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(above) Choosing the perfect building material for nests is a family affair, as this mating pair of Purple Martins look over a prize piece of lumber.

Purple Martin landlords throughout the City and County tend a variety of boxes containing mating pairs and soon-to-be chicks.

Camrose Wildlife and Greenspace Stewardship coordinator Brittany Woelk (left) uses a tablet with GIS tracking capabilities to record data on the Purple Martins in and around Camrose.

For more information on Purple Martins and the work being done to conserve these stunning creatures turn to page 4 of this week’s Country Booster.

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2 UFA Rural Foundation seeks project ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Purple Martins return to nesting sites in Camrose . . . . . . . . 4 County busy with road maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 County selects seed plant location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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County selects seed plant location

By Murray Green

A site has been chosen for the new Camrose County seed cleaning plant.

It was decided by council to go with a location in the Millang Industrial Subdivision, along Highway 56.

and prepare a preliminary design and cost estimate for the construction of a new seed cleaning plant.

Camrose County agreed to build a new seed cleaning plant in January of this year.

Administration looked

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The Camrose County Seed Cleaning Plant is kept busy all year around.

Councillor Brian Willoughby moved that Camrose County council authorize administration to proceed with the required geotechnical investigation on the proposed site at NE-1746-19 W4 and detailed design of the new Camrose County Seed Cleaning Plant at an estimated cost of up to $140,000 with funding to come from seed cleaning plant reserves.”

Administration has been working with Renel Construction to develop

at potential sites and ultimately selected a site in the Millang Industrial Subdivision. The reasons are: proximity to three major highways, two inland terminals, Cargill crush plant, access has already been developed, the plant would be compatible to surrounding development and potential for expansion if required.

The site is already owned by the County. The estimated cost of the total project is just over $7 million.

The current site of the plant at 4728-41 Street has become cramped for space.

Camrose County has been operating a seed cleaning plant since 1947.

Several upgrades have been completed since the first plant. The current plant can handle trucks of all sizes, but the drivers have trouble manoeuvering around in the tight confines. The plant currently has 14-foot doors and a 90-foot scale.

Hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on regular days, but they expand to 24-hour shifts during peak season.

The plant is capable of the seed cleaning of pedigree and commercial seed separations, and conditioning seed treating services.

Plant manager Murray Van Petten approached administration with a proposal to construct a new seed cleaning plant within a five-year window.

“The current yard is shared with the agricultural service board and Battle River School Division bus barns and maintenance division, which are both also growing. The current site is creating issues with access and mobility of transport vehicles required to conduct efficient seed plant business,” said administrator Paul King, earlier this year.

The current facility is rated for 400 bushels per hour and the new site would be about 650 bushels hour.

Presently, over a 40-week year, about 800,000 bushels are cleaned. The new site is projected to reach 1,300,000 bushels a year.

Lori Larsen, Camrose Booster A common snipe is perched on top a fence pole overlooking one of the many water holes in fields throughout the County. It waits patiently for its moment to forage for its next meal of insects, worms or smaller frogs.

Lori Larsen, Camrose Booster This beautiful horned grebe is one of the many waterfowl species that can be found on nesting sites around the County.

Helping Alberta’s farmers stay competitive this year

By Murray Green

The Government of Alberta is helping farmers by modernizing rules, reducing red tape and creating new research opportunities.

Seed growers in Alberta will soon have access to more seed varieties and cereal research. Minister of agriculture and forestry Devin Dreeshen has signed a ministerial order removing fusarium graminearum (fusarium) from the Pest and Nuisance Control Regulation, bringing Alberta in line with best practices from other provinces.

Fusarium is a fungal disease of cereal crops that affects grain development and quality. Removing it from the regulation will allow Alberta to modernize management of the disease, rather than having zero tolerance for it.

Regulating fusarium has failed to stop its spread, which has increased across the province over the past 20 years. The Alberta Fusarium graminearum Management Plan, published in 2002, does not account for recent advances in seed treatment options that can lower detections, bringing them close to zero.

“Alberta’s farmers continue to grow high quality food that people around the world can count on every day. This long overdue change creates new opportunities for our farmers by levelling the playing field. Modernizing these rules means that Alberta farmers will benefit from current research advances,”said Dreeshen.

“This news has been a long time coming. Fusarium is well-established in Alberta and since it spreads through airborne spores, we know that zero tolerance policies are not effective. We welcome this regulatory shift that bet-

ter reflects the reality facing farmers and appreciate Minister Dreeshen’s dedication to breaking down this regulatory barrier so we can move ahead with improved competitiveness,” shared Tood Hames, chair, Alberta Wheat Commission.

“Alberta crops are known around the world, so we commend the Government of Alberta for ensuring that growers in the province and those who count on them can benefit from the latest scientific advances. We work every day towards greater food security in an environmentally sustainable way, and today’s decision is a key step in this shared goal,” added Paul Hoekstra, government and industry relations, Syngenta.

“The Canadian Seed Trade Association has long advocated for a removal of fusarium as a pest as it will be the most effective way for industry to promote management systems; encourage research, investment and innovation; and allow Alberta farmers to stay competitive with their counterparts in other jurisdictions. We would like to thank the Government of Alberta for its leadership,” said Georges Chausse, president, Canadian Seed Trade Association.

The Alberta Fusarium graminearum Management Plan will be updated and will continue to be available for farmers and industry looking for information and best management practices.

This is another step forward to reduce red tape and make life easier for all Albertans. To track red tape reduction progress and submit suggestions about where government can cut even more red tape, visit CutRedTape.Alberta.ca.

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UFA Rural Foundation seeks project ideas

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Purple martins return to nesting sites in Camrose

By Lori Larsen

The flying frenzy of iridescent blue/black has returned to Camrose and area, looking for their nesting houses so they can settle in and start a family. Welcome back, purple martins.

“Most purple martins depend on human-provided boxes for nesting,” said University of Alberta Augustana Campus environmental science and geography professor and member of the Camrose Wildlife Stewardship Society (CWSS) Glen Hvenegaard. “Recruitment and retention of highly motivated nest box ‘landlords’ is vital for the birds’ nesting success.”

CWSS welcomes residents to become landlords, but to first consider what is required to be successful.

Becoming a purple martin landlord does not necessarily mean installing a nesting house, although that is certainly an option. The duties of a landlord go beyond the installation of the house.

Landlords need to consider control over predators and competitors of the purple martins. Landlords are required to provide nurturing for the birds which may include adding nest material, checking for and removing blowfly larvae, adding eggshells and feeding the martins.

Regular maintenance of the nesting houses would involve cleaning out the house at the end of the season and ensuring the house is safe and in good repair.

Landlords may also be required to record nesting

Lori Larsen, Camrose Booster This mature male purple martin keeps a close eye on the nesting box, waiting for his mate to return with material for the nest.

information and send it to martin organizers.

Becoming a landlord of purple martins will most certainly involve a commitment of time and energy, but the benefits go beyond fostering the continuance of the annual visitors and include helping wildlife flourish, caring for the environment and sharing a common interest with others throughout the community.

Five-star lodging Purple martins have been relying on humans to supply housing structures for a very long time and, over the years, the structure style and characteristics have been developed to best suit the birds in specific areas.

Based on nest occupancy patterns, the characteristics of nest boxes best suited for the Camrose area birds include white exterior house colour, North

Star style housing, aluminum or plastic construction material, a semi-circular or rectangular hole, a pole base clear of shrubs, verti-

cal lowering ability with a pole winch, within 200 metres of a water body, and within five to 20 metres of a neighboring martin house.

Annual surveys conducted by CWSS report that since 2003, when eight pairs of purple martins were noted in the City, the numbers have increased with a peak of 173 pairs in 2009 and fluctuating numbers from 2009 to 2018, when 57 pairs were noted.

Typically, Camrose would be celebrating the return of the martins with the Purple Martin Festival, normally held in midJune. However, Alberta Health orders restricting gatherings over 15 have resulted in the event being cancelled until next year.

“The festival has run since 2010,” said Hvenegaard. “The purpose of

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The ideal location for a purple martin box is near a body of water with clear flying paths, such as this one located at Mirror Lake.

the Purple Martin Festival is to provide a high profile, community-based nature tourism event to showcase the vision and work of the Camrose Wildlife and Stewardship Society, a greenspace network that enhances community values and quality of life for City of Camrose and area residents.”

Cancelling the festival this year doesn’t mean residents can’t still enjoy the feathery visitors.

There are approximately 43 purple martin houses in Camrose managed by 32 landlords and of those, 18 are City-owned houses and 25 are privately-owned houses.

The public is invited to visit any of the Cityowned purple martin nesting houses or take a short trip out to Pleasure Island Fish Pond, approximately 10 minutes east of the City, and enjoy watching the birds navigate in and out, tending to their young.

Some City-owned houses are located at Stoney Creek Centre, Duggan Pond, the pond just west of Mr. Mikes Steakhouse Casual restaurant and Mirror Lake by the walking bridge and gazebo.

Anyone visiting the sites are asked to do so with caution and to use the utmost respect for the nesting birds. Do not harass the birds and do not attempt to climb closer to the houses.

Purple martins, like any parent animal, can be very protective of their young and may take assertive action towards what they deem to be a threat, and that may be you.

Standing up for Alberta’s law-biding gun owners

By Murray Green

Alberta leaders will listen to law-abiding firearms owners, while further cracking down on criminals who willfully put Albertans’ lives at risk.

The government is establishing the Alberta Firearms Advisory Committee to provide recommendations on how Alberta can better assert areas of provincial jurisdiction, while respecting law-abiding citizens’ long history of responsible firearms ownership.

To further improve firearms governance in Alberta and crack down on their illegal use, the government is also establishing a provincial firearms examination unit to speed up testing of guns that have been seized as evidence in criminal investigations.

“The federal government has introduced hasty and ill-thought-out measures that penalize law-abiding gun owners,

while doing little to stop criminals who traffic or use illegal firearms. The vast sums of money Ottawa will spend would be far better used to pursue the smugglers and drug gangs that plague our society. In Alberta, we will take action to protect Albertans, prosecute criminals and deter illegal gun crime and trafficking rather than persecuting law-abiding citizens,” said Premier Jason Kenney.

“While Ottawa spends hundreds of millions of dollars targeting law-abiding gun owners, our government is investing in a firearms examination unit to conduct criminal firearms testing so prosecutions are not put in jeopardy by lengthy delays. The measures we are taking today will show Ottawa that a responsible firearms policy targets criminals and illegal gun traffickers and not lawful gun use,” explained Doug Schweitzer, Alberta

Minister of Justice and Solicitor General.

The Alberta Firearms Advisory Committee will be chaired by Michaela Glasgo, MLA for BrooksMedicine Hat, and will have representation from groups that speak for a wide range of lawful gun owners, including farmers and ranchers, hunters and trappers, and shooting sports enthusiasts.

The committee will give Albertans the opportunity to voice their concerns over the federal government’s firearms legislation and provide recommendations on how provincial policies can best target criminals while respecting law-abiding gun owners.

“We need firearms policies that recognize and support the ability of Albertans to own and possess firearms in a lawful and responsible manner. I am pleased to chair the Alberta Firearms Advisory Committee to ensure our government develops poli-

cies that reflect the values of Albertans,” said Glasgo.

“Community safety is a vital concern for all Albertans. It is critically important to protect our communities from the crime and violence associated with the unlawful possession and use of firearms, while at the same time protecting the lawful rights of hunters and responsible gun owners,” shared Rick Hanson, committee member and former chief of the Calgary Police Service.

A legal requirement for prosecuting gun crimes involves proving that a seized weapon meets the Criminal Code definition of a firearm by having a barrel and the ability to fire a projectile capable of causing serious injury or death.

While the Calgary Police Service (CPS) carries out this testing in its own facility and the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) is establishing a lab of its own, most police services in Alberta rely

on the RCMP’s National Forensic Laboratory Services in Ottawa to fulfil this requirement with a straightforward test-firing procedure.

In 2019, data indicated it was taking an average of eight months for the national RCMP laboratory to process a routine firearms testing request from Alberta.

To prevent lengthy court delays from putting the prosecution of violent criminals at risk, Alberta is ending its reliance on the federal laboratory by establishing a provincial unit to perform tests on firearms used in crimes.

The justice and solicitor general are working on a plan with its partners at CPS, EPS, RCMP and Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) to establish a team and protocols for conducting firearms testing at the existing lab in Calgary and the forthcoming facility in Edmonton.

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County busy with road maintenance

By Murray Green

With the very wet spring, Camrose County has been busy fixing and maintaining roads.

Council heard of the many challenges the public works department is having keeping up with the wet conditions at the regular meeting on June 9.

With farmers and truckers going with larger equipment, the roads are getting pounded out. It is a problem for all counties.

“The roads were not designed for the size of the equipment that we have today. I get it, farmers need to either get the crop in or get it off because that is their number one priority. If everything was bone dry, we would be fine.

When it gets wet, it doesn’t matter if you have black dirt or clay, the roads go from this to that (showing how the roads move into a modified U-shape),” said Zach Mazure, public works manager.

“If we have people hauling too much, how do we educate people? ” asked councillor Brian Willoughby.

“You can tell who is coming out of their yard with overloaded B-trains (trucks) because they are

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Some of the Camrose County roads are not in very good drivable condition and are only open to local traffic. County public works are working on the roads during the wet spring.

always going the same direction and pretty soon you have a huge speed bump. We all know that the back tires on those B-trains don’t turn, they skid. So, they push it, then it rains and they push it some more. But, they don’t stop from com-

ing out of their yard with the B-train,” explained administrator Paul King.

“When people had the single axle trucks up to three tons, there was no issue.

When you have 18 sets of wheels and only two sets are turning, the rest are all pushing.”

Councillor Jack Lyle pointed out that the County has had a few years of a lot of rain and it is taking its toll on the roads.

Councillor Willoughby asked about road bans and if they help, recognizing that farmers are exempt from the bans. “When we

have dry years, we don’t even talk about this. We go out of our way to use a better road, but some producers won’t do that.”

Mazure indicated that the County is doing their best to keep up with road repairs.

Weeds can resist some common herbicides

By Murray Green

Weeds can become resistant to herbicides and it can become an issue, as an increasing number of weeds are no longer responding to herbicides.

“Most producers are aware of the issue, but unless it affects them directly, they don’t see it as a huge issue,” said Harry Brook, crop specialist at the Alberta Ag-Info Centre.

“For example, resistance to glyphosate, commonly known as Roundup, is found in other parts of the world and Canada. We also now have glyphosate resistance in kochia in southern Alberta and it continues to spread.

In 2017, glyphosate resistant

Russian thistle was found in Montana. These should serve as wake-up calls to producers for the importance of rotating different herbicide groups when treating problem weeds. Failure to take this problem seriously will eventually result in the loss of our most popular weed control products.”

Herbicide resistant wild oats are found in many fields in the province. Some biotypes are resistant to more than one herbicide group.

“In Alberta in 2017, 58 per cent of fields sampled had some Group 1 resistant wild oats. The majority of herbicides used for wild oat control are in this group. If wild oats is resistant to a

single herbicide in a chemical group, it is pretty well resistant to all the herbicides that use that particular mode of action.

“Group 2 resistant wild oats was found in 40 per cent of Alberta fields and 29 per cent had wild oats resistant to both Group 1 and 2. Soil-applied wild oat control is in Group 8, which is older chemistry and has seen a resurgence in use. Cases of resistance to Group 8 herbicides is increasing, despite it not being used much in the last 20 years.”

Brook says that cleavers, kochia, chickweed, spiny annual sow thistle, hemp nettle, green foxtail, wild mustard, smartweed, Rus-

sian thistle and stinkweed have all developed resistances to Group 2 herbicides.

“That group contain the sulfonylureas, the ‘imis’ and florasulam. Weed surveys from 2014 to 2017 estimate about 7.7 million acres or more in Alberta have some weed resistance issue.”

He says there are a few ways to detect a herbicide resistance issue. “Investigate areas in the field where weed control didn’t occur.

Rule out other factors that might have affected herbicide performance including misapplication, spray misses, unfavourable weather conditions and misapplication of herbicide at wrong

leaf stage or late weed flushes.

“Other warning signs include other weeds listed on the herbicide being controlled adequately, patchy control with no reasonable explanation, a history of herbicide failure in the same area, lack of signs of herbicide injury on plants, and finally, a history of using the same herbicide group on the land, year after year.”

Brooks added that when a producer uses the same herbicide or products using the same mode of action, they are actually helping select for those plants that are either not affected, or affected less, by the active ingredient than other plants.

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