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Mwamshambo Village, Malawi
I
t’s raining, but that doesn’t
stop Thomas Nkhunda from
leading a group of visitors into
his fields where he describes how
he manages plots demonstrating the benefits of conservation
agriculture.
Rain isn’t unusual at this time
of year. After all, it’s the rainy
season in Malawi. What’s unusual is the fact that the rains they
call the “planting rains” came
later than usual, by almost a full
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An estimated 150 people attended,
121 members registered and 117 cast
ballots, defeating one interim incumbent director and electing three new
directors to the organization’s six-member board.
The MWBGA was formed to collect
a checkoff to fund research and development gaps created by the end of the
Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly in
2012.
Attendance at the meeting was
boosted by interest in how future directors would be elected. The MWBGA
interim board opted to hold elections at
the annual meeting and elect half (three)
directors annually. Other farmers have
pushed for a mail-in ballot, which is used
by the Manitoba Canola Growers.
Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn
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“It is my feeling that since they are
contributing to the organization in the
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INSIDE
Did you know?
LIVESTOCK
TB tests still
negative
Kochia: ‘the cockroach
of the plant world’
Efforts continue to
declare province
disease free
Weed can duplicate extra copies of a gene
which is resistant to glyphosate
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CROPS
Corn acres
sit tight
Crop insurance
still a concern
for some
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FEATURE
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almost a sellout
Crowd beginning
to strain facility
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CROSSROADS
Kansas State University
weed scientist says
he’s figured out why
glyphosate-resistant kochia is
like a “cockroach of the plant
world.”
Mithila Jugulam, assistant
professor of agronomy, led
a study that looked at how
kochia evolved resistance to
the herbicide. The researchers found that kochia has
evolved to have multiple copies of a gene code that targets glyphosate. These copies
enable the plants to survive
the field rate of glyphosate
applications.
“It’s a very novel resistance
mechanism and is becoming prevalent in a number of
glyphosate-resistant weeds,
including Palmer amaranth,
common water hemp and
kochia,” Jugulam said in a
Kansas State release.
“Glyphosate works by stopping an enzyme called EPSPS
that is crucial for production
of aromatic amino acids in
the shikimic acid pathway. If
EPSPS is disrupted, the plant
Herbicides don’t cause mutations, but the plants that are naturally
resistant survive to go forth and multiply. photo: AAFC
eventually dies,” the release
says.
The researchers found that
glyphosate-resistant kochia
had duplicated several EPSPS
copies that stacked alongside each other on a single
chromosome.
Researchers also found
that the more copies of
EPSPS kochia had, the higher
tolerance it had against
glyphosate. For example,
kochia plants with nine to
12 EPSPS copies could survive twice the recommended
amount of glyphosate, while
a plant with 16 copies could
withstand six times the
amount.
Jugulam said this resistance
was evolved as the result of
continuous use of glyphosate and the lack of herbicide
diversity.
“Herbicides are not known
to cause mutations in plants,”
Jugulam said. “The resistant
individuals present in the
population initially are at low
levels and slowly dominate
over the susceptible plants if
selection with the same herbicide continues.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
Farm safety consultant says
she wants to be kept busy
If you have an employee on your farm, you need to be ready for an inspection
By Lorraine Stevenson
“KAP chose to go this
route and offer this
tool for farmers. But
we have this service
only for the next 10
months. This is our
window. If we don’t
use it, I don’t know
what will happen.”
Co-operator staff / Brandon
A
Workplace Safety and
Health officer has
arrived at your farm to
do an inspection. Can you tell
them to leave?
Some farmers have tried,
apparently using a few choice
words.
But the inspector will be
back and telling them to leave
only shows you don’t know the
law, says Morag Marjerison,
a new safety consultant for
Manitoba farmers.
“They have a right to
b e t h e re,” s h e s a i d . “ T h e
(Workplace Safety and Health)
Act says you must co-operate
with them. And the more you
want to butt heads with them
the more it’s going to be game
on.”
Marjerison’s job for 2015 is to
advise farmers on Workplace
Safety and Health Act and
Regulations and make more
clear what they need to comply
with provincial workplace laws.
Keystone Agricultural
Producers has arranged to
have the provincial SAFE Work
Manitoba consultant work in
a partnership with them for
a year as an on-call, free-ofcharge, confidential adviser to
farmers who have questions
about how to prepare for a
Workplace Safety and Health
inspection.
There are many questions being raised now that
Workplace Safety and Health
has moved away from a prevention and educational role
to one strictly in enforcement
and stepping up the number of
inspections it does on all types
of high-risk industries, including farms.
It boils down to more farms
facing improvement orders to
comply with the legislation,
said Marjerison.
“The problem at the
moment, though, is there’s
very little out there to provide
farmers with information and
advice about what this legislation is all about,” she said,
adding a surprise visit from
a safety officer is going to
feel like being pulled over for
speeding when you don’t know
what the limit was.
“It’s very difficult to comply
with something if you don’t
know what it says.”
Dan Mazier
KAP president
Morag Marjerison is a SAFE Farms consultant who will provide free-of-charge, confidential advisory services to
Manitoba farmers in 2015. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON
Hired workers only
Marjerison spoke at a series
of farm meetings hosted by
KAP and the University of
Manitoba around Manitoba
this winter to explain her role
and answer some of the common questions she’s hearing
from farmers.
They typically include —
What kinds of farms are being
inspected and why? — and
what the safety officer is actually looking for.
Only farms with hired workers are inspected by safety
officers, said Marjerison. They
will not inspect the family
farm, a point of some confusion since Workplace Safety
and Health defines the family farm differently than most
farmers understand it, she
said.
By family farm, Workplace
Safety and Health means the
farm where only the owner/
operator and family members
work.
“ Wo r k p l a c e S a f e t y a n d
Health safety officers do not,
at this point in time, inspect
farms that have no hired workers,” she said.
The officer may show up for
one of two main reasons — the
farm is simply on the routine
roster of worksites to inspect,
or there’s been a complaint.
Marjerison, who has 20 years’
experience in the private and
agricultural sectors, said complaints about farm worksites
have been relatively rare, but
are on the increase.
Less than a decade ago, a
couple of complaints a year
was considered a lot.
“There’s now 25 to 30 complaints a year about far m
operations,” she said, adding that they most often come
from younger workers (under
25) who are better informed
about worksite hazards on the
farms. Or they come from a
concerned parent whose kid is
working for a farmer.
“Quite often it’s someone’s
mom saying, ‘I don’t like what
my young son is being asked
to do at work,’” she said.
Hazards identified
Safety officers doing a rout i n e i n s p e c t i o n a re l o o k ing for safety hazards such as
unguarded PTOs, augers or
ventilation systems, damaged
electrical cables and cords,
access to first aid kits and inappropriate chemical storage,
Marjerison said.
Stairs without handrails,
ladders with loose or broken rungs, and whether peo-
ple working there are wearing
appropriate personal protective equipment are others.
They may also test air quality
or noise levels.
The law allows them to speak
to your employees, ask questions, and they can also take
photos, said Marjerison. If they
find something amiss, they’ll
leave an improvement order
saying what was observed and
what needs remedial action.
“It will tell you which part of
the actual legislation you were
not in compliance with,” she
said, adding they must quote to
the farm owner what it is they
are in breach of and what you
have to do and by when.
What they don’t issue are
fines, but they will give the
operator a deadline to fix the
problem.
“Depending on the severity
of what it is, it may be 24 hours,
or may be three days, some
may be 14 days,” she said.
There can be fines if the deadline passes and you remain
non-compliant.
Farms may also be issued a
stop-work order if the officer
believes someone could be
hurt immediately.
That’s why this all boils
down to being prepared for the
inspection in the first place.
“Some say, ‘we’re doing all
we can do right now,’” she
said. “But if that were true
Workplace Safety and Health
inspectors should not be able
to walk onto anyone’s farm
in this province and find an
unguarded PTO. And from my
experience I can find one on
roughly one in three farms,”
she said.
Farmers with questions about
what this all entails — and she
anticipates there are plenty —
should be calling her and not
putting this off any longer, she
stressed.
“The best thing to do is ask
questions and make use of my
time. I want to be kept ridiculously busy.”
This arrangement between
SAFE Work Manitoba to have
her offer free-of-charge, confidential farm safety advisory
services lasts only until the
end of 2015. KAP worked hard
to make this resource available
to farmers because it’s plainly
needed, said KAP president Dan
Mazier.
“People are simply unaware
(of Workplace Safety and Health
legislation),” said Mazier.
It’s up to farmers to change
that and the time is now, Mazier
said.
“KAP chose to go this route
and offer this tool for farmers.
But we have this service only
for the next 10 months. This is
our window. If we don’t use it, I
don’t know what will happen.”
Marjer ison’s office is in
Brandon in Unit 1, 457 9th
Street. She can be reached at
(204) 573-7791 or by email at
mmarjeri@safeworkmanitoba.
ca.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Have an omelette —
cooked in butter
M
any farmers bristle at the name
Michael Pollan, the author
of Omnivore’s Dilemma, and
Cooked, two books which are not friendly
to what he would call “big agriculture.”
But leaving disagreements on issues
such as organic food and GMOs aside,
farmers might have to give Pollan credit
for his dictum on eating properly: “Eat
food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
John Morriss
As it turns out that’s pretty much what
Editorial Director
the scientific community has been recommending lately, and it’s good news for
farmers — or at least mostly good news.
As we reported last week, a recent article in the British
Medical Journal says that advice to cut fat consumption
given to U.S. and British consumers “should never have
been issued.” Reading between the lines, it appears that
the recommendations were based on studies of men who
were overweight and out of shape. Turns out they died
sooner than men who weren’t. Their conclusion: must
have been the fat.
It seems that the correct conclusion can be summed
up by an older and even simpler dictum than Mr. Pollan’s
— “It’s the dose that makes the poison.” These men died
early because they ate too much, period.
Last week, there was even more “oops” news on the
relationship between food and health. The U.S. government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has concluded that there is no correlation between cholesterol in
food and cholesterol in the blood. So much for those recommendations to limit yourself to two eggs a week.
That news emerged from the committee’s latest fiveyear review of dietary guidelines, and similar to British
conclusions, the committee pretty much threw out the
recommendations to limit fat consumption. They do stick
with the suggestion to limit saturated fats, but some cardiologists reacting to the announcement last week even
disputed that.
So there is good and bad news for producers of red
meat and eggs. They’re losing what is in effect a “poison”
label, though again, the dictum about the dose making it
applies.
The new villain for nutritionists is sugar. That makes
sense intuitively — sugar truly is “empty calories” and
added sugar from junk food makes up 16 per cent of the
American diet.
The other villain for which the science seems sound
is trans fats, which are produced by hydrogenating vegetable oil to make solid products such as margarine. It
turns out that after all those years you might have been
better off eating butter. However, this has also been good
news for Canadian producers of canola and its specialty
variants like Nexera that don’t convert to trans fats when
processed.
The committee’s report on balance is probably good
for farmers overall. It does recommend eating less meat
and less carbohydrate, but more vegetables, fruits, whole
grains, low- or non-fat dairy, seafood, legumes and nuts
instead.
Local opportunities
A notable feature of that list is that perhaps with the exception of nuts (maybe sunflower seeds could substitute),
everything on that list is produced in Manitoba. And the
U.S. recommendations support some of the work of the
Manitoba Agri-Health Research Network (MAHRN) and the
Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) in developing
a Canadian version of the “Mediterranean diet” based on
foods that are produced here.
On that note, it would be nice to see the various commodity groups co-operating to put practical examples of a
healthy local diet. Many are doing good work in promoting
their own product, including recipes. But we can’t help noting that one of the most visible local examples of promotion
lately is from Peak of the Market, with daily recipes advertised in the Winnipeg Free Press. It seems that most of them
recently haven’t included many vegetables, and when they
do, they are often products that are not grown here or are
out of season, such as broccoli and green onions. Granted,
you can only come up with so many recipes for potatoes
and rutabagas. So instead, perhaps Peak and other commodity groups should pool their resources into promoting
simple-to-prepare variations of complete meals made from
their products. They could take their lead from the two University of Alberta nutritionists and their book and website
called “The Pure Prairie Eating Plan.”
In the past, commodity groups, especially red meat, eggs
and dairy, have had to battle the perception that their products are unhealthy. The new message is that you can eat just
about anything you want — just don’t eat too much. So have
an omelette for supper — and cook it in butter.
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Study finds climate change may
dramatically reduce wheat production
Kansas State University release
A
recent study involving Kansas State University researchers finds that in the coming decades at least one-quarter of the
world’s wheat production will be lost to extreme
weather from climate change if no adaptive
measures are taken.
Vara Prasad, professor of crop ecophysiology and director of the USAID Feed the Future
Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab at
Kansas State University, is part of a collaborative
team that found wheat yields are projected to
decrease by six per cent for each degree Celsius
the temperature rises if no measures to adapt to
extreme weather fluctuations are taken. Based on
the 2012-13 wheat harvest of 701 million tonnes
worldwide, the resulting temperature increase
would result in 42 million tonnes less produced
wheat — or a loss of nearly one-quarter of the
current wheat production.
“It’s pretty severe,” Prasad said. “The projected effect of climate change on wheat is more
than what has been forecast. That’s challenging
because the world will have to at least double our
food supply in the next 30 years if we’re going to
feed 9.6 billion people.”
Prasad and colleagues published their study,
“Rising temperatures reduce global wheat
production,” in a recent issue of the scientific
journal Nature Climate Change. The study was
supported through the Kansas Wheat Commission and the Kansas Wheat Alliance, two organizations seeking ways to increase wheat yield.
For the study, researchers systematically
tested 30 wheat crop models against field experiments from around the world that were conducted in areas where the average temperature
of the growing season ranged from 15 to 32 C.
OUR HISTORY:
The models accounted for planting dates, planting rates, temperatures and other crop management factors.
With the models, researchers were able to look
at the effects of temperature stresses on wheat
and predict future changes based on temperature changes.
Extreme temperatures
Researchers found that the effects from climate
change and its increasing temperatures on wheat
will be more severe than once projected and are
happening sooner than expected. While Prasad
said increases in the average temperature are
problematic, a bigger challenge is the extreme
temperatures that are resulting from climate
change.
“Extreme temperature doesn’t only mean heat;
it also means cold,” Prasad said. “Simply looking at the average temperature doesn’t really
show us anything because it’s the extremities
that are more detrimental to crops. Plants can
handle gradual changes because they have time
to adapt, but an extreme heat wave or cold snap
can kill a plant because that adjustment period is
often non-existent.”
Researchers also found that increasing temperatures are shortening the time frame that wheat
plants have to mature and produce full heads
for harvest, resulting in less grain produced from
each plant.
“It’s like having one minute to fill a tall glass
with water. Under optimal conditions, we can
fill that glass pretty well,” Prasad said. “But now
we’re factoring in extreme temperatures that are
affecting the growing window and the grain size.
So it becomes like trying to fill that same glass,
but now we only have 40 seconds to do it and the
faucet is running slower.”
March 1984
T
his advertisement from White Farm Equipment in our
March 1, 1984 issue assured customers that despite three
tough years of poor market conditions, the company was
in it for the long term. White was originally formed from Oliver, Cockshutt and Minneapolis-Moline. Today White is an AGCO
brand.
Our front page that week had a photo of a flooded field with
a cutline of “early thaws caught many by surprise.” There were
no other references to weather but a story in the next issue said
no flooding was expected on the Red and Assiniboine.
Elsewhere we reported on toughened regulations to control
cheating the provincial beef stabilization plan. There were higher payments for yearlings, leading to “mistakes” in reporting the
age of calves, as well as higher payments for steers. One producer had reported marketings of 140 per cent of his registered
herd, which were all steers. “Everyone wanted to see the bull
that could perform such a feat,” said the marketing manager of
the Manitoba Beef Commission.
The Manitoba Farm Bureau was on its way to final dissolution
— on March 8 we reported that Federated Co-operatives had withdrawn, following the earlier departure of Manitoba Pool and UGG.
Interim head Bert Hall had met with Agriculture Minister Sam Uskiw
to ask for support to implement a new organization with direct
farmer membership, and Uskiw had asked for evidence of support.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
COMMENT/FEEDBACK
The dark side of agriculture in Hawaii
GM variety has helped protect papaya against a deadly virus, but some growers have found their crop vandalized
By Karen Daynard
H
awaii — the name conjures up
thoughts of beautiful beaches,
waterfalls, fresh exotic fruits,
flowers. However, there is a much
darker side that most tourists are
unaware of — an atmosphere of distrust, vandalism, legal wars, massive
security, heartbreak and so much
more. All of this due to genetically
modified (GM) crops.
With a 12-month growing season,
Hawaii is a mecca for crop-breeding
programs. All of the large agricultural companies have operations on
several islands. Corn, soybeans and
papaya are the main GM crops grown,
although research is currently being
done on bananas, pineapple and lettuce. Over the last few years though,
Hawaii has become Ground Zero of
the war over GM crops.
Over the past two years, the counties (islands) of Kauai, Hawaii, and
Maui have passed laws restricting
the use of GM plants. The laws differ
slightly. Kauai’s ban included restrictions on where any pesticides could
be sprayed, but yet excluded GM
papaya. The County of Hawaii’s ban
excluded all future GM crops on the
island and required that all farmers
must register their fields of existing
GM crops. Violators would be fined
$1,000 per day.
Currently the laws in Hawaii and
Kauai have been overturned by
courts. The moratorium in Maui,
which calls for a complete stop to the
cultivation of any GM crop until studies conclusively prove it is safe and
sets fines at $50,000 per day for farmers who knowingly grow GM crops, is
under appeal.
Papaya virus
GM technology has been used since the
mid-1990s in Hawaii, and is credited
with saving the state’s papaya industry,
following the arrival of the papaya ringspot virus (PRV) in the 1980s. Once a
plant is infected with PRV, it can never
recover, and another papaya can never
be planted on the same spot. Transmitted by aphids, the virus quickly kills
young seedlings, while older trees turn
yellow and die a slow death, producing
smaller and smaller fruit.
Dennis Gonsalvez is credited as the
“saviour of the papaya industry.” In
the late 1970s, as a young plant virologist at Cornell University, Gonsalves
realized that PRV had the potential to
decimate all papaya trees and began
research on a solution.
Farmer Ken Kamiya (l) shares his freshly harvested papaya with the Know GMO film team.
His initial approach was to try to
vaccinate the papayas, but the system
required every seedling to be injected
which was incredibly cumbersome.
Finally, in 1991, Gonsalves successfully modified the fruit with a specific
protein gene enabling resistance to the
virus. Although it took over nine years
to pass through the various U.S. levels
of approval, the Rainbow papaya was
the first GM horticultural crop.
“Rainbow” papaya now makes
up about 77 per cent of the crop,
although the industry is much smaller
than it was before the virus hit.
According to the Hawaiian Department of Agriculture, in 2010, 30.1
million pounds of papaya were harvested, compared to 80.5 million
pounds in 1984.
Ken Kamiya, a second-generation
papaya farmer from Oahu, remembers the days of the virus. “We got
completely wiped out. We were cutting down trees every week, but the
only option for replanting was to find
virgin ground, and we ran out of that
pretty quickly.”
Kamiya, a longtime friend of Gonsalvez, credits GM papaya for saving
his farm. Since Hawaii is a net food
Photo: Supplied
importer, Kamiya views his land as
critical for the assurance of local food
supply. “I’ve had customers who have
been with me for close to 40 years.
They know me and my family, and
realize that we’re doing our best.”
Vandalism
Kamiya finds it disheartening to see
the current backlash against agriculture, science, and especially biotechnology. “Our community is divided,
the conversations can quickly turn
ugly and there’s a definite lack of
respect and trust for us farmers.”
The hostility is to the point that several papaya farmers have awoken in
the morning to find that their entire
acreages were chopped down by vandals in the night.
All of the papaya farmers in the state
pay a self-imposed levy for research,
and Kamiya believes that scientists in
both corporations and universities are
necessary for continued advancement.
“We need all the tools in our tool box.
With the papaya virus, there are no
other tools except for GM.”
When asked about the future of GM
crops, both Gonsalvez and Kamiya
wonder why, after 25 years, papaya
remains the only GM horticultural
plant to be commercialized. Aside from
the cost, Gonsalvez suggests that “most
horticultural biotech research has been
done in the public sector by those lacking skills in commercialization.”
He also believes that science needs
to be doing more to commercialize
transgenics for smaller crops, those
which can truly benefit Third World
countries. “Think of the benefit that
GM cassava could have in Uganda, for
example. And we already know that
Golden Rice (high in vitamin A) has
the potential to improve the health of
millions of people.”
Ultimately, the now 77-year-old
Gonsalvez remains excited about the
potential of GM technology. “It’s the
one way we can beat the diseases
impacting our food supply. There’s no
such thing as a viricide, so we must
use gene technology and resistance
as tools.”
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and PR for the Know GMO movie, being
made by executive producer Rob Saik. For
more information about the movie, or to
help fund this important project, please visit:
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Many face water crisis due to climate change
At one point in 2013 Indian hospitals had no water for handwashing
By Nita Bhalla
New Delhi / Thomson Reuters Foundation
W
ater scarcity could lead to
conflict between communities and nations as the world
is still not fully aware of the water crisis
many countries face as a result of climate change, the head of the UN panel
of climate scientists warned Feb. 2.
The latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) predicts a rise in global temperature of between 0.3 C and 4.8 C by the late
21st century.
Countries such as India are likely to
be hit hard by global warming, which
will bring more freak weather such as
droughts that will lead to serious water
shortages and affect agricultural output
and food security.
“Unfortunately, the world has not really
woken up to the reality of what we are
going to face in terms of the crises as far
as water is concerned,” IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri told participants at a conference on water security.
“If you look at agricultural products, if
you look at animal protein — the demand
for which is growing — that’s highly water
intensive. At the same time, on the supply
side, there are going to be several constraints. Firstly because there are going to
be profound changes in the water cycle
due to climate change.”
Development experts around the world
have become increasingly concerned
about water security in recent years.
More frequent floods and droughts
caused by climate change, pollution of
rivers and lakes, urbanization, overextraction of groundwater and expanding populations mean that many nations such as
India face serious water shortages.
In addition, the demand for more
power by countries like India to fuel their
economic growth has resulted in a need
to harness more water for hydropower
dams and nuclear plants.
The dry months of June and July, during which there are frequent power cuts
and water shortages, offer a snapshot of
the pending water crisis in India.
Hospitals in New Delhi cancelled surgery at one point in 2013 because they
had no water to sterilize instruments,
clean operating theatres or for staff to
wash their hands. Upmarket shopping
malls selling luxury brands were forced
to switch off air conditioners and shut
toilets.
Pachauri said it was necessary to bring
in technology to help harness water more
efficiently, particularly in agriculture
where there is a lot of wastage.
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MWBGA Continued from page 1
Baker farms near Beausejour.
Roblin farmer Robert Minsko
was also elected. They join
i n c u m b e n t i n t e r i m d i re c tors Fred Greig of Reston, Ray
Askin of Portage la Prairie and
Grant Dyck of Niverville on
the board.
Interim president Don
Dewar of Dauphin and interim
director Doug Martin of Selkirk
did not stand for election.
Incumbent interim director David Rourke, who farms
at Minto, was defeated, as was
challenger John Preun, who
farms at Selkirk.
The five candidates addressed
the meeting.
Misko, chair of the
Parkland Crop Diversification
Foundation, said the MWBGA
has a good opportunity to take
research funds and make the
best of them for Manitoba
farmers.
Harder said he is passionate
about farm policy and plant
breeding.
“I think we definitely need to
make sure that funding from
farmers comes back to farmers,” he said.
“A vote for me is a vote for
farmer participation.”
Baker said he supports publicly funded plant breeding.
“I’m also for ensuring farmers
have a strong voice,” he said.
“I think we should all be coming together because if we’re all
standing in a room shouting
at the top of our lungs nobody
“I think the goal is to
leverage that money
as much as possible
— at least 1-1/2
times…”
Don Dewar
Mail-in versus meeting votes
The Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association board is made up of
(l-r) Grant Dyck, Niverville; Fred Greig, Reston; Dean Harder, Lowe Farm; Drew
Baker, Beausejour; Robert Misko, Roblin; and Ray Askin, Portage la Prairie.
Harder, Baker and Misko were elected to the board at the annual meeting.
Dyck, Greig and Askin were appointed to the board and will be up for election
next year. photo: allan dawson
gets heard. We need to work
together.”
Preun, who farms 7,000 acres
and raises hogs near Selkirk
and has served as a director
and chair of Manitoba Pork
Marketing, said he wants to see
research into feed wheat and
barley.
Rourke has operated agricultural research firm Ag-Quest
and has also run the farmerowned Western Feed Grain
Development Co-op. Kane
farmer Bill Toews asked if that
might be a conflict of interest
given the MWBGA’s mandate to
invest in research.
“Obviously it could be construed as a conflict of interest,”
Rourke said, also noting he had
turned over control of Ag-Quest
to his daughter. “I think I offer a
lot of experience and wisdom in
how to conduct research, but I
would certainly have to be taken
out of that decision-making
process if Ag-Quest was applying for funding or the Western
Fe e d G r a i n D e v e l o p m e n t
(Co-op).”
Reston farmer Fred Greig,
who served as the MWBGA’s
vice-chair will act as chair
until the association holds
its first new board meeting
in March when officers will
be determined, said association executive director Brent
VanKoughnet.
The board believed conducting
the election at an annual meeting during CropConnect, would
attract a lot of farmers and based
on the turnout, it did, Greig said.
He said mail-in ballots cost
between $40,000 and $50,000
and on average only seven per
cent of members vote. However,
he added that would be a higher
percentage than for an in-person election.
Greig also said the association only got a list of members’
addresses in January, leaving little time for staff to scrutinize it.
Electronic voting was also
investigated but it would cost
almost as much as a mail-in ballot and there are security concerns, he said.
Another option is to invite
members to request a ballot be
mailed to them. That would presumably save money, as ballots
would only be going to those
planning to vote.
As of Dec. 31, 2014 the
MWBGA had collected $1.37
million in checkoff revenue,
De w a r s a i d . Fa r m e r s h a d
requested less than three per
cent of the checkoff collected be
refunded.
“I think that’s a substantial
show of support from you the
membership and it’s a show
of faith because we’re just getting going…,” Dewar told the
meeting.
The association wants to
spend at least 70 per cent of its
revenue on research, 15 per cent
on administration and communications, 10 per cent on market
development and five per cent
on special projects or the discretion of the board, he said.
The MWBGA has, along with a
number of other Manitoba commodity groups, applied for funding through Growing Forward
2 to investigate ways they can
work together to reduce costs.
“I think I read somewhere that
(Manitoba) farmers are paying a
half-million for CEOs (working
for commodity groups) collectively,” Dewar said.
The MWBGA has met several
times with the commissions in
Alberta and Saskatchewan and
the Western Grains Research
Foundation, to discuss collaborating on research, Dewar said.
“I think the goal is to leverage
that money as much as possible — at least 1-1/2 times…,” he
said.
The MWBGA will rely on
Ce re a l s Ca n a d a , w h i c h i t
belongs to, for market development, Dewar said later in an
interview.
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TILLAGE Continued from page 1
month. And when they arrived in
late December, they came in torrents, wreaking havoc on farmers
farther south.
Nkhunda’s fields weren’t deluged like those in the south,
although this area has seen
heavy rains. But the crops on his
farm located near Nkhotakota
about 20 kms into the hills from
Lake Malawi look good; the
maize and groundnut fields he
shows us are neatly tended and
standing tall.
Where the rain falls on the
roads and on other fields around
us, it forms puddles, little rivulets
and then runs away, taking the
soil with it. Where it falls on his
fields, it soaks into the ground
where it supports the growing
plants.
The 37-year-old father of three
is proud of that, and rightly so.
Conserving soil
Conservation agriculture is first
and foremost about eliminating
tillage. Farmers here typically use
hoes for the back-breaking task
of pulling the soil in their plots
up into ridged rows — sometimes a foot high — into which
they plant their seed. It makes
for wide row spacing and lots of
hoeing in between. When the
rain comes, it runs down into the
gullies and escapes. In a heavy
rain, the ridges collapse leaving
the plants to drown. During a dry
spell, the plants perched on the
top of those ridges are left high
and dry.
Under CA, the farmers do
away with the ridges. They
instead make planting basins
into which they put a small
amount of manure and later
poke their seed in with a stick.
Without the ridges, they can
plant their rows closer together,
which increases the ground
cover as well as the yield. They
use mulch between the rows
to help suppress weeds, hold
in moisture and build organic
matter.
Better yields, more time
Changing face
Nkhunda is a textbook example
of the kind of smallholder transformation organizations promoting conservation agriculture
in Africa hope will soon become
the norm.
Since he began learning about
soil-healthy farming eight years
ago, he has embraced the concepts, he is reaping the benefits
and he’s helping to spread the
word.
Researchers with the
International Wheat and Maize
Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)
and various non-governmental
organizations believe the farming system has the potential to
change the face of smallholder
agriculture in Africa from one of
chronic food insecurity to stability and growth.
And it could save the soil as
well.
Most smallholder farmers in
Africa are working with soils
that are severely degraded as a
result of repetitive tillage and
monoculture; they grow maize,
which is a staple food crop, every
year, often on the same patch of
ground.
Nkhunda and his neighbours,
some of whom have converted
their entire farms to CA, are
among the early adopters who
have been receiving technical
support from CIMMYT, which
became well known for its “green
revolution” varieties developed by Norman Borlaug and
Manitoba-born breeder Glenn
Anderson. It has been working
on adapting the no-till system
widely used by commercial
farmers around the world to a
smallholder scale. Extension
support in this area has been
through a local NGO called Total
Land Care.
Thomas Nkhunda, 37, has been using conservation agriculture on his plots for
Nkhunda now tends three
eight years. Photo: Laura Rance
demonstration plots, one under
conventional, one under CA and
one of CA maize undersown to mist with CIMMYT’s Harare are hampering widespread
the legume cowpeas. If farm- substation. He was notably adoption.
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“This is a window for many Next issue — Part 2: Mulch,
harvest a crop of cowpeas after
the maize comes off. But even if farmers to look through,” he mice-seekers, and the “man
they don’t, the cowpeas provide said. “It really shows the poten- problem.”
a nitrogen boost to the growing tial of the system.”
Potential, however, is the oper- Co-operator editor Laura Rance
maize.
Nkhunda says that plot ative word. As we visited with is visiting three African counappears to be performing the farmers in different regions of tries in February and March on
this east African country, it soon secondment to the Canadian
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Nkhunda now sows 2.8 hectares
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the CA system. He’s seeing multiple benefits to his household,
starting with higher yields for
less labour.
The maize he grew under CA
yielded 7.8 tonnes per ha (124
bushels per acre) last year. The
maize he still grows under conventional methods yielded 3.5
tonnes per ha, even though both
systems received equal applications of fertilizer. He used herbicide to control the weeds on his
CA fields and the hoe to control
weeds on the conventional fields.
Nkhunda and his wife Fanesi
Chidzura used to work for more
than a month every year to prepare the fields for ridge farming,
sometimes even keeping their
children home from school and
bringing in extended family to
help. Then they had to hoe again
to keep the weeds in check.
Now his kids regularly attend
school and he has more time
to tend to his other businesses,
which include a fruit tree nursery and a small grain-buying
business.
In the past, the family routinely ran short of food during the “lean period” between
December and March. The
maize from the previous year’s
crop would run out before the
new crop came in, requiring him
to seek work off the farm to tide
them over. His house now has
a metal roof — a step up from
thatch — and they are working
towards putting in a floor.
Nkhunda summed it up
in three words he hesitantly
spoke in English: “fixed deposit
account.”
“He is saving money,” the
interpreter says. “Before, they
were not saving.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
Grow less maize and produce more food
Boosting yield allows seeding less maize as ‘insurance,’ and adding more profitable and nutritious crops to the rotation
By Laura Rance
Co-operator editor/
Mwamshambo Village, Malawi
C
hristian Thierfelder
strides into a plot of
maize, reaches down, and
scratches through the mulch
with his fingers to grab a clump
of soil.
Holding it up, the senior
agronomist with CIMMYT’s
Harare field station lets it
crumble through his fingers —
it is moist but not muddy, and
the decaying plant material
gives it a spongy texture.
Then he walks across to
another field being produced
under conventional methods,
where a hoe has been used to
create rows of ridges. The soil
from this field is rocky and
hard. It sifts through his fingers
like the sandy silt that it is.
“In the conventional system,
they leave everything bare,
which helps them to control
the weeds,” he said. “In the CA
system, we encourage them
to leave the residues from the
previous crop on the soil.”
Over time that decaying residue becomes the compost that
creates the sponge-like texture.
“When you look, the soil
(under CA) is very loose and
when you get a heavy rainfall,
the water can infiltrate because
there is a lot of biological activity — earthworms, beetles
and ants and so on that create
these biopools, like a sponge,”
Thierfelder said.
“The rainfall hits the soil surface and infiltrates, whereas
on the conventional system, it
just runs off or stands there. It
cannot infiltrate because it is
mostly compacted between the
ridges.”
Climate smart
That’s what makes CA “climate
smart,” during a dry spell, Thierfelder said.
“The conventional system
can only make use of the water
that is in the ridge and not
farther down in the soil,” he
said. “In the CA system, there
is access to deeper layers and
there is a lot of water that has
infiltrated before.
“The maize can actually
access the water much better
because of an improved root
system. And also, because of
the residues on top, there is
less evaporation of water — it
just has more water available
for plant growth.”
The decaying mulch builds
the soil’s organic matter and
fertility, as well as its waterholding capacity.
But the system also provides
distinct advantages to smallholder farmers, which is why
the push is on by CIMMYT
and other food security, environmental and faith-based
organizations to support its
widespread adoption.
“What farmers often do in
this area because of their fear
of not being food secure is they
plant a large area to maize,”
Thierfelder said.
“And that’s actually counterproductive because maize is a
crop that you cannot sell with
a lot of profit. It’s just good for
food. So the idea of introducing a rotation can only come in
when farmers are food secure.”
CA techniques reduce the
risk of crop failure, which
means they can sow a smaller
area to the staple maize.
“Then there is room for new
crops, cash crops, rotational
crops, nutritional crops that
help them a lot to improve
their diet to reduce malnutrition to reduce the problem of
stunting,” he said. “That’s a
very good way to overcome all
of these at once.”
Thierfelder said herbicides
are used, particularly in the
early stages.
“Most of the weeding is done
by women, and if you introduce a technology like herbicides you can dramatically
Christian Thierfelder demonstrates
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tillage is rocky and hard. The soil
becomes more mellow under
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reduce the burden on women,”
he said. “What we have seen
on these plots is the weeds
become less and less every year
because you don’t turn the soil
anymore and you don’t bring
new weed seeds on the surface.
“We have seen in trials and
also on farms that in about
four or five seasons there are
very few weeds coming up and
they can pull them up,” he said.
Governments on side
Governments are joining the
campaign. The government
of Malawi recently completed
a task force report identifying CA techniques that are
well adapted to Malawi growing conditions, said Gilbert
Kapunda, project manager for
the Sustainable Land Management Promotion Project,
an initiative of the country’s
agriculture and food security
department.
Kapunda said CA is seen as
an important component of
the country’s climate adaptation plan because of its ability
to improve the soil and conserve moisture. Governments
in the neighbouring countries
of Zimbabwe and Zambia are
also now promoting it.
“In areas where they have
used CA, the technology actually conserves moisture in the
soil, so when you have a dry
spell you still have maize growing,” Kapunda said.
The Malawian government
is now mounting an extension
effort to drive more CA adoption in the rural areas.
But getting farmers to
change is hard. After all, it was
only a few years ago that the
government was promoting the
ridge-row system most farmers
still use.
“The biggest challenge we
are facing is actually the mindset,” he said.
Co-operator editor Laura
Rance is visiting three African countries in February and
March on secondment to the
Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
Grain commission kicks off
wheat class consultations
Proposes tighter specifications for CWRS and CPSR and creating a new class for weaker U.S. wheats such as Faller
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
C
anada’s wheat class system could get a major
overhaul, including the
addition of a new class for
lower-gluten-strength American varieties such as Faller
The Canadian Grain Commission has issued a discussion paper and wants public
comment by April 20 on its
proposals, which include
tightening the quality specifications for the CWRS, CPSR
and Canada Western General
Purpose (CWGP) classes. The
discussion paper is available
on the CGC website.
The review also includes
E a s t e r n C a n a d a’s w h e a t
classes.
The paper says Canada’s
wheat class system helps
ensure quality control for endusers, but there have been a
lot of changes in Western Canada’s wheat industry, starting
with the elimination of kernel visual distinguishability
in 2008. That policy required
the seeds of new wheats look
like others in the same class
so inspectors could segregate
by appearance. (Now farmers must declare the class of
wheat they are delivering to
a buyer.) Also, the end of the
Canadian Wheat Board’s sin-
Canada’s lineup of wheat classes could look a little different if CGC proposals are implemented. Photo: CGC
gle desk in 2012 meant more
flexibility between buyer and
seller.
In 2012, Canadian customers complained about low
gluten strength in CWRS. An
investigation determined the
problem was a combination of
unusual weather and low gluten strength in the three varieties representing 33 per cent of
Prairie wheat crop.
Meanwhile, farmers are
growing more unregistered
wheats, including U.S. varieties. Since some grain companies have special contracts to
buy these wheats, that “may
indicate a demand for alternative varieties,” the paper says.
“Producers are increasingly
willing to grow these high-
yielding varieties. This raises
questions about balancing
emerging demands with the
need to protect existing markets and customer needs.”
Several years ago some in
the grain industry proposed
the CPSR class be modified to
include U.S. Dark Northern
Spring wheats such as Faller.
Some worry adding a new
class will add cost.
Check CWRS varieties
To protect the milling and
baking reputation of CWRS,
the CGC proposes changing the check varieties used
to measure the quality of new
class entrants.
“Glenn will serve as the
upper limit of gluten strength,
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Carberry as the minimum
value, Teal as the moderatehigh, and BW971 as the moderate-low check variety for
gluten strength (in the central
and western bread wheat trials),” the paper says.
“Candidate cultivars exhibiting gluten strength below Carberry will be removed from the
CWRS class and assigned to
another wheat class. Candidate cultivars exhibiting gluten strength above Glenn will
also be assigned to another
wheat class.”
The CGC would also review
all the varieties in the CWRS
and CPSR class and transfer
those that don’t meet the specifications to other classes.
The CGC says the CWGP
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class, which was created for
high-yielding wheats suitable for livestock feed or ethanol production, has become
a catchall, including some
wheats used in milling and
baking. It would transfer inappropriate varieties to other
classes.
The paper hints the Canada Western Extra Strong
class might disappear, noting
no new varieties are in trials
and the quality specifications
overlap with CPSR. The same
applies to the Canada Prairie
Spring White class, which can
be covered off by the Canada
Western Hard White Spring
class.
System needed
The class system is not about
to be scrapped because it helps
Canada compete, CGC chief
commissioner Elwin Hermanson said in an interview.
“If we’re just selling it on
price and availability... we’re
going to be beat out by countries that have lower labour
costs and have shorter distances to transport grain,” he
said.
“So we have to get these
other things right. We won’t
make these changes without
consulting our stakeholders.”
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March 3-5: Canola Council of Canada
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March 5: Deerwood Soil and Water
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call Les McEwan at 204-744-2344 or
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Cattle Prices
Heifers
Alberta South
$
—
—
130.00 - 147.00
118.00 - 130.00
—
$ 223.00 - 230.00
232.00 - 245.00
246.00 - 265.00
275.00 - 294.00
299.00 - 322.00
322.00 - 351.00
$ 205.00 - 217.00
218.00 - 227.00
230.00 - 244.00
245.00 - 264.00
270.00 - 296.00
291.00 - 315.00
($/cwt)
(1,000+ lbs.)
(850+ lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
Futures (February 20, 2015) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change
February 2015
159.17
0.07
April 2015
152.62
1.50
June 2015
144.70
0.83
August 2015
142.85
0.78
October 2015
145.17
0.40
December 2015
145.67
0.30
Feeder Cattle
March 2015
April 2015
May 2015
August 2015
September 2015
October 2015
Cattle Slaughter
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
Ontario
$ 183.02 - 201.56
161.44 - 194.76
107.12 - 139.97
107.12 - 139.97
142.20 - 157.78
$ 204.72 - 237.44
219.83 - 248.99
224.29 - 262.32
231.49 - 285.46
243.01 - 311.46
234.20 - 335.04
$ 179.17 - 205.33
186.45 - 224.05
170.29 - 223.24
218.11 - 254.93
213.00 - 269.14
223.95 - 266.65
Close
202.55
201.57
200.90
203.65
202.70
201.25
Change
2.25
1.27
0.55
0.30
0.13
-0.55
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
February 14, 2015
52,172
12,121
40,051
N/A
537,000
Previous
Year­
49,842
12,600
37,242
N/A
540,000
Week Ending
February 14, 2015
1,028
26,738
14,125
325
455
8,784
112
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Previous
Year
560
24,529
16,196
595
528
9,895
76
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
158.00 E
147.00 E
136.83
141.80
Futures (February 20, 2015) in U.S.
Hogs
April 2015
May 2015
June 2015
July 2015
August 2015
Last Week
163.92
151.69
145.32
152.83
Close
67.05
76.72
81.45
81.80
82.05
Last Year (Index 100)
181.89
172.73
177.73
176.29
Change
2.55
2.07
2.95
2.75
2.45
Other Market Prices
Winnipeg (70 Hd)
Wooled Fats
117.00 - 130.00
170.00 - 182.00
175.00 - 182.00
175.00 - 182.00
—
—
Chickens
Minimum broiler prices as of April 13, 2010
Under 1.2 kg................................... $1.5130
1.2 - 1.65 kg.................................... $1.3230
1.65 - 2.1 kg.................................... $1.3830
2.1 - 2.6 kg...................................... $1.3230
Turkeys
Minimum prices as of March 1, 2015
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.960
Undergrade .............................. $1.870
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.945
Undergrade .............................. $1.845
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.945
Undergrade .............................. $1.845
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. producers premise.
Market fallout from latest
BSE case seems minor
Cold weather and a holiday Monday weighed on volumes
Dave Sims
V
olumes picked up slightly at most
Manitoba cattle yards during the week
ended Feb. 20.
Prices for lightweight steers in both the 300to 400-pound and 400- to 500-lb. ranges ticked
upward by $5 to $10. Meanwhile, top-end bids
for heifers (700-800 lbs.) declined from the
week before. Generally, though prices held
firm.
“Things are steady, it has paid for guys to
put some pounds on their cattle,” said Allan
Munroe of Killarney Auction Mart, noting
feed hasn’t been an issue for ranchers in the
area.
Numbers for Killarney’s recent auction
were just over 250 head, but Munroe said bad
weather, the Louis Riel Day holiday and the
Feb. 12 announcement that a beef cow had
been found in Alberta with BSE may have led
to the decline.
“That caused some people to back off, like
I had over 200 cattle that postponed a week,”
he said.
Although the BSE incident was quickly
determined to be an isolated case, South
Korea immediately locked its doors to imports
of Canadian beef, pending further information on the case, raising unwanted memories
of the problems Canadian ranchers encountered a decade ago.
So far, however, the fallout seems to be
minor and Munroe said it’s pretty much business as usual.
“It certainly hasn’t as of now, and we’re just
about a week in,” he said, “If the cattle feeders
SunGold
Specialty Meats
—
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
allan munroe
were scared they would have shown it immediately, I would think.”
The Canadian dollar continues to support
values as it makes Manitoba beef particularly
attractive to international buyers. The loonie
is now at a six-year low against its American
counterpart, as plunging crude oil prices have
weighed against the currency. The loonie is
particularly dependent on commodities such
as oil to keep it afloat.
However, it has helped keep prices buoyant,
Munroe said. “The futures are holding steady
right now, but they’ve dropped off since what
we saw in early December — but the dollar’s
dropped off, too, and that’s sort of balanced
each other out.”
Demand continues to come from all directions. “The Monday before I sent two full loads
out of here to Ontario,” Munroe said.
Although some producers marketed their
animals a bit early this year, Munroe is confident of a bigger showing next week.
“There’s likely (going to be) 600 to 700 this
coming week,” he said.
Dave Sims writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a
Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity
market reporting.
briefs
Jan. cattle
placements above
expectations
Reuters
Toronto
96.66 - 124.32
186.94 - 198.61
205.13 - 227.83
218.24 - 253.05
222.76 - 300.88
—
“If the cattle feeders were
scared they would have shown it
immediately.”
CNSC
By Theopolis Waters
Sheep and Lambs
$/cwt
Ewes Choice
Lambs (110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
$1 Cdn: $0.7996 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.2506 Cdn.
COLUMN
(Friday to Thursday)
February 20, 2015
Winnipeg
Slaughter Cattle
Steers
160.00 - 166.00
Heifers
—
D1, 2 Cows
127.00 - 133.00
D3 Cows
110.00 - 124.00
Bulls
140.00 - 152.00
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
$ 200.00 - 221.00
(801-900 lbs.)
210.00 - 239.00
(701-800 lbs.)
225.00 - 263.00
(601-700 lbs.)
250.00 - 285.00
(501-600 lbs.)
280.00 - 312.00
(401-500 lbs.)
300.00 - 328.00
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
185.00 - 211.00
(801-900 lbs.)
200.00 - 218.00
(701-800 lbs.)
210.00 - 234.50
(601-700 lbs.)
227.00 - 263.00
(501-600 lbs.)
240.00 - 300.00
(401-500 lbs.)
270.00 - 311.00
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
February 20, 2015
The number of cattle placed
in U.S. feedlots in January
fell compared with a year
ago, a government report
showed last Friday, but was
slightly more than had been
expected, said analysts.
Lower prices for cattle
ready for processing discouraged some ranchers from
sending them to feedlots,
whose margins suffered due
to high-priced calves that are
grown to heavier weight for
sale to packers.
Still, fewer cattle for breeding entered the slaughter mix
as ranchers held them back to
rebuild the U.S. herd.
Last month’s placements
appear smaller when compared with January 2014’s
placements, which were the
biggest for the month since
2006.
The government revised
last year’s placement and
supply figures to reflect the
removal of cows and bulls
from previous estimates.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture report showed
January placements at 1.787
million head, down 11 per
cent from 2.014 million last
year.
Analysts, on average, had
expected a 12.7 per cent
decrease.
USDA put the feedlot cattle
supply as of Feb. 1 at 10.711
million head, nearly in line
with 10.678 million a year
ago. Analysts, on average,
had forecast a 0.1 per cent
decline.
Marketings to packers
were down 9.0 per cent in
January from a year ago, at
1.625 million head. It was
the lowest for the month of
January since USDA began
calculations.
Analysts projected a drop
of 8.2 per cent from 1.788
million last year because of
one less weekday to market cattle last month than in
January 2014.
University of Missouri livestock economist Ron Plain
said the report was moderately bearish, but other analysts said Chicago Mercantile
Exchange live cattle futures
may not respond too negatively, if at all, to the report.
The January 2015 placement result was still relatively
low compared with last year,
and futures had already suffered heavy losses before the
data’s release, they said.
Goats
Kids
Billys
Mature
Winnipeg
(Fats)
—
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
99.00 - 332.50
—
94.02 - 248.50
Horses
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
35.43 - 50.86
32.11 - 60.05
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
GRAIN MARKETS
Export and International Prices
column
Canola futures rising into
upper end of range
Wheat futures weren’t able to hang on to their gains
All prices close of business February 19, 2015
Last Week
Week Ago
Year Ago
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
193.92
191.53
226.43
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
210.91
211.00
250.50
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
153.44
150.78
179.42
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
179.61
177.18
303.78
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
370.10
361.47
499.08
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
701.85
705.82
894.57
Coarse Grains
oilseeds
Phil Franz-Warkentin
CNSC
C
anola futures at ICE Futures Canada
continued their three-month uptrend
during the week ended Feb. 20, hitting their highest levels since July.
While there is still more room to the
upside from a chart standpoint, the fundamental arguments for any further strength
are getting harder and harder to find.
A lack of significant farmer selling has
been cited on numerous occasions as an
u n d e r p i n n i n g f a c t o r, k e e p i n g c a n o l a
pointed higher. However, deliveries appear
to be coming in, rail movement is still running behind, and commercial stocks of over
1.4 million tonnes (according to Canadian
Grain Commission data) are far from tight.
The weaker Canadian dollar has also
been a supportive factor for canola, as it’s
crashed to the US80-cent mark and below.
However, the currency appears to be stabilizing for the time being, according to analysts who are mostly of the opinion that the
lows may be in for the time being as far as
the loonie is concerned.
The exchange rates helped canola outpace Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybeans to the upside during the run-up, with
some fund spreading between the two markets also said to be benefiting the Canadian
futures. However, canola remains the little
brother in the relationship and where the
soy complex goes will eventually pull on the
Canadian oilseed as well.
Soyoil already lost ground over the week,
and most reports out of South America
point to a big soybean crop as the harvest
moves forward in Brazil.
With the South American crops coming
online, international demand for soybeans
is also starting to shift southward.
CBOT soybeans did manage to see some
strength during the week, with expectations
for declining U.S. acres this spring providing a modest boost. However, just as in
Canada, a lack of farmer selling has contributed to gains in beans and those unpriced
supplies are expected to start weighing on
prices shortly.
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reports from Commodity
News Service Canada,
visit “Today in Markets” at
www.manitobacooperator.ca.
Wheat futures, meanwhile, hit some of
their best levels in a month to start the week,
but were hard pressed to hold on to any
gains and dropped lower across the board.
The failed ceasefire in Ukraine provided
the catalyst for some early buying interest in wheat. Cold temperatures across the
U.S., and the resulting winterkill threats,
were also supportive. However, world wheat
supplies remain large and the U.S. continued to miss out on export opportunities
during the week.
Eg y p t i s t h e w o r l d’s l a rg e s t w h e a t
importer, and even a US$100-million line
of credit was not enough to convince the
country to buy U.S. wheat in a tender during the week. With shipping factored in,
U.S. prices were said to be about US$50 per
tonne above the wheat being offered from
France and Romania.
U.S. wheat exports are running about 24
per cent behind the year-ago pace, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
That slow export pace has led to upward
revisions to carry-out estimates, and a retest
of the nearby lows hit at the beginning of
February is likely more plausible for wheat
than any continued strength. However,
Ukraine’s situation does remain a wild card,
while U.S. weather concerns also have the
potential to provide a nearby boost.
Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business February 20, 2015
barley
Last Week
Week Ago
March 2015
184.00
195.00
May 2015
186.00
197.00
July 2015
188.00
199.00
Canola
Last Week
Week Ago
March 2015
470.10
462.90
May 2015
466.10
459.00
July 2015
459.90
456.90
Special Crops
Report for February 23, 2015 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan
Spot Market
Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)
Spot Market
Other (Cdn. cents per pound unless
otherwise specified)
Large Green 15/64
40.50 - 44.00
Canaryseed
Laird No. 1
37.50 - 44.00
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
24.00 - 29.00
23.00 - 26.00
—
Desi Chickpeas
15.20 - 16.00
Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1
8.30 - 9.00
Fababeans, large
Medium Yellow No. 1
8.15 - 9.50
—
Feed beans
—
Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans
26.00 - 26.00
Feed Pea (Rail)
No. 1 Great Northern
45.00 - 45.00
4.75 - 4.85
Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)
No. 1 Cranberry Beans
44.00 - 44.00
Yellow No. 1
No. 1 Light Red Kidney
56.00 - 56.00
34.00 - 34.50
Brown No. 1
25.00 - 25.50
No. 1 Dark Red Kidney
74.00 - 74.00
Oriental No. 1
29.50 - 31.00
No. 1 Black Beans
42.00 - 42.00
Source: Stat Publishing
No. 1 Pinto Beans
25.00 - 32.00
No. 1 Small Red
46.00 - 46.00
No. 1 Pink
SUNFLOWERS
46.00 - 46.00
Fargo, ND
Goodlands, KS
19.10
NQ
Ask
—
Report for February 20, 2015 in US$ cwt
NuSun (oilseed)
Confection
Source: National Sunflower Association
Prairie wheat acres seen down six per cent
Pulse area seen up based on good prices and strong Asian demand
By Terryn Shiells
Commodity News Service Canada
C
anadian wheat acreage, excluding durum,
is expected to drop six per cent to 17.9 million acres, for the 2015-16 crop year, Robert
Saik, CEO of the Agri-Trend Group said during a
presentation at the Wild Oats Grainworld conference in Winnipeg.
Wheat acreage is expected to fall as current
returns are at the break-even level, and the rally
potential for the market is flat to moderate, Saik
said. There are also some worries about fusarium
damaging wheat crops. Rail movement issues
may also discourage farmers from planting
wheat.
“Famers don’t want to plant something when
they still have lots of it in the bin and there are no
signs of moving it,” Saik added.
He expected dur um wheat acreage would
rise 15 per cent compared to 2014, to 5.5 million acres, as returns for the crop are positive.
In 2014-15, 4.8 million acres of durum were
planted.
Canola area is projected to increase slightly
to 20.4 million acres, from 20.3 million in 2014.
Soybean area will likely stay flat at 5.6 million acres, while flax will see a slight increase
to 1.8 million, from 1.6 million acres last year.
Sunflower seed area should jump to 100,000
acres, an increase of 25 per cent, Saik said.
The price outlook for pulse crops is positive, which leads to expectations of increased
area. Minimal disease problems, and expectations that demand from India and southwest Asia
will remain strong were also making pulses look
attractive. Saik predicted pea acres would be at
3.9 million acres, from 3.8 million seeded in 2014.
Farmers are expected to plant 3.5 million acres of
lentils, from 3.1 million last spring.
Both corn and oats are expected to see three
million acres planted, which is a slight increase
for oats, as 2.8 million acres were planted last
year. In 2014, farmers seeded 3.1 million acres of
corn.
A fairly large increase is expected in barley acreage, as potential returns for malt varieties are
looking very good. Saik expected acres to rise to
7.2 million, from 5.9 million last spring.
The overall balance shows that cereals will
make up 50.6 per cent of planted area, oilseeds
38.6 per cent and pulses 10.8 per cent in 2015.
In 2014, cereals made up 50.4 per cent of seeded
acres, oilseeds were 39.2 per cent and pulses were
10.4 per cent.
Summerfallow is also expected to drop to 3.0
million acres, from 4.6 million in 2014.
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Province continues to see negative
TB results in domestic cattle
Bovine tuberculosis remains undetected in domestic cattle as
experts continue to strive for provincial eradication
By Jennifer Paige
Co-operator staff / Brandon
P
roducers at the Manitoba Beef
Producers annual meeting
here earlier this month heard
some good news about the province’s bovine tuberculosis eradication
efforts.
“The hope remains quite high that
this winter’s surveillance in elk, deer
and domestic livestock will move us
closer to achieving the overarching
goal of the program — eradication
of the disease and a rebuilding of the
wild populations,” said Allan Preston, lead co-ordinator of the Riding
Mountain TB eradication project.
Over the past 12 years, 11 cattle
herds have tested positive for TB with
the last case found in 2008. Two cases
of whitetail deer have been found
positive, as well as 22 elk with that
last case being discovered last spring.
“The most recent positive was last
spring. The mature cow elk was 11
years of age, and she was located
deep in the central area of the
RMNP,” Preston said. “However, it is
not unexpected to find positive elk
born prior to 2004. If we do find TB
in younger animals born after 2004,
it will be a red flag for us as that indicates that the disease is still percolating in the wild populations.”
TB is contagious and transferred
through saliva and eating contaminated feed. It is generally found in
bison, elk, deer, goats, cattle and
can affect other species, including
humans.
In 2000, a provincial task force
was created to combat its spread
and ensure surveillance. Members
included the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Riding Mountain National Park (RMNP), Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiative
(MAFRI) and Manitoba Conservation.
“For us today in Manitoba the primary implication of TB is a trade barrier. We are the only jurisdiction in
Canada that has restrictions on the
export of breeding stock from Manitoba into the U.S. The rest of Canada doesn’t have that imposition put
on it and it is our goal to have that
removed,” said Preston.
Priorities
Top priorities for the year include
demonstrating freedom from disease
in the domestic livestock herd in
the Riding Mountain TB Eradication
Area (RMEA), maintaining the
TB-free status in that domestic
herd, and reducing TB presence in
wildlife that pose a risk to domestic
livestock.
The initiative is also looking to
minimize interactions between
cervids (deer and elk) and livestock, especially herding on livestock feed, which can transmit
disease.
The task force will also be looking to reduce surveillance in both
the wild and the domestic herds to
maintenance levels, and develop
and maintain a sustainable elk and
deer population in the ecosystem.
“The standing committee on agriculture recommended back in 2003
that the elk herd size in the park
should be maintained at about 2,500
head. Currently we are sitting in
about 1,500 head,” said Preston.
A number of surveillance procedures
have been undertaken again this year,
including, domestic livestock and elk
surveillance, hunter-kill surveillance,
First Nations hunter-kill samples, onfarm risk assessments as well as pressing forward with premise identification
and linking to CCIA records.
Testing buffer areas
“One thing that we are doing differently this year is that we are
not doing any testing in the core
area, which is primarily the RMs of
Grandview and Rossburn. Instead
the surveillance is concentrated on
herds scattered in the buffer area.
Roughly 10 per cent of those herds
are undergoing tests this year,
which translates into 33 herds and
3,500 head,” said Preston.
To date, 29 herds have been tested
and with all negative results. Preston anticipates the possibility of
Allan Preston, lead co-ordinator of the Riding Mountain TB eradication initiative, provided
an update on the current status of bovine tuberculosis during the Manitoba Beef Producers
annual general meeting earlier this month in Brandon. Photo: Jennifer Paige
ceasing herd testing outside of the
core area after this year.
The initiative plans to complete
the surveillance of 150 head of
mature elk cows in the core area.
“On the elk surveillance program
side, a second round of mature cow
testing may be required in 2019-20
to allow us to be convinced that the
disease is indeed well under control,”
said Preston.
The TB eradication project is also
working to develop a new testing
model in order to find better ways to
collect and analyze data.
“The issues of data collection, the
premise identification and linking
the CCIA accounts cannot be overestimated. We have done a lot of work
this year with databases and we have
been able to track down slightly over
80 per cent of the animals that leave
to slaughter,” said Preston. “We are
striving to bump that number up
even higher as the closer we get to
100 per cent the more likely it is that
we can use slaughter surveillance as
the only mechanism… as opposed to
herd testing on the landscape.”
Field staff members are now working with RMEA producers to conduct
on-farm risk assessments and assist
in finalizing details of cattle identification and premise identification
that will enable full use of slaughter
TB surveillance information on cattle born in the RMEA.
Slaughter data is critical to reduce
emphasis on live animal herd testing. Risk assessments will assist producers in identifying potential risks
of their cattle interacting with elk
and help implement the appropriate
measures to mitigate those risks.
“Manitoba producers have really
made great efforts to ensure that
we have risk mitigation put in place
and that is probably the single most
important factor that has led to the
reduction of cases of TB in domestic
livestock,” said Preston.
The TB eradication initiative is
looking to perform the last core area
herd testing in 2015-16 and continue
with elk cow testing and surveillance
until 2022 with the ultimate goal of
provincial eradication by 2024.
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Young beef producer gaining
knowledge through mentorship
Brandon-area farmer will spend eight months with an experienced grazing manager in Alberta
By Jennifer Paige
Co-operator staff
B
rett McRae is a passionate young producer who
shared a glimpse into the
mindset of the beef industry’s
upcoming generation during
the recent Manitoba Beef Producers annual general meeting.
Twenty-seven-year-old McRae
is the fifth generation to raise cattle on his family’s 100-year-old
farm. Mar Mac Farms is located
outside of Brandon, operating
with 210 head of purebred Angus
and Simmental cows and 1,000
acres of grains and oilseeds.
While growing up, McRae
was heavily involved in the 4-H
program, the young Canadian
Simmental Association and the
Canadian Junior Angus Association (CJAA). He was a founding
member of the Manitoba Junior Angus Association (MJAA),
served on the board of the CJAA
and earned a diploma in agribusiness from Lakeland College.
Last year, McRae was selected
from a number of applicants
to take part in the Cattlemen’s
Young Leaders (CYL) mentorship program.
“The CYL program is by far one
of the best opportunities that
young producers have today. It is
a mentorship program that pairs
you with an experienced producer that matches your operation goals and interests,” said
McRae.
The program annually selects
16 producers between the ages
of 18 and 35 from across the
country.
McRae was paired with Steve
Kenyon from Busby, Alta., for
his eight-month mentorship.
Kenyon has been involved in
sustainable grazing management for more than 10 years. He
runs a custom grazing business,
Greener Pastures Ranching Ltd.,
with 1,500 head of livestock and
3,500 acres.
“Sometimes the best way to
learn is through talking to other
producers; seeing what they are
doing on their operations and
asking for advice.”
Balancing experience
with change
During the Manitoba Beef
Producers annual general meeting, McRae gave a presentation
about shifting paradigms and
why it is important to examine
why and what you do in your
operation.
“Young producers today need
the guidance of experienced
producers without their limiting beliefs. What worked well
in 1975 won’t necessarily work
today. The industry is changing,” said McRae.
“When do you calf? How
many cows do you have? Many
young farmers would respond
with the same answers that
their father or grandfather had
because that is the way it has
always been done,” said McRae.
“But, if you are using a map and
paradigm from years past to
navigate, you are going to have
a lot of trouble in today’s fastchanging industry.”
McRae urged audience members to examine their opera-
“I think it would help
our industry if we
can express to the
consumer that we
have a safe, reliable
source of protein
that they can enjoy.
The more they get
to know about our
industry, the more
they are going to
like it and feel good
about eating beef.”
Brett McRae is a young producer who owns and operates Mar Mac Farms with his family just outside of Brandon, with
210 head of purebred Angus and Simmental cows and 1,000 acres of grains and oilseeds. photo: jennifer paige
tions to identify any paradigm
that may be affecting their bottom line or production levels.
“What are you focused on?
Do you focus on the past or the
future? As a young beef producer, I urge you to focus on the
future. We will always need the
past for data and knowledge but
the future is what we need to
base our decisions on.”
Winning video
McRae also finds value in online
and social media.
“One of the best tools producers have today is YouTube.
It is a fantastic tool that I use
all the time. It is free, full of
valuable information and
speakers giving advice on a
number of different topics,”
said McRae.
Along with using YouTube for
practical on-farm information,
McRae has also begun to use
social media outlet to advocate
for the industry and help give
a voice to today’s young beef
producers.
Last year, with the help of his
sister Melissa, McRae created a
YouTube video (http://youtu.
be/BzivakjZHT4) about a day
in the life of a beef producer.
He entered the video into a
contest put on by the Five
Nations Beef Alliance and won
a trip to Corpus Christi, Texas,
in October where he toured
ranches, packing plants and
feedlots.
“Social media is an amazing tool, a handy resource to
get answers to questions and
Brett McRae
a great way to tell our story to
consumers,” he said. “Consumers are really interested in
where their food comes from. I
think it would help our industry if we can express to the
consumer that we have a safe,
reliable source of protein that
they can enjoy. The more they
get to know about our industry,
the more they are going to like
it and feel good about eating
beef.”
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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Feeder Steers
Feb-18
Feb-17
Feb-17
Feb-17
n/a
Feb-16
Feb-19
Feb-20
No. on offer
2,040*
705
514*
2,053*
n/a
705*
1,805
820
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
200.00-226.50
n/a
210.00-230.00
n/a
220.00-231.50
n/a
210.00-221.00
800-900
226.00-237.00
215.00-239.50
210.00-237.00
228.00-244.00
n/a
225.00-242.50
225.00-239.00 (241.00)
215.00-243.00
700-800
220.00-261.00
220.00-263.00
230.00-263.00
234.00-260.00
n/a
235.00-255.00
235.00-260.00 (264.00)
220.00-265.00
600-700
250.00-293.00
250.00-300.00
250.00-292.00
269.00-300.00
n/a
265.00-291.00
265.00-290.00 (305.00)
235.00-290.00
500-600
270.00-326.00
300.00-331.00
280.00-345.00
280.00-333.00
n/a
290.00-320.00 (329.00)
290.00-335.00 (340.00)
260.00-317.00
400-500
280.00-340.00
320.00-346.00
315.00-350.00
320.00-357.00
n/a
335.00-360.00 (371.00)
285.00-340.00 (350.00)
275.00-328.00
300-400
300.00-346.00
310.00-341.00
325.00-380.00
340.00-385.00
n/a
n/a
270.00-320.00 (340.00)
300.00-330.00
n/a
180.00-194.25
n/a
185.00-205.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
180.00-211.00
Feeder heifers
900-1,000 lbs.
800-900
180.00-216.00
213.00-221.00
190.00-215.00
200.00-219.00
n/a
200.00-214.00
n/a
200.00-220.00
700-800
215.00-232.00
210.00-240.00
210.00-234.00
217.00-231.00
n/a
220.00-236.00
200.00-215.00 (222.00)
210.00-239.00
600-700
220.00-259.00
240.00-273.00
225.00-260.00
235.00-258.00
n/a
235.00-250.00 (257.00)
225.00-252.00 (265.00)
220.00-274.00
500-600
270.00-312.00
280.00-316.00
250.00-317.00
267.00-293.00
n/a
255.00-276.00
250.00-290.00 (316.00)
230.00-307.00
400-500
280.00-319.00
300.00-328.00
275.00-320.00
280.00-320.00
n/a
290.00-320.00 (325.00)
270.00-320.00 (335.00)
245.00-311.00
300-400
304.00-327.00
300.00-325.00
285.00-330.00
310.00-345.00
n/a
n/a
275.00-300.00 (315.00)
300.00-330.00
No. on offer
140
n/a
68
195
n/a
n/a
110
70
D1-D2 Cows
110.00-119.00
80.00-132.25
124.00-129.50
128.00-140.00
n/a
115.00-135.00
122.00-135.00 (142.00)
125.00-135.00
D3-D5 Cows
100.00-108.00
n/a
n/a
115.00-127.00
n/a
n/a
110.00-125.00
100.00-124.00
Slaughter Market
Age Verified
120.00-137.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
118.00-140.00
n/a
120.00-145.00
Good Bulls
140.00-161.00
124.00-143.25
135.00-145.00
146.00-160.00
n/a
140.00-150.00
120.00-147.00 (159.50)
148.00-162.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
170.00-177.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Steers
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
168.00-175.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
128.00-135.00
n/a
n/a
130.00-140.00
n/a
n/a
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
124.00-129.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
100.00-114.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Heiferettes
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
140.00-163.00
n/a
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
COLUMN
NEWs
Intestinal problems can come out of the blue
Some calves seem to be flourishing but they are suddenly struck down
Roy Lewis, DVM
Beef 911
E
very spring, the sudden
d e a t h s o f a p p a re n t l y
healthy calves frustrate
good managers. This article will
shed some light on the cause of
these internal conditions and
help producers realize some
things are simply beyond their
control.
We see one to two per cent
perforating ulcers every spring
on many well-managed farms.
These are ulcers on the abomasum (fourth stomach), which
have eaten right through the
entire wall, allowing gut contents to spill out into the abdomen. These calves die within
24 hours of this happening,
and most are found as a sudden death. If alive they are very
shocky, weak, and dehydrated;
may be down; and are often full
or bloated on both sides of their
abdomen. It is very often your
oldest calves that seem to be
doing very well.
Initially the cause of these
was suspected to be everything from clostridial diseases
and hairballs to BVD and copper deficiency to genetics. A lot
of these probable causes were
pretty much ruled out by a
group of researchers out of the
veterinary college in Saskatoon
in a study done more than 15
years ago. They surveyed herds
across Western Canada and
found these calves generally are
in the six- to eight-week range
when they ulcerate and are
generally the upper end as far
as growth. The incidence was
just as high in well-managed
herds where a lot of the suspect
causes could be ruled out.
Big changes
At the six- to eight-week stage,
c a l v e s a re c h a n g i n g f ro m
essentially a single-stomached
animal to one that ruminates,
whereby the rumen is enlarging. As a result the calves’ diet
is changing from only mother’s
milk to roughage and something triggers this ulcer formation. Ulcers happen on
calves picking at hay or where
their mothers are primarily fed
silage. No study has followed
up since, but I rarely see ulcers
on later-born calves that go
through this transition at pasture. The diet change is much
more subtle going from milk
to milk and very fine soft new
grass. Perhaps this more natural change has something to
do with it. Perhaps dead calves
are not found to be checked
at pasture but in the future
perhaps this question can
be researched and answers
found.
For now, some producers
must live with the fact a low
percentage of good calves get
this condition and die. For a
ver y few — if found early
enough and just have colicky
signs — surgery can be done
and the area resected. But they
must be found fast and treated
before the ulcer has perforated.
Obstructions
Calves in spring can be presented to a veterinary clinic
simply full with no manure
being passed. If they are alert
and lively a hairball or other
object causing an obstruction could be the cause. Often
these are initially treated with
laxatives to see if the object
will pass. If not, surgery is
performed and an enterotomy (cut into the intestines)
incision done right over the
obstruction and the calf will
generally make an uneventful
recovery.
If this situation is left, an
intussusception may develop,
which is essentially the telescoping of the intestine into
itself. Peristalsis is the contractions which move feed
down the intestinal tract. With
an obstruction or sometimes
spontaneously the intestines
overdo this process and telescope on themselves. The
resultant swelling and scarring in itself then will also
cause a blockage. Surgery can
again be done and often the
involved area of intestines is
removed back to normal and
the two ends are then joined
together. The intestines will
heal quickly and again an
uneventful recovery is often
the result after a few days of
convalescence.
Torsions
Torsions are intestinal accidents generally involving
the small intestines, spiral
colon, ceacum (equivalent to
the human appendix) or
the abomasum. Calves get
shocky and bloated very
quickly. Again, if surgery is
performed to correct the torsion, it must be done right
away. Otherwise, blood supply is damaged to the intestines or stomach since the
torsion acts essentially like a
tourniquet on the affected tissues. If you wait even a couple of hours the prognosis is
very grave indeed on all the
intestinal-related torsions.
These can be harder to fully
diagnose and with all these
intestinal problems an exploratory surgery can be the most
photo: thinkstock
revealing. Your veterinarian
can give a very good idea on
eventual outcome if they have
experience dealing with these
intestinal-type accidents.
Umbilical hernia
Every year we have several
cases of small intestines on
newbor n calves eviscerat ing out through an umbilical
hernia site. Sometimes the
hernial contents will be contained within a sac. These are
a dire veterinary emergency
and if rushed into the clinic
for surgery they can have a
high rate of success. If the
contents are contaminated by
straw or dirt, or stepped on
by the calf, the odds reduce
drastically.
The best thing to do with
these calves is get them upside
down so no more intestines
fall out from gravity. Wrapping
a clean wet towel around the
area facilitates this and prevents any exposed intestines
from drying out. If surgery can
be performed without much
contamination to the area the
veterinarian replaces the herniated contents, repairs the
hernial site, and covers them
with antibiotics. What is really
critical here is how quick pro-
ducers discover them and how
they are transported into the
clinic. The minute your veterinarian examines them he/she
can give you a fairly accurate
prognosis as to the final outcome and whether surgery is
worth it.
The causes of abdominal
problems are varied. In half of
the cases, diagnosis is made on
autopsy. Other cases can have
favourable outcomes if surgery
is performed. So quickly have
any of these conditions checked
by your veterinarian, as time
is often of the essence, as they
are true veterinary emergencies. With prices of calves today
and their future potential value,
the cost to perform individual
surgeries is often worth taking
the chance if the prognosis is
reasonable. If in doubt, quickly
phone the veterinary clinic to
get advice on the specific intestinal problem your calf has.
Many times, heroics will win
the day and it will be a case you
will talk about for years to come
— especially if the calf becomes
marketable.
Roy Lewis is a large animal veterinarian
practising at the Westlock Veterinary Cnt.
His main interests are bovine reproduction
and herd health.
Western cow-calf
producers asked
to complete
survey
Staff / The Beef Cattle
Research Council is asking
every cow-calf producer in
B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan
and Manitoba to complete
the Western Canadian CowCalf survey.
Deadline to complete
the survey is Feb. 28. It can
be filled out online but the
website also provides an
option to print the survey
and mail it postage free.
The website address is
https://fluidsurveys.usask.
ca/s/WesternCdnCow_
Calf_Survey/.
This survey was first
conducted in Alberta in the
late 1980s. It is now being
expanded to Western Canada through a combined
effort of representatives
from the provincial producer associations, provincial Ministry of Agriculture
specialists, the Beef Cattle
Research Council, Canfax
and the Western Beef Development Centre.
The survey asks questions
about operation, management and marketing
practices relating to your
2014 calf crop, starting with
breeding in 2013 and ending with weaning your 2014born calves. The BCRC says
it takes about 35-45 minutes
to complete. Many of the
questions are the quick
check-box style. Any question a producer is unable to
answer can be left blank.
The BCRC says results
will be used for comparison
for past studies, and to provide a guideline for future
research and extension.
Producers who participate can choose to receive
a report that allows them to
compare their own operation with benchmarks from
their region.
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WEATHER VANE
“ E v e r y o n e tal k s a b out the weathe r , b ut n o o n e d oe s a n y th i n g a b out i t . ”
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Issued: Monday, February 23, 2015 · Covering: February 25 – March 4, 2015
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
T
he cold, dry weather pattern in which we’ve been
stuck for pretty much all
of February looks as if it will continue into the foreseeable future.
This means we will continue to
see temperatures at the bottom
end of the usual range for this
time of the year, along with little
significant snow accumulation.
As we head into March it
looks like arctic high pressure
will continue to dominate our
weather, with the models predicting another three areas of
high pressure to drop southeast
during this forecast period. The
couple of positives we have in
our favour are that the sunshine
is getting stronger as we move
into March, which will help to
moderate or warm up the highs,
and secondly, these highs will
not come across the pole. This
means they won’t be as cold
from the start.
The first high will be the coldest and will cross our region on
Wednesday and should be to
our southeast by Thursday and
Friday. Wednesday should be
the coldest day of this forecast
period and we should see high
temperatures moderate towards
the -10 C range by Friday. Late
in the weekend, a second high
will slide in from the northwest,
dropping temperatures back
down by about 5 to 8 C. Once
again we’ll see a brief warm-up
as the high slides to our southeast Monday or Tuesday before
the third arctic high pushes in
around the middle of next week.
This high looks as if it will take
a more westerly route, sparing
us from the coldest air. High
temperatures with this high will
likely be in the middle of the
usual temperature range for this
time of the year, with overnight
lows slightly colder.
Looking further ahead, the
models still aren’t showing any
big push of warm air, but with
most regions having only light
to moderate snow cover it won’t
take much to melt most of it off.
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, -13 to 0 C;
lows, -27 to -9 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)
January 19, 2015 to February 17, 2015
2 - 9 mm
9 - 15 mm
15 - 22 mm
22 - 28 mm
28 - 35 mm
35 - 41 mm
41 - 48 mm
48 - 54 mm
54 - 61 mm
61 - 67 mm
67 - 74 mm
74 - 80 mm
80 - 87 mm
87 - 94 mm
94 - 100 mm
100 - 107 mm
107 - 113 mm
113 - 120 mm
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 © 2015 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: 02/18/15
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 Feb. 17. Precipitation has
been light to average for most regions (reds and browns), with southern Alberta particularly dry. The only areas seeing above-average
amounts were along the northern edge of the agricultural regions of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
A sneak peek at the spring and summer outlook
Eastern North America’s temperatures are a good 20 C below average
By Daniel Bezte
co-operator contributor
O
K, maybe I did jinx our
weather when I stated
earlier this month there
was no way this February could
be colder than last February. With
a forecast of more of the same
type of weather from now until
early March, it looks like this February will be as cold, and maybe
even colder. The weird thing is, if
you listen to people talk, very few
seem to be complaining about it
Temperature anomalies for Feb. 20, 2015. this year. Maybe it’s because we
Snow depth as of Feb. 22, 2015. photo: noaa.gov
photo: climatereanalyzer.org
had a nice December and second
half of January, whereas last year
we never did get a break from the cold. Or jumped out at me as I looked at this map of the snow. This year, the cold weather
maybe we are just getting tougher; we are was the huge purple area centred smack- has been sticking around and they have
quick to adapt here on the Prairies, after bang in the exact middle of the eastern U.S. not seen the snow melt between storms.
all. Personally, I think people are not com- When we hear about the cold weather this This has resulted in some really large
plaining as much because someone else region is experiencing, with overnight lows snowpacks. The second image shows the
has it worse than we do and just happens dropping into the -20 C range, we tend to snow depth across the U.S. and southern
to be located at the centre of the universe kind of laugh and call them wimps. What Canada for Feb. 22. You can see that the
— otherwise known as Eastern Canada and we have to keep in mind is just how these region from the Mississippi River eastthe northeastern U.S. I think, deep down temperatures compare to average. The pur- ward and the Ohio River northward has
inside, we get just a little bit of pleasure ple areas indicate temperatures running as much or more snow than Canada’s
watching them dig out of huge snowstorms nearly 20 C below average! If we applied southern and central Prairies. Some areas
and then have to deal with what, to them, this same deviation from average to our are even reporting record snow depths.
This unusual weather pattern across
is never-ending cold weather. Heck, maybe region, that would turn into daytime highs
around -30 C with overnight lows around North America so far this winter has
the universe is fair after all!
Just how bad has it been across the east- the -40 C mark. So, while the temperatures occurred before. According to meteoroloern part of North America? I think the our eastern neighbours have been experi- gist Michael Palmer of the Weather Changraphic I’ve included shows that nicely. encing may not seem really cold to us, they nel, this pattern has shown up in 1934, 1958
and 1963. Looking back at those years for
This image comes from ClimateReanalyzer. are very cold to them.
Making matters worse, the cold is not our region, I found the only winter even
org and shows the temperature anomalies
across North America and the Arctic for letting up. Big snowstorms are not that close to being similar to this year’s was
Feb. 20. Temperature anomalies are the unusual for that part of North America. 1958. I then looked at what the springs and
differences between the actual air tempera- They see a big storm, get a couple of days summers were like for these years, and
tures being recorded and the long-term to a week of cold weather, then the warm guess what? I found no pattern between
averages for that place. The first thing that weather moves back in and melts most these years — surprise, surprise. 1934 saw a
cold, dry spring followed
by a really warm May,
an average but wet June,
and then an average and
dry summer. 1958 saw
a warm and dry March
and April, an average
but dry May and a cool
and average June, with
an average summer that
started off on the wet
side in July. Finally, in
1963, March saw cold
temperatures with nearaverage amounts of
precipitation. April was
average and wet, followed by a cold and wet
May. This quickly turned around in June
and July as hot weather moved in along
with below-average amounts of precipitation. The summer of 1963 ended off with a
warm and dry August. Will we see a repeat
of one of these years? I really doubt it, but
if I had to pick one, I think, at least for our
region, I would go with 1934. Even though
that year had a cold start to spring, the rest
of the spring and summer saw warm to
average conditions, with a wet June giving
plants a good start to the growing season.
On the flipside of this, 1934 was the dust
bowl year in the central U.S. — which is
kind of interesting as I have been leaning
toward the current dry pattern affecting the
West Coast to drift eastward this summer.
That’s about all the room I have for this
issue. Thanks for all the different weather
story ideas you’ve been sending. Keep them
coming and I will do my best to cover as
many of them over the next few months as
possible, including an in-depth look at the
spring and summer weather outlooks.
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CROPS
h u sba n dr y — t h e sci e n c e , S K I L L O R A R T O F F A R M I N G
Corn acres sit tight
More corn producers are requesting returns of their checkoff dollars,
but so far research remains unaffected
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
C
Potential to grow
Approximately 315,000 acres were seeded
in Manitoba in 2014; of those about 65,000
were for silage. Acreage peaked at 430,000 in
2013.
“I know we’re in a little bit of a lull right now,
but I think corn is going to move ahead and will
follow soybeans,” said Dennis Thiessen, who
sits on the association’s board and farms near
Steinbach. “With new, earlier varieties with
good yield that are coming forward — things
look promising for corn… and I think we’ll see
more corn going west and going north, and
down the road the corn industry will be very
healthy.”
To that end, the association is putting its
checkoff dollars toward research. Funding
has also been provided through Growing
Forward 2 and the Western Grains Research
Foundation.
But not all farmers are on board with the levy.
The number of producers requesting a return
of their checkoff dollars has increased in the
last year, Bergsma said.
“We’ve chatted with those producers, and
for whatever reason they felt they could go it
alone,” she said.
Krahn added that the increase in refunds
hasn’t affected the association’s ability to
embark on research projects.
“We certainly prefer that members keep their
checkoffs in, so that we can advance the program, and advance corn production within
Manitoba,” he said. “Without those checkoff
dollars, there wouldn’t be money available for
MCGA president Myron Krahn says many experienced
growers think corn is profitable, even without crop
insurance. Photo: Shannon VanRaes
research to help manage risk on the growing
side of the crop.”
But he added that the vast majority of corn
producers see the value of funding research.
While corn is unlikely to ever command the
number of acres that canola or wheat do, the
president said he does expect to see strong
growth in corn acres over the next 10 or 15 years.
“It’s not Iowa here when it comes to corn;
you can’t plant knowing you’re going to get
a crop. We struggle, and the producers do, I
think, a fantastic job,” Krahn said. “They do
top-notch work… they deserve kudos.”
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orn acres in Manitoba aren’t expected to
grow this year, partly because of a lack of
risk management tools, according to the
Manitoba Corn Growers Association.
“The coverage that most corn producers have
is maybe 50 to 60 per cent of their cost of production,” said association president Myron
Krahn. “In a risk management strategy, that
leaves a lot of financial risk out there for producers, so that certainly holds them back for
sure.”
Several producers brought up the issue at the
organization’s annual general meeting in Winnipeg last week.
“It’s so low you can’t do much with it,” said
one producer.
Krahn said it’s a perennial issue.
“We meet with crop insurance every year and
we talk about this; they are aware of our plight,”
he said. “It gets talked about at almost every
board meeting… there is a tremendous onus on
the producer to manage risk.”
But the longer you grow corn, the better
existing risk management tools become, added
Theresa Bergsma, general manager for the corn
growers.
“It is individual coverage… so if you have five
years, you should get to your 10-year average
pretty quickly, because they’ll do two for one,”
she said.
Crop insurance notwithstanding, those who
believe in corn’s potential are willing to take the
risk, said Krahn.
“The producers in this province, even the
new producers, they seem like they have lots
of confidence in them to grow the crop, so that
does sometimes outweigh the financial risk,” he
said. “Because they do believe they can produce
a crop that is profitable in the end, even without crop insurance.”
Like all farmers, the biggest factor corn producers face is weather.
Krahn said that a normal spring is needed
to get a full crop in, but what exactly counts as
normal these days is hard to define.
“A normal spring would be any year where
we’re getting seeding done in the month of May.
If that happens in most areas of the province,
we’ll see acres similar to, or slightly above the
acres last year,” said Krahn, who farms near
Carman.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
Pulse Growers adds soybean to name
There is still more research to be done on soybeans at the regional level
By Shannon VanRaes
“It was simple this time, only a couple of fist
fights in the boardroom, and we were able to get
this name.”
co-operator staff
W
Francois Labelle speaks at CropConnect. Photo: Shannon VanRaes
hat’s in a name? A lot.
To that end, the
Manitoba Pulse Growers Association will now be
known as the Manitoba Pulse &
Soybean Growers.
“Since soybeans are not a
true pulse, we figured this was a
good way to go,” said executive
director Francois Labelle as he
announced the change at CropConnect in Winnipeg last week.
“The idea of including soybeans
into our name has long been
discussed at the board table…
they have become a large
part of our business through
increased acres and sales.”
It’s a big change from when
the association was first
founded in 1984, said president
Kyle Friesen.
In the early days of the producer organization, peas and
beans were the driving force
behind research and revenue.
“ The roles have kind of
Francois Labelle
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and edible beans over time.
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2000s, edible bean revenues
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work to get soybeans adopted
and generally
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Manitoba,” said
Friesen, adding
that soybeans
now provide about 85 per cent
of the organization’s revenue.
Roughly 60 per cent of total
revenue goes back into soybean
research.
“There’s a lot of work to be
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As soybeans
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beginning to cause some confusion, he said. The president
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“Over the years, the demographics of our membership
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But while they wanted a new
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
CropConnect 2015 almost a sellout
There are still concerns about some commodity group annual meetings being on at the same time
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
“Maybe I’ve got some
strange personality
— I like to go to
annual meetings to
see what’s going on
so I am automatically
excluded from going
to one or the other.
Let’s try working
really hard at (fixing)
that. It should be a
right to attend the
annual meeting so
I encourage you to
work hard with the
other groups.”
T
heresa Bergsma was
t i re d b u t h a p py Fe b.
19 — the day after the
second annual CropConnect
conference held at Winnipeg’s
Victoria Inn wrapped up.
“I think the event went very
well,” said Bergsma, secretary
manager of the Manitoba Corn
Growers Association who cochaired the event with Monika
Haley, executive assistant at
the Flax Council of Canada.
“We’ve had lots of good comments.”
Attendance was up about
100 people each day comp a r e d t o l a s t y e a r, w i t h
around 690 people coming
the first day and 675 the second, Bergsma said. Neither
the bitter cold nor the $240
fee to attend appeared to be a
deterrent.
Mo s t a t t e n d e e s p re - re g istered but about 60 people
“walked up” the first day and
40 the next. That option could
disappear, as attendance was
close to capacity this year,
Bergsma said. While the Victoria Inn can accommodate 880
people per day, the practical
number is 700 to 725, she said.
Ninety-six exhibitors took
part in CropConnect, with four
on a waiting list.
The event is organized by
f i ve Ma n i t o b a c o m m o d i t y
groups — canola, corn, flax,
pulse and soybeans, and for
the first time this year the new
wheat and barley association.
If it gets much bigger it might
have to change venues.
The Winnipeg Convention Centre, which is being
expanded, might be an option,
but some farmers are concerned about parking downtown.
As successful as CropConnect was, improvements can
still be made, Bergsma said.
One concern is commodity
group annual meetings on at
the same time. This year was
better than last, but there were
still conflicts.
That’s something MacGregor farmer Curtis Sims wants
Curtis Sims
MacGregor farmer
c h a n g e d . Sp e a k i n g a t t h e
Manitoba Canola Growers
Association’s (MCGA) meeting,
Sims noted the Manitoba Corn
Growers Associations annual
meeting was on at the same
time.
“Ma y b e I ’v e g o t s o m e
strange personality — I like
to go to annual meetings to
see what’s going on so I am
automatically excluded from
going to one or the other,” he
said. “Let’s try working really
hard at (fixing) that. It should
be a right to attend the annual
meeting so I encourage you
to work hard with the other
groups.”
Leanne Campbell, the
MCGA’s events and communications co-ordinator, sits
on the CropConnect steering
committee and said she would
relay Sims’ concerns.
This year’s CropConnect
agenda included three keynote
sessions, plus a wide variety
of agronomic and marketing
lectures.
In lieu of paying CropConnect speakers, $5,000 was
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
Lorne Loeppky’s 226-bushel corn
wins 2014 yield contest
The secret: paying attention to detail, good soil and hog manure
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
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Lorne Loeppky (r) of Rolling Prairie Farms near Tourond won the Manitoba Corn Growers Association’s 2014 yield
competition with a yield of 226.16 bushels an acre. He and his wife Ruth received the award from the CropConnect
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from (plant) population, to
seeding depth, to how the
land is prepared,” the winner
of the 2014 Manitoba Corn
Growers Association’s yield
competition said in an interview Feb. 18 on the sidelines
of the CropConnect conference in Winnipeg.
Loeppky, of Rolling Prairie Farms near Tourond won
the competition with a yield
of 226.16 bushels an acre. The
win was announced at the
CropConnect banquet Feb. 17.
Loeppky, who grew Pioneer
P7632HR in 22-inch rows, is
n o s t ra n g e r t o p r o d u c i n g
high-yielding corn. He often
finishes in the top 10 of the
competition and won it in
2008 setting a new competition record of 252.95 bushels
an acre.
Baker Colony, which won
the competition in 2013, set a
new record of 271.69 bushels
an acre in 2011.
Contestants are allowed to
select corn from two 50-foot
rows.
“When the (combine) yield
monitor goes crazy we back
o u t a n d l e a v e t h e s t r i p,”
Loeppky said. “ We usually
leave two to six strips, then
evaluate them and make a
pick.”
The hybrid Loeppky won
with was planted on about
60 per cent of his 1,100 acres
of corn. It was a commercial
hybrid, not one intended for
much farther south, giving it
a higher yield potential, but
also increasing the risk of not
maturing in time if grown
here.
While the corn competition
doesn’t reflect yields across an
entire farm or field, it demonstrates what yields are possible.
Loeppky estimates his 1,100
corn averaged around 165
bushels an acre in 2014, making it among one of his better
crops.
Province-wide corn averaged 115 bushels an acre,
according to crop insurance
data, down 13 per cent from
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133 bushels an acre in 2013,
but well above the 10-year
provincial average of 99.
Paying attention to detail
takes patience, Loeppky said.
Corn hybrids have better cold
tolerance than they used to,
but Loeppky still delays planting until the soil is 50 F.
“It seems like the less stress
you can put on that plant from
when the seed is put in the
ground the bigger, the better
the reward is,” he said.
Bigger and better equipment
helps alleviate some of the
pressure.
“In my younger years you
stopped the tractor at the end
of the field and gave the wheel
a couple of turns to make sure
every row was dropping the
seed,” Loeppky said.
Now if three seeds fail to
get planted in a row, an alarm
sounds, he added.
“With 22-inch row spacing
that equates to seeds dropping
every 6-1/4 to 6-3/4 inches
apart. You already have almost
a two-foot strip if three seeds
don’t drop.”
The corn goes on the best
land and is fertilized with hog
manure, which comes from
Loeppky’s isoweanling and
feeding operations.
“Hog manure is a full package,” he said. “It has all your
nutr ients, all your micros
(nutrients). It’s like ESN nitrogen fertilizer. I always consider
manure a slow-release nitrogen.”
Loeppky seeds about onethird of his farm’s 3,500 acres
to corn. “It’s a nice crop to
grow and easy to market, providing you have quality.
“Our area, we look like Iowa
— it’s hog barns, corn and
soybeans, especially this last
year with the boon in soybean
acres,” he said. “To find a barley field in the area, it’s pretty
much non-existent.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
Sunflowers aim for 100,000 acres in 2015
More tools may be available for sunflower growers, but a smaller crop makes bringing in new products more difficult
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
W
hile the 2014 Manitoba sunflower crop
fell short of expected
acres, a drier spring could bring
the 2015 crop closer to preflooding levels.
“April is really going to tell the
tale,” said Gregg Fotheringham,
president of the National Sunflower Association of Canada.
“If we see spring come in April
when it’s supposed to come, I
think we’re going to see a lot
of sunflower acres back in the
southwest, which we desperately need.”
Just over 85,000 acres of sunflowers were planted in Manitoba last year, about 30 per
cent of those were confectionery. However, in the mid-2000s,
acres peaked at roughly 190,000
and the association would like
to see at least 100,000 acres
planted this spring.
Fother ingham said poor
weather conditions in the
s o u t h w e s t re a l l y s t y m i e d
growth last season.
“As a board we are shooting
for that 100,000 mark… we fell
short last year, but we felt that
was attainable. So we’re still on
the cusp, and we’re wondering
what Mother Nature is going
to give us between now and
the first of May,” said Fotheringham, following the association’s annual general meeting at
CropConnect in Winnipeg.
“We certainly went into the
fall wet. But we haven’t had a
lot of snowfall this winter, so
lets hope that continues, and
that we just have an early spring
with no rain events. That’s what
we need.”
A smaller crop also means
getting new products and
research to sunflower producers can be difficult — fewer
research dollars and a reduced
market for suppliers make
attaining good information a bit
of a battle, Fotheringham said.
But he added that research is
ongoing and that advances are
being made, even on issues like
sclerotinia. All of which makes
the crop easier to produce.
“We’ve got more tools available to us than we did five years
ago, that’s for sure,” he said.
And sunflowers continue to
be in demand.
“We’ve got more
tools available to
us than we did five
years ago, that’s for
sure.”
Gregg Fotheringham
“ There’s ver y favourable
prices right now, in particular in
the oilseed market, I’m hearing
some 24 cents a pound for oil,
I’m hearing 28 cents a pound
for confects, those are very
good prices at this time of year,
and I think our processors still
have acres available, so it pencils out very well,” Fotheringham said, encouraging farmers
to see if the crop fits with their
rotation.
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of the National Sunflower Association. photo: file
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
Dalgarno honoured at Crop Connect
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food costs escalate sharply
as a result of continued currency weakness.
“The state should suspend exports of flour, but
not grain,” a spokeswoman
for Kiev’s top bread maker
Kyyvkhlib quoted the
company CEO Volodymyr
Chereda as saying.
Kyyvkhlib raised prices
for some types of bread by
10-12 per cent on Feb. 18.
Chereda said other bread
producers have also ramped
up prices due to higher net
costs, especially for flour.
Ukraine, one of the
world’s top grain sellers,
exported 317,000 tonnes of
wheat flour last season.
Kiev has been trying to
curb soaring food prices,
as fighting in east Ukraine
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national hryvnia currency.
A senior government
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ministries would hold a
meeting to discuss the food
market situation.
Ukrainian domestic
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had increased the competitiveness of Ukrainian grain
on the international market
— export prices for milling
wheat fell by almost $6 the
previous week.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
New variety no ‘silver bullet’
for new strain of clubroot
A new canola variety from Canterra Seeds with ‘intermediate resistance’ to a new strain of clubroot
will be available in limited amounts this growing season
By Jennifer Blair
staff / edmonton
A
David Hansen
to 5X may have some benefit
in areas where clubroot is not
established or present in very
low levels,” he said. “Having
that alternate source of resistance may reduce the probability of pathotype 5X if it’s not
established, but in fields where
there’s already heavy clubroot,
we wouldn’t recommend it any
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Strelkov. He suggests the new
variety be used as a preventive
measure rather than a management tool.
“The intermediate reaction
Canterra Seeds’ CEO David Hansen
says that the company’s new
variety will offer some protection
against the new strain of clubroot
that’s been found in central
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shown some promising resistance to a new
strain of clubroot that was
found near Edmonton in 2013
and has since spread to nearly
30 fields.
But it won’t offer true resistance, says a plant pathologist
from the University of Alberta.
“ T h i s v a r i e t y h a d v e r y,
very strong resistance to the
pathotypes that are prevalent, but only an intermediate reaction to this new
p a t h o t y p e — ca lle d 5X —
from 2013,” Stephen Strelkov
said about CS2000, Canterra
Seeds’ new canola var iety
produced in partnership with
DL Seeds.
“I think it’s a step in the
right direction, and one that’s
promising, but it’s certainly
not a silver bullet.”
‘Inter mediate resistance’
is a new concept for a lot of
growers, he said.
Varieties that are susceptible to clubroot show disease
severity that’s between 70 and
100 per cent, while resistant
varieties show disease severity between zero and 30 per
cent.
Varieties that have intermediate resistance — as CS2000
does — “fall somewhere in
between,” said Strelkov.
“It’s significantly less susceptible than a variety that’s
truly susceptible, but it’s not
complete resistance.”
That terminology is important, said David Hansen, president of Canterra Seeds.
“Intermediate is a very, very
sensitive word,” said Hansen.
CS2000 will offer some protection against 5X, he said,
but not the complete resistance that it shows for the
other “conventional clubroot
pathotypes — 2, 3, 5, 6, and
8.”
A “limited amount” of
CS2000 will hit the market
this spring, enough to seed
between 50,000 and 100,000
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said.
“We’ve got a lot of demand
for this, but we want to make
sure we can put as much into
as many hands as possible,”
said Hansen.
In addition to its disease
package, CS2000 is a “rocksolid variety from a yield and
an agronomy perspective,”
which is driving up demand,
he said.
“It has a package of important attributes that are criti-
more than any other clubrootresistant varieties.”
The best prevention is still a
four-year break between canola
crops, he said.
“In fields where resistance
has been overcome, we recommend that farmers avoid planting canola altogether in a short
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crops is recommended on those
fields.”
Hansen agrees.
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of products as a silver bullet. They need to also
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
U.S. farmers disappointed by
restrictions in proposed drone rules
Proposed rules include a height restriction and maintaining visual contact
By Karl Plume and P.J. Huffstutter
Reuters
U
.S. farmers hoping to
use drones to locate
lost livestock or monitor trouble spots in their fields
were disappointed by what they
say are overly restrictive commercial drone rules proposed
Feb. 15 by the Federal Aviation
Administration.
Two of the long-awaited draft
rules were singled out for particular criticism: a requirement
that pilots remain in visual
contact with their drones at all
times and a height restriction
that limits the crafts to flying
no more than 500 feet above
ground. These constraints,
farmers and drone operators
say, would limit a drone’s range
— and consequently its usefulness.
Leading drone makers PrecisionHawk and Trimble Navigation Limited, farm data services
firms, including ones run by
Monsanto and FarmLogs, and
even some federal lawmakers
are saying the proposed rules
could delay the development
of drone-assisted agriculture
in the United States if they are
finalized as currently written.
The FAA said farmers can
address the line-of-sight limitation by placing spotters to track
a drone’s pilot.
The FAA has opened a 60-day
public comment period, after
which it may consider changes
to the proposed rules. Final regulations might not be in place
for two years.
Idaho farmer Robert Blair,
who in January received the
FAA’s first exemption for drone
use on a commercial farm, said
the new rules would require
him to fly 10 separate drone
missions to cover his 1,300
acres, since he would have to
continuously shift locations in
order to keep his drone within
sight.
Under the proposed rules,
Blair told Reuters: “There’s no
way we can cover the ground
we need to cover” economically.
Even so, investors in precision farming say the new rules
are friendlier to farmers than
they are to Amazon.com Inc.
The e-commerce giant, which
plans to use drones for package
delivery, has indicated it may
launch its first drone deliveries
in overseas markets rather than
wait for broader approvals from
the FAA.
“Pe o p l e a re l o o k i n g f o r
where the opportunities are...
and agriculture is it,” said Rob
Leclerc, chief executive of
AgFunder, an online platform
for investors in agriculture technology.
Delays cause trouble
For some farmers, the new
rules will give FAA validation
to practices they already have
deployed. Despite a current
ban on most commercial drone
uses, classes teaching farmers
“There’s no way we
can cover the ground
we need to cover.”
Robert Blair
Idaho farmer
how to use the unmanned aircrafts have flourished at rural
colleges, and a bevy of YouTube
videos stands as evidence that
some farmers already have
begun piloting them.
Still, it could take two years
before the new FAA rules,
announced Sunday, take full
effect. Such delays could strain
cash-strapped startups, which
could be out of business before
the market booms, say industry
analysts.
Even now, companies that
have invested in drone technology are feeling strains.
“It’s been difficult for us,” said
Jim Kirkland, general counsel
and vice-president of equipment maker Trimble Navigation Ltd., which received an
FAA exemption from the ban
on commercial drone use in
December and has made a
series of acquisitions aimed at
beefing up its technology.
“We bought this business several years ago and we fly these
elsewhere in the world,” Kirkland said. “And certainly we
haven’t gotten the revenue out
of it that we could if rules had
been in place.”
The delay also is giving
opportunities for competing
technologies, such as microsatellites, to take root, said
attorney Roger Royse, founder
of the industry group Silicon
Valley AgTech.
By the time comprehensive rules are in place, larger
competitors likely will have
absorbed upstarts and be positioned to dominate the market,
some industry experts say.
Florida-based Pravia LLC
received an FAA exemption this
month to fly drones over 10
crop test sites in seven states
operated by seed company Syngenta AG. And Monsanto’s Climate Corp has applied for an
FAA exemption to use drones
commercially.
“We’re certainly going to be
testing different applications
of the (unmanned aerial systems) tools,” Climate Corp chief
executive David Friedberg told
Reuters.
With the regulatory outlook
uncertain and no quick payoff in sight, outside investment
in drone technology has been
modest. Last year, 19 different
drone or drone-related firms in
the U.S. and abroad received a
total of $88.5 million in funding from venture capitalists
and other investors, according to AgFunder research. All
identified agriculture as a key
market.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
Treaty rights to farm were not fulfilled
First Nations people embraced agriculture, but were stymied by policies established by European settlers
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
W
hen James Wilson asks
an auditorium of agriculture students how
many First Nations farmers
they know, only two hands go
up.
That doesn’t surprise Manitoba’s treaty commissioner.
“It’s not by accident,” he said,
explaining that for decades
policies enacted by the federal
government made it impossible for Aboriginal people to
farm successfully.
But that’s not how things
began.
As European settlers moved
into what would become Western Canada, a series of numbered treaties were entered
that gave both First Nations
and newcomers rights. Agriculture was central to the negotiation of these agreements.
“Farming and agriculture at
one time in Canada, and here
in Manitoba, was seen as a
vehicle and a means to adapt
to change, and contribute to
the Canadian economy. That
was a significant part of the
treaty process,” Wilson told a
recent forum at the University
of Manitoba.
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Cu l t i v a t i o n w a s a l re a d y
important to Aboriginal people, who had been growing
crops like corn, lamb’s quarters, amaranth, beans and
squash for hundreds and even
thousands of years. But as the
Prairies changed and new technologies arrived, First Nations
saw agricultural expansion as
key to the future.
In the Virden area in particular, which is encompassed by
Treaty No. 2, First Nations farming took off with great success.
“But through directed government policy… it hasn’t
become what was once envisioned,” Wilson said.
Unilateral act
That directed government policy began with the Indian Act,
first passed in 1876.
“The first evidence of bigotry
Ovide Mercredi
Photos: Shannon VanRaes
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negotiated between nations,
Ovide Mercredi explained that
the Indian Act was passed unilaterally by a white parliament
and allowed any government
policy to be imposed upon
First Nations.
“The treaty was to guarantee our people a relationship with the Crown, where
we would live with peace and
harmony with the settlers who
were coming into our lands
and sharing our territories,”
he emphasized. “It’s really a
treaty of peace, not a treaty of
extinguishment, it’s a treaty
relationship where we would
grow together, not a treaty
where one party would dominate the other and dictate to
the other what they can or
cannot do.”
Bu t Me rc re d i s a i d e v e n
before the ink was dry, there
was disagreement over what
the treaties meant, and rights
believed to be enshrined in the
multilateral agreements were
then usurped by a paternalistic
and damaging Indian Act.
That contentious legislation
paved the way for residential
schools, outlawed indigenous
religions, restricted the movements of Aboriginal people,
disenfranchised them, and prevented them from seeking legal
remediation against the Crown.
It also stopped First Nations
people from establishing themselves as farmers by allowing
for a series of massively detrimental government policies to
be enacted.
Labour-saving
equipment banned
“It’s easy for us in 2015 to look
back and say, ‘that was so stupid,’ but the thinking behind
these government policies was
that Christianity and civilization were one and the same, so
the government wanted to civilize First Nations people, Christianize First Nations people
through policy,” Wilson said.
“One of the policies it then
implemented was called the
Peasant Farmer Policy, and this
has a lot to do with the crippling of First Nations farming.”
That policy, introduced in
1889, outlawed labour-saving farm equipment on First
Nations farms, preventing any
type of mechanization.
“First Nations could only
farm with handmade tools,”
s a i d t h e c o m m i s s i o n e r,
explaining that the policy
stemmed from archaic ideas
about progress and the notion
that people could not become
civilized without progressing
through the same stages as
Europeans had.
One of those stages was
intensive manual labour.
However, Mercredi points to
another motivating factor in
preventing First Nations from
becoming successful agriculturalists.
“The resistance to Indian
agriculture came from white
farmers and the provinces.
I’m not speculating… I challenge you to do the research,”
he said, explaining that those
with competing interests lobbied the federal government
to protect their own endeavours.
And if indigenous farmers did manage to produce a
surplus in spite of the onerous barriers placed on them,
they were prohibited from
selling their goods outside of
their own reserve following the
introduction of a pass and permit system in the late 1880s.
Some elements of that system
remained in the Indian Act
until 1995.
Outside of broad policies,
many failures to fulfil obligations and broken promises by
various levels of governments
have also stymied First Nations
farming.
But as First Nations continue to fight for the fulfilment
of their treaty rights, including
the right to agriculture, these
are issues this generation and
the next will have to contend
with, Mercredi said.
However, the Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal farmers do
have some common ground
from which to find a way forward.
“The farmers and my people
have something in common,
we appreciate the land and we
live off the land, we respect the
land,” Mercredi said. “So it’s
not as if we’re miles apart.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN
Auction numbers down with
prices remaining constant
Limited supplies make for strong bidding at Feb. 18 sale
By Mark Elliot
co-operator contributor
T
here were 66 sheep delivered to the Winnipeg Livestock Auction for the Feb.
18 sale. The buyers were prepared
for some strong bidding battles,
and limited numbers on offer led
to some strong action.
The ewe classification was
represented by two 160-pound
Rideau-cross ewes. These ewes
brought $190.40 ($1.19 per
pound).
The selection of rams had
increased from the past few
sales. Some buyers were looking for breeding stock, causing
some real excitement in bidding.
The lighter-weight rams brought
lower prices. The 130-pound ram
brought $154.70 and a 148-pound
ram brought $177.60. The heavier
rams brought a price range from
$233.10 to $243.20. The much
heavier rams brought a price
range from $271.40 to $280.80.
Eleven, 112-pound Suffolkcross lambs represented the
heavyweight lamb classification.
These heavier lambs brought
$200.48 ($1.79 per pound).
The classification of market
lambs dominated this auction.
These heavier lambs ranged
from 102 to 107 pounds, with
a price range of $1.77 to $1.86
per pound. An exception was a
105-pound Rideau-cross lamb
that brought $105.90 ($111.58
per pound).
There were no feeder lambs,
lightweight lambs or goats delivered to this sale.
February 4, 2015
Ewes
$190.40
$136.25
$200.48
n/a
95 - 110
$189.39 – $191.53
n/a
80 - 94
n/a
$155.40 – $163.68
72 / 75
n/a
$131.04 / $142.50
63 - 68
n/a
$110.50 – $122.40
Lambs (lbs.)
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For 2015, MFGA will again be
expanding the program by
inviting more forage growers to
participate and submit samples
from their farms.
Producers growing alfalfa
who would like to participate
and those wishing to receive the
timely reports should contact
John McGregor at jbmcgee@
shaw.ca.
Zilmax label update
allows for lower
daily dose
Drug use had been suspended in 2013
because of health concerns in feedlots
AgCanada.com
C
anada has granted the
makers of cattle feed
additive Zilmax an
expanded product label that
allows for component feeding
at the lower end of its dosage
range — and draws the line for
a maximum rate in complete
feed.
Merck Animal Health on
Feb. 13 announced approval
from Health Canada’s Veterinary Drugs Directorate (VDD)
to update the growth-promoting additive’s label to include
component feeding.
The update allows for a
lower targeted dose of 60 milligrams of the drug’s active
ingredient, zilpaterol hydrochloride, per head per day
through “one of multiple daily
feedings,” such as in a morning or evening feeding, Merck
said.
Merck in 2013 suspended
sales of the drug, nicknamed
“vitamin Z” in some feedlots,
in both Canada and the U.S.
after packers Tyson Foods and
Cargill stopped accepting Zilmax-treated cattle.
A Reuters news agency
review in late 2013 of reports
submitted by Merck and
others to the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA)
showed at least 285 cattle to
have died unexpectedly or
been destroyed in the U.S.
after being fed Zilmax since
the drug was introduced in
2007.
The new method, which the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved for Zilmax
last fall, gives Canadian cattle
feeders “an alternative option
to deliver the appropriate dose
of Zilmax to cattle every day,”
the company said.
Merck said the VDD has
also approved a revision to the
“complete feed” information
on the Zilmax label.
The complete feed label
dose for zilpaterol is 8.3 grams
per tonne (100 per cent dry
matter basis) to provide 60 to
90 mg of active ingredient per
head per day, Merck said.
The label will now include
an updated caution statement that emphasizes cattle shouldn’t be fed Zilmax
beyond a 90-mg dose per
head per day.
If pen consumption of complete feed exceeds 10.8 kilograms per head per day (100
per cent dry matter basis),
Zilmax “should not be fed in
complete feed,” the company
said.
Zilpaterol, a beta-agonist drug, is prescribed for
increased carcass leanness,
increased dressing per cent,
improved rate of body weight
gain and improved feed efficiency in feedlot cattle during
the animal’s last 20-40 days on
feed.
The drug’s label specifies it should be used only
in feedlots and only in cattle
weighing at least 450 kg (992
pounds). The label requires it
to be thoroughly mixed into
manufactured feeds, and
never used undiluted or as top
dressing on feed.
Tyson said at the time its
decision followed observations that some animals arriving at its packing plants were
having trouble walking or
moving.
Alfalfa winter survival
looks good so far
From the Manitoba Forage and Grassland
Association e-news
By John McGregor
E
very year forage producers have concerns about
whether their alfalfa will
survive the winter. The most
common weather-related cause
of winter injury is extremely low
or fluctuating temperatures. In
an article in the Dec. 2013 edition of the MFGA e-bulletin,
I described how alfalfa plants
are injured or killed during the
winter and some of the recommended practices that may
help to reduce the risk of winter
injury (link available at MFGA.
net).
So far, the winter of 2014-15
has been somewhat normal in
regards to temperatures which,
under most conditions, would
leave us to believe that alfalfa
stands should be holding up
fairly well to date. Looking at
the soil temperatures across
the province from December to
the middle of February, we can
see they have on at least three
occasions (one just recently)
dropped very close to what is
considered a critical level in
the Steinbach and Glenboro
areas.
It is important to know that
these weather stations for monitoring soil temperatures are
located in areas where there is
undisturbed standing crop so
that the site collects snow to
help insulate the soils. Even
under these conditions, snow
cover levels have been reduced
enough to allow soil temperatures to approach critical levels.
The critical temperature for
winter survival of alfalfa is -12
C. The concern this year is for
fields that may have lost snow
cover during the warmer spells
so that adequate snow cover
to insulate the crop during the
cold snaps in late December
and early February wasn’t present.
If you would like to check
past soil temperatures in your
area go to http://agriculture.
alberta.ca/acis/mb-weatherdata-viewer.jsp and find a
weather site close to your operation.
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Producers and A&W remain at odds
A&W continues to purchase beef from the U.S. and Australia to meet the need
for hormone- and steroid-free product
By Jennifer Paige
“At no time has A&W
taken any scientific
side about hormones
or steroids, we are
simply responding to
what consumers have
told us they want.”
Co-operator staff / Brandon
T
ension was palpable in the
room full of Manitoba beef
producers as the representative from A&W restaurants communicated the reasoning behind
the company’s ‘Better Beef’ campaign.
“In recent years the beef industry has been inundated with
bad-news stories and we find
consumers reluctant to choose
beef,” said Trish Sahlstorm, vicepresident of purchasing and distribution for A&W restaurants.
“When asked what was important when choosing beef, the top
three consumer responses were
no hormones, no steroids and no
antibiotics.”
Sahlstorm participated in
a panel discussion at this year’s
Manitoba Beef Producers annual
general meeting and received
some tough questions from concerned producers.
“I would hope this is a matter
of being misinformed and that
you are not knowingly putting the
entire industry at risk for financial
gain,” said Cliff Graydon, a beef
producer and MLA for Emerson.
“I feel that as a corporate citizen
you should educate consumers that not everything is bad for
them.”
In September of 2013, A&W
launched its ‘Better Beef’ campaign, which promised its consumers that the beef served would
have no hormones or steroids,
and antibiotics would be administered for therapeutic use only.
A&W is the second-largest
burger chain in Canada, and at
the time of the campaign launch,
it had 790 restaurants countrywide.
Following the shift, the burger
company received immediate backlash from the country’s
ranchers and producer groups
over the campaign slogan, who
thought it to be misleading, inaccurate and a threat to the industry. The ‘Better Beef’ slogan was
thought to imply that beef raised
in other ways is inferior.
“Within a short time of our
launch, we received quite a bit of
feedback from the beef industry
— ‘don’t call it better beef, don’t
put our product down.’ But, there
was never any intention that this
was comparative, we were using
consumer language,” said Sahlstorm.
Since the campaign’s launch
the company has cut back on the
use of the ‘Better Beef’ slogan.
But tension continues to run high
between producers and the fastfood giant.
Trish Sahlstorm
A&W
producers, who argue that the
company could have handled
the situation better and given the
industry a heads up and allowing
producers the option to change
their practices.
“One of my concerns is that
when you talked to the consumers you may have wanted to talk
to some of the producers as well.
We understand consumers are
changing but you also need to lis-
ten to where your product is coming from and understand that we
as producers are also changing,”
said Manitoba Beef Producers
president Heinz Reimer.
Since the move to hormoneand steroid-free beef A&W has
been purchasing product from
the U.S. and Australia as well as
Canada in order to meet demand.
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“Anything without a hormone is
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He provided an example that
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whereas four ounces of raw steak
from an animal that has had
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and four ounces from a pregnant
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S
Success with succulents
Our Farm Greenhouse nursery at Portage la Prairie specializes in succulents selling 500 different
types of the drought-hardy plant retail and wholesale across Manitoba, Ontario and points west
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff/
Near Portage la Prairie
S
hea Doherty remembers
the weird-looking plant his
mom and dad ordered for
their fledgling greenhouse business when he was a kid. It was
a Mexican Hat-type of succulent with whorled, fleshy leaves.
He and his siblings promptly
dubbed it their ‘T. Rex’ plant —
and were fascinated by it.
What they didn’t know then
was that the plant’s other name,
‘Mother of Thousands,’ was a
sign of things to come.
It was the first of what would
be many, many more orders of
succulents to stock their greenhouse. Today about 800 succulents grow inside Our Farm
Greenhouse, their family business near Portage la Prairie. The
plants are sold both retail and
wholesale across Manitoba,
Ontario and points west.
“Here was a plant that was
really easy to look after and
cool to look at and changed colour and had character,” recalls
Doherty, today wholly involved
with the family business. “We
started to look into whether
there were more.”
‘We’ were his parents, Leslie
and his late father Les Doherty,
who gave up their Calgary life
more than two decades ago, to
bring their young family of 14
to Manitoba to raise on a farm
near where Les had grown up.
“They wanted to give us a better life than what the city could
offer,” says Doherty. But his
father wasn’t interested in conventional farming that would
require heavy capitalization and
a bigger land base. Instead, they
bought 64 acres that included
an existing strawberry farm,
began growing vegetables to
direct market, and built a greenhouse to produce seedlings
before the succulents took off.
Doherty is aware of just
o n e o t h e r g re e n h o u s e i n
Saskatchewan currently focused
on succulent sales to the same
extent.
“Mom and Dad wanted to be
unique and they found a way to
do it,” says their son.
Market niche
The specialization in succulents
came from more than mere fascination with one type of plant,
however. They’ve paid attention
to gardening trends, observing while people want to have
plants around them, they also
have less time to devote to fussier plants.
“We started to notice that
trend and said we’re going to
have to match that market,” he
said.
Su c c u l e n t s a re p e r f e c t ,
because as drought-tolerant plants storing water in
their leaves, stems and roots,
they require so little attention
Siblings Shea and Mishaeli Doherty are part of the family that specialized into succulents and today operate Our Farm Greenhouse near Portage la Prairie. PHOTOs: LORRAINE STEVENSON
you can ignore them for long
periods.
They buy the plants from
a U.S. supplier as tiny plugs
to grow out. To date they have
about 500 varieties for retail
sale from May to August, and
also sell plants at St. Norbert
Farmers’ Market. Another 300
varieties, kept in another part
of the greenhouse, are under
ongoing testing for suitability in
a Manitoba climate.
The diverse array of blues,
greys and greens, leaf shapes,
textures, with curious names
like Burro’s Tail (Sedum morganianum), Calico Kitten (Crassula
ovata), Flap Hen-and-Chicks
(Sempervivum tectorum) and
Happy Young Lady (Cotyledon)
house a vast undersea landscape in the greenhouse.
Customers buy them by the
armload because they’re ultralow maintenance and produce
fascinating gardens for gardeners with little or no time to
look after them, says Doherty,
who has put some plants to the
extreme tests.
“I’ve left some dry for eight
months to a year and put them
in a chamber so sun pounds
on them,” he said. “It will look
dead, but you give it water and it
comes right back.”
Living walls
Those interested in living walls
“Mom and Dad
wanted to be unique
and they found a
way to do it.”
Shea Doherty
love succulents. Our Farm
Greenhouse holds spring workshops that help people create
personal artworks, or ‘living
pictures,’ planting succulents in
specially designed framed planters to hang on the wall. People
love them and get excited about
creating art with plants, says
Doherty who has attracted large
crowds doing demos at the Red
River Ex.
Succulents are also used on
green roofs, but it will take more
research to adapt the green roof
for Manitoba, says Doherty. Our
winters are too cold and these
plants aren’t cold hardy enough
to survive the extreme cold
and wind at higher elevations.
“Summertime green roofing
works but you can’t do perennial planting on a green roof in
Manitoba right now,” he said.
“There’s too much winterkill.”
It’s no easy feat keeping 800
succulents warm over winter in
Our Farm Greenhouse either.
Our Farm Greenhouse, which opens to the public in May, has a huge variety
of succulents with diverse colours, textures and shapes.
They must keep the facility
slightly warmer than most conventional greenhouses, and it’s
operating year round, plus it
takes many hands to care for
such a significant inventory
too.
That was part of their parents’ vision too, says Doherty.
They wanted a farm business
that would create employment for their kids and hoped
they’d learn to love the rural
life too. They were successful with that as well. Eight of
Doherty’s siblings, who range
in age from their 20s to their
40s, are working part time with
the greenhouse and vegetable
production.
They chose the name
Our Farm for a reason, adds
Doherty. His folks were progressive thinkers who realized
not only creativity and specialization were necessary to make
a go of a small-farm venture,
but that a farm is only as successful as it is supported by the
surrounding community. They
wanted their farm’s name to
convey a sense of interdependence with customers who support them, said Doherty.
“We didn’t want to call it the
Dohertys’ farm. Anyone who
buys from us is helping us to be
here. Thus the name.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Prairie Fare
Food preparation evolves as
the family nest empties
Julie Garden-Robinson
Food and Nutrition Specialist
NDSU Extension Service
“
M
om, what college-credit class should I take next fall?”
my 16-year-old daughter asked.
I gulped. College? Already?
My neighbour was surprised, too.
“Are you going to be a senior in high school?” she asked my
daughter. My daughter nodded, and I started feeling very sentimental. My brain did a “flash forward.” Before long, we will be
wandering around a family-sized nest with only one “chick” left.
Our youngest daughter is 11.
Although the first “bird” flew out of the nest a couple of years
ago to go to college in our city, he winged his way home and set
up his own nest in our basement after a year in the dorm. Our
home cooking and accommodations are a bit better and less
expensive than a shoebox-sized dorm room.
I don’t think I will be the mother bird booting the chicks out of
their nest to soar on their own. I hope not, anyway. I snapped out
of my sentimental journey quickly because technically, everyone
still is inhabiting the Robinson nest.
Eventually, my husband and I will be empty nesters and that
will change a lot of things, including our food preparation. From
1970 to 2012, many changes in household size and makeup have
occurred. The average size of households decreased from 3.1 to
2.6 between 1970 and 2012, according to U.S. Census Bureau
statistics.
In 1970, 40.3 per cent of households consisted of married couples with children, compared with 19.6 per cent in 2012.
The number of men living alone has jumped markedly in the
last 45 years. In 1970, 5.6 per cent of households were made up
of men living alone and 14 per cent of households were made up
of women living alone. In 2012, 12.3 per cent of households were
made up of men living solo, and 15.2 per cent of households consisted of women living alone.
Sometimes, when children move away, the incentive to cook
leaves along with the family members. Cooking may not seem like
it is worth the effort, so some people might skip meals or graze
throughout the day instead of having a balanced, enjoyable diet.
Regardless of the number of people in your home, consider taking steps to having healthful food options available for you and
any others in your home. Maintaining a healthful diet is worth
your time and can be easier than you think. Have some fun with
it. Maybe your children refused to have liver and brussels sprouts,
so you deleted those from your menus. Now is your chance to
enjoy the food that you like.
What if all of your recipes are family sized? Try these tips to help
reduce your recipes to smaller amounts:
• C hoose recipes that are easy to divide mathematically, or make
the full recipe and freeze the rest.
• If a recipe calls for a can of beans or soup and you would like to
divide the recipe in half, use what you need and refrigerate or
freeze the remaining food. Label the container with the contents
and date.
• Add seasonings gradually. Sometimes you may need to add more
(or less) of the spice to reach the desired flavour.
• Use a smaller pan for your reduced-sized recipes. Check for
doneness of halved recipes five to 10 minutes sooner than the
original recipe.
• Keep notes about what works and what doesn’t.
You might find that shopping the salad bar at the grocery store
is a good way to avoid wasted produce. Perhaps you need a small
amount of onion or pepper in a recipe, so buying some precut
onions and peppers might help you avoid waste.
What if you don’t like leftovers? You could trade extra portions
of meals with a friend and freeze for later. Or consider leftovers as
“planned-overs” and try them in completely different recipes.
Try adding leftover fruit to muffin, quick-bread or pancake batter or blending leftover fruit with yogurt to make a dessert. If you
bought a precooked chicken at the deli, use the rest in soup, sandwiches and salads.
For people 60 and older, congregate meals or meals on wheels
are good options to maintain a balanced diet. Check out your
local resources to learn more.
For more tips, see “Cooking for One or Two” (available at http://
www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/yf/foods/fn521.pdf ). If you are in the
growing family stage, check out the resources on the “Eat Smart.
Play Hard.” website at http://www.ndsu.edu/eatsmart.
Photos: Thinkstock
Potato Soup Mix in a Jar
Here is a homemade potato soup mix
that allows you to make the number of
servings you need. Potatoes are rich in
vitamin C and potassium. For additional
mixes in a jar, visit www.ag.ndsu.edu/
food/food-preparation and click on the
“Master Mixes” tab.
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl
and place in a 1-quart glass jar. To
prepare, shake jar to mix contents,
then place 1/2 cup of the soup mix
in a soup bowl and add 1 cup of
boiling water. Mix well. If desired,
top with additional topping.
2 c. instant potato flakes
1-3/4 c. non-fat dry milk
2 tbsp. instant chicken bouillon granules
(or substitute vegetable bouillon)
2 tsp. dried onion flakes
1 tsp. dried parsley
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. white pepper
1-1/2 tsp. seasoning salt
Additional toppings (bacon crumbles,
sliced green onion, shredded cheddar
cheese)
Photo: Thinkstock
Makes eight servings. With regular
bouillon, each serving has 150
calories, 0 gram (g) of fat, 11 g of
protein, 25 g of carbohydrate, 1 g
of fibre and 770 milligrams (mg) of
sodium. With low-sodium bouillon,
each serving has 150 calories,
0 g of fat, 11 g of protein, 25 g of
carbohydrate, 1 g of fibre and
420 mg sodium.
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
A
ll I’m saying,” said the stranger who was
sitting in the window chair at Andrew’s
usual table in the café, “is that I expect it to
be like watching the last 30 seconds of the Super
Bowl. We’ll be shaking our heads and thinking,
‘Dude, it looks like you lost on purpose!’”
Andrew set his cup down on the table and settled into his chair. “The Oilers look like they lose
every game on purpose,” he said.
There was a moment of silence while the
stranger, along with Grant Toews and Bernard
Jones who were also at the table, took that in.
“The thing about joining a conversation,
Andrew,” said Grant at length, “is that the wisest
course is to familiarize yourself with the topic at
hand before voicing an opinion.”
Andrew took a sip of coffee. “I don’t have to
know what you’re talking about in order to have
an opinion. Are you disputing my assertion that
the Edmonton Oilers tend to look as though
they’re losing on purpose?”
Grant pondered that for a moment. “You have a
point,” he said.
“I always have a point,” said Andrew. He looked
at the stranger for a second, then at the others.
“So tell me, if you weren’t discussing the upcoming Oilers/Flames debacle, what were you discussing, and who do you think is trying to lose
what?”
“We were discussing the next provincial election,” said the stranger, “which I expect will be
a debacle in its own right, and which it appears
to me everybody is trying to lose. Except for the
Liberals of course who obviously can lose without trying.”
Andrew nodded. “You make some salient
points,” he said, “whoever you are, and you are
clearly quite opinionated unlike those of us who
regularly gather here. But what we lack in opinions of our own we make up for by harshly judging the opinions of others. So we want to know,
in your opinion, who is trying harder to lose, the
Conservatives or the NDP?”
“Well that depends on which day you ask me,”
said the stranger, “but overall I’d say the NDP.”
“What has the NDP been doing lately that
informs this opinion of yours?” asked Grant.
“
The
Jacksons
By Rollin Penner
“They have been showing us, one after
another, the stable of characters who may or
may not be leading the party when the election
comes along,” said the stranger. “If they were a
stable of racehorses,” he continued, “the only
way you could safely bet that any one of them
would ever win a race would be if they only ran
against each other.”
“And yet,” Bernard spoke up, “it appears
that it won’t take much of a horse to give the
Conservatives a run for their money, considering that the Conservative horse is running
most of the time with one hoof in its mouth.”
“That is also a good point,” said the stranger,
“but it seems to me it has been some time
since the leader of the Conservatives has made
a serious verbal blunder. Am I wrong?”
“Absolutely wrong,” said Bernard. “It’s only
about a week ago, in the wake of that magazine
article that called Winnipeg the most racist city
in Canada, that Mr. Pallister chose to deny that
there was a problem with racism in Winnipeg.
And he chose to do this right after the magazine printed a followup article commending
the province for not reacting to the article by
denying that there was a problem. Which left
regular people wondering, could he possibly
have timed his statement that badly unless he
was actually trying to do so, and wondering
also whether the man had ever actually been to
Winnipeg?”
“I hear what you are saying,” said the
stranger, “but consider the three candidates
that the NDP are foisting on us as their choice
to lead their party, and in their fantasies the
province itself. Mr. Selinger, who seems to have
mastered the art of the hidden agenda. Mr.
Ashton, who tried, unsuccessfully and possibly illegally to wrest control of Assiniboia
Downs away from the Manitoba Jockey Club at
great cost to the province. And finally, Theresa
Oswald who is after all, Theresa Oswald. I ask
you, are those the options they would give us if
they were trying to win the election?”
There was a moment of silence.
“The man makes a valid point,” said Andrew.
“I can see where he’s coming from,” said
Bernard.
“I can’t argue with his logic,” said Grant.
“In the end,” said the stranger, “we have to
admit that we don’t know who will win. All we
know is that whoever loses will have had to put
some serious effort into it.”
“It’s an effort they are all capable of putting
in,” said Andrew.
“Indeed they are,” said the stranger. “Indeed
they are.”
Growing an aloe vera plant
Whether you believe in its medicinal qualities or not, still useful for treating minor burns and abrasions
By Albert Parsons
Studies have found that aloe
vera gel has ingredients
that seem to speed wound
healing and that are harmful
to some bacteria and fungi.
Freelance contributor
A
native plant of Africa, the aloe
vera has been used as a medicinal plant for centuries. Many
claims have been made over the years
about its amazing abilities to treat a
whole host of ailments from stomach
upsets to skin irritations. There are
two substances contained in the plant
that are used medicinally, one is a gel,
which is a clear jelly-like substance
contained in the inner parts of the
leaves. The other is a yellow substance,
a kind of latex, found just beneath the
skin of the leaves. Both are used in
many herbal remedies and medicinal
compounds, although there is controversy about the efficacy and safety of
some of them.
Personally, I do not use any of these
medications, but I do always have an
aloe vera plant on the windowsill in
the sunroom and use it for skin abrasions and minor burns. Studies have
found that aloe vera gel has ingredients
that seem to speed wound healing and
that are harmful to some bacteria and
fungi — which helps to prevent infection of minor cuts and scrapes. If anyone gets a burn from a hot pot in the
kitchen, an aloe vera leaf is immediately crushed and rubbed on the burn.
The gel alleviates the pain and seems
to assist in quick healing.
The foliage of a healthy aloe vera should be
bright green with silver blotches. Offsets used
to start new plants, like the one in the foreground, often have a piece of root attached
so the plant is easy to propagate. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
The aloe plant family is quite a large
one, with over 400 species, but it is the
aloe vera that is most coveted for its
medicinal properties. It is not a difficult
plant to grow. It is a succulent native
to dry environments, so it is grown like
most other succulents and cacti. It likes
a cactus mix or sandy loam mix and a pot
with a good-size drainage hole. The soil
should be allowed to dry out completely
before the plant is watered again. While
it will require more water in the summer than in the winter, the plant will not
tolerate overwatering. Aloe vera is not a
heavy feeder and needs to be fertilized
only once a year, with a weak dose, in the
spring.
Some people experience difficulty
growing aloe vera and wonder what is
ailing their plants. It is relatively easy to
diagnose what is wrong. If the plant’s
leaves are turning brown, it is getting too
much direct sun. The best light is strong
and indirect. If the leaves are not growing upright, as they should, but are rather
weak and beginning to lie down, then the
plant is getting too little light. If the leaves
are thin and curled, the plant is getting
too little water — not enough to sustain
the foliage. Finally, if an aloe vera is growing very slowly and appears not to be
robust, it is probably being kept too wet
or it might need more light.
This plant likes to be root bound; it
will perform best if it is not overpotted.
There comes a time, however, when it will
need to be refurbished and that will be
evidenced by the whole thing becoming
too large and top heavy. The best thing
to do with such a plant is to dump the
whole thing out of the pot and establish
a new pot full of pups or offsets. These
“babies” are produced by a mature plant
and although often will have a bit of root
attached, even if they don’t, they can be
planted to start new plants. Plant several
pups in a pot to create a nice full container of aloe vera. Some of the shorter
sections of the parent plant can be potted
up as well and will create a nice full pot of
suitably sized plants.
If the offshoots do not have roots they
may very well turn grey or brown, but this
is a natural occurrence and just means
that they are stressed until they produce
roots to sustain themselves. They will
green up once this happens. While the
newly planted pups are getting established, make sure they are kept in the
shade out of strong light. When I repot
my aloe vera, I always pot up the old parent plant and keep it for a while, in case
there is a burn or cut to treat; the aloe
vera is indeed a handy plant to have on
the windowsill for such emergencies.
Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Strathclair Theatre
Chorus celebrates
25 years
Reader’s Photo
What started as a fundraising event has
turned into a vibrant singing group
By Darrell Nesbitt
Freelance contributor
T
Searching for bugs? PHOTO: EVA KRAWCHUK
Welcome to Country Crossroads
If you have any stories, ideas, photos or a comment on what you’d like to see on these
pages, send it to Country Crossroads, 1666 Dublin Ave., Winnipeg, Man. R3H 0H1, phone
1-800-782-0794, fax 204-944-5562, email [email protected]. I’d love to hear from you.
Please remember we can no longer return material, articles, poems or pictures.
— Sue
he musical talent of 225
people, and thousands of
audience members, showcased by the Strathclair Theatre
Chorus over its 25-year history
have come to learn that music
washes away from the soul the
dust of everyday life.
“Our members come from a
variety of backgrounds and
life stages. They have included
teachers, ministers, lawyers,
medical professionals, farmers, and real estate agents,” said
member Courtney Newton of
Erickson. “One thing brings us
together — our love of making
music together.”
Newton added that there has
always been an emphasis on giving students age 13 and older
the opportunity to join, with a
number of high school students
being members of the chorus
over the years.
The current group has 43
singers – 26 women and 17
men – with one director and
two sound ladies. Members are
from Strathclair, Shoal Lake,
Solsgirth, Cardale, Rivers, Virden,
Alexander, Brandon, Rapid City,
Minnedosa, Franklin, Basswood,
Newdale and Erickson.
The group kicked off its tour,
“25 Years of Harmony,” last
November in Brandon, taking it
to Minnedosa, Kenton, Erickson,
Russell, Shoal Lake, Portage la
Prairie, Holland, and wrapped up
in Strathclair early this month.
The history dates back to
March 1991, when the Strathclair
and District Theatre Committee
Inc. organized a dinner theatre as a fundraiser to renovate
the Bend Theatre. It included a
variety of vocal and instrumental performances by drama club
members.
“That single event laid the
groundwork for the growth and
development of a strong, vibrant
singing group – the Strathclair
Theatre Chorus,” said Newton.
“The very first choir had 27
members. Since then, our numbers have ranged from 20 to 60
singers. We have been hosted
by a variety of organizations
like Women’s Institute, Rotary
Club, churches and sororities.
Arts councils have also hosted
us, which helps them fulfil their
mandate to bring arts and culture into their community,” she
said.
For information on booking
the Strathclair Theatre Chorus or
joining the group, email Elaine
Thomson at ethomson@goinet.
ca or call her at 204-874-2379.
Darrell Nesbitt writes from
Shoal Lake, Manitoba
Co-operator barn
series revival
Do you know this barn?
I
f you do, a Manitoba historian wants to hear from you. In early
1981 the Co-operator worked with provincial Manitoba Historic
Resources Branch staff to photograph and publish a series on
rural buildings in Manitoba. Each week a photo and a story were
published about why each of the buildings were rare or unusual.
Now Gordon Goldsborough, webmaster and journal editor with
the Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is looking for Co-operator
readers’ help to relocate these barns. He has looked for them during road trips in rural Manitoba, but because the site’s location
details are scant, he has been unable to find them. He wants to
include the buildings, with their GPS co-ordinates on a map of historic sites being prepared for the MHS.
This photograph was taken by now-retired Co-operator editor Bob Hainstock who took the photo in the 1980s for the earlier project. Many of the photos were eventually included in
Hainstock’s 1986 book Barns of Western Canada: An Illustrated
Century.
We are including the original “caption” that ran with his photo,
hoping a reader can answer these questions:
1. Does the building still stand?
2. If so, where is it?
3. What are its GPS co-ordinates?
4. What other information can you provide on its state of preservation or other details about its history since the original story in
the 1980s?
Please send your responses to Gordon Goldsborough at:
email: [email protected]
Telephone: (204) 474-7469
Mail: 2021 Loudoun Rd. Winnipeg, Man. R3S 1A3.
Most silos in Manitoba are made of either wood, steel or concrete, with the latter two materials usually identified with feed
towers built after the Second World War. One of the rare exceptions to this are these examples located about five miles north
of Carman on Highway 13. Built 62 years ago for D. Maloney, the large tiles were imported from Ontario. The structures are 35
feet high and 15 feet in diameter and were originally attached to a large dairy barn which has since disappeared. The silos
provided corn feed for about 40 dairy cows. Today the Matt Dawydiuk farm uses the structures for grain storage. The only
change to the structurally sound silos has been the replacement of cedar roofs with metal ones.
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Location: 2837 144th
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Rouleau
16
Auction Property
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Waldron
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Lumsden
R.
Grenfell
Russell
Stockholm
9
Broadview
Peebles
Moosomin
Assin
Francis
Sedley
Wroxton
10
Melville
Southey
Regina Beach
Kamsack
Good Spirit Lake
Lestock
6
Veregin
Foam
Lake
Raymore
Duval
Rama
16
Dafoe
Benito
Preeceville
Assiniboine R.
SK/RM of Saltcoats #213
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Parcel 1– PNE 19-22-03 W2
143.2± Title Acres – 115± cult acres
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Parcel 2– NE 20-22-03 W2
160± Title Acres – 145± cult acres
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Parcel 3– SE 19-22-03 W2
160± Title Acres – 135± cult acres
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Parcel 4– SE 20-22-03 W2
160± Title Acres – 120± cult acres
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Parcel 5– PNE 18-22-03 W2
150± Title Acres – 125± cult acres
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Parcel 6– SE 18-22-03 W2
160± Title Acres – 135± cult acres
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Parcel 7– SE 17-22-03 W2
160± Title Acres – 135± cult acres
iboine
Wilcox
Owner: Michael Glaicar: 306.728.7037 or Vernon
Glaicar: 306.728.5320
R.
Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager: Dan Steen: 306.361.6154
Escrow: Brennan LeBlanc: 306.280.4878
Gerlof & Christel Pool — Selling at the Chute Farm Auction Site
5 Parcels of Farmland in the RM’s of Gilbert Plains & Dauphin
793.2± Title Acres
2004 Case-IH STX450, deluxe cab,
buddy seat, 4 hyd., return flow,
Trimble 500 integrated auto steer,
4,000 lb. inside weights, 20% engine
power chip, 520/85R42 factory
triples, 3,671 hrs., S/NJEE0104913
2001 Case-IH STX275, Accu-Steer,
deluxe cab, powershift, steerable
front axle, 4 hyd., return flow, 3 pt.,
1000 PTO, Trimble 500 integrated
auto steer, radar, 18.4-42 press
steel duals, 3,451 hrs.,
S/NJEE0098468
1992 Case-IH 7120, MFWD, 18 spd.
powershift, 4 reverse, 3 hyd., 3 pt.,
quick hitch, EZ Steer guidance,
diff lock, radar, (18) front suitcase
weights, 380/85R30 front tires,
380/85R46 press steel duals,
7,337 hrs., S/NJJA0045909
SKID STEER LOADER
& ATTACHMENTS
2010 Bobcat S300 skid steer
loader, cab, heat, aux. hyd. power
bobtach, 82” snow bucket,
1,203 hrs., S/NA5GP36500
Bobcat factory pallet forks
HARVEST EQUIPMENT
April 9, 2015
Dauphin, MB
Property Highlights
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Ashville
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Togo
Yorkton
Melville
Waldron
Beulah
Miniota
1
Virden
rbauction.com/realestate
Mccreary
Lake
Manitoba
16
Minnedosa
Brandon
Ritchie Bros. Regional Sales Manager: Luke Fritshaw: 306.260.2189
Carlyle
Realtor: Leeanna Russell, Century 21 Westman.com Ltd., 204.748.7788
Visit our website for auction and property details:
Steep Rock
Auction Location
Dog Lake
Dauphin
10
Onanole
Binscarth
Assiniboine
Wawota
Dauphin Lake
Auction Property Laurier
Gerald
Wapella
9
Rorketon
Ashville
Gilbert
Plains
Russell
16
Broadview
Owner: Gerlof Pool: [email protected]
Auction Property
Roblin
5
10
Qu'Appelle R.
Gypsumville
10
10
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MB/RM of Dauphin
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Parcel 3 – PSW 19-25-20 W1
155.20± Title Acres – 155± cult acres
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Parcel 5 – PNW 18-25-20 W1
158± Title Acres – 70± cult acres
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4 5
5 10
Assiniboin
MB/RM of Gilbert Plains
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Parcel 1 – SW 20-27-21 W1
160± Title Acres – 150± cult acres
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Parcel 2 – NW 17-27-21 W1
160± Title Acres – 160± cult acres
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Parcel 4 – NE 13-25-21 W1
160± Title Acres – 70± cult acres
Neepawa
Portage La Pairie
1
Carberry
ine
Assinibo
2011 Case-IH 9120, axial flow, Field
Tracker, luxury cab, buddy seat,
PRWD, deluxe controls, AFX rotor,
Pro 600 display with integrated
auto steer, on board air, rock trap,
chopper, long unloading auger
w/extender, hopper ext. w/12”
riser, all updates completed, ext.
reconditioning done, through Titan
Uptime inspection, completed for
2015, both sets of concaves, 36”
tracks with all updates, 899 sep.
hrs., 1,168 engine hrs.,
S/NYBG212609
2012 Case-IH 2162 flex draper,
40’, finger reel, fore/aft, Case-IH
and Case NH mounts, slow speed
transport, S/NYCZN17198
2012 Geringhoff RD corn head,
12x22”, Headsight, RowSense,
inspection program at M&W
Cornheads, less than 3,000 acres
Eaton 10 spd., engine brake, air
ride, air slide, headache rack, twin
aluminum fuel tanks, dual exhaust,
295/75R22.5 tires on aluminum,
670,532 actual miles
GRAIN CART
1998 Freightliner Century condo,
2007 Parker 938 grain cart, 950
475 Cummins, 13 spd., engine
bu., roll tarp, hyd. spout, light pkg.,
brake, air ride, air slide 5th,
Firestone 900/60R32 tires, 1000
twin aluminum fuel tanks, dual
PTO, S/NB21-900-113
exhaust, aluminum headache
AIR DRILL
rack, 295/75R22.5 tires, outside
2003 Fargo Aire 4060 air drill, 45’,
aluminum rims, 719,823 actual miles
7” space, individual depth control,
1973 GMC 6000 tag axle tandem,
manifold seed flow monitor, Fargo
350 V8, 4&2 spd., 16-1/2’ Frontier
markers, 2,500 acres on New discs
box, hoist, roll tarp, plumbed for drill
& scrapers, with Fargo Aire 2800
fill, twin fuel tanks, 9:00-20 tires,
twin compartment commodity cart,
65,159 actual miles, single owner
hyd. fill auger, safety platform, offset 2002 Ford F350 Super Duty dually,
axle, 23.1-26 flotation tires
Super Crew cab, Lariat pkg., 7.3
liter Powerstroke, automatic, 4WD,
TILLAGE EQUIPMENT
leather, loaded, rear air bag susp.,
2012 Summers disc chisel, 28’,
8’ custom flatbed service body,
hyd. adj. individual rock flex gangs,
187,211 miles
tandems across, Summers 4-bar
heavy duty harrow, light pkg.
TRAILERS
2008 Case-IH Tigermate II field
2012 Timpte hopper bottom,
cultivator, 54-1/2’, 6” space, knock- 40’x96”x66”, ag hopper, air ride,
on shovels, tandems across, wing
power roll tarp, double row lights,
stabilizers, 4-bar harrow
11-24.5 tires, outside aluminum rims
2007 Summers Super Roller land
2006 Timpte hopper bottom,
roller, 45’, hyd. fold, acre counter
40’x96”x66”, ag hopper, spring ride,
1999 Case-IH 5800 chisel plow, 40’, power roll tarp w/remotes, double
12” space, tandems across, 3-bar
row lights, 11-24.5 tires, outside
Gates heavy duty harrow
aluminum rims
1980 Melroe hyd. fold harrow, 60’ Fruehauf spread axle flatbed trailer,
53’, air ride, low pro tires, with (4)
SELF-PROPELLED SPRAYER
1,500 gal. poly tanks, (2) 30 gal. mix
2006 Case-IH SPX Patriot 4410
tanks, Honda transfer pump, 2” Super
self-propelled sprayer, 1,200 gal.
SS tank, 90’ full hyd. boom, 5-nozzle reel with 3” coupler, set up in 2008
2010 PJ tandem axle trailer, 20’,
bodies, SS pipe plumbing, SCS
dovetail, ramps, 7,000 lb. axles
4600 auto-rate controller, Trimble
integrated guidance, hyd. tread adj., JB Enterprise single axle trailer,
380/90R46 tires with fenders, 1,886 5’x10’, flip-up ramps
Single axle lawn trailer, 5’x8’
hrs., S/NYGT020750X
SEMI TRACTORS,
TRUCK & PICKUP
2005 IHC 9400I mid-roof
conventional, ISX435 Cummins,
Dan & Jessica Eckert
HOPPER BINS
(2) Hopper bins, 8,000 bu., Micada
bottoms, tube air, 3 phase fans, on
double skids
701.238.3409
or Brad Olstad of Steffes Group, 701.237.9173 or 701.238.0240
Steffes Group, Inc., 2000 Main Ave East, West Fargo, ND 58078
Brad Olstad ND319, Scott Steffes ND81, Bob Steffes ND82,
Ashley Huhn ND843, Eric Gabrielson ND890,
Randy Kath ND894 | 701.237.9173 | SteffesGroup.com
TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items.
Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all titled
vehicles. Titles will be mailed. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer.
GRAIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT
2013 Westfield MX130X94 auger,
94’x13”, mechanical swing low pro
hopper, hopper walker w/(3) remotes
1996 Westfield auger, 41’x7”,
5 hp. motor, 1 phase
Westfield auger, 71’x8”, PTO, hyd.
up/down
2013 Batco 1835 truck unloader,
35’x18” tube, 10 hp. motor, 3 phase
2007 Batco 1535 truck unloader,
7-1/2 hp. motor, 1 phase
Hutchinson rotary grain cleaner,
single phase, (2) sets of screens
Grain cleaner, single phase,
(2) sets of screens
Hyd. drill fill auger, 20’
Jump auger, 10’, 5 hp. motor, 1 phase
(3) Caldwell air fans, 12”
OTHER EQUIPMENT
2013 Woods BW1800 batwing
mower, 15’, hyd. fold, safety chain,
aircraft tires, 1000 PTO
2011 Agri-Trend snowblower, 96”,
3 pt., hyd. spout control, 1000 PTO
MelCam fork-style rockpicker
Shop-built dual wheel truck frame
trailer, 16’, 1,000 gal. fiberglass
tank & pump
1,000 gal. NH3 tank on trailer
Blade, 7’, manual adj., 3 pt.
JD 520A front deck lawn tractor,
25 hp. air-cooled gas, 7-Iron 54”
commercial deck, approx. 300 hrs.
JD LX188 lawn tractor, 17 hp. gas,
38” deck w/bagger
Swisher pull-type mower, 60”,
14.5 hp. Vanguard gas engine
Huskee rear-tine tiller
Husqvarna rototiller
Clark hyd. forklift attachment, 3 pt.,
3 stage mast, side shift, ext. forks
RECREATION
2008 Arctic Cat Prowler XTX700 EFI,
cab enclosure less doors, front winch
w/Curtis snow plow, 1,610 miles
Mercury 250E snowmobile
Ski-Doo Olympic snowmobile
Yamaha Twin Jet 100 motorcycle
TANKS, SHOP EQUIPMENT
FARM SUPPORT ITEMS
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 26, 2015
Red River Valley Fairgrounds, 1805 West Main Ave,
West Fargo, ND. I-94 & Exit 343.
Enter Fairground from the East at Grand Stand Avenue.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2015 • 10AM
Details at SteffesGroup.com
AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Auctioneers will run multiple rings with live online bidding. There will be no loading assistance until 1:00PM on sale day. Cars and pickups may enter grounds at
12:00 Noon for self-loading. Equipment removal by Friday, March 13, unless other arrangements are made. Hauling and loading are available. Contact auctioneers for owner information,
new consignments, or changes at 701.237.9173 or 800.726.8609. Registration, terms, and details at SteffesGroup.com.
TRACK TRACTORS
TELEHANDLER &
fertilizer, Mudsmith gauge wheels, 1993 Freightliner FLD120, flat top 1980 Chevrolet C70 cab & chassis 28’x102”, spring ride, roll-up door
sleeper, Cat 325 hp., wet kit, 22.5
lift tag tandem, 366 V8, 4&2 spd., 1984 Fruehauf flatbed water
steerable rear axle, single owner
ROUGH TERRAIN
2013 Caterpillar 765D, deluxe cab,
tires at 50%, 1,277,000 miles
1989 Haul-All twin compartment
2010 JD 1770NT planter, CCS,
tender trailer, 48’, (2) 2,500 gal.
FORKLIFT
16 spd. powershift, 4 reverse, 4 hyd.,
59 gpm pump, 3 pt., quick hitch,
1000 PTO, AutoTrac ready, wide
gauge, set at 120”, 25” Camoplast
deep lug tracks, front suitcase
weights, idler weights, Nite Breaker
HID lights, 606 hrs., single owner
2010 JD 8320RT, deluxe cab,
powershift, 5 hyd., 3 pt., PTO,
integrated auto steer, wide stance,
25” tracks at 80%, 3,000 hrs.,
S/N901146
2009 JD 9630T, deluxe cab, buddy
seat, powershift, 5 hyd., integrated
auto steer, radar, HID lights, wide
swing drawbar, front suitcase
weights, front idler weights, two
seasons on 36” tracks, 1,460 hrs.,
S/NRW9630T911025
2008 JD 9630T, deluxe cab, buddy
seat, powershift, 5 hyd., integrated
auto steer, globe, 1800 display, HID
lights, hyd. swing drawbar, front
weights, side undercarriage weights,
Camoplast 5500 36” tracks at 80%,
2,945 hrs., S/N9630T902121
4WD TRACTORS
2009 JD 9530, deluxe comfort pkg.,
active seat, buddy seat, powershift,
4 hyd., integrated auto steer, diff
lock, radar, greasable steering
pins, front & rear weight pkg.,
800/70R38 metric duals, 2,725 hrs.,
S/NRW9530P013535
1997 JD 9400, 24 spd., 4 hyd., diff
lock, full weight pkg., 520/85R42
press steel triples at 60%, 8,607
hrs., injector & engine dampener
replaced along with New turbo in
2014, S/NRW9400H010068
1997 JD 9400, deluxe cab, 24 spd.,
4 hyd., high flow return, GreenStar
ready, diff lock, ISO connector, rear
weights, New injector and cups,
shows 9,300 hrs.
1991 JD 8960, 24 spd., 3 hyd.,
diff lock, front suitcase weights,
Michelin 650/65R42 press steel
duals, 7,740 hrs., replaced the
mains & a rod bearing on the
Cummins engine and rebuilt the
field injection pump at 6,410 hrs.
1991 Case-IH 9170, powershift, 4
hyd., PTO, 8,000 hrs., New trans.
1986 Steiger CR1280, 3306 Cat,
partial powershift, New air ride seat,
approx. 6,800 hrs., New exhaust
in 2012, $2,500 spent on New A/C
compressor, dryer, & fans in 2014
MFWD TRACTORS
2012 JD 7230R, MFWD, premium
cab w/susp., leather, Touch display,
JDLink, ILS, IVT, 85cc pump, 4
hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 540/1000
PTO, integrated auto steer, cold
weather pkg., foot throttle, diff lock,
HID lights, H480 self-leveling loader,
8’ bucket, loader light pkg., front
fenders, 1,400 lb. rear inside weight
pkg., 70 hrs., warranty until Oct. 9,
2015, S/N1RW7230RCCD008842
2011 Case-IH 315 Magnum,
MFWD, luxury cab, leather,
powershift, 5 hyd., large hyd. pump,
3 pt., quick hitch, (3) PTOs, Pro 700
display, integrated auto steer, &
globe, 1,009 hrs., S/NZBRD03210
2009 JD 8230, MFWD, deluxe cab,
powershift, 1300 front, 4 hyd.,
power beyond, 3 pt., quick hitch,
540/1000 PTO, integrated auto
steer, diff lock, radar, 4,064 hrs.,
S/NRW8230P040431
2005 Agco DT240A, MFWD,
PowerMaxx CVT trans., 4 hyd., 3 pt.,
540/1000 PTO, cab susp., Beeline
auto steer, full weight pkg., 2,439
hrs., trans. computer upgraded
December 2014, S/NP137016
2004 Versatile 2180, MFWD,
powershift, Megaflow Hydraulics,
Super Steer, 4 hyd., 3 pt., quick
hitch, 1000 PTO, front suitcase
weights, New tires, 5,180 hrs.
1983 JD 4650, MFWD, powershift, 3
hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO,
wired for ATU universal auto steer,
diff lock, front suitcase weights,
11,257 hrs., transmission updates
1993 IHC 9400, 60” removable
drill fill, non-plug auger, poly brush,
16x30”, mechanical drive, spring
down pressure, refuge tank, Totally sleeper, 3406 Cat, 425 hp., 13 spd., 72,333 miles
engine brake, 275/80R22.5 tires,
1979 IHC 2375 single axle, DT466,
Tubular 2x2 & in-furrow liquid
5&2 spd., spring ride
fertilizer, rear hitch, RowCommand, 792,000 miles
1975 Ford F700 single axle, 5&2
Yetter trash cleaners, hyd. fold
NON-SLEEPER
spd., gas, 15’ box, converted to
markers, twin ground drive pump,
SEMI TRACTORS
landscape body, hoist, receiver
Precision eSet corn
(3) 2000 Freightliner C120
hitch, 50,181 miles
JD MaxEmerge Plus planter,
Century Class tri-axle day cab
COMBINES
24x22”, Moore-built bar, front-fold,
PICKUPS
conventionals, 12.7 Detroit, 500
3 bu. hoppers, trash whippers,
2012 JD S670, STS, Contourhp., 10 spd., engine brakes, air ride, 2008 Ford F250 Super Duty XL, 1
liquid fertilizer, (2) 250 gal. tanks,
Master, premium cab, deluxe
ton, ext. cab, shows 133,500 miles
air slide 5th, hyd. power steering,
controls, 7” touch screen, Pro Drive, wired for Trimble, no monitor
2008 Chevrolet 1500, reg. cab, 8’
A/C, Benchmark interiors, AM/
PRWD, integrated auto steer, Y&M, White 6100 planter, 12x30”, vertical FM/CD, tilt & telescoping steering
box, 4.3 liter, shows 212,347 miles
fold, fertilizer, insecticide/herbicide,
5 spd. feeder house, high cap.
2005 Chevrolet 1500 Silverado
wheels, cruise, power windows,
press wheels, seed firmers,
unloading auger, fine cut chopper,
reg. cab, 1/2 ton, 5.3 liter
dual aluminum fuel tanks, single
monitor, markers, discs replaced
hopper ext., round bar concaves,
chrome stack, ext. visors, quarter 2000 Ford F250 XL, reg. cab, 8’ box
684 sep. hrs., 986 engine hrs.,
VERTICAL TILLAGE fenders, 40,000 lb. rears, steerable 1989 Ford F250, V8, automatic
ext. powertrain warranty until Oct. 2013 JD 2625 tandem disc, 40’8”,
air lift pusher axle, 230” WB, 3:58 1975 Chevrolet K20, 3/4 ton
26, 2015 or 1,000 hrs., emission
rock flex, 5-section fold, 26” notched ratio, 11R22.5 tires, aluminum discs
HOPPER BOTTOM
warranty until Oct. 26, 2017,
blades on front, 26” smooth blades
front & outside rears
TRAILERS
S/N1H0S670SCC0747670
on rear, 11” space, single pt. depth, 2007 IHC 8600, factory day cab, ISM
2010 JD 9870, STS, Contourwalking tandems across, wing
Cummins, 10 spd., air ride, air slide 2015 Timpte hopper bottom,
Master, premium cab, deluxe
42’x102”x78” sides, ag hoppers, roll
stabilizer wheels, scrapers, 3-bar
5th, 3:70 ratio, aluminum front &
controls, PRWD, integrated auto
tarp, air ride, (3) sets of (5) clear
harrow, S/N1N02625XJC0750212
steel rear rims, 703,180 miles
steer, Y&M, 5 spd. feeder house,
lens lights, catwalk & ladder
2013 Salford 570RTS heavy duty, 2006 IHC 8600, day cab, ISM
high cap. unloading auger, hopper
2011 Timpte hopper bottom,
41’, rolling choppers, tandems
Cummins, 10 spd., air ride, air
ext., fine cut chopper, 1,038 sep.
42’x102”x78” sides, ag hoppers, roll
across, weight pkg., 19” convex front slide 5th, power steering, cruise,
hrs., 1,507 engine hrs., emission
tarp, air ride, pintle hitch
coulters, 20” wave back coulters,
A/C, AM/FM radio, dual fuel tanks,
warranty until Sept. 2, 2015,
2008
Merritt hopper bottom, 38’,
3-bar harrow, 305/70R22.5 tires on
single exhaust, 40,000 lb. rears,
S/N1H09870SAA0736547
electric roll tarp, Rapat conveyors
main, 245/70R19.5 tires on wings,
3:90 ratio, 22.5 low pro tires on
2011 JD 9770, STS, Contour-Master, S/N121047
aluminum discs, shows 430,000 mi. 2003 Wilson pup trailer,
premium cab, deluxe controls,
18’x96”x72” sides, ag hoppers, roll
2012 Summers Super Coulter, 50’, 2006 IHC 9400I, day cab, C13 Cat,
integrated auto steer, Y&M, high cap. walking tandems across, notched
435 hp., Ultrashift, engine brake, air tarp, air ride
unloading auger, fine cut chopper,
1997
Wilson hopper bottom,
blades, 3-bar harrow, S/NL1468
ride, fixed 5th, A/C, cruise, power
1,008 sep. hrs., 1,510 engine hrs.,
43’x96”x102”, air ride with air lift
2012 Landoll VT743133 vertical
windows, heated mirrors, dual air
S/N1H09770SCA0740705
tag, Shurco 3500 Series electric roll
tillage tool, 33’, 7” space, 10
ride seats, dual 100 gal. polished
1993 JD 9600, DAS, fore/aft, 1,662
degree angle discs, 22” smooth
aluminum tanks, diff lock, 165” WB, tarp, Shurco electric trap motors w/
sep. hrs., 2,121 engine hrs.
remote, New trap bearings in 2013
ultra low concave disc blades,
22.5 front tires on aluminum rims,
1993 Jet tandem axle hopper
rolling baskets, used two seasons
FLEX DRAPER
295/75R22.5 tires on steel rims,
bottom, 26’, spring ride, roll tarp
& FLEX HEADS
FIELD CULTIVATORS 700,088 miles
2005 Volvo tandem axle day cab, 1988 Cornhusker tandem axle
2012 Case-IH 2162 flex draper
2012 Wil-Rich QX2 field cultivator, VED12, 435 hp., 10 spd., engine
convertible hopper bottom,
head, 40’, double sickle drive
50’, full floating hitch, single pt.
brake, air ride, air slide 5th, cruise, 46’x102”x90”, spring ride, roll tarp,
2012 JD 635 flex head, 35’, fore/aft, depth, edge-on shanks, tandems
22.5 tires on steel rims, 700,000 mi. (3) hoppers, 18” clearance
S/NH00635FCC0745994
across, knock-on shovels, 4-bar
2001 Peterbilt 385, factory day
FLATBED & STEP
2011 JD 635 flex head, 35’, fore/aft, harrow, 12-ply 11L-15 tires
cab, ISM Cummins, 400 hp.,
DECK TRAILERS
S/NH00635FJB0742445
2012 JD 2210 field cultivator, 552004 JD 635 flex head, 35’, fore/aft, 1/2’, 6” space, 7” sweeps, full floating 10 spd., jake brake, air ride cab
1996 SSR Pump tandem axle
&
susp.,
cruise,
A/C,
tilt,
dual
S/NH00635F706951
gooseneck combine or sprayer
hitch, single pt. depth, 200 lb. stds.,
polished aluminum fuel tanks, 3:90 trailer, 35’, spring ride, air brakes,
2003 JD 930F flex head, 30’, fore/
walking tandems across, 3-bar
ratio,
167”
WB,
11R22.5
tires
on
aft, poly, Crary air reel
folding slideouts
harrow, S/N1N02210XLC0750309
aluminum, 550,000 miles
2008 Case-IH 2020 flex head, 35’, 2006 JD 2210 field cultivator,
1994 Featherlite aluminum/steel
2000 Peterbilt 379, day cab, 12.7
AHH, fore/aft, S/NCBJ041349
combination flatbed, 48’x96”,
48-1/2’, 6” space, 7” sweeps, full
Detroit, 13 spd., engine brake, air
spread axle, air ride, Merritt storage
CORN HEADS
floating hitch, AccuDepth, walking
ride, air slide, 2-line wet kit, dual
box
tandems across, JD rear hitch,
2012 JD 616C corn head, 16x30”,
exhaust, twin SS air cleaners,
1993 Wilson aluminum/steel
4-bar harrow, S/NN02210X000795 11-24.5 tires on aluminum rims,
AHH, RowSense
combination flatbed trailer, 46’x96”,
2005 JD 2210 field cultivator,
2011 JD 612C chopping corn
1,000,000+ miles
air ride tandem, sliding winches
58-1/2’, 6” space, 7” sweeps, full
head, 12x22”, AHH, RowSense
1999 IHC 9100 single axle, day cab, 1993 Wilson aluminum/steel
floating hitch, AccuDepth, walking
2009 JD 612C chopping corn
M11 Cummins, 280 hp., 10 spd.,
combination flatbed trailer,
head, 12x22”, S/NH0612CC730379 tandems across, 3-bar harrow
4:11 ratio, rear fenders, 22.5 tires,
48’x96”, 5’ spread, air ride, sliding
2002 JD 2200 field cultivator,
2008 JD 608C chopping corn
490,000 miles
winches
48-1/2’, 6” space, 7” sweeps, full
head, 8x30”, knife rolls, hyd. deck
1988 Kenworth T600 tandem axle, 1989 Utility steel flatbed trailer,
floating hitch, AccuDepth, JD rear
plates, S/NH0608CC725310
day cab, NTC 350 Cummins, 9
48’x96”, spring ride, sliding
hitch, walking tandems across,
spd., engine brake, air ride, fixed
PICKUP &
tandems, wood deck
3-bar harrow, S/NN02200X000623 5th wheel, 177” WB, 285/75R24.5
SUNFLOWER HEADS 2000 Case-IH 4900 field cultivator, tires, aluminum front & outside rear 1985 Great Dane steel flatbed
trailer, 45’x96”, spring ride, sliding
50’, 7” space, 5-section fold,
Case-IH 1015 pickup head, 7-belt
tires, shows 634,500 miles
tandems, wood deck
sweeps, walking tandems across,
pickup
BOX
TRUCKS
1981
Dorsey steel flatbed trailer,
3-bar harrow
Case-IH 1015 pickup head,
42’x96”, air ride tandem
JD 960 field cultivator, 44’, 5-section 1978 IHC 1800 Loadstar twin
Westward 388 pickup head
fold, 6” space, 7” sweeps, walking
screw, 446, 5&4 spd., 20’ Midland 1981 Lufkin steel flatbed trailer,
Case-IH 1015 pickup head,
42’x96”, spring ride tandem
tandems across, 3-bar harrow
steel box, roll tarp, 110,000 miles
Westward 436 pickup head
JD 960 S-tine field cultivator, 46’, 1975 Chevrolet C65 lift tag tandem, 2007 Big Tow B25RG tandem axle
Case-IH 810 head, 20’, Lucke
3-section frame, low transport,
427, 5&2 spd., 18-1/2’ Cancade box steel step deck trailer, 38’, spring
sunflower pans, 9’ w/reel
heavy duty rear hitch, 4-bar harrow 1973 Chevrolet C65 lift tag tandem, ride, 24’ deck, 5’ beavertail, 5’ ramps
(2) JD 653 all crop heads, 6x30”,
Wil-Rich 3400 field cultivator, 48’, 427, 5&2 spd., 18-1/2’ Cancade box 1991 Fontaine step deck, 48’x102”,
sunflower sides
1968 Chevrolet tag tandem, 327, 5&2 air ride, spread axle, New paint &
AIR DRILLS & DRILLS 4-bar harrow, knock-on shovels
wood decking
spd., 19’ steel box, hoist, no tarp
CHISEL PLOWS &
2011 Case-IH SDX air seeder, 40’,
TANKER TRAILERS
SERVICE &
OTHER TILLAGE
7-1/2” & 15” space, zone blockage
1987 Polar insulated aluminum
OTHER TRUCKS
EQUIPMENT
monitor, Case-IH 3430 tow-behind
tanker, spring ride, heater
cart, 430 bu., 3-compartment,
2004 Ford F650 service truck, 6.7 1979 Dunham Mfg. tandem axle
JD 1810 chisel plow, 52’
vari-rate, rear duals, front walking Case-IH 5600 chisel plow, 47’
ISB Cummins, 215 hp., 6 spd.,
tanker trailer, 32’, spring ride,
tandems, hyd. fill auger, dual fan, JD 1610 chisel plow, 39’
J&J service body, 8,000 lb. crane,
3,500 gal. SS tank, platform on rear
S/NYAS003680, S/NYAS015973
air compressor, Miller generator/
Alloway RTS soil conditioner, 42’,
2005 JD 1890 air seeder, 42’, 7-1/2” tandems across, twin rolling baskets welder, tool drawers, quick connect for pump & chemical storage
spacing, JD 1910 tow-behind cart, Flexi-Coil 175 coil packer, 42’
HEADER TRAILERS
jumper cables, 270,000 miles,
340 bu., 3-compartment, factory
injectors due for replacement
JD disc, 20’
(3) Tandem axle header trailers, 36’
12” conveyor loading auger, all
1999 Kenworth T800 tender truck, Tandem axle header trailer, 32’
Melroe 480 harrow, 50’
run blockage, New discs, boots, & Case-IH pull-type crumbler, 20’
60 Series Detroit, 10 spd., air ride, (3) Header trailers, 30’, New
gauge wheels in 2012, New tires
Willmar 16 ton dual compartment
(4) Header trailers, 35’, New
SLEEPER
2004 JD 1820 air hoe drill, 60’10”,
tender box, rear discharge auger, (4) Header trailers, 40’, New
SEMI
TRACTORS
10” spacing, JD 1910 tow-behind
electric tarp, box 3 yrs. old, shows
DROP DECK, WATER
commodity cart, 430 bu., 3 compt. 2007 IHC 9400I twin screw, 70”
374,000 miles, farmer-owned
& VAN TRAILERS
sleeper, ISX Cummins, 450 hp., 10 2005 IHC 9100I tandem axle flatbed
1997 JD 1850 air drill, 42’, 7-1/2”
spd., jake brake, cruise, diff lock, 22.5 truck, ISX Cummins, 400 hp., Eaton 1988 Trail King tri-axle drop deck,
& 15” space, JD 787 tow between
tires, aluminum front & steel rear rims, Fuller 10 spd., jake brake, air ride
tank, 230 bu., TSR closing arms,
48’, air up/down 3rd axle, 10’ front
725,000 actual miles, DOT’d
New boots, discs, stored inside,
cab & susp., double frame, 294” WB, deck, 22’ well, 16’ rear deck, 1,500
2005
Freightliner
Columbia,
70”
tank S/NH00787665261,
gal. fiberglass tank, 3,000 gal.
26’ steel bed, shows 385,000 mi.
mid-roof sleeper, 14 liter Detroit,
S/NH01850665355
fiberglass tank, both 3” plumbing,
2008 Sterling Acterra single axle,
1997 JD 1850 air drill, 42’, 15” space, 515 hp., Ultrashift 10 spd., engine
ISC Cummins, 6 spd., air ride seat & Friesen 375 Seed Express tender,
brake, air slide 5th, cruise, 22.5 low susp., cruise, power windows, locks, 2 compartment, roll tarp, spout
JD 1900 tow-between commodity
cart, twin compartment, 270 bu., poly pro tires, aluminum rim, 1,200,000
& heated mirrors, 24’ Delta Waseca controls, Honda motor, 90 degree
miles, OH’d at 546,000 miles, full
hyd. fill auger, New shoes, discs,
swing, 2” pump w/Honda motor, 70
van body, roll-up door, Ultron elec./
maintenance records
completely reconditioned
gal. & 20 gal. mix cones
hyd. lift gate, transparent roof,
2004 IHC 9200 twin screw, small
JD 610 Series chisel plow, 35’,
curbside door, (2) 60 gal. aluminum (2) 1999 Great Dane aluminum
sleeper, ISX Cummins, 400 hp., 10
4-bar harrow, JD 787 tow-behind
reefer water trailers, 48’x102”,
fuel tanks, 279,880 miles
spd., jake brake, cruise, diff lock, 22.5 2005 Sterling L8500 single axle,
commodity cart, 170 bu., Raven
13’6” high, aluminum flat floor, scuff
440 controller with cold flow, (2) SS tires, aluminum front & steel rear rims, C7 Cat, 7 spd., air ride
plate & track, roll-up door, air ride,
560,000 actual miles, DOT’d
flow meters, monitor for JD tank
2001 Freightliner CST120, 60 Series sliding tandem, (3) 2,200 gal. water
2000 IHC 9400 Eagle, mid-roof Pro
also, JD boots & NH3 knives
tanks, Honda 3” pump, 3” valves,
Detroit 12.7 liter, 500 hp., Eaton
Sleeper, N14 Cummins, 370 hp., 10 Fuller 10 spd., engine brake, air ride, mix cone
JD 777 air seeder, 42’, JD 1060
spd., air ride, air slide 5th, 236” WB, double frame, 276” WB, 22’ bed, (2) (2) 1993 Great Dane 7311TLA van
seeding tool, twin compartment,
one season on new discs, scrapers, 11-24.5 tires, shows 832,626 miles, 1,000 gal. mixing system, Kohler
trailers, 48’x102”, sliding tandem
current DOT
& harrows
axle, air ride susp., curb & highway
2 cyl., Honda 3” pump w/GX190,
1998 Freightliner FLD120, flat top
1999 Case-IH press drills, (3) 12’
side doors, aluminum roof, wood
shows approx. 469,000 miles
sleeper, Cat 325 hp., Eaton 10
sections, 6” spacing, dry fertilizer,
1987 IHC 2375 tandem axle cab & floor, roll-up door, electric lift gate
spd., 22.5 tires at 50%, 970,000 mi. chassis, day cab, L10 Cummins, 1992 Great Dane 7311TLA van
hyd. markers, transport
1996 Volvo WIA tandem axle,
trailer, 48’x102”, sliding tandem
10 spd., spring ride, 216” WB, 19’
PLANTERS
sleeper, 12.7L Detroit, 15 spd.,
axle, air ride susp., curb & highway
2012 Case-IH 1260 planter, 36x30”, engine brake, air ride, air slide 5th, frame behind cab
side doors, aluminum roof, wood
1986 Ford 800 tandem axle cab &
bulk fill, vari-rate, Tru-Count
cruise, diff lock, New 275/80R22.5
floor, roll-up door, electric lift gate
chassis, 429 gas, 5&2 spd., PTO,
clutches, pneumatic down pressure, tires, New seals & bearings,
1986
Wabash single axle dry van,
65,300
miles
precision clean row cleaners, liquid 1,054,292 miles
1990 Lull MLULL10K telehandler,
4-wheel steer, aux. hyd., hyd. tilt,
quick tach, 5-1/2’ hyd. adj. forks,
17.5-25 tires, S/NH0M10F7229
Pettibone 8 high lift all terrain
forklift, 4WD, 6 cyl. gas, crab steer,
7’ mast, 33’ reach, S/N8-433
poly tanks, 2” hose, Honda motor,
cast banjo pump
1976 Great Dane step van, 45’,
spring ride, New rear doors, 1,600
gal., 1,200 gal., & 1,200 gal. poly
tanks, mix cone, Honda transfer
pump, bottom or top fill, low pro tires
1974 Transcraft flatbed water
tender trailer, 42’, (2) 1,600 gal.
tanks, 2,000 gal. tank, 2” hose reel,
Honda motor & pump
ENCLOSED TRAILERS
2013 United enclosed trailer,
24’x8-1/2’, beavertail w/ramp door,
jump door, (4) D-rings, white
2012 United Express ULT Series
enclosed trailer, 24’x8-1/2’,
beavertail with ramp door, RV flush
lock, (4) D-rings, black
2004 United tandem axle V-nose
enclosed trailer, 16’x6-1/2’, side &
rear ramp doors
OTHER TRAILERS
2013 PJ gooseneck trailer, 32’, flipover ramps, pop-up center, 12,000
lb. axles on steel, 16” tires at 70%
2006 Rettig car trailer,
2006 Rettig car trailer, 18’, 2’
beavertail, metal deck, 3,500 lb.
axles and 7,000 lb. GVWR
1998 Road Boss tandem axle
gooseneck trailer, 32’, 4’ dovetail,
slide-in ramps, wood deck, spring
ride, dual jacks, winches
Shop-built tandem axle 5th wheel
trailer, 28’, spring ride, Willmar
10 ton fertilizer tender, hyd. rear
spout, twin compartment, roll tarp,
drop deck
SELF-PROPELLED
SPRAYERS &
SPREADERS
2006 Ag Chem 1074 Rogator
self-propelled liquid 4-wheel
applicator, Cat diesel, 100’ boom,
1,000 gal. tank, light bar, foam
markers, 2,500 hrs., S/N107013806
2001 Ag Chem 1254 Rogator selfpropelled liquid applicator, 120’
aluminum 5-section boom, 1,200
gal. SS tank, 3,380 hrs., recent
front wheel motors, S/N125053201
2003 Loral EZ Rider 6300 floater,
DTA530E, Allison automatic, 70’
aluminum boom, 4,040 hrs., New
paint, Loral S/N63007-083013
2001 JD 4710 self-propelled
sprayer, 90’ boom, triple nozzle
bodies, 800 gal. SS tank, 2,487
hrs., S/NN04710X000235
1995 Ag Chem Terragator air
spread, 8.3 liter Cummins, 70’, two
seasons on rear tires
1990 Loral 4900, Air Spread, 466
DT, Allison 4 spd. automatic w/2
spd., 60’ boom, 47,580 miles, 6,437
total hrs., 237 hrs. on engine OH,
Loral S/N20357
Spra-Coupe 220 High Crop, wide
front, 60’ auto fold booms, 210 gal.
tank, 1,500 hrs., S/N208911716
PULL-TYPE
SPRAYERS &
SPREADERS
2013 Top Aire TA1600 pull-type
sprayer, 132’ boom, triple nozzle
bodies, 1,600 gal. poly tank, auto
boom, fence row nozzles, setup for
ISO, hyd. follow hitch
2002 Spray Air pull-type sprayer,
90’ booms, 800 gal. poly tank, 540
PTO fan, hyd. pump, foam markers
F/S pull-type sprayer, 90’ booms,
1,000 gal. tank, adj. axles, hyd.
pump, single nozzles, simple
control, foam markers
Mobility 600 SS fertilizer spreader,
6 ton, 50’ spread, dual spinner
NH3 EQUIPMENT
CHEMICAL/
FERTILIZER
EQUIPMENT
GRAIN HANDLING
EQUIPMENT
SEED TENDERS
2WD TRACTORS
1975 JD 4630, 8 spd. powershift,
LIVESTOCK
3 pt., PTO, front fuel tank, approx.
EQUIPMENT
14,000 hrs.
ROCKPICKERS
1967 Case 830, Comfort King, open
station, gas, 2 hyd., 3 pt., PTO,
BLADES &
5,600 hrs.
SNOW PLOW
1968 IHC 856, open station, 3 pt.,
SKID STEER
PTO, fenders, 8,850 hrs., TA is
ATTACHMENTS
weak, S/N13599S-Y
1965 IHC 706, open station, diesel,
OTHER EQUIPMENT
wide front, 1 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000
LAWN & GARDEN
PTO, complete restoration with
recent OH 7504S-Y
SHOP EQUIPMENT
Big Dipper loader tractor, gas,
RECREATION
w/bucket, forks, & tire chains
AUTOMOBILES
WHEEL LOADER
TANKS
2008 Wacker Neuson 850 wheel
loader, cab, heat, Deutz 66 hp.
TIRES
diesel, continuous variable hydro,
PARTS
4x4, 4-wheel steer, single joystick
control, 2.4 yd. quick tach bucket,
FARM SUPPORT
12.5-20 tires, 2,820 hrs.
ITEMS
TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items. Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising.
$35 documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed. ND Sales Tax laws apply. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer.
Auctioneers & Clerk: Steffes Group, Inc., 2000 Main Avenue East, West Fargo, ND 58078
Scott Steffes ND81, Brad Olstad ND319, Bob Steffes ND82, Max Steffes ND999, Ashley Huhn ND843,
Eric Gabrielson ND890, Randy Kath ND894 | 701.237.9173 | 800.726.8609 | SteffesGroup.com
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BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Roofing
PRICE TO CLEAR!!
75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard
100,000PSI high tensile roofing &
siding. 16 colours to choose from.
B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2
Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft.2
Ask about our blowout colours...65¢/ft.2
Also in stock low rib white 29 ga. ideal for
archrib buildings
BEAT THE PRICE
INCREASES CALL NOW
FOUILLARD STEEL
SUPPLIES LTD.
ST. LAZARE, MB.
1-800-510-3303
BUILDINGS
AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post
frame building company. For estimates and information
call
1-888-816-AFAB(2322).
Website:
www.postframebuilding.com
CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place & finish
of concrete floors. Can accommodate any floor design.
References available. Alexander, MB. 204-752-2069.
BUSINESS SERVICES
BUSINESS SERVICES
Crop Consulting
FARM CHEMICAL SEED COMPLAINTS
We also specialize in: Crop Insurance appeals;
Chemical drift; Residual herbicide; Custom operator
issues; Equipment malfunction; Yield comparisons,
Plus Private Investigations of any nature. With our
assistance the majority of our clients have received
compensation previously denied. Back-Track
Investigations investigates, documents your loss and
assists in settling your claim.
Licensed Agrologist on Staff.
For more information
Please call 1-866-882-4779
CLOTHING
Work Wear
WE SEW IT ALL. Boat covers, upholstery, repairs,
alterations, zippers replaced, horse blankets, leather & canvas, bring it to the old folks (204)727-2694.
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
1998 JD 270 LC hyd excavator, quick attach, hyd
thumb, 12-ft. stick, A/C, $40,000. Phone:
(204)871-0925, MacGregor.
D50A-15 KOMATSU DOZER W/BUSH canopy. 11-ft
straight blade & 9-ft root blade w/ripper. Good shape,
Asking $28,000. Cell:(204)371-6664 or (204)427-2519.
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
Fertilizer Equipment
1991 LOREAL FLOATER: 466 dsl engine, Trimble
auto-steer w/mapping. Shedded all winter. 60-ft
booms, Allison auto. trans. Motor & trans. in excellent shape. Phone:(204)466-2822 or (204)856-9176
USED DRY FERTILIZER SPREADERS 4-8 ton.
Many to choose from, $3000 up. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com (204)857-8403
USED FERTILIZER SPREADERS, 4-8 ton, large
selection. Portage La Prairie. (204)857-8403
www.zettlerfarmequipment.com
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]
Cudmore Bros.
Used Augers
10x80,13x70 and 13x95
Farm King Snowblowers
Meridian Hopper Bins
Meridian (Sakundiak) Augers
Farm King Augers
Allied Loaders
Honda & Kohler Engines
204-873-2395
CRYSTAL CITY, MB
www.cudmorebros.com
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Carts
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
Tillage & Seeding
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.
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Air Drills
08’ 5510 SEED HAWK w/500-bu tank. Phone
(306)485-7843.
Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd.
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.
1-866-729-9876
5150 Richmond Ave. East
BRANDON, MB.
www.harvestsalvage.ca
New, Used & Re-man. Parts
Tractors Combines Swathers
TRACTORS
John Deere
The Real Used FaRm PaRTs
sUPeRsToRe
Over 2700 Units for Salvage
• TRACTORS • COMBINES
• SWATHERS • DISCERS
Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN
(306) 946-2222
monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
FOR SALE: JD 1840, hi/low, 3-pt; JD 2130, hi/low,
3-pt, w/FEL; JD 2750, 2-wd, O.S., 3-pt, Hi/Low shift
w/146 FEL; JD 3155, MFWD, CAH, 3-pt, w/740
FEL, grapple; JD 4055, MFWD, PS, 3-pt; JD 4240
Quad shift; JD 4440, (2) Quad shifts; JD 4640,
Quad, add on 3-pt, w/FEL; JD 6400, MFWD, CAH,
3-pt, PQ, w/640 FEL; JD 6420, MFWD, 3-pt, 24-spd
w/LHR, loader; JD 7710, MFWD, PS, 3-pt, w/740
FEL. All tractors can be sold with new or used loaders. Mitch’s Tractor Sales Ltd St. Claude, MB
(204)750-2459 (cell), Mitchstractorsales.com
WATROUS SALVAGE
FOR SALE: JD 4850 MFW PWR shift auto steer,
10,500-hrs, in very good mechanical condition, Ser
#RW4850P009657, $36,500. (204)655-3458.
WaTRoUs, sK.
Fax: 306-946-2444
FYFE PARTS
1-800-667-9871 • Regina
1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon
1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg
1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton
“For All Your Farm Parts”
www.fyfeparts.com
TRACTORS
2-Wheel Drive
TracTors
STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in
JD tractors in need of repair or burnt, or will buy for
parts. JD parts available. Phone: 204-466-2927 or
cell: 204-871-5170, Austin.
TRACTORS
Case/ IH
08 STX 430 brand new 620-70-42 tires, delux cab,
heated leather seat, just over 3,000-hrs, $160,000.
Phone (204)871-0925, McGregor.
HAYING & HARVESTING
NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS
NEW COMBINE PARTS
HAYING & HARVESTING
Various
Large Inventory of
new and remanufactured parts
FOR SALE: HIGHLINE 1400 bale picker, 14 bales.
(204)655-3458.
Combines
CASE IH MACDON DRAPER header model #2162,
30-ft. w/gauge wheels, $40,000. (204)871-0925.
Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727
Fax (204) 326-5878
Web site: farmparts.ca
E-mail: [email protected]
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
[email protected] www.arcfab.ca
BREAKING DISCS. KEWANEE 12, 15, 16-ft;
Towner 18-ft, Wishek 14, 26, 30-ft. Feeder wagons,
Roorda 300-bu, $2000; Kelly Ryan, $2000; Gehl
130, $900; Auger feeder, $750; Phoenix harrows,
35, 42, 53-ft; Flexi-Coil 50-ft winged packer, $9500;
Oval 340 loader, $2000; Allied # 2795, $4500; Gehl
400-bu spreader, $7500; Knight slinger spreader,
$3500; JD Double auger snowblower, $1250; Single auger, $1000. Call (204)857-8403.
Spraying EquipmEnt
CULTIVATED FARMLAND; ALSO PASTURE &
hayland; parting out tractors, combines, tires &
rims, discers, 7700 JD combine, trucks, few cars, 4
runner horse sleigh. (204)268-1888
FOR SALE: BRANDT SB4000 Hi-Clearance sprayer, 1,350 Imp Gal, triple nozzle, auto boom shut off,
$24,900. (204)655-3458.
DISCS JD 16-FT, $5000; Terra 15-ft, $4500;
Krause 15-ft, $3500; JD 28-ft 330, $10,000; Bushog
25-ft & 28-ft, $7500; IH 490, 24-ft, $7500; Wishek
15-ft, 26-ft, 30-ft breaking discs, Kewanee 12-ft, 15ft, Versatile 36-ft, $25,000; JD 8-30 planter, $7000;
8-36, $6500. Phoenix harrows 35-ft, $9500; 42-ft,
$10,900; 53-ft, $12,000; 48-ft Flexi-Coil fold-up
packer, rock cushion, $9500; AW Mixmill, $1500;
Henke 30-in Rollermill, $3500; Peerless 20-in,
$2000. (204)857-8403
FOR SALE: 1998 FLEXICOIL 5000, 28-ft Airseeder w/1700 Air Cart, Liquid Green Drop Kit, Atom Jet
Openers, on board Seed Treater, 3 rollers & Monitors. Never had fertilizer in tank. Asking $30,000
OBO; 1980 4386 IHC 4WD Tractor, 4,700-hrs,
good tires, plumbed for Airseeder. Asking $15,000
OBO. 1985 Case IH 1460 Combine, 466 engine,
2,952-hrs, no chopper, always shedded. Asking
$15,000 OBO. Call: (204)867-0315 or (204)867-0367 or
Email: [email protected].
NEW 400-BU GRAVITY WAGONS, $7400; 600-bu,
$12,500; 750-bu, $18,250; Used Gravity wagons
350-750-bu. Used Grain carts, Brent 772, $17,500;
672, $15,000; 874, $22,000; Ficklin 650-bu,
$14,000. Others up to 1100-bu. Used fertilizer
spreaders $3000 up; Valmar 1655, $3300; NoJet
applicator, $1500; Grainvacs REM 2500 HD,
$9500; Brandt $4000- $8000; 9-ft 3-PH blade,
$950; 10-ft Land leveller, $2450; 12-ft, $2650.
(204)857-8403
TRACTORS
Various
COCKSHUTT 1850 W/DUALS 2 hyds, good tires,
$2,500. 1200 Case 4WD, good tires, $6,000.
(204)871-2708.
Big Tractor Parts,
Inc.
Geared For
The Future
COMBINES
Accessories
STEINBACH, MB.
Ph. 326-2443
Go public with an ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds. Phone 1-800-782-0794.
SPRAYING EQUIPMENT
Sprayers
STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALIST
RED OR GREEN
1. 10-25% savings on new replacement
parts for your Steiger drive train.
2. We rebuild axles, transmissions
and dropboxes with ONE YEAR
WARRANTY.
3. 50% savings on used parts.
1-800-982-1769
www.bigtractorparts.com
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Air Drills
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
The Icynene Insulation
System®
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
www.penta.ca
1-800-587-4711
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.
Farming is enough of a gamble, advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator classified section. It’s a sure thing.
1-800-782-0794.
LIVESTOCK
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
MAR MAC & GUESTS (Downhill Simm & Perkin &
Cattle) would like to personally invite you to their
11th Annual Bull Sale. Wed., Mar. 11th, 2015 at
Mar Mac Farms, Brandon. 80 lots of Beefy Simm,
Red Angus & Black Angus Bulls that have went
trough a strict culling process w/calving ease, ease
of fleshing, performance & structural soundness
taken consideration. View videos & sale broadcast
at cattleinmotion.com View catalog at www.marmacfarms.net or call (204)728-3058.
GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK
AUCTION MART. LTD.
Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519
GRUNTHAL, MB.
AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING
REGULAR
CATTLE SALES
every TUESDAY at 9 am
March 3rd, 10th, 17th,
24th & 31st
Saturday, February 28th at 10 am
Bred Cow Sale
Monday, March 9th 12:00 pm
Sheep and Goat with
Small Animals & Holstein Calves
For on farm appraisal of livestock
or for marketing information please call
Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250
Auction Mart (204) 434-6519
MB. Livestock Dealer #1111
WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Air Drills
TECHNOLOGY MADE SIMPLE
$207,999
RETAIL LEASE FINANCE
MB and Eastern SK,
call Brent at (204) 771-8244
www.versatile-ag.com/seeding
SEED CLEANING EQUIPMENT: 620 screen machine, parallel flow 245, 3 #3’s aspirator & 6 lights.
Located in MB. Phone:(604)491-3513.
FOR SALE: UNVERFERTH 7000 grain cart w/tarp,
30.5x32 tires, SER #B1666145, VGC, $21,000.
(204)655-3458.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Dryers
WESTERN GRAIN DRYER, manufactures advanced
screenless grain dryers, integrated w/PLC, HMI technology for automatic moisture & drying system controls. Update for Vertec, Ibec & other screenless dryers such as
enclosed roof, drying tiers, & burners etc. are available.
1-888-288-6857. www.westerngraindryer.com
*Model AC600 shown.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Elevators
80-FT. BUCKET ELEVATING LEG w/3 phase
10-HP electric motor. Phone (204)886-3304.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Vacuums
CURT’S GRAIN VAC SERVICES, parts & repair for
all makes & models. Craik SK, (306)734-2228.
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GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528
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Call for details
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LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
SHEEP, LAMB & GOAT SALE
Wed., Mar. 4, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.
Sale Will Feature A Flock
Dispersal Of 35 Hampshire
X Dorset Ewes Bred Texel For
March 15 Lambing, Vaccinated,
3 to 5 Yr Old, Over 200%
Lambing, Big Frame Ewes,
As Good As They Come
(Lamb & Goat Prices Are Higher)
BRED COW SALE
Mon., Mar. 9, 2015 @ 11:00 a.m.
Butcher & Feeder @ 10:00 a.m.
SALES EVERY FRIDAY @ 9:00 a.m.
(Butchers & Feeders)
We Have 5 to 6 Cow Buyers 6 to 7 Order Buyers - 3 to 5
Local Buyers
“Where Buyers & Sellers Meet”
We Buy Cattle Direct On Farm
To Consign or for more information call:
204-694-8328 or call Mike at 204-807-0747
www.winnipeglivestocksales.com
Licence #1122
The Commercial Cattlemen’s
One Stop Bull Shop
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM ANNUAL Bull sale.
1:00pm April 11th at Ridgeville Hall. Sale will include 16 yearling Red Angus bulls, 1 yearling Black
Angus Bull, 2) 2-yr old Red Angus Bulls. There will
be a good selection of Red & Black Maine Anjou
Bulls & 18 Charolais bulls from Walking Plow Charlais. Sale catalogue & videos will be online
www.dlms.ca as we get closer to sale time. Sale
will be by video w/online bidding available. For
more info call Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631.
THREE 2-YR OLD PUREBRED Registered Charolais bulls, Very good dispositions, will be easy calving, born in April & May, will be semen tested &
guaranteed. Also 2-yearlings (Bluegrass grandsons). Phone:(204)748-1024, Virden, KEH Charolais,
Keith Hagan.
WALKING PLOW CHAROLAIS HAS 18 yearling
Charolais bulls consigned to Wilkinridge Stock farm
Bull Sale 1:00pm April 11th at Ridgeville Hall. Also
in the sale will be Red Angus & Maine Anjou bulls.
Sale catalogue & videos will be online www.dlms.ca
as we get closer to sale time. Sale will be by video
w/online bidding available. For more info call Cliff,
Warren Graydon (204)427-2589.
WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT selection of PB Charolais bulls, both Red & white yearling & 2-yr olds.
Pictures & info on the net www.defoortstockfarm.com. Call Gord or Sue:(204)743-2109.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
150 Bulls Sell...
PUREBRED YEARLING & TWO-YEAR old Hereford Bulls for sale. The bulls are pail fed, easy going
& have great disposition. They are fed a well balanced ration for optimal growth. They are thick,
long & deep w/great hair coats. We will semen test
& deliver bulls. Will winter bulls until May 1st. Can
be viewed online at www.rocknabh.com or call anytime to discuss. Allan/Bonnie at (204)764-0364 or
Kevin/Holly at (204)764-0331 or (204)764-0332.
Free Delivery, Semen Tested,
Sight Unseen Buyer’s Program
For more info or
Catalogue Contact:
Lee (306) 483-8067,
Dave (306) 483-8660,
Jim (306) 483-7986
Email: [email protected]
WLB LIVESTOCK 11TH ANNUAL Bull Sale
2:00pm. March 24th, 2015. 55 Polled Herefords &
Black/Red Simmentals sell. ALL BULLS SEMEN
TESTED. Free board till May 1st. Catalogue &
video available online, www.wlblivestock.com or call
Bill Biglieni (204)763-4697 or (204)729-7925.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Maine-Anjou
View Catalogue at:
mrlranch.com
Performance & Calving ease
bulls in every category
WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM ANNUAL Bull sale.
1:00pm April 11th at Ridgeville Hall. Sale will include 18
yearling Red & Black Maine Anjou bulls, as well as 1)
2-yr old & 1) 3-yr old herd sire. There will also be 2) 2-yr
old & 16 yearling Red Angus bulls. Walking Plow Charolais have 18 yearling Charolais bulls in the sale. Sale
catalogue & videos will be online www.dlms.ca as we get
closer to sale time. Sale will be by video w/online bidding
available. For more info call Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Salers
45 RED & BLACK Angus 2-yr old bulls, suitable for
heifers & cows, private treaty at the Ranch. Info
sheets available. Contact Triple V Ranch. Dan:
(204)522-0092
or
(204)665-2448.
Matthew:
(204)264-0706. vvvranch.com
PRIME SALERS BULLS, POLLED, red or black, hand
fed, very quiet. BW as low as 74lbs. Ken Sweetland,
Lundar: (204)762-5512. www.sweetlandsalers.com
ANDERSON CATTLE CO BULL SALE
Mar., 28, 2015, 1PM at the farm, Swan River, MB.
50 Red & Black Angus Yearling & Two Year Old
Bulls. Call(204)734-2073 or www.andersoncattle.ca
EDIE CREEK ANGUS has 35 Meaty, Moderate,
Maternal, Black & Red Angus bulls for sale. March
14th at Ashern Auction Mart will be our 8th Annual
Sale. Easy Calving, Easy Fleshing. Developed as
2-yr olds to breed more cows for more years! Great
temperaments,
many
suitable
for
heifers.
www.ediecreekangus.com (204)232-1620
HAMCO CATTLE CO. 17TH Annual Angus Bull
Sale, Sat., March 21st, 2015 (1:00pm) at the farm
South of Glenboro, MB. Selling approx. 65 yearling
& 25, 2-yr old Red Angus & 45 yearling & 6, 2-yr old
Black Angus bulls. Many are AI. Semen tested, free
delivery, delayed payment plan. Call for catalogue or
view online at: www.hamcocattleco.com. Albert, Glen
& Larissa Hamilton (204)827-2358 or (204)526-0705;
Dr David Hamilton (204)325-3635 or (204)822-3054.
RED & BLACK 2-YR old & yearling Angus bulls for
sale; we have 10 bulls @ the Douglas Bull Test station; visit our website: ridgesideredangus.com
Call Don:(204)422-5216. Thank you, have a great day!
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
20TH ANNUAL CATTLEMANS’ CONNECTION
Bull Sale, March 6th, 2015, 1:00pm. Heartland Livestock Brandon. Selling 100 Yearling Black Angus
Bulls. For Catalogue or more information call Jack
Hart, Brookmore Angus (204)476-6696 or email
[email protected] Barb Airey manager
HBH Farms (204)566-2134 email [email protected] Sale management Doug Henderson
(403)782-3888 or (403)350-8541.
BULL SALE WED., MAR-25TH. 50 Black Angus
2-yr olds & select yearlings. Bar H Land & Cattle
Co. Langenburg SK. Robin (306)743-2840, cell
(306)743-7490. Sales Manager Chris (306)933-4200.
CRANBERRY CREEK ANGUS REGISTERED
bulls for sale. Sired by Windy 702, Remitall Rachis,
Vermilion Yellowstone, Game Day, Cranberry CRK
Pioneer, HF Kodiak. Bulls are easy going with great
dispositions. Hand fed for longevity. Semen tested,
guaranteed & delivered. Will hold until the end of
April. All weights & EPD’s available. Call
(204)534-2380, or [email protected]
for more info, David & Jeanette Neufeld, Boissevain
OSSAWA ANGUS AT MARQUETTE, MB has for
sale: yearling & 2-yr old bulls. Also 3-yr old & 6-yr
old herdsire, also yearling heifers for sale. For more
info call (204)375-6658, cell (204)383-0703.
REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS BULLS for sale.
Low birth weights & quiet. Buy now & save, no
disappointments! EPD’s & delivery available. Phone
Amaranth (204)843-2287.
Genetic Source
Simmental Bull Sale
LIVESTOCK SCALES made to fit in your chute or
alley. We have a variety of sizes to choose from, no
electrics. Also bale scales, hopper feeders in various sizes. Elias Scales:(306)445-2111 www.eliasscales.com
Monday, March 16
Brandon, MB
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Shorthorn
IF YOU ARE LOOKING to buy or sell Shorthorn
bulls or females, contact Monty Thomson at
(204)870-0089, the Manitoba Shorthorn Association
Field man. www.manitobashorthorns.com
YEARLING SHORTHORN BULLS FOR SALE.
Well grown Jan-Feb bulls. Also one, 3 yr old suitable for breeding heifers. Greg Tough (204)748-3136,
Hargrave, MB.
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MISCELLANEOUS
WANTED
Sale ConSignorS inClude:
Big Sky Simmentals
Mathew & Marguerite Smith
204-723-2293
Trevor & amy Peters
204-328-7458
Brad & lauren Smith
204-723-0254
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
“IN PURSUIT OF PERFECTION” Bull Sale selling 145
Red & Black Simmentals, Red & Black Angus & Simm/
Angus bulls, sale is at Spring Creek Ranch near in
Moosomin, SK at 1:00pm on March 12th, 2015. Spring
Creek Simmentals, Brian McCarthy (306)435-3590,
Black Sand Cattle Co., Craig Dav-idson (204)761-5991.
PROUDLY WESTERN BULL SALE, Sat., Mar.
21st, 1:00PM, at the Whitewood Auction Barn,
Whitewood, SK. Selling 50 yearling & 2 yr old, Red,
Black & Fullblood Simm bulls. Wintering & delivery
avail. For a catalogue or more info contact T Bar C
Cattle Co. (306)220-5006. View the catalogue online at www.buyagro.com
WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT group of Red & Red
Blaze face Polled, Simm Bulls for sale. Your bull
c/w a full guarantee & is semen tested, fed, insured
until delivered & delivered when you need him all at
our cost. Call Ray Cormier (204)736-2608 & you
can visit our website at www.riverbankfarms.com
WLB LIVESTOCK 11TH ANNUAL Bull Sale
2:00pm. March 24th, 2015. 55 Black/Red Simmentals & Polled Herefords sell. ALL BULLS SEMEN
TESTED. Free board till May 1st. Catalogue &
video available online, www.wlblivestock.com or
call Bill Biglieni (204)763-4697 or (204)729-7925.
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ad in the Manitoba Co-operator. Manitoba’s best-read
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LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
300 BRED COWS FOR sale 2/3 Black 1/3 Red.
Bred to Purebred Black bulls, start calving mid
April. Call (204)638-5581.
LOOKING FOR INSTANT DEEP freezer for freezing potato chips. Phone (204)638-8415.
WANTED: MILKTANKS 150-250 GAL & 600-1,200
gal, cooling does not need to be in working condition. Call (204)529-2022.
NOTICES
oakview Simmentals
Todd & danna Collins
204-246-2166
Triple r Simmentals
rick dequier
204-745-3925
for more info contact
Jay Good: 403-556-5563
Darren Paget: 403-323-3985
glenn norton: 780-542-0634
Catalog can be viewed online at: www.transconlivestock.com
The Manitoba Sheep
Association Annual
General Meeting
March 7, 2015
9:30 AM Registration
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Wanted
TIRED OF THE
HIGH COST OF
MARKETING
YOUR CALVES??
McKenzie United Church
85-11th Street NW
Portage la Prairie, MB
For more information
and list of resolutions
go to www.mbsheep.com
PERSONAL
300-700 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400
Ben: 721-3400
SHARE YOUR LIFE, as it’s meant to be... A lasting
Relationship. CANDLELIGHT MATCHMAKERS is
here to help you. Confidential, Rural, Photos and
Profiles to selected matches, Affordable, Local.
Serving MB, SK, NW Ontario. Call/Write for info:
Box 212, Roland, MB, R0G 1T0, (204)343-2475.
800-1000 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Don: 528-3477, 729-7240
REAL ESTATE
Contact:
D.J. (Don) MacDonald
Livestock Ltd.
License #1110
LIVESTOCK
Horse Auctions
ROCKING W HORSE Spring Horse & Tack Sale,
Sat., Apr. 25th, 2015, Keystone Centre, Brandon,
MB. Phone (204)325-7237 www.rockingw.com
LIVESTOCK
Sheep For Sale
FOR SALE: ARCOTT, DORSET, TEXEL cross
market lambs, grain fed, $200 per lamb; one bred
ewe, $250; 8 ewe lambs, $200. Call (204)723-0747
cell, (204)749-2018 home.
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
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Electronic Scale Opt.
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CLINE CATTLE COMPANY HAS for sale PB Char
yearling & 2 yr old bulls, White & Red factor. Call
Brad (204)523-0062 www.clinecattlecompany.ca
ANL POLLED HEREFORDS SPRING BULL SALE.
Sun., Mar. 22nd, 2:00pm at the farm at Steelman,
SK. Selling 25 yearling & two year old bulls. Wintering & delivery available. For a catalogue or info
contact Karl:(306)487-2670 or T Bar C Cattle Co.
(306)220-5006. View the catalogue or videos online at www.buyagro.com
• 55 Red Polled Simmental
• 45 Black Polled Simmental
• 10 Red & Black Simm/Angus
• 10 FB Fleckvieh Simmental
• 40 Registered Red Angus
LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
McMillen Ranching Ltd.
21st Annual Bull Sale
Saturday, March 7th, 2015
At the Ranch, Carievale, Sask.
at 1:00 p.m.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
WANTED:
BUTCHER
HOGS
SOWS AND BOARS
FOR EXPORT
P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD.
728-7549
Licence No. 1123
LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT
ALTERNATIVE POWER BY SUNDOG SOLAR,
portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind
generators, aeration. Carl Driedger, (204)556-2346
or (204)851-0145, Virden.
FOR SALE: (2)BOB SLEIGHS, complete w/pull
double tree neck yoke for horse. 1 smaller bob
sleigh for smaller horses, complete. Hobby Farm for
sale. Phone:(204)866-4141.
FOR SALE: POLY-CAST SLEIGH, 24-in x 48-in x
12-in high; Small calf-squeeze w/head holder, 15 x
30 x 40-in high; Budd calf de-horner; Cattle shock
prod; Birdizzo; Stop-Doctor medicine injector; Lawis
cattle oiler. (204)825-8354, (204)825-2784.
HI-LINE 7000+ BALE PROCESSOR, $7500; 1375
15-ft Hesston disc bine, $22,500; Stampede steel
squeeze chute, $2500; Northstar chute & tub,
$5000; Solar pump, solar panels, & water troughs
$5000; Hay-saver round bale feeders $250 each.
(204)828-3483, Stephenfield, MB.
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.
REAL ESTATE
Cottages & Lots
RECREATION PROPERTY NEAR RIDING Mountain National Park! Prime hunting! 120-ac. of bush.
40-ac. cult. Log cabin. 24-ft x 24-ft metal storage
shed. 30-ft x 36-ft heated shop. Camper. Power,
water & sewer. Karen Goraluk, Salesperson.
(204)773-6797. NorthStar Ins. & Real Estate.
www.north-star.ca MLS# 1409718
REAL ESTATE
Houses & Lots
READY TO MOVE HOMES- 1520-sq.ft, 3-bdrm,
$85,000; 1320-sq.ft, 3-bdrm, $75,000; 1320-sq.ft, 3bdrm w/dormers & covered front porch, $85,000. All
homes completely finished including cabinets, interior woodwork, light fixtures, bath fixtures,
200-amp service, painted. Flooring not included.
Will also custom build your plan. Call for quote.
MARVIN HOMES (since 1976) (204)326-1493 or
(204)355-8484 Steinbach area, www.marvinhomes.ca
RUSSELL: 316.92 TOTAL AC. Approx. 230 cult.
ac. Class B soil. Eaton’s home, established bed &
breakfast - great revenue property. 2nd house is 3
bdrm bungalow. Various outbuildings. Treed. Landscaped. Includes equipment. Karen Goraluk, Salesperson. (204)773-6797. NorthStar Ins. & Real Estate.
MLS#1417127
3 KIPLING LANE
1604 sq. ft. 2 storey
$319,900
in Niverville, 20
min. south of Wpg.
3+1 BR. 3.5 bath.
Modern open concept main floor w.
espresso finished
hardwoods. Gas
fireplace. Island &
high end stainless
steel appliances, under cab. lighting.
Huge master w. tray ceiling, WIC +
bath. 2nd flr. Laundry w. front load
appl. Fin. bsmt. 12x20 deck, dble
detached garage. Must see!
NIVERVILLE,MB · PH:1-204-899-7684
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
TAKING TENDERS on the following land: 160-acs
of the NE5-12-10W (including building thereon);
80-acs of the NW5-12-10W; Also 22.97-ac of the
SE5-12-10W until 3:00PM Feb. 27th, 2015. Separate tenders accepted. 10% of tender required payable by certified chq to Christianson TDS. Balance
to be paid on possession date by certified chq,
bank draft or solicitor’s trust chq. The Tenderer will
pay the applicable GST or provide an acceptable
undertaking to self-assess. Highest or any tender
will not necessarily be accepted. Send tenders to
Christianson TDS, 316 Saskatchewan Ave E. PO
Box 940, Portage la Prairie MB, R1N 3C4. For further
particulars call (204)857-7851, Leandro Zylberman,
Christianson TDS.
THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: NW 09-24-03W; NE 10-24-03W; NW
11-24-03W. The following Crown lands have been
approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural
Development for transfer to the purchaser of the
private lands listed as these lands are part of the
ranch unit held by John Chikousky of Fisher
Branch, MB. NE 11-24-03W. If you wish to purchase the private land & apply for the Unit Transfer
contact the Lessee John Chikousky at Box 489,
Fisher Branch, MB R0C 0Z0. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer write the Director, MAFRD, Agricultural Crown
Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa, MB R0J 1E0; or
Fax (204)867-6578.
THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: SW 33-22-11W; NW 28-22-11W; NW
35-22-12W. The following Crown lands have been
approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural
Development for transfer to the purchaser of the
private lands listed as these lands are part of the
ranch unit held by Edward & Angela Jarvie of Kinosota, MB. SW 17-22-11W; NE 30-22-11W; SE
32-22-11W; SW 32-22-11W; NE 33-22-12W; NE
34-22-12W; NW 34-22-12W; SE 34-22-12W; SW
34-22-12W; NW 02-23-12W; SE 02-23-12W; SW
02-23-12W; NE 03-23-12W; NW 03-23-12W; SE
03-23-12W; SW 03-23-12W; SE 10-23-12W. If you
wish to purchase the private land & apply for the
Unit Transfer contact the Lessee Edward & Angela
Jarvie at GD Kinosota, MB R0H 0L0. If you wish to
comment on or object to the eligibility of this Unit
Transfer write the Director, MAFRD, Agricultural
Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa, MB R0J
1E0; or Fax (204)867-6578.
The Following Private Land is being offered for
sale: SE 06-25-12W, SE 07-25-12W, NE
07-25-12W. The following Crown lands have been
approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural
Development for transfer to the purchaser of the
private lands listed as these lands are part of the
ranch unit held by Alfred Klein of Ste. Rose du Lac,
MB. NE 32-24-12W, NW 32-24-12W, NE
05-25-12W, NW 05-25-12W, SE 05-25-12W, SE
19-24-13W, SW 20-24-13W, NE 03-25-13W, NW
03-25-13W, SE 03-25-13W, SW 03-25-13W, NE
04-25-13W, NW 04-25-13W, SE 04-25-13W, SW
04-25-13W, SE 10-25-13W, SW 10-25-13W. If you
wish to purchase the private land and apply for the
Unit Transfer contact the Lessee Alfred Klein at PO
Box 681, Ste. Rose du Lac, MB R0L 1S0. If you
wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this
Unit Transfer write the Director, MAFRD, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB
R0J 1E0; or fax (204)867-6578.
THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: SE 33-22-11W, NE 32-22-11W, NE
21-22-11W, NW 34-22-11W. The following Crown
lands have been approved by Manitoba Agriculture,
Food & Rural Development for transfer to the purchaser of the private lands listed, as these lands
are part of the ranch unit held by Tom Anderson of
Alonsa, MB: NE 31-22-11W EX Road Plan No. 616
PLTO, NW 31-22-11W, NW 32-22-11W, NW
35-22-11W, SW 05-23-11W, SE 06-23-11W, SW
06-23-11W, NE 28-23-11W West of Lake EX Road
Plan No. 555 PLTO subject to MHYD Easement,
NE 29-23-11W, NW 29-23-11W, SE 29-23-11W,
NE 35-22-12W, SE 35-22-12W, SW 35-22-12W
subject to MHYD Easement, NE 36-22-12W. If you
wish to purchase the private land & apply for the
Unit Transfer, contact the Lessee Tom Anderson at
PO Box 114, Alonsa, MB R0H 0A0. If you wish to
comment on or object to the eligibility of this Unit
Transfer, write the Director, MAFRD, Agricultural
Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa, MB R0J
1E0; or Fax:(204)867-6578.
THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: NW 27-25-12W; SE 27-25-12W; SW
26-25-12W; W1/2 34-25-12W; S1/2 03-26-12W; NE
03-26-12W; S1/2 10-26-12W; SW 11-26-12W;
W1/2
12-26-12W;
SW
13-26-12W;
E1/2
14-26-12W; SE 23-26-12W; N1/2 26-26-12W; SE
26-26-12W; SW 35-26-12W. The following Crown
Lands have been approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural Development for transfer to the
purchaser of the private lands listed as these lands
are part of the ranch unit held Wilhelm, Gudjon &
Norman Finney of Ste Rose du Lac, MB. NW
03-26-12W; NE 11-26-12W; NW 11-26-12W; SE
11-26-12W; NE 12-26-12W; NE 13-26-12W; NW
13-26-12W; SE 13-26-12W; NW 14-26-12W; SW
14-26-12W; NE 23-26-12W; NW 23-26-12W; SW
23-26-12W; NW 24-26-12W; SW 24-26-12W; NE
35-26-12W; NW 35-26-12W; SE 35-26-12W. If you
wish to purchase the private land & apply for the
Unit Transfer, contact the lessee: Wilhelm, Gudjon
& Norman Finney at Box 4, Grp 20, RR #1, Ste
Rose du Lac, MB R0L 1S0. If you wish to comment
on or object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer,
write the Director; MAFRD, Agricultural Crown
Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or
Fax (204)867-6578.
FARMING
IS ENOUGH OF
A GAMBLE...
REAL ESTATE
Land For Rent
50 QUARTERS OF PASTURE near Crane River
Manitoba, For sale or rent, very reasonable, call
(204)638-5581, Dauphin.
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
FOR SALE IN WESTBOURNE area, 310-ac of land
(approx. 295 cultivated). NW26-14-9W & SW26-14-9W,
farmed in one block. No buildings. Asking $495,000.
For more information, call Daryl:(204)856-3561 or
email [email protected]
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Farm Land For Sale By Tender
Sealed bids for the purchase of the following parcels of land, located in
the RM of Fisher, Manitoba and currently owned by Rocky Earl Wallack
as to Parcel 1 and Helen Wallach as to Parcel 2, will be received up to
4:00 pm on March 16, 2015 at the offices of : Grantham Law Offices,
Box 1400, Stonewall MB., R0C 2Z0 | Attn: Karen @ (204) 467-5527
Parcel 1: NW ¼ 18-23-2 WPM
Subject to the reservations and provisoes
Contained in the Grant from the Crown
(168 acres - 145 acres cultivated – worked once in fall)
BOOTH 1309
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an individual parcel, please indicate same, as well as the price for each
individual parcel. Alternatively, if the purchaser requires that their bid can
only be accepted if both parcels are sold to them, then the bid should
clearly identify same. Alternatively, if the purchaser doesn’t care whether
one or both parcels are sold to them, then the bid should indicate that as
well. The vendor reserves the right to reject any or all bids and the
highest bid or tender may not necessarily be the successful bid.
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Knight Seeds
Hamiota, MB
204-764-2450
Fedoruk Seeds Ltd.
Kamsack, SK
306-542-4235
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Corning, SK
306-224-4848
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directed to Rocky Wallack at 204-664-2013.
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75 MISC. SEMI-TRAILERS pictures & prices at
www.trailerguy.ca (306)222-2413, Saskatoon, SK.
RECYCLING
GRANT TWEED:
We BUY used oil & filters
Collection of plastic oil jugs
Glycol recovery services
Specialized waste removal
Providing professional service in all farm property
matters. 50-yr in the Ag industry. Call for an obligation
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Peak Performance anti-freeze
( available in bulk or drums )
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
320-AC. ROBLIN: 180-AC. seeded to pasture/hay.
All fenced. 3 dugouts. 1,120-sf bungalow. 3 bdrms.
21-ft x25-ft attached garage. Quonset. Karen Goraluk, Salesperson. (204)773-6797. NorthStar Ins. &
Real Estate. www.north-star.ca
EXCELLENT LIVESTOCK FARM EXTENDING to
1,732 deeded acres w/4,425-ac of Crown land. All
the land is fenced & the farm has very good buildings & metal corral system. The farm can carry up
to 400-450 cow/calf pairs. There is a small bungalow home. Also, excellent 254-ac property located
in the RM of Alexander at the junction of Maskwa &
the Winnipeg River. This would make a first class cottage development, or is suitable for other uses. 235ac of pastureland in Rapid City area. Jim McLachlan
(204)724-7753. Homelife Home Professional Realty
Inc. www.homelifepro.com
FARMS FOR SALE: 640-ACS of pastureland east
of Gladstone. Fenced w/dug outs. Will handle 100
-110 cow calf pairs. Lakeland soil, $249,000. Call
Liz Sumner Gill & Schmall Agencies (204)476-6362.
GRAIN FARM: 803 TOTAL ac. 702-ac are cultivated. Land is in a block. Yardsite w/house, 48-ft x
96-ft machine shed, grain storage. N of Roblin, MB.
Karen Goraluk - Salesperson. Call:(204)773-6797.
NorthStar Ins. & Real Estate. www.north-star.ca
GRAIN/MIXED FARM-GRANDVIEW: 1,944 total
Ac. 1,294 cultivated. Most of the land is in a block.
2 yardsites. Some of the land is fenced. Karen
Goraluk, Salesperson. (204)773-6797. NorthStar
Ins. & Real Estate. north-star.ca. MLS #1425508
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Country Retreat: 163-ac of scenic rolling land near
Erickson, MB. 120-ac arable, large mature yard w/
natural shelter belt & small lake. Cozy bungalow,
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Westman. Brandon MB. Phone: (204) 761-6884
[email protected]
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CERTIFIED SEED
Cereal Seeds
ACC ELIE SPRING WHEAT, ACC Brandon Spring
Wheat, Meridith Malting Barley, Faba Bean Seed.
Phone (204)944-1654.
DURAND SEEDS: CERT AAC Brandon, Cardale &
Carberry Wheat; Souris & Stride Oats; CDC Bethune Flax; Mancan Buckwheat avail w/contracts;
Forage
&
Canola
Seed.
(204)248-2268,
(204)745-7577, NotreDame, MB.
JAMES FARMS LTD Brandon, Cardale & Carberry
wheat, summit oats, Mcleod & Chadburn R2 soybeans, tradition barley & forage seeds. Various canola & sunflower seed varieties. Custom processing, seed treating, inoculating, as well as delivery
are available. Early payment discount. For info call
(204)222-8785, or toll-free 1-866-283-8785, Winnipeg. [email protected]
PUGH SEEDS: CERT CARDALE WHEAT, Souris
oats, Conlon barley, Registered & Certified Sorrel
flax. Phone:(204)274-2179 or Cell:(204)871-1467,
Portage,MB.
SANDERS SEED FARM: Certified AAC Brandon,
Carberry, Domain, Glenn wheat; celebration barley &
Cangerra canola varieties. (204)242-4200. Manitou, MB.
Go public with an ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds. Phone 1-800-782-0794.
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Eastern,
and Manitoba
Western
Western
 Consistent high yields
 Excellent disease package
 Less straw, less shattering
Tel: 204-248-2110
Plumas, MB [email protected]
204-386-2354
courtseeds.ca
Manitoba
MANITOBA
SASKATCHEWAN
Knight Seeds
Hamiota, MB
204-764-2450
Fedoruk Seeds Ltd.
Kamsack, SK
306-542-4235
Swan Valley Seeds Ltd.
Swan River, MB
204-734-2526
McCarthy Seed Farm Ltd.
Corning, SK
306-224-4848
COMMON SEED
SEED/FEED/GRAIN
Grain Wanted
COMMON SEED
Forage Seeds
FOR SALE: ALFALFA, TIMOTHY, Brome, Clover,
hay & pasture blends, millet seed, Crown, Red Prozo, cleaned common seed oats. Leonard Friesen
(204)685-2376, Austin, MB.
SEED / FEED / GRAIN
SEED/ FEED/GRAIN
Hay & Straw
100 5X5 ROUND BALES, 2nd cut alfalfa, shedded,
$45/bale. Call:(204)322-5510.
1ST CUT ALFALFA ROUND bales for sale. Phone
(204)585-5370, Sandy Lake, MB.
300 ROUND BALES HAY, 1500-lbs plus, no rain,
1st cut alfalfa, alfalfa grass & some grass hay. Also
400 small square bales alfalfa grass in hay shed.
Please phone (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.
325 ROUND BALES FIRST cut alfalfa, approx
1800-lbs; 325 bales 2nd cut, approx 1900-lbs; 200
bales grass, 1600-lbs. (204)345-8492, Lac Du Bonnet.
BALE SCALES NON ELECTRIC 3,000-lb, cradle
type, 3-pt end truck mount. Various sizes of livestock scales & hopper feeders. Elias Scales
(306)445-2111 www.eliasscales.com
FIRST CUT ALFALFA 3X3 squares starting at
.0225 per lb. Feed test avail. Also have 2nd & 3rd
cut alfalfa priced according to feed value. Delivery
avail. Phone (204)362-6486, Altona, MB.
FIRST & SECOND CUT, 5x6 round bales of grass
& alfalfa mixtures, weight 1400-lbs plus, no rain,
feed analysis available, will load & delivery
available. Phone (204)750-4300, if no answer
please leave detailed message.
LARGE ROUND BALES OF wheat & oat straw;
Large round bales of hay. (204)325-2416.
WE BUY OATS
Call us today for pricing
Box 424, Emerson, MB R0A 0L0
204-373-2328
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1-800-661-4326
www.selectholidays.com
Vanderveen
Commodity
Services Ltd.
Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers
37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Ph. (204) 745-6444
Email: [email protected]
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BUYING:
HEATED & GREEN
CANOLA
• Competitive Prices
• Prompt Movement
• Spring Thrashed
LARGE ROUND WHEAT/STRAW BALES. Can
deliver. Phone:(204)325-3240.
“ON FARM PICK UP”
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CAREERS
CAREERS
Farm / Ranch
F/T EMPLOYEE ON GRAIN FARM 30-km West of
Wpg, must have Class 1 license & able to operate
large machinery. Long hours at seeding & harvest.
Salary depending on experience. (204)353-2050 or
e-mail [email protected]
CAREERS
Help Wanted
FULL TIME YEAR ROUND farm labourer for grain
& cattle operation. Must have valid driver’s license.
Competitive wages determined by farm experience.
McTavish Farms, Moosomin, SK. Contact Sean
(306)435-9843 or Betty (306)435-4125, email resume to [email protected]
HALARDA FARMS is seeking a full-time/year
round employee to operate equipment on a
dairy/livestock operation. The successful applicant
will be self-motivated & a team player. No experience needed. Competitive wages and an extensive
health & benefit package offered. Halarda Farms is
a modern, large mixed farm located in the Elm
Creek area. Email resume to [email protected] or
fax to (204)436-3034 or call (204)436-2032.
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