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Another cool, wet spring
delays Manitoba seeding
Farmers are anxious to get in the fields, but know from last year
late seeding doesn’t necessarily mean reduced yields
By Daniel Winters
co-operator staff / Portage la Prairie
By Allan Dawson
F
co-operator staff /carman
or weanling producers in
Manitoba, the devastation wrought by porcine
epidemic diarrhea (PED) elsewhere has a very silvery lining.
As their counterparts south
of the border and in Eastern
Canada haul dead piglets out of
their barns by the wheelbarrow,
the industry here is getting $90$100 per head for isoweans and
up to $135 for 40-pound piglets.
With a provincial average of
28 piglets per sow per year, that
makes keeping a sow nowadays
almost three times more profitable than a beef cow, even with
calf prices at the current record
highs.
But that lasts for only as long
as the industry here can keep it
out of production facilities.
James Hofer of Starlite Colony
fears Manitoba’s luck will run
out sooner rather than later
unless small abattoirs and
assembly yards act quickly to
tighten up their biosecurity.
Surveillance
At a meeting last week hosted
by EMF (formerly Eastman
Feeds) and feed additive giant
Alltech, Hofer cited the latest
See PEDv on page 6 »
I
t was sunny, but there was a chilly
north wind as the two corn planters — one 24 row and the other 16
— made their way across a field May 9,
against a backdrop of leafless trees lining the Pembina Hills.
“Conditions are borderline,” says
James Waldner, Rosebank Colony’s farm
manager. “They are less than ideal.”
The soil was colder than the 10 C recommended for seeding corn but it was
the second week of May and there was
more rain and colder temperatures in
the forecast.
“It’s got to warm up soon,” Waldner
said.
That is a logical assumption given
the date, but Environment Canada
was forecasting a high of just 6 C for
Wednesday, which is the normal
low this time of year and a low of -2
Thursday morning this week.
The normal high is 20, which isn’t
expected until next week — along
with more rain, according to an
AccuWeather forecast issued May 12.
For the second year in a row spring
seeding in Manitoba is delayed, following
one of the coldest winters on record.
“We are way behind normal,” CWB
weather and crop analyst Bruce Burnett
said in an interview May 12.
On average, 25 per cent of Western
Canada’s crop is seeded by May 12, but
this year Burnett puts it at six or seven
per cent.
Western Manitoba and eastern
Saskatchewan are the most behind, he
said.
The Dauphin-Riding Mountain area
was hit with wet snow, May 11. There
hasn’t been any seeding in the Parkland
region so far as he knows, Ste. Rose du
Lac farmer Rob Brunel said May 12.
Seeding was late for many farmers last
year too, due to a long winter, followed by
wet weather. In 2013, parts of south-central Manitoba received up to 13 inches of
rain over several weeks at the end of May
forcing some farmers to replant in June.
But despite those delays western Canadian farmers harvested a
record 76-million-tonne crop thanks
to a warmer-than-normal August and
September, Burnett said.
Manitoba farmers broke average yield
records for spring and feed wheat, oats,
barley, corn and soybeans and tied the
records for canola and flax, according to
crop insurance data.
Seeding delays could see Manitoba
farmers plant more soybeans — if there’s
still seed available — and less wheat,
Burnett said. Later-seeded wheat is more
susceptible to fusarium head blight, a
fungal disease that cuts wheat yields and
quality.
When seeding conditions are less
than ideal, farmers should increase their
seeding rate, say crop specialists with
Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development (MAFRD).
“For cereals (seedling mortality) can
range from anywhere from five to 20 per
cent,” said MAFRD’s cereal specialist
Pam de Rocquigny.
Seed treatments can help cereal crops
withstand cold, wet soils and the seedling diseases that come with them.
“But seed treatment is not going to rescue a poor seed lot,” she added. “I think
that’s something to keep in mind.”
See SEEDING on page 6 »
Rosebank Colony was
sowing corn with two
planters May 9 southwest of Carman trying to
beat the forecasted wet,
cold weather, which has
already delayed seeding
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 15, 2014
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LIVESTOCK
Rising CO2 levels may cut nutrient
levels in crops, study finds
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Pullet producers’ bid
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Wheat and rice were lower in zinc, iron and protein at higher levels of CO2
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CROPS
Flax
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Prices are up
and yields
have been good
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FEATURE
Chalk one up
for clubroot
It overwhelmed
resistant varieties in
just four years
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CROSSROADS
By Will Dunham
washington / reuters
R
ising levels of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere may cut the nutritional quality of some of the world’s most important
food crops, researchers reported May 7 after
conducting experiments simulating conditions
expected by mid-century.
The amounts of two important nutrients, zinc
and iron, were found to be lower in wheat, rice,
soybeans and field peas grown in open-air fields
where the scientists created CO2 concentrations
at the level they forecast for Earth by roughly
2050, about 550 parts per million.
They grew 40 varieties of six different grains
and legumes, also including corn and sorghum,
at seven locations on three continents, in Japan,
Australia and the United States.
“This is important because almost two billion people globally receive most of these two
nutrients (zinc and iron) by eating crops,” said
University of Illinois plant biology professor,
Andrew Leakey, one of the researchers.
The researchers said these findings point to
one of the most important health threats shown
to be linked to climate change.
Dr. Samuel Myers of the Harvard School of
Public Health, who led the study published in
the journal Nature, said there already is a significant public health problem in parts of the world
due to inadequate intake of zinc and iron.
Myers noted that inadequate zinc intake
affects the immune system and makes people more vulnerable to premature death from
maladies like malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea.
Myers said iron deficiency is linked to increases
in maternal mortality, anemia, reductions in IQ
and reduced work productivity.
Scientists simulated higher CO2 levels in open-air
fields using a system known as Free Air Concentration
Enrichment (FACE), which pumps out, monitors and
adjusts ground-level CO2 in the air to simulate future
conditions. Photo: Don Hamerman, University of Illinois
Earth’s atmospheric CO2 concentration currently is about 400 parts per million and continues to rise.
The study found that in wheat grown under
elevated CO2 conditions there were about nine
per cent lower levels of zinc and five per cent
lower levels of iron compared to wheat grown
under normal conditions. The rice grown with
elevated CO2 levels had three per cent less zinc
content and five per cent less iron.
In wheat and rice, there also was lower protein
content at the elevated carbon dioxide levels,
the researchers said.
Leakey said rice, wheat and soybeans made
more sugars through photosynthesis at the elevated CO2 levels and produced about 15 per
cent more seeds but had decreases in zinc and
iron content.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 15, 2014
KAP says do homework before
selling grain to unfamiliar buyers
History shows sometimes even trusted companies burn farmers
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
“People will spend two
weeks researching which
cultivator shovel to buy so it
doesn’t wear out, but they’ll
sell $400,000 worth of grain
based on a phone call and a
handshake.”
S
ellers beware!
In the post-monopoly wheat
board era many new, unfamiliar
grain buyers, often American, are offering to buy western Canadian grain. The
Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP)
says farmers should do their homework
before striking deals to avoid getting
burned.
“Pe o p l e w i l l s p e n d t w o w e e k s
researching which cultivator shovel to
buy so it doesn’t wear out, but they’ll
sell $400,000 worth of grain based on a
phone call and a handshake,” KAP president Doug Chorney said in an interview
May 8.
And it’s not only about ensuring payment. It’s also knowing what grades,
dockage and specifications are expected
and how disputes will be resolved.
“If you don’t have that spelled out you
could be in for a helluva surprise when
your cheque comes,” Chorney warned.
Seventeen American grain buyers are licensed as grain dealers by the
Canadian Grain Commission (CGC),
commission spokesman Remi Gosselin
said last week. That means they must
post security to cover what they owe
Canadian farmers for the grain they buy.
However, not all American buyers
are licensed and bonded by the CGC.
Moreover, CGC safeguards such as ‘subject to inspectors’ grade and dockage’
don’t apply to American companies,
even if they are licensed and bonded
grain dealers.
“Contracts are really important when
dealing with producer cars and delivering grain to the U.S., even using a
truck,” said Don McLean, a KAP member at Manitou involved with the short
line Boundary Trails Railway Company
(BTRC). “You’ve got to make sure you’ve
got yourself covered. Contracts are the
easiest way to cover yourself. If you don’t
have a contract, regardless of whether
the company is bonded the CGC won’t
help you out if you have disputes over
what you thought you delivered.” (See
box)
The BTRC has eight companies vying
to buy grain shipped in producer cars.
Four of those are American with no
Canadian handling facilities, but all are
bonded by the CGC.
DOUG CHORNEY
KAP’s advice for
grain farmers
to protect
themselves:
•
Check on the Canadian Grain
Commission website (https://www.
grainscanada.gc.ca/licensee-licence/
licensed-agreees-eng.htm) to see if the
company is licensed with the CGC. As a
condition of licensing, a company must
provide security to the CGC, which will
be used to compensate producers in
the event they are not paid for the grain
they deliver to that company.
•
Insist on a contract and read the details
before signing. In particular, see what
the deductions are for changes in grade.
•
Before shipping keep grain samples and
have them graded by an independent
third party for reference in the event of
a dispute. The CGC also provides this
service.
•
Be aware that paperwork must be
completed with the CGC before a
producer car can be issued. Generally,
the grain buyer does this, but it’s a good
idea to ensure it has been done.
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Farmers shipping on the BTRC haven’t
had a problem, McLean said. But there
are a lot of companies in the market now
farmers have never heard of.
“It’s just good practice to know the
world of marketing grain is different and
you need to make sure you’ve got yourself covered,” he added.
Chorney, who for the first time
recently sold grain to an American buyer
using producer cars, agrees.
“Assured payment was top of mind for
me,” he said.
Several companies wanted to make a
deal. Chorney used the CGC’s website to
see which were bonded. The company
he selected wasn’t offering the highest
price, but seemed less risky.
“I sold my grain to a company I never
dealt with in my life and I think I will
again because it all went really well,”
Chorney said. “I was happy with it. We
aren’t against small dealers or small
companies. We think there are opportunities out there but farmers need
to keep their eyes open and do their
homework. Make sure you have a contract that spells out your grades and
deductions.”
When it comes to getting paid for
delivered grain, there are no guarantees.
For example, in 2011 Puratone, which as
a feed mill wasn’t bonded by the CGC,
went down owing farmers around $1
million.
Over the years a number of CGCbonded grain companies have had
insufficient security to cover all what
farmers were owed. That’s why the CGC
recommends farmers get paid when they
deliver and cash the cheque right away.
Farmers who deliver grain to a CGClicensed buyer have 90 days to make a
claim for non-payment. After that there’s
no protection.
After a cash purchase ticket or cheque
is issued farmers have just 30 days to
make a claim if they bounce. If the
cheque is cashed on the 31st day and
bounces the farmer is out of luck.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 15, 2014
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Coming clean on
antibiotics
C
anadian health and veterinary
authorities have been discussing
the virtually unregulated and poorly
monitored antibiotic use in farm animals
since the late 1990s.
Now Health Canada is starting to do
something about it.
In new protocols to be phased in over the
next three years, producers wishing to use
antibiotics considered important to human
Laura Rance
medicine will have to obtain a veterinarEditor
ian’s prescription to get them.
There will also be restrictions on how
these drugs are used. For example, beginning this month,
poultry producers won’t be able to use certain antibiotics as
preventive therapy, a change that will predominantly affect
hatchery producers.
Drug companies will be asked to no longer market
medically important antimicrobials for growth promotion
and there will be continued development of “options to
strengthen the veterinary oversight of antimicrobial use in
food animals,” a Health Canada notice says.
If the recommendations of the Ad-Hoc Committee for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Canadian Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine are followed, it is likely farmers will see more
restrictions on own-use importation and off-label use.
The committee of academics, veterinarians and industry
representatives petitioned Canada’s auditor general in 2012
citing the rising threat of antibiotic resistance “as a result of
inadequate regulations, and the impact of poor regulatory
oversight on sustainable development, including the protection of the health of Canadians, through failure also to meet
international obligations in the form of current international standards.”
The petition highlights the hodgepodge of regulatory
oversight of antibiotic use on the farm, with federal authorities regulating their approval and monitoring for food residues, and provincial authorities regulating their sale. On
the federal side alone, the oversight over antimicrobial use
in farm animals involves Health Canada, the Public Health
Agency of Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the
Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Canada Border
Services Agency.
The ad hoc committee’s priority recommendations were to
develop a policy on extra label use and to require producers
importing for their own use to obtain a permit.
If you have been following what’s been going on in the
U.S., which is still the largest market for Canadian livestock,
efforts are underway to phase out the use of antibiotics as
growth promoters in livestock production altogether, while
requiring veterinary prescriptions for antibiotics to treat
animals that are sick.
Some farmers will protest the push to give veterinarians
more control over their access to these drugs as an imposition and unnecessary cost. Others will point to the need for
more judicious use of antibiotics in human medicine.
But Canada can’t afford to lag on this issue. One could
argue the slow pace of change in this country exposes farmers here to even greater costs.
Firstly, there is the alarming surge in superbugs, a phenomenon the World Health Organization has warned raises the
spectre of common infections becoming untreatable.
“The world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which
common infections and minor injuries which have been
treatable for decades can once again kill,” said Keiji Fukuda,
the WHO’s assistant director general for health security in
a Reuters report. In many countries commonly prescribed
drugs such as fluoroquinolones are no longer effective for
more than half of the patients, the WHO says.
Aside from the implications for human health, as this
resistance problem grows, the likelihood rises that these antimicrobials will lose their effectiveness on the farm as well.
Secondly, if producers in major importing countries transition away from their use, it is likely they will require the same
of foreign producers competing in their marketplace.
Thirdly, antibiotics — both in human and animal health
— have been so remarkably effective, there hasn’t been
much interest in finding alternatives, either by preventing
illness and infection, or managing it when it occurs. At least
not until now.
Producers in the European Union, for example, were once
among the highest users of antimicrobials in animal industry. Now, they are among the lowest, with producers in some
countries on the verge of phasing out their use altogether.
The Netherlands is on track to achieve a 70 per cent reduction in use by 2015. It was accomplished by a multi-faceted
policy that involved legislation, proactive farm leadership
and policies aimed at helping producers maintain productivity through alternative herd management.
The question isn’t whether livestock producers in Canada
can afford to make these changes. Rather, can they afford
not to?
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Rare act of House of Commons
co-operation praised
S
omething rare occurred in the House of
Commons May 1 while MPs debated Bill
C-30, the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act —
mutual praise between opposing MPs.
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz thanked the
opposition parties for supporting the bill and
help in expediting its progress through the House
of Commons.
Here is some of what NDP Agriculture Critic
Malcolm Allen said in response:
“Mr. Speaker, let me start by suggesting... as
the minister has acknowledged, the hard work
by this side of the House in working on a piece of
government legislation.
When... the opposition parties and the government, seize the opportunity to work on legislation, that can happen.
This is a prime example of how the House can
actually function when it comes to legislation,
without the need to ram it through under time
allocation or closure. That should be the model
the government members look to when they
bring in legislation...
I would suggest that the Conservatives should
look to the minister of agriculture and agri-food
in the future, in the sense of seeing how that
could happen, as well as looking to those of us on
the opposition benches who may be responsible
for those particular portfolios, who could help
them do that.
What we witnessed today with the Speaker’s
ruling is that when we get into a time crunch,
albeit a time crunch that we put on ourselves,
we make mistakes. As members of the committee, opposition and government, we agreed to
try (and) contract the time because of the emergency need of Prairie farmers to move grain. Even
though we agreed to get this done expeditiously,
mistakes happened, at least from the perspective
of the Speaker, who ruled that it was an inadmissible amendment. (A) mistake slipped through,
but was then caught.
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“We want to work together and help the
government with legislation. However, perhaps those members ought to also understand that when we put forward amendments,
they are not frivolous, but are actually helpful
and there are times when maybe they should
accept them.
The minister (Ritz) has very graciously
acknowledged that, which I appreciate and
extend back to the minister. His co-operation from the get-go was absolutely first rate.
He ensured that we were informed ahead of
time, so we knew it would come. (W)e greatly
appreciate that.
The next step is that sometimes our amendments are worth considering.
I would hope in the future that there will be
other opportunities to do this again. It would go
a long way to making things function the way
they should, and we could actually take the next
step where we really do consider all amendments
from all parties. They may well indeed be worthwhile and helpful.
The commitment to the minister was to
try to help in the best way we knew how. We
believe we have fulfilled and kept the promise...
It is about helping those farmers on the Prairies who have been suffering for a long period of
time, and some may continue to suffer. I think
the minister and I recognize that, and I am sure
my colleague from the Liberal party also recognizes that. Unfortunately, there will be some
farmers who will get caught in this... which is the
real pity of it all.
I look forward to the bill being implemented
and to other opportunities where the government extends a welcoming helpful hand. We look
forward to working with government members,
and if the legislation would indeed help farmers, we will be there to make sure farmers get
that help.
May 1979
he name “Letellier” is under water in this photo
from our May 10, 1979 issue, and so was much
of the Red River Valley. The story underneath
said that flood waters had begun to drop slowly, and
that 8,000 farmers and town residents might begin to
move back the following weekend. We also reported
that Premier Sterling Lyon had sent Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau a letter asking for assistance with long-term
flood-control measures.
Wheat board minister, Otto Lang said the government
would press ahead with construction of a new grain
terminal at Prince Rupert, regardless of the outcome of
negotiations with a consortium of Vancouver grain terminal owners.
There was a backlog of 1,340 producer car orders, and
officials said most would not move until mid-June.
The president of Burns Meats said that despite pleas
from producers in western Manitoba and requests from
the marketing board, there was not enough hog production to reopen the killing line at Burns’ Brandon plant.
Burns had also closed its plant in Edmonton, laying off
400 workers, and was to lay off 135 workers at its beef
operation in Toronto. Canada Packers had also laid off
100 workers across the country because of a shortage of
slaughter cattle.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 15, 2014
COMMENT/FEEDBACK
Ecological farming has bright future
Natural systems agriculture offers a practical alternative to ‘command and control’ production models
By Martin Entz
the growing processing capacity for
organic farm products.
One farmer told me that after
switching to organic, his soil “smells
more like garden soil.” This farmer
was experiencing what we have been
documenting in our long-term (22year) study, that organically managed
soils are more biologically active than
conventionally managed soils.
You cannot “command and control” life in the soil. We have to allow
soil organisms to “be themselves.”
Excitement in organic processing
has also been building. In addition
to our organic milk processing facility at Notre Dame des Lourdes, this
province is also the place where all
of President’s Choice organic flour
is milled. Who knew we were doing
so much?
I want to end with the most hopeful
observation.
I
ndustrialized countries use a
“command and control” model in
agriculture — where we try to control many of the biological processes
in farming. But, problems like herbicide and antibiotic resistance, water
pollution and loss of wildlife and biodiversity demonstrate that no matter
how hard we try, the most diligent
“command and control” approach
cannot keep up.
Failure of “command and control”
approaches are sometimes due to
ecological realities such as evolution
of resistance, and sometimes because
they simply cost too much money to
sustain over the long term.
Natural systems agriculture, on
the other hand, represents a different view of farming. The system’s
ecology is the focus and a major
aim is to “naturalize” all the biological steps within the managed
process, including crop nutrition,
plant improvement (breeding), and
pest management.
Laurie Drinkwater of Cornell University calls this Ecologically Integrated Agriculture while Wes Jackson
of the Land Institute calls it Natural
Systems Agriculture.
Most familiar
Letters
The best-developed form of ecological agriculture is organic farming.
Organic often gets a bad rap for being
a fringe movement based on idealistic
production practices.
Nothing could be further from the
truth. In fact, the rules for organic
agriculture have been developed over
the past 100 years, mostly in Europe
and Asia. “Organic” farming has common-sense ecological processes built
right into its rules.
Some examples include: diverse
crop rotations and cover crops to
conserve soil and feed soil organisms like mycorrhiza; dairy animals
must be pastured in summer and
Anne Kirk co-ordinates a participatory plant-breeding project that assists farmers with
developing varieties that are best suited to their local environment and individual
management practices.
always require a high proportion of
forage in the diet; and manure must
be composted before land spreading in order to stabilize nutrients and
control disease.
In Manitoba, organic agricult ure h a s move d fro m n ic h e t o
mainstream. Manitoba is home
to one of Canada’s largest organic
p o t a t o p ro d u c e r s a n d we n ow
p ro d u c e a n d p ro c e s s o u r ow n
organic milk and dairy products.
Manitoba is producing significant
amounts of organic grains, beef
and other animal products and
there is rapid growth in organic
vegetable production.
Significant benefits
Southwestern Manitoba farmers Ian
Grossart and family combine organic
and certified grass-fed beef production practices. The environmental
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NDP paranoia over direct
food sales must stop
All across Manitoba, farm families are developing markets for locally produced farm products
through direct relationships with urban consumers. These markets are built on trust, quality and
the interest of consumers in knowing how and
where the food consumed by their family is being
produced.
Food safety is paramount, whether you buy your
food at your favourite supermarket or directly at
the farm gate from a local producer.
Unfortunately, this NDP government is using the
threat of food safety as a means to impose more
rules and regulations on the growing relationship
between producers and consumers.
and human health benefits of their
work are significant. They are putting
into practice what academics and
bureaucrats are mostly just talking
about — and criticizing.
Manitoba is a terrific place for ecological agriculture. First, Manitoba
farmers have excellent management
skills. When farmers apply these management skills to ecological systems
such as cover cropping, grass-fed
beef production or organic soybean
production, for example, their investment of time and effort can be
very profitable.
I teach “Organic Crop Production”
to diploma and degree students and
their farm plans are always terrific —
and doable. There are now over 150
graduates with some formal training
in organic agriculture.
Other advantages include our
favourable soils and climate and
The “rules” do not allow consumers to purchase
food products directly from a community website.
The “rules” do not allow farmers to work together
to deliver their products to consumers’ doors. Why
is the NDP government so paranoid about direct
sales to consumers of wholesome food products?
Rather than build bridges, this tired NDP government issues more rules and regulations. It is time
this NDP government began to work with farm
families and urban consumers who build relationships based on trust, quality and food safety.
This can be a winning formula for both the agricultural community and urban consumers across
Manitoba. The NDP just doesn’t get it. It is time for
a change.
Blaine Pedersen
Critic for Agriculture, Food and
Rural Development
MLA for Midland
Get corporations
out of the way
Efficient and modern agriculture has nothing to
do with economies of scale, industrializing food
production and ‘innovations’ such as genetically
modified plants and animals. True modern farming
is doing, supporting and applying public research
that improves the health of the soil, water and climate, using production practices that work with,
and mimics nature as much as possible, while
being tailored to local conditions.
A genuine, innovative, efficient and modern
Growing community
We have the pleasure of interacting with ecological farmers, and the
growing ecological agricultural industry, at our annual “Ecological and
organic” events at Carman. Over the
past two years we have had an average 160 visitors to the summer field
days and about 85 people at the winter event, which is planned together
with our agroecology students. Farmers represent a significant part of the
program, so the farmers are participating as teachers.
This is exactly what Sir Albert
Howard, Britain’s organic guru of 100
years ago, instructed us to do. What
makes me most hopeful, however, is
that a community of ecological farmers has emerged from these interactions. Using social media and other
tools, these farmers are now supporting each other in this exciting new
chapter of Manitoba agriculture.
Martin Entz is an agronomy professor
specializing in natural systems agriculture with
the University of Manitoba.
advance for agriculture will include widespread
cultivation of perennial grains such as those being
developed in the U.S. by ethical farmers.
Unfortunately, too many North American farmers will keep buying into Cargill’s Greg Page’s deadend offer of the corporate solution, which in the
end, only serves to enrich one of the world’s most
powerful vertically integrated food companies at
the expense of all the world’s farmers.
To some extent I agree with Laura Rance. Success
for the world’s poorest farmers (most of whom are
women wielding hoes), will result in their “feeding
themselves and their neighbours, not by buying
from us.”
Their lesson to Canadian farmers: localize our
food production and markets instead of looking to
and producing for export markets. Doesn’t work for
them; it doesn’t work for us. It only works for the
likes of Cargill.
It’s clear in Manitoba that vertically integrated,
multinational corporations leave only enough
wealth in the hands of farmers to keep them producing, so that investor’s coffers are well fed. In the
1970s and ’80s hog farmers got six times what they
are getting now and were able to feed more than
all Manitobans without the likes of Maple Leaf and
Hy-Life Foods and their inhumane, environmentally damaging, publicly subsidized and wealthextracting systems.
It’s not our job to feed the world. The world’s
farmers can feed themselves and their communities. We just have to get the corporations and their
investors out of our way.
Ruth Pryzner
Alexander, Man.
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PEDv Continued from page 1
results of environmental surveillance by Manitoba’s chief veterinary office that have found a
total of eight swabs taken from
high-traffic areas that were PED
positive.
“My question is how does it get
there?” said Hofer, noting that so
far none of the tracebacks by the
CVO from those operations have
led back to PED-positive farms in
Manitoba.
“We should be standing up to
them and saying that if you’re
accepting unwashed trucks at
your facility, we’re not supporting
your business anymore.”
Given the high profits that
can be gained from “staying
clean” and the devastating consequences of bringing the virus
back onto the farm, a sow operation would be better off shooting
cull sows at home than bringing
them to a location where PED is
present, added Hofer.
Weanling producers have good
reason to be concerned, said Dr.
Peter Provis, of Elanco Animal
Health.
Contaminated
He cited a study that found 20
per cent of the trailers arriving
at U.S. killing plants were contaminated with PED. That finding wasn’t particularly surprising,
he said, given the extent of the
outbreak.
But what shocked researchers
was their discovery that 11 per
cent of the trailers deemed clean
at arrival were found to be contaminated with PED by the time
they had left the plant.
That makes cleaning and drying trailers critical for halting
PED, and last winter’s brutally
cold weather made that task
especially difficult.
“You can’t disinfect shit. So you
have to get rid of the shit. If you
don’t get rid of the shit, you can’t
get rid of the virus,” said Provis.
The fact that Manitoba and the
western provinces haven’t “broken” is a source of amazement
for many, especially in the U.S.
where thousands of farms have
lost an estimated seven million
pigs.
That’s because even just a
speck — a millilitre — of infected
piglet feces contains a billion
viruses, and only six are needed
to make a pig come down with
the disease that is 100 per cent
fatal in newborn piglets.
Highly infectious
One gram of PED virus — that’s
about the size of a pencil eraser
— diluted in two large swimming
pools will result in water capable
of infecting a pig, he added.
“There’s not many viruses that
we know of that are that infectious,” said Provis.
The PED virus is so insidious
— it can persist in fecal slurry at
room temperature for two to four
weeks and withstand anywhere
from -20 C to 40 C – that some
of his colleagues in the United
States have come to regard it as
an “evil spirit” that spreads on the
wind.
There may be some truth to
that, he noted, because studies
have shown that if a barn is more
than three miles away from an
infected premises, it has no more
chance of getting infected than if
it were hundreds of miles away.
“If you’re downwind, you’re
more likely to get it than if you’re
upwind,” said Provis, who added
if PED does become established
here, spreading manure will
become problematic.
Unlike bird flu, which can
jump from birds, hogs or
humans and back, and other
Corona viruses such as MERS
and SARS, which are deadly to
humans, PED can only infect
pigs.
That means it can only spread
by hitching a ride on boots, fingernails or on the feet of birds,
flies or vermin.
Plasma
In the early stages of the outbreak in Canada, feed made from
a single lot of porcine plasma
was the only identified common
link between the first 18 infected
farms.
But for the American industry at this point, it is “academic”
Second onfarm case
of PEDv in
Manitoba
High-traffic sites
continue to be the
source of spread
Dr. Peter Provis
Photo: Danile Winters
whether the initial source of
infection was contaminated feed
or some other vector, said Roger
Kinsey of Iowa-based U.S. Feeds,
who gave a disturbing overview
of the horrific losses seen by pig
farmers down south.
Virtually all feed companies
have pulled the plasma product out of piglet starter feeds as
a precaution, but now, with an
estimated 200 new farms getting infected every week, there’s
enough of the virus present to
sustain the carnage even without
feed as a potential vector.
“I think it’s a safe product if
it’s processed properly, but you
know, things can happen,” said
Kinsey.
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Higher bacon prices still to come: analyst
The PEDv is affecting North American hog supplies
By Phil Franz-Warkentin,
Commodity News Service Canada
R
ising pork prices and
shrinking bacon packages have made headlines
across Canada recently, but consumers should prepare to spend
even more for bacon over the
next few months, an industry
analyst says.
Western Canadian hog producers are currently experiencing “some of the best prices
they’ve ever seen for this time of
year,” said Tyler Fulton, director
of risk management with Hams
Marketing in Manitoba. He said
the strength in the hog sector was
primarily a short-term phenomenon linked to the porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus. The
virus is not a threat to humans,
but it can kill young pigs and has
led to a reduction in hog supplies
across North America.
While rising bacon prices have
been in the mainstream news
before, Fulton said the quickness of the story coming to light
this time around was somewhat
unprecedented. He said there is
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usually more of a lag between
what is happening in the countryside and rising prices in the
grocery store.
Packers are currently in the
middle. They are seeing some
short-term pain, as the prices
they receive for the pork are
not enough to pay for the animal, said Fulton. As a result,
he expected to see pork prices
rise another 15 per cent to
20 per cent over the next few
months, as all of the production issues have not yet been
factored in to the end prices.
Consumer prices are fairly
sticky, which means what goes
up may not necessarily go
down as quickly in the grocery
store, said Fulton. However, the
same can’t be said on the farm
side and the hog supply situation will eventually normalize.
In the meantime, he
expected western Canadian
hog producers would continue
to see good prices for their
animals, especially as most of
the country has been able to
ward off the PED virus fairly
well so far.
Staff
A second farm in Manitoba
has tested positive for porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED),
office of the chief veterinary
officer said May 9.
Pigs in a finisher barn in
southeast Manitoba tested
positive for the virus, but
none of the animals on the
farm are showing symptoms,
officials said in a release.
The chief veterinarian’s
office is working to identify
other premises that have
been in contact with the farm
and investigate how it got
there. The case was identified as part of an investigation related to a previously
reported positive sample
from a high-traffic site.
To date, eight high-traffic
or environmental sites have
tested positive for PED including two cases where it is
likely pigs contracted PED at
high-traffic sites and not on
farm. High-traffic sites move
or handle large numbers of
pigs and include livestock
assembly yards, federal and
provincial abattoirs, truck
wash stations and livestock
trailers. So far, a total of 1,187
samples were submitted for
PED testing from 18 hightraffic sites.
There are now 62 farm
premises that have tested
positive for PED across
Canada including two in
Manitoba, one in Prince
Edward Island, one in
Quebec and 58 in Ontario.
SEEDING Continued from page 1
Farmers should aim for a
plant population that offers the
best yield potential. To do that,
farmers need to know the germination rate of their seed and
expected plant mortality.
Under normal conditions, 30
per cent of canola plants won’t
survive, said MAFRD oilseed
specialist Anastasia Kubinec.
That jumps to 50 per cent when
conditions are cold and wet.
Farmers should aim for a canola plant population of seven to
10 plants per square foot and no
fewer than five, Kubinec said.
As of May 12, most Manitoba
soils were still too cold for seeding canola. The soil temperature should average at least 5
C, Kubinec said. That average is
based on temperature readings
taken at seeding depth at 8 a.m.
and 8 p.m. over three days.
One soil temperature reading
at Gladstone May 12 was just 2
C, she said.
Cereal crops can tolerate
colder soils. That’s why farmers
usually plant them first.
He’d rather be seeding, but Ste. Rose du Lac farmer Rob Brunel was making
snowballs instead in Riding Mountain National Park on Mother’s Day May 11.
On May 12 Brunel said he didn’t know of any seeding that has taken place so
far in the Parkland region. photo: Erin Brunel
Some farmers prefer not to
plant corn until the soil hits 10 C,
while others, including Waldner
say the new varieties have
improved cold tolerance.
“I’ve been told by some (farmers) ‘seed doesn’t grow in the
bag,’” de Rocquigny said.
Although farmers are anxious
to get to the field, de Rocquigny
said she hasn’t heard of anyone
panicking yet.
“I think with the equipment
producers have, and they’ve
probably got everything lined
up, so when they can go they’ll
be working from morning till
night,” she said.
“Manitoba producers have
seen it all. Some years they seed
early and some years they seed
later and the growing season the
rest of the way is the final dictator of what the yields will be.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 15, 2014
Vermont becomes first state to
mandate GMO labelling
The law is expected to be challenged in court by food and agriculture companies
By Carey Gillam
REUTERS
V
er mont became the
first U.S. state to mandate labelling of foods
made with genetically modified organisms May 8 as Governor Peter Shumlin signed
a law that is expected to
be challenged in court by
some food and agriculture
companies.
The law, set to take effect
July 1, 2016, would for the
first time align at least a small
part of the United States with
more than 60 other countries that require labelling of
genetically engineered foods.
And it sets the stage for more
than two dozen other states
that are currently considering
mandatory labelling of such
GMO foods.
“Vermonters will have the
right to know what’s in their
food,” Shumlin told cheering supporters in a speech on
the state House steps. “We are
pro-information. Vermont gets
it right with this bill.”
Shumlin said the state had
set up a “food fight fund” to
take online donations to help
defend the law from litigation.
The Grocery Manufacturers
Association (GMA) said after
the bill was signed into law
that it would file suit in Federal Court to try to overturn
the law.
Consumer groups and lawmakers supporting manda-
tory labelling say there are
concerns about the safety and
the environmental impacts
of genetically engineered
crops, and labels would help
consumers easily distinguish
products containing GMOs
so they can avoid them if
they wish.
The consumer sentiment
has pushed a growing number
of U.S. food companies to start
using non-genetically modified ingredients for their products because of the consumer
backlash against GMOs.
But the move away from
GMOs has upset the food and
agriculture industries, including the makers of genetically
modified corn, soybeans,
canola and other crops widely
used in packaged foods.
They say their products are
proven safe, and that mandatory labels will imply they are
unsafe, confuse consumers
and increase costs.
“Scientific bodies and regulatory officials around the
world recognize that foods
made from genetically modified (GM) crops are as safe
as their non-GM counterparts,” said Cathleen Enright,
executive vice-president of
the Biotechnology Industry
Organization (BIO). “GM crops
have enabled farmers to produce more on less land with
fewer pesticide applications,
less water and reduced onfarm fuel use.”
BIO, a trade group whose
Are you interested in becoming
a reviewer for the Environmental
Farm Plan program?
Keystone Agricultural Producers, which conducts reviews of producers’ environmental
farm plans and issues statements of completion, is looking for plan reviewers.
About the EFP program
About the position
The Environmental Farm Plan program is
a voluntary, confidential, self-assessment
process that helps producers identify the
agri-environmental assets and risks on
their operations, and develop an action
plan to reduce the identified risks. Once a
producer completes an EFP and receives
a statement of completion, he or she is
eligible to apply for assistance to execute
the action(s) identified.
If you farm in Manitoba and have knowledge/experience of environmental
farming practices, please consider applying. Duties include:
The EFP program addresses the effects of
agriculture on quality and supply of water
resources, health and quality of soils, air
and atmospheric quality, and biodiversity
and agricultural landscapes.
• Responding to producer requests for workbook reviews.
• Setting up specific days/times/locations for workbook reviews.
• Examining workbooks to ensure all relevant sections are complete.
• Completing the review checklist.
• Discussing with producers possible actions they could take to mitigate
environmental risks they have identified in their EFPs.
• Submitting the completed and signed workbook to the KAP office, along
with expenses.
You should be easily reached by phone or email, willing to assist producers
as necessary, and willing to travel as required. Areas of travel are:
• The Pembina Valley region (Carman in the north, Emerson/Cartwright in
the south, Neelin/Baldur west and east to Morris/St. Jean Baptiste).
• The Southeast Interlake region (Teulon in the north, Beausejour to the
east, and areas close to Winnipeg – Steinbach, Dugald, Starbuck, etc.)
Compensation is $80 per review, plus mileage at 38 cents per kilometre.
Helping producers practice sustainable farming
members include Monsanto
Co., Dow AgroSciences, a unit
of Dow Chemical Co., and
other biotech seed companies,
said food costs for an average
household would rise as much
as $400 per year due to mandatory labelling.
BIO and the GMA are backing a proposed federal law that
would nullify Vermont’s labelling law and any other mandatory labelling of GMOs in the
United States.
They say there is scientific consensus on the safety
of GMOs. But last October, a
group of 93 international scientists issued a statement
saying that claim is false, and
more independent research
is needed.
WHAT’S UP
Please forward your agricultural
events to daveb@fbcpublishing.
com or call 204-944-5762.
June 14-15: Pioneer Power and
Equipment Club annual show,
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Museum, 300 Commonwealth
Way, Brandon Municipal Airport.
Free admission. For more info call
204-763-4342.
June 17: Hay and Silage Day,
Friedensfeld Community Centre,
Highway 303 (1.6 km east of Hwy.
12). For more info or to register
call MAFRI before June 6 at 204346-6080.
June 22-25: World Congress on
Conservation Agriculture (WCCA6),
RBC Convention Centre, 375 York
Ave., Winnipeg. For more info visit
www.wcca6.org.
July 6-8: Pulse and Special Crops
Convention, Sheraton Cavalier, 612
Spadina Cres. E., Saskatoon. For
more info visit www.specialcrops.
mb.ca.
July 19: Springfield Country Fair,
Dugald. Judging July 18. Call 204755-3464 or visit www.springfieldagsociety.com.
July 24-27: Manitoba
Threshermen’s Reunion and
Stampede, Manitoba Agricultural
Museum, Austin. For more info
visit http://ag-museum.mb.ca/
events/threshermens-reunionand-stampede/.
Oct. 6-9: International Summit of
Co-operatives, Centre des Congres
de Quebec, 1000 boul. ReneLevesque E., Quebec City. For more
info visit http://www.sommetinter.
coop.
Nov. 17-19: Canadian Forage and
Grassland Association conference
and AGM, Chateau Bromont, 90
rue Stanstead, Bromont, Que. For
more info email c_arbuckle@
canadianfga.ca or call 204-2544192.
The EFP is a component of Growing Assurances – Environment, part of the federal provincial Growing
Forward 2 agreement, administered by KAP and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 15, 2014
Two recognized for contributions
to Manitoba agriculture
Ed Tyrchniewicz and Marg Rempel received merit awards at
the recent School of Agriculture’s convocation
This year’s graduating
class numbered 58
University of Manitoba release
F
Staff
T
he University of Manitoba’s faculty of agricultural and food sciences
recently honoured two Manitobans for their outstanding
contributions to the province’s
agricultural community.
Ed Tyrchniewicz, agricultural
educator, and Marg Rempel,
farmer and community leader,
received Certificates of Merit
from the faculty of agricultural
and food sciences at the May 2
School of Agriculture convocation in recognition of leadership
with agricultural organizations
and outstanding service to the
community.
Rempel is a lifelong farmer
who operates a 500-sow farrow
to finish hog operation along
with producing grains and
oilseeds, meat goats and pasture poultry in partnership with
her son Jason on the family farm
near Ste. Anne.
She and her late husband Ron
worked in community development in Brazil in the late 1970s
before returning to Manitoba to
farm. Rempel has continued to
serve her local and the agricultural communities in multiple
capacities ranging from 4-H to
Keystone Agricultural Produc-
Diploma in
agriculture
graduation
From l to r: Michele Rogalsky, School of Agriculture director; Michael Trevan, faculty of agricultural and food
sciences dean; Marg Rempel; Ed Tyrchniewicz; David Collins, University of Manitoba vice-provost. supplied photo
ers, the Manitoba Pork Council, and the Canadian Agri-Food
Policy Institute and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
Tyrchniewicz, formerly the
head of agricultural economics at the University of Manitoba, was the founding director
of the Transport Institute. He
later moved to the University of
Alberta, where he served as the
dean of the faculty of agriculture
and forestry.
He returned to his roots
when he was appointed a senior scholar in the department
of agribusiness at the University of Manitoba in 2008. He is
currently involved in teaching
in the Internationally Educated
Agrologists Post-Baccalaureate
Diploma in the faculty of agricultural and food sciences,
a one-year program aimed
at helping immigrants with
degrees in agriculture from foreign countries get their credentials recognized in Manitoba.
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Tyrchniewicz has participated in numerous provincial
and national public inquiries into agricultural policy
issues ranging from sustainable livestock production,
grain handling and transportation, and natural resource
management. He has also
undertaken short-term
assignments in countries
including Ukraine, Bangladesh, Thailand, Kenya, India,
Argentina and China.
ifty-eight graduates received
their diplomas in agriculture at the 2014 convocation
of the School of Agriculture May 2.
Fiona Jochum of St. Francois Xavier received the Governor General’s Bronze Medal, an
award given to the graduate with
the highest academic standing in
the two-year Diploma Program
in Agriculture. Fiona was also the
recipient of the President’s Medal,
given annually to a student who
combines scholarship with outstanding qualities of leadership.
Diplomas with Distinction,
awarded to students who obtain
a Grade Point Average of 3.75 or
better out of a possible 4.5, were
presented to Kayla Antonowich
(Morden), Nathan Beichter, (Carman), Michelle Gaudry (Linden),
Cody Ireland (High Bluff), Fiona
Jochum, Alyson Johnson (Killarney), Alexandra Leishman (Carman), Karin Muellr (Oak Bluff ),
Dylan Sanders (Manitou), Matt
Sawatzky (MacGregor), Jennifer
Temmer (St. Williams, Ont.) and
Matthew Wiebe (Morden).
The Teacher of the Year Award
was presented by the graduating
class to Gary Martens, an instructor in the department of plant science. Gary, who will be retiring
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the years with his personable and
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LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Cattle Prices
Heifers
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137.60
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142.25
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181.45 - 235.76
189.90 - 241.15
194.73 - 248.56
$ 143.40 - 159.22
140.89 - 168.59
152.62 - 188.46
162.10 - 205.78
157.49 - 218.98
169.17 - 224.24
$
(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.)
Week Ending
May 3, 2014
54,943
12,753
42,190
NA
608,000
$1 Cdn: $0.9174 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.0900 Cdn.
COLUMN
(Friday to Thursday)
Winnipeg
Slaughter Cattle
Steers & Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
$ 98.00 - 106.00
D3 Cows
90.00 - 98.00
Bulls
110.00 - 115.50
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
$ 155.00 - 173.50
(801-900 lbs.)
160.00 - 189.00
(701-800 lbs.)
178.00 - 215.00
(601-700 lbs.)
190.00 - 225.00
(501-600 lbs.)
200.00 - 237.00
(401-500 lbs.)
210.00 - 250.00
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
—
(801-900 lbs.)
160.00 - 180.00
(701-800 lbs.)
155.00 - 196.00
(601-700 lbs.)
185.00 - 208.00
(501-600 lbs.)
205.00 - 225.00
(401-500 lbs.)
210.00 - 235.00
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
May 9, 2014
Close
183.50
190.27
190.65
191.02
190.37
187.40
Change
-6.97
-0.70
-0.32
0.27
3.12
2.55
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Previous
Year­
52,955
12,319
40,636
NA
622,000
Week Ending
May 3, 2014
791
28,410
17,148
826
780
6,421
82
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Previous
Year
1,480
28,004
13,209
692
823
7,948
136
CNSC
P
rices remained strong at Manitoba
stockyards for the week ended May
9, with feeder cattle reporting topend bids. On a province-wide basis, over
7,000 animals were marketed during the
week, roughly 1,000 fewer than the previous week’s levels. Yards at Killarney and
Gladstone were closed after switching over
to biweekly sales schedules.
Heartland Livestock at Brandon nearly
quadrupled its total volume, welcoming
over 2,000 animals through the rings compared to 512 the week before.
Marketing representative Brad Delgaty
chalked up the resurgence in cattle numbers to drier conditions in the region. “(The
May 2 sale) was so muddy the guys couldn’t
get out.”
Heifers under 500 pounds topped out
in the $236 per hundredweight (cwt) area
for top quality. Steers, also under 500 lbs.,
topped out in the $256/cwt area. Good
bulls were in the $102 to $111 range.
As markets go, Delgaty said, they continue to see strong interest from the West
and South, and moderate interest from the
East.
“Everything’s straight across the board
(and) seemed to be up a couple of cents, I
think. It didn’t matter what they were,” said
Delgaty, adding the slaughter and feeder
markets are both still strong. He noted the
recent cow-calf pair sale went off without a
hitch and firm prices were received.
Flows are remaining steady despite the
fact many herds are depleted and some
farmers have begun to think about seeding.
“After a big run like this I would venture to
guess it will drop off.”
If there is one concern Delgaty has, it
lies in the amount of feed still available to
herds in the area.
“Everybody thought they had lots of feed
through the winter but it was such a cold,
harsh winter that everybody used more
feed than they expected.”
With cold overnight temperatures still
being reported in several areas, it could
be awhile until the grass starts to grow,
Delgaty said, so some producers will be
scrambling to find feed.
“The way the spring has been, guys are
still feeding so there’s a lot of guys starting to get pretty short; if we don’t see grass
within the next couple of weeks, guys are
going to be looking to buy some feed.”
A string of sunny days and dry weather
is what producers would really like to see
now, he said.
Dave Sims writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a
Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity
market reporting.
Hog Prices
Source: Manitoba Agriculture
(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)
E - Estimation
MB. ($/hog)
MB (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)
MB (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)
ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)
PQ (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)
Futures (May 9, 2014) in U.S.
Hogs
May 2014
June 2014
July 2014
August 2014
October 2014
Current Week
231.00 E
214.00 E
225.49
230.31
Last Week
236.77
218.88
229.63
236.19
Close
114.90
120.15
123.42
121.85
104.10
Last Year (Index 100)
172.78
159.17
164.05
165.42
briefs
Change
-7.90
-2.55
0.52
17.90
10.70
bei j i n g / r e u te r s /
China will start a second
round of stockpiling of
pork for state reserves as
part of efforts to shore up
falling domestic prices, the
country’s state planning
body said May 6.
T h e N a t i o n a l
Development and Reform
Commission (NDRC) did
not say how much would
be purchased after a first
round of buying in March
failed to support prices,
which have fallen for 19
weeks in a row.
Other Market Prices
Sheep and Lambs
$/cwt
Ewes Choice
Lambs (110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
Winnipeg (345 head)
(wooled fats)
80.00 - 94.00
—
100.00 - 110.00
125.00 - 140.00
—
180.00 - 202.00
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 May 11, 2014
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.980
Undergrade .............................. $1.890
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.970
Undergrade .............................. $1.870
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.970
Undergrade .............................. $1.870
Tom Turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A..................................... $1.880
Undergrade............................... $1.795
Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.
Toronto
66.59 - 91.14
138.71 - 154.17
172.38 - 205.53
157.48 - 211.79
184.96 - 252.56
—
SunGold
Specialty Meats
40.00
Eggs
Minimum prices to producers for ungraded
eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the
Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board
effective June 12, 2011.
New
Previous
A Extra Large
$1.8500
$1.8200
A Large
1.8500
1.8200
A Medium
1.6700
1.6400
A Small
1.2500
1.2200
A Pee Wee
0.3675
0.3675
Nest Run 24 +
1.7490
1.7210
B
0.45
0.45
C
0.15
0.15
Goats
China to stockpile
more pork
Brazil confirms
second case of
atypical mad cow
disease
sao paulo / reuters /
Brazil has confirmed a second case of atypical mad cow
disease, a year after several
countries banned Brazilian
beef imports when a similar case of the disease was
confirmed.
The Agriculture Ministry
said May 9 that a lab in
We y b r i d g e , E n g l a n d
approved by the World
Animal Health Organization
confirmed it was a spontaneous case of atypical bovine
spongiform encephalopathy
(BSE), or mad cow disease,
with no link to contaminated
feed.
The 12-year-old cow found
dead in March in a slaughterhouse in Mato Grosso state
was born and never left the
same farm where cattle are
fed by pasture grazing and
mineral salts, and not feed,
according to a ministry
statement.
Classical cases of mad cow
are caused when cattle are fed
brain or spinal tissue of other
ruminants, which is now forbidden in nearly all beef-producing countries, including
Brazil. In atypical cases, the
animal contracted the protein
spontaneously, rather than
through the feed supply.
The ministry said the dis-
eased animal was incinerated
and none of its parts entered
the feed chain.
In late 2012 tests showed
that a cow that died two
years earlier in Parana state
had developed the protein
that causes mad cow disease,
though the animal never
developed the disease and
died of natural causes.
The World Animal Health
Organization maintained
Brazil’s status as a country
with an insignificant risk of
BSE after it confirmed the
atypical Parana case in tests
carried out in England in
2012.
Even so, several countries
including South Korea, China
and Egypt banned some or all
beef imports from Brazil, the
world’s top exporter.
Humans can develop
what is known as variant
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
from consuming animals
with mad cow, and more than
150 people have died from it.
Mad cow was first discovered
in Britain in 1986, but strict
controls have tempered its
spread.
Winnipeg (110 head)
Toronto
(Fats)
($/cwt)
Kids
200.00 - 240.00
60.46 - 334.63
Billys
200.00 - 300.00
—
Mature
—
66.35 - 206.90
Horses
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
21.14 - 41.94
37.26 - 56.23
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GRAIN MARKETS
Export and International Prices
column
StatsCan confirms Canada’s
burdensome canola stocks
The U.S. drought can only take wheat futures so far
Phil Franz-Warkentin
CNSC
I
CE Futures Canada canola contracts
moved up and down during the week
ended May 9, but edged higher overall
as uncertain production prospects and
supportive technical signals were enough
to counter the large supplies that continue
to overhang the market.
Statistics Canada confirmed the burdensome supply situation in Wester n
Canada on May 5, reporting Canadian canola stocks as of March 31 at nine million
tonnes. The stocks set a new record for
that time of year, and were roughly double
the supplies on hand at the same point in
2013. Those big supplies mean that even
with a return to average yields in 2014,
there should still be more than enough
canola to meet the demand through the
crop year ahead.
However, seeding of that new crop is
only in its early stages across Western
Canada, and there is enough uncertainty
to keep some weather premiums in the
futures for the time being. Conditions
remained wet and cool in many areas into
the first weeks of May, which kept seeding
at a minimum so far.
Meanwhile, the U.S. soybean situation is
a little more bullish, which helps prop up
canola as well. Old-crop U.S. supplies are
so tight that the country is seeing unprecedented imports of Brazilian beans to fill
the domestic demand, with barges moving
north along the Mississippi.
That supply tightness, and resulting
price strength, has definitely generated
some interest planting soybeans and the
Week Ago
Year Ago
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
270.16
256.75
263.15
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
296.06
275.12
316.14
Coarse Grains
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
203.34
198.12
273.42
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
228.89
271.04
267.80
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
539.95
541.42
547.89
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
906.70
902.29
1,081.99
oilseeds
U.S. Department of Agriculture is currently
forecasting a record-large crop this year. As
a result, new-crop beans remain at a sizable discount to the old crop.
CBOT corn futures were underpinned by
the slow U.S. Midwestern planting pace,
but held rangebound overall as weather
forecasts were improving and USDA also
forecast rising supplies of the grain. Cool
and wet conditions have slowed corn seeding this year, but a turn to warmer and
drier likely helped producers make some
good progress.
All three U.S. wheat futures hit their
best levels in over a year dur ing the
week, but did run into some resistance to
the upside.
Drought conditions reminiscent of the
dust bowl era have cut into production
prospects for hard red winter wheat in
Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Meanwhile,
Minneapolis spring wheat futures got a bit
of a boost from reports of seeding delays in
the northern-tier states.
Wheat is a staple crop the world over,
with a crop usually being harvested somewhere at any given time. The U.S. markets
may have their own fundamental reasons
for moving higher, but the sustainability of
that strength in an internationally traded
commodity may be questionable.
As one example, Canada is still holding
on to very large old-crop wheat supplies,
with StatsCan reporting total stocks in the
country as of March 31 of just over 21 million tonnes. Australian wheat crops are
also in good shape, with reports out of that
country during the week predicting record
exports.
Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
For three-times-daily market reports from
Commodity News Service Canada, visit
“Today in Markets” at www.manitobacooperator.ca.
Last Week
All prices close of business May 8, 2014
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business May 9, 2014
barley
Last Week
Week Ago
May 2014
139.50
139.50
July 2014
140.50
140.50
October 2014
140.50
140.50
Canola
Last Week
Week Ago
May 2014
495.10
493.40
July 2014
481.10
480.40
November 2014
485.90
469.30
Special Crops
Report for May 12, 2014 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan
Spot Market
Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)
Spot Market
Other (Cdn. cents per pound unless
otherwise specified)
Large Green 15/64
23.00 - 24.00
Canaryseed
Laird No. 1
21.00 - 23.00
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
15.00 - 16.50
Desi Chickpeas
19.00 - 21.50
—
15.20 - 16.00
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 - 7.00
Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Feed Pea (Rail)
No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans
4.25 - 4.35
38.00 - 38.00
No. 1 Great Northern
55.00 - 55.00
Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)
No. 1 Cranberry Beans
38.00 - 38.00
Yellow No. 1
36.75 - 38.00
No. 1 Light Red Kidney
54.00 - 54.00
Brown No. 1
32.10 - 33.75
No. 1 Dark Red Kidney
56.00 - 56.00
Oriental No. 1
27.30 - 28.75
No. 1 Black Beans
38.00 - 38.00
No. 1 Pinto Beans
29.00 - 32.00
Source: Stat Publishing
SUNFLOWERS
No. 1 Small Red
40.00 - 40.00
No. 1 Pink
40.00 - 40.00
Fargo, ND
Goodlands, KS
21.35
18.85
Report for May 9, 2014 in US$ cwt
NuSun (oilseed)
32.00* Call for
Confection
details
—
Source: National Sunflower Association
Rare U.S. wheat futures spread trade may persist
A stressed 2014 Kansas winter wheat crop and a stuck 2013 spring wheat crop caused a price inversion
By Christine Stebbins
chicago / reuters
A
n unusual and historically wide
price gap between U.S. hard red
winter wheat and spring wheat
prices may last awhile longer even
though the spread began shrinking
this week, traders and analysts said
May 9.
Kansas City Board of Trade hard
red winter wheat (HRW) futures for
July delivery closed at $8.28-3/4 a
bushel May 9, 33-1/2 cents above
the Minneapolis Grain Exchange July
spring wheat futures contract.
A week ago that spread trade
closed at a 46-3/4 cents premium for
Kansas City, the widest gap in at least
25 years. The spread narrowed this
week as deliveries were made against
the KCBT May contract, pressuring
futures, and rains delayed spring
wheat planting in North Dakota, lifting MGEX futures on concerns about
supplies.
“Can it sustain record discounts
if the hard red crop continues to be
threatened? Yea, I think it can,” Joe
Christopher, grain merchant with
Crossroads Co-op, said of the spread.
“You might get a bounce in the spread
but until the size of winter wheat crop
is determined — it’s going to stay
fairly wide.”
The current situation is very unu-
sual, since spring wheat is almost
always priced higher than winter
wheat.
HRW, grown in Kansas and the
southern Plains, usually averages
11-12 per cent protein, while spring
wheat grown farther north — Canada
and North Dakota are top producers
— averages 13-14 per cent protein.
But the unusual inversion began in
February.
“Certainly, Kansas City has been
supported by the major issue of
weather in western Kansas and
Oklahoma,” said analyst Terry
Roggensack of The Hightower Report
advisory firm in Chicago. “You can
only kill the crop so many times and
eventually the market is going to price
that in.”
At the same time, much of the huge
spring wheat crop in Canada and
North Dakota stuck in bins last fall
due to rail car shortages and winter
storms has begun to move to commercial millers and exporters, pressuring MGEX with hedge selling.
“Minneapolis is at a discount and
the short-term reasons are clear — the
massive, massive Canadian crop that
couldn’t get out of there is now getting
out and some of it is flowing down
over the border,” Roggensack said.
The trends may be shifting back, as
seen this week. But it will take time,
and weather will be key, analysts said.
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Pullet farmers seek answers
after marketing agency denied
The government turned their application down, but hasn’t given a reason
By Alex Binkley
“This is the right
time for PGC to
come under supply
management and
would have been
a positive change
for Canadian pullet
growers.”
Co-operator contributor
C
anadian pullet producers are trying to find out
why their application for
a national marketing board was
denied by Agriculture Minister
Gerry Ritz.
“We are awaiting the official
written response from the minister’s office in that regard and
in the meantime we are considering our options,” said Andy
DeWeerd, chairman of the Pullet Growers of Canada. “We have
come too far to just give up. Now
is the time to regroup, examine
our options and forge ahead.
The status quo simply doesn’t
work anymore and one way or
another, PGC will lead Canadian pullet growers into a stable
future.”
There are 550 pullet producers
across Canada.
In an email, Agriculture Canada’s media section said, “After
reviewing the Farm Products
Council of Canada report and
recommendation and giving
it due consideration, the government determined that the
assessment of merit was not
compelling.”
The email said the government
still supports supply management for dairy and the rest of the
poultry sector. It insisted pullet
farmers, who supply young hens
for farms that produce eggs for
grocery stores and food processors, would continue to prosper.
Andy DeWeerd
The producers who raise the pullets used in egg production are the only part of the sector not under supply
management. photo: laura rance
Howe ve r, De We e rd s a y s
his members sought marketing board status to stabilize the
sector and be able to afford the
growing cost of government regulations and food safety standards.
The report posted on the
council’s website summarizes
its public hearings on the pullet
growers’ application, but doesn’t
contain any recommendations.
It notes there was far more sup-
port than opposition to a pullet
board.
The main criticisms were
that international trade would
be constrained and consumer
prices would rise. The report
doesn’t dispute the pullet growers’ contention that a marketing board could lead to a one- to
two-cent-a-dozen increase in the
price of eggs.
Egg Farmers of Canada, whose
members are the main custom-
ers of pullet growers, supported
the proposed board.
“This has been a long and
involved process,” DeWeerd
said. “This is the right time for
PGC to come under supply management and would have been
a positive change for Canadian
pullet growers.”
The growers spent more than
four years going step by step
through the legal process of
applying for marketing board
status, which would give them
some control over production
and prices. Pullets are the dayold chicks raised to 19 weeks that
become layer hens. They are currently the only part of the poultry
system that is not in supply management.
A successful application would
have given PGC the required
legal powers to represent and
make decisions on behalf of
member provincial pullet grower
organizations on issues related
to cost of production, disease
control and animal welfare,
among many other issues facing the industry. Stable pricing under supply management
would have allowed pullet growers to reinvest in their farms and
address social and environmental responsibilities to the standards expected by Canadians with
consistent national programs,
the association said.
EU toughens rules on imports
in response to deadly pig virus
Blood byproducts must be heated and stored for six weeks before export
By Barbara Lewis and Tom Polansek
brussels/chicago / reuters
T
he European Commission has
approved new rules aimed at
limiting the spread of a virus
that has killed millions of piglets in
the United States, highlighting the
risk of animal feed products as a
potential transmission agent.
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
(PEDv) has wiped out more than 10
per cent of the U.S. pig population
since it appeared a year ago and has
also struck in Canada, Mexico and
Japan. The European Union has not
been affected by this strain.
In the United States, the world’s
biggest pork exporter, losses from
P ED v c o u l d c u t p o r k p r o d u c tion as much as seven per cent in
2014, according to research firm
Rabobank, much steeper than gov-
ernment estimates of a two per cent
fall.
While the commission stopped
short of an outright ban of pig
byproducts, which France considered,
the new rules include a requirement
that any pig blood products imported
to the European Union for use in pig
feed must have been treated at 80 C
and then kept in storage for six weeks
at room temperature to ensure any
PEDv is deactivated.
Clarity sought
The United States said its Animal
and Plant Inspection Service (APHIS)
would be working with the EU to get
clarity on the rules and when they
would take effect. APHIS said no
changes were being considered to U.S.
regulations for treating feed.
“Ongoing research will help determine the possible role of feed in the
domestic transmission of PED,” Abby
Yigzaw, a spokeswoman for APHIS,
said in an email.
The USDA finally responded to
calls for more reliable data and classified PEDv as a reportable disease last
month, a step that requires the pork
industry to track its spread. The virus is
not a risk to human health and is not a
food safety issue.
The highly contagious virus is known
to be transmitted among pigs through
feces, but the possibility of a link with
pig blood products used in feed is not
proven, and scientists continue to
search for its origins and a cure.
Canada alarmed the farm and
feed industries in February when it
said it had determined the virus was
present in samples of U.S.-origin
plasma. It was unclear whether the
feed was capable of causing the disease in piglets.
Canada’s agriculture minister,
Gerry Ritz, said it was “disappointing” that the EU had taken the
measures, which he said were not
founded in science.
Protein source
Spray-dried pig plasma is mixed
with feed and fed to piglets as
an extra source of protein. U.S.
p l a s m a p r o d u c e r s a re a l re a d y
largely using the temperature benchmark, but the storage
requirements are more extensive
than current practice.
“Six-week storage before release
is not typical,” Louis Russell, president of APC Inc., which processes
blood products, said in an email.
The EU imports about 2.2 tonnes
of pig blood from the United States
a n n u a l l y, a s p o k e s m a n f o r t h e
European Commission said.
13
The Manitoba Co-operator | May 15, 2014
NEWS
catching some rays
EU should halve
meat, dairy
consumption to
cut nitrogen
By Nina Chestney
london / reuters
People in the European
Union, who according to
a United Nations body
eat way more protein
than necessary, could
prompt big cuts in nitrogen pollution if they
halved their meat and
dairy consumption, a
UN-backed report said in
late April.
Currently, 6.5 million
to eight million tonnes a
year of nitrogen escape
into the environment
due to agricultural practices. That represents
around 80 per cent of
nitrogen emissions from
all sources, said the study
by the United Nations’
Economic Commission
for Europe’s (UNECE)
Task Force on Reactive
Nitrogen.
Around 79 to 88 per
cent of total emissions in
the EU related to nitrogen are from livestock
production. The nitrogen
footprint of meat and
dairy is considerably
higher than that from
plant-based products, the
report added.
“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,” lead
author Henk Westhoek,
program manager for
Agriculture and Food
at the Netherlands
Environmental
Assessment Agency, said
in a statement.
On average in Europe,
a person eats 83 grams
of protein a day and 60
per cent of this comes
from animals, the study
showed.
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 reduction in dairy
and meat consumption
would also reduce the
need for soybean imports,
currently used in animal
feed, by 75 per cent.
“The EU could become
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products, instead of a
major importer of, for
example, soybeans,”
Westhoek added.
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of the main contributors to greenhouse gas
emissions which are
believed to fuel global
warming. Estimates vary
but scientists say animal
agriculture could account
for between 10 and 25
per cent of total global
emissions.
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SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN
Herd dispersal draws buyers seeking new stock
The first auction after Easter attracted 450 sheep and goats
By Mark Elliot
co-operator contributor
E
wes dominated this
sale. The herd dispersal
of ewes were well structured, very apparent and could
possibly start a fall breeding program. The producer
took the time to sort his animals into smaller groups and
based up quality conditions.
The price ranged from $0.92 to
$1 per pound for these ewes.
The other ewes sold in a price
ranging from $0.59 to $0.90 per
pound. The sheared ewes followed this price range as well.
There was an exception of
seven 119-pound Rideau-cross
ewes sold for $1.03 per pound.
There was a good selection
of rams on offer. Some buyers
were looking for new breeding stock. The strong bidding
kept the ram prices at a strong
price. The price ranged from
$0.84 to $0.97 per pound.
There were no heavyweight
lambs, market or feeder lambs
delivered.
An exception was a group
o f 1 5 8 8 - p o u n d n e w - c ro p
lambs which brought $2.05 per
pound. These lambs had been
grain fed for a period of time,
to reach the quality.
The selection of lightweight
lambs was limited, as the newcrop lambs supplied this classification. Seven 71-pound
Katahdin-cross lambs brought
$126.38 ($1.78 per pound).
A 60-pound Katahdin-cross
lamb brought $94.50 ($1.575
per pound). Seven 64-pound
Katahdin-cross lambs brought
$83.20 ($1.30 per pound).
Buyers were
restocking and a
sheep and lamb herd
dispersal attracted
solid interest.
Seven 41-pound Dorpercross lambs brought $49.20
($1.20 per pound).
New-crop lambs prices were
lower compared to the last
sale. But buyers were interested in the quality of these
lambs. The very light lambs
at 28 pounds were too small
but brought $32.20 ($1.15 per
pound).
The selection of goat does
was higher than the last sale.
The dairy does were slightly
on the thinner quality, but the
demand was driving the exciting bidding. Buyers with an
interest in the meat does kept
prices strong.
The young goat kids were
too small to separate from the
does, to have separate sales.
A slightly lower-developed
Alpine-cross goat doe with a
kid brought $0.81 per pound.
The Boer-cross doe with a kid
or kids attracted buyer bidding. The Boer-cross doe with
a kid brought a price range
from $0.97 to $1 per pound.
The Boer-cross goat doe with
two kids brought $1.44 per
pound.
A 150-pound Alpine-cross
Ewes
Lambs (lbs.)
110+
95 - 110
80 - 94
Under 80
71
60 / 64
50 - 59
41
New-Crop Lambs
$98.60 - $144
$73.83 - $76.70
April 16, 2014
$116.10 - $161.25
$76 - $113.10
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
$93.50 - $151.05
$124.95 -$173.91
$126.38
$94.50 / $83.20
n/a
$49.20
n/a
$89.11 (67 lbs.)
$63.75 (50 lbs.)
n/a
$1.87
$1.86/$41.84 /$1.91 71/76/79 lbs.
79
63 / 66
$1.60 / $1.71
54 / 59
$1.78 / $1.76
41
$1.60
28
$1.15
goat buck brought $300 ($2
per pound). An 85-pound
Boer-cross goat buck brought
$200 ($2.35 per pound). The
heavier Boer-cross bucks did
not reach this price range.
The price ranged from $1.22
to $1.86 per pound for the
heavier goat bucks.
The lightweight goat kids
were creating some exciting bidding from the buyers.
Future supplies might be limited, so the demand kept the
constant prices.
The Ontario Stockyard
Report indicated that after
the Easter season sales, the
prices have been dropping
for all lamb classifications.
The bidding on goat kids has
remained constant between
sales.
GOAT DOES
meat
dairy
DOELINGS
meat
BUCKS
meat
DAIRY
$1.98/$1.87/$2.16/$1.77
60/63/63/65 lbs.
$1.98/$1.99/$1.99 54/56/59 lbs.
price / lb.
$1.26
$1.32
$1.20 - $1.15
$1.59 - $1.38
$1.11
animal weight
92 - 98 lbs.
100 lbs.
104 - 110 lbs.
81 - 82 lbs.
111 lbs
$1.77
$1.86
72 lbs.
64 lbs.
$2.35 - $1.86
$1.46
$1.22 - $1.26
$2.00
85 - 86 lbs.
120 lbs.
160 - 190 lbs.
150 lbs.
KIDS - Under 80
MEAT
$1.025
55 lbs.
$2.65/$1.86/$2.44
43/43/45 lbs.
$2.50
38 lbs.
Two-stage weaning
reduces stress on calves
Plastic nose flap prevents nursing while allowing calves to
stay with their mothers, which reduces stress
Meristem Land and Science release
T
wo souther n Alber ta
ranches are among those
that have found a twostage calf weaning program is
less stressful for livestock and
improves rate of gain.
The two-stage weaning system
involves processing calves about
a week before the actual weaning day to apply a plastic guard,
or nose flap, in the nose of each
calf. The guard, about the width of
the muzzle and three inches deep,
just clips into the nostrils, similar to the plastic closers found on
many bread bags. The Canadianmade flaps are marketed by Saskatchewan company Quiet Wean.
Calves are then released back
into the cow herd. In the majority
of cases, the nose flap prevents
the calf from nursing its mother.
Within four or five days the calf
forgets about trying to nurse, and
then calves and cows can be separated. On weaning day, calves
can quickly be run through the
chute again to remove the reusable nose flaps.
“It is natural for calves to be
weaned — to stop nursing their
mothers,” says Dr. Joe Stookey, a
researcher and professor in animal behaviour at the Western
College of Veterinary Medicine in
Saskatoon. “But in a natural environment the cow will simply dry
up and discourage the calf from
nursing, but the calf is still with
its mother. What is not natural for
a calf is for mother and milk to
disappear on the same day. Conventional weaning is probably the
most stressful event ranch calves
will experience in their lives.”
Research shows conventionally
weaned calves — those removed
from milk and their mothers on
the same day — will spend the
next two days pacing and walking
as much as 25 miles, bawling and
looking for their mothers. Among
calves weaned with the two-stage
system using the nose flap, walking is reduced to about 10 miles,
and there is very little bawling.
“It is such a simple system, yet
so effective,” says Stookey. “The
stress on the animals is greatly
reduced and that leads to all sorts
of benefits related to improved
calf health and improved rates
of gain, not to mention it is
much quieter.”
Chad Monner, who ranches
with his uncle, Michael Monner,
has been using the system with
their 240-head commercial cowcalf herd at Milo, in southern
Alberta, for about six years.
“Since we have been using
this two-stage system, weaning
day doesn’t even seem to phase
the calves one bit,” says Monner.
“They go on to feed the first day —
get right into it. There is no bawling, no pacing, no wasting time.
From an animal welfare perspective, you can see it is much less
stressful for the calves.”
Monner says the tags, which
cost about $2 each, are easy to
install and remove. He says there
is very good retention, estimating they replace about 10 per cent
each year.
“The odd calf will lose one, and
some calves will figure out a way
to nurse the cow even with it on,”
he says. “And you can certainly
identify those calves on weaning
day. Everyone else is quiet and
eating, and the ones that were
still nursing look pretty sad, and
they’re bawling and looking for
their mothers.”
The Blades family began using
the two-stage weaning program
last year on their 600-head cow
herd on Rocking P Ranch.
A plastic guard, or nose flap, discourages calves from nursing while allowing
them to stay with their mothers. Photo: Courtesy Quiet Wean
“ We w e re re a l l y h a p py
because you could see the difference,” says Mac Blades. “We
background our calves every
year, bring the calves home
from pasture and put them
in the corral for a couple days
or more to allow them to settle
down and then put them out on
pasture again.”
They also say calves that
“cheated” and continued nursing were distressed while the rest
were calm.
Mac and Renie Blades operate
Rocking P Ranch with son Justin, daughter-in-law Mida, and
daughter and son-in-law Monica
and Blake Schlosser. While the
ranch headquarters are just west
of Nanton, they have a second
place and most of the summer
pasture south of Chain-of-Lakes.
“We manage the cattle in three
herds, and do any sorting right
on pasture,” says Blades. “Handling the smaller groups is less
stressful, and after sorting we
haul calves back to the ranch by
truck and trailer, which is also
easier on the calves.”
In late October, they moved
portable corrals to the three pastures to capture calves and apply
the nose flaps and vaccinate
about a week before weaning.
Calves rejoined their mothers for
five to seven days before being
sorted, weaned and hauled home
to corrals at the main ranch.
The day they were weaned,
calves were brought home to
the corral and didn’t miss a beat.
“There was virtually no bawling,
they seemed content and just
started eating,” says Blades. “By
removing that stress calves were
much healthier, there was very
little sign of sickness or respiratory disease.”
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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Feeder Steers
May-07
n/a
May-06
May-06
May-07
n/a
May-08
May-09
No. on offer
1223*
n/a
383*
2014*
1,848
n/a
708
890*
Over 1,000 lbs.
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
153.00-167.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
900-1,000
n/a
n/a
n/a
145.00-172.00
162.00-182.00 (185)
n/a
n/a
n/a
800-900
n/a
n/a
160.00-175.00
175.00-195.00
185.00-204.00 (209)
n/a
155.00-175.00 (193.00)
170.00-199.00
700-800
180.00-214.00
n/a
170.00-199.00
192.00-213.50
196.00-225.00 (229)
n/a
175.00-188.00 (205.00)
180.00-215.00
600-700
190.00-235.00
n/a
190.00-222.00
195.00-228.00
212.00-232.00 (238)
n/a
190.00-218.00 (225.00)
190.00-228.00
500-600
210.00-237.00
n/a
215.00-240.00
219.00-240.00
222.00-258.00
n/a
195.00-238.00 (257.00)
205.00-235.00
400-500
209.00-221.00
n/a
220.00-245.00
225.00-256.00
n/a
n/a
200.00-235.00 (258.00)
200.00-231.00
300-400
n/a
n/a
235.00-270.00
230.00-265.00
n/a
n/a
190.00-240.00 (260.00)
200.00-231.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
140.00-158.00
137.00-154.00
n/a
n/a
115.00-133.00
146.00-175.00
n/a
140.00-160.00
147.00-166.00
149.00-163.00 (168)
n/a
145.00-150.00 (177.00)
150.00-168.00
Feeder heifers
900-1,000 lbs.
800-900
700-800
150.00-192.75
n/a
155.00-182.00
168.00-190.00
163.00-183.00 (190)
n/a
160.00-176.00 (194.50)
160.00-190.00
600-700
190.00-206.00
n/a
170.00-219.00
187.00-208.00
182.00-206.00
n/a
175.00-187.00 (204.00)
175.00-197.00
500-600
196.00-219.00
n/a
190.00-226.00
200.00-226.00
194.00-216.00
n/a
180.00-198.00 (212.00)
188.00-220.00
400-500
n/a
n/a
200.00-242.00
205.00-236.00
200.00-230.00
n/a
185.00-205.00 (242.00)
200.00-224.00
300-400
n/a
n/a
220.00-267.50
230.00-260.00
n/a
n/a
180.00-195.00 (247.00)
n/a
No. on offer
200
n/a
72
70
n/a
n/a
n/a
250
D1-D2 Cows
90.00-100.00
n/a
n/a
96.00-107.00
96.00-103.00
n/a
90.00-108.00 (1.10)
95.00-103.00
D3-D5 Cows
80.00-90.00
n/a
n/a
83.00-94.00
89.00-95.00
n/a
75.00-95.00
88.00-94.00
Age Verified
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
97.00-104.00 (106)
n/a
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
Slaughter Market
90.00-115.00
n/a
102.00-111.00
103.00-111.00
107.00-121.00 (125)
n/a
105.00-118.00 (121.00)
110.00-115.50
Butcher Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
118.00-130.00
124.00-134.75
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
117.00-128.00
122.00-133.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
100.00-117.00
n/a
96.00-104.00
n/a
n/a
105.00-118.00
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
98.00-111.25
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
80.00-94.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Heiferettes
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
110.00-128.00 (131.00)
n/a
* includes slaughter market
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M a r k Tw a i n , 18 9 7
Seasonable weather after cold start
Issued: Monday, May 12, 2014 · Covering: May 14 – May 21, 2014
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
L
ast week’s forecast played
out pretty much as
expected, with the only
minor difference being the
warmer-than-expected temperatures that moved into
our region last weekend. For a
number of locations it was the
first +20 C day since late last
September.
I am hoping this will be the
last time for a while that I have
to use these terms in a forecast, but this forecast period
is going to start off with cold
arctic high pressure building in from the north behind
the area of low pressure that
brought rain to many regions
late last weekend and early
this week. Wednesday looks
like it will be the coolest
day, with widespread frost
expected on Wednesday night.
As this high slowly slides to
the southeast it will modify
under the strong late-spring
sunshine, allowing temperatures to warm up a couple of
degrees each day. By the weekend, with the high to the east,
we’ll see our winds become
more southwesterly, which will
help to boost temperatures
even more, with highs expected
to close in on the 20 C mark.
Another area of low pressure will begin to deepen to our
west over the weekend and this
will likely cause it to become
quite windy on Sunday. This
low is not expected to track into
Ontario and deepen like all of
the other lows we’ve seen over
the last seven months. Instead,
it’s forecast to drift to the northeast and weaken. We could see
some showers or maybe even a
rumble of thunder on Monday
and Tuesday of next week as
this low drifts by. There does not
look to be any cold air ready to
move in behind the low, as the
weather models predict high
temperatures to be in the upper
teens to low 20s for most of next
week. So maybe, just maybe, we
are finally breaking out of this
cold pattern!
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, 13 to 25 C;
lows, 0 to 10 C.
Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession
with a BA (Hon.) in geography,
specializing in climatology, from the
U of W. He operates a computerized
weather station near Birds Hill Park.
Contact him with your questions and
comments at [email protected].
WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA
Percent of Average Precipitation (Prairie Region)
April 1, 2014 to May 8, 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: 05/09/14
www.agr.gc.ca/drought
This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that has fallen across the Prairies so far this growing season. Pretty much all of
Saskatchewan and western Manitoba have seen above- to well-above-average precipitation. The rest of Manitoba and much of Alberta
have seen near-average amounts, with the only dry region being over extreme west-central Alberta.
Closing in on thunderstorm season
It takes a big difference in temperature between two areas to create a severe thunderstorm
By Daniel Bezte
co-operator contributor
F
or this issue’s article I was
supposed to continue our
look into how to become
your own weather forecaster.
However, if you are anything like
the kids in my classes at school,
then I know most of you did not
do any homework! So, I’m going
to give you a one-week extension and we’ll cover that topic
in the next issue. In the meantime, with warmer temperatures
finally starting to show up, I
think it’s time to do our yearly
look at thunderstorms.
To start, I need to talk about
one of my weather pet peeves,
which is when people mix up
weather watches and weather
warnings. Basically, when we are
talking about thunderstorms,
a severe thunderstorm watch
is when the potential exists for
severe thunderstorms to occur.
This means severe thunderstorms have not yet formed.
There may be some thunderstorms around, and you need to
be wary of them, but so far none
of them have become severe. A
severe thunderstorm warning
means severe thunderstorms
have developed and conditions
which meet the “severe” criteria have been recorded either by
observers directly or by radar.
When you hear a warning, it
Severe thunderstorm watches are typically issued
when the ingredients are in place, but forecasters
aren’t sure where or even if thunderstorms will
develop.
means you need to take immediate precautions.
Severe thunderstorm watches
are typically issued when all the
ingredients for severe storms are
in place, but forecasters are not
sure where, or sometimes even
if, thunderstorms will develop.
An analogy you can use is a pot
of water on the stove. If you turn
on an element and put on a pot
of water, eventually the water
will boil, but the big question
is, where will that first bubble
form and break away from the
bottom of the pot? That would
be our thunderstorm: you knew
it was going to form, but exactly
where is the hard part.
Just what are the ingredients
for severe thunderstorms? First
of all, you need rising air, and
to get that you need heat, or
rather, you need a large difference in temperature between
two areas. There are a couple
of ways you can achieve this
difference in temperature. One
way with which most people
are familiar is to have a very
hot day. But just having a very
hot day does not mean there’s a
large difference in temperature.
To get thunderstorms on a hot
day you need to have cool air
aloft (up above the ground).
When this occurs, the hot air
at the surface begins to rise and
encounters cool air as it continues to rise up. This means our
rising air will remain warmer
than the air around it and will
continue to rise up. The cooler
the air around it, the faster it
goes up; the faster it goes up, the
stronger the storm (typically).
Now, sometimes we can get
severe thunderstorms when we
don’t have particularly warm
air at the surface. Two different
scenarios can play out when
this happens which can still
lead to severe thunderstorms.
The first scenario would be
that there is very warm air a
few thousand feet up from the
ground. This warm air then has
cold air above it, and just like
the hot day on the ground, this
warm air in the upper atmos-
phere can rise up giving us elevated thunderstorms.
The second scenario is when
there is a strong contrast of
warm and cool air at the surface or, in other words, we
have some type of front cutting
through an area. On one side
of the front it is cool and on the
other side it is warm. The cold
air acts like a wedge and forces
the warm air up. Sometimes
this occurs when a cold front
is moving into an area, so the
day starts off warm and then
the cold air pushes in, lifting the
warm air up in front of it, giving
us thunderstorms. The other
way is when warm air moves
into a region. The day starts off
cool, then storms develop as
the warm air rises up over the
cool air.
Now, simply having a big difference in temperatures will
not give you a thunderstorm,
or at least will not give you a
severe thunderstorm. There are
still a couple more ingredients
needed.
The next key ingredient is
water vapour, or humidity. It
takes energy to evaporate water,
so the more water vapour there
is in the air, the more potential
energy there is. To get at this
energy the water vapour needs
to be changed back into a liquid form; it needs to condense.
As our warm air rises, it cools,
and as it cools, water vapour will
begin to condense. When it condenses it releases the energy it
absorbed when it evaporated.
This energy is released in the
form of heat.
Our rising air is cooling as it
rises, but not as fast as the air
around it, so it continues to rise.
Then condensation starts taking place, which releases heat
into the air. This makes our rising air even warmer than the air
around it, so it rises even faster.
Now it is starting to sound like
we have everything in place for
a severe storm… but not quite.
If you have air continually rising up, eventually the amount
of air accumulating at the top of
the storm will become so great
it just has to fall back down
again, wiping out the storm in
the process. To get around this
problem we need some kind
of vent at the top of the storm
that takes away all the rising air
accumulating there. We need a
strong jet stream of air over top
of the storm, which will help to
“suck” away the accumulating
air.
There; we now have the key
ingredients for a severe storm,
but like any good chef, Mother
Nature has additional ingredients she can use to make
some storms truly awesome —
something we’ll explore in the
months ahead.
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co-operator staff
F
lax is back in farmers’ good books this
spring, so much so that many flax dealers
have sold right out of seed.
Five years after traces of genetically modified
CDC Triffid flax were discovered in Canadian
flax exports to Europe, Statistics Canada predicts
Canadian farmers will seed 1.7 million acres of
the blue-flowered oilseed this spring — the biggest acreage since the 2006-07 crop year when
almost 1.99 million acres were planted.
“We’ve reconstituted the CDC (Crop Development Centre) varieties (contaminated with
Triffid) and that means farmers are taking the
stewardship program to heart,” Will Hill, president of the Flax Council of Canada said in an
interview May 8. “They’re planting certified seed
ensuring their seed supply is as free of Triffid as it
possibly can be. And that’s a good thing.”
The industry has been working hard to get Triffid out of the system since its discovery temporarily shut down Canadian flax exports to Europe
and cost it premium food markets. Since then,
farmers have been urged to grow only certified
flaxseed, which is tested to be sure it’s Triffid free.
The Canadian Seed Growers Association has
a web-based search tool farmers can use to find
certified seed at www.seedlocator.net.
Farmers considering reverting to farm-saved
seed are urged to test to ensure it’s Triffid free
before planting because buyers insist on that
information, Hill noted. Tests take three to four
days to turn around.
Strong prices, lower production costs and crop
rotation have all contributed to renewed interest
in flax, farmers said.
“Prices for flax are high, the health benefits of
flax are great, we’ve got three good customers
now — China, Europe and the United States, so
we’ve broadened out our base,” Hill said. I think
the industry really has an opportunity to start to
look forward again.”
StatsCan expects Saskatchewan will seed
almost 1.5 million acres of flax this year, up 72
per cent from 2013.
It predicts Manitoba will seed 120,000 acres of
flax, up 42 per cent from last year’s 85,000 acres.
Manitoba flax acreage averaged almost
379,000 between 2003-04 and 2006-07.
Triffid wasn’t the only reason Manitoba farmers had lost interest in flax. The last few years
other crops, including soybeans, had the potential to earn more profit.
But fungicides have helped increase yields.
Manitoba flax yielded just 20 bushels an acre, on
average, the last 10 years. Last year that jumped
to 28 bushels an acre, tying the record set in 2009.
Foxwarren producer George Graham said he
has applied Headline fungicide to his flax the last
four years and it boosted his yields.
“Last year my flax weighed out at 45 bushels
an acre, which is the best crop of flax I’ve ever
grown,” he said.
“We just never realized how much (the fun-
gal disease) Pasmo is taking from the crop. For
me flax is the one crop Headline was made for.
They talk about a two- or three-bushel-an-acre
yield increase on cereals or canola, but on flax
it makes an eight- to 10-bushel-an-acre difference.”
As well, flax doesn’t require seed treatments at
planting, Graham said. “You just fertilize it, spray
herbicides and a shot of fungicide. You can grow
a good crop of flax for under $200 an acre.
Old-crop flax is bringing around $14.50 a
bushel and farmers can lock in $11.50 to $12 on
new crop, he said. “The canola-wheat rotation is
starting to fight back. When farmers saw the flax
prices it was a perfect fit.”
The silver lining in the wake of Triffid is Canadian flax exports are now more diversified, Hill
said. Europe used to buy 70 per cent of Canada’s
flax, the United States 20 per cent and domestic
and other buyers made up the rest. Now exports
are divided evenly between China, Europe and
the U.S.
Canada hasn’t regained the European food
market because buyers remain nervous.
“But we will be working on a plan to regain
that part of the market,” Hill said. “I think the
Europeans would like to have an alternate
source. It’s just a matter of time for building confidence and... we’ll find a way to make it work.
It will likely be more of a container market (to
start).”
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New resistant clubroot pathogen
raising questions about rotations
Alarms are sounding after clubroot-resistant variety breaks down in just four years
By Alexis Kienlen
staff
T
he breakdown of a clubroot-resistant variety just four years after it
came on the market is a “nightmare” — but doesn’t mean growers in
clubroot-free areas can’t plant canola
every other year, say industry officials.
“It’s unfortunate that this had to happen,” said Ward Toma, general manager
of the Alberta Canola Producers Commission.
“We had a tool in resistance and it’s
a nightmare that it broke down so fast.
And it broke down so fast because it was
not used properly, from what we understand.”
Late last summer, several growers in
the Edmonton area who planted resistant varieties developed in 2009 reported
finding dead patches and infected plants
in their fields.
“We were hoping that we would get
maybe eight to 10 years from the current
sources of resistance, but we got four,”
said Clinton Jurke, agronomy specialist
with the Canola Council of Canada. “But
that’s not to say that all resistance has
failed out there.”
The canola council came under criticism earlier this year from some, including the past chair of the Saskatchewan
Canola Development Commission, for
backing tighter rotations in some circumstances. In announcing a new target
of 26 million tonnes of production by
2025, the council released a document
stating crop insurance data showed “in
many areas, growers are maintaining
canola yields while growing the crop
more frequently.”
A minimum one-in-four-year rotation is still recommended for clubrootinfested fields, but many farmers find
themselves in a grey area.
Round Hill, Alta. grain farmer Humphrey Banack is located 80 km from
Leduc County, which is a clubroot hot
“We were hoping that we
would get maybe eight to
10 years from the current
sources of resistance but we
got four. But that’s not to say
that all resistance has failed
out there.”
Clinton Jurke
spot. While he hasn’t found any clubroot
on his land, he plans to plant resistant
varieties for the first time.
“We wanted to try it out this year and
see how it performs,” said Banack, who
is vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.
Some of his fields are on three-year
rotations, but most are on a canolawheat rotation.
“There is more return from a canola
and wheat rotation, than there would
be if we went to a four-year rotation,” he
said. “It’s harder for us to compete with
a land base if we’re being more cautious
for clubroot.”
And while Banack is adhering to the
council’s recommendation of “more
intensive monitoring and management
of diseases and insects” when using tight
rotations, some wonder if enough farmers are doing the same.
“They’re assuming that with all our
tools, we should be able to manage risk,”
said Murray Hartman, oilseed specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural
Development.
“That may be overplaying the role of
new varieties and new products, and
downplaying the role of cultural tools,
like rotation. Not everyone agrees with
that message.”
Since no one knows how quickly
A two-year rotation is OK, as long as you
aren’t in a clubroot-infested area, says Ward
Toma, general manager of Alberta Canola
Producers Commission. supplied photos
new strains of resistant clubroot might
appear, longer rotations might be a better path to follow, he said. With a one-infour rotation, resistance might last eight
or 10 years, and give breeders more time
to create new resistant varieties.
“We’re not prepared with more resistant varieties,” he said. “Now there’s guys
with resistance breaking down, and we
don’t have anything to offer them.”
And farmers should not be gambling
with resistant varieties, he said.
“Guys who have clubroot on their field
shouldn’t be growing a resistant variety
more than once every four years,” said
Hartman.
The canola council agrees.
“We don’t want this resistance to be
lost in a short amount of time, but it
looks like not all growers were heeding
that recommendation,” said Jurke.
His organization is only saying shorter
Humphrey Banack practises due diligence
and knows about the danger of living in a
clubroot-infested county.
rotations work in areas where there is
not a concern about disease or pest
issues, he said.
“A two-year rotation is OK if you’re
not in the blackleg zone or the clubroot zone,” added Toma. “If your risk of
disease from pathogens and insects is
very limited, then a two-year rotation or
break is probably OK.”
“Producers have to be very aware of
whether or not they have it,” Banack
said. “We can’t bury our heads in the
sand and say we won’t have it if we don’t
look for it.”
Among the canola council’s recommendations are rotating resistant varieties, scouting fields seeded to other
crops (since volunteers and susceptible
weeds can harbour clubroot), and scouting right up to swathing.
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Agribusiness companies help end
hunger through CFGB
Several companies are providing free inputs to growing projects across Canada
cfgb release
S
pring planting has not
yet begun, but Canadian
Foodgrains Bank (CFGB)
growing project organizers
across Canada are already
thinking about what they will
grow this year to help end
hunger.
Their efforts will be greatly
aided by support from some
of Canada’s agribusiness companies. Businesses lined up
to provide free seed, fertilizer,
chemicals and other products are Agrium, Arysta Life
Science, Bayer Crop Science,
Brett Young Seeds, Cargill Ag
Horizons Canada, Cheminova,
Dow Agrosciences, DuPont,
DuPont Pioneer, Monsanto,
Novozymes BioAg Limited,
SeCan and Syngenta.
Altogether, the companies
have donated over $300,000
of inputs for the growing
projects, which find farmers
coming together to plant,
The Acres of Hope growing project in Rivers, Man. Photo: CFGB
tend, harvest and then donate
the proceeds of the sale of the
crop. In 2013-14, 236 growing
projects from Atlantic Canada
to B.C. raised $5.3 million
from the sale of 19,217 tonnes
of grain for CFGB.
“We are grateful for the
ongoing support for our growing projects,” says CFGB mar-
keting and donor relations
co-ordinator Sandra Dudych,
noting the provision of free
inputs and services helps the
projects keep their expenses
low so they can donate more
to CFGB.
“The regular donations of
products and services from
these major companies greatly
aids the work of hundreds
of our volunteers, enabling
them to raise more funds to
help people in the developing
world who don’t have enough
to eat.”
In addition to support from
these companies, CFGB also
receives many other donations
of products, services and cash
from hundreds of other local
and regional businesses across
Canada. This includes services
from over 120 elevator companies that handle crops on
behalf of CFGB for free, or at
reduced prices.
“We know it has been a challenging year for the compa-
nies that faithfully work with
us to end global hunger,” says
Dudych, adding that “their
commitment to help us has
been steadfast. Each expression of corporate support is
appreciated.”
In its 2013-14 budget year,
which ended March 31, CFGB
provided $42 million of assistance for 1.28 million people
in 42 countries.
Canadian Foodgrains Bank
is a partnership of 15 churches
and church agencies working
together to end global hunger. Founded in 1983, it has
provided over half a billion
dollars for programs to millions of people in 78 countries that offer food assistance,
improved agriculture and
livelihoods, and nutrition
for millions of people in the
developing world.
Canadian Foodgrains Bank
projects are undertaken with
support from the Government
of Canada.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 15, 2014
CFA joins coalition supporting
plant breeders’ rights changes
The bill to update Canada’s plant breeders’ rights provisions is before Parliament
By Alex Binkley
Co-operator contributor
T
he Canadian Federation
of Agriculture has joined
a coalition of farm and
seed industry groups supporting controversial changes to
plant breeders’ rights.
The CFA wasn’t included
in the Partners in Innovation when the coalition was
formed last year to support
C-18 the Agriculture Growth
Act. While it supported the
breeders’ provisions, the
country’s main farm group
was seeking clarifications to
other provisions in the legislation before endorsing it.
The bill also amends eight
other agriculture acts including rules on fertilizers, animal
health, plant protection and
farm debt mediation. CFA
came out in support of the bill
before Christmas.
“The legislation strikes a
good balance between giving
developers the ability to see
a return on their investment
and research efforts while also
preserving the right for farmers to save and condition seed
for their own use,” said Ron
Bonnett, president of Canadian Federation of Agriculture.
“It’s a win-win situation and
key to continued growth for
the agriculture sector.”
The bill would bring Canada
in line with an international
convention on plant breeders’
rights and that “will address
obstacles that impede the
competitiveness of Canadian
farmers,” he added. “Accessibility to research is incredibly
important to keep our farmers on the forefront — moving forward in the marketplace
and maintaining productive
harvests.”
When C-18 was introduced
last Dec. 9, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said he wanted
the bill passed in time for its
various provisions to come
into effect this Aug. 1.
The bill underwent a few
hours of debate on March 3
and nothing has been said
about it since. A Ritz spokesman said the government
hasn’t decided when debate
will resume.
The Par tners coalition,
which now has 17 member
organizations, is locked in a
noisy public debate with the
National Farmers Union, several environmental groups
and the United Church of
Canada, which say the bill will
give seed companies unwarranted control over Canadian
farmers.
The NFU says the legislation
will make “it much more difficult (for farmers) to save and
reuse seed forcing them to pay
more for seed.” As well, it will
jack up seed costs for farmers and “consolidate the power
and control of the world’s largest agribusiness corporations
over seed, and thus over the
Canadian farming and food
system.”
The coalition, seed companies and Anthony Parker, the
commissioner of the Plant
Breeders’ Rights Office at the
Canadian Food Inspection
Agency, insist the legislation
won’t burden farmers with
higher costs or restrict their
rights to save seed from one
crop to plant the following
year.
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Dow
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offers controlled
launch of Enlist
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will be demonstrated
at learning sites this
year in Manitoba
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ow AgroSciences
announced May 9 it will
undertake a managed
release of its new Enlist corn in
Eastern Canada with plot demonstrations in the West.
The company is rolling out the
corn, which has been modified to
tolerate its Enlist Duo herbicide,
a proprietary blend of glyphosate
and 2,4-D.
Using its Canada Field Forward
program, Dow will allow selected
growers to grow the corn on commercial-scale fields but under
stewarded conditions.
“Growers will manage the technology according to the herbicide label and product use guide,
and will employ best management practices from Dow AgroSciences,” Dow says in a release.
“Farmers participating in the program will be engaged with Dow
AgroSciences throughout the season as they evaluate and steward
the technology on their farms.”
Enlist corn and soybeans were
approved in 2012 and Enlist Duo
was approved in 2013. “Dow AgroSciences anticipates a full commercial launch of Enlist corn will
occur in Canada after regulatory approvals in additional key
import geographies are secured,”
the company says.
In addition to the Field Forward
sites planned for Canada, Dow
AgroSciences will be conducting
a full Canadian plot program in
2014 consisting of Seed Hybrid
Sites and Dow AgroSciences
Learning Sites in Ontario, Quebec
and Manitoba. Growers, retailers and seed sellers will take part
in field-based tours designed to
familiarize them with all aspects
of the Enlist technology, from
product performance, to application and best management practices, the company says.
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crop report
A cold, damp and late start to spring seeding
Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development GO Teams & Crops Knowledge Centre crop report for May 12
Weekly Provincial Summary
Despite continuing cool and
wet conditions across Manitoba some limited seeding
took place, as well as tillage operations and fertilizer
applications. For other areas,
warm and dry weather is
needed in order for field work
and seeding operations to
start.
Manitoba’s winter cereal
crops continue to be assessed
for winter survival and establishment as fields break dormancy and resume growth.
Winterkill and injury is being
reported in some fields,
although it is too early in
some areas to determine the
extent of the damage.
Pa s t u re a n d h a y g r ow t h
continue to be slow due to the
cooler weather conditions,
a n d i n s o m e c ases excess
moisture. Some producers are
moving cattle to pasture.
Southwest Region
Pasture growth continues to
Rainfall amounts ranged from be slow and feed shortages con10 to 25 mm in Hamiota, Rus- tinue to be an issue.
sell, Souris, Melita and Virden
areas and 30 to 35 mm in the Northwest Region
Carberry, Brandon, Forest and The Pas and Dauphin areas
Minnedosa areas. Some of this report the highest surplus soil
moisture was wet snow as five moisture conditions. There is
to 10 cm fell on May 11 in areas localized ponding on many
surrounding Riding Mountain fields across the region. WinNational Park.
ter wheat survival ranges from
A few fields were seeded on good to fair; majority of winhigher, lighter soils in the Riv- ter wheat acres are located in
ers, Neepwa, Binscarth and the southern part of the region.
Russell areas. There was very lit- Weed and volunteer crop
tle field work and seeding south growth is very slow.
of Highway No. 1. Weeds are
Growth on pasture and haygrowing slowly, especially win- fields is limited due to cool conter annuals. Soil temperatures ditions over the past week.
continue to be relatively cool.
Winter wheat and fall rye Central Region
crops continue to break dor- Sun, wind and warm temperamancy and some fields are at tures late in the week allowed
the two- to three-leaf stage with for some seeding progress
healthy crown roots. However, in the Central Region. Soils
growth is slow due to the cool are gradually warming. Rain
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temperatures.
early in the week saw much
of the region receive five to
15 mm. Higher accumulations included Treherne with
17 mm, Pilot Mound 23 mm,
Gladstone 20 mm, and Carberry 38 mm.
Seeding activity picked up
towards the end of the week,
with many producers in eastern
areas able to seed at least a field
or two. Most progress was made
with cereals, canola and corn,
with a few fields of soybeans
seeded.
There are more reports of rotting crowns in winter wheat and
no new root growth in some
fields. It is anticipated that winterkill will result in a number of
fields being reseeded.
Cattle are being taken to pasture and being supplemented
with feed.
Eastern Region
Cumulative rainfall varied from
zero to 25 mm. Fields in the
southeast part of the region are
starting to see standing water.
Temperatures continue to be
below normal and soils remain
relatively cool. Minimal seeding has taken place to date; a
few reports of wheat, canola
and corn being seeded over the
weekend. There are reports of
some producers considering a
switch from planned grain corn
acres to canola as seeding gets
delayed into mid-month.
Winter wheat development
is very slow due to the cold
weather. Some producers are
concerned about winter wheat
survival. Field inspections,
which involve assessing root
growth and crown health, not
just above-ground growth, is
ongoing.
The majority of hay and pasture conditions are rated as
good to fair. On most farms,
producers are preparing to
move cattle out to pasture. Pasture growth is minimal due to
the cool weather so cattle will
need to be supplemented with
feed.
Interlake Region
Rainshowers middle of the
week resulted in four to 12 mm.
Soil temperatures increased
throughout the week averaging
5 to 10 C in the region. Snowdrifts are still present in the
North Interlake.
Broadcasting fertilizer on
forage seed and winter wheat
fields has started but progress
is slow due to wet field conditions. Select fields in the South
Interlake were dry enough to be
seeded.
Hay and pastures are slowly
starting to show signs of new
growth. Livestock that have been
moved to pasture are being fed
because of the poor growing
conditions this spring.
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S
Volunteer
birdwatchers
keep tabs on
local species
The Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas is a
scientifically designed, five-year project
to assess the status, distribution and
abundance of bird species that breed
within Manitoba
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
A
five-year effort to identify
breeding bird species in
Manitoba has confirmed
golden eagles are back, snowy
egrets have made unexpected
appearances, and several species
of native grassland birds are all but
gone from most of agro-Manitoba.
“We’re certainly seeing things
that are indications of change,”
says Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas
co-ordinator Christian Artuso, who
has overseen the project that now
involves about 1,000 volunteers
gathering comprehensive data on
bird species in the province.
There are records of golden
eagle’s nests that date back to the
early part of the last century, but
like other raptors, their numbers
took a deep dip from hunting, trapping and poisoning from DDT, says
Artuso.
“There are earlier historical
records of them nesting, in the
early part of the 20th century, in
various places in Manitoba, but no
recent records,” said Artuso. “This
is essentially the first time we’ve
confirmed nesting sites in pretty
much a century.”
The nest of the snowy egret,
a small white heron, sighted at
Whitewater Lake near Boissevain,
is only the second confirmed nest
in Canada.
“Depending on how old your
field guide is, it would look like it’s
a long way away,” he said, adding most of the range of that bird
has been along the Gulf of Mexico,
although there are known scattered
populations sighted in the U.S.
“Probably the closest breeding
range, prior to this atlas finding
was South Dakota,” he said.
Ordinary Manitobans
The Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas
project began in 2010 to engage
ordinary Manitobans with an interest in birds to gather comprehensive data on what bird species may
be breeding in the province.
The distribution and abundance
of birds is a good indicator of what
changes may be taking place in
the ecosystems across the North
American continent.
They are still about two years
away from being able to make
firm conclusions about what those
changes are, because they have a
massive amount of data to analyse
after the completion of the five
years’ record gathering, Artuso
said.
“After we look at the analysis we’ll
have a lot to say on that topic,”
he said. “But in broad sweeping
strokes we have certainly documented a lot of birds in places we
didn’t expect.”
There are bird species being
sighted much farther north than
expected, and species thought
to breed only in Saskatchewan
now confirmed to be breeding in
Manitoba too. The western tanager,
the black-headed grosbreak, the
long-tailed jaeger have all been
sighted in the southwestern corner
of Manitoba.
Last home
The extreme southwest is proving to be the last home of several native birds that need open
grasslands for nesting. Volunteers
have only found birds such as the
Sprague’s pipit, and the loggerhead
shrike in the extreme southwestern
corner of the province, where they
still have grassland to nest, Artuso
said.
“Those birds have pretty much
disappeared from a lot of their
former range,” he said, adding that
their demise is generally believed
to be due to agricultural practices
since the 1960s wiping out their
habitat.
Range maps still show these
birds should extend throughout
the entire southwest up to Riding
Mountain National Park and east
towards Winnipeg.
“The vast industrial scale of
modern agriculture is not leaving
these birds much room on the margins to cope,” Artuso said. “Much
of the central Red River Valley and
south-central Manitoba, with its
massive crop fields has become
unusable to them.”
This spring Manitobans begin
their final year of record-keeping to
add to a data set that now includes
over 230,000 records logged via
about 32,000 hours of volunteers’
time.
These two barn swallows were photographed by atlas volunteer and Winnipegger Katharine Schulz as she
travelled the back roads of southwestern Manitoba doing her atlas survey work in 2012. This photo was
taken on a July evening along a rural road just a few miles north of her hometown of Hartney. Photo: Katharine Schulz
Different roles
Volunteers participate in a variety of ways, from being assigned
one of 6,996 atlas squares from
the habitat map compiled for the
project, to recording sightings
in a very localized area, including their own backyards. Others
have gone on point counts and
travelled widely. Volunteers’
motivations may vary widely but
it seems to be a sense of wanting
to contribute something combined with their own personal
interest in birdwatching that’s
brought them to this, Artuso
said.
“I still consider myself fairly
amateur at this, but you learn
more every year,” said Katharine
Schulz, a Winnipeg volunteer
who took on an assigned square
in Manitoba’s southwestern corner so she could visit the part of
Manitoba she grew up in.
“I grew up in Hartney, and my
father farmed east of Hartney,”
said Schulz, adding she only
wishes she’d paid more attention
as a child to birds he’d point out
to her.
Training offered through
workshops with the atlas project
helped deepen her appreciation
for the birdlife around us, she
said. “And it feels good to be part
of this group of people who’ve
come together to try and get all
this information rounded up.”
They’re still looking for volunteers to get involved during this
final year collecting bird data,
Artuso said.
The bird atlas is a project
undertaken as a partnership
between federal and provincial
governments, non-government organizations, private
corporations, individual citizens and communities with a
steering committee including
Environment Canada, Manitoba
Conservation, Bird Studies
Canada, Nature Manitoba, the
Nature Conservancy of Canada
and the Manitoba Museum.
Manitoba Hydro is providing
financial support for the project.
To learn more log on to:
http://www.birdatlas.mb.ca/.
How do you
‘atlas’ for birds?
The first, and most basic bird atlassing method,
called “general atlassing,” consists of finding
evidence of breeding for as many species as possible in a 10x10-km square. For example, singing
birds in their breeding habitat in their breeding
season are recorded as “possible” breeders; pairs
of birds, agitated or displaying birds are “probable” breeders; and nests, distraction displays
or fledged young are recorded as “confirmed”
breeding. These data provide information on the
distribution of birds throughout Manitoba.
Source: Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas
[email protected]
photo: linda boys
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y friend and I live far apart, and only occasionally see each other, but when we do,
she sees more of me than I of her. That’s
because there is, um, more of me to see.
Once upon a time we were both sticks. Then we
learned to cook. She’s been able to burn off her calories, by cycling to work, walking almost everywhere,
swimming and regular visits to a nearby gym. Even
during this long winter, she never gained an ounce.
I, on the other hand, have done diddly squat for
exercise these long past months. It shows. Everything
in my closet shrank this winter.
I’m one of that 77 per cent of Canadian women
(and 74 per cent of men) who are not physically
active enough.
This isn’t a good place to be, and not just because
of weight gain. A desk-bound, car-dependent, couchpotato life- and work-style is unhealthy, and the
experts tell us that long periods of inactivity increase
our risk of heart disease and stroke. Our sedentary
ways cost the health-care system big time too.
My friend keeps so fit because of where she lives —
a leafy, walkable neighbourhood, with access to safe,
well-lit bike paths to get to and fro, not to mention
nearby indoor public pools and a good gym. She’s
committed to being healthy, but her active living is
simply part of her daily routine.
That’s more problematic when we live where we
must depend on our vehicles to go most places, and
weather keeps us indoors long periods of the year.
Then it requires a more intentional commitment to a
lifestyle of active living.
Thank goodness it’s May. We winter-weary
Manitobans are long overdue for the physical
renewal and social connection that comes with getting outside and increasing our physical activity.
It’s time to get walking, cycling, hiking, running,
gardening, forming ball teams, or taking tai chi
classes.
Just how much physical activity is enough? The
more the better. Canada’s Physical Activity Guidelines
recommend at least 150 minutes of moderate- to vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity per week, in
bouts of 10 minutes or more, which is only about 30
minutes five days a week. I’ve also heard we should
aim for a lot more — at least 60 to 90 minutes per
day.
It may sound like a lot, but it’s not. We think exercise is something we must set aside time for, and fit
into our busy schedules, but active living is supposed
to be part of our daily living. Housework, yard work,
and opting to ride our bikes or take a brisk walk to
get from A to B all count too.
That’s my friend’s secret to a healthy weight. She’s
always experimenting with new recipes and loves a
cream sauce and fancy dessert as much as I do. But
she’s always moving.
Buckwheat Shepherd’s Pie
Three Seed Yogurt Muffins
Here’s a nutritious take on an old favourite and
a filling meal to serve everyone during seeding
time.
Tasty muffins chock full of colourful and crunchy
seeds make a satisfying breakfast with a glass of
milk and a piece of fresh fruit.
1-1/2 lbs. potatoes, peeled
1/3 c. sour cream
1-1/2 c. Canadian Monterey Jack, grated
Freshly ground salt and pepper
1-1/2 c. red onion, chopped finely
1 200-g container crimini mushrooms, sliced
3 tbsp. butter
1/2 c. toasted buckwheat
2 tbsp. fresh coriander, chopped
1 tbsp. chipotle in adobo, chopped
1 c. canned, diced tomatoes
1 c. vegetable stock
3 c. corn kernels
1 c. whole wheat flour
2/3 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. wheat germ
1/2 c. unsalted green pumpkin seeds
1/2 c. unsalted roasted sunflower seeds
2 tbsp. flaxseeds, cracked
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. ground ginger or cinnamon
1/4 tsp. each baking soda, and salt
1 egg
1 c. milk
2/3 c. liquid honey or packed brown sugar
1/2 c. plain yogurt, (not fat free)
1/4 c. butter, melted
Cook potatoes in salted water. Mash and set
aside in a bowl. Add sour cream and cheese.
Season with salt and pepper and mix well.
Refrigerate. Preheat oven to 375 F. In a large
skillet, sauté onion and mushrooms in butter
for 10 minutes without browning. Add buckwheat, coriander, chipotle, tomatoes and stock.
Bring to a full boil, reduce the heat and simmer,
uncovered, six minutes. Transfer to an eight-inch
square baking dish. Top with corn kernels. With a
fork, spread mashed potato evenly over the top.
Bake in the middle of the oven 40 minutes. Serve
promptly.
TIPS: Chipotle in adobo sauce can be found in
jars or cans in the Mexican products section
of major supermarkets. Chipotles are red jalapeño peppers that are smoked and dried and
preserved in a sauce. In recipes, the peppers are
usually drained and chopped before using.
Preparation time: 40 minutes. Cooking time: 1
hour. Serves: 4 to 6.
Source: Dairy Farmers of Canada
Topping:
1 tbsp. unsalted green pumpkin seeds
1 tbsp. sunflower seeds
Preheat oven to 375 F. Butter non-stick muffin
pans or line with paper liners. In a large bowl,
whisk together whole wheat flour, all-purpose
flour, wheat germ, pumpkin seeds, sunflower
seeds, flaxseeds, baking powder, ginger, baking
soda and salt. In another bowl, whisk together
egg, milk, honey, yogurt and butter. Pour over
dry ingredients; stir just until moistened. Spoon
into prepared muffin pan; sprinkle tops with
pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds. Bake for
about 25 minutes or until tops are firm to the
touch. Let cool in pan for five minutes. Transfer
to rack to cool completely.
TIP: Cracked flaxseeds add a nice texture and
allow the nutrients to be digested better than in
whole flaxseeds. To crack them, pulse a few times
in a coffee or spice grinder or use a mortar and
pestle to crack the seeds without grinding them
to a powder.
Add 1 tbsp. grated orange zest with butter. Use
1/4 c. hemp seeds and/or chia seeds in place of
an equal amount of pumpkin or sunflower seeds;
add 1/2 c. dried cranberries, blueberries, raisins
or chopped cherries.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Makes: 12 muffins
Source: Dairy Farmers of Canada
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R
ose Jackson stepped into the café and
quickly scanned the room. It took her only a
second to find Karen who was seated at the
table by the window looking out over Main Street.
She headed over and slid into the chair across
from her friend.
“Well hello,” said Karen. “You made it.”
“Sorry I’m late,” said Rose. “I took too long getting out of the house. I’m blaming it on Andrew.”
“Of course,” said Karen. “It’s always the husband’s fault.”
“I didn’t say it was his fault,” said Rose, “I just
said I was blaming him.” She slid her coffee cup
across the table as the waitress came by with the
coffee pot.
“Anything else for you?” the young lady wanted
to know.
Rose looked at Karen. “You having breakfast?”
Karen nodded.
Rose turned back to the waitress. “I’ll have the
waffles please,” she said. “With strawberries and
whipped cream of course.”
“Of course,” said the waitress with a smile. “How
else would you have them? I’ll be back,” she added
as she trotted off to deliver coffee to the other
patrons in the café.
Rose reached for the cream.
“So,” said Karen. “You all ready for summer?”
“Summer?” said Rose. “What summer?”
Karen laughed. “Fair question,” she said. “I’m
still hoping it gets here eventually.”
“I’m not holding my breath,” said Rose. “But
that being said, I’m as ready as I’m ever gonna be.
How about you?”
“It’s going to be crazy,” said Karen. “My sister’s getting married in Toronto in June and then
in August it’s my parents’ 50th anniversary in
Victoria… which means there’s not going to be
any time for a holiday.”
“Aw, you poor thing,” said Rose. “Look at it this
way, you won’t mind so much if we don’t get summer if you wouldn’t have time to enjoy it anyway.”
“Small consolation,” said Karen.
“Tell you what,” said Rose taking a good long
The
Jacksons
BY ROLLIN PENNER
sip of coffee. “You can live vicariously through our
holiday.”
“Gee thanks,” said Karen sarcastically. “That’s
generous of you. What have you got planned? Two
weeks in the south of France?”
“Not quite,” said Rose, “but that does sound
nice. No, we’re going to Victoria Beach for a week
in August. Andrew and I are going from Monday
to Sunday and the kids are coming from Friday to
Sunday. I can’t wait.”
“Now I’m jealous,” said Karen. “What kind of a
place are you staying in?”
“Jennifer’s boyfriend’s family has a cottage,”
said Rose. “It’s about the size of our house but way
nicer. And they offered it to us for the week.”
Karen looked skeptical. “Goodness,” she said. “Is
this guy serious about Jen, or what?”
Rose grinned. “I guess maybe,” she said. “And
I hope he stays that way at least till August.” She
picked up her coffee cup to have another drink
but stopped with the cup halfway to her mouth. “I
just had the best idea ever,” she said, eyes wide.
“Really?” said Karen, the skeptical look still on
her face. “What idea might that be?”
“You and Grant should join us!” Rose said excitedly. “At least for a couple of days! Andrew and
Grant can go golfing and you and I can lie around
on the beach! Or, if the weather’s not great we can
sit in the hot tub and drink gin and tonic and eat
Doritos! It’ll be awesome!”
Karen was silent for a moment. “Well,” she said,
“I don’t know if it’s the best idea you’ve ever had,
but it’s a pretty damn good one.” She paused
again. “We wouldn’t want to infringe on your and
Andrew’s alone time though.
“Good lord, don’t even think about that,” said
Rose. “With the kids all grown up we get more
alone time than we need. Give us one day in the
cottage by ourselves and we’ll be just happy to
have company. Otherwise we’ll end up playing
Scrabble which will just make both of us cranky.”
“Why would playing Scrabble make both of you
cranky?” Karen was confused.
Rose laughed. “I’ll get cranky because Andrew
will get all the good letters and Andrew will get
cranky because I’ll beat him anyway. So you have
to come. For the good of our marriage!”
“Well, when you put it like that,” said Karen, “I
don’t see how I could say no.”
“Good girl!” said Rose.
“I’ll have to run it by Grant of course,” said
Karen.
“Well obviously,” said Rose, “but if you tell Grant
he needs to save Andrew from a horrible week of
Scrabble-related crankiness, Grant won’t say no.
He’s too good a friend for that.”
“All right then.” Karen raised her coffee cup.
“Here’s to summer!” she said. “It’s going to be a
good one!”
Rose raised her cup in response. “Short but
sweet,” she said.
Microwave ovens in most households
First making an appearance in 1967, they are now used almost daily
By Julie Garden-Robinson
NDSU EXTENSION SERVICE
T
he first countert o p m i c r ow a v e ov e n
appeared in 1967. Today,
most households have one and
use it nearly every day. They
cook food using a magnetron
to convert electric power to
very short radio waves of about
2,450 megahertz. At this frequency, water, fats and sugars
absorb the waves and vibrate
very fast to create high temperatures that cook the food.
Do you ever use margarine
tubs, take-out containers, foam
trays or brown paper bags to
heat food in your microwave?
These are considered unsafe
unless they are labelled “microwave safe.” The concern is that
the container could melt and
leach chemicals into the food.
Instead, reheat foods in
glass, ceramic cookware and
those labelled safe for microwave use. Microwave-safe
plastic wraps, wax paper, cooking bags, parchment paper and
white microwave-safe paper
towels also are considered safe.
However, be sure to discard
containers that hold prepared
microwavable meals after you
use them because they are
meant for one-time use.
Although microwave ovens have been around for a long time, we still have to use them safely.
Do you know the wattage of
your microwave oven? Cooking
times vary depending on the
wattage. Follow the package
label or recipe instructions to
be sure you are heating microwaveable foods properly.
Ha ve yo u e ve r t r i e d t h e
“marshmallow test” to determine hot spots in your microwave? If not, here’s how to
do it. Use a microwaveable
plate or flip the turntable
upside down so it does not
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rotate. Line the plate or turntable with miniature marshmallows. Place in the microwave, then set the timer for
one minute. Watch carefully.
If the marshmallows begin
to burn, turn off the micro-
wave. The marshmallows that
expand first show where your
microwave oven’s hot spots
are. Remember that uneven
cooking (hot and cold spots)
can lead to undercooked food
that is unsafe to eat.
Because of the uneven cooking that can occur, be sure
to rotate the container during the cooking process and
stir the food if possible, even
if your microwave has a turntable. Covering the dish with
a microwave-safe lid or plastic wrap also promotes even
cooking.
After heating food in a
microwave oven, be sure to
allow a standing time of at
least three minutes. During
the standing time, the food
continues to cook. Many
microwaveable packaged
foods list an endpoint temperature, such as 73.8 C (165
F ) . Me a s u re t h e t e m p e ra ture using a food thermometer to ensure that the food
has reached a safe internal
temperature.
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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Mark June 3 on your calendar!
Seniors’ Day at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum is worth a visit
By Donna Gamache
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
I
t’s nearly time for the Manitoba
Agricultural Museum’s Seniors’ Day,
held each year at the museum, south of
Austin, on the first Tuesday of June (June 3
this year). Hosted by the museum and the
Austin Chamber of Commerce, it’s a day of
companionship, entertainment, demonstrations and food. It is dedicated to seniors, and most attendees will fit that category, but younger people are welcome too,
especially those interested in Manitoba’s
rural history or farm life. My husband and
I attended last year for the first time and
quite enjoyed it.
Most years a few hundred people
attend, some from quite a distance. Last
year there was a whole busload from
Winnipeg. We also noticed handivans
from seniors’ residences and care homes.
Van loads from Oak Lake, Shoal Lake and
even Argyle, Saskatchewan had come for
the day.
Registration begins about 9 a.m.
with most people arriving a little later.
However, if it’s your first visit, and you
want free time to explore the grounds
and buildings, try to arrive in good time.
The buildings are all open, although usually without volunteers during this event.
Definitely plan to take a walk through the
Homesteaders’ Village. Explore the two
one-room schools, the blacksmith shop,
the churches and the pioneer houses.
Be sure to check out the Transportation
Building, a newer exhibit showing the history of transportation in Manitoba, which
is very interesting. There is also the huge
display of vintage machinery, particularly
numerous tractors.
For those who aren’t up to a lot of
Rides are provided for those not up to much walking.
walking, rides are provided through the
Homesteaders’ Village and around the
museum grounds in horse-drawn and
tractor-drawn wagons. Transportation
includes shuttle service for those in
wheelchairs.
This year the cost for the day will be $15.
This includes complimentary coffee and a
doughnut when you register; a cold plate
lunch with beverage and dessert at noon;
and cinnamon buns and coffee around
3 p.m. The first round of buns is baked in
the museum’s outdoor oven, while later
ones come from a bakery.
Various demonstrations are given
throughout the day. In the main building
we watched one volunteer demonstrate
spinning while another spent all morning hand-washing and wringing clothing
items with an old-fashioned wringer —
over and over and over. We also enjoyed
the various tables of local artwork, crafts
The sheep seem to enjoy being sheared —
probably glad to get rid of their heavy coat.
PHOTOS: DONNA GAMACHE
and books. One corner of the building
displayed beautiful quilts which will be
shown again this year, and also, displays
will be adding woodcarving to the mix.
Other demonstrations we enjoyed
included the old-time threshing where a
couple of volunteers tossed a rack load
of sheaves into the threshing machine.
Despite dust in the air, this was a good
opportunity to take photos of history in
action. It takes place around 11 a.m. so
arrange your day to fit this in.
The sheep-shearing demonstration was
also particularly interesting. The shearers
had brought several sheep which seemed
to relax back against the shearer and
actually enjoy the procedure — probably
happy to be rid of that thick, warm coat.
Musical entertainment by various
groups was provided following the luncheon. Last year’s entertainment included
the Métis Prairie Steppers, a group of
young dancers from the Portage and Elie
area. With their colourful costumes and
lively dancing, they were a crowd favourite. Because of their popularity, these
dancers will return for this year’s program.
If you’re interested in attending the
Seniors’ Day, it is held at the Manitoba
Agricultural Museum, three kilometres
south of the junction of Hwy. No. 1 and
PTH No. 34. Check the website for further
details at www.ag-museum.mb.ca or telephone 204-637-2354. Those planning to
attend, especially with a group, are asked
to pre-register with Don Makinson at 204637-2533 (or [email protected]) by May
22 to help in meal plans. However, individuals who haven’t pre-registered may still
attend as extra meals are always prepared.
Mark June 3 on your calendar for this
event, and plan to attend!
Donna Gamache writes from MacGregor, Manitoba
Early-spring bloom
Two perennials that never disappoint
By Albert Parsons
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
A
pril and May are busy
months for home gardeners as we go about
the business of rejuvenating our
gardens and preparing them
for the upcoming season. I am
always happy when some of my
plants put forth bloom at this
time of year, and there are two
that never disappoint me.
The first is my Adonis Vernalis,
commonly called pheasant’s eye
or false hellebore. It is a wonderful herbaceous perennial that
not only has attractive flowers
but also wonderfully fine and
delicate foliage. The plant grows
only about 24 cm tall and forms
a mound of light-green foliage
which is capped in late April and
May by bright-yellow daisy-like
blooms. Adonis Vernalis blooms
for over a month, providing
a bright light to an otherwise
rather drab spring landscape. I
have it planted in a raised bed
beside the sunny back patio, and
the foliage stays attractive all
summer.
Adonis Vernalis is rated Zone 1
so it is very hardy and is easy to
care for. It likes full sun and good
drainage, but other than that is
not a demanding plant. It is
not bothered by insect pests
or disease problems, is a relatively slow-growing plant
and can be left undisturbed
for a long time. The clump
simply gets a bit bigger
each year. A mature clump
of Adonis Vernalis will produce innumerable brightyellow blooms over an
extended period of time.
The second plant that
brightens my early-spring garden with its blooms is the fritillaria (Fritillaria meleagris). I have
several of these plants located
in the front garden where it is
visible from the driveway. Their
cheery pale-yellow blooms add
a soothing yet beautiful note
to the bed of hardy roses that I
have planted in this part of the
landscape. The fritillarias bloom
before the roses put forth much
new growth so they have lots of
space to “show their stuff.” As
the roses grow, the fritillaria foliage fades and by early summer
the foliage will dry down much
like tulip foliage does and be
hidden by the increasingly abundant rose foliage. Fritillarias
grow about 30 cm tall and have
green leaves with a bit of a bluish cast.
Fritillarias are members of
the lily family so they grow from
bulbs and come in a variety
of colours. The bulbs multiply
and every three or four years
the clumps can be lifted and
divided. A dozen bulbs, planted
four or five cm apart in a 10-cmdeep planting hole will make a
nice-size clump. I never give my
fritillarias winter protection and
they always come through the
winter just fine.
The cheery yellow flowers of
Adonis Vernalis and fritillaria are
just the tonic I need in my earlyspring garden to energize me
into performing all of those gardening tasks that are so pressing
at this time of year.
Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa,
Manitoba
Inset: Adonis Vernalis, above: pale-yellow Fritillaria meleagris.
PHOTOS: ALBERT PARSONS
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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 15, 2014
AUCTION DISTRICTS
Parkland – North of Hwy 1; west of PR 242,
following the west shore of Lake Manitoba
and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.
Westman – South of Hwy 1; west of PR 242.
Interlake – North of Hwy 1; east of PR 242,
following the west shore of Lake Manitoba
and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.
Red River – South ofHwy 1; east of PR 242.
The Pas
Birch River
Swan River
Minitonas
Durban
Winnipegosis
Roblin
Dauphin
Grandview
Ashern
Gilbert Plains
Fisher Branch
Ste. Rose du Lac
Russell
Parkland
Birtle
Riverton
Eriksdale
McCreary
Lundar
Langruth
Neepawa
Gladstone
Rapid City
Melita
1
Brandon
Treherne
Killarney
Pilot Mound
Crystal City
Elm Creek
Sanford
Ste. Anne
Carman
Mariapolis
Lac du Bonnet
Beausejour
Winnipeg
Austin
Souris
Boissevain
Stonewall
Selkirk
Portage
Carberry
Westman
Waskada
Interlake
Erickson
Hamiota
Reston
FARM & LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT Auction, Len &
Marilyn Nykoliation. Virden, MB. Fri., May 30th at
10:00am DST. Located 9-mi north of junction of #1
& #83 highways at Virden. JD 4630; Case 930;
Thomas 93 skid steer; Case IH 1486 w/795 loader;
MF 760 SP combine; JD 7720 SP combine; 1994
MacDon 14-ft. hydro swing; Vermeer 605J round
baler; MF #12 sq. baler; 1999 Dodge dually ext. cab
(saftied); 1981 Trail King stock trailer; Livestock
panels & feeders; 2 Cypress creep feeders
w/wheels & panels; Case IH 8480 round baler; Plus
a full line of other equipment, Large quantity of
shop equipment & tools. For information call Len or
Marilyn at (204)748-1056 Ross Taylor Auction Service (204)877-3834 Pl #909917. Full listing & photos www.rosstaylorauction.com
Gimli
Shoal Lake
Minnedosa
Virden
Arborg
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Westman
St. Pierre
242
Morris
Winkler
Morden
Altona
Steinbach
1
Red River
ANTIQUES
ANTIQUES
Antiques For Sale
12-FT JOHN DEERE SURFLEX discer Serial#1;
Case 300 tractor. Phone (204)263-5392.
MULVEY “FLEA” MARKET. Osborne & Mulvey
Ave E. Wpg. Sat-Sun-Hol. 10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.
40+ vendors. A/C. Debit, Visa, M/C. Table/Booth
rental info: (204)478-1217. mulveymarket.ca
ANTIQUES
Antique Equipment
AUGUST 9 &10, 2014 the Eighth Annual IHCC Ch
38 show will be held on the grounds of the Western
Development Museum in North Battleford Sask.
We will be joining WDM to celebrate their annual
“Those were the days” & join them on the occasion
of their 65th birthday. [email protected] All
IH machinery, trucks, tractors, household, stationary engines, power units, cub cadets & anything
else marketed by IH are welcome. Membership annual meeting w/banquet & guest speaker. More information available from show chairman Gary Algot.
(780)741-2115. www.ihc38.com
FORD 801, S/N 307052, 3-PT, $2750.00 OBO.
Phone (204)429-2073.
Minneapolis Moline, model U’s diesel & gas, Model
R & Model Z. Running order; 6 Minneapolis Moline
plows, discer, 1-ways. Phone (204)326-6016
AUCTION SALES
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
GARTON’S AUCTION SERVICE will be conducting
a Farm Estate Auction for the Late Arnold Holowachuk on Sat., May 24th, 2014 @ 10:30am located
5.5-mi W of Rorketon, MB. Auction will include:
Hesston 100-90 FWA tractor; IH 1066 Farmall tractor; IH 1066 tractor; David Brown 1210; Farm
trucks; Haying Equipment; Livestock feeding & handling equipment; Grain handling equipment; 80x30
pole frame cattle shed (to be removed); 2, 1,750-bu
Westeel bins (to be removed); 2-ft. storage semi
trailer & portable garages (new in box). For complete listing & photos please visit www.gartonsauction.com or call Larry @ (204)648-4541.
MEYERS AUCTION ESTATE OF HERBERT LEYLAND 10-ACRES PROPERTY BY AUCTION #517
SASKATCHEWAN AVE, ARDEN, MB. 1:00PM
MAY 25th, 2014. SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION
OF FINAL BID. The Subject property is approx a
10-acres parcel located within town limits in the Village of Arden, MB. The property has a 5/8 water
line & a septic tank- installed at a cost of approx
$12,500 when the service came to Arden. There is
a older two story house & 3 wood framed out buildings situated on the property. The property has mature trees & is landscaped. It is estimated that the
property is 50% treed & 50% open spaces. All of
the above descriptions are for information purposes
& are not deemed to be accurate. Potential purchasers must verify all information to their own satisfaction. NOTE: THE CABIN & STORAGE SHED
ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE PURCHASE OF
THE PROPERTY. THEY WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE PROPERTY
HAS BEEN OFFERED FOR AUCTION. MEYERS
AUCTIONS & APPRAISALS BRADLEY MEYERS,
AUCTIONEER (204)368-2333 OR (204)476-6262
www.meyersauctions.com
MEYERS SPRING CONSIGNMENT AUCTION Estate of Herb Leyland & Consignors Arden, MB.
10:00am Sun., May 25th, 2014. Coins & paper
money will start the auction at 10:00am. Cabin:
24x16-ft. w/10x8-ft. Bdrm & Storage Shed: 12x16-ft.
Both Situated at #517 Sask Ave, Arden, MB. To be
removed no later than June 30th. Cabin & Storage
Shed to be sold around 1:30pm. 2013 Maxey Tandem Axel Gooseneck 30-ft. Deck Trailer w/Beaver
Tails 10,000-lb axels, AS NEW; 2001 Starcraft Tent
Trailer, Subject to confirmation of final bid; 16-ft.
Anchor Tri Hull Open Bow Boat w/70-HP Johnson
Seahorse 2 stroke Outboard Motor, Hummingbird
Fish Finder & EZ Load Boat Trailer; 4.5-HP Johnson Trolling Motor- to be sold separate; JD Z445
Zero Turn Mower; MTD 18.5-HP/ 46-in. cut w/Rear
Bagger; Craftsman LT2000 Riding Mower 18.5-HP
42-in. cut; Husqvarna YTH1746 Hydrostatic Mower;
Toro 12-HP Riding Mower; Troy-Bilt Rear Tine Roto
Tiller; JD TRX 26 Tracked Snow Blower; MTD Roto
Tiller; Stihl Weedeater; Stihl MM55 Roto Tiller;
1983 Ford F150 PU, Stnd; 1993 Taurus GL Car
Auto 242,328-km; Both not saftied; 3-PTH Ford 6-ft.
Rotivator 105A; NH 328 Manure Spreader; Brandt
735 Auger w/11-HP Honda; Red Jacket 1/2-HP
Submersible Pump w/control & approx 50-ft. hose;
Bale Conveyors; Overhead Power Line; Railway
Ties; Fence Posts; Turtle Tank; Poly Tank; 25-ft. &
20-ft. Hoses; 2 Briggs & Stratton Engines; Cement
Mixer; Simplex Drill Press; Pwr Hack Saw; Floor
Jack; Air Tank; Construction Heater; Bench Grinder
3/4-HP; Miller M-180P Welder; Jack Stands; Electric Fence Wire; Sm Air Compressor; Elec Heater;
Kerosene Heater; Hand Tools; Mastercraft 10-in.
Bench Saw; Mastercraft 10-in. Chop Saw; Dewalt
Saw; Husqvarna 345 Chain Saw; Tow Behind Lawn
Sweep; Assorted Tires; Assorted Lumber; Super
Cycle Bike; HOUSEHOLD: Make Up Table; Wardrobe w/Mirrored Doors; Kenmore Portable Air
Cond; Book Shelf Stereo; Queen Bed; Frost Free
Fridge; Stove; Drop Leaf Apt Tables & Chairs; China Cabinets; Coby 23-in. LED TV; Frigidaire Microwave; Chesterfield & Chair; Kenmore Deep Freeze;
Electrolux Vacuum; ANTIQUES: Dresser; Vases;
Paper Weights; Tin Toys; Binoculars; Wood Toys &
Cars; Cabinet Radios; Large Jars of Marbles; Beer
Steins; RR Caboose Chair; Silver Ware Set. MEYERS AUCTIONS & APPRAISALS BRADLEY MEYERS,
AUCTIONEER
(204)368-2333
OR
(204)476-6262 www.meyersauctions.com
HAYING & LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT AUCTION
Terry, Mavis, Elaine Philips & The Estate of Randy
Philips. Pipestone, MB Thurs., May 22nd, 2014 at
11:00am DST. Sale includes 1996 Case IH MX100
w/MFD w/Allied loader, bucket & grapple, 3-PTH;
1981 Case 2090
w/6200-hrs; 1978 Case 970
w/6200-hrs; 1976 Case 1070; 1972 JD 4030
w/13,000-hrs; 2005 MacDon A30S 16-ft hydro
swing; 2000 NH 688 round baler; 2001 Buhler 12
wheel V rake;1989 Laurier 12 bale bale picker;
1981 Glendale 20-ft stock trailer; 1989 Case IH
8610 bale shredder; Case IH 575 & 1580 manure
spreaders; JD 700 mixmill; High Hog maturity pen;
4 Ranchers 2 bale feeders; 2 Easy Way 2 bale
feeders; HutchMaster 12-ft tandem disc; Quantity of
panels, vet supplies, misc. equipment & shop related. For information call Terry (204)854-2951 or
Elaine (204)854-2547, Ross Taylor Auction Service
(204)877-3834, Toll free (877)617-2537 www.rosstaylorauctionservice
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
ESTATE AUCTION for the Late Robert Dyck
Sat., May 31st at 12:00 noon South of Portage la
Prairie from the Jct #331 & 240; 1 & 1/2 mi East on
#331, then south on Rd 34W till yard 62143.
**Property: 4-ac frontage w/768-sq.ft. Bungalow 2
bdrm house has a crawl space plus a 22x24-ft. double detach garage w/work area back of the Garage
Roll #0678290.000 Terms of this property: $10,000
non refundable down payment upon agreement to
purchase. Plus GST & PST where applicable Property tax will be paid till sale day. The buyer will have
satisfied him or herself upon their own inspection as
to condition of property & buildings before bidding
on auction day. The Executor will reserve the right
to accept or reject the final bid. The property will be
up for auction at 2:00pm. For property viewing Ph
(204)834-3542** Yd equip: Sure Trac 14-ft. tandem axle (7,000-lb ea) Dump Trailer w/tarp & remote; 2010 2305 JD yd Tractor w/54-in. mower,
3-PTH PTO 265-hrs; 3-PTH Frontier 3-PTH 48-in.
mower; 3-PTH Frontier 48-in. Tiller; 3-PTH 54-in.
Frontier Snowblower; Shop Bilt 3-PTH 5-ft. Blade; 2
section 3-PTH Harrows; 1979 Chev 10 truck
4x4 350 auto (for restoration); 1984 Ford School
bus back end converted to a flatdeck, V8 5-SPD; 4,
8 bolt Chrome 15-in. rims; Shop bilt Quad tilt Trailer; Loading ramps; Alum trifold Loading Ramps;
354 Perkins DSL eng (from 760 MF combine); 2,
1,250-gal poly Tanks; 4, 225-gal square Poly
Tanks; 3-in. gas Water Pump w/hoses; 2-in. gas
water pump w/hoses; Pressure pump; ATV Yard
Sprayer; 2 ATV winches; Shop Tools: (some of
these tools are like new); 12-ft. wood work bench;
5-HP 60-gal 8.5cm high out put Air Compressor;
Household. Check website for full listing
www.nickelauctions.com Terms Cash or Cheque.
Lunch served. Subject to additions & deletions. Not
responsible for any errors in description Everything
sells AS IS Where Is all Sale Final. GST & PST will
be charged where applicable. Owners & auction
company are not responsible for accidents on sale
site. Sale conducted By Nickel Auctions Ltd Ph
(204)637-3393 cell (204)856-6900. Executor Bev
Walker (204)834-3542 cell (204)841-0612.
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 7 PM
4 MILES EAST OF POPLAR POINT
ON HWY 26 YARD #5236
FARM AUCTION FOR DON & LINDA BOWDENS
Sat., May 30th at 12:00 noon. Take 240 South of Portage La Prairie from Junct 331 & 240 3.5-mi West &
South till Rd 62N & 2-mi West till yard #39146. Be on
time no small selling. Terms Cash or Cheque. Lunch
served. **70 Char X & Simm X & Black cow/calf pairs.
These are mostly younger cows not been exposed to
bulls. Team of Black Percheron Mares w/colt at side 9
& 13 yr old. 1 Horse drawn Wagon** Tractors: 2010
M135X Kubota MFWD M55 Kubota Ldr/grapple fact
3-PTH 3 hyds PTO 14.9R24 & 18.4R38 2,330-hrs;
1976 2670 Case 18.4x34 Duals 4hyds; 1983 5288
INT fact 3-PTH 2 hyds 1000 PTO, 20.8x38 fact duals,
8,424-hrs; 1086 INT 2350 IHC Ldr/grapple fact 18.4x38
duals dual PTO 3 hyds has rebuilt eng; 1952 W6 McCormick (not running); 1977 Cougar ST250 3306 Cat
eng, 20.8x38 clamp on duals 3 hyds, 3,530-hrs (consigned); 1953 CA Allis Chalmers (consigned); Trucks
& Combines: 1995 INT M11 Cummins 13-SPD trans,
Tandem 24-ft. Grain/sileage box, Pintol Hitch Hyd Tail
gate clock reads 403,743-km; 1978 INT 1600 Loadstar
14-ft. Stl Box & hoist 345 eng 5 & 2 SPD, clock reads
124,401-km; 1981 1480 INT Axial flow Combine 3,544hrs, 100-hrs on new drop in eng; 1979 1460 INT Axial
Flow Combine 3,397-hrs; 1982 22-ft. 4400 Vers swather
w/PU reel Cab, air; Haying Equip: 2756 MF Rd Baler;
595 Owatonna roller Rd Baler; H&S Hay Machine;
Enoross Harvestman 18 wheel V Rake; 14 Rd Bale
Hayliner 2000 Rd Bale Mover; 14T JD Baler; 20 Bale
Hay Trailer; Seeding & Tillage Equip: 20-ft. M-10 Morris Press Drill; 22-ft. AC Tandem Disc; 6-16 Case Plow;
38-ft. IHC Cult w/mulchers; 21-ft. Case Deep Tiller w/
mulch-ers; 60-ft. Inland Sprayer w/500-gal Poly Tank;
25-bu Gravity Wagon; 2007 15-ft. Schulte 1500 Series
2 Rotary Mower; 16-ft. Hyd Drill Fill; 4 yd Dirt Scraper;
10-ft. JD 3-PTH Cult; 8-ft. Farm King 3-PTH Snowblower; Grain Bins & Augers: 1, 2,200-bu Westeel Rosco
Hopper Bins; 1, 1,200-bu Friesen Hooper Bin; TR10061 Westfield swing out hyd lift; 7x40-ft. Vers PTO auger
elect lift; 60-36 Westfield auger w/12-HP B&S; Cattle &
Misc Equip: 14, 24-ft. Free standing Panels; 920 Jiffy
Bale Shreader; 5-ft. 3-PTH King Kutter mower; 1 set of
Nylon draft Harness (like new); Add on 3-PTH; 8 Suite
Case weights; 135-gal. Slip Tank; 8/26 MTD Snowblower; **Consigned: 20-ft. M48 IHC Tandem Disc;
1010 NH Bale Wagon; Trailer w/8x12-ft. Box & hoist;
516 NH manure Spreader; 7-ft. New Idea trailer type
sickle Mower; 5-ft. S Tine 3-PTH Cult; 8/28 Sno Power
Snowblower; 225amp Lincoln elect Welder; Cement
Mixer; Bed room Suite** Website www.nickelauctions.
com Be on Time no small selling Livestock sells after
the equipment. Subject to additions & deletions. Not
responsible for any errors in description. Everything
sells AS IS Where Is all sales Final GST & PST will
be charged where applicable. Owners & auction company are not responsible for any accidents on sale site.
All statements made on sale day will take precedent
over all previous advertising. Sale conducted by Nickel
Auctions Ltd Dave Nickel Auctioneer Ph (204)637-3393
cell (204)856-6900. Owner Ph (204)428-5509 cell
(204)871-1068.
STORAGE CONTAINER
44 ft. storage container
FORKLIFT
Yale propane 4000 lbs., all terrain wheels (runs good)*
WELDERS
Miller Delta weld 651 DC-power source boom w/wire
feeder* Hypertherm Power Max 1250 G-3 Series plasma
cutter* Westinghouse 300 welder w/Miller feeder* Canox
Red Master 300 CC/CV-AC/DC arc welder w/feeder* Miller
251 mig aluminum gun* Esab cutting welder table w/4torch system* Lincoln 250 welder R35-250 arc welder*
Hobart 250 welder* Lincoln gas welder, 250 amp w/trailer*
BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS
UPCOMING AUCTION
COLLECTOR TRUCK & TRACTORS
PLUS LARGE ANTIQUE COLLECTION
FOR BEA & DON TYMKO
SATURDAY MAY 31TH 10:00 AM
Location: Near Belair, MB. From jct Hwy #44 & 59 go approx 40 miles north to Belair rd,
then 2 miles west on belair rd, 1 mile south on Lakeshore drive & 1/2 mile east on first st.
Partial List:
COLLECTOR TRUCK &
TRACTORS
• 1942 Chevrolet 1 Ton Truck
(restored)
• 1949 Model M John Deere
(restored)
• 1950 Model W4 International
Harvester (restored)
ANTIQUES &
COLLECTIBLES
• Antique Furniture including Press
Back Chairs
• Antique Glassware
• Railway Lanterns
• Barn Lanternsower
YARD EQUIPMENT &
TOOLS
• Woodworking Tools
• Shop Tools
• Suzuki 250 Quad
• John Deere Riding Lawn Mower
• Chipper/Shredder
EQUIPMENT
120-ton Accurpress 12’Brake w/dies* Accurpress shear
1/4 cap., 10’Bed, 550-V* Hyd-Mech mod. S-20 band
saw* Edwards 50-ton iron worker w/dies w/Edwards pipe
bender (up to 3”)* TOS Kurbin milling machine 4-HP motor,
type FNK25* Wesmac floor gear drill press* Jet Howard
press* Ingersol-Rand upright air compressor w/dryer,
14.9 CFM mod. 2540* electric 36” plate roller* heavy duty
press* small press* 2-hyd. Electric pipe benders*
STOCK CARS
2-street stock cars*
MISCELLANEOUS
2-20’, 1/2” steel welding tables* 45’ jig table* 2-4 wheel
railway carts* 4-sections 26” rollers* air compressor
5-HP* floor grinder* belt sander* cold cut saw* parts
washer* 2-Stihl gas cut-off saws* Ridgid cut-off saw*
2-Kaverit 1/2-ton chain hoists* elect. 1/2-ton chain hoist
w/mono rail* truck rack* 8-Sala fall arrest horizontal
safety lines* 2-large tool boxes w/tools* assort. hammer
drills, dies, other Specialty tools, grinders, etc.* 2-Hilti
laser levels* bear straps* floor Jacks* bin new nuts &
bolts* deck crimpers* loading belts & chains* assort.,
safety equipment, harnesses, belts, etc., 8” to 18”
I-beams* 2-lots approx. 30-tons of: steel, iron, channel
iron, grip strut, uni-strut, steel grading, etc.* plus other
misc. items too numerous to mention.
Please visit our website www.kayesauctions.com
for complete listing & pictures
TERMS: Cash, Visa, Mastercard or Debit paid in Full Same Day of Sale.
SUBJECT TO ADDITIONS & DELETIONS
“Everything Sold As Is, Where Is” with no warranties implied or expressed.
KAYE’S AUCTIONS
(204) 668-0183 (WPG.)
www.pennerauctions.com
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:
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We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if
you want to sell it fast place your ad in the Manitoba
Co-operator classifieds. It’s a Sure Thing. Call our
toll-free number today. We have friendly staff ready to
help. 1-800-782-0794.
Yard & Rec * Tools & Misc * Antiques & Furniture *
Household * Restaurant Equip *
AUCTION SALES
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PLUS MUCH MORE!!
FULL LISTING AT
To Numerous to list this is a large
collection including:
• 5ft Round B/A Sign
• Approx 25 Crocks including
Redwing
• Selection Of Old Metal Toys
• Full Size Horse Buggy
• Multiple Butter Churns
Stonewall, MB - #12 Patterson Dr
(Viewing Friday, Only at 11:00 am Until 5:00 pm) (RAIN OR SHINE)
(SIGN’S POSTED)
2003 Saturn GVW 27,000 lbs. tandem w/loading ramps,
16” wheels, goose neck (very good shape) Safetied* 16 ft.
Atco trailer x 8ft. Single axle*
See our website: www.billklassen.com or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
Wed., May 21 @ 4:00 pm
Saturday, May 31 at 11:00 AM
TRAILERS
• IH M with Loader
• JD 14 T SQ Baler
• Ci Swather 550
• JD 100 deep tiller 14 ft
And More.....
ESTATE & MOVING
974 Selch Dr. (Industrial Park) - East Side of Beausejour, MB
CRANE
• 1949 Chevrolet 1 ton
corner windows cab,
pickup style box and
hoist, no seized,
• JD MODEL AR Tractor
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
OF J.V.S. Welding Ltd.
Crane, Trucks, Shop Equipment, etc.
P.H. 22-ton crane, 80 ft. boom, cab, 4-wheel drive, crab
steering, diesel, Certified w/7-Year breakdown*
D
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Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
AUCTION SALE
1974 Kenworth tandem w/8-ton boom truck with 5th wheel
(good shape) Safetied* 1987 Freightliner single, axle, Detroit
6-cy. with 5th wheel (good shape) Safetied* 2000 Ford
F-350, 4x4 extended cab, gas, V-10 (runs good) Safetied*
AUCTION SALES
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EVENING AUCTION
FOR TERRY ESAU
UNRESERVED
CLOSE-OUT
TRUCKS
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
UNRESERVED
FARM AUCTION
for JimBern Farms Ltd
Sat., June. 14, 2014
at 11:00 AM
Grosse Isle, MB - NE 12-13-1W
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
Directions: From Winnipeg North Perimeter Hwy, take
Hwy#6 north for 11 miles. (Sale site is 1.5 miles past or
north of Grosse Isle on Hwy#6) Watch for signs
Doreen Emms (Late Bert)
PLEASE VIEW OUR WEBSITE
www.lamportanddowler.com
FOR PHOTOS AND FULL LISTING!!!
FARM AUCTION
Sun., May 25 @ 11:00 am
2 Miles North Hwy #17
Then West 12 Miles on RD 229 then South 4 Miles on 518
Contact: (204) 278-3349
Tractors: Int 300 Utility dsl Torque Amp 3PH 540 hyd showing 3919
hrs * JD 710 dsl 3PH 540/1000 hyd * 2) Farmall Super C Narrow
Frt Row Crop hyd PTO * Farmall Super C Wide Frt Row Crop hyd *
Farmall A hyd PTO Pulley * MM Z Hand Clutch PTO Pulley * MM Z
Equip: Land Packer 8’w 36” H * Gehl 2230 12’ Hyd Swing Hay Bine
* Vicon 6 Wheel Rake * Coop 7’ Tandem Disc Notched F&B * JD #5
7’ Mower * Diamond Harrow * 3PH Bale Forks * Saw Mandrel * Yard
& Rec: 14’ Fibreglass Boat, 40 HP Johnson & Trailer * Utility Trailer
* Yardman 5HP Roto Tiller * Wheel Barrow * Hand Yard Tools * Tools
& Misc: Chain Saw Gas & Electric * Battery Charger * Tiger Torche
* Various Power & Hand Tools * Hyd Jacks * Grease Gun * Galv
Tin * Lumber * Truck & Tractor Tire Chains * Tarps * 15 Rolls New
Barb Wire * Baler Twine * Antiques: Horse Scraper * Steel Wheels
* Pedestal RD Table * Enamel Table * Duncan Phyfe Stand * Enamel
Table * Hoosier Top * RD Back Trunk * High Chair * Treadle Sewing
Machine * Tobacco & Oil Cans * Sprite Garbage Cans * Wood Crate
* Hand Water Pump * Metal Butterchurn * Cream Cans * 8 Place
Setting * Enamelware * Radios * Tonka Toys * License Plates * Saw
* Implement Manuals * Cow Bells * Household: 2) Wood Heaters *
Various Household Items *
Featured items: • 2003 New Holland CX840 Combine
c/w 76c pickup, 12,000 lb axle, 2641 engine hours,
2107 separator hrs (premium unit, one owner, bought
new) • 2004 Honeybee 94c straight cut header 36 ft •
1977 John Deere 8430 4wd tractor 6132 hrs. • Case
Cruise air Drott 40 Rubber tire, 2 buckets and finger •
and MUCH MORE well maintained equipment!
www.lamportanddowler.com
John Lamport 204-476-2067
Tim Dowler 204-803-6915
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
FARM AUCTION
Doug & Barb Juenke
Sat., May 24 @ 10:00 am
SATURDAY,
MAY 24 2014
320 9TH STREET, MORDEN, MB
Gunton, MB - 1 Mile South on Hwy #7
Then 8 miles West on RD 88 then1 1/4 Mile North on RD 1
Well Kept ITEMS ! Contact: (204) 461-0238
Tractors: 2012 Kubota M135X, MFWA Cab P Shift w/ Left Hand
Rev 3PH 540/1000 Triple hyd w/ Kubota M50 FEL 1750 hrs * 2000
Belarus 5490 MFWA Cab HL Range 3PH 540/1000 Triple Hyd w/
Quicke 415 FEL 3940 hrs * Case DB 990 HL 3PH 540/1000 Dual Hyd
w Allied 660 FEL * Haying Equip: 2 NH 1431 13’ Disc Bine * 02 NH
688 Auto Wrap RD Baler * Hay Saver 12 Wheel V Hay Rake * PTO
Drive Seed Broadcaster * 4 Wheel 16’ Hay Trailer * 3PH Bale Spears
* Tillage: Allied 3PH 7’ Snowblower * Rockomatic TM 20 Rock Rake
* Rockomatic 57 High Lift Rock Picker * Int 51 10’ Offset Disc * Int
490 24’ Tandem Disc * Coop 806 18’ Deep Tiller * Ford 131 10’ Deep
Tiller * Farm King 45’ Hyd Diamond Harrows * Livestock Equip:
2013 Highline Bale Processor CFR 650 R Hand W/ Auto Gate & Twine
Cutter * 07 Exiss Fifth Wheel Al 24” Tandem Stock Trailer * New Idea
3638 Tandem Manure Spreader * NorthStar Squeeze Chute w/ Palp
* 2) Alleys * Northstar Tub * Pearson Squeeze Chute * Lewis Oilers
* 25) Self Standing Fence Panels * 30) 10’, 12’ Corral Panels * 3)
25’ Wind Break Panels * 8) RD Bale Feeders * Wood Self Feeder *
2) 16’ Calf Shelters * Calf Hot Box * Water Troughs * 500 gal Steel
Water Trough * 3) Battery 3) Elec Fences * Wire & Insulators * Posts *
Vehicles & Yard: 02 Dodge 2500 Cummings dsl 4x4 Ext Cab Sft * 92
Dodge 250 dsl * 02 Polaris 325cc 4x4 Quad * MFC 90cc Quad * 93
AC Puma 340 cc * Cub Cadet 1180 18 HP 46” R Mower * Rear Tine
Tiller * Yard Items * Misc & Tools: 48’ Container * Graffel * Manure
Forks for FEL * Wood Splitter * 2011 Westeel 2273 Litre Fuel Tank
w/ Pump * Pressure Washer * Gas 2” Water Pump * Metal Band Saw
* Welder * Drill Press * Air Comp * Power Tools * Hand Tools * Some
Household & Antiques *
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
• 2000 Buick, 108,000 km sells
• 2003 Chevy Sonoma, 30,000 km
• 1988 Dodge 1/2 ton, very good, 6 guns etc.
See our website: www.billklassen.com
or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
BILL KLASSEN
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AUCTION SALES
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AUCTION SALES
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FARM AUCTION
FOR
JOHN & JAN REMPEL
SATURDAY, MAY 31, 10 AM
ELM CREEK, MB
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
• 1992 JD 8560 tractor, 225 hp, 6893 hrs, 12 speed
syncro, 20.8 X 38R tires, JD Universal Auto Steer,
tractor purchased new
• 1990 JD 9600 combine, 5108 engine hrs, 3723
separator hrs, 914 PU head,
30.5 X 32 rice tires, 2 spd cyl
• Fine cut 2 spd chopper, chaff spreader,
hopper topper, auto pick-up and reel
spd, auto hdr ht control, 110 hrs, after full
“Green Light Service” ($14,000)
• 2001 Air seeder JD1810 cultivator,
31’ 10” spacing, 750 lb trip, JD 1900 Air
Cart,195 bus, purchased new
• 2003 IH 9400 truck, 6 X 4, 10 spd trans, Cummins ISM
370/410 hp, 58” X 20’ Cancade Box, 481,045 kms,
pintle hitch with air ride
• 1979 GMC C70, 366 eng, 5 X 4 trans,
54” X 19’ box 79,308 kms
• 1994 Premier 2900 30’ swather, 2485 hrs,
960 MacDon head
• 2003 JD 630F flex head, pick up reel, fore and aft reel
• 1996 Flexicoil 65 x 80’ sprayer, auto rate control,
wind screens, 3 way nozzles
2 MILES EAST OF ELM CREEK, MB
ON ROAD 46N. WATCH
FOR SIGNS AUCTION DAY
• 3 – 1500 bus Behlen bins
• 3 – 3300 bus Behlen bins with full-floor
aeration, fans and unload augers
• 2 – 2400 bus Load-King hopper bins
• 1 – 2500 bus Butler bin on hopper
aeration tube
• 2 – 5300 bus Meridian 1820 hopper bins
with aeration tube
• 1 – 5300 bus Meridian 1860 hopper bin.
24” 3hp aeration fan
Owners 204-436-2322
AUCTION SALES
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AUCTION SALES
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UPCOMING AUCTION
AG EQUIPMENT CONSIGNMENT AUCTION
SATURDAY MAY 24TH 10:00 AM Live Internet Bidding
Location: 218 Brandt St. Steinbach, MB
FEATURING:
*Gable Truss 40X60X21 & Canvas Buildings
Various Sizes *New Skid Steer Attachments (Stump Grinder, Forks,
Grapples, Buckets, Augers, Hitch Plates) *4430 John Deere Tractor
w/ cab & Loader *Model “M” McCormick Tractor w/ Loader, *AR John
Deere Tractor*499 New Holland & 514 New Idea Mower Conditioners
*3 Point Equipment *New Holland BR740 Round Baler w/ Bale Slice &
Xtra Sweep *New Idea 486 Round Baler*2009 Horst 55ft Round Bale
Trailer*Selection Tillage Equipment*Cub Cadet Zero Turn Mowers
*Kubota Law Tractors 48” & 42” Decks*Cub Cadet Lawn Tractors 17HP & 22HP 54in Decks *Ford Lawn
Tractor w/ Mower & Tiller*New Farm Supplies Including Farm Fence, Gates, Panels, Squeeze Chute
*TRUCKS Including 2004 Ford F350 Lariat Crew Cab, Diesel Plus Much More!!
THIS FULL LISTING & LIVE INTERNET BIDDING AT
www.pennerauctions.com
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 AUCTION
GARRY & BONNIE
PALMER
See our website: www.billklassen.com for complete listing or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS
SATURDAY, MAY 17, 10 AM
FROM HWY. #59 AT ROSEAU RIVER TAKE ROAD
#12 WEST FOR 6 1/2 MILES
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
ESTATE FARM AUCTION
FOR THE LATE RUDOLF SELLGE
SATURDAY JUNE 7TH 10:00 AM
2 Locations: Site 1: From Arnaud, MB 3 miles south on 16E then 1/2 mile east.
Site 2: From Grunthal, MB 3km north on 216, then 4km west on hwy #205. Marker 23091.
AUCTION SALES
Saskatchewan Auctions
• 1978 Case 2090 diesel standard shift, 18,4x38,
dual hyd.
• 1991 Ford 6610 diesel, FWA, with 3 pth, Aillied
694 loader
• 1966 Case 530 gas, Power steering with case
Front end loader, 3 pth, pto
• John Deere 385 Round baler
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New Holland 1457 Mower conditioner 16 ft
John Deere 640 side Delivery rake
John Deere #39 sickle mower, needs pto shaft
Two John Deere 953 Trailers 4 wheel with 8x16
ft Decks
• New Holland model 1044 small sq., Bale picker,
consigned neighbor Carl Mueller
See our Spring 2014 Catalog for more detailed listing. Owners 204-427-2003
MACK AUCTION CO. PRESENTS a farm equipment auction for Adeline Senft & the Estate of Elmer Senft Sat., June 14th, 2014 at 10:00am. Directions from Lemberg, SK go 2-mi West on Hwy 22 &
4-mi South on Mile 19 road. Live internet bidding at
www.bidspotter.com Case IH MX 200 FWA tractor
w/2,923-hrs; Valtra 900 FWA tractor 1,070-hrs
w/Buhler 2595 FEL & 3-PTH; MF 90 2WD tractor
w/front mount snow blower; MM G tractor; McCormick Deering steel wheel tractor for restoration;
2002 Dodge 4WD 1500 truck w/leather interior;
1967 GMC 950 grain truck w/wood box; 1965 Chev
C 60 grain truck; 1984 Ford F150 4WD truck; 1993
Plymouth Voyager minivan; Morris 14-ft. TD 81 tandem offset disc; Morris Magnum II CP 731 cultivator; 30-ft. Morris M-10 press drills; 50-ft. Flexi Coil
tine harrows; Rockomatic 546 rock picker; Degelman 14-ft. rock rake; Jeffery 3-PTH cultivator; 20-ft.
Vers 400 SP swather; Co-op 9600 PT combine; 3,
Twister 2, 750-bu grain bins; 2, Westeel 1,650-bu
grain bins; Farm King 8-46 PTO auger; 100-bu hopper wagon; King Kutter 3-PTH mower; Snow Cruiser snow machine; Kohler auger engine; 2200 PSI
gas powered pressure washer; 100-gal slip tank &
pump; Craftsman lawn tractor; Farm King roller mil;
Canada Machinery Ltd. 12-in. swing 5-ft. bed lathe;
Canada Machinery Ltd. Shaper, milling machine;
Omni band saw; HD shop built hyd press; Goodwill
drill press; Marquette welder; McClarey wood stove;
collectable & household 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
See our website: www.billklassen.com for complete listing or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
FEATURING:
Partial List for Site 1:
Very Few Small Items site 1
will be donebefore 12-Noon.
• New Holland TR95 Diesel Combine
• Massey Ferguson 1100 Diesel Tractor
• IHC 4000 Windrower
• 18ft 4400 Versatile Hydro Swather
•Magirus-Deutz 6 Wheel Drive Military
Type Truck w/ Grainmaster B&H
• Daimler Benz 4 Wheel Drive Truck w/ Dump Box
• Large Industrial Metal Lathe(dominion Auto
Drive, The Hamilton Machine Tool Co)
• Westfield Transfer Auger
• W80-51 Westfield Auger, PTO Drive
• 3 Furrow 3 PTH Plow
• 7”X51” Auger, Gas Mower (electric start)
• Newer 80in Buhler #8 3 pth Angle Blade
• Shop Tools: (Drill Press, Welders,
Large Compressor, Floor Jacks)
Partial List for Site 2: Starts at 1:00 PM
• 3366 Massey Ferguson Track Loader Crawler
• 1976 800 Versatile 4WD Tractor 7551 Hours
• 18ft Car Hauler Trailer w/ Steel Ramps
• 96in Allied Double Auger Snowblower
• Deutz Diesel Tractor w/ Cab, FWA, 3 PTH
• 10ft 247 Cochsutt Deep Tiller
• Heid Large Industrial Metal Lathe
• Extensive List Of Good
Shop Tools
• Newer Husqvarna
Lawn Tractor
• Newer Ariens Walk
Behind Snowblower
• Stihl Chains Saws
BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS
AUCTION SALES
Saskatchewan Auctions
THIS FULL LISTING AT www.pennerauctions.com
PENNER AUCTION SALES LTD.
218 Brandt Street Steinbach, MB Ph: 204.326.3061 Fax: 204.326.3061
Toll Free: 1-866-512-8992
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Sale Conducted by:
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RETIREMENT FARM
AUCTION FOR
JERRY & ANN BUTLER
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 10 AM
ELM CREEK, MB
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
Tractors
• 1995 Case IH Steiger 9280 4x4 with original
20.8 x 42 triples, 12 speed standard trans,
4 hyd, remotes, 4880 hrs, serial #34554
• White 8410 Mfwd tractor, 3 pth, triple hyd,
quickie loader, with Grapple, 6290 hrs
• Antique WD Allis Chalmers running tractor
• NOTE: Trimble auto steer unit has been used
with swather, and 9280 so will sell separate after
power units have been sold
Trucks
• 1983 Ford 9000, Cummins, 15 speed, spring
suspension, 20 ft unibody grain box
• 1995 IHC Tandem M11 Cummins, 10 speed,
w/19 ft Midland unibody grain box and hoist
• 1972 IHC Fleet star, tandem with 671 Detroit
Diesel, 13 speed, newer, 20 ft Midland unibody
grain body with Head lift hoist
• 1977 Dodge Power Wagon 4x4 300 ton,
V8 4 speed, with service deck
• 1979 IH 1900 tandem 5 speed automatic,
current water truck with two 1200 gal tanks
pump, chem. Handler
• 1884 Ford Truck
Combines & Harvesting
• Shulte 10 ft wing batt Rotary mower, real good
• Vertec model 5 teir Grain dryer 220 single phase
electric, also load auger
• 2001 Massey Ferguson model 220 xl
swather 30’ head with pickup reel,
1136 hrs, serial #HK70111
• Massey Ferguson Model 8680 Conventional
combine, swath master pickup, 1374 separator hrs,
serial # 65137
• Gleaner model R 72 Combine, with swath master
pickup on universal head, 30.5 x 32 tires, 1800
separator hrs
• CIH Model 730 pto swather
• 10 ft tapered swath roller
• Gleaner combine heads = 27 ft Ridged batt reel.
Two 8 row corn heads 30 and 36 in, will fit N6,N 7, etc
• Morris 750 Grain cart pto or hyd drive
• Rotary screener
• Conveyair model 3000 Grain vac
• Farm King 13’’ x 70 grain auger
• Westfield 7 x 41’ woith electric motor
• Sakundiak 8’’ x 1400 auger
• Westfield 10’’ x 51 pto auger
Seed & Tillage:
• Sunflower 40 Tandem Disc, newer, blades
• John Deere 7200 Maximerge 2 row crop planter 12
DUE TO BRIDGE CLOSED NEW DIRECTIONS 
FROM ELM CREEK MANITOBA, 2 MILES WEST ON
#2 THEN 4 MILES NORTH ON BUTLER ROAD AND
3/4 MILES WEST. COMING FROM NORTH ON #13
TURN WEST ON MILE #52 THEN SOUTH ON
BUTLER. SIGNS UP AUCTION DAY
row 30 in dry fertilizer,insecticide
• Two sets seeding cups, end transport
• 47 ft Concord 4710 air seeder tool, single
chute, 10 in space, complete with concord
3400 air seeder cart
• Flexicoil 40 ft packers
• Morris 3 units M11 Press Drill seeder. Total
30 ft unit
• New noble 8000 Deep Tiller 41 ft with
mulchers & NH3 Kit
• IHC Model 645 vibra chisel 50 ft, cultivator
with mulchers
• Power matic 110 ft Diamond
harrow autofold bar
• Tormaster 130 ft Diamond Harrows, auto fold
• Row crop cultivators 3 pth, rolling 12 row x 30’’
and IH Model 1830, 12 row x 30 ‘’
• JD 6 X 16’’ kick back plow
• Farm King 80 ft 5 bar Tine harrows
• 28 ft Crow foot packer
Misc Farm/Yard
• Crop Dividers off Hi Clearance sprayer
• 5 ton Mobility fertilzer spreader
• Douglas 5 ft rotary tiller
• 6ft Graham deep tiller
• Smaller 3 pth spot sprayer
• 1000 gal us tank on cradle
• 2400 gal low profile fuel tank
• 3 Welded metal industries 50 ton hopper bins,
a mile from farm will sell by photo
• FM TWO RADIOS with base
and 6 older GE UNITS
• 31/2 ‘’ grain moisture tester
• 3pth Lily Rake
• Allis quick hitch 6 ft cultivator will fit WD etc
Owners 204-436-2218
See our website: www.billklassen.com for complete listing or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS
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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; 2001 Yellow Dodge Viper sports car
w/46,000-mi; 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 car-go 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 bill & photos. Join us on
Facebook & Twitter. (306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815
Mack Auction Co. PL 311962
We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if
you want to sell it fast place your ad in the Manitoba
Co-operator classifieds. It’s a Sure Thing. Call our
toll-free number today. We have friendly staff ready to
help. 1-800-782-0794.
AUCTION SALES
Saskatchewan Auctions
MACK AUCTION CO. presents a very large multi
farm Equipment-RV-Vehicle Auction Sat., June
21st, 2014 at the Estevan Motor Speedway @
9:00am. Consign your items now by calling
(306)421-2097 or email [email protected] NH 9030 Bidirectional tractor w/NH 7414
FEL; JD 4555 2WD tractor w/duals & 5,300-hours;
JD 2550 2WD tractor w/JD 245 FEL & 3-PTH; IH
5288 2WD tractor w/duals; Case 970 tractor w/FEL;
Co-op Implements 810 2WD tractor; IH 684 DSL
2WD w/Leon 636 FEL; JD 318 garden tractor
w/mower & rototiller; JD 316 garden tractor; JD Sabre garden tractor rear bagger; Case 446 garden
tractor; Craftsman garden tractor w/blower; Deutz
Allis 5220 FWA tractor w/21-HP engine & 3-PTH;
1985 Mack tandem axle gravel truck; 2003 Sierra
1500 extended cab truck 4WD w/134,167-kms;
2001 Chev 2500 HD regular cab 4WD Duramax
DSL; 1988 Chev 1500 regular cab PU; 1980 GMC
7000 single axle grain truck w/15-ft. silage box;
1977 Chev C-60 grain truck w/30,500-kms; 1976
GMC 3-Ton grain truck; 1983 20-ft. Keen aluminum
gooseneck stock trailer; Lift Off stock trailer w/8
bale lift off bale rack; 2010 Teagle Tomahawk
8080WB straw/feed chopper; 2004 NH BR780
round baler; NH 660 round baler; NH 1475 16-ft.
haybine; NH 900 forage harvester w/metal detector;
NH 1033 bale wagon; NH 311 square baler; Jiffy
Blow Deck silage blower w/live floor; Green Belt silage feed wagon; high dump silage wagon; IH forage blower; Jiffy silage feed wagon; 30-ft. HD corral
panels; 8-ft. & 10-ft. corral panels; round bale scale;
grain troughs; Farm King 12-in. roller mill; calf tip table; Lift Off bale self-unloading carrier; 80-bu hopper wagon; Sovema 12 wheel hay rake; Summers
50-ft. heavy harrows w/2055 Valmar; Noble 15-ft. 1409
tandem disc; 20-ft. tandem disc; MF 360 18-ft. discer;
Haybuster rock picker; 3-PTH fertilizer spreader; Degelman hyd rock picker; granular chemical hopper
transfer; Vers 10-61 swing auger; Westfield 10-60
swing auger; Sakundiak 7-140 auger; hyd transfer
auger; 50 KVAPTO generator; Farm King 7-ft. snow
blower; MTD 45-in. walk be-hind snow blower; 3, 36in. cement power trowels; gas powered jack hammer;
gas powered jacks; plate tampers; tree chipper; gas
powered post hole; auger; 3-in. water pump w/gas
engine; Kubota 2200W generator; construction heaters; stipple ma-chine; lumber planer; insulation blower;
tree chipper; rototillers & garden power tools; cement
mixers; lawn power rake; cement mixers; concrete
viabrators; 3-Ton truck box trailer; Leon FEL; 1,250gal poly water tank; Poly water tank 1/2-Ton size; natural gas furnace for shop; 2007 Polaris Ranger 500 UTV;
1995 Trav L Mate 24-ft. travel trailer bunk model; 1988
Honda Goldwing motorcycle; Harley Davidson golf
cart; antique gravity gas bowser pump; wooden garden
sheds. Visit www.mackauc-tioncompany.com for sale
bill & photos. Join us on Facebook & Twitter (306)4212928 or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962.
MACK AUCTION CO. PRESENTS a farm & livestock equipment auction for Elmer Aichele
(306)744-2721 Fri., June 13th, 2014 @ 10:00am.
Directions from Saltcoats, SK. 7-mi East on #725
grid, 1-mi South & 1/4-mi East. Vers 835 4WD tractor; JD 4240 2WD tractor; AC XT 190 2WD tractor;
JD 4020 tractor; JD 3020 tractor; Caterpillar D-4
crawler tractor w/dozer; Caterpillar D-4 crawler tractor for parts; AC XT 190 tractor for parts; 1996 JD
9600 SP combine w/2215 sep hrs & JD 914 PU
header; Gleaner M DSL combine w/3,391-hrs; 1988
CCIL 722 SP DSL 26-ft. swather; Farm King 10-50
swing auger; NH 116 haybine; Vermeer 605 round
baler; NH 351 mix mill; JD 11 mower; JD 14T
square baler; JD 5 wheel rake; NH square bale
thrower; Brandt 7-35 auger w/Kohler engine & mover; Speed King 6-33 auger; shop built hopper box &
trailer; JD D 1527 unstyled on steel; JD D styled;
JD styled spoke rims; JD AR styled & overhauled;
JD AR; JD #12 combine motor; JD feed cutter; Allis
B w/3-PTH; Allis B & Bell mower; Allis CA restored;
Allis WF w/dozer; Allis WF; Allis WD tricycle; Allis
WD for parts; Allis WD45 w/dozer; Allis WD45 w/Allis 2-PTH plow; Allis WD 45; Allis D17 & loader; Allis PTO row crop combine; Allis B motor & welder
on trailer; Allis 2-PTH 10-ft. cultivator; 1953 Ford
Golden Jubilee; Ford 2 N; Fordson tractor on steel
wheels; Case S tractor; McCormick WD-6 DSL
w/factory cab; Massey 44; IHC SWD6 DSL; SW6
parts tractor; McCormick A; McCormick 10-ft. PWR
binder; McCormick threshing machine; 1981 Ford
F700 grain truck w/Cancade box; 1973 IHC 1700
grain truck; Ford F500 grain truck; 1986 GMC 1500
truck; 1975 Chev PU; 1953 Fargo one tone step
side; Older Pus for parts; IHC hay rakes; tandem
axle manure spreader; Killbury mount post pounder; tandem axle bumper pull stock trailer; various
size corral panels; Lewis cattle oiler; round bale
feeders; Pool head gate; new fence posts; new 15in. saddle; saddles bridles & harness; 37-ft. Morris
L233 Challenger cultivator; Morris 36 & 48-ft. rod
weeders; 24-ft. Morris Challenger cultivator; Melcam 27-ft. cultivator; 500-gal TBH liquid fertilizer
tank; Massey 14-ft. tandem disc; computer sprayer;
Vers 56-ft. sprayer; Flexi Coil 60-ft. tine harrows; Degelman 3 batt rock picker; Melcam 10-ft. cultivator; 12-ft.
Ford cultivator; JD 3 bottom plow; 8-ft. Minneapolis one
way plow; 3-PTH equip consists of Inland 6-ft. snow
blower; 5-ft. finishing mower; post hole auger; bale
spear; 2 wheel swath turner; JD 6-ft. finishing mower;
IHC 15-ft. cultivator; shop built tandem axle gooseneck
trailer; shop built dolly con-vertor; Leon FEL for 4020
JD, banjo pumps; 1,250-gal water tanks; JD 316 lawn
tractor w/tiller; MTD riding lawn tractor; Westward yard
sprayer; Honda Foreman 450 quad; Honda 650 motorcycle; Anchor 14-ft. boat w/40-HP gale motor & trailer;
double wide snow machine trailer; complete selection
of shop tools; various antique items & hidden treasures! 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
FARMING
IS ENOUGH OF
A GAMBLE...
Advertise in the Manitoba
Co-operator Classifieds,
it’s a Sure Thing!
1-800-782-0794
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AUCTION SALES
Saskatchewan Auctions
AUCTION SALES
Saskatchewan Auctions
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
Fertilizer Equipment
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.
(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.
CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.
Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103
or E-mail Requests [email protected]
Do you want to target Manitoba farmers? Place your
ad in the Manitoba Co-operator. Manitoba’s bestread farm publication.
GRAIN BINS WANTED: 1000 or 2000-bushel hopper bottom bin. Also Wanted: 1680 Case combine
for parts. Phone (204)636-2637.
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]
FERTILIZER SPREADERS 4-8-TON: 4T Tyler stainless, $4000; 5T Tyler Stainless, $4500; 6T Simonsen,
$6000; 8T Willmar, $7000; 8T Willmar 65-ft spread,
$8500. (204)857-8403. www.zettler-armequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
MACK AUCTION CO. presents a farm & livestock
equip auction for Dayle & Lana Chuckry
(306)861-6133 or (306)861-5171 Mon., June 16th,
2014 @ 10:00am. Directions from Weyburn, SK @
Junction Hwy 13 & Hwy 39 go 5-km Northwest &
1-km West. Watch for signs! Live internet bidding at
www.bidspotter.com 2007 Case IH Puma 125 FWA
tractor w/Case IH L760 FEL & 3PTH w/3,650-hrs;
2007 MF 5455 FWA tractor w/MF DL 289 FEL
bucket & grapple plus 3PTH w/2,900-hrs; Case IH
7110 2WD tractor w/dual PTO & 2,588-hrs; 2012
16-ft. Hesston MF 1375 Disc Bine w/steel crimpers;
Hesston 956A round baler net & twine wrap; 2010
NH BR7090 net wrap round baler w/inoculant liquid
applicator & moisture tester; 16-ft. JD 1600A mower
conditioner haybine w/rubber crimper; 2012 Kuhn
SR 112-SPD V hay rake; 2010 Kuhn GA 4120 TH
trailed gyrorake; Highline Bale Pro 7000HD bale
processor; Easyway 85-bu creep feeder portable tin
clad calf shelters; JD 346 square baler; NH 1034
bale wagon single bale unload; 2005 GMC Duramax 4WD 3500 1-Ton dually extended cab
w/5-SPD; 2003 Southland gooseneck 7x20 stock
trailer; 30-ft. 2005 Trailtech gooseneck flat deck
trailer w/beaver tail & ramps; 25-ft. Westward 7000
SP
swather
w/674-hrs
(Jerry
Trobert
(306)861-0638) 1987 JD 318 garden tractor w/PTO
& 3PTH rototiller; 1992 F250 XLT Ford F250 DSL
PU (Johnstone (306)861-6281) 1987 GMC Wrangler
2WD
PU
w/V6
(Johnstone
(306)861-6281) 1978 IH Loadstar 3-Ton grain truck
(Al Watson Estate); JD 1610 31-ft. seeding tool &
Harmaon 1830 air cart (Al Watson Estate); JD 610
DT cultivator w/Degelman harrows (Al Watson Estate); Flexi Coil tyne harrow bar (Al Watson Estate);
Kirchner V Ditcher (Al Watson Estate); 2 MF 360
discers; Sakundiak 7-33 grain auger w/Honda engine (Al Watson Estate); Brandt 7-40 auger (Johnstone); Allied 7-40 auger Bush Hog 5-ft. gyro mower; 3,
1650 & 2, 2,750-bu grain bins on cement (Johnstone)
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
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
AUTO & TRANSPORT
FARMING
IS ENOUGH OF
A GAMBLE...
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
Autos
Advertise in the Manitoba
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AUCTION SALES
U.S. Auctions
2009 MONTANA SV6 SPORT wagon, 7 passenger
quad seats, A/C, speed control, stereo disc wire, tilt
steering wheel, alloy wheels, power driver seat,
3900 V6 engine, 44,000-kms, excellent condition.
Price:$15,000 OBO. Phone:(204)697-9398.
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.
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
Ask about our blowout colours...65¢/ft.2
Also in stock low rib white 29 ga. ideal for
archrib buildings
BEAT THE PRICE
INCREASES CALL NOW
FOUILLARD STEEL
SUPPLIES LTD.
ST. LAZARE, MB.
1-800-510-3303
BUILDINGS
AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post
frame building company. For estimates and information
call
1-888-816-AFAB(2322).
Website:
www.postframebuilding.com
CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place &
finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any
floor design. References available. Alexander, MB.
204-752-2069.
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
AUCTION SALES
U.S. Auctions
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Vacuums
CURT’S GRAIN VAC SERVICES, parts & repair for
all makes & models. Craik SK, (306)734-2228.
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.
1-866-729-9876
5150 Richmond Ave. East
BRANDON, MB.
www.harvestsalvage.ca
New, Used & Re-man. Parts
Tractors Combines Swathers
The Real Used FaRm PaRTs
sUPeRsToRe
Over 2700 Units for Salvage
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monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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FRIDAY, MAY 30 | 10AM MDT
Location: 11961 41st St SW, South Heart, ND. From I-94 Exit 51 (South Heart, ND),
2 miles south into South Heart, ND, cross tracks, turn left 1 mile, 3 miles south,
3/8 mile east.
AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Almost all equipment was purchased new and has been
shedded. Major equipment begins selling at 11:30AM MDT. Live online bidding
available on major equipment. Registration, terms, & details at SteffesGroup.com.
TRACTORS, LOADERS, & LOADER ATTACHMENTS
HARVEST EQUIPMENT / SWATHER & HEADS
TILLAGE EQUIPMENT / TRUCKS, PICKUP, &
TRAILER / SPRAYERS / HAY EQUIPMENT
LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT / HAY / HOPPER BIN &
GRAIN HANDLING EQUIP. / BLADES & SCRAPERS
MOWERS / OTHER EQUIP. / SHOP EQUIP.
RegistRation, t eRms, P hotos, & D etails
at
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TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of
items. Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all
titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer.
KEN & NOREEN
KUDRNA
701.290.9566
Steffes Group, Inc., 2000 Main Ave E, West Fargo, ND 58078
Brad Olstad ND319, Scott Steffes ND81, Bob Steffes ND82,
Ashley Huhn ND843, Eric Gabrielson ND890, Randy Kath ND894
701.237.9173 | SteffesGroup.com
BUSINESS SERVICES
Crop Consulting
FARM CHEMICAL SEED COMPLAINTS
We also specialize in: Crop Insurance appeals;
Chemical drift; Residual herbicide; Custom operator
issues; Equipment malfunction; Yield comparisons,
Plus Private Investigations of any nature. With our
assistance the majority of our clients have received
compensation previously denied. Back-Track
Investigations investigates, documents your loss and
assists in settling your claim.
Licensed Agrologist on Staff.
For more information
Please call 1-866-882-4779
CONTRACTING
CONTRACTING
Custom Work
CORRAL CLEANING AVAILABLE W/VERTICAL
beater spreaders. Phone (204)827-2629 (204)526-7139.
BUILDINGS
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
NEW WOBBLE BOXES for JD, IH, MacDon
headers. Made in Europe, factory quality. Get
it direct from Western Canada’s sole distributor
starting at $1,095. 1-800-667-4515.
www.combineworld.com
NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS
NEW COMBINE PARTS
Large Inventory of
new and remanufactured parts
STEINBACH, MB.
Ph. 326-2443
Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727
Fax (204) 326-5878
Web site: farmparts.ca
E-mail: [email protected]
BUILDINGS
2011 8100 HIGHLINE BALE processor w/chopper,
grain tank, large tires, $17,500; Westfield 8x50
swing auger, $2500; Brandt 7x28 auger w/bin
sweep,
$1,300.
Contact
(204)851-0732
or
(204)851-0730, (204)748-2022.
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.
3-120V ELECT FENCERS, TEST A-1, also wanted
a Monarch Grain crusher in good cond. & set of 6
shares for older Oliver/White plow. Also selling super millet @.50 /lb in totes. D. White Morden.
(204)822-3649
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.
Stretch your advertising dollars! Place an ad in the
classifieds. Our friendly staff is waiting for your call.
1-800-782-0794.
DISCS JD 22-FT #330, $9500; 30-ft, $10,500; Versatile 36-ft, $25,000; Bushog 25-ft, $7500; JD 16-ft,
$5000; Krause 14-ft, $3500; Krause 15-ft Bifold,
$5000; Degelman Rock picker, $2500; JD V Drainage plow, $1500; Phoenix Harrow 53-ft, $12,000;
Summers 72-ft Harrow, $12,000; Scrapers 4 yd,
$3900; 6 yd Eversman, $6000; 8.5 yd Midland,
$8000; 6 yd crown, $5500; Rotary Ditcher 3 PH,
$1250. (204) 857-8403.
FARM KING 10-FT HYD drill fill auger; Phone
(204)386-2412, Plumas.
FOR SALE: 2006 NH 1475 haybine w/16-ft HS
header, $24,000 OBO; 1010 NH bale wagon,
$1000 OBO; International tandem disc 20-ft model
#48, $2,000 OBO; Truck frame trailer w/8x12 box &
hoist, $1,200 OBO. 3) 15.5x38 tractor tires, $100 ea
OBO. Phone (204)428-5185 leave msg.
FOR SALE: 4840 MF tractor; 1100 MF; 40-ft. Hesston heavy disc; 40-ft. JD field cultivator; band wagon. Phone (204)346-2224.
FOR SALE: 903 CUMMINGS motor & trans., From
1984 4840 MF tractor. Phone:(306)896-2817
Churchbridge, SK.
GAS BOWSER; SMALL CANCADE loader; Blade
for
a
Bobcat; 5th Wheel
hitch. Phone
(204)855-2212
We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if
you want to sell it fast place your ad in the Manitoba
Co-operator classifieds. It’s a Sure Thing. Call our
toll-free number today. We have friendly staff ready to
help. 1-800-782-0794.
GRAVITY WAGONS NEW 400-BU, $7400; 600
Bu, $12,000; 750 Bu, $17,750; Tarps available
used; 350 Bu, $3200; 500 Bu, $6000; 750 Bu Parker, $14,000; Used Graincarts: 750-Bu JM, $12,000;
675 EZ, $11,000; JM 650 Bu, $10,500; Brent 450Bu, $7500; Grain Screeners: Hutch 1600, $2500;
Hutch 3000, $5000; DMC 54, $5000; Kwik Kleen 5
Tube, $4000; 7 Tube, $5000; 7 Tube Hyd drive,
$6500; Extra screens, $150. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com (204)857-8403.
IHC 6 BOTTOM PLOW, 3-PTH, 4-tonne fertilizer
spreader, corn cultivator; 30-ft swather; standing
poplar; pasture & hayland for rent; Three sheep for
sale plus much more. (204)268-1888.
QUIT FARMING: 2008 CIH 8010 4WD combine,
30-ft flex draper, $200,000; 2008 STX 430 4WD,
new tires, $160,000; 1995 front trailer off a Super B,
$5000; 2011 Farm King Auger, 13x85, hyd. swing &
hyd. lift on swing, $18,000; 2013 Geringhoff corn
chopping header, 8x30-in, w/row stompers,
$80,000; (2) 105 White tractors, rebuilt eng.,
$7,000; Hutchmaster tandem, $5,000; Roadrunner
header haul, $8,000; 30-ft MacDon draper header,
$20,000; IH 4240 tractor w/15-ft mower, $12,000;
16x30 Westco cult., $1,500; 16x30 Band sprayer,
$1,500; 1998 T-800 Kenworth w/N14 Cummins,
18-spd, 4-way locks, SS paving Box, 30-in. live belt,
$33,000; 2006 CAT 320 excavator, 10,000-hrs
w/QA
cleaning
bucket,
nice,
$60,000.
Call:(204)871-0925, Macgregor, MB.
QUONSET NEW, 35X52X18; JD 2420 DSL, 25-ft &
16-ft hay; JD 7410 FWA, w/loader; MF 860 p/u
$5000, & 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; 16-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; 1-tonne truck hoist; Ford 6-ft, 3-PT angle
blade for 40-HP & bigger tractor; CAT IT 28G loader, 2.5-yd. (306)236-8023.
WANTED: 14x16.1 front tire tractor, FOR SALE: 2
good 10.00x16 tires, $100 each; 30.5x32 Firestone
rice tires, good, $1000; 2 older 30.5x32, $200 each;
Good 5th Wheel, $250; 6-ft swath roller, $100.
(204)373-2502,
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Advertising Feature
Kugler Comes to
Western Canada
In May of 2012, canola and corn
growers in Western Canada using
Pioneer® brand products were
encouraged to join other farmers in
North America and participate in the
‘Proving Ground Yield Challenge.’ Birch
Hills farmer Florian Hagmann decided
to enter.
“Judges came out,” Hagmann says,
“they weighed the grain and determined
that my canola crop yield was 54.5
bushels/acre.” That was enough to make
him a Challenge winner.
“It was a very good yield for that year,”
Hagmann says, “but not the highest in
the province, so I set myself a personal
challenge to increase my yield the
following year.”
The 2012 win included a trip for two
to the Commodity Classic in Kissimmee,
Florida. While there, Hagmann compared
notes with other winning growers
including the producer with the highest
corn yield in all of the United States. He
was interested to learn that the farmer
used Kugler products on his fields.
The Kugler Company is a longestablished, family-owned American
agricultural business that was started in
1924 and specializes in liquid specialty
fertilizers.
Kugler had a booth at the Commodity
Classic and Hagmann stopped in. During
conversations, Kugler expressed an
interest in expanding their company
beyond the U.S., and shortly afterward,
made the corporate decision to distribute
Kugler product in Western Canada.
In 2013, Hagmann applied Kugler’s
signature XRN-Technology fertilizers to
his field: KQ-XRN, a nitrogen formulation
with 72% nitrogen slow-released for up
to six weeks in the soil and 35 days on
the leaves, and KS-2075, a slow-release
fertilizer with nitrogen, potassium and
sulfur.
“There was no problem getting them
into the ground,” he says. “I didn’t need
any specialized equipment. I applied it
with ordinary seeding equipment and a
ground sprayer.”
Hagmann had no idea how or if the
Kugler product would impact his canola
yield, but he couldn’t dispute the results.
The field on which he used the Kugler
products yielded a whopping 84.5
bushels/acre, and won him the 2013
Proving Ground Challenge.
“Everywhere I used Kugler I could see
a significant difference for the good,” he
says. “I wished I’d used it on all my fields,
and definitely plan to do that this year.”
A neighbour who also tried Kugler
fertilizers had similar results and saw a
six-to-one return on his input investment.
Given those kinds of results, Hagmann
and Kinistino farmer Warren Hanson were
more than willing to become Western
Canadian distributors of Kugler fertilizers.
They already have a team of dealers in
place in Saskatchewan and are seeing
higher sales volumes than they expected.
The potential, they say, is tremendous.
“Switching to Kugler did not increase
our cost per acre, but it did mean a
little more in terms of management,”
Hagmann says. “Kugler emphasizes
the 4Rs: the Right Fertilizer Source at
the Right Rate at the Right Time in the
Right Place.”
Kugler management is based on
research which reveals that only
10 to 12 percent of dry phosphorus
fertilizers are taken up by plants in the
first year. It also shows that farmers
should fertilize according to soil test
recommendations, employ ‘starter
solutions’ or ‘pop-up’ fertilizers, and finish
with foliar applications. The benefit of foliar
application is that it spreads from tip to
root within a few hours. As much as 95
percent of the nutrients sprayed on the
leaves is used immediately by the plant,
whereas the roots take up no more than
10 percent of the same quantity of dry
fertilizer placed in the soil.
“Every farmer wants to increase
their yield and make their operation
more profitable,” Hagmann says. “We
believe Kugler gives a good return for
your investment.”
“We’re not looking to change the
world. We just want to help farmers
become more efficient and increase
their production. We believe this is the
future of fertilizer.”
For a complete Kugler product line,
visit KuglerCompany.com. See a list of
Western Canadian Kugler dealers below.
NOW AVAILABLE IN CANADA
a KQ-XRN 28% N solution (72% is slow release) that stays on the plant and lasts for weeks
a Foliar products spread your fertility input risks over the growing season
a Up to 20 times more efficient than ground applied
a Tank mixable with herbicides and fungicides to feed your crop in a one pass application
a Non-corrosive to equipment; won’t gum sprayer filters
a Adheres to plants; won’t burn crops; revitalizes damaged crops
a Kugler phosphate starters are 85% plant useable the first year unlike dry which is only
12-20% useable
a K52075 will also give a late season sulphur boost
The Liquid Topdressing Product
that you’ve been waiting for!
CONTACT US TODAY!
Winnipeg North
Adrian Shabaga
204-768-0273
Winnipeg South
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
EDGE
EQUIPMENT SALES
3-170 Murray Park Rd
Winnipeg, MB
204-837-1660
www.edgeequipmentsales.com
Exclusive PowerFold® feature
allows operators to lift
DuraMax® decks with their
fingers not with their backs.
USED GRASSHOPPERS AVAILABLE
HAYING & HARVESTING
Baling Equipment
COMBINES
Accessories
2009 JD 4895 SP wind roller, bar ties, HID lights,
long wiper, variable speed reel w/16-ft 896 hay
header, non-clog guards, steel skid shoes, 330
cutting hours, $69,000; 2011 A30D MacDon mower
conditioner, 16-ft pull-type w/stub guards on cutting
bar, $20,000; 2009 JD 568 Mega-wide round baler,
1000 PTO, w/net wrap, high-moisture kit, auto oiler
& Gandi hay preservative applicator, approx 10,000
bales, $29,000; 2005 Morris 1400 Hay hiker, 14
bale w/divide stop, $17,000; 2006 Matador swath
turner, model 7900 hyd drive, $3000. Contact
(204)851-0732 or (204)851-0730, (204)748-2022.
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
570 NH SMALL SQUARE baler, with or w/o farm
hand bale accumulator & fork. VGC, always shedded. Call (204)736-4227, La Salle.
FOR SALE: 2005 CASE IH baler, RBX562, wide
PU, belts VG to New, shedded, excellent cond,
auto-tie. (204)476-0100, Carberry.
FOR SALE: JD 466 small square baler, in excellent
shape,
field
ready. $3,000
OBO. Phone:
(204)373-2730.
HAYING & HARVESTING
Swathers
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
Combines
COMBINES
Ford/New Holland
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.
COMBINES
Combines - Various
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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
COMBINES
Accessories
JD 635 HYDRAFLEX W/PU reel, $23,500. Brian
(204)856-6119 or (204)685-2896, MacGregor, MB.
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Tillage Equipment
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.
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Tillage Various
28-FT CASE HOE DRILL, always shedded, in
great shape. Phone (204)295-8417.
60-FT FLEXI-COIL SYSTEM 92 harrow packer;
4865 New Idea round baler - reconditioned. Phone
(204)842-3675.
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.
INDIVIDUAL SHANK MOUNTED PACKERS; New
Dutch knives, half-price also Misc used boots &
knives. Phone (204)263-5392.
TRACTORS
Case/IH
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
[email protected] www.arcfab.ca
Spraying EquipmEnt
SPRAYING EQUIPMENT
Sprayers
2013 Rogator RG1300
2007 JD 4895, 18.4x26 Firestone Champion Spade
grip tires, 30-ft. Honeybee header, double knife
drive, PU reel, 581 swathing hrs, 747 eng hrs, always shedded. Asking $79,000; Vers 4750 w/30-ft.
double knife drive & PU reel, 2,760-hrs, always
stored
inside.
Asking
$12,000
Phone:
(204)782-2846 or (204)488-5030.
HAYING & HARVESTING
Various
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
TracTors
CASE IH 8450 BALER, 4-ft wide, 6-ft tall. Spare
parts, always shedded. Asking $5000. Phone
(204)467-5093, ask for Doug.
Corey Bossuyt
204-771-9204
VISIT US AT WWW.KQXRN.COM
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
08 STX 430 brand new 620-70-42 tires, delux cab,
heated
leather
seat,
$160,000.
Phone
(204)871-0925, McGregor.
1987 CASE IH 3394 FWA, 160-hp, PTO, 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.
1989 7130 3-PTH large PTO, 20.8x38 rear tires,
good shape, runs excellent, $30,000 OBO. Phone
(204)526-7139.
886 IHC TRACTOR, 4,135-HRS, VGC,
OBO. Call (204)736-4227, La Salle.
$7500
TRACTORS
Steiger
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]
Tillage & Seeding
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.
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.
1997 JD 8970 425-HP, bottom end on motor done
1,000-hrs ago, tires 90%, injectors tested, 24-SPD,
8,400-hrs, field ready, best offer. (306)524-4567 or
(306)726-3203.
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
Versatile
1985 SERIES 3 835 VERSATILE, 6500-hrs, new
18.4 x 38 tires. Atom set hydraulic pump for air
seeder. New batteries, new clutch, re-cored radiator. Always shedded. Immaculate condition. Priced
to sell. Phone (204)537-2455.
835 VERSATILE W/RETURN LINE for air seeder,
field ready, new inside tires, VGC, asking $20,000.
Phone (204)425-3837.
TRACTORS
2-Wheel Drive
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Seeding Various
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.
FOR SALE: 24-FT MELROE press drill, always
shedded, field ready; Also, 28-ft all hyd. drill carrier
Phone:(204)526-2543.
TRACTORS
Various
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Tillage Equipment
2006 MF 6485, 6600-HRS, dyna-shift transmission,
18.4 R42 duals, cab suspension, electronic joystick,
4 remotes, MF 975 loader. Call (204)745-7864,
(204)379-2640.
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.
SWAP 500 VERSATILE FOR International 806 or
856. Phone(204)855-2212
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TRACTORS
Various
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Shorthorn
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 S650G, 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.
GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK
AUCTION MART. LTD.
FOR SALE: PUREBRED YEARLING Shorthorn
bulls. Red & Roan, thick & beefy w/moderate birth
weights. Get the maternal edge w/Shorthorn sired
females. Call Uphill Shorthorns. (204)764-2663 cell,
(204)365-7155, [email protected]
GRUNTHAL, MB.
AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING
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.
REGULAR
CATTLE SALES
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
The Icynene Insulation
System®
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519
every TUESDAY at 9 am
20th & 27th
Monday May 26th
Sheep & Goat with Small Animals
& Holstein Calves at 12:00pm
HIQUAL INDUSTRIES
We also have a line of Agri-blend all natural
products for your livestock needs.
(protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc)
1-800-587-4711
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
WANTED: INSTANT FREEZER FOR
homemade fries. Phone:(204)638-8415
WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM
freezing
IRON & STEEL
FREE STANDING CORRAL PANELS, Feeders & Alley
ways, 30ft or order to size. Oil Field Pipe: 1.3, 1.6, 1.9,
1 7/8, 2-in, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2. Sucker Rod: 3/4, 7/8, 1.
Casing Pipes: 4-9inch. Sold by the piece or semi load
lots. For special pricing call Art (204)685-2628 or cell
(204)856-3440.
LIVESTOCK
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
Friday, May 30th
70 Cow/ Calf pairs at
Don Bowdens Farm Auction
Check Website
www.nickelauctions.com
For Details
Nickel Auctions Ltd (204)637-3393
D. Bowden (204)871-1068
Gladstone Auction Mart
Summer Schedule
May 6th Closed
May 13th Regular Feeder Cattle Sale
Plus a Cow/Calf Sale 9:00am
May 20th Closed
May 27th Regular Cattle Sale 9:00am
June 3rd Closed
June 10th Regular Cattle Sale 9:00am
June 17th Closed
June 24th Regular Cattle Sale 9:00am
July 1st Closed
July 8th Regular Cattle Sale 9:00am
August 19th Reopen for our
Regular Weekly Sales
For More Info Phone the Mart at
(204)385-2537
License # 1108
CATTLE SALES
Every Friday 9 AM
We sell Bred Cows, Cow Calf Pairs
and Horses Every Friday
BRED COW & COW/CALF SALE
Friday, May 16 @ 11:00 AM
Featuring: 10 Bred Cows & 10 Cow/Calfs.
2 Pure Bred Scottish Highland Bulls & 7
Scottish Highland Cows to calf July
through Oct.
SHEEP, LAMB & GOAT SALE
Wednesday, May 21 @ 1:00 PM
Butcher Cows bring a premium in
Winnipeg as we have 6 to 7 Cow buyers.
High dollar market for Feeder Cattle as
we have 4 to 6 local buyers and
7 to 8 order buyers.
“Where Buyers & Sellers Meet”
We Buy Cattle Direct on Farm
For more information call: 204-694-8328
www.winnipeglivestocksales.com
Licence #1122
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.
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.
RED & BLACK PUREBRED Registered Angus
Cows & Heifers For Sale. Will sell part or whole
herd; Jan & Feb calves @ foot, rebred AI to Top
Sires. Please only serious inquiries (204)422-5216
RIDGE SIDE RED ANGUS: Yearling bulls for sale.
From top AI sires, semen tested, guaranteed, will
keep & feed till you need & deliver. Call Don:
(204)422-5216 or visit our website@ ridgesideredangus.com
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 – Black Angus
3 REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS bulls, 3-yrs old,
birthweight 80-84-lbs. Bismarck, Alliance, Stout
bloodlines. Phone Marcel (204)981-6953, Oak
Bluff.
6 YEARLING REGISTERED BLACK Angus Bulls,
semen
tested
&
delivered
within
100-mi.
(204)741-0070, (204)483-3622, Souris.
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.
ANGUS QUALITY WITH OPTIONS! I have the
cows if you have the bull. (No B.S.) Option to buy.
More details (204)534-6185 & leave message.
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.
OSSAWA ANGUS AT MARQUETTE, MB. For
sale: yearling & 2-yr old bulls. Also, a couple of
herd sires. Phone: (204) 375-6658 or (204)383-0703.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
2 RED ANGUS BULLS for sale. 3-yr old, both heifer bulls. $2,500/each. Jim Abbot, Carman, MB.
Phone:(204)745-3884 or (204)750-1157.
2 YR OLD BULLS at
(204)371-6404, Ste Anne.
A great way to
Buy and Sell
without the ef for t.
Classifieds
$2,000
each. Phone
FOR SALE: REG RED Angus bulls yearlings & 2 yr
olds. For more info (204)773-3252
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.
WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM STILL has several
yearling & 2-yr old Red Angus &Maine-Anjou bulls.
All bulls are semen tested, vaccinated, can be delivered. Phone:(204)373-2631 or check us out at
www.wilkinridge.logspot.com
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]
POLLED 2 YR OLD & yearling Red factor Simm
bulls from AI sires. Acomb Valley Simmentals
(204)867-2203, Minnedosa.
For on farm appraisal of livestock
or for marketing information please call
MB. Livestock Dealer #1111
ORGANIC
Organic – Grains
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.
Sales Agent for
Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250
Auction Mart (204) 434-6519
www.penta.ca
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]
May
ORGANIC
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
FOR SALE: 2-YR OLD Charolais Bulls, polled,
quiet, low birth weights, tested & delivered,
$2300-$2500.
Wayne
Angus
(204)764-2737,
Hamiota MB.
FOR SALE: POLLED YEARLING Charolais bulls,
Silverado grandsons, will be semen tested. Jack
Bullied:(204)526-2857.
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.
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.
PB CHAROLAIS YEARLING BULLS for sale.
Sired from easy calving bulls, fed hay ration, excellent growth. Call Ken (204)824-2115, Wawanesa.
Red Factor Charolais Bulls. They are easy calving &
being hand-fed an oat/pea ration w/free choice grass
hay. Semen tested & delivered. 2-yr olds available.
Cory Burnside (204)841-0018
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.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
2 PB LONG YEARLING bulls sired by Reserve
Senior Champion from Toronto Royal Winter Fair,
very quiet, heavy muscled, from good uddered,
heavy milking dams; 3 Polled Bull Calves, same sire.
54-yrs of Raising Quality Herefords. Francis Poulsen
(204)436-2284, cell (204)745-7894, Elm Creek.
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 – Limousin
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
Cattle Various
2 YEARLING CHAROLAIS BULLS, good disposition, will semen test. Phone (204)428-5185, leave
msg.
WANTED: 4 YOUNG COW-CALF pairs (Prefer
Hereford
cows
w/Charolais
calves)
Phone:
(204)748-1024
Horses
LIVESTOCK
Horses – Quarter Horse
20 YOUNG QUARTER HORSE brood mares, Included are 8 daughters of Two Eyed Red Buck. In
foal starting May 1st. Also 6 yearlings. Phone
(204)326-6016
LIVESTOCK
Horses For Sale
HAVE SEVERAL H.B. QUARTER horses, young
quarter horses that need to be broke or are broke to
ride. Also
2
half
Gypsy-Vanners.
Phone
(306)435-3634, lv msg.
Swine
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
WANTED:
BUTCHER
HOGS
SOWS AND BOARS
FOR EXPORT
P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD.
728-7549
Licence No. 1123
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.
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR SALE
WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM STILL has several
yearling & 2-yr old Maine-Anjou &Red Angus bulls.
All bulls are semen tested, vaccinated, can be delivered. Phone:(204)373-2631 or check us out at
www.wilkinridge.logspot.com
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]
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
FOR SALE: The farmland of the Estate of G.W.R.
SELLGE, consisting of the following: 1. RM of
Franklin: approx 160.00-acs (NW 11-3-3E) 2. RM of
De Salaberry: approx 153.68-acs (NE 25-4-3E); approx 152.41-acs (SW 25-4-3E); & approx
154.48-acs (NW 25-4-3E) For further information,
please contact: Viktor G. Loewen, Executor for the
estate of G.W.R. Sellge c/o Loewen & Martens Law
Office 1101 Henderson Hwy Winnipeg, MB R2G
1L4.
Ph:
(204)338-9364,
ext
#234,
Fax:
(204)338-8379 email [email protected]
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; RM of Odanah, 160-acs grainland for sale, posession Jan 2015. Call Liz
(204)476-6362, John (204)476-6719. Gill & Schmall
Agencies.
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
Canadian Farm Realty
FARM & LAND SELLING TEAM
Sheldon Froese
Stacey Hiebert
Dolf Feddes
Junior Thevenot
Henry Carels
204-371-5131
204-371-5930
204-745-0451
204-825-8378
204-573-5396
V isit our website:
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Exclusively dedicated to
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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.
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
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.
2 BLACK PUREBRED 4-YR old, proven herd sires,
moderate birth weights. CEE Farms Genetics.
Phone Marcel (204)981-6953, Oak Bluff.
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.
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.
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.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Maine-Anjou
PERSONAL
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.
1000 Litre
Caged Storage Tanks
$60.00 each
Call Ken 204-794-8383
#45 Mountain View Rd.
Winnipeg, MB
Trux-N-Parts Salvage Inc.
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.
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.
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Info phone D. WHITE SEEDS (204)822-3649, Morden.
MALT BARLEY
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SEED/FEED/CROP INPUTS
Cereal Seeds
Court Seeds
Available for 2014:
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We BUY used oil & filters
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Specialized waste removal
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CERTIFIED CARBERRY WHEAT, CERTIFIED Leggett
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CERTIFIED SOURIS OATS, CERTIFIED Cardale
wheat, Certified Registered & Foundation Carberry
wheat. Shanawan Farms Ltd, (204)736-2951, Domain.
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.
GREAT VOLUME DISCOUNTS on truck load Carberry Wheat & Tradition Barley. Also consider the
solid yield advantages of Pinnacle Oats. Krym
Farms Ltd (204)955-5562, Rosser.
JAMES FARMS LTD AC Carberry Wheat, Tradition Barley, Souris & Summit Oats, Hanley Flax, Forage seeds,
various Canola, Sunflower & Soybean seed varieties.
Custom processing, seed treating & delivery avail. Early
payment discount. For info call (204)222-8785 or toll free
1-866-283-8785, [email protected]
“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
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SANDERS SEED FARM FDN, Reg, Cert Domain, Carberry & Glenn Wheat, Cert Celebration Barley Canterra
1990, 1970, Canola. Phone (204)242-4200, Manitou, MB.
SEED/ FEED/GRAIN
Hay & Straw
PEDIGREED SEED
Forage – Various
140 LARGE ROUND TIMOTHY grass hay bales.
No rain, 1,700-lb, trucking arranged, Feed Wheat,
Oats & Barley. Phone (204)345-8532
PEDIGREED SEED
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Toll Free: 888-974-7246
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.
NATIVE HAY, 5 X 5 NH baler, solid core, $30 per
bale. Phone Branko (204)646-2543.
ROUND & LARGE SQUARE hay bales, delivery
avail. Phone (204)827-2629 or (204)526-7139.
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WE BUY ALL TYPES of off-grade grains, convenient pick-up arranged. Call Central Grain Company:
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Confection and
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each $3,500; 15,000-gal liquid fertilizer tanks w/3-in.
valves, each $4,800. Phone (204)746-8851, Morris, MB.
FOR SALE: 34,000-GAL LIQUID fertilizer tank.
Phone (204)822-4382.
TIRES
8, 18.4X38 BIAS PLY tractor tires, like new, $475
each. (204)736-2840, Brunkild.
1-204-724-6741
EXISS ALUMINUM LIVESTOCK TRAILERS 2014
Stock has arrived! 7-ft wide x 20-ft & 24-ft lengths.
10-Yr Warranty. SOKAL INDUSTRIES LTD. Phone:
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TRAILERS
Trailers Miscellaneous
1979 45-FT WILSON DOUBLE decker cattle
trailer,nose decking, doghouse safety gates real good
farm trailer, $7500; 20-yd tandem Billy Dump Gravel trailer, $7500, $9500; 22-ft ARNES Gravel Trailer,
Electric Tarp Box Liner, $9995; Tandem Home-made
Low Bed, $7500; 1970 PAY HOUGH LOADER Cummins Motor, $9500; Single offroad converters starting
at $1495 up to $2395; Tandem offroad converters starting at $2495 up to $2995; 30-ft hay trailer 8-wheels
offroad farm, $5995. STONEY’S SERVICE, EDDYSTONE, MB. PHONE (204)448-2193.
2) 5-TONNE TRAILERS W/8X20-FT decks, 1100x12
aircraft tires, 5th Wheel steering, no sway. Call
(204)736-4227, La Salle.
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LAKE AERATION
EQUIPMENT
OEM Medical
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$299.95
1/2" Polypipe
$60.00/100 ft.
Lineal or Single Diffusers
FRESH WATER TREATMENT
SYSTEMS LTD
PH 780-356-2928
www.fwtsltd.com
[email protected]
CAREERS
CAREERS
Help Wanted
New 30.5L-32 16 ply, $1,995; 20.8-38 12 ply
$765; 18.4-38 12 ply; $789; 24.5-32 14 ply,
$1,495; 14.9-24 12 ply, $486; 16.9-28 12 ply
$558, 18.4-26 10 ply, $890. Factory direct. More
sizes available new and used. 1-800-667-4515.
www.combineworld.com
HELP WANTED AT GARDENTON Community
pasture, South Eastern MB. Cattle experience necessary. House available for rent. Contact Barry
Ross (204)841-1907.
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FOR SALE: ALFALFA, TIMOTHY, Brome, Clover,hay &
pasture blends, millet seed, Crown, Red Pro-zo, cleaned
common seed oats. Leonard Friesen (204)685-2376,
Austin, MB.
FOR SALE: ORGANIC SAINFOIN seed. Called “Healthy
Hay” in Europe. (sainfoin.eu) An ancient, non-bloating,
nutritious, low input, perennial forage loved by all animals.
Better flavored meat & dairy. (306)739-2900 primegrains.
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FARMERS, RANCHERS,
SEED PROCESSORS
BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS
10,000 US GAL, POLYWEST 6 months old w/3-in.
valve, $5,000. Phone (204)248-2110.
TRAILERS
Livestock Trailers
CPS Canada is filling the following vacancies:
ALFALFA & GRASSES: HAY blends & pasture blends,
custom blends. Free delivery. Phone: 1-888-204-1000
or visit www.dyckseeds.com
FOR SALE: RED MILLET Seed, $.34/lb. Call
Keith:(204)857-2477.
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PUGH SEEDS: CERT CARDALE, AC Barrie,
Kane Wheat, Conlon Barley, Souris Oats. Phone
(204)274-2179 or (204)871-1467, Portage.
CERTIFIED ALFALFAS & GRASSES: hay blends &
pasture blends. For prices Phone: 1-888-204-1000 or
visit www.dyckseeds.com
Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers
37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Ph. (204) 745-6444
Email: [email protected]
SEED/ FEED/GRAIN
Feed Grain
Vanderveen
Commodity
Services Ltd.
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.
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2013 Malt Contracts Available
Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0
Phone 204-737-2000
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special rTM feature
Oilpatch means slick
times for RTMs
Young couples are looking for quality homes
By Duncan Morrison
Co-operator contributor
A
n oil and gas boom like the
one underway in southwestern
Manitoba nowadays can have
many spinoff effects to the economy.
Some, such as more employment
opportunities, are obvious to all.
Others, such as an increase in
ready-to-move (RTM) home sales, are
not quite as evident. But that’s exactly
what is going on in southwestern
Manitoba.
“We are seeing an increase of
RTM home business in southwestern Manitoba as a result of the oilpatch business,” says Larry Huston of
Lakeshore Homes in Rossburn, Manitoba. “Young couples are moving to
southwestern Manitoba and looking for affordable and quality housing and are exploring the RTM home
options.”
Huston owns Lakeshore Homes
with his wife Janette. He says the
ability for his company to deliver an
RTM home to home buyers within
90 days is a key selling feature for
home buyers in the oilpatch. He says
his company is unique in that it will
also build the basement on site for
the RTM if that’s what the customer
requests.
Lakeshore’s RTM homes are built
in Portage la Prairie through the Hustons’ business partnership with Bailey Homes and shipped throughout
Manitoba and Saskatchewan from
there.
According to Huston, the oilpatch
is also a driver of RTM homes in
another sense besides housing young
families. The lure of the oilpatch and
other opportunities in the mining
industry has resulted in a shortage
of tradespeople in rural areas. These
are usually the workers who are critical components of an on-site home
build.
“Western Manitoba is definitely
seeing a shortage of tradespeople
such as drywallers, plumbers, and
others needed to build a house on
site,” says Huston. “This is why some
people prefer the RTM home option.
They can’t afford to build the same
house they can get with an RTM
home due to labour rates of on-site
builds. RTM homes solve that problem.”
Huston says that the first call he
fields often brings up the expenses
associated with transporting the
RTM. He says he often disperses that
concern by comparing it to the various contractors’ fees that an on-site
build would incur. When the alreadypermitted RTM is taken into account,
the decision by the home buyer is
made easier.
As the company name Lakeshore
Homes suggests, Huston’s business is
located near some of western Manitoba’s summer areas. Huston has had
RTM cottages delivered to summer
hot spots such as Clear Lake, Lake of
the Prairies and Oak Lake over the
A booming oilpatch has increased the demand for new homes in western Manitoba and it can be difficult sourcing tradespeople to build on site. photo: thinkstock
“Western Manitoba
is definitely seeing a
shortage of tradespeople
such as drywallers,
plumbers, and others
needed to build a house
on site.”
Larry Huston
years. However, while the oilpatch
booms, Huston says the cottage RTM
industry has tailed off a bit.
“Over the last six or seven years,
people were buying lots,” he says.
“But property and recreational taxes
on these lots really slowed a lot of
people’s building plans for their summer homes. I think some people were
surprised and it affected their ability to build their dream cabin. I see
times eventually returning to smaller
cottages by the lake rather than the
larger cottages that many people
were building.”
Lenders still shy of RTM homes
Most lenders will finance after the
home is on site
No scenario is ever really perfect and RTM homes are no exception.
According to Larry Huston of Lakeshore Homes in Rossburn, Man., two
key areas of RTM home buying and moving continue to drag down the
process in Manitoba.
“Banks seem to still struggle with the RTM home,” says Huston. “In
most cases that I am aware of, the banks will not lend money to the
home buyer until the RTM is on the home buyer’s property. This is
despite the permits and insurance of the builder and mover.”
Huston says he is unsure why this continues to be the case. He’s
hoping that the decision by a credit union in Saskatchewan to lend
money to RTM buyers at the outset of their sale sets an example for
other financial institutions to get with the times. The other Manitoba
concern, says Huston, is overhead electrical wires.
“Most Hydro wires in Saskatchewan and Alberta are buried, whereas in Manitoba, many wires are still overhead,” he says. “There is a
reasonable permit process in place that is handled by the mover but it
still can incur extra costs in Manitoba for the buyer. In the provinces to
the west, it is pretty much clear sailing.”
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SPECIAL RTM FEATURE
Rural properties the key for RTM homes
Custom-built RTMs are a hit with ‘empty nesters’ looking to downsize and still have a nice home
Origins,
climate and
permits
By Duncan Morrison
Co-operator contributor
Customized RTMs are a favoured choice for retiring farmers transferring the homestead to the next generation.
By Duncan Morrison
Co-operator contributor
C
ountry living in a
city-built home is the
norm when it comes
t o re a d y- t o - m ov e ( RT M )
homes. As a result, more and
more folks are investigating
the RTM option every year,
says one local retailer.
“ We d o e v e r y t h i n g i n
house at our shop in Headingley on the outskirts of
Winnipeg,” says Randy Marquette, who along with his
wife Suzanne, has operated
Ne w G e n e r a t i o n Ho m e s
for the past 12 years. “That
includes plans, designs,
building codes and other
key components of building
a home. We look after that
right here and arrange for
“For many, they
are building a new
lifestyle.”
Randy Marquette
their new RTM home to be
transported to their property. We make it as easy as
possible for people to purchase the home they want.”
Not having to be on site at
regular intervals during the
entire construction phase is
one benefit to the purchaser.
According to Marquette,
the vast majority of RTM
homes built by his company
are headed for rural Manitoba destinations that are a
fair distance away from Winnipeg, such as Gimli and
Pinawa. The demographics
of the purchaser, according
to Marquette, are not quite
as consistent as the rural lots
they are often delivered to.
“We do see what we call
“empty nesters” that are getting out of the city and into
the last home they will ever
build,” he says. “For many,
they are building a new lifestyle. The kids have left the
home and have started their
own families and the parents begin to downsize and
adjust through one of our
homes.”
Marquette says that snowbirds and newlyweds alike
will check out the viabilities
and options around RTM
homes. Often, the price of
land is a key factor in the
decisions that many people are making around RTM
homes.
“We especially notice this
with some of the farm folks
who have worked on the
land and have either sold off
their homestead or handed
the farm down to the kids,”
says Marquette. “Often they
will set aside a piece of their
property so they do not have
to purchase new property on
their own and they will move
a customized RTM home
onto this property to begin
the next stage of their lives.
In some cases, they just want
to stay near the operations
and their family on a previously unused parcel of land.”
The RTM home and building
industry originated in lumberyards and has evolved to
also include customized RTM
home builders, such as New
Generation Homes, and other
builders. Industry experts
speak positively to the capabilities and durability of the
RTM home. The seasonal temperature swings on Canada’s
Prairies can be extreme on
both sides of the thermometer.
To protect all Canadian
homebuyers, the RTM home
is built to the same national
building codes as homes that
are built on site. Building codes
are starting to change in an
attempt to pre-empt expected
changes due to climate
change such as increased precipitation and snowfall.
Examples of building code
changes of this nature can be
seen within insulation and
wall tightening changes. Those
changes are applicable across
all buildings, not solely RTM
homes.
Randy Marquette of New
Generation Homes says
most RTM builders who are
equipped like his business will
handle all the necessary building and moving permits on
their end.
But, he says, the consumer needs to be diligent and
ensure they fully understand
the contracts to which they
agree. And, the consumer
also needs to speak with their
builder so that they understand
their permits and obligations
clearly.
At the end of the day,
Marquette says, the entire
process is developed with the
homeowner in mind.
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SPECIAL RTM FEATURE
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SPECIAL RTM FEATURE
Beautiful display homes available
and ready now! MUST SEE!
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Marvin Vogt. Steinbach, MB
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Buyers now have access to many more options for customizing their RTM interiors.
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RTM interiors offer style
with a personal touch
Buyers can select from an array of professionally designed products
By Duncan Morrison
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
O
ne can almost imagine
the movie trailer hype.
This most definitely
isn’t your great-grandma’s
ready-to-move (RTM) home.
Gone are the days of quick
throw-together interior product mishmash. These days,
the interiors of brand new
S
RTM homes are stylish, professionally designed and
packing a luxurious wallop.
“RTMs are definitely not
what they used to be,” says
Derek Fyfe, general manager
of Olympic Homes in Winnipeg. “We like to say every
RTM home is a customized
RTM. Buyers can pick out
what they want from our
professional design centre.
From high-end kitchens with
granite countertops and tile
backsplashes through cement
board siding with stone
veneer accents, we make it
possible for buyers to enjoy
high-quality lifestyle in their
new RTM home.
“Clients are working within
budgets when building a
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SPECIAL RTM FEATURE
Continued from previous page
home,” he says. “We offer many
different designs and work with
clients to match their dream
home with their budget.”
According to Fyfe, the only
restriction on the upgraded
interior bling is the size and
capacity of the RTM. That said,
he quickly points out that most
people’s additions and modifications are easily handled
within their many RTM homes,
including the “Parkdale” premier show home which comes
in at 1,700 square feet and has
all the same features as highend custom-built homes.
Once the design decisions
are made, things move quickly.
“Once the client picks their
RTM and makes their interior
and exterior finish selections we
can start the build right away,”
he says. “All of the choices are
made shortly after the contract
is signed. Once the build starts,
it moves really fast.”
Clients are coming from all
walks of life and represent a
wide range from first-time
homeowners to retirees looking
for a summer home. Fyfe says
many of these retirees have
winter homes in warmer climes
and are looking for a nice summer home to spend their Manitoba summers.
“We build RTMs for primary
residences as well as cottages,”
he says. “No matter where the
client chooses to move the
home, they are all built with
the same high-quality products
externally and internally and
offer the same products. Quality is standard in every build.”
“We offer many
different designs and
work with clients to
match their dream
home with their
budget.”
Buyer
responsibilities in
the RTM building
process:
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Financing;
Property purchase;
Onsite permits;
Lot preparation and excavation;
Construction of foundation;
Installation of HVAC (i.e. furnace, HRV, air
conditioning & all ductwork);
Plumbing and electrical in foundation;
Stairs and windows for basement;
Hot water tank;
On-site hookups (i.e. town sewer/water,
hydro, etc.);
Installation of appliances;
Eavestroughing.
SOURCE: NEW GENERATION HOMES
(WWW.NEWGENERATIONHOMES.CA)
Why is an RTM a
great way to build
your home?
RTM Advantage
• Convenience: The builder takes care of
the day-to-day details of home building.
You deal with a sales representative
and not a series of contractors.
• Time Savings: Typical site builds can
take 12 months or more to complete.
While the builder builds the home, you
are having the foundation constructed.
This co-ordination means that you can
be living in your home sooner.
• Control: The build site is a controlled
environment, minimizing theft, material delays and travel time costs. This
means the cost of your home is accurate and there are no surprises at the
end due to cost overruns or unforeseen
issues.
SOURCE: HTTP://NELSONREADYTOMOVE.
NELSONCOMPANYLTD.COM/FLOORPLANS/RTM101.ASPX
DEREK FYFE
General manager of
Olympic Homes in Winnipeg
Olympic
ready-to-move
homes
Standard features
make homes
move-in ready
With every Olympic ready-tomove home you can expect
industry-leading standards
such as:
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35-year shingles;
Fibreglass entry doors;
Vaulted ceilings;
Kohler plumbing package;
Free engineered plans;
High-quality flooring
packages;
12-inch heel height on all
trusses;
Tri-pane windows;
Maple cabinetry;
Round drywall corners.
SOURCE: WWW.OLYMPICBUILDINGS.COM
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Contact Manitoba Hydro
before you move
Allow a minimum of 10 days to acquire the proper permits
Staff
M
o s t RT M b u i l d e r s
handle the logistics
of moving your new
home into position. However,
as a buyer it is important to
check with your builder to
ensure the proper permits
have been obtained.
According to Manitoba
Hy d ro, i f yo u a re m ov i n g
a b u i l d i n g o r c o m m e rc i a l
equipment or str ucture, a
10-day work clearance/permit
is required. Applications are
available online or by calling
1-888-MBHYDRO (1-888-6249376) and at your local district office.
The building or structure
move application form provides
Manitoba Hydro with information on:
Applications are available online or by calling
1-888-MBHYDRO (1-888-624-9376) and at your
local district office.
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The mover;
Type of structure;
Load height;
Route and map;
Requested time and date.
It will also:
• Provide the mover with the
terms and conditions which
must be agreed to before a
move takes place;
• Assist in the completion of
the Electric and/or Natural
Gas Facilities Locate form
to comply with the Workplace Safety and Health Act,
W210. This form is separate
from the application and
a copy of the Electric and/
or Natural Gas Facilities
Locate form will accompany
the move.
Regulations and permits
for oversize moves
Oversized loads that exceed
4.15 metres (13 feet, seven
inches) require the mover to
contact Manitoba Transportation and Government Services
or the local municipality where
the move is taking place. This
includes the cities of Brandon
and Winnipeg jurisdictions.
If the oversize load exceeds
the height of 4.8 m (15 feet,
nine inches), written instructions are required from Manitoba Hydro prior to conducting
t h e m ov e. T h e s e w r i t t e n
instructions will indicate the
types of hazards present and
what actions are required on
the mover’s part to ensure their
safety, and the safety of others,
while working near overhead
lines.
Manitoba Hydro requires a
minimum of 10 working days’
notice for loads up to 5.9
metres (19 feet, four inches)
in height. Loads taller than 5.9
metres will need additional
notice.
For more information about
moving large structures near
Manitoba Hydro lines, contact
Manitoba Hydro.
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