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Opposition seeks
high ground as
flood waters recede
Manitoba’s opposition party wants action on flood mitigation
but is a little shallow on details
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
A
fter a year of negotiations
to develop an insurancebased producer payment
protection plan, the Canadian
Grain Commission has called
it quits, surprising and disappointing some farm groups.
The CGC has been attempting to replace the current bonding system to protect farmers
against payment defaults for
grain delivered to merchandisers. It had been negotiating with
Atradius Credit Insurance N.V.
to develop an insurance-based
option.
Chief commissioner Elwin Hermanson said insurance industry
rules made it difficult to accommodate the grain industry requirements.
“When we got quite a ways
down the road we began to see
we may not be able to marry
some of our requirements and
their requirements and by June
it became obvious that we were
going to be too far apart,” he
said in an interview July 31.
The CGC will look at other options while the current bonding
See GRAIN PLAN on page 6 »
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By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
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T
here are some muddy politics
swirling around Manitoba’s flood
waters.
On July 30, Manitoba’s opposition
Tories called for a moratorium on
drainage in both Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, as part of a Progressive Conservative plan to reduce flooding.
Tory water critic, Shannon Martin said he had asked “the province
to engage our counterparts in Saskatchewan to have a moratorium on
the issuance of new drainage until
such time that a more co-ordinated
approach is taken.”
The MLA for Morris also said that it
would be unfair to ask our neighbours
to address drainage without making
changes here at home.
“We’d have to look at applying it here
as well, obviously we can’t simply ask
Saskatchewan to bear the burden,” he
said.
But less than 24 hours later, Martin claimed he had “misspoke” on the
issue.
In an email, he said that “the moratorium on all new drainage was exclusive to landowners in Saskatchewan.”
Martin wrote that “such a moratorium would allow affected properties
downstream in Manitoba additional
time to proceed with flood mitigation
efforts without having to deal with
uncontrolled waters from upstream.”
The suggestion of a moratorium in
Manitoba took the president of Key-
stone Agricultural Producers (KAP) by
surprise.
“There’s no way that KAP would
ever support a complete moratorium
on drainage,” said Doug Chorney.
“We think the approach of sustainable drainage is a more practical solution, which means that you drain in a
way that assists landowners who have
water issues, while being mindful of
the consequences downstream.”
T h e u m b re l l a f a r m o rg a n i z a tion has also promoted water retention projects, and played an integral
role in the development of a surface
water management strategy recently
released by the Manitoba government. The strategy will also see major
See FLOOD RECEDES on page 6 »
SOYBEANS: catching on in western Manitoba » PAGE 18
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INSIDE
Did you know?
LIVESTOCK
Horses communicate
with their eyes and
mobile ears
First-cut hay
plentiful but late
But supplies could be
scarce in flooded areas
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CROPS
Time to scout
sunflower fields
Watch for rust,
sclerotinia head rot,
lygus bugs and the
banded sunflower moth
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FEATURE
Relieving the
famine in
South Sudan
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Food grains bank
supporters meet
with international
development minister
CROSSROADS
Young leaders
step up
A few 20-somethings
are making their mark
on rural councils
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Editorials
Comments
What’s Up
Livestock Markets
Study also challenges notion that
animals with eyes on the sides of
their heads cannot glean
information from each other
Current Biology release
orses are sensitive to
the facial expressions
and attention of other
horses, including the direction of the eyes and ears. The
findings, reported in the Cell
Press journal Current Biology
on August 4, are a reminder
for us humans to look beyond
our own limitations and recognize that other species may
communicate in ways that
we can’t, the researchers say.
After all, human ears aren’t
mobile.
“Our study is the first to
examine a potential cue to
attention that humans do not
have: the ears,” says Jennifer
Wathan of the University of
Sussex in the U.K. “Previous
work investigating communication of attention
in animals has focused on
cues that humans use: body
orientation, head orientation, and eye gaze; no one
else had gone beyond that.
However, we found that in
H
horses their ear
position was also
a crucial visual
signal that other
horses respond to.
In fact, horses need
to see the detailed facial
features of both eyes and
ears before they use another
horse’s head direction to
guide them.”
The new study also challenges the earlier-held notion
that animals with eyes to the
sides of their heads cannot
glean information based on
the direction of one another’s
gaze.
Wathan and the study’s
senior author Karen McComb
took photographs to document cues given by horses
when they were paying attention to something. Then
Wathan and McComb used
those photographs as life-size
models for other horses to
look at as they chose between
two feeding buckets. In each
case, the horse in the photo
was paying attention to one
of the
buckets
and not the other. In some
instances, the researchers
also manipulated the image
to remove information from
key facial areas, including the
eyes and the ears.
The researchers’ observations show that horses rely
on the head orientation of
their peers to locate food.
However, that ability to read
each other’s interest level is
disrupted when parts of the
face — the eyes and ears —
are covered up with masks.
The ability to correctly judge
attention also varied depending on the identity of the
horse pictured, suggesting
that individual facial features may be important, the
researchers report.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 7, 2014
Advocates ask visiting minister
for more funding for South Sudan
World’s newest country sits on cusp of serious famine amidst a civil war
By Meghan Mast
CO-OPERATOR STAFF / ARNAUD, MAN.
No escape
from the
conflict
T
he worsening situation in
South Sudan was on the
table July 29 as Canadian
Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) supporters met with Christian
Paradis, Canada’s minister of
international development
over lunch at a local farm.
Paradis was there to
announce new funding to
prevent childhood undernutrition. The federal government will give $20 million to
the International Food Policy
Research Institute over the
next two years for its work in
Mali, Burkina Faso and Senegal
— three of the 25 ‘countries of
focus’ named by the government this year.
CFGB executive director Jim
Cornelius welcomed the new
funding focused on nutrition.
But he said the troubled South
Sudan region must not be
overlooked. An estimated 1.5
million South Sudanese have
been displaced by the conflict.
“ When people are displaced they don’t have livelihoods,” said Cornelius. “They
d o n’t h a v e i n c o m e s a n d
they’re struggling to feed their
families.”
The country is also on the
cusp of a very serious famine. A couple of weeks ago the
UN released an urgent famine
warning for the area. The rainy
season, combined with very
limited paved roads, has created muddy conditions making
it very difficult for humanitarian trucks to reach the people
in need.
The CFGB, a coalition of
15 Christian-based church
organizations, mobilizes food
resources for global famine
relief and food security development. A major source of its
support comes from donations
and growing projects, where
the proceeds of a crop raised
by volunteers and donors,
are matched four to one by
government.
Last year Manitobans
donated more than $3 million
to CFGB.
Unfortunately food shortages are only part of the problem. The area, now known as
South Sudan, has faced varying
degrees of civil war and conflicts since 1954, according to
Cornelius.
“ We’re e n c o u r a g i n g t h e
Staff
Christian Paradis announces $20 million to preventing childhood undernutrition.
PHOTOS: MEGHAN MAST
“When people are
displaced they don’t
have livelihoods…
They don’t have
incomes and they’re
struggling to feed
their families.”
JIM CORNELIUS
Gover nment of Canada to
increase the resources they’re
devoting to that particular crisis,” he said.
When asked about the government’s contributions to
South Sudan, Paradis said that
the area is another ‘country of
focus’ for the federal government. He did not speak specifically about how the government would be addressing
the issues but he said he had a
“very interesting chat with Jim
Cornelius during the lunch.”
“What is important is that we
increase significantly the aid,”
Paradis said. “We make sure we
can be as much present as we
can in terms of aid.”
Earlier this year he
announced the federal gov-
Jim Cornelius recently returned from South Sudan.
ernment would provide an
additional $24.85 million for
increased humanitarian aid in
South Sudan.
In a followup email, John
Longhurst, the director of
resources and public engagement for the CFGB, wrote, “the
government has responded,
but more help is needed.”
Grace Athiens, a 12-year-old
South Sudanese youth was
forced to flee into the night
as rebel soldiers attacked her
community.
Athiens is one of an
estimated 1.5 million South
Sudanese residents who
have been displaced from
their homes since conflict
broke out in the area in
December. Many remain
in the country, but almost
400,000 have fled to neighbouring countries.
“I didn’t know where my
parents were, but it was
too dangerous to turn back.
The rebels were shooting
everyone,” she told Amanda
Thorsteinsson, a communications officer with the
Canadian Foodgrains Bank
(CFGB), through a translator.
Thorsteinsson recently visited
the troubled area with Jim
Cornelius, the organization’s
executive director.
Her story was told in a
special release as the CFGB
attempts to raise awareness
of increasing risk of famine in
the region.
“I am alone,” she says. “I
don’t know where my mother
and father are. I don’t even
know if they are alive.”
When rebel soldiers fighting against the government
of South Sudan came to her
home in Bor, in Jonglei state
in the middle of the night,
Grace had no time to pack
before she fled.
“People just scattered,” she
says. “I didn’t know what was
happening. I just woke up to
screaming and gunfire.”
CFGB executive director
Jim Cornelius and communications officer Amanda
Thorsteinsson just returned
home from South Sudan,
where they were visiting
CFGB projects and partners
who are responding to the
needs of people affected by
civil war in that country.
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OPINION/EDITORIAL
The third option
A
t a time when soil erosion is
recognized as one of the biggest
threats to the world’s ability to
continue feeding itself, it’s disturbing
to see weed scientists advising tillage to
address invading “superweeds.”
There is no question that addressing
the lengthening list of weeds that have
developed resistance to glyphosate
must be a top priority for researchers
Laura Rance
and extension agronomists advising
Editor
conventional farmers.
As reported by Reuters, resistance to
glyphosate has now reached the point where row-crop
farmers in the Midwest are unable to control weeds with
herbicides. University of Missouri and University of Kansas weed scientists are proposing a return to tillage.
Researchers say Palmer amaranth is the No. 1 weed to
watch, because of its aggressiveness — it grows one to two
inches per day and produces millions of seeds — and its
ability to develop resistance to herbicides.
These weeds were a problem limited to the deep south
a few short years ago, prompting farmers in Arkansas to
resort to hands and hoe to bring them under control. They
are now “exploding” in the Midwest, Kansas State University weed specialist Dallas Peterson told Reuters.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says 70 million acres
of U.S. farmland had glyphosate-resistant weeds in 2013.
You have to admire these plants’ remarkable ability to
adapt. It took scientists decades of effort to figure out how
to modify crops to have resistance to herbicides and less
than two decades for nature to accomplish the same thing,
albeit helped by farmers through intensive selection pressure.
It is only a matter of time before more of these invasive
plants make their way to the Canadian Prairies. Stacking of
traits for resistance to other herbicides as well as glyphosate will help, but is a short-term solution. So is tillage.
But does it have to be either/or of two bad choices?
What if there was a third option, not just in theory, but
with a proven track record through more than two decades
of research and monitoring through several crop rotations?
The Glenlea long-term crop rotation study, now the
longest-running study of its kind in Canada, compares
four-year crop rotations for annual crops and annual
crops mixed with forages under organic and conventional
production systems.
Those trials, which started in 1983, have shown that the
annual grain-based conventional rotation is the most productive by way of yield, although not the most economic.
But it is susceptible to resistant weed problems because of
its reliance on herbicides.
However, researchers have found that adding a perennial alfalfa crop into the rotation for two years virtually
eliminates the risk of herbicide-resistant wild oats. It’s also
very good at reducing other annual grasses, thistles and
quack grass.
“Alfalfa does not reduce small-seeded broad-leaved
weeds (like pigweeds) so effectively. But by not spraying
these weeds during the alfalfa phase, we reduce resistance
development to herbicides in these populations. In other
words, we make the herbicides last longer,” said the rotation study’s overseer Martin Entz.
Farmers accustomed to growing annual crops under
conventional management are quick to argue the economics; they can’t afford to “lose” two years of production
to a crop such as alfalfa, for which they have no use unless
they have livestock.
However, the economics of including perennial forages
in an annual cropping system are changing as the cost
of controlling some of the unintended consequences of
conventional systems, such as superweeds, rises and more
becomes known about how alfalfa can benefit the total
farm.
Alfalfa reduces the nitrogen needs by 40 per cent over
the rotation cycle and it provides other soil-building qualities, such as biological drainage — its deep tap roots aerate
the soil and draw out excess moisture.
There are other reasons for considering this as an option, such as the role of forage-based diets in sustainable
livestock production and the production of healthier
food products, which at this point sell for a marketplace
premium. Or the growing demand for cover crop seed in
the U.S.
No one is suggesting that alfalfa is the panacea for invasive weeds or any other issue plaguing a farming system.
Picking one approach as the answer is a mistake that has
been made before. But it’s an option — another tool that
farmers can consider. And thanks to long-term trials such
as these, they have accurate, scientifically valid metrics to
help them assess how it fits on their farm.
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Public plant breeding still needed
A Manitoba farmer’s exchange with a federal MP
B
randon-Souris MP Larry Maguire spoke
at Keystone Agricultural Producers’
General Council meeting in Brandon
July 10. While most of the questions that followed related to that issue Dugald farmer
Edgar Scheurer asked about the federal government’s declining support for plant breeding. Here is their exchange:
Edgar Scheurer:
“In the last year or two
the federal government
really cut back on certain
things that have been
very instrumental in the
Prairies such as PFRA;
plant-breeding facilities
have been shut down;
plant breeders have been
let go. I’d just like to know what the rationale
behind all that is. We didn’t become a foodproducing nation here by having no foresight in the past about plant breeding and
research. I think we need to have some public research that has to happen on the Prairies otherwise we’re going to go backwards.
We aren’t going to be able to keep up with
other countries that have a commitment
towards agriculture. And I just don’t see it
from our federal government. So I’d like you
to comment on that.”
Larry Maguire:
“Certainly the Bill 18 (the
Agricultural Growth Act,
which includes changes
to make Canadian plant
breeders’ rights legislation consistent with
UPOV 91) allows private
investment into plant
breeding more than it
has in the past and that will help us compete
with some countries that we are presently
not able to compete with. But we also have
an opportunity here in Brandon for a bit of
a success story. It’s just a shuffling of where
OUR HISTORY:
Our lead story on August 6, 1998 was the
merger between Manitoba Pool Elevators and
Alberta Wheat Pool into a single company called
Agricore. Delegates to the two co-ops had unanimously voted in favour of the merger at a joint
meeting in Winnipeg July 31. Three years later
the new company was absorbed into United
Grain Growers to become Agricore United, which
was in turn taken over by Saskatchewan Wheat
Pool to become Viterra in 2007.
While optimistic forecasts did not turn out
for the MPE-AWP merger, we reported that
Manitoba’s MCVET crop variety trials were on
solid footing after a shaky start in 1992, and
the program continues today.
we’ve gone with the livestock program.
There was some duplication between here
and Lethbridge for sure. But the uptake now
with the station here in Brandon... there
is a good group of scientists that has been
moved here in Brandon to make this into a
cereal research facility as opposed to some
of the emphasis that was on livestock before.
So that’s some of the reason for some of the
shift — to do away with some of the duplication — as well as to allow other opportunities in the industry.”
Edgar Scheurer:
“I realize it has been shifted towards Brandon, but there’s a big reduction in funds that
have been allocated towards agricultural
research. And if you don’t spend money and
just say, ‘here Mr. Bayer or Mr. Monsanto,’ or
whoever it is, do you really think they really
have our best interests at heart? We need
some public research as well and not just
throw up our hands and say, ‘here Mr. Corporation you make sure that we’re served.’”
Glen Franklin
(a KAP delegate from Deloraine):
“Right on.” (Many KAP delegates then
applauded.)
Larry Maguire:
“Thank you and that’s why it is important
to at least have some public input into that
whole process as well and I fully well know
over the 30 years that I farmed, research is
what kept agriculture in business. It was
what kept my farm going whether it was
better use of fertilizers, better plant breeding — and a lot of that was done privately as
well — but there was a good deal of public
(research) as well. We wouldn’t have canola if
it wasn’t for public breeding... but now we’ve
had many new varieties and top-ups of that
from the private sector. I think what we’re
looking at is a bigger collaboration between
the two than what we’ve seen in the past. But
I certainly hear your point.”
August 1998
Again on the unsuccessful side of the ledger, another initiative reported that week was
a proposal for a wild boar-marketing co-op.
Orderly marketing was said to be key to the
industry’s expansion.
Crop yields for the Prairies were reported
as average, but development was well
ahead of normal, with Manitoba wheat
harvesting expected to begin in early
August.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said
U.S. farmers were in “the most serious stress
in a decade” due to devastating drought in
the south, disease problems in the north and
low overall commodity prices.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 7, 2014
COMMENT/FEEDBACK
Indian insistence on food subsidies
could scuttle world trade agreement
Deadline for the WTO deal, 19 years in the making, passed last week
By Manoj Kumar
New Delhi/Reuters
I
ndia refused to yield ground on Tuesday on its spat with the World Trade
Organization and said it believed it
could convince other members that its
need for more freedom on food subsidies
was legitimate.
Trade Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
did not give details in a statement she
made in Parliament, but her comments
offered a robust and uncompromising
defence of the Indian position, suggesting the government planned to dig its
heels in on an issue that has isolated
New Delhi.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s new government vetoed the
adoption of a treaty to simplify, standardize and streamline the rules for
shipping goods across borders, having
previously agreed to its terms at a ministerial conference on the Indonesian
resort island of Bali last December.
Most diplomats had expected the pact
to be rubber-stamped last week, marking
a unique success in the WTO’s 19-year
history which, according to some estimates, would add $1 trillion and 21 million jobs to the world economy. India
calls these estimates highly exaggerated.
It blocked the text because it wanted
more attention paid to its concerns over
WTO limits on stockpiling of food which
will ultimately hit its subsidized food distribution program, the world’s largest,
targeted at nearly 850 million people.
“I am confident that India will be
able to persuade the WTO membership
to appreciate the sensitivities of India
and other developing countries and see
their way to take this issue forward in a
positive spirit,” Sitharaman said amid
thumping of desks by lawmakers.
After drawing widespread condemnation as the deadline for the deal lapsed
on July 31, India has said it is ready to
sign the global trade deal as early as next
month if other WTO members agree to
its demand for concessions on food subsidies, estimated at $12 billion a year.
India fears that once it agrees to
trade facilitation — largely seen to help
advanced nations — it would have lost
the bargaining chip on the subsidy issue.
“India is not standing in the way of
implementation of Trade Facilitation but
seeking equal level of commitment and
progress in working on the issue of public stockholding,” Sitharaman said.
“A permanent solution on food security is a must for us and we cannot wait
endlessly in a state of uncertainty while
the WTO engages in an academic debate
on the subject of food security,” she said.
Fatal blow
But in vetoing the first worldwide trade
reform measure in nearly two decades,
India may have dealt a potentially fatal
blow to the WTO’s hopes of modernizing the rules of global commerce and
remaining the central forum for multilateral trade deals.
In the short term, this is a setback for
freer commerce. In the longer run, it
means trade liberalization may advance
— if at all — among narrower groups of
countries, denying dissenters a chance
to block progress, experts say.
While the unwieldy Geneva-based
WTO will survive as a body for enforcing
existing multilateral agreements, smaller
clubs of like-minded nations are trying
to move ahead faster to update the trade
rules among themselves.
“Without a serious shakeup, the WTO’s
future looks like that of the League of
Nations,” said Simon Evenett, a professor
at the Swiss Institute for International
Economics. “Perhaps ultimately that’s
what some governments want.”
Trade Ministry officials say the breakthrough may come once the WTO agrees
to revise the base year for calculating
food subsidies in line with current prices
which will then bring India’s subsidies
within WTO’s limits.
India is also ready to give an assurance
that the food grains it procures from
farmers at prices that are higher than the
market price will not be dumped in the
global market.
Existing cropland could feed billions more: study
Recommendations include using inputs more efficiently, reducing waste and using less for animal feed
University of Minnesota release
F
Letters
eeding a growing human population
without increasing stresses on Earth’s
strained land and water resources
may seem like an impossible challenge.
But according to a new report by researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, focusing efforts
to improve food systems on a few specific
regions, crops and actions could make it
possible to both meet the basic needs of
three billion more people and decrease
agriculture’s environmental footprint.
The report, published July 18 in Science, focuses on 17 key crops that produce 86 per cent of the world’s crop
calories and account for most irrigation
and fertilizer consumption on a global
scale. It proposes a set of key actions in
three broad areas that have the greatest
potential for reducing the adverse environmental impacts of agriculture and
boosting our ability to meet global food
needs. For each, it identifies specific “leverage points” where non-governmental
organizations, foundations, governments,
businesses and citizens can target food
security efforts for the greatest impact.
The biggest opportunities cluster in six
countries — China, India, U.S., Brazil,
Indonesia and Pakistan — along with
Europe.
“This paper represents an important
next step beyond previous studies that
have broadly outlined strategies for sustainably feeding people,” said lead author
Paul West, co-director of the Institute on
the Environment’s Global Landscapes Initiative. “By pointing out specifically what
we can do and where, it gives funders and
policy-makers the information they need
to target their activities for the greatest
good.”
Areas of opportunity
• Produce more food on existing land. Previous research has detected the presence
of a dramatic agricultural “yield gap” — difference between potential and actual crop
yield — in many parts of the world. This
study found that closing even 50 per cent
of the gap in regions with the widest gaps
could provide enough calories to feed 850
million people. Nearly half of the potential
gains are in Africa, with most of the rest represented by Asia and Eastern Europe.
• Grow crops more efficiently. The study
identified where major opportunities exist
to reduce climate impacts and improve
the efficiency with which we use nutrients
and water to grow crops.
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Agriculture is responsible for 20 to 35
per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, largely in the form of carbon dioxide from tropical deforestation, methane
from livestock and rice growing, and
nitrous oxide from crop fertilization. The
study found that the biggest opportunities
for reducing greenhouse gas production
are in Brazil and Indonesia for deforestation; China and India for rice production;
and China, India and the United States for
crop fertilization.
With respect to nutrient use, the study
found that worldwide, 60 per cent of
nitrogen and nearly 50 per cent of phosphorus applications exceed what crops
need to grow. China, India and the U.S.
— and three crops, rice, wheat and corn
— are the biggest sources of excess nutrient use worldwide, so offer the greatest
opportunity for improvement.
With respect to water, rice and wheat
are the crops that create the most demand
for irrigation worldwide, and India, Pakistan, China and the U.S. account for the
bulk of irrigation water use in waterlimited areas. Boosting crop water use
efficiency, the researchers found, could
reduce water demand eight to 15 per cent
without compromising food production.
• Use crops more efficiently. The third
Corporate interests
compromise pollinators
Pesticide companies consistently
assert that Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) is
“one of the most rigorous scientific
evaluation processes in the world,”
and the public can be assured that
approved chemicals are safe for people and environmental health.
CropLife Canada’s Pierre Petelle’s
dismissal of environmentalist concerns and independent studies of
neonicotinoids (neonics) by scientists from world-renowned Harvard
University lacks credibility.
He criticizes independent scientists for making problems public
“without giving the scientific com-
munity an opportunity to validate
the findings” of the studies that
found that neonics harm pollinators.
Yet, the scientific community was
not given the opportunity to evaluate
the company’s science before it was
submitted for evaluation and registration by PMRA.
PMRA evaluates the submitting
company’s information, not peerreviewed science by people who
have no vested economic interest in
the chemical’s commercialization
and sales. Often, crucial information
is withheld and allowed to be withheld by PMRA because it is considered to be proprietary commercial
secrets. Protection of these secrets
prevents in-depth, independent peer
review.
major category of opportunities characterized for boosting food production
and environmental protection relate to
making more crop calories available for
human consumption by shifting crops
from livestock to humans and reducing
food waste.
The crop calories we currently feed to
animals are sufficient to meet the calorie
needs of four billion people. The study
noted that the U.S., China and Western
Europe account for the bulk of this “diet
gap,” with corn the main crop being
diverted to animal feed. Although cultural
preferences and politics limit the ability to
change this picture, the authors note that
shifting crops from animal feed to human
food could serve as a “safety net” when
weather or pests create shortages.
• In addition, some 30 to 50 per cent of
food is wasted worldwide. Particularly
significant is the impact of animal products: The loss of one kilogram of boneless
beef has the same effect as wasting 24
kilograms of wheat due to inefficiencies
in converting grain to meat. The authors
illustrate how food waste in the U.S.,
China and India affect available calories,
noting that reducing waste in these three
countries alone could yield food for more
than 400 million people.
In its recent neonic review and
public consultation, PMRA staff
acknowledged bees are killed
through seeding dust exposure and
pollen residues compromise pollinator health, increasing bee susceptibility to varroa mites.
Rather than invoke the precautionary principle and retract
approval, PMRA accommodated
industry’s commercial interests,
allowing neonics to continue to be
used while being studied further.
Pollinators are too critical for food
production and natural ecosystems
to be compromised for the sake of
any corporation’s bottom line.
Ruth Pryzner
Alexander, Man.
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FROM PAGE ONE
FLOOD RECEDES Continued from page 1
changes made to how drainage
is licensed in the province.
Martin’s comments came
a day after Tory leader, Brian
Pallister held a press conference to criticize what he
said was a sluggish response
by NDP government regarding additional outlets on both
Lake Manitoba and Lake St.
Martin.
Pallister had promoted the
announcement a week earlier,
promising that the PC caucus
was “dotting i’s and crossing
t’s” on a plan that would see
the outlets finished in only
three years.
However, while some timesaving options were put for-
w a rd , n o c o m p re h e n s i v e
strategy was presented.
“It’s been three years since
the 2011 flood and the government is still looking at six outlet options. That is not action,”
Pallister said.
Some media outlets have
reported that it will take the
province seven more years to
complete additional outlet
channels for Lake Manitoba
and Lake St. Martin, which Pallister says is far too long.
But during an interview with
the Manitoba Co-operator,
Steve Ashton, Manitoba’s minister of emergency measures,
and infrastructure and transportation said that figure had
been misreported.
“This idea that somehow it
Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister says he tried not to make
political hay out of this year’s emergency flood situation. photo: allan dawson
was going to be seven years
from today, that’s not what
we’ve ever said, that is a misunderstanding because we’ve
already started working on
this,” Ashton said.
He added that construction
of the new outlets could begin
as early as 2016.
More recently, the minister
questioned Pallister’s ability to comprehend the extent
of preparation needed for a
major flood mitigation project.
“We’ve had experience with
the floodway expansion for
example, and the stages you
have to go through, designing
it, budgeting for it, you’ve got
to go through all the various
approvals, then you actually
have to construct it,” said Ashton. “Quite frankly, Mr. Pallister doesn’t have experience
with major projects, he was the
former emergency measures
minister and he actually quit.”
Pallister left provincial politics to pursue federal ambitions a few months before the
“flood of the century” hit in
1997.
The minister added that Pallister has also been offered
private briefings on both the
planned outlets and ongoing flooding, but has declined
those offers.
Pallister has faced some
criticism during this summer’s
flooding for not being present
in flood-affected communities,
but he said that his low profile
is the result of a desire to keep
the emergency non-political.
“I’ve been present, I just
haven’t been visible,” he said.
“I have not tried to score political points during this flood
or any other, nor will I... I’ve
always resented politicians trying to grandstand.”
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Cereal research programs set back
a season from summer flooding
2014’s flooding is the latest along in the growing season
anyone can remember, say BRC staff
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
Flood waters that lapped close
to the doorsteps of Agriculture
and Agri-Food Canada’s Brandon
Research Centre last month also
submerged the plot sites of cereal
research programs, and that means
no data for researchers this year.
All three programs have been set
back a season due to data lost after
their plots were inundated by the
rising Assiniboine at July’s beginning, said Byron Irvine, associate
director of research development
and technology transfer at BRC. This
isn’t the first time trial sites have
been flooded out. They were under
water in 2011 too. But it’s the first
time flooding occurred this far along
in the growing season that anyone
can remember.
“If it happens in spring, we just
move to higher ground,” he said.
This time the plants were already
well established. “We first started
seeing some flooding where it started to impact plots starting about
the 4th of July,” he said, adding
that at the peak around the 12th of
the month some plots were under
3-1/2 feet of water.
Each program has had losses.
The wheat and oat programs lost all
their early-generation head rows.
”Those are just getting packaged
up now to go off to New Zealand.
It’ll slow down progress by the one
season,” Irvine said. However, many
of their yield plots were at other
locations and so were not affected.
“The barley program had perhaps
the biggest impact in terms of the
two-row and six-row programs,
because a lot of their yield plots
were on the station,” he said. BRC
will also have to start over next year
replanting several pulse crop trials.
It’s definitely a setback for the
individual researchers, Irvine said.
Oat breeder Jennifer MitchellFetch, who had just moved her
program to Brandon from Winnipeg
this past March, lost her entire
nursery. “I lost about 14,900 rows
or hills, and what we had was
everything from F2s up to F6s
(generations),” she said. The plant
material itself is recoverable, but
this does set the oat program back
one full generation. “In about four
years I may have very few lines in
the co-op trial because of this year,”
she said.
There were also losses of lines
in their fusarium head blight
nursery that were near the registration trial level. That means no
data to present at the February
2015 meetings of the Prairie Grain
Development Committee, and may
necessitate asking the PGDC to
push that forward a year, she said.
Irvine said the land at BRC itself
won’t have any long-term impacts,
other than a few more weeds, and
the high water stayed away from
the main building. But they are
starting to talk about what to do to
mitigate the risk of this happening
again, he said.
“We don’t know if this will happen again. It’s only three years
since the spring flood of similar
height and that was supposed to
be a one-in-300-year flood.”
“We’ll relocate a small portion (of
the sites),” he added. “But it’s a very
big decision and we don’t want to
rush into something. “
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Chief commissioner Elwin Hermanson says the CGC and Atradius Credit
Insurance couldn’t develop an insurance-based protection plan. The CGC
will consider options, but in the meantime the current plan remains in
place. photo: allan dawson
GRAIN PLAN Continued from page 1
scheme to cover the money
farmers are owed when delivering crops to a licensed grain
company remains in place.
“We still have security on
behalf of producers from all
our licensees and we’re pretty
diligent in maintaining that
program so we’re not scrambling or anything like that,”
Hermanson said. “We’re going
to take a step back and try to
determine which way we go
from here.”
Lower cost
The CGC said that although its
insurance plan would shorten
the protection period after a
farmer delivered and include
a five per cent deductible on
claims, it promised a lower
cost to farmers, grain companies and the CGC. The thinking was aggregating the risk
of defaults over all the Prairie
grain purchased by licensed
grain companies would keep
costs down, Hermanson said.
Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) and Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) supported the
plan and the heads of both organizations said they are disappointed it wasn’t developed.
“When you look at the volume of grain and the very few
incidents (of defaults) that we
have you’d think it would be a
real windfall for the insurance
industry,” KAP president Doug
Chorney said in an interview.
The current program sometimes fails to cover all what
farmers are owed, the WCWGA
said in a news release.
“While we respect the commission’s decision, we had
hoped an insurance-based
system would have provided
farmers with better coverage
at a reduced cost,” WCWGA
president Levi Wood said.
Both Chorney and Wood
noted private companies already sell insurance to cover
payment defaults, but Hermanson said each sale is a
separate transaction. The CGC
wants comprehensive coverage for all western Canadian
grain companies and all the
grain they buy.
Cost was not the issue, Hermanson said. Both parties
signed confidentiality agreements preventing them from
disclosing what the barriers
were, he added.
Back to the drawing board
While Hermanson didn’t rule
out the possibility of developing
an insurance-based program,
he said “it’s unlikely we’d try to
follow the same proposal.”
In the meantime it’s back to
the drawing board. Other options will be explored, including
the farmer-funded contingency
fund in Ontario.
“And if there is nothing else we
may have to stay with the status
quo, but we certainly are open to
new options,” Hermanson said.
Before pursuing another option the CGC needs the federal
government’s approval and will
consult with the industry, he
added.
The process of revamping
producer payment protection
began in December 2007, not
long after Gerry Ritz was appointed minister of Agriculture
and Agri-Food Canada. Ritz introduced amendments to the
Canada Grain Act, which included scrapping producer protection. Ritz argued the current
program was ineffective, costly
to farmers and a barrier to new
grain companies.
The legislation died, farmers
fought back and the government moved to reform the program instead of axing it.
Current program sufficient?
Questions have been raised
about how flawed and costly
the existing program is.
Between 2002 and 2008 farmers received 77 per cent of their
money through the CGC program after a buyer failed to pay
them. Out of nine cases farmers
were 100 per cent compensated
in six and in one they received
99.8 per cent.
In two cases farmers were not
fully covered receiving just 28
and 51 cents on the dollar.
In a 2009 report Scott Wolfe
Management put the cost of
CGC security at $9 million —
$1.4 million for CGC administration, $1 million for grain buyer
administration and $6.6 million
for companies to post security.
The report said based on 40 million tonnes of grain being covered annually, the average cost
was 23 cents a tonne.
While that may be a reasonable cost, one criticism is that
it’s hidden because farmers
pay it indirectly to offset the
grain company costs (19 cents a
tonne) through lower prices.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 7, 2014
New crop
year brings
CGC grain
grading
and other
changes
Producer cars must
now be ordered
online
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
A
number of grain-grading
and variety classification changes took effect
Aug. 1, the first day of the
new 2014-15 crop year, the
Canadian Grain Commission
(CGC) said in a news release.
Producer cars also must now
be ordered online, although
farmers still have the option of
ordering via fax.
The new online ordering
system was launched July 14.
Here’s a list of the changes:
• A tolerance of 0.5 per cent
for fusarium damage in barley, Canadian Western (CW)
Food.
• Updated tolerances of 0.04
per cent ergot and 0.04 per
cent sclerotinia for all grades
except feed in the following
classes of wheat, CW: Red
Spring, Hard White Spring,
Red Winter, Soft White
Spring, Extra Strong, Prairie
Spring Red, Prairie Spring
White.
• Updated tolerances of 0.02
per cent ergot and 0.02 per
cent sclerotinia for No. 1
and No. 2 wheat, CW amber
durum.
• Revised grade schedule
for oats, CE to bring CE and
CW grade schedules closer
together.
• CDC Falcon moves to the
Canada Western General
Purpose class from the
Canada Western Red Winter
class.
• New moisture meter conversion tables for use with
Model 919/3.5 and Model
393/3.5 moisture meters for
small red beans and otebo
beans.
• Revised moisture meter conversion tables for soybeans,
canola and peas.
The CGC has also given
notice that several flaxseed
varieties will be deregistered
in the future. When it happens
they will only be eligible for
the grade Flaxseed, 3 Canada
Western — the lowest grade in
the class.
The registration for CDC
Valour flax will be cancelled
August 1, 2015.
Registration for the following varieties will be cancelled
August 1, 2017: CDC Arras,
Flanders and Somme.
The Canadian Food
Inspection Agency registers
grain varieties and is also
responsible for cancelling registrations. The CsGC designates
which registered varieties are
eligible for delivery into specific classes of grain.
Producer car procedures as
well as eligible variety lists and
official grain-grading guides
are available on the CGC website www.grainscanada.gc.ca.
Province, city recognize UN
International Year of Family Farming
A flag honouring the family farm was raised at Winnipeg City Hall July 30
STAFF
P
rovincial and municipal
leaders gathered at Winnipeg’s City Hall July 30
to raise a flag honouring the
United Nations declaration of
2014 as the International Year
of Family Farming.
Manitoba Agriculture, Food
and Rural Development Minister Ron Kostyshyn joined
Brian Mayes, city councillor
for St. Vital, to highlight the
significance of family farming
on a global scale. This declaration was made to increase
awareness on the importance
of family farming in addressing world issues such as
poverty, food security and protecting the environment.
“ We a re p r o u d t o s t a n d
with the City of Winnipeg,
that recognizes the important
role that family-run farms
play in creating healthy, sus-
tainable food sources here
in Manitoba, but also in
the rural areas of developing countries,” said Minister
Kostyshyn. “But it’s more than
that, as family-run farms provide good jobs that add value
to the provincial economy.”
Kostyshyn also noted that
raising the flag in downtown
Winnipeg recognizes one of
the fastest-growing farm sectors in the world: urban agriculture.
“Urban far ming is growing across Manitoba and
that matches with our goal
of ensuring that people get
fresh food closer to home,”
he added.
Councillor Mayes, who
h a s s u p p o r t e d f a m i l y- r u n
farms in his ward for many
years, also noted that he and
a number of his city council
colleagues have family farms
in their respective wards.
“Family farms have always
been a part of the fabric of
our c i t y,” h e s a i d . “ Fa m i l y f a r m s a re p a r t i c u l a r l y
important in my ward south
of the perimeter. From the
Roland and Janine Pfitzner
f a r m o n Ha ll a m a D r i v e i n
m y St . V i t a l w a rd s t r a i g h t
to Portage and Main, where
W i n n i p e g ’s o w n R i c h a r d son family continues to
be a global agribusiness
lead e r, Wi n n i p e g’s s u c c e s s
has always depended on the
families committed to sustainable agriculture.”
The Manitoba gover nment recently established a
new group to consult with
small-scale food processors,
direct-farm marketers, farmers and others to support getting more safe and local food
to market, while city council
recently voted for the administration to produce a sec-
ondary plan for lands zoned
as agricultural within the city
limits (both inside and outside the Perimeter) to ensure
the interests of the agricultural community are considered as the city continues to
grow.
There are four key objectives of the International Year
of Family Farming:
• Support the development of
policies conducive to sustainable family farming;
• Increase knowledge, communication and public
awareness;
• Attain better understanding of family farming needs;
and
• Create synergies for sustainability.
Mo re i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t
t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l Ye a r o f
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at www.fao.org/family-farm
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Agriculture Hall of Fame
Five new members of the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame were inducted July 17 at a ceremony
in Portage la Prairie. We’re featuring each in successive issues
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Waldie David Klassen
1940 –
WHAT’S UP
Please forward your
agricultural events to
[email protected] or
call 204-944-5762
Aug. 7: Manitoba Pulse Growers
Association summer field tour
(east), 9 a.m. to noon, AAFC
Research Station, Morden. Free
registration, lunch provided. For
more info call 204-745-6488 or
visit www.manitobapulse.ca.
Aug. 8: Field Day: Progress in
Nutrient and Water Management
in Agriculture Systems at Glenlea
Research Station, University of
Manitoba, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For
more info visit www.ncle.ca
www.ncle.ca/.
aldie David Klassen was born
December 9, 1940, in Steinb a c h , M a n i t o b a . Wa l d i e
was raised on the family farm and in
1961 he took over part of his parents’
chicken operation. In 1962 he married
Levina Unger. They have two daughters, Debora and Andrea, and one son,
Wesley.
Realizing that chicken farmers were
at the mercy and whim of processors, Waldie shortly set about to make
the business more stable and profitable for farmers. After extensive discussions with other chicken farmers about
the problem with processors, Waldie
became a leading advocate for an
orderly supply management marketing
system that would guarantee farmers
a decent return. In 1968, after six years
of leading the movement, the Manitoba
Chicken Producers Marketing Board
was formed and Waldie was appointed
to its board of directors.
After guiding the industry through
the birth of supply management in
Manitoba and being instrumental in
drafting marketing plans, regula-
tions and orders to make the system
viable, Waldie turned his attention to
aiding other provinces to organize as
a national system. In 1980, his tireless work led to the formation of the
Canadian Chicken Marketing Agency
(CCMA), the precursor to today’s
Chicken Farmers of Canada (CFC).
Waldie was a director of the new agency
and served as chair for three years
(1991-94). In the 1990s, he was an integral part of the team that successfully
defended all supply-managed commodities (chickens, table eggs, hatching
eggs, dairy and turkeys) during the Uruguay Round of GATT trade negotiations.
Waldie was instrumental in the
development and implementation of
national cost-of-production benchmarks and the internationally recognized On Farm Food Safety Assurance
Program, both of which are standards of
today’s chicken industry. Thanks to the
work by Waldie in food safety initiatives,
CFC is the only Canadian commodity
group to achieve Third-Party Recognition from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Waldie was the CFC’s first
representative on the Canadian Poultry
Research Council.
Chicken farmers in Manitoba and
Canada, and the supply-managed commodities in general, are sustainable,
viable industries because of the trailblazing work of selfless individuals
like Waldie Klassen. He served chicken
farmers for 37 years on the board of
Manitoba Chicken Producers, including
20 years as chair. He served on various
committees of the Chicken Farmers of
Canada for 24 years, with three years as
chair. As a strong leader in the agricultural field, Waldie inspired many farmers to get involved in farm politics and
work in the best interests of Canadian
agriculture.
In addition to his contributions to the
chicken industry, Waldie still found time
to get involved in Keystone Agriculture
Producers and locally as a municipal
councillor, on Mennonite Brethren
Church committees, the Steinbach
Housing Authority and inter-denominational Youth for Christ initiatives.
Nominated by Manitoba Chicken Producers — 2014.
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Nov. 17-19: Canadian Forage and
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COLUMN
Classic head and shoulders top
signals end to soybean bull market
After a top is completed, a minimum price objective can be forecasted
by measuring the vertical distance from the head to the neckline
David Drozd
Market Outlook
T
he November 2014 soybean futures contract has
lost over $2 per bushel in
the past two months. Once prices
dropped below $12, a classic chart
formation referred to as a head
and shoulders top was completed
and prices quickly plunged to the
pattern’s minimum price objective
of $11.31.
Head and shoulders top
The head and shoulders top is
considered the most reliable
chart formation for indicating
a reversal of the trend and for
having the greatest forecasting
value.
The head and shoulders top
is composed of three successive
price advances, with the second
rally reaching a higher level than
either of the other two.
The left shoulder (Point A) in
the accompanying chart, marks
the end of a substantial price rise,
followed by a downward reaction. In the price rise forming the
left shoulder, the trading volume
should be higher than in any other
phase of the pattern.
Another rally follows which
exceeds the left shoulder and
forms the head (Point B). Trading activity is high, but not usually as great as the formation of
the left shoulder. A second pullback should culminate at approxi-
mately the same price level as the
first reaction.
A third rally forms the right
shoulder (Point C), but it fails to
get as high as the head. The volume during the formation of the
right shoulder must be less than
that of either the left shoulder or
head or the pattern may be false.
Market psychology
The behaviour of speculative participants during the development
of this classic formation is quite
predictable. On the advance forming the left shoulder, the shorts
are on the run covering their positions, while longs who have been
enjoying the ride begin selling to
take profits, so trading activity is
very heavy.
As the buying and selling sub-
sides, the market undergoes a
normal correction which attracts
buyers and prices begin moving
up again.
When prices on this upward
leg surpass the left shoulder, buy-
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ers are attracted to the market
who not only missed the preceding bull move, but also the opportunity to buy during the decline.
This advance forms the head and
as prices reach a new high many
traders will interpret the move as
an indication another substantial
price advance has begun. However,
the surge of buying climaxes at the
head and a second decline begins.
This pullback is seen as
another chance to get long, so
prices begin to move up for the
third and final time.
During the third price advance,
it will appear to the longs who are
suffering losses that the market
is going to bail them out. However, right shoulder highs tend to
fall short of expectations, as the
buying power has been virtually
exhausted.
Never seeing their positions
move into the plus column on
the third and final advance of the
head and shoulders top formation is unsettling to the longs. As
prices complete the right shoulder and begin to decline, these
longs become willing sellers in
order to limit their losses.
When the price drops below
the reaction lows, all new long
positions are losing money, so
the market is poised for the start
of a new downward move caused
by long liquidation.
The head and shoulders pattern is completed when the price
penetrates the neckline (Point D),
which is a line drawn from left to
right, connecting the bottoms of
the two reactions.
After a top is completed, a
minimum price objective can be
forecasted by measuring the vertical distance from the head to the
neckline and then projecting this
distance down from the point of
the neckline penetration. This
price objective is a minimum forecast. The longer the time period
required for the head and shoulders top formation to form, the
greater will be the ensuing move.
Chart formations such as the
head and shoulders top are reliable tools that farmers are adopting to determine future price
direction.
Send your questions or comments about this article and chart
to [email protected].
David Drozd is president and senior market
analyst for Winnipeg-based Ag-Chieve
Corporation. The opinions expressed are those
of the writer and are solely intended to
assist readers with a better understanding
of technical analysis. Visit Ag-Chieve online
at www.ag-chieve.ca for information about
our grain-marketing advisory service and to
see our latest grain market analysis. You can
call us toll free at 1-888-274-3138 for a free
consultation.
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LIVESTOCK MARKETS
EXCHANGES:
July 31, 2014
$1 Cdn: $0.918 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.089 Cdn.
Cattle Prices
COLUMN
(Friday to Thursday)
August 1, 2014
Winnipeg
Slaughter Cattle
Steers & Heifers
No sale August 1st Next sale August 8th
D1, 2 Cows
—
D3 Cows
—
Bulls
—
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
$
—
(801-900 lbs.)
—
(701-800 lbs.)
—
(601-700 lbs.)
—
(501-600 lbs.)
—
(401-500 lbs.)
—
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
—
(801-900 lbs.)
—
(701-800 lbs.)
—
(601-700 lbs.)
—
(501-600 lbs.)
—
(401-500 lbs.)
—
Cattle prices at
record highs despite
low volumes
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
Heifers
Alberta South
—
—
115.00 - 134.00
102.00 - 119.00
132.44
$ 190.00 - 206.00
198.00 - 221.00
211.00 - 230.00
230.00 - 251.00
240.00 - 278.00
259.00 - 300.00
$ 173.00 - 194.00
185.00 - 204.00
196.00 - 218.00
210.00 - 235.00
225.00 - 244.00
227.00 - 270.00
($/cwt)
(1,000+ lbs.)
(850+ lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
Futures (August 1, 2014) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change
August 2014
157.92
1.37
October 2014
157.32
-0.73
December 2014
158.10
0.33
February 2015
157.52
1.37
April 2015
148.10
1.60
June 2015
146.30
0.88
Cattle Slaughter
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
Ontario
$ 150.94 - 183.65
155.73 - 177.78
85.76 - 124.23
85.79 - 124.23
116.97 - 138.74
$ 192.51 - 215.76
196.80 - 223.57
196.48 - 250.75
188.07 - 278.92
239.56 - 315.25
171.25 - 331.98
$ 172.96 - 192.18
182.88 - 214.45
175.59 - 227.78
157.91 - 228.72
174.94 - 225.09
211.85 - 270.54
$
Feeder Cattle
August 2014
September 2014
October 2014
November 2014
January 2015
March 2015
Close
220.67
221.20
221.02
219.97
213.85
210.97
Change
3.35
3.15
3.40
2.95
2.58
2.05
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
July 26, 2014
52,054
10,635
41,419
N/A
571,000
Previous
Year­
33,450
12,129
6.786
104
4,012
Week Ending
July 26, 2014
518
22,101
20,024
1,015
1,085
6,568
257
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Previous
Year
470
22,124
20,641
1,272
1,138
6,306
136
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.)
Current Week
256.00E
235.00E
251.94
257.29
Futures (August 1, 2014) in U.S.
Hogs
August 2014
October 2014
December 2014
February 2015
April 2015
Last Week
260.00 E
240.00 E
256.97
262.70
Close
118.02
103.17
97.17
90.05
89.35
Last Year (Index 100)
195.78
180.32
188.29
190.83
Change
-5.18
-4.73
-1.45
-4.25
-3.92
Other Market Prices
Sheep and Lambs
$/cwt
Ewes Choice
Lambs (110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
Winnipeg
(wooled fats)
—
—
Next sale is
August 6
—
—
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 August 3, 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 .................................... $1.965
Undergrade .............................. $1.865
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.965
Undergrade .............................. $1.865
Tom Turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A..................................... $1.895
Undergrade............................... $1.810
Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.
Toronto
82.49 - 107.18
134.66 - 178.95
180.98 - 196.35
180.13 - 203.48
167.86 - 240.25
—
SunGold
Specialty Meats
50.00
Larger volumes aren’t expected through September
Marney Blunt
CNSC
W
hile the province’s cattle markets
are fairly quiet during the summer
months, prices have pushed to new
highs and are expected to hold steady for the
next while.
“It looks to me like the prices are here to stay
for the fall,” said Rick Wright, with Heartland
Buying Order Co.
There are three fundamentals pushing
prices higher, he said. “We have cheap feed
available, grain prices are certainly depressed.
We have a very favourable Canadian dollar for
exporting, the futures are very aggressive here
and they have been in the last week to 10 days.
And our inventories — there is a shortage of
cattle, which relates to a shortage of beef. All
the fundamentals are positive for the cattle to
stay very active.”
Very few cattle were on the market this
week, and any cattle coming to sales are
butcher cattle. Sales are averaging around 500
per auction, which is seasonal for this time of
year, Wright said.
“We’re definitely running seasonally higher
in numbers of cows than we would normally
be, which contributes to the shortage of cattle down the road because they’re selling
factories.”
Prices for yearlings have been at record
highs, he added, citing an example from this
week of $2 per pound for delivery.
“That’s record highs; we’ve never had cattle
prices of weight at that price before, and there
doesn’t seem to be any indication that those
prices are going to weaken,” he said.
“For the few numbers of calves that are
coming, the prices are quite strong. Usually
when the volumes are low the prices are
depressed a little but they’re not, the prices
have stayed quite strong.”
The market has seen some very aggressive
calf pricing in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta
over the past few weeks despite the small
numbers, Wright said. “That’s always a good
sign — a very, very good sign.”
Strong demand continues to come out of
the U.S., which is taking about 70 per cent of
killing cows, according to Wright.
“They are active competitors on many
of the yearlings that are being bought. The
Americans will put the floor price into the cattle again this year in the fall and the Canadian
buyers and feedlots are going to have to (outbid) them to own some cattle,” he said.
“It’s going to be a very exciting time for cowcalf producers who are selling. It’s going to
be a very nervous time for buyers who are
replacing inventory that they’re selling today,
because there’s huge profits on the cattle that
they’re selling today, but they are going to
have to respend a lot of that profit to restock
the inventory.”
“… there’s huge profits on the
cattle they’re selling today,
but they are going to have to
respend a lot of that profit to
restock the inventory.”
rick wright
Most markets will be reopening for sales
come September, but Wright said large volumes of cattle aren’t expected until the end of
September.
“It looks like we’re probably going to have
a compressed fall,” he said. “I know we were
late getting the cattle out to pasture, flooding
conditions have really been an issue in many
areas, so the producers are going to leave the
cattle on the pasture as long as they can and
try to get as much weight on the calves as
they can before they market them and wean
them.”
Wright said most producers will leave cattle
out as long as possible and the selling season
will probably start 30 to 35 days later than
normal.
“The other thing is a lot of producers could
(take) advantage of the insurance price protection offered, so there’s not the panic to
sell,” he said. “The market fluctuation doesn’t
scare them like it used to.”
Marney Blunt writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
Eggs
Minimum prices to producers for ungraded
eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the
Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board
effective November 10, 2013.
New
Previous
A Extra Large
$2.00
$2.05
A Large
2.00
2.05
A Medium
1.82
1.87
A Small
1.40
1.45
A Pee Wee
0.3775
0.3775
Nest Run 24 +
1.8910
1.9390
B
0.45
0.45
C
0.15
0.15
Goats
Kids
Billys
Mature
Winnipeg
(Fats)
—
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
98.33 - 227.32
—
92.49 - 232.32
Horses
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
21.45 - 81.70
19.99 - 45.48
File PHOTO
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 7, 2014
GRAIN MARKETS
Export and International Prices
column
Last Week
Week Ago
Year Ago
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
194.84
194.28
241.75
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
226.34
227.72
272.52
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
140.54
142.32
191.93
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
229.86
218.52
220.30
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
404.09
408.41
468.79
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
797.33
799.75
259.66
All prices close of business July 31, 2014
Variable crop conditions
make predictions hazy
Railways must keep up their handle through November
CNSC
I
oilseeds
U.S. corn and soybean crops remained in
good condition as well, with strong export
demand for new-crop supplies helping to
counteract some of the bearish forces.
Terryn Shiells
CE Futures Canada canola contracts moved
lower during the week ended Aug. 1, with a
good chunk of the losses linked to a sell-off
late in the week as soybean futures started to
leak.
The biggest production news of the week
came from CWB’s crop tour, which observed
crops in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
from July 28 to 31. On the last day of the tour,
CWB announced the results, pegging the
average canola yield at 34.3 bushels an acre,
which is in line with the long-term average,
but below last year’s average yield of 40 bushels an acre.
That news came despite expectations that
flooding in western Manitoba and eastern
Saskatchewan and dryness in Alberta would
cause significant yield losses.
But crop conditions were also reported as
extremely variable across the Prairies, with
some crops in full bloom, while others were
just coming off. The different crop stages
made it difficult to gauge the prospects for
canola, CWB said.
The next Canadian canola production
estimates traders watch for will come from
Statistics Canada on Aug. 21 — but the figures
may not be exact because at the time of the
survey (late July to early August), farmers will
have had a hard time gauging yields due to the
variability of crop development.
Industry members continue to wish
StatsCan would do surveys a little bit later, and
publish them a little quicker, as that would
make their reports much more useful for the
trade and give a much clearer picture of what
crop production will look like.
The market will continue watching weather
in Western Canada until harvest, as forecasts
calling for dry weather in early August cause
some concern. Some areas could use the dry
weather, but many others are in need of rain to
help crops finish off.
Traders in the U.S. will also continue to
watch weather in the U.S. Midwest, as it will
be crucial on determining whether or not the
corn and soybean crops will be record large.
As of Aug. 1, weather was expected to be
non-threatening for both crops during the first
half of August, which caused prices to drop
sharply lower during the week.
Coarse Grains
Winnipeg Futures
Bearish fundamentals
Wheat prices in the U.S. finished mostly lower
during the week, as good conditions for U.S.
spring wheat crops and a steadily advancing
U.S. winter wheat harvest helped to pressure
prices.
The large global supply situation and generally good conditions in most parts of the world
were also bearish, though there were some
worries about diminished quality caused by
excess rain in parts of the European Union.
CWB also observed wheat crops during
the late-July tour of Western Canada, pegging yields at 43.1 bushels an acre for 201415 spring wheat, which compares with last
year’s StatsCan yield of 53 bushels an acre.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada currently
projects a 3.08-tonne-per-hectare yield on
wheat excluding durum, which works out to
about 45.8 bushels an acre.
The Canadian government this past week
also announced it will order Canadian Pacific
and Canadian National Railway (CP, CN) to
carry just over one million tonnes of western Canadian grain per week until the end of
November 2014 to help avoid another logistics
disaster like what we saw last winter. The rail
movement problems caused some damage to
Canada’s reputation as an efficient exporter
of grain.
If the railways fail to meet the targets, they
will face fines of up to $100,000 per day. The
two railways are also now required to provide
additional data on grain movement to better
monitor the overall performance of the railbased supply chain.
Terryn Shiells writes for Commodity News Service Canada,
a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity
market reporting.
For three-times-daily market
reports from Commodity
News Service Canada,
visit “Today in Markets” at
www.manitobacooperator.ca.
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business August 1, 2014
barley
Last Week
Week Ago
October 2014
136.50
137.50
December 2014
138.50
139.50
March 2015
139.50
140.50
Last Week
Week Ago
November 2014
Canola
434.30
442.50
January 2015
438.40
446.00
March 2015
439.10
446.80
Special Crops
Report for August 5, 2014 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan
Spot Market
Spot Market
Other (Cdn. cents per pound unless
otherwise specified)
Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)
Large Green 15/64
22.60 - 23.75
Canaryseed
Laird No. 1
21.50 - 23.75
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
15.00 - 16.00
Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
23.00 - 24.00
—
Desi Chickpeas
15.20 - 16.00
Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1
8.80 - 10.00
Fababeans, large
—
Medium Yellow No. 1
6.00 - 6.50
Feed beans
—
Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans
33.00 - 33.00
Feed Pea (Rail)
No. 1 Great Northern
50.00 - 50.00
4.25 - 4.35
Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)
No. 1 Cranberry Beans
38.00 - 38.00
Yellow No. 1
No. 1 Light Red Kidney
54.00 - 54.00
38.00 - 40.00
Brown No. 1
32.30 - 34.00
No. 1 Dark Red Kidney
54.00 - 54.00
Oriental No. 1
28.50 - 30.00
No. 1 Black Beans
36.00 - 36.00
Source: Stat Publishing
No. 1 Pinto Beans
29.00 - 32.00
No. 1 Small Red
35.00 - 35.00
No. 1 Pink
SUNFLOWERS
35.00 - 35.00
Fargo, ND
Goodlands, KS
18.70
17.40
Report for August 4, 2014 in US$ cwt
NuSun (oilseed)
32.00*
Confection
Call for details
—
Source: National Sunflower Association
BRIEFS
Another
transportation
backlog unlikely
By Terryn Shiells
commodity news service canada
Last winter, rail movement of western Canadian grain was described as
‘disastrous’ for a number of reasons,
including bad weather and a recordlarge amount of supplies needing to be
moved.
But, this spring and summer, movement has started to improve in most
places, helped by government legislation and better weather, and the same
problems are unlikely to arise this
winter.
“Having been through that once,
maybe that will help better prepare
everybody along the supply chain for
dealing with large volumes of grain,”
said Jon Driedger, market analyst
with FarmLink Marketing Solutions in
Winnipeg. It’s also unlikely that we’ll
see another winter as cold, and with as
much snow, as in 2013, Driedger said.
Supplies of grain this winter won’t be
as large as first anticipated, which will
also help the industry avoid bottlenecks.
“Because we have had some better
grain movement here, there is going
to be less grain on farm than maybe
people were thinking when they were
looking at the worst of it in January and
February,” he said.
“We definitely lost crop in Western
Canada over these last few weeks,
canola has gotten smaller, and some of
the other crops, so that in and of itself
is going to take a lot of pressure off the
need in terms of how much grain actually has to move.”
IGC raises world
crop forecasts
London / Reuters
The International Grains Council June
26 raised its forecast for global maize
production in 2014-15, due to improved
crop prospects in China.
The IGC, in a monthly update, revised
up its forecast for world maize (corn)
production in 2014-15 by eight million
tonnes to 963 million, just short of last
season’s record of 972 million.
China’s maize output forecast was
revised up by five million tonnes to 220
million tonnes, above the 218.5 million
produced the previous year.
World maize stocks were set to rise for
a fourth consecutive year with the IGC
revising up its forecast by eight million
tonnes to 180 million, expanding from
167 million the previous year.
“Inventories in China are growing and
may account for almost half of the world
total,” the report said.
Wheat production in 2014-15 was
forecast to total 699 million tonnes, up
five million tonnes from a previous projection, but still below the prior season’s
710 million tonnes.
World wheat stocks were revised up
seven million tonnes from the previous
estimate to 194 million, above last year’s
192 million.
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LIVESTOCK
h u s b a n d r y — t h e s c i e n c e , S K I L L O R ART O F F AR M IN G
First-cut hay late, but
plentiful in unflooded areas
Hay will be scarce and costly in flooded areas, but that could be offset by producers reducing cow herds
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
M
anitoba’s first-cut hay
crop, while late, is yielding average to above
average in areas not hit by excessive moisture or flooding, says
John McGregor of the Manitoba
Forage and Grassland Association.
“There’s a lot there, but they
(beef farmers) don’t just rely on
one cut,” McGregor said in an
interview July 30. “They need to
have that second cut. Depending on the moisture and heat, it
is possible that they will pull off
a normal second cut. If that happens the likelihood is the prices
we’re talking about... will probably
hold true. If we don’t get some
good growing conditions there’s
a possibility those prices could
go up.”
Hay could be more expensive
and in tighter supply in areas
hit by flooding, but some of the
demand could be offset by farmers reducing their cow herds,
he said.
“There’s a lot there,
but they (beef
farmers) don’t just
rely on one cut. They
need to have that
second cut.”
John McGregor
Most Manitoba farmers harvested a bumper hay crop last
year but a cold winter and late
spring drew supplies down,
McGregor said.
“There was lots of hay and
there probably wouldn’t be a
problem going into this coming
winter if we hadn’t had to use a
lot of it up in the spring,” he said.
The cool spring delayed this
year’s first cut of beef cattle hay
by a week to two weeks. As of
last week most of it was baled.
“It looks like it has come off
in very good condition and it
looks like the quantity is above
average,” McGregor said. “It
looks like we have a fairly good
first cut in those (non-flooded)
areas.”
McGregor polled Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development forage specialists
around the province to get hay
prices.
Dairy hay in the central region
is at least five cents a pound with
beef hay ranging from three to
four cents, he said.
In western areas, alfalfa/grass
is ranging from three to four
cents, while it’s two to 3.5 cents
in the Interlake.
Standing hay prices range
from 1.25 to 1.75 cents a pound
in the central area for dairy quality and 1.5 to two cents in the
western region due to increased
demand in the wake of flooding.
Overall prices aren’t much different than last year, except for
lower-quality hay in the flooded
areas.
Although late, Manitoba’s first-cut hay is mostly up now and yielded well outside of the flood area, says John McGregor
of the Manitoba Forage and Hayland Association. This field was being baled near Miami July 29. photo: allan dawson
“Those areas rely on the native
and lowland hay and at the time
they were seen as not being harvested or the quality would be a
lot lower,” McGregor said.
It’s often hard to get a handle
on hay prices, especially at this
time of year. Sellers hate to commit hoping for higher prices. In
the meantime prices will continue to adjust as the marketplace
arbitrages supply and demand.
McGregor will provide update
prices in next month’s association newsletter. Farmers who
have hay price information can
email it to McGregor at bmcgee@
shaw.ca.
Meanwhile, the second cut of
dairy is mostly harvested in the
eastern region, McGregor said.
Many farmers took their first cut
around June 30. A third cut could
be taken around Aug. 23. That
would give the alfalfa six weeks
to recover before a killing frost.
After that a fourth cut is possible,
he said.
Frequent cuttings result in better-quality feed, which is required
for milk production, but lower
yields.
It also shortens the viability of
an alfalfa field. But dairy farmers often plan to terminate their
alfalfa fields after three years
anyway, McGregor said.
[email protected]
New PEDv study looks at manure pits
Researchers want to know whether the virus is lurking in manure pits and how long it can survive
By Meghan Mast
Co-operator Staff
R
esearchers are hoping
the province’s manure
pits will hold some clues
to controlling the porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus.
The council, the Manitoba
Livestock Manure Management
Initiative and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development are asking producers to
submit manure samples to help
assesses where the virus could
be lurking and how long it survives.
The study aims to first identify undiagnosed farms and then
assess the virus’s survivability
and the effectiveness of current
disinfection strategies.
“We want to determine how
long the virus is surviving in the
pits, in the lagoons, in the soil
when it’s applied and then on
manure application equipment
after it’s been used to spread
manure,” said Mark Fynn, an
animal care specialist for the
Manitoba Pork Council. “And
then to test our cleaning and
disinfection protocols, for the
manure application equipment,
to see that it’s actually effective
at eliminating the virus.”
The pork council has monitored 18 high-traffic facilities
in the province since February.
Fe d e ra l p a c k i n g p l a n t s,
provincial abattoirs, assembly
yards and truck-wash stations
throughout Manitoba have submitted a total of 2,700 samples.
Eight facilities have tested PED
positive at some point. Of those,
four are currently negative, while
four are working towards containing or eliminating the virus.
So far, two on-farm cases
of PED have been detected in
Manitoba, according to the lat-
“We’re in a unique situation where we have
two positive farms so we can undergo some of
the research. But it’s at a manageable level as
compared to Ontario.”
Mark Fynn
est PED virus bulletin from the
Office of the Chief Veterinary
Officer. The same report confirmed 62 farms across Canada have tested positive for
the virus, 58 of which were in
Ontario.
The virus is not dangerous
to humans, but is often fatal
for piglets. Mortality rates are
confidential in Canada, but an
estimated seven million piglets
have died as a result of the virus
in the United States.
“We’re in a unique situation
where we have two positive
farms, so we can undergo some
of the research. But it’s at a manageable level as compared to
Ontario,” said Fynn.
Producers who participate
in the study are encouraged
to follow biosecurity protocols to ensure they do not
track the virus to or from their
farm.
“There’s always a risk if there
are positive barns,” he said, “but
we don’t suspect there to be
many positive barns out there
based on our surveillance program results.”
Robyn Harte, a business
development specialist for
swine, will help co-ordinate the
government side of the project.
She says there has been a push
to conduct research on PED
because the fast-acting and
often fatal virus has been so devastating to the hog industry.
“Research is running the
gamut because it is a new
virus in North America and as
such there isn’t a large body
of work to reference,” she said
in a telephone interview. “And so
lots of research in a huge number
of areas is required.”
Producers interested in participating in the study can call Darlene Meakin at 204-897-0622.
[email protected]
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Too early to alter
nitrogen guidelines
Solid manure applications may actually release more nitrogen over time, not less
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
T
he questions, how much
nitrogen was applied and
how much is available
don’t have the same answer.
Seven crops into a long-term
study on nutrient management
at the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment,
researchers have found that
current provincial guidelines
for estimating nitrogen availability may not reflect reality when it comes using solid
manures.
“Based on the two solid
manure sources we worked
with, which is solid dair y
manure and solid pig manure,
we see that the nitrogen is
coming out much more slowly
than standard provincial recommendations would have
predicted,” said Don Flaten
of the University of Manitoba.
“The provincial recommendations predict that most of the
nitrogen that comes out of that
solid manure is going to come
out in those initial years, and
then less and less and less each
year.”
But that doesn’t appear to be
the case, said Flaten.
Provincial guidelines estimate all types of manures
release 25 per cent of their
organic nitrogen during their
first year, and release less nitrogen in subsequent seasons.
The first six years of data
collected at the expansive test
site just south of St. Norbert
show that despite high rates of
annual application, the cumulative efficiency of all solid
manure present left available
nitrogen at only five to seven
per cent.
“But we know one thing for
sure, that the organic nitrogen that is in the solid manure
sources is not coming out anywhere near the rates or even
the same pattern that the traditional recommendations
assume is taking place,” said
the researcher. “In fact, we’re
finding it’s the other way
around — that there is sort of a
lag phase while the decomposi-
Don Flaten speaks about nitrogen during a recent field tour at the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment. Photo: Shannon VanRaes
tion is just getting started, then
finally, it starts to come out
later on... it takes awhile to rev
up. So rather than depreciating
over time, the nitrogen value
seems to appreciate over time.”
The findings mean that some
farmers who think they have
enough nitrogen, may actually
be deficient.
“In some cases we may be
running the crop short of nitrogen, because we’re assuming
more nitrogen is coming out
of those manures than actually
shows up,” Flaten said, adding that nitrogen loss is also a
concern as nutrients build up
before being released.
“If you take a look at a lot of
the nitrate that’s in groundwater, it’s old nitrate that was
released when the land was
first broken out of native prairie and there was such an
incredible amount of mineralization and release of nitrogen in those freshly broken
soils that a lot of it was lost,” he
said. “And I think that we have
to make sure that we don’t —
with let’s say our solid manures
— create the same sort of scenario, where you have a lot
more nitrogen being released
than you require.”
But that doesn’t mean it’s
time to change provincial
guidelines, at least not quite
yet.
“We have to be somewhat
cautious in drawing conclusions about changing those
recommendations because
we’ve only got two types of
solid manure (in this study),”
he said, adding that other
researchers at the University
of Manitoba are also looking
at the properties of other types
of manures in relation to the
release of nitrogen.
All of that research would
need to be compiled, assessed
and compared before new recommendations could even be
considered, he said. Additional
studies could be required as
well.
In the meantime, Flaten
urges producers to have their
soils tested.
“I think soil testing is the
key step in all of these nutrient
management systems, whether
you’re working with synthetic
“We have to be
somewhat cautious in
drawing conclusions
about changing those
recommendations.”
Don Flaten
fertilizers, or liquid manures or
solid manures, — measure the
amount of nutrient that you
have, before you start applying
a whole bunch more,” he said.
[email protected]
Foreign livestock disease response to be discussed
A webinar is planned for August 18 and comments must be in by month’s end
By Alex Binkley
Co-operator contributor
T
h e C a n a d i a n Fo o d
Inspection Agency and
Agriculture Canada are
going online to consult with
stakeholders about a plan to
create a joint North American response to a contagious
foreign livestock disease outbreak.
The webinar is planned
for August 18. Information
about the draft animal disease framework is available
through the CFIA website
www.inspection.gc.ca. Com-
ments on the proposal have
to be submitted by the end of
August.
With the support of their
farm and meat industry
g ro u p s, Ca n a d a a n d t h e
United States agreed last year
to accept each other’s decisions and response plans in
the event of a domestic animal
disease. Under that arrangement, a control zone is to
be established for the main
infected area with less restrictive zones around it intended
to make sure the disease isn’t
spreading. The size of a control zone would depend on the
transmission pattern of the
disease and the possibility of
wildlife transmission of it.
The movement of livestock
and animal products from the
control area is restricted until
the disease is eradicated. Only
then could farmers resume
shipments of the livestock.
However, not all trade
between the two countries
would be halted as occurred
with the discovery of BSE in
a cow in Alberta in 2003. The
U.S. closed its borders to all
Canadian beef even though
the eastern half of the country
wasn’t affected.
Working through the Regulatory Co-operation Council
(RCC), officials from the two
countries have developed
a joint plan for dealing with
foreign disease outbreaks that
will include the same kind of
requirements for the affected
country to stop the movement
of animals and products from
the affected area.
In return, unaffected areas
of the country could continue to export. Part of the
plan to be discussed during
the webinar is the process by
which Canada and the U.S.
will impose the same import
controls to keep suspect shipments from entering North
Amer ica, which threaten
humans and livestock.
Such a plan was among the
29 priorities identified when
the RCC was created in 2011.
The goal is to minimize trade
disruptions due to the outbreak while safeguarding animal health in both countries.
In the event of a foreign outbreak, Canada and the U.S.
would expect the affected
countr y to take accepted
international measures to prevent the spread of the disease
including control zones.
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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Feeder Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
Jul-29
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
No. on offer
n/a
n/a
n/a
160
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Over 1,000 lbs.
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
900-1,000
n/a
n/a
n/a
165.00-184.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
800-900
n/a
n/a
n/a
190.00-215.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
700-800
n/a
n/a
n/a
195.00-222.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
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600-700
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n/a
n/a
220.00-235.00
n/a
n/a
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500-600
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240.00-265.00
n/a
n/a
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400-500
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
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300-400
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
155.00-177.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder heifers
900-1,000 lbs.
800-900
n/a
n/a
n/a
180.00-207.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
700-800
n/a
n/a
n/a
190.00-220.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
600-700
n/a
n/a
n/a
215.00-230.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
500-600
n/a
n/a
n/a
225.00-245.00
n/a
n/a
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400-500
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
300-400
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n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
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n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Slaughter Market
No. on offer
D1-D2 Cows
n/a
n/a
n/a
112.00-123.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
D3-D5 Cows
n/a
n/a
n/a
100.00-111.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Age Verified
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
n/a
n/a
n/a
125.00-136.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
148.00-158.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
145.00-156.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
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Fleshy Export Cows
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n/a
n/a
n/a
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Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Heiferettes
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
* includes slaughter market
(Note all prices in CDN$ per cwt. These prices also generally represent the top one-third of sales reported by the auction yard.)
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COLUMN
Lead poisoning an everincreasing cattle problem
There have already been a couple of cases this year, both caused by batteries
Roy Lewis, DVM
Beef 911
E
ven with ever-increasing
education, lead poisoning is still the No. 1 toxic
cause of death we see as veterinarians in cattle-producing
areas, especially on calves.
This article will review the
disease, the common sources
of lead for cattle, and the circumstances where they occur.
Hopefully, this will result in
fewer deaths from lead exposure, which in most cases are
highly preventable.
Years ago, lead-based paints
were commonly used and of
course we had leaded gas,
where a lot of that lead would
end up in the used oil. These
two sources have pretty much
been eliminated. But the burning of old buildings will still
concentrate the lead in the
ashes, so proper disposal of the
ashes and debris from the site
is critical.
Ac u t e l e a d p o i s o n i n g i s
almost always the result of the
accidental consumption of
high concentrations of lead.
The No. 1 source is consumption of the lead plates in broken-down vehicle batteries.
The lead pieces and fragments congregate in the reticulum (first stomach). From here
the lead is absorbed into the
bloodstream and causes the
very dramatic symptoms we
see as veterinarians: convulsive
fits, head pressing, hyperactivity or manic behaviour and
blindness (which has always
been permanent in the cases I
have treated) followed by death
in most cases. Veterinarians
must rule out other nervous
causes of disease. In the case
of batteries most times there is
more than one animal involved
and commonly it is younger
ones, as they are inquisitive.
If found alive and down in
a convulsive fit they are often
euthanized and a post-mortem
done. The key here is to confirm the diagnosis, and find
the source of lead so further
cases don’t develop and treat
those animals that are treatable. Safeguards need to be put
in place so further exposures
don’t occur.
To c o n f i r m t h e d i a g n o sis, your veterinarian may do
several things. An autopsy
may reveal lead pieces in the
reticulum and a kidney can be
sent away to confirm a high
lead level. Blood can also be
checked on live animals.
Finding the source of lead
and removing it so more cattle are not affected may mean
walking and scouring pastures
for discarded batteries or other
sources of lead. For live animals veterinarians may use
such things as sedatives for
hyper animals and giving calcium EDTA to tie up the lead.
In my experience, some do
make it, but often you are left
with a blind animal.
Then the issue of slaughter
withdrawal comes into question. Because of some recent
heavy losses from lead poisoning in Alberta feedlots, this was
studied extensively by government toxicologists. There are
known acceptable levels in
meat and the half-life of lead
has been calculated to be right
around two months.
This means it takes two
months to excrete half the
lead, two months the next half
and so on. Depending on the
amount consumed, the safe
time for consumption can be
determined. The lead goes
into liver, kidneys and bone,
so depending on intake, euthanasia may be considered.
Big pieces of lead stay in the
rumen and are absorbed continually, which is another cause
for euthanasia.
Prevention of lead poisoning
is the absolute key. We ideally
don’t want to ever have to treat
poisoning in the first place. It
is not a pretty death. Even if
found alive, our success will be
poor. Add to this the fact that
saved cattle are often blind and
we need to keep them a long
time before they are fit for consumption.
So in order to minimize
encounters between cattle and
lead batteries try and keep the
following points in mind.
Have a recycling policy and
temporary storage area for
old batteries. In other words,
don’t have a huge pile of batteries sitting where cattle can
gain access. If you use electric
battery fencers remove the batteries in the fall or have them
enclosed where grazing cattle
can’t reach. Check new pastures thoroughly for old yard
sites, junk piles, or deserted
vehicles where batteries may
be found. When changing batteries in vehicles immediately
remove the old one to your
storage site.
When replacing batteries, ensure the old one is kept out of reach of livestock.
There have been a few catastrophic incidences of lead
poisoning. Many cases of lead
poisoning and death occurred
at a feedlot where evidence
suggests a large implement
battery was mistakenly ground
up through a feed-mixer and
fed to the cattle. It is alarming how many cattle can be
killed by one vehicle battery.
What started as a very innocent
mistake had disastrous consequences for the feedlot. Any
changing of batteries should
occur in a shop or the old battery stored away safe immediately. Lead was also used in
older vehicles as filler for the
body work so it is another
source of lead.
The battery though has a
huge amount of lead in it and
PHOTO: THINKSTOCK
with the chemical reaction in
the battery, the plates are saltylike so taste good to cattle. Old
batteries crack and break from
the freezing-thawing process
over time so the internal plates
are exposed.
Other oddball cases of lead
poisoning were oilpatch-based
stuff left in a junk pile. Overshooting of animals for butchering with lead bullets has
resulted in meat contamination. The precisely placed head
shot with the proper-calibre
bullet by skilled marksmen is
the proper way to butcher to
avoid this issue. Studies done
on hunting submissions have
at times found high lead levels.
Pass the word about the
danger of lead in batteries. Be
on the lookout for discarded
batteries in and around yard
sites. You may inadvertently
find other sources of poisons
such as bags of urea, soil sterilants sprays all of which could
have toxic effects to all animals
including wildlife.
Let’s keep the environment
cleaner, recycle those used batteries and try and minimize
any chance of lead poisoning
in our cattle. If you see other
yard sites where batteries are
in the open, suggest the producers recycle them. I have
heard of a couple of cases
already this summer and both
were batteries.
Roy Lewis was a practising large-animal
veterinarian in Westlock, Alta. for more
than 30 years. He is a part-time technical
services vet for Merck Animal Health.
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Forecast issued Aug. 4, 2014, covering the period from Aug. 6 to 13, 2014
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
L
ast week’s forecast worked
out pretty much as
expected. The weak system
anticipated to move through
late in the weekend was a little quicker than expected and
as a result, less cool air was
pulled in behind the system.
This gave us warmer weather
over the last part of the long
weekend.
This forecast period looks
to be a little more active, but
overall, I don’t see much in
the way of significant precipitation. We start off with high
pressure well in control as a
large high builds over Ontario.
This will place us in a dry easterly flow that should keep any
storms developing to our west,
well away from our region.
Under the sunny skies and
fairly light winds we should see
daytime highs in the mid- to
upper 20s, with overnight lows
in the low teens — nice summer weather.
This high will slowly move
farther east over the weekend, allowing a weak area of
low pressure to track through
nor ther n regions. The low
will drag a weak cold front
through central and southern regions sometime over
the weekend, with the best
bet being late on Sunday or
early Monday. With not a lot
of moisture to work with, only
a few showers and thundershowers are expected.
The following week looks to
start off a little unsettled as
an area of low pressure drops
southeastward out of northwestern Canada. The models
don’t have a good handle on
how this will play out, though,
so confidence in this part of
the forecast is not that high.
Right now it looks like the
low will take a more northerly route, keeping southern
and central regions sunny
to partly cloudy, with highs
expected to continue in the
mid- to upper 20s.
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, 20 to 30 C;
lows, 8 to 15 C.
Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession
with a BA (Hon.) in geography,
specializing in climatology, from the
U of W. He operates a computerized
weather station near Birds Hill Park.
Contact him with your questions and
comments at [email protected].
WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA
1 Month (30 Days) Accumulated Precipitation (Prairie Region)
July 2, 2014 to July 31, 2014
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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: 08/01/14
www.agr.gc.ca/drought
This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that fell across the Prairies during the 30 days ending July 31 — only one
day shy of the monthly total. Most of agricultural Manitoba was fairly dry during this period, with most areas seeing less than 40 mm.
Extreme southeastern and northwestern areas were a little wetter. The wettest parts of the Prairies were over northern agricultural
Saskatchewan and northeastern Alberta, especially around Edmonton, where an upper low brought large amounts of rain.
Near-average July, warm August?
Leaving aside those four cool days, July 2014 turned out not too hot, not too cold
By Daniel Bezte
co-operator contributor
T
he first month of summer has come and gone
and I have to say, with
the exception of a couple of
cool, windy days, it was not
that bad of a month.
After a wet start to summer
with some record-breaking
rainfalls in June, a lot of us
were wondering just what
July was going to serve up,
and at the start of the month
it did not look good. The
month of July began with
another unusually strong
upper-level low that brought
clouds, showers, wind and
much cooler-than-average
temperatures. Luckily that
system moved off and we
saw nearly two weeks of nice
summer weather — not too
hot, but not that cool either.
Another upper low came
through on July 13 and 14,
and while it moved through
rather quickly, it brought
some very cool daytime highs
with it on July 13. If we get
rid of the four days in July
affected by these upperlevel lows, we had a near- to
slightly-above average July,
temperature-wise, but since
we have to take these days
into account, July, once again,
came in near to slightly below
average.
All three of our three major
regions had very similar temperatures, each falling within
0.3 C of the other. When we
look at the mean daily temperatures for the month and
compare them to the longter m averages, the Dauphin area was the only one
that ended up with a slightly
above-average temperature.
Dauphin’s mean daily temperature for July was 18.7 C, 0.3 C
above average. Winnipeg was
the next warmest with a mean
temperature of 18.6 C, but
due to a warmer average high
this region ended up being
0.9 C below average for the
month. Brandon had a mean
monthly temperature of 18.4
C, right in the middle of the
two at 0.5 C below its longterm average.
After a wet start to summer, a number of people were
worried the wet conditions
would continue into July and
the first couple of days didn’t
help to alleviate those worries. The two upper lows that
affected southern and central Manitoba in July, while
stronger than usual, behaved
more like summer systems
and only brought light scattered showers for the most
part. When all the precipitation was added up for July it
turns out all areas I checked
came in well below their longterm average. The Dauphin
region was the wet spot, so to
speak, with a total of 35.3 mm
of rain during the month — a
good 40 mm below average.
Both the Brandon and Winnipeg regions had about 25 mm
(one inch) during the month,
which put these two regions a
good 45 to 50 mm below their
respective long-term averages.
Once we put it all together,
from a purely statistical point
of view, July saw near- to
slightly-below average temperatures with well-below
average amounts of rain.
When you look at it from a
day-to-day point of view, take
out the four cool days and it
was a really nice month — not
too hot and not too cold. With
all of the rain in June the dry
weather in July, for the most
part, was quite welcome.
Who called it?
So, who was able to forecast
this rather nice quiet July?
Looking back it would appear
both Environment Canada
and the Canadian Farmers’
Almanac get the nod. Both
called for near-average tem-
“There are some
signs in the
medium-range
weather models
that hint at a much
warmer weather
pattern developing
over central North
America.”
peratures and below-average
precipitation. I was the only
one to call for near- to slightly
below-average temperatures,
but I got the precipitation
wrong with a call for aboveaverage amounts.
OK, now on to August’s outlook. Environment Canada
calls for near-average temperatures over eastern and
central regions and aboveaverage temperatures over
western regions. Precipitation, the department said,
will be near average for the
m o n t h . O ve r a t t h e Ol d
Farmer’s Almanac, it calls for
above-average temperatures
and a continuation of the dry
July weather. The Canadian
Farmers’ Almanac calls for a
warm start to August but a
cool end, which to me works
out to be a near-average
month. It also says it will be
a dry start and a wet end,
which, once again, works out
to be an average month, precipitation-wise.
Finally, here at the Cooperator, I’m calling for…
wait for it… a warmer- and
drier-than-average month.
Most of you should know by
now how much weight I put
in these long-range forecasts,
especially when it comes to
precipitation, but here is my
logic behind this forecast.
Globally, the planet has seen
some of the warmest temperatures on record. We have just
gone through one of the coldest winters/springs on record.
Eventually this cold anomaly
over our part of the world
will go away and the heat
will move in. There are some
signs in the medium-range
weather models that hint at
a much warmer weather pattern developing over central
North America. So I’m rolling
the dice that this pattern will
develop and we’ll see a warm/
hot August and maybe, just
maybe, that warm weather
will continue well into fall —
but don’t bet the farm on it!
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CROPS
h u s b a n d r y — t h e s c i e n c e , S K I L L O R ART O F F AR M IN G
Time to scout sunflower fields
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
S
unflower growers should
scout their fields for sunflower rust, sclerotinia head
rot, lygus bugs and the banded
sunflower moth, says Anastasia
Kubinec, oilseed specialist with
Manitoba Agriculture, Food and
Rural Initiatives.
The four pests can affect sunflower yield and quality, especially in confectionery sunflowers
where the seed is sold for human
consumption.
“You have to be in the crop
looking at what’s going on before
you know what the issues really
are and if it’s time to do something about them,” Kubinec
said during an MAFRD webinar
July 30.
Sunflower rust
“You have to be in
the crop looking
at what’s going on
before you know
what the issues
really are and if it’s
time to do something
about them.”
Anastasia Kubinec
petal, to the end of R5 when your
flowering and pollination have
occurred,” Kubinec said.
“If you are seeing it on the lower
leaves keep a close eye on it as it
moves up.
“You’re not wanting to pull
the trigger (and apply a fungicide) until the top four leaves are
affected.”
A fungicide should be applied
when only about one per cent of
the leaves are infected.
Skip spraying if the top leaves
are infected at R6 stage when
the ray petals are starting to
wilt off the head. The crop has
advanced enough that the disease
won’t have much effect on yield,
she said.
Head rot
Sclerotinia head rot — the same
fungal disease that attacks canola — is often a problem because
there’s so much inoculum around.
Even if a susceptible crop such as
sunflowers or canola haven’t been
grown in a field for several years,
disease ascospores can easily
migrate from other nearby fields,
causing infections if humidity is
high in the crop.
In 2012, a fungicide was registered for control of the disease in
sunflowers, but like in canola, it
must be applied before the crop is
infected.
Farmers need to assess the risk
to their crop and whether the
crop is worth protecting, Kubinec
said. Factors to consider include
whether susceptible crops were
grown in recent years in that field
or nearby and if the crop canopy
is humid.
Head rot ascospores need moist
conditions as well as sunflower
pollen to feed on, Kubinec said.
That’s why a fungicide needs to
be applied before a lot of pollen is
produced.
“If you’re spraying for head rot
at R3 it’s probably a bit too early,”
she said. “If your flowers are
already done pollinating it’s probably a little too late. What we do
target is that R5.1 to 5.2.”
MAFRD has a sclerotinia assessment tool for canola and hopes to
soon post one for sunflowers on
its website, Kubinec said.
Sunflowers staging varies a lot
this year. Kubinec said two weeks
ago fields she had seen varied
from R3 to R5.5.
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“Where you really do want to
pull the trigger specifically for
that head rot fungicide application is when 50 to 80 per cent of
that field is at R5.1 to R5.2,” she
said. “Any earlier you’re probably
not having a lot of that pollen and
later will be too late.”
Insects
Controlling head-attacking
insects is critical in confectionery
sunflowers, Kubinec said.
The farmer first needs to accurately identify insects he or she
sees in their crop. Some insects
are beneficial because they attack
harmful insects.
The economic threshold for
controlling lygus bugs in confectionery sunflowers with an
insecticide is one insect per nine
sunflower heads, Kubinec said.
The ideal crop stage for control is between R4 and R5.1. That’s
earlier than ideal for sclerotinia
control, but the two sprays can be
2425 heat units
applied then, Kubinec said. The
farmer just needs to decide which
pest poses the most risk — lygus
or sclerotinia.
Farmers should spray sunflowers to control the banded
sunflower moth when there are
at least two per head. (The adult
moth lays its eggs on the sunflower and it’s larvae feeding on
the seed that does the damage.)
The moth is whitish to brown
in colour with a distinct black to
dark-brown triangle on its back.
They will be more prevalent on
the edges of the field.
“Try to time your scouting at
dusk or dawn,” Kubinec said.
They are more active when it’s
cooler.
The ideal crop stage to control
the adult moth is R4 to R5.1.
“That’s when you’ll want to be
keeping track of those insects,”
she said.
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Sunflower rust was bad in 2008
and 2009, she said. There was
some in 2010 and pockets in 2013.
Sunflower rust is specific to
sunflowers and cyclical so it can
be reduced through crop rotation.
Farmers should try to find out
the crop and disease history in
fields adjacent to their sunflower
fields. The fungal disease overwinters in sunflower residue.
Spores can be produced and
infect nearby sunflower fields.
Sunflowers are most at risk at
the early- to mid-bloom stage,
Kubinec said.
Infected leaves have cinnamoncoloured spots. The infection will
start on the lower leaves, but can
move up.
“The critical time when rust
can affect the plant is at R4, where
the head is still somewhat closed
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Soybean acreage increase in southwest Manitoba
More and more farmers turning to soybeans for their ability to withstand excess moisture
By Meghan Mast
Co-operator Staff
B
oissevain-area farmer Ben
Heide was looking for an
alternative to peas when
he tried growing soybeans for
the first time three years ago.
His field peas were struggling
with root rot. As well, his family
was trying to grow less canola
and wanted to spread out their
labour. Soybeans seemed like
an obvious choice as they are
a later-season crop, and they
appear to be more tolerant of
excess moisture.
“(Peas) were having root rot
issues the second and third
time around in the rotation.
Even leaving five and six years
between,” said Heide at a Manitoba Pulse Growers Association
tour in Brandon last week.
Heide is among the growing
ranks of southwestern Manitoba farmers who have turned
to soybeans after watching
wet weather and disease decimate other pulse crops on their
farms.
Many were out to last week’s
tour featuring research plot
experiments including soybean
residue management, phosphorus fertilization and the effects
of soil temperature at different
planting dates.
“We need to take the research
we’ve done in the (Red River)
Andrew Dalgarno is well
into his fourth year growing
soybeans. Photos: Meghan Mast
“We have grown peas
for 20 years, but the
rains are making it
awfully tough to stay
away from disease.”
Jonothan Hodson
valley and elsewhere and apply
it to these new growing conditions so we can answer the
questions that are relevant to
this production area,” said Kristen Podolsky, production specialist at the MPGA.
Soybeans weren’t an option
for the province’s southwest
until recently as the available
varieties weren’t well suited to
the shorter growing seasons
and zero-tillage farming methods, which tend to leave soils
colder for longer in the spring.
Crop insurance data in Yield
Manitoba show no recorded
soybean acreage in Risk Area
2, which includes Boissevain,
before 2012. Yield Manitoba
only reports yields for varieties
grown on more than 500 acres
and by more than two growers.
But better-adapted varieties
have made it more possible for
farmers to try the crop. In 2012,
there were 10 growers with 569
total acres of soybeans in Risk
Area 2. Last year, that number
more than tripled.
The Heide farm has since
reduced the number of pea
acres sown. “Won’t say we won’t
grow them,” Heide said, “but
soybeans deal with the moisture a lot better than peas. I’d
say 100 times better, probably.”
Heide’s father, George Heide,
says soybean crops are expensive to seed, because of the cost
of seed and inoculants. But
they are relatively easy to grow.
And ultimately worth it.
“They look good,” he said.
“Quite resilient. And good
return on investments.”
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Newdale-area farmer Andrew
Dalgarno agrees. He is well into
his fourth year growing soybeans. “It’s going pretty good,”
he said. He introduced the crop
so he’d have another tool in his
rotation.
Yield Manitoba reports no
soybean acreage for Risk Area
6, which includes Newdale,
until 2013, when 8,028 acres
were reported.
Dalgarno said he likes soybeans because they fix their
own nitrogen.
“Once you get them figured
out on your rotation you can
front load on a previous crop or
you can side band it with beans
if you have a drill set up for side
banding,” he said.
Jonothan Hodson, who farms
near Lenore, started growing
soybeans just over a year ago.
Before that he’d grown peas for
20 years.
“The rains are making it
awfully tough to stay away from
disease,” he said.
He said he’s growing soybeans because he wanted
to get back to a one-in-four
canola rotation. Hodson said
he attended the tour to learn
about long-term crop management.
“Soybeans are here to stay,”
he said. “So we’d better learn to
grow them really well.”
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Jonothan Hodson says soybeans are here to stay.
Soybeans are more tolerant of moisture than field peas.
Winners of The Great Manitoba
Clean Farms Challenge announced
The Turner family from Killarney demonstrated a truly integrated approach
CleanFarms release
The grand prize winner in the
Great Manitoba Clean Farms
Challenge is Turner Farms from
Killarney, Man.
Doug and Betty Turner demonstrated a truly integrated
approach to sustainability that
covers habitat, recycling, and
conservation and have made
business decisions that incorporate good stewardship practices.
The challenge was designed
to encourage Manitoba farm
families and high school students to share stories about
the environmental stewardship work they do on their
farms and demonstrated the
ongoing commitment Manitobans have to sustainable
farming.
Au s t i n P i z z e y, a G r a d e
11 student from Binscarth,
received top marks with his
entr y that highlighted the
good recycling practices that
were started by his grandfather and that he and his family intend to continue for
future generations. Austin
was awarded the high school
scholarship ($1,000) and was
also named a finalist.
Bell Century Farms (Amy and
Jamie Bell) from Birtle, who
submitted a video showcasing the family’s commitment
to the environment and Black
Creek Farms (Ellis family) of
Wawanesa, whose entry highlighted their use of technology
in their approach to sustainability, rounded out the top
three finalists.
“We’re grateful to all the farm
families who prepared entries.
It is fascinating to see how
innovative Manitoba farmers
are, when it comes to recycling
and conservation practices,”
said Barry Friesen, general
manager of CleanFarms Inc.
Entries were evaluated by
an industry panel. As well, the
Manitoba Co-operator provided extensive communications support, running The
Great Manitoba Clean Farms
Challenge ads to encourage
participation.
Doug and Betty Turner were
awarded with a Deluxe Hockey
Weekend for four in Winnipeg
during the 2014-15 NHL Regular Season. The three finalists
each received the latest Apple
iPad Air.
“ What a great challenge!
Thank you again for the opportunity to accept it. It was fun
to do and we are sure excited
about winning,” said Betty
Turner, the grand prize winner.
The Great Manitoba Clean
Farms Challenge was led by
CleanFarms, a not-for-profit
industry stewardship organization led by the plant science
industry.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 7, 2014
crop report
Harvest has begun but moisture would be welcome
Weekly Provincial Summary
H
arvest 2014 has started
with winter wheat harvest occurring in the
Central Region of Manitoba.
Preliminary reports indicate
average yields, with fusariumdamaged kernels present in
harvested samples.
• The continuing hot and
dry weather conditions are
advancing crops quickly.
• Precipitation would be welcomed in some areas of the
province for continued growth
and grain filling in crops, and
regrowth in hay fields and pastures.
Southwest Region
Scattered showers resulted in
10 to 15 mm of rain. Crops are
progressing well.
The mid-May seeded cereals
are beginning to turn, particularly in areas where moisture
is limited or where nitrogen
deficiencies were noted due
to leaching or runoff from earlier excess moisture. Visual
symptoms of fusarium in winter wheat are at moderate to
high levels. The variability in
crop development resulted in
a wide window for infection,
making fungicide timing difficult. Complicating fusarium
identification is the presence
of both common and take-all
root rots. Fusarium look to be
at lower levels in spring wheat.
Some of the earlier-seeded
canola is done flowering. This
year’s crop is shorter than normal due to early-season excess
moisture, which has renewed
interest in straight cutting.
The major disease concern in
canola continues to be browngirdling root rot.
Most soybeans look good;
no disease pressure reported.
Field peas are maturing rapidly, especially if impacted by
root rot.
Grasshopper numbers are
beginning to increase; bertha
armyworm counts are very
low.
Haying progress continues
to go well. Native grass haying
is well underway on fields that
are accessible. Quality continues to be well above average
with overall yields coming in
at 75 to 80 per cent of normal.
Pastures are currently in good
condition but will need moisture soon.
Northwest Region
Soil moisture ranges from dry
in the south to wetter in the
north. Rainfall anged from
negligible in some parts to
over 63 mm. Intense thunderstorms, which also caused
some wheat crops to lodge.
Small hail was reported in the
Swan River area.
About 15 per cent of the
cereal crop is at the heading/
flowering stage, 70 per cent
is in the milk stage of growth
and about 15 per cent is in the
dough stage. Canola is 85 per
cent at some stage of flower-
ing with 15 per cent podded.
In soybeans, 25 per cent of the
crop is flowering and about 75
per cent is podded. In general,
crop development is about
two weeks behind normal for
this time.
First-cut tame hay harvest
is nearing completion. Native
hay harvest is ongoing but
will be delayed around the
lakes due to high water levels.
Cereal silage will be harvested
shortly. Pastures are rated
good and those in the western
parts of the region will benefit
from recent weekend rains.
Central Region
Crops are looking good, except
in areas where excess moisture caused damage. Rain
would be welcome. Crops are
maturing and turning colour in areas that have poorer
moisture-holding capacity or
where crops have shallow root
systems due to earlier excess
moisture.
Winter wheat harvest has
begun — early reports indicate yields in the mid 60 bu/
acre range, with fusariumdamaged kernels at moderate
to high levels. Cereals are fully
headed. The earliest seeded
cereals are starting to turn colour. Canola ranges from full
flower to full pod. Soybeans
are flowering; dry beans are
p r o g r e s s i n g w i t h f l ow e r ing complete in most fields.
There are reports of bacterial
blight in some fields. Corn
development is variable; it has
improved but in some areas is
significantly set back by excess
moisture.
Fu s a r i u m i s re p o r t e d i n
many winter wheat fields,
even those receiving fungicide. Infection in spring wheat
is at much lower levels. Blackleg lesions are evident in many
canola fields. Brown girdling
root rot is reported in some
canola fields, as are other root
rots. Sunflowers are being
monitored for sunflower beetles, with no reports to date of
numbers sufficient to require
insecticide. No reports of soybean aphid.
Alfalfa silage yields look
good. Tame forage yields are
average to above average.
Growth in pastures is adequate, although a rain would
be beneficial.
Eastern Region
Light rainfall ranged from two
to four mm.
Spraying of herbicides and
fungicides is complete. While
isolated reports of diamondback moth in canola, grasshoppers in a variety of crops
and armyworms in cereals
at levels at or near economic
thresholds are noted, insect
pressure remains low overall. Defoliation of soybean
due to a variety of insects is
also noted but levels remain
below economic thresholds.
Mo re re p o r t s o f ro o t ro t induced wilts in soybeans
were received last week. All
crops continue to improve as
the favourable growing conditions continue.
Haying is in full swing with
approximately 75 per cent of
the hay harvested. Cattle are
doing well on pasture as low
spots are drying up. Availability of livestock water is rated
as 100 per cent adequate.
Interlake Region
Trace amounts of rainfall fell
leaving two to five mm of precipitation with up to 25 mm in
thunderstorms.
Crops are generally doing
well. Winter wheat fields are
close to harvest. Spring cereals are starting to turn. Canola
fields have mostly podded,
except for the later-seeded
fields. Corn is tasseling while
t h e m a j o r i t y o f s u n f l owe r
fields started to flower. Soybeans started to pod and crop
development is advancing .
Forage grass seeds continue
to be harvested and swathed.
Alfalfa seed production fields
are looking good with the
warm conditions.
Rising lake levels continue
to flood more hay land, crop
land and pasture acres along
the lakes. In other areas of
the region where hay harvest
is able to occur, good hay
yields with good quality are
reported. Well managed pastures are showing resiliency to
current drier weather conditions.
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Ottawa orders railways to keep grain moving
Railways say the regulations stifle collaboration within the industry
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
T
he Canadian government
has ordered the railways
to transport more than a
million tonnes of western grain
a week until Nov. 29 or be fined
$100,000 for each violation.
“What we want to do is make
sure there is surge capacity at
harvest,” Agriculture Minister
Gerry Ritz said in an interview
Aug. 1 before announcing the
new order-in-council and new
regulations under the Fair Rail
For Farmers Act.
Most of the grain industry,
except the railways, welcomed
the news.
The act became law May 29
but a previous order-in-council issued March 7 required the
railways to collectively ship one
million tonnes of grain a week.
The railways blamed the big
crop and cold weather, but the
Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA) accused them of
not gearing up in time.
The WGEA supports the new
regulations but said it fails to
allow grain companies to penalize railways for poor service,
even though the grain companies are subject to penalties
from the railways.
“The missing link in this is
still railway penalties,” Wade
Sobkowich, executive director
of the Western Grain Elevator
Association said in an interview.
Penalties would encourage
better rail service, which suffers
in the absence of competition,
he said.
Companies under pressure
Having rail penalties is even
more critical now because new
regulations under the Canada
Grain Act allow farmers to seek
penalties from grain companies
if they fail to take grain deliveries when they said they would.
If a grain company can’t take
delivery because a railway failed
to deliver cars, the grain company has no recourse, Sobkowich said.
“What that means is (grain)
companies will have to work in
a risk premium into their pricing in order to account for the
fact that they have to now pay
penalties to the farmers,” he
said.
The WGEA will push for rail
penalties during the current
review of the Canadian Transportation Act, Sobkowich said.
Legislation allows grain companies to seek an administrative
penalty against the railways,
but the process is impractical,
Sobkowich said. Even if a grain
company wins the case the
$100,000 penalty is paid to the
government, he added.
The process is just as cum-
Grain companies welcome the new regulations requiring minimum weekly shipments,
but would still like a system of penalties to railways for not meeting orders. File photo
bersome to collect expenses out
to grain firms due to poor rail
service, he said.
The railways have been
ordered to each ship 536,250
tonnes a week until Nov. 29. If
they keep that pace throughout
the 2014-15 crop this crop year’s
carry-over will be around six
million tonnes, which is close to
normal, he said.
“A n d m o s t i m p o r t a n t l y
they are numbers we know in
advance and therefore we can
sell to as long as the railways
adhere to the numbers,” Sobkowich said. “One caveat we’d
have on it is that the shipping
needs to take place in the corridors that the shippers want to
ship in...”
Agriculture Minister Gerry
Ritz said he thinks that will be
accomplished by collecting
more data on grain moved by
rail as required under the new
regulations (see sidebar).
Sobkowich said the shipping
“What we want to do
is make sure there
is surge capacity at
harvest.”
Gerry Ritz
targets exclude soybeans and
canola oil and meal, which is a
concern because the railways
will have less incentive to move
them.
The grain companies have a
legitimate concern regarding
rail penalties, said Doug Chorney, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP).
“We could see the grain companies backing away from contracts if they feel exposed with
no recourse,” he said.
“I think in principle it’s good
to see government continuing
to keep railways accountable to
their customers,” Chorney said.
“It may seem to be a blunt
instrument for the railways to
have to accept but it was a blunt
reality for farmers to see their
markets dry up and basis levels widen and billions of dollars lost by farmers due to price
changes in the marketplace,” he
said.
Other organizations including
the Western Canadian Wheat
Growers Association, Cereals
Canada and the canola, barley
grower and grain growers’ associations also issued statements
welcoming the new regulations.
The railways oppose the act
and regulations.
“Issues relating to the transportation of grain will not be
solved in Ottawa but by the joint
collaboration of all partners in
the supply chain,” CP Rail chief
executive officer E. Hunter Harrison said in a statement.
The grain pipeline is in sync
Cu
en
and ready for harvest, said CN
president and chief executive
officer Claude Mongeau.
“The government’s approach
can only stifle supply chain collaboration and may ultimately
undermine investment in the
rail sector,” he said.
Further improvements to
grain transportation could
come through the review of the
Canadian Transportation Act
underway now, Ritz said.
“That’s our fail safe... where
anything else can be picked up
or added to,” he said, including
a possible review of how much
it costs the railways to move
grain.
The costs, which haven’t been
fully reviewed for years, don’t
reflect improvements in rail efficiency, Ritz said, yet are used
to calculate the railways’ maximum revenue entitlement for
shipping grain.
[email protected]
More rail movement data to be collected under new transportation regs
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
N
ew regulations under
the Fair Rail for Farmers
Act will see more data
collected on grain shipped by rail
making it easier to monitor how
the grain-handling and transportation system is working.
The new data includes the
following:
• Railway car cycle data covering all grain movements.
• Weekly grain traffic by tonnage, carloads, railway car
type and corridor travelled.
• Railway car fleet information
for all railway cars used for
grain transportation, including the number of cars that
are empty, loaded, in storage,
en route or in bad order.
• Railway car order fulfilment
information, including dates
orders were placed, name
of shipper, origin and destination of the grain, the
total number of railway cars
ordered and cancelled by
the shipper, and number of
railway cars the rail carriers have committed, placed
and/or cancelled.
Under the new regulations
the Canadian Transporta-
tion Agency has consulted
with the grain industry about
what the grain movement
targets should be for the
2014-15 crop year. Its recommendations went to Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and
were used in setting the new
weekly target, which can be
adjusted as new information
is available.
The regulations include
new rates interswitching.
Interswitching distances have
been extended to 160 km for
shippers of all commodities
(not just grain) in Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba
from 30. As a result 150 elevators now have access to a
competing railway instead of
just 14.
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CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S
Young leaders find municipal
service careers rewarding
Young leaders talk about their time in office
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
M
att Gray can sum up in two
words what his first days serving as a newly elected councillor with the Town of Carman were
like.
“Nerve-racking.”
Admittedly shy, and not quite 25 at
the time, he was also a bit self-conscious about his age. “It was definitely
intimidating at first to be sitting across
the table from people twice your age
and trying to share your opinions with
them,” says Gray who won his seat in
the 2010 elections held by the southcentral Manitoba town.
But he was there because he wanted
to be. Municipal politics might sound
like the most boring thing on earth to
many 20-somethings. But serving on
local council felt like a chance to really
do something good for his hometown,
says Gray, who has volunteered with
many community groups.
He had figured on waiting until he
was a bit older, but then he was asked,
‘why not now?’
“I was actually approached by a couple of people. It was their positive feedback and some who thought I could do
it, that really got me going with it.”
Melissa Pateman, finishing up
her first term in office on the other
side of the province, feels the same.
She was also just 25 when the RM of
Archie, based in the village of McAuley,
appointed her to fill a vacancy on the
council.
Also an avid local volunteer, she had
served on several local boards, and
agreed to take on the role with the
same frame of mind.
“We’re a small community and basically anything that functions here is
run by volunteer boards,” she says.
Both say it has been a positive experience. It took time to get up to speed
with all the issues, and familiarize with
municipal business, but any newbie to
council, regardless of age, experiences
that. Gray got over his nervousness
and found the council easy to work
with.
Matt Gray wasn’t quite 25 when he was elected a Town of Carman councillor in 2010. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON
Better places
Pateman believes one of the main
reasons few her age show any interest
in the role is simply not knowing what
councils do, or what the responsibilities of a councillor are.
“For me it’s just about making the
community a better place to live,” she
said. She sees things a bit differently
than her older peers at the table.
“I think I definitely do bring a different perspective to the council, either
by my age or by my gender,” she said,
adding that the McAuley area does
have many young people living there.
Others say it was mainly curiosity,
plus a sense of public service, that
made them try it.
“I’m actually not entirely sure why I
did it, but somebody had to, so I did,”
says Minto-area farmer Don Rourke,
who took a seat as a councillor around
the RM of Whitewater table by acclamation when just turning 25. The job
Melissa Pateman is a McAuley-area farmer
who was appointed to serve as a councillor in the RM of Archie when she was just
25. PHOTO: AMM
itself wasn’t difficult, says Rourke.
“It was a bit of a learning curve.” He
thought he might be dealing with a lot
of upset ratepayers all the time. But
that wasn’t the case. “I find usually
ratepayers don’t make enough stink,”
he says. “I’ve only been yelled at once
in four years. I thought I’d be yelled at
way more than that.”
How much time the job demands
depends on who you ask. Pateman
said she was busy certain times of the
year.
“Some months it’s the minimum,
where we have one meeting, or you get
the odd phone call or there’s a committee meeting you need to go to,”
she said. “And then you’ll have some
months where you’re going to meetings twice a week. I think it depends a
lot, at least with our council, on how
busy you want to be.”
Gray says he can easily log anywhere
from 25 to 40 hours a month for council duties. “You just have to be organized about it, and set your time and
stick to a schedule,” he said. “I can’t go
to every meeting because I have to go
to work.”
Both Gray and Pateman plan to seek
another term in the 2014 October elections, but Rourke is hesitating. He says
you have to ask his wife if he’ll run
again. “The biggest thing for me, is the
time for this,” he said. “I have three
kids under the age of five and we farm
5,000 acres. I’ve just got too much on
my plate.”
Time factor
Lack of time is possibly the main reason fewer Manitobans of any age show
interest in serving in local government
nowadays.
Current leaders are regularly
returned to office without a contest. In
2010, 40 per cent of all municipal officials across Manitoba had no one run
against them. Twenty-one seats were
left vacant because no one wanted the
job. Voter turnout is also dismally low.
Those are issues being watched
closely by the Association of Manitoba
Municipalities (AMM), says its executive director Joe Masi. It will be interesting to see what impact amalgamation, which eliminates 45 municipalities, will have on people’s decisions to
return to office, or try for the first time,
he said.
Ideally, this time around there will
be more contests, better voter turnout, and after October 22, an increasingly diverse representation sitting
down around council tables, because
new faces bring fresh perspectives to
municipal politics.
“I think we are starting to see a little more diversity already, but it’s
gradual,” he said. The average age of
a councillor is still anywhere from 55
and up and most tend to be retired or
semi-retired from their work.
“We’ll see again what happens with
this election,” said Masi. “Will we see
more new people step up?”
It’s really up to communities to start
identifying people they think would be
good for the job and encouraging them
to run, he adds. Many veteran municipal leaders have told him they’d never
have considered the job either — until
someone asked them.
Candidates interested in running
for mayoral, reeve or councillor positions in the October election have until
September 16 to register their names.
[email protected]
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You can’t eat your lawn but...
Lorraine Stevenson
Crossroads Recipe Swap
I
s a lawn “beautiful?” Is a vegetable garden
“ugly?” Or is it the other way around?
It depends who you ask.
A press release plinked into my mailbox from
the folks with Food Matters Manitoba last week
announcing their second annual Manitoba
Garden Makeover Competition. It’s urging
Manitobans to convert their lawns into an “edible landscape.”
Imagine landscapes with colourful basil, red
peppers, rainbow chard, or white apple blossoms, and the best part is, once their beauty
fades, the feast begins, it said.
All good, except for one thing. I don’t want to
imagine the near-collapse of civilization it will
take to get most of us turning lawns to vegetable gardens.
A lot of us could probably feed several families for the winter on what our big lawns could
produce. But we’re not giving up our patches of
inedible green easily.
The lawn, after all, is a way we show our class
and status. Leisure theory sociologists, who
coined the term “conspicuous consumption,”
say lawns first emerged on properties of the
well to do in Europe. Showing you were so rich
you had land you didn’t need to grow food on
set you apart from the labouring underclasses.
With increasing food security, and the time it
eventually afforded more of us, we imitated.
The richer we became, the bigger our lawns
grew.
Maybe that’s why my neighbours thought I
was hard up a few years ago. Lacking much of a
backyard, I dug up most of our front for a garden. I hadn’t heard the term ‘edible landscape’
then. I just wanted a ‘cottage garden.’
It didn’t turn out quite as I’d hoped, though. I
worked at it, but didn’t like the look of sagging
tomato cages and cabbages on the front yard.
I had vibes others felt the same. Now the veg
grows in the (fenced) backyard.
The lesson learned? Tidiness, not just tomato
sharing, is key, if lawn digger-uppers want to
keep lawn lovers happy.
Lawns end up looking the pits if you don’t put
loads of water, fertilizer and work into them too,
of course. And you can’t feast from your lawn
the way Food Matters Manitoba envisions.
My money is on it being a long time yet
before gardens edge out the lawn. It’ll take a
lot more than a contest anyways, and it’s more
than a matter of time, skills or motivation, as
Food Matters Manitoba asserts.
It’s a matter of taste, and not just of peppers,
basil and swiss chard. I know a lot of gardeners
and I’ve seen what they’re growing. The ‘edible
landscape,’ among all those lawns, flowers,
water ponds and wind chimes, is a rarity.
Tomato and Zucchini Gratin
Waldorf Berry Salad
If you do grow a garden and have loads of
tomatoes and zucchini coming in about now,
here’s a tasty dish to try. Its long cooking time
allows the flavours to blend together.
An exciting twist on a classic summer salad.
Celery, toasted walnuts, apples, mixed berries,
all tossed in a creamy dressing — using half-andhalf cream, sour cream and Greek yogurt.
CRISPY BREAD CRUMBS:
3 tbsp. butter
1 c. coarse fresh bread crumbs
2 anchovies, chopped (optional)
Fresh herbs to taste
1/4 c. 10 per cent half-and-half cream
3 tbsp. sour cream
3 tbsp. Greek yogurt
1 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
1-1/2 c. diced celery
1 c. toasted walnuts, lightly crushed, divided
1 red delicious apple, cored, quartered and diced (skin on)
1-2/3 c. assorted berries, (such as blueberries, blackberries,
raspberries, or quartered strawberries, if large)
Salt
Black pepper
8 to 10 whole butter lettuce leaves
10 to 12 celery leaves
GRATIN:
2 green zucchini
2 tomatoes
2 peeled potatoes
Freshly ground salt and pepper
3 tbsp. olive oil
1 c. grated Canadian Swiss cheese
PHOTOS: DAIRY FARMERS OF CANADA
Prepare the crispy bread crumbs. In a large skillet, melt the butter and cook the fresh bread crumbs
until crisp and golden. Add anchovies and fresh herbs, mix well and set aside. Preheat oven to 400 F.
Cut the three vegetables into 1/4-inch pieces. Layer the vegetables alternately in the dish, starting with
the zucchini follow with the tomatoes and the potatoes. Repeat these layers with remaining vegetables.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil. Cover the dish with aluminum foil. Bake in
the middle of the oven for 35 minutes. Increase oven temperature to 425 F. Uncover the dish and bake
another 15 minutes. Position the rack in the upper part of the oven and turn the oven to broil. Top the
vegetables evenly with cheese. Broil until cheese is melted and slightly golden. Remove from the oven
and sprinkle with crispy bread crumbs.
TIPS: In Provence, this dish would be called a “tian,” which describes food baked for a long time in a shal-
low, earthenware casserole. You can vary the vegetables to your taste, using tomatoes, winter squash,
peppers, eggplant, etc.
Preparation time: 25 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hr., 5 minutes
Yields: 6 servings
In a large bowl, stir together cream, sour cream,
yogurt, and lemon juice. Stir in celery, 3/4 cup
of the walnuts and apples. Gently fold in berries.
Season to taste with salt and pepper. In a bowl or
on a serving platter, arrange lettuce leaves and
gently spoon salad on top. Garnish with remaining walnuts and celery leaves.
TIPS: For tender and sweeter celery, peel the back
part of the celery rib with a vegetable peeler; this
really changes the flavour and nature of celery!
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Yields: 6 servings
Source: Dairy Farmers of Canada
Source: Dairy Farmers of Canada
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“
W
hat are you going to miss the most?”
Andrew Jackson leaned back in
his chair and set his coffee cup on
the table as he spoke. A warm breeze blew in
through the open dining room window and a
page of his newspaper lifted up and then settled down over the cup as if to protect the contents from whatever coffee might need to be
protected. Andrew removed the page and then
moved his coffee cup onto the newspaper to
prevent a repeat performance.
Rose took a moment to reply.
“That’s a good question,” she said. She let her
eyes wander around the room and then gazed
through the window at the bright sunlit yard
outside. “So many memories.”
Andrew nodded. “So many,” he agreed.
“I have a vague memory,” said Rose, “of a time
when we lived here, just the two of us.” She
smiled. “That happened right?”
Andrew grinned. “I believe it did,” he said,
“although the memories are fuzzy. That was
a long time ago. Almost seems like another
lifetime.”
“It was another lifetime,” said Rose. “It was
the pre-parental lifetime, which is completely
different from the parental lifetime.”
“And both of those are different from the
grandparental lifetime,” said Andrew. “Which
I actually find quite surprising,” he added. “I
didn’t think being a grandparent would change
things the way it has.”
Rose nodded. “Is it terrible of me,” she said,
“that I feel like what I will miss the most when
we move to town, is living next door to our
grandchildren?”
“Absolutely terrible,” said Andrew. “But it
can’t be helped. Nobody tells you that one day
the children who have been the absolute apple
of your eye, the very light of your life, will suddenly become just those people who look after
your grandchildren when you’re not around. At
least nobody told me.”
“Nobody told me either,” said Rose.
There was a brief silence.
The
Jacksons
BY ROLLIN PENNER
“You remember the day we brought Randy
home?” Andrew took a sip of his coffee.
“I remember everything about that day,” said
Rose. “I remember how tired I was. I fell asleep
on the drive home, with Randy all wrapped up
in my arms. I can still remember how the blanket smelled that he was wrapped up in.”
“Amazing,” said Andrew. “The three years
before that day are a vague misty memory, but
that day is as clear as if it was yesterday.”
“If one of our kids brought a baby home from
the hospital, just holding it in their arms in the
front seat of the car, we’d call the authorities,”
said Rose.
Andrew chuckled. “Times change,” he said.
“We were driving a Dodge K-Car. Even if we’d
had a car seat, the rear seatbelts in that car
never worked so we wouldn’t have been able to
buckle it in anyway. What a horrible vehicle that
was. I’m surprised you didn’t leave me when I
brought that thing home.”
Rose laughed. “Believe me, I considered it,”
she said. “But I promised, for better or worse.
And fortunately it never got worse.”
“Once you’re driving a K-Car, it really can’t
get much worse,” said Andrew. “Maybe an AMC
Gremlin would have been worse.”
“Thank God it never came to that,” said Rose.
“We may have had some hard times, but at least
we never had to drive a Gremlin.”
Andrew pondered that for a second. “The hard
times were few and far between,” said Andrew,
“and compared to what most of the people in
this world go through, they weren’t even all that
hard.”
“True enough.” Rose took a drink of her coffee. “I thought getting Brady through high
school was tough,” she said, “but now I look
back on it, even that’s a good memory. Although
it might not be if he hadn’t turned out to be
such a good man.”
“Like father, like son,” said Andrew.
There was another brief pause.
“I’m going to miss everything,” said Rose.
“Except for not having a Jacuzzi,” said
Andrew.
Rose smiled. “I’m going to miss almost everything,” she said. “But you’re right. I won’t miss
not having that.”
Shorter variety means
more versatility
Breeders have developed a cleome that isn’t quite so tall
By Albert Parsons
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
I
The blooms of cleome do indeed have a “spidery” appearance.
PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
t is wonderful when plant
breeders make a breakthrough
and develop a plant that is
vastly superior to previously available varieties. That is certainly
the case with the annual cleome,
often called by its common name
“spider flower.” Cleome has
always produced lovely heads of
bloom in shades of pink, purple
and white, but the big drawback
to older varieties is that the plants
are very tall — often reaching
heights of two metres.
Although some farm gardens
and rural properties might be able
to accommodate such large plants
— the plants also grow a halfmetre wide — many urban gardeners are unable to find a suitable spot. These days many farm
gardens are also smaller than they
used to be as busy farmers seem
to have less time to devote to gardening, so even farm gardeners
had mostly stopped using cleome
as an annual flower.
Now, however, there are dwarf
cleome varieties that get less than
a metre high, which means that
they are much more versatile
plants with more uses in the landscape. Long relegated to being
used as a tall background plant
in flower borders, these shorter
cleomes can be incorporated into
the border itself, used as mass
plantings or even used in large
containers. Many public gardens
have mass plantings of cleome
and they are quite stunning.
Cleome is commonly called
“spider flower” because of its narrow petals, which give the individual blooms a somewhat spiderlike appearance. They are longblooming plants and although
not the first annuals to burst into
bloom, when they do, they will
continue to produce until frost
strikes down the plants. The
blooms themselves are long lasting because as the flowers on the
lower part of the flower stem fade,
new ones are continually being
produced towards the tops of the
stems.
The open-pollinated varieties
such as “Queen,” are the tallest
and can be two metres high. The
“Sparkler” series is a hybrid that is
considerably shorter at about one
metre. A new hybrid, “Senorita
Rosalita,” is also a shorter plant
that has purple blooms and is
sterile so produces no seed. The
open-pollinated types self-seed
quite prolifically.
Cleome is heat and drought
tolerant, which is a good thing
because they are generally just
coming into bloom when the
weather gets hot and dry. They
do appreciate being watered during dry spells, and hummingbirds
and butterflies find the blooms
attractive.
Some gardeners pinch out the
central bud when the plants are
about 30 cm tall. This encourages
more side branching and prevents
the plants from growing as tall as
they otherwise would. This practice does, however, somewhat
delay the start of bloom.
If you want a beautiful plant you
might consider using cleome. The
so-called spider flower will surely
create beautiful highlights in the
landscape wherever you place it.
Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa,
Manitoba
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Hot summer projects
Create the look of a relaxing summer getaway in your home for the whole year
Connie Oliver
Around the House
A
h summer. Sandy beaches, pristine lakes,
warm winds and long days. Want to create
the carefree and relaxing charm of a summer getaway year round in your home (without
the mosquitoes)? Beauti-Tone has created a collection of projects.
“There’s nothing like the natural beauty of a
Canadian summer to bring out your inner artist,”
says Bev Bell, creative director, Beauti-Tone Paint
and Home Products Division, Home Hardware
Stores Limited.
Paddle headboard
(Pictured right) A random collection of colourful rowboat and canoe paddles will create all the
right kind of waves. You may have to be patient
in order to collect enough paddles for your
project so check out flea markets and yard sales.
Supplies:
• Collection of paddles (queen-size bed took 16
paddles)
• Paint colours of choice (great way to use up
odds and ends) and some were left au naturel
• 2x4-inch board cut to the width of the bed
• No. 8 wood screws
Instructions:
Remove any finish on paddles you will be painting. Paint oars one at a time, and with a damp
rag lightly wipe off some of the paint for a soft,
worn look. Lay paddles out in a desired pattern;
fasten to 2x4-inch board with screws approximately eight inches from the handles. Pre-drill
holes in paddle first to prevent them from splitting. Attach to the wall for added security.
PHOTOS: COURTESY BEAUTI-TONE PAINT
Retire in style
Relax after a great day in the sun. Believe it or
not, this comfortable ottoman is a recycled tire
embellished with rope and deck finial for feet.
Buoy accessories
Rustic wall hanging
With a few simple cuts, some sanding and easy
paint application, 4x4-inch spruce posts become
attractive buoys that won’t sink your decorating
budget.
Combine the simplicity of textured, natural
materials to create art with rustic charm.
Supplies:
• 4x4-inch spruce posts cut at desired heights
(shown in the photo are 10 inches, 12 inches
and 15 inches)
• Paint
• 1-inch drill bit
• Painter’s tape
• Sisal rope
• Stencil
• Stencil brushes
Instructions:
Cut 4x4-inch posts to desired heights. With a saw,
taper the 4x4 either on two sides or four sides,
ensuring you leave one inch to 1-1/2 inch at
top. Drill a one-inch hole at top approximately
one inch down. Paint desired base coat. Paint
contrasting stripes by masking off with painter’s
tape. Stencil numbers on. Thread rope through
hole at top and tie.
Supplies:
• 1x12-inch boards of rough-cut spruce
• 3 different colours of wood stain
• Coarse/medium sanding sponge
• “Liquid Nails” adhesive
• Rope
• Dock cleat
• Eye screws
• Sanding block
Instructions:
Cut sailboat pattern (you can obtain pattern
by emailing me [email protected] or create your own) from wood. Stain each piece the
appropriate colour. Let dry. Sand backboard
edges with coarse sandpaper to achieve a soft,
time-worn effect. Attach the two backboards
together with 3 strips of wood bridging them
together. Assemble and glue sailboat pieces to
backboard. Attach eye screws to back. Insert
rope, and knot to hold in place. Hang from cleat
that has been securely attached to the wall.
Supplies:
• An old tire
• 1/2-inch plywood
• 1/2-inch sisal rope
• Wood screws
• “Liquid Nails” adhesive
• 4 wood post finials
• 1 litre of exterior paint
Instructions:
Cut two circles from plywood to sit in the centre
of the depression in the tire to create a nearflush surface top and bottom. Screw plywood
to tire with wood screws. Drill a hole in the top
centre of plywood and insert one end of the
rope. Working with “Liquid Nails” adhesive, do a
2-inch-wide squiggle design at centre point. Start
laying the rope in a circular pattern ensuring you
snuggle it tight as you work. Continue this until
entire top and sides are covered. Paint finials and
attach to bottom of ottoman.
These projects are sure to enhance your décor
in great summer style.
Connie Oliver is an interior designer from Gimli, Manitoba
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AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
ANTIQUES
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
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
Langruth
Neepawa
Hamiota
Gladstone
Rapid City
Reston
Melita
1
Brandon
Carberry
Treherne
Killarney
Elm Creek
Sanford
Ste. Anne
Carman
Mariapolis
Pilot Mound
Crystal City
Lac du Bonnet
St. Pierre
242
Morris
Winkler
Morden
Altona
Steinbach
LARGE FARM
AUCTION
SAT. AUG. 16TH 9:00AM EISNER AUCTION
CENTRE 2-MILES EAST SWAN RIVER, MB. 44th
ANNUAL AUGUST EQUIP CONSIGNMENT SALE
EARLY LISTING INC 83 JD 8450 4WD 8250 hours
SHEDDED; 86 Case IH 4690 4WD diesel only
5400-hrs, SHEDDED; 83 860 MF combine
3278-hrs SHEDDED; 81 860 MF combine 3738-hrs
SHEDDED; 1991 NH TR96 2300 separator hours;
30-ft JD 930 Rigid header PU reel; 1993 MacDon
960 draper 30-ft header PU reels; NH 971 header
w/Super 8 Victory pick up; (2) 924 MF straight cut
header 24-ft; 1980 GMC 6000 V8 grain truck 16-ft
Cancade B&H twin hoist 96,600-Km SAFTIED ALL
KINDS TILLAGE FARM & SPORTING; NEW CARHAULER; NEW 85-ft BIOTECKS; TENTS; TOOL
BENCHES; TIRE CHANGERS; 4 SKID STEER
BLADES;
DIESEL
GENERATORS;
WATER
PUMPS; CASE EAGLES; MUCH MUCH MORE
SELL YOUR EQUIPMENT AT THIS POPULAR
SALE DAILY UPDATES CHECK WEBSITE
www.eisnerauctions.com Expecting 100’s of items
& large buyer attendance. Call Lawrence Eisner Auctions. Minitonas (204)525-2225, Ryan (204)734-0191
Go public with an ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds. Phone 1-800-782-0794.
Beausejour
Winnipeg
Austin
Souris
Boissevain
Stonewall
Selkirk
Portage
Westman
Waskada
Interlake
Erickson
Minnedosa
Virden
Arborg
Lundar
Gimli
Shoal Lake
1
Red River
ANTIQUES
Antique Vehicles
ANTIQUE 1976 BUICK LASABRE, 4-door hard
top, V8 engine, new brakes, new parts where needed. VGC, always shedded. Phone:(204)746-8851.
AUCTION SALES
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
MEYERS AUCTION FOR LYLE COX & JIM COX 10:00am
SAT., AUG 16th, 2014, GLADSTONE, MB. AUCTION LOCATED AT THE GLADSTONE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT.
LYLE COX: Airplane Hanger 42-ft wide x 40-ft deep, 10-ft
high wall. Located at the Gladstone Municipal AirportSUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION OF FINAL BID. Possession date for the hanger will be Sept 1st, 2014. 1961 VW
Beetle, has motor, original Gas Heater; Willys Jeep FC150 Forward Control Pickup truck, 1957; Chev 1-ton 1950,
corner windows, no box; LTD Ford Brougham 1974 Car,
one owner, 109,000 original miles; 1940 GMC 2-ton truck;
SkiPush; Ford 1947 1/2-ton truck; Pontiac 1948 Coupe;
1956 & 1965 VW Beetles; Mercury 1965 Econoline Fan;
GMC van 1977- Good engine & running gear; Sports Craft,
SWINGER Snowmobile; SnowCruser Snowmobile 1976;
1950 Fordson Major tractor; 3-pth Snow Blower; Whitte two
cylinder Diesel Brushless Generator 21.9 K.V.A. 120/240Volt, 3-Phase, 56.3-AMP, Industrial Quality, has Idle-Down.,
Portable; Hydraulic gas engine powered pump, Model 2550
by Williams & James, powered by Honda GX160 Air Compressor, 3/4-Hp; Chop Saw, Jenson, 14-in, 14-Amps; Mig
Welder, Migmate by SIP 100-AMP, 120-Volt; Lincoln AC180-S welder; Air Hammer; 32-ft Ext ladder; Steel cable 1/2in approx. 100-ft; 64 ‘Communications tower self supporting;
Ford Model T parts; VW Engine parts; Hub caps, Ford,
Dodge, Plymouth, Studebaker; license plates back to 1919;
2) Kawasaki Motor cycles 1 w/motor; Large quantity of box
car deck-ing; Stramit Board 2-in by 4-ft x 8-ft, Rigid Straw,
25 sheets; Cedar Shingles, 4-1/2 bundles. ANTIQUES &
COLLECTABLES: Buffalo Coat, Original Winnipeg police
issue, Manufactured by Prince Albert Fur Co; Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet; 12) wooden chairs; Treadle Sewing MachineNew Williams; Store Scale; Copper double boiler; box wood
stove; 1837 Queen Victoria Clear glass plate; Iron Horse
4-Cy-cle Washing Machine engine Model 420; 2)Wringer
Washer; 2) 45-gal. heavy metal fuel drums; Coffield Wringer
Washer; Hover Upright Floor washer- Rare; Metal sign,
Federal Wire & Cable; 3) Kitchen tables with drawer Wood,
painted; 4) Steamer trunks; 2) Crocks; 2) pocket balance
scales; Cistern pump; Chiclets display box; Bank of Montreal metal perpetual calendar; Edison Standard Phonograph
Cylinder record player; 20+ Table radios; 4) Cylin-der record
players; 2) Rheumatism Cure Battery Operated, Electric
shock; 5+ Console radios; Rope maker; Dresser- with tilting mirror; Doll Carriage; Doll High chair; Butter Churn; Antique Base boards, Door jams, Coving, Banister posts etc.;
Wood Cook stove; Cast iron bath tub & sink; Gate leg table;
Calendar 1933; 2) Parlour Tables; 3) Brass cow bells; Tiger
Moth Combination China cabinet and writing desk; Duncan
Phyfe Style Drop Leaf Table; Zenith counsel TV, w/16-in
round metal picture tube, Very rare. JIM COX: Challenger
Ultralight Enclosed Wing Aircraft; Benson Gyro Copter w/
VW 4-cyl Engine- approx 36-hp; 1947 Cab Over Ford Truck,
originally used by City of Winnipeg; 1941 Hudson Half Ton;
1951 Studebaker Commander, V8, Bullet Nose, Suicide
Doors, no engine; 2) 1952 Studebaker, Suicide Doors, 1
has no rear axle; 2) 1952 Champion Studebaker; 1947
Commander Studebaker; 1952 Ford Meteor Mainline, 4-Dr,
no engine; 1947 Ford 1-Ton Cab w/engine & trans; John
Deere AR w/self starter & hydraulics; Cockshut 35 w/Loader; 2013 Bumper Hitch 18-ft Tandem Axle Deck Trailer, Drop
End, w/Ramps, 3500-lb Axles; Antique 2-H.P. water cooled
stationary engine M.F.G. by R.A. Lister & Co. Ltd; 2) TriPush
Three Wheelers; 1972 Skiroule toboggan; EXCELLENT
SELECTION OF MECHANICS TOOLS; MUCH MORE
THAN LISTED- CHECK THE WEB, LUNCH AVAILABLEBRING YOUR LAWN CHAIRS. Meyers Auctions & Appraisals, Arden, MB. Bradley Meyers Auctioneer (204)368-2333
or (204)476-6262 cell meyersauctions.com
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
MEYERS AUCTION Estate of Bob Crate 10:00am Sun., Aug
10th, 2014. Teulon, MB. ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES: National Cash Register w/Milk Glass Plate Coin Shelf; Folding
Camera; Black Americana Salt & Pepper; Cast Hockey Bank;
To-mato Tea Pot & Cream & Sugars; Silverware Chest & Silver; Dressers; Area Rug; Elvis Poster; Lamp-light Lane Picture; Roy Rogers & Trigger Savings Bank; Pepsi Tray; Carved
Native Wall Hangings; 7up Bottle; Bradford Exchange Collector Plates; Norman Rockwell - Wildlife Series, Elvis Collector Plates; 2008 Simplicity Hydrostatic Riding Mower
38-in Cut 18hp Kohler Engine; 15-ft Chrysler Boat w/100hp.
Chrysler Motor [not running]; 1994 Olds-mobile Achieva S
335,490-km; Horse Cart; Sim-plicity 24-in Snow Blower 8hp
Tecumseh Engine; 5hp Roto Tiller 24-in; Loading Ramps; 2)
Craftsman I/C Gold 12hp 6-Speed 42-in cut Riding mowers; Garden Trailer; 3hp Portable Air Compressor 5-Gal.;
Craftsman Table Saw; Mastercraft Belt & Disc Sander; ITC
Bench Grinder; Craftsman 16-in Variable Speed Scroll Saw;
Stanley 5-Drw Tool Chest & Cabinet; Paint Shaker; Durex
Drill Press; Wrenches; Screwdrivers; Hand Saws; Ext Cords;
Asst Bolts, Screws, Etc.; Asst Hardware; Organiz- ers; Dewalt Sander; Power Tools; Impact Wrench; Impact Sockets; Radial Arm Saw; China Cabinet; Book Case; Display
Cabinet; Whirlpool 7 Cycle 2 Speed Washing Machine;
Telescope & Stand; Stereo Speakers; Ashtrays w/Stands.
Meyers Auc- tions & Appraisals, Arden, MB. Bradley Meyers
Auctioneer (204)368-2333 or (204)476-6262 cell. Detailed
List & Pictures at meyersauctions.com
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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, station-ary engines, power
units, cub cadets & anything else marketed by IH are
welcome. Membership an-nual meeting w/banquet &
guest speaker. More in-formation available from show
chairman Gary Algot. (780)741-2115. www.ihc38.com
Lam
ANTIQUES
Antique Equipment
LOOKING FOR EQUIPMENT?
TRY
for David & Diane Pinuta
Sat., August 16, 2014
at 10:00 AM
Equipment to sell at 1:00 PM
Elphinstone, Manitoba, Canada
Owners ph # (204) 774-1350
Directions: Take Hwy #45 to Elphinstone. Drive north
through town on #354 to second stop sign. Drive west
1 mile then 2 1/2 miles north. Sale site on west side.
Watch for signs.
TRACTORS: • 1977 JD 8630 Power Quad, PTO,
newer 50 series engine, 18.4-38 tires • 1990 Case IH
9170 HARVESTING EQUIP: • 1997 Case IH 2188
combine, 3392 eng. hrs, 2655 sep. hrs • 1997 24 1/2
ft 1015 Straight cut header • 1996 Prairie Star 9420
swather 2592 hrs • IHC 4000 Self propelled swather
• 8-51 Buhler Farm King Auger, 16 hp Briggs engine
• 1972 Ford F 700, 5 speed trans. 2 speed axle
TILLAGE EQUIP: • Degelman ground drive rock picker
• Wilrich Cultivator • IHC Cultivator • Case one way disc
• Eze-on Tandem Disc • Harrow bar CATTLE EQUIP:
• Panel gates • Bale rings • Water troughs • Shop tools
and household items also available.
PLEASE VIEW WEBSITE
www.lamportanddowler.com
FOR PHOTOS AND LISTING
www.lamportanddowler.com
John Lamport 204-476-2067
Tim Dowler 204-803-6915
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AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
AUCTION SALE
Warren & Linda Willis
Sun., August 10 @ 10:00 am
Winnipeg Beach, MB
Jct 8 & 229 West 3 Miles on 229 then 1/2 South on Huminicki Rd.
Contact: Warren (204) 389-2065
Wheel Loader: 86 Fiat Allis FR11 4 spd P Shift, 3 Yard Loader w/ Quick Tache Bucket, 14,000 hrs
Combines & Grain Equip: 97 NH TR98 4 WD 2/ Duals Chaff Spreader, 2300 Threshing Hrs * NH TR95,
2200 Threshng hrs * NH970 24’ Straight WT Header w/PU Reel * Wilrich 37’ 4 Row Cut w/ Mulchers *
Field Master 50’ Spring Harrows * Allied 50’ Diamond Harrows * 3) Int 310-16’ Discer Seeder * 3 Yard
Hyd Scraper * JD 5B Plow * Vers 3000, 800 gal 68’ Sprayer * Morridge Grain Dryer * 2) Hopper Wagons
* Swather Carrier * 10’ Swath Roller Granaries & Augers: 2) NRW 2000 bus Hopper Bin 1) 2010 * 2)
Westeel Bins on NRW Hopper Approx 2000 bus w/ Aireation * 2) Westland 3000 bus Bins * 2) Westeel
6000 bus Bins * 1) Westeel 1650 Bus Bins * Grain Handler Grain Vac w/ Hose * 2) Westfield Augers 1)7”
48’ * Honda 11HP 1) 6” 26’ Honda 6HP * 3HP Aireation Fan * Forever 48” Grain Cleaner w/ Screens *
Westfield Tail Gate Drill Fill * 3) Westfield 4” 16’ Pencil Auger w/ Elec Motors & Transp * Hyd Bin Sweep
3PH & Haying Equip: Buhler 3PH 7’ Cult * Buhler 620 3PH 72” Rotary Mower * JD 3PH 8’ Blade * 3PH
2 Wheel Swath Turner * 3PH Bale Prongs * NH Side Del Rake Trucks & Cars: 80 Chev C70 Gas 5/2
Trans w/ 15’ B&H * 78 Chev C65 Gas 5/2 Trans Tag Axle w/ 18’ B&H * 70s Western Star Semi, nr * 10’
Gravel B&H Trailer * 94 Pontiac Bonneville 4D Car Livestock Equip: 2000 Real Ind. 5th Wheel 20’ Stock
Trailer NH 352 Mix Mill * HM Portable Loading Chute * 3) 25’ Self Standing Metal Panels * Over 30 Corral
Panels * Some Gates * 6) RD Bale Feeders * 2) Norris Double Cattle Oilers * Loader MT 60 bus * Hopper
w/ Hyd Auger * New Born Calf Heaters Hut * 12) 16’ Mesh Panels * Elec Fencers * 100 Fence Posts * 50
Corral Posts * 50 Railway Ties * Page, Barb Wire Misc: 20’ Insulated Frt Box (Storage) * 1000 gal Fuel
Tank w/ Elec Pump * 200 gal Water Tank * Honda Gas 2” Water Pumps * Al Folding Ramps * Propane
Heater * 3PH Arms off Tractor * Implement Parts * 18.4 38 Clamp on Duals * 9HP 4600 Watt Generator
* 2) Sand Blasters * Tool Boxes * Hand Tools Yard & Rec: Snapper Turf Cruiser dsl 3 cy Zero Twin 72”
Mower * 2014 Cub Cadet RZT 21 1/2 HP Zero Twin 42” Mower w/ Bagger * EZ-GO 4 Wheel Gas Golf Cart
w/ Canopy * Honda Push Mower w/ Bagger * 5HP Rear Tine Tiller * Utility Trailer * ATV 12 volt Sprayer *
Trailer Yard Sprayer Household: Deep Freeze * Leather Recliner *
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
UNRESERVED ESTATE
FARM & EQUIPMENT
AUCTION SALE
FOR the Late Charlie Reid
Dugald, MB (1½ - Miles South of Dugald on Hwy. #206)
Saturday, August 16th at 11:00 AM
(Viewing Friday ONLY 9:00 am - 6:00 pm)
(SIGNS’S POSTED)
RAIN DATE Sunday, August 17th at NOON
TRACTORS
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
AUCTION SALE
Highline Veg Tables Estate of
Late Joeseph Yendrowich
Sat., August 9 @ 10:00 am
Winnipeg, MB - 573 Fraser Rd.
Auction Note: Large Auction! Main Items Shedded. Lots will be
running but some will not due to sitting. Contact: (204) 257-7740
Tractors & Crawlers: INT TD5 dsl FEL Crawler 1000 PTO Hyd Outlet nr * MF 65 Dsl PS HL 3PH
Dual Hyd 5373 hrs * Ford 3000 dsl PS HL 3PH Hyd 2675 hrs * Ferguson 35 Ind HL 3PH w FEL
* 5 Ferguson 8N & 9N 3PH 540 PTO * Int Farmall 140 Wide Frt Row Crop w Belly Attach * 3- Int
Farmall H Wide Frt Row Crop 1) Hyd 1) Under Mount Hiller * 2- AC B Pulley 540 PTO 3PH Equip:
JD 5’ Rotary Mower * Woods Cadet 5’ Rotary Mower Pull Type * MF 8’ Tandem Disc * 2) 7’ Cult *
2B Plow * 15’ Harrows * 2) Sprayers 1) 24’ 1) 15’ Storage & Trailers: Fruehauf 45’ * Fruehauf
40’ * Fruehauf 24’ Semi Freight Trailer * PHitch 16’ Tandem Trailer * 4 Wheel Farm Trailers * Utility
Trailers * Car Dolly Market Garden Equip: Over 125 -40’ Al Irrigation Pipe * Clark Mdl 4015 4 Cyl
Gas Fork Lift * Big Joe’s Battery Fork Lift * Howard G-24 Walk Behind Garden Tractor * Simplicity
Garden Tractor * PTO Potato Diggers * Specialty Planter * Trailer PTO Dirt Shaker Conveyor * Crown
Elec Table Potato Cutter * Roller Conveyor * Wheel Hoe Planter * JR Seeder * Chipper/Shredder *
Hand Yard Tools * Scales Heavy Truck & Modern Vehicles: 96 Ford F 150 Lariat Ext Cab 80,000
km * 96 Pontiac Transport Passenger Van * 2- 94 Ford Econoline 150 Vans * 73 White Freightliner
c/o w sleeper Semi Trailer 365,000 miles * 70’s GMC 6500 Gas Tandem w Arnes12’ Gravel B &
H * Merc M600 Dually w 10’ Gravel B & H * 60 Dodge 600 Tandem w 18’ Box Vintage Vehicles:
40’s Merc MI Step Side 1/2 Ton * 66 Plymouth Valiant 2D Convertible * 4- Plymouth Valiant 4D *
60 Chev Mdl 10 Delv. Wagon * 60 Chev Apache Delv. Wagon * 4- 60’s Chev Vans * 4- 60’s Ford
Vans * 66 Rambler American * 67 Mercury Cougar 2 D * 2- VW Beetles * 70’s Chev Impala 2D *
70’s Mercadian * 70’s Mercury Montego Antiques: 60’s Ski Doo Nordic Snowmobile * MH Hse
Mower * Hse Dump Rake * Int 6’ One Way * Int 10’ Oneway Disc * JD 4 Row Corn Seeder * Cult *
Walking Plow * JD 3 B Plow * 2 B Plow * Harrows * Plane JR Seeder * Steel Wheels * Vintage Auto
Parts Misc: Al 11’ Boat w Outboard * 84 Honda 200 3 Wheeler * 77 Honda Z 50 Mini Bike * Honda
Goldwing G 1000 * Cement Mixer * 250 Poly Tank * Fuel Slip Tank * Various Tools * Shop Items *
Fence Posts * Snow Fence *
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
AUCTION SALE
Raymond Tooth
Tues., August 12 @ 4:00 pm
St Andrews, MB
Jct #67 & 8 South 1 Mile then West 1 1/4 Mile - #1073 Lockport Rd
Contact: (204) 482-7350
Tractors: MF 1085 dsl Cab HL 3PH 540 PTO Dual Hyd w/ MF 235 FEL, 4451 hrs * Int W6 PTO
Pulley Equip: Int 403 Combine P/U & Straight Cut Shedded * Int 300 15’ Discer Seeder * Cockshutt
247 16’ Deep Tiller * Int 60 3B Plow * 60’ Boom Sprayer 400 gal Al Tank * NH 315 Square Baler
* MF 36 Side Del Rake * Hay Wagon * Farm King 3PH 7’ Snowblower * 3PH 6 1/2” Blade * 12
Volt Drill Fills Tools: 230 amp AC/DC Welder * New 2500 Watt Generator * Air Comp * Drill Press
* Table Saw * Band Saw * Power Tools * Air Tools * Floor Jack * Hand Tools Misc: 6.5 HP gas 2”
Water Pump * RD Feeders * Metal Corral Panels * Fencing Tools * Chicken, Feeders Waters * 25)
Coloured Sheet Metal 30’ * Receiver Hitch Quad & Yard: 05 JD Buck 500cc 4x4 Winch 947 mi,
Exc Cond * Roto Tiller * Snow Shoes *More TOOLS * Farm Misc * Yard & Household *
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
AUCTION SALE
Lorraine Proctor (Late Stewart)
Sat., August 16 @ 10:00 am
Woodlands, MB
North side on Hwy #6 East 1/1 2 Miles on on RD 82 NW
Contact: (204) 383-5683
Tractors & Crawler: JD 4020 Cab hyd 3140 hrs * JD 3020 gas w/ FEL 7800 hrs * Int T6 Crawler
w/ FEL * 2) MH 44 1) FEL Equip: NH 847 RD Baler * MF Square Baler * Coop 16’ Cult * Case 10’
Deep Tiller * Coop 15’ Discer Seeder * JD Press Drill 12’x2 * M Moline 8’ One Way * Int 10’ Camp
& Vehicles: 80s Jayco 24’ 5th Wheel Camper Bath, A/C, Awning * Van Guard OH Camper * 93 GMC
Sierra 4x4 Ext Cab * 97 Ford Windstar Passenger Van * 50s Fargo 1 ton Dually w/ 10’ Gravel B&H
Yard: 18’ W 48’ L Pipe Framed Green House * Troybuilt 18HP 42” hyd R Mower * Crafts 19HP
42” R Mower * 7HP 22” Snowblower * Lawn Sweep Tools & Misc: Bowes 12’x60’ Mobile Home
(GD Storage ) * 1/2 Tracks * 5th Wheel Hitch * Chicken Plucker * Home Repair * Vehicles for Scrap
Tools: Floor Drill Press * Radial Arm Saw * Delta Scroll Saw * Welder * Air Comp * Chain Saw *
Booster Charger * Power Tools Antiques: Oak China Cabinet/ Buffet w/ Lead Glass & Top Mirror *
Oak Buffet w/ Top Mirror Claw Feet * Oak Rd Split Pedestal Table w/ 6 Leaves * Serpertine Dresser
* Secretary Desk * Pie Crust Coffee Table * Piecrust Stand * Mantle Clock * Clocks * Bulb Elec
Copper Heater * Oil Lamps * 60s Skidoo Snowmobile * Steel Wheels Household: Fridge * Stove *
Washer * Dryer * 3) Deep Freezers * Ind Sewing Machine * Violin *
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
BALE WAGON
John Deere model 4440 diesel tractor w/cab, air, dual
wheels (showing 3412 hours) nice shape* John Deere
model 4250 tractor, 3-PH, dual wheels, cab, air (showing
1775.3 hours)* John Deere model 4055 tractor, cab, air dual
wheels, 3-PH, 2-wheel drive (showing 3836.6)* John Deere
model 4240 tractor w/cab, air w/148 loader (no bucket),
nice shape*
COMBINES
Massey Ferguson 860 diesel combine (showing 1741.1
hours) w/chopper* Massey 850 diesel combine*
BALERS
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
2-New Holland square balers model 320* Hayliner 277
square baler*
2-New Holland bale wagons Super 1049*
HOPPER GRAIN BINS
6-hopper bottom grain bins (3-approx. 1800 bushel &
3-approx. 1250 bushel)*
EQUIPMENT
Versatile 400 self-propelled swather* 12ft. Deep tiller*
Massey seed disker* 8ft. 3-PH cultivator* 10ft. Cultivator*
older cultivator* John Deere 1610 cultivator* Allied 2-wheel
water sprayer tank & pump* Allis Chalmers tandem disc
model 340* New Holland 114 hay binder* stoker*
MISCELLANEOUS
Versatile grain auger w/gas motor* 2-compartment fertilizer
box w/grain fill auger (2-ton)* 5-older grain augers* 1-small
sprayer tank* etc.
TERMS: Visa, Mastercard, Debit or Cash Paid in Full Same Day of Sale.
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“Everything Sold As is, Where is” with no warranties implied or expressed
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204-668-0183 Wpg.
www.kayesauctions.com
Contact Sharon
Email: [email protected]
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AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Westman
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Westman
AUCTION FOR
HUGH MCPHERSON
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 11 AM
SE OF SIDNEY, MB
DIRECTIONS: FROM SIDNEY AND HWY #1
JCT 2 1/2 SOUTH ON 352 THEN 2 EAST AND
¾ SOUTH ON WEST SIDE
COLLECTOR TRACTOR AUCTION WITH
SOME EQUIPMENT FROM NEIGHBOURS
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
Tractors All in good running order, most were in the 2013 parade
• 1950JohnDeereModelG,widefront,serial
#45921,goodlookingmachine
• 1949ModelRDiesellpto,haveoriginalowners
manual,noserial#plategoodtractor
• 1943ModelA,narrowfront,flywheelstart,
serial#549155
#110085
• 1941JohnDeereModelB,narrowfrontserial#110085
• 1949JohnDeereModelM,serial#26102,niceunit
• 1941JohnDeereModelH,serial#39378
• 1943JohnDeereModelD,serial#155239 • 1948JohnDeereAR,seizedengine,notrunning,
electricstart,serial#269644.Thistractorwas
forwardedfromGeorgeWhite&SonsLondonOntario.
From neighbours Rayman Peck, Cyril Stephenson,
and others
• 1150Hesstonhaybine
• IHModel2400roundbaler
• NewHolland354Grindermixer
• White2-16020.8x38axleduals,big1000pto
shaft,serial#4402189-160T,nicerunningCummins
engineinthisone
• MasseyHarris,44gas,serial#44DS3262,with
shopbuilt3pth.ThistractorpulledZamboniat
Souris,MB,icerinkformanyyears,runningtractor.
• FordF-500truck,v84x2with12ftboxandhoist,
runningyardtrucknoTOD
• 43ft,TandemaxledropdeckRayIndustries
trailer,completewithsingleaxlefifthwheel
converter,farmtractor,hitch,airoverhyd,brakes,
currentlybackedoff,9.5x16’’tiresontandems
And more! Not a long auction, lunch available
Hugh McPherson 204-834-2327
See our website: www.billklassen.com for complete listing or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
UPCOMING AUCTION
EQUIPMENT & AG CONSIGNMENT AUCTION
SATURDAY AUGUST 16th 10:00 AM Live Internet Bidding
Location: 218 Brandt St. Steinbach, MB
BOOKED IN SO FAR:
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784 International Tractor, 2250 Loader, 3 PTH
New Holland 1475 Haybine
International 1440 Combine w/ pickup header
New Holland Stackliner 1033 Bale Wagon
Fella 3 PTH Disc Mower
Gehl 100 Mix mill (excellent shape)
3130 John Deere Diesel Tractor w/ 3 PTH,
Cab, Loader, Good Rubbber
• Case 564 Forklift
• 660 New Holland Round Baler
• 2003 New Holland RBX562 Round Baler
TRUCKS
• 2006 Ford F250 Powerstroke Diesel, Crew
Cab, 4X4, 270K, Safetied
• 2004 Dodge Ram 2500, Laramie, Cummins
Diesel, 4dr, Leather, Safetied, 340K
BUILDINGS & MISC
• 329 CU Ft Storage Container NEW
• 462 CU Ft Steel Storage Container NEW
• 60ftX40ftX21ft Gable Truss Storage
Building NEW
• 30ftX85ftX15ft High Ceiling Double Door
Storage Building
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Heavy Duty Wheel Balancer
Heavy Duty Tire Changer 110V
Bi Parting Wrought Iron Gates
Large Heavy Duty Toolbox approx 8ftLX8ftH
Large 10 Ton Platform Scale
2007 Yamaha 4 Stroke Snowmobile w/
electric start, reverse
Gas Powered Pressure Washers
Welders & Welding Tables
Stainless Steel Tables & Shelving
New Better Air 36” Wall Fan
New Better Air 16” Wall Fan
New Better Air 12” Wall Fan
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48in Pallet Forks Walk Thru & High Back
Stout Tree & Post Puller for Skid Steer
Stout Stump Grinder SG-13R
Stout Rock Bucket Grapple HD72in
Stout 84in Brush Grapple XHD84-6
Stout 84in Material Bucket w/ double cut edge
Lowe Hyd Auger 750CH w/ 12in Bit
84” Hydraulic Skid Steer Snow Plow Dozer
Hydraulic Snow Plow Dozer Blade
NEW SKID STEER
ATTACHMENTS
LIVE INTERNET BIDDING AT www.pennerauctions.com
CALL NOW TO CONSIGN!!
AUCTION SALES
Saskatchewan Auctions
GEORGE & THERESE BEBLOW AUCTION. Sat.,
Aug., 16th, 2014 10:00am. Directions: 7N OF
JUNCTION 15-35 LEROSS, 3 WEST LEROSS, SK
CONTACT: (306)695-2270. MACHINERY-TRACTOR: 1982 JD 4440 Tractor: DSL, quad shift,
18.4x38 tires, 2-hyd, 8600-hrs, nice, w/or w/o 10-ft
JD blade. SKID STEER: 1978 #632 Clark Bobcat:
hydro, gas, bucket, grapple. CULTIVATOR-TILLAGE: Morris 31-ft 5 Series Deep Tillage; Morris 36ft Vibrashank, mounted harrows. SEEDING: Morris
18-ft seedright. AUGERS: Sakundiak 7x41 auger
and motor; 33-ft grain auger. MISC: Grain tank &
trailer; Degelman stone picker; Squeeze chute;
New bin sweep; Big daddy hopper. TRAILERS: 14ft tandem axle trailer; Gooseneck 5 bale, bale trailer.
YARD AND RECREATION: JD 317 mower & rotor tiller; Honda 350 quad; Everest skidoo; TNT Ski-doo;
3/4-in Slate pool table. VEHICLES: 1989 Chev Truck:
V8 auto, low km; 1991 Chev Regular Cab Truck; 1992
Chev Extended Cab. BINS: 2450 Westeel Rosco-no
floor; 1650 Westeel Rosco-no floor. Plus shop & misc.
NOTE: George & Therese have moved to town and are
selling all their equipment. Major items shedded. Visit
www.ukrainet-zauction.com for complete pictures &
listing. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore
SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851.
AUCTION SALES
Saskatchewan Auctions
AUCTION SALES
Alberta Auctions – North
LYNNE & CHRISTINE JOHNSON, ED & GLORIA
WIRTH AUCTION. Wed., Aug. 13, 2014 11:00am.
Directions: 7-km E on Thingvilla road, 1.6-km N,
1.6-Km E of Churchbridge. Churchbridge, SK. Contact:(306)896-2903. TRACTORS: JD 4755 Diesel
Tractor: 20.8x38 radial duels, P-shift, front weights,
6,000-hrs, mint; JD 5020 Tractor: cab, cooler,
20.8x38 duels, duel hyd, 6,300-hrs, nice. ANTIQUE
TRACTORS: JD 1946 BR Tractor (all original &
shedded); JD 1938 D Tractor: on steel, running.
COMBINE: JD 7700 SP Combine: chopper, hopper
extension, JD pickup, 2,900 engine hours, shedded, nice. SWATHER: Versatile 4400 20-ft Hydro
Swather, excellent. HAY & CATTLE EQUIPMENT:
Case IH 8350 12-ft Haybine: shedded, excellent;
JD 566 Round Baler: shedded, excellent; Hi Qual
Maternity pen, Calf sleigh, Calf puller, White #401
mix mill, 16-ft bumper hitch tandem axle cattle trailer, JD S delivery rake, Craig 24-ft bale wagon
w/winch, JD semi mount mower, Head gate, 12-in
post auger for FEL. TILLAGE: JD 24-ft deep tillage,
real good; JD 28-ft Vibrashank harrows; JD 36-ft
1610 Deep tillage: Degelman harrows, real nice; 2 IHC #310- 16-ft discers, complete, very clean.
DRILLS: IHC 28-ft 6200 press drills, shedded, real
nice. MISC EQUIPMENT: Degelman fork type
stone picker, nice; 2 grain tanks & trailers; 50-ft tine
harrow bar, good; 1953 GMC 3-Ton: cab & chasse.
DISC: JD 12-ft offset disc: notched blades, real
good. AUGERS: Westfield 8x51 PTO Auger: real
good; Pool 7x40 PTO Auger; Westfield 6x36 auger,
ES. Plus miscellaneous. ED & GLORIA WIRTH:
(306-896-2901). TRACTORS: 1964 IH 806 Tractor:
Diesel, cab, dual hyd, 23.1x34 tires w/Leons 707
loader, excellent tin, very nice. TRUCK: 1988 F600
Grain Truck: 370 V8, 5x2, 16-ft Grainmaster box &
tarp, very nice. COMBINE: 1978 JD 6600 SP Combine: cab, air, 3 roller pickup, chopper, 2,400-hrs,
new chains, sieves, real nice. SWATHER: IHC 210
16 1/2-ft SP Swather: cab, fan, nice. TILLAGE:
Morris L225 290-ft Vibrashank; Case 20-ft deep tillage & harrows; IHC 770 5 furrow plow; IH 12 & 16ft discers, complete, w/Morris harrows attached.
BALER: Gehl 860 Round Bale: electric tie, nice.
Plus misc. equipment & shop items. NOTE: Tractors, grain trucks, haying equipment are very nice.
Rest of the machinery above average condition.
There aren’t many small items. Online bidding
1:00pm. Visit ukrainetzauction.com for complete
pictures & listing. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851
AGCO FINANCE CANADA LLC will offer the following equipment for sale to the highest bidder
above our reserved price, for cash, plus applicable
sales tax. Equipment: Challenger RB56C Baler,
S/N: CRB56CCHR11135. Date of sale: Thurs., 21st
August 2014. Time of Sale: 2:00pm. Place of sale:
Agriterra Equipment. 779-28007 Hwy16, Stony
Plain, AB. Equipment can be inspected at place of
sale. The equipment will be sold AS IS, without
warranty. For further information please contact
Kent Torgalson (780)993-1140 Cell, Reference
Number 1360600.
Farming is enough of a gamble, advertise in the
Manitoba Co-operator classified section. It’s a sure
thing. 1-800-782-0794.
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Trucks
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
1976 GMC 1-TON TRUCK 350, 4-SPD, steel box &
hoist, good rubber. Phone (204)745-2851.
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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.
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ST. LAZARE, MB.
1-800-510-3303
CONTRACTING
Custom Work
BUILDINGS
2004 HI-QUAL 36 X 22 Fabric Quonset; Agri-plastic calf hutches w/pails & doors; 2 metal calf sheds.
Phone (204)571-1254, Brandon.
AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post
frame building company. For estimates and information
call
1-888-816-AFAB(2322).
Website:
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CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place & finish
of concrete floors. Can accommodate any floor design.
References available. Alexander, MB. 204-752-2069.
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ALLAN DAIRY IS TAKING bookings for the 2014
silage season, trucks equipped with floatation tires, For
more information call (204)371-1367 or (204)371-7302.
MANITOBA BASED CUSTOM HARVESTING operation equipped w/Case IH & John Deere combines. Peas, cereals, canola, & soybeans. Flex heads,
straight heads & PU headers. Professional operation
fully insured. Phone:(204)371-9435 or (204)391-5491.
BUILDINGS
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
2008 KOMATSU HYD EXCAVATOR PC 308 zeroturn USLC-3 w/hyd quick attach clean up bucket,
13-ft. stick, A/C, plumbed for GPS, also has auxillary hyd for thumb, $75,000; JD 270 LC hyd excavator, quick attach, hyd thumb, 12-ft. stick, A/C,
$55,000; 2001 Volvo 210 excavator, w/quick attach
$45,000. Phone:(204)871-0925, MacGregor.
2008 KOMATSU HYD EXCAVATOR PC 308 zeroturn USLC-3 w/hyd quick attach clean up bucket,
13-ft. stick, A/C, plumbed for GPS, also has auxillary hyd for thumb, $75,000; JD 270 LC hyd excavator, quick attach, hyd thumb, 12-ft. stick, A/C,
$55,000; 2001 Volvo 210 excavator, w/quick attach
$45,000. Phone:(204)871-0925, MacGregor.
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LETOURNEAU LS 13-YD HYD scraper, sand
blasted & painted, matching tires, VGC, $32,000.
(204)326-3109, Steinbach.
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.
Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103
or E-mail Requests [email protected]
WESTEEL GRAIN BIN EXTENSIONS, 14-ft & 19ft, galvanized & plastic culverts, 19-ft & 14-ft roof
sheets, $35 & $25/each. Roofing & siding seconds,
half price. Phone:(204)257-3634.
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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
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M & W GRAIN carts, 500-bu, 1000 Rpm PTO,
18.4x26 tires, $10,000 OBO. Phone (204)864-2498
FARM MACHINERY
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STEINBACH, MB.
Ph. 326-2443
Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727
Fax (204) 326-5878
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E-mail: [email protected]
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
10-IN X 51-FT FARM King swing auger, $2,200 OBO.
Grain Vac, $5000 OBO. (204)378-0325, (204)364-2292.
1975 CASE 1070 TRACTOR: 3-PTH, 5566-hrs;
1981 3/4 Ton GMC 4x4 truck: brand new tires,
52,244-kms, 5th wheel ball in box; 1999 Bobcat 873
Loader: 6036-hrs, 3 attachments - bale fork, bucket,
and
grapple;
New
Idea
haybine.
Phone
(204)571-1254, Brandon.
Find it fast at
2001 JD 9650 COMBINE, 2300-hrs, $67,000; JD
925 Flex head, excellent shape, $7400; 1997 45-ft
Lode King aluminum combo trailer, good condition,
$7500; 5000 IHC DSL 24.5-ft swather, w/U2-PU
reel, $6900; 20-ft UII PU reel, nice condition,
$2,000; Flexicoil 65 100-ft. sprayer, $2,700; JD 8
row 22-in. all crop head, $4,500; JD 15-ft. head
w/sunflower pans, $1,500; Grain Dryer CMS14E continuous multi stage, $5,000; JD 7100 18 rule planter,
$4,000; 3-PTH 90-ft. sprayer, $3,500. (204)325-8019.
Manitoba Co-operator classifieds, 1-800-782-0794.
Call our toll-free number to take advantage of our Prepayment Bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and we’ll run your
ad 2 more weeks for free. That’s 5 weeks for the price
of 3. Call 1-800-782-0794 today!
2006 HESSTON SOFT-CENTRE BALER, excellent
shape, stored inside shed, $6500 OBO; Also crimper off 400 Versatile swather; Massey 750 combine
w/extension hopper; 2 Goodyear tires 16.9x28 off
tractor, radials (no brakes) $300 for pair; Case IH small
square baler $1700 OBO. (204)886-2083, Teulon.
2014 LEON M165 3-PT. rear blade 9-ft., 6 way hyd,
$4,600; 2012 GMC Sierra 1500 crew cab, 4x4, box
cover, one owner, warranty remaining, 50,112-km,
$28,000. (204)247-0023.
5-WHEEL HAY RAKE; BEHLEN 3750-bu bin;
1500-gal., liquid fert bandwagon w/23x26 flotation
tires, Honda fill pump, John Blue ground drive metering pump, tow-between, shedded. (204)386-2412.
BRANDT 4000 GRAIN VAC, $7,000; 8x31 Westfield Auger, $1,800; Balers JD 510, $1,250; JD 530,
$3,500; JD 535, $5,000; IH 9-ft. Sickle Mower,
$1,500; JD 450 9-ft. Mower, $2,200; NH 9-ft.,
$2,200; IH 7-ft., $850; Brush Mowers Wood 7-ft.,
$3,000; JD #709, $3,000; JD 15-ft., $6,000; Woods
#315, $6,000; JD 10-ft. HD $6,000; JD 5-ft. PT,
$1,000; JD 6-ft. 3-PH, $650; 6-ft. 3PH, $1,150;
Woods 5-ft. Finishing Mower, $650; 6-ft. Finishing
Mower, $1,000. Phone (204)857-8403.
DOWNSIZING: 2001 JD 7410 FWA 740 loader
6,870-hrs; MF 860 6 cyl 2,201-hrs, PU, $5,000; 20ft. straight cut PU reel; JD 2420 DSL 25-ft. UII reel;
21-ft. Hart Carter PU reel; New Quonset future steel
52x35x18 in crate; GMC 1981 7000 series 17-ft.
factory grain box & hoist, A1; 1980 Chev 6500 tandem gravel box & hoist, propane, $3,800; 18-ft. Vac
tank & pump, off Ford 750 truck, A1; MF 410 combine PU, runs good, $1,200; PWR parachute Rotex
SR7, as is $3,000; Steel mounted skid mount cummins w/trans $2,200; 1999 Cat loader IT28G, A1;
2003 Hitachi ZX200LC, A1. (306)236-8023
FOR SALE: 25-FT. & 35-ft. Morris deep tillers w/3
row mulchers, includes spare parts, asking $2,750
OBO for both. (204)265-3365, Beausejour.
FOR SALE: HIGH CLEARANCE sprayer 800-gal
tank, good tires, hyd pump, 75-ft. or more booms
w/windshields, $3,000 OBO; Canola shear cutters,
$85; electronic hay preserver applicator, new,
$1,500 OBO; 20-ft. Vers refurbished PU reel
w/plastic fingers, $200. (204)866-2253
FOR SALE: JD 7700 dsl; Co-op & White MF dsl;
Versa & Co-op swather; 30-ft IH; discer co-op; JD &
Nelroe plow; Moline G 1000 tractor; Case 1030
tractor; Staman sprayer, and much more! Also, pasture & hayland for rent. Phone:(204)268-1888.
GRAIN CARTS LARGE SELECTION used carts
JM 650, $10,500; EZ 675, $11,000; Brent 620
scales, $11,500; Brent 770, $14,000; JM 875,
$18,000; Brent 976, $28,000; Bourgault 1100
$17,500. We have others. Disk rippers DMI 5
shank, $8,900; 7 shank, $10,900; Disks IH 490 25ft., $7,500; Bushog 25-ft., $7,500; JD 330 22-ft.,
$9,500; JD 30-ft., $10,500; Vers 36-ft., $25,000; Kewannee & Towner breaking discs. Phone (204)857-8403.
GRAIN VACS BRANDT 4000, $7,000; REM 2500
HD, $9,500; Jump Auger, $500; 8x31 Westfield Auger, $1,800; Fertilizer Spreaders 4-9 Ton large selection conveyor grain carts for beans 4-ft. 750-bu.
hyd drive, $17,000; Kinze 450 bean cart scales,
$12,000; Flex heads JD 925 air reel, $8,500; JD
924, $6,000; Case IH 25-ft. 1020, $6,000; 30-ft.,
$8,000; IH 820, $2,000; Case IH straight header
25-ft., $4,000; 30-ft., $4,500; JD 930 Rigid, $2,500;
Phone (204)857-8403.
GRAVITY WAGONS NEW 400-BU, $7,400; 600bu, $12,000; 750-bu, $17,750; Tarps available.
Used 350-bu, $3,200; 500-bu, $6,000; 616-bu.,
$10,500; Large Selection 250-750 bu grain screeners Hutch #1500, $1,500; DMC 48-in., $2,500;
DMC 54-in., $4,000; Kwik Kleen 5-7 Tube Screeners, $4,000 & up; V Drainage plow, $1,500; Scrapers 4-yd, $3,900; 6-yd Crown, $5,500; Eversman
6.5-yd., $6,000; 7.5-yd., $8,000; 10-ft. Landlevellers
$2,250; 3-PH 9-ft. blade, $950. Phone (204)857-8403.
HAYBINES GEHL 14-FT., $3,900; NH 116, $3,000;
Hay Conditioners, $800 up; 14 Wheel Rake,
$6,500; Vermeer 23R Hyd Rake, $8,500; NH 166
Swath Turner, $3,500; NH 144 Swath Turner,
$3,000; Bean Windrower, $5,000; Flexheads JD
925, $6,500; JD 930, $6,500; Case IH 1020 25-ft.,
$6,000; IH 1020 30-ft., $8,000; IH 820, $2,000;
Artsway Mixmill, $1,500; Champion 20-in. Rollermill, $2,000; JD 780 Hydrapush Spreader, $9,000;
Phone (204)857-8403.
JD 15-FT. AW TANDEM discer; Vers 6x36 gas auger; 2-Ton fertilizer spreader; 8-ft. Canola roller;
Loader mt flax pusher; Ford 5 bottom plow. Call
Brian (204)981-6480.
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FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
HAYING & HARVESTING
Swathers
JD 3010 EXCELLENT PAINT, good condition,
good tires, $5,900; AC 21-ft. disc model 2600, good
blades approx 22-in., $5,500; A&L 850S grain cart
30.5x32 tires, good flighting, roll tarp, 850-bu.,
$13,900. (204)529-2046.
QUIT FARMING: 2008 STX 430 4WD, new tires,
$160,000; 2008 CIH 8010 4WD combine, 30-ft flex
draper, $200,000; 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; Roadrunner header haul, $8,000; 30ft MacDon draper header, $20,000; IH 4240 tractor
w/15-ft mower, $12,000; 16x30 Westco cult.,
$1,500; 16x30 Band sprayer, $1,500; 32-ft Ezee-on
tandem disc cushion spring loaded gangs, almost
like new, $25,000. Call:(204)871-0925, Macgregor, MB.
RETIRED FARMER. 1989 IHC 1680 combine,
3100-hrs, shedded, done canola & wheat only;
1991 MF200 26-ft SP swather, U2 reel, canola auger, new tires, knife, wobble box, 250-hrs, 2053 total hours, shedded; 1995 Prairie Star PTO 25-ft
swather, U2 reel; IHC 5600 35-ft deep tiller. Used
on small farm, offers. For info & more machinery
call Manitou (204)242-2221
Round up the cash! Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds.
RETIRED FARMING. CALUMET 4500 manure
tank, complete w/tandem 445-65-22.5 tires, parts
only $1000; Friesen Hopper bottom bin, 1500-bu,
$2500; Friesen Hopper bottom bin, 1000-bu,
$2000; 6-ft Winkler pull-type swath roller, $300;
300/500 steel fuel tank stands, $200; Dempster
Fertilizer pump SMD1 rebuilt, $300. Phone
(204)388-4291 leave message.
SUPER M FARMALL GOOD, running, $1,200; Farmall H Wide Front, all new tires, good, running,
$1,800; Super C Farmall wide front, good tires &
metal, $1,400; McKee 6-ft. single auger snow blower, $800; 7-ft. PT cultivator, $250; 2,500-gal &
1,000-gal fuel tanks w/stands. Phone (204)736-2619
WISHEK 14-FT. DISC, $20,000; Towner Breaking
Disc Kewannee 13-ft. Breaking Disc 36-in. Blades
Row Crop Cultivators 4-12R Lilliston 8R Richardton
Hi-Dump Silage Wagons 12-ft. $3,000; New Style
12-ft. #700, $7,000; Richardton #770 1050 CF lifts
to 15-ft., $21,000; Rex Forage Wagon Front Conveyor w/6 Wheel Wagon, $3,000; JD 3970 Harvester, $8,900; NH 890, $2,500; IH 781, $2,500; Danhauser Post Auger, $650. Phone (204)857-8403.
2008 MF 9435, 25-FT, PU reel, roto-shears, 445-hrs,
asking $79,000. Phone:(204)248-2372 or (204)723-0277.
New Equinox black 1250-gal tank
Retail Price $610 Special Price $440
New GX 630 Honda motor, 24-hp electric start
Retail Price $2395 Special Price $1850
New GX 390 Honda 13-hp motor rope start
Retail Price $1514 Special Price $810
New GX 690 Honda motor, electric start
Retail Price $2765 Special Price $2175
New Sega scooters, 50cc, electric start
Retail Price $2290 Special Price $1660
2-yrs warranty as above ** Must Sell**
A&T Auto Sales Ltd.
Morden, MB
Phone: (204) 822-1354 Cell: (204) 823-1559
COMBINES
Accessories
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
FOR SALE: CASE IH 8825 HP Swather, 25-ft double swath table, UII pick-up reel, 1,219-hrs, hyd.
drive swath roller. Very good condition. $29,500.
Phone:(204)248-2327.
GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK
AUCTION MART. LTD.
HAYING & HARVESTING
Swather Accessories
Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519
GRUNTHAL, MB.
14-FT JD AUGER HEAD w/crimper, built by Mac
Don, also fits older MacDon machines; 14-ft Case
auger head w/crimper fits 8820 Case & 8100 Hesston machines. Phone (204)721-2629 or (204)730-3139
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
[email protected] www.arcfab.ca
Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds.
Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our
friendly staff, and don’t forget to ask about our prepayment bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free!
1-800-782-0794.
Tillage & Seeding
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Tillage Equipment
HAYING & HARVESTING
Various
2004 JD 2410 CHISEL plow 37-ft., can easily add 2 more
shanks lengthen to 39-ft., JD heavy harrows, excellent
tires, excellent condition, reasonable offer. (204)242-2784
2000 CASE IH 8750 Forage Harvester, 1000 PTO,
shedded,
$6,500.
www.waltersequipment.com
Phone:(204)525-4521. Minitonas, MB.
43-FT 5 PLEX IH 4900 Vibra-chisel, $7500. Phone
(306)898-2123
2000 JD 930F full finger auger, HHC, Crary air reel,
$3,000 work order, new wobble box, VGC, $14,500.
Phone (204)324-3647.
2008 946 JD 13.5-FT discbine, good condition, low acerage, shedded. Phone:(204)732-2407, leave message.
930 JD FLEX HEADER adapted to fit TX66 NH
combine, $10,500; 2 sets crop lifters, $10 each;
Ford 8000 tractor, $2,500; 390 motor & trans from
510 grain truck complete, runs good, $350; Quick
attach for 3-PTH for 200+ HP tractor, $500.
(204)378-2974 (204)641-3615.
FOR SALE: 166 NH Swath Turner, excellent condition, always shedded, quit faming. Phone Lawrence
Allen (204)745-3056, Carman.
JD 630 HYDRA FLEX header c/w fore aft PU reel,
full finger, HD auger, header height sensing, single
pt hookup & poly skids, excellent condition, stored
inside. (204)723-5000, (204)248-2364 (evenings),
Notre Dame.
FOR SALE: 34-FT. CASE IH 4600 cultivator w/3
row harrows, VGC. Phone (204)425-3837
COMBINES
Ford/New Holland
1998 NH TR98, 914 header w/Swathmaster PU, has
900 Trelleberg on front, 600 Trellebergs on rear, Harvest services, wide spaced, wide wire co-caves, terrain tracer, long auger, hopper extensions, electronic
stone trap, high-speed chopper, new chopper blades &
flails, jewel chaff spreader, rotors balanced last week,
recently re-built rotor boxes, tunnel covers & side covers replaced, c/w 994 30-ft Honeybee draper header,
w/U2 PU reel. Well maintained machine, $47,500 OBO
(204)632-4390, (204)797-4821.
WANTED: BIG, HEAVY DISC approx 22-ft or bigger,
Rome or Wishek. Phone:(204)372-6201, (204)308-0256.
WANTED: FLEXI-COIL 800 OR 820 or JD 1610
deep tillage cultivator, 12-in spacing, heavy trips,
37-41-ft. Must be in very good condition.
(204)748-5520, (204)556-2622.
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Tillage Various
FOR SALE: 7-FT. 3-PTH cultivator, 6-in. spacing,
$390 OBO. Phone (204)257-5916.
IHC 300 DISCERS 16X2 SA FA, $1,000 OBO.
Phone (204)864-2498.
TracTors
MK 100-61 WESTFIELD AUGER, VGC, $7,400.
(204)824-2196 or (204)573-6723, Wawanesa.
TRACTORS
Case/IH
Rebuilt Concaves
08 STX 430 brand new 620-70-42 tires, delux cab,
heated
leather
seat,
$160,000.
Phone
(204)871-0925, McGregor.
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
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
LIVESTOCK
COMBINES
Gleaner
1983 GLEANER L3 COMBINE, gear drive, 2,969 engine hours, 12-ft Victory Super 8 pick-up, good condition, field ready, $8,500 OBO. Evenings: (204)367-8807.
COMBINES
John Deere
1974 MODEL 6601 always shedded, field ready.
Phone (204)822-3855, Morden, MB.
1986 JD 8820 CHAFF spreader, chopper, topper,
2-spd, new belts, long auger, 224 header, JD 22-ft
flex-head, sickle drive, PU reels, $16,000 OBO.
(204)635-2600, Stead.
1997 JD 9600 914 PU head, 2,500-hrs, Sunnybrook cyl & concave, new Hopper Topper, fine cut
chopper, F&A, Auto header height control, shedded, VGC, $52,000. Phone (204)324-3647.
1998 9610 JD COMBINE, 914 header, 2,665-sep
hours, 4WD, Sunnybrook cylinder, AHHC, DRS, fore &
aft, yield moisture mapping monitor, Starfire receiver,
chaff spreader, air-foil sieve, fine-cut chopper, mint condition, $78,000 OBO; Also 930 F header & trailer available. Sanford (204)782-3234, (204)793-3752.
204 JD 9860, 1390-SEP hrs, 15-ft precision header. New feeder chain, threshing elements & chopper blades 3-yrs ago. Excellent rubber, AHC, Y&M,
DAS, 2nd owner, good condition, field ready. $145,000
OBO. (204)546-3233, (204)572-6576, (204)546-2021.
FOR SALE: 7700 JD combine 3,043-hrs, shedded,
good condition, $4,000 OBO. Phone Jake after 5:00pm
(204)324-6353.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
1981 IHC 1586 TRACTOR 135-HP, Duals, 184x38,
Dual Hyd., Cab, Loader w/round bale fork, est.
10,000-hrs, $12,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy
#12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000
www.reimerfarmequipment.com
1995 5220 CIH MFWD, Cab, A/C, 2,700-hrs, Owl
quickie loader, $42,500. Phone (204)427-3311.
INT. 186 HYDRO 1978, 6400-hrs. Cab, 100-Hp,
540-1000 PTO, good shape, $15,500 OBO.
(204)888-8577, Wpg.
TRACTORS
John Deere
1990 JD 2555 TRACTOR 65 PTO HP, 3-PTH,
3,781-hrs, loader, $19,500. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer
(204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
1996 JD 7800 MFWD w/740 JD loader 16-SPD
PWR quad, triple hyds, 3-PTH, 6,800-hrs, $68,000;
1982 JD 4440 2WD, w/158 JD loader, quad range,
3-PTH, 7,200-hrs, $30,000. Both in excellent condition. Phone (204)886-7009 or (204)886-2245, Teulon.
3 JD TRACTORS for sale: Model 1630 w/loader;
1982 Model 1840 w/146 loader, 5,500-hrs; 1995
Model 6300 w/loader, MFWD, grapple & 6,100-hrs.
Phone:(204)425-3820.
We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if you
want to sell it fast place your ad in the Manitoba Cooperator classifieds. It’s a Sure Thing. Call our toll-free
number today. We have friendly staff ready to help.
1-800-782-0794.
TRACTORS
2-Wheel Drive
STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in
JD tractors in need of repair or burnt, or will buy for
parts. JD parts available. Phone: 204-466-2927 or
cell: 204-871-5170, Austin.
AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING
REGULAR
CATTLE SALES
every TUESDAY at 9 am
August 12th,19th
& 26th
Monday, August 25th at 12 pm
Sheep and Goat
with Small Animals & Holstein Calves
Sales Agent for
HIQUAL INDUSTRIES
We also have a line of Agri-blend all natural
products for your livestock needs.
(protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc)
For on farm appraisal of livestock
or for marketing information please call
Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250
Auction Mart (204) 434-6519
MB. Livestock Dealer #1111
WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
BLACK ANGUS & POLLED HEREFORD bulls for
sale. Yearlings & 2-yr olds available, natural muscled
bulls developed w/high forage rations. Semen tested,
delivery available. Call Don Guilford (204)873-2430.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
RIDGE SIDE RED ANGUS has 18 month old bulls for
sale, semen tested, ready to go. Call Don (204)422-5216.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
FOR SALE: PB REG yearling charolais bulls, One Polled
Solomon 2S grandson, all are semen tested & guaranteed. K.E.H. Charolais (204)748-1024 Keith Hagan.
MARTENS CHAROLAIS has 3 YR old, 2-yr old &
yearling bulls for sale. Dateline sons for calving
ease & performance. Specialist sons for consistent
thickness. Also Pleasant Dawn Marshall sons. Call
Ben (204)534-8370.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
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.
LIVESTOCK
Horse Auctions
SAVE THIS DATE! Rocking W Horse sale, Sat.,
Aug 30th, Keystone Centre, Brandon MB. Consignment forms available at www.rockingw.com or
Phone (204)325-7237. In conj. w/Northern Lights
Barrel Futurity.
LIVESTOCK
Horses For Sale
4 WHEELED JERALD FINE harness buggy in new
condition, 2 sets of single driving harness, misc
tack. Phone (204)745-2851.
FARMING
IS ENOUGH OF A GAMBLE...
TRACTORS
4-Wheel Drive
FOR SALE: 1976 VERS 750 tractor w/8,385-hrs,
VGC, one owner, $14,800. Phone (204)256-1691
TRACTORS
Various
TRACTOR ALLIS CHALMERS CA. Comes
w/3-PTH for a 2-sheer plow, rear cultivators, plus
side cultivators, $2,250; 12-ft wide cultivator, must be
pulled by a tractor, $100 OBO. Phone:(204)661-6840.
FENCING
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Wanted
Combines
JD 9600, 2600 SEP.HRS, hopper ext., chopper upgrade, new tires, chaff spreader, recent inspection,
VGC. (204)386-2645, (204)476-0029.
WANTED: 18-FT. SWATHER FINGER reel to fit Vers 400
swather. Poly preferred. (204)265-3365, Beausejour.
COMBINES
Belarus
COMBINES
Accessories
2 BELARUS DON 1500 combines, both in running,
working condition, always shedded. One is 1988,
the other 1989 model, low hrs, $4,000 each. Extra parts
combine also avail. Phone (204)738-2251, evenings.
1997 HONEYBEE 30-FT HEADER w/gleaner
adapter, single knife, UII PU reel, good condition
$15,000. Phone:(204)874-2206 or (204)868-5504.
COMBINES
Case/IH
2001 CAT FLEX HEADER 30-ft., $10,000; 1997
30-ft. Cat Flex header $8,000. Both w/PU reels, always
shedded, VGC. Phone (204)746-8851, Morris.
1985 CASE IH 1480 combine, 3,980-hrs, specialty
rotor, new rub bars, new elevator chains & cross
augers, large drum pick-up header, 24-ft large drum
straight head, new front tires, needs to be seen.
Contact Clint:(204)362-4532.
FLEX PLATFORMS IN STOCK: JD 216, 920, 925,
930, 630, 635; CIH 1020, 25-ft. & 30-ft. 2020 30-ft.
& 35-ft; NH 973, 30-ft. w/air & w/o air; Cat FL540,
40-ft. Have many w/Crary air systems. Corn heads
JD843- CIH 1083 in stock. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer
(204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com
Manitoba Co-operator classifieds, 1-800-782-0794.
WANTED: 1949-1954 CHEV OR GMC half-tonne
truck, running or not. Phone (204)223-0923.
WANTED: NH BALER, MODEL 855. Must be
good. Also TD6 crawler. Phone (204)378-5543.
WANTED TO BUY: 21 or 18-ft. Co-op swather
must be field ready, preferred green colour, must
be gas engine; Also wanted swather carrier. Call
Cliff (204)269-1481 or (204)423-2195.
HAYING & HARVESTING
HAYING & HARVESTING
Baling Equipment
FOR SALE: 1998 CASE IH 8455 rd baler, 540
PTO, 4x6 hardcore, twin hyd tie, bale kicker, gathering wheels, excellent condition, $7,500 OBO;
2003 Case IH RBX462, auto electric dual tie, 540
PTO, 4x6 bales, bale ramp, extra wide PU, auto
chain oiler, as new $11,500 OBO. Phone
(204)383-5875, Woodlands.
HAYING & HARVESTING
Swathers
1987 CASE IH 4000 Swather, 16 1/2-ft draper
header, bat reel & hay conditioner. C/W a/c, new
knife, guards & canvasses. Field ready, VGC. Asking $7,000. Also, 1984 IH 4000 Swather, 19 1/2-ft
header with p/u fingers. C/W a/c, VGC. Asking
$7,000. Phone Haywood, MB (204)379-2613 or
phone/text cell (204)745-8775 anytime.
2008 CIH 8010 4WD combine, 30-ft flex draper,
$200,000. Phone:(204)871-0925.
MUDHOG 4WD DRIVE axle for Case IH combine,
complete w/tires, $5,000. Also, various rotor belts,
separator belts, assortment of all sorts of belts for
2388 combines. Brand new sickle & wobble box for
1010 & 1020 header. Call:(204)391-5491.
COMBINES
Ford/New Holland
1995 TR97 NH, 4WD, rotors re-done, newer feeder
chain, 2,300 threshing hrs, chaff spreader & reverser, always shedded, asking $30,000 OBO.
Phone:(204)364-2292 or (204)378-0325,.
NH TR 70 COMBINE chopper air Melroe 378 7 belt
rubber PU, low hrs, grain moisture tester, JD 5-16
hyd plow, Cockshut 225 discer hyd seed box.
Phone (204)265-3302, Beausejour.
Go public with an ad in the Co-operator classifieds.
FOR SALE: 1995 CASE IH 1020, 30-ft straight cut
header; Also 35-ft header trailer. Phone (204)385-2753.
FOR SALE: JD 853 & 853A all-crop header, 8
rows, 30-in, PTO drive, excellent condition, $8,500
for 853A, $6,000 for 853. Phone:(204)758-3943 or
(204)746-5844. St. Jean, MB.
If you want to sell it fast, call 1-800-782-0794.
UPGRADED COMBINE HAVE 30-FT. 960 Macdon
draper header w/Bat reel, good canvasses, good
knife w/TR & TX adapter, always shedded, in good
condition,
asking
$14,000
OBO.
Phone
(204)427-2778 or (204)746-4084.
Call our toll-free number to take advantage of our Prepayment Bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and we’ll run your
ad 2 more weeks for free. That’s 5 weeks for the price
of 3. Call 1-800-782-0794 today!
TO BE REMOVED: 3+ miles of 5 strand high-tensile electric fencing & fence line materials; 1+ mile
single strand high-tensile w/off-set insulators and 3
strand barb wire: poles, insulators, line tighteners,
swinging gates. 8300 PowerBox solar energizer
w/new deep cycle battery and/or Speed-Rite electric energizer. Also plastic step-in fence posts &
electric fence tapes, handles, insulators, &
two
4-mile solar energizers. Phone (204)571-1254, Brandon.
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
The Icynene Insulation
System®
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
Advertise in the Manitoba
Co-operator Classifieds,
it’s a Sure Thing!
1-800-782-0794
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
WANTED:
BUTCHER
HOGS
SOWS AND BOARS
FOR EXPORT
P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD.
728-7549
Licence No. 1123
LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT
2013 LEON 425V MANURE spreader, only used
season, excellent condition. Brian McCarthy
(306)435-3590 or cell (306)435-7527.
www.penta.ca
1-800-587-4711
IRON & STEEL
FREE STANDING CORRAL PANELS, Feeders &
Alley ways, 30ft or order to size. Oil Field Pipe: 1.3,
1.6, 1.9, 1 7/8, 2-in, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2. Sucker Rod:
3/4, 7/8, 1. Casing Pipes: 4-9inch. Sold by the piece
or semi load lots. For special pricing call Art
(204)685-2628 or cell (204)856-3440.
8-FT, 10-FT, 12-FT, 16-FT, varied length gates; 16ft light duty panels; cattle oiler: free-standing, hanging: brand new still in box; calf puller: no chains;
varied tagging and castration pliers. Phone
(204)571-1254, Brandon.
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.
NEW CONCEPT ROLLER MIXMILL, VGC. Brian
McCarthy (306)435-3590 or cell (306)435-7527.
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RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
Trux-N-Parts Salvage Inc.
MUSICAL
NOTRE DAME USED OIL
& FILTER
ROW ACCORDION,
$650;DEPOT
Q-cord, $400; Wash-
3
burn banjo, $350; Ovation electric mandolin, $699;
• Buy Used
Oil $500; trumpet,
• Buy Batteries
German
violin,
$200; flute, $250;
clarinet,
$299;
$299; saxophone,
$599;
• Collect
Usedtrombone,
Filters • Collect
Oil Containers
drums & cymbals, $400; Gretch lapsteel, $250; guiSouthern
and
Western
Manitoba
tar banjos, $250-500; Huge guitar sale, all sizes. Hildebrand Music, Portage
La Prairie Mall (204)857-3172.
Tel: 204-248-2110
PERSONAL
DIVORCED 46 YR OLD farmer (2 kids) Seeks
down to earth, mature, slim, attractive, marriage/family minded female, late 20s or older. Reply
to Ad# 1024, c/o Manitoba Co-operator, Box 9800,
Station Main, Winnipeg, MB R3C 3K7
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
Campers & Trailers
22-FT WESTWIND CAMPER, 5-TH wheel, VGC.
Phone:(204)745-3671.
FOR SALE: PUREBRED SCOTCH collie pups,
9-weeks old, 3 males. $200 each. Call (204)835-2036.
REAL ESTATE
REAL ESTATE
Condos
2 BDRM CONDO W/FURNITURE at 55 Nassau St,
Wpg, $259,900. Phone (204)475-8777.
RECYCLING
BuyUsed
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washer fluid
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( available in bulk or drums )
The only company that collects,
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CERTIFIED SEED
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
LAND FOR SALE:
3 quarters, NW 7-24-27 W1, NE 7-24-27 W1,
SW 7-24-27 W1. RM Shellmouth-Boulton. 7-mi
N of Inglis MB, on PR#592. Call Barry or Pat
Sawchuk:(204)564-2228.
LAND FOR SALE: SW30-30-9 at Fairford, good
fishing & hunting, some buildings need major renovations, 105-acs taxable, 2 hydro lines that is not
taxed, 60-acs can be cultivated. Best price over
$20,000. Phone (204)449-2117
REAL ESTATE
Mobile Homes
MODULAR HOME: 1999 Bowes/SRI mobile home
w/vaulted ceiling. 3 bdrms, 2 bthrms w/Jacuzzi in
ensuite; abundant cupboard space w/2 pantries in
kitchen area. Single family owned- to be moved.
(204)571-1254 Brandon, MB.
CERTIFIED SEED
Cereal Seeds
CERT FLOURISH WINTER WHEAT seed for sale,
2012 crop, cleaned, ready to seed, wholesale or retail. Jim Wilson (204)362-2449 Darlingford, MB.
FOR SALE: CERTIFIED FLOURISH winter wheat.
Phone James Farms Ltd. at 1-866-283-8785,
(204)222-8785 or email [email protected] for
additional info.
Court Seeds
NEW Winter Wheat for 2014:
AC Emerson
TM
 FIRST wheat rated R to FHB
 Improved winter hardiness
 Strong straw, medium maturity
Plumas, MB [email protected]
courtseeds.ca
204-386-2354
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
716-ACRES MIXED FARM, fenced elk, bison, cat-tle,
1064-sf bung, outbldgs, 2nd yard site, McCreary: 2415-11W, RM of Lakeview, Section of pasture in block,
fenced, 4 dugouts, MLS 1320985: SW 5-14-17W, RM
of Odanah, 160-acres grain-land, possession January
2015, MLS 1408620: SW 22-14-10W. Westbourne,
160-acres fenced pasture w/dugout, 1982 3-bdrm
bung, MLS 1411329. Call Liz (204)476-6362, John
(204)476-6719, Gill and Schmall Agencies
960-ACS RANCH IN MOOSEHORN area excellent
house, barns, hay sheds, very well maintained
property, endless possibilities. Contact Henry Kuhl
Farm Specialist Royal Lepage Alliance (204)885-5500.
FOR SALE: 500 HEAD goat dairy at Minto, MB.
Also would consider a partner. Milk contracts for
fluid milk & cheese. Complete operation w/land,
livestock, & buildings or operation can be moved. Contact David (204)534-7531 or [email protected]
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.
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SEED/ FEED/GRAIN
Grain Wanted
Celebration
& Tradition
*2-Row*
AC
Metcalfe
&
CDC
Copeland
We buy
feed
barley,
feed
wheat,
MALT BARLEY
BARLEY
MALT
oats,
soybeans,
corn
& canola
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feed*2-Row*
barley,
feed
wheat,
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oats,
soybeans,
cornCopeland
& canola
AC Metcalfe
& CDC
& Tradition
COMECelebration
SEE US AT
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WE BUY OATS
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Mail:
BUYERS OF:
• Rye
(all grades)
• Flaxseed
2013 Malt Contracts Available
2014 AOG Malt Contracts Available
Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0
BoxPhone
238 Letellier,
MB. R0G 1C0
204-737-2000
Phone
204-737-2000
2014Toll-Free
AOG
Malt
Contracts
Available
1-800-258-7434
Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
BoxMalt
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Agent:
M &Letellier,
J Weber-Arcola,
SK.
2013
Contracts
Available
Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK.
Phone
204-737-2000
Phone
306-455-2509
Box 238
Letellier,
MB. R0G 1C0
Phone
306-455-2509
Toll-Free
1-800-258-7434
Phone 204-737-2000
Agent:
M & 1-800-258-7434
J Weber-Arcola, SK.
Toll-Free
Agent: Phone
M & J 306-455-2509
Weber-Arcola, SK.
Phone 306-455-2509
Call The Rye Guy - Cal Vandaele
204-522-5410 or 204-665-2384
BOOTH 1309
For Pricing ~ 204-325-9555
NOW BUYING
Confection and
Oil Sunflowers,
Brown & Yellow Flax
and Red & White Millet
Edible Beans
Licensed & Bonded
Winkler, MB.
REAL ESTATE
Houses & Lots
RTM’S - SUMMER SPECIAL 3 bedroom homes,
ready now! 1320-sq ft, Reg $79,200.00 - Now Only
$70,000.00. 1520-sq ft, Reg $91,200.00 - Now Only
$85,000.00 MARVIN HOMES, Steinbach, MB
(204)326-1493 or (204)355-8484
LARGE ROUND TIMOTHY GRASS hay bales, no
rain, excellent for horses, 1,700-lbs, trucking arranged. Also taking orders for small square hay.
Feed barley, oats & wheat. Phone:(204)345-8532.
ESTATE SALE, MUST SELL. 2002 Jayco 26.3-ft
double slide camper, 1 owner, well kept. $12,000
OBO. Phone (204)723-2820, leave message.
SUMMER IS MEANT to be shared. CANDLELIGHT
MATCHMAKERS is here to help. 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.
PETS & SUPPLIES
CORN SILAGE FOR SALE can deliver, long term potential on 20+ Ton loads. Phone (204)427-3311, Woodmore.
ROUND & LARGE SQUARE hay bales for sale,
delivery avail. Phone (204)721-2629 or (204)730-3139.
Proud Supporter of Manitoba Businesses & Municipalities
Call Ken 204-794-8383
#45 Mountain View Rd.
Winnipeg, MB
400-ACRES STANDING HAY FOR sale. Glenboro
area. Phone (204)721-2629 or (204)730-3139.
SEED/FEED/GRAIN
Seed Wanted
Grain
Wanted
*6-Row*
MALT
BARLEY
MALT BARLEY
1000 Litre
Caged Storage Tanks
$60.00 each
SEED/ FEED/GRAIN
Hay & Straw
MALT
BARLEY
SEED/FEED/GRAIN
*6-Row*
Celebration & Tradition
We buy feed barley, feed wheat,
oats, soybeans, corn & canola
HAMMOND REALTY: Shire Farm, RM 92 Walpole,
near Moosomin, SK. 1,280-acs, featuring 610 cult.
acs & 625 hay/pasture acs (300-acs could be
cropped), $61,863 avg 2013 assessment. Grass
carries 100 pair. Yard includes: 1,180-sq.ft. bungalow (1983), 4 bed, 2 bath, 12,850-bu. steel bin storage, exc. water & cattle facilities. MLS #501213.
Reduced
to
$1,240,000.
Alex
Morrow
(306)434-8780 http://Shire.HammondRealty.ca
SEED / FEED / GRAIN
COME SEE US AT AG DAYS IN
THE CONVENTION HALL
BOOTH 1309
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Saskatchewan
2013 Malt Contracts Available
Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0
Phone 204-737-2000
Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434
Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK.
Phone 306-455-2509
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR SALE
• Field Peas
• CGC Bonded
• Farm pickup
Box 144 • Medora, MB • R0M 1K0
SPORTING GOODS
ATTENTION TRAPPERS: personal trapping instruction avail for Coyote & Fox w/snares or traps,
55 yrs experience, June 15th-Sept 30th. Call for details Guilliland Lures (204)634-2425 Pierson, MB.
TIRES
2 FIRESTONE 30.5X32, 60% tread, asking $1000 for
the pair. (204)825-8340 or (204)825-2799, Pilot Mound.
8, 18.4X38 FIRESTONE FIELD & Road, 50% rubber, $850 OBO. Phone (204)794-7911.
TRAILERS
TRAILERS
Grain Trailers
1982 R600 MACK TANDEM Grain truck, 19-ft box,
8 1/2-ft wide, 60-in deep, w/roll tarp. $16,500.
Phone:(204)871-0925.
TRAILERS
Livestock Trailers
BUYING:
HEATED & GREEN
CANOLA
• Competitive Prices
• Prompt Movement
• Spring Thrashed
“ON FARM PICK UP”
1-877-250-5252
Vanderveen
Commodity
Services Ltd.
Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers
37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Ph. (204) 745-6444
Email: [email protected]
FARMERS, RANCHERS,
SEED PROCESSORS
BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS
Heated/Spring Threshed
Lightweight/Green/Tough,
Mixed Grain - Barley, Oats, Rye,
Flax, Wheat, Durum, Lentils, Peas,
Canola, Chickpeas, Triticale,
Sunflowers, Screenings, Organics
and By-Products
√ ON-FARM PICKUP
√ PROMPT PAYMENT
√ LICENSED AND BONDED
SASKATOON, LLOYDMINSTER,
LETHBRIDGE, VANCOUVER,
MINNEDOSA
1-204-724-6741
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