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Fertilizer supplies tight Rail problems this winter and two nitrogen plant breakdowns tightened N and P supplies

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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ight fertilizer supplies might put the kibosh on some farmers’ hopes for seeding early this year, industry officials say.

Poor rail service this winter and two nitrogen plan breakd ow n s h a ve c o m b i n e d t o tighten fertilizer supplies to local retailers.

“Essentially we are behind where we’d like to be at this time of the year,” said Clyde Graham, senior vice-president strategies and alliances with the Canadian Fertilizer Institute. “I’m assuming our industry is doing everything it can to meet the needs of our farmer-customers.”

Product will be trickling as capacity allows, but there could be localized shortages if everyone wants it at once.

“If seeding does drag out to the end of May or into June there should be product arriving all the way through the season,” Steve Biggar, Richardson International’s assistant vicepresident of fertilizer and energy products said in an interview April 25. “I think the later the season goes the greater the likelihood is we’ll have enough fertilizer. If we end up mostly finished seeding by May long weekend then there just See SUPPLIES on page 6 »

Dreyfus files rail levelof-service complaint, others may follow Grain is moving but the railways are the ones deciding where it goes

A grain train being loaded near Nesbitt, Man. April 8. Grain is now moving off the Prairies but companies say some markets aren’t being served. Photo: Laura Rance

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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ouis Dreyfus Commodities has filed a level-of-service complaint against CN Rail with the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA).

It may be one of many as other grain companies contemplate similar action in hopes of recouping losses due to poor rail service for grain this winter.

Meanwhile, CN and CP Rail “have met the prescribed (grain-moving) target for each specific week,” an official with Transport Canada said in an email April 25.

Grain companies are grateful more grain is moving, but frustrated the railways are deciding which elevators will load cars and where they will be shipped. The result is domestic and American markets not being properly served, said Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association.

“In some cases we’re having to truck grain from Saskatchewan (elevator) locations to Alberta locations because the railways want to move from there to get quicker turnaround times to Vancouver,” Sobkowich said in an interview.

It’s either that, or the grain company doesn’t get the cars, he said.

The federal government’s March 7 order-in-council requiring the railways to ship one million tonnes of grain a week doesn’t specify how much grain should move in each shipping corridor.

“The focus of the order is to get and keep grain moving as quickly as possible,” a Transport Canada official wrote.

“It is up to railways to plan how best to meet the targets.”

The U.S. is Canada’s closest and often best-paying grain customer, but grain companies can’t fill existing sales to American customers or make new ones, Sobkowich said.

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INSIDE

Did you know?

LIVESTOCK The pitfalls of early grazing

‘Horsing around’ reduces stress in youth

Putting the herd out to pasture too soon can be costly

Youth involved in an equine after-school program showed significantly lower levels of stress hormone in their saliva

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Washington State University release

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CROPS Clubroot gaining ground Genetic resistance is breaking down under selection pressure

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FEATURE Tile drainage gaining ground Farmers can increase their farm’s productivity without buying more acres

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CROSSROADS Trotting it out Harness racing is alive and kicking in rural Manitoba

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Editorials Comments What’s Up Livestock Markets

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Grain Markets Weather Vane Classifieds Sudoku

e w re s e a rc h f ro m Wa s h i n g t o n St a t e University reveals how youth who work with horses experience a substantial reduction in stress — and the evidence lies in kids’ saliva.

The results are published in the American Psychological Association’s Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin this month.

“We were coming at this from a prevention perspective,” said Patricia Pendry, a developmental psychologist at WSU who studies how stress “gets under the skin” and the effects of prevention programs on human development. “We are especially interested in optimizing healthy stress hormone production in young adolescents, because we know from other research that healthy stress hormone patterns may protect against the development of physical and mental health problems.”

Her work is the first evidencebased research within the field of human-equine interaction to measure a change in participants’ levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

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Three years ago, Pendry led a research project to engage students in Grades 5-8 in a 12-week equine-facilitated learning program in Pullman, Wash.

Working with PATH director Sue Jacobson and Phyllis Erdman from the WSU College of Education, Pendry designed and implemented an afterschool program serving 130 typically developing children over a two-year period that bused students from school to the barn for 12 weeks.

Children were randomly assigned to participate in the program or be wait-listed.

Based on natural horsemanship techniques, the program provided 90 minutes weekly to learn about horse behaviour, care, grooming, handling, riding and interaction.

“We found that children who had participated in the 12-week program had significantly lower stress hormone levels throughout the day and in the afternoon, compared to children in the wait-listed group,” she said. “We get excited about that because we know that higher base levels of cortisol — ± particularly in the afternoon — are considered a potential risk factor for the development of psychopathology.”

Pendry said the experimental design underlying the study gives more scientific credit to the claims of therapeutic horsemanship professionals, parents and children who have reported a positive impact from these types of programs. In addition, she hopes the results will lead to development of alternative after-school programs.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014

Birtle-area residents evacuate under threat of embankment breach An old railway embankment weakened by ice could send more water down the Birdtail Creek, officials said

By Lorraine Stevenson co-operator staff

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bout a dozen Birtle-area families left their homes April 26 as an embankment on a tributary of the high-running Birdtail Creek began crumbling, threatening to send a surge of water towards their properties.

Provincial officials said the condition of the old railway embankment was precarious April 26 and depending on the size of a breach, a rush of water would affect property owners at Wawayseecappo.

Birdtail Sioux First Nation, and in the RMs of Birtle, Rossburn and Miniota as well as the town of Birtle.

Local residents were bracing for water to flood over roads and damage bridges, but as of early April 28 morning, the embankment was holding.

The town and RM of Birtle declared states of local emergency after the flood warning, said Ron Bell, emergency measures public information manager for both the town and the RM of Birtle.

A reception centre was open for evacuees, but all had been housed elsewhere, he said.

The situation remained uncertain but was most tense over the weekend when a surge of water appeared in an already high-running Birdtail Creek, he said, adding that as of Monday the creek “had probably crested.” “ We went to work ver y quickly because if we had additional water on top of that it would have been a real problem,” he said.

Private properties were sandbagged and

“We went to work very quickly because if we had additional water on top of that it would have been a real problem.”

Ron Bell

RM/Town Birtle emergency measures public information manager

local critical infrastructure, including the town’s bridge, protected.

Residents remain under evacuation as the condition of the embankment continues to be assessed, Bell said. High water on the Birdtail is a normal occurrence but they’ve never faced the spectre of a surge of water like this before.

“This is all about the embankment,” he said. “We have high water through here every spring pretty much and we’ve never had to evacuate any homes before.”

The earthen embankment, located near Highway 45, was believed to have been weakened this spring due to ice impeding a flow of water through a cement culvert.

Highway 45 from 264 to 476 was closed in anticipation of high water, with traffic being routed back to Highway 16 to keep traffic away from entering the area threatened by flooding.

As of April 28, flood warnings remained in effect for all points along the Birdtail Creek downstream of Highway 45, points along the Assiniboine River from the Shellmouth Dam to Brandon, and along

Birtle crews were on flood watch early this week. Photo: Government of Manitoba

the Little Saskatchewan River due to high flows.

Provincial officials also said the water level on Shellmouth Reservoir had increased to the summer target levels of 1,402.8 feet, and that outflows from the Shellmouth Dam would be increased to about 1,000 cfs with further increases planned over the next two to three days to hit a target outflow of 5,000 cfs.

That raised the spectre of potential flooding for landowners in the Assiniboine Valley downstream from the reservoir who were advised at week’s start to move cattle and take other mitigation measures.

Provincial authorities warned the impacts from the additional outflows were expected to be greatest in the area immediately below the dam, diminishing downstream towards Brandon.

Several communities in the province continued to be on high alert for spring flooding, in many cases caused by ice jams. Flooding forced residents from 129 households in the First Nation community of Peguis to evacuate and residents of Fisher River required flood protection for about seven homes. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

Doubling of food needs tied to poverty reduction

Cargill’s Greg Page says a 100 per cent increase in food production is doable, but it requires work, including more scientific research

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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rojections that world food production must double by 2050 hinge on a very big assumption — billions of poor people getting richer, says Greg Page, Cargill’s executive chairman and former CEO. “The only way for the...

100 per cent increase in food production is if the population grows by two billion and the proportion of the population earning $10 a day expands dramatically,” Page told the Canadian Global Crops Symposium April 15 in Winnipeg. “Clearly this is something we hope happens... for the demand for agriculture and it would signify a prosperous world and the fact that governments made a lot of very good decisions.”

World population is expected to hit nine billion by 2050, up two billion from today.

Currently two-thirds of the world’s seven billion people earn less than $6 a day, Page said. People need to earn at least $10 a day before they start improving their diets, seeking more meat, eggs and milk.

“And that is what drives global grain demand much quicker than population,” Page said.

If all the new two billion people remain poor, world food production will only have to increase 20 per cent, he said.

“Now that’s glacial growth.”

Glacial growth

If earnings follow the same proportion as today, food production will only need to increase by 30 per cent, Page said.

The world can double food production by 2050, Page said, especially if it embraces open markets, develops Africa’s agricultural potential and invests in science, including publicly funded research.

“We all need to be voices for increased research, but also for increased acceptance of consumers of science in their food system if we’re going to deploy the outcomes of those research investments,” he said.

Opposition to genetically modified crops is well known in Europe, but it’s growing in the United States, Page said.

“I can’t tell you how far backwards we’ve gone in the U.S. in the acceptance of genetically engineered crops in the last two years,” he said. “It has been enormous. I probably spend a third of my opportunities to be at podiums trying to convince skeptical audiences of the safety and environmental soundness of genetic engineering as a way to feed ourselves.

We are at this moment thoroughly in the U.S. under threat of losing some access for this science.”

Page told reporters later that investment in research is declining. Private companies are investing, but co-operating

with government researchers is a way to win the public’s trust on GM crops.

Feeding the world

The world can be fed now too, even though annual demand for the 16 major crops grows by 50 million to 60 million tonnes a year, Page said.

“To put that in context all the world has to do is create one Western Canada every year,” he said.

“We clearly today produce more than enough calories to nourish every single person on earth, we’re just not electing to do it. We have 840 million undernourished, but it’s not because farmers didn’t grow the required foodstuffs to nourish the world.”

World grain prices will prevent grain gluts and shortages from occurring, Page later told reporters. In 2013 a 2.5 per cent increase in world crop production saw some crop prices, including American corn, drop 50 per cent, he said.

“Price has been very sensitive to relatively small changes in supply. The elasticity has changed dramatically from what we saw 20 years ago,” Page said.

The world needs to commit around 1.6 per cent of its collective Gross Domestic Product to food production, he said. Earlier this decade it was closer to one per cent but hit two per cent in 2008 when many poorer people rioted over high food costs.

But back in 1975, 3.75 per cent of

“The only way for the... 100 per cent increase in food production is if the population grows by two billion and the proportion of the population earning $10 a day expands dramatically.”

Greg Page

world GDP went to food, so relatively speaking, food is cheaper now.

Page also doesn’t see world grain prices plunging to the lows of the past as governments bolster demand through mandates for biofuels made from crops.

The United States’ country-oforigin labelling (COOL) is bad for North American livestock producers, Page told reporters.

“It has cost us a lot of money,” he said.

“It is one of the real tragedies in the relationship between our... three countries (including Mexico).”

The legislation is couched as providing American consumers with information about their meat but “it was designed to restrain trade rather than inform consumers,” Page said.

The Canadian government is threatening sanctions. If implemented some companies in Minnesota will be hurt, but not Cargill, he said. allan@fbcpublishing.com

Greg Page, Cargill’s executive chairman and former CEO, says predictions that world food production must double by 2050 hinge on many of the world’s poorest people becoming better off. photo: allan dawson

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014

OPINION/EDITORIAL

Be careful out there

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t’s one of those years in Manitoba when you have to look at the calendar to know it’s spring. There are flurries in the forecast, even as April turns into May. But judging from the amount of dust kicked up by the half-ton trucks buzzing back and forth on their rural routes, farmers are getting ready to hit the dirt as soon as they can move, even if this year’s conditions have freeze-dried, rather than sun-dried Laura Rance their fields.

Editor With that in mind, we draw your attention to two serious traffic accidents in recent weeks involving collisions between motor vehicles and farm equipment on the province’s highways.

The way we see it, there are several factors in play. As farm sizes have grown, farmers’ land holdings are more widely dispersed, resulting in the need to travel from field to field using major thoroughfares. Secondly, farm equipment is bigger and takes up more road space as it lumbers along.

Thirdly, motorists in our predominantly urbanized society are painfully unaware of the inverse correlation between speed and their ability to react appropriately when they come upon slowmoving equipment and oncoming traffic at the same time. It is increasingly common to experience drivers ducking in and out of traffic at close range and highway speeds as though they were on city streets, where maximum speeds are 60 km or less.

It is a hazardous equation and farmers can only do so much to protect themselves. But it’s nevertheless something to keep in mind when moving farm equipment. Farm equipment operators understandably feel pressed to travel the shortest route possible during busy seasons.

However, knowing the other driver was at fault is cold comfort against the pain, emotional anguish and financial losses that can result from such collisions.

So be careful out there. If it means going the extra mile, it might be worth it.

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senior executive with Cargill Inc. made a valid point about popular notions related to growing world food demand at the recent Canadian Global Crops Symposium.

Greg Page pointed out even if the world’s population grows by another two billion by 2050, the need for world food production to double is predicated on elevating much of the world’s population out of poverty.

With two-thirds of the world’s seven billion people earning less than $6 a day, their incomes need to rise to at least $10 per day before they can begin improving their diets with meat, eggs or milk, Page said.

But if the world’s population continues to grow and poverty prevails — the demand for food may only grow by 20 to 30 per cent.

What Page didn’t mention is that about 70 per cent of the world’s poorest citizens happen to be farmers. These folks aren’t our farmers’ customers because they can’t afford to buy anything. It is only as they escape poverty that they might be in the market for the kinds of food items — such as meat — that our farmers sell.

But if they are going to escape poverty, it will be by producing their way up the economic ladder through improved productivity, storage, and access to markets. In other words, they’ll be feeding themselves and their neighbours, not buying from us.

It’s been a traditional — and logical — assumption that our agricultural producers are well positioned to supply these emerging markets.

The executive summary of a soon-to-be-released European report assessing nitrogen and

food in the context of greenhouse gas emissions suggests such assumptions might be premature.

The report analyzes what could happen if European consumers were convinced to reduce meat consumption by half. Air and water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced, and large areas of farmland would be freed up to produce other forms of food or bioenergy, the report concludes.

“The report shows that the nitrogen footprint of meat and dairy is considerably higher than that from plant-based products.

If all people within the EU would halve their meat and dairy consumption, this would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by 25 to 40 per cent, and nitrogen emissions by 40 per cent. The EU could become a major exporter of food products, instead of a major importer of, for example, soybeans,” said Henk Westhoek, the report’s lead author.

Human nature being what it is, we don’t for a minute believe that most meat eaters will cut back for the sake of the environment, but they might for other reasons, such as their doctor’s orders. The current average per capita protein intake in the EU is about 70 per cent higher than necessary, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations.

The implications of this are twofold: Demand for increased production might be mitigated by redistributing what’s already been produced. And there will be stiff competition for those emerging markets, both from domestic producers and other exporters. laura@fbcpublishing.com

CBOC ideas for changing supply management ill conceived

By Jan Slomp

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he Conference Board of Canada (CBOC) plan to change supply management for growth is a prescription for weakening, if not eliminating, the three pillars of supply management for dairy production in Canada — production controls, import tariffs and farmers’ cost of production pricing — in order to produce more milk, lower its price and increase exports.

The CBOC claims to be an independent think-tank, but is affiliated with the New York-based conference board, run by and for U.S.-based multinational corporations. It advocates for a suite of policies — including dismantling dairy supply management — that promotes corporate interests at the expense of the values and aspirations of Canadian people.

Canada’s dairy supply management operates smoothly, efficiently and sustainably without government subsidies in contrast to other Canadian agricultural sectors where AgriStability payments are often needed.

The CBOC now promotes increasing dairy production beyond Canadian needs in order to export.

There is definitely capacity in Canada to produce a lot more milk. But what kind of export markets could we pursue, what kind of programs would be required to obtain those markets and what net benefits would there be for various players in the system?

Only a small portion of the world’s milk production crosses borders because it is a bulky perishable product. Most exports depend on subsidies.

American dairy farmers receive U.S. Farm Bill-related payments that nearly double their

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milk cheques. European subsidies provide dairy farmers a base income, allowing them to survive on lower farm gate prices. The exception is New Zealand, a major dairy exporter with little or no subsidies. With the world’s lowest production cost (no winters), it can sell at the world’s lowest farm gate prices.

Dismantling dairy supply management would be costly for Canadian taxpayers. To compete internationally, we would have to match the massive subsidies given by the U.S. and European countries. Ironically, the CBOC’s dairy plan is modelled after the deregulated export-oriented hog and beef sectors, which have not only failed to grow, but have seen a steady decline punctuated by several crises over the past 15 years.

Canadians value dairy supply management, as they enjoy a steady supply of high-quality products for a reasonable price. Supply management regulates production in each region of our vast geography, providing milk where consumers need it. An unregulated dairy market would centralize production, processing and distribution, requiring consumers in distant areas to pay more due to transportation and storage costs.

Processors benefit from the constant, predictable flow of milk, which allows them to maximize plant and labour force utilization.

Dismantling dairy supply management would help companies affiliated with the CBOC, such as food processors and retailers, and those industries that have their eyes on massive concessions at the trade deal table.

Their gain would be a huge loss for Canadian citizens and Canadian dairy farmers.

Jan Slomp is the president of the National Farmers Union and a dairy farmer from Rimbey, Alta.

May 1949

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t one time, “crop duster” was an accurate term. This ad from our May 12, 1949 issue offered 2,4-D in two formulations — liquid and dust, plus equipment to apply them.

According to the Bank of Montreal’s first crop report, seeding was well underway in Manitoba. “Moisture conditions fairly good, except in the northern section — a general rain is necessary… an increase in wheat acreage with a substantial decline in flax; grasshoppers may prove serious in southern sector.”

Quite serious, apparently — a front-page story said the province was assisting by making chlordane available for municipalities to apply, and road allowances and drainage ditches would be sprayed at no cost to the farmer. Another story reported that poison spray was now the preferred method for grasshopper control, as well as being safer.

“While all poisons must be used with care, chlordane and toxaphene are much less dangerous than were paris green and the arsenicals used in baits,” said H.E. Wood, director of the province’s grasshopper program.

Members of Co-op Vegetable Oils at Altona had approved a plant expansion, and sunflower acreage was expended to reach 50,000 to 60,000 acres that year.

In the “this sounds familiar” department, the federal government had announced a royal commission headed by the Hon. W.F. Turgeon to “investigate transportation problems across the Dominion.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

And the moral is…

Far from putting farmers out of business, the “food morality movement” is creating high value markets

By Alan Guebert

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Letters

f you’re a regular reader of the American agricultural press you already know that the three greatest threats to U.S. farmers and ranchers are the nut-eating vegans at PETA, HSUS and Chipotle Mexican Grill.

You were thinking drought, flood and low prices, right?

Nope. When the apocalypse arrives, according to we in the ag media, it will be led by naked Hollywood animal rightists with a chicken burrito in one hand and an organic hemp leash attached to a three-legged cat in the other.

If that sounds silly, so is the worry some aggies hold for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Humane Society of the United States and Chipotle. They see these three as meddlesome “food moralists,” nonfarming pests who want eaters to consider the life and death of what’s on their fork every time their elbow bends.

Even worse, “Some of agriculture’s largest customers are partnering with organizations… like the humane society… that seek your demise,” one of the most worried aggies, Kevin Murphy, told a recent gathering of the St. Louis Agri-Business Club.

Murphy, founder of truthinfood. com, a website that says it “traverses the entire food chain… with insight, scholarship, thought and good oldfashioned humour,” warned the

“Fifteen years ago our pork supplier, Niman Ranch, had 60 farmers growing hogs for it. Today, it has 600. That’s good for America, good for the communities where these farmers live, and good for our customers.”

Chris Arnold Communications director for Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.

ag-bizzers that this “food morality movement is everywhere.” (Links to background material are posted at http://farmandfoodfile.com/in-thenews/.)

Which is, of course, where you usually find morality. Everywhere.

Moreover, morals are at the centre of almost every personal choice, especially food. One person’s morals — religion based, say — bans pork, another’s bans red meat on Fridays in Lent, a third’s bans all red meat.

So what’s the problem with food morality?

Well, companies like Starbucks and Chipotle see “themselves as operating on a higher plane,” Murphy told his audience. “It is more than just about burritos.”

Guilty, confesses Chris Arnold, communications director for Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. “We maintain that the more our customers know about the food we serve — where it’s sourced, how it was raised,

We welcome readers’ comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator.

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Curb the power of patents The Keystone Agricultural Producers quest to update UPOV ’91 as suggested in the April 17, Manitoba Co-operator will be a failure in the long run since we must get to the root of the problem with plant breeders’ rights. Patents are the root problem.

The issue in UPOV ’91 is not whether seeds can be saved, but should patents be more important to agriculture than saving seeds?

Unless people oppose the patenting of seeds, the issue of saving seeds is meaningless. As Percy Schmeiser learned from the 5-4 defeat in his issue with Monsanto, saving seeds was not the issue. Monsanto claimed that its patent on seed was more important than even the property on which the saved seeds were planted.

There is little evidence that the patenting of seeds has improved yields beyond what saving seeds has contributed. Perhaps an intermediate step would be to assure society that no one, corporation, farmer or other, could profit greatly from selling seeds or their offspring.

Plant breeders’ rights like Monsanto’s GMO rights need to be null and void if justice is to reign in the seed arena. Corporations and others are operating from an outdated economic

what’s in it — the more they will come to our restaurants,” he said in a telephone interview April 22.

For example, “We choose to use meat that doesn’t contain antibiotics or added hormones because we think it tastes better. That’s it; taste.

We’re not anti-farmer or anti-rancher.

Where do you think we get our chicken, pork and beef?”

That salient point — the source of inputs for what many in Big Ag derisively label “food moralists” — is something Big Ag never talks about.

Every input, be it the flour for the burrito or the meat in it, comes from farmers and ranchers.

And that’s a lot of flour, pork, chicken and beef.

“Fifteen years ago our pork supplier, Niman Ranch,” said Arnold, “had 60 farmers growing hogs for it. Today, it has 600. That’s good for America, good for the communities where these farmers live, and good for our customers.”

model based on a mechanical view of the world, which is not favoured by modern biologists and ecologists. Let us catch up to the new view that democracy will only reign when groups have similar input into the legislation that affects them.

We must be aware that actions in Canada have implications for Asia and other nations.

A patched solution by KAP will solve no longrange problems with saved seeds. I am saddened to learn of glyphosate-resistant weeds, glyphosate in breast milk and of the concern by organic farmers of contamination by glyphosate herbicides. Can we not get to the root of this so-called improvement in agriculture?

Freedom demands a balance between an economic order and a democratic order. UPOV ’91 alone will not increase our wisdom on how to increase the quality of life in the world.

Barry Hammond Winnipeg, Man.

Co-operator reporters appreciated I wish to congratulate Manitoba Co-operator reporter Shannon VanRaes for being named Agricultural Journalist of the Year by the North American Agricultural Journalists Association.

Past (the late Glen Nicoll) and present reporters from the Manitoba Co-operator have always provided us with excellent public service, exposing problems concerning agricultural issues.

Daniel Winters should receive an honourable mention for his continued reports on the problems the remaining livestock producers within the Riding Mountain TB Eradication Area (REMA) must contend with because of the irresponsible incompetence of Canadian Food Inspections Agency (CFIA) officials and inspectors.

Rodney Checkowski Rossburn, Man.

So what’s wrong with the giants in Really Big Food — self-declared moralists like McDonald’s, Tyson Foods, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, Kroger and Chipotle — who sell more food even as they create new, high-value markets for American farmers and ranchers?

Absolutely nothing; these firms are just following their customers.

It’s what food companies do. It’s also what farmers and ranchers do.

But if you want to worry about PETA and the HSUS, feel free. Keep in mind, however, three facts.

Fact one: According to the Humane Society of U.S., HSUS has not one billboard, magazine ad, Internet site or any material anywhere that promotes vegetarianism, veganism or any no-meat lifestyle. Not one.

Period.

Fact two: According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans eat 57 lbs. more meat per year now than in the late 1950s. That amount, about 195 lbs. per person per year, or an average 12 oz. per day, is nearly 50 per cent more than USDA recommends in its dietary guidelines.

Fact three: PETA was founded in 1980, smack in the middle of the biggest meat boom in the history of mankind and not even one carnivore noticed.

The Farm and Food File is published weekly through the U.S. and Canada. www. farmandfoodfile.com.

Saturated fats not the villain An excerpt from an editorial in Open Heart, a British Medical Journal publication.

It contends that recommendations to substitute saturated (animal fats) with polyunsaturated fats are not based on evidence and if anything are harmful. The full text is available at http://openheart. bmj.com.

• Dietary guideline recommendations suggesting the replacement of saturated fat with carbohydrates/omega-6 polyunsaturated fats do not reflect the current evidence in the literature.

• A change in these recommendations is drastically needed as public health could be at risk.

• The increase in the prevalence of diabetes and obesity in the U.S. occurred with an increase in the consumption of carbohydrate not saturated fat.

• There is no conclusive proof that a low-fat diet has any positive effects on health. Indeed, the literature indicates a general lack of any effect (good or bad) from a reduction in fat intake.

• The public fear that saturated fat raises cholesterol is completely unfounded as the low-density lipoprotein particle size distribution is worsened when fat is replaced with carbohydrate.

• A public health campaign is drastically needed to educate on the harms of a diet high in carbohydrate/sugar.

• It would be naive to assume that any recommendations related to carbohydrate or fat intake would apply to processed foods, which undoubtedly should be avoided if possible.

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“Is that what the government intended? I don’t think so,” he said.

Livestock producers in British Columbia’s lower mainland were also shorted earlier sparking fears the region might run out of grain forcing farmers to destroy starving animals.

However, the region is getting grain now, said Bob Dornan, secretar y treasurer of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada in B.C. “We’re not in dire straits right now,” he said in an interview April 25. “We’re paying an enormous premium over what we used to pay for transportation, but that’s just dollars and cents. At least the animals aren’t starving.

“We have economic issues that will have to be figured out in the long term, but the short-term crisis situation has passed.”

The region, which requires a million tonnes of feed grain a year — much of it for poultry production — needs assurances its needs will be filled, he said. The association hopes to reach an agreement with Western Canada’s big four grain companies to supply grain from their export terminals in Vancouver should the region ever run out of grain.

“All it would do is be a backstop in an emergency,” Dornan said.

Grain is moving through T h u n d e r B a y a n d t h a t ’s expected to help get more of Western Canada’s 76-milliontonne crop to market. The first two ships arrived April 21 — a month later than normal because of unprecedented ice on the Great Lakes.

“It’s like nothing we’ve ever s e e n b e f o re,” Ti m He n e y, CEO of the Thunder Bay Port Authority said April 25.

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isn’t going to be enough fertilizer in place to meet all the demand.”

Fertilizer companies had the same problems as grain companies with rail service over the winter. Farmers were less likely to buy in advance because they weren’t moving their grain, which affected their cash flow as well as bin space.

Both Graham and Biggar said farmers should continue to speak with their local fertilizers to stay up to date on the supply situation.

Breakdowns

Agrium’s nitrogen plant at Carseland, Alta, is broken down, taking about 120,000 tonnes of nitrogen off the market.

That represents about three per cent of Western Canada’s nitrogen use, said Richard Downey, Agrium’s vice-president of investor and corporate relations.

U.S. fertilizer company CF Industries Holdings Inc. said April 21 it shut down its entire nitrogen complex at Woodward, Oklahoma due to a problem in one of the boilers. It will take about six to eight weeks to resume normal operations.

The plant is a long way from Canada so the impact here

“In some cases we’re having to truck grain from Saskatchewan (elevator) locations to Alberta locations because the railways want to move from there to get quicker turnaround times to Vancouver.”

Wade Sobkowich

Twenty more ships were scheduled to arrive in Thunder Bay over the next 10 days, he said.

“The first ocean ship is here Monday or Tuesday,” Heney said. “There are about 10 of those lined up to come now too.”

No one from Louis Dreyfus Commodities returned telephone messages by press time April 28 to comment on its level-of-service complaint.

However, a CTA official confirmed the complaint, covered under Sections 113-116 of the Canada Grain Act, was filed April 16.

Those sections spell out the service railways are to provide shippers, including “adequate and suitable accommodation for the receiving and loading of all traffic offered for carriage on the railway...”

Louis Dreyfus has also asked the CTA to issue an interim order requiring CN to abide by contractual terms during the proceedings.

“As it is a confidential contract, I cannot speak to the specifics of the agreement,” the official wrote in an email.

The CTA is reviewing the complaint and will make its ruling public.

won’t be significant, but it will add to the tightness in supply, Downey said.

Last year’s record crop means most farmers will need to apply more fertilizer than normal, said John Heard, a soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development.

“Nitrogen levels in the soil are down 10 to 20 pounds an acre on average,” he said. “So the fertilizer needs are... higher than last year.”

Phosphorus, half of which is imported from the United States, is also in short supply, Biggar said.

Nitrogen can be applied after seeding or even when the crop is still small and even later with longer-maturing crops including corn, sunflowers and potatoes, Heard said. However, timely rains are needed to move the nutrient to the root zone.

Phosphorus short

But since phosphorus is much less mobile in the soil, it must be banded ahead of planting or applied with the seed.

“Products like potash and ammonium sulphate look like they will be in good supply,” Biggar said.

Heard isn’t sure how many Manitoba farmers applied fertilizer last fall. That’s an accept-

The Canadian Transportation Agency says the railways should be getting more revenue because their operating costs have risen. file photo

Industry sources say other grain companies are considering filing level-of-service complaints to the CTA, a quasi-judicial organization that administers the Canada Transportation Act. The Canadian Wheat Board filed a level-of-service complaint April 14, 1997 against CN and CP Rail accusing both of failing to provide adequate service during the winter of 1996-97.

CN reached an out-of-court settlement with the wheat board.

The CTA ruled in the wheat board’s favour Sept. 30, 1998.

The board then used the findings in a lawsuit against CP Rail.

The wheat board sought $45 million in compensation from CP, but reached an outof-court settlement for $15 million.

T h e w h e a t b o a rd’s c a s e turned on the argument the railways didn’t give the board an adequate share of railway capacity during the winter of 1996-97, which like this winter, was bitterly cold.

Me a n w h i l e , t h e C TA announced April 28 the railways are getting a 4.2 per cent increase in the VolumeRelated Composite Price Index ( VRCPI), which is used in determining their maxim u m re ve n u e e n t i t l e m e n t for the movement of western grain effective Aug. 1.

The increase was warranted by higher fuel costs and the lower Canadian dollar, which affects their operating costs, the CTA said in a release. allan@fbcpublishing.com

“I think the later the season goes the greater the likelihood is we’ll have enough fertilizer.”

Steve Biggar

Fertilizer supplies are tight this year due to a combination of logistical and production problems. Farmers are advised to remain in close contact with their fertilizer retailers about available supplies. file photo

able practice when applied to cool, well-drained soils, he said.

Farmers in central and eastern Manitoba had more time for fall applications than farmers in the western areas where harvest was delayed, Heard said.

“I’ve always been amazed with how well the fertilizer industry’s infrastructure does work,” he said. “It truly is a ‘just-in-time’ system and that just-in-time system has actually worked pretty good the last while.”

More urea will likely be imported from the U.S. than usual because of the rail and plant problems, Biggar said.

“We have product coming

from various river houses on the Mississippi and a lot of those houses are just having trouble getting rail cars to ship up this direction,” he said.

Rail car shortage

Last week the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, which regulates American railways, ordered CP Rail and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, to come up with a plan for moving more fertilizer in the U.S. Biggar said that will likely help get more fertilizer to Canada.

“If more cars are going into fertilizer we may see more coming up to Canada as well,” he

said. “I don’t think Canadian suppliers will short this market to serve the U.S. market first.”

Concerns about tight spring fertilizer supplies, especially regionally, aren’t new, in part because of logistical issues around having enough trucks and drivers to physically move product to keep up with the rush. Several industry observers noted, however, that fertilizer retailers are purchasing less fertilizer without having a firm sale for it. In 2008-09 many retailers were stuck with surplus supplies and suffered losses when fertilizer prices dropped later in the year.

“It’s certainly stressful for farmers,” said one official.

“Some may feel they’ve been caught, but the only thing worse than expensive nitrogen fertilizer is not having any fertilizer.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014

World grain markets pivoting to bearish: Rabobank But it’s not all bad news for western farmers

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

W

orld grain markets are looking bearish as stocks continue to build, but the news isn’t all bad for Western Canadian farmers, according to Bill Cordingley, Rabobank International’s head of Food & Agri Research and Advisory for the Americas Region.

“Clearly the market doesn’t necessarily believe that we’re into an olden-day period of forever lower prices and burdensome stocks,” Cordingley told reporters after speaking April 15 at the Canadian Global Crops Symposium in Winnipeg. “That era seems to be behind us. Canada’s farmers are obviously in a strong financial position so they will have a good incentive to plant again this year, but they’ll want to know that they can get their crops out through the system.”

Bad weather or international tensions could see grain prices rebound. Meanwhile, western Canadian farmers have some advantages in the global grain trade, he said.

One is geographic. Fifty per cent of grain imports over the next 10 years will go to Asia due to rapid urbanization and rising incomes.

World grain markets have pivoted to bearish, but Canada has some advantages, Rabobank’s Bill Cordingley told the Canadian Global Crops Symposium April 15 in Winnipeg. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

“A g a i n t h a t w i l l m e a n Western Canada infrastructure is going to need to be developed to meet that increased volume demand,” Cordingley said. “On the quality side, Canada is well placed as any quality grain and oilseed commodity producer in the world, I would say. Canola has a wonderful health halo. Hearthealthy oats, high-quality pasta or durum wheat, lentils, peas providing excellent nutrition in niche markets. A really diverse array of higher-end, higher-quality commodities — high-quality milling wheat — that are well perceived by

MLA wants red tape removed from farm group Blaine Pedersen says the rules deter rural businesses

By Lorraine Stevenson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

customers around the world because they do the job.”

With Argentina withdrawing from world wheat markets Canada has an opportunity to export more wheat to Brazil, the world’s second-largest wheat importer, he said.

Tight American soybean meal supplies could mean more markets in the U.S. for Canadian canola meal, he added.

A cold winter and big crop resulted in a backlog of western Canadian grain shipments and a wider-than-normal basis or difference between futures and elevator prices.

That tells farmers grain companies don’t want them to deliver grain right now, he said.

Canada has less commercial grain storage than its competitors, which means farmers here must deliver on a ‘just-intime’ basis.

“On the average year that’s a more efficient system for the average farmer because the farmer is not paying for a lot of fixed infrastructure in their grain prices,” Cordingley said. “But sometimes you need some latent redundancy to take care of bubble periods where there is too much grain and it can’t be moved.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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Manitoba Conservative MLA says it’s time to inject “some common sense” into the rules that govern directto-consumer sales by farmers.

Blaine Pedersen, (PC-Midland) has gone to bat for a small group of farmers recently outed for using a web-based ordering system and delivering uninspected chicken and ungraded eggs to customers in Winnipeg and other points in rural Manitoba.

The group was told by provincial inspectors those transactions must be done at farm gate only. They’re also not supposed to share transportion of farm products when they deliver to customers.

Pedersen said he’s baffled by what these young farmers are up against, especially that their transactions are in any way compromising food safety.

“I understand food safety, don’t get me wrong. But how does selling your product on a website make it unsafe?” he said.

“I have lots of questions about it.”

He said he took the matter up after getting several calls and emails expressing concern about the kinds of regulatory hurdles the province is imposing on direct marketers.

The problem seems to boil down to government not knowing how to deal with an ever-expanding niche market trade, he said.

“My cynical nature says this particular government started out promoting local food and farm gates sales, but government’s problem with this is it’s become so popular that it feels it has lost control of this.”

“We’ve got a good thing going here with these local producers dealing directly with their consumers. I see this as rural development. It’s creating jobs and creating commerce in the rural areas.

So how do we enhance that?”

Pedersen has asked questions of Manitoba Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) Ron Kostyshyn during question period in the Manitoba legislature about the matter. He was hoping to meet with the farmers’ group over this past weekend.

Harvest Moon Local Food Initiative’s Brad Anderson, who farms at Cypress River said a letter to Kostyshyn about their predicament in mid-April had not been acknowledged at the end of last week.

Anderson added that their group “just can’t get a straight answer” when they talk to provincial inspectors. “We keep getting all kinds of answers from all kinds of people.”

They now have their hopes pinned on a meeting with Manitoba Health officials, expected to take place in the next couple of weeks, to tell them what they need to do, he said. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014

The $10-billion ‘problem’ Canada likes to have Last year’s record crop is a sign of bigger things to come, industry leaders say

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

”We’ve got to stop talking about a 75-million-tonne crop as a problem.”

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ast year’s record 75-million-tonne crop highlights the need for investments in expanded grain-handling capacity, industry leaders told the Canadian Global Crop Symposium April 15 in Winnipeg.

“That means we’re going to have to invest... in new capacity,” said Curt Vossen, president and CEO of Richardson International. “And we’re going to have to invest, whether we think it’s commercially appropriate or not, in redundant capacity because when problems occur you need recovery. If you don’t... you just fall behind... and you lose it forever.”

Western Canada’s 2013 crop shattered the previous record set in 2009 by 28 per cent higher and is 50 per cent above the average. It took the grain industry off guard, especially the railways, which fell behind delivering cars to country elevators this winter.

Grain companies and farmers blame the backlog on the railways’ cutting crews and trains to boost profits, knowing they wouldn’t lose grain traffic because there are few economic alternatives.

The railways blamed the shortfall partly on an unusually cold winter, but also on the big crop itself. But rather than complain, the grain industry should be shouting “hallelujah,” Vossen said later in an interview.

“We’ve got to stop talking about a 75-million-tonne crop as a problem.”

The need to increase Western Canada’s grain-handling capacity was raised throughout the day-and-a-half-long meeting.

Grain companies are investing (see sidebar) but frustrated farmers didn’t hear what the

Curt Vossen

KAP president Doug Chorney told Scott Streiner, an assistant deputy minister with Transport Canada, it’s “unacceptable” for the railways not to provide surge capacity. photo: allan dawson

railways are planning, other than promises to move the crop.

Farmers and grain company executives declared 2013 was no fluke.

“This is the new normal, as opposed to 45-million- to 50-million-tonne crops,” Vossen told the symposium.

New technology bred into seeds and agronomic improvements are boosting crop production, he said.

“Could it go to 90 million tonnes? Maybe,” Vossen said in an interview.

The extra 25 million tonnes produced last year will earn Canada $10 billion, he added.

“And it’s replaceable. And it’s sustainable.”

Meanwhile, the canola industry is pushing to boost average canola yields to 52 bushels an acre, producing 26 million tonnes by 2025.

The canola industry isn’t striving for “past goals” or “averages,” Canola Council of Canada chair Terry Youzwa said, alluding to the railways, which measure their performance to previous peaks or averages.

Corn breeders are developing earlier-maturing varieties, which could see acres expand across the West. Corn yields more than other crops so the system will have to handle more tonnes.

“Our belief is, to only use long-term (yield) trends is not going to position ourselves for success in the future,” Cargill Canada president Jeff Vassart told the meeting.

J.J. Ruest, CN Rail’s executive vice-president and chief marketing officer, didn’t announce any track-twinning projects, much to Youzwa’s disappointment.

“Maintenance is capacity,” Ruest told Youzwa.

CN is spending more than $2 billion in capital projects in 2014 — half of it on maintenance, he said.

“If the network is not in good shape, it doesn’t matter how many cars you put on it, it won’t be as fluid,” Ruest said.

From every dollar of revenue, CN spends 19 to 20 cents on maintenance, he added.

The federal government has

ordered the railways to move one million tonnes of grain a week and new legislation, if passed, will allow the government to set shipping targets for two years. But most in the grain industry agree commercial service-level agreements between shippers and the railways would be more effective.

The railways are reluctant to sign the agreements because grain freights are regulated by the maximum revenue entitlement, Ruest told Dave Sefton, chair of the Western Grains Research Foundation.

In a commercial negotiation the railways would agree to provide better service or more capacity for a higher price, Ruest said later in an interview.

“You are shackled (by the entitlement) in a way I don’t think was intended,” Ruest said later in an interview.

But most farm groups and the Western Grain Elevator Association say the railways are fairly compensated to move grain and giving up the entitlement would see higher freight costs with no improvement in service.

Rail service must be balanced against the railways’ need to be efficient and vice versa, Scott Streiner, an assistant deputy minister with Transport Canada told the meeting.

Keystone Agricultural Producers president Doug Chorney told Streiner the railways haven’t suffered the way farm-

ers and grain companies have because of the backlog.

“Surge capacity in the system is what we expect from everybody that serves the ag industry,” Chorney said. “The railways have been able to be the exception to that rule.

That’s not acceptable. You say they should be efficient. No, they need to be successful and we want them to be profitable, but we don’t want them to be so efficient it’s penalizing everyone else in the value chain.”

Alberta Barley chair Matt Sawyer said the grain backlog is “an epic failure” that has cost farmers $3 billion.

Nick Sekulic, chair of Pulse Canada and Rycroft, Alta. farmer, said in an interview the only reason farmers aren’t suffering more is that they’ve had a couple of good years and lenders are providing credit.

“On my farm, it’s a six-digit impact, this crisis,” he said.

“If we have another big crop it could be a seven-digit impact on my bottom line. These are things that should get the attention of everyone in Canada because it’s going to affect our economy, our standard of living and our dollar.”

Ruest said CN will move the 5,500 cars a week the government has ordered, but it and the rest of the grain sector must work flat out, seven days a week, 24 hours a day this spring and summer.

Normally grain shipping slows this time of year as farmers focus on seeding and the railways and terminals do maintenance, he said.

“At some point we need to bring the temperature down and get back to basics of operating and how we railroad together,” he said. allan@fbcpublishing.com

Canada’s grain system increasing its capacity Millions of dollars are being invested in country elevators and port terminals to handle the West’s growing crop production

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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estern Canada’s grain companies are adding capacity to the handling system, demonstrating they don’t see last year’s record crop as an anomaly, says Curt Vossen, Richardson International’s president and CEO. Last week the CWB announced its plan to buy Prairie West Terminal, which has four country elevators with 77,000 tonnes of storage, he said on the sidelines of the Canadian Global Crops Symposium in Winnipeg last month.

Before that CWB announced it’s building new high-throughput elevators at Bloom, Man. and Colonsay, Sask.

CWB says it plans further expansion.

Last month Cargill announced it’s adding 20,000 tonnes of capacity to its elevator at Morris. The firm is spending $50 million on its Vancouver terminal, including measures to increase throughput.

Viterra has announced new elevators

for Kindersley, Sask., and Grimshaw, Alta., and is investing $100 million in its Pacific terminal at Vancouver.

Last year, Richardson International announced it would add 14,000 tonnes of storage to each of its elevators in Carseland, Alta., Crooked River, Sask., and Shoal Lake, Man. It also is spending $150 million adding 80,000 tonnes of capacity to its Vancouver terminal.

“And there will be more,” Vossen said.

“There are people who want to get into the Canadian marketplace. There’s the big U.S. company CHS and Bunge and Gavilon and all of them want a piece of this marketplace and some of them will come and new facilities will be built.”

More can also be done with existing capacity, added Vossen, speaking from experience. He believed the maximum capacity of Richardson’s 98,000-tonne Vancouver facility was 3.1 million tonnes until last year, when it did just under four million.

The new addition was to bring capacity to 5.5 million tonnes, but now Vossen believes it could be more.

“The conventional wisdom was that Vancouver could handle 18 million or maybe 20 million tonnes (a year),” Vossen said. “We (collectively) could do...

24 million or maybe 25 million tonnes at Vancouver... and maybe six million tonnes at Prince Rupert so now you’re over 30 million tonnes.”

Then there’s Churchill, Thunder Bay, the lower St. Lawrence and direct sales to the United States, he said.

“The industry, when there’s an opportunity, will respond, is responding,” Vossen said.

Nine billion dollars is being invested at Port Metro Vancouver, said Chris Wellstood, the port’s executive vicepresident and chief marketing officer.

Contrary to popular belief there are lots of places to build more terminal elevators at the port, he said.

Meanwhile, CN Rail is adding capacity with its new Fleet Integration Program, said J.J. Ruest, CN’s executive vice-president and chief marketing officer. Under the program grain companies supply CN with cars they own or have leased. The cars

are pooled and are part of CN’s fleet.

The grain companies are guaranteed to get the equivalent number of cars back to ship grain not subject to the maximum revenue entitlement to commercial destinations, which include the United States and domestic customers such as flour mills and livestock feeders.

“You get back what you put in,” Ruest said.

“It’s one of the ways to increase the size of the fleet. It’s a way to respond to people who want better service for commercial grain and it’s possibly a way forward to get that piece of the business more commercial based more on market signals.”

If a grain company has more business lined up it can add more cars to the program knowing it will get more cars back ensuring it gets additional capacity, he said.

CN’s program has added 800 cars from five grain companies and Ruest said he expects more will be added. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014

Railway profits don’t impress unhappy customers A lack of competition is good for shareholders but not shippers

By Alex Binkley CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR

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obust financial results posted by CN and CP for the first quarter of 2014 aren’t winning applause from customers who have suffered a winter of unpredictable freight service.

“CN and CP already have the vast majority of the business in Western Canada, and they are focused on reducing costs to improve their operating ratios,” says Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevators Association. “This manifests itself as worse service for their customers.”

The railways are preoccupied by creating value for shareholders through streamlining their operations, “but this does not necessarily translate to an efficient system for railway customers,” he added.

CP posted its “best firstquarter financial results in company history” with a 16 per cent rise in net income to more than $217 million, said CEO Hunter Harrison.

CN’s net income was $623 million for the first quarter of 2014 compared with net income of $555 million for the same period last year, said CEO Claude Mongeau.

T h e p e r f o r m a n c e d re w fawning praise from stock market analysts, but Sobkowich said it comes at the expense of captive shippers.

“Unlike the railways’ customers, shareholders can come and go, an activity which, in part, drives share values. Therefore, the railways are focused on shareholder returns above all else, including customer service.

“What we are experiencing amounts to a transfer of wealth from railway customers to railway shareholders,”

he added. “Competition is absent, and the legislation is inadequate to provide the proper disciplines for decent rail capacity and service for shippers in all industries, primarily those that are captive to rail.”

A massive and late Prairie crop last year combined with a long and harsh winter to create a mammoth backlog in rail shipments that could cost farmers more than $7 billion in lost sales and lower prices, grain companies say. Other sectors haven’t calculated the financial damage.

After months of complaints about poor rail service from grain farmers and companies as well as other western commodity shippers, the government issued a c a b i n e t o rd e r i n e a r l y March ordering the railways to ramp up grain shipments to 500,000 tonnes a week by

mid-April or face $100,000 a day fines. To date, the railways have met the targets.

The government has also brought in C-30, the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act, which would enable the Ca n a d i a n Tra n s p o r t a t i o n Agency to order the railways to compensate any shipper for losses resulting from a carrier’s failure to live up to the terms of a transportation contract. The government rejected four Liberal and nine NDP amendments to increased fines and subject the railways to more competition.

While the arrival of warmer weather has improved grain transportation, there remains a shortfall of 68,000 rail cars, Sobkowich said. “We are still not seeing enough capacity for shipping to the United States or Eastern Canada, and we are still having dif-

ficulty getting trains spotted at locations of our choosing — i.e. where the product is for a particular vessel.”

Harrison didn’t mention his company’s unhappy customers when he bragged “CP delivered solid results in a period that was severely impacted by extraordinary cold and severe winter weather conditions. Despite a slow start to the year and the reduced capacity that limited our ability to meet strong customer demand, we s t i l l h a ve t h e u t m o s t confidence in our ability to achieve our financial targets for 2014.”

C N ’s Mo n g e a u a t l e a s t acknowledged the weather had “reduced our capacity to serve our customers.” With spring at hand, “CN’s recovery is now well underway, with key safety, operating and service metrics returning to pre-winter levels.”

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($/cwt) (1,000+ lbs.)

(850+ lbs.)

Futures (April 25, 2014) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change Feeder Cattle April 2014 144.25 0.05 May 2014 June 2014 135.85 1.48 August 2014 August 2014 134.90 2.08 September 2014 October 2014 138.87 1.50 October 2014 December 2014 140.95 1.28 November 2014 February 2015 141.82 1.37 January 2015 Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

Ontario $ 137.93 - 161.16 134.54 - 154.83 81.36 - 113.43 81.36 - 113.43 99.91 - 121.45 $ 151.60 - 174.44 169.06 - 190.04 166.56 - 200.26 170.80 - 221.42 179.95 - 230.39 169.18 - 226.08 $ 137.05 - 152.54 149.62 - 166.09 156.91 - 184.77 156.96 - 198.11 168.59 - 206.83 169.75 - 208.66

$

(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.)

Close 179.60 184.05 184.02 184.25 184.00 180.80

Change 1.55 2.65 2.75 3.23 3.33 3.05

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending April 19, 2014 359,751 220,392 139,359 91,639 2,007,000

Previous Year­ 408,417 239,713 168,704 117,335 2,140,000

Week Ending April 19, 2014 678 23,078 12,828 749 707 5,640 52

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Previous Year 1,197 29,606 14,418 741 850 6,772 135

Hog Prices Source: Manitoba Agriculture

(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg) E - Estimation MB. ($/hog) MB. (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)

MB. (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)

ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)

P.Q. (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)

Futures (April 25, 2014) in U.S. Hogs May 2014 June 2014 July 2014 August 2014 October 2014

Current Week 236.00E 218.00E 235.65 241.29

Last Week 245.61 226.73 244.31 252.65

Close 122.90 125.55 123.95 121.82 102.30

Last Year (Index 100) 160.93 148.53 150.00 155.12

Change -1.92 2.48 2.05 22.52 13.55

Other Market Prices Sheep and Lambs $/cwt Ewes Choice Lambs (110+ lb.)

(95 - 109 lb.)

(80 - 94 lb.)

(Under 80 lb.)

(New crop)

$1 Cdn: $0.9056 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.1042 Cdn.

COLUMN

(Friday to Thursday) Slaughter Cattle

Slaughter Cattle Grade A Steers Grade A Heifers D1, 2 Cows D3 Cows Bulls Steers

EXCHANGES: April 25, 2014

Winnipeg (00 head) (wooled fats) — — — — — —

Chickens Minimum broiler prices as of April 13, 2010 Under 1.2 kg................................... $1.5130 1.2 - 1.65 kg.................................... $1.3230 1.65 - 2.1 kg.................................... $1.3830 2.1 - 2.6 kg...................................... $1.3230

Turkeys Minimum prices as of April 27, 2014 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.965 Undergrade .............................. $1.875 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.950 Undergrade .............................. $1.850 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.950 Undergrade .............................. $1.850 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................... $1.865 Undergrade............................... $1.780 Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.

Toronto 78.34 - 106.04 165.96 - 180.04 212.69 - 232.61 214.77 - 237.10 159.62 - 293.65 —

SunGold Specialty Meats 40.00

Eggs

Goats Winnipeg (00head) Toronto (Fats) ($/cwt) Kids — 43.39 - 285.28 Billys — — Mature — 61.04 - 211.34

Horses <1,000 lbs.

1,000 lbs.+

Shipping challenges are limiting demand from down east

Toronto ($/cwt) 2.00 - 28.00 25.00 - 59.00

“We’re seeing the last of the bred cow sales.”

Dave Sims CNSC

M

anitoba cattle auction yards experienced a resurgence over the week ended April 25, as many producers hauled in animals they had been waiting to unload since before the Easter break.

Auction yards at Ashern, Gladstone, Grunthal, Brandon, Virden, Ste. Rose and Winnipeg were all open. Killarney was the lone outlet closed due to the Easter long weekend.

Over 7,000 slaughter and feeder cattle were listed as being sold at the province’s auction yards, well up from just under 3,000 sold the week previous.

Quality at most markets was up too, according to Rick Wright of Heartland Order Buying Co. Buyers decided to do some shopping after looking at the lateness of the season, he theorized. “They’re saying, ‘We may not like the price but we like the quality and they’re available today.’”

Once buyers got past the 800-pound level, the flows were steady, he said, but there wasn’t as high a demand for lightweight cattle going to grass.

“I think we’ll be back down to below-seasonal volumes when we come back in and that trend will continue back through to the middle of May.” Above-average deliveries of slaughter cows are still coming into the market and prices are strong, said Wright, who noted American buyers still have strong interest.

“We’re seeing the last of the bred cow sales and a few cow-calf pairs are beginning to show up,” he said.

rick wright

Demand for replacement stock is good, although some producers are hanging on to top-end heifers for breeding programs.

“That’s the turnaround we didn’t see a month ago at this time.”

This year’s summer schedule will likely start in early June instead of the usual July/ August mark.

Demand is still strong from the U.S. and Western Canada but has tapered off in the East.

Transportation challenges and price are two barriers for many eastern buyers right now, Wright said.

On the bright side, he added, the province’s introduction of the Western Livestock Price Insurance Program, which allows producers to insure herds against unexpected price drops, has given growers increased confidence. “It’s created a positive buzz in the marketplace.”

The program allows cattle feeders, and some producers who go to pasture with a certain amount of cattle, to take risk-management positions.

Price levels are adequate, said Wright, and the premiums look reasonable for the coverage producers get.

Dave Sims writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

briefs

Tight U.S. cattle supply trims March feedlot placements

By Theopolis Waters chicago / reuters

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

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Volumes rise at sales with post-holiday traffic

The number of cattle placed in U.S. feedlots last month unexpectedly fell five per cent from March 2013 after several years of drought in parts of the country led to fewer animals for feedlots to draw from for fattening, a government report showed April 25.

Most analysts had anticipated a modest bump in March cattle placements compared with a year ago, driven by record-high prices for market-ready cattle last month.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed March placements at 1.795 million head, down five per cent from 1.884 million a year earlier. Analysts, on average, had expected a 0.8 per cent increase.

USDA report’s quarterly steers and heifers on-feed data showed steers as of April 1 rose 2.2 per cent from a year ago, but heifers dropped 5.9 per cent, said University of Missouri livestock economist Ron Plain.

“This suggests we’re keeping a lot of heifers back on farms for breeding, which helps pull down the placement number and tightens up supplies in feedyards,” he said.

Rich Nelson, chief strategist with Allendale Inc., said fewer cattle are available now following five consecutive

months of larger placements, partly fuelled by record-high cattle prices.

He added that in early March, bouts of harsh wintry weather may have delayed the sale of animals at some auction barns, which might have kept numbers from going to feedlots.

USDA put the feedlot cattle supply as of April 1 at 10.860 million head, down one per cent from 10.924 million a year earlier.

The government said the number of cattle sold to packers, or marketings, in March was down four per cent from a year earlier, to 1.660 million head. Analysts forecasted a drop of 3.6 per cent from 1.724 million last year.

March marketings were the smallest since the government began the data series in 1996.

Looking for results? Check out the market reports from livestock auctions around the province. » PaGe 14

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GRAIN MARKETS Export and International Prices

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Seeding intentions forecast bullish for canola Traders have eyes on U.S. corn and wheat progress Terryn Shiells CNSC

I

CE Futures Canada canola futures moved to their lowest levels in a month in sympathy with weakening outside oilseed markets during the week ended April 25. Prices, however, managed to finish well off their lows after the release of a bullish Statistics Canada report on April 24. The May contract, which was nearing expiration, finished with small gains, while other contracts were slightly lower.

Statistics Canada pegged 2014-15 Canadian canola acreage at 19.8 million acres, down slightly from the 19.9 million planted last spring. The trade was expecting acres to increase to about 21 million acres.

Expectations of a large 2013-14 canola carry-out in Canada continued to overhang the market, though the commodity is still thought to be undervalued compared to other oilseeds.

Though farmers were active sellers throughout the week as they made bin space and generated cash flow ahead of spring seeding, speculators were on the buy side, helping prices to rally on April 24 and 25.

Old-crop Chicago soybean futures were weaker, as reports of South American soybeans moving into the U.S. and Chinese cancellation worries weighed on the market.

So far, about two million tonnes of U.S. soybean orders have been cancelled by China, and those in the trade say they wouldn’t be surprised if China ends up cancelling a total of three million tonnes by the end of the year.

New-crop Chicago soybean values moved higher during the week, though, as the narrowing in of the old-crop/new-crop spread was a feature of the activity. Talk that Chinese demand for new-crop beans will be strong was also bullish.

Last Week

All prices close of business April 24, 2014

Week Ago

Year Ago

Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)

253.17

252.80

257.64

Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)

270.53

266.95

302.46

Coarse Grains Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)

197.33

195.86

254.03

Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)

260.50

262.61

255.80

Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)

540.87

558.05

522.99

Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)

939.11

963.81

1097.43

oilseeds

Traders will start to watch weather going forward, as worries about possible planting delays for U.S. corn could result in larger soybean acres.

Corn futures moved sharply higher as the trade became worried about cold, wet weather causing planting delays in the U.S. Midwest.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported that as of April 20, only six per cent of the U.S. corn crop had been planted, which compares with the five-year average of 14 per cent.

Some members of the industry said it’s too early to get worried about seeding delays for corn, as the ideal planting window of May 1-10 hasn’t passed yet. Adding to that, farmers can get all of their corn crops planted in a short period of time.

Weather problems continued to boost wheat futures in the U.S. during the week, with an ongoing lack of moisture in the U.S. Plains causing concerns for growers.

Ongoing worries over risks of political instability in Ukraine possibly reducing wheat production and disrupting exports were also supportive.

There are also some worries about delayed spring wheat seeding in the U.S., with USDA reporting 10 per cent of the spring wheat crop was seeded as of April 20. At the same time last year, only seven per cent of the crop was planted, while the five-year average is 19 per cent seeded.

Statistics Canada pegged 2014-15 Canadian spring wheat area at 17.98 million acres, with durum at 4.84 million and winter wheat remaining in the spring at 1.95 million acres. The total of 24.78 million acres, which accounts for the winter wheat acres lost to winterkill, was at the higher end of expectations.

Terryn Shiells writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

For three-times-daily market reports from Commodity News Service Canada, visit “Today in Markets” at www.manitobacooperator.ca.

Winnipeg Futures ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business April 25, 2014 barley

Last Week

Week Ago

May 2014

139.50

137.50

July 2014

140.50

135.50

October 2014

140.50

135.50

Canola

Last Week

Week Ago

May 2014

471.70

461.00

July 2014

474.30

470.10

November 2014

485.20

484.60

Special Crops Report for April 28, 2014 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan Spot Market

Spot Market

Other ( Cdn. cents per pound unless otherwise specified)

Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound) Large Green 15/64

23.00 - 24.00

Canaryseed

Laird No. 1

21.00 - 23.00

Oil Sunflower Seed

Eston No. 2

16.00 - 20.00

19.00 - 21.00 —

Desi Chickpeas

17.10 - 18.00

Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)

Green No. 1

Fababeans, large

—

Feed beans

—

Medium Yellow No. 1

12.80 - 13.00 6.25 - 6.75

Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans

40.00 - 40.00

Feed Pea (Rail)

No. 1 Great Northern

55.00 - 55.00

Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)

No. 1 Cranberry Beans

39.00 - 39.00

Yellow No. 1

35.75 - 36.00

No. 1 Light Red Kidney

55.00 - 55.00

Brown No. 1

32.30 - 34.00

No. 1 Dark Red Kidney

57.00 - 57.00

Oriental No. 1

26.60 - 28.00

No. 1 Black Beans

37.00 - 37.00

No. 1 Pinto Beans

29.00 - 32.00

4.25 - 4.35

Source: Stat Publishing SUNFLOWERS

No. 1 Small Red

40.00 - 40.00

No. 1 Pink

40.00 - 40.00

Fargo, ND

Goodlands, KS

21.80

19.50

Report for April 25, 2014 in US$ cwt NuSun (oilseed)

32.00* Call for

Confection

details

—

Source: National Sunflower Association

Canadian farmers to plant less canola than expected Wheat acres will drop as well due to ample carry-over stocks

By Rod Nickel winnipeg / reuters

C

anadian farmers intend to curb canola plantings this spring, Statistics Canada said April 24, surprising traders who expected a bigger area.

StatsCan said farmers would also taper back wheat sowings as expected, after a backlog in railway shipments left ample supplies of most crops from last year’s harvest.

StatsCan, using a late-March farmer survey, estimated farmers would plant 24.766 million acres of all wheat, down 4.8 per cent from last year, but exceed-

ing the average trade expectation of 24.4 million acres.

Canola plantings looked set to reach 19.801 million acres, easing 0.7 per cent from last year, but falling well below the average trade guess of 21.1 million acres.

Canadian farmers produced record volumes of wheat and canola last year, but much of the crop remains locked in farm bins after the abundant supplies and frigid winter overwhelmed the railways that move crops to port.

For that reason, stocks look to be ample well into summer, said Dave Reimann, market analyst at Cargill Ltd. A slight dip in canola-planting inten-

tions was a surprise, with the market expecting farmers to sow the secondbiggest canola area on record.

“It is somewhat bullish (for canola) in the sense that it is well below average guesses and will result in a slightly tighter carry-out than the trade expected,” Reimann said, referring to supplies at the end of the crop-marketing year July 31. “Having said that, with the massive carry-out expected from this year and assuming average yields on that crop, (stocks) will still be ample going forward.”

Spring wheat acres are expected to shrink 5.6 per cent to 17.978 million acres, with cash bids from country ele-

vators sharply lower than a year ago, said John Duvenaud, analyst with Wild Oats Grain Market Advisory.

“Guys are sitting out there with wheat and they can’t move it,” Duvenaud said on a conference call organized by Minneapolis Grain Exchange. “You can see how there would be reluctance to put more spring wheat in.”

StatsCan also said oat plantings would edge up 0.6 per cent to 3.188 million acres, in line with expectations.

Smaller sowings of durum wheat, barley and corn are expected, but farmers intend to boost soybean plantings 16.5 per cent to 5.264 million acres, an alltime high, StatsCan reported.

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Manage early spring grazing carefully to ensure proper nutrition Grazing too early can also reduce forage production by as much as 45 per cent

By Jenelle Hamblin MAFRD

A

nother long, cold winter has many producers trying to balance dwindling feed supplies and late spring pasture.

Some may be forced to take cattle to pasture earlier than recommended and this will affect cost and future pasture production. While it is tempting to take cattle to pasture as soon as the snow goes, it can be costly if you do not address a few important issues.

Your livestock are likely to be in late gestation or have young calves at foot. These are two critical stages of production and the animals’ nutritional needs must be met. If they’re not, it can mean a real cost in lower first-service conception rates and lower average daily gains. Generally, early spring pasture doesn’t have enough forage to satisfy your cows’ daily dry matter intake needs. Pastures overgrazed in fall and used for spring grazing often have less than 112 kg of dry matter forage per hectare which amounts to less than 100 pounds per acre. This will severely affect your cows’ body condition, restrict forage intake and lead to suppressed milk yields for the calf.

Grazing too early in the spring can also cost in loss of future production. It can cost you up to 45 per cent of a year’s forage production. A wellmanaged pasture can yield 400 per cent more forage than a badly managed one — and good management starts in the spring. Continually stressing the forage plant will cost in future production and eventual degradation of the stand.

Meeting spring nutritional needs

If producers feel forced to pasture their cattle early, there are some things they can do to reduce the negative impact on pasture and ensure their cattle’s nutritional needs are met.

Skim graze: This practice moves cattle through the pasture system at a very rapid rate.

The objective is to only take off the very tips of the leaves.

It allows the plant to continue photosynthesis with the remaining part of the leaf. This is not as harmful to the plant

file photo

Grazing too early in the spring can also cost in loss of future production. It can cost you up to 45 per cent of a year’s forage production.

as grazing off the whole leaves.

The rate at which you have to move from pasture to pasture will depend on the size of your pastures and herd — from a few hours to a few days.

Sacrifice pasture: Producers use this practice to choose a field and keep the cattle on it until other pastures are ready for grazing. The grazing is usually supplemented with hay and/or concentrates to meet nutritional needs. The same pasture can be used year after year or you can choose a different pasture each year.

Choose only pastures that are high and dr y, because punching soft soils will further injure the forages and reduce

production. Regardless of the pasture you use, a very long rest period of 60 to 100 days will need to follow this earlyseason grazing.

Planning for the late arrival of spring

Stockpiled forage: This practice saves standing forage from earlier in the year to use at a later time. It is often used in the fall and early winter but can also be used early the next spring. Research shows that lactating cows on stockpiled grass will need some form of supplement. Stockpiled forage should be feed tested before use.

However, the Western Beef De ve l o p m e n t Ce n t re s u g gests common values for Total Digestible Nutrients ( TDN) would range from 50 to 58 per cent and Crude Protein (CP) six to 10 per cent. Lactating cows require greater than 60 per cent TDN and greater than 11 per cent CP. Supplement with 3.2 kg (seven pounds) of good-quality, second-cut, alfalfa hay or 4.1 kg (nine pounds) of processed, barley grain for every cow every

third day if they’re grazing stockpiled grass. Stockpiled forage has the advantage of giving you a place to put cattle early in the season that will provide feed, a clean space for newborn calves and a healthy, resilient forage stand.

• Winter annuals: Fall rye or winter wheat that is seeded in the fall can be used the next spring for grazing. Because you will not save this stand, your herd can graze it very heavily.

It will be a later forage resource than stockpiled forage but has the advantage of being highquality feed.

• Seed early-starting grass: In drier areas with good drainage, crested wheatgrass will provide early-season grazing and has the advantage of standing up to heavy grazing. Unfortunately, it is not adapted to moister areas or heavier soils.

Meadow or creeping foxtail may be suitable in areas with higher moisture and good moisture throughout the year.

Both of these species are very early spring growers, but are not really suited to mid-season

grazing. Talk to a local forage specialist for recommendations.

• Always keep enough hay on hand to get you through to June. This is a common practice across the Prairies, but poor production the past few years has reduced reserves. If you want to source more hay, contact your local MAFRD GO office for availability on the Manitoba Hay List; or check local papers or businesses for ads in your area.

There are many options to get through the spring crunch.

Most require planning the year before. However, even with the best planning, weather and other factors can stress a forage system. You can reduce your livestock numbers, if you simply will not have enough hay or pasture. Doing this early will protect your resources and put you ahead in the long run.

For more information or help with spring grazing, contact your local MAFRD GO office. For the office nearest to you, go to: www.manitoba.ca/ agriculture and click on contact.

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More Manitoba hogs test positive for PEDv

Tag you’re it

Officials believe the pigs picked up the virus off the farm Staff

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Newly tagged calves are now free to frolic, although with continued showers in the forecast, they might get dirty. photo: jeannette Greaves

Animal rights group welcomes commitment on veal crates Crates are about to go packing, as three major grocery retailers confirm their support for an end to veal produced in individual pens

By Shannon VanRaes co-operator staff

T

hree major grocery chains in Canada have confirmed they will no longer sell veal produced in confinement systems by 2018, but they aren’t crowing about it.

Loblaw, Sobeys and Metro have made all made recent commitments to move away from veal raised in crates, but none made any formal announcement to mark the occasion.

A release issued by Humane Societies International’s Canadian arm late last week linked the move by the three grocery chains to recent undercover footage filmed and released by the animal rights activist group Mercy for Animals, which shows calves being abused, beaten and shot.

Sayara Thurston, a campaign manager with Humane Society International said her organization welcomes the move made by the retailers.

“Confining newborn calves in tiny crates where they can barely move is an inhumane practice that causes immeasurable suffering to these infant animals, and we urge the entire veal industry to take steps to transition away from these archaic intensive confinement systems as soon as possible, in favour of open-housing systems that give calves more o p p o r t u n i t y t o m ove a n d interact with other animals,” Thurston said.

Canada has also failed to keep

“We are aware of a recent video aired by CTV’s ‘W5.’ We have notified our supplier of our concern and we will continue to monitor the situation as the company investigates.”

Kevin Groh

pace with other countries when it comes to veal production, she added.

The European Union officially banned veal crates in 2006, but some countries within the EU banned them as early as 1990.

However, Canadian veal producers are now moving away from crate production as well, according to Kevin Groh, vicepresident of corporate affairs and communications for Loblaw.

“We do not condone animal abuse and have been working with industry partners and animal welfare experts to ensure animal welfare standards and Codes of Practice are in place to promote the care, protection and safety of farm animals,” he said in an emailed statement.

“We are aware of a recent video aired by CTV’s ‘W5.’ We have notified our supplier of our concern and we will continue to monitor the situation as the company investigates.”

T h e L o b l a w re p re s e n t ative also noted the company “supports the voluntary commitment by the Ontario and Quebec milk-fed industry to eliminate the practice of rais-

ing milk-fed veal in individual stalls.”

Keri Scobie of Sobey’s western office confirmed that all stores in that chain, including its IGA stores in Quebec, will be eliminating veal crates from their supply chain by 2018.

“The whole industry is moving that way... everyone who is supplying veal is going to be compliant with this — industry is going in this direction,” she said.

Veal tends to be a bigger seller in Eastern Canada than on the Prairies, Scobie said, but added that stores stock it wherever there is a demand.

In 2012, 335,000 calves were slaughtered for human consumption in Canada, according to Humane Societies International.

That’s an increase from 2011, when 235,037 veal calves were raised on 1,235 Canadian farms.

Fifty-two per cent of Canadian veal production occurs in Quebec, 45 per cent in Ontario. The remaining three per cent is split between Alberta and British Columbia. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

nother small group of Manitoba hogs has tested positive off farm for the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv), this time at an unnamed “high-traffic site” in the province’s livestock-intensive southeast.

The office of the provincial chief veterinary officer (CVO) reported April 25 that the pigs in this case had been transported from another high-traffic site before they started showing clinical signs of the disease, which include diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration.

“High-traffic sites” are off-farm facilities moving or handling large numbers of pigs, such as assembly yards, abattoirs, truck-wash stations or livestock trailers.

In the early phase of its investigation, the CVO said it’s believed the source of this group of infections was environmental contamination at the high-traffic sites, not the animals’ source farms. However, the CVO said it’s following up with farms and facilities that had contact with the sites.

Both high-traffic sites are co-operating with the CVO’s investigation and have taken “measures to reduce the possibility of further transmission,” the province said in a statement.

The province in the past week reported two other cases of PEDv, not in hogs but in “environmental” samples collected at high-traffic sites. Manitoba’s lone cases of on-farm PEDv were reported in February at a farm in the province’s southeast; a case was also found in hogs at an off-farm “high-traffic” site in the province’s southwest earlier this month.

The past week’s confirmations bring Manitoba’s total of off-farm (high-traffic site or environmental) PEDv findings to seven.

Several high-traffic sites hadn’t been running tests for PEDv previously, but have recently started because of contact with other positive high-traffic sites or PED-positive regions outside Manitoba, the province said. Those facilities are implementing “control and containment” plans to keep PED from moving from their sites to Manitoba farms.

Since Canada’s first case of PED was confirmed in Ontario in January, there have been 60 on-farm cases of the virus confirmed in hogs in Canada: 57 in Ontario and one each in Quebec, Prince Edward Island and Manitoba.

Ontario’s three most recent cases were confirmed April 24 at a finisher operation in Huron County, a farrow-tofinish farm in Elgin County and a nursery operation at an as-yet unnamed site.

PED can be a severe and often fatal illness in newborn and young pigs, while older swine often have less serious symptoms and generally recover. The virus is not a risk to the health of humans or other animals, nor to food safety.

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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

Feeder Steers

Apr-25

Apr-22

Apr-22

Apr-25

Apr-22

n/a

Apr-24

Apr-25

No. on offer

1,603*

807

323*

715

1,157

n/a

2,278

1,275*

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

130.00-136.00

Over 1,000 lbs.

900-1,000

n/a

137.00-162.00

n/a

145.00-163.00

151.00-165.00

n/a

150.00-165.00 (169.00)

130.00-172.00

800-900

140.00-184.00

135.00-177.50

155.00-174.00

170.00-187.00

163.00-181.00 (184)

n/a

155.00-175.00 (188.00)

165.00-187.00

700-800

140.00-210.00

175.00-203.00

170.00-190.00

185.00-209.00

185.00-204.00 (209)

n/a

175.00-188.00 (190.00)

175.00-213.00

600-700

155.00-213.00

185.00-215.00

185.00-225.00

195.00-221.00

195.00-213.00 (227)

n/a

190.00-212.00 (224.00)

195.00-221.00

500-600

190.00-235.00

190.00-230.00

200.00-255.00

205.00-237.00

213.00-230.00 (234)

n/a

195.00-220.00 (250.00)

200.00-232.00

400-500

210.00-239.00

200.00-228.00

225.00-265.00

225.00-245.00

220.00-250.00

n/a

200.00-225.00 (245.00)

200.00-232.00

300-400

n/a

200.00-225.00

225.00-280.00

235.00-255.00

n/a

n/a

190.00-210.00 (235.00)

200.00-224.00

900-1,000 lbs.

n/a

110.00-151.00

n/a

135.00-150.00

135.00-151.00

n/a

130.00-145.00 (156.00)

140.00-165.00

800-900

n/a

130.00-166.00

140.00-160.00

148.00-165.00

149.00-163.00 (167)

n/a

145.00-150.00 (173.00)

150.00-171.00

Feeder heifers

700-800

159.00-189.00

160.00-176.50

155.00-171.50

164.00-180.00

161.00-176.00 (183)

n/a

160.00-176.00 (181.00)

158.00-182.00

600-700

155.00-199.99

170.00-196.00

165.00-195.00

180.00-202.00

182.00-204.00

n/a

175.00-187.00 (200.00)

165.00-202.00

500-600

160.00-214.00

190.00-209.00

179.00-200.00

187.00-208.00

194.00-215.00

n/a

180.00-198.00 (221.00)

185.00-220.00

400-500

171.00-221.50

190.00-220.00

190.00-225.00

195.00-217.00

200.00-224.00

n/a

185.00-205.00 (245.00)

185.00-210.00

300-400

n/a

200.00-212.00

200.00-272.00

195.00-220.00

n/a

n/a

180.00-195.00 (220.00)

180.00-216.00

No. on offer

400

n/a

71

106

n/a

n/a

n/a

250

D1-D2 Cows

84.00-93.00

80.00-100.00

n/a

94.00-102.50

94.00-101.00

n/a

90.00-101.00 (106.00)

94.00-99.00

D3-D5 Cows

77.00-up

n/a

n/a

81.00-93.00

86.00-92.00

n/a

75.00-95.00

87.00-95.00

Age Verified

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

95.00-103.00 (105.50)

n/a

n/a

n/a

Good Bulls

Slaughter Market

104.00-120.00

85.00-114.00

97.00-105.00

98.00-111.75

105.00-111.00 (113.00)

n/a

93.00-110.00 (1.1450)

110.00-115,00

Butcher Steers

n/a

n/a

n/a

115.00-127.00

117.00-127.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

n/a

n/a

114.00-126.00

115.00-126.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

n/a

92.00-101.00

n/a

97.00-112.00

n/a

n/a

110.00-120.00

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

n/a

90.00-98.50

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Lean Export Cows

n/a

n/a

75.00-84.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Heiferettes

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

110.00-121.00 (135.00)

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.)

Armed protesters stare down U.S. government in Nevada grazing standoff A rancher who hasn’t paid grazing fees since 1993 is claiming victory in his fight against authorities

By Jennifer Dobner bunkerville, nev. / reuters

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.S. officials ended a standoff with hundreds of armed protesters in the Nevada Desert April 12, calling off the government’s roundup of cattle it said were illegally grazing on federal land and giving about 300 animals back to the rancher who owned them.

The dispute less than 129 km northeast of Las Vegas between rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had simmered for days. Bundy had stopped paying fees for grazing his cattle on the government land and officials said he had ignored court orders.

Anti-government groups, right-wing politicians and gun-rights activists camped around Bundy’s ranch to support him in a standoff that tapped into long-simmering anger in Nevada and other western states, where vast tracts of land are owned and governed by federal agencies.

The bureau had called in a team of armed rangers to Nevada to seize the 1,000 head of cattle but backed down in the interests of safety.

“Based on information about conditions on the ground and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public,” the bureau’s director, Neil Kornze, said in a statement.

The protesters, who at the height of the standoff numbered about 1,000, met the news with applause. Then they quickly advanced on the metal pens where the

cattle confiscated earlier in the week were being held.

After consultations with the rancher’s family, the bureau decided to release the cattle it had rounded up, and the crowd began to disperse.

“This is what I prayed for,” said Margaret Houston, one of Bundy’s sisters. “We are so proud of the American people for being here with us and standing with us.”

A number of Bundy’s supporters, who included militia members from California, Idaho and other states, dressed in camouflage and carried rifles and sidearms. During the standoff, some chanted “open that gate” and “free the people.”

A man who identified himself as Scott, 43, said he had travelled from Idaho along with two fellow militia members to support Bundy.

“If we don’t show up everywhere, there is no reason to show up anywhere,” said the man, dressed in camouflage pants and a black flak jacket crouched behind a concrete highway barrier, holding an AR-15 rifle. “I’m ready to pull the trigger if fired upon,” Scott said.

Anger

The dispute between Bundy and federal land managers began in 1993 when he stopped paying monthly fees of about $1.35 per cow-calf pair to graze public lands that are also home to imperilled animals such as the Mojave Desert tortoise. The government also claims Bundy has ignored cancellation of his grazing leases and defied Federal Court orders to remove his cattle.

“We won the battle,” said Ammon Bundy, one of the rancher’s sons.

Protester Eric Parker from central Idaho aims his weapon from a bridge next to the Bureau of Land Management’s base camp where seized cattle, that belonged to rancher Cliven Bundy, were being held near Bunkerville, Nevada. Photo: REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

The bureau said Cliven Bundy still owes taxpayers more than $1 million, which includes both grazing fees and penalties, and that it would work to resolve the matter administratively and through the court system.

Jack Kay, a professor of communication at Eastern Michigan University and an expert on militias, said the federal government did well to step back from the conflict. “These things tend to escalate, someone looks like they’re going to pull the trigger and then something happens,” he said.

Hundreds of Bundy supporters, some heavily armed, had camped on the road leading to his ranch in a high desert spotted with sagebrush and mesquite trees.

Some held signs reading “Americans united against government thugs,” while others were calling the rally the “Battle of Bunkerville,” a reference to an American Revolutionary War battle of Bunker Hill in Boston.

The large crowd at one point blocked all traffic on Interstate 15. Later, as lanes opened up, motorists honked to support the demonstrators and gave them thumbsup signs.

In an interview prior to the bureau’s announcement, Bundy said he was impressed by the level of support he had received.

“I’m excited that we are really fighting for our freedom. We’ve been losing it for a long time,” Bundy said.

But an official with an environmental group that had notified the government it would sue unless federal land managers sought to protect tortoises on the grazing allotment used by Bundy’s cattle expressed outrage at the end of the cattle roundup.

“The sovereign militias are ruling the day,” said Rob Mrowka, senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity.

“Now that this precedent has been set and they’re emboldened by the government’s capitulation, what’s to stop them from applying the same tactics and threats elsewhere?”

Roger Taylor, retired district manager with the Bureau of Land Management in Arizona, also said the agency’s decision to release the cattle will have repercussions.

“The (agency) is going to be in a worse situation where they will have a much more difficult time getting those cattle off the land and getting Bundy in compliance with regulations,” he said.

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Animal welfare focus continues on hogs, despite new code Humane societies had input into the drafting of the new Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs, but some critics are skeptical it will be implemented or enforced

By Shannon VanRaes CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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en years from now Canadian hog producers will have to keep pregnant sows in group housing, analgesics for castration will be de rigueur and enriched environments will be mandatory — all as dictated by the newly updated Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs.

Three years from now, large-scale hog processors such as Maple Leaf Foods and Smithfield Foods will no longer buy from producers who use gestation stalls. Quebec-based Olymel has also committed to phasing out their use, as have nearly 50 major food retailers, the European Union, India, Australia, New Zealand and nine U.S. states.

But the issue of sow gestation stalls was still front and centre at a recent fundraiser hosted by the Winnipeg Humane Society’s Farm Animal Compassion Committee.

“I believe that the progress that is being made is very real, and I believe that in many respects that these wins for animal welfare are in some senses going to happen,” said the event’s keynote speaker, Paul Shapiro, vice-president of farm animal protection for The Humane Society of The United States (HSUS).

“But I don’t believe that it’s self-executing,” he said. “I don’t think that if the animal movement just disappeared that these changes that have been set into motion would really come into effect; I think you have to continually monitor and advocate for these changes to see them come to fruition.”

Skeptical

Dana Medoro, chairwoman of the Farm Animal Compassion Committee remains unconvinced that Manitoba Pork Producers or others will actually make the move to open housing when the time comes, despite the new code, although she noted her views do not represent those of the Winnipeg Humane Society.

“There is no reason for us to feel that the barns will be empty of (gestation stalls)... a company like Maple Leaf will turn a blind eye to the fact that the sows are in them for whatever period, because they’ve been advised that that’s a particularly aggressive sow, or whatever the excuse is,” Medoro said.

“When they are not in use, and regulations are absolutely being followed and enforcement is actually practised, then we will stop the campaign against gestation crates.”

“This is sort of what we typically imagine farms to be isn’t it? We think that they’re sort of out there, with the red barn and in the background green grassy fields. That’s what we’re advocating for, we want to bring it back to the basics.”

LAUREL KIDDER

In Manitoba, the new code of practice will be implemented under the Canadian Quality Assurance Program, according to the Manitoba Pork Council. Producers registered in the national program are assessed each year to ensure compliance with food safety and animal care requirements, including those of the new code of practice.

Major pork processors do not buy animals from unregistered producers.

But while Medoro is concerned with some of the language around gestation stalls in the new pig code of practice, she said the new code is still a “watershed” moment in recognizing the rights of animals.

New focus

There is also a desire to move on to other animal welfare issues that deserve increased attention, Shapiro said, particularly the conditions in which chickens are raised for meat. He said many birds suffer greatly as they are forced to grow more quickly than their bodies can accommodate.

“I want to address other animal welfare problems, but I also want to make sure that the problems we’ve been focused on for so long, really do end up going by the wayside,” said the representative of HSUS, an advocacy group not affiliated with Canadian humane societies or the operation of animal shelters.

Laurel Kidder used the event, titled, Take Back Manitoba from Factory Farming, to outline an alternative vision for pig farming in Manitoba.

Showing images of pigs outdoors, on small-scale farms and even swimming, Kidder put forward a vision of animal husbandry that pays the utmost attention to the “five freedoms” of animal welfare, including freedom from hun-

A model gestation stall sits in the lobby of Winnipeg’s Park Theatre during an event focused on factory farming. PHOTO: SHANNON VANRAES

ger, thirst, pain, discomfort and a freedom to express natural behaviours.

“This is sort of what we typically imagine farms to be, isn’t it? We think that they’re sort of out there, with the red barn and in the background green grassy fields. That’s what we’re advocating for, we want to bring it back to the basics,” she said, noting that the recently mandated changes to gestation housing practices in Canada prove change is achievable. But Kidder also expressed doubt that these changes will be implemented.

Andrew Dickson, general manager at the Manitoba Pork Council, said he has no idea why the focus on gestation stalls remains.

“We’ve worked closely with the humane societies in Canada to develop the new pig code that’s been endorsed by the National Federation of Humane Societies in Canada — it was devel-

oped in co-operation with veterinary scientists, animal scientists from universities, by industry and it’s gone over well as far as we know with most of the retail outlets,” he said. “We are going to carry out the new code... there are phase-in dates and it will be implemented.”

At one time, the Winnipeg Humane Society had pulled out of the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies as a result of their refusal to take a stance on gestation crates. Now that a position has been taken nationally on swine welfare, the Winnipeg organization has rejoined.

Referring to HSUS, Dickson added, “I guess they’ve got their issues down in the United States, but maybe they need to focus more closely on the United States and move on.” shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014

WEATHER VANE

Weather now for next week.

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Mild weather doesn’t want to move in Issued: Monday, April 28, 2014 · Covering: April 30 – May 7, 2014 Daniel Bezte Co-operator contributor

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ast week’s forecast started off pretty good, but by the second half, things went south, literally, as a large and very slow-moving area of low pressure developed over the central U.S. last weekend. This low is predicted to affect our weather right up to this weekend.

A very large and slow-moving upper and surface low will control our weather for the first half of this forecast period. The latest model runs show most of the precipitation from this low staying to our south, but these large slow-moving systems are notorious for moving in ways not anticipated by weather models or forecasters. We’ll see a mixed bag of conditions this week as the low battles with cool, dry air to our north and east. Depending on which system wins out, on any given day we could see anything from mainly sunny skies to clouds and showers — maybe even the odd flurry during the overnight hours.

Temperatures will be on the cool side, with highs only getting

to around 10 C… if we can see some sunshine!

By the weekend this low will have hopefully pulled off to the east and weakened a little bit.

We’ll then be in a predominantly northerly flow over the weekend as the low slowly spins down over James Bay. This will result in partly cloudy skies and cool conditions, with highs only expected to be around 10 C and overnight lows right around the freezing mark.

The weather models are trying to bring a couple of small systems through our region early next week, but confidence in these systems is low. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see some showers move through sometime between Monday and Wednesday of next week. Temperatures look to remain on the cool side as we are brushed by the southern end of a large area of arctic high pressure anchored over Nunavut.

Usual temperature range for this period: Highs, 9 to 22 C; lows, -3 to +7 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

1 Month (30 Days) Percent of Average Precipitation (Prairie Region) March 26, 2014 to April 24, 2014

< 40% 40 - 60% 60 - 85% 85 - 115% 115 - 150% 150 - 200% > 200% Extent of Agricultural Land Lakes and Rivers

Produced using near real-time data that has undergone initial quality control. The map may not be accurate for all regions due to data availability and data errors.

Copyright © 2014 Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Prepared by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s National Agroclimate Information Service (NAIS). Data provided through partnership with Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and many Provincial agencies.

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This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that fell across the Prairies during the 30-day period ending April 24. A large part of agricultural Manitoba is in dark green or purple, which depicts above-average amounts of precipitation. South-central and far northwestern areas saw near to slightly below-average amounts. Farther west, most of Saskatchewan saw above- to well-above-average amounts during this period. In Alberta, northern areas were wet, with central and southern regions seeing near to slightly below-average amounts.

Not as bad as last April

Don’t expect a big swing toward warm and dry weather right away as May begins

By Daniel Bezte CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR

W

hile the world as a whole continues to see above-average temperatures, here in Manitoba we are continuing to be the odd one out and have now endured seven months in a row with belowaverage temperatures.

The data is in for March and the globe experienced the fourthwarmest March since reliable records began in 1880, according to the U.S. agencies NOAA and NASA. According to Remote Sensing Systems, March was the 11th warmest on record, while the University of Alabama Huntsville reported it as the ninth warmest. Snow cover for the Northern Hemisphere in March (believe it or not) was the sixth lowest in the 48 years of records we have. So, once again, most of the planet is experiencing warmer-than-average conditions while we continue to shiver.

I looked back at our data a little further and found that over the last 19 months (since October 2012), we have seen 15 months with below-average temperatures. This is becoming a very long cold period we’ve been stuck in!

On a slightly brighter note, at least this April was not as cold as last April. In April 2013, average monthly temperatures across

Environment Canada’s weather guidance calls for near- to below-average temperatures in May, with near-average amounts of precipitation.

southern and central Manitoba were a good 6 to 7 C below the long-term average. Last April it took until April 26 before most locations saw their first +10 C temperatures. Measurable snow was around, at least in Winnipeg, until April 23.

This year April was once again below average across the region, but instead of coming in 6 or 7 C below average, we were only 3 or 4 C below the long-term average — hey, I have to come up with some sort of positive spin on this!

There were a couple of nasty cold snaps this April. The first was right at the start of the month when overnight lows plummeted into the -20 C range. A second cold snap moved in around mid-month, with overnight lows dropping into the minus-midteens and daytime highs struggling to make it even close to the freezing mark. Besides these two cold snaps the rest of the month was almost average. We saw around 10 days with daytime highs in the low to mid-teens and

around eight to nine days where temperatures remained above freezing for the whole day. I went back to the data for the month, removed the seven coldest days and recalculated the average monthly temperature. This time we were only about a degree colder than average. Woo hoo!

Precipitation during April was above average at all three locations. Keeping in mind my data only go up to the morning of April 28, and as I write this it looks like a good chunk of southern Manitoba will see 10 to 15 mm of rain during the last couple days of the month. Should this happen, April will end up seeing well-aboveaverage amounts of precipitation.

Interestingly, even with all the cold weather this month, we did not see that much in the way of snow. After all, April can be one of the snowiest months of the year.

See, another plus!

Who called it?

To summarize the month, I would say it was much colder

than average, with near- to above-average amounts of precipitation. Now the fun part: who did the best predicting of April’s weather? For the first time I can remember, we have three forecasts that called it correctly. Environment Canada, the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac and myself here at the Co-operator all called for below-average temperatures with near- to above-average amounts of precipitation. The folks over at the Old Farmer’s Almanac were a little more optimistic and had called for above-average temperatures and precipitation.

OK, now on to May’s forecast. Are we finally going to break out of this long-term cold snap or is the cold, miserable weather going to continue? If we look to last year for any kind of guidance, we’ll be waiting until about the middle of the month before constantly mild temperatures move in. If we look to Environment Canada, its weather guidance calls for near- to below-average temperatures in May, with near-average amounts of precipitation.

The Canadian Farmers’ Almanac calls for big temperature swings during the month, with warm periods interspersed with cold snaps. Overall, that would probably work out to around average temperatures for the

month. Along with these big temperature swings will come a lot of rain as it predicts several wet periods. The Old Farmer’s Almanac is again the most optimistic as it calls for near- to slightly above-average temperatures along with below-average amounts of precipitation.

Finally, here at the Co-operator, I think I’ll be leaning toward a colder- and wetterthan-average May. Looking at medium-range weather models that go out to around the middle of May, I’m not seeing any big swings toward sustained warm and dry weather. In fact, the atmosphere across our part of North America seems to be going through a bit of a fit that started last week and is predicted to go on for another week or two. This means a very active pattern with plenty of chances for precipitation. An active pattern usually results in cooler-than-average temperatures as clouds and precipitation inhibit daytime heating.

This doesn’t mean we won’t see some nice mild weather; I just think most of the mild weather will be short lived. What happens after the middle of the month is anyone’s guess. I’m hopeful the pattern we see right now is tied into an overall large-scale shift out of our cold weather pattern, but as usual, don’t hold your breath.

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“Clubroot resistance is expected to be functional in the vast majority of acres this year, but attention needs to be paid to prevent this situation from expanding.”

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Curtis Rempel

photo: canola council of canada

to be extra vigilant when scouting their canola fields this summer.

“This is very important in light of the potential for a new pathotype capable of overcoming the excellent resistance currently available in Western Canada,” says Rempel.

The CCC said it will be working collaboratively throughout the canola value chain to learn more

about this potential new pathotype and help prevent its buildup and movement. Factors that contribute to this risk are: • Canola rotations with less than a two-year break; • Fields that are known already to have high clubroot inoculum; • Fields that are not scouted for clubroot regularly;

• Planting the same resistant canola variety in that rotation; • Any tillage that is more than zero till; • Operations that do not limit soil movement between fields.

Keep your soil at home.

Clubroot is a yield-crippling soil-borne disease caused by the pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae. The disease has been advancing through Alberta at a fairly steady 20 to 25 km per year, and has been detected at low levels in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Visit www.clubroot.ca to learn more about clubroot best management practices and stewardship of resistant varieties.

How resistance evolves The development of resistance is related to the level of selection pressure Canola Council of Canada

Resistance can lose its effectiveness when repeated cropping of a resistance source selects for individuals within a pathogen population that are virulent on that resistance. Initially, these new pathogen strains are very rare but then increase by being able to attack the “resistant” genotypes.

These few individuals with these new virulence traits can therefore infect “resistant” plants, create galls and build up relatively quickly to create a new pathotype population.

Within a few canola rotations — particularly if those rotations have canola every other year and are the same variety with the same genetic resistance source — the clubroot resistance trait will lose its effectiveness.

In fields with high levels of clubroot, there will be many billions of Plasmodiophora brassicae resting spores in the soil. The more spores, the greater chance of there being rare pathogen strains that can attack resistant genotypes.

Herbicide-resistant weed populations build up the same way. The same selection process has happened with wheat rust, soybean cyst

nematode, blackleg in canola and various other crop pests over the years.

In all of these cases, the risk of selecting for resistant pathotypes is proportional to the amount of the pest present. The bigger the population, the more mutations, and the greater likelihood of selecting for individuals with a mutation that can overcome the resistance.

Growing resistant varieties in areas with low levels of clubroot is a good way to keep clubroot levels low. Waiting until clubroot levels get high before using a resistant variety puts the resistance traits at a much greater risk.

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he Canola Council of Canada is warning farmers that their clubroot-resistant seed may not protect them from the disease as new strains emerge.

Data collected from the Edmonton region indicates some form of clubroot resistance are no longer functioning well against what appears to be a new clubroot pathotype.

Stephen Strelkov at the University of Alberta has investigated samples collected from several fields and verified higher levels of infection than expected in some clubroot-resistant varieties.

Further studies are underway to verify the true virulence of these clubroot strains, the council’s release says.

“Current research indicates that the concern is limited to very few fields and patches within those fields,” says Curtis Rempel, vicepresident of crop production and innovation with the Canola Council of Canada (CCC). “Clubroot resistance is expected to be functional in the vast majority of acres this year, but attention needs to be paid to prevent this situation from expanding.”

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Value of Canadian farmland rises 22 per cent The increase driven by low interest rates and strong crop prices is the biggest in three decades

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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anadian farmland values jumped 22.1 per cent in 2013, the biggest annual rise in nearly 30 years, the Farm Credit Corporation says.

Saskatchewan and Manitoba led the way with increases of 28.6 and 25.6 per cent, FCC said.

“Most of the increase was driven by the strong commodity prices we saw in the first six months of last year. Then commodity prices started to decline

PERCENTAGE CHANGE IN FARMLAND VALUES Provinces

2013

2012

Alta.

12.9 per cent

13.3 per cent

B.C.

3.0 per cent

0.1 per cent

Man.

25.6 per cent

25.6 per cent

N.B.

7.2 per cent

0.0 per cent

N.L.

0.0 per cent

0.0 per cent

N.S.

1.9 per cent

9.8 per cent

Ont.

15.9 per cent

30.1 per cent

P.E.I.

4.4 per cent

9.0 per cent

Que.

24.7 per cent

27.4 per cent

Sask.

28.5 per cent

19.7 per cent

Canada

22.1 per cent

19.5 per cent

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in the next six months but interest rates remain low and that has kept farmland affordable,” FCC chief agricultural economist G.P. Gervais said in an FCC video.

Gervais expects the rise in farmland values to slow down as farming profit margins tighten because of higher costs for land rent and crop inputs.

Interest rates, which also affect land affordability, are expected to remain low for the next 12 to 14 months, he said.

But farmers need to be cautious when considering future land purchases, Gervais said.

Both Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the United States Department of Agriculture are forecasting average grain prices over the next 10 years to be lower than between 2005 and 2013, but higher than between 1995 and 2005.

“Bottom line is lower prices than in the recent past but higher prices than what we’ve seen going back further in time,” Gervais said.

“I really caution producers when purchasing land about using recent prices. You need to be able to navigate different scenarios when it comes to commodity prices and interest rates and really look at your balance sheet and your cash flows... especially in an environment where prices are lower than what we’ve seen in the recent past.”

While low interest rates increase the demand for land they can also reduce the supply as older farmers decide to keep their capital in land instead of selling, Gervais said.

FCC looks at land values by province, but local factors can have an impact on values. Farmers engaged in producing supply-managed commodities have been expanding their land base, he said. And higher cattle prices the last half of 2013 also contributed to higher land values.

Farmland values have risen every year since 1992, after an average decline of 2.1 per cent.

Farmers in Western Canada are struggling with a grain backlog, which could hurt their cash flow and also cool the demand for land.

Although Saskatchewan land saw the largest percentage increase in value, land in that province is still cheaper than in many others, FCC said.

Earlier in the month, the head of the Farm Credit Administration, the largest U.S. farm lender, told Reuters that U.S. farmland values, which have been under pressure over the last six months from falling grain prices, are likely to stabilize.

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Cosmetics pesticide use will be history by 2015 in Manitoba Critics have little confidence in Health Canada reviews of pesticides because its assessments are based on data supplied by industry

By Shannon VanRaes co-operator staff

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“There are lots of products on the market that government says are legal — cigarettes are the best example — which are far from safe. DDT used to be approved by the government and now we know how harmful DDT is.”

Common pesticides will no longer be used to control weeds in children’s play areas. photo: thinkstock Trim: 8.125”

Gideon Forman

Trim: 10”

he Manitoba government has moved forward on its pledge to introduce legislation banning the use of synthetic chemical pesticides on school, daycare and hospital grounds, as well as on lawns.

The legislation, which is expected to take effect in 2015, does not affect golf courses, agriculture or forestry, but cosmetic pesticide use will be restricted on patios, sidewalks and play-fields.

Outlining the new legislation, Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh emphasized that it doesn’t mean an end to lawn care or weed management.

“It is not a matter of to spray or not to spray, but rather what you spray on your lawn,” said Mackintosh, adding that the new regulations won’t ban all pesticides, but will require the use of “lower-risk” options when it comes to weed removal.

Although the cosmetic ban on synthetic pesticides doesn’t extend to agriculture, Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) are concerned it will result in an influx of weeds from urban areas.

“In those areas (that have bans), what we’ve seen as a result is widespread weed infestations in urban areas, we’ve seen product misuse, product being brought in from the U.S. or other provinces in unmarked containers, with no training from retailers,” said KAP president Doug Chorney. “We fear that this is not really accomplishing anything and we’ll end up with more negative consequences as a result.”

He added that the organization had made a submission to the provincial government in the hopes of “a science-based approach” to pesticide restrictions, noting that Health Canada has approved all lawn pesticides currently registered for use.

However, some doubt the value of Health Canada’s seal of approval.

Gideon Forman, executive director of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, said Health Canada approves products based on industry-provided information, which he says is a conflict of interest.

“The fact that Health Canada has approved them just follows that they’re legal, it doesn’t follow that they’re safe,” he said. “There are lots of products on the market that government says are legal — cigarettes are the best example — which are far from safe. DDT used to be approved by the government and now we know how harmful DDT is.”

Studies here and abroad have also linked pesticide use with cancers and neurological impairment, such as attention deficit disorder, Parkinson’s disease, and birth defects, Forman said.

Six other provinces and nearly 200 municipalities already have some type of restriction in place when it comes to cosmetic pesticides.

Minister Mackintosh said the province will provide information on pest control and alternatives to synthetic pesticides as the legislation comes into effect. There will

also be a one-year grace period for homeowners.

High-risk noxious weeds, poisonous or invasive plants can still be targeted with synthetic pesticides under the new law, he added.

For its part, KAP says it will continue to work with government to reduce the risk of weed incursions, but remains disappointed with the ban.

“I think a logical first step would be to say, ‘OK, only licensed applicators and commercial applicators in high-population areas will be allowed to use these products because we know they’ll be using them properly.’ That would be the best way to protect the public from misuse, an outright ban is a pretty harsh step,” Chorney said.

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Short covering rally propelled CBOT wheat futures to an 11-month high It’s important for producers to know where resistance levels are so they can set price targets David Drozd Market Outlook

CBOT WHEAT WEEKLY NEARBY Chart as of April 22, 2014

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he wheat futures markets have had an impressive rally, gaining $1.75 per bushel in only seven weeks.

Reversal patterns signalling an end to the three-month decline occurred on the daily wheat futures charts at the end of January 2014. This was followed by the development of two-week reversals at the MGEX, CBOT and KCBT on February 7, 2014. This is illustrated in the accompanying chart.

Adding further confirmation of an impending rally was the ensuing two-month reversals that appeared on the monthly nearby futures charts at all three U.S. wheat exchanges on February 28, 2014.

Prices accelerated higher when buy stops were triggered on Monday, March 3, 2014. Traders place buy stops just above an area of resistance to protect the profit in their short positions, or to limit their loss. Once triggered, they become market orders at the prevailing price.

The large speculative funds were short the market and the buying back of their short positions initiated a short covering rally. This buying propelled prices up through the upper boundary of the downtrending channel, which is illustrated as (A) in the accompanying chart.

Also shown is the open interest, which was declining on this rally. This indicates short covering was taking place. In fact, the open interest in wheat futures at the Chicago Board of Trade fell to a four-year low. Technical analysts regard short covering rallies to be weak in nature because it’s a result of market participants exiting the market.

Conversely, a strong rally is accompanied by increasing open interest, which is a sign of

renewed buying interest. Therefore, fresh buying is needed before this market can extend the gains.

Unless this occurs, the wheat market is vulnerable to retracing some of its advance.

The recent high ($7.10) on the CBOT weekly nearby chart is proving to be resistance. Before prices can resume the uptrend, they will have to overcome this area of resistance.

potential for resistance in the future.

Another characteristic which helps to gauge the relative resistance of a price area is the vertical distance the market must rise prior to reaching the area in question. The greater the upward price move prior to reaching a resistance level, the greater will be the resistance.

Resistance

Resistance areas evolve because equilibrium is reached between buyers and sellers. The market attracts selling in this area because any return move back to this zone subsequently represents an area in which to liquidate a long position. Also, the offering of contracts for sale increases, as those who sold at higher levels now have profits and may utilize the rally to sell more contracts.

Where a classic formation may not appear on a chart for several months, one can be reasonably sure that there is always a resist-

Resistance is a term used to describe a price level where selling of futures contracts is expected to increase and at least temporarily halt the current direction of the market. On bar charts, these areas will appear as welldefined price ranges within which the market at some previous time traded essentially sideways prior to making a decisive move up or down. The greater the amount of time spent and the number of contracts bought and sold in this range, the greater will be the

Market psychology

ance area, even if minor, not very far from the market. This is important because it can help formulate expectations of future price action.

Occurrences such as these are commonplace on futures charts, but are extremely important as they illustrate where future rallies are likely to fail. It’s important for producers to know where resistance levels are, as they can use this information to establish objectives for setting target prices.

Send your questions or comments about this article and chart to info@ag-chieve.ca.

David Drozd is president and senior market analyst for Winnipeg-based Ag-Chieve Corporation. The opinions expressed are those of the writer and are solely intended to assist readers with a better understanding of technical analysis. Visit Ag-Chieve online at www. ag-chieve.ca for information about our grain-marketing advisory service and to see our latest grain market analysis. You can call us toll free at 1-888-274-3138 for a free consultation.

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Iowa farmland gets cheaper

By Christine Stebbins REUTERS

Farmland values in Iowa, the top U.S. corn and soybean state, fell 5.4 per cent over the past six months, under pressure from lower grain prices, according to a benchmark survey of realtors.

Still, the market remains underpinned by strong demand from wealthy farmers and non-farming investors, said the Iowa Realtors Land Institute survey, which is based on information from local farm real estate brokers, lenders and others with knowledge of land prices.

“The report overall was encouraging because we knew the price of corn had fallen off 35 per cent since this time last year,” Kyle Hansen, past president of the institute and broker with Hertz Real Estate in Iowa, told Reuters.

The average selling price of farmland across Iowa in March was $8,286 an acre, compared with $8,758 six months before. Prices were down 4.6 per cent from $8,690 a year earlier.

Agricultural bankers, economists and farmers have expected land prices to taper off in 2014 after setting a series of record highs over the past five years as grain markets boomed, fed by exports and the biofuels expansion. Low interest rates also spurred demand for land from farmers and outside investors.

Economists and bankers have been keeping a close eye on Iowa, a bellwether for the U.S. grain economy and also the largest hog-producing state.

The results are in line with the most recent survey of Midwest farmland by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. That study, issued in February, showed a steady to softer outlook for farmland values.

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COUNTRY CROSSROADS CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S

Two towns drop out, but two more sign up for harness racing circuit Betting on the ponies losing favour with youth

Photo: Thinkstock

By Daniel Winters

“It’s been down in popularity ever since VLTs came into play in the early 1990s, and then sports betting after that. All that takes a chunk out of horse racing.”

Darryl Mason

co-operator staff

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ose some, win some.

The withdrawal of two towns that formerly hosted weekend races on the provincial harness racing circuit has been offset by the addition of two new ones, with Morris and Selkirk signing on to host the Manitoba Great Western Harness Racing Circuit.

Wawanesa will be taking a year off, and Deloraine has reportedly dropped out due to a shortage of volunteers.

Other towns hosting races this summer will be Killarney, Miami, Glenboro, and Holland, said Darryl Mason, cochair of the MGWHRC. “This isn’t new to lose towns. Years ago we used to race in Russell, Swan River, Carberry, Minnedosa and Pilot Mound at different times,” said Mason. “They come and go. There’s a few that drop off and more that come on.”

For the past 15 years, the circuit has been stable with 24 days of racing in six to eight different venues. A typical MGWHRC weekend event features 16-20 races with 100-125 horses competing for purses that range from $1,300-$1,800 per race.

With that kind of money floating around, some might assume that scooping up a few purses would be easy. But

the horses are standardbreds, and the trotting gait doesn’t come naturally to them. That means a newly broke horse needs at least six months of daily training to learn it, as well as develop stamina and speed.

“There will be some who make their gas money, but there will be lots who don’t,” said Mason, adding that those who choose to compete do it because they love it and want to see the tradition continue.

The profusion of gambling alternatives in recent years, from video lottery terminals to casinos both north and south of the border, has put a dent in the number of regulars who follow the harness racing circuit, as well as the locals who come out to see events in their towns.

“It’s been down in popularity ever since VLTs came into play in the early 1990s, and then sports betting after that. All that takes a chunk out of horse racing,” said Mason.

Provincial support for harness racing amounted to about $450,000 a couple of years ago, but last year that figure dipped to $400,000.

In 2013, races had been underway for almost three weekends before the circuit was informed by the province of the exact subsidy amount.

Mason said that a verbal agreement

has been reached with provincial officials, but the exact sum hasn’t been officially announced yet.

Horse racing creates major economic spinoffs for communities, all the way from the breeders, forage and feed producers to trailer manufacturers, veterinarians and farriers, he added.

Alvin Taft, secretary-treasurer of the Wawanesa Agricultural Society, said that a combination of factors has led to the town dropping out of the harness racing circuit.

“We can’t seem to get the volunteers we need to help put the weekend on, and we never know until sometimes after the racing starts what money we’ll be getting from the government to support it,” said Taft.

He added that due to lack of funds, the local track has deteriorated and the amount of money brought in by racing wasn’t enough to warrant upgrading it.

“Years ago, we used to get huge numbers of people at the races, but the younger people nowadays seem to be interested in other things,” said Taft.

A provincial government spokesperson confirmed that the province had “renewed” its support for harness racing this summer, but at press time could offer no further details. daniel.winters@fbcpublishing.com

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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

A new OIL for the Prairies Panzanella Salad A recipe perfect for using those fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and basil from a backyard garden.

1 baguette (or French loaf) 1/2 cucumber (diced) 3/4 c. kalamata olives (halved)

3 medium-size ripe tomatoes, diced 1/2 medium red onion thinly sliced 1 c. diced fresh basil leaves

Dressing: 1/4 c. red wine vinegar 3/4 c. camelina oil 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1/4 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. ground pepper 1 tbsp. honey (or to desired sweetness)

Midale, Saskatchewan farmers Dan Vandenhurk, (l-r) Ron Emde and Colin Rosengren are the producers of Three Farmers Camelina Oil, a unique and artisanal culinary oil gaining popularity with their customers. PHOTO: THREE FARMERS

Lorraine Stevenson Crossroads Recipe Swap

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t’s a healthy oil that tastes great and hits several other high notes when it comes to what customers want from the food they eat.

The code on the bottle, for example, tells you the name of the southeastern Saskatchewan farmer who produced the crop for it.

Three Farmers Camelina Oil is a golden culinary oil now finding its way on to Canadian tables as they learn about the flavour profile of this nutritionally dense seed, its health benefits, and the story of the farmers who developed it.

Colin Rosengren, Dan Vandenhurk and Ron Emde are second- and thirdgeneration farmers living near Midale, Saskatchewan who formed their own company to direct market cold-pressed oil made from camelina Sativa.

The idea to tap into the growing consumer interest in knowing the story behind their food germinated a few years ago while sitting around the local curling rink complaining in typical fashion about commodity prices, says Colin Rosengren on the website’s promotional video.

They began researching camelina to learn more about its history — how it was grown up until the 1940s in Europe for use as a cooking oil until other crops supplanted it — and learning how to grow the winter annual in a Saskatchewan climate. Eventually, their artisanal, cold-pressed oil product emerged, and in early 2010 Health Canada gave them its stamp of approval to start marketing it for food uses.

Three Farmers Camelina Oil is now a rising star on the culinary scene, with food writers eagerly telling the product’s story. The company received national

exposure when Dan’s daughters, Natasha and Elysia, who now work for Three Farmers/Canpressco, the family-owned company they created, appeared on CBC’s “Dragon’s Dens’” in 2012.

T h re e Fa r m e r s Ca m e l i n a O i l — available in original and two flavoured versions — is now found in stores right across the country, and while it is a challenge to entice consumers to try something they may never have heard of before, they’re hooked when they do.

“The product sells itself once the bottle is open and customers try it,” says Elysia Vandehurk, whose many hats include a chef ’s (Red Seal) and chief operating officer for the company. Customers tell them they love the taste, the product’s traceability, and of course, the company’s story.

I picked up a 16.5-oz. bottle of the original oil ($15) the other day.

This oil has a remarkable fresh, earthy or “grassy” scent. Others describe it as “asparagus-like.” It has a light and nutty taste and gives a wonderful depth of flavour when added to winter salads. As a culinary oil, it’s well suited for adding to dips and spreads, marinades and dressings, but with a smoke point of 475 F it can also be used as a cooking oil at moderate to high heat levels. Much like flax oil, camelina oil is rich in Omega-3.

But due to its high Vitamin E content it’s shelf stable so you don’t have to refrigerate it.

I went looking for my first taste of this oil in a specialty food store in Winnipeg (Organza Market), but have since learned nearly 60 stores across Manitoba now carry it, including several small-town Co-ops, thanks to Federated Co-op’s commitment to stocking it right across Western Canada. (Ask your store to bring it in if not found yet where you shop.)

I encourage you to pick up a bottle of this “old yet new” oil and try it yourself.

You’re in for a treat.

Cube baguette, place in bowl, and drizzle with camelina oil, salt and pepper. Toss to combine. Lay out on cookie sheet and bake at 350 F for 10-15 minutes so bread is crouton-like in texture. In a small bowl, place diced tomato and drizzle with roasted onion and basil camelina oil and let stand for 15 minutes while you pull the rest of the salad together. Mix dressing and let sit in fridge (this dressing can be used for a variety of salads and will keep in the fridge for up to a week).

Put tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, and baguette pieces in large bowl. Add basil and pour dressing over salad. Mix well.

Source: Three Farmers

Morning Glory Muffins Try camelina oil in these classic fruit, nut and veg-packed muffins.

1 c. all-purpose flour 1 c. whole wheat flour 3/4 c. sugar 2 tsp. baking soda 2 tsp. ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp. salt 1 beaten egg 2 tsp. vanilla 1/2 c. raisins 3/4 c. grated carrots 2 tbsp. chopped pecans 2 c. chopped apples (unpeeled) 1/2 c. unsweetened apple sauce 1/2 c. Three Farmers Camelina Oil Original

Preheat oven to 350 F. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. In a separate bowl combine egg, oil, apple sauce and vanilla. Stir in apples, raisins and carrot. Add flour mix to liquid mix and blend to moisten, but do not overmix. Some lumps are OK. Spoon into lined/oiled muffin tins and sprinkle with pecans.

Bake about 35 minutes or until the muffin will spring back when you lightly press on it.

Source: Three Farmers

Fruit And Nut Quinoa Salad This is a perfect breakfast for getting a great start on an earlyspring morning, or a health snack later on.

1 c. quinoa 2 c. water 4 tbsp. Three Farmers Camelina Oil Original 1 c. dried fruit and nut mix – we use apricots, dates, sultans raisins, cranberries, almonds, cashews and sunflower seeds

Rinse quinoa well. Add camelina oil to a pot and turn on low to medium, then add your rinsed quinoa to the pot and toast quinoa for one minute. After you have toasted the quinoa add water and cook. While quinoa is cooking, roughly chop the fruit and nut mix. Once quinoa is cooked, let cool before you add your fruit and nut mix. Dress with Three Farmers Camelina Oil to taste.

Source: Three Farmers

For more about Three Farmers Camelina Oil, including recipes plus a list of Manitoba stores selling it, log on to: http://threefarmers.ca

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COUNTRY CROSSROADS

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his borscht is unbelievable!” Andrew Jackson exclaimed, and there was a murmur of assent from the rest of the family, all of whom had gathered at the Jackson home for the traditional Easter dinner. “It’s the best you’ve ever made.”

Rose smiled. “Ah, you say that every year,” she said.

“And every year it’s true,” said Andrew.

“Well thank you for saying so and I’m glad you’re enjoying it.” Rose put her own spoon down and pushed her empty bowl away. “If you’re all done Jennifer,” she said, “help me get the main course on the table.”

“I’m done,” said Jennifer. She got up and began to gather empty bowls from the others. Rose got up as well and headed over to the stove.

Andrew leaned back in his chair and surveyed the assembled crowd.

“Listen up everybody,” he said. “Your mother and I have come up with an idea we want to run by you all.” He paused and waited for the others to quiet down, then continued. “Two words,” he said. “Family holiday.”

There was a moment of silence.

“Don’t all talk at once,” said Andrew.

“OK,” said Randy. “I think we need more than two words. Family holiday could mean a lot of different things.”

“Oh all right then,” said Andrew. “Your mother and I were thinking maybe we could all go somewhere for a little holiday sometime this summer.

If we get a summer, that is.”

“I vote we go to Las Vegas!” said Jennifer placing a huge bowl of mashed potatoes on the table.

“I veto that,” said Rose following behind her daughter with a heaping plate of roast chicken.

“How come you always get veto power?” pouted Jennifer. “Las Vegas would be awesome!”

“Too far away, too expensive and too hot,” said Rose. “Any other ideas?” “ We could go to the mountains,” said Jackie. “I’d love for Andy and Allison to see the mountains.”

“That would be excellent,” said Andrew, “but unfortunately still a little too far away. I’m afraid we’ll have to stay in Manitoba.”

The

Jacksons

BY ROLLIN PENNER

“How about Grand Beach?” said Brady. “We could rent a cottage and all stay together. That’d be a hoot.”

“Only if you promise not to fight with your sister,” said Rose. “We’ll set up a tent for you to use if you do.”

“Why do I have to stay in the tent?” said Brady.

“Why not her?” “’Cause it’ll be your fault,” said Jennifer. “It’s always your fault.” She slid back into her chair next to her boyfriend Alan. “What do you think Alan?” she said. “Where would you want to go?”

“Am I invited?” Alan asked.

“Absolutely,” said Andrew.

“Well thank you,” said Alan. “I’m honoured.”

He paused for a second. “My family has a cottage,” he said. Everybody turned their attention to him but nobody spoke.

“At Victoria Beach,” said Alan. “You’d be welcome to use it.”

There was a brief silence.

“Are you sure now?” said Andrew. “Don’t you have to talk to your family about that?”

“Not really,” said Alan. “I mean it would have to be the second weekend of August because that weekend my parents go to Vancouver to celebrate my grandma’s birthday. So that weekend the cottage is always empty. And it’s a very nice cottage.”

“How nice?” asked Jennifer. “And why have you not told me about this?”

“I was going to surprise you,” said Alan.

“Well, you just did,” said Jennifer. “How nice is it?” she said again.

“It sleeps 10 adults comfortably,” said Alan. “It has a stone fireplace in the living room and also a 52-inch flat screen TV with surround sound. And there’s a sauna. And a big kitchen with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, and two full bathrooms. And the master bedroom has an ensuite. And there’s a very large multi-level deck out back with a four-burner professional grill and another stone fireplace.” He paused.

“There’s one thing you haven’t mentioned,” said Rose. “Perhaps it was an oversight?”

Alan laughed. “Of course!” he said. “I forgot about the eight-person hot tub on the deck!”

There was another silence.

“Jennifer,” said Brady. “Have you asked this man to marry you yet?”

Jennifer blushed. “Shut up!” she said. “I wouldn’t marry someone for his cottage, you idiot.”

“Oh dear,” said Alan with a mischievous smile.

“I was quite hoping you would.”

Jennifer blushed even brighter.

“We shall take this under consideration,” said Andrew. “I shall discuss this exceedingly generous offer with Alan later.”

“I’ll be disappointed if you turn it down,” said Alan. “And so would my parents I expect. They absolutely love Jennifer and they would want you to do this.”

Rose sat down in her chair. “I just have four words to say,” she said. “Eight-person hot tub.

And now, Happy Holidays, and let’s eat.”

Nobody argued with that.

Protecting vegetables from flea beetles Here’s some prevention methods to help cut down on the damage done by these pests

By Albert Parsons FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR

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he beautiful fields of yellow canola that we see as we drive through the countryside bring prosperity to many farms, but they bring something else as well — the proliferation of the bothersome insect called the flea beetle. These nasty little bugs are a scourge for home gardeners; when we see the tiny, shiny black insects covering some of the plants in our gardens we often throw up our arms in despair. If a plant is covered with flea beetles, often the only course of action is to hold a funeral for the plant — the damage already done by the insects will be irreparable.

Since flea beetle attacks can occur quickly and the numbers of insects can be so huge, preventive action is the best defence. In my garden, I find the early spring and early fall to be the worst times for such attacks. In the spring, farmers’ canola has not germinated so the insects congregate where there is food — our gardens; in the fall, after canola is swathed, their summer-long food source is cut off and they head for greener pastures — our gardens. Here’s some methods for

preventing flea beetle damage that I use in my garden.

Flea beetles attach to members of the brassica family.

Other names often applied to these vegetables are cruciferous or cole crops and include cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, broccoli, kohlrabi and radish. In the spring, when I plant my earliest radish, I do so in an unheated cold frame. The beetles do not seem to find their way into the cold frame whose sides are about 60 cm high. Every other planting of radish, however, is susceptible, so I use a row cover of some kind, which is installed immediately after seeding. Planting and then waiting to see if any beetles show up is a mistake. The beetles will eat the seedlings as they emerge from the ground leaving you to wonder, “Was the seed no good? My radishes didn’t come up.”

The rest of the Brassicas are planted in my garden out in the country. I plant kohlrabi under a cover — an old sheer curtain. Then I transplant them, as well as any other members of the cole family, such as cabbage plants, only after the farmers’ canola fields have become green. Most of the flea beetles will have

Flea beetles can cause a lot of damage.

moved out to the fields and after transplanting the seedlings, a dusting of vegetable dust will be enough to protect the plants from the few beetles that remain in the garden.

For those gardeners who do not use chemicals, the seedlings would have to be planted under row covers of some kind.

I use a pyrethrum-based garden dust throughout the summer to prevent damage

PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

from cabbage butterflies and their larva, which also takes care of the flea beetles. Then in the fall, when the canola is swathed, a major battle with flea beetles ensues.

By then most of the cabbages and kohlrabi have been harvested and the remainder are cut and put into cold storage.

It is just impossible to deter the hordes of flea beetles that swarm into the garden from

the adjacent fields. I continue to grow radishes under a row cover in my town garden and am careful that it is fastened securely after I have opened it up to harvest some of the crop. Using these techniques, I am able to minimize the damage done to the vegetables by those annoying flea beetles.

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

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COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Refresh with a splash of orange May not be your first colour choice but will be invigorating and engerizing Connie Oliver Around the House

J

ust as a sweet summer orange revitalizes the body, touches of orange in the décor add zest to a room.

Orange may not be the first accent colour that comes to mind because it’s a bold choice, but just look at how it makes the cabinets and accessories pop in the kitchen photograph. No need for fancy tile work on the backsplash when you use a vivid colour like this in the kitchen. Even dark cabinets could look great with an orange backsplash and accents.

The eggshell finish on the paint does not reflect a lot of light like a shiny surface would, which makes this colour easy on the eyes. You want to be energized in the morning but not shocked!

Orange works well with the warm white of the cabinets, which are in a satin finish. The colour has depth and is definitely not flat.

I love orange for the kitchen because it’s invigorating and energizing. Orange spurs on conversation and ideas and is fresh and zesty. If you have white cabinets, then working with a bright colour like this can take your kitchen from bland to bold in a few hours.

Adding a few orange accessories is a good idea to make the space cohesive.

The wall colour doesn’t have to exactly match the accessory colour either. As long as the colours are of the same intensity then all will be fine. Bring some of that accessory colour onto a kitchen table centrepiece, table linens or even in kitchen curtains. Don’t overdo it though. Too many accessories in orange can start to look too kitschy.

Just use enough accents to bring the colour around the room.

Orange can be paired with taupe, warm grey, warm white, black and even purple or red. Staying in the warm colour palette is a good idea. Cool grey, for instance, would look stark with warm

PHOTO: COURTESY CIL

orange. Take your colour cues from items in nature, like the rich orange and pale yellow in a tiger lily, the deep orange-red and black of a poppy or the gorgeous rich orange of a ripe pumpkin.

If you have natural wood flooring, especially in darker tones, then orange might be a great choice for wall colour.

Wood has warm undertones so colours

like orange can be great with a warm floor colour beneath. Espresso or black furnishings can work with an orange backdrop as well, so painting an orange focal wall behind a headboard in the bedroom or in a dining room would be dramatic and rich.

Artwork with warm colour tones can really pop on an orange focal wall as

well, or accessories could be displayed on a dark-ebony floating shelf.

So put orange on your list as a possible accent colour and give your décor a splash of colour. Orange you glad you read my column today?

Connie Oliver is an interior designer from Winnipeg

Nutritious doesn’t mean bland Here’s some ideas to enhance flavour while maintaining nutrition

By Julie Garden-Robinson NDSU Extension Service

W

e often feel rejuvenated in the spring.

We eagerly put away our snow blowers and shovels.

In fact, we are so energized by the sunlight and warm temperatures that we might clean our windows, closets, refrigerator and cupboards. Many of us eagerly await planting flowers or vegetable gardens. Barbecue grills come out of storage, and people plan fishing adventures at nearby lakes.

After peeling off our thick, warm coats and fluffy sweaters, we might discover the aftermath of our winter hibernation. We might even launch ourselves into lifestyle changes, including improved nutrition

and fitness habits. Spring is a good time to consider some flavourful ways to improve our eating habits. Unfortunately, people often think “nutritious” and “flavourful” food are two very different things.

According to the National Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, we can give our plate a “taste lift without forfeiting nutrition.”

People often think “nutritious” and “flavourful” food are two very different things.

Flavour is the major reason that people choose the foods that they do. We have 10,000 taste buds, so let’s use them this spring as we explore new flavours and cooking techniques.

Joy Dubost, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the academy, offered these tips to enhance flavour while maintaining nutrition.

• Intensify the flavours of meat, poultry and fish with high-heat cooking techniques such as pan searing, grilling or broiling.

• Pep up your menus with peppers. Use red, green and yellow peppers of all varieties, including sweet, hot and dried. Or you can add a dash of hot pepper sauce.

• Try grilling or roasting veggies in a very hot (450 F) oven

or grill for a sweet, smoky flavour. Brush or spray them lightly with oil so they don’t dry out. Sprinkle with herbs.

• Caramelize sliced onions to bring out their naturally sweet flavour by cooking them slowly over low heat in a small amount of oil. Use them to make a rich, dark sauce for meat or poultry.

• Simmer juices to make reduction sauces.

Concentrate the flavours of meat, poultry and fish stocks. Reduce the juices by heating them, but don’t boil. Then use them as a flavourful glaze or gravy.

• For fuller flavours, incorporate more whole grains, such as brown rice or quinoa, or experiment with amaranth and wild rice.

• Add small amounts of ingredients with bold flavours such as pomegranate seeds, chipotle pepper or cilantro.

• Add a tangy taste with citrus juice or grated citrus peel such as lemon, lime or orange. Acidic ingredients help balance flavours.

• Enhance sauces, soups and salads with a splash of flavoured balsamic or rice vinegar.

• Give a flavour burst with good-quality condiments such as horseradish, flavoured mustard, chutney or salsa.

Julie Garden-Robinson, PhD, R.D., L.R.D., is a North Dakota State University Extension Service food and nutrition specialist and professor in the department of health, nutrition and exercise sciences.

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AUCTION DISTRICTS Parkland – North of Hwy 1; west of PR 242, following the west shore of Lake Manitoba and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.

Westman – South of Hwy 1; west of PR 242.

Interlake – North of Hwy 1; east of PR 242, following the west shore of Lake Manitoba and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.

Red River – South ofHwy 1; east of PR 242.

The Pas

Birch River

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Parkland

FARM LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT AND HOUSEHOLD AUCTION for the Estate of Bev Mickelson Roblin, Manitoba

Swan River Minitonas Durban

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2014 - STARTING AT 10:00 AM

Winnipegosis

Roblin

Dauphin

Grandview

Ashern

Gilbert Plains

Parkland

Birtle

Riverton Eriksdale

McCreary

Lundar

Langruth

Minnedosa

1

Neepawa

Gladstone

Carberry

Brandon

Boissevain

Killarney

Pilot Mound Crystal City

Elm Creek

Sanford

Ste. Anne

Carman

Mariapolis

TRACTORS & 3PTH EQUIPMENT: * 5230 FWA Case tractor, 8232 hrs, PTO, dual hyd. 3 pth, c/w CIH 520 loader, joy stick * 5240 FWA Maxium tractor, 8260 hrs, dual hyd., 3 pth * IH 684 tractor, 3757 hrs, dual hyd., 3 pth, diesel, c/w 2250 FEL * 2012 Case IHFWA Hydro DX34 Farmall tractor, 37 hrs, 3 pth * 3 pth TXL 160 Case Roto Tiller (new) * 3 pth 2005 Grass Pro 6 ft sickle mower * 3 pth Super Blizzard 7 ft single auger back up snowblower * 3 pth bale unroller

Lac du Bonnet

Beausejour

Winnipeg

Austin Treherne

Westman

Waskada

Stonewall Selkirk

Portage

Souris

Melita

Interlake

Erickson

Rapid City Virden

Arborg

Gimli

Shoal Lake

Hamiota

Reston

Directions: From Town of Roblin : # 83 Hwy - 6.5 miles South, to Road 145.5 and 1 mile East - Watch for Signs ONLINE BIDDING STARTS AT 2:00 PM

Fisher Branch

Ste. Rose du Lac Russell

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Parkland

St. Pierre

242

Steinbach

Red River

Morris Winkler Morden

1

Altona

TRUCKS & VEHICLES: * 1997 F250 Supercab 4 x 4 truck, 7.5 Lt.(460cc), gas, 5th wheel plate, 30,000 original km, air, cruise, always shedded, will be saftied * 1983 Scottsdale Chev 1500 truck, 4 x 4 auto, 106199 km * 2001 - 4 door Mercury Grand Marquis LS, 132,000 km, fully loaded, always shedded, very clean will be saftied * 1976 International 1 ton model 200 , 10 ft Metal Industries steel box and hoist, dual wheels, 7.50-16 rubber, sound truck

ANTIQUES ANTIQUES Antiques For Sale 12-FT JOHN DEERE SURFLEX discer Serial#1; Case 300 tractor. Phone (204)263-5392.

ANTIQUES Antique Equipment FORD 801, S/N 307052, 3-PT, $2750.00 OBO. Phone (204)429-2073.

ANTIQUES Antiques Wanted STAMP & COIN COLLECTIONS wanted by private collector. Phone (204)831-6004.

AUCTION SALES AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Parkland MEYERS AUCTION McCreary Spring Consignment Auction 10:00am Sat., May 3rd, 2014.

McCreary Centenial Arena. #205 PTH 50 McCreary, MB. PARTIAL LISTING. 1992 Tarus 163,000-km, Safetied; 10-ft. 3-PTH Cultivator; Legend Scooter (New Batteries); SADDLES; SHOP & MISC; RIDING MOWERS; GARDEN & MISC; RECREATION; HOUSEHOLD. Meyers Auctions & Appraisals Arden, MB. Bradley Meyers Auctioneer (204)368-2333 or (204)476-6262 cell Detailed List at meyersauctions.com

McSherry Auction Service Ltd

AUCTION SALE Dale Rawson

Sun., May 18 @ 10:00 am The Pas, MB

North 28 miles on Hwy #10 then 5 Miles West on Rocky Lake East Rd Lot #76 Auction Note: Well Kept Items - Internet Bidding Available Contact: (204) 623-08421 Property: Lot 47 Waterfront at Rocky Lake, The Pas. 2150 squ Home w 3 BR, Hot tub, Skylight, 2) Bathrooms, Sauna, 24x32 Garage Vehicle & Campers: 07 Jay Flight 32 BH Double Slide Camper * 12 Ford F150 XLT, Supercrew, 28,000 km, 5L Sft * 10 Pontiac G5 2D Car 69,000 km Sft * 76 Datson 280Z 2D Skid Steer & Trailers: 05 Case 440 dsl Skid Steer 2380 hrs * 10 Hi-Tec BH 14’ Elec/Hyd Tilt Gravel Trailer * 09 Atlas BH Tandem 22’ Enclosed Trailer * 04 PJ BH 20’ Tandem Flat Deck Along w/ Yard & Rec * Tools & Misc * Household & Antiques * Go to the Website for Pictures & Full Listing!

HAYING EQUIPMENT: * 2006 Highline Bale Pro 8000 Bale Shredder * 8465 Case IH Round Baler * International 445 Sq. baler, 1/4 turn chute * NH Stackliner 1033 - sq. bale stacker- vgc * 1994 NH Windrow Inverter 166 w/ hyd. drive extension * NH 56 side delivery rake * JD 205 Rotary mower LIVESTOCK RELATED ITEMS & EQUIPMENT: * 1996 Duncan 6.5 ft x 18 ft gooseneck cattle trailer * 1987 Bobco 20 ft flatdeck trailer w/ loading ramps * Flexicoil trailer type post pounder * Case IH 575 tandem axle manure spreader, 540 PTO * International 55 Series 24 ft chisel plow * Morris 80-18 Seedrite w/ harrows * 10 ft Leon dozer blade * 2 Riding horses - consigned by Bob Mickelson * large quantity of panels, and gates, ( 8,10,12 and 16 ft ) * bale feeders * feed troughs * 3 lick tanks * 2 cattle oiler and mineral feeder stations * calf chute and scale * squeeze chute * 27 hp Craftsman Lawnmower GS 6500 * Husavarna grass catcher * Rally 3 hp garden tiller * more misc tools and small equipment not listed HOUSEHOLD: * Duncan Phyfe table w/ 4 leaves and (4 chairs in v.g. cond.) * Inglis fridge, stove & dishwasher * kitchen table and 6 chairs * glass bookcase, solid wood desk * bedroom furniture * 3 sewing machines * living room furniture * kitchen utensils, pots, pans and baking ware * metal toy Roy Rogers trailer (yellow) in good cond.* more misc items too numerous to mention BUILDINGS & BINS: * 12 x 16 insulated storage shed on skids, metal covered w/ walk in door * assorted wooden bins in various cond. * 2 Bader hopper bins on skids w/ air fans and roof ladders * 2700 bu Butler bin on wooden floor * Terms cash or cheque * Sales Tax where applicable * Lunch sold by Prairie Mtn. 4-H Club

SALE CONDUCTED

BY CHESCU AUCTIONS BARRY: 204-564-2509 CELL: 204-937-7180 JOEY: 204-821-6022 EXECUTOR - ALLISON: 204-937-4881

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ESTATE & MOVING

Sat., May 3 @ 10:00 am

Wed., May 7 @ 4:00 pm

Stonewall, MB - #12 Patterson Dr MORE ITEMS THAN LISTED!!

2) Semi Loads Lumber * Trusses * Sheet Metal * Over 50 New Windows * New Doors * Various Home Repairs Items * Semi Load Patio Interlocking Bricks * 50 Walking Pads * NEW Bldgs * NEW - 2 Party Tents, 16’x22’ * 2) 20’ x40’ Party Tent * 2) 10’x20’ Com Pup Tents * Storage Bldg * 2) 20 Drawer Metal Workbench Counters * New Roller Tool Cabinet * 3” Gas Water Pumps * Patio Heaters * Partial List * Lots of Tools *

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AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake

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UNRESERVED Inventory Reduction “Spring Clearance” “100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY”

AUCTION SALE For Guertin Equipment Ltd.

35 Melnick (Hwy. # 59 & South Perimeter)

Saturday, May 10th at 11:00 AM (Viewing All Day Friday 10:00 am till 5:00 pm) (RAIN OR SHINE) (SIGN’S POSTED)

Having received instructions from Guertin Equipment Ltd., we will sell the following inventory:

UTILITY VEHICLES

John Deere 6x4 gator* John Deere 4x2 gator* John Deere Turf gator* John Deere E-gator* EZGO MPT 1200 w/ cooler* EZGO Workhorse ST480* Cub Cadet 4x4* Yamaha refreshment vehicle* refresher*

GARDEN TRACTORS & RIDING LAWN MOWERS

John Deere 318 tractor w/cab, mower & snow blower* John Deere 285 tractor c/w mower, snow blower* John Deere 317 tractor w/mower & tiller* John Deere 240 tractor w/mower* John Deere 420 tractor w/mower* John Deere 110 tractor w/mower* John Deere 112 tractor w/mower* Sabre 23/54 tractor w/mower & snow blower* John Deere X300 tractor w/mower* John Deere 125 tractor w/mower* John Deere 170 tractor w/mower* Sabre 17/42 tractor w/ mower* Craftsman lawn tractor w/mower*

FORKLIFT

GOLF CARTS

approx. 25- electric golf carts (all working)*

COMMERCIAL MOWERS & GOLF COURSE EQUIPMENT

John Deere 1435/72” mower* John Deere F1145/72” mower* John Deere 1445/72” mower* Ransome T3100 tricycle* 3- Jacobsen Greensking (2-V1 & 1-1V)* 3Jacobsen Fairway (2-LF3400 & 1-LF3800)* 2- Ransome Greensmowers (1-160D)* 2- Toro Greensmowers (1-300)* Toro ReelMaster 223D* Smithco GSTAR Trap rake* Ball washer*

MISCELLANEOUS

Skid Steer sand spreader attachment* Buhler Skid Steer 74” snow blower* Bobcat Skid Steer angle blade* John Deere 250 Skid Steer boom, Skid Steer buckets, Skid Steer tooth bar, tracks, steel & rubber, etc.* 25-pallets of miscellaneous parts, etc.

Hyster 3,000 lbs. propane, solid tire forklift*

TERMS: Cash, Visa, Mastercard or Debit paid in Full Same Day of Sale. 5% Buyers Fee SUBJECT TO ADDITIONS & DELETIONS “Everything Sold As Is, Where Is” with no warranties implied or expressed.

KAYE’S AUCTIONS (204) 668-0183 (WPG.)

Watch our website www.kayesauctions.com for complete listings & pictures AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake McSherry Auction Service Ltd

AUCTION SALE Former Beef / Pork Processing Plant

Tue., May 13 @ 10:00 am Winnipeg, MB - 663 Marion Street Contact: (204) 739-3699

Meat Equip: Schoder Ind PA Pump Out System * 2) Com Meat Band Saw * 8’ Conveyor * Tubs * Meat Hooks * Over 700’ Ceiling Mt Rail * Scale Blding Equip: 06 Miura Boiler Super LX200 & Tank * ABCO hyd/Elec Power Pac * 05 Atlas Copco Model GA Comp * 130ga Natural Gas Water Heater & Storage Tank * Pneunatech AC-325 Air/ Gas Dryer * SS Sinks * Dock Bumpers * 36” Exhaust Fans * 2) Cat Model NP V 60, 6000 lb Battery Forklift w/ Charger * SS Cabinet * 3 Sections Scaffolding * Ladder * Office* Along w/ Butcher Equip & More Bldg Equip * Full Listing on our Website!

(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027

www.mcsherryauction.com

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AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Westman

1-800-782-0794

FRASERBrandon, AUCTION SERVICE LTD. Manitoba Auctioneer: Scott Campbell Licensed and bonded. P.L. License #918093. Member of M.A.A., S.A.A., A.A.A., A.A.C. PHONE: (204) 727-2001 FAX: (204) 729-9912 www.fraserauction.com EMAIL: office@fraserauction.com

2nd ANNUAL MANITOBA HONEY PRODUCERS LIVE BEE PRODUCTION SALE Brandon, MB - WEDNESDAY MAY 21st, 5:00PM

This sale is open to consignment of live bees. We are expecting +/-1000 colonies of bees for this sale. Numbers will be dependent on winter losses of the consignors.

We are now taking consignments of all sizes of colonies for this sale. Singles/Doubles/Nucs All bees must be government inspected prior to the sale and test results will be made available to prospective buyers. Inspections must be arranged with Provincial Apiarist by sellers.

CALL NOW TO DISCUSS THIS SALE OR TO CONSIGN YOUR BEES!!!

For more information contact: Fraser Auction Service Ltd 1-204-727-2001 Office@Fraserauction.Com

UNRESERVED APIARIST AUCTION for WESTERN SKY APIARIES (Bruce McLean) Dauphin, MB - WEDNESDAY June 4th, 12:00PM

DIRECTIONS: From the west: Take Dauphin bypass to #10 south. Immediately after crossing bridge take winding turn-off heading east for 1 ½ miles.

From the south: on #10: Take first turnoff after airport, (before bridge), 1 ½ miles east.

ORDER OF SALE: Misc apiarist equipment, extracting room equipment, syrup tank, trucks, trailers, live hives, honey supers, feed pails, winter wraps. (Hive viewing before noon.)

LIVE HIVES & HONEY SUPERS: *Approx 400 single brood live colonies, (Treated fall and spring with Apistan, Fumidil, Oxytet. (Queen-right and ready for supers.) *Approx 1000 honey supers TRUCKS & TRAILERS: *(All trucks in good running order and will have valid safety certificates.) *2001 Ford F350 4x4 w/12’x8’ flat deck, manual trans., s/ n1FDWF37F81E671826, 226,996kms showing *1992 Ford F350 w/12’x8’ flat deck, manual trans., s/nFDKF37M2NCA27987, 375,244kms showing *1989 Chev 2500 w/6.2 diesel ¾ ton, manual trans., s/n2GCGK29J9K1107460, 201059kms showing *16’x8’ Shopbuilt t/a bumper hitch flat deck trailer w/ Approx 15,000lbs cap. *10’x6’ Shopbuilt t/a bumper hitch flat deck trailer w/ Approx 10,000lbs cap

EXTRACTING & HONEY HOUSE EQUIPMENT: *Cook & Beals 120 frame radial extractor s/n30 *Cook & Beals wax spinner, with new motor *Cook & Beals heat exchanger, uses canola oil *Bogenshutz uncapper *Moyno honey pump *1 ½” Viking honey pump *steel honey tank w/3” valve, approx 13 drum cap SYRUP TANK & OTHER BEE EQUIPMENT: *NRW 50,000lbs cap hopper bottom syrup tank *(200) wintering wraps for double hives, with top insulation and plywood *(600) 2.5 gallon Honeywood feed pails *(600) frame feeders, mostly plastic *(1000) Jones-type metal queen excluders * 2 Bentley super carts *barrel cart *boiler for cleaning excluders *220v barrel heater ring *Stihl BR420 Bee Blower *Stihl FS80R grass whip *60 frame radial extractor *(2) stainless steel “dairy” honey tanks *300 gal fuel tank with stand *other misc bee equipment

For more information contact: Bruce McLean 1-204-638-7691 westsky@mts.net

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AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Red River

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Red River

AUCTION

ANNUAL FARM EQUIPMENT CONSIGNMENT PLUS BUILDINGS, FARM SUPPLIES, TRUCKS, SKID STEER ATTACHMENTS

SATURDAY MAY 24TH 10:00 AM

Location: 218 Brandt St. Steinbach, Manitoba (Hwy #12 South)

HAVE EQUIPMENT TO SELL? GET IT IN NOW FOR MAXIMUM EXPOSURE!! THIS AUCTION WILL Live Internet Bidding FEATURE LIVE INTERNET BIDDING. LAST YEAR WE HAD EQUIPMENT SELL TO AS FAR AWAY AS EGYPT. EQUIPMENT MUST BE IN AHEAD OF TIME TO QUALIFY FOR INTERNET BIDDING!!

BOOKED IN SO FAR: EQUIPMENT • 2009 Horst Bale Wagon • New Holland BR740 Round Baler Silage Special, Bale Slice, Xtra Sweep Pickup • DeLaval Feed Wagon Mixer TMR • John Deere 7700 Diesel Combine • John Deere Corn Planter • Clark Forklift C500 Propane • Tractor w/ 3 PTH & Loader (details not available at time of print) • 7ft 3 PTH Scraper Blade • 14ft Grain Bin • Antique Tractors including AR John Deere, Model M McCormick w/ Loader • Selection Of Lawn & Garden Tractors

NEW SKID STEER ATTACHMENTS

• Pallet Forks, Grapples, Earth Augers, Hitch Plates, Buckets, Stump Grinder & Tires

FARM SUPPLIES

• 8ft Medium Duty Gates • Qty Various Size Gates Including Walk Thru • 10ft Medium Duty Coral Panels (Large Qty) NEW • 8ft Heavy Duty Coral Panels • 330ft Rolls Farm Fence • New Rugged Ranch Squeeze Chute w/ Head Gate NEW

VEHICLES & ATV

• 2004 Ford F350 Lariat Crew Cab Power Stroke Diesel, Leather, 4x4 • 2001 Chevy 1500 4X4, Newer Tires • Multiple ATVS Details not available at time of print

NEW INDUSTRIAL TOOLS

• 10ft 20 Drawer Heavy Duty Work Bench w/ 4in Edge Rise • Heavy Duty Tire Changer 110V • Heavy Duty Wheel Balancer • By The Pallet Lots Of Tools: Consisting of Toolboxes, mig welders, sandblasters, chains saws, porto power rams, hose reels, backpack sprayers, ATV sprayers, Water Pumps, Air Impacts etc.

• King Power 10,000 LN Diesel Silent Generator

NEW BUILDINGS & COMMERCIAL TENTS

• 60ftX40ftX21ft Gable Truss Storage Building w/ 13’X15’ Drive Thru Doors at 2 Ends • 20ftX30ft Peak Ceiling Quonset Fabric Storage Building • 30ftX65ft Quonset Fabric Storage Building • 30ftX85ft Quonset Peak Ceiling Fabric Storage Building • 20ftX40ft Container Roof Shelter • 16ftX22ft Marquee Event Tent • 20ftX40ft Full Closed Party/ Event/Wedding Tent • 10ftX20ft Commercial Instant Pop Up Tent • Canada West 10ftX20ft Commercial Ten

WATCH OUR WEBSITE AS ITEMS WILL BE ADDED DAILY!!

PENNER AUCTION SALES LTD. 218 Brandt Street Steinbach, MB Ph: 204.326.3061 Fax: 204.326.3061 Toll Free: 1-866-512-8992 www.pennerauctions.com

Sale Conducted by: PENNER AUCTION SALES LTD.

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AUCTION

SATURDAY MAY 10 10:00 AM TH

Location: At Birch Auto, 37 Loewen Blvd Steinbach, Manitoba

• BAY GUARD FENCING SUPPLIES • TOOLS, FARM SUPPLIES INCLUDING KARCHER PRESSURE WASHERS, LAWN MOWERS • WEATHERHEAD HYDRAULIC HOSE CRIMPER • LARGE QUANTITIES OF HUNTING, FISHING & CAMPING SUPPLIES (Rods, Reels, Hooks, Weights, Cases Mosquito Spray, BBQS + Accessories) • UPWARDS TO 1000 FISHING LURES • CASES OF BBQ SAUCES, SPICES & BEEF JERKEY • SMALL ENGINE PARTS & SUPPLIES (Replacement Parts, Oil Filters etc) • NEW AIR COMPRESSOR TANKS (60 & 30 Gallon)

FULL LISTING WILL BE POSTED AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE. THIS WILL BE A LARGE AUCTION YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS!!

PENNER AUCTION SALES LTD. 218 Brandt Street Steinbach, MB Ph: 204.326.3061 Fax: 204.326.3061 Toll Free: 1-866-512-8992 www.pennerauctions.com

Sale Conducted by: PENNER AUCTION SALES LTD.

RETIREMENT FARM EQUIPMENT AND SHOP TOOLS AUCTION BADIOU AIME & LOUISE Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433 Tractors • 1987 Case IH 7140 mfwd, 1000 pto, 4415 hrs., 20.8 x 42 Duals • IHC Model 624 Utility Diesel 3 pth, lpto, 2250 hrs. showing • Versatile 276 Bi directional, with loader, Front and Rear pto and 3 pth, showing 2610hrs., used on grain farm Harvesting Equipment • 1991 Case IH 1680 Combine, IH 1015 head with IH belt pickup, Rear wheel assist.

• 1992 Seeding and tillage, and very large amount of shop metal and wood working equipment • CMHC 20 FT Scissor lift, electric powered • 50 ton Hydraulic shop press • Coates 2020 Air tire changer, working order • HD 220 Volt air compressor, horizontal tank approx. 40 gal.

• LKS 250 Amp stick welder • Cutting torch

SATURDAY, MAY 3, 10 AM NOTRE DAME, MB

LOCATED ON THE FARM FROM NOTRE DAME - WEST END OF TOWN, GO 1 MILE WEST AND 3 MILES SOUTH ON ROAD 50W OR 7 MILES NORTH OF ST. LEON, TURN OFF ON HWY. 23 ON ROAD 50W (CHEMIN MESSNER)

MACK AUCTION CO. PRESENTS a farm & livestock equip auction for Maple Wind Farms Ltd. Ron Jacobs & late Elsie Jacobs Sat., June 7th, 2014 10:00am. Directions from Stoughton, SK 4-mi South on Hwy 47, 2-mi East, 1/2-mi South, 1/2-mi East. Watch for signs! Live internet bidding at www.bidspotter.com JD 4840 2WD tractor; JD 4640 2WD tractor; JD 4020 w/Ezee On FEL; JD 4010 2WD tractor; JD 9600 SP combine w/JD 212 PU header & 2,899 sep hrs; JD 7721 PT combine; 27ft. Co-op 722 SP DSL swather w/UII PU header; 30-ft. Premier Macdon 1900 PT swather; 16-ft. JD 1600A mower conditioner; Case IH 8460 round baler; Wheatheart hyd post hole auger; Ezee On trailer type post pounder; hyd wire roller; 100-bu poly feed bin; hyd tip hoof trimming chute; quantity of panels, gates, & bale feeders; Texas gates; rolls of barb wire, fence post & power poles; livestock show display & tack box; Circuiteer II blower; ABS nitrogen tank; 24-ft. 2008 Blue Hills gooseneck flat deck trailer w/7,000-lbs axles; 1989 GMC 4WD 2500 regular cab truck w/6.2 DSL; 1976 GMC 6500 grain truck w/39,765-km; 1972 Ford 500 grain truck w/wood box & hoist; 1983 Buick LaSabre Ltd. 4 door car; Chev 30 1-Ton truck w/steel box & hoist; 35-ft. JD seeding tool & JD 787 air tank w/Dutch on row packers; JD 1610 cultivator w/Valmar 1620 granular applicator; 28-ft. JD 360 tandem disc; Morris 70-ft. tine harrows; diamond harrow drawbar; 80ft. Bourgault 1450 PT field sprayer; Sakundiak 8-60 PTO auger; Sakundiak 8-47 PTO auger; hyd transfer auger; Pool 5-HP aeration fan; JD Star Fire ITC; JD auto trac Universal steering kit; Crown 10-ft. land leveller; JD GX 75 lawn tractor; JD GX 85 lawn tractor; AG Fab utility garden tractor; Ag Fab utility garden cart; 1,000-gal water tank & trailer; Honda 90 ATC, electric & gas powered cement trowels; cement mixer; B-Lifters pallet jack, plus much more!

Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us on Facebook & Twitter.

(306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962

Estate of Roger Paquette

FARM MACHINERY

Sat., May 10 @ 10:00 am

FARM MACHINERY Fertilizer Equipment

PROPERTY: Shenston E 1/2 Sec 19 PCL 18649 - 60 Acres - Older Home, Outside Bldgings, 1/2 Hay Land 1/2 Fenced Pasture Tractors & Excavator: MF 3660 MFWA Cab 3PH w/ FEL w/ Grapple Showing 1105 hrs * JD 4630 Cab 3PH 20.8.38 Duals 9815 hrs * Linkbelt LS 2800 Track Excavator 11,007 hrs * Clark Bush Skidder Equip: MF 36, 12’ Swather w/ P/U Reel * Case 1H RBX 462 RD Baler * NH Side Del Rake * Hutchmaster 20’ Tandem Disc * Rome 10’ Offset Disc * Case 12’ Discer Seeders * Along w/ Livestock Equip * 48’ Semi Frt Trailer * Vehicles * 140 Hay Bales * Tool * Miller 200HP BOBCAT 250 NT AC/DC Welder * 10 000 Watt Generator, 5hrs * Yard Items * Household *

(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027

www.mcsherryauction.com

AUTO & TRANSPORT AUTO & TRANSPORT Auto & Truck Parts GREAT PRICES ON NEW, used & remanufactured engines, parts & accessories for diesel pickups.

Large inventory, engines can be shipped or installed. Give us a call or check us out at www.thickettenginerebuilding.ca Thickett Engine Rebuilding.

Ph (204)532-2187, Russell MB.

AUTO & TRANSPORT Trucks 2004 FORD 350 DUALLY, 11-ft flat deck, diesel, 6spd, 4x4, one owner, $8,000 OBO; 7x22 GN stock trailer, $3,300. 7x24 Stock Trailer, $3,000. Phone:1 (204)857-8403.

2010 FORD F150 XLT Supercrew, 4WD, Silver, Box liner, box cover, 96,788-km, beautiful shape, Safetied, SN 1FTFW1EV7A00840, Asking $21,900.

Open to offers. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Roofing

PRICE TO CLEAR!!

75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard 100,000PSI high tensile roofing & siding. 16 colours to choose from.

B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2

Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft.2

• 3x3 HD Welding table with vise • 36” Wood lathe variable speed • 1/2 in. Drill press stand with Keyless chuck.

And so much more........

Ask about our blowout colours...65¢/ft.2 Also in stock low rib white 29 ga. ideal for archrib buildings BEAT THE PRICE INCREASES CALL NOW

See our website: www.billklassen.com for complete listing or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230

BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions

TONY & PAT PETRACEK AUCTION Sat., May 10th, 2014 11:00am. 8 SOUTH OF LANGENBURG TO REDPATH RD, 2 WEST, 1/2 SOUTH. LANGENBURG, SK. CONTACT: (306)745-2501.

TRACTORS: Case 870 DSL Tractor cab, dual hyd, Case 70 FEL, recent motor & clutch; Ford 8N Gas 3-PTH, new rubber, paint, restored; Ford 9N 3-PTH on steel all around new motor; JD H Tricycle overhauled, new tires, restored, nice. VEHICLES: 1986 Dodge 600 Convertible, running, to be restored; 1988 Chevy 1/2-Ton, 5-SPD, good. MACHINERY: NH 357 Mix mill; Hopper tank & trailer; 24-ft stock trailer; Steel gates, panels, feeders, etc.; 3-PTH rear blade. YARD & RECREATION: Yards Machine 16.5-HP 42-in riding lawn mower; JD ATV trailer; BIN: Seed hopper bin, Plus shop. Note: Tony & Pat are selling the land, the remainder of his tractors, & shop equip. Visit www.ukrainetzauction.com for complete pictures & listing. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851

CORRAL CLEANING AVAILABLE W/VERTICAL beater spreaders.

Phone (204)827-2629 (204)526-7139.

3 Miles North then East 4 on Ball Rd Contact: Dana (780) 860-7351

Watch for our Auction Catalog in your farm mail box March 13th with a more detailed listing. Owners 204-248-2020

DORA LASTIWKA & ROBERTS PAVING AUCTION Sun., May 4th, 2014 10:00am 4-MI NORTH OF THEODORE. THEODORE, SK. CONTACT: (306)621-7972. DORA LASTIWKA: REAL ESTATE: NW 23-29-07 W2: Taxable assessment $41,335, taxes $665.40, approx 125-acs cultivated, canola stubble, yd includes older house, hip roof barn, garage, misc wood buildings– pwr in the yd. Possession date immediately after winter wheat is harvested. TRACTORS: 1974 Case 970 Tractor (White) p shift, 7,600-hrs, cab, good rubber, w/Case FEL, good; ANTIQUE TRACTORS: JD 430 Tractor gas, 3-PTH, good tin, paint, shedded & running; JD M Tractor gas, 3-PTH, shedded, running; TRUCK: 1975 Chev C30 1-Ton steel box, hoist, tarp, 4-SPD, 20,000-miles, real nice; 1998 Chev 3/4-Ton Truck Extended cab, V8, auto, 325,000-kms, no rust; COMBINE: 1980 MF 750 DSL Combine (Grey cab) cab, air, chopper, melroe PU, 2,800-hrs; MIX MILL: NH 357 Mix Mill shedded, excellent; HAYING EQUIPMENT: Case IH 8370 14-ft. haybine; HORSES: 1, 12 yr old thorough bread mare, broke to ride; 1, 12 yr paint, broke to ride. Plus seeding, tillage, discs, swathers, augers, bins, misc. ROBERT’S PAVING: (306)647-2323 or (306)620-3829.

1975 Ford Louisville Gravel Truck 8V-92 Detroit 360-HP engine, 20,000-kms on rebuilt, 13-SPD fuller trans rebuilt 2011, new clutch, new starter, air compressor, set up for pup w/14-ft. Kneels gravel box, Certified 2014, Real nice; 1982 Renn Gravel Pup 14-ft. 11x24.5 tires, new wiring, hyd hoses, led lights & paint, certified 2014; 1972 Drum Roller 18-HP Briggs w/hyd vibrator water tank; 1991 350 Dodge 5.9 DSL, 10-ft. steel deck, 20,000-lbs PTO wench, HD Hitch, 5-SPD trans, 2WD; 35-ft. HD Trailer tandem, dual wheels, new electric brakes, 2011 beavertail w/ramps. NOTE: Bob is retiring.

Equipment for age is above average condition. Very clean & well looked after. Online bidding 1:00pm.

Refer to the website for “Terms & Conditions” Visit www.ukrainetzauction.com for updated listing & pictures. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851.

McSherry Auction Service Ltd

Stratton, ON - Jct 71 Hwy & Stratton Hwy

ALL REMAINING INVENTORY MUST BE SOLD!!

SMALL SAMPLE OF INVENTORY LIST INCLUDES:

CONTRACTING Custom Work

FARM AUCTION

MEL MEHLING LTD (FORMER BIRCH AUTO FARM SUPPLIES OWNER)

• COMPRESSOR & BATTERY CHARGER REPAIR PARTS • FRONT END SHIMS & GUAGES • 12X20 CAR TENT SHELTER • QUANTITIES OF NEW NUTS AND BOLTS, WOOD & METAL SCREWS • QUANTITIES OF GREASE & OIL • VEHICLES (2005 GMC CARGO VAN, 2-2004 Ford Escorts, 40ft Dry Van Semi Trailer, 1974 Arctic Cat Lynx)

AUCTION SALES Auctions Various

AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions LARRY & PAULINE GOGAL AUCTION Sun., May 11th, 2014 10:00am. 5 NORTH ON #9 FROM CANORA TO 754 GRID, 2 EAST, 2 NORTH, 2 EAST, 3/4 NORTH, CANORA, SK. CONTACT: (306)563-6010. MACHINERY- TRACTORS: Case IH 5088 Tractor cab, air, 18.4x38 factory duals, 3 hyd, PTO, shedded, 4,300-hrs, real nice; Cockshutt 1850 Tractor DSL, continental cab, like new tires, Leons FEL, 3,000-hrs; Cockshutt 1850 Tractor cab, 18.4x34 tires, w/tire chains w/ or w/o blade, 7,000-hrs; AC WD Tractor 2-PTH, new rubber, real nice; TRUCK: ?1967 Dodge 500 1-Ton Steel box & hoist; BALER: MF 124 square baler shedded, real nice; AUGER: Sakundiak HD 37-ft. ES engine; CULTIVATOR: IH 29-ft. Vibrashank & harrows, nice; 20-ft. deep tillage; 21-ft. tandem disc; 24-ft.

Morris harrows w/brackets; quad sprayer; 500-gal.

DSL tank & stand; RECREATION: Swift Shure 16ft. Boat open front, pro 50-HP motor, canopy, trailer, real nice; 2009 Caviton 25-ft Camper Tandem, fully loaded, one slide, air, canopy, used one time, Mint; Polaris 340 Skidoo; Polaris 440 Skidoo; Fishing hut; Consigned: (306)535-5162 Sidewinder 16ft. deep V speed/ski boat 150-HP Merc, outboard w/stainless prop. Plus misc, shop. SHOP: Miller 230 AC/DC Welder; Radial arm saw; table saw & many carpenter power & hand tools; Acetylene bottles & gauges; Band saw; Vices, grinders; Anvil; Poly tank. Many more shop items nuts, bolts, wrenches, etc. NOTE: Due to health reasons, Larry is selling the farm equipment. Major equip is shedded & very nice cond. Recreation equip used very little. Online bidding 1:00pm. Visit www.ukrainetzauction.com for complete pictures & listing. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851 WAYNE & JOAN KERR AUCTION Sat., May 3rd, 2014 10:00am. ADJACENT TO TOWN OF DUBUC. DUBUC, SK. CONTACT: (306)877-2066.

MACHINERY- TRACTORS: IHC 706 DSL Tractor good tin & rubber, w/ or w/o shaffer post pounder; MH 444 Tractor live hyd, new paint, nice; MH 444 Tractor new rubber, hyd, good tin & paint, real nice; JD 4010 DSL good tin, good tires, dual hyd; Ford 8N 3-PTH good paint & tin; HAYING: IH 430 square baler; NH 1033 Bale wagon; TOM: (306)877-4751 JD 930 12-ft. Moco 1000 PTO Haybine ($7,000 work order); Kuhn rotary rake (fluffs & moves swaths); Tonute RCS 8 wheel V rake; BRIAN: (306)728-5555 1993 Case IH 8370 14-ft. Hydraswing Haybine; 124 Massey Square baler; Vers 15ft. PTO Swather, new canvas; COMBINE: JD 6601 PTO Combine PU & chopper; AUGER: Secundiak 7x33 engine, w/hyd bin sweep; Farm King 10x60 swing a way auger; YARD & RECREATION: 1986 Slumber queen 23-ft. gooseneck single axle camper. Plus vehicles, seeding, sprayer, harrows, morris harrow bar, cultivators, guns, shop, welders, plasma cutter, etc. NOTE: Wayne & Joan are retiring.

Tractors look nice. Open to consignments. Visit www.ukrainetzauction.com for updated listing & pictures. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851

MACK AUCTION CO. PRESENTS a large auction for the Estate of Calvin Avery Sun., June 8th, 2014 @ 10:00am. Directions from Stoughton, SK 1-mi West on Hwy 13 & 1/2-mi North. Watch for Signs!

Live internet bidding at www.bidspotter.com Real Estate: SW 28-08-08-W2 RM of Tecumseh #65; 138+/- Acs, 3-bdrm, 1,990-sq.ft. Bungalow, Double Attached Garage, 50x54 Storage Shed, Garden Shed, Fenced Pasture, Dugout, 2013 Taxes $1,910 Oil Surface Lease Revenue of $12,900 per annum; Real Estate: Also selling a house at 120 Government Rd, Stoughton, SK. 900-sq.ft. Home, Handyman Special, Great Starter or Revenue Home, Interior Is Stripped To Bare Studs, 45x130-ft. Lot Size, 2013 Taxes $1,271.82; NH T7030 FWA tractor w/front & rear PTO & 3-PTH & 1,210-hrs; NH TM175 FWA tractor w/front & rear PTO & 3-PTH w/1,465-hrs; Kubota L4630 FWA tractor w/Kubota LA853 FEL & 3-PTH showing 215-hrs; JD 8450 4WD tractor & JD 12-ft. dozer blade w/8,430-hrs; 15-ft. Schulte XH-1500 Series 3 rotary mower; Schulte SDX 110 3-PTH snow blower w/double auger; Schulte RDX 960 snow blower single auger; unused Normand 3-PTH snow blower double auger; NH zero turn mower; JD 322 lawn tractor w/mower & tiller; Kubota 3-PTH rototiller; Kubota 3-PTH ballast box; Mighty Mac 3-PTH wood chipper; Farm King 3-PTH wood chipper; Farm King 3-PTH finishing mower, unused 3-PTH cement mixer; 3-PTH angle blade; 20-ft. 2006 Lund 2000 Fisherman Boat w/5.0L Merc Inboard & 9.9-HP trolling motor; 2009 Harley Davidson black Ultra Classic w/Screaming Eagle 110 Big Bore showing 72,690-mi; 2009 Harley Davidson red Road King w/4,550-km; 2009 Roadstar motorcycle trailer; 2007 blue Harley Davidson Ultra Classic disassembled SGI total loss w/many new parts; 2009 Ski Doo MXZ Renegade 800R E-TEC w/2,055-mi; 2009 Ski Doo MXZ Renegade Rotax 800R w/1,443-km; 2011 Polaris Ranger RZR 800 EFI side by side quad; 2012 gas Yamaha golf cart w/lift kit & custom wheels; 1982 Yamaha street bike; 2009 Landmark 35-ft. 5th wheel camper w/3 slides & rear living room fireplace; 29-ft. 2005 Keystone Challenger 5th wheel camper w/2 slides; 2011 Chev Camaro LS Coupe 6-SPD w/11,320-km; 2011 Chev Silverado black Duramax crew cab w/113,168-km; 2007 GMC Sierra 3500 1-Ton dually Duramax w/leather & air safe 25K 5th wheel hitch showing 96,650-km; 2007 Chev 2500 crew cab Duramax DSL w/leather & GFX package; 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 crew cab 5.7 hemi w/139,810-km; 2005 Dodge Ram 4WD 2500 quad w/5.9L Cummins; 2009 Dodge 1500 crew cab w/5.7L Hemi; 2005 Dodge Ram Cummins 5.9 2500 Quad Cab; 1997 GMC 1500 regular Cab 4WD; 2013 American Hauler 22-ft. V nose snow trailer w/front & rear ramps; 2013 Triton aluminum single axle utility trailer w/ramp; 2012 Par Carr golf cart trailer; 20-ft. 2008 Demby tandem bumper pull w/beaver tail & ramps; 2007 H&H 14-ft. V nose cargo trailer; 2006 Trailtech 20-ft. tandem axle bumper pull flat deck trailer; 2005 30-ft. Trailtech 5th Wheel triple axle trailer; 2005 Trailtech Dump box trailer w/electric hyd dump; brand new Bend Pac auto hoist; Snap On tire changer; Snap On tire changer; Snap On tire balancer; Hotsy steam cleaner; portable gas powered air compressor; Honda GX270 pressure washer; Craftsman mechanics chest; upright air compressor; numerous hand tools; motorcycle lift; new Home & Garden spas 6 person hot tub, new Kenmore SS kitchen appliances. Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us on Facebook & Twitter.

(306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962

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FOUILLARD STEEL SUPPLIES LTD. ST. LAZARE, MB. 1-800-510-3303

BUILDINGS AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post frame building company. For estimates and information call 1-888-816-AFAB(2322).

Website: www.postframebuilding.com CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place & finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any floor design. References available. Alexander, MB. 204-752-2069.

• FARM • STORAGE SHEDS • COMMERCIAL • FOUNDATIONS | FLOORS • WORK SHOPS

From The Ground Up BUSINESS SERVICES

FERTILIZER SPREADS 4-8 TON. 4T Tyler stainers, $4,000; 5T, $5,000; 6T Simousen w/tarp, $6,500; 8T Willmar $7,000; Valmar applicator, $1,500. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com 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.

CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.

Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103 or E-mail Requests binmovers@hotmail.com

FARM MACHINERY Grain Dryers 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.

FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528 or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB. MURPHY SALVAGE New & used parts for tractors, combines, swathers, square & round balers, tillage, press drills & other misc machinery. MURPHY SALVAGE (204)858-2727 or toll free 1-877-858-2728.

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Tractors Combines Swathers 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.

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NEW WOBBLE BOXES for JD, IH, MacDon headers. Made in Europe, factory quality. Get it direct from Western Canada’s sole distributor starting at $1,095. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

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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.

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QUONSET NEW, 35X52X18; JD 2420 DSL, 25-ft & 16-ft hay; JD 7410 FWA, w/loader; MF 860 p/u & 20-ft straight cut; Ford 5000 w/loader; Vac, sewer tank & pump; Rotex SR7 power parachute for parts; Chev tandem gravel box & hoist; C7 tree farmer skidder; Bison head squeeze (complete); 2004 Rumblebee shortbox; 24-ft dual axle cattle trailer gooseneck, like new. Cyclone PTO Fert spreader; Skid mount Cummins motor w/transmission; D343 CAT motor for parts; Bantam C366 w/471 Track hoe for parts; 21-ft Carter Hart PU/reel; MH 13-ft 26 run seed drill w/fert, like new; 1-tonne truck hoist; Ford 6-ft, 3-PT angle blade for 40-HP & bigger tractor; (306)236-8023.

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1, 67-FT. PT SPRAYER; 1, 24-ft. PT swather. Both in good operating condition, always shedded. Norman Dashevsky Brunkild (604)428-4970 long distance call, e-mail ndayy@yahoo.com 1975 DEUTZ 65 TRACTOR; 1979 722 Bobcat; 16ft Morris Tandem disc; Harrell Crop (Swath) inverter; 1972 230 IH 16-ft Swather; 2- Hay Crimpers (attachments); 2005 IH RBX 562 baler; 2003 Inland 6072 baler; 100-ft Flexi-coil 65 800-gal. PT Sprayer; 1992 Manac Super B Hi-boy Flat-deck trailers. Global Auction, Benito, MB. May 3rd, 2014. Owner (204)734-8355.

2 12-FT IHC 620 press drills, fair shape. $600 Phone:(204)737-2275 between 6-7pm.

2, 28-FT GRAIN AUGERS; 60-in 3-PTH John Deere mower; 500-bu Grain trailers; 8-ft Hyd dozer blade; bale wagon; 16-ft land packer. Phone (204)385-2751.

32-FT. FRUEHAUF FLAT DECK trailer, single axle, safetied, asking $3,500; 24-ft. Ocean container, can be delivered, asking $3,800; 45-ft. Morris deep tiller, has NH3 tips, asking $1,650; 40-ft. Haullin semi rafter trailer extendable, asking $3,400. Phone (204)728-1861.

FARM KING 10-FT HYD drill fill auger; Phone (204)386-2412, Plumas.

2013 Rogator RG1300

COMBINES Combines - Various

410-hrs, 132-ft recirculating aluminum boom, Raven Viper Pro, 7 section autoboom shutoff, autoboom height control, Smarttrax steering, 800 & 380 series tires, 2-yr warranty. $348,000 (204)824-2290 ellisseeds@mts.net

2004 NEW IDEA 6X5 softcore round baler, w/PU reverse, $5,000. www.waltersequipment.com (204)525-4521, Minitonas, MB.

Tillage & Seeding

2013 Kuhn LSB 1290 square baler Bale count 14000 bales. Auto lube & hydraulic bale eject. Always parked indoors $80,000 OBO. (204)299-0977 cormierbales@gmail.com Tested. Trusted. Guaranteed.

(1)16-FT TANDEM BEAVER tail, 3,500-lb trailer, Retail $3,620, Special, $3,140; New 20HWP Honda GX620, loaded, Retail $2,390, Special $1,840; New 13HWP GX390, rope start, Retail $1,359, Special $810; New 24HWP Honda GX690, electric, Retail $2,764, Special $2,175; New Black Equinox liquid tank 1,250-G, Retail $492, Special $410; New Yellow HD 1,250-G tank, Retail $840, Special $590 OBO; New Equinox CSA certified holding septic tanks, 1,150-G, Retail $2,020, Special, $2,680; Can Deliver. For sizes & options, please phone. New Saga 50cc scooter for sale, Retail $2,490, Special $1,830; A&T Sales:(204)822-1354 Cell: (204)823-1559.

SPRAYING EQUIPMENT Sprayers

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FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

1998 NH TR98, 900 Trellborg on front, & 600 Trellborg on rear, terrain tracer, long auger, electronic stone trap, dual chaff spreader, 971 PU header, 30ft 994 draper header, tunnel covers & H frame, rotor gear boxes & Bubble-up auger gear box. Recently rebuilt, $65,000 OBO. Can also be viewed on Kijiji.

Phone (204)632-4390, cell (204)797-4821.

FOR SALE: 4840 MF tractor; 1100 MF; 40-ft. Hesston heavy disc; 40-ft. JD field cultivator; band wagon. Phone (204)346-2224.

GRAIN CARTS 450-1080-BU: NEW Gravity wagons 400-bu, $7,100; 600-bu, $12,000; 750-bu, $17,750; tarps available. Used 250-750-bu: $2,250 up Grainvacs; Brandt 4000, $7,000; Brandt 4500, $7,500. Balers: JD 510, $1,250; JD 530, $3,500; JD 535, $5,000; Flexheads Case-IH 1020 25-ft, $5,000; 30-ft, $8,000; JD 925, $6,500; JD 930, $6,500; Case-IH 1015 pick-up head, $3,500; Vermeer R23 hyd. rake. Phone:(204)857-8403.

LARGE CAT #27 W/12-FT dozer blade, engine not running. For sale or part out or scrap.

(204)646-4226.

QUIT FARMING: 08 8010 4WD Combine, 30-ft.

Flex draper, $200,000; 011 Massey Swather 36-ft.

9260 Big cab w/swath roller, $65,000; 08 STX 430 4WD, new tires, $160,000; 05 2, 9900I Semi tractor, CAT C15, 13-spd, 4-way locks, 72-in sleeper, $30,000 each; Hyway tractor, 550 Cat, 13-SPD, 4-way lock, $30,000 each; 03 Advance SuperB grain, $28,000; 95 front trailer of the Super B Flat, $5000; Farm King Auger 13x85, hyd swing & hyd lift on swing, $18,000; 013 Gearinghof corn chopping head, 8x30, w/row stompers, like new, $80,000; 2, 105 White rebilt, $7,000; Hutchmaster tandem, $8,000; 10x70 FarmKing, $6,000; Roadrunner Header Hauler, $8,000; 30-ft. MacDon Drap Hd, Tandem w/duals Trailer $20,000; To haul sprayer, $5,000; IH 4240 tractor w/15-ft mower, $12,000; 16x30 Westco cult, $3,000; 16x30 band sprayer, $3,000; 06 320 Cat Excavator, has quickattach clean out bucket 10,000-hrs, nice, $60,000; 98 T-800 Kenworth w/N-14 Cummins, 19-spd, 4-way locks, stainless steel paving Box w/30-in.

Live Belt, $33,000; 04 Chev 4x4 4-dr w/8-ft. deck, new tire, new safety, $6,500. Call:(204)871-0925, Macgregor, MB. STONE-PICKER: 14-FT ROCK-O-MATIC HD5; Grain Drill: 9350 JD disc drill. Phone: (204)437-4641.

CASE IH 8450 BALER, 4-ft wide, 6-ft tall. Spare parts, always shedded. Asking $5000. Phone (204)467-5093, ask for Doug.

FOR SALE: JD 466 small square baler, in excellent shape, field ready. $3,000 OBO. Phone: (204)373-2730.

HAYING & HARVESTING Various FOR SALE: MOLE HILL Leveler, 24-ft, fully hydraulic, like new. Folds up to 8-ft. Phone (204)564-2540.

Rebuilt Concaves

Rebuild combine table augers Rebuild hydraulic cylinders Roller mills regrooved MFWD housings rebuilt Steel and aluminum welding Machine Shop Service Line boreing and welding

Penno’s Machining & Mfg. Ltd. Eden, MB 204-966-3221 Fax: 204-966-3248

Check out A & I online parts store www.pennosmachining.com

COMBINE WORLD located 20 min. E of Saskatoon, SK on Hwy. #16. 1 year warranty on all new, used, and rebuilt parts. Canada’s largest inventory of late model combines & swathers.

1-800-667-4515 www.combineworld.com Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds.

Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our friendly staff, and don’t forget to ask about our prepayment bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free!

1-800-782-0794.

COMBINES Accessories JD 635 HYDRAFLEX W/PU reel, $23,500. Brian (204)856-6119 or (204)685-2896, MacGregor, MB. MF 9750 FLEX 30-FT. PU reel, Poly skids, field ready off MF 8570 Consignment located in Cabri, SK, $12,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com WE STOCK MOST SIZES & makes of Flex Platforms, some PU platforms, & rigid platforms. We also have adapters in stock to fit a JD Platform onto CIH, NH, or Agco-MF Combines. In Stock JD 920, 925, 930, 630, 635 flex, JD 843, 893 Corn heads, JD 653 all crop, NH 973 w/wo air reel, NH 94 C Draper 25-ft., CIH 1020, 2020 Flex, 1010 rigid, MF 9750 Flex, Cat Lexion & Agco avail. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

Combines COMBINES Case/IH 1997 CIH 2188 W/RAKE Up PU, 3,499 Sep Hrs., AFX Rotor Kit, Big Top Hopper Ext., Long unloading auger, Air foil chaffer. Service check done Nov 2011, not used in 2013. Consignment Sale Asking $33,500. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES. Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595 charles@arcfab.ca www.arcfab.ca

TILLAGE & SEEDING Air Drills 36-FT JD 730 270-BU. w/1900 TBT, $28,500; 44-ft.

JD 730 230-bu., 787 TBT, $15,900; 57-ft. Flexicoil 5000, no cart, $10,000; JD 787 TBT Carts, $9,000-11,500; 1900 TBT, $23,500. Can Deliver.

Call Brian (204)856-6119 or (204)685-2896. MacGregor, MB. FO SAEL 33-FT FLEXCIOIL 5000 air drill, 7.5 in spacting heavy trips, 1-in carbide tiped hoe openeers,, steel packers, 1730 pull behind air tank, good condition, (204)867-2087 or 7117.

TILLAGE & SEEDING Air Seeders 32-ft. Bourgault Air Seeder 528-34 w/2155 tow behind tank- no rust inside. Tank has hitch for liquid caddy, cultivator has 2-in. knockon spoons, green drop liquid kit, 3 bar harrows. Very good shape, field ready, $22,500. Phone (204)851-2516.

BOURGAULT FH-32-FT AIR SEEDER, 2115 tank, augern packers, Atom jet openers, low acres; Herman harrows, 53-ft, good shape.

Phone:(204)867-5363. Minnedosa, MB. MORRIS MAXIM AIR DRILL, 34-ft, double chute w/paired row seed openers, 10-in spacing, 4.5-in steel packers, markers, 7180 Morris tow-behind cart w/3 tanks. $33,000 OBO; Flexi-coil 820 air seeder, 35-ft, double chute w/paired row seed openers, 12-in spacing, knock-on shoes, mulchers, 2320 Flexi-coil tow-behind cart. $20,000 OBO; 1998 Flexi-coil 5000 air drill, 57-ft, single chute, stealth boots w/carbide Eagle beak openers, 7.2-in spacing, 3.5-in rubber packers, 3450 Flexi-coil towbehind cart, 3 tanks, manual meter adj. $50,000 OBO; Flexi-coil 5000 air drill, 45-ft, single chute, 9.2-in spacing, 4-in steel packers, factory markers, mulchers, Flexi-coil 2320 tow-between cart. $25,000 OBO. Phone Joe:(204)641-4478. Gimli, MB.

TILLAGE & SEEDING Seeding Various FOR SALE: 24-FT MELROE press drill, always shedded, field ready; Also, 28-ft all hyd. drill carrier Phone:(204)526-2543.

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TILLAGE & SEEDING Seeding Various

TRACTORS Various

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Charolais

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Simmental

FOR SALE: JD 7000 planter, 12-row 30-in, w/single disc fertilizer openers, trash wipers w/tow behind Concord 1502 air seeder for fertilizer. Price $11,000. Phone (204)745-2900, (204)745-8334, Carman MB.

IHC706, CAB, LOADER, VG 18.4-34, $3,950; CASE1200, 4-WD, VG 18.4-34, $4,750; Oliver770, RC, Dies, $2,500; Oliver OC-3, Crawler, loader & blade, $3,950; Satoh S-650G, turf tires & 3-Pt, $2,950; Ruston Hornsby, stationary, $2,250; Oliver88 rowcrop, Dies, $2,250; Deutz 3-cyl, $2,000; Fiat, FWA, VG tires, 3-Pt, $3,750; AC190XT, 23.1 tires, $3,750; Ford8N, VG tires, $1,350; CASE800, VG tires, 3-Pt, $2,750; IHC606, VG tires & loader, $3,000; MH44 w/blade, $1,350; IHCWD-6, Dies loader, $1,950; IHC560, Dies, $2,250; Minneapolis MolineJB, 6-cyl, dies, $1,950; Minneapolis MolineU, Dies, $1,500; Minneapolis MolineGTB, $1,250; Minneapolis Moline, needs starter, $1,250; IHCW9, gas, $1,250; Various loaders & tires. For pics www.hlehmann.ca (204)746-2016, (204)746-5345, Morris MB.

FOR SALE: 2-YR OLD Charolais Bulls, polled, quiet, low birth weights, tested & delivered, $2300-$2500.

Wayne Angus (204)764-2737, Hamiota MB.

POLLED 2 YR OLD & yearling Red factor Simm bulls from AI sires. Acomb Valley Simmentals (204)867-2203, Minnedosa.

FOR SALE: PUREBRED CHAROLAIS bulls, 2-yr olds & yearlings. Polled, some Red Factor, some good for heifers, semen tested in spring, guaranteed & delivered. R & G McDonald Livestock, Sidney MB. (204)466-2883, (204)724-2811.

RIVERBANK FARMS HAS AN excellent group of Red, Red Blaze face & Black Polled Simm bulls for sale. Semen tested & fully guaranteed. Call Ray Cormier (204)736-2608.

FOR SALE: VALMAR MODEL 240 truck mount, 40-ft wide, excellent for seeding alfalfa, grasses & canola. $4000 OBO. Optional 1980 GMC 3/4 tonne.

Phone (204)355-4980, cell (204)371-5744.

JD 9350 HOE PRESS drill, w/markers & transport.

Phone (204)858-2573.

KINZE 2600, 12/23 ROW, good 15-in bean planter.

Phone:(204)437-4641.

TILLAGE & SEEDING Tillage Equipment 12-ROW, 30-IN ALLOWAY 2130 row crop cultivator, w/tunnel shields. $3500 OBO. Can also be viewed on Kijiji.

Phone(204)632-4390, cell (204)797-4821.

FOR SALE: 32-FT. WILRICH deep tiller w/3 row mulchers, good condition. Phone (204)564-2675 or (204)564-2699, Inglis.

LEON 45-FT DEEP TILLAGE cultivator w/mulchers & Nichols knock-on clips. $8500 OBO. Phone: (204)362-2321. Morden, MB. MODEL 6000-90 BOURGAULT MID-HARROW bar, 18.5-in tines, in excellent shape, $25,000 OBO. Can also be viewed on Kijiji. Phone (204)632-4390, cell (204)797-4821.

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FREE STANDING CORRAL PANELS, Feeders & Alley ways, 30ft or order to size. Oil Field Pipe: 1.3, 1.6, 1.9, 1 7/8, 2-in, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2. Sucker Rod: 3/4, 7/8, 1. Casing Pipes: 4-9inch. Sold by the piece or semi load lots. For special pricing call Art (204)685-2628 or cell (204)856-3440.

CARBIDE DRILL POINTS & openers for air drills.

VW Manufacturing Ltd Dunmore (Medicine Hat) (403)528-3350 US: Loren Hawks Chester, Montana (406)460-3810 www.vwmfg.com CASE IH 900 CYCLO planter, tow behind, rear fold, liquid kit, $8,000; 500 US gal. liquid caddy, $1,500. Phone (204)791-4573 or (204)268-5629, Hazelridge, MB. FOR SALE: 21-FT EDWARDS no-till drill, 4-row hoe drill, w/1-in carbide openers, w/double shoot green drop liquid kit.

Lloyd Atchison, (204)854-2947, Pipestone.

FOR SALE: 42-FT. OF 7200 Case IH hoe drill rubber press w/field markers, factory slow SPD sprockets for Canola, shedded, field ready. (204)773-3252 INDIVIDUAL SHANK MOUNTED PACKERS; New Dutch knives, half-price also Misc used boots & knives. Phone (204)263-5392.

TracTors TRACTORS Case/IH 1987 CASE IH 3394 FWA, 160-hp, 7600-hrs, 24-spd, 3-PTH, 4-hyd, used only for row crop seeding & spraying, very good mechanically, clean tractor, always shedded, $25,500.

Phone (204)373-2502.

TRACTORS Steiger 1985 STEIGER KR 1225, 4WD, 225-HP, PTO, 4 hyds, 8,800-hrs, tires 70%, $28,000 OBO. Eric (204)878-2732 cell (204)470-8969.

TRACTORS John Deere 04 JD 7320 IVT trans., MFWD, 3-pt., JD 741 Loader 8,400-hrs, $64,900 OBO. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com 1989 JD 8760 4WD 24-SPD trans, 4 SCV’s, 20.8x38 duals, no heavy pulling, only on grain cart harrows & PT sprayer, green lighted 2013 ($7,300), 5,515 org hrs, wired for auto steer. (204)248-2364 cell (204)723-5000, Notre Dame.

2009 JD 9330 2,102-HRS, 24-SPD high/low trans, diff locks, Goodyear 800/70R38 duals, Greenstar Ready, 48 GPM, hyd pump, rear wheel weights, 4 SCV hyd. Phone (204)841-0258.

JD4430, QUAD SHIFT, 23.1 tires, $12,250; JD4430, 8-spd, 20.8-34 tires, $11,250; JD4230, 8-spd, 18.4-34, $12,250; JD3130, cab & ad-on 3-Pt, 18.4-34 tires, $9,500; 420 Crawler w/blade, $3,950; D1929 on Steel, $3,500; D1942 Handstart, $2,250; B Fenders Rock shaft, $1,750; G, $1,750; JD60 electric start, $1,950; 820 Pup start, $6,500; 720 Pup start, $4,500; 730 electric start, $4,750; JD730, parade ready, $6,250; JD730, cab, $4,750; JD830, $6,950; JD820, $3,500; JD420T, 3-Pt, single front wheel, $3,500; M 3-Pth, $2,750; JD420, 3-Pt, rearpulley, $3,750; JD1010, 3-Pt & loader, $4,550. For pics see www.hlehmann.ca (204)746-2016, (204)746-5345, Morris MB.

TRACTORS 2-Wheel Drive STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in JD tractors in need of repair or burnt, or will buy for parts. JD parts available. Phone: 204-466-2927 or cell: 204-871-5170, Austin.

TRACTORS Various JOHN DEERE TRACTOR, 12,250-HRS, Serial #440H028379R, 795 LA loader, $13,000 OBO. Phone (204)822-5178.

WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD PB Polled Charolais bulls for sale. Check out our bull catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver. We also have Purebred Charolais cows to calve Aug/Sep for sale. Phone Michael Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Angus HAMCO CATTLE CO. HAS for sale Reg Red Angus & Black Angus yearling bulls & 2 yr olds. Good selection. Semen tested, performance data & EPD’s available. Top genetics. Contact Glen, Albert, Larissa Hamilton (204)827-2358 or David Hamilton (204)325-3635.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Hereford

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Black Angus

16 OPEN REPLACEMENT HEREFORD Heifers & yearling & 2-yr old bulls. Phone:(306)743-5105.

Langenburg, SK. www.vcherefordfarm.com

3 REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS bulls, 3-yrs old, birthweight 80-84-lbs. Bismarck, Alliance, Stout bloodlines. Phone Marcel (204)981-6953, Oak Bluff.

2 PB LONG YEARLING bulls sired by Reserve Senior Champion from Toronto Royal Winter Fair, very quiet, heavy muscled, from good uddered, heavy milking dams; 3 Polled Bull Calves, same sire. 54-yrs of Raising Quality Herefords. Francis Poulsen (204)436-2284, cell (204)745-7894, Elm Creek.

9 PB BLACK ANGUS yearling bulls, sired by KLM Everclear, birth weights 78-82-lbs, $19,00- $2,100 Phone Les Case:(204)428-3625.

SHEEP, LAMB & GOAT SALE: Wednesday, May 7 @ 1:00 PM

SALE WILL FEATURE:

Flock dispersal of 65 open Arcott x Ewes - 3 to 6 years old.

Will re breed for Fall Lambing 85 - 40 to 80 lb. Lambs. Like new Sheep handling equipment, panels, gates and feeders

“Where Buyers & Sellers Meet” For more information call: 204-694-8328 Jim Christie 204-771-0753 Scott Anderson 204-782-6222 Mike Nernberg 204-807-0747

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BLACK ANGUS & POLLED HEREFORD bulls for sale. Yearlings & 2-yr olds available, natural muscled bulls developed w/high forage rations. Semen tested, delivery available. Call Don Guilford (204)873-2430.

BLACK HAWK ANGUS HAS Reg yearling bulls for sale hand fed & quiet bulls, semen tested & delivery avail. Call Kevin (204)529-2605, Mather, MB. BOTANY ANGUS FARM & Leaning Spruce Stock Farm have for sale yearling Black Angus bulls.

Come early, a deposit will hold your purchase until Spring. For more info & prices contact Ryan Shearer (204)824-2151 or Cell:(204)761-5232.

FORAGE BASED BLACK ANGUS Bulls. Virgin 2-yr olds & herd sires available. www.nerbasbrosangus.com (204)564-2540 or (204)773-6800.

FOR SALE: 2-YR OLD & yearling Black Angus bulls, bunk fed, fertility tested, weigh sheets available, low birth weights, many industry leading bloodlines, delivery available, Black Meadows Angus. Call Bill (204)567-3782.

FOR SALE: 5YR OLD herd bull, KLM Everclear, bought at Douglas test station Apr 2010. very easy calver & good gainer. $3,000, Phone Les Case:(204)428-3625.

KEMBAR ANGUS HAS REGISTERED Black Angus yearling bulls for sale. Thick w/lots of hair, good disposition & EPD’s available. 70% will work on heifers, Kodiak 5R, FAV Peacemaker & KMK Alliance bloodlines. Also for sale, a select group of Registered Black Angus open replacement heifers.

Phone Colin (204)725-3597, Brandon.

N7 STOCK FARM HAVE 30 top quality yearling Black Angus Bulls for sale by private treaty. Sired by some of the breed’s leading AI sires, bulls are developed on a homemade oat ration & free choice hay. Performance records available, will be semen tested, delivery available, contact Gerald & Wendy Nykoliation (204)562-3530 or Allan’s cell (204)748-5128.

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OSSAWA ANGUS AT MARQUETTE, MB. For sale: yearling & 2-yr old bulls. Also, a couple of herd sires.

Phone: (204) 375-6658 or (204)383-0703.

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LIVESTOCK Cattle – Red Angus

Bred Cow Sale at 10:00am Tack & Horses to follow Sheep & Goat with Small Animals & Holstein Calves at 12:00pm

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LIVESTOCK Cattle – Angus 2 SEMEN TANKS FOR sale, 1 empty, 1 full of semen. Mostly Angus sires. Phone (204)467-5093, ask for Doug.

BATTLE LAKE FARM HAS for sale Black & Red PB Angus yearling bulls & 2-yr olds. EPD’s & semen tested. (204)834-2202.

F BAR & ASSOCIATES Angus bulls for sale.

Choose from a selection of two-yr old & yearling Red & Black Angus bulls. Great genetics, easyhandling, semen-tested, delivery available. Call for sale list. Inquiries & visitors are welcome. We are located in Eddystone, about 20 miles east of Ste. Rose or 25-mi West of Lake Manitoba Narrows, just off Hwy #68. Call Allen & Merilyn Staheli at (204)448-2124 or email: amstaheli@inethome.ca FOR SALE: 27 M/O Reg Black Angus Bull- A.I. sired Net Worth, 95-lb BW; 2-25 m/o Reg Red Angus Bulls- sires (AI) Makn Waves 39X (90-lb BW) & Designer 63X (88-lb BW). $2400.00 each firm. Semen tested & Breeding soundness evaluated.

Drumhaggart Ltd. Corina (204)266-1616.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Gelbvieh

TWO YEAR OLD RED & Black Angus Bulls. Contact Triple V Ranch, Dan cell (204)522-0092, home (204)665-2448 or Matt (204)264-0706.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

CATTLE SALES

FOR SALE: GALLOWAY BULLS. 2-yr olds & yearlings. Blacks & Duns. Reg. Also yearling heifers, quiet, easy calving, ideal for forage based Beef Production. (807)486-3622 willowmor@tbaytel.net

POLLED YEARLING & 2 yr old bulls Selin’s Gelbvieh, Stockholm, SK. (306)793-4568.

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LIVESTOCK Cattle – Galloway

RIDGE SIDE RED ANGUS: (3)2-yr old, 15 Reds & 1 Black yearling bulls for sale. From top AI sires, semen tested, guarented, will keep & feed till you need & deliver. Call Don:(204)422-5216 or visit our website@ ridgesideredangus.com

5 2-YR OLD/15 YEARLING Registered Black Angus Bulls, semen tested & delivered within 100-mi.

(204)741-0070, (204)483-3622, Souris.

TILLAGE & SEEDING Tillage Various 28-FT CASE HOE DRILL, always shedded, in great shape. Phone (204)295-8417.

WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT selection of PB Charolais bulls, both Red & white. Pictures & info on the net www.defoortstockfarm.com. Call Gord or Sue: (204)743-2109. Celebrating 34 years in Charolais.

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Sired from easy calving bulls, fed hay ration, excellent growth. Call Ken (204)824-2115, Wawanesa.

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MARTENS CHAROLAIS EXCELLENT YEARLING & 2-yr old bulls for sale. Dateline sons for calving ease & performance. Specialist sons for consistent thickness. Also Pleasant Dawn Marshall sons. Call Ben (204)534-8370.

2 YR OLD BULLS at (204)371-6404, Ste Anne.

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FORSYTH’S F BAR RANCH have for sale 25 2-yr old & yearling Red Angus Bulls. Bulls are semen tested & delivered. For more info, call Roy Forsyth (204)448-2245. Eddystone, MB. WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD PB Red Angus bulls for sale. Check out our bull catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver. We also have Purebred Black & Red Angus cows to calve Aug/Sep for sale. Phone Michael Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Blonde d’Aquitaine BELLEVUE BLONDES HAS AN excellent group of performance & semen tested, polled Purebred Reg. Blonde yearling bulls for sale. Reasonably priced.

Call Marcel (204)379-2426 or (204)745-7412, Haywood MB.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Charolais CLINE CATTLE CO. has for sale purebred Charolais yearlings & 2-yr old bulls. Bulls are quiet, hairy & easy calving, will be semen tested & guaranteed.

Drop in anytime to have a look. (204)537-2367 or Brad’s cell (204)523-0062.

FOR SALE: 2 COMING 2-yr old PB Registered Charolais bulls, also yearlings. Will be easy calving, good hair coats, good feet & good dispositions.

Guaranteed. K.E.H. Charolais, Keith Hagan: (204)748-1024.

FOR SALE: POLLED YEARLING Charolais bulls, Silverado grandsons, will be semen tested. Jack Bullied:(204)526-2857.

FOR SALE: BIG, STOUT PB Polled Hereford Bulls for sale. Yearling & 2-yr old bulls available. Good, balanced EPD’s. Will semen test, deliver & winter until May 1st. Call Allan/Bonnie:(204)764-0364 or Kevin/Holly:(204)764-0331. Hamiota,MB. Can be viewed online @ www.rocknabh.com FOR SALE: REGISTERED HORNED Hereford bulls, 2-yr olds & yearlings. Semen tested & delivered when needed. Also, yearling open Hereford heifers. Phone Morley Wilson:(204)246-2142.

FOR SALE: REG POLLED Hereford bulls, yearlings & 2 yr olds, current Pedigrees, reasonably priced. Phone Martin (204)425-3820 or Lanard (204)425-3809, Vita, MB. HORNED HEREFORD 2-YR & yearling bulls for sale. Performance tested; fertility tested; guaranteed & delivered. Raising & selling Horned Herefords since 1973.

Call Wendell Reimer: (204)379-2773. Located at St. Cloud, MB. POLLED HEREFORD & BLACK ANGUS bulls for sale. Yearlings & 2-yr olds available, natural muscled bulls developed w/high forage rations. Semen tested, delivery available. Call Don Guilford (204)873-2430.

POLLED HEREFORD BULLS 20-30 months, quiet, broke to tie, guaranteed delivery avail, naturally developed on forage based feeding program. Catt Brothers (204)723-2831 Austin, MB.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Holstein

LIVESTOCK Cattle Various HERD SIRES FOR SALE, Simmental 2 3-yr olds, 1 4-yr old, 1 5-yr old; Red Angus 1 3-yr old, semen tested, delivery available. More information call N.O.L. Simmental, (204)345-8492, Lac Du Bonnet.

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HIGH QUALITY BLACK ANGUS & polled Hereford 2-yr old bulls for sale. Bar H Land & Cattle Co. Phone:(306)743-2840, cell (306)743-7490. Langenburg SK. WANTED: 4 YOUNG COW-CALF pairs (Prefer Hereford cows w/Charolais calves) Phone: (204)748-1024

LIVESTOCK Sheep For Sale 80 COMM EWES, (Suffolk Hampshire & Cross) breds w/lambs; 18 NCC ewes 3 & 4 yr olds w/lambs; 6 NCC yearling replacement lambs. Rams NCC Reg 4 yr old & 2 yr old, plus 6 yearlings (not Reg.) 12 Dorset ewes w/lambs & 7 yearling replacements, Dorset ram 7 yrs old. Deal for whole flock to include 2 Pyrennes/Akabash guardian dogs. (306)967-2202 (306)460-4721.

Horses LIVESTOCK Horse Auctions

Evening Horse & Tack Sale GLADSTONE AUCTION MART

Thursday, May 8th at 5:00PM -------------------------------------------Sale Starts with Tack Performance Horse The Horses should be in by 4:00PM A Large Consignment of new & used Tack has been Consigned from the Estate of Jack Dinwoodie & Diamond A Tack supply 16-ft. Stock Trailer Rubber tired Cart Open Cutter Closed Cutter Saddles/ Reins/ Driving Reins Harnesses & Much More Due to this Consignment Only a Limited Amount of Tack Will be Accepted Phone Ahead to Consign your Tack For More Info Phone Manager Tarra Fulton at (204)385-2537 License # 1108 LIVESTOCK Horses – Haflinger

HOLSTEIN CROSS SPRINGING HEIFER for sale, due May 12th, 3/4 Holstein, 1/4 Simmental. Phone Jon (204)385-3189, Austin MB.

CAN. REGISTERED HAFLINGER HORSES, well broke to drive teams of mares & geldings. Also young stock. Call or email for info. (519)870-9503 or (519)236-4518 (evenings). ken_hjv@tcc.on.ca

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Limousin

Swine

BULLS FOR SALE RED or Black Polled, semen tested, delivered. Sell your old bulls, record prices, & get a new one now. Amaglen Limousin (204)246-2312.

LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

TRIPLE R LIMOUSIN has 15, 2 yr olds, 21 yearling bulls, Red & Black & Polled, Red bred for performance or calving ease, semen tested, guaranteed & delivery avail. Call Art (204)856-3440 or (204)685-2628.

YEARLING & 2 YR Old Polled Limousin Bulls for sale Black, Red. Semen tested, can deliver. 1, 4 yr old herd sire. Diamond T Limousin, Kenton (204)838-2019 cell (204)851-0809.

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Maine-Anjou

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123

2 BLACK PUREBRED 4-YR old, proven herd sires, moderate birth weights. CEE Farms Genetics.

Phone Marcel (204)981-6953, Oak Bluff.

POULTRY

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Salers PEDIGREED POLLED SALERS SEEDSTOCK, Black or Red, yearling & 2 yr old bulls, also females available; selected from the strongest performing CDN herd (see SLS stock on www.salerscanada.com). Breeding since 1989 for quality, thickness, docility & performance. Records avail. Assistance to match your needs. Bulls semen tested & guaranteed. Can arrange delivery. Ken at Lundar (204)762-5512, sweetlandsalers@xplornet.ca

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Shorthorn FOR SALE: YEARLING & 2-yr old bulls. Polled, mostly Red. Birthweights starting at 63-lbs. Developed on a growing ration. Out of practical, hardworking cows. Phone (204)764-2382.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Simmental FOR SALE: 6 QUALITY (2 yr old), 2 long yearling, 2 yearling Simm Bulls. These bulls should add growth & performance, & produce excellent females. Polled & horned, Semen tested. Willing to keep the bulls till May 30th. Delight Simmentals Ph: (204)836-2116 or e-mail: G.Delichte@gmail.com FOR SALE: TWO, 2 yr old Black Simm bulls, sired

by Cut Above, out of Wheatland 680S daughters.

Also 1 Hereford Simm X Black blazed faced bull, sired by Designer Jeans. Call (204)873-2430.

LIVESTOCK Poultry For Sale POULTRY AUCTION Cluck & Quack Poultry Club, May 3rd, noon, CPTC/Rodeo Grounds, Hwy #302 in Beausejour. (204)268-1459 pineoak@mymts.net

Specialty LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT ALTERNATIVE POWER BY SUNDOG SOLAR, portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind generators, aeration. Carl Driedger, (204)556-2346 or (204)851-0145, Virden.

FOR SALE: 3,000 GAL. Manure wagon w/injectors & hydraulic driven pump on a truck chassis; Also 25- 5x7 tenderfoot sow flooring pads in excellent condition. Used only 2-yrs. Located at Cartwright MB. Call (226)268-6163 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.

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MLS 1320867 156-ACS LAKELAND Clay Loam fenced, outbuildings, older home, mun. water, Gladstone; MLS 1400601 716-acs mixed farm, fenced elk, bison, cattle, 1,064-sq.ft. bung, outbuildings, 2nd yard site, McCreary; MLS 1320985 24-15-11 RM Lakeview Section of pastureland in block, fenced, 4 dugouts; SW 9-18-15 RM of Rosedale Rdg Mtn., Erickson clay loam, ideal grain/forage.

Beautiful bldg site, 2-mi to RMNP. MLS 1404843, 1/2 section, forage/grain, Arden clay loam soil, NW & NE 19-17-14, RM of Lansdowne. Call Liz (204)476-6362, John (204)476-6719. Gill & Schmall Agencies.

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CERTIFIED CARBERRY WHEAT, CERTIFIED Leggett & Summit oats, Certified Tradition barley.

Wilmot Milne, Gladstone, MB. (204)385-2486, (204)212-0531.

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FOR SALE BY TENDER 355-ACS or thereabouts Collect Used Filters • Collect OilRM Containers of•crop & pasture land located in the of Morton, being the NE1/4 &and SE1/4 of 14-3-21W, which may Southern Western Manitoba be viewed at any time. All tenders must be submitTel: w/the 204-248-2110 ted in writing along appropriate deposit. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Full details & Tender Forms avail from Century 21 Westman.com Brandon, MB R7A 5Y3 (204)725-0555. CLOSING DATE for Tenders- 12 noon on May 5th, 2014.

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RM OF LANSDOWNE, SECTION SE 21-16-13W, SE 22-16-13W, SW 22-16-13W. Open to offers, Phone (204)822-5178.

William Lazarowich of Mulvihill, MB intends to sell private lands: NE 27-23-08W, SE 16-23-08W, NE 10-23-08W, SE 27-23-08W, NW 23-23-08W, SE 23-23-08W, W1/2 26-23-08W, NE 22-23-08W to Bettina Baumgartner who intends to acquire the following Crown lands: SE 10-23-08W, NE 16-23-08W, NE 22-23-08W, NW 22-23-08W, SE 22-23-08W, SW 22-23-08W, NE 23-23-08W, SW 23-23-08W, NW 27-23-08W, SW 27-23-08W, SE 34-23-08W, SE 35-23-08W, SW 35-23-08W by Unit Transfer. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this purchaser please write to: Director, MAFRD, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or Fax (204)867-6578.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES RECREATIONAL VEHICLES Campers & Trailers FOR SALE: 1994 25-FT Fifth wheel, Golden Falcon, single slide, A/C, rear kitchen, free standing table stored inside. Phone (204)745-3773.

SEED/FEED/GRAIN Feed Grain FEED OATS FOR SALE. Phone (204)858-2573

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CERTIFIED VESPER VB WHEAT, wheat midge tolerant hard Red Spring, Number 1 yielding wheat on our farm in 2013. Very plump w/97% germination. Call Ron or Riley Jefferies (204)827-2102, Glenboro.

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potato production FOCUS

Tile drainage gaining ground in Manitoba The rising cost of farmland has producers looking for ways to boost the productivity of the acres they already own

By Ron Friesen Co-operator contributor

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tan Wiebe has an unusual answer when asked about the advantages of tile drainage. He says it helps him sleep better.

The reason? Wiebe might irrigate his potatoes with an inch’s worth of water during the day. But Mother Nature, being unpredictable, could unexpectedly follow with another inch or two of rain later that night. Tile drainage siphons off the excess moisture, keeps the ground from becoming saturated, protects the crop and reduces the pressure of an already stressful vocation.

“It definitely contributes to a lessening of stress, which helps people sleep,” says Wiebe. “It would be hard to quantify a dollar figure on that, but we definitely have less stress now when a rain event comes in than we did before.”

Since 1998, Stan Wiebe and brother Don, his business partner, have been installing tile drainage at Beaver Creek Farms near MacGregor. Today, 6,800 of the 9,000 acres on which they grow potatoes, wheat, corn, canola and oats are tiled.

It hasn’t been cheap. Average installation costs by a professional contractor run between $750 and $1,000 an acre.

But Wiebe feels the investment is more than worthwhile on their farm which, in the past, averaged crop losses six years out of 10 to excessive moisture.

“Suffice it to say, it’s been a good investment for us and the payback is definitely there,” says Wiebe.

How much of a payback?

Although results vary, Gord Unger, manager of Ideal Pipe Inc., a Carmanbased manufacturer, says some potato growers report seeing a return on their tile drainage investment within a year or two, depending on market prices. Similar results are occasionally reported for other high-value crops, such as edible beans and corn.

Lower-value crops, including cereals, may take growers as long as 10 years to recover their costs.

The main reason behind cost recovery is better yields. Unger says research suggests tile drainage can increase crop yields by as much as 15 to 20 per cent.

“If they find they get an extra 20 per cent return on their crop, the increase in overall yields every year is enough of an incentive to warrant putting tile in,” he said.

Unger says the yield increase is a function of agronomics. Tile drainage can move up spring seeding by as much as two weeks because the soils are well drained and take less time to dry out.

Tiles also create air spaces in the soil, enabling it to warm up faster and promote plant growth. Well-established crops develop thicker canopies, enabling the growing plants to compete successfully against weeds.

Good drainage also helps the timeliness of field operations, such as spraying. When harvest time rolls around, the presence of tile drainage means swathers and combines may not have to contend with muddy fields if the growing season has been wet.

Pipe for tile drainage at the Ideal Pipe manufacturing yards in Carman. Supplied photo

The rising cost of farmland is another reason why installing tile drainage can make economic sense. In the Red River Valley, home to many of Manitoba’s high-value crops, land costs can range from $3,500 an acre to over $5,000 an acre. Given the high cost of land, tile drainage can be an opportunity for farmers to increase their production without buying additional acres.

“As land prices go up, they increase faster than the cost of installing tile.

So there’s more and more value to tile as it becomes a smaller percentage of the increase in land value,” says Bruce Shewfelt, president of PBS Water Engineering Ltd. in Morden.

“It may make sense to improve the output of your existing land base as opposed to buying new land,” he said.

Despite the name, tile drainage does not actually involve tiles. The system consists of corrugated high-density polyethylene pipes (usually four inches in diameter) placed in the ground.

Special tile plows cut the earth and feed in the pipe behind the knife. The ground fills in on its own, leaving a ridge which is later levelled by disking or cultivating.

The pipes (called laterals) run parallel to each other and are installed 50 feet apart on average, using GPS technology.

Unger says laterals are inserted beginning at a depth of 30 inches, then gradually sloped downward at a rate of two feet per half-mile to promote drainage. Laterals are then connected to a main pipe running perpendicular at the bottom of the field. This drains the water away, usually into a ditch or other water outlet.

Installed properly, tile drainage performs effectively on flat, poorly drained fields, notably in the Red River Valley.

Unger says it also works well on rolling land, although installation patterns may be different because water doesn’t flow uniformly on uneven surfaces.

It’s hard to say how much of Manitoba’s cropland is tile drained. Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development estimates producers install between 5,000 and 10,000 acres of new tile drainage annually. Although tile drainage has been known in Manitoba

A contractor installs four-inch weeping tile installed on a Manitoba field. More farmers are opting to improve their farm’s production through tile drainage rather than purchasing more land.

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for over 20 years, its use began accelerating in the late 1990s as the province experienced a series of wet years.

But Brian Wilson, an MAFRD soil suitability specialist in Carman, stresses that tile drainage isn’t a silver bullet, nor is it always necessary. It depends on the soil.

“If you’ve got a soil with naturally good internal drainage, you really don’t need tile drainage because the environment is providing that to you,” Wilson says.

“The soils where tile drainage is a benefit are soils that are imperfectly drained. These are soils that are developed with a restriction and don’t drain as well naturally.”

For example, potatoes and other crops grown on the Assiniboine Delta Aquifer around Carberry usually do not require tile drainage because the aquifer is a water-bearing deposit of sand and gravel that drains the soil by itself.

But Shewfelt, a former Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada water and biosys-

tems engineer, says imperfectly drained soils, such as the Red River Valley and the Almasippi soils of central Manitoba, are underlined with an impervious clay layer, which tends to leave water on the surface with no place to go. Here, tile drainage might be an option.

“It becomes a cost-effective investment if you’re perennially losing a percentage of your crop to excess moisture,” says Shewfelt. “But you need a water table within the zone where you’re going to put the tile. Otherwise, your tile will just be sitting high and dry.”

The two manufacturers of tile drainage in Manitoba are Ideal Pipe in Carman and AccuPipe in Winkler. AccuPipe was recently purchased by Prinsco Inc., a Minnesota-based company which plans to establish a second facility at Taber, Alberta. Another company, Northern Plains Drainage Systems in Carman, imports pipe and sells installation equipment.

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POTATO PRODUCTION FOCUS

Precision agriculture technology can refine irrigation practices Variable-rate irrigation systems aren’t in Manitoba fields yet, but it’s likely just a matter of time

By Gord Gilmour

“We don’t pay for water here in Manitoba, unlike places like Oklahoma and Nebraska, for example. That makes the economic case for this technology a bit harder to justify.”

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few short years ago, the height of sophistication when it came to implementing a potato irrigation plan was a few soil sensors sprinkled around the field.

They would alert the grower that soil moisture was falling and yield and quality would start to suffer.

T h e g r ow e r w o u l d t h e n have to head out to the field and start the pivot turning, waiting for the soil moisture to reach acceptable levels again.

Like most last-generation soil-monitoring and testing solutions, however, they represented a one-size-fitsall approach to a much more complex problem. Soil variability throughout the field meant that while the area around the sensor might be getting dry, other parts of the field were almost certainly still soaking wet.

The end result was better than guesstimating water applications based on the feel and appearance of the soil, but it still wasn’t perfect.

A more precise solution has begun to appear on pivots throughout North America over the past couple seasons — variable-rate irrigation.

Ta k i n g a p a g e f r o m t h e larger precision agriculture playbook, variable-rate irrigation uses complex field maps to create a prescription that addresses field variability. It relies on a sophisticated solenoid-driven system that varies water flow from nozzle to nozzle, depending on the field map.

Jeff Bronsch, president and

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The newest variable-rate irrigation technology takes field maps and layers information on them to create a multi-dimensional database. FILE PHOTO

CEO of Sunrise Ag, of Taber, Alta., says just a few of these high-tech systems are out in fields today, but he told this winter’s Manitoba Potato Production Days meeting he’s expecting that number to grow quickly as the benefits become apparent to producers.

“Understanding the soil/ water relationship is param o u n t ,” Bro n s c h t o l d t h e meeting. “Not ever y sandy clay loam is created equally.”

He used the example of two soils that are both considered sandy loams. The first has 77

per cent sand and 21 per cent clay, while the second has 46 per cent sand and 34 per cent clay. The first can hold 35 mm of water in the top 30 cm of the soil profile, while the second can hold 52 mm. Bronsch conceded that he wasn’t telling growers anything new, since everyone instinctively understands this variability exists. However, until recently t h e re w a s n o t e c h n o l o g y available to apply different irrigation rates.

The newest variable-rate irrigation technology takes field maps and layers infor-

mation on them, each one contributing to a sophisticated map that understands what goes on below the soil s u r f a c e . Ty p i c a l ‘ l a y e r s ’ include elevation, soil type and texture, aer ial images taken of bare soil or during early spring and any existing yield maps.

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w h i c h l ow e r s p r o d u c t i o n costs. One Manitoba irrigation specialist says there’s lots of interest in the potato and horticulture industry in this technology, but that the business case is stronger in other jurisdictions. Professor Sri Ranjan, of the University of Manitoba, says growers here enjoy a couple realities others don’t.

“We don’t pay for water here in Manitoba, unlike places like Oklahoma and Nebraska, for example,” Ranjan says.

“That makes the economic case for this technology a bit harder to justify.” They’re also typically just providing a few inches of supplemental irrigation a season, rather than having to provide the lion’s share of the crop’s moisture requirements.

That’s not to say it doesn’t have a fit, however, since saving resources and limiting production costs are only part of the equation. There’s also the crucial question of crop quality and consistency, s o m e t h i n g t h e p r ov i n c e’s potato processors insist upon and reward growers for achieving. The more evenly water is fed to the crop, the less defects and incidents of disease and the more uniform tuber size becomes. “ T h i s i s t h e a re a w h e re these systems start to make sense for Manitoba,” Ranjan says. “The province’s potato processors really like to see growers have irrigation systems because they translate into better-quality, more consistent, tubers.”

He says potato buyers aren’t insisting on these upgraded systems yet, and in fact he isn’t aware of any in operation yet in Manitoba.

“I o bv i o u s l y d o n’t k n ow about every irrigation system in the province, but I have yet to hear of a variable-rate system that’s in use here,” Ranjan says.

H e’s e x p e c t i n g t h a t t o change in coming seasons however, as the technology proves itself.

“This is proven technology that’s field ready now,” Ranjan says. “It’s widely used in other areas and is seen to be very effective.”

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Top-down and bottom-up approach needed to conserve potato agrobiodiversity Only a handful of varieties exist in North America compared to thousands in South America Penn State University release

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A Penn State geographer is gathering all the information he can about the agrobiodiversity of these uniquely adapted tubers with an eye toward sustainability of this fourth-largest food crop worldwide.

“In the U.S. we rely primarily on 10 to 12 types of potatoes total,” said Karl Zimmerer, department head and professor of geography. “In fact, mostly we use only five to eight varieties. In South America, by contrast, there are 74 different types of potatoes in a single field. The fields, tubers and landscapes are visually stunning.”

Zimmerer has studied highagrobiodiversity land use for over 20 years, but until recently, those studies have been on the ground. He first looked at diversity within individual potato fields and then scaled up to individual communities and landscapes. People in a community have expert knowledge of 150 to 180 varieties of potato, he said.

“There are 4,000 to 5,000 different varieties of potato in Chile, Colombia, Northern Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela.”

Karl Zimmerer

Penn State department head and professor of geography

“People in Peru, for example, love to eat potatoes and think that theirs are vastly superior to what we have in flavour, texture, starchiness and colour,” said Zimmerer. “They want to hang on to their high-agrobiodiversity potatoes and we want them to hang on due to nutritional, ecological and other conservation advantages.”

Scaling up even more, Zimmerer looked at potato fields on the landscape level — typically groups of five to 15 communities — and regions that contain upward of 30 or 40 communities. Remote sensing approaches made this easier, but still only supplied part of the answers to identifying agrobiodiversity hot spots — biologically rich but

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versity discoveries needed for sustainability.

“There are 4,000 to 5,000 different varieties of potato in Chile, Colombia, Northern Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, EcuaContinued on next page »

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014

POTATO PRODUCTION FOCUS

Secrets of potato blight evolution could help farmers fight back Scientists have discovered vital clues as to how the pathogen responsible for the Irish potato famine adapted to spread between different plant species UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

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cientists have discovered vital clues as to how the pathogen responsible for the Irish potato famine adapted to spread between different plant species.

Researchers at Oxford University and The Sainsbury Laboratory (Norwich, U.K.) looked in unprecedented detail at how Phytophthora infestans, a pathogen that continues to blight potatoes and tomatoes, evolved to target other plants.

The study, published today in the journal Science, is the first to show how pathogens switch from targeting one species to another through changes at the molecular level.

Researchers examined the biochemical differences between Phytophthora infestans and sister species Phytophthora mirabilis, a pathogen that split from P. infestans around 1,300 years ago to target the Mirabilis jalapa plant, commonly known as the four o’clock flower. They found that each pathogen species secretes specialized substances to shut down the defences of their target hosts.

“Plants have these enzymes called

proteases that play a key role in their defence systems,” said Dr. Renier van der Hoorn, co-author of the study from Oxford University’s department of plant sciences. “When a plant becomes infected, proteases help plants to attack the invading pathogens and trigger immune responses. P. infestans secretes substances called effectors that disable proteases in potatoes and tomatoes. These are highly specialized to block specific proteases in the host plant, fitting like a key into a lock.”

The effectors secreted by P. infestans are less effective against proteases in other plants such as the four o’clock, as they do not fit well into the ‘locks.’

The researchers found that P. mirabilis evolved effectors that disable the defences of the four o’clock plant but are no longer effective against potatoes or tomatoes.

“For the first time, we have found a direct molecular mechanism underpinning the change in host specialization,” said Dr. van der Hoorn. We looked at specialization in the blight pathogens’ secret weapon, a key family of effectors called ‘EPIC’ that can pass through plants’ defences undetected to disable the proteases. The

This plant is the host of Phytophthora mirabilis, the sister species of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans. PHOTO: SOPHIEN KAMOUN, THE SAINSBURY LABORATORY (NORWICH, U.K.)

EPIC effectors secreted by P. infestans have evolved to fit the structure of potato proteases just as P. mirabilis has evolved effectors that fit four o’clock proteases.

“If we could breed plants with proteases that can detect these stealthy EPIC effectors, we could prevent them from ‘sneaking in’ and thus make more resistant plants. Within the next

decade, we plan to exploit the specialized nature of these effectors to develop proteases that are resistant to their action or can even trap them and destroy the pathogen. Potato and tomato plants with such proteases would be resistant to the blight pathogens, and combined with other resistant traits could provide another ‘wall’ of defence against the pathogens.”

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dor and Venezuela,” said Zimmerer. “Up until now, the areas where varieties grow were just designated as large, undifferentiated shapes on the map.

In order to support agrobiodiversity, we have to have an idea of large-area agrobiodiversity concentrations, so we have to look from the top down.”

With this approach, identifying and analyzing region-scale areas of concentrated agrobiodiversity are important, as are the global institutions such as the International Potato Center in Peru. But perhaps the most important part of the top-down study is the knowledge held by expert potato taxonomists who have long histories of geographically extensive work.

“One example is Alberto Salas who has 60 years of experience and has vast geographic and agrobiodiversity knowledge,” said Zimmerer.

“He is a Peruvian who has worked from Chile to Venezuela and has an extraordinary knowledge of major areas where diverse potato types are located.”

While many experts are local to potato-growing areas, other experts come from Europe and North America. To assemble an expert database of information about locations of potato hot spots, Zimmerer uses a twopronged approach. For those comfortable with computers, he asks them to delineate on Google Earth maps the regions of concentrated agrobiodi-

This is a farmer’s field with multiple varieties of high-agrobiodiversity Andean potatoes. PHOTO: KARL ZIMMERER

versity. For those uncomfortable with computers, the same tasks can be performed using paper maps.

Once the regional hot spot locations are on the electronic map, other information such as elevation, socio-economic c h a ra c t e r i s t i c s a n d s l o p e becomes available. Information from the various experts can also be compared.

With so many varieties, it is difficult for even the local farmers to identify and keep track of the potatoes growing in their and their neighbour’s fields.

Zimmerer’s approach may eventually be used for visualizations that help enable the local crowdsourcing of this agrobiodiversity.

“The local farmers generally identify their potatoes on their culinary properties and uses — floury, soup making or freeze drying,” said Zimmerer. “Interestingly, the culinary uses cor-

respond to the elevations where the potatoes grow — soup potatoes have the lowest elevation, floury potatoes in mid-elevation and freezing potatoes are the highest.”

This type of information from the knowledge systems of farmers — often women — coupled with top-down image analysis, visualization and geographic information systems can supply important information for sustainability and conservation. Combining the top-down and bottom-up information provides novel knowledge and new strategies for sustainable use of the extraordinarily high levels of biodiversity within the Andean potatoes.

Zimmerer is already applying this approach to other crops such as corn, which also includes many unique types with geographic dynamics being a key to adaptation and sustainability.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 1, 2014

POTATO PRODUCTION FOCUS

Aphid control important in managing PVY

Newer strains of the virus have started affecting tubers as well as the foliage

By Julienne Isaacs Co-operator contributor

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otato virus Y, a plant pathogenic virus, has recently come to the renewed attention of local and national researchers. Spread via aphids, the disease has long been recognized by its foliar symptoms and resulting crop losses.

But the virus is changing.

Recently, newer strains of PVY have begun producing tuber symptoms as well as foliar symptoms, which is a “game changer” for the industry, according to Tracy Shinners-Carnelley, director

of research and quality enhancement for Peak of the Market.

According to Vikram Bisht, plant pathologist for Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, there are currently four strains of PVY of concern to provincial growers.

PVYO, the predominant strain in Manitoba for many years, causes severe foliar symptoms but no tuber defects. PVYN, the tobacco necrosis strain, causes mild foliar symptoms and no tuber defects. PVYNTN (tuber necrosis strain) and PVYN:O are recombinants between PVYO and PVYN strains. Most isolates of

PVYNTN can cause potato tuber necrotic ringspot disease in susceptible varieties, while most isolates of PVYN:O do not.

National survey

Bisht is participating in a national survey for PVY strain distribution in Canada organized by Mathuresh Singh of New Brunswick’s Agriculture Certification Services, co-ordinating the collection of Manitoba samples for testing.

Based on the 2013 survey results, necrotic strains are increasing in percentage in the region. Strain identification surveys will continue in the 2014 growing season.

Infection with necrotic strains of PVY can render table potatoes unmarketable. “Different strains cause different symptoms,” says Shinners-Carnelley. “Yukon Gold, a common fresh potato variety, gets very distinctive necrotic rings on the surface.”

Other fresh market potato varieties, when infected, may show growth cracking symptoms.

For seed potato growers, infection with PVY is a serious problem, as it can downgrade crop quality and cause seed certification issues.

Any species of aphid can vector PVY, whether or not it colonizes

Whether we’re growing fresh, processing or seed potatoes, we have to be aware of PVY as it has the potential to cause economic damage to all those sectors.

Tracy Shinners-Carnelley Peak of the Market

potato, as the virus spreads when aphids probe the plants with their mouthparts as they move through fields looking for a host.

The first step to controlling PVY is planting inoculum-free seed, says Shinners-Carnelley. “If you plant clean seed, meaning no PVY, and you have aphids colonizing and reproducing, they’re feeding on the crop but not spreading the virus around,” she says.

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If inoculum does exist in a field, growers must ensure they monitor aphid populations and keep abreast of the regional aphid situation. In Manitoba, the most common culprits at risk for spreading PVY are cereal aphids, soybean aphids and green peach aphids, which while fewer in number are the most efficient vector for PVY. Bisht is involved in monitoring aphid populations using aphid traps in seed potato fields and providing weekly updates to growers.

“One of the things you see is the influx of aphids mid- to later summer when you see other crops maturing,” says Shinners-Carnelley.

Insecticide use can have merit in controlling potatocolonizing aphid populations, she says, but growers should remember that spraying one day will have little impact if a flush of aphids comes in the next days from a cereal crop being harvested.

Crop oils are a promising new control strategy and have been shown to be effective against aphids.

A researcher at the University of Minnesota, Ian MacRae, has done studies analyzing the efficacy of crop borders in managing PVY. His team’s research shows that aphids tend to settle on the edges of fields prior to moving throughout the fields.

Targeting crop borders with insecticides can be an effective strategy against PVY, especially in combination with the use of crop oils and other integrated pest management strategies.

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Shinners-Carnelley’s message is not that there is more of a problem with PVY than there has been in the past in Manitoba, but rather that as the virus mutates growers should be on the lookout for new symptoms.

“For the most part our growers — seed and commercial — do a good job at keeping their PVY levels low,” she says. “I don’t want the message to be that we have a problem, but we should be proactive. Whether we’re growing fresh, processing or seed potatoes, we have to be aware of PVY as it has the potential to cause economic damage to all those sectors.”

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