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Assiniboine River Basin Initiative formed

Beef sector welcomes support But Kostyshyn remains non-committal on AgriRecovery for crop producers

The new organization will tackle water-related issues between Saskatchewan, Manitoba, North Dakota

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ast week’s AgriRecovery announcement brought some good news for the beef producers, but no news for Manitoba crop producers hoping for additional support after a disastrous growing season.

Ron Kostyshyn, minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, was non-committal when asked whether crop producers would receive additional help this year in the form of AgriRecovery.

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new grassroots group has emerged following a historic agreement in Regina this month to pursue a cross-boundary planning organization for the Assiniboine River basin.

The three-day meeting held here last week laid the groundwork for the new organization to move forward and begin serving stakeholders in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and North Dakota, to seek co-ordinated solutions to water management across the entire river basin area.

The greater Assiniboine River basin includes the subbasins of the Qu’Appelle, So u r i s ( Mo u s e ) , a n d t h e Assiniboine rivers.

“We’ve accomplished the insurmountable task of bringing so many diverse groups to the table with a common goal and common objectives,” said Allan Preston, former assistant deputy minister of agriculture in Manitoba, and chair of the interim executive committee as it moves to finalize a board, pursue funding and identify projects.

L a s t w e e k ’s m e e t i n g s brought those who farm and live in the region, including

A new organization was formed to discuss water management in the Assiniboine River basin.

representatives of municipalities and counties, together with representatives of conservation, water, agricultural, science-based groups and government departments from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and North Dakota.

The matter at hand was how to create form and function for a group dealing with the highly charged subject of water management.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

INSIDE

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LIVESTOCK Definition of a crisis

Conflicting ideologies cloud farming debate

Experts meet to discuss the growing problem of antibiotic resistance

Chemical farmers view the notion that organic is more profitable as just plain wrong

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CROPS A two-tier approach AAFC proposes further revisions to the crop variety registration system

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FEATURE Mystery solved Rising levels of phosphorus in lakes might not come from agriculture after all

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CROSSROADS For the birds A Balmoral-area family has protected a bird haven in perpetuity

nti-organic: Why do some farmers resist profitable change?

Why do some chemical farmers resist a conversion to organic methods even when it can be more profitable? A new study in the Journal of Marketing suggests it may be because making that change feels like switching belief systems.

“The ideological map of American agriculture reveals an unfolding drama between chemical and organic farming,” write authors Melea Press (University of Bath), Eric Arnould (Southern Denmark University), Jeff Murray (University of Arkansas) and Katherine Strand (McGill University). “Chemical farmers argue that to make money, one must follow chemical traditions; when organic farmers make more money, it seems “wrong.”

The authors looked at chemical and organic wheat farmers of the American Plains to see which crop production strategies they used, and why. They found that, as predicted, both chemical and organic farmers often gave passionate, belief-based reasons for their choices, and clearly felt that their beliefs were in competition.

One chemical farmer stated that he felt organic farmers were unscientific and that they probably followed “an organic crop guru.” An organic farmer, by contrast, stressed the joy of bringing the earth back to life: “I had thousands of seagulls, but my chemical neighbour did not have one. Why was this? Earthworms. My soil is getting healthier because I’m not putting all the herbicides and pesticides out there.”

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The authors conclude by stressing the vital importance to agricultural managers of recognizing how ideological beliefs influence farming methods, and of using this understanding to find new ways of inspiring farmers to adopt profitable changes.

“It is possible that when approaching strategic change, managers might have greater success if they recognize that potentially conflicting ideologies are in play. As we have illustrated, the preservation of the agricultural world is at stake.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

Rural Manitoba struggles to develop Retired statistician maps out future of labour market

By Meghan Mast CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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ooming labour shortages due to mass migration to and around cities have made rural development much more difficult than it used to be, according to a retired statistician.

While rural populations in Manitoba overall are still growing by .6 per cent, since 1996, places farther away f r o m Br a n d o n , Wi n n i p e g and Winkler are not faring as well.

“Really rural places have been declining for quite some time,” Ray Bollman told the group of people gathered to hear him speak about Manitoba’s current rural demography trends on Nov, 4.

“Back in 1971, 200 people joined the labour force every time 100 people left the labour force. Rural development was very easy.”

These numbers have steadily decreased over the last 40 years so that today 122 people in non-metro Manitoba enter the workf o rc e f o r e v e r y 1 0 0 t h a t leave. Statistics Canada analysts expect these figures to plunge below 100. That means there will be fewer 19-year-olds than there are 64-year-olds, which points to pending labour shortages.

Some rural communities a re a l re a d y e x p e r i e n c i n g shortages. As of 2012, Lac du Bonnet had 50 people entering the labour market for every 100 who left while Gimli had 77 and Dauphin 89.

So m e c o m m u n i t i e s a re attracting immigrants.

Outside of Winnipeg, in 2012 to 2013, .31 per cent of the population were immigrants who had arrived in the prev i o u s y e a r. T h e W i n k l e r, Morden and Altona area is the most successful region,

outside of Winnipeg, at attracting immigrants. Those communities have nearly one immigrant for every 100 residents.

B o l l m a n c o m p a re s t h i s to playing bridge, which he played as a young boy.

“The rule was you should always go down a third of the time. If you don’t lose your bid a third of the time you’re not bidding high enough.

Winkler is winning by bidding high, attracting lots of immigrants. Yes they’re losing some, but they’re more successful at attracting immigrants.”

Unfortunately the number of immigrants arr iving is not enough to outweigh the number of people leaving.

“Manitoba as a whole loses more people to the rest of Canada than it gains on net migration,” he said.

Some communities have responded to the development challenge by marketing themselves as retirement communities. Bollman referenced Elliot Lake in Ontario a s a n e x a m p l e. T h e o n l y problem with this tactic, he said, is that most retirees will leave after 10 or 15 years so they can live near a healthcare facility.

“Then you’ve got to recruit 10 per cent every year because 10 per cent are leaving every year. It’s a hard role to hold, but it’s still maybe the best bet for some of these places.”

Whether courting seniors or new immigrants, Bollman’s advice to these communities is to get creative. “If any of these commu-

Overall in Manitoba there are still more people entering the labour market than leaving.

nities want to stabilize their workforce they have to find something new to export. A new good or a new service.”

He cited as an example, the flax bread that Angusville o n c e p r o d u c e d . “O r y o u could try producing alfalfa pellets. Or something different like retirement homes around Riding Mountain. Or bring back the Pembina Ski Hill and sell ski hill services.” “ To q u o t e Re d G re e n ,” he said. “‘We are all in this together. I’m pullin’ for ya.’” meghan.mast@fbcpublishing.com

“Really, rural places have been declining for quite some time.”

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However, Cargill employees will continue to operate the Winnipeg facility. The company is maintaining Brandon sales and service employees, but has contracted out production to other manufacturers in the region.

“We are confident these actions will enhance our ability to focus on solutions for our customers,” said Jennifer Henderson, managing director of Cargill Animal Nutrition’s compound feed business Western Canada in a release.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

OPINION/EDITORIAL

The information age and agriculture’s footprint

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he latest global supply-and-demand outlooks make it a little difficult to get too excited over worries the world will run out of food any time soon.

World grain prices are weakening under what are characterized as burdensome supplies of staple commodity crops. Most of the pundits are now predicting we’re in for a prolonged period of depressed prices. In other words, we’re getting back Laura Rance to normal. It seems that whenever shortEditor falls occur, as they did following the U.S. drought of 2012-13, farmers rise to the productivity challenge and then some.

University of Nebraska agronomist Ken Cassman was recently tasked with assessing whether the world productivity gains are on track to feed nine billion people by 2050.

Reporting to the Borlaug Dialogue last month, he surprised more than a few in his audience by saying no.

And, in the view of Cassman and his colleagues, we’re not off by just a little. He suggests current estimates of how much food will be needed by 2050 are too low, that the demands existing production place on the environment are too high and agriculture’s ability to increase productivity enough is questionable under today’s parameters.

For starters, feeding the world isn’t a question of simple math — multiplying nine billion people by 2,500 or so calories per day. As people rise above poverty, their demand for more calories and a more diverse diet will increase just as it did after the lean times of the Second World War, he said.

“Every human being on this planet in 2050 has a right to a bottle of wine, and a dinner that includes beautiful diverse foods, because food is such an important part of culture, of our happiness and of being human beings,” he said. “If we start thinking 2,500 calories, how to do we feed 9.5 billion, that’s the wrong way to think about this.”

Cassman’s research shows that although global production has been rising, yield gains in many key producing areas has been slowing. “Thirty-one per cent of current global cereal supply is coming from countries which have statistically significant plateau yields or marked decrease in the linear rate of gain that was enjoyed earlier,” he said.

That means a larger share of productivity gains are due to farmers farming more land.

That should come as no surprise to anyone here on the Prairies, where production efficiency is equated with expanding farm sizes, rather than increasing the productivity of existing acres. Farmers here have been busy buying out their neighbours over the past several decades and the actual area devoted to cropping hasn’t changed all that much. But farmers elsewhere in the world have been increasing their farm sizes by pushing bush and rainforest at an unprecedented pace.

“During the 1980s and 1990s nearly all of the increased food production was met on existing land, by increasing yields,” Cassman said.

“There has been an abrupt and statistically significant increase in harvested crop area beginning in 2000 at a rate of 10 million hectares per year. This is the fastest rate of crop area expansion in human history,” Cassman said, noting more than 80 per cent of that increased land is devoted to the production of just four crops — maize, rice, wheat and soya.

“Some have called this an agricultural time bomb, because it is not sustainable,” he said.

This is not something that can be fixed by market forces.

Farmers produce more when prices are high, because who wouldn’t want to cash in? Farmers produce more when prices are low because how else would they survive?

“The only way to keep food prices in check over the long term, is to produce adequate food and to do that, we need accelerating yield gains and appropriate policies holding agriculture on existing area,” he said.

Meanwhile, despite all efforts to contain them, global greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to rise, which will add to the challenge of stagnating yield gains.

Lastly, the new stores of natural gas harvested through fracking have pushed the worry about “Peak energy” back by at least a generation. “It’s quite likely food prices will rise faster than the price of energy inputs going into the next generation, the exact opposite of what we’ve had,” he said.

Cassman’s solution to the challenge of increasing production but not the footprint? He agrees that technology is part of it, but the yield increases in developed countries prove that the technology is already available. He sees the bigger challenge as delivering the technology to those who don’t have it, and ensuring that agronomic and climatic information remain in the public domain.

“I am going to argue that we need big, open, publicly available data,” he said. laura@fbcpublishing.com

U.S. election in review

By Alan Guebert

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hile Republicans, Democrats and Independents voted nationwide Nov. 4, coincidence, irony and “Huh?” were the big winners Nov. 5.

For example, nationally, according to early numbers compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, candidates spent $3.7 billion on 2014 elections, the most in U.S. history, to get Americans to vote for them.

The money, however, according to data released by the University of Florida, bought neither love nor votes. Only 36.4 per cent of all eligible voters went to the polls Nov. 4, the lowest percentage since 1942.

Money did play the key role in turning back the green tide of GMO labelling initiatives in Colorado and Oregon.

Oregon’s labelling idea, Measure 92, lost 51 to 49 per cent as Big Food outspent pro-labellers $20 million to $8 million. Colorado’s labelling measure was convincingly crushed two to one by voters after Big Food poured another $12 million into that race.

Coincidentally (ironically?), Maui County, Hawaii voters narrowly agreed to ban the planting of GMO crops in their backyards.

The defeat, by a slim 1,007 votes out of nearly 45,000 cast, was particularly painful because the big firms outspent anti-GMO forces 87 to one ($12 million to about $140,000) and still got beat.

The companies quickly promised legal action to have the pending ban declared unconstitutional.

Maybe the biggest Election Day “Huh?” arrived courtesy Republican Kansas where Republican Sen. Pat Roberts beat his Independent Party opponent, Greg Orman, by a rock solid 10 points.

In his victory speech, Roberts, never one to be uncertain, claimed he “always had confidence we would win.”

His Republican colleagues were far less sure. In the campaign’s closing weeks the national GOP

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dropped an unprecedented $10 million into his stumbling campaign and sent their biggest guns past, present and future to the Land of Ahs to pound Orman. It worked.

The victory puts Roberts in the rarest of ag air; the former House Ag Committee chairman is now poised to become Senate Ag Committee chairman.

The seat, however, is already hot. No sooner had he claimed victory than an old farm program nemesis, House Ag Committee’s ranking Democrat, Collin Peterson, publicly warned him not to touch the 2014 Farm Bill which Roberts so disliked that he voted against it. (On Nov. 11, Roberts promised to leave the bill alone.)

Two more coincidences will dog Roberts as he reaches for the committee gavel.

First, as boss of the House Ag Committee in 1996 the Kansan was the principle force behind Freedom to Farm, that year’s Farm Bill designed to decouple farm program payments from production controls. Its estimated cost was $35.6 billion.

The decoupled idea, however, went south fast and F2F’s actual cost from 1996 through 2002 (when a new Farm Bill replaced most of it) was north of $120 billion.

Second, Roberts Wikipedia page — evidently not curated by the senator or his staff — notes that “During his tenure in the Senate, Roberts missed 130 (65 per cent) of his Agriculture Committee meetings.”

So the person who needed massive party help to get re-elected, has missed the majority of Senate Ag Committee hearings and served as principal author of a Farm Bill that cost four times its estimated price is now poised to chair the Senate Ag Committee.

That’s neither irony nor coincidence. That’s just politics today.

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

November 1964

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p to 40 per cent more power and fuel savings of “gallons per hour” were offered by this “jet age” turbocharger advertised in our Nov. 19, 1964 issue.

There was plenty of news that week — a group of farm organization leaders meeting in Winnipeg had agreed to form the Manitoba Farm Bureau, a new general farm organization. Manitoba Pool had officially entered the pig business with the arrival of 150 SPF (specific pathogen-free) pigs developed by Connaught Labs in Toronto.

Meanwhile two new managers had been appointed for the Pool Packers plant in Brandon, which was now under construction.

There were almost two full pages of coverage to Manitoba results at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. An entry of five Angus steers by Alex McPhail and Sons of Brandon won the class championship, with C.E. Glasman and Sons of Russell taking the grand champion Shorthorn steer award, with Richardson Stock Farms of Winnipeg winning reserve. In the heavy horse classes, the Michalyshyn Brothers of Brandon took the senior stallion Percheron award, and first prize for three animals in the get-of-sire class.

Speaking to the Manitoba Transportation Commission, Premier Duff Roblin said 1963 statistics had demonstrated that Crowsnest rates for grain were profitable, and that the province was opposed to any subsidies to the railways for hauling grain.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

Study finds farmers and scientists divided over climate change Focusing on the cause tends to polarize and politicize the discussion, which delays adaptation Purdue University Release west lafayette, ind.

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rop producers and scientists hold deeply different views on climate change and its possible causes, a study by Purdue and Iowa State universities shows.

Associate professor of natural resource social science, Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011-12 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.

More than 90 per cent of the scientists and climatologists surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with more than 50 per cent attributing climate change primarily to human activities.

In contrast, 66 per cent of corn producers surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with eight per cent pinpointing human activities as the main cause. A quarter of producers said they believed climate change was caused mostly by natural shifts in the environment, and 31 per cent said there was not enough evidence to determine whether climate change was happening or not.

Division

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The survey results highlight the division between scientists and farmers over climate change and the challenges in communicating climate data and trends in non-polarizing ways, Prokopy said.

“Whenever climate change gets introduced, the conversation tends to turn political,” she said. “Scientists and climatologists are saying climate change is happening, and agricultural commodity groups and farmers are saying they don’t believe that. Our research suggests that this disparity in beliefs may cause agricultural stakeholders to respond to climate information very differently.”

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Mail-in ballots needed for director elections According to the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association website, the interim board of directors has decided to hold director elections for three positions on the six-member board during an in-person (40-minute-long) meeting of wheat and barley producers in Winnipeg.

The Manitoba government allowed the Manitoba Wheat and Barley

“Scientists and climatologists are saying climate change is happening, and agricultural commodity groups and farmers are saying they don’t believe that.”

Linda Prokopy researcher

Climate change presents both potential gains and threats to agric u l t u re. Wa r m e r t e m p e r a t u re s could extend the growing season in northern latitudes, and an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide could improve the water use efficiency of some crops. But increases in weather variability and extreme weather events could lower crop yields.

Growers can manage the potential risks linked to extreme rain events and soil degradation by using adaptive strategies such as planting cover crops, using no-till techniques, increasing the biodiversity of grasses and forage and extending crop rotations, Prokopy said. These strategies contribute to soil health and water quality and also help capture carbon dioxide, reducing the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by agricultural systems.

Currently, agriculture accounts for 10-12 per cent of the total humancaused greenhouse gas emissions globally.

Focus on cause

Focusing on the causes of climate change, however, is likely to polarize the agricultural community and lead to inaction, said study co-author Lois Wright Morton, professor of sociology at Iowa State University. To

Growers Association to start up and to collect checkoff money up to $0.52 per tonne on each tonne sold.

Shockingly, the association refuses to allow all farmers paying the checkoff the access to vote on who best represents their interests. Valid opportunity to vote is best achieved through a mail-in ballot to all those who have paid checkoff fees, or, better yet, include all those who have grown wheat or barley in the last couple of years because they will become subject to checkoff.

I call for the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association, with its support granted by the Manitoba government, to immediately implement a mail-in ballot process reaching out to those affected by this directorship election. If this most basic principle of democracy is not upheld, then the checkoff powers of the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association must be ordered terminated.

Additionally, a fresh start demands that all six director positions be elected by farmers at the outset.

Inexcusable action like this from the association at its outset does not uphold democracy. Holding director

A group of around 400 demonstrators participate in a protest by burying their heads in the sand at Sydney’s Bondi Beach Nov. 13. Hundreds of protesters participated in the event, held ahead of the Nov. 15 G20 summit in Brisbane, which was being promoted as a message to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government that, “You have your head in the sand on climate change.” Photo: REUTERS/David Gray

foster productive dialogue, she said, scientists and climatologists need to “start from the farmer’s perspective.”

“Farmers are problem solvers,” she said. “A majority of farmers views excess water on their land and variable weather as problems and are willing to adapt their practices to protect their farm operation. Initiating conversations about adaptive management is more effective than talking about the causes of climate change.”

The gap in views on climate change is caused in part by how individuals combine scientific facts with their own personal values, Morton said.

“Differences in beliefs are related to a variety of factors, such as personal experiences, cultural and social influences, and perceptions of risk and vulnerability,” she said.

Prokopy advises scientists to “recognize that their world views may be different than those of farmers. Moderating communication of climate

information based on that realization is key.”

elections at an in-person meeting in Winnipeg in the middle of winter under the circumstance where thousands of farmers have had or will have their money taken from their grain sales is unfair and is not functional democracy.

the Canadian Wheat Board made a decision to move further up the Marquis value chain by investing $65 million in two Great Lakes ships or ‘lakers’ as they are commonly known. This would complement the farmer’s ownership of the Canadian Wheat Board’s hopper car fleet and provide an estimated return on investment of 15 per cent. The lakers would have been paid for by charging $1/tonne to the pools for three to four years and then pay back over their 30-year lifespan.

This business venture was derailed

by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz when he unilaterally began transforming the farmer-owned Canadian Wheat Board into a private grain company. He confiscated the farmer’s hopper cars and the farmer’s laker program. The federal government’s decision to christen the first of two lakers “MARQUIS” is an affront to farmers and to the Marquis name.

For a century that name symbolized a ‘triumph for farmers,’ but sadly, Marquis will now also be remembered as something ‘taken from farmers.’

Ian L. Robson, Deleau, Man.

Marquis wheat and Marquis lakers

Charles Saunders developed “Marquis wheat” in 1904. It appeared to be ideal for Canada’s climate and was tested at the Brandon and Indian Head public research stations. It was subsequently released to farmers in 1909. Within a decade, 20 million acres of Marquis wheat were planted from Kansas to northern Saskatchewan. Today, Marquis wheat is considered to be Canadian agriculture’s greatest triumph.

Farmers are still benefiting from Marquis because the lineage of many current high-quality varieties can be traced back to Marquis genetics.

Approximately 100 years later in 2010, the farmer-elected directors of

Relevant to growers

Climate science could also be better communicated by using intermediaries such as extension educators and agricultural advisers to translate data in ways that are most relevant to growers, she said.

“Farmers are by necessity very focused on short-term weather, in-season decisions and managing immediate risks,” she said. “They’re thinking about when they can get in their field to do what they need to do, rather than looking 20 to 30 years down the road.”

A table of the complete survey results is available at https://news.uns.purdue.edu/ images/2014/prokopy-climatetable.pdf.

The study was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society and is available at http:// journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/ BAMS-D-13-00172.1.

Bill Toews Kane, Man.

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has set the stage for progress as they move forward, he said.

“The one very strong positive is, this meeting has been very congenial,” he said.

“People with differing opinions have listened respectfully to other people’s points of view.

It doesn’t mean it will be easy, but if people have their oars rowing in the same direction we’ll make progress.”

The Assiniboine River Basin Initiative has been under consideration since last fall, when t h e P r a i r i e I m p r ov e m e n t Network (PIN) revisited a previously shelved proposal for a cross-jurisdictional group guiding water management activities in the region.

The Assiniboine River basin is the only major river basin on the Northern Great Plains without any overall organization in place to guide water management activities.

A workshop of about equal size held in Virden last March agreed it was a good idea to form one — and that was even before this summer’s intense flooding set in.

“We don’t need a plan in 25 years. We need a plan now,” said an emphatic Cherylynn Walters, who spoke at the conference on behalf of the Crooked and Round Lake Food Committee, a group representing property owners in Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle Valley. Hard hit by flooding these past few years, they are as frustrated by “a lot of government organizations strongly asleep” when it comes to forecasting and flood mitigation as they are by those draining land with “reckless disre-

“People with differing opinions have listened respectfully to other people’s points of view. It doesn’t mean it will be easy, but if people have their oars rowing in the same direction we’ll make progress.”

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gard” for other property owners, Walters said.

“We think it’s time for us to speak with a united voice,” she said. “We are very happy and will continue to be very happy to work with this Assiniboine Initiative, absolutely.”

Plan needed now

The ARBI is a way forward for co-ordinated and collaborative approaches that engage all players in solution finding rather than finger pointing, said Dan Mazier, Manitoba’s Keystone Agricultural Producers vicepresident and ARBI interim committee member.

The latter just doesn’t make sense when we’re all living in the basin, he said, adding that what he heard in Regina was a desire to get communication flowing across jurisdictions, and a belief this organization will make it happen.

“I’ve talked to a lot of people about how this is giving them hope,” he said.

Apply today for the Farmland School Tax Rebate The Manitoba government is offering a rebate of up to 80% of the school taxes levied on your farmland for 2014 This rebate is part of the government’s ongoing commitment to help support the rural economy and provide tax relief to farm families.

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“We need to be able to communicate with other jurisdictions. Once the Red River basin was started, the states could start to talk to each other.”

The group is now tasked with becoming an inclusive organization that represents all the voices that want to be heard, and beginning work on projects. The conference put forward a dozen projects for the ARBI to take on, from creating a white paper on drainage, to developing reports on water quality monitoring across North Dakota, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Quick-win projects

Preston said it’s important this group gets to work as quickly as possible.

“We’ve got to identify some quick-win projects to demonstrate that we’re serious, that we’re not all about taking a year or more to develop terms of reference and bylaws and so on. We’re going to seek some

quick wins in the next short while to move the organization forward.”

The organization also finds core funding, works toward an inclusive board model, plus sorts out what ongoing relationship it may continue to have with the Prairie Improvement Network.

Lance Yohe, former executive director of the RRBC, now serving as a senior adviser and consultant to the Assiniboine group, said having a small board would only end up alienating people.

“Right now too many people were saying, ‘we want to be on the board,’ which is a really good problem to have,” he said.

The group will also pursue a funding model similar to the RRBC, which has all participating states and provinces making equal and annual contributions.

The Manitoba government has made a base contribution of $50,000 towards startup of

the ARBI and cottage owner groups at the Regina meeting are showing strong interest in contributing.

The plan now is to pursue similar commitments from the state of North Dakota and Saskatchewan, Preston said, adding they anticipate about $450,000 will be needed to get the organization off the ground.

“What we’ve got to do now is hit the streets and work on getting that funding brought in,” he said.

Allan Engh, former mayor of Sherwood, N.D., that’s also been hard hit by flooding, reminded the gathering how local residents have opened their wallets and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help flood-impacted neighbours. That’s the example to follow, Engh said.

“We’re talking about how we can raise this $450,000. If we work together on this, we can raise the money, we can work together. Lord knows we need to do it.”

Other delegates remarked on the notable absence of Saskatchewan political representatives at last week’s meeting.

“I can’t tell you how disappointed we are that there are no MLAs from Saskatchewan here,” said Saskatchewan resident Auralee MacPherson who was attending the conference as a private citizen.

“People worked really hard to put on this conference and people are here from the U.S., and a lot of people from Manitoba.

And where are we?” lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

Ancient trees tell quite a story about Prairie floods and droughts

By Lorraine Stevenson CO-OPERATOR STAFF/REGINA

If you want to know what really happened after the fact, it pays to consult the ones who were there — even if it’s old trees.

Researchers studying tree ring data gathered from centuries-old burr oak on the Canadian Prairies show wet and dry cycles aren’t yearly events; they typically lasted decades over the centuries.

There have been long periods of drought, followed by very wet years worse than anything seen in our own lifetimes, said Dave Sauchyn, senior research scientist at the Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC) at the University of Regina who spoke at the inaugural conference for the new Assiniboine River Basin Initiative.

The tree samples — derived from ancient oaks which can live up to 500 years old in undisturbed tracts on the Prairies — show how wet and dry cycles impacted tree growth over the centuries, said Sauchyn.

Their rings reveal uptake of water during these cycles, and provide scientists with a record dating back to the 1400s of when they occurred and for what duration.

“What these long records show us is first of all it could be much

worse than it is, and it will be,” said Sauchyn. “And secondly the message is all about cycles.”

The wood samples gathered over about 25 years at 200 sites across Western Canada come from areas around the headwaters of the Saskatchewan River basin, and the dry slopes of valleys of the Assiniboine River basin.

The wet and dry spells over the years have been very severe, lasting anywhere from periods of 20 to 30 years each.

“It’s about a 60-year cycle,” he said, noting that charting these cycles over time shows the variability within the last century, including the dry 1930s, the wet 1950s, and the again-dry 1980s.

But nothing we’ve experienced in our lifetimes even comes close to the severe or prolonged events of earlier centuries, said the scientist.

“In the 1600s it was much, much wetter than anything we’ve experienced, when every year for almost a whole century was horribly wet,” he said. “Imagine trying to farm on the Prairies then.

“Or you can go back to the 1850s, when (19th century western Canadian surveyor) John Pallister said don’t come here. Then we had 20 years of drought.”

Right now we’re in the midst of one of the wet cycles, he said.

But no one can say exactly when it will flip to a dry spell.

That’s because while these cycles tend to coincide with short- and longer-term trends in the currents and temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, global warming is impacting those trends.

“The problem is we are heating up the oceans,” said Sauchyn.

“We are currently in the middle of a 30-year phase where we can expect a lot of flooding. And then it’s going to flip and then we can expect about 30 years of low water levels. But in a much warmer climate.”

Last week’s formative conference for the launch of the Assiniboine River Basin Initiative brought together about 140 participants including farmers and residents from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and North Dakota, as well as representatives of conservation districts, and government programs to form a co-ordinated approach for managing water in these recurring wet and dry cycles.

“We’re in a wet cycle now, but we’re only ever really one rainfall away from a flood, or one rainfall away from a drought. We need to prepare for that,” said ARBI project manager Wanda McFadyen. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

BEEF SUPPORT Continued from page 1

“At this stage of the game no decision has been made,” he said.

The Nov. 13 announcement included a “Forage Shortfall and Transportation Assistance Initiative” that will provide up to $0.16 per tonne per loaded km to transport feed and up to $0.08 per head per loaded km to transport breeding livestock and their unweaned calves to feed sources.

Producers in the Lake Manitoba and Lake Wi n n i p e g o s i s re g i o n s w i l l receive help purchasing feed for up to $50 per tonne. The announcement stipulated payments will be calculated based on individual need and receipts will be required to ensure producers have incurred eligible transportation and feed costs.

Beef producers were pleased with the support package.

“We would like to thank the provincial and federal governments for recognizing the seriousness of this issue and coming forward with a plan that will be of great help to producers in the affected regions,” said MBP president Heinz Reimer in a release.

cent. Many farmers have experienced consecutive floods so not only are their losses accumulating, their coverage is declining.

“We’ve got some talking to do about how this Excess Moisture Program is working for events like what we’ve experienced in the last three to four years,” said Mazier.

KAP is pressing 100 per cent compensation on losses as a result of artificial flooding or the operation of a water-control structure.

So far this year crop insurance in the province, which is funded by producers, with help from the provincial and federal government, has paid out $63 million.

Mounting claims

That number, Kostyshyn said, is expected to climb to $200 million to $250 million once all the claims are processed.

“I don’t think anyone envisioned the multiple-year type of events that we’re having,” said Mazier. “I think the environment is changing quicker than what

government policy can adapt to.

Everybody is kind of running out of money.”

Kostyshyn echoed this sentiment. “Obviously crop insurance has been doing its work, but we have to enhance that because weather patterns have changed drastically.”

Melinda German, general manager for the Manitoba Beef Producers, said she is pleased with the announcement. “It comes at a time when producers really need to make those management decisions now,” she said.

“The programs announced today are going to help short term to cover up some of the hurt producers are feeling.”

Forage shortfalls have been reported throughout Manitoba due to excess moisture conditions in most of the province since July. Cattle farmers nearing retirement have weighed whether or not to sell based on the availability of feed. Up until this point things weren’t looking good.

Transport costs

Some producers with surplus hay have struggled to secure sales because of the transport costs of shipping the feed. Tammy Michaud and her husband grow hay in Île-desChênes, southeast Manitoba, but she said too often the distance deters producers.

“Transportation costs are going to kill the deal and they have every time so far. But maybe not anymore,” she said.

While AgriRecovery is no doubt good news for cattle producers, German said, government must also look at more long-term solutions that address recurrent flooding.

“We’ve been dealing year after year with water management issues and we need some long-term solutions to make sure we minimize some of these impacts going forward,” said German. The Manitoba Beef Producers, she said, has asked that a second outlet on Lake Manitoba be installed so the inflow matches outflow, ensur-

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Existing programs like crop insurance and excess moisture insurance fall far short, according to vice-president Dan Mazier. A five per cent deductible is added, cumulatively, for every claim that is made.

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“At the end of the day the culprit, if I may use that terminology, is Mother Nature,” said Kostyshyn.

“We continue to have conversations with the federal government that we need to bring forward opportunities to explore how insurance-based programs need to be dealing with the weather change patterns of excess moisture,” he said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

Contaminated wells subject of RCMP investigation Someone dumped motor oil into wells being developed for Pilot Mound’s water supply

By Meghan Mast Co-operator Staff

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orkers found a nasty surprise when they arrived at the well construction site in the RM of Argyle on October 29. Someone had poured motor oil into both wells.

Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship reported the findings to the municipal office and emailed a photo of the damage. “All you could see is two well pipes and some black sticky stuff sticking to the casing,” said Reeve Daniel Martens in an interview.

Provincial crews arr ived quickly and managed to remove the oil before it mixed in with the water supply. They decommissioned the five-inch well but got an eight-inch one going again after careful cleaning.

The wells, located along a

“I know most of the people so it’s hard to believe somebody’s done that kind of thing.”

Daniel Martens

fence in the ditch beside an undeveloped road allowance, draw from an aquifer previously only used by area farmers and residents. They are being developed to eventually supply the town of Pilot Mound.

The water had not been distributed or consumed and the question of who dumped the oil is still under investigation.

Martens said the water has never been tampered with in the past. But he said it’s clear this was not an accident.

“Somebody definitely knew what they were doing. They

had to know what they were doing because they pretty much cut the top off one of the wells.”

Martens said the project has been controversial in the community.

“It’s an unpopular thing down there because there’s only so much water in that aquifer,” he said.

The aquifer relies on rain and snow for recharge. Some residents remember when it ran dry in the ’80s. People had to find water elsewhere and farmers weren’t able to irrigate their crops.

Many are concerned history could repeat itself — particularly since once the wells are up the reservoir will be supplying around 700 extra people.

People are also upset at the lack of consultation. “As far as we’re concerned it was done kind of shadily by Water Stewardship and the town of Pilot Mound.”

He said the RM received a letter saying the province was going to explore for water, but the municipality was not consulted or informed about the public hearings in time to attend.

“They sure in the hell didn’t come over here and advertise where they’re taking the water from so we knew nothing about it,” he said.

A group of residents hired a lawyer to look into appealing the construction but were told they wouldn’t achieve much, aside from delaying the

project, since they had missed the appeal dates. So the RM of Argyle and several residents in the area have written to the province ombudsman.

“It’s sure got people fired up around here,” said Martens.

Still, he is surprised that someone would go so far as to dump contaminants down into the well.

“I know most of the people so it’s hard to believe somebody’s done that kind of thing,” said Martens. “It’s the wrong way to go about things, but everyone’s got their own mind I guess.”

An investigation is currently underway and RCMP are encouraging people to come forward with information by either contacting the Killarney RCMP at 204-523-4820 or, if they wish to remain anonymous, can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. meghan.mast@fbcpublishing.com

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The project, funded by the G over nment of Canada’s Sectoral Initiatives program, will travel across Canada, between October and March, meeting with farmers from 10 different commodity groups to discuss and determine detailed occupational information for employees from entrylevel workers to managers.

The research will be conducted via 50 focus groups held across Canada between now and March 2016.

Reeve hopes that updating standardized descriptions of farm jobs will motivate government to reform archaic National Occupational Classification (NOC) codes so they are more relevant for today’s farmer.

“This is the chance for producers to have a voice and really make sure we

“This is the chance for producers to have a voice and really make sure we have it right.”

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h a v e i t r i g h t .” S h e a l s o hopes this work will help address the labour shortage issue.

CAHRC has undertaken some research to determine j u s t h ow s e r i o u s l a b o u r shortages are. They have taken the lead on a labour a c t i o n p l a n , w h e re t h e y speak to various commodity groups, collecting information about a number of employees.

That research indicates a five per cent labour deficit is costing the swine industry $18 million annually. The beef industry faces similar issues, which is contributing to a wide price spread between Canada and the U.S. CAHRC research found the abnormal price gap could be reduced by at least 50 per cent — an improvement of approximately $260 million if there was more labour available.

Call for participants

Manitoba beef producers are being invited to attend a CAHRC focus group in W i n n i p e g i n D e c e m b e r, although the specific date has not yet been set. One is being planned in Janu-

ar y for swine producers.

Focus groups are also being planned for Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Aq u a c u l t u re p ro d u c e r s in British Columbia, Newfoundland and New Brunsw i c k h a v e a l re a d y b e e n consulted.

Once the first round of research is completed in March 2015 the project will develop tools based on the first five commodities.

Research resumes in October 2015, as harvest winds down, with plans to complete the project in March 2016.

“We just don’t know what people need. Until we know what people need, we can’t help assist with trying to fill those shortages. That’s a real component to understand what’s going on and to inform policy workers so they can get a real inside view of what’s happening on Canada’s farms.”

Producers who are interested in participating can contact Jade Reeve, project manager, at reeve@cahrcccrha.ca. Travel and related expenses to attend the focus groups will be reimbursed. meghan.mast@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

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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.

Nov. 23-25: Canadian Bison Association annual convention, Delta Regina, 1919 Saskatchewan Dr., Regina. For more info visit www.canadianbison.ca.

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/.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

LIVESTOCK MARKETS Cattle Prices

Heifers

Alberta South — — 116.00 - 135.00 104.00 - 120.00 — $ 225.00 - 234.00 230.00 - 240.00 241.00 - 259.00 255.00 - 275.00 270.00 - 302.00 302.00 - 336.00 $ 205.00 - 223.00 221.00 - 231.00 225.00 - 236.00 232.00 - 252.00 248.00 - 272.00 272.00 - 300.00

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

(850+ lbs.)

Futures (November 14, 2014) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change December 2014 170.20 4.85 February 2015 171.28 4.72 April 2015 169.25 3.40 June 2015 160.38 3.96 August 2015 157.55 3.53 October 2015 158.30 3.05

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

Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

Ontario $ 163.70 - 183.86 155.14 - 178.71 81.06 - 118.16 81.06 - 118.16 108.62 - 136.36 $ 204.03 - 245.83 192.60 - 237.43 224.80 - 266.39 225.73 - 280.32 240.46 - 311.16 255.03 - 327.36 $ 169.81 - 211.32 212.33 - 237.73 196.32 - 243.28 218.49 - 267.96 220.09 - 283.13 232.45 - 298.24

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(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

Close 240.00 236.13 234.60 234.80 234.88 235.28

Change 3.48 5.56 6.30 6.25 6.51 6.43

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending November 8, 2014 50,654 12,477 38,177 N/A 564,000

Previous Year­ 51,513 12,417 39,096 N/A 611,000

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Week Ending November 8, 2014 1,110 26,045 12,696 536 714 8,900 221

Previous Year 534 21,435 15,912 733 810 11,470 234

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 191.00 E 176.00 E 180.57 183.84

Futures (November 14, 2014) in U.S. Hogs December 2014 February 2015 April 2015 May 2015 June 2015

Last Week 193.62 180.33 182.42 187.25

Close 92.68 92.75 93.85 94.00 97.48

Last Year (Index 100) 169.12 158.58 160.98 164.64

Change 5.02 5.75 4.95 3.75 3.57

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: $0.8854 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.1294 Cdn.

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(Friday to Thursday) November 14, 2014 Winnipeg Slaughter Cattle Steers — Heifers — D1, 2 Cows 117.00 - 125.00 D3 Cows 107.00 - 114.00 Bulls 135.00 - 148.00 Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.) $ 185.00 - 232.00 (801-900 lbs.)

210.00 - 245.00 (701-800 lbs.)

225.00 - 263.00 (601-700 lbs.)

245.00 - 283.00 (501-600 lbs.)

270.00 - 307.00 (401-500 lbs.)

290.00 - 337.00 Heifers (901+ lbs.)

175.00 - 222.00 (801-900 lbs.)

190.00 - 234.00 (701-800 lbs.)

205.00 - 248.00 (601-700 lbs.)

215.00 - 263.00 (501-600 lbs.)

225.00 - 287.00 (401-500 lbs.)

245.00 - 325.00 Slaughter Cattle Grade A Steers Grade A Heifers D1, 2 Cows D3 Cows Bulls Steers

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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 23, 2014 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.940 Undergrade .............................. $1.850 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.930 Undergrade .............................. $1.830 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.930 Undergrade .............................. $1.830 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................... $1.895 Undergrade............................... $1.810 Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.

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he steady influx of cattle into Manitoba stockyards continued during the week ended Nov. 14, with most yards reporting prices at or slightly below the previous week. Volumes stayed high, with well over 16,000 animals making their way before buyers.

Bids for heifers (700-800 pounds) were down slightly while offers for 300- to 400-lb. steers remained firm. On the slaughter end, bids for good bulls weakened slightly while most other classes remained solid.

Interest remains strong in all directions as anxious buyers try to collect animals before the fall run concludes and winter sets in.

One of the looming issues facing many producers in Manitoba is feed supply. This year’s wet conditions made it tough for many growers, particularly those in the southwest, to grow their regular feed supplies, according to Melinda German, general manager of Manitoba Beef Producers.

“In the southwest, producers rely a lot on greenfeed and weren’t able to plant crops this year because they were too wet,” she said.

Some producers were unable to get onto fields to bale hay, while others managed to make it on, but later watched as some of the bales were forced to sit in water.

“Some producers have lost 90 per cent (of their feed supplies); we’re hearing numbers of having to bring in $80,000 to $100,000 worth of feed; to bring that in is a huge out-

Toronto 102.91 - 123.59 151.50 - 206.85 201.41 - 213.41 201. 00 - 225.93 167.43 - 238.66 —

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

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ward amount of money,” not to mention transportation costs, she said.

Last week the federal and Manitoba governments announced AgriRecovery funding would be used to help affected producers transport feed supplies. Assistance of up to $50 per tonne to buy forage would also be offered to growers in the Lake Manitoba and Lake Winnipegosis regions.

That was a good start to the problem, German said, but it only went so far. “We do have producers in the southwest and elsewhere in the province that are struggling with this issue as well.”

Officials from the Manitoba government travelled to Regina last week to dialogue with their Saskatchewan counterparts about ways to mitigate flood effects from the Assiniboine River basin.

German agreed something needs to be done to address the long-term effects of water flows between the two provinces.

“We still need long-term water management strategies here in Manitoba,” she said.

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

briefs

Weather, tight supplies drive U.S. cattle prices to new high

By Theopolis Waters

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“… we’re hearing (of producers) having to bring in $80,000 to $100,000 worth of feed; to bring that in is a huge outward amount of money.”

chicago / reuters

Prices for slaughter-ready or cash cattle in the U.S. Plains hit an all-time high Nov. 14, fuelled by an early-winter storm at a time of the smallest herd since the early 1950s.

Some beef packers paid record cattle prices of $171 to $172 per hundredweight (cwt) in parts of Kansas and Nebraska.

That topped the previous high of $170 set three weeks ago and was up

as much as $5 from last week’s sales.

This week, early wintry weather blew across the Midwest packing heavy snow in the northern Plains along with bitterly cold temperatures that stretched as far south as Texas.

“We got an added boost from the weather market,” said Jim Robb, director of the Colorado-based Livestock Marketing Information Center.

Frigid temperatures made it difficult to sort cattle, said analysts. And, treacherous driving conditions snarled transportation of cattle to packing plants, they said.

Inclement weather forced packers to spend more for cattle after they

tried to buy them hand to mouth in recent weeks to realign their deeply red margins, said Robb.

Beef packer margins were a negative $83.95 per head, compared with a negative $83 Nov. 13 and a negative $109.70 a week earlier, according to Colorado-based analytics firm Hedgersedge.com.

The storm crimped already scarce supplies, the result of several years of drought that damaged crops for feeding, which shrunk the herd to its lowest level in 63 years.

“Packers are chasing the market that has these very tight cattle supplies. And, in the big picture, packer margins are struggling but they still need cattle,” said Robb.

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GRAIN MARKETS Export and International Prices

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Canola up, then down as commercial demand retreats External factors are supporting U.S. wheat for now Phil Franz-Warkentin CNSC

C

anola futures touched their highest levels in over three months for a brief moment during the week ended Nov. 14. However, “what comes up must come down” — and values finished the week lower overall.

The biggest losses were in the front months, as the inverse that had been built into the futures vanished and canola moved back to a carry situation.

The premiums that had been built into the nearby contracts were tied to strong end-user demand, with both exporters and domestic crushers raising their bids in the country in an effort to encourage some farmer sales. While producers remain reluctant sellers overall, the activity in the futures suggests commercial demand has backed away for the time being.

According to weekly Canadian Grain Commission data, there were 1.25 million tonnes of canola in commercial hands as of Nov. 9, down slightly from the previous week but ahead of the 1.08 million in visible stocks at the same point a year ago.

Farmers have delivered a total of 4.72 million tonnes of canola into the commercial pipeline during the first three months of the crop year, well ahead of the 3.28 million seen at the same time a year ago.

Both exports and domestic crush are running well ahead of the year-ago pace,

Last Week

Week Ago

Year Ago

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

203.47

191.16

236.82

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

214.68

203.56

256.01

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

152.06

146.15

166.13

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

219.65

217.71

222.41

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

387.10

377.73

470.51

Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)

707.14

717.29

892.36

All prices close of business November 13, 2014

Coarse Grains

oilseeds

with exports to date of about 2.49 million tonnes about half a million tonnes ahead of the previous year’s pace, according to CGC data. The domestic crush has slowed down slightly in recent weeks, but is still strong overall with 2.02 million tonnes crushed as of Nov. 12, which compares with 1.89 million at the same point in 2013, according to weekly data from the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA).

In the U.S., soybeans were also up and down during the week, settling softer overall as the large U.S. soybean harvest more than makes up for any nearby logistics issues.

Corn and wheat, meanwhile, are trending higher, with some of the biggest gains found in the three U.S. wheat markets.

Vo l a t i l i t y i n o u t s i d e f i n a n c i a l a n d energy markets accounted for some of the strength in U.S. wheat futures, as speculative money flowed into wheat. Cold weather in the forecasts for much of the U.S. Plains was also supportive for wheat, as freezing temperatures may damage winter wheat at this stage of development.

General uncertainty in Ukraine and Russia also remains in the background of the wheat market, as the region is a major player on the world stage.

However, prolonged strength in wheat may prove short lived, with international stockpiles generally thought to be sufficient to meet demand for now.

Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

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

Winnipeg Futures ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business November 14, 2014 Last Week

Week Ago

December 2014

barley

160.00

154.00

March 2015

163.00

158.00

May 2015

163.00

158.00

Canola

Last Week

Week Ago

November 2014

442.70

451.10

January 2015

427.80

435.10

March 2015

431.30

432.50

Special Crops Report for November 17, 2014 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan Spot Market

Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)

Spot Market

Other ( Cdn. cents per pound unless otherwise specified)

Large Green 15/64

35.50 - 40.00

Canaryseed

Laird No. 1

33.00 - 38.75

Oil Sunflower Seed

Eston No. 2

27.00 - 31.00

Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

23.00 - 25.00 —

Desi Chickpeas

15.20 - 16.00

Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)

Green No. 1

9.30 - 9.50

Fababeans, large

—

Medium Yellow No. 1

6.65 - 6.75

Feed beans

—

Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans

24.00 - 24.00

Feed Pea (Rail)

No. 1 Great Northern

41.00 - 41.00

4.00 - 4.10

Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)

No. 1 Cranberry Beans

40.00 - 40.00

Yellow No. 1

No. 1 Light Red Kidney

51.00 - 51.00

30.40 - 32.00

Brown No. 1

25.70 - 27.00

No. 1 Dark Red Kidney

56.00 - 56.00

Oriental No. 1

29.50 - 31.00

No. 1 Black Beans

28.00 - 28.00

Source: Stat Publishing SUNFLOWERS

No. 1 Pinto Beans

22.00 - 32.00

No. 1 Small Red

42.00 - 42.00

No. 1 Pink

42.00 - 42.00

Fargo, ND

Goodlands, KS

17.45

17.50

Ask

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Report for November 14, 2014 in US$ cwt NuSun (oilseed) Confection Source: National Sunflower Association

Canada says condominium developer to ship canola oil to China The billion-dollar deal was among 20 commercial agreements signed during the Prime Minister’s recent trip to China winnipeg / reuters

A

condominium developer has signed a $1-billion deal to export Canadian canola oil to China, according to the federal government.

The deal was one of more than 20 commercial agreements signed during Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit to China, which wrapped up last week.

The government said on its website Nov. 15 that LeMine Investment Group, an Ontario real estate company, had signed a seven-year deal to export canola oil to China and agreed to promote it with Guizhou Fengguan Group.

LeMine executive director Thomas Liu was in China and was not immediately available for comment, one of the company’s staff said. It was unclear how the real estate company struck a deal to move into commodity trading.

“We’re really supportive of anything that’s going to improve trade because China is a huge and growing market for us,” Patti Miller, president of industry group Canola Council of Canada, said on Thursday.

LeMine must arrange to purchase from an existing Canadian seed crusher canola oil that it can then

export, Miller said, adding that she did not know details of the agreement.

Companies with Canadian canolacrushing operations include Bunge Ltd., Archer Daniels Midland Co., Richardson International, Cargill Ltd., Viterra Inc., TRT-ETGO and Louis Dreyfus Corp.

The government would not release further details, saying the agreement was private.

Canada shipped 885,000 tonnes of canola oil to China in 2013, making it the second-largest export market after the United States, according to Statistics Canada data.

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Resistant genes pass between bacteria Solving the problem of increasing antibiotic-resistant organisms will require stakeholders to move beyond the blame game and collaborate

Travelling bugs

By Shannon VanRaes co-operator staff/Atlanta, Ga.

I

t’s a microscopic problem with huge repercussions, repercussions that could end a way of life humans have enjoyed for seven decades.

Experts say that antibiotic resistance is on the rise, including resistance to antibiotics important to human health.

“It is indeed a crisis, the evolution of antibiotic resistance is occurring at an alarming rate, outpacing the development of new counter measures,” Dr. Lonnie King told those gathered at the National Institute for Animal Agriculture’s symposium on antibiotic use and resistance, held last week in Atlanta, Georgia.

“The situation really threatens patient care, economic growth, public health, agriculture, economic security and national security — I think that is the definition of a crisis,” added the current head of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University and former director of the U.S.’s National Centre for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Disease.

Contributors

It’s clear that practices used in both human health care and veterinary medicine have contributed to the current situation, but progress towards preventing both the spread and development of antibiotic-resistant organisms requires everyone to be at the table, including farmers, consumers, business and government, he said.

“This isn’t about what happened in the past, who’s right, who’s wrong… it is about this day forward,” said King, adding that there is a “positive and essential role for animal agriculture as part of a national conversation and national strategy.”

Others also stressed the need for inclusive dialogue.

“We know that preventing the spread of animal antibiotic resistance can only be achieved with widespread engagement,” said Dr. Christopher Braden of the U.S. Center for Disease Control.

But while a wide variety of stakeholders was on hand for discussions, it was clear that not everyone defines the problem in the same way. Which programs have been successful, where money should be spent and how sustainable should be defined were all debated — sometimes hotly.

However, participants noted that this meeting — the third one of its kind to be held in the U.S. — was far more collaborative and less polarized than previous gatherings, as doctors, veterinarians and major livestock producers and processors looked at ways of reducing antibiotic use and resistance.

More polarized

The same cannot be said of the situation north of the border, said Dr. David Leger, a veterinary epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada.

“I would say in Canada we’re still at a little bit more of the polarized phase of that relationship, given some of the articles in recent years by the Canadian Medical Association Journal… so we do know we need to get ourselves in the

Dr. Lonnie King speaks to delegates about emerging antibiotic resistance. Photos: Shannon VanRaes

“The situation really threatens patient care, economic growth, public health, agriculture, economic security and national security — I think that is the definition of a crisis.”

Dr. Lonnie King

It’s a major concern for Dr. Tom Chiller, a medical doctor with the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention and former chief of the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria.

“It is very easy for bugs and resistant bugs to travel,” he said. “They disseminate using lots of different mechanisms, hospitals are one, getting on airplanes and flying is another and certainly looking at the food supply, and animal agriculture and husbandry and seeing how food and food imports and exports move is just dramatic, it certainly makes sense that, that would be a wonderful system to transmit not just antibiotic resistance, but infections in general.”

The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa should serve as a potent reminder of how easily disease can spread, especially in areas without adequate healthcare systems, Chiller notes.

New research has also identified a fresh, although not fully understood, problem with resistant organisms called “co-selection.”

“This co-selection is another real dilemma… we’re dealing with complex issues around transmission and clearly there is an ease and ability for this to be globally spread,” Chiller said. “You can have a susceptible organism living with a resistant organism, and their brothers and sisters, and they begin to share their genes and before you know it you’re setting up shop for multiple bacteria being resistant that weren’t previously, bacteria that had just harmlessly been travelling around before.”

Gene sharing

Dr. Tom Chiller shares a global perspective on antimicrobial resistance.

same room and have some of these discussions,” he said.

But in the long run, North America likely won’t be the biggest concern when it comes to antibiotic resistance.

“Think what’s going to happen in the developing world, think what happens when we all of a sudden raise 20 billion more food animals internationally,” said King, adding that those animals are going to be raised in parts of the world that lack basic health care and infrastructure, but have access to over-the-counter and even counterfeit drugs.

Dr. Christopher Braden urges co-operation on antibiotic resistance.

Worse yet, many substandard antibiotics have been found in these locations, drugs which have low levels of effective ingredients and can more rapidly create resistant organisms.

“I think this is an emerging crisis internationally, and especially in animal agriculture — so it’s something that you want to pay attention to,” he said.

An increase in animal production in developing areas of the planet will also mean more animal transportation and the possibility that existing antibioticresistant organisms will be spread.

This process of gene sharing can happen in the guts of both humans and livestock, but it also seems to occur in areas of food processing and even hospitals, he said.

“The bottom line is that the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria represents a serious threat to human and animal health worldwide. We know that preventing the spread of animal antibiotic resistance can only be achieved with widespread engagement,” Braden emphasized.

There has been some progress.

Between 2003 and 2007 salmonella resistance to the drug cefotaxime was at four per cent, but by 2012 resistance had dropped to three per cent.

Resistance to the quinolone class of drugs also dropped slightly in North America over the same period.

Cases of multi-drug-resistant salmonella have also declined over the past decades, according to Braden.

But other types of resistances have increased, and one in five cases of salmonella now exhibit some form of antibiotic resistance.

Still, King stressed that “optimism is necessary.”

“We need to shift our sights a little higher because it’s hard, and we don’t get what we deserve, we get what we expect,” he said. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

Riding herd

A hawk keeps a watchful eye from his perch atop the post.

photo: jeannette greaves

Tiny insect delays lucrative Australia-China cattle trade Negotiations on lucrative trade in live cattle are stalled because of blue tongue, which is spread by a tiny midge

By Colin Packham and Dominique Patton sydney/beijing / reuters

A

n insect the size of a pen tip is frustrating efforts

by Australia to sign a deal, potentially worth billions of dollars, to export live cattle to China to feed its fast-growing appetite for red meat.

Ta l k s h a v e s t a l l e d ov e r the presence in the Australian herd of bluetongue disease, a virus which is spread by midges, a tiny fly. While the disease usually has little effect on cattle, it would pose a major threat to China’s 140-million-strong sheep flock, the world’s largest.

“I was hoping we could get a deal by now,” Barnaby Joyce, Australia’s agriculture minister, told Reuters. “We are on the edge of securing a deal but unfortunately in trade, you can be on the edge for quite some time.”

Shipping live animals from Australia to China has been discussed for many years.

Official talks began in February and a team of Chinese scientists is currently carrying out on-site inspections, but there is no timetable for an agreement and no guarantee one will be reached.

Live exports could help curb high beef prices in China and open up a new market for Australian farmers. China’s total beef imports are expected to roughly treble to $9 billion by 2025, according to Australian government and UN estimates.

Bluetongue, which is common in tropical and subtropical regions, was first detected in Australia about 35 years ago, and has since spread across the country’s north, carried by the blood-feeding midges.

“If beef demand in China takes off, there probably isn’t enough cattle in Australia to keep up.”

Willem Rudolf Westra van Holthe

Australian minister of primary industry

Any live cattle deal is now expected to be delayed until at least 2015, according to officials at regulatory agencies and industry bodies.

Stalled Chinese output

Despite buoyant demand for meat, limited land, water and feed is keeping China’s cattle herd from growing in size.

Many feedlots and abattoirs are all but empty.

Chinese beef production is expected to ease slightly in 2015 to 6.5 million tonnes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

China has turned to imports to meet demand, including from Australia, the world’s third-largest exporter. It takes about half of its needs from Australia, buying A$785 million wor th of red meat in 2013-14, according to Australian government data How e v e r, w i t h r i s i n g demand for Australian meat from the United States, Australian exports to China are set to stall at 160,000 tonnes during 2014-15.

T h i s h a s k e p t C h i n a’s domestic prices high at around 63 yuan ($10.28) per kilo in retail markets, just below a record 66 yuan per kilo, say analysts.

“Beef prices will remain at high levels in the short term,” s a i d Pa n C h e n j u n , s e n i o r analyst at Rabobank. “China i s a l re a d y a l l ow i n g m o re

imports but the international market price is quite high.”

Live export dream

Australia, which has a national herd of some 27 million head, is forecast to export about a million live cattle in 2014-15 worth some A$830 million, with more than half going to Indonesia.

Although the price of live c a t t l e i s a t re c o rd h i g h s , underutilized feedlots and abattoirs and cheaper labour in China should allow the Asian country to keep down costs.

China’s regulatory agency, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), said a group of scientists is now in Australia, but offered no guarantee a deal with Australia would go ahead.

The delegation is looking at how bluetongue is managed, Australia’s Department of Agriculture said. Analysts said that if a deal is agreed, it was likely Australian cattle would be quarantined for several weeks to ensure no sign of bluetongue.

For Australian producers, the stakes are high.

“If beef demand in China takes off, there probably isn’t enough cattle in Australia to keep up,” said Willem Rudolf Westra van Holthe, minister for primary industry in Australia’s Northern Territory.

Briefs

Australian tycoon to build giant dairy farm for exports to China

By Morag MacKinnon perth, australia / reuters

Mining tycoon Gina Rinehart has agreed to invest A$500 million (US$437 million) in partnership with a Chinese company to create one of Australia’s largest dairy farms to meet soaring demand for premium infant formula in China.

The deal was announced Nov. 15 by Hope Dairies Ltd., majority owned by Rinehart, with minority investment from state-owned Chinese industrial giant China National Machinery Industry Corp.

Hope Dairies said it plans to process 30,000 tonnes, equivalent to 35 million tins, of infant formula per year at a processing plant in Queensland state.

China’s imports of milk and milk powder soared 70 per cent in the first half of the year to 830,000 tonnes, customs data showed. Infant milk formula sales in China are forecast to double from last year to $31 billion by 2017, according to research firm Euromonitor.

Australia is attempting to transition from a reliance on exports of minerals such as coal and iron ore to expanding its food and agricultural exports to a growing Asian middle class, moving from a “mining boom” to a “dining boom.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

Feeder Steers

Nov-12

Nov-11

Nov-11

Nov-13

Nov-12

n/a

Nov-13

Nov-14

No. on offer

2,236*

1,418

938*

2,997*

3,902*

n/a

1,583*

1,330*

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

180.00-200.00

Over 1,000 lbs.

900-1,000

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

200.00-218.00

n/a

n/a

185.00-208.00

800-900

210.00-236.00

218.00-238.50

200.00-239.00

215.00-240.00

222.00-238.00 (243.00)

n/a

n/a

205.00-239.00

700-800

220.00-266.00

220.00-256.00

225.00-250.00

230.00-250.00

237.00-247.00 (249.00)

n/a

240.00-260.00 (263.00)

220.00-248.00

600-700

240.00-277.00

250.00-274.50

245.00-273.00

255.00-278.00

248.00-275.00 (278.00)

n/a

250.00-270.00 (276.00)

240.00-270.00

500-600

255.00-314.00

280.00-314.50

260.00-310.00

270.00-304.00

270.00-306.00

n/a

285.00-315.00 (320.00)

275.00-310.00

400-500

260.00-340.00

290.00-338.00

300.00-350.00

295.00-345.00

288.00-344.00

n/a

295.00-330.00 (337.00)

300.00-340.00

300-400

250.00-330.00

300.00-375.50

350.00-445.00

325.00-367.00

350.00-384.00

n/a

305.00-345.00 (367.00)

320.00-395.00

900-1,000 lbs.

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

184.00-210.00

n/a

n/a

160.00-200.50

800-900

n/a

180.00-219.00

185.00-203.00

200.00-220.00

205.00-223.00

n/a

n/a

180.00-206.00

Feeder heifers

700-800

223.00-226.00

185.00-237.00

200.00-230.00

218.00-233.00

209.00-220.00 (228.00)

n/a

220.00-240.00 (243.00)

200.00-240.00

600-700

225.00-265.00

230.00-252.50

225.00-260.00

235.00-252.00

227.00-249.00

n/a

240.00-260.00 (262.00)

220.00-256.00

500-600

220.00-286.00

240.00-285.00

245.00-290.00

255.00-280.00

242.00-269.00

n/a

240.00-275.00 (280.00)

230.00-275.00

400-500

240.00-315.00

270.00-324.00

270.00-330.00

285.00-311.00

270.00-310.00

n/a

270.00-305.00 (308.00)

250.00-290.00

300-400

260.00-321.00

300.00-331.00

300.00-390.00

300.00-330.00

290.00-340.00

n/a

285.00-330.00 (337.00)

290.00-340.00

236

n/a

142

189

n/a

n/a

727

285

Slaughter Market No. on offer D1-D2 Cows

110.00-125.00

90.00-132.00

n/a

112.00-123.50

110.00-120.00

n/a

115.00-127.00 (130.00)

114.00-119.00

D3-D5 Cows

100.00-111.00

n/a

100.00-117.00

100.00-112.00

100.00-109.00

n/a

105.00-115.00

105.00-114.00

Age Verified

125.00-137.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

114.00-125.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Good Bulls

130.00-147.00

105.00-141.50

130.00-140.00

135.00-150.00

138.00-152.00

n/a

125.00-145.00 (148.00)

138.00-144.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

153.00-161.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Butcher Steers Butcher Heifers

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

151.00-158.50

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

n/a

120.00-130.00

n/a

125.00-139.00

n/a

n/a

122.00-130.00

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

n/a

115.00-122.75

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Lean Export Cows

n/a

n/a

95.00-112.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Heiferettes

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

120.00-145.00 (148.00)

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.)

Danish banks feel struggling farmers’ pain Many Danish banks are struggling due to large exposure to agriculture

By Sabina Zawadzki and Ole Mikkelsen COPENHAGEN / REUTERS

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anish banks’ rebounding profits could prove short lived as tumbling agricultural prices and Russia’s ban on European food imports threaten to spark more defaults

among farmers who have borrowed billions of crowns.

The country’s top lenders reported better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter, with its largest bank Danske almost doubling profits and promising higher dividends amid overall lower loan losses and cost cuts.

But the earnings conceal a growing problem: some banks’ agricultural loan losses are increasing because the ban and falling commodity prices are forcing some farmers off the land and producers out of business. “ The current pr ices will make it difficult for them

(agricultural companies) to balance their finances and some of them will have to cease production and sell their farms,” Sydbank, Denmark’s fourth-largest lender, said in its third-quarter report on Oct. 28.

It estimates prices for milk and pork have fallen 20

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per cent since a peak earlier this year. This is having serious repercussions in a countr y where pigs outnumber humans two to one.

Pork alone accounts for five per cent of Denmark’s total exports and the country stands to lose four billion Danish crowns ($685 million), or 12.5 per cent, of its pork export revenues this year due to Russia’s refusal to accept EU meat imports, the Danish Agriculture and Food Council has estimated.

Sydbank booked around 60 million crowns of losses on its agricultural loans in the third quarter, as the volume of impaired loans grew by 191 million crowns to 1.79 billion crowns ($300 million), or 15 per cent of Sydbank’s pre-tax profit for the quarter.

“The current situation within the agricultural sector could push to further consolidation among small and mid-size banks,” analyst Peter Fa l k - So re n s e n a t re s e a rc h company Dansk Aktie Analyse said.

More than 60 banks in Denmark have either merged with rivals or closed since the financial crisis began in 2008.

Consolidation in the sector has reduced the total number of farmers by 5,000 since 2007 to below 40,000.

The Danish Financial Services Authority (FSA) has put agricultural loan losses in focus in its supervision of the banks.

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COLUMN

Anesthetics and horses General anesthesia is more risky for horses, so the benefits and alternative options must be carefully considered Carol Shwetz, DVM Horse Health

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any diagnostic, surgical, and manipulative procedures in horses require an anesthetic to aid the comfort of the horse and improve safety for both the horse and the people handling them.

Often there is a tendency to focus on the medical procedure or operation itself with a lesser regard for the anesthesia. However, it is essential to consider the integral role anesthesia plays in a successful outcome.

Sedation appears to be a very low-risk procedure for the horse whereas general anesthesia carries a greater risk of mortality and morb i d i t y w h e n c o m p a re d t o other commonly encountered species in veterinar y medicine.

Re c e n t s t u d i e s i n No r t h A m e r i c a a n d Europe have shown the overall death rate following general anesthesia in horses to be 1:100. Dogs

and cats assume a favourably lesser risk at 1:1,000 and humans, better yet, with a risk of death of 1:100,000.

Anesthesia describes the insensitivity to pain and external stimulus that is artificially induced by the administration of injectable drugs or inhalation of volatile gases.

Veterinarians select tranquilization sedation, local analgesia, injectable intravenous anesthetic, inhaled general a n e s t h e t i c a n d / o r va r i o u s combinations to achieve the anesthetic plane necessary to carry out a medical procedure.

For example horses generally require sedation for dental and radiographic evaluations. For a minimally invasive procedure such a s re p a i r i n g a s u p e r f i c i a l wound, performing a biopsy or removal of a growth, where unconsciousness is not necessar y, a veterinarian may choose to combine sedation tranquilization with a local analgesia. When unconsciousness for a medical procedure is required general anesthesia will be necessary. General anesthesia is used for more

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invasive types of surgeries and/or more painful procedures.

Such examples include castration, fracture repair, or colic. Injectable anesthetics are often used in field situations for castrations, cast application/removal, or for the repair of a complicated laceration. General anesthetics can also be inhaled as a volatile gas through a mask or breathing tube connected to a vapourizing machine.

This type of general anesthetic is generally carried out in clinic settings with surgical facilities. Colic surgeries and fracture repairs are most commonly performed under gas anesthesia.

Pa t i e n t s s c h e d u l e d f o r anesthesia will be given a complete physical exam to evaluate their health. Prea n e s t h e t i c c o n s i d e ra t i o n s may include blood work in compromised patients or patients with a medical condition. Whenever a horse is insured it will also be necessary for the horse owners to notify the insurance company prior to anesthetic. In an emergency, notification is

best done as soon as is possible to uphold the agreement with the insurance company.

Horses under anesthesia are carefully monitored until the procedure is completed. Blood pressure, eye reflexes, tissue oxygenation, breathing and heart rate are all taken into consideration when assessing the plane of anesthesia. Drug combinations are chosen to optimize their desirable effects while simultaneously minimizing their undesirable side-effects.

Most general anesthesia will go very smoothly. Each anim a l i s d i f f e re n t re q u i r i n g constant vigilance and adjustments while under anesthesia.

As with any medical procedure, anesthesia also has its risks. Some patients may react negatively to the anesthetic medication or experience fluctuations in hear t rate, breathing or blood pressure.

Horses in a similar way to people can also suffer adverse re a c t i o n t o d r u g s ra n g i n g from a skin rash to death.

It is the horse’s large size which presents the majority

of complications when under g e n e ra l a n e s t h e s i a . W h e n recumbent or laying down for durations of longer than an hour horses tend to experience significant compression of tissues with concurrent inadequate blood supply and oxygenation to muscle groups and vital organs. Lameness, muscle damage, nerve injury, leg bone fractures, colic, and death are unfortunate sequela in which careful measures are taken by the veterinary team to avoid.

When considering an anesthetic, veterinarians take into account the patient’s temperament, tractability and degree of excitement, breed, physiological condition, and state of illness. Then the availability and experience of the personnel involved in the procedure and state of the facilities and environment are assessed.

Finally the requirements specific to the procedure will be considered when determining how to proceed with a horse’s anesthetic regime.

Carol Shwetz is a veterinarian specializing in equine practice at Westlock, Alta.

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Harder joins Jeff Barlow from Ontario and Jill Burkhardt from Alberta in attending the conference being held Nov. 19 to 21. The three farmers, ages 20 to 40, each produced a video answering the question: What

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The video competition, which was sponsored by Ag Annex Business Media, is designed to get young farmers engaged in using multimedia to share their passion, hopes and dreams for Canada’s agricultural industry. It also provides an opportunity to quench their thirst for knowledge by participating in leading agricultural events across Canada.

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Criteria: We are looking for a written, one page, short story about weather, the environment, or experience you have had that impacts you. A few examples might be a severe weather event like flooding, heavy rains, hail, a snow storm…even how the weather may have affected and/or benefited your farm, or business, even your 4-H Achievement. Include pictures if you like.

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Winter now settling in Issued: Monday, November 17, 2014 · Covering: November 19 – November 26, 2014 Daniel Bezte Co-operator contributor

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e’ve been in an interesting weather pattern over the last week or so, basically stuck between a large area of low pressure anchored over Hudson Bay and a ridge of high pressure to our west. This has placed us in a predominantly northerly flow, bringing wellbelow-average temperatures. The other interesting feature has been the occasional snows dropping down out of Hudson Bay. These systems, for the most part, have only brought a light dusting of snow, but to the lee of the stillopen lakes, 10 to 20 cm of snow were reported.

Over the next week or so the weather pattern does not look to change much. The good news is that this means the likelihood of seeing significant widespread snow is not that high. The bad news is that it looks as though temperatures will continue to be on the cold side.

Low pressure will continue to dominate over Hudson Bay, but it looks like it will slowly pull off to the east during this forecast period. Arctic high pressure will

slide down across our region during the middle of the week, but the high does not look to be that strong. Nonetheless, we’ll continue to see cold weather under this high. By the weekend the high will strengthen as it moves to our southeast; this, combined with a deepening area of low pressure to the West Coast, should lead to slowly warming temperatures.

Daytime highs by the weekend should be around -4 C with overnight lows around -10 C. For next week, the weather models show a large storm system developing well to our south.

We could see a few flurries on Monday as the low passes by, but the main impact will be slightly cooler temperatures. The models then show a low dropping down from the northwest around the middle of the week. This could bring the first widespread snow of the season, should it materialize.

Usual temperature range for this period: Highs, -11 to 2 C; lows, -20 to -6 C. Probability of precipitation falling as snow: 96 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.

WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA

1 Month (30 Days) Accumulated Precipitation (Prairie Region) October 15, 2014 to November 13, 2014

0 mm 0 - 5 mm 5 - 10 mm 10 - 15 mm 15 - 20 mm 20 - 25 mm 25 - 30 mm 30 - 40 mm 40 - 50 mm 50 - 60 mm 60 - 70 mm 70 - 80 mm 80 - 90 mm 90 - 100 mm 100 - 125 mm 125 - 150 mm 150 - 200 mm > 200 mm Extent of Agricultural Land Lakes and Rivers

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

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

Created: 11/14/14 www.agr.gc.ca/drought

This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that has fallen during the 30 days ending Nov. 13. While winter is usually seen as starting Nov. 1 in our part of the world, we often see snow before this time, so this 30-day period kind of represents the amount of precipitation we have seen so far this winter. Most of agricultural Manitoba has been dry with fewer than 10 mm in most areas. Over Saskatchewan it was a little wetter, with most regions seeing between 15 and 30 mm and a few areas seeing upward of 50 mm. In Alberta, southern regions were fairly wet with 30 to 50 mm common. The area from Edmonton to Cold Lake was a little drier with 10 to 20 mm reported. The wettest area was the western Peace River region with upward of 70 mm of precipitation reported.

What every weather watcher wants Let’s run down some gift ideas for the weather aficionado on your list

By Daniel Bezte CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR

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nce upon a time, when you wanted to find that unique weather gadget, the best website to check out was Ambient Weather based in the U.S. While it still stocks what I consider the best assortment of weather instruments, either high or low tech, it no longer ships internationally. So, unless you have some kind of setup to deal with this type of situation, ordering from them is not really an option. That said, if you are really interested in what is available when it comes to weather-related items, do check them out… and no, I am not associated with them in any way.

When it comes to purchasing a weather-related gift for that special person in your life, then I personally think the sky is the limit. OK, maybe not, but it should work that way! For fun I thought I’d begin our look at holiday weather gift ideas by taking a page from some of the stars and look at the ridiculous amount of money you could spend if money were no object.

I spent some time trying to find super-expensive weather gadgets all blinged out in gold or diamonds, but interestingly

enough, I couldn’t find any. Go figure. Maybe people who are into weather aren’t that strange after all. If you think spending $500 or so on computerized weather stations is crazy, you could buy a complete Weather Hawk station for the low price of about $6,000! Not sure what makes these stations so special, but if I had one, it better not ever break down!

On the low-tech side of things, the most expensive item I could find was a barograph that came in around $2,500. A barograph is basically a piece of graph paper attached to a slowly revolving drum, which, through a pen attached to an analog barometer, keeps track of the atmospheric pressure.

This type of instrument is fairly old in design and thus has an antique look and quality to it.

Would I like to have something like this? Sure! Would I spend that kind of money? No way!

More modest

Now on to the more reasonable items. I’m going to start with the least expensive items I found available at different Canadian stores and websites.

One of the best is the La Crosse wireless thermometer. Its regular price is around $25, but you can usually find it on sale at

Canadian Tire for about $10.

This little gadget will tell you the time, indoor temperature and outdoor temperature, all without having to run a wire.

As long as you don’t place the temperature sensor too far away from the receiver, it works fine. The batteries seem to last forever. I’ve had two of these over the last five or so years and even though I have a complete weather station at home, I find this great to take with me when we are away from home camping, at the cottage or what have you.

Now, if you want to step it up a notch and get a full-blown weather station, I personally would not recommend spending the money on a hardware store version, even if it is on sale. If you want to invest in a weather station that will work well, be easy to install and last for years and years then, at least in my opinion, your best bet is to get a Davis Weather station. There are several models available, but for simple ease of use your best bet is the Davis Vantage Vue. This station pretty much does it all. Temperature both inside and out, humidity, wind speed and direction, air pressure and rainfall — all in one nice little bundle. Add in a data log-

ger and then you are good to go with backing up data, looking at it on your computer, and even sharing it. All for less than $500 including tax, if you look around a little bit.

If that price tag is a little high and you still want a fullblown weather station, then your next best bet is a higherend La Crosse station or an Oregon Scientific station. Now, with these stations you have to be careful as they put out a number of different units, some of which might leave you wanting more. If you are interested in a low-cost full weather station, then I would be leery of spending less than $200, unless it’s on sale.

If you are looking for something more modest or unique, then consider a Galileo thermometer or a Stormglass. They both work using the same basic principle: changes in pressure of an encapsulated liquid due to either changes in temperature or pressure. The Galileo thermometer is relatively inexpensive at between $10 and $20, and will show you the temperature based on the buoyancy of different glass balls floating in a liquid.

The Stormglass works off of changes in pressure, which in turn causes crystals to grow or

shrink in a contained unit. This one is a little more expensive at around $150 and I’ll have to admit, I’ve never actually seen one in person, but they are really cool!

One of the best gifts for someone interested in weather is a rain gauge. They come in both digital form and your good old basic cylinder. Oregon Scientific makes several different digital rain gauges that work fairly well and can be found for around $50. If you’re looking for a good oldfashioned cylinder rain gauge, the best one I have come across is the one provided by CoCoRaHS. It’s just that simple. Looking around, I’ve seen equivalent rain gauges and the cheapest I found was the Stratus Long Term Professional Rain and Snow Gauge, which sells for about $75 before tax.

While there are plenty of other c y l i n d e r- s t y l e g a u g e s o u t there, these large gauges work remarkably well and can handle large rainfalls and record rainfall over long periods of time without losing much to evaporation.

Well, I know this might not have been too much help, but I do hope you have a great time looking for that perfect gift this holiday season.

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AAFC proposing two-tier variety registration system

One category would require merit testing and the other would only require the registrant to demonstrate a variety was new, distinguishable, uniform and stable

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griculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) is proposing to reduce Canada’s crop variety registration system from three tiers to two by 2016.

One of the tiers would still include merit testing as part of the process for registering new wheats for western Canadian farmers, which is seen by many as an important tool in assuring wheat end-use quality.

The proposal was discussed at a Winnipeg meeting with seed industry representatives in early October, Dale Adolphe, executive director of the Canadian Seed Growers Association told the Interprovincial Seed Growers meeting in Winnipeg Nov. 5.

The registration system was last revamped in 2009 after several years of consultation. The tiers include: Part I: Crops in this category require up to three years of merit testing and then the recommendation of an expert committee before being registered. New wheats are in this category. They must meet agronomic, disease and end-use quality standards for the class they are intended for.

Part II: Crops are tested but merit is not assessed.

Part III: Crops in this category don’t have to provide any testing information, but must

demonstrate to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that the variety is new, distinguishable from others, uniform and stable.

Stakeholders in the value chain determine which category in which a crop belongs.

AAFC is proposing eliminating Part II but keeping Part I as “enhanced” registration and Part III as “basic” registration.

“All other crop kinds currently subject to variety registration would remain where they are... but if a new crop, like Brassica carinata, wanted to enter the variety registration system it would enter at the basic registration level,” Adolphe said.

Wheat and canola would continue under enhanced registration, which includes merit testing, he said.

Forages and soybeans, which recently moved to Part III would go to basic registration.

While AAFC proposes pulse crops be moved to basic registration, some pulse industry officials want certain pulses to remain in the enhanced registration box. “So I think pulses are still up for discussion,” Adolphe said.

Questions are also being raised about whether to continue exempting some crops, such as corn, from the registration process.

Under AAFC’s proposal, the number of expert recommending committees will go to 12 from 17.

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“The registration system is really a gatekeeper and there’s going to be winners and there are going to be losers. And that’s the way it has to be or we don’t need it.”

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Growth Act, expected to pass before Christmas, includes provisions for “incorporation by reference,” Adolphe said. That means moving crops from one category to another will no longer require cabinet approval. However, industry consensus would still be required.

Some private wheat-breeding companies and some farmers say the current registration system is unpredictable, subjective and bureaucratic, which discourages innovation.

In August 2013, AAFC launched a review of the registration system, suggesting four options: (1) Keep the current system, allowing its inherent flexibility to emerge. (2) Streamline the regulatory process by requiring all crops meet minimum registration requirements with the option for some to have merit

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assessment through an independent assessment process.

(3) Streamline the regulatory process by maintaining a minimum level of federal government oversight (similar to the current Part III), and eliminate any merit assessment or performance data. (4) Drop all federal government oversight allowing industry or third parties to take over.

Producing high-quality wheat is important for Western Canada and the variety registration system plays a role in achieving it, Rob Graf, a wheat breeder with AAFC in Lethbridge, told the meeting.

“I think we have to differentiate our product, so there’s market pull, recognizing that we export about 80 per cent of the wheat that we grow,” Graf said.

In July, Graf spoke at a Brazilian conference about how Canada achieved its reputation for producing the best wheat in the world. He credited the Canada Seeds Act, the Canada Grain Act, oversight by the Canadian Grain Commission, the work of seed growers and the registration system.

“At the end of the process we

know where it (a new variety of wheat) fits in terms of the class system,” Graf said. “Nobody else has that. And in fact what that does is it actually speeds the uptake of the varieties in the market (among farmers).”

Some companies say they can register many more new wheats in the United States than Canada, Graf said.

“The reality is there is no registration system in the United States, so keep that in mind,” he said.

Critics have also said they want a predictable system.

“If everything that goes in is going to be registered, it’s not serving any purpose,” Graf said.

“The registration system is really a gatekeeper and there’s going to be winners and there are going to be losers. And that’s the way it has to be or we don’t need it.”

Seed growers like the current system, because it weeds out poorer varieties, making it easier for seed growers and ultimately farmers to pick winning varieties, said Eric McLean, president of the Manitoba Seed Growers Association.

“The one thing the market is not able to do right now is... to provide enough slush

Model operating procedures sent to recommending committees A final draft is expected in the spring while the target for adoption is next September

By Allan Dawson AAFC wheat breeder Rob Graf says the wheat registration system is integral to Canada’s unique wheat classification system and a component in ensuring customers get what they expect from Canadian wheat. photo: allan dawson

money to allow for the disposal of all these new varieties that could possibly get to market,” McLean said.

“The (current) program is working well. It’s unfortunate that it still takes the length of time it still does to produce a variety.”

According to critics new wheats get commercialized in

the U.S. faster, but Graf disagrees.

“The timeline from when a cross is made to release is no different than ours,” he said.

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) sent its “model operating procedures” to the expert committees that annually recommend which new varieties should be registered last month.

The committees have 30 days to respond, Michael Scheffel, CFIA’s national seed section manager, told the Interprovincial Seed Growers meeting in Winnipeg Nov. 5.

Another draft will be issued in the spring allowing for broader public input before a final document is put in place by next September, Scheffel said.

Operating procedures for the recommending committees provide guidelines on how they should do their work, he said.

Some items are prescriptive, such as requiring committees to represent the crop’s value chain and do business in an open and democratic way.

Some of the guidelines are suggestions. One is to publish data collected on check varieties used in pre-registration testing so variety developers know what to aim for “because you’ve got to be equal to, or better than, the check varieties” to be recommended for registration, Scheffel said.

Rob Graf, an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada wheat breeder in Lethbridge, said the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale revamped its operating procedures last year and implemented them when it met in Winnipeg in February.

Changes were made after Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz asked all the recommending committees in 2013 to look at ways to streamline and make the variety registration process more transparent and predictable.

“I would suggest that there may be some minor tweaking that still needs to be done for wheat, rye and triticale, but there really isn’t a lot left to do,” Graf said.

One of the innovations the committee developed was a spreadsheet-based tool to assess the agronomic performance of new wheats. Graf said the tool can be used to assess disease tolerances, but he isn’t sure it can work for quality assessments, which are more complex.

“I don’t think we’re ever going to have 100 per cent of the people 100 per cent happy,” Graf said. “There will be compromises made.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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ABOVE: McCain Foods Canada Top 10 potato growers for Portage and Carberry join McCain personnel following presentations during the Annual McCain Growers’ Banquet on November 6, 2014: Front row (l-r): Cody Waldner, Luke Waldner, Joel Waldner, Mike Hofer, Elie Waldner, Cheryl Berry, Jennifer Wiebe, Kim Adriaansen. Second row (l-r): Steve Jonk, Mark McPhail, director of agriculture, North America, Shawna Adriaansen, Margie Bailey, Kelsey Bailey, Lori Bailey, Karen Fiskel, Erin Hood, Doug Berry, Sheldon Wiebe, Paul Adriaansen, Christine Wentworth, vice-president of agriculture, North America, Bob Hyra, senior field department manager, Manitoba. Third row (l-r): Ben Lemieux, Portage plant manager, Russell Jonk, Tom Adriaansen, Alan Bailey, Terry Bailey, Rick Fiskel, Derrick Fiskel, Kevin Hood. Back row (l-r): Vince Jonk, Tim Jonk, Gilles Ponsin, John Adriaansen, Dean Melnic, Carberry plant manager, Shai Altman, president, McCain Foods Canada, Yves Leclerc, director of agronomy, North America.

ABOVE: Randy and Kim Baron Farms of Carberry was the recipient of the McCain Environmental Award at the Annual McCain Growers’ Banquet on November 6, 2014. L-R: Bob Hyra, senior field department manager, Manitoba, Yves Leclerc, director of agronomy, North America, Kim Baron, Randy Baron, Alan Christison, agronomist, Scott Graham, agronomist.

RIGHT: Sprucewoods Colony Farms of Brookdale was named the McCain Foods Champion Potato Grower for Portage and Carberry at the Annual McCain Growers’ Banquet on November 6, 2014.

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WTO sees global trade pact within two weeks India and the U.S. settled their dispute, which cleared the way for an agreement

By Matt Siegel BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA / REUTERS

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World Trade Organization (WTO) director general Roberto Azevedo in August. PHOTO: REUTERS/HENRY ROMERO

he World Trade Organization said Nov. 14 there was a “high probability” that a major deal on streamlining global customs rules will be implemented within two weeks after India and the United States overcame a key impasse.

“I would say that we have a high probability that the Bali package will be implemented very shortly,” WTO director general Roberto Azevedo said, referring to the Trade Facilitation Agreement agreed on the Indonesian island.

“I’m hopeful that we can do it in a very short period of time, certainly within the next two weeks,” Azevedo, speaking

ahead of a Group of 20 Leaders Summit in Brisbane, said.

India and the United States settled a dispute Nov. 13 that had paralyzed the WTO and risked derailing reforms that are seen adding about $1 trillion to global trade.

India had plunged the WTO into the deepest crisis in its 20-year history in July by vetoing a deal on streamlined customs rules due to a lack of progress on its demands to be allowed to stockpile food without observing the usual WTO rules on agricultural subsidies.

That put the WTO’s future in doubt just months after it appeared to have overcome decades of stalemate on the issue at a meeting in Bali.

The breakthrough was the second at the WTO in as many

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days, following a U.S.-China pact to cut tariffs on IT products, also billed as a $1-trillion advance.

The U.S.-Indian deal is likely to be hailed as a victory for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has stressed the importance of ensuring that its 1.25 billion people have enough to eat.

Modi appears to have avoided the danger that his tough stance would isolate him at his first G20 summit of world leaders starting on Saturday.

The compromise deal included no major revision of the original WTO deal struck last December, which provided for India’s food stockpiling to be shielded from legal challenge by a “peace clause.”

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by India’s last government expanded the number of people entitled to receive cheap food grains to 850 million.

In a recent disclosure to the WTO, India said its state food procurement cost $13.8 billion in 2010-11, part of the total of $56.1 billion it spends on farm support. Wheat stocks, at 30 million tonnes, are more than double official target levels.

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The average farmland value was $6,120 per acre in the July-September period, up from $5,332 in the third quarter of 2013, and up 11.8 per cent from second quarter of this year, the bank said in its quarterly survey of 41 agricultural bankers in the district.

The St. Louis district covers Arkansas, eastern Missouri, southern Illinois and Indiana, and parts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. The region produces corn, soybeans, wheat and other food commodities, as well as cotton, hogs and cattle.

Ranch and pasture land values averaged $2,570 per acre in the quarter, an 8.1 per cent increase from a year earlier, and up 11.1 per cent from the previous quarter.

Both cropland and ranch land values were the highest since the St. Louis survey began in 2012, the bank said.

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Cost of irrigation water could double in California A $19-billion project is proposed to build tunnels to transfer water to farm users

By Sharon Bernstein sacramento, calif. /reuters

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alifornia farmers would pay more to irrigate their crops under a proposal to build tunnels under the San Jo a q u i n - Sa c ra m e n t o R i ve r Delta to funnel water to the state’s agricultural breadbasket, officials said Nov. 14.

The analysis released by state treasurer, Bill Lockyer, said regional water suppliers and the farmers who purchase water from them would be able to handle the increased costs, even though the price of water could more than double once the price of paying for the project is included.

“The cost of the Delta conveyance facility is within the range of urban and agricultural users’ capacity to pay,” said the report commissioned by the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.

Environmentalists have strongly opposed the project, saying it would endanger fish and wildlife in the already fragile delta, which supplies water to 25 million people along with farms in the San Joaquin Valley and other parts of the state.

The project, now expected to cost $19 billion, is backed

by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown as well as Republicans who represent the agricultural region, which has suffered f r o m t h e s t a t e’s o n g o i n g drought.

But Democrats have tried to block the project, citing cost and environmental concerns.

Water agencies would sell bonds to pay for the tunnels and likely pass the cost of the debt on to customers. The state would fund an additional $7.8 billion, also through the sale of bonds, for environmental restoration in the delta.

In the Nov. 14 report, author Blue Sky Consulting Group said farmers and communities could handle the increased costs of servicing the debt, but some farmers would have to switch to more-profitable crops.

For example, the average cost of water in Kern County during the five years through 2012 was $100 per acre-foot. With debt service from the tunnels project, that could go up as high as $278, the report said.

The current crop mix overall in Kern County would allow farmers to pay as much as $277 per acre-foot, the report said, but farmers have planted some land in the area with crops that would only bring in enough profit to pay $13 per acre-foot.

Farm groups and technology firms agree on data privacy standards Among the principles is an assertion that farmers own their data

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consortium of farmer organizations and agriculture data technology providers published a set of data privacy and security principles Nov. 13 aimed at reassuring farmers that data they share with Big Data services providers will not be misused.

The non-binding principles are also meant to provide companies that collect, store and analyze farmer data, some guidelines when crafting their service contracts and marketing tools that use farm data to boost crop yields or reduce costs for farmers.

The principles were devel-

oped after a pair of meetings organized by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) with industry groups including the American Soybean Association and National Corn Growers Association as well as tech providers like John Deere, DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto’s Climate Corporation.

Although the guidelines closely mirror already published policies of many data services providers, approval by the AFBF and other farmer organizations could help soothe some farmer concerns about data misuse. The effort could be particularly beneficial for the larger data service providers, often the focus of farmer mistrust.

“It’s an important step in making farmers more comfortable with these emerging data science technologies that can provide real value for their operations,” said Anthony Osborne, marketing vice-president for the Climate Corporation, an early leader in the industry.

Climate and other companies are hoping to cash in on services that combine everything from how densely farmers plant seeds, row-byrow soil conditions and local weather patterns to help farmers increase crop output.

Some farmers have worr ied commodity markets and farmland values could be manipulated if their data

winds up in the hands of traders or land brokers. Others fear large seed and chemical companies could use the information to sell more fertilizer and seeds.

“The principles released today provide a measure of needed certainty to farmers regarding the protection of their data,” said AFBF president Bob Stallman.

Among the guidelines are assertions that farmers own information generated by their operations, farmers should be told how their data will be used and who it is shared with, and farmers should be able to opt out of services and have their data returned to them if they choose.

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Experts decry lack of long-term research

Research projects tend to be commodity specific and short term, but experts say long-term, multidisciplinary studies are critical

By Jennifer Blair staff

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Stan Blade is dean of agriciulture at the University of Alberta. photo: supplied

f you want to know what happens when research doesn’t get done, ask Doug Wray. “ Where the hay yields haven’t increased in the last 10 years, the canola, wheat, and barley yields have,” says the cow-calf producer from Irricana, Alta.

“It’s created a real challenge to keep forages on the landscape in that dynamic where the productivity of the alternatives has gained so much. It

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“If you’re looking for quick answers, lots of times in the forage world those answers take a long time,” said Wray, who is also chair of the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association. “ Yo u p l a n t a p a s t u re t o be there for several years — you’re hedging your bets on the next five or 10 years.

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Whereas when you plant your cash crop, it’s the next 100 days.”

But even annual crop producers need to look years ahead if they hope to continue competing with producers in countries that aren’t spending all their research dollars on ‘quick-fix’ projects, said the new dean of agriculture at the University of Alberta. “ When you put a (short) time frame around research, absolutely you will get results — you will get an annual report,” said Stan Blade. “But we live in a biological system, and some of those questions are not defined by three-year projects.”

A former crop research scientist and longtime head of Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions, Blade said he understands the attraction to specific, short-term projects.

“With things like big differences in cultivars and big differences in tillage use, people pay attention to that because they see there’s something they can immediately respond to.”

But many in the agricultural community seem to have forgotten that “research is a long-term thing,” said Vern Baron, a research scientist with Agriculture and AgriFood Canada in Lacombe.

“Often, producer groups get lulled into the idea that this will be a silver bullet that will solve issues, and then they’re very disappointed when that doesn’t reduce their costs by half,” said Baron.

“Unfortunately, research is expensive. It returns on the investment, but it’s a longterm investment.”

And that cost is only going u p, w h i c h i s a n o t h e r re ason why a new approach is needed, said Blade.

As field work becomes more expensive, it makes sense for a wide variety of researchers — from entomologists and soil scientists to plant breeders and hydrologists — to co-ordinate their efforts and work in the same field, he said.

“I’m not sure we’ve done that in the past, because it’s easier to co-ordinate an experiment that you want a particular answer to,” said Blade. “This isn’t only about funding agencies or the production community. It’s also about the research community rethinking things.”

And right now, the system isn’t designed to support that kind of integrated research, said Blade.

“At the federal level, they fund by commodity. The production industr y is mostly organized around commodity.

The whole system militates against joint activities.”

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“At the federal level, they fund by commodity. The production industry is mostly organized around commodity.

The whole system militates against joint activities.”

Stan Blade

Blade points to Australia as a model for what Canada could do.

An organization called the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) pools checkoffs from all the crop types and, rather than allocating funds based on the contribution from each crop type, invests in new opportunities that could benefit the entire system.

“The pulse industry there would get a significant a m o u n t o f re s e a rc h d o n e even though it was in an earlier growing part of its progression because there were forward-looking bodies like GRDC making some of those bets,” said Blade.

While the majority of research funding here is commodity specific and for three years or less, there are signs of change.

In October, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced $4.3 million in funding — with a five-year time frame — for the Western Grains Research Foundation to conduct sustainable agronomy research. That will allow for integrated research in crop r isk management, rotational management, and soil fertility.

“Our board and our farmers recognize that you need to have some long-term support,” said Garth Patterson, the foundation’s executive director. “ T h e re i s a re c o g n i t i o n of that from our board and farmers in general, particularly on the agronomy side, and also some concerns now that we’re losing capacity to support long-term research in different areas.

“The more we can learn by integrating our studies, the better the information is going to be for farmers.”

Farmer buy-in for longerterm, multidisciplinary research will be critical, said Blade.

“In the research community — as with everything else — signals have to be given, and if producers start talking about this and the researchers start talking about this, we will go to a different level in the way agronomy is done.”

No one can predict specific results of research that hasn’t been conducted, but Blade said co-ordinated research will lead to “more resilience in cropping systems.”

“When you do that kind of work, the answers maintain their relevance over a much broader spectrum of experience,” he said.

“Those answers will be more broad based and more valuable to a broader array of producers.”

Peace farmers funding research by doing what they do best — farming Farmers in Alberta’s northwest corner are using sweat equity to fund research that matters to them

By Jennifer Blair staff

At a time when competition for government funding is stiff and every dollar counts, researchers are finding novel ways to finance the work they do.

One of the most innovative is the Mackenzie Applied Research Association (MARA).

Until last year, the association conducted research in Alberta’s northwest corner with a small staff and limited budget. But when the federal government began looking to unload its research station at Fort Vermilion, area farmers saw an opportunity they couldn’t pass up.

That led to Mackenzie County purchasing the facility last November.

“In the last few years, our funding structure changed a little bit because we are now in control of the research station,” said Jacob Marfro, MARA’s manager and research co-ordinator.

“What the farmers did was, instead of using the whole 400 or 500 acres of land for research, they volunteered their time and equipment, and we seeded a portion of it and sold the crops for profit.”

Last year, the organization raised almost $100,000 by selling crops grown in their research projects, and while the final tally for this year isn’t in yet, the organization has made close to $88,000 so far.

Raising their own funds gives the producers and researchers involved with the association a greater degree of certainty about their research investments. While MARA’s most stable form of funding right now is from the provincial

government, changing government priorities make long-term planning a challenge.

“We want to have our own funding base so that we can continue to do the research that we do,” said Marfro.

Most government grants also ask for matching industry dollars, he said, and with the new funding structure, finding those matching dollars isn’t a challenge.

“Last year, some associations could not match the amount that was needed to run their projects, but we had an excess, because our farmers’ donation alone was almost $100,000,” said Marfro.

It also means the farmers are

“We want to have our own funding base so that we can continue to do the research that we do.”

helping to “shape the process,” he said.

“If we get everything from the government or from private guys from outside the county, they may not like what the projects look like,” said Marfro.

“But if they take part in the whole process of, ‘we are funding you and we want you to do this,’ they help it take shape, and it works better than everything coming from the outside.”

And that’s particularly important in the far north, where “agriculture is very different from almost everywhere in the country.”

“We are unique,” said Marfro.

“Our soils, our rain, and our weather are unique, so we need research to come up with plans or varieties that are more adapted to the local conditions.

“To be able to actually make meaningful decisions… you can’t use information from Manitoba.”

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Korea trade deal taught Canada an important lesson

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A senate committee is looking at the importance of trade to the agri-food sector

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Funds for risk management research Staff / The federal govern‑ ment is putting $500,000 over five years towards the Guy Carpenter Professorship in Agriculture Risk Management at the University of Manitoba.

The research will be aimed at promoting “sound and

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The position will supervise doctoral, graduate and under‑ graduate students and associ‑ ates in conducting research projects into important issues related to agricultural risk management and insurance and will also supervise gradu‑

ate students in the newly created master of science program in actuarial math‑ ematics.

The funds will make $100,000 available to the professorship for each of five years. Lysa Porth was selected for the position and began her role in the profes‑ sorship on February 1, 2013.

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he free trade deal signed earlier this year with South Korea taught Canada a valuable lesson about setting priorities in its foreign trade negotiations, says Ron Bonnett, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.

While Korea offered valua‑ ble new markets for Canadian agriculture and food exports, Canada didn’t act fast in nego‑ tiating with Seoul, he told the Senate agriculture committee.

“The U.S. got in first, and they actually stole some of our mar‑ kets away from us. It’s critical that we be out front on that.”

Canada should move as quickly as possible in con‑ cluding a free trade with Japan “whether or not the Trans‑Pacific Partnership trade talks go ahead,” he added. Canada has already opened free trade talks with Japan, which has also been talking with the U.S. about their disagreements on ele‑ ments in a proposed TPP deal.

He says CFA still views the World Trade Organization as the key arena for negotiating a global change in trade rules even though many countries are frustrated by the endless disagreements in the Doha Round talks, now more than a decade old, and have resorted to bilateral deals such as Canada has with Europe and Korea. A year ago, trade offi‑ cials meeting in Bali produced a plan to get those WTO nego‑ tiations back on track but “it’s now basically off the rails.

“We should not give up on the WTO and look at using it as still the primary negotiating body,” he added. “We could

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“The U.S. got in first, and they actually stole some of our markets away from us. It’s critical that we be out front on that.”

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continue to look at figuring out how we can streamline the dispute settlement, and as well take a look at some of the issues on non‑tariff barriers.”

The main culprit in Doha delays has been India, where a new government has backed away from the previous one’s trade commitments, he said.

“Something to keep in mind when you’re into any negotia‑ tions, whether they’re bilateral or multilateral, is making sure that the people who are sign‑ ing on to those agreements make a commitment to carry forward with that and it isn’t something that can be just thrown out the next time there is an election.”

New trade rules for the WTO are important because the organization is also involved in settling trade disputes such as Canada and Mexico’s oppo‑ sition to the mandatory U.S. country-of-origin labelling program for meat and live‑ stock, he added.

The Senate committee is looking at the importance of trade to the country’s agrifood sector, which accounts for one in eight jobs in Can‑ ada and 6.7 per cent of the national GDP.

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Trade deals just the start of increased exports Canada needs to position itself as a reliable supplier that is prepared to provide details about its products

By Alex Binkley CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR

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igning free trade agreem e n t s w o n’t s e c u r e new foreign markets for Canadian food products unless farmers, processors and governments prepare to take advantage of the opportunities, says David McInnes, president and CEO of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI).

“Expor t success requires knowing how to target the right consumer market segment with the right product,” he told the Senate agriculture committee. “Positioning Canada in a world of increasing globalization of food production and supply requires an integrated and strategic a p p ro a c h . It’s a b o u t l i n k i n g p o l i c y, s u p p l y c h a i n strategies and marketplace foresight.”

That requires a program to develop the food industry’s ability to increase exports because “today’s deals will set the rules for decades to come,” he continued. “ We need to be clear about what our long-term objectives are.”

To take advantage of the global interest in Canada’s agri-food sector, “we will need to decide how to fully leverage our productive capacity going forward.” That will require an ongoing dialogue between industry and government.

Trade deals are usually promoted in terms of eliminating tariffs while “firms must also deal with non-tariff barriers and other regulatory, policy and legal requirements, and supply chain standards,” he said. There are key steps to be taken to capitalize on the agreements.

Canada has to act expedit i o u s l y t o c o n c l u d e t ra d e deals when the opportunity is available, which it didn’t do in the case of South Korea, he noted. As a result, Canada lost customers to the United States, which reached a trade with Korea several years ago.

support sectors to make this happen.”

A bilateral deal with Japan that achieves that goal could better position for an eventual Trans-Pacific Pact trade pact, he added.

Canada should also build the capability to provide customers with details about how the food was produced to meet concerns about sustainability and animal welfare, he continued.

Traceability

Canada has full traceability in the beef sector and is working on it for other livestock.

While the cost of traceability is mostly borne by producers, there is an increasing recognition that such information

reassures the consumer and that has value in both domestic and export markets.

“Our reputation for clean water, good soil, open spaces and nutritious ingredients should have value,” he said. “The task is systematically supporting such brand attributes. Our research and development capacity has a role here in demonstrating the nutritiousness of our ingredients, or that it contains fewer residues than that of other agricultural producers.

“Ca n ad a’s tra d e st ra t e g y needs to be about differentiating ourselves from the Americans and offsetting their scale advantage,” he said. “We want foreign consumers to seek our ingredi-

ents and our food because of what they offer.”

Another important step for Canada is an international agreement on the adventitious presence of GMOs in food shipments, he noted.

The food industr y has to be prepared for constantly changing consumer tastes.

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However, in the end, “many consumers will buy on price,” he added. “They assume the food is quality and safe, but they will generally buy on price.”

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“There is currently a shortage of durum in the world and prices are very attractive,” he told Reuters.

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T h e g ov e r n m e n t a n d t h e industr y must also ensure that they understand what a foreign partner expects from the deal, he said.

In the case of Japan, with which Canada is entering the seventh round of free trade talks, the main goal of that country is food security, he noted.

“Ja p a n’s f o o d s e l f - s u f f i ciency has fallen from about 70 per cent from before 1970 to less than 40 per cent.”

To help Japan cope with its declining agricultural production, Canada should position itself as a major reliable food supplier to the Japanese market. “ D o i n g s o, w e b e l i e v e , requires fully aligning our supply chains in response, such as Canadian input providers, producers, processors, distributors and the necessary

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Tracing the course of phosphorus pollution in lakes Research by the University of Minnesota says riverbank sediments are a major source of phosphorus Staff

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gricultural practices have been widely blamed as the source of unprecedented algae blooms in lakes but U.S. researchers have identified another potentially important source.

Satish Gupta, a University of Minnesota professor, and Ashley Grundtner, recently published a paper about their research regarding phosphorus contamination of Lake Pepin, a lake located on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin in the Journal of Environmental Quality.

In recent years, Lake Pepin, like many lakes in the upper Midwest, has been experiencing unprecedented algae blooms. These blooms threaten fish and affect recreational activities. Researchers are now

trying to identify upstream factors that could explain the increased concentration of phosphorus.

One study zeroed in on riverbank materials and the role they play as sources and carriers. It assessed how riverbank sediments acted as a source of P to the Minnesota River and Lake Pepin, and explored whether riverbank soil could absorb P from river waters and then carry it to the lake.

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T h e re s u l t s o f t h e U M N research showed that selective transport of fine particles eroded from the riverbanks was the main source of phosphorus in Lake Pepin sediment before 1850, not agriculture. In this process, heavier particles such as sand (with lower phosphorus concentrations) remain

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behind in the river basin. Fine particles such as silt and clay (with higher phosphorus concentrations) are transported to downstream lakes. After 1850, the riverbanks absorbed P from the polluted river water providing additional phosphorus that could be transported downstream into Lake Pepin.

History of the Lake Pepin area supports the findings: In the 1880s, a series of meatprocessing plants began operation along the Mississippi River upstream of Lake Pepin. Prior to the 1930s, there were also no sewage treatment plants. As a result, “all domestic raw sewage and industrial waste was dumped in the rivers upstream of Lake Pepin,” says Gupta. In the 1940s, detergents used in washing machines also became a key source of phosphorus in rivers.

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These results contradict the previously held view that agriculture was the biggest contributor of phosphorus in Lake Pepin, as it is in some other lakes and rivers. “Our research shows that (for Lake Pepin) most sediment phosphorus is likely the sewage and industr ial phosphor us that was picked up by riverbank sediments,” says Gupta.

The best solution will be to control phosphorus pollution upstream of Lake Pepin, thus controlling the amount of phosphorus that could be adsorbed by the riverbanks.

“Upgrading of sewage treatment plants should continue, not only near the Twin Cities, but in the rest of the Minnesota and Mississippi river basins upstream,” concludes Gupta.

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Manitoba bee mortality down Bee mortality in Manitoba varied greatly from region to region last winter, but most honey producers saw improvements

By Shannon VanRaes CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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espite the prolonged cold weather Manitoba endured last winter, bee mortality actually declined in the province.

“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.

“Twenty-four per cent is still high, so we’re not calling it a great year, but we’re not calling it a bad year either,” Lafreniere said.

Losses are calculated using a mail-out survey. This year 63 beekeepers responded, representing just over 50 per cent of the province’s colonies.

Apiarists also provide the top three causes they attribute bee mortality to, although Lafreniere notes that responses are anecdotal, adding there may be other causes of mortality not yet considered.

Seventeen per cent of bee deaths were blamed on cold See BEES on page 7 »

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

By Meghan Mast CO-OPERATOR STAFF/ NEAR PIPESTONE

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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.

The Flannery brothers and many other

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.

These days, the tillage equipment is being pulled out of the weeds. Troy Mayes, a grain farmer from Pierson, said his fields are so wet the sandy clay loam swallows his equipment. In the spring he tried to harrow with a small four-wheel-drive tractor with triples.

The next morning he borrowed another neighbour’s tractor and managed to pull everything out.

Later in the season he dug out his dad’s deep-tillage cultivator. “I haven’t used it since I was a kid,” he said.

He added some new shovels, cylinders and hydraulic hoses and cultivated deeper than he ever had. “My dad thought we were going too deep but I thought if I was going to go over it, I’d sink it in good and get it aerated.”

Mayes is reluctant to alter his farming

Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture 2014 winners The topics for the 2015 competition have also been announced Staff

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he 30th annual C a n a d i a n Yo u n g Speakers for Agriculture competition held Nov. 8 at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, has released its 2014 winners.

No a h Bu r n e t t f r o m Cormack, Nfld., took first place in the junior competition with his speech discussing why he will choose a career in agriculture. First runner-up was Maxwell Archer from Mt. Pleasant, Ont. and second runner-up was Jyllian Kaliciak from Bracken, Sask.

Ashley Knapton from Almonte, Ont., placed first in the senior competition with her speech on why social media is an opportunity farmers cannot ignore. First runnerup was Rachel Lee from Langley, B.C., and second runner-up was Andrea Soesbergen from Dundee, Quebec.

CYSA has also released 2015 competition topics: • The biggest challenge facing Canadian agriculture today is...

• What role should government play in assisting young people e n t e r i n g f a r m b u s inesses?

• Here’s how our changing climate is affecting Canadian agriculture.

• This Canadian has significantly influenced agriculture.

• The one thing modern Canadian farmers must have is...

Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture is a national, bilingual competition that gives participants an opportunity to share their opinions, ideas and concerns about the Canadian agri-food industry in a five- to seven-minute prepared speech.

The competition is open to youth ages 11 to 24 with a passion for agriculture whether raised on a farm, in the country or in the city. The competition has attracted more than 900 participants over the past three decades.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 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.

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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 NSG CA Print Ad Mail: 2021 Loudoun Rd. Winnipeg, Man. R3S 1A3

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This 76-year-old 12-sided structure is located three miles east of MacDonald. Reaching 65 feet in height, the original structure was designed with about 20 horse stalls along the perimeter wall and a central feeding and hay lift system. A Mr. Hill moved to the area from Iowa in the early 1900s and in 1905 brought a carpenter from his native state to construct the 12-sided barn with fir framing and cedar siding. He told local people he preferred the design because it withstood Prairie winds better than the conventional English or saltbox designs. He sold the farm a few years later and returned to Iowa. The farm has now been with the Bruce family for almost 40 years and is currently operated by brothers Reg and Russell and sister Melville. They report that regular repairs have kept the structure in good condition although the main plates on the upper level have shifted somewhat. With a diameter of 60 feet, the interior was long ago altered to accommodate a cattle operation and also allows a walkway around the perimeter wall. The central beams are 10 inches square and in sound condition. However, hay is now loaded to the upper areas through several exterior doors located high on the 20-foot-high walls, rather than the central lift that is difficult to reach. The Bruce home is about as old as the village of MacDonald itself. A log structure of more than 100 years, it has been bricked over in recent decades.

2014-10-02 2:51 PM Named in honour of Canada’s first prime minister, the village was originally called Drumconner.

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Loader bucket strikes worker A 36-year-old man from the RM of Oakland died Nov. 11 after being struck by a loader bucket on a tractor, Brandon RCMP report. The victim was working on rural property when the accident occurred. He was transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The RM of Oakland is in the Wawanesa area.

Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health is assisting with the investigation.

New approval for pre-harvest Heat Staff / Maximum residue limits have been approved for the use of Heat and Heat LQ herbicides for pre-harvest on canola, BASF announced Nov. 5.

The products are promoted as a tool to facilitate straight cutting canola.

“BASF is committed to providing canola growers with the tools and solutions that help them produce a better crop,” said Danielle Eastman, brand manager, Western Herbicides, for BASF Canada in a release. “Heat LQ herbicide tank mixed with glyphosate provides fast, complete crop and weed dry-down to help growers to straight cut their canola and helps with field cleanup for next year.”

For other crops registered on the Heat label for pre-harvest use, growers should consult with the processing and exporting companies that they plan to sell their crops to before finalizing harvest aid desiccant decisions to ensure the marketability of the crop.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

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Songbirds thrive thanks to a generous gift Catherine Thexton has developed songbird recordings to help others learn to identify them

By Bill Stilwell Nature Conservancy Canada

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atherine Thexton has a gift. She can identify virtually every bird species from their sound alone, and for many years she has recorded these calls to share with birders, ornithologists and others interested in nature. However, she also shared a different precious gift by donating a tract of wildlife habitat to the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

Her land donation reflects her lifelong appreciation of nature, and for the Interlake where she has lived for almost her entire life. The 40-acre old growth oak forest, known as “Thexton Oaks” is located east of Balmoral, Man. This woodlot is home to a large variety of plants, trees, songbirds, and other wildlife.

“We always thought that it was best to let nature be itself,” Thexton said. “So we just kept it (Thexton Oaks) for nature.”

Catherine and George Thexton purchased the 40-acre woodlot in 1961 while they were farming in the area.

Initially they thought they would use it as a source of fuelwood to heat their home, but they switched to other forms of heat and they decided to keep the woodlot for nature.

“After buying it and walking through it, we realized it was such a beautiful area that we didn’t want to sell it for farmland,” Thexton said.

It was George’s idea to donate the woodlot to a conservation agency, according to Catherine, but he passed away before this was carried out. As a longtime member of the Manitoba Naturalist Society (Nature Manitoba), with a lifelong interest in nature, she knew that the NCC was the right agency to receive her generous gift.

“Catherine and her husband had the foresight to set aside ‘God’s little acre’ for the benefit of nature,” said Gene Fortney, a retired NCC field worker.

Now, as development slowly engulfs the woodlot, its value as habitat for songbirds and other wildlife becomes of even greater importance.

It seemed a logical decision to provide a bit of “payback” to nature in return for the enjoyment she has gained during her long lifetime living close to nature on a farm in Manitoba’s Interlake region.

One of Catherine’s many talents is her knowledge of birds, according to Fortney. “A big part of her life is native birds,” he said. “In fact, she is an expert Manitoba-wide and on a bigger scale as well. It is a part of her.”

Thexton has a rare gift for being able to identify songbirds from their calls.

Over time she refined this skill and spent countless hours recording bird calls that have been developed into a series of recordings that are used by people wanting to learn how to identify songbirds.

Thexton Oaks is situated on a Glacial Lake Agassiz beach ridge. Much of the forest on this ridge has been removed by agricultural expansion, gravel/limestone extraction or housing developments.

The Interlake Natural Area is nestled between Manitoba’s “Great Lakes,” and is a mosaic of woodlands, wetlands, unique karst features and native prairie that supports a wide variety of wildlife,

photos: Bill Stilwell

according to NCC. This area contains the most northerly occurrence of tall grass prairie in North America, as well as globally uncommon alvar habitat.

It provides habitat for many species at risk including small white lady’s slipper, short-eared owl, loggerhead shrike, piping plover, peregrine falcon, yellow rail, red-headed woodpecker, Dakota skipper, and snapping turtle.

This natural area’s beauty and abundance is under threat from recreation and other development, according to NCC, and its shorelines are influenced by the ecology and health of lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba.

For more information, contact: Nature Conservancy of Canada www.natureconservancy.ca manitoba@natureconservancy.ca.

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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

A smart carbohydrate Lorraine Stevenson CROSSROADS RECIPE SWAP

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ith winter well on its way early November is when we look for those filling, satisfying foods that give us energy and comfort for coping with cold weather.

Barley recipes are especially popular during the month of November for many reasons. They’re the perfect ingredient for making the soups and stews we like to make as the weather turns chilly.

November is Diabetes Awareness Month in Canada, when registered dietitians remind us about the importance of eating smart carbohydrates — and barley is one of them. That’s because barley’s beta-glucan soluble fibre, which can help lower cholesterol, is also helpful for maintaining healthy blood sugar.

Barley is a whole grain high in fibre, and with a low glycemic index rating, explains registered dietitian Jane Dummer in an article found on this month’s Go Barley online newsletter (www.gobarley.com/2014/).

“Research shows that barley’s beta-glucan soluble fibre promotes healthy blood sugar by slowing glucose absorption and maintaining glycemic control,” says Dummer. “Choosing lower-glycemicindex foods as part of a balanced diet, increasing physical activity and decreasing stress can improve blood sugar control and will assist in the prevention of the “lifestyle disease” known as Type 2 diabetes.”

You’ll get the benefits of barley no matter how you eat it too, she notes. Both whole barley grain, or barley flour provide you with lots of beta-glucan soluble fibre.

I’ve posted a few recipes from Go Barley: Modern Recipes for an Ancient Grain, with 100-plus recipes, after it was released this past June. This is a cookbook written by two home economists Pat Inglis and Linda Whitworth, who is also the market development manager with the Alberta Barley Commission. Here’s a few more from a cookbook that offers plenty of ideas for eating barley, and not just in soups and stews either.

Curried Chicken and Barley The mouth-watering aroma of a mild curry greets you when you lift the lid of the slow cooker containing this combination of chicken and barley.

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Savory Butternut Squash Barley Pilaf 1 tbsp. olive oil 1 small butternut squash, peeled, cut into 1-1/2-inch (4-cm) pieces 1 small yellow onion, chopped 1 small sweet red pepper, chopped 1 c. pot or pearl barley 1 (284-ml) can low-salt chicken broth 1/2 c. water 1/2 tsp. dried summer savory 1/2 tsp. dried thyme 1/4 tsp. salt Freshly ground black pepper 1 tsp. grated lemon rind

In a large pot or Dutch oven, heat oil. Sauté squash, onion and red pepper for three minutes. Add barley and sauté for three minutes. Add broth, water, savory and thyme; salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until barley is tender, stirring once halfway through. Stir in lemon rind.

Makes 8 servings.

Quick Breakfast Bread This simple-to-make quick bread is packed with the whole grain goodness of barley and wheat flours and cornmeal.

Cut into squares and serve warm with eggs, bacon, sausages or grilled tomatoes.

I’ve made this recipe several times and it’s a winner. — Lorraine 3/4 c. whole barley flour 3/4 c. whole wheat flour 1/2 c. cornmeal 2 tbsp. packed brown sugar 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. ground cinnamon 1 tsp. ground ginger 1 egg, beaten 1 c. sweetened applesauce 1 c. buttermilk

Preheat oven to 400 F. Grease a nine-inch square pan. In a large bowl, mix barley flour, wheat flour, cornmeal, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and ginger. In another bowl, combine egg, applesauce, and buttermilk. Stir mixture into dry ingredients, mixing well. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in the oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until cake tester or toothpick inserted in the centre of the bread comes out clean.

Makes 8 servings.

2 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken thighs (about 12) 3 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 tbsp. canola oil 4 celery stalks, coarsely diced 1 medium onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 tbsp. minced fresh ginger 2 tbsp. curry powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 c. pot or pearl barley 1 c. less-sodium chicken broth 1 can (28 oz./796 ml) diced tomatoes 1 c. full-fat plain yogurt Parsley for garnish (optional)

Sprinkle chicken with lemon juice; arrange at bottom of slow cooker. In a large skillet over medium, heat oil; add celery and onions. Cook, stirring for five minutes until celery is softened.

Add garlic and ginger; stir and cook for one minute. Add curry powder and salt; stir and cook for one minute more. Stir in barley and then chicken broth and tomatoes, bring to a boil and pour over chicken. Cover slow cooker and cook on low for five to six hours or on high for 2-1/2 to three hours, until a food thermometer inserted into the chicken registers (165 F). Stir yogurt into chicken mixture. Cover and cook on high for 10 minutes. Garnish with parsley, if desired and serve.

Makes 6 servings.

Recipe Swap If you have a recipe or a column suggestion please write to: Manitoba Co-operator Recipe Swap, Box 1794 Carman, Manitoba R0G 0J0 or email Lorraine Stevenson at: lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 20, 2014

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Roosting boxes to shelter backyard birds These will help our feathered friends survive the harsh winter weather

By Donna Gamache Freelance contributor

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ith the arrival of colder weather, it’s time to start thinking of how to help those birds which overwinter here. Many of us put out food for them (sunflower seeds for chickadees and nuthatches, peanuts for blue jays, and niger seed for various finches), but shelter is another consideration. Freezing rain or deep snow, bitter temperatures and biting winds can all prove fatal to even the hardiest of birds. Fortunately, there are some ways in which we can help our feathered friends to survive.

Deciduous trees provide shelter in summer, but once their leaves are gone, so is most of their benefit. Growing evergreens in your yard is one natural way to provide shelter for birds. Lacking these, some people opt to build brush pile shelters, including evergreen boughs. These should include small branches and air spaces for roosting and insulation, and are best in a fence corner, sheltered from winds.

Another natural way we can help is to leave any pruning until spring, thus leaving more cover for birds.

This winter my husband and I are using a new type of bird shelter (an action prompted because of the recent removal of some of our trees). We are trying out some roosting boxes. These can be bought at wild bird supply stores, but can also be made more cheaply from scratch, which my husband has done. A dozen birds could use a single box, thus

sharing body heat on cold winter nights. Chickadees, nuthatches and downy woodpeckers might use these boxes (and, of course, house sparrows).

At first glance, you might think a roost box looks like a birdhouse, but there are several differences.

Most noticeable is that the hole is near the bottom, which will prevent rising heat loss. A metal or hardwood guard around the hole will help to deter predators. The hole can vary in size, depending on bird species, about 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) for most small birds.

We are using a couple of sizes, including one with a larger hole.

(For the last several winters we have had a mourning dove stay all winter, so this is intended for it, if it stays again.)

The boxes are also larger than birdhouses, with no ventilation holes, so as to help keep body heat inside. The walls are usually thicker, three-quarters to one inch (2.0 to 2.5 cm), to provide better insulation, and there are interior perches so more birds can use it. The inside walls without perches are scored, or have an interior mesh, to help the birds cling to it. Tape or caulk added to the seams will help prevent drafts. A roof or wall with hinges or screws will make it easy to clean out the box a couple of times a year.

Roosting boxes should be mounted much higher than a birdhouse, between six and 15 feet (approximately two to five metres) from the ground, on a pole or tree trunk. If using a pole, you could add baffles against predators.

The inside should have several perches so more birds can use at once and the wall that has no perches should be scored to help the birds cling to it. PHOTOS: GAMACHE

Bird shelters should be painted dark colours on the outside to absorb the most heat, and should be positioned to face towards the sun. If possible, they should be in a sheltered area and should not have outside perches. Insulating material such as wood chips or dried grass should be added on the floor.

Another type of shelter you could purchase is a roost pocket.

This is a basket-style shelter made from woven thatch material, which provides good insulation for birds.

Backyard birders should also leave up birdhouses over winter. These won’t be as effective

Roosting boxes should be mounted higher than a birdhouse.

Roost boxes will be most popular with birds in winter but can be left up all year for shelter during any inclement weather.

as specialized boxes, but will at least provide some shelter from winds, snow or rain. These would be most useful if you plug the air vents and flip the birdhouse over so the hole is at the bottom. Or make a separate front for winter and just switch that wall. Put in some insulating material in a birdhouse, too.

Roost boxes will be most popular with birds in winter but can be left up all year for shelter during any inclement weather. For

further information on how to construct a roosting box, check out the following websites: http://www.birdfeedersdirect.com/bird-houses/roostingboxes.aspx, http://www.ehow.com/how _7477278_build-roosting-boxes. html, https://suite.io/rosemarydrisdelle/3et27t.

Donna Gamache writes from MacGregor, Manitoba

Philodendron — dependable and easy care These plants are a mainstay for many indoor landscapes

By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

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or good reason the philodendron plant family has always been one of my favourite groups of houseplants because they are dependable and easy care. These wonderful plants are a mainstay of many indoor landscapes, both in private residences and in commercial spaces. Plants native to the tropical regions of the Americas, philodendrons are grown mainly for their foliage. Although many of them do produce flowers in the form of spathes, their foliage is their main attraction, and in fact some gardeners remove developing spathes because they believe the rather insignificant flower-like structures detract from the beauty of the plants’ foliage.

Most philodendrons are climbing plants that will cling to stakes and trellises. These tender tropical plants are normally grown in pots indoors and grown either with a bark stake or a wooden stake covered with some sphagnum moss, or a trellis of some kind.

PHOTOS: ALBERT PARSONS

The heart-leafed philodendron is a smaller specimen, grown here on a trellis in a pot.

Most leaves are dark green, although some varieties have coppery-red undersides or red veining in their otherwise green leaves. New leaves are often coppery red and gradually turn green as they mature.

Leaf size varies greatly depending on the variety; a philodendron might have six-cm-long leaves or giant leaves three metres in length. Leaf shape also varies greatly; they might be heart shaped, arrow shaped

or be oblong or deeply lobed.

Plant size also varies greatly from variety to variety, from giant cultivars to small plants no more than 30 cm in height.

Philodendrons are happy with ordinary household temperatures and humidity. They require relatively lower light levels, and although most do best in bright light, they can be grown successfully in quite dark corners — a useful characteristic for an indoor foliage

The lacy leaf philodendron is a large plant suitable for floor use.

plant as there is always a dark corner just crying out to be given life with the addition of a live plant. A philodendron will not be happy in direct sun and the leaves will burn or yellow if they are exposed to high light intensity.

To grow a philodendron successfully, use a loose, welldrained soil in a pot that has excellent drainage. They prefer to be slightly root bound so this is one plant that should not be overpotted in too large a container. Allow the soil to dry out substantially before watering.

Feed a philodendron a weak solution of soluble fertilizer once during the summer; these plants are not heavy feeders and are relatively slow growing, so too much fertilizer should not be used.

Since philodendrons are grown for the beauty of their foliage, the leaves should be kept clean to make them as attractive as possible. The best way to clean the leaves is to wipe them with a clean damp cloth. This will also help to deter insects, although insect pests do not usually bother

philodendrons. Removing dust from the leaves also allows the plants to absorb as much light as possible in dimly lit locations.

One of my favourite philodendrons is the heart-leafed one. They come in a variety of leaf sizes and can be trained onto a trellis or stake to create a nice specimen plant for display on a table. The undersides of their leaves are often coppery red in colour. Splitleaf philodendrons are larger plants; one has crinkled leaves and is called lacy leaf philodendron, while other varieties have large smooth, oval leaves These plants are perfect for a large office or big house.

Smaller philodendrons are useful in dish gardens where they like the increased humidity and because they don’t mind a small root space.

If you are looking for a dependable foliage plant to add beauty to your interior landscape this winter, try a philodendron.

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

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COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Reena answers questions Reduce, reuse, recycle info in this ‘green’ column Reena Nerbas Household Solutions

Dear Reena, Being a bachelorette, I have several pizza restaurants on speed dial and when the pizza arrives, it often has a little plastic white table-looking item in the centre of the pizza. Do you have any ideas as to how I can reuse these little pieces of plastic instead of throwing them out?

Candace

Dear Trevor, Dehumidifier water should not be used as drinking water because it is classified as grey water that may contain traces of lead and other dangerous elements. However, there are some uses for dehumidifier water. Yes, you can use it to water the plants in your home and garden. Do not use this water on plants grown for consumption because of the risk of harmful contaminants. You can also use dehumidifier water to save on your water bill by pouring the water into your toilet tank until it is full after each flush.

Dear Candace, I know exactly what you are talking about. Reuse them to keep plastic wrap off a frosted cake or similar food item if you’re bringing it somewhere for a party and don’t want to transport a reusable food storage tub. Or use them for flower arranging, when using florist’s oasis (the green foamy stuff they use). Stick it to the bottom of your container and it will stop the oasis from slipping. Florists often sell these items for this use.

Additional Comment: Many people assume that pizza boxes are recyclable because they are made from corrugated cardboard. However, what makes parts of them non-recyclable is what comes inside them, specifically, the grease and cheese from pizza. Food is one of the worst contaminants in the paper recycling process. Grease from pizza boxes causes oil to form at the top of the slurry, and paper fibres cannot separate from oils during the pulping process. Essentially, this contaminant causes the entire batch to be ruined. The easiest remedy for this problem is to cut or tear out the soiled portions of your pizza boxes and garbage them.

Dear Reena, I have a dehumidifier in my basement that needs emptying every day during summer months. I’m wondering if this water is good for anything such as watering plants.

Thank you, Trevor

of what can be recycled: Newspapers, aluminum food and drink containers, glass food and beverage containers, steel food and beverage containers, PET (No. 1 plastic) bottles, telephone books, magazines and catalogues, boxboard, juice boxes, gable-top beverage containers, HDPE (No. 2 plastic) containers, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 7 plastics. (Gee, can they make the number system more complicated please?) For more information about recycling contact your local government.

Dear Reena,, Please tell me whether or not I can recycle food containers such as Kraft Dinner boxes and empty waffle boxes.

They do have a recycling symbol on them which says, “Made from 100% recyclable material.” Does that mean they were recycled previously or does that mean they can be recycled?

Thomas Dear Thomas, If cardboard has a recycling symbol on it; add it to your blue box. Most cardboard can be recycled several times before the fibres become too weak to manufacture into a new product. Therefore, it is a good idea to recycle all of the cardboard items in your home that carry a recycling logo.

Find out what can be recycled in your area and do your part. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

Dear Reena, Love your column and your book series. I was recently married and now live in a small home. It is my goal to recycle but I am not clear on what is considered recyclable. Can you provide me with a list of items that may be recycled?

Signed, Newly wed and clueless Dear Newlywed!

Congratulations and good for you that you are taking steps to reduce your ecological footprint. The following is a list

Additional Note: A good rule of thumb is to recycle according to the list above.

Plastic grocery bags cannot be recycled but they can be reused over and over again. If you have an abundance of plastic bags in your home, donate them to a second-hand store instead of throwing them into the garbage.

Dear Reena, On e o f y o u r p rev i o u s c o l u m n s suggests switching to white vinegar to reduce static cling. I am not having much luck with dryer balls.

I have two very hairy dogs; try as I might to clean off the hair before the washing machine, some ends up in the dryer. Fabric softener sheets still seem to work the best to get

hair off the items, and onto the filter, but I would like to try an alternative. So, my question is, how do you put the vinegar in the dryer, or is it added to the wash rinse? I look forward to hearing from you. I enjoy your column very much and have received many useful tips.

Kind regards, Candice Dear Candice, Add half-cup white vinegar to your wash load (not the dryer). Your clothes will not smell of vinegar and you will save yourself a pile of money as vinegar is cheap. Fabric softener sheets and liquid fabric softener do a wonderful job in clogging up the hoses in your washing machine. Vinegar on the other hand works to clean out your washing machine hoses and leaves everything fresh and static free. But don’t get your hopes too high, let’s face it, as long as you have pets you will be in a constant fur battle. Another great tip is to lightly sponge your clothes with water before putting them into the washing machine. This helps to remove some of the fur. If you are desperate, purchase clothes that match the colour of your dog. This will make pet hair much less obvious. Lastly, be sure to empty your lint trap after each use.

Tips of the week: • If you want to reuse a Styrofoam egg carton here’s a neat little trick. For young children who have class parties, fill each cup with Jell-O and refrigerate them until they are set.

Kids can pop the Jell-O out and enjoy a yummy treat.

• Gently exfoliate your skin by rubbing it with brown sugar. Keep a container near your shower. Brown sugar is the product that many spas use; it flows easily down the drain and leaves skin feeling soft.

I enjoy your questions and tips, keep them coming.

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Animal health technologist plays important role Trained to work under veterinarian supervision they provide a variety of services

By Darrell Nesbitt Freelance contributor

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rowing up with animals and volunteering at the Shoal Lake Veterinary Clinic while in high school, and prior to attending college for the profession she serves in the same clinic today, prompted a 2009 Hamiota graduate to become an animal health technologist (AHT).

Officially starting her full-time AHT position last month, Kelsey Michaudville of Hamiota was eager to assist where needed in the small- and large-animal clinic under the direction of Drs. Bruce and Janice Waddell and additional veterinarians on staff.

“I enjoy working with all types and sizes of animals, and situations challenge me all the time,” said Michaudville, who graduated from Grand Prairie Regional College in the spring of 2013. “It’s nice to be able to work in a mixed clinic, as is found in Shoal Lake.”

Animal health technologists are trained to work under the supervision of a veterinarian and offer the same services to a veterinary clinic that a registered nurse does for a hospital or doctor’s office.

Duties include general patient care, administering medications, collecting samples, preparing animals for tests and surgical procedures, patient recovery, nutritional management, as well as instrument sterilization and office management.

By assuming many of the technical duties and care of the patients, AHTs enable veterinarians to concentrate on their patient caseloads and expand the range and quality of services provided.

“The dedication and training of AHTs is very valuable to veterinarians,” said Dr. Janice Waddell. “Clinics would not function without these specialized professionals.”

Technologists are trained to work in numerous animal-related settings other than veterinary clinics, including private practice, livestock health m a n a g e m e n t , z o o s, a n d h u m a n e shelters.

Should a high school graduate be looking for a rewarding and challenging career, animal health technology might be an option. Manitoba has a program at Red River College, accredited by the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association. The two years spent at the Notre Dame Campus in Winnipeg involves classroom lectures, scientific labs, and participation in an on-the-job training program.

Satisfied with her career choice, Michaudville says being able to help people, who have an animal or animals as part of their family, is a reward she gets to share day in and day out.

Darrell Nesbitt writes from Shoal Lake, Manitoba

Kelsey Michaudville, working in the clinic.

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Dow limits sales of new GMO soy, corn on China worries New Enlist glyphosate/2,4-D combo can only be kept for feed and not sold

By Carey Gillam Reuters

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Dow’s Enlist system is designed to control glyphosate-resistant weeds such as Palmer amaranth, which now infests millions of acres in the Corn, Cotton and Soybean belts. Photo: Laura Rance

ow AgroSciences said on Nov. 12 it will restrict sales of its new genetically modified corn and soybeans to prevent them from entering U.S. domestic or international grainmarketing channels as it awaits import approval from China.

Dow’s ‘Enlist’ system combines tolerance to glyphosate and 2,4-D in order to overcome the growing resistance of weeds to glyphosate alone.

The move is aimed at avoiding the type of market turmoil that hit Syngenta and the U.S. grain industry when Syngenta commercialized its own GMO corn without waiting for import approval from China.

Paul Bertels, vice-president of production and utilization at the National Corn Growers Association, applauded the move.

“It keeps American farmers competitive and provides access to new technology while respecting global grain markets,” he said in a statement.

China has rejected more than one million tonnes of U.S. corn over the last year that contained traces of the Syngenta corn called Agrisure Viptera, and several U.S. grain industry players have sued Sygnenta over losses from the lost sales.

Earlier this year, the National Grain & Feed Association estimated that U.S. farmers had lost more than $1 billion because of trade disruptions linked to the rejections.

Dow officials have been eager to get their new corn and soybean seed, dubbed Enlist, into the marketplace. The crops are genetically altered to withstand a new herbicide developed by Dow called Enlist Duo.

But the company said it has decided to sell the new corn only under strict conditions that include requirements that the harvested corn be fed to livestock on the farm and not sold.

Dow said farmers who grow Enlist corn must maintain isolation areas around their fields to avoid contaminating other crops, and third-party audits will be conducted to make sure the restrictions are enforced.

The company’s new Enlist soybeans will only be offered to farmers as part of a noncommercial program that lets a small number of farmers try out the new seeds. Dow will manage the seed production, including storage and handling after harvest.

The company has been awaiting Chinese import approval for roughly two years, and has no certainty when approval might be granted.

GMOs — debate rages over ‘settled science’ Study on 6,000 rats fed GMO corn intended to settle the question once and for all

By Carey Gillam Reuters

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o n s a n t o C o. , t h e world’s largest seed c o m p any, and its brethren of global biotech crop developers are spreading the word that as far as the safety of their genetically modified grain goes, the science is solidly on their side.

The message of “settled” science has become the rallying cry for defenders of the crops and food commonly referred to as GMOs as they push back against consumers, environmentalists, lawmakers and others who want the crops labelled, restricted or banned.

“We believe the science is settled,” Andrew LaVigne, CEO of the American Seed Trade Association, said in an interview.

But critics of the products say that is not the last word on the issue.

Some international scientists are challenging the assertion and say many scientific studies show concerns with crops whose DNA has been spliced in ways not seen in nature.

On Nov. 11, a group with backing from institutions in Russia, the United States

“Studies that were done by the manufacturers are the main ones showing safety, and those have an inherent conflict of interest.”

Bruce Blumberg

University of California

and Europe said it would undertake the longest, largest and most definitive study of GMOs to date to try to settle the debate once and for all.

The $25-million study of 6,000 rats to be fed a GMO corn diet is designed as an independent examination of the health impacts of GMO corn and the herbicide used on it. The research is to be done in Russia and western Europe over two to three y e a r s ( h t t p : / / f a c t o r g m o. com/en/).

“The science on these GMOs is not settled by a long shot,” said Bruce Blumberg, an endocrinology expert at the University of California, Irvine, who sits on the study review board.

“Studies that were done by the manufacturers are the main ones showing safety, and those have an inherent conflict of interest.”

Mo n s a n t o, t h e l e a d i n g

developer of GMO crops, has stacks of research underscor ing the safety of its products. Many U.S. university scientists also back the safety of GMOs, as does the U.S. government.

Karen Batra, a spokeswoman for the Biotechnology Industry Organization, says “merely a handful of studies” point to health or safety issues, and all have been debunked.

Still, the debate rages on.

Some biotech crop critics worry about pesticide residues in GMO foods, while others worr y about what impact the crops have on the environment. “ T h e c l a i m t h a t t h e re is a consensus among scientists that GM food products are safe... is simply a P R c a m p a i g n s p o n s o re d by the industry,” said Dave Schubert, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California.

The Innate potato is engineered to have less carcinogen and be less prone to bruising. Photo: supplied

U.S. approves GM potato with lower cancer risk First GM potato approved by APHIS that was not developed by Monsanto

By Ros Krasny Reuters

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he U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved the first genetically modified potato for commercial planting in the United States in more than a decade, a move likely to draw the ire of groups opposed to artificial manipulation of foods.

The so-called Innate potato, developed by the J.R. Simplot Company, is engineered to contain less of a suspected human carcinogen that occurs when a conventional potato is fried, and is also less prone to bruising during transport.

Idaho-based Simplot is a major supplier of frozen french fries to fast-food giant McDonald’s Corp.

The Nov. 7 announcement came from the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). Simplot applied to APHIS for approval of the Innate

potato in 2013. The submission was also reviewed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration.

It was the first GM potato approved by APHIS that was not developed by Monsanto Co., which had a number of potatoes approved in 1995 through 1999 engineered to resist pests and disease.

APHIS said it received hundreds of submissions from individuals or groups about Simplot’s potato during a public comment period.

Among those opposing the potato were individuals and groups broadly opposed to the development of GM crops in general, as well as to the regulatory framework surrounding genetic modification, APHIS said.

The potential for human benefits — a lower cancer risk for consumers — was among the positives cited in public comments.

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Monsanto settles farmer lawsuits over experimental GM wheat Experimental wheat discovered 10 years after testing discontinued

By Carey Gillam REUTERS

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onsanto said Nov. 12 it reached a settlement with U.S. wheat farmers who sued the seed company over market disruption after unapproved genetically engineered wheat w a s d i s c ov e re d g r ow i n g without oversight in Oregon.

Monsanto’s Roundup Ready wheat, which was never approved by U.S. regulators and which the company said

it stopped testing a decade ago, was found growing in an Oregon farmer’s field in 2013. The company had said all the experimental grain w a s d e s t roye d o r s t o re d away.

South Korea and Japan t e m p o r a r i l y h a l t e d p u rchases of U.S. wheat after the announcement on fears t h e u n a p p r ov e d w h e a t , e n g i n e e re d t o w i t h s t a n d Roundup herbicide, might have contaminated U.S. wheat supplies.

Monsanto did not admit liability, but agreed to pay $250,000 to wheat growers’ associations, including $100,000 to the National W h e a t Fo u n d a t i o n , a n d $50,000 each to the Washington Association of Wheat Growers, the Oregon Wheat Growers’ League and the Id a h o G r a i n P r o d u c e r s’ Association.

It will also pay $2.125 million into a settlement fund for farmers in Washington, Oregon and Idaho who sold

soft white wheat between May 30, 2013, and Nov. 30, 2013.

Monsanto will reimburse plaintiffs’ counsel for a portion of their out-of-pocket costs and fees associated with the litigation.

At least three class-action lawsuits will be dismissed as part of the settlement, but the company said it does not resolve pending claims by growers of wheat other than the soft white variety.

Your KAP district meeting: it All stArts here KAP action starts at the district level – so come out to your district meeting and talk about the issues that concern you.

District 1 – Pierson – Thursday, November 20, 7:00 p.m. (Pierson Hall) District 2 – Holland – Monday, December 8, 7:30 p.m. (Friendship Centre) District 3 – Lowe Farm – Thursday, December 4, 7:30 p.m. (Community Hall) District 4 – Steinbach – Monday, November 24, 1:30 p.m. (Superstore) District 5 – Garson – Monday, November 24, 7:30 p.m. (Garson Hall) District 6 – Portage – Thursday, December 4, 1:30 p.m. (Fair Board Office) District 7 – Pipestone – Thursday, November 20, 1:30 p.m. (Pipestone Hall) District 8 – Birtle – Tuesday, December 9, 1:30 p.m. (Community Hall) District 9 – Neepawa – Tuesday, December 9, 7:30 p.m. (Vivian Motor Hotel)

National ban gives GMOs another setback in Europe They can be approved for cultivation in the EU, but individual countries can ban them BRUSSELS / REUTERS

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U politicians on Nov. 11 backed a plan to allow nations to ban genetically modified crops on their soil even if they are given approval to be grown in the European Union, raising the chance their use will remain limited on the continent.

GM crops in Europe have divided opinion, with opposition in many countries including France and Germany, while Britain favours them.

A p re v i o u s c o m p ro m i s e endorsed this year by EU ministers would have required negotiation with the relevant companies if a nation wanted to ban a GM crop in the event it had been approved for EU-wide use.

The plan voted through parliament on Nov. 11 would leave out that stage and allows member states to ban GM crops on environmental grounds. It drew praise from GM opponents.

“Today’s vote would give European countries a legally solid right to ban GM cultivation in their territory, making it difficult for the biotech industry to challenge such bans in court,” Marco Contiero, Greenpeace EU agriculture policy director, said.

Left-leaning politicians also welcomed the vote, which kicks off formal negotiations on a legal text, saying it strengthened the grounds for opting out of any GM cultivation.

Conservatives were opposed.

So far, EU authorities have approved only two GM crops for commercial cultivation, and one was later blocked by a court.

That leaves Monsanto’s GM maize MON810 as the only GM crop grown in Europe, where it has been cultivated in Spain and Portugal for a decade.

District 10 – Arborg – Monday, November 17, 7:00 p.m. (Curling Club) Door to Door Campaign - Volunteers Needed District 11 – Dauphin – Monday, December 1, 7:30 p.m. (St. Viator’s Church) The Alzheimer Society needs volunteer canvassers to knock on doors this January.

Please spare an hour or two canvassing your street or neighbourhood to request donations to support

affected by Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia.

Register online at alzheimer.mb.ca.

District 12 – Swan River people – Monday, December 1, 1:00 p.m.

(Westwood Inn) One person in every three is personally affected by Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia.

Visit alzheimer.mb.ca or call 204-943-6622 or 1-800-378-6699 for more information

Your district meeting is also an opportunity to meet with the KAP management team, as well as with others in your district.

Door to Door Campaign Volunteers Needed

For more information, call the KAP office at 204-697-1140. Canvassers are needed. Register online today.

The Society needs volunteer canvassers to knock on doors and request donations this January.

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Canvassers are needed.

Register online today.

Visit alzheimer.mb.ca or call 204-943-6622 or 1-800-378-6699 for more information.

Door to Door Campaign Volunteers Needed One person in every three is personally affected by Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia.

The Alzheimer Society needs volunteer canvassers to knock on doors and request donations this January.

Canvassers are needed.

Register online today.

Visit alzheimer.mb.ca or call 204-943-6622 or 1-800-378-6699 for more information.

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NEWS

Port of Churchill caps off challenging year

WILL IT BE MISSED?

By Dave Sims COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA

The harsh winter of 201314 appears to have taken its toll on the amount of grain and oilseeds shipped through Canada’s Hudson Bay, during the recently concluded shipping season.

Just 540,000 tonnes of wheat and other products including durum and canola were shipped through the Port of Churchill in 2014. Last year, that number stood at 636,000 tonnes, according to Merv Tweed, president of OmniTrax Canada.

The Port of Churchill, located on the shores of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba, is Canada’s only deepwater Arctic port and a typical season runs from late July through October.

A quick freeze at the beginning of winter and slow thaw in the end made the ground hard to deal with, according to Tweed.

“The permafrost coming through the ground just created a challenge every day for us to move grain cars,” he said.

Normally, OmniTrax spends $2.5 million to $3 million maintaining the railroad for shipments up to the port on an annual basis. But with all the challenges thrown at it last winter, Tweed says that number was close to $10 million.

“Our last ship also left the port of Churchill on the 6th (November). That’s a week earlier than last year,” said Tweed, adding they also were forced to shut down for two weeks due to maintenance challenges.

While 75 per cent of the product moved was wheat, Tweed noted an increasing amount of canola was also sent out.

“We (usually) do one or two boats a year, this year I think we did four and interest was growing,“ he said.

Looking ahead to next year, Tweed is optimistic this winter won’t be as challenging as last year and they’ll be able to ship more product.

He noted they have recently completed some measures aimed at streamlining operations at the port.

For one, they now have a facility at The Pas which allows local harvesters to load up rail cars on the spot.

They also have shortened the turnaround time for those cars to reach their destination and return.

“In the past, train cycles from The Pas to Churchill could take 14 to 16 days; we’ve reduced that to 6.2 days,” he said.

This was Tweed’s first full year of witnessing operations at the port from start to finish and he’s optimistic next year will see bigger gains.

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Kenyan farmers profit from the sun to water crops

Drip irrigation requires a costly upfront investment, but it pays for itself in a relatively short time

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“Kenya is also rethinking its food security strategy, and promoting more agribusiness and value addition.”

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or subsistence farmers i n ra i n - s c a rc e Ke n y a , drip irrigation can mean the difference between handto-mouth survival and being able to grow an agricultural business like Alice Migwi’s.

She now has three full-time employees, an expanding plot of land, and enough surplus produce to sell to restaurants and hotels after harvest.

“A drip system is perhaps the best way to manage your watering,” said Migwi, a 38-year-old farmer turned entrepreneur. “And when it’s solar powered, it’s even better.”

That’s why she invested her savings in an irrigation kit from SunCulture, a Kenyabased startup, to help convert her quarter-acre kitchen garden in Gitaru, northwest of Nairobi, into a four-acre (1.6-hectare) farm.

The highly efficient drip irrigation system saves on water and has allowed Migwi to diversify her crops from tomatoes to thyme and coriander to cabbage, right down to the passion fruit vines that climb her farm fence.

“We want to make sure that farmers have an affordable way to irrigate that removes most recurring costs for them,” said SunCulture’s CEO and co-founder, Samir Ibra-

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him. “We want to help them grow more while spending less.”

He and co-founder Charles Nichols, both American, developed the system to address Kenya’s irrigation shortage. Of the country’s 5.5 million hectares (13.6 million acres) of arable land, 83 per cent needs irrigation to be used for agriculture, but only about four per cent is irrigated, Ibrahim said.

Most farmers irrigate their land by flooding it from a nearby river or lake, which can erode the soil and deplete its nutrients, or use dieselfuelled drip irrigation, which incurs high fuel and maintenance costs.

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diesel and powering drip systems with solar energy.

Solar power has been available on the market for a long time, but deploying it for agriculture is new, Ibrahim said.

The irrigation kit harvests the sun’s energy to pump water from a well into an elevated tank. It then uses gravity to release controlled volumes of water through plastic piping lined with small emitters that regulate the flow to targeted areas.

N i c h o l s , a n e n g i n e e r, designed the system for a New York University business competition. Now the company imports materials from Europe and Asia, and assembles the kits for farmers on site.

Qureish Noordin, a program officer with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, an international partnership that supports African farmers, said the technology could prove a “win-win” strategy in Kenya’s battle against food insecurity, which is being made tougher by changing climate patterns.

“This is a big opportunity because many areas do not have easy access to dieselrun engines, and the Kenyan government is putting a lot of emphasis on solar power now,” he said.

Noordin said drip irrigation, presently an undervalued technology, is essential in a country plagued in recent years by poor rainy seasons, prolonged droughts and shrinking rivers.

This year’s rainy season was about 60 per cent below normal, Noordin said.

“Kenya is also rethinking its food security strategy, and p ro m o t i n g m o re agr ibusiness and value addition,” he added.

Farmers who move from subsistence agriculture into growing higher-value crops with advanced irrigation are more likely to remain food secure, he noted.

Asian feed millers caught short by surprise grain rally Importers are now paying a premium for cargoes they booked but didn’t price

By Naveen Thukral singapore / reuters

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sian feed millers have missed the boat on multi-year-low corn and soymeal prices after a surprise rally in the futures market over the past few weeks, leaving them with hefty costs even as global supplies hit record highs.

Several millers in Asia’s top importers, including Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, have been ordering cargoes over the last few months by locking in premiums they must pay over futures, but leaving that futures level to be fixed later.

U.S. soymeal futures jumped more than 30 per

cent in October, while corn gained almost 18 per cent, with markets ignited by fund buying, logistical bottlenecks and harvest delays due to wet weather in the United States.

“A lot of buyers in Asia have bought premium so they have the physical goods, but of course they haven’t priced their futures,” said a Singapore-based trader who sells feed grain cargoes in Asia.

“They will have to pay a much higher price now.”

When the outlook for grains markets was bearish, most importers fixed only one of the two components of prices. The premium on the commodity,

which includes shipping and other costs, was being fixed, while the price traded on the futures market was to be set subsequently.

In a bullish market, importers typically fix the futures price at the time of signing the deal.

Asian demand for soymeal and corn, which are used to fatten animals, is rapidly increasing as a growing middle class consumes more high-protein meat.

I n d o n e s i a ’s s o y m e a l imports are forecast to rise by nearly a fifth in two years to 3.9 million tonnes in the yea r t o Se p t e m b e r 2 0 1 5 , while Thailand is likely to see shipments climb around 10 per cent to 3.1 million

tonnes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Vietnam has seen corn imports double in five years to 2.2 million tonnes in 2013-14.

“A lot of buyers in Asia have bought premium so they have the physical goods, but of course they haven’t priced their futures.” a Singapore-based trader

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But SunCulture’s kits are not cheap. To cover a single acre of land costs about 250,000 shillings ($2,795), Ibrahim said.

The company has partnered with Equity Bank to provide loans to lower-income farmers wanting to buy kits. But Gitaru farmer Migwi said the loans can have prohibitively high interest rates.

She chose to dip into her savings to buy her kit, and has managed to earn back her money in the year since she bought it. Had she paid interest on a loan, it would have taken closer to five years to break even, she said.

I b ra h i m s a i d t h e i n i t i a l investment for a SunCulture kit is steep, but it saves farmers money down the road in labour, maintenance and fuel costs, and earns them additional revenue from better crop yields.

SunCulture’s kits rely on g ro u n d we l l w a t e r, w h i c h can be scarce in dry spells.

But Migwi, who lost some crops earlier this year due to groundwater shortages, now plans to collect rainwater to replenish her well in dry periods.

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Wind turbines can be annoying — but not a health risk A federal study found no evidence to support claims they are a hazard

By Alex Binkley Co-operator contributor

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two-year study by the federal government has found no detrimental impact on human health from wind turbines, although the giant towers and their rotating arms can be annoying to nearby residents.

“No evidence was found to support a link between exposure to wind turbine noise and any of the self-reported or measured health end points examined,” says Health Canada.

However, there is “a relationship between increasing levels of wind turbine noise and annoyance towards several features such as noise, vibration, shadow flicker, and the aircraft warning lights on top of the turbines,” the department said.

The study was conducted in southwestern Ontario and Prince Edward Island, where local opposition to the turbines has been the loudest, and included 1,238 households living near 399 wind turbines, either as stand-alone installations or in large groups.

In Ontario, much of the opposition has been driven by inadequate rules to keep the towers away from populated areas. Public annoyance with

turbines was three times higher in Ontario than P.E.I. Health Canada said it will release additional findings later from the Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study done in collaboration with Statistics Canada.

“The balance of scientific evidence to date continues to show that properly sited wind turbines are not harmful to human health and that wind energy remains one of the safest and environmentally friendly forms of electricity generation,” says Canadian Wind Energy Association president Robert Hornung.

The study found “no association between wind turbine noise and any significant changes in reported quality of life, or with overall quality of life, and satisfaction with health.”

Wind energy generation in Canada has grown from approximately 137 megawatts in 2000 to just over 8.5 gigawatts in 2014, the association said. The government proceeded with the study because “the scientific evidence base in relation to WTN exposure and health is limited, which includes uncertainty as to whether or not low-frequency noise and infrasound from wind turbines contribute to the observed community response and potential health impacts.”

The federal study used both self-reported and observed data

“No evidence was found to support a link between exposure to wind turbine noise and any of the selfreported or measured health end points examined.”

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collected at homes, most of which were located within 600 metres of a turbine.

It found no links between the presence of turbines and either sleep disruption or illnesses. “The findings suggest that health and well-being effects may be partially related to activities that influence community annoyance, over and above exposure to wind turbines.”

The department said it “undertook this study because we were hearing the concerns from individual Canadians.”

While another study done differently might discover problems, this one “didn’t find the direct health measures that some people are concerned about.”

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One-quarter of farmland in Ontario and Quebec lost Urban sprawl, roads, and industrial development are seen as the top threats to the country’s farmland

By Alex Binkley Co-operator Contributor

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lmost one million hectares of prime farmland went out of food production across Canada between 2001 and 2011, says a report from Statistics Canada.

From 1971 to 2011, 3.9 million hectares of farmland have been lost, an area close to the size of Vancouver Island.

The report, Human Activity and the Environment, Agriculture in Canada, doesn’t cite causes for the loss of farmland, but urban sprawl, road building, industrial development, creation of nature reser ves and even land no longer farmed because of low crop and livestock prices are well-known causes.

Almost 20 per cent of the highly productive farmland in the Quebec City to Windsor corridor was converted to other uses in the 2001 to

2011 period and almost half of that was in the TorontoHamilton-Niagara region, the report said. While the Prairies still have the bulk of Canada’s farmland, they have lost nearly 567,000 hectares or two per cent of the region’s farmland.

The StatsCan report will h e at up an already lively debate in Ontario. Larry Davis, a director of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, recently warned the province is “losing more than 350 acres of farmland every day. If this loss rate continues, Ontario farmers will be unable to meet the growing demand for food in Canada and around the world. And as a non-renewable resource, productive farmland will be lost forever.”

OFA has called for the top four classes of farmland to be protected from urban expansion and aggregate as part of its farmland preservation and land use policy. “Despite the

use crop rotation to control pests and 31 per cent plant herbicide-resistant varieties to reduce the amount of pesticide sprayed on their crops.

More than two-thirds use fertilizer and herbicides on their crops.

StatsCan noted while builtup areas occupy only 0.1 per cent of the countr y’s land mass, “development pressures can result in the loss of prime agricultural land and the loss of many valuable ecosystem services and benefits that agricultural ecosystems provide to society, from habitat for wildlife, to water flow regulation and space for recreational activities and esthetic enjoyment… In some areas of the country, agriculture occupies a large proportion of the landscape and particularly in the Prairies and parts of southern Ontario it can be the dominant land use. Not all land is suitable for agriculture, how-

vast and diverse area of land that makes up Canada’s second-largest province, less than five per cent of it is suitable for food production. And once farmland is gone, it’s never coming back.”

Land use is controlled by the provinces although the federal government has expropriated farmland for military bases. While data wasn’t available for farmland loss since 2011, there’s no indication that the conversion of farmland to other uses has slowed.

The farmers who stay in b u s i n e s s a re i n v e s t i n g i n upgrades to their operations.

In 2011, the average farm spent $6,800 on environmental protection improvements, $ 4 7 , 4 8 0 o n m a n u re s t o rage construction and $17, on pesticide, chemical and fuel storage facilities. As well, producers are making progress in farming in a more sustainable manner. More than half

ever. In addition, much of Canada’s farmland is located in areas where there are many other competing uses for the land.”

The report noted that the Prairies were responsible for 63 per cent of food and fodder crop production in 2012; Quebec, Ontario and Alberta accounted for 74 per cent of livestock and poultry meat production; and Quebec and Ontario accounted for 70 per cent of milk production and 55 per cent of egg production.

In 2011, the Canadian farm population was 650,395 or two per cent of Canadians; however, the farm population represented 10 per cent of the population in rural areas. Primary agriculture accounted for 1.1 per cent of Canada’s gross domestic product and 1.6 per cent of employment in 2010.

More than 70 per cent of the food Canadians bought in 2010 was produced domestically.

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Dutch outbreak of bird flu

By Thomas Escritt amsterdam / reuters

Dutch authorities said Nov. 16 they had found the H5N8 strain of bird flu at a poultry farm in the central Netherlands, the same highly contagious strain as found this month in Germany and which has prompted massive poultry culls in Asia.

Agricultural inspectors set about destroying the 150,000 chickens at the farm in the village of Hekendorp, and banned poultry transport across the whole of the Netherlands.

“It’s a highly pathogenic strain for birds,” said Dutch Economics Ministry spokesman Jan van Diepen.

“For people it’s not that dangerous; you’d only get it if you were in very close contact with the birds.”

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he farmers in the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) class action are proceeding with one section of their lawsuit and seeking leave to appeal the court’s interpretation of another.

The group says in a release that it is pleased the courts gave them the green light to proceed with parts of the case based on the misallocation of CWB Pool accounts in 2011-12.

But they say the ruling does not properly address the fundamental injustice of Ottawa seizing and disposing of other valuable CWB assets paid for by farmers.

“Most farmers understand their CWB assets have been stolen from them by Ottawa,” said Stewart Wells, chairperson of the FCWB. “The startling revelation from a private banker that the intention of the federal government is to effectively gift the CWB assets to a private company at no charge has further galvanized the farm community to lay claim to all the wheat board assets farmers bought and paid for, not just the cash remaining in the Pool account.”

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Wheat gluten strength better than last year

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

Western Canadian farmers harvested a lower-quality wheat crop this fall due to poor harvest weather, but the news isn’t all bad.

“You’ll be pleased to know that in terms of baking we are not seeing the issues we expected to see,” JoAnne Buth, chief executive officer of the Canadian International Grains Institute told the Interprovincial Seed Growers meeting in Winnipeg Nov. 5. “The crop coming off is actually higher in gluten strength than it was last year. The mildew issues are not creating much of an issue in terms of the quality of the bread or the colour of the bread.”

However, mildew is negatively affecting the colour of white and yellow Asian noodles, she said.

Durum wheat quality was also reduced by poor weather this fall, Buth said. As a result quantities of high-quality Canadian durum are in short supply, she said. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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AUCTION DISTRICTS

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake

ANTIQUES ANTIQUES Antique Equipment FOR SALE: 1946 JOHN Deere AR not running, good tin, stored inside. Phone (204)435-2103.

WINTER PROJECTS: IH W4; IH WD6; IH H; JD AR; JD R; JD 70 DSL; JD 730 RC DSL; 1929 JD D; Oliver 77 RC; MH 44 RC DSL; MH 55 DSL; Fordson Major; Caterpillar RD4. (204)745-7445.

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EQUIP & TOOLS Along w/Estate & Moving

Sat., Nov. 22 @ 10:00 am Stonewall, MB - #12 Patterson Drive

NEW Dozer Blades * Power & Hand Tools * NEW Storage Sheds * Bldgs * Tents * Tire Changer * Air Comp * Water Pumps * Along w/ Antiques * Household * Appliances * * 2 RING AUCTION - Go to the Website for Listing & Pictures!!

(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027

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NICKEL AUCTIONS LTD

Huge Estate Auction for the Late Elsie Janzen of Portage La Prairie in the Canad Inns West End of Portage Saturday, November 29th 10:00am Estimation of 2000 Dolls Barbies Cabbage Patch Stand Up & Much More Check Website for Pics & Updates www.nickelauctions.com Terms Cash or Cheque with Credit Card Sale conducted by Nickel Auctions Ltd Ph 204-637-3393 Cell 204-856-6900 E-mail nickelauctions@mts.net Executor Marv Janzen 204-871-0110

AUTO & TRANSPORT AUTO & TRANSPORT Autos

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

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

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

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Birch River

Swan River Minitonas Durban

Winnipegosis

Roblin

Dauphin

Grandview

Ashern

Gilbert Plains

Fisher Branch

Ste. Rose du Lac Russell

Parkland

Birtle

Riverton Eriksdale

McCreary

Lundar

Interlake

Erickson Langruth

Minnedosa

Gladstone

Neepawa Rapid City

Reston Melita

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Brandon

Carberry

Killarney

Elm Creek

Sanford

Ste. Anne

Carman

Mariapolis

Pilot Mound Crystal City

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Beausejour

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Austin Treherne

Westman Boissevain

Stonewall Selkirk

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Souris

Waskada

St. Pierre

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Altona

Steinbach

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Red River

AUTO & TRANSPORT Trucks 1966 3-TON (950) GMC truck, 6 cyl, 64,520-mi, wooden cancade box, tarp, hoist, 12V drill fill, always shedded, not used for 5 yrs, very good shape.

Phone (204)748-1024.

2001 BUICK CENTURY 4-DR White, 144,000-km, $2500; 1959 gas tractor 641 Ford, $3,500; 5 cow/calf pairs, $2,200.

Harland Beckman. (204)739-5363 Eriksdale.

2004 JEEP 4X4 GRAND Cherokee trail edition, safetied, good condition. Call (204)747-2768 or cell (204)522-5954.

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BUILDING & RENOVATIONS

UNRESERVED CLOSE-OUT

AUCTION SALE FOR Luke’s Machinery Co. at 318 Notre Dame Ave. (WPG)

Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014 at 11:00 AM (Viewing on Friday November 21 at 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM) FOR FULL LISTING AND PICTURES PLEASE VISIT WWW.LUKESMACHINERY.COM Having received instructions from Luke’s Machinery we will sell the following items: Some Items Subject to Owners Approval

NEW MACHINERY

King KC-712DS 7” x 12” dual swivel bandsaw* King KC-129C 5” x 6”bandsaw* king KC-10JCS/J30 10” 2hp cabinet saw* King KC-1433FXR 14” bandsaw* King KC788FX 6” x 48” belt / 12” disc sander* King KC-379MS 3” x 79” metal belt sander* King 942VS6-NF 3HP 230/1/60 turret mill machine* King KC1640ML 16” x 40” gearhead lathe* King KC-7180V1MS 7.5 peak HP high output 80 gallon air compressor* Metalex FS-P5210 52” x 10 gauge capacity hydraulic shear (230/1/60)* 20” pedestal fans*

PRE-OWNED WOODWORKING MACHINERY

Nelson & Atkinson NA800 upcut saw* WadkinBursgreen BSM 5 gang rip saw* Wadkin thickness planer* DMC Europa 110 44” wide belt sander* timesaver 37-20b Denibbing sander* Biesse Beaver 3 x 1 boring machine* 12” industrial jointer* Dewalt 14” radial arm saw 5 HP 575/3’60* Maggi 14”radial arm saw 5 HP 230/3/60*

PRE-OWNED MACHINE TOOLS

Edwards 10ft x ¼” hydraulic shear* Rockford 18” x 30” lathe* VDF 20” x 60” lathe* Hurco KMB-1 cnc 3-axis mill machine* Reckerman Kombi #900 universal mill machine* 100-ton hydralic press*

COMPLETE SAW SHARPENING SHOP

Very large assort. grinders, Foly dip seal tank, weld seam bandsaw blade sandblaster, Lenox bans saw blade welder, Kalamazo abrasive cut off saw, etc.

COMPLETE MOTOR REWIND SHOP

Bridge crane 6-ton 39’ span* Bake and Burnout ovens* work benches testing apparatus*

MISCELLANEOUS

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 10/8/14 9:14 AM plus taxe. Norm Verboom (204)761-7797, Brandon.

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Roofing

PRICE TO CLEAR!!

Serving Manitoba, Saskatchewan, NW Ontario & Alberta....Since 1937 • Quality Commercial/Agricultural/Residential Overhead Doors & Operators.

• Aluminum Polycarbonate Doors Available.

• Non-Insulated and Insulated Sectional Doors Available.

• Liftmaster Heavy Duty Operators.

• Mullion Slide Away Centre Posts.

• Commercial/Agricultural Steel Man Doors and Frames.

• Your washbay door specialists. • Quality Installation & Service.

• 24 Hour Service. • Replacement Springs & Cables.

Phone: 204-326-4556 Fax: 204-326-5013 Toll Free: 1-855-326-4556 www.reimeroverheaddoors.com email: kurtis@reimeroverheaddoors.com AUCTION SALES U.S. Auctions

75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard 100,000PSI high tensile roofing & siding. 16 colours to choose from.

B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2

Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft.2

Ask about our blowout colours...65¢/ft.2 Also in stock low rib white 29 ga. ideal for archrib buildings BEAT THE PRICE INCREASES CALL NOW

FOUILLARD STEEL SUPPLIES LTD. ST. LAZARE, MB. 1-800-510-3303

BUILDINGS AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post frame building company. For estimates and information call 1-888-816-AFAB(2322).

Website: www.postframebuilding.com

AUCTION SALES U.S. Auctions

AUCTION SALES U.S. Auctions

Assorted steel tables* rows of shelving* rows of racking* assorted welding stands* welding booth w/ Miller 250 amp arc welder* assorted electric hoist* dispatch oven* large assort. office furniture (metal & wood filing cabinets, chairs, desks, glass display cases, etc.) plus lots of misc. items too numerous to mention.

TERMS: Cash, Visa, Mastercard or Debit paid in Full Same Day of Sale.

“Everything Sold As is, Where is” with no warranties implied or expressed “SUBJECT TO ADDITIONS & DELETIONS”

KAYE’S AUCTIONS 204-668-0183 Wpg.

www.kayesauctions.com

UNRESERVED

AUCTION SALE

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 - 9:00 AM INDOORS AT ALERUS CENTER - 1200 S 42ND STREET GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA PLEASE SEE NOVEMBER 13 ISSUE OF MANITOBA CO-OPERATOR FOR 2 PAGE DETAILED LISTING FOR FULL LISTING OR VISIT WWW.RESOURCEAUCTION.COM OVER 300 UNITS TO BE SOLD!

OF Serv-All Mechanical

1380 Notre Dame Ave. (By railroad tracks)

Saturday Nov. 29, 2014 at 11:00 AM (Viewing 9:00am until time of Sale only) Having received instructions from the bank, we will sell the following items:

TRUCKS

STORAGE CONTAINER

2010 Chevy Silverado 1500 ext. cab, ½-ton* 2- 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 SLT, 4x4, Hemi* 2009 Chevy Silverado 1500 ext. cab ½-ton* 2008 Chevrolet Colorado LS ext. cab* 2008 Chevy Silverado 1500 ext. cab, ½-ton* 1995 Freightliner FL60 6-speed standard w/18ft. deck, w/tie downs & winch*

MISCELLANEOUS

SKID-STEER New Holland L555 deluxe diesel, w/2-detachable buckets, metal tracks and extra rims (showing 2,252hrs)*

40ft. C-container (nice shape)* 24ft. storage box w/ overhead door*

2-Sullair soda blaster mobile compressors w/4-cyl. Diesel engines* New inventory of plumbing parts ( Victaulic fittings, stainless & steel welded fittings, balancing valves, PVC fittings, pipe hangers, Propress fittings (copper & brass), large assort. steel pipe fittings, gate ball valves, etc.)* New inventory of Electrical (electrical fittings, electrical wire, etc.)* 12ft. mobile stock ladder* 3-rows of bolt type shelving* etc.

EXPECT MANY COMBINES & HEADS, TRACTORS, TRUCKS & TRAILERS, SPRAYERS, HAYING EQUIPMENT, TILLAGE EQUIPMENT

TERMS: Cash, Visa, Mastercard or Debit paid in Full Same Day of Sale.

“Everything Sold As is, Where is” with no warranties implied or expressed “SUBJECT TO ADDITIONS & DELETIONS”

“Decades of Knowledge • Steady Innovation • Top Results”

KAYE’S AUCTIONS 204-668-0183 Wpg.

www.kayesauctions.com

TERMS: Cash, or good check in U.S. funds. All sales final. Statements made auction day take precedence over all previous advertising. Doc-

Canadian buyers are ument fees will & apply on title vehicles, vehicle titles will be mailed.

AUCTIONEERS CLERK: always welcome,

Main Resource Equipment Auctions 2702 17th Ave. S, Grand Forks, ND 58201 Ph. 701-757-4015 • Fax 701-757-4016 Email: info@resourceauction.com

“Decades of Knowledge - Steady Innovation - Top Results” Dennis Biliske ND Lic. 237; MN Lic. 35-13; ND Clerk 624

LIVE ONLINE BIDDING AVAILABLE Register at www.resourceauction.com

please furnish a letter of credit for registration. Some purchases require payment by wire.

Most units move easily across the border, feel free to ask in advance for document assistance if necessary.

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AgIron

West Fargo

Red River Valley Fairgrounds, 1805 West Main Ave, West Fargo, ND. I-94 & Exit 343.

Enter Fairground from the East at Grand Stand Avenue.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2014 • 10AM

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Auctioneers will run multiple rings with live online bidding. There will be no loading assistance until 1:00PM on sale day. Cars and pickups may enter grounds at 12:00 Noon for self-loading. Registration, terms, and details at SteffesGroup.com. Equipment removal by December 5, unless other arrangements are made. Hauling and loading are available. Contact auctioneers for owner information, new consignments, or changes at 701.237.9173 or 800.726.8609.

2004 Hyster H50XM pneumatic 1992 Volvo tandem axle, integrated folding heavy duty spring-loaded Used 1,000 gal. NH3 tank, P&H TRACK TRACTORS CORN HEADS

Complete Listing, Photos, & Details at SteffesGroup.com

2009 JD 9530T, deluxe cab, 5500 tracks, 36” wide, 2,067 hrs., S/NRW9530T911117 2002 JD 8520T, 16” belts, 120” space, shows 5,588 hrs., S/NRW8520T901443

4WD TRACTORS

2013 JD 9460R, deluxe cab, 625 hrs., ext. PowerGard warranty until Dec. 20, 2015, S/N1RW9460RTCP006411 1988 Versatile 276 Series II bi-directional, hydro, 2360 loader, 8’ bucket & grapple, shows 3,234 hrs., loader S/N334949, tractor S/N333038

MFWD TRACTORS & LOADERS

2013 JD 8335R, MFWD, deluxe cab, shows 375 hrs., S/N1RW8335REDP069366 2013 JD 6125R, MFWD, premium cab, JD H340 self-leveling loader, 299 hrs., warranty until Aug. 8, 2015 or 2,000 hrs., S/N1L06125RPDK768580 2003 JD 8120, MFWD, deluxe cab, shows 6,150 hrs., S/NRW8120P011949 1999 JD 4500, MFWD, open station, 2,970 hrs., S/NLV4500P252262 2011 Kubota L5740, MFWD, LA854 quick tach loader, bucket, 731 actual hrs., S/N70339

2WD TRACTORS & LOADERS

2004 Challenger MT455B, 1,171 hrs., single owner, S/NN162032 1979 JD 4440, 6,700 actual hrs., total powershift rebuild in 2005, S/N4440P017689R NH 8N Boomer, MFWD, 180 hrs., S/N0622-06-09 1961 JD 2010 industrial loader tractor,8’ bucket, forks, S/N18232 Ford 8000, 2 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, shows 9,000+ hrs.

1973 Case 970, cab, 12 spd. powershift, 20 hrs. on OH motor

COMBINES

2012 JD S690, Contour-Master, premium cab, high cap. 26’ unloading auger, 624 sep. hrs., 1,062 engine hrs., S/N1H0S690SPB0745505 2012 JD S670, STS, ContourMaster, premium cab, 26’ high cap. unloading auger, shows 1,820 sep. hrs., 2,693 engine hrs., S/N745682 2012 JD S670, STS, ContourMaster, premium cab, 26’ high cap. unloading auger, shows 1,408 sep. hrs., 2,141 engine hrs., S/N745680 2011 JD 9870, Contour-Master, premium cab, high cap. unloading auger, 930 sep. hrs., 1,312 engine hrs., S/N1H09870STB0740686 2011 JD 9770, STS, deluxe cab, Contour-Master, high cap. 22-1/2’ unloading auger, 1,016 sep. hrs., 1,292 engine hrs.

2010 JD 9770, Contour-Master, premium cab, high cap. 22’6” unloading auger, 1,730 sep. hrs., 2,600 engine hrs., S/N1H09770SC90735507 2010 JD 9770, STS, ContourMaster, premium cab, high cap. unloading auger, shows 1,756 sep. hrs., 2332 engine hrs., S/N738007 2000 JD 9750, STS, ContourMaster, 22-1/2’ unloading auger, 2,640 sep. hrs., 3,880 engine hrs., S/NH09750S685939 1982 JD 8820, turbo hydro, corn/ grain, DHH, 5,374 hrs.

1994 Case-IH 1688, 4,793 hrs., S/NJJC0118916

FLEX DRAPER & FLEX HEADS

2012 JD 640 flex draper, 40’, S/N1H0640FDHC0746418 2011 MacDon FD75 flex draper, 45’, S/N211904 2013 JD 635F flex head, S/N1H00635FLC0755218 2012 JD 635F flex head, 35’, S/N1H00635FAC0746355 2012 JD 635F flex head, 35’, S/N746329 2010 JD 635F flex head, 35’, S/N738194 2006 JD 635F flex head, 35’, S/NH00635F716437 2005 JD 635F flex head, 35’, S/NH00635F712064 2005 JD 635F flex head, 35’, S/NH00635F716561 2002 JD 930F flex head, 30’ JD 930 flex head, Crary air reel 1990 JD 925 flex head, S/NFH925F636462 1988 JD 924 flex head, S/NFH00924F626445 2004 Case-IH 1020 flex head, S/NJJC0333090 2004 Case-IH 1020 flex head, S/NJJC0350138 1992 Case-IH 1020 flex head, 30’, 1-1/2” cut

sleeper, 12.7 liter Detroit, 10 spd., ramps 70,000 miles on OH 2006 XL Specialized lowboy 1984 GMC General, 32’ removable trailer, 53’, 26’ well, 55 ton sleeper, 350 Cummins, Eaton 9 2004 Aztec flatbed trailer, 45’, spd., 511,071 miles, New engine spring ride w/50,000 miles 1999 Transcraft Eagle flatbed trailer, 48’x102”, aluminum deck DAY CAB PICKUP, RIGID, & 1998 Wilson spread axle flatbed SEMI TRACTORS ALL CROP HEADS trailer, 48’ 2009 Case-IH 2016 pickup head, 2009 Freightliner Cascadia tri1990 Utility tandem axle flatbed axle non-sleeper conventional, 9-belt Swathmaster pickup, trailer, 48’ DD15 Detroit, 455 hp.

S/NCCC0023472 1983 Hobbs tandem axle flatbed 2007 IHC 9400, factory day cab, (3) 2001 JD 914P pickup heads, trailer, 42’ ISX Cummins, 450 hp., 10 spd., 6-belt pickups, S/N690166, 1980 Regent tri-axle flatbed 650,000 miles S/N690165, S/N690172 trailer, 35’x8’, (2) 200 bu. seed 2007 Freightliner M2 single axle 1992 JD 930 rigid head, tenders, 1,500 gal. tank day cab, MBE engine, Allison S/NH00930R646273 1981 Holden gooseneck tandem automatic, under 200,000 actual 1994 JD 925 rigid head, axle trailer, 36’, 24-1/2’ bed, 8’ miles, white S/NH00925P656262 wide, flip-up rear ramps 2001 Kenworth T800, day cab, (2) JD 653 all crop heads, 30” Donahue trailer, 36’, hyd. lift C12 Cat, 10 spd., white high tin sides 1990 Shop-built single axle 2001 Peterbilt 385, factory day Melroe 388 pickup, 7-belt, flatbed, 25’x8’, w/overhead crane cab, ISM Cummins, 400 hp., 10 S/N388746 DUMP & PUP spd., 328,470 miles GRAIN CART TRAILERS 2000 Volvo VNM, day cab, Volvo 2008 Balzer 1250 grain cart, 1,250 engine, 10 spd., 294,000 miles, white 2011 Sidump’r tri-axle trailer, 45’ bu., S/N5070608 2000 Freightliner 112 day cab, 1994 Midland tri-axle belly dump, 12.7 Detroit, 430/500 hp., 13 spd., 43’ PLANTERS approx. 600,000 miles Peerless tandem axle aluminum 2011 JD DB88 CCS planter, 1999 IHC 8100 day cab, M11 gravel pup, 13’ box, 40” high Refuge Plus tank, 48x22”, 17,584 Cummins, Meritor 10 spd., 594,467 LIVESTOCK acres, S/N1A0DB88XLAG740104 miles TRAILERS 2010 JD DB88 CCS planter, 1996 Volvo day cab, 11.1L Detroit, 48x22”, 31,956 acres, single 1990 Wilson Silver Star tri-axle 10 spd., owner, S/NA0DB88X735106 1995 Volvo 64T, day cab, 3306 Cat, cattle pot, 53’ JD 7300 planter, 12x20”, 1.6 bu.

1977 Sooner tandem axle 300 hp., 10 spd., 704,784 miles Hoppers gooseneck stock trailer, 16’ 1985 IHC 9670, 350 Cummins, JD 1780 conservation planter, 1974 Hickory tandem axle stock 10 spd., spring ride 16x31”, MaxEmerge Plus trailer, 5’x16’ DUMP & GRAIN vacumeter units HEADER TRAILERS TRUCKS 2007 JD 1710 planter, 18x22”, S/NA1710R725115 2001 Sterling AT9500 quad axle, (2) Johnson single pole header trailers w/support bars 2007 Moore-Built stack fold, 8LL Cat, 350 hp., 17’ dump box, Mattson header trailer, 30’ head cap.

24x22”, S/N676 259,000 miles, 25,000 miles (3) Tandem axle header trailers, Case-IH 950 planter, 8x30”, on New engine, New air lines, 36’, New drawbar-pull bedliner, & trailer hitch (3) Header trailers, 40’, New JD 290 corn planter, 2 row, 2006 Peterbilt 386 tandem twin pull-type screw, double frame, C15 Cat, 435 (3) Header trailers, 35’, New (2) Header trailers, 30’, New FIELD CULTIVATORS hp., 13 spd., 22’x8’x5’ Loadline box, 821,000 miles, salvage title VAN & SPRAY 2014 Wil-Rich XL II field due to smoke damage TRAILERS cultivator, 50’, less than 200 acres 1979 Ford F800 twin screw, 429, 1994 Dorsey dry van, 53’ 2013 JD 2210 field cultivator, 5&2 spd., Scott 19’ box, shows 1988 Wabash dry van, 53’ 55’6”, S/N1N02210XTC0750106 93,000 miles Single axle van trailer, 28’, roll door, 2012 JD 2210 field cultivator, 1966 Chevrolet 60 tag tandem, 1,650 gal. & 1,500 gal. poly tanks 50’6”, S/N1N02210XTC0745553 366, 5&2 spd., 18’ steel box, slips 2008 JD 2210 field cultivator, 45’ out of 5th gear UTILITY TRAILERS 1994 JD 980 field cultivator, Shop-built tandem axle job VAN TRUCKS 44-1/2’, S/NN00980X000922 trailer, 36’x8’, insulated JD 1010 field cultivator, 42-1/2’, 2009 Freightliner, M2 106 1993 Titan gooseneck trailer, 26’, harrow Mercedes, 230 hp., 6 spd. manual, pop-up rear, end and slide-out ramps JD 1010 field cultivator, 36’, 28’ van body w/lift gate, shows 2012 Loadtrail gooseneck trailer, 3-bar harrow 657,000 miles 24’, 4’ dovetail, stand-up ramps 2006 IHC 4300, VT466, 220 hp., CHISEL PLOWS 2012 Kaufmann deckover trailer, Allison 2500 HS automatic, 24’ van 20’, (3) 7,000 lb. axles 2005 JD 2410 chisel plow, 33’, body with lift gate, shows 525,000 PJ tandem axle car trailer, 21’ S/NN02410X001016 miles 2003 Trailer King TK40LP2600, Case-IH 5600 chisel plow, 47’, BUS pintle hitch, 21’ deck, 5’ beavertail Summers 104 3-bar harrow 2006 Ford E350 small passenger 1996 ABU tandem axle skid steer Melroe 505 chisel plow, 24’ bus, 8 passenger, 309,000 miles trailer, 20’, slide-in ramps OTHER TILLAGE 2004 hyd. tilt trailer, 18’, (2) 7,000 SERVICE TRUCKS EQUIPMENT lb. axles & PICKUPS 2013 Wil-Rich Soil Pro 513 1997 Towmaster equipment 2004 Ford F550, Super Duty Lariat disc ripper, 9 shank, 24” space, trailer, 17’, fold-up ramps, toolbox walking tandems, hyd. independent crew cab, 2WD, loaded, 55,000 mi. B&B tandem axle trailer, 16’, tilt 2006 Ford F450 crew cab, 6.0 liter front discs, 4-bar harrow bed, 20” fixed ramp Wil-Rich V957 ripper, 20’, 9 shank, diesel, automatic, 2WD, 8’ aluminum 1990 Felling tandem axle trailer, service bed w/toolboxes & ladder S/N455670 16’, stand-up ramps 2012 Gates Series II coulter disc, rack, Lincoln 250 Ranger gas 1988 Fechtner tandem axle generator/welder, 150,000 miles 56’, 5-section fold trailer, 16’, stand-up ramps 1996 Ford F350, 1 ton, 4 door, 2012 Summers 2510DT tandem 1991 Shop-built trailer, 80”x16’, 460 gas, automatic, 4WD, 8’ steel disc, 28’, S/NK1055 slide-in ramps flatbed w/5th wheel headache IHC 596 tandem disc, 26’, 26” 2012 American steel utility trailer, rack, 154,302 miles, New trans., blades 6x12’, wood sides, 4’ fold-up gate u-joints, steering u-joints, radiator Metz utility trailer, 10’x77”, bi-fold Summers rolling chopper, 53’, & exhaust manifolds S/NK0293 gate, red, Bill of Sale only 2004 Ford F250, ext. cab, 6.0 liter 1996 snowmobile trailer, 6-place Alloway RTS, 36’, 500 gal. diesel, automatic, 4WD, tow pkg., 2002 Wells Cargo enclosed fiberglass tank Wil-Rich crumbler, 45’, 9 baskets tires at 80%, approx. 219,000 trailer, 5’x8’, red Unverferth 1225 rolling harrow, 45’ miles, paperwork showing work SPRAYERS done on turbo & head gaskets, IHC 700 plow, 7x16” Wil-Rich sprayer, 90’, triple nozzle white, chrome trim IHC 70 plow, 6x16” 2003 Ford F250 XLT ext. cab, short bodies, Raven 440 controller Disc, 6’, front notched blades Summers pull-type sprayer, 85box, 4 door, 5.4 liter, automatic, SLEEPER 1/2’, 1,000 gal. tank, Raven monitor 4WD, lift gate, 321,024 miles SEMI TRACTORS Summers sprayer, 60’, 3 pt., 500 2001 Ford F250 Super Duty XL, 2009 Kenworth T660, 72” gal. tank, Raven 500 monitor reg. cab, 8’ box, 5.4 liter diesel, Aerodyne double bunk sleeper, Cat automatic, 2WD, service body, FLOATER, engine, 13 spd., 510,055 miles 6 compartments, 171,000 miles SPREADER & 2007 IHC 9400I, mid-roof sleeper, 1994 Ford F150, short box, 4 door, FERTILIZER EQUIP. ISX Cummins, 450 hp., 13 spd., 5.4 liter, automatic, 4WD, 174,866 mi.

2003 Loral EZ Rider 6300 floater, 900,000 miles 1966 Ford F100 pickup, 1/2 ton, 70’ aluminum boom, 4,040 hrs., 2007 IHC 9400I, mid-roof sleeper, 390 V8, 4 spd. manual, 2WD, Loral S/N63007-083013, ISX Cummins, 435 hp., auto shift, shows 24,212 miles S/N1HTWDADLX4J083013 shows 656,000 miles, white HOPPER BOTTOM Willmar S500 spreader, mild steel, 2004 Freightliner Columbia, ext.

TRAILER 50’ dual spread sleeper, 430 Detroit, 10 spd., Alloway tow between chemical 2002 Magnum steel hopper 797,000 miles caddy, 750 gal. tank bottom, 36’x96”x78” sides 2000 Kenworth T2000, double Gustafson CS1700 seed treater bunk sleeper, rebuilt Detroit, 525 LIVE BOTTOM Valmar 1620 granular applicator hp., rebuilt 13 spd.

TRAILERS 2000 Western Star 4900, sleeper, NH3 EQUIPMENT 2008 Aulick tri-axle live bottom 470 Detroit, 13 spd., shows & TANKS trailer, 48’x70” sides 462,000 miles 2011 JD 2510H high speed NH3 2006 Aulick tri-axle live bottom 1999 Freightliner Classic, 70” side dresser, 2,500 acres, single trailer, 48’x66” sides standup double bunk sleeper, 60 owner, S/N1A82510HAC0745210 Series Detroit, 13 spd., 1,332,982 STEP DECK, Used 1,000 gal. NH3 tank, Electric miles LOWBOY & 1998 Kenworth T800, Aerocab, 60” FLATBED TRAILERS Wheel running gear (5) Used 1,000 gal. NH3 tanks, removable flat top sleeper, 3406E 2007 Kaufman step deck, DMI Autosteer running gears Cat, 425 hp., 10 spd.

53’x102”, 25 ton, 6’ beavertail w/8’ 2009 JD 612C chopping corn head, 12x22”, S/NH0612CC730379 2009 JD 612C chopping corn head, 12x22”, S/NH0612CC730281 2000 JD corn head, 12x22”, contour shafts

tire forklift, 4,600 lb. cap., 198” mast height 1999 Snorkel SLH4084HD scissor lift, 40’, 46” working height, 1,900 hrs.

1997 Snorkel SLH4084HD scissor lift, 40’, 46” working height, 3,443 hrs.

1997 Snorkel SLH4084HD scissor lift, 40’, 46” working height, 4,457 hrs.

2000 JLG 2646E2 electric scissor lift, 26’, 32’ working height 2002 JLG 1932E2 electric scissor lift, 19’, 25’ working height MEC 2548HT electric HAY & LIVESTOCK 1995 scissor lift, 25’, 31’ working height EQUIPMENT 2000 MEC 1932ES electric 1992 NH 660 round baler, 5x6 scissor lift, 19’, 25’ working height (2) Industries America 625 bale 1999 MEC 1932ES electric wagons, New scissor lift, 19’, 25’ working height Gehl forage wagon, 14’ 1996 Skyjack SJII 6832 electric Kirby 605 feed wagon, double auger scissor lift, 32’, 38’ working height Oswalt Ensilmixer feed wagon, scale 1995 Skyjack SJII 6832 electric (2) Silage feeders, New scissor lift, 32’, 38’ working height Hay feeder, New 1996 Skyjack SJII 4626 electric scissor lift, 26’, 32’ working height GRAIN HANDLING Snorkel TM12 electric scissor lift, EQUIPMENT 17’ working height Kwik Kleen 772 grain cleaner, 7 tube, 7.5 hp., 3 phase, S/N1435 1996 Snorkel TB60 boom lift, 60’, 66’ working height, 4,464 hrs.

2001 Conveyair 6006 grain vac Manlift w/hoses & attachments Neuero grain vac, 6”, hoses, 540 PTO CONSTRUCTION M&W continuous flow grain EQUIPMENT dryer, 275 bu.

2009 Kincaid SBA70002 straw 2004 Seed Shuttle SS-290 seed blower, SBA0510154 tender, 2 compartment MB front broom, 64”, mounts for lawn tractor AUGERS Feterl auger, 100’x13”, swing hopper Knuckle boom crane, hyd. folding, Westfield MKP GLPS swing away mounts to truck frame Parking lot striping machine auger, 111’x13”, S/N225799 Westfield MKP GLP swing away Allmand Maxilite III generator, 10,000 watt auger, 91’x13”, S/N2215159 Westfield MKP GLPS swing away Fermont Army generator, diesel, 60 kw, 400 hz, low hrs., S/NFZ07710 auger, 81’x13”, S/N236596 Generac generator, 30 kw, 60 kw 2009 Westfield MK130-81 Plus surge, PTO, on 2-wheel trailer flex auger HD I7000BD generator, diesel, Westfield auger, 71’x10” electric start, New 2008 Westfield WR80-56 auger HDG 9000ER heavy duty generator, Westfield TR100 auger, 61’x10” electric start, handles & wheels Hutchinson auger, 51’x10”, PTO Winco generator, 5,300 watt, Auger, 44’x10”, 10 hp., 1 phase 10 hp. B&S engine Auger, 42’x8”, 10 hp., 1 phase 1999 IR mobile air compressor, GT auger, 42’x8”, PTO Takeout auger & tube, for 42’ bin 185 cfm, on trailer, 570 hrs., S/N302074VFJ222 Takeout auger, 8”, for 24’ bin (2) 21’x10” bin top augers, OTHER EQUIPMENT w/hoppers, 7.5 hp Ashland I-155TS direct mount (2) 9’x10” bin top augers scraper w/hoppers, 7.5 hp.

Crown dump scraper, 6 yd.

CONVEYORS Crown fork-style rockpicker KSI 1610-45 belted conveyor, 45’ Lilliston cultivator, 12x30” Batco Field Loader belt conveyor, Lilliston cultivator, 6x30” Case-IH pony drill, 6’ w/grass seeder 35’x18” Batco conveyor, 15’x15” belt, 3 hp. Rock nabber, 3 pt.

Forklift mast w/hyd., no forks AERATION EQUIP. Header adapter, JD to IHC (3) Bluebird dryer fans SNOWBLOWERS (4) Sudenga power bin sweeps, IHC snowblower, 80”, 2 stage, hyd.

42’ dia., 8” (4) Sukup power bin sweeps, 48’ chute & chute cover, 540 PTO, professionally modified for double dia., 8” capacity, S/N309090-0004041 Sukup LP bin heater, 24” Red Devil 9664D snowblower, 96”, (45) Superior low speed hyd. tip & spout control, 540 PTO centrifugal fans, 30 hp. WEG Schulte 9600 snowblower, 8’, motor, 230v, 3 phase large single stage, hyd. pivot (8) Superior low speed discharge, 540 PTO centrifugal fans, 15 hp. Baldor Erskine snowblower, 8’, 2 stage, motor, 230v, 1 phase hyd. rotating chute, 3 pt.

(25) Superior low speed Allied YC8520 snowblower, 7-1/2’, centrifugal fans, 15 hp. WEG hyd. rotating spout, 3 pt., 540 PTO motor, 230v, 3 phase JD McKee snowblower, 7’, hyd.

(9) Superior low speed spout, 3 pt. centrifugal fans, 15 hp. WEG McKee 720 snowblower, 7’, rotating motors, 460v, 3 phase spout, dual auger, 540 PTO Aeration fan, 13 hp., 1 phase Koehn 2084 snowblower, 84”, Bin sweep, for 24’ bin 2 stage, rotating hyd. chute, 3 pt., Bin sweep, for 42’ bin 540 PTO Haul All drill fill, 2-compartment Farm King 960 snowblower, hyd.

SKID STEER spout, 3 pt., 540 PTO LOADERS Lorenz 9101 snowblower, 2 stage, 2012 Kubota SVL90-2 compact hyd. rotating spout, 3 pt., S/N875 track skid steer loader, 78” IHC 80 snowblower, hyd., 3 pt., material bucket, 485 hrs., S/N10532 540 PTO 2011 NH L230 skid steer loader, Jacobson snowblower, 5 hp., cab, self-leveling, bucket, 540 hrs. 2 stage S/NNBM432607 Senator snowblower, 8 hp., 28” cut 2007 Gehl 4840E skid steer LAWN & GARDEN loader, 60 hp., 67” bucket, 190 (2) ECHO Bearcat electric log hrs., S/N04840T00410899 splitters 2006 Bobcat S300, cab, 78” bucket, 4,121 hrs., S/N531112550 ECHO Bearcat debris loader, 12’ 1975 NH L775 skid steer loader, ECHO Bearcat wood chipper, 6” ROPS, 3 cyl. diesel, manual quick ECHO Bearcat chipper shredder, 5” Yanmar tiller, 4’ tach, bucket, S/N211791 Landscape rake, 5’ MOTOR GRADER, Cub Cadet 2086 lawn tractor, DOZER 46” deck Disc, 4’, for lawn tractors 1983 JD 770A motor grader, Poly Tex gothic-style shows 6,619 hrs. greenhouse, 24’x30’ 1972 Caterpillar D7F, powershift, 11’ hyd. dozer w/tilt, S/N94N4978 BLADES, MOWERS Degelman dozer blade, 14’, 4-way, SKID STEER off NH 9684 ATTACHMENTS TELEHANDLERS & SHOP EQUIPMENT AERIAL PLATFORMS RECREATION 1999 JCB 532 telehandler, 36’ reach, SUV & CARS 2,731 hrs., S/NSLP53200XE0774059 TANKS, TIRES, 1999 Terex Square Shooter SS& PARTS 1048 turbo telehandler, ROPS, ELECTRIC MOTORS 48’ reach, 1,655 hrs., S/N992128 MISC. ITEMS running gear (2) 1,000 gal. NH3 tanks, P&H running gears 1,000 gal. NH3 tank, John Blue running gear 1,000 gal. NH3 tank, Clark running gear (3) 1,000 gal. NH3 tanks, P&H running gears (2) Twin 1,000 gal. NH3 tanks, EZ-Trail running gear, single outlet plumbing

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. ND Sales Tax laws apply. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer.

Auctioneers & Clerk: Steffes Group, Inc., 2000 Main Avenue East, West Fargo, ND 58078 Scott Steffes ND81, Brad Olstad ND319, Bob Steffes ND82, Max Steffes ND999, Ashley Huhn ND843, Eric Gabrielson ND890, Randy Kath ND894 | 701.237.9173 | 800.726.8609 | SteffesGroup.com

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BUILDINGS CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place & finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any floor design.

References available. Alexander, MB. 204-752-2069.

BUSINESS SERVICES BUSINESS SERVICES Crop Consulting

FARM CHEMICAL SEED COMPLAINTS We also specialize in: Crop Insurance appeals; Chemical drift; Residual herbicide; Custom operator issues; Equipment malfunction; Yield comparisons, Plus Private Investigations of any nature. With our assistance the majority of our clients have received compensation previously denied. Back-Track Investigations investigates, documents your loss and assists in settling your claim.

Licensed Agrologist on Staff.

For more information Please call 1-866-882-4779

BUSINESS SERVICES Financial & Legal CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT in Boissevain, MB. Farm personal tax returns, prepares corporate financial statements. Agristability. Call Scott Campbell, CGA at (204)534-2951.

FARM MACHINERY FARM MACHINERY Grain Bins CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.

Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103 or E-mail Requests binmover50@gmail.com

Cudmore Bros.

Used Augers 13x70s and 13x95s Farm King Snowblowers Meridian Hopper Bins Meridian (Sakundiak) Augers Farm King Augers Honda & Kohler Engines

204-873-2395 CRYSTAL CITY, MB

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

COMBINES Accessories

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.

JD-4230 TRACTOR, CAB W/9-FT JD blade; JD-420 1958, antique; JD mower conditioner, 12-ft 1380; JD-430 round baler; NH-512 manure spreader; 3-Twister grain bins 1650-bu. (204)742-3424.

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.

620 SCREEN MACHINE; Parallel Flow 245; 3, #3s; Aspirator; 6 legs. (604)491-3513, located in MB. DISCS JOHN DEERE 637 rock cushion 35-ft new notched blades on front, $39,000; Wishek 842 26ft, $39,000; Rippers DMI 5 shank, $8,900; 7 shank, $10,500; Degelmen 14-ft rock rake PTO, $9,500; Degelmen scoop type rock picker, $3,000; Melroe auto reset plows 7 & 8 furrow, 10 x 70 Westfield auger w/ swing bottom, $2,500; 7 x 40 Westfield electric motor, $1,000; 8 x 32 Farm King electric motor, $1,000; Leon 12-ft front blade, $3,000. (204)857-8403.

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.

FOR SALE: 510 MASSEY Harris Combine for parts, got a brand new drive belt, straw chopper.

Call (204)268-2392 ask for Gordon.

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.

GRAINVACS REM 2500 HD, $9,500; Brandt 4000, $7,000; Jump Auger, $500; New Gravity wagons 400 bu, $7,400; 600-bu $12,500; 750-bu $18,250; Tarps available large selection of used gravity wagons 250-750-bu, 375-bu $3,200; 500-bu, $5,500; Used grain carts 650-1100-bu, 672 Brent tarp & scales, $15,000; 874 Brent $22,000; UFT 750 hyd drive, JD 544 Payloader, $14,000; Grain screeners DMC 54, $5,000; DMC 48, $3,000; Hutch 1500, $1,500; Snowco, $800; 5 & 7 tube Kwik Kleens. (204)857-8403.

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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 attach-ment 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 PARTS FOR MASSEY (204)855-2212

HARRIS

Pony. Phone

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 30-ft, Cat 540 40-ft., Crary C-36 w/dual air fans. CORN HEADS: JD 843-893-608 C chopping head; NH 996-994, 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.

Tillage & Seeding TILLAGE & SEEDING Air Seeders 1996 36-FT. BOURGAULT AIR seeder, 8880 cultivator w/2155 tank, good condition, $25,000 OBO. (204)745-7445.

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.

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.

CASE IH MX 240 (02) 3,993-hrs front weights 480/80R46 Rear tires w/Duals, 380/80R46 Front tires, 3-PTH w/quick attach, 18-SPD, $69,000; Case IH MX 200 6,661-hrs tire same as above, w/rear duals, 3-PTH, 18-SPD, $54,000 @ Treherne phone (204)526-7682.

WANTED 2-3 FROST SHIELDS, 2-ft x 1-ft preferred. For Sale: 1977 7.5 Mercury outboard motor, new never used. w/tank $1000 firm. (204)222-9346 Robert.

WANTED: MASSEY 36 DISCER, anywhere, will pick up. Call (306)723-4875.

Combines COMBINES Case/IH 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 2012 CIH 9120 633 sep hrs, MagnaCut Chopper, Full Autoguidance, 520 duals, 3016 header, stored inside, $275,000 OBO. (204)523-6651

COMBINES Accessories FOR SALE: NH 6 roll corn head, $500 OBO. Phone (204)362-2321.

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AG DEALS TO GO!

HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES. Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595 charles@arcfab.ca www.arcfab.ca

TRACTORS John Deere

Spraying EquipmEnt

1997 9400 4WD, very good tires, 7,000-hrs, VGC, $95,000 OBO. (204)745-7445.

TRACTORS 2-Wheel Drive

SPRAYING EQUIPMENT Sprayers 2006 AS 1010 APACHE sprayer 60-90 ft. boom, 1,000-gal tank, drop boxes, crop dividers, Trimble auto steer, 1,740-hrs, excellent condition. Phone (204)526-5307 or (204)827-2354, Glenboro.

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.

AUCTION SALES U.S. Auctions

It doesn’t get any better than this. Prepay your ad for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free! Call today! 1-800-782-0794.

Location: 62105 MN Hwy 24, Litchfield, MN

www.cudmorebros.com FARM MACHINERY Grain Vacuums CURT’S GRAIN VAC SERVICES, parts & repair for all makes & models. Craik SK, (306)734-2228.

FARM MACHINERY Irrigation Equipment

OPEN: Monday, Nov. 24 / CLOSE: Thursday, Dec. 4

Auctioneer’s Note: JD Financing Available.

Call Sales at 320.235.8115 for pre-approval.

REINKE LATERAL IRRIGATOR, 4 span, trench guidance system, mounted genset & drag hose, $32,500 @ Treherne (204)526-7682

FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528 or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB. MURPHY SALVAGE New & used parts for tractors, combines, swathers, square & round balers, tillage, press drills & other misc machinery. MURPHY SALVAGE (204)858-2727 or toll free 1-877-858-2728.

Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd. 1-866-729-9876 5150 Richmond Ave. East BRANDON, MB. www.harvestsalvage.ca New, Used & Re-man. Parts

Tractors Combines Swathers The Real Used FaRm PaRTs sUPeRsToRe Over 2700 Units for Salvage • TRACTORS • COMBINES • SWATHERS • DISCERS Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN (306) 946-2222 monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

WATROUS SALVAGE WaTRoUs, sK. Fax: 306-946-2444

FYFE PARTS

1-800-667-9871 • Regina 1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon 1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg 1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton “For All Your Farm Parts”

www.fyfeparts.com NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS NEW COMBINE PARTS Large Inventory of new and remanufactured parts

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.

TRACK TRACTORS 2012 JD 6170R, MFWD, deluxe cab, 2003 JD 8520T, deluxe cab, powershift, AutoQuad Plus, 4 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 4 hyd., 42 gpm pump, 3 pt., quick hitch, PTO, front fenders, cold weather pkg., PTO, radar, 24” tracks, 6,590 hrs., 380/85R34 front tires, 480/80R46 S/NRW8520T902240 rear tires, 1,315 hrs., S/N1RW6170RCCA002023 4WD TRACTORS 2008 McCormick XTX165, MFWD, 2013 JD 9560R, premium cab, partial powershift, 3 hyd., 3 pt., PTO, powershift, 4 hyd., 7” touch screen, 380/85R30 front tires, 480/80R42 rear JDLink, integrated auto steer, HD tires, 9,400 hrs., S/N6VBCL37211 Gudgeon, HID lights, electric mirrors, 2011 JD 2720, MFWD, open station, 4,930 lb. front wheel weights, 5,830 lb. diesel, hydro, 2 hyd., 3 pt., mid/rear rear wheel weights, 2,000 lb. fender 540 PTO, 62” mower deck, front brush suitcase weights, 800/70R38 duals, guard, block heater, 24/8.50-14 front 790 hrs., JDLink through Dec. 2015, tires, 36R14-15 turf tires, 187 hrs., basic warranty until Dec. 20, 2014, S/N1LV2720HKBH411210 powertrain warranty until Dec. 20, 2015, 2012 JD 1026R, MFWD, open station, S/N1RW9560RTCP006132 diesel, hydro, 3 pt., mid & rear PTO, 2004 JD 9420, deluxe cab, powershift, 60” auto connect mower deck, JD H120 active seat, 4 hyd., diff lock, AutoTrac hyd. loader, 61” bucket, joystick, 18ready, radar, HID lights, (4) 1,400 lb.

8.50-10 front tires, 26-12-12 rear tires, weights, (20) rear suitcase weights, 102 hrs., S/N1LV1026RKCH210621 710/70R142 duals, 3,375 hrs., Kubota L3010, MFWD, open station, S/NRW9420P021470 diesel, 3 range hydro, 3 pt., PTO, diff lock, Woods loader, joystick, turf tires, MFWD TRACTORS 4,341 hrs.

2012 JD 8310R, MFWD, active seat, premium cab, radio, IVT, ILS, left hand 2WD TRACTORS reverser, Active Command steering, 5 1979 JD 4240, CAH, quad range, 2 hyd., 3 hyd., power beyond, 60 gpm pump, 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, diff lock, front fenders, pt., 1000 PTO, JDLink, 7” touch screen, JD 158 hyd. loader, joystick, 18.4-38 tires, integrated auto steer, radar, Cat IV 8,581 hrs., S/N4240H002127R drawbar, HID lights, front fenders, cold 2004 JD 2210 compact utility tractor, weather pkg., (2) 1,400 lb. wheel weights, open station, diesel, hydrostatic, 2 hyd., 320/80R42 front duals, 390/90R54 rear 3 pt., mid & rear 540 PTO, 62” mower duals, 1,151 hrs., JDLink until May 29, deck, JD 210 hyd. loader, joystick, 650 2015, S/N1RW8310RJCD056930 hrs., S/NLV2210H320539 2012 JD 8235R, MFWD, active seat, premium cab, powershift, 4 hyd., 3 pt., SKID STEER LOADER quick hitch, 1000 PTO, JDLink, 7” touch & ATTACHMENTS screen, integrated auto steer, diff lock, 2000 Caterpillar 246 skid steer loader, radar, HID lights, cold weather pkg., cab, heat, diesel, 72” bucket, aux. hyd., Cat IV drawbar, mirrors, front fenders, manual quick tach, 12-16.5 tires, 1,539 320/80R42 front tires, 380/90R54 hrs., S/N5SZ01781 rear duals, 197 hrs., 2012 Walco Renegade blade, 96”, hyd.

S/N1RW8235RTCP060364 angle, bolt-on cutting edge, for skid 2013 JD 7200R, MFWD, active seat, steer loader premium cab, Auto Quad Plus, left hand HLA pallet forks, walk-through, skid reverser, foot throttle, TLS susp., 4 hyd., steer loader quick tach, S/N06LA15429 44 gpm pump, 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 JD manure bucket, 66”, for skid steer PTO, 7” touch screen, JDLink, AutoTrac loader, S/N9862052 ready, premium lighting pkg., electric LOADER & LOADER ATTACH. mirrors, front fenders, 320/85R38 IHC 2000 all hyd. loader, 66” bucket, off front tires, 380/90R50 rear duals, 990 AC185 tractor hrs., JDLink through March 2016, Notch bale spear, 4 tine, JD 600-700 basic warranty until March 20, 2015, Series quick tach powertrain warranty until March 19, Frontier AB13 round bale spear, JD 2016, S/N1RW7200RKDA011075 600-700 Series quick tach w/stabilizers

Frontier AP13D pallet forks, JD 600700 Series quick tach GPS EQUIPMENT 2011 Ag Leader ParaDyme GPS receiver, S/N2011121003 Ag Leader 2500 GPS receiver, S/NBB1111-1840322 2009 JD GreenStar 2 2600 display, S/NPCRM26H228764 2008 JD GreenStar 2 2600 display, S/NPCGU26G157208 2009 JD original GreenStar display, light brown, dual can, has some screen lines, w/2005 mobile processor, S/NPCGV02D132618, S/N300599 2006 JD original GreenStar display, dual can, w/mobile processor, S/NPCGV02D215325, S/NPCGU02A237765 Starfire receiver, S/N237579 Starfire receiver, S/N233850 COMBINES 2013 JD S670, STS, premium cab, Contour-Master, PRWD, ProDrive, 2630 display, integrated auto steer, 5 spd. feeder house, ext. wear concaves and unload, powercast tailboard, 26’ high cap. unloading auger, power fold hopper ext., high cap. lift cyl., HID premium light pkg., 650/85R38 front tires, 28L-26 rear tires, 286 sep. hrs., 434 engine hrs., engine warranty until Oct. 10, 2015, powertrain warranty until Oct. 9, 2016, S/N1HOS670STD0757854 2012 JD S660, STS, premium cab, Contour-Master, PRWD, 3 spd. electric shift trans., 2630 display, integrated auto steer, high torque feeder house, power fold hopper ext., high cap. unloading auger, round bar concaves, 800/70R38 front tires, 600/65R28 rear tires, 375 sep. hrs., 591 engine hrs., engine warranty until June 2, 2015, S/N1H0S660SEC0747363 1986 JD 7720 Titan II, CAH, hydro, 2 spd. cyl., DAM, chopper, grain loss monitor, 18.4-38 straddle duals, 3,735 hrs., S/NH07720X616332 FLEX HEADS 2008 JD 635F flex head, 35’, hyd. fore/ aft, high dam, Orbit HCC flip-over reel, stubble lights, flex shaft, 60/70 Series hookups, S/NH00635F726098 2006 JD 630Fflex head, 30’, hyd. fore/ aft, high dam, poly dividers, stubble lights, flex shaft, 60 Series hookups, S/NH00630F716613

1998 JD 930 flex head, 30’, full finger, poly dividers, poly skids, stubble lights, S/NH00930F677295 1994 JD 930 flex head, 30’, hyd. fore/aft, full finger, poly dividers, poly skids, stubble lights, flex shaft, S/NH00930F661249 1990 JD 922 flex head, 22’, DAM, poly skids, S/NH00922F635620 1991 JD 920 flex head, 20’, hyd. fore/ aft, poly bottom, S/NH00920F641414 CORN HEADS 2011 JD 612C chopping corn head, 12x30”, knife rolls, stubble lights, outer gathering ext., 60/70 Series drives, S/N1H0612CCCB0740426 2010 JD 612C chopping corn head, 12x22”, RowSense, knife rolls, stubble lights, stalk stompers, flex shafts, outer gathering ext., S/N1H0612CCKA0735648 1998 JD 893 corn head, 8x30”, hyd. deck plates, poly snouts, S/NH00893X676630 1990 JD 843 corn head, 8x30”, low tin, oil drive, steel snouts, S/NH00843X636173 GRAIN CARTS 2009 Killbros 1185 grain cart, 850 bu., 17” corner auger, front/rear window, 30.5-32 tires, S/NB25810108 2002 Unverferth GC-7200 grain cart, 750 bu., corner auger, 30.5-32 tires, S/NB19360111 TILLAGE EQUIPMENT 2011 JD 637 rock flex disc, 26-1/2’, HD blades, hyd. leveling, hyd. wing control, S/N1N00637XAB0745296 2009 Wishek 862NT disc, 26’, single pt. depth, 3-bar harrow, 380-22.5 tires, S/N13040926W 2010 Salford 570 RTS vertical tillage system, 30’, tandems on mains and wings, 3-bar coil tine harrow, 14” rolling basket, weight pkg., 12.5L-15 tires, New 20” coulters, S/N103284 2009 JD 3710 plow, 10 bottom, 150 acres on new moldboards, 1 rear coulter, S/NN03710X004232 JD 3700 plow, 10 bottom, S/NA03700X010622 Amco rock flex disc, 24’, tandems on main

PREVIEW: Monday - Saturday, November 24 - 29 All items must be removed by LOADOUT: Monday - Friday, December 8 - 19 Monday, December 22, 2014

Complete terms, lot listings & photos at SteffesGroup.com IQBID is a division of Steffes Group, Inc., 24400 MN Hwy 22 S, Litchfield, MN Ashley Huhn MN47-002, Eric Gabrielson MN47-006, Randy Kath MN47-007, Scott Steffes, ND81, MN14-51 | 320.693.9371 | SteffesGroup.com

STALK CHOPPERS 2006 Alloway 240 stalk chopper, 20’, semi-mount, (4) gauge wheels, 1000 PTO, S/N27880 Balzer stalk chopper, 20’, semi-mount, 1000 PTO, 2 castering gauge wheels, S/N884-0697 JD 120 stalk chopper, 20’, pull-type, 1,000 PTO, (4) gauge wheels, S/N23136 AUGERS 2005 Westfield MK137 Plus auger, 71’x13”, low pro swing hopper w/90 degree 540 PTO drive, hyd. lift, S/N166234 2010 Westfield MK100-61 auger, 61’x10”, 540 PTO, mechanical low pro swing hopper, hyd. lift, S/N205875 Westfield 80-56 auger, 56’x8”, 540 PTO, S/N136043 OTHER EQUIPMENT Concord AST-1100 air cart, twin compartment, electric clutch shut-off, self-load auger, 60/40 split, S/N24248 Tye front-fold drill, 30’, 13” spacing, markers w/extra units to go back to 7-1/2” spacing, S/NF-9-1420-7.5F Loftness 481L snowblower, 48”, 2 stage, 3 pt., 540 PTO, S/N13-107 2008 Demco sprayer, 12’ boom, 80 gal., 3 pt., electric pump, hand wand JD 828D walk-behind snowblower, 8 hp. gas, 28” cut 2013 Fast poly tank, 750 gal., w/saddle off DB planter JD BW15703 ballast box for compact tractors K&M rock box 2013 Scale Tec Digi-Star scale, dual display w/load cells off central fill DB planter tank Ag Leader Integrated steering kit for JD 8X30 series tractors

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TRACTORS Various

LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

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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.

KILLARNEY AUCTION MART LTD BRED COW SALE Thursday, November 27 at 11 AM Reg Dyck – Killarney, MB 70 Char and Char/Hereford cross cows & hfrs 2-8 yrs old, Bred Red Factor Charolais

START CALVING EARLY MARCH Doug Brown – Snowflake, MB 55 Simmental cows & hfrs Bred Simmental

START CALVING FEB 1 M&G Bartley – Killarney, MB 40 mixed exotic cows Bred Red Factor Charolais or Hereford

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HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING FOR SALE: OUTSIDE WOOD FURNACE including pump heat exchanger & fan w/motor. Phone (204)643-5518.

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Friday, November 28th at 11:00AM Complete herd dispersal for August Merke 100 Simm X cows Approx 30 had their 1st & 2nd calves Bred Red Simmental Bulls were exposed June 12th to start calving March 25th Bovishield FP5 program These cows are home raised & age verified

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.

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Part dispersal of 30 Char X cows Bred Black Angus for mid March calving --------------------------------------------------

Dispersal of 35 Cross bred cows, Bred Black Angus Bulls Exposed June 19th The cows should be in the mart on Thurs. by 12:00pm for preg checking To consign or for more info call Terra at the mart at (204)385-2537 License #1108

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Friday, December 5th at 11:00AM Complete Herd Dispersal 55 Simmental Cross Cows From 3/4 Purebred, Age Verified Included 16 Bred Heifers All Bred Red Simmental Bulls were Exposed May 25th, Pulled September 15th This Herd has been Treated with BVD IBR & Scour guard ------------------------Complete dispersal of 30 Black Angus Cows Mostly Purebred bred Black Angus Bulls Exposed July 25th Pulled on October 13th, Age Verified ------------------------35 Black Angus Bred Heifers Bred Black Angus Bulls were exposed June 6th Full vaccination program ---------------------------To consign to this Sale Call Terra Fulton Manager at the Mart (204)385-2537 The cows should be in the mart by 12:00 noon Thurs. License #1108

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Simmental 20 SIMMENTAL REGISTERED BRED heifers, due to calve Feb. 5, 2015. Ray-J Simmental. Phone: (204)733-2324.

HAMCO CATTLE CO - The Hamiltons at Glenboro, MB have for sale a strong group of Red & Black Angus bred heifers & cows. Bred to easy calving bulls.

Due to calve Feb-May 2015. Very good vaccination program. For more information, Contact Albert, Glen, or Larissa Hamilton: (204)827-2358 or (204)526-0705, or David Hamilton:(204)822-3054.

6 YOUNG PB PAPERED Black Simm cows; Also young PB Simm Black bull purchased at Black Diamond sale.

Also have hay. Phone evenings (204)425-3312 Plan to attend the 36TH ANNUAL KEYSTONE KONNECTION SIMMENTAL SALE. Tues., Dec. 9, 2014 at the Keystone Centre Brandon, MB. 41 lots of Simmental cattle. Yearling bred heifers w/noted breeding dates. Heifer Calves that are quiet & will make 4-H or Junior Show heifers. Bull Calves that are some of the top genetics in polled Fleckvieh Simmental. These beef bulls will add pounds to your calf crop, for more dollars in your pocket. ADD GROWTH, MILK & PERFORMANCE TO your Calf Crop by selecting an animal at the Keystone Konnection Sale. Heifer calf show at 11:45 & sale to follow. View catalog online at www.marmacfarms.net or Call:(204)728-3058 or (204)729-5439. Keystone Sale Management.

TOP PRODUCING BLACK & Red Angus Breeders present the 26th Annual Keystone Klassic Red & Black Sale. Sat., Dec. 6, 1:00p.m. at the Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB. Featuring fancy heifer calves & an elite selection of bred females. Junior discounts available. For a catalogue, or more info, contact T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd. (PL # 116061) at (306)220-5006.

View the catalogue online at www.BuyAgro.com

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Maine-Anjou

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WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM ANNUAL female sale, 2:00p.m Dec. 13th, at the Ridgeville Community Hall. Selling 59 PB Maine-Anjou bred heifers, both red & black. Video & online bidding available at www.dlms.ca. Catalogue & video available at www.wilkinridge.logspot.com. For more information, contact Sid Wilkinson: (204)373-2631.

HERD DISPERSAL, 60 BLACK Angus & Simmental Charolais cross cows, all will be third calvers, 1 4-yr old Purebred Angus bull. (204)548-2883

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SPECIAL EDITION Manitoba Ag Days Taking place Jan. 20, 21 & 22, 2015 at the Brandon Keystone Centre

The Manitoba Co-operator is presenting a great opportunity for you to feature your business, products or booth at Manitoba Ag Days in the Jan. 8th edition.

The Manitoba Ag Days Show is a winter indoor exposition of agricultural production expertise, technology, and equipment held in Brandon every January. The Show attracts exhibitors and visitors from across Canada and North Central United States and provides an annual opportunity for producers to comparison shop for everything they need for their agricultural operations.

DEADLINE: DEC. 22nd · ISSUE DATE: JAN. 8th Contact your Manitoba Co-operator Sales representative to book your space today!

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SEE YOU AT THE SHOW!

RISKS AND REWARDS OF FALL

GREAT GORP PROJECT Triathlete creates home-grown energy bar » PAGE 44

The pros and cons of applying in dry soil » PAGE 17

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Communications breakdown added to emergency Firefighting made more dangerous without communications

By Lorraine Stevenson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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olunteer firefighters racing to reach fire-threatened Vita last week passed hundreds of vehicles headed the other direction and wondered what they were headed into, said veteran firefighter Alain Nadeau.

“I’ve been doing this for 33 years and this was the scariest I’ve seen,” said the weary La Broquerie fire chief on Friday after an exhausting week.

The air was so smoke filled around the southeastern village “we could barely breathe,” he said.

See GRASS FIRES on page 6 »

SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 | VOL. 70, NO. 41

GOT SEED?

By Daniel Winters CO-OPERATOR STAFF / MELITA

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ising corn acres and severe drought in the Midwestern United States may crimp supplies of popular corn seed varieties for the com-

ing year.

“It’s really short,” said Ron Rabe, a Dekalb agronomist, who gave a brief talk on corn production in Manitoba at a recent WADO field tour.

Derek Erb, who farms near Oak Bluff and sells Pioneer Hi-Bred corn

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Corn seed might be tight next spring Rising demand and dismal growing conditions in the drought-stricken United States may limit supplies seed, said farmers looking to secure seed for next spring should act quickly to secure their supplies, even if it means placing orders earlier than usual.

Pioneer Hi-Bred’s top varieties, which include D95 and D97, account for roughly half the acres seeded in the province. Erb said that with the harvest and quality testing still underway in some areas, it’s difficult to estimate how much corn seed will be available for next year.

One thing’s for sure, waiting until Ag Days in January to secure supplies will

be too late. “I would pretty much bank on that,” said Erb. Dry conditions throughout the province have seen the corn harvest arriving about a month earlier than usual, and seed orders have started coming in sooner than usual too.

Even with the possibility of a shortage of corn seed, Erb doesn’t expect the price of Pioneer’s supplies to rise much more than it has in recent years.

Rob Park, of RJP Seeds in Carman, who deals in Hyland seed varieties, See CORN SEED on page 6 »

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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

3 KIPLING LANE

Contact: D.J. (Don) MacDonald Livestock Ltd. License #1110

1604 sq. ft. 2 storey $319,900 in Niverville, 20 min. south of Wpg. 3+1 BR. 3.5 bath.

Modern open concept main floor w. espresso finished hardwoods. Gas fireplace. Island & high end stainless steel appliances, under cab. lighting.

Huge master w. tray ceiling, WIC + bath. 2nd flr. Laundry w. front load appl. Fin. bsmt. 12x20 deck, dble detached garage. Must see!

NIVERVILLE,MB · PH:1-204-899-7684

LIVESTOCK Poultry For Sale

REAL ESTATE Land For Rent

300-700 LBS. Steers & Heifers Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400 Ben: 721-3400 800-1000 LBS. Steers & Heifers Don: 528-3477, 729-7240

CLUCK AND QUACK POULTRY CLUB APA Poultry & Waterfowl Show, Dec 6th. At T&T Seeds, 7724 Roblin Blvd., Winnipeg, MB. Entries to Bryan @ 204-7710095 by Dec 1st. Spectators Welcome

LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123 LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT 2 USED, ALMOST NEW, SS hog waters 32-in. long x33.5-in. wide, has 3 lids on either side including a heating element inside, VGC. Phone (204)362-4128 HAYBUSTER 256 BALE PROCESSOR. 1,000 RPM, semi mount, left hand discharge. Works well. $4,000. Phone:(204)476-0466.

SOLD COW HERD- FOR SALE: 2011 Norberts 26ft 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.

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WANTED TO RENT CULTIVATED acres for 2015.

Prefer minimum 3-yr agreement.

Call (204)362-0433 or (204)327-5324.

REAL ESTATE Land For Sale 160-ACRES CULTIVATED LAND, LOCATED North West of Lowe Farm MB. $4,350 per acre.

Call (204)746-8243.

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 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.

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If you want to sell it fast, call 1-800-782-0794.

The following dealers and agents have applied for licenses under the Livestock Dealers and Agents Licensing regulation, which comes under the Livestock and Livestock Products Act. (C.C.S.M. c. L170)

LIVESTOCK DEALER LICENCE Triple C Charolais Ltd. (Stephen Cook) Of Steep Rock, MB

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE SHEEP GATES, 6 HEAVY of 2-in lumber, also 10 of full 1-in, 9-12-ft, also 15 lambing pens set up, $10 each. Various feed oats, can fill bags, totes.

(204)822-3649, Morden.

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED PHENTEX ELITE KNITTING YARN 8 oz skein, 4 ply, yellow, white & lite green. Phone (204)345-8389 for shipping arrangements.

PERSONAL SHARE YOUR LIFE, as it’s meant to be... A lasting Relationship. CANDLELIGHT MATCHMAKERS is here to help you. Confidential, Rural, Photos and Profiles to selected matches, Affordable, Local.

Serving MB, SK, NW Ontario. Call/Write for info: Box 212, Roland, MB, R0G 1T0, (204)343-2475.

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

REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE Houses & Lots HOUSE FOR RENT IN Brandon, MB. Move into the city for winter. House available Dec.28-Apr.24, 2014. Fully furnished, utilities included. No smoking, $600/month. Phone:(204)727-1467.

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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.

THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND in being offered for sale: N1/2 02-28-07W, SW 02-28-07W, E1/2 03-28-07W, NE 34-27-07W, N1/2 10-28-07W, SW 11-28-07W. The following Crown lands have been approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural Development for transfer to the purchaser of DAME USED OIL the NOTRE private lands listed, as these lands are part of the ranch unit held by Leonard Keisman of Moose& FILTER DEPOT horn, MB: W1/2 34-27-07W, SE 35-27-07W, SE 02-28-07W, 11-26-07W, SW • Buy UsedSE Oil 03-28-07W, • Buy SE Batteries 22-26-07W PTLS 3&5. If you wish to purchase the • Collect Used Filters • Collect Oil Containers private land & apply for the Unit Transfer, contact the Lessee, Leonard PO Box 215, Southern and Keisman WesternatManitoba Moosehorn, MB R0C 2E0. If you wish to comment Tel: 204-248-2110 on or object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer, write the director, MAFRD, Agriculture Crown Lands, PO Box 1256 Minnedosa, MB R0J 1E0, or Fax: (204)857-6578.

THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: E1/2 14-21-11W, W1/2 10-21-12W, NW 03-21-12W, SW 14-21-11W, N1/2 08-21-11W, NE 08-21-11W, S1/2 30-21-11W, SE 23-21-11W & SW 24-21-11W subject to Lot 3/4 Plan 2221. The following Crown Lands have been approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural Development for transfer to the purchaser of the private lands listed, as these lands are part of the ranch unit held by Craig & Lorna Marr of Silver Ridge, MB: SW 13-21-11W West of PR No. 467, NW 30-21-11W, NE 31-21-11W, SE 31-21-11W, SW 31-21-11W, SE 02-22-11W, NE 03-22-11W, NE 03-22-11W, SE 03-22-11W East of road. If you wish to purchase the private land & apply for the unit transfer, contact the lessees: Craig & Lorna Marr, PO Box 30 Silver Ridge, MB R0H 1M0. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this unit transfer, write the director: MAFRD, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa, MB R0J 1E0, or Fax:(204)867-6578.

THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: NW 12-24-16W, Part NW 16-24-16W, Part NE 20-33-15W. The following Crown Lands have been approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural Development for transfer to the purchaser of the private lands listed, as these lands are part of the ranch unit held by Bernard Dyck of Ste. Rose du Lac, MB: All of section 22-23-15W, All of section 16-33-15W, All of section 15-33-15W, NE 16-33-15W, NW 16-33-15W, SE 16-33-15W. If you wish to purchase the private land & apply for the Unit Transfer, contact the Lessee Bernard Dyck at Box 711, Ste. Rose du Lac, MB R0L 1S0. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer, write the Director, MAFRD, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or Fax:(204)867-6578.

Vanderveen Commodity Services Ltd. Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers

37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0 Ph. (204) 745-6444 Email: vscltd@mts.net Andy Vanderveen · Brett Vanderveen Jesse Vanderveen

REAL ESTATE Farms & Ranches – Acreages/Hobby GRANT TWEED : Providing professional service in all farm property matters. Selling-Buying-Renting call for an obligation free consultation. 50-yrs in the Ag Industry. Call anytime: (204)761-6884 grant@granttweed.com

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FARM PROPERTIES FOR SALE: 1.Gladstone One Section of pasture land in a block, fenced lge dug outs, Sec 7-15-11 RM Lakeland, Lakeland clay loam,MLS#1404621. 2.McCreary 716-ac. Mixed farm, 1064-sf bung. Outbldgs fenced for elk or cattle. 3 Plumas 4.17-acres w/3-bdrm bung workshop & Quonset. MLS# 1406169. 4.Plumas PTH#260 2.85-acres w/huge welding shed 22,400-sf only $69,000 MLS#1401081. 5.Neepawa**Newer Retire-ment 1475sf one level bung w/dbl att garage 2 bath 3+bdrmshandicap friendly. MLS#1416081 Liz (204)476 6362, John (204)476 6719 Gill & Schmall Agencies.

FOR SALE GRAIN FARM & Retail Seed business w/3767 workable acres in Southern Manitoba. Additional 1000 leased acres. Good customer list. Stacey Hiebert (204)371-5930 Stacey@canadianfarmrealty.com

REAL ESTATE Farms & Ranches – Wanted GOOD QUALITY GRAIN & Cattle Farms wanted for Canadian & Overseas Clients. For a confidential meeting to discuss the possible sale of your farm, or to talk about what is involved, Phone Jim McLachlan:(204)724-7753. www.homelifepro.com HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc.

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2013 Malt Contracts Available 2014 AOG Malt Contracts Available Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 BoxPhone 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 204-737-2000 Phone 204-737-2000 2014Toll-Free AOG Malt Contracts Available 1-800-258-7434 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 BoxMalt 238 MB. R0G 1C0 Agent: M &Letellier, J Weber-Arcola, SK. 2013 Contracts Available Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK. Phone 204-737-2000 Phone 306-455-2509 Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 Phone 306-455-2509 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 Phone 204-737-2000 Agent: M & 1-800-258-7434 J Weber-Arcola, SK. Toll-Free Phone FARMERS, RANCHERS, Agent: M & J 306-455-2509 Weber-Arcola, SK. PhonePROCESSORS 306-455-2509 SEED

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EXCELLENT LIVESTOCK FARM EXTENDING to 1,732 deeded acres w/4,425-ac of Crown land. All the land is fenced & the farm has very good buildings & metal corral system. The farm can carry up to 400-450 cow/calf pairs. There is a small bungalow home. Also, excellent 254-ac property located in the RM of Alexander at the junction of Maskwa & the Winnipeg River. This would make a first class cottage development, or is suitable for other uses.

Jim McLauchlan (204)724-7753. Homelife Home Professional Realty Inc. www.homelifepro.com

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2013 Malt Contracts Available Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 Phone 204-737-2000 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK. Phone 306-455-2509

LIVESTOCK Cattle Wanted

CAREERS Farm / Ranch FULL TIME YEAR ROUND farm labourer required to work alongside owners on grain & purebred cattle operation w/newer equipment. Must have valid driver’s license. Competitive wages determined by farm experience. McTavish Farms, Moosomin, SK. Contact Sean (306)435-9843 or Betty (306)435-4125, email resume to bbmct@rfnow.com

Mid-Man Farms Ltd., is looking for an experienced Farm Mechanic & Grain Operations Handler to join their growing team. Mid-Man Farms Ltd. has been operating in the Carberry, MB area for approx. 100 years & maintain an exceptionally high commitment to excellence. Email: lchammartin@peoplefirsthr.com.

CAREERS Help Wanted ALECT SEEDS is a pedigreed seed operation at Three Hills. We are looking for a careful, conscientious employee to help us produce quality seed for our customers. Main responsibility will include maintenance and operations of all farm equipment.

Our line of equipment is well-maintained, though not necessarily new. Other duties include cleaning equipment and bins and fabrication of specialized equipment for the seed business. Welding skills, Class 1 license and previous farm experience an asset, but we will train in any area. We want to add a detail oriented person with good mechanical aptitude to our team. Wage is $20-25 depending on experience. Please call (403)443-9599 or email resume to sarahweigum@gmail.com F/T POSITION AVAILABLE WORKING on a grain & livestock hog operation. Need a valid driver’s license, Class 1 would be an asset. Annual salary starting at $30,000. Phone Luc:(204)248-2107, (204)745-7306 or Email: lluc@mymts.net Notre Dame de Lourdes, MB. HELP WANTED: We are looking to hire a person to take responsibility for the feeding & care of our dairy cattle. The position requires the ability to work efficiently with a front end loader for feeding, bedding, & manure removal, close attention to detail, & reliability. Experience w/cattle an asset. If interested, please call (204)379-2640 or (204)745-7864.

NEW-HOLLAND/CIH TECHNICIAN REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY. Sunny Southern Alberta, growing independent dealership, competitive wages, benefits, relocation. Call Bob (403)625-3321 or email service@challengernh.ca

TRAILERS Livestock Trailers EXISS ALL ALUMINUM LIVESTOCK Trailers 2015 Stock available! 10-Yr Warranty. 7-ft wide x 20-ft & 24-ft lengths. Prices starting at $16,500.

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SEED / FEED / GRAIN SEED/ FEED/GRAIN Hay & Straw 400 5X6 ROUND BALES for sale. First cut alfalfa & alfalfa/ brome. Net wrapped, feed tested. Phone: (204)248-2643 or Email: colletfarm@gmail.com Notre Dame, MB. ALFALFA FOR SALE IN 3x4 square bales, stored inside delivery available. (204)746-4505.

ALFALFA GRASS HAY IN 3x4 square bales, large quantities available, starting at 3.5 cents per pound, beef quality, can deliver in semi-loads (204)326-8775 or (204)377-4244.

ANNUAL RYE GRASS SILAGE bales, 600 wrapped, 60-in diameter, feed analysis available.

Call Luc (204)248-2107 or (204)745-7306 FLAX STRAW FOR SALE, large round bales, $25/each. Headingley, MB. Phone:(204)864-2498.

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FOR SALE: 3RD CUT alfalfa. Perfect grain, good for rabbits, sheep, horses & dairy. $0.10/lb. 2nd cut alfalfa, $0.07/lb & rye grass, $0.06/lb. Chopped corn straw $0.04/lb.

Phone:(204)355-4980, Cell:(204)371-5744.

FOR SALE: ALFALFA/TIMOTHY MIX & oat, 5x6 round hard core bales, good quality, South of Gruntal MB on Hwy 216. Call evenings (204)427-2601.

GOOD QUALITY 3X3 FIRST cut alfalfa square bales in shed. Will load for $0.06/lb. Can arrange trucking.

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