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Perennial grain crops
are one step closer
Veggie
marketing
wars
continue
A second grower is
taking aim at Peak’s
practices
The goal is to find ways to grow food that will reduce the need
for fertilizers, herbicides, and annual seed purchase
BY ALLAN DAWSON
Co-operator staff
A
nother Manitoba
vegetable grower
is claiming Peak
of the Market rejects too
much produce, which costs
growers and wastes food.
Idzerd Boersma of S. B.
Vegetable Growers near
Portage la Prairie has
joined Jeffries Brothers
Vegetable Growers in calling on Peak to allow farmers to sell their own produce if Peak won’t. And it
appears provincial government regulations allow it.
Two years ago, Peak of
the Market rejected a lot of
Boersma’s cooking onions
because they had some
green colour after lying
in the sun post-harvest.
However, Boersma said
he was able to find markets for the onions outside
Manitoba. Peak, which
has a statutory marketing monopoly over commercially grown Manitoba
onions, fined him for
doing so.
See PEAK on page 7 »
Crop breeder Doug Cattani is working with a variety of potential perennial crops but says intermediate wheatgrass right now looks the most promising. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON
BY LORRAINE STEVENSON
Co-operator staff
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eed it once, then sell everything except the combine and just keep harvesting year after year.
It might not work out quite
that way, but a perennial
grain crop that can withstand
cold Prairie winters is a little
closer to reality for Canadian
farmers.
University of Manitoba
perennial crop breeder Doug
Cattani has been at work since
2010 at the Ian N. Morrison
Research Farm here, overseeing plots of intermediate
wheatgrass, wild sunflowers,
perennial cereal ryegrass, and
an assortment of other native
plants. He says intermediate
wheatgrass is now showing
the most promise for earliest
commercial availability.
All the crops Cattani is studying share the common trait
of being perennial relatives
of key food crops. But as he’s
made his crosses and selections these past four years, it’s
become clear some are worth
pursuing and some not. For
example, the program for perennial cereal ryegrass is basically on the shelf now. The disease problems they discovered
are more than their time and
resources can accommodate.
“The wide cross that we
made to generate the materials led to excessive ergot,”
Cattani said. “It became some-
thing that would require a lot
more work than we are currently able to put in.”
On the other hand, his now
completed selections of intermediate wheatgrass material not only have shown they
can survive three successive
Prairie winters, but produce
consistent grain yields.
These new materials are
hardier, have larger seeds,
and are more productive for
See GRAIN on page 6 »
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INSIDE
Did you know?
LIVESTOCK
The problem with ‘allyou-can(’t)-eat’ dining
The root
of the matter
The key to productive
pastures lies
beneath the surface
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Study says unfinished meat wastes more resources than other foods
Staff
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CROPS
Iron deficiency
in soybeans
Wet, poorly drained
land is often
the culprit
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FEATURE
Plunging pork
prices
Surging U.S.
production is driving
prices lower
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CROSSROADS
The ol’ swimming
hole
Swimmers of
yesteryear dipped in
murky waters
n a new study, University
of Missouri researchers
say that while less meat
is wasted on average compared to fruits and vegetables, it represents more total
resource waste in inputs such
as fuel and fertilizer.
“ While many of us are
concerned about food
w a s t e, w e a l s o n e e d t o
consider the resources
that are wasted when we
throw away edible food,”
Christine Costello, assistant research professor said
in a release. “Based on our
study, we recommend that
people and institutions be
more conscious of not only
the amount but the types of
food being wasted.”
Dur ing the study, preand post-consumer food
waste was collected from
f o u r a l l - y o u - c a re - t o - e a t
dining facilities over three
months in 2014. Costello
and her research team created a detailed inventory
of the specific types of
food waste: meat, vegetables or starches. The food
waste also was categorized
as either edible or inedible
(peels and ends of fruits
and vegetables).
Approximately 31 per cent of food produced in the U.S., or 133 billion pounds
of food worth $162 billion, was wasted in 2011, according to the USDA. Photo: Thinkstock
Once the food waste was
categorized, Costello and
her research team analyzed
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from fertilizer
use, vehicle transportation,
and utility use on the farm.
GHG emission estimates
were measured from cradle
(land preparation or animal
birth) to farm gate (when the
grain or animal was sent to a
processing facility). Previous
studies have shown that the
majority of GHG emissions
occurs in the production
stages prior to the farm products leaving the farm.
“Based on the findings, we
recommend consumers pay
special attention to avoiding waste when purchasing and preparing meat; if
consumers choose to prepare extra food ‘just in case,’
they should use plant-based
foods,” said study co-author
Ronald G. McGarvey.
Costello and McGar vey
recommend that future
research should examine
the effects of facilities that
operate as all-you-care-toeat versus those that operate à la carte at the consumer level.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
CFIA cuts hurting food safety
With an election looming, now is the time to put food safety and funding cuts on candidates’ agendas
By Shannon VanRaes
“Food safety could have a
bearing at the ballot box.”
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
A
group concerned with food safety
says the current government’s
refusal to acknowledge a Canadawide shortage of federal inspectors is
putting public safety at risk.
Speaking to reporters in Winnipeg,
the president of the union representing federal food inspectors said that the
Conservative government’s own staff have
raised the alarm over cuts to the Canadian
Food Inspection Agency, but to no avail.
“The government has been presented
with the information… and yet the government is denying it; they’re not turning
a blind eye, they’re in denial,” said Bob
Kingston. “We think Canadians should be
very concerned.”
In Manitoba, some federally inspected
plants are operating almost 60 per cent
below minimum staffing requirements,
said Kingston. He added that the Maple
Leaf plant in Brandon typically operates 34
per cent below the number of inspectors
required to ensure food safety and animal
welfare.
The Brandon slaughter facility kills 20
hogs every minute — something that
requires strict oversight to avoid contamination, said Kingston.
However, it’s not the first time the issue
of food safety has been raised in relation
to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
(CFIA).
Last March, staffing levels were cut
in Alberta meat-processing facilities,
although not those that shipped to the
United States. It’s something the union
described as particularly concerning
given that in 2012, millions of pounds
Chris Aylward
Chris Aylward (l) and Bob Kingston speak about government cuts to the Canadian Food Inspection
Agency. Photo: Shannon VanRaes
of E. coli-contaminated beef had to be
recalled from the former XL Foods plant
in Brooks, Alta.
This spring also saw Reuters news
agency obtain a portion of an internal
CFIA report approved by Health Minister
Rona Ambrose. It outlined additional cuts
to CFIA, resulting in the elimination of 192
full-time positions.
Last week, Kingston said that in total,
there will be 273 fewer inspectors across
Canada by 2018.
The review found that the shortage in
Manitoba’s four major slaughter facilities
is so acute that inspectors working in the
province’s meat-processing facilities are
often “borrowed” to cover glaring inspection gaps in slaughter establishments, he
said, describing this practice as “robbing
the poor to pay the destitute.”
A newly released Nanos poll shows that
Canadian consumers also have concerns
about food safety and want to keep companies from policing themselves on safety
issues.
The survey found that seven in 10
Canadians believe government should be
ultimately responsible for food safety.
It also revealed that most Canadians
oppose cutting food safety budgets. Fiftyfive per cent of respondents thought the
federal government should cancel the
cuts and invest more in food safety, while
another 28 per cent would cancel the cuts.
Sixty-one per cent expressed concern that
the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has
fewer staff today than before the Maple
Leaf Foods listeriosis outbreak that killed
22 people in 2008.
“Canadians just do not trust the food
companies when it comes to safety,” said
Kingston. “They reject the federal government’s retreat from direct oversight of
food processors and increasing reliance
on industry to police their own safety
practices.”
Chris Aylward, national executive vicepresident of the Public Service Alliance
of Canada, is urging Manitobans and all
Canadians to make food safety an election
issue.
“Food safety could have a bearing at the
ballot box,” he said. “We’re very worried
about food safety in this country today,
because of the cuts this government has
made to the Canadian food inspection
agency.”
He added that both the New Democratic
Party and the Liberal Party have said they
would audit the CFIA if elected to identify
and address needs and shortfalls.
“So now is the time for Canadians to put
this on the agenda,” Aylward said.
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Canadian cattle herd continues to shrink
But hog inventories are up slightly and exports increased by more than 17 per cent
by Dave Bedard
AgCanada.com editor
T
he size of Canada’s cattle
herd is still in decline and
almost a quarter smaller
than its peak in 2005, Statistics
Canada reports.
The federal statistics agency
released estimates Aug. 20 showing the herd at 13 million cattle
on farms on July 1 this year, down
2.1 per cent from the same date
in 2014.
Total cattle inventories at July
1 showed their greatest declines
in Saskatchewan and Alberta,
down three per cent at 2.715 million and down 2.8 per cent at 5.3
million respectively, compared to
July 1, 2014.
Except for steers, up four per
cent at 65,400 head, overall cattle
inventories declined compared to
July 1 last year, with the number
of beef cows on Canadian farms
down 3.4 per cent at 3.8 million
head, and beef heifers held for
breeding down 0.6 per cent at
612,600 head, StatsCan said.
Canada’s farmers had 1.4 million dairy cows and heifers on
their farms, down 2.2 per cent.
Overall, the number of Canadian
farms reporting inventories of
cattle and calves sat at 82,050,
down 0.6 per cent.
Both slaughter and exports
fell during the first half of 2015
compared with the same period
in 2014, StatsCan said. “While
cattle prices remain strong so far
in 2015, limited cattle supplies
mean that there are fewer animals available to market.”
January to June cattle slaughter
decreased 13.5 per cent, to 1.4
million head, compared with the
first six months of 2014, while
exports fell 21.4 per cent, to
491,500 head.
Canada’s total inventory of cattle and calves on July 1 was 23 per
cent below its peak level recorded
in 2005, StatsCan noted.
Hogs, sheep
StatsCan’s estimate of Canada’s
total hog inventories at July 1
sat at 13.225 million head, up
1.1 per cent from July 1 last year.
Percentage-wise, the largest
increases in inventory were seen
in Saskatchewan and Ontario,
up 2.2 per cent at 1.175 million
and up 1.6 per cent at 3.092 million respectively.
Hog farms reported a January
to June 2015 pig crop of 14.1 million head, up 4.5 per cent from
the year-earlier period.
StatsCan, as of July 1, estimated 6,995 hog farms in
Canada, down 0.4 per cent from
the same date last year, with
a total of 1.2 million sows and
gilts, up 0.8 per cent.
Canada exported 2.8 million
hogs in the first half of 2015,
up 17.8 per cent from the same
period in 2014, StatsCan said.
Noting “strong demand”
for hogs in the U.S., StatsCan
reported hog slaughter seven
per cent higher in the first six
months of 2015 compared with
the same period in 2014. The
most recent U.S. data shows hog
inventories increased nine per
cent from June 1, 2014, StatsCan
said.
Hog slaughter also increased
in Canada in the first six months
of 2015, up 2.9 per cent from the
same period in 2014, to 10.5 million head, StatsCan said.
Sheep inventories at July 1
were down 2.1 per cent from
July 1, 2014, as market lambs
fell 2.1 per cent to 405,600 head,
StatsCan said. The number of
ewes declined 1.8 per cent, while
replacement lambs fell three per
cent.
Among larger sheep-producing provinces, Ontario’s
sheep inventor y at July 1
sat at 329,100, down 1.9 per
cent; Alberta’s sat at 195,000
head, down 2.5 per cent;
Saskatchewan’s sat at 119,000
head, down 3.3 per cent; and
Quebec’s sat at 260,000 head,
down 0.8 per cent.
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OPINION/EDITORIAL
Time for a review
of Peak
P
eak of the Market is back in
the news, not that it’s ever
very far from it. For example,
week in, week out, every issue of
the Winnipeg Free Press has a large
advertisement with a daily recipe from Peak, each prominently
featuring a photo of CEO Larr y
McIntosh.
However, those ads often feaJohn Morriss
ture vegetables as a minor ingrediEditorial Director
ent, and they often include parsley, cilantro, basil, garlic and other
products that Peak either doesn’t market or are long
since out of season. So what’s the relevance of these ads
to Manitoba growers of onions, carrots, potatoes and
rutabagas?
Good question, and one of the many questions that
needs to be answered about Peak, including just exactly
what it is and what it does.
The term “marketing board” may not be too fashionable lately, but that’s what Peak is. Its origins date to the
1940s when province’s vegetable growers — of which
there were many more at the time — were looking for a
more efficient system and some marketing power against
big wholesalers. A large number of growers marketing a
perishable product to a small number of buyers is not a
good situation, at least not for the growers. So a marketing board makes eminent sense.
However, that’s not the situation today. For example,
Peak now represents only three carrot growers. As we
reported last week, one of those growers is not happy with
Peak, having had a large number of carrots rejected at
an estimated loss of $500,000. The grower has no option
except to dump them as cattle feed, because Peak has the
sales monopoly for carrots produced on anything more
than one acre in Manitoba.
Peak says the carrots are too small to meet the grade
required by customers. The grower disagrees. If this was
a dispute over grain, the grower could go to the Canadian
Grain Commission for a ruling. While the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency sets vegetable grade standards, there is
no such official dispute mechanism, so in this case Peak
— the buyer — calls the shots.
There’s an argument to be made for ensuring quality
and protecting a brand, but small or even homely carrots
are still perfectly edible. In fact, there have been successful schemes to sell ugly vegetables in North America and
Europe. Is there any evidence that Peak is trying something similar?
The grading question isn’t the only one about who’s
calling the shots at Peak. This is not a wheat board type
of organization, where every grower was guaranteed
equitable access to the market. This is a marketing board,
where you must have quota. If you’re a dairy or poultry
farmer, you can buy quota, and if new demand opens up,
the marketing boards have established and publicly visible mechanisms for allocating quota to new producers.
Moreover, the directors of those boards hold their positions at the pleasure of several dozen or even several hundred producers who can vote them out if there’s any question of conflict of interest. Peak has only a very few directors, who happen to be the growers who already have
most of the quota. This is not to say that they’ve been
guilty of blocking anyone, but they’re in the uncomfortable situation of being seen in conflict of interest should
any new entrants want quota.
If you’d like to know who those directors are, visit www.
peakmarket.com and click on the “About us” link. There
you will find approximately 1,100 words about “who we
are,” 1,100 words about CEO Larry McIntosh and his
many awards and accomplishments, and another 1,100
words of a “CEO’s message.”
Keep scrolling down and you will seen 19 professional
photos of Peak staff, including two of Larry McIntosh, and
photos of every Employee of the Year since 1996. But if
you click on the “Directors” link, you see their names in
small black type only, no photos.
That’s the wrong message about an organization that is
supposed to represent growers. It underlines a growing
concern about Peak — while it has certainly put a lot of
effort into marketing, most of it has been about polishing
the image of the CEO.
While Peak may well be doing a good job of serving
customers, it’s not as clear that it’s doing as good a job in
serving growers, or serving as many growers as it should.
A vegetable-marketing board may still make sense. But
after 73 years, it’s time for the province to commission an
independent review to confirm that, and to recommend
whether its governance and regulations need an overhaul.
Like eating your veggies every day, it’s the right thing to
do.
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Agriculture should be plank of
party platforms: CFA
CFA release
The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA)
is calling on political candidates across Canada
to show their support in the upcoming federal
election for Canada’s farmers and the food system Canadians rely on each day. Canada’s farmers and farm organizations will be reaching out
to candidates across the country — in-person
meetings, mail-outs, and local events. The CFA
will also be hosting a televised all-party National
Agriculture Debate in the weeks leading up to the
election.
“We urge all parties to show Canadians the
importance they place on investing in Canada’s
food and farm future by reflecting Canadian
farmers’ priorities in their platforms. We encourage candidates to meet with farmers and hear
about the realities in the food and agriculture
industry first hand,” said Ron Bonnett, CFA
president.
“While the farmer constituency is relatively
small, the economic activity they generate is significant — approximately $106.9 billion annually — and not to mention, they are largely
responsible for putting food on Canadians’ plates
each day. Our issues are not just farmer issues.
What affects our industry, affects all of Canada,”
Bonnett added.
CFA has three main policy areas it would like to
see addressed by the political parties:
Maintaining a workforce
Like any industry, agriculture requires an adequate workforce to keep operations running.
Farmers continue to identify chronic and critical labour shortages as one of the most pressing
risks facing Canadian agriculture and a major
constraint on both agricultural growth and global
competitiveness. Agriculture is a complex industry that faces unique workforce challenges due to
OUR HISTORY:
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rural depopulation and seasonal production of
highly perishable products. In response to these
challenges, the Canadian agriculture and agrifood industries have come together as a complete
value chain to develop a permanent solution to
this pervasive and urgent challenge: the Canadian
Agriculture and Agri-Food Workforce Action Plan.
Managing risks
Agriculture is unique in the set of high risks it
faces: volatile prices, unpredictable weather, and
a global market influenced by government supports to producers in competing countries. For
risks that cannot be addressed through on-farm
management practices, Canadian producers
require access to effective risk management programs to limit fluctuations in income that limit
their ability to further invest in their farms and
grow the Canadian brand at home and abroad.
Trade negotiations
Clear and effective rules governing international trade will result in better-functioning international and domestic markets — a win-win
situation for our economy, producers and communities across Canada, and an ever-increasing
global population. The Canadian government
must approach all trade negotiations, including
the current Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, with the objective of achieving positive results for Canada’s farm and food future.
Specifically, the CFA has outlined considerations
under three main areas it urges decision makers
to take into account when securing trade deal
market access: market access, supply management and non-tariff barriers.
To hear what Canada’s political decision makers have to say about these issues and more, tune
in to the Agriculture Leaders Debate on Sept. 30,
held at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa and webcast nationwide. Stay tuned for further details at
www.cfa-fca.ca.
August 1997
his ad on our Aug. 21, 1997 issue invited farmers to join
a co-op to supply straw to the Isobord strawboard plant
at Elie, which would open the following year. While the
co-op was successful in attracting straw, and the product was
reported to be of high quality, the plant struggled and was eventually taken over by Dow, which supplied the resin for the strawboard. Dow closed the plant in 2008.
The summer of 1997 was hot and dry across the Prairies — in
August StatsCan estimated wheat production at 22 million
tonnes, down 6.8 million from 1996. Disease was also a factor —
leaf rust infestation was reported to be the worst in six years.
We reported that the Rogers Sugar plant in Winnipeg was to
shut down Sept. 30, ending 57 years of sugar beet processing
in Manitoba.
We reported that as of the close of the crop year, Manitoba Pool expected a strong profit, and that was confirmed in October when it reported a profit of $28.13 million, shattering the previous record of $19.2 million in
1979-80. Manitoba Pool merged with Alberta Pool the following year to become Agricore, which in turn merged
with United Grain Growers in 2001.
Manitoba Pool had started as a group of locally owned elevator associations, but most were bought out
by head office in the 1960s. However, one of the few holdouts was the Sperling association, and we reported
that it had reached a new management agreement with N.M. Paterson. The elevator was later sold to Delmar
Commodities, which operated it for several years. It was torn down this summer.
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COMMENT/FEEDBACK
Big-box backlash one reason
for growth in farmers’ markets
Once thought threatened, U.S. farmers’ market numbers have soared from 340 in 1971 to 8,268 in 2014
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RELEASE
M
ore Americans than ever
before are supporting their
local food markets, and it’s
not just because they believe the food
is fresher and tastes better.
According to a new University of
Iowa study, people are shopping
farmers’ markets and joining food coops at record numbers because they
enjoy knowing who grows their food.
These so-called “locavores” are also
driven to eat locally grown produce
and meat because their commitment
to do so makes them feel a part of
something greater than themselves
— a community that shares their passion for a healthy lifestyle and a sustainable environment.
For these enthusiasts, supporting
the local food movement is a sort of
civic duty, an act to preserve their
local economy against the threats of
globalization and big-box stores.
“It’s not just about the economical
exchange; it’s a relational and ideological exchange as well,” said Ion
Vasi, an associate professor with a
joint appointment in the department
of sociology and Tippie College of
Business at the UI and corresponding
author of the study.
Vasi said the local food market is
what sociologists call a “moralized
market,” that is a market in which
people combine economic activities
with their social values. Among their
findings, the UI researchers discovered
local food markets were more likely to
develop in areas where residents had a
strong commitment to civic participation, health and the environment.
“It’s about valuing the relationship
with the farmers and people who produce the food and believing that how
they produce the food aligns with
your personal values,” Vasi said.
“It’s about valuing the
relationship with the
farmers and people who
produce the food and
believing that how they
produce the food aligns
with your personal
values.”
Ion Vasi
University of Iowa
For his study, Vasi examined the
development of local food markets
by looking at the number of farmers’ markets, food co-ops, community-supported agriculture providers and local food restaurants
in cities across the United States.
Researchers also conducted 40
interviews with consumers and producers in different local food markets in Iowa and New York.
From a historical perspective, the
recent growth of local food markets is
rather surprising.
In 1971, Jane Pyle predicted
farmers’ markets were “doomed
by a changing society” in an article penned for The Geographical
Review. At the time, there were
about 340 farmers’ markets left in
the United States and many were
“populated by resellers, not farmers,
and were on the verge of collapse,”
Pyle wrote.
Some 20 years later, the tide was
beginning to turn.
According to the United States
Department of Agriculture, national
d i re c t - t o - c o n s u m e r f o o d s a l e s
increased threefold between 1992 and
2007, growing twice as fast as total
agricultural sales. The number of
People are shopping farmers’ markets and joining food co-ops at record numbers because they
enjoy knowing who grows their food. photo: thinkstock
farmers’ markets listed in the USDA
National Farmers Markets increased
from 3,706 in 2004 to 8,268 in 2014.
Plus, UI researchers found the
number of Internet searches for farmers’ markets has almost tripled during that same 10-year period and the
number of newspaper articles that
mention farmers’ markets has almost
quadrupled.
So, what’s behind this need to know
who grows your food and to believe in
how it’s produced?
It was the onslaught of big-box
stores and globalization forces that
reignited “buy local” campaigns
across the country in the 1990s, said
the UI researchers.
According to the study: “A growing number of communities have
attempted to gain control of their
own economies by encouraging civic
engagement that supports investing
in locally owned businesses instead
of outside companies.”
Sara Rynes, a professor of management & organizations in the UI’s
Tippie College of Business, and coauthor of the study, said the researchers also found that local food markets, whether farmers’ markets, food
co-ops or otherwise, were more likely
to be located in cities and counties
with higher education levels, higher
income levels and more institutions
of higher education.
“Sociologists and political scientists have argued that higher income
allows people to make consumption
decisions based on values in addition
to matters of price or value,” Rynes
said. “Education is likely to facilitate
knowledge about such things as links
between the way products are produced and their environmental and
health impacts.”
U.S. cool to Canadian and Mexican COOL claims
Canada claims COOL cost $1.61 billion in 2014, but total hog and cattle exports to the U.S. were only $1.177 billion
By Harwood Schaffer
and Daryll Ray
T
he proposed annual penalties of $3.8 billion from
Canada and Mexico for
damages they claim they have
suffered as the result of the U.S.
country-of-origin labelling law
(COOL) has some members of
Congress scrambling to repeal
the legislation to protect industries that might be subject to
retaliatory tariffs. Other legislators who have a long record of
opposing COOL are using the
proposed tariffs as an opportunity to achieve a goal they have
long sought — its repeal.
It w i l l b e i n t r i g u i n g t o
see what will happen when
Congress returns from its summer recess now that the U.S.
has responded to the Canadian
and Mexican requests for the
penalties with a calculation
that the impact of COOL on the
import of cattle and hogs from
the two countries is no more
than $91 million — $43.22 mil-
lion for Canada and $47.55 million for Mexico or 2.4 per cent
of the $3.8-billion figure. The
lower figure certainly gives
ammunition to the 142 groups
opposing the repeal of COOL.
The Canadian and Mexican
figures include both the value
of the loss of exports and a
“calculation of domestic ‘price
suppression losses.’” In its
response, the U.S. asserts that
there is no history in disputes
like this in which the arbitrator includes secondary impacts
of the loss of export trade in
the benefits awarded in a trade
case.
Having dismissed the secondary losses, the U.S. turns to
the issue of the loss of exports
and the method that Canada
and Mexico use to calculate the
damages they are seeking. The
U.S. argues that the methodology they use is incapable of taking into account other potential
causes of export losses including recurring bovine spongiform encephalopathy events in
Canada, the outbreak of porcine
epidemic diarrhea virus in the
U.S., drought in the American
southwest and Northern Mexico
from 2011-14, and economic
downturns.
In addition, the U.S. asserts
that Canada and Mexico’s methodology cannot accurately
account for “independent economic events that may also
affect fuel or transportation
costs, exchange rates, unemployment rates, disposable
income, and labour costs.”
The U.S. response argues
that high grain prices reduce
the profitability of U.S. feedlots
and thus the need for imported
cattle, one of the factors that
t h e m e t h o d o l o g y u s e d by
the two is unable to take into
account.
“As a result, in the methodology proposed by Canada and
Mexico, the bias inherent in
the… analysis will result in a
severely overestimated calculation of the trade effects of the
amended COOL measure.”
For its part, the U.S. uses a
methodology that it claims is
supported in the literature for
problems like the one posed
in determining the impact of
COOL on cross-border trade.
In a number of areas the U.S.
claims that it, too, has overestimated the level of reduction
in cattle and swine imports
from Canada and Mexico in
coming up with the $91 million figure.
The U.S. points out that in
2014, “Canada’s total hog and
cattle export value… was $1.177
billion” while it claimed a loss
of $1.61 billion in additional
export revenue due to COOL.
“Canada estimates its marginal increase in exports on a
per-head basis will be 333,580
fed cattle, 360,176 feeder cattle, 1,889,680 fed hogs and
3,154,632 feeder pigs. This
would require a 77 per cent
increase in cattle exports,
and a 103 per cent increase
in pigs and hogs. These estimates ignore the demand for
Canadian livestock to supply
Canada’s own processing industry, the availability of livestock
from Mexico, and the limits of
consumer demand (for beef
and pork) in the U.S.”
The U.S. also points out that
Canada’s methodology has
changed as the dispute has
made its way through the World
Trade Organization dispute resolution process. The strongest
language in the U.S. submission to the arbitrator accuses
Canada of using a “resultsdriven methodology.”
Unless the arbitrator completely throws out the argument made by the U.S., it
would appear that the final
level of damages will come in
well below the $3.8 billion
Canada and Mexico is asking
for. Whether or not that will
make a difference in the halls of
Congress is another matter.
Harwood D. Schaffer is a research
assistant professor in the Agricultural
Policy Analysis Center, Institute of
Agriculture, University of Tennessee.
Daryll E. Ray is emeritus professor and
former director of the centre. www.
agpolicy.org
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GRAIN Continued from page 1
More Ethiopians
need food aid
longer periods than the forage varieties of wheatgrass
currently familiar to farmers,
Cattani said. The seed is about
one-third the size of wheat but
has nearly twice the amount of
protein.
“We’ve got a long way to go on
the agronomics but I think we
know now that we have a product that is adapted to Manitoba
and hopefully Western Canada,”
he said.
If they can develop the wheatgrass into a perennial crop, it
would break new ground for
food production.
Reduced inputs
Breeding for perennial ability
is like what primitive farmers
did when selecting seed for
food production, said Cattani.
The goal today is to find ways to
grow food that will reduce the
need for fertilizers, herbicides,
and annual seed purchase.
The environmental benefits of
perennial grain crops are many
and varied, said Cattani, noting
they essentially serve as native
grasslands once did, soaking up
excess water, reducing erosion,
and building soil organic matter.
At the Carman site, researchers are also experimenting with
polycultures to see what’s doable for growing two or more
crops at once. They’re interseeding with legumes including
sweet and white clover and alfalfa, plus a native prairie turnip
to find ways to supply nitrogen
to these crops. Other ongoing
research by a graduate student
is looking at the impact of animal grazing on regrowth after
harvests.
There are good reasons to
focus on intermediate wheatgrass, said Cattani. Farmers are
already familiar with it as a for-
The numbers have surged to 4.5 million
after failed rains
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“We’ve got a long way to go on the agronomics but
I think we know now that we have a product that
is adapted to Manitoba and hopefully Western
Canada.”
Doug Cattani
age crop, and that adds to its potential for commercial viability
sooner than other crops.
“Our forage seed industry has
produced intermediate wheatgrass in the past and we do have
some seed companies that understand its growth and harvesting,” he said. “We’re not completely in the dark on this.”
Manitoba farmers are already
growing intermediate wheatgrass as a forage seed crop and
getting 14 to 15 bushels per acre.
What their work is showing now
is that as a perennial grain crop
they’ll be able to produce seed
beyond one year, he said.
“We want this to be a perennial grain, we don’t want it to be
a hay crop, that is, getting one
good seed harvest and then it’s
basically a hayfield. We’re trying
to avoid that.”
It doesn’t have the gluten
properties of wheat, so it won’t
be a wheat replacement, he
added.
“As I foresee it being released,
it’ll be a product that can be
consumed by humans, but
maybe blended with wheat in a
number of applications.”
Researchers hope to have
enough seed to proceed to agronomic trials by next year, Cattani said.
In other words, they’ve
reached a stage where he can
say he’s “a little more optimistic”
about the time frame it’ll take to
have a viable crop to grow. But
this is still very early days.
“Optimistically, I’d say we’re
still looking at 15 to 20 years
down the road.”
he
number
of
Ethiopians who will
need food aid by the
end of this year has surged
by m o re t h a n 1 . 5 m i l lion from earlier estimates
due to failed rains, United
Nations agencies said Aug.
24.
Ethiopia needs an extra
$230 million from donors
to secure aid for a total
of 4.5 million people now
projected to require assistance this year, the Office
for the Co-ordination
of Humanitar ian Affairs
(UNOCHA), the World Food
Program (WFP) and the UN
children’s agency UNICEF
said in a statement.
The country of 96 million people is one of Africa’s
fastest-growing economies,
but failed rains have devastating consequences for
food supplies.
“ T h e b e l g r a i n s w e re
much worse than the
National Meteorology
Agency predicted at the
b e g i n n i n g o f t h e y e a r.
Food insecurity increased
and malnutrition rose as
a result,” said David Del
Conte, UNOCHA’s acting
head of office in Ethiopia,
referring to the short, seasonal rainy season that
stretched from February to
April.
Areas normally producing surplus food in the Horn
of Africa country’s central
Oromia region were also
affected by shortages, the
statement said, adding lack
o f w a t e r h a d d e c re a s e d
livestock production and
caused livestock deaths in
other pastoralist areas.
Meteorologists have
warned that the El Niño
weather phenomenon,
marked by a warming of
sea-surface temperatures
in the Pacific Ocean, is now
well established and continues to strengthen. Models
indicate that sea-surface
temperature anomalies in
the central Pacific Ocean
are set to climb to the highest in 19 years.
The El Niño can lead to
scorching weather across
Asia and east Africa but
heavy rains and floods in
South America.
T h e Un i t e d Na t i o n s
cautioned that the anomaly could fur ther affect
Ethiopia’s “kiremt” rains
that stretch from June to
September.
“A failed belg followed by
a poor kiremt season means
that challenges could continue into next year,” said
John Aylieff, WFP’s Ethiopia
representative.
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are made of
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Lisa Roy (r) with Ryan Down forks stooked wheat onto the feeder
of a 1952 McCormick Deering threshing machine at the Red River
Exhibition fairgrounds Aug. 18, part of a sneak preview of Harvesting
Hope, scheduled for July 31 next year at Austin during the Manitoba
Threshermen’s Reunion. Organizers expect to have over 500 volunteers
come from about 100 communities in an attempt to break the record
for the world’s largest threshing bee — a record just set on Aug. 15 at
St-Albert, Ont., with 111 antique machines. For more photos from the Red
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PEAK Continued from page 1
“I lost $150,000 because of
what I had to dump because
of higher grade-out and stuff
that was just plain rejected,”
Boersma said in an interview
Aug. 19.
Peak of the Market isn’t trying hard enough to market
growers’ produce, according to
Boersma.
“They’re working more for the
buyers than the seller,” he said.
“They’re order takers…
“They’ve put their standards
so high they sometimes don’t
have a sale and they don’t look
for it very hard.”
If Peak won’t sell regulated
produce then it should allow
farmers to, Boersma said.
“Upper management needs to
go,” he added.
The complaint is similar
to that of Jeffries Brothers of
Portage la Prairie. As reported
i n l a s t w e e k’s M a n i t o b a
Co-operator Dave Jeffries said
Peak rejected more than half
their carrots in 2014 even
though, according to Jeffries,
they were food quality.
Larry McIntosh, Peak of the
Market’s president and chief
executive officer, says Peak’s
hands are tied.
“If you look at our regulations, our obligation is not to
sell anything that doesn’t meet
standards, which is Canada
No. 1 and Canada No. 2 in the
case of onions,” he said in an
interview Aug. 21. “However,
we will try to find them a sale
in processing or anywhere we
can.”
Peak of the Market, also
k n ow n a s t h e M a n i t o b a
Vegetable Producers Marketing
Board, was created through legislation in 1942 to help growers
get fair prices through orderly
marketing. Manitoba farmers
who grow more than one acre
of carrots, table potatoes, cooking onions, parsnips and rutabagas, must have a production
quota from Peak to do so. And
all the production must be sold
through Peak. Returns to farmers are pooled.
The crops can’t be marketed
unless they have been graded
and inspected as required by
Canada Agricultural Products
Standards Act and are packed
and marked under that act,
a n o f f i c i a l with Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development, said in an
email.
“There is the proviso that Peak
is not required to market a root
crop which does not meet grade
specifications set out in Peak’s
Quality Control Manual,” the
official wrote.
However, exemptions are
allowed, the email adds.
“Sp e c i f i c a l l y, Pe a k m a y
exempt any quality of root crops
from the requirements of the
regulations and may authorize a
person to market root crops on
a temporary basis on terms Peak
specifies.”
Peak did find some markets
in Ontario for Boersma, but he
turned them down because “he
wasn’t happy with the price,”
McIntosh said.
Farmers displeased with
Peak’s management can make
their case of the nine-member
board of directors — vegetable
growers, elected by vegetable
growers — which oversees Peak,
McIntosh said.
If they don’t like the board’s
decision they can appeal to
the Manitoba Farm Products
Marketing Council, which oversees Manitoba’s marketing
boards, he added.
“I appreciate every grower
wants to sell everything they
grow,” McIntosh said. “ We
totally understand that and we
do our best to accommodate
that and get the best return for
the growers. That’s why we’re
here.”
The number of vegetable farmers in Manitoba has
dropped from to 15 or 20 from
70 and Boersma blames Peak.
“The small guys have really
been pushed out,” he said. “The
root crop side… seems to be a
big headache for their management and staff. They’d rather do
the red potatoes with eight farmers. We look at these root crops
and feel they’re not really getting
fair treatment. Nobody is being
encouraged to grow these crops.
If you’re in and have a contract
like I do, OK, we’re rolling along.
But for a new guy to start something or have initiative it’s just
not in the cards.”
More vegetable production
would reduce Peak’s per-unit
overhead cost, Boersma said.
The number of all farms
has been declining for years,
McIntosh countered.
Peak has had record sale the
last 21 years, its website says.
“These record-breaking sales
were accomplished by obtaining sales in markets across North
America including California,
Florida, Texas and Washington,”
the site says. “These areas also
produce a large supply of vegetables but they recognize the
quality and taste difference that
Peak of the Market vegetables
provide.”
Instead of hurting small growers Peak helps them with things
such as food safety as well as
marketing, McIntosh said.
“I think that benefits smaller
g rowe r s a n d m e d i u m - s i ze
growers more than large growers, because the large ones
hire their own staff to do that,”
he said.
“If you look at our regulations our obligation is
not to sell anything that doesn’t meet standards,
which is Canada No. 1 and Canada No. 2 in the case
of onions. However, we will try to find them a sale
in processing or anywhere we can.”
Larry McIntosh
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Producer car rules tightened for 2015-16
CGC will now ask the terminal operator for confirmation that the car will be accepted
BY ALLAN DAWSON
Co-operator staff
C
hanges to make producer car use fairer and
more efficient took effect
Aug. 1.
Now farmers shipping producer cars, or administrators
ordering producer cars for
farmers, are restricted to twice
the number of cars a siding can
spot. For example, a farmer can
apply for eight producer cars at
a four-car spot. After that the
next farmer in the producer car
queue can get cars delivered to
that site.
“It allows a bit more fair
a c c e s s ,” C a n a d i a n G r a i n
Commission (CGC) producer
car officer Garth Steidel said in
an interview earlier this month.
Under the Canada Grain Act
western Canadian farmers can
order rail cars to ship their own
grain, bypassing elevators and
saving on handling fees.
Producer car orders are allocated on a first-in, first-out
basis, but there have been
times when a farmer or administrator will monopolize a rail
siding, Steidel said.
The CGC, which oversees
producer car applications, is
also tightening up and clarif y i n g p r o d u c e r c a r r u l e s,
added Catherine Jaworski, the
“It allows a bit more
fair access.”
Garth Steidel
CGC’s manager of producer
protection.
“When the marketing system for wheat and barley was
changed (Aug. 1, 2012) we had
this huge influx of new companies (buying grain via producer
car) and there was a lot of confusion around the rules so we
thought we’d better do a major
review from A to Z of producer
cars and that’s where we came
up with some of these changes
and clarifications.”
Wheat board grain made up
most producer car shipments
until its sales monopoly ended.
Now instead of getting a wheat
board identification number
when a producer car is ordered,
the CGC generates one.
Since the end of the monopoly the CGC has also required
producer car shippers confirm they have a sale for the
grain being shipped. But now
the CGC will seek “destination authorization,” by asking the terminal operator if it
will receive the producer car a
farmer is ordering.
“If they say ‘no,’ we cancel
the cars outright when we
do the application process,”
Steidel said.
“They (farmers) have to confirm their sale to us and then
we go from there,” Jaworski
said.
“This way is making sure
the right grain is moving, at
the right time, to the right
destination and we’re getting
it right. Terminals have handling agreements. They don’t
want stuff showing up there
willy-nilly.”
The CGC is also requesting
producer car shippers supply
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an email address so it can contact the shipper to confirm the
grain has a sale.
“We want to verify it is a true
order and they have a confirmed sale and it’s not a phantom order,” Steidel said.
Cleaning up backlog
Some new rules for producer cars were introduced by the Canadian Grain
Commission Aug. 1. file photo
Last year the CGC found some
farmers no longer wanted their
producer car by the time it was
to be delivered. As a result the
CGC cancelled around 1,000
orders, Steidel said.
“Part of that problem was
coming off 2013-14 we carried
over a number of (producer
car) applications because we
couldn’t get those cars allocated by the railways (sooner),”
Jaworski said. “We had a huge
carry-over so it was really hard
to get a true sense of what the
demand was. We needed to
clean it up.”
In the 2014-15 crop year
that ended July 31, the CGC
received 17,308 producer car
orders and allocated 12,005
cars.
Since producer cars are
ordered by farmers, or by
administrators on their behalf,
the farmer has to cancel the
order if he or she no longer
wants a car. There have been
times when farmers cancelled cars, but administrators
demanded the farmer deliver
the car because the grain to be
delivered was under contract,
Jaworski said.
“So we wanted to make it
very clear that we cancel cars
when producers tell us because
that’s who we are ordering
those cars from the railways
for,” she said. “Out of courtesy
we tell the administrators.”
The CGC now also requires
a shipping report so it will
know if a car was loaded
and unloaded. It used to get
that information until the
CGC stopped mandatory
inward inspection at terminal
elevators.
Producer car shippers will
also get more flexibility in picking which cars get spotted,
when their producer car orders
exceed the number of cars that
can be spotted.
Although the 12,005 producer cars allocated in 2014-15
was up from the 10,000 allocated the year previous, it was
still below the modern record
of 14,341 set in 2012-13 — the
final year of the wheat’s single
sales desk.
The most producer cars allocated ever was 51,000 in 191213, before elevator numbers
peaked in Western Canada.
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Honoured for work on
soil conservation
University of Manitoba soil science professor, David Lobb has been
chosen as the 2015 inductee into the Soil Conservation Council of
Canada’s Canadian Conservation Hall of Fame. He will be officially
inducted at a ceremony to be held this December at the SCCCsponsored Summit on the State of Canada’s Soils. Lobb is internationally
recognized for his research in tillage translocation and tillage erosion. Photo: Allan Dawson
WHAT’S UP
Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected]
or call 204-944-5762.
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Aug. 28-30: Matlock Festival of
Music, Art and Nature, Ash Avenue,
Matlock. Visit www.matlockfestival.ca.
Aug. 29: Canadian Lamb Producers
Co-operative informational meeting,
1 p.m., Manitoba Sheep Show and
Sale, Carberry Ag Grounds. For more
info call 519-823-2200.
Sept. 3: Agassiz Soil and Crop
Improvement Association (ASCIA)
soybean research tour, 9:30 a.m.,
Rd. 38E, south of Hwy. 44 west of
Beausejour. For more info call the
Beausejour GO Centre at 204-2686094.
Sept. 11-13: Double B Agricultural
Festival, Beausejour. For info call 204205-0723 or email doublebrodeo@
highspeedcrow.ca.
call 204-343-2314 or email artccam@
gmail.com.
Oct. 3-4: Manitoba Plowing Days,
10 a.m. daily, five miles east of
Boissevain on Hwy. 3. For more info
call 204-534-6451.
Sept. 18-20: Harvest Moon
Oct. 29: Keystone Agricultural
Sept. 26: Pumpkinfest, Teulon.
Call 204-467-9064 or visit www.
teulonfarmersmarket.com/
pumpkinfest.html.
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Oct. 3: Roland Pumpkin Fair. For info
visit www.cartwrightroblin.ca or email
Tricia at [email protected].
Festival, Clearwater. Visit www.
harvestmoonsociety.org/festival/.
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Oct. 2-3: Manitoba Fibre Festival,
Red River Exhibition Park, 3977
Portage Ave., Winnipeg. For more
info visit www.manitobafibrefestival.
com.
Oct. 15: Red River Exhibition/Manitoba
Agricultural Hall of Fame Harvest Gala,
Victoria Inn, 1808 Wellington Ave.,
Winnipeg. For more info or tickets call
Judy at 204-888-6990 or email foun
[email protected].
Sept. 12: Mather Fall Festival. For info
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Sept. 26: Opasquia Fall Fair and
Culture Days, The Pas. Call 204-6236771 or email opasquiaagsociety@
outlook.com.
Sept. 26: Manitoba Organic Alliance’s
Organic Showcase and networking
dinner, Jane’s Restaurant, RRC
Paterson GlobalFoods Institute, 504
Main St., Winnipeg. For tickets or
more info call 204-956-2090 (ext.
378) or 204-546-2099.
Producers fall general council meeting,
PCU Centre, 245 Royal Rd. S., Portage la
Prairie. For more info call 204-697-1140.
Oct. 29-31: Manitoba AgEx, Westoba
Agricultural Centre of Excellence,
Keystone Centre, 1175-18th St., Brandon.
For info visit manitobaagex.com.
Nov. 17-19: Canadian Forage and
Grassland Association conference and
AGM, Sheraton Cavalier, 612 Spadina
Cres. E., Saskatoon. For more info visit
www.canadianfga.ca/events/currentevents/.
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LIVESTOCK MARKETS
(Friday to Thursday)
Winnipeg
Slaughter Cattle
Steers
—
Heifers
—
D1, 2 Cows
133.00 - 138.00
D3 Cows
120.00 - 132.00
Bulls
165.00 - 174.00
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
—
(801-900 lbs.)
225.00 - 255.00
(701-800 lbs.)
245.00 - 275.00
(601-700 lbs.)
260.00 - 310.00
(501-600 lbs.)
300.00 - 330.00
(401-500 lbs.)
310.00 - 375.00
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
200.00 - 235.00
(801-900 lbs.)
210.00 - 247.25
(701-800 lbs.)
220.00 - 248.00
(601-700 lbs.)
230.00 - 275.00
(501-600 lbs.)
245.00 - 295.00
(401-500 lbs.)
—
Heifers
Alberta South
$ 182.00 - 182.00
—
135.00 - 149.00
120.00 - 137.00
—
$ 244.00 - 259.00
255.00 - 270.00
270.00 - 289.00
295.00 - 316.00
310.00 - 337.00
325.00 - 365.00
$ 226.00 - 243.00
243.00 - 255.00
252.00 - 275.00
270.00 - 290.00
290.00 - 312.00
300.00 - 360.00
($/cwt)
(1,000+ lbs.)
(850+ lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
Futures (August 21, 2015) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change
August 2015
146.48
-2.38
October 2015
146.33
-1.53
December 2015
148.48
-1.00
February 2016
148.28
-0.38
April 2016
146.98
-0.60
June 2016
139.10
-0.95
Feeder Cattle
August 2015
September 2015
October 2015
November 2015
January 2016
March 2016
Cattle Slaughter
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
August 21, 2015
Previous
Year­
47,044
10,252
36,792
N/A
580,000
CNSC
Ontario
$ 170.85 - 193.38
170.59 - 191.21
96.71 - 131.17
96.71 - 131.17
145.42 - 166.94
$ 225.33 - 257.62
222.64 -265.17
247.76 - 303.42
252.34 - 344.05
265.28 - 363.49
274.85 - 381.28
$ 207.09 - 230.75
220.49 - 243.84
211.43 - 273.56
228.54 - 300.82
247.08 - 326.11
244.87 - 327.07
Close
213.20
206.83
203.98
201.85
195.73
193.15
Change
-0.83
-3.50
-4.35
-4.35
-4.13
-3.63
Previous
Year
627
24,528
20,387
1,132
1,346
4,756
128
Hog Prices
(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)
Source: Manitoba Agriculture
E - Estimation
MB. ($/hog)
MB (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)
MB (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)
ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)
PQ (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)
Current Week
197 E
182 E
187.09
189.89
Last Week
194.33
180.07
185.82
190.12
Last Year (Index 100)
229.13
211.04
214.17
224.97
Futures (August 21, 2015) in U.S.
Hogs
October 2015
December 2015
February 2016
April 2016
May 2016
Close
64.75
61.30
66.15
70.85
75.43
Change
-0.30
0.07
0.55
0.67
0.30
Other Market Prices
Sheep and Lambs
$/cwt
Ewes
Lambs
Winnipeg
Wooled Fats
Choice
(110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
Next
Sale
September 2nd
Chickens
Minimum broiler prices as of April 13, 2010
Under 1.2 kg..................................................$1.5130
1.2 - 1.65 kg....................................................$1.3230
1.65 - 2.1 kg....................................................$1.3830
2.1 - 2.6 kg.....................................................$1.3230
Turkeys
Minimum prices as of August 30, 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................................................. $1.905
Undergrade......................................... $1.820
Prices are quoted f.o.b. producers premise.
Toronto
115.02 - 135.24
166.44 - 192.18
187.16 - 200.02
190.51 - 223.20
219.50 - 291.12
—
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
Goats
Kids
Billys
Mature
Winnipeg
(Hd Fats)
Next
Sale
September 2nd
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
M
anitoba’s cattle market will see a lot
of action this fall, from where one
industry participant sits, but nationally, cattle markets are seeing a mixed bag of
bullish and bearish factors.
“Definitely seeing a stronger market on
the yearlings, maybe with a little more volume than what we’ve been seeing through
the past month,” said Robin Hill, manager at
Heartland Livestock Services at Virden.
Manitoba’s yearling market is slightly
higher than the Chicago Board of Trade’s, he
said.
“There’s a lot of demand, and the demand
is coming from the west, the south, and now
the eastern market is going to be there also.
So the yearlings are going all three directions
today, that’s for sure.”
The fall calf run will start in about three to
four weeks, and Manitoba producers will be
busy this fall, Hill said. “The market is showing that there’s going to be lots of selling.”
Another factor supporting Manitoba’s market is its ample feed supplies, especially compared with those in western Saskatchewan
and Alberta.
On the national level, the cattle market is
feeling both pressure and support from external markets. Weakness in the Canadian dollar
is keeping cattle prices supported heading
into the fall — a prime time for cattle purchasing, said Anne Wasko, a market analyst
herb lock
for Gateway Livestock Marketing at Taber,
Alta.
But Herb Lock, a market analyst with
FarmSense Marketing in Edmonton, said
weakness in other currencies could pressure
prices. “The outside markets are putting a lot
of heat on (the market), because of currency
especially.”
China, Taiwan, India and Vietnam are all
important consumers, but are also seeing
relative weakness in their currencies, he said.
Tight Canadian supplies have the potential
to be a bullish factor for the market, Wasko
said, but high production in other countries
could undermine that support.
“That’s going to keep some concern in the
market as we head into the fall,” she said.
However, she said she thinks that despite
concerns, cattle prices will turn higher in
autumn, as demand for Canadian beef is
good.
Lock agreed demand for Canadian beef is
high, and said the industry is “alive and well,”
with “no real wreck ahead.”
Jade Markus writes for Commodity News Service Canada,
a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity
market reporting.
briefs
U.S. feedlot cattle
placements dip to
record monthly low
Chicago / Reuters /
The pace of cattle placed
in U.S. feedlots last month
decreased slightly from
July 2014 to its lowest level
since the gover nment
began tracking the data in
1996, a U.S. Department of
Agriculture report showed
Aug. 21.
Un p r o f i t a b l e m a r g i n s
slowed the inflow of cattle
to some feed yards, which
was offset by heavier anim a l s t h a t w e re f i n a l l y
pulled off pastures where
they had been grazing for
several months, analysts
said.
T h e y s a i d Ju l y 2 0 1 5
placements seemed larger
in light of July 2014’s 8.2
per cent placement decline
from 2013.
Cattle placed in feed-
ing pens in July will likely
come to market beginning
this winter, which could
weigh on prices for slaughter-ready animals at that
time, the analysts said.
The Aug. 21 USDA report
showed July placements at
1.547 million head, down
one per cent from 1.559
m i l l i o n l a s t y e a r, a n d
nearly in line with analysts’ average forecast.
The USDA put the feedlot cattle supply as of Aug.
1 at 10.002 million head,
up three per cent from
9.752 million a year ago.
Analysts, on average, had
f o re c a s t a 2 . 5 p e r c e n t
rise.
T h e g ov e r n m e n t s a i d
the number of cattle sold
to packers, or marketings,
was down three per cent
in July from a year ago, at
1.725 million head. The
outcome was the smallest for the month of July
since USDA began the data
series in 1996.
Analysts projected a 3.2
per cent drop from 1.787
million last year, with the
same number of days to
market cattle last month as
in July 2014.
“The report was a bit of a
yawner because the numbers were pretty close to
forecasts,” said Allendale
Inc. chief strategist Rich
Nelson.
C M E l i v e c a t t l e t ra d ers may focus on global
financial worries that sank
futures Aug. 21 amid concerns that economic instability could hurt U.S. meat
demand domestically and
abroad.
“ The equities markets
are falling apart and there
are fears the consumer will
cut back on beef here, as
it looks expensive. That’s
what today was about, and
what Monday will be about
— if the equities markets
bounce back,” said U.S.
Commodities analyst Don
Roose.
Toronto
($/cwt)
152.39 - 324.14
—
120.31 - 268.52
Horses
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
“The outside markets are putting
a lot of heat on (the market),
because of currency especially.”
Jade MarkuS
Week Ending
August 15, 2015
854
27,264
14,706
672
1,128
6,452
289
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Manitoba’s beef sector
showing relative strength
Our weak loonie is offset by weakened export markets
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
August 15, 2015
51,809
11,895
39,914
N/A
540,000
$1 Cdn: $0.7605 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.3149 Cdn.
column
Cattle Prices
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
August 21 2015
Toronto
($/cwt)
11.20 - 52.80
48.00 - 70.00
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
GRAIN MARKETS
column
Manitoba Elevator Prices
Economic uncertainty weighs
back in on commodities
Average quotes as of August 14, 2015 ($/tonne)
Outside market factors dragged down canola futures
Phil-Franz Warkentin
CNSC
I
CE Futures Canada canola contracts
dropped lower during the week ended
Aug. 21, although most of the weakness
had more to do with outside markets than
anything specific in canola.
Statistics Canada released its first production estimates of the year on Aug. 21, putting
an official survey-based number on the size
of the canola crop. In those estimates, canola
production is forecast at 13.3 million tonnes,
which would be well off the 15.6 million
tonnes grown in 2014. However, given the
timing of the survey, conducted in late July,
the general consensus is that better weather
in August will likely see actual production
come in closer to 14 million.
Harvest pressure should build in the weeks
ahead, but will also be countered by the
need to keep some weather premiums in the
futures, while yields and quality are still up in
the air. Supply/demand and weather issues
have the potential to provide some support,
with a chart-based bounce another possibility. However, canola is still a small player in
the bigger story, and global economic uncertainty has returned to the forefront.
Crude oil finished the week at its lowest
levels in five years, while the equity markets
dropped sharply and concerns mounted over
the possibility of declining demand out of
China.
In the U.S., soybeans and wheat were both
lower, but corn managed to hold within a
narrow range.
Soyoil posted some of the largest losses of
any of the Chicago markets, with vegetable
oil markets around the world posting steep
declines.
China is the No. 1 import destination for
U.S. soybeans, and the concern now is that a
slowdown in its economy will cut into some
of that demand. Analysts in the agriculture
sector have a mixed view on that, with many
of the opinion that an economic slowdown in
some sectors won’t necessarily spill into food
demand.
For three-times-daily market
reports and more from
Commodity News Service
Canada, visit the Markets section
at www.manitobacooperator.ca.
From a chart standpoint, November soybeans last week broke below the psychological US$9-per-bushel mark, setting the stage
for further speculative selling pressure.
Then, on Monday morning (Aug. 24),
a nine per cent drop in the Chinese stock
market spilled over to trigger a massive
sell-off in equity markets around the world.
Commodities were also down sharply, with
November soybeans at US$8.66 per bushel at
9 a.m., and November ICE canola down $10
at C$469 per tonne.
Future
Basis
Net
Weekly Change
Red spring wheat
187.96
32.91
220.87
-2.14
Red winter wheat
178.53
4.45
182.98
3.93
Prairie spring wheat
178.57
-3.96
174.61
3.36
Canola
469.17
-23.22
445.94
-18.43
Port Prices
As of Friday, August 21, 2015 ($/tonne)
Last Week
Weekly Change
U.S. hard red winter 12% Houston
180.41
-7.84
U.S. spring wheat 14% Portland
221.93
-5.33
Canola Thunder Bay
483.30
-13.60
Canola Vancouver
513.30
-13.60
Closing Futures Prices
As of Monday, August 21, 2015 ($/tonne)
Last Week
Weekly Change
ICE canola
478.30
-13.60
ICE milling wheat
228.00
4.00
ICE barley
202.10
-3.00
Mpls. HRS wheat
193.92
3.49
Chicago SRW wheat
187.85
2.94
Kansas City HRW wheat
184.18
5.88
Crop conditions
Corn
150.58
7.38
U.S. Midwestern weather conditions have
turned relatively benign as far as beans are
concerned, although there is still plenty of
time in the U.S. growing season to keep some
premiums in the futures.
Corn actually edged up for much of the
week, despite the big moves in outside financial markets. U.S. crop tour results during
the week were showing yields below earlier
expectations, which helped the corn market
ignore the bearish outside influences to some
extent.
For wheat, everything is still pointed lower,
with the U.S. futures stuck in the well-established downtrend they’ve been in since the
beginning of July.
Even Canada’s smaller crop was not enough
to provide any spark for the futures. StatsCan
pegged the 2015-16 wheat crop at 24.6 million tonnes, down by nearly five million from
last year’s 29.3 million tonnes.
Oats
151.08
3.24
Soybeans
333.36
-10.66
Soymeal
354.40
-10.25
Soyoil
618.94
-20.29
Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
Cash Prices Winnipeg
As of Monday, August 21, 2015 ($/tonne)
Last Week
Weekly Change
Feed wheat
177.82
-1.47
Feed barley
149.27
-16.08
n/a
n/a
506.67
-4.72
Rye
Flaxseed
Feed peas
n/a
n/a
Oats
175.07
-5.84
Soybeans
356.05
-8.45
Sunflower (NuSun) Fargo, ND ($U.S./CWT)
17.40
-.20
Sunflower (Confection) Fargo, ND ($U.S./CWT)
Ask
Ask
Western Canadian cash wheat bids steady to lower
Quoted basis levels generally improved by about $2 to average about $31 above the futures
BY PHIL FRANZ-WARKENTIN
Commodity News Service Canada
C
a n a d a We s t e r n Re d
Spring (CWRS) wheat
cash bids across
Western Canada were steady
to slightly lower during the
week ended Aug. 21, while
Prairie Red Spring (CPRS)
bids were mixed.
Average Canada Western
Red Spr ing wheat prices
were steady to $3 per tonne
lower across the three Prairie
provinces, according to price
quotes from a cross-section
of deliver y points across
Western Canada. Bids ranged
from about $212 per tonne in
north-central Saskatchewan,
to as high as $225 per tonne
in southern Alberta.
Quoted basis levels varied
from location to location, but
generally improved by about
$2 to average about $31
above the futures when using
the grain company methodology of quoting the basis as
the difference between the
U.S. dollar-denominated
futures and the Canadian
dollar cash bids.
When accounting for the
currency exchange rates
by adjusting the Canadian
prices to U.S. dollars ($1 =
US$0.7594 as of Aug. 21)
C W R S b i d s ra n g e d f ro m
US$161 to US$171 per tonne.
That would put the currency
adjusted basis levels at about
US$17 to US$27 below the
futures.
Looking at it the
other way around, if the
Mi n n e a p o l i s f u t u re s a re
converted to Canadian
dollars, CWRS basis lev els across Western Canada
range from $22 to $35 below
the futures.
Average Canada Prairie Red
Spring bids were narrowly
mixed, with prices anywhere
from $3 per tonne lower to
$4 per tonne higher. CPRS
prices came in at about $174
per tonne in Manitoba, $184
per tonne in Saskatchewan,
and $193 to $196 per tonne in
Alberta.
Soft white spring wheat
prices are unchanged, rang-
ing from $200 to $202 per
tonne in Alberta.
Winter wheat prices were
mixed. Prices ranged from
about $179 to $186 per
tonne, with the best levels in
southern Saskatchewan and
Manitoba.
Durum prices were down
by $15 per tonne. Bids in
s o u t h e r n Sa s k a t c h e w a n ,
where the bulk of the crop is
grown, came in at $318 per
tonne.
The December spring
wheat
contract
in
Minneapolis, which most
CWRS contracts in Canada
are based off, was quoted at
US$5.18 per bushel on Aug.
21, down 15.75 cents from
the week prior.
T h e K a n s a s C i t y h a rd
red winter wheat futures,
which are now traded in
Chicago, are more closely
linked to CPRS in Canada.
The December Kansas City
wheat contract was quoted at
US$4.9275 per bushel on Aug.
21, down 17.50 cents from
last week.
The December Chicago
Board of Trade soft wheat
contract settled at US$5.0400
on Aug. 21, which was 6.75
cents weaker compared to
the week prior.
The Canadian dollar closed
at 75.94 U.S. cents on Aug.
21, which was up by about a
third of a cent relative to its
U.S. counterpart compared
to the previous week.
12
The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
LIVESTOCK
h u s b a n d r y — t h e s c i e n c e , S K I L L O R ART O F F AR M IN G
Give the roots a chance to do
their job, says soil ecologist
Australian soil expert says that by focusing on farming light you
can build the biological activity in soil and boost pasture productivity
BY JENNIFER PAIGE
Co-operator staff
C
hristine Jones says if you
want to increase pasture
productivity, look below
the surface.
“Our whole production system relies on soil. We take soil
tests to determine if the soil is
deficient and if it doesn’t have a
certain component, we will add
it. If our animals have some sort
of issue, we will add something
to their pastures or the animals
themselves. But what we really
need to be looking at to deal
with these issues is the creation
of healthy, living soil,” Jones told
a recent Manitoba Forage and
Grasslands Association (MFGA)
workshop in Virden.
For the past few weeks,
Jones, who hails from Australia,
has been holding workshops
throughout North America,
discussing management techniques that will increase soil
biological activity.
She is an internationally
renowned ground cover and soil
ecologist with a wealth of experience working with landholders to implement regenerative
land-management practices.
“A lot of the soils around the
world that appear to be deficient in nutrients actually have
all of those nutrients there,
but it is that they are not available because the sun’s rays and
plants are not communicating
with the microbes in the soil,”
Jones said.
Many pasture problems stem
from nutrient-depleted soil,
including compaction, erosion
and reduced water absorption.
“A lot of people wonder and
are puzzled at how their soil has
become compacted, and it is
because the soil doesn’t have life
in it anymore,” Jones said.
Soil with a lack of biological
matter also has more difficulty
withstanding bouts of extreme
weather.
Focus on the roots
When attempting to build up
nutrient-deficient fields, Jones
encourages producers to move
away from supplying nutrients
through fertilizers, and instead
focus on building root systems.
“Researchers are at a loss to
explain why protein levels in
grain are falling when the rate
of nitrogen application has
increased. But, I believe that it
is because many have become
overly dependent on fixing
nutrient levels with chemicals
and do little to improve biological matter.”
According to Jones, applying fertilizer may enhance the
plant’s growth above ground but
Manitoba grazing club co-ordinator Michael Thiele tests sugar levels with a
refractometer during the grazing workshop.
Ground cover and soil ecology specialist Christine Jones discussed how to
develop biological activity in pasture soils at a recent Manitoba Forage and
Grasslands Association workshop. Photos: Jennifer Paige “A lot of people wonder and are puzzled at
how their soil has become compacted, and it is
because the soil doesn’t have life in it anymore.”
Christine Jones
Manitoba grazing club co-ordinator Michael Thiele (r) discusses the importance
of ground cover when looking to develop biological activity in soil.
soil ecologist
actually hinders the plant’s ability to absorb the soil’s natural
nutrients.
She explained that by interfering and providing nitrogen
and other nutrients, it disturbs
the plant’s natural process of
growing root systems, developing aggregates and enabling
carbon compounds to humify
and turn into humus — the
dark, organic material that
forms in soil when plant and
animal matter decays.
“Humus is the compound
that is going to improve soil
structure and water-carrying
capacity,” she said. “The goal is
really to create humus within
your soil by encouraging root
growth. This will make an enormous difference in the soil’s
structure as well as give plants
the natural ability to defend
against pests and disease.”
Applying fertilizer to supplement nutrient-deficient soils
without addressing root, arrogate or microbe growth is a
waste of money and product,
Jones said.
“When you apply a fertilizer
you are giving your plant nitrogen and phosphorus, which
doesn’t support the biology in
the soil that fixes nitrogen anymore, so it reduces its synthetic
rate,” she said. “It also stops
feeding a whole lot of other
microbes and other nitrogenfixing bacteria in the soil and 85
to 90 per cent of plant nutrient
acquisition is through microbial
uptake.”
Light farming
Enabling the growth of root
systems and biological matter
involves increasing photosynthetic activity in pastures.
“It doesn’t matter what you
are producing, you are first
and foremost a light farmer,”
said Jones. “And, there are two
rules to light farming — we
need to build photosynthetic
capacity and increase photosynthetic rate. Once you understand what those things are
and think about ways that you
can do that, then it becomes a
whole lot easier to farm, build
soil and produce nutritious
feed at much lower input costs,
increasing profitability.”
The rate at which plants are
photosynthesizing will determine how fast they exude sugars and other compounds, as
well as mineral uptake.
Jones urges producers to stop
disturbing the natural process
of root and soil growth through
the use of chemicals and tillage
and instead focus on increasing
the photosynthetic activity.
“For photosynthetic capacity we want to look at leaf area
— the height of the leaves, the
width of the leaves and how
many there are. As well as
shape, if you have a variety of
leaf shapes you will maximize
the amount of light that is intercepted,” she said. “You want to
think about how much of the
light that is coming down and
being intercepted by leaves.”
Manit oba grazi ng cl ub
co-ordinator Michael Thiele
says that the first step in creating biological matter in soil
and increasing photosynthetic
capacity is to get the ground
covered, as bare or exposed
soil warms quickly, reduces soil
moisture and shuts down soil
biology.
“Start growing more grass,
cover the soil and you will start
seeing more bugs and then
the whole system gets going,”
said Thiele. “It doesn’t seem
like a big thing, but when you
are looking at trying to maximize the amount of solar
panel, as soon as you have bare
ground, you have loss of solar
efficiency.”
As far as increasing how
quickly plants photosynthesize,
“there are a number of things
you can try to increase the photosynthetic rate, such as dry
milk powder and milk, any type
of fish product, fish hydrolysate,
seaweed extract or compost
tea,” said Jones.
The MFGA will be hosting
its next workshop on Sept. 1.
Visit www.mfga.net for more
information.
[email protected]
13
The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
Chinese
pork
demand
remains
strong
Economic turbulence
is unlikely to affect
food sales
BY JADE MARKUS
COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA
C
anadian pork producers have seen increased
demand from China in
recent weeks, something which
could boost prices in coming
months. Despite turbulence in
China’s economy, an industry
specialist says exports should
be little affected.
Pork prices are sensitive to
economic change to an extent,
but not as much as non-food
markets, says Martin Rice, executive director at the Canadian
Pork Council.
Rice says turmoil within the
country will likely not affect
strong import demand, as
China has seen a dramatic drop
in production.
“That won’t be changing,
because that situation is pretty
much laid out,” he says.
Due to reductions in China’s
pig herds, the country, which
has long acted as the world’s
biggest pork consumer, will
import 45 per cent more pork
this year.
That’s good news for producers, as a global supply glut,
especially in the U.S., has kept
prices low this year, Rice says.
The demand from China will
likely have an effect on prices
further into the fall and winter.
“Increased exports into China
are being noticed particularly
in the past several weeks. So
we’re now seeing that reflected
in somewhat stronger futures
prices than we saw a few weeks
ago,” Rice says.
He says Canadian producers are eager to provide, but
some still need recognition that
their production meets China’s
requirements.
China bans products with
ractopamine, a feed additive
to make animals leaner. Many
Canadian producers use it, but
can provide products that are
ractopamine free.
“That’s not something that’s
difficult for Canadian suppliers to supply, because we do
already for several markets
provide a product from pigs
that are raised not using ractopamine,” Rice says.
But each supplier needs to be
formally approved by China, so
many are looking into getting
additional conditional supply
status, he says.
Beyond demand from China,
factors moving the market
include supplies and prices in
other meat markets.
Ample poultry supplies pressure pork prices, but higher
beef prices and the relative
scarcity of Canadian cattle has
helped pork prices.
“Pork and beef are not perfect substitutes, it’s not a case
of people just going over and
buying pork instead of beef.
There’s a pretty strong demand
for beef, and some people
will pay the higher prices, but
nevertheless that has been
supportive.”
Clues to soil health lie in the patties
One producer looks for greasy appearance in manure to ensure cattle are reaching the best gains
BY JENNIFER PAIGE
Co-operator staff
I
f you want a quick indicator
of pasture soil health, just
flip the flops.
“When I am in my pastures
I will flip the cow patties over
and I want to see as many
holes as I can because that is a
sign of fertility,” Dave Pogson,
a grazier from Clearwater told
the recent Manitoba Forage
and Grassland Association
workshop in Virden.
“Dung beetles create these
holes and the more dung beetles you have the faster the
nutrients are getting into the
soil. This is also a way of telling
how healthy your soil is.”
Blain Hjer taas, a cer ti fied educator with Holistic
Management International,
agrees. He told a recent workshop in Wawota, Sask. that on
a warm day when the soil is
healthy, you should begin to see
new dung beetles in the manure
within six to 10 seconds.
Grazier Neil Dennis indicates what he looks for in animal manure to help
determine the health of pasture soil. Photo: Jennifer Paige
“If you are looking at land
health, look for dung beetles
flying around, as well as in the
manure,” he said. “If you are
using an insecticide on your
grazing pastures, as the chemicals move through the body
of the cow, they go out into
the feces and the feces then
become poisonous to the dung
beetles and consequently the
dung beetle population dies. At
that point you can play Frisbee
with your cow pies because
they become hard as a rock.”
Experienced grazier Neil
Dennis from Wawota said
when looking at cattle manure
he likes to see a consistency
similar to pumpkin pie.
“I like to see the cow pies
looking kind of like a pumpkin
pie, mounded and dipped in
the middle,” said Dennis. “With
the yearlings, I like to see them
sliced with a bit of a shiny coating on the outside.”
In Dennis’s experience, when
cattle are achieving the best
gains, manure will look greasy
in appearance.
“You will usually see the
greasy appearance at the end
of the year when cattle are getting the best gains, especially if
your sugar content and nutrient levels are right on.”
Dennis said many times you
can get a good idea of pasture
health just by driving through
your paddocks.
“When you go to leave your
paddock, if the cow manure is
sticking to your tires and flying
all over, you are in good shape.
If you were to check your sugar
content and pH at that point,
they will be right on,” said
Dennis.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN
NEWs
Plenty of selection and strong bidding
Buyer demand for the heavyweight lambs was apparent, keeping the auctioneer busy
Using big data to
find feed-efficient
dairy cattle
By Alexis Kienlen
BY MARK ELLIOT
Co-operator contributor
T
he summer auctions
have been getting
larger, with more sheep
a n d g o a t s d e l i v e re d t h a n
expected. The Aug. 5 sale had
1,350 sheep and goats delivered, with goat numbers
higher than usual. The buyers were ready as each animal
or group entered the arena.
Producers were possibly looking towards high hay prices
and weather limiting the pasture availability, and were
therefore reducing herds.
There was a good selection
of ewes for all buyers. There
appeared to be no price difference between wool and
hair types, or if sheared or
not. Even the bidding was not
determined by the weight.
Quality and herd managem e n t ( v i s i b l e c h a ra c t e r i s tics) determined some of the
higher bidding. Some buyers
were searching for specific
breeds. There was no appare n t re a s o n f o r p r i c i n g o n
some of the ewes — it was a
buyer’s choice and the selection provided this situation.
The hair rams dominated
this classification. The weight
ranged from 160 to 195
pounds, with a price ranging from $1.02 to $1.13 per
pound. An exception was two
138-pound Dorset-cross rams
that brought $1.25 per pound.
Buyer demand for the
heavyweight lambs was
apparent, keeping the
auctioneer busy. The price
ranged from $1.70 to $1.75 per
pound.
The market lambs continued the strong bidding. Most
lambs were ready for immediate market, similar to the
heavy lambs. The price
ranged from $1.74 to $1.89
per pound.
There was no price difference between wool and hair
feeder lambs at this sale. The
selection was high, allowing
for purchasing for feeder lots,
with strong bidding. The price
ranged from $1.73 to $2.09
per pound.
Ewes
The demand for the lightweight lambs was even
higher than the feeder lambs.
Producers delivered a good
selection of lightweight
lambs. The weight differences
from the feeder lambs was not
much different, but had more
interest. The pr ice ranged
from $1.99 to $2.19 per pound
for the 70-plus-pound lambs.
Eve n t h e 6 0 - p l u s - p o u n d
lambs continued the price
range from $2.09 to $2.19 per
pound, with excellent selection. An exception was 31
66-pound Rideau-cross lambs
that brought $2.25 per pound.
Most of the 50-plus-pound
lambs reached the price range
from $2.06 to $2.12 per pound.
Top-quality lambs received
strong bidding. A group of
57-pound Dorset-cross lambs
brought $2.21 per pound.
Another group of 55-pound
lambs brought $2.22.
The selection of the
40-plus-pound lambs was
m o re l i m i t e d a n d s m a l l e r
numbers per group sold. The
quality of the lambs kept for
strong bidding. The majority of the prices ranged from
$2.03 to $2.05 per pound. An
exception was two 40-pound
D o r s e t - c ro s s l a m b s w h i c h
brought $2.19 per pound.
The extreme lightweight
lambs had limited interest.
These smaller lambs are more
for the individual buyer.
The demand for dairy goat
does remains high, competing with similar meat goat
weights. The buyers had a
greater selection for goat does
at this sale. Alpine-cross does
represented the majority of
the dairy goats. Quality and
visible characteristics were
indicated by the high bidding. The meat goat yearlings
received a higher price compared to the dairy goat yearlings at this sale.
The goat buck classification
was only represented by the
meat goats. The bidding was
stronger for the younger goat
bucks. A 200-pound Boercross buck entered the arena
with full confidence, but was
still controllable and gentle.
The patient buyers had been
$182.40 - $189.75
waiting for more goat kids
to be delivered. Buyers took
advantage of the supply, creating some competitive bidding.
The Boer-cross goat kids outbid the dairy goat kids, in the
70-plus-pound range.
The 60-plus-pound Boercross goat kids continued the
strong presence, dominating this classification. A uniform group of nine 68-pound
Nubian wethers did well and
competed with the meat goat
kids.
The 50-plus-pound goat kid
classification had only Boercross goats. The buyers mainGOAT DOES
meat
dairy
110+
$163.20 - $177.30
60 - 68
$126 - $148.50
$97.24
53 - 58
40 / 43 / 48
35
$109.71 - $125.97
$1.37
109 lbs.
$1.71
110 lbs.
$1.39
111 lbs.
$1.15
113 lbs.
$1.21
115 lbs.
$1.50
133 lbs.
$1.30
138 lbs.
$1.77
65 lbs.
$1.71
70 lbs.
$1.57
78 lbs.
$1.39
111 lbs.
$2.30
67 lbs.
DAIRY
$1.94
68 lbs.
$2.03
90 lbs.
$2.68
85 lbs.
$2.58
93 lbs.
BUCKS
meat
$1.20
135 lbs.
$1.82
150 lbs.
$1.48
200 lbs.
$1.48
120 lbs.
$1.16
190 lbs.
$2.04 / $2.39
70 lbs.
$2.49
72 lbs.
DAIRY
$1.81
73 lbs.
MEAT
$2.83
63 lbs.
$2.81
65 lbs.
$2.58
67 lbs.
$2.42
69 lbs.
$2.44
68 lbs.
dairy (wethers)
KIDS - Under 80
MEAT
DAIRY
MEAT
Under 80
$140 - $167.70
104 lbs.
MEAT
$147.05
70 - 79
92 lbs.
$1.33
YEARLINGS
$193.14 -$196
80 - 94
$1.55
141 lbs.
$219.30 / $227.50
$180 - $185.22
90 lbs.
115 lbs.
MEAT
95 - 110
$1.64
animal weight
$1.21
$166 - $116.66
Lambs (lbs.)
/ lb.
$1.04
$133.56 - $168.98
$81.60 - $100.70
tained this strong bidding.
The price ranged from $2.42
to $2.93 per pound.
T h e p r i c e ra n g e s l i g h t l y
dropped for the 40-pluspound goat kids. The Boercross goat kids had a price
range of $2.40 to $2.56 per
pound. The dairy goat kids
had a price range of $2.28 to
$2.40 per pound.
The interest and demand for
smaller goat kids, either meat
or dairy, dropped a considerable amount. A 38-pound Boercross goat kid brought $1.84 per
pound. A 29-pound Boer-cross
goat kid brought $1.90.
DAIRY
MEAT
$2.42 / $2.71 / $2.75
52 lbs.
$2.49 / $2.71 / $2.62
55 lbs.
$2.59 / $2.93
56 lbs.
$2.59
58 lbs.
$2.40
40 lbs.
$2.56
45 lbs.
$2.43 / $2.28
46 lbs.
$2.55
49 lbs.
$2.40
40 lbs.
$2.28
46 lbs.
$2.16
31 lbs.
$1.84
38 lbs.
DAIRY
$2.16
31 lbs.
$87.60 / $87.29 / $98.40
MEAT
$1.90
29 lbs.
$38.85
DAIRY
$1.90
29 lbs.
STAFF
Researchers at the
University of Alberta are
looking to give producers
a bit of a boost by isolating
feed-efficient traits in dairy
cattle.
“We have an estimate
that breeding for increased
feed efficiency and reduced
methane emission can
reduce feed costs by about
$100 per cow per year,” said
Paul Stothard, an assistant
professor of genomics and
bioinformatics and coleader of a research team
drawn from his university and the University of
Guelph.
The study will collect
data from the universities’
two herds and a pair of
large Canadian commercial
herds and look for cattle
that easily convert feed into
increased milk production.
“In order to get the most
powerful data set possible,
we’ll be incorporating data
from other countries like
Australia, Switzerland, the
U.K. and the United States,”
said Stothard.
This will result in the
world’s largest data set on
these two traits.
Step two will be to
develop prediction tools so
more efficient animals can
be selected for breeding
based on a simple DNA test.
The Canadian Dairy
Network currently provides
genetic evaluation for dairy
cattle, but hasn’t looked at
these traits because the data
hasn’t been available.
“Through measuring
feed efficiency and methane emissions in thousands
of animals, we’ll be able to
build the prediction equations needed to deliver
those genetic evaluations,”
said Stothard.
The project team just
received a $10.3-million grant from Genome
Canada, Genome Alberta
and the Ontario Genomics
Institute and is partnering
with the Canadian Dairy
Network. GrowSafe, an
Alberta company that uses
radio frequency ID technology in feed bunks, will help
collect the feed-efficiency
measurements. It will take
the project team about four
years to go from data collection to completion.
“We’re hoping we can
start providing genetic evaluations to producers before
the end of the project,” said
Stothard. “But it does take
time to collect the data,
build the prediction equations, and validate them.”
Once the information is
available, dairy producers
could receive genomic estimated breeding values on
feed efficiency and methane emission for any cattle
that are in the Canadian
Dairy Network. The network
already hosts a national
database of all the dairy performance data collected in
Canada.
[email protected]
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Feeder Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
18-Aug
19-Aug
n/a
n/a
n/a
No. on offer
n/a
n/a
n/a
44*
308*
n/a
n/a
n/a
Over 1,000 lbs.
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
900-1,000
n/a
n/a
n/a
225.00-248.00
235.00-248.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
800-900
n/a
n/a
n/a
245.00-270.00
247.00-270.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
700-800
n/a
n/a
n/a
270.00-297.00
259.00-294.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
600-700
n/a
n/a
n/a
285.00-318.00
289.00-321.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
500-600
n/a
n/a
n/a
320.00-350.00
310.00-348.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
400-500
n/a
n/a
n/a
330.00-375.00
340.00-385.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
300-400
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
195.00-222.00
216.00-231.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder heifers
900-1,000 lbs.
800-900
n/a
n/a
n/a
225.00-245.00
229.00-248.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
700-800
n/a
n/a
n/a
240.00-268.00
242.00-263.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
600-700
n/a
n/a
n/a
275.00-315.00
262.00-292.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
500-600
n/a
n/a
n/a
295.00-325.00
285.00-312.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
400-500
n/a
n/a
n/a
320.00-350.00
305.00-335.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
300-400
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
33*
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Slaughter Market
No. on offer
D1-D2 Cows
n/a
n/a
n/a
133.00-142.00
131.00-136.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
D3-D5 Cows
n/a
n/a
n/a
115.00-133.00
124.00-130.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
Age Verified
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
132.00-138.75
n/a
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
n/a
n/a
n/a
170.00-182.00
168.00-175.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
175.00-182.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
170.00-179.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Heiferettes
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
* includes slaughter market
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
WEATHER VANE
“Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.” Mark Twain, 1897
Summer weather moves back in
Issued: Monday, August 24, 2015 · Covering: August 26 – September 2, 2015
Daniel Bezte
Weather Vane
Y
ou have to give the
weather models credit,
a s t h e y d i d a p re t t y
darned good job of predicting
last week’s weather. The strong
weekend low developed and
tracked through southern and
central Manitoba as expected,
and was followed by clearing
skies and warmer temperatures to start this week.
For this forecast period the
weather models point toward
drier and warmer weather,
with no major storm systems
expected to affect our region.
Instead, high pressure will
dominate, bringing plenty of
sunshine along with daytime
highs in the mid- to upper 20s.
This doesn’t mean we won’t
see any clouds or precipitation. A weak area of low pressure is forecast to slide by to
our south late Thursday into
Friday, and it may bring a
few clouds with the outside
chance of a thundershower to
extreme southern regions during this time. A low tracking
across the northern Prairies
over the weekend will drag a
weak cold front through central and southern areas sometime on Sunday, which will
give us another chance for
some scattered clouds and the
odd thundershower late in the
day and into the evening.
Next week looks like it will
star t off sunny and war m
as a ridge of high pressure
rebuilds. We should expect
daytime highs to continue
in the mid- to upper 20s,
with lows in the 10 to 15 C
range. By next Wednesday the
weather models show a shift
in the weather pattern, with
an area of low pressure tracking through the north-central
Prairies. This will bring clouds
and the chance for some precipitation. A cooler and more
active northwesterly flow is
then forecasted to develop
behind this system to end next
week. Confidence in this part
of the forecast is low, so don’t
get too worried yet.
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, 17 to 27 C;
lows, +5 to +14 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].
LAND & OCEAN TEMPERATURE PERCENTILES — JULY 2015
This issue’s map shows global July temperature anomalies, according to NOAA, as percentiles. A good portion of the world recorded warmer- to
much-warmer-than-average temperatures this July. What really stands out is just how many regions recorded record-warm conditions (dark red).
While globally it was warm, there were still areas below average, with the north Atlantic and western Russia being the coolest.
Wild weather and big-time heat
Given the past year’s overall weather pattern, the weekend’s activity was unusual
By Daniel Bezte
Co-operator contributor
I
n last week’s issue I began our discussion about El Niño and promised to continue that discussion
in this issue, but sometimes Mother
Nature takes over and forces us to
change our plans. This is what happened last weekend as a strong lates u m m e r / e a r l y- f a l l s t o r m s y s t e m
moved across our region, bringing
with it strong thunderstorms, steady
rains and high winds, not to mention
some cool temperatures. The final
numbers aren’t yet in as I write, but
Environment Canada did put out an
early summary of the storm.
First of all, this storm was not unusual. While we don’t often see really
strong systems like this in the summer, they do occur, and late August
is often when we’ll get hit by these
systems. The storm system was caused
by a sharp dip in the jet stream that
forced cool air to dive southward to
our west. This brought some very cool
weather to that region and pulled
warm, moist air northward over our
region. This helped to spin up the area
of low pressure and all of the energy
released by the condensation of moisture helped the low to intensify. What
was different with this low, compared
to other similar systems over the last
couple of years, is that this dip in the
jet stream didn’t break off, allowing
for this system to develop into a cut-
… the storm system was able to keep moving to the east instead
of meandering around and affecting our region for days on end.
Table 1: Storm recap
Hail sizes from last Saturday
Teulon
off low. This meant the storm system
was able to keep moving to the east
instead of meandering around and
affecting our region for days on end.
I’m not sure if this signifies a general
change in the overall weather pattern
we’ve been in for the last year or so,
but it’s definitely something to note,
especially as we continue to examine
and watch the strong El Niño episode
currently taking place.
Table 1 lays out some of the early
reports on last weekend’s storm system from Environment Canada. The
rainfall amounts in Table 2 are mostly
from Saturday’s thunderstorms and
don’t include the 25 to 50 mm that fell
overnight Saturday and during the day
on Sunday over stations in the eastern
half of our province.
I know in my region, just northeast
of Winnipeg, total rainfall amounts
were in the 75- to 100-mm range for
the two-day event. This was enough
rain to saturate the fields and cause
some significant puddling and overland run-off. Let’s hope this week’s
forecast of sunny and warm weather
materializes and helps to dry things
out.
The warmest month
O n a d i f f e re n t n o t e, Ju l y ’s g l o bal temperatures have been
crunched and according to the U.S.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), July 2015
was the warmest month globally ever
recorded (compared to average and
going back to 1880). The average global temperature for July, according
to it, was 0.81 C above the average,
which beat out July 1998 by 0.14 C as
the warmest month ever. This helps to
make the first seven months of 2015
the warmest on record, and with El
Niño conditions expected to continue
across the Pacific, it looks likely that
2015 will be the second consecutive
warmest year on record.
In our next issue we’ll take our usual
look back at this month’s weather,
then look ahead to see what the longrange weather forecasters predict for
this fall. After that, barring any more
significant weather events, we’ll continue our look at El Niño — what it
is, how it contributes to record-warm
global temperatures and how it might
impact our weather over the winter
and into next spring.
Quarter
Matlock
Golf ball
Beaconia
Baseball
Silver Falls
Baseball
Oakbank/Cooks Creek (my area) Marble to quarter
South Winnipeg
Toonie
Winds (km/h)
Victoria Beach
85
Gretna
80
Deerwood
74
Kleefeld
74
Table 2: Rainfall from
Saturday’s storms (mm)
Selkirk
125
Beaconia
118
Lockport
109
Transcona
92
Beausejour
92
Domain
87
Steinbach
83
Stuartburn
83
Richardson Airport
53
Eriksdale
53
Gladstone
50
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Trim: 10.25”
CROPS
Co-operator staff
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Marla Rieckman
Marla Rieckman speaks to soybean growers. photo: Shannon VanRaes
But carbonate isn’t the
only cause of iron deficiency chlorosis; salinity
can also trigger it, as can
some plant injuries due to
herbicide drift.
“The only way you’ll
know if it’s one or the
other is really by testing
the soil,” Rieckman said.
Easy to diagnose
The good news is that iron
deficiency chlorosis doesn’t
usually last all season. As soil
dries out, the plants are again
able to take up iron.
Its yellow signature also
makes it easy to spot and
diagnose.
“The beautiful thing is
that iron deficiency chlorosis shows up in the fields,
it’s yellow and you can see it
visually,” Rieckman said. “So
take a picture and you can
go back and see that problem come back year after
year after year, because that
problem is always inherently
there, whether it’s a poor
drainage problem with high
pH and high carbonate presence or if it’s a salt problem.”
While there are rescue
treatments available, they are
too expensive to be viable for
soybean growers. Primarily,
they are used on strawberries, which can also experience iron deficiency chlorosis but have a different rate
of return.
Rieckman said iron deficiency does cause yield loss,
but exactly how much is
hard to determine because
it depends on how long iron
deficiency chlorosis lasts and
how severe it is.
“Observe, test, and if you
know you have a risk, then
you can select a variety that
has the best tolerance,”
she said. “That’s always the
first step. It doesn’t mean
you’ll have no symptoms
that come up, but it means
that you’ve got something
that’s been shown to have
tolerance.”
Other studies have shown
planting rows farther apart,
with higher plant populations can help offset the
effects of high carbonate
levels.
“We don’t know why that
works exactly, but it might be
that the plants work together
as plant populations in rows
increase — so, higher population works together to acidify the soil and remove more
moisture,” she said.
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“One of the main causes
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of high carbonate levels or
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and Rural Development.
“These are soils that are
typically poorly drained…
carbonates in the soil move
with water, but they move
slowly with water, they don’t
move as fast as salts do with
water.”
The problem is that iron
is not particularly soluble in
alkaline soil — wet soil with
carbonate.
Under normal circumstances soybean plants have
the ability to actually change
pH levels around their roots,
but only to a certain degree.
“The plant will acidify the
area around the root and
then that iron that it comes
in contact with becomes
soluble and the plant can
take it up,” she explained.
“However, a soil that has a
high presence of carbonates at the surface, will start
to interfere with the plant’s
ability to change the pH in
the area around the roots, so
the plant is going ahead and
it is attempting to acidify the
area around the roots and
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in and they basically buffer
against that change, keeping
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
Canola should be off in many areas
in time for winter wheat planting
Potential profits and spreading the workload make winter wheat a crop to consider
BY ALLAN DAWSON
“I’ve seen the benefits
(of seed treatment)
in trials and it’s
cheap insurance. It
makes for a more
uniform and healthy
stand.”
Co-operator staff
T
here’s time and lots of
good reasons to plant
winter wheat this fall,
says an agronomist with the
Western Winter Wheat Initiative.
“Canola crops are really coming in here fast,” Ken Gross said
from his Brandon office Aug.
21. The Western Winter Wheat
Initiative is a collaboration
between Bayer Crop Science,
Richardson International and
Ducks Unlimited to promote
winter wheat production as a
viable crop option in Western
Canada.
There were concerns whether
canola, the preferred stubble
for winter wheat seeding, would
be harvested late after many
fields in the southwest had to
be reseeded.
But swathing was expected
to be well underway this week
if the weather co-operated,
Lionel Kaskiw, a crop production adviser with Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development in Souris, said
during a webinar Aug. 19.
As of last week, canola harvest is even more advanced in
central Manitoba. However,
canola maturity is more delayed
in the northwest, said Jake
Davidson, executive manager of
Winter Cereals Manitoba.
To be eligible for full crop
insurance coverage, Manitoba
farmers must seed winter wheat
between Aug. 20 and Sept. 15.
However, they can seed as late
as Sept. 20 and get 80 per cent
of normal coverage.
Seeding winter wheat early
is better because it gives the
crop more time to get established, Gross said. Ideally winter wheat should go into dormancy with three- or four-leaf
leaves. Smaller plants don’t
store enough nutrients and
energy in their crowns, which
help with stress and regrowth
Ken Gross
To get full crop insurance coverage in Manitoba winter wheat must be planted between Aug. 20 and Sept. 15. photo: allan dawson
in the spring. Late seeding also
increases the risk the crop will
flower when the risk of fusarium head blight is highest.
Good stubble will trap snow
to insulate winter wheat helping it to survive the winter,
Gross said. While canola stubble is considered among the
best, other stubbles can work.
Although crop insurance recommends seeding into stubble,
it no longer requires it since
dropping coverage on winter
wheat that winterkills. Farmers
used to be able to get 75 per
cent of their winter wheat coverage if the crop didn’t survive
winter; now they are only eligible for a 25 per cent reseeding claim. However, once winter wheat is established in the
spring, it’s fully covered.
Gross recommends treating winter wheat seed with a
fungicide.
“I’ve seen the benefits in trials and it’s cheap insurance,” he
said. “It makes for a more uniform and healthy stand.”
Even stands are easier to protect from fusarium with a fungicide, Gross said.
Upping the seeding rate and
shallow seeding increase stand
uniformity, he said. Planting
more seeds is also recommended when seeding late to
offset winter losses.
Thirty plants per square foot
is ideal. That can be achieved by
seeding 2.5 bushels an acre, or
following this formula: Pounds
per acre = desired plant population/ft2 X 1,000 kernel wt. (in
grams)/seedling survival rate
(0.70) / 10.
Thousand kernel weight is
used as the average number of
seeds per pound varies. A seedling survival rate of 0.70 is used
to take into account germination and emergence, which is
similar to spring crops plus the
impact of winter survival.
While far mers might be
tempted to seed deeper to reach
moisture, Gross recommends
seeding one-half inch to 1.5
inches. As little as two-tenths of
an inch of rain can be enough
to trigger germination, he said.
Most farmers have the equipment to seed shallow, but to do
it, they need to reduce seeding
speed.
Winter wheat yields average
40 per cent more than spring
wheat so it needs 10 to 20 per
cent more nitrogen, Gross said.
To maximize yield potential the
nitrogen needs to be available
by the four- to five-leaf stage
early in the growing season. A
wet spring might delay that, so
Gross recommends applying
half the nitrogen in the fall.
Choose your class
Farmers have a number of
winter wheats to choose from.
Gross recommends one that’s
eligible for the Canada Western
Red Winter class — a class that
pays more because it’s aimed at
milling markets.
CDC Falcon, once Manitoba’s
most popular winter wheat,
has been moved to the Canada
Western General Purpose class
— a class created for fuel and
feed use.
M a n i t o b a f a r m e r s g re w
159,375 insured, (excluding
pedigreed seed and organic)
acres of winter wheat in 2015,
the Manitoba Agr icultural
Services Corporation (MASC)
reports. Flourish was the most
popular accounting for 55 per
cent or 87,656 of the commercial acres.
Emerson was almost as popular at 54 per cent. It’s the only
winter wheat rated “R” or resistant to fusarium head blight.
However, under heavy disease
pressure, Emerson can still be
infected.
Since Emerson is five inches
taller than CDC Falcon, Gross
says farmers in the Red River
Valley might want to consider
AAC Gateway because it’s
shorter.
However, Seed Manitoba rates
both as “Very Good” for lodging
resistance.
AAC Gateway is rated
“Intermediate” for fusarium
and “Fair” for winter hardiness
versus Emerson’s “R” rating for
fusarium and “Good” rating for
hardiness.
Farmers should consider winter wheat because it can yield
more than spring wheat, potentially generating more net revenue, Gross said. It’s also a way
to spread out a farmer’s work.
“That’s important as farms
get bigger,” he said. “It provides
some risk management and can
reduce the stress in a wet year
to have a crop already seeded.”
Winter wheat is also good
for waterfowl. It’s home to 24
times more nesting birds than
spring cereals because it provides protection from predators
about three weeks earlier in the
spring, Gross said.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
Maturity matters in desiccation timing
briefs
The Canola Council of Canada’s Spray to Swath calculator shows
just how long to wait after spraying a desiccant or other pre-harvest chemical
Argentine farmers
on strike
By JENNIFER BLAIR
Staff / Olds, Alta.
I
n desiccation — as in life —
success is usually defined
by maturity.
“Whatever product you’re
using, make sure you’re using it
when the majority of the plants
in the field is physiologically
mature,” said Harry Brook,
crop specialist with Alberta
Agriculture and Forestry.
“You get into problems when
they’re immature. It doesn’t
preserve your yield or your
value when you’re using it.”
Desiccants can help dr y
down the crop for an earlier
harvest, said Brook, who spoke
at the Making the Grade workshop in late July. Right now,
four products — Syngenta’s
Reglone, BASF’s Heat, Nufarm’s
Aim, and glyphosate — are
used as desiccants in Canada.
But desiccants don’t help
immature seeds to mature,
said Brook, so it’s important to
apply any desiccant when the
plant is already mature.
“Physiological maturity
occurs at basically less than 30
per cent moisture. That applies
for all cereals, peas, and canola,” he said.
In canola, the right stage is
when 60 to 75 per cent of the
seeds have changed colour.
Cereals are mature when “the
part just below the head of the
stem is yellow and dry,” he said.
At that point, producers
should be doing the ‘fingernail
test.’
“Try and force a crease down
it,” said Brook. “If you can see a
dent in the kernel and it stays
in the kernel after taking your
fingernail off, then it’s at 30 per
cent (moisture) or less.”
Pre - h a r v e s t i n t e r v a l s —
“meaning the time from when
you apply a product to the
time you cut it” — are equally
important, said Keith Gabert,
an agronomist with the Canola
Council of Canada.
And the best place to get
information on pre-harvest
inter vals in canola is the
Canola Council’s Spray to
Swath calculator, he said.
“If you’ve already sprayed
and you know what you’ve
sprayed, you can put that product in there and it will tell you
how many days you need to
wait,” said Gabert. The calculator (available at www.spraytoswath.ca) also allows producers to pick when they want to
swath, and will choose a product based on that timeline.
Following the right pre-harvest intervals and making sure
the crop is mature when it’s
sprayed will help keep any residues within acceptable levels
for export, said Brook.
“If you do it when it’s not
mature, that’s when you get the
chemical getting into the grain
itself, which affects the quality,” said Brook.
“Ultimately, that’s when we
start getting feedback from the
customers buying the stuff saying, ‘What’s with these maximum residue limits being too
high?’”
That’s why following the
product label is so important,
added Gabert.
“These pre-harvest intervals
are typically designed because
the companies have done the
“Whatever product
you’re using, make
sure you’re using it
when the majority of
the plants in the field
is physiologically
mature.”
Harry Brook
tests to show that your product
— the food that we sell somebody else — is now below the
maximum residue limits if you
wait the right number of days,”
said Gabert.
“It’s really critical that you
understand that and read and
follow label directions.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
Agricultural Hall of Fame
The Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame inducted eight new members
in July 2015. Here is one of the new inductees
T
he youngest of eight children, Roslyn Morris
Deveson was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, on
February 1, 1933. He was raised on a mixed
farm at Arden and attended Inkerman elementary
school. Following high school in Neepawa, Morris
attended the University of Manitoba from which he
graduated with a bachelor of science in agriculture
(B.S.A.) in 1956. In 1958, he married Joyce Adams,
with whom he raised three children: a daughter,
Arlie, who became a nurse like her mother, and two
sons, Grant and Ross, both of whom have B.S.A.s,
like their father, from the University of Manitoba.
Morris and Joyce have three granddaughters and one
grandson.
Morris’s involvement in 4-H as a youth was the
beginning of his life-long appreciation of the benefits
it offered rural young folks. He began his professional
career with the Manitoba Department of Agriculture
as an agricultural representative in Hamiota. He
moved on to become regional extension co-ordinator for western Manitoba in Brandon; assistant
director, Extension Service Branch; and then director,
Technical Services and Training and superintendent
of Agriculture Societies in Winnipeg. Under Morris’s
stewardship, 4-H in Manitoba and the role of agricultural fairs and societies reached a high point in the
province.
In 1974, Morris became chairman of the federalprovincial Agriculture Employment (Manpower)
Committee. He was designated a Friend of the
International Agricultural Exchange Association
in 1988 for his many years of service. Morris represented Manitoba agriculture on the Canadian
Agriculture Research Council for six years, 1986-92.
Believing that agriculture is both a physical and
a social science, Morris was committed to policies
and actions that actually improved rural life. His
ability to mentor and develop leadership while
building strong communities has been recognized
by his colleagues, farmers, and the committees with
whom he worked. Throughout his 37-year public
service career, Morris always had his feet on the
ground and his heart in the rural community. He
knew how farmers and rural folks thought and rec-
Central America
issues drought alert
The FAO says nearly one million are
struggling with hunger in Guatemala
San Salvador / Reuters
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Roslyn Morris Deveson
1933 -
ognized that what worked in theory didn’t always
work in practice.
Morris served his profession as president of the
Manitoba Institute of Agrologists, director of the
Agricultural Institute of Canada, and president of
the Canadian Society of Extension. He has chaired
the Farm Family of the Year Committee for the Red
River Exhibition Association since 1993, served as a
director on the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame,
and volunteered at the United Church, the Manitoba
Heart and Stroke Foundation, and Senior Slo-Pitch
Softball.
Morris Deveson has made, and continues to make,
a significant contribution to his chosen profession,
his community, his country and his family. He is a
fine example of the best of public service.
Nominated by Red River Exhibition Association – 2015
entral American and Caribbean governments on Aug.
20 issued an official alert as severe drought in the region
damages the crops of some 1.6 million people.
As part of the step, governments from the farming-dependent region pledged to help afflicted families and co-ordinate
international relief efforts to deal with the drought, the cost of
which is still being calculated.
“Agreement has been reached to declare an agricultural alert
across all of Central America and the Caribbean, not just to...
take preventive steps for what follows, but also raise international awareness and seek co-operation,” Orestes Ortez, El
Salvador’s agriculture minister, told reporters.
Officials from Central American governments and the
Dominican Republic took part in a meeting on the drought in
El Salvador.
Earlier the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said
nearly one million people in Guatemala alone are struggling to
feed themselves due to drought and poor harvests.
Central American coffee farmers have already been hit hard
by a deadly fungus known as roya in the past two seasons.
Defoliation from rust in a Brazilian coffee plantation. In addition to drought,
Central American coffee producers have been hit by the rust for the past two
years. Photo: Carlos Roberto Carvalho et al/Creative Commons
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
NEWs
Cutting hay with eight cylinders of JD power
Ontario neonic
fight goes to court
BY ALEX BINKLEY
Co-operator contributor / Ottawa
Jim Shepherd of Forrest and three friends took Shepherd’s collection of vintage John Deere two-cylinder tractors for a workout and home video parade Aug. 16,
beside Highway 10 north of Brandon. Shepherd is driving a 1942 Model H tractor with a seven-foot mower. Friends behind him were cutting hay with a 1952 Model
A, a 1954 Model 50 and a 1955 Model 50. Photo: John Dietz
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Grain Farmers of Ontario
has asked the Ontario
Superior Court of Justice
to grant a stay on the
implementation of the
province’s regulations to
restrict the use of neonicotinoid seed treatments.
The case will be heard
Sept. 28.
In June the Ontario government announced regulations designed to reduce
neonic use by 80 per cent
in two years in order to
reduce deaths of bees and
other pollinating insects.
“Our organization
firmly believes these regulations are not workable
and we are highly concerned about how they
will negatively impact the
future of grain farming in
this province,” GFO chairman Mark Brock said in
a statement. “There are
numerous areas of serious
concern for farmers and
the grain industry within
the regulations and we
believe it is critical that
the regulations be thoroughly reviewed by the
court.”
If the court provides a
stay against them, farmers
will be able to plant next
year under the same rules
followed this planting
season. Brock said GFO
is hoping a decision will
be reached prior to the
deadline for seed orders
for 2016.
At the same time, the
organization is advising
its members to attend
information sessions on
the regulations being held
across the province.
“The regulations are
law and farmers need to
educate themselves on
compliance.”
In seeking the court
hearing, Toronto lawyer Eric Gillespie said the
farm group would like
to see the regulations to
slash the use of the seed
treatment in corn, soybean and horticulture
production delayed until
next year.
It has also requested
the court to provide an
interpretation of the regulations issued by the
Ontario Environment
Ministry “that can be reasonably met.” As currently
written, they place farmers in an impossible situation, Gillespie said.
Health Canada may play
a role in the court case.
Earlier this year, it said
measures adopted to protect bees from neonic dust
during the planting season are working. It promised a full report this fall
on bee death reports.
From preliminary data,
it found “an 80 per cent
in-season bee mortality decrease for the 2015
corn- and soybean-planting season, compared to
2013. The 2014 season saw
a 70 per cent decline in
bee mortality.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | August 27, 2015
CROP REPORT
Average to above-average harvest yields in most areas
Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development crop report for August 24, 2015
Weekly Provincial Summary
Good harvest progress was
made in Manitoba throughout the week due to moderate
temperatures and dry conditions. To date, yields of winter and spring wheat, barley,
oats and canola are average to
above average. Good quality is
also noted.
However, a weather system
passed through several areas
of Manitoba over the weekend
that resulted in a wide range
of precipitation amounts and
strong winds, along with hail
in isolated areas.
Har vest operations are
halted and will resume once
weather and field conditions
allow.
The precipitation will benefit later-maturing crops, as
well as hayfields and pastures.
Southwest Region
Scattered showers in some
areas slowed harvest progress
through the week. Over the
weekend, rainfall amounts
ranged from 15 to 40 mm with
some areas reporting as high
as 75 mm.
The winter cereal harvest
is nearing completion with
generally average to slightly
a b ov e - a v e r a g e y i e l d s a n d
quality. Spring wheat and barley swathing and pre-harvest
a p p l i c a t i o n s a re o n g o i n g .
Early spring wheat and barley yields are above long-term
averages.
The earliest canola fields
are being swathed. Disease
levels in both early- and laterseeded canola continue to be
minimal. There are some dif-
ficulties in swathing due to
lodging.
Most field peas have been
desiccated or swathed with
a significant percentage harvested; yields are above longterm averages. Weed pressure
is high in some flax fields.
Corn and sunflowers are
doing well with no production issues currently noted.
Soybean growth and maturity
slowed over this past week
with maturities in the full R5
(seed set) to early R6 (podfilling) stage of development.
Some fields that have missed
recent thundershowers are
beginning to show symptoms
of moisture stress and premature dry-down.
Some areas in the region
have seen a start to secondcut alfalfa with yields average
to above average and variable
to good quality depending
upon rainfall. Greenfeed silage
is being harvested with average to above-average yields
reported. Pastures that were
overgrazed in spring remain in
poor condition due to reduced
regrowth.
Northwest Region
Thunderstorm activity
resulted in random rainshowers. Rainfall amounts ranged
from zero to over 25 mm. The
southern part of the Swan
Valley received hail.
Approximately 40 per cent of
the winter wheat crop and 20
per cent of the hard red wheat
c ro p h a s b e e n h a r ve s t e d .
Reported yields are extremely
variable and range from 20 to
70 bu./acre.
Approximately 90 per cent of
the canola crop is podded with
about 10 per cent mature.
R a i n ov e r t h e w e e k e n d
has halted haying and silage
operations. Second-cut harvest is seeing average yields
and native hay is also being
harvested. Some late-seeded
annual crops intended for
grain are being considered for
silage harvest or greenfeed.
The recent rainfall was welcome for pasture growth.
Central Region
Rainfall impacted the whole
region on the weekend with
precipitation amounts ranging from almost none along
t h e s o u t h - c e n t ra l p a r t o f
the region to as much as 85
m m o n t h e e a s t e r n s i d e.
Precipitation was welcome for
the later-maturing crops like
soybeans and corn, including
some acres that were showing
symptoms of moisture stress.
However, wet field conditions
in some areas will impact harvest operations.
Wheat harvest is reported
at 40 to 80 per cent complete
with the Red River Valley being
the most advanced. Harvest
of winter wheat and fall rye
is almost complete. Yields of
winter wheat are reported in
the 55 to 90 bu./acre range;
average is expected to be in
the 65 to 75 bu./acre range.
Quality is generally good,
but variability is noted due
to lodging. Red spring wheat
protein contents are ranging
from 12 to 15 per cent, while
general purpose/feed wheat
ranges from 11 to 13 per cent.
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Eastern Region
Thunderstorms resulted in
precipitation ranging from
25 mm to 178 mm, with the
most impacted areas north of
Caliento to Sandilands, east of
Vita and Beausejour. Oakbank,
Stead and Winnipeg Beach
areas also received hail.
Winter wheat harvesting is
90 per cent complete overall with most fields in central
and northern districts completed with an average yield
of 70 bu./acre and average
quality. Spring wheat harvest
is 50 per cent complete with
the greatest progress in central and northern districts and
an average yield of 60 bu./acre
with average quality. Thus far,
reported protein levels range
from 13 to 15 per cent and low
fusarium-damaged kernel levels. About 25 per cent of the
oat crop is harvested with an
average yield of 110 bu./acre
with average quality. About 10
per cent of the canola is harvested with an average yield
of 55 bu./acre with average
quality.
Pasture conditions are rated
at 80 per cent good, 10 per
cent fair and 10 per cent poor.
Hay supplies are rated at 20
per cent surplus and 80 per
cent adequate. Straw, greenfeed and feed grain supplies
are all rated as adequate.
Availability of livestock water
is also adequate.
Interlake Region
During Friday evening and
Sa t u rd a y m o r n i n g , h e a v y
rainfall occurred. Rainfall
amounts varied throughout
the Interlake Region, ranging
from 15 to 80 mm; Eriksdale,
Selkirk and Teulon received
50 to 80 mm of rainfall during the weekend. Pea-sized
hail was also reported in the
Teulon area; shatter ing in
canola occurred as a result.
For areas that received heavy
rainfall, field travel will be
impacted and will slow down
the progress of harvest.
Ha r v e s t i s e s t i m a t e d a t
10 to 15 per cent complete.
Harvesting of spring cereals
and canola fields occurred
during week. Reports of
spring wheat yields ranging
from 50 to 75 bu./acre with
protein levels around 14.0 per
cent. Oat yields range from
100 to 115 bu./acre. Canola
yields range from 35 to 40
bu./acre.
Harvesting of most forage
grass seed fields is complete.
Soybeans are in the R6 growth
stage, corn is in the blister (R2)
stage and sunflowers in the R6
to R7 stage.
Cooler temperatures and
scattered showers brought a
reprieve from the grasshopper pressure in pastures and
weevil damage in hayfields.
Pastures are holding out fairly
well. Greenfeed and silage harvest is in full swing with average yields.
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accordance with ETS Product Launch Stewardship Guidance, and in compliance with Monsanto’s Policy for Commercialization
of Biotechnology-Derived Plant Products in Commodity Crops. Commercialized products have been approved for import into key
export markets with functioning regulatory systems. Any crop or material produced from this product can only be exported to,
or used, processed or sold in countries where all necessary regulatory approvals have been granted. It is a violation of national
and international law to move material containing biotech traits across boundaries into nations where import is not permitted.
Growers should talk to their grain handler or product purchaser to confirm their buying position for this product. Excellence
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ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW PESTICIDE LABEL DIRECTIONS. Roundup Ready® crops contain genes that confer tolerance
to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup® brand agricultural herbicides. Roundup® brand agricultural herbicides will
kill crops that are not tolerant to glyphosate. Acceleron® seed treatment technology for canola contains the active ingredients
difenoconazole, metalaxyl (M and S isomers), fludioxonil and thiamethoxam. Acceleron® seed treatment technology for
canola plus Vibrance® is a combination of two separate individually-registered products, which together contain the active
ingredients difenoconazole, metalaxyl (M and S isomers), fludioxonil, thiamethoxam, and sedaxane. Acceleron® seed treatment
technology for corn (fungicides and insecticide) is a combination of four separate individually-registered products, which
together contain the active ingredients metalaxyl, trifloxystrobin, ipconazole, and clothianidin. Acceleron® seed treatment
technology for corn (fungicides only) is a combination of three separate individually-registered products, which together contain
the active ingredients metalaxyl, trifloxystrobin and ipconazole. Acceleron® seed treatment technology for corn with Poncho®/
VoTivo™ (fungicides, insecticide and nematicide) is a combination of five separate individually-registered products, which
together contain the active ingredients metalaxyl, trifloxystrobin, ipconazole, clothianidin and Bacillus firmus strain I-1582.
Acceleron® seed treatment technology for soybeans (fungicides and insecticide) is a combination of four separate individually
registered products, which together contain the active ingredients fluxapyroxad, pyraclostrobin, metalaxyl and imidacloprid.
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registered trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC, Used under license. Vibrance® and Fortenza® are registered trademarks of
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on the escarpment are just
being swathed as a result of
late-spring frost and reseeding. Early yield reports are
variable, with the best-looking
fields yielding 40 to 50 bu./
acre, while fields that struggled are as low as 30 bu./acre.
Sunflowers are still flowering; monitor ing continues
for insects. Sunflower beetle
numbers are low, while lygus
bug numbers are at threshold levels or higher, and most
fields are sprayed. Reports
of soybean aphids have not
increased, and most fields are
well below threshold level.
Edible beans are starting to
turn.
Some fields have been cultivated, following harvest.
Second-cut hay harvest is
mostly complete. Pastures are
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SHOP & HOUSEHOLD AUCTION for Bill & Mary
Reimer Sep 26, 11AM at Plumas. Directions: 8-mi
W of Plumas on Pr. Rd#265 or 11-mi E of HWY #5
on Pr. Rd#265. TRUCKS: 1998 GMC 1500 SLE,
6.5-dsl, 4x4, crew cab, stereo, power locks, power
windows, box liner, new tires, 384000-km; 2006
Chevy 1/2 ton, 8-cyl gas engine, crew cab, CD
player, stereo, power locks, power windows, good
tires, 87569-mi; CONCRETE FORMS AND
TOOLS: 2x8 concrete wall forms new; large variety
of used concrete forms including corners; metal
round bin pad forms 8” to 30” in height; snap ties;
wailer bars; Hilti DD 200 diamond drilling rig; Hilti
DX 450 Ramset; variety of rebar; trowels; concrete
anchors; safety poles; SHOP TOOLS: Lincoln power mig welder 255c (less tank); 20 metal cutting
band saw; welding table w/vice; anvil w/cart; drill
press; bench grinder; air impact 1” drive w/hose & 2
sockets; variety of chains; tire bead breaking hammer; router, planer, sander; bolts & nuts w/cabinet;
lower tool box; 18v DeWalt impact; fuel hose and
nozzle; 200-gal. fuel tank w/electric pump; steel
rack w/steel; parts washer; 21 pc 1” drive socket
set; many more tools; LAWN AND GARDEN: 314
JD garden tractor w/tiller; STX 46 JD
Garden
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w/mower; garden tools; BBQ wood or coal; 2-45
gal. plastic barrels; coolers; back pack sprayer; picnic table; 2 story play house w/slide; MISC: Monarch water pump (new); spraying control system;
painting supplies; RV supplies; grain hopper; PTO
water pump; HOUSEHOLD: Oak table w/6 chairs;
china cabinet; sofa & love seat; sectional; 2-recliners; 2-wooden rocking chairs; 2-floor lamps; table
lamps; upright piano and bench; 12-ft shuffle table;
filing cabinet; fax machine; 3-office desks; toys;
books; much, much more! Pennwest Auctions Peter
Penner Austin, MB, CA Ph:(204)385-2970. Owner
(204)637-2211. See list w/pictures on Global Auction Guide. [email protected]
Paterson Grain
Crop Inputs
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
AUCTION SALE
Estate of Rose Dudar
Saturday, August 29 @ 10:00 am
Fraserwood, MB
Jct Hwy #7 & #231. Go West 4 miles then
South 2 miles then 1 mile West on Dudar Rd.
Contact: Tom (204) 299-9045 or Kathy (204) 275-5008
Tractors & Crawler: Ford 7710 Cab MFWA 3PH 540/1000 Triple Hyd w Leon 690 FEL 7531
Hrs. - Needs Engine Repair * Deutz D7206 Cab 540 PTO Dual Hyd. w Leon 690 FEL 7250 Hrs. *
JD 4020 Dsl Cab 540/1000 Hyd 6584 Hrs. * EEZ On FEl w JD 4020 Mts. * JD 1010 Gas Crawler
w FEL Hyd. 540 PTO - New Undercarriage * JD Mt Row Crop 2PT Hitch Pulley * Case 630 Hyd.
* Case 430 Hyd * Case DC 4 w FEL * FEL Manure Forks * FEL Bale Forks Equip: Hutchmaster
8’ Offset Disc * Scultz Rock Picker * 48’ Tandem High Boy Flat Deck w Pipe Hay Railing * Semi
Dolly Converter * Sitrex 9 Wheel Rake * JD 450 Trailer 9’ Sickle Mower * Wrowse 30’ Hyd. Dump
Rake * NH 56 Side Del Rake * NH 851 Rd Baler * JD #5 Semi Mt 7’Sickle Mower * Farmhand
Stack Mover * 120 Bushel Hopper Wagon Building: Sheet Metal Pole Structure 32’ x 56’ x 16’
H Shop w Double Slide Door & Man Door ($8000.00 reserve Bid ) To Be Moved Heavy Trucks &
Vehicles: 80 Mack Semi * 77 Chev C 50 w 15’ B & H * 87 GMC 4 x 4 1/2 Ton * 78 Chev 2500
* 75 Ford 1 Ton Dually w 11’ Deck & Hoist Livestock Equip & Misc: Farm King PTO Roller Mill
on Transport * Port Squeeze Chute w Scale * Port Creep Feeder w Panels * 5) Rd Bale Feeders
* 16) Corral Panels * Gates * 10 ‘ Metal Bunk Feeders * Stock Doctor * Electric Fencers * Com.
Meat Grinder * 300 LB Hanging Scale * 1200 Gal Poly Tank * Cement Mixer * Wood Heater * New
5th Wheel Hitch * Fuel Tanks & Stand * Lumber * Farm Misc * Implement Parts Recreation &
Yard: 88 Ford 24’ Triple E Motorhome Dash AC * Al 16 1/2 ‘ Boat, Merc 200 Outboard & Trailer
* MTD 13 HP R Mower * Turf 7 HP 30” R Mower * 6) Rolls Snow Fence * Leg Traps * Fishing &
Camping Items Tools: Lincoln 225 Welder * Air Comp * Drill Press * Table Saws * Chain Saw *
Power Tools * Shop Supply Antiques: JD Van Brunt 20 Run Seeder * Rumbly Threshing Machine
* Horse Dump Rakes * Int 2 B Plow * Cream Separator * Anvil * Gramophones * Table * Wood
Washer * Trunks * Crock * Torche Lamp * Pedal Bikes Household: Woodheater * Pool Table *
Furniture * Various Household *
Stuart McSherry (204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com
(204) 532-2121
www.dseriescanola.ca
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
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AUCTION SALES
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PRICE TO CLEAR!!
75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard
100,000PSI high tensile roofing &
siding. 16 colours to choose from.
Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft.2
Binscarth, MB
GOT PARTS?
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Roofing
B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2
218 Brandt Street Steinbach, MB Ph: 204.326.3061 Fax: 204.326.7529
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AUCTION SALES
Pony Massey tractor; 56 IHC truck 3-Ton; 12-ft
Auctions Various
deep tiller; 20-ft. flatdeck gooseneck trailer; 12-ft.
press drill; IHC baler, for scrap; 2 cyl Miller Welder;
gooseneck camper trailer. (204)855-2212
Hobby Farm Auction September 19th & 20th 2015.
Will be the First annual Hobby Farm Auction Held in
Portage La Prairie, MB. This Auction is For anyone to
come buy or sell animals, whether you only have a
couple animals in the back yard, or a couple hundred. (204)872-2850, (204)981-9738
AUCTION SALES
[email protected]
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Doors & Windows
FARM RETIREMENT AUCTION
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19th 10:00 AM
Partial List:
Riverton
Eriksdale
McCreary
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Doors & Windows
UPCOMING AUCTIONS
Fisher Branch
Ste. Rose du Lac
Russell
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
For Malcolm & Elizabeth Hunter
Location: From Steinbach, Manitoba, 10 miles South on
Hwy #12 then 1/2 mile West on Road 25N
Swan River
Roblin
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
BUSINESS SERVICES
Crop Consulting
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COMPLAINTS
We also specialize in: agricultural complaints
of any nature; Crop ins. appeals; Spray drift;
Chemical failure; Residual herbicide;
Custom operator issues; Equip. malfunctions.
Licensed Agrologist on Staff.
For assistance and compensation call
Back-Track InvesTIgaTIons
CLASSIFIEDS WORK
1-866-882-4779. www.backtrackcanada.com
1-800-782-0794
CLOTHING
Work Wear
LARGE FARM ESTATE AUCTION
Saturday, September 5th, 2015 – 11:00am
Directions: From Humbolt, MN - 3 ½ West on Cty. 6; From Pembina, ND - take Hwy. 59 East 3 miles to Jct.
Hwy. 75, turn right on Hwy. 75 and go ¼ mile, then turn right on Cty. 12 and go 3 miles South and 1 mile East
Owners: Brad Cosley Estate – Dick Cosley, 701-825-6389 or 701-520-3067
Auctioneer’s Note: Brad passed away young and unexpectedly. He was super meticulous in all his
endeavors. Tough to find a cleaner estate than this one. Don’t miss it! (Partial list - for complete
list visit our website)
VEHICLES, TRAILERS, GRAIN TRUCK: *2008 Black GMC 1500
4wd pickup, sunroof, custom leather, 68,400 miles *2001 Chevy 2500
4wd pickup, topper, 224,000 miles *2001 Chevy Tahoe 4wd, 4 door,
leather, 167,650 miles *1998 Dodge 4wd 1500 pickup, 125,000 miles
*1994 Dodge 4wd pickup, 207,230 miles *1979 GMC High Sierra ¾
ton service pickup, runs strong, fully equipped *2014 8.5x20 Fabrique
vision axle enclosed trailer, made into living quarters for ice fishing
*2013 Mirage 6x14 enclosed trailer *Master Built tandem axle factory
built flatbed trailer *Ford tandem twin screw grain truck TRACTORS,
MOWERS & OTHERS BIGGER EQUIPMENT: *Kubota model B-7800
tractor w/ loader, MFD, 3 pt. diesel, 1075hrs *IHC A w/ belly mower,
runs *605 H Vermeer round baler *(2) Husqvarna riding lawn tractors,
25 hp, LGT 2554 and YTH 20K 46, 166 hrs *Buhler/ Farm King 3pt
P.T.O. snow blower *(4) fuel tanks w/ Gasboy pumps, 500-1000
CAMPER: *1998 33’ Cardinal 5th wheel camper, 2 slide outs, ready
to go SNOWMOBILES (SOME VINTAGE): *2000 Arctic Cat Bearcat
440 long track, mint cond., 550 miles *1996 Polaris Indy liquid cooled
440 snowmobile, mint cond., 4,600 miles *(2) Vintage Arctic Cats,
297 Panthers, complete, must see *(2) Polaris Colt snowmobiles,
vintage, must see *Vintage Arctic Cat 292, super clean, must see
*Arctic Cat Jag vintage racer *Polaris TX 340 vintage racer FOUR
WHEELERS: *2007 Polaris Sportsman 800 4wd four wheeler, loaded,
like new *1995 Polaris 4wd 350 four wheeler, nice shape, has racks
*Polaris 4wd 300 for wheeler, good, has racks FISHING EQUIPMENT & RECREATION: *18’ Crestliner
fishing boat w/ 70hp Evinrude outboard motor and trailer AUGERS, BINS, BLOWER SYSTEM & GRAIN
CLEANING PLANT: *Lorrich hopper bin, estimate 2000 bushel *Lorrich hopper bin on tall legs for seed
*(2) matching Lorrich hopper bins, both have takeout augers, estimate 1500-2000 Bu *Complete seed
cleaning plant equipment, could sell all together with building or sell separate TOOLS & GENERATORS
www.midwestauctions.com/dakota OR www.globalauctionguide.com
Dakota Auctioneers, Larry Swenson, owner/ operator Lic. 508, 525 Main St., Cando ND 58324
701-968-4224 Office or 701-303-0379 Cell
SEWING ALTERATIONS, ZIPPERS REPLACED,
upholstery for furniture, boats & automobiles.
Phone (204)727-2694
CONTRACTING
CONTRACTING
Custom Harvesting
CUSTOM COMBINING: 460 CAT, W PU, $150/hr;
30-ft flex-head, $18/hr; 6 row allcrop header 30-in
spacing, $22/hr. Carman MB & surrounding areas.
Mike Maddison (204)750-1030.
Available at:
Gilbert Plains
Consumers
Cooperative Ltd.
Gilbert Plains, MB
(204) 548-2099
www.dseriescanola.ca
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FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
COMBINES
Massey Ferguson
NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS
NEW COMBINE PARTS
1988 MF COMBINE 8560 25-ft. JD flex header 5.9
Cummins, new PU belts, hyd driven rotor chopper.
Phone (204)239-7758 or (204)872-1713.
COMBINES
White
Large Inventory of
new and remanufactured parts
Available at:
Baldur Agro
Baldur, MB
(204) 535-2598
www.dseriescanola.ca
Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727
Fax (204) 326-5878
Web site: farmparts.ca
E-mail: [email protected]
PRICES REDUCED UP TO 50% sawmill 4 skidders
grapple & line, Clark, Timberjack, JD, many parted
out; Case 125B Delimber; IH 3986 Feller Buncher;
Trailers for moving tree length trees; Case 1085B
w/wristotwist bucket; JD 892D excavator; Pioneer
crusher; Cat 70 & 463 sprayers cable; Over 20
graders, complete running & parting out, champion,
Cat, JD, A/C, several dump boxes; Over 100 pallet
forks, new & used up to 8-ft. long; Over 500 loader
& back-hoe buckers; Over 900 new & used track
rollers in stock; Over 900 new & used tires, mostly
industrial sizes; PWR units 7 light plants from 3-5 to
193KW; 4 all terrain cranes 10 to 20-Ton up to 40ft. reach; JLG 80-ft. man lift, many scissors lifts up
to 52-ft.; Over 30 forklifts, complete running & parting out many different make & models, skidsteer attachments; Pulp clams & grapples; 2, cub cadet
4WD tractors, Gas DSL, 3-ph, PTO; several 2WD
farm tractors, Case, JD, Co-op, MF, IH 484 tractor
w/loader, cab, DSL; Bobcat 743 skidsteer 4WD
loaders & dozers; Cat 966C hilift w/clam; Volvo
L320 9-yd; Bobcat 2000 4WD loader; Clark 45B
Cummins DSL; 2 Ford A62 loaders; 4 Cat D2
Crawlers; Cat D6B 44A front & rear dozers; Fiat Allis FL-9 crawler loader; Cat 950 loader 31K series;
Cat D6D crawler work ready; Cat D5 crawler w/dozer & winch; Cat D8H 25000 s/n hyd tilt, dozer,
canopy; Cat D8H 46A high horse, straight dozer;
Cat D7-3T series w/hyd dozer; Cat D6-9U crawler;
2 Cat 955-K crawler loaders; Cat D4-7U. Hundreds
of misc machines & attachment. 2 yards over
50-acres. New parts- Big Discounts. Central Canada’s Largest Wreckers of older construction equip.
Cambrian Equip Sales Ltd (204)667-2867 or fax
(204)667-2932
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Augers
HARVEST INTL GRAIN AUGERS New 13-82 Auger w/Flex Hopper, 540 PTO, scissor lift, HD Auger
$19,500; New 13-82 Auger w/Flex Hopper w/Hyd
Winch, Hyd Mover, 540 PTO $23,500. Reimer
Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB.
www.reimerfarmequipment.com
Gary
Reimer
(204)326-7000.
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
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Vacuums
CURT’S GRAIN VAC SERVICES, parts & repair for
all makes & models. Craik SK, (306)734-2228.
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528
or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.
MURPHY SALVAGE New & used parts for tractors,
combines, swathers, square & round balers, tillage,
press drills & other misc machinery. MURPHY SALVAGE (204)858-2727 or toll free 1-877-858-2728.
FYFE PARTS
1-800-667-9871 •• Regina
1-800-667-9871
Regina
1-800-667-3095 •• Saskatoon
1-800-667-3095
Saskatoon
1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg
1-800-667-3095
•
Manitoba
1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton
“For All Your Farm Parts”
www.fyfeparts.com
The Real Used FaRm PaRTs
sUPeRsToRe
Over 2700 Units for Salvage
• TRACTORS • COMBINES
• SWATHERS • DISCERS
Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN
(306) 946-2222
monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
WATROUS SALVAGE
WaTRoUs, sK.
Fax: 306-946-2444
good condition, big rubber, asking $3,000;
1984 400 20-ft Versatile swather, good condition,
asking $1,400; 1983 400 20-ft Versatile swather,
double swath, asking $900 OBO; Haullin 53-ft extendable rafter trailer, all hydraulic, asking $3,500.
(204)728-1861.
Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519
COMBINES
Accessories
AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING
IH 18-FT PULL TYPE swather; Case Model 725,
25-ft pull type swather, premium condition, shedded; Swath roller, 8-ft. Phone:(204)776-2249.
HAYING & HARVESTING
Various
MATADOR SWATH TURNER $3,200; 24-ft. Vers
PT swather $650. (204)770-0040
bales.
Phone
HYLINE 1400 BALE PICKER, carrys 14 5x6 round
bales, field ready, asking $17,000 OBO. Phone
(204)425-3884
Tillage & Seeding
WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Seeding Various
42-FT. CASE IH 7200 hoe drill, $3,000 OBO;
(204)745-7445.
TracTors
TRACTORS
Case/IH
Combines
COMBINES
Case/IH
TRACTORS
Ford
8670 FORD TRACTOR FWA, approx 4,500-hrs,
sure grip TD8 rice tires almost new, FEL 9-ft. bucket, $65,000 OBO. Phone (204)268-4591
TRACTORS
John Deere
3020 JD, GOOD CONDITION, quick detaching
loader, bucket & bale forks, newer rear tires, new
starter, rebuilt rad, 3-PTH, asking $9,000; 4030 JD,
VGC, cab, heat & a/c, 3-PTH, recently rebuilt motor, 7000-hrs, $18,500. (204)755-2924
Available at:
Shur-Gro
Farm Services Ltd.
Shoal Lake, MB
(204) 759-4240
JD 4630 FACTORY DUALS PTO, air, original
seats, showing 4,361-hrs, $18,500; JD 2840 factory
3-pt. dual PTO, very nice, $12,500. Phone
(204)746-2016, Morris, MB.
TRACTORS
Versatile
875 VERS. W/ATOM JET & good tires. Nice shape.
Ph:(204)325-2416.
TRACTORS
2-Wheel Drive
www.dseriescanola.ca
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.
1986 CASE-IH COMBINE 1680, chaff spreader,
rice tires, excellent condition, $25,000 OBO;
Phone:(204)824-2196 or (204)573-6723.
TRACTORS
Various
1991 1680 COMBINE, 3346-HRS, rock trap, straw
chopper, bin extensions, 4-wheel drive, always
shedded, asking $28,000. (204)364-2398
WESTFIELD GRAIN AUGER TR100-71 c/w swing
auger, good condition, $2,000; Packer bar 26-ft. plus
2, 6-ft. packers, $750; Farm King diamond har-rows 17
sections, $500; Herman tine harrows 50-ft., $750. Jim
Abbott (204)745-3884 or (204)750-1157, Carman.
HAYING & HARVESTING
HAYING & HARVESTING
Baling Equipment
2004 CIH RBX562 ROUND baler, hyd PU, gauge
wheels, mega wide PU, bale command, always
shedded, field ready, 8,000 bales, $12,500 OBO.
(204)733-2446
FOR SALE: JD 567 round baler, 2004, 1 owner,
megawide PU, kicker, shedded, excellent condition,
asking $17,000 OBO. Call (204)535-2593, Baldur.
Ford/New Holland
1992 TX 36 COMBINE, 3,320 engine hours. Has
been used this fall. $10,000. Phone:(204)364-2422.
Arborg, MB.
1999 TX68 2,500 SEP $25,600, like new; 1997
TX68 2,300-hrs, $28,500, excellent condition. Nate
Golas (204)280-1202 or (204)372-6056.
FOR SALE: TX66 1995 shedded 1905T, 2503E,
newer concave, rub bars, feeder chain, elevator
chain, chopper knives, PU belts, excellent condition, field ready, asking $30,000 OBO. Phone
(204)535-2593, Baldur.
COMBINES
Gleaner
WANTED: L3 GLEANER COMBINE. Good condition. NH 1475 haybine. Phone: (306) 876-4707.
COMBINES
John Deere
1986 JD 7720 TITAN 2 combine, good shape, field
ready, chaff spreader, 2-spd cylinder, $14,000.
Phone (204)568-4604
FOR SALE 9600 JOHN deere combine. Mint condition. Last yr-new straw chopper, seives, rear tires,
new engine radiator, new fan pulleyes, repainted,
always shedded. $55,000 OBO. Ph:Murray@Somerset (204)744-2534
Big Tractor Parts,
Inc.
MB. Livestock Dealer #1111
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
3 YEARLING BLACK ANGUS bulls, $2,900 each,
Sire still on farm, Lorette area. Call Bill
(204)770-4706.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
FOR SALE: 50 COWS Red Angus X Simm, bred
Black Simm. Fall Delivery. Richard (204)773-2824.
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
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. Service & repair on all
makes/models. Carl Driedger, (204)556-2346 or
(204)851-0145, Virden.
AN ASSORTMENT OF CREEP feeders & self
feeders on wheels & skids. All Cypress Industries.
(204)325-2416.
FOR SALE: SCALECO ELECTRIC cattle scale
w/10,000-lb 8x10-ft pen. 22-ft heavy duty cattle
loading chute w/spring door & catwalk. Phone
(204)759-2220
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.
12V. or Hydraulic
Electronic Scale Opt.
Geared For
The Future
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.
1 877 695 2532
www.ezefeeder.ca
MUSICAL
GIVE YOUR CHILD THE music you missed. Guitar,
violin, piano, keyboard, band instruments, drums.
Hildebrand Music, Portage La Prairie Mall.
(204)857-3172.
NOTICES
1-800-982-1769
www.bigtractorparts.com
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
The Icynene Insulation
System®
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
COMBINES
Massey Ferguson
1983 850 MF COMBINE, 354 Perkins engine, Melroe PU, has new sieves, hopper bottom. Phone
(204)242-4411
For on farm appraisal of livestock
or for marketing information please call
Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250
Auction Mart (204) 434-6519
STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALIST
ROTARY MOWERS WOODS 7-FT. PT, $3,000;
15-ft., $6,000; JD 15-ft., $6,000; 20-ft., $11,000; NH
9-ft. sickle mower, $20200; JD 450, $2,000; IH 7-ft.,
$850; 6-ft. Finishing mower, $1,000; Hay conditioners $200 & up; Manure spreaders, JD 785,
$11,000; Gehl 1410, $8,000; H&S 400-bu. $2,500;
V Pitchers, $1,500 & up; NH 216 hyd rake, $7,500;
Vermeer hyd rake, $7,500; Gehl 2270 haybine,
$3,500; NH 116, $3,000. (204)857-8403
every TUESDAY at 9 am
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
[email protected] www.arcfab.ca
GRAIN CARTS LARGE SELECTION
used carts
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Brent 610, 672, 674, 770, 772, 774, 874, 974 Uniw/gauge reels, 2 section pick-up reel, $30,000.
verferth 7000, 8000, 9250; VFT 750, 760 hyd dr.
Ph:(204)871-0925. Macgregor, MB.
Fickln 650-bu. $13,500; Grain Vacs REM 1026,
44,500; Brand $4,000-8,000; REM 2500 HD,
COMBINE FOR SALE, INTERNATIONAL 1460.
$9,500; Westfield 10x70 auger, $2,000; 8x46
3447 hrs, pick up head, good working condition.
Scoop-a-Second $1,000; JD 510 Baler, $1,500; JD
$6,500. Ph: (204)828-3648. No sun calls please.
535, $5,000; JD 336, $3,000; Sudenga Weigh Wagon, $3,500. (204)857-8403.
COMBINES
IHC TRUCK CHASSIS, GOOD tires, ideal for bale
trailer; IH W6 good for restoration or parts. Phone
(204)735-2567
REGULAR
CATTLE SALES
Tack and Horse Sale
2096 CASE TRACTOR, new tires, good condition,
$15,000 OBO; Vers swather good condition 20-ft.,
$600 OBO; 1983 Cadillac DSL 2 door, VGC, taking
offers. Jack Pawich (204)827-2162, Glenboro.
CASE 621 LOADER 8-FT. bucket; 1981 GMC 17ft. B&H; Ford Major loader 3-PTH, $6,500; 25-ft. UII
reel; 16-ft. OMC boat & 60-HP motor trailer, $2,500;
18-ft. 1,800-gal vac tank & pump; 1981 Ford gravel
truck tandem gas, $7,500; MF 860 PU & straight
cut $5,500; 1999 GMC T8500 DSL tow truck 20-ft.
$14,500. (306)236-8023
GRAVITY WAGONS NEW 400-BU, $7400; 600-bu,
$12,500; 750-bu, $18,250, Tarps Avail. Large selection of used wagons, $2,000 & Up; 550-bu. year
round $5,500; Parker 500-bu., $6,000; Parker 450bu., $5,000; Discs Krause 30-ft. Rock Cushion,
$9,500; Wishek 30-ft. 742, $32,000; Fertilizer
Spreaders 4-8 Ton, $3,000 & Up; Valmar 1620,
$2,500; 3255, $3,500. (204)857-8403
GRUNTHAL, MB.
Saturday, September 12th at 10 am
1998 8820 CASE 25-FT. double swath, 4 cyl DSL.
Phone (204)239-7758 or (204)872-1713
39-FT CIL 203 DEEP tiller, 12-in spacing, 3-row
harrows, new shovels, in excellent shape. No reasonable offer refused. (204)795-0626.
FOR SALE: IH 7-FT. sickle mower w/hyd lift & cyl,
good shape, $750. Phone (204)633-3205, Wpg
FOR SALE: 1981 JD PT combine in good running
condition PU & hopper cover, always shedded,
VGC, asking $3,000. (204)836-2206
Sheep and Goat with
Small Animals & Holstein Calves
JD 635 35-FT FLEX-HEAD, serial #7121676, new
knives & guards last fall, header in excellent condition, ready to go, asking $14,900. (204)325-2496,
Morris area.
FOR SALE: 1978 VERS 400 swather 18-ft. w/universal PU reel, done smaller acreage, equipped
w/canola cutter, Ford engine, good condition, always shedded, asking $1,000. (204)836-2206
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
Monday, August 31st at Noon
1998 1680 CASE IH combine, 2,525-hrs, always
shedded; 3000 Westward swather, 25-ft, PTO, always shedded; 8-ft swather roller for sale. Kelwood,
MB. Phone:(204)967-2277.
FORAGE HARVESTER NH 890, $2,500; IH 761,
$2,500; JD 3970, $6,000; Hi-Dumps Jiffy, $3,000;
Richardton 14-ft., Richardton 750, $17,500; Rex
tandem forage wagon, $3,000; Flex heads JD 924,
925, 930; Case IH 1020 25-30-ft. 820 20-ft. Rigid
Case IH 25-30-ft., $2,500 Up; JD 930 $2,500; Degelman 14-ft. Rock Rake, $9,000; 570 Rock pickers, $2,500 Up; Big Mac Prong Picker, $4,000.
(204)857-8403
8900 WHITE COMBINE SHEDDED since new, not
used last 8 yrs, melroe pick-up & straight cut header. Very good condition. PH:(204) 886-2247. Teulon, MB
HAYING & HARVESTING
Swathers
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(204)239-7758 or (204)872-1713
DISCS WISHEK 14-FT., 16-FT. 30-ft. Sunflower
30-ft. Rock cushion, $20,000; Breaking discs Kewanee 15-16-ft., Towner 18-in. JD 12-ft., $4,500;
Hesston 40-ft. #2410 disc Rippers DMI 5 shank,
$8,900; 7 Shank $10,900; Row Crop cultivators
4-12P JD 535 baler, $5,000; JD 336 Baler grain
screeners, dual stage rotary, $200 up; Kwik Kleen 5
tube, $5,000; 7 tube, $6,500; Used fertilizer spreaders 4-8Ton. (204)857-8403
LIVESTOCK
September 1st, 8th,
15th, 22nd & 29th
1994 WESTWARD PT swather c/w MacDon PU
reel, excellent canvasses & knife, always shedded,
$4,500; 1991 WESTFIELD grain auger 60-ft.x8-in.
c/w swing hopper, good condition, $2,000; 1999
REM grain vac, Model 1826B, excellent condition,
always shedded, $5,000. (204)537-2455
875 VERS tractor; 40-FT Bourgault cultivator; 22-ft
Bourgault cultivator both w/anhydrous hitch; 22-ft
JD cultivator; Swath roller; JD 21-ft 2320 swather;
21-ft CCIL swather; JD 7700 combine, 1950-hrs,
shedded; 1975 Chev & 1977 Int. 3-tonne; 10x61
Westfield auger in new condition; 8x51 Westfield
auger; 7x41 Westfield; 7x51 Sakundiak; 63-ft Harrow packer bar, Rite-Way w/new tines; 56 Morris
w/new tines; 4) 30-ft 6-bar standing panels; 2 Elk
fences, 1 standing. (204)546-2562.
1980, 5542 WHITE COMBINE, in excellent condition.
Asking $6,700. Phone (204)848-2254, Ona-nole MB.
JD PICKUP PLATFORMS 2 JD 212-6 Belt; 2 JD
214-7 Belt. Call for pricing. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer
(204)326-7000. www.reimerfarmequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
WILL DO CUSTOM HARVESTING: Peas, cereals,
canola, & soybeans. Flex heads, straight heads &
PU headers. Professional operation fully insured.
Phone:(204)391-5491 or (204)371-9435.
6 QUICK ATTACH EXCAVATOR buckets, some
trenching & clean-up buckets, plus 6 excavator rippers, some Cat’s & WBM’s. (204)871-0925, MacGregor MB.
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.
COMBINES
Combines - Various
STEINBACH, MB.
Ph. 326-2443
1981 GMC 7000 SERIES, factory, 17-ft B&H,
10X20 70% A1, $8,000; 1980 Chev 1/2 tonne flatdeck, winch, duals, $3,500; 1978 GMC 6000 series,
factory 15-ft steel B&H, original 38,000-km,
$12,000; 1988 Chev 20-ft factory flat-deck, 10X20,
75%, $3,500; 410 MF combine, PU, all good,
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
$1,050; Vac tank 1800-gal. & pump A1 $10,000;
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4:03 power
PM parachute for parts, $3,000; 21-ft
Rotex SR7
Hart Carter PU reel, A1, $1,100; 25-ft U2 PU reel,
2003 HIAB MODEL# XS122B-2CL picker, VGC,
A1, $4,000. Ph (306)238-4411.
$12,000 OBO; Magnum headache rack w/Canstar
storage boxes, $1200 OBO. Ph (204)745-7445.
1984 4400 22-FT VERSATILE swather w/cab,
IRON & STEEL
Available at:
Strathclair
Consumers Co-op
Strathclair, MB
(204) 365-2491
www.penta.ca
1-800-587-4711
www.dseriescanola.ca
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W; NE 07-25-12 W to Wayne Taylor and Cory
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U.S. producers go hog wild —
and pork prices plunge
Hog futures have plunged by nearly half in the past year, and the price drop isn’t over yet
By Karl Plume
and Theopolis Waters
Reuters / Chicago
T
wo years after a devastating
swine virus killed nearly 10
per cent of U.S. hogs, farmers
who built up herds to compensate
are faced with a sober realization:
they’ve produced too much bacon.
The aggressive ramp-up in hog
production after the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) outbreak in 2013, which brought record
profits for those whose pigs survived, has now created the greatest
U.S. hog price collapse since the late
1990s. That was when overproduction sent prices plunging 75 per cent
to 50-year lows.
Benchmark lean hog futures prices
on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
have dropped 42 per cent from their
July 2014 record high of $133 per
hundredweight (cwt).
And as herds continue to grow,
and the strong dollar and competition from Canada and Europe blunt
export demand, hog farmers are
probably facing even lower prices in
the months ahead, with Decemberdelivery futures trading about 20 per
cent below current prices. The hog
glut spells more trouble for a U.S.
farm economy already struggling
with the lowest grain prices in five
years.
La Mars, Iowa-based Tentinger
Farms, which sells hogs to Tyson
Foods, expanded its herd by about
20 per cent to cash in on high hog
prices and cheap feed costs, but
record returns have eroded.
“Things are not real rosy out here.
We’re spending a lot of money and
touching a lot of bases, handling and
feeding more pigs, and not really
making any money,” owner Bill
Tentinger said.
“Once we get past 2016, I think
things are going to perk up a little
bit... but it’s not going to be gangbusters rolling ahead.”
With retail prices now at threeyear lows, pork is stealing market
share from other proteins: U.S. pork
sales in June were up 12.5 per cent
over the previous month, while
chicken rose three per cent and beef
fell 2.2 per cent, according to the
most recent industry data.
The number of piglets per litter hit a record high of around 10
in the spring, according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, helped
by steadily improving use of genetics and selective breeding. These
animals take around six months to
make their way to the meat case.
And when cooler autumn weather
arrives and sweet, freshly harvested
corn begins filling feed troughs,
re v i v i n g p i g a p p e t i t e s, w e i g h t s
should climb back up to pre-summer levels.
More pigs coming
The boom started when farmers who
had lost millions of pigs to PEDv
American hog producers are now facing a new crisis — overproduction sparked by high prices from the PEDv crisis. photo: istock
“Things are not real rosy out here. We’re spending a lot of
money and touching a lot of bases, handling and feeding more
pigs, and not really making any money.”
Bill Tentinger
Iowa-based Tentinger Farms owner
took advantage of cheap feed to
plump up their hogs. Meat processors such as Cargill and Smithfield
Foods Inc. were paying premiums
for the extra weight.
As vaccines and strict biosecurity
measures brought the virus under
control, hog numbers exploded.
So m e h o g p r o d u c e r s a re s t i l l
expanding as they reinvest last year’s
record profits. Construction permit
applications for new and expanded
swine buildings in Iowa, the top producing state where hogs outnumber
people more than six to one, had
nearly reached the 2014 total by
mid-2015, according to state data.
Tyson Foods CEO Donnie Smith
said in a recent conference call with
analysts that he expects the domestic expansion to continue into 2016
resulting in three to four per cent
more hogs and pork on the domestic
market.
The stuffed supply chain has
prompted some U.S. grocers and
fast-food franchises to promote
pork. Midwest supermarket operator
Roundy’s has offers including 38 per
cent off pork tenderloin at Mariano’s
stores and a third off packages of
bacon at its Pick ’n Save locations.
“Roundy’s has been taking advantage of deals on pork and we have
been promoting it more in the past
few months, and it will continue,”
said spokesman James Hyland.
Re t a i l a d v e r t i s e m e n t s f e a t u ring pork offers from grocery
stores jumped 16 per cent in June
over a year ago, the National Pork
Board says. Billboards in U.S. cities splash Burger King’s “Extra Long
Pulled Pork” sandwich and Wendy’s
Baconator fries.
Weathering downturn
But in the country that claims to
have invented the ground beef hamburger and produced McDonald’s,
pork demand will remain largely tied
to price, experts say.
“It’s hard to say if pork can retain
that market share. It’s very much
price driven in all three commodities — pork, beef and chicken,” said
William Slabaugh, research analyst
at Stephens Inc., an independent
financial services company.
An expanding cattle herd is
expected to bring down beef prices,
but whether prices fall enough to
recapture lost market share may
hinge on hard-to-forecast elements
such as grazing pasture conditions
and grain costs.
There is some impact from health
concerns or diet fads that has seen
beef in par ticular losing out to
chicken — but a lot of that may have
already played out.
Annual beef consumption has
s t e a d i l y f a l l e n t o a ro u n d 5 4 - 5 5
pounds per capita now from 67.5
pounds in 2000 while chicken consumption climbed 18 per cent to
91.4 pounds per person, according
to USDA data.
In contrast, people have been eating around 50 pounds of pork per
year throughout the period.
“ Pe o p l e s t a r t e d e a t i n g m o r e
chicken as of 15 years ago... But in
general, the trends don’t change a
ton. It’s more what gets pushed is
what’s cheaper,” Slabaugh said.
For now at least, low prices are
likely to boost demand for bacon,
pork and sausages into the autumn.
“Anybody who wants to cook pork
at home is going to have a great
summer,” said Will Sawyer, an analyst with Rabobank.
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Third world land grabs in the spotlight
More than 32 million hectares in some of the world’s poorest countries have been
gobbled in large-scale land deals since 2000
Thomson Reuters
Foundation
G
lobal food giants and
international NGOs have
drafted a framework to
prevent land grabs just as hedge
funds, companies and plantation owners race to acquire new
territory.
Drafted by senior figures from
Nestle, Unilever, Coca-Cola and
other large firms, along with
researchers from Oxfam, Global
Witness and the other international organizations, the voluntary guidelines on responsible
land acquisition were released
earlier this month.
Indigenous people and local
farmers in some of the world’s
poorest countries in recent years
have seen companies push onto
land they have inhabited for generations, as investors scramble
to secure land rights and forest
resources.
“Companies are taking greater
responsibility to avoid forced
evictions. They don’t want to be
expelling people from their land
in order to produce goods,” said
Jeffrey Hatcher, managing director
of Indufor, a consultancy, and one
of the authors of the new guide.
‘Voluntary’ plans
Based on the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization’s guidelines, the framework is designed
to make it easier for companies to
comply with guidelines on buying
land in areas where legal systems
and formal documentation over
who controls territory are often
murky.
The guidelines don’t just recognize formal ownership, they also
back a form of squatters’ rights,
where communities that have
been living and working in an area
for a long period have some claim
to the land, said Hatcher.
The document also provided
guidance on how to handle grievances from communities that feel
they were unfairly impacted by
land investments, Hatcher said.
Critics, however, say the initiative does not go far enough.
“Given the devastating impact
of these large-scale land acquisitions, a set of ‘voluntary’ guidelines leaves communities vulnerable to the ‘goodwill’ of corporations at best,” said Anuradha
Mittal, director of the Oakland
Institute, a food rights think-tank.
The companies have not formally endorsed the document,
but activists hope participation
by top corporate executives will
create changes on the ground in
some of the world’s resource-rich,
developing countries.
Unilever, a major consumer
goods manufacturer, declined
interview requests, but sent a
statement calling land rights a
“core focus area” for the firm.
The company is “developing a
new Global Land Rights Policy”
which it will publish later this
year, it said.
Palm oil plantations, cattle
ranches, large forestry operations, sugar cane plantations and
crops grown to produce biofuels
are among the largest targets land
grabbers seek.
of the NGOs backing the new
guidelines.
“But companies are also realizing they have a competitive edge
if they address potential social
conflicts around tenure issues up
front,” Schmidt said.
“Indigenous people and local
communities are becoming
more aware that they have rights
under national and international
legislation.”
More than 32 million hectares, an area larger than Poland,
have been traded in large-scale
land deals since 2000, according
to a study from Sweden’s Lund
University published in November.
Schmidt has seen “a major
increase in demand for large-scale
land acquisitions” over the past
decade, much of it coming from
emerging markets.
That pressure has relaxed with
the recent drop in oil and other
commodity prices, he said,
“but the long-term trend points
towards competing claims for
land-based resources.”
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Remembering the ol’
swimming hole in Carman
The local municipal heritage group in Carman has installed a commemorative sign where
now only stairs and partial walkways remain of the former Boyne River Swimming Pool
BY LORRAINE STEVENSON
Co-operator staff / Carman
T
he local pool will soon
close as the end of summer nears and swimmers
hang up their beach towels to
return to school.
There was a time when “the
pool” never closed. It was the
river.
Rural Manitobans of a certain
vintage will remember diving
into their favourite swimming
holes off riverbanks, but their
children and grandchildren
probably swim in local pools or
at nearby lakes.
A heritage committee in
Carman wants us to remember
when and where people swam
in the Boyne.
It has erected signage at a site
along the river where, during
the 1940s and 1950s, thousands
came to swim.
A c o u p l e l i v i n g n e a r by
brought it to their attention.
They had been quietly maintaining the site where there are
some remaining steps, retaining
walls and partial walkways that
once led to long-gone change
houses.
The site was operated starting
in the mid-1940s by the Carman
Swimming Club, and after 1950
by the Carman Kinsmen. It was
a hub of activity in its day, says
Shirley Snider, treasurer with
the Carman Dufferin Municipal
Heritage Advisory Committee.
And this was no mere clearing
with a rope for swinging into the
dark waters below.
“When you look at the old
write-ups (in the Valley Leader)
and see that 2,000 people used
to attend here, that’s pretty
significant to the history of
Carman,” says Snider.
Scores of swimmers and spectators gathered at the banks
for swim meets where fine
sand was hauled in to create a
beach. There were tennis courts,
horseshoe pits and a bandstand
nearby. Black and white photos
of the era show a tree-lined river
teeming with young people.
Safety concerns
The commemorative plaque
says swimming ended in
1960 when safety concerns
prompted the Kinsmen to construct a swimming pool. After
that houses were built at the
location.
No doubt, it was the swimmer’s itch, fears about river currents, and worries about the
depth that made it less desirable. There is also a record of
a young girl drowning here in
1958.
Manitoba historian Gordon
Goldsborough says he’s unaware
Local residents now have a local reminder of the town’s favourite swimming hole along the Boyne River thanks to work
of the Carman Dufferin Municipal Heritage Committee members Shirley Snider (l) and Ina Bramadat (r). PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON
“When you look at
the old write-ups (in
the Valley Leader)
and see that 2,000
people used to attend
here, that’s pretty
significant to the
history of Carman.”
Shirley Snider
Vintage photo found on the website of the Carman Dufferin Municipal Heritage
Committee shows how popular the Boyne River Swimming Pool once was. pHOTO: DUFFERIN HISTORICAL MUSEUM
of any other swimming hole
that’s been recognized the way it
is in Carman.
“It is an interesting idea,” he
said, adding that river swimming dates to a time when the
provincial road networks were
less developed.
“I’m aware of two other spots
along rivers that were once
popular swimming areas, and I
expect there are lots more. There
is one east of Portage la Prairie
on the Assiniboine River, and
Lido Plage west of Headingley
also on the Assiniboine,” he said.
Could the Boyne — and other
once-popular places to dive
or wade in become swimming
sites again? Unlikely, says Ina
Bramadat, deputy chair with
Snider’s group.
There’s trash at the bottom of
the Boyne, and people are suspicious of the water quality, she
said.
“At the present time I think
there would be no question
of swimming in the river,” she
said. “There’s all sorts of junk in
here. It would need a substantial
cleanup.”
Plus, parental attitudes are
different than they were 50 years
ago, there are more public pools
and lakes to swim in, and less of
the river is now publicly accessible than it was years ago. Private
homes now line both sides of
much of the Boyne’s banks
through Carman.
Manitobans who do have
access to rivers do still enjoy
recreation on them, even if they
don’t actually swim in them,
says Justin Reid, manager of the
La Salle Redboine Conservation
District.
“I know along the La Salle
there’s a lot of people who live
along the river who like to boat
and canoe and even jet ski,” he
said. “I think there’s pockets of
places that will use the rivers
and creeks.”
Water quality has declined
Reid agrees it’s suspicions about
water quality that keep people from actually swimming
in them. Rivers have become
off limits generally, especially
as people come to view them
as dirtier or smellier than they
remember. In fact, rivers can be
more silted than they once were,
as reduced vegetation along
their banks means more topsoil
and nutrients entering from surface water run-off.
“It may not be as nice as
it used to be,” he said. “That’s
given rivers a bad name,” he
said.
Yet, the water quality oftentimes isn’t as bad as some may
think, he adds.
Provincial authorities say
rivers in southern Manitoba
like the Boyne, Assiniboine,
Brokenhead, La Salle, Little
Saskatchewan, Red, Roseau,
Seine, and Souris generally do
meet recreational water quality guidelines for E. coli. These
rivers are also generally rated
“good” or “fair” using a provincial water quality index rating.
More so, it is changing times,
with more pools and parks
now accessible that’s turned
our backs on rivers as places to
swim.
“Yet, wouldn’t it be lovely if
you could comfortably swim
in our rivers again?” Bramadat
said.
There might actually be some
intangible benefits to creating
sites along Manitoba’s rivers for
swimming again, says Reid.
“It’s not altogether a bad
idea,” he said. “I’m quite sure
when communities were using
their rivers as swimming holes
they were probably a lot more
connected to the health of the
river.”
Learn more about the Boyne
River swimming pool at: http://
carmandufferinheritage.ca.
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Prairie fare
Is coffee good for your health?
julie gardenrobinson
Food and Nutrition Specialist
NDSU Extension Service
“
J
ust call me MacGyver,” my husband said,
referencing a mid-1980s and 1990s TV
show character.
I looked up from my task to see if he was fixing
something with a paper clip, chewing gum or his
pocketknife, as the secret agent used to do. The
TV character often narrowly escaped explosions
with his clever solutions to problems.
With the TV images in my mind, I hoped we
wouldn’t blow anything up in the sparsely furnished kitchen of the lake cabin our family was
renting for a few days.
We weren’t exactly “roughing it” in the wilds.
Although we had a kitchen, shower and coffee
maker, I prefer a place with a continental breakfast and a pool.
I was doing the best I could making homemade pancakes with the available bowls and
spoons and some creative measuring techniques.
I needed a cup of coffee, though.
Unfortunately, I discovered that we packed the
bag of whole-bean coffee instead of the ground
coffee on the way out of our home. The kitchen
didn’t have a coffee grinder, and the Robinsons
really needed a dose of morning caffeine.
I was ready to drive 20 miles for coffee when
my “MacGyver” got a little creative with coffee
grinding.
“We’ll have coffee soon,” he said as he used the
bottom of a coffee mug and inside of a bowl as a
makeshift mortar and pestle.
Our kids found our breakfast preparation techniques intriguing. They wanted to help grind
coffee, too, because electronic entertainment was
lacking. We had no TV to watch, and I told them
to let their cellphones have a vacation, too.
When the coffee was ground, I discovered we
had no filters. I got to be MacGyver, too. A paper
towel worked quite well as a filter.
However, when I made a pot of coffee later
in the day, I discovered I had plugged the coffee
pot mechanism. “Lake Coffee” overflowed onto
the counter and the floor. We fixed that problem,
too. Despite the mishap, I think the fresh-ground,
slightly filtered coffee tasted great and the caffeine energized us for a day of exploring.
Coffee has been consumed for at least 1,000
years, long before the time of automatic coffee makers. Coffee grows on tropical evergreen
shrubs that produce a fruit with two beans that
form inside. After harvest, coffee beans are
cleaned, dried and roasted. From light to dark
roast, the roasting process promotes the development of colour and flavour.
Coffee is one of the most popular beverages
in the U.S. According to the National Coffee
Association, about 59 per cent of people 18 and
Buttermilk Pancakes
2 c. buttermilk (or substitute reconstituted dry buttermilk)
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tbsp. sugar
1-3/4 c. all-purpose flour
1-1/2 tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
Chocolate chips, blueberries (optional add-ins)
PHOTOs: Thinkstock
older enjoy the beverage at least now and then.
Among people ages 25 and older, nearly three out
of four drink coffee at least occasionally.
According to a 2015 coffee trends report, iced
coffee is leading the pack in coffee innovations.
In restaurants, other coffee-brewing methods
such as “cold brewing” are said to reduce the
bitter notes in coffee. Still other restaurants are
trying “buttered coffee” with unsalted butter or
coconut oil added.
Plain coffee has a negligible amount of calories
until you add sweeteners, cream, and various flavourings and toppings. At that point, your fancy
coffee beverage may expand to have hundreds of
calories. Beverages do not seem to “fill us up” in
the same way that foods do.
To slim your beverage, opt for skim milk or
lower-calorie syrups if you need an add-in for
your beverage.
Coffee is naturally high in antioxidants, and
research is under way to determine the health
effects of these compounds.
Many studies have shown positive physical
and mental benefits. For example, caffeine in
coffee may reduce our risk of Parkinson’s disease.
Athletes may note that a little caffeine improves
sports performance. A 2015 study has shown that
drinking coffee may reduce our risk of gallstone
disease.
Despite long-standing concerns about coffee
and hydration, coffee does not cause dehydration even though caffeine has a mild diuretic
effect.
Coffee can have some side-effects, and certain groups should watch their intake. Keep in
mind that too much caffeine can upset your
sleep or leave you feeling jittery or nervous.
Pregnant women should follow the advice
of their health-care provider about caffeine
consumption.
For best nutrition, children and adolescents
should quench their thirst with water, milk
and 100 per cent juice to support their growing
bodies while staying hydrated. Many “energy
drink” beverages are directly marketed to kids,
so parents should be sure that their kids exercise
moderation. Some energy drinks contain a large
amount of caffeine, along with various ingredients. Water is the best option as a thirst quencher
for kids.
How much coffee is OK for adults? According
to the proposed 2015 Dietary Guidelines for
Americans, as much as 400 milligrams per day is
fine for healthy adults. That’s the amount in three
to five cups of coffee. A “cup” is eight ounces, by
the way. Many of our “cups” are much larger than
eight ounces.
What goes well with coffee? How about some
homemade pancakes? Here’s the pancake recipe
I served with “MacGyver coffee.”
Preheat griddle to 375 F. Mix buttermilk and eggs
together. In separate bowl, stir dry ingredients
together (or use a sifter). Stir in buttermilk and egg
mixture. Add melted butter and mix. Drop from
ladle onto hot griddle, cooking each side about two
minutes or until light brown. If desired, add a few
chocolate chips or blueberries right after adding the
batter to the griddle.
Makes four servings. Each serving has 360 calories, 10
grams (g) of fat, 55 g of carbohydrate and 20 per cent of
the daily recommendation for calcium.
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A
ndrew Jackson ambled up the street in
the direction of the coffee shop, adjusting the peak of his John Deere hat to
keep the sun out of his eyes, and nodding to
the few people who drove by on their various Saturday errands. He paused at the door
to the hardware store, then turned to open it
and stick his head inside. The young woman
behind the sales counter looked up as he did
so and broke into a cheerful smile.
“Hey Dad!” she said.
“Good morning to you Jackie!” said Andrew.
“How’s everybody this morning?”
“Great!” Jackie stepped out from behind the
counter and made her way to the door to give
her father-in-law a hug. “Andy was still sleeping
when I left this morning, but Allie’s always so
excited to have Grandma looking after her she
can’t wait for me to get out of the house!” She
picked up a hammer from the rack on the wall
next to the door. “Don’t you need a new one of
these?”
Andrew laughed. “Not just now,” he said. “But
I may need to get one before next summer’s Folk
Festival!”
Jackie gave him a quizzical look. “You need a
hammer for Folk Festival? Why?”
“Oh you know how it is at Folk Festival,” said
Andrew. “Sure as shooting at some point someone’s going to whip out a banjo, and if you don’t
have a hammer on you, there’s just nothing you
can do.”
“I see,” said Jackie. “So is that what they mean
when they talk about playing the banjo clawhammer style?”
Andrew laughed again. “Good one,” he said.
“I’ll remember that! But I gotta go. Grant’s waiting for me at the café. Have a good day my
dear.”
“I will,” said Jackie. “You too.”
Andrew let go of the door and it swung closed
behind him as he headed further up the street
in the direction of the café, and in a few minutes
found himself seated at his usual table by the
window.
“Hey howdy,” said Grant Toews, who indeed
had been waiting for him.
“Sorry to keep you waiting,” said Andrew.
“Stopped to say hi to Jackie at the hardware
store.”
The
Jacksons
By Rollin Penner
“Oh yeah,” said Grant. “How’s she liking it
there?”
“Good,” said Andrew. “She always tries to sell
me stuff whenever I go in.”
“That’s her job,” said Grant. “And how’s the
grandkids?”
“They’re great,” said Andrew. “Rose looks after
them when Jackie’s working. Everybody’s happy.”
“Are you happy?” asked Grant.
Andrew pondered that for a moment. “I’m
happy,” he said, “but some days I worry.”
“Everybody worries,” said Grant sympathetically. “But, what about, do you worry?”
Andrew stared out the window for a moment.
“About my grandkids,” he said. “About what kind
of a world we’re gonna leave for them when we
go.”
“Oh,” said Grant. “Wow. And I worry about
whether the summer tires on my truck will last
till October when I can put the winter tires back
on.”
“My summer tires are fine,” said Andrew, “but
I’m not happy about the direction this country
seems to be headed.”
Grant took a thoughtful sip of coffee. “When
you’re headed in the wrong direction,” he said,
“it’s even more important to have good tires.”
Andrew smiled. “Indeed.” He paused. “This
election campaign is making me ill,” he said. “I’m
afraid if things don’t turn around we’re going to
be leaving our grandchildren a country where
there’s just two extreme options with the people
on either side convinced that the other side is
evil and dangerous. No compromise, no nuance.
Just nastiness and hatred.”
Grant stared at Andrew for a second. “Dude,”
he said. “You’re spending too much time on
Facebook.”
“You think?” said Andrew.
“Yeah,” said Grant. “The Internet only likes
good and evil. And life is like a pendulum. Right
now people are tired of trying to compromise. It’s
hard work. So they’ll settle into set positions for a
while and just try to fight it out. Eventually they’ll
get tired of that when they realize it’s never going
to work and then they’ll go back to compromising. For a while.”
“I hope you’re right,” said Andrew. “Because
according to the Internet after the election we’ll
either be living in a Fascist State run by Nazis or a
Communist State run by Stalinists.”
“Naw,” said Grant. “We’ll be living in a
somewhat dysfunctional Democratic State
run by corporations and banks. And we can
fix that.”
“You think so?” said Andrew.
“We’ve done it before,” said Grant.
“I value your input,” said Andrew.
“Good,” said Grant. “Stay off the Internet.”
Don’t let thrips get your smokies
If you grow smoky gladioli this is the main pest to watch for
Smoky gladioli are simply
a colour classification, and
include those varieties
whose flowers have a grey
or brown tint to their petal
colour.
By Albert Parsons
Freelance contributor
T
here are innumerable colour
choices when choosing gladioli corms but until recent years,
those colours classed as smoky, were
quite rare and hard to find. They were
not available in the usual retail establishments and had to be ordered from
gladioli specialists, but now even some
big-box stores have smoky glads.
Smoky gladioli are simply a colour classification, and include those
varieties whose flowers have a grey
or brown tint to their petal colour. So
if they are orange, they are a smoky
orange or a brown orange; if they are
purple, their flowers are dusky.
Smoky glads should be grown the
same as other gladioli, exposed to
plenty of sunshine, given lots of water,
and planted in rich, well-drained soil.
Gladioli have a very upright growth
habit; their leaves grow vertically from
the corms so they can be planted very
close together. I plant three rows in my
vegetable garden and the rows are only
about 10 cm apart. Within the rows the
corms are also planted in close proximity — about eight cm between the
corms.
Gladioli are also classified by the
length of time they take to flower —
Smoky glads should be grown the same
way as other glads. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
early, medium, late. By having some
of each type, and by varying the planting dates and the depth at which the
corms are planted, a succession of
bloom is possible. Planting early gladioli by May 1 at a shallow depth will
provide the earlier spikes, while planting of a late variety a bit deeper will
ensure colourful spikes right up until
frost.
The main pest to watch for is an
insect called thrip. This tiny, slender, winged insect can cause havoc
in a gladioli patch by distorting the
flowers and leaves. The flowers will
be blotched and malformed and the
leaves will be distorted and streaked
with white areas. The blooms will not
open properly if at all and the corms
will become soft and spongy and vulnerable to rot.
Thrips have a short life cycle and
several generations will be produced
in a single season. It only takes 16
days for the cycle from egg to adult to
be completed. Adults and pupae overwinter in the soil so planting gladioli
in the same spot each year is not recommended. At the first sign of thrips,
initiate a spray program using a pyre-
thrum-based product or an insecticidal soap. Frequent spraying will be
necessary because of how quickly the
life cycle evolves.
To help prevent thrips, when corms
are dug in the fall discard any that
don’t appear totally healthy and treat
before storing them and before planting them. I place my dried corms in
a brown paper grocery bag and add
some bulb dust and shake the bag to
distribute the dust on the corms. Then
I store them in as cool a spot as possible (do not freeze) as thrips will not
survive cool storage temperatures.
In the spring soak the corms for six
hours in a Lysol solution of four teaspoons of Lysol to four litres of water.
This can be done in the fall instead of
using bulb dust but you would have to
ensure that the corms are thoroughly
dried after the soak before they are
put into storage.
My experience has been that the
smoky varieties of gladioli, as well as
the dark purples for some reason, do
not seem to store as well as other varieties. So if you invest in some smoky
glads for your garden next year, you
may have to add to your investment
in years to come. The unique beauty
of smoky glads, however, makes the
additional expense well worthwhile.
Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Reader’s Photo
PHOTO: EVA KRAWCHUK
Sewing for shoeboxes
By Eva Krawchuk
Freelance contributor
N
o one likes to think
about it, but soon
autumn rains and then
another long, snowy winter will
be here. Rather than complain
about it, I use those cold days
to work on my favourite hobby
— sewing. Friends know about
my pastime and sometimes it’s a
friend who rescues me from winter weariness — a perfect combo
— hobbies and friends.
A friend had called and asked
if I’d be willing to make items
for Operation Christmas Child
through Samaritans’ Purse. This
organization fills shoeboxes year
round and at Christmastime,
sends them to countries where
items are so desperately needed.
I readily agreed and she delivered a box full of fabrics, dozens
of zippers and a pamphlet with
instructions. Fabric bags are
important items, the right size
to accommodate the shoeboxes
and with heavier fabric, small
and narrow zippered cases for
pencils and other school needs.
To dress them up a bit, I appliquéd designs cut from small,
leftover pieces of fabric that I had
on hand.
What better way to spend
dreary days than doing something to help someone else?
Eva Krawchuk writes from Winnipeg
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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.
Appearances can be misleading for many farm buildings in the province, in particular those constructed with logs. While the
beginnings of a swayback roof silhouette and log materials suggest a very well-aged building, this fine example of open, drivethrough style was built in 1940. Measuring about 60x34 feet, it was built by Oscar Dube near Mud Falls which is southeast of the
Pine Falls area. Using three-inch poplar logs for the floor and shaped spruce logs for the walls, the upper framing literally sits on the
two separate lower storage areas. The framing was fastened entirely with dowelling. The styling of the building is similar to that
of the drive-through corn barns of southern United States. On the Dube farm, feed and hay wagons were driven into the barn and
the material hauled up through the ceiling opening. Cattle and chickens were housed in the two lower wings. Because of the log
construction and loose vertical siding on the gable ends, there was no need for special ventilation systems. 36
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