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armers are finding the promise of marketing freedom rings hollow in the absence of enough price information to make informed decisions.

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is calling on federal and provincial governments to implement mandatory price reporting on agricultural commodities, similar to what exists in the U.S. “We’ve been given the right to freedom and choice to market our grain wherever we

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Farmers, grain companies want the federal government to continue railway shipping targets Ritz’s office says he and the transport minister haven’t made a decision yet This year’s crop was smaller, but when combined with last year’s carry-over, there is still a mountain of grain to move, as evidenced by this pile outside the Paterson Grain terminal on Winnipeg’s outskirts.

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arm groups and grain companies said last week their grain transportation woes are far from over as the federal government considers whether to keep or lift minimum movement orders for the railways.

In an emailed statement Oct. 31, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s office appeared to backtrack from a news story earlier in the week saying the govern-

ment was preparing to end the regulated volumes by month’s end.

Oct. 28 Reuters quoted Ritz as saying barring a sudden pileup of grain in the next five weeks the shipping order, which expires Nov. 29, would be lifted.

However, in an email from Ritz’s office Oct. 31 an official said: “Minister Ritz has stated that no decision has been made with respect to volume requirements. The ministers of transport and agriculture will receive advice from the CTA (Canadian Transportation

Agency) and will make a decision in due course.”

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) and the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA) called for the retention of shipping thresholds to avoid a repeat of last year’s grain-shipping backlog.

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When gas prices drop, people buy chocolate

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Twenty per cent of gas bar customers also stock up on treats

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.S. chocolate demand may have received an extra boost from an unlikely source this Halloween: the U.S. shale revolution.

With an abundance of crude oil due to the country’s fracking boom pushing average U.S. retail gasoline prices to their lowest in four years, consumers have spare change to buy sweets at gas station stores, Hershey president and chief executive officer John Bilbrey said on Wednesday.

“You could say that we benefit because people aren’t spending as much at the pump and they’re going inside,” Bilbrey said in a conference call with investors to discuss quarterly earnings.

To be sure, consumers were still buying snacks on the road even when gas prices were much higher in recent years, and Hershey does not include fuel costs in its forecasting, Bilbrey said.

But it’s an additional sweet spot for the maker of Hershey Kisses and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups after better-than-expected demand ahead of Halloween, the biggest U.S. chocolate-selling holiday.

Annual chocolate candy sales add up to as much as $18 billion in the United States.

More than a quarter of those this year will be in forecourt retailers, including gas station shops like Shell, and convenience stores like 7-Eleven, according to market research firm Euromonitor.

That’s second only to mixed retailers, which include department stores like Macy’s Inc.

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Filling a tank up for less encourages consumers to spend more at convenience stores and boosts overall consumer sentiment, said Jeff Lenard, spokesman for the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS).

Chocolate may benefit more than other products because it’s considered a treat.

“Particularly when we’re still dealing with a fragile economy, chocolate’s considered one of those affordable luxuries,” Lenard said.

NACS data show when customers buy gas, more than 20 per cent also stop in the store to purchase snacks, the second-most commonly bought product after drinks.

The news is particularly welcome as analysts warn that retail price hikes caused by soaring dairy and cocoa prices could hurt demand.

Cocoa futures hit 2-1/2-year highs at the end of September on fears the Ebola virus might spread to top-producers Ivory Coast and Ghana.

Bilbrey warned Oct. 29 that consumers would continue to see higher prices on nonseasonal chocolates in the fourth quarter and 2015.

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Flags of Remembrance fly in central Alberta

An Alberta tribute to Canada’s war dead gains national attention following the deaths of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo and Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent

By Jennifer Blair staff

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n the brisk October air of early morning on a dark highway in central Alberta, a quiet group of men and women stood sentinel alongside 116 Canadian flags waving in the breeze.

And as the clock struck 8 a.m. on Oct. 29 — exactly one week after the tragic shooting of a soldier in our nation’s capital — these sentinels released hundreds of red and white balloons into the sky.

It was a fitting tribute to the Canadian soldiers who have lost their lives in service of our country.

“If we don’t remember, we f o rg e t ,” s a i d A l Ca m e ro n , executive director of Veterans Voices of Canada, the organization responsible for the Flags of Remembrance tribute. “ We h a v e t o r e m e m b e r what these people are sacrificing for us. We have to give them tribute, and we have to remember everything they’re doing.”

The 116 flags were raised along Highway 11 outside of Sylvan Lake on Oct. 24 in remembrance of 116,000 Canadian war dead from 1900 to 2014.

Cameron called it “sad timing” with the death of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Oct. 22. “ The recent deaths have really put focus on remembrance and giving tribute,” said Cameron, who had been planning the testimonial for several months.

“It’s doing exactly what we wanted it to do — bringing

The 116 flags flying along Highway 11 outside of Sylvan Lake are in remembrance of 116,000 Canadian war dead from 1900 to 2014. Photo: Jennifer Blair

people together from right across Canada. It’s just amazing to see, and we’re really proud of what’s happening.”

Cameron planned the tribute as part of his work with Veterans Voices of Canada, a non-profit organization that travels across the country to interview veterans and document their stories for history and education.

“I call them our protectors.

I’m meeting some guys and gals who have done some amazing things and who have sacrificed a lot for what we have today,” he said.

And the recent deaths of Cpl.

Ag minister not wading into debate Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn was in China last month discussing business and filling in for Premier Greg Selinger

By Shannon VanRaes co-operator staff

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anitoba’s agriculture minister says it’s not his place to tell the province’s premier whether to stay or go.

Over the last two weeks, close to half a dozen highprofile cabinet ministers — including former agriculture and current municipal government minister, Stan Struthers — have publicly called for Premier Greg Selinger to step down.

Manitoba’s minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development wasn’t among their ranks.

“The premier was chosen by the party and continues to be the premier,” said Ron Kostyshyn, after addressing a Cereals North America conference in downtown Winnipeg Oct. 29.

“I think, in all honesty, it’s a decision that at the end of the day he has to make,” added the minister. “I’m in

no position to wade in one way or another, it’s the call of the premier and I’ll leave it at that.”

Dissent began in the NDP caucus several months ago, but only recently spilled into the public domain.

The one per cent increase to the provincial sales tax and how the introduction of the increase was handled has been cited as a key reason for the premier’s loss of support.

When elected in 2011, Selinger garnered 46 per cent of the popular vote while the NDP jumped to 37 seats.

However, current opinion polls show the premier’s popularity has dropped significantly in recent months.

Selinger has curtailed public appearances in the last few weeks, and Kostyshyn recently filled in for him on a trade mission to China, where discussions ranged from grain byproducts to real estate. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

Cirillo in Ottawa and Warrant Officer Patr ice V incent in Quebec reinforce that those sacrifices continue today.

“These guys and these women sacrifice so much ever y day,” said Cameron.

“They’ve got their lives on the line. They could be in the field fighting, or as we’ve seen now, they could be in our own country standing at a national monument.”

The flags will stay up until Nov. 15, when they will be presented to the organizations and individuals who sponsored the tribute. Until then, Cameron hopes that

the flags will remind people across the country to remember the sacrifices of Canadian veterans.

“When people drive down t h e r o a d , t h e y c a n’t m i s s them,” he said. “These flags

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“It’s doing exactly what we wanted it to do — bringing people together from right across Canada. It’s just amazing to see, and we’re really proud of what’s happening.”

Al Cameron

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OPINION/EDITORIAL

Remembering the fallen

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emembrance Day came early for Canadians this year.

A full century since the start of the First World War, the events of Oct. 20 and 22 which claimed the lives of Canadian servicemen Patrice Vincent and Nathan Cirillo became painful reminders that war is not something we can relegate to our society’s fading collective memory. Nor can we continue harbouring the delusion that it is someLaura Rance thing that only happens in far-off lands.

Editor These murders were acts of war, perpetrated by individuals who — for complex reasons — had subscribed to an ideology of hate. And they brought the problems of the world, in all their complexities, to our country’s front door — the entrance to our Parliament buildings.

As we grieve for the families affected, let’s not forget the many Canadian soldiers who have died in the line of duty in recent years, 158 in Afghanistan alone. We weren’t witness to their loss, but we honour their sacrifice just the same. Our hearts and prayers go out to all the families of servicemen and women who died while serving their country.

And we remember all those we have sent into battle, with hopes for a safe return.

On the home front, we must not forget that as a country, as communities, we are allowing young men — who are also children of Canada — to fall through the cracks, making them vulnerable for enlistment into a misguided and evil agenda. Canada, for all of its wealth and opportunity, failed to help these young men see a brighter future than the destructive path they chose.

Canada, on the whole, responded with a resolute determination not to allow these events to change our society’s commitment to our principles — and to tolerance.

When a mosque in a rural Alberta community was targeted by vandals following Oct. 22, individuals from a wide cross-section of the community responded with assistance in repairing the damage. Hatred only leads to more hatred. Compassion and tolerance open the door to healing.

We would be remiss in forgetting1914 is significant for more than the beginning of the First World War. It was also the year Norman Borlaug was born.

Borlaug achieved international fame for his commitment to fighting world hunger, chiefly by launching the Green Revolution in India. He had help from a corps of what are sometimes referred to as the “Green Revolution warriors,” including Canada’s own, the late Glenn Anderson.

As a speaker at the recent Borlaug Dialogue conference held annually in his honour pointed out, “what Norman Borlaug realized 50 years ago was that the human condition has now become seamless. We are not the beneficiaries if we try to hide.”

Dam it — or not

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uried in the library at the Manitoba legislature is a report that came out in the late 1980s on the pros and cons of building a dam and creating a great big lake on the Assiniboine River near Holland.

The Manitoba government is reportedly dusting off those plans as part of a study looking at that site, or one near Alexander, where it would create a water body bigger than Lake of the Prairies.

But there’s a difference between then and now.

Back in the day, the Assiniboine South Hespeler project, as well as an earlier version examined in the 1960s, was proposed as a way to help drought-proof the region and expand economic development opportunities. Today, it is being considered for flood mitigation.

Those earlier projects were shelved because they were deemed too expensive. But it turns out fighting the floods of recent years, particularly 2011, hasn’t been cheap.

So the province has hired an engineering consulting firm to come up with some ideas.

We have nothing against engineers; it goes without

saying, they are the best dam builders around — especially big ones.

We sure hope they take a good hard look at the “other” option, which is to construct a series of smaller dams on tributaries flowing into the Assiniboine before going big.

We note the collective impact of small dam structures on Tobacco Creek watershed reduced peak flows by up to 25 per cent. We also note research conducted by Ducks Unlimited that found that flood storage capacity lost due to the drainage of 100,000 hectares of wetlands is more than double the flood storage capacity of the 35-mile-long Shellmouth Reservoir (Lake of the Prairies).

A combination of small dams and wetland restoration would go a long way towards stopping future floods at their source.

Even if it cost as much as a big dam, it would be money better spent.

Why? Because it would inspire a change in how we collectively view water management. After all, they built the Winnipeg Floodway in the 1960s. Guess what? Four decades later, they had to make it bigger. laura@fbcpublishing.com

The beef with ever-heavier carcass weights

By Larry Corah

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es, the coffee shop talk in cattle country usually starts with cattle prices. However, it does not take long before the talk turns to how big these fed cattle are getting.

In early September, we heard the report of a record high for steer carcass weight of 885 pounds. By mid-September that was 889 lbs.; by mid-October it was 896 lbs.

Few things have been as linear in the past 20 years as average carcass weight increases.

Even $8 corn did not slow the trend.

So why is this occurring? We would argue genetics is a huge part of the equation. Today’s cattle can be fed to 950-lb. or even 1,000-lb. carcasses without excess fat.

Certainly feeding and management strategies have had an impact. Today, many feeder cattle are grown to 850 or 900 lbs. before entering a feedlot. Utilization of beta-agonists has also had an impact.

Is this trend good or bad? A bit of both. As an industry, it has allowed continued growth in beef production with fewer cows. But it has presented a challenge for our food-service partners who want to serve an ideal steak.

You may know all of this, and that steer carcasses outweigh those from heifers. But here are some points I bet you did not know about carcass weights.

First, the degree of difference in steer and heifer carcasses is a bit surprising these days at 85 lbs. Two years ago that was only 68 lbs., which makes us wonder, why the increase?

One can only speculate, but perhaps heavier heifers are being retained for breeding.

Second, a little informal math reveals the impact of heavier carcasses on the amount

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of beef for sale: Each pound of added carcass weight creates .6 lb. of edible product, so every five-lb. increase nets three lbs. more beef on the plate.

What does it mean for the Certified Angus Beef brand? Today, our average steer and heifer combined carcass weight average is 866 lbs., compared to 856 lbs. a year ago. Historically, CAB carcass weights tag along with industry averages.

Why does the restaurant trade fuss about heavy carcasses? Part of it relates to the great variability in the size of the whole rib or loin primal in a box, and how that affects rib-eye size, steak thickness, cooking and plate presentation.

An interesting study was done by meat scientists Leich and Behrends at Mississippi State University.

They collected strip loin, rib-eye and top butt (sirloin) primals from carcasses weighing 500, 600, 700, 800 and 900 lbs. Then they cut 12-oz. rib-eye and strip steaks or 10-oz. sirloin steaks. To achieve these steak weights, the thickness of the rib-eye/strip steak was two inches for the light carcass weights, but only 0.85 inch for the steaks from heavy carcasses. For the sirloin, the range was from 1.1 inches to 1.9 inches. Now we can see the cooking challenge our industry presents for the chef.

Will the increases continue? No one’s crystal ball is perfect, but we would speculate with current grain and cattle prices and market logic, the 900-lb. mark will soon be history as carcasses keep getting heavier.

Larry Corah is vice-president of the Certified Angus Beef LLC based in Onaga, Kansas.

October & November 1945

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he Second World War had ended with victory in Europe declared in May and in Japan in August of 1945, but the lingering effects were still clear in our fall issues of 1945. This advertisement in the Oct. 1 issue advised how armed forces personnel could apply to be released for farm work.

Economizing was still the watchword — one article described how six handkerchiefs or a child’s dress could be made from a worn-out men’s shirt. An ad from B.C. Tree Fruits assured housewives that fruit could be canned without sugar, and every issue had updates on which ration book coupons were valid. Ads in each issue also encouraged readers to help “win the peace” by purchasing Victory Bonds.

The Nov. 1 issue reported on the founding meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Quebec City. Manitoba Pool president and CFA vice-president W.J. Parker addressed the meeting, and called on the FAO to take action to prevent the disastrous price-depressing surpluses that had accumulated in exporting countries before the war.

Below a photo of the Canadian and international farm representatives at the meeting was a story reporting on the first large-scale release of military vehicles to Manitoba farmers. It said 382 farmers had applied to purchase the vehicles, which included 44, 15-cwt army trucks and 10 field artillery tractors.

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COMMENT/FEEDBACK

Shareholder value, silliest idea in the world: James Saft Shareholders were supposed to be the prime beneficiaries, but they aren’t

By James Saft reuters

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he belief that companies exist solely to make their owners rich has changed the world, but done so by failing on its own terms.

Called shareholder value maximization (SVM), this is the credo finding its origins in the thinking of economist Milton Friedman, which reduces the complex competing interests and objectives of companies to one: a rising stock price.

“The world’s dumbest idea,” investor James Montier of GMO labelled it in a talk at a CFA Institute event last month. “As shareholders, be clear: shareholder value maximization has failed you. We have to consider the wider impact on society” (http://new. livestream.com/livecfa/EIC-Montier).

This debate is at the heart of several disputes raging in financial markets and is perhaps best exemplified by the fallout around IBM’s disappointing earnings, which serve as an excellent illustration of the pitfalls of prioritizing the return of capital, via share buybacks, over longer-term investment.

The central problem with SVM is that it hasn’t demonstrably achieved its own aim, though it has led to a massive increase in the share of company resources paid out in compensation to top executives.

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Don’t blame salinity on tillage Regarding the Oct. 30 article “Till, till, till the soil,”— if the premise of this article is right, then some natural laws we’ve taken for granted for a long time need to be re-examined. The statement is made boldly, without any supporting evidence, that “tilling causes water to rise in the soil and the salts rise with the water.”

The topic of the article is salinity, admittedly a serious problem.

The central problem with SVM is that it hasn’t demonstrably achieved its own aim, though it has led to a massive increase in the share of company resources paid out in compensation to top executives.

the marked trend towards a lower rate of capital expenditure and investment in the economy.

That’s because SVM is that terrible and dangerous thing: a human institution designed by economists who truly believe that people respond principally and reliably to incentives.

Part of the backstory, Montier argues, is a naive belief during the 1970s in the efficient market hypothesis, the idea that the market perfectly reflects the underlying reality of the stocks and bonds it trades.

Taking as its basis the idea that a rising stock was by definition the best indicator of the successful creation of value, it then went one step further and married this to the idea that providing lavish stock- and option-based incentives to executives would lead to the best decisions and outcomes.

There is only one problem with the whole SVM experiment: the results.

Theory doesn’t hold up

As Montier points out, the value created by companies since 1990, the era of shareholder value maximization, is actually worse than during the 1940-90 managerial era, during which executives were paid in ways true-believing economists said was

However, in my opinion, this article does nothing to aid in the discussion. How in the world can an implement passing through the top two or three inches of topsoil, affect the soil water two or three feet below it? Is it suction? Does the implement somehow reverse gravity?

Salinity is something I have been aware of, and troubled about for almost 70 years of farming. I have blamed it on excessive rainfall, causing the water table to rise to the surface, bringing salts with it.

Excessive tillage can, indeed, add to the problem, by breaking down the organic material in the soil.

Back in the days of the threshing machine, we always tried to blow the straw on any saline patch that might be in the field. If the remains of that straw pile were allowed to rot down, where it had been, there was no sign of salt.

The advocates of zero till, who have replaced tillage with glyphosate, are beginning to run head on into weed resistance. As one farmer said to me several years ago, “I never met a weed that is resistant to a cultivator shovel.” Excessive tillage, like the excessive use of glyphosate is a bad thing. But not because it causes salinity.

John Beckham Winnipeg, Man.

‘like bureaucrats.’ While both periods produced real returns of about seven per cent a year, the bureaucratic age actually outperformed by about two percentage points a year when you isolate yield and growth.

More to the point, SVM has had a malign impact on how managers in big companies behave, almost certainly because under this system they are paid to make quarterly numbers in order to drive up their own takings as much as possible.

While the corporate investment drought post-2008 is one of the mysteries of the post-crash world, it is actually part of a long-term trend of lower private investment in the economy.

This is no surprise when you look at a study from Duke University, which found that CFOs of listed companies are willing to forgo projects which will produce positive net present value outcomes in order to make quarterly earnings. In other words, they feel they are obliged to play the earnings game even when it means passing on, well, maximizing shareholder value (https://faculty. fuqua.duke.edu/~charvey/Research/ Published_Papers/P76_How_do_ CFOs.pdf ).

Show farmers CWB financial statements When the farmers were running the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), we published detailed and audited financial reports each year. But now that Gerry Ritz is running his version of the CWB, no financial statements are available — even though the legislation still calls for them.

By covering up the operations of his CWB, Ritz has made it impossible to know what his appointed directors are paying themselves or if the government has in fact injected more taxpayer money into his short-term grain company.

With one breath Ritz says the government has put $300 million of taxpayers’ money into his CWB to keep it afloat. With the next breath, he says his CWB is alive and well. And then he says that he will reward any existing grain company that will follow his wishes by just giving them — not selling — the assets that the farmers paid for. Quite a prize for any grain company willing to be complicit in Ritz’s political manoeuvre, and a clear admission that his CWB can’t survive on its own.

Disenfranchising farmers and taking away their assets is what Ritz is good at — think hopper cars,

A separate study found that publicly traded firms make far lower investments in response to opportunities than privately held ones. Public firms in some situations invest only about half as much (http://www.nber. org/papers/w17394).

That neatly dispels the idea that companies aren’t investing because they don’t see opportunities. It does suggest that public companies are setting themselves up, à la IBM, for a comeuppance. This is closely tied to how executives are paid, and to the shortened time horizons they feel they have to get their ‘share.’

This also implies a less dynamic and slower-growing economy.

And while equality of outcome is not the responsibility of investors, you can also argue that SVM, by pouring resources on top executives, makes an important contribution to the growing inequality in wealth and income in the U.S. This in turn leads to less growth, as lower-income people spend a higher proportion of the money they do get.

Remember too, that shareholders, who were supposed to be the prime beneficiaries of SVM, simply aren’t.

Instead it is insiders who make out, while investors and the economy and society as a whole suffer.

All of this is actually not an economic problem but a cultural one, and cultural problems require cultural solutions. It is time for a return to a managerial culture, with lower rewards and more longer-term thinking.

James Saft is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.

AgriStability margins, the PFRA, the tree nursery, the CWB vote etc.

Mr. Ritz, stop the coverup and just show us your CWB financial statements. We showed you ours.

Stewart Wells Swift Current, Sask.

‘Offices’ and bumf Regarding the Crossroads story Oct. 30, “Ah yes, remember the ‘good old days?’” I never knew about the nickname “office” for the outhouse, but that correlates with a great British slang word: bumf, which means paperwork — the etymology being bum-fodder as in toilet paper.

Greg deJong Clearwater, Man.

Poignant cartoon A very poignant cartoon on the editorial page of the October 30 issue. It brought tears to my eyes and really got me thinking about this great country and what is happening to it.

Chris Milton Middlebro, Man.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 6, 2014

FROM PAGE ONE RAIL SHIPPING Cont. from page 1

weekly or be fined, saying it’s unnecessary and draconian.

Ottawa increased the shipping threshold to 536,250 tonnes Aug. 1 and the fines for failing to comply went from $100,000 a day to $100,000 per incident.

Fertilizer shippers, domestic millers and short line railways have also complained the order resulted in poorer rail service for them as the railways focused on moving grain in corridors where cars could be turned the quickest.

Ritz told Reuters while there are still problems, grain was moving much better this year than last.

However, several farmers attending KAP’s Oct. 30 General Council meeting here complained about plugged elevators.

“We’re hearing reports from all across the province that contract deliveries are behind,” KAP president Doug Chorney said in an interview. “We know that there are grain companies filling bunkers (outside) because they can’t get the car allocations that they need to support their customer demands. So we don’t see this problem as resolved at all.

We need continued government oversight.”

Minto farmer Bill Campbell told the KAP meeting his neighbour hasn’t been able to deliver on his September canola contract leaving him no place to store his corn.

“So this transportation thing isn’t going away,” Campbell said.

“I think we need to keep harping on it.”

However, the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) supports ending the grain movement order.

“Our thinking here is we want to get back to a market-driven system where grain moves where there’s the best demand rather than based on railway preferences,” said WCWGA executive director Blair Rutter. “Grain should flow to where it earns farmers the highest return.”

However, Rutter stressed the order should be reinstated at the first sign of trouble.

Farmers and grain companies want the federal government to keep the pressure on the railways to perform.

KAP doesn’t want the federal government to lift its order compelling the railways to each move at least 536,250 tonnes of western grain a week, says president Doug Chorney. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

FILE PHOTO

Grain has been moving well since the start of the 2014-15 crop year Aug. 1, but there’s still a lot of grain to move, Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum Corp., which monitors grain movement for the federal government, said in an interview.

“It’s not a case of, ‘well everything is fine, everything is back to normal,’” he said. “It’s not back to normal. It’s not because the railways aren’t trying, it’s just that there’s a hell of a lot of grain out there.

“This is the second-highest supply we’ve ever had in history.

It’s important to recognize that we’re not out of the woods yet.”

Canada exported 3.9 million tonnes of wheat and 1.9 million of canola Aug. 1 to Oct. 19, up 16 and 41 per cent, despite a smaller harvest this year, according to Canadian Grain Commission data.

Those figures need to be put into context, said Wade

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Sobkowich, executive director of the WGEA. Grain movement was down early last crop year because of a small carry-over and delayed harvest. This year grain movement weeks seven to 13 were just slightly lower than the same period last year, he added.

“So it makes you wonder what’s going to happen come the winter, if we’re going to have a repeat of last year,” Sobkowich said.

“We say it’s not advisable to lift the volume thresholds going into the winter months.”

The WGEA estimates this year’s crop is 60 million tonnes.

With 17 million tonnes of carryover, there’s 77 million tonnes to move, “which isn’t much less than last year.

“My members tell me they are on a week-to-week basis receiving less cars than they order.”

Last week there were 21 ships waiting to load grain at Canada’s West Coast ports, double the normal, according to Sobkowich.

Not only does the WGEA want the grain movement threshold to stay, it wants it increased by 1,600 cars a week to handle canola oil and meal shipments.

“They need to be motivated to bring on more supply to meet demand,” he said.

Every winter bad weather slows grain movement so the railways should add surge capacity to deal with it, Sobkowich said. “That means having capacity ready and idle at times when you don’t need to use it,” he said.

Government-mandated grain movement is a short-term fix, Sobkowich said. The WGEA hopes changes to the Canadian Transportation Act, currently under review, will force the railways to agree to service contracts resulting in penalties when the railways breach their agreements.

“This problem just won’t go away until we get that,” he said.

“Once we get that level playing field then we have the basis to build something that looks commercial.” allan@fbcpublishing.com with files from Rod Nickel, Reuters

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PRICE REPORTING Cont. from page 1

want now... but we do not have access to all the information to make the best decisions that we want to make,” said Minto farmer Bill Campbell in supporting the resolution approved at the recent general council meeting.

“The companies are only going to pay exactly what you’re willing to sell for, not what they are willing to buy for,” he said. Campbell said farmers need a system where they can compare all grain prices before they make a delivery decision. “I think this would make the grain companies competitive, or at least more competitive.”

Deloraine farmer Glen Franklin said grain buyers in the U.S. are compelled to report sales information to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which then makes it publicly available.

One KAP delegate said there’s enough pr ice infor mation available through future markets and from elevator companies. But Dauphin farmer Don Dewar said it’s not easy to get elevator prices. Some companies post prices online, while others require farmers to contact them. As well, posted prices don’t all reflect the same grade and protein content.

In a followup interview, KAP president Doug Chorney said he agrees there’s a need for better price information. There’s often a big difference in prices between buyers, he said.

CWB says it’s not for sale But it is looking for a new partner to replace the federal government

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

C

WB isn’t a grain company on the auction block, it’s a company looking for a new partner, who along with farmer-shareholders, will help it grow to serve western Canadian farmers better.

“I think there is a misunderstanding about what CWB is trying to do,” Dayna Spiring, CWB’s chief strategy officer said in an interview Nov. 3.

“We’re not selling the CWB and that’s never been our goal.

“We’ve said all along we want farmers to play a role in the CWB. That’s what our farmer equity is there to do. We want farmers to be a significant shareholder in the CWB. We need to bring an investor in to partner with farmers to replace the federal government. We’re

not selling off the CWB and this is not a sale as anyone would typically see a sale.”

Nor has CWB accelerated the privatization process, she said. CWB has long said it wants to complete the privatization process required under federal legislation sooner than later. The legislation says CWB must present a plan to the agriculture minister by 2016 and privatize or wind up operation by 2017.

Last week, Farmers of North America (FNA) announced CWB rejected its bid to acquire CWB’s assets. FNA wants to create a majority farmerowned grain-handling and -marketing company that also distributes fertilizer, including nitrogen FNA hopes will be produced by its proposed majority farmer-owned nitrogen-manufacturing company, known as ProjectN.

Spiring declined to comment on FNA’s bid. However, she said CWB, which is being assisted in the privatization process by Deloitte, wants to get the best deal it can for farmers.

“We’re going to make sure we come up with the right plan and do all the due diligence that we can to assure CWB is a strong and viable organization going forward,” she said.

Bob Friesen, FNA’s vicepresident of government relations, said in an interview Oct. 31 he didn’t know why FNA’s bid had been rejected.

“If we had more time... we could get more farmers and get enough capital to put in a stronger bid,” Friesen said. “I’m not saying our bid wasn’t strong, I’m saying we’ve already been rejected.”

FNA is appealing to Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz to order CWB to give FNA

more time to get farmers to back its plan.

“This is not a political process,” Ritz said in an email Oct. 29 when asked about FNA’s bid being rejected.

“The CWB will assess all serious bidders and then submit a plan for commercialization to the government, in accordance with the legislation passed (in) December 2011.”

Spiring agreed CWB wants to create something more than a regular grain company.

“We value farmers as our partners,” she said. “I don’t know of another example in the grain industry as a company gifting its equity to farmers in return for deliveries. I think that speaks fairly loudly as to where we see farmers playing a role in this organization.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

“Given the opportunity it seems some grain companies take advantage of farmers.”

DOUG CHORNEY

“Given the opportunity it seems some grain companies take advantage of farmers,” Chorney said.

Chorney agreed making grain prices at port public would help too. Farmers could compare what’s essentially the world price with what they are receiving in the country and then determine if it’s fair.

One option would be to switch the delivery point for grain futures markets from places such as Minneapolis a n d C h i c a g o t o Ca n a d a’s West Coast, says University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist Richard Gray.

Gray, the 2014 Kraft Lecturer, spoke at the University of Manitoba Oct. 29. He said there are still wide differences between port prices for top milling wheat at Portland, Oregon compared to elevators in Saskatchewan. Gray blames much of the discrepancy on constrained rail and export capacity in Western Canada and on Canada’s West Coast. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 6, 2014

Internet at a discount

ISPs invited to apply for funding in next stage of plan to connect rural Canadians

By Meghan Mast Co-operator staff

R

ural Internet service providers (ISPs) are now invited to apply for funding to provide extended or improved service to remote areas across Canada.

This next step is part of the federal government program Connecting Canadians, a component of the Economic Action Plan 2014 which pledges to set up high-speed Internet for 280,000 rural residents who currently use satellite, dial up, or don’t have Internet at all.

Robert Sopuck, MP for Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette, announced the next stage Oct. 24. The former Winnipeg Free Press columnist, turned politician, lives on a farm in western Manitoba and has witnessed

and experienced first hand the economic and social benefits of having Internet in a rural community.

“It expanded my horizons,” he said in an interview. “Document transfers, access to information, it was a game changer of staggering proportions actually.”

He remembers the “old dialup days” where he had to wait to be connected. For a short time he shared a party line with his neighbour. The two households had to take turns sharing the Internet.

“In the mid-’80s, I remember when we first got the desktop computers,” he said. “To be able to word process was a really big deal.”

Next came satellite Internet, which could not withstand heavy rain and was sometimes

interrupted during thunderstorms.

When Sopuck couldn’t connect, and he needed to submit a column or send an email, he would have to travel to find a place with Internet. He also worked as a field biologist, so travel was part of his job.

Today he has high-speed Internet. “From word processing, to dial up to satellite to high speed, I’ve lived that evolution.”

He has seen how Wi-Fi accessibility impacts the local businesses around Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette — particularly for local bed and breakfast businesses. They often lose business when they say they don’t have Wi-Fi. “You would think people would want to get away from that but once some customers find out the place does not have

high-speed Internet they decline to book.”

Sopuck believes the Internet is crucial for economic development.

“In pre-Internet days cities were where all the action happened,” he said. “Economic fortunes, great banking systems, stock trading and policymaking by governments. Yeah, rural people found out about them via newspaper or maybe the evening news, but now we actually get instantaneous information about what’s going on in our world. We can now react and comment and participate instantaneously ourselves.”

Application details

The federal government, through Connecting Canadians, could grant up to 50 per cent of the project costs, and up to 75

Here’s how KAP tackled the issues that affected you and your farm this year.

per cent for very remote or Aboriginal communities.

Eligible ISPs must be able to provide service at speeds of at least five megabits per second (Mbps) to rural areas with slower access — they are expected to provide three to five Mbps for communities, now satellite dependent, in the northern component of the program.

Connecting Canadians updated its Internet coverage maps so ISPs can see which areas lack coverage.

Interested companies can review the “application toolkit” found on the Industry Canada website: http://www.ic.gc.ca/ eic/site/028.nsf/eng/50016. html. Applications must be received by January 12, 2015.

The first successful projects are expected to be announced spring 2015.

WHAT’S UP Please forward your agricultural events to daveb@fbcpublishing. com or call 204-944-5762.

Nov. 6-8: Manitoba Livestock Expo, Brandon.Call 204-726-3590 or visit www.brandonfairs.com.

SS E C C U S KAP SS E C SUC P KA

SS E C SUC P KA

$36-plus million in education tax relief As a result of KAP’s intense lobbying efforts, the Manitoba government created a rebate to return education taxes on farmland.

This year, over $36 million has been put back in farmers’ pockets!

KAP continues to lobby for school tax relief on farm buildings, and for limits on the program to be removed.

Railways ordered to move a million tonnes of grain per week KAP was instrumental in getting the trains moving last winter.

As a result of KAP’s lobbying and publicity efforts, the federal government agreed the railways were not performing and ultimately passed legislation ordering them to haul a minimum of a million tonnes of grain per week. KAP will continue to lobby for rail service improvement during the review of the Canada Transportation Act.

Flexibility for manure and fertilizer application KAP successfully lobbied the provincial government to make the restriction on winter fertilizer and manure application flexible, based on whether the ground is frozen. This replaces the previous policy that solely relied on fixed dates every year, and will greatly improve farmers’ ability to get fall nutrients applied in a late-harvest year.

And the list goes on! You can ensure KAP’s work continues by renewing your membership for 2015.

Watch for your renewal form in the mail, and return it with a single cheque of $210 to avoid check-offs and complicated calculations later on.

Or go to kap.mb.ca.

Nov. 12-14: Canadian Seed Trade Association semi-annual meeting, Hilton Montreal Bonaventure, 900 Rue de la Gaucheterie W., Montreal.For more info call 613829-9527 or visit cdnseed.org.

Nov. 17-19: Canadian Forage and Grassland Association conference and AGM, Chateau Bromont, 90 rue Stanstead, Bromont, Que. For more info email c_arbuckle@ canadianfga.ca or call 204-2544192.

Nov. 19-21: Agricultural Excellence Conference: Seeding Transition to Harvest Change, Fort Garry Hotel, 222 Broadway, Winnipeg. For more info visit www. fmc-gac.com.

Nov. 20: Canadian Association of Farm Advisors “Current and Connected” conference, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Heritage Centre, 100 Heritage Trail, Niverville. For more info call Liz Robertson at 1-877474-2871 or visit cafanet.com/ Conferences.aspx.

Dec. 3: University of Manitoba Transport Institute’s Fields on Wheels Agribusiness Conference, Delta Winnipeg, 350 St. Mary Ave., Winnipeg. For more info visit http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/ management/ti/.

Dec. 9-10: Forage and Livestock Symposium, Canad Inns, 2401 Saskatchewan Ave. W., Portage la Prairie. For more info visit mfga. net.

Dec. 11: Farm Credit Canada (FCC) Ag Outlook 2015, 1:15 to 4:30 p.m., North Centennial Room, Victoria Inn, 1808 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg. For more info visit www.fcc-fac.ca.

2015 Jan. 11-12: Manitoba Forage Seed Association annual conference, Victoria Inn, 1808 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg. For more info call Heather at 204-376-3309 or email hmcbey@forageseed.net.

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LIVESTOCK MARKETS Cattle Prices

Heifers

Alberta South — — 119.00 - 132.00 100.00 - 120.00 — $ 220.00 - 236.00 233.00 - 246.00 242.00 - 256.00 254.00 - 275.00 272.00 - 298.00 300.00 - 333.00 $ 205.00 - 223.00 220.00 - 233.00 226.00 - 238.00 234.00 - 252.00 249.00 - 269.00 270.00 - 298.00

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

(850+ lbs.)

Ontario $ 159.14 - 176.68 153.20 - 178.01 81.37 - 120.39 81.37 - 120.39 108.53 - 151.48 $ 207.55 - 246.44 210.06 - 257.95 215.91 - 264.96 243.18 - 287.36 243.74 - 315.41 258.99 - 339.22 $ 197.77 - 220.53 193.93 - 235.06 206.87 - 243.52 206.82 - 257.55 229.13 - 281.36 227.00 - 299.33

$

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

Futures (October 31, 2014) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change October 2014 170.50 1.45 December 2014 167.32 -1.78 February 2015 167.47 -1.38 April 2015 166.17 -0.88 June 2015 155.60 -0.63 August 2015 153.02 -1.05

Feeder Cattle October 2014 November 2014 January 2015 March 2015 April 2015 May 2015

Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

Close 239.75 234.22 228.47 226.10 226.12 225.97

Change -0.47 -2.48 -2.51 -2.83 -2.91 -3.21

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending October 25, 2014 49,067 12,255 36,812 N/A 576,000

Previous Year­ 48,401 12,666 35,735 N/A 619,000

Week Ending October 25, 2014 687 23,605 15,542 748 980 6,991 148

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Previous Year 604 23,707 18,128 927 1,089 10,846 161

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.)

PQ (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)

Current Week 196.00 E 183.00 E 191.96 201.05

Futures (October 31, 2014) in U.S. Hogs December 2014 February 2015 April 2015 May 2015 June 2015

Last Week 213.62 199.07 209.62 219.69

Close 87.20 86.95 88.05 90.00 92.95

Last Year (Index 100) 178.56 166.05 169.17 174.21

Change -1.52 -0.50 -0.50 0.50 0.25

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: $0.8669 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.1275 Cdn.

COLUMN

(Friday to Thursday) October 31, 2014 Winnipeg Slaughter Cattle Steers 152.00 - 156.25 Heifers — D1, 2 Cows 110.00 - 120.00 D3 Cows 100.00 - 110.00 Bulls 145.00 - 152.00 Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.) $ 180.00 - 223.00 (801-900 lbs.)

220.00 - 242.00 (701-800 lbs.)

230.00 - 259.00 (601-700 lbs.)

230.00 - 270.00 (501-600 lbs.)

245.00 - 300.00 (401-500 lbs.)

285.00 - 338.00 Heifers (901+ lbs.)

170.00 - 210.00 (801-900 lbs.)

200.00 - 223.00 (701-800 lbs.)

215.00 - 245.00 (601-700 lbs.)

217.00 - 256.00 (501-600 lbs.)

220.00 - 263.00 (401-500 lbs.)

230.00 - 305.00 Slaughter Cattle Grade A Steers Grade A Heifers D1, 2 Cows D3 Cows Bulls Steers

EXCHANGES: October 31, 2014

Winnipeg (880 h wooled fats) Next sale Nov. 5th

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 November 9, 2014 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.950 Undergrade .............................. $1.860 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.940 Undergrade .............................. $1.840 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.940 Undergrade .............................. $1.840 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................... $1.905 Undergrade............................... $1.820 Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.

Toronto 79.24 - 115.09 166.32 - 186.56 186.44 - 206.19 182.54 - 212.63 178.95 - 240.09 —

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Eggs Minimum prices to producers for ungraded eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board effective November 10, 2013.

New Previous A Extra Large $2.00 $2.05 A Large 2.00 2.05 A Medium 1.82 1.87 A Small 1.40 1.45 A Pee Wee 0.3775 0.3775 Nest Run 24 + 1.8910 1.9390 B 0.45 0.45 C 0.15 0.15

Transportation log-jam affects eastern and U.S. movement The high volume of cattle being moved has made booking trucks difficult Dave Sims CNSC

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ctivity in Manitoba auction yards was extremely busy during the week ended October 31, with the number of animals up for auction approaching 18,000.

The high volume is typical for this time of year, according to Rick Wright of Heartland Order Buying Co. “The last week of October and first week of November traditionally see the heaviest marketing of the year. It’s no different this year,” he said.

Prices were strong once again, however, Wright sees some softening in certain classes.

“We maybe saw a bigger spread between the top end of the cattle and the mediumquality cattle over the past week to 10 days.

We saw some of the steers over 600 lbs. soften slightly and the medium-quality cattle,” he said.

At the same time, Wright says prices for lighter-weight cattle under 500 lbs. are remaining very strong. One auction mart saw prices for 300- to 400-lb. feeder steers range as high as C$470 per hundredweight.

“But what we did see was an increase in heifer prices, the spreads between heifers and steers has tightened up quite a bit in the past 10 days,” he added.

One problem that’s been exacerbated by the high volumes is transportation, particularly to buyers in the U.S. and down east.

“Going east there’s a real problem. You’ve got to book your trucks at least two weeks in advance to have a chance of getting anything,” he said, adding the log-jam has curtailed the number of cattle headed east.

“Going east there’s a real problem. You’ve got to book your trucks at least two weeks in advance to have a chance of getting anything.” rick wright

Going west is not a problem, said Wright.

He noted some orders are coming from local buyers but not a lot. It remains to be seen whether or not that will change.

“It’s kind of a compressed fall. I would guess we’re two weeks behind in our cattle movements here right now and we are seeing producers selling everything,” said Wright.

On the slaughter end of things, Wright says cows remain strong while bulls are making a fall run.

“We haven’t seen the significant drop in the cow price that we normally see in the fall because the demand for cows on both sides of the border is strong. Cows and bulls are steady to strong the whole way through,” he said.

Recent reports indicate feed supplies should remain low for cattle producers for quite some time.

This year’s wet summer along with several untimely hailstorms have lowered the quality of some grains, in particular wheat.

That has led many analysts to suggest more grain than normal will be offered as feed.

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

briefs

Maple Leaf quarterly loss widens on restructuring costs reuters / Canadian food processor Maple Leaf Foods Inc. reported a slightly bigger quarterly loss on higher charges related to modernizing some of its meat plants.

Costs at its prepared meat business, which contribute more than 90 per cent to the company’s total revenue, rose by $14.6 million to $25.2

million during the third quarter.

Maple Leaf, whose brands include Schneiders meat, is upgrading its meat operations, while shutting some plants, as it seeks to boost profit and better compete with U.S. rivals.

As part of its plan to focus on its meat operations, Maple Leaf, in May, had sold its bakery business — Canada Bread Co. — to Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo.

The company reported a net loss from continuing operations of $26.7 mil-

lion, or 19 Canadian cents per share for the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with $24.5 million, or 18 Canadian cents per share, a year earlier.

On an adjusted basis, its quarterly loss narrowed to 13 Canadian cents per share, from 19 Canadian cents per share.

Maple Leaf Foods, which is one of Canada’s biggest pork processors, said total sales rose 8.2 per cent to $820 million as it sold more fresh pork in the quarter, and raised prices of its meat products.

Goats Kids Billys Mature

Winnipeg (370 h Fats) — — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 92.23 - 198.64 — 82.89 - 200.83

Horses <1,000 lbs.

1,000 lbs.+

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 10.00 - 31.47 20.03 - 33.63

Looking for results? Check out the market reports from livestock auctions around the province. » PaGe 15

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GRAIN MARKETS Export and International Prices

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Soy complex drives late-October canola rally Tightening supplies and logistics in the U.S. had a short-term spillover effect Terryn Shiells CNSC

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his winter may be boring for canola markets, but some exciting things have been happening this fall, including a large rally during the week ended October 31. Prices were up by about $20 to $40 per tonne.

The advances were driven by strength in the Chicago soy complex, mainly due to sharp gains in soymeal values amid concerns about tightening supplies of the commodity.

Logistics problems were also part of why soymeal futures moved sharply higher during the week, with the December contract gaining nearly 40 points.

Though canola may be seeing strong gains at the moment, it’s likely that the market will eventually crash, as most of the gains aren’t linked to the fundamental situation.

Canola’s individual fundamental situation is supportive overall, as supplies are expected to fall below one million tonnes to end the 2014-15 (Aug./July) crop year, which should help basis levels in the cash market improve.

But, the global oilseed outlook is bearish, as both South America and the U.S. are expected to produce record soybeans crops.

‘Mooseish’ outlook

One industry official described the outlook for canola as not bearish, nor bullish, but “mooseish,” at the Cereals of North America conference in Winnipeg on October 29 and 30.

Other predictions made at the conference included little changes to Canadian crop area next spring, and a more “average” winter for Western Canada this year.

One analyst also predicted that U.S. soybeans could drop to US$7 per bushel

at some point, though the futures rallied more than 60 cents a bushel in many contracts during the week. Speculative technical buying and strength in soymeal were behind the advances. Corn futures also went along for the ride, but the long-term outlook for both commodities remains bearish as the fundamental situation for both crops is just so large.

The U.S. harvest is also still underway for both corn and soybeans, which should keep both markets under pressure going forward. Once activities wrap up, the focus will shift to South America, where planting conditions are improving.

Wheat prices moved higher along with the corn and soybean futures in the U.S., with concerns about dryness in Russia and Australia also behind the advances.

But, the global wheat supply situation remains large, which should overhang prices going forward.

There are concerns about lower-quality problems in Canada and the European Union. Carry-out in the EU is expected to be very large this year, as exports will likely be down due to a lack of higher-quality wheat in the region. A larger amount of its wheat is feed quality, and there won’t be many opportunities to sell that quality to other countries, officials said at the cereals conference.

The quality of durum in many global growing regions is also very low, with some industry participants calling Canada’s crop the worst on record.

This should create premiums for highquality durum, though the market’s rally seems to be dropping off as buyers become less and less picky about needing the highest quality. Though there is a lot happening within the world cash markets for durum, there continues to be little to no activity in the ICE Futures Canada durum market.

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.

All prices close of business October 30, 2014

Last Week

Week Ago

Year Ago

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

196.95

193.55

245.27

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

212.29

209.81

268.32

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

147.24

141.63

168.59

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

219.49

233.76

214.14

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

378.37

367.44

470.42

Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)

756.54

720.37

911.33

Coarse Grains

oilseeds

Winnipeg Futures ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business October 31, 2014 barley

Last Week

Week Ago

December 2014

140.00

137.00

March 2015

143.00

140.00

May 2015

143.00

140.00

Canola

Last Week

Week Ago

November 2014

452.90

411.00

January 2015

439.00

411.40

March 2015

439.80

414.00

Special Crops Report for November 3, 2014 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan Spot Market

Spot Market

Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)

Other ( Cdn. cents per pound unless otherwise specified)

Large Green 15/64

Canaryseed

35.50 - 38.75

Laird No. 1

33.00 - 38.75

Oil Sunflower Seed

Eston No. 2

27.00 - 32.00

Desi Chickpeas

Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

23.00 - 24.50 — 15.20 - 16.00

Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)

Green No. 1

8.80 - 9.00

Fababeans, large

—

Medium Yellow No. 1

6.40 - 6.50

Feed beans

—

Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel) Feed Pea (Rail)

4.00 - 4.10

Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)

No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans

24.00 - 24.00

No. 1 Great Northern

41.00 - 41.00

No. 1 Cranberry Beans

40.00 - 40.00

Yellow No. 1

30.40 - 32.00

No. 1 Light Red Kidney

50.00 - 50.00

Brown No. 1

25.70 - 27.00

No. 1 Dark Red Kidney

58.00 - 58.00

Oriental No. 1

29.50 - 31.00

Source: Stat Publishing SUNFLOWERS

No. 1 Black Beans

28.00 - 28.00

No. 1 Pinto Beans

22.00 - 32.00

No. 1 Small Red

41.00 - 41.00

No. 1 Pink

41.00 - 41.00

Fargo, ND

Goodlands, KS

18.10

17.40

Ask

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Report for October 31, 2014 in US$ cwt NuSun (oilseed) Confection Source: National Sunflower Association

British wheat heads to U.S. for first time in over two years The shipment is likely destined for livestock feed

By Sarah McFarlane and Julie Ingwersen london/chicago / reuters

B

ritain has sold a shipment of feed wheat to a buyer in the United States, two traders said Oct. 27, marking the first significant volume in 2-1/2 years.

Around 25,000 tonnes of British feed wheat are expected to be shipped from the port of Harwich in the coming days, coinciding with the country’s return to being a net exporter after a two-season hiatus, the sources said.

“They’ve used U.K. wheat before, it must have calculated at some point,” one of the traders said.

The wheat may have been sold to a U.S. feedbuying consortium as hog and poultry producers battle with flour mills for quality grain after a fungal disease affected some of the domestic crop, based on port information and Reuters data.

British wheat production rebounded this year after adverse weather curbed output for two seasons.

The last time Britain sent a significant volume of feed wheat to the United States was in March 2012, when 47,250 tonnes were shipped, customs data showed. In the 2011-12 season a total of around 243,000 tonnes was shipped.

The bulk of the U.K.’s feed wheat sales are made

to customers within the European Union, particularly Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal.

The sources said the wheat was destined for a feed compounder in the southeastern United States.

Hog producers in the U.S. Southeast sometimes add wheat to their feed rations, cash grain traders said. Slow U.S. rail service and a shortage of locally available feed-grade wheat may have made the British wheat attractive, the traders said.

Vomitoxin, the toxic byproduct of a fungal disease, infected soft red wheat crop in parts of the U.S. Midwest and Mid-South this year.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 6, 2014

LIVESTOCK h u s b a n d r y — t h e s c i e n c e , S K I L L O R ART O F F AR M IN G

Livestock producers need not fear price insurance

The program co-ordinator says misconceptions could be preventing people from applying

By Meghan Mast

“There’s no cost until you go and buy your policy.”

Co-operator staff

T

he co-ordinator of the new Western Livestock Price Insurance Program says some producers are having trouble understanding the ins and outs of the program.

Jason Dobbin, livestock price insurance co-ordinator from the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation, attempted to clear up some of the confusion in a StockTalk webinar Oct. 21.

The bottom line is, producers have nothing to lose by applying.

“It costs nothing to apply,” he said in a telephone interview.

“There’s no cost to get an application in and get set up. There’s no cost until you go and buy your policy.”

Most people don’t know this, he said. Dobbin recommends interested producers apply now so that if a desirable premium or coverage option opens up, they can purchase it immediately.

Processing applications can take up to a couple of days and prices change daily.

So far over 600 producers have signed up and every day there are several more signing contracts.

Open to all

Anyone can apply so long as they are at least 18 years old,

Jason Dobbin

“There’s no commitment to sell,” he said.

Biggest misconception

photo: laura rance

have an email address, and a credit card. Although they don’t have to own cattle before applying, they must have owned any insured cattle for 60 continuous days before selling.

“You could buy (insurance for) one calf or one feeder if you wanted to just try out how the program works,” he said during the StockTalk webinar.

Participating farmers can choose whether they want price protection for calves, feeders or

finished cattle; they purchase policy for the weight they choose and choose their length of coverage.

Once they enter that information and choose a settling time, producers are guaranteed to make at least the projected price they’ve insured.

Dobbin said some producers don’t realize that if prices go higher than the insured price, producers can sell for the market price. Being “locked in” doesn’t

prohibit them from making more than what was projected.

However, if the market price is below the projected price, WLPIP pays the difference.

Should a producer decide not to sell and instead finish that animal on the farm, they can choose to extend their coverage by purchasing a finishing policy or allow it to expire.

One of the biggest problems he’s run into, since the program’s inception, he said, is skepticism.

“People think this thing is going to go broke because all the producer premiums go into a fund,” he said. They’re concerned that, since the program is producer funded, it is vulnerable to being overwhelmed.

Dobbin said the producers are not on the hook if the program goes into a deficit. Thresholds, limiting the amount of liability, mitigate the risk over a long period of time.

“If this program ever went into deficit (the federal government) would backstop the program and will make sure the program survives.”

Producers can listen in to Dobbin’s StockTalk presentation at: http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/online-resources/stocktalk.html. meghan.mast@fbcpublishing.com

Beef producers could feel impact of processor labour shortages Canadian meat processors can’t find enough local workers to operate plants at full capacity

By Meghan Mast Co-operator staff/ Dauphin

N

ew federal rules to limit the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada could have serious repercussions for the cattle industry, which is already struggling to find enough workers, ranchers meeting here were told Oct. 27.

“Right now labour is probably the biggest threat facing our industry,” Dennis Laycraft, executive vice-president of the Canadian Cattlemen Association said during a town hall meeting attended by about 75 Manitoba cattle producers.

Processing plants across the country have seen a steady decline in their number of employees every year since 2010 when 69,518 people were employed in the meat-manufacturing industry, according to Statistics Canada. In 2012, that number had dropped by 4,948 — nearly 14 per cent.

People in the industry, including Lay-

craft, are concerned the shortage will be further exacerbated once the federal government’s recent reform to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program takes effect.

Employers are now no longer able to fill more than 10 per cent of their workforce with temporary foreign workers.

According to the federal government summary of the program, this will ensure, “Canadians are first in line for available jobs.”

However, processing plants have not been able to find enough interested Canadians to fill these positions.

Laycraft said they have been doing a good amount of domestic recruitment, particularly for feedlots, but “the success rate has been below what anyone hoped for.”

Ideally, he said, companies would employ permanent residents because there is often extensive training involved with preparing a person for the job.

“So you don’t want to be send-

ing them home in two years,” he said.

“And in most cases they come in, they become an important part of the community and bring their families over.”

As long as the meat industry operates under capacity, companies will continue to miss opportunities. “We could be slaughtering more animals in Canada today if we could address the labour situation,” said Laycraft.

Ron Davidson, director of International Trade for the Canadian Meat Council, said the problem is most critical in Western Canada — where people are pulled towards the generous wages from the oil and gas industry.

“Some days they don’t have enough people to harvest the organs, the specialty meats, so they go into rendering,” he said. “Again a great loss in opportunity for trying to make a margin on the product.”

Another very real concern is the impact this could have in an emergency situation. Labour shortages in the beef industry could mean disaster

for producers if a BSE-type incident forces borders to close.

When BSE rocked the cattle industry in 2003, Canadian plants were running at near full capacity, said Melinda German, general manager of the Manitoba Beef Producers. Today that is just not the case for the feedlot and packing industries in the Prairie provinces.

“We struggled through BSE, but at least we had those workers in place,” said German.

Canada is on the cusp of being able to apply for negligible risk status for BSE. Next fall marks 12 years since the last reported BSE incident. But that does not mean it could not happen again.

“If we had a border closure now I think it would be very significant for our industry,” said German.

“I don’t think we’re thinking of it yet in terms of how bad it could be with the province (now) being mostly cow-calf.” meghan.mast@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 6, 2014

COLUMN

NEWS

Polar vortex not coming back to Western Canada this winter

Kidney disease in cattle more common than realized If symptoms are noticed early enough, treatment can be effective

By Terryn Shiells COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA

Last year marked one of the coldest winters in recent history, as the polar vortex impacted conditions in many parts of Western Canada.

But, this winter will be closer to normal, Scott Yuknis, owner and founder of Climate Impact Company said during a presentation at the Cereals of North America conference in Winnipeg.

He said temperatures in Western Canada this winter will be near average, to slightly above average, with precipitation in the winter also expected to be close to normal.

But, it is possible that the month of February will be colder if the developing El Niño weather pattern remains weak.

If the El Niño becomes stronger, then the colder February will be “erased,” Yuknis added.

In the early part of spring, including March, April and May 2015, conditions are expected to be wetter than normal in the southern parts of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

For the planting season, in April, May and June, conditions will be warm for most of Western Canada, he noted.

But, the summer of 2015 may be unusually cool in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, according to Yuknis.

Looking further ahead, it is possible that a drought pattern develops in the United States and works its way up to Canada within the next two to three years, Yuknis said. Though, he’s not sure exactly where the drought is going to happen.

Yuknis based the forecast off of his analysis of the climate change effects related to currently having an active global oceanic thermohaline conveyor belt, which he said is one of the main things causing global warming.

If it does develop, the drought pattern would likely last for three or four years, which could be problematic for agriculture, he added.

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Roy Lewis, DVM Beef 911

E

a r l y re c o g n i t i o n a n d treatment of kidney disease in cattle can often have a favourable prognosis.

The capacity of the kidneys is great so often we may not see any specific clinical signs until two-thirds of the total kidneys’ capacity are damaged.

There are many causes of toxic damage to the kidneys but this article will focus on the infectious causes of kidney disease resulting in what veterinarians call pyelonephritis (pus and infection in the kidneys). The infection results from common bacteria which gain access to the kidneys from the bloodstream.

Kidneys are essentially blood f i l t e r s. T h e o t h e r a re a o f access is up the urinary tract and urinary retention from partial blockage will encourage growth of bacteria and infection.

Kidney infections are generally individual animal problems and cows may have the history of a prior infection f ro m a re t a i n e d p l a c e n t a , mastitis, pneumonia etc.

These infections suppress the immune function and allow the seed of bacteria to gain access to the kidneys.

In cattle one of the first clinical signs is weight loss. I see more of these cases in late pregnancy or right after calving. The pregnant cow must essentially filter both hers and the fetus’s blood. This taxes the filtering ability of kidneys, which is why this is the most common time to acquire kidney infection. Cows carrying twins have this problem compounded.

Any time there is extreme weight loss for no apparent reason have the cow checked by your veterinarian. They can palpate the left kidney and the ureters (tubes going from the kidneys to the bladder). A urine sample can be obtained and checked for blood, bacteria, pus cells and other parameters necessary to rule in or out kidney infection. Blood samples can be taken and the white blood cell count may be up. Other parameters such as blood urea nitrogen (BUN) only go up once the kidneys have been severely damaged and by then the prognosis is very poor.

My exper ience has been if cattle are still eating and drinking well and kidney disease has been diagnosed prognosis with treatment is very favourable. If appetite has been suppressed the BUN is too high and often in spite of vigorous treatment like intravenous fluids prognosis is very poor.

Fairly common

There are many more cases of kidney infection out there t h a n we re a l i ze. T h i s h a s been made evident to me by the large number I have seen when autopsying cows under the BSE testing program.

Both kidneys will be severely infected and have very little normal function left. The common history is the farmer noticed weight loss but no other symptom and then the cow quit eating and died shortly thereafter.

Most of these cows can be saved and go on to lead productive lives or at least be taken to slaughter the following year if caught early enough. I am sure a number of these cows died on producers’ farms with no diagnosis prior to the BSE testing.

Any time there is extreme weight loss for no apparent reason have the cow checked by your veterinarian.

Producers may notice increased frequency of urination or pain at urination.

Look closely at the urine especially at the end of the urination process for signs of pus or blood (red coloured).

This will provide a clue kidney infection may be advancing.

In cattle there are also many causes of red urine from bacillary hemoglobinuria (redwater), phosphorus deficiency to a red dye excreted when on clover. All these and many other causes of red urine can sometimes make the specific diagnosis more difficult.

Treatment

The most common bacteria causing kidney infection in cattle is very responsive to penicillin. There are two keys in treatment. First, the earlier the better before more permanent kidney damage is done. Secondly, the length of treatment must be adequate to completely clear the infection to avoid a relapse.

Treatment periods for at least seven to 10 days or longer in my experience most often will avoid the relapses. This most definitely will entail treating daily with procaine penicillin for the first few days till n o t i c e a b l e i m p r ov e m e n t .

Then several long-acting shots the required days apart will stretch treatment out to the two weeks.

A common mistake is stopping treatment too early when attitude improves and the urine clears. This is a smoul-

dering infection and will come back if not completely cleared. As with any relapse the second-time treatment i s m u c h m o re d i f f i c u l t a s the infection becomes deep seated.

If the cattle remain thin long after treatment there has p ro b a b l y b e e n p e r m a n e n t damage to the kidneys. These cattle are like time bombs and with impaired kidney function are unlikely to reproduce and could eventually succumb to kidney failure. They might be best being culled before the condition worsens.

Kidney infections are spor a d i c a c r o s s t h e Pr a i r i e s.

Every herd experiences them from time to time but with careful observation (always keep an eye on body condition score), early intervention and correct treatment the results are often gratifying. Penicillin is still a very effective drug as it is concentrated and excreted through the kidneys and subsequently the urine. Have your herd veterinarian examine your cows with weight loss and advise as to their course of treatment.

Let’s recognize and treat more of these conditions as treatment is not that expensive, often has a favourable outcome, and at today’s prices for cattle the economics are there.

Roy Lewis is an Alberta-based veterinarian specializing in large-animal practice. He is also a part-time technical services vet for Merck Animal Health.

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Kynoch Canadian case provided link to leave Biosecurity measures are still key, but preventing the contamination of feed will help slow the spread of PED MPC

By Shannon VanRaes co-operator staff/Niverville

T

he porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus has hit producers hardest south of the border, but it was the first Canadian case that helped researchers find the source of the disease.

Speaking to pork producers in Niverville, Tim Snider of the University of Minnesota said that the emergence of the disease in Canada provided the biggest clue pointing towards feed as the source of the outbreak.

“When it showed up in Canada, basically in my mind that’s the turning point in the United States for how it looked at feed ingredients as a potential risk pathway,” said Snider. “If you think about it, before that point… even when feed was suspected, lateral spread from other points of entry was always possible, the infrastructure in the United States was completely contaminated, so to be able to figure out where it came from truly was difficult.”

But while American infrastructure was heavily contaminated with the PED virus, Canada’s wasn’t.

“The Canadian outbreak in southern Ontario was a completely different scenario, it was an outbreak in a vacuum, there were no other affected herds and there was a common epidemiological link with a feed mill, so everybody turned their head towards that case,” he said.

Potential risks

Snider has been researching the potential risks of different feed ingredients, along with processing and transport methods; his work will be published later this month along with the work others have done on PED. For him it’s clear that the virus — which has been active in Asia

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“Canada is in a great position compared to the United States when it comes to this outbreak.”

By Shannon VanRaes co-operator staff/ Niverville

T

Tim Snider

for a decade — was likely introduced by contaminated feed.

Whether processing feed ingredients like spray-dried blood plasma or rendered bone meal successfully kills all of the virus, or leaves it still capable of infection is still being debated in some corners. The possibility that feed can be contaminated post-production is also a real risk.

“I think the take-home message is that the virus should die, but there is potential for post-manufacturing cross-contamination, so it’s very much dependent on where you’re getting your product from… rendered products can be contaminated post-production,” he said, noting that many feed products are blended in postproduction to ensure nutritional uniformity.

However, it is extremely unlikely that any virus could withstand the render ing processing. Not so for other processing methods.

“When it comes to spray dried, the potential for contamination is at the collection point, everybody accepts that these products are contaminated with disease when they get them.

The question is whether or not it survives the process,” Snider said, noting that process is a closed and extremely hygienic one, making cross-contamination unlikely.

Odds of survival

But the greater the amount of

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virus present when processing begins, the greater the chance some of it will survive. Postprocessing can also be used to kill the PED virus — leaving feed in storage at room temperature for two weeks has been proven to kill the PED virus, he said.

But before swine-derived feed additives are tossed, Snider added that removing them from feed would also have impacts on the pork industry.

“I think we need to keep that in mind before we deep-six this,” he said.

While biosecurity remains key, the researcher believes that eliminating contaminated pig feed should help stymie the spread of the disease.

It may also help explain in part why Canada was able to hold out against the disease for so much longer than the U.S. “Canada is in a great position compared to the United States when it comes to this outbreak. Being in a country that is positive, but basically, primarily negative, you’re in a great position having had that year of preparedness,” Snider said. “And when you got affected, you responded extremely well, your position is enviable and I can tell you that the United States industry often holds up the Canadian example as the way it should have done it.” shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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he Manitoba Pork Council is looking for new leadership.

“Next April, Manitoba Pork Council will be electing a new chair,” Karl Kynoch told council members during a producer meeting at the Niverville Heritage Centre.

The pork council last elected a new chairman nearly 11 years ago when Kynoch was first voted in to the position.

“I think it’s time for me to move on, I’ve been sitting on the board for 15 years and as of April I’ll have been chair for 11 years,” he said, adding he let other board members know last month so that they would have plenty of time to prepare for the change.

Normally, the vice-chair would step in to the position; however, that won’t be possible in this case, Kynoch said.

“It’s going to create a few challenges,” he said.

As it stands, current vice-chair Rick Bergmann is also leaving the Manitoba Pork Council after being elected chair of the Canadian Pork Council at a meeting in Ottawa last month. He will formally take over the role in January.

“So now Manitoba I think will have the privilege to get everything done that we wanted to,” joked Kynoch while congratulating Bergmann on his new position.

Bergmann said he’s excited to take on the title of Canadian Pork Council chairman.

“Moving from the position I was in will change my role,” he said. “I will do a bit more travelling to represent Canadian pork producers in other parts of the world, but also more importantly I’ll work here with government to make sure the needs of producers are being meet.

“We’re a huge economic industry in Canada and too often that is forgotten, so it’s our job to remind people,” he added.

A third position — directorat-large — is also open on the Manitoba Pork Council board, increasing the need for new members to get involved.

Kynoch urged producers to encourage others to run, if they don’t see themselves jumping in the race.

“Over the next 5-1/2 months I’d like people to think about running for some of those positions… give it some consideration,” he said.

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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

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n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Over 1,000 lbs.

900-1,000 800-900

n/a

190.00-219.00

n/a

n/a

200.00-222.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

232.00-239.00

200.00-233.50

205.00-235.00

220.00-240.00

222.00-238.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

700-800

225.00-266.00

210.00-254.50

220.00-255.00

235.00-248.00

235.00-253.00 (258.00)

235.00-256.00

240.00-259.00 (262.00)

n/a

600-700

240.00-281.00

240.00-266.50

240.00-272.00

255.00-280.00

248.00-282.00 (288.00)

255.00-278.00

255.00-280.00 (290.00)

n/a

500-600

270.00-307.00

270.00-301.00

260.00-295.00

265.00-290.00

266.00-299.00

270.00-299.00

285.00-310.00 (310.00)

n/a

400-500

285.00-314.00

280.00-339.00

290.00-345.00

295.00-325.00

285.00-344.00

295.00-330.00 (349.00)

290.00-325.00 (335.00)

n/a

300-400

290.00-320.00

320.00-400.00

325.00-470.00

335.00-370.00

355.00-390.00

350.00-380.00 (392.00)

290.00-340.00 (350.00)

n/a

900-1,000 lbs.

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

184.00-210.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

800-900

n/a

180.00-223.00

200.00-222.00

200.00-220.00

210.00-233.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder heifers

700-800

220.00-242.00

200.00-248.00

215.00-240.00

218.00-236.00

217.00-233.00 (240.00)

n/a

220.00-240.00 (243.00)

n/a

600-700

251.00-264.00

210.00-247.75

230.00-267.00

228.00-243.00

228.00-255.00

235.00-250.00 (254.00)

240.00-260.00 (263.00)

n/a

500-600

249.00-280.00

240.00-274.00

250.00-295.00

255.00-273.00

239.00-267.00 (272.00)

250.00-275.00 (286.00)

245.00-270.00 (285.00)

n/a

400-500

240.00-298.00

270.00-318.00

270.00-325.00

280.00-310.00

270.00-340.00

270.00-310.00 (315.00)

250.00-310.00 (321.00)

n/a

300-400

250.00-275.00

280.00-308.00

300.00-370.00

300.00-325.00

288.00-350.00

270.00-330.00 (350.00)

255.00-285.00 (323.00)

n/a

160

n/a

201

269

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Slaughter Market No. on offer D1-D2 Cows

117.00-123.00

100.00-132.00

n/a

115.00-126.00

112.00-123.00

103.00-112.00

118.00-127.00 (131.00)

n/a

D3-D5 Cows

105.00-116.00

n/a

100.00-117.00

n/a

100.00-112.00

n/a

105.00-114.00

n/a

Age Verified

120.00-137.50

n/a

n/a

n/a

115.00-127.00

110.00-125.00

n/a

n/a

Good Bulls

130.00-145.00

129.00-142.50

137.00-145.00

138.00-150.00

138.00-155.00

135.00-145.00

135.00-154.00 (157.00)

n/a

Butcher Steers

n/a

n/a

n/a

145.00-154.00

149.00-157.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

n/a

n/a

145.00-152.00

148.00-155.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

n/a

120.00-135.00

n/a

125.00-139.00

120.00-133.00

n/a

n/a

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

n/a

118.00-130.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Lean Export Cows

n/a

n/a

105.00-115.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Heiferettes

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

115.00-142.00

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.)

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 6, 2014

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Pattern trying to transition to winter Issued: Monday, November 3, 2014 · Covering: November 5 – November 12, 2014 Daniel Bezte Co-operator contributor

L

ast week’s Arctic high built in as expected, but brought slightly cooler temperatures than expected, with overnight lows dropping into the minus teens late last week. The strong area of low pressure also developed to our west as predicted, but fortunately for us, it took a more northerly route and brought nice mild weather to our region to end the weekend.

Confidence in this forecast period is not that high as the weather models all seem to be having trouble coming into agreement on just what will happen over the next 10 days or so. Currently, it looks like a large storm system moving up the East Coast during the week will merge with another area of low pressure moving across northern Canada. This low will then spin around Hudson Bay over the weekend and slide to the south and east early next week.

What this means for us is that we should see fairly quiet weather for the first part of this forecast period as high pres-

sure lingers across our region.

High temperatures should be around the +5 to +7 C mark, with overnight lows around -4 C. Over the weekend it looks like the deepening low over Hudson Bay will push through a cold front, which will usher in the coldest weather so far this fall. We could see some flurries along the back side of this low on Monday and Tuesday, but at this time it doesn’t look like anything more than a light dusting.

Arctic high pressure is then forecasted to move in around the middle of the week, which will clear out the skies, but keep temperatures on the cool side.

Fortunately, it looks like this high will slide quickly to the south, meaning a return to a southerly flow and some milder weather later in the week.

Usual temperature range for this period Highs: -3 to 7 C Lows: -13 to -3 C Probability of precipitation falling as snow: 85 per cent 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.

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This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation compared to average that has fallen for September and most of October across the Prairies. Looking at the map you can see that the north-central Prairies, stretching from just west of Edmonton eastwards to around Swan River has been dry with some areas of Saskatchewan seeing less than 40 per cent of average. In contrast, the southern part of the Prairies, stretching from southern Alberta into southeastern Saskatchewan have been fairly wet, with the region around Moose Jaw reporting over 200 per cent of average.

Warm October across the Prairies This year, I didn’t see any ice form on the pond until nearly the end of the month

By Daniel Bezte co-operator contributor

A

fter a slightly warmerthan-average September that ended with some record-breaking heat near the end of the month, everyone was wondering if the nice weather was going to continue into October, or were we going to end up with yet another cold month?

Well, the numbers are in, and I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone that October 2014 turned out to be a pretty nice month weather-wise. Looking at the average monthly temperatures for our three major stations ( Winnipeg, Brandon, and Dauphin) we find that all three regions came in well above average, and all three were relatively similar compared to their local long-term averages.

Going purely by temperature, the warm spot was the Winnipeg region, with a mean monthly temperature of 6.5 C, this was followed by the Dauphin region, with a reading of 6.2 C, and Brandon coming in at 6.0 C. If we compare these to the local average temperatures it turns out that the Brandon region was actually the warmest, as the 6.0 C

reading for October was 1.9 C above the 1981-2010 average.

Dauphin was a close second as it was 1.8 C warmer than average. Finally, Winnipeg was third with a deviation of 1.5 C above average.

October started off nice and warm during the first couple of days, before a surge of cool air came in and brought our first real taste of fall. A lot of people figured, here we go again — another cold October. But by the middle of the month, temperatures soared, with readings at a number of locations making it into the low 20s for highs. This was followed by another shot of cool air before more warm air moved in, once again pushing daytime highs to around 20 C. Along with some nice warm daytime highs the overnight lows were also fairly mild.

Counting up the number of nights that we saw frost during October — most places only saw it around 50 per cent of the evenings. Turn this into the number of nights with killing frost and that drops way down to around 20 per cent. I know at my place my p o n d u s u a l l y f re eze s ove r pretty well by the end of the month. But this year I didn’t

see any ice form until nearly the end of the month.

Along with the warm temperatures came dr y conditions. The Winnipeg region was the driest, with only about five to 10 mm of precipitation reported. This was w e l l b e l ow t h e 1 9 8 1 - 2 0 1 0 average of 35 mm. The Brandon region was only a little wetter, with amounts coming in around the 10- to 15-mm range, or about 20 mm below average. The Dauphin region was the wet spot, with precipitation amounts in the 15- to 20-mm range, which was still about 20 mm below a ve ra g e. O ve ra l l , i t w a s a warmer- and drier-than-average month across agricultural Manitoba.

Before we take a look at who was able to come closest to correctly forecasting October’s weather, I thought we could take a quick look across the Prairies to see how their October weather turned out.

Across Saskatchewan, temperatures averaged a little warmer than here in Manitoba, with both Saskatoon and Regina recording mean monthly temperatures around 6.5 C or about 2 to 2.5 C above average. The area around Saskatoon was dry like us, with

only about 10 mm recorded, but it was wetter farther south around Regina as it recorded a near-average amount of 30 mm.

Fa r t h e r w e s t i n A l b e r t a temperatures continued to run above average during October. In the central and northern regions they saw readings similar to that of Saskatchewan, with both Edmonton and Peace River regions recording mean monthly temperatures that were about 2.0 C above average. Far ther south around Calgary the month was very warm, with a mean monthly temperature that was over 3.0 C above average. In fact, Calgary recorded its fourthwarmest October on record and the warmest October in over four decades. Precipitation amounts were low across southern and central parts of Alber ta, with both Calgary and Edmonton regions reporting around 10 mm of precipitation. In the Peace River region, it was a little wetter, which was welcome as it struggled through a very dry summer. This area saw around 20 mm, which was near average.

OK now let’s see who won the forecasting contest. Look-

ing back, it appears that no one really nailed it. I called for above-average temperatures and precipitation, so I was only half right. The Old Fa r m e r ’s Al m a n a c a n d E C both called for near-average temperatures, with EC calling for near-average amounts of precipitation while OFA called for dry conditions. Finally, the Canadian Farmers Almanac called for a cold first half of the month followed by wellabove-average temperatures during the second half of the month. Its precipitation forecast called for showers and s t o r m y c o n d i t i o n s, w h i c h sounds like above-average precipitation, but it also mentioned dust storms which to me would mean dry conditions. No wonder it claims an 80 per cent accuracy! I’ll leave it up to you to decide on a winner.

Usually at this point in the article I throw in the upcomi n g m o n t h’s f o re c a s t , b u t we’ve already looked at those forecasts a couple of articles back, but heck, here is a quick summary. EC — average conditions. OFA — warm and dry.

CFA — near-average temperatures and wet. Co-operator — near-average temperatures and dry.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 6, 2014

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CROPS BrettYoung unveils new seed-treating facility at Winnipeg headquarters The 28,000-square-foot facility can process 50 million pounds of seed a year

By Allan Dawson

“It signals our ongoing commitment to agriculture and to customers and supplier-partners.”

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There’s room for another seedprocessing line and, if necessary, for more buildings, said BrettYoung’s chief operating officer Cory Baseraba.

“Coatings have grown to become a very important part of our seed business,” he said.

BrettYoung started treating and coating seed eight years ago at a

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BrettYoung CEO Calvin Sonntag (r) and chief operating officer Cory Baseraba stand beside a centrifugal seed-coating chamber, which is part of the company’s new seedtreating facility. photo: allan dawson

facility in Saskatoon, but it couldn’t keep up with the growing demand, he said.

With an automated, centrifugal rotary batch coating system, BrettYoung can coat or pelletize any seed.

The new facility will meet and exceed new standards for seedtreating facilities being set by the Agrichemical Warehousing Standards Association to take effect in 2017, Baseraba said.

The facility was designed in 2012 and approved by BrettYoung in April 2013. Construction began last August.

The facility will eventually employ eight to 10 people.

BrettYoung was founded in 1934 and purchased by Peter Dyck in 1975. Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of ownership by the Dyck family. There are no plans to sell, Sonntag said.

“If you know Lloyd and his immediate family they are pretty passionate about it being a family-owned, Canadian-owned company,” Sonntag said.

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“He has had a number of knocks on the doors of people interested in acquiring the business and it’s pretty easy for him to come to the one conclusion — no thanks. He is really passionate about turning it over to the next generation of Dycks.”

Partners

Part of BrettYoung’s success comes through working with other familyowned companies. One of them is German-based NPZ, — halfowner of DL Seeds, which develops canola for the Canadian market.

A mostly farmer-owned German company called DSV owns the other half.

“We have a strategic partnership with DL Seeds, a long-term partnership,” Sonntag said.

BrettYoung’s share of Canada’s canola seed market has doubled in the last five years, he added.

“Our canola business is doing very well,” Sonntag said.

“We’re pretty darn excited about the canola portfolio we have today and the portfolio we’ll have to offer

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Although DL Seeds’ Canadian headquarters is near Morden, Man., it also has a research facility at BrettYoung’s headquarters.

DL Seeds’ general manager Kevin McCallum announced last week the company is investing $1 million to build a two-chamber, 2,500-square-foot greenhouse at BrettYoung’s headquarters, plus a 1,700-square-foot workspace for employees.

“This investment will help DL Seeds remain competitive in the canola-breeding landscape to allow the company to do further work on our mission statement of developing profitable canola hybrids for western Canadian farmers,” McCallum said. “DL Seeds is not only investing in new facilities, but its employees to give them better tools to carry out dayto-day activities that are so highly important to the success of our company. The new greenhouse will allow us to increase the number of hybrids that are created in a more environmentally friendly and efficient way.”

Work on the greenhouse was expected to be done this week.

DL Seeds canolas are sold through BrettYoung and Canterra, accounting for about one million acres of canola in Western Canada.

DL Seeds’ parent companies are among the biggest canola seed suppliers in Europe, McCallum said. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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rettYoung opened its new seed-treating and -coating facility at its headquarters just outside of Winnipeg Oct. 28.

It’s the single biggest investment the 80-year-old, familyowned company has ever made, BrettYoung chief executive officer Calvin Sonntag said in an interview.

“It signals our ongoing commitment to agriculture and to customers and supplier-partners,” he said.

“This investment puts BrettYoung on the leading edge of the ability to apply new coating treatments, new fungicides and insecticides (and) biologicals, which are becoming a more impor tant part of the treatment mix. I think farmer-customers and our customers can have confidence that BrettYoung is well positioned to meet their needs on a go-forward basis.”

Sonntag declined to say specifically how much the new facility cost, but agreed it would be several millions of dollars. As a privately held business, BrettYoung isn’t required to release its financial statements.

The new 28,000-square-foot facility can treat 50 million tonnes of seed a year, pumping out 12 bags of seed a minute and a pallet of seed bags every four minutes.

Part of that efficiency comes from having a robot to load pallets.

Half the facility is heated and the rest is cold storage and office. The facility can store 30,000 bushels of seed.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 6, 2014

Tough growing season harbinger of an even tougher winter for some farmers KAP is still pushing for AgriRecovery to offset what was for many farmers a terrible growing season

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF /PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE

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t w a s a t o u g h ye a r f o r many Manitoba farmers and it could be an even tougher winter, according to farmers speaking at Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) fall General Council meeting Oct. 30.

“There will be farmers who will not make land payments and machinery payments due to the fact they have not got their crop, so there will be people struggling with investments of the past that they now have to deal with,” said Wawanesa farmer Simon Ellis.

That’s why KAP continues to lobby the Manitoba and federal governments for an AgriRecovery program, said KAP president Doug Chorney.

KAP delegates also debated

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a n d t h e n t a b l e d f o r m o re study a resolution to make the deductible on Excess Moisture Insurance more affordable in areas hit repeatedly by too much spring precipitation.

“It’s not going to be an easy winter for many of us,” Chorney said.

Most farmers faced a wet,

Wawanesa farmer Simon Ellis says some farmers won’t be able to make their loan payments this year because of poor or no crop. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

c o o l s p r i n g , f o l l ow e d by drought and then a late, wet harvest that reduced yields and crop quality, he said.

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too wet to seed in the spring and an estimated 600,000 acres of seeded crops were drowned, Chorney said.

While some KAP members

said crops yielded better than expected in their districts, most said overall yields might be average. On top of all that, grain prices have been falling.

It’s not all bad. Cattle prices are very high, although some farmers lost pasture and are short of winter feed.

Hog prices are profitable and are expected to remain so until next year, Chorney said.

KAP has been pushing for an AgriRecovery program to fill the gaps not being covered by crop insurance, AgriStability and AgriInvest. The fact that after the 2011 flood, a program was announced in July doesn’t bode well for aid this year, Chorney said.

Farmers shouldn’t apologize for seeking government assistance to offset losses caused by bad weather, he said. Other industries, including the auto and oil sectors get help too, he said.

“We have a thriving economy in many cases because of the support the government puts behind industry and I think we’re no different,” Chorney said. “There are risks and challenges individual farmers cannot afford to bear alone. It’s a good public policy decision for governments to work with farmers.”

KAP delegates passed a resolution in favour of Excess Mo i s t u re In s u ra n c e ( E M I ) deductibles not increasing in municipalities where 50 per cent of the farmland went unseeded due to excessive moisture. Resolution mover Bill Campbell of Minto said the deductible, which increases by five per cent after every year there’s a claim, is necessary to discourage farmer mismanagement and abuse, but if half a municipality goes unseeded due to excessive moisture, it’s evidence the problem was the weather.

“We need to consider some of this stuff a national disaster when it rains that much and there’s that much flooding,” he said.

While agreeing with the resolution’s intent, Ste. Rose du Lac farmer Rob Brunel warned crop insurance programs must be actuarially sound.

That’s why KAP has suggested offsetting the increase in EMI deductibles through AgriRecovery, said KAP general manager James Battershill. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 6, 2014

Buyers of Canadian wheat facing challenges post-single desk Buyers are complaining of delayed shipments, added costs and inconsistent quality

By Terryn Shiells Commodity News Service Canada

S

ome Asian customers are buying less Canadian wheat in the post-singledesk era because of difficulties getting deliveries and inconsistent quality, a spokesman for a major milling company said last week.

Derek Sliworsky of Prima Group Agriway PTE Ltd. said his company, which has mills in China, Sri Lanka and Singapore, once bought all of its wheat from Canada.

But since the single desk has ended, there have been c h a l l e n g e s w i t h p u rc h a s ing Canadian wheat, causing some companies to reduce the amount they are buying — including Prima, said Sliworsky, who was previously

manager of the CWB’s Japan Deferring charges office.

Prima Group has also faced All three locations in the problems with deferring carPr i m a Gro u p h a ve s e e n a goes. Sliworsky said that was decline in Canadian wheat easy to do with the Canadian imports since the end of the Wheat Board in charge. But single desk on August 1, 2012, now sellers are quoting preSliworsky said. miums of $2 to $4 per tonne One of the biggest diffi- to defer the shipments, even culties accessing Canadian if they are given two to three w h e a t h a s b e e n s h i p p i n g months’ notice, Sliworsky said. times. Some ships they His company has also expeordered since 2012 were wait- r i e n c e d s h i p m e n t w e i g h t ing at ports for up to 40 to 50 issues, and greater protein days. It’s a problem for buyers variability within shipments, because it’s almost impossible which is problematic as it can for them to predict when the cause buyers to end up with cargoes of Canadian wheat wheat that they cannot use. will arrive.

Sliworsky’s company also Once, a shipment of a spe- found peas in a container of cial type of wheat for a very wheat, he said, adding, “they specific flour product arrived don’t know what is going on in two months too late from Can- the (Canadian) system.” ada, and the miller was out 10/15/14 of These aren’t SEC-RR2Y-MB14-TJr_MC.qxd 2:19issues PM Page 1 found stock for a few weeks, he said. with every container, but it’s

not happening with shipments from any other country.

Canadian wheat will likely face further challenges on the export market going forward, including competition from other countries, such as the United States and Australia, that are coming to buyers with new varieties to try out.

That was once a common practice under the Canadian Wheat Board, but it no longer happens in the new open market, according to Sliworsky.

Lack of competition

Another issue is a lack of sufficient competition in the Canadian marketplace, making it harder for buyers to get the product they want for a good price. Sliworsky said a buyer may only get two or three

offers from Canadian sellers, and if many of them are sold out when they need the product, then “they have to start switching the way they are buying.”

But, it’s not all bad for Canadian wheat, he said, as it is still highly regarded and valued in many Asian markets.

The grade variety and integrity is still there, buyers have resources such as Canadian International Grain Institute and the Canadian Grain Commission, and the wheat is cleaner than from some other countries.

An added bonus, he said, is that vessels aren’t fumigated, as Canada has a natural competitive advantage of having temperatures below 35 C, which isn’t the case in most of the U.S. and Australia.

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Manitoba’s burgeoning hemp industry will receive nearly $200,000 from the provincial and federal governments for new research into its medicinal properties.

The project, led by Parkland Industrial Hemp Growers (PIHG), will test existing varieties of hemp for levels of cannabidol, a compound believed to have a number of positive health effects.

The research project will also measure fibre content in existing hemp varieties. Hemp fibre is used in biomass products and the industry has identified the need to develop varieties with higher and more consistent fibre content as a priority.

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Bee health road map A diverse group of corporate entities is joining together with beekeepers as the Honey Bee Health Coalition

By Shannon VanRaes

“In the biggest terms, I want to stress that canola and pollinators actually have a pretty fantastic relationship to begin with, they pollinate seed stock for sure.”

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he Canola Council of Canada has joined the Honey Bee Health Coalition, a North American coalition of more than 30 organizations, in the hopes of improving pollinator numbers.

“We’re really dependent on pollinators to have seed stocks for this 20-million-acre industry, so obviously we want that relationship to continue,” said Gregory Sekulic, who represents the council at the coalition.

“In the biggest terms, I want to stress that canola and pollinators actually have a pretty fantastic relationship to begin with, they pollinate seed stock for sure… as well as contributing to yield of commodity canola as well,” he said.

Commodity canola visited by pollinators like honeybees can see yield increase by as much as five to 15 per cent, he added.

The time it takes for canola

Gregory Sekulic

to reach maturity can also be reduced by as much as four days when bees are present in the canopy.

“Bees tend to do very well on canola,” said Shelley Hoover, an Alberta-based apiculture researcher. “The crop has profuse blooms and nutritious pollen high in protein as well as fat, and with all the amino acids bees need to complete their life cycle… bees can produce quite a good honey crop off of canola.”

As a coalition member the canola council will now take part in the group’s “Bee Healthy Roadmap,” which lays out specific priorities and actions to achieve

and maintain a healthy honeybee population.

Those priorities fall into the following areas: improving hive management, forage and nutrition, crop pest management, cross-industry education, outreach, and co-ordination.

Sekulic noted that seed money for the coalition was provided

by Monsanto in 2013, but all members now contribute, either financially or through in-kind contributions.

The U.S.-based not-for-profit Keystone Centre now facilitates the coalition, which includes the American Beekeeping Federation, Canadian Honey Council, Ducks

Unlimited, Eastern Missouri Beekeepers Association, Bayer CropScience, CropLife America, Syngenta, DuPont and others.

“It’s a pretty fair cross-section,” Sekulic said, adding that he hopes the coalition will result in goodwill and opportunities for informal discussion between members.

No one representing beekeepers in Ontario, a province where a $450-million lawsuit against Bayer and Syngenta regarding the manufacturing of neonicotinoids is pending, has joined the coalition.

Sekulic said anyone surprised to see companies like Syngenta coming together with beekeeping and commodity organizations under one umbrella, like the Honey Bee Health Coalition, may not fully understand the common goals around keeping pollinators and their ecosystems healthy.

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Monsanto community grant winners Ten Manitoba communities will receive $2,500

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on-profit groups i n 1 0 Ma n i t o b a communities are among 66 across Canada to receive $2,500 grants from the Monsanto Fund as part of its Canada’s Farmers Grow Communities Program.

The charities were nominated by the local farmers. Winners from the 433 entries were drawn by board members of Agriculture in the Classroom – Manitoba.

“The Canada’s Farmers Grow Communities program is one way for Monsanto to help people in rural communities accomplish common goals,” said Trish Jordan, public and industry affairs director at Monsanto Canada. “Farmers have a history of coming together to help their neighbours, and we hope this program highlights that tradition of generosity while also growing stronger rural communities.”

T h e 2 0 1 4 re c i p i e n t s service a wide variety of community needs from s c h o o l s, l i b ra r i e s a n d local theatres to community halls, sport facilities, health-service clubs and daycares.

For the first time, a dog rescue organization, Valley Mastiff Rescue of La Peche, Que., is being awarded a grant by Canada’s Farmers, thanks to a nomination by Martin Renaud of Green Valley, Ont. The Manitoba winners are the Thunderhill Ski Club in Swan River, n o m i n a t e d by Ha r v e y Baldwin, Sour is Glen wood Foundation, nominated by Allison Barclay, Charlie Brown Day Care Centre Inc. in Ste. Rose du Lac, nominated by Shelly Brunel, Portage Plains United Way Inc., nominated by Kevin Coubrough of Portage la Prairie, Somerset and Area Fi t n e s s Ce n t re, n o m i nated by Elaine Gaudet, Miami School Playground Project, nominated by Westin Hill, Plumas Elementary School Parent Advisory Council, nominated by Keith Koncz, Lakeside Christian School, nominated by Art Peters of Killarney, Melita Pool Committee Inc., nominated by Kyle Serruys, and Lac du Bonnet Regional Library nominated by Tom Zerecki.

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Canola quality down slightly on year: early CGC data Later samples are expected to have higher green seed Commodity News Service Canada

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By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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armers in the Swan River Valley will have one less grain elevator serving them in a few months.

Cargill is closing its two elevators there May 31, 2015 and demolishing them by Dec. 31, 2015, the company said in a news release Oct. 30.

“Our Swan River grain facility would require significant and costly upgrades in order to maintain the high level of safety and efficiency standards at Cargill,” Jeff Wildeman, regional manager, of Cargill AgHorizons, said in the release. “We value our customers and will continue to work with area farmers to provide

Cargill’s concrete elevator is localized agronomy and crop old, but its wooden elevator, input solutions.”

Cargill will also buy grain which Gust suspects was built and truck it out of the area, in the 1980s by Manitoba Pool Cargill communications man- Elevators, could still be used, ager Brigitte Burgoyne said in he said.

Some farmers are already an interview.

After the closure, Pioneer trucking grain 170 km to will be the only elevator in the Yorkton, Sask., or places such as Roblin and Dutton, Man., area.

“It’s a shame,” said Calvin which are a bit closer.

But trucking is expensive Gust who farms near Minitoand it’s getting harder to find nas.

“I guess they believe it would drivers, Gust said.

Producer cars are starting to be easier and cheaper to knock it down and they don’t want to make a comeback, providing farmers with another option, sell it to somebody else.”

It’s going to make it much if they can get the cars, he said.

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“Our decision was based on several factors including the increasing difficulty of moving NH3 by rail, finding carriers to haul the product, and securing supply,” Burgoyne said.

Keystone Agricultural Producers’ president Doug Chorney said he is concerned about both Cargill’s decisions.

“It seems like they are backing away from some of their farm supply and grain business,” he said.

Anhydrous ammonia is a popular form of nitrogen fertilizer because it’s more concentrated than dry or liquid nitrogen and generally cheaper to buy, Chorney said.

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he quality of Canada’s 2014 canola crop is down slightly on the year, according to early harvest data compiled by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC).

With 1,132 samples received as of October 22, approximately 88 per cent of the canola samples were graded as No. 1. That compares with the 93.7 per cent of all samples that hit the top grade in 2013. The CGC also noted that “later-arriving samples may be graded lower due to green seed or other damages.”

The average oil content of the canola hitting the No. 1 grade level was pegged at 44.4 per cent (8.5 per cent moisture basis) in the samples received to date. That was down slightly from the 44.8 per cent seen the previous year, but slightly above the 10-year average of 44.2 per cent.

Crude protein levels, for canola, No. 1 Canada, averaged 20.4 per cent, which was higher than last year’s mean of 19.8 per cent and similar to the 10-year average of 20.6 per cent. The protein content on an oil-free basis is 39.6 per cent which is higher than the 2013 mean of 38.7 per cent and is similar to the 10-year mean of 39.9 per cent.

Currently, canola, No. 1 Canada has a mean chlorophyll content of 11.5 ppm which is lower than the 2013 average of 12.0 ppm and is below the 10-year average of 14.3 ppm.

However, there are some differences from region to region where some areas may show higher chlorophyll content than others, said the report.

Iodine values were averaging 112.2 units, which compares with the 2013 mean of 111.8 units. The 10-year average for iodine value is 113.9 units.

Glucosinolate content for the samples collected to date has a mean of 9.9 micromoles per gram, which is lower than the 10-year average of 11.2 micromoles/g.

Cargill closing its Swan River grain facility May 31, 2015

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Canary seed prices continue their uphill climb Technical analysis works just as well in charts representing cash prices David Drozd Market Outlook

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hen illustrating charting and technical analysis in my monthly columns, I’ve primarily used charts derived from the futures markets.

This time, I’m using chart patterns reflecting the cash market.

Some producers may not be aware that technical analysis works just as well in charts representing cash prices. It could be because these charts are not as readily available as those found in the futures markets.

At Ag-Chieve, we’ve created our own charts for the pulse and special crops we monitor on our members’ behalf.

The canary seed chart referenced here is a line chart reporting the weekly average cash price. An intermediate outlook such as this works well in markets that seldom fluctuate on a daily basis. Fortunately, as with the futures markets, charting and technical analysis also provides reliable indicators for forecasting price direction in the cash markets.

I once asked a savvy group of farmers that attended one of my market outlook presentations to provide me with charts without disclosing the commodity and I indicated the direction prices were heading next. I did this to illustrate how beneficial charting was, even though the fundamentals of the underlying commodity were unknown.

This works because technical analysis is the study of

CANARY SEED WEEKLY CASH PRICES (cents per pound)

market movement. Its strength and popularity comes from the assumption that future price direction can be predicted by studying a market’s past activity. Technical anal-

ysis is concerned exclusively with the market and certain statistics the market generates such as prices, volume and open interest.

In technical analysis, no

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consideration is given to daily news developments, supplya n d - d e m a n d f a c t o r s, g ov ernment reports or policies.

These areas are the concern of fundamental analysis, which attempts to identify all factors impacting the supply-demand relationship weighing each to determine what effect a change in any one factor has on price.

Over the longer term, major changes in the supply-demand relationship and in government policies do determine the direction of prices. Over the short and intermediate term, technical analysts will argue that this is a formidable task requiring almost perfect knowledge in which renders fundamental price forecasting, at least for the short term, an exercise in futility. Technical analysis is committed to the theory that the market itself simply and efficiently discounts all fundamental factors each and every day.

Re a d i n g a c h a r t i s a k i n to reading a road map. After starting out, you could encounter a few unexpected bumps and curves or detours along the way, but you will ultimately get to your final destination.

As illustrated in the accompanying chart, the canary seed market started out on a journey following a straight-line path through Saskatchewan between points of resistance and support, which formed a rectangular pattern. There were even a few potholes and minor bumps along the way that caused prices to fluctuate a penny.

At reference point A, prices turned down below the line of support, causing an increase in selling, which drove prices lower. With the exception of rolling over the odd knoll, prices continued to travel down into the Qu’Appelle Valley. This pattern is described as a downtrending channel on the canary seed chart.

At the bottom, prices levelled out across the valley floor before turning up on the other side. Once prices exceeded reference point B, which is the upper boundary of the downtrending channel, those who were along for the ride grew more optimistic they were going to make it up the hill.

Oh sure, the passengers briefly stopped or even backed up to admire the view along the way, but prices ultimately climbed out of the valley.

Therefore, a farmer’s ability to predict price direction in the cash market can certainly b e e n h a n c e d t h ro u g h t h e study of technical analysis.

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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South America to harvest big soybean crop

By Dave Sims COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA

A delay in this season’s planting, along with dry conditions, shouldn’t prevent Brazil from enjoying another solid year of soybean production, according to an industry-watcher who spoke at the recent Cereals North America conference in Winnipeg.

“Recent rains have arrived just in time, currently planting numbers are just behind the historical average but well within the range,” said Pedro H Dejneka managing partner at AGR BRASIL. He said concerns that large soy acres may be swapped out in favour of corn plantings, due to the dryness, are largely unfounded.

“Delayed soy planting actually favours yield prospects in Brazil because the producer can choose not to plant the corn behind it, but rather plant full-season beans and get a much better yield.”

Dejneka pegged Brazil’s soybean production in 2014-15 at 96.2 million tonnes, with favourable weather. That projection falls to 88.9 million tonnes if crops receive bad weather. That forecast compares to the USDA estimate of 94 MMT. “But with outstanding weather we could have record yields in Brazil, it could reach 100 million plus,” he said.

Disastrous weather could push that number down to 88.9 million tonnes, he said.

Although Paraguay hasn’t traditionally been considered a major player in the market, Dejneka projected its soybean production to come in between eight million to 10 million tonnes.

Dejneka says total South American soybean production could surpass 160 million tonnes in 2014-15.

As for corn, Dejneka pegged Brazilian production at 74.9 million tonnes in 2014-15 with good weather. That compares to the USDA forecast of 75 million MMT. If the weather is bad, that number falls to 70.4 million MMT. “Agriculture infrastructure reform (in Brazil) will be crucial moving forward,” he added, noting a lot of pasture land is being flipped to grains in the country.

Brazil plans to move a larger share of its exports through northern ports in the coming years meaning upgrades to the facilities will need to happen soon.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 6, 2014

Family farms face federal support program discrimination A farmer can claim wages paid to arm’s length employees but not family members

By Alex Binkley Co-operator contributor

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armers who pay family members to help out during the busy season are not eligible to claim those expenses under federal support programs — and that discriminates against family farms, a New Brunswick senator says.

Senator Pierrette Ringuette said federal agriculture support programs penalize family-owned farms because Agriculture Canada applies financial definitions that are contrary to accepted legal terms used by the rest of the federal government.

“They don’t respect established jurisprudence or legal precedents set in court decisions,” Ringuette said in support of a motion that a Senate committee investigate her allegations

about the AgriStability and AgriInvest programs. She presented the Senate with 20 pages of evidence to back her contention.

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture believes the problem with the two programs is even more extensive than the senator alleges. The department’s rules are negatively limiting legitimate business expenses that family farms can claim.

Caught up

Ninety-eight per cent of Canadian farms are family owned and operated, so “quite a few have been caught up in this,” said Canadian Federation of Agriculture president Ron Bonnett, noting it affects how much farms can receive under the two key income stabilization programs.

When a farmer applies for help under either program, he or she

has to supply detailed business information including wages paid to employees and family members who work on the operation, Ringuette said.

Under the support programs, the department considers income paid to employees as arm’s length salaries and payments to family as non-arm’s length salaries under the programs. It doesn’t allow farmers to include payments to family members even though they may spend long hours helping out during busy periods such as planting and harvesting.

“This is a major disincentive to keep a farm as a family-owned business,” she said. Many family members work off the farm but take time to help on the farm when needed. “But the farmers cannot claim money paid to them as a business expense.”

When she complained to Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz about the inequality, he replied that the Justice Department had approved it. However, the Canada Revenue Agency and other federal programs don’t follow this discriminatory process after court rulings said it was wrong, she said.

“Something is totally out of whack. But every attempt by farmers to appeal it is denied.

What a joke. The department is completely oblivious to the correct legal terminology.”

Appeals denied

Agriculture Canada was asked for comment on the senator’s criticisms but hadn’t responded as of press time.

Senator Ringuette says she has received numerous complaints about the discrimination facing family farms.

Bonnett said CFA is concerned that the department’s stance penalizes farmers who try to keep their costs down by hiring family members when they can. The federation initially didn’t support C18 The Agriculture Growth Act, introduced last December and still not passed, because of concerns about changes to AgriStability and AgriInvest included in the bill. It eventually endorsed the bill, which overhauls Plant Breeders Rights when it was satisfied with an explanation about the changes the bill was implementing.

However, CFA wants an early review of both income support programs to deal with the inequities they have created, Bonnett said. “We have raised this since they introduced AgriStability last year. We’re dealing with the implications of other changes they made.”

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In a monthly update, the IGC said planting of 201516 winter crops was well advanced, with total area projected to rise by one per cent year on year.

“Global demand is forecast to increase quite strongly, due to above-average growth in food, feed and industrial consumption,” the IGC said.

“Overall use is placed at a record 710 million tonnes, up one million compared to the September report and two per cent higher year on year.”

Led by gains in the eight major exporters, end-season inventories are seen at their highest in four years, the IGC said.

EU closing stocks are forecast to nearly double.

The IGC also projected world corn production at 980 million tonnes, up six million from last month’s forecast, but still below the prior season’s record 983-million-tonne harvest.

“Despite further upgrades to U.S. and EU crop forecasts, world production is still placed slightly short of last year’s record, due to expected declines in China and South America,” the IGC said.

“Global supplies appear comfortable, particularly in the key exporters, with ending stocks forecast at their highest since 1987-88.”

Consumption is projected to increase to a new record, the IGC said. — Reuters

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 6, 2014

Co-operator barn series revival Do you know this barn?

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f you do, a Manitoba historian wants to hear from you. In early 1981 the Co-operator worked with provincial Manitoba Historic Resources Branch staff to photograph and publish a series on rural buildings in Manitoba. Each week a photo and a story were published about why each of the buildings was rare or unusual.

Now Gordon Goldsborough, webmaster and journal editor with the Manitoba Historical Society (MHS), is looking for Co-operator readers to help him find the GPS co-ordinates for these barns. He has looked for them during road trips in rural Manitoba, but because the site’s location details are scant, he has been unable to find them. He wants to include the buildings, with their GPS co-ordinates on a map of historic sites being prepared for the MHS. This photograph was taken by now-retired Co-operator editor Bob Hainstock who took the photo in the 1980s for the earlier project. Many of the photos were eventually included in Hainstock’s 1986 book Barns of Western Canada: An Illustrated Century.

We are including the original “caption” that ran with his photo, hoping a reader can answer these questions: 1.

2.

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Does the building still stand?

If so, where is it?

What are its GPS co-ordinates?

What other information can you provide on its state of preservation or other details about its history since the original story in the 1980s?

Please send your responses to Gordon Goldsborough at: email: gordon@mhs.mb.ca Telephone: (204) 474-7469 Mail: 2021 Loudoun Rd. Winnipeg, Man. R3S 1A3

Abandoned for the past 25 years, this tidy barn of brick and steel located eight miles east of Rivers remains straight and true despite its 80 years of age. According to local researchers, Ernest and Allan Cutting constructed the barn soon after arriving from England in 1900. The bricks came from R. Hales’ brickyard in Rapid City about eight miles away, as did the steel. The Cutting brothers kept about 14 head of horses in the structure which measures about 24x28 feet. They sold the farm to T.L. Davis in 1920, who in turn sold the property 33 years later. The steel gambrel roof and hay pulley system appear to be in excellent condition, although some deterioration is evident in the interior framing.

The site is located on Highway 25 about three miles from the junction of Highway 10.

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canola-crushing plant owned by the Canadian unit of global grain trader Louis Dreyfus Corp. will be offline indefinitely after an explosion and fire Oct. 24, the company said.

Firefighters are investigating the cause of the blast at the Yorkton, Sask., plant, and an assessment of the structural condition of a canola meal storage shed is underway, Louis Dreyfus Commodities said in a statement.

“LDC cannot state at this time when operations at the plant will resume,” it said.

The company has not released an estimate of the damage. One worker sustained a minor injury.

The plant is one of two in the area. It has the capacity to crush 850,000 tonnes of canola a year, according to a Louis Dreyfus website.

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

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Manitoba towns learn what’s working for them — and what needs work — with First Impressions Community Exchange program

By Lorraine Stevenson co-operator staff

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first impression is a lasting one — whether it’s a person or a place.

Fo r s m a l l t ow n s, i t c a n make the difference between new people wanting to come and live there — or looking elsewhere.

Souris and Minnedosa both jumped at the chance to take part this summer in an ongoing program pairing Manitoba towns to help them learn what sort of impression they leave on visitors.

They were participants in the First Impressions Community Exchange, a Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development program designed to help towns see their own strengths and shortcomings through fresh pairs of eyes.

Souris and Minnedosa, Niverville and Stonewall, and Portage la Prairie and Dauphin, were matched in 2014 as communities of approximately the same size population and sharing other similarities.

Each participating town sent a team of delegates to the other’s, to evaluate, using a handbook provided by MAFRD, and log their outsider’s take on the other’s community.

“They were looking at everything from signage, to the smells, sights, sounds in the community, whether it’s welcoming, the placement and quality of schools and services, landscaping, public infrastructure like sidewalks and curbs.”

Vern May

EDO with Souris Glenwood CDC

Minnedosa was eager to get an unbiased assessment of the town, says Ross Mackling, a local business owner. You tend not to see certain things, or are unaware of others until someone new brings them to your attention, he said.

“It seemed like a really good opportunity to have another set of eyes come and view what we kind of take for granted here, and give us maybe a new fresh perspective on things,” he said.

Visiting delegates to each respective town assessed everything from esthetic appeal to availability of housing and rec-

reational opportunities, services and infrastructure, said Vern May, the economic development officer with the Souris and Glenwood Community Development Corporation.

“They were looking at everything from signage, to the smells, sights, sounds in the community, whether it’s welcoming, the placement and quality of schools and services, landscaping, public infrastructure like sidewalks and curbs,” he said.

Souris got high marks on many fronts. Delegates said while Souris is best known for its historic swinging bridge, it has far more to offer. The hours and variety of local restaurants received praise, as did the town’s slate of unique businesses such as Sadlers Greenhouse and specialty accommodations found at The Guest Room.

Minnedosa also heard good things about why people would want to live in the town, said Mackling. “ We w o u l d h o p e t o b e viewed as a progressive and modern community that has lots of services for its residents and its visitors,” he said. “We certainly feel the lake is one of our best assets and we feel very fortunate to live in a beautiful valley and scenic location in Manitoba. Their visitors thought so too.

B u t t h i s w a s n’t m e r e l y mutual admiration exercise.

Both communities also heard constructive suggestions about where they can improve their first impressions. Souris heard that it needs to improve its welcoming signage from all four directions and visitors commented that some of its storefronts are “tired looking.” The town needs to do something about a large vacant lot in its town, and it needs an industrial park, the evaluation said.

Likewise, Minnedosa was told it can improve some services to visitors, such as having restaurants keep more convenient hours, and its Main Street needed upgrading, said Mackling.

“There weren’t too many negatives, but they pointed out some tidying up needed, and some facelifts needed on some of our Main Street buildings,” he said. Minnedosa could also be doing more with social media to promote the community, he added.

“We’ve realized we’re behind in that area, and could be doing more.”

Both places will take the evaluations, now compiled into reports with recommendations, to their respective councils.

They’ll be used to form action items for their respective economic development committees, chambers of commerce and other groups.

Souris took part in a First Impressions Community Exchange program to find out where the community’s strengths and weaknesses lie when it comes to making a good impression on prospective new residents and business owners.

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But while action areas are easy fixes, like a coat of paint, others relate to much biggerpicture issues. Overall economic development is what enables communities to be both attractive and service rich, said Mackling.

“We have the infrastructure, the schools and the hospital, the quality of life and the basic things covered,” he said. “But

we are working very hard at finding opportunities to bring new industry and employment to town, and to revitalize the economy.

“I think our biggest issue is adequate housing, and along with that, jobs that can keep our young people at home a n d b r i n g p e o p l e i n ,” h e said.

First Impressions Community

Exchanges were initially developed in Wisconsin as a simple and low-cost commu nity development tool. The program began in Manitoba nearly a decade ago, and has also been adapted and used in hundreds of communities throughout the U.S., Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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Send your recipes or recipe request to: Manitoba Co-operator Recipe Swap Box 1794, Carman, Man. ROG OJO or email: lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

The war at the dinner table The Second World War transformed the Canadian diet Lorraine Stevenson CROSSROADS RECIPE SWAP

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ome can remember the war years. The rest of us can only imagine, from stories we’ve heard, what life was like during them.

Some of those stories are found in places we might not think to look, like cookbooks.

Canadian women shared thousands of wartime ration-stretching recipes during the Second World War. Magazines and newspapers, including this one, were filled with them during the 1940s. Over 200 wartime recipe cookbooks were published in that era too. The federal government, rolling out new policies to change Canadians’ diets and divert food for the war effort, published many cookbooks. So did food companies and popular home economists of the era. Community cookbooks outnumbered them all.

Ian Mosby, a Canadian food, health and nutrition historian at McMaster University has written extensively about how the war changed how Canadians shopped, cooked and ate.

In his essay Food On The Home Front During The Second World War — found on www.wartimecanada.ca — he talks about all the various government interventions in the kitchen from campaigns to promote

www.wartimecanada.ca The Wartime Canada website has many more resources categorized under headings such as eating, working, shopping, relaxing, volunteering, worshipping that offer a glimpse of everyday life in Canada during the war years.

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‘patriotic’ foods, to the launch of the precursor of the Canada Food Guide to all the different controls on the price, production, and distribution of food.

The two most significant factors that actually changed how we consumed food were price freezes and the ration books, says Mosby. A universal price and rent control began in December 1941 to help Canadians continue to afford necessities, like food, fuel and shelter. Coupon rationing began in July 1941, first for sugar, then tea and coffee, followed by butter and by March 1942 for meat as well. Rationing, he notes, was popular. Polls showed more than 90 per cent of Canadians agreed it had worked to achieve equitable distribution of food.

Another major intervention was the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, designed to regulate the war economy. Among its many controls, the WPTB regulated production of “non-essential foods” like chocolate bars and soft drinks, set limits on what kinds of food could be sold in tin cans, and instituted meatless Tuesdays in restaurants.

He describes the campaigns to promote ‘patriotic’ foods — those we couldn’t sell after markets collapsed in Europe, the launch of Canada’s Official Food Rules to help combat the diet-related poor health, the growing of victory gardens and enthusiastic home preservation efforts, the “fats and bones” collections urging housewives to stream these ingredients into munitions making, the food relief programs women’s

organizations like the Women’s Institutes undertook and women’s efforts to stretch their ration ingredients.

His essay begins with a quote from a December 12, 1942 edition of Saturday Night that reads: “Canada has determined to change the eating habits of a nation, because she has learned that efficient production of food is only half the victory. It takes efficient consumption, too, to give full meaning to the slogan, ‘Food will win the war.’”

He concludes suggesting that, although wartime eating is remembered as all about thrift and sacrifice, the reality was many Canadians typically ate more, and better, than they had for more than a decade.

“It is perhaps not surprising then, that many Canadians looked back on their wartime eating experience on the home front with fondness and nostalgia,” he writes.

“Although most Canadians put away their recipes for ‘Canada War Cake’ for good after the end of the war, rationing and the wartime mobilization of food provided them with something approaching a truly national eating experience that, for many, would remain one of their most positive memories of a period generally characterized by much more profound sacrifices in the lives of their family, friends, and neighbours.”

Ian Mosby is author of Food will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front (UBC Press, 2014).

Canada War Cake

Apple Loaf

This typically eggless, milkless, butterless, sugar-stretching dessert was a popular and widely shared recipe among Canadian women.

During the 1940s this newspaper published many wartime recipes. Mustard pickles recipes were accompanied by articles that read, “there’s no reason why the meals next winter need to be lacking because there are several pickle (recipes) that require no sugar at all.” We also published many apple recipes, including this loaf recipe. Apples were one of the earliest of foods to be rebranded as a patriotic Canadian food, alongside lobster, after export markets for both collapsed. As early as 1939 the Department of Agriculture was running ads that read, “Serve apples daily and you serve your country too.”

2 c. brown sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp cloves (ground) 2 tbsp. shortening 3/4 c. raisins 2-1/2 c. hot water 3 c. flour 1-1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 c. chopped walnuts

Combine the shortening and hot water and boil for three minutes. Remove from heat and let cool. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, cloves, and raisins and add to large saucepan. Then stir together flour, baking soda and walnuts and stir into liquid mixture. Mix well by hand, stirring with fork. Pour into loaf pan that has been greased and dusted with flour.

Bake for one hour and 15 minutes at 325 F.

2 c. sifted all-purpose flour 1/4 tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. baking powder 1/3 c. butter 1/3 c. sugar 1 c. ground or finely grated unpeeled apple 1/2 c. wheat germ 1/4 c. sour milk

Sift flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar well together.

Add apple and wheat germ. Add dry ingredients alternately with sour milk. Bake in a greased 4-1/2x10-inch loaf pan at 350 F for about 45 minutes.

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Wintering over succulents Bring these plants indoors and you can enjoy them outside again next summer

By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

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ucculent containers have been all the rage the last few years in outdoor summer gardens. While they do add unique accents to the landscape, acquiring enough succulents to create effective planters is an expensive proposition — most succulents cost over $6 for a single plant in garden centres in the spring; many cost much more than that. It is no surprise that many gardeners attempt to winter their succulents indoors for the winter. I am one of those gardeners.

Succulents are not that difficult to keep over the winter, but they do require good light.

I winter mine in my all-season sunroom in front of south and west windows. Lower light levels will mean the plants will become leggy and not be as robust, but they might survive until spring when they can be planted outdoors to recuperate.

Just give them as much light as you can. During the winter, succulents also prefer cool temperatures; my sunroom is great for this as the temperatures there are quite cool during the winter.

Succulents possess the characteristic of being able to store water in their leaves so during the winter soil in which succulents are planted should be kept quite dry. This will allow the plants to remain in a semi-dormant state instead of putting forth spindly new growth. Keeping the soil dry will also inhibit the development of rot. Wet soil during periods of low light and cool temperatures may very well lead to the plants developing root rot or rotting off at soil level.

Another option is to put succulents in a light garden.

Depending on the distance the lights are from the plants and the temperature of the surrounding air, the plants will either be maintained as mentioned above, in a semi-dormant state, or if the temperatures and light levels are high enough, they may continue to be in active growth mode. In this case the plants will require more frequent watering.

Space — or lack of it — is always an issue in the winter garden. Although it might be appealing to have each succulent potted in its own individual pot, for practical purposes planting several plants in somewhat larger containers might make better use of the available space. As well as wintering the plants, the next year’s summer garden must be kept in mind as well. For this reason, it is a good idea to take slips of succulents in the fall to ensure that there are lots of appropriately sized plants to use in the spring.

Bringing a succulent planter that has graced the outdoor garden all summer indoors and then leaving it intact all winter might work, but the plants will already have reached a mature size and some may even have become quite rangy or fallen over. If such a planter was wintered as is, by spring it would be even more overgrown and would have to be severely trimmed back and probably replanted. This would mean a longer wait in the spring to achieve an attractive planter.

Succulents are not that difficult to keep over the winter, but they do require good light.

I handle this problem by taking slips from my succulents when I bring them indoors in the fall. I choose larger containers and plant several slips of one kind in each container — although there is no reason several kinds cannot be planted in the same container if they have similar growth habits. I crowd the slips close together; yes, they will be crowded by spring, but I will then transplant them into the outdoor containers and they will soon overcome any disadvantage they suffered while being somewhat crowded together for the winter.

A succulent planter that has spent the summer outdoors will need to be cut back and slipped in the fall when brought indoors or it will become too overgrown and rangy. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

I have a few upright succulents that grow quite quickly and I may have to clip off the tops of these plants midwinter and use the cuttings as more slips. I keep the parent plants as they will develop new plantlets after being cut

back and I will keep an eye on them and harvest even more slips during the winter and pot them up. Come spring, I will have a great many goodsize succulents to create as many succulent containers as I want for myself, for friends

and to contribute to fundraising plant sales. I will also enjoy looking after my succulent garden during the long, cold winter!

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

Thoughts on Remembrance Day

By Addy Oberlin Freelance contributor

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ach year Remembrance Day brings fresh memories of the Canadian soldiers who freed a little country by the North Sea. I was only a child but to this day I remember them coming into the town and handing out chocolate bars and the people were jubilant.

The veterans still have a special spot in my heart and bring a tear when I see them leading our yearly parade. I am proud of them.

Wars will always be fought till the end of times and precious lives of young men and women will be lost. Jesus tells us in Matthew 24:6 that there will be wars and rumours of wars. And we need to be faithful till the end.

Let us not stop remembering and pray for those brave men and women who are still on the front. Many come home physically and mentally hurt for the rest of their life. They need support and help so that they can function again in their families.

Do remember them!

Addy Oberlin writes from Swan River, Manitoba

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Remembering Our Veterans MacGregor woman creates book to honour those who served

By Donna Gamache Freelance contributor

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he RM of North Norfolk ( t h e M a c G re g o r a n d Austin area) will soon have a new resource for history buffs, or for those interested in details of the various wars in which our citizens have fought.

Remembering Our Veterans is a limited edition book to be published this fall. The brainchild of Beverley Anderson of MacGregor, it is a compilation of material she has collected, with the help of other members of an ad hoc group from the local area.

Anderson began the project on her own, gathering information over a 10-year period searching through cemetery records, on military headstones and local military cenotaphs, community honour rolls, local history books and newspaper items. Pictures and family history information were located in the collections of the North Norfolk-MacGregor Archives Inc. Other names and information came from Veterans Affairs Canada and Archives Canada.

In the last few months others joined in to assist her, realizing the value of what she had been working on. This fall she

has spent much time working on lists of names, photographs and anecdotes to get the manuscript ready for publication.

To give the lists a more personal feeling, Anderson includes several letters written by soldiers to loved ones or friends at home.

The resulting work covers: the Northwest (or Second Riel) Rebellion, the Second Boer War (1899-1902), First World War (1914-18), Second World War (1939-45), and the Korean War. The book begins with the Northwest Rebellion when five local men are listed as being among the Canadian troops who fought there. Next is the Second Boer War, and Anderson’s records show that 15 men from the MacGregor/North Norfolk area were part of this war effort, with one casualty.

Most of Anderson’s lists and

stories are from the two world wars where approximately 155 died in the First World War, and approximately 310 in the Second World War — a very large number from one small rural region. “It’s hard to realize the number of young men from this area who were killed and never returned here,” said an archives’ member. “It makes one wonder how different the local districts might have been, if all those young men had returned after the wars.”

The numbers of veterans listed who fought in the war but survived are also astonishing — over 300 in the First World War and almost 450 in the Second World War — all from one rural area.

To give the lists a more personal feeling, Anderson includes several letters written by soldiers to loved ones or friends at home. She also gives some local stories that really bring home the effect these wars had. Particularly moving is the story about the Stewart family of MacGregor. From this family, four sons volunteered during the First World War. Three died, and only one made it home.

One of the letters was written by a son just 15 days before he was killed in action.

Beverley Anderson, working on her book. PHOTO: GAMACHE

Local veterans who were h o n o u re d f o r b r a v e r y o r actions during the wars are also part of the book, such as F.L. William (Bill) Roberts of MacGregor, shown receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945.

Anderson hopes the book will be completed and printed

by Remembrance Day. She plans to pr int only about 15 copies, putting one in each of the local schools, the MacGregor United Church (where the local cenotaph is located), the Austin A g r i c u l t u ra l Mu s e u m , t h e

No r t h No r f o l k - Ma c G re g o r Library, the Seniors’ Centre in Austin, the Sidney Community Centre and the MacGregor Archives.

Remembering Our Veterans will be a fine tribute to those who sacrificed several years, and sometimes their lives, for the benefit of other Canadians.

Anderson hopes that if any names have been missed, people will notify her, and they can be added to an extra page at the end of the book.

Donna Gamache writes from MacGregor, Manitoba

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Chalk it up to beautiful Chalk paint is expensive so create your own for a fraction of the cost Connie Oliver Around the House

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halk paint is a fantastic trend that beautifully transforms throwaway treasures into timeless classics.

However, while the look is priceless, the cost can be expensive, with a litre of chalk paint costing upwards of $80. Now you can turn plain into pretty with chalk paint created for a fraction of the cost using a mixture of Home Hardware’s Beauti-Tone Designer Series paint and Home drywall compound.

“Sometimes the piece is inherited, sometimes it’s a score at a garage sale and sometimes it’s found at the end of a driveway, no longer loved,” says Bev Bell, creative director, BeautiTone Paint and Home Products Division, Home Hardware Stores Limited. “Then throw in some of this and a bit of that, give it a rub and abracadabra, it’s transformed from trash to treasure!”

The chalk paint technique features a bottom colour of straight paint, a topcoat of chalk paint in a different colour and then a good rub of dark paste wax to finish it off. To create “chalk paint” you’ll need a one-litre can of Beauti-Tone Designer Series paint, 1/4 to 1/2 cup (depending on the project) of Home drywall compound (this recipe

was created using Home-brand drywall compound as it creates a smooth, spreadable mixture) and an empty four-litre paint can or other sealable container. In the empty paint can, start by mixing the drywall compound with a small amount of the paint to create a slurry (no lumps). Then add the remainder of the litre of paint to the compound mixture.

Transformed settee

The old settee pictured here is from the ’70s. Beautiful paint and luscious fabric bring great big style without losing the heritage.

Here’s how:

• Paint the entire piece with the base colour (BeautiTone Designer Series Matte in Charcoal Sketch was used for this project). Apply a second coat, if needed. Let dry 24 hours.

• Paint the entire piece with the top colour mixed with drywall compound (Beauti-Tone Designer Series Matte in White Lite was used). Let dry 24 hours.

Note: To preserve the carving on the settee, the paint shouldn’t be too thick. One-quarter cup drywall compound should do it.

• O nce dry, sand back on the relief to reveal the dark grey beneath.

• Carved details are enhanced by brushing a small amount of the base colour into the recess and wiping it off immediately with a wet cloth wrapped around a sanding sponge. Let dry.

Settee before.

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Settee after.

• When you are satisfied with the soft, worn look, apply a natural paste wax over entire finish. Let dry and buff. Repeat if you want a slightly higher sheen.

Tip: Use outdoor fabrics to upholster seats. They are more resistant to the stress of everyday living.

Old table to tea party table

An old wooden table can be transformed into a fresh new piece. In our project we took a discarded old table and turned it into a play table in a little girl’s room.

Here’s how:

• Paint the entire table, including underneath, with the base colour of your choosing. Apply a second coat, if needed. Let dry 24 hours.

• Paint the entire table, excluding underneath, with the top colour mixed with drywall compound.

Let dry 24 hours.

Table before.

Note: If the table surface is in rough shape consider using the maximum amount of drywall compound, 1/2 cup.

• With a sanding sponge, sand back on edges and details to expose the under layer of the base coat.

• When you are satisfied with the soft, worn look, apply a dark paste wax over the entire piece. Let dry and buff.

Repeat if you want a slightly higher sheen.

Chalk-based paint can be used for other projects as well. Clay

Table after.

flowerpots, ceramic lamp bases, photo frames, for example, can all be transformed with a coat of fresh paint. If you have leftover paint from other projects, consider turning it into a chalkbased paint to use on accessories that will co-ordinate with your décor.

Connie Oliver is an interior designer from Gimli, Manitoba

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Thirty per cent of world’s food wasted, new online platform seeks savings Annual food losses are more than enough to feed the world’s 800 million hungry people

By Chris Arsenault rome / thomson reuters foundation

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nough food to feed two billion people is wasted every year, leading UN agencies to create a new interactive platform to try to reduce the losses, which could easily feed the world’s 800 million hungry.

The Global Community of Practice of Food Loss Reduction web portal, launched last week, allows users to get information about ways of reducing waste.

An estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of food, or roughly 30 per cent of global production, is lost or wasted annually, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It remains unclear how effective the new platform will be in solving the problem, but experts believe it is a step in the right direction.

“We need to close the gap between people being aware of this problem and what they do when they are standing in the grocery store or in the kitchen,” Dana Gunders, a scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. environmental advocacy group, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“Awareness is the first step; the more specific the information (available on the portal) the more helpful it is in terms of reductions.”

More than 40 per cent of root crops, fruits and vegetables, 20 per cent of oilseeds and 35 per cent of fish never reach the

A woman picks up vegetables discarded by food vendors at a garbage dump site of a wholesale market in Xi’an, Shaanxi province. About 60 tonnes of vegetables are discarded every day in the market due to damages mainly caused by hot weather. Many residents come to pick them up at a garbage dump site to eat or feed their livestock, local media reported. Picture taken July 27, 2014. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer

mouths of hungry people, the FAO reported.

In developed countries, food waste usually occurs in homes or restaurants, when consumers discard products they believe have gone rotten, or in grocery stores if products don’t look picture perfect due to slight blemishes.

Most of the developing world’s spoilage happens during storage or transport, as infrastructure for refrigeration and preservation is often inadequate.

Backers hope information on the new platform will help farmers to “share experiences to concretely reduce losses,” the FAO’s Anthony Bennett said.

Solutions in the field

If farmers in Uganda, for example, find a new technique to reduce spoilage, they can upload information about the project to the portal so that others can learn from it.

As part of the initiative, the World Food Program has pro-

vided metal silos and sophisticated storage bags to 400 small farmers in Burkina Faso and Uganda.

Better storage facilities reduced post-harvest waste to less than two per cent during a 90-day trial period, and the WFP is now scaling up the program by taking it to 41,000 farmers and aiming for a 70 per cent reduction in postharvest losses.

At first, the farmers were skeptical about changing tech-

niques they had used for generations, in favour of the new silos and airtight, waterproof storage bags.

“After watching the grain in the traditional storage units deteriorate quickly, they expected the same (or worse) to be occurring inside the new units,” said Simon Costa, the project’s manager. “Their disbelief quickly turned to jubilation when they discovered their harvest was in perfect condition.”

A manual showing how to build similar silos is now available online.

Appropriate technologies like this don’t just keep food fresh for longer, Gunders said, they also help farmers to manage market cycles more effectively.

Many farmers want to hold some of their produce for some time after the harvest, as prices rise when less food is available on the market.

Small farmers are some of the worst affected by hunger in many developing countries.

Gunders studied pea farmers in several African countries, who didn’t have access to the silos or airtight storage bags, spraying toxic pesticides directly on the food after harvest.

“Kids were eating the peas and literally dying from the pesticides,” she said. “The sealable bags eliminated the need for this and allowed farmers to store the crops for longer and sell at a better price.”

India boosts wheat subsidies to farmers Wheat stocks already in government warehouses are nearly three times the official target

By Mayank Bhardwaj new delhi / reuters

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he Indian government has raised the price it will pay to buy new-season wheat from local farmers by 3.57 per cent to 1,450 rupees ($23.60) per 100 kg, encouraging the crop even though supply has exceeded demand for eight years.

India, the world’s secondbiggest wheat consumer, sets a price each year to protect domestic farmers from distress sales and to cover emergency needs. It uses the grain to sell food to the poor at low prices.

The government announced this year’s increase in a statement Oct. 30.

It also raised the support price for new-season rapeseed, the main winter-sown oilseed, to 3,100 rupees per 100 kg from 3,050 rupees a year earlier.

St a t e g ov e r n m e n t s b u y oilseeds only when prices fall below the support rate and can

claim reimbursements from the federal government.

Imports account for nearly 60 per cent of India’s annual edible oil demand of 18 million to 19 million tonnes, making it the world’s biggest buyer.

Storage overflowing

In the grain market, India’s bins are overflowing after a sharp rise in the support price in the past decade. The government has allowed exports from its warehouses in the past two years, in a reversal from 2006, when India had to buy expensive Australian wheat.

On Oct. 1, wheat stocks at government warehouses amounted to 32.3 million tonnes, nearly three times the official target.

Indian farmers grow only one wheat crop a year, with planting in October-November and harvesting from April. This year, farmers harvested a record 95.9 million tonnes of wheat, up from 92.5 million the previous year.

Higher support prices for

farmers, large inventories and exports have led to a rising subsidy bill and invited criticism at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Seeking more freedom to subsidize and stockpile grains, India in July blocked a global trade reform at WTO. While India refuses to yield in the WTO spat, the chairman of EU trade ministers on Oct. 15 said New Delhi has until Oct. 21 to support a global trade deal struck last year or risk being left out of the agreement to ease worldwide customs rules.

Presenting his first budget for the fiscal year to March 2015, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on July 10 earmarked 1.15 trillion rupees for food subsidies.

State governments are also in the process of rolling out the $19-billion Food Security Act, which promises cheap rice and wheat to 810 million people, expanding current handouts made to 318 million of India’s poorest people.

A worker carries a ladder past sacks filled with wheat at a Food Corporation of India (FCI) warehouse in Morinda in the northern Indian state of Punjab February 20, 2013. On Oct. 1, wheat stocks at government warehouses amounted to 32.3 million tonnes, nearly three times the official target.

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$8 billion in development aid for Horn of Africa The funds will help support infrastructure development and improve health access

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA / REUTERS

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lobal development lenders, including the World Bank, African Development Bank and European Union, pledged more than $8 billion Oct. 27 to boost economic growth and reduce poverty in eight countr ies in the Hor n of Africa.

The region, which includes Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Uganda, Su d a n a n d So u t h Su d a n , includes some of the world’s fastest-growing economies — with vast, untapped natural resources — but it has also been beset by extreme poverty and conflict.

The funds will help to support infrastructure development, including regional oil and gas pipelines, pro-

“The countries of the Horn of Africa are making important yet unheralded progress in economic growth and political stability.”

BAN KI-MOON

United Nations secretary general

grams to improve health and access to energy and the expansion of university education and job training in the coming years.

“The countries of the Horn of Africa are making important yet unheralded progress in economic growth and political stability,” United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon said in a statement announcing the commitments.

“Now is a crucial moment to support those efforts, end the cycles of conflict and poverty, and move from fragility to sustainability,” said Ban, who is leading a trip to the region that also includes World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim. The World Bank’s pledge of $1.8 billion includes $600 million from its private-sector arm that will go toward regional pipeline and road

p ro j e c t s l i n k i n g Ug a n d a , Ke n y a a n d So u t h Su d a n , among other projects.

“There is greater opportunity now for the Horn of Africa to break free from its cycles of drought, food insecurity, water insecurity and conflict by building up regional security, generating a peace dividend, especially among young women and men, and spurring more cross-border co-operation,” Kim said.

The Islamic Development Bank, meanwhile, pledged $1 billion for infrastr ucture development, food security and other areas in Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda.

Sudan and South Sudan are currently the region’s only oil producers, though nearly ever y state in east Africa has made large oil and

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gas discoveries. Oil production is due to begin soon in Kenya’s Lake Turkana region and in Uganda.

But while the region’s natural resource potential could be a game changer, there are also enormous challenges.

The Horn has among the highest concentrations of displaced people in the world, with war and famine making 2.7 million people refugees and six million people displaced within their own countries, according to a World Bank summary of the region.

In addition, there are four main conflicts in the region, including the separation of Sudan and South Sudan, the internal conflict in South Sudan, conflict in Somalia and the dispute between Ethiopia and Er itrea, the report said.

Few changes expected in 2015 crop acreage Barley and oat supplies are getting tighter

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t doesn’t appear there will be any dramatic changes to acreage for most crops next year.

CWB analyst Bruce Burnett gave some broad estimates for plantings in 2015 at the opening session of the Cereals North America conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

“My thought is we’re going to remain flat on our oilseed-cereal mix,” he said, noting soybean production could rise to just over two million acres between Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Canola is also expected to stay fairly flat while spring wheat could be down slightly.

Canadian farmers planted 20 million acres of canola and 17.4 million acres of spring wheat in 2014, according to Statistics Canada.

Barley area will stay relatively flat next year, according to Burnett. Farmers planted 5.9 million acres of barley in 2014.

He warns barley supplies are getting tight, along with a few other crops.

“Especially on oats,” he said, adding we could see a bit of an increase there. In 2014, 2.7 million acres of oats were planted.

Burnett stressed weather issues could affect those projections too.

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Syria plans to import one million tonnes of wheat as war rages Jihadist rebels now control most of Syria’s wheat-growing areas

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yria plans to import one million tonnes of wheat as loss of government control over large swathes of farmland and a poor harvest have cut domestic purchases by half, a source at the state’s General Organization for Cereal Processing and Trade (Hoboob) told Reuters.

“We are still studying the mode of imports, whether it will be tenders or direct contracts, and we will make a decision about that shortly,” said the source, who asked not to be named.

He said the government had enough wheat to satisfy consumption until mid-2015 from previous imports and its local harvest, and that the imports

of one million tonnes were necessary to boost its strategic reserve, he said.

He declined to say how much wheat was currently in the strategic reserve. Before the war, Syria kept an annual strategic stock of around three million tonnes.

Experts told Reuters in April that they expected a total harvest this year of between one million and 1.7 million tonnes.

But with much of Syria’s main grain-producing region out of government control, Hoboob bought only 523,000 tonnes of wheat from local farmers this year, at 45,000 Syrian pounds ($277.26) a tonne, compared to slightly over a million tonnes in 2013, the source said.

Breadbasket provinces

The breadbasket provinces of

Raqqa and Deir al-Zour are mostly under the control of jihadist Islamic State rebels, and Hasaka is also under rebel control except for the provincial capital of the same name, which the government holds.

The number of Hoboob collection centres, where farmers can go to sell their wheat, has shrunk from over 140 before the start of the war three years ago to just 31 this year.

To overcome the problem, the agency offered farmers in areas outside government control money to transport their wheat to government collection centres, the source said.

Still, only around 17,000 tonnes of wheat were procured from Raqqa, whose collection centre was in Damascus.

In Hasaka province, Hoboob managed to procure 366,000

tonnes. But even in Hasaka, Hoboob failed to ship out around 200,000 tonnes of last year’s crop because of rebel advances.

Before the war, Syria produced around 3.5 million tonnes of wheat a year on average, of which the government bought about 2.5 million.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates Syria’s annual wheat consumption at 2.7 million to 3.0 million tonnes.

Lack of seed

With planting beginning now for the next harvest in MayJune, FAO says farmers will continue to be dogged not only by the dire security situation but also by a lack of seeds, fuel and fertilizer, because the government network that used to dis-

tribute these has largely broken down.

“It will at least be the continuation of a very difficult producing period ahead,” said Eriko Hibi, FAO’s Syria representative.

The fighting makes it difficult to establish how much farmland has been lost to the conflict, but Hibi said the most recent figures indicated that the area planted with wheat had shrunk 15 per cent from the average area planted in 2007-11.

In neighbouring Iraq, Islamic State militants have been milling grain stored in government silos and distributing the flour on the local market, and even trying to sell smuggled wheat back to the government to finance their war effort, an Iraqi official told Reuters in August.

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EU winter wheat planting going well

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Winter wheat planting conditions have been “perfect” in many areas of the Europe Union this fall, Leo Plaisier, partner at Agribrokers International said during a presentation at the Cereals of North America conference in Winnipeg.

He said acreage in the European Union is expected to increase slightly from last year, and the wheat that’s been seeded already is ready for a “happy dormancy.”

In Ukraine, conditions for winter wheat planting have been reasonable, with acreage steady compared to last year.

The biggest planting problems have been seen in Russia, as it’s been too dry and farmers are concerned that the crops won’t be in good condition as they head into winter freeze-up. Though, acreage isn’t expected to see much change overall from last year.

There are also concerns about the quality of the European spring wheat crop due to untimely rains in many areas, especially in France. Plaisier said this has caused more feed wheat than normal, and tight supplies of high-quality wheat, which will likely result in fewer exports compared to last year.

He expected the quality problems to result in a very large carry-out of 19 million tonnes in the EU this year. Farmers are just going to have to accept the large ending stocks, because there won’t be a lot of opportunities to market large amounts of feed wheat, Plaisier added.

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The difficulty in getting American soymeal from processors to the end-user is just one symptom of a much larger problem facing the market these days, said a noted industrywatcher at the Cereals North America conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

“In the last two or three weeks, grain prices have been moving, everything is up, it doesn’t have anything to do with political development, it’s about rail cars,” said Dan Basse of AgResource Co. based in Chicago, Illinois.

The transportation gridlock is something North America hasn’t encountered before, said Basse.

Some U.S. clients of his haven’t been able to get a single rail car when they need it while others have ordered five or six cars, and then watched as 23 pulled up. The variability of supply is striking in different locations and particularly so when it comes to locomotives.

Energy has also changed the game with shale exploration or so-called fracking placing more demands on U.S. railways than ever.

“North America will be energy self-sufficient by 2019, 2020. Fracking will occur around the world by 2016,” said Basse, adding the demand for rail cars could change if the U.S. ever builds a comprehensive pipeline for its oil.

Meantime, demand for protein continues to fuel grain values with the cost of livestock being the primary driver. Beef, pork and milk prices are all up significantly.

“The hog virus was a big problem in the U.S. quite recently,” said Basse, noting vaccinations had ended the crisis. With more hogs expected to arrive next year, he wonders how much more domestic feed will be required.

The world has 90 million tonnes of soybeans right now, according to Basse, yet China’s GDP has slowed as of late. What’s more, the economic outlook for several other countries has cooled as well.

“I worry there will be some countries in pockets of deflation,” said Basse, adding that average U.S. farm income will decrease this year.

The harvest global acreage for grains topped 517 million hectares this year, said Basse.

With countries like Ukraine, Brazil, Argentina and the U.S. recording large harvests it remains to be seen which country will be forced to reduce their plantings going forward.

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AUTO & TRANSPORT Autos 2001 BUICK CENTURY 4-DR White, 144,000-km, $2500; 1959 gas tractor 641 Ford, $3,500; 5 cow/calf pairs, $2,200.

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AUTO & TRANSPORT Trucks 2004 JEEP 4X4 GRAND Cherokee trail edition, safetied, good condition. Call (204)747-2768 or cell (204)522-5954.

GRAIN TRUCK 2008 VOLVO, 12-spd auto trans w/new 20-ft Berg’s grain box, telescopic hoist, remote chute/hoist. Michael’s tarp, safetied, $67,000 plus taxe. Norm Verboom (204)761-7797, Brandon.

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Large Farm Retirement TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 | 11AM AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Very few small items, please be on time. Major Location: 6193 85th Ave NE, Webster, ND 58382 equipment begins selling at 11:30 AM. Live online bidding available on (Webster, ND is north of Devils Lake, ND) From Webster, ND, major equipment. Registration, terms, & details at SteffesGroup.com.

4 miles east on County Rd. 8, 2 miles north on 85th Avenue.

ESTATE AUCTION FOR THE LATE JB FUNK SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15th 10:00 AM Location: 218 Brandt St. Steinbach, MB

TRACTORS & NEW SKID STEER ATTACHMENTS

• NEW 30WX85LX15H Canvas Storage Building • NEW 20WX30LX12H Canvas Storage Building • Stihl Grass Trimmer • 4ft Rotovator 3PTH • Kubota 1560 Lawn Tractor • Logging Chains • Tractor Seats • Gas Push Lawn Mower • Backpack Sprayer • Snow Blower Craftsman 11.5 HP

• King Power 10000 LPG Diesel Generator, Electric Start • 13 HP Gas Powered Stationary Air Compressor 30 Gallon, Electric Start, Belt Drive, Air Cooler • Compressor Air Tank 50 Gal • Socket Sets & Screw Drivers • 100/15/2 AMP Battery Charger • 18ft Aluminum Ext Ladder • Gas Torch & Plumbing Supplies • Upper Tool Box Full • Hole Saw • 6in Ridgid Pipe Cutter • Collection of Hand Planers • Copper Tubing Cutters & Brass Fittings • Livestock Water Repair Kits • Jet Bench Grinder on Stand • Ridgid Pipe Wrenches • 8” Mastercraft Bench Grinder • B&D Circular Saw • Welding Table w/ Vise • Dewalt Drill • (2) Bostitich Hammer Tackers • Snap-on Garage Creeper • Electric Reciprocating Saw • 2X Angle Grinders • ½” & ¾” Socket Set’s • Jet Floor Model Drill Press & Drill Press Vise • 20 Ton Hydraulic Jack • Speed Aire 60 Gal 5 HP Vertical Air Compressor • Tap & Die Set • Battery Charger/Booster • Hydraulic Shop Press • Hilti Hammer Drill • Electric Mastercraft Impact ½” & 1/2” Deep Socket Set • Gas Powered Pump • Honda Extended Run 3” Water Pump New • Electric Start Gas Powered Pressure Washer 3000 PSI

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HOUSEHOLD & ANTIQUES

• 1981 Case W14 Wheel Loader • 4020 John Deere Tractor w/ Cab • 84in Hydraulic Skid Steer Snow Plow Dozer • Skid Steer Forks, Snow Buckets, Augers & Grapples • L1500 Kubota Compact Tractor 3PTH • Oliver 550 Tractor w/ Large Snow Bucket

CORRAL PANELS & FARM FENCE • 15 10ft Medium Duty Panels • 10 9ft Light Duty Panels • 15 Rolls 330ft Farm Fence

VEHICLES & TRAILERS

• 2003 Nissan Maxima, Leather, Safetied, 155K • 2004 Ford F350 FX4 4X4 Crew Cab, Leather, Powerstroke Diesel • 2001 Volkswagen Jetta TDI, Safetied, 340K • 2004 Chevrolet Optra, 4dr, Safetied, 110K • 2004 Chevrolet Suburban 4X4, Leather, 7 Pass, 330K • 20ft Mobile Construction Office Finished w/ Windows

YARD TOOLS, EQUIPMENT & BUILDINGS

• Heavy Duty 9ft 20 Drawer Workbench • Dewalt Mitre Saw • Belt Sander - General International • Blum Boring Machine

• Sweetheart Waffle Iron • Mennonite Corner Cabinet • Apartment Size Chest Freezer • Misc Household Goods

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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

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4WD TRACTORS 2010 JD 9530, powershift, deluxe cab, leather seat, buddy seat, active seat, 4 hyd., return flow, integrated auto steer, plumbed for air drill, diff lock, HID lights, weights pkg., inside rear weight pkg., Firestone 520/85R46 factory triples, 2,334 hrs., second owner, S/N1RW9530PCAP016711 1997 JD 9300, 24 spd., 4 hyd., return flow, plumbed for air drill, ATU guidance w/ steering wheel, rear weight pkg., Firestone 620/70R42 duals at 80%, 6,132 hrs., S/ NRW9300H001617 1979 JD 8640, quad range, 50 Series engine, 3 hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO, plumbed for air seeder, ATU guidance ready with steering wheel, 20.8-38 press steel duals, inside (4) tires at 60%, outside tires 30%, approx.

10,000 hrs. total, 3,000 hrs. on 50 Series motor, S/N002875 MFWD TRACTORS 1996 JD 8300, MFWD, deluxe cab, 4 hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO, integrated auto steer, rear weight pkg., front fenders, front suitcase weights, 480/80R46 press steel duals, 16.9-30 fronts, 7,223 hrs., S/N8300P006428 1993 JD 7700, MFWD, powershift, 3 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, ATU guidance with steering wheel, diff lock, front suitcase weights, 14.9-30 front tires, 14.9-46 rear tires, 7,498 actual hrs., S/NRW7700P001106

GPS EQUIPMENT 2012 JD 2630 display, SF1 (2) JD ITC 3000 globes (4) JD Starfire ITC globes, SF1 (5) JD SF1 cards (5) JD brown box displays & processors HARVEST EQUIPMENT 2013 JD S690, Contour-Master, premium cab, deluxe controls, Pro drive, 5 spd. feeder house, integrated auto steer, power fold hopper, power cast tailboard, 26’ high cap. unloading auger, Touchset controls, power mirrors, HID lights, electric cooler, diff lock, 520/85R42 straddle duals, 23.1-26 rear tires, 356 sep. hrs., 548 engine hrs., S/N1H0S690SVD0755542 2013 JD 640 flex draper head, 40’, fore/aft, Crary wind bar, finger reel, single pt. hookup, S/N1H0640FDKD0755726 2012 JD 615P pickup head, 15’, wind bar, single pt. hookup, S/N1H00615PAC0746675 2012 Unverferth Roadrunner 542 tandem header trailer, torsion axle, light pkg., electric brakes, S/NA57280249 GRAIN CART 2008 Brent 880 grain cart, 850 bu., roll tarp, hyd. spout, electronic scale, 1000 PTO SWATHERS 1996 Premier 1900 pull-type swather, 25’, auto fold, finger reel, 1000 PTO, S/N107769 JD 590 pull-type swather, 25’ AIR SEEDER 2014 JD 1890 air seeder, 42’, 7-1/2” & 15” space, single

shoot, full run monitor, Haukaas sidearm markers, ext. wear boots, 2014 JD 1910 tow-behind commodity cart, 430 bu., single owner, seeded 2,700 acres, cart S/N1A81910HPDG, seeder S/N1A81890CTDF755182 Extra set green, black, & yellow rollers for JD 1910 commodity cart TILLAGE EQUIPMENT 2012 JD 2410 chisel plow, 41’, full floating hitch, single point depth, 12” space, tandems across, JD 3-bar harrow, S/N1N02410XAC0745331 JD 680 chisel plow, 41’, tandems across, single pt. depth, 12” spacing, Summers heavy duty 3-bar harrow, S/NN00680X002905 JD 1600 chisel plow, 35’, tandems across, 3-bar harrow, set up with John Blue NH3, hyd. shut-off & rear hitch JD 1600 chisel plow, 31’, tandems across, Degelman 3-bar harrow, set up with Valmar granular applicator JD 730 converted field cultivator, 44’, 6” space, tandems across, single pt. depth, Summers 3-bar harrow, same as JD 980 JD 1010 field cultivator, 42’, tandems across, Morris 3-bar harrow, set up with Valmar 240 granular applicator Degelman 7645 land roller, 45’ JD 3600 auto reset plow, 8 bottom, vari-width, on land hitch JD 3600 auto reset plow, 4 bottom, vari-width, on land hitch JD 235 rock flex tandem disc, 25’, hyd. fold

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Paul, 701.351.3112 or Jon, 701.740.8071

Summers Super Harrow, 72’, hyd. tine adj., hyd. down pressure, 9/16” teeth

PICKUP 1983 GMC Sierra Classic 2500, 6.2 diesel, 4 spd., 4WD

TRUCKS 2006 Peterbilt 387 tri-axle, C15 Cat, 500 hp., Eaton Fuller 18 spd. auto shift, engine brake, air ride, 2014 Reitan 22’x96”x68” sides aluminum box, 3 pc. endgate, rear controls, twin aluminum fuel tanks, air up/down front axle, shows 920,488 miles, engine OH 2001 Sterling tri-axle, N14 Cummins, Eaton Fuller 10 spd. auto shift, engine brake, air ride, rear lift tag, 22’ Loadline box, hoist, roll tarp, rear controls, shows 1,021,865 miles 1990 Kenworth T600 tri-axle, 3176 Cat, 325 hp., 9 spd., air ride, air up/down steerable 3rd axle, 21’ Loadline box, hoist, roll tarp, 3 pc. endgate, rear controls, twin aluminum fuel tanks, 4:11 ratio, 1,207,763 miles, 500 miles on engine OH, title marked “previously salvaged” 1975 Chevrolet C65 twin screw, 427, 5&4 spd., 19’ Knapheide box, hoist, roll tarp, plumbed for drill fill 1973 GMC 6500 tag tandem, 366, 5&2 spd., 20’ Strong box, roll tarp, 3 pc. endgate 1968 Ford F600 single axle, 331 V8, 4&2 spd., 15-1/2’ Wil-Rich box, hoist 1966 Chevrolet C60 single axle, 327 V8, 4&2 spd., 15’ Knapheide box, hoist, roll tarp

SPRAYERS Summers Ultimate NT pulltype sprayer, 100’ full hyd. boom, triple nozzle bodies, 1,500 gal. poly tank, 200 gal. rinse tank, hyd. pump, Raven SCS 450 auto rate controller, chemical mix cone, adj. axle, 480/80R38 rear tires Summers Ultimate pull-type sprayer, 90’ full hyd. boom, triple nozzle bodies, 1,000 gal. poly tank, 200 gal. rinse tank, foam marker, hyd. pump, Raven 450 auto rate controller, mix cone Brittonya pickup sprayer, 72’ boom, electric lift, single nozzle bodies, 500 gal. poly tank, Honda gas motor, on/off boom control NH3 EQUIPMENT 2012 B&B Tech TB52 NH3 applicator, 52’, tandems across, Raven dual cooler, Raven 450 auto rate controller, S/N4L5AT1023DF027600 (2) 1,500 gal. NH3 tanks AUGERS 2009 Wheatheart SA1371 auger, 71’x13” Westfield auger, 71’x10” Westfield auger, 61’x10” Westfield auger, 61’x8” GT loadout auger, 36’x6”, 5 hp.

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or Brad Olstad of Steffes Group, 701.237.9173

Steffes Group, Inc., 2000 Main Ave East, West Fargo, ND 58078 Brad Olstad ND319, Scott Steffes ND81, Bob Steffes ND82, Max Steffes ND999, Ashley Huhn ND843, Eric Gabrielson ND890, Randy Kath ND894 | 701.237.9173 | SteffesGroup.com TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items. Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer.

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Location: 11303 25th St NE, Foley, MN. From St. Cloud, MN, east on Hwy. 23 approx. 5 mi. to State Hwy. 95, east 5 mi. to Cty Rd. 62, north 1 mi. then east 1 mi. on gravel; or from the intersection of Hwys. 95 & 25, west 1 mi., north 1 mi. to signs.

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Very few small items. Most equipment purchased new and has been shedded. Major equipment begins selling at 11:00 AM. Live online bidding available on major equipment. Complete registration, terms, details & photos at SteffesGroup.com

variable speed feeder house, auto pilot, Cebis monitor, Quantum meter, 3D sieves, GPS ready, long auger, rear spreader, folding hopper, rear & auger camera, 36” tracks, pre-harvest hrs.

1,335 sep hrs., 2,011 engine hrs., serviced yearly through Ziegler Cat w/all receipts, S/NC0L00575H57600414 2005 Caterpillar Lexion F530 flex head, 30’, S/N43801302 2009 Caterpillar C508-30 chopping corn head, 8x30”, purchased new, less than 3,500 actual acres, S/N91701626 2009 Horst OHC header trailer, 30’ PLANTER 2001 JD 1780, 12x30” or 23x15”, S/NA01780E690265 TILLAGE EQUIPMENT 2008 Rite-Way 4300 land roller, 45’ 1995 JD 680 chisel plow, 28’ 1995 JD 635 rock flex disc, 32’ 1996 JD 980 field cultivator, 44-1/2’ ROCK PICKER UFC pull-type hyd. lift rock picker

TRUCKS & PICKUP 2001 Chevrolet C8500 tri-axle, air lift steerable pusher, 3126 Cat, 330 hp., 8 spd. w/Lo/ Lo, Crystal 21’ box 1975 Ford L9000 tri-axle, air lift pusher, 8V71 Detroit, 10 spd., 22’ Scott box 1974 Chevrolet C70 Custom Deluxe tandem axle twin screw, 427 V8 gas, 5&4 spd., 18’ box 1993 Ford F250 XLT, regular cab, long box, 4WD SPRAYER & CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT 1997 Miller Pro 1000 pull-type sprayer, S/N07-00825 2001 Ag-System AG111 tandem axle bumper hitch liquid fertilizer/water tender, S/N1723 Induction cone w/Banjo fittings Transfer pump, 5.5 hp.

TRAILERS Shop-built livestock trailer, sold as is, NO TITLE GRAIN CARTS & GRAVITY WAGONS GRAIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT BINS & HOPPER BINS OTHER EQUIPMENT SHOP EQUIPMENT

DUMONCEAUX FARMS Gary & Kay, and Terry & Doreen

For more information contact Gary, 320.250.1775 or Eric Gabrielson at Steffes Group, 320.693.9371

Steffes Group, Inc., 24400 MN Hwy 22 S, Litchfield, MN 55355 Eric Gabrielson MN47-006, Scott Steffes MN14-51

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TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items. Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed.

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TRACTORS & LOADERS 1995 Ford NH 9680, 4WD, CAH, 855 Cummins, 350 hp., 12 spd., 4 hyd., 4,578 hrs., purchased new, S/ND102452 1998 JD 7410, MFWD, CAH, power quad, 3 hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 540/1000 PTO, diff lock, ext. mirrors, JD 740 all hyd. loader, joystick controls, JD material bucket, 84”, w/JD quick tach bracket, loader S/NW00740D015092, 3,228 hrs., S/NRW7410H011981 (1) set JD 48” pallet forks w/JD quick tach, fits JD 740 loader 2000 JD 8110, MFWD, 4 hyd., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, quick hitch, diff lock, 42-1/2 gal. hyd. pump, radar, weight bracket, 2,585 hrs., S/NRW8110P002130 1980 AC 6080, MFWD, open station, syncro 12 spd., 2 hyd., 540 PTO, flat-top fenders, power slide wheels, AC 460 loader, 81” bucket, shows 4,000+ hrs. but unknown, single owner, S/N1056 HARVEST EQUIPMENT 2007 Caterpillar Lexion 575R, PRWD, auto contour,

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Brought to you by SteffesGroup.com TRACTORS & ATTACHMENTS 1987 Case-IH 9150, air ride seat, powershift, 4 hyd., no 3 pt., 18.4-42 axle mount duals, 5,640 hrs., 2nd owner, center pins replaced, everything works, S/N17900559 1982 Deutz DX90, MFWD, cab, nonworking air & heat, 3 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, Westendorf loader, 7’ bucket & grapple, self-leveling, 13.6-28 front tires, 18.4-38 rear tires, shows 6,500 hrs., includes tractor parts & spare parts JD 4630, CAH, 8 spd. powershift, 2 hyd., 3 pt., PTO, K&M step kit, bottom dump rock box, 20.8-38 tires w/duals, S/N014131R MF 2775, CAH, 8 spd. shuttle shift, 3 hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO w/540 adaptor, front weights, 14L-16.1 front tires, 20.8-38 duals, shows 5,056 hrs.

IHC 404 utility tractor, has been in storage, not running, engine turns over AC forklift mast w/forks, approx. 6,000 lb. cap.

HARVEST EQUIPMENT 1997 JD 9600, RWD, DAS, DAM, fore/aft, rock trap, reverser, 20’ unloading auger, hopper ext., New 30.5L-32 front tires, 18.4-30 rear tires, 80%, New Harvestrac wire harness, New tailings auger & clean elevator chains, 3,030 sep. hrs., 5,073 engine hrs., S/NH09600X673418 1987 JD 8820, Titan II, AHH, turbo hydro, chopper, chaff spreader, 30.5-32 single tires, (1) New, 14.9-24 rear tires, approx.

5,500 hrs., New A/C and electric feeder house clutch, New drive belts, tach not working, S/NM08820X611024 2008 NH 88C flex draper, 42’, AHH, Ull 6 bat pickup reel, one year of use, still has warranty, adapter pkg., factory slow speed transport, S/N4255083188 1996 JD 930 flex head, 30’, fore/aft, stubble lights, finger reel, Johnson rock guards, poly, long poly snouts, steel floor, poly in good condition, great working condition, S/NH00930F666994 TILLAGE EQUIPMENT 2009 Sunflower 1435 tandem disc, 36’, 9” spacing, 23” blades, scrapers, “C” flex gangs, hyd. leveling, wing gauge wheels, walking tandems across, S/N1435G09407 Wishek 714NTC tandem disc, 26’11”, 10” spacing, c-flex, cushion gangs, leveling linkage, 25” blades, 385/65R22 tires on main frame, S/N610226 2010 Case-IH 870 Ecolotiger ripper, 26’, 13 shank, 24” spacing, rock cushion gangs, 24” blades, 12” spacing, scrapers, rear disc levelers, 16.5L-16.1 tires, walking tandems, wing gauge wheels, S/NJFH0048489 DMI Tiger II disc ripper, 7 shank JD offset disc, 18’, adj. gangs & scrapers Summers harrow, 40’, 500 gal. tank Melroe hyd. folding harrow, 36’ Plow, 1-bottom

ROW CROP EQUIPMENT Pickett row crop manager, 24 row thinner, 3 pt., hyd. folding wings, adj. row modules IHC 50 pull-type stalk shredder, 4x36”, 540 PTO, owner states good knives, working Case-IH 181 rotary hoe, 144’, 3 pt., S/N205334

1993 Diamond tandem axle car trailer, 6.5x16’ (2) Donahue tandem axle trailers, 28’, one has missing planks

WHEEL LOADER & TRACTOR LOADER BACKHOE 1979 JD 544B wheel loader, cab w/ heat, 105 hp., JD diesel, 2 spd., 2 yd. bucket, 17.5-25 tires, 40%, bucket ext.

POTATO EQUIPMENT included, engine replace at 4,800 hrs., Lilliston 6400 rolling potato cultivator, New paint & decals, 5,300 hrs. actual 6x38” 1995 JCB 215 tractor loader backhoe, Lilliston 6400 rolling potato cultivator, 4WD, cab w/heat, tires at 60%, good 6x38”, (3) missing baskets, S/N18404 operating condition, S/N447086 Better Built BB363 potato seed cutter, SKID STEER LOADERS triple cut Harriston potato weeder, 40’, 12 row, & ATTACHMENTS 1997 NH LX663 Turbo skid steer double fold, 200 gal. tank loader, aux. hyd., manual quick tach, Lockwood 603 Accumatic potato solid rubber tires, S/N64294 planter, 6x38”, picks, row markers NH 553 skid steer loader, aux. hyd., Lockwood 603 Accumatic potato manual quick tach, solid rubber tires planter, 6x40”, picks, row markers Skeleton rock bucket grapple, 84”, Potato seed conveyor, 24’x12” flat-faced couplers, 3” tine spacing, Small potato holding hopper 45” grapple opening, greasable pivot Potato holding hopper French potato table, 14’x30”, hook chain, points, removable end plates, New Tree & fence post puller, opens up electric motor, solid unloading belt to 16”, flat-faced couplers, greasable TRUCKS & TRUCK pivot points ATTACHMENTS Skid steer loader snow bucket, 8’, 36” 1979 Chevrolet C70, single axle, 427, tall x 42” deep, 3/16” thick shell, 5/16” 4&2 spd., 14’ box, hoist, rusty, runs thick end plates/side, 1/2” thick under and drives well supports, w/3/4” reversible bolt-on cutting 1999 GMC W5500 cube van, standard edge, plasma cut screen in bucket, New cab w/air, 4 cyl. turbo Isuzu, diesel, Skid steer loader snow bucket, 10’, automatic and overdrive, 18x8’, 7’-16” 36” tall x 42” deep, 3/16” thick shell, 5/16” height, 1-1/2 ton, aluminum ramp, roll- thick end plates/side, 1/2” thick under up door, 19.5 tires supports, w/3/4” reversible bolt-on cutting Thermo King SB-I reefer unit, 4 cyl., edge, plasma cut screen in bucket, bolt in diesel, 52,218 hrs. removable interior braces, New Headache rack, aluminum DOZER, AERIAL PLATFORMS, PICKUPS & SUV & CONSTRUCTION ITEMS 2005 Dodge Ram 3500 SLT, 5.9 Caterpillar D4 crawler, pony start, 16” Cummins, 6 spd. manual, 4WD, 8’ box, pads, 8’ dozer blade, S/N7U4251 electric windows, 235/80R70 tires, Sweeper attachment, last used w/Cat 59,734 miles telehandler, requires low flow hyd.

1988 Chevrolet K2500 Silverado, 6.2 diesel, automatic, 4WD, long box, air, Genie Super Lift, 16’, 650 lb. cap. newer 10 ply tires & New water pump, 1999 Snorkel SL-25 man lift, New batteries New cluster at 141,000 miles, shows Tomcat hyd. man lift, 24’, onboard 220,000 miles charger, New battery 1985 Dodge D15 Prospector, reg.

Arrow-Master F46 walk-behind power cab, long box, V8 gas, automatic, trowel, 46”, Honda, 11 hp., 2WD, 15” tires, shows 60,120 miles, S/N100F25391 driver side door needs work Boss light tower, 6kw, 3 cyl. diesel, 1985 GMC 1500 Sierra Suburban, 120/240v, 12,906 hrs.

350 gas, automatic, 4WD, air, power windows & locks, cruise, w/8’ Meyer SCRAPERS snowplow, quick disconnect 2000 Terex TS-14G scraper, DT 466E engines, air conditioning, ride control, TRAILERS 60% rubber, 6,000 hrs., fresh rebuild 2012 Timpte hopper bottom, on rear engine and trans.

42’x96”x66”, ag hoppers, spring ride, 11R-24.5 tires, 75%, very good condition Caterpillar 70 push-off scraper, 11 yd., 2005 Trail King ACS Series step deck dolly-wheels, 20.5-25 tires, S/N213 trailer, 48’, 102’ wide, 11’ top deck, CRANE 37’ lower deck, sliding winches, 10+1 Gantry crane, 8,000 lb., chain hoist, spread, aluminum over steel combo, on casters 255/70R22.5 tires on all aluminum

FORKLIFTS Hyster H100C-AF48 forklift, triple mast, 6”x6’ forks, 10,000 lb. cap. at 48” load center, 6 cyl. gas, 8.25-15 duals, S/N67E-542 AC 700 forklift, cab enclosure, diesel, 16.9-24 front tires, 11.00-16 rear tires, S/NU5972 FORAGE & HAY EQUIP. Gehl 8335 TMR wagon, S/N11093 Patz V-420 vertical TMR, 1000 PTO Hammer mill Vermeer R-23 twin rake 1977 Vermeer 605E round baler NH 1030 Stackliner pull-type bale wagon, 540 PTO, walking tandems LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT NH 195 manure spreader, poly floor, complete rebuild, S/N87401R 2012 Spanier Welding heavy duty portable squeeze chute (15) 5’x11.5’ portable corral panels w/6’ gate (3) 2-1/2 gal. Hex udder wash AUGERS 2011 Buhler Farm King auger, 85’x13” Westfield J208 auger, 36’x8”, electric OTHER EQUIPMENT Crown 400 rockpicker, fork-style Laser trailer ORSI Diamond Power 2649 rear-mount boom mower, 26.5’ reach Woods L306 under-mount mower, 72” Gorman-Rupp 6482G PTO pump Sweepster ATV sweeper w/New brushes, off of Polaris LAWN & GARDEN 2010 JD X724 Ultimate lawn tractor, all wheel steer, 27 hp., diff lock, cozy cab w/heat & wiper, 72 hrs., w/JD 47SB front mount snowblower, hyd. chute rotation, electric actuator for spout tilt, includes tire chains, extra filters, hyd. oil, snowblower S/NM047SBX090825, tractor S/NM0X724A050635 Finn T-60-TII HydroSeeder, S/NRUA1313 Pole saw, cordless trimmer, hedge trimmer RECREATION 2004 Gulf Stream Innsbruck 5th wheel tandem axle travel trailer 1995 Cobra Scottsdale DLS 5th wheel tandem axle travel trailer 1996 Polaris Indy 500 EFI SKS 1996 Polaris Indy 500 EFI 1996 Polaris Indy 500 EFI TANKS O’Day 19,000 gal. vertical fuel tank 2,000 gal. diesel tank w/high flow pump 2,000 gal. fuel tank w/electric pump 1,000 gal. diesel tank w/Gasboy pump 500 gal. diesel tank w/Gasboy pump TIRES (2) Goodyear DT800 320/90R46 tires on JD rims, New SHOP EQUIPMENT PARTS FARM SUPPORT & MISC. ITEMS

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Unique Dual Drive™ system features a 2400 lb. synthetic cable and drive line tension spring that work together to provide a powerful front and rear drive you can count on to cover heaped loads even in windy conditions.

CURT’S GRAIN VAC SERVICES, parts & repair for all makes & models. Craik SK, (306)734-2228.

COMBINES Case/IH

FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories

2008 CIH 8010 4WD combine.(it will drive as far as a track machine in mud), 30-ft flex draper, $200,000 OBO. Phone (204)871-0925

GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528 or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.

COMBINES Accessories

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.

Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd. 1-866-729-9876 5150 Richmond Ave. East BRANDON, MB. www.harvestsalvage.ca New, Used & Re-man. Parts

SRT-2® SPOOL ROLL TARP

Our premium system for grain carts and farm boxes that works with you, not against you. Spring loaded spools attached with cable create a tarp guide and hold down system that offers continuous tension, making opening and closing in windy conditions a breeze. The telescoping crank handle adjusts for multiple box applications, so there is no need to move while maneuvering the tarp and handle.

Tractors Combines Swathers

ELECTRIC TARP CONVERSION SIDE LOCKING TARP

Loading and unloading grain is safer and more efficient than ever with the ROLTEC® Electric Conversion system from Agri-Cover, featuring the new COMMAND-10 ® remote with next-generation Zigbee® technology. It’s smart and easy to use, keeping you in control. This completely integrated system uses the same remote to wirelessly operate tarps and hoppers! Over time, the ROLTEC® Electric Conversion will pay for itself. It reduces driver fatigue, is lighter by design, and saves time allowing more trips per day.

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Manitoba Co-operator classifieds, 1-800-782-0794.

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Combines

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.

1998 994 HONEY BEE 30-ft draper header, UII pick-up reel, for & aft, w/TR, TX adapter, $15,000 OBO; 2005 94C NH 30-ft draper header, UII pickup reel, for & aft, w/TR, TX adapter. $27,500.

Phone:(204)632-4390 or Cell:(204)797-4821.

FLEX PLATFORMS: JD 922 poly pts; JD 925 Steel, poly pts, F/F augers, air reel units; JD 930 Steel pts, Poly pts, air reel units; JD 625 w/air reel; 011-JD 635 w/new air bar; JD 04-635, nice; 09-010 JD 635 Hydra flex. CIH 1020, both 25-30 ft. units; CIH 2020 Air reel, 30-ft; 05-CIH 30-ft; CIH 08 35-ft; 2-CIH 2020 35-ft, (2020 also fits NH late models) NH 973 30ft, Cat 540 40-ft., Crary C-36 w/dual air fans. CORN HEADS: JD 843-893-608 C chopping head; NH 996994, both 8 row; CIH 1083. Also have header trailers Arc Fab, 30-36-ft; Harvester Int. 38-ft & 42-ft, double beam; MD Stud King 42 Double Beam in stock. Call for pricing. All our pricing now after season pricing.

Delivery available. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy#12 N, Steinbach, MB. www.reimerfarmequipment.com Gary Reimer: (204)326-7000.

FOR SALE: NH 6 roll corn head, $500 OBO. Phone (204)362-2321.

WATROUS SALVAGE WaTRoUs, sK. Fax: 306-946-2444

FYFE PARTS

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1-800-667-9871 • Regina 1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon 1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg 1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton

CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.

Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103 or E-mail Requests binmover50@gmail.com

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Tillage & Seeding

NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS NEW COMBINE PARTS

TILLAGE & SEEDING Air Seeders

Large Inventory of new and remanufactured parts

1996 36-FT. BOURGAULT AIR seeder, 8880 cultivator w/2155 tank, good condition, $25,000 OBO. (204)745-7445.

“For All Your Farm Parts”

HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES. Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595 charles@arcfab.ca www.arcfab.ca

JD 730/1900 air drill, 36-ft, 270BU tbt, double disc openers on 6-in spacing $32,000. Can deliver. Call Brian:204-856-6119, 204-685-2896 MacGregor MB.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19 | 10AM MST AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Most machinery was purchased new, with an excellent maintenance program in place.

Major equipment begins selling at 11:00AM MST. Live online bidding available on major equipment.

Location: 12751 39th St SW, Belfield, ND. From I-94 Exit 42 (Belfield, ND), 2-1/2 mi. south to 39th Street, 2-1/2 mi. east.

TILLAGE & SEEDING Tillage Equipment

STEINBACH, MB. Ph. 326-2443 Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727 Fax (204) 326-5878 Web site: farmparts.ca E-mail: roy@farmparts.ca FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous 1500-BUSHEL FRIESEN HOPPER BOTTOM bin, good condition, $2,200 OBO. Ph: (204)322-5617, Warren.

TRACTORS 2012 Case-IH Steiger 350, deluxe cab, buddy seat, powershift, cab suspension, 4 hyd., return flow, 1000 PTO, Pro 700 display, integrated auto steer, rear suitcase weights, HID lights, 1,630 hrs., S/NZCF129661 2012 Case-IH Puma 140, MFWD, deluxe cab, powershift, left hand reverser, front axle & cab susp., 3 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, Case-IH L760 quick tach self-leveling loader w/4-tine grapple, HID lights, rear weights, 1,484 hrs., S/NZABL12014 2011 Case-IH Puma 160, MFWD, deluxe cab, CVT, left hand reverser, front axle & cab susp., 4 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, auto steer compatible, Case-IH L765 quick tach self-leveling loader w/5-tine MaxiTine bucket & grapple, HID lights, rear weight pkg., 1,406 hrs., S/N160ZCBP14526 1978 JD 4440, ROPS, open station, quad range, 2 hyd., 3 pt., PTO, shows 8,845 hrs., New block at 5,500 hrs., S/N3829 HARVEST EQUIPMENT 2011 NH CR9080, twin rotor, Terrain Tracer, deluxe cab, deluxe controls, Intellisteer, Intelliview display less globe, Y&M, variable speed feeder house, long unloading auger w/ extender, PSD chopper & spreader, reverser, both sets concaves, HID lights, single pt. hookup, 714 sep. hrs., 908 engine hrs., single owner, used 3 seasons, S/NYBG114941 2010 NH CR9080, twin rotor, Terrain Tracer, deluxe cab, leather, deluxe controls, Intellisteer ready, Intelliview display, Y&M, variable speed feeder house, long unloading auger w/ extender, PSD chopper & spreader, reverser, both sets concaves, HID lights, single pt. hookup, 886 sep. hrs.,1,137 engine hrs., used 4 seasons, S/NYAG113621 2011 NH 98D corn head, 12x30”, knife rolls, hyd. deck plates, AHH & contour, less than 2,000 acres, S/NYBS022370 2010 MacDon D60-D draper head, 45’, fore/aft, slow speed transport, NH or Case-IH hookup, S/N197951

2009 MacDon D60-D draper head, 45’, fore/aft, slow speed transport, NH or Case-IH hookup, S/N191680 2008 NH 76C pickup head, 14’, AHH, Rakeup 14’ pickup, single pt., NH & Case-IH hookups, S/NPPP003612 2008 NH 76C pickup head, 14’, AHH, Rakeup 14’ pickup, single pt., NH & Case-IH hookups, S/NPPP003610 Sheyenne Tooling Mfg. Sunmaster sunflower all crop head, 16x30”, dual PTO, NH or Case-IH hookup, S/N11631 Sheyenne Tooling Mfg. Sunmaster sunflower all crop head, 16x30”, dual PTO, NH or Case-IH hookup, S/N11623 GRAIN CART 2011 Balzer 1325 grain cart, 1,325 bu., S/NGL24131FS305STN AIR SEEDER & DRILLS 2011 Bourgault 3310 PHD Paralink double shoot air seeder, 75’, 10” space, 3/4 knife openers, 2011 Bourgault 6700ST tow-behind commodity cart, 700 bu., cart S/ N40533AS-15, seeder S/N40598PH-15 JD LLA press drills, (2) 12’s TILLAGE EQUIPMENT 2011 Summers Super Coulter vertical tillage tool, 50’, tandems across Morris Magnum II CP745 chisel plow, 32’, 12” space, full hyd.

DMI 2500 minimum till subsoiler Case-IH 4900 vibra tiller, 36’ JD pull-type cultivator, 12’ MF offset disc, 12’, tandem duals ROW CROP EQUIPMENT Westgo danish tine cultivator, 8x30” 1989 Loftness trailing stalk shredder, 20’, 1000 PTO WHEEL LOADER 1978 Caterpillar 950 wheel loader, cab, heat, 4 spd., hyd. quick tach, 2-1/2 yd. bucket, pallet forks, shows 301 hrs. but tach replaced, S/N81J13896 SKID STEER LOADER 2009 Bobcat S330 skid steer loader, cab, 2 spd., high flow, material bucket, 1,332 hrs., S/NA5HA35161

Byron & Kathleen Richard

701.575.4709 or 701.290.1581

FORKLIFT HAY & LIVESTOCK Toyota LP forklift, 5,000 lb., side shift, EQUIPMENT 1991 Utility converted flatbed bale 2 stage, shows 2,624 hrs. trailer, 48’ SEMI TRACTORS Hyd. loader attachment for large 2007 Peterbilt 379 ext. hood, square bales removable bunk, C15 Cat, 550 hp., 13 spd., engine brake, air ride, air slide HOPPER BINS & GRAIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT 5th, shows 693,039 miles, second (2) Friesen hopper bottom bins owner Bench Industries self-contained grain 2007 IHC 9400I, day cab, ISX Cummins, cleaner, unloading auger 500 hp., non-emission, Eaton Fuller 2012 Buhler Farm King auger, 85’x13” Ultrashift 10 spd. automatic, engine Westfield auger, 71’x13” brake, air ride cab & susp., air slide Westfield loadout auger, 31’x10” 5th, 158,128 actual miles Brandt loadout auger, 35’x8” 2011 Seed Shuttle 500 poly twin PICKUPS compartment, 180 degree swivel 2008 Chevrolet 3500HD crew cab, Wheatheart jump auger, 8’, hyd.

6 liter gas, automatic, 4WD Hyd. drill fill auger, 16’ 2007 GMC Sierra Classic, reg. cab, (2) Hyd. hopper walkers 6.6 liter Duramax Caldwell LP bin heater 1996 Chevrolet S10, ext. cab, 4 cyl.

Perforated & solid air tubes, 18” HOPPER BOTTOM OTHER EQUIPMENT & OTHER TRAILERS (2) Poly canola rollers 2009 Neville tri-axle hopper bottom, (2) JD 6’ cultivator wings 45’x96”x66” sides, ag hopper, air ride, F&S lawn & garden weed roller (3) compartment, roll tarp, electric (2) Lawn spreaders hopper openers, 11-24.5 tires on (2) 1,600 gal. poly tanks steel rims 2009 Timpte tri-axle hopper bottom, SHOP EQUIPMENT Alkota 3182 power washer steamer 46’x96”x66”, ag hopper Coleman ER Plus generator, 5000 watt (2) 2011 Klugman Welding header (2) Crossbox toolboxes trailers, 40’, 4-wheel Shop press, 20 ton 2008 Klugman Welding double pickup TIRES & PARTS header trailer, 4-wheel Set (4) 320/90R46 tires & rims for 1979 Fruehauf dry van trailer, 40’, Case-IH 4430 tandem slider, spring ride, set up with (3) 1,650 gal. poly tanks, plumbed 3”, Asst. truck, pickup & implement tires & rims 9 hp. Honda, transfer pump, 5 hp.

Set Dawn (32) floating trash whippers Honda draw chemical pump, 30 gal.

JD front suitcase weights mix cone, (2) electric meter pumps Pallet assorted PTO shafts 2008 Utility single axle trailer, 6x12, Pallet row cleaners flip-up ramp Asst. suction hose, air seeder hose, etc.

SPRAYERS MISC. & FARM 2012 Case-IH 4430 self-propelled SUPPORT ITEMS sprayer, deluxe cab, 120’ boom, Used bin roof sheets, & (4) roof vents 1,200 gal. SS tank, 1,234 hrs., Motor, 5 hp., 1 phase S/NYBT031869 Gas trash pump, 3” JD sprayer, 3 pt., 150 gal. poly Misc. farm support items

or Brad Olstad of Steffes Group, 701.237.9173

Steffes Group, Inc., 2000 Main Ave East, West Fargo, ND 58078 Brad Olstad ND319, Scott Steffes ND81, Bob Steffes ND82, Ashley Huhn ND843, Eric Gabrielson ND890, Randy Kath ND894 | 701.237.9173 | SteffesGroup.com TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items. Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer.

Complete Registration, Terms, Details & Photos at SteffesGroup.com

2350 IHC GRAVEL TRUCK, dsl, 15-ft box, good condition, asking $3,300; 1978 1850 IHC, DT466 motor, 15-ft gravel box, good condition, Asking: $4,500.

45-ft Morris deep tillage, has anhydrous tips, Asking $1,350. 2 tri-axle ocean container movers, extendable to 53-ft, Asking $1,650 each. Phone:(204)728-1861.

620 SCREEN MACHINE; Parallel Flow 245; 3, #3s; Aspirator; 6 legs. (604)491-3513, located in MB. DISCS VERSATILE #1800 36-FT, $25,000; Wishek 842 26-ft, $39,000; IH 25-ft #490, $7500; Bushog 25-ft, $7500; JD 330 22-ft, $9500; JD 15-ft DOT, $5000; Kewannee breaking discs 12 & 15-ft disc rippers DMI 5-shank, $8900; 7-shank, $10,900; Phoenix Harrow 35, 42 & 53-ft; Bat Wing mowers, John Deere 15-ft, $6000; Woods 15-ft, $6000; Woods HD 3180, $7500; JD 2018, $11,000; Bushwhacker 20-ft, $12,000; JD 709, $3000; JD 3-PH 6ft, $650; JD 5-ft Pull-type, $1000. (204)857-8403.

New GX 390 Honda 13-hp motor .........................................Retail $1367 or OBO New GX 630 Honda motor, 20-hp, 20 amp charging oil alert ...Retail $2395 or OBO New GX 690 Honda motor, 24-hp 2 years warranty ...........Retail $2765 or OBO Equinox 1250-gallon tanks as large as 5000 gallons. Septic tanks available 750 gallons to 1350 gallons....................... Phone for Prices

A&T Sales & Const. Ltd. 607 Stephens Street - Morden, MB R6M 1R7 Phone: (204) 822-1354

FOR SALE: GRAIN VAC 1999 REM model 1026B, VGC, $7,900; 1971 GMC 6500 truck w/366 motor, 5x2 trans, 8-ft.x17-ft. grain box & hoist, tag axle w/hyd lift, 900x20 tires, roll up tarp, $3,500. Phone (204)256-1691.

RICHARDTON 770 HI-DUMP, $21,000; 12-ft, $3000; Jiffy 14-ft, $4900; JD 3970 Harvester 3RN, $8900; NH 890, $2500; IH 791, $2500; Balers JD 535, $5000; JD 530, $3500; Corn Shredder attachment for JD Baler, $500; 10-ft Land-levellers, $2450; 12-ft, $2650; 12-ft w/tilt, $3650; V-Ditchers, $1500 up; Scrapers 4-yd, $3900; 4.5-yd, $4500; 6-yd, $6000; Snowblowers JD 2-Auger 7-ft, $1500; 8-ft Single auger, $1000; (204)857-8403.

USED FERTILIZER SPREADERS 4-9 Ton: 8T Willmar, $8000; 4T Tyler, $3500; 5T Dempster, $3000; 6T Willmar, $6500; Valmar 3255 Applicator, $3000.

No Jet Applicator, $1500. (204)857-8403.

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Wanted 20-26-FT TANDEM DISC MEDIUM duty. Also Haybine. Phone (306)876-4707 PARTS FOR MASSEY (204)855-2212

HARRIS

Pony. Phone

WANTED: INTL OR MCCORMICK thresh machine; Intl or McCormick grain or corn binder; hay loader; ground driven horse drawn sickle mowers. Phone (812)444-9708.

WANTED: MINNEAPOLIS MOLINE MODEL 335 or 445 tractor, running or not. Phone:(204)866-3453.

1988 CASE IH 5600 deep tiller, 53-ft, heavy harrow mulchers, good condition, $15,500. Call: (204)534-8115.

Killarney, MB.

TracTors TRACTORS Case/IH 08 STX 430 brand new 620-70-42 tires, delux cab, heated leather seat, $160,000. Phone (204)871-0925, McGregor.

1989 CIH 9150 4WD, 20.8X38 Duals, PS, PTO, 6,700-hrs, $39,500. Call (204)825-8121.

TRACTORS John Deere 1992 JD 6200, (65-HP), F.W.A., standard trans.

New tires, 3-PTH, 640 loader & grapple, very well maintained. (204)534-2390.

1997 9400 4WD, very good tires, 7,000-hrs, VGC, $95,000 OBO. (204)745-7445.

TRACTORS New Holland 1994 NH 9880 6,376-HRS, 400-HP, 7.10x38 Firestone tires 60% left, autosteer ready, very good maintenance, everything works, real clean, shedded, $67,000 OBO. (204)373-2502 cell (204)304-0270

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 FOR SALE: 1962 MINNEAPOLIS Moline Jet Star tractor, 43-HP, 1 set hydraulics, good tires, runs good, comes w/JD 7-ft sickle mower, $1,650. (204)256-1691.

TRACTOR ALLIS CHALMERS CA. Comes w/3-PTH for a 2-sheer plow, rear cultivators, plus side cultivators, $2,000. Phone:(204)661-6840.

Big Tractor Parts, Inc. Geared For The Future

STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALIST

RED OR GREEN 1. 10-25% savings on new replacement parts for your Steiger drive train.

2. We rebuild axles, transmissions and dropboxes with ONE YEAR WARRANTY. 3. 50% savings on used parts.

1-800-982-1769 www.bigtractorparts.com

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HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING

The Icynene Insulation System® • Sprayed foam insulation • Ideal for shops, barns or homes • Healthier, Quieter, More Energy Efficient®

www.penta.ca

1-800-587-4711

LIVESTOCK Horses For Sale BLACK RUNNING QUARTER HORSE STUD. ‘Dakota’ Breeding, 18-mos old, not registered, $500. (204)649-2347.

LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

FOR SALE: ELECTRIC GUITAR $99.95, amplifier $50, Mandolin $129.95, banjo $229, Violin set $125, student guitars from $69.95, 5 piece drum set & symbols $399.99, harmonicas $10-$185, lapsteel $229, electric acoustic guitar $175, ukulele $29.95, wireless mike $50, accordions $200-$1,250, 25W amp $129.95, Hildebrand Music & Accessories.

Portage La Prairie Mall. Phone:(204)857-3172.

PETS & SUPPLIES PYRENEES DOGS. EXCELLENT COYOTE hunters. One 3-yr old female & two 1-yr old males.

Good watch dogs. We have sold our goats and don’t need them anymore. (204)467-2655

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123

REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE Houses & Lots

IRON & STEEL 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.

LIVESTOCK LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK AUCTION MART. LTD.

Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519

LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT NEW CONCEPT ROLLER MIXMILL, VGC. Brian McCarthy (306)435-3590 or cell (306)435-7527.

SOLD COW HERD- FOR SALE: 2011 Norberts 26-ft triple axle stock trailer; 2011 568 JD round baler w/net wrap, megawide, & moisture tester; 2010 1375 15-ft Hesston discbine; 1979 70-hp white 700 tractor w/quick tach loader, bucket & bale fork; Highline 7000 plus bale shredder; 352 NH Mixmill w/roller; 2) Silage feed wagons; Dual 600 tandem axle manure spreader; 7-in Westeel PTO grain auger; Northstar chute & tub; Stampede steel squeeze chute; Portable loading ramp; Solar pump & solar panels; Round bale feeders; Inverted tractor tire silage feeders; Steel gates & small panels. Phone: Kelly Ferris (204)828-3483 or (204)745-7168, Stephenfield.

12V. or Hydraulic Electronic Scale Opt.

GRUNTHAL, MB.

AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING

REGULAR CATTLE SALES every TUESDAY at 9 am Nov. 11th, 18th & 25th

Sat., Nov. 22nd at 10 am Bred Cow Sale

Mon., Nov. 24th at 12 pm

Sheep and Goat with Small Animals & Holstein Calves

Sales Agent for

HIQUAL INDUSTRIES

We also have a line of Agri-blend all natural products for your livestock needs. (protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc)

For on farm appraisal of livestock or for marketing information please call

REAL ESTATE Land For Sale

REAL ESTATE Land For Sale

160-ACRES FOR SALE BY TENDER Sealed tenders to be received by 12:00pm Nov. 10th, 2014.

NW 1/4 28-6-6W, RM of Dufferin. The North 80-acres is bare land, sandy soil. The South 80-acres has approx. 40 arable acres with the remainder in bush & yardsite. Yardsite has an older home & outbuildings. The Boyne River borders the south 80. Tenders may be made for individual 80 acre parcels or the entire 160-acs. $10,000 deposit cheque made out to RE/MAX Advantage to be included with tenders. All terms & conditions to be finalized in a formal offer to purchase. Buyer will be responsible for any GST. Contact Wayne Giesbrecht for more info, tender form, or to view.

(204)745-8679, email remaxwayne@mymts.net

FARM LAND FOR SALE BY TENDER IN THE RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH NORFOLK. SW 1/4 22-12-10 WPM EXC ELY 704-FT OF WLY 1879-FT OF SLY 715-FT. TENDERS MUST BE for the entirety of the land described above, and all buildings attached thereto. SEALED TENDERS TO PURCHASE the land will be received by: GREENBERG & GREENBERG Box 157 Portage La Prairie, MB R1N 3B2 until 4:30pm December 2, 2014.

TERMS OF TENDER ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. Each Tender shall be in writing and in a sealed envelope, plainly marked as to its contents and shall be submitted, with a certified cheque payable to GREENBERG & GREENBERG, IN TRUST, in an amount equal to 10% of the tender price. 2. If the Tender is accepted, the certified cheque shall become a nonrefundable deposit. If the Tenderer fails to complete the purchase of the property the Seller shall retain the deposit as liquidated damages. On December 3, 2014 unsuccessful Tenderers will have their certified cheques returned to them by regular mail. 3.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by cash, certified cheque, or lawyer’s trust cheque and trust conditions on February 2, 2015 (the Closing Date). 4. Vacant possession will be provided on Closing Date. 5. The Buyers will pay the 2015 taxes. 6. The Vendors will pay all the property taxes and penalties relating to taxes accruing to December 31, 2014. 7. The Tenderer will pay the applicable Goods and Services Tax or provide an acceptable undertaking to self-assess. 8. Time is to be of the essence in submission of tender and closing of sale. 9. Highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. 10. The Purchasers rely entirely on their own knowledge and inspection of the property independent of any representations made by or on behalf of the owners. For further particulars and inspection contact: John A. Jones Greenberg & Greenberg Box 157 Portage la Prairie, MB R1N 3B2 Phone (204)857-6878

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RTM’S - READY FOR Fall delivery. Beautiful home: 3 bdrms, 2 1/2 baths; Master suite has walk-in closet & 4 piece bath, main floor laundry, kitchen w/corner pantry & 6-ft island; side entry 2 piece mudroom. Call for more info, Marvin Homes, Mitchell, MB:(204)326-1493 or (204)355-8484. www.marvinhomes.ca

REAL ESTATE Land For Sale 158-ACRES FOR SALE BY TENDER. Sealed tenders to be received by 12:00pm Nov., 17th, 2014.

SW 1/4 17-6-6W, RM of Dufferin. Almassippi sandy soil suitable for potato production. Approx 135 arable acres. Yardsite with an older home. Internet tower rental agreement. $10,000 deposit cheque made out to RE/ MAX Advantage to be included with tenders. All terms and conditions to be finalized in a formal offer to purchase. Buyer will be responsible for any GST. Contact Wayne Giesbrecht for more info, tender form, or to view. (204)745-8679, email remaxwayne@mymts.net FOR SALE 108-ACS OF farmland at Headlingley located just west of truck scale w/300-ft. frontage on north side of HWY #1, & 811-ft. frontage on purposed bypass HWY. Contact Golden Plains Realty Ltd (204)745-3677.

FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER Sealed, written tenders for the property in the RM of Westbourne described below, will be received by, Unico Ag Inc 7 Oakwood Dr Morden, MB. R6M 2A9. All of section 9-17-11 640-acs; S1/2 16-17-11 320-acs; NE1/4 16-17-11 160-acs; S1/2 17-17-11 320-acs; NW1/4 17-17-11 160-acs; E1/2 21-17-11 320-acs; W1/2 22-17-11 320-acs. 2,240-acs in total w/2,044-acs cultivated. Conditions of Tender: 1. Interested parties must rely on their own inspection of the property. 2. Tenders must be received on all land. 3. Tenders must be received on or before 6:00pm on Nov. 28th, 2014. 4. Tenders must be accompanied by a deposit of $50,000 payable to Unico Ag Inc Trust. Deposit cheques accompanying unacceptable bids will be returned. 5. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. 6. The purchaser shall be responsible for payment of GST or shall self access the GST. Terms & Conditions of Sale: 1. The bidder whose tender is accepted will be required to complete an agreement covering terms & conditions of sale. 2. In addition to the deposit, the balance of the accepted tender must be paid on or before the date of closing which shall be Dec. 15th, 2014 or evidence provided that the purchase funds will be available under conditions acceptable to the vendor. If the balance of the accepted tender is not paid within the set time limit, the deposit paid may be forfeited as liquidated damages & not as a penalty. 3. Possession is not authorized until acceptable arrangements for full payment are made following acceptance of tender. 4. Successful bidder will be responsible for the real property taxes commencing date of purchase. For further info contact J. Lawrence Warkentin (204)822-5347.

SAVE 23%!

FOR SALE IN CARMAN area, South half of 25-7-7, 280-acs cultivated, located West of Carman on PR305, sandy loam soil, $2,850 per cultivated acre, contact Golden Plains Realty. (204)745-3677.

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.

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“We’re calling it a high normal,” said Rheal Lafreniere, Manitoba’s provincial apiarist.

“When we take all the numbers that got reported to us, mortality came out to around 24 per cent.”

Normal winterkill numbers fall between 15 and 25 per cent, he added, noting that in 201213 the average winter loss — including spring culls — was calculated at 46.4 per cent.

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Southwest Manitoba has traditionally been considered part of the semi-arid Palliser Triangle. Today Wade (l) and Ryan Flannery are among the area farmers whose fields are sprouting cattails, not crops. PHOTO: MEGHAN MAST

Southwestern Manitoba — semi-arid to semi-fluid Dedicated minimum- and zero-till farmers are now dragging out tillage equipment that’s been in store for years

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hen Ryan and Wade Flannery began working on the drilling rigs to supplement grain farming, they did not imagine that several years later they would be working for oil companies year round.

“We (initially) went to the drilling rigs for something to do for the winter and now it’s turned into a full-time deal,” said Wade.

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early explorer John Palliser declared as too dry to farm. He was wrong about that, but farming success in the area has historically depended on moisture-conserving practices, and farmers were among the first to develop minimum and zero till.

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FARM PROPERTY FOR SALE BY TENDER Sealed tenders in writing for the purchase of the property described below will be received by McCulloch Mooney Johnston LLP as follows: PROPERTY FOR SALE (owned by the Bill Vandersluis Estate): SW º 35-6-4 WPM The property consists of 160-ac, of which approx.

150-ac are prime farmland. The balance consists of a yard site, which includes a 3-bdrm bungalow style residence w/full basement & 1 car attached & heated garage. The residence is connected to municipal water, w/installation paid in full. Also included is a machine shed (44 by 88-ft) constructed in 2013 & an insulated workshop.

CONDITIONS OF TENDER: 1) Interested parties must rely on their own inspection & knowledge of the property. Any specific questions pertaining to the property or request for building inspection should be directed to Ed Vandersluis at (204)745-8950. 2) Tenders must be delivered to McCulloch Mooney Johnston LLP, at the address below, by 2:30 p.m., Nov. 20, 2014. Please mark on front of envelope “Tender”. 3) Tenders must be accompanied by a deposit cheque equal to 5% of the amount of the bid, payable to McCulloch Mooney Johnston LLP. Deposit cheques accompanying unacceptable bids will be returned. 4) The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE: 1) The bidder(s) whose tender is accepted will be required to complete an agreement covering the terms & conditions of the sale in a form satisfactory to the Owner. 2) Nursery evergreen trees are not included and will be removed by closing date.

3)Possession & closing date will be Dec. 18, 2014. 4) The successful bidder will be responsible for all realty taxes following December 31, 2014 (the adjustment date). 5) In addition to the deposit, the balance of the accepted tender must be paid on or before the date of closing, or evidence provided that the purchase funds will be available under conditions acceptable to the Vendor. If the balance of the purchase price is not paid by the closing date or under such acceptable conditions, the deposit paid shall be forfeited as liquidated damages & not as a penalty.

McCulloch Mooney Johnston LLP P.O. Box 1670 114 Main Street S. Carman, MB R0G 0J0 Ph:(204)745-2546 Attention: Thomas R. Mooney

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BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS Heated/Spring Threshed Lightweight/Green/Tough, Mixed Grain - Barley, Oats, Rye, Flax, Wheat, Durum, Lentils, Peas, Canola, Chickpeas, Triticale, Sunflowers, Screenings, Organics and By-Products √ ON-FARM PICKUP √ PROMPT PAYMENT √ LICENSED AND BONDED SASKATOON, LLOYDMINSTER, LETHBRIDGE, VANCOUVER, MINNEDOSA

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TENDERS FOR SALE-BY TENDER BID. APPROXIMATELY 151.62-ACRES IN THE RM OF DUFFERIN. Offers to be received by: Taylor McCaffrey LLP (Attention: Alain L.J. Laurencelle) 9th Floor-400 St Mary Ave, Wpg MB R3C 4K5. Phone:(204)988-0304; Fax:(204)953-7188 or email al@tmlawyers.com The Estate of the Late Roland Aimé Henri Ricard is offering for sale: Approx. 136.62-acres of Arable Land: With 988-sq.ft bungalow with attached gar40516_A CPS_PrePay Print_4x4_rev1.indd 3 age; 3,276-sq.ft machine shed/workshop; 672-sq.ft

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horse and bale shelter and shed lean-to; 2x 2,200bu steel bins (hopper bottom); 1x 4,000-bushel steel bin (hopper bottom). Approx. 15-acres of Slough/Bush, Title No: 1698659/4 (Morden) Legal Description: NE 1/4 33-7-7 WPM, Excepting FirstlyPublic Drain Plan 1603 MLTO, Secondly Public Drain Plan 2052 MLTO. Legal Offers to Purchase must be received by Taylor McCaffrey LLP before 5:00pm, Wednesday, November 19th, 2014. A deposit of 5% payable to Taylor Mc Caffrey LLP “in trust” must accompany every Offer, and will be returned if an Offer is not accepted. All Offers will be reviewed by the Executrix on November 25th, 2014 and the party whose Offer is accepted will be contacted within 2 business days; the highest Offer will not necessarily be accepted. The Purchaser shall be responsible for payment of any GST or shall self-assess for GST. Possession shall be within thirty (30) days after final acceptance of the Offer to Purchase. The Executrix reserves the right to not accept any submitted Offers. For viewing appointments, contact the Executrix Mariette Pinette at drmpinette@shaw.ca Alain L.J. Laurencelle, as Solicitor and Agent.

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SEASONAL FARM WORKERS SOUGHT for asparagus & potato related duties. Position will be seasonal full time, 40+ hrs per week. Wage $10.70 per hour. Period of employment anticipated to be from April 15, 2015 until Sept 30, 2015. Job description includes cutting seed potatoes & all potato harvesting duties such as grading, picking dirt, etc. as well as working w/irrigation systems. Also, work includes cutting & packing of asparagus. Must be willing to work long hours and do repetitive tasks as well as bending & some heavy lifting. Applicants must be able to work in a variety of conditions in outdoor environment & must be able to work well with others. Education requirements not applicable; experience an asset. Location of work is MacGregor & area, MB. Please apply in writing to Northern Potato Co. Ltd., Box 33, Bagot, MB R0H 0E0.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 6, 2014 T:10.25”

THE ALL-NEW 2015

SILVERADO HD STRONG JUST GOT STRONGER FINANCE FROM

• BEST-IN-CLASS 19,600 LB. CONVENTIONAL TOWING† • BEST-IN-CLASS 7,374 LB. PAYLOAD

0.99%

††

• BEST PICKUP WARRANTY COVERAGE IN CANADA - 160,000 KM. 60,000KM MORE THAN F-150 AND RAM+ • OUTSTANDING 23,200 LB. FIFTH-WHEEL TOWING++ • AVAILABLE DURAMAX® ENGINE AND ALLISON® TRANSMISSION OFFERING 397 HP AND 765 LB.-FT. TORQUE WITH OVER 160 BILLION KMS OF REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE • NEW INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR DESIGN WITH COMFORT AND REFINEMENT

FOR

36

MONTHS*

PLUS

$4,000

IN CASH CREDITS ON SELECT 2015 SILVERADO HD MODELS**

T:15.5”

3500HD CREW CAB LTZ MODEL SHOWN

OUR MOST CAPABLE SILVERADO HD EVER

2

YEARS/40,000 KM COMPLIMENTARY OIL CHANGES^

5

YEARS/160,000 KM POWERTRAIN WARRANTY ^^

5

YEARS/160,000 KM ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE ^^

CHEVROLET.CA

ON NOW AT YOUR PRAIRIE CHEVROLET DEALERS. Chevrolet.ca 1-800-GM-DRIVE. Chevrolet is a brand of General Motors of Canada. Offers apply to the purchase and finance of a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado HD. Freight and PDI included. License, insurance, registration, administration fees, PPSA and taxes not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Offers apply to qualified retail customers in Prairie Chevrolet Dealer Marketing Association area only. Limited time offers which may not be combined with other offers, and are subject to change without notice. Dealer order and trade may be required. * 0.99% purchase financing offered on approved credit by RBC Royal Bank/TD Auto Financing/Scotiabank for 36 months on new or demonstrator 2015 Silverado 2500/3500HD Gas & Diesel models.

Example: $10,000 at 0.99% APR, the monthly payment is $282 for 36 months. Cost of borrowing is $153, total obligation is $10,153. ** $4,000/$4,750 is a manufacturer to dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) eligible on cash purchase, lease and finance offers for 2015 Silverado HD Crew Cab/HD Double Cab Gas and Diesel models, and is applicable to retail customers only. Other credits available on select models. Offers end October 31, 2014. † Requires 3500HD Crew Cab Dual Rear Wheel 4WD with available Duramax 6.6L Turbo Diesel V8 engine. Maximum trailer weight ratings are calculated assuming a base vehicle, except for any option(s) necessary to achieve the rating, plus driver. The weight of the other optional equipment, passengers and cargo will reduce the maximum trailer weight your vehicle can tow. See your Chevrolet dealer for additional details. †† Requires Regular Cab Long Box 4x2 with Vortec 6.0L V8 engine. Maximum payload capacity includes weight of driver, passengers, optional equipment and cargo. + Whichever comes first. See dealer/manufacturer for details. Based on Wardsauto.com 2013 Large Pickup segment and last available information at the time of posting. ++ Requires 3500 Regular Cab Long Box 4x4 with Duramax 6.6L V8 turbo diesel engine. ^ Whichever comes first. Limit of four ACDelco Lube-OilFilter services in total. Fluid top-offs, Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) refill, inspections, tire rotations, wheel alignments and balancing, etc., are not covered. Additional conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. ^^ Whichever comes first. See dealer for details.