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AFRICA UPDATE
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Nanotech and
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Conservation gospel
falls on fertile soil
Expensive fertilizers and seed are not an option for poor Ethiopian farmers, so aid
agencies are turning to a combination of no-till and organic methods such as mulching
By Shannon Vanraes
Laura Rance has just
returned from a two-week
tour of Ethiopia with the
Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
co-operator staff
S
cientists believe they
are on the verge of a
breakthrough that
could cut the amount of
fertilizer farmers must use
by as much as 50 per cent.
Researchers have made
significant progress in using
microscopic technologies to
slash nitrogen loss, Carlos
Monreal, a federal government scientist working on
the development of ferti-
By Laura Rance
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Zerihun Kora: pastor of a local Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church shows mulch
in no-till organic plot. Yields have doubled. This form of conservation
agriculture is known locally as “Farming God’s Way.” Photo: Laura Rance
row of derelict tractors on an abandoned state farm is
a fitting reminder
industrialized agriculture
has a checkered future in
this populous East African
country.
With their faded red paint,
gutted engines and rotting
tires gradually being swallowed by the prickly underbrush, these 1970s-vintage
symbols of progressive agriculture represent a technology that is of little use for the
majority of Ethiopian farmers,
who use oxen and hoes on
plots of two hectares or less.
This is not to say modern
technologies won’t play a role
in Ethiopia’s drive to increase
its agricultural output and
grow its economy through an
aggressive expansion. In fact,
growing the agricultural sector is a key pillar in the government’s ambitious plan for
achieving a “green economy”
and achieving middle-class
status for its 80 million people
by 2025. (see story page 18).
Nor does it mean that
these impoverished farmers are stodgy traditionalists
inherently suspicious of new
technology. Any such notion
is erased by the skyrocketing number of cellphones in
remote areas that lack even
the basics of electricity and
running water.
It’s not uncommon to see
drivers talking on their cellphones (no laws against that
here) while manoeuvring
donkey carts through traffic.
Thanks to extra batteries and
recharge stations in towns
and villages, rural Ethiopians
have simply bypassed
the expensive infrastructure required for land-line
telecommunications.
But it is unlikely high-input
agriculture will do much — at
least directly — to help small
landholders, or for the 10 to
20 per cent of the population that is chronically food
insecure.
Subsistence farmers growing maize, beans and sweet
potatoes can’t afford motorized implements, fuel, fertilizer and repairs. While they
may prove to be prudent
investments if the rains come,
they are a nothing but a lost
gamble if drought returns.
Even if they had the wherewithall to acquire more
land, their access is limited.
Holdings can be transferred
from generation to generation,
but cannot be bought, sold,
or even legally leased, except
through the government.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
INSIDE
on the lighter side
LIVESTOCK
In the
driver’s seat
Soaring calf prices
bring optimism back
to cow-calf sector
33
CROPS
It’s a bug eat
bug world
Parasites follow
the diamondback
moths north
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Snow is the answer to
prayers in North Africa
FEATURE
More than
a meal
Aid to Ethiopia
gives families a
reason for hope
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Win some,
lose some
Editorials
Comments
Livestock Markets
Grain Markets
Severe drought across Algeria and Tunisia
old weather spreading
from Europe into North
Africa has helped grain
crops in Algeria and Tunisia
by dumping snow and rain,
breaking a drought so severe
that mosques had offered up
prayers for rain.
Freezing weather has hammered Europe, but the same
CROSSROADS
Latest census
shows population
shifts in Manitoba
A boy with a snowball smiles while playing in the snow in Algiers February 4, 2012. At least 10 cm (four inches)
of snow fell Feb. 4 in the Algerian capital, on the northern tip of Africa, breaking a crop-crippling drought. However, the snowfall, the first in the city in eight years and the heaviest in decades, brought the Mediterranean port
to a standstill. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
weather system was a blessing
for the northern tip of Africa,
with the Algerian capital seeing the heaviest snowfall in
living memory.
Farming officials welcomed
the rain and snow.
“We are very fortunate
because the snow and rain
will save the grain season, which was at high risk
from drought,” said Djamel
Barchiche of Algeria’s Agriculture Ministry.
“Remember, we got almost
nothing during the past
two months. We were very
concerned.”
Algeria last year imported
over seven million tonnes of
grain while Morocco’s imports
were about six million tonnes,
putting both among the
world’s 10 biggest importers.
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ENERGY INNOVATION
The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
Elton Energy Co-op to
take its pitch to the public
Plan to leverage local renewable energy for community
development moves beyond first of three phases
By Daniel Winters
co-operator staff / forrest
E
lton Energy Co-op plans
to promote renewable
energy across Manitoba
following a successful twoyear test of a two-turbine pilot
project in the RM of Elton.
The group is hoping there
will be a groundswell of public
support for a co-op model of
wind and solar power, both as a
source of energy and local economic development, said co-op
chair Dan Mazier.
“This is the way it happens in a democratic society,”
said Mazier, following a community meeting of about two
dozen people at the Forrest
Community Centre.
Since Elton Energy Co-op was
formed in 2005, plans have progressed through the first phase
of wind resource data testing,
validation, and site selection.
Wi n d e n e rg y c o n s u l t a n t
“This could be
producing power by
2015 or 2016.”
ED hale
Ed Hale, who helped Toronto
Re n e w a b l e E n e r g y C o - o p
(TREC) erect a turbine on the
city’s waterfront in 2002, said
the second phase of securing
permits and a power purchasing agreement with Manitoba
Hydro for the proposed threemegawatt project would take
two more years.
“Then we’ll be at the point
where we could start raising
capital and purchasing the
machines,” Hale said.
Phase three would involve
erecting two 2.3-megawatt turbines, which generate enough
power to service 1,100 homes,
would take another six months
to a year more.
“This could be producing
power by 2015 or 2016,” said
Hale.
Currently, wind turbines plus
supporting infrastructure cost
about $2,500 per kilowatt or
$2.5 million for a one-megawatt turbine. Service life of the
blades and electronic controls
is about 20 years.
Wind data gathered from the
Forrest location showed promising results, with an average
speed of 6.5 metres per second,
he added.
“Seven metres per second
is an excellent wind resource,
7.5 is die and go to heaven,
Elton Energy Co-op member Laurence Lafond, (l-r) wind consultant Ed Hale,
and chair of EEC Dan Mazier discuss results of the co-op’s two-year wind
resource test at a meeting in Forrest on Sunday. photo: Daniel Winters
and eight is too much,” said
Hale.
Under the Elton model, shares
in the Forrest pilot project will
be priced at $1,000 each, with
a targeted return of 12 per cent
per year. Seven per cent would
go to the investors, and five per
cent to the community development project of their choosing
anywhere in the province.
Tax revenues for the RM
would be worth $3,000 per year
per turbine.
Total cost of the Elton project
is estimated at $12 million, with
70 per cent of the cost coming
via debt financing and the rest,
about $3.5 million, from shareholder equity.
But the project would require
a 20-year power purchase agreement with Manitoba Hydro at a
rate of at least 10 cents per kilowatt, said Hale. The current rate
in Manitoba for wind projects
is six cents per kilowatt. Hale
noted hydroelectric dams built
in the 1960s and 1970s are fully
capitalized and still producing power “too cheap to meter”
while hydroelectricity generated at Niagara Falls costs just
three cents per kilowatt.
“But there isn’t anymore of
that left,” said Hale. “Manitoba
Hydro and the government
are starting to realize that new
power isn’t coming in at six
cents per kilowatt.”
Elton Energy’s project is a
step towards creating a longterm model for reducing the
province’s reliance on petroleum-based energy over the
next 50 years, said board member Laurence Lafond.
Currently, two-thirds of the
energy used in Manitoba comes
from non-renewable resources
such as natural gas and petroleum. The cost is over $3 billion
per year or $2,800 per resident,
and that would skyrocket if oil
hit $200 a barrel, he said.
“How do we maintain our
standard of living when prices
go up like that?” said Lafond.
Mazier expressed frustration
that government supports ethanol and biomass projects as a
means of boosting agriculture,
but don’t consider wind and
solar energy as engines for farm
sector growth.
“It’s our resource, it’s over our
land and farms — it’s an agricultural product. They say, ‘No,
it’s not,’” said Mazier. “It drives
me nuts.”
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
OPINION/EDITORIAL
More than one path
to development
T
here is nothing about our Canadian
experience that prepares one for the
humanitarian challenge presented by
a populous and impoverished nation such
as Ethiopia.
Canada, by any measure one of the
world’s wealthiest nations, has fewer than
four people living per square kilometre. OK,
so most of us live close to the U.S. border,
so double, triple or quadruple that density
Laura Rance
and we still have plenty of room to breathe
Editor
compared to a country such as Ethiopia,
with an average density of about 83 people
per square kilometre.
Canada is ranked 14th in the world for its purchasing power
parity (PPP), a measure of what average per capita income
can buy. Ethiopia is ranked 167th.
According to the latest census data, more than 80 per cent
of Canadians live in urban areas. In Ethiopia the same proportion live in the countryside, where most farm.
We have a simplistic tendency in the western industrialized world to assume that a country like Ethiopia is just like
us, only behind. All it needs to do is mimic what we did to
develop our economy and it will eventually catch up.
But even though it is reasonable to assume folks living in
Ethiopia have similar aspirations for long, happy, healthy and
secure lives, there is a host of reasons why Ethiopia will follow
a different path from ours.
First of all, while Ethiopia desperately wants to modernize
its agriculture to expand its economy and produce enough
food to wean itself from humanitarian aid, it can’t do it in a
way that displaces the rural population.
It was North American farmers’ move into mechanization
that freed up workers to take the city jobs in manufacturing. But with an agrarian-based economy, Ethiopia currently
lacks the off-farm employment opportunities that would be
needed to accommodate such a population shift.
The last thing any government should want is to relocate
an already poor population into cities that don’t have the
jobs, housing, roads and sewer systems to accommodate the
influx.
That’s especially so in a country that boasts at least 80 ethnic groups, and a history of opposing political ideologies,
sometimes violently so. The so-called Arab Spring rose from
the suburbs, not the countryside.
Besides, Ethiopia can’t afford to follow our path to industrialization. If it pursues the same path we took to economic
prosperity, its greenhouse gas emissions would increase 2-1/2
from 150 Mt CO2e (million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide
equivalent) in 2010 to 400 Mt CO2e in 2030.
It has embarked on a green economy policy that will see
it adopt technology and strategies that could well result in a
sustainable economy that is more advanced than ours.
The evidence suggests that even modest improvements in
controlling soil erosion, more efficient water use and fertility management through organic fertilizers and mulching
can result in significant productivity gains for its subsistence
farmers.
The third reason is governance. The current ruling party in
Ethiopia is highly suspicious of outside influences that might
destabilize its grip on power.
Foreign journalists attempting to bring video equipment
into the country routinely have it seized at the border. A pair
of Swedish journalists who snuck in through the back door
and tried interviewing people considered enemies of the state
have been thrown into jail indefinitely.
Human rights organizations have condemned the government for some of its efforts to settle pastoralists and free up
land for foreign investors looking to develop commercial
farms.
None of this should be condoned. And we are quick to
judge. But what would they have said about the Homestead
Act’s effect on Canada’s First Nations?
And despite the acknowledged benefits of democracy, it
is inefficient in the sense that long-term visions can only be
accomplished in four-year windows between elections.
Representatives of major non-government organizations
(NGOs) working through local partners in Ethiopia see a
well-intentioned government that is making poor decisions, not a corrupt dictatorship automatically assumed
to be operating in any country without a western-style
democracy.
Foreign governments have taken a similar view. Direct
government-to-government aid was withdrawn in 2005
after politicians duly elected by the people were summarily imprisoned. But government and donor aid continues
to flow into the country through NGOs working with local
partners.
It is an uneasy, oftentimes tense, working environment.
But in the end, it takes just a glimpse at how these efforts are
helping individuals and communities reach their human
potential to know it is better to be there than not.
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Justifying our soil-management practices
L.B. Thomson award winner
says our highest research
priority should be soil science
Don Lobb, a farmer from Huron County,
Ontario was recently awarded the L.B.
Thomson award for his long-standing commitment to soil and water conservation in
Canada. An early adopter of no-till farming,
Lobb has been widely recognized as both an
innovator and a leader in soil and water
conservation locally, nationally and internationally. Don’s son David is a soil science
professor at the University of Manitoba. L.B.
Thomson was one of the agronomists who
developed tillage practices to combat the
drought of the 1930s, and was later a director
general of the PFRA. These are excerpts from
his acceptance speech.
A
s we look ahead, please consider this:
historically, most civilizations have
destroyed their soil and then moved on.
Now, there is no place left to move to.
Furthermore, current predictions indicate that within 20 years only six countries
will be able to feed themselves. Canada is
one of the six. This brings focus to foodproduction technology. Our interest has
been dominated by iron, crop inputs and
genetics. The current attention to crop culture has brought great production improvement. However, this does not matter if soil is
degraded as a result of production pressure,
ignorance, carelessness or greed. Our food
supply is only as stable as the soil in which
it is grown.
OUR HISTORY:
More than anything else, healthy soil contributes to crop yield and to production stability and production sustainability. Healthy soil
means more soil life and more organic matter.
Tillage destroys both. We also must improve
soil moisture management because water is
the first limiting factor for crop growth. We
must close the nutrient loop because supplemental sources of nutrient are finite. We need
to adopt landscape restoration as a normal
practice because this substantially reduces
soil management variability and has payback
opportunity as good or better than cropland
drainage. We need perennial food crops.
Their culture would dramatically reduce soil
degradation.
Our highest research priority must be serious soil science. We cannot tolerate philosophy or emotion here. Responsible farmland
managers will participate in this exercise and
they will prosper by doing so. The leadership must come from farmers. Groups like
the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement
Association (OSCIA) have a role here.
We do have a few wonderful examples of
really good soil management leaders. One of
the best is the Kaiser family of Napanee. Our
president, Max, can be very proud of their
farm operation and we in OSCIA can be proud
of him. I know from personal experience that
every farmer can follow the Kaiser example.
We do have the technology and the tools. This
is a matter of choice. Choices now determine
our legacy to the future. The future is our
progeny.
If our children’s grandchildren were sitting
in front of us, could we each proudly justify
the soil management practices that we use
today?
February 28, 1980
O
ur February 28, 1980 issue reported
on an optimistic outlook for barley
deliveries, and a wheat board commissioner’s view that the outlook could
continue bright in the future if barley could
be sold at the same price as U.S. corn.
In a special report to farmers, the Bank
of Montreal predicted interest rates would
taper off by the end of the year. At the time,
commercial mortgage rates were 15.5 per
cent, but they continued to rise, peaking at
19 per cent in June 1982.
One forecast was too accurate — flooding was said to be unlikely for 1980, which
turned out to be one of the driest years on
record.
Elsewhere in the issue, we reported on a
meeting in Altona to discuss the pros and
cons of a hog-contracting system, following news that Cargill had signed up 112
producers with 100-sow units.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
COMMENT/FEEDBACK
Countering home bias in
economic analysis
Growth not evenly shared
The world economy was on track
to grow almost four per cent in
2011, according to the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) in the latest edition of its World Economic
Outlook ( WEO September 2011).
Output rose slightly faster than the
average for the last three decades
(3.33 per cent). The difference was
well within the normal variability
for global growth as measured by
the standard deviation (1.34 percentage points).
There is no crisis at global level.
After a deep and synchronized
downturn in 2008-09, the world
economy has bounced back remarkably quickly. Unfortunately, growth
is not evenly shared. The rebound
has revealed some painful structural
shifts in activity.
Advanced economies were set to
grow just 1.6 per cent in 2011 and
1.9 per cent in 2012, according to
the WEO, well below the average
of 2.5 per cent since 1980. The G7
economies were set to fare worse,
with output rising just 1.3 per cent
in 2011 and 1.7 per cent in 2012,
compared with a 30-year average of
2.3 per cent.
In contrast, emerging economies
were expected to grow 6.4 per cent
in 2011 and 6.1 per cent in 2012,
well above trend and almost 1-1/2
standard deviation in annual gdp growth rate
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times faster than the average since
1980 (4.5 per cent).
Countering home bias
It is risky to extrapolate from problems in one country or region and
assume they apply to the world
economy as a whole. Most commentators, policy-makers and leading
financial publications are based in
North America and Western Europe,
and their analysis and policy prescriptions are coloured by “home
bias.”
The Euro-North America-centred
nature of much of the writing about
policy and economics was less of
a problem 20 years ago, when the
G7 and other advanced economies
dominated global output. But as
emerging markets’ share of output
has grown, and the centre of gravity
in the world economy has shifted
south and east to Asia and Latin
America, the European and United
States-centric nature of the analysis
has become evermore misleading
and unrepresentative.
In 2011, the G7 economies
accounted for just under half of all
global output, according to the IMF,
down from 70 per cent in the late
1980s. The share of all the advanced
economies has fallen from 83 per
cent to just 64 per cent. In contrast,
the share of emerging markets has
more than doubled from 16 per cent
to 36 per cent.
If it was appropriate to write about
the global economy during the
1990s in terms of a core and periphery model (or a locomotive and
its carriages, to use another wellknown analogy from the period),
that approach is no longer applicable. Emerging markets are too
important, and their weighting in
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inancial journalists and commentators across Nor th
America and Western Europe
are still struggling to come to terms
with the shifting centre of gravity in
the world economy.
Too many articles and papers are
trapped in a narrow parochialism
that sees advanced economies as
the “core” of the world economy and
relegates emerging markets to a relatively less important “periphery.”
As a result, far too many assessments of the global outlook start
from the premise that the economy
is doing terribly. In fact the economy
is growing close to its long-term
average rate. There is no sign of a
significant output and employment
gap at the global level. Markets for
oil and other commodities such as
copper and iron ore are close to balance and do not show significant
excess capacity.
The problem is not overall growth
but its distribution between the
advanced economies and emerging
economies. The result is a severe
imbalance between strong growth
and inflation in emerging markets
and certain commodity-producing
countries compared with stagnation,
unemployment and rising prices
in many of the so-called advanced
economies.
Because most senior policy-makers, international institutions and
media organizations are based in
advanced economies, their assessments tend to be coloured by local
concerns in those areas. In too many
instances, economists, journalists
and policy-makers extrapolate from
their local experience and assume
the rest of the world must be experiencing the same conditions. Nothing
could be further from the truth.
volatility in economic performance
Brazil
london / reuters
Argentina
By John Kemp
Printed: 05/12/2011
In 2011, the G7 economies accounted for just under half of
all global output, according to the IMF, down from 70 per
cent in the late 1980s.
the global economy will only grow
further in the years ahead.
Supply key in 2012
For the most part, the well-known
problems in some advanced economies are local and structural in
origin. They reflect shifts in competitiveness and the terms of trade.
They are not the result of inadequate demand at global level. Owing
to their structural origin, the only
lasting solution lies in policies to
improve competitiveness and create more value-adding industries
rather than counter-cyclical policies
designed to combat low demand.
Given global growth is broadly
on trend, there is little or no slack
at global level. Capacity use is high
across many of the extractive industries (oil production, mining) and
food production. High unemployment in some advanced economies
reflects structural problems, not
lack of demand at world scale, and
is matched by intense upward pressure on wages and compensation
in other parts of the world (China,
Australia).
Forecasters hoping for a pickup
in global growth in 2012 and 2013,
if policy-makers halt the euro-zone
debt crisis and deliver more stimulus, may be in for a disappoint-
ment. The global economy as a
whole is already growing rapidly
and approaching its speed limit. The
only way that the advanced economies could grow faster without
sparking widespread inflation would
be that emerging markets grow more
slowly, which seems unlikely at this
point.
European and North American
policy-makers are still obsessed by
the idea of “rebalancing” growth
rates between regions. But emerging markets are unlikely to accept
policies that imply faster growth
in advanced economies at their
expense.
To avert the trade-off between
growth for all and inflation, the
real challenge is to relieve bottlenecks — particularly in the field of
energy, food and other commodities — by creating a suitable framework for investment and capacity
expansion.
By easing supply constraints that
limit non-inflationary growth, policies affecting long-lived capital
investment and the rollout of new
technologies such as deepwater
drilling, tight oil, wind and solar will
prove more important than stimulus
from fiscal and monetary policy.
John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst.
6
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FROM PAGE ONE
FERTILIZER Continued from page 1
lizer nanotechnology, told farmers at the annual Special Crops
Symposium in Winnipeg.
“Nitrogen efficiency is 30
per cent, 50 per cent at best,
there is so much lost,” said
Monreal, a research scientist
with Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada.
“We hope that this new technology will help farmers in
reducing the cost of production,
because if you can reduce your
input of nitrogen from 100 kilos
to 50 kilos, that’s half the cost.”
Such technology will be commercially available in six or
seven years, he predicted.
Scientists have already used
nanotechnology to create prototypes of “biosensors” that can
read the chemical signals from
root exudate which correspond
to nitrogen uptake. These signals
were first detected in the 1950s
and in recent years, Monreal and
others have identified a dozen
different chemical signals com-
“We hope that this new technology will help
farmers in reducing the cost of production,
because if you can reduce your input of nitrogen
from 100 kilos to 50 kilos, that’s half the cost.”
CARLOS MONREAL
ing from the root systems of
wheat and canola.
By coating nitrogen in a very
thin biodegradable polymer
and deploying biosensors that
react to a plant’s chemical signal,
nitrogen can be released exactly
when the crop needs it.
Greater nitrogen efficiency
also means less impact on the
environment, as it would reduce
nitrous oxide emissions from soil.
“The financial and the environmental benefits go hand in
hand, so it’s a win-win situation,”
said Monreal.
Although current research
is focused on wheat and canola there are plans to expand
that research to corn and barley as well, but more funding
is needed. The researcher said
support from producer groups,
governments or institutions
would help further this project
and others.
Using nanotechnology in crop
application would be the biggest change in fertilizer practices since chemical fertilizer
became widespread in the early
1900s.
One flame
burns brightest.
But Monreal cautioned that
science still has a poor understanding of our soil systems.
“In fact we know more about
the solar system, and the celestial bodies than our soil,” he
said. “When we go into the
microscopic side of the soil we
know very little and we invest
very little.”
Scientists are trying to apply
nanotechnology in a host of
areas, ranging from medicine
and electronics to biomaterials
and energy.
“Na n o t e c h n o l o g y i s t h e
manipulation of matter at
the nano scale,” explained
Monreal. “That scale is really
10 to the -9 metres, or it’s
equivalent to say per haps
placing a million tubes in
the head of a sewing pin. So
that is the scale we are talking
about, something invisible to
the naked eye.”
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carries on
without CWB
Wild Oats publisher
John Duvenaud steps
up to keep the market
outlook conference
going
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
The Canadian Wheat Board monopoly is all but gone, but GrainWorld,
the annual outlook conference it
oversaw, lives on.
John Duvenaud, the publisher of
the grain market newsletter Wild
Oats, liked the annual GrainWorld
conference so much, he offered to
take the job of organizing off the
CWB’s hands.
“I approached the board, told
them I would keep GrainWorld
going and would satisfy all their
obligations,” Duvenaud said in an
email. “The board said ‘go for it.’
“I had been attending GrainWorld
every year and found it interesting
and useful. I also thought that the
industry found it useful.”
GrainWorld will be held at its
usual venue, Winnipeg’s Fairmont
Hotel, Feb. 26 to 28. Registration
costs $350.
The wheat board did a good
job with the conference, but times
change, Duvenaud said.
The federal government held an
annual market outlook conference
starting in 1934, modelled after a
similar event put on by the United
States Department of Agriculture
that began more than a century ago.
After Canada’s annual outlook
conference fell victim to Mulroney
government budget cuts the wheat
board stepped in, Duvenaud said.
GrainWorld examined livestock
and grain markets, but Duvenaud’s
conference will focus solely on
crops.
“When I looked more closely at
getting farmers to drive to Winnipeg
for an ag outlook, I realized that livestock is a different industry,” he said.
The best way to get a handle
on markets is from traders in those
markets, Duvenaud said.
The CME Group from Chicago will
hold a grain-marketing workshop
for Prairie farmers the afternoon of
Feb. 26.
Conference speakers include
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, former
Saskatchewan premier Grant Devine
and Saskatchewan’s current Deputy
Agriculture Minister Alanna Koch.
Keith Bruch, vice-president of
Patterson GlobalFoods and Fraser
Gilbert from SGS Canada will discuss
wheat grading.
The wheat board’s Gord Flaten
will speak about the board’s new
marketing programs.
A panel of representatives
from the CME Group, ICE Futures
Canada and the Minneapolis
Grain Exchange will discuss their
respective wheat futures markets,
all of which will be looking to trade
Canadian wheat.
The conference includes market
outlooks for milling wheat, durum,
malting barley, canola, coarse grains,
oats, canary seed, lentils and peas
as well as fertilizer. (See full agenda
at http://www.wildoatsgrainworld.
com).
The Minneapolis Grain Exchange
is holding a wheat outlook and
hedging seminar immediately following the conference.
7
The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
FROM PAGE ONE
AFRICA Continued from page 1
Although extension workers
encourage farmers to use commercial fertilizer and improved
seed, their advice has coincided
with a series of droughts over the
past decade. Many producers
have come to associate commercial fertilizer with their parched,
eroded soil’s declining fertility.
“The land is tired,” said
Mattheas Woldemedhin, an elderly farmer in the Damot Woyde
kebele, an area similar to a township, south of Soddo. “Chemical
fertilizer is preferred on extensive
farms, but it is not so good for the
small farmer.”
The trick for Ethiopian smallholder agriculture will be to
increase productivity without the
corresponding economic and
environmental costs associated
with the “Green Revolutions” that
have taken place in other parts of
the world.
A far more encouraging scenario exists on a small plot of land
near the local church just a short
bone-jarring drive from the crumbling compound of the former
state farm near Selamber.
Zerihun Kora, the local pastor
for the Ethiopian Kale Heywet
Church, eagerly takes us to his
“Farming God’s Way” demonstration plot, where extension workers
have doubled maize yields using a
combination of no-till and organic
methods such as mulching.
“For us, this is a new technology,” said Joseph Abraham, who
co-ordinates the church’s extensive agricultural extension work
in the area. “It saves time, it saves
manpower, there is no more soil
erosion, and moisture loss is less.”
Because plots are small and
maize is sown by hand, the
manure-based fertilizer is placed
near the seed at planting, which
increases nutrient efficiency.
The project is in its early stages,
but local officials say there are
already 14 demonstration plots
established in the area, and adoption by local farmers is expected
to be rapid.
The Ethiopian Kale Heywet
Church is supported by the
Evangelical Missionary Church
of Canada through the Canadian
Foodgrains Bank.
But make no mistake. Although
this approach is being promoted
by church-based development
organizations, it isn’t about a
bunch of missionaries proselytizing in a bid to convert more souls.
This is about saving a soul of a
different sort — that of the soil’s.
Relentless pressure to produce more with minimal inputs,
increased erosion caused by
droughts that have reduced or
eliminated crop residues, and
A 65-ha micro-irrigation project near Selamber, Ethiopia has improved the profitability of 260 farm households by allowing them to expand into cash crops such as onions. PHOTOS: LAURA RANCE
Situated on what was formerly a state-run farm, these 1970s-vintage tractors
represent a style of farming that has limited application to most Ethiopians.
continuous grazing by livestock
has started a downward spiral in
productivity. The less the land produces, the more it is being asked
to produce.
Sam Van der Ende, the CFGB’s
field representative based in
Addis Ababa, said “Farming God’s
Way” is a way of communicating
a conservation message to communities already deeply rooted in
spirituality.
“The indications are that it is
being embraced quite enthusiastically,” he said.
“If you are coming out of an
evangelical background with your
farming manual and hoe in one
hand and your Bible in the other,
it makes sense.
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seeds that are falling on very fertile soil.”
A conservation ethic permeates
virtually all the programs CFGB
members support through locally
based partners. And while the
delivery differs from the government extension services, it is consistent with the stated policy of
promoting conservation.
Not far from the zero-till/
organic plot is a micro-irrigation project also co-ordinated
by the Kale Heywet Church with
Canadian support. A food-forwork project constructed a weir to
divert river water into a 65-hectare
plot of land divided among 260
Ethiopian farmer Oych Ya has been
able to start growing cash crops
now that he has access to water
through a micro-irrigation project.
A cash-for-work project in the Kindo Koisha district near Wolayato-Soddo has
terraced this badly eroded hillside. The land will soon be planted to trees and
treated as a conservation preserve.
households. The reliable water
supply first allowed producers
to increase their maize production, but they have since begun to
grow higher-value crops such as
red peppers, onions, ginger and
banana. They also leave their crop
residues on the soil to improve its
fertility.
Participating farmer Oych Ya,
said before gaining access to
irrigated land, his small holding
didn’t produce anything more
than what the family would eat.
“There was never anything for
external income,” he said.
But Ya is now selling the cash
crops of onion to supplement
the family income. It has meant
he can send his seven children
to school regularly. In the past,
their studies were interrupted
whenever the family ran short of
money to pay for their supplies,
uniforms and room and board in
town.
In another initiative in the
Kindo Koisha hills above Soddo,
farmers are paid with food for
work or cash for work to terrace
denuded hillsides and sow them
to trees.
These projects not only supply
much-needed supplementary
support to prevent a crop failure
disaster from becoming human
tragedy, they help protect and
revive the soil resources.
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LIVESTOCK MARKETS
EXCHANGES:
February 10, 2012
$1 Cdn: $1.0016 U.S.
$1 U.S: $.9984 Cdn.
COLUMN
Cattle Prices
Winnipeg
(Friday to Thursday)
Slaughter Cattle
February 10, 2012
Steers & Heifers
$
—
D1,2 Cows
58.00 - 63.00
D3 Cows
52.00 - 58.00
Bulls
80.00 - 89.00
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
$ 120.00 - 136.00
(801-900 lbs.)
127.00 - 140.00
(701-800 lbs.)
135.00 - 155.00
(601-700 lbs.)
150.00 - 170.00
(501-600 lbs.)
160.00 - 194.00
(401-500 lbs.)
175.00 - 205.00
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
110.00 - 122.00
(801-900 lbs.)
115.00 - 127.00
(701-800 lbs.)
120.00 - 137.00
(601-700 lbs.)
128.00 - 150.00
(501-600 lbs.)
135.00 - 165.00
(401-500 lbs.)
150.00 - 182.00
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
Heifers
Alberta South
112.50
112.50
66.00 - 79.00
58.00 - 71.00
­82.63
$ 120.00 - 141.00
132.00 - 150.00
141.00 - 162.00
150.00 - 175.00
167.00 - 196.00
182.00 - 213.00
$ 110.00 - 129.00
123.00 - 140.00
130.00 - 151.00
137.00 - 162.00
148.00 - 175.00
160.00 - 190.00
($/cwt)
(1,000+ lbs.)
(850+ lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
Futures (February 9, 2012) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change
February 2012
125.17
0.02
April 2012
128.20
-0.70
June 2012
127.15
-0.95
August 2012
129.67
-0.08
October 2012
133.05
0.08
December 2012
133.50
-0.30
Cattle Slaughter
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
Feeder Cattle
March 2012
April 2012
May 2012
August 2012
September 2012
October 2012
Manitoba’s market shows improved demand for bred cows
Dwayne Klassen
CNSC
Ontario
$ 116.86 - 128.72
105.49 - 124.74
58.70 - 76.38
58.70 - 76.38
74.33 - 91.27
$ 139.25 - 147.28
130.80 - 143.54
127.76 - 155.26
134.16 - 164.41
150.76 - 185.39
144.09 - 192.01
$ 124.01 - 137.54
120.66 - 134.49
122.34 - 141.00
128.99 - 152.87
131.48 - 158.04
138.87 - 161.47
$
Close
155.15
157.25
158.82
160.10
160.02
159.90
Change
-0.22
-0.67
0.05
-0.02
0.22
-0.20
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
February 4, 2012
56,175
14,015
42,160
N/A
589,000
Previous
Year­
53,911
14,677
39,234
N/A
627,000
Week Ending
February 4, 2012
384
21,989
20,262
822
733
8,624
197
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Previous
Year
515
23,328
16,212
774
340
5,200
250
Hog Prices
Source: Manitoba Agriculture
(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)
MB. ($/hog)
MB. (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)
MB. (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)
ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)
P.Q. (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)
Current Week
172.00E
158.00E
158.00
163.66
Futures (February 9, 2012) in U.S.
Hogs
February 2012
April 2012
May 2012
June 2012
July 2012
Last Week
173.49
159.29
159.15
164.20
Close
87.30
89.65
97.80
98.45
99.25
Last Year (Index 100)
160.84
148.16
150.26
150.48
Change
-0.27
-0.10
0.25
-0.30
0.10
Other Market Prices
Sheep and Lambs
$/cwt
Ewes
Lambs (110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
Winnipeg
Next Sale
Is
February 21
—
Chickens
Minimum broiler prices as of May 23, 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 February 12, 2012
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.905
Undergrade .............................. $1.815
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.885
Undergrade .............................. $1.785
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.885
Undergrade .............................. $1.785
Tom Turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A..................................... $1.885
Undergrade............................... $1.800
Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.
Toronto
90.17 - 119.53
194.65 - 205.43
198.54 - 213.69
201.71 - 231.16
225.97 - 275.78
—
SunGold
Specialty Meats
N/A
—
Eggs
Minimum prices to producers for ungraded
eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the
Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board
effective June 12, 2011.
New
Previous
A Extra Large
$1.8500
$1.8200
A Large
1.8500
1.8200
A Medium
1.6700
1.6400
A Small
1.2500
1.2200
A Pee Wee
0.3675
0.3675
Nest Run 24 +
1.7490
1.7210
B
0.45
0.45
C
0.15
0.15
Goats
Kids
Billys
Mature
Winnipeg
($/each)
Next Sale
is
February 21
Toronto
($/cwt)
59.91 - 261.12
—
94.90 - 212.98
Horses
1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
Producers start rebuilding
herds… but cautiously
Toronto
($/cwt)
28.40 - 39.60
29.26 - 39.62
M
ovement of cattle through auction
yards in Manitoba during the week
ended Feb. 10 was declared the
heaviest it’s been since before the Christmas
break. The quality selection of the cattle was
described as average to above-average.
Values for the big cattle, weighing 800
pounds and more, seem to have hit a peak,
with little to no improvement in the price
offered for those heavier-weight animals, said
Rick Wright, a cattle buyer with Heartland
Order Buying Co.
“There was definitely resistance from the
buyers to move those prices from where they
have been,” he said.
For cattle weighing in the 700- to 800-lb.
category, values held steady, while prices
for animals below the 700-lb. level remain
strong, given that demand for those cattle was
extremely aggressive.
Most of that demand represented the stocking up of pasture inventory, Wright said.
Demand for heifers was seen as especially
strong, with the spread between the top-end
steers and heifers in the 600- to 700-lb. range
in the 10-cent range, which was the tightest
spread seen since Christmas, Wright said.
“That tight spread is reflective of producers
buying heifers to potentially breed,” he said,
noting these individuals were willing to pay
the premium to obtain the good-quality bred
cows.
Wright felt that while the rebuilding of the
herd was starting to get underway, the process
was seen as extremely slow and cautious.
Cattle farmers, he said, were still a little leery
about being too much in a hurry to restock
herds.
The heifers, which were costing $950-$1,000
each right now to purchase, mean the producer was essentially speculating that the
value of those animals for resale purposes will
be above $1,600 in the fall. That price was seen
making the heifer venture worthwhile.
However, Wright cautioned, it is still a long
way until the fall period.
For these individuals, Wright said, the question becomes: “Do you wait a year and a half
before you get any kind of return from that
investment, or do you step out and buy cows
that will have calves to sell next fall?”
The way the bred cow market has increased
over the last two weeks, he said, it looks like a
lot of producers are opting to go the bred cow
route.
Wright acknowledged there were many more
individuals looking to buy cows now than at
the same time a year ago.
The butcher market in the province was off
a bit during the week, with lots of inventory
available and packer demand down, given the
slowdown in retail sales of beef.
USDA sees
doubling of U.S.
corn stocks
By Sam Nelson
reuters
A
U.S. government report
Feb. 13 showed farmers will plant the larg-
“By this fall, U.S. buyers will be
actively pursuing Canadian cattle
regardless of what the exchange
rate between the two currencies
is.”
rick wright
The decline in butcher values was linked
to the huge number of drought cattle that
were surfacing from the southern U.S. at the
slaughter markets.
U.S. interest
While a good portion of the demand that came
forward for cattle during the reporting period was
from the eastern and western outlets, locals were
also good buyers, Wright said. There also continued to be some minor interest from U.S. buyers.
“There are some Manitoba cattle starting to
make their way south into the U.S.,” Wright said.
The U.S. demand was unlikely to be anything
significant during the springtime, he noted, but
that will change come autumn.
“By this fall, U.S. buyers will be actively pursuing Canadian cattle regardless of what the
exchange rate between the two currencies is,”
Wright said. He linked that interest to the tight
cattle numbers in the U.S. and the resulting need
among U.S. end-users to stock up on yearlings.
He acknowledged that there were still a few
select U.S. groups buying Manitoba cattle and
sending them to custom feedlots in Western
Canada.
However, that activity was not seen as being
very profitable, but rather an effort to hold spots
open at those custom feedlots for future use,
Wright said.
“Some of these U.S. groups have developed a
good working relationship with some of those
outlets and they don’t want to lose those spots
in case the profit margins for that type of action
improve,” he said, explaining the strategy of these
individuals.
The fluctuations in the Canadian dollar had
little impact on the activity at the auction yards,
Wright said, but the macroeconomic problems,
given Europe’s financial situation, were garnering
a lot of close attention.
“What is happening with the U.S. dollar is more
important than what the trend is in the Canadian
currency,” Wright said.
If the U.S. dollar is strong, he said, then it weakens the U.S. position to export. They had large
exports last year and they need to be able to
export aggressively.
If the U.S. dollar is weak, then the U.S. can
export like crazy, but it is tough to try to bring
imports back in again from anywhere else but
Canada, Wright said.
Dwayne Klassen writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
est area with corn this spring
since the Second World War,
which could double the
razor-thin stocks of this year
and help defray costs to consumers and food companies.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s baseline projections — the first of a series
of estimates that will help
shape prices across the globe
— pegged corn acres at 94
million, the most since 1944.
The projections, based on
data in November and which
will be updated at the USDA’s
Outlook conference on Feb.
23 and 24 with more current
statistics, put corn ending
stocks next summer at 1.6
billion bushels — double the
801 million this year.
Looking for results? Check out the market reports
from livestock auctions around the province. » PaGe 37
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
GRAIN MARKETS
column
South American harvest to
replace theory with fact
Concerns about drought damage were likely overblown
Phil-Franz Warkentin
CNSC
C
anola values strengthened during
the week ended Feb. 10, with the ICE
Futures Canada contracts moving to
levels not seen since the fall. However, additional gains may be limited, as the market was
showing signs of running out of steam to the
upside.
Demand from exporters and domestic crushers shows no signs of letting up, as
stocks continue to be drawn down at a record
pace. That solid demand will limit any profittaking correction in the market. However, it
will take a weather scare somewhere in the
world or a shakeup in the global economy to
sustain the current uptrend.
For three-times-daily market
reports from Commodity News
Service Canada, visit “ICE
Futures Canada updates” at
www.manitobacooperator.ca.
From a technical standpoint, the nearby
March canola contract is running into some
significant resistance as it ends the week just
below the $540-per-tonne level. However, if
speculators fail to make a significant break
higher, there’s really no solid downside support until $520.
The new ICE Futures Canada milling wheat,
durum, and barley contracts all edged down
during the week in very thin trade volumes.
The new futures still have some time to go
before there is enough liquidity to make them
any good as pricing signals. Those contracts
begin in October 2012, and most industry
participants are still confident the liquidity
will be there once the 2012-13 crop is actually
in the ground and being marketed.
In the U.S., soybeans, corn and wheat
at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) all
moved lower during the week, with the largest losses in wheat. The U.S. Department
of Agriculture released its latest world sup-
Lower ocean freight costs
support grain exports
By Adam Johnston
commodity news service canada
S
oft ocean freight rates, which hit
25-year lows in early February, are
helping cut into Canada’s grain
freight disadvantage with some of its
competitors, said industry participants.
The Baltic Dry Index, which is used as a
guide for global shipping rates, is sitting
at 715 points, up from a 25-year low of
647 points on Feb. 3. However, that’s still
well below the 2011 high of 2,173 points
in mid-October and the 2008 peak of
11,793 points.
David Przednowek, manager of marine
logistics with the Canadian Wheat Board,
said the softening of ocean freight rates
ply/demand estimates on Feb. 9, and the
lack of any fresh bullish news in that report
triggered a round of profit-taking in all the
commodities.
Corn and soybeans had shown some
strength in the lead-up to the report amid
ideas that South American production prospects were deteriorating. While the USDA did
lower its estimates, private guesses were for
even smaller crops. Recent beneficial rainfall
in Brazil and Argentina was also lessening the
chances of further yield reductions to soybeans and corn.
South America will start harvesting its crops
in the next few weeks, which means the focus
in the futures markets will shift away from the
“what ifs” to the actual hard numbers. While
yields were hurt by the hot, dry conditions
earlier in the growing season, the fact remains
that much of those concerns were likely overblown. As a result, “buy the rumour, sell the
fact” sentiment could also come to play in the
grains and oilseeds.
For wheat, the USDA report confirmed that
global supplies are more than sufficient to
meet the demand. World wheat ending stocks
at the close of the current marketing year are
now pegged at a record 213.1 million tonnes
by the USDA. However, a good chunk of that
wheat is of lower quality, which means the
higher-protein wheat grown in Canada could
benefit from a larger premium than normal.
Warned on winter wheat
Aside from the large global wheat stocks overhanging the market, the attention these days
is on weather conditions in the Black Sea
region.
Ukraine’s UkrAgroConsult put out a crop
report during the week placing a third of the
country’s winter wheat crop in “poor” condition. Dry conditions in the autumn, followed by a recent cold snap, hurt the wheat
crops, which will likely lead to those fields
being replanted with other crops this spring.
The likely winners are sunflowers and corn,
according to UkrAgroConsult.
In Western Canada, we do not grow as much
winter wheat, but the conditions are quite
similar to those being reported out of Eastern
Europe. Snow cover remains light, or nonexistent, across a good portion of the Prairies,
and talk of drought is running the risk of being
more than just talk. In any case, the wet fields
that were unseeded in parts of Manitoba and
Saskatchewan in recent years won’t have the
same problem in 2012 if the weather patterns
continue as they are.
Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
has been beneficial. However, softer shipping rates have narrowed the freight disadvantage to countries such as Australia,
making it more competitive for Canadian
grain distributors, he said.
Trevor Lavender, president of the
Summit Maritime Corporation in
Montreal, Quebec said much of the dramatic downward trend seen in ocean
freight values is due to the large supply
of ships. The lack of seasonal demand
due to the Chinese New Year holiday, has also weighed on freight rates
recently.
The short-term trend for freight markets will continue to see shipping supply
far outstretch demand, Przednowek said.
Despite increased exports to emerging
markets, dry bulk demand will not be
able to keep up with the 10 per cent to
15 per cent increase of ships being introduced into the market, he said.
Export and International Prices
Last Week
Week Ago
Year Ago
CWB export 1CW 13.5 St. Lawrence
384.96
386.40
486.65
US hard winter ord.Gulf ($US)
300.42
300.07
380.13
All prices close of business February 9, 2012
Wheat
EU French soft wheat ($US)
293.00
283.00
383.00
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
237.34
240.10
315.60
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
305.58
303.93
366.85
US corn Gulf ($US)
282.17
283.65
305.99
US barley (PNW) ($US)
287.00
287.00
204.00
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
250.79
249.80
260.83
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
206.20
195.01
269.58
450.98
449.24
527.40
1,158.51
1,145.28
1,296.10
Coarse Grains
Oilseeds
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business February 10, 2012
Western barley
Last Week
Week Ago
March 2012
212.00
212.00
May 2012
217.00
216.00
July 2012
220.00
220.00
Canola
Last Week
Week Ago
March 2012
535.30
525.50
May 2012
537.90
529.40
July 2012
540.30
532.80
CWB Pool Forecasts
January PRO
2011-12
Total Payments
2010-11
December PRO
2011-12
Wheat
No. 1 CWRS 13.5
307
344.96
305
No. 1 CWRS 12.5
271
317.73
271
302
337.13
299
No. 1 CWHWS 13.5
307
344.96
305
No. 1 CPSR
237
277.77
238
No. 1 CPSW
232
274.67
232
No. 1 CWRW
241
284.23
241
No. 1 CWES
277
314.96
275
No. 1 CWSWS
237
268.72
233
342
302.94
352
229
235.72
N/A
Sel CW Two-Row
313
265.74
314
Sel CW Six-Row
297
247.98
298
Durum
No. 1 CWAD 13.0
Feed Barley
No. 1 CW Pool A
Designated Barley
* No. 1 CW feed barley, Pool B 2011-12, as of January 19: $223.
Special Crops
Report for February 13, 2012 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan
Spot Market
Spot Market
Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)
Other (Cdn. cents per pound unless
otherwise specified)
Large Green 15/64
24.70 - 26.00
Canaryseed
Laird No. 1
24.00 - 26.00
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
22.50 - 25.00
Desi Chickpeas
24.75 - 26.75
—
26.10 - 27.50
Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1
8.50 - 9.25
Fababeans, large
—
Medium Yellow No. 1
8.40 - 8.55
Feed beans
—
Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans
—
Feed Pea (Rail)
No. 1 Great Northern
—
Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)
No. 1 Cranberry Beans
—
Yellow No. 1
34.00 - 35.75
No. 1 Light Red Kidney
—
Brown No. 1
30.75 - 32.75
No. 1 Dark Red Kidney
—
Oriental No. 1
22.60 - 23.75
No. 1 Black Beans
—
No. 1 Pinto Beans
—
3.50 - 5.50
Source: Stat Publishing
SUNFLOWERS
No. 1 Small Red
—
No. 1 Pink
—
Fargo, ND
Goodlands, KS
25.60
25.35
—
—
Report for February 10, 2012 in US$ cwt
NuSun (oilseed)
Confection
Source: National Sunflower Association
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
Kitchens left out of food
safety campaigns
Beyond the
Border off to
hopeful start
Consumers worry despite evidence that the food system is safe
By Alex Binkley
Co-operator contributor / ottawa
C
Produced by: SeCan
Product/Campaign Name: SeCan Wheat
Date Produced: January 2012
Ad Number: SEC_WHEAT12REV_T
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Non Bleed
anada generally is good at
getting food safely from
the farm to the grocery
store, but shortcomings remain
in the kitchen, says a report
from the Conference Board of
Canada.
The report suggests that
food-service kitchens as well
as in consumers’ homes are
problem areas. “Small and
medium-size enterprises and
food service companies face
unique challenges to improving food safety, including
costs, lack of expertise, time,
low awareness, and workplace
culture.
“Consumers often underestimate the likelihood of food
safety incidents — resulting
from household practices —
and
fail to adopt appropriate
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risk management strategies,” it
adds.
While the report estimates
6.8 million cases of food-borne
illness annually in Canada, it
is rare for debilitating illness
or death to result from the
consumption of unsafe food
in Canada. However, 23 died
in 2008 from eating deli meats
contaminated with listeria.
The report’s generalized findings highlight the challenge
facing the federal government
as it drafts food safety legislation promised in December
by Agriculture Minister Gerry
Ritz and Health Minister Leona
Aglukkaq.
Ev e n w i t h t h e e v i d e n c e
its product is safe, the food
industry faces increasing public anxiety about the safety of
its products, the report says.
“When high-profile outbreaks
— or fears of outbreaks —
occur, businesses can experience significantly
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sales, high recall costs, and
lower consumer confidence.
Anxiety about food safety
also “can negatively affect the
economic competitiveness and
viability of the food industry
on which we rely to meet our
nutritional and dietary needs,”
it notes.
The report suggests areas
that need more government
attention. “The increasing globalization of the food supply
presents a special challenge.
Products and ingredients are
being imported from a wider
ra n g e o f c o u n t r i e s, m a n y
of which have food safety
standards that are unclear or
suspect.
“At the same time, Canadians
are eating out more often —
thereby increasing their risk
of contracting a food-borne
illness. And a rapidly aging
population means that more
people will be vulnerable to
the effects of unsafe food.
“If Canada’s food safety system is to continue to be risk
responsive, then industr y,
government, and consumers
will need to develop both better understanding of, and better risk management strategies for, existing and emerging
food safety risks,” the report
points out.
Among the steps governments
could take are:
• Providing small and
medium-size enterprise rest a u ra n t s a n d f o o d - s e r v i c e
operators with management
advice;
• Encouraging better behaviour among consumers;
• Making greater use of technology to improve visibility and
traceability;
• Adding resources to
address food safety risks due to
globalization.
T h e Co n f e re n c e B o a rd’s
Centre for Food in Canada is
working toward a Canadian
Food Strategy that it hopes to
launch in October 2013.
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Regulatory
Cooperation Council
tackles the devil in the
details
By Alex Binkley
co-operator contributor / ottawa
H
armonizing regulations and cutting red
tape was on the menu
when Canadian and American
government officials and
industry representatives met
in Washington for the first
session of the Regulatory
Co-operation Council.
“There was a fairly positive
reaction from industry to what
was being discussed by the
officials,” says Ron Bonnett,
president of the Canadian
Federation of Agriculture.
“We’re dealing with a lot of
technical details.”
There were 29 different
subjects — everything from
streamlining pesticide registration to standardizing life
jackets — discussed in separate sessions over the two-day
meeting at the end of January.
The council is a key component of the Beyond the
Border initiative launched
by President Barack Obama
and Prime Minister Stephen
Harper in early January to
reduce border crossing delays
and protect North America
from external health and
safety threats.
“The whole idea is that if
we can get rid of unneeded
regulations and streamline
the rest, we will take a lot of
the cost out of getting across
the border,” said Bonnett. “We
need to work in parallel.”
Many regulations have the
same objective, and just having standardized language
would ease the regulatory
burden, officials said.
One of the hopes of the
Canadian Meat Council
is to end the reinspection
of processed meat at the
border, said Jim Laws, the
organization’s president.
In crop protection products, officials set out deadlines for the next two years
for making progress on regulation harmonization, said
Pierre Petelle, vice-president
of chemistry with CropLife
Canada.
“We’re reaping the benefit already of better access
to new active ingredients,”
he said. “But there’s still work
to be done... There is a lot of
focus on minor-use issues
and obstacles to joint registration of new products in
Canada and the U.S.”
The industry also wants
the countries to not only harmonize their maximum residue limit policies, but to gain
international acceptance for
them from importing countries, which depend on Codex
standards.
Officials from both countries made it clear they want
industry involvement in their
work so they can get speedy
reaction to any proposals
from the people who have to
live with their decisions.
“The officials will be doing
the work, but they want to be
able to consult with us and
ask for ideas for quick advice,”
said Bonnett.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
WHAT'S UP
Feeling the pulse of support
Please forward your agricultural
events to daveb@fbcpublish
ing.com or call 204-944-5762.
Feb. 15-17: Western Barley
Growers Association annual
convention, Deerfoot Inn and
Casino, 1000-11500 35th St. SE,
Calgary. For more info visit www.
wbga.org.
Feb. 16: Manitoba Model Forest
seminar on non-timber forest
products (wildcrafting, herbal teas,
etc.), 1-3 p.m., Little Black River
FN. To pre-register contact Ken
Fosty at 204-340-5013 or email
kfosty@treecanada.ca.
Feb. 21-22: Western Canadian
Holistic Management Conference,
Gallagher Centre, 455 Broadway
St. W., Yorkton, Sask. For more info
call 306-786-1531.
Feb. 21-23: Canadian Organic
Science Conference, University of
Manitoba, Winnipeg. For more info
visit www.oacc.info/cosc.
Feb. 22-23: Precision Ag 2.0,
The Next Generation: Western
Canadian Precision Agriculture
Conference, Deerfoot Inn and
Casino, 1000-11500 35th St. SE,
Calgary. For more info visit www.
precision-ag.ca.
Johanne Ross, executive director Agriculture in the Classroom Manitoba (l), received a $1,000 cheque Feb. 8 from Monika Robertson, policy
and communications director of the Manitoba Pulse Growers Association during the Manitoba Special Crops Symposium in Winnipeg.
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Feb. 23: Manitoba Model Forest
seminar on non-timber forest
products (wildcrafting, herbal teas,
etc.), 7-9 p.m., Winnipeg River
Learning Centre, Pine Falls. To
pre-register contact Ken Fosty at
204-340-5013 or email kfosty@
treecanada.ca.
Feb. 23-25: Growing Local
Conference, Marlborough Hotel,
331 Smith St., Winnipeg. For more
info call 1-800-731-2638 or visit
http://foodmattersmanitoba.ca.
Feb. 28: Manitoba Canola
Growers Association canola storage clinic and annual meeting, 8
a.m. to 6 p.m., Keystone Centre,
Brandon. For more info or to register, visit www.canolacouncil.org/
mcgastorageclinic.aspx.
March 1: Special Crops Production
Day, Keystone Centre, Brandon,
including presentations on sunflowers, soybeans, corn. For more
info contact NSAC (204-745-6776),
MPGA (204-745-6488) or MCGA
(204-745-6661).
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March 7: h@ms Marketing
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March 7: h@ms Marketing
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meeting, 7 p.m., Royal Canadian
Legion, Neepawa. For more info
call 1-800-899-7675.
March 7: Marketing Your Wheat,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Oak Bluff
Community Hall. Registration $20,
deadline March 2. For more info
call MAFRI at 204-735-4080.
March 8: h@ms Marketing
Services H.B. Marketing district
annual meeting, 2 p.m., Glesby
Centre, 11 Second St. NE, Portage
la Prairie. For more info call 1-800899-7675.
March 9: Farm Focus, 9:30 a.m. to
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
Ethanol may no
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orn-based ethanol production has been one of the most
conspicuous drivers of the surge in corn prices, which have
soared from $2 to $3 a bushel 10 years ago to today’s $6 to
$7 range.
However, with a key subsidy now gone, U.S. ethanol stockpiles
have soared to record levels, ethanol prices have slumped, and
producer margins have turned negative. This suggests the industry is struggling to adapt to the end of the 45-cents-per-gallon
“Blender’s Credit” and may need to consider curtailing output
significantly.
That has major implications for the corn market, which must
adapt to the fact that demand for U.S. corn-based ethanol production will grow more slowly now that corn-based ethanol output has all but met the government-mandated biofuel production
targets.
Under the Renewable Fuels Standard, the annual output target for corn-based ethanol production is scheduled to peak at
15 billion gallons by 2015. With 2011 production in the 13.5- to
14-billion-gallon range, that target is nearly achieved and there’s
unlikely to be the sort of expansion seen in the last decade. In
2001, production capacity was just 1.7 billion gallons.
Further, as individual ethanol producers evolve away from
being focused primarily on cranking up output to meet mandated
output totals and toward a greater concern with operational efficiencies and cost savings, industry observers will view the cornbased ethanol business as “mature” and stable, rather than as a
disruptive force.
This in turn should make ethanol manufacturers, more responsive to changes in price signals, profit margins and inventory levels than they have been so far.
Worrying trends
On its own, the recent climb in ethanol stocks to all-time highs
is not too concerning, as the industry typically sees a seasonal
bump in stock levels prior to the spring and summer driving season. But it’s not certain that the ethanol demand pace will pick up
when more Americans hit the road, as it has done in the past.
So while corn bulls continue to cite ethanol production as a
major demand force in the corn market, the recent trends in
stocks levels and industry margins suggest ethanol-based corn
demand in 2012 may not be as rock solid as it once was, and
indeed may soften over the coming months if ethanol prices and
profit margins keep heading lower.
U.S. canola acres and
production to climb in 2012
As in Canada, flooded acres are expected to go back
into production
By Adam Johnston
COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA
U
.S. canola growers are anticipating a good season, as
planned acreage and production is set to increase, says
Barry Coleman, executive director with the U.S. Northern
Canola Growers Association in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Coleman said farmers are expected to plant between 1.1 million
and 1.3 million acres of canola in North Dakota alone. That would
account for most of the projected 1.5 million acres of U.S. canola
that will be seeded this spring, he said. The jump in seeded area
will reflect the reclaiming of lost acres due to flooding in 2011, he
said.
In 2011, only 860,000 acres of canola were planted in North
Dakota, pushing down 2011’s total U.S. canola acreage to 1.07 million, Coleman said.
Strong domestic crusher demand along with firm cash bids, and
strength in the outside commodity markets, are making canola a
more attractive option for U.S. farmers to grow, Coleman said.
With more acres expected, canola production will also increase.
Production is pegged in the U.S. at 1.1 million tonnes, with one
million coming from North Dakota alone, he said. North Dakota
last year produced only 620,000 tonnes of canola, Coleman said.
The majority of the demand for canola will come from within the
U.S., Coleman said. Domestic crushers, including ADM, Bunge,
and a new plant being built in north eastern North Dakota, will
absorb most of the U.S. canola output, he said.
With demand from the domestic crushing sector remaining firm,
Coleman sees new opportunities to move cash bids upward. Strong
demand for biodiesel in the U.S., will help enhance the upward
price potential, along with the rising use of specialty canola,
including Nexera, he said. Increased Chinese buying of Canadian
canola for meal and oil use would help add to the firmness in U.S.
values, he said.
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Fairly mild with a chance of snow
Issued: Monday, February 13, 2012 · Covering: February 14 – February 21, 2012
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
I
t doesn’t appear that winter is over for us yet. After
a relatively cold week, the
forecast for this period is looking a little warmer, but the
overall weather pattern has a
much more winter-like look
to it. The atmosphere does
look like it’s trying to undergo
some changes, as both the
No r t h At l a n t i c o s c i l l a t i o n
(NAO) and Arctic oscillation
(AO) have become negative
and have remained that way
for a couple of weeks now.
The weather models seem to
be picking up on this and are
starting to lean toward colder
forecasts, at least in the longer
period.
For most of this forecast
period the models show our
region under a weak pressure
pattern with no strong areas
of high or low pressure dominating. This should bring us a
mix of sun and clouds (probably more sun than clouds)
along with fairly mild temperatures. Highs should be
around the -5 C mark with
overnight lows around -15
C. This general weather pattern looks like it will last right
through the weekend and into
the early part of next week.
There is a slight chance that
there might be a little bit
more organized system push
through our region over the
weekend, which could then
bring the odd flurry.
The best chance for snow
looks to be later next week as
a fairly strong low is forecast
to push east out of the Pacific
northwest. Behind this system the longer-range weather
models show colder air moving in to finish off the month
and to start March. We will
have to wait and see if the
warm winter will continue,
or whether we will start paying the price for all the nice
weather.
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, -17 to -2 C;
lows, -29 to -11 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
This issue’s map shows the snow cover across the Prairies as of Feb. 12. This map is created by Environment Canada, but I do a fair bit
of work cleaning up the map to make it easier to read. Because of this, the map should only be taken as giving approximate amounts of
snow, because snowfall can vary greatly over short distances. This is especially true this year over southern regions and much of Alberta
due to the low snow cover. In all my years of looking at this, I can’t remember when I’ve seen a map that shows this much snow-free
area in the middle of February.
Semi-permanent highs and lows
By Daniel Bezte
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
A
couple of weeks ago
I started an article about the North
Atlantic oscillation, or NAO.
We began our look at this
particular weather pattern
because all of the talk about
the unusually warm winter
weather we’ve seen so far
this year seems to be tied to
it. For us to try and understand just what is going on,
we had to come to an understanding about the general
atmospheric patterns of rising air around the equator
and sinking air at the poles.
We then looked at how these
features can lead to a band
o f h i g h p re s s u re l o c a t e d
around 20 degrees latitude
and a band of low pressure
around 60 degrees latitude.
If we try to picture this we
would see that the Earth has
two distinctive circulation
patterns. We have warm air
rising at the equator, flowing
toward the poles, then sinking back down to the surface
around 20 degrees latitude.
This air then hits the ground
and some of it flows back
toward the equator completing the loop, while the
remainder of the air flows
toward the poles along the
ground. Over the poles, air is
sinking and flowing along the
ground toward the equator.
Around 60 degrees latitude it
begins to rise up, creating a
region of low pressure. This
rising air hits the top of the
troposphere (the part of the
atmosphere where most of
the weather takes place) and
at this point it can’t rise any
higher. So this air then has
two directions it can flow:
either back toward the poles,
thus completing that loop,
or back toward the equator,
where it will eventually hit
the region around 20 degrees
latitude in which the air is
sinking, and this air will then
also sink back to the ground.
OK, so now we have two
loops taking place: one over
the poles and one around
the equator. For those of
you who are really good at
picturing this, you’ll probably notice there is a third
atmospheric circulation, or
loop — and this takes place
between these two loops,
which just happens to be in
our part of the world. This
third loop is basically driven
by the two other loops. At the
surface, air is flowing toward
the poles from the semi-permanent area of high pres-
sure and at the same time
air is being pulled northward
al ong t h e sur face by t he
semi-permanent areas of low
pressure. If the Earth didn’t
revolve, it wouldn’t get much
more complicated than this
but the Earth does revolve,
and this causes this air to
be deflected or to curve. So
instead of this air moving
straight northward, it curves
and becomes westerly, which
is why most of our weather
systems move from west to
east.
Strongest positive phase
Now back to the NAO. When
the regions of low and high
pressure over the Atlantic
are both ver y strong, the
NAO is said to be in a positive phase. This results in
stronger-than-usual westerly
winds, especially over North
America. Think of these two
features like a pair of spinning wheels: the faster they
spin, the quicker they pull
air between them. This faster
flow of air helps to keep the
really cold air up north and
any cold air that does slide
southward is quickly pulled
off to the east. This is the
pattern that we have seen for
most of this fall and winter.
In fact, during December it
This faster flow of air helps to keep the really
cold air up north, and any cold air that does
slide southward is quickly pulled off to the east.
was at its strongest positive
phase ever recorded.
The opposite phase, or
negative phase of the NAO,
is when these regions of low
and high pressure are weak.
This results in a slackening
of the westerly winds across
No r t h A m e r i c a . Now t h e
cold air that is building over
the poles has an easier time
moving southward and when
it does, there are no strong
westerly winds to push this
air out. This results in more
cold air outbreaks, and
longer-lasting ones as well.
Tied almost directly to this
is another atmospheric circulation pattern, the Arctic
oscillation or AO. This oscillation is a comparison of
pressure differences in the
upper atmosphere between
the Arctic and the Atlantic.
During the winter, in the
upper atmosphere over the
Arctic, there usually develops an area of low pressure
known as the Arctic vortex.
When this is strong, which
means the pressure is lower
than usual, and the region
of high pressure over the
Atlantic is higher than usual,
the AO is said to be a positive phase. Just like with the
NAO, a positive phase results
in stronger-than-usual westerly winds, which mean
fewer cold air outbreaks.
The negative phase of the AO
sees a weaker Arctic vortex
than usual, and this results
in weaker westerly winds and
more and longer outbreaks
of cold air.
Now, you would think that
if the NAO is positive, then
the AO would also be positive and vice versa, but this
isn’t always the case. Next
week we’ll take a look at this
and then try to tie everything
together and hopefully come
to some understanding of
why this winter’s long-range
forecasts were so wrong!
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CROPS
By Daniel Winters
CO-OPERATOR STAFF / ELGIN
A diadegma wasp lays an egg on a diamondback moth larva.
“That’s a good sign going into
next year,” he said.
MAFRI is planning to train
more agronomists on how to tell
the difference between the “bad”
cocoons of diamondback moths
and the “good” ones made by diadegma, which are very similar.
Standing water won’t affect the
moths because they arrive on the
wind. However, very damp conditions can boost the levels of fungal
infections on them.
Healthy diamondback larva are
green, while sick ones are yellow
or brown.
Last year, bertha army worms
popped up near Virden, Treherne
and Gladstone, and pupae are
likely overwintering in the soil.
However, cold soil temperatures
help keep them at bay, and the
lack of snow hits them hard. At
two-inch depth, soil temperatures
below -12 C for six weeks will kill
half the pupae, and -17 can wipe
them out in just a few days.
One species of hairy fly can kill
lots of army worms, as can a type
of orange wasp called tachinid.
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Army worms pass through six
different growth stages, with up to
80 per cent of their food consumption coming in the final stage.
“That means, if you detect large
numbers and they are just hatching out and still quite young, you
don’t have to panic and spray
right away,” said Gavloski, adding
spraying too early might mean a
second pass will be needed for
eggs that still haven’t hatched.
Bertha army worms can overwinter on a broad range of weeds
such as Canada thistle and ball
mustard, so unsprayed fields may
be worth scouting.
Zebra caterpillars were found
in “unprecedented” numbers in
canola fields last year. A “generalist” feeder, it is not considered
a major pest because it typically
eats only single plants right to the
ground.
However, high populations in
some areas last year caused more
damage than normal. They overwinter in the soil and are susceptible to cold temperatures, but
scouting for them on the leaves
“It depends on what the
south winds blow in,
when they blow in, and
whether they get good
conditions when they
arrive.”
JOHN GAVLOSKI
during the day this spring would
be a good idea.
There has been no research on
zebra caterpillars in canola, so
Gavloski recommends using bertha army worm economic thresholds as a guide.
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“It’s a whole different ball game
every year,” MAFRI insect specialist John Gavloski told attendees at
a recent Excess Moisture meeting
hosted by the Canola Council of
Canada.
“It depends on what the south
winds blow in, when they blow in,
and whether they get good conditions when they arrive.”
Predicting the risk of infestation is tricky because diamondback moths can’t overwinter on
the Prairies, and mainly are blown
in from southern climes. If they
arrive early, three or four generations of the pest might build up to
problem levels and wreak havoc
on canola crops. If the first arrivals come in mid- to late June, the
risk is decreased, said Gavloski.
Last year, they made an early
appearance, leading to considerable problems by mid-July to late
August in some areas, “but then
the population essentially collapsed,” said Gavloski.
Curious, Gavloski and his colleagues used a kind of vacuum
cleaner to suck up larvae and sent
them to a lab in Alberta for rearing and further study. Tests found
infestations in many areas had
very high parasite loads. Samples
taken from La Salle, found 85 per
cent were harbouring a parasite called cotesia that kills them
before they can reach the adult
stage. At Carman, 66 per cent had
the parasites, and in Sanford and
Sperling, 83 per cent were likewise
doomed.
Gavloski said he was surprised
by the high cotesia levels because
normally diamondback moth
populations are hit hardest by a
parasitic wasp called diadegma
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
Ethiopia looks to mid-size farms
to lift it out of poverty
The government has launched an ambitious plan to wean the country off food aid
Laura Rance has just returned
from a two-week tour of
Ethiopia with the Canadian
Foodgrains Bank.
By Laura Rance
co-operator editor / addis ababa, ethiopia
I
t’s a country associated
with famine, but agriculture
is Ethiopia’s best hope of
escaping crushing poverty.
Agriculture accounts for
nearly 50 per cent of the country’s GDP, and between 80 and
90 per cent of Ethiopians farm
for a living. It has the highest
per capita density of cattle in
Africa and is among the top 10
in the world. Agricultural commodities such as coffee, flowers and livestock products make
up 80 per cent of the country’s
exports.
Yet the country suffers from
chronic food shortages and
depends on foreign humanitarian aid — a new study estimates 3.2 million Ethiopians
will require about $170 million in food aid this year and
another $45 million in health
and nutrition, water and sanitation, agriculture and education support. The situation was
even worse during last year’s
drought, which affected 4.5
million Ethiopians.
Green economy
Still, the Ethiopian government
has ambitious plans to develop
a green economy to provide a
middle-class income (an average
income of $1,000) for its 80 million people by 2025. Right now,
per capita GDP is only about
$380 but its economy is growing by eight per cent annually,
a figure topped only by China
and India among countries with
more than 10 million people.
Developing a more efficient
agricultural base, reforestation,
harnessing renewable power
Continued on next page »
Canadian Foodgrains Bank executive director at a grain storage warehouse at
the headquarters for the Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church in Wolayato-Soddo.
The CFGB’s Canadian member Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada works
with the local partner. Photos: Laura Rance HELPING MANITOBA LANDOWNERS
A food aid recipient leaves the warehouse with a 50-kg sack of maize on distribution day.
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Greenhouses such as this extensive flower operation near Zeway are becoming a major source of employment in rural
Ethiopia. This operation employs 11,000 people and ships the roses it produces by jet to European buyers. Photos: Laura Rance
such as hydro electricity and
using advanced transportation
and building technologies are
identified as the four key pillars.
Part of the plan is to leapfrog
the rest of the world to develop
technologically advanced systems — such as hydro electricity
over coal, and railroads instead of
roads to limit its carbon footprint.
In fact, when it recently released
its Green Economy Policy, the
Ethiopian government noted its
environment can’t afford the cost
of pursuing a conventional path
to development — and neither
can the world.
“Under current practices,
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
would more than double from 150
Mt CO2e (million metric tonnes
of carbon dioxide equivalent) in
2010 to 400 Mt CO2e in 2030,” the
document says.
Status quo
near Zeway in the Rift Valley about
three hours south of Addis Ababa
employs 11,000 people.
Government statistics suggest there is no shortage of land.
Nearly 65 per cent of the country’s land is arable, but only 13 per
cent of it is currently being cultivated. What isn’t clear however, is
whether those arable acres receive
enough rainfall or have access to
irrigation.
Voluntary relocation
There have been some modest efforts in recent years to offer
farmers in densely populated
farming kebeles (similar to a township) the opportunity to apply for
voluntary relocation. Successful
applicants receive assistance with
moving and resettlement, and
are given three years in which to
change their mind and return to
their former communities.
While the government’s plan
aims to increase agricultural output, it can’t be done in such a way
that it displaces people. “Because
of its small manufacturing sector,
the economy is not yet in a position to absorb significant increases
in productivity in agriculture,” the
document states.
A recent paper jointly produced by the International Food
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If its Green Economy strategy
unfolds as hoped, greenhouse gas
emissions will remain at 2010 levels, the government says.
But it’s an expensive proposition that will rely heavily on foreign investment. And some of the
government’s initiatives are controversial, such as the decision to
allocate up to three million hectares of cropland to foreign investors under attractive lease conditions and tax incentives when the
majority of the country’s domestic
farmers farm plots too small to be
economic.
However, industrial-scale farms
are seen not only as an important
economic driver, but a source of
employment.
For example, a huge
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Policy Research Institute and the
Ethiopian Development Research
Institute agrees that agricultural
development holds the key to
increasing employment and accelerating poverty reduction.
But it says middle-class farmers
should play a central role.
The so-called middle-class
farmers are considered a disappearing breed in North American
agriculture, squeezed by their
inability to compete with large
farmers’ economies of scale and
being too capital intensive to fit
into small farming niches.
Ill equipped
But the paper suggests focusing on this scale of farm activity
strikes a balance between increasing productivity and job creation,
without provoking a mass exodus
of people to major urban areas ill
equipped to receive them.
“Raising farm incomes is
essential to drive employment
increases, poverty reduction
and diffused urbanization,” the
paper states. “That impact will be
greatest by concentrating on geographic areas that respond best to
improved technology and more
intensive cropping patterns.”
The key, the paper says, is developing a large class of mid-size
By concentrating on developing the middle class,
more jobs will be created in towns and villages
and turn them into service centres and
create off-farm jobs.
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A woman prepares to divide a bag of famix, a wheat/soy flour enriched with
nutrients for children and lactating mothers. farmers who can grow, and sell,
surplus production that can, in
turn, create “a vibrant rural nonfarm sector.”
Small-scale farmers, currently
more than 80 per cent of the
population, won’t do the trick
because they aren’t selling much
off the farm.
“Similarly, very large landowners are generally less efficient
drivers of economic growth
because they have consumption
patterns that are import and capital intensive,” the paper states.
“As a result, their spending generates few growth multipliers and
does little to reduce poverty.”
More jobs
By concentrating on developing
the middle class, more jobs will
be created in towns and villages
and turn them into service centres and create off-farm jobs.
Government and foreign
donors are well aware of the
potential for agricultural growth
CDC Austenson
to strengthen the country’s
economy.
Most of the support from
Canada, through the Canadian
International Development
Agency and non-government
organizations, is focused on
humanitarian assistance and promoting food security. But some of
Canada’s contribution to Ethiopia
is for initiatives that support commercial farmers, a CIDA official
said in a briefing to reporters.
“The more productive areas
need help getting to the next
stage in terms of productivity,”
the official said.
CIDA’s allocation for partnered
projects in Ethiopia is between
$170 million and $180 million
annually, divided between $120
million in bilateral assistance
delivered through NGO partners,
$55 million through multilateral
programs and between $1 million
to $3 million in debt relief.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
Sunflowers can add extra rotation year
It’s gone to seed and back again: Collapsing bird feed markets may hurt sunflower producers this year
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
M
anitoba sunflower producers have seen more
rain than shine in the
last few years, but drier weather
ahead could translate into more
acres in 2012.
Since reaching a peak of
more than 300,000 acres in
the 1980s, sunflower production has continued to decline
in Manitoba. Crop preference
has also shifted away from
oilseed sunflowers to confection varieties.
“Confections are 80 per cent
of our sunflower market, so five
years ago we had 220,000 acres,
when 80 per cent of that is confection, you’re looking at 200,000
acres,” said Anastasia Kubinec, an
oilseed specialist with Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Initiatives.
But since that time the number
of sunflower acres planted
in the province has dropped
dramatically.
In 2011, only 35,000 acres
were planted in Manitoba. Sixty
per cent of those planted were
confection, said Kubinec. That’s
even more significant taking
into consideration that 90 per
cent of all Canadian sunflowers
are grown in Manitoba.
It’s expected 75,000 to 80,000
acres will be planted in 2012, but
Continued on next page »
“Typically farmers are set in their ways and don’t
like to do things differently, and if you haven’t
been a sunflower producer you get the idea you
don’t want to be. But the learning curve is not
that steep ... so come back and take a second
look, it can be a rewarding crop and the numbers
pencil out.”
KEVIN CAPISTRAN
Analysts
see limited
upside for
future jump
in canola
futures
By Phil Franz-Warkentin
COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA
I
CE Futures Canada
canola contracts have
moved higher recently
because of solid export
d e ma n d a n d im p rov ing technical signals, but
additional upside appears
limited.
“The market needs a dose
of fresh bullish news in
order to break the current
pattern,” said analyst Errol
Anderson of ProMarket
Communications in
Alberta.
Canola futures will likely
rise about another $5 a
tonne before reaching their
top, said Anderson, who
described his overall view
as “cautiously optimistic,
but with bumps ahead.”
Technicals are starting
to look overbought, which
could leave canola “susceptible to a fairly swift
downturn,” he added.
Concerns about drought
p u s h i n g d ow n So u t h
American soybean production has driven oilseed
markets recently, but
Anderson said weather
concerns are often
exaggerated.
Activity in financial markets also has the potential
to sway canola one way or
the other. Anderson said
global stock markets have
generally strengthened in
the first weeks of 2012, but
uncertainty is high.
Declining ocean freight
rates could also be seen
as a sign of a reduction in
demand for commodities,
he said.
Q: What are my options now? Q: Should I be planning already?
Q: What does this mean for me? Q: Will marketing wheat be
just like marketing canola? Q: Who’s going to help me through
this process? Q: Is August 2012 the real end date? Q: How will I
manage the transition? Q: Where can I voice my opinion?
Q: Does my opinion count? Q: Who can I call if I have questions?
Q: Can I survive in a competitive market? Q: How will I sell
my wheat? Q: How will I sell my barley? Q: What role will the ICE
Futures play? Q: What will happen with the foreign exchange?
Q: How will premiums and discounts be applied to my
wheat? Q: What will happen to the Canadian Grain Commission?
Q: What is the new base grade? Q: Am I going to need more
storage? Q: How is rail transportation going to work? Q: How
can I access the US price? Q: Will the quality of my wheat
continue to be controlled? Q: How will I know the quality of the
wheat, durum or barley I’m delivering? Q: Who will my wheat be
sold to? Q: Will the CWB still be a valid option for selling my
barley and wheat? Q: How am I going to move my grain?
Q: What is a good basis? Q: Am I expected to know about international
trade? Q: Will everyone else know more than I do? Q: How long
will this process take? Q: Are grain companies going to build
more storage? Q: How will this impact price? Q: Who can I trust?
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
final acres will depend on spring
conditions, particularly moisture
levels.
“Right now we’re on a decline,”
said the MAFRI specialist. “But
we’re hoping that with the development of better genetics, and
products for head-rot, fungicides
and weed control products ... that
the acres will go back up to about
150,000.”
Part of the reason for the decline
has been weather related; sunflowers are often more susceptible
to disease during wet periods.
Kevin Capistran of the U.S.
National Sunflower Association
thinks Mother Nature may have
more of an influence on the sunflower market than anything else.
“We’ve seen a fallback in acres
each year from where we used
to be and now we’ve been trending lower,” he told farmers during
the Special Crop Symposium in
Winnipeg.
“But I think we are definitely
Anastasia Kubinec, an oilseed specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives assists Mike Durand of Nestibo
Agra in Deloraine with his microphone during the annual Special Crops Symposium in Winnipeg. PHOTO: SHANNON VANRAES
going to see a nice uptick this
year, for sure in the oil side of this,”
Capistran added.
The Minnesota-based producer
doesn’t deny sunflowers take
work, but he said the benefits —
including price and diversification
— are worth the effort.
“Typically farmers are set
in their ways and don’t like to
do things differently, and if you
haven’t been a sunflower producer
you get the idea you don’t want
to be,” he said. “But the learning
curve is not that steep ... so come
back and take a second look, it
can be a rewarding crop and the
numbers pencil out.”
In recent years India has
become a major importer of sunflower oil, increasing demand and
influencing prices. But market
analyst Mike Krueger, founder of
The Money Farm, sees some significant bumps in the road ahead
for sunflower producers.
Less-than-average snowfall has
also impacted the sales of bird
seed, which had buoyed the price
of sunflower seeds last year.
“The confection and birdseed
markets are a tiny part of the
overall market, but the prices
got so strong that they were driving the prices for oil sunflowers,”
Krueger said. “But guess what? ...
It’s been one of the mildest win-
ters in the last 30, 40, 50 years, so
the birdseed market has basically
collapsed.”
Without underlying support,
the analyst said oilseed prices are
also likely to drop, hitting old-crop
prices hardest.
And although exports to India
are still going strong, in North
America Frito Lay, a large oil consumer, has switched from sunflower oil to canola oil.
“That’s likely to have a bearish
price impact,” said Krueger.
If more acres are planted in
2012, that too will have an impact
on price, he added.
But benefits of sunflowers
need to be looked at in agronomic terms as well, said Mike
Durand of Nestibo Agra in
Deloraine.
He noted sunflowers can add
another year to your crop rotation
and are able to mine for nitrogen left behind by other crops.
Sunflowers are also a crop without any Roundup Ready varieties,
reducing chances of Roundup
resistance.
“Growing sunflowers is a good
thing, yes we talk about the bad
things too, but it’s a good thing
over all. No, a great thing,” Durand
said.
shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com
One-fifth of land
could leave setaside this fall
WASHINGTON / REUTERS
High grain prices are pulling land into crop production, and out of the U.S.’s
Conservation Reserve.
Some 6.5 million acres
could return to tillage when
Conservation Reserve contracts expire this fall. That’s
one-fifth of the land in the
government’s program and
may be the largest turnover
ever for the reserve, created
in 1985 during an agricultural recession.
Owners receive an annual
rent, now an average of $57
an acre, if they agree to idle
land for 10 to 15 years, but
that money is no longer
tempting for many.
Enrolment in the reserve
dropped by 1.5 million
acres during 2011, when
4.4 million acres left the
reserve and 2.9 million acres
entered. The wheat-growing
U.S. Plains account for
nearly half of the land in the
reserve, which holds nine
per cent of U.S. farmland.
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Ukraine’s State Railway
Administration has banned
its grain railway cars from
leaving the country, effectively halting railway grain
exports.
The ban, effective Feb.
1, is being described as
“a temporary restriction
which was introduced in
a bid to secure domestic
shipments.”
Ukraine operates about
11,000 grain cars and
around 1,000 of them were
outside of Ukrainian territory as of Feb. 3.
“This decision means that
Ukraine has a real shortage
of cars,” said analyst Mykola
Vernytsky.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
U.S. farmers
expected
to go corn
crazy this
year
It’s a good turnout when… the front rows are full
Analysts say growing
corn currently yields
$100 more per acre
than soybeans
By Sam Nelson and Mark Weinraub
reuters
U
.S. farmers will seed
their largest corn crop
this spring since the
Second World War, according to
a Reuters poll of 24 analysts.
The panel predict 94.2 million acres will be seeded to
corn, which could produce a
record crop of 13.8 billion bushels based on a trendline yield of
161.4 bushels per acre.
Soybean acreage, at 75.3 million acres is only expected to
rise by a marginal amount.
The reason is simple — corn
is more profitable, the analysts
said.
“If you look at the break-even,
you make so much more money
raising corn than anything else,”
said Sid Love, analyst for Kropf
& Love Consulting. “It is not
even a contest. By far and away,
the best crop is corn.”
Farmers in central Illinois are
expected to make a profit of as
much as $578 per acre by planting corn in 2012, according to a
University of Illinois study. The
least-profitable corn scenario —
where farmers have abandoned
crop rotation and planted corn
year after year — is $467 per
acre, still above the $425-peracre best-case scenario for soybeans. The study, issued at the
end of January, assumes corn
prices of $5.35 per bushel and
soybean prices of $11.85 per
bushel.
Corn futures closed at $6.441/4 per bushel early last week
and, while well off last summer’s
high of nearly $8, are nearly 60
per cent above five years ago.
Organizers of this year’s Manitoba Special Crops Symposium held in Winnipeg Feb. 8 and 9 believe attendance was up from last year. Many of the
sessions, including this one with Brent VanKoughnet on soybean row spacing, was standing room only. The symposium was at the Victoria Inn, which
is easier to get to than the Winnipeg Convention Centre, where the event was last year. The Victoria Inn also provided free parking. photo: allan dawson
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Brisk demand for corn from the
feed, export and ethanol sectors
combined with a crop shortfall
last year shrank the U.S. supply
of corn to the lowest in 16 years.
And a drought in Argentina,
the world’s second-largest corn
exporter, that has slashed output has kept corn prices strong
relative to soybeans, leading to
expectations for a large corn
area this year.
“Corn is roughly $100 per acre
more profitable than soybeans,”
said Bill Nelson, an analyst in
St. Louis. “That’s been the case
for three consecutive years.”
Also a lot of acres weren’t
planted last year because of
wet weather especially in the
eastern states. Analysts said the
ratio of Chicago Board of Trade
new-crop December corn and
new-crop November soybeans,
currently at about 2.1, is a good
reason to plant corn instead of
soybeans.
“The big price advantage
is for corn acres. If the price
ratio is close to 2.0 it favours
corn and close to 2.5 it favours
beans,” said analyst Michael
Cordonnier.
Additionally, the mild winter
weather currently signals a drier
spring than last year, helping
increased corn plantings.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
Record set in Manitoba corn contest
The MacGregor-area colony grabs top two spots, both with record-busting yields
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
B
aker Colony Farms of
MacGregor didn’t just
break the Manitoba Corn
Growers Association’s corn
yield competition record, it
shattered it.
The colony’s 271.69-bushelan-acre yield of Pioneer
Hi-Bred’s 39Z69 was almost 20
bushels higher than the previous record of 252.95 set in 2008
by Niverville’s Lorne Loeppky
when he nudged past the old
mark, set 10 years earlier, by
just one-third of a bushel.
So what did Baker Colony do
differently?
“Well you try to tweak a few
things like (plant) population
and nitrogen,” Mack Waldner
said on behalf of the colony.
“Weed control now is a really
big thing — GMOs. With a bit
of moisture we can grow some
fantastic crops.
“The key is if the kernel
can mature. Then the weight
is there. It seems to have
responded quite well the last
few years I’ve tried it. It’s paying off in the long run.”
Baker Colony Farms actually
broke the record twice, placing
second with Pioneer’s 39D37,
which yielded 265.9 bushels
an acre.
Jacob Thiessen of Morden,
who grew Pioneer’s 39V05,
took third with 241.91 bushels
an acre.
A sentimental entry made
on behalf of the late Harry
McKnight Sr. of Roland placed
fourth with a yield of 239.55.
McKnight, a life member of
the Manitoba Corn Growers
Association, was a corn-growing pioneer.
“It was very fitting that we
had that type of an entry this
year (2011 when the association celebrated its 40th anniversar y),” said association
secretar y-manager Theresa
Bergsma.
Nine of the top 10 yields in
the 2011 contest exceeded 200
bushels an acre. There were 39
entries with the lowest yielding 143 bushels.
Yields in the MCGA competition do not represent the
average from a field or even
an acre of corn. Instead competitors are allowed to select
p a r t s o f r ow s , w h i c h a re
hand picked. The idea when
the competition first began
in 1971 was to demonstrate
the yield potential for corn in
Manitoba. Since the methodology is consistent one year
to the next, the results track
the steady climb in field-scale
yields.
It was a decade ago, in 1992,
that the 200-bushel-an-acre
mark was first hit.
L a s t y e a r, w h i c h b e g a n
with a wet spring, didn’t look
promising.
“Eve r y b o d y w a s k i n d o f
holding their breath but we
managed to have a wonderful summer and we actually
had some very good yields
around the countryside,” said
Bergsma.
Corn on the Baker Colony
averaged 105 bushels an acre,
Waldner said. But some of his
neighbours harvested just 50.
He blamed a dry summer.
Corn averaged 94 bushels an
acre across Manitoba in 2011,
well above the 10-year average
Wilton Billing of Pioneer Hi-Bred (l) and Hank Enns, president of the Manitoba Corn Growers Association (r) present Mack Waldner representing Baker Colony
Farms Ltd., of MacGregor, with a trophy, plaque and $1,000 cheque for winning the association’s 2011 corn yield competition. Baker Colony shattered the
previous record with a yield of 271.69 bushels an acre. Normally top price is $500, but it was doubled in celebration of the association’s 40th anniversary in 2011.
PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON
of 89, but down from 107 in
2010 and well below the record
of 118 set in 2007.
The RM of Stanley in the
Morden area had the highest
municipal average corn yield at
114 bushels an acre, according
to the Manitoba Agricultural
Services Corporation.
The lowest municipal
yield was 14 in the RM of
Westbourne (Gladstone area).
Good corn yields last
y e a r, o n t h e w h o l e , a n d
good returns, will likely see
Manitoba farmers plant at
least 200,000 acres of corn this
spring, up from 177,000 last
year, said association president and Altona farmer Hank
Enns.
“It pencils out better than
some of the other crops,” he
said.
Corn is also starting to be
grown on heavier land outside
the traditional corn-growing
area, he said.
“I’ve grown corn on real
heavy ground and if the
weather is right, it works,”
Enns said. “There are so many
nutrients down there that corn
can use.
“I was growing 600 to 700
acres of corn but now I’ll be
going back to 1,100.”
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Indiana nitrogen prices have fallen about seven per cent since the end of November.
U.S. farmers play chicken
with big fertilizer companies
In response to reduced purchases, manufacturers cut production, hoping to drive up the price
By Tom Polansek
REUTERS
S
teve Georgi is playing
chicken with the world’s
biggest fertilizer makers.
The Indiana corn grower has
postponed buying the fertilizer
he needs for spring planting for
only the second time in 35 years,
angry that prices for key nutrients surged more than one-third
in the fourth quarter.
“I haven’t bought anything yet,”
said Georgi, who normally makes
his purchases around the beginning of the year. Prices are so high
“it’s ridiculous,” he said.
Fertilizer prices jumped last fall
on global demand and expectations for a large increase in corn
plantings in the United States.
While those expectations have
not changed, the price spike
has triggered a buying boycott
by farmers across the Midwest,
pushing sales volumes of key
products to their lowest levels
since the financial crisis crushed
demand in 2008.
But farmers may lose in the
faceoff unless they place their
orders soon.
Fertilizer distributors, many
of whom were burned when
demand evaporated in the 2008
price crash, no longer maintain
large local stockpiles. That leaves
some unable to accommodate a
last-minute buying spree, meaning farmers who wait to buy may
have to delay plantings or grow
something besides corn.
Good weather helped farmers
produce a record corn yield in
2009 even after they cut back on
fertilizer used to increase output.
Now, with U.S. corn inventories
at their lowest level since the
mid-1990s, any threat that plantings or yield may fall short of high
expectations could fuel new fears
about supplies and stoke a price
rally.
“It’s getting very close” to planting time, said Harry Vroomen,
vice-president of economic services for The Fertilizer Institute.
“They can’t delay forever.”
Exerting market power
The buying boycott is the latest
sign of a broader trend in which
farmers, now flush with cash, are
seizing more control over their
operations and exerting more
market power.
Net farm income jumped 27.5
per cent last year to a record
$100.9 billion, giving many farmers the flexibility to break free of
traditional practices. Many have
installed their own storage bins,
giving them more leeway in tim-
ing the sale of their crops and
exacting a higher premium from
grain companies.
Farmers cashed in after
Chicago Board of Trade corn
prices reached a record high near
$8 a bushel last July as strong
demand drained supplies.
Prices have since fallen to
about $6.50 a bushel due to
pressure from the euro-zone crisis and a larger-than-expected
harvest. The timing was bad, as
fertilizer prices started rising last
fall.
Growers believe the price of
fertilizer should follow corn
lower, as nearly half the fertilizer used in the United States is
applied to corn.
Strong margins for producers of nitrogen-based fertilizers
do not make high prices easier
for farmers to swallow. Costs for
natural gas, used to make nitro-
“I’m not buying it
if you guys aren’t
committing. I’m not
going to get stuck
with it.”
U.S. RETAILER
gen fertilizer, are hovering near a
10-year low.
At PotashCorp, the world’s
top fertilizer producer, reduced
demand knocked down nitrogen sales volumes by 15 per cent
in the last quarter to 1.1 million
tonnes, the lowest for that quarter since 2008. The Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan-based company has slowed production of
another key nutrient, potash, at
mines in Canada due to anemic
demand.
The company said demand
suffered as buyers “paused to
assess market conditions.” It
predicted sales will rebound this
spring as long as corn prices support an expansion of plantings.
Mosaic said in January it
would cut potash production 20
per cent over the following four
months due to an oversupply.
Agrium, a smaller player in
the fertilizer market, confirmed
buying was muted in the fourth
quarter, even though it reported
an eight per cent rise in nitrogen
sales volumes.
“We expect pent-up demand
to continue to emerge,” Agrium
said in early February.
Farmers’ buying strategies
have roiled corporate profits.
PotashCorp is projecting one
of its most profitable years ever
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but issued first-quarter earnings
guidance of 55 to 75 cents that
fell short of analysts’ expectations of 84 cents.
Last-minute rush?
Logistical problems could prevent farmers from snagging the
fertilizer they want if they wait
until the last minute to buy, dealers said.
Hintzsche Fertilizer in Maple
Park, Illinois, is among the companies that likely will not have
enough on hand unless orders
come in soon, general manager
Jeff Eggleston said.
Eggleston said he tells farmers, “I’m not buying it if you guys
aren’t committing. I’m not going
to get stuck with it.”
Some farmers may need to
delay their planting because
dealers will not be able to fill
a flood of late orders, said
Darrel Hora, general manager
of Mettler Fertilizer in Menno,
South Dakota. He said it was
“not a realistic thing” to expect
fertilizer dealers to keep enough
fertilizer on hand to fulfil all the
built-up demand from farmers.
“If the people wait too long to
buy, they may have to wait a little longer until they get to apply
this stuff,” Hora said.
The risk of a temporary, lastminute shortage is particularly
high if weather is warm and dry
in the spring, encouraging an
early rush to plant extra corn
acres.
“If the season breaks early,
then we could see this jump in
purchases at the retail level,”
said David Asbridge, president of
NPK Fertilizer Advisory Service.
“We could see a price spike.”
Analysts predict corn plantings will reach a 68-year high
of 94.2 million acres, up 2.5 per
cent from 2011, according to a
Reuters survey.
Georgi, the Indiana farmer, is
in no rush to lock in his fertilizer. He said he was confident he
will be able to buy the supplies
he needs and has already seen
nitrogen prices in his area fall
about seven per cent since the
end of November.
The only other time Georgi
waited so long to buy his fertilizer was during the price spike
of 2008-09. He said his patience
saved him money that year and
he will not finalize purchases
this year for at least a few weeks
in case prices continue to
weaken.
“ There’s room for them
t o c o m e d ow n ,” h e s a i d
confidently.
25
The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
First four weeks are crucial to
preventing lower sunflower yields
One bad weed: Kochia can shrink your sunflower yields and your profits
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
G
et them while they’re young —
kochia and biennial wormwood
that is.
The two common Manitoba weeds
cause yield loss in sunflowers, especially
if they emerge in the first four weeks of
sunflower growth, according to research
being done in Manitoba.
“Unfortunately, there is very limited herbicide choice for this, and that
makes it even more difficult to control
these weeds,” said Andrea Cavalleri, a
researcher at the University of Manitoba.
Wormwood emerges slightly later than
kochia, meaning it often escapes early
herbicide applications. It may also be mistaken for other weeds, such as ragweed,
and treated improperly, said Cavalleri.
CWB aims to
sell canola and
peas to China
The wheat board can
handle any type of
crop after August 1
By Rod Nickel
REUTERS
The Canadian Wheat Board
is aiming to expand the types
of crops it sells to Chinese
buyers, as Ottawa opens
Western Canada’s grain
market later this year, says
the board’s chief executive
officer.
In August, the CWB is set
to lose its monopoly to buy
and sell Western Canada’s
wheat and barley for export
or human consumption, but
at the same time, federal law
will allow the CWB for the
first time to buy and sell any
type of crop from any origin.
President and chief executive officer Ian White said
he assured China’s largest
state grain trader COFCO last
week that wheat quality standards will remain consistent
under the Canadian Grain
Commission.
The CWB in its new role
is poised to expand trade to
China, he said.
“It does open up a lot more
opportunities for the CWB for
the grains we’ve been trading,
but also other grains,” White
said in a conference call
with Canadian Agriculture
Minister Gerry Ritz, at the end
of a government and industry
visit to China.
“We’re actually looking
at an expanded role in the
Chinese market for the CWB
through our office in Beijing.”
White told Reuters earlier
that the board is eager to add
sales of canola and peas in
particular.
“(COFCO is) excited to
continue to do work with the
CWB,” Ritz said. “They’re also
excited to move into some of
the pulses that they haven’t
been doing before. There’s
every kind of opportunity
that you can believe here.”
If that wasn’t frustrating enough for
sunflower producers, wormwood is also
a prolific seed producer. One gram of
wormwood seed contains approximately
13,000 individual seeds.
Dealing with kochia will be more complicated in the coming years now that
Roundup-resistant varieties have been
discovered, Cavalleri said.
He said early kochia can have a distinctly negative effect on plants by reducing the size of a sunflower’s head and
delaying flowering. Kochia may also result
in shorter plants with smaller seeds.
Early emerging wormwood doesn’t
have the same effect on the plant’s development, but does reduce yields.
There’s no silver bullet for controlling
these weeds, said Anastasia Kubinec, a
crop specialist with Manitoba Agriculture,
Food and Rural Initiatives.
“Using a combination of what we have
to control weeds early on is the best,” she
said, adding that includes cultivation and
proper crop rotations.
“It would be ideal, or a target to have a
weed-free field up until about the fourleaf stage of the sunflower. Based on their
research, they found that that was the
biggest bang for your buck in controlling
weeds.”
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“Using a combination of
what we have to control
weeds early on is the best.”
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Andrea Cavalleri of the University of
Manitoba speaks to sunflower growers at
the annual Special Crops Symposium in
Winnipeg. PHOTO: SHANNON VANRAES
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
Donkeys pivotal to Ethiopian survival
but get no respect
Just because you’re an ass doesn’t mean you aren’t valuable
Laura Rance has just returned
from a two-week tour of
Ethiopia with the Canadian
Foodgrains Bank.
By Laura Rance
co-operator editor \ addis ababa, ethiopia
I
f author Anna Sewell were
alive today, chances are she’d
be writing a sequel to her
novel Black Beauty about the
plight of Addis and Ababa —
donkeys in Ethiopia.
Her 1877 bestselling book
— 50 million copies were sold
worldwide — raised awareness
of the inhumane treatment of
horses in England, and is credited with prompting changes to
common handling practices that
caused horses pain and discomfort. It’s safe to say Sewell would
been equally outraged by the
treatment of Abyssinian donkeys, the most common form
of cartage and transportation in
Ethiopia.
Abuse of these lowly beasts of
burden appears to be a cultural
pastime.
Poorly fed and almost always
overloaded, usually with an
ill-fitting harness, it’s not unusual to see their drivers — often
young boys — beating them
mercilessly with sticks even as
they jog as fast as their little legs
will carry them.
In fact, donkeys rank right
down there with women, as
evidenced by local expressions
such as, “Women and donkeys
are better managed if beaten
by a stick,” or, “Donkeys and
women can carry whatever they
are loaded with.”
While Ethiopia is credited as
being on target to achieve six
Ethiopian women and children wait to gather water while a donkey takes a much-needed rest. photos: laura rance
of the United Nations’ eight
Millennium Development Goals,
it’s notable that the two areas
where it still lags are on maternal
mortality and gender equality.
Apparently, donkeys will have to
wait their turn.
The Donkey Sanctuary, a
charity formed in 1986 to advocate on their behalf, estimates
there are about 6.2 million
burros in Ethiopia, the largest
population of donkeys outside
China. And since 80 per cent of
Ethiopians live on $2 per day or
less, some of the maltreatment
is a reflection of poverty. But
the other cause is a traditional
Ethiopian belief that donkeys
are “erkus,” or unclean, and
therefore unworthy of respect
— despite the pivotal role they
play in transportation.
“It is a norm to beat a donkey
irrespective of how it behaves,”
an article on the Donkey
Sanctuary website notes. “Such
beliefs have been ingrained in
minds of the society members
from the elderly to children.”
The sanctuary has teams
working in several Ethiopian
communities attempting to
change attitudes and improve
the animals’ living and working
conditions.
“Some villages have improved
donkey’s name from ‘erkus’ to
‘agelgay’ which means faithful
servant,” the website said.
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We Need Your Help to Save
The Canadian Wheat Board and Protect
Canadian Democracy
What Can You Do?
You can make a generous donation to the Friends of
the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) to help us save the
CWB. Not only will farmers lose the additional revenue
from single-desk marketing, but they will also have their
assets expropriated by the federal government without
any compensation—the $200 million Contingency Fund,
3000 hopper cars, the Winnipeg head office building and
the CWB’s down payment on two lakers. Your donations
will support our court challenges. Working together
as farmers and urbanites we can save the CWB and
preserve the democratic rights of all Canadians.
Where and How Can You Donate?
Send a cheque payable to the Friends of the CWB, Box
41, Brookdale, MB R0K 0G0 or donate on line at
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
CMU professor argues food systems
need to be viewed in a new way
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
V
i o l e n c e d o e s n’t j u s t
exist on our streets, it
also exist in our food
systems.
“I would say hunger is violence, certainly holding people in pover ty is violent,”
said Kenton Lobe, professor,
farmer, and former Canada
Fo o d g ra i n s Ba n k p o l i c y
adviser.
“I would use a much more
broad definition of violence
than simply me striking
someone.”
A professor at Canadian
Mennonite University’s international development department, Lobe is examining the
str uctural violence in our
world’s food systems.
Beginning with the story of
Lee Kyung Hae, Lobe hopes
to probe the effects of our
food systems and the violence they can cause. Kyung
Hae was a 56-year-old farmer
from South Korea who killed
himself atop a police barricade dur ing a 2003 World
Trade Organization meeting
in Mexico to protest the liberalization of the rice market,
which negatively impacted
small farmers.
Only by understanding the
systems creating and perpetuating violence, poverty and
hunger can people begin to
look at solutions, said Lobe.
One way to challenge systemic issues is through paradigm shifts and the fostering
of community-shared agriculture or CSAs, he said. Urban
CSAs are especially important
because they break down the
urban-rural divide surrounding food systems, said Lobe,
who draws h eavily on his
Mennonite faith.
“Coming out of a faith community that holds peace quite
strongly, I’m trying to engage
within my community,” he
said. “This is a peace issue
and it’s also part of wholeness and wellness. The practical piece of this is to simply
begin looking at our urban
CSA and ask the question,
‘Is this what peace building
might look like in the context
of the structured violence of
our system?’”
Lobe said he hopes his work,
which will be published in an
anthology by the Canadian
School of Peacebuilding, will
foster discussion on how the
current food system affects our
environment, our neighbours
and people across the globe.
That was one of the goals of
a recent presentation he made
at the University of Manitoba
entitled Our Contested Food
System: Exploring Underlying
Paradigms and Worldviews.
Lobe asked students to con-
“The practical piece of this is to simply begin
looking at our urban CSA and ask the question,
is this what peace building might look like in the
context of the structured violence of our system?”
KENTON LOBE
sider how factors such as the
food sovereignty movement
and need for food security
form the basis for how food is
produced, sold and distributed.
He contrasted systems that are
based on the notion that food
as human right with those centred on economic factors.
“I think this is definitely
something we need to think
about... right now we’re at a
pivotal moment if we’re going
to make a paradigm shift,”
said Rachel Evans, who sat in
on Lobe’s talk.
The masters student said she
feels strongly about a need for
a change in how food production is viewed.
Agro-ecology student Curtis
Brown agreed.
“There could always be more
discussion on this,” he said.
“There’s not a lot of talk about
paradigm shifts and the whole
thought process behind it. We
tend to spend a lot more time
on the how, than on the why,
when it comes to what we do.”
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
CONNECTING RUR A L COMMUNITIES
Families flock to
La Broquerie
But Census 2011 numbers show
double-digit population declines
in more than a dozen rural
municipalities elsewhere
Reeve of the RM of La Broquerie
Claude Lussier says an influx
of newcomers to Manitoba plus
families from Winnipeg lured by local
jobs and a more rural lifestyle are
what contribute to the municipality's
population boom.
PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON
By Lorraine Stevenson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
“Prayers.”
That’s what the 2011 Census findings are an
answer to, jokes Claude Lussier, reeve of the
Rural Municipality of La Broquerie.
The municipality posted the largest percentage population increase in rural Manitoba — a
whopping 42 per cent jump in the past five
years, Census 2011 found.
That not only far surpasses the province’s
overall growth rate of 5.2 per cent, but also
nearby Steinbach, which grew 22.2 per cent to
become Manitoba’s third-largest city.
The southeastern Manitoba municipality is
now home to 5,198, fewer than 200 people shy of
the city of Flin Flon.
Officials already knew the area, which saw a
31 per cent jump in 2006, was booming, said a
jubilant Lussier. The average age of residents
is now 29.9 years, or seven years younger than
the provincial average, and growth is actually
higher in the surrounding countryside than in La
Broquerie local urban district.
“Each year we’re averaging about 75 new
homes and out of that about 40 per cent are in
town and the rest are in the rural (area),” he said.
People are coming for the steady employment
they’re able to secure in both the local hog sector
or booming Steinbach, Lussier said.
People are also seeking a rural lifestyle. La
Broquerie is now home to a large number of new
immigrant families plus those willing to make a
daily 67-kilometre commute to Winnipeg so they
can raise a family on a small acreage, he said.
“The availability of smaller lots are a big lure
to families wanting to have a rural lifestyle,” said
Lussier, adding that the RM has relatively large
tracts of lower-class farmland that have been
used in subdivisions.
“It’s the five acres, the 10 acres, the hobby
farms that people want,” he said. “They want to
maybe keep a few horses or have a little chicken
coop.”
La Broquerie’s growth is mirrored in nearby
RM of Stanley, up 31.2 per cent, which surrounds another growth centre, the city of
Winkler. That city grew 17.2 per cent, while
Morden’s population increased by 18.9 per
cent. Winnipeg saw much more modest growth
of 4.8 per cent.
Brandon’s population grew 11 per cent,
prompting Mayor Shari Decter Hirst to compare
her city to booming Calgary, Edmonton and
Saskatoon.
Other smaller centres experiencing significant
population jumps include Niverville (43.7 per
cent), St. Pierre-Jolys (31 per cent), Notre Dame
du Lourdes (16 per cent), Neepawa (10 per cent),
and Manitou (12.5 per cent).
First Nation communities grew by 11.6 per
cent.
Overall, the rural population grew in Manitoba
by 4.1 per cent. But while the statistical story
nationwide last week was all about the rise of the
West, Manitoba’s own growth, rural or otherwise,
is all mostly in the southeast.
Double-digit municipal declines
La Broquerie’s rural growth is in marked contrast
to most other RMs, which had either only very
modest growth or population declines.
More than a dozen RMs experienced double-digit declines, including Alonsa, Brenda,
Brokenhead, Blanshard, Clanwilliam, Fisher,
Grandview, Hillsburg, the RMs of North and
South Mountain, Mossey River, Shell River, St.
Laurent, Strathclair, Strathcona and Winchester.
Brenda’s reeve, Duncan Stewart was somewhat
taken aback by data showing his area had a 14.6
percentage drop, or loss of 80 people, since 2006.
“Our population has been going downhill for
quite a while but I didn’t think it was that steep,”
he said.
The oil boom in the southwest is expected to
turn things in a different direction and Stewart
said he expects the next census might show a
more stabilized population.
“A lot of the people who came in with the
boom are transient people,” he said. “Now there
are more coming and staying, and bringing their
families and that should surely help.”
But no one expects the oil boom to last forever, he continued, adding that what the southwest needs is the sort of growth of industry seen
in southeastern Manitoba.
“We’ve relied, 100 per cent, until this oil came
along, on agriculture and agriculture is a declining industry as far as population goes, because
fewer people can work more land,” he said. “It’s
as simple as that.”
One in five Canadians are rural
Overall, Canada’s rural population accounts for
fewer than one in five Canadians (18.9 per cent
of the total population), according to the 2011
Census. The data shows Canada’s rural population has actually increased slightly — at 1.1 per
cent in the past five years — compared to an
overall population growth rate of 5.9 per cent.
Most Canadians now live either in a major
metropolitan area, or areas not deemed rural.
Statistics Canada defines “rural” as places where
fewer than 1,000 people live, and have population densities of less than 400 people per square
kilometre.
Based on current trends, Statistics Canada
predicts in 20 years, the Canadian population
overall growth rate will be at or near zero, unless
immigration numbers remain high or there is a
substantial increase in the birth rate.
lorraine@fbcpublishing.com
Census 2011 Highlights
• Manitoba's population reached 1,208,268
people in May 2011, an increase of 5.2 per cent
from 2006. Manitoba ranked fifth in population
growth compared with other provinces.
• This was more than twice the growth of 2.6 per
cent between 2001 and 2006, and the fastest
rate of increase since 1961.
• Manitoba cities grew 5.2 per cent, towns grew
6.4 per cent, both villages and rural municipalities were up by 4.1 per cent, and First Nation
communities grew 11.6 per cent.
• Steinbach was the fastest-growing city in
Manitoba with a growth rate of 22.2 per cent
and a 2011 population of 13,524. Winkler
increased its population by 17.2 per cent to
10,670.
• The population of Winnipeg was 663,617 in
2011, an increase of 4.8 per cent.
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
RecipeSwap
Send your recipes or recipe request to:
Manitoba Co-operator
Recipe Swap
Box 1794,
Carman, Man ROG OJO
or email: lorraine@fbcpublishing.com
3-Bean Bake
Alberta Beans and Bacon
This is a simple attractive dish to make. Take it to
a potluck supper and impress others how delicious beans can be.
Hearty and filling fare. Double or triple this
recipe for larger groups.
2 c. chopped onion
1 c. chopped green pepper
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbsp. canola oil
1 tbsp. all-purpose flour
2 tbsp. molasses
1 tbsp. reduced-sodium soy sauce
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
Pinch chili powder (optional)
1 (14-fl.-oz./398-ml) can baked beans in tomato sauce
1 (14-oz./398-ml) can lima beans, rinsed and drained
1 (14-oz./398-ml) can kidney beans, rinsed and drained
Fight heart disease
with more beans
Lorraine Stevenson
Crossroads Recipe Swap
C
ook more often. Cut the sodium. Control
portion size. Eat more beans.
Surprised to see that last one included
among top tips for healthier eating?
More beans — as in two daily servings of about
1-1/2 cups — was what participants in a University of Saskatchewan study ate over two months
and it did indeed do their health good. Compared
with study subjects on a regular diet, their total
cholesterol dropped by 8.3 per cent, including
a drop of 7.9 per cent of their so-called “bad” or
LDL cholesterol.
This is similar to the benefit gained from eating
oats and plant sterols, both of which now have
health claims in Canada, and that’s good news
for the pulse sector — which is closely watching
changing global trends affecting consumption.
Rising incomes in the developing world, where
most of our pulses are exported, are seeing people eating more meat and less pulses. In North
America, pulse consumption is very low, a mere
3.5 kilograms per person per year.
Yet, here and around the world we pay dearly
for compromised diets that are contributing directly to development of chronic diseases such as
diabetes and heart disease.
Research showing that including pulses in your
diet can reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease should help, with time, to boost
consumption.
(The study, by the way, was conducted by Dr.
Philip Chilibeck, a professor of kinesiology at the
University of Saskatchewan, who has also studied
the effects of lentil consumption for high-performance athletes.)
We can do our own health and the health of our
families a favour by beginning to explore a diet of
more beans — and peas and chickpeas and lentils.
Canada’s Food Guide (CFG)
recommends eating meat alternatives
such as beans, lentils and tofu often to
minimize the amount of saturated fat
in the diet. According to the CFG, one
serving of pulses equals approximately
three-quarters of a cup or the size of a
tennis ball.
Here are three delicious recipes to introduce
you to the taste and versatility of pulses.
Preheat oven to 325 F. Combine baked, lima and
kidney beans in a two-litre casserole and set
aside. In a large skillet, sauté onion, pepper and
garlic in oil until onion is translucent. Stir in flour,
then add molasses, soy sauce, ginger and chili
powder. Bring to a boil. Pour over beans and stir
lightly.
2 c. Great Northern Beans, soaked overnight in 6 c. water
1 large Spanish onion, chopped
3 sprigs fresh parsley
1/2 lb. sliced bacon
1 can (7.5-oz./213-ml) tomato sauce
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
Drain beans. In a large saucepan, combine
beans, water, onion, parsley and bacon. Bring to
a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat, cover and
simmer 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until beans
are firm-tender. Drain beans and onion. Discard
parsley and remove bacon. Dice bacon and
brown in a small skillet over medium heat. Add
tomato sauce, salt and pepper to beans, return
to low heat, cover and simmer 10 minutes. Add
bacon and simmer five minutes longer. Serve hot
with pumpernickel bread. Serves 6.
Recipe source: Alberta Pulse Growers
Cover and bake one hour on middle oven rack.
Uncover and bake extra 30 minutes, or until thick.
Serves 12.
Recipe source: Pulse Canada online
www.pulsecanada.com
Roasted Tomato and
Chickpea Spaghetti
with Garlic
This takes a little longer to make but roasting
always brings out the intensity of flavours.
4 c. grape or cherry tomatoes, cut in half
1 (19-oz./540-ml) can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1/3-1/2 c. olive oil
Salt to taste
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
6-8 garlic cloves, crushed and roughly chopped
3/4 lb. (340 g) dry spaghetti
Freshly grated Parmesan cheese, for serving
Finely chopped parsley or slivered basil, for garnish (optional)
Preheat the oven to 400 F and line a large rimmed
baking sheet with foil. Place the tomatoes cut
side up on the foiled sheet. Place the chickpeas
on a second baking sheet (unlined this time), and
drizzle both with olive oil and sprinkle with salt
and pepper. Roast the tomatoes in the top third
of the oven for 40 to 50 minutes. Add the chopped
garlic after the first 30 minutes and stir well to
ensure the garlic is coated with oil, then stir about
every 10 minutes after that, until the tomatoes
are slightly charred in places. Place the chickpeas
in the lower third of the oven about 20 minutes
after you’ve started the tomatoes, and roast until
crisp and dark golden, stirring once or twice.
Meanwhile, cook and drain the pasta. Return the
pasta to the pot you cooked it in (or place it in
a large bowl), and add the tomatoes, chickpeas,
and all the oil and juices left in the roasting pans.
Toss well and dish into serving bowls. Top with
Parmesan and parsley or basil (if using), and serve
immediately. Serves 4.
Recipe source: Saskatchewan Pulse Growers
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Up for a challenge? Try Biathlon Manitoba
Cross-country skiing + target shooting = really good exercise
By Candy Irwin
Freelance contributor
R
achel Koroscil, 20, of Sandy
Lake is a quiet, soft-spoken
young woman who works
seasonally with Friends of Riding
Mountain National Park (Friends) in
Wasagaming.
But, in the blink of an eye,
Koroscil can “morph” into a spandex-clad, gun-toting competitive
biathlete! She has been a member
of Biathlon Manitoba (BAM) since
she was 14 years old, takes her training very seriously, and this year
achieved her goal to become a BAM
coach.
Although the term “biathlon” can
refer to other sporting activities, it
generally refers to the combination
of two very different sports, that is,
free-style cross-country (or Nordic)
skiing and target shooting.
The sport itself has its roots in the
military, originally as a form of training for Norwegian border patrol soldiers. The first ski club was formed
in Norway in 1861 but it was not
until nearly 100 years later, in 1960,
that the sport was finally included
in the Olympic Games and not until
1992 that women were allowed to
compete as well.
In keeping with this history, many
biathletes and BAM members come
from the Royal Canadian Cadets
(army, air or sea), which is for
young people, 12 to 18 years of age.
Koroscil was an air cadet and is currently pursuing a bachelor of physical education at the University of
Manitoba.
Competitors in a biathlon race ski
around a pre-set cross-country track,
using a free-style skiing technique.
Rachel Koroscil demonstrates a simulation laser biathlon rifle.
The classic technique is allowed, but
most competitors use the “skate ski”
method because it is much faster.
If you are an adult skier, you must
carry an almost-10-pound .22-calibre rifle on your back, which, says
Koroscil, “feels a lot heavier when
you are skiing uphill!” The rifles are
bolt action, not automatic or semiautomatic.
The total distance is broken up
by either two or four shooting
bouts. In the prone position, you
drop to a mat with your skis on (a
talent in itself!) and shoot down a
50-metre lane at a target about the
size of a toonie. “Shooting down
PHOTO: CANDY IRWIN
your own lane and not crossfiring
can be rather tricky,” said Koroscil.
In the majority of events you have
five bullets for five targets. The targets flip from black to white when
hit, making it easier for competitors
as well as the audience to discern
what’s going on.
You are also required to shoot
from the standing position at a target about the size of a grapefruit.
In a high-exertion sport that can
elevate your heart rate to as high as
180 beats per minute, keeping your
hands and breathing steady while
aiming the rifle can be the biggest
challenge.
Participants less than 14 years of
age do not ski with the gun, which is
a laser rifle known as an “Eco-rifle.”
They pick it up at the appropriate point and shoot. Fifteen- and
16-year-olds must pick up the gun
and put it on before shooting and
firearm safety courses are mandatory for all competitors.
Men ski from a 7.5-km to a 20-km
course and women from a 6.0-km
to a 15-km course. Competitors
alternate laps and shooting bouts,
of which they need to keep mental track and mistakes or missed
targets can result in a 150-metre
penalty loop or a one-minute time
gain. Whether you participate in the
Individual, Sprint, Pursuit or Relay
categories, the best time wins.
There are several biathlon clubs
and camps throughout Manitoba,
and Koroscil is in the planning stages
of organizing a biathlon camp, in
partnership with the Friends organization in Riding Mountain National
Park for next year. She would love
for more kids to become involved in
biathlon, or any sport for that matter,
because it has given her opportunities
she would not otherwise have had.
“Participating in the Canada Games
last year was amazing,” said Koroscil,
“and I would love for young athletes
to have the experiences I did.”
Candy Irwin writes from Lake Audy, Manitoba.
MORE ON BIATHLON
For further information go to
www.biathlonmanitoba.ca or
biathlon@sportmanitoba.ca or email
Rachel Koroscil at rkoroscil@gmail.com.
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Black Colour
helps
define
Used on its own it can be gloomy but try it in small doses
Connie Oliver
Around the House
T
he colour in the photograph is
vibrant yet calming at the same
time — a tough combination to
achieve. Balanced with charcoal black
and pale-blue chenille bedding, this
colour palette has just the right balance
for a restful but stylish bedroom.
The use of charcoal grey and softblack accents in this bedroom helps
the colours pop and keeps the room
from being too feminine. We often
forget about using black because it’s
gloomy on its own but when used to
accentuate colours it can be stunning.
Black accents can turn a cute space
into a grown-up one and add maturity
to a room.
The simple black piping is very effec-
tive. Along with making what could
have been a “pretty” chenille throw
more adult looking, the piping draws
the eye to the head of the bed. The
black banding on the cream pillowcases adds elegance. Black pillowcases
on their own might seem dreary but
set between the cream and blue pillows the look is brightened. Black and
grey Roman blinds frame the bed and
create a designer touch. The colourful
prints over the bed are framed in black
as well and add to the focal wall. Note
that the widths of the black accents are
similar and substantial, save for the
piping on the bedspread. Keeping the
scale of the accents alike helps unify
the look.
Incorporating a touch of black to a
room is an easy process — a decorative, wrought iron curtain rod can help
jazz up a plain window treatment, add
black edging to linens, curtains or toss
cushions, use a large-scale black clock,
Photo: courtesy cil
or frame your current photographs in
black frames.
Notice that the carpeting in the photograph is olive-grey green in colour.
This could be difficult to work with but
it blends in well in this stylish bedroom.
The lesson here is not to give up if you
have a less-than-perfect colour to deal
with in your home. Work with the colour to make it blend in, rather than use
complimentary colours that will make it
stand out even more, and don’t be afraid
to use some black as an accent.
Connie Oliver is an interior designer
from Winnipeg.
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Putting the potato
in perspective
The issue with potatoes is not what’s in them, but what’s on them
By Julie Garden-Robinson
NDSU Extension Service
“Mom, our teacher told us that we
might not have potatoes on the school
menu very much anymore,” my 13-yearold daughter announced at our dinner table. She didn’t sound very happy
about it.
“That hasn’t been decided yet,” I said.
My daughter had an oven-roasted,
herbed potato speared on her fork, and
she admired it before savouring a bite.
She enjoys potatoes and grew some
purple and red potato varieties in our
garden.
Potatoes have been on the chopping
block, so to speak, as debate continues
on the revamping of school menus. Is
the issue what’s naturally in a potato or
what’s added to a potato?
Potatoes are not as high in calories as
you might imagine. A medium-size plain
potato (five ounces) has about 110 calories. That’s just one-twentieth of the daily
calorie needs for an average adult (2,000
calories). Also, it provides three grams of
fibre, 45 per cent of the daily recommendation for vitamin C, 18 per cent of the
daily value for potassium, no sodium, six
per cent of the daily value for folate and
eight per cent of the daily recommendation for thiamine and niacin.
Besides their vitamin C content, potatoes are notably high in potassium,
which is a mineral that helps muscles
contract. Adequate potassium has been
shown to reduce the risk of high blood
pressure and stroke.
However, if you slice a potato, plunge
it into boiling oil and then generously
sprinkle it with salt, obviously you will
increase the calories and the sodium
content.
To put the calories and sodium in
perspective, consider this about the
110-calorie, five-ounce, sodium-free
spud. According to the U.S. Department
of Agriculture nutrient database, a fiveounce serving of fast-food french fries has
about 440 calories and 320 milligrams of
sodium. If you ate five ounces of potato
They shoot, they score
A winning idea for refinishing a basement
chips, you would be consuming about
760 calories and 670 grams of sodium.
Actually, a serving size of chips is one
ounce or about 15 chips. However, eating
one chip can easily lead to eating dozens
of chips, so measure out a serving in a
bowl and put the bag in the cupboard.
Yes, you can enjoy a side of french fries
and some chips on occasion, but have a
small portion and savour it slowly. If you
order a side of french fries, remember
that today’s child-size portion of fries was
the adult-size portion a few decades ago.
Think about the toppings you add to
baked potatoes. Let’s say you decide to
have a stuffed potato and you add two
tablespoons of butter, one-quarter cup
of cheddar cheese and two tablespoons
of bacon bits. Your 110-calorie potato
now has about 460 calories and a heaping dose of sodium.
If you added one-quarter cup of chili
to a five-ounce potato, you would have
an entree with less than 200 calories.
Potatoes are an economical menu
option that can be made in a wide vari-
With some heat tape and a little work,
here’s how to keep the floor warm
Freelance contributor
E
PHOTO: LILLIAN DEEDMAN
By Lillian Deedman
Freelance contributor
Last springs, intense rains promoted water
seepage in the basement. Following an
extensive cleanup that involved sump
pumps and dehumidifiers, my husband and
I questioned whether to lay carpet again, or
opt to paint the floor.
Our refinishing decision was based primarily on our energetic grandkids and their
friends, as they visit often on weekends and
school holidays, so we decided to paint the
basement in the theme of a hockey rink.
We chose water-based cobalt-bluecoloured floor paint with a satin finish for
the concrete walls and floor entering the
basement, and extending throughout the
laundry room and cold storage cellar. The
intense blue colour portrayed a rink-like
appearance.
I rolled three coats (allowing each coat to
dry thoroughly before applying the next) of
water-based white satin floor paint onto the
family room area to imitate a sheet of ice
suitable for floor hockey. A few tablespoons
of cobalt-blue paint stirred into the final
white coat gave an icy-blue tinge to the rink.
My granddaughter, Megan, located
the Winnipeg Jet’s logo via Internet, and
enlarged a print to poster size for stencils.
Our shared time together was priceless, as
we enthusiastically painted our masterpiece
consisting of Canada’s red maple leaf and
other hockey lines onto the simulated ice.
Once the “ice” and coloured designs dried
thoroughly, we rolled on four coats of nonyellowing, water-based high-gloss Diamond
Varathane to make an extra-durable crystal
ice-like surface that is suitable for the use of
sticks and pucks.
Our basement now provides an atmosphere for countless hours of family fun, and
the roster is filling up. Next weekend we
play for the family cup!
Lillian Deedman writes from
Killarney, Manitoba.
Julie Garden-Robinson, PhD, R.D., L.R.D., is a North
Dakota State University Extension Service food
and nutrition specialist and associate professor in
the department of health, nutrition and exercise
sciences.
Adding warmth to the doghouse
By Stan Harder
Ready for faceoff.
ety of ways. To preserve nutrients and
fibre, cook the potatoes in their skins
and eat the skin, or peel as thinly as possible. Many of the nutrients are directly
beneath the skin in an area known as the
cambium.
When preparation time is short for
dinner, try making a baked potato bar
featuring toppings such as chili with
beans, steamed broccoli, lower-fat
cheese (such as mozzarella) and light
sour cream or plain yogurt. If you have
leftover roasted pork, chicken or beef,
add some barbecue sauce and top potatoes with it. How about taco potatoes
using leftover taco meat and reducedfat, Mexican-style cheese?
Enjoy a wide variety of vegetables in
your diet, but consider your preparation
methods and toppings.
ven with a thick winter coat (wool
underneath, guard hairs over top),
I was not satisfied that the family
dog was sufficiently warm at night. His
house provided basic shelter from wind
and snow but no added warmth. It was
about twice the size of a standard doghouse and instead of an entrance door
in centre front, the door was placed in
one corner, the idea being to provide
“nook” shelter away from the facing
wind. The walls were insulated with twoinch Styrofoam, as was the ceiling. With
a little more work on the floor, it soon
became a refuge for warmth on even
the most bitter of winter weather. Here’s
what I did.
Ranchers know all about heat tapes.
Those are the electric cables one wraps
in a spiral around water pipes to keep
them from freezing — very versatile and
plain in design. You simply wind them
around whatever it is you want heated,
making sure there is no cable overlap,
secure it in place with electrical tape and
plug into a standard 115 line.
The floor was built with 2x6-inch
baseboards and the bottom filled with
two inches of dry, very-fine sand. On top
of this was laid a grill of black two-inch
water pipe that had been cut to floor
dimensions less three inches at the ends.
A heat tape was threaded through these
pipes so each piece was connected to
the next in a full backward curve. The
pipes were filled with sand, laid flat with
an inch of spacing in between, and covered with sand to board height. A thin
plywood lid was nailed on this, making
sure the sand was solidly packed and in
firm connection with the plywood.
The house was filled with dry straw
with just enough room left for the dog to
enter, and whenever checked, the floor
was pleasantly warm to the touch.
READER’S PHOTO
Spring in January? These pussy willows were spotted in the
Erickson, Manitoba area last month. PHOTO: CINDY MURRAY
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H USB A N DRY — T H E SC I E NC E , SK I L L OR A RT OF FA R M I NG
CCA TOWN HALL:
Showcases beef industry
group’s ongoing efforts
Barrage of good news shows that cow-calf producers are finally “in the driver’s seat”
Dennis Laycraft, executive vice-president,
Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.
PHOTOS: DANIEL WINTERS
By Daniel Winters
CO-OPERATOR STAFF / PIPESTONE
T
he mood was upbeat as ranchers
filled the chairs for a town hall
meeting in Pipestone hosted by
the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.
Soaring calf prices have largely
erased the dark pessimism felt since
May 19, 2003, when the first reported
case of BSE led to closed borders and
years of depressed cattle prices.
A handful of CCA representatives
presented a barrage of positive news
for the industry, along with a reminder
of the work that the association does
on their behalf.
Vice-president Martin Unrau stood
in for president Travis Toews, who was
away on a trade mission to China. In
his opening remarks, he presented a
breakdown of the organization’s budget
showing the allocations funded by the
national $1 checkoff.
The Canadian cow herd in July,
pegged at 4.2 million head, was down
by some 30 per cent from the all-time
peak of 5.5 million in 2005.
While the shrinking herd may have
boosted cow-calf fortunes dramatically,
less cattle are going to market and as a
consequence, less checkoff dollars, has
put the organization’s budget under
pressure.
Traceability
Unrau credited CCA initiatives such
as traceability and the Beef Cattle
Research Science Cluster with helping
to turn the tide since BSE, and warned
that in the cyclical cattle business, a
downturn is never far away.
“There’s always a danger that when
things are going good that you just kind
of watch and enjoy,” he said.
“At CC A , we t r y t o h a ve s o m e
vision for five to 10 years out so that
Martin Unrau, vice-president, Canadian
Cattlemen’s Association.
when this thing turns back down
that we’ll be in a position where we
won’t have to run cap in hand to the
government.”
Andrea Brocklebank, research manager for the Beef Cattle Research
Council, said that calf prices in 2011
at an average $1.51 per pound — up 30
per cent over last year — were nearly
back to the levels seen in 2000-01.
“That’s a pretty good news story. Last
week I think they were at $1.83 at the
close. That’s pretty substantial,” she
said, adding that the shrinking herd has
put cow-calf producers “in the driver’s
seat.”
“At CCA, we try to have
some vision for five to 10
years out so that when this
thing turns back down that
we’ll be in a position where
we won’t have to run cap in
hand to the government.”
MARTIN UNRAU
Although per capita beef consumption in Canada has slumped by 20
kg since 2003 to 22 kg this year, and
high prices in North America are “testing consumer resilience,” population
growth has helped to stabilize domestic demand.
In the short term, markets will be
watching heifer retention numbers
closely. If ranchers keep substantial
numbers home, already tight feeder
cattle supplies could become stretched
even further, she added.
Fears of a flood of cheap grass-fed
Andrea Brocklebank, research manager, Beef
Cattle Research Council.
beef crowding Canadian exports out of
foreign markets are unfounded.
In Japan, for example, top-grade
Wagyu beef sells for US$11.19 per
pound compared to the U.S. fed steer
that fetches $1.99/lb., and Australian
and Brazilian product goes for $1.63 and
$1.73 per pound, respectively.
New markets
Canadian exporters are also looking
to oil-rich Russia for further growth,
where investment in chicken and pork
production has been the focus at the
expense of beef, she said.
If Japan lifts its under-21-month
access rule to 30 months by the end of
this year, as many expect, the U.S. price
of fat steers could be lifted by up to $50
per head virtually overnight with the
opening up of a market worth $1 billion a year, said Dennis Laycraft, CCA
executive vice-president.
He also described the potential of a
proposed bilateral trade deal with the
European Union as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” giving high-quality
Canadian beef exclusive access to the
market “for many years.”
“It’s going to be without growth promoters, but large-scale access will
make it worthwhile,” he said.
In the current economic climate with
sovereign nations teetering on bankruptcy,
EU subsidies for beef might be slashed by
up to 75 per cent, and the upcoming U.S.
Farm Bill might show a heavy reduction in
government supports, too.
“For countries like ours that operate
with a minimum of subsidies, we’re
going to be in a much stronger position
to benefit,” said Laycraft.
“We went through a lot of painful
adjustments, and now there are painful
adjustments facing other countries.”
daniel.winters@fbcpublishing.com
Jacques Laforge
appointed
CDC head
Staff
New Brunswick farmer Jacques
Laforge is the new CEO of the
Canadian Dairy Commission.
“As both a farmer and a
former president of the Dairy
Farmers of Canada, Mr. Laforge
has established himself as a
driving force in the Canadian
dairy industry,” said Agriculture
Minister Gerry Ritz. “I am certain
that his knowledge and passion
for the industry will continue to
serve our dairy producers and
processors well as he takes on
this important new role.”
As CEO, Laforge is tasked with
building a long-term plan for
the commission and will work
with producers, processors,
consumers and the restaurant
industry.
Prior to chairing the Dairy
Farmers of Canada, Laforge was
chairman of the Atlantic Dairy
and Forage Institute from 1997
to 2000. He and his wife Patsy
have run a 1,000-acre mixed
farming operation near Grand
Falls, N.B. since 1980.
“Jacques Laforge has been an
active farm leader at both the
provincial and national levels in
the last 30 years,” said current
DFC president Wally Smith. “He
is a progressive dairy businessman and his leadership and
management skills were well
appreciated while he was DFC
president in recent years.”
U.S. imports
feed wheat from
across the pond
LONDON / REUTERS
U.K. feed wheat is continuing to
flow to the United States with a
further cargo of around 50,000
tonnes due to be loaded in
the next week to 10 days from
a port on the east coast of
England, market sources said
on Friday.
The shipment will take
the total number of cargoes
shipped so far in the 2011-12
season (July/June) to at least
four, representing around
200,000 tonnes of wheat, they
added.
The wheat was bought
earlier in the season when the
comparative strength of U.S.
corn prices prompted some
animal feed makers to switch to
using feed wheat. The customer
is believed to be a feed compounder on the U.S. East Coast.
U.K. grain merchant Openfield
confirmed it shipped the first
cargo of U.K. wheat to the U.S.
this season in November.
The U.S. is not a regular buyer
of U.K. wheat which is generally
exported to customers within
the European Union, particularly
Spain and the Netherlands.
There were no shipments of
UK wheat to the U.S. during the
2010-11 season while a total
of 71,886 tonnes was exported
during 2009-10, according to
customs data.
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COLUMN
Caring for individual pigs
is key to successfully managing entire herd
The Pig Care Specialist Program classifies pigs into five groups and provides guidelines for dealing with each
Bernie Peet
Peet on Pigs
T
he stockperson is the
most important factor
in providing pigs’ three
basic needs of food, water
and good environment, but
the fourth and most essential ingredient for successful
finisher management is individual pig care, according to
Dennis Robles of Swine Health
Professionals in Steinbach,
Man.
Speaking at the recent
Manitoba Swine Seminar, he
described stockmanship as
the ability to understand pigs’
needs and to care for them
with empathy so that these
needs are met.
“It is that special touch that
skilled pig-care people bring
to their job,” he said.
Contrary to popular belief,
this isn’t something you are
born with or are trained to be,
but a choice, he says.
“Human beings are the only
creatures on earth that have
the ability to choose, either
good or bad,” he said. “We can
choose to care or to neglect.
My goal is to spark something
in you that will light that fire
to care for the pig and show
you that caring brings profit.”
Caring for an individual pig
is synonymous to caring for
your pig production business,
Robles argued.
“One might say that this is
not necessarily true because
often a swine enterprise is
viewed as a large building full
of pigs and looking after a single pig is not worth the time
and effort,” he said.
“But where do you think the
caring part starts? If a person
neglects a sick animal, they
will tend to neglect another,
then another and it will snowball into a culture of an uncaring environment. During
t h e s e t i m e s o f e x t re m e l y
high production costs, isn’t it
logical to exert all efforts to
optimize output by saving as
many hogs as possible?”
focus on these basics and to
help management point out
areas of improvement and set
specific goals for planning
and implementation.
“In addition, the PCS will
train the barn staff to identify,
quantify and communicate
any disease symptoms in the
barn,” said Robles. “Another
role is to train staff to focus
on the pigs that need care,
treatment or removal from the
group.”
Caring is as easy as ABCE
The Pig Care Specialist training
program teaches staff to quickly
identify pigs that need intervention and to take the required
actions. Pigs are classified into
“A,” “B,” “C” and “E” to describe
acute, subacute and chronic
condition and also those pigs
needing euthanasia.
“A pigs have very high treatment success rate and finding
these pigs before they progress
into B or C pigs is crucial,”
said Robles. “These pigs can
be found by closely watching
and observing behaviour and
pointing out specific characteristics – slightly gaunt in the
flanks, dull eyes, depressed or
feverish.”
In such cases, he recommends appropriate treatment
and moving the pig to a less
competitive environment.
“B pigs are those that
h a v e r o u g h e r h a i r, m o r e
defined gauntness, flesh loss,
uncomfortable posture, exudates around the eyes, or
Pig Care Specialist Program
Robles outlined a program
developed by Swine Health
Professionals in conjunction
with Pfizer Animal Health,
which helps producers deliver
better care to individual pigs.
The Pig Care Specialist Program
is an on-farm training tool that
aims to promote individual pig
care, optimize production, and
improve pig performance.
“The main focus is on
affecting daily farm choices
and actions of barn personnel
towards profitable and caring
hog production,” said Robles.
“These daily farm choices and
actions are based on the fundamentals of caring enough
to provide food, water and a
good environment.”
A pig-care specialist (PCS)
is assigned to work in specific
barn facilities to help staff
“The main focus is on affecting daily farm choices
and actions of barn personnel towards profitable
and caring hog production.”
DENNIS ROBLES
Swine Health Professionals
Steinbach, Man.
are depressed and feverish.
Immediate treatment of these
pigs will yield moderate success rate of 50 to 75 per cent.
Also, move these to the sick
pen.”
C pigs are those that have
been sick for some time and
haven’t received the care they
need.
“They have severe gauntness, don’t keep up with the
rest of the group and lie alone
by the sidelines, and are weak
with a rougher hair coat,” he
said. “Success rate is only 25
to 30 per cent at this stage
and they easily progress to E
class pigs. Treat them immediately and move them to a
sick pen.”
E p i g s a re c l a s s i f i e d a s
those that need to be killed
humanely as per Canadian
Quality Assurance (CQA)
guidelines.
“ They are clearly suffering and ever y minute you
wait prolongs it,” said Robles.
“These pigs are non-ambulatory or injured pigs that will
not recover and sick pigs that
showed no improvement after
two days of intensive care.”
Feed, water and good
environment
In addition to daily pig care
and treatment, the stockperson’s role is to ensure provision of feed, water and a good
environment.
“We can never overemphasize the importance of providing these three basic needs of
pigs,” said Robles. “These are
the first things that a stockperson should look for upon
entering the barn. The pigs
will grow to their full potential only if these basic needs
are met.”
It is also important to clean,
disinfect and dry rooms properly prior to entry, to know the
number of pigs moving into
the room, establish sick pens,
and follow good biosecurity
protocols, he added.
Robles is clearly passionate
about the importance of the
stockperson and stresses that
a positive attitude is key to
providing a high level of pig
care.
Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain
Consulting of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor
of Western Hog Journal.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
Hog barns can be hazardous to your
health without a safety-first attitude
Manitoba Pork
Council director urges
hog producers to
protect themselves
from dust, noise and
other hazards found
in barns
“We need to take lung health seriously,
lung cancer is on the rise, even in people
who have never smoked.”
James Hofer
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
D
ealing with machinery
and animals, working
alone in isolated locations, and long hours and
extreme weather are some of
the factors that make farming one of the most dangerous
occupations in Canada.
But farmers can, and
should, do more to protect
themselves and their families,
said James Hofer.
“When you look at what’s
important, I would put faith
as No. 1, followed by health
as No. 2,” said Hofer, who
manages a 600-sow farrowto-finish operation on the
Starlite Colony and sits on the
Manitoba Pork Council.
“We owe it to ourselves to
look after ourselves.”
Ho f e r s t re s s e d t e a c h i n g
safety basics to children at a
young age during a presentation on hog barn safety during
Manitoba Swine Seminar 2012.
“Some chemicals might look
like other items children are
exposed to like sugar, or salt...
so we want to implement safety
early in their lives, get them in
good habits,” Hofer said.
Producers also need to
take sensible precautions for
themselves, he added.
Noting dust is thickest in
hog barns during feeding
or feed grinding, Hofer said
using an extra one per cent
of oil or fat in feed, or reducing the distance between feed
drops and feeders, can help
reduce dust. But that doesn’t
mean you can skip using a
face mask, which should be
worn at all times in the barn,
he said.
Swine barn dust generally
consists of feed par ticles,
ammonia, fecal dust, minerals, insect parts, mould, dead
skin cells, grain mites and
possibly infectious agents. All
can lead to chronic obstruc-
RECOGNIZE AND REACT
TO THE SIGNS OF A HEART ATTACK
• Chest
discomfort
• Upper body
discomfort
• Nausea
James Hofer speaks to pork producers about farm safety during Manitoba
Swine Seminar 2012. Photo: Shannon VanRaes
tive pulmonary diseases,
Hofer said.
“ We n e e d t o t a k e l u n g
health seriously, lung cancer
is on the rise, even in people
who have never smoked,” he
emphasized.
Ho f e r s a i d 7 0 t o 9 0 p e r
cent of dust in hog barns is
organic, biologically active
and able to cause a reaction
in your body.
And not only lungs are at
risk, hearing loss is also an
issue in hog operations.
Hear ing protection that
reduces noise by 29 to 31
decibels should be worn at all
times, he said.
“And if you don’t insert earplugs correctly, it can actually amplify sound, so follow
instructions,” he said.
Accidental needle sticks are
also an issue in hog barns,
and can cause infections and
other health problems, he
said.
Care also needs to be taken
with medications that can be
absorbed through the skin.
Producers need to make sure
employees are trained, know
the risks and can avoid them.
“Hog producers who are
proactive about safety and
health often end up with
healthier workers, see less sick
days, reduced turnover and
more productivity,” said Hofer.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
Mild winter makes for fast-growing
cattle and happier ranchers
Warm weather benefits fall calves, but being prepared
is important during winter calving season
Bovine
First Aid Kit
By Laura Kunzelman
co-operator contributor
This is a list of
suggested things
that cattle owners
should have on hand
T
he mild, dry winter may
have grain farmers worried,
but it’s a welcome relief for
ranchers in the midst of calving
season.
Fraserwood farmer Garry
Wasylowski is hoping the run of
mild winter continues.
“Last year was real stressful at
calving time and wasn’t a very
good year, it was very cold,” said
Wasylowski, who has 200 head of
cattle at his Fraserwood ranch.
“If the weather is nice this year
like it has been, it will be a welcome relief.”
An added bonus to the mild
weather has been the difference
in size of fall calves compared to
last year, said Wasylowski, who has
been farming for 32 years.
“I think they are larger this year,
but we will find out this fall what
the difference in weights are. They
seem to be doing well, and it’s
probably because of the winter
we’ve been having.”
Weight gains are tremendous
with the mild weather, said Dr.
Wayne Tomlinson, an extension
vet with Manitoba Agriculture,
Food and Rural Initiatives.
“The cattle are producing no
energy to stay warm, just using
their energy to grow faster.”
The lack of snow helps, too.
“Cattle can get around easier,”
he said. “It’s easier for them to bed
and to walk around. The largest
expenditure cow-calf operations
Muffs are good for cold days. photo: grace crayston
have is feed, so far we are using
significantly less feed than in typical years.”
There are no health issues
related to mild weather and farmers should see healthier cattle in
the long run, he said.
“The plane of nutrition is better
so the cows will be stronger and
that translates into a good calving
year.”
However, warm weather can
cause problems for newborns,
said Dr. Sherry Wurtz of Wheat
City Veterinarian Clinic.
“When the temperature fluctuates, some problems for the calves
are they could develop scours or
catch pneumonia,” she said.
It’s important for farmers to be
prepared, recognize the signs of
complications, and administer
prompt treatment. If you’re not
sure, call your vet, she said.
“There is nothing to be lost by
calling,” says Wurtz. “I’d rather get
a call about a question than wait
until after the fact.”
The most common issues Wurtz
sees at calving time are oversized
and wrongly positioned calves.
Besides having a bovine first
aid kit, the three most important
things to remember when calving are double loop chains to pull
calves, knowing when to call the
vet, and ensuring newborn calves
receive adequate colostrum, she
said.
A chain is something farmers
should have in their bovine first
aid kit, in case they have to pull a
calf. Colostrum is the first milk a
heifer produces, any milk after is
called transitional milk. It is very
important that the calf gets the
colostrum as it acts as a natural
immune system enhancer.
“Getting the calf colostrum is
the best start to life you can get
the calf,” said Wurtz.
“Regardless of the
weather, the cow
is going to have
problems.”
Bandaging materials such as
Vetrap or a Tensor bandage
Tape to hold on bandages
Scissors or knife
Cleansing solution such as
Chlorhexadine soap or
Betadine scrub
Clean towels or rags
Disposable needles and
syringes (variety of sizes)
Latex gloves and calving
sleeves
Tweezers
Thermometer
Halter or rope
Calving chains
J-Lube
Wire cutters
Small, clean bucket for water/
cleansing solution
Penicillin, Liquimycin, Banamine
Mastitis ointment
Anti Gaz
Trochar (optional)
Antiseptic ointment or spray
such as Bluespray
Fly spray
Antibiotic eye ointment or pinkeye spray
Electrolytes
Epinephrine (optional)
Flashlight
Sterile saline (optional)
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workshops. The workshops will provide training and information to help prevent, detect and
control food safety risks on your farm through National On-Farm Food Safety Programs. Plan to
attend the workshop in your area.
Verified Beef Production is the national on-farm food safety program for
cattle producers. Workshops will be held:
Dauphin
Neepawa
Birtle
Beausejour
Vita
Provincial Building
Legion
United Church
Sun Gro Centre
Arena
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6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Reduce the risk of animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth
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• Have a biosecurity plan in place and review it regularly.
• Observe your animals for signs of disease.
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• Call your veterinarian if you think one or more of your animals might be sick.
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ExcelGrains Canada is the national on-farm food safety program for grain,
pulse and special crops farmers. Workshops will be held:
Tuesday, February 28
Wednesday, February 29
Legion
United Church
4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
10:30 a.m. to Noon
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Feeder Steers
Ashern
Feb-08
Gladstone
Feb-07
Grunthal
Feb-07
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Feb-07
Feb-08
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Taylor
Winnipeg
Feb-09
Feb-09
Feb-09
Feb-10
No. on offer
2,260
1,384
1,015
2,808
3,218
499
1,297
778
1,330
Over 1,000 lbs.
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
900-1,000
n/a
105.00-126.50
n/a
123.00-136.75
127.00-138.50
n/a
120.00-133.50
125.00-138.00
115.00-124.00
800-900
133.00-141.00
102.00-136.75
125.00-139.00
128.00-142.00
132.00-142.25
130.00-142.00
125.00-144.00
130.00-142.00
125.00-140.00
700-800
140.00-154.50
115.00-148.25
132.00-149.50
135.00-148.00
138.00-150.00
135.00-146.00
140.00-153.00
140.00-155.00
130.00-149.00
600-700
150.00-170.00
115.00-165.00
145.00-165.50
150.00-163.50
146.00-163.00
155.00-168.00
155.00-173.00
165.00-175.00
145.00-178.25
500-600
160.00-192.50
130.00-173.25
160.00-186.00
165.00-185.00
165.00-183.00
165.00-189.00
170.00-189.00
175.00-195.00
155.00-181.00
400-500
170.00-196.00
140.00-200.00
180.00-197.00
180.00-204.00
175.00-202.00
185.00-203.00
175.00-200.00
180.00-205.00
155.00-205.00
300-400
n/a
160.00-216.00
190.00-204.00
180.00-215.00
180.00-210.00
200.00-217.00
170.00-208.00
195.00-215.00
n/a
Feeder heifers
900-1,000 lbs.
n/a
105.00-121.50
105.00-117.00
115.00-125.50
116.00-125.00
n/a
n/a
115.00-128.00
n/a
800-900
n/a
110.00-127.00
115.00-127.00
115.00-132.00
121.00-130.50
n/a
120.00-133.00
125.00-135.00
n/a
700-800
120.00-140.00
125.00-134.50
125.00-141.50
125.00-140.00
127.00-140.00
125.00-137.00
125.00-144.00
130.00-148.00
125.00-142.00
600-700
132.00-150.95
130.00-151.75
135.00-154.00
130.00-146.00
134.00-147.00
136.00-149.00
140.00-158.00
145.00-155.00
130.00-146.00
500-600
130.00-166.00
140.00-164.50
148.00-166.50
140.00-162.00
146.00-160.00
145.00-165.00
145.00-163.00
150.00-165.00
135.00-155.00
400-500
157.00-176.00
130.00-187.00
155.00-168.00
145.00-177.00
155.00-174.00
155.00-175.00
160.00-180.00
160.00-175.00
140.00-170.00
300-400
150.00-172.00
150.00-197.00
160.00-180.00
155.00-185.25
160.00-188.00
165.00-188.00
160.00-188.00
165.00-185.00
n/a
Slaughter Market
No. on offer
260
n/a
91
142
n/a
n/a
163
165
150
D1-D2 Cows
62.00-68.00
n/a
n/a
64.00-68.00
61.00-67.00
63.00-70.00
62.00-74.00
58.00-75.00
62.00-70.00
D3-D5 Cows
52.00-60.00
n/a
n/a
55.00-63.00
57.00-61.00
n/ a
52.00-60.00
55.00-65.00
54.00-62.00
Age Verified
70.00-78.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
63.00-70.50
65.00-72.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
70.00-95.00
65.50-74.50
77.00-84.00
75.00-83.00
74.00-81.00
75.00-83.50
84.00-92.00
78.00-82.50
75.00-87.75
Butcher Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
101.00-105.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
99.00-104.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder Cows
n/a
46.00-68.00
70.00-76.00
72.00-83.00
67.00-77.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
63.00-69.00
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
67.00-75.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
57.00-63.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
* includes slaughter market
(Note all prices in CDN$ per cwt. These prices also generally represent the top one-third of sales reported by the auction yard)
NEWS
USDA feeling
budget pinch
WASHINGTON / REUTERS/
The USDA will create nine
regional centres in a bid to
provide more in-depth analysis while saving money.
The centres, due to open in
2013, will be staffed by analysts who now work in state
offices. The USDA will reduce
the number and frequency
of crop and other reports. Its
best-known report, monthly
crop forecasts, frequently
cause futures markets to soar
or plunge.
“We’re going to remain the
gold standard,” promised
Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack.
Traders and analysts grumble perennially over USDA’s
data, and some question if it
is losing its edge. In the last
six months, 7,000 workers
retired or accepted buyouts,
and Vilsack said half of its
workforce of 100,000 is within
five years of retirement age.
Fertilizer profits
push up Agrium
profit
TORONTO / REUTERS /
Agrium has reported a 43 per
cent rise in quarterly net profit,
thanks to stronger demand
for seeds, fertilizers and other
inputs.
The Calgary-based company
said fourth-quarter net income
increased to $193 million from
$135 million one year earlier.
Agrium’s better-thanexpected performance in the
quarter was largely driven
by strength in bulk sales of
nitrogen-based crop nutrients.
Sales at its wholesale fertilizer
arm, which produces nitrogen,
phosphate and potash-based
nutrients, rose 25 per cent,
while earnings jumped 64 per
cent.
While a pullback in grain
prices toward the end of the
fourth quarter has hurt both
fertilizer demand and pricing, Agrium said it remains
optimistic heading into spring
planting because of expectations of increased corn acreage.
However, it is cautious on the
outlook for potash demand.
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Global food prices
on the rise again
MILAN / REUTERS / Global
food prices rose in January
for the first time in six
months and may rise again in
February, as concern about
bad weather in main growing
regions pushes grain and vegetable oil prices higher.
Global food prices, which
have been falling since July
2011, rose nearly two per
cent in January from the
previous month, according to the UN’s Food and
Agriculture Organization.
But the agency said the
impact should be minor.
“It is a pause in a downward
trend rather than reversal,
with a lot of unpredictability,”
said FAO senior economist
Abdolreza Abbassian.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
New opportunities likely for
low-grade Canadian malt barley
Farmers might fetch a premium for lower-quality malt barley
By Phil Franz-Warkentin
Commodity News Service Canada
T
he sharp distinction
between malt and feed
barley in Western Canada is
starting to get a little muddy, with
a third class of barley expected
to create more opportunities
for farmers under the new open
market.
Traditionally, about 20 per cent
of the barley grown in Western
Canada in any given year would
hit the malt specifications, and
everything else would be relegated to the feed market.
However, increasing demand
for lower-quality malt barley
from China and other countries,
along with the looming end of
the Canadian Wheat Board’s single-desk approach to marketing
the crop, should open the door
for a new class of barley.
Often referred to as “fair average
quality,” this is malt barley that
may not meet the top end specs,
but can still be used to make beer.
“It’s always been a black and
white scenario, where you either
have malt or you have feed,”
said barley broker Rod Green of
Central Ag Marketing in Alberta,
noting that the concern over not
meeting malt specifications has
hurt barley acres. He pointed out
that while malt barley is a profitable cropping option in Western
Canada, feed barley does not
pencil out as well.
Premiums for lower quality
As a result, the possibility of premiums for lower-quality malt
barley, that would have gone to
feed channels in the past, will
allow farmers to have more confidence when seeding.
In order to be sold as “fair average quality” malt barley, the germination still needs to be 95 per
cent, but other factors, such as
protein levels, are not as important, said Green. He could not
speculate on the potential price
opportunities, but said the market for “fair average quality”
barley will likely fall somewhere
between feed and malt values.
Different companies will have
different specs, “if you fall within
those specs you’ll get a certain
price, and if you fall into the next
area you’ll get a certain price, and
eventually you’ll get feed,” said
Green.
Grain companies and maltsters
in Western Canada are already
working towards having a “fair
average quality” class of barley,
as the Chinese market has been
buying lower-quality malt barley
from Australia for several years,
said Green.
The looming end of the CWB
single desk at the start of the
2012-13 crop year on August 1,
2012, is helping speed up the
move towards more “fair average quality” barley, said Green.
He noted that additional players
in the export market will mean
those demand niches that may
have been overlooked by the
CWB in the past will now be filled
by the commercial trade.
“Australia recognized there was
a market for ‘fair average quality,’
medium-range malt-quality barley five years ago,” said Brian Otto,
president of the Western Barley
Growers Association, adding that
malt companies in China and
other areas were “not as discriminating for quality as malt plants in
North America or Europe.”
Missed opportunities
Canadian barley is recognized for
its quality in the world market,
said Otto, but the additional market for lower-quality malt barley
will help create additional revenue
for producers. While it may not
happen overnight, he estimated
that the “fair average quality” malt
barley would allow the amount of
the Canadian crop accepted for
malting to increase by at least a
million tonnes, from the current
average of 2.1 million tonnes.
Annual Canadian barley production (both malt and feed) has
declined in recent years, with only
about 7.7 million tonnes grown
in 2011-12. Otto foresaw that
increasing back to the 12-milliontonne level under an open market, as the lack of the CWB single
desk and increased competition
will allow international market
signals to find their way back to
the farm in a more transparent
manner. Otto added that demand
for special varieties from craft
brewers and the declining U.S.
barley area will also create need
for more barley acres.
“More eyes are better for
specialty markets,” added
Errol Anderson, of ProMarket
Communications, noting that
the increased competition in the
malt market will be beneficial for
barley growers.
New Resolution
Guidelines for MCGA’s AGM
Are you interested in submitting a resolution to
the Manitoba Canola Growers Annual meeting?
Are you having trouble
managing your farm debt?
We can help. Mediation may be the solution.
The Farm Debt Mediation Service helps insolvent farmers overcome financial
difficulties by offering financial counselling and mediation services.
This free and confidential service has been helping farmers get their debt repayment
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To obtain more information about how the Farm Debt Mediation Service can help you:
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Check out the new guidelines and worksheets for
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for the guidelines and worksheets. All resolutions
must be submitted to the MCGA office
by February 17, 2012.
Forms can be faxed to 204-942-1841 or
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MCGA’s Annual Meeting will be held
Tuesday, February 28th in the UCT room in
the Brandon Keystone Center
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
Greenpeace
“dropout” promotes
GM crops
Rewarding loyal service
According to Patrick Moore global warming
is good and humans aren’t causing it
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
A
self-descr ibed
G re e n p e a c e d r o p o u t
got a friendly reception
at the Manitoba Special Crops
Symposium Feb. 8 with his
message that climate change
isn’t a problem, genetically
modified crops are the way
of the future, and that David
Suzuki causes cancer.
In fact, Patrick Moore left
with an invitation to volunteer for Manitoba’s Ag in the
Classroom.
“I l ov e d y o u r p re s e n t a tion,” said executive director
Johanne Ross during the question period. “It’s so important.
“We’re not going to change
t h e m i n d s o f t h e p re s e n t
Gre e n p e a c e r s, but I think
with your message we could
have less Greenpeacers coming up,” Ross said.
Moore, whose talk was sponsored by Monsanto, told his
audience humans are saving
the world, not destroying, by
releasing more carbon dioxide
(CO2) into the atmosphere.
He also says nuclear is the
power of the future, genetically modified (GM) crops
can feed the world, trees are
the world’s most important
renewable resource and David
Suzuki is undermining people’s health by opposing fish
farms.
Atmospheric CO2 has been
declining the last 100 million
years, said Moore, a former
Greenpeace president and
co-founder of the consulting
and lobbying firm Greenspirit
Strategies in Vancouver.
But burning fossil fuels is
reversing that trend. If the
decline continued at the
same pace the next 100 million years “all plants would’ve
died... and life would end
almost on this earth except
Patrick Moore used to be with
Greenpeace, now he calls himself
the “sensible environmentalist.”
The Vancouver-based consultant
spoke at the Manitoba Special
Crops Symposium in Winnipeg
Feb. 8. photo: allan dawson
for a few bacteria that eat sulphur,” he said.
Plants thrive under higher
levels of CO2 and most life
forms do better under warmer
conditions, Moore said.
Mo o re i s c r i t i c a l o f G M
opponents, including
Greenpeace for blocking the
development of crops such as
Golden Rice, which is genetically modified to contain
higher levels of vitamin A,
alleging millions of children
have gone blind as a result.
After leaving Greenpeace,
Moore started farming salmon
off Vancouver Island. That
put him on a collision course
with critics who say the way
in which salmon is farmed
places wild stocks at risk.
He cited a quote from David
Suzuki in the Toronto Star
that opposes feeding farmed
salmon on the basis it is toxic,
especially for children.
“It’s one of the most environmentally friendly industries in the world, producing
one of the most nutritious
foods in the world.”
Salmon is high in omega-3
fatty acids, which have been
found to reduce heart disease.
“(Suzuki) is causing cancer by saying that, and heart
attacks and brain damage,”
Moore said. “He is one of the
biggest enemies of the public’s understanding of science in this country, and it’s a
shame.”
Suzuki doesn’t respond to
Moore’s attacks because they
are “astoundingly stupid,”
said Ian Hanington, a spokesman for the Vancouver-based
Su z u k i Fo u n d a t i o n i n a n
email.
Children and others can get
omega-3 by eating other fish,
Hanington noted.
“We aren’t against farmed
salmon,” he said. “ We just
think it should be done in
closed-containment tanks
that el im ina te int e ract ion
with natural habitat and wild
species. Again, it’s not antiindustr y or about shutting
down industry; it’s just about
doing it more wisely.”
As for climate change,
Hanington said there’s a consensus among peer-reviewed
scientists, that CO2 released
by h u m a n s i s m a k i n g t h e
earth warmer.
“Patrick Moore gets paid by
industry to say these things,”
Hanington said.
Moore is supported by the
Nu c l e a r E n e r g y I n s t i t u t e
(NEI), a national organization of pro-nuclear indust r i e s a n d i n 2 0 0 9 c h a i re d
its Clean and Safe Energy
Coalition, Wikipedia says, citing a Nuclear Energy Institute
article.
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“Patrick Moore gets paid by industry
to say these things.”
Elm Creek farmer Jim Pedersen (l) received a lifetime membership in the Manitoba Corn Growers
Association Feb. 8 from association president Hank Enns during the Manitoba Special Crops Symposium
in Winnipeg. The MCGA celebrated its 40th anniversary in July when farmer Allan Calder received a
lifetime membership. Pedersen wasn’t able to attend. MCGA secretary-manager Theresa Bergsma
said Pedersen served on the association’s board twice. During his first term as president Pedersen
oversaw the association’s incorporation, which allowed it to administer the federal government’s
cash advance program. “This was an important milestone for two reasons,” Bergsma said. “First of all
because it provided upfront operating cash for farmers that alleviated the need to sell under pressure
in the fall and allowed orderly marketing of corn throughout the year. And secondly it provided
more reliable funding so that additional research projects could be initiated.” photo: allan dawson
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
Aid agencies focus on helping
others to help themselves
Providing a family with a goat or a more practical way to cook can have far-reaching consequences
Laura Rance has just returned
from a two-week tour of
Ethiopia with the Canadian
Foodgrains Bank.
“For my family, the
goats have become a
savings account.”
By Laura Rance
Co-operator editor / selamber, ethiopia
I
t was a gift with strings
attached, but that was just
fine with Bekelech Basa.
The single mother of six
children from this small
community about five hours
southwest of Addis Ababa was
given a goat on the condition
that she give up its first-born
kid. It’s just one example of
how aid is changing.
Basa was given the goat by
the Ethiopian Kale-Heywet
Church, part of a revolving
goat herd project operated
by the church with assistance from Canadian-based
Evangelical Missionary
Church through the Canadian
Foodgrains Bank. By taking
the first-born goat, the church
can build its herd and provide a similar start for other
families. The foundation
herd, which started at 30 in
2005, has since put 328 goats
into the hands of subsistence
farmers in the region.
Access to survival
Good nutrition and an education are seen as key to giving rural youth an opportunity to escape poverty. photo: Laura Rance
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It’s not exactly a rags-to-riches
fairy tale, but over the past
four years Basa’s goats, now
numbering seven, have provided “access to my survival,”
she said, speaking through an
interpreter.
She sold some goats to buy
a heifer, which delivered a calf
and dairy products, supplementing the family diet and
providing another source of
cash flow.
“For my family, the goats
have become a savings
account,” she said. “If my
family needs money, we sell
a goat.”
It has enabled her children
to stay in school, a goal mentioned by ever y family we
talked to on our short swing
through Ethiopia’s impoverished rural communities.
More than anything, it has
given Basa the capacity to
dream — of one day moving
out of her grass and mud hut
into a house with sheet metal
roofing.
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When people living in our part
of the world think of food aid,
we tend to consider it charity — helping those who can’t
help themselves. That’s certainly part of the story, and an
oft-repeated part.
For example, the Oromo
people of Shashemene, normally a surplus-producing
crop district located 250 km
south of Addis Ababa, have
experienced successive
droughts and varying degrees
of crop failures since 2003.
Since September 2011,
these communities have been
re c e i v i n g e m e rg e n c y f o o d
rations provided by local NGO
Food for the Hungry with support from Christian Reformed
Wo r l d Re l i e f t h r o u g h t h e
Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
The program tries to ensure
people receive enough calo-
Bekelech Basa
ries to maintain their health
and energy so adults can continue working and children
stay in school. It also prevents
people from selling assets so
they can eat.
Can do
But the vast majority of people living in poverty here were
born into it, a reality that creates its own culture of helpl e s s n e s s. In re c e n t y e a r s,
much of the work supported
by Canadian Foodgrains Bank
members, along with the 40
or so other non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) working in Ethiopia, has become
focused on helping peop l e b e l i e ve t h e y c a n h e l p
themselves.
So you’ll hear a lot of talk
about “capacity building” as
you make the rounds through
various projects.
One strategy is to organize communities, mainly
the women, into “self-help”
groups. Limited to 15 to 20
people, members contribute a
small amount into a revolving
fund when they attend their
weekly meetings to discuss
community affairs. The group
considers requests from its
members for small interestbearing loans to assist them
with starting a small enterprise or to cover unforeseen
medical or burial costs.
For many, it is their first
introduction to the concepts of savings and credit.
Everyone takes a turn chairing the weekly meetings so
women, who rarely get opportunities to lead, gain experience and become more confident with public speaking.
And it’s a well-known global phenomenon, when the
women of a community start
putting their heads together,
s o m e p ow e r f u l l y p o s i t i v e
things start to happen.
Planting new knowledge
Another strategy is to plant
new knowledge in a community and watch it blossom.
With all the poise of a model
demonstrating the latest in
kitchen technology on television, a woman introduced
as Amarech proudly spoke of
attending a training program
that taught her about a much
more practical, and pleasant, alternative to traditional
cooking methods. The ageold method involved cooking
on top of three stones in the
centre of her mud hut floor, a
practice that is not only hard
on one’s back, but fills the
home with a smokey haze.
Amarech learned how to
build the equivalent of a twoburner stove on a clay pallet
that vents outside. It requires
less fuel and leaves her without the aching back and stingContinued on next page »
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Giving people the tools with which to help themselves is the goal of most NGOs working in Ethiopia. Photo Laura Rance
Continued from previous page
ing eyes, she said through an
interpreter.
“I’ve built this same stove for
four other families. If you’d like
to learn, I’d be happy to show
you.”
Making it work
Sometimes building capacity
requires bending well-established practices, such as providing long-term support for
fear of creating dependency.
One family of five we met
in Zeway was so clean you
would swear you heard them
squeak as they sat lined up
on the edge of a bed in their
home. Not an item was out
of place and, despite the dirt
floor, there was no dust to be
found.
It’s not what you would
expect from a bunch of children
practically raising themselves.
Tihun Haji, now 16, was
orphaned when she was about
10 when her parents died, a
tragedy followed soon afterwards by the death of her older
sister — who left behind an
HIV-positive baby girl.
There were no relatives to
take them in and at the time,
there was no social safety net
to fill the gap. So Tihun, now
the head of the household,
rented out the family home and
moved her sisters, now aged 15
and eight, her brother, aged 13,
and her niece, now four, into
a smaller, cheaper home. She
dropped out of school and was
washing clothes for people to
try to keep food on the table.
It wasn’t going well.
The family was included in
an innovative program operated by Food for the Hungry
Ethiopia with support from
Canadian Foodgrains Bank and
other NGOs. Families headed
by orphans, as well as families
in which children are vulnerable to hunger, receive food
assistance and also social services, regular visits by professional social workers and community volunteers.
Tihun is now attending school
regularly. She and her sister
have received technical training
in hair dressing and the family attends weekly gatherings
where they learn life skills such
as cooking. Or they simply have
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with other kids their age.
Speaking through an interpreter, Tihun displayed the
intensity of a person who was
robbed of her childhood, but
she looked directly into the
eyes of her visitors and said
confidently that her first goal
in life is to “serve God” and her
second goal — once her sib-
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“Two years ago, when I met
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were crying. Now, they are not
crying, and they have hope.”
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AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
ANTIQUES
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
ANTIQUES
Antiques For Sale
OPENING: February 7
DOrOThy KlOePPel
lArge FArM AucTIOn
MOnDAy, APrIl 2, 2012,
10:00AM
5 MIleS weST OF
BrunKIlD, MB On Pr 305
SUN., MAR. 11TH, 2012 MB Antique Association
Spring Antique & Collectibles Show. 10:00-4:00pm
CanadInns Polo Park 1405 St Matthews Ave. Admission
$4.
Vendor
spaces
avail.
Kelly
(204)981-9616. Glassware, books, postcards, nostalgia items, art, silver, collectibles, etc.
2 COMPLETE SETS OF good leather harness, 1 set
of heavy leather harness w/breechen, 3-ply tugs. A
good assortment of horse collars, new yokes & double
trees, old horse machinery, spread rings & scotch tops.
Phone:(204)242-2809, Manitou.
AUCTION SALES
AUCTION DISTRICTS
Parkland – North of Hwy 1; west of PR 242,
following the west shore of Lake Manitoba
and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.
Westman – South of Hwy 1; west of PR 242.
Interlake – North of Hwy 1; east of PR 242,
following the west shore of Lake Manitoba
and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.
Red River – South ofHwy 1; east of PR 242.
The Pas
Birch River
Swan River
Minitonas
Durban
Winnipegosis
Roblin
Dauphin
Grandview
Ashern
Gilbert Plains
Fisher Branch
Ste. Rose du Lac
Russell
Parkland
Birtle
Riverton
Eriksdale
McCreary
Langruth
Minnedosa
Neepawa
Gladstone
Rapid City
Reston
Melita
1
Brandon
Carberry
Elm Creek
Treherne
Killarney
Crystal City
Sanford
Ste. Anne
Carman
Mariapolis
Pilot Mound
Lac du Bonnet
Beausejour
Winnipeg
Austin
Souris
Boissevain
Stonewall
Selkirk
Portage
Westman
Waskada
Interlake
Erickson
Hamiota
Virden
Arborg
Lundar
Gimli
Shoal Lake
St. Pierre
242
Morris
Winkler
Morden
Altona
Steinbach
1
Red River
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Westman
ALVIN SMITH, BRIAN DRUMMOND & CONSIGNORS, HOLLAND, MB. FARM RETIREMENT AUCTION SALE Wed., Apr. 25th, 2012 11:00am. Located
8-mi N of Holland on PTH #34. Alvin Smith Equipment
(204)526-2459 1994 Ford-Vers 9030 Bi-Directional
DSL w/Ford engine, 3-SPD hydrostatic, 3-pt both front
& back ends, 1000 & 540 PTO front & back ends, w/
FEL w/8-ft. bucket, 7,000-hrs on tractor, excellent. TD9
Industrial Cat Bulldozer w/10-ft. Smith angle dozer
blade, tracks & pads are excellent; 1945 & 1948 JD
styled “A” tractors; 2001 Vermeer Highline Rebel 5500
round baler, 5x5.5-ft. bale, done only 1,400 bales, like
new; Trail King 5th wheel 24x8-ft. flat deck trailer, rebuilt deck, triple axle; Real Industries cattle squeeze
& headgate; Brian Drummond Equipment (204)5265166 1976 White Field Boss 2 105 DSL tractor, 3-PTH,
2,000-hrs on rebuilt engine, 7,000-hrs on tractor; 2002
New Idea 5212 discbine, 12-ft.; 1997 New Idea H865
soft core round baler, 5x6-ft.; 36-ft. bale trailer w/iron
frame deck; 1987 Norbert 7x16-ft. gooseneck livestock
trailer; Morand cattle handling system cattle squeeze
w/headgate, palpation cage, 3 sections of alleys &
crowding tub, complete system; Lewis cattle oiler. Consigned: 1998 Macdon 9300 SP swather w/960 25-ft
header w/PU reel, cab w/air DSL engine; 1980 Vers
4400 SP swather, 22-ft, cab w/air, hydrostatic; Doepker 28-ft. drill carrier, hyd; 1999 White 9-HP yd bug rear
engine rider mower; Collector tractors: 1947 IH-McCormick W4 gas tractor; 1948 JD ‘B’ w/saw mandrel; 1942
Ford 8N tractor, 3-pt; 1953 IH-McCormick ‘M’ Websites
mrankinauctions.com or rosstaylorauction.com Murray
Rankin Auctions (204)534-7401, Killarney, MB. Ross
Taylor Auction Service (204)522-535, Reston, MB.
GEORGE & MAUREEN FREEMAN, HARTNEY,
MB. FARM RETIREMENT AUCTION SALE Sat.,
Apr 21st, 2012. 11:00am. 1-mi N of Hartney,
1.75-mi W. 1981 JD 4240 DSL, factory 3-pt., quadrange trans, only 2,700-hrs since all engine work
done in 2004, tractor is premium; 1981 Case 1690
DSL tractor, w/Dual 205 loader w/grapple & 8-ft
bucket; 1961 JD 4010 DSL, 8-SPD trans, 540 &
1000 PTO; IHC 560 DSL w/single hyd; Massey
Harris #44 gas tractor, single hyd; JD 7720 turbo
DSL combine, JD 6 belt PU, hydrostatic, very good;
JD 6601 PT combine w/Sund PU; JD 800 21-ft. SP
swather; Sakundiak 37-ft.x6-in. auger w/15-HP
Powerfist motor; Westfield 41-ft.x8-in. PTO auger;
Rem 552 grain vaccuvator; Hesston Model 5800
round baler; Hesston Model 1150 12-ft. mower conditioner; Sitrex 10 wheel V hay rake 3-pt; IHC 435
square baler; Trucks -All As Is. 1976 Chev C30
truck, w/8x12-ft. steel box, good running; 1967
Chev 1-Ton truck, to restore; 1967 3/4-Ton Chev
w/flat deck & hoist, to restore; 1979 Ford Lariet 1/2Ton; 1988 GMC S15 1/2-Ton, 4-SPD, running;
1951 Mercury 1-Ton truck w/box & hoist. Collector
Car: 1956 Dodge 4 dr. Sedan car; IHC 7200 28-ft.
hoe press drill, 2, 14-ft. sections w/pan wheel press,
factory transport; Wisek Model 714 16-ft. heavy tandem disc; IHC #45 27-ft. vibra-shank cultivator; IHC
16-ft. 620 DD press drill; Flexi-coil WB45 45-ft. harrow packer bar; NH 516 manure spreader, 205-bus;
Farm King 8-ft. double auger snowblower, hyd
chute; Brandt end gate hyd drill fill; Sunbeam hammermill; 3, 300-gal fuel tanks; Grain Bins 2, 1,300bus. Steel hopper bins; Springbok 15-ft. boat
w/Evenrude 20-HP motor; Eze-load trailer. For info
please
contact:
George
Freeman
cell
(204)483-0391 Home (204)858-2549. Please visit
websites mrankinauctions.com or rosstaylorauction.com Murray Rankin Auctions (204)534-7401,
Killarney, MB. Ross Taylor Auction Service Reston,
MB. Ross (204)522-5356 Brock (204)522-6396.
Stretch your
ADVERTISING DOLLAR!
1-800-782-0794
AUCTION SALES
U.S. Auctions
INTERNET ONLY AUCTION
MULVEY FLEA MARKET, Manitoba’s Largest
year-round indoor flea market, weekends 10-5. Collectables, Antiques & More. Lots of great stuff new
& old. Fun place to shop. Osborne @ Mulvey Ave.
E. Wpg. 204-478-1217. Visa, MasterCard, Interac
accepted. Visit us online at www.mulveymarket.ca
ANTIQUES
Antique Equipment
AUCTION SALES
U.S. Auctions
* 2007 John Deere 9520 T 36’’Tracks, EZ Steer, fully equipped, 783 one owner hours, serial #908095; *2005
Case IH MX 285 MFWD, 3pth, 480/80-46’’ duals 4 remote, PTO, EZ steer, 1316 one owner hours, serial
#Jaz135531; *1990 Versatile 976 purchased in spring of 1991. 4 remotes & return line, like new Trelleborg
900/60/32 singles, 4207 one owner hours, serial #D451015; *2010 Toro Z Master, Zero Turn 60’’ mower
only used 51 hours; *1998 Kenworth T800B, highway tractor N14, 435 Cummins, 13 speed, fuller, wet
kit, 11.24.5 rubber 985,774 kms showing VIN #956192; *1994 Ford 9000 Tandem Grain truck, Cummins,
10 speed, w/Loadline 20’x8.5x53’’ Grain box 204,902 kms showing, serial #1FDYU90L3FMA58150;
*1990 IHC 9300 Tandem Cummins, 10 speed fuller, serial #2HSFBG2R9LC036170, showing 615,115
kms w/2004 Loadline 20’x8.5x64’’ Grain box; *1984 Mack 600 Econodyne, 10 speed, fifth wheel, wet
kit, showing 4718 hours, serial #2M2N187Y4ECOO4707; *2000 Loadline 30’x8.5’x66’’ End Dump Grain
trailer, 11R22.5 tandem rubber, Current Manitoba safety, Serial #2U9E03029Y1012514; *2009 Loadline
30’x8.5’x63” Grain end Dump, swing out doors tailgate, 11R24.5 rubber, Serial #1FDYU90L3FMA58150;
*1997 Chevrolet 3500 pickup 4 door 4x4 long box, V8 automatic, Serial #1GTHK33R5VFO29832,
179,546 kms showing, large fuel tank & 12V pump, On truck sells after; *Sprayer tender 20‘ tandem
Highboy trailer, 11.22.5 tires w/twin 2000 gal ploy tanks, chemical tank & Honda pump, sells as unit;
*Highboy Sprayer truck w/Marflex 90 ft boom 800 gal fiberglass tank, Sprayer powered by 13hp
Honda, all mounted on 1983 IHC S-1800 4x4 truck V8 engine 5 speed, 380/34 tractor tires all around
w/cab controls, Outback guidance system; *GM Tracker 4x4 w/all around 750x20 Tractor tires this unit
is modified to fast track run off water in field drains, apparently never been stuck; *18 ft Car Hauler
trailer tandem axle w/built on Ramps; *2006 Westward 9352 Swather power unit, serial #168623, w/30
ft MacDon 972 header twin pickup reel, 679 engine hours 571 on cutter bar, header #169313; *2000
Westward 9350 Swather power unit serial #132722, w/30 ft Macdon 972 header twin pickup reel, Zero
hours on new drop in exchange Cummins engine, 982 hrs on cutter bar, head #132025; *2004 Cat
Lexion 480 R Combine Swath Master pickup on 13 ft head, Rice tires loaded machine auto steer etc,
1680 engine hours, 1188 separator hours, Serial #86600849, Terms if desired, $20,000 nonrefundable
down auction day, balance upon possession, on or before Aug 1, 2012; *1994 Case IH 1688 Combine,
Chopper 1015 pickup head w/belt pickup, hopper topper, Rice 30.5x32 tires, 2805 engine hours, serial
#JJCOJ22535, Terms if desired as above; *2009 J&M Grain cart, Model 1000-20, pto drive, 25.5x32 tires,
serial #2344. Seeding and Tillage: *Summers 48 ft Deep tiller, 3 row mulchers, serial #B1024; *Air Seeder
Concord 8501 cart hyd. fan, model AS-3000, serial #3AS0240 w/50/30.5 Trelleborg tires, 48 ft Concord
seeding tool 68 shanks 7’’ space single chute, shedded; *Bourgault 70 ft 6000 mid harrow; *Flexicoil
90 ft system 85 super harrow; *Haul-All 20 ft Dual tank drill fill system dual, rear auger discharge; *Ag
Shield, high lift pull type 100 ft sprayer, hyd, pump, folding boom, 18.4x26’’ tires, 1200 imp gal poly tank;
*Hutch master tandem disc 25 ft. 9’’ space 21’’ blades
This is a partial list. Please see
www.billklassen.com
for list & photos. Our Spring catalogue will be in your Farm mail March 19th.
Internet bidding powered by Bidspotter begins at 10:30AM
Bill Klassen Auctioneers
204-325-4433 cell 6230 fax 4484
JACOB & LINDA ENNS, KILLARNEY, MB. FARM
RETIREMENT AUCTION SALE Fri., Apr. 20th,
2012 10:30am Located 11-mi S of Killarney, 2-mi E.
1984 Case 4494 DSL 4WD, 12-SPD powershift,
8,100-hrs; 1984 JD 2950 DSL, 3-pt., w/JD 148
loader, 13,800-hrs, 1 owner; 1986 Case 448 lawn &
garden tractor, 18-HP, 48-in. mower deck & 42-in.
mulcher; 1992 Bourgault 330 air seeder w/32-ft.
cultivator w/Bourgault 2155 air tank & 4 row harrows; 1988 JD 1610 31-ft. chisel plough, tandem
axle w/Degelman 3 row harrows; 1981 Herman hyd
harrowbar; 1989 Eversman 6-yd scraper; 1985 JD
7720 Titan II DSL combine, JD PU, hydrostatic,
2-SPD cyl, always shedded, 3,300-hrs; 1984 Vers
4400 22-ft. SP swather, cab w/air, hydrostatic; 2003
FK 41-ftx8-in. auger w/Kohler 18-HP motor; 1983
Allied 41-ftx7-in. auger w/B&S 16-HP engine; 1981
IHC Model 1100 9-ft. mower; 1985 Vicon 6 wheel
rake; 1983 NH 519 manure spreader; 2010 Walleinstein GX 920 Backhoe, 3-pt., mechanical thumb
sells w/hoe; New Idea 7-ft. snow blower; NH3 dual
manifold attachment w/electric shut-off. Good list
shop equip. For info contact: Jake or Linda Enns
(204)523-8659. Websites mrankinauctions.com or
rosstaylorauction.com Murray Rankin Auctions
(204)534-7401, Killarney, MB. Ross Taylor Auction
Service (204)522-535, Reston, MB.
If your having an auction, get the results you’re
looking for with an ad in the Manitoba Co-operator
classifieds. Call Toll Free 1-800-782-0794.
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
FOUILLARD STEEL
SUPPLIES LTD.
MCSHERRY AUCTION SITE ESTATE and Moving
Auction Saturday, Feb. 18th @ 10:30am Stonewall,
MB. #12 Patterson Drive. Antiques; Household;
Tools; Yard; Appliances; Growing List on Web,
www.mcsherryauction.com STUART MCSHERRY (204)467-1858 or (204)886-7027.
AUTO & TRANSPORT
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Auto & Truck Parts
REMANUFACTURED DSL ENGINES: GM 6.5L
$4,750 installed; Ford/IH 7.3L $4950 installed; GM
Duramax; new 6.5L engines $6500; 12/24V 5.9L Cummins; other new/used & reman. engines available.
Thickett Engine Rebuilding, 204-532-2187, Binscarth.
8:00am-5:30pm Mon.-Fri.
STEEL SERVICE TOOLBOX FOR 1/2, 3/4 or 1-ton
truck, 6 compartment, 79” wide, 8’ long, good
shape, $1000 OBO. Phone: (204)669-9626
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Trucks
2008 Dodge Ram 2500 SLT Quad Cab Silver. Cummins Diesel, Mint condition, 85k hwy miles, never
towed (204)761-2479, flyngdutchie@hotmail.com
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Semi Trucks & Trailers
2005 VOLVO 630, 465HP, 13-spd trans, new stearing tires, 1.4m kms, truck in VGC, $24,500 OBO.
Phone: (204)325-1383 or cell (204)362-4874
2006 FREIGHTLINER HIGHWAY TRACTOR, new
rubber, can be daycabbed, fleet maintained.
$25,000; Westfield 8-30 auger w/5-hp electric motor; Westfield 7-41 auger w/gas motor. Phone:
(204)348-2064, cell (204)345-3610.
BEEKEEPING
BEEKEEPING
Bee Equipment
690 POLY SURROUNDS; 385 with nests; 75 poly
shelters, various makes. Phone: (204)435-2253.
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Roofing
WINTER
BLOWOUT!!
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
BEAT THE PRICE
INCREASES CALL NOW
TRACK & 4WD TRACTORS
2009 JD 9630T, 36" belts, shows 2,019 hrs.,
Power Guard extended engine and power
train warranty until October 2013 or
3,000 hrs., S/N902452
2002 JD 9520T, 36" belts, shows 5,071 hrs.,
S/N901115
2010 JD 9630, 4WD, shows 1,151 hrs., full
warranty until October 1, 2012, S/N18596
2002 JD 9520, 4WD, shows 4,552 hrs.,
S/N2123
2002 JD 9320, 4WD, shows 2,800 hrs., single
owner, S/N2298
1994 JD 8770, 4WD, 24 spd., shows 7,985
hrs., single owner, S/N1981
MFWD & 2WD TRACTORS
2009 JD 8345R, MFWD, shows 1,092 hrs., full
warranty until Sept. 2012 with Power Guard
extended engine and powertrain warranty
until Sept. 2014, S/N000102
2010 JD 8225R, MFWD, 1300 front, shows
690 hrs., single owner, full warranty until
March 16, 2012, S/N5288
2001 JD 7810, 2WD, shows 2,650 hrs.,
S/N60229
1982 JD 4640, powershift, shows 8,000 hrs.,
S/N30043
1981 JD 4640, powershift, shows 10,276 hrs.,
S/N22648
1974 JD 4430, quad range, shows 8,730 hrs.,
S/N30203
1974 Case 1070, 2WD, 12 spd., shows 5,260hrs.
COMBINES
2008 JD 9870, STS, 798 sep. hrs., S/N725919
2010 JD 9770, STS, 800 sep. hrs., S/N738297
2010 JD 9770, STS, 784 sep. hrs., S/N738284
2005 JD 9760, STS, 2,194 sep. hrs.,S/N710981
2004 JD 9760, STS, 2,185 sep. hrs.,S/N706988
JD rear wheel assist, off 9760, 18.4-26 tires,
S/N60074
2001 JD 9650, STS, 2,045 sep. hrs.,S/N691515
2000 JD 9650, STS, 1,730 sep. hrs.,S/685564
FLEX HEADS
2009 JD 635F flex head, 35', S/N732163
2005 JD 635F flex head, 35', S/N711337
2007 JD 635F flex head, 35', S/N721561
2007 JD 635F flex head, 35',S/NH00635F721571
2005 JD 635F flex head, 35',S/NH00635F712138
2008 JD 630F flex head, 30', S/N726284
2004 JD 630F flex head, 30', S/N706963
1998 JD 930 flex head, 30', S/N676159
DRAPER HEADS
2007 JD 936D draper head, 36', S/N721167
2005 JD 936D draper head, 36', S/N711355
PICKUP HEADS
(2) 2004 JD 914 pickup heads, JD 132"
pickups, S/N705125 & S/N705121
STEEL BUILDING SALE Inventory Discount Sale
30x40, 42x80, 100x100. Erection Available. Must Sell,
Will Deal! 40 yr paint 1-866-609-4321 Source: 1K8
Advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator. Prepay for
three weeks & receive two weeks free. Phone Charla
Rae or Kathleen at 1-800-782-0794.
BUILDINGS
10X22 OFFICE BUILDING on skids, fully insulated
wired & 2 electric heaters, laminate flooring, 2x6
roof & floor, 2x4 walls, two 36x36-in sliders, outswing door. (306)524-4636, (306)528-7588
AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post
frame building company. For estimates and information
call
1-888-816-AFAB(2322).
Website:
www.postframebuilding.com
CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place &
finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any
floor design. References available. Alexander, MB.
204-752-2069.
CLOSING: February 21
CORN HEADS
2010 Geringhoff RD, 16x22", S/N9133101622
2007 Geringhoff RD, 16x22", S/N928871622
2010 JD 612C, 12x22", S/N735799
2008 JD 612C, 12x22", S/N725233
2010 JD 608C, 8x30", S/N735691
2009 JD 608C, 8x30", S/N730332
2006 JD 1293 corn head, 12x30", S/N716207
JD 40 Series corn head, 16x22", S/N47118
JD 843 corn head, conv. 12x22", S/N1130
PLANTERS
JD DB44 vacuum planter, 24x22", S/N700104
JD 7300 vacuum planter, 12x30", S/N200402
JD 7200 planter, 12x30", S/N400646
JD 7100 planter, 12x30", S/N25087A
White 5100 planter, 12x30", S/N82001120
DRILL
Case-IH 5400 grain drill, 20', S/N441838
TILLAGE EQUIPMENT
2009 JD 2700 disc ripper, 18', 9-shank, 24"
space, S/N1010176
2005 JD 2210 field cultivator, 54.6',S/N000713
2005 JD 2210 field cultivator, 44.6', 6" space,
7" sweeps, 4-bar harrow, S/N00409
2000 JD 980 field cultivator, 44.6', 6" space,
7" sweeps, JD 3-bar harrow, S/N14452
Case-IH 4900 field cultivator, 34', 7" sweeps,
3-bar harrow, S/N67424
Summers pull-type harrow coil packer, 30',
5-bar harrow, S/N86871
Flexi-Coil System 95 coil packer, 60',S/N36311
Summers Super Coulter, 30', S/N692
IHC 710 semi-mount plow, 5x18", S/N1111
SPRAYERS
1997 JD 4700 self-propelled sprayer, 750 gal.
SS tank, 80' boom, 2,205 hrs., S/N161
2008 Top Air 1200 pull-type sprayer, 1,200
gal. poly tank, 80' boom, S/N90124
Hardi Navigator sprayer, 1,000 gal. poly tank,
80' boom, S/N4218
HEADER TRAILERS
2007 Stud King tandem axle,38', S/N2232
2007 Maurer tandem axle, 36', S/N2198
2007 Maurer tandem axle, 36', S/N5716
GRAIN CARTS
2006 Brent 1084 Avalanche, 1,050 bu.,
S/NB22610108
Unverferth 8000, 800 bu.,S/N1570102
Brent 774 , 750 bu., S/N774905
OTHER EQUIPMENT
Demco 325 gravity box, S/N10-1562
ConveyAll 240 seed tender, S/N11-220
Woods Alloway shredder, 22', S/N23934
Alloway shredder, 22', pull-type, S/N25998
1998 JD 725 loader, 108" bucket, S/N725X005685
JD 148 loader, 84" bucket, S/N49451
GATOR & LAWN/GARDEN EQUIPMENT
NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT
KIBBLE EQUIPMENT INC.  Bruce (320) 269-6466
For info contact Brad at Steffes Auctioneers (701) 237-9173
IQBID is a division of Steffes Auctioneers Inc.
2000 Main Avenue East, West Fargo, ND
(701) 237-9173 Brad Olstad ND319
See complete listing & photos online
at www.IQBID.com
ST. LAZARE, MB.
1-800-510-3303
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Building Supplies

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: This is a condensed listing. All equipment must be removed within
10 days and is located at the Montevideo, MN store. Shop fees apply for any service
assistance required outside of normal loading. For trucking info, contact
Dave at B&D Transport, (218) 334-3840.
BUSINESS SERVICES
BUSINESS SERVICES
Crop Consulting
FARM CHEMICAL SEED COMPLAINTS
We also specialize in: Crop Insurance appeals;
Chemical drift; Residual herbicide; Custom operator
issues; Equipment malfunction; Yield comparisons,
Plus Private Investigations of any nature. With our
assistance the majority of our clients have received
compensation previously denied. Back-Track
Investigations investigates, documents your loss and
assists in settling your claim.
Licensed Agrologist on Staff.
For more information
Please call 1-866-882-4779
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
1981 CASE W20B WHEEL loader, well maintained,
$23,500. www.waltersequipment.com (204)525-4521
BUILDINGS
1966 CAT 950 WHEEL loader, bucket, recent work
order sleeves, pistons, bearings & heads, 20.5x25
tires, $21,000; 853 Bobcat, bucket, very good
12-16.5 tires, recent reman engine, $12,500; 3 of
621 Cat motor scrapers, 23H series, canopy,
$25,000 each; 1975 Willock tandem axle drop LoBoy, WB suspension, 7-ft. neck, 20-ft.x9-ft. deck, 3ft.6-in. beavertail, safetied, $18,500; 1969 Freuhauff
low bed, safetied, 8-ft.x18-ft. double drop deck, 30Ton, near new 255/70R22.5 tires, beavertail,
$13,500. (204)795-9192.
1968 D7E CRAWLER, twin tilts, needs work, $12,000;
1973 Wilock triaxle low-bed, double drop, beaver
tail, $28,000; Fleco brush rake for D7E, $5500; 1982
Ford L9000 tandem truck $8000; Cat70 cable scraper
$11,000. (204)326-3109, Steinbach.
1986 KING LOWBED, DECK, 8ft 8in. wide plus
outriggers by 19ft 6in long, drop deck, beaver tail,
50-ton capacity, MB safety, triple axle, 275/70R22.5
tires, detachable gooseneck w/reconditioned cylinders, 4 new bushings in suspension, $30,000.
Phone: (204)795-9192, Plum Coulee.
CATERPILLAR D6B SER #1134, standard shift
w/Johnson bar, hydraulic angle dozer, good undercarriage, pup start, tractor in good shape, ready to
work, $15,000 OBO. Phone: (204)669-9626
WRECKING
1968
D7E
CRAWLER,
serial
#48A10609 twin tilt angle dozer, scraper winch.
Phone:(204)326-3109, Steinbach MB.
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
Fertilizer Equipment
5-TON WILLMAR FERT SPREADER w/tarp, like
new, $4,000 OBO. Phone (204)758-3897, St Jean.
FERTILIZER SPREADERS 4T, $1,000; 4T stainless, $2,500; 5T, $4,000; 6T, $3,000; 8T, $8,000;
8T Tender, $3,000; 16T Tender, $5,900; PU Sand
Spreader, $3,500. Phone (204)857-8403.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
BIG BINS & FLOORS at old prices, 20,000-56,000bu. bins holding prices until spring. NEW MOISTURE CABLES! Call Wall Grain for details
(204)269-7616 or (306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662.
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FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – John Deere
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
CUSTOM BIN MOVING: Large Flat Bottom Bins &
Hoppers. Also Buying & Selling used bins. Phone:
(204)362-7103. Email: binmovers@hotmail.com
TRACTORS FOR PARTS: IHC 1486, 1086, 886, 1066,
966, 1256, 656, 844, 806, 706, 660, 650, 560, 460,
624, 606, 504, 434, 340, 240-4, W9, WD6, W6, W4, H,
340, B-414; 275 CASE 4890, 4690, 2394, 2390, 2290,
2090, 2470, 1370, 1270, 1175, 1070, 970, 870, 1030,
930, 830, 730, 900, 800, 700, 600, 400, DC4, SC; MF
2745, 1155, 1135, 1105, 1100, 2675, 1500, 1085, 1080,
65, Super 90, 88, 202, 44, 30; JD 6400, 3140, 5020,
4020, 4010, 3020, 3010, 710; Cockshutt 1900, 1855,
1850, 1800, 1655, 1650, 560, 80, 40, 30; White 4-150,
2-105; Allis Chalmers 7045, 7040, 190XT, 190, 170,
WF; Deutz DX130, DX 85, 100-06, 90-06, 80-05; Volvo
800, 650; Universal 651, 640; Ford 7600, 6000, 5000,
Super Major, Major; Belarus 5170, 952, 825, 425; MM
602, U, M5; Versatile 700, 555, 145, 118; Steiger 210
Wildcat; Hesston 780. Also have parts for combines,
swathers, square & round balers, tillage, press drills
and other misc. machinery. Buying machinery, working
or not. MURPHY SALVAGE (204)858-2727 or toll free
1-877-858-2728
7400 JD TRACTOR, 4WD, power quad, 2795 HD
loader w/bucket & bale spear, 4 yrs old, rear tires 75%,
clean, runs well, $22,500 OBO. (204)427-3311.
FOR SALE DUE TO Quit Farming: 1) 1981 JD
8640 4WD tractor, approx 9,000-hrs, new 50 series
eng, 4 whl diff lock, triple hyds, PTO, ac/heat,
clean, $20,000; 2) 1993 Case-IH 1680 combine,
approx 2,800-hrs, Cummins PWR, specialty rotor,
chopper, hopper topper, 1015 PU, excellent, reliable, $35,000; 3) 1989 Freightliner FL112 semi
truck, 3406 CAT, 13-SPD trans, air ride suspension
& air ride cab, sleeper, very good Michelin rubber,
diff lock, very clean, $15,000; 4) 1985 Ford L9000
Feed Truck, tandem axle, Rayman Aluminum feed
body, 12-Ton 4 compartment, Cummins PWR,
large front tires, good for fert or seed tender,
$15,000; 5) 1985 Ford L8000 tandem grain truck,
20-ft. Cancade box, roll tarp, diff lock, 3208 Cat,
13-SPD trans, new PTO pump, mechanically
sound, needs paint, $15,000; 6) Ezee-on 33-ft. Air
Drill, double shoot, Model 2175-bu. cart, tow behind, hyd fan drive, 8-in. spacing, excellent, low
acs, $35,000; 7) 1989 CI 722 swather, approx
1,900-hrs, 25-ft. UII PU reel, Isuzu DSL, joystick
control, good canvas, ac/heat, $15,000; 8) 1981 JD
2750 tractor, 2 whl drive, new motor, c/w Allied
FEL, joystick control, PTO, 3-pt. new rubber, new
clutch, new starter, $19,000; 9) Farm King MD
swing away auger, 60-ft. low profile hopper, hyd
hopper mover, $4,000; 10) 4 misc augers, 5-HP
electric 30-40-ft., $500 each; 11) Snowblower Farm
King 8-ft., 3-pt., double auger, hyd chute, $1,800.
Prices negotiable for more info contact Claude
(204)744-2501 home or (204)825-0001 cell.
WANTED: USED NEW STYLE grain bin doors
complete. Also 18 gauge side panels for standard
19-ft. bins. Phone Bill (204)763-4390 or leave msg.
WESTEEL ROSCOE GRAIN BINS, 3 3350-bushel,
$2500 OBO; 2 3850-bushel $3000 OBO. All to be moved,
good shape, Morris area. Phone: (204)669-9626.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Cleaners
HARVEY GISELLE 5-IN-1 GRAIN cleaner. Phone:
(204)755-2244
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Dryers
NEW GSI GRAIN DRYERS FOR SALE. Canola
screens, propane/NG, single or 3-phase. Efficient,
reliable, and easy to operate. Significant early order
discount pricing now in effect. Call for more information. 204-998-9915 www.vzgrain.com
NEW MC DRYERS IN STOCK w/canola screens
300-2,000 BPH units. Why buy used, when you get
new fuel efficient & better quality & control w/MC.
Call Wall Grain for details (204)269-7616 or
(306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662.
WANTED: 570-BU. OR LARGER batch dryer.
Phone (204)655-3458.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Elevators
80-FT. BUCKET ELEVATING LEG w/3 phase
10-HP electric motor. Phone (204)886-3304.
FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Baling
2007 956 HESSTON ROUND baler, c/w Agco GTA
monitor, constant moisture readout, has less than
5000 bales, shedded, excellent condition, $16,500
OBO. Phone: (204)325-1383 or cell (204)362-4874
2009 2150 HESSTON SERIES, 3x3 large square
baler. Always shedded, total bales, 2500, used two
seasons, asking $65,000 cdn OBO; 1982 1069 NH
diesel bale wagon, c/w 1028S mil-STAK 3x3 loader
arm, 354 Perkins engine w/redone fuel system last
season. Always shedded. paint & rubber in good
condition, AC/CD stereo, very nice wagon, well
maintained ready to go to work, asking $45,000 cdn
obo. email sdryden@rfnow.com or contact Steve
Dryden (204)838-2352, Virden, MB.
CASE-IH 8575 LARGE SQUARE Baler, GC; Inland
4000 square bale picker, GC; 2004 1475 NH haybine,
VGC. Phone (204)467-5984 leave msg, Stonewall.
Tractors Combines Swathers
FYFE PARTS
Combines
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Case/IH
2008 5710 BOURGAULT AIRDRILL, updated to 5810,
comes w/6550 Bourgault tank, done 6500 acres,
$168,000, OBO. Phone:(204)352-4037, evenings.
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – John Deere
1991 JD 9600 COMBINE, 914 PU, sunny brook cyl,
fore & aft, grain star moisture & bushels, 3,000-hrs, A1
condition, $48,000 OBO. (204)758-3897, ST Jean.
2005 JD 9760 STS combine, 1100-hrs, duals, contour w/2009 JD 635F flex head, $144,500. Phone:
(507)993-0720 .
2011 JD 9770 COMBINE, Premier cab, 615 PU,
small grains concave, Contour Master, 22.5-ft. auger, duals, 55 engine hrs, like new. Phone
(204)467-2109, after 8:00pm
FOR SALE: JD 7700 combine, D, equipped to do
hemp, trade for 500-bu. of Canola or cash; JD 8820
Titan II, good condition, trade for Canola.
(204)655-3458.
Combine ACCessories
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Accessories
2000 JD 930 FLEX platform PU reel, full finger auger, poly skids, reconditioned, $17,900 OBO; 2006
JD 635 Flex, PU reel, FF auger, poly skids, single
pt, looks like new, $27,900 OBO; 2000 JD 925 Flex,
PU reel, FF auger, poly skids, real nice, $15,900
OBO; 2007 JD 630 flex, PU reel, FF auger, poly
skids, single pt, beautiful platform, $28,900 OBO;
Over 20 Platforms in stock, many more coming in,
all makes. Garry (204)326-7000, Steinbach, MB.
www.reimerfarmequipment.com
The Real Used FaRm PaRTs
sUPeRsToRe
Over 2700 Units for Salvage
• TRACTORS • COMBINES
• SWATHERS • DISCERS
Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN
(306) 946-2222
monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
WATROUS SALVAGE
WaTRoUs, sK.
Fax: 306-946-2444
STEINBACH, MB.
Ph. 326-2443
Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727
Fax (204) 326-5878
Web site: farmparts.ca
E-mail: roy@farmparts.ca
FARM MACHINERY
Salvage
GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528
or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.
FARM MACHINERY
Specialty Equipment
POTATO EQUIPMENT SPECIALISTS seed cutters,
treaters, live bottom truck boxes, trailers, pilers, conveyors, clodhoppers & much more. Visit our website at
www.gallantsales.com Call Dave 204-254-8126.
Spraying EquipmEnt
FARM MACHINERY
Sprayers
1982 HAGIE 647 HIGH-CLEARANCE 4WD diesel
Sprayer, 80-ft updated boom, 500-gal, MT flow control, outback guidance, new nozzles, $9000OBO;
MF200 Swather, 30-ft, 1500-hrs, updated knifedrive, VGC, $19,000OBO. (204)529-2104.
2001 NH SF550 SPRAYER equivalent to Rogator
554, 2,300-hrs, 5.9 Cummins, 660-gal. SS tank, 90-ft.
booms, pressure washer, chem inductor, EZ steer, EZ
boom, mapping. Triple nozzle bodies w/5 & 10-gal Bubblejet Tips, 2 sets of tires, 23.1x26 & 9.5R44, excellent
condition, $78,000. (204)763-8896, Minnedsoa, MB.
HYTRUX SPRAYER W/2000 F-350 std trans
5-SPD, 5.4L gas engine, 90-ft. F/S sprayer w/hyd
fold & hyd boom height control, 750 US gal tank,
TeeJet 844-E auto rate controller, 2 sets of tires,
sprayer is 5 yrs old; 1996 Flexicoil 65 100-ft. sprayer
w/windscreens,
manual
controls.
Call
(204)523-7215 leave msg, Killarney.
Tillage & Seeding
BOURGAULT 8800 AIR SEEDER, 24ft, 2130 tank, w/
harrows & knock-on shovels. Phone: (204)326-9861.
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Seeding
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
WISCONSIN MOTOR PARTS FOR VG4D: crank
shaft, heads, fly wheel, starter, manifold and carb,
$1000 OBO. Phone: (204)669-9626
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Tillage
JD 7000 8-ROW 30-IN. planter, c/w dry fertilizer attachment, bean cups, 200 monitor, always shedded, $6000
OBO. Phone: (204)325-1383 or cell (204)362-4874.
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Tillage
FOR SALE: 3400 WIL-RICH field cultivator, 50.5-ft,
4 row harrows, excellent condition; 2001 Flexi-Coil
5000 air seeder, 57-ft, 7.2-inch spacing, rubber
packer, tow-between 2340 tank, like new.
Phone:(204)324-9300 or 324-7622.
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.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Various
Big Tractor Parts,
Inc.
“For All Your Farm Parts”
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Air Seeders
HEADERS, TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
charles@arcfab.ca www.arcfab.ca
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – 2 Wheel Drive
Geared For
The Future
www.fyfeparts.com
Rebuilt Concaves
Check out A & I online parts store
www.pennosmachining.com
KUBOTA MFWA BOTTLE M125X 3-PTH, LH reverser, loader, 1,400-hrs, new front tires, nice clean
unit. Call (306)538-2153, Whitewood.
1-800-667-9871 • Regina
1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon
1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg
1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton
Large Inventory of
new and remanufactured parts
Eden, MB 204-966-3221
Fax: 204-966-3248
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Kubota
1-866-729-9876
5150 Richmond Ave. East
BRANDON, MB.
www.harvestsalvage.ca
New, Used & Re-man. Parts
NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS
NEW COMBINE PARTS
Penno’s Machining & Mfg. Ltd.
FOR SALE: JD 7520 3 hyds & PTO, in good working order, $6,900 OBO. Phone (204)655-3458.
Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd.
FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Various
Rebuild combine table augers
Rebuild hydraulic cylinders
Roller mills regrooved
MFWD housings rebuilt
Steel and aluminum welding
Machine Shop Service
Line boreing and welding
7810 MFWD, PQ, LHR, 3-pt, new tires; 7710
MFWD, PQ, LHR, 3-pt, new tires; 7210 MFWD, PQ,
LHR, 3-pt, w/740 FEL grapple; 4650 MFWD, 3-pt,
15-SPD; 4455 MFWD, 3-pt, 15-SPD; 4450 MFWD,
3-pt, 15-SPD; 2, 4250 MFWD, 3-pt, 15-SPD; 2950
MFWD, 3-pt, w/260 s/l FEL; 4440 quad, 3-pt, fact
duals; 2555 CAH, 3-pt, 4,600-hrs, w/146 FEL; 3140
3-pt, new paint, tires, hi/low shift, mint; 1830 3-pt,
front weights 30, 40, 50 series. We also have loaders, buckets, grapples to fit JD tractors. BEN PETERS JD TRACTORS LTD 204-828-3628 shop,
204-750-2459 cell, Roseisle.
Gauge Wheel Solutions
ridgelandmanufacturing.ca
Phone: 1-204-866-3558
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Various
2003 JD 53-FT. air drill w/3-in. Dutch openers 4-in.
rubber packers, 8 manifold, dual markers, sold
w/2003 JD 1910 270-bus tow behind air cart, Seed
Star control, 8-in. fill auger, Immaculate. Offered for
sale prior to Dee Zee Farms Ltd Retirement Auction
June 12th, 2012. To view please contact Murray
Rankin Auctions (204)534-7401 Killarney, MB.
28-FT. IHC 6200 DOUBLE disc seed drill w/rubber
press wheels & grass seed attachment. Fertilizer
partition, reversed for grain only. All faulty disc
bearings replaced. Field ready. Includes transport
trailer. Best offer. Phone (204)736-2723, Sanford.
8-ROW JD 7200 VACUUM planter, 36-in. spacing,
dry fert & row cleaners, $7,500; 8-row Alloway cultivator, $1,200; Elmers 8-row band sprayer, $1,200;
Phone (204)857-8400, Portage.
TracTors
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Allis/Deutz
1987 DUETZ 7085 FWA, open-station, 85hp,
5900-hrs, Allied 794 FEL $18,000. (204)525-4521
www.waltersequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Case/IH
1988 CASE-IH 7130 TRACTOR, 4900-hrs, MFD,
duals, $38,000 OBO. Phone: (204)352-4037
INTL INDUSTRIAL 484 W/INDUSTRIAL loader factory cab & air, 4,500 actual hrs, tractor is in excellent
condition, price $13,500. Phone (204)853-7755, Wpg.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Steiger
1975 STEIGER BEARCAT II, Cat engine 320B,
4WD, 210-HP, 3,636-hrs, tires 18.4-38, $18,500.
Call (204)736-3954.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – John Deere
1982 JD 1040 W/CAB 3-PTH, JD 175 loader,
$12,900 OBO. Garry (204)326-7000, Steinbach,
MB. www.reimerfarmequipment.com
1995 JD 7200 MFWD 3-PTH, JD 740 loader, joystick, 7-ft. bucket, grapple, high hrs but excellent
shape, free shipping in MB or SK, $42,900 OBO.
Garry (204)326-7000, Steinbach, MB. www.reimerfarmequipment.com
2003 JD 6420 W/640 FEL bucket & grapple, joystick,
24-SPD trans, new front tires, 3-PTH, 8,000-hrs, asking
$45,000 OBO. Call (204)739-3759 or (204)762-5913.
2004 JD 7320 MFWD 3-PTH, JD 740 loader, joystick, 7-ft. bucket, LH reverser, 16x16 partial powershift trans, 3,820-hrs, free shipping in MB or SK,
$67,900 OBO. Garry (204)326-7000, Steinbach,
MB. www.reimerfarmequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALIST
RED OR GREEN
1. 10-25% savings on new replacement
parts for your Steiger drive train.
2. We rebuild axles, transmissions
and dropboxes with ONE YEAR
WARRANTY.
3. 50% savings on used parts.
1-800-982-1769
www.bigtractorparts.com
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
1983 CASE 2390 TRACTOR, duals, 4,200-hrs;
1983 MF 850 combine, DSL; MF 560 round baler.
Phone (204)268-4317.
1983 MF 860 COMBINE, 9001 belt PU, chopper,
chaff spreader, 24.5x32 tires, rear traction tires, rebuilt engine, new rad, VGC, always shedded,
$7,800; JD 800 SWATHER, 18-ft. head, good
shape, $900; JD 9350 PRESS DRILLS 2x10 rubber
press, fert attach & markers, 1981 god condition,
$3,500; JD 7000 PLANTER 8x36, fert attach &
markers,
good
conditioner,
$3,500.
Phone
(204)828-3396, Graysville.
1997 JD 9600 COMBINE w/914 PU header, 1,980
sep hrs, VGC, $69,000; 1984 Vers 895 tractor,
9,000-hrs, runs great, $18,000 or take the Outback
S2 & autosteer too for $24,000. Phone
(204)386-2284, Plumas.
2160 LUCKNOW VERTICAL MIXER wagon, new
2006, good condition, always shedded; New Holland 195 spreader, balloon tires, good shape, farmuse only; approx 700 Broam alfalfa mix, 1st & 2nd
cut, large round bales. Phone:(204)264-0099,
(204)576-0071.
70-FT. SUMMERS HEAVY HARROW, $15,000;
Phoenix 42/53-ft. harrow, flexheads I-H 820,
$2,000; 1020 25-ft., $6,000; 30-ft., $8,500; JD 925,
$6,500; 12 wheel rake, $6,000; 14 wheel, $7,000;
Vermeer hyd rake, $4,000; NH 9-ft. mower $2,200;
IH 9-ft., $1,800; Haybuster 256+2 shredder, 4,000lb creep feeder, $1,200; Harsh 350 feedmixer cart,
$6,000; Roorda feed cart, $2,000; 12-yd. JD scraper, $12,000; Haybuster 106 rockpicker, $2,500.
Phone (204)857-8403.
SCRAPERS FOR SALE!!! Cat, Laplante, Allis, Letourneau, converted to hyd., can direct mount. Will
also do custom conversion. Looking for cable
scrapers. Phone Borderview Enterprises toll free
1-866-602-4093.
USED EQUIPMENT: 1995 JD tractor 8300 MFWD,
3PT, P/S, less than 5800-hrs $77,500; Brand new
2011 Parker 739 grain cart w/tarp SALE PRICE
$24,900; 2004 JD 630F SALE PRICE $20,500;
2004 JD 635F SALE PRICE $23,900. Please visit
website at www.genag.com or call Shelton Kehler
701-330-7401 or Tom Wiebe 204-312-0604
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Wanted
CCIL 24-26-FT. DEEP TILLER w/mulchers in good
condition, model 806 or 807. Phone (204)662-4580,
Cromer, MB.
CEREAL IMPLEMENTS 808 & 379 cultivators
w/mounted harrows. Phone (306)554-2615.
JD MODEL R, ser #19735, any condition; Pony
motor or parts for JD R & JD 70; Fenders or parts
tractor JD model 80. Phone: 204-851-0344.
WANTED: ALLIED 795 LOADER to fit 1175 Case.
Phone (204)781-7988.
WANTED: GOOD USED 20X8X38 radial tires, no
cracks; Older tow between air cart; 5-HP, 10-HP or
larger 220V single phase electric motor; 6-in. or 7in. grain augers for dismantle; Behlin grain bin panels. (204)655-3458
Running Classified Ads? Take the common
sense, cost effective approach. Run your classified
ad in Western Canada’s leading farm papers and get
more for less!! Call us TOLL FREE 1-800-782-0794
FENCING
FREE STANDING PANELS FOR SALE: 30ft 5-bar
panels, made out of 2 7/8” pipe $425/panel. Phone
Brent (204)642-3026
GENERATORS
DIESEL GENERATOR SET. BF8M1015C, rebuilt
Deutz Diesel, 400 KW, 60 cycle, 600 Vac. New
generator, automatic shut down, $29,000. Blue Ball,
PA (717)351-5081
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
The Icynene Insulation
System®
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
CO-OP DISCER & SEED drills; parting out tractors
& combines; cultivated farm land for rent; standing
spruce timber; tractor tires & rims; 1/2 Ton truck &
car. (204)268-1888.
FOR SALE: ACD15; JD420C; NH499 hay bine; 2003
258 hayrake. Phone:(204)828-3269 leave msg.
FOR SALE: MODEL 246 hyd Haukaas markers;
14-ft. Lode King Industry drill fill; JD grill guard for
front wheel assist tractor. Phone (204)825-2867.
HARMAN HARROW BAR 61-FT., good condition,
$900. Phone (204)825-8354 or (204)825-2784.
MANURE SPREADERS NH 195, $5,500; NH 500bu, $9,000; New Idea 3634, $4,000; H & S 400-bu.,
$3,500; Gehl scavenger, $2,500; JD 1,500-gal slurry, $2,500; Meyers 550 for poultry horse, sheep
manure, $11,900; Henke 36-in. rollermill, $5,000;
Farmhand mixmill, $1,500; Allied 2795 loader,
$4,500; Dual 340 loader, $2,000; Dual 320 loader,
$1,500. Phone (204)857-8403.
Model 700 Leon Loader 7-ft bucket with grapple fork,
mounts to fit 7020 Allis Chalmers, could be altered.
Hydraulic controls and joy stick. Excellent Condition.
$5,500 OBO (204)646-2082
www.penta.ca
1-800-587-4711
IRON & STEEL
2 1/8, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2-in oilfield pipe; 3/4, 7/8, 1in sucker rod; 4.5, 5.5, 7-in., 8 5/8, 9 5/8s casing
pipe. (204)252-3413, (204)871-0956.
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, taking Spring bookings. For
special pricing call Art (204)685-2628 or cell
(204)856-3440.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
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LIVESTOCK
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
The Commercial Cattlemen’s
One Stop Bull Shop
BRED COW SALE
McMillen Ranching Ltd.
18th Annual Bull Sale
With Select Females
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
DENBIE RANCH IS PROUD to offer an excellent
set of long-yearling and yearling bulls for sale. We
have a great group of Red Angus bulls along with a
good selection of hybrid bulls, who are half-bred
Angus & half-Simmental. The long yearlings are the
perfect age bulls, developed on grass so they will
stand up for a long time and big enough to go out
and breed any size of cow with no problems! The
yearling bulls are also a great group out of breed
leading A.I. sires as well as our own herd sires!
Contact Denbie Ranch at (204)447-2473, or
447-7608 and 447-7057.
PB YEARLING SIMMENTAL BULLS, 9 Red, 1
Black, from Top Performance AI Sires. Birth
weights 80-106-lbs, yearling weights 1,400-lb average. Weaning weight gain per day 3.47-lbs. Weaning to yearling gain 4.44-lbs per day. Will keep till
Spring. Wilcox Simmentals (204)723-2735, Ernie
cell (204)526-7183, Pat cell (204)526-7060.
Friday, February 24, 2012 11AM
Complete Herd Dispersal for
Hatch Farms
240 Red/Black Cows bred
Black Simmental start calving
March 20 (approximately)
12 Black Simmental Bulls
Heartland Livestock
Services Brandon
Phone: 204-727-1431
FEEDER/SLAUGHTER SALES
Every Friday 8AM
Receiving open until 11PM Thursdays
Presale Sundays
BRED COW/FEEDER/SLAUGHTER SALE
Monday, February 27 9AM
SHEEP & GOAT SALE
1st & 3rd Thursday of Every Month
March 1st 1PM
Gates Open
Mon.-Wed. 8AM-4PM
Thurs. 8AM-11PM
Friday 8AM-6PM
Sat. 8AM-4PM
For more information call: 204-694-8328
or Jim Christie 204-771-0753
www.winnipeglivestocksales.com
Licence #1122
GLADSTONE AUCTION MART LTD
ONE IRON BRED COW SALE
Fri Mar 2 11:00AM
For Reiner Bros Farms Ltd of Plumas MB
-----------------------------------------------------------Complete herd dispersal of 300 cows
170 are Red Simmental cross cows bred Char
130 are Tan Char X cows bred Red Simmental
The Bulls were turned out Jul 3rd
to start calving mid April
This herd is on Verified Beef program
These cows have been treated with Pyramid 5
prior to breeding and Ivomeced
75 percent of these cows had 6 calves or less
-----------------------------------------------------------Plus, 4 white PB Charolais Bulls
from Pleasant Dawn Charolais
3 PB Red Simmental Bulls
1 Full blood Simmental Bull
Simmental Bulls are from Kopp Simmentals
All Bulls are papered & will be semen tested
before the sale
-----------------------------------------------------------Owners Richard & Murray Reiner
For more info Phone The Mart (204)385-2537
Manager Gerald McGowan (204)385-2043
Auctioneer Dave Nickel (204)637-3393
License #1108
KILLARNEY AUCTION MART LTD
UPCOMING SALES
Regular cattle sales every Monday
BRED COW SALE
FEBRUARY 23 11:30
Garth Freeman
35 Red & Tan cows bred Red Angus
Bulls out June 1
Arvid & Allison Dalzell
25 Sim X cows Bred Simmental
Bulls out July 6
Upcoming Sale
February 27 - Angus Influence
For more information or to consign to
upcoming sales call 204-523-8477
Or visit the website at
killarneyauctionmart.com
DEALER LICENCE #1361
At the Ranch, Carievale, Sask.
at 1:00 p.m.
150 Bulls Sell
• 50 Red Polled Simmental
• 40 Black Polled Simmental
• 15 Red & Black Simm/Angus
• 10 FB Fleckvieh Simmental
• 35 Registered Red Angus
• 17 Open Purebred Females
Free Delivery, Semen Tested,
Sight Unseen Buyer’s Program
For more info or
Catalogue Contact:
Lee (306) 928-4820,
Dave (306) 928-2249,
Jim (306) 928-4636
Email: mrl@sasktel.net
Catalogue at: mrlranch.com
Performance & Calving ease
bulls in every category
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
BRED RED & BLACK Angus Heifers, Registered, AI &
bull dates avail. Start calving Apr 1. Call after 7:00pm for
more info. Doug (204)467-5093, Stonewall.
HAMCO CATTLE CO. 14TH Annual Angus Bull
Sale, Sat. March 17th, 2012 (1:00pm) at the farm
South of Glenboro, MB. Selling approx. 70 yearling
& 20, 2-yr old Red Angus & 25 yearling & 5, 2-yr old
Black Angus bulls. Many are AI & some are ET.
Free board till spring, semen tested, free delivery,
delayed payment plan. Call for catalogue or view
online at: www.hamcocattleco.com. Albert, Glen &
Larissa Hamilton (204)827-2358 or (204)526-0705;
Dr David Hamilton (204)822-3054 or (204)325-3635
STEWART CATTLE CO. & GUESTS BULL SALE
50 Black Angus bulls & 4 Simm X Angus bulls, February 23, 2012 at 1:30pm Neepawa Ag-plex, Neepawa, MB. Contact Brent Stewart (204)773-2356
home, (204)773-6392 cell. View catalogue online at
www.stewartcattle.com
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
BLACK ANGUS HEIFERS FOR SALE bred to
Black Angus bulls, start calving about Apr 6th,
2012. Dale Smith (204)876-4798, Snowflake, MB.
BLACK ANGUS & POLLED Hereford bulls for
sale, yearling & 2 yr olds. Semen tested, performance records & delivery available. Call Don Guilford (204)873-2430, Clearwater.
BOTANY ANGUS & LEANING SPRUCE STOCK
FARMS have for sale yearling Black Angus bulls.
These bulls are fed a grower ration. For performance information and prices contact Ryan. Come
early, a deposit will hold your purchase until spring.
Contact Ryan Shearer (204)824-2151 or Lyall Edgerton (204)483-2913.
CATTLEMAN’S
CONNECTION
BULL
SALE
March 2, 2012, Heartland Livestock, Brandon. For
catalogue or more information call BROOKMORE
ANGUS, Jack Hart (204)476-2607, (204)476-6696
or email brookmoreangus@mts.net
CRANBERRY CREEK ANGUS BULLS for sale. Bulls
are Reg. & will be semen tested before delivery May
1st. Hand fed & very quiet. These bulls are beefy & will
add pounds to your calf crop. Please call for weights
& EPD’s. Pics by e-mail also avail David & Jeanette
Neufeld (204)534-2380, Boissevain.
FOR SALE: 5 TWO yr old Black Angus Bulls w/experience; 15 Black Angus yearling bulls. Phone
Holloway Angus (204)741-0070 or (204)483-3622
Souris, MB.
OSSAWA ANGUS AT MARQUETTE, MB has yearling
bulls for sale. For more info phone (204)375-6658.
REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS BRED heifers for
sale bred to Black Angus bull. Due to start calving late
March. Call Don Guilford (204)873-2430, Clearwater.
REMEMBER, IT’S A SHORT HAUL TO THE KILLARNEY
AUCTION MART, WHERE BUYER SUPPORT IS
EXCELLENT, AND CUSTOMER SERVICE IS #1!!!
TOPVIEW ACRES HAS 20 Black Angus bulls for
sale. Free delivery & board until April 1st. For pictures and information call (204)546-2150 or
(204)648-3280. Email: kltopham@goinet.ca
Mar Mac & Guests
Annual Bull Sale
March 7, 2012 1:30PM
at Mar Mac Farms, Brandon
Guests:
Downhill Simmentals
Perkin Land & Cattle
Magnusville Farm
PRAIRIELANE FARMS LTD
80 lots of thick functional
Beefy Red & Black Simmental,
Red & Black Angus Bulls.
These bulls are selected for feed
efficiency, temperament
& structural soundness.
Bulls are semen tested &
ready to go to work.
Only the top end of our bull crop sell.
Call Mar Mac Farms
204-728-3058
or view bulls online at
www.marmacfarms.net
F BAR & ASSOCIATES ANGUS bulls for sale.
Choose from a good selection of 2 yr old and yearling Red & Black Angus bulls. Above-average
EPD’s, good genetics, easy handling, semen tested, delivery available. Call for sales list or other details. Inquiries & visitors welcome. We are located
in Eddystone, MB, about 20 miles east of Ste Rose,
or 25 miles west of Lake Manitoba Narrows, just off
Hwy 68. Contact Allen & Merilyn Staheli
(204)448-2124, Email: amstaheli@inethome.ca
REGISTERED PB RED ANGUS bulls, 2 yr olds &
yearlings w/low birth weights. Phone: Ren-Ele Red
Angus, (204)526-2424, Bruxelles.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
18 MTH OLD POLLED PB Charolais bulls for sale. To
view the bulls check our website www.reddiamondfarm.com We semen test, guarantee & deliver. Phone
Michael Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.
CHAROLAIS BULLS, MAINLY 2-YEAR olds,
polled & Horned, Red factor & white. Excellent performance, good feet & above average testicular development. Some semen tested & used in 2011.
Bulls fed to grow but have longevity. Semen tested
& delivered. Ian Milliken. Reston. Phone:
(204)877-3346, email imilliken@mts.net.
DEFOORT STOCK FARM HAS 1 of the largest
groups of Charolais bulls for sale private treaty in
MB. Selling both White & Red factor, moderate birth
weights, performance tested & semen tested. 32
yrs in the business. Check out our website for both
pics & info www.defoortstockfarm.com Phone Gord
& Sue (204)743-2109 anytime.
FOR SALE: 6 YR Old Red Charolais bull, good.
Phone Rae (204)526-2169.
FOR SALE: PB CHAROLAIS bulls 1.5 yr olds &
yearlings, Polled, some Red factor, some good for
heifers, semen tested in Spring, guaranteed & delivered. R&G McDonald Livestock (204)466-2883 or
(204)724-2811, Sidney, MB.
FOR SALE: PB REG Charolais bulls 1 & 2 yr olds
avail. All are polled, moderate birthweights & semen
tested. Sunny Ridge Stock Farm (204)824-2115,
Wawanesa, MB.
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1:00 pm on the farm
12 miles west of Souris, MB
Contact:
Blaine Canning 204-858-2475
Michael Canning 204-858-2457
or visit website at
www.prairielaneangus.com
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
18 MTH OLD PB Red & Black Angus bulls for sale.
To view the bulls check our website www.reddiamondfarm.com We semen test, guarantee & deliver. Phone
Michael Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.
KINARED RED ANGUS OFFERS about 50 2 yr old bulls
for sale, complete performance data, guaranteed, semen
tested, delivery available. Come select your bulls early,
$500 deposit will hold your bull until Spring. Vaughan &
Judy Greenslade (204)239-6891, Portage la Prairie.
SIMMENTAL BULLS FOR SALE by private treaty.
Reds & Fullbloods available. Will keep until Spring.
To view call HOMESTEAD-T SIMMENTALS
(204)248-2008, (204)750-1147, or (204)750-1039
Notre Dame, MB
WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT group of Polled, all
Red & Red Blazed face yearling Simmental bulls.
FULLY GUARANTEED. Select your bull now & at
our expense we will feed them, semen test & deliver them when you need them. 5-mi south of Wpg.
Riverbank Farms, Ray Cormier (204)736-2608.
Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds.
Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our
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LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
115 OPEN HEIFERS FOR sale: Blacks, Reds &
some Charolais, can take possession by mid
March. If interested phone David Johnson
(204)873-2692 evenings or (204)825-7752 day.
12 SIMMENTAL-CROSS, 1ST, 2ND & 3rd calvers,
start calving March 1st, $1300 you pick or $1200
takes all; Also 12 quality replacement heifers,
$1000 each. Phone:(204)825-4289.
20 RED ANGUS X cows bred Red Angus, start
calving May 1st, $1200. Phone Art Langrell
(204)383-5974 or cell (204)461-1662.
30 RED ANGUS X cows bred Red Angus and easy
calving Simmental bulls, start calving July/August.
Phone: (204)325-8691 or (204)325-2820.
35 RED ANGUS/CHAR X bred heifers $1400; 20
mature Char X bred cows $1100. Phone Larry
(204)267-2438 or (204)871-0867, Oakville.
COMPLETE DISPERSAL: 210 excellent bred heifers & 60 2nd calvers Red & Black Angus X, bred
Charolais and Red Angus. Also 130 very good Char
X cows, bred Charolais. All done Pfizer Gold. Call
(204)447-0184.
LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO feed calve & pasture cows for the 2012 season. Mostly Black Angus
cows, starting to calve Apr 15th. Call Darrell
(204)937-3719, Roblin, MB.
MIXED BREED BEEF HERD, bred to 5 yr old PB Red
Angus bull, calving Apr 2012. Would consider 50/50
lease share. Brandon area preferred. (204)571-1254.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Gelbvieh
WANTED: NEW BORN HOLSTEIN bull calves, on
an ongoing basis. Call Howard (204)483-2990.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Shorthorn
3 & 4 YR old mature bulls for sale. Proven breeders
in excellent condition. 2 Roans & 1 White. The perfect choice for Black cows. Greg Tough
(204)748-3136 or Monty Thomson (204)771-7205.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
IN PURSUIT OF PERFECTION BULL SALE: Selling 100 Red & Black Simmentals, Red & Black Angus and Bestbeef Hybrid bulls March 8, 2012 at
Spring Creek Ranch near Moosomin, SK. Contact:
Spring Creek Simmentals/Red Rose Angus, Brian
McCarthy (306)435-3590 or Black Sand Cattle Co.
Craig Davidson (204)761-5991. www.springcreeksimmentals.com and www.blacksandcattle.com
WANTED: BRED
(204)281-1985.
PB
DORPER
ewes. Phone
LIVESTOCK
Sheep For Sale
YEARLING EWES EXPOSE to ram Nov-Dec. Suffolk & Suffolk crosses, Cheviet & Cheviet crosses.
(204)467-7401
Horses
LIVESTOCK
Horses For Sale
TEAM OF WELL MATCHED 2 yr old fillies, 1 Thoroughbred/Percheron born June 2010, 1 performance horse registry born April 2010. Both registered w/NAERIC. For more information call Gerald
(807)482-2980.
Swine
LIVESTOCK
Swine For Sale
PUREBRED BERKSHIRE TAMWORTH, CHESTER White Boars & Guilts for sale. Nationwide delivery
available.
Contact
Troy
Callingridge
(204)828-3317,
(204)379-2004
or
cells
(204)750-2759 (204)750-1493.
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
WANTED:
BUTCHER
HOGS
SOWS AND BOARS
FOR EXPORT
ALTERNATIVE POWER BY SUNDOG SOLAR, portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call
for pricing on solar systems, wind generators, aeration,
powerflex fencing products. Carl Driedger, (204)5562346 or (204)851-0145, Virden.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Holstein
POLLED SALERS BULLS on farm at Douglas Test
Station & Lundar Bull Sale. Red or Black, hand fed,
quiet. BW from 78-lbs. Top performance genetics in
Canada. Ken Sweetland (204)762-5512, Lundar MB.
LIVESTOCK
Sheep – Dorper
2002 GEHL 8285 SILAGE wagon, $9000. Phone:
(306)898-2123.
POLLED HEREFORD & BLACK Angus bulls for
sale, yearlings & 2 yr olds available. Semen tested,
performance records & delivery available. Call Don
Guilford (204)873-2430, Clearwater.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Salers
Contact:
D.J. (Don) MacDonald
Livestock Ltd.
License #1110
1300 JAYLOR SINGLE SCREW mixer wagon, side
unload, good scale, $5000; 7400 JD tractor, 4WD,
power quad, 2795 HD loader w/bucket & bale
spear, 4 yrs old, rear tires 75%, clean, runs well,
$22,500 OBO. (204)427-3311.
2-YEAR OLD POLLED HEREFORD bull. $2000.
Phone:(780)203-2653, Morinville, AB.
2 YR OLD & yearling Black Maine-Anjou bulls for
sale. Low birth weights, good performance, all guaranteed, delivered in Spring. Phone (204)523-8408
800-1000 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Don: 528-3477, 729-7240
LIVESTOCK
Livestock Equipment
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
TWIN OAK LIMOUSIN & Twin Meadow Livestock
farms has Red Polled yearling bulls, birth weights
84-97-lbs, ADG 2.73-3.48. Selected for performance,
moderate frame, calving ease, excellentdisposition &
body length. Will keep until needed. Call Gary or Josie
(204)723-2275 or Tracey (204)723-2386.
300-700 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400
Ben: 721-3400
Specialty
POLLED YEARLING GELBVIEH BULLS, Red &
Black, semen tested & delivered. Also check our
bulls out at Douglas Bull Test Station & Lundar Bull
Sale. For more info phone Lee at Maple Grove
Gelbvieh (204)278-3255.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Limousin
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HIGH COST OF
MARKETING
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LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Maine-Anjou
34th ANNUAL
BULL AND HEIFER SALE
PRAIRIE PARTNERS BULL & FEMALE SALE,
MARCH 13/2012, KILLARNEY AUCTION MART. 38
low birth weight, polled power house meat machines.
Red, Black, Fullblood Fleckvieh. Also a select group of
20 PB & Commercial open heifers. View bulls online at
www.bouchardlivestock.com For information/catalogue
or video call Fraser Redpath (204)529-2560, Gordon
Jones (204)535-2273, Brian Bouchard (403)813-7999,
Wilf Davis (204)834-2479
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Wanted
FOR SALE: 285 LUCKNOW mix wagon w/scales,
in good shape, $13,000. Phone:(204)648-3983 or
(204)638-7634.
AGE VERIFICATION
OF CULL COWS
YES OR NO
The following are average prices
paid by P. Quintaine at Ashern,
Virden & Brandon for the week of
January 16, 2012
Age-verified cows: $63.45
No age-verified: $60.61
Diff. of $2.84x1544lbs.=$43.84/cow
Remember: If all cows were age
verified & open for bids from U.S.
packers, they would all be at the
higher price. Also, if no cows were
age-verified so U.S. packers were
eliminated, here is a market report
form the week of Jan. 28, 2004:
D1 & D2 cows $15.00 - $28.25
If you have cull cows born after
March 1, 1999 & you know their
age, just supply the information to
your local Ag. Rep, or Tara Fulton
at 204-612-3994. They will do the
computer work at NO Charge.
Others in the industry may advise
against age verifying. This makes
our strong Kosher & Halal slaughter orders in the U.S. of no value to
you.
FOR SALE: PALLISER CATTLE oiler, like new,
used only 1 yr. Phone (204)886-2142.
HEAVY BUILT CATTLE FEED bunks & troughs
3/8” thick steel, 500-gal capacity, 3.5ft x 16.5ft,
good for grain, silage or water, easily moved.
(204)362-0780, Morden.
KELLN SOLAR SUMMER/WINTER WATERING System, provides water in remote areas, improves water
quality, increases pasture productivity, extends dugout
life. St. Claude/Portage, 204-379-2763.
PORTABLE WINDBREAKS, CALF SHELTERS,
free standing rod & pipe panels, fence line & field
silage bunks. Also sell Speed-Rite & 7L Livestock
fence equipment, drill pipe & sucker rod. Phone
(204)827-2104 or (204)827-2551, Glenboro.
SUPER TRAIL FEED BUCKET Quick
Attach; Orbit motor driven 7ft.-46 bus;
8ft-57 bus. Fold up spout: Scoop up &
go. Fill creep feeders, feed troughs. Ph.
204-836-2441
LIVESTOCK
Livestock Services & Vet Supplies
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 16, 2012
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
FOR SALE BY TENDER.
Helen Friesen offers for sale by
tender, the following parcels:
PARCEL 1: SE1/4 11-2-5 WPM except
North 66ft Assessed at 158 acres.
or alternatively
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Various
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Hay & Straw
PUGH SEEDS: CERT KANE, AC Barrie, Somerset
Wheat. Souris Oats. Conlon Barley. Reg & Cert Sorrel
Flax. Phone (204)274-2179, Bill’s cell (204)871-1467,
Barry’s cell (204)872-1851, Portage.
FOR SALE: ROUND ALFALFA and brome Hay
bales and round straw bales delivered in 40 bale
loads. Phone:(204)483-2551 or (204)724-4974.
SANDERS SEED FARM FDN, Reg. Cert. Domain Kane,
Cert. Carberry, Harvest Wheat, Manitou, MB. Phone
(204)242-4200 or (204)242-2576, Daniel Sanders.
FOR SALE: ROUND BROM & alfalfa mix bales, excellent condition, also round wheat straw. Can deliver. Phone:(204)324-9300 or (204)324-7622.
PARCEL 2: Existing farmyard of 10
acres on SE1/4 11-2-5 WPM.
GRASS & ALFALFA MIX bales. Contact Steve
Dryden, 204)838-2352,email sdryden@rfnow.com
Virden MB.
PARCEL 3: SE1/4 11-2-5 WPM except
North 66ft and excepting existing
farmyard of 10 acres.
LARGE
ROUND ALFALFA/BROME
BALES.
Phone: (204)859-2724 evenings, Rossburn MB.
or alternatively
Written sealed tenders must be
received by 5:00pm
February 24, 2012 at:
J.A. Dykman Law Office
309 Stephen Street
Morden, Manitoba
R6M 1V1
TERMS:
1.) Seller will consider tenders on any or
all parcels.
2.) The parcels described will be sold
“as is”.
3.) The highest or any bid not necessarily
accepted.
4.) Possession of cultivated land is
April 20, 2012.
5.) Possession of yard site to be
negotiated.
6.) Bid must be accompanied by a
refundable deposit of 5% of the bid
amount. (certified cheque made payable
to: J.A. Dykman Law Office in Trust).
For further information contact:
(204)822-3002 or (204)523-8429.
Viewing at open house on
Feb. 18, 2012 11:00am to 4:00pm.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
All Terrain Vehicles
2010 POLARIS 500 SPORTSMAN H.O. 4x4 quad,
850-mi, VGC, $5,600 OBO; 08 Panterra side-byside 700cc 4x4 w/dump box, good condition,
$3,800 OBO. (204)252-2266
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
Campers & Trailers
WE OFFER A FULL LINE OF
SEED TESTING
SERVICES INCLUDING
For Sale: Hard Red Spring Wheat
Certified Carberry / Glenn / Kane
High quality; germination available
Wholesale / Retail
Contact Paul
(204) 737-3004
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Various
DURAND SEEDS: CERT AC Carberry & Harvest &
Kane wheat; Souris Oats; Conlon Barley; CDC Bethune & Sorrel flax; Mancan Buckwheat; Canola & Forage seed. (204)248-2268,(204)745-7577, Notre Dame.
ELIAS SEEDS: Cert & Reg Carberry, Waskada
Wheat & Cert Kane & Barrie Wheat. Call
(204)745-3301, Carman, MB.
JAMES FARMS LTD: AC Barrie Wheat, Tradition
Barley, Leggett & Summit Oats, Hanley Flax, Various
Canola, Sunflower & Soybean seed varieties, Forage
seed. Customer processing. Seed treating & delivery available. Early payment discounts. For info call
(204)222-8785 or toll free 1-866-283-8785, Winnipeg.
TRAILERS
Trailers Miscellaneous
45-FT. FRUEHAUF TRAILER, SAFETIED, new
brakes & drums, complete rigging for round bales,
$5,500 OBO. Phone (204)636-2450.
TRAVEL
We are buyers of farm grains.
Call For Pricing
Phone (204)747-2904
Toll Free 1-888-835-6351
Deloraine, Manitoba
PEDIGREED SEED
Specialty – Potatoes
WANTING TO BUY 30-TON Dark Red Northern
potatoes & 10-ton white Granger potatoes. Koshowski Potato Growers (204)638-8415, Dauphin.
COMMON SEED
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Grain Wanted
• Vomi wheat • Vomi barley
• Feed wheat • Feed barley
• Feed oats • Corn
• Screenings • Peas
• Light Weight Barley
You can deliver or we can
arrange for farm pickup.
Winnipeg
233-8418
Brandon
728-0231
Grunthal
434-6881
“Ask for grain buyer.”
RED CLOVER SEED, double cut, hardy, cleaned,
trace sweet clover & catchfly, cert. organic. Phone:
(204)534-7843.
CORN SEED, $25/ACRE
Lower cost Alternative for Grazing & Silage
High Yield & Nutrition –7 to 9-ft Tall– Leafy
2200 to 2350 CHU’s Open Pollinated Varieties
Phone (204)723-2831
CONVENTIONAL AND ROUND UP Ready Grazing
Corn. CanaMaize Seed 1-877-262-4046 or email
info@canamaize.com
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Hay & Straw
1ST & 2ND CUT large round hardcore Alfalfa, Afalfala Silage & Hay, feed tested, 1,500-1,800-lbs.
Phone (204)246-2032 or (204)823-0431
1ST CUT ROUND ALFALFA grass bales, no rain,
approx wgt. 1,450-lbs. Phone (204)871-1129.
200 MEDIUM SQUARE BALES, asking $25 bale; 100
medium bales of wheat straw, $20 bale. Both in the yd,
hay shed. Can deliver. Phone (204)755-2244.
2500 MEDIUM SQUARE BALES Timothy hay,
horse quality, stored in hay shed. Also 500 large
round bales Alfalfa/Timothy mix, no rain, can deliver. Phone: (204)372-6937.
400 LARGE ROUND RED Clover Hay bales; 700
large round volunteer Canola & Wild Oats Bales;
Hardcore & half net-wrapped, feed tested. Delivery
avail. Jim Kaleta (204)638-7800, Dauphin.
450 TIMOTHY/ALFALFA MIX 1st cut hay, 5x6-ft
bales, no rain, approx. 1650lbs $0.03/lb. Call John
(204)483-3234
500 ROUND HAY BALES For Sale, good quality,
excellent condition, no rain, 1500lb bales, $45. Will
consider trade for young bred cows. Phone:
(204)746-5121.
Contact Denis or Ben
for pricing ~ 204-325-9555
BUYING:
HEATED & GREEN
CANOLA
• Competitive Prices
• Prompt Movement
• Spring Thrashed
“ON FARM PICK UP”
1-877-250-5252
Vanderveen
Commodity
Services Ltd.
Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers
37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Ph. (204) 745-6444
Email: vscltd@mts.net
Andy Vanderveen · Brett Vanderveen
Jesse Vanderveen
A Season to Grow… Only Days to Pay!
CANOLA WANTED
Heated, Green, Damaged
Buying all levels of
damaged canola. Best Prices.
Bonded, Insured.
CALL US
1-866-388-6284
NOW BUYING
Confection and
Oil Sunflowers,
Brown & Yellow Flax
and Red & White Millet
Licensed & Bonded
P.O. Box 1236
129 Manitoba Rd.
Winkler, MB. R6W 4B3
FARMERS, RANCHERS,
SEED PROCESSORS
BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS
Heated/Spring Threshed
Lightweight/Green/Tough,
Mixed Grain - Barley, Oats, Rye,
Flax, Wheat, Durum, Lentils, Peas,
Canola, Chickpeas, Triticale,
Sunflowers, Screenings, Organics
and By-Products
√ ON-FARM PICKUP
√ PROMPT PAYMENT
√ LICENSED AND BONDED
SASKATOON, LLOYDMINSTER,
LETHBRIDGE, VANCOUVER,
MINNEDOSA
1-204-724-6741
www.milliganbiotech.com
600 LARGE ROUND GRASS mix hay bales, no
rain, good quality, 1700-lbs; 150 dry oat & wheat
straw bales. Trucking arranged. Call (204)345-8532
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Seed Wanted
BROME ALFALFA ROUND BALES, 1st & 2nd cut,
& also round Barley Straw. Dan Lovatt
(204)483-2717, Souris.
Vomitoxin Testing
(+Other Toxins, Falling No.)
FIRST & SECOND CUT hardcore round bales of
Alfalfa/Grass mix. Feed tested & no rain. Phone:
(204)836-2434, Swan Lake.
Fast, Accurate Results
Prepayment Req’d by
Cheque or Credit Card
FOR SALE: 190 MILLET bales, asking 2 cents per
lb. Call (204)526-0936 or (204)248-2291.
FOR SALE: 400 BIG round, 1,400-lbs 1st cut Alfalfa Brome grass. Phone (204)571-1254.
FOR SALE: 600 MEDIUM square bales, 1st crop,
Timothy/Alfalfa, feed test & delivery avail. Call
(204)268-5615 or (204)268-4218, ask for Martin.
FOR SALE: APPROX 200 1st cut Alfalfa bales
(round) good quality; Approx 200 small square 1st
cut premium quality. Call (204)745-3301 or
(204)750-8187, Carman, MB.
Agriculture Tours
Ukraine/Romania – June 2012
Scotland/England/Wales – June 2012
Australia & New Zealand – Jan/Feb 2013
European Cruises – Call for Details
Tours may be Tax Deductible
Select Holidays 1-800-661-4326
CAREERS
CAREERS
Farm / Ranch
Feedlot worker. We are looking for an ambitious
worker to feed sheep, operate farm equipment and
do general farm labour. Phone (204)727-5021 or
(204)729-7791, fax (204)727-7731 or email:
rleitch@mts.net
Help Wanted for calving and feedlot work on a
large farm near Hayter, Alberta to begin April 1.
Experience with cattle and equipment an asset.
Please phone or fax (780)753-4720.
COMMON SEED
Various
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Feed Grain
From Producer to the World
6X16FT STEEL GOOSENECK HORSE/LIVESTOCK trailer, stant load w/divider gates, living
quarters, good tires & brakes, $4000. Phone:
(204)267-2582, Oakville.
WANTED: 2 USED ARNES 22ft.x24ft. & dump gravel
trailers in any condition. Phone (204)376-2340 or
(204)641-1350.
Licensed & Bonded
0% Shrink
Farm Pick-Up Available
Planting Seed Available
BuyUsed
Used Oil
Oil
••Buy
NOTRE
•• Buy
Buy Batteries
Batteries
DAME ••Collect
CollectUsed
Used Filters
Filters
• Collect
Oil
Containers
•
Collect
Oil
Containers
USED
• Antifreeze
OIL & Southern,Southern
Eastern,
and Manitoba
Western
Western
FILTER
Manitoba
DEPOT Tel: 204-248-2110
LESS FUSARIUM MORE BOTTOM LINE. Wheat
seed available. Suitable for ethanol production, livestock feed. Western Feed Grain Development Coop Ltd. 1-877-250-1552 www.wfgd.ca
TRAILERS
Livestock Trailers
CRAIG 19-FT. TRI-AXLE GOOSENECK trailer,
$1,800 or trade for bumper hitch trailer. Phone
(204)825-8354 or (204)825-2784.
Old & New Crop
Confection & Oil Sunflowers
SEED / FEED / GRAIN
CERT #1 UNITY-WASKADA Midge Tolerant VB
Vigor & Germination tested 97%. Winter & Volume
Pricing. (306)874-7590, Naicam, SK.
2010 CASLETON SUPER B trailers, excellent rubber; 2007 Casleton Super B trailers, new rubber.
Both excellent condition & no fertilizer. Retiring.
Phone: (204)734-8355, leave message.
BRANDON TRAILER SALES “You will like our
prices!” “It’s that Simple!” “Let’s compare quality &
price!” “Certainly
worth
the
call!”
Phone
(204)724-4529. Dealer #4383
NOW BUYING
RECYCLING
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Wheat
“Your feed grain broker”
Brokers of high/low vomi wheat
and barley, corn, rye, feed pea
canola and soybeans.
Farm pickup prices available.
Darcy Caners 204-415-3485
dcaners@pvcommodities.com
Colin Hoeppner 204-415-3487
choeppner@pvcommodities.com
Brian Harland 204-415-7123
bharland@pvcommodities.com
Fax 204-415-3489
www.pvcommodities.com
NEW ARC FAB COMBINE platform trailers in stock
30-ft., 36-ft., 38-ft., 40-ft. w or w/o dolly wheels.
Dealer inquiries welcome. Garry (204)326-7000,
Steinbach, MB. www.reimerfarmequipment.com
HAIRY VETCH SEED FOR sale, cleaned & bagged,
high germination, excellent forage & nitrogen fixation
source. Phone: Ron at (204)723-2831, Austin, MB.
PEDIGREED SEED
TRAILERS
Grain Trailers
PEDIGREED SEED
Oilseed – Various
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
Motor Homes
WANTED: JD LIQUIDATOR SNOWMOBILE or
Liquifire; Also wanted older TNT or RV Squidoos or any
other free air snowmobile. Phone (204)728-1861.
TIRES
FEDERATION TIRE: 1100X12, 2000X20, used aircraft. Toll free 1-888-452-3850
PO Box 579
Rivers, MB R0K 1X0
Ph: 204-328-5313
Fax: 204-328-7400
COMMON SEED
Forage
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
Snowmobiles
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Feed Wanted
GERMINATION, PURITY,
VIGOR & VOMITOXIN
LARGE VOLUME OF REPOSSESED RVs & parts,
from the foreclosure of Canada One RV is being
sold to the public. Phone Dave (204)233-4478,
www.gnrcw.com
2001 HOLIDAY RAMBLER ENDEAVOR 40-ft., 2
sliders, 330-HP Cummins, 7.5KW DSL gen,
64,500-mi., Roadmaster Chassey, hardwood floors,
satellite, 2 TVs, excellent condition, $65,000.
(204)325-2550.
LARGE ROUND NET WRAPPED hay bales, 1st &
2nd cut $30-$45/bale. For more information call
Randy (204)246-2205 or Gord (204)822-1918.
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Grain Wanted
Box 144, Medora, MB. R0M 1K0
Ph: 204-665-2384
RYE GRAIN WANTED
Also Buying
Brown & Yellow Flax & Field Peas
Farm Pickup Available
CGC Licensed and Bonded
Call Cal Vandaele
the “Rye Guy” Today!
Intertek
973 St. James St., Wpg, MB R3H 0X2
1-866-821-2406 (Toll Free)
TANKS
9000-GALLON TANK, 2 COMPARTMENTS, 2
man holes, not certified, would be good for water or
liquid fertilizer, sits on cradles, $1000 OBO. Phone:
(204)669-9626.
DON’T JUST VISIT, LIVE IT! Agricultural placements in EUROPE, UK, AUSTRALIA or NEW ZEALAND. Wide range of jobs (4-12 months) awaiting
experienced individuals ages 18-30. Book an AgriVenture
program
now!
www.agriventure.com
1-888-598-4415. Canadian farmers looking for extra hands are also encouraged to apply for international trainees.
Help wanted for field work on a large farm near
Hayter, AB beginning May 1. Previous experience
operating farm equipment, mechanical ability and
class 1 or 3 driver’s license an asset. Please
phone or fax (780)753-4720.
HELP NEEDED STARTING March 15th for calving
& general farm duties. Must have experience
w/driving farming equip & working w/cattle. Living
accommodations avail. (204)449-2149 or e-mail resume eklinde@tcmsnet.com
CAREERS
Help Wanted
CATTLE/GRAIN FARM NEAR CARBERRY has fulltime position available. Must have cattle handling experience, ability to run and maintain equipment. Having
your class 1 and ability to weld a definite asset. Please
call (204)724-6093 or (204)466-2939.
TRI-WAVE CONSTRUCTION IS SEEKING heavy
duty journeyman truck mechanic in Brandon. Independent & able to work without supervision, wage
will
depend
on
experience. Fax
resume:
204-728-3669 Email: triwave@mymts.net
WANTED FARM LABOURER FOR mixed farm
w/cattle, hay & grain, wages negotiable according
to experience. Call (204)483-3694.
CAREERS
Sales / Marketing
LOOKING FOR A CHALLENGE? Horse Country &
Hearts of the Country, are two unique Manitoba magazines that share similar demographics, but are unique
in their editorial mandates. Publishers are looking for an
experienced Advertising Sales Representative. The ideal candidate must have proven experience in print advertising sales, accurate knowledge of a rural Canadian
audience, database experience, high-speed internet,
and a strong desire to match clients with campaigns.
Candidates must have good communication skills, be
independent, creative, honest, dependable and excited
about the potential of both magazines. Commission with
advancement opportunities, send resumes to contact@
horsecountry.ca. Phone:(204)372-6121.
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