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Election
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Roundup
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The parties answer our
questions on the ag sector » PG 8
Growers in Eastern Canada will see a small
launch of the trait this spring » PG 18
SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 | Vol. 74, No. 14 | $1.75
April 7, 2016
Record grain
movement
masks
systemic ills
Long-term issues haven’t
been addressed yet
BY ALLAN DAWSON
Co-operator staff
G
ra i n s h i p p e r s a re n’t
cheering too loudly
about record grain
movement in the 2014-15 crop
year, and warn that costly grain
backlogs like those in 2013-14
may recur.
“We don’t want people to
read about this and say: ‘problem solved,’” Wade Sobkowich,
executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association
(WGEA), said in an interview.
“It’s not solved.”
WGEA members were mostly
happy with their rail service last
crop year, he said, but it was a
drop in other rail traffic, including oil, that freed up capacity to
move more grain. Grain movement was already at full throttle
when the crop year started because of a record 77-milliontonne crop in 2013. The federal
government’s order that the railways move at least one million
tonnes of grain a week or face
fines also contributed, as did a
milder winter in 2014-15 and
good export sales.
“Now is the time to prepare
for the inevitability of demand
for rail service from all industries converging at a high point
again,” Sobkowich said.
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Town meets country
at the winter fair
The Royal Manitoba Winter Fair might be an equestrian show, but it
still attracts an audience of urbanites interested in agriculture
BY JENNIFER PAIGE
Co-operator staff / Brandon
W
ith his two Belgian
horses hovering
over him, Zane
Pickering entertained questions from passersby.
“These horses are pretty
majestic, so I guess that
a t t r a c t s p e o p l e ,” s a i d
Pickering, as he prepared
them for their time in the
show ring at the Royal
M a n i t o b a W i n t e r Fa i r
(RMWF) “We have so many
people stopping to look at
them when we are preparing
them for the show. Kids are
always amazed at their size.”
The 109th Royal Manitoba
Winter Fair was held from
March 28 to April 2 at the
Keystone Centre, housing an
impressive display of equestrian events, entertainment,
exhibitors and hands-on
agriculture activities.
“This is a great event. We
usually come to the RMWF as
a warm-up to our competition season. We get some of
our younger, more inexperienced horses involved to get
them used to the travel and
crowds,” said Pickering, who
travelled with nine horses
from Prince George, B.C. to
take part in 22 heavy horse
classes at the RMWF.
Pickering competes in the
tandem and six-horse events
and has been on the show
circuit for the past four years,
and at the RMWF the past
two years.
His team of horses and
drivers generally competes
in six to eight different events
every year and he says since
he began in the competition
circuit, there seems to be an
increase in interest.
“There definitely seems to
Zane Pickering prepares his heavy horses for their time in the show ring at last week’s Royal Manitoba Winter
Fair. Photo: Jennifer Paige
be more competition compared to when we started and
there are more faces in the
stands for sure.”
Ag experience
Although primarily an equestrian show, the RMWF also
hosted ‘Thru the Farm Gate,’
an interactive showcase that
strives to provide education
about today’s agricultural
practices.
“Our ag awareness area
is a huge draw,” said Ron
Kristjansson, general mana g e r o f t h e Pr ov i n c i a l
Exhibition of Manitoba.
“Part of our mandate as an
ag society is to educate
the public about agriculture. Particularly being in
Brandon, where it’s maybe a
bit more urban, we’re a bit of
a link between the urban and
the rural.”
Kr istjansson said the
organization works closely
with the farm commodity
groups and most are eager
to participate, with presentations and booths that bring
the section to life.
“It’s a great area,” he said.
The University of
Saskatchewan’s Western
C o l l e g e o f Ve t e r i n a r y
Medicine was on site and
offered attendees a chance to
get a close-up look at animal
organs, X-rays, microscopes
and discuss animal health
questions.
“We get a lot of inquiries
about individual’s personal
animals and we can talk in
generalities but, of course
we advise them to talk with
their local vet,” said Myrna
MacDonald, communications specialist with the college dean’s office. “Some
people are curious about
our research programs and
how the findings help peoSee WINTER FAIR on page 7 »
Flood-fighting outlet projects funded by feds in budget » PAGE 19
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LIVESTOCK
British charities hoping ‘Dragons’
Den’ model will tempt investors
Beef
antimicrobials
under pressure
Public concern over
antibiotic resistance will
make demonstrating
stewardship important
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Plan will allow the companies to access business support and ‘patient
capital,’ says expert adviser
BY MEGAN ROWLING
Barcelona/Thomson Reuters Foundation
B
CROPS
Wheat exports
trending up
Canadian wheat
exports are up, but why
is a complex question
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FEATURE
Volunteer week
Volunteers keep many
wheels moving in rural
Manitoba
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CROSSROADS
usinesses in developing countries could
soon be headed into the
“Dragons’ Den.”
British charities have created a syndicate through which
investors can back hand-picked
businesses in developing
nations using a model similar
to the TV series, in which entrepreneurs pitch ideas to prospective funders.
Around 70 per cent of small
and medium-size businesses
in developing countries cannot access capital, according
to Christian Aid, which cofounded Access To Capital For
Rural Enterprises (ACRE).
Local and global investors often see deals with
smaller companies as too
risky or expensive, said Joanna
Heywood, who leads the ACRE
program for Christian Aid.
“There were a lot of enterprises we came across that were
buying, or wanted to buy from,
farmers and producers, and
wanted to grow and expand,
but were struggling to get
beyond a certain growth stage,”
Heywood said.
One of the projects selected
is organic baobab tree-based
products from Zimbabwe. Photo: Bernard Gagnon / Creative Commons
The agency decided to look
beyond its traditional work of
aiding poor farmers in developing countries, seeking to
address problems further up
the supply chain.
They are hoping to secure
investments in the so-called
“missing middle” of between
100,000 pounds sterling
(C$189,720) and one million
pounds sterling.
So far, they have found seven
investors, including individuals
and impact investment firms,
seeking to channel around
four million pounds sterling to
enterprises they will select from
a pool of 100.
The first deal, involving a
Zimbabwean company, is now
being put together, Heywood
said.
Martin Rich, an investor
who advised on the creation of
ACRE, said it would allow the
companies to access business
support and “patient capital.”
ACRE is targeting enterprises
that could transform the efficiency or scale of the market in
which they operate.
They include a Zimbabwean
producer of organic baobab
tree-based products that lobbied the European Union
to allow baobab imports into
Europe, opening up a major
new market.
ACRE also hopes to nurture
women entrepreneurs and
boost the incomes of women
producers, in an effort to
address the imbalance between
the high proportion of farming done by women and the
low level of assets they own,
Heywood said.
Some two-thirds of the businesses in the ACRE pipeline are
based in Africa, and just under
half the total are involved in
agriculture, with around 15 per
cent in the energy sector.
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on the farm
Western Manitoba
artist Colleen Granger
says the farm where
she lives has inspired
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Grey market milk substitutes could see
crackdown at Canada-U.S. border
U.S. processors are becoming adept at creating products that circumvent importation restrictions, critics say
BY ALEX BINKLEY
Co-operator contributor
T
he federal government
is promising the dairy
industry a crackdown on
surging milk substitute imports.
NAFTA regulations exempt
U.S. dairy producers from tariff rate quotas (TRQs) on milk
protein products, giving them
nearly unfettered access to
the Canadian market for these
products.
They’re used mainly to make
cheese, and the dairy industry says the U.S. industry has
become adept at finding and
exploiting loopholes, creating
a grey market that’s unfair to
Canadian producers.
One of the most controversial
issues is the use of “diafiltered”
milk in cheese making.
Diafiltered milk is produced
when water is added to milk
and then ultrafiltered, causing
soluble materials such as milk
sugars to be removed and nonsoluble material such as milk
fat to be retained, resulting in a
product that’s more than 85 per
cent protein, and thus exempt
from any import restrictions
when coming from the U.S.
What it is subject to are
restr ictions on its use in
cheese making, something the
Canadian dairy industry says is
happening more and more, and
something the federal agriculture minister conceded to the
Commons agriculture committee is a growing issue.
“ We ’r e l o o k i n g a t a n
approach that ensures that the
cheese compositional standards are clear for everyone,”
Minister Lawrence MacAulay
said. “Under the standards,
diafiltered milk was never
meant to be allowed to be used
as milk. We are working with
the industry, and intend on
having further discussions on
this issue to ensure that standards are clear.”
Industry sources peg the
value of the imports at $100
million annually, which cuts
the demand for Canadianproduced milk. American studies have suggested half the
dairy farmer income in the
U.S. comes from government
subsidies, giving them a significant and unfair advantage, the
Canadian industry says.
With the dairy supplement
management system facing
increased cheese imports under
the budget that it would fix the
diafiltered issue by clarifying
the compositional standards.
The group also said the government needed to address confusion and a lack of coherence
between the Canadian Border
Services Agency, that enforces
the regulations at the border, and the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency, that creates
them.
They also noted some
importers are also exploiting
loopholes in a program that
allows manufacturers to defer
paying duties for up to four
years when the material will
be later re-expor ted. DFC
said the program was never
intended for food products,
and there’s a supply management-specific program that
these products should fall
under. They also chided the
government for failing to act
quickly to resolve the issue.
“The government is fully
aware of the impact of these
issues, and of their solutions,”
DFC said in a release. “There
is political consensus on the
issues – everyone agrees that
they are an easy fix – and yet,
the government continues to
take no action.”
“Under the standards, diafiltered milk was never
meant to be allowed to be used as milk.”
LAWRENCE MACAULAY
the Canada-Europe free trade
deal and significant increases
in milk imports under the proposed Trans-Pacific Pact, the
industry has been trying to firm
up its domestic position with
new pricing options, the minister noted. No agreements have
been reached.
“There are discussions taking
place with the processors and
the industry in different provinces,” he said. “What I am trying to do... is make sure that all
of the sectors understand the
regulations and what standards
are required.”
Quebec Conservative MP
Jacques Gourde, a parliamentary secretary for agriculture
in the Harper government,
said U.S. companies “are quite
imaginative in inventing products to ship milk into Canada
that circumvent Canadian
rules.”
He noted diafiltered milk isn’t
used to make cheese in the U.S.
and to his knowledge there’s
no use of it at all south of the
border.
“It was developed solely to
get across our border,” he said.
“Americans don’t eat cheese
made with this stuff and no
Canadian should either.”
NDP Agriculture Critic
Ruth Ellen Brosseau said she’s
been told that diafiltered
milk imports cost individual
dairy farmers about $1,000 a
week in lower sales. She urged
MacAulay to show more leadership in fixing the problem by
enforcing the rules. Brosseau
has raised the issue repeatedly
in the Commons.
MacAulay said there are still
different approaches among
the provinces that have to be
resolved.
Dairy Farmers of Canada
says it’s disappointed the government didn’t announce in
Website will facilitate citizen comments on TPP deal
The government has promised open consultations but the groups say so far it has been
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deal.”
Sali said the groups decided to act
because Freeland has promised consultations on the TPP but so far it has all
been an unstructured private process.
“We wanted to offer a way to get
Canadians’ views on the public record,”
she said.
The groups think the government
is trying to create support for the TPP,
and say that’s happening despite the
fact no independent economic analysis
of how exactly the TPP would impact
Canadians has been published. The
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purred on by what they say is official foot-dragging, four anti-TPP
groups are teaming up to provide
Canadians with a platform to tell the
government what they think of the
trade deal.
The Council of Canadians,
OpenMedia, Stand (for merly
ForestEthics) and SumOfUs have created the website LetsTalkTPP.ca, where
members of the public can send their
views on the deal to Trade Minister
Chrystia Freeland and the Commons
trade committee.
And while they might not favour the
deal themselves, the groups insist it’s for
all Canadians to share their thoughts.
Meghan Sali, digital rights specialist with OpenMedia, said the site is
designed as a conduit and there is no
ability to moderate comments intended
for the decision-makers.
“There will be no censorship of people’s views,” Sali said. “We just want to
the deal’s ability to overwrite national
laws regarding environmental protection. Sali also singled out health care as
an area of concern, claiming the deal
would make pharmaceuticals more
expensive and undermine health-care
privacy.
In addition to the committee
study, which will result in a report
to Parliament on public views on
the deal, Freeland has promised a
full parliamentary debate ahead of
ratification.
She insists the Trudeau government
won’t be pressured by the Conservatives
or business lobbies into rushing a final
decision on TPP. Last month, Freeland
signed the tentative agreement
reached during the Oct. 19 federal election campaign to keep Canada in the
negotiations.
“The deal is not yet open for either
signature or ratification,” she said. “We
understand that on a deal this big, it is
essential to consult Canadians and have
a full parliamentary debate.”
The deal doesn’t have to be approved
until 2017.
groups say one study estimates Canada
will lose at least 58,000 jobs because of
the deal.
The only public hearings on the TPP
are being by the trade committee, but
they have been mainly with business
groups and individuals that support
the deal. It hopes to hold public hearings across Canada later this year, says
chairman Mark Eyking. The committee
is open to Canadians sending it their
opinions on the deal.
Sali says opposition to the many parts
of the TPP brought the groups together.
“Lots of people want to make their
voice heard — the more Canadians
find out about the TPP, the less they
like it,” she said. “So far, the public have
been completely excluded from the
TPP process and it’s no wonder we’ve
got such a terrible deal. To turn things
around, the government needs to start
listening.”
The groups don’t support the deal
for a variety of reasons including concern over overly generous copyright
laws that will restrict innovation and
cultural sharing and concerns over
ra
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“There will be no
censorship of people’s
views. We just want to
raise public awareness
about the trade deal.”
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OPINION/EDITORIAL
Too many
organizations
A
few years ago, a group of Japanese
wheat millers was touring the
Canadian Wheat Board building in Winnipeg. In the transportation
department, where there was a large wall
map showing all the rail lines in Western
Canada, they received the standard
presentation on logistics. The presenter
explained that to save distance and
costs, wheat from Alberta and western
John Morriss
Saskatchewan went to Vancouver and
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wheat in eastern Saskatchewan and
Manitoba went to Thunder Bay.
This was greeted with concern, and much discussion began
among the group. Eventually, through a translator, one of the
millers explained the problem. “We thought we were buying
Manitoba wheat. You’re telling us it comes from Alberta?”
The confusion came from the name change for wheat
grades in 1971. The official name for top-grade Canadian
red spring wheat had been “No. 1 Manitoba Northern,” and
although it was generally shortened to “No. 1 Northern” here
on the Prairies, some overseas buyers to this day refer to it as
“Manitoba” wheat. Perhaps because it rankled our neighbours
to the west, in 1971 the grade unfortunately became the soulless “Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS)” which many buyers
have shortened to “queers.”
“Northern” is being revived for the new red spring class this
year, and though it might be churlish to mention it, that name
will be applied not to CWRS but to a new class which essentially means “same as in the U.S.”
But we digress. The problem was easily resolved with the
Japanese millers after it was explained while the name had
been changed, the same high standards applied to all wheat
from Western Canada, regardless of where it was grown, and
that wheat from all three provinces might often be mixed in a
cargo.
However, that point sometimes seems to be lost here in
Western Canada. With minor variations, we’re growing the
same types and varieties of grain and oilseeds across the
Prairies, and they all end up blended in the hold of the same
vessel, but we have separate provincial research and promotion organizations.
It’s one thing to have provincial general farm organizations
to represent producers’ interest in areas of agronomy, environment, taxation and other areas of provincial jurisdiction.
In other areas such as research and marketing, Prairie producers are better off combining efforts, avoiding duplication and
speaking with one voice.
Based on the most recent annual reports, the three Prairie
canola grower organizations had expenditures of $14.8 million, of which only 28 per cent went to research.
So far the wheat commissions seem to be doing better in
that regard — of total expenditures of $5.6 million last year,
the Saskatchewan Wheat Commission spent 75 per cent on
research. In Alberta it was only 36 per cent on research out of
expenditures of $4.7 million. The figures for Manitoba’s much
smaller commission were not available at press time.
These organizations are funded by new producer checkoffs
that sprang up after the end of the wheat board monopoly. But
since 1981 there had already been a checkoff for the Western
Grain Research Foundation, which was already doing a fine
job of allocating research funds for wheat and barley. Why do
we need three more organizations doing the same thing?
If three wheat commissions aren’t enough, we also now have
Cereals Canada, with board members from the Alberta and
Manitoba wheat commissions (but not Saskatchewan’s) as well
as from the grain companies and seed/chemical companies.
Cereals Canada has appointed itself as the organization to “provide leadership for the Canadian cereals industry.” Among its
priorities are to “serve to inform the direction for research and
innovation in the cereals sector,” and its stated first key area of
focus is “understanding what our customers want.”
Presumably that’s now the role of the grain companies, plus
the Canadian Grain Commission and Canadian International
Grains Institute, which have decades of expertise in working
with customers, but which are conspicuously absent from the
Cereals Canada board of directors.
Meanwhile, we already had the Canada Grains Council,
which has the vision “To be the leading recognized forum of
the grains industry throughout Canada,” and which has some
of the same board members as Cereals Canada, as well as
Cereals Canada itself.
Then there’s the Grain Growers of Canada, again with some
of the same members, and which has a mission of “Pursuing a
policy environment that maximizes global competitiveness of
Canadian farmers.”
Cereals Canada makes much of setting itself to provide
a united voice among all these organizations. Maybe the
problem isn’t the lack of a united voice, but too many organizations, and a lot of checkoff dollars going to plane fares
and hotel bills for the representatives going to each others’
meetings.
john.morriss@fbcpublishing.com
Who will feed us in the future?
By Dan Mazier
M
anitobans put a priority on eating
local food, and that means we need
local farmers to produce that food.
But alarmingly, we’re losing them in droves.
The average age of a farmer in Manitoba is
55, so retirement for many is on the horizon.
On the other hand, the high cost of buying
and running a farm business has resulted in a
73 per cent drop over 20 years in the number
of farmers younger than 35.
Young farmers are telling me that securing farmland has become just too cost prohibitive. Land in southwestern Manitoba, for
example, has been selling at up to $2,000 an
acre more than it did five or six years ago —
so an average-size farm could cost $3 million
for the land alone. It’s very difficult for young
people to carry this debt load as they begin
their careers.
Even if a young farmer chooses to rent land
instead of buying, the costs to operate the
farm can also be prohibitive. Sixteen years ago
it cost just under $250,000 in annual expenses
to run an average-size farm in Manitoba.
Currently, that same farm requires almost
$500,000 to keep it running for a year, based
on inputs, land and machinery costs, depreciation, storage and labour.
With these expenses, one bad season could
wipe a young farmer out. Not having equity
in the farm business means one flood, one
drought, one early frost, a decline in livestock
prices — and they would not be able to pay
what they borrowed for operating expenses.
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Young farmers entering agriculture or
those having recently entered need backup
in the form of solid and meaningful programs that will help them to lower their risk.
Only then will we see more farmers under
the age of 35 entering the business.
I call on political parties and candidates
to make support for young farmers a priority in this election, and Manitobans agree.
A recent poll by Keystone Agricultural
Producers shows that 82 per cent of
Manitobans want to see government do
more to assist young farmers. Those of us
in the agriculture industry are concerned
about its future, and it appears other
Manitobans are too.
There are existing programs to manage
risk for all farmers, but these have been
significantly watered down to the point that
many wonder whether buying into them is
worth it. Not only does the next government
need to return these programs back to pre2013 levels, but it must also make special
concessions within them for young farmers.
I would also like to see new and innovative programs that encourage, support and
assist young farmers so they can continue
the agricultural tradition in Manitoba of
producing food for local families.
By providing this assistance, the next government will ensure Manitobans can continue to access safe and affordable local
food.
Dan Mazier is president of Keystone Agricultural
Producers. He farms grains and oilseeds near Justice,
Manitoba.
April 1968
ou could renew your old discer or one-way for $350 or
less and save up to $2,100 with a bearing set advertised
by Loewen Manufacturing in our April 4, 1968 issue.
That April was a big month in world news — U.S. President
Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek re-election,
Reverend Martin Luther King was assassinated and Pierre Elliott
Trudeau was elected Liberal leader.
We reported that following a two-day meeting in Boissevain,
the Turtle Mountain Resource Council was officially recognized by the Manitoba government as the first inter-municipal
resource council to be recognized as an official spokesman on resource conservation. The council later became a
Conservation District. Our editorial that week praised the initiative and noted the urgent need to deal with soil erosion and
other problems in the area, including the indiscriminate draining
of potholes.
At the Municipal Tree Maintenance seminar in Winnipeg, a
Canada Department of Agriculture representative raised concern
about downwind damage from indiscriminate use of pesticides.
In the Legislature, Agriculture Minister Harry Enns had introduced a bill that would lift the $2-per-head
penalty on horned cattle for a three-year trial to see if it might affect the number moving to market, which
was estimated at 12 per cent. The Legislature defeated a Liberal motion to have the bill sent to committee
for further study.
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COMMENT/FEEDBACK
Getting our research priorities right
Investment in research is critical to the future of the industry
fields. The value chain as a whole is working on
setting the key priorities in each of these critical
areas.
Canada has a strong history of public research.
Many parts of the country were opened to settlement because of public agricultural research. We
should not forget this history and the lesson it
teaches for the future. However, public research is
not carried out in isolation.
If Canada can do a better job of co-ordinating public, private, and producer investments
than our competitors like Australia or the
U.S., funds will flow into our industry. We can
become the first choice for investment opportunities if we ensure funding from each source is
complementary.
The recently announced partnership between
Canterra Seeds, Alberta Wheat Commission, and
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada serves as an
example of new ways of bringing forward innovation in Canada. The new public/private/producer
partnership takes advantage of the strengths of
all three organizations. The result is additional
investment in innovation and variety development in Canada and more choice for Canadian
farmers. Successful strategic research planning
will help foster more partnerships like this in the
future.
Ensuring cereal grains are profitable for all
involved is the ultimate goal of strategic investments in innovation. We want to see farmers
choose to grow cereals because of strong profit
margins. We want to see investment in innovation
flow into Canada and our cereals industry because
of a strong return on this investment. We want to
see our customers coming back year after year
because Canada consistently delivers what they
want.
This is how long-run success will be measured.
BY CAM DAHL
S
Ken Sigurdson
Swan River
Disappointing climate
change contribution
The Manitoba Co-operator is a
terrific newspaper, and very well
respected.
Consequently it is with disappointment that I write to tell you I feel
your standards have been compromised with the publishing of Brian
Ransom’s attempt to discredit climate change data.
He should not have been given
the space to clumsily refute scien-
tific claims from around the world,
including your own contributor
Daniel Betze, with his own biased
‘interpretation’ of Brandon’s weather
records.
Many people, including Mr.
Ransom, do not understand the
complex climatological processes
underway and should read on the
subject to familiarize themselves
with the topic, that we may all be
better prepared for the future.
Terry Fehr
Gladstone
CORRECTION
Brandon temperature averages 1890 through 2015 in °C
17.0
Mean Max June, July, Aug
24.8
23.9
24.7
24.9
Mean Min June, July, Aug
8.8
9.4
9.6
9.7
Yearly Extreme Max
35.8
34.7
37.4
34.3
Yearly Ext Min (minus)
42.5
42.1
41.9
40.4
Record Period Max
41.1
41.1
40.6
37.2
Record Period Min (minus)
46.7
45.6
46.1
45.0
average
17.2
2000/15
16.7
1990/99
16.8
1980/89
Mean June, July, August
1970/79
1.3
1960/69
1.5
1950/59
0.6
1940/49
Yearly Mean
1930/39
hours (kWh). In Manitoba this costs
us $1,361 while in Saskatchewan
for the same amount of power we
pay $1,966. So our farm pays $605 a
month more in Saskatchewan than
Manitoba.
For usage over 19,500 kWh the rate
in Manitoba is 3.7 cents per kWh
while the rate in Saskatchewan is 4.9
cents per kWh. This rate is 32 per cent
higher in Saskatchewan.
Manitobans pay no corporate
tax on the first $450,000 of taxable
income but in Saskatchewan the rate
is two per cent. So a small business or
farm with maximum taxable income
of $450,000 would pay $9,000 in taxes
in Saskatchewan and no taxes in
Manitoba. These Manitoba tax savings apply to all small business in our
community.
On the income side of the equation,
we have had our income drastically
reduced by the arbitrary removal by
the Ritz/Harper government of the
single-desk Canadian Wheat Board.
It should be noted and clear to everyone that Saskatchewan Premier Brad
Wall and Manitoba Conservative
Leader Brian Pallister were both
advocates of ending the Canadian
Wheat Board.
On our 2,000-acre farm we lost over
$400,000 on our wheat sales over the
last two years due to this decision.
Brian Pallister’s ideas have been
part of the problem, not the solution.
Bad decisions should not be rewarded
and a solution is not achieved by
electing the problem.
Cam Dahl is president of Cereals Canada, which represents the
full value chain of Canadian cereal crops, including farmers,
grain handling, processing and exporting firms, and crop
development and seed companies.
1920/29
As a farmer, I view Brian Pallister’s
comparison of taxes between
Manitoba and Saskatchewan as misleading and incomplete. We need
to look at total costs and income to
farmers, as this is the normal process
in all budgets.
We farm in both Saskatchewan
and Manitoba and last year our crop
insurance premiums for identical coverage were $11.68 an acre
in Manitoba and $20.16 an acre in
Saskatchewan.
With identical coverage on
1,000 acres in both Manitoba and
Saskatchewan, we paid $8,480 less
for crop insurance premiums in
Manitoba.
For grain drying and aeration
during harvest, the typical power
usage per month is 19,500 kilowatt
This is why shippers and exporters were invited
to participate and present to a group of researchers. Marketers provide a critical link back to the
end-use customer. It seems rather obvious that we
must produce innovation that our customers want
to buy, if we are going to be successful. We cannot
develop a strong plan for research in Canada without including the people who interact with our
customers on a daily basis.
Research is about more than variety development. Research also includes work on determining the agronomic practices that will get the most
out of new developments, as well as developing new ways of combating diseases and insects.
Strategic research includes collaboration across
the country on extension and communication of
research results. After all, the greatest advancement in the world will not mean much if it does
not move out of the laboratory and into farmers’
1910/19
Don’t elect the problem
photo: shannon vanraes
1900/09
We welcome readers’ comments on
issues that have been covered in the
Manitoba Co-operator. In most cases
we cannot accept “open” letters or
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Please forward letters to
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(subject: To the editor)
Cam Dahl
1890/99
Letters
askatoon recently saw a meeting of some
of the most important minds in Canadian
wheat research.
The workshop included public and private
researchers from across Canada, farmers from
coast to coast, and Canadian exporters.
The goal was to move forward on the development of key priorities for Canadian wheat
research.
Why is this important? Federal and provincial
governments are beginning the process of developing the next set of agricultural programming. A
key focus of agricultural spending will be innovation and research. All governments need to know
that scarce tax dollars are being spent in an effective manner.
To give this assurance, the Canadian wheat
value chain needs to present governments with a
clear strategic plan for research. We took a big step
in that direction in Saskatoon.
It is not just governments that benefit from a
strategic vision. Producers are funding about 30
per cent of public research through their provincial checkoffs. This is a critical investment in
the future of the industry. A national strategic
research plan will help provincial organizations
achieve their own priorities, and help ensure their
members’ needs are being met.
Strategic research must consider the fact
there are two customers for innovation. Farmers
must benefit from new varieties developed for
Canadian growing conditions. If farmers don’t
benefit, innovation will never make it to the field,
and investment will be lost. But farmers are not
the only customers for innovation. Research and
variety development must also take into account
the needs of end-use customers. What do customers want to buy from Canada? What are those
unique quality characteristics from Canada that
gain a premium from both international and
domestic customers?
1.6
2.2
2.2
18.4
18.4
25.8
25.8
10.9
10.9
36.4
36.4
40.3
40.3
43.3
43.3
45.0
2.3
2.3
17.7
17.7
24.8
24.8
10.5
10.5
36.6
36.6
39.9
39.9
38.9
38.9
44.4
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2.0
17.6
17.6
24.3
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10.8
10.8
35.4
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17.9
25.2
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10.6
10.6
35.8
35.8
40.4
40.4
36.7
36.7
45.6
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1.7
18.0
18.0
25.2
25.2
10.5
10.5
35.4
35.4
39.0
39.0
37.0
37.0
42.0
2.9
2.9
18.1
18.1
25.5
25.5
10.9
10.9
37.1
37.1
39.2
39.2
37.2
37.2
42.5
2.4
2.4
17.8
17.8
24.5
24.5
11.0
11.0
34.8
34.8
39.6
39.6
40.0
40.0
42.5
2.4
2.4
17.6
17.6
24.4
24.4
10.9
10.9
33.3
33.3
38.1
38.1
38.6
38.6
42.6
1.9
2.2
17.6
17.9
24.8
25.0
10.3
10.8
35.6
35.6
40.2
39.5
39.3
38.9
44.1
45.0
44.4
41.7
45.6
42.0
42.5
42.5
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43.3
Due to a production error, the temperature tables in Brian Ransom’s “A look back at historical
Brandon temperatures” on page 5 of the Mar. 31 issue contained a line incorrectly identifying
temperature after 1930-39 as 15-year averages. The correct table is above.
6
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SHIPPers Continued from page 1
“If those forecasts are accurate then long-standing, systemic system failures will reemerge.”
Last record in 1983-84
A record 35.8 million tonnes
of bulk grain were loaded
from western port terminals,
says the 2014-15 annual report
released last week by Quorum
Corporation, Canada’s government-appointed grain monitor.
That’s up 15 per cent from 31.1
million tonnes in 2013-14 and
slightly more than the previous record of 31.9 million set in
1983-84, said Quorum’s president Mark Hemmes.
“More grain moved through
the grain-handling and transportation system (GHTS) in the
2014-15 crop year than at any
other point in the history of
the grain-monitoring program
(GMP),” Hemmes said in an
email. The GMP began in 2000,
but includes data from 1999,
Hemmes said.
Several post-1999 records
were set including:
•20.6 million tonnes of grain
shipments from Vancouver
ports;
•6.2 million tonnes from the
Port of Prince Rupert;
•8.5 million tonnes from
Thunder Bay.
“Both the first and the fourth
quarters (of 2014-15) saw shipments reach over 10 million
tonnes for the first time in the
history of the GMP,” the report
says. “These gains marked a
high-water mark for the GHTS,
which benefited from a strong
and steady inbound flow of railway hopper cars.”
The record 54.86 million
tonnes of Canadian crops exported between Aug. 1, 2014
and July 31, 2015 was just slightly higher than 2013-14 exports
of 53.8 million, Statistics Canada data shows.
Less efficient but more grain
The system, as measured by
slightly longer rail car cycle and
grain transit times, was a little less efficient than in 201314… “but it moved a hell of a
lot more grain,” Hemmes said.
“The minute reduction in efficiency is an anomaly. The bottom line: for everybody from
the country to the port terminals, it was a far, far better year
overall.”
Both the grain companies and
railways were happy with their
performance.
“I think we have demonstrated that if the railways move
more we will keep up with that,”
said Sobkowich, whose organization represents Western Canada’s major grain companies.
“It takes away the rail argument
about operating 24/7.”
Canadian National transported record volumes of western
grain in 2014-15 — up five per
cent from the record crop production year of 2013-14,” Mark
Hallman, CN’s director of communications and public affairs,
said in an email
It shows government-ordered
minimum grain volumes in
2014 were unnecessary, he added.
Minimum grain volume mandates and extended interswitching should not be extended
when they expire this summer,
Hallman said. Commercial relationships and a stable regulatory environment are essential
for a well-functioning system,
he said.
Canadian Pacific (CP) spokesman Jeremey Berry credited
their performance, in part, to
CP’s dedicated train program
(DTP), which allows shippers to
manage cars.
“CP does not favour one product or commodity over another
and is well positioned to move
grain in line with the needs of its
customers,” Berry wrote in response to claims otherwise. “CP
is committed to hauling grain
and has continuously delivered
on this commitment by moving
record amounts.”
Berry also said to be more efficient the system must operate
around the clock.
Railway improvement
needed
The railways have to provide more consistent service
first, countered Curt Vossen,
Richardson International’s
president and CEO. Ten to 45
per cent of the time there are
no cars unloading at port terminals, he said in an interview
citing data collected by the Ag
Transport Coalition, which
includes grain companies.
“What we’ll have (when operating 24/7)... is guys sitting
around twiddling their thumbs
waiting for cars that aren’t going
to show up,” he said.
More grain moved in 2014-15,
but often not when the railways
said it would, Vossen said.
“That means you’ve got... vessels waiting for grain that doesn’t
get there,” he said. “At a high
level they moved more grain.
Are we happy with that? Yes, but
there are a lot of other measures
that aren’t really reflected and
many of those speak directly to
the efficiency of the system.”
Hemmes has often said Canada has the best grain-handling
and transportation system in the
world and 2014-15 demonstrated what’s possible.
“But when you’ve got that long
of a haul and the terrain, geography and climate we have to
go through, having the best system isn’t good enough,” he said.
“Best isn’t going to cut it if you
can’t be reliable.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Get the full report at:
www.grainmonitor.ca/reports.
html#AnnualReports
Richardson International
head condemns CTA
review panel
Curt Vossen says the report ignores shippers’
concerns and reflects the railways’ position
on the Canadian Transportation Act
BY ALLAN DAWSON
Co-operator staff
The head of Canada’s biggest grain
company is deeply disappointed
with the Canadian Transportation Act
review panel’s report.
“I think the report (released in
February) misses the point,” said
Richardson International’s president
and CEO Curt Vossen in a recent
interview. “Very little of the concerns
and observations put forward by
shippers are included in that report. I
look at it and I am disappointed. And
it’s not just grain. I think all shippers’
views have largely been dismissed.”
The uncritical report simply fortifies the railway view that all is well
and they did what they need to do,
Vossen said, a view he doesn’t share.
“I don’t agree. I think the report is
very remiss and very insubstantial in
its conclusions,” he said.
Vossen said he agrees with those
who think the report, based on industry consultations overseen by former
cabinet minister David Emerson,
reads as if it were written by the
railways.
The report recommends the maximum revenue entitlement (MRE) be
phased out over seven years. That
regulation caps the total amount of
money the railways can collect for
shipping grain, while guaranteeing
the railways a profit and freight rate
flexibility.
Most farm groups and the Western
Grain Elevators Association (WGEA),
which represents the West’s major
grain companies, say removing the
MRE will result in higher shipping
costs without improving service.
The railways contend regulations,
including the MRE, discourages railway investments.
“In CN’s view, normal commercial
relationships and a stable regulatory
environment are essential for an
effective, well-functioning rail transportation marketplace, including
that for grain,” CN spokesman Mark
Hallman said in an email.
The report also failed to recommend the railways be subject to
penalties when they fail to meet
service levels agreed to in contracts
with grain shippers — something the
WGEA has sought for several years.
Vossen isn’t the only grain company boss to condemn the report.
“They should throw the report
in the garbage,” Paterson Global
Foods chief executive officer Andrew
Paterson told Reuters in February. “It
is very railroad friendly.”
No accountability
For grain companies it boils down
to a lack of railway accountability,
Vossen said. They can promise to
deliver a certain number of cars
during a specific period, but when
they don’t there are no penalties.
However, in contrast the grain companies must load and unload cars
within 24 hours.
“If I fail to do so I lose my incentives or I’m penalized,” Vossen said.
“You want to hold us accountable
100 per cent of the time, then we
want to hold you accountable 100 per
cent of the time.”
Vossen said he doesn’t hold the
railways accountable for things they
can’t control, such as the coldest winter in 100 years in 2013-14.
“But I blame them for the things
that were under their control — like
cutting back on crews and power and
not allowing for surge capacity,” he
said. “I blame them for that because
it was very short sighted and selfserving.”
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them about certain processes in
the dairy industry and why we do
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show and presented a few cattle
seminars with tips on preparing
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“Young people from area cattle
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about all that’s involved in raising
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The Manitoba Co-operator put five questions to Manitoba’s registered political parties. Here is how they responded
questions
New Democratic Party
PROGRESSIVE
CONSERVATIVE Party
liberal par
Each year, Manitoba producers pay tens of
thousands of dollars in education tax on their
farmland. While farmers are eligible for an 80 per
cent education tax rebate, that rebate is capped at
$5,000, meaning larger operations are unable to
claim much of the rebate.
What is your party’s policy on farmland education
tax rebates? Would you change the rebate structure,
remove education taxes from farmland or maintain
the current rebate scheme?
Our party is focused on what matters most to Manitoba families — creating good jobs and growing the
economy.
The Farmland School Tax Rebate makes life more
affordable for farm families, allowing them to grow their
operations, build up their farms, and stay working in
Manitoba.
When we came into office the rebate was at zero.
Today, that rebate is 80 per cent.
When we created the tax credit it was 33 per cent (in
2004) and we have made steady progress and increased
it to 80 per cent today, saving farmland owners $35 million annually. It has saved farm families a grand total of
over $300 million since we put it in place.
We have put reasonable measures in place to ensure
this rebate remains financially sustainable into the future:
• Limiting the rebate to only Manitoba residents; and
• Capping the annual rebate at $5,000 per farm.
The $5,000 cap we implemented impacts fewer than
eight per cent of applicants.
The Selinger NDP first promised to eliminate the
farmland school tax but later introduced only an 80 per
cent rebate. Then it implemented barriers to the rebate by
putting a $5,000 cap per farm family (not individual). This
hurts spouses who own their own smaller plots of land,
making them ineligible for any rebate. A new Progressive
Conservative government is committed to undertaking
a value for money review to identify the true state of
Manitoba’s economic situation and find savings while
protecting front-line services. This and reducing the PST
within our first mandate are our party’s first priorities to
help get Manitoba back on track.
We are committed to eliminating
school taxes on farmland. This woul
more than $8 million in taxes.
Climate change is an accepted reality on the
Prairies, with none feeling the impact more than
agricultural producers. Yet agriculture is also cited
as a contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
What would your party do to make Manitoba’s farms
more resilient in the face of climate change, while
also tackling its root causes?
We know climate change is real and requires concrete
actions to lower our carbon footprint and do our part to
fight climate change.
We know that hard-working middle-class Manitoba
families can count on us to preserve the environment
while continuing to create good, green jobs in Manitoba.
We know that short-term targets combined with longterm goals are the only way to achieve real change.
This means we need to invest in research and continue to lead initiatives that provide climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits, including Environmental
Farm Plans (EFP) and Beneficial Management Practices
Incentive programming.
We also need to do more to protect wetlands and
advance surface water management solutions that keep
water on the land and protect rural properties from flood
waters.
The PC Party agrees that climate change is a growing threat to agricultural producers and others. We are
committed to using science-based approaches and
data when it comes to making decisions concerning our
agricultural stakeholders and their livelihoods. We know
climate change continues to pose serious issues for
Manitoba producers whether they are affected by changing weather patterns or water flows. We support the
Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) model developed
by Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) as the right
way to achieve conservation and adaptation on private
farmlands, and would pursue this model with the federal
government and local governments.
The NDP has had 17 years to invest in flood protections for Manitoba’s agricultural community, which
represents almost four per cent of our province’s GDP.
Unfortunately the NDP has mostly ignored the many
beneficial spinoffs that agriculture can and does provide
to Manitobans.
Agriculture producers want to be
but we need to be mindful of the co
the cost to consumers that would co
much pressure on costs. We will wo
find common-sense solutions to this
Recent years have seen a reduction in the number
of extension offices and production specialists in
Manitoba. Producer groups also cite a decreased
emphasis on research and development overall.
What would your party do to improve extension
services for Manitoba farmers? And how would you
foster robust agricultural research and innovation
with your mandate?
Our NDP government has been a strong supporter of
research and innovation and has invested significantly
into research and development. Working with industry
partners we developed the Grain Innovation Hub to
foster innovation and grow Winnipeg as a key centre in
Canada’s grain industry.
The Growing Forward 2 Partnership with the federal
government has the flexibility to create new jobs and
grow Manitoba’s economy. This agreement will allow us
to meet challenges in Manitoba’s agriculture industry
and ensure our farmers and their families are protected.
These investments — such as the new Beef-Forage
Platform — provide our farmers with innovative programming and important research.
Manitobans have always had the tools they need to
succeed, but the NDP has been in their way.
A PC government would partner with the producers
and experts in both the private and post-secondary sectors in order to foster new research and innovation.
Manitoba should be a hub for agr
but research dollars have been hea
tions. We need to make Manitoba a
innovation and that requires politica
Manitoba producers rely on the province’s roads
and highways to operate their farms and get
products to market, but many roadways, bridges,
ditches and culverts are in need of repair and
renewal.
How would your party tackle this issue? What
areas of the province would your party prioritize
for infrastructure renewal? How would your party
fund infrastructure? Would your party increase
financial contributions to municipal governments
to ensure roads under their jurisdictions also see
improvement?
Our $10-billion infrastructure plan will create good
jobs and grow the economy.
The multi-year strategy includes:
Investing $6.6 billion in provincial highways and
bridges to create a modern transportation network that
links Manitoba’s CentrePort to the world, directs heavy
traffic off city roadways and includes charging infrastructure, and an additional $2.5 billion for municipal roads,
clean water, active transportation projects and other
important priorities.
Increasing Manitoba’s share of the funding for a Growing Communities Fund for rural Manitoba.
Investing $900 million in flood protection, including
work on the Portage Diversion and the Shellmouth Dam,
stronger flood protection for Brandon, support for community dikes and working with First Nations communities
to build the Lake Manitoba and Lake St. Martin outlets.
The PC Party has committed to invest no less than
$1 billion a year in strategic infrastructure investments
throughout Manitoba. Having predictable and stable
funding from government will go a long way to getting
needed infrastructure projects completed. We will adopt
a return-on-investment criteria to ensure that the proper
infrastructure is being targeted for renewal by focusing
on projects that will best support the growth of Manitoba’s economy including to municipalities for projects
like these.
We have committed to putting the
into a dedicated Municipal Infrastru
each municipal government can foc
ties without being told what those a
Broadway. We will also take stock o
need the most help and focus our e
must get back to the basics and tha
infrastructure dollars.
In 2006, the Manitoba government banned the
construction or expansion of hog barns in 35 rural
municipalities, unless they included an anaerobic
digester to handle effluent. In 2011 that ban —
colloquially referred to as a moratorium — was
expanded to the entire province. Today a special
pilot project protocol is allowing for new barn
construction in most of the province.
What policy would your party enact regarding hog
barns and other intensive livestock operations in
Manitoba? How would your party balance economic
and environmental considerations?
Manitobans care about the environment and want
clean, safe water. That is why we are working hard to
have strong environmental regulations to protect our
water.
We will continue to use research, science and innovative technologies to grow our economy while also
protecting our environment.
We will only support projects that include even
tougher environmental regulations that must be followed
and ensures that any expansion occurs only in areas
where it will not harm our water.
The PC Party of Manitoba is committed to working
with all stakeholder groups to achieve the best economic
and environmental results. Manitoba’s hog farmers and
processors are vital components to our economy. As
such, and as previously stated, the PC Party of Manitoba
is committed to using science-based approaches and
data to help inform the best policies in government to
bring the PC Party’s better plan for a better Manitoba.
Balance is indeed the key. We mu
terways and our lakes and rivers, bu
want to be part of that solution and
hog and livestock industry to ensure
production that is sustainable and re
moratorium seems like an overreact
and it has the potential to kill an ind
diversity in our economy and vibran
munities.
9
se to rural and farm issues
beral party
green party
communist party
to eliminating the $5,000 cap on
and. This would save rural families
in taxes.
The Green Party of Manitoba (GPM) would eliminate
education tax from property tax on all property including
both land and buildings. We will fund education through
personal and corporate income tax rates so that the
overall change is revenue neutral and most farmers will
see their tax burden decline.
Our policy is to make taxes fair, according to ability
to pay, helping the smaller family farms the most. For
several decades, the Communist Party has campaigned
to remove education from property taxes, leaving municipalities a larger revenue base. All taxes on wealth ought
to be related to income, including property taxes. Those
able to pay should pay more. Size should not be the
criteria, yet larger or more intense operations tend to be
more profitable. A rebate is a good idea, but it ought to
be based on net income, not the size of a farm.
ers want to be part of the solution,
ndful of the cost to producers and
s that would come if we put too
sts. We will work with producers to
olutions to this important issue.
The GPM will dedicate spending on measures that
enable farmers to increase carbon sequestration such as
the use of cover crops and green manure crops, planting
of shelterbelts, restoration of wetlands and forestation of
riparian areas. We will encourage drought-resistant practices such as holistic grazing management. We will invest
public money into public plant breeding to encourage
locally adapted cultivars. We will encourage production
methods which use less chemical fertilizer to reduce the
manufacture of nitrogen, which is one of the biggest
GHG emitters in farming. We will encourage the construction of water-retention areas to reduce the damage
of flash floods. We will encourage the decentralization of
commodity processing in order to reduce transportation
which is a major contributor of GHGs.
If there is a best time to spend funds on research
and development of means to mitigate the effects of
climate change, it is immediately. Rather than pay higher
insurance premiums, prevention is the best policy. The
Communist Party proposes to nationalize the oil and
gas industry and convert oilpatch jobs to greener forms
of energy with no loss in pay. Before the 1990s, we
demanded a moratorium on new tarsands development.
Now our policy is to keep it in the ground.
e a hub for agricultural research,
have been headed to other jurisdicke Manitoba a hub for agricultural
equires political will.
The GPM will increase public funding for crop and
animal variety research to remove the burden of seed
royalties from farmers. We would stop the flow of public
money into private intellectual property. We will increase
funding for research into sustainable farm practices.
The GPM would hire a provincial organic production
specialist to deliver extension services and improve
outcomes for organic farmers. We’d increase funding for
grazing clubs and organic farm clubs to deliver education on economically and environmentally sustainable
production techniques.
Science in agriculture is needed more than ever. The
Communist Party would make a large investment in
research and development, with full input from farmers
into the direction and emphasis of research. Priorities
must include sustainability, soil retention and water
preservation. The “war on knowledge and science” must
end.
d to putting the extra point of PST
icipal Infrastructure Fund to ensure
nment can focus on its own priorid what those are by politicians on
o take stock of what rural roads
nd focus our efforts on those. We
basics and that means prioritizing
We will create a Green Surface Water Management
Strategy which ends the practice of dumping water onto
those downstream and encourages landowners to build
retention ponds. Owners would be able to move water
around on a quarter section to enable efficient farming,
but must not drain their water off their property.
We’ll invest in engineering services to ensure that culvert and bridge projects are appropriate for the site and
that recurring damage and repair expenses are avoided.
Canada’s antiquated tax structure hinders rural and
urban municipalities the most, and is detrimental to the
development of Aboriginal nations who demand just and
quick settlement of land and resource claims. Municipalities are short of funds to pay for needed infrastructure
because they are “creatures of the provinces” and have
no access to the enormous profits and personal incomes.
Canada, and Manitoba, must work towards a new deal
to provide access to fair or progressive tax authority for
municipalities.
he key. We must protect our was and rivers, but we feel producers
t solution and we will work with the
ustry to ensure we are allowing for
tainable and responsible. An all-out
e an overreaction to this problem,
al to kill an industry that creates
my and vibrancy to our rural com-
The GPM would restore the single desk for hog marketing in order to give market access to smaller hog producers who are now shut out of the market. We would
replace the hog barn moratorium with a requirement that
all new and existing barns demonstrate that they have
access to and are using adequate manure spread acres,
measured by soil phosphate content.
We would start the transition away from liquid manure
and toward straw bedding hog management systems.
The GPM would work with CFIA to allow the use of a
truck-washing station on Highway 75 to stop the spread
of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus into Manitoba.
Such intensive operations require strict environmental
guidelines to protect land and water resources. Our
policy is to oppose the unscientific and unsustainable
use of antibiotics. We do not propose a moratorium, but
support well-managed, safe and worker-friendly livestock operations. To assist smaller operations, we would
re-establish marketing boards.
manitoba party
The Manitoba Party did not respond.
10
LIVESTOCK MARKETS
(Friday to Thursday)
Winnipeg
Slaughter Cattle
Steers
—
Heifers
—
D1, 2 Cows
—
D3 Cows
—
Bulls
—
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
—
(801-900 lbs.)
—
(701-800 lbs.)
—
(601-700 lbs.)
—
(501-600 lbs.)
No Sale
(401-500 lbs.)
March 25th
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
—
(801-900 lbs.)
—
(701-800 lbs.)
—
(601-700 lbs.)
—
(501-600 lbs.)
—
(401-500 lbs.)
—
Heifers
Alberta South
—
—
95.00 - 109.00
80.00 - 99.00
—
$ 171.00 - 180.00
180.00 - 190.00
195.00 - 213.00
213.00 - 237.00
237.00 - 254.00
248.00 - 276.00
$ 160.00 - 171.00
170.00 - 184.00
175.00 - 192.00
190.00 - 210.00
210.00 - 227.00
220.00 245.00
($/cwt)
(1,000+ lbs.)
(850+ lbs.)
Change
-2.52
-1.07
0.17
0.27
0.22
0.58
Feeder Cattle
March 2016
April 2016
May 2016
August 2016
September 2016
October 2016
Cattle Slaughter
April 1, 2016
Jade MarkuS
CNSC
$
Close
157.08
155.25
155.08
153.70
151.80
147.95
Change
1.52
0.50
0.82
0.80
1.25
1.60
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
March 26, 2016
42,732
9,582
33,150
N/A
547,000
Previous
Year
47,372
11,728
35,644
N/A
539,000
Week Ending
March 26, 2016
988
24,861
8,693
384
450
6,570
245
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Previous
Year
1,109
28,195
11,581
471
495
5,004
50
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.)
Projected U.S. corn acres
support cattle futures
Cow-calf profits may draw new entrants to the business
Ontario
146.90 - 169.14
144.59 - 171.84
75.41 - 100.09
75.41 - 100.09
113.37 - 131.23
$ 178.54 - 194.44
164.46 - 193.24
167.71 - 209.75
193.18 - 242.41
186.37 - 247.06
206.06 - 253.57
$ 153.45 - 173.29
151.70 - 178.12
163.90 - 183.88
168.15 - 203.99
166.65 - 220.06
171.86 - 244.60
$
(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 (April 1, 2016) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
April 2016
132.93
June 2016
124.03
August 2016
120.18
October 2016
119.85
December 2016
118.68
February 2017
117.52
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
$1 Cdn: $0.7664 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.3047 Cdn.
column
Cattle Prices
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
april 1, 2016
Current Week
171 E
158 E
154.17
Last Week
169.37
157.01
156.33
Last Year (Index 100)
156.69
144.53
135.94
158.09
159.51
139.19
C
attle prices dropped on the week at auction marts across Manitoba, weighed
down by gains in the Canadian dollar
— but many buyers are still interested in breeding, one auctioneer says.
Feeder and butcher cattle were $1-$2 lower
than last week’s prices, according to Robin Hill
of Heartland Livestock Services in Virden.
“Everything has to do with the dollar increasing now, but we did see a really nice rally in the
CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) feeder
cattle; we just need to see a full week of it.”
Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder and live
cattle futures rallied as the Chicago Board of
Trade corn market lost ground.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released
a prospective plantings report on March 31,
which showed about a six per cent increase in
the amount of corn U.S. farmers are expected
to seed this upcoming growing season.
Those losses supported the feeder cattle
market, which in turn propped up live cattle
futures.
“The big debate, I guess, from a marketing point of view, is trying to figure out the
U.S.,” said Brian Perillat, manager and senior
analyst at CanFax, a cattle-marketing arm of
the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. “Is the
spring high in or not?”
Cattle markets, he said, typically rally in
spring, and analysts are trying to figure out if
prices hit their highs a few weeks ago, or if a
bounce could still be coming.
“It’s kind of up in the air; cattle supplies are
still pretty supportive, supplies are still kind of
tight,” Perillat said.
“If the demand picks up, we could see prices
continue to move a little higher here.”
“The big debate, I guess, from a
marketing point of view, is trying
to figure out the U.S.… Is the
spring high in or not?”
brian perillat
CanFax
Despite prices moving lower on the week,
demand still exists for Manitoba cattle, but it is
shifting, Hill said.
“There’s guys who want grass cattle, but
they don’t want as many as last year because it
maybe doesn’t look as promising.”
Demand would be stronger, he said, if the
market had “a light at the end of the tunnel,
showing that they’re worth it to buy.”
But Hill added he has seen more ranchers
looking to buy bred cattle, and those cows have
been selling well.
“That’s the one thing that has been positive,”
he said. “There’s lots of guys looking to increase
their breeding stock and the bred cow sales
have been selling very well.”
Workers who were laid off from the oil sector and farmers who were unhappy with their
returns this year could be interested in starting
a cow herd, he speculated.
“The grain thing hasn’t been perfect this past
year,” he said.
Cow-calf producers have been profitable the
last couple of years, which could tempt new
ranchers, Perillat said.
“We might see a little bit of growth — or at
least see some stability in the herd — because
profitability will probably have some guys hang
on to their cows.”
Jade Markus writes for Commodity News Service Canada,
a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity
market reporting.
Futures (April 1 2016) in U.S.
Hogs
Close
Change
April 2016
May 2016
June 2016
July 2016
68.35
77.23
80.85
80.80
8.68
-1.28
-1.93
-0.92
August 2016
80.40
-0.13
Other Market Prices
Sheep and Lambs
Winnipeg
$/cwt
Ewes
Lambs
Wooled Fats
Choice
(110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
—
—
Next Sale
April 20th
—
—
Chickens
Minimum broiler prices as of April 13, 2010
Under 1.2 kg..................................................$1.5130
1.2 - 1.65 kg....................................................$1.3230
1.65 - 2.1 kg....................................................$1.3830
2.1 - 2.6 kg.....................................................$1.3230
Turkeys
Minimum prices as of March 6, 2016
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A ............................................... $1.890
Undergrade ....................................... $1.800
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A ................................................$1.875
Undergrade .........................................$1.775
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A ................................................$1.875
Undergrade ........................................$1.875
Tom Turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A..................................................$1.855
Undergrade...........................................$1.770
Prices are quoted f.o.b. producers premise.
Toronto
108.62 - 140.05
138.52 - 167.90
195.66 - 215.26
220.99 - 245.60
238.76 - 291.37
—
SunGold
Specialty Meats
—
Eggs
Goats
Kids
Billys
Mature
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
BY THEOPOLIS WATERS
The U.S. hog herd in the
December-February quarter modestly grew from
a year earlier, to a record
high for that quarter,
according to the March
25 U.S. Department of
Agriculture quarterly hog
report.
Farmers cautiously
added to herds while shoring up their bottom lines
following the surge in hog
numbers as the industry
recovers from a deadly
porcine epidemic diarrhea
virus (PEDv), said industry
economists.
“PEDv is much less of
a problem than it was
in recent years, but it’s
not totally gone,” said
University of Missouri livestock economist Ron Plain.
He said the USDA survey
suggests weak hog and pork
prices this summer versus a
year earlier, with prices rising as 2016 progresses.
The USDA report showed
the U.S. hog herd as of
March 1 at 67.6 million
head, topping the then
record high for the quarter
of 67.4 million a year earlier.
Analysts, on average,
expected 67.626 million
head, or 100.3 per cent of
the year-earlier herd.
The U.S. breeding herd
stood at 5.980 million head,
a marginal decrease versus
last year.
The average trade forecast was 6.016 million or
100.6 per cent of the previous year.
The March 1 supply of
market-ready hogs for sale
to packers was at 61.7 million head, a slight gain
from 61.4 million from
March 1 last year.
Analysts viewed the
report as generally neutral because outcomes for
the top three categories
were nearly in line with
forecasts.
However, they said the
one per cent bump in the
lightweight hog category
implies ample supplies
through the summer.
Conversely, the June
through August farrowings
were below trade forecasts,
suggesting fewer animals
during the second half of
2016.
Toronto
($/cwt)
116.50 - 387.22
—
82.96 - 174.63
Horses
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
U.S. hog herd ekes
out new quarterly
high as PED virus
impact abates
REUTERS
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
$2.05
A Large
2.00
2.05
A Medium
1.82
1.87
A Small
1.40
1.45
A Pee Wee
0.3775
0.3775
Nest Run 24 +
1.8910
1.9390
B
0.45
0.45
C
0.15
0.15
Winnipeg
(Hd Fats)
—
—
—
briefs
Toronto
($/cwt)
26.00 - 42.00
61.00 - 69.00
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GRAIN MARKETS
column
Manitoba Elevator Prices
Average quotes as of April 4, 2016 ($/tonne)
Projected U.S. acres,
palm oil surge lift canola
South America’s soy crop and a rising loonie cap gains
DAVE SIMS
CNSC
I
CE Futures Canada canola futures posted
solid gains during the week ended April
1, as strength in the vegetable oil market
and a mildly favourable U.S. Department of
Agriculture report pointed the way higher.
The front-month May contract improved by
over $8 per tonne, to take canola over its technical resistance of $480.
The surging price of Malaysian palm oil
may deserve the lion’s share of the credit for
advances in canola. The lingering effects of El
Niño have enabled palm oil to set new market
highs on a routine basis.
It was a bullish week for U.S. soybeans and
soyoil, which also supported canola futures.
USDA has pegged U.S. farmers’ intended soybean acreage at 82.2 million acres, slightly
lower than last year. This came as a welcome
surprise to some who felt acreage might possibly increase in a year where large supplies are
already coming from South America.
Commercial buying continues to stay steady
while China’s decision to delay adjustments
to its dockage allowance of Canadian canola
imports was supportive. As well, some parts
of Western Canada are too dry, which underpinned prices.
However, the Canadian dollar ended the
week slightly higher, which limited the gains.
South America’s large soybean supply is
entering the market, too, which also cast a
bearish tone over values.
Crude oil is also becoming a potentially
bearish factor for canola. Saudi Arabia’s decision not to slash oil production, unless fellow
exporter Iran does the same, seems to indicate
the large glut of oil on the market won’t be
declining any time soon.
It was a bearish week for corn, with prices
plunging in the wake of USDA’s prediction calling
for 93.6 million acres of corn to be planted in the
U.S. That figure is much higher than last year’s,
which pushed the market into a steep sell-off.
To compound the situation, China announced it
was eliminating its corn stockpiling system which
would result in more supplies hitting its market.
Soybeans finished higher for the week. The
market took strength from gains in vegetable
oil and a USDA report that called for slightly
lower acreage than last year.
Wheat was also higher. Dry conditions in
parts of the U.S. Plains supported values, as did
the USDA report which called for less acreage
than last year.
Dave Sims writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a
Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity
market reporting.
Future
Cash
E. Manitoba wheat
196.38
42.77
237.15
W. Manitoba wheat
194.38
35.80
230.18
E. Manitoba canola
479.10
-11.91
467.19
W. Manitoba canola
379.10
-18.55
460.55
Source: pdqinfo.ca
Port Prices
As of Friday, April 1, 2016 ($/tonne)
Last Week
Weekly Change
U.S. hard red winter 12% Houston
192.07
2.20
U.S. spring wheat 14% Portland
230.20
6.43
Canola Thunder Bay
486.20
5.30
Canola Vancouver
506.20
5.30
Closing Futures Prices
As of Monday, April 4, 2016 ($/tonne)
Last Week
Weekly Change
ICE canola
476.20
5.30
ICE milling wheat
240.00
4.00
ICE barley
176.00
0.00
Mpls. HRS wheat
194.56
5.70
Chicago SRW wheat
173.98
3.86
Kansas City HRW wheat
174.99
1.65
Corn
138.38
-7.28
Oats
120.28
-0.97
Soybeans
334.65
0.09
Soymeal
297.87
-5.51
Soyoil
754.55
22.93
Cash Prices Winnipeg
As of Monday, April 4, 2016 ($/tonne)
Last Week
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Commodity News Service Canada, visit the Markets section at
www.manitobacooperator.ca.
Basis
Weekly Change
Feed wheat
210.52
3.67
Feed barley
183.26
5.05
n/a
n/a
441.71
3.54
Rye
Flaxseed
Feed peas
n/a
n/a
Oats
162.11
-5.19
Soybeans
374.79
-5.51
Sunflower (NuSun) Fargo, ND ($U.S./CWT)
16.45
unch
Ask
Ask
Sunflower (Confection) Fargo, ND ($U.S./CWT)
Prairie spring wheat bids strengthen with U.S. futures
Strength in the Canadian dollar keeps a lid on bids
BY PHIL FRANZ-WARKENTIN
CNS Canada
C
ash spring wheat bids
across Western Canada
were mostly higher
during the week ended April
1, as advances in U.S. futures
provided some support.
However, the Canadian
dollar was also firmer over
the course of the week,
which put some pressure on
Canadian values.
Depending on the location,
average Canada Western Red
Spring (CWRS) wheat prices
were up by $3-$5 per tonne
over the course of the week,
according to price quotes
from a cross-section of delivery points across the Prairie
provinces compiled by PDQ
(Price and Data Quotes).
Average prices ranged from
about $227 per tonne in
northeastern Saskatchewan
to as high as $243 in southern Alberta.
Quoted basis levels varied
from location to location, but
held relatively steady overall, ranging from $34 to $49
per tonne above the futures
when using the grain company methodology of quoting the basis as the difference
between U.S. dollar-denominated futures and Canadian
dollar cash bids.
When accounting for currency exchange rates by
adjusting Canadian prices
to U.S. dollars, CWRS bids
ranged from US$174 to
$186 per tonne, up by about
US$4-$6 per tonne com-
Average durum prices were up by $6 to as much
as $16 per tonne during the week.
pared to the previous week.
That would put the currency adjusted basis levels
at about US$8-$20 below the
futures.
Looking at it the other way
around, if the Minneapolis
futures are converted to
Canadian dollars, CWRS
basis levels across Western
Canada range from $10 to
$26 below the futures.
Average Canada Prairie
Spring Red (CPSR) bids were
up by about $1-$2 per tonne
in most locations. Average
CPSR pr ices came in at
about $189-$210 per tonne
in Saskatchewan, and $203$216 per tonne in Alberta.
Average durum prices were
up by $6 to as much as $16
per tonne during the week,
with bids in Saskatchewan
ranging from roughly $281 to
$284 per tonne.
The May spr ing wheat
contract in Minneapolis, off
of which most CWRS contracts in Canada are based,
was quoted at US$5.29 per
bushel on April 1, up 14.75
U.S. cents from the previous
week.
Kansas City hard red winter wheat futures, traded in
Chicago, are more closely
linked to CPSR in Canada.
The May K.C. wheat contract
was quoted at US$4.7775 per
bushel on April 1, up six U.S.
cents compared to the previous week.
The May Chicago Board
of Trade soft wheat contract
settled April 1 at US$4.7575,
up by 12.75 U.S. cents on the
week.
The Canadian dollar closed
at 76.84 U.S. cents on April 1,
up by more than a cent relative to its U.S. counterpart
compared to the previous
week.
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LIVESTOCK
h u s b a n d r y — t h e s c i e n c e , S K I L L O R ART O F F AR M IN G
Antimicrobial use in beef
to meet new pressures
Antimicrobial resistance in the Canadian beef sector is currently low,
but experts warn that producers should be cautious of overuse
BY JENNIFER PAIGE
Co-operator staff/Brandon
A
ntimicrobial use in Canadian
cattle is in for a major rethink.
Growing concern from consumers and animal scientists over
antibiotic resistance also underlines
an unpleasant truth for producers —
these long-relied-upon tools may be
on the cusp of becoming ineffective.
“In our industry we need to know
if we are creating resistance within
our animal population through our
production practices and if we are
going to create a situation where
antimicrobials won’t be effective
for our needs anymore,” said Craig
Dorin, managing veterinary partner
with Agri-Health Services of Airdrie,
Alta, during a recent webinar presented by the Beef Cattle Research
Council (BCRC).
“Society is going to review how
we do this and it’s going to have
expectations of us,” he said. “So, we
need to have a mind shift on how we
approach our use of these products
so that we can defend the fact that
we’re using them prudently and in a
sustainable manner.”
According to Dorin, new regulations have already been proposed
and some will be implemented in
coming years, including changes to
allowed products and increased veterinary supervision when administering antimicrobial drugs.
“In the next year or two some of
the regulatory changes that we are
expecting to be implemented would
be the removal of growth promoting claims on medically important
antimicrobials,” Dorin said. “An
example of a product that may fall
into this category would be AS 700.
It is a feed-grade antibiotic and its
label claim is for growth promotion
in cases where respiratory disease
issues may persist.”
Veterinarian Craig Dorin says cattle producers will face growing pressure to manage antimicrobials. PHOTO: ALEXIS KIENLEN
“Society is going to
review how we do this
and it’s going to have
expectations of us.”
Craig Dorin
managing veterinary partner
Agri-Health Services Airdrie, Alta.
Decades of use
The cattle industry has been using
antimicrobials for decades to treat
and prevent disease and infection
and to improve animal growth.
“Antimicrobials in Canada are
divided into four classes — low
importance, medium, high and
very-high importance,” said Reynold
Bergen, science director for the
BCRC. “The cattle industry currently
uses medication from all four classes,
with high-importance antimicrobials
being the most commonly used.”
“An example of a product used to
improve animal growth would be
Tylosin when used in feed to control liver abscesses,” said Dorin. “Not
only do animals with reduced liver
abscesses grow faster but less livers
are condemned at the plant so the
total value of the animal increases
as well.”
The concern is that overuse of
these drugs may result in resistance development that could cause
decreased effectiveness, increase
the use of ‘last-resort’ or very-highimportance products, and eventually leave the industry with less
resources to fight off disease and
infection.
However, for now, Bergen says
that research is showing the
Canadian beef industry is doing a
great job at keeping resistance levels
low.
“Antimicrobial resistance is looking really good right now,” Bergen
said. “I would dare to say that any
other livestock sector in Canada
would be proud of these results.”
The Canadian Integrated
Program for Antimicrobial
Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS)
conducts ongoing surveillance of
cattle entering slaughter plants, as
well as on retail beef, he said.
“In the surveillance conducted by
CIPARS, we see results showing next
to no resistance in the very-highimportance class. We see really low
resistance in the high-importance
and a little bit more resistance in the
medium-importance products,” said
Bergen.
Reducing the need
To minimize the risk of developing
resistance, Dorin says producers
must only use antimicrobial products when necessary, understand
the different classes of products,
choose the most appropriate product and have a clear understanding
of the product’s timeline.
“In my opinion, the cow-calf production sector is where we have the
best opportunity for reduced antimicrobial use. This is the non-confined time frame of the animal’s life
and we can spread them out and
reduce the overall incidence of disease, in turn, reducing the needs
and requirements for antimicrobials,” he said.
Dorin notes there may also be
management changes producers
could consider to improve overall
herd health and reduce dependence
on these drugs.
He s a y s i n h i s p ra c t i c e h e
has seen a number of producers
switch to spring calving, which
has reduced animal health issues
dramatically.
“While this industry was recovering from BSE, our cow-calf producers had to learn to manage their
costs and one of the things a lot of
our clients did was calve later in
the year,” he said. “By calving later,
they are calving on dry ground,
green grass and there are far fewer
problems.”
Other tools to consider are vaccination protocols, biosecurity plans,
low-stress weaning, farm-to-feedlot
sales, accurate disease diagnosis and
ensuring proper animal nutrition.
“Proper nutrition is absolutely the
foundation of any health program,”
he said. “You need to make sure that
all of your cattle are getting the necessary energy, protein but especially
the minerals and vitamins that they
need. Over my career as a veterinarian in the beef industry I have come
across far more situations where
nutrition ended up being more of a
solution than drugs or antibiotics.”
13
COLUMN
Ways to reduce incidence of navel ill
You need to pay close attention to this costly problem and take steps to reduce it
ROY LEWIS DVM
Beef 911
M
uch has been written
about omphalophlebitis — inflammation of
the umbilical veins also known
as navel ill — in calves.
The bovine species appears to
be fairly susceptible to developing infection, with the incidence
increasing when calves are born
into wet or damp conditions
and in close confinement. With
more producers calving later —
many times on grass — calves
are spread out in a drier environment and that alone has greatly
decreased the incidence of navel
infection.
Other methods for preventing navel infection are ensuring colostral intake is high
to boost the calves’ resistance
and, in some cases, using longacting prophylactic antibiotics
prescribed by veterinarians for
herds where the incidence is
higher than normal.
As a rule, we have a higher
incidence in purebred herds
where they calve early and when
calves are cycled through a
warm barn. This environment
will allow foot rot and other
types of organisms to accumulate over time.
It’s best to have a calving area,
which can be disinfected easily, and only bring through those
cows that really need assistance.
Ideally, the calving maternity
pen should have a cement floor
and a drain so the area can be
cleaned and disinfected easily after each use. I can’t stress
enough the importance of having lots of bedding in the calving and post-calving areas and
keeping the barns clean by using
lots of fresh bedding. The extra
work and cost will yield fewer
diseases like navel infection.
Over the years I have tried
many things to prevent this
problem, even using human
umbilical clamps (but I found
they caused more problems
than they prevented). One thing
veterinarians have recognized
with caesarean sections is that
navel infection rates are higher.
There is no stress on calves during a caesarean incision unless
the intervention was delayed or
a major attempt was made at
pulling the calf. With a caesarean delivery, the calf is essentially coming out backwards
and the navel cord rips off very
close to the body (very similar to
a normal backwards calf ). The
calf needs the long protective
shroud of the umbilicus to prevent infection from wicking up
inside.
There are a couple of ways to
prevent this. At our clinic, when
the calf is coming out through
the incision, we grab and physically break the protective shroud
quite a distance from the navel
(12 to 16 inches). This is about
the natural distance where the
umbilicus breaks off.
Dr. Gordon Adkins at the
University of Calgary’s faculty of
veterinary medicine has a different method, which is equally
effective, and a more natural
recreation of the real event. As
the calf is coming through the
incision he pulls the entire recommended by your veterinar- that one calf is often backumbilicus back between the ian that is not too harsh. Strong wards. Twins have the challenge
back legs. This exactly mimics iodine solutions, for instance, of sharing the available coloshow the umbilicus breaks off in cause more inflammation actu- trum. Will both twins mother
a normal delivery and he has ally worsening the condition. up or will you graft a twin onto
had great success at this. Success This is one reason why we don’t another cow? All these stresses
meaning the umbilical shroud is recommend any routine treat- also make them more prone to
navel infection, scours, pneuintact and more than a foot long. ment directly on the navel.
Our next issue to tackle is monia et cetera, and for that
This definitely prevents infecbackwards-presented calves reason are often supplemented
tion from wicking up inside.
I would recommend that if a which, as you may guess, rip off with extra colostrum.
Whether it is calves that are
caesarean section is required, short as well. Generally these
mention this to your veterinar- births are being assisted, but the lost or develop joint infections
ian. Both these methods are easy question is, how do we break off and must be put down or calves
to do and will greatly decrease the shroud internally without with a slight pus discharge from
the incidence of navel infection breaking the vessels, as the calf the area, all are losses to the
still has to be delivered? That is beef industry. The calves with
in these calves.
If the navel still breaks off short a question for the future as these lingering infections have poorer
or the calf flops out of the inci- backwards calves may have weight gains and some yearling
sion before this can be done, delayed deliveries, sometimes bulls have developed infections
then perhaps put them on pro- lack oxygen, and are slower to in their secondary sex glands
phylactic
antibiotics. With short rise and suckle — all factors (seminal vesiculitis) from navel
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where
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keep navel infections
Remember
too 2016-03-11
that with
a PM
disinfecting
the navel area. Just
make sure and use something high percentage of twin births down on your farm.
I will keep you posted if we
find a way to break the navel
shroud internally on those backwards calves. In the meantime,
I would recommend talking to
your veterinarian about prophylactic antibiotics on those
backwards calves or any with the
navel ripped off short. Closely
examine the navel cord on newborn calves to see what I mean.
In some herds with higher incidences, veterinarians prescribe
antibiotics at birth to help prevent navel infections.
So have a great calving season
with the minimum of problems
and a very low death rate. And
let’s keep navel infection to a
minimum.
Roy Lewis practised large-animal
veterinary medicine for more than 30
years and now works part time as a
technical services veterinarian for Merck
Animal Health.
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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Feeder Steers
No. on offer
Gladstone
30-Mar
29-Mar
1,830
665*
Grunthal
29-Mar
Heartland
Heartland
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Brandon
Virden
29-Mar
30-Mar
1-Apr
763
2,091*
1,260
Over 1,000 lbs.
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
160.00-181.00
900-1,000
n/a
165.00-185.00
n/a
165.00-180.00
176.00-194.00
n/a
n/a
165.00-184.00
172.00-194.00
178.00-194.50
165.00-185.00
185.00-198.00
185.00-201.00 (203.00)
n/a
n/a
175.00-195.00
800-900
700-800
180.00-212.25
190.00-215.50
180.00-217.00
195.00-212.00
197.00-214.00 (218.00)
n/a
n/a
185.00-212.00
600-700
190.00-226.50
210.00-239.50
210.00-242.00
220.00-240.00
218.00-238.50
n/a
n/a
200.00-230.00
500-600
205.00-245.00
240.00-272.50
230.00-245.00
235.00-263.00
230.00-255.00
n/a
n/a
218.00-255.00
400-500
210.00-251.00
250.00-275.00
240.00-265.00
245.00-280.00
240.00-273.00
n/a
n/a
230.00-258.00
300-400
n/a
265.00-272.00
250.00-270.00
260.00-290.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
150.00-168.50
n/a
150.00-165.00
164.00-175.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder heifers
900-1,000 lbs.
800-900
150.00-186.50
165.00-176.00
150.00-175.00
165.00-178.00
172.00-184.00**
n/a
n/a
150.00-166.00
700-800
154.00-193.00
165.00-184.50
175.00-205.00
175.00-192.00
176.00-188.00***
n/a
n/a
165.00-191.00
600-700
170.00-201.00
180.00-197.00
200.00-215.00
190.00-211.00
194.00-208.00
n/a
n/a
180.00-205.00
500-600
180.00-204.50
190.00-207.50
210.00-235.00
208.00-217.00
217.00-241.00
n/a
n/a
185.00-220.00
400-500
190.00-224.00
200.00-241.00
225.00-240.00
220.00-247.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
200.00-220.00
300-400
n/a
210.00-250.00
235.00-264.00
235.00-255.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Slaughter Market
No. on offer
152
80
190
D1-D2 Cows
80.00-91.00
n/a
n/a
93.00-100.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
92.00-98.00
D3-D5 Cows
65.00-72.00
n/a
n/a
80.00-92.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
83.00-93.00
Age Verified
90.00-100.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
100.00-135.00
n/a
n/a
122.00-135.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
120.00-130.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Steers
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
125.00-130.00
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
110.00-118.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
125.00-130.00
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
90.00-95.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
75.00-85.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
100.00-135.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Heiferettes
* includes slaughter market ** 189.00 breeders ***194.00 breeders
(Note all prices in CDN$ per cwt. These prices also generally represent the top one-third of sales reported by the auction yard.)
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o f t h e Sw i s s C h a l e t
casual dining chain
and Harvey’s burger outlets,
said March 31 it would buy
St-Hubert BBQ, one of Quebec’s
largest casual dining chains, for
$537 million to gain a foothold
in the province.
The deal, expected to close
this summer pending regulatory
approvals, was cheered by analysts
and investors. Shares in Vaughn,
Ont.-based Cara, which went public a year ago, closed 9.4 per cent
higher at $29.15 on the TSX.
“Given the potential synergies
that exist, not only on the cost side
but also on the top line, we believe
Cara has only increased its positioning as the dominant restaurant operator in Canada, and as
an attractive consolidator going
forward,” said Canaccord analyst
Derek Dley, in a note.
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poultry, eggs
allowed in
Canada
Cara, Canada’s largest operator of full-service restaurants, had
indicated it was looking to expand
through acquisitions. And analysts had flagged privately held
St-Hubert as one of the most likely
targets for Cara, which is controlled by deal maker Prem Watsa’s
Fairfax Financial Holdings.
Swiss Chalet and St-Hubert are
both well known for their rotisserie chicken meals, but the two
chains share little geographic
overlap.
Of St-Hubert’s 117 restaurants,
108 are in Quebec, where Swiss
Chalet does not have a presence. The remainder is in eastern
Ontario and New Brunswick.
St-Hubert also operates foodprocessing plants at Boisbriand
and Blainville, Que. and distribution centres at Boisbriand and
Anjou, Que.
About two-thirds of its foodprocessing sales are to “external”
customers such as grocery chains,
while the other third is in “internal” sales to the company’s restaurant network.
“… we can use this
to build not only
more St-Hubert’s in
Quebec, but other
restaurants too.”
Paul Rivett
Fairfax Financial Holdings
“There’s no retail to speak of
really right now in Cara, and this
team and the facilities they’ve got
in Quebec are perfect for us and
Quebec was the province we were
most underpenetrated within, so
we can use this to build not only
more St-Huberts in Quebec, but
other restaurants too,” said Fairfax
president Paul Rivett.
‘Major expansions’
Cara has said it wants to boost
revenue to $2.5 billion to $3 billion in five to seven years, up
from $1.7 billion in 2014.
The acquisition of St-Hubert
is expected to move Cara much
closer to that target. The Quebec
firm’s restaurant and foodprocessing businesses booked
about $403 million and $225 million in 2015 sales respectively.
The deal also gives Cara an
opportunity to expand its offerings through grocery chains,
including Loblaw, Costco and
Metro, where St-Hubert sells
products such as marinades, pot
pies and seasonings.
St-Hubert Group CEO JeanPierre Leger said the deal will also
create jobs in Quebec, “since it
will enable us to carry out major
expansions of our food-manufacturing facilities and sales throughout Canada.”
The provincial opposition
Parti Quebecois, Coalition Avenir
Quebec and Quebec Solidaire
parties lined up March 31 in separate releases to criticize the deal,
framing the Ontario firm’s investment as evidence of an unfavourable economic climate in Quebec.
But the province’s poultry pro-
ducer association, les Eleveurs
de volailles du Quebec (EVQ),
predicted it will be business as
usual for farmers supplying the
St-Hubert operations.
Quoted March 31 by La Terre de
chez nous, the journal of Quebec’s
Union des producteurs agricoles
(UPA), EVQ president Pierre-Luc
Leblanc said current farmer-suppliers already have unique expertise in providing birds to the rotisserie chain’s exact specs (2.25 kg
each).
St-Hubert alone is the market
for about 3.3 per cent of the 175
million chickens produced each
year in Quebec, the EVQ said.
Cara, whose brands also
include the Milestones,
Montana’s, Kelsey’s, Bier Markt
and East Side Mario’s restaurant
chains, said it plans to fund the
deal through a credit facility,
raised to $700 million from $150
million.
It also said it will consider offering shares to eliminate or reduce
the need for a two-year term loan,
which is part of the credit facility.
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The Canadian Food
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under avian influenza-related
restrictions to just one. Indiana
remains under restrictions
imposed in January after highly
pathogenic (“high-path”) H7N8
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The outbreaks of avian flu in
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led to CFIA’s bans dated back
to last spring. North Dakota
had cases at just two farms,
the most recent in April 2015,
affecting about 111,500 birds;
Missouri had three, the most
recent in May 2015, affecting
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Between December 2014 and
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last spring’s outbreaks, in which
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mixed-poultry operation.
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WEATHER VANE
“Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.” Mark Twain, 1897
Plenty of cold and unsettled weather ahead
Issued: Monday, April 4, 2016 · Covering: April 6– April 13, 2016
Daniel Bezte
Weather Vane
S
pring is always a tough
time to forecast the
weather as the battle
between cold and warm air
really heats up, but this forecast period is particularly
tough. Once again we are stuck
between a strong ridge of high
pressure to our west, bringing
record-breaking warmth to that
region, and a large trough of low
pressure to our east. This means
our weather pattern will remain
very active, with temperatures
remaining well below average
on most days.
This forecast period starts off
tough, with an area of low pressure having just moved through
our region. A second low will
quickly follow on the heels of
the first low as it dives southeastward across southern and
central Manitoba overnight
Wednesday and into Thursday
morning. This low will likely
bring a few centimetres of snow
with it.
We’ll see a little bit of a
warming trend develop late
on Thursday and into Friday
as yet another area of low
pressure develops to our west.
This low is forecasted to slide
through the Dakotas late on
Saturday and into Sunday,
bringing clouds with showers over southern regions and
light snow to more central
areas of Manitoba. Colder air
will once again move into our
region behind the low as arctic high pressure slides south.
We should expect temperatures to run near the bottom
end of the usual temperature
range for this time of the year
during the first half of next
week.
Looking further ahead, while
the weather models are not
showing any huge warm-ups,
they are showing the current
pattern we’ve been in breaking
down around the middle of the
month. The big question is, just
what new pattern will develop?
Usual temperature range for
this period:
Highs: 2 to 14 C
Lows: -9 to 1 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 daniel@bezte.ca.
WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA
3 Month (90 Days) Accumulated Precipitation (Prairie Region)
January 2, 2016 to March 31, 2016
8 - 22 mm
22 - 36 mm
36 - 50 mm
50 - 64 mm
64 - 78 mm
78 - 92 mm
92 - 106 mm
106 - 120 mm
120 - 134 mm
134 - 148 mm
148 - 162 mm
162 - 175 mm
175 - 189 mm
189 - 203 mm
203 - 217 mm
217 - 231 mm
231 - 245 mm
245 - 259 mm
Extent of Agricultural Land
Lakes and Rivers
Produced using near real-time data that has
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availability and data errors.
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Created: 04/01/16
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This issue’s map shows the total precipitation across the Prairies so far in 2016. You can see the driest areas have been the southern and
western regions, with the northern and far eastern regions being the wettest.
April not looking average anymore
A phenomenon called ‘baroclinic atmosphere’ catches the forecasters off guard
BY DANIEL BEZTE
Baroclinic atmosphere
Baroclinic atmosphere
S
ometimes it doesn’t pay to
jump the gun. Normally I
wait until the very end of
the month to put out the next
month’s long-range forecast.
The way March ended I decided
to put out the forecast a week
earlier than usual and, well, it
looks like it’s going to bite me in
the butt!
For those of you who didn’t
read last week’s long-range forecast, most of the forecasters
were calling for average temperatures in April and I went right
along with them. At the time
it looked like we were going to
see a week or so of cool air to
start the month and then milder
conditions would move back in.
A week later, the mediumrange weather models are singing
a different tune. It now looks like
the first half of April will see wellbelow-average temperatures, so
unless the heat really turns on
for the second half of the month
we’ll likely see the first belowaverage month since August 2015
in Winnipeg and May 2015 in
Brandon and Dauphin.
If you are reading this then
that means you probably follow the weather a little closer
than most. So you probably
noticed that while southern and
central Manitoba were shivering last weekend with temperatures struggling to make it to
Source: “Understanding Weather and Climate,” Edward Aguado, James E. Burt. Pg 262
the freezing mark in most areas,
Saskatchewan and Alberta
were basking under summer
heat. With high temperatures
in western Manitoba around
the +3 C mark on Saturday and
eastern regions staying well
below zero for highs, Regina,
Saskatoon, Edmonton, and
Calgary all saw high temperatures in the low 20s.
High versus low pressure
This sharp contrast in temperatures was the result of
two different features working
together. The first is the largescale weather pattern currently
dominating most of Canada
and the central and northern
U.S. There has been a fairly per-
sistent ridge of high pressure to
our west and a large trough of
low pressure to our east which
is associated with the polar
vortex rotating around Baffin
Island. This allows for mild conditions to develop under the
ridge of high pressure, and cold
air to work its way south in the
trough of low pressure.
We’ve seen our share of the
western ridge this winter, which
is what brought all the warm
weather. What really raised
the temperatures to our west
last weekend was a series of
lows that developed along the
boundary between the warm
and cold air. The circulation
around the lows helped to really
bump up the temperatures.
Over the last couple of weeks
there has been a strong intensification of the eastern
trough of low pressure that
has resulted in not only more
cold air moving southward,
but also a westward push of
this colder air. What this setup
then creates is what is known
as a baroclinic atmosphere
across much of Manitoba.
For those of you who like to
read the twice daily significant weather discussions for
the Prairies that is put out by
Environment Canada (http://
kamala.cod.edu/Canada/lat
est.focn45.CWWG.html) you
may have noticed this term
being used.
So, just what is a baroclinic
atmosphere and why should
we care? Well, it’s actually a
tough topic to try and discuss,
visualize, and understand, but
I will try to give my best short
description.
A typical or textbook atmosphere is known as barotropic.
What this means is that in the
upper atmosphere the pressure gradient (isobars) and
the temperature gradient (isotherms) run parallel to each
other. Since the winds at this
level follow the pressure gradient line or isobars, the moving
air remains at the same temperature since the isotherms
are also parallel to the isobars.
I have included an image to
help show this.
In a baroclinic atmosphere
the isobars and isotherms do
not run parallel to each other,
but rather cross each other.
This means that as the winds
blow, or the air flows from one
area to another, either warmer
or colder air is being moved
into a region (see image).
What does this mean? Well,
to put it simply, this helps to
create instability in the atmosphere as this difference in temperature causes the mixing of
air and forces pockets of air to
begin rotating. This then helps
to create what we call unsettled conditions, with clouds
and spotty precipitation developing in the baroclinic zone.
Should an area of low pressure
develop and move along the
baroclinic zone, the conditions
in this area are such that they
will typically help to intensify
the system.
What can make this type of
setup particularly annoying is
when the upper pattern is fairly
stable, like we see right now,
which then allows the baroclinic zone to stay in place for
a relatively long period. The
zone will move slowly back and
forth as stronger areas of low
pressure form and slide along
the zone and as the upper level
ridge and trough push back
and forth against each other.
So, until this upper level pattern breaks down, we should
expect more of this rather
annoying weather.
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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
Many factors behind
higher Canadian wheat exports
The move to an open market for wheat and barley seems to have been neither make nor break
for Canadian wheat exports, says Richardson International head Curt Vossen
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because of the demise of the
Canadian Wheat Board.
Trying to take a complex situation and boil it down to a simple
yes or no based on that single factor would be a dramatic oversimplification, says Curt Vossen, president and chief executive officer of
Richardson International.
“That’s why you’d never get me
saying we’re selling more wheat
now because the wheat board
lost its monopoly,” Vossen said in
an interview Apr. 1. “There are a
whole bunch of different things at
play. But it can be said with some
fairness and objectivity that it certainly hasn’t hurt us.”
Last crop year Canada exported
23.9 million tonnes of wheat,
including durum, narrowly surpassing the U.S. with exports of
22.3 million tonnes, according
to International Grains Council
figures.
Canada is forecast to export 21.9
million tonnes of wheat in the current crop year (2015-16), compared
to 20.5 million tonnes from the U.S.
Canada was the world’s wheat
basket in the 1920s and ’30s, but
the U.S. has had that honour since
the Second World War, although
these days the supranational
European Union is often the largest exporter.
The high U.S. dollar has priced
U.S. wheat out of world markets,
while making other countries,
including Canada, more competitive. But there’s more going on.
Diverse crop production gives
Canadian farmers a competitive
advantage, Vossen said.
“I think we’ve got ourselves in a
enviable position in Canada,” he
said. “Why? Because we’re not a
monoculture. The United States,
over the last 20 years, has become
much more of a mono-type agriculture — corn-beans, beans-corn.
“ We’ve got a truly diversified cropping base that gives us
options.”
Canada is well positioned to capture diversified export opportunities, says Richardson International head Curt Vossen. PHOTO: Richardson International
For example, moving an 80-million-tonne annual production
of a single crop to a single type
of market locks you into a single
way of doing business, Vossen
said, something Canada avoids
and therefore more opportunities
emerge.
“You do have a chance of moving that (more diverse crop) effectively to markets that look for
value, that look for quality differentiation,” Vossen said.
This spring western farmers
are expected to increase plantings of peas and lentils, but they’ll
also seed big acreages of canola,
spring wheat, durum, oats, and in
Manitoba, soybeans and corn.
Cam Dahl, president of Cereals
Canada, says Canada’s rise in
wheat exports is a trend, not an
anomaly. Vossen agrees. While
Canada won’t always export more
wheat than the U.S., which has
so much farmland and a longer
growing season, corn and soybean
production continues to expand
there, while plantings of other
crops, including spring wheat,
decline, Vossen said.
The United States Department
of Agriculture predicts American
farmers will plant 49 million acres
of all types of wheat in 2016, down
nine per cent from 2015 and the
lowest since 1970. If the forecast
proves accurate it would be the
lowest harvested wheat acreage
in the U.S. since 1910, G3 weather
and crop specialist Bruce Burnett
said last week.
“If the (U.S.) farmer keeps being
fixated on that monoculture dominated by corn and beans it’s going
to make them a less significant
player on an ongoing basis in the
wheat export marketplace,” Vossen
said. “And that means other players, like Canada, can take some
advantage of that to continue to
diversify our options, so we never
get ourselves to the place that
we’re a one-wheat, monoculture...
we can change gears,” Vossen said.
There was a time when
Canadian agriculture was more
dependent on wheat, he added.
“Now if wheat isn’t doing well
they (farmers) can switch gears,”
Vossen said. “And that gives them
options. And options for any business are always a good thing. I don’t
see that in the United States yet.”
Like Canadian farmers those in
the U.S. grow what they think will
earn the most net revenue, Vossen
said. But there are factors, such
as equipment, that make it less
easy for some American farmers
to grow crops other than corn and
soybeans. For example, small-
“That’s why you’d
never get me saying
we’re selling more
wheat now because
the wheat board lost
its monopoly. There
are a whole bunch of
different things at
play. But it can be said
with some fairness
and objectivity that it
certainly hasn’t hurt
us.”
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the radar screen. We produce the
things we produce. We give ourselves options and then you’re
able to move on a short-term
basis.”
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Roundup Ready alfalfa primed
for launch in Eastern Canada
FGI’s HarvXtra will also include a lower-lignin trait to ease hay digestion
STAFf
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T
he company with Roundup Ready
alfalfa on its launch pad plans a limited rollout of commercial seed into
Canada’s six eastern provinces this spring.
In a move likely to face opposition from
several Canadian farm groups, Forage
Genetics International (FGI) on March 29
announced plans for a limited release of
commercial HarvXtra alfalfa “in time for
spring 2016 planting.”
HarvXtra alfalfa will include Monsanto’s
glyphosate-tolerant Roundup Ready genetics plus a trait for lower levels of lignin —
a structural component of alfalfa plants
that strengthens their stalks but makes the
plants less digestible for dairy and beef
cattle.
Seed quantities are expected to be
enough for growers to plant a “small, targeted launch” of less than 5,000 acres of
hay, FGI said.
Idaho-based FGI stressed its launch is
“confined to the sale of seed for hay production” and not for alfalfa seed production. All HarvXtra seed production for the
Eastern Canada market will have taken
place in the U.S.
Only commercial sales for hay production will be allowed — and the hay can be
sold for Canadian domestic use only, the
company said.
Sale and planting will only proceed in
“limited geographical areas” — specifically, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and
Newfoundland. There are no plans to com-
“Particularly concerning is
that the federal government
licensed this product
without any sort of study
on what it might do to our
markets.”
Brent Reese
councillor for the Northern Lights region
mercially offer HarvXtra alfalfa to growers
in Western Canada “at this time,” FGI said.
FGI’s move comes as groups opposed to
genetically modified (GM) alfalfa’s release
in Canada ramp up their campaign, citing a recent report in Alberta Farmer that
a batch of foundation seed contaminated
with Roundup Ready alfalfa was sent to a
forage seed grower in southern Alberta four
years ago.
Citing the potential loss of markets, the
Alberta Association Of Municipal Districts
and Counties in March also passed a resolution urging a halt for any GM alfalfa
launch in the province.
“Our forage seed producers and organic
producers are pretty concerned about
it, considering what happened in the
U.S.,” said Brent Reese, councillor for the
Northern Lights region.
Roundup Ready alfalfa has been widely
grown in the U.S., but a USDA study of
more than 4,500 fields of conventional
alfalfa seed in California, Idaho, and
Washington state found about 10 per cent
of fields had feral or rogue varieties — and a
quarter of those rogue varieties were transgenic. The study didn’t look for causes —
both seed spillage and pollinators are possible causes — but its author said it “confirms that genetically engineered alfalfa has
dispersed into the environment.”
“We’d rather not repeat their mistakes,”
said Reese. “Particularly concerning is that
the federal government licensed this product without any sort of study on what it
might do to our markets.
“A lot of our major export customers have
zero tolerance for this. We think this should
be a major factor in whether these products
are licensed, and it should be part of the
assessment process. As of now, it is not.”
One farm group has already responded
negatively to the development.
“Several alfalfa markets are highly sensitive to GM contamination, including certified organic, seed, pellet and hay exports to
Europe, China and Japan, as well as domestic seed production and feed for organic
livestock and dairy,” National Farmers
Union president Jan Slomp said in a March
24 letter to federal Agriculture Minister
Lawrence MacAulay.
Hay-to-hay “coexistence” plans and
best management practices have been
developed for both the West and East,
with the help of the Canadian Seed Trade
Association and the forage industry, FGI
said.
The updated plans and BMPs for both
regions were drawn up in response to
requests for further stewardship guidelines, FGI said, “to address the possibility
of product moving from Eastern Canada to
Western Canada.”
Similar plans have allowed organic, conventional and genetically modified alfalfa
farmers to coexist in the U.S., where GM
alfalfa has been on the market since 2005,
the company said.
But Slomp, in his letter to MacAulay,
warned of “widespread GM contamination
of conventional alfalfa” in the U.S. “Because
of its biological characteristics, it is not possible for GM alfalfa to ‘coexist’ with conventional alfalfa.”
‘Flexibility in cutting’
Canadian regulatory agencies approved
unconfined environmental release for the
lower-lignin alfalfa trait in October 2014,
while HarvXtra alfalfa with the Roundup
Ready trait was approved that December.
FGI said that for Canada, it has decided
to release alfalfa with the Roundup Ready
trait only as part of the HarvXtra package,
and won’t release a separate product without the lower-lignin trait.
Genetically modifying alfalfa for lower
lignin content, beyond what was possible
through conventional breeding, should
increase fibre digestibility and change or
improve quality as the plant matures, compared to conventional alfalfa at the same
stage of maturity, the company said.
Thus, FGI said, HarvXtra “offers more
flexibility in cutting schedule to achieve
improved forage quality or greater yield
potential when compared to conventional
alfalfa at the same stage of maturity.”
The NFU’s Slomp, however, said that by
allowing hay harvests at later dates, FGI’s
new alfalfa would increase bloom time
“and hence, the unwanted spread of GM
traits by cross-pollination.”
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Budget hoopla misses outlet channel support
Funding for outlet channels on Lake Manitoba and Lake St. Martin gets significant shot in the arm
BY SHANNON VANRAES
Co-operator staff
A
n important development for
rural Manitobans has flown under
the radar in the recent federal
budget.
Hidden amid budget initiatives such
as new First Nations funding and a
beefed-up Canada Child Benefit was
$248 million for the Lake Manitoba and
Lake St. Martin Outlet Channels Project,
which aims to prevent flooding and better direct surface water in the province.
Keystone Agricultural Producers president Dan Mazier said he was a bit surprised at the lack of response or even
notice.
“Really, I didn’t hear anyone say much
of anything about it,” said Mazier. He
also noted this isn’t theoretical funds
that may or may not arrive in the end.
“Actual funding that is approved and
coming, it’s long overdue, but it’s there
and it really stood out to me,” he said.
“That impacts agriculture in a big way,
as well as the people who live around the
lakes.”
Manitobans affected by flooding from Lake Manitoba and Lake St. Martin got some welcome news in the
federal budget — a hard commitment for funding from the federal government. PHOTO: SANDI KNIGHT
The previous federal government
had also pledged to help fund the
channels, but had committed only
$165 million to the megaproject.
“ We t a l k l o t s a b o u t w a t e r i n
Manitoba and this is a big positive for
us and for the whole province,” Mazier
said.
Money promised to assist
Saskatchewan with dams and other
water control
structures, while also
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have positive effects downstream in
Manitoba.
“We know where that water ends up,”
Mazier said.
Support is also promised in the 2016
federal budget for transboundary waterways and the bodies that help govern
them.
“I would think that would benefit organizations like the Assiniboine
River Basin Initiative and the Joint
International Commission,” Mazier
said.
The federal budget also laid out plans
for an additional $30 million in agriculture funding over the next six years, specifically aimed at supporting research
and innovation in advanced genomics.
This will allow for investment in
specialized scientific equipment and
expertise so Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada can accelerate DNA analysis and
digital recording of the department’s collection of over 17 million physical specimens of insects, plants, fungi, bacteria
and nematodes.
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to stand up and be counted
— in the 2016 Census of
Agriculture.
The process kicks off in early
May and Statistics Canada is
reminding growers there are
plenty of reasons they should
want to participate.
A recent email alert from the
agency pointed out it’s the best,
and in many cases only, way for
a lot of decision makers to access
statistical information about the
industry.
“By drawing on this data, decision makers will be assured that
they are acting in the interest of
farmers, farm communities and
agricultural operations,” the
reminder read.
Farm organizations themselves
are heavy users of census data
and draw on this information to
formulate policy recommendations, produce communications
and outreach work, and conduct
market development.
Regional, provincial and federal government policy advisers
use Census of Agriculture data to
help develop programs related to
farm support and to evaluate the
impact of natural disasters such
as floods, droughts and storms, on
agriculture. This allows for a quick
reaction when a natural disaster
does occur.
StatsCan also pointed out the
Census of Agriculture:
• Can identify trends and provide
factual information on emerging issues, opportunities and
challenges in agriculture;
• Covers a wide range of topics
like land use, crops, livestock,
agriculture labour, machinery
and equipment, land management and farm finances; and
• Provides farmers and other
stakeholders with relevant
information about the future of
the Canadian agriculture sector
and helps them make informed
decisions.
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PMRA once again upholds safety of 2,4-D
One of the earliest registered crop protection products, 2,4-D has been controversial
BY ALEX BINKLEY
A
fter a three-year review,
the Pest Management
Regulatory Agency has
again approved the use of the
herbicide 2,4-D.
Developed after the Second
World War, the safety of the
weed killer has been upheld in
numerous reviews in Canada
and elsewhere, despite repeated
attacks on its use.
PMRA will collect public
comments on its decision until
mid-April and then issue a special review document further
explaining the science behind
its decision.
P M R A
n o t e d
2,4-D-containing products do
not present unacceptable risks
to human health and the environment when used according to the label. There are some
The IARC hazard classifications are not health
risk assessments and the levels of human
exposure, which determine the actual risk, are
not taken into account in the IARC assessments.
label restrictions on the number
of applications and rules
around buffer zones added after
past re-evaluations.
As part of its decision,
the PMRA said it assessed a
report released last year by
the International Agency for
Research on Cancer (IARC),
which classified 2,4-D as possibly carcinogenic to humans.
“The IARC hazard classifications are not health risk assessments and the levels of human
exposure, which determine the
actual risk, are not taken into
account in the IARC assessments,” PMRA concluded.
The PMRA report also noted
there are no incident reports of
cancer related to 2,4-D use in
the Canadian database it maintains. It also noted in the cancer cases that were reported by
IARC, no clear link had been
drawn and many other potential risk factors were present.
At the same time the weight of
evidence from animal studies
that were designed to test cau-
ConAgra,
Kellogg, Mars
to label for
GMOs in U.S.
Processors prepare for
a Vermont label law to
take effect this summer
Reuters
C
onAgra Foods on March
22 joined other food
giants in plans to use
labels that disclose the presence of genetically modified
organisms or GMOs in its food
throughout the U.S.
ConAgra and other food companies such as Campbell Soup
and General Mills have decided
to use such labels nationwide,
finding it to be the easiest way
to comply with a Vermont law.
In 2014, Vermont became
the first U.S. state to pass a law
requiring food companies to
label GMOs on their products.
The legislation will come into
effect in July.
ConAgra said while it is
believed consumers should
be informed as to what is in
their food, addressing labelling
requirements separately, just for
the state of Vermont would be a
costly affair.
“With a multitude of other
states currently considering different GMO labelling
requirements, the need for a
national, uniform approach in
this area is as critical as ever.
That’s why we continue to urge
Congress to pass a national
solution as quickly as possible,” the company said in a
statement.
Paul Norman, president for
Kellogg North America, said
March 23 on the company’s
website that the breakfast cereal
giant will begin labelling “some”
of its products nationwide for
presence of GMOs, starting in
mid- to late April.
Snack and pet food maker
Mars, Inc. also said that week it
will introduce “clear, on-pack
labelling on our products that
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which caused the PMRA to conclude it cannot be classified as a
human carcinogen.
“The PMRA’s assessment
of the scientific data base is
another consistent regulatory
decision that concludes the
use of 2,4-D not only protects
food production but also the
environment,” said Jim Gray,
executive director of a crop
protection industry task force
formed around the emerging debate over 2,4-D and
research data.
He said PMRA findings
were consistent with expert
reviews and earlier decisions of
authorities such as the World
Health Organization, U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency, European Commission,
and European Food Safety
Authority.
In last two decades, PMRA
has released four re-evaluation
decisions on 2,4-D, all upholding its use in agriculture, forestry and turf management. In
them they evaluated available
scientific information related
to the aspects of concern for
human health and the environment, Gray said.
Gray also said a study in 2006
by RIAS Inc. concluded that
2,4-D and comparable herbicides save farmers $227 million in production costs or crop
losses.
“Most notably, 2,4-D has
long been recognized as being
a superior tank-mixing partner with other herbicides, and
that after seven decades of use,
2,4-D continues to show little
evidence of weeds developing
resistance to it,” he said.
The herbicide is approved
for use in more than 100 other
countries including the United
States and Europe.
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COLUMN
Loonie turns up following two-week reversal
From January to April the loonie has risen almost 10 cents against the greenback
Two-week reversal
David Drozd
Market Outlook
T
he Canadian dollar has
been having a short covering rally for the past
few months, gaining nearly
.1000 relative to the U.S. dollar. However, the major trend
remains down as this market
continues to put in lower highs
and lower lows.
The Canadian dollar was at par
with the U.S. dollar in February
2013. For the past three years the
loonie has trended lower, getting
down to .6800 in January 2016. A
two-week reversal developed on
January 22, 2016 which indicated
the Canadian dollar was about
to turn up. Today it is closer to
.7800.
A two-week reversal develops when on the first week, at
a low, the market advances to
new lows and closes very weak,
at or near the low of the day.
The following week, prices open
unchanged to slightly lower, but
cannot make additional downside progress.
Quantity buying appears
early in the week to halt the
decline and prices begin to
move higher. By week’s end,
the market rallies to around
the preceding week’s high and
closes at or near that level.
Canadian dollar weekly nearby
Chart as of March 30, 2016
Market psychology
The two-week reversal is a
180-degree turn in sentiment.
On the first week the shorts
are comfortable and confident. The market’s performance provides encouragement
and reinforces the expectation
of greater profits. The second
week’s activity is psychologically damaging. It is a complete turnaround from the
preceding week and serves to
destroy or at least shake the
confidence of many who are
still short the market. The
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Shorts respond to weakening prices by exiting the market. At first the shorts exit to
protect profits and then to
cut losses. This is commonly
referred to as a short covering rally and is confirmed by
declining open interest in a
rising market.
Just as chart analysis is useful for determining a change
in price direction, it can also
be used to determine the price
trend. Prices over a period of
several months or years are
generally either moving up
or down. This direction is the
long-term or major trend of
the market.
W i t h i n t h e m a j o r t re n d
there are a series of prominent peaks and valleys that
can be of several weeks’ duration, which create the intermediate trends. Finally, there
are small fluctuations within
the inter mediate moves
that are the minor trends.
Therefore, a trend may be
interpreted in varying ways,
but our focus here is on the
intermediate and long-term
perspectives.
During the course of a trend
and all the fluctuations which
compose it, there is a wellobserved characteristic for
prices to closely follow a sloping straight line path. During
a period of rising prices, this
path is determined by a line
drawn across the lows of the
reactions, which is illustrated
as (A) in the accompanying
chart.
In a rising market, for a
trendline to be both valid
and reliable there should be
at least three points of price
contact, each of which coincides with the low of a market
reaction. These price reactions
must bottom at progressively
higher levels.
Thus, a properly constructed
trendline may be touched several times by the fluctuating
market during the course of
a move without being penetrated. The longer the trendline endures, the more significant becomes its eventual
penetration as an indicator of
trend change.
Producers who recognized
the two-week reversal and
patiently waited to convert the
Canadian dollar to U.S. currency, have been rewarded for
doing so.
Send your questions or comments about this article and
chart to info@agchieve.ca.
David Drozd is president and senior
market analyst for Winnipeg-based
AgChieve Corporation. The opinions
expressed are those of the writer and
are solely intended to assist readers
with a better understanding of technical
analysis. Visit AgChieve online at www.
agchieve.ca for information about our
grain-marketing advisory service and to
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Canary seed demand
remains tepid
Gopher’s delight
A stronger loonie makes encouraging demand difficult
BY JADE MARKUS
“… in 13 years I don’t even know
if I’ve seen it this slow.”
CNS Canada
D
espite now being considered fit for
human consumption, demand for
canary seed still hasn’t taken flight
— and that’s being reflected in lower prices,
one industry specialist says.
The largest source of pressure in Canada’s
canar y seed market is weak demand,
according to David Nobbs, chair at the
Canaryseed Development Commission of
Saskatchewan at Kindersley, Sask.
Demand for canary seed is down about
20-30 per cent, Nobbs estimated, and he
doesn’t expect the issue to be resolved any
time soon.
“Weeks turn into months and months
turn into quarters, and the lack of disappearance of product is weighing on the
market.”
Advances in the Canadian dollar have
limited exporter ability to drop prices in an
attempt to stimulate demand, he added.
Earlier in the year, when the Canadian
dollar was at its cheapest since 2003, grower
return was about 27 cents per pound — but
the loonie has now strengthened from those
lows.
“It flip-flopped the other way,” Nobbs
said. “It’s coming right out of the grower
price.”
Canary seed’s spot prices are now about
24 cents per pound.
Gains in the Canadian currency have left
destination sales at a stalemate, but it’s not
the only reason demand is sluggish.
“There’s virtually no new-crop business
on the books, which is unusual,” Nobbs
said. “Buyers are just not forward buying it.”
David Nobbs
Canaryseed Development Commission of
Saskatchewan
Canary seed was oversupplied at the end
of the last crop year, as marketers pulled
demand forward on drought concerns,
causing the market to rally up to 30 cents
per pound.
Now the market is sufficiently supplied,
and buyers have gone from being speculative to slowly grinding through purchases
in a market that’s steadily moving lower.
Current prices are still fair, Nobbs said,
but the problem is he doesn’t see those
values holding, even at the relatively weak
24-cent level.
“There is no demand. In fact, in 13 years
I don’t even know if I’ve seen it this slow,”
he said.
Looking to the growing season ahead,
acres are expected to edge down slightly,
according to early estimates.
S a s k a t c h e w a n g r ow s n e a r l y a l l o f
Canada’s canar y seed. Nobbs said he
expects acres will come down in durumgrowing areas, predominantly in eastern
Saskatchewan, but will advance in wheatgrowing areas, which are mostly in the
west.
Seeded acres of canary seed are pegged
at 321,000 acres this season, compared
with 326,000 the year prior, Agriculture
and Agri-Food Canada said.
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AUCTION DISTRICTS
Parkland – North of Hwy 1; west of PR 242,
following the west shore of Lake Manitoba
and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.
Westman – South of Hwy 1; west of PR 242.
Interlake – North of Hwy 1; east of PR 242,
following the west shore of Lake Manitoba
and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.
Red River – South ofHwy 1; east of PR 242.
The Pas
Birch River
Swan River
Minitonas
Durban
Winnipegosis
Roblin
Dauphin
Grandview
Ashern
Gilbert Plains
Parkland
Birtle
Brandon
Wes & Deb Papp
Swan River, MB | April 15, 2016 · 10 am
Pilot Mound, MB | April 12, 2016 · 10 am
W&D Papp Grain Farms Ltd.
Sterling Brothers
Treherne
Killarney
Pilot Mound
Crystal City
Elm Creek
Sanford
Ste. Anne
Carman
Mariapolis
Lac du Bonnet
Beausejour
Winnipeg
Austin
Souris
Boissevain
Stonewall
Selkirk
Portage
Carberry
Westman
Waskada
Unreserved Public Farm Auction
Arborg
Interlake
Langruth
Gladstone
Neepawa
Rapid City
1
Unreserved Public Retirement Auction
Lundar
Erickson
Hamiota
Melita
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Westman
Riverton
Eriksdale
McCreary
Minnedosa
Reston
AUCTION SALES
Gimli
Shoal Lake
Virden
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
Fisher Branch
Ste. Rose du Lac
Russell
AUCTION SALES
St. Pierre
242
Morris
Winkler
Morden
Altona
Steinbach
1
Red River
AUCTION SALES
2013 John Deere S680
2— 2015 New Holland CX8080
AUCTION SALES
2012 Case IH 500HD
FARM AUCTION FOR GARY & Lisa Neumann
Sat., Apr. 23rd, 11:00 AM 3-mi East of Waldersee,
MB on Rd 106N. TRACTORS & HARVESTING
EQUIP: 1985 2594 Case IH 24-SPD PS 20.8x42
fact Duals, 2-hyds 1,000-PTO 5,800-hrs; 1980 4490
Case PS 1,000-PTO 3-hyds 18.4x34 Duals
5,500-hrs; 1985 1482 Case IH combine, shedded,
lots of extra parts for this combine; 1987 722 CCIL
26-ft Swather w/PU Reel approx 2,800-hrs; Swath
Roller. SEEDING & TILLAGE EQUIP: 8800 Bourgault 32-ft cult w/1110 Tank Air Seeder; 20-ft
MH-310 Morris Hoe Drill w/fact Trans; 29-ft Leon
C78-329 Cult; 30-ft 5000 INT Vibra Chisel mulchers; 29-ft 179 CCIL Cult. w/NH3 kit; 60-ft Inland
Tine Harrows; 68-ft 3300T CCIL Sprayer w/800-gal.
Poly Tank; 5- 16 Melroe Plow; Degelman Rock
Picker; 15-ft Co-op Discer. *Consigned: 26-ft Crust
Buster Tandem Disc w/self leveling hyds; 1978
Ford 600 15-ft Box RT* GRAIN BINS & AUGERS:
2,100-bu Westeel Hopper Bin; 2) 5,900-bu Westeel
bin (21-ft diameter) 3,850-bu Westeel Bin w/aeration Floor; 3,300-bu Westeel Bin w/aeration Floor
3hp aeration fan; 3850 Westeel Bin; 3,300-bu
Westeel Bin; 2,750-bu Westeel Bin; 1,650-bu Westeel Bin. *Bins are to be removed by Aug 15/16*
1026A Remco Grain Vac; MK100-61 Westfield Auger; 7x41 Westfield Auger w/14-HP eng; Pencil augers; Bin Sweep; V Tank; 1,000-gal. Fuel Tank
w/elect Pump; 500-gal. Tank for used oil; Farm
Wagon. SHOP & MISC EQUIP: 250-amp Idealarc
AC/DC Lincoln Welder; 36-inx11-in metal Lathe;
25-Ton hyd Press; Bench model Drill Press; approx
100-lb anvil; Forge; elect Cut off saw; elect Hacksaw; assort of Tools; Hyd Floor Jack; Floating water
Pump; 2-HP shop bilt Grinder; 1/4 to 1-in Tap & Die
Set; 5-in Bench Vice; Metal Bolt Bins; air Greaser;
approx 100, 4 to 5-in treated 8-ft posts; approx 65,
6 to 8-in x10-ft treated posts; 5 rolls of 5-ft Page
Wire; 2x10 Treated Planks; approx 200-ft of 5/8-in
Cable; Portable Cordwood saw; 14-ft Canoe. ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES: Victrola Grammaphone; Wall mt Telephone; Pot Belly Stove; Singer
Treadle & elect Sewing machine; Platform Scale; 6
Buffalo Skulls; Texaco Gas Bauser; Misc. website
www.nickelauctions.com Terms Cash or Cheque.
Lunch served. Subject to additions & deletions. Not
responsible for any errors in description GST &
PST will be charged where applicable. Everything
sells AS IS Where IS All Sales Final. Statements
made on sale day will take precedent over all previous advertising Owners & auction company are not
responsible for accidents on sale site. Sale conducted by Nickel Auctions Ltd, Dave Nickel auctioneer Ph: (204)637-3393 cell (204)856-6900 e-mail
nickelauctions@mymts.net Owners (204)352-4379
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COMBINED AUCTION for Neil & Agatha Neufeld
and Quest Consignors Sat., April 16th at 11:00am
in the Austin Skating Rink Austin, MB. Riding Mowers, Shop Tools, Antique Tools, Furniture & appliances, Antique & collectable Furniture and more
check website for full listing www.nickelauctions.com Sale conducted by Nickel Auctions Ltd.
Dave
Nickel
auctioneer
(204)637-3393
cell
(204)856-6900 e-mail nickelauctions@mymts.net
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
2014 Bourgault 7700
2010 John Deere 9430 & 2012 John Deere 1890 43.5 Ft w/John Deere 1910 270±
2008 John Deere 4720 100 Ft
2010 John Deere A400 36 Ft
2012 Case IH 500 & 2012 Unverferth 1315 Xtreme
2— 2011 New Holland H8040 30 Ft
2013 Rogator RG1100 132 Ft
2012 Peterbilt 386
& 2009 Lode King Prestige 36 Ft
2011 Bourgault 9400 60 Ft
AUCTION LOCATION: From SWAN RIVER, MB, go 25 km (16 miles) West on Grid 275. Yard on
North side. GPS: 52.115110, -101.635497
A PARTIAL EQUIPMENT LIST INCLUDES:
2012 Case IH 500 Quadtrac · 2012 Case IH 500HD
4WD · 1995 John Deere 8300 MFWD · 1991 John
Deere 4555 2WD · (2) 2015 New Holland CX8080
Combine · (2) 2012 New Holland 94C 30 Ft
Draper Header · (2) 2011 New Holland H8040
30 Ft Swather · 2012 Peterbilt 386 T/A Truck
Tractor · 2001 Peterbilt 379 T/A Truck Tractor ·
1992 International 9400 T/A Truck Tractor · 2009
Lode King Prestige 36 Ft T/A Grain Trailer · 2002
Advance 36 Ft T/A Grain Trailer · 1997 Wilson
CFD-900 48 Ft T/A Trailer · 2008 Bourgault 5710
Series II 64 Ft Air Drill · 2014 Bourgault 7700
Tow-Behind Air Tank · 2011 Bourgault 9400 60
Ft Cultivator · 2008 Kello-Bilt 225 14 Ft Offset
Disc · 2011 Bourgault 6000 90 Ft Mid Harrows
· 2013 Degelman 7200 Hydraulic Rock Picker ·
2013 Rogator RG1100 132 Ft High Clearance ·
Schulte XH1500 Series 2 15 Ft Batwing Mower
· (2) Friesen 1412CE 70± Tonnes 14 Ft x 2 Ring
Epoxy Hopper Bins · Sunrise 2100± Bushel 16 Ft x
3 Ring Hopper Bin · 2012 Unverferth 1315 1300±
Bushel Grain Cart · 2006 Brandt 1370HP 13 In. x
70 Ft Grain Auger · 2012 Wheatheart R10-41 10
In. x 41 Ft Grain Auger · Caterpillar 60 10 CY Pull
Scraper ...AND MUCH MORE!
For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: rbauction.com
Collection of 25+ Antique Tractors & Steam Engines
Collection of 25+ Antique Tractors & Steam Engines
AUCTION LOCATION: From PILOT MOUND, MB, at the Jct of Hwy 3 & 253 (gas station) go
3.2 km (2 miles) West, then 4 km (2.5 miles) North. Yard on West side. GPS: 49.2439, -98.9409
2010 John Deere 9430 4WD Tractor · 1998 John
Deere 7810 MFWD Tractor · Over 25 Beautifully
Restored Antique Tractors, 1936-59 · 1887 Russell
& Co Steam Engine · 1908 Sawyer Massey 27-82
Steam Engine · 2013 John Deere S680 Combine
· 2007 John Deere 936D 36 Ft Draper Header ·
2006 John Deere 635F 35 Ft Draper Header ·
2010 John Deere A400 36 Ft Swather · 1981 Case
580D Wheel Loader · Caterpillar 6 Way Hydraulic
Pull Grader · 7 CY Hydraulic Pull Scraper · 2003
John Sterling: 204.825.0003
Stan Sterling: 204.825.0097
Wesley Papp: 204.734.8383
wdpapp@gmail.com
Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager –
Steven Perrin: 204.573.0993
800.491.4494
Darren Teale: 306.278.7373
800.491.4494
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AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
Sat. April 9th, 2016 @ 11:00 am
South Junction, MB, Hwy 12
Go East Through Town 5 Miles on Rd 3N
Contact: (204) 437-2842
Recreation: 2011 Hurricane Sundeck DS 2000, 23" Open Bow w Yamaha 150 HP 4 Stroke ,Trailer,
only 138 Hrs * 05 American Star 5th Wheel 32' Camper, 4' Slide Out, A/C * 94 Sierra 5th Wheel
34' Camper, A/C * Polaris Indy 500 Snowmobile * 07 Arctic Cat 4 x 4 700 Quad w Dozer * Tractor
& Equip: Case 1070 Cab P. Shift 540/1000 w Leon 707 FEL 7163 Hrs. * NH 315 Square Baler *
Hesston 5500 RD Baler * 12 ' Deep Tiller * Horses & Tack: 96 B H Featherlite 16' Tandem Stock
Trailer * 2 Quarter Horses Saddle Broke * 60' Rd Horse Training Pen * Roping, Western & New
Synthetic Saddles * 2)Electric Fencers * Along w Yard Items * Guns * Tool*, Farm Misc * Home
Repair * Household and some Antiques * Go To Web For Full List *
Stuart McSherry (204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com
FARMING
IS ENOUGH OF
A GAMBLE...
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
BUFFALO CREEK MILLS
SEED PLANT CLEANING
EQUIPMENT AUCTION
ACREAGE AUCTION
Brian & Tanja Parisien
Peterbilt 379L T/A Sleeper Truck Tractor · 1980
Mack T/A Grain Truck · 2012 Timpte 45 Ft Tri/A
Grain Trailer · 1998 Cancade 30 Ft T/A End Dump
Grain Trailer · 2008 John Deere 4720 100 Ft High
Clearance Sprayer · 2012 John Deere 1890 43.5
Ft Disc Drill · John Deere 2410 49 Ft Cultivator ·
Bourgault 9200 40 Ft Cultivator · Hutch Master
7600 25 Ft Tandem Disc · Ezee-On 16 Ft Tandem
Disc · 2009 Bourgault 6000 70 Ft Mid Harrows
...AND MUCH MORE!
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 10 AM
ALTONA, MB
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
This is a short list:
• 30 - 40 brand new 2 HP Electric motors
single phase 600 volts • Indent graders, gravity cleaners, destoners.
patty table, asperation units
• A few 10’’ grain legs
• Cylones, Rice Dehuller
And So Much More!! Please check
our website www.billklassen.com
LOCATED AT HIGHWAY 30 AND 201
EAST JCT - THIS IS 1 MILE NORTH OF
ALTONA, MANITOBA ON HIGHWAY 30
PLEASE WATCH
FOR AUCTION
SIGNS, AS WE
WILL BE USING
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ENTRANCE Advertise in
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Co-operator Classifieds,
it’s a Sure Thing!
For line up of auction selling order and
information on equipment contact
Ryan Penner: 204-324-0214
See our website: www.billklassen.com for complete listing or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS
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UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION
for FINLAY FARMS 89 LTD, WALTER & DEBRA FINLEY
of SOURIS, MB. - THURSDAY APRIL 14th 9:30 AM
• 2014 NH T9.505 4WD 475hp w/NH IntelliView IV
monitor with Hyd Inteli Steer
• 2011 NH T9.390 4WD 354hp w/Hyd Auto pilot, NH
Trimble 750 guidance GNSS
• 2014 NH T6.175 MFWD 140hp w/855TL High Lift loader
• 2013 NH CR8090 sp combine w/790CP-15 p/u header
with Houston seed saver
• 2013 40’ NH 840CD-40 ST Cut header
• 2014 NH Speedrower 200 SP Swather w/36’ Duraswath
436HB header
• 2014 J&M 680 bus dual compartment grain wagon
• 2013 NH SP240F XP sprayer w/100’ booms, 1200 gal
poly tank
• 2013 Freightliner M2106 T/A w/20’ Neustar Box &
Hoist, SAFETIED
• PLUS SO MUCH MORE!!!
NLI NE
BIDDING
for RINN FARMS Ltd. (JIM & CHARLIE RINN)
of LANGRUTH, MB. THURSDAY, APRIL 21st 12:00 NOON
• 2013 Versatile 2375 4wd 375HP Tractor w/ Outback STX
Guidance, Hyd auto steer
• 2003 Versatile 2210 MFWD 210HP Tractor
• 1976 IH 1566 2WD 140HP Tractor
• 1998 CaseIH 2388 SP Combine w/CaseIH 1015 Pick-up hdr
• 1997 JD 9600 SP Combine w/JD 914 Pick-up header
• 1999 Premier 2930 SP Swather w/25’ MacDon 972
Harvest header
• 1993 25’ CaseIH 8220 PT Swather
• 1988 Ford AeroMax 9000 T/A Grain Truck w/20’ B&H,
• 1985 Ford 9000 T/A Grain Truck w/20’ B&H, SAFETIED
• 40’ Bourgault 8800 Air Seeder w/Bourgault 3225 Air Cart
• 50’ Flexi Coil 85 Heavy Harrows w/3255 Valmar
• 24’ Land Roller w/44” Roller
• 2008 13”x90’ Brandt PTO swing hopper auger
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL, TEXT or EMAIL WALTER FINLAY 204-725-7885 or whfinlay@hotmail.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Jim (res) 204-445-2392 or (cell) 204-871-2245 or Charlie (res) 204-445-2218 (cell)
COMPLETE LIQUIDATION of FARM & MEAT CUTTING EQUIPMENT
for LEONARD & CECILE GILLIS
for LAWRENCE & JAN KOSTESKY
of BALDUR, MB. FRIDAY, APRIL 15th 9:00 AM
• 1990 Ford Versatile 946 Designation 6 4WD 325HP Tractor
• JD 8970 4WD 400HP Tractor w/750 Trimble Guidance
with Trimble E-Zee Pilot Wheel
• 1984 Allis Chalmers 8050 MFWD 169HP Tractor
• 1986 CaseIH 2096 2WD 128HP Tractor
• 2002 Gleaner C62 SP Combine w/Agco 4000 pick-up hdr
• 1998 Gleaner R72 SP Combine w/Agco 400 pick-up hdr
• 2001 Premier 2950 Turbo SP Swather w/30’ MacDon 972 Hdr
of ROSSBURN, MB. TUESDAY, APRIL 26th10:30pm
• 2002 NH TC30 MFWD 30hp DSL Utility Tractor w/Soft Cab
• 1975 White 2-85 2WD Tractor w/707 Leon Loader
• Allis Chalmers One-Eighty DSL 2WD Tractor
• 2009 NH L180 Skid Steer 63hp w/Cab Enclosure
• 60” Inland hyd drive Skid Steer Mount Snow Blower
• 14’ Gehl 2270 Hydra Swing Haybine
• NH BR780 Rd Baler w/Extra Sweep pick-up
• 1999 93’ Walker 44 High Clearance Sprayer
• 60’ Terra-Gator 1803 Granular 3-wheel floater
• JD 350B Crawler Loader w/66” Drott 4in1 Bucket
• 1999 Sterling T/A Grain Truck w/20’ Loadline B+H,
• 1998 Ford AeroMax T/A Grain Truck w/20’ Cancade,
• 2007 Chev 3500 LT Duramax Dsl 4x4 ext cab truck,
• 2012 32’ Load Max 5th Wheel Flat Deck Trailer
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL LEONARD GILLIS 204-523-6110
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT LAWRENCE KOSTESKY 204-859-2571 res OR 204-365-7580 cell
NLI NE
BIDDING
8TH ANNUAL KILLARNEY & DISTRICT
EQUIPMENT CONSIGNMENT AUCTION
for H. BOUTALL FARMING
of STRATHCLAIR, MB. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27th 12:00PM
KILLARNEY, MB. SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2016 10:00 AM
• 2014 Kubota M9960HD CC24/CAB 99HP Tractor
• 2011 Kubota L3800DT 37.4HP 8F/4R 4WD Tractor w/
Kubota LA524 Loader
• CaseIH 7130 2WD Tractor
• JD 6400 Tractor w/ 640 Self Leveling Loader
• JD 2140 2WD Tractor w/146 Loader
• IH 433 fully hyd pt scraper w/approx 20/22-yard capacity
• (2) 8 kilowatt light plant w/towers
• 2010 Manitou MLT 731 Turbo telehandler (Ag Specs)
• 2014 MF 3650 Xtra MFWD 97hp tractor w/only 140hrs
showing
• 1991 JD 4555 2wd 157hp tractor
• MF-Hesston 1745 rd baler (only done 200 bales)
• 2002 Hesston 4760 square baler
• 2005 12’ Hesston 1345 Discbine
• Kuhn SR112 Speedrake
• (2) 12’ Box Scrapers – Shop made
• 1990 JD 9600 sp combine
• JD 7720 Turbo Combine
• 33’ Bourgault 8810 air seeder w/Bourgault 5250 air cart
• 50’ Morris Heavy Harrow, Model 50 HHB, s/n FP50005275
• 36’ Bourgault Vibre Master Air Sdr w/Bourgault 2115 Air Tank
• semi style t/a seed and fertilizer tender trailer w/rear augers
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO CONSIGN CONTACT: DEL SMITH 204-534-7783 OR FRASER AUCTION SERVICE 204-727-2001
NLI NE
BIDDING
UNRESERVED FARM AUCTION
RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION
for NICK & ANN HOLYK
of SNOWFLAKE, MB. MONDAY APRIL 18th 9:30 AM
of BRANDON, MB. THURSDAY, APRIL 28th 10:00AM
• 1999 Freightliner FL112 T/A Grain Truck w/20’ Loadline
Box, SAFETIED
• 1971 CAT D6C Dozer w/Full Cab Enclosure (very clean unit)
• 10’ Rome Disc
• 1982 JD 8450 4wd 187hp (Dyno at 225hp) Tractor
• MF 3120T MFWA 120hp Turbo Tractor w/Allied 795
Loader
• 1986 JCB 1400B Backhoe Loader
• JD 270LC EX18 Track Excavator
• CAT 80 Fully Hyd Scraper
• 2007 Freightliner Columbia T/A Grain Truck w/21’
Loadline B&H, SAFETIED
• 2000 Western Star T/A Grain Truck w/20’ Loadline B&H, SAFETIED
• 2011 Dodge Ram 3500 SLT Laramie Crew Cab Dually 4 x
4 w/9.5’ Flat Deck, SAFETIED
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT CLIFF SEWARD 204-242-0077 OR LES FUNK 204-242-4323
NLI NE
BIDDING
for DON & DENISE BROMLEY
of BRANDON, MB. TUESDAY, APRIL 19th 12:30pm
UNRESERVED CUSTOM CABINET SHOP AUCTION
DALE WONDRASEK CUSTOM CABINETS & THE RETIREMENT of DALE
& BONNIE WONDRASEK of BINSCARTH, MB. SATURDAY, APRIL 30th 2016 10:00 AM
• 2012 CS920 Wheel Loader
• Melroe Bobcat 642 Skid Steer
• Allis Chalmers FP40 Propane powered Fork lift
• 2015 14’ Load Trail T/A Dump Trailer
• 2013 33’ Load Trail tandem dual flat deck trailer
• 2011 20’ Royal Cargo Enclosed T/A
• Swisher 60” Zero Turn Mower w/ 27HP Engine
• Laguna Tools Puma CNC Router
• 9 Wheel Sitrac Rake
• NH 1033 Sq Bale Wagon
• 8 yard Schulte Hydraulic Scraper
• 1989 Ford F800 Tag Axle Truck w/Box +Hoist, SAFETIED
• New Idea 363 Manure Spreader
• NH 358 Mix Mill, Hyd Drive Bale Feeder
• (2) Approx 2200 Bus Westeel Rosco Hopper Bins
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT DON & DENISE BROMLEY 204-725-6020 Cell 204-725-1660 Res Email: dhbromley@yahoo.ca
• CNC Operational Software Cabinet Vision 2012
• 3D Kitchen Cabinet Design Software Program KCD Version 9.108
• Felder (Format 4) Scoring Panel Saw
• Busy Bee 10” Cabinet Saw
• Lobo Tools Straight Line/Rip Saw, c/w Laser Guide System
• SCM Edge Bander, Olympic
• Marcon Woodworking Machinery Inc. Line Boring Machine
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT Dale or Bonnie Wondrasek 204-532-2486 dwondras@inetlink.ca
NLI NE
BIDDING
for POST & REMPEL FARMS Danny & Margaret Post & Fred
& Elene Rempel of GLENELLA, MB WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20th 10:00 AM
• 2007 CaseIH 2588 AFS Combine w/CaseIH 2015 Pick-Up Hdr
• 2003 CaseIH 2388 AFS Combine w/CaseIH 2015 Pick-up Hdr
• 1983 Versatile 945 Series 3 4WD Tractor 335hp
• 1980 IH 1486 2WD Tractor 146hp w/Factory 3PT
• 1978 IH 1086 2WD Tractor 131hp
• 1964 IH 806 DSL 2WD Open Station Tractor 86hp
• 2011 Bau-Man 2416 16” pto water pump
• 30’ Honey Bee SP30 Straight Cut Hdr w/CaseIH 88 Series Adapter
• 1989 JD 9500 Combine w/JD 914 PU Header
• 24.5’ IH 4000 Swather w/UII PU Reel
• 1998 25’ JD 925 Straight Cut Header
• 40’ King Equipment Float
• 29.5’ CaseIH 8100 Air Seeder w/8100 Air Tank
• 70’ Delmar 5500M Mid Harrows
• 2003 Arctic Cat 400 4x4 Quad
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT Nick Holyk 204-726-8156 res or 204-729-7605 cell
• 1994 CaseIH 7230 MFWA 185hp Tractor w/18 Spd PS Trans
• 1989 CaseIH 2096 115hp Tractor w/3PT
• 1998 CaseIH 2388 Axial-Flow Combine w/CaseIH 1015 PU Hdr
• 25’ CaseIH 1010 Straight Cut Header w/Bat Reel
• 30’ Morris Maxim Model 29AD Air Drill w/Morris Maxim
6180 Air Tank
• 1988 CaseIH 3650 Rd Baler
• 1982 9’ NH 488 Haybine
• 34’ Mandako LR-5/8-42 land roller
• 2014 Teagle XT48 3pt seed and fertilizer spreader
• 2014 18’ Twose 3pt 6 row spring tine harrows
• 7’ Woods Brush Bull Extreme 3pt brush cutter mower
• 2014 Warwick 10’ 4 ton dumping trailer
• Arrow Farming portable livestock handling system w/
squeeze chute
For more information, contact Angus Boutall 204-365-2632
for THE ESTATE OF ALVIN FINDLAY
• 2012 Versatile 550 4WD Tractor 550hp w/Pwr Shift
• 2009 Versatile 535 4WD Tractor 535hp w/Pwr Shift
• NH TV6070 Bi-Directional Tractor 105hp w/NH84LB Ldr
• 2005 NH TV145 Bi-Directional Tractor 145hp w/NH 84L ldr
• 2013 CaseIH 9230 AFS Combine w/CaseIH 3016 Pick Up Hdr
• 2004 JD 9860 STS Combine w/JD 914P Pickup
• 2008 New Holland H8040 SP Swather w/30’ NH Header
• Case 721E Wheel Loader
• 2003 2 Place Karavan Trail Blazer Tilt Deck S/A Ski-Doo
Trailer
• (2) 2200 Bus Westeel Bins on Westeel Hoppers w/ DBL
Skid pkg, Aeration Rockets
• JD Gator CX 2WD UTV w/Elect/Hyd dump box
• Toro SS5060 Time Cutter Zero Turn Mower
• Full line of meat cutting and processing equipment
for ALLAN & BEULAH MARSHALL
of RUSSELL, MB. TUESDAY, MAY 3rd 12:00 NOON
• 1992 JD 4455 2wd Tractor 141hp
• 1990 JD 4755 2wd Tractor 177hp
• 2N Ford Tractor
• 1987 JD 7721 Titan II PT Combine
• 25’ Versatile 4750 DSL SP Swather w/UII Pick-up
Reel
• 1999 30’ MacDon PT Swather
• 30’ CaseIH 1010 Ridged Straight Cut Header
• 2005 25’ Westward 9352 SP Swather w/2 Spd Hydro, EZ-Steer
• 2008 62’ Bourgault 5710 Series II Air
• 2011 Bourgault 6550 ST Air Cart w/Dbl Fans, 4 Compartment
• 2008 132’ Trident 3600 Spray-Air PT Sprayer w/1200
Gal Poly Tank
• 72’ Bourgault 7200 Heavy Harrows
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT Danny Post 204-857-2608 Cell or 204-843-2840 Res Fred Rempel 204-476-6987 Cell or 204-834-2571
• 32’ CaseIH 4800 Air Seeder w/Bourgault 2115
Special Air Cart
• 5 Yard Leon 550 Hyd Scraper w/Hyd Push Off
• Degelman R570S Rotary Stone Picker
• 1973 GMC 5000 S/A Truck w/13’ B&H
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT Al Marshall 204-773-3523 Res or 204-773-6822 Cell Email: abmarshall3@gmail.com
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AUCTION SALES
Saskatchewan Auctions
Crystal City, MB | April 11, 2016 · 11 am
Oxbow, SK | April 13, 2016 · 10 am
Murray McIntyre Holding Ltd.
Brian & Patti Northeast
2007 John Deere 9220 & 2008 John Deere 9430
2009 John Deere 9770STS
2012 Versatile 375
2012 John Deere 7130
2006 John Deere 9420
2004 Frontier GC1108
2012 Peterbilt 386 & 2011 Doepker 48 Ft
AUCTION LOCATION: From Jct of Hwy 3 & 34 (South of Crystal City), go 9.7 km (6 miles) West,
then 0.4 km (0.25 mile) South OR From MATHER, MB, go 11.3 km (7 miles) East on Hwy 3, then 0.4
km (0.25 mile) South. Yard on East side. GPS: 49.0812, -99.0661
2012 Versatile 375 4WD Tractor · 2006 John Deere
9420 4WD Tractor · 1981 John Deere 8440 4WD
Tractor · 2012 John Deere 7130 Premium MFWD
Tractor · 2009 John Deere 9770STS Combine ·
2011 John Deere 635F 35 Ft Flex Header · 2008
John Deere 4895 30 Ft Swather · 2012 Peterbilt
386 T/A Truck Tractor · 2011 Doepker 45 Ft Tri/A
Grain Trailer · 2010 PJ Trailers 18 Ft T/A Equipment
Trailer · 2008 Bourgault 3310PHD 55 Ft Air Drill
· 2008 Bourgault 6550ST Tow-Behind Air Tank ·
1997 John Deere 985 55 Ft Cultivator · 1998 John
Deere 685 51 Ft Cultivator · 2005 Bourgault 7200
70 Ft Heavy Harrows · Ag Shield 96 Ft Field Sprayer
· 2004 Frontier GC1108 1100± Bushel S/A Grain
Cart · (18) Hopper Bins · (3) Ring Grain Bins · (6)
Grain Augers · 2004 Frontier GC1108 1100± Bushel
S/A Grain Cart ...AND MUCH MORE!
2006 Seedmaster 48 Ft & 2002 John Deere 1900 340±
2002 International 9400 & 2010 Grain Hauler 45 Ft
AUCTION LOCATION: From OXBOW, SK, go 11.3 km (7 miles) South on Grid 603, then 8 km (5
miles) East. Yard on South side. GPS: 49.1391, -102.0623
Deere 9220 4WD Tractor · 1984 John Deere 8450
4WD Tractor · 1993 John Deere 7700 MFWD
Tractor · 2012 John Deere 3032E MFWD Utility
Tractor · 2011 John Deere 9770STS Combine ·
2010 MacDon D60-D 40 Ft Draper · 2005 Premier
2952I 30 Ft Swather · 2002 International 9400
T/A Truck Tractor · 1979 International 1724 S/A
Brian Northeast: 306.483.5158(h),
306.483.7584(c)
Patti Northeast:306.485.7990(c),
pnortheast@sasktel.net
Steven Perrin: 204.573.0993 800.491.4494
Kevin Ortt: 306.451.7388 800.491.4494
FARM RETIREMENT
AUCTION SALE
Don Cheslock
Grain Truck · 2010 Grain Hauler 45 Ft Tri/A Grain
Trailer · 2009 Load Trail 20 Ft T/A Equipment
Trailer · 2006 Seedmaster 48 Ft Air Drill · 2002
John Deere 1900 340± Bushel Tow-Behind Air
Tank · 2005 John Deere 4720 90 Ft High Clearance Sprayer · 1994 Flexi-Coil 65XL 100 Ft Field
Sprayer · 2001 Westeel 6625 Litre NH3 Tank ·
Lrg Qty of Grain Bins...AND MUCH MORE!
Murray McIntyre: 204.873.2324 (h)
204.825.7615(c), murlee@goinet.ca
McSherry Auction Service Ltd
Edward & Cathy Dureault
Wolseley, SK | April 16, 2016 · 10 am
Saturday April 23rd @ 10:00 am
St Andrews, MB
Jct. Hwy 8 & Hwy 67 North 2 Miles on Hwy 8 then 1 1/2 mile Easton Rd 79
Aution Note: Be on Time Not Much Small Items Selling!
Main items Shedded & Low Hours as Don farmed only 220 Acres Per Year!
Internet Bidding @ Bidspotter.com
1998 John Deere 9300 & Seed Hawk 4210 42 Ft & Flexi-Coil 1720
Stuart McSherry (204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com
MACK AUCTION CO. presents a farm equip auction for Tom Webb (306)459-2731 Mon., Apr 11th,
2016 10:00 am. Directions from Pangman, SK. from
Junction of Hwy 6 & 13 go 5-mi West & 5-mi South
on the Parry/Hardy grid! Watch for signs! Live internet bidding www.bidspotter.com NH 9682 4WD
tractor w/5,240-hrs; NH 9682 4WD tractor
w/6,205-hrs; Case 2096 2WD tractor w/4,175-hrs;
Ford 4000 2WD DSL tractor w/3-PTH; AC 7G track
dozer w/4-in-1 bucket; NH H8-40 SP 30-ft. swather
w/only 1,009-hrs; Unverferth 9250 grain cart
w/scale & roll tarp; NH TR98 SP combine; Koenders 8-ft. poly swath roller; 1991 GMC Topkick tandem grain truck w/115,400-km; 1988 GMC Kodiak
tandem grain truck w/Detroit DSL; 2002 Buick Century Ltd. 4 door sedan w/leather & sunroof; 1988
Lincoln Towncar 4 door sedan; 1971 GMC 6500
grain truck; 1965 Ford 700 grain truck 5-SPD w/air
brakes; 1989 Chev 1500 regular cab DSL PU; Morris Maxim II 39-ft. air drill & Morris 7240 air tank
double shoot & Atom paired row openers; Morris
Magnum 45-ft. II CP-745 cultivator w/2055 Valmar;
Morris Ranger II 70-ft. harrow packers; Ezee On
6650 33-ft. tandem disc; Morris B3-48 Rod Weeder;
Morris B3-36 Rod Weeder; Massey Ferguson 360
3-15-ft. discers; Degelman RP 7200 Signature Series hyd rock picker; Leon M850 PT Scraper; NH
BR7090 round baler; Lypka flax straw buncher;
Westward 3-PTH 30-ft. sprayer; Flexi Coil 65-ft.
sprayer; Artic Cat 500 4WD quad; Ford 3-PTH angle blade; Kuhn EL23 3-PTH roto tiller; McKee
Model 6 3-PTH snow blower; Farm King 3-PTH
disc; AG Fab garden wagon; Poly 1,250-gal water
tank; Sakundiak HD 8-45 auger w/Vanguard 35-HP
DSL engine & Meridian mover; Sakundiak HD 8-39
auger w/Kohler Command Pro 27-HP engine & Meridian mover; Sakundiak HD 10-2000 swing auger;
Sakundiak HD 6-33 auger w/5-HP electric motor;
Vidor 105-Ton fertilizer bin; 3 Vidor 73-Ton fertilizer
bins; Vidor 105-Ton fertilizer bin; 3 Vidor 73-Ton
fertilizer bins; Meridian 83-Ton fertilizer bin; Univision 73-Ton fertilizer bin; 4 Bader 2,000-bu hopper
bins; Twister 1,000-bu hopper bin. Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us
on Facebook & Twitter. (306)421-2928 or
(306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962
Farming is enough of a gamble, advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator classified section. It’s a sure thing.
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AUCTION SALES
U.S. Auctions
Contact: (204) 437-2842
Tractors: Case IH 7210 Magnum Cab A/C P Shift 3PH 540/1000 Triple Hyd. 20.8 R 42 Factory
Duals 4752 Hrs. * 2010 Case IH 45A 3 PH Hyd. 540 PTO 283 Hrs. Like New * JD 5010 Dsl Cab
1000 PTO Dual Hyd. 24.5 32 * MH 44 Dsl Hyd. * AC B Pulley * Combine, Swather, Augers: JD
7720 Titan II Combine 4650 Hrs * JD 222 22' Straight Cut Header * Coop 722 Cab Dsl 22'
Swather w PU Reel * 2012 Farm King 6640 1000 PTO Grain Vac Used One Season * Buhler /
Farm King 8" 51' Gas Elec Start Auger * Westfield 7" 41'Gas Elec Start Auger * Farm King 7" 36'
Gas Elec Start Auger * Trucks: 81 Chev Dsl 5 Spd x 2 Tag Axle w 20' Box & Twin Hoist Roll Tarp
105 860 KM Sft * 79 Chev C 50 350 Gas 4 Spd w 14' B & H Original True 22,373 Km Sft * 78
GMC 6500 366 Gas 5 Spd x 2 w 14' B & H & Roll Tarp 127, 414 Km Sft * 1953 GMC Military 6
Wheel Drive Truck Ind. GM 6 Cyl 3 Spd 4 Range Allison Trans w 12" Drill Fill Tote Tank * Seeding
& Tillage: 2 Case IH 7200 28" Hoe Drill * Int 6200 20" Press Drill * 2) Int 310 15' Discer Seeders
* Farm King 50' Diamond Harrows * Int 5000 18' Vibra Chisel w Mulchers * Coop 806 15' Deep
Tiller w Mulchers * Wilrich 22 Cult * Coop 179 19' Cult w Mulchers * Coop 203 16' Deep Tiller * 3
Yard Hyd. Scraper * Bourgalt 540 Elmitre Sprayer 50' * Misc & 3PH Equip: Eureka Potato Planter
* MH Single Row PTO Drive Potato Digger * MF 8' 3 PH Cult * Buhler / Farm King 620 6' Trailer
Style Rotary Mower * H C 3PH 7' Blade * Trailer Hyd. Wood Splitter * Self Stand Saw Mandrel *
Utility Trailer * Cub Cadet LT 2180 18 HP 42" R Mower 420 Hrs. * Pocket Rocket Mini Bike * 60
Gal Slip Fuel Tank * Gas Water Pump * 24.5 - 32 Rice Tires 90% * Farm Misc * Implement Parts
* Shop Supply * Antiques: 1960's Suzuki 79 cc Mini Bike * Pedal Bike * Int 3 B Plow * Planet J R
Seeder * Wheel Hoe * Wood Cook Stove * Wash Stand * Cabinet Radio * Oil Cans * Scale * Cream
Cans * Medalta 5 Gal Water Cooler * Coil Lamps * Bells, School Bell * Trunk * Coffee Grinder *
Antique Furniture: Morris Chair * China Cabinet * Oak China Cabinet *Rd Pedistal w Five Chairs
* Dresser * Rocking Chair * Kitchen Cupboard *
MACK AUCTION CO presents a farm & livestock
equip auction for Cowan Bros. & guests. Sale info
call Dave (306)736-2999 or Ward (306)736-7121
Sat., Apr. 23rd, 2016 Langbank, SK 10:00 am.
Directions from Langbank, SK go 2-mi North on Hwy
#9, 2-mi West & 1-mi North. Live internet bidding
www.bidspotter.com
Vers
875
4WD
tractor
w/6,485-hrs; Vers 835 4WD tractor w/6,945-hrs; JD
4440 2WD tractor w/7,400-hrs; JD 4440 2WD tractor; JD 4430 2WD tractor; JD 4440 2WD tractor
w/707 Leon FEL; Case 2290 2WD tractor w/3PTH;
Case 1370 2WD tractor; Case 970 2WD tractor; JD
9600 SP combine w/3,440 sep hrs; JD 7721 PT
combine; JD 7721 PT combine; 25-ft. Westward
3000 PT swather; JD 590 30-ft. PT swather; MF 25ft. PT swather; JD 590 30-ft. swather; MF 25-ft. PT
swather; 2001 Western Star tandem grain truck;
2003 GMC 2500 HD extended cab truck; 1969
Chev C-60 grain truck; 2009 Trailtech Prospector
flat deck trailer bumper pull; 36-ft. Bourgault 8800
air seeder w/Bourgault 2155 tow behind air tank;
82-ft. Bourgault 850 Centurian III field sprayer; 37ft. JD 1610 cultivator w/anhydrous kit; 35-ft. JD
1600 cultivator; Flexi Coil 50-ft. tine harrows; 37-ft.
Wilrich field cultivator; Case 27-ft. IH 5500 chisel
plow w/Degelman harrows; 24-ft. JD 100 cultivator;
JD 567 round baler shedded; Highline 1400 round
bale picker; Macdon 5020 16-ft. haybine; Bale King
bale processor; 2, 100-bu creep feeders; Farm King
trailer type PTO roller mill; EZ-Guide 250 & EZ
Steer 500; EZ Guide 250 & EZ Steer 500; Degelman rock pickers; 2 Leon 707 FEL w/JD mounts;
Westfield 10-60 swing auger; Sakundiak 8-50 PTO
auger; Sakundiak 7-41 auger w/Kohler engine;
Brandt 7-33 auger w/Kohler engine; Brandt 7-33
auger w/Kohler engine; Pool 6-33 auger & Kohler
engine, plus much more! Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us on
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Rogator 1064 100 Ft
12TH ANNUAL SPRING
EQUIPMENT AUCTION
AUCTION LOCATION: From WOLSELEY, SK, go 4.5 km (2.8 miles) South on Grid
617, 4.7 km (2.9 miles) West. Yard on South side. GPS: 50.3604, -103.3237
Sat. April 16-9:30am
Deere 4840 2WD Tractor · 2005 John Deere
9760STS Combine · 1995 Case IH 2188 Combine
· 2004 Westward 9250 30 Ft Swather · 1999
International 9400 Sleeper T/A Truck Tractor ·
• Tractors • Trucks • Tillage
• Sprayers • Row Crop
• Headers • Recreational
• Lawn & Garden.
1987 International 9900 Eagle T/A Grain Truck ·
2008 Drake 36 Ft T/A Grain Trailer · 2013 Abu 16 Ft
Equipment Trailer · 2005 Custombuilt 8 Ft Equipment Trailer · Seed Hawk 4210 42 Ft Air Drill · FlexiCoil 1110 Tow-Behind Air Tank · Rogator 1064 100
Ft High Clearance Sprayer...AND MUCH MORE!
Edward Dureault: 306.698.2712 (h)
306.698.7668 (c), ed.dur@sasktel.net
Drayton, ND.
Full listing after April 1st on
midwestauctions.com/rapacz,
Agweek, or Farm & Ranch Proxy-Bid Online Bidding
Kevin Ortt: 306.451.7388 800.491.4494
Argyle, MN
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TRACK TRACTORS
Caterpillar 55, powershift, 4 hyd.,
3 pt., PTO, Outback Universal auto
steer globe, Outback S3 monitor,
radio, chin weights, 18” tracks, 80%
2006 Caterpillar MT875B, powershift, 4
hyd., swinging drawbar, front weights,
front idler weights, 30” tracks, 4,717
hrs., S/NAGCMT875KBFT60564
4WD TRACTORS
1975 Steiger Bearcat II, CAH, 3208
Cat, 10 spd., 3 hyd., 5,800 hrs.,
remfg. engine with less than 900 hrs.,
updated Sanden R134 A/C system,
Degelman blade sells separate
Steiger Cougar III ST251, CAH,
4 hyd., shows 4,348 hrs.
1975 JD 7520, 4WD, CAH, A/C
converted to R134a, 16 spd. syncro,
3 hyd., 1000 PTO, shows 7,550 hrs.,
S/NT925R005530R
MFWD TRACTORS & LOADERS
2010 JD 8295R, MFWD, IVT, deluxe
cab, active seat, 5 hyd., return flow,
60 gpm, 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO,
integrated AutoTrac, diff lock, radar,
2,302 hrs., S/N1RW8295RL9D003265
2013 JD 7330, MFWD, New Legend
740 loader w/bucket,
S/N1L07330HJCH40103
2013 JD 6170R, MFWD, CAH, IVT,
left hand reverser, 4 hyd., 3 pt., quick
hitch, front susp., integrated auto
steer, 7” screen, w/JD 3000 globe,
radar weight bracket, 1,330 hrs.,
S/N1R6170RCDD006578
2010 JD 6140D, MFWD, 9 spd. shuttle
shift, 3 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, left
hand reverser, rear diff lock, (12) front
weights, (4) rear wheel weights, 1,982
hrs., S/NP06140D001410
2006 JD 8330, MFWD, deluxe cab,
deluxe comfort pkg., buddy seat, 16/4
powershift, ILS, 4 hyd., power beyond,
3 pt., 1000 PTO., AutoTrac ready, dual
beam radar, Cat 3 drawbar, 5,315 hrs.
2000 JD 7810, MFWD, powershift, 3
hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 6,572 hrs.,
S/NRW7810P034581
2007 Case-IH MXM120 Pro, MFWD,
powershift, left hand reverser, 3 hyd.,
3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, L760 loader, 822
hrs., S/NACM283772
2005 NH TG210, MFWD, Super Steer,
5 hyd., 3 pt., small & large 540/1000
PTO, heavy duty drawbar, 6,800 hrs.
2011 KMW 1860 quick attach loader,
w/quick attach bucket, 96” bucket,
mounts for NH TG Series tractor
1994 NH 8770, MFWD, Super Steer,
CAH, 16 spd., 4 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000
PTO, full front weights
1988 Case-IH 7130, MFWD, CAH,
new air ride seat, powershift, 3 hyd.,
3 pt., 1000 PTO, diff lock, radar, (12)
front weights, 7,027 hrs., 50 hrs. on all
rebuilt SCV valves, S/N4460
2WD TRACTORS
AC 190XT Series III, cab w/heat
IHC 986, cab, 2WD, engine stuck
IHC 656 open station, 63 hp., gas
GPS EQUIPMENT
Trimble 750 display & globe
Garmin GPS radar sensor
JD GS2 2600 display, no activations
JD Starfire globe, wiring harness
Trimble RT-200 GreenSeeker system
JD brown box
JD ITC globe, SF1
JD 8 row population monitor &
Summers 3 section sprayer controller
Beeline Arro auto steer, complete
HARVEST EQUIPMENT
2013 JD S670, premium cab
(2) JD 615P pickup head, AHH
2007 Geringhoff RD corn head, 12x22”
1996 JD 893 corn head, 8x30”
1984 JD 853A all crop head, 8x30”
1982 JD 853A all crop head, 8x30”
AIR DRILLS & DRILLS
2011 Amity SD60 air drill, 60’
2009 JD 1830 air seeder, 60’
2007 Horsch Anderson 60-15 air
seeder, dual airstream
2005 JD 1890 no-till air drill, 42-1/2’
JD 777 tow-behind cart, fill auger
Concord 1502 air cart, 150 bu.
JD 9350 press drills, (3) 8’s
JD 9350 press drills, 24’, 6” spacing
JD LLA press drill, 14’, fertilizer
PLANTERS
2014 JD DB44 planter, 24x22”
2006 Monosem NG Plus3, 24x22”
JD 7300 vacuum planter, 24x22”
JD 7300 vacuum planter
JD 1710 planter, 16x22”, 3 pt.
JD 71 flex planter, 6x22”, 3 pt.
JD 71 flex planter, (5) units
IHC 400 Cyclo planter, 8x30”
IHC 400 Cyclo planter, 8x30”
FIELD CULTIVATORS
2014 Case-IH 200 field cultivator, 60’
Case-IH 4700 field cultivator, 54-1/2’
Case-IH 4900 field cultivator, 44-1/2’
JD 985 field cultivator, 49-1/2’ wide
JD 980 field cultivator, 5 section
JD 960 field cultivator, 44-1/2’
1982 Wil-Rich field cultivator, 38’
Kongskilde Triple K field cultivator, 25’
JD field cultivator, 18’, 3pt.
OTHER TILLAGE EQUIPMENT
Degelman 7645 land roller, 45’
2011 JD 3710 auto reset plow, 10x18”
JD 3100 plow, 6x16”
Case-IH DMI crumbler, 50’
Melroe 504, 60’, 5-bar harrow
Summers Super Coulter Plus, 30’
1988 PowerMatic harrow packer, 70’
Bush Hog 1450 disc, 32’
JD disc, 24’ manual folding wing
1986 Summers Superweeder, 70’
Melroe multiweeder, 40’
Herman multiweeder, 55’, 3 rank
ROW CROP EQUIPMENT
Alloway 2130 row crop cultivator, 12x30”
Alloway row crop cultivator, 12x30”
JD 855 row crop cultivator, 8x30”
Harriston 2010 cultivator, 6x38”
Lilliston potato cultivator, 6x38”
Yetter rotary hoe, 30’, 3 pt.
Case-IH 181 rotary hoe, 30’, 3 pt.
Jones band sprayer, 8 row, 300 gal.
SEMI TRACTORS
2004 Kenworth W900, 60” Aerocab
2003 Freightliner Columbia 120
2000 Peterbilt 379, sleeper
1994 Freightliner FLD120 integrated
sleeper, 3406 Cat
1998 Kenworth T800 Aerocab
1996 Peterbilt 379, sleeper
1990 Kenworth T600, day cab
1984 Peterbilt 362, cabover
BOX TRUCKS
1979 Ford 800, tandem axle,
1977 Ford 9000 twin screw tandem
1974 Chevrolet C65
1971 Chevrolet C50, tag tandem
1976 Chevrolet C60, single axle
1974 Ford F600, single axle
1973 Ford F600, single axle
OTHER TRUCKS
1995 Ford Aeromax 9000
1989 IHC S1900 single axle service
truck, flatbed, 150 gal.
1984 IHC 1900 single axle service truck
2005 Freightliner M2, van body
HOPPER BOTTOM TRAILERS
2013 Timpte hopper bottom, 42’
1995 Merritt hopper bottom,
43’x102”x80”, air ride
1992 Fabtec tandem axle steel
hopper bottom, 32’, spring susp.
1992 Fabtec single axle steel hopper
bottom, 24’, spring susp.
LIVE BOTTOM TRAILERS
Esscot live bottom trailer, 40’
Johnson live bottom trailer, 40’
1996 Midland MG40 clam tri-axle
belly dump, spring ride
B&L 24’ live bottom strong box on a
Hobbs trailer, 30” belt
BEAN EQUIPMENT
2004 Pickett C8030 8x30”
UFT bean knifer, 8 row
Rod weeder, 8 row, 3 pt.
POTATO EQUIPMENT
Lockwood pick-type potato planter
McConell 490 potato harvester,
(2) Artsway 438A potato harvester
Lockwood 2 row windrower
Mayo planter filler/conveyor, 18” belt
Mayo seed conveyor, 18” belt
Spudnik 550 telescoping bin piler
Troyer Mfg. telescoping conveyor
Betterbuilt potato cutter, 30”
Harriston 200 clod hopper
Harriston 12 row potato weeder
HEAVY EQUIPMENT
1999 Komatsu 200LC6 excavator
WB ditching bucket for excavator, 48”
1992 JD 770B-H motor grader
1991 Komatsu WA450 wheel loader
Redline Systems Cat III quick hitch
mover, for wheel loader
IHC TD9 crawler dozer
Terex TS14 7UOT scraper, cab
1968 Caterpillar 621 motor scraper
PICKUPS
SPRAYER & FLATBED TRAILERS
COMBINE & HEADER TRAILERS
OTHER TRAILERS
FLOATER & SPRAYERS
FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL
EQUIPMENT
SADDLE TANKS
NH3 EQUIPMENT
FORKLIFT & ATTACHMENTS
SKID STEER LOADERS &
ATTACHMENTS
HAY, FORAGE & LIVESTOCK
EQUIPMENT
GRAIN & COMMODITY HANDLING
EQUIPMENT
OTHER EQUIPMENT & FARM
SUPPORT ITEMS
MOWERS, LAWN & GARDEN
FAIRWAY & FINISHING MOWERS
SNOWBLOWERS
RADIOS
SHOP EQUIPMENT & TOOLS
BOAT & CAR
TANKS & TIRES
PARTS & MISC. ITEMS
For consignor information & location, complete terms, lot listing & photos visit SteffesGroup.com
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AUTO & TRANSPORT
Trucks
95 F SERIES SINGLE axles 24-ft. deck, 5.9
Cummins, A/C, hyd brakes, 169,000-mi, good condition,
asking $5,900. (204)871-2708 or (204)685-2124
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Doors & Windows
MACK AUCTION CO. presents a farm equip auction for Glenn Swenson (306)861-4395 Wed., Apr.
13th, 2016 10:00 am Directions from Weyburn, SK
19-km Southeast on Hwy 39 & 3 South. Watch for
signs! Case IH 7220 FWA tractor; Case IH 7110
2WD tractor w/Allied 895 FEL; JD 4640 2WD tractor w/duals; JD 9500 SP combine w/2,430-hrs; 30ft. Prairie Star 4900 SP swather w/1,815-hrs; IH
1480 SP combine w/new sieves; MF 25-ft. PTO
swather; 1989 Ford F-800 grain truck w/Cancade
box; 1969 GMC 960 cab over grain truck; 1957
GMC grain truck; Flexi Coil 800 air seeder w/JD
787 air tank; Flexi Coil 60-ft. System 95 tine harrows & packers; Flexi Coil 70-ft. System 82 tine
harrows; 35-ft. JD 1610 cultivator w/1655 Valmar &
fertilizer kit; 42-ft. JD 1000 vibra shank cultivator
w/1620 Valmar; Coop 33-ft. deep tillage cultivator;
MF 360 12-ft. & 15-ft. discers; MF 360 2-15-ft. discers; Flexi Coil end tow diamond harrows; AC 14-ft.
tandem disc; 70-ft. Flexi Coil 55 sprayer; Sakundiak
HD 10-2200 swing auger; Sakundiak HD 7-37 auger w/Honda engine; Brandt 6-35 auger w/Power
Ease engine & bin sweep; Sakundiak HD 7-1600
auger w/Kohler engine; REM 542 grain vac; Behlin
3,500-bu hopper bottom bin; Friesen 73-Ton fertilizer bin; Sakundiak 3,000-bu bin on wood floor;
Westeel 2,000-bu bin won wood floor; Twister
2,100-bu bin on wood floor; Rosco 1,350-bu bin on
wood floor; 2,000 & 1,350-bu round wood floors;
Schulte XH-1500 Series rotary mower; Crown rock
picker; Blanchard Flax straw buncher; Schulte fork
type rock picker; IH 70 3-PTH snow blower; 3-PTH
gyro mower; Hyundai 2000W invertor generator;
Craftsman LT 1000 lawn tractor & mower; 1000 &
300-gal fuel tank & stands; floating slough pumps;
Low Rider Ford truck topper; shop built building
mover, plus much more! Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us on
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Toll Free: 1-855-326-4556
www.reimeroverheaddoors.com
email: kurtis@reimeroverheaddoors.com
75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard
100,000PSI high tensile roofing &
siding. 16 colours to choose from.
B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2
Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft.2
Ask about our blowout colours...65¢/ft.2
Also in stock low rib white 29 ga. ideal for
archrib buildings
BEAT THE PRICE
INCREASES CALL NOW
FOUILLARD STEEL
SUPPLIES LTD.
ST. LAZARE, MB.
1-800-510-3303
BUILDINGS
BUILDING TO MOVE: as is, no charge, 36.x52-ft.,
2x6 walls w/R20 insulation, ceiling is R45 insulation, 1/2-in. plywood interior sheeting, metal clad
outside walls, roof needs re-shingling. (204)735-2428.
Go public with an ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds. Phone 1-800-782-0794.
rollworksinc@gmail.com
BUILDINGS
CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place &
finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any
floor design. References available. Alexander, MB.
204-752-2069.
AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post
frame building company. For estimates and information
call
1-888-816-AFAB(2322).
Website:
www.postframebuilding.com
TENDERS WANTED: THE INGLIS Area Heritage
Committee is looking for tenders for painting the
Paterson elevator which is one of the elevators at
the historical site located in Inglis, MB. The successful tender must follow the requirements for the
Heritage Canada Grant (acquired previously), these
requirements can be obtained by contacting Darlene Jackson as below. The tender price shall: include costs including, but no limited to, inspecting
the elevator & repairing as necessary. Purchasing
supplies, supplying equipment suitable for safely
doing the task. Successful tenders would need to
provide a clearance letter from WCB of MB & comply w/all MB Workplace Safety & Health rules &
regulations. Liability insurance of at least
$1,000,000 is also required. All work must be completed by Sept. 30th, 2016. If you are interest
please forward the tender to IAHC Box 81 Inglis,
MB R0J 0X0 by Apr. 30th, 2016, if you have any
questions please contact Darlene Jackson at
(204)564-2340 or email darjack@inetlink.ca
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BUSINESS SERVICES
BUSINESS SERVICES
Crop Consulting
FARM CHEMICAL / SEED 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
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Dryers
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Seeding Various
WESTERN GRAIN DRYER manufacturers of grain
dryers w/fully automatic moisture & drying control
systems. Updates for IBEC/Vertec & roof, tiers,
burners, auto moisture controller. Used dryer is
available. 1-888-288-6857, westerngraindryer.com
FOR SALE: 42-FT, MODEL 7200 Case IH hoe drill,
factory transport & carbides, good condition.
Phone: (204)745-7445.
80-FT. BUCKET ELEVATING LEG w/3 phase
10-HP electric motor. Phone (204)886-3304.
1999 REM 1026B GRAIN Vacuum, new hose, always shedded, $6,700; JD 930 Header, 60 series,
hook up, sunflower pans & trailer, $6,300.
(204)746-8188.
CONTRACTING
Custom Work
CURT’S GRAIN VAC SERVICES, parts & repair for
all makes & models. Craik SK, (306)734-2228.
Hog Equipment Installation
and Barn Care
Over 25 years of experience in the industry.
We install: Feed Systems, Watering systems,
Ventilation systems, Penning, Flooring, Heat
mats, etc.
We also do structural repairs such as roof and
wall tin, doors, ceilings, duct repairs, etc.
Serving Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
(204) 392-2467
gagnonwoodwork@gmail.
com
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
6 QUICK ATTACH EXCAVATOR buckets, some
trenching & clean-up buckets, plus 6 excavator rippers, some Cat’s & WBM’s. (204)871-0925, MacGregor MB.
BRAND NEW RWD HYD thumb, for 200 size excavator, $7,500. Call Claude (204)250-2523
Call our toll-free number to take advantage of our Prepayment Bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and we’ll run your
ad 2 more weeks for free. That’s 5 weeks for the price
of 3. Call 1-800-782-0794 today!
CROP INPUTS
AN ORGANIC CALCIUM SOURCE: Calcium (Lime
for field crops). DRAMM fish fertilizer. OPAM approved. Contact Harvey Dann:1-800-665-2494 or
Cell:(701)213-8246. Or Email: harvey@alertagri.ca
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
Fertilizer Equipment
USED DRY FERTILIZER SPREADERS 4-8 Ton
Large Selection Val-Mar Applicators 16-20, 16-55,
24-20, 32-55; 18-ft. Drill Fill w/brush auger.
(204)857-8403 www.zettlerfarmequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Augers
CLASSIC SEED TREATER Straps to your auger. No
pump or wiring required. Large 35L tank w/6-in. cap
makes it easy to mix inoculants & treat pulses.
(888)545-1228 www.lockhart-industries.com
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
Cudmore Bros.
Farm King Augers
Meridian Augers
Meridian Hopper Bins
Honda & Kohler Engines
Watermaster Floating Pumps
Poly Tanks & Transfer Pumps
204-873-2395
CRYSTAL CITY, MB
www.cudmorebros.com
www.fyfeparts.com
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.
PARTING OUT AC 7060; White 2-155; Cockshutt
1250, 550, 560, 40; Case 800, 830, 900, 930, 1270;
Kubota 120, 135; JD 7700 combine; Soft core balers; NH 116 & 495 haybines; various older Implement tires & rims, hyd components. (204)871-2708
or (204)685-2124
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
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
7200 INTERNATIONAL PRESS HOE drill. 14-ft
$1,000 OBO. Also for parts, NH 1400 combine.
Call:(204)837-1553.
FOR SALE: 1033 NEW Holland bale wagon.
$5000. Phone:(204)638-5404.
FOR SALE: 2 ENDGATE drill fills: 1 Westfield, in
mint condition; 1 Metal Industries, good condition.
Phone:(306)452-3582.
FOR SALE: 37-FT LAURIER land packer; 36-ft
IHC #45 cultivator w/harrows; Case 414 plow. All
machinery in good shape. Phone:(204)745-2784.
GEHL 500-BU. TMR CART, $10,000; Knight 250
CF TMR Cart, $5,000; Artsway Mixmill, $1,500;
Hewke 30-in. Rollermill, $3,500; JD 780 Manure
Spreader, $10,000; JD 7000 Planter 8R30, $7,000;
Phoenix Rotary Harrows 30, 40 & 50-ft. Brandt
4000 Grain Vac, $8,000; 4500, $8,500; New 10-ft.
Box Scraper Landleveller, $2,450; Used Fertilizer
Spreaders 4-8 Ton 10-Ton Tender, $5,000; REM
1026 Grain Vac, $4,500; JD 535 Baler, $5,000; JD
510, $1,500; JD 336 Square Baler, $3,000.
(204)857-8403
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
ROWCROP CULTIVATORS 4-8R LILLISTON Cultivators 6-12R Discs Wishek 16-ft., $23,000; 30-ft.,
$33,000; Breaking Discs Kewanee 150ft., $25,000;
Tonner 18-ft., $30,000; Vers 36-ft., $20,000; Bushog 25-ft., $7,500; IHC 14-ft. 770, $6,500; JD
1630, $3,500; DMI Disk Ripper 5 Shank, $8,900; 7
Shank, $10,900; JD 3970 Harvester, $6,000; IH
781, $2,000; 12-ft. Dump Wagon, $3,000; Vermeer
23 Hyd Rakes, $9,500 & Up; Hay Conditioners,
$800 & Up; JD 9-ft. Sickle Mower, $2,000.
(204)857-8403.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Wanted
WANTED: LARGE OLD BENCH vice; anvil; CT50
or 70 Honda trail bike, complete or parts; 57 & 58
Pontiac, complete or parts. (204)685-2970, Mcgregor.
Combines
COMBINES
John Deere
2 JD 9600 COMBINES always shedded, both have
3,500 sep hrs, years ‘90 & ‘92, w/PU heads & chaff
spreaders, $31,000 OBO each. Also avail 2, 930
straight heads. Call (204)773-0111.
COMBINES
Accessories
AGCO MF CAT flex platforms: In stock Models 500
Gleaner 25-ft. & 30-ft.; Model 8000 30-ft. & 8200
35-ft. MF; Cat FD30 flex; FD40 flex. Reconditioned,
ready to go. Delivery in SK, MB, AB. Gary:
(204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equip, Hwy #12 N,
Steinbach, MB. www.reimerfarmequipment.com
FOR SALE: 1985 IHC 7200 hoe press drill ,always
shedded, very clean. For more info phone evenings
(204)859-2724
AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING
ALLIS 1984 8050 4,437-HRS, original owner; 1981
8010 3,694-hrs, 2nd owner. Both stnd trans, shedded, no 3-pt, offers. Also machinery augers, cultivators etc., never winter use, no loader use.
(204)242-2221, Manitou.
TRACTORS
John Deere
FOR SALE: JD 2750 MFWD, CAH, 3-pt, 2 hyd’s,
w/245 loader; JD 2950 2WD, CAH, 3-pt, 2 hyd’s; JD
2950 MFWD, 3-pt, 2 hyd’s, w/loader; 2, JD 4050
MFWD, 3-pt, PS, w/o loaders; JD 4250 MFWD,
3-pt, 15-SPD, w/265 loader; JD 4640 Quad, 3
hyd’s; JD 6400 2WD, PQ w/RHS, 3-pt, w/loader; JD
6400 MFWD, 3-pt, PQ w/RHS, w/640 loader. Case
MXM 140, MFWD, 3-pt, w/loader. All tractors can
be sold w/new or used loaders. Now a Husqvarna
Dealer, w/a full line of Husqvarna Equipment.
Mitch’s Tractor Sales Ltd. St. Claude, MB. Phone
(204)750-2459 (cell) Mitchstractorsales.com
TRACTORS
Massey Ferguson
MF 1085 CAB HEATER 3-PTH, good tires, new
hyd pump, FEL avail, $10,850. Consider offers or
trades. (204)871-2708 or (204)685-2124
MF 180 3-PTH row crop, good tires, new clutch,
$6,500. Phone (204)685-2124 or (204)871-2708
TRACTORS
2-Wheel Drive
STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in
JD tractors in need of repair or burnt, or will buy for
parts. JD parts available. Phone: 204-466-2927 or
cell: 204-871-5170, Austin.
FENCING
S&D Custom AG Services
JD FLEX PLATFORMS: 922, 925, 930, several
newer ones w/full finger augers & air reels; 630-635
w/wo air bars. Deliver in SK, MB, AB. Gary
(204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12
N, Steinbach, MB. www.reimerfarmequipment.com
NH FLEX PLATFORMS: In stock Models 973 both
25-30’; 74C 30-ft. w/air reel; 88C 36-ft. flex draper;
94C 25-ft. rigid draper w/trailer. Deliver in SK, MB,
AB. Gary (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equip, Hwy
#12 N, www.reimerfarmequipment.com Steinbach, MB.
Call our toll-free number to take advantage of our Prepayment Bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and we’ll run your
ad 2 more weeks for free. That’s 5 weeks for the price
of 3. Call 1-800-782-0794 today!
Ranching family business offering custom fencing.
Self propelled, all terrain fencing machine at
$2,200/mile (we supply staples). Compact track
loader with a wire roller & post puller. Get the old
fence lines cleaned up at $1,100/mile. Mulcher
head for the track loader to keep back the trees &
brush at $100/hr. Daniel Leblanc (403)821-0502
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
The Icynene Insulation
System®
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
charles@arcfab.ca www.arcfab.ca
GRUNTHAL, MB.
REGULAR
CATTLE SALES
every TUESDAY at 9 am
April 12th,
19th & 26th
Monday, April 11th at 12:00pm
Sheep and Goat with Small
Animals & Holstein Calves
Saturday, April 16th at 10:00am
Bred Cow Sale
For on farm appraisal of livestock
or for marketing information please call
Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250
Auction Mart (204) 434-6519
MB. Livestock Dealer #1111
WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
20 RED & BLACK Angus 2 yr old bulls moderate
birth weights. Will semen test & deliver when you
need them. Phone (204)278-3372, Inwood, Mb.
ANDERSON’S CATTLE CO. Bull Sale, Wed., Apr.
13th, 1:00pm at the Farm, Swan River, MB. Selling
50 yearling & 2 yr old, Red & Black Angus bulls.
For a catalogue or more info contact Bruce Anderson (204)734-2073 or T Bar C Cattle Co.
(306)220-5006. View the catalogue online at
www.buyagro.com (PL#116061)
F BAR & ASSOCIATES Angus bulls for sale.
Choose from 20 two-yr-old and yearling Red and
Black Angus bulls. Great genetics, easy-handling,
semen-tested, delivery available. Call for sales list.
Inquiries and visitors are welcome. We are located
in Eddystone, about 20-mi E of Ste. Rose, or 25-mi
W of Lake MB Narrows, just off Hwy 68. Call Allen
& Merilyn Staheli. Tel: (204)448-2124 Email: amstaheli@inethome.ca
HAMCO CATTLE CO. HAS for sale Reg Red &
Black Angus yearling bulls & 2-yr olds. Good selection. Semen tested, performance data & EPD’s
available. Top genetics, Free Delivery. Contact
Glen, Albert, Larissa Hamilton (204)827-2358 or
David Hamilton (204)325-3635.
RIDGE SIDE RED ANGUS has: 6 red yearlings, 1
black yearling; 2, 2 yr old Red; 1 Red 3 yr old. Yearlings from AI Sires: Toast BC Hobo, Travlin Express, New Trend. Pasquale, Imprint; 3 yr old Provin, Bodacious X BC Hobo; 2 yr old are virgin. All
bulls tested, long, thick, deep, good disposition.
Can deliver call Don (204)422-5216
CASE/IH FLEX PLATFORMS: MODELS 1020 25ft. & 30-ft. w/wo sir reel; 2020 30-ft. & 35-ft., 2020
30-ft. w/air reel; 2011 3020 35-ft. Can install new
AWS air bar for additional $11,500. Deliver in SK,
MB, AB. Gary (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equip,
Hwy #12 N, www.reimerfarmequipment.com Steinbach, MB.
GRAVITY WAGONS- NEW 400-BU., $7,400; 600bu. $12,500; 750-bu. $18,250; Large Selection
Used Gravity Wagons 250-750 bu $2,000 Up; Used
Grain Carts 400-1050 bu. PTO & Hyd Drive Gehl
8500 500-bu. Feed Cart w/Scale $10,000; Little
Auggie Feedmix Cart $5,000; Mohrlang 420 JD 780
Spreader Hydrapush $10,000; Dual Loader $2,000;
Buhler 2795 Loader $4,500; Grain Screeners $250
Up. (204)857-8403.
TRAILER AXLE COMPLETE W/4 very good
10.00Rx15 tires, $1,500; Allied HD loader & dirt
bucket in good shape, $950; 2 like-new 18.4x34
tires, tubes & rims, $1,050 for set. (204)385-2685.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519
TRACTORS
Allis/Deutz
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
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
LIVESTOCK
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Tillage Various
TracTors
BRAND NEW 60-IN. ROTARY ditcher w/deflector,
requires 180-HP, large PTO & 3-PTH. Will deliver &
demonstrate to interested buyer, $24,500. Call
Claude (204)250-2523.
FYFE PARTS
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.
2008 47-FT ST830 C.P. 5-plex, 650-lb trip, 8-in
knock-on shovels, Anhydrous Raven Rate control,
factory hitch, hyd winch, 9/16th heavy harrows,
$82,500 OBO. (204)733-2446.
FARM MACHINERY
Irrigation Equipment
“For All Your Farm Parts”
2004 D-6-N LGP CRAWLER, 6-way dozer, A/C,
cab, diff-steering, Allied W6D winch, $86,000;
2006 Hitachi ZX 270-LC Hyd excavator w/quick attach bucket w/hyd thumb 11-ft stick, axillary hyd,
6,382-hrs, $65,000 USD. 2010 CAT 324 excavator
w/hyd
thumb,
$95,000
Canadian.
Phone:
(204)871-0925.
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Tillage Equipment
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Vacuums
Back-Track InvesTIgaTIons
1-866-882-4779. www.backtrackcanada.com
GLY 1 SOYBEAN SEED. Early, mid, long season
available. Top yields. Bulk or bagged. Keep your
own seed, with the convenience of glyphosate! No
contracts or TUAs. Dealers wanted. Call or text or
Nate: (204)280-1202, Norcan Seeds (204)372-6552
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Elevators
IRON & STEEL
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
2 BLACK ANGUS YEARLING bulls. PB, weight
around 1,000-lbs, birth weight 87-lbs & 81-lbs,
priced $2,700 & $2,500. Phone:(204)886-2083.
Teulon. MB.
BLACK ANGUS BULLS YEARLINGS & Long
Yearlings, some Heifer Bulls, semen tested & performance records avail. Call Don Guilford, Hereford
Ranch (204)873-2430, Clearwater.
FORAGE BASED BLACK ANGUS BULLS. Virgin
2-yr olds & herd sires available. Genetics w/maternal & calving ease traits. (204)564-2540 or
(204)773-6800 www.nerbasbrosangus.com
FOR SALE: REGISTERED BLACK Angus yearling
bulls, moderate framed, good dispositions, EPD’s
available, semen tested & delivered. Bloodlines include Kodiak, KMK Alliance, Pioneer & Brand
Name. Also Registered open heifers. Phone Colin
at Kembar Angus (204)725-3597, Brandon MB.
OSSAWA ANGUS AT MARQUETTE, MB has for
sale: Yearling & 2-yr old bulls. For more info call
(204)375-6658, cell (204)383-0703.
www.penta.ca
1-800-587-4711
YEARLING & 2-YR OLD Black Angus bulls. Holloway Angus, Gerry Williams, Souris. Phone:
(204)741-0070 or (204)483-3622.
Is your ag equipment search more
like a needle in a haystack search?
OVER
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LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
Cornerstone Red Angus & Charolais Bull Sale
Sat., Apr. 16, 1:30p.m., Whitewood (SK) Auction Market. Offering 46 Red Angus & 22 Charolais Yearling
Bulls. Semen tested, guaranteed with free board &
delivery available. Plus, 36 Red Angus & Char X Red
Angus commercial open heifers. View the catalogue
online at www.bylivestock.com.
Phil Birnie
306.577.7440 or Kelly Brimner 306.577.7698
FOR SALE: 10-12 SIMM cows/heifers, Bred
Simm/Angus to calve July/Aug. Call (204)585-5370,
Sandy Lake, MB.
FOR SALE: RED ANGUS Simm X Herdsire Bull,
$3,250.(204)749-2033 Rathwell, MB.
Various Cattle 8 - Simmental/Red Angus first calf
heifers w/calves. Just over 2 years. Very quiet.
$3,000 per pair. Phone (204)642-2669 Arborg, MB.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Blonde d’Aquitaine
BELLEVUE BLONDES HAS AN excellent group of
performance & semen tested, polled Purebred
Blonde yearling bulls for sale. $2800 each. Call
Marcel (204)379-2426 or (204)745-7412, Haywood,
MB.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
2 PB CHAR 2 yr old bulls for sale, good dispositions, $4,000 each. Phone (204)843-2917, Amaranth.
2-YEAR OLD & YEARLING bulls sired by Silver
Bullet & Specialist. For calving ease & yearling
growth, Polled & semen tested. Martens Charolais
& Seed (204)534-8370.
CHAROLAIS BULLS 1& 2 yr olds. Vaccinated and
tested. Steppler and HTA genetics. Call or text
(204)381-1240.
LIVESTOCK
Horse Auctions
WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT selection of PB Charolais bulls, both Red & white yearling & 2-yr olds.
Pictures & info on the net www.defoortstockfarm.com. Call Gord or Sue:(204)743-2109.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Dexter
8 MONTH OLD BLACK Dexter Bull, $850. Phone
(204)385-3621.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Gelbvieh
SELINE’S GELBVIEH HAS POLLED yearling &
2-yr old bulls. Contact Wayne:(306)793-4568.
Stockholm, SK.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
20 OPEN DE-HORNED YEARLING Hereford heifers. Call (306)743-5105, Langenburg SK. See
www.vcherefordfarm.com
FOR SALE: POLLED HEREFORD Bulls Yearlings
& Long Yearlings, semen tested & performance
records avail. Call Don Guilford, Hereford Ranch
(204)873-2430, Clearwater.
PB POLLED HERFORD BULLS coming 2 yr old,
developed slowly on a mostly forage ration, quiet,
roped to tie, guaranteed, delivery avail. Herefords
for over 75 years. Catt Brothers (204)723-2831
POLLED HEREFORD YEARLING BULLS. Vern
Kartanson,
Phone:
(204)867-2627
or
(204)867-7315.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Salers
POLLED PEDIGREED SALERS BULLS on farm
and at Douglas Station. Red or Black. High performance herd. Can arrange delivery. Ken Sweetland,
Lundar,
MB
www.sweetlandsalers.com
(204)762-5512
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Shorthorn
PUREBRED YEARLING BULLS PLUS 1 3-YR old
herdsire for sale, all are polled, thick & easy fleshing w/moderate to low birthweights. We also have 3
bulls at the Douglas Bull Development Centre selling on April 2nd 2016. Call Uphill Shorthorns
(204)764-2663,
cell
(204)365-7155
rgray4@mymts.net
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
5W SIMMENTALS HAS FOR SALE: Reg Polled
Yearling Simmental Bulls, Red & Blacks, Semen
Tested, Will Deliver, Keep Until Needed. Purchase
Sired Goldstandard, Mind Games, Skinner & Justice. Phone (204)868-5040 For More Info.
SIMM BULLS FOR SALE: 1, 2 yr old & 3 yearlings.
Phone (204)641-0660.
Triple R Simmentals (Haywood, MB) has three Registered Purebred Simmental Bulls for sale. Two black
Drake Poker Face 2X sons (RXR 6C- BW 105; currently 1500-lbs and RXR 13C- BW 102; currently
1470-lbs) and a red KWA Big Time 86A son (RXR
20C- BW 104; currently 1440-lbs). Semen tested with
scrotals between 38 and 40.5cm. Delivery arrangements can be made. $5000 each. (204) 771-0280
WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT group of polled yearling Simmental bulls. Your bull comes with a full
guarantee, is semen tested, fed, insured until delivered (No later than June 1st), and delivered (Within
MB.) when you need him, all at our cost. Call Ray
Cormier at (204)736-2608. For more information,
visit our website at www.riverbankfarms.com All
bulls are sold out of the yard by private treaty.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
45 RED, BLACK & Red Angus Cows & some Char.
Calving Apr, May & includes some pairs. Will consider calving & feeding to May 30th, 2016. For more
details please call evenings (204)436-2060 or cell
(204)750-4300, if no answer please leave msg.
500 BRED HEIFERS. Reds, Blacks, Silvers &
Tans. Start calving March 25th, 2016. Had all shots,
preg checked, Ivomec, pelvic measured, weigh approx 1250-lbs. Phone:(204)325-2416.
• Good standability and harvestability
• Competitive disease package: R to leaf rust; MR to stripe
rust; I to stem rust and FHB
fpgenetics.ca
300-700 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400
Ben: 721-3400
FOR SALE: COMING 2 yr old Charolais bulls,
grandsons of Bluegrass. Will be easy calving, good
dispositions & guaranteed. K.E.H Charolais phone
Keith Hagan (204)748-1024, Virden.
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Saskatoon, SK
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Govan, SK
306-484-2010
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Norquay, SK
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Regina, SK
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Strasbourg, SK
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Vanscoy, SK
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Star City, SK
306-863-4377
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Domain, MB
204-736-2622
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Kamsack, SK
306-590-7827
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306-472-3722
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Meadow Lake, SK
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Killarney, MB
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Archerwill, SK
306-323-4402
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Wynyard, SK
306-554-2078
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Dauphin, MB
204-638-7800
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Limerick, SK
306-263-4944
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Delmas, SK
306-445-6522
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Strasbourg, SK
306-725-3236
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Vanscoy, SK
306-668-4415
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Rocanville, SK
306-645-4423
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LocaL business goes gLobaL
anyone who has driven on a rural road or worked in remote areas where oil,
mining, forestry or other development is occurring knows dealing with dust
and unstable soils can be annoying
costly task.
—
and it can also be a never-ending and
Winnipeg-based Cypher Environmental Ltd.,
run by 34-year-old entrepreneur Todd Burns, has
perfected an eco-friendly way to virtually eliminate that dust and to stabilize soils in areas like
mine sites, where heavy truck traffic is a constant
— and expensive — irritant.
And, by the way, it has also developed a technology that utilizes bacteria and enzymes for
wastewater remediation, potentially a multi-million-dollar market.
Cypher’s business motto; “Driven by
Innovation — Partners in Performance,” captures
the fast-growing company’s raison d’etre.
But, as is the case with most successful companies, it took leadership to bring that motto and
vision to reality.
Burns, who has travelled to more than 40
countries to promote and market Cypher’s suite
of environmentally-friendly technologies, was a
2001 graduate of Winnipeg’s Red River College
when he saw the potential of a technology his
late father had discovered. He had also later studied environmental science at the University of
Manitoba.
“The (dust-suppression) technology business
operated out of my Dad’s basement,” he said.
“We used to have the product made in China and
were practicing absentee management. I brought
the control of the manufacture of the product
to Winnipeg, which allowed us to focus on our
products.”
And the rest, as they say, is history.
While the firm only has a handful of direct
employees now in Winnipeg, most are engineers
and technologists who are dedicated to product
enhancement and development, its tentacles
reach out much more than that. With dozens of
distributors worldwide and with a reliance on its
own manufacturing capabilities, Burns says the
company’s footprint is much larger.
“Indirectly we employ hundreds of people
around the world,” said Burns.
And, as sales of its products climbs into the millions of dollars annually, it continues to expand
its Winnipeg head office staff, with plans to hire
more engineering technicians and another business development manager this year.
Burns says it was all about taking good ideas
and hiring technical staff, such as engineers and
scientists, who could generate the data to illustrate to customers just how beneficial its technologies are.
From that nucleus the company has expanded
its expertise in the areas of dust-suppression,
road-stabilization and water-treatment products,
all multi-million-dollar markets worldwide. All
of its products are 100 per cent environmentallyfriendly and are organic, biodegradable and
non-toxic.
One of its initial core products, Dust Stop,
is benefitting from a $65,000 federal Applied
Research and Development grant, aimed
at enhancing its already impressive value
proposition.
Its other products, EarthZyme and UltraZyme
have also benefitted from large investments in
research and development
Dust Stop, one of the firm’s legacy products,
can bring with it not only significant environmental benefits but major cost savings, which is a
characteristic of all of Cypher’s products.
Burns has little problem describing the benefits
of the product.
“On a mining site, for example, you see five
large water trucks, having to constantly spray
water on access roads throughout the day,” he
said, adding that this often involves the spraying
of millions of litres of water daily. “You can imagine the GHGs (greenhouse gases) being generated
by those trucks, as well as the amount of fuel the
trucks burn. But Dust Stop only needs to be reapplied every six months to a year. The cost savings
are huge because you’re not having to do that
amount of regular road maintenance.”
In addition, GHG emissions and other environmental benefits are significant. This is even more
the case because, in addition to using large volumes of water to control dust, road crews, especially on mining sites, often use calcium chloride
and magnesium chloride to prevent dust, both of
which are highly caustic and corrosive.
There’s an obvious time savings as well, with
traffic to the site not being disrupted so often.
“Rain is often a problem with unpaved roads
(with conventional watering techniques),” he
said. “With our product, that is not a problem.”
Dust Stop, which is in use worldwide, is a
proven product, with municipal governments,
miners and other resource producers and others
having made it one of the firm’s most widely used
solutions.
EarthZyme, another of the firm’s widely used
products, is ideal for the clay-based soils that are
common in Canada and worldwide. It’s a nontoxic, enzyme-based soil stabilizer, used extensively in remote locations like mining sites.
With just one application, EarthZyme can help
significantly reduce road maintenance costs by
increasing the road’s compaction and strength.
It’s ideal for areas with extreme climates.
“It’s all about cost savings and reducing the
environmental impact of your operations,” said
Burns. “Now mine and other operators have to
haul out the clay and bring in aggregates to stabilize their roads. Imagine the fuel being burned
and the GHGs generated. With EarthZyme we
give you the in situ ability to deal with that
problem.”
In many cases, EarthZyme and Dust Stop are
both used on a worksite.
Cypher customer Syncrude Canada Ltd. applied
EarthZyme on mine haul roads at its oilsands
plant site in northern Alberta. A follow-up study
found that rolling resistance, a common problem
on roads used by large haul trucks, was reduced
dramatically and fuel costs were reduced by as
much as 90 per cent.
Engineers on his staff continue to work on
enhancements of the products.
”We’re constantly working to develop new tech-
By Jim Bentein
nologies and to develop new applications for the
products we have,” said Burns.
Cypher’s newest product, UltraZyme, has it
entering a new and mammoth market worldwide.
UltraZyme is a cost-effective, environmentallyfriendly product used for effluent treatment.
“UltraZyme is based on a mixture of bacteria
and enzymes to treat wastewater,” he said. “We
have used the product at a banana plantation for
a customer in Costa Rica and they were able to
recycle 80 per cent of the water they were using
(to clean the fruit), which led to significant cost
savings.”
In lagoons or wastewater treatment plants
UltraZyme works by speeding up the digestion of
organics.
It has been tested with soil-based oil spills as
well.
“It eats up the oil,” he said.
Burns said the company is working now with
researchers at Alberta’s University of Alberta to
test its effectiveness in remediating oilsands tailings, which presents a huge environmental challenge for oilsands miners.
Cypher is also advancing its work using
UltraZyme on high nitrogen-content water.
“We’re targeting high algae-content water,” he
said. “We see that application as ideal for zoos,
small lagoons and commercial fish farms.”
Because of the drop in commodity prices, sales
of Dust Stop and EarthZyme to the mining and oil
industry were lagging for a time, but he said the
company emphasized the cost-savings that could
be realized by use of the products, which has resonated with those involved in those industries.
Meanwhile, it continues to develop other
products and applications, such as the use of
EarthZyme in other applications in the municipal
sector, where it sees a large opportunity.
While the young executive continues to spend
more time in airplanes than he would like to,
considering he has a young family, he credits
World Trade Centre Winnipeg and, in particular,
the Centrallia event, which attracts entrepreneurs
and trade officials from over 30 countries to the
city, with helping his firm market internationally.
“We are really excited about Centrallia because
we do so many international sales,” he said. “It
has been a big help to us.”
His firm, which has participated in past
Centrallia events, will be an enthusiastic participant this upcoming May 25-27, when Centrallia
is held at the RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg.
Billed as the equivalent of a “speed-dating opportunity” for small and mid-sized businesses, he said
it gives his company the opportunity to meet oneon-one with businesspeople from throughout the
world. In the past, the event, which is held every
two years, has produced leads that later led to sales
opportunities for Cypher, he said.
This year, in recognition of the young executive’s expertise in tapping international markets,
he will be a member of the panel discussing
opportunities in the Americas.
Centrallia gives Manitoba-based businesses, as
well as other Canadian companies, a grasp of the
opportunities that lie outside of their provinces
and Canada, something Cypher has certainly
realized.
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Centralia sponsor.
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Zimbabwe drought opens can
of worms for poultry farmers
With feed in short supply, feeding maggots produced from waste
looks to be a winner for drought-stricken nation
BY JEFFRY GOGO
THOMPSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Harare
L
ovemore Kuwana cheerily
lifts the lid of a container
full of fresh maggots in his
backyard, which he will feed to
the poultry he keeps once the
worms are dried.
A m i d Z i m b a b w e ’s w o r s t
drought in 25 years, which has
killed more than 19,000 cattle in
the last few months and left 2.8
million people facing hunger,
some farmers are looking to new
food sources to keep their animals, birds and fish alive.
As prices for maize and soybased feed soar due to shortages,
Kuwana is producing maggots —
small, white crawling worms that
feed on waste — to provide protein
for his breeding flock of 120 freerange chickens and 1,000 quail.
“I have struggled to find nutritious feed for quite some time
now,” said the 40-year-old entrepreneur, unfazed by the stink of
decomposing waste filling the air
and the flies swarming around.
In search of a solution, he
began experimenting with maggots last September. “The results
have been exceptional,” he said.
This business is not for the
faint hearted. For Kuwana, it
involves stuffing pungent bird
feces into an old, open 20-litre
plastic container, and allowing
flies to lay their eggs there.
Ideally, the maggot-breeding
equipment consists of two containers stacked on top of each
other, with holes drilled in their
lids and the base of the top one.
As the eggs start to hatch, the
emerging lar vae — the maggots — feed on the waste before
crawling out to pupate in the
bottom container where they are
harvested and dried for feed.
The entire process takes less
than a week, experts say.
“ T h e b i rd s c a n’t re s i s t t h e
w o r m s,” Ku w a n a s a i d , d r i l l ing through quail droppings to
release an avalanche of maggots
and tiny “fresh flies.”
“My birds now look healthier
than before.”
Each container can house
thousands of maggots, he says.
But he is unsure of the number
he harvests each month and the
savings achieved.
Value from nothing
Maggots consist of 65 per cent
protein and 25 per cent fat, compared with 35 per cent protein
in soy-based feed, according to
Victor Marufu of the Zimbabwe
O rg a n i c a n d Na t u ra l Fo o d
Association.
PHOTO: thinkstock
“The birds can’t resist the worms.
My birds now look healthier than before.”
Lovemore Kuwana
The independent organization
trains small farmers in maggot
production.
“The value produced from
nothing competes with supply
chains that are under heavy sustainability stress,” Marufu said.
One kilo of fly eggs turns into
around 190 kg of dried larvae in
just three days, he added.
Fo r s o m e, m a g g o t p ro d u c tion may be the stuff of nightmares, but others are hailing it as
a dream come true for controlling waste and climate-changing
emissions. They say it could be
rolled out across Zimbabwe.
“Maggots can be farmed
at waste water treatment
plants where pr imar y sludge
a t t ra c t s a l o t o f h o u s e f l i e s,”
said Happymore Mbiza, an
urban water systems specialist
with the Chinhoyi University of
Technology.
A reduction in biodegradable
waste feeding microbes at water
treatment plants and landfill
sites cuts production of methane
gas and sulphur oxides, he said.
Climate friendly
The industrial process of producing maggot-based stock feed
— using a series of tanks in a
purpose-built structure — generates five times less greenhouse
gas emissions than soy or maize
stock feed, according to Chinhoyi
University research.
For every tonne of stock feed
made from maggots, around two
tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent is emitted, compared with
around 10 tonnes for soy-based
feed.
Experts say maggot production
could help cut Zimbabwe’s annual
emissions of 417 gigatonnes of
methane, a potent greenhouse
gas. In 2000, the waste sector accounted for 16 per cent of
national methane emissions, government data shows.
Zim Earthworm Farms, a farming technology enterprise, is now
looking to go commercial with
maggot production after a year of
trials.
“We have been producing a sizable amount of maggots that are
killed in the biogas digester, dried
and then mixed with the maizebased feed we produce,” chief
executive Ephraim Whingwiri said.
The mixed feed, which can
also be fed to pigs and fish, sustains about 300 chickens at Zim
E a r t h w o r m Fa r m s , b u t n ow
Whingwiri is eyeing expansion.
His team has worked out that
having a constant supply of fresh
waste is key to maintaining a high
population of flies — just one factor that will support their new
business drive.
“The work tends to put many
people off,” said Whingwiri. “But
the worm itself doesn’t smell bad
at all.”
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Mexico clears
Canadian poultry
meat for import
STAFF / Duck and other
poultry from Canada may
again be exported to Mexico,
for the first time since 2004.
Canada’s Agriculture
Minister Lawrence MacAulay
and Trade Minister Chrystia
Freeland on March 24
announced Mexico had
reopened its border to fresh
poultry meat including
chicken, turkey and, “most
significant in terms of historical trade,” duck.
Mexico had closed its ports
to the Canadian products in
2004 following Canada’s first
outbreak of a highly pathogenic (“high-path”) strain
of H7N3 avian influenza on
commercial poultry farms
in British Columbia’s Fraser
Valley.
The resumption of imports
is still subject to “limited”
avian flu-related restrictions, the Canadian government said Thursday, adding
it’s working with Mexican
authorities to remove those
restrictions.
Benoit Cuchet, chair of
the Quebec Duck and Geese
Breeders Association, said in
the government’s release that
the agreement with Mexico
“will help to progressively
regain the position lost in this
rapidly growing market, with
a potential for annual sales of
more than $3 million.”
The government noted
the restored market access
follows a February visit to
Ottawa by Mexico’s Secretary
of Agriculture Jose Calzada.
Calzada and MacAulay,
after that meeting, said they
“expressed their commitment to work together to
increase the competitiveness
of their agricultural sectors
and resolve bilateral issues.”
MacAulay, the government
said, also brought up the
topic of Mexico’s restrictions
on imports of Canadian beef
from cattle over 30 months
of age.
Dairy drug gets
joint OK
STAFF / A new mastitis-fighting dairy drug has gained
simultaneous approval in
Canada and the U.S.
Regulators on both sides
of the border have given
Imrestor the OK under the
Regulatory Cooperation
Council (RCC), a body
designed to reduce red tape
and regulatory gridlock
between the two nations.
Clinical mastitis is a serious infectious disease for
dairy producers, affecting
approximately 15 per cent
of their animals. It’s most
common at calving, when
dairy cows have weakened
immune systems, leading to
more infections.
Imrestor restores immune
response and reduces the
incidence of clinical mastitis,
reducing reliance on other
drugs, including antimicrobials, used to treat mastitis
infections.
This is the fourth drug
to be approved under the
RCC, but it is the first to be
approved for use in foodproducing animals.
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Arden festival’s crocus photo contest returns for 2016
Capturing a stunning portrait of a Prairie crocus could earn you a few dollars in prize money
STAFF
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t’s time to grab your camera and
head to the old crocus patch.
Manitoba’s provincial flower is
about to have its moment in the sun
and if you capture them in all their glory,
you may wind up sharing in $500 in
prize money, to be awarded at the Arden
Crocus Festival on May 7.
There are four categories:
• A single crocus flower;
• Portraits of crocus clusters (three or
more flowers);
• Portraits of crocus in its natural prairie
habitat; and
• Creative crocus portraits that don’t fit
the other classes.
There are separate youth and adult
competitions, and 16 prizes in total.
To enter you can email electronic files
to crocusphotocontest@gmail.com, and
prints can be dropped off at the RM of
Glenella-Lansdowne office in Arden or at
Photo Central in Winnipeg. They can be
mailed to: Crocus Photo Contest, P.O. Box
141, Arden, Man. R0J 0B0. There is no cost
to enter.
Photos must be taken any time in
April and at any location in Manitoba.
Entries will be printed by Winnipeg Photo
Central, a contest sponsor, and will be
judged by a jury and displayed at the
Arden Crocus Festival. There the attendees will get to vote for their favourite adult
and youth entry, for the People’s Choice
award. Those two photos will be reprinted
in the Manitoba Co-operator, which sponsors the award, as well as earning a cash
prize.
Crocus festival visitors can take in a pancake breakfast and other family-oriented
activities. It ends with a self-serve supper
and local entertainment. Photo contest
winners are announced after supper.
Normal full-bloom stage is about a
week on either side of April 15, and the
first buds are expected very soon.
Photographers focus on open, full
blooms. If you can find them, crocus buds
also can make a captivating photo.
Prairie crocus can be found at many
scattered, unmarked patches in
Manitoba. The fragile, mauve-coloured
This photo by Terry Roberts of Brandon was winner of the Adult People’s Choice award and Crocus
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Cluster in Arden Crocus Festival photo contest in 2015.
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CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S
Art down on the farm
Colleen Granger says inspiration for her art exhibit comes from her experience on the family farm
Colleen Granger presented her bachelor of fine arts thesis exhibition at the Glen
Sutherland Art Gallery at the Brandon University on March 17 to 25. Photos: JENNIFER PAIGE
BY JENNIFER PAIGE
Co-operator staff/Brandon
Y
ou know a place has
become very special to
you when you find yourself making art about it.
That’s the position Colleen
Granger, who lives on a farm
south of Brandon with her husband and two teenage daughters, finds herself in.
Over the past eight years,
she’s been pursuing a degree
in fine arts from Brandon
University, and her final thesis
exhibit was inspired by her time
on the family farm.
“I had to come up with a concept so I went to the old adage
of novice writers, write what
you know, and what I know is
my home, the farm,” Granger
said.
How that farm came to be
home is a story in itself, for
a city girl who was born in
Portage la Prairie and raised in
Brandon.
She moved to the farm in
the early 1990s with her husband with no prior connection
to the farm. But in the ensuing years she’s sunk deep roots
into this Prairie soil, and now
its become home, just like the
farm is home to any born and
raised farm kid.
“When you think of places
that are really dear to our
heart, you usually think of
places that are from our formative years. And, I do have
that attachment but it is not
the same as the farm,” said
Granger. “If we picked up and
moved across the globe, the
farm would still be my home.”
On display
The exhibition, titled
Horizon:Rhizome, was a culmination of her degree and was
recently displayed at Brandon
University’s Glen Sutherland
Art Gallery.
The display incorporates
mixed media that blend familiar materials — barn board,
Colleen Granger’s bachelor of fine arts thesis exhibition includes a number of mixed
media art pieces inspired by her life on a southern Manitoba farm.
“Through various art forms this show navigates
my unique vantage point of being a woman, wife
and artist on the farm.”
Colleen Granger
old cultivator shovels, burlap material — with classic
art techniques like painting,
which is her primary medium,
and folk art techniques like rug
hooking and nail-and-string
portraits.
“It explores the process of
connection, guided by my own
experiences on our family farm
and formation of my own sense
of place on the land,” she said.
“It is a relationship that has
shaped my identity over time
and allowed the landscape to
move from existing outside to
within me.”
In the initial stages of the
p ro j e c t , n o t e n t i re l y s u re
where to start, Granger began
by researching burlap, looking at the colonial history from
Europe and the connection to
Indian jute twine.
“They would take the jute
twine and turn it into burlap
bags,” Granger said. “Settlers
would bring over burlap bags
of, say feed, and when the feed
bags were empty, the women
would open them up and rug
hook and that really began
my inspiration to bring in rug
hooking.”
Granger thought incorporating the wool and rug-hooking
technique would be a good way
to express a feminine voice in
what is often seen to be a maledominated lifestyle.
“Through various art forms
this show navigates my unique
va n t a g e p o i n t o f b e i n g a
woman, wife and artist on the
farm,” she said. “Certain handicrafts, like the rug hook, was
incorporated to emphasize
the important legacy of rural
women and our relationship to
the land.”
She says it has been interesting to hear others’ opinions as
they move through the gallery,
with a number of individuals
expressing how the pieces “take
them home again.”
“With the combine piece,
to me there are just rhizome
stitching that image back
together but a couple of farmers were saying how it reminds
them of the chaff and the dust
in the air. I thought that was a
great analogy as well.”
Granger’s Horizon:Rhizome
exhibit will be on display
this fall at the Art Gallery of
Southwestern Manitoba.
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Prairie fare
Ease up on the salt
By JULIE GARDEN-ROBINSON
Food and Nutrition Specialist
NDSU Extension Service
“
W
hich shaker gets filled with salt and
which gets pepper?” my daughter
asked one day. She was examining
small ceramic rabbits dressed in pastel-coloured spring attire.
“Fill the one with three holes with salt and
the one with two with pepper,” my husband
responded.
‘Filling the three-holed shaker with pepper
might be better for our health,’ I thought to
myself.
The rabbit shakers were the latest ones I
added to my salt and pepper shaker collection. I couldn’t resist. Looking at my salt and
pepper shakers reminds me of people who
gave them to me.
I have a couple of sets of bird salt and pepper shakers from my great-aunt. She had
hundreds, if not thousands, of salt and pepper sets in curios and cabinets all over her
house. I loved to look at them every time I
visited.
I came upon a set of sparrows that were my
aunt’s. When I was five or six years old, I kept
adding salt and pepper to my food repeatedly during a meal because I wanted to hold
these ceramic cream-coloured birds with
gold trim. She wrapped them up and sent
them home with me.
Some might think it odd that a person
in nutrition would collect salt and pepper
shakers. We spend quite a bit of time recommending that people consume less sodium.
Most of our sodium intake, however, is not
from salt shakers. Only about 10 per cent of
the sodium in our diet comes from the salt
added at the table. Most of the rest of the
sodium (75 per cent) comes from processed
dinner mixes, snacks, canned soups and
condiments, including ketchup. Some
sodium is naturally present in foods, such as
meat and milk.
We need some sodium in our diet. Sodium
is a mineral naturally found in our bodies
and the foods we consume in the form of
sodium chloride, or table salt.
Sodium helps regulate our body fluids and
blood pressure. However, too much sodium
can lead to water retention, which can raise
blood pressure in some people.
Most of the salt in our diets doesn’t actually come from the salt shaker. PHOTO: DUBRAVKO SORIĆ/CREATIVE COMMONS
Increased blood pressure can damage the
inner lining of your arteries. Through time, the
increased pressure can weaken spots in vessels,
which could bulge or even rupture. High blood
pressure is linked to strokes and kidney failure.
Yes, that is scary stuff. The good news is
that blood pressure can be managed through
medication, diet and/or lifestyle changes
such as increased exercise. You need to know
your blood pressure numbers. Check out the
“Heart 360” online tool, available at http://
www.heart360.org from the American Heart
Association, to manage your heart health.
Does table salt have any positive features?
Yes, iodized salt provides another needed element: iodine. Iodine is a trace mineral needed
for the normal functioning of the thyroid gland,
which helps regulate metabolism, among
other roles. Iodine deficiency can show itself as
fatigue, weight gain, and cold hands and feet.
Being iodine deficient during pregnancy may
increase the risk for having a child with mental
disabilities.
People with an iodine deficiency may have
an enlarged thyroid gland or goitre on their
neck. Until the widespread addition of iodine
to salt, goiters were fairly common in the U.S.
The salt used in many processed foods is not
Apple Crisp For Two
1 large Granny Smith apple
1 tsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. brown sugar
2 tbsp. quick oats
1-1/2 tbsp. flour
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1 tbsp. butter
Optional toppings (ice cream, whipped topping)
This apple crisp is a tasty dessert that’s sodium free. PHOTO: NDSU
iodized, so be sure to use iodized salt in your
food preparation.
Check out the nutrition facts labels on the
foods you buy. The American Heart Association
recommends that we consume 1,500 milligrams of sodium or less. The recommendation
in Canada is similar. Health Canada’s website
recommends that people over the age of one
year eat between 1,000-1,500 mg sodium per
day.
Sometimes reduced-sodium versions of
food are available. A product labelled “reduced
sodium” has one-fourth less sodium than
the original version. A produce labelled “low
sodium” has 140 milligrams or less sodium per
serving. Cured meat, cheese, canned vegetables, grains, salad dressings and certain seasonings (such as onion salt and taco seasoning
mix) often are high in sodium.
If you really enjoy “salty” food, have a smaller
portion. You can drain the liquid from canned
vegetables and replace the liquid with plain
water to reduce the sodium instantly by as
much as 40 per cent.
Here’s a tasty dessert that is sodium free. You
might be tempted to consume the entire recipe. If you do, be sure to double the nutrition
information.
Rinse, peel and thinly slice apple, place
in microwave-safe dish (ramekin, bowl,
etc.) and toss with lemon juice. In a
separate bowl, combine the remaining
ingredients, using a fork to cut in the
butter for the crumb topping. Place
the crumb topping on the apple slices.
Microwave the mixture for 60 to 90
seconds until apple slices are tender.
Divide in half and serve plain or with a
scoop of vanilla ice cream or whipped
topping.
Makes two servings. Each serving
has 185 calories, 7 grams (g) fat, 1.5 g
protein, 33 g carbohydrate, 3 g fibre and
0 milligrams sodium.
38
COUNTRY CROSSROADS
National Volunteer Week in April
Rural areas especially require a large number of volunteers to keep things happening
By Donna Gamache
Freelance contributor
A
re y o u o n e o f t h e m a n y
Manitobans who volunteer —
either with time, money or gifts
in kind? The percentage of tax filers in
Manitoba who make charitable donations is the highest per capita of all provinces, and has been so for many years.
Many of us belong to a variety of nonprofit organizations. In MacGregor,
besides all the volunteer activities carried out by community churches,
there are organizations like Lions Club,
Kinettes, Communities in Bloom, the
volunteer firefighters and the Hospital
Aid Auxiliary that regularly hold
events to raise money for needed programs. Your town probably has similar
organizations.
Some of the money goes to national
organizations such as the Alzheimer
Society, Heart Fund, or Canadian
Diabetes Association, but much money
is also raised for local projects. Last
year, the MacGregor Lions donated
towards our new assisted-living home,
funded public skating and rink renovations, and assisted local families with
medical problems. The Centennial Park
Committee fundraised to fix walking
trails, playground equipment and picnicking facilities. The Hospital Auxiliary
raised money for our care home and the
Kinettes for the emergency fund, while
the firefighters fundraised for a new
quad-type vehicle for rescue purposes.
In MacGregor, the North Norfolk
Community Foundation serves as a
moving force to direct money to various
town and municipal needs, as well as
overseeing several scholarships for the
local high school.
But it’s not just money that is needed;
it is time and work, and volunteers provide this, too. Some act as coaches or
managers for sports like hockey, soccer,
basketball, volleyball and skiing. Others
Many communities have a variety of
organizations that volunteers are involved
with. GAMACHE PHOTOS
Senior housing provided through the Lions Club.
provide driving services for people going
to medical appointments, or deliver
meals-on-wheels. They visit the sick
or those in long-term care. Dedicated
firefighters are ready when needed.
Volunteers shelve books in the library,
keep records at the archives and help
out at MCC second-hand stores. They
serve on committees, recruit workers,
and make plans. In Portage la Prairie
and other rural communities, volunteers
have helped construct homes for Habitat
For Humanity.
Two big projects underway in
MacGregor right now are the AssistedCare Living Centre and the Centennial
Park Committee, both spearheaded by
dedicated volunteers. Other communities, such as Brandon, Portage la Prairie,
Altona and Winkler are involved right
now with Syrian refugee projects — finding housing, furnishings etc. for them, as
well as providing various supports.
Rural areas, particularly, cannot run
without a huge volunteer effort. Who
spearheads cleaning up the campground and collecting fees? Who plants
and weeds flower beds along the main
street and at the local care home? Who
provides the singing at funerals, or the
lunch afterwards? Who sits on the various boards and plans and runs activities for the golf club, teen centre, library,
senior centre, community garden,
cross-country ski club... The list goes on
and on!
Unfortunately it is becoming increasingly difficult to find enough new volunteers. Younger people are often just
too busy to take on anything else. In
most homes, both parents are working full-time jobs as well as keeping up
with all the activities their children are
involved in. Such parents often willingly
provide money, but time may not be
available.
A large number of volunteers is seniors. In our local Hospital Auxiliary,
for example, the majority of members
is over 65. Some of these suffer “burnout” or simply cannot continue, so it
is imperative that we recruit younger
members if we hope to carry on.
According to Statistics Canada,
approximately 25 per cent of
Manitobans claimed donations on
their 2013 tax form (the latest information available). But donating money is
only one part of charitable giving. Time
and energy are a bigger part of what is
needed to meet challenges and accomplish goals. If there were statistics for
time and energy donated, Manitobans
— especially in rural areas — would
also rank high.
This year’s National Volunteer Week
is April 10 to16. Let’s take this opportunity to recognize, celebrate and thank
Canada’s 12.7 million volunteers!
Donna Gamache writes from MacGregor,
Manitoba
Time to get those canna tubers out of storage
If you want to get the most out of them this summer, they should be started in early April
By Albert Parsons
Freelance contributor
I
t’s time! If you are going to get the
most out of your cannas this growing
season, you should be getting them
out of storage and planted in damp soilless mix to ensure that they are a good
size by planting-out time. If the tubers
have been stored in a cool, dark place
for the winter (I store mine in cardboard
boxes in the heated garage where the
temperature is just above freezing) they
will be in fine shape.
Canna tubers take quite some time to
break dormancy, especially if they have
had perfect storage conditions. There will
be little sign of new growth — perhaps
just a few tips of new shoots emerging
from the tops of the tubers.
I take apart the clumps of tubers and
plant several in damp soilless mix in
plastic-lined cardboard boxes. For the
first few weeks a lot of light will not be
required, but the boxes should be placed
in a warm location. Once the tubers begin
to sprout new top growth, bright light will
be needed; at this time I usually put the
boxes in a cold frame on my back patio
that has auxiliary heat for cold nights.
Canna tubers take quite
some time to break
dormancy, especially if they
have had perfect storage
conditions.
For years we were restricted to varieties
with green leaves and scarlet-red flowers.
Now, however, many cannas have colourful striped leaves and pink, apricot, or
dark-red flowers.
Although cannas are wonderful container plants, the containers must be
large enough to be in scale with the relatively large plants, as some can grow
almost two metres high with large leaves.
Cannas also make great specimen
plants in the centre of island beds, or to
delineate the entrance to a garden room
by using them as gateposts. A single
large tuber will produce several stems,
but if you want a larger clump, plant several tubers close together to achieve the
effect you desire.
A mass planting of canna “Tropicana” provides
vivid color. As some blooms fade, others are
produced all summer to replace them. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
A bank of cannas makes a great
backdrop for other plants in a large
mixed border. A solid row of greenleafed cannas would create a monochromatic background that would
showcase the plants in front of it,
while a row of bright variegated cannas
with yellow-striped and/or burgundystriped foliage would draw the eye to
the back of the bed. “Tropicana” has
vibrant-red, orange and gold stripes
on its leaves, while “Tropicana Gold”
has bright-yellow stripes on its green
leaves. “Black Knight” has dark burgundy leaves and brilliant-scarlet
blooms.
Cannas can be mass planted in a bed
to create an impressive focal point in a
large landscape, particularly when the
bed is located so that it is viewed at a
distance from the main living areas.
They can also be planted along a fence
or wall to make these mundane features more attractive. Dotting cannas
here and there in a large mixed border will create colourful focal points.
Shorter cultivars can be used as edging
plants to separate garden rooms (such
as a lawn and a vegetable patch), while
taller varieties can be used to screen
unsightly views. If you want your cannas to put on a great show all season
long, get them started soon so that you
can incorporate many of these stunning plants in your landscape.
Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba
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And the winner is…
Voters chose a denim-like colour as their top choice in paint
CONNIE OLIVER
Around the House
B
e a u t i - To n e , a d i v i sion of Home Hardware
St o re s L t d . , re c e n t l y
asked Canadians to choose
the brand’s 2016 Colour of the
Year from a list of four top contenders. The winner is French
Charming, a cool blue reminiscent of a well-worn pair of
jeans. Canadians chose that
comfy fresh denim-like colour
as their favourite.
“French Charming is a great
choice,” says Bev Bell, creat i ve d i re c t o r, Beauti-Tone
Paint and Home Products
Di v i s i o n , Ho me Hardware
Stores Limited. “It is a perfect
balance of blue and grey, making it an incredibly livable colour for any room.” Some of the
voters’ responses were, “I can
see this colour in any part of
my home,” and, “It looks like it
will work well with all different
colours,” and, “I just love this
colour!”
Voters also loved the idea of
being asked, not only for their
opinion, but to ultimately
choose the winner. Voting
took place at a national design
show in January and online at
Home Hardware’s Facebook and
Twitter pages during the same
period.
“As Canadians, we know
what we love,” says Bell. “When
we walk into a room and feel
i m m e d i a t e l y g ro u n d e d , i t
is usually because the colour
makes us comfortable and
relaxed.
Some of us prefer cool col-
PHOTO: COURTESY
ours, others warm. The way we
perceive colour is rooted deep
within us. It’s something we are
born with, just like so many of
our best qualities.”
You can see in the photo that
this colour pairs well with the
white window trim. Keep contrast in mind when choosing
medium to dark wall colours.
Because French Charming is
a blue-grey hue, pulling either
colour out in accents, as was
done in the photo is a good
choice.
In other rooms, like a living
room or den, you could use this
wall colour with a dark charcoal or black in furniture and/
or accessories. Items like black
floating wall shelves, for example, would work well. If you
have black furniture and find
it a bit overwhelming visually,
soften it with muted colour furniture throws and toss cushions
in a matching or co-ordinating
colour to the walls.
French Charming is available
exclusively at Home Hardware,
Home Building Centre and
Ho m e Ha rd w a re Bu i l d i n g
Centre locations.
The winner is French
Charming, a cool blue
reminiscent of a wellworn pair of jeans.
Connie Oliver is an interior designer
from Gimli, Manitoba
This
Old
Elevator
I
n the 1950s, there were over 700 grain elevators in Manitoba.
Today, there are fewer than 200. You can help to preserve the
legacy of these disappearing “Prairie sentinels.”
The Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is gathering information about all elevators that ever stood in Manitoba, regardless of
their present status. Collaborating with the Manitoba Co-operator
it is supplying these images of a grain elevator each week in hopes
readers will be able to tell the society more about it, or any other
elevator they know of.
MHS Gordon Goldsborough webmaster and Journal editor has
developed a website to post your replies to a series of questions
about elevators. The MHS is interested in all grain elevators that
have served the farm community.
Your contributions will help gather historical information such
as present status of elevators, names of companies, owners and
agents, rail lines, year elevators were built — and dates when they
were torn down (if applicable).
There is room on the website to post personal recollections and
stories related to grain elevators. The MHS presently also has only a
partial list of all elevators that have been demolished. You can help
by updating that list if you know of one not included on that list.
Your contributions are greatly appreciated and will help the MHS
develop a comprehensive, searchable database to preserve the
farm community’s collective knowledge of what was once a vast
network of grain elevators across Manitoba.
Please contribute to This Old Grain Elevator website at:
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/elevators. You will receive a response, by
email or phone call, confirming that your submission was received.
A small wooden grain elevator in the village of Underhill, in what is now the Municipality of Grassland, was built in 1908 by
the Underhill Farmers’ Elevator Company. One of three elevators operating here by 1917, its ownership was transferred to the
provincial government in 1911, then leased and in 1926 purchased outright by United Grain Growers. In 1966, it was sold into private
ownership. Graffiti on its side said “Burn Me Please.” It appears someone obliged and the elevator was gone by
the mid-1990s. PHOTO: MANITOBA HISTORIC RESOURCES BRANCH (AUGUST 1992)
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