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CP Rail says the points
it dropped weren’t
being used, but KAP
says farmers need more
options, not less
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
T
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19 producer car loading
sites across the West even
though farmers are using producer cars more than ever as
they struggle to get a record
crop to market.
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Vigilance needed
more than ever now
that PED in province
While industry and provincial officials work to keep it contained,
investigations continue into the source of the spread
By Shannon VanRaes,
Daniel Winters and Dave Bedard
co-operator staff
W
h i l e p rov i n c i a l a n d
industry officials
worked to contain
Manitoba’s first case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PEDv)
this week, attention shifted
to a pig plasma feed ingredient as a possible source of
transmission.
L a n d m a r k Fe e d s , w h i c h
is owned by Nutreco, issued a
statement late last week saying
a plasma-based feed additive for
newborn piglets is suspected as
a possible source in the Ontario
outbreak, which has now spread
to 16 farms.
The outbreak on at least 10
of those farms has been linked
to a single feed source, which
included spray-dried porcineorigin plasma ingredients.
“This concern was raised as
a way of explaining how multiple farms without close geographic or other epidemiological connections could become
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Glen Duizer confirms the presence of the PED virus in Manitoba. Photo: Shannon VanRaes
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Olympic gold dream
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Snowboarding-cowgirl champion stands out from the herd
By Philip O’Connor
rosa khutor, russia / reuters
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CROPS
The four Rs
of nutrients
Right source, time,
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Dispelling
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CROSSROADS
Municipal
amalgamations
Some mergers aren’t
even close to the 1,000
population threshold
he only thing more surprising than American
Kaitlyn Farrington winning half-pipe gold at the Sochi
Olympics Feb. 12 is the story
of how her early career was
funded — by selling the family’s
livestock.
Snowboarders like Shaun
White can command millions
of dollars in endorsements, but
the woman from Sunny Valley,
Idaho had to make do with
more modest means when she
set out on the path to Olympic
gold.
As her stature as a snowboarder grew, the only way for
her family to fund her burgeoning career was to sell off the cattle on their ranch, one at a time.
“When I started competing
in bigger events, my dad had
to sell his cows just to get me to
those bigger events across the
country,” the 24-year-old told a
news conference.
“I think the cattle sales were
Wednesday, so before I’d go to
school, I’d help my dad load a
cow up into the trailer, maybe
two, and he’d take them to the
cattle sale and auction them off.
“My parents have been backing me from Day 1, and I’m sure
they do not miss those cows
today.”
Kaitlyn Farrington of the U.S. grabs her snowboard on her way to
winning the women’s snowboard half-pipe finals at the 2014 Sochi
Winter Olympic Games. Photo: REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
A surprise winner ahead of
Australia’s defending champion Torah Bright and compatriot Kelly Clark, who won
gold in 2002 and bronze in
2010, Farrington told reporters that her background as a
cowgirl helped her become
an Olympic champion.
Farrington had to come
through both rounds of
qualifying before reaching
the final, but that was by no
means the first obstacle she
had faced in her career.
She suffered several knee
injuries in her teenage years,
and finished the 2011-12 season with her wrist in a protective cast following a fracture.
A year later, she broke her
thumb so badly in a training run fall in Quebec that
she required surgery to insert
pins. She was back riding the
following day.
“Growing up on a ranch
made me the person I am
today,” she said. “It definitely
made me a tough girl. As my
parents have been saying this
whole journey, ‘just cowgirl
up.’ That’s kind of what I’ve
gotta do.”
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NEWS
Manitoba Beef
Producers
announces new
general manager
Staff / Melinda German
has been appointed general manager of Manitoba
Beef Producers effective
March 3.
German comes to
MBP after serving as the
director of the Livestock
Knowledge Centre for
Manitoba Agriculture, Food
and Rural Development.
She holds a master of science from the University of
Saskatchewan, specializing
in beef animal nutrition,
grazing and pasture management, the association
says in a release.
“Her passion for the beef
industry and the producers
who make production possible combined with her
industry knowledge, experience and skills, makes her
ideally suited to lead our
organization,” said MBP
president Heinz Reimer.
German is replacing Cam
Dahl, who left the organization to take a new position as president of Cereals
Canada.
Chest
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Upper body
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Manitoba joins the livestock
price insurance club
New livestock price insurance program will run as a pilot program for four years,
then be assessed for effectiveness
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
I
n a move that surprised no
one, the provincial government formally announced
Manitoba will take part in
the newly created Western
Livestock Pr ice Insurance
Program last week.
The province’s intention to
create a livestock insurance
program for hog and beef producers was outlined in last
November’s speech from the
throne, and representatives
from Manitoba Agriculture,
Food and Rural Initiatives have
been discussing the plan’s
details at producer events over
the past two months.
Still, the formal announcement is a welcome confirmation for those in the beef
industry.
“Most (producers) are very
happy that there is going to be
an insurance program, right
now cattle prices are strong,
but if something crazy happens down the road, hopefully
they’ll have themselves covered
with the insurance,” said Heinz
Reimer, president of Manitoba
Beef Producers. “Once the federal announcement was made
that the program was a western
thing, we were pretty positive
that it was going to come across
here... but it’s good to hear it.”
The insurance program was
first announced in Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Br itish
Columbia in mid-Januar y,
Manitoba had to wait for two
byelections to wrap up before
making its own announcement.
Program details are expected
next month.
“This is new territory for the
Manitoba livestock sector...
it’s something producers have
been asking for from the province for a number of years,” said
Manitoba Agriculture Minister
Ron Kostyshyn.
The program isn’t a permanent one, at least not yet. For
the next four years it will run as
a pilot project, then be assessed
for effectiveness.
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“Most (producers) are very happy that there is
going to be an insurance program, right now
cattle prices are strong, but if something crazy
happens down the road, hopefully they’ll have
themselves covered with the insurance.”
Heinz Reimer
a price insurance program following the BSE crisis in 2003.
“I hope we’re going to get a
good uptake,” said Reimer, adding current prices may deter
some producers from signing
up at first.
“But once they realize what
all is involved and once we hear
more exactly what the program is, we’ll have a fairly good
uptake of it,” he said.
The Western Livestock Price
Insurance Program is based
on an existing livestock insurance program in Alberta and
that province’s Agriculture
Financial Services Corporation
will be the central admin-
istrative centre for the program, according to Agriculture
Canada. However, Kostyshyn
said producers in Manitoba will
be able to access information
on the program through the
Manitoba Agricultural Services
Corporation.
Products will include insurance for both pork and beef
producers, encompassing fed
cattle, feeder cattle and cowcalf operations.
Policies will provide an insurable floor price on cattle, allowing producers to manage risk
and reduce price volatility.
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OPINION/EDITORIAL
Getting the basics
right first
U
nless you’re a beef producer (and
goodness knows, it was about
time you got a break), things are
looking a bit tough out there these days.
Crop producers are frustrated by low
prices and slow deliveries, and hog producers — who also deserved a break —
are now getting swatted down by the fear
or reality of PEDv.
Not that it helps solve those immediate
John Morriss
problems, but on the other hand it also
Editorial Director
doesn’t hurt to put the problems here in
context of the problems faced by farmers
elsewhere. I serve as a director of Farm Radio International (FRI), a Canadian organization that provides radio
scripts and broadcasting training to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, many of whom have no other source of agricultural extension information. Therefore I receive the
weekly newsletters that are sent to about 500 radio station partners and others in the region. Reading the stories
from last week’s newsletter certainly gets your attention.
One is about Mr. Dubé, a cattle farmer in Zimbabwe
facing an outbreak of ticks after heavy rains in the area in
2012. He lost 15 of his 25 cows to tick-borne diseases, and
then had to sell five of the remaining animals.
Another farmer, Mrs. Mavis Sibanda, a widow, received
eight cows as a bride price for her daughter, but five also
died from tick diseases.
The next story in the newsletter is about Umaru Musa, a
farmer in northeastern Nigeria.
“I was on my way to work on the farm with my four
children when I sighted five men,” he says in the story.
“Their faces were covered with turbans, and they were
wielding their AK-47 rifles.” Recognizing the gunmen as
Boko Haram militia, Musa hurriedly got his children away
before they were spotted.
The story explains that since 2009, a series of attacks by
Boko Haram in this part of predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria has left thousands dead. Musa says that at
least eight farmers were killed during the peak of harvest.
Some villages are spared the attacks in return for payment
of the equivalent of US$6,000 to $18,000.
Unfortunately, there are too many such stories in the
weekly newsletters, and they certainly put the farming
problems here into perspective.
We’re not just saying “things could be worse.” This
also illustrates that those of us in the developed world
sometimes get a bit too focused on our own problems
and solutions, assuming they apply elsewhere. The controversy over genetically modified organisms is a good
example. On one hand there are the opponents who make
baseless comments that they are hazardous to health. On
the other are those who claim that the world will starve
without them. This week the Crop Connection conference
in Winnipeg heard from Mark Lynas, a U.K. author who
has switched from one side to the other.
Debates such as this are a convenient distraction from
the real issues in world food security. GM varieties, no
matter what their merits, are not particularly helpful if
AK-47-toting militia burn the fields before harvest. Nor
are they of any advantage in fields that have lost their
topsoil, or which lack proper fertility, or if most of the
crop is lost to insects or mould because of poor
storage facilities.
The FRI newsletters don’t only report the problems.
They talk about successes, some of which are dramatic.
The farmers who have lost so many cattle are learning
about how to control ticks with insecticides, and they
have decided to rebuild their herds. In Ethiopia, a project
has demonstrated that seeding tef (a small-seeded cereal)
in rows instead of by broadcasting can double yields.
In Malawi, one family has started intercropping peas
and corn, and yields have increased enough to provide
them with enough income to put seven children through
secondary school. In Zambia, farmers have learned to
increase yields by mixing crop residue with manure to
make compost, rather than burning the stubble
after harvest.
In other words, there is great potential to increase production by following basic agronomic practices such as
crop rotation, conservation tillage, insect control and
proper storage. There are literally millions of farmers
who have yet to adopt them. Many of those farmers are
women, who often do most of the work but have no ownership rights of the land or their production. Correcting
that, along with providing girls with equal access to education, is another key to increased food security.
So the lesson from Africa isn’t only that things here
could be a lot worse, but that you have to get the basic
stuff right first. Given that we have problems such as a big
crop that we can’t get to market, maybe that’s not a bad
lesson to remember here either.
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Access to lower-cost pesticides paralyzed
Canada is the toughest country
in the world in which to register
generic pesticides
By Bob Friesen
I
t appears that original registrants of pesticides in Canada have done an effective job
of spreading a message that is not market
reality, and flies in the face of what is happening in other countries. This is impeding
Canadian farmers’ access to a whole array
of lower-cost generic pesticides such as they
have in the U.S. Let me explain.
Readers are well aware of the diligent and
ongoing efforts of concerned stakeholders to
modify generic registration regulation and
improve the Pest Management Regulatory
Agency’s (PMRA) management of that regulation. As well, to eliminate a rather glaring
contradiction between PPIP (Protection of
Proprietary Information on Pesticides) policy
and PPIP regulation, perpetrated on us by the
architects of the same.
However, according to certain reliable
sources, one of several things that has paralyzed the process, has the PMRA running
scared, and has affected the willingness of
some farm organizations to fight for massive
cost savings to farmers, is the rhetoric spread
by certain original registrants and organizations representing those same companies that
“if you change the regulations, if you make it
easier to register generics in Canada, we will
stop investing in Canada.”
That is ludicrous and will never happen. If
someone ever tells you that, call them on it.
OUR HISTORY:
Some of the same companies that would have
you believe the threat of ending investment in
Canada operate cheerfully in countries such
as Ukraine where there is an $850-million
market and no compensable data legislation.
Canada has a $2.5-billion market and mandatory data compensation. The companies that
invest in the registration of original products
are not going anywhere.
Furthermore, no one has ever questioned
or tried to undermine the main pillars of protection for original products and the registrants of those products: a 10-year exclusive
period and fair compensation for legitimate
data.
Beyond those basic protections however,
maximum effort should be exerted to promote the PMRA’s own policy guideline: “...
favourable conditions for generic pesticide
producers to enter the pesticide market and
to increase the selection of products available
to the user.”
Farm organizations need to ignore the
empty threats made by these companies and
the PMRA should know better. Farmers face a
far bigger threat. Some generics have already
pulled out of the process because Canada
is the most difficult country in the world in
which to register a generic pesticide.
The paralysis at the PMRA is costing Canadian farmers hundreds of millions of dollars
a year: the result of one of the biggest hoaxes
ever perpetuated in the Canadian agriculture
industry. Don’t allow the farm organizations
that represent you to be a party to it.
Bob Friesen is CEO of Farmers of North America Strategic
Agriculture Institute.
February 1975
A
telephone answering machine was still a novelty in 1975, but if you wanted one, this model
was available on lease for $28.30 a month
($126 in 2014 dollars).
Our Feb. 21 issue that year featured full text of the
outlook for 1975 prepared by the Manitoba Department
of Agriculture. Realized net farm income was expected
to be above average, but $77 million below 1974.
Livestock income was seen up, but crop income down.
While prices were near historic highs, the 1974 crop was
poor in yield and quality. Accordingly, a shortage of quality seed was expected.
The same excess moisture that caused quality problems was raising flood concerns, and a municipal floodfighting workshop was scheduled in Gimli.
We reported that Justice and Wheat Board Minister
Otto Lang had announced that 6.283 miles of Prairie
branch lines had been added to the “protected” network pending a review of the implications for their
abandonment.
Another story talked about the search for a nonbloating alfalfa. Two Agriculture Canada scientists in
Saskatoon were searching for a tannin, including in wild
forms of alfalfa, that could be bred into the plant to block
the formation of foam.
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COMMENT/FEEDBACK
Farm, community leader Bert Hall honoured
One of the founders of KAP is being remembered for his ability to find consensus and get things done
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff /manitou
“My dad said life has no meaning
unless you can be of some help to
some people.”
A
Letters
rthur Edmund (Bert) Hall was an outstanding
farm leader, tireless community builder and
devoted family man, who used his diplomatic
skills to help build a better Canada, said some of those
attending the 94-year-old’s funeral Feb. 10.
The soft-spoken chicken farmer helped bring in
supply management in the 1960s and decades later
became one of the founders of Keystone Agricultural
Producers (KAP).
Hall came of age during the Great Depression. Most
people were poor but hospital bills made the Halls,
who farmed near New Haven northeast of Manitou,
even poorer. In a 1999 interview, Hall said hard times
influenced his outlook on the need for publicly funded
health care and education and farmer co-operation.
“My dad said life has no meaning unless you can be
of some help to some people,” Hall said. “He felt that’s
what we were on this earth for.”
Hall was also a veteran of the Second World War and
member of the Royal Canadian Legion.
Hall’s long farming career began when he was still a
teenager. He and his older brother started Manitoba’s
first turkey hatchery.
After the war Hall and his wife Clara took over the
family farm. In 1956, they and their three sons moved
to Manitou where Bert was a shareholder, director and
general manager of Manitou Broiler Farms until retiring in 1985.
Despite Hall’s busy schedule, family was his top
priority, his son Derryl Hall said in his eulogy. Hall
credited his late wife Clara for helping him with his
achievements. She died suddenly in 1986 after 44 years
of marriage. Hall married Beth McLean in 1988 and
they spent 25 happy years together.
He was inducted into the Manitoba Agricultural Hall
of Fame in 1999.
“Agriculture has sure lost a pillar,” Gordon MacKenzie, Manitoba Agriculture’s former director of boards,
commissions and legislation said following Hall’s
funeral.
Hall had many qualities but his ability to respect
those who disagreed with him, and gain their respect,
stands out, MacKenzie said.
The late farm organizer Bob Douglas summed up
Hall’s strengths saying: “I want to thank Bert Hall for
teaching me how to negotiate so that both sides would
win.”
Hall, a diminutive man, but with big farmer hands,
said he was most proud of helping establish KAP. Those
efforts were recognized in 1985 when the University of
Manitoba presented him with a Distinguished Service
Award and Special University Medal.
Hall, who led the Manitoba Farm Bureau in 1974,
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Farmers should own
assets they funded
In the Feb. 6 Manitoba Co-operator
opinion piece “Let’s get the facts right
on CWB” Jeff Nielsen claims critics of
Minister Ritz’s killing of the farmerowned and -directed CWB need to get
their facts straight. I would contend
Mr. Nielsen’s article is a poorly concealed attempt to mislead farmers.
For example, Mr. Nielsen confuses
the Federal Court with the Supreme
Court. It was the Federal Court that
ruled the Friends of the CWB is free to
BERT HALL
Farm and community leader Bert Hall, 94, died Feb. 1. He
accomplished much but was especially gratified to have
helped found the Keystone Agricultural Producers. photo: allan dawson
went to work canvassing farmer support for a new general farm organization after it collapsed over the Crow
subsidy payment debate. Hall chaired 25 meetings
across Manitoba in January 1984 discussing the model
of direct farm membership with commodity group
representation that eventually became KAP.
Hall agreed to be provisional president until KAP
held its first annual meeting in January 1985.
“I’m a great believer in KAP because it gives farmers
a voice,” Hall said.
But even 15 years ago, Hall could see storm clouds
on the horizon, with pressure building against supply
management and the Canadian Wheat Board’s single
marketing desk.
“We’re coming full circle,” he warned. “I’m concerned with where it’s all going.”
For Hall it was simple: farmers need and deserve the
tools to get some economic clout in the market.
“Democracy is based on a capitalistic system that
operates under some rules,” he said. “I think uncontrolled capitalism is just as dangerous as uncontrolled
communism. I think there has to be some rules. And
there has to be competition. And how big do you have
to get before you destroy competition?”
Too much competition among chicken farmers was
the problem in the 1960s, resulting in depressed prices.
Hall decided to do something about it by helping to
go ahead with the class-action lawsuit
on the allegation that Pool funds were
misallocated during the windup of
the farmer-controlled CWB. However,
the Friends have appealed this partial
victory to the Federal Court of Appeal.
Most people understand that
those who supply the money for an
investment have a right to own that
investment. It would appear that Mr.
Nielsen is so intent on supporting the
ideology of the Harper Government
he apparently does not agree with this
basic right.
Mr. Nielsen claims that Ottawa
opposed the decision of the elected
directors to purchase grain ships just
as the CWB had purchased grain cars
in the past. The elected directors were
standing up for farmers and moving them up the value chain, yet Mr.
Nielsen claims to have resigned over
this issue.
Instead of defending the government against farmers, Mr. Nielsen
should be quietly and soberly assessing the damage done by those who
destroyed the CWB.
As a farmer, I am happy to support
the Friends of the Canadian Wheat
Board to recover the assets that were
taken from farmers by Ottawa.
Ken Larsen
Benalto, Alta.
create the Manitoba Broiler Industry Association in
1964, which he chaired. It went on to help organize
supply management for chicken in Manitoba. Hall was
the Manitoba Chicken Broiler Producers’ Marketing
Board’s first chair — a job he held for 15 years. Until
then chicken farmers had no bargaining power.
“The people who had the laying flock, the hatchery
would tell them what they would pay for their eggs, the
hatchery told us what we had to pay for the chickens
and the feed manufacturer told us what we had to pay
for feed,” Hall said. “And the processor told us what
he’d pay for the chicken. The only one who didn’t have
a voice to try and determine what the price was, was
the farmer. We argued we needed a bargaining position
in the chain.”
Hall’s involvement in agricultural policy development was closely matched by his local community
work.
In recognition of his volunteerism, Hall received the
Queen’s 25th and 50th anniversary medals and a medal
commemorating Canada’s 125th anniversary.
“He was a good leader,” Manitou citizen and volunteer Bette Mueller said following Hall’s funeral. “He was
really highly respected.”
Her husband Walter, who served on town council
with Hall agreed.
“I think if I had to pick an all-star team from my
days here he’d be the captain,” Walter Mueller said. “I
can’t think of anybody who has done more and done it
properly.”
Local farmer Bill Howatt said Hall was an inspiration.
“I always looked up to him,” Howatt said. “It didn’t
matter what committee he was on, when he spoke all
would listen.”
KAP recognized Hall’s contribution in 2007 naming
its meeting room “The Bert Hall.”
In a 2004 interview Hall said he had no regrets.
“If I had just stuck my nose to making money and
done nothing else and didn’t contribute in any other
way I could’ve been a lot more wealthy than I am
today,” he said. “But, boy I would tell you I would not
change it for anything. I am such a strong believer in
the farmers being together and having the farmers’
voice and if they would just do that they would have a
great political power.”
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How would licensing
plan affect small
producers?
Now that the Cavers can resume
making prosciutto at their small onfarm meat shop, is their future viable
if the Manitoba Pork Council succeeds in licensing all hog producers
to “stabilize” and control the supply
of hogs to large processors?
Will smaller producers be able to
raise hogs to supply processors like
the Cavers, or continue to be able
to directly market pork processed in
small abattoirs?
Can small operators afford food
safety systems designed for large
processors? The standards are the
same even if they are “outcome
based.” The Cavers call them “onerous.”
How long will farmers be able to
raise and sell free-range pork and
poultry when CFIA protocols are
designed for confinement operations? Growing Assurance program
carrots for pork and poultry do not
apply to small producers.
Except for the Greens, all parties
pay lip service to the value of smaller
farmers and local food while imposing policies that undermine the
capacity for smaller operations to
survive in a marketplace controlled
by the big boys.
Green Party policies recognize
industrial food systems are not
environmentally or economically
sustainable. If they were, why would
the pork industry want more loan
guarantees and to license pork producers?
Now that industrial barns and
manure storages are aged, requiring updates and replacement, MPC
seeks more government financial
aid to, once again, prop up a failed
system.
Any aid must require sows to be
housed in groups on straw and eliminate gestation crates.
Let’s be honest. Government isn’t
really interested in helping the small
guy. But, at least it can end the egregious suffering endured by sows
confined in crates on concrete and
get rid of environmentally damaging liquid manure systems instead of
further propping up the inhumane
and unsustainable industry that has
made it economically non-viable for
thousands of smaller farmers to raise
and sell pigs.
Ruth Pryzner
Alexander, Manitoba
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Producers’ (KAP) president
D o u g C h o r n e y said in an
interview.
“KAP’s policy is regardless of
whether they are being used
or not we want producer car
loading sites to be there as an
alternative to farmers.”
Tim Coulter, former president of the Canadian
Pr o d u c e r Ca r Sh i p p e r s o f
Canada, agrees and suggests
the federal government consider a moratorium on site
abandonments.
“I’ve had more phone calls
in the last month (from farmers about producer cars) than
since I became president of the
association (three years ago),”
Coulter said.
CP recently cut five sites
leaving 94 and CN cut 14, leaving 48.
“CP cut sites that weren’t
being used,” CP spokesman Ed
Greenberg said in an email.
“CP still has coverage for
local producers to order and
ship producer cars with
our network of producer car
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loading sites across Western
Canada,” he wrote.
CN Rail did not respond by
press time.
The railways must notify
the public through local
newspaper ads 60 days before
closing a producer car loading
site.
The hard-won right of farmers to order and fill rail cars with
their own grain goes back more
than 100 years and is enshrined
in the Canada Grains Act.
Not only are producer cars
giving farmers an opportunity
to move their grain, bypassing
elevators plugged because of
a lack of trains, but they are
also returning higher prices,
Chorney said.
Chorney, who farms near
East Selkirk said he will net
$5.75 a bushel — 32 per cent
more than the local elevator is
paying — for his No. 1 Canada
Western Red Spring wheat
(12.5 per cent protein) being
exported to an American buyer
in producer cars being loaded
this week.
“That’s unbelievable,” he
said, adding a farmer in northwestern Manitoba with the
same wheat was offered just
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$3.89 a bushel by the local
elevator.
“That’s a joke,” Chorney said.
“We know wheat is worth $10 a
bushel in Vancouver...”
Producer car shippers traditionally saved money by avoiding elevator charges, loading
the cars themselves or hiring
someone to do it for them. But
the bigger saving now is on the
basis (difference between cash
and futures prices.)
Gra i n p r i c e s a t we s t e r n
Canadian elevators are low
because the railways are not
moving grain fast enough, said
Wade Sobkowich, executive
director of the Western Grain
Elevator Association, which
represents the major elevator companies. Lower elevator
prices are meant to discourage farmers from delivering,
he said.
“There’s a 55,000-car shortfall right now and we know
there are 50 vessels waiting off
the West Coast right now for
grain — 50,” Sobkowich said.
“It’s a record.”
It ’s t h e r a i l w a y s’ f a u l t ,
according to Chorney. They
chose not to invest more in
surge capacity confident they
will eventually move most of
the grain anyway.
“If anything we need
more producer car
sites, not less.”
Doug Chorney
“A single act by (rail) companies in Canada has taken
m o re w e a l t h f r o m Pra i r i e
agribusiness and farmers...
it’s criminal,” he said. “But
the fact that the federal government is not holding some
sor t of Royal Commission
to investigate this is disappointing because no single
act has done more damage
to both grain companies and
farmers.”
The railways blame a record
crop and bad winter weather
for the delays.
B u t i t ’s n o t j u s t f a r m ers and grain companies
that are suffering — millers
and canola crushers are too.
One grain industry official
said some mills in Eastern
Canada and the northeast
United States are r unning
dangerously low.
According to one unconfirmed report one Manitoba
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down because of poor rail
service. A company official did
not respond to a request for an
interview.
Jim Everson, executive director of the Canadian Oilseed
Processors Association, said he
couldn’t say whether the report
was true or not. However, he
did say crushers are encountering delays in moving canola oil and meal to their
customers.
Pro d u c e r c a r s a re p roving to be an important option
for farmers this crop year,
Chorney said.
“I’m getting calls every single day (from farmers) trying
to find producer car sites,” he
said.
Canadian Grain Commission
statistics show producer car
orders so far this crop year
are up more than 60 per cent
from the same time last year
to 13,494. It’s almost certain
producer car shipments in the
2013-14 crop year ending July
31 will shatter the previous
modern record of 14,341 set in
2011-12.
Even though access to prod u c e r s i s a f a r m e r’s r i g h t
Coulter fears the railways will
try to discourage them.
Meanwhile, the railways told
MPs last week removing the
cap on what the railways can
earn shipping western grain
to export would result in better service. The WGEA doesn’t
believe it.
Half of the shortfall in grain
car deliveries are to destinations the cap doesn’t apply to,
Sobkowich said.
“So the railways can charge
whatever they want and we
still can’t get service to those
areas, so how does the revenue cap have anything to do
with it?”
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Producer Car Shippers of Canada
(PCSC) is dissolving.
The decision was made at the
organization’s annual meeting
in Moose Jaw in November, said
retiring association president Tim
Coulter.
“I wanted to retire and do some
other things and nobody stepped
up,” Coulter said in an interview.
Funding was another issue. The old
Canadian Wheat Board collected a
voluntary checkoff on producer cars to
finance the association. The board’s
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“This has not been an easy decision
and it is with mixed feelings that we
have arrived at this point in history,”
Coulter said in a letter posted on the
association’s website.
“I do feel that PCSC has been an
effective voice over the last seven years
and has contributed to the success of
producer car shippers...”
Coulter said he hopes farm organizations and short line railways will continue
to promote and defend producer cars.
It isn’t easy winding down the
association, Coulter said, but members
agreed it should be done while it still
has the funds to do so.
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PED Continued from page 1
infected in such a short time,”
the Landmark statement said.
The link has not been confirmed, but in the meantime,
the company said it will only
be sourcing the feed additive
from Canadian suppliers and it
will be testing all of its plasma
for the presence of PEDv RNA
prior to using it in feed.
“Sources of plasma protein from the United States
of America may be sourced
from slaughter plants where
pigs previously infected with
PEDv are handled,” the company said. “Canadian slaughter plant sources of plasma
protein do not contain plasma
from infected pigs as the virus
was only detected in Canada
(Ontario) for the first time
about three weeks ago.”
Valuable feed ingredient
As well, it said customers that
preferred not to use the plasma
product at all in their piglet
rations would be supplied with
alternatives, but the company
warned “piglet performance
may be compromised and cost
of diets may increase.”
“Spray-dried plasma protein
is a highly valuable and effective feed ingredient in baby pig
diets, encouraging feed intake
and better post-weaning performance,” the statement says.
“The spray-dry process used to
dry plasma ingredients is able
to destroy all recognized swine
pathogens.”
Local officials said their first
priority is preventing the virus
from spreading to more farms
in Manitoba.
“Secondarily, they will be
investigating the route of infection on to the farm,” a provincial
spokesperson said Feb. 18. “They
may be looking (at plasma) as
well, but as I understand it, it’s
not currently their focus.”
First case
Officials quoted in the same
story emphasized that finding genetic material is not the
same as finding a live virus.
M a n i t o b a’s o n l y k n ow n
case to date is on a wean-tofinish farm in southeastern
Manitoba.
“The veterinarian and the
producer are working very hard
to implement measures on the
farm to make sure it doesn’t
spread off the farm,” said Dr.
Glen Duizer, the province’s
acting chief veterinary officer.
All animal movement on and
off the affected farm has been
restricted.
Now staff from the chief vet’s
office are working to identify
any and all farms that may
have had contact with the
affected operation so they can
be surveilled for signs of the
virus that causes PED.
How the virus arrived at
the farm is still unknown. It is
believed to be transmitted via
fecal matter.
“This strain has not been
identified yet, fully, that’s a
process that’s underway... in
Canada and North America so
far it’s been one strain, there
is an additional strain now
present in the U.S., but in
Canada it’s all been one strain,” stop the spread of the virus via
livestock trailers.
Duizer said.
“What this case has illusT h e v i r u s’s a r r i v a l w a s
an unwelcome one for the trated is the continuing need
Manitoba Pork Council, but not for producers to be vigilant
about what vehicles and what
unexpected.
“The council feels it’s very people are coming onto their
unfortunate we’ve had this properties, entry into barns
case, but we’re not surprised, should be severely restricted as
we’ve been planning for this well,” he said. “Vehicles must
eventuality,” said Dickson. also be washed and disinfected
“We’re working very closely if they come into contact with
with the provincial and the a potential source of the virus.”
federal government to ensure
that this site is isolated and Vigilant
the disease contained on this In addition to the confirmed
farm, and we’re supporting all farms in Ontario there is one
efforts.”
in Quebec and one on Prince
Last fall, the council worked Edward Island. South of the
with the province to develop an border nearly 300 barns in
emergency response plan in the 23 states have been infected,
event PED arrived in the prov- resulting in the deaths of
ince. Then, in the first week of approximately four million
February, they jointly launched pigs.
a rapid-detection monitoring
If Manitoba — which proprogram for the disease. The duces 30 per cent of all the hogs
program targets facilities that in Canada — saw an outbreak
handle large volumes of pigs, of the disease similar to that
but hasn’t detected any signs of seen in the U.S., the industry
the virus yet.
could lose upwards of $170,000
Producers meanwhile have million, said Dickson.
been provided detailed inforDuizer added that PED is not
mation on the virus, and biose- currently a reportable disease
curity protocols.
in the province, but that discusDickson stressed that proper sions are underway to change
cleaning and disinfecting pro- that.
cedures are vital in order Trim:
to 8.125”
Andrew Dickson of the Manitoba
Pork Council listens while acting
chief veterinary officer Glen Duizer
confirms the presence of the PED virus in Manitoba. Photo: Shannon VanRaes
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“What this case
has illustrated is
the continuing need
for producers to be
vigilant.”
Andrew Dickson
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“We’re guided by our veterinarians. If they tell us there’s
a problem with blood plasma,
then we’ll pass that on to our
p r o d u c e r m e m b e r s ,” s a i d
Manitoba Pork Council general
manager Andrew Dickson.
Pinpointing the exact source
of infection is a “big detective
project,” he said, because it
could have arrived via trucks,
ser vice personnel, feed or
some other way.
“There’s been a lot of finger
pointing and speculation, and
that’s why you’re seeing companies like Landmark going
out of its way to have its products tested to see if it contains
the virus and whether it’s a
potential source of infection
for farms.”
However, Ontar io’s chief
veterinarian Dr. Greg Douglas
was quoted Feb. 13 on Better
Fa r m i n g m a g a z i n e’s w e b site as saying the provincial
Agriculture Department had
detected PEDv genetic material in swine feed samples from
several farms confirmed to
have the virus. The Canadian
Food Inspection Agency, he
added, had offered to test for
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Scientific claims won’t counter ethical
questions about animal welfare
Pork producers can say that consumers don’t get it, that science is the basis for welfare and that
castration doesn’t hurt, but the public won’t buy it — and that’s bad for business
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
I
f you’re a pork producer trying to convince someone
your welfare practices are
up to snuff, the last words you
should pull out of your phrase
book are “science” and “based.”
Speaking to representatives of
Manitoba’s pork industry during the annual Swine Seminar
in Winnipeg, Dr. Tim Blackwell
outlined the pitfalls and missteps that hurt the image of pig
farmers, including attempts to
use scientific claims to answer
ethical questions.
“People say if you want to
know what to do with animal
welfare, you have to be science based. Well, no. Animal
welfare is not science determined,” he said, asking producers if they would consult a
scientist to determine human
rights or answer other moral
dilemmas.
Rather, animal rights are
rooted in a number of tradi-
Dr. Tim Blackwell speaks to producers about their public image during the
annual Manitoba Swine Seminar in Winnipeg. PHOTO: SHANNON VANRAES
tions — some ancient, some
modern — that are based on
trust and expertise.
“ When we tr y to decide
w h a t ’s r i g h t a n d w h a t ’s
wrong... I think the simplest
way to determine this, is to try
to define discomfort or pain as
either necessary, or unnecessary,” the Ontario-based swine
extension veterinarian said.
“And what the public does
not want, where the public
thinks you break your contract,
is when you cause unnecessary
suffering to an animal. We all
know there is a certain amount
of suffering — in our lives, in
animals’ lives, you can’t make it
perfect... but when it’s unnecessary for something to suffer,
people get upset.”
He pointed to the current
hot-button issue of sow gestation crates as an example.
When first introduced in
the early 1970s, the argument
could be made successfully
that gestation crates were the
safest, best method of housing
sows at the time. Yes, they may
have caused some discomfort,
but it was a necessary discomfort, the veterinarian said.
But with new research and
fresh technologies now allowing for successful group-housing models, it’s difficult to
make that case any longer.
Especially when, as Blackwell points out, all of Europe
has gone stall free and coun-
tries like Denmark are averaging 29.6 pigs per sow, per year.
“ To d a y I t h i n k we h a v e
alternatives. We can provide
all the things gestation crates
do and we can let them turn
around. And the public says,
we really prefer those sows
to turn around, seems only
natural that a 400-pound animal ought to be able to turn
around and spread out her
legs,” he said.
Howe ve r, h e a d d e d t h a t
swine producers don’t struggle with animal welfare issues,
so much as they struggle with
public relations issues.
“Sometimes we don’t communicate well and sometimes
we ignore our customers at
our peril,” he said. “So the
message is, we don’t really
have problems with animal
welfare, we have a problem
where we aren’t always communicating well.”
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Not communicating well
includes using terms like “science based,” or responding to
concerns over practices like
castration by saying things
like, “it’s standard industry
practice” and “it doesn’t hurt.”
Bl a c k w e l l s a i d c o n s u m ers need to be given credit,
and they aren’t going to buy
an explanation as simple as
it doesn’t hurt the pigs. What
that glib and unlikely answer
will do, is damage any trust the
consumer had in the producer
and their industry, he said.
“So the answer isn’t ‘it’s
standard industry practice,’
the answer is we don’t like
doing that... we understand
that it hurts them, we wish
there was an alternative —
we’re looking for alternatives
— but that’s a necessary discomfort that we would like to
turn into an unnecessary discomfort,” Blackwell said, adding producers should also be
open and honest about why
male piglets need to be castrated.
And if a video surfaces of
farm animals being abused?
Don’t obfuscate.
“ What we don’t do when
they find some sort of abuse,
we don’t hand the video to
experts to analyze. It’s easy to
know that kicking a sow in the
head is wrong,” he said, adding that the people who raise
swine should be the experts
on the issue — experts who
“Good welfare is your brand. But brands can
drift, and your brand drifts every time you start
to talk about animal science instead of animal
husbandry... maintaining trust is key.”
DR. TIM BLACKWELL
don’t need to outsource their
opinions.
Dwelling on negative media
coverage, or lamenting the fact
the positive things pork producers do don’t end up on the
news won’t help either.
“The media covers plane
crashes, they don’t cover successful landings... get used to
it,” the swine expert said.
Another non sequitur used
by those in the industry to
justify production practices,
is to say swine welfare must
be improving because productivity keeps improving. But
Blackwell cautioned industry
representatives from making
that causal relationship.
“That’s like saying some kid
in a sweatshop in Bangladesh
used to make 50 T-shirts and
now you’ve got him making
75, so now he must be better off — nobody believes
that. There’s no connection
between how hard you push
a worker and how well the
worker is treated,” he said.
Making the argument that
city-dwellers don’t understand
agriculture, and they would
starve without the industry is
counterproductive as well.
“The old, ‘if you start telling
us how to farm we’re all going
to starve to death’ — it’s just not
true, we could live on pig feed. I
mean pork is a wonderful food,
but it isn’t necessary to feed the
world,” said the veterinarian.
Producers do good work, but
they need to be honest with
the public and not write off
those concerned with animal
welfare as fringe extremists,
Blackwell said, adding that he
would consider himself among
those interested and concerned with animal rights.
“G ood welfare is your
brand,” he said. “But brands
can drift, and your brand drifts
every time you start to talk
about animal science instead
of animal husbandry... maintaining trust is key.”
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MPs berate
railways over
grain shipments
The railways say they size their fleet based on
what they think ports can handle
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
A
fter weeks of being
harangued by constituents about grain
transportation snafus, Prairie
Conservative MPs finally got
a chance to unload on CN
and CP executives.
During a session of the
Commons agriculture committee, the railways stuck to
their arguments that a prolonged cold snap and heavy
snow had affected all freight,
not just the record grain
crop, in Western Canada.
Not only do western MPs
hear about the problem
whenever they’re back home,
there has been a persistent
lobbying campaign on Parliament Hill by Prairie farm
groups about all the delays
and demurrage, which some
estimates say could cost
farmers $2 billion in low
prices and lost sales. When
the situation didn’t rate a
mention in the 2014 budget
speech, the lobbying campaign grew more intense.
The NDP and Liberals joined
in during the committee and
an earlier emergency debate
in the Commons.
Randy Hoback, a Saskatchewan farmer and former
president of Western Canadian Wheat Growers, said
the railways should be compensating farmers. Cold and
snow are staples of winter.
The railways should be prepared for those conditions as
well as being ready to handle
growing agriculture, potash
and energy traffic. Instead
they have cut capacity.
“The reality is, those challenges are things that you
faced in previous years, and
will face in years to come,”
he said. “The reality is, you
went and laid off… 4,500
employees and reduced your
service by 400 locomotives
and 2,700 rail cars.”
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He said the potash, lumber
and steel mills in his province are also suffering from
lack of service. “You’re not
taking seriously the growth
that’s going on in Western
Canada. You’re actually going
to do severe damage to the
western Canadian economy
unless you smarten up.
“You look at it from your
shareholders’ perspective.
I respect that. But look at
it from the customers and
what’s going on in Western
Canada. You haven’t done
that.”
Earl Dreeshen, Conservative MP for Red Deer and a
grain farmer, said the grain
companies are running day,
night and weekends but are
unable to get the cars they
need.
He noted that the American rail system seems more
responsive to shippers than
Canadian carriers. “You have
had significant support from
FILE PHOTO
the Government of Canada
over a number of years and
I’m wondering if you feel
that you should perhaps provide at least the same level
of service to Canadian shippers despite the lack of competition in the Canadian rail
market?”
Constraints
David Miller, CN’s assistant
vice-president for government affairs, said American
railways were more deregulated and not constrained
by anything like the revenue
cap. He said the railway was
taking the problem seriously
and had already added 1,000
hoppers to its fleet.
“We size our fleet really
based on what we believe
the ports can handle,” he
said. “The reason we’ve
increased the number of cars
is because, in effect, we saw
in the fall that Prince Rupert
and Vancouver were able to
move more grain through
than we had previously
thought they were going to
be able to. And so we said,
OK, if they can move the
grain, we’d better add more
cars.”
January 2014 was much
colder than the first month of
2013, he added. “There were
times in January where we
had as many as 35 trains sitting because it was too cold
to get the air up to get them
moving again.”
Michael Murphy, CP’s vicepresident of government
affairs, said grain shippers
haven’t been as willing to
work out contracts with the
railways as other industries
and that complicates the carriers’ efforts to plan for traffic
loads.
CP retired a bunch of older
locomotives in 2013 because
it had newer and more efficient motive power, he
added.
At CP, crude oil amounts to
“a little over three per cent of
our business,” he noted. “In
the case of grain and grain
products, it’s a little under
20 per cent of our business.
Grain and grain products are
six times the size of the business. They’re really not comparable at all.”
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LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Cattle Prices
Winnipeg
February 14, 2014
High prices didn’t take
holiday at cattle markets
Steers & Heifers
—
D1, 2 Cows
75.00 - 83.00
D3 Cows
68.00 - 76.00
Bulls
86.00 - 95.00
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
130.00 - 152.00
(801-900 lbs.)
150.00 - 166.00
(701-800 lbs.)
155.00 - 177.00
(601-700 lbs.)
175.00 - 195.00
(501-600 lbs.)
190.00 - 222.00
(401-500 lbs.)
190.00 - 232.00
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
115.00 - 135.00
(801-900 lbs.)
128.00 - 142.00
(701-800 lbs.)
135.00 - 155.00
(601-700 lbs.)
145.00 - 175.00
(501-600 lbs.)
155.00 - 183.00
(401-500 lbs.)
165.00 - 190.00
Heifers
Alberta South
$ 135.50 - 136.00
—
80.00 - 95.00
73.00 - 85.00
91.36
$ 154.00 - 164.00
157.00 - 170.00
164.00 - 183.00
176.00 - 195.00
190.00 - 210.00
200.00 - 220.00
$ 130.00 - 146.00
140.00 - 157.00
148.00 - 164.00
156.00 - 175.00
165.00 - 186.00
175.00 - 195.00
($/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 14, 2014) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change
February 2014
143.15
3.60
April 2014
142.40
3.33
June 2014
132.75
1.55
August 2014
131.42
1.70
October 2014
134.80
1.90
December 2014
136.30
2.45
Cattle Slaughter
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
Feeder Cattle
March 2014
April 2014
May 2014
August 2014
September 2014
October 2014
A new price insurance program may further boost optimism
Previous
Year­
48,978
11,884
37,094
NA
592,000
Ontario
$ 120.56 - 149.34
114.55 - 147.46
65.13 - 91.32
65.13 - 91.32
89.32 - 108.05
$ 155.73 - 177.61
154.50 - 172.54
148.89 - 175.58
150.73 - 190.97
171.79 - 213.02
157.57 - 208.10
$ 139.85 - 150.97
134.43 - 149.77
132.18 - 158.99
132.10 - 164.98
135.87 - 169.60
139.77 - 173.88
Close
170.75
171.60
171.87
173.70
173.00
172.30
Week Ending
February 8, 2014
605
23,941
14,870
604
525
8,637
89
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Change
2.95
3.03
1.45
4.03
3.90
3.65
Previous
Year
584
21,425
14,729
563
632
10,380
11
Hog Prices
Source: Manitoba Agriculture
(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)
Current Week
177.00 E
165.00 E
169.80
172.00
Futures (February 14, 2014) in U.S.
Hogs
February 2014
April 2014
May 2014
June 2014
July 2014
Last Week
177.10
164.48
167.29
169.04
Close
86.35
94.92
103.15
104.90
104.70
“We all want to believe this thing
is here for more than one turn,
but people are nervous.”
Terryn Shiells
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
February 8, 2014
49,842
12,600
37,242
NA
561,000
E - Estimation
MB. ($/hog)
MB. (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)
MB. (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)
ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)
P.Q. (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)
$1 Cdn: $0.9076 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.0981 Cdn.
COLUMN
(Friday to Thursday)
Slaughter Cattle
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
February 14, 2014
Last Year (Index 100)
172.71
159.68
161.09
167.85
Change
-0.15
0.72
0.65
-0.15
0.45
Other Market Prices
CNSC
V
olumes of cattle sold at auction marts
across Manitoba remained strong during the week ended Feb. 14, as farmers
were attracted by continued high prices.
Feeder cattle continued to come in mass
numbers, with unfavourable winter weather
holding some farmers back.
Allan Munroe with Killarney Livestock
Markets noted its Feb. 10 sale would have
been even bigger if it wasn’t for extremely cold
temperatures.
“We’re going to have a pretty good sale this
coming Monday (Feb. 17),” he said, adding the
sale will have some cattle pushed ahead from
the previous week.
Feb. 17 was Louis Riel Day in Manitoba,
but Munroe said they’ve had pretty good luck
holding sales on holidays.
“There are still people who want to see their
cattle sell, and when they’re not working on
Monday they can actually come in to watch
them sell,” he said. “And maybe their kids are
home for the long weekend and can give them
a hand on Sunday.”
At calving season, there are also a lot of
slaughter cows coming to market; if a cow
loses a calf, she’s being sold because of the high
prices being seen on that side of the market.
Strong demand is the key factor in the
higher prices keeping volumes high across
the province for both feeder and slaughter
cattle. Cattle were being sent east and west,
Munroe added, with continued good demand
also coming from the U.S. due to weakness in
the Canadian dollar.
The Canadian currency saw a bit of a recovery during the week, moving back above US91
cents but still much weaker than it has been in
recent history.
And buyers aren’t hesitating to come out to
sales because they have been getting a good
selection of cattle.
The number of cattle coming on to
Manitoba’s markets is almost unseasonably
high for this time of year, but farmers don’t
want to miss out on the strong prices offered
so far in 2014.
allan munroe
“We all want to believe this thing is here for
more than one turn, but people are nervous.
They don’t want to see this come and not have
sold anything,” Munroe said.
Overall, 2014 has been a good year so far
for Manitoba’s cattle producers, with strong
prices and low feed costs helping increase
profitability.
A new insurance program announced by
the Canadian and Manitoba governments
during the week should provide even more
optimism for producers. Manitoba will be
participating in the Western Livestock Price
Insurance Program ( WLPIP), Canada and
Manitoba’s agriculture ministers announced
on Feb. 13.
Details of the program are still being finalized, but will be announced to producers before the spring. The program will help
Manitoba livestock farmers reduce their risk,
as it gives them the opportunity to insure their
herds against unexpected price drops.
Munroe described the program as “tremendous,” adding it will be very beneficial for
farmers with smaller operations who may be
thinking about expanding their herds.
“The risk on these cattle is huge and they
need some sort of risk management other
than just hoping for the best,” he said. “We
can see feeder cattle on the futures board at
(strong prices), but unless you actually lock
something in, it really is irrelevant.”
The program, he added, “will help some
of the smaller guys who want to feed cattle,
because the risk management has been difficult for them… The bigger guys, they can
forward-contract significant numbers of cattle
and when they get to a certain size they can
use the futures.”
Terryn Shiells writes for Commodity News Service Canada,
a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity
market reporting.
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)
—
Next Sale
Feb. 19th
—
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 23, 2014
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.915
Undergrade .............................. $1.825
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.900
Undergrade .............................. $1.800
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.900
Undergrade .............................. $1.800
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
73.31 - 103.49
143.35 - 163.19
164.09 - 174.89
173.31 - 193.91
190.57 - 244.59
—
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
$1.8200
A Large
1.8500
1.8200
A Medium
1.6700
1.6400
A Small
1.2500
1.2200
A Pee Wee
0.3675
0.3675
Nest Run 24 +
1.7490
1.7210
B
0.45
0.45
C
0.15
0.15
Goats
Kids
Billys
Mature
Winnipeg (head)
(Fats)
—
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
92.49 - 321.22
—
86.89 - 249.45
Horses
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
22.81 - 30.69
24.43 - 42.43
briefs
European poultry
producers give
in to GMO soy
hamburg, /reuter /
German poultry producers
have given up a promise to
consumers to avoid feeding
birds with soy containing
genetically modified organisms (GMOs) because of
lower supplies of non-GMO
soybeans, poultry producers association BBH said
Feb. 18.
Brazil, the main bulk
supplier of GMO-free soybeans, was likely to cut
its supplies of GMO-free
soybeans by 50 per cent
this year partly because
of cross-pollination with
conventional beans, the
association said.
The danger of cross-contamination between GMO
and conventional crops
during transport has also
risen, it said.
“Feeding for chicken
and turkey production in
Germany without use of
genetic technology can no
longer be undertaken,” the
association said. “Specialist
feed factories for production of poultry feed requires
a seamless supply chain
with impeccable GMO-free
soybeans, but supplies can
no longer be guaranteed in
the required volumes.”
The association said
Germany was not alone
with such problems and
some British and Danish
poultry producers had in
the past year also given up
commitments not to use
GMO soybeans.
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GRAIN MARKETS
Export and International Prices
column
Gap wide beyond compare
for soybeans over canola
A lack of available supply boosts interest in oats
Phil Franz-Warkentin
CNSC
I
CE Futures Canada canola prices took a
tumble during the week ended Feb. 14,
dropping to their lowest levels since June
2010. The losses may have been overdone by
most sensible standards, but canola is not
playing by the normal rules for now and further declines are a definite possibility.
The March canola contract fell below $400
per tonne, losing more than $25 over the
course of the week. During the same time,
soybeans in the U.S. posted gains of five to
nine cents per bushel. The spread between
the two oilseeds, which traditionally trade
more in sympathy with each other, has widened to unprecedented levels. Cash bids for
canola in Western Canada are now about
half of what a bushel of soybeans goes for
in the Midwest. Canadian crush margins,
which provide a measure of the profitability
of the product values relative to the seed cost
when processing canola, are also at record
levels.
The nearby crush margin was pegged at
C$225 above the futures on Feb. 14 by ICE
Futures Canada. On the same day a year ago
the crush was only at C$25. However, the
crushers aren’t necessarily cashing in on
those wide margins, as the rail issues causing
problems across the Prairies are also limiting
how much oil and meal they can move.
Canada’s record-large canola crop and the
well-documented problems moving it out
of the country this year have taken much of
the blame for the declining prices. Adding to
those bearish fundamentals is heavy speculative selling. The large fund traders have taken
advantage of the lack of buying interest to put
on short positions and keep pushing prices
Week Ago
Year Ago
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
218.81
213.39
287.03
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
243.34
234.52
319.36
Coarse Grains
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
173.42
174.40
285.24
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
266.34
296.00
230.19
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
493.93
487.13
525.47
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
871.86
852.45
1135.35
oilseeds
lower while playing the widening spread
between canola and soybeans.
A corrective bounce is inevitable, as buyers
around the world are said to be “drooling”
at the cheapness of Canadian canola. But in
the meantime, they are being forced to pay
more for Australian supplies or alternative
oilseeds as Canada’s crop remains stuck in
the Prairies. When the pipes will start flowing again remains to be seen, and any relative
strength in canola could be a long time coming, given the large supplies that will be carried over into next year.
Oats activity
In the U.S., good export demand helped
underpin soybeans during the week, while all
three wheat markets managed to move up to
their highest levels in a month.
Good export demand for U.S. wheat,
together with the adverse winter weather
conditions hitting much of the country, helped underpin wheat values. Further
strength in wheat, however, is uncertain as
any outside demand will quickly move elsewhere if U.S. prices get too high.
For soybeans and corn, large South
American crops will soon be more readily available, which should limit the upside
potential. Meanwhile, the annual fight for
acres across the Midwest will also move the
markets as early area forecasts start to be
released.
The Chicago oats market saw some mixed
activity during the week, with the March/
May spread narrowing in as traders exit the
front month. A lack of available supplies in
deliverable positions has propped up U.S.
oats prices lately, with the nearby contracts
continuing to trade a premium to the more
deferred positions.
Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
For three-times-daily market reports from
Commodity News Service Canada, visit
“Today in Markets” at www.manitobacooperator.ca.
Last Week
All prices close of business February 13, 2014
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business February 14, 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
398.20
425.60
May 2014
408.80
435.60
July 2014
418.40
444.80
Special Crops
Report for February 18, 2014 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan
Spot Market
Spot Market
Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)
Other (Cdn. cents per pound unless
otherwise specified)
Large Green 15/64
19.00 - 20.00
Canaryseed
Laird No. 1
19.00 - 20.00
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
16.75 - 18.50
Desi Chickpeas
19.00 - 21.00
—
19.00 - 20.00
Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1
Fababeans, large
—
Feed beans
—
10.80 - 11.00
Medium Yellow No. 1
5.00 - 6.25
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
35.00 - 35.00
No. 1 Pinto Beans
30.00 - 30.00
No. 1 Small Red
Source: Stat Publishing
No. 1 Pink
SUNFLOWERS
—
40.00 - 40.00
Fargo, ND
Goodlands, KS
19.55
18.45
32.00* Call for details
—
Report for February 14, 2014 in US$ cwt
NuSun (oilseed)
Confection
Source: National Sunflower Association
Exporters refuse to accept Syngenta corn trait
Cargill has joined Bunge in saying they don’t want the risk until the trait is approved in China and the EU
By Tom Polansek
chicago / reuters
C
argill Inc., the top exporter of
U.S. grain and oilseeds, said Feb.
14 it will reject crops containing
a new genetically modified Syngenta
AG corn trait that are delivered to its
grain elevators for export contracts.
Corn seeds containing Syngenta’s
Agrisure Duracade trait are available
for planting in the United States for the
first time this year after U.S. authorities
cleared the trait in 2013. The trait has
not been approved for import by China
or the European Union, both major
buyers of U.S. crops.
Duracade has import approval
from some other big buyers, including Mexico, South Korea and Japan.
“For export contracts, we will not
accept deliver y of any commodity containing the Duracade trait,”
Cargill told Reuters in an email.
“Cargill reserves the right to reject
and/or require testing of deliveries and any acceptance, rejection or
testing for the presence of Duracade
will be determined by Cargill in its
sole discretion at the time of delivery,” the company said.
The commercialization of
Duracade has split the U.S. farm
sector and pitted global grain
m e rc h a n t s a g a i n s t Sw i s s - b a s e d
Syngenta, the world’s largest crop
c h e m i c a l s c o m p a n y. So m e U . S .
growers say they need access to the
new trait, which is engineered to
fight pests called rootworms, while
exporters warn it threatens to disrupt trade.
Bunge Ltd., one of the world’s top
agricultural trading houses, has also
signalled it will refuse to handle
crops containing Duracade unless
the product is cleared by China.
Since November, China’s authorities have rejected more than 600,000
tonnes of U.S. corn and corn products containing another unauthor-
ized genetically modified Syngenta
corn trait, Agrisure Viptera. Known
as MIR 162, the trait has been awaiting Beijing’s approval for more than
two years.
T h e Na t i o n a l G ra i n a n d Fe e d
Association and North American
Export Grain Association last month
asked Syngenta to suspend the commercial use of Duracade and MIR
162 in the United States until China
and other U.S. export markets have
granted regulatory approval.
Syngenta has declined the request,
saying Duracade will be available in
limited quantities and that growers
need new technologies.
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TB co-ordinator confident
disease can be beaten
RMEA testing of 5,000 head this year finds reactor rate stable at 3.3 per cent, but no positives
Genetic find
might lead to
cattle that
are more
resistant to TB
Researchers have
identified the
genetic signatures
associated with
TB resistance
University of
Edinburgh release
Allan Preston gives a progress report at the recent Manitoba Beef Producers annual general meeting. photo: Daniel Winters
By Daniel Winters
co-operator staff / Brandon
P
rovincial TB co-ordinator Allan Preston’s stated goal is to put himself out
of a job, and so far he claims that
he’s making good progress.
In an update of ongoing efforts aimed
at wiping out the disease that has dogged
cattle producers around Riding Mountain National Park for decades, Preston
expressed optimism that the end of the
program that costs $2 million per year is
“in sight.”
“We’ve made considerable progress,”
said Preston, who noted that Manitoba
lost its bovine tuberculosis-free status in
2003, but gained it back in 2006.
Despite being officially a TB-free zone
since then, the province’s ongoing fight
against the chronic disease that affects
cattle, elk and whitetail deer has seen a
number of setbacks in recent years.
The last TB positive in a cattle herd
was recorded in 2008, but the disease has
proven to be stubbornly resistant to eradication in the wild population of elk and
whitetail deer.
The last confirmed TB-positive case in
whitetail deer was found in 2009, and in
2011 in elk.
This year’s cattle surveillance testing by
Canadian Food Inspection Agency staff of
about 55 herds or roughly 5,000 head, for
bovine tuberculosis in the Riding Mountain Eradication Area using the two-stage
caudal fold test is about halfway through,
with the incidence of so-called “reactors”
stable at about 3.3 per cent.
About half of the testing is being done
within the so-called core area, mainly the
rural municipalities of Grandview, just
north of the park, and Rossburn, which
borders it to the south.
About 70 reactors were retested using
the Bovigam test. Two were removed and
slaughtered, but post-mortem testing
showed no indication of TB.
Surveillance in elk and deer has centred largely on submissions of hunterkilled samples, however, the number of
these has fallen short.
Of the stated goal of 110 elk and 135
whitetail deer samples, so far only six elk
and 91 deer have been collected.
“That indicates to us that the elk and
deer populations have been reduced
from where they were a number of years
ago,” said Preston.
Last year, a plan to cull and test 100 elk
and 40 whitetail deer within RMNP was
derailed over concerns that the herd had
been reduced to unsustainable levels.
But as of last week, Parks Canada has
begun augmenting hunter-submitted
samples by culling 50 elk and capturing,
testing, and radio collaring a further 50
mature elk within RMNP with helicopters.
No elk born after 2004 has tested
positive for the disease, and if another
older animal is found to have TB, that
would simply indicate a lingering presence of the pathogen left over from the
peak of infection that is believed to have
occurred in 2000.
However, if TB is confirmed in an elk
born after 2004, that would show that the
disease may still be “percolating” within
the area, said Preston.
If prevalence of the disease fades as
expected, cattle herd surveillance may
shift from regular testing to focusing
only on the traceback of animals from
the RMEA that go to slaughter as well as
ongoing hunter surveillance, he added.
But a recent study found that due to
incomplete premises identification data,
“I want to see this thing
through to a reasonable
end point. My goal in life
is to make my position
redundant.”
Allan Preston
only about half of the slaughtered animals from the area were traceable back
to their farm of origin.
Research into a new, blood-based
method for testing cattle that was hoped
might replace the 100-year-old caudal
fold test has been disappointing due to
the test’s unacceptable level of accuracy,
said Preston.
Preston said that his job of co-ordinating the TB control effort has been akin to
“herding cats” due to the diverse array
of stakeholders that include two federal
departments, two federal agencies, two
provincial departments, First Nations
in the park area, local ranchers and the
provincial association, and the Manitoba
Wildlife Federation.
“Trying to keep all these people going
in the same direction some days is
indeed a challenge,” said Preston.
His one-year term as provincial TB
co-ordinator officially ends on March
31, but Preston is hopeful that it will be
extended by another year.
“I want to see this thing through to a
reasonable end point. My goal in life is
to make my position redundant,” said
Preston.
[email protected]
Scientists have identified
genetic traits in cattle that might
allow farmers to breed livestock
with increased resistance to
bovine tuberculosis (TB).
The study, which compared
the genetic code of TB-infected
animals with that of diseasefree cattle, could help to impact
on a disease that leads to major
economic losses worldwide.
The research, led by the
University of Edinburgh’s
Roslin Institute, has identified
a number of genetic signatures
associated with TB resistance in
the cows that remained unaffected.
The study builds on previous
research by The Roslin Institute,
which showed that some cattle might be more resistant to
bovine TB as a result of their
genetic makeup.
Researchers at The Roslin
Institute say the latest finding
is significant as it sheds further
light on whether it might be
possible to improve TB control
through selective breeding.
The team used the latest
gene identification techniques
to compare the genes of
healthy and infected female
Holstein-Friesians.
Bovine TB, caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium
bovis, not only infects cattle, but
other livestock and wildlife. It
also remains a risk to humans.
Despite intensive efforts
over many decades, bovine TB
continues to have a serious
impact on livestock at home
and abroad, affecting farm profitability and animal welfare. In
2010-11, its effects cost the U.K.
government £152 million.
This latest research, funded
by the Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research
Council (BBSRC) and the EU,
is published in the journal
Heredity.
Lead researcher professor,
Liz Glass said of the results:
“Differences between cattle
in their genes is not the only
factor in determining whether
the animal will get bovine TB
or not; various environmental
factors as well as differences in
the TB bacteria may also affect
susceptibility.
“If we can choose animals
with better genotypes for TB
resistance, then we can apply
this information in new breeding programs alongside other
control strategies. It is hoped
that can help us to more effectively control TB in cattle.”
13
The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
column
Real-time information improves production efficiency
Continuous monitoring through the growth process provides useful information
Bernie Peet
Peet on Pigs
I
ndustrial manufacturing processes, whether for
producing food or cars,
are closely monitored in real
time in order to ensure that
efficiency is maximized and
product quality maintained.
However, in pig production,
most information used for
management of the business is
historic.
For example, if the performance of a group of grow-finish
pigs is calculated, it requires
the end weight and carcass data
in order to be able to calculate
efficiency factors and costs per
pig. But now, a British project
called PIVIT (Pig Improvement
Via Technology), which started
at the beginning of 2012, is
demonstrating how producers
and farm staff can benefit from
real-time barn monitoring.
Funded by government agency
the Technology Strategy Board
under its “sustainable protein production” program, it is
already beginning to bear fruit.
“Achievable improvements
include a reduction of five to 10
days in time taken to finish pigs,
a narrowing in weight variation,
a 50 per cent reduction in fossil fuel use and an 80 per cent
cut in water waste,” says Hugh
Crabtree, managing director of
ventilation control and monitoring equipment company
Farmex Ltd., one of the partners
in the project. The other participants are building manufacturer ARM Buildings Ltd., and
Dicam Technology Ltd., which
The pig growth sensor captures weight data, providing the producer with an
average pig weight each day. Photo: Ruth Downing, Rural Pictures, U.K.
developed the control and
monitoring technology.
“The basis of the system is a
series of sensors, which monitor
a range of building environment
parameters, such as temperature, humidity, fan speed, heater
operation, feed auger run times,
feed bin weight and water consumption,” Crabtree explains.
“These are connected to a central monitoring device on the
farm, which uploads the data on
to a remote server, from where
it can be accessed by the farm’s
staff.”
A proprietary data analysis
program, called Barn Report,
allows staff to make a quick
review of what is happening in
the barn, in real time and from
wherever they are. It is also possible to create alarms when
a particular parameter deviates from the normal range,
in which case the producer or
farm staff are quickly notified.
For example, out-of-feed events
and reduced water flow rates are
surprisingly common and are a
significant cause of reduced performance, Crabtree says.
Energy saving has been one
area where Barn Report has
been very successful in identifying areas for improvement,
particularly through better management of control systems.
“A 1,200-place piglet nursery in eastern England saved
£8,877 ($16,000) in annual heating costs, or 86p ($1.55) per pig
produced, through monitoring
and, at the same time, reduced
CO2 output by 55 tonnes a
year,” Crabtree says.
Data capture
Data capture and display was
an important part of monitoring, he suggests. “Actually seeing energy consumption tak-
ing place immediately influences behaviour,” he says.
“Also, data logging has shown
that the system operator has
the most profound influence
on environmental control so
on-farm training is a key to
getting the best out of it.”
Crabtree says that, in reality, although various aspects
of the barn environment and
pig performance are being
measured, it is actually the
people operating the barn
who are being monitored.
“So far, none of this is new;
Farmex and Dicam have been
recover ing and processing
data from remote production
sites for 18 years,” Crabtree
says. “However, while a considerable amount has been
learned, farmers don’t have
the time or expertise to make
profitable use of the systems
easily. The real challenge for
the PIVIT project is to make
it easier to get value from
real-time measurement on
farm.”
Continuous weighing
A l s o, h e a d d s, w h i l e f e e d
auger run time and feed bin
weight data has been available for many years, the missing part of the equation has
been pig weight. This problem has now been solved by
the development of an inpen weigh scale, which the
development team prefers to
call a “growth sensor.” This is
because, by using a wireless
module to connect the scale
to the data capture network,
the growth sensor produces a
rolling average weight to the
producer.
“A pen of 50 pigs will pro-
duce 200-300 valid weight
readings each day,” Crabtree
says. “By May, a daily report of
feed conversion and daily live
weight gain should be available to producers who are taking part in the trial, providing
them with real-time growth
and efficiency numbers.”
He feels that having information about growth provides
motivation for producers and
farm staff to understand the
value of monitoring the pigs’
environment as well as feed
and water intake.
When the PIVIT project is
completed at the end of this
year, it will have yielded a
substantial amount of inform a t i o n a b o u t h ow b u i l d ings are managed and how
this influences performance and input costs, notes
Crabtree. “If a building is
continually monitored, it’s
easier to identify problems,
initiate management changes
and monitor whether those
changes have been successful,” he says. “A constant ‘eye
on the sty’ enables a swift
response that can optimize
performance or minimize
loss.
“Within 10 years, most professional pig units will be
online and monitoring such
factors as temperature, water,
feed, growth and pig flow,”
Crabtree believes. “You can’t
control what you don’t measure and, happily, a new generation of pig producers is
recognizing this.”
Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain
Consulting of Lacombe, Alberta and a
director of U.K.-based Pig Production
Training Ltd.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Feeder Steers
Feb-12
Feb-11
Feb-11
Feb-14
Feb-12
Feb-10
Feb-13
Feb-14
No. on offer
1,800
1374*
1,175
2,638
3,204*
534*
1,688*
1,120
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
100.00-126.00
900-1,000
120.00-156.00
140.00-160.00
n/a
135.00-154.00
147.00-160.00
n/a
148.00-159.00
135.00-155.00
800-900
133.00-162.00
140.00-164.50
140.00-162.50
147.00-167.00
154.00-164.00 (166)
155.00-165.00
155.00-165.00
145.00-165.00
700-800
140.00-178.50
150.00-176.75
155.00-174.50
165.00-178.00
162.00-174.00 (177)
162.00-177.00
165.00-183.00
158.00-181.00
600-700
150.00-199.00
165.00-190.75
170.00-187.00
177.00-193.00
172.00-193.00 (195)
175.00-195.00
175.00-197.50
172.00-193.00
500-600
165.00-204.00
175.00-214.00
175.00-237.00
180.00-208.00
187.00-202.00 (206)
190.00-205.00
180.00-202.00
180.00-205.00
400-500
170.00-210.00
180.00-215.00
190.00-235.00
185.00-215.00
193.00-215.00
200.00-220.00
185.00-205.00
185.00-216.00
300-400
n/a
180.00-216.00
190.00-143.00
190.00-220.00
n/a
n/a
185.00-201.00
185.00-220.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
120.00-138.00
129.00-142.00
n/a
n/a
105.00-128.00
800-900
113.00-156.00
120.00-152.50
120.00-138.00
134.00-148.00
138.00-149.00
n/a
130.00-160.00
140.00-151.00
700-800
120.00-162.00
130.00-156.00
135.00-156.00
140.00-152.00
143.00-157.00
n/a
140.00-163.00
147.00-160.00
600-700
135.00-170.00
145.00-175.50
140.00-162.00
150.00-165.00
152.00-170.00
154.00-167.00
150.00-170.00
152.00-168.00
500-600
140.00-182.00
150.00-180.00
160.00-180.00
163.00-177.00
157.00-177.00
161.00-176.00
160.00-185.00
162.00-184.00
400-500
150.00-185.00
160.00-205.00
170.00-195.00
165.00-186.00
162.00-184.00
165.00-185.00
160.00-187.50
165.00-186.00
300-400
n/a
165.00-188.00
180.00-255.00
170.00-190.00
n/a
n/a
145.00-178.00
165.00-186.00
271
n/a
81
74
n/a
n/a
n/a
180
Over 1,000 lbs.
Feeder heifers
900-1,000 lbs.
Slaughter Market
No. on offer
D1-D2 Cows
72.00-80.00
50.00-80.50
n/a
76.00-83.00
76.00-82.00
65.00-70.00
65.00-84.00 (85.50)
81.00-86.25
D3-D5 Cows
65.00-71.00
n/a
55.00-69.00
62.00-75.00
55.00-75.00
n/a
n/a
76.00-80.00
Age Verified
82.00-89.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
78.00-83.00 (85.00)
72.00-81.00
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
80.00-98.00
78.00-92.25
86.00-93.25
87.00-96.00
90.00-98.75
83.00-94.00
87.00-96.00
90.00-95.00
Butcher Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
115.00-122.00
113.00-119.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
112.00-120.00
111.00-118.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
80.00-88.00
n/a
78.00-90.00
75.00-83.00 (95.00)
n/a
78.00-85.00
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
75.00-82.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
65.00-72.00
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
Few options for pain relief
in beef cattle, vets say
By 2016, pain control must be used when castrating and dehorning,
but the list of available drugs is short
The Manitoba Sheep Association
Annual General Meeting
March 1, 2014
Rapid City, Manitoba
Legion Hall, 320-3rd Avenue
We will be hosting speakers who will be leading sessions on a variety of exciting
topics. The schedule of events includes:
10:00- 11:00 Jane Thornton, Manitoba Agriculture
By Daniel Winters
• Forage Variety Selection
• Grazing Response Index
• Pasture Management
co-operator staff / Brandon
I
n cowboy lore, a painkiller
used to mean a swig of
whiskey and a lead bullet
to bite.
But in just 22 months,
ranchers will be obligated to
provide more modern means
of pain relief than that when
castrating bulls older than
nine months. By 2018, that
age limit drops to six months
under the newly updated beef
industry code of practice that
was introduced last year.
Unfortunately, there’s not a
whole lot of solutions in the
doctoring bag, according to
two veterinarians who participated in a panel discussion on
the science behind the code at
the recent Manitoba Beef Producers annual general meeting.
“That’s a dilemma. I was a
little concer ned when the
code came out with timelines,
because we have limited products available,” said Dr. Joyce
Donkersgoed, who specializes
in feedlot medicine.
Currently, the list of available painkillers is limited to
Tylenol-like analgesics such as
Metacam and Banamine, and
local anesthetics such as Lidocaine that resemble the drugs
used in dentistry.
None of them are legally
available over the counter
from vet clinics.
In her practice, Donkersgoed prefers Metacam, but it
requires a 20-day withdrawal
period prior to slaughter, and
it costs $20 per dose.
“We need the pharmaceutical industry to step up. It’s
one thing to tell us to do it, but
another when you don’t have
the products available to do
what you need to do,” she said.
Catching up
Dr. John Campbell, a professor from the Western College
o f Ve t e r i n a r y Medicine in
Saskatoon, said that the beef
industry needs to catch up to
the dairy industry, which has
taken significant strides in
pain relief mainly due to the
fact that most Holstein calves
are born with horns that need
to be removed.
“It’s important to understand that the animal welfare
people and the public don’t
see the difference between a
dairy calf and a beef calf,” said
Campbell.
In a dair y environment,
administering pain relief to
calves is simple. But on a large
beef ranch that hasn’t incorporated polled genetics, the
process can be daunting.
“Dairy calves, for one thing,
are used to people. They are
hand fed and handled more,”
he added.
Analgesics such as Metacam and Banamine provide
longer-lasting pain relief, but
Banamine must be applied
intravenously, and hitting
a vein buried under fur on a
struggling animal is often difficult even for trained vets,
said Donkersgoed.
Instead of specifically
requiring either an anesthetic
or analgesic, the new code
11:00 – 12:00 Dr. Neil Versavel, Equi-Tech Veterinary
• Understanding Ruminant Digestion - Common winter feeding mistakes
are often associated with a misunderstanding of how sheep convert feed
into energy. A basic overview of rumen activity will be provided along with
strategies to improve the success of winter feeding
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Annual General Meeting
2:30 – 3:30 Dr. Neil Versavel, Equi-Tech Veterinary
• Selecting Your Flock - There are many breeds of sheep within Canada, but
knowing which breed to raise can be daunting. This seminar will focus on
how proper breed selection can improve the performance of your flock
Please RSVP your attendance by February 25, 2014 to:
[email protected] or 204-421-9434
Dr. John Campbell explains the science behind the newly updated beef code
at the recent Manitoba Beef Producers annual general meeting. photos: Daniel Winters
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NOTICE TO CATTLE
PRODUCERS IN MANITOBA.
EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2013 MCEC HAS STOPPED COLLECTING
THE $2.- PER HEAD LEVY ON CATTLE SOLD.
CATTLE PRODUCERS ARE ENTITLED TO APPLY FOR A REFUND ON ALL
LEVIES COLLECTED BETWEEN:
1 february 2013 – 31 auGuST 2013
Ryder Lee explains how the new beef code helps to preserve the industry’s
“social licence” at the recent Manitoba Beef Producers AGM.
offers some leeway with its
requirement for “pain control.”
“That was purposeful. You
can either give an anesthetic
to cover the pain while you’re
doing the procedure, or you
can give an analgesic that will
help with the pain afterwards,”
said Campbell.
For dehorning beef calves
on a tipping table, Campbell
applies a Lidocaine “block”
once the animal is restrained,
then does vaccinations while
he waits for the drug to kick in.
“Maybe it’s 35 seconds or a
minute at the most to wait,” he
said. “I would say 95 per cent
of them don’t struggle at all.
They don’t feel any pain.”
Campbell noted there are
some issues with dispensing the drug — which is commonly used to dilute illicit
cocaine — to the general public.
Another issue is the fact that
it wears off in a few hours.
Ideally, he said, both a local
anesthetic and an analgesic
that lasts 24 to 48 hours would
be used, but the code only
requires that one be used.
“Unfortunately, we don’t
have great, practical anesthetic methods for castration,”
said Campbell.
Calves
Using rubber bands to castrate newborn calves is recommended in the code, but that
method may cause the majority of the pain to simply be
delayed for up to three weeks,
and there are no medications
that last that long.
On the br ight side, new
painkillers are under development, such as an oral
Metacam that could be administered via a rumen bolus,
“Unfortunately, we
don’t have great,
practical anesthetic
methods for
castration.”
Dr. John Campbell
alter native castration-viainjection drugs that last several weeks, and a topical local
anesthetic gel that could be
rubbed onto a calf ’s scrotum
immediately before the castration incision.
Ryder Lee, a manager with
t h e Ca n a d i a n Ca t t l e m e n’s
Association based in Ottawa,
said that changes to the way
beef cattle are treated are necessary in order to preserve the
industry’s “social licence” in
the eyes of the public and policy makers.
The ban on horse slaughter
in the United States is just one
case where a small but vocal
minority wielding emotional
a r g u m e n t s p re v a i l e d ov e r
common sense, he said, but
the persecution of tobacco
smokers over the past two decades is the best illustration of
what can happen when public
opinion turns against a formerly common and acceptSales Management:
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“Heck, now Rob
some
places
Holowaychuk
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won’t even let you
smoke outMark Holowaychuk
side, in your own
car, or even
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in your own home,” said Lee.
“The social licence of smoking has tipped completely the
other way.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
WEATHER VANE
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Forecast calls for more snow – no surprise
Issued: Monday, February 18, 2014 · Covering: February 19 – February 26, 2014
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
O
n the positive side of
things, we did get a few
days of milder weather,
but for a number of us the big
question is, “Will the snow
ever stop coming?” Well, after
one last clipper system moves
through our region around the
middle of the week, it looks
like we won’t see any snow for
a while, but it also means we’ll
see a return to colder conditions.
A system is expected to track
across south-central Manitoba late Wednesday, bringing
clouds and around five centimetres of snow with it. The
exact track is a little uncertain
at this point, but it does look
like it will move through pretty
quickly, so I don’t expect this to
be a big, long-lasting storm.
Behind this system we are
going to see a large area of
arctic high pressure begin to
slowly slide southward. This
will result in our temperatures
slowly cooling down toward
the weekend, with highs by
Saturday only expected to be
around -16 C, with overnight
lows around -25 C. Luckily, it
looks like our winds will be
relatively light. This area of
high pressure will be centred
right over southern Manitoba
by Monday, bringing plenty of
sunshine along with cold temperatures. I wouldn’t be surprised if high temperatures on
Monday struggle to make it to
-20 C.
It does look like this high will
push off to the east on Tuesday
of next week, which will allow
temperatures to moderate a little bit. The bad news is that the
general flow pattern will remain
northwesterly, and it looks like
we’ll continue to lie on the
dividing line between cold air
to our northeast and milder
air to our west. Currently, the
extended forecast shows the
cold air winning out, but I’m
going to cross my fingers and
hope it’s wrong.
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, -16 to -1 C;
lows, -29 to -10 C.
Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession
with a BA (Hon.) in geography,
specializing in climatology, from the
U of W. He operates a computerized
weather station near Birds Hill Park.
Contact him with your questions and
comments at [email protected].
WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA
This issue’s map shows the total amount of snow cover across the region. This map was originally created by Environment Canada, but I
did a fair bit of interpreting to tidy it up and make it easier to read. For this map I didn’t include most of Alberta, as varying snow amounts
made it almost impossible to read the map. This was also true for extreme southern Manitoba, so snow amounts in this region are
greatly simplified and may not be very accurate.
Possible El Niño developing this summer
Any large-scale change in the state of the Pacific is bound to have an impact elsewhere
By Daniel Bezte
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
I
re c e i v e d a n e m a i l t h e
other day asking about
El Niño and what effect it
might have on our part of the
world, should one develop. For
quite a while now the Pacific
has been in a neutral El Niño
Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
phase, but there is some mention of an El Niño event possibly forming some time this
summer. Here is a summary
of the current El Niño forecast
put out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Nearly all model forecasts
indicate the persistence of
ENSO-neutral conditions
throughout the Northern Hemisphere for spring 2014, but
after ward, an increasing
number of models suggest
the possible onset of El Niño.
Strong surface westerly winds
in the western Pacific, and the
slight eastward shift of aboveaverage temperatures in the
subsurface western Pacific,
potentially signify warming
in the coming months. However, spring is also historically
associated with lower forecast
skill, so the chance of an El
Niño event developing after the
spring is not that likely.
“Water is like a battery that stores heat —
therefore, the Pacific is a really big heat battery.”
Before I go into what effect
this might have on us, I figured it has been several years
since I’ve looked at this topic,
so I think a bit of a lesson in El
Niño is in order — I guess it’s
the teacher in me.
Just what is EL Niño and
why can it have such a profound impact on our weather?
Well, to put it simply, El Niño
is a change in ocean surface
temperatures across the tropical and subtropical Pacific
Ocean. This change in ocean
temperatures then creates a
change in the weather patterns across the Pacific Ocean.
Now the big question is, why
does a change in weather over
the Pacific Ocean have any
impact on us?
The first and most simple
reason is that the Pacific Ocean
just happens to cover half of
our planet, so any large-scale
change in it is bound to have
an impact elsewhere. Actually, maybe it’s not that simple.
Even though the Pacific Ocean
is huge, why should changes
in weather in that area of the
world impact us? Keeping in
mind just how big the Pacific
is, let’s now look at what the
Pacific Ocean is made of: water.
Lots and lots of water.
That still doesn’t explain
why changes in it affect the
weather way over here. To
really understand why, we need
to remember it takes a whole
lot of energy to warm up water,
and conversely, water releases
a whole lot of energy when it
cools. In essence, water is like
a battery that stores heat —
therefore, the Pacific is a really
big heat battery.
Imbalances
From a general point of view,
weather is the atmosphere’s
attempt to equal out heat
imbalances. You see, just like
most of us, the atmosphere
likes things to be equal. If there
is too much heat in one place
or too much cold in another,
the atmosphere tries to make
things equal by sending cold
air southward and warm air
northward. The tropical areas
of our planet rarely, if ever, see
or feel the cold air trying to
move southward. If you live in
the Arctic regions, you would
rarely, if ever, see the really
warm air try to move northward. Those of us in the middle are constantly feeling and
seeing this movement of cold
and warm air — and we call
it weather.
Now, back to the Pacific
Ocean, our big heat battery. If
the Pacific is storing heat and
releasing it into the atmosphere, that heat energy has
to go somewhere. Some of it
simply warms the air, but
then the atmosphere wants
to equal out that warm air, so
off that warm air goes. A big
chunk of the heat energy coming out of the Pacific goes into
developing clouds, precipitation and storm systems. These
storm systems are an efficient
way for the atmosphere to
move heat around and equalize it, because you can move
a lot more energy by moving
warm water around (remember, clouds are made up of
water) than you can by moving
warm air.
This overall movement of
warm air and storm systems
over the Pacific Ocean creates a general pattern of winds
a ro u n d t h e w o r l d . If yo u
remember back to our articles
about general atmospheric
circulation, we know the general movement of air around
the planet comes about by the
Earth trying to equal out warm
and cold regions — and this
creates the westerly winds in
our region of the world, the
tropical easterlies to our south
and, finally, the polar easterlies
in the high Arctic.
Under normal temperature
conditions across the Pacific,
the general flow of the atmosphere follows this simple pattern, and since a large portion
of our weather comes off the
Pacific (because we live in
the generally westerly flowing part of the atmosphere)
our weather tends to be rather
average. If we change the
amount of heat over a large
portion of the Pacific, either by
warming up the Pacific Ocean
(El Niño) or cooling it down (La
Niña), this disrupts the general
flow of air across this region
and can start to impact how air
flows across our region.
Next issue we’ll take a closer
look at exactly what happens
over the Pacific to allow El Niño
to form, and examine how
these events are classified.
The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
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CROPS
husbandry — the science , S K I L L O R A R T O F F A R M I N G
Four Rs keep the
regulators at bay, MSSS hears
Right source, rate, time and place are the best guides for staying on the straight and narrow
By Daniel Winters
co-operator staff / Winnipeg
W
Stewardship awards
To encourage more adoption of the four Rs, the
IPNI, farm groups and state governments have
created stewardship awards for farmers and
retailers and developed educational videos to
spread the message.
But what is the “right” way of doing things,
and who decides?
The bottom line, said Don Flaten, a soil science
professor at the University of Manitoba, is that
“banding is better” for nitrogen, phosphorus and
potash, but elemental sulphur needs to be surface
broadcast well in advance of the growing season.
Farmers have a huge array of options and
strategies for feeding crops. As proof, Flaten
held up a hefty copy of what soil scientists call
the “Red Book.” At 527 pages and first published
in 1993, it summarizes the collected insights
gleaned from 75 years of nutrient management
in Western Canada.
While there may be no single best combination of the four Rs for a particular situation,
some are obviously poorer choices than others.
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Tom Jensen, a director with the International Plant Nutrition Institute, explains how the “four Rs” of nutrient management connect soil and water at the recent Manitoba Society of Soil Science annual conference. photo: Daniel Winters
“We do not recommend using
the source, anhydrous ammonia,
with the placement method of
broadcast. It’s not a good idea to
broadcast a gas, right?”
Don Flaten
“We do not recommend using the source,
anhydrous ammonia, with the placement
method of broadcast. It’s not a good idea to
broadcast a gas, right?” said Flaten, with a
smile.
There’s no one-size-fits-all fertilization system
because every farm field and year has unique
demands, resources and conditions.
However, matching rates to crop requirements
and removal rates, and using a combination of
placement, timing and source that maximizes
chemical availability while minimizing losses, is
the key to success and staying out of trouble, he
said.
What if the source happens to be manure?
It annoys Kathy Buckley, an Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada soil scientist based in Brandon, whenever she sees the acronym “FYM”
used to describe agriculture’s most valuable
byproduct.
“Farm Yard Manure,” a catch-all term used
in scientific literature, does a poor job of characterizing a substance in chemical terms that
could be from multiple species or processed in
a variety of ways that could change its properties dramatically.
“It makes it a whole different ball game when
you’re trying to use them in agronomic systems,” said Buckley.
Different ball game
Aside from that, “right” timing of application is
a big issue when trying to move thousands of
tons of a bulky product across the landscape,
she said, noting that the provincial government’s guidelines for fall and spring windows
for application don’t always mesh with the
weather or soil conditions.
“Spring application is very, very difficult,”
she said. “If you have a heavy manure tanker,
it’s wonderful to get out on frozen soil because
you’re not compacting it.”
Phosphorus loading from heavy rates of
manure, is the “gift that keeps on giving,” she
added.
Her own studies, and those of others, show
that attempts to “mine” the nutrient out of soils
with annual and perennial cropping are slow to
show results, even after a decade.
“It’s going to be a long endeavour, so don’t
put it there in the first place,” said Buckley.
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idespread adoption of voluntary
protocols for balancing soil fertility
requirements with the need to protect
surface water quality will be far more effective
than legislation, the director of the International
Plant Nutrition Institute says.
Tom Jensen told the recent Manitoba Soil
Science Society’s annual conference farmers
can maintain crop yields and minimize adverse
environmental effects by following the four Rs
— right source, right rate, right time and right
place.
“If we follow the principles of the four Rs, and
apply them to the area, we can often do a better
job than if we had to follow legislation,” Jensen
told the conference.
Sticking to the four main principles is a way of
showing the public that farmers are mindful of
their impact on the landscape, and it helps fend
off criticism that could lead to onerous regulation, he added.
“Basing your nutrient management on principles gives you some flexibility to be creative,”
said Jensen.
It’s not just about Lake Winnipeg. For example,
in the Lake Erie area, where the lake is turning
an eerie green at an alarming rate, farmers have
been watching the weather forecast more closely
to ensure that the timing of broadcast phosphorus applications is done a few days ahead of
major rainfall events.
Near Chesapeake Bay in Maryland state, farmers are also timing applications better while
switching to various fertilizer banding methods
to prevent nutrient loading, he added.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
Soybean pest dragnet turns up empty
Recent soybean cyst nematode survey finds that Manitoba fields are still clean
By Daniel Winters
CO-OPERATOR STAFF / WINNIPEG
W
herever soybeans are
grown, the dreaded
y i e l d - r o b b i n g s oybean cyst nematode eventually follows.
But luckily for Manitoba
farmers, a recent survey shows
that Heterodera glycines is not
here yet, said Mario Tenuta,
a soil science professor at the
University of Manitoba.
“There are three things that
are forever: diamonds, taxes
and soybean cyst nematodes,”
said Tenuta, in a presentation
at the recent Manitoba Soil
Science Society’s annual conference.
Once it arrives, the only
way to cope with the “No. 1
economic impairment for
soybean growing in Nor th
America” that can cause 30
to 50 per cent yield loss is to
plant tolerant varieties and
more diverse crop rotations.
“It’s inevitable that we’re going to have it in
Manitoba. There’s no stopping it.”
MARIO TENUTA
The female soybean cyst
nematode lives in the soil and
feeds by penetrating soybean
roots. After breeding, its body
fills up with up to 300 eggs
before dying. Once dead, its
skin changes into a leathery,
dor mant capsule that can
survive for decades without a
soybean host.
Soybean root exudates signal the eggs to hatch, and tiny
worms emerge to begin the
life cycle anew.
Migrating bug
The bug, first discovered in
North Carolina in 1953, has
migrated to all the major soybean-growing areas in North
America, and has been resident in southern Ontario
since the 1980s.
It was found in Minnesota in
1978, and has been gradually
migrating northward through
the Red River Valley and via
North Dakota all the way up
to the Canada-U.S. border.
“ We think that it’s going
to keep coming and pop up
somewhere in the Emerson
area,” said Tenuta.
In the fall of 2012 and the
s u m m e r o f 2 0 1 3 , Te n u t a’s
researchers took 3,000 soil
s a m p l e s f r o m 4 8 s oy b e a n
fields based on their proximity to Red River flows up from
the U.S.
University of Manitoba soil science professor, Mario Tenuta presents the
findings of a recent soybean cyst nematode survey at the recent Manitoba
Soil Science Society conference. PHOTO: DANIEL WINTERS
Fields were sampled from
Emerson, Winkler, Morden
and Carman, to as far north
as Selkirk. Past histor y of
dry bean production, which
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is an alternate host for the
nematode, was also taken
into account.
T h e s a m p l e s w e re t h e n
lightly crushed, water added,
and the floating nematode
cysts were screened out amid
vast amounts of soil detritus.
Students then spent days
peering through microscopes
trying to find and identify the
cysts. Thirty-seven composite samples from 22 fields had
cysts, with a total of 60 individual cysts recovered.
Of the 26 of the cysts that
were “not damaged” and filled
with eggs, 23 were identified as non-pest nematode
species.
“Only three were identified as having a structure that
was similar to Heterodera, the
soybean cyst nematode,” said
Tenuta.
Further molecular testing,
however, ruled out positive
identification as a pest species.
To cause economic losses,
soybean cyst nematodes must
be present as juveniles numbering in the “thousands per
kilogram of soil,” he added.
In such cases, the soybean
plants are dwarfish, yellow
and exhibiting root health
problems due to limited water
and nutrient uptake.
Analysis
Mehrdad Madani, who led a
related study, has developed a
DNA melt analysis method for
quickly identifying Heterodera glycines using specimens
gathered in Ontario.
“ Ne m a t o d e s p e c i e s a r e
very similar, so it’s not very
easy to discriminate between
them based on morphology,”
said Madani.
In s t e a d o f d a y s p e e r i n g
through a microscope, Madani’s technique allows sameday, positive identification for
the pest that is estimated to
cause $1.5 billion in losses to
soybean growers in the U.S
every year.
Te n u t a s a i d t h a t m a n y
growers in the province are
tempting fate by growing tight
rotations and even continuous soybeans.
“It’s inevitable that we’re
going to have it in Manitoba.
There’s no stopping it,” he
said, adding that it appears
many farmers want to “cash
i n” a s m u c h a s t h e y c a n
before the soybean cyst nematode shows up in their fields.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
Manitoba grasshopper forecast for 2014
Most areas appear low risk except some areas in western Manitoba and north of Winnipeg
gory (more than eight to 12/m2).
The only counts greater than 12/
m2 were a count of 18 grasshoppers per m2 southwest of Crystal
City, and a count of 22 grasshoppers per m2 about six miles east of
Wawanesa.
Grasshopper outbreaks usually develop after a few years of
conditions favourable for a steady
increase in numbers of those
species of grasshopper that can
become pests of crops. Comparing the current August grasshopper counts with those of previous
years can determine if the populations tend to be rising or falling.
This is an edited version of
MAFRD entomologist John
Gavloski’s grasshopper forecast for
2014. The full version is available
at http://www.gov.mb.ca/
agriculture/crops/insects/pubs/
hopperforecast14_writeup.pdf.
T
he grasshopper population
map for Manitoba is based
on counts of adult grasshoppers per square metre done
by farm production advisers,
agronomists and entomologists in
August 2013.
Grasshopper counts from
101 locations in Manitoba were
used to produce the map. The
legend on the map shows the
average grasshopper counts in
an area, and relates these to risk
for many of our crops. Factors
affecting grasshopper development, survival and behaviour will
determine whether these August
populations are likely to increase,
decrease, or remain fairly stable
for the next year and are also
important factors in the overall
Summary
forecast for 2014. The small circles
on the map show where data was
collected. White areas are areas
where data was not collected.
Most of the surveyed area (73
out of 101 counts) rated as very
light risk, having counts from zero
to four grasshoppers per square
metre (m2). Nineteen counts were
in the light-risk category (more
than four to eight/m2). Six counts
were in the moderate-risk cate-
The grasshopper populations
were generally very light to light
across most of Manitoba during
the August survey, although there
were some areas that were in the
moderate- or severe-risk categories. Weather in August and September was quite favourable for
the grasshopper populations that
were present to lay eggs. The risk
of economic populations of grasshoppers developing in 2014 is
quite variable, depending on location, with some areas in western
Manitoba and north of Winnipeg
having higher risks. If weather is
favourable for grasshopper survival and development there may
be localized areas where grasshoppers are a concern to crops.
When they have the opportunity, farmers and agronomists are
encouraged to monitor grasshopper populations along roadsides,
field edges, and other areas where
populations tend to be concentrated or at high levels early in the
season. This monitoring should
begin in late May or June. Given
that there were good conditions
for egg laying last year, warm and
dry conditions next year could
result in grasshopper populations
continuing to build.
For more information on the
grasshopper forecast or monitoring for grasshoppers, please
contact John Gavloski at (204)
745-5668.
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United States, Canada
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Kehler was the marketing director for BASF’s
corn and oilseed business in Europe.
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AgFunder
crowd
funding for
agriculture,
launches
first deal
On the outside looking in
The online site will
also offer up investments
in other countries,
including Canada
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focusing on a California agricultural data company.
Through the online platform,
Fresno, California-based OnFarm
is looking to raise $400,000 in
capital to grow a farm data software service, AgFunder said.
The offering is the first to go
live on New York City-based
AgFunder, which started up late
last year and is offering both
debt financing and equity offerings for individual and institutional investors to play in the ag
space, according to Rob Leclerc,
AgFunder co-founder and CEO.
The crowd-sourcing strategy
got a boost from recent federal
legislation that eases securities
regulations to encourage funding
of small businesses.
Leclerc said AgFunder has $1
billion in more than 70 different
deals in the pipeline to match
with investors who want to gain
equity in agricultural-related
companies.
“It’s an interesting challenge,”
he said.
Most of the deals, like OnFarm,
are U.S. based, but the online site
will also be offering up investments in Australia, Canada and
South America, said Leclerc, a
former partner at SeedRock Capital Group, a venture capital firm
focused on natural resources and
agriculture.
Coming listings include a software company that uses highresolution satellite imagery to
analyze crop growth patterns to
tailor water and fertilizer use, and
a company that has developed a
natural barrier system for greenhouse pest control.
Institutional and individual
investors have increasingly been
putting money into agriculture
amid forecasts for a steep rise
in global population and higher
demand for food.
And farmers and other agricultural players have been finding
they can raise money for expansion and other needs through a
variety of crowd-funding platforms.
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Farmers need to question claims
A lot of products make a lot of different promises, but when it comes to how research is analyzed,
farmers need to look for results that are statistically significant
By Shannon VanRaes
“I’m not there to be the policeman
and say yay or nay on anything, but I
think people can arm themselves with
questions that will allow them to figure
out whether they think they’re being
sold something that is actually real,
and going to work for them.”
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
F
armers need to ask more
questions and demand
better answers when
confronted with new products
promising yield gains based
on sketchy data, a Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development official says.
Terry Buss, a farm production adviser, told an Ag Days
seminar he is getting more
calls from farmers about the
c l a i m s m a d e by d i f f e re n t
product developers — calls
that should be directed to the
product developers themselves.
The increased interest is in
part due to an influx of new
products, par ticularly soil
fertility products, soil conditioning agents as well as fungicides.
“There’s a lot less regulation
in the product market now,
there’s been federal changes
in regulations, and I’ve really
seen an explosion,” Buss said.
“And I’m not there to be the
policeman and say yay or nay
on anything, but I think people can arm themselves with
questions that will allow them
to figure out whether they
think they’re being sold something that is actually real, and
going to work for them.”
Companies may be providing a lot of tables and graphs,
but they aren’t always giving producers the information farmers need to make an
informed decision, Buss said.
“I think we’re at a point in
the industry where we’re going
to see people becoming more
and more aware of the fact
that they have the ability and
the right or the responsibility
to actually ask questions when
a graph gets slapped up there.
Things like — How was it analyzed? How was it done?” Buss
said.
People need to take an especially close look at a seemingly
growing category of products
promising yield increases of
TERRY BUSS
less than 10 per cent for $10 or
less an acre.
“I’ve had people say to me,
well it’s cheap, so I’ll take a
spin of the wheel. I’m saying,
ask the right questions,” Buss
said. “Do you have $5,000 to
throw away? I know I don’t.”
And while phrases like
“positive yield response” may
sound upbeat, they don’t hold
any actual meaning — even
if they are being used more
often.
“There’s not a standard definition to it, I don’t know what
it means...
Is it statistically significant?
Or is it greater than zero?”
asked the adviser. “If I’m going
to accept that there is a difference between one bar and
another on a graph — and
it’s a real difference — for me
that means that it was done
in such a way that we can do
statistics and that I’ll be able
to know the level of confidence the person has in what
they’ve done, that’s the way
that research works.”
But even as more products
and claims enter the mar-
ketplace, Buss believes the
kind of information provided
should be driven by farmer
demands, not government regulation.
“I think that we’re at an
interesting time in the industry... we’re getting to that point
now where producers can
ask these questions and can
understand these concepts
quite readily. I have clients
who have kids that are coming into the business who have
gone through a diploma or
degree program, who understand this stuff, and are puzzled when they don’t see the
things they feel need to be
presented when it comes to
data,” he said. “I think it’s
time for (producers) to raise
that bar, and say OK, now we
want a certain kind of research
and we want a certain level of
quality.”
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The top 10 myths that could make
or break your spraying program
There are more products and new technology, but it still comes down to operator decisions
By Angela Lovell
Co-operator contributor
I
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t’s n o t t h e s i z e o f t h e
sprayer, the type of nozzle
or the products used that
will determine the success of
spraying season — it’s how
and when the operator puts
those tools to work in the field,
a spraying expert told the
recent Manitoba Agronomists
Conference.
“The fundamental challenge
of spraying is it’s a compromise game,” said Tom Wolf of
AgriMetrix Research and Training. “As operators and advisers we need to always balance
the opposite needs of coverage,
efficacy and drift.”
Wolf said the trend is towards
more fungicide use and more
efficient equipment such as
wider booms, faster speed
capability, complex monitors,
auto boom heights and bigger
tanks.
But it still comes down to
the operator. Wolf said there
remains a number of popular
myths about spraying that can
get operators into trouble.
Myth No. 1:
More pressure forces the
spray into the canopy.
“There’s an element of truth to
this but it’s the least thing that
pressure does,” says Wolf. Pressure changes the flow rate. If
you increase the pressure you
will need to travel faster to
allow the carrier volume to stay
constant, and that travel speed
works against canopy penetration. Another important
change is that spray quality will
become finer. Finally droplet
exit velocity will be changed.
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Even at higher pressure, small
droplets still move slowly.
“If you want to force a fine
spray into the canopy the best
way to do that is to lower your
boom, slow down and increase
the carrier volume,” he said.
Myth No. 2:
Higher water volumes
lead to run-off.
There are two things that govern run-off; droplet size and
surface morphology of the leaf
surface. “Anyone who says that
anything more than three gallons/acre runs off the leaf surface is not telling you the whole
picture,” says Wolf. “We’ve been
unable to induce run-off from
up to 200 US gpa in our tests.
Don’t be afraid of water. It’s a
very good way of covering the
canopies. Water gives you flexibility to use coarser sprays and
that allows you to spray when
it’s windier.”
Myth No. 3:
Spray drift is no issue for
fungicides and insecticides.
Aquatic organisms are
extremely sensitive to most
fungicides and insecticides. It’s
important to observe the buffer
zones shown on product labels.
Myth No. 4:
Faster travel speeds save
time and boost productivity.
At faster speeds you lose control of the spray cloud and the
finest droplets will go wherever
the wind goes. Other problems
with higher speeds are canopy
penetration, pattern uniformity and pressure management.
If you have an 800-gallon tank
with an 80-foot boom and you
are going 12 m.p.h. at 10 gallons/ac. and your fill rate is 50
gallons per minute, you are
going to do 84 acres/hour not
including turns. If you go faster
— 18 m.p.h. — you can do 110
acres/hour. But if you increase
your fill speed and decrease
the time spent filling you can
increase productivity just as
much. If you also increase your
boom width you also increase
productivity.
Myth No. 5:
Double nozzles produce more
droplets and improve coverage.
“It’s the droplet size and water
volume that drives the droplet
numbers produced. It doesn’t
matter how many nozzles
produce this size,” says Wolf.
Although some double nozzles produce finer droplets, and
therefore improve coverage,
others produce coarse sprays
which may decrease coverage.
Myth No. 6:
Calm early mornings have
the lowest drift risk.
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This is one of the biggest myths
out there, says Wolf, and it’s all
because of a condition called
an inversion, which usually
occurs during clear nights
and which can certainly linger
into the early-morning hours.
Under normal, sunny daytime
conditions air currents rise, fall
and disperse spray clouds rapidly but under inversion conditions they don’t. This can lead
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to severe drift issues, even significant distances away from
the treated field.
Producers should never spray
when an inversion is present,
and a good indication might be
if fog or smoke hang in the air
and is not dispersing.
Well, at least the skeeters aren’t biting
Myth No. 7:
A rate controller
calibrates the sprayer.
“Even with a $400,000 sprayer
the rate controller still relies
on a single flow metre that sits
at the back of the sprayer and
measures the total flow to the
boom. The operator has no
idea where that total flow is
going,” says Wolf. As a result
there is still no substitute for
individual nozzle calibration.
There are various new tools on
the market to assist with that
but they still need to be done
individually. Wolf also reminds
producers to check screens
regularly as they calibrate.
Myth No. 8:
Good spraying can fix bad
agronomic decisions.
A spray application has to be
on time to be truly effective,
says Wolf. In studies spraying on time produced a yield
advantage, even with a spray
quality that was too coarse,
than spraying late. “If it’s
breezy use a low-drift nozzle
and that allows you the opportunity to spray on time,” he
adds.
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Myth No. 9:
Ammonia is a good generalpurpose tank cleaner.
Ammonia raises pH and some
chemicals like sulfonylurea
products dissolve better at
a higher pH. But if you have
an oily, emulsifiable concentrate (EC) formulation, either
as a product or adjuvant, a
soapy cleanout product will be
needed. “Liberty creates tank
cleanout issues because the
adjuvant in Liberty is such a
cleaner,” says Wolf. “After use
of an oily product, the use of a
wetting agent such as AgSurf
will assist in removing oily
residue and many soap-based
commercial cleaners are available.”
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Myth No. 10:
There is an optimal
nozzle that does it all.
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“Right now a sprayer costs
approximately 100,000 times
more than the nozzle and the
nozzle is still the part that
makes you happy or sad,” says
Wolf. “If we inverted the investment trend and said let’s build
a better atomizer there would
be an optimal nozzle. But
although we’ve made progress
with low-drift nozzles recently,
the industry still looks for inexpensive, simple ways to atomize sprays.”
Manufacturers publish spray
quality charts for their nozzles
that also give recommended
pressures to produce different spray qualities using a
particular nozzle type. They
are colour coded and generally speaking the redder the
colour code the finer the spray
produced. There are many
nozzle choices and designs
and typically grassy targets
and contact products require
n oz z l e s t h a t w i l l p ro d u c e
medium to coarse spray quality. For broadleaf targets and
systemic products a coarse to
very coarse spray quality can
be used successfully. Selecting the right nozzle to produce
the quality of spray required is
important, said Wolf. He recommends coarse as a generalpurpose spray quality.
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FISHING FOR A GOOD CAUSE
The Rapid City Ninth Annual Ice Fishing Derby was held Feb. 9, with 170 fish caught
in four hours by 146 anglers of all ages. The family-oriented event is a non-profit event
that is helped by donations from the community and surrounding area merchants.
Donations from the fishermen this year went to a play structure in Rapid City.
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Cars line up along the Little Saskatchewan River as anglers with their pails make their
way to and from the fish-measuring station. The largest was 24 inches.
Patrick Labrecque and his daughter Alison of
Shilo show off their first catch of the day.
Pro-GMO group intensifies
social media push
The web campaign is designed to counter efforts
to force GMO food labelling
By Carey Gillam
REUTERS
A
group of biotech companies battling to increase
U.S. consumer acceptance of genetically modified
foods is increasing paid advertising efforts as it expands a social
media marketing website it
started last year.
The paid ads will seek to drive
traffic to the www.GMOAnswers.
com website started last year by
agrichemical industry players
that want to allay concerns about
GMO foods, according to an executive who helps to run the site.
The web campaign is part of
a broad strategy by the biotech
industry to try to beat back growing calls for GMO food labelling and for tighter regulation of
the biotech seed industry in the
United States.
A consortium backed in part
by Monsanto, DuPont, and Dow
AgroSciences, a unit of Dow
Chemical, launched the website
in July. So far, the site has logged
more than 650 questions from an
array of interested parties, chiefly
focused on the impact of GMOs
on health and nutrition.
Pilot project
A pilot project for the new web
effort was completed recently
and the expansion is being
rolled out now, Dow AgroSciences spokesman David
Sousa said. He said the ad campaign should raise the profile
of the website for individuals
searching for information about
GMOs on the Internet.
The group is promoting the
site with Google AdWords (www.
google.com/AdWords) and Outbrain (www.outbrain.com).
“There will be continuous
updates to the website itself,
Sousa said. “It’s not about advocacy. It’s about transparency.”
The group is also adding to its
roster of “experts,” which now is
largely made up of GMO-friendly
academics and executives who
work for the biotech seed companies. The experts answer questions posted on the website.
Commentators with opposing
views can weigh in and debate
the issue.
Sousa said the group hopes
that mothers, nutritionists, medical professionals and others will
participate.
Recently discussed topics
included GMO contamination
of traditional and organic crops,
and questions about medical
studies on animals that have
consumed GMO crops.
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Biotech corn, canola, soybeans and other crops are used
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regulated and thoroughly tested.
But some scientific studies
have cast doubt on the safety of
these biotech crops.
Grocery retailer Whole Foods
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would require suppliers to label
any product made with genetically modified ingredients.
Restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. also is moving to
remove GMO food products from
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scientist, even as the country continues to reject imports
of GMO corn from the United
States.
China’s rapid urbanization
and rising wealth has triggered a
rapid growth in demand for food
and feed, and despite annual
increases in crop yields, food
security remains one of the government’s top concerns.
However, China has so far
refused to allow planting of
major GMO food crops over public concern around the safety of
the technology.
Despite investing billions of
yuan in research over 20 years
and granting safety certificates
for its first genetically modified
corn and rice in 2009, China has
still not authorized their commercial production, with papaya
the only GMO food allowed to be
grown in the country.
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widely in food, feed and processed products, is set to
outstrip domestic supply, making adoption of GMO technology more pressing, said Huang
Dafang, professor at the Biotechnology Research Institute of the
Chinese Academy of Agricultural
Sciences (CAAS), and formerly
on the biosafety committee at the
Ministry of Agriculture.
“Corn is currently the genetically modified crop we most
urgently need to develop,” he
said.
While acknowledging that
corn imports are “inevitable” for
China in the long run, Huang
added that they should not be
allowed to reach the level currently seen with soybeans. About
80 per cent of China’s soybeans
are imported.
“We need to speed up development (of GMO corn) and we look
forward to faster development,”
he said.
China is already the world’s
third-largest corn buyer, importing more than three million
tonnes in 2013. However, its
imports were expected to be
higher before Beijing rejected
more than 600,000 tonnes of corn
from the United States containing Syngenta’s genetically modified MIR 162 strain.
Huang said he was not aware
of the specific details of this case,
but stressed that Beijing’s support for GMO technology had not
changed. If anything, the leadership was showing more “clearcut” support for GMOs, he said.
“Because the government
believes that technology is
needed to resolve the food
security problem and promote
sustainable development of
agriculture, making its position
known, and this is leading to a
change in the direction of public
opinion,” he added.
The next step is for the government to demonstrate its food
security strategy by pushing forward commercialization, he continued.
“Promoting commercialization, I believe is currently more
important than anything else
because if you just talk about
research and don’t promote commercialization, you cannot go
further with research, and you
also can’t make the public really
believe that this is necessary.”
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No flour? No fish? Venezuela’s chefs
get creative amid shortages
Soviet-style dearth in the country with the world’s largest oil reserves
By Brian Ellsworth
CARACAS / REUTERS
A
sushi bar in Caracas
m a k e s t e m p u ra w i t h
ground oats and cornstarch to replace increasingly
scarce wheat flour.
A Spanish restaurant, seeking to keep its fare affordable, revamps its paella recipe
by re m ov i n g e x o r b i t a n t l y
priced prawns.
Restaurateurs selling “arep a s” — t h e g r i l l e d c o r n
pancakes that are a staple
across the country — make
them a bit smaller to stretch
their unsteady supplies of
corn flour.
Ve n e z u e l a n d i n e r s c o n tinue to eat well despite soaring inflation and chronic food
shortages, largely thanks to
herculean efforts by chefs to
obtain prized foodstuffs and
j u g g l e m e n u s t o s l ow t h e
rising prices.
In working-class canteens
and high-end bistros, staff
say finding basics such as
flour, milk or chicken — all
scarce, in large part, because
of currency and price controls — requires making
repeated trips to markets and
harassing providers.
“I haven’t been able to buy
wheat flour or corn flour for
more than a month. I’m working with what I had last year,”
said Eduardo Castaneda, 45,
owner of La Guayaba Verde, or
The Green Guava, in Caracas,
which offers a modern spin on
traditional Venezuelan food.
Venezuela’s price controls
require staple goods be sold
at fixed rates that are at times
below production cost, which
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because of the reduced incentive for companies to make or
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in 1999.
One of the most applauded
achievements of his 14-year
rule was to make food affordable through price controls
and subsidized grocery stores,
a triumph recognized in 2013
by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
S i n c e 1 9 9 0 , Ve n e z u e l a
achieved a 50 per cent reduction in the number of citizens
facing hunger, the UN said —
two years ahead of a global target date for reaching that goal.
But without broad economic
reforms to ease state control
over the economy and boost
importers’ access to dollars,
food shortages may worsen
— and eating out may get
more difficult.
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Venezuela’s reputation for
political conflict and violent
crime has upstaged that of a
vibrant restaurant scene built
up over decades by immigrants from Europe and the
Middle East drawn to oildriven economic opportunity.
“I haven’t been able to buy wheat flour or corn
flour for more than a month. I’m working with
what I had last year.”
EDUARDO CASTANEDA
Chef
Diners who learn a menu
item has gone missing often
offer waiters a knowing smile
or sympathetic eyeball roll as
they share their own travails
of chasing down groceries.
Others are less charitable.
“People have said, ‘ This
is a fish restaurant and you
don’t even have fish? What
the hell is wrong with you?’”
commented one maitre d’. His
restaurant specializes in fishfocused Basque food but has
struggled to find fish such as
grouper, traditionally one of
their popular menu items.
Like nearly all those interviewed, he spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of
reprisals from the government or stepped-up inspections by state agencies.
Sushi bars have been
among the hardest hit
because they rely heavily on
imports including salmon,
s e a we e d a n d ro e t h a t a re
difficult to acquire because
importers cannot obtain dollars, owing to delays in the
exchange control system
that requires businesses to
obtain hard currency through
the government.
Tr a c k i n g d o w n s t a p l e s
such as chicken or flour
requires having networks of
“friends” at supermarkets or
mea t - p a c k i n g h o u s e s w h o
sell scarce products above
regulated prices in transactions that are kept off the
books or disguised through
fake receipts.
O n e w e l l - l ov e d l o u n g e style Caracas bar and restaurant stopped ser ving sushi
because of the seaweed scar-
city. The kitchen switched to
making ceviche, only to find
shrimp was too expensive and
many of the red onions were
arriving rotten.
For months the bar did not
serve popular cocktails such
as Cosmopolitans for lack of
cranberry juice.
“What’s sad is that people
stop complaining, or straightaway ask, ‘What do you actually have?’ rather than waiting
to hear the list of what’s missing,” said the restaurant’s
owner.
Black market pork
Chavez’s efforts to make food
affordable have come at a
price. In times of shortage,
unethical entrepreneurs buy
discount groceries and resell
them on the black market.
Author ities last month
detained four people at the
Budare del Este restaurant
in the chic but gaudy Caracas neighbour hood of Las
Mercedes on charges of illegally buying subsidized food,
including nearly a tonne
of pork and half a tonne
of chicken.
“Those products are meant
to meet the needs of Venezuelan families, not to line
the pockets of scoundrels,”
wrote Maduro in a series of
incensed tweets announcing
the operation.
Bakers often seek to protect themselves from wheat
flour shortages by building
up stocks to meet holiday
demand for breads and cakes.
If they get inspected, however, they risk accusations
of hoarding.
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Domestic food
processing
battered but still
has bright spots
NEWS
U.S. grocer sued for deceiving label
Broilers are raised in open barns not cages
By P.J. Huffstutter
CHICAGO / REUTERS
To be globally competitive, domestic processors
must increase their scale and lower costs
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
T
he domestic food-processing industry had been rocked by the closing
of the Heinz and Kellogg plants in
southwestern Ontario, but overall trends
in the sector are positive, the chairman of
Agri-Food Innovation at the University of
Guelph says.
David Sparling told the Canadian Agriculture Economics Society the industry
remains the No. 1 employer among Canadian manufacturers and is No. 2 in revenue.
“ The industr y has a pretty exciting
future,” he said. “It is far different than it
was 10 years ago. It’s under considerable
pressure, but it is changing.”
Among its challenges are “rising costs,
increased foreign competition and consumer demands for healthy and sustainable products,” he said.
The Ivey School at University of Guelph is
studying structural change in the processing industr y including a look at plant
closings and the level of investment by
domestic and foreign multinational firms.
Among the preliminary findings is that
the industry is generally making low-value
products “and not doing as well as it could
at increasing productivity,” he said. Still
the sector is growing except in the Atlantic
provinces. Quebec and British Columbia
had the biggest gains.
Companies with more than 200 employees account for three per cent of all the
food businesses but produce half the product.
About 90 per cent of the food plant closings have been multinational firms consolidating their operations in lost-cost areas.
Among domestic operations, it has been
smaller and less productive plants that
have closed.
After a round of foreign companies leaving Canada or consolidating their operations between 2007 and 2009, there has
been more investment in the sector, Sparling said.
To be globally competitive, companies
need to increase their scale and lower
costs, using better information systems,
getting the most value from inputs and
paying close attention to food safety and
quality.
The declining value of the Canadian dollar could be a competitive boost for the
sector.
Spencer Henson, professor of
the economics of food, health and
development at the University of Guelph,
noted that most food safety problems occur
at the food-service level, but governments
fo c us on a gr ic u lt ure in pu t su pp li e rs,
farmers, processors and the retail sector.
The government is moving toward more
emphasis on risk-based standards and conformity assessments as both food imports
and exports rise and agri-food supply systems become more complex.
However, the food industry is shifting to
increased use of international food safety
standards and in many cases businesses
are setting their own standards usually at
higher levels than governments require,
he said. The result is a complicated system
that is hard to judge in terms of its impact.
At the same time, polls show consumers
have a high degree of confidence in the
safety of the food supply, he said. Almost 70
per cent say they trust it while 23 per cent
were neutral and only seven per cent had
doubts.
Government regulatory systems are the
most burdensome on small companies that
cannot afford to hire staff just to cope with
it, he said. “This really affects the viability
of smaller firms.”
The United States gives a much greater
role to third-party food safety inspection
than Canada does which complicates the
close relationship between them, he noted.
CFIA should consider extending recognition to the private standards, which are
only going to increase, and could reduce
the amount of inspections work the agency
has to conduct.
“There’s still a lot of thinking needed on
the evaluation food safety regulation also
has to work,” he said. “We’re probably at
the start of a fundamental shift in the role
of government in food safety.”
Kroger Co., the biggest U.S. supermarket operator, faces
a lawsuit claiming it deceived consumers by marketing a
store brand as humanely raised chicken products when
the animals were raised under standard commercial
farming.
The complaint, filed in Superior Court of California in
Los Angeles County, is seeking class-action status against
Kroger for allegedly misleading California consumers
with claims about the grocer’s “Simple Truth” premiumpriced store brand of chicken.
Kroger spokesman Keith Dailey told Reuters Feb. 12
that the company has not had an opportunity to review
the lawsuit. However, Dailey said: “What we have on our
Simple Truth chicken label is information for our customers that we believe is accurate, and we intend to vigorously defend our label.”
The “Simple Truth” chicken products were packaged
with labelling that stated the animals were raised “in a
humane environment” and “cage free,” according to the
lawsuit.
However, standard industry practice for broiler chickens is to house them inside large buildings, not cages,
according to industry experts.
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S
The music is just starting
Some are just over the 1,000 mark, but more mergers likely ahead, say some leaders
New mergers
Loyalty to local identity is one reason why municipalities are loath to amalgamate. photo:
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
T
he Village of Waskada was the
tiniest municipality in Manitoba
before amalgamation and is still
in close contention for the title — even
with its new partner. Its combined population post-merger with its surrounding RM of Brenda will now be 652.
That’s well below the 1,000-person
threshold stipulated by the province’s
Municipal Modernization Act. Some
new municipalities have been allowed
a combined population of less than
1,000 so long as they’ve amalgamated
with at least one partner, according to
a provincial spokesperson.
But Duncan Stewart, reeve of the
RM of Brenda, supported amalgamation and hoped to see much bigger
entities emerge. He now accuses the
province of breaking its own rules. The
end result he predicts will not be substantially different than what existed
before, he said.
“One of the main reasons they
wanted us to amalgamate in the first
place was to make larger municipalities,” he said. “But it’s made very little
change as far as we’re concerned.”
Brenda-Waskada isn’t the only amalgamated entity that remains small.
At just 629 persons, the new
Municipality of Ethelbert, with a combined RM and village population will
be even smaller than Brenda-Waskada.
Other mergers recently approved by
the province are just barely over 1,000.
St e w a r t s a y s t h e y t r i e d u n s u ccessfully to bring a third partner
into Brenda-Waskada. But as just
a twosome, there’s been “no practical change in the governance of the
municipality,” he said. The two entities
have long shared an office and joint staff.
More to come
But this is just the beginning of mergers,
predict other municipal leaders who’ve
been on the amalgamation road awhile.
lorraine stevenson
“I honestly think we’ll all be getting bigger. It just may take another 15
or 20 years,” said Don Yanick, mayor
of the Municipality of Shoal Lake,
which was produced from a voluntary merger in 2011 between the RM
and town. They’re now taking in the
RM of Strathclair to become the RM of
Yellowhead.
“I think the first step is the towns and
rurals amalgamating first,” Yanick said.
“And that’s all happening now.”
Many of the new town-RM combinations to date are calling themselves ‘municipality of’ and opting for
hyphenated names of the former entities. Part of that is about holding on to
identity, added Yanick.
But some are choosing entirely new
names. Lawrence and Ochre River will
form the RM of Lakeshore. Strathcona
and Riverside are combining to form
the RM of Prairie Lakes.
The RM of Grassland will be a larger
municipality formed between the RMs
of Whitewater, Cameron and town of
Hartney.
Whitewater Reeve Blair Woods said
leaders with the three councils have
only reluctantly agreed to go forward
— “we had no choice,” — but in discussions also agreed not to hyphenate
names to reflect the past.
“Everyone agreed if we were forced
to do something new we’d try and do
something totally new, with a new
name,” Woods said.
They’re also loath to close municipal
offices or lay off staff — a sentiment
expressed by many local leaders. Their
plan is to keep the Whitewater office
open in Minto as well as have an office
in Hartney, Woods said.
“They’re both very important to the
community.”
Wo o d s a d d e d i t w i l l b e u p t o
Grassland’s new council for Grassland
after January 1, 2015 to forge ahead
with any further changes.
“Everything will be reviewed in the
years ahead,” he said.
Public opinion
Time will also give rural Manitobans a
chance to see how they are affected by
amalgamation. Woods said they’ve heard
“the whole gamut” of opinions about what
they should do as they began to broach
the amalgamation subject with residents.
“We’ve heard everything from ‘don’t
go with this RM or that RM’ to ‘don’t do
anything’ to ‘move ahead,’ he said. There
hasn’t been negative feedback about forming a new municipality between Cameron
and Hartney, but then most know there’s
not much point protesting, he said.
“This (provincial) government passed
the legislation,” he said. “There’s not much
we can do.”
Yanick said public sentiment expressed
at a Shoal Lake ratepayers’ meeting about
joining with Strathclair was definitely in
favour of getting larger.
“People said it just made sense,” he said,
adding that residents of the area already
share a health centre, a school division
and credit union.
Court ruling awaited
Meanwhile, other councils who have plans
on the books say they’re waiting to see
what a judge rules next month when the
Association of Manitoba Municipalities
takes the province to court. The AMM
declared in December that it would
challenge the implementation of the
Municipal Modernization Act and has a
court date set for March 10.
Denis Carter, reeve of RM of Woodworth
said his council complied with the legislation and has put forward a plan to merge
with neighbouring RM of Wallace and the
Village of Elkhorn. But they’re awaiting
the court ruling before they get into the
details.
“I think that if we (AMM) were to win
the court case, I’d go back to our public,
and have another town hall meeting and
see if we wanted to retain our municipality
the way it was,” he said.
Rural Municipality of Harrison is one
of five municipalities named in the legal
action.
• Rural Municipality (RM) of Sifton and
Oak Lake forming the new RM of Sifton,
• RMs of Strathcona and Riverside forming the new RM of Prairie Lakes,
• Village of Glenboro and RM of South
Cypress forming the new Municipality of
Glenboro-South Cypress,
• RM of McCreary and Village of McCreary
forming the new Municipality of
McCreary,
• RMs of Minto and Odanah forming the
new RM of Minto-Odanah,
• RMs of Langford and North Cypress
forming the new Municipality of North
Cypress-Langford,
• Town of Ste. Rose du Lac and RM of Ste.
Rose forming the new Municipality of
Ste. Rose,
• Town of Boissevain and RM of Morton
forming the new Municipality of
Boissevain-Morton,
• Town of Erickson and RM of Clanwilliam
forming the new Municipality of
Clanwilliam-Erickson,
• RM of Ethelbert and Village of Ethelbert
forming the new Municipality of
Ethelbert,
• RM of Brenda and the Village of
Waskada forming the new Municipality
of Brenda-Waskada,
• RMs of Shellmouth-Boulton and Silver
Creek forming the new RM of Riding
Mountain West,
• Town of Treherne and RM of South
Norfolk forming the new Municipality of
Norfolk-Treherne,
• Town of Rivers and RM of Daly forming
the new Riverdale Municipality,
• RM of Rossburn and Town of Rossburn
forming the new Rossburn Municipality,
• RM of Russell, Village of Binscarth
and Town of Russell forming the new
Municipality of Russell-Binscarth,
•Village of Winnipegosis and RM of
Mossey River forming the new RM of
Mossey River,
• RM of North Norfolk and Town
of MacGregor forming the new
Municipality of North Norfolk, and
• RMs of Lawrence and Ochre River forming the new RM of Lakeshore.
Reeve Murray Davies said the province’s
plan for them was to form a super-municipality including Harrison with the RMs of
Park, Blanchard, Saskatchewan, Town of
Rapid City and Strathclair.
Harrison and Park have agreed to
merge, said Davies, adding the new entity
will have a combined population of nearly
4,000 including summer residents.
“We had to put a plan in,” said Davies.
“If we didn’t put one in by Feb. 1 we’d have
been breaking the law. But we’ve stated
that that (plan) is subject to the legal
action.”
The province said in early February that
a total of 85 municipalities with populations under 1,000 are required to submit
plans for amalgamation. It has named 19
mergers among 36 municipalities as being
near completion.
A 30 per cent reduction in the number
of municipalities outside Winnipeg is
expected after all municipalities have submitted their merger plans.
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RecipeSwap
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Two heads (of cabbage)
are better than one
Lorraine Stevenson
Crossroads Recipe Swap
I
t is said than an idealist is someone
who, upon noticing roses smell better than cabbage, concludes they also
make better soup.
That might be the closest cabbage ever
got to a compliment. Poor cabbage. This
cruciferous vegetable is a humble staple
of many cultures. It’s been with us a long,
long time and was essential winter food
for many of our predecessors. But with
so many other vegetables available year
round, I’m guessing fewer eat it today,
and there are possibly those who never
cook with it.
I’ve always loved borscht, but I do
admit cabbage wasn’t my go-to vegetable
either for a long time. It was growing red
and green cabbage in our garden each
summer that dispelled my prejudice
for cabbage. We made really delicious
sauerkraut one year, and with lots of it
available each fall, I began searching for
recipes to make something else besides
coleslaw. Now I’m convinced two heads
of cabbage are better than one; there are
so many ways to cook with it.
Look for cabbage in your grocery
store, where it is both reliably available
no matter where you shop and a terrific
low-cost mid-winter vegetable to cook
creatively.
These four recipes are found on the
website of ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen
http://www.atcoblueflamekitchen.
com), where home economists have
been providing household advice and
thousands of recipes in Alberta for more
than 80 years.
Braised Green Cabbage
1/4 c. butter
1/2 c. finely chopped onion
8 c. thinly sliced green cabbage
1 c. shredded carrots
1 c. apple juice
1/4 c. apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp. grated fresh ginger
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. freshly ground pepper
1/8 tsp. red pepper flakes
Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium heat.
Add onion and sauté until softened, about
five minutes. Add cabbage and sauté until it
starts to soften. Stir in remaining ingredients
(carrots through red pepper flakes). Bring to
a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, for 12 to 15 minutes. Uncover
and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 10 to 15
minutes or until cabbage is tender and most of
liquid is evaporated. Serves 6 to 8.
Cabbage Soup
with Garlic Sausage
This delicious and filling soup is perfect for a
cold February supper.
1 tbsp. oil
1 ring (300 g) garlic sausage, halved lengthwise and
sliced crosswise (1/4 inch/6 mm)
1 c. chopped onion
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper
4 c. chopped green cabbage
1 tbsp. whole-grain mustard
6 c. chicken broth
2 c. cubed unpeeled red potatoes (1/2 inch)
2 tbsp. white wine vinegar
4 c. coarsely chopped fresh spinach
Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium
heat. Add sausage and cook, stirring, until
browned, about five minutes. Transfer
sausage to a bowl; set aside. Add onion,
salt and pepper to pan; sauté until onion is
softened, about five minutes. Add cabbage
and mustard; cook, stirring, until cabbage
starts to soften, about three to five minutes.
Return sausage to pan. Stir in broth, potatoes
and vinegar. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and
simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, until
cabbage and potatoes are tender, about 20
minutes. Add spinach and cook, stirring, until
spinach wilts. This soup does not freeze well.
Serves 6 to 8.
Source: ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen
Grilled Red Cabbage
with Mustard Cream
1 tbsp. butter
1 clove garlic, crushed
1/4 c. dry white wine
1 tbsp. whole-grain mustard
1 c. whipping cream
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. freshly ground pepper
2 tbsp. finely chopped green onion
1 small red cabbage, trimmed
2 tbsp. oil
To prepare mustard cream, melt butter in a
medium saucepan over medium heat. Add
garlic and sauté for 30 seconds. Stir in wine
and mustard. Bring to a boil. Boil, uncovered,
until mixture is reduced by half, about two
minutes. Stir in cream, salt and pepper.
Return to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer,
uncovered, stirring occasionally, until mixture
is thickened and reduced, about seven to
10 minutes. Stir in green onion; keep warm.
Cut cabbage into four wedges, leaving core
intact. Brush all sides of wedges with oil.
Grill wedges over medium heat on natural
gas barbecue, turning once, until tender and
lightly browned, about seven to eight minutes
per side. Serve with mustard cream. Serves 4.
Source: ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen
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Cabbage Rolls
I associate cabbage rolls with special
occasions but they can be the centrepiece
of a simple, delicious meal any time. A
blanched three-pound green cabbage or
napa cabbage or sour cabbage leaves is
recommended for this recipe.
1/2 lb. bacon, diced
1-1/2 c. finely chopped onions
1/2 lb. lean ground beef
1/2 lb. lean ground pork
2 c. cooked rice
1/4 tsp. freshly ground pepper
Salt
1 head of cabbage, blanched
1 can (28 ozs./796 ml) crushed tomatoes
Preheat oven to 350 F. To prepare filling,
cook bacon in a large non-stick frypan
over medium heat until crisp. Remove
bacon with a slotted spoon; drain bacon
on paper towels. Add onions and sauté
for three or four minutes. Add beef and
pork; cook, stirring, to break up meat,
until browned, about seven to 10 minutes.
Drain off excess fat. Combine bacon, meat
mixture, rice and pepper. Season to taste
with salt. Carefully trim the outer portion
of the thick centre rib on each cabbage
leaf by cutting parallel to the rib. This
procedure makes the cabbage leaf easier
to roll. Spoon about 1/2 cup of filling
into each trimmed leaf. Smaller leaves
will require less filling. Fold sides toward
centre and roll up leaves jelly-roll fashion.
Place rolls, seam side down, in a single
layer in a greased 9x13-inch baking dish.
Pour tomatoes over top. Bake, covered, for
1-1/2 to 2 hours or until cabbage is tender.
Serves 6 to 8.
Cook’s Note: To blanch a head of cabbage,
cut out the core and then place the
cabbage head, core side down, in a Dutch
oven. Add about two inches of water to
Dutch oven. Simmer, covered, removing
cabbage leaves as they soften and become
pliable. Use a three-lb. green cabbage or
napa cabbage. Alternatively, sour cabbage
leaves may be used; these do not require
blanching.
Source: ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen
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“
W
ell, that was a fun day!” said Rose as Karen
turned the car into the Jacksons’ driveway.
“It was wasn’t it?” Karen manoeuvred
the car carefully into the snow-covered yard and
came to a stop at the end of the sidewalk leading up
to the back porch. “I was pretty excited when Grant
suggested it. He said he couldn’t think of a better
Valentine’s Day present than to send me off on a
shopping trip without him.” She laughed. “I had to
agree. It’s definitely a win-win situation.”
“I didn’t even remember that it was Valentine’s
Day until you mentioned it on the drive this morning,” said Rose. “Andrew and I have just never made
a big deal of Valentine’s Day. Usually I get him a card,
and then he apologizes for not getting me one and
that’s good enough for us.” She paused. “I should
have got him a card,” she added. “Oops.”
Karen pointed suddenly toward the dining room
window of the house. “Look at that, Rose,” she said.
“Look at what?” said Rose.
“There appears to be a lit candle on your dining
room table,” said Karen.
Rose peered out of the car window. “Good Lord, I
think you’re right,” she said. “What is that man up to
now?”
“I see wineglasses,” said Karen.
“Dammit,” said Rose. “I really should have bought
a card.”
“Oh don’t worry about it,” said Karen. “Just give
him back one of his apologies.”
“Good idea.” Rose opened the car door and got
out, reaching into the back seat to grab a half-dozen
loaded shopping bags to take with her. “Thanks for
the ride Karen,” she said.
“No problem. It was fun.”
Rose gave the car door a nudge with her hip
to close it and Karen turned the car around and
headed back up the driveway. Rose turned and
headed up the sidewalk, noticing as she did so
that the walk was newly and quite thoroughly
cleared. As she climbed the steps up to the back
door, the door swung open and Andrew stepped
out.
“Hey darling,” he said, “let me get those for
you.” He reached out and took the shopping bags
and then stood aside and held the door for Rose
The
Jacksons
BY ROLLIN PENNER
so she could step inside. “How was your day?” he
asked as he followed her in.
Rose shook off her coat and hung it on its hook.
“Excellent,” she said. “All kinds of crazy good
clearance sales.”
“I see that,” said Andrew carrying the bags into
the dining room and setting them down on the
floor in the corner. Rose followed him in, but
stopped in the doorway, staring.
“What’s all this?” she said.
“What’s all what?” Andrew grinned impishly.
“The candle,” said Rose. “And the wine, and
the good china and the flowers and the romantic
music and whatever it is in the oven that smells like
I’ve died and gone to heaven.”
“Oh, that.” Andrew took his wife in his arms and
gave her a kiss. “Happy Valentine’s Day,” he said.
Rose looked up at her husband. “You’re crazy,”
she said. “We don’t do Valentine’s Day. I didn’t even
get you a card.”
“I am crazy,” said Andrew. “Crazy about you. I got
you a card. I got you the mushiest, sappiest most
sentimental card I could find, just to make up for
all the cards I didn’t get you over the years. Here. Go
ahead, read it.”
Rose took the card and read it.
“Yikes,” she said. “That’ll do it. But you shouldn’t
have.”
“Ha,” said Andrew. “You’re not the boss of me.
You don’t get to tell me what I should have and
what I shouldn’t have. If I decide to give my wife a
special Valentine’s Day, there is nothing you can do
to stop me.”
“That’s true,” said Rose. “You are kind of
unstoppable.”
“Exactly,” said Andrew. “Which is why you might
as well just go with the flow. We’ll have dinner,
and then we’ll get into our comfy clothes and we’ll
watch last week’s episode of “Downton Abby” while
I give you a foot massage and a back rub.”
Rose tilted her head back. “Where’s Jennifer?” she
asked.
“Jennifer is sleeping over at Kendra’s,” said
Andrew.
“So we have the house to ourselves?”
“Indeed we do.”
“So we can get into any kind of shenanigans we
want?” Rose’s eyes twinkled.
“We can,” said Andrew. “What kind of shenanigans did you have in mind?”
“Crazy stuff,” said Rose. “Like going to bed early.”
“Whatever you like,” said Andrew. “I’ll have you
in bed by eight if you want.”
“You will?”
“I will.”
“You know what we have here?” said Rose.
“What?” said Andrew.
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Add an exotic touch to your interior
A corn plant a.k.a. dragon tree may be just what you need
By Albert Parsons
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
T
he houseplant Dracaena
fragrans “Massangeana” is
often given the common
name corn plant, but if you have
one or intend to add one to your
indoor landscape, why not call it
by its other — more interesting
— common name, dragon tree?
Whatever name you give this
plant, you will be pleased with
the exotic touch it adds to your
home. It is a tall, narrow plant so
it doesn’t take up much space in
terms of width although it can
reach heights of over two metres.
The corn plant has long, narrow leaves that have interesting striping of various shades of
green and yellow. They are not
erect but tend to hang down
from the stems, much like the
leaves on corn plants — thus its
common name. Sometimes the
leaves are slightly wavy, which
adds even more interest.
The plants begin their existence as a 1-2-3 plant. This
means that the potted plant
you purchased probably will
have started off as three stems
planted into the pot; one would
have been one foot tall (30 cm),
the next two feet (60 cm) tall and
the next three feet (100 cm) tall.
When these bare stems arrived
as cuttings at the greenhouse
where they are grown, they were
planted and in about a month,
taps or heads emerged from near
the tops of the woody stems. Two
or three taps might have developed on each stem. These shoots
grew upright and became the
growing stems above the original
woody stem cuttings of the plant
you buy.
Corn plants like even moisture and high humidity. Lacking
either, the leaf tips will turn brown
and brown markings might even
appear on the leaf surfaces themselves. Keep the planting medium
evenly moist and do not allow it
to dry out. The plant will appreciate being misted but at the very
least sit the pot on a pebble tray
and have other plants nearby to
add moisture to the surrounding air. Over time, the plant will
gradually have more and more
brown-tipped leaves and when
they begin to detract too much
from the beauty of the plant, cut
it back. You can cut back any stalk
just above a leaf axil, as far down
as just above the first axil above
the original woody stem. New
taps or heads will emerge from
the leaf axil to form new stems.
If you wish to start a new plant,
remove a tap that is in good con-
dition and not too tall and place
it in dampened soilless mix. It will
form a new plant. You may want
to follow the 1-2-3 rule and plant
three stems that are of differing
heights to get a nice full pot.
Corn plants like heat as they
are originally from tropical
Africa. They become almost dormant when subjected to temperatures much below 20 C. Do
not locate a corn plant near a
cold window during the winter or near a doorway where it
will get drafts of cold air. Water
these plants with pure water
as they are sensitive to fluoride
and chlorine. They also are sensitive to salt buildup in the soil
so flush the soil periodically.
Besides getting brown leaf tips
from dry soil or air, this condition also can result from fertilizer burn. Use fertilizer cautiously at low doses.
A dragon tree is an interesting architectural plant to work
into an interior landscape.
Commonly used in offices and
other public spaces because of
its tolerance for low light levels, one of these plants will add
height and a bit of the exotic to
your indoor spaces.
Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa,
Manitoba
Whichever name you call this plant, it will add a nice touch to your home.
PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
‘Coke’ house filled with nostalgia
Extensive collection chronicles times and events
By Darrell Nesbitt
Freelance contributor
T
o many, Coca-Cola is a beverage that is refreshing year round.
To Garry Williamson, owner of
the Bigway Foods store in Shoal Lake,
it’s a product that is dear to his heart
from a collecting standpoint as well, as
Coca-Cola advertising has chronicled
our times and events for more than a
century.
Prior to building his new grocery
store in Shoal Lake, storage was at a
premium for product let alone countless pieces of memorabilia with the
Coca-Cola signature on it. Due to this,
the “Coke” house came to be in a neighbouring community.
“Looking for storage space, the house,
garage and property was purchased at a
great price,” said Williamson. “With the
house sporting white paint with a red
trim, it’s fitting for the range of product
I have displayed inside.”
And the product he talks about
is more than the odd Coke bottle —
empty or full — sitting on a kitchen
cupboard.
Classic memorabilia pieces run the
gambit from vintage signs to rare pins;
signed artwork to retro trays of the past.
True Coke memorabilia is very collectible and very hard to find.
While a selection of Williamson’s
collection has come through purchases, other pieces have been
donated by friends. A former CocaCola salesman who was retiring, asked
Williamson if he would like his selection of ties with the Coke signature on
them. These unique pieces now hang
on a wall, as do pictures, trays, and
boxed die-cast toys, to name just a few
of the items.
“When I speak of the Coke house,
some people get the wrong idea, until
they walk through the door,” said
Williamson with a chuckle. “I have
been collecting for a long time, and
the range of memorabilia is quite
extensive, with some antique coolers
working and some not.”
Coca-Cola is popular within the
collector community because it is a
memory generator — a brand associated with happy times.
That’s what appeals to Williamson
— a father, business owner, community-minded friend and true CocaCola memorabilia collector — that is
told in story form in its own national
museum known as the World of CocaCola or simply on the local level — the
“Coke” house.
Darrell Nesbitt writes from Shoal Lake,
Manitoba
Shoal Lake business owner has a large Coca-Cola memorabilia collection. photo: DARRELL NESBITT
Active in all seasons
It’s tempting to stay indoors in the winter, but you still need exercise
By Julie Garden-Robinson
NDSU Extension Service
L
ike most people, I have
remained warm and content staying indoors as
much as possible during our
unusually cold winter, but we
all need to stay physically active
in all seasons. Regular physical
activity can help maintain our
blood pressure and blood cholesterol at normal levels, which
can reduce our risk of heart
disease, and may help reduce
our risk of diabetes and some
cancers. Regular activity can
strengthen our bones and muscles, and having strong muscles
and bones can help prevent
falls as we age. It can improve
our mood, our ability to sleep
and our overall mental health.
Physical activity may help prevent dementia in the long run.
Doing any amount of physical activity has health benefits.
For significant benefits, fitness
experts recommend 150 minutes per week. That equates to
30 minutes per day on five days
of the week, and the activity
can be accumulated in 10- or
15-minute segments.
We do not have to leave our
homes to exercise. All we need
is a radio or CD player so we can
put on some music and dance.
Consider renting, borrowing or
buying an exercise DVD. They
are available at levels ranging
from beginner to advanced,
including exercises you can do
while seated. Remember that
household tasks count as fitness,
too. Vigorous vacuuming burns
calories and takes care of dust
bunnies, as well.
If possible, leave your home
and check out communitybased indoor fitness opportunities, such as open gyms at
schools or faith communities.
Go for a walk at a shopping mall,
go swimming at a community
fitness facility, or enjoy bowling
or ping-pong.
Brave the cold and try outdoor
activities such as cross-country
skiing, snowshoeing or sledding.
Make a wine tote
By Eva Krawchuk
Freelance contributor
I
t’s always appreciated
when invited to dinner,
that you bring along a
bottle of wine. An added gift
is the tote bag and appropriate fabric adds to the charm.
This is simple and quick to
make and a good way to use
up those smaller pieces of left
ove r m a t e r i a l . A l l t h a t’s
required is two small pieces of
fabric, one print and one plain. Cut two pieces of fabric
12x17 inches. Use the print for
the outside and the plain for
the lining. Cut one of each for the handle — 3x13 inches. Yes, I know, I am purposely not
listing one of the primary means
of getting exercise in winter
— snow removal! Be aware of
these snow removal tips:
• Be f o re s h ove l l i n g , d r i n k
plenty of water and avoid
caffeine or nicotine, which
are stimulants that may
increase your heart rate and
cause your blood vessels to
constrict.
• Dress in several layers. If
you get too warm, you can
remove a layer.
• Wa r m y o u r m u s c l e s by
stretching before you begin
shovelling.
• Pick the right shovel for you.
One with a smaller blade will
require you to lift less snow
and put less strain on your
body.
• Start at a slow pace, and stop
if you feel pain.
Check out http://www.ndsu.
edu/boomers for informa
tion about staying active. The
“muscles” section has links to
free online videos and workout
guides. Moving our bodies regularly needs to be a health priority regardless of the season.
Julie Garden-Robinson, PhD, R.D., L.R.D.,
is a North Dakota State University
Extension Service food and nutrition
specialist and professor in the
department of health, nutrition and
exercise sciences.
Reader’s Photo
Sew long edges of bag
together. Fold bag to have the
seam centred. Stitch bottom
seam. Mitre corners. Turn
right side out. Do the same
with the lining piece but do
not turn. Fold under one inch
on top of each section. Press.
With right sides together,
stitch handle pieces together
at sides. Turn and press. Mark
centres of handle and centres of bag pieces. Place lining
inside the bag and pin strap
at centre between pieces of
front and back. Baste in place
then topstitch. Insert a favourite bottle of wine and you’re
ready to go.
Eva Krawchuk writes from Winnipeg
Plenty of snow this winter! PHOTO: LORRAINE HOFER
PHOTO: EVA KRAWCHUK
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EU weighs competitiveness
and climate policy
There are risks associated with getting too far ahead in clean energy
By John Kemp
london / reuters
I
don’t want us to be the only people out there in front of the rest
of the world,” Britain’s finance
minister, George Osborne said last
September, speaking about the country’s role in tackling climate change.
“I certainly don’t think we should
be further ahead of our partners in
Europe,” Osborne went on, in comments that were seized on by the
government’s critics to question its
commitment to reducing greenhouse
emissions and be “the greenest government ever.”
The finance minister infuriated
environment campaigners, climate
scientists and the clean tech industry
by daring to imply there might be a
trade-off between economic competitiveness and weaning the country
off fossil fuels.
In doing so, Osborne was breaking the taboo that insists being an
early adopter in clean energy confers
a competitive advantage: countries
can become richer by doing the right
thing.
His comments reflect growing
doubts among some politicians in
the United Kingdom and elsewhere
in the EU about how far to go unilaterally in adopting policies to tackle
climate change if the rest of the world
shows no sign of following.
“
Green energy race
Most senior politicians frame talk
about climate change and clean
energy in terms of “leadership” or
a “race,” knowing that their hearers
want to be leaders rather than followers, and that no one wants to be left
behind in a race.
Framing energy and climate
change issues this way is meant to
imply that adopting early and aggressive targets for switching to wind,
solar and even nuclear, while making more efficient use of energy, will
confer a competitive advantage over
countries that move more slowly and
continue to rely on polluting fossil
fuels.
The Obama administration is particularly fond of framing issues in
terms of leadership. President Barack
Obama used the word leader or leadership 16 times in various contexts in
his speech to Congress last month.
“It’s not just (American) oil and
natural gas that’s booming; we’re
becoming a global leader in solar
too,” Obama told Congress in his
annual state of the union address on
January 28.
This was his only reference to leadership in the context of clean energy
this year. But in the past the president has discussed at much more
length how he wants the country to
be a clean tech leader.
In 2013, Obama told Congress:
“The good news is that we can make
meaningful progress on (climate
change) while driving strong economic growth.”
“Four years ago, other countries
dominated the clean energy mar-
A worker inspects solar panels at a solar farm in Dunhuang, 950 km (590 miles) northwest of Lanzhou, Gansu Province.
ket and the jobs that came with it.
And we’ve begun to change that,” the
president went on. “As long as countries like China keep going all in on
clean energy, so must we.”
The president’s “Bluepr int for
a secure energy future,” published
in 2011, promised the United States
would “win the future through clean
energy research and development.”
“Maintaining our leadership in
research and development is critical
to winning the future and deploying
innovative technologies that will create quality jobs and move towards
clean energy economy that reduces
our reliance on oil,” it emphasized.
“A global race is under way to
develop and manufacture clean
energy technologies, and China and
other countries are playing to win,”
the president’s blueprint warned.
America invented the photovoltaic solar panel and installed the first
megawatt-size wind turbine. “Yet
today, China has moved past us in
wind capacity, while Germany leads
the world in solar.”
Twenty years of pain
The concept of a race is not confined
to the United States. EU politicians,
too, have often spoken about the
bloc’s ambitious emissions targets
and deployment of renewables as
a source of economic advantage. If
anything, the EU has been an even
more ardent user of the leadership
and race metaphors.
But doubts are starting to creep in.
EU politicians have begun to express
concern about high energy costs
and the damage it is doing to competitiveness, especially in energyintensive sectors like iron, steel and
petrochemicals.
Much of the problem stems from
differences in the price of gas as a
result of the U.S. shale revolution and
the EU’s continued dependence on
importing gas from Russia and other
suppliers on long-term contracts at
oil-linked prices.
But the cost of subsidies to support
wind and solar power generation,
most of which are added to customers’ energy bills, is also a growing
source of anxiety for European industrialists and policy-makers.
Even the International Energy
Agency (IEA), which has strongly
supported the EU’s action to tackle
climate change, has started to sound
more cautious.
The IEA’s chief economist Fatih
Birol has warned the EU could face
an energy price gap for at least 20
years.
“ To o m u c h o f t h e b l a m e f o r
Europe’s high energy prices is being
directed at its ambitions on climate
change while the main factor — the
high cost of imported energy — is
being all but ignored,” Birol complained at a conference at Imperial
College, London.
Nonetheless, he acknowledged the
EU didn’t realize the seriousness of
the competitive challenge. “Europe
needs to pay more attention to the
competitiveness agenda while keeping the climate agenda alive,” Birol
said in the Financial Times Jan. 29.
Fossil fuel prices
In the first decade of the 21st century, U.S. and EU policy-makers were
successfully convinced renewables
would provide a cheaper, less volatile
alternative to burning fossil fuels like
oil, gas and coal, as well as being better for the environment.
But that prediction assumed oil
and gas prices would continue rising
inexorably as reserves ran out, and all
countries would put an extra cost on
Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria
burning fossil fuels through carbon
taxes or emissions trading to limit
greenhouse gases.
In p ra c t i c e, t ra d i n g p ro g ra m s
have failed to generate sufficiently
high carbon prices; an international
agreement has not been concluded;
taxes remain deeply unpopular; and
the shale revolution has upended
assumptions about the exhaustion of
gas and oil reserves.
Official projections, such as those
drawn up by Britain’s Department
of Energy and Climate Change, continue to show fossil fuel prices rising in the medium and long term.
But in the real world, renewables and
nuclear generation are struggling to
compete against cheaper gas and
coal.
Commitments to renewables have
not produced the hoped-for boom
in manufacturing and employment
either. Wind and solar technologies
are fairly simple to build. Most of the
manufacturing has already shifted to
low-cost factories in China.
Clean tech firms in the United
States and the EU have responded
by filing complaints about dumping
and subsidies in China. The reality,
however, is that neither economy has
a durable comparative advantage in
making photovoltaic cells or wind
turbines.
If the cost of relying on fossil
fuels does rise in the medium and
long term countries that switch
to wind, solar and nuclear will get
an enor mous boost. But if fossil fuel prices stay low, renewables
could start to look like an expensive
disadvantage.
Britain’s Osborne is right. There are
risks from getting too far ahead of
the pack on clean technology and
climate issues if the rest of the world
does not follow.
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Brazil’s Coffee Belt
grapples with rare
threat: dry heat
An unexpected heat wave has thrust many of
Brazil’s coffee farmers into the unknown
By Reese Ewing
espirito santo do pinhal, brazil / reuters
I
n Brazil’s Coffee Belt, frost
has long been the biggest
risk for farmers and commodities traders alike. But
after years of migrating to
warmer regions, farmers here
now find themselves scrambling to overcome an unusual
phenomenon: blistering heat.
January was the hottest and
driest month on record in
much of southeastern Brazil,
punishing crops in the country’s agricultural heartland and
sending commodities prices
sharply higher in global mar-
kets. As signs emerged that the
world’s largest coffee crop was
withering, futures prices shot
up 26 per cent over a seven-day
stretch to a nine-month high.
The heat wave has thrust
many Brazilian coffee farmers into the unknown. January,
typically the wettest month for
the Coffee Belt, caught most
farmers off guard, leaving
them with few options but to
count their losses.
A few, such as Marcio Diogo,
a t h i rd - g e n e r a t i o n c o f f e e
farmer in Espirito Santo do
Pinhal in Sao Paulo state, are
scrambling to install irrigation lines to limit those losses,
which may have reached 30
per cent of output on his
75-hectare (185.2-acre) farm,
according to his count.
“My g ra n d f a t h e r s t a r t e d
here 80 years ago... never seen
a January like this,” Diogo
said walking through a field
of 25,000 freshly planted coffee trees that he ordered six
months ago.
“I’ve had to water this field
six times by tractor,” he went
on, something he normally
doesn’t have to do.
The drought couldn’t come
at a worse time for Diogo and
other farmers, who have struggled with weak global coffee
A fully formed coffee berry (l) is pictured next to a damaged coffee berry
due to drought, in a coffee farm in Santo Antonio do Jardim February 6,
2014. photo: reuters
prices over the past two years.
It’s still unclear whether the
recent spike in prices, in part
driven by Brazil’s drought, will
eventually offset the loss in
output from the dry weather.
Celso Scanavachi, an
agronomist at the local coffee co-operative Coopinhal,
said farms in the region got
only 10-12 centimetres (3.94.7 inches) of rainfall in January, less than half the month’s
average precipitation.
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Espirito Santo do Pinhal, nestled along the border between
two of Brazil’s biggest arabicagrowing states, Minas Gerais
and Sao Paulo, is not alone.
Two hours to the north in
southern Minas Gerais, which
produces 25 per cent of Brazil’s
coffee crop, between 4.5 and 8.6
centimetres of rainfall fell last
month, when 26.5-30.1 centimetres are average. No doubt,
2014 will go down as the worst
drought in recent history in
Brazil’s Coffee Belt.
The impact, however, is still
hard to gauge. The government
estimated the crop at up to 50
million 60-kg bags before the
drought, while market estimates put it at 60 million bags.
Future estimates will likely fall
for several months as analysts
and farmers get a more precise
understanding of the damage.
“It’s clear there will be losses
but nobody knows yet how big
because this has never happened. We are in uncharted
territory,” Lucio Dias said, a
grower and sales director at
Cooxupé, Brazil’s biggest coffee
co-operative.
Whatever the damage, the
world is unlikely to run out of
coffee any time soon, thanks
to the large stockpiles of beans
amassed in recent years.
Accurately estimating the
losses to the entire crop in Brazil, the world’s main supplier of
natural — or sun-patio-cured —
arabicas, is a monumental task
fraught with complexity.
Overseeing a crew installing an irrigation line to a slope
of three-year-old trees that
are particularly at risk to dry
weather due to their less developed roots and foliage, Diogo
s u r ve ye d t h e yo u n g t re e s
deceptively full of coffee fruit.
He reached down and
stripped a bowlful of unripe
coffee fruit and cut cross-sections through several of the fruit
with his pocket knife showing
voids inside where pale-green
beans would normally be forming if there had been rain.
After testing coffee fruit on
several trees of varying ages,
Diogo estimated that he would
harvest less than 40 bags a hectare this year, if he’s lucky, and
not anywhere close to the 65
bags a hectare he brought in
last season.
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Mix of farm innovations could
take a bite out of world hunger
An IFPRI study looked at the potential impact a range of technologies could have
By Karl Plume
chicago / reuters
A
Three-year-old coffee trees are irrigated
on a farm in Santo Antonio do Jardim.
T:8.125”
photo: reuters
T:10”
tailored mix of farming technologies could
significantly improve
global food security by midcentury as the world’s population swells to a projected nine
billion and the risk of adverse
weather from climate change
threatens crops and disrupts
trade, according to a study
published Feb. 12.
Global corn yields could
jump by as much as 67 per
cent by 2050, while wheat and
rice yields may rise around 20
per cent if certain innovations
are paired, the International
Food Policy Research Institute
said in a study titled “Food
Security in a World of Natural
Resource Scarcity.”
Wi d e s p re a d a d o p t i o n o f
technologies, including biotech seeds, irr igation and
no-till farming, could slice
world food prices by nearly
half and cut food insecurity
by as much as 36 per cent,
IFPRI said.
The study weighed the
impacts of 11 different technologies on corn, rice and
wheat yields, crop pr ices,
trade and world hunger and
found that certain combinations worked better than others. The findings could help
identify practices that cashstrapped developing nations
should target to combat
hunger.
“The reality is that no single agricultural technology or
farming practice will provide
sufficient food for the world
in 2050,” said Mark Rosegrant,
the study’s lead author.
Farmers in the developing
world would see the biggest
overall yield gains. Droughttolerant grain should be targeted by producers in the
Mi d d l e E a s t a n d p a r t s o f
Africa, Latin America and the
Caribbean, while heat-tolerant varieties offer promising
yield results in North America
and South Asia, IFPRI said.
Yield gains from specific technologies were
higher when combined with
irrigation.
“We also find that a lot of
these technologies can make
really large impacts on the
e n v i ro n m e n t a l s i d e,” s a i d
Claudia Ringler, co-author of
the study.
“We find reductions in harvested area needed to feed the
world. We find much better
outcomes on calorie availability, the number of malnourished children and generally
the population at risk of hunger, and they use less natural
resources,” she said.
IFPRI parsed the world’s
arable farmland into 60x60kilometre (37.3x37.3-mile)
squares and gauged the
impact of 11 different technologies and practices on yields
of staple grains corn, wheat
and rice under two different
climate change scenarios.
Positive yield findings were
then plugged into an economic model that projected
their impact on commodity pr ices, trade and food
security.
IFPRI found that no-till
farming boosted corn yields
by 20 per cent. But when combined with irrigation, yields
could rise 67 per cent. Corn
yields in sub-Saharan Africa
could double by 2050 with
widespread adoption of irrigation and no till.
Drought-tolerant corn could
bolster yields by 13 per cent in
the United States and China,
the top two corn consumers.
Heat-tolerant varieties of
wheat could raise grain yields
by 17 per cent and, when
combined with irrigation,
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
Senate hearing gets an earful about bees
Some producer groups want access to imported replacements from the U.S.
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
C
anadian beekeepers need access to
imported U.S. bees to
help replace losses due to pesticides, overwintering stress,
disease and parasites, beekeeping associations told the
Senate agriculture committee
recently.
Allan Campbell, president of
Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association, said the number of
bee colonies in the province
had dropped to 73,000 from
85,000 a few years before high
winter losses set in. The loss
of colonies has knocked about
100 beekeepers from the business even though honey prices
are higher. “Canada’s honey
exports are down 7.4 per cent
and the value of bee imports
into Canada has increased
from $2 million annually to
nearly $7 million.
“This last winter, we lost
46 per cent of our bees,” he
said. “We are in dire need in
Manitoba, and we asked the
government for an immediate end to the embargo on
U.S. packaged bees. We are
asking to be allowed to give
the American packaged bee
industry the chance to be
measured against a health
standard equal to the health
level of the Canadian bee
industry.
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“In Canada, we simply do
not have the climate to produce enough new bees early
enough in the year. Replacement hives are needed in April
to give them time to grow
strong for our nectar flow,” he
said.
Weak colonies
Beekeepers are trying to overwinter weak bee colonies
when it would be better to
leave some hives empty for
the winter and let the cold kill
off mites and bacteria before
restocking in the spring, he
added. Canadian beekeepers “are expected to maintain
our numbers by keeping these
beehives fully stocked year
round, without a chance to
place the equipment into cold
storage, thereby breaking the
pest cycle. With these hives in
use by bees 365 days a year,
they are also housing nosema
spores, small-hive beetle and
varroa mites year round.”
Beekeepers should be able
to import “packaged bees that
were treated for mites chemically before they were in our
equipment. We would cut
chemical residues from our
hives, at the same time eliminating the risk of our miticide
acting in synergy with neonicotinoids and other ag pesticides and overdosing our bees.
We must get off the chemical
treadmill.”
The CFIA’s ban on imported
American bees hasn’t prevented the introduction of
mites and diseases into Canada, he said.
Jake Berg, president of the
Saskatchewan Beekeepers’
Association, ranked disease
control and pesticide poisoning as the biggest challenges facing the industry.
Both cause large risks to honeybees, beekeepers and the
rest of agriculture. The varroa mite is the leading culprit
because it has developed a
resistance to the most common insecticides.
However, he urged caution
in allowing bee imports into
Canada as that will just bring
new problems for beekeepers.
Pesticides
To mitigate damage to beehives from pesticides applied
to field crops, farm and industry groups in Saskatchewan
have developed a program
called Driftwatch “to identify
areas that need special care, to
avoid bee damage and eventually other sensitive crops.”
“We do not expect that
implementing of this program
will resolve all the pesticide
incidences, but we hope it is a
step in the right direction.”
Kevin Nixon, a director
of Alberta Beekeepers Commission, noted that a large
number of hives from north-
ern Alberta are moved to British Columbia for the winter to
improve their odds of winter
survival.
Imported bees, covered
by clearly written protocols,
“could provide Canadian beekeepers with an attractive
option for bee replacement,”
he said. “Currently, we have
been getting bees from New
Zealand and Australia, and
you can have too many eggs
in one basket. Accessing bees
from the U.S. may not be a
fix but it may create another
option for beekeepers.”
The bee industry across
Canada had a rough year during 2013 mostly related to the
weather, he said. In Alberta,
pesticides aren’t nearly the
problem that varroa mites and
a parasitic infection called
nosema cause.
“Another important factor is
bee nutrition,” he said, noting
intensive farming and loss of
pollinator habitat is limiting
bees’ diet. “When we are all
well nourished, we are healthier. It’s the same for the bees.”
The CFIA needs to recognize that “regions within Canada are different and need to
access packaged bees specifically from the U.S. so we have
replacement stock to rebuild
our beehives. Of course, this
would be under protocols
to ensure we are importing
healthy bees.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
Fertilization destabilizes global
grassland ecosystems
Adding nutrients — either intentionally or unintentionally — reduces species diversity
University of Minnesota release
A
new study led by University of Minnesota researchers demonstrates that
fertilization of natural grasslands
— either intentionally or unintentionally as a side-effect of global
farming and industry — is having a destabilizing effect on global grassland ecosystems. Using
a network of natural grassland
research sites around the world
called the Nutrient Network, the
study represents the first time
such a large experiment has been
conducted using naturally occurring sites.
Led by Yann Hautier, a Marie
Curie Fellow associated with both
the department of ecology, evolution and behaviour at the University of Minnesota and the Institute
of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, the research team
file photo
included associate professors, Eric
Seabloom and Elizabeth Borer,
and research scientist Eric Lind,
along with scientists from institutions around the world including
Andy Hector at Oxford University’s department of plant sciences.
The findings were published on
February 16 in the journal Nature.
The researchers found that
plant diversity in natural ecosystems creates more stable ecosystems over time because of less
synchronized growth of plants.
“This is sometimes called the
portfolio effect,” says Seabloom.
“If you have money in two investments and they’re both stocks,
they’re going to track each other,
but if one is a stock and one is a
bond, they’re going to respond
differently to the overall economy
and are more likely to balance
each other.”
The researchers collected plants
from each of the sites, then sorted,
dried and weighed them to monitor the number of species of
plants and total amount of plants,
or “biomass,” grown over time.
They used this information to
quantify species diversity and
ecosystem stability.
“The results of our study
emphasize that we need to
consider not just how productive ecosystems are but also
how stable they are in the long
term, and how biodiversity is
related to both aspects of ecosystem functioning,” says
Andy Hector.
The researchers also found that
grassland diversity and stability are reduced when fertilizer is
added. Fertilizers are intentionally
used in grassland to increase livestock fodder.
Fertilizer addition is also occurring unintentionally in many
places around the world because
nitrogen, a common fertilizer,
is released into the atmosphere
from farming, industry, and burning fossil fuels. Rainfall brings
nitrogen out of the atmosphere
and onto grasslands, changing
the growth and types of plant species. This study placed measured
amounts of fertilizer on a portion
of their research sites and measured the changes that ensued.
“What we find is that the stabilizing effect (of species diversity) is lost, and we have less
stable ecosystems when we have
more nutrients coming into
that system,” says Borer. This,
the researchers found, was due
to more synchronized growth of
plants, eliminating the “portfolio
effect.”
Ohio
Department
of Agriculture
finds new
pig virus
SDCV produces similar
symptoms as PEDv
but is a different virus
reuters
A
new swine virus, distinct
from the deadly PEDv pig
virus, has been found in
pig fecal samples taken from four
different farms in Ohio during
January and early February, the
Ohio Department of Agriculture
said Feb. 12.
While the pigs that contracted
the new virus, designated as
Swine DeltaCoronavirus (SDCV),
suffered from diarrhea, which is
also a symptom of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) and
transmissible gastroenteritis
(TGE), the virus is different, state
officials said.
Of the four Ohio farms where
the virus was discovered, one
tested positive for Swine DeltaCoronavirus, but negative for
PEDv and TGE. The other three
farms tested positive for both
PEDv and Swine DeltaCoronavirus.
“This virus is closely related to
a coronavirus detected in Hong
Kong in 2012,” the Ohio Department of Agriculture said.
The discovery of the new virus
strain comes as the U.S. pork
industry is battling the spread
of PEDv, which has killed up to
an estimated four million pigs
across 23 states since it was first
discovered in the United States in
April 2013.
A second strain of PEDv was
identified last week by researchers at Iowa State University.
The virus cannot spread to
humans or other species and
poses no risk to food safety and
further research needs to be
completed in order to determine
whether or not this virus is the
cause of diarrheal disease in
affected pigs, the Ohio Department of Agriculture said.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
France
moves to
ban GM
maize
planting
in short,
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Politicians are working
on a permanent ban
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modified maize as a stopgap
measure, while the government works on changes to
domestic and European laws
to ensure a longer-term ban.
The French gover nment,
which maintains that GM
crops present environmental
risks, has been trying to institute a new ban on GM maize
(corn) after a senior court
twice str uck down similar
measures.
But in a surprise move, the
French Senate rejected a proposed domestic law banning
GM maize crops with a majority of voters adopting a motion
of inadmissibility claiming the
attempt as unconstitutional.
The decree was timed to
avert any sowing of GM maize
by farmers before a law banning planting of GMOs (genetically modified organisms).
After the rejection at the
Senate a new attempt to pass
a domestic law banning GMO
crops would need to be submitted through the other
assembly, where the ruling
party has a clear majority.
The gover nment said its
decree would come into
force following a three-week
consultation period that runs
to March 9. Annual sowing
of maize in France gets
underway in the second half
of March.
“ This will prevent there
being a period during which
GM maize could be sown,” a
Farm Ministry spokesman said.
The current Socialist government, like its conservative
predecessor, has opposed the
growing of GMO crops in light
of public suspicion and widespread protests from environmentalists.
Only one GMO variety is
currently authorized for cultivation in the European Union
— Monsanto’s MON810 insectresistant maize. A GM potato
was cleared by the European
Commission, but later blocked
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
Dairy farmers seek co-operation in
dealing with European cheese
The new competition could cost the dairy sector $150 million if it can’t become more competitive
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
D
airy Farmers of Canada
is hoping to team up
with dairy processors
to confront new competition
for specialty cheese markets
expected under the Canada-EU
trade agreement, the organization’s president says.
Wally Smith told the recent
DFC annual meeting that the
extra access given to European specialty cheese makers came as a surprise but the
challenge it presents is not
unsurmountable.
The federal government has
assured the dairy and poultry
sectors that “it will stand firm
in support of supply management. We still have full confidence that the government will
do everything it can to assure
our success.”
DFC will reach out to the
Dairy Processors Association
of Canada (DPAC) for talks on
how two groups can adjust. “If
the extra cheese imports aren’t
managed properly, they will
disrupt our processors just as
much as us because they won’t
be able to forecast how much
milk they will need.”
DPAC president Don Jarvis
said Smith’s comments were a
welcome overture and agreed
the influx of European cheese
will be significant. “This
amounts to an unprecedented
breach in the supply management system and we have
to find a way to deal with it,”
he said.
He noted that 20 years ago,
the processors, farmers and
Canadian Dairy Commission
agreed that in the event of a
major increase in dairy product imports, they should be
allocated to the cheese companies so they could control their
release into the market and
prevent complete disruption.
“It’s our objective to work
with the producers on this,”
he said. “We’re reaching out
to ever yone on this. It’s a
wake-up call to our industry
about becoming more cost
competitive.”
When the preliminar y
details about the European
trade agreement were released
last fall, dairy farmers were
shocked and fearful about the
impact on supply management, Smith said. “We could
see a giant wave of cheese
coming across the water into
our market.”
Under the deal the EU would
receive an additional tarifffree access of 18,500 tonnes in
addition to the 13,471 tonnes
of access the EU already has. In
the end, European access will
reach 7.5 per cent of the Canadian cheese market. Imports
from all countries will account
for nine per cent of the Canadian market.
DFC has estimated that
the extra cheese will lead to a
$60,000-a-year drop in farm
income. The total impact for
the dair y sector would be
about $150 million a year.
To add insult to injury, DFC
spends $30 million a year
Poultry
research
gets a
federal boost
of farmers’ money on product promotion, which helps
imported cheese sales.
Canada faces ongoing
international and domestic
pressure to scrap its supply
management system, Smith
noted. But critics ignore the
fact that Canadian retail dairy
prices are lower than in most
countries without a regulated
production system.
“Everyone likes to say small
business drives the economy,
but then they try to leave dairy
farms out of the equation,” he
said. The Canadian dairy sector
increased its number of Canadian jobs from 2009 to 2011 to
just over 218,000. It contributes annually more than $3
billion in local, provincial and
federal taxes.
Smith said the industry must focus on becoming
more competitive, modernizing its production system. “We
have become too comfortable
with the status quo and fear
of doing things differently. If
we continue down that path,
it will lead to supply management becoming irrelevant.
Supply management is not
an entitlement. It’s a privilege
envied around the world. We
are competitive and adjust
to changing circumstances
every year.”
The growing consolidation
in the processing sector, where
three companies control 80 per
cent of the production, and in
retail grocery business where
three companies have 75 per
cent of the market, is another
reason for dairy farmers and
processors to think about how
to produce and sell their products, he added.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
Institutional interest in farmland grows
Institutional investment can change crop mix, management and labour practices
By Carey Gillam
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nstitutional investors are
buying up U.S. farmland
at a rapid rate, and their
influence is starting to shift
the types of crops grown and
the way the land is managed,
according to a report issued
Feb. 18.
There is an estimated $10
billion in institutional capital
looking to acquire U.S. farmland, and over the next 20
years, as the current generation of farmers retires, an estimated 400 million acres will
change hands, according to
the report issued by The Oakland Institute, a Calforniabased think-tank with a focus
on agriculture.
“Driven by everything from
rising food prices to growing demand for biofuel, the
financial sector is taking an
interest in farmland as never
before,” said the report, which
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“Driven by
everything from
rising food prices to
growing demand for
biofuel, the financial
sector is taking an
interest in farmland
as never before.”
and other county and local
property data, and other public records.
The repor t cited several
“case studies” and says that
the institutional investment
influence in some situations alters decisions about
which crops to plant, land
management and labour
practices.
The report acknowledged
that individual farmers are
still the biggest buyers of
U.S. farmland, and says the
trend of institutional ownership of farmland is still too
new to draw general conclusions about its impacts. But
the report said it is “crucial”
for policy-makers to monitor
the trend and “help ensure
that farmers, and not absentee investors, are the future of
our food system.”
The report cited three
groups as being particularly
influential so far in acquisitions of U.S. farmland: The
Te a c h e r s I n s u r a n c e a n d
Annuity Association-College
Re t i re m e n t E q u i t i e s Fu n d
( TIAA-CREF), one of the
largest pension funds in the
world; Hancock Agricultural
Investment Group (HAIG),
part of the Hancock Natural
Resource Group, an indirect
wholly owned subsidiary of
Manulife Financial Corp; and
U B S A g r i ve s t , a l s o k n ow n
as UBS Global Real EstateFarmland and a part of the
Swiss-based UBS financial
services company.
HAIG manages $2.1 billion
of agricultural real estate and
oversees roughly 290,000 U.S.
farmland acres, according to
its officials. UBS Agrivest has
113 farms totalling 183,000
acres in 15 states under management. The farms grow over
25 different crops, according
to UBS. And TIAA-CREF said
that it has roughly 125,000
acres of U.S. farmland.
James McCandless, head
of UBS Global Real Estate,
said that its properties are
leased to local farm operators, mostly family farmers.
Institutional investors are
driven by a desire to diversify portfolios and achieve the
steady income stream benefits associated with farmland,
he said.
Pr ices for U.S. far mland
have been rising rapidly in
recent years, driven partly
by i n c re a s e d d e m a n d f o r
food and livestock feed for
an expanding global population and by the burgeoning
biofuels industry. Prices have
started to stabilize but are still
sharply higher than they were
a year ago, particularly for
fertile ground in the Midwest
w h e re c o r n a n d s oy b e a n s
are grown.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
China to
spend $330
billion to
fight water
pollution
The goal is to improve water quality
by 30 to 50 per cent
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to tackle pollution of its scarce
water resources, state media
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China has a fifth of the world’s
population but just seven per
cent of its water resources, and
the situation is especially precarious in its parched north, where
some regions have less water per
capita than the Middle East.
The plan is still being finalized but the budget has been
set, exceeding the 1.7 trillion
yuan ($277 billion) China plans
to spend battling its more publicized air pollution crisis,
the China Securities Journal
reported, citing the Ministry of
Environmental Protection.
It will aim to improve the quality of China’s water by 30 to 50
per cent, the paper said, through
investments in technologies such
as waste water treatment, recycling and membrane technology.
The paper did not say how
the funds would be raised,
when the plan would take
effect, or what time frame was
visualized, however.
Groundwater resources are
heavily polluted, threatening
access to drinking water, Environment Minister Zhai Qing told
a news conference in the capital,
Beijing, last week.
According to government
data, a 2012 survey of 5,000
groundwater checkpoints found
57.3 per cent of samples to be
heavily polluted.
China emits around 24 million tonnes of COD, or chemical
oxygen demand, a measure of
organic matter in waste water,
and 2.45 million tonnes of
ammonia nitrogen, into
its water each year, Zhai said.
Over the next five years,
China has previously estimated
it will need to spend a total of
60 billion yuan to set up sludge
treatment facilities, and a further 10 billion yuan for annual
operation, the Environment
Ministry says.
China is short on water to
begin with but its water prob-
lems are made worse by its
reliance on coal — which uses
massive amounts of water to
suppress dust and clean the
fuel before it is burnt — to
generate nearly 70 per cent of
its electricity while self-sufficiency in food remains a key
political priority.
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AUCTION DISTRICTS
Parkland – North of Hwy 1; west of PR 242,
following the west shore of Lake Manitoba
and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.
Westman – South of Hwy 1; west of PR 242.
Interlake – North of Hwy 1; east of PR 242,
following the west shore of Lake Manitoba
and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.
Red River – South ofHwy 1; east of PR 242.
The Pas
Birch River
Swan River
Minitonas
Durban
Winnipegosis
Roblin
Dauphin
Grandview
Ashern
Gilbert Plains
Fisher Branch
Ste. Rose du Lac
Russell
Parkland
Birtle
Riverton
Eriksdale
McCreary
Neepawa
Rapid City
Melita
1
Brandon
Carberry
Treherne
Killarney
Pilot Mound
Elm Creek
Sanford
Ste. Anne
Carman
Mariapolis
St. Pierre
242
Crystal City
Morris
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Baling Equipment
For custom
herbicides as
unique as your
fields, visit:
WANTED: NEW HOLLAND BALE wagons, any
size. Farmhand small bale accumulator or Hoelschler fork or grabber, 8 to 18 bale size. Also, 336 or
346 or newer JD small square baler. Roeder Implement, Seneca, KS (785)336-6103.
FARM/CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
Combines Various
Crop Production
Services Inc.
Souris - 204-483-3860
precisionpac.ca
SEED/FEED/CROP INPUTS
Specialty Crops Various
CONTRACTS AVAIL FOR CARAWAY crop production, good return potential. For more info call
Giesbrecht Seed Farm Ltd (204)829-3365.
COMBINE WORLD located 20 min. E of
Saskatoon, SK on Hwy. #16. 1 year warranty on
all new, used, and rebuilt parts. Canada’s largest
inventory of late model combines
& swathers.
562 PPAC Classified 2014 MB.indd 9
1-800-667-4515 www.combineworld.com
Specialty Equipment
FOR SALE BY TENDOR
Unit #1- BEI Berry Cleaner & BEI Grading
Conveyer Table
Variable Speed Incline Conveyor & Blower Assembly,
120V 60HZ (15amp) circuit, approx. footprint 8x8-ft.
Used approx 5 seasons
BEI Grading Conveyor table
15-ft.x40-in., adjustable table height (3-ft. to 5-ft.),
Variable SPD, Main track 28-in. wide, Waste (reverse
direction) track (each side) are 3-in. wide, 120V 60Hz
(15 amp). Used 5 seasons
Unit #2 - Lakewood Manufacturing Berry Destemmer
Wet Destemmer w/SS & Rubber rollers, Capacity up
to 10K lbs/hour, 120V or 240v, 60Hz,
Purchased new in 2008
All equipment is in working condition & being sold as
is. Items will be picked up at Warren, MB.
Tenders may be submitted to
Eastern Plains Saskatoons Inc.
Equipment Tender
c/o Box 1400
Stonewall, MB R0C 2Z0
Deadline for tenders March 7th, 2014 4:00pm
SEED/FEED/CROP INPUTS
Pedigreed Pulses Various
herbicides
For custom
herbicides as
unique as your
fields, visit:
Richardson Pioneer
Shoal Lake - 204-759-2917
precisionpac.ca
AUCTIONS/ANTIQUE SALES
Antiques For Sale
1954 S CASE FULLY restored. Asking $2,000
OBO. Phone(204)825-2799 or Cell:(204)825-8340.
MULVEY “FLEA” MARKET. Osborne & Mulvey
PPAC Classified Ave
2014E.
MB.indd
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10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.
40+ vendors. A/C. Debit, Visa, M/C. Table/Booth
rental info: (204)478-1217. mulveymarket.ca
SUN., MAR. 9TH, 10-4 MB Antique Association
Sale. Browse our many tables to find a treasure.
Glassware, collectibles, Nostalgia. CanadInns Polo
Park 1405 St Matthews Ave. Contact Kelly for more
info (204)981-9616. Vendor spaces avail. Antiques
& Collectibles (no crafts)
AUCTIONS/ANTIQUE SALES
Antiques Wanted
DOWNSIZING, BUYING OLD ADVERTISING sign,
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old cans & gas pumps. Coca-Cola machines. Antique & Collectible Collections. Anything w/Advertising on it. Oak furniture, Silver Coins, Pinball Machines, old toys & Collectible tins. Kelly
(204)981-9616 or [email protected]
Looking for a hand around the farm? Place a help
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AUCTION SALES
U.S. Auctions
LARGE FARM EQUIPMENT
Tuesday, March 4 | 10AM
17059 2nd St NE,
Hillsboro, ND
LOCATION: From I-94 Exit 104 (Hillsboro, ND),
east through town, take left on County Rd. 11,
6 miles east, 2 miles north, 1/4 mile east.
(County Rd. 11 goes north then east).
herbicides
FARM/CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
FARM/CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
AUCTION SALES
U.S. Auctions
AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: The Jennens’ are downsizing their farming operation. Most
equipment has been shedded, and an excellent maintenance program is in place. Major
equipment sells at 11:30 AM. Live online bidding available on major equipment.
Registration, terms, complete lot listing, photos & details at SteffesGroup.com
Lac du Bonnet
Beausejour
Winnipeg
Austin
Souris
Boissevain
Stonewall
Selkirk
Portage
Westman
Waskada
We also specialize in: Crop Insurance appeals;
Chemical drift; Residual herbicide; Custom operator
issues; Equipment malfunction; Yield comparisons,
Plus Private Investigations of any nature. With our
assistance the majority of our clients have received
compensation previously denied. Back-Track
Investigations investigates, documents your loss and
assists in settling your claim.
Licensed Agrologist on Staff.
For more information
Please call 1-866-882-4779
Arborg
Interlake
Langruth
Gladstone
AUCTION SALES
U.S. Auctions
FARM CHEMICAL SEED COMPLAINTS
Lundar
Erickson
Hamiota
Reston
Crop Consulting
Gimli
Shoal Lake
Minnedosa
Virden
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Bioriginal Food & Science Corp., based
in Saskatoon, are looking to contract
Borage acres for the upcoming 2014
growing season.
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Great profit potential based on
yield, prices and low input costs.
Attractive oil premiums and free
seed delivery and on-farm pick-up.
Flexible contracting options
available as well.
For more information,
please contact Carl Lynn P.Ag.
of Bioriginal at:
306-229-9976 (cell)
306-975-9295 (office)
[email protected]
SEED/FEED/CROP INPUTS
Pedigreed Cereals Various
DURAND SEEDS: CERT CARDALE, Carberry &
Harvest wheat; Souris & Stride Oats; Conlon Barley; CDC Glas Flax; Mancan, Koma Buckwheat;
Canola, Forage & lawn seed. (204)248-2268,
(204)745-7577, NotreDame, MB.
GREAT VOLUME DISCOUNTS on truck load Carberry Wheat & Tradition Barley. Also consider the
solid yield advantages of Pinnacle Oats. Krym
Farms Ltd (204)955-5562, Rosser.
JAMES FARMS LTD AC Carberry Wheat, Tradition
Barley, Souris & Summit Oats, Hanley Flax, Forage
seeds, various Canola, Sunflower & Soybean seed
varieties. Custom processing, seed treating & delivery avail. Early payment discount. For info call
(204)222-8785 or toll free 1-866-283-8785, Wpg.
[email protected]
LARGE QUANTITY OF CERTIFIED harvest wheat
for sale, wholesale pricing & selling in truckload lots
only. Also certified Newdale 2-Row malt barley. Inland Seed Corp. Binscarth MB. (204)683-2316.
PUGH SEEDS: CERT AC Barrie, Cardale, Kane
Wheat, Conlon Barley, Souris Oats. Phone
(204)274-2179 or (204)871-1467, Portage.
REAL ESTATE/RENTALS
Land For Sale
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
14-01-10
1:57 PM
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.
4WD TRACTORS
2005 JD 9620, powershift,
4 hyd., 3,478 hrs., S/N030997
2006 JD 9520, Scraper Special,
powershift, 4 hyd., 5,135 hrs.,
S/N042756
2010 JD 9430, deluxe cab,
powershift, 5 hyd., 2,329 hrs.,
S/N016840
2008 JD 9230, deluxe cab,
6 hyd., 4,463 hrs., S/N002473
2006 JD 9120, deluxe cab,
5 hyd., 2,828 hrs., S/N9120040949
2003 JD 9120, deluxe cab,
5 hyd., 3,273 hrs., S/N010914
2002 JD 9120, deluxe cab, 5 hyd.,
3,671 hrs., S/NP002038
14-01-10
1:57 PM
MFWD
TRACTORS
2002 JD 8420, MFWD, deluxe cab,
5,225 hrs., S/N009352
2006 JD 8130, MFWD, deluxe cab,
3,117 hrs., S/N005320
2004 JD 7820, MFWD, deluxe cab,
JD 746 quick tach self-leveling
loader, 6,622 hrs., S/N10452
1993 JD 4960, MFWD, shows 0575
hrs., S/N005214
2WD TRACTORS
2003 JD 6220, CAH, power quad, 2
hyd., 3 pt., 540 PTO, JD 620 loader,
joystick control, S/N363430
1978 JD 4640, powershift, 3 hyd.,
power beyond, 3 pt., quick hitch,
1000 PTO, 3,478 hrs.,
S/N002588R
1981 JD 4440, quad range,
3 hyd., 3 pt., 15,027 hrs., S/N045493R
1975 JD 4430, quad range,
2 hyd., 3 pt., 11,393 hrs., S/N047012R
1970 JD 4020, factory cab, gear,
2 hyd., 3 pt., shows 6,717 hrs.,
S/N231434
1963 JD 4010, open station, gas,
1 hyd., 3 pt., shows 2,659 hrs.,
S/NT43611
SKID STEER
LOADER & ATTACH.
2007 JD 320, CAH, aux. hyd., quick
tach, 70” bucket, rear weight pkg.,
2,320 hrs., S/N153880
Skid steer loader bucket, 74”,
grapple tine
GPS EQUIPMENT
To include: 2600 & Brown Box
Displays
COMBINES
2012 JD S690, Contour-Master,
deluxe controls, PRWD, 26’ high
cap. unloading auger, 591 sep. hrs.,
962 engine hrs., S/N745655
2012 JD S670, Contour-Master,
deluxe controls, PRWD, 26’ high
cap. unloading auger, 595 sep. hrs.,
936 engine hrs., S/N747012
2002 JD 9750, STS, ContourMaster, deluxe controls, PRWD,
3,561 sep. hrs., 5,484 engine hrs.,
S/N695954
1992 JD 9600, DAS, 4,525 sep. hrs., 2014 JD 2700 disc ripper, 7 shank,
7,527 engine hrs., S/N645536
30” front & rear discs
2012 JD 512 disc ripper, 9 shank,
HEADS
30” space, S/N014631
To include: (2) ‘12 JD 618C,
2008 JD 3710 auto reset plow, 10
‘09 JD 612C, ‘12 JD 640 flex draper, bottom, S/N004537
(2) JD 635, JD 630, JD930
ROW CROP EQUIPMENT
GRAIN CARTS &
2013 Loftness Crop Logix pullGRAVITY WAGONS
type stalk shredder, 1000 PTO,
2013 Brent Avalanche 1596 grain
S/N59-125
cart, 1,500 bu.
1988 Yetter minimum till rotary
2002 Brent 876 grain cart, corner
hoe, 40’
auger, S/NB18-850-141
SEMI TRACTORS
2002 Brent 620 grain cart, side
& TRUCKS
auger, S/N86-620264
1994 Peterbilt 377, flat top sleeper,
3176 Cat, 10 spd., shows 951,491
AIR DRILL,
miles
CARTS & DRILL
1990 Peterbilt 377, day cab, Series
JD 1820 air seeder, 62’, cart
60 Detroit, Eaton Fuller 13 spd.,
S/N675324, seeding tool
shows 1,035,290 mi.
S/N695322
1987 Freightliner day cab
2000 JD 1900 tow-behind
twin screw, Formula 855
commodity cart, 350 bu.
Cummins, 9 spd., shows 913,789
3 compartment, S/N675324
miles
JD 750 no till drill, 20’, set up for
1974 Ford 9000 twin screw cab &
15” space, S/N018986
chassis, Super 250 Cummins, 10
PLANTERS
spd., Berts 18’ flatbed, 3,000 gal.
2009 JD DB88 CCS planter,
fiberglass tank, 217,368 miles
48x22”, S/N730102
PICKUP & SUVS
2009 JD DB88 CCS planter,
2007 GMC 2500HD, Z71 crew cab,
48x22”, S/N735107
173,735 miles
2006 JD DB60 converted 36x22”
2007 Chevrolet Tahoe LT, shows
planter, S/N700110
approx. 125,423 miles
2005 JD MaxEmerge XP DB
2003 Cadillac Escalade, loaded,
planter, 48x22”, S/N110106
2WD, alum. wheels
1990 JD 7300 vacuum planter,
12x22”, S/N100863
HOPPER BOTTOM
FIELD CULTIVATORS
& OTHER TRAILERS
2004 JD 2210 field cultivator,
1995 Timpte aluminum hopper
64’, S/N000354
bottom, 42’x66” sides
2004 JD 2200 field cultivator,
1992 Wilson aluminum hopper
54’, S/N001235
bottom, 42’x66” sides
2003 JD 2210 field cultivator,
1992 Wilson aluminum hopper
54’, S/N000334
bottom, 48’x78” sides
2003 JD 2200 field cultivator, 50’
1984 Wilson aluminum hopper
JD 1060 field cultivator, 60’
bottom, 42’x66” sides
1986 Heil tandem axle water trailer
HARROWS
Mattson single axle header trailer,
2013 Unverferth 1225 rolling
30’
harrow, 60’
Unverferth Roadrunner HT
2013 Unverferth UM rolling
tandem axle header trailer, 38’,
harrow, 55’, S/NA57120104
S/ND43750120
Unverferth 1225 rolling harrow,
Unverferth Roadrunner 636
55’, S/NA51140125
tandem axle header trailer, 36’,
Unverferth 1235 rolling harrow, 50’
S/NA46960139
Summers Super Harrow, 40’,
Unverferth 542 tandem axle
S/NI1166
header trailer, 42’
Herman harrow, 60’, hyd. fold
May tandem axle bumper hitch
trailer, 22’, 17’ bed
OTHER TILLAGE
EQUIPMENT
SPRAYERS &
2011 Summers Super Roller, 45’,
ATTACHMENTS
hyd. fold, 42” drum
2007 JD 4930 self-propelled
2004 JD 2400 chisel plow, 43’, full
sprayer, 120’ boom, 1,200 gal.
floating hitch, AccuDepth
SS tank, 3,600 hrs., S/N002186
1993 JD 1650 chisel plow, 50’,
JD L3220G4-11, New Leader twin
tandems across
spinner box for 4930
2012 JD 637 rock flex tandem
2011 JD 4830 self-propelled
disc, 45’, 9” space, 24” blades
sprayer, 100’ boom, 1,000 gal.
SS tank, 760 hrs., S/N013753
Summers Ultra Super Sprayer,
132’ boom, 1,250 gal. poly tank,
S/NI0211
FERTILIZER &
NH3 EQUIPMENT
JD DN345 tandem axle fertilizer
spreader, S/N002107
Mobility tandem axle fertilizer
spreader
Shop-built fertilizer tender
Shop-built dry fertilizer bander
applicator
Horvick HT1325 tandem axle
liquid caddy
Alloway NH3 side dresser, 40’
HAY EQUIPMENT
Frontier WR-2114 rake,
S/N001195
2013 JD 569 Premium baler,
S/N1E00569DLCD390097
Haukaas Quick Pick tandem axle
bale hauler, S/N079019
GRAIN & CORN
HANDLING EQUIPMENT
REM 2500 heavy duty grain vac,
shows 189.6 hrs., S/N8983
MC 690 continuous flow dryer
Portable grain cleaning system,
S/N14768, Crippen Model M-5472RH cleaner, with all discharge &
fill augers, complete power panel,
4,952 hrs. on generator
Kwik Kleen 7 tube cleaner,
7-1/2 hp.
Loftness GBI corn bagger, pulltype, 540 PTO, S/N52-172
Corn crop sweeper, 12x22”, for JD
612 corn head
SCRAPER & DITCHERS
JD 1810E direct hitch pan scraper,
18 yd.
Eagle 4-A ditcher, 1000 PTO,
S/NST04650
KeWay rotary ditcher, 38”,
3 pt., 1000 PTO
TRACTOR FORKLIFT
JD 480A tractor forklift, shows
1,714 hrs.
CORVETTE &
TRAVEL TRAILERS
2006 Chevrolet Corvette
convertible, loaded, shows 29,650
miles
2012 Innsbruck Supreme 28 RLS
tandem axle bumper hitch travel
trailer
2006 R-Vision Trail Sport TS27QBS tandem axle bumper hitch
travel trailer
AUGERS & CONVEYORS
UNVERFERTH
SEED TENDERS
OTHER EQUIPMENT
TIRES & HUBS
FARM SUPPORT ITEMS
PARTS
JEREMY & SARA JENNEN, 218.770.9392
or Brad Olstad of Steffes Group, 701.237.9173
Steffes Group, Inc.
2000 Main Avenue East, West Fargo, ND 58078
Brad Olstad ND319, Scott Steffes ND81,
701.237.9173 | SteffesGroup.com
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.
REAL ESTATE/RENTALS
REAL ESTATE/RENTALS
Land For Sale
Land For Sale
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.
A gr eat way to
Buy and Sell
without the ef for t.
Classifieds
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
REAL ESTATE/RENTALS
Land For Sale
FARM LAND FOR SALE BY TENDER IN THE RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF DUFFERIN. PARCEL I:
SE 1/4 19-6-4 WPM EXCEPTING - ALL THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY OF MANITOBA. PARCEL II: SW 1/4 19-6-4 WPM EXCEPTING FIRSTLY
- THE NLY 1287-FT OF THE WLY 880-FT. SECONDLY - ALL THAT PORTION DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT A POINT IN THE
NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF SAID QUARTER
SECTION DISTANT ELY FROM THE WESTERN
LIMIT OF SAID QUARTER SECTION 880-FT;
THENCE EAST ALONG THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF SAID QUARTER SECTION 713-FT;
THENCE SOUTH PARALLEL TO THE WESTERN
BOUNDARY OF SAID QUARTER SECTION 1221FT; THENCE WEST PARALLEL TO THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF SAID QUARTER SECTION
713-FT; THENCE NORTH AND PARALLEL WITH
THE WESTERN BOUNDARY OF SAID QUARTER
SECTION 1221-FT TO THE POINT OF COMMENCEMENT. THIRDLY - ROAD PLAN NOS.
1086 MLTO AND 1173 MLTO. PARCEL III: ALL
THAT PORTION OF SE 1/4 19-6-4 WPM TAKEN
FOR RAILWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY PLAN 779 MLTO
(C DIV) EXCEPTING THEREOUT - ALL MINES
AND MINERALS AS IN DEED 92-7809 MLTO.
TENDER MUST BE for the entirety of the land described above, and all buildings attached thereto.
SEALED TENDERS TO PURCHASE the land will
be received by: QUEEN’S BENCH B28-25 Tupper
Street North Portage la Prairie MB R1N 1M9 until
4:30pm March 19, 2014. SEALED TENDERS will
be opened at a session of the Court of Queen’s
Bench at 12:00 noon March 20, 2014 or so soon after as this matter may be heard at: QUEEN’S
BENCH COURT HOUSE 20-3rd Street South East
Portage la Prairie MB R1N 1M9. TERMS OF TENDER ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. Each Tender shall be
in writing and in a sealed envelope, plainly marked
as to its contents and shall be submitted with a certified cheque payable to GREENBERG & GREENBERG, IN TRUST, in an amount equal to 5% of the
tender price. 2. If the Tender is accepted, the certified cheque shall become a non-refundable deposit.
If the Tender fails to complete the purchase of the
property the Seller shall retain the deposit as liquidated damages. On March 21, 2014 unsuccessful
Tenders will have their certified cheques returned to
them by regular mail. 3. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by cash, certified cheque,
or lawyer’s trust cheque and trust conditions on
May 1, 2014 (the Closing Date). 4. Vacant possession will be provided on Closing Date. 5. The Buyers will pay the 2014 taxes. 6. The Vendors will pay
all the property taxes and penalties relating to taxes
accruing to December 31, 2013. 7. The Tenderer
will pay the applicable Goods and Services Tax or
provide an acceptable undertaking to self-assess.
8. Time is to be of the essence in submission of
tender and closing of sale. 9. Highest or any tender
will not necessarily be accepted. 10. The Purchasers rely entirely on their own knowledge and inspection of the property independent of any representations made by or on behalf of the owners. 11.
This sale is by order of the court in the matter of
Derksen v. Derksen, Queen’s Bench File No. FD
13-03-00909. For further particulars and inspection
contact: John A. Jones Greenberg & Greenberg
Box 157 Portage la Prairie MB R1N 3B2. Phone
(204)857-6878.
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AUCTION SALES
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
MEYERS GUN AUCTION. 10:00am Sat., Mar. 1st,
2014 Arden, MB. Handguns; Rifles; Shotguns; Ammunition. To Consign call (204)476-6262 Bradley
Meyers Auctioneer www.meyersauctions.com
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Auto & Truck Parts
BUILDINGS
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.
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.
AUTOS/TRUCKS/TRAILERS
Autos
herbicides
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
Richardson Pioneer
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
precisionpac.ca
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
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
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Roofing
Stuart McSherry
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
CONSIGNMENT
GUN AUCTION
Sat., Mar. 22 @ 9:30 am
Stonewall, MB - #12 Patterson Dr
Book Your Guns in NOW !! to Receive
our Coast to Coast Advertising Program
Stuart McSherry
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
AUCTION SALES
Auctions Various
herbicides
For custom
herbicides as
unique as your
fields, visit:
Crop Production
Services Inc.
Hargrave - 204-748-1126
precisionpac.ca
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.
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
Fertilizer Equipment
PRICE TO CLEAR!!
B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2
* Yard * Tools * Household * Antiques *
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
Rebuild hydraulic cylinders
Roller mills regrooved
MFWD housings rebuilt
Steel and aluminum welding
Machine Shop Service
Line boreing and welding
Penno’s Machining & Mfg. Ltd.
Eden, MB 204-966-3221
Fax: 204-966-3248
Check out A & I online parts store
www.pennosmachining.com
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
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
leader 1:57
autosteer/Y&M,
35-in tracks, RWA, P516
Classified
2014 MB.indd 8
14-01-10
PM
2012 Peterbilt 386 Cummins ISX 562
450PPAC
HP, 13
SP,
LINKBELT LS98 CRAWLER CRANE 50-ft. boom,
header, auto contour, HP Fdr, MAV chopper, Cebis,
3:90 Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, 40000-lbs Rear,
CAT D318 motor, long under carriage c/w all rigSm. Grain & Corn Sieves, 2 sets APS Grates. Elec.
22.5-in Aluminum Wheels, 206-in Wheel Base,
ging including 1 1/4-yd & 1 1/2-yd buckets for
Hopper Fold. Excel shape. Field ready. Full dealer
Three-Way
Differential
Locks,
Wet
Kit,
dredging gravel machine, ready to go to work,
service
history
available.
$239,000.
David
168,566-kms. $79,000.00
$15,000 OBO. Phone:(204)669-9626.
(204)746-4779.
AUCTION SALE
Stonewall, MB - #12 Patterson Dr
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Dryers
Franklin - 204-476-2668
precisionpac.ca
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528
or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.
Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft.
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
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
BUILDINGS
AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post
frame building company. For estimates and information
call
1-888-816-AFAB(2322).
Website:
www.postframebuilding.com
CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place &
finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any
floor design. References available. Alexander, MB.
204-752-2069.
herbicides
For custom
herbicides as
unique as your
fields, visit:
Crop Production
Services Inc.
Glenboro - 204-827-2842
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562 PPAC Classified 2014 MB.indd 7
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
Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN
(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
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Accessories
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
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
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
14-01-10 1:57 PM
AUTO & TRANSPORT
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.
Crop Production
Services Inc.
Combine ACCessories
BE AN AUCTIONEER. (507)995-7803 www.auctioneerschool.com
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Auto & Truck Parts
For custom
herbicides as
unique as your
fields, visit:
Rebuilt Concaves
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
Sat., Mar. 1 @ 10:00 am
Landmark - 204-355-4061
CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.
Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103
or E-mail Requests [email protected]
herbicides
MURPHY SALVAGE New & used parts for tractors,
swathers,
square & round balers, tillage, 14-01-10 1:57
562 PPAC Classified combines,
2014 MB.indd
6
AUTO BODY SHOP AND Equipment in Baldur MB.
press drills & other misc machinery. MURPHY SAL12 WHEEL KUHN speed rake model SR112,
60-ft x 30-ft, wood frame w/metal roof, built in 1980.
VAGE (204)858-2727 or toll free 1-877-858-2728.
$6,500; JD 3130 w/Leon loader, $5,900; WANTED:
Would
sell
building
only,
Priced
right.
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
Cockshutt 560 & Cockshutt 1250 tractors for parts
(204)245-0165.
PARTING OUT TRACTORS: CASE 830, 930,
2006 Western Star 4900 Mercedes 450 HP, 10 SP
or complete.
562 PPAC Classified 2014 MB.indd 3
14-01-10
1:57 (204)685-2124
PM
1270; Cockshutt 30 & 40; Oliver 70 & others.
Eaton Autoshift, 12000-lbs Front, 40000-lbs Rear,
Trucks: Ford 900, 800 & 700; CL 9000 & other old22.5-in Aluminum Wheels, New 20-ft Cancade
VERMEER
REBEL
BALER
W/GATHERING
CHEMICALS
er trucks 1/2-Ton to 1-Ton. Lots of good truck &
Grain Box, Remote Gate & Hoist, 1,045,311-kms.
wheels & electric tie, made less than 2,500 bales,
combine axles, tires & rims. Good 1020 truck tires.
$65,000.00
$15,000; Also JD 6 wheel hay rake, $1,100. Phone
(204)685-2124
TITAN TRUCK SALES (204)685-2222
(204)571-6258, Brandon.
2007 IHC 9900I Cummins ISX 500 HP, 18 SP, 3:58
WISCONSIN MOTOR PARTS FOR VG4D: crank
Gear Ratio, 12000-lbs Front, 40000 lbs Rear, 22.5shaft, heads, fly wheel, starter, manifold & carb,
in Aluminum Wheels, 244-in Wheel Base, 72-in
$750 OBO. Phone:(204)669-9626.
Mid-Rise Bunk, Three-Way Differential Locks,
Rebuild combine table augers
1,356,565-kms. $37,000.00
75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard
100,000PSI high tensile roofing &
siding. 16 colours to choose from.
Estate & Moving
For custom
herbicides as
unique as your
fields, visit:
FARM MACHINERY
Irrigation Equipment
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.
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.
1980 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL, 2-DR, 352 motor,
could be easily restored. $750 OBO Phone:
(204)669-9626.
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Semi Trucks & Trailers
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
[email protected] www.arcfab.ca
We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if you
want to sell it fast place your ad in the Manitoba Cooperator classifieds. It’s a Sure Thing. Call our toll-free
number today. We have friendly staff ready to help.
1-800-782-0794.
NEW WOBBLE BOXES for JD, IH, MacDon
headers. Made in Europe, factory quality. Get
it direct from Western Canada’s sole distributor
starting at $1,095. 1-800-667-4515.
www.combineworld.com
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]
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
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LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – John Deere
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Wanted
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Maine-Anjou
BRED COW SALE
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
2 SETS 4-FT FLEXI-COIL mounted packers w/12in spacing. Call (204)662-4432, cell (204)264-0693
Sinclair, MB.
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]
WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM BULL sale April 12,
1:00pm Grunthal Auction Mart, featuring 18 Red &
Black polled yearling Maine-Anjou Bulls. 18 yearling
Red Angus Bulls. Also new this year 18 yearling &
2-yr old Charolais Bulls from Walking Plow Charolais, videos of the bulls will be online at www.wilkinridge.blogspot.ca early in March. For more info call
Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631.
GLADSTONE AUCTION MART
Friday, March 7th at 11:00am
Complete Herd dispersal for
JAG Farms Ltd of Gladstone, MB
60 Limo Shorthorn cross cows
Most are age verified & home raised
25 cows are bred Black Limousin
the rest are bred Shorthorn
The Bulls where expose July 1st
Plus one, 2 year old
PB Black Limousin Bull
& one, 4 year old papered
PB Shorthorn bull
To consign to this sale
Phone Tara Fulton
manager at the mart (204)385-2537
the cows should be in the mart by
1:00pm on Thurs. for Preg checking
License # 1108
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.
FOR SALE: JD 2555 MFWD, CAH, 3pt, w/245
loader; JD 2755 MFWD, CAH, 3pt, w/245 loader;
JD 2950 MFWD, 3pt, painted, w/265 FEL; JD 4250
MFWD, powershift; JD 4440 82, Quad, 7,000-hrs;
JD 4450 MFWD, Quad; JD 4640 Quad, 3pt; JD
6420
MFWD, Auto-Quad w/LHR, 24spd, 3pt,
w/640 loader; JD 6430
MFWD, 3pt, 20-spd,
w/LHR, premium, w/673 loader, grapple, 5,800-hrs;
JD 7720 MFWD, 3pt, 20spd, w/LHR, w/746 FEL,
grapple. All tractors can be sold w/new or used
tractors. Mitch’s Tractor Sales Ltd. Box 418,
St.Claude, MB, R0G 1Z0. Phone:(204)750-2459.
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
SEE AD UNDER CATTLE VARIOUS
FOR CONSIGNMENTS
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Ford
REGULAR BUTCHER &
FEEDER SALE
FORD 7700 W/FEL, 7710 w/cabs & 3-PTH. Good
condition, $14,000- $24,000. Phone (204)322-5614.
SPECIAL CHAROLAIS FEEDER SALE
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Versatile
Every Friday 9AM
Friday, March 7
NEXT SHEEP & GOAT SALE
Wednesday, March 5 @ 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 25th
Monday, February 24th
Sheep & Goat Sale
with Small Animals
12:00 Noon
Sales Agent for
HIQUAL INDUSTRIES
We also have a line of Agri-blend all natural
products for your livestock needs.
(protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc)
For 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
Tillage & Seeding
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.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – 2 Wheel Drive
STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in
JD tractors in need of repair or burnt, or will buy for
parts. JD parts available. Phone: 204-466-2927 or
cell: 204-871-5170, Austin.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
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
DISCS: JD 335 30-FT, $10,500; JD 300 22-ft
$9,500; Bushog 21-ft $7,000, 25-ft $7,500; IH #490
25-ft $7,500; Krause 16-ft $5,000; JD 15-ft $5,000;
Rowcrop cultivators 4-12R, Call; Lilliston 6-8R DMI
rippers 5 & 7 shank $8,900 up; JD 7000 planter
8-30 $5,500; #7100 3PT 8-30 $4,000; Phoenix harrow 42-ft $9,500, 53-ft, as new, $18,000; Summers
heavy harrow 70-ft $12,000; Scrappers Midland
8.5-yd $8,000; Soilmover 7.5-yd $8,000; Eversman
6.5-yd
$6,500;
Fieldmaster
4-yd
$3,900.
Phone:(204)857-8403.
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
SCREENERS DUAL STAGE HICAP 5-48 $2,500;
DMC 54 $5,000; Hutch 3000 $5,000, Hutch 1500
$2,200; Kwik Kleen 5 tube $4,000, 7 tube $5,000;
Small Screener $200; Eversman V-Ditcher $2,000;
UFT 3PH Rotary Ditcher $1,250; Degelman 14-ft
rock rake $7,900; Double axle dolly $2,000, Single
Axle dolly $2,000; 35.5 x 32 tires w/rims off log
skidder $4,000 OBO; JD rops canopy $450; Tractor
cab $600; Pallet fork for skidsteer 48-ft new $850,
extensions $475. Phone:(204)857-8403.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
www.penta.ca
1-800-587-4711
IRON & STEEL
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.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
ANDERSON CATTLE CO Bull Sale, Mar. 29th,
2014 1:00pm at the farm, Swan River, MB. 50, Two
Yr Old & Yearling Red & Black Angus Bulls.
www.andersoncattle.ca or (204)734-2073 for a
catalog.
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
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.
RIDGE SIDE RED ANGUS: (3)2-yr old, 15 Reds &
1 Black yearling bulls for sale. From top AI sires,
semen tested, guarented, will keep & feed till you
need & deliver. Call Don:(204)422-5216 or visit our
website@ ridgesideredangus.com
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
John Deere1830 41 Ft
Air Seeder with 1910
Seed Cart
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Case/IH
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
The Icynene Insulation
System®
PRICED TO
SELL!
TracTors
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – John Deere
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
ONLY A FEW PIECES LEFT
JD 1997 750 15-FT no-till drill. Rebuilt w/new
blades, seed boots, & rubber. All bearings & seals
checked over, very nice machine, $24,000 OBO.
Phone (204)822-3005, Morden.
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.
WANTED TO BUY #6200 International press drill
w/factory transport, must be field ready, other
makes will be considered. Call Cliff:(204)423-2195
(204)269-1481.
FARM EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Seeding
1981 MODEL 1086 W/DUALS 3-PTH, Ezee On
FEL. Phone (204)797-7049.
WANTED: 20-FT JOHN DEERE or Morris Hoe
Drill. Phone Keith (204)873-2240 or (204)825-7196.
Seeded approx 5000 acres
John Deere TRACTOR
8360 R 1104 Hrs FWA
2013 Harriston 8 Row
Potato Planter – “NEW”
Never Used
36” spacing , Rear GPS
Steering Axle
Contact: 204-834-3704 home | 204-476-0480 cell
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.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
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.
5 2-YR OLD/15 YEARLING Registered Black Angus Bulls, semen tested & delivered within 100-mi.
(204)741-0070, (204)483-3622, Souris.
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 – Shorthorn
FOR SALE: YEARLING & 2-yr old bulls. Polled,
mostly Red. Birthweights starting at 63-lbs. Developed on a growing ration. Out of practical, hardworking cows. Phone (204)764-2382.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
BLACK & RED YEARLING PB Simm bulls. Thick &
Solid coloured. Sired by A.I. Sires: Full Throttle,
680S, IPU Revolution, Poker Face & Red Force.
Heifer bulls also avail. Valleyfield Simmentals, Larry
Dyck (204)822-3657, Morden.
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
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.
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
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.
KEMBAR ANGUS HAS REGISTERED Black Angus yearling bulls for sale, EPD’s available, good
dispositions. Kodiak, Peacemaker & KMK Alliance
bloodlines. Phone:(204)725-3597. Brandon, MB.
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
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.
PB RED ANGUS BULL, born Jan 30th 2011, birthweight 75-lbs, $2,400. Phone (204)372-6588.
WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM BULL sale April 12,
1:00pm Grunthal Auction Mart, featuring 18 yearling
Red Angus Bulls. 18 Red & Black polled yearling
Maine-Anjou Bulls. Also new this year 18 yearling &
2-yr old Charolais Bulls from Walking Plow Charolais, videos of the bulls will be online at www.wilkinridge.blogspot.ca early in March. For more info call
Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631.
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.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
FOR SALE: 2 COMING 2-yr old PB Registered
Charolais bulls, also yearlings. Will be easy calving,
good hair coats, good feet & good dispositions.
Guaranteed. K.E.H. Charolais, Keith Hagan:
(204)748-1024.
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.
WALKING PLOW CHAROLAIS IS consigning 18
yearling & 2-yr old Charolais bulls to Wilkinridge
Stock farm Maine-Anjou Red Angus bull sale. April
12, 1:00pm Grunthal Auction Mart. Videos of the
bulls will be online at www.wilkinridge.blogspot.ca
early in March. For more info call Cliff or Warren
Graydon (204)427-2589.
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
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.
HORNED HEREFORD 2-YR & yearling bulls for
sale. Performance tested; fertility tested; guaranteed & delivered. Raising & selling Horned Herefords
since
1973.
Call
Wendell
Reimer:
(204)379-2773. Located at St. Cloud, MB.
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.
WLB LIVESTOCK, DOUGLAS, MB, 10th Annual
Bull Sale 2:00pm. Mar. 25th, 2014. 50 Polled Herefords & Black/Red Simm sell. ALL BULLS SEMEN
TESTED. Free board till May 1st. Catalogue &
video avail online, www.wlblivestock.com or call Bill
Biglieni (204)763-4697 or (204)729-7925.
Go public with an ad in the Co-operator classifieds.
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.
WLB LIVESTOCK, DOUGLAS, MB, 10TH Annual
Bull Sale 2:00pm. Mar. 25th, 2014. 50 Black/Red
Simm & Polled Herefords sell. ALL BULLS SEMEN
TESTED. Free board till May 1st. Catalogue &
video avail online, www.wlblivestock.com or call Bill
Biglieni (204)763-4697 or (204)729-7925.
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.
28 BLACK ANGUS 3 yr old cows, calving Apr 1st,
bred Horned Hereford. Call Wendel Reimer
(204)379-2773, St Claude.
60 BLACK & RED Angus 8-850-lb open replacement heifers. Very quiet, pail fed, had all shots.
Asking $1,250 choice, or $1,200 take-all.
Phone:(204)825-2799 or Cell:(204)825-8340. Pilot
Mound,MB.
BUYING ALL CLASSES OF livestock. Phone
George (204)278-3564. Dealer license #1152.
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
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
WANTED: ALL CLASSES OF feeder cattle, yearlings & calves. Dealer Licence# 1353. Also wanted,
light feed grains: wheat, barley & oats.
Phone:(204)325-2416, Manitou.
Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds.
Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our
friendly staff, and don’t forget to ask about our prepayment bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free!
1-800-782-0794.
TIRED OF THE
HIGH COST OF
MARKETING
YOUR CALVES??
300-700 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400
Ben: 721-3400
800-1000 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Don: 528-3477, 729-7240
Contact:
D.J. (Don) MacDonald
Livestock Ltd.
License #1110
LIVESTOCK
Sheep Wanted
WTB FEEDER
(204)761-3760.
LAMBS, ALL
classes.
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1H0. Email: [email protected]. Phone:
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 20, 2014
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TOUGH WEEDS, MEET EXPRESS .
®
Crank up the rate all you want, glyphosate alone still misses a number of hard-to-kill weeds like narrow-leaved
hawk’s-beard, flixweed, stinkweed, dandelion and volunteer canola. With hotter-than-hot systemic activity,
DuPont™ Express® herbicides don’t just control weeds, they smoke them from the inside out, getting right to the
root of your toughest weed challenges with performance that glyphosate alone can’t match. It’s no wonder
Express® goes down with glyphosate more than any other brand in Western Canada!
Visit expressvideo.dupont.ca to see Express® in action – torching tough weeds like dandelion and volunteer
canola right down to the roots, so they can’t grow back.
Express® brand herbicides. This is going to be hot.
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