your time
so that you get a professional look. A small can of gel
stain is a good choice as it will bleed less and you can
create your design by hand, which will give you the
best control.
Connie Oliver
Around the House
T
ake a day or two and give your home a lift with
some of the following projects and quick fixes.
Quick fixes for dents and dings
In the kitchen
If your kitchen needs a new look, try removing a few
cabinet doors and create some open shelving. (Keep
the doors so they can be reinstalled if desired.) If your
cabinets are white, fill any small holes left from removing the hardware with white toothpaste. It will harden
sufficiently and make the holes less noticeable. It will
also be easier to remove than, say, wood filler, so you’ll
be able to replace the doors if desired.
Paint the back wall of the cabinets in a bright colour
and carry it around the room with some new accessories. While you’re at it, consider spray painting the
hardware in a fresh colour. If the hardware has a dated
brass finish, for instance, a coat of black paint can give
it new life.
Tired old tea towels and table linens can drag your
kitchen down. New linens in the kitchen are a quick
update that is affordable and fun. Use tea towels to
create unique café curtains. A simple café rod and curtain rings with clips makes this a no-sew project. The
tea towels can be switched out with new patterns and
colours any time. (Fact: Tea towels got their name from
cloths used to clean fine china teapots.)
In other rooms
Items like wall decals (including verses and words) can
add a special touch to the walls in any room. Whimsical
verses in a child’s room or inspirational words in the
bedroom can add a wonderful touch to your personal
space. Fun images like a chandelier in a teen’s room
or sports images for the kids can make the space their
own. Most wall decals are easily removed when it’s time
for a change.
Wall murals can make a huge impact in a family room
or den. Images ranging from a tropical rainforest to cityscapes can provide a new look in a short amount of time.
Remove a few cabinet doors and create some open shelving.
Keep the doors if you ever want to reinstall. PHOTO: COURTESY OF MOEN
Lamps and lighting
Dated lamps can be updated in several ways. If the lamp
is electrically sound there are ways in which you can
give it a new spark. Depending on what the lampshade
is made of you can update it with craft paint or fabric
and/or adorn it with decorative trim. If it’s time for a new
lampshade then take the old one with you when you go
to replace to ensure that you get the right size. Try something different like a square shade versus a round one.
The base of a metal lamp can be updated with spray
paint. Ceramic lamps can also be updated with ceramic
paint or a textured spray paint, like a textured stone
finish.
Hardwood floors
Older hardwood floors can get worn over time. The
finish can begin to wear at high-traffic points like the
threshold to the room. If you want a quick fix, use a
darker stain and create a design at the threshold that
will look as though it was meant to be there. You can
Let’s face it, our homes take a beating daily with
scuffs on the walls from the kids’ sports bags to
gouges in the linoleum from dropped knives. Here
are a few quick fixes that might help you out.
• Small gouge in linoleum: Use a length of metal
pipe that is wide enough to cover the small gouge.
Place the sharpest end of the pipe over the hole
and use a hammer to hammer the pipe down until
you break through the surface. Remove the circle
of flooring carefully with a sharp knife. You need
only take out the top layer of the flooring and not
the felt below. Sheet flooring is usually run up and
under the toe kick of kitchen cabinets. Under there,
find a spot that best matches the circle that was
removed and repeat the process of cutting out the
circle. Replace the hole you made in the toe kick
area with the offending circle and use the good circle to replace the hole in the main flooring. You can
glue it down for added strength.
• A small crack in a window or mirror can be camouflaged with patterned or frosted window film.
Create a design that looks like it was meant to be
there.
• Uneven wall surfaces can be camouflaged with
paintable, textured wallpaper.
More storage
Double the storage space in your closet by hanging
a second rod halfway between the current rod and
the floor. You can hang double the amount of shorter
items like tops and shirts on the two rods, making
use of wasted space.
If you have any tips you want to share, send
me an email: [email protected].
Connie Oliver is an interior designer from Winnipeg
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Winter getting you down?
Have some fun with all that snow – make a quinzhee
By Donna Gamach
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
I
f winter seems to be dragging on for you and your
family, consider a different
outdoor activity — try building a quinzhee.
Quinzhee — the word is
of Athabaskan origin — is a
sort of snow house built for
survival purposes, for winter camping, or just for fun.
With all the snow this winter you could probably build
one in your backyard. Unlike
the igloos built by the Inuit of
the North, a quinzhee doesn’t
require hard, packed snow as
it doesn’t use snow blocks, and
you don’t build it up, but hollow it out. All that is needed is
enough snow to make a pile,
and there is certainly enough
of that!
Begin by shovelling up a
big dome-shaped pile of fresh
snow, or older snow as long
as it is not already hard. How
high your pile is will depend
on how much snow is available and whether you want
to be able to sit upright in
it, but try to make it at least
1-1/2 metres high. The next
step is the easy one — waiting
for the snow to crystallize and
harden. In an emergency, two
or three hours will suffice, but
it’s actually better to wait overnight — a two- or three-day
project with children.
Then it’s time to start hollowing out the pile. Begin by
digging in from the bottom
and hauling away the snow.
It’s better if you have a second person to help with this.
Dig down as close to ground
level as you can, as this will
increase the warmth inside.
Make an oval- or roundshaped room inside the pile,
but watch that you don’t break
through the ceiling or walls. To
help prevent this, take a few
twigs or pieces of wood about
20 to 25 cm long and push
them from the outside here
and there through the top and
sides. If you reach a twig as
you are hollowing, you’ll know
you should stop. If the ceiling
or walls start to look translucent, that will also tell you
they are thin enough and you
should stop digging. Generally
the lower walls should be
thicker than the ceiling.
If you’d like to make a
quinzhee, but aren’t keen
on all that shovelling, here’s
a couple of other possibilities. If your roof has been
cleared off of snow, there’s
probably a good pile of the
white stuff in your own yard.
My husband and I tried that
last winter after he’d shovelled off the roof, and the next
day the pile was in fine shape
for quinzhee making. About
the same time, neighbouring
teens also dug out a quinzhee
at the end of our street where
the snowplow had pushed
up a big pile of snow. Theirs
was bigger than ours — but
neither they, nor we, tried
overnighting!
SENTIMENT
Sleeping in a quinzhee
is a possibility, however.
Quinzhees can be helpful if
someone gets stranded, such
as a snowmobiler whose
machine breaks down, or
a skier caught in a snowstorm. In these cases a shovel
wouldn’t be available, but a
tree branch or a ski could be
used to heap up the snow,
and then later to hollow
it out. Once the quinzhee
is dug out and has people
inside, the temperature will
usually stay above freezing
especially if it has been dug
down to ground level, unless
it’s very cold out.
Fo r ov e r n i g h t s t a y s i n
a quinzhee close off the
entrance to keep body heat
inside. Use a backpack or even
snow to block the entrance,
leaving a small air hole, or
make a small air vent in the
roof. Evergreen branches on
the ground for a mattress
would help, too. If you’re
building the quinzhee at home
where you have a candle available, light one inside the dome
and let it burn for an hour or
so. This will help freeze the
snow on the inside, and glaze
the walls.
Qu i n z h e e s a re n’t l o n g lasting structures, but building them can be an interesting outdoor activity, and in an
emergency, they could be a
lifesaver.
Donna Gamache writes from
MacGregor, Manitoba
Teens made a quinzhee at the end of the street last winter.
After the pile of snow has hardened it’s time to start hollowing it
out. GAMACHE PHOTOS
Thoughts on
Valentine’s Day
For your valentines
By Alma Barkman
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
By Addy Oberlin
H
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
ere’s a fun way
t o “s h o w e r ”
Valentine wishes
on someone special.
I
Supplies:
PHOTO: EVA KRAWCHUK
There were no heavy feelings of sorrow
Not a sign of aggression or rage
But a pleasure to tear off old January
To see February 14 in mid-page.
A cascade of beautiful memories
Enriched my whole day from the start
Letters and cards and a locket
Each item referred to the heart.
• 15-cm (six-inch) paper doily (Recycling
the front of a flowery greeting card
by cutting a circle this size is another
possibility.)
• 12-cm (five-inch) candy cane
• Red and white construction paper
scraps (or craft foam)
• White glue
• Glue gun
• Hole punch and ribbon for tag
Instructions:
PHOTO:
ALMA BARKMAN
Which of the hearts has most meaning
Essential to all kith and kin
The one filled with love, hope and kindness
The one that is beating within.
Cut a slit from one side of the doily to
the centre, overlap and glue to create the
umbrella shape. Cut a three-cm (1.5-inch)
heart from the red construction paper, and a
smaller one from white paper. If desired, cut a sevencm (three-inch) arrow, also from red paper.
Write recipient’s name on the white heart and glue the arrow and
hearts to the umbrella over the seam, as shown in photo.
Using a glue gun, make a “puddle” of glue on the inside centre of
the umbrella. Glue the candy cane in place. On tag, write “Sending
you showers of blessing” and attach with a ribbon.
— Eva Krawchuk, Winnipeg
Alma Barkman writes from Winnipeg
A Valentine party at noon hour
A layer cake fit for a queen
Heart shaped and crowned with pink frosting
Red strawberry jam in between.
t is so nice when once
a year we spend some
e x t ra - s p e c i a l t i m e w i t h
our spouse and friends. No,
it should not be only once a
year; it should be every day.
It is sometimes difficult for
the farmer to put his wife and
family first before the farm.
I know of such a farmer who
did exactly that and it showed
that he loves his family first.
He could not bring in a load
of grain and was not available
for someone else because it
was the last few days of the
Christmas holidays and he
promised his family to take
them out of town. This is
commitment and love for his
family.
Can we do the same with
God? Can we show our love to
Him before anything else? May
this Valentine’s Day be a new
beginning for us all by showing our love for God, and those
who are so close to us, each
day of the year.
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what’s in the ‘bull soup?’
There are ways to evalulate birth weight, how well the calf grades,
how large the rib-eye is or even how much milk the cow will produce
By Kris Ringwall
BEEF SPECIALIST, NDSU EXTENSION SERVICE
B
uying bulls is like
making soup. You put
in a bit of this and a
bit of that and in the end,
you have good soup. Likewise, a piece of this and a
piece of that and you assemb l e a g o o d b u l l . Un l i k e
the soup you make from
scratch, the bull already is
made, but you have to find
him.
Ultimately, the bull will
supply half the pieces for
your next calf crop. So what
a re t h e p i e c e s ? Ju s t l i k e
soup, every spoonful should
be complete and savoured.
When the spices are added,
they literally dissolve into
ever y spoonful. Likewise,
w h e n t h e b u l l ’s D N A i s
added to the herd, the DNA
literally dissolves into the
calves and all future generations.
With today’s technology,
those pieces of DNA can be
detected and isolated generations later. Even more
so than the bull, the herd is
this massive pool of genes
that produces a working,
manageable herd.
So how does one know
what genes one has in the
herd? There are a few traits
such as certain colours or
horns that are the result of
a single gene and can be
detected and screened for
fairly easily.
Another example is the
many genetic defects in
cattle where a single gene
has caused a “kink” in the
production line so calf
deformities are the result.
These single genes can float
around and occasionally
express themselves.
Production genes
However, production genes
are our main interest today.
Ultimately, the bull
will supply half the
pieces for your next
calf crop.
Production genes are best
managed through the utilization of expected progeny
differences (EPDs). They
are not seen individually
and are expressed best if
allowed to work as a team.
Unlike adding salt or spice
to a soup, production genes
are more like the meat and
potatoes.
Production genes determine how an animal exists,
such as fast or slow daily
gains, how heavy the calf is
at birth, how well the calf
grades, how large the ribeye is or even how much
milk the cow will produce.
The list is long and the traits
are numerous.
These production genes
a re n a m e d by t h e e f f e c t
they are expected to have
on a particular trait. For the
sake of understanding, let’s
visit five of these traits. The
five are birth weight (BW ),
weaning weight (WW ), yearling weight ( YW ), marbling
(MARB) and rib-eye area
(REA).
The process is linked
to the various breed associations that register cattle and provide EPDs. For
discussion purposes, let’s
use the Red Angus Association’s website (http://
redangus.org/). EPDs are
defined by each breed association, but the basic EPDs
have the same definition.
Each breed also has unique
traits identified as important and different selection
indexes that breeders have
Herd Benchmarking Has
to Start Somewhere
Pick a breed and some traits, then look up
the average value for the EPDs.
Example
Breed – Red Angus
Traits – birth weight (BW), weaning weight
(WW), yearling weight (YW), marbling
(MARB) and rib eye area (REA).
Average Values – BW = (-1.2), WW = 54,
YW = 84, MARB = 0.39 and REA = 0.12.
identified as significant for
their breed.
There also are two concepts to keep in mind. First
of all, purchasing a bull
means producers must evaluate their current operation
and then producers must
select a bull to change or
maintain their current operation.
In the broad sense, that
may be as simple as accepting a particular breed or
breeding system and, in a
more detailed sense, maintaining individual cow/sire/
calf performance records.
Looking up and understanding the average performance of a breed is a broad
approach to developing
selection benchmarks.
Once that appreciation is
found, then one can set his
or her own EPD benchmarks
and strive to achieve those
individual goals. In terms
of commercial production,
individual bull EPDs are a
tremendous tool to guide
the DNA pool within a herd.
Returning to our example,
if we open up the Red Angus
website and click on “Genet-
ics” and then on the “EPD
Averages,” we see a fall 2013
table pop up with average
EPD values for older bulls,
dams and younger bulls.
Wi t h re l a t i v e e a s e, w e
can determine average values for our selected traits
in younger bulls. The BW is
minus 1.2, WW is 54, YW is
84, MARB is .39 and REA is
.12. These are a great benchmark if a producer prefers
average Red Angus cattle.
With these EPDs, the potential bull buyer has a guide to
start the selection process.
However, if one appreciates and desires to maintain
the current herd production,
why not go back and look
up the EPDs on the older
bulls that have been purchased and utilized in the
herd? Evaluating previously
purchased bulls helps a producer understand individual
herd expectations compared
with the breed average. It’s a
good place to start.
North Dakota State University
Extension Service beef specialist Kris
Ringwall writes a weekly column
archived at www.BeefTalk.com
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identified in samples taken
from Illinois and Missouri,
a top veterinarian at Iowa
State University said Feb. 3.
“We found that there
is a variant out there that
appears to be quite different
than the original,” Rodger
Main, the head veterinarian of Iowa State University’s
veterinary diagnostic lab,
told Reuters.
More research needs to
be completed, however, to
determine if the new variant
is a mutation or a different
introduction of the original
virus.
“There hasn’t been a
tremendous amount of
sequencing completed
and there will be additional
work to determine if we can
truly understand where it
came from,” he said.
PEDv, a highly contagious
and potentially fatal pig
virus, causes diarrhea, vomiting and severe dehydration. It is transmitted orally
and through pig feces.
The virus does not affect
humans, however, and U.S.
federal officials have determined meat from pigs that
survive the virus is safe to
eat.
While older pigs have a
small chance of survival, the
virus kills 80 per cent to 100
per cent of piglets that contract it. There are no official
figures for pigs lost to the
PEDv in the United States,
but up to four million pigs
may have died from the
virus, according to industry
analysts’ estimates.
Some U.S. meat-processing companies have said the
virus, first discovered in the
United States in April 2013,
is beginning to impact their
bottom lines as it contributes to higher-priced pork
and is trimming U.S. hog
supplies.
The United States is
the world’s largest pork
exporter. PEDv has been
confirmed in 23 of the 50
U.S. states and was confirmed in Canada two weeks
ago.
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Drought-hit Australia culls cattle,
clouds beef-supply outlook
The downsizing coincides with decline in U.S. cattle herd to smallest in six decades
By Naveen Thukral and
Colin Packham
singapore/sydney / reuters
A
drought in Australia
has forced ranchers
in the world’s thirdbiggest beef exporter to cull
cows, stoking fears of a global
beef shortage in coming years
with the U.S. herd at its lowest in six decades.
The slaughter of animals
and effect of the drought
could boost beef supply in
the short term, but spells
longer-term shortages due
t o t h e re d u c e d b re e d i n g
stock.
“The big problem that we
are going to have in the next
12 to 18 months is that progeny that would have been
born today won’t be there,”
said Brad James, Rabobank’s
manager for the Northern
Territory and the key beefproducing state of Queensland, which is home to
around half the country’s 28
million head of cattle.
The shortfall for a country that accounts for almost
a fifth of the global trade in
beef could drive up prices at
a time when demand is rising
in many emerging countries,
where increasingly affluent
middle classes are developing
a taste for high-protein western diets and fast food like
hamburgers.
Analysts see Australian cattle prices climbing by up to
about 50 per cent this year.
If they are right, that would
further fuel Chicago live cattle
futures already hitting record
highs.
Queensland has recorded
less than half of the normal rainfall in the last three
months, draining water
reserves and stunting grass
growth in pastures double the
size of France. It is the second
straight year the state has suffered poor rains.
For the week ending Jan.
24, cattle slaughter in Australia rose 40 per cent year on
year to reach a record high of
161,712 head, according to
industry data firm National
Livestock Reporting Service.
Last month, industry body
Meat and Livestock Australia
(MLA) projected cattle numbers would drop to 27.25 mil-
lion head by July — the end of
the 2013-14 marketing year
— but warned that fall could
be steeper if the drought persists.
Distress sales by ranchers
dragged prices to their lowest
in more than three years, with
Australia’s benchmark Eastern
Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI)
falling to A$2.78-1/2 kg on
Jan. 22.
But analysts expect prices
to rebound once concern over
the future dearth of cows registers with the market, especially as some will look to
restock parts of their herds
when the drought eventually
breaks. Luke Mathews, commodities strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia,
said the EYCI could rise “well
Brad James
Rabobank
above” A$4 a kg by the end of
2014.
Concerns over the outlook
for Australian beef supplies
come at a time when the U.S.
cattle herd has dropped to
its smallest in over 60 years
as the global livestock industry grapples with a decline in
feed grain production that
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Instead of supply management, U.S.
has a demand management scheme
It provides the same underpinning as supply management but the money
comes from government, not consumers
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
C
ritics often complain
about the complex web
of policies surrounding
the Canadian dairy program
and the other supply-managed
industries. But listening to a
prominent American academic
describe U.S. dairy policy brings
new meaning to the word “complicated.”
Mark Stephenson, director
of Dairy Policy Analysis at the
University of Wisconsin, walked
attendees at a Canadian Agriculture Economics Society conference through the machinations
surrounding the dairy component of the recently passed U.S.
Farm Bill.
In the end, Republicans
rejected a price stabilization
plan that sounded a lot like
supply management, he said.
Instead the bill contains a
demand management system
for dairy producers that allows
Washington to intervene in the
event of low producer prices
to purchase dairy products for
non-commercial purposes.
It may not be supply management, but it provides the same
kind of underpinning that Canada’s system does except it comes
from the government rather
than the consumers.
The agriculture portion of the
Farm Bill accounts for about 20
per cent of the total spending,
he said. Food nutrition, crop
insurance, conservation programs and forestry consume
most of the funding. In the end
dairy gets about two per cent
through federal milk-marketing
orders and price supports.
Producers say their biggest
challenge is price volatility,
which leaves them dependent
on margin insurance, which is
based on a national milk price
and the cost of a dairy ration.
It sounds much like Canada’s
cost-of-production formula. The
system works best for 180-cow
farms, he added.
Like Canada, the number of
American dairy farms has been
dropping steadily and now
numbers 48,000 compared
to three million a couple of
decades earlier, he said. “Today’s
farmer produces a lot more
milk but with a lot more use of
technology.” Canada has 12,000
dairy farmers compared to
120,000 at the start of the supply management system in the
1970s.
With the E.U. reducing subsidies, the international demand
for U.S. dairy prices should mean
a good year for American producers even though farmers
face rising feed costs, he added.
“There will be more milk produced and likely lower prices for
producers. It will be expensive for
the farmers because they need
to grow more feed themselves
because the demand for ethanol
is keeping grain prices high.”
James Rude, an associate
professor of rural economy at
the University of Alberta, said
the controversy surrounding
the tentative Canada-Europe
free trade deal “is a lot of to-do
about nothing.” Any increase in
European fine cheese imports
to Canada is likely to drive
demand for new products rather
than cut into sales of existing
Canadian cheese. Any increase
in imports will be incremental.
Any increase in European fine cheese imports
to Canada is likely to drive demand for new
products rather than cut into sales of existing
Canadian cheese.
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At the same time, plans for
the European dairy industry
will likely have little impact on
Canadian production, he added.
“Any increased access we gain
will be carefully managed.”
The biggest drivers for change
in Canada will be the success
of processors like Saputo, the
third-largest dairy product producer, and however dairy producers decide to respond to the
growing international market
for dairy products.
The Conference Board of
Canada will release a report
this month with proposals for
opening up the Canadian dairy
market and returning to international sales.
Gilles Fromont, COO of the
Canadian Dairy Commission,
said dairy farmers “have to ask
themselves if they are better
off living with the limited market growth in Canada compared to the stronger demand
in international markets. At
the same time, the federal government needs to provide better control of dairy imports at
the border.”
He said about six per cent
to eight per cent of the world’s
total dairy production enters
global markets. China, Russia
and Mexico are among the biggest markets. Canada represents
1.4 per cent of total milk production.
As well, retail milk prices in
Canada are comparable to the
United States, he added. The
price for cheddar cheese in
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U.S. releases plan to make Arctic shipping safer
More open water means greater opportunities for shipping and resource extraction
By Timothy Gardner and
Andrea Shalal-Esa
washington / reuters
A
s Arctic ice melts away,
opening the way for
greater oil development
and mining, the White House
outlined a plan Jan. 30 to promote safety and security in
the region by building ports,
improving forecasts of sea ice,
and developing shipping rules.
With warmer temperatures
leaving Arctic sea passages
open for longer periods of the
year, billions of barrels of oil
could be tapped beyond what
is already being produced in
the region. A loss of seasonal ice
could also allow greater exploitation of precious minerals considered abundant in the Arctic.
Extreme weather condi tions, however, make the region
a challenge to navigate and
develop.
The White House plan was
released on the same day that
Royal Dutch Shell cancelled
Extreme weather conditions, however, make the
region a challenge to navigate and develop.
drilling this year off Alaska, after
a series of costly mishaps in
the harsh conditions, as part of
efforts to cut spending.
The U.S. Defense Department will lead an interagency
effort to forecast icy conditions
by launching a satellite and
improving analytic methods to
forecast icy conditions.
The Department of Commerce, meanwhile, will lead
co-ordination on surveying and
charting of U.S. Arctic waters
to ease shipping and improve
adaptation to climate change in
coastal communities.
“Our highest priority is to
protect the American people,
our sovereign territory and
rights and the natural resources
and other interests of the
United States,” said the plan,
which is part of President
Barack Obama’s National Strategy for the Arctic region he
announced last May.
In addition, the State Department will attempt to reach an
agreement with Canada on the
Beaufort Sea maritime boundary, and the Department of
Homeland Security will lead
work on developing an international code for ships operating
in polar waters.
Norwegian Ambassador Kare
Aas welcomed the U.S. plan
and said it would help Norway
and the United States identify
new areas for collaboration as
both countries addressed the
challenges and opportunities
emerging in the Arctic region.
“We will continue to work
with our American friends to
ensure that the Arctic remains a
peaceful region of co-operation
and sustainable development,”
Aas said in a statement.
The U.S. military had been
working on strategy in the Arctic
before the plan was announced.
The U.S. navy is nearing completion of a new Arctic “road
map” that lays out its approach
to future engagements in the
region, given increasingly open
waterways. The updated document is based on the navy’s first
comprehensive assessment of
the near-term, midterm and
long-term availability of sea
passages, due to the loss of seasonal ice.
In a recent blog written for
the navy’s website, navy oceanographer Rear Admiral Jon
White said an interagency team
made the assessment after a
comprehensive review of current Arctic sea ice projections.
He said current trends were
expected to continue in the
near term, with the Bering Strait
expected to see open conditions
about 160 days a year by 2020.
The midterm period would see
increasing levels of ice melt,
White said.
In the long term, beyond
2030, environmental conditions
are expected to leave waterways
open for longer periods, driving
a significant increase in traffic
in the summer months.
Earlier this month, chief
of naval operations Admiral
Jonathan Greenert told a conference that Arctic ice was melting faster than predicted four
years ago when the navy published its first road map.
“We need to understand, we
need to take a look at it and
decide what does it mean to us
for security, maritime security,
freedom of navigation, and
global force management,”
Greenert told a conference
hosted by the Surface Navy
Association.
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World food
prices fall in
January
Robust inventories
will contain prices
Extended
early season
control in
soybeans.
rome / reuters /
Global food prices fell in
January, led by declines
in the costs of sugar, vegetable oils, and cereals,
the United Nations food
agency said on Feb. 6,
adding that robust inventories should contain
prices in coming months.
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s
(FAO) price index, which
measures monthly price
changes for a basket of
cereals, oilseeds, dairy,
meat and sugar, averaged
203.4 points in January.
That was down from a
revised 206.2 in December, originally reported as
206.7.
“The cereals, oils, and
sugar seem to have one
thing in common — a
much better supply situation than there has been
in some years,” FAO senior
e c o n o m i s t A b d o l re z a
Abbassian told Reuters by
telephone.
“Pr ices are at more
moderate levels and
are more stable than in
recent years, and in supply terms there is nothing
on the horizon that says
the situation will change,”
he said.
Among the categories in the index, only
dairy prices rose, FAO
said, while meat prices
declined marginally. Dairy
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Traders engage in turf war
for Russian terminals
Investments planned to take export capacity from
30 million to 50 million tonnes
MOSCOW / LONDON / REUTERS
I
nternational trade houses
are buying into Russian grain
port facilities to try to counter
high handling costs from one of
the world’s top producers of cereals, making smaller players fear
they will lose out.
Even with erratic harvests in
recent years, Russia normally
ranks among the top five global wheat exporters. But a lack
of investment in export infrastructure and little competition
among terminal owners has
vastly inflated grain-handling
costs.
To tackle this, major traders
including Glencore and, more
recently, Cargill, have bought
stakes in Russian grain terminals
at Black Sea deepwater ports,
which have the largest capacity and service major importers
including North Africa and the
Middle East.
The deals indicate Russia’s
willingness to welcome foreign
investment into infrastructure
supporting ports, while ports
themselves remain owned by the
government.
Glencore has a stake in grain
terminals in Taman since 2012,
while Cargill invested in a grain
terminal in Novorossiysk in
December, 2013.
Three grain terminals in Novorossiysk covered 27 per cent of
Russia’s July-Nov. grain exports,
ProZerno consultancy said.
“If you’ve got a business model
whereby you have investments in
origination but you don’t have a
foothold in the port then you can
be beholden to other competing entities. It’s a bigger problem
in Russia because there aren’t all
that many export terminals in
the Black Sea,” a European trader
said.
A lack of infrastructure for
grain exports means margins at
Russian ports can be attractive
compared with other commodities including metals and oil,
allowing investments into grain
terminals to pay off within a few
years.
“Grain-handling costs are
lower this season than two
years ago, but remain one of the
world’s highest,” said the head of
Russia’s Grain Union Arkady Zlochevsky. The costs are at US$2426 per tonne in 2013-14 so far,
compared to $37 in 2011-12, he
added.
In nearby wheat exporters
Ukraine and Romania, where a
lack of terminal capacity is less
critical, f.o.b. (grain-handling)
rates are around $10 cheaper
than in Russia, one trader said.
Zlochevsky estimates that
planned investment, mainly by
Russian companies, would take
the capacity of Russian grain
terminals to about 50 million
tonnes by 2020, up from 30 million tonnes now. However, many
of these projects will only be executed if grain prices are attractive, he said.
Russia harvested 90 million
tonnes of grain, including 50 million tonnes of wheat, in 2013 and
is officially expected to export 20
million tonnes of grain.
Russian President Vladimir
Putin aims to increase annual
grain output to 120 million to 125
million tonnes by 2020, boosting
potential exports to around 35
million to 40 million tonnes.
Top tier buys in
Cargill, one of four so-called
“ABCD” companies that dominate the flow of agricultural goods
around the world, bought 25 per
cent plus one share of the grain
terminal Kombinat Stroykomplekt (KSK) based in Novorossiysk
in December.
The investment opens an
important channel for connecting Cargill’s Russian grain origination to customers in North Africa,
the Middle East and beyond, the
company said in its latest earnings statement recently.
“If you have port elevation then
you have the key to the exports,”
said James Dunsterville, analyst at
Geneva-based AgFlow.
Some small and mid-size
traders said the move by Cargill
could reduce the export volumes
of competitors who do not have
their own terminal capacity.
“We’ve been working actively
through that terminal so whether
we will get the access that we have
in the past, because 25 per cent
will be now Cargill, presumably to
use for themselves... that means
less volumes for everyone else,”
said a trader.
Cargill was seventh in the
league table of Russian grain
exporters in the 2012-13 marketing season, said Vladimir
Petrichenko, the head of the ProZerno consultancy.
Cargill declined to comment on
its market share.
The other ABCD companies
are Archer Daniels Midland Co.,
Bunge Ltd. and Louis Dreyfus.
Bunge owns a grain terminal at
Russia’s shallow-water port in
Rostov.
Port facilities at Odessa, Ukraine. The ‘ABCD’ companies that dominate world
grain trade want to increase their presence in the Black Sea region.
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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,
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REAL ESTATE/RENTALS
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Land For Sale
LORNE & CHRISTINE HAMBLIN are offering for
sale approximately 202-acres of farmland located
on River Lots 257, 259 & 261 East of PTH-75 in the
RM of Montcalm, described as follows: Title
#1698884/1 (Roll #’s 118025, 118150 & 118250)Title #1801487/1 (Roll #118050) Rural water is connected to these properties. CONDITIONS OF OFFER TO PURCHASE. 1) Offers must be received
on or before 4:00pm on February 21, 2014. 2) Offers must be accompanied by a 5% deposit payable
to Bruce Gregory “in trust.” Deposit cheques accompanying unaccepted offers will be returned. 3)
Offers will be reviewed by the Vendors by Feb 24,
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March 31, 2014. 7) The date of closing will be
March 31, 2014, at which time the balance of the
purchase price will be paid. 8) Tenders are binding
upon acceptance & not subject to any conditions
precedent. 9) The Vendor will be responsible for the
real property taxes on the property up to December
31, 2013. The Purchaser will be responsible for
2014 real property taxes. 10) Title to the land will be
transferred free & clear of all encumbrances & liens, except for: a) The following registrations: a.
Caveat 195636/1 filed by MTS pursuant to an
Easement Agreement b. Caveat 196155/1 filed by
MTS pursuant to an Easement Agreement. c. Caveat 2801594/1 filed by MTS pursuant to an Easement Agreement. d. Caveat 80-56842/1 filed by
Manitoba Hydro Electric Board pursuant to an
Easement Agreement. e. 81-18197/1 filed by Lorne
& Christine Hamblin pursuant to an Easement
Agreement giving access to title 1801487/1. b) All
movable machinery, scrap metal & portable buildings which shall be removed by the vendor by Aug
31, 2014. 11) The deposit of 5% will be forfeited if
the successful party does not finalize or complete
the terms of the Agreement of Purchase & Sale. 12)
The Purchaser relies entirely upon his/her personal
inspection & knowledge of the land, independent of
the representations made by the Vendor or the Solicitor & Agent of the Vendor. The land will be sold
“as is” & the Purchaser is solely responsible to determine the value & condition of the land, land
quality, land use, environmental condition & any
other information pertaining to the land. Signed &
sealed Offers will be received up to 4:00pm on February 21st, 2014 at: Lorne & Chris Hamblin Box 612
Morris, MB. R0G 1K0. Email offers will be accepted
at [email protected] providing deposit cheque
is also received. For more information: call
(204)746-3330 or email at above address
THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: SE 2-24-11W, NW 26-25-12W, SW
35-25-12W, NW35-25-12W, SE 2-26-12W, NW
2-26-12W, SW 31-25-11W, NW 31-25-11W, SW
6-26-11W, NE 1-26-11W, SE 12-26-12W, SW
19-25-11W. The following Crown lands have been
approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural
Development for transfer to the purchaser of the
private lands listed as these lands are part of the
farm unit held by Regan Wilkinson of Eddystone,
MB. NE
28-23-11W,
NE
02-26-12W,
SE
33-23-11W, SE 35-25-12W, SE 34-23-11W, NE
35-25-12W, SW 34-23-11W, SW 35-23-11W, NW
35-23-11W, SE 35-23-11W, NW 02-24-11W, SW
01-24-11W, NE 02-24-11W, NW 01-24-11W, SW
12-24-11W, NW 19-25-11W, SE 12-24-11W, SW
19-25-11W, NE 12-24-11W, SW 30-25-11W, NW
36-23-11W, NE 36-25-12W, SW 36-23-11W, NW
36-25-12W, NE 35-23-11W, NW 06-26-11W, SE
26-25-12W, SE 06-26-11W, NE 26-25-12W, SW
07-26-11W, NE 27-25-12W, SE 01-26-12W, NE
34-25-12W, NE 31-25-11W, SE 34-25-12W, SE
31-25-11W, NW 01-26-12W, NE 30-25-11W, SW
01-26-12W, NW 30-25-11W, SE 02-26-12W, SW
02-24-11W, SE 11-24-11W. If you wish to purchase the private land & apply for the Unit Transfer
contact the Lessee: Regan Wilkinson at Box 1,
Group 20, RR 1, Ste Rose du Lac, MB R0L 1S0. If
you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of
this Unit Transfer write the Director, MAFRD, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa,
MB R0J 1E0; or Fax (204)867-6578.
THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: SE 31-31-15W, SW 32-31-15W. The
following Crown lands have been approved by
Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural Initiatives for
transfer to the purchaser of the private lands listed
as these lands are part of the farm unit held by
Frank & Mervin Bass of Waterhen, MB. NE
30-31-15W, NW 30-31-15W, NW 31-31-15W, SW
31-31-15W, NW 12-33-15W, SE 12-33-15W, SW
12-33-15W, SW 01-32-16W, NE 02-32-16W, NW
02-32-16W, SW 02-32-16W, SE 13-32-16W, SW
13-32-16W. If you wish to purchase the private land
& apply for the Unit Transfer contact the Lessee:
Frank & Mervin Bass GD, Waterhen, MB R0L 2C0.
If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility
of this Unit Transfer write the Director, MAFRD, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa,
MB R0J 1E0; or Fax (204)867-6578.
The following Private Land is being offered for
sale: SE 1-29-17W, NW 31-28-16W. The following
Crown Lands have been approved by Manitoba
Agriculture, Food & Rural Initiatives for transfer to
the purchaser of the private lands listed as these
lands are part of the farm unit held by Steven Sliworsky & Tracy Bartels of Rorketon, MB. NE
19-28-16W, NW 19-28-16W, SE 19-28-16W, SE
30-28-16W, SW 30-28-16W, NE 31-28-16W, SW
31-28-16W, SW 05-29-16W, NW 17-29-16W, SW
17-29-16W. If you wish to purchase the private land
& apply for the Unit Transfer contact the Lessee
Steven Sliworsky or Tracy Bartels at Box 83,
Rorketon, MB R0L 1R0. If you wish to comment on
or object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer write
the Director, MAFRD, Agricultural Crown Lands,
PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or fax
(204)867-6578.
Great profit potential based on
yield, prices and low input costs.
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MEYERS AUCTION 10:00am Sun., Feb. 23rd, Arden MB. Antiques, Collectables, Collector Coins,
Furniture, Household Smalls, Tools, Much More.
Bradley
Meyers
Auctioneer
(204)476-6262
www.meyersauctions.com
MEYERS GUN AUCTION. Mar. 1st, Arden, MB. To
Consign call Brad (204)476-6262 www.meyersauctions.com
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
GUN AUCTION
Close OUT GUN STORE &
Personal Collection
Sat., Feb. 15 @ 9:30 am
Stonewall, MB - #12 Patterson Dr
400 GUNS: * All Calibre’s * Modern * Vintage
* Military * Restricted Hand Guns * Ammunition
* Accessories * Mounts
* 90% of Guns are Brand New OR New Old Stock
Go to the Website for 400 Pictures and Information!
Stuart McSherry
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
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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.
STEEL SERVICE TOOLBOX FOR 1/2, 3/4 or 1-ton
truck, 6-compartment, 79-in wide, 8-ft long, front of
box to middle of axle 58-59-in, good shape, $750
OBO. Phone:(204)669-9626.
1980 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL, 2-DR, 352 motor,
could be easily restored. $750 OBO Phone:
(204)669-9626.
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Semi Trucks & Trailers
For more information,
please contact Carl Lynn P.Ag.
of Bioriginal at:
Buy and Sell
anything you
need through the
1994 Peterbilt 377 N14 Cummins 460-HP, 18-SPD,
60-in. sleeper mid roof, American Class interior,
11R24.5 tires, new front tires, 4,400 US gal stainless
steel tank, 285-in. wheelbase, tandem (204)534-0070
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2005 Freightliner Columbia Mercedes 450 HP, 13
SP, 3:90 Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, 40000-lbs
Rear, 22.5-in Aluminum Wheels, 244-in Wheel
Base, 1,184,389-kms. $18,000.00
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2005 IHC 9900I Cummins ISX 500 HP, 18 SP, 3:73
Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, 40000-lbs Rear, 22.5in Aluminum Wheels, 244-in Wheel Base, 72-in
Mid-Rise Bunk, Four-Way Differential Locks,
1,428,989-kms. $29,000.00
If you want to sell it fast, call 1-800-782-0794.
LARGE FARM
AUCTION
R A DYCK FARMS LTD.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 10 AM
1 MILE SOUTH OF STARBUCK, MB
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
• 1995CaseIHSteiger,9270IHCB-275dieselutility
tractor,allis
• 7045,CaseDCAntique,2006CIH8010combine,
8820swather
• 2006model2062Macdon36ftFlexhead.200
• 4FreightlinertandemgrainTruck425hp,1938
MapleLeaftruck
• ConcordairSeeder37ft,3twister6000bu,
hopperbinsw/air
See www.billklassen.com for complete listing
See our website: www.billklassen.com or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS
ESTATE OF
DEAN SIMONSON
FARM AUCTION
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 10 AM
FROM FANNYSTELLE, MB, 5 MILES SOUTH
ON #248 AND 1 MILE EAST ON #247
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
• 2002CIH
• Steiger,STX375,standardshift3590hrs.
• 2003CIHMX210
• FWA,4270Hrs.w/CIHLX192loader,
trimbleAutosteer
• 2011KubotaB2630,194hrs.,FWA,LA403loader,
3pth,diesel26hp,
• 2005CIH2388Combine,880sep.hrs.,
two30ft,flexheaders
• TwoMacDon9200and2920Swathers,30ft.
• Goodtrucks05FordF-150,TWOFrieghtliners,
2000and96W/newergrainbodies,sprayertender
tender
Ford9000,66Mercury1ton,4710Concordair
seederwith2300tank
See www.billklassen.com for complete listing
See our website: www.billklassen.com or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS
FARM AUCTION
VIC & LINDA
GIESBRECHT
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
Autos
Flexible contracting options
available as well.
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
AUCTION SALES
AUTOS/TRUCKS/TRAILERS
Attractive oil premiums and free
seed delivery and on-farm pick-up.
306-229-9976 (cell)
306-975-9295 (office)
[email protected]
FARM PROPERTY FOR SALE BY TENDER
Sealed tenders in writing for the purchase of the
property described below will be received by
McCulloch Mooney Johnston LLP as follows:
PROPERTY FOR SALE: (owned by Brian Oleson
& Joanne Gudmundson):
NE 7-10-21WPM approx 136 Cultivated acs
NW 7-10-21WPM approx 111 Cultivated acs
SE 7-10-21WPM approx 130 Cultivated acs
SW 7-10-21WPM approx 156 Cultivated acs
CONDITIONS OF TENDER:
1. Interested parties must rely on their own
inspection & knowledge of the property. Any
specific questions pertaining to the property
should be direct to Brian Oleson (204)474-9782
2. Tenders must be delivered to
McCulloch Mooney Johnston LLP by 2:30pm,
February 25th, 2014. Please mark on front of
envelope “Oleson/Gudmundson Tender.”
3. Tenders must be accompanied by a $10,000
deposit cheque payable to McCulloch Mooney
Johnston LLP. Deposit cheques accompanying
unacceptable bids will be returned
4. The highest or any tender will not
necessarily be accepted.
TERMS & CONDITIONS OF SALE:
1. The bidder(s) whose tender is accepted will be
required to complete an Agreement covering the
terms & conditions of the sale
2. Possession date will be March 15th, 2014
3. The successful bidder will be responsible for
all realty taxes following January 1st, 2014
(the adjustment date)
4. In addition to the deposit, the balance of the
accepted tender must be paid on or before the
date of closing or evidence provided that the
purchase funds will be available under conditions
acceptable to the Vendor. If the balance of the
purchase prices is not paid by the possession
date or under such acceptable conditions, the
deposit paid shall be forfeited as liquidated
damages & not as a penalty
McCulloch Mooney Johnston LLP
PO Box 450 175 Broadway St
Treherne, MB R0G 2V0 (204)723-2777
Attention: Bob McCulloch
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
The Manitoba Co-operator. Manitoba’s best-read farm
publication.
SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 11 AM
OAKVILLE, MB HWY. #1 AND FORTIER, 1.5
MILES SOUTH AND 1/2 MILE WEST ON #62N
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
• TractorFordVersatile
• 9680,IHC1086only4427hrs.
•CIH1688Combine,2600E,hrs.
•1998MacDon2930swather22ft.
•1997Bourgault8810seeder,40ftw/2320tank.
See www.billklassen.com
for complete listing
See our website: www.billklassen.com or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS
AUCTION SALES
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AUCTION
REAL ESTATE & BUSINESS LIQUIDATION
Wednesday, February 26 | 10AM
AUCTIONEERS NOTE:
Real Estate sells at 10AM, followed by smalls. Live
online bidding on major equipment starts at 11 AM.
REAL ESTATE
Main shop is 6,200+/- sq. ft. with
1,000+/- sq. ft. adjacent warehouse.
Frame construction with (3) offices,
24’x16’ overhead door, floor heat,
rural water, & (3) EverRest electric
dual rate LP backup furnaces.
Estimated taxes are $1,050.
205 York St E
York, ND
For property inspection contact Tom
at Mollers Inc., 701.351.0472 or Brad
at Steffes Group, 701.237.9173.
For a detailed Buyer’s Prospectus
with complete terms and
conditions, contact Max at
Steffes Group, 701.237.9173.
AUCTION Following Real Estate, Approximately 11AM
PICKUP & TRAILER / FORKLIFT
MACHINE SHOP EQUIPMENT
WELDERS / SHOP EQUIPMENT
INVENTORY ITEMS & DISPLAYS
MOLLERS INC. Tom, 701.351.0472
or contact Brad Olstad at Steffes Group, 701.237.9173 or 701.238.0240
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 Group Inc. | 2000 Main Ave E, West Fargo, ND
Brad Olstad ND319, Scott Steffes ND81, Bob Steffes ND82
800.726.8609 | 701.237.9173 | SteffesGroup.com
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Semi Trucks & Trailers
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Doors & Windows
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Doors & Windows
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2005 IHC 9900I Cummins ISX 475 HP, 13 SP, 3:73
Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, 40000-lbs Rear, 22.5in Aluminum Wheels, 244-in Wheel Base, 72-in
Mid-Rise Bunk, 1,409,137-kms. $19,000.00
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2006 Volvo 630 D12 465 HP, 18 SP Autoshift, 4:30
Gear Ratio, 14600-lbs Front, 46000-lbs Rear, 22.5in Aluminum Wheels, 240-in Wheel Base,
927,814-kms. $27,000.00
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2006 Western Star 4900 Mercedes 450 HP, 10 SP
Eaton Autoshift, 12000-lbs Front, 40000-lbs Rear,
22.5-in Aluminum Wheels, New 20-ft Cancade
Grain Box, Remote Gate & Hoist, 1,045,311-kms.
$65,000.00
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2007 IHC 9900I Cummins ISX 500 HP, 18 SP, 3:58
Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, 40000 lbs Rear, 22.5in Aluminum Wheels, 244-in Wheel Base, 72-in
Mid-Rise Bunk, Three-Way Differential Locks,
1,356,565-kms. $37,000.00
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2007 Western Star 4900SA Detroit 515 HP, 18 SP,
3:91 Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, Super 40000-lbs
Rear, 22.5-in Aluminum Wheels, 209-in Wheel
Base, Four-Way Differential Locks, New Rebuilt Engine, 759,564-kms. $40,000.00
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2008 Peterbilt 388 Cummins ISX 450 HP, 13 SP,
3:55 Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, 40000-lbs Rear,
22.5-in Aluminum Wheels, 244-in Wheel Base, 63in Mid-Rise Bunk, Three-Way Differential Locks,
1,005,456-kms. $39,000.00
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2009 Kenworth T800 Cummins ISX 525 HP, 18
SP, 4:10 Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, Super
40000-lbs Rear, 22.5-in Aluminum Wheels, 196-in
Wheel
Base,
Four-Way
Differential
Locks,
866,438-kms. $59,000.00
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2009 Peterbilt 388 Cummins ISX 450 HP, 18 SP,
3:55 Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, 40000-lbs Rear,
22.5-in Aluminum Wheels, 244-in Wheel Base, 63in Mid-Rise Bunk, Three-Way Differential Locks,
1,145,366-kms. $49,000.00
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2010 Peterbilt 388 Cummins ISX 550 HP, 18 SP,
4:10 Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, Super 40000-lbs
Rear, 22.5-in Aluminum Wheels, 244-in Wheel
Base, 63-in Mid-Rise Bunk, Three-Way Differential
Locks, 779,362-kms. $65,000.00
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
2012 Peterbilt 386 Cummins ISX 450 HP, 13 SP,
3:90 Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, 40000-lbs Rear,
22.5-in Aluminum Wheels, 206-in Wheel Base,
Three-Way
Differential
Locks,
Wet
Kit,
168,566-kms. $79,000.00
FARMING IS ENOUGH OF
A GAMBLE...
Advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator
Classifieds, it’s a Sure Thing!
1-800-782-0794
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Accessories
CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.
Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103
or E-mail Requests [email protected]
JD 216 16-FT. $1,950; JD 920 20-ft., poly skids, recond. $6,900; JD 924 24-ft. steel pts., poly skids,
$4,950; JD 925 25-ft., steel pts., poly skids $4,500;
01 JD 925 25-ft., poly pts., poly skids, F/F auger,
recond., $13,950; 3, JD 930 30-ft., steel pts., poly
skids, start at $3,950; 2, 2003 JD 930 poly skids,
F/F auger, recond. $15,900.00; 03 JD 930 air reel,
poly skids, F/F auger, recond. $20,900; 04-06 JD
630 Hydra Flex, poly skids, HD auger, start at
$14,900; 04-011 JD 635 Hydra Flex, poly skids,
mint start at $14,900. Reimer Farm Equipment,
Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer
(204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Dryers
Serving Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
NW Ontario & Alberta....Since 1937
• Quality Commercial/Agricultural/Residential
Overhead Doors & Operators.
• Aluminum Polycarbonate Doors Available.
• Non-Insulated and Insulated Sectional Doors Available.
• Liftmaster Heavy Duty Operators.
• Mullion Slide Away Centre Posts.
• Commercial/Agricultural Steel Man Doors and Frames.
• Your washbay door specialists. • Quality Installation & Service.
• 24 Hour Service. • Replacement Springs & Cables.
Phone: 204-326-4556 Fax: 204-326-5013
Toll Free: 1-855-326-4556
www.reimeroverheaddoors.com
email: [email protected]
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Roofing
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
PRICE TO CLEAR!!
AUTO BODY SHOP AND Equipment in Baldur MB.
60-ft x 30-ft, wood frame w/metal roof, built in 1980.
Would
sell
building
only,
Priced
right.
(204)245-0165.
75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard
100,000PSI high tensile roofing &
siding. 16 colours to choose from.
B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2
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
FOUILLARD STEEL
SUPPLIES LTD.
ST. LAZARE, MB.
1-800-510-3303
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
D6C CAB LGP, NEED motor work; D7, had fire under seat; 96 EX200 LC Hitachi excavator, Q/C
bucket, will take feed grain in trade. (204)352-4306.
LINKBELT LS98 CRAWLER CRANE 50-ft. boom,
CAT D318 motor, long under carriage c/w all rigging including 1 1/4-yd & 1 1/2-yd buckets for
dredging gravel machine, ready to go to work,
$15,000 OBO. Phone:(204)669-9626.
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
Fertilizer Equipment
BUILDINGS
FERTILIZER SPREADERS: 4-TON $1,500, 5-ton
$4,000, 6-ton $6,000, 8-ton $7,000-8,000; Vicon
3-PH spreader $450; Valmar 240 $1,500; Valmar
PT
$5,500;
Small
Valmar
$700.
Phone:
(204)857-8403.
AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post
frame building company. For estimates and information
call
1-888-816-AFAB(2322).
Website:
www.postframebuilding.com
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
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.
SUKUP Grain Dryers For Sale: 1 or 3 ph, LP/NG,
canola screens. Discount pricing now in effect. Call
for more info (204)998-9915
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Elevators
80-FT. BUCKET ELEVATING LEG w/3 phase
10-HP electric motor. Phone (204)886-3304.
FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Various
12 WHEEL KUHN speed rake model SR112,
$6,500; JD 3130 w/Leon loader, $5,900; WANTED:
Cockshutt 560 & Cockshutt 1250 tractors for parts
or complete. (204)685-2124
VERMEER
REBEL
BALER
W/GATHERING
wheels & electric tie, made less than 2,500 bales,
$15,000; Also JD 6 wheel hay rake, $1,100. Phone
(204)571-6258, Brandon.
Combines
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Case/IH
2011 CASE IH 8120 Combine. 569 Sep Hrs. Field
ready. Lge Tube rotor, long auger. Lux Leather cab,
Pro 600 Display. Fine cut chopper, Bean concaves
avail. Can store & Defer Pay until Aug 1, 2014.
$234,000. David (204)746-4779.
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Caterpillar Lexion
2008 LEXION 585R COMBINE. 1,121 Sep Hrs. Ag
leader autosteer/Y&M, 35-in tracks, RWA, P516
header, auto contour, HP Fdr, MAV chopper, Cebis,
Sm. Grain & Corn Sieves, 2 sets APS Grates. Elec.
Hopper Fold. Excel shape. Field ready. Full dealer
service
history
available.
$239,000.
David
(204)746-4779.
Combine ACCessories
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Accessories
93 NH 973 FLEX, PU reel, 30-ft. good working order, $8,900; 98 NH 973 30-ft., crary air reel, poly
skids, $12,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12
N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000
www.reimerfarmequipment.com
CIH 820 20-FT., $1,500; 95-99 CIH 1020 25-ft.,
poly skids, nice start $7,900.00; 96-02 CIH 1020
30-ft., poly skids, nice start, $10,900; 010-CIH 2020
30-ft., poly skids, recond., $18,900; 07-010 CIH
2020 35-ft., poly skids, recond., start $18,900.
Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach,
MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place &
finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any
floor design. References available. Alexander, MB.
204-752-2069.
4 TWISTER 5,650-BU HOPPER bins, Rocket Aeration, $11,500 each. Will negotiate for mult bins. To
be moved or would negotiate to be used on site.
Would consider renting as well. Two 5,000-bu
Westeel’s on hoppers, $8,900 each. Have cross
channel for aeration. David (204)746-4779.
FOR SALE: 1 FUTURE steel building X frame
model, dimension 110-ft. long x 40-ft. wide x 21-ft.
high,
all
steel
building,
asking
$55,000.
(204)867-2436, (204)868-1212.
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.
JD 843 8 ROW, 30-in., totally reconditioned, mint
$14,500; JD 893 8 row, 30-in., field ready $19,500.
Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach,
MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
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Large Dealership Equipment
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
[email protected] www.arcfab.ca
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
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.
PARTING OUT TRACTORS: CASE 830, 930,
1270; Cockshutt 30 & 40; Oliver 70 & others.
Trucks: Ford 900, 800 & 700; CL 9000 & other older trucks 1/2-Ton to 1-Ton. Lots of good truck &
combine axles, tires & rims. Good 1020 truck tires.
(204)685-2124
WISCONSIN MOTOR PARTS FOR VG4D: crank
shaft, heads, fly wheel, starter, manifold & carb,
$750 OBO. Phone:(204)669-9626.
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
The Real Used FaRm PaRTs
sUPeRsToRe
Over 2700 Units for Salvage
• TRACTORS • COMBINES
• SWATHERS • DISCERS
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(306) 946-2222
monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
WATROUS SALVAGE
WaTRoUs, sK.
Fax: 306-946-2444
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
AUCTION SALES
U.S. Auctions
Bruce - 320.269.6466
For additional info contact Brad Olstad
at Steffes Group, 701.238.0240
AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: All equipment is located at 3099 Hwy 7,
Montevideo, MN. 15% parts discount on auction items until Friday,
March 7, 2014. Shop rates apply for any assistance required outside
of normal loading. For trucking info, contact Bruce at the dealership
at 320.269.6466, or Dave at B&D Transport, 218.334.3840.
TRACK TRACTORS / MFWD & 2WD TRACTORS
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CLOSING:
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FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS
NEW COMBINE PARTS
Large Inventory of
new and remanufactured parts
STEINBACH, MB.
Ph. 326-2443
Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727
Fax (204) 326-5878
Web site: farmparts.ca
E-mail: [email protected]
Spraying EquipmEnt
FARM MACHINERY
Sprayers
2009 SpraCoupe 4660 80-ft. booms, 400-gal tank,
three sets of tires, crop dividers, automatic, trimble
autosteer, raven rate control, teejet overlap control,
tow hitch, 800-hrs, also have custom made trailer for
hauling sprayer, water & chemical, semi pull, $90,000.
Call with any questions (204)534-0070
Tillage & Seeding
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Various
BOOKING SPECIALS for all makes of Harrow
Tines: Mounted, Standard Draw Bars & Heavy Harrows. Ex: 9/16x26-in. straight (Degelman, Brandt,
Bourgault, Flexi-coil, Riteway) 100+ $21.95/each.
3/8/x15-in. bent (Riteway, Morris, Herman) 100+
$8.60/each. Special ends Feb 14th 2014. March
2014 delivery. Call Fouillard Implement Ltd.
(204)683-2221.
CARBIDE DRILL POINTS & openers for air drills.
VW Manufacturing Ltd Dunmore (Medicine Hat)
(403)528-3350 US: Loren Hawks Chester, Montana
(406)460-3810 www.vwmfg.com
JD 1770 16 ROW 30-in. planter, 1 season on discs,
new chain & bearings on drive shaft, liquid fertilizer,
$46,000. (204)746-4555.
TracTors
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Case/IH
1981 MODEL 1086 W/DUALS 3-PTH, Ezee On
FEL. Phone (204)797-7049.
1993 7140 MFD 4-SPD reverse w/710 loader &
gravel, 4 new radial tires & 60% duals, new seat,
runs good, $40,000 w/loader. Phone (204)827-2629
or (204)526-7139.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – John Deere
1976 JD 4430 QUAD Range Trans, 18.4-38 duals,
good running order, $12,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer
(204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
2002 JD 9120 P.S., 1,000 PTO, 3-PTH, 900 metric
duals, 6,065-hrs, $119,000. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer
(204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
4630, 3-PTH, FRONT WEIGHTS 20.8x42 w/hob
duals; 4250 w/3-PTH; 4240 w/cab, good tires; 3010
w/48 FEL; 280, 158 & 148 loaders; F11 Farmhand
FEL. (204)828-3460
850 JD COMPACT UTILITY tractor, DSL, 3-PTH,
2155-hrs, $4500; 2010 tractor DSL jobber, 3-PTH,
VGC, 4755-original hrs, original paint, $4500.
Phone(204)522-5428.
NEW JD 741 FEL, frames for 20/30 series.
$13,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N,
Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000
www.reimerfarmequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Ford
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
24-FT OCEAN STORAGE CONTAINER, excellent
shape, asking $3850, can be delivered; 45-ft extendable Hallin semi rafter trailer, good shape, asking $3900; Case 730 gas tractor, good tires, 3-PTH,
w/7-ft Allied snowblower, asking $3700; 48-ft Fruehauf semi storage trailer, good condition, asking
$4000. (204)728-1861
STEWART CATTLE CO. & GUESTS BULL SALE
40 Black Angus bulls & 8 Simm Cross Angus bulls,
11 PB Angus Heifers, February 27th, 2014 at
1:30pm Neepawa Ag-plex, Neepawa, MB. Contact
Brent Stewart (204)773-2356 home, (204)773-6392
cell. View catalogue online at www.stewartcattle.com [email protected]
FOR SALE: 1975 SILAGE truck Chev 366 5-SPD,
2-SPD axle, tilt hood w/attached David batch mixer
(approx 4,000-lbs) w/scale, $4,000 OBO. Phone
(204)672-0061
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
GRAVITY WAGONS NEW 400-BU, $7100; 600-bu,
$12,000; Double compartment type & tarps
available used. 750-bu Parker, $14,000; JM750,
$14,500; Parker 500, $6000; Parker 616-bu,
$10,500; Kilbros 375, $3000; 250-bu Daicon,
$2500; Grain carts 450-1100-bu large selection
priced to sell. Phoenix Harrow, $9500; Mixmills
Artsway, $1500; Henke 36-in rollermill, $5000;
Champion
rollermill
20-in,
$2000.
Phone
(204)857-8403.
QUIT FARMING: 08 8010 4WD Combine, 30-ft.
Flex draper, $200,000; 011 Massey Swather 36-ft.
9260 Big cab w/swath roller, $65,000; 05 STX 450
quad new traks, $130,000; 08 STX 430 4WD, new
tires, $160,000; 05 2, IH 9100 Hyway tractor, 550
Cat, 13-SPD, 4-way lock, $30,000 each; 03 Advance SuperB grain, $28,000; 95 Super B Flat,
$10,000; 011 13x85 Farm King Aug, $20,000; IH
sprayer 3320, $200,000; 012 CovyAll Tender unit,
$10,000; 01 JD1780= 15x31 planter, $50,000; 010
41-ft. Salford as new, $70,000; Hvy Harrow,
$16,000; 013 corn header 8x30 Gearinghof chopping head, $86,000; 013 Killbros Grain cart, scale,
tarp, lights, $45,000; 2, 105 White rebilt, $9,000;
Hutchmaster tandem, $8,000; 10x70 FarmKing,
$6,000; 10x85 Convyall Belt con, $6,000; Roadrunner Header Hauler, $8,000; 30-ft. MacDon Drap Hd,
Tandem w/duals Trailer $20,000; To haul sprayer,
$5,000; IH 4240 tractor w/15-ft mower, $12,000;
16x30 Westco cult, $3,000; 16x30 band sprayer,
$3,000; 06 320 Cat Excavator, 10,000-hrs, nice,
$60,000; 98 T-800 Kenworth stainless steel paving
Box 30-in. Live Belt, $30,000; 04 Chev 4x4 4-dr
w/8-ft. deck, new tire, new safety, $6,500; 3=
10,000-gal., Poly fert tanks; 18-yd. Reynolds pushoff scraper, $30,000. Call:(204)871-0925, Macgregor, MB.
SNOWBLOWERS: LORENTZ HEAVY DUTY 8-ft
$1,700, JD 7-ft $1,500, 8-ft single auger $1,000, 6-ft
V-type $250; Skidsteer NH 865LX $12,900; 6x16
bumper pull stock trailer $3,000, 6x16 GN $3,500;
Powder River squeeze chute $1,600; 10-in skidsteer tracks $750; Tractor cab $600; Balzer forage
wagon front conveyor $3,000; Harsh 350 Auger
feed cart $5,000. Phone:(204)857-8403.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Wanted
2 SETS 4-FT FLEXI-COIL mounted packers w/12in spacing. Call (204)662-4432, cell (204)264-0693
Sinclair, MB.
WANTED: 20-FT JOHN DEERE or Morris Hoe
Drill. Phone Keith (204)873-2240 or (204)825-7196.
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
The Icynene Insulation
System®
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
www.penta.ca
1-800-587-4711
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Versatile
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.
STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in
JD tractors in need of repair or burnt, or will buy for
parts. JD parts available. Phone: 204-466-2927 or
cell: 204-871-5170, Austin.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Various
Big Tractor Parts,
Inc.
Geared For
The Future
STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALIST
RED OR GREEN
1. 10-25% savings on new replacement
parts for your Steiger drive train.
2. We rebuild axles, transmissions
and dropboxes with ONE YEAR
WARRANTY.
3. 50% savings on used parts.
1-800-982-1769
www.bigtractorparts.com
BLACK ANGUS & POLLED HEREFORD bulls for
sale. Yearlings & 2-yr olds available, natural muscled bulls developed w/high forage rations. Semen
tested, delivery available. Call Don Guilford
(204)873-2430.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
BOTANY ANGUS FARM & Leaning Spruce Stock
Farm have for sale yearling Black Angus bulls.
Come early, a deposit will hold your purchase until
Spring. For more info & prices contact Ryan Shearer (204)824-2151 or Cell:(204)761-5232.
SEE AD UNDER CATTLE VARIOUS
FOR CONSIGNMENTS
CRANBERRY CREEK ANGUS REGISTERED
bulls for sale. Sired by HF Tiger 5T, SAV Pioneer,
Cranberry CRK Dynamite, Cranberry CRK Highlander, J Square S Tiger. Bulls are easy doing with
great dispositions. Hand fed for longevity. Semen
tested, guaranteed & delivered. Will hold until the
end of April. All weights & EPD’s available. Call
(204)534-2380, or [email protected]
for more info, David & Jeanette Neufeld, Boissevain
REGULAR BUTCHER &
FEEDER SALE
Every Friday 9AM
SPECIAL HOLSTEIN FEEDER SALE
Friday, February 21 @ 9:00 am
NEXT SHEEP & GOAT SALE
Wednesday, February 19 @ 1:00 pm
Gates Open:
Mon.-Wed. 8AM-4PM
Thurs. 8AM-10PM
Friday 8AM-6PM
Sat. 8AM-4PM
We have 7 to 10 local buyers and
orders and 7 to 8 regular order
buyers on our market.
“Where Buyers & Sellers Meet”
For more information call: 204-694-8328
Jim Christie 204-771-0753
Scott Anderson 204-782-6222
Mike Nernberg 204-807-0747
www.winnipeglivestocksales.com
Licence #1122
GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK
AUCTION MART. LTD.
Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519
GRUNTHAL, MB.
AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING
REGULAR
CATTLE SALES
every TUESDAY at 9 am
Feb 18th & 25th
Monday, February 24th
Sheep & Goat Sale
with Small Animals
12:00 Noon
Sales Agent for
We also have a line of Agri-blend all natural
products for your livestock needs.
(protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc)
IRON & STEEL
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – 2 Wheel Drive
5 2-YR OLD/15 YEARLING Registered Black Angus Bulls, semen tested & delivered within 100-mi.
(204)741-0070, (204)483-3622, Souris.
HIQUAL INDUSTRIES
FORD 7700 W/FEL, 7710 w/cabs & 3-PTH. Good
condition, $14,000- $24,000. Phone (204)322-5614.
FOR SALE:1985 836 Designation 6. Very nice condition, next to new radial tires all around, 15-spd
trans, w/PTO. Asking $35,000 OBO. Phone:
(204)743-2145 or (204)526-5298.
19TH ANNUAL CATTLEMAN’S CONNECTION
BULL SALE, March 7, 2014, 1:00pm, Heartland
Livestock, Brandon, MB. Selling 100 yearling Black
Angus Bulls. For catalogue or more information call:
Brookmore Angus, Jack Hart (204)476-2607 or
(204)476-6696,
email
at
[email protected]; quest consignor, HBH Farms,
manager
Barb
Airey
(204)566-2134,
(204)761-1851, email [email protected] Sales
Mgmt:
Doug
Henderson
(403)350-8541
or
(403)782-3888.
GRAINVACS BRANDT 4500, $7500; Rem 552,
$3000; Rem 2500HD, $9500; Walinga 510, $950;
8x30 auger, $900; New 9-ft 3-PTH blade, $950; 10ft box scraper, $2250; 12-ft, $2450; 12-ft Leon front
blade, $3500; 10-ft Leon blade, $2000; 150-bu
Snowco feeder cart, $750; Sudenga weigh-wagon
digital scale, $3500; Haybuster bale shredder,
$6000. Phone (204)857-8403.
LIVESTOCK
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
Mar Mac & Guests
Annual Bull Sale
March 5, 2014 1:30PM
at Mar Mac Farms, Brandon
Guests:
Downhill Simmentals
Perkin Land & Cattle
Magnusville Farm
80 Lots of thick functional Beefy Red and
Black Simmental, Red Angus and Black
Angus Bulls. These bulls are selected
for feed efficiency, temperament and
structural soundness. Bulls are semen
tested, and ready to go to work. Only the
top end of our bull crop sell.
Call Mar Mac Farms
204-728-3058
or view bulls and videos at
www.marmacfarms.net
For on farm appraisal of livestock
or for marketing information please call
Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250
Auction Mart (204) 434-6519
MB. Livestock Dealer #1111
WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM
FOR SALE: 2 1/2-YR old Black Angus bull, sired by
Iron Mountain. Asking $2,800 OBO. Phone:
(204)743-2145 or (204)526-5298.
FOR SALE: REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS bulls
low birth weight, very quiet, hand fed, no disappointments, EPD’s & delivery avail. Amaranth
(204)843-2287.
OSSAWA ANGUS AT MARQUETTE, MB. For
sale: yearling & 2-yr old bulls. Also, a couple of
herd
sires.
Phone:
(204)
375-6658
or
(204)383-0703.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
F BAR & ASSOCIATES: Angus bulls for sale.
Choose from 20 two-year old & yearling Red &
Black Angus bulls. Great genetics, easy-handling,
semen-tested, delivery available. Call for sale list.
Inquiries & visitors are welcome. We are located in
Eddystone, about 20-mi E of Ste. Rose, or 25-mi W
of Lake Manitoba Narrows, just off Hwy #68. Call
Allen & Merilyn Staheli at (204)448-2124 or Email:
[email protected]
HAMCO CATTLE CO. 16TH Annual Angus Bull
Sale, Sat. March 15th, 2014 (1:00pm) at the farm
South of Glenboro, MB. Selling approx. 60 yearling
& 20, 2-yr old Red Angus & 40 yearling & 2, 2-yr old
Black Angus bulls. Many are AI & some are ET. Semen tested, free delivery, delayed payment plan.
Call for catalogue or view online at: www.hamcocattleco.com. Albert, Glen & Larissa Hamilton
(204)827-2358 or (204)526-0705; Dr David Hamilton (204)822-3054 or (204)325-3635
JOIN US WED., MAR. 12th at 1:00pm for Triple V
Ranch 2 yr old Red & Black Angus bull sale. On offer 60, 2 yr old Red & Black Angus & Simm Angus
bulls. This will be a video sale, come early to view
the bulls. Lunch will be served at 12:00pm noon,
followed by the sale in our heated sale barn. Triple
V Ranch is located 1-mi West of Medora & 2.5-mi
South on Rd 144W. For more info contact Dan
(204)665-2448,
cell
(204)522-0092
or
Matt
(204)264-0706.
WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD
PB Black& Red Angus bulls for sale. Check out our
bull catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver.
Phone Michael Becker:(204)348-2464, Whitemouth.
Farming is enough of a gamble, advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator classified section. It’s a sure thing.
1-800-782-0794.
WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT group of Polled Red,
Black & Red Blazed Face Simm Bulls. Select your
Bull now & at our Expense we will Feed them, Semen test & Deliver them when you need them. All
Bulls are Fully Guaranteed. Riverbank Farms, just
5-mi South of Wpg. Ray Cormier (204)736-2608.
GENETIC SOURCE
SIMMENTAL BULL SALE
Monday, March 10
Brandon, MB
SALE CONSIGNORS INCLUDE:
Big Sky Simmentals
Mathew & Marguerite Smith
204-723-2293
Trevor & Amy Peters
204-328-7458
Brad & Lauren Smith
204-723-0254
Oakview Simmentals
Todd & Danna Collins
204-246-2166
Triple R Simmentals
Roland Dequier
204-379-2267
13 PB RED ANGUS open heifers for sale w/o papers, $1,200 each pick, or $1,075 each take all, can
deliver. Phone (204)641-5725, Arborg.
DB MICHIELS RED ANGUS PB 2-yr old bulls for
sale. Catalogue information available by email.
Yearling bulls & heifers also for sale. Contact
Dale:(204)723-0288 or Brian:(204)526-0942. Holland, MB. Email: [email protected]
PB RED ANGUS BULL, born Jan 30th 2011, birthweight 75-lbs, $2,400. Phone (204)372-6588.
WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD
PB Red Angus bulls for sale. Check out our bull
catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver. Phone
Michael Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.
DENBIE RANCH AND GUESTS BULL SALE
Sat., Feb 15th, 2014, 1:00pm
Ste. Rose Auction Mart Selling:
25 Long Yearling Red Angus & Hybrid Bulls,
11 Two-yr Old Red Angus & Hybrid Bulls,
8 Two-yr Old Charolais Bulls, Select Group of
Red Angus & Red Angus, Sim X Heifers.
For info. Contact: Denbie Ranch,
Denis & Debbie Guillas Box 610, Ste.Rose, MB
R0L 1S0 (204)447-2473 or Cell (204)447-7608
Email: [email protected]
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
FOR SALE: PUREBRED CHAROLAIS bulls, 2-yr
old, 1 1/2-yr old & yearlings. Polled, some Red Factor, some good for heifers, semen tested in spring,
guaranteed & delivered. R & G McDonald Livestock, Sidney MB. (204)466-2883, (204)724-2811.
PB BULLS & HEIFER calves born Feb & Mar. Also
1 1/2-yr old bulls. Phone Jack: (204)526-2857. Holland, MB.
Registered Charolais Yearling Bulls For Sale
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
EDIE CREEK ANGUS has 30 Meaty, Moderate,
Maternal, Black & Red Angus bulls for sale. March
15th at Ashern Auction Mart. Easy Calving, Easy
Fleshing. Developed as 2 yr olds to breed more
cows for more years! Great temperaments, many
suitable
for
heifers. www.ediecreekangus.com
(204)232-1620
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
403-638-9377 Fax: 403-206-7786
Box 300, Sundre, AB TOM 1x0
Jay Good: 403-556-5563
Darren Paget: 403-323-3985
Catalog can be viewed on line at:
www.transconlivestock.com
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
20 GOOD QUALITY BLACK & Red Angus X bred
heifers for sale. Start calving March 12th, 2014.
Bred
w/easy
calving
Black
Angus
bull.
(204)379-2408.
30 RED ANGUS X Simm heifers bred Red Angus,
exposed May 16th-Aug 9th, closed herd, all vaccinations. Also 3 Red Angus herd sires.
(204)564-2699, Inglis.
BUYING ALL CLASSES OF livestock. Phone
George (204)278-3564. Dealer license #1152.
LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO take delivery of
bred cows in March, start calving Apr 15th & feed
calve & grass till Fall. Call Dale (204)638-5581,
Dauphin.
WANTED: young bred cows or heifers to calve
Apr.-May. ALSO WANTED: 23.1x34 tractor tires.
Phone (204)278-3438
WE BUY CATTLE DIRECT ON FARM
We come out to your farm and price cattle
towards condition and quality we pay
“PREMIUM PRICES FOR PREMIUM CATTLE”
WE ALSO BUY SHEEP, LAMB
AND GOATS DIRECT ON FARM
Out of easy calving sires. LT Bluegrass, Kaboom,
JWX Silver Bullet. Quiet dispostitons, no silage, pail
fed for quality & longevity. Sunny Ridge Stock Farm
Wawanesa, MB. Call Ken Cell: (204)725-6213
WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD
PB Polled Charolais bulls for sale. Check out our
bull catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver.
Phone Michael Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
We are you “ONE STOP” livestock
marketing facility
For more information call: 204-694-8328
Scott Anderson: 204-782-6222
Mike Nernberg: 204-807-0747
www.winipeglivestocksales.com
Licence #1122
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Wanted
2 PB LONG YEARLING bulls sired by Reserve
Senior Champion from Toronto Royal Winter Fair,
very quiet, heavy muscled, from good uddered
heavy milking dams; 1 Herdsire from Crittenden
herd from SK. 3 Polled Bull Calves, same sire. 54
yrs of Raising Quality Herefords. Francis Poulsen
(204)436-2284, cell (204)745-7894, Elm Creek.
WANTED: ALL CLASSES OF feeder cattle, yearlings & calves. Dealer Licence# 1353. Also wanted,
light feed grains: wheat, barley & oats.
Phone:(204)325-2416, Manitou.
POLLED HEREFORD & BLACK ANGUS bulls for
sale. Yearlings & 2-yr olds available, natural muscled bulls developed w/high forage rations. Semen
tested, delivery available. Call Don Guilford
(204)873-2430.
IS ENOUGH OF A GAMBLE...
FARMING
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
PRAIRIE PARTNERS BULL & FEMALE SALE,
MARCH 11/2014 Killarney Auction Mart, 40 low
birth weight, Polled power house meat machines.
Red, Black, Fullblood Fleckvieh. And also a select
group of 20 PB & commercial open hfrs. View bulls
on line at www.bouchardlivestock.com For Info. Or
catalogue call Fraser Redpath (204)529-2560, Gordon Jones (204)535-2273, Brian Bouchard
(403)813-7999, Wilf Davis (204)834-2479. For updates check our NEW website www.SimmentalBreeders.ca
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Co-operator Classifieds,
it’s a Sure Thing!
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Steers & Heifers
Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400
Ben: 721-3400
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Livestock Ltd.
License #1110
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Swine
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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.
HEAVY BUILT STEEL CATTLE troughs/feeders
good for any feed or water, 3.5-ft x 16-ft, 500-gal.
capacity, no sharp edges, weight 1400-lbs & are indesructable. Phone (204)362-0780, Morden.
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.
ATTACH YOUR MAILING LABEL HERE
MOO-MUFFS FOR CALVES, WARM, wind & moisture
proof
w/adjustable
halters.
Phone(204)436-2535.
12V. or Hydraulic
Electronic Scale Opt.
Canadian Subscribers
U.S. Subscribers
❑ 1 Year: $58.00*
❑ 2 Years: $99.00*
❑ 3 Years: $124.00*
❑ 1 Year: $150.00
(US Funds)
1 877 695 2532
www.ezefeeder.ca
*Taxes included
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ORGANIC
PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION
OF
MANITOBA CO-OPERATIVE (OPAM). Non-profit
members owned organic certification body. Certifying producers, processors & brokers in Western
Canada since 1988, Miniota, MB. Contact:
(204)567-3745, [email protected]
BE MY
VALENTINE
ORGANIC
Organic – Grains
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:
LIVESTOCK
Sheep Wanted
LAMBS, ALL
PERSONAL
Looking for someone you
cannot wait to see again!
Bioriginal Food & Science Corp., based
in Saskatoon, is actively buying
Organic Flax from the 2013 crop year.
800-1000 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Don: 528-3477, 729-7240
WTB FEEDER
(204)761-3760.
ORGANIC
Organic – Certified
306-975-9251
306-975-1166
[email protected]
Mary is 43 with one son Zack who is 12. He is the love
of my life and we are very active. Mary is divorced, she
is upbeat, positive, active with her son, outdoor activities,
horse-riding, fishing, football, and movie nights.
I have a great desire to retire on a farm. I have a large
family, we are all very successfully and have great
careers. My mother instilled in me how important it was
for me to have a career but I would have been happy to
be farmer’s wife like my grandmother. I want to share
that with a loving man who truly wants me in his life. I
love knowing that I belong to a man who loves me as
much as I love him.
PERSONAL
WE CAN HELP YOU! Find Love, have Fun & Enjoy
Life. CANDLELIGHT MATCHMAKERS. Confidential, Rural, Photos & Profiles, Affordable, Local.
Serving MB, SK, NW Ontario. Call/Write for info:
Box 212, Roland, MB, R0G 1T0, (204)343-2475.
REAL ESTATE
REAL ESTATE
Houses & Lots
RTM’s - AVAIL IMMEDIATELY. 3 bdrm homes
w/beautiful espresso kitchens; Ensuite in Master
bdrm; Main floor laundry. 1,320-sq.ft. home,
$75,000; 1,520-sq.ft. home, $90,000. Also will custom build your RTM plan. Call MARVIN HOMES
Steinbach, MB. (204)326-1493 or (204)355-8484.
www.marvinhomes.ca Building Quality RTM Homes
since 1976.
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Saskatchewan
TIM HAMMOND REALTY: Shire Farm RM 92 Walpole near Moosomin, 1,280-ac featuring 610 cult.
acs & 625 hay/pasture acs (300-ac could be
cropped), $61,862 average 2013 asmt, Grass carries 100 pair, Yard incl: 1,180-sqft bungalow (1983),
4 bed, 2 bath. 12,850-bu. steel bin storage. Excellent water & cattle facilities. MLS 462168 REDUCED to $1,240,000. Call ALEX MORROW:
(306)434-8780. http://Shire.TimHammond.ca
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
EXCELLENT LIVESTOCK FARM EXTENDING to
1,578 deeded acres with 4,425-acs of Crown Land.
All the land is fenced & the farm has very good
buildings & metal corral system. The farm can carry
up to 400-450 cow calf pairs. There is a small bungalow home. Tel: Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511 or
Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753. HomeLife Home
Professional Realty Inc. www.homelifepro.com
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She is 46 divorced with two children and is a dental
hygienist. 5’5, 139lbs a non smoker, social drinker. Close
to her family & children who want to see me happy in love
again with wonderful man. My life is simple and I guess
I am a homebody, my children are growing up fast and
they have their friends, so its just me and the dog on the
couch Saturday evenings.
Matchmakers Select
1-888-916-2824
www.selectintroductions.com
Specialist in rural, farm, ranch, remote isolated
communities. Thorough screening process,
customized memberships, guaranteed service. Est 14
years face to face matchmaking, must be financially
secure & seeking a permanent relationship.
GRAIN PROPERTY FOR SALE: Extensive
acreage that can be acquired + more land to rent.
Highly Productive area, we recommend that you
contact us for details & to inspect this quality property. Contact us for more information. Rolling River
Realty.
Ph:(204)726-8999,
Fax:(204)726-9109,
Cell:(204)729-1296. Email:[email protected]
HAY LAND 160-ACS OF Alfalfa 1/2-mi off 418
Deer Line average production last few yrs about
350 large bales; Inwood 1,020-acs ranch, only
$550,000; Eriksdale 640-acs right on Hwy 68m
$135,000; Dallas 1,000-acs presently hayland good
for grain; 2,061-acs North of Fisher Branch 600
cult, very reasonable; 1,260-acs Red Rose 500 in
hay only $360,000 offers. See these & others on
www.manitobafarms.ca
Call
Harold
at
(204)253-7373 Delta Real Estate .
Homewood Farm:155-acs of Class 3 soil MCIC
Class E32 Osborne Clay Soil, All Cultivated.
Call Terry Dyck, Royal LePage Top Producers.
$775,000. (204)745-7700 [email protected]
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 13, 2014
MLS 1323498 160-ACS FENCED pasture, 1982
bungalow, 1056-sq.ft, Woodside, $164,000; MLS
1320867 156-acs Lakeland Clay Loam fenced, outbuildings, older home, mun. water, Gladstone
$350,000; MLS 1400601 716-acs mixed farm,
fenced elk, bison, cattle, 1,064-sq.ft. bung, outbuildings, 2nd yard site, McCreary $400,000; MLS
1320985 24-15-11 RM Lakeview Section of pastureland in block, fenced, 4 dugouts, $259,000; SW
9-18-15 RM of Rosedale Rdg Mtn., Erickson clay
loam, ideal grain/forage. Beautiful bldg site, 2-mi to
RMNP, $145,000. Call Liz (204)476-6362, John
(204)476-6719. Gill & Schmall Agencies.
QUALITY FARM FOR SALE: Close to Brandon,
1/4 section, 110-ac of high-quality, cultivatable land,
50-ac of grazing, excellent range of Buildings & corrals to hold a herd of cows & calves or feeders, very
good water supply. Bungalow style home w/all
modern amenities, new condition Jacuzzi attached
to the master bedroom, great garden & swimming
pool in the garden. We strongly recommend that
you view this property personally! Rolling River Realty. Ph:(204)726-8999, Fax:(204)726-9109, Cell:
(204)729-1296. Email:[email protected]
WELL LOCATED FARM ONLY 20-min from Virden
extending to 311-acs. Approximately 240-acs is
presently in cultivation & 50-acs of pasture. The
farmhouse is older but is in excellent condition. First
class range of farm buildings. Tel: Gordon Gentles
(204)761-0511 or Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753.
HomeLife
Home
Professional
Realty
Inc.
www.homelifepro.com
GRANT TWEED Farm Specialist
If you are Buying, Selling or Renting Farm Land
You Can Benefit from my Experience & Expertise
the Decisions you Make Can Have
Long Lasting Impact,
So Take the Time to Know your Options.
Call (204)761-6884 to Arrange an
Obligation Free Consultation.
Visit: www.granttweed.com
GRAIN FARM 5682
4600 acre grain farm, productive land
located in Western Manitoba
Contact: Sheldon Froese
204.371.5131
[email protected]
Contact: Stacey Hiebert
204.371.5930
[email protected]
GRAIN/CATTLE FARM 5639
2597 acre farm,good grain land and
cattle facilities. 45 minutes from
Brandon
Contact: Henry Carels
204.573.5396
[email protected]
GRAIN FARM 5653
3534 acre grain farm, 20 minutes north
of Winnipeg
Contact: Stacey Hiebert
204.371.5930
[email protected]
Contact: Dolf Feddes
204.745.0451
[email protected]
GRAIN FARM 5609
2710 acre grain farm, 6 miles from the
city of Brandon
Contact: Henry Carels
204.573.5396
[email protected]
GRAIN FARM 5325
2888 acre grain farm, excellent bean
production. South East Manitoba
Contact: Stacey Hiebert
204.371.5930
[email protected]
GRAIN FARM 5308
1120 acre grain farm, near Deloraine,
MB. 348,000 bushels of grain storage,
beautiful 2700 sq ft home
Contact: Sheldon Froese
204.371.5131
[email protected]
Pasture in Alonsa area Native grass/bush pasture
suitable for 50-60 cow/calf pairs. Good perimeter
fence & central dugout. $110/pair (204)239-4795
WANTED: LOOKING FOR CROPLAND in Argyle,
Stonewall, Selkirk, Warren, Balmoral, Grosse Isle,
St Francis, Elie, & surrounding area. Please call
Deric (204)513-0332, leave msg.
RECYCLING
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DEPOT Tel: 204-248-2110
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Wheat
* Pasteur - High yield
CWRS Wheat
Other Crops
• New Cardale!
• Conlon Barley
• Carberry
• Souris Oats
• Glenn
• Lightning Flax
• Kane
• Meadow Peas
• Harvest
• Red Millet
Brett Young - Canola’s and Forages.
Canterra - Canola’s
North Star Seed - Forages
Delmar Legend - Soy beans
Early Booking, Early
Pay, and Volume
DISCOUNTS!
On select purchases.
PEDIGREED SEED
Oilseed – Canola
120 bags of left over 2013 Invigor L154 Canola
seed for sale. Switching variety for 2014, asking
$400/bag. Please email or call Marlo for more info
(204)856-6390 [email protected]
SEED/FEED/CROP INPUTS
Common Forage Seeds
CERISE RED PROSO COMMON MILLET seed.
Buy now to avoid disappointment. 93%+ germination, 0% Fusarium Graminearum. Makes great cattle feed, swath grazed, dry or silage bale. Very high
in protein. Energy & drought tolerant. Sold in 50-lb
bags. 2000+ satisfied producers. 11th Year in Business! Millet King Seeds of Canada Inc. Reynald
(204)526-2719 office or (204)379-2987, cell & text
(204)794-8550. Leave messages, all calls returned.
www.milletkingseeds.com
[email protected]
FOR SALE: ALFALFA, TIMOTHY, Brome, Clover,
hay & pasture blends, millet seed, Crown, Red Prozo. Free Delivery on Large Orders, if Ordered Early.
Leonard Friesen, (204)685-2376, Austin, MB.
FOR SALE: ORGANIC SAINFOIN seed. Called
“Healthy Hay” in Europe. (sainfoin.eu) An ancient,
non-bloating, nutritious, low input, perennial forage
loved by all animals. Better flavored meat & dairy.
(306)739-2900 primegrains.com/prime-sainfoin.htm
[email protected]
SEED/FEED/CROP INPUTS
Cereal Seeds
www.CanadianFarmRealty.com
LESS FUSARIUM MORE BOTTOM LINE. Farmer
directed varieties. Wheat Suitable for ethanol production, livestock feed. Western Feed Grain Development Co-op Ltd. 1-877-250-1552 www.wfgd.ca
FOR SALE 1ST & 2nd cut alfalfa hay. 100-200
RFV in 3x3 medium square bales. Harry Pauls
(204)242-2074, (204)825-7180 cell, La Riviere, MB.
LARGE ROUND FIRST CUT alfalfa/grass bales. 46
bales, 1,400-lbs, $50/bale. Phone:(204)685-3024.
MacGregor, MB.
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Wanted
Heated/Spring Threshed
Lightweight/Green/Tough,
Mixed Grain - Barley, Oats, Rye,
Flax, Wheat, Durum, Lentils, Peas,
Canola, Chickpeas, Triticale,
Sunflowers, Screenings, Organics
and By-Products
√ ON-FARM PICKUP
√ PROMPT PAYMENT
√ LICENSED AND BONDED
SASKATOON, LLOYDMINSTER,
LETHBRIDGE, VANCOUVER,
MINNEDOSA
1-204-724-6741
TIRES
WANTED: 4, 17-IN. LIGHT truck rims for 2003
Ford 150 with or w/o winter tires. Phone
(204)367-4649
Hit our readers where it counts… in the classifieds.
Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifed
section. 1-800-782-0794.
TOOLS
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Grain Wanted
S20 HYD MEC BAND saw; Metal lathe; Milling machine. Call (204)352-4306.
Japan/Russia ~ May 2014
Ireland & Scotland ~ June 2014
Ukraine ~ June 2014
Yukon/NWT ~ July 2014
Iceland/Greenland ~ July 2014
Mid-West USA ~ October 2014
Australia/New Zealand ~ January 2015
Kenya/Tanzania ~ January 2015
*Portion of tours may be Tax Deductible
Select Holidays
1-800-661-4326
www.selectholidays.com
CAREERS
CAREERS
Help Wanted
FULL-TIME FARM EMPLOYEE WANTED for larger Potato, Grain & Cattle farm. Employees duties
would have emphasis on Cattle: Helping w/calving
(day-shift only), feeding, bedding, etc. Experience
w/Cattle, Machinery & Class 1 would be an asset.
Willing to train motivated person. Competitive wages & medical benefits available. Located 5-mi N of
Carberry on HWY 5. Phone Trent Olmstead:
(204)476-6633 or Fax resume to:(204)834-2175.
GARDENER/HARVESTER
REQUIRED
FOR
VEGETABLE farm near Carman, MB. Duties may
include seeding, transplanting, hoeing, harvesting,
washing & packing vegetables. Outdoors, stoop labour, variable hours, minimum wage. Full-time April
through September. Dufferin Market Gardens,
phone (204)745-3077, fax (204)745-6193.
HALARDA FARMS IS SEEKING a full-time/yr
round employee to work in crop production & w/cattle. Class 1 drivers licence an asset but not required. The successful applicant will be self-motivated & a team player. No experience needed.
Competitive wages & an extensive health & benefit
package offered. Halarda Farms is a modern large
mixed farm located in the Elm Creek area. E-mail
resume
to
[email protected]
or
fax
to
(204)436-3034 or call (204)436-2032.
HELP WANTED: F/T HELP for a large grain farm in
Southeast SK. Looking for an honest, reliable person w/experience in operating & servicing farm
equipment, mechanically inclined & 1A license
would be an asset. Competitive wages based on
experience, housing is available, excellent opportunity for a young active family. School & shopping
15-min away. Please provide 2 references. Fax resume (306)449-2578 or e-mail [email protected] or call (306)449-2412 (evenings)
TRAILERS
Livestock Trailers
WE BUY OATS
Call us today for pricing
Box 424, Emerson, MB R0A 0L0
204-373-2328
Vanderveen
Commodity
Services Ltd.
Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers
37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Ph. (204) 745-6444
Email: [email protected]
Andy Vanderveen · Brett Vanderveen
Jesse Vanderveen
A Season to Grow… Only Days to Pay!
BUYING:
HEATED & GREEN
CANOLA
• Competitive Prices
• Prompt Movement
• Spring Thrashed
MALT BARLEY
BARLEY
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“ON FARM PICK UP”
*6-Row*
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COMMON SEED
Various
CORN SEED, $25/ACRE
Lower cost Alternative for Grazing & Silage
High Yield & Nutrition –7 to 9-ft Tall– Leafy
2200 to 2350 CHU’s Open Pollinated Varieties
Phone:(204)723-2831
AGRICULTURAL TOURS
LARGE ROUND WHEAT STRAW bales, trucking
available. Phone:(204)325-2416. Manitou.
MALT BARLEY
LOOKING FOR PASTURE LAND to rent in South
Western Manitoba. Phone (306)452-7605.
We are buyers of farm grains.
HAY FOR SALE. 5X5 round bales of grass mixed
hay. (204)646-4226.
*6-Row*
Celebration & Tradition
We buy feed barley, feed wheat,
oats, soybeans, corn & canola
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Pastureland
REQUIRE FARMS FOR LOCAL & European buyers grain land with or without bldgs, sheep farms,
cattle ranches, suburban properties, or just open
land, acreages, houses, cottages. Call Harold
(204)253-7373 Delta R.E. www.manitobafarms.ca
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Feed Grain
2013 Malt Contracts Available
2013 Malt Contracts Available
Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0
Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0
Phone 204-737-2000
Phone 204-737-2000
Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
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Malt Contracts
Available
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2013
Malt
Available
Agent: M &Contracts
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SK.
Box 238
Letellier,
MB. R0G 1C0
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SK.
Box 238
Letellier,
MB. R0G 1C0
Phone
306-455-2509
Phone
204-737-2000
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306-455-2509
Phone
Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK.
Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK.
Phone 306-455-2509
Phone 306-455-2509
[email protected]
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.
SEED / FEED / GRAIN
DAIRY BEEF & HORSE hay for sale in large
squares, delivery available. Phone (204)827-2629
or (204)526-7139
New GP Class Wheat
TRAVEL
FARMERS, RANCHERS,
SEED PROCESSORS
BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Hay & Straw
Holland, MB
Phone: 204.526.2145
Visit www.zegherseed.com
Email: [email protected]
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Grain Wanted
• Vomi wheat • Vomi barley
• Feed wheat • Feed barley
• Feed oats • Corn
• Screenings • Peas
• Light Weight Barley
You can deliver or we can
arrange for farm pickup.
Winnipeg
233-8418
Brandon
728-0231
Grunthal
434-6881
“Ask for grain buyer.”
6 QTRS FARMLAND FOR RENT near
Elthelbert, MB. Includes yardsite with house.
Mixed grain and hay land.
Contact Harry Sheppard. Sutton Group Results Realty, Regina, SK. C:(306)530-8035,
O:(306)352-1866
COME SEE US AT AG DAYS IN
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BOOTH 1309
FARM PROPERTY FOR SALE by tender. Sealed
written tenders for the purchase of property in the
RM of Thompson described below will be received
by Rae Thomson- estate executor for R.H. Thomson. Tenders to be mailed to Rae Thomson- Box
394, Oakville, MB. R0H 0Y0. For the following legally described property: 1.NE 6-5-6W, approx.
156.9-acs w/2 story house & buildings 2.SE
6-5-6W, approx. 90-acs w/2 cattle shelters & hay
shed. 3. SE 6-5-6W, approx. 61.9-acs 4.SW
6-5-6W, approx. 159.84-acs. 5.NW 6-5-6W, approx.
157.42-ac. 6.SE 1-5-7W, approx. 80.65-ac. 7.SW
1-5-7W, approx. 80.90-ac. 8.SW 5-5-6W, approx.
160-ac. Individual tenders to be submitted for each
property #1-8. CONDITIONS OF TENDER: Interested parties must rely on their own inspection &
knowledge of the property. Any specific questions
pertaining to the property should be directed to Rae
Thomson at (204)267-7020 or by email @[email protected]. Tenders must be received
on or before February 28th, 2014. Tenders must be
accompanied by a deposit of 5% of the amount offered,
payable to Jerry
Dykman,
Law office.
Deposit
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USED
OIL
cheques accompanying unaccepted bids will be re& FILTER
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turned. Highest
or any tender
not necessarily accepted. TERMS & CONDITIONS OF SALE: The
• Buy Used Oil
• Buy Batteries
bidder(s) whose tender is accepted will be required
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to•complete
an agreement
coveringOilterms
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the sale.and
Possession
will be April
Southern
Westerndate
Manitoba
2014, negotiable. The successful bidder will be re204-248-2110
sponsible for allTel:
property
taxes as of the date of
possession. The purchaser shall be responsible for
payment of GST or shall self assess for GST.
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Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
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Phone 306-455-2509
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