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Fertilizer
supplies tight
Rail problems this winter
and two nitrogen plant
breakdowns tightened
N and P supplies
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
T
ight fertilizer supplies
might put the kibosh on
some farmers’ hopes for
seeding early this year, industry
officials say.
Poor rail service this winter
and two nitrogen plan breakd ow n s h a ve c o m b i n e d t o
tighten fertilizer supplies to
local retailers.
“Essentially we are behind
where we’d like to be at this
time of the year,” said Clyde
Graham, senior vice-president strategies and alliances
with the Canadian Fertilizer
Institute. “I’m assuming our
industry is doing everything it
can to meet the needs of our
farmer-customers.”
Product will be trickling as
capacity allows, but there could
be localized shortages if everyone wants it at once.
“If seeding does drag out to
the end of May or into June
there should be product arriving all the way through the season,” Steve Biggar, Richardson
International’s assistant vicepresident of fertilizer and
energy products said in an
interview April 25. “I think the
later the season goes the greater
the likelihood is we’ll have
enough fertilizer. If we end up
mostly finished seeding by May
long weekend then there just
See SUPPLIES on page 6 »
Dreyfus files rail levelof-service complaint,
others may follow
Grain is moving but the railways are the ones deciding where it goes
A grain train being loaded near Nesbitt, Man. April 8. Grain is now moving off the Prairies but companies say some markets aren’t being
served. Photo: Laura Rance
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
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L
ouis Dreyfus Commodities has
filed a level-of-service complaint against CN Rail with the
Canadian Transportation Agency
(CTA).
It may be one of many as other grain
companies contemplate similar action
in hopes of recouping losses due to
poor rail service for grain this winter.
Meanwhile, CN and CP Rail “have
met the prescribed (grain-moving) target for each specific week,” an official
with Transport Canada said in an email
April 25.
Grain companies are grateful more
grain is moving, but frustrated the
railways are deciding which elevators
will load cars and where they will be
shipped. The result is domestic and
American markets not being properly
served, said Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain
Elevator Association.
“In some cases we’re having to truck
grain from Saskatchewan (elevator) locations to Alberta locations because the
railways want to move from there to get
quicker turnaround times to Vancouver,”
Sobkowich said in an interview.
It’s either that, or the grain company
doesn’t get the cars, he said.
The federal government’s March 7
order-in-council requiring the railways
to ship one million tonnes of grain a
week doesn’t specify how much grain
should move in each shipping corridor.
“The focus of the order is to get and
keep grain moving as quickly as possible,” a Transport Canada official wrote.
“It is up to railways to plan how best to
meet the targets.”
The U.S. is Canada’s closest and
often best-paying grain customer, but
grain companies can’t fill existing sales
to American customers or make new
ones, Sobkowich said.
See DREYFUS on page 6 »
RAILWAY PROFITS: NEVER LOOKED BETTER » PAGE 9
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INSIDE
Did you know?
LIVESTOCK
The pitfalls of
early grazing
‘Horsing around’
reduces stress in youth
Putting the herd out
to pasture too soon
can be costly
Youth involved in an equine after-school program showed
significantly lower levels of stress hormone in their saliva
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Washington State University release
N
CROPS
Clubroot
gaining ground
Genetic resistance is
breaking down under
selection pressure
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FEATURE
Tile drainage
gaining ground
Farmers can increase
their farm’s productivity
without buying more
acres
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CROSSROADS
Trotting
it out
Harness racing is alive
and kicking in rural
Manitoba
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5
9
10
Editorials
Comments
What’s Up
Livestock Markets
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Grain Markets
Weather Vane
Classifieds
Sudoku
e w re s e a rc h f ro m
Wa s h i n g t o n St a t e
University reveals how
youth who work with horses
experience a substantial reduction in stress — and the evidence lies in kids’ saliva.
The results are published in
the American Psychological
Association’s Human-Animal
Interaction Bulletin this month.
“We were coming at this from
a prevention perspective,” said
Patricia Pendry, a developmental psychologist at WSU who
studies how stress “gets under
the skin” and the effects of prevention programs on human
development. “We are especially interested in optimizing
healthy stress hormone production in young adolescents,
because we know from other
research that healthy stress
hormone patterns may protect against the development
of physical and mental health
problems.”
Her work is the first evidencebased research within the field
of human-equine interaction
to measure a change in participants’ levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
photo: thinkstock
Three years ago, Pendry led
a research project to engage
students in Grades 5-8 in a
12-week equine-facilitated
learning program in Pullman,
Wash.
Working with PATH director Sue Jacobson and Phyllis
Erdman from the WSU College
of Education, Pendry designed
and implemented an afterschool program serving 130
typically developing children
over a two-year period that
bused students from school to
the barn for 12 weeks.
Children were randomly
assigned to participate in the
program or be wait-listed.
Based on natural horsemanship techniques, the program
provided 90 minutes weekly to
learn about horse behaviour,
care, grooming, handling, riding and interaction.
“We found that children
who had participated in the
12-week program had significantly lower stress hormone
levels throughout the day and
in the afternoon, compared
to children in the wait-listed
group,” she said. “We get
excited about that because we
know that higher base levels
of cortisol — ± particularly
in the afternoon — are considered a potential risk factor for the development of
psychopathology.”
Pendry said the experimental design underlying the
study gives more scientific
credit to the claims of therapeutic horsemanship professionals, parents and children
who have reported a positive
impact from these types of programs. In addition, she hopes
the results will lead to development of alternative after-school
programs.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
Birtle-area residents evacuate
under threat of embankment breach
An old railway embankment weakened by ice could send more water down the Birdtail Creek, officials said
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
A
bout a dozen Birtle-area families left their homes April 26 as an
embankment on a tributary of the
high-running Birdtail Creek began crumbling, threatening to send a surge of water
towards their properties.
Provincial officials said the condition
of the old railway embankment was precarious April 26 and depending on the
size of a breach, a rush of water would
affect property owners at Wawayseecappo.
Birdtail Sioux First Nation, and in the RMs
of Birtle, Rossburn and Miniota as well as
the town of Birtle.
Local residents were bracing for water to
flood over roads and damage bridges, but
as of early April 28 morning, the embankment was holding.
The town and RM of Birtle declared
states of local emergency after the flood
warning, said Ron Bell, emergency measures public information manager for both
the town and the RM of Birtle.
A reception centre was open for evacuees, but all had been housed elsewhere,
he said.
The situation remained uncertain but
was most tense over the weekend when
a surge of water appeared in an already
high-running Birdtail Creek, he said, adding that as of Monday the creek “had probably crested.”
“ We went to work ver y quickly
because if we had additional water on
top of that it would have been a real
problem,” he said.
Private properties were sandbagged and
“We went to work very
quickly because if we had
additional water on top of
that it would have been a
real problem.”
Ron Bell
RM/Town Birtle emergency measures
public information manager
local critical infrastructure, including the
town’s bridge, protected.
Residents remain under evacuation as
the condition of the embankment continues to be assessed, Bell said. High water
on the Birdtail is a normal occurrence but
they’ve never faced the spectre of a surge
of water like this before.
“This is all about the embankment,” he
said. “We have high water through here
every spring pretty much and we’ve never
had to evacuate any homes before.”
The earthen embankment, located near
Highway 45, was believed to have been
weakened this spring due to ice impeding
a flow of water through a cement culvert.
Highway 45 from 264 to 476 was closed
in anticipation of high water, with traffic
being routed back to Highway 16 to keep
traffic away from entering the area threatened by flooding.
As of April 28, flood warnings remained
in effect for all points along the Birdtail
Creek downstream of Highway 45, points
along the Assiniboine River from the
Shellmouth Dam to Brandon, and along
Birtle crews were on flood watch early this week. Photo: Government of Manitoba
the Little Saskatchewan River due to high
flows.
Provincial officials also said the water
level on Shellmouth Reservoir had
increased to the summer target levels of
1,402.8 feet, and that outflows from the
Shellmouth Dam would be increased to
about 1,000 cfs with further increases
planned over the next two to three days to
hit a target outflow of 5,000 cfs.
That raised the spectre of potential
flooding for landowners in the Assiniboine
Valley downstream from the reservoir who
were advised at week’s start to move cattle
and take other mitigation measures.
Provincial authorities warned the
impacts from the additional outflows were
expected to be greatest in the area immediately below the dam, diminishing downstream towards Brandon.
Several communities in the province
continued to be on high alert for spring
flooding, in many cases caused by ice
jams. Flooding forced residents from 129
households in the First Nation community of Peguis to evacuate and residents of
Fisher River required flood protection for
about seven homes.
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Doubling of food needs tied to poverty reduction
Cargill’s Greg Page says a 100 per cent increase in food production is doable, but it requires work, including more scientific research
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
P
rojections that world food
production must double
by 2050 hinge on a very
big assumption — billions of
poor people getting richer, says
Greg Page, Cargill’s executive
chairman and former CEO.
“The only way for the...
100 per cent increase in food
production is if the population grows by two billion and
the proportion of the population earning $10 a day
expands dramatically,” Page
told the Canadian Global
Crops Symposium April 15 in
Winnipeg. “Clearly this is something we hope happens... for
the demand for agriculture and
it would signify a prosperous
world and the fact that governments made a lot of very good
decisions.”
World population is expected
to hit nine billion by 2050,
up two billion from today.
Currently two-thirds of the
world’s seven billion people
earn less than $6 a day, Page
said. People need to earn at
least $10 a day before they start
improving their diets, seeking
more meat, eggs and milk.
“And that is what drives global grain demand much quicker
than population,” Page said.
If all the new two billion people remain poor, world food
production will only have to
increase 20 per cent, he said.
“Now that’s glacial growth.”
Glacial growth
If earnings follow the same
proportion as today, food
production will only need to
increase by 30 per cent, Page
said.
The world can double food
production by 2050, Page said,
especially if it embraces open
markets, develops Africa’s agricultural potential and invests
in science, including publicly
funded research.
“We all need to be voices for
increased research, but also for
increased acceptance of consumers of science in their food
system if we’re going to deploy
the outcomes of those research
investments,” he said.
Opposition to genetically
modified crops is well known
in Europe, but it’s growing in
the United States, Page said.
“I can’t tell you how far backwards we’ve gone in the U.S. in
the acceptance of genetically
engineered crops in the last
two years,” he said. “It has been
enormous. I probably spend
a third of my opportunities to
be at podiums trying to convince skeptical audiences of
the safety and environmental
soundness of genetic engineering as a way to feed ourselves.
We are at this moment thoroughly in the U.S. under threat
of losing some access for this
science.”
Page told reporters later
that investment in research is
declining. Private companies
are investing, but co-operating
with government researchers is
a way to win the public’s trust
on GM crops.
Feeding the world
The world can be fed now too,
even though annual demand for
the 16 major crops grows by 50
million to 60 million tonnes a
year, Page said.
“To put that in context all the
world has to do is create one
Western Canada every year,” he
said.
“We clearly today produce
more than enough calories to
nourish every single person on
earth, we’re just not electing to
do it. We have 840 million undernourished, but it’s not because
farmers didn’t grow the required
foodstuffs to nourish the world.”
World grain prices will prevent grain gluts and shortages
from occurring, Page later told
reporters. In 2013 a 2.5 per cent
increase in world crop production saw some crop prices,
including American corn, drop
50 per cent, he said.
“Price has been very sensitive to relatively small changes
in supply. The elasticity has
changed dramatically from what
we saw 20 years ago,” Page said.
The world needs to commit
around 1.6 per cent of its collective Gross Domestic Product to
food production, he said. Earlier
this decade it was closer to one
per cent but hit two per cent in
2008 when many poorer people rioted over high food costs.
But back in 1975, 3.75 per cent of
“The only way for the... 100 per cent increase
in food production is if the population
grows by two billion and the proportion of
the population earning $10 a day expands
dramatically.”
Greg Page
world GDP went to food, so relatively speaking, food is cheaper
now.
Page also doesn’t see world
grain prices plunging to the lows
of the past as governments bolster demand through mandates
for biofuels made from crops.
The United States’ country-oforigin labelling (COOL) is bad
for North American livestock
producers, Page told reporters.
“It has cost us a lot of money,”
he said.
“It is one of the real tragedies
in the relationship between
our... three countries (including
Mexico).”
The legislation is couched as
providing American consumers with information about their
meat but “it was designed to
restrain trade rather than inform
consumers,” Page said.
The Canadian government is
threatening sanctions. If implemented some companies in
Minnesota will be hurt, but not
Cargill, he said.
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Greg Page, Cargill’s executive
chairman and former CEO, says
predictions that world food
production must double by 2050
hinge on many of the world’s
poorest people becoming better
off. photo: allan dawson
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Be careful out there
I
t’s one of those years in Manitoba when
you have to look at the calendar to know
it’s spring. There are flurries in the forecast, even as April turns into May.
But judging from the amount of dust
kicked up by the half-ton trucks buzzing
back and forth on their rural routes, farmers
are getting ready to hit the dirt as soon as
they can move, even if this year’s conditions
have freeze-dried, rather than sun-dried
Laura Rance
their fields.
Editor
With that in mind, we draw your attention to two serious traffic accidents in recent
weeks involving collisions between motor
vehicles and farm equipment on the province’s highways.
The way we see it, there are several factors in play. As farm sizes
have grown, farmers’ land holdings are more widely dispersed,
resulting in the need to travel from field to field using major thoroughfares. Secondly, farm equipment is bigger and takes up more
road space as it lumbers along.
Thirdly, motorists in our predominantly urbanized society are
painfully unaware of the inverse correlation between speed and
their ability to react appropriately when they come upon slowmoving equipment and oncoming traffic at the same time. It is
increasingly common to experience drivers ducking in and out of
traffic at close range and highway speeds as though they were on
city streets, where maximum speeds are 60 km or less.
It is a hazardous equation and farmers can only do so much
to protect themselves. But it’s nevertheless something to keep in
mind when moving farm equipment. Farm equipment operators
understandably feel pressed to travel the shortest route possible
during busy seasons.
However, knowing the other driver was at fault is cold comfort
against the pain, emotional anguish and financial losses that can
result from such collisions.
So be careful out there. If it means going the extra mile, it might
be worth it.
Wealth and food demand
A
senior executive with
Cargill Inc. made a valid
point about popular
notions related to growing
world food demand at the
recent Canadian Global Crops
Symposium.
Greg Page pointed out even if
the world’s population grows by
another two billion by 2050, the
need for world food production to double is predicated on
elevating much of the world’s
population out of poverty.
With two-thirds of the world’s
seven billion people earning less than $6 a day, their
incomes need to rise to at least
$10 per day before they can
begin improving their diets with
meat, eggs or milk, Page said.
But if the world’s population
continues to grow and poverty
prevails — the demand for
food may only grow by 20 to 30
per cent.
What Page didn’t mention is
that about 70 per cent of the
world’s poorest citizens happen
to be farmers. These folks aren’t
our farmers’ customers because
they can’t afford to buy anything. It is only as they escape
poverty that they might be in
the market for the kinds of food
items — such as meat — that
our farmers sell.
But if they are going to escape
poverty, it will be by producing their way up the economic
ladder through improved productivity, storage, and access to
markets. In other words, they’ll
be feeding themselves and their
neighbours, not buying from us.
It’s been a traditional — and
logical — assumption that our
agricultural producers are well
positioned to supply these
emerging markets.
The executive summary of a
soon-to-be-released European
report assessing nitrogen and
food in the context of greenhouse gas emissions suggests
such assumptions might be
premature.
The report analyzes what
could happen if European
consumers were convinced to
reduce meat consumption by
half. Air and water pollution and
greenhouse gas emissions would
be reduced, and large areas of
farmland would be freed up to
produce other forms of food or
bioenergy, the report concludes.
“The report shows that the
nitrogen footprint of meat and
dairy is considerably higher than
that from plant-based products.
If all people within the EU would
halve their meat and dairy consumption, this would reduce
greenhouse gas emissions from
agriculture by 25 to 40 per cent,
and nitrogen emissions by 40
per cent. The EU could become
a major exporter of food products, instead of a major importer
of, for example, soybeans,” said
Henk Westhoek, the report’s lead
author.
Human nature being what it
is, we don’t for a minute believe
that most meat eaters will cut
back for the sake of the environment, but they might for other
reasons, such as their doctor’s
orders. The current average
per capita protein intake in the
EU is about 70 per cent higher
than necessary, according to
the World Health Organization
(WHO) recommendations.
The implications of this are
twofold: Demand for increased
production might be mitigated
by redistributing what’s already
been produced. And there will
be stiff competition for those
emerging markets, both from
domestic producers and other
exporters.
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CBOC ideas for changing supply
management ill conceived
By Jan Slomp
T
he Conference Board of Canada (CBOC)
plan to change supply management for
growth is a prescription for weakening,
if not eliminating, the three pillars of supply
management for dairy production in Canada
— production controls, import tariffs and
farmers’ cost of production pricing — in order
to produce more milk, lower its price and
increase exports.
The CBOC claims to be an independent
think-tank, but is affiliated with the New
York-based conference board, run by and
for U.S.-based multinational corporations. It
advocates for a suite of policies — including
dismantling dairy supply management — that
promotes corporate interests at the expense
of the values and aspirations of Canadian
people.
Canada’s dairy supply management operates smoothly, efficiently and sustainably
without government subsidies in contrast to
other Canadian agricultural sectors where
AgriStability payments are often needed.
The CBOC now promotes increasing dairy
production beyond Canadian needs in order
to export.
There is definitely capacity in Canada to
produce a lot more milk. But what kind of
export markets could we pursue, what kind of
programs would be required to obtain those
markets and what net benefits would there be
for various players in the system?
Only a small portion of the world’s milk production crosses borders because it is a bulky
perishable product. Most exports depend on
subsidies.
American dairy farmers receive U.S. Farm
Bill-related payments that nearly double their
OUR HISTORY:
milk cheques. European subsidies provide
dairy farmers a base income, allowing them to
survive on lower farm gate prices. The exception is New Zealand, a major dairy exporter
with little or no subsidies. With the world’s
lowest production cost (no winters), it can sell
at the world’s lowest farm gate prices.
Dismantling dairy supply management
would be costly for Canadian taxpayers. To
compete internationally, we would have to
match the massive subsidies given by the
U.S. and European countries. Ironically, the
CBOC’s dairy plan is modelled after the deregulated export-oriented hog and beef sectors,
which have not only failed to grow, but have
seen a steady decline punctuated by several
crises over the past 15 years.
Canadians value dairy supply management,
as they enjoy a steady supply of high-quality
products for a reasonable price. Supply management regulates production in each region
of our vast geography, providing milk where
consumers need it. An unregulated dairy market would centralize production, processing
and distribution, requiring consumers in distant areas to pay more due to transportation
and storage costs.
Processors benefit from the constant, predictable flow of milk, which allows them to
maximize plant and labour force utilization.
Dismantling dairy supply management
would help companies affiliated with the
CBOC, such as food processors and retailers,
and those industries that have their eyes on
massive concessions at the trade deal table.
Their gain would be a huge loss for Canadian
citizens and Canadian dairy farmers.
Jan Slomp is the president of the National Farmers Union
and a dairy farmer from Rimbey, Alta.
May 1949
A
t one time, “crop duster” was an accurate term. This ad from
our May 12, 1949 issue offered 2,4-D in two formulations —
liquid and dust, plus equipment to apply them.
According to the Bank of Montreal’s first crop report, seeding was
well underway in Manitoba. “Moisture conditions fairly good, except
in the northern section — a general rain is necessary… an increase
in wheat acreage with a substantial decline in flax; grasshoppers may
prove serious in southern sector.”
Quite serious, apparently — a front-page story said the province was
assisting by making chlordane available for municipalities to apply, and
road allowances and drainage ditches would be sprayed at no cost to
the farmer. Another story reported that poison spray was now the preferred method for grasshopper control, as well as being safer.
“While all poisons must be used with care, chlordane and toxaphene are much less dangerous than were paris green and the arsenicals used in baits,” said H.E. Wood, director of the province’s grasshopper program.
Members of Co-op Vegetable Oils at Altona had approved a plant
expansion, and sunflower acreage was expended to reach 50,000 to
60,000 acres that year.
In the “this sounds familiar” department, the federal government
had announced a royal commission headed by the Hon. W.F. Turgeon
to “investigate transportation problems across the Dominion.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
COMMENT/FEEDBACK
And the moral is…
Far from putting farmers out of business, the “food morality movement” is creating high value markets
By Alan Guebert
I
Letters
f you’re a regular reader of the
American agricultural press you
already know that the three greatest threats to U.S. farmers and ranchers are the nut-eating vegans at PETA,
HSUS and Chipotle Mexican Grill.
You were thinking drought, flood
and low prices, right?
Nope. When the apocalypse arrives,
according to we in the ag media, it
will be led by naked Hollywood animal rightists with a chicken burrito in
one hand and an organic hemp leash
attached to a three-legged cat in the
other.
If that sounds silly, so is the worry
some aggies hold for the People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the
Humane Society of the United States
and Chipotle. They see these three as
meddlesome “food moralists,” nonfarming pests who want eaters to
consider the life and death of what’s
on their fork every time their elbow
bends.
Even worse, “Some of agriculture’s
largest customers are partnering with
organizations… like the humane society… that seek your demise,” one of
the most worried aggies, Kevin Murphy, told a recent gathering of the St.
Louis Agri-Business Club.
Murphy, founder of truthinfood.
com, a website that says it “traverses
the entire food chain… with insight,
scholarship, thought and good oldfashioned humour,” warned the
“Fifteen years ago our pork supplier, Niman Ranch, had
60 farmers growing hogs for it. Today, it has 600. That’s
good for America, good for the communities where these
farmers live, and good for our customers.”
Chris Arnold
Communications director for Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.
ag-bizzers that this “food morality
movement is everywhere.” (Links to
background material are posted at
http://farmandfoodfile.com/in-thenews/.)
Which is, of course, where you usually find morality. Everywhere.
Moreover, morals are at the centre of almost every personal choice,
especially food. One person’s morals
— religion based, say — bans pork,
another’s bans red meat on Fridays in
Lent, a third’s bans all red meat.
So what’s the problem with food
morality?
Well, companies like Starbucks and
Chipotle see “themselves as operating
on a higher plane,” Murphy told his
audience. “It is more than just about
burritos.”
Guilty, confesses Chris Arnold,
communications director for
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. “We
maintain that the more our customers know about the food we serve —
where it’s sourced, how it was raised,
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Curb the power of patents
The Keystone Agricultural Producers quest to
update UPOV ’91 as suggested in the April 17,
Manitoba Co-operator will be a failure in the
long run since we must get to the root of the
problem with plant breeders’ rights. Patents are
the root problem.
The issue in UPOV ’91 is not whether seeds
can be saved, but should patents be more
important to agriculture than saving seeds?
Unless people oppose the patenting of seeds,
the issue of saving seeds is meaningless. As
Percy Schmeiser learned from the 5-4 defeat in
his issue with Monsanto, saving seeds was not
the issue. Monsanto claimed that its patent on
seed was more important than even the property on which the saved seeds were planted.
There is little evidence that the patenting of
seeds has improved yields beyond what saving
seeds has contributed. Perhaps an intermediate step would be to assure society that no
one, corporation, farmer or other, could profit
greatly from selling seeds or their offspring.
Plant breeders’ rights like Monsanto’s GMO
rights need to be null and void if justice is to
reign in the seed arena. Corporations and others are operating from an outdated economic
what’s in it — the more they will come
to our restaurants,” he said in a telephone interview April 22.
For example, “We choose to use
meat that doesn’t contain antibiotics or added hormones because we
think it tastes better. That’s it; taste.
We’re not anti-farmer or anti-rancher.
Where do you think we get our
chicken, pork and beef?”
That salient point — the source of
inputs for what many in Big Ag derisively label “food moralists” — is
something Big Ag never talks about.
Every input, be it the flour for the
burrito or the meat in it, comes from
farmers and ranchers.
And that’s a lot of flour, pork,
chicken and beef.
“Fifteen years ago our pork supplier, Niman Ranch,” said Arnold,
“had 60 farmers growing hogs for
it. Today, it has 600. That’s good for
America, good for the communities
where these farmers live, and good
for our customers.”
model based on a mechanical view of the
world, which is not favoured by modern biologists and ecologists. Let us catch up to the
new view that democracy will only reign when
groups have similar input into the legislation
that affects them.
We must be aware that actions in Canada
have implications for Asia and other nations.
A patched solution by KAP will solve no longrange problems with saved seeds. I am saddened to learn of glyphosate-resistant weeds,
glyphosate in breast milk and of the concern by
organic farmers of contamination by glyphosate herbicides. Can we not get to the root of
this so-called improvement in agriculture?
Freedom demands a balance between an economic order and a democratic order. UPOV ’91
alone will not increase our wisdom on how to
increase the quality of life in the world.
Barry Hammond
Winnipeg, Man.
Co-operator reporters
appreciated
I wish to congratulate Manitoba Co-operator
reporter Shannon VanRaes for being named
Agricultural Journalist of the Year by the North
American Agricultural Journalists Association.
Past (the late Glen Nicoll) and present reporters from the Manitoba Co-operator have always
provided us with excellent public service,
exposing problems concerning agricultural
issues.
Daniel Winters should receive an honourable mention for his continued reports on the
problems the remaining livestock producers
within the Riding Mountain TB Eradication
Area (REMA) must contend with because of the
irresponsible incompetence of Canadian Food
Inspections Agency (CFIA) officials and inspectors.
Rodney Checkowski
Rossburn, Man.
So what’s wrong with the giants in
Really Big Food — self-declared moralists like McDonald’s, Tyson Foods,
Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, Kroger and
Chipotle — who sell more food even
as they create new, high-value markets for American farmers and ranchers?
Absolutely nothing; these firms
are just following their customers.
It’s what food companies do. It’s also
what farmers and ranchers do.
But if you want to worry about
PETA and the HSUS, feel free. Keep in
mind, however, three facts.
Fact one: According to the Humane
Society of U.S., HSUS has not one
billboard, magazine ad, Internet
site or any material anywhere that
promotes vegetarianism, veganism
or any no-meat lifestyle. Not one.
Period.
Fact two: According to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Americans eat 57 lbs. more meat per year
now than in the late 1950s. That
amount, about 195 lbs. per person
per year, or an average 12 oz. per day,
is nearly 50 per cent more than USDA
recommends in its dietary guidelines.
Fact three: PETA was founded in
1980, smack in the middle of the
biggest meat boom in the history of
mankind and not even one carnivore
noticed.
The Farm and Food File is published
weekly through the U.S. and Canada. www.
farmandfoodfile.com.
Saturated fats
not the villain
An excerpt from an editorial in Open Heart,
a British Medical Journal publication.
It contends that recommendations to
substitute saturated (animal fats) with
polyunsaturated fats are not based on
evidence and if anything are harmful. The
full text is available at http://openheart.
bmj.com.
• Dietary guideline recommendations
suggesting the replacement of saturated
fat with carbohydrates/omega-6
polyunsaturated fats do not reflect the
current evidence in the literature.
• A change in these recommendations
is drastically needed as public health
could be at risk.
• The increase in the prevalence of
diabetes and obesity in the U.S.
occurred with an increase in the
consumption of carbohydrate not
saturated fat.
• There is no conclusive proof that a
low-fat diet has any positive effects on
health. Indeed, the literature indicates a
general lack of any effect (good or bad)
from a reduction in fat intake.
• The public fear that saturated fat raises
cholesterol is completely unfounded
as the low-density lipoprotein particle
size distribution is worsened when fat is
replaced with carbohydrate.
• A public health campaign is drastically
needed to educate on the harms of a diet
high in carbohydrate/sugar.
• It would be naive to assume that
any recommendations related to
carbohydrate or fat intake would apply
to processed foods, which undoubtedly
should be avoided if possible.
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FROM PAGE ONE
DREYFUS Continued from page 1
“Is that what the government
intended? I don’t think so,” he
said.
Livestock producers in
British Columbia’s lower mainland were also shorted earlier
sparking fears the region might
run out of grain forcing farmers to destroy starving animals.
However, the region is getting
grain now, said Bob Dornan,
secretar y treasurer of the
Animal Nutrition Association
of Canada in B.C.
“We’re not in dire straits
right now,” he said in an interview April 25. “We’re paying an
enormous premium over what
we used to pay for transportation, but that’s just dollars
and cents. At least the animals
aren’t starving.
“We have economic issues
that will have to be figured
out in the long term, but the
short-term crisis situation has
passed.”
The region, which requires
a million tonnes of feed grain
a year — much of it for poultry production — needs assurances its needs will be filled,
he said. The association hopes
to reach an agreement with
Western Canada’s big four
grain companies to supply
grain from their export terminals in Vancouver should the
region ever run out of grain.
“All it would do is be a backstop in an emergency,” Dornan
said.
Grain is moving through
T h u n d e r B a y a n d t h a t ’s
expected to help get more of
Western Canada’s 76-milliontonne crop to market. The first
two ships arrived April 21 —
a month later than normal
because of unprecedented ice
on the Great Lakes.
“It’s like nothing we’ve ever
s e e n b e f o re,” Ti m He n e y,
CEO of the Thunder Bay Port
Authority said April 25.
SUPPLIES Continued from page 1
isn’t going to be enough fertilizer in place to meet all the
demand.”
Fertilizer companies had the
same problems as grain companies with rail service over
the winter. Farmers were less
likely to buy in advance because
they weren’t moving their grain,
which affected their cash flow
as well as bin space.
Both Graham and Biggar said
farmers should continue to
speak with their local fertilizers
to stay up to date on the supply
situation.
Breakdowns
Agrium’s nitrogen plant at
Carseland, Alta, is broken down,
taking about 120,000 tonnes
of nitrogen off the market.
That represents about three
per cent of Western Canada’s
nitrogen use, said Richard
Downey, Agrium’s vice-president of investor and corporate
relations.
U.S. fertilizer company CF
Industries Holdings Inc. said
April 21 it shut down its entire
nitrogen complex at Woodward,
Oklahoma due to a problem in
one of the boilers. It will take
about six to eight weeks to
resume normal operations.
The plant is a long way from
Canada so the impact here
“In some cases we’re
having to truck grain
from Saskatchewan
(elevator) locations
to Alberta locations
because the railways
want to move from
there to get quicker
turnaround times to
Vancouver.”
Wade Sobkowich
Twenty more ships were
scheduled to arrive in Thunder
Bay over the next 10 days, he
said.
“The first ocean ship is here
Monday or Tuesday,” Heney
said. “There are about 10 of
those lined up to come now
too.”
No one from Louis Dreyfus
Commodities returned telephone messages by press time
April 28 to comment on its
level-of-service complaint.
However, a CTA official confirmed the complaint, covered
under Sections 113-116 of the
Canada Grain Act, was filed
April 16.
Those sections spell out the
service railways are to provide
shippers, including “adequate
and suitable accommodation
for the receiving and loading of
all traffic offered for carriage on
the railway...”
Louis Dreyfus has also asked
the CTA to issue an interim
order requiring CN to abide by
contractual terms during the
proceedings.
“As it is a confidential contract, I cannot speak to the specifics of the agreement,” the
official wrote in an email.
The CTA is reviewing the
complaint and will make its ruling public.
won’t be significant, but it will
add to the tightness in supply,
Downey said.
Last year’s record crop means
most farmers will need to apply
more fertilizer than normal,
said John Heard, a soil fertility specialist with Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development.
“Nitrogen levels in the soil are
down 10 to 20 pounds an acre
on average,” he said. “So the fertilizer needs are... higher than
last year.”
Phosphorus, half of which
is imported from the United
States, is also in short supply,
Biggar said.
Nitrogen can be applied after
seeding or even when the crop
is still small and even later with
longer-maturing crops including corn, sunflowers and potatoes, Heard said. However,
timely rains are needed to move
the nutrient to the root zone.
Phosphorus short
But since phosphorus is much
less mobile in the soil, it must
be banded ahead of planting or
applied with the seed.
“Products like potash and
ammonium sulphate look like
they will be in good supply,”
Biggar said.
Heard isn’t sure how many
Manitoba farmers applied fertilizer last fall. That’s an accept-
The Canadian Transportation Agency says the railways should be getting more revenue because their operating costs
have risen. file photo
Industry sources say other
grain companies are considering filing level-of-service complaints to the CTA, a quasi-judicial organization that administers the Canada Transportation
Act.
The Canadian Wheat Board
filed a level-of-service complaint April 14, 1997 against
CN and CP Rail accusing both
of failing to provide adequate
service during the winter of
1996-97.
CN reached an out-of-court
settlement with the wheat
board.
The CTA ruled in the wheat
board’s favour Sept. 30, 1998.
The board then used the findings in a lawsuit against CP
Rail.
The wheat board sought
$45 million in compensation
from CP, but reached an outof-court settlement for $15
million.
T h e w h e a t b o a rd’s c a s e
turned on the argument the
railways didn’t give the board
an adequate share of railway
capacity during the winter of
1996-97, which like this winter, was bitterly cold.
Me a n w h i l e , t h e C TA
announced April 28 the railways are getting a 4.2 per
cent increase in the VolumeRelated Composite Price
Index ( VRCPI), which is used
in determining their maxim u m re ve n u e e n t i t l e m e n t
for the movement of western
grain effective Aug. 1.
The increase was warranted
by higher fuel costs and the
lower Canadian dollar, which
affects their operating costs,
the CTA said in a release.
[email protected]
“I think the later
the season goes the
greater the likelihood
is we’ll have enough
fertilizer.”
Steve Biggar
Fertilizer supplies are tight this year due to a combination of logistical and
production problems. Farmers are advised to remain in close contact with
their fertilizer retailers about available supplies. file photo
able practice when applied to
cool, well-drained soils, he said.
Farmers in central and eastern Manitoba had more time for
fall applications than farmers in
the western areas where harvest
was delayed, Heard said.
“I’ve always been amazed
with how well the fertilizer
industry’s infrastructure does
work,” he said. “It truly is a
‘just-in-time’ system and that
just-in-time system has actually worked pretty good the last
while.”
More urea will likely be
imported from the U.S. than
usual because of the rail and
plant problems, Biggar said.
“We have product coming
from various river houses on the
Mississippi and a lot of those
houses are just having trouble
getting rail cars to ship up this
direction,” he said.
Rail car shortage
Last week the U.S. Surface
Transportation Board, which
regulates American railways, ordered CP Rail and the
Burlington Northern and Santa
Fe Railway, to come up with a
plan for moving more fertilizer
in the U.S. Biggar said that will
likely help get more fertilizer to
Canada.
“If more cars are going into
fertilizer we may see more coming up to Canada as well,” he
said. “I don’t think Canadian
suppliers will short this market
to serve the U.S. market first.”
Concerns about tight spring
fertilizer supplies, especially
regionally, aren’t new, in part
because of logistical issues
around having enough trucks
and drivers to physically move
product to keep up with the
rush. Several industry observers
noted, however, that fertilizer
retailers are purchasing less fertilizer without having a firm sale
for it. In 2008-09 many retailers were stuck with surplus supplies and suffered losses when
fertilizer prices dropped later in
the year.
“It’s certainly stressful for
farmers,” said one official.
“Some may feel they’ve been
caught, but the only thing worse
than expensive nitrogen fertilizer is not having any fertilizer.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
World grain markets pivoting
to bearish: Rabobank
But it’s not all bad news for western farmers
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
W
orld grain markets
are looking bearish as stocks continue to build, but the news
isn’t all bad for Western
Canadian farmers, according
to Bill Cordingley, Rabobank
International’s head of Food &
Agri Research and Advisory for
the Americas Region.
“Clearly the market doesn’t
necessarily believe that we’re
into an olden-day period of
forever lower prices and burdensome stocks,” Cordingley
told reporters after speaking April 15 at the Canadian
Global Crops Symposium in
Winnipeg. “That era seems to
be behind us. Canada’s farmers are obviously in a strong
financial position so they will
have a good incentive to plant
again this year, but they’ll
want to know that they can
get their crops out through the
system.”
Bad weather or international tensions could see grain
prices rebound. Meanwhile,
western Canadian farmers
have some advantages in the
global grain trade, he said.
One is geographic. Fifty per
cent of grain imports over the
next 10 years will go to Asia
due to rapid urbanization and
rising incomes.
World grain markets have pivoted
to bearish, but Canada has some
advantages, Rabobank’s Bill
Cordingley told the Canadian
Global Crops Symposium April 15
in Winnipeg. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON
“A g a i n t h a t w i l l m e a n
Western Canada infrastructure
is going to need to be developed to meet that increased
volume demand,” Cordingley
said. “On the quality side,
Canada is well placed as any
quality grain and oilseed commodity producer in the world,
I would say. Canola has a
wonderful health halo. Hearthealthy oats, high-quality
pasta or durum wheat, lentils,
peas providing excellent nutrition in niche markets. A really
diverse array of higher-end,
higher-quality commodities
— high-quality milling wheat
— that are well perceived by
MLA wants red tape
removed from farm group
Blaine Pedersen says the rules deter rural businesses
By Lorraine Stevenson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
customers around the world
because they do the job.”
With Argentina withdrawing from world wheat markets
Canada has an opportunity to
export more wheat to Brazil,
the world’s second-largest
wheat importer, he said.
Tight American soybean
meal supplies could mean
more markets in the U.S. for
Canadian canola meal, he
added.
A cold winter and big crop
resulted in a backlog of western Canadian grain shipments
and a wider-than-normal
basis or difference between
futures and elevator prices.
That tells farmers grain companies don’t want them to
deliver grain right now, he
said.
Canada has less commercial
grain storage than its competitors, which means farmers
here must deliver on a ‘just-intime’ basis.
“On the average year that’s
a more efficient system for
the average farmer because
the farmer is not paying for a
lot of fixed infrastructure in
their grain prices,” Cordingley
said. “But sometimes you
need some latent redundancy
to take care of bubble periods
where there is too much grain
and it can’t be moved.”
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A
Manitoba Conservative
MLA says it’s time to inject
“some common sense”
into the rules that govern directto-consumer sales by farmers.
Blaine Pedersen, (PC-Midland)
has gone to bat for a small group
of farmers recently outed for
using a web-based ordering system and delivering uninspected
chicken and ungraded eggs to
customers in Winnipeg and other
points in rural Manitoba.
The group was told by provincial inspectors those transactions must be done at farm gate
only. They’re also not supposed
to share transportion of farm
products when they deliver to
customers.
Pedersen said he’s baffled by
what these young farmers are up
against, especially that their transactions are in any way compromising food safety.
“I understand food safety, don’t
get me wrong. But how does selling your product on a website
make it unsafe?” he said.
“I have lots of questions about
it.”
He said he took the matter up
after getting several calls and
emails expressing concern about
the kinds of regulatory hurdles
the province is imposing on direct
marketers.
The problem seems to boil
down to government not knowing
how to deal with an ever-expanding niche market trade, he said.
“My cynical nature says this
particular government started out
promoting local food and farm
gates sales, but government’s
problem with this is it’s become
so popular that it feels it has lost
control of this.”
“We’ve got a good thing going
here with these local producers
dealing directly with their consumers. I see this as rural development. It’s creating jobs and creating commerce in the rural areas.
So how do we enhance that?”
Pedersen has asked questions of Manitoba Minister of
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development (MAFRD) Ron
Kostyshyn during question period
in the Manitoba legislature about
the matter. He was hoping to
meet with the farmers’ group over
this past weekend.
Harvest Moon Local Food
Initiative’s Brad Anderson, who
farms at Cypress River said a letter
to Kostyshyn about their predicament in mid-April had not been
acknowledged at the end of last
week.
Anderson added that their
group “just can’t get a straight
answer” when they talk to provincial inspectors. “We keep getting
all kinds of answers from all kinds
of people.”
They now have their hopes
pinned on a meeting with
Manitoba Health officials,
expected to take place in the next
couple of weeks, to tell them what
they need to do, he said.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
The $10-billion ‘problem’
Canada likes to have
Last year’s record crop is a sign of bigger things to come, industry leaders say
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
”We’ve got to stop
talking about a
75-million-tonne
crop as a problem.”
L
ast year’s record 75-million-tonne crop highlights
the need for investments
in expanded grain-handling
capacity, industry leaders told
the Canadian Global Crop Symposium April 15 in Winnipeg.
“That means we’re going to
have to invest... in new capacity,” said Curt Vossen, president and CEO of Richardson
International. “And we’re going
to have to invest, whether we
think it’s commercially appropriate or not, in redundant
capacity because when problems occur you need recovery. If you don’t... you just fall
behind... and you lose it forever.”
Western Canada’s 2013 crop
shattered the previous record
set in 2009 by 28 per cent
higher and is 50 per cent above
the average. It took the grain
industry off guard, especially
the railways, which fell behind
delivering cars to country elevators this winter.
Grain companies and farmers blame the backlog on the
railways’ cutting crews and
trains to boost profits, knowing
they wouldn’t lose grain traffic
because there are few economic
alternatives.
The railways blamed the
shortfall partly on an unusually
cold winter, but also on the big
crop itself. But rather than complain, the grain industry should
be shouting “hallelujah,” Vossen
said later in an interview.
“We’ve got to stop talking
about a 75-million-tonne crop
as a problem.”
The need to increase Western
Canada’s grain-handling capacity was raised throughout the
day-and-a-half-long meeting.
Grain companies are investing (see sidebar) but frustrated
farmers didn’t hear what the
Curt Vossen
KAP president Doug Chorney told Scott Streiner, an assistant deputy minister
with Transport Canada, it’s “unacceptable” for the railways not to provide
surge capacity. photo: allan dawson
railways are planning, other
than promises to move the crop.
Farmers and grain company
executives declared 2013 was
no fluke.
“This is the new normal, as
opposed to 45-million- to
50-million-tonne crops,” Vossen
told the symposium.
New technology bred into
seeds and agronomic improvements are boosting crop production, he said.
“Could it go to 90 million
tonnes? Maybe,” Vossen said in
an interview.
The extra 25 million tonnes
produced last year will earn
Canada $10 billion, he added.
“And it’s replaceable. And it’s
sustainable.”
Meanwhile, the canola industry is pushing to boost average canola yields to 52 bushels
an acre, producing 26 million
tonnes by 2025.
The canola industry isn’t
striving for “past goals” or “averages,” Canola Council of Canada chair Terry Youzwa said,
alluding to the railways, which
measure their performance to
previous peaks or averages.
Corn breeders are developing earlier-maturing varieties,
which could see acres expand
across the West. Corn yields
more than other crops so the
system will have to handle more
tonnes.
“Our belief is, to only use
long-term (yield) trends is not
going to position ourselves for
success in the future,” Cargill
Canada president Jeff Vassart
told the meeting.
J.J. Ruest, CN Rail’s executive
vice-president and chief marketing officer, didn’t announce
any track-twinning projects,
much to Youzwa’s disappointment.
“Maintenance is capacity,”
Ruest told Youzwa.
CN is spending more than
$2 billion in capital projects
in 2014 — half of it on maintenance, he said.
“If the network is not in good
shape, it doesn’t matter how
many cars you put on it, it won’t
be as fluid,” Ruest said.
From every dollar of revenue,
CN spends 19 to 20 cents on
maintenance, he added.
The federal government has
ordered the railways to move
one million tonnes of grain a
week and new legislation, if
passed, will allow the government to set shipping targets
for two years. But most in the
grain industry agree commercial service-level agreements
between shippers and the railways would be more effective.
The railways are reluctant to
sign the agreements because
grain freights are regulated by
the maximum revenue entitlement, Ruest told Dave Sefton,
chair of the Western Grains
Research Foundation.
In a commercial negotiation
the railways would agree to
provide better service or more
capacity for a higher price,
Ruest said later in an interview.
“You are shackled (by the
entitlement) in a way I don’t
think was intended,” Ruest said
later in an interview.
But most farm groups and the
Western Grain Elevator Association say the railways are fairly
compensated to move grain
and giving up the entitlement
would see higher freight costs
with no improvement in service.
Rail service must be balanced
against the railways’ need to be
efficient and vice versa, Scott
Streiner, an assistant deputy
minister with Transport Canada
told the meeting.
Keystone Agricultural Producers president Doug Chorney told Streiner the railways
haven’t suffered the way farm-
ers and grain companies have
because of the backlog.
“Surge capacity in the system is what we expect from
everybody that serves the ag
industry,” Chorney said. “The
railways have been able to
be the exception to that rule.
That’s not acceptable. You say
they should be efficient. No,
they need to be successful
and we want them to be profitable, but we don’t want them
to be so efficient it’s penalizing everyone else in the value
chain.”
Alberta Barley chair Matt
Sawyer said the grain backlog
is “an epic failure” that has cost
farmers $3 billion.
Nick Sekulic, chair of Pulse
Canada and Rycroft, Alta.
farmer, said in an interview the
only reason farmers aren’t suffering more is that they’ve had a
couple of good years and lenders are providing credit.
“On my farm, it’s a six-digit
impact, this crisis,” he said.
“If we have another big crop it
could be a seven-digit impact
on my bottom line. These are
things that should get the attention of everyone in Canada
because it’s going to affect our
economy, our standard of living
and our dollar.”
Ruest said CN will move the
5,500 cars a week the government has ordered, but it and
the rest of the grain sector must
work flat out, seven days a
week, 24 hours a day this spring
and summer.
Normally grain shipping
slows this time of year as farmers focus on seeding and the
railways and terminals do
maintenance, he said.
“At some point we need to
bring the temperature down
and get back to basics of operating and how we railroad
together,” he said.
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Canada’s grain system increasing its capacity
Millions of dollars are being invested in country elevators and port terminals to handle the West’s growing crop production
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
W
estern Canada’s grain companies are adding capacity to
the handling system, demonstrating they don’t see last year’s record
crop as an anomaly, says Curt Vossen,
Richardson International’s president
and CEO.
Last week the CWB announced its
plan to buy Prairie West Terminal,
which has four country elevators with
77,000 tonnes of storage, he said on the
sidelines of the Canadian Global Crops
Symposium in Winnipeg last month.
Before that CWB announced it’s
building new high-throughput elevators at Bloom, Man. and Colonsay,
Sask.
CWB says it plans further expansion.
Last month Cargill announced it’s
adding 20,000 tonnes of capacity to its
elevator at Morris. The firm is spending $50 million on its Vancouver terminal, including measures to increase
throughput.
Viterra has announced new elevators
for Kindersley, Sask., and Grimshaw,
Alta., and is investing $100 million in its
Pacific terminal at Vancouver.
Last year, Richardson International
announced it would add 14,000 tonnes
of storage to each of its elevators in
Carseland, Alta., Crooked River, Sask.,
and Shoal Lake, Man.
It also is spending $150 million adding 80,000 tonnes of capacity to its Vancouver terminal.
“And there will be more,” Vossen said.
“There are people who want to get into
the Canadian marketplace. There’s the
big U.S. company CHS and Bunge and
Gavilon and all of them want a piece of
this marketplace and some of them will
come and new facilities will be built.”
More can also be done with existing
capacity, added Vossen, speaking from
experience. He believed the maximum
capacity of Richardson’s 98,000-tonne
Vancouver facility was 3.1 million
tonnes until last year, when it did just
under four million.
The new addition was to bring
capacity to 5.5 million tonnes, but now
Vossen believes it could be more.
“The conventional wisdom was that
Vancouver could handle 18 million or
maybe 20 million tonnes (a year),” Vossen said. “We (collectively) could do...
24 million or maybe 25 million tonnes
at Vancouver... and maybe six million
tonnes at Prince Rupert so now you’re
over 30 million tonnes.”
Then there’s Churchill, Thunder Bay,
the lower St. Lawrence and direct sales
to the United States, he said.
“The industry, when there’s an
opportunity, will respond, is responding,” Vossen said.
Nine billion dollars is being invested
at Port Metro Vancouver, said Chris
Wellstood, the port’s executive vicepresident and chief marketing officer.
Contrary to popular belief there are lots
of places to build more terminal elevators at the port, he said.
Meanwhile, CN Rail is adding
capacity with its new Fleet Integration Program, said J.J. Ruest, CN’s
executive vice-president and chief
marketing officer. Under the program
grain companies supply CN with cars
they own or have leased. The cars
are pooled and are part of CN’s fleet.
The grain companies are guaranteed to get the equivalent number of
cars back to ship grain not subject to
the maximum revenue entitlement
to commercial destinations, which
include the United States and domestic customers such as flour mills and
livestock feeders.
“You get back what you put in,” Ruest
said.
“It’s one of the ways to increase the
size of the fleet. It’s a way to respond
to people who want better service for
commercial grain and it’s possibly a
way forward to get that piece of the
business more commercial based more
on market signals.”
If a grain company has more business lined up it can add more cars to
the program knowing it will get more
cars back ensuring it gets additional
capacity, he said.
CN’s program has added 800 cars
from five grain companies and Ruest
said he expects more will be added.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
Railway profits don’t impress unhappy customers
A lack of competition is good for shareholders but not shippers
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
R
obust financial results
posted by CN and CP for
the first quarter of 2014
aren’t winning applause from
customers who have suffered
a winter of unpredictable
freight service.
“CN and CP already have
the vast majority of the business in Western Canada, and
they are focused on reducing
costs to improve their operating ratios,” says Wade Sobkowich, executive director of
the Western Grain Elevators
Association. “This manifests
itself as worse service for their
customers.”
The railways are preoccupied by creating value for
shareholders through streamlining their operations, “but
this does not necessarily
translate to an efficient system for railway customers,” he
added.
CP posted its “best firstquarter financial results in
company history” with a 16
per cent rise in net income
to more than $217 million,
said CEO Hunter Harrison.
CN’s net income was $623
million for the first quarter
of 2014 compared with net
income of $555 million for
the same period last year,
said CEO Claude Mongeau.
T h e p e r f o r m a n c e d re w
fawning praise from stock
market analysts, but Sobkowich said it comes at the
expense of captive shippers.
“Unlike the railways’ customers, shareholders can
come and go, an activity
which, in part, drives share
values. Therefore, the railways are focused on shareholder returns above all else,
including customer service.
“What we are experiencing amounts to a transfer of
wealth from railway customers to railway shareholders,”
he added. “Competition is
absent, and the legislation
is inadequate to provide the
proper disciplines for decent
rail capacity and service for
shippers in all industries,
primarily those that are captive to rail.”
A massive and late Prairie crop last year combined
with a long and harsh winter to create a mammoth
backlog in rail shipments
that could cost farmers more
than $7 billion in lost sales
and lower prices, grain companies say. Other sectors
haven’t calculated the financial damage.
After months of complaints about poor rail service from grain farmers and
companies as well as other
western commodity shippers, the government issued
a c a b i n e t o rd e r i n e a r l y
March ordering the railways
to ramp up grain shipments
to 500,000 tonnes a week by
mid-April or face $100,000 a
day fines. To date, the railways have met the targets.
The government has also
brought in C-30, the Fair
Rail for Grain Farmers Act,
which would enable the
Ca n a d i a n Tra n s p o r t a t i o n
Agency to order the railways
to compensate any shipper
for losses resulting from a
carrier’s failure to live up to
the terms of a transportation
contract. The government
rejected four Liberal and
nine NDP amendments to
increased fines and subject
the railways to more competition.
While the arrival of
warmer weather has
improved grain transportation, there remains a
shortfall of 68,000 rail cars,
Sobkowich said. “We are still
not seeing enough capacity
for shipping to the United
States or Eastern Canada,
and we are still having dif-
ficulty getting trains spotted
at locations of our choosing
— i.e. where the product is
for a particular vessel.”
Harrison didn’t mention
his company’s unhappy customers when he bragged
“CP delivered solid results
in a period that was severely
impacted by extraordinary
cold and severe winter
weather conditions. Despite
a slow start to the year and
the reduced capacity that
limited our ability to meet
strong customer demand,
we s t i l l h a ve t h e u t m o s t
confidence in our ability to
achieve our financial targets
for 2014.”
C N ’s Mo n g e a u a t l e a s t
acknowledged the weather
had “reduced our capacity to
serve our customers.” With
spring at hand, “CN’s recovery is now well underway,
with key safety, operating
and service metrics returning to pre-winter levels.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Cattle Prices
Winnipeg
April 25, 2014
Steers & Heifers
No sale April 18th, 2014
D1, 2 Cows
Closed - Good Friday Holiday
D3 Cows
Bulls
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
—
(801-900 lbs.)
—
(701-800 lbs.)
—
(601-700 lbs.)
—
(501-600 lbs.)
—
(401-500 lbs.)
—
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
—
(801-900 lbs.)
—
(701-800 lbs.)
—
(601-700 lbs.)
—
(501-600 lbs.)
—
(401-500 lbs.)
—
Heifers
Alberta South
—
—
98.00 - 112.00
85.00 - 100.00
112.61
$ 155.00 - 168.00
170.00 - 186.00
188.00 - 204.00
202.00 - 220.00
210.00 - 235.00
216.00 - 238.00
$ 140.00 - 154.00
155.00 - 171.00
165.00 - 182.00
177.00 - 195.00
189.00 - 208.00
191.00 - 216.00
($/cwt)
(1,000+ lbs.)
(850+ lbs.)
Futures (April 25, 2014) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change Feeder Cattle
April 2014
144.25
0.05
May 2014
June 2014
135.85
1.48
August 2014
August 2014
134.90
2.08
September 2014
October 2014
138.87
1.50
October 2014
December 2014
140.95
1.28
November 2014
February 2015
141.82
1.37
January 2015
Cattle Slaughter
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
Ontario
$ 137.93 - 161.16
134.54 - 154.83
81.36 - 113.43
81.36 - 113.43
99.91 - 121.45
$ 151.60 - 174.44
169.06 - 190.04
166.56 - 200.26
170.80 - 221.42
179.95 - 230.39
169.18 - 226.08
$ 137.05 - 152.54
149.62 - 166.09
156.91 - 184.77
156.96 - 198.11
168.59 - 206.83
169.75 - 208.66
$
(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.)
Close
179.60
184.05
184.02
184.25
184.00
180.80
Change
1.55
2.65
2.75
3.23
3.33
3.05
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
April 19, 2014
359,751
220,392
139,359
91,639
2,007,000
Previous
Year­
408,417
239,713
168,704
117,335
2,140,000
Week Ending
April 19, 2014
678
23,078
12,828
749
707
5,640
52
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Previous
Year
1,197
29,606
14,418
741
850
6,772
135
Hog Prices
Source: Manitoba Agriculture
(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)
E - Estimation
MB. ($/hog)
MB. (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)
MB. (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)
ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)
P.Q. (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)
Futures (April 25, 2014) in U.S.
Hogs
May 2014
June 2014
July 2014
August 2014
October 2014
Current Week
236.00E
218.00E
235.65
241.29
Last Week
245.61
226.73
244.31
252.65
Close
122.90
125.55
123.95
121.82
102.30
Last Year (Index 100)
160.93
148.53
150.00
155.12
Change
-1.92
2.48
2.05
22.52
13.55
Other Market Prices
Sheep and Lambs
$/cwt
Ewes Choice
Lambs (110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
$1 Cdn: $0.9056 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.1042 Cdn.
COLUMN
(Friday to Thursday)
Slaughter Cattle
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
April 25, 2014
Winnipeg (00 head)
(wooled fats)
—
—
—
—
—
—
Chickens
Minimum broiler prices as of April 13, 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 April 27, 2014
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.965
Undergrade .............................. $1.875
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.950
Undergrade .............................. $1.850
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.950
Undergrade .............................. $1.850
Tom Turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A..................................... $1.865
Undergrade............................... $1.780
Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.
Toronto
78.34 - 106.04
165.96 - 180.04
212.69 - 232.61
214.77 - 237.10
159.62 - 293.65
—
SunGold
Specialty Meats
40.00
Eggs
Goats
Winnipeg (00head)
Toronto
(Fats)
($/cwt)
Kids
—
43.39 - 285.28
Billys
—
—
Mature
—
61.04 - 211.34
Horses
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Shipping challenges are limiting demand from down east
Toronto
($/cwt)
2.00 - 28.00
25.00 - 59.00
“We’re seeing the last of the bred
cow sales.”
Dave Sims
CNSC
M
anitoba cattle auction yards experienced a resurgence over the week
ended April 25, as many producers
hauled in animals they had been waiting to
unload since before the Easter break.
Auction yards at Ashern, Gladstone,
Grunthal, Brandon, Virden, Ste. Rose and
Winnipeg were all open. Killarney was the lone
outlet closed due to the Easter long weekend.
Over 7,000 slaughter and feeder cattle
were listed as being sold at the province’s
auction yards, well up from just under
3,000 sold the week previous.
Quality at most markets was up too,
according to Rick Wright of Heartland
Order Buying Co.
Buyers decided to do some shopping
after looking at the lateness of the season,
he theorized. “They’re saying, ‘We may not
like the price but we like the quality and
they’re available today.’”
Once buyers got past the 800-pound
level, the flows were steady, he said, but
there wasn’t as high a demand for lightweight cattle going to grass.
“I think we’ll be back down to below-seasonal volumes when we come back in and
that trend will continue back through to the
middle of May.”
Above-average deliveries of slaughter
cows are still coming into the market and
prices are strong, said Wright, who noted
American buyers still have strong interest.
“We’re seeing the last of the bred cow
sales and a few cow-calf pairs are beginning
to show up,” he said.
rick wright
Demand for replacement stock is good,
although some producers are hanging on to
top-end heifers for breeding programs.
“That’s the turnaround we didn’t see a
month ago at this time.”
This year’s summer schedule will likely
start in early June instead of the usual July/
August mark.
Demand is still strong from the U.S. and
Western Canada but has tapered off in the
East.
Transportation challenges and price are
two barriers for many eastern buyers right
now, Wright said.
On the bright side, he added, the province’s introduction of the Western Livestock
Price Insurance Program, which allows producers to insure herds against unexpected
price drops, has given growers increased
confidence. “It’s created a positive buzz in
the marketplace.”
The program allows cattle feeders, and
some producers who go to pasture with a
certain amount of cattle, to take risk-management positions.
Price levels are adequate, said Wright,
and the premiums look reasonable for the
coverage producers get.
Dave Sims writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a
Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity
market reporting.
briefs
Tight U.S. cattle
supply trims
March feedlot
placements
By Theopolis Waters
chicago / reuters
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
$1.8200
A Large
1.8500
1.8200
A Medium
1.6700
1.6400
A Small
1.2500
1.2200
A Pee Wee
0.3675
0.3675
Nest Run 24 +
1.7490
1.7210
B
0.45
0.45
C
0.15
0.15
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
Volumes rise at sales with
post-holiday traffic
The number of cattle placed
in U.S. feedlots last month
unexpectedly fell five per
cent from March 2013 after
several years of drought in
parts of the country led to
fewer animals for feedlots
to draw from for fattening, a
government report showed
April 25.
Most analysts had anticipated a modest bump in
March cattle placements
compared with a year ago,
driven by record-high prices
for market-ready cattle last
month.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture report showed
March placements at 1.795
million head, down five per
cent from 1.884 million a year
earlier. Analysts, on average,
had expected a 0.8 per cent
increase.
USDA report’s quarterly
steers and heifers on-feed
data showed steers as of April
1 rose 2.2 per cent from a year
ago, but heifers dropped 5.9
per cent, said University of
Missouri livestock economist
Ron Plain.
“This suggests we’re keeping a lot of heifers back on
farms for breeding, which
helps pull down the placement number and tightens
up supplies in feedyards,” he
said.
Rich Nelson, chief strategist with Allendale Inc., said
fewer cattle are available now
following five consecutive
months of larger placements,
partly fuelled by record-high
cattle prices.
He added that in early
March, bouts of harsh wintry weather may have delayed
the sale of animals at some
auction barns, which might
have kept numbers from
going to feedlots.
USDA put the feedlot cattle
supply as of April 1 at 10.860
million head, down one per
cent from 10.924 million a
year earlier.
The government said the
number of cattle sold to packers, or marketings, in March
was down four per cent from
a year earlier, to 1.660 million head. Analysts forecasted
a drop of 3.6 per cent from
1.724 million last year.
March marketings were the
smallest since the government began the data series in
1996.
Looking for results? Check out the market reports
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
GRAIN MARKETS
Export and International Prices
column
Seeding intentions forecast
bullish for canola
Traders have eyes on U.S. corn and wheat progress
Terryn Shiells
CNSC
I
CE Futures Canada canola futures moved
to their lowest levels in a month in sympathy with weakening outside oilseed markets during the week ended April 25. Prices,
however, managed to finish well off their lows
after the release of a bullish Statistics Canada
report on April 24. The May contract, which
was nearing expiration, finished with small
gains, while other contracts were slightly
lower.
Statistics Canada pegged 2014-15 Canadian
canola acreage at 19.8 million acres, down
slightly from the 19.9 million planted last
spring. The trade was expecting acres to
increase to about 21 million acres.
Expectations of a large 2013-14 canola
carry-out in Canada continued to overhang
the market, though the commodity is still
thought to be undervalued compared to other
oilseeds.
Though farmers were active sellers
throughout the week as they made bin space
and generated cash flow ahead of spring
seeding, speculators were on the buy side,
helping prices to rally on April 24 and 25.
Old-crop Chicago soybean futures were
weaker, as reports of South American soybeans moving into the U.S. and Chinese cancellation worries weighed on the market.
So far, about two million tonnes of U.S. soybean orders have been cancelled by China,
and those in the trade say they wouldn’t be
surprised if China ends up cancelling a total
of three million tonnes by the end of the year.
New-crop Chicago soybean values moved
higher during the week, though, as the narrowing in of the old-crop/new-crop spread
was a feature of the activity. Talk that Chinese
demand for new-crop beans will be strong
was also bullish.
Last Week
All prices close of business April 24, 2014
Week Ago
Year Ago
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
253.17
252.80
257.64
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
270.53
266.95
302.46
Coarse Grains
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
197.33
195.86
254.03
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
260.50
262.61
255.80
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
540.87
558.05
522.99
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
939.11
963.81
1097.43
oilseeds
Traders will start to watch weather going
forward, as worries about possible planting
delays for U.S. corn could result in larger soybean acres.
Corn futures moved sharply higher as
the trade became worried about cold, wet
weather causing planting delays in the U.S.
Midwest.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has
reported that as of April 20, only six per cent
of the U.S. corn crop had been planted, which
compares with the five-year average of 14 per
cent.
Some members of the industry said it’s too
early to get worried about seeding delays for
corn, as the ideal planting window of May
1-10 hasn’t passed yet. Adding to that, farmers can get all of their corn crops planted in a
short period of time.
Weather problems continued to boost
wheat futures in the U.S. during the week,
with an ongoing lack of moisture in the U.S.
Plains causing concerns for growers.
Ongoing worries over risks of political
instability in Ukraine possibly reducing wheat
production and disrupting exports were also
supportive.
There are also some worries about delayed
spring wheat seeding in the U.S., with USDA
reporting 10 per cent of the spring wheat crop
was seeded as of April 20. At the same time
last year, only seven per cent of the crop was
planted, while the five-year average is 19 per
cent seeded.
Statistics Canada pegged 2014-15 Canadian
spring wheat area at 17.98 million acres,
with durum at 4.84 million and winter
wheat remaining in the spring at 1.95 million acres. The total of 24.78 million acres,
which accounts for the winter wheat acres
lost to winterkill, was at the higher end of
expectations.
Terryn Shiells 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.
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business April 25, 2014
barley
Last Week
Week Ago
May 2014
139.50
137.50
July 2014
140.50
135.50
October 2014
140.50
135.50
Canola
Last Week
Week Ago
May 2014
471.70
461.00
July 2014
474.30
470.10
November 2014
485.20
484.60
Special Crops
Report for April 28, 2014 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan
Spot Market
Spot Market
Other (Cdn. cents per pound unless
otherwise specified)
Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)
Large Green 15/64
23.00 - 24.00
Canaryseed
Laird No. 1
21.00 - 23.00
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
16.00 - 20.00
19.00 - 21.00
—
Desi Chickpeas
17.10 - 18.00
Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1
Fababeans, large
—
Feed beans
—
Medium Yellow No. 1
12.80 - 13.00
6.25 - 6.75
Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans
40.00 - 40.00
Feed Pea (Rail)
No. 1 Great Northern
55.00 - 55.00
Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)
No. 1 Cranberry Beans
39.00 - 39.00
Yellow No. 1
35.75 - 36.00
No. 1 Light Red Kidney
55.00 - 55.00
Brown No. 1
32.30 - 34.00
No. 1 Dark Red Kidney
57.00 - 57.00
Oriental No. 1
26.60 - 28.00
No. 1 Black Beans
37.00 - 37.00
No. 1 Pinto Beans
29.00 - 32.00
4.25 - 4.35
Source: Stat Publishing
SUNFLOWERS
No. 1 Small Red
40.00 - 40.00
No. 1 Pink
40.00 - 40.00
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Canadian farmers to plant less canola than expected
Wheat acres will drop as well due to ample carry-over stocks
By Rod Nickel
winnipeg / reuters
C
anadian farmers intend to curb
canola plantings this spring,
Statistics Canada said April 24,
surprising traders who expected a bigger area.
StatsCan said farmers would also
taper back wheat sowings as expected,
after a backlog in railway shipments left
ample supplies of most crops from last
year’s harvest.
StatsCan, using a late-March farmer
survey, estimated farmers would plant
24.766 million acres of all wheat, down
4.8 per cent from last year, but exceed-
ing the average trade expectation of
24.4 million acres.
Canola plantings looked set to reach
19.801 million acres, easing 0.7 per cent
from last year, but falling well below
the average trade guess of 21.1 million
acres.
Canadian farmers produced record
volumes of wheat and canola last year,
but much of the crop remains locked in
farm bins after the abundant supplies
and frigid winter overwhelmed the railways that move crops to port.
For that reason, stocks look to be
ample well into summer, said Dave
Reimann, market analyst at Cargill Ltd.
A slight dip in canola-planting inten-
tions was a surprise, with the market
expecting farmers to sow the secondbiggest canola area on record.
“It is somewhat bullish (for canola) in the sense that it is well below
average guesses and will result in a
slightly tighter carry-out than the trade
expected,” Reimann said, referring to
supplies at the end of the crop-marketing year July 31. “Having said that, with
the massive carry-out expected from
this year and assuming average yields
on that crop, (stocks) will still be ample
going forward.”
Spring wheat acres are expected to
shrink 5.6 per cent to 17.978 million
acres, with cash bids from country ele-
vators sharply lower than a year ago,
said John Duvenaud, analyst with Wild
Oats Grain Market Advisory.
“Guys are sitting out there with wheat
and they can’t move it,” Duvenaud
said on a conference call organized by
Minneapolis Grain Exchange. “You can
see how there would be reluctance to
put more spring wheat in.”
StatsCan also said oat plantings
would edge up 0.6 per cent to 3.188 million acres, in line with expectations.
Smaller sowings of durum wheat, barley and corn are expected, but farmers
intend to boost soybean plantings 16.5
per cent to 5.264 million acres, an alltime high, StatsCan reported.
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Manage early spring
grazing carefully to
ensure proper nutrition
Grazing too early can also reduce forage production by as much as 45 per cent
By Jenelle Hamblin
MAFRD
A
nother long, cold winter
has many producers trying to balance dwindling
feed supplies and late spring
pasture.
Some may be forced to take
cattle to pasture earlier than
recommended and this will
affect cost and future pasture
production. While it is tempting to take cattle to pasture as
soon as the snow goes, it can
be costly if you do not address
a few important issues.
Your livestock are likely to be
in late gestation or have young
calves at foot. These are two
critical stages of production
and the animals’ nutritional
needs must be met. If they’re
not, it can mean a real cost
in lower first-service conception rates and lower average
daily gains. Generally, early
spring pasture doesn’t have
enough forage to satisfy your
cows’ daily dry matter intake
needs. Pastures overgrazed in
fall and used for spring grazing often have less than 112 kg
of dry matter forage per hectare which amounts to less
than 100 pounds per acre. This
will severely affect your cows’
body condition, restrict forage
intake and lead to suppressed
milk yields for the calf.
Grazing too early in the
spring can also cost in loss of
future production. It can cost
you up to 45 per cent of a year’s
forage production. A wellmanaged pasture can yield
400 per cent more forage than
a badly managed one — and
good management starts in
the spring. Continually stressing the forage plant will cost
in future production and eventual degradation of the stand.
Meeting spring
nutritional needs
If producers feel forced to pasture their cattle early, there
are some things they can do to
reduce the negative impact on
pasture and ensure their cattle’s nutritional needs are met.
Skim graze: This practice
moves cattle through the pasture system at a very rapid rate.
The objective is to only take
off the very tips of the leaves.
It allows the plant to continue photosynthesis with the
remaining part of the leaf. This
is not as harmful to the plant
file photo
Grazing too early in
the spring can also
cost in loss of future
production. It can
cost you up to 45
per cent of a year’s
forage production.
as grazing off the whole leaves.
The rate at which you have to
move from pasture to pasture
will depend on the size of your
pastures and herd — from a
few hours to a few days.
Sacrifice pasture: Producers
use this practice to choose a
field and keep the cattle on it
until other pastures are ready
for grazing. The grazing is usually supplemented with hay
and/or concentrates to meet
nutritional needs. The same
pasture can be used year after
year or you can choose a different pasture each year.
Choose only pastures that
are high and dr y, because
punching soft soils will further
injure the forages and reduce
production. Regardless of the
pasture you use, a very long
rest period of 60 to 100 days
will need to follow this earlyseason grazing.
Planning for the late
arrival of spring
Stockpiled forage: This practice saves standing forage from
earlier in the year to use at a
later time. It is often used in
the fall and early winter but
can also be used early the next
spring. Research shows that
lactating cows on stockpiled
grass will need some form of
supplement. Stockpiled forage
should be feed tested before
use.
However, the Western Beef
De ve l o p m e n t Ce n t re s u g gests common values for Total
Digestible Nutrients ( TDN)
would range from 50 to 58 per
cent and Crude Protein (CP)
six to 10 per cent. Lactating
cows require greater than 60
per cent TDN and greater than
11 per cent CP. Supplement
with 3.2 kg (seven pounds)
of good-quality, second-cut,
alfalfa hay or 4.1 kg (nine
pounds) of processed, barley grain for every cow every
third day if they’re grazing
stockpiled grass. Stockpiled
forage has the advantage of
giving you a place to put cattle early in the season that will
provide feed, a clean space for
newborn calves and a healthy,
resilient forage stand.
• Winter annuals: Fall rye or
winter wheat that is seeded in
the fall can be used the next
spring for grazing. Because you
will not save this stand, your
herd can graze it very heavily.
It will be a later forage resource
than stockpiled forage but has
the advantage of being highquality feed.
• Seed early-starting grass: In
drier areas with good drainage,
crested wheatgrass will provide early-season grazing and
has the advantage of standing
up to heavy grazing. Unfortunately, it is not adapted to
moister areas or heavier soils.
Meadow or creeping foxtail
may be suitable in areas with
higher moisture and good
moisture throughout the year.
Both of these species are very
early spring growers, but are
not really suited to mid-season
grazing. Talk to a local forage
specialist for recommendations.
• Always keep enough hay on
hand to get you through to
June. This is a common practice across the Prairies, but
poor production the past few
years has reduced reserves. If
you want to source more hay,
contact your local MAFRD GO
office for availability on the
Manitoba Hay List; or check
local papers or businesses for
ads in your area.
There are many options to
get through the spring crunch.
Most require planning the year
before. However, even with the
best planning, weather and
other factors can stress a forage system. You can reduce
your livestock numbers, if you
simply will not have enough
hay or pasture. Doing this early
will protect your resources and
put you ahead in the long run.
For more information or
help with spring grazing, contact your local MAFRD GO
office. For the office nearest to
you, go to: www.manitoba.ca/
agriculture and click on contact.
13
The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
More Manitoba
hogs test positive
for PEDv
Tag you’re it
Officials believe the pigs picked up
the virus off the farm
Staff
A
Newly tagged calves are now free to frolic, although with continued showers
in the forecast, they might get dirty. photo: jeannette Greaves
Animal rights group
welcomes commitment
on veal crates
Crates are about to go packing, as three major grocery retailers confirm
their support for an end to veal produced in individual pens
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
T
hree major grocery chains
in Canada have confirmed they will no longer
sell veal produced in confinement systems by 2018, but they
aren’t crowing about it.
Loblaw, Sobeys and Metro
have made all made recent
commitments to move away
from veal raised in crates,
but none made any formal
announcement to mark the
occasion.
A release issued by Humane
Societies International’s Canadian arm late last week linked
the move by the three grocery
chains to recent undercover
footage filmed and released by
the animal rights activist group
Mercy for Animals, which shows
calves being abused, beaten
and shot.
Sayara Thurston, a campaign
manager with Humane Society
International said her organization welcomes the move made
by the retailers.
“Confining newborn calves
in tiny crates where they can
barely move is an inhumane
practice that causes immeasurable suffering to these infant
animals, and we urge the entire
veal industry to take steps to
transition away from these
archaic intensive confinement
systems as soon as possible,
in favour of open-housing
systems that give calves more
o p p o r t u n i t y t o m ove a n d
interact with other animals,”
Thurston said.
Canada has also failed to keep
“We are aware of a recent video aired by CTV’s
‘W5.’ We have notified our supplier of our
concern and we will continue to monitor the
situation as the company investigates.”
Kevin Groh
pace with other countries when
it comes to veal production, she
added.
The European Union officially
banned veal crates in 2006, but
some countries within the EU
banned them as early as 1990.
However, Canadian veal producers are now moving away
from crate production as well,
according to Kevin Groh, vicepresident of corporate affairs
and communications for Loblaw.
“We do not condone animal
abuse and have been working
with industry partners and animal welfare experts to ensure
animal welfare standards and
Codes of Practice are in place
to promote the care, protection
and safety of farm animals,” he
said in an emailed statement.
“We are aware of a recent video
aired by CTV’s ‘W5.’ We have
notified our supplier of our
concern and we will continue
to monitor the situation as the
company investigates.”
T h e L o b l a w re p re s e n t ative also noted the company
“supports the voluntary commitment by the Ontario and
Quebec milk-fed industry to
eliminate the practice of rais-
ing milk-fed veal in individual
stalls.”
Keri Scobie of Sobey’s western
office confirmed that all stores
in that chain, including its IGA
stores in Quebec, will be eliminating veal crates from their
supply chain by 2018.
“The whole industry is moving that way... everyone who
is supplying veal is going to be
compliant with this — industry
is going in this direction,” she
said.
Veal tends to be a bigger seller
in Eastern Canada than on the
Prairies, Scobie said, but added
that stores stock it wherever
there is a demand.
In 2012, 335,000 calves were
slaughtered for human consumption in Canada, according
to Humane Societies International.
That’s an increase from 2011,
when 235,037 veal calves were
raised on 1,235 Canadian farms.
Fifty-two per cent of Canadian
veal production occurs in Quebec, 45 per cent in Ontario. The
remaining three per cent is split
between Alberta and British
Columbia.
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nother small group of Manitoba hogs has tested
positive off farm for the porcine epidemic diarrhea
virus (PEDv), this time at an unnamed “high-traffic
site” in the province’s livestock-intensive southeast.
The office of the provincial chief veterinary officer
(CVO) reported April 25 that the pigs in this case had
been transported from another high-traffic site before
they started showing clinical signs of the disease, which
include diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration.
“High-traffic sites” are off-farm facilities moving or
handling large numbers of pigs, such as assembly yards,
abattoirs, truck-wash stations or livestock trailers.
In the early phase of its investigation, the CVO said it’s
believed the source of this group of infections was environmental contamination at the high-traffic sites, not
the animals’ source farms. However, the CVO said it’s following up with farms and facilities that had contact with
the sites.
Both high-traffic sites are co-operating with the CVO’s
investigation and have taken “measures to reduce the
possibility of further transmission,” the province said in
a statement.
The province in the past week reported two other cases
of PEDv, not in hogs but in “environmental” samples
collected at high-traffic sites. Manitoba’s lone cases of
on-farm PEDv were reported in February at a farm in the
province’s southeast; a case was also found in hogs at an
off-farm “high-traffic” site in the province’s southwest
earlier this month.
The past week’s confirmations bring Manitoba’s total of
off-farm (high-traffic site or environmental) PEDv findings to seven.
Several high-traffic sites hadn’t been running tests for
PEDv previously, but have recently started because of
contact with other positive high-traffic sites or PED-positive regions outside Manitoba, the province said. Those
facilities are implementing “control and containment”
plans to keep PED from moving from their sites to Manitoba farms.
Since Canada’s first case of PED was confirmed in
Ontario in January, there have been 60 on-farm cases
of the virus confirmed in hogs in Canada: 57 in Ontario
and one each in Quebec, Prince Edward Island and
Manitoba.
Ontario’s three most recent cases were confirmed April
24 at a finisher operation in Huron County, a farrow-tofinish farm in Elgin County and a nursery operation at an
as-yet unnamed site.
PED can be a severe and often fatal illness in newborn
and young pigs, while older swine often have less serious
symptoms and generally recover. The virus is not a risk
to the health of humans or other animals, nor to food
safety.
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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Feeder Steers
Apr-25
Apr-22
Apr-22
Apr-25
Apr-22
n/a
Apr-24
Apr-25
No. on offer
1,603*
807
323*
715
1,157
n/a
2,278
1,275*
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
130.00-136.00
Over 1,000 lbs.
900-1,000
n/a
137.00-162.00
n/a
145.00-163.00
151.00-165.00
n/a
150.00-165.00 (169.00)
130.00-172.00
800-900
140.00-184.00
135.00-177.50
155.00-174.00
170.00-187.00
163.00-181.00 (184)
n/a
155.00-175.00 (188.00)
165.00-187.00
700-800
140.00-210.00
175.00-203.00
170.00-190.00
185.00-209.00
185.00-204.00 (209)
n/a
175.00-188.00 (190.00)
175.00-213.00
600-700
155.00-213.00
185.00-215.00
185.00-225.00
195.00-221.00
195.00-213.00 (227)
n/a
190.00-212.00 (224.00)
195.00-221.00
500-600
190.00-235.00
190.00-230.00
200.00-255.00
205.00-237.00
213.00-230.00 (234)
n/a
195.00-220.00 (250.00)
200.00-232.00
400-500
210.00-239.00
200.00-228.00
225.00-265.00
225.00-245.00
220.00-250.00
n/a
200.00-225.00 (245.00)
200.00-232.00
300-400
n/a
200.00-225.00
225.00-280.00
235.00-255.00
n/a
n/a
190.00-210.00 (235.00)
200.00-224.00
900-1,000 lbs.
n/a
110.00-151.00
n/a
135.00-150.00
135.00-151.00
n/a
130.00-145.00 (156.00)
140.00-165.00
800-900
n/a
130.00-166.00
140.00-160.00
148.00-165.00
149.00-163.00 (167)
n/a
145.00-150.00 (173.00)
150.00-171.00
Feeder heifers
700-800
159.00-189.00
160.00-176.50
155.00-171.50
164.00-180.00
161.00-176.00 (183)
n/a
160.00-176.00 (181.00)
158.00-182.00
600-700
155.00-199.99
170.00-196.00
165.00-195.00
180.00-202.00
182.00-204.00
n/a
175.00-187.00 (200.00)
165.00-202.00
500-600
160.00-214.00
190.00-209.00
179.00-200.00
187.00-208.00
194.00-215.00
n/a
180.00-198.00 (221.00)
185.00-220.00
400-500
171.00-221.50
190.00-220.00
190.00-225.00
195.00-217.00
200.00-224.00
n/a
185.00-205.00 (245.00)
185.00-210.00
300-400
n/a
200.00-212.00
200.00-272.00
195.00-220.00
n/a
n/a
180.00-195.00 (220.00)
180.00-216.00
No. on offer
400
n/a
71
106
n/a
n/a
n/a
250
D1-D2 Cows
84.00-93.00
80.00-100.00
n/a
94.00-102.50
94.00-101.00
n/a
90.00-101.00 (106.00)
94.00-99.00
D3-D5 Cows
77.00-up
n/a
n/a
81.00-93.00
86.00-92.00
n/a
75.00-95.00
87.00-95.00
Age Verified
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
95.00-103.00 (105.50)
n/a
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
Slaughter Market
104.00-120.00
85.00-114.00
97.00-105.00
98.00-111.75
105.00-111.00 (113.00)
n/a
93.00-110.00 (1.1450)
110.00-115,00
Butcher Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
115.00-127.00
117.00-127.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
114.00-126.00
115.00-126.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
92.00-101.00
n/a
97.00-112.00
n/a
n/a
110.00-120.00
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
90.00-98.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
75.00-84.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Heiferettes
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
110.00-121.00 (135.00)
n/a
* includes slaughter market
(Note all prices in CDN$ per cwt. These prices also generally represent the top one-third of sales reported by the auction yard.)
Armed protesters stare down U.S.
government in Nevada grazing standoff
A rancher who hasn’t paid grazing fees since 1993 is claiming victory in his fight against authorities
By Jennifer Dobner
bunkerville, nev. / reuters
U
.S. officials ended a standoff with
hundreds of armed protesters in
the Nevada Desert April 12, calling
off the government’s roundup of cattle it
said were illegally grazing on federal land
and giving about 300 animals back to the
rancher who owned them.
The dispute less than 129 km northeast
of Las Vegas between rancher Cliven Bundy
and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management
had simmered for days. Bundy had stopped
paying fees for grazing his cattle on the
government land and officials said he had
ignored court orders.
Anti-government groups, right-wing politicians and gun-rights activists camped
around Bundy’s ranch to support him in a
standoff that tapped into long-simmering
anger in Nevada and other western states,
where vast tracts of land are owned and
governed by federal agencies.
The bureau had called in a team of
armed rangers to Nevada to seize the 1,000
head of cattle but backed down in the interests of safety.
“Based on information about conditions
on the ground and in consultation with
law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because
of our serious concern about the safety of
employees and members of the public,”
the bureau’s director, Neil Kornze, said in a
statement.
The protesters, who at the height of the
standoff numbered about 1,000, met the
news with applause. Then they quickly
advanced on the metal pens where the
cattle confiscated earlier in the week were
being held.
After consultations with the rancher’s
family, the bureau decided to release the
cattle it had rounded up, and the crowd
began to disperse.
“This is what I prayed for,” said Margaret
Houston, one of Bundy’s sisters. “We are
so proud of the American people for being
here with us and standing with us.”
A number of Bundy’s supporters, who
included militia members from California,
Idaho and other states, dressed in camouflage and carried rifles and sidearms. During the standoff, some chanted “open that
gate” and “free the people.”
A man who identified himself as Scott,
43, said he had travelled from Idaho along
with two fellow militia members to support
Bundy.
“If we don’t show up everywhere, there
is no reason to show up anywhere,” said
the man, dressed in camouflage pants and
a black flak jacket crouched behind a concrete highway barrier, holding an AR-15
rifle. “I’m ready to pull the trigger if fired
upon,” Scott said.
Anger
The dispute between Bundy and federal
land managers began in 1993 when he
stopped paying monthly fees of about $1.35
per cow-calf pair to graze public lands that
are also home to imperilled animals such
as the Mojave Desert tortoise. The government also claims Bundy has ignored cancellation of his grazing leases and defied
Federal Court orders to remove his cattle.
“We won the battle,” said Ammon Bundy,
one of the rancher’s sons.
Protester Eric Parker from central Idaho aims
his weapon from a bridge next to the Bureau
of Land Management’s base camp where
seized cattle, that belonged to rancher Cliven
Bundy, were being held near Bunkerville,
Nevada. Photo: REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
The bureau said Cliven Bundy still owes
taxpayers more than $1 million, which
includes both grazing fees and penalties,
and that it would work to resolve the matter administratively and through the court
system.
Jack Kay, a professor of communication at Eastern Michigan University and
an expert on militias, said the federal government did well to step back from the
conflict. “These things tend to escalate,
someone looks like they’re going to pull the
trigger and then something happens,” he
said.
Hundreds of Bundy supporters, some
heavily armed, had camped on the road
leading to his ranch in a high desert spotted with sagebrush and mesquite trees.
Some held signs reading “Americans united
against government thugs,” while others
were calling the rally the “Battle of Bunkerville,” a reference to an American Revolutionary War battle of Bunker Hill in Boston.
The large crowd at one point blocked
all traffic on Interstate 15. Later, as lanes
opened up, motorists honked to support
the demonstrators and gave them thumbsup signs.
In an interview prior to the bureau’s
announcement, Bundy said he was
impressed by the level of support he had
received.
“I’m excited that we are really fighting for
our freedom. We’ve been losing it for a long
time,” Bundy said.
But an official with an environmental
group that had notified the government it
would sue unless federal land managers
sought to protect tortoises on the grazing
allotment used by Bundy’s cattle expressed
outrage at the end of the cattle roundup.
“The sovereign militias are ruling the
day,” said Rob Mrowka, senior scientist
with the Center for Biological Diversity.
“Now that this precedent has been set and
they’re emboldened by the government’s
capitulation, what’s to stop them from
applying the same tactics and threats elsewhere?”
Roger Taylor, retired district manager
with the Bureau of Land Management in
Arizona, also said the agency’s decision to
release the cattle will have repercussions.
“The (agency) is going to be in a worse
situation where they will have a much more
difficult time getting those cattle off the
land and getting Bundy in compliance with
regulations,” he said.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
Animal welfare focus continues
on hogs, despite new code
Humane societies had input into the drafting of the new Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs,
but some critics are skeptical it will be implemented or enforced
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
T
en years from now Canadian
hog producers will have to keep
pregnant sows in group housing, analgesics for castration will be de
rigueur and enriched environments
will be mandatory — all as dictated by
the newly updated Code of Practice for
the Care and Handling of Pigs.
Three years from now, large-scale hog
processors such as Maple Leaf Foods
and Smithfield Foods will no longer
buy from producers who use gestation
stalls. Quebec-based Olymel has also
committed to phasing out their use, as
have nearly 50 major food retailers, the
European Union, India, Australia, New
Zealand and nine U.S. states.
But the issue of sow gestation stalls
was still front and centre at a recent
fundraiser hosted by the Winnipeg
Humane Society’s Farm Animal Compassion Committee.
“I believe that the progress that is
being made is very real, and I believe
that in many respects that these wins
for animal welfare are in some senses
going to happen,” said the event’s keynote speaker, Paul Shapiro, vice-president of farm animal protection for The
Humane Society of The United States
(HSUS).
“But I don’t believe that it’s self-executing,” he said. “I don’t think that if
the animal movement just disappeared
that these changes that have been set
into motion would really come into
effect; I think you have to continually monitor and advocate for these
changes to see them come to fruition.”
Skeptical
Dana Medoro, chairwoman of the
Farm Animal Compassion Committee
remains unconvinced that Manitoba
Pork Producers or others will actually make the move to open housing
when the time comes, despite the new
code, although she noted her views do
not represent those of the Winnipeg
Humane Society.
“There is no reason for us to feel that
the barns will be empty of (gestation
stalls)... a company like Maple Leaf will
turn a blind eye to the fact that the
sows are in them for whatever period,
because they’ve been advised that
that’s a particularly aggressive sow, or
whatever the excuse is,” Medoro said.
“When they are not in use, and regulations are absolutely being followed and
enforcement is actually practised, then
we will stop the campaign against gestation crates.”
“This is sort of what we
typically imagine farms to
be isn’t it? We think that
they’re sort of out there,
with the red barn and in
the background green
grassy fields. That’s what
we’re advocating for, we
want to bring it back to the
basics.”
LAUREL KIDDER
In Manitoba, the new code of practice will be implemented under the
Canadian Quality Assurance Program,
according to the Manitoba Pork Council. Producers registered in the national
program are assessed each year to
ensure compliance with food safety
and animal care requirements, including those of the new code of practice.
Major pork processors do not buy animals from unregistered producers.
But while Medoro is concerned with
some of the language around gestation stalls in the new pig code of practice, she said the new code is still a
“watershed” moment in recognizing
the rights of animals.
New focus
There is also a desire to move on to
other animal welfare issues that
deserve increased attention, Shapiro
said, particularly the conditions in
which chickens are raised for meat. He
said many birds suffer greatly as they
are forced to grow more quickly than
their bodies can accommodate.
“I want to address other animal welfare problems, but I also want to make
sure that the problems we’ve been
focused on for so long, really do end up
going by the wayside,” said the representative of HSUS, an advocacy group
not affiliated with Canadian humane
societies or the operation of animal
shelters.
Laurel Kidder used the event, titled,
Take Back Manitoba from Factory
Farming, to outline an alternative
vision for pig farming in Manitoba.
Showing images of pigs outdoors, on
small-scale farms and even swimming,
Kidder put forward a vision of animal
husbandry that pays the utmost attention to the “five freedoms” of animal
welfare, including freedom from hun-
A model gestation stall sits in the lobby of Winnipeg’s Park Theatre during an event focused on
factory farming. PHOTO: SHANNON VANRAES
ger, thirst, pain, discomfort and a freedom to express natural behaviours.
“This is sort of what we typically
imagine farms to be, isn’t it? We think
that they’re sort of out there, with the
red barn and in the background green
grassy fields. That’s what we’re advocating for, we want to bring it back to
the basics,” she said, noting that the
recently mandated changes to gestation housing practices in Canada prove
change is achievable. But Kidder also
expressed doubt that these changes
will be implemented.
Andrew Dickson, general manager
at the Manitoba Pork Council, said he
has no idea why the focus on gestation
stalls remains.
“We’ve worked closely with the
humane societies in Canada to develop
the new pig code that’s been endorsed
by the National Federation of Humane
Societies in Canada — it was devel-
oped in co-operation with veterinary
scientists, animal scientists from universities, by industry and it’s gone over
well as far as we know with most of the
retail outlets,” he said. “We are going
to carry out the new code... there are
phase-in dates and it will be implemented.”
At one time, the Winnipeg Humane
Society had pulled out of the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies as a result of their refusal to take a
stance on gestation crates. Now that a
position has been taken nationally on
swine welfare, the Winnipeg organization has rejoined.
Referring to HSUS, Dickson added, “I
guess they’ve got their issues down in
the United States, but maybe they need
to focus more closely on the United
States and move on.”
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WEATHER VANE
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Mild weather doesn’t want to move in
Issued: Monday, April 28, 2014 · Covering: April 30 – May 7, 2014
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
L
ast week’s forecast started
off pretty good, but by the
second half, things went
south, literally, as a large and very
slow-moving area of low pressure
developed over the central U.S.
last weekend. This low is predicted to affect our weather right
up to this weekend.
A very large and slow-moving
upper and surface low will control our weather for the first half
of this forecast period. The latest model runs show most of the
precipitation from this low staying to our south, but these large
slow-moving systems are notorious for moving in ways not
anticipated by weather models
or forecasters. We’ll see a mixed
bag of conditions this week as
the low battles with cool, dry air
to our north and east. Depending on which system wins out,
on any given day we could see
anything from mainly sunny
skies to clouds and showers
— maybe even the odd flurry
during the overnight hours.
Temperatures will be on the
cool side, with highs only getting
to around 10 C… if we can see
some sunshine!
By the weekend this low will
have hopefully pulled off to the
east and weakened a little bit.
We’ll then be in a predominantly
northerly flow over the weekend
as the low slowly spins down over
James Bay. This will result in partly
cloudy skies and cool conditions,
with highs only expected to be
around 10 C and overnight lows
right around the freezing mark.
The weather models are trying
to bring a couple of small systems through our region early
next week, but confidence in
these systems is low. That said,
I wouldn’t be surprised if we see
some showers move through
sometime between Monday and
Wednesday of next week. Temperatures look to remain on the
cool side as we are brushed by
the southern end of a large area
of arctic high pressure anchored
over Nunavut.
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, 9 to 22 C; lows,
-3 to +7 C.
Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession
with a BA (Hon.) in geography,
specializing in climatology, from the
U of W. He operates a computerized
weather station near Birds Hill Park.
Contact him with your questions and
comments at [email protected].
WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA
1 Month (30 Days) Percent of Average Precipitation (Prairie Region)
March 26, 2014 to April 24, 2014
< 40%
40 - 60%
60 - 85%
85 - 115%
115 - 150%
150 - 200%
> 200%
Extent of Agricultural Land
Lakes and Rivers
Produced using near real-time data that has
undergone initial quality control. The map
may not be accurate for all regions due to data
availability and data errors.
Copyright © 2014 Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
Prepared by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s National Agroclimate Information Service (NAIS). Data provided through partnership with
Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and many Provincial agencies.
Created: 04/25/14
www.agr.gc.ca/drought
This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that fell across the Prairies during the 30-day period ending April 24. A large part of
agricultural Manitoba is in dark green or purple, which depicts above-average amounts of precipitation. South-central and far northwestern
areas saw near to slightly below-average amounts. Farther west, most of Saskatchewan saw above- to well-above-average amounts during
this period. In Alberta, northern areas were wet, with central and southern regions seeing near to slightly below-average amounts.
Not as bad as last April
Don’t expect a big swing toward warm and dry weather right away as May begins
By Daniel Bezte
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
W
hile the world as a
whole continues to see
above-average temperatures, here in Manitoba we
are continuing to be the odd one
out and have now endured seven
months in a row with belowaverage temperatures.
The data is in for March and
the globe experienced the fourthwarmest March since reliable
records began in 1880, according to the U.S. agencies NOAA
and NASA. According to Remote
Sensing Systems, March was
the 11th warmest on record,
while the University of Alabama Huntsville reported it as
the ninth warmest. Snow cover
for the Northern Hemisphere
in March (believe it or not) was
the sixth lowest in the 48 years of
records we have. So, once again,
most of the planet is experiencing warmer-than-average conditions while we continue to shiver.
I looked back at our data a little
further and found that over the
last 19 months (since October
2012), we have seen 15 months
with below-average temperatures. This is becoming a very
long cold period we’ve been
stuck in!
On a slightly brighter note, at
least this April was not as cold
as last April. In April 2013, average monthly temperatures across
Environment Canada’s weather guidance calls
for near- to below-average temperatures in May,
with near-average amounts of precipitation.
southern and central Manitoba
were a good 6 to 7 C below the
long-term average. Last April it
took until April 26 before most
locations saw their first +10 C
temperatures. Measurable snow
was around, at least in Winnipeg,
until April 23.
This year April was once again
below average across the region,
but instead of coming in 6 or 7 C
below average, we were only 3 or
4 C below the long-term average
— hey, I have to come up with
some sort of positive spin on this!
There were a couple of nasty cold
snaps this April. The first was
right at the start of the month
when overnight lows plummeted
into the -20 C range. A second
cold snap moved in around
mid-month, with overnight lows
dropping into the minus-midteens and daytime highs struggling to make it even close to
the freezing mark. Besides these
two cold snaps the rest of the
month was almost average. We
saw around 10 days with daytime
highs in the low to mid-teens and
around eight to nine days where
temperatures remained above
freezing for the whole day. I went
back to the data for the month,
removed the seven coldest days
and recalculated the average
monthly temperature. This time
we were only about a degree
colder than average. Woo hoo!
Precipitation during April was
above average at all three locations. Keeping in mind my data
only go up to the morning of April
28, and as I write this it looks like
a good chunk of southern Manitoba will see 10 to 15 mm of rain
during the last couple days of the
month. Should this happen, April
will end up seeing well-aboveaverage amounts of precipitation.
Interestingly, even with all the
cold weather this month, we did
not see that much in the way of
snow. After all, April can be one of
the snowiest months of the year.
See, another plus!
Who called it?
To summarize the month, I
would say it was much colder
than average, with near- to
above-average amounts of precipitation. Now the fun part:
who did the best predicting of
April’s weather? For the first
time I can remember, we have
three forecasts that called it
correctly. Environment Canada, the Canadian Farmers’
Almanac and myself here at
the Co-operator all called for
below-average temperatures
with near- to above-average
amounts of precipitation. The
folks over at the Old Farmer’s
Almanac were a little more
optimistic and had called for
above-average temperatures
and precipitation.
OK, now on to May’s forecast. Are we finally going to
break out of this long-term cold
snap or is the cold, miserable
weather going to continue? If
we look to last year for any kind
of guidance, we’ll be waiting
until about the middle of the
month before constantly mild
temperatures move in. If we
look to Environment Canada,
its weather guidance calls for
near- to below-average temperatures in May, with near-average amounts of precipitation.
The Canadian Farmers’ Almanac calls for big temperature
swings during the month, with
warm periods interspersed with
cold snaps. Overall, that would
probably work out to around
average temperatures for the
month. Along with these big
temperature swings will come
a lot of rain as it predicts several wet periods. The Old Farmer’s Almanac is again the most
optimistic as it calls for near- to
slightly above-average temperatures along with below-average
amounts of precipitation.
Finally, here at the Co-operator, I think I’ll be leaning
toward a colder- and wetterthan-average May. Looking at
medium-range weather models
that go out to around the middle of May, I’m not seeing any
big swings toward sustained
warm and dry weather. In fact,
the atmosphere across our
part of North America seems
to be going through a bit of a
fit that started last week and is
predicted to go on for another
week or two. This means a very
active pattern with plenty of
chances for precipitation. An
active pattern usually results in
cooler-than-average temperatures as clouds and precipitation inhibit daytime heating.
This doesn’t mean we won’t see
some nice mild weather; I just
think most of the mild weather
will be short lived. What happens after the middle of the
month is anyone’s guess. I’m
hopeful the pattern we see
right now is tied into an overall
large-scale shift out of our cold
weather pattern, but as usual,
don’t hold your breath.
The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
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“Clubroot resistance
is expected to be
functional in the vast
majority of acres this
year, but attention
needs to be paid to
prevent this situation
from expanding.”
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Curtis Rempel
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to be extra vigilant when scouting
their canola fields this summer.
“This is very important in light
of the potential for a new pathotype capable of overcoming the
excellent resistance currently
available in Western Canada,”
says Rempel.
The CCC said it will be working
collaboratively throughout the
canola value chain to learn more
about this potential new pathotype and help prevent its buildup
and movement. Factors that contribute to this risk are:
•Canola rotations with less than
a two-year break;
•Fields that are known already
to have high clubroot inoculum;
•Fields that are not scouted for
clubroot regularly;
•Planting the same resistant
canola variety in that rotation;
•Any tillage that is more than
zero till;
•Operations that do not limit
soil movement between fields.
Keep your soil at home.
Clubroot is a yield-crippling
soil-borne disease caused by
the pathogen Plasmodiophora
brassicae. The disease has been
advancing through Alberta at a
fairly steady 20 to 25 km per year,
and has been detected at low levels in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Visit www.clubroot.ca to
learn more about clubroot best
management practices and stewardship of resistant varieties.
How resistance evolves
The development of resistance is related to the level of selection pressure
Canola Council of Canada
Resistance can lose its effectiveness when repeated cropping of a resistance source selects
for individuals within a pathogen population
that are virulent on that resistance. Initially,
these new pathogen strains are very rare but
then increase by being able to attack the “resistant” genotypes.
These few individuals with these new
virulence traits can therefore infect “resistant”
plants, create galls and build up relatively
quickly to create a new pathotype population.
Within a few canola rotations — particularly
if those rotations have canola every other year
and are the same variety with the same genetic resistance source — the clubroot resistance
trait will lose its effectiveness.
In fields with high levels of clubroot, there
will be many billions of Plasmodiophora
brassicae resting spores in the soil. The more
spores, the greater chance of there being rare
pathogen strains that can attack resistant
genotypes.
Herbicide-resistant weed populations build
up the same way. The same selection process
has happened with wheat rust, soybean cyst
nematode, blackleg in canola and various
other crop pests over the years.
In all of these cases, the risk of selecting
for resistant pathotypes is proportional to
the amount of the pest present. The bigger
the population, the more mutations, and the
greater likelihood of selecting for individuals with a mutation that can overcome the
resistance.
Growing resistant varieties in areas with low
levels of clubroot is a good way to keep clubroot levels low. Waiting until clubroot levels
get high before using a resistant variety puts
the resistance traits at a much greater risk.
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disease as new strains emerge.
Data collected from the
Edmonton region indicates some
form of clubroot resistance are no
longer functioning well against
what appears to be a new clubroot pathotype.
Stephen Strelkov at the University of Alberta has investigated
samples collected from several
fields and verified higher levels of infection than expected in
some clubroot-resistant varieties.
Further studies are underway to
verify the true virulence of these
clubroot strains, the council’s
release says.
“Current research indicates that
the concern is limited to very few
fields and patches within those
fields,” says Curtis Rempel, vicepresident of crop production and
innovation with the Canola Council of Canada (CCC). “Clubroot
resistance is expected to be functional in the vast majority of acres
this year, but attention needs to
be paid to prevent this situation
from expanding.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
Value of Canadian farmland rises 22 per cent
The increase driven by low interest rates and strong crop prices is the biggest in three decades
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
C
anadian farmland values
jumped 22.1 per cent in
2013, the biggest annual
rise in nearly 30 years, the Farm
Credit Corporation says.
Saskatchewan and Manitoba
led the way with increases of
28.6 and 25.6 per cent, FCC said.
“Most of the increase was
driven by the strong commodity prices we saw in the first six
months of last year. Then commodity prices started to decline
PERCENTAGE CHANGE IN FARMLAND VALUES
Provinces
2013
2012
Alta.
12.9 per cent
13.3 per cent
B.C.
3.0 per cent
0.1 per cent
Man.
25.6 per cent
25.6 per cent
N.B.
7.2 per cent
0.0 per cent
N.L.
0.0 per cent
0.0 per cent
N.S.
1.9 per cent
9.8 per cent
Ont.
15.9 per cent
30.1 per cent
P.E.I.
4.4 per cent
9.0 per cent
Que.
24.7 per cent
27.4 per cent
Sask.
28.5 per cent
19.7 per cent
Canada
22.1 per cent
19.5 per cent
Source: Farm Credit Canada
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in the next six months but interest rates remain low and that has
kept farmland affordable,” FCC
chief agricultural economist G.P.
Gervais said in an FCC video.
Gervais expects the rise in
farmland values to slow down as
farming profit margins tighten
because of higher costs for land
rent and crop inputs.
Interest rates, which also
affect land affordability, are
expected to remain low for the
next 12 to 14 months, he said.
But farmers need to be cautious when considering future
land purchases, Gervais said.
Both Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada and the United States
Department of Agriculture are
forecasting average grain prices
over the next 10 years to be
lower than between 2005 and
2013, but higher than between
1995 and 2005.
“Bottom line is lower prices
than in the recent past but
higher prices than what we’ve
seen going back further in time,”
Gervais said.
“I really caution producers
when purchasing land about
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to be able to navigate different
scenarios when it comes to commodity prices and interest rates
and really look at your balance
sheet and your cash flows... especially in an environment where
prices are lower than what we’ve
seen in the recent past.”
While low interest rates
increase the demand for land
they can also reduce the supply
as older farmers decide to keep
their capital in land instead of
selling, Gervais said.
FCC looks at land values by
province, but local factors can
have an impact on values. Farmers engaged in producing supply-managed commodities have
been expanding their land base,
he said. And higher cattle prices
the last half of 2013 also contributed to higher land values.
Farmland values have risen
every year since 1992, after an
average decline of 2.1 per cent.
Farmers in Western Canada
are struggling with a grain backlog, which could hurt their cash
flow and also cool the demand
for land.
Although Saskatchewan land
saw the largest percentage
increase in value, land in that
province is still cheaper than in
many others, FCC said.
Earlier in the month, the head
of the Farm Credit Administration, the largest U.S. farm lender,
told Reuters that U.S. farmland
values, which have been under
pressure over the last six months
from falling grain prices, are
likely to stabilize.
FCCs report is based on estimating the market value of 245
benchmark farm properties
across the country using recent,
comparable sales. It does not
report on average prices in dollar terms.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014
Cosmetics pesticide use will be
history by 2015 in Manitoba
Critics have little confidence in Health Canada reviews of pesticides because its assessments
are based on data supplied by industry
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
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“There are lots
of products on
the market that
government says are
legal — cigarettes are
the best example —
which are far from
safe. DDT used to
be approved by the
government and
now we know how
harmful DDT is.”
Common pesticides will no longer be used to control weeds in children’s play
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Gideon Forman
Trim: 10”
he Manitoba government
has moved forward on its
pledge to introduce legislation banning the use of synthetic
chemical pesticides on school,
daycare and hospital grounds, as
well as on lawns.
The legislation, which is
expected to take effect in 2015,
does not affect golf courses, agriculture or forestry, but cosmetic
pesticide use will be restricted on
patios, sidewalks and play-fields.
Outlining the new legislation,
Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh
emphasized that it doesn’t mean
an end to lawn care or weed management.
“It is not a matter of to spray or
not to spray, but rather what you
spray on your lawn,” said Mackintosh, adding that the new regulations won’t ban all pesticides, but
will require the use of “lower-risk”
options when it comes to weed
removal.
Although the cosmetic ban
on synthetic pesticides doesn’t
extend to agriculture, Keystone
Agricultural Producers (KAP)
are concerned it will result in an
influx of weeds from urban areas.
“In those areas (that have bans),
what we’ve seen as a result is
widespread weed infestations in
urban areas, we’ve seen product
misuse, product being brought in
from the U.S. or other provinces
in unmarked containers, with no
training from retailers,” said KAP
president Doug Chorney. “We fear
that this is not really accomplishing anything and we’ll end up
with more negative consequences
as a result.”
He added that the organization had made a submission to
the provincial government in
the hopes of “a science-based
approach” to pesticide restrictions, noting that Health Canada
has approved all lawn pesticides
currently registered for use.
However, some doubt the
value of Health Canada’s seal of
approval.
Gideon Forman, executive director of the Canadian Association of
Physicians for the Environment,
said Health Canada approves
products based on industry-provided information, which he says
is a conflict of interest.
“The fact that Health Canada
has approved them just follows
that they’re legal, it doesn’t follow
that they’re safe,” he said. “There
are lots of products on the market that government says are legal
— cigarettes are the best example
— which are far from safe. DDT
used to be approved by the government and now we know how
harmful DDT is.”
Studies here and abroad have
also linked pesticide use with
cancers and neurological impairment, such as attention deficit
disorder, Parkinson’s disease, and
birth defects, Forman said.
Six other provinces and nearly
200 municipalities already have
some type of restriction in place
when it comes to cosmetic pesticides.
Minister Mackintosh said the
province will provide information
on pest control and alternatives to
synthetic pesticides as the legislation comes into effect. There will
also be a one-year grace period for
homeowners.
High-risk noxious weeds, poisonous or invasive plants can
still be targeted with synthetic
pesticides under the new law, he
added.
For its part, KAP says it will continue to work with government
to reduce the risk of weed incursions, but remains disappointed
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because we know they’ll be using
them properly.’ That would be
the best way to protect the public
from misuse, an outright ban is a
pretty harsh step,” Chorney said.
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COLUMN
NEWS
Short covering rally propelled CBOT
wheat futures to an 11-month high
It’s important for producers to know where resistance levels are so they can set price targets
David Drozd
Market Outlook
CBOT WHEAT WEEKLY NEARBY
Chart as of April 22, 2014
T
he wheat futures markets have had an impressive rally, gaining $1.75 per
bushel in only seven weeks.
Reversal patterns signalling an
end to the three-month decline
occurred on the daily wheat
futures charts at the end of January 2014. This was followed by the
development of two-week reversals at the MGEX, CBOT and KCBT
on February 7, 2014. This is illustrated in the accompanying chart.
Adding further confirmation of
an impending rally was the ensuing two-month reversals that
appeared on the monthly nearby
futures charts at all three U.S.
wheat exchanges on February 28,
2014.
Prices accelerated higher when
buy stops were triggered on Monday, March 3, 2014. Traders place
buy stops just above an area of
resistance to protect the profit in
their short positions, or to limit
their loss. Once triggered, they
become market orders at the prevailing price.
The large speculative funds
were short the market and the
buying back of their short positions initiated a short covering
rally. This buying propelled prices
up through the upper boundary
of the downtrending channel,
which is illustrated as (A) in the
accompanying chart.
Also shown is the open interest, which was declining on this
rally. This indicates short covering was taking place. In fact, the
open interest in wheat futures at
the Chicago Board of Trade fell to
a four-year low. Technical analysts
regard short covering rallies to be
weak in nature because it’s a result
of market participants exiting the
market.
Conversely, a strong rally is
accompanied by increasing
open interest, which is a sign of
renewed buying interest. Therefore, fresh buying is needed before
this market can extend the gains.
Unless this occurs, the wheat
market is vulnerable to retracing
some of its advance.
The recent high ($7.10) on the
CBOT weekly nearby chart is
proving to be resistance. Before
prices can resume the uptrend,
they will have to overcome this
area of resistance.
potential for resistance in the
future.
Another characteristic which
helps to gauge the relative resistance of a price area is the vertical distance the market must rise
prior to reaching the area in question. The greater the upward price
move prior to reaching a resistance level, the greater will be the
resistance.
Resistance
Resistance areas evolve because
equilibrium is reached between
buyers and sellers. The market attracts selling in this area
because any return move back
to this zone subsequently represents an area in which to liquidate
a long position. Also, the offering
of contracts for sale increases, as
those who sold at higher levels
now have profits and may utilize
the rally to sell more contracts.
Where a classic formation may
not appear on a chart for several
months, one can be reasonably
sure that there is always a resist-
Resistance is a term used to
describe a price level where
selling of futures contracts is
expected to increase and at least
temporarily halt the current direction of the market. On bar charts,
these areas will appear as welldefined price ranges within which
the market at some previous time
traded essentially sideways prior
to making a decisive move up or
down. The greater the amount
of time spent and the number
of contracts bought and sold in
this range, the greater will be the
Market psychology
ance area, even if minor, not very
far from the market. This is important because it can help formulate
expectations of future price action.
Occurrences such as these are
commonplace on futures charts,
but are extremely important as
they illustrate where future rallies
are likely to fail. It’s important for
producers to know where resistance levels are, as they can use this
information to establish objectives
for setting target prices.
Send your questions or comments about this article and chart
to [email protected].
David Drozd is president and senior
market analyst for Winnipeg-based
Ag-Chieve Corporation. The opinions
expressed are those of the writer and
are solely intended to assist readers
with a better understanding of technical
analysis. Visit Ag-Chieve online at www.
ag-chieve.ca for information about our
grain-marketing advisory service and to
see our latest grain market analysis. You
can call us toll free at 1-888-274-3138 for
a free consultation.
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Iowa farmland
gets cheaper
By Christine Stebbins
REUTERS
Farmland values in Iowa, the
top U.S. corn and soybean
state, fell 5.4 per cent over
the past six months, under
pressure from lower grain
prices, according to a benchmark survey of realtors.
Still, the market remains
underpinned by strong
demand from wealthy farmers and non-farming investors, said the Iowa Realtors
Land Institute survey, which
is based on information
from local farm real estate
brokers, lenders and others with knowledge of land
prices.
“The report overall was
encouraging because we
knew the price of corn had
fallen off 35 per cent since
this time last year,” Kyle Hansen, past president of the
institute and broker with
Hertz Real Estate in Iowa,
told Reuters.
The average selling price
of farmland across Iowa in
March was $8,286 an acre,
compared with $8,758 six
months before. Prices were
down 4.6 per cent from
$8,690 a year earlier.
Agricultural bankers,
economists and farmers
have expected land prices
to taper off in 2014 after setting a series of record highs
over the past five years as
grain markets boomed, fed
by exports and the biofuels
expansion. Low interest rates
also spurred demand for
land from farmers and outside investors.
Economists and bankers
have been keeping a close
eye on Iowa, a bellwether for
the U.S. grain economy and
also the largest hog-producing state.
The results are in line with
the most recent survey of
Midwest farmland by the
Chicago Federal Reserve
Bank. That study, issued in
February, showed a steady to
softer outlook for farmland
values.
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S
Two towns drop out,
but two more sign up
for harness racing circuit
Betting on the ponies losing favour with youth
Photo: Thinkstock
By Daniel Winters
“It’s been down in
popularity ever since VLTs
came into play in the early
1990s, and then sports
betting after that. All that
takes a chunk out of horse
racing.”
Darryl Mason
co-operator staff
L
ose some, win some.
The withdrawal of two towns that
formerly hosted weekend races on
the provincial harness racing circuit has
been offset by the addition of two new
ones, with Morris and Selkirk signing
on to host the Manitoba Great Western
Harness Racing Circuit.
Wawanesa will be taking a year off,
and Deloraine has reportedly dropped
out due to a shortage of volunteers.
Other towns hosting races this summer will be Killarney, Miami, Glenboro,
and Holland, said Darryl Mason, cochair of the MGWHRC.
“This isn’t new to lose towns. Years ago
we used to race in Russell, Swan River,
Carberry, Minnedosa and Pilot Mound
at different times,” said Mason. “They
come and go. There’s a few that drop off
and more that come on.”
For the past 15 years, the circuit has
been stable with 24 days of racing in
six to eight different venues. A typical
MGWHRC weekend event features 16-20
races with 100-125 horses competing for
purses that range from $1,300-$1,800 per
race.
With that kind of money floating
around, some might assume that scooping up a few purses would be easy. But
the horses are standardbreds, and the
trotting gait doesn’t come naturally to
them. That means a newly broke horse
needs at least six months of daily training to learn it, as well as develop stamina
and speed.
“There will be some who make their
gas money, but there will be lots who
don’t,” said Mason, adding that those
who choose to compete do it because
they love it and want to see the tradition
continue.
The profusion of gambling alternatives in recent years, from video lottery
terminals to casinos both north and
south of the border, has put a dent in
the number of regulars who follow the
harness racing circuit, as well as the
locals who come out to see events in
their towns.
“It’s been down in popularity ever
since VLTs came into play in the early
1990s, and then sports betting after
that. All that takes a chunk out of horse
racing,” said Mason.
Provincial support for harness racing
amounted to about $450,000 a couple
of years ago, but last year that figure
dipped to $400,000.
In 2013, races had been underway
for almost three weekends before the
circuit was informed by the province of
the exact subsidy amount.
Mason said that a verbal agreement
has been reached with provincial officials, but the exact sum hasn’t been officially announced yet.
Horse racing creates major economic
spinoffs for communities, all the way
from the breeders, forage and feed producers to trailer manufacturers, veterinarians and farriers, he added.
Alvin Taft, secretary-treasurer of the
Wawanesa Agricultural Society, said
that a combination of factors has led to
the town dropping out of the harness
racing circuit.
“We can’t seem to get the volunteers
we need to help put the weekend on,
and we never know until sometimes
after the racing starts what money we’ll
be getting from the government to support it,” said Taft.
He added that due to lack of funds,
the local track has deteriorated and the
amount of money brought in by racing
wasn’t enough to warrant upgrading it.
“Years ago, we used to get huge numbers of people at the races, but the
younger people nowadays seem to be
interested in other things,” said Taft.
A provincial government spokesperson confirmed that the province had
“renewed” its support for harness racing this summer, but at press time could
offer no further details.
[email protected]
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
RecipeSwap
Send your recipes or recipe request to:
Manitoba Co-operator
Recipe Swap
Box 1794,
Carman, Man. ROG OJO
or email: [email protected]
A new OIL for the Prairies
Panzanella Salad
A recipe perfect for using those fresh tomatoes, cucumbers
and basil from a backyard garden.
1 baguette (or French loaf)
1/2 cucumber (diced)
3/4 c. kalamata olives (halved)
3 medium-size ripe tomatoes, diced
1/2 medium red onion thinly sliced
1 c. diced fresh basil leaves
Dressing:
1/4 c. red wine vinegar
3/4 c. camelina oil
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground pepper
1 tbsp. honey (or to desired sweetness)
Midale, Saskatchewan farmers Dan Vandenhurk, (l-r) Ron Emde and Colin Rosengren are the producers of Three
Farmers Camelina Oil, a unique and artisanal culinary oil gaining popularity with their customers. PHOTO: THREE FARMERS
Lorraine Stevenson
Crossroads Recipe Swap
I
t’s a healthy oil that tastes great and
hits several other high notes when it
comes to what customers want from
the food they eat.
The code on the bottle, for example,
tells you the name of the southeastern
Saskatchewan farmer who produced the
crop for it.
Three Farmers Camelina Oil is a golden
culinary oil now finding its way on to
Canadian tables as they learn about the
flavour profile of this nutritionally dense
seed, its health benefits, and the story of
the farmers who developed it.
Colin Rosengren, Dan Vandenhurk
and Ron Emde are second- and thirdgeneration farmers living near Midale,
Saskatchewan who formed their own
company to direct market cold-pressed
oil made from camelina Sativa.
The idea to tap into the growing
consumer interest in knowing the story
behind their food germinated a few years
ago while sitting around the local curling
rink complaining in typical fashion about
commodity prices, says Colin Rosengren
on the website’s promotional video.
They began researching camelina to
learn more about its history — how it
was grown up until the 1940s in Europe
for use as a cooking oil until other
crops supplanted it — and learning
how to grow the winter annual in a
Saskatchewan climate. Eventually, their
artisanal, cold-pressed oil product
emerged, and in early 2010 Health
Canada gave them its stamp of approval
to start marketing it for food uses.
Three Farmers Camelina Oil is now a
rising star on the culinary scene, with
food writers eagerly telling the product’s
story. The company received national
exposure when Dan’s daughters, Natasha
and Elysia, who now work for Three
Farmers/Canpressco, the family-owned
company they created, appeared on
CBC’s “Dragon’s Dens’” in 2012.
T h re e Fa r m e r s Ca m e l i n a O i l —
available in original and two flavoured
versions — is now found in stores right
across the country, and while it is a
challenge to entice consumers to try
something they may never have heard of
before, they’re hooked when they do.
“The product sells itself once the bottle
is open and customers try it,” says Elysia
Vandehurk, whose many hats include
a chef ’s (Red Seal) and chief operating
officer for the company. Customers
tell them they love the taste, the
product’s traceability, and of course, the
company’s story.
I picked up a 16.5-oz. bottle of the
original oil ($15) the other day.
This oil has a remarkable fresh, earthy
or “grassy” scent. Others describe it as
“asparagus-like.” It has a light and nutty
taste and gives a wonderful depth of
flavour when added to winter salads. As
a culinary oil, it’s well suited for adding
to dips and spreads, marinades and
dressings, but with a smoke point of 475
F it can also be used as a cooking oil at
moderate to high heat levels. Much like
flax oil, camelina oil is rich in Omega-3.
But due to its high Vitamin E content
it’s shelf stable so you don’t have to
refrigerate it.
I went looking for my first taste
of this oil in a specialty food store in
Winnipeg (Organza Market), but have
since learned nearly 60 stores across
Manitoba now carry it, including several
small-town Co-ops, thanks to Federated
Co-op’s commitment to stocking it right
across Western Canada. (Ask your store
to bring it in if not found yet where you
shop.)
I encourage you to pick up a bottle of
this “old yet new” oil and try it yourself.
You’re in for a treat.
Cube baguette, place in bowl, and drizzle with camelina oil,
salt and pepper. Toss to combine. Lay out on cookie sheet
and bake at 350 F for 10-15 minutes so bread is crouton-like
in texture. In a small bowl, place diced tomato and drizzle
with roasted onion and basil camelina oil and let stand for
15 minutes while you pull the rest of the salad together. Mix
dressing and let sit in fridge (this dressing can be used for a
variety of salads and will keep in the fridge for up to a week).
Put tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, and baguette pieces in
large bowl. Add basil and pour dressing over salad. Mix well.
Source: Three Farmers
Morning Glory Muffins
Try camelina oil in these classic fruit, nut and veg-packed
muffins.
1 c. all-purpose flour
1 c. whole wheat flour
3/4 c. sugar
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt
1 beaten egg
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. raisins
3/4 c. grated carrots
2 tbsp. chopped pecans
2 c. chopped apples (unpeeled)
1/2 c. unsweetened apple sauce
1/2 c. Three Farmers Camelina Oil Original
Preheat oven to 350 F. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar,
baking soda, cinnamon and salt. In a separate bowl combine
egg, oil, apple sauce and vanilla. Stir in apples, raisins and
carrot. Add flour mix to liquid mix and blend to moisten, but
do not overmix. Some lumps are OK. Spoon into lined/oiled
muffin tins and sprinkle with pecans.
Bake about 35 minutes or until the muffin will spring back
when you lightly press on it.
Source: Three Farmers
Fruit And Nut Quinoa Salad
This is a perfect breakfast for getting a great start on an earlyspring morning, or a health snack later on.
1 c. quinoa
2 c. water
4 tbsp. Three Farmers Camelina Oil Original
1 c. dried fruit and nut mix – we use apricots, dates, sultans raisins,
cranberries, almonds, cashews and sunflower seeds
Rinse quinoa well. Add camelina oil to a pot and turn on low
to medium, then add your rinsed quinoa to the pot and toast
quinoa for one minute. After you have toasted the quinoa
add water and cook. While quinoa is cooking, roughly chop
the fruit and nut mix. Once quinoa is cooked, let cool before
you add your fruit and nut mix. Dress with Three Farmers
Camelina Oil to taste.
Source: Three Farmers
For more about Three Farmers Camelina Oil,
including recipes plus a list of Manitoba stores
selling it, log on to: http://threefarmers.ca
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
“
T
his borscht is unbelievable!” Andrew Jackson
exclaimed, and there was a murmur of assent
from the rest of the family, all of whom had
gathered at the Jackson home for the traditional
Easter dinner. “It’s the best you’ve ever made.”
Rose smiled. “Ah, you say that every year,” she
said.
“And every year it’s true,” said Andrew.
“Well thank you for saying so and I’m glad
you’re enjoying it.” Rose put her own spoon down
and pushed her empty bowl away. “If you’re all
done Jennifer,” she said, “help me get the main
course on the table.”
“I’m done,” said Jennifer. She got up and began
to gather empty bowls from the others. Rose got
up as well and headed over to the stove.
Andrew leaned back in his chair and surveyed
the assembled crowd.
“Listen up everybody,” he said. “Your mother
and I have come up with an idea we want to run
by you all.” He paused and waited for the others
to quiet down, then continued. “Two words,” he
said. “Family holiday.”
There was a moment of silence.
“Don’t all talk at once,” said Andrew.
“OK,” said Randy. “I think we need more than
two words. Family holiday could mean a lot of
different things.”
“Oh all right then,” said Andrew. “Your mother
and I were thinking maybe we could all go somewhere for a little holiday sometime this summer.
If we get a summer, that is.”
“I vote we go to Las Vegas!” said Jennifer placing a huge bowl of mashed potatoes on the table.
“I veto that,” said Rose following behind her
daughter with a heaping plate of roast chicken.
“How come you always get veto power?”
pouted Jennifer. “Las Vegas would be awesome!”
“Too far away, too expensive and too hot,” said
Rose. “Any other ideas?”
“ We could go to the mountains,” said
Jackie. “I’d love for Andy and Allison to see the
mountains.”
“That would be excellent,” said Andrew, “but
unfortunately still a little too far away. I’m afraid
we’ll have to stay in Manitoba.”
The
Jacksons
BY ROLLIN PENNER
“How about Grand Beach?” said Brady. “We
could rent a cottage and all stay together. That’d
be a hoot.”
“Only if you promise not to fight with your sister,” said Rose. “We’ll set up a tent for you to use
if you do.”
“Why do I have to stay in the tent?” said Brady.
“Why not her?”
“’Cause it’ll be your fault,” said Jennifer. “It’s
always your fault.” She slid back into her chair
next to her boyfriend Alan. “What do you think
Alan?” she said. “Where would you want to go?”
“Am I invited?” Alan asked.
“Absolutely,” said Andrew.
“Well thank you,” said Alan. “I’m honoured.”
He paused for a second. “My family has a cottage,” he said. Everybody turned their attention
to him but nobody spoke.
“At Victoria Beach,” said Alan. “You’d be welcome to use it.”
There was a brief silence.
“Are you sure now?” said Andrew. “Don’t you have
to talk to your family about that?”
“Not really,” said Alan. “I mean it would have
to be the second weekend of August because that
weekend my parents go to Vancouver to celebrate
my grandma’s birthday. So that weekend the cottage is always empty. And it’s a very nice cottage.”
“How nice?” asked Jennifer. “And why have you
not told me about this?”
“I was going to surprise you,” said Alan.
“Well, you just did,” said Jennifer. “How nice is
it?” she said again.
“It sleeps 10 adults comfortably,” said Alan. “It
has a stone fireplace in the living room and also a
52-inch flat screen TV with surround sound. And
there’s a sauna. And a big kitchen with granite
countertops and stainless steel appliances, and
two full bathrooms. And the master bedroom has
an ensuite. And there’s a very large multi-level
deck out back with a four-burner professional
grill and another stone fireplace.” He paused.
“There’s one thing you haven’t mentioned,”
said Rose. “Perhaps it was an oversight?”
Alan laughed. “Of course!” he said. “I forgot
about the eight-person hot tub on the deck!”
There was another silence.
“Jennifer,” said Brady. “Have you asked this
man to marry you yet?”
Jennifer blushed. “Shut up!” she said. “I
wouldn’t marry someone for his cottage, you
idiot.”
“Oh dear,” said Alan with a mischievous smile.
“I was quite hoping you would.”
Jennifer blushed even brighter.
“We shall take this under consideration,” said
Andrew. “I shall discuss this exceedingly generous offer with Alan later.”
“I’ll be disappointed if you turn it down,” said
Alan. “And so would my parents I expect. They
absolutely love Jennifer and they would want you
to do this.”
Rose sat down in her chair. “I just have four
words to say,” she said. “Eight-person hot tub.
And now, Happy Holidays, and let’s eat.”
Nobody argued with that.
Protecting vegetables from flea beetles
Here’s some prevention methods to help cut down on the damage done by these pests
By Albert Parsons
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
T
he beautiful fields of yellow canola that we see
as we drive through the
countryside bring prosperity
to many farms, but they bring
something else as well — the
proliferation of the bothersome insect called the flea beetle. These nasty little bugs are
a scourge for home gardeners;
when we see the tiny, shiny
black insects covering some of
the plants in our gardens we
often throw up our arms in
despair. If a plant is covered
with flea beetles, often the
only course of action is to hold
a funeral for the plant — the
damage already done by the
insects will be irreparable.
Since flea beetle attacks can
occur quickly and the numbers of insects can be so huge,
preventive action is the best
defence. In my garden, I find
the early spring and early fall
to be the worst times for such
attacks. In the spring, farmers’
canola has not germinated so
the insects congregate where
there is food — our gardens; in
the fall, after canola is swathed,
their summer-long food source
is cut off and they head for
greener pastures — our gardens. Here’s some methods for
preventing flea beetle damage
that I use in my garden.
Flea beetles attach to members of the brassica family.
Other names often applied to
these vegetables are cruciferous or cole crops and include
cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, broccoli, kohlrabi and radish. In the spring,
when I plant my earliest radish, I do so in an unheated
cold frame. The beetles do not
seem to find their way into the
cold frame whose sides are
about 60 cm high. Every other
planting of radish, however,
is susceptible, so I use a row
cover of some kind, which is
installed immediately after
seeding. Planting and then
waiting to see if any beetles
show up is a mistake. The beetles will eat the seedlings as
they emerge from the ground
leaving you to wonder, “Was
the seed no good? My radishes
didn’t come up.”
The rest of the Brassicas are
planted in my garden out in
the country. I plant kohlrabi
under a cover — an old sheer
curtain. Then I transplant
them, as well as any other
members of the cole family,
such as cabbage plants, only
after the farmers’ canola fields
have become green. Most
of the flea beetles will have
Flea beetles can cause a lot of damage.
moved out to the fields and
after transplanting the seedlings, a dusting of vegetable
dust will be enough to protect
the plants from the few beetles that remain in the garden.
For those gardeners who do
not use chemicals, the seedlings would have to be planted
under row covers of some kind.
I use a pyrethrum-based
garden dust throughout the
summer to prevent damage
PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
from cabbage butterflies and
their larva, which also takes
care of the flea beetles. Then
in the fall, when the canola is swathed, a major battle with flea beetles ensues.
By then most of the cabbages
and kohlrabi have been harvested and the remainder are
cut and put into cold storage.
It is just impossible to deter
the hordes of flea beetles that
swarm into the garden from
the adjacent fields. I continue
to grow radishes under a row
cover in my town garden and
am careful that it is fastened
securely after I have opened
it up to harvest some of the
crop. Using these techniques, I
am able to minimize the damage done to the vegetables by
those annoying flea beetles.
Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa,
Manitoba
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Refresh with a splash of orange
May not be your first colour choice but will be invigorating and engerizing
Connie Oliver
Around the House
J
ust as a sweet summer orange revitalizes the body, touches of orange
in the décor add zest to a room.
Orange may not be the first accent colour that comes to mind because it’s
a bold choice, but just look at how it
makes the cabinets and accessories pop
in the kitchen photograph. No need for
fancy tile work on the backsplash when
you use a vivid colour like this in the
kitchen. Even dark cabinets could look
great with an orange backsplash and
accents.
The eggshell finish on the paint does
not reflect a lot of light like a shiny surface would, which makes this colour
easy on the eyes. You want to be energized in the morning but not shocked!
Orange works well with the warm white
of the cabinets, which are in a satin finish. The colour has depth and is definitely not flat. I love orange for the kitchen because
it’s invigorating and energizing. Orange
spurs on conversation and ideas and is
fresh and zesty. If you have white cabinets, then working with a bright colour like this can take your kitchen from
bland to bold in a few hours.
Adding a few orange accessories is a
good idea to make the space cohesive.
The wall colour doesn’t have to exactly
match the accessory colour either. As
long as the colours are of the same
intensity then all will be fine. Bring
some of that accessory colour onto a
kitchen table centrepiece, table linens or even in kitchen curtains. Don’t
overdo it though. Too many accessories
in orange can start to look too kitschy.
Just use enough accents to bring the
colour around the room.
Orange can be paired with taupe,
warm grey, warm white, black and even
purple or red. Staying in the warm colour palette is a good idea. Cool grey, for
instance, would look stark with warm
PHOTO: COURTESY CIL
orange. Take your colour cues from
items in nature, like the rich orange
and pale yellow in a tiger lily, the deep
orange-red and black of a poppy or the
gorgeous rich orange of a ripe pumpkin.
If you have natural wood flooring,
especially in darker tones, then orange
might be a great choice for wall colour.
Wood has warm undertones so colours
like orange can be great with a warm
floor colour beneath. Espresso or black
furnishings can work with an orange
backdrop as well, so painting an orange
focal wall behind a headboard in the
bedroom or in a dining room would be
dramatic and rich.
Artwork with warm colour tones can
really pop on an orange focal wall as
well, or accessories could be displayed
on a dark-ebony floating shelf.
So put orange on your list as a possible accent colour and give your décor
a splash of colour. Orange you glad you
read my column today?
Connie Oliver is an interior designer from
Winnipeg
Nutritious doesn’t mean bland
Here’s some ideas to enhance flavour while maintaining nutrition
By Julie Garden-Robinson
NDSU Extension Service
W
e often feel rejuvenated in the spring.
We eagerly put away
our snow blowers and shovels.
In fact, we are so energized by
the sunlight and warm temperatures that we might clean
our windows, closets, refrigerator and cupboards. Many of us
eagerly await planting flowers
or vegetable gardens. Barbecue
grills come out of storage, and
people plan fishing adventures
at nearby lakes.
After peeling off our thick,
warm coats and fluffy sweaters, we might discover the
aftermath of our winter hibernation. We might even launch
ourselves into lifestyle changes,
including improved nutrition
and fitness habits. Spring is a
good time to consider some
flavourful ways to improve our
eating habits. Unfortunately,
people often think “nutritious” and “flavourful” food
are two very different things.
According to the National
Academy of Nutrition and
Dietetics, we can give our
plate a “taste lift without forfeiting nutrition.”
People often think
“nutritious” and
“flavourful” food are
two very different
things.
Flavour is the major reason
that people choose the foods
that they do. We have 10,000
taste buds, so let’s use them this
spring as we explore new flavours and cooking techniques.
Joy Dubost, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the
academy, offered these tips to
enhance flavour while maintaining nutrition.
• Intensify the flavours of
meat, poultry and fish with
high-heat cooking techniques such as pan searing,
grilling or broiling.
• Pep up your menus with
peppers. Use red, green and
yellow peppers of all varieties, including sweet, hot and
dried. Or you can add a dash
of hot pepper sauce.
• Try grilling or roasting veggies in a very hot (450 F) oven
or grill for a sweet, smoky
flavour. Brush or spray them
lightly with oil so they don’t
dry out. Sprinkle with herbs.
• Caramelize sliced onions
to bring out their naturally
sweet flavour by cooking
them slowly over low heat
in a small amount of oil. Use
them to make a rich, dark
sauce for meat or poultry.
• Simmer juices to make
reduction
sauces.
Concentrate the flavours
of meat, poultry and fish
stocks. Reduce the juices
by heating them, but don’t
boil. Then use them as a flavourful glaze or gravy.
• For fuller flavours, incorporate more whole grains,
such as brown rice or quinoa, or experiment with
amaranth and wild rice.
• Add small amounts of ingredients with bold flavours
such as pomegranate seeds,
chipotle pepper or cilantro.
• Add a tangy taste with citrus juice or grated citrus
peel such as lemon, lime or
orange. Acidic ingredients
help balance flavours.
• Enhance sauces, soups
and salads with a splash of
flavoured balsamic or rice
vinegar.
• Give a flavour burst with
good-quality condiments
such as horseradish, flavoured mustard, chutney or
salsa.
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.
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FARM LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT
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Roblin, Manitoba
Swan River
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SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2014 - STARTING AT 10:00 AM
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1987 Bobco 20 ft flatdeck trailer w/ loading ramps * Flexicoil trailer type post pounder * Case IH 575
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Inventory Reduction
“Spring Clearance”
“100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY”
AUCTION SALE
For Guertin Equipment Ltd.
35 Melnick (Hwy. # 59 & South Perimeter)
Saturday, May 10th at 11:00 AM
(Viewing All Day Friday 10:00 am till 5:00 pm) (RAIN OR SHINE)
(SIGN’S POSTED)
Having received instructions from Guertin Equipment Ltd., we will sell the following inventory:
UTILITY VEHICLES
John Deere 6x4 gator* John Deere 4x2 gator* John Deere
Turf gator* John Deere E-gator* EZGO MPT 1200 w/
cooler* EZGO Workhorse ST480* Cub Cadet 4x4* Yamaha
refreshment vehicle* refresher*
GARDEN TRACTORS
& RIDING LAWN MOWERS
John Deere 318 tractor w/cab, mower & snow blower*
John Deere 285 tractor c/w mower, snow blower* John
Deere 317 tractor w/mower & tiller* John Deere 240 tractor
w/mower* John Deere 420 tractor w/mower* John Deere
110 tractor w/mower* John Deere 112 tractor w/mower*
Sabre 23/54 tractor w/mower & snow blower* John Deere
X300 tractor w/mower* John Deere 125 tractor w/mower*
John Deere 170 tractor w/mower* Sabre 17/42 tractor w/
mower* Craftsman lawn tractor w/mower*
FORKLIFT
GOLF CARTS
approx. 25- electric golf carts (all working)*
COMMERCIAL MOWERS
& GOLF COURSE EQUIPMENT
John Deere 1435/72” mower* John Deere F1145/72”
mower* John Deere 1445/72” mower* Ransome T3100
tricycle* 3- Jacobsen Greensking (2-V1 & 1-1V)* 3Jacobsen Fairway (2-LF3400 & 1-LF3800)* 2- Ransome
Greensmowers (1-160D)* 2- Toro Greensmowers (1-300)*
Toro ReelMaster 223D* Smithco GSTAR Trap rake* Ball
washer*
MISCELLANEOUS
Skid Steer sand spreader attachment* Buhler Skid Steer
74” snow blower* Bobcat Skid Steer angle blade* John
Deere 250 Skid Steer boom, Skid Steer buckets, Skid
Steer tooth bar, tracks, steel & rubber, etc.* 25-pallets of
miscellaneous parts, etc.
Hyster 3,000 lbs. propane, solid tire forklift*
TERMS: Cash, Visa, Mastercard or Debit paid in Full Same Day of Sale. 5% Buyers Fee
SUBJECT TO ADDITIONS & DELETIONS
“Everything Sold As Is, Where Is” with no warranties implied or expressed.
KAYE’S AUCTIONS
(204) 668-0183 (WPG.)
Watch our website www.kayesauctions.com
for complete listings & pictures
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
AUCTION SALE
Former Beef /
Pork Processing Plant
Tue., May 13 @ 10:00 am
Winnipeg, MB - 663 Marion Street
Contact: (204) 739-3699
Meat Equip: Schoder Ind PA Pump Out System * 2) Com Meat Band
Saw * 8’ Conveyor * Tubs * Meat Hooks * Over 700’ Ceiling Mt Rail
* Scale Blding Equip: 06 Miura Boiler Super LX200 & Tank * ABCO
hyd/Elec Power Pac * 05 Atlas Copco Model GA Comp * 130ga
Natural Gas Water Heater & Storage Tank * Pneunatech AC-325 Air/
Gas Dryer * SS Sinks * Dock Bumpers * 36” Exhaust Fans * 2) Cat
Model NP V 60, 6000 lb Battery Forklift w/ Charger * SS Cabinet * 3
Sections Scaffolding * Ladder * Office* Along w/ Butcher Equip &
More Bldg Equip * Full Listing on our Website!
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
A great way to
Buy and Sell
without the ef for t.
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Westman
1-800-782-0794
FRASERBrandon,
AUCTION
SERVICE LTD.
Manitoba Auctioneer: Scott Campbell
Licensed and bonded. P.L. License #918093. Member of M.A.A., S.A.A., A.A.A., A.A.C.
PHONE: (204) 727-2001 FAX: (204) 729-9912
www.fraserauction.com EMAIL: [email protected]
2nd ANNUAL MANITOBA HONEY
PRODUCERS LIVE BEE
PRODUCTION SALE
Brandon, MB - WEDNESDAY MAY 21st, 5:00PM
This sale is open to consignment of live bees. We are expecting +/-1000 colonies of bees for this sale. Numbers will be dependent
on winter losses of the consignors.
We are now taking consignments of all sizes of colonies for this sale. Singles/Doubles/Nucs
All bees must be government inspected prior to the sale and test results will be made available to prospective buyers. Inspections
must be arranged with Provincial Apiarist by sellers.
CALL NOW TO DISCUSS THIS SALE OR TO CONSIGN YOUR BEES!!!
For more information contact: Fraser Auction Service Ltd 1-204-727-2001 [email protected]
UNRESERVED APIARIST AUCTION for
WESTERN SKY APIARIES (Bruce McLean)
Dauphin, MB - WEDNESDAY June 4th, 12:00PM
DIRECTIONS: From the west: Take Dauphin bypass to #10 south. Immediately after crossing bridge take winding turn-off heading east for 1 ½ miles.
From the south: on #10: Take first turnoff after airport, (before bridge), 1 ½ miles east.
ORDER OF SALE: Misc apiarist equipment, extracting room equipment, syrup tank, trucks, trailers, live hives, honey supers, feed pails, winter wraps. (Hive viewing before noon.)
LIVE HIVES & HONEY SUPERS: *Approx 400 single brood live colonies,
(Treated fall and spring with Apistan, Fumidil, Oxytet. (Queen-right and ready
for supers.) *Approx 1000 honey supers
TRUCKS & TRAILERS: *(All trucks in good running order and will have valid
safety certificates.) *2001 Ford F350 4x4 w/12’x8’ flat deck, manual trans., s/
n1FDWF37F81E671826, 226,996kms showing *1992 Ford F350 w/12’x8’ flat
deck, manual trans., s/nFDKF37M2NCA27987, 375,244kms showing *1989
Chev 2500 w/6.2 diesel ¾ ton, manual trans., s/n2GCGK29J9K1107460,
201059kms showing *16’x8’ Shopbuilt t/a bumper hitch flat deck trailer w/
Approx 15,000lbs cap. *10’x6’ Shopbuilt t/a bumper hitch flat deck trailer w/
Approx 10,000lbs cap
EXTRACTING & HONEY HOUSE EQUIPMENT: *Cook & Beals 120 frame radial
extractor s/n30 *Cook & Beals wax spinner, with new motor *Cook & Beals heat
exchanger, uses canola oil *Bogenshutz uncapper *Moyno honey pump *1 ½”
Viking honey pump *steel honey tank w/3” valve, approx 13 drum cap
SYRUP TANK & OTHER BEE EQUIPMENT: *NRW 50,000lbs cap hopper bottom
syrup tank *(200) wintering wraps for double hives, with top insulation and
plywood *(600) 2.5 gallon Honeywood feed pails *(600) frame feeders, mostly
plastic *(1000) Jones-type metal queen excluders * 2 Bentley super carts *barrel
cart *boiler for cleaning excluders *220v barrel heater ring *Stihl BR420 Bee
Blower *Stihl FS80R grass whip *60 frame radial extractor *(2) stainless steel
“dairy” honey tanks *300 gal fuel tank with stand *other misc bee equipment
For more information contact: Bruce McLean 1-204-638-7691 [email protected]
Stretch your ADVERTISING DOLLAR!
Classifieds
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
AUCTION
ANNUAL FARM EQUIPMENT CONSIGNMENT PLUS
BUILDINGS, FARM SUPPLIES, TRUCKS, SKID
STEER ATTACHMENTS
SATURDAY MAY 24TH 10:00 AM
Location: 218 Brandt St. Steinbach, Manitoba (Hwy #12 South)
HAVE EQUIPMENT TO SELL? GET IT IN NOW FOR MAXIMUM EXPOSURE!! THIS AUCTION WILL Live Internet Bidding
FEATURE LIVE INTERNET BIDDING. LAST YEAR WE HAD EQUIPMENT SELL TO AS FAR AWAY
AS EGYPT. EQUIPMENT MUST BE IN AHEAD OF TIME TO QUALIFY FOR INTERNET BIDDING!!
BOOKED IN SO FAR:
EQUIPMENT
• 2009 Horst Bale Wagon
• New Holland BR740 Round
Baler Silage Special, Bale
Slice, Xtra Sweep Pickup
• DeLaval Feed Wagon Mixer
TMR
• John Deere 7700 Diesel
Combine
• John Deere Corn Planter
• Clark Forklift C500 Propane
• Tractor w/ 3 PTH & Loader
(details not available at time
of print)
• 7ft 3 PTH Scraper Blade
• 14ft Grain Bin
• Antique Tractors including
AR John Deere, Model M
McCormick w/ Loader
• Selection Of Lawn & Garden
Tractors
NEW SKID STEER
ATTACHMENTS
• Pallet Forks, Grapples,
Earth Augers, Hitch Plates,
Buckets, Stump Grinder &
Tires
FARM SUPPLIES
• 8ft Medium Duty Gates
• Qty Various Size Gates
Including Walk Thru
• 10ft Medium Duty Coral
Panels (Large Qty) NEW
• 8ft Heavy Duty Coral Panels
• 330ft Rolls Farm Fence
• New Rugged Ranch
Squeeze Chute w/ Head
Gate NEW
VEHICLES & ATV
• 2004 Ford F350 Lariat Crew
Cab Power Stroke Diesel,
Leather, 4x4
• 2001 Chevy 1500 4X4,
Newer Tires
• Multiple ATVS Details not
available at time of print
NEW INDUSTRIAL
TOOLS
• 10ft 20 Drawer Heavy Duty
Work Bench w/ 4in Edge
Rise
• Heavy Duty Tire Changer
110V
• Heavy Duty Wheel Balancer
• By The Pallet Lots Of Tools:
Consisting of Toolboxes,
mig welders, sandblasters,
chains saws, porto power
rams, hose reels, backpack
sprayers, ATV sprayers,
Water Pumps, Air Impacts
etc.
• King Power 10,000 LN
Diesel Silent Generator
NEW BUILDINGS
& COMMERCIAL
TENTS
• 60ftX40ftX21ft Gable Truss
Storage Building w/ 13’X15’
Drive Thru Doors at 2 Ends
• 20ftX30ft Peak Ceiling
Quonset Fabric Storage
Building
• 30ftX65ft Quonset Fabric
Storage Building
• 30ftX85ft Quonset Peak
Ceiling Fabric Storage
Building
• 20ftX40ft Container Roof
Shelter
• 16ftX22ft Marquee Event
Tent
• 20ftX40ft Full Closed Party/
Event/Wedding Tent
• 10ftX20ft Commercial
Instant Pop Up Tent
• Canada West 10ftX20ft
Commercial Ten
WATCH OUR WEBSITE
AS ITEMS WILL BE
ADDED DAILY!!
PENNER AUCTION SALES LTD.
218 Brandt Street Steinbach, MB Ph: 204.326.3061 Fax: 204.326.3061
Toll Free: 1-866-512-8992
www.pennerauctions.com
Sale Conducted by:
PENNER AUCTION SALES LTD.
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Saskatchewan Auctions
AUCTION
SATURDAY MAY 10 10:00 AM
TH
Location: At Birch Auto, 37 Loewen Blvd Steinbach, Manitoba
• BAY GUARD FENCING SUPPLIES
• TOOLS, FARM SUPPLIES INCLUDING KARCHER
PRESSURE WASHERS, LAWN MOWERS
• WEATHERHEAD HYDRAULIC HOSE CRIMPER
• LARGE QUANTITIES OF HUNTING, FISHING
& CAMPING SUPPLIES (Rods, Reels, Hooks,
Weights, Cases Mosquito Spray, BBQS +
Accessories)
• UPWARDS TO 1000 FISHING LURES
• CASES OF BBQ SAUCES, SPICES & BEEF
JERKEY
• SMALL ENGINE PARTS & SUPPLIES
(Replacement Parts, Oil Filters etc)
• NEW AIR COMPRESSOR TANKS (60 & 30 Gallon)
FULL LISTING WILL BE POSTED
AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE.
THIS WILL BE A LARGE
AUCTION YOU WON’T WANT
TO MISS!!
PENNER AUCTION SALES LTD.
218 Brandt Street Steinbach, MB Ph: 204.326.3061 Fax: 204.326.3061
Toll Free: 1-866-512-8992
www.pennerauctions.com
Sale Conducted by:
PENNER AUCTION SALES LTD.
RETIREMENT FARM
EQUIPMENT AND
SHOP TOOLS AUCTION
BADIOU AIME & LOUISE
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
Tractors
• 1987CaseIH7140mfwd,1000pto,4415hrs.,20.8
x42Duals
• IHCModel624UtilityDiesel3pth,lpto,2250hrs.
showing
• Versatile276Bidirectional,withloader,Frontand
Rearptoand3pth,showing2610hrs.,usedon
grainfarm
Harvesting Equipment
• 1991CaseIH1680Combine,IH1015headwithIH
beltpickup,Rearwheelassist.
• 1992Seedingandtillage,andverylargeamount
ofshopmetalandwoodworkingequipment
• CMHC20FTScissorlift,electricpowered
• 50tonHydraulicshoppress
• Coates2020Airtirechanger,workingorder
• HD220Voltaircompressor,horizontaltank
approx.40gal.
• LKS250Ampstickwelder
• Cuttingtorch
SATURDAY, MAY 3, 10 AM
NOTRE DAME, MB
LOCATED ON THE FARM FROM NOTRE DAME - WEST END OF
TOWN, GO 1 MILE WEST AND 3 MILES SOUTH ON ROAD 50W
OR 7 MILES NORTH OF ST. LEON, TURN OFF ON HWY. 23 ON
ROAD 50W (CHEMIN MESSNER)
MACK AUCTION CO. PRESENTS a farm & livestock equip auction for Maple Wind Farms Ltd. Ron
Jacobs & late Elsie Jacobs Sat., June 7th, 2014
10:00am. Directions from Stoughton, SK 4-mi
South on Hwy 47, 2-mi East, 1/2-mi South, 1/2-mi
East. Watch for signs! Live internet bidding at
www.bidspotter.com JD 4840 2WD tractor; JD 4640
2WD tractor; JD 4020 w/Ezee On FEL; JD 4010
2WD tractor; JD 9600 SP combine w/JD 212 PU
header & 2,899 sep hrs; JD 7721 PT combine; 27ft. Co-op 722 SP DSL swather w/UII PU header;
30-ft. Premier Macdon 1900 PT swather; 16-ft. JD
1600A mower conditioner; Case IH 8460 round baler; Wheatheart hyd post hole auger; Ezee On trailer
type post pounder; hyd wire roller; 100-bu poly feed
bin; hyd tip hoof trimming chute; quantity of panels,
gates, & bale feeders; Texas gates; rolls of barb
wire, fence post & power poles; livestock show display & tack box; Circuiteer II blower; ABS nitrogen
tank; 24-ft. 2008 Blue Hills gooseneck flat deck
trailer w/7,000-lbs axles; 1989 GMC 4WD 2500
regular cab truck w/6.2 DSL; 1976 GMC 6500 grain
truck w/39,765-km; 1972 Ford 500 grain truck
w/wood box & hoist; 1983 Buick LaSabre Ltd. 4
door car; Chev 30 1-Ton truck w/steel box & hoist;
35-ft. JD seeding tool & JD 787 air tank w/Dutch on
row packers; JD 1610 cultivator w/Valmar 1620
granular applicator; 28-ft. JD 360 tandem disc; Morris 70-ft. tine harrows; diamond harrow drawbar; 80ft. Bourgault 1450 PT field sprayer; Sakundiak 8-60
PTO auger; Sakundiak 8-47 PTO auger; hyd transfer auger; Pool 5-HP aeration fan; JD Star Fire ITC;
JD auto trac Universal steering kit; Crown 10-ft.
land leveller; JD GX 75 lawn tractor; JD GX 85 lawn
tractor; AG Fab utility garden tractor; Ag Fab utility
garden cart; 1,000-gal water tank & trailer; Honda
90 ATC, electric & gas powered cement trowels;
cement mixer; B-Lifters pallet jack, plus much more!
Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill &
photos. Join us on Facebook & Twitter.
(306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co.
PL 311962
Estate of Roger Paquette
FARM MACHINERY
Sat., May 10 @ 10:00 am
FARM MACHINERY
Fertilizer Equipment
PROPERTY: Shenston E 1/2 Sec 19 PCL 18649 - 60 Acres - Older
Home, Outside Bldgings, 1/2 Hay Land 1/2 Fenced Pasture Tractors
& Excavator: MF 3660 MFWA Cab 3PH w/ FEL w/ Grapple Showing
1105 hrs * JD 4630 Cab 3PH 20.8.38 Duals 9815 hrs * Linkbelt
LS 2800 Track Excavator 11,007 hrs * Clark Bush Skidder Equip:
MF 36, 12’ Swather w/ P/U Reel * Case 1H RBX 462 RD Baler * NH
Side Del Rake * Hutchmaster 20’ Tandem Disc * Rome 10’ Offset
Disc * Case 12’ Discer Seeders * Along w/ Livestock Equip * 48’
Semi Frt Trailer * Vehicles * 140 Hay Bales * Tool * Miller 200HP
BOBCAT 250 NT AC/DC Welder * 10 000 Watt Generator, 5hrs * Yard
Items * Household *
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
AUTO & TRANSPORT
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Auto & Truck Parts
GREAT PRICES ON NEW, used & remanufactured
engines, parts & accessories for diesel pickups.
Large inventory, engines can be shipped or installed. Give us a call or check us out at www.thickettenginerebuilding.ca Thickett Engine Rebuilding.
Ph (204)532-2187, Russell MB.
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Trucks
2004 FORD 350 DUALLY, 11-ft flat deck, diesel,
6spd, 4x4, one owner, $8,000 OBO; 7x22 GN stock
trailer, $3,300. 7x24 Stock Trailer, $3,000. Phone:1
(204)857-8403.
2010 FORD F150 XLT Supercrew, 4WD, Silver,
Box liner, box cover, 96,788-km, beautiful shape,
Safetied, SN 1FTFW1EV7A00840, Asking $21,900.
Open to offers. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12
N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000
www.reimerfarmequipment.com
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Roofing
PRICE TO CLEAR!!
75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard
100,000PSI high tensile roofing &
siding. 16 colours to choose from.
B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2
Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft.2
• 3x3HDWeldingtablewithvise
• 36”Woodlathevariablespeed
• 1/2in.DrillpressstandwithKeylesschuck.
And so much more........
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
See our website: www.billklassen.com for complete listing or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS
AUCTION SALES
Saskatchewan Auctions
TONY & PAT PETRACEK AUCTION Sat., May
10th, 2014 11:00am. 8 SOUTH OF LANGENBURG
TO REDPATH RD, 2 WEST, 1/2 SOUTH. LANGENBURG,
SK.
CONTACT:
(306)745-2501.
TRACTORS: Case 870 DSL Tractor cab, dual hyd,
Case 70 FEL, recent motor & clutch; Ford 8N Gas
3-PTH, new rubber, paint, restored; Ford 9N 3-PTH
on steel all around new motor; JD H Tricycle overhauled, new tires, restored, nice. VEHICLES: 1986
Dodge 600 Convertible, running, to be restored;
1988 Chevy 1/2-Ton, 5-SPD, good. MACHINERY:
NH 357 Mix mill; Hopper tank & trailer; 24-ft stock
trailer; Steel gates, panels, feeders, etc.; 3-PTH
rear blade. YARD & RECREATION: Yards Machine
16.5-HP 42-in riding lawn mower; JD ATV trailer;
BIN: Seed hopper bin, Plus shop. Note: Tony & Pat
are selling the land, the remainder of his tractors, &
shop equip. Visit www.ukrainetzauction.com for
complete pictures & listing. Sale conducted by
Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851
CORRAL CLEANING AVAILABLE W/VERTICAL
beater
spreaders.
Phone
(204)827-2629
(204)526-7139.
3 Miles North then East 4 on Ball Rd
Contact: Dana (780) 860-7351
Watch for our Auction Catalog in your farm mail box March 13th with a more detailed listing. Owners 204-248-2020
DORA LASTIWKA & ROBERTS PAVING AUCTION Sun., May 4th, 2014 10:00am 4-MI NORTH
OF THEODORE. THEODORE, SK. CONTACT:
(306)621-7972. DORA LASTIWKA: REAL ESTATE:
NW 23-29-07 W2: Taxable assessment $41,335,
taxes $665.40, approx 125-acs cultivated, canola
stubble, yd includes older house, hip roof barn, garage, misc wood buildings– pwr in the yd. Possession date immediately after winter wheat is harvested. TRACTORS: 1974 Case 970 Tractor (White) p
shift, 7,600-hrs, cab, good rubber, w/Case FEL,
good; ANTIQUE TRACTORS: JD 430 Tractor gas,
3-PTH, good tin, paint, shedded & running; JD M
Tractor gas, 3-PTH, shedded, running; TRUCK:
1975 Chev C30 1-Ton steel box, hoist, tarp, 4-SPD,
20,000-miles, real nice; 1998 Chev 3/4-Ton Truck
Extended cab, V8, auto, 325,000-kms, no rust;
COMBINE: 1980 MF 750 DSL Combine (Grey cab)
cab, air, chopper, melroe PU, 2,800-hrs; MIX MILL:
NH 357 Mix Mill shedded, excellent; HAYING
EQUIPMENT: Case IH 8370 14-ft. haybine; HORSES: 1, 12 yr old thorough bread mare, broke to
ride; 1, 12 yr paint, broke to ride. Plus seeding, tillage, discs, swathers, augers, bins, misc. ROBERT’S PAVING: (306)647-2323 or (306)620-3829.
1975 Ford Louisville Gravel Truck 8V-92 Detroit
360-HP engine, 20,000-kms on rebuilt, 13-SPD fuller trans rebuilt 2011, new clutch, new starter, air
compressor, set up for pup w/14-ft. Kneels gravel
box, Certified 2014, Real nice; 1982 Renn Gravel
Pup 14-ft. 11x24.5 tires, new wiring, hyd hoses, led
lights & paint, certified 2014; 1972 Drum Roller
18-HP Briggs w/hyd vibrator water tank; 1991 350
Dodge 5.9 DSL, 10-ft. steel deck, 20,000-lbs PTO
wench, HD Hitch, 5-SPD trans, 2WD; 35-ft. HD
Trailer tandem, dual wheels, new electric brakes,
2011 beavertail w/ramps. NOTE: Bob is retiring.
Equipment for age is above average condition. Very
clean & well looked after. Online bidding 1:00pm.
Refer to the website for “Terms & Conditions” Visit
www.ukrainetzauction.com for updated listing & pictures. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851.
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
Stratton, ON - Jct 71 Hwy & Stratton Hwy
ALL REMAINING INVENTORY MUST BE SOLD!!
SMALL SAMPLE OF
INVENTORY LIST INCLUDES:
CONTRACTING
Custom Work
FARM AUCTION
MEL MEHLING LTD
(FORMER BIRCH AUTO FARM SUPPLIES OWNER)
• COMPRESSOR & BATTERY CHARGER REPAIR
PARTS
• FRONT END SHIMS & GUAGES
• 12X20 CAR TENT SHELTER
• QUANTITIES OF NEW NUTS AND BOLTS, WOOD
& METAL SCREWS
• QUANTITIES OF GREASE & OIL
• VEHICLES (2005 GMC CARGO VAN, 2-2004
Ford Escorts, 40ft Dry Van Semi Trailer, 1974
Arctic Cat Lynx)
AUCTION SALES
Auctions Various
AUCTION SALES
Saskatchewan Auctions
LARRY & PAULINE GOGAL AUCTION Sun., May
11th, 2014 10:00am. 5 NORTH ON #9 FROM CANORA TO 754 GRID, 2 EAST, 2 NORTH, 2 EAST,
3/4
NORTH,
CANORA,
SK.
CONTACT:
(306)563-6010. MACHINERY- TRACTORS: Case
IH 5088 Tractor cab, air, 18.4x38 factory duals, 3
hyd, PTO, shedded, 4,300-hrs, real nice; Cockshutt
1850 Tractor DSL, continental cab, like new tires,
Leons FEL, 3,000-hrs; Cockshutt 1850 Tractor cab,
18.4x34 tires, w/tire chains w/ or w/o blade,
7,000-hrs; AC WD Tractor 2-PTH, new rubber, real
nice; TRUCK: ?1967 Dodge 500 1-Ton Steel box &
hoist; BALER: MF 124 square baler shedded, real
nice; AUGER: Sakundiak HD 37-ft. ES engine;
CULTIVATOR: IH 29-ft. Vibrashank & harrows,
nice; 20-ft. deep tillage; 21-ft. tandem disc; 24-ft.
Morris harrows w/brackets; quad sprayer; 500-gal.
DSL tank & stand; RECREATION: Swift Shure 16ft. Boat open front, pro 50-HP motor, canopy, trailer, real nice; 2009 Caviton 25-ft Camper Tandem,
fully loaded, one slide, air, canopy, used one time,
Mint; Polaris 340 Skidoo; Polaris 440 Skidoo; Fishing hut; Consigned: (306)535-5162 Sidewinder 16ft. deep V speed/ski boat 150-HP Merc, outboard
w/stainless prop. Plus misc, shop. SHOP: Miller
230 AC/DC Welder; Radial arm saw; table saw &
many carpenter power & hand tools; Acetylene bottles & gauges; Band saw; Vices, grinders; Anvil;
Poly tank. Many more shop items nuts, bolts,
wrenches, etc. NOTE: Due to health reasons, Larry
is selling the farm equipment. Major equip is shedded & very nice cond. Recreation equip used very
little. Online bidding 1:00pm. Visit www.ukrainetzauction.com for complete pictures & listing. Sale
conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK.
(306)647-2661. License #915851
WAYNE & JOAN KERR AUCTION Sat., May 3rd,
2014 10:00am. ADJACENT TO TOWN OF DUBUC. DUBUC, SK. CONTACT: (306)877-2066.
MACHINERY- TRACTORS: IHC 706 DSL Tractor
good tin & rubber, w/ or w/o shaffer post pounder;
MH 444 Tractor live hyd, new paint, nice; MH 444
Tractor new rubber, hyd, good tin & paint, real nice;
JD 4010 DSL good tin, good tires, dual hyd; Ford
8N 3-PTH good paint & tin; HAYING: IH 430 square
baler; NH 1033 Bale wagon; TOM: (306)877-4751
JD 930 12-ft. Moco 1000 PTO Haybine ($7,000
work order); Kuhn rotary rake (fluffs & moves
swaths); Tonute RCS 8 wheel V rake;
BRIAN:
(306)728-5555 1993 Case IH 8370 14-ft. Hydraswing Haybine; 124 Massey Square baler; Vers 15ft. PTO Swather, new canvas; COMBINE: JD 6601
PTO Combine PU & chopper; AUGER: Secundiak
7x33 engine, w/hyd bin sweep; Farm King 10x60
swing a way auger; YARD & RECREATION: 1986
Slumber queen 23-ft. gooseneck single axle camper. Plus vehicles, seeding, sprayer, harrows, morris
harrow bar, cultivators, guns, shop, welders, plasma cutter, etc. NOTE: Wayne & Joan are retiring.
Tractors look nice. Open to consignments. Visit
www.ukrainetzauction.com for updated listing & pictures. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851
MACK AUCTION CO. PRESENTS a large auction
for the Estate of Calvin Avery Sun., June 8th, 2014
@ 10:00am. Directions from Stoughton, SK 1-mi
West on Hwy 13 & 1/2-mi North. Watch for Signs!
Live internet bidding at www.bidspotter.com Real
Estate: SW 28-08-08-W2 RM of Tecumseh #65;
138+/- Acs, 3-bdrm, 1,990-sq.ft. Bungalow, Double
Attached Garage, 50x54 Storage Shed, Garden
Shed, Fenced Pasture, Dugout, 2013 Taxes $1,910
Oil Surface Lease Revenue of $12,900 per annum;
Real Estate: Also selling a house at 120 Government Rd, Stoughton, SK. 900-sq.ft. Home, Handyman Special, Great Starter or Revenue Home, Interior Is Stripped To Bare Studs, 45x130-ft. Lot
Size, 2013 Taxes $1,271.82; NH T7030 FWA tractor w/front & rear PTO & 3-PTH & 1,210-hrs; NH
TM175 FWA tractor w/front & rear PTO & 3-PTH
w/1,465-hrs; Kubota L4630 FWA tractor w/Kubota
LA853 FEL & 3-PTH showing 215-hrs; JD 8450
4WD tractor & JD 12-ft. dozer blade w/8,430-hrs;
15-ft. Schulte XH-1500 Series 3 rotary mower;
Schulte SDX 110 3-PTH snow blower w/double auger; Schulte RDX 960 snow blower single auger;
unused Normand 3-PTH snow blower double auger; NH zero turn mower; JD 322 lawn tractor
w/mower & tiller; Kubota 3-PTH rototiller; Kubota
3-PTH ballast box; Mighty Mac 3-PTH wood chipper; Farm King 3-PTH wood chipper; Farm King
3-PTH finishing mower, unused 3-PTH cement mixer; 3-PTH angle blade; 20-ft. 2006 Lund 2000 Fisherman Boat w/5.0L Merc Inboard & 9.9-HP trolling
motor; 2009 Harley Davidson black Ultra Classic
w/Screaming Eagle 110 Big Bore showing
72,690-mi; 2009 Harley Davidson red Road King
w/4,550-km; 2009 Roadstar motorcycle trailer; 2007
blue Harley Davidson Ultra Classic disassembled
SGI total loss w/many new parts; 2009 Ski Doo
MXZ Renegade 800R E-TEC w/2,055-mi; 2009 Ski
Doo MXZ Renegade Rotax 800R w/1,443-km; 2011
Polaris Ranger RZR 800 EFI side by side quad;
2012 gas Yamaha golf cart w/lift kit & custom
wheels; 1982 Yamaha street bike; 2009 Landmark
35-ft. 5th wheel camper w/3 slides & rear living
room fireplace; 29-ft. 2005 Keystone Challenger 5th
wheel camper w/2 slides; 2011 Chev Camaro LS
Coupe 6-SPD w/11,320-km; 2011 Chev Silverado
black Duramax crew cab w/113,168-km; 2007 GMC
Sierra 3500 1-Ton dually Duramax w/leather & air
safe 25K 5th wheel hitch showing 96,650-km; 2007
Chev 2500 crew cab Duramax DSL w/leather &
GFX package; 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 crew cab 5.7
hemi w/139,810-km; 2005 Dodge Ram 4WD 2500
quad w/5.9L Cummins; 2009 Dodge 1500 crew cab
w/5.7L Hemi; 2005 Dodge Ram Cummins 5.9 2500
Quad Cab; 1997 GMC 1500 regular Cab 4WD;
2013 American Hauler 22-ft. V nose snow trailer
w/front & rear ramps; 2013 Triton aluminum single
axle utility trailer w/ramp; 2012 Par Carr golf cart
trailer; 20-ft. 2008 Demby tandem bumper pull
w/beaver tail & ramps; 2007 H&H 14-ft. V nose cargo trailer; 2006 Trailtech 20-ft. tandem axle bumper
pull flat deck trailer; 2005 30-ft. Trailtech 5th Wheel
triple axle trailer; 2005 Trailtech Dump box trailer
w/electric hyd dump; brand new Bend Pac auto
hoist; Snap On tire changer; Snap On tire changer;
Snap On tire balancer; Hotsy steam cleaner;
portable gas powered air compressor; Honda
GX270 pressure washer; Craftsman mechanics
chest; upright air compressor; numerous hand
tools; motorcycle lift; new Home & Garden spas 6
person hot tub, new Kenmore SS kitchen appliances. Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale
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call
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CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place &
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floor design. References available. Alexander, MB.
204-752-2069.
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BUSINESS SERVICES
FERTILIZER SPREADS 4-8 TON. 4T Tyler stainers, $4,000; 5T, $5,000; 6T Simousen w/tarp,
$6,500; 8T Willmar $7,000; Valmar applicator,
$1,500.
www.zettlerfarmequipment.com
Phone:
(204)857-8403.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
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.
CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.
Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103
or E-mail Requests [email protected]
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Dryers
NEW MC DRYERS IN STOCK w/canola screens
300-2,000 BPH units. Why buy used, when you get
new fuel efficient & better quality & control w/MC.
Call Wall Grain for details (204)269-7616 or
(306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662.
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528
or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.
MURPHY SALVAGE New & used parts for tractors,
combines, swathers, square & round balers, tillage,
press drills & other misc machinery. MURPHY SALVAGE (204)858-2727 or toll free 1-877-858-2728.
Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd.
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5150 Richmond Ave. East
BRANDON, MB.
www.harvestsalvage.ca
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BUSINESS SERVICES
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We also specialize in: Crop Insurance appeals;
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Machinery Miscellaneous
QUONSET NEW, 35X52X18; JD 2420 DSL, 25-ft &
16-ft hay; JD 7410 FWA, w/loader; MF 860 p/u &
20-ft straight cut; Ford 5000 w/loader; Vac, sewer
tank & pump; Rotex SR7 power parachute for parts;
Chev tandem gravel box & hoist; C7 tree farmer
skidder; Bison head squeeze (complete); 2004
Rumblebee shortbox; 24-ft dual axle cattle trailer
gooseneck, like new. Cyclone PTO Fert spreader;
Skid mount Cummins motor w/transmission; D343
CAT motor for parts; Bantam C366 w/471 Track
hoe for parts; 21-ft Carter Hart PU/reel; MH 13-ft 26
run seed drill w/fert, like new; 1-tonne truck hoist;
Ford 6-ft, 3-PT angle blade for 40-HP & bigger tractor; (306)236-8023.
COMBINES
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to use, keeping you in control. This completely integrated
system uses the same remote to wirelessly operate tarps
and hoppers! Over time, the ROLTEC® Electric Conversion
will pay for itself. It reduces driver fatigue, is lighter by
design, and saves time allowing more trips per day.
DISTRIBUTED BY:
1, 67-FT. PT SPRAYER; 1, 24-ft. PT swather. Both
in good operating condition, always shedded. Norman Dashevsky Brunkild (604)428-4970 long distance call, e-mail [email protected]
1975 DEUTZ 65 TRACTOR; 1979 722 Bobcat; 16ft Morris Tandem disc; Harrell Crop (Swath) inverter; 1972 230 IH 16-ft Swather; 2- Hay Crimpers (attachments); 2005 IH RBX 562 baler; 2003 Inland
6072 baler; 100-ft Flexi-coil 65 800-gal. PT Sprayer;
1992 Manac Super B Hi-boy Flat-deck trailers. Global Auction, Benito, MB. May 3rd, 2014. Owner
(204)734-8355.
2 12-FT IHC 620 press drills, fair shape. $600
Phone:(204)737-2275 between 6-7pm.
2, 28-FT GRAIN AUGERS; 60-in 3-PTH John
Deere mower; 500-bu Grain trailers; 8-ft Hyd dozer
blade; bale wagon; 16-ft land packer. Phone
(204)385-2751.
32-FT. FRUEHAUF FLAT DECK trailer, single axle,
safetied, asking $3,500; 24-ft. Ocean container, can
be delivered, asking $3,800; 45-ft. Morris deep tiller, has NH3 tips, asking $1,650; 40-ft. Haullin semi
rafter trailer extendable, asking $3,400. Phone
(204)728-1861.
FARM KING 10-FT HYD drill fill auger; Phone
(204)386-2412, Plumas.
2013 Rogator RG1300
COMBINES
Combines - Various
410-hrs, 132-ft recirculating aluminum boom, Raven
Viper Pro, 7 section autoboom shutoff, autoboom
height control, Smarttrax steering, 800 & 380 series
tires, 2-yr warranty. $348,000 (204)824-2290
[email protected]
2004 NEW IDEA 6X5 softcore round baler, w/PU
reverse,
$5,000.
www.waltersequipment.com
(204)525-4521, Minitonas, MB.
Tillage & Seeding
2013 Kuhn LSB 1290 square baler
Bale count 14000 bales. Auto lube & hydraulic bale
eject. Always parked indoors $80,000 OBO.
(204)299-0977 [email protected]
Tested. Trusted. Guaranteed.
(1)16-FT TANDEM BEAVER tail, 3,500-lb trailer,
Retail $3,620, Special, $3,140; New 20HWP Honda
GX620, loaded, Retail $2,390, Special $1,840; New
13HWP GX390, rope start, Retail $1,359, Special
$810; New 24HWP Honda GX690, electric, Retail
$2,764, Special $2,175; New Black Equinox liquid
tank 1,250-G, Retail $492, Special $410; New Yellow HD 1,250-G tank, Retail $840, Special $590
OBO; New Equinox CSA certified holding septic
tanks, 1,150-G, Retail $2,020, Special, $2,680; Can
Deliver. For sizes & options, please phone. New
Saga 50cc scooter for sale, Retail $2,490, Special
$1,830;
A&T
Sales:(204)822-1354
Cell:
(204)823-1559.
SPRAYING EQUIPMENT
Sprayers
HAYING & HARVESTING
Baling Equipment
70 MAIN
ELIE, MB R0H 0H0
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
1998 NH TR98, 900 Trellborg on front, & 600 Trellborg on rear, terrain tracer, long auger, electronic
stone trap, dual chaff spreader, 971 PU header, 30ft 994 draper header, tunnel covers & H frame, rotor
gear boxes & Bubble-up auger gear box. Recently
rebuilt, $65,000 OBO. Can also be viewed on Kijiji.
Phone (204)632-4390, cell (204)797-4821.
FOR SALE: 4840 MF tractor; 1100 MF; 40-ft. Hesston heavy disc; 40-ft. JD field cultivator; band wagon. Phone (204)346-2224.
GRAIN CARTS 450-1080-BU: NEW Gravity wagons 400-bu, $7,100; 600-bu, $12,000; 750-bu,
$17,750; tarps available. Used 250-750-bu: $2,250
up Grainvacs; Brandt 4000, $7,000; Brandt 4500,
$7,500. Balers: JD 510, $1,250; JD 530, $3,500; JD
535, $5,000; Flexheads Case-IH 1020 25-ft,
$5,000; 30-ft, $8,000; JD 925, $6,500; JD 930,
$6,500; Case-IH 1015 pick-up head, $3,500; Vermeer R23 hyd. rake. Phone:(204)857-8403.
LARGE CAT #27 W/12-FT dozer blade, engine not
running. For sale or part out or scrap.
(204)646-4226.
QUIT FARMING: 08 8010 4WD Combine, 30-ft.
Flex draper, $200,000; 011 Massey Swather 36-ft.
9260 Big cab w/swath roller, $65,000; 08 STX 430
4WD, new tires, $160,000; 05 2, 9900I Semi tractor, CAT C15, 13-spd, 4-way locks, 72-in sleeper,
$30,000 each; Hyway tractor, 550 Cat, 13-SPD,
4-way lock, $30,000 each; 03 Advance SuperB
grain, $28,000; 95 front trailer of the Super B Flat,
$5000; Farm King Auger 13x85, hyd swing & hyd
lift on swing, $18,000; 013 Gearinghof corn chopping head, 8x30, w/row stompers, like new,
$80,000; 2, 105 White rebilt, $7,000; Hutchmaster
tandem, $8,000; 10x70 FarmKing, $6,000; Roadrunner Header Hauler, $8,000; 30-ft. MacDon Drap
Hd, Tandem w/duals Trailer $20,000; To haul
sprayer, $5,000; IH 4240 tractor w/15-ft mower,
$12,000; 16x30 Westco cult, $3,000; 16x30 band
sprayer, $3,000; 06 320 Cat Excavator, has quickattach clean out bucket 10,000-hrs, nice, $60,000;
98 T-800 Kenworth w/N-14 Cummins, 19-spd,
4-way locks, stainless steel paving Box w/30-in.
Live Belt, $33,000; 04 Chev 4x4 4-dr w/8-ft. deck,
new tire, new safety, $6,500. Call:(204)871-0925,
Macgregor, MB.
STONE-PICKER: 14-FT ROCK-O-MATIC HD5;
Grain
Drill: 9350
JD
disc
drill. Phone:
(204)437-4641.
CASE IH 8450 BALER, 4-ft wide, 6-ft tall. Spare
parts, always shedded. Asking $5000. Phone
(204)467-5093, ask for Doug.
FOR SALE: JD 466 small square baler, in excellent
shape,
field
ready. $3,000
OBO. Phone:
(204)373-2730.
HAYING & HARVESTING
Various
FOR SALE: MOLE HILL Leveler, 24-ft, fully hydraulic, like new. Folds up to 8-ft. Phone
(204)564-2540.
Rebuilt Concaves
Rebuild combine table augers
Rebuild hydraulic cylinders
Roller mills regrooved
MFWD housings rebuilt
Steel and aluminum welding
Machine Shop Service
Line boreing and welding
Penno’s Machining & Mfg. Ltd.
Eden, MB 204-966-3221
Fax: 204-966-3248
Check out A & I online parts store
www.pennosmachining.com
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.
1-800-667-4515 www.combineworld.com
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.
COMBINES
Accessories
JD 635 HYDRAFLEX W/PU reel, $23,500. Brian
(204)856-6119 or (204)685-2896, MacGregor, MB.
MF 9750 FLEX 30-FT. PU reel, Poly skids, field
ready off MF 8570 Consignment located in Cabri,
SK, $12,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N,
Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000
www.reimerfarmequipment.com
WE STOCK MOST SIZES & makes of Flex Platforms, some PU platforms, & rigid platforms. We
also have adapters in stock to fit a JD Platform onto
CIH, NH, or Agco-MF Combines. In Stock JD 920,
925, 930, 630, 635 flex, JD 843, 893 Corn heads,
JD 653 all crop, NH 973 w/wo air reel, NH 94 C
Draper 25-ft., CIH 1020, 2020 Flex, 1010 rigid, MF
9750 Flex, Cat Lexion & Agco avail. Reimer Farm
Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
Combines
COMBINES
Case/IH
1997 CIH 2188 W/RAKE Up PU, 3,499 Sep Hrs.,
AFX Rotor Kit, Big Top Hopper Ext., Long unloading auger, Air foil chaffer. Service check done Nov
2011, not used in 2013. Consignment Sale Asking
$33,500. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N,
Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000
www.reimerfarmequipment.com
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
[email protected] www.arcfab.ca
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Air Drills
36-FT JD 730 270-BU. w/1900 TBT, $28,500; 44-ft.
JD 730 230-bu., 787 TBT, $15,900; 57-ft. Flexicoil
5000, no cart, $10,000; JD 787 TBT Carts,
$9,000-11,500; 1900 TBT, $23,500. Can Deliver.
Call Brian (204)856-6119 or (204)685-2896. MacGregor, MB.
FO SAEL 33-FT FLEXCIOIL 5000 air drill, 7.5 in
spacting heavy trips, 1-in carbide tiped hoe openeers,, steel packers, 1730 pull behind air tank, good
condition, (204)867-2087 or 7117.
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Air Seeders
32-ft. Bourgault Air Seeder 528-34 w/2155 tow
behind tank- no rust inside. Tank has hitch for
liquid caddy, cultivator has 2-in. knockon spoons,
green drop liquid kit, 3 bar harrows. Very good
shape, field ready, $22,500. Phone (204)851-2516.
BOURGAULT FH-32-FT AIR SEEDER, 2115 tank,
augern packers, Atom jet openers, low acres; Herman
harrows,
53-ft,
good
shape.
Phone:(204)867-5363. Minnedosa, MB.
MORRIS MAXIM AIR DRILL, 34-ft, double chute
w/paired row seed openers, 10-in spacing, 4.5-in
steel packers, markers, 7180 Morris tow-behind
cart w/3 tanks. $33,000 OBO; Flexi-coil 820 air
seeder, 35-ft, double chute w/paired row seed
openers, 12-in spacing, knock-on shoes, mulchers,
2320 Flexi-coil tow-behind cart. $20,000 OBO;
1998 Flexi-coil 5000 air drill, 57-ft, single chute,
stealth boots w/carbide Eagle beak openers, 7.2-in
spacing, 3.5-in rubber packers, 3450 Flexi-coil towbehind cart, 3 tanks, manual meter adj. $50,000
OBO; Flexi-coil 5000 air drill, 45-ft, single chute,
9.2-in spacing, 4-in steel packers, factory markers,
mulchers, Flexi-coil 2320 tow-between cart.
$25,000 OBO. Phone Joe:(204)641-4478. Gimli,
MB.
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Seeding Various
FOR SALE: 24-FT MELROE press drill, always
shedded, field ready; Also, 28-ft all hyd. drill carrier
Phone:(204)526-2543.
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TILLAGE & SEEDING
Seeding Various
TRACTORS
Various
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
FOR SALE: JD 7000 planter, 12-row 30-in, w/single disc fertilizer openers, trash wipers w/tow behind Concord 1502 air seeder for fertilizer. Price
$11,000. Phone (204)745-2900, (204)745-8334,
Carman MB.
IHC706, CAB, LOADER, VG 18.4-34, $3,950;
CASE1200, 4-WD, VG 18.4-34, $4,750; Oliver770,
RC, Dies, $2,500; Oliver OC-3, Crawler, loader &
blade, $3,950; Satoh S-650G, turf tires & 3-Pt,
$2,950; Ruston Hornsby, stationary, $2,250; Oliver88 rowcrop, Dies, $2,250; Deutz 3-cyl, $2,000;
Fiat, FWA, VG tires, 3-Pt, $3,750; AC190XT, 23.1
tires, $3,750; Ford8N, VG tires, $1,350; CASE800,
VG tires, 3-Pt, $2,750; IHC606, VG tires & loader,
$3,000; MH44 w/blade, $1,350; IHCWD-6, Dies
loader, $1,950; IHC560, Dies, $2,250; Minneapolis
MolineJB, 6-cyl, dies, $1,950; Minneapolis MolineU,
Dies, $1,500; Minneapolis MolineGTB, $1,250; Minneapolis Moline, needs starter, $1,250; IHCW9,
gas, $1,250; Various loaders & tires. For pics
www.hlehmann.ca
(204)746-2016, (204)746-5345,
Morris MB.
FOR SALE: 2-YR OLD Charolais Bulls, polled,
quiet, low birth weights, tested & delivered,
$2300-$2500.
Wayne
Angus
(204)764-2737,
Hamiota MB.
POLLED 2 YR OLD & yearling Red factor Simm
bulls from AI sires. Acomb Valley Simmentals
(204)867-2203, Minnedosa.
FOR SALE: PUREBRED CHAROLAIS bulls, 2-yr
olds & 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.
RIVERBANK FARMS HAS AN excellent group of
Red, Red Blaze face & Black Polled Simm bulls for
sale. Semen tested & fully guaranteed. Call Ray
Cormier (204)736-2608.
FOR SALE: VALMAR MODEL 240 truck mount,
40-ft wide, excellent for seeding alfalfa, grasses &
canola. $4000 OBO. Optional 1980 GMC 3/4 tonne.
Phone (204)355-4980, cell (204)371-5744.
JD 9350 HOE PRESS drill, w/markers & transport.
Phone (204)858-2573.
KINZE 2600, 12/23 ROW, good 15-in bean planter.
Phone:(204)437-4641.
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Tillage Equipment
12-ROW, 30-IN ALLOWAY 2130 row crop cultivator, w/tunnel shields. $3500 OBO. Can also be
viewed
on
Kijiji.
Phone(204)632-4390,
cell
(204)797-4821.
FOR SALE: 32-FT. WILRICH deep tiller w/3 row
mulchers, good condition. Phone (204)564-2675 or
(204)564-2699, Inglis.
LEON 45-FT DEEP TILLAGE cultivator w/mulchers
& Nichols knock-on clips. $8500 OBO. Phone:
(204)362-2321. Morden, MB.
MODEL 6000-90 BOURGAULT MID-HARROW
bar, 18.5-in tines, in excellent shape, $25,000 OBO.
Can also be viewed on Kijiji. Phone (204)632-4390,
cell (204)797-4821.
REINVENTING
THE WHEEL
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
www.penta.ca
1-800-587-4711
freezing
IRON & STEEL
Sales & Distribution by:
thunderstrucksales.com
855.752.5525
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.
CARBIDE DRILL POINTS & openers for air drills.
VW Manufacturing Ltd Dunmore (Medicine Hat)
(403)528-3350 US: Loren Hawks Chester, Montana
(406)460-3810 www.vwmfg.com
CASE IH 900 CYCLO planter, tow behind, rear
fold, liquid kit, $8,000; 500 US gal. liquid caddy,
$1,500. Phone (204)791-4573 or (204)268-5629,
Hazelridge, MB.
FOR SALE: 21-FT EDWARDS no-till drill, 4-row
hoe drill, w/1-in carbide openers, w/double shoot
green
drop
liquid
kit.
Lloyd
Atchison,
(204)854-2947, Pipestone.
FOR SALE: 42-FT. OF 7200 Case IH hoe drill rubber press w/field markers, factory slow SPD sprockets for Canola, shedded, field ready. (204)773-3252
INDIVIDUAL SHANK MOUNTED PACKERS; New
Dutch knives, half-price also Misc used boots &
knives. Phone (204)263-5392.
TracTors
TRACTORS
Case/IH
1987 CASE IH 3394 FWA, 160-hp, 7600-hrs,
24-spd, 3-PTH, 4-hyd, used only for row crop seeding & spraying, very good mechanically, clean tractor,
always
shedded,
$25,500.
Phone
(204)373-2502.
TRACTORS
Steiger
1985 STEIGER KR 1225, 4WD, 225-HP, PTO, 4
hyds, 8,800-hrs, tires 70%, $28,000 OBO. Eric
(204)878-2732 cell (204)470-8969.
TRACTORS
John Deere
04 JD 7320 IVT trans., MFWD, 3-pt., JD 741 Loader 8,400-hrs, $64,900 OBO. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer
(204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
1989 JD 8760 4WD 24-SPD trans, 4 SCV’s,
20.8x38 duals, no heavy pulling, only on grain cart
harrows & PT sprayer, green lighted 2013 ($7,300),
5,515 org hrs, wired for auto steer. (204)248-2364
cell (204)723-5000, Notre Dame.
2009 JD 9330 2,102-HRS, 24-SPD high/low trans,
diff locks, Goodyear 800/70R38 duals, Greenstar
Ready, 48 GPM, hyd pump, rear wheel weights, 4
SCV hyd. Phone (204)841-0258.
JD4430, QUAD SHIFT, 23.1 tires, $12,250;
JD4430, 8-spd, 20.8-34 tires, $11,250; JD4230,
8-spd, 18.4-34, $12,250; JD3130, cab & ad-on 3-Pt,
18.4-34 tires, $9,500; 420 Crawler w/blade, $3,950;
D1929 on Steel, $3,500; D1942 Handstart, $2,250;
B Fenders Rock shaft, $1,750; G, $1,750; JD60
electric start, $1,950; 820 Pup start, $6,500; 720
Pup start, $4,500; 730 electric start, $4,750; JD730,
parade ready, $6,250; JD730, cab, $4,750; JD830,
$6,950; JD820, $3,500; JD420T, 3-Pt, single front
wheel, $3,500; M 3-Pth, $2,750; JD420, 3-Pt, rearpulley, $3,750; JD1010, 3-Pt & loader, $4,550. For
pics
see
www.hlehmann.ca
(204)746-2016,
(204)746-5345, Morris MB.
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.
TRACTORS
Various
JOHN DEERE TRACTOR, 12,250-HRS, Serial
#440H028379R, 795 LA loader, $13,000 OBO.
Phone (204)822-5178.
WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD
PB Polled Charolais bulls for sale. Check out our
bull catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver. We
also have Purebred Charolais cows to calve
Aug/Sep for sale. Phone Michael Becker
(204)348-2464, Whitemouth.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
HAMCO CATTLE CO. HAS for sale Reg Red Angus & Black Angus yearling bulls & 2 yr olds. Good
selection. Semen tested, performance data &
EPD’s available. Top genetics. Contact Glen, Albert, Larissa Hamilton (204)827-2358 or David
Hamilton (204)325-3635.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
16 OPEN REPLACEMENT HEREFORD Heifers &
yearling & 2-yr old bulls. Phone:(306)743-5105.
Langenburg, SK. www.vcherefordfarm.com
3 REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS bulls, 3-yrs old,
birthweight 80-84-lbs. Bismarck, Alliance, Stout
bloodlines. Phone Marcel (204)981-6953, Oak
Bluff.
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; 3 Polled Bull Calves, same
sire. 54-yrs of Raising Quality Herefords. Francis
Poulsen (204)436-2284, cell (204)745-7894, Elm
Creek.
9 PB BLACK ANGUS yearling bulls, sired by KLM
Everclear, birth weights 78-82-lbs, $19,00- $2,100
Phone Les Case:(204)428-3625.
SHEEP, LAMB & GOAT SALE:
Wednesday, May 7 @ 1:00 PM
SALE WILL FEATURE:
Flock dispersal of 65 open
Arcott x Ewes - 3 to 6 years old.
Will re breed for Fall Lambing
85 - 40 to 80 lb. Lambs. Like new
Sheep handling equipment, panels,
gates and feeders
“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
May 6th, 13th,
20th & 27th
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.
BLACK HAWK ANGUS HAS Reg yearling bulls for
sale hand fed & quiet bulls, semen tested & delivery
avail. Call Kevin (204)529-2605, Mather, MB.
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.
FORAGE BASED BLACK ANGUS Bulls. Virgin
2-yr olds & herd sires available. www.nerbasbrosangus.com (204)564-2540 or (204)773-6800.
FOR SALE: 2-YR OLD & yearling Black Angus
bulls, bunk fed, fertility tested, weigh sheets
available, low birth weights, many industry leading
bloodlines, delivery available, Black Meadows Angus. Call Bill (204)567-3782.
FOR SALE: 5YR OLD herd bull, KLM Everclear,
bought at Douglas test station Apr 2010. very easy
calver & good gainer. $3,000, Phone Les
Case:(204)428-3625.
KEMBAR ANGUS HAS REGISTERED Black Angus yearling bulls for sale. Thick w/lots of hair, good
disposition & EPD’s available. 70% will work on
heifers, Kodiak 5R, FAV Peacemaker & KMK Alliance bloodlines. Also for sale, a select group of
Registered Black Angus open replacement heifers.
Phone Colin (204)725-3597, Brandon.
N7 STOCK FARM HAVE 30 top quality yearling
Black Angus Bulls for sale by private treaty. Sired
by some of the breed’s leading AI sires, bulls are
developed on a homemade oat ration & free choice
hay. Performance records available, will be semen
tested, delivery available, contact Gerald & Wendy
Nykoliation
(204)562-3530
or
Allan’s
cell
(204)748-5128.
Saturday May 3rd
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.
Monday May 26th
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
Bred Cow Sale at 10:00am Tack & Horses to follow
Sheep & Goat with Small Animals
& Holstein Calves at 12:00pm
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
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
2 SEMEN TANKS FOR sale, 1 empty, 1 full of semen. Mostly Angus sires. Phone (204)467-5093,
ask for Doug.
BATTLE LAKE FARM HAS for sale Black & Red
PB Angus yearling bulls & 2-yr olds. EPD’s & semen tested. (204)834-2202.
F BAR & ASSOCIATES Angus bulls for sale.
Choose from a selection of two-yr old & yearling
Red & Black Angus bulls. Great genetics, easyhandling, semen-tested, delivery available. Call for
sale list. Inquiries & visitors are welcome. We are
located in Eddystone, about 20 miles east of Ste.
Rose or 25-mi West of Lake Manitoba Narrows, just
off Hwy #68. Call Allen & Merilyn Staheli at
(204)448-2124 or email: [email protected]
FOR SALE: 27 M/O Reg Black Angus Bull- A.I.
sired Net Worth, 95-lb BW; 2-25 m/o Reg Red Angus Bulls- sires (AI) Makn Waves 39X (90-lb BW) &
Designer 63X (88-lb BW). $2400.00 each firm. Semen tested & Breeding soundness evaluated.
Drumhaggart Ltd. Corina (204)266-1616.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Gelbvieh
TWO YEAR OLD RED & Black Angus Bulls. Contact Triple V Ranch, Dan cell (204)522-0092, home
(204)665-2448 or Matt (204)264-0706.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
CATTLE SALES
FOR SALE: GALLOWAY BULLS. 2-yr olds & yearlings. Blacks & Duns. Reg. Also yearling heifers,
quiet, easy calving, ideal for forage based Beef Production. (807)486-3622 [email protected]
POLLED YEARLING & 2 yr old bulls Selin’s Gelbvieh, Stockholm, SK. (306)793-4568.
LIVESTOCK
Every Friday 9 AM
We sell Bred Cows, Cow Calf Pairs
and Horses every Friday
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Galloway
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
5 2-YR OLD/15 YEARLING Registered Black Angus Bulls, semen tested & delivered within 100-mi.
(204)741-0070, (204)483-3622, Souris.
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Tillage Various
28-FT CASE HOE DRILL, always shedded, in
great shape. Phone (204)295-8417.
WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT selection of PB Charolais bulls, both Red & white. Pictures & info on the
net www.defoortstockfarm.com. Call Gord or Sue:
(204)743-2109. Celebrating 34 years in Charolais.
The Icynene Insulation
System®
WANTED: INSTANT FREEZER FOR
homemade fries. Phone:(204)638-8415
patent pending
PB CHAROLAIS YEARLING BULLS for sale.
Sired from easy calving bulls, fed hay ration, excellent growth. Call Ken (204)824-2115, Wawanesa.
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
Reduce Plugging with Open-Rim Gauge
Wheels by Ridgeland Manufacturing
MARTENS CHAROLAIS EXCELLENT YEARLING
& 2-yr old bulls for sale. Dateline sons for calving
ease & performance. Specialist sons for consistent
thickness. Also Pleasant Dawn Marshall sons. Call
Ben (204)534-8370.
2 YR OLD BULLS at
(204)371-6404, Ste Anne.
$2,000
each. Phone
FORSYTH’S F BAR RANCH have for sale 25 2-yr
old & yearling Red Angus Bulls. Bulls are semen
tested & delivered. For more info, call Roy Forsyth
(204)448-2245. Eddystone, MB.
WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD
PB Red Angus bulls for sale. Check out our bull
catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver. We also
have Purebred Black & Red Angus cows to calve
Aug/Sep for sale. Phone Michael Becker
(204)348-2464, Whitemouth.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Blonde d’Aquitaine
BELLEVUE BLONDES HAS AN excellent group of
performance & semen tested, polled Purebred Reg.
Blonde yearling bulls for sale. Reasonably priced.
Call Marcel (204)379-2426 or (204)745-7412, Haywood MB.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
CLINE CATTLE CO. has for sale purebred Charolais yearlings & 2-yr old bulls. Bulls are quiet, hairy
& easy calving, will be semen tested & guaranteed.
Drop in anytime to have a look. (204)537-2367 or
Brad’s cell (204)523-0062.
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: POLLED YEARLING Charolais bulls,
Silverado grandsons, will be semen tested. Jack
Bullied:(204)526-2857.
FOR SALE: BIG, STOUT PB Polled Hereford Bulls
for sale. Yearling & 2-yr old bulls available. Good,
balanced EPD’s. Will semen test, deliver & winter
until May 1st. Call Allan/Bonnie:(204)764-0364 or
Kevin/Holly:(204)764-0331. Hamiota,MB. Can be
viewed online @ www.rocknabh.com
FOR SALE: REGISTERED HORNED Hereford
bulls, 2-yr olds & yearlings. Semen tested & delivered when needed. Also, yearling open Hereford
heifers. Phone Morley Wilson:(204)246-2142.
FOR SALE: REG POLLED Hereford bulls, yearlings & 2 yr olds, current Pedigrees, reasonably
priced. Phone Martin (204)425-3820 or Lanard
(204)425-3809, Vita, MB.
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.
POLLED HEREFORD BULLS 20-30 months, quiet,
broke to tie, guaranteed delivery avail, naturally developed on forage based feeding program. Catt
Brothers (204)723-2831 Austin, MB.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Holstein
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
HERD SIRES FOR SALE, Simmental 2 3-yr olds, 1
4-yr old, 1 5-yr old; Red Angus 1 3-yr old, semen
tested, delivery available. More information call
N.O.L. Simmental, (204)345-8492, Lac Du Bonnet.
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.
HIGH QUALITY BLACK ANGUS & polled Hereford
2-yr old bulls for sale. Bar H Land & Cattle Co.
Phone:(306)743-2840, cell (306)743-7490. Langenburg SK.
WANTED: 4 YOUNG COW-CALF pairs (Prefer
Hereford
cows
w/Charolais
calves)
Phone:
(204)748-1024
LIVESTOCK
Sheep For Sale
80 COMM EWES, (Suffolk Hampshire & Cross)
breds w/lambs; 18 NCC ewes 3 & 4 yr olds
w/lambs; 6 NCC yearling replacement lambs. Rams
NCC Reg 4 yr old & 2 yr old, plus 6 yearlings (not
Reg.) 12 Dorset ewes w/lambs & 7 yearling replacements, Dorset ram 7 yrs old. Deal for whole
flock to include 2 Pyrennes/Akabash guardian
dogs. (306)967-2202 (306)460-4721.
Horses
LIVESTOCK
Horse Auctions
Evening Horse & Tack Sale
GLADSTONE AUCTION MART
Thursday, May 8th at 5:00PM
-------------------------------------------Sale Starts with Tack
Performance Horse
The Horses should be in by 4:00PM
A Large Consignment of new & used
Tack has been Consigned from the
Estate of Jack Dinwoodie &
Diamond A Tack supply
16-ft. Stock Trailer
Rubber tired Cart
Open Cutter
Closed Cutter
Saddles/ Reins/ Driving Reins
Harnesses & Much More
Due to this Consignment
Only a Limited Amount of Tack
Will be Accepted
Phone Ahead to Consign your Tack
For More Info Phone
Manager Tarra Fulton at
(204)385-2537
License # 1108
LIVESTOCK
Horses – Haflinger
HOLSTEIN CROSS SPRINGING HEIFER for sale,
due May 12th, 3/4 Holstein, 1/4 Simmental. Phone
Jon (204)385-3189, Austin MB.
CAN. REGISTERED HAFLINGER HORSES, well
broke to drive teams of mares & geldings. Also
young stock. Call or email for info. (519)870-9503
or (519)236-4518 (evenings). [email protected]
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Limousin
Swine
BULLS FOR SALE RED or Black Polled, semen
tested, delivered. Sell your old bulls, record prices,
& get a new one now. Amaglen Limousin
(204)246-2312.
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
TRIPLE R LIMOUSIN has 15, 2 yr olds, 21 yearling
bulls, Red & Black & Polled, Red bred for performance or calving ease, semen tested, guaranteed
& delivery avail. Call Art (204)856-3440 or
(204)685-2628.
YEARLING & 2 YR Old Polled Limousin Bulls for
sale Black, Red. Semen tested, can deliver. 1, 4 yr
old herd sire. Diamond T Limousin, Kenton
(204)838-2019 cell (204)851-0809.
WANTED:
BUTCHER
HOGS
SOWS AND BOARS
FOR EXPORT
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Maine-Anjou
P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD.
728-7549
Licence No. 1123
2 BLACK PUREBRED 4-YR old, proven herd sires,
moderate birth weights. CEE Farms Genetics.
Phone Marcel (204)981-6953, Oak Bluff.
POULTRY
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Salers
PEDIGREED POLLED SALERS SEEDSTOCK,
Black or Red, yearling & 2 yr old bulls, also females
available; selected from the strongest performing
CDN herd (see SLS stock on www.salerscanada.com). Breeding since 1989 for quality, thickness, docility & performance. Records avail. Assistance to match your needs. Bulls semen tested &
guaranteed. Can arrange delivery. Ken at Lundar
(204)762-5512, [email protected]
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
FOR SALE: 6 QUALITY (2 yr old), 2 long yearling,
2 yearling Simm Bulls. These bulls should add
growth & performance, & produce excellent females. Polled & horned, Semen tested. Willing to
keep the bulls till May 30th. Delight Simmentals Ph:
(204)836-2116 or e-mail: [email protected]
FOR SALE: TWO, 2 yr old Black Simm bulls, sired
by Cut Above, out of Wheatland 680S daughters.
Also 1 Hereford Simm X Black blazed faced bull,
sired by Designer Jeans. Call (204)873-2430.
LIVESTOCK
Poultry For Sale
POULTRY AUCTION Cluck & Quack Poultry Club,
May 3rd, noon, CPTC/Rodeo Grounds, Hwy #302
in Beausejour. (204)268-1459 [email protected]
Specialty
LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT
ALTERNATIVE POWER BY SUNDOG SOLAR,
portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind
generators, aeration. Carl Driedger, (204)556-2346
or (204)851-0145, Virden.
FOR SALE: 3,000 GAL. Manure wagon w/injectors
& hydraulic driven pump on a truck chassis; Also
25- 5x7 tenderfoot sow flooring pads in excellent
condition. Used only 2-yrs. Located at Cartwright
MB. Call (226)268-6163
KELLN SOLAR SUMMER/WINTER WATERING
System, provides water in remote areas, improves
water quality, increases pasture productivity, extends
dugout
life.
St.
Claude/Portage,
204-379-2763.
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1000 Litre
Caged Storage Tanks
$60.00 each
Call Ken 204-794-8383
#45 Mountain View Rd.
Winnipeg, MB
Trux-N-Parts Salvage Inc.
ORGANIC
ORGANIC
Organic – Grains
Bioriginal Food & Science Corp., based
in Saskatoon, is actively buying
Organic Flax from the 2013 crop year.
If interested, please send an 8lb sample* to
the following address:
Attn: Sandy Jolicoeur
Bioriginal Food & Science Corp.
102 Melville Street
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7J 0R1
*Please state the Variety & Quantity for Sale
For more information,
please contact Sandy at:
306-975-9251
306-975-1166
[email protected]
PERSONAL
SHARE YOUR LIFE, as it’s meant to be! A Lasting
Relationship. CANDLELIGHT MATCHMAKERS is
here to help you. Confidential, Rural, Photos and
Profiles to selected matches, Affordable, Local.
Serving MB, SK, NW Ontario. Call/Write for info:
Box 212, Roland, MB, R0G 1T0, (204)343-2475.
REAL ESTATE
REAL ESTATE
Houses & Lots
RTM’s - AVAIL IMMEDIATELY. 3 bdrm homes
w/beautiful espresso kitchens; Ensuite in Master
bdrm; Main floor laundry. 1,320-sq.ft. home,
$75,000; 1,520-sq.ft. home, $90,000. Also will custom build your RTM plan. Call MARVIN HOMES
Steinbach, MB. (204)326-1493 or (204)355-8484.
www.marvinhomes.ca Building Quality RTM Homes
since 1976.
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
160-ACRE
CATTLE/SHEEP
W/1232-SQ.FT
HOME, 100x50-ft Biotech, 2 grain bins, corals, garden, good grazing land. 5 string high-tensile cross
fencing., $299,900. Phone (204)664-2027.
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereals - Various
COMMON SEED
Oilseeds
MLS 1320867 156-ACS LAKELAND Clay Loam
fenced, outbuildings, older home, mun. water, Gladstone; MLS 1400601 716-acs mixed farm, fenced
elk, bison, cattle, 1,064-sq.ft. bung, outbuildings,
2nd yard site, McCreary; MLS 1320985 24-15-11
RM Lakeview Section of pastureland in block,
fenced, 4 dugouts; SW 9-18-15 RM of Rosedale
Rdg Mtn., Erickson clay loam, ideal grain/forage.
Beautiful bldg site, 2-mi to RMNP. MLS 1404843,
1/2 section, forage/grain, Arden clay loam soil, NW
& NE 19-17-14, RM of Lansdowne. Call Liz
(204)476-6362, John (204)476-6719. Gill & Schmall
Agencies.
CERTIFIED BARLEY & OATS, Conlon feed barley,
Bentley malt barley, Souris milling oats, germination
in the high 90’s w/no disease on seed. Call Ron or
Riley Jefferies (204)827-2102, Glenboro.
FOR SALE: FROST TOLERANT no-name common soybean. Low heat units, 98% germination.
Sold in 1-ton tote bags, 29-tonnes left.
Phone:(204)526-2719 or Cell:(204)794-8550, can
also text.
GRANT TWEED Farm Specialist
If you are Buying, Selling or Renting Farm Land
You Can Benefit from my Experience & Expertise
the Decisions you Make Can Have
Long Lasting Impact,
So Take the Time to Know your Options.
Call (204)761-6884 to Arrange an
Obligation Free Consultation.
Visit: www.granttweed.com
CERTIFIED TRADITION BARLEY SEED for sale.
Call:(204)799-7417 or (204)612-1734, Mulligan
Farms, Rosser, MB.
CERTIFIED CARBERRY WHEAT, CERTIFIED
Leggett & Summit oats, Certified Tradition barley.
Wilmot Milne, Gladstone, MB. (204)385-2486,
(204)212-0531.
NOTRE DAME USED OIL
REAL ESTATE
& FILTER
Land For DEPOT
Sale
• Buy Used Oil
• Buy Batteries
FOR SALE BY TENDER 355-ACS or thereabouts
Collect
Used Filters
• Collect
OilRM
Containers
of•crop
& pasture
land located
in the
of Morton,
being the
NE1/4 &and
SE1/4
of 14-3-21W,
which may
Southern
Western
Manitoba
be viewed at any time. All tenders must be submitTel: w/the
204-248-2110
ted in writing along
appropriate deposit. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Full details & Tender Forms avail from Century 21
Westman.com
Brandon,
MB
R7A
5Y3
(204)725-0555. CLOSING DATE for Tenders- 12
noon on May 5th, 2014.
MANITOBA FARM LAND- FOR sale 2000-acs
1977 cultivated R.M. of Stanley & Pembina, Good
productive land, Manitoba Crop insurance C & D,
Option to lease back to vendor. Contact: Melvin
Toews
at
Golden
Plains
Realty
Ltd.
Tel:(204)745-3677.
MANITOBA- RED RIVER VALLEY 153-acs Soybean, Cash Crop Farm Located on an Paved road
NW1/4 3-3-6wpm, 2.5-mi west of Morden, on Hwy
No:3. Invest now in Agriculture. Contact, Melvin
Toews
at
Golden
Plains
Realty
Ltd.
Tel:(204)745-3677.
RM OF LANSDOWNE, SECTION SE 21-16-13W,
SE 22-16-13W, SW 22-16-13W. Open to offers,
Phone (204)822-5178.
William Lazarowich of Mulvihill, MB intends to sell
private lands: NE 27-23-08W, SE 16-23-08W, NE
10-23-08W, SE 27-23-08W, NW 23-23-08W, SE
23-23-08W, W1/2 26-23-08W, NE
22-23-08W
to
Bettina Baumgartner who intends to acquire the
following Crown lands: SE 10-23-08W, NE
16-23-08W, NE 22-23-08W, NW 22-23-08W, SE
22-23-08W, SW 22-23-08W, NE
23-23-08W,
SW
23-23-08W, NW 27-23-08W, SW 27-23-08W, SE
34-23-08W, SE 35-23-08W, SW 35-23-08W by
Unit Transfer. If you wish to comment on or object
to the eligibility of this purchaser please write to: Director, MAFRD, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box
1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or Fax
(204)867-6578.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
Campers & Trailers
FOR SALE: 1994 25-FT Fifth wheel, Golden Falcon, single slide, A/C, rear kitchen, free standing table stored inside. Phone (204)745-3773.
SEED/FEED/GRAIN
Feed Grain
FEED OATS FOR SALE. Phone (204)858-2573
Knee high...
CERTIFIED VESPER VB WHEAT, wheat midge
tolerant hard Red Spring, Number 1 yielding wheat
on our farm in 2013. Very plump w/97% germination. Call Ron or Riley Jefferies (204)827-2102,
Glenboro.
my eye!
CERTIFIED WHEAT: GLENN; CARBERRY; Kane;
Cardale; Pasteur. Certified oats: Pinnacle; Souris;
Furlong. Certified barley: Lacey; Celebration; Conlon. Pride corn & soybean seed. Hulme Agra Products, McGregor (204)871-4666.
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Wanted
GOOD QUALITY GRAIN & Cattle Farms wanted
for Canadian & Overseas Clients. For a confidential
meeting to discuss the possible sale of your farm,
or to talk about what is involved, Phone Gordon
Gentles:(204)761-0511
or
Jim
McLachlan:
(204)724-7753.
www.homelifepro.com
HomeLife
Home Professional Realty Inc.
SEED / FEED / GRAIN
CERTIFIED SOURIS OATS, CERTIFIED Cardale
wheat, Certified Registered & Foundation Carberry
wheat. Shanawan Farms Ltd, (204)736-2951, Domain.
Non-GMO and Watch
It Grow!
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.
RECYCLING
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]
BuyUsed
Used Oil
Oil
••Buy
NOTRE
•• Buy
Buy Batteries
Batteries
DAME ••Collect
CollectUsed
Used Filters
Filters
• Collect
Oil
Containers
•
Collect
Oil
Containers
LARGE QUANTITY OF CERTIFIED harvest wheat
USED
• Antifreeze
for sale, wholesale pricing & selling in truckload lots
Southern
Also certified Newdale 2-Row malt barley. InOIL & Southern, Eastern, only.
land Seed Corp. Binscarth MB. (204)683-2316.
and
Western
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more
money
withAC Barrie,
Manitoba
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more
SEEDS: money
CERT CARDALE, with
FILTER WesternManitoba
Kane Wheat, Conlon Barley, Souris Oats. Phone
(204)274-2179 or (204)871-1467, Portage.
DEPOT Tel:
204-248-2110Non-GMO
crops!
Non-GMO
crops!
De Dell Seeds
SANDERS SEED FARM FDN, Reg, Cert Domain,
Carberry & Glenn Wheat, Cert Celebration Barley
Canterra
1990,
1970,
Canola.
Phone
(204)242-4200, Manitou, MB.
967 Valetta St., London, ON, N6H 2Z7
P: (519) 473-6175 F: (519) 473-2970
www.responsibletechnology.org
De Dell Seeds
De Dell Seeds
967 Valetta St., London, ON, N6H 2Z7
Dell Seeds…
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St., London,
ON,
N6H 2Z7
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F: (519)
473-2970
PEDIGREED SEED
P:
(519)
473-6175
F:
(519)
473-2970
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Real Corn…Profit
Ready!
Forage – Various
Real Corn…Profit Ready!
We BUY used oil & filters
Collection of plastic oil jugs
Glycol recovery services
Specialized waste removal
Winter & Summer windshield
washer fluid
Peak Performance anti-freeze
( available in bulk or drums )
Proud Supporter of Manitoba Businesses & Municipalities
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR SALE
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The only company that collects,
recycles and re-uses in Manitoba!
888-368-9378 ~ www.envirowestinc.com
PEDIGREED SEED
Oilseed – Various
NOW BUYING
Old & New Crop
Confection & Oil Sunflowers
Licensed & Bonded
0% Shrink
Farm Pick-Up Available
Planting Seed Available
Call For Pricing
Phone (204)747-2904
PEDIGREED SEED
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereals - Various
CERT CARDALE, CARBERRY, PASTEUR Wheat;
Cert AC Metcalfe, Conlon Barley. Ellis Farm Supplies Ltd e-mail: [email protected] Toll Free
1-800-463-9209
www.responsibletechnology.org
CERTIFIED ALFALFAS & GRASSES: hay blends
&
pasture
blends.
For
prices
Phone:
1-888-204-1000 or visit www.dyckseeds.com
Toll Free 1-888-835-6351
Deloraine, Manitoba
PEDIGREED SEED
Pulse – Beans
CERTIFIED CDC SUPER JET (Black), Certified
CDC Jet (Black), Certified CDC Pintium (Pinto).
Call Martens Charolais & Seed or participating
dealers, (204)534-8370.
PEDIGREED SEED
Pulse - Various
AGASSIZ PEAS, excellent quality & germination,
certified number 1. Grown & cleaned on our own
farm in 2013. Call Ron or Riley Jefferies
(204)827-2102, Glenboro.
COMMON SEED
Forage Seeds
ALFALFA & GRASSES: HAY blends & pasture
blends, custom blends. Free delivery. Phone:
1-888-204-1000 or visit www.dyckseeds.com
Specializing in:
•Corn,wheat,sunflower,canola,
soymeal,soybeans,soyoil,barley, rye,flax,oats(feed&milling)
•AgentsoftheCWB
•Licensed&bonded
5 LOCATIONS to serve you!
“NaturallyBetter!”
Soybean Crushing Facility
(204)331-3696
Head Office - Winkler
(888)974-7246
Jordan Elevator
(204)343-2323
Gladstone Elevator
(204)385-2292
Somerset Elevator
(204)744-2126
Sperling Elevator
(204)626-3261
**SERVICEWITHINTEGRITY**
www.delmarcommodities.com
Toll Free: 888-974-7246
SEED/FEED/GRAIN
Hay & Straw
250 1ST CUT ALFALFA bales, 3x3x8-ft., 149.8
Relative feed value, 57.2 TDN. Harry Pauls
(204)242-2074, La Riviere, MB.
CERISE RED PROSO COMMON MILLET seed.
Buy now to avoid disappointment. 93%+ germination, 0% Fusarium Graminearum. Makes great cattle feed, swath grazed, dry or silage bale. Very high
in protein. Energy & drought tolerant. Sold in 50-lb
bags. 2000+ satisfied producers. 11th Year in Business! Millet King Seeds of Canada Inc. Reynald
(204)526-2719 office or (204)379-2987, cell & text
(204)794-8550. Leave messages, all calls returned.
www.milletkingseeds.com
[email protected]
FOR SALE: 100 BALES, second cut alfalfa. 60
TDN, 21% protein, medium square bales 3x3x8.
$140.00 per Ton. (204)246-2032 or (204)823-0431
Darlingford.
FOR SALE: ALFALFA, TIMOTHY, Brome, Clover,
hay & pasture blends, millet seed, Crown, Red Prozo, cleaned common seed oats. Leonard Friesen
(204)685-2376, Austin, MB.
SEED/FEED/GRAIN
Grain Wanted
FOR SALE: ORGANIC SAINFOIN seed. Called
“Healthy Hay” in Europe. (sainfoin.eu) An ancient,
non-bloating, nutritious, low input, perennial forage
loved by all animals. Better flavored meat & dairy.
(306)739-2900 primegrains.com/prime-sainfoin.htm
[email protected]
MILLET SEED, TOP YIELDING leafy foxtail, harvests in dryer Aug weather. Forage yield 2013 @
9670 lbs/ac. Info phone D. WHITE SEEDS
(204)822-3649, Morden.
SEED/FEED/CROP INPUTS
Cereal Seeds
HAY FOR SALE. 5 x 5 round bales of native grass,
hay bales for $30.00 per bale. Phone(204)646-4226
ROUND & LARGE SQUARE hay bales, delivery
avail. Phone (204)827-2629 or (204)526-7139.
WE BUY ALL TYPES of off-grade grains, convenient pick-up arranged. Call Central Grain Company:
1-800-663-2368.
WE BUY OATS
Call us today for pricing
Box 424, Emerson, MB R0A 0L0
204-373-2328
Vanderveen
Commodity
Services Ltd.
Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers
37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Ph. (204) 745-6444
Email: [email protected]
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SEED/FEED/GRAIN
Grain Wanted
SEED/ FEED/GRAIN
Grain Wanted
SEED/ FEED/GRAIN
Grain Wanted
BUYING:
FARMERS, RANCHERS,
SEED PROCESSORS
BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS
• Competitive Prices
• Prompt Movement
• Spring Thrashed
Heated/Spring Threshed
Lightweight/Green/Tough,
Mixed Grain - Barley, Oats, Rye,
Flax, Wheat, Durum, Lentils, Peas,
Canola, Chickpeas, Triticale,
Sunflowers, Screenings, Organics
and By-Products
√ ON-FARM PICKUP
√ PROMPT PAYMENT
√ LICENSED AND BONDED
SASKATOON, LLOYDMINSTER,
LETHBRIDGE, VANCOUVER,
MINNEDOSA
HEATED & GREEN
CANOLA
A great way to
Buy and Sell
without the ef for t.
“ON FARM PICK UP”
1-877-250-5252
Confection and
Oil Sunflowers,
Brown & Yellow Flax
and Red & White Millet
Edible Beans
Licensed & Bonded
Winkler, MB.
BOOTH 1309
2013 Malt Contracts Available
2014 AOG Malt Contracts Available
Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0
BoxPhone
238 Letellier,
MB. R0G 1C0
204-737-2000
Phone
204-737-2000
2014Toll-Free
AOG
Malt
Contracts Available
1-800-258-7434
Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
BoxMalt
238
MB. R0G
1C0
Agent:
M &Letellier,
J Weber-Arcola,
SK.
2013
Contracts
Available
Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK.
Phone
204-737-2000
Phone
306-455-2509
Box 238
Letellier,
MB. R0G 1C0
Phone
306-455-2509
Toll-Free
1-800-258-7434
Phone 204-737-2000
Agent:
M & 1-800-258-7434
J Weber-Arcola, SK.
Toll-Free
Agent: Phone
M & J 306-455-2509
Weber-Arcola, SK.
Phone 306-455-2509
*6-Row*
Celebration & Tradition
We buy feed barley, feed wheat,
oats, soybeans, corn & canola
NOW BUYING
Celebration
& Tradition
*2-Row*
AC
Metcalfe
&
CDC
Copeland
We buy
feed
barley,
feed
wheat,
MALT BARLEY
BARLEY
MALT
oats,
soybeans,
corn
& canola
We buy
feed*2-Row*
barley,
feed
wheat,
*6-Row*
oats,
soybeans,
cornCopeland
& canola
AC Metcalfe
& CDC
& Tradition
COMECelebration
SEE US AT
AG DAYS IN
We buy feed barley, feed wheat,
THE
CONVENTION
HALL
SEE barley,
US AT AG
DAYS
IN
WeCOME
buy feed
feed
wheat,
oats,
soybeans,
corn
& canola
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HALL
BOOTH
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soybeans,
corn
canola
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THE CONVENTION HALL
BOOTH 1309
For Pricing ~ 204-325-9555
MALT BARLEY
Classifieds
*6-Row*
MALT
BARLEY
2013 Malt Contracts Available
Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0
Phone 204-737-2000
Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK.
Phone 306-455-2509
Go public with an ad in the Co-operator classifieds.
TRAILERS
Livestock Trailers
TANKS
10,000 US GAL, POLYWEST 6 months old w/3-in.
valve, $5,000. Phone (204)248-2110.
FOR SALE: 34,000-GAL LIQUID fertilizer tank.
Phone (204)822-4382.
EXISS ALUMINUM LIVESTOCK TRAILERS 2014
Stock has arrived! 7-ft wide x 20-ft & 24-ft lengths.
10-Yr Warranty. SOKAL INDUSTRIES LTD. Phone:
(204)334-6596, Email: [email protected]
TRAILERS
Trailers Miscellaneous
ADVANTAGE AUTO & TRAILER: Livestock,
Horse & Living quarter, Flat deck, Goosenecks,
Tilts, Dumps, Cargos, Utilities, Ski-doo & ATV, Dry
Van & Sea Containers. Call today. Over 250 in
stock. Phone:(204)729-8989. In Brandon on the
Trans-Canada Hwy. www.aats.ca
TIRES
Go public with an ad in the Co-operator classifieds.
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
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potato production FOCUS
Tile drainage gaining
ground in Manitoba
The rising cost of farmland has producers looking for ways to boost the productivity of the acres they already own
By Ron Friesen
Co-operator contributor
S
tan Wiebe has an unusual answer
when asked about the advantages
of tile drainage. He says it helps
him sleep better.
The reason? Wiebe might irrigate his
potatoes with an inch’s worth of water
during the day. But Mother Nature,
being unpredictable, could unexpectedly follow with another inch or two
of rain later that night. Tile drainage
siphons off the excess moisture, keeps
the ground from becoming saturated,
protects the crop and reduces the pressure of an already stressful vocation.
“It definitely contributes to a lessening of stress, which helps people sleep,”
says Wiebe. “It would be hard to quantify a dollar figure on that, but we definitely have less stress now when a rain
event comes in than we did before.”
Since 1998, Stan Wiebe and brother
Don, his business partner, have been
installing tile drainage at Beaver Creek
Farms near MacGregor. Today, 6,800
of the 9,000 acres on which they grow
potatoes, wheat, corn, canola and oats
are tiled.
It hasn’t been cheap. Average installation costs by a professional contractor
run between $750 and $1,000 an acre.
But Wiebe feels the investment is more
than worthwhile on their farm which, in
the past, averaged crop losses six years
out of 10 to excessive moisture.
“Suffice it to say, it’s been a good
investment for us and the payback is
definitely there,” says Wiebe.
How much of a payback?
Although results vary, Gord Unger,
manager of Ideal Pipe Inc., a Carmanbased manufacturer, says some potato
growers report seeing a return on
their tile drainage investment within
a year or two, depending on market
prices. Similar results are occasionally reported for other high-value
crops, such as edible beans and corn.
Lower-value crops, including cereals,
may take growers as long as 10 years to
recover their costs.
The main reason behind cost recovery is better yields. Unger says research
suggests tile drainage can increase crop
yields by as much as 15 to 20 per cent.
“If they find they get an extra 20 per
cent return on their crop, the increase
in overall yields every year is enough of
an incentive to warrant putting tile in,”
he said.
Unger says the yield increase is a
function of agronomics. Tile drainage
can move up spring seeding by as much
as two weeks because the soils are well
drained and take less time to dry out.
Tiles also create air spaces in the soil,
enabling it to warm up faster and promote plant growth. Well-established
crops develop thicker canopies, enabling the growing plants to compete
successfully against weeds.
Good drainage also helps the timeliness of field operations, such as spraying. When harvest time rolls around,
the presence of tile drainage means
swathers and combines may not have
to contend with muddy fields if the
growing season has been wet.
Pipe for tile drainage at the Ideal Pipe manufacturing yards in Carman. Supplied photo
The rising cost of farmland is another
reason why installing tile drainage can
make economic sense. In the Red River
Valley, home to many of Manitoba’s
high-value crops, land costs can range
from $3,500 an acre to over $5,000 an
acre. Given the high cost of land, tile
drainage can be an opportunity for
farmers to increase their production
without buying additional acres.
“As land prices go up, they increase
faster than the cost of installing tile.
So there’s more and more value to tile
as it becomes a smaller percentage of
the increase in land value,” says Bruce
Shewfelt, president of PBS Water Engineering Ltd. in Morden.
“It may make sense to improve the
output of your existing land base as
opposed to buying new land,” he said.
Despite the name, tile drainage does
not actually involve tiles. The system
consists of corrugated high-density
polyethylene pipes (usually four inches
in diameter) placed in the ground.
Special tile plows cut the earth and
feed in the pipe behind the knife. The
ground fills in on its own, leaving a
ridge which is later levelled by disking
or cultivating.
The pipes (called laterals) run parallel to each other and are installed 50 feet
apart on average, using GPS technology.
Unger says laterals are inserted beginning
at a depth of 30 inches, then gradually
sloped downward at a rate of two feet per
half-mile to promote drainage. Laterals
are then connected to a main pipe running perpendicular at the bottom of the
field. This drains the water away, usually
into a ditch or other water outlet.
Installed properly, tile drainage performs effectively on flat, poorly drained
fields, notably in the Red River Valley.
Unger says it also works well on rolling land, although installation patterns
may be different because water doesn’t
flow uniformly on uneven surfaces.
It’s hard to say how much of Manitoba’s cropland is tile drained. Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural Development estimates producers install
between 5,000 and 10,000 acres of new
tile drainage annually. Although tile
drainage has been known in Manitoba
A contractor installs four-inch weeping tile installed on a Manitoba field. More farmers are opting to
improve their farm’s production through tile drainage rather than purchasing more land. Supplied photo
for over 20 years, its use began accelerating in the late 1990s as the province
experienced a series of wet years.
But Brian Wilson, an MAFRD soil suitability specialist in Carman, stresses that
tile drainage isn’t a silver bullet, nor is it
always necessary. It depends on the soil.
“If you’ve got a soil with naturally good
internal drainage, you really don’t need
tile drainage because the environment is
providing that to you,” Wilson says.
“The soils where tile drainage is a
benefit are soils that are imperfectly
drained. These are soils that are developed with a restriction and don’t drain
as well naturally.”
For example, potatoes and other
crops grown on the Assiniboine Delta
Aquifer around Carberry usually do not
require tile drainage because the aquifer is a water-bearing deposit of sand
and gravel that drains the soil by itself.
But Shewfelt, a former Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada water and biosys-
tems engineer, says imperfectly drained
soils, such as the Red River Valley and
the Almasippi soils of central Manitoba,
are underlined with an impervious clay
layer, which tends to leave water on the
surface with no place to go. Here, tile
drainage might be an option.
“It becomes a cost-effective investment if you’re perennially losing a percentage of your crop to excess moisture,”
says Shewfelt. “But you need a water
table within the zone where you’re going
to put the tile. Otherwise, your tile will
just be sitting high and dry.”
The two manufacturers of tile drainage in Manitoba are Ideal Pipe in Carman and AccuPipe in Winkler. AccuPipe
was recently purchased by Prinsco Inc.,
a Minnesota-based company which
plans to establish a second facility at
Taber, Alberta. Another company,
Northern Plains Drainage Systems in
Carman, imports pipe and sells installation equipment.
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POTATO PRODUCTION FOCUS
Precision agriculture technology
can refine irrigation practices
Variable-rate irrigation systems aren’t in Manitoba fields yet, but it’s likely just a matter of time
By Gord Gilmour
“We don’t pay
for water here in
Manitoba, unlike
places like Oklahoma
and Nebraska, for
example. That makes
the economic case
for this technology a
bit harder to justify.”
STAFF
A
few short years ago, the
height of sophistication
when it came to implementing a potato irrigation
plan was a few soil sensors
sprinkled around the field.
They would alert the grower
that soil moisture was falling
and yield and quality would
start to suffer.
T h e g r ow e r w o u l d t h e n
have to head out to the field
and start the pivot turning,
waiting for the soil moisture to reach acceptable
levels again.
Like most last-generation
soil-monitoring and testing solutions, however, they
represented a one-size-fitsall approach to a much more
complex problem. Soil variability throughout the field
meant that while the area
around the sensor might be
getting dry, other parts of the
field were almost certainly
still soaking wet.
The end result was better
than guesstimating water
applications based on the
feel and appearance of the
soil, but it still wasn’t perfect.
A more precise solution has
begun to appear on pivots
throughout North America
over the past couple seasons
— variable-rate irrigation.
Ta k i n g a p a g e f r o m t h e
larger precision agriculture
playbook, variable-rate irrigation uses complex field maps
to create a prescription that
addresses field variability. It
relies on a sophisticated solenoid-driven system that varies water flow from nozzle to
nozzle, depending on the field
map.
Jeff Bronsch, president and
SRI RANJAN
University of Manitoba
The newest variable-rate irrigation technology takes field maps and layers information on them to create a
multi-dimensional database. FILE PHOTO
CEO of Sunrise Ag, of Taber,
Alta., says just a few of these
high-tech systems are out in
fields today, but he told this
winter’s Manitoba Potato Production Days meeting he’s
expecting that number to
grow quickly as the benefits
become apparent to producers.
“Understanding the soil/
water relationship is param o u n t ,” Bro n s c h t o l d t h e
meeting. “Not ever y sandy
clay loam is created equally.”
He used the example of two
soils that are both considered
sandy loams. The first has 77
per cent sand and 21 per cent
clay, while the second has 46
per cent sand and 34 per cent
clay. The first can hold 35 mm
of water in the top 30 cm of
the soil profile, while the second can hold 52 mm. Bronsch conceded that he wasn’t
telling growers anything new,
since everyone instinctively
understands this variability
exists. However, until recently
t h e re w a s n o t e c h n o l o g y
available to apply different
irrigation rates.
The newest variable-rate
irrigation technology takes
field maps and layers infor-
mation on them, each one
contributing to a sophisticated map that understands
what goes on below the soil
s u r f a c e . Ty p i c a l ‘ l a y e r s ’
include elevation, soil type
and texture, aer ial images
taken of bare soil or during
early spring and any existing
yield maps.
This information is then
fed into a system that manages the pivots that apply
both water and fertigation
a p p l i c a t i o n s a c c o rd i n g t o
the prescription generated
from this map, saving water,
energy and other inputs,
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costs. One Manitoba irrigation specialist says there’s
lots of interest in the potato
and horticulture industry in
this technology, but that the
business case is stronger in
other jurisdictions. Professor
Sri Ranjan, of the University
of Manitoba, says growers
here enjoy a couple realities
others don’t.
“We don’t pay for water here
in Manitoba, unlike places
like Oklahoma and Nebraska,
for example,” Ranjan says.
“That makes the economic
case for this technology a bit
harder to justify.” They’re also
typically just providing a few
inches of supplemental irrigation a season, rather than
having to provide the lion’s
share of the crop’s moisture
requirements.
That’s not to say it doesn’t
have a fit, however, since
saving resources and limiting production costs are only
part of the equation. There’s
also the crucial question of
crop quality and consistency,
s o m e t h i n g t h e p r ov i n c e’s
potato processors insist
upon and reward growers for
achieving. The more evenly
water is fed to the crop, the
less defects and incidents of
disease and the more uniform
tuber size becomes.
“ T h i s i s t h e a re a w h e re
these systems start to make
sense for Manitoba,” Ranjan
says. “The province’s potato
processors really like to see
growers have irrigation systems because they translate
into better-quality, more consistent, tubers.”
He says potato buyers aren’t
insisting on these upgraded
systems yet, and in fact he
isn’t aware of any in operation
yet in Manitoba.
“I o bv i o u s l y d o n’t k n ow
about every irrigation system
in the province, but I have yet
to hear of a variable-rate system that’s in use here,” Ranjan says.
H e’s e x p e c t i n g t h a t t o
change in coming seasons
however, as the technology
proves itself.
“This is proven technology
that’s field ready now,” Ranjan
says. “It’s widely used in other
areas and is seen to be very
effective.”
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POTATO PRODUCTION FOCUS
Top-down and bottom-up approach
needed to conserve potato
agrobiodiversity
Only a handful of varieties exist in North America compared to thousands in South America
Penn State University release
M
ashed, smashed and
fried, Americans love
potatoes, but only a
few varieties are grown in much
of North American agriculture. In South America, where
potatoes originated, more than
5,000 varieties continue to exist.
A Penn State geographer is
gathering all the information
he can about the agrobiodiversity of these uniquely adapted
tubers with an eye toward sustainability of this fourth-largest
food crop worldwide.
“In the U.S. we rely primarily on 10 to 12 types of potatoes total,” said Karl Zimmerer,
department head and professor
of geography. “In fact, mostly
we use only five to eight varieties. In South America, by contrast, there are 74 different types
of potatoes in a single field. The
fields, tubers and landscapes
are visually stunning.”
Zimmerer has studied highagrobiodiversity land use for
over 20 years, but until recently,
those studies have been on the
ground. He first looked at diversity within individual potato
fields and then scaled up to
individual communities and
landscapes. People in a community have expert knowledge
of 150 to 180 varieties of potato,
he said.
“There are 4,000
to 5,000 different
varieties of potato
in Chile, Colombia,
Northern Argentina,
Peru, Bolivia,
Ecuador and
Venezuela.”
Karl Zimmerer
Penn State department head
and professor of geography
“People in Peru, for example,
love to eat potatoes and think
that theirs are vastly superior to
what we have in flavour, texture,
starchiness and colour,” said
Zimmerer. “They want to hang
on to their high-agrobiodiversity potatoes and we want them
to hang on due to nutritional,
ecological and other conservation advantages.”
Scaling up even more, Zimmerer looked at potato fields
on the landscape level — typically groups of five to 15 communities — and regions that
contain upward of 30 or 40
communities. Remote sensing approaches made this
easier, but still only supplied
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POTATO PRODUCTION FOCUS
Secrets of potato blight evolution
could help farmers fight back
Scientists have discovered vital clues as to how the pathogen responsible for the Irish potato famine
adapted to spread between different plant species
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
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cientists have discovered vital
clues as to how the pathogen
responsible for the Irish potato
famine adapted to spread between different plant species.
Researchers at Oxford University and
The Sainsbury Laboratory (Norwich,
U.K.) looked in unprecedented detail
at how Phytophthora infestans, a pathogen that continues to blight potatoes
and tomatoes, evolved to target other
plants.
The study, published today in the
journal Science, is the first to show how
pathogens switch from targeting one
species to another through changes at
the molecular level.
Researchers examined the biochemical differences between Phytophthora
infestans and sister species Phytophthora mirabilis, a pathogen that split
from P. infestans around 1,300 years
ago to target the Mirabilis jalapa plant,
commonly known as the four o’clock
flower. They found that each pathogen
species secretes specialized substances
to shut down the defences of their target hosts.
“Plants have these enzymes called
proteases that play a key role in their
defence systems,” said Dr. Renier van
der Hoorn, co-author of the study from
Oxford University’s department of
plant sciences. “When a plant becomes
infected, proteases help plants to
attack the invading pathogens and
trigger immune responses. P. infestans
secretes substances called effectors
that disable proteases in potatoes and
tomatoes. These are highly specialized
to block specific proteases in the host
plant, fitting like a key into a lock.”
The effectors secreted by P. infestans
are less effective against proteases in
other plants such as the four o’clock,
as they do not fit well into the ‘locks.’
The researchers found that P. mirabilis evolved effectors that disable the
defences of the four o’clock plant but
are no longer effective against potatoes
or tomatoes.
“For the first time, we have found a
direct molecular mechanism underpinning the change in host specialization,” said Dr. van der Hoorn. We
looked at specialization in the blight
pathogens’ secret weapon, a key family of effectors called ‘EPIC’ that can
pass through plants’ defences undetected to disable the proteases. The
This plant is the host of Phytophthora mirabilis, the sister species of the Irish potato famine
pathogen Phytophthora infestans. PHOTO: SOPHIEN KAMOUN, THE SAINSBURY LABORATORY (NORWICH, U.K.)
EPIC effectors secreted by P. infestans
have evolved to fit the structure of
potato proteases just as P. mirabilis has
evolved effectors that fit four o’clock
proteases.
“If we could breed plants with proteases that can detect these stealthy
EPIC effectors, we could prevent them
from ‘sneaking in’ and thus make
more resistant plants. Within the next
decade, we plan to exploit the specialized nature of these effectors to
develop proteases that are resistant
to their action or can even trap them
and destroy the pathogen. Potato and
tomato plants with such proteases
would be resistant to the blight pathogens, and combined with other resistant traits could provide another ‘wall’
of defence against the pathogens.”
Continued from previous page
dor and Venezuela,” said Zimmerer. “Up until now, the areas
where varieties grow were just
designated as large, undifferentiated shapes on the map.
In order to support agrobiodiversity, we have to have an idea
of large-area agrobiodiversity
concentrations, so we have to
look from the top down.”
With this approach, identifying and analyzing region-scale
areas of concentrated agrobiodiversity are important, as are
the global institutions such
as the International Potato
Center in Peru. But perhaps
the most important part of the
top-down study is the knowledge held by expert potato
taxonomists who have long
histories of geographically
extensive work.
“One example is Alberto
Salas who has 60 years of
experience and has vast geographic and agrobiodiversity
knowledge,” said Zimmerer.
“He is a Peruvian who has
worked from Chile to Venezuela and has an extraordinary knowledge of major areas
where diverse potato types
are located.”
While many experts are local
to potato-growing areas, other
experts come from Europe and
North America. To assemble an
expert database of information
about locations of potato hot
spots, Zimmerer uses a twopronged approach. For those
comfortable with computers,
he asks them to delineate on
Google Earth maps the regions
of concentrated agrobiodi-
This is a farmer’s field with multiple varieties of high-agrobiodiversity Andean
potatoes. PHOTO: KARL ZIMMERER
versity. For those uncomfortable with computers, the same
tasks can be performed using
paper maps.
Once the regional hot spot
locations are on the electronic
map, other information such
as elevation, socio-economic
c h a ra c t e r i s t i c s a n d s l o p e
becomes available. Information
from the various experts can
also be compared.
With so many varieties, it is
difficult for even the local farmers to identify and keep track
of the potatoes growing in their
and their neighbour’s fields.
Zimmerer’s approach may
eventually be used for visualizations that help enable the local
crowdsourcing of this agrobiodiversity.
“The local farmers generally
identify their potatoes on their
culinary properties and uses —
floury, soup making or freeze
drying,” said Zimmerer. “Interestingly, the culinary uses cor-
respond to the elevations where
the potatoes grow — soup potatoes have the lowest elevation,
floury potatoes in mid-elevation and freezing potatoes are
the highest.”
This type of information from
the knowledge systems of farmers — often women — coupled
with top-down image analysis,
visualization and geographic
information systems can supply important information for
sustainability and conservation. Combining the top-down
and bottom-up information
provides novel knowledge and
new strategies for sustainable
use of the extraordinarily high
levels of biodiversity within the
Andean potatoes.
Zimmerer is already applying this approach to other
crops such as corn, which
also includes many unique
types with geographic dynamics being a key to adaptation
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POTATO PRODUCTION FOCUS
Aphid control important
in managing PVY
Newer strains of the virus have started affecting tubers as well as the foliage
By Julienne Isaacs
Co-operator contributor
P
otato virus Y, a plant pathogenic virus, has recently
come to the renewed
attention of local and national
researchers. Spread via aphids,
the disease has long been recognized by its foliar symptoms
and resulting crop losses.
But the virus is changing.
Recently, newer strains of PVY
have begun producing tuber
symptoms as well as foliar symptoms, which is a “game changer”
for the industry, according to
Tracy Shinners-Carnelley, director
of research and quality enhancement for Peak of the Market.
According to Vikram Bisht,
plant pathologist for Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development, there are currently
four strains of PVY of concern to
provincial growers.
PVYO, the predominant strain
in Manitoba for many years,
causes severe foliar symptoms
but no tuber defects. PVYN, the
tobacco necrosis strain, causes
mild foliar symptoms and no
tuber defects. PVYNTN (tuber
necrosis strain) and PVYN:O are
recombinants between PVYO and
PVYN strains. Most isolates of
PVYNTN can cause potato tuber
necrotic ringspot disease in susceptible varieties, while most isolates of PVYN:O do not.
National survey
Bisht is participating in a national
survey for PVY strain distribution
in Canada organized by Mathuresh Singh of New Brunswick’s
Agriculture Certification Services, co-ordinating the collection
of Manitoba samples for testing.
Based on the 2013 survey results,
necrotic strains are increasing in
percentage in the region. Strain
identification surveys will continue in the 2014 growing season.
Infection with necrotic strains
of PVY can render table potatoes
unmarketable. “Different strains
cause different symptoms,” says
Shinners-Carnelley. “Yukon Gold,
a common fresh potato variety,
gets very distinctive necrotic rings
on the surface.”
Other fresh market potato varieties, when infected, may show
growth cracking symptoms.
For seed potato growers, infection with PVY is a serious problem, as it can downgrade crop
quality and cause seed certification issues.
Any species of aphid can vector
PVY, whether or not it colonizes
Whether we’re
growing fresh,
processing or seed
potatoes, we have to
be aware of PVY as
it has the potential
to cause economic
damage to all those
sectors.
Tracy
Shinners-Carnelley
Peak of the Market
potato, as the virus spreads when
aphids probe the plants with their
mouthparts as they move through
fields looking for a host.
The first step to controlling PVY
is planting inoculum-free seed,
says Shinners-Carnelley. “If you
plant clean seed, meaning no PVY,
and you have aphids colonizing
and reproducing, they’re feeding
on the crop but not spreading the
virus around,” she says.
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If inoculum does exist in a
field, growers must ensure they
monitor aphid populations and
keep abreast of the regional
aphid situation. In Manitoba,
the most common culprits at
risk for spreading PVY are
cereal aphids, soybean aphids
and green peach aphids, which
while fewer in number are the
most efficient vector for PVY.
Bisht is involved in monitoring
aphid populations using aphid
traps in seed potato fields and
providing weekly updates to
growers.
“One of the things you see
is the influx of aphids mid- to
later summer when you see
other crops maturing,” says
Shinners-Carnelley.
Insecticide use can have
merit in controlling potatocolonizing aphid populations,
she says, but growers should
remember that spraying one
day will have little impact if a
flush of aphids comes in the
next days from a cereal crop
being harvested.
Crop oils are a promising new
control strategy and have been
shown to be effective against
aphids.
A researcher at the University
of Minnesota, Ian MacRae, has
done studies analyzing the efficacy of crop borders in managing PVY. His team’s research
shows that aphids tend to settle
on the edges of fields prior to
moving throughout the fields.
Targeting crop borders with
insecticides can be an effective
strategy against PVY, especially
in combination with the use of
crop oils and other integrated
pest management strategies.
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Shinners-Carnelley’s message is
not that there is more of a problem with PVY than there has
been in the past in Manitoba, but
rather that as the virus mutates
growers should be on the lookout
for new symptoms.
“For the most part our growers — seed and commercial — do
a good job at keeping their PVY
levels low,” she says. “I don’t want
the message to be that we have a
problem, but we should be proactive. Whether we’re growing fresh,
processing or seed potatoes, we
have to be aware of PVY as it has
the potential to cause economic
damage to all those sectors.”
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