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U.S. appeals latest WTO ruling on COOL Retaliatory tariffs are now delayed

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anada will have to wait up to three more months before it can impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods over Washington’s mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law on meat from imported livestock.

The U.S. government filed a notice of appeal Nov. 28 against the latest ruling by a World Trade Organization ( W TO) compliance panel, which last month released a ruling asking that COOL be brought “into conformity with ( WTO) obligations.”

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Feds extend railway grain-shipping targets Most of the industry supports the move, but millers fear it will lead to domestic shortages

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF AND ALEX BINKLEY

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ttawa’s last-minute decision to continue setting grain-shipping targets for the railways until March 28, 2015 has the support of western elevator companies and most farm groups, but not Canadian millers.

“It’s good news that they are keeping the spotlight on grain transportation for this winter period,” Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), said in an

interview Dec. 1. “We’re pleased to see this announcement.”

But millers are worried the order will see railways focus shipping to destinations with the quickest car turnaround times, resulting in supply shortages again in 2014-15, said Canadian National Millers Association (CNMA) president Gordon Harrison.

“Our position is that the (shipping) mandate has been a powerful deterrent to satisfying North American processors — not an incentive, a deterrent,” Harrison said in an interview Dec. 1.

“From my vantage point this just extends the deterrent. This continues and compounds the error. The government itself has described this repeatedly as a blunt instrument.”

Last March the federal government ordered the railways to each haul 500,000 tonnes of western grain to market each week to address a huge shipping backlog following a record harvest.

In August the volume was increased to 536,000 tonnes.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 4, 2014

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MLA attempts to make Bruce the Mosasaur a Manitoba icon

No such thing as a weed Grazier says they’ll decline with the right management practices

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The renowned Manitoba mosasaur species should become provincial emblem, Cameron Friesen says

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Manitoba PC release

Don’t let the weather fool you There’s been a spike in reports of heated canola

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FEATURE How to boost yield by 20 per cent Treat women farmers equally, says UN representative

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CROSSROADS Showcasing rural Manitoba art Association helps artists and crafters to promote their wares

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Editorials Comments What’s Up Livestock Markets

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Grain Markets Weather Vane Classifieds Sudoku

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anitoba’s most famous archeological gem, Bruce the Mosasaur, would become the marine reptile fossil emblem for Manitoba under a private member’s bill brought forward by PC MLA Cameron Friesen.

Bill 200, which received first reading in the Manitoba legislature Nov. 26 recognizes the mosasaur Tylosaurus pembinensis as Manitoba’s official marine reptile fossil emblem.

The 13-metre fossil was discovered in 1974 in a farmer’s field just west of Morden and is permanently exhibited at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre (CFDC) in the City of Morden.

“I believe this bill will highlight the significance of the CFDC’s world-class mosasaur exhibit and draw attention to Bruce the Mosasaur as a Manitoba institution,” said Friesen.

“Morden’s famous mosasaur specimen continues to gain attention both within the province and around the world, and recognizing the mosasaur as an official symbol of Manitoba is an important way to continue to celebrate one of Manitoba’s greatest archeological treasures,” Friesen said.

The 80-million-year-old reptile, named Bruce by Morden’s CFDC, was awarded a Guinness World Record this past September as

Manitoba’s most famous archeological gem, Bruce the Mosasaur, would become the marine reptile fossil emblem for Manitoba under a private member’s bill brought forward by PC MLA Cameron Friesen.

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the world’s largest mosasaur. In 2013, the Royal Canadian Mint cast a commemorative quarter recognizing Bruce the Mosasaur as the “T-Rex of the Sea.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 4, 2014

Manitobans encouraged to test homes for cancer-causing gas

Homes throughout the province, particularly in southwest, projected to contain high levels of radon gas

By Meghan Mast CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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hard-to-detect radioactive gas is suspected to be leaching through the foundations of many Manitoba homes and could be causing lung cancer.

The Canadian Cancer Society warns that radon gas is estimated to be present in an average of 24 per cent of Manitoba homes, more than double the national average of 11 per cent, according to a survey by Health Canada. Southwest areas of the province are particularly vulnerable — with an estimated 41 per cent; they are one of the areas most at risk in the country.

“We look at this as a significant risk for cancer that Manitobans were mostly unaware of and that they can do something about,” said Erin Crawford, director of public issues at the Manitoba D i v i s i o n o f t h e Ca n a d i a n Cancer Society.

Radon is odourless, colourless and tasteless, much like carbon monoxide, except there are no symptoms.

“So if you’re being exposed to it you won’t know it,” she said.

“The only health outcome is that down the road in 20 years you might be diagnosed with lung cancer.”

According to the Canadian Cancer Society 14 per cent of all new cancer cases in Canada were lung cancer in 2014, and 27 per cent of all cancer-related deaths were from lung cancer.

“It’s very difficult to detect

“If you’re being exposed to it you won’t know it.

The only health outcome is that down the road in 20 years you might be diagnosed with lung cancer.”

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and very difficult to diagnose,” said Crawford.

Radon gas is a major contributor — the second leading cause of lung cancer and the primary cause among non-smokers.

Homes built on soil containing high levels of uranium are more likely to contain high levels of radon gas. When uranium breaks down, underneath the house, the chemical element generates radon, a radioactive gas.

Crawford said there is no way to determine which types of houses are vulnerable because both new and older homes are susceptible. Older homes are more likely to have a cracked or porous foundation, vulnerable to radon gas, while new houses that are well insulated, but not well ventilated, can trap radon gas inside. “ Yo u m i g h t h a v e re a l l y, really high radon levels in your house and your neighbour might have per fectly acceptable radon levels just because of the difference in how each house is structured and ventilated.”

The only way for residents to

determine whether their home has acceptable levels is to test for radon. Test kits are available at some hardware stores or through the Canadian Cancer Society for $30.

Crawford recommends setting up the kit in the basement or wherever you do your “lowest level of living” and waiting three months. Once the time has elapsed you can return the kit to the cancer society that will send the kit off to the lab.

Health Canada lowered its guidelines for safe radon levels from 800 bequerels per square metre to 200 in 2007. A bequerel is a unit measure for radioactivity.

People who find they have high radon levels are encouraged to contact a certified radon mitigator who will conduct mitigation work — sealing the area or improving the circulation.

“We really think this is important,” she said. “We think it’s important for Manitobans to take action and we hope government will take action on this as well.” meghan.mast@fbcpublishing.com

Manitoba homes are twice as likely to contain radon gas than the national average. The southwest area of the province is most at risk. SUPPLIED GRAPHIC

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Deere says sales to drop with farm income

DECEMBER 10TH & 11TH 2014

Sales of farm equipment expected to drop 25-30 per cent industry-wide

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eere & Co. last week said it expected equipment sales to fall further as lower grain prices discourage farmers from buying tractors, harvesters and other machinery.

Deere’s sales have been hit as bumper corn harvests drive down prices, leaving farmers with less cash to spend on equipment. Corn prices have fallen about 11 per cent this year so far, on top of a decline of nearly 40 per cent last year.

“The slowdown has been most pronounced in the sale of large farm machinery, including many of our most profitable models,” chief executive Samuel Allen said in a statement last Wednesday.

Deere gets more than twothirds of its revenue from farm and turf machinery.

The Department of Agriculture said last week that falling grain prices and rising costs would drag down U.S. farm sector profits in 2014 to their lowest since 2010.

Moline, Illinois-based Deere cut its forecast for corn price next

year to about $3.45 per bushel from $4.10. It also reduced its estimates for wheat, soybean and cotton prices.

Sale of farm machinery in North America is expected to fall 25-30 per cent industry-wide next year, Deere said.

The company has cut jobs and scaled back production of farm equipment to match demand.

Deere said in August that it would lay off more than 1,000 employees at five U.S. plants.

“We believe Deere will be aggressive in cutting production — the company plans to cut inventory even against this weak sales forecast — which suggests that (the current quarter) could be a particularly weak quarter,” Jefferies & Co. analyst Stephen Volkmann wrote in a note.

Deere, which also makes construction equipment, said it expected overall machinery sales to fall about 21 per cent in the first quarter ending Jan. 31.

Net income attributable to the company fell to $649.2 million, or $1.83 per share, in the fourth quarter ended Oct. 31 from $806.8 million, or $2.11 per share, a year earlier.

Keystone Centre, Brandon We will be recognizing the following growers for their years of service at the Awards Banquet at the Keystone Centre on December 10th.

15 - WATT, DALLAS LEE - RESTON

30 - BROWN, ALAN - MELITA

15 - CHOMOKOVSKI, RICHARD - ARBORG 15 - LOWRY, ROBERT - NEEPAWA

30 - DUDGEON, GILBERT ARTHUR DARLINGFORD

15 - GUILLAS, DANNY - EDEN

30 - FRIDFINNSON, BRIAN H. - ARBORG

15 - ARMSTRONG, A.J. - BOISSEVAIN

30 - GREIG, FRED L. - RESTON

20 - ROURKE, DAVID - MINTO

30 - JOHNSON, HILMAR - RIVERTON

20 - SIRSKI, ERNIE - DAUPHIN

30 - KLEPATZ, WAYNE - WHITEMOUTH

20 - CHESLOCK, DERRICK ST. ANDREWS

30 - RZYHAK, CLIFFORD J. HADASHVILLE

20 - DESROCHERS, DAVID OSCAR BALDUR

30 - SANDERS, DANIEL - MANITOU

45 - PARENT, RENALD - ST. JOSEPH

30 - STOREY, TROY K - GRANDVIEW

20 - NICKEL, GORDON - SOLSGIRTH

35 - STEWART, JAMES G. GILBERT PLAINS

45 - GIESBRECHT, JOHN W. PLUM COULEE

20 - PARENT, PAUL - ST.JOSEPH 20 - SISSONS, BLYE PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE

35 - MAGNUSSON, BARRY - ARBORG

20 - CAVERS, LANDON - PILOT MOUND

35 - MC ELROY, DARRELL LORNE MORDEN

20 - PENNER, DANNY - ALTONA 20 - MARTENS, WESLEY J. - ALTONA 20 - HAMBLIN, BRADLEY - MORRIS

35 - PENNER, CURTIS - LOWE FARM

35 - ARMSTRONG, DUNCAN T. BOISSEVAIN

25 - BARGEN, JOHN ALLEN - CARMAN

35 - CATELLIER, PATRICK RAYMOND DUFROST

25 - AMMETER, GARY - STARBUCK

35 - KALETA, JAMES - DAUPHIN

25 - DURAND, MARC R. NOTRE DAME DE LOURDES

35 - SANDERS, ANDRE O - MANITOU

25 - FRIESEN, RICK - ROSENORT, MB

35 - STEVENSON, RICHARD D.O. KENTON

40 - MOORHOUSE, JAMES RICHARD PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE 40 - FOTHERINGHAM, JOHN A (JACK) RESTON 40 - KYLE, JOHN LAWRENCE OAT BANK 40 - KYLE, LORNE - OAT BANK 45 - NICKEL, JOHN - SOLSGIRTH 45 - NICKEL, JAMES - SOLSGIRTH

45 - JOHNSTON, MELVYN H. DARLINGFORD 45 - KUZMINSKI, JOHN WILLIAM EAST SELKIRK 45 - RIDDELL, CLIFFORD ROYDEN WARREN 50 - DURAND, GABRIEL A. NOTRE DAME DE LOURDES 50 - FROEBE, EARL WINSTON HOMEWOOD 55 - ENS, ABRAM E. - WINKLER 55 - KLETKE, HELEN EVA - TEULON 55 - WIEBE, HENRY D. - ALTONA 60 - DURSTON, DEAN D. - DAUPHIN

25 - RUNNE, JAMES ARMIN - ELM CREEK

35 - TIMCHISHEN, DONALD VICTOR ARBORG

30 - BARTEL, BOB - CROMER

40 - PARKINSON, FRED - MIAMI

65 - PITURA, CARL - WINNIPEG

25 - JAMES, DAVID J. - WINNIPEG

65 - RITCHIE, JOHN ROSS - DAUPHIN

www.seedmanitoba.ca for agenda details

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 4, 2014

OPINION/EDITORIAL

Foraging for a national voice

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ust four years since its inception, the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association is struggling after losing the support of the sector that arguably benefits the most from its activities.

Eighty per cent of Canada’s beef production depends on forages as the main feed source.

Of the $5.1 billion of economic activity forages contribute to the Canadian economy, 53 per cent is captured directly by beef producers.

Laura Rance Yet the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association Editor this year declined to continue with the $20,000 contribution it has given the CFGA over the past three years, citing limited budgets and its ongoing support for forage research through the Beef Cattle Research Council, a national industry-led funding agency for beef research.

This decision is hard to understand given cattle prices these days. Granted, beef cattle numbers are down and the CCA’s activities depend on checkoffs.

But if funds are limited, it’s mainly because of the $3.25 million the organization has reportedly spent legally challenging the U.S. country-of-origin labelling legislation, combined with another $3 million put into lobbying efforts. And five years into the battle, cattle producers have very little to show for these efforts to date.

We suspect the CCA executive looked at the funds it was contributing to the CFGA and decided it would rather support research projects than provide operating funds to an organization lobbying for research funds. But if that’s the case, it’s missing the point.

It’s become painfully obvious in recent times that without a national voice, support for forage research will continue to decline in this country. Forage is Canada’s largest crop, occupying 39 per cent of its cultivated land, but because it feeds into the front end of the value chain, it’s virtually invisible. Since the crop is either consumed on the farm or sold directly to another producer, there’s no way to collect a checkoff.

A 2007 analysis shows publicly funded forage research had declined by $44 million a year during the previous 15. And forage yields have stagnated or declined because of a lack of research.

The CCA’s own data shows the return on investment on funds used to finance research is 46 to one. Maybe the COOL fight has to continue, but measured by bang for the buck, surely forage research deserves a bit more of cattle producers’ resources. They have the most to gain from a strong national voice for the forage sector, and the most to lose if it disappears. laura@fbcpublishing.com

The cure for high prices is…

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hen you get right down to it, covering grain markets is kind of like sports reporting. Depending on your perspective, the outcome at the end of the day is either win, lose or tie. There’s only so many ways to describe that, just as there are only so many ways to describe why the market has moved up or down.

Therefore, sports journalism is prone to clichés such as, “We just have to put together a solid offence and play 60 minutes of football.”

John Morriss In grain market analysis, the inevitable cliché Editorial Director (which we’ve heard quite a few times lately) is, “The cure for high prices is high prices.”

If that were true, it would mean that the world’s farmers increase acreage and inputs when prices were high, and decrease them when prices are low. In fact, the world’s total crop acreage changes very little from year to year. As for inputs, the more likely pattern is that farmers maximize them to take advantage of high prices, and maximize them when prices are low so they can compensate with more volume.

Here’s what happened to world crop area, production and prices from 2013 to 2014: • Wheat: World area was up 0.245 per cent, production was up 0.72 per cent. U.S. area was up 2.2 per cent, production was down 5.1 per cent.

Most of the world wheat crops harvested this year were planted in September 2013, and prices today are down 10 per cent from then. Conclusion: Wheat producers have zero control of prices.

• Corn: World area was down 1.5 per cent and production up 0.11 per cent. U.S. area is down 5.2 per cent and production is up 3.46 per cent.

Compared to last spring when most of the world’s corn was planted, prices are down 23 per cent. Conclusion: Cutting corn acres sure doesn’t seem to do much to help prices.

• Total world oilseeds: Area is up 2.1 per cent and production up 4.74 per cent. U.S. oilseeds: Area up 11.5 per cent, production up 18.34 per cent. Since last April, soybean prices are down 30 per cent. Those soybean acres all came out of corn. Conclusion: It all comes out in the wash, and then some.

So what’s the real cure for high prices? Rain in the U.S. john.morriss@fbcpublishing.com

Money saved on elections goes into research Why the MWBGA chose in-person votes instead of mail-in ballots

By Don Dewar

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s interim chair of the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association, I feel I must respond to the letter by Ian Robson in the November 20 edition of the Manitoba Co-operator. Ian suggests that there should be a mail-in ballot for the election of directors, and that all directors should be elected this year, rather than one-half of the board.

He is the first farmer to suggest that a mailin ballot should be used, and unfortunately he chose to use a public forum rather than direct contact with either our office or myself or any of the other directors to discuss the rationale.

The interim board of directors drafted a set of bylaws to govern the association. These bylaws, among other governance issues, contain the number of directors, the process by which elections are held, and who is eligible to be a director. They are consistent with bylaws of other grower organizations in Manitoba.

These bylaws were submitted along with our petition to manage a checkoff and become the representative organization for wheat and barley growers to the certification agency.

Neither the certification agency, or the minister of agriculture along with cabinet raised any concerns with the processes outlined in those bylaws, and the certification was granted.

Changing any of the election process now or any time in the future would require a bylaw change.

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The rationale for beginning with an inperson election and electing three directors in each of the next two years are as follows: An in-person election at the annual general meeting meets the recognized standard of governance and saves tens of thousands of dollars that can now be invested in research and market development in the early years of the organization when funds are limited.

Only the Manitoba Canola Growers has adopted a mail-in ballot system and it only chose to do so after a lengthy debate and bylaw changes. Electing three directors each year creates board continuity and stability while the organization builds its capacity to serve Manitoba producers.

Bylaws can only be changed by a meeting of the members, which will be held during the Crop Connect conference in Winnipeg. The board of directors will be available, and if the membership believes that any of the bylaws should be changed, there can be discussion at the meeting.

We invite all members, including Mr. Robson, to attend our annual meeting and provide input regarding priorities and governance issues that can best serve the interests of Manitoba wheat and barley producers. The annual general meeting is the more appropriate place for this discussion and debate. If you are unable to attend, contact us through the website or by telephone and let us know your thoughts.

Don Dewar farms near Dauphin, Man. The Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association website can be found at: http://www.mbwheatandbarley.ca.

November 1974

ou could lease this automatic telephone answering machine advertised for $28.30 per month ($131.47 in 2014 dollars) in our Nov. 28, 1974 issue.

The editorial that week talked about a “black year” for Canadian grain shipments. Our front page reported yet another strike, this time by grain inspectors. This followed strikes by Great Lakes vessel crew, St. Lawrence River pilots and then deck officers and marine mechanics.

This bad news was on top of a difficult year for production, unfortunately at a time of near-record prices. The year saw late seeding due to excess moisture, followed by drought and then a resumption of rain which sharply downgraded the harvest. That week we reported Statistics Canada’s estimate of a wheat crop of 522 million bushels (14.2 million tonnes) compared to 605 million bushels in 1973 and a 10-year average of 611 million bushels.

Provincial agriculture ministers were calling for more control of the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency. Manitoba agriculture minister, Sam Uskiw said that unless they agreed to set up a national commission to enforce production quotas and prices, egg marketing would continue to be a haphazard enterprise. The chair of the Ontario Egg Marketing Board said that because of recent imports of 1.5 million dozen U.S. eggs, the board had been forced to cut prices to 14 cents a dozen under the cost of production.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 4, 2014

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

The U.S. battle over immigration reform All right already — just fix it

By Alan Guebert

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Letters

f you ran your farm or ranch like the White House and Congress run the federal government, your corn would never get planted and your cows would be long gone.

Of course, if you ran your farm or ranch anywhere near the level of — what? — the scornful divisiveness and almost pure reactionary politics that now guide Congress and the White House you wouldn’t be ranching or farming today. You’d be long gone like the corn and the cows.

But here we all are — you, me, Congress, the president — someplace in between “No!” and “Hell, no!” and now we’re fighting it out over one of the nation’s biggest, most intractable problems: immigration reform.

In fact, there’s no shortage of workable immigration ideas already packaged and partly approved. First there’s the sweeping, bipartisan Senate deal from June 2013, where 14 Republicans (including doctrinaire conservatives such as Florida’s Marco Rubio, Utah’s Orrin Hatch and New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte) joined Dem. and Independent colleagues to pass immigration reform by a lopsided 68-32 margin.

Without their labour, legal and illegal, our hugely productive farm and food sector wouldn’t even be productive, let alone hugely productive.

Unlike the White House’s recent announcement of executive actions that so offended Congress’s GOP leaders, the Senate bill contains a winding, 13-year path to U.S. citizenship for current illegals and would require stiff security tests for any immigrant to receive the key to legal employment, a green card.

T h e n t h e re’s t h e i n c e n d i a r y White House action that uses the president’s executive author ity to, as Wall Street Journal reports, “shield as many as five million illegal immigrants from deportation and offer them a chance for work per mits, while overhauling the enforcement system and boosting border security…”

Both approaches are at some level, pretty much what immigra-

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

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Whose interests served in CWB sale?

Judas goat — a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared – Wikipedia (2014) The Ministry of Agriculture and Agri-Food in Ottawa wears two hats. With one hat, the job is to assist agricultural-related businesses, while with the other hat, the job is to help farmers. With the pending sale of the CWB, which hat will be worn?

I remember the minister telling farmers the railways would be penalized if the grain was not moved in a timely manner. The regulations he drafted fitted with the industry plan to consolidate the handling system. One result is many farmers pay more to truck grain farther to shipping points. This is another example of the minister not wearing his farmer hat.

When Bill Gates, of computer fame, can be quoted as saying competition is bad for business, the statement must be accurate. If the government turns the CWB over to the farmer-based organization wanting to buy the CWB, grainhandling companies will not want this added competition. As they did with Viterra, they want to absorb the CWB. Of the other reasons the grain companies do not want farmers taking over the CWB, one might be their concern that if farmers buy the CWB, the farmers could see how they are being gouged by grain handlers.

tion reformers say the U.S. has long needed: a way to at least “legalize” the work these “illegal” workers perform; more border security to limit illegal immigration; and a simple recognition that we are not going to deport the 11 million illegals already here.

Indeed, we can’t deport the 11 million illegals here because we’re too cheap. For years, Congress has appropriated only enough money to find, process and deport “some 400,000… or less than four per cent” per year of the illegals living in the U.S., according to Stephen Legomsky, the former chief counsel in charge of immigration for the Department of Homeland Security.

In a very big way, however, American farmers and ranchers depend on that lax enforcement. Current estimates show that U.S. farms and ranches now employ as many as three million immigrants and anywhere from 500,000 to 1.75 million of these workers are in the country illegally.

T h e s e a re t h e m o s t l y b r ow n hands of the mostly unseen men, women and children who touch our lives several times each day. They pick our fruit, harvest our fresh vegetables, milk our cows, shep-

If there are people in the ministry who farm, and the ministry is taking steps to prevent the farm organization from buying the CWB, can those people be considered “Judas goats?”

Lorne Jackson Moose Jaw, Sask.

MBP continues to lobby for producer support Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) has been lobbying the federal and provincial governments for needsbased programming to assist all cattle producers in Manitoba facing feed shortages due to this year’s flooding and excess moisture.

On Nov. 12, the federal and provincial governments announced the Canada-Manitoba Forage Shortfall and Transportation Assistance Initiative under AgriRecovery. The program includes a transportation assistance program for the entire province as well as a forage shortfall program that is directed at producers in the Lake Manitoba/Lake Winnipegosis areas.

MBP welcomed the governments’ recognition of the significant struggles cattle producers have faced in 2014. However, we also recognize that this program is not without its challenges and share the concerns of Manitoba farmers who are frustrated they were not included in the forage shortfall program.

In its discussions with both levels of government, MBP repeatedly lobbied for a comprehensive program for all affected Manitoba producers. We pledge to those producers who were not included that we will continue to press for a forage shortfall program that will help address the immense losses they suffered in 2014.

MBP also continues to seek a Livestock Tax Deferral Provision, for producers forced to downsize their breeding herd due to feed concerns.

Ensuring that there are comprehensive water management strategies to help reduce the risks associated with future flooding remains an ongoing MBP priority.

This is a critical time for Manitoba’s beef industry, which has weathered significant challenges in recent years due to factors such as natural disasters, COOL and other issues, leading to significantly reduced cattle numbers. Yet there is tremendous

herd our flocks, slaughter our livestock and poultry, mow our lawns, do our housework and landscape our backyards.

Without their labour, legal and illegal, our hugely productive farm and food sector wouldn’t even be productive, let alone hugely productive.

An even greater tr uth is that these workers, legal and illegal combined, are far from adequate today. Labour experts guess that hundreds of thousands more workers are needed in today’s fast-growing “fresh” food market. Expanding today’s authorized “legal” guestworker program, the H-2A, won’t solve the problem. Employers complain it is confusing, bureaucratic and to be avoided.

That leads to more illegal hiring of more illegal immigrants.

The fix to this all-but-certain future is plain: our political leaders need to do what we hired them to do — lead. Enough already with the showdowns, shutdowns and putdowns. Initiate, negotiate, legislate.

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potential for growth thanks to governments securing new and expanded opportunities for our beef products. We need a growing, not a shrinking herd, to capitalize on these opportunities.

MBP remains committed to securing comprehensive programs to help the affected producers move beyond this disaster.

Heinz Reimer President Manitoba Beef Producers

Hydro not telling the whole land acquisition story Manitoba Hydro claims it has secured rights-ofway for 90 per cent of the 1,400-km line.

What Hydro disingenuously omitted from this story is that 80 per cent of the line will run through Crown land, which means that rights to half of the 20 per cent that is privately owned still have not been nailed down.

Only 250 of 447 landowners have signed up, many of them on marginal land on the west side of lakes Manitoba and Winnipegosis, with only a few from the rich farmland of the Red River Valley.

Hydro has signed up only 34 private landowners in the past two months, even with a letter threatening expropriation sent to the “holdouts.” It has had to delay the completion date for Bipole III by one year to 2018.

In the 2012 environmental review for this project, Hydro proudly proclaimed it had expropriated private land only once before in its long history. With Bipole III, it faces the prospect of expropriating nearly 200 properties.

Hydro’s deplorable success in convincing even civic-minded landowners to give up their land for this ill-conceived and wrong-headed transmission line is an unprecedented public relations nightmare for Hydro. This reality makes a farce of the Hydro vice-president’s statement that “We are making good progress in moving forward to build this line.”

You would think that Hydro and the government would stop to ask each other “what’s wrong with this picture?”

Garland Laliberte Bipole III Coalition Winnipeg, Man.

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FROM PAGE ONE RAIL TARGETS Continued from page 1

That order expired Nov. 29. Late that evening Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz issued a press release announcing new volumes of grain the railways must haul between Nov. 30, 2014 and March 31, 2015.

As with the previous order, the railways are subject to a $100,000 fine per order violation.

The Canadian Canola Growers Association, Alberta Wheat Commission and Grain Growers of Canada issued statements favouring the extension.

The new tonnage figures are lower and vary by month.

To late December, the railways have to move 345,000 tonnes each, dropping to 200,000 tonnes during the Christmas holidays and rising to 325,000 tonnes each a week through most of January and February.

It will be 345,000 tonnes each for most of March, peaking at 465,000 tonnes for the last

“I’m not happy with it. This really is a disappointment.”

Gordon Harrison CNMA

week of March. By that time, the government will again have to decide whether to renew the weekly limits.

Continuing the minimums “should help ensure that the rail shipping deficiencies expeAs with the previous order, railways are subject to a $100,000 fine per violation. file photo rienced last winter do not recur and the orderly movement of “We hope this is a floor, not a CNMA’s concerns about getting grain continues,” Grain Growers where the grain is shipped,” he ceiling,” he added. of Canada president Gar y said. grain to North American procesSobkowich has the same sors, Sobkowich said.

If the railways failed to keep Standford said.

The Western Canadian Wheat up with demand again, as they concern.

“Hopefully, if the railways are “It needs to be treated as a providing capacity that’s more Growers Association doesn’t did in 2013-14, the government support the extension, policy could introduce a shipping minimum (not a cap),” he said. in line with industry demand, as manager Blair Rutter said in an order, Rutter said in an earlier “If the railways strictly adhere opposed to the strict numbers to these numbers then we set out in the volume thresholds, interview. interview. won’t be able to move as much we’ll get closer representation to The shipping volumes set by “We would prefer a marketB:8.125” driven system where the cus- the government are low, Rutter grain as we need to.” the demand by corridor than we T:8.125” The WGEA also shares the received last year,” he said. added. tomer primarily determines S:8.125” Some North American millers ran out of grain last crop year because of poor rail service and millers don’t want a repeat, Harrison said. But last week there weren’t enough stocks of certain types of wheat in Thunder Bay to meet some millers’ needs, he said.

“This is exactly how it started last year — déjà vu all over again,” Harrison said.

“I’m not happy with it,” he said. “ This really is a disappointment.”

The federal government continues to call on the supply chain to co-operate to ensure efficient grain movement, Ritz said.

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Meanwhile, the government has sent conflicting signals about its plans for renewing the tonnage limits as the grain industry and the railways argued for and against an extension.

CN and CP also have to submit formal winter contingency plans to Transport Canada and supply the Grain Transportation Monitor with details about empty hopper car delivery to grain shippers.

That’s also welcome, said Rutter, Stanford and Sobkowich.

The total grain supply for the 2014-15 crop year is estimated to be 56.4 million tonnes harvested this fall, compared to 80 million tonnes in 2013, and a carry-over from the 2013 crop year of about 15.4 million tonnes.

Overall, the railways are expected “to provide reliable and predictable service to all shippers, all destinations, and throughout all corridors, as is their obligation as common carriers,” the government said in its release.

CN Rail says that normal commercial relationships and stable regulations are essential for a well-run system.

“More regulation threatens to increase costs, stifle innovation and potentially discourage investments that are critical to building the strong, safe and resilient supply chains of the future,” CN said in a news release Nov. 29. “It is vital for Canada’s stature as a trading nation — and CN’s role as a true backbone of the economy — that the government foster true supply chain collaboration.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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COOL RULING Continued from page 1

A new appeal would take the matter back to the WTO Ap p e l l a t e Bo d y, w h i c h i n 2 0 1 2 s h o t d ow n m u c h o f Washington’s appeal of a WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) ruling against COOL in 2011.

The new appeal would be heard by a three-member panel of the Appellate Body, which then has “up to three months to conclude its report,” the WTO said in a statement.

“This is a stall tactic by the U.S. for sure, but one that can only end with the U.S. making an appropriate resolution to COOL that is acceptable to Canada and Mexico in order to avoid retaliation,” Canadian Cattlemen’s Association president Dave Solverson said in a release Nov. 28.

However, the cattle producers’ group said right now it’s interested “in the right fix, as opposed to a fast fix” for COOL. Details of the U.S. government’s grounds for a new appeal were not immediately available.

By delaying action on COOL with another appeal, the U.S. government “is yet again preventing both of our countries from enjoying the benefits of freer and more open trade and is hurting farmers, ranchers and workers in the U.S. and Canada.”

Points of law

The WTO, however, emphasized that an appeal will “have to be based on points of law, such as legal interpretation.”

An appeal “cannot reopen factual findings” made by the compliance panel.

Passed by the U.S. government in 2008 and implemented in 2009, mandator y COOL requires countr y-of-or igin labelling for beef, pork, lamb, chicken and goat meat, and certain perishable commodities sold at retail outlets in the U.S. The U.S. Depar tment of Agriculture’s revisions to COOL in 2013, in the wake of the Appellate Body ruling, tightened COOL’s labelling provisions for muscle cuts of meat.

COOL now requires covered products’ labels to include even more specific information about where each production step (birth, raising, slaughter) took place.

The compliance panel in October r uled the revised COOL rule “increases the original COOL measure’s detrimental impact on the competitive opportunities of imported Canadian livestock.”

Hurting farmers

The impact of COOL on the Canadian cattle and hog sectors was estimated in 2012 to be about $1.1 billion per year,

but Canadian livestock groups note that impact has increased since the U.S. amended COOL last year.

Canada’s Trade Minister Ed Fast and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, said in a joint statement Canada is “deeply disappointed” with the U.S.’s latest decision to appeal.

Canada “fully expected the United States to live up to its international trade obligations and comply with the WTO ruling, which reaffirms Canada’s long-standing view that the revised U.S. COOL measure is blatantly protectionist and fails to comply with the WTO’s original ruling against it,” they said.

By delaying action on COOL with another appeal, the U.S. government “is yet again preventing both of our countries from enjoying the benefits of freer and more open trade and is hurting farmers, ranchers and workers in the U.S. and Canada.”

Ritz and Fast said they’re “confident” the WTO Appellate

U.S. failure to comply with meat labelling order could mean retaliatory tariffs on food exports to Canada.

Body will uphold the principal finding of the compliance panel report, “that the amended U.S. COOL measure discriminates against Canadian livestock.”

Retaliation

Canada will be able to request WTO authority for retaliatory tariffs once a decision on this

appeal is received confirming the compliance panel ruling, the CCA said, noting it expects a decision from the Appellate Body “perhaps as early as the spring of 2015.”

Barring any changes to bring COOL into compliance, Canada has already made out a shortlist of proposed retaliatory tariffs, targeting U.S. live cattle and

hogs and fresh and frozen beef and pork products.

The shortlist, announced last summer, also calls for tariffs on U.S. cereal, bread, pasta, frozen potatoes, frozen orange juice, wine, cheese, cocoa, apples, cherries, fowl, maple syrup, ketchup, sugars, glucose and fructose and some other foodand non-food-related wares.

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Lowering bovine greenhouse gas emissions Economic incentives are needed to get producers on board, according to ruminant research scientist

By Meghan Mast Co-operator Staff

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here would be both winners and losers if the world followed Tim McAllister’s advice on how to lower greenhouse gas emissions from methane-belching bovines.

“If we re a l l y w a n t e d t o reduce emissions we should be looking at identifying which areas in the world can produce ruminant products with the least amount of emissions and focusing production globally there,” said McAllister, a principal research scientist of ruminant nutrition and microbiology, from the Lethbridge Research Centre.

Canada would come out a winner because grain-fed cattle are more efficient at producing meat, which lowers the amount of emissions per kg of meat produced, he said.

However, producers in other regions of the world would likely protest and it’s unlikely

any nation would willingly give up their livestock industries.

McAllister proposes instead that producers adopt emissions abatement technology — and that they be given an economic incentive to do so.

“As it stands today there is no direct payment for lowering greenhouse gas emissions from cow production in Canada,” he said. “So anything that has to be introduced as a result of a change in production practices has to have economic viability as well.”

Carbon

Tropical countries, like Brazil, which is the largest beef exporter in the world, are able to experiment with techniques like carbon sequestration. Western Canadian producers could also sequester carbon if they took cropland out of production and turned it into perennial forage or grassland.

Trading grain diets for forage would have its own environmental impact though.

“Cattle out on pasture would

“As it stands today there is no direct payment for lowering greenhouse gas emissions from cow production in Canada.”

Tim McAllister

emit more methane per unit of meat produced,” said McAllister. “And that’s a change not very likely to occur in the future because the economic incentive is not there.”

The livestock sector contributes an estimated 7.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide every year — that’s 14.5 per cent of all human-induced emissions. Beef production accounts for 41 per cent of those greenhouse gases.

When it comes to sustainability there is more than just greenhouse gases though.

Bigger picture

McAllister said it is also important to consider the importance of biodiversity, water conservation, eutrophication and acidification.

“I think we need to think beyond greenhouse gases when it comes to beef cattle production and really look at a systemic type of approach that considers all aspects of the production system and the contribution that it makes to society and the environment as a whole.”

Greenhouse gases are easier to measure and that is why they have been targeted. Though there are no direct payment programs in Canada, some provinces are experimenting with incentive programs.

Alberta has a Conservation Cropping Protocol, through the federal government, where producers can earn “carbon offset” credits by adopting zero-till management, which increases soil carbon levels, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

McAllister said there are also

protocols in place to reward producers who add oil to their cattle’s diet, but not many farmers are adopting this practice since the cost of the oils currently outweighs the incentives.

“As a result, even though we know oils can lower methane emissions there is very little added to the beef cattle diets in Canada,” he said. Oil-enriched diets have the added bonus of also increasing the animal’s energy levels.

As the world’s population grows — projected to reach 9.5 billion by the year 2050 — and the amount of available farmable land continues to be limited, McAllister said, we will need to make some changes.

“We’re going to have to produce more meat on less land if we’re going to meet future requirements. That’s obviously going to lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions as well, because as we have more livestock we’re going to have more emissions.” meghan.mast@fbcpublishing.com

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COLUMN

Crude oil falls to a four-year low Plunging prices are casting a dark shadow across the commodity sector CRUDE OIL MONTHly Nearby

David Drozd

Chart as of Novenber 27, 2014

Market Outlook

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During the course of a trend and all the fluctuations which compose it, there is a wellobserved characteristic for prices to closely follow a sloping straight-line path. During a period of rising prices, this path is determined by a line drawn across the lows of the reactions. When an emerging trend can be identified and followed to its conclusion, it translates into opportunity. The use of trendlines is a valuable tool for accomplishing this.

In a rising market, for a trendline to be both valid and reliable there should be at least three points of price contact, each of which coincides with the low of a market reaction. These price reactions must bottom at progressively higher levels. Beyond the minimum of three contact points, the more times prices bounce off a trendline in a bull market, the more valuable it

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becomes as a trend indicator. nest, it has a very high tendency Similarly, the longer the trend- to persist. Thus, a properly line continues without being constructed trendline may be breached, the greater becomes touched several times by the fluctuating market the its technical significance.

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especially in Alberta, but also weaken the Canadian dollar.

This list is not all inclusive, but intended to demonstrate how closely tied the energy sector is to so many aspects of our dayto-day lives.

Therefore, it’s imperative to watch the outside markets, or you could find them sneaking up on you.

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

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

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This market’s steady decline may have come as a surprise to some followers of oil, but for those who study charting and technical analysis, they were first alerted to the impending downturn in June 2014.

The first telltale sign of a change in trend occurred on June 23, 2014, when a two-day reversal materialized on the daily NYMEX WTI crude oil futures charts. By week’s end, a two-week reversal appeared on the weekly nearby futures chart, followed by the development of a two-month reversal on the monthly nearby chart on July 31, 2014.

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LIVESTOCK MARKETS Cattle Prices

Heifers

Alberta South $ 179.00 - 182.00 — 115.00 - 140.00 100.00 - 120.00 — $ 204.00 - 232.00 225.00 - 249.00 233.00 - 265.00 245.00 - 285.00 269.00 - 315.00 290.00 - 375.00 $ 196.00 - 225.00 202.00 - 233.00 218.00 - 246.00 210.00 - 262.00 240.00 - 286.00 264.00 - 324.00

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

(850+ lbs.)

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

Futures (November 28, 2014) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change December 2014 169.25 -1.00 February 2015 169.67 -2.15 April 2015 168.30 -2.00 June 2015 160.60 -1.40 August 2015 157.05 -0.90 October 2015 158.20 -1.05

Feeder Cattle January 2015 March 2015 April 2015 May 2015 August 2015 September 2015

Cattle Slaughter

Ontario $ 165.90 - 187.43 150.87 - 179.55 82.24 - 119.61 82.24 - 119.61 111.83 - 139.56 $ 217.25 - 251.54 194.14 - 244.02 202.85 - 263.04 224.53 - 286.00 230.90 - 310.32 242.71 - 313.50 $ 185.61 - 222.58 201.30 - 224.35 172.63 - 241.87 200.60 - 250.92 203.52 - 274.08 219.77 - 289.38

Close 230.50 229.35 229.95 229.95 230.52 230.50

Change -5.07 -4.37 -4.00 -3.60 -3.30 -2.50

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending Previous November 22, 2014 Year­ Canada 53,205 48,220 East 13,422 12,400 West 39,783 35,820 Manitoba N/A N/A U.S. 567,000 621,000

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Week Ending November 22, 2014 1,261 25,184 13,974 552 759 10,717 185

Previous Year 666 20,572 12,791 559 793 12,122 116

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 190.00 E 177.00 E 181.41 184.33

Futures (November 28, 2014) in U.S. Hogs December 2014 February 2015 April 2015 May 2015 June 2015

Last Week 190.73 178.56 181.30 184.27

Close 90.95 89.55 91.87 94.70 98.00

Last Year (Index 100) 165.76 155.14 155.07 157.64

Change 0.18 -1.35 -0.88 -0.10 0.00

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: $0.8751 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.1427 Cdn.

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(Friday to Thursday) November 28, 2014 Winnipeg Slaughter Cattle Steers — Heifers — D1, 2 Cows 117.00 - 126.00 D3 Cows 107.00 - 115.00 Bulls 133.00 - 145.00 Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.) $ 185.00 - 222.00 (801-900 lbs.)

215.00 - 238.00 (701-800 lbs.)

235.00 - 262.00 (601-700 lbs.)

247.00 - 282.00 (501-600 lbs.)

275.00 - 308.00 (401-500 lbs.)

300.00 - 365.00 Heifers (901+ lbs.)

180.00 - 207.00 (801-900 lbs.)

190.00 - 214.00 (701-800 lbs.)

200.00 - 245.00 (601-700 lbs.)

210.00 - 267.00 (501-600 lbs.)

255.00 - 285.00 (401-500 lbs.)

265.00 - 307.00 Slaughter Cattle Grade A Steers Grade A Heifers D1, 2 Cows D3 Cows Bulls Steers

EXCHANGES: November 28, 2014

Winnipeg Next sale is Dec. 3rd

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 December 7, 2014 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.925 Undergrade .............................. $1.835 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.910 Undergrade .............................. $1.810 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.910 Undergrade .............................. $1.810 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................... $1.890 Undergrade............................... $1.805 Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.

Toronto 104.45 - 123.81 178.07 - 216.30 206.73 - 225.91 206.80 - 229.22 204.37 - 254.78 —

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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

Rush to market cattle puts prices under pressure The drop in crude oil prices may improve producer margins Dave Sims CNSC

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anitoba cattle prices ticked moderately downward for the week ended Nov. 28, with top-end bids decreasing in several areas and floor prices weakening slightly. Volumes stayed relatively steady, though, as producers rushed to get the bulk of their herds in before the onset of colder temperatures. In all, 16,364 animals made their way through the province’s eight main auction marts.

Prices for steer calves seemed to lower by five to 10 cents per pound, according to one auction mart, with another outlet reporting solid action on eastern-type cattle with a slight decrease on plainer types.

Demand for feeding cows and heiferettes increased, too, as young cows and feeding types brought values up to the $140-perhundredweight (cwt) range. Offers for steers (300-400 pounds) dipped below the $400/cwt range while steers in the 700to 800-lb. range generally received bids of $225 to $250/cwt.

The price of oil is one factor the general manager of Manitoba Beef Producers is monitoring. Prices for a barrel of crude oil are at the lowest point in 4-1/2 years.

Lower fuel prices are already being felt across the Prairies — a fact observers say should ultimately result in lower trucking costs. As well, ranchers may find some possible breaks in labour costs, according to Melinda German.

“Finding skilled workers to work on farms and ranches, a lot of those folks have been attracted to the oil industry; now with the lower prices, maybe some companies won’t

“Forty per cent of U.S. corn goes to produce ethanol, and if you have energy under pressure it’s going to affect the profitability of the ethanol sector.” mike jubinville

drill as aggressively and that might have some impact in terms of labour freeing up,” she said.

The impact on cheaper oil could also have an effect on corn, a commodity expert recently remarked.

“Forty per cent of U.S. corn goes to produce ethanol, and if you have energy under pressure it’s going to affect the profitability of the ethanol sector,” said Mike Jubinville of ProFarmer Canada.

Weakening demand in the ethanol sector is generally expected to reduce overall demand for corn, which should make it cheaper on the open market.

“If corn prices drop, that would help,” said German, adding “it’s a great feed ingredient in feeding and finishing animals.”

At the same time, she noted, these advantages could disappear in a hurry if the drop in oil values turns out to be a temporary blip.

“We’ll have to see how long prices stay down, to see if it will have an impact,” she said.

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

briefs

Feeder prices seen high through the holidays

By Jerry Klassen

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were well supported last week, with strong buying interest from both larger feedlot operators and the “year-end buyer” custom feeder. Fed cattle prices continue to trade near historical highs, causing feedlots to aggressively liquidate marketready supplies. Empty pens can have significant opportunity cost in this environment, so there is a sense of urgency for all weight categories of feeder cattle.

Auction markets reported prices that were basically steady with week-ago levels while discounts and premiums were a major feature.

In this environment, cowcalf producers can usually be rewarded for vaccinating and holding calves 30 to 45 days off their mothers.

These types of feeders generally demand a premium and the larger operation is quick to pounce on these cattle, especially with the colder wintry conditions.

Healthy cattle have lower death loss risk so the market functions accordingly.

The bulk of the fall run is now behind us and the market has not flinched, absorbing the surge in auction market volumes.

The beef complex is gearing up for the holiday season when restaurant traffic tends to increase. The fed cattle market looks firm, which will support feeder prices, but barley continues to ratchet higher, reaching $203 per tonne delivered Lethbridge this week.

Look for the feeder market to stay firm through December. Given the current feeding economics for the deferred months, it may be difficult to justify further upside January forward.

Jerry Klassen writes a weekly feeder market commentary, available every Monday on the Co-operator’s website at www. manitobacooperator.ca.

Goats Kids Billys Mature

Winnipeg (100 h Fats) — — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 120.08 - 239.84 — 107.72 - 245.65

Horses <1,000 lbs.

1,000 lbs.+

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 13.00 - 31.00 22.91 - 38.44

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Falling oil prices bearish for soy, thus for canola Foreign canola buyers notice oil’s effect on the loonie

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CE Futures Canada canola futures moved lower during the week ended Nov. 28, taking some direction from weakening Chicago soybean and soyoil futures.

The big news of the week was OPEC’s decision not to cut oil production in order to support crude oil prices, which sent oil values tumbling to nearly five-year lows.

Chart-based selling and traders exiting their long positions ahead of the end of the month — and to get out of the market — were adding to the declines in crude oil.

The falling oil market was bearish for soyoil, which in turn weighed on canola.

In return, the move sent the Canadian dollar sharply lower, as it dropped more than 1.5 cents over the week, which was underpinning canola. The Canadian dollar fell below the US87.5-cent mark, attracting foreign buyers and crushers to the market.

Commercial demand remains solid for Canadian canola, and with supplies not expected to be overly burdensome, the longterm outlook is looking a bit more positive for prices.

Crushers continue to buy a lot of canola, even though the Louis Dreyfus canolacrushing plant is still shut down at Yorkton, Sask. The company had hoped to reopen the plant before the end of November, but said investigations into the explosion incident last month were still underway. Dreyfus hopes to have a better timeline in early December for when the plant will be back in operation.

Demand remains steady in the U.S. soybean market as well, though there are some worries China will slow its buying soon.

One analyst cautioned about being too bearish on beans, as nearly 60 per cent of the 2014-15 crop has already been sold into cash markets and the futures market hasn’t broken too much. There are still another four months or so until the South American crop comes off; until then, the world will have to go to the U.S. if it wants to buy soybeans.

Export demand for U.S. corn supplies showed signs of improvement during the week, but the overall pace so far this year is still slow.

Week Ago

Year Ago

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

206.50

201.08

240.67

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

219.91

214.77

252.34

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

148.91

146.94

163.48

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

191.28

211.22

236.84

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

384.71

374.97

491.08

Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)

738.23

720.37

886.85

Coarse Grains

oilseeds

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Last Week

All prices close of business November 28, 2014

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

Corn futures were slightly higher overall, as gains in wheat helped to lift the market.

Losses in soybeans during the week, however, were overhanging the corn market.

The declining crude oil market was also bearish for corn, as it could discourage ethanol usage and blending, which would in turn lower demand for corn in the ethanol market.

With the large U.S. corn and soybean crops seen this year, demand will need to be very strong for both crops to keep prices from falling.

U.S. wheat values were moving higher during the week, with concerns about smaller winter wheat production next year behind the advances.

Unfavourable cold weather and a lack of protective snow cover have been raising worries about crop damage to recently sown winter wheat in parts of the U.S., Ukraine and Russia over the past couple of weeks.

Signs of improving demand for U.S. wheat were also supportive, though strength in the U.S. dollar index continues to make U.S. supplies more expensive on the export market.

Traders will be watching the Dec. 10 monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture report to see what supply-and-demand estimates look like for corn, wheat and soybeans.

The Dec. 1 weekly crop report from USDA will also be important, as it will indicate how much harvest, if any, is left for corn and soybeans.

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

Winnipeg Futures ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business November 28, 2014 barley

Last Week

Week Ago

December 2014

174.00

163.00

March 2015

177.00

166.00

May 2015

177.00

165.00

Canola

Last Week

Week Ago

January 2015

425.30

431.00

March 2015

425.70

433.50

May 2015

427.40

434.60

Special Crops Report for December 1, 2014 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan Spot Market

Spot Market

Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)

Other ( Cdn. cents per pound unless otherwise specified)

Large Green 15/64

Canaryseed

35.50 - 40.00

Laird No. 1

33.00 - 40.00

Oil Sunflower Seed

Eston No. 2

27.00 - 31.00

Desi Chickpeas

Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

23.00 - 25.00 — 15.20 - 16.00

Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)

Green No. 1

8.30 - 9.00

Fababeans, large

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Medium Yellow No. 1

6.90 - 7.00

Feed beans

—

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

No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans

4.10 - 4.10

Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)

24.00 - 24.00

No. 1 Great Northern

41.00 - 41.00

No. 1 Cranberry Beans

39.00 - 39.00

Yellow No. 1

30.40 - 32.00

No. 1 Light Red Kidney

50.00 - 50.00

Brown No. 1

25.70 - 27.00

No. 1 Dark Red Kidney

56.00 - 56.00

Oriental No. 1

29.50 - 31.00

Source: Stat Publishing SUNFLOWERS

No. 1 Black Beans

28.00 - 28.00

No. 1 Pinto Beans

22.00 - 32.00

No. 1 Small Red

41.00 - 41.00

No. 1 Pink

41.00 - 41.00

Fargo, ND

Goodlands, KS

18.10

18.00

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Report for November 26, 2014 in US$ cwt NuSun (oilseed) Confection Source: National Sunflower Association

Buckwheat problem gives Putin food for thought Snowfall reports prompt panic buying of Russian staple

By Timothy Heritage Moscow / Reuters

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s if Russian President Vladimir Putin did not have enough to worry about with western sanctions, falling oil prices and a collapsing currency, there is also now the price of buckwheat.

Rumours that snow has ruined the harvest in the Altai region that grows the seed have caused panic buying in some areas and pushed up the price of one of Russia’s most popular foods.

Stockpiles are plentiful, experts see no reason for concern or shortages, and analysts rule out any link

with the sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis.

But Putin still has a problem: any hint of panic over Russia’s economic downturn could be exploited by critics at home and abroad as a sign that the sanctions are biting hard.

“It’s pure and simple hysterics,” the head of the ProZerno grain consultancy, Vladimir Petrichenko, said of the panic buying. Appealing for calm over the snowfall, he said: “Everybody said everything had been lost, not just part of the crop.”

Russians eat what they call “grechka” in traditional dishes as well as everyday meals such as “kasha” (porridge).

P r i c e s d o u b l e d a l m o s t ov e r night after the snow this month in mountainous Altai, near China, K a z a k h s t a n a n d Mo n g o l i a , b u t ProZerno has predicted a 2014 crop of 705,000 tonnes, more than enough to meet the annual demand of 550,000 tonnes.

The economic impact may ultimately be minimal, but the political damage may already have been done.

Footage shot by a hidden camera and broadcast on state-run Channel One at the weekend showed customers buying a grocery store out of buckwheat in minutes. In the frantic buying, one man was seen grabbing at least nine bags.

Such images evoke memories of the empty shelves of the Soviet communist era when Moscow was isolated — a situation Putin says will not be repeated over Ukraine.

In response to the panic buying, media have increasingly got on message, accompanying most reports with comments by experts reassuring viewers there is not cause for concern.

State-run Channel One television blamed the situation on “speculators,” a similar explanation to one provided for the rouble’s slide and shifting any blame away from the Kremlin.

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STEVE KENYON: The weed whisperer Alberta cattle farmer shares his tips on successful practices

By Meghan Mast CO-OPERATOR STAFF / BOISSEVAIN

W

hen Steve Kenyon speaks to producers about pasture management, he likes to rile up the crowd. “There’s no such thing as weeds,” he said to cattle farmers gathered in the Boissevain community centre last week.

“What we call a weed is just a plant that hasn’t learned to grow in rows yet. Or we haven’t got a purpose for it yet.”

Kenyon, an Alberta beef producer, tours the country speaking about land management and grazing practices. Last week he visited Pipestone, Birtle and Boissevain.

He preaches the benefits of following four grazing concepts — short graze periods, long-enough rest periods, adequate stock density and increased animal impact on problem spots.

To illustrate his points, Kenyon showed a photo of a field he took over. The pasture, once a silage field, was now covered with Canada thistle.

Kenyon got to work, broadcasting seed over the land and letting the cattle graze the weed-riddled area, pushing the seeds into the ground with their hooves, and trampling the

thistle, creating a trash cover to conserve moisture.

He encourages producers to think of weeds as scabs that are trying to heal the land when conditions are harsh. They are able to dig deep down into the toughest soils, reaching for moisture and nutrients and pulling that good stuff to the surface.

“I want it to grow and complete its cycle,” he said. Then, so long as the pasture is not overgrazed, baby grass has a chance to grow the next season.

“Favour the conditions for the desired species to outcompete the weeds.”

Canada thistle does not do well in good soil conditions, and as the grass gains strength it chokes out the weeds. If the conditions are more

A silage field Kenyon took over that was covered with Canada thistle.

desirable for grass and other forage those plants will outcompete the weeds.

Some weeds, like stinging nettle, can even have positive health benefits for the animals. Stinging nettle contains multivitamins that are appealing to cattle with few minerals in their diet.

A producer from the crowd piped up, “Have you heard about leafy spurge?” The noxious weed is costing Manitoba graziers millions in lost productivity.

Kenyon seemed to anticipate the question. “Everybody always has a weed they’ll come up with,” he said. Though he has not dealt with leafy spurge, he feels confident his approach, with relevant modifications for the environment, applies to any weed problem.

“A weed is just a plant that hasn’t learned to grow in rows yet.”

STEVE KENYON

He referred back to the four fundamental grazing practices, emphasizing the importance of solving the underlying problem.

“Is there a mineral imbalance?

Whatever the plant is, it’s got an advantage and that’s why it’s there.”

In the past, when he has come across particularly difficult weeds, Kenyon said he bale grazed problem areas on the pasture. This increased the animal impact on the area, enriching the land by depositing nutrients from the feed.

Of course these practices don’t eliminate the weeds altogether. The plants are suppressed and the seeds are still underneath the surface waiting for the next strain on the land, like a drought.

And during that time whatever you do, according to Kenyon, don’t spray or till the land to get rid of weeds. If the county is pressuring you to address your weed problem, he recommends mowing the land.

This will leave the residue you need behind so the grass can grow.

Again he likens a weed to a scab.

“What happens when you rip off a scab? It bleeds.” meghan.mast@fbcpublishing.com

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That same field two years later.

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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

Feeder Steers

Nov-26

Nov-25

Nov-25

Nov-27

Nov-26

Nov-24

Nov-27

Nov-28

No. on offer

2,788*

1,340

710*

2,976

4,109*

921

2,270*

1,250

Over 1,000 lbs.

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

180.00-200.00

900-1,000

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

200.00-218.00

n/a

n/a

180.00-205.00

800-900

n/a

217.00-228.00

200.00-240.00

210.00-233.00

224.00-238.50

n/a

n/a

200.00-223.00

700-800

225.00-245.00

225.00-250.00

225.00-245.00

235.00-255.00

238.00-250.00 (252.00)

240.00-258.50

240.00-248.00 (251.00)

210.00-248.00

600-700

250.00-285.00

240.00-285.00

240.00-275.00

255.00-277.00

246.00-271.00 (274.00)

260.00-285.00 (298.50)

250.00-284.00 (287.00)

230.00-269.00

500-600

280.00-316.00

280.00-315.00

265.00-320.00

285.00-305.00

263.00-288.00

280.00-304.00

285.00-310.00 (315.00)

280.00-308.00

400-500

290.00-337.00

300.00-347.00

300.00-365.00

295.00-335.00

288.00-338.00

305.00-339.00

295.00-309.00 (315.00)

300.00-345.00

300-400

300.00-334.00

320.00-367.50

325.00-370.00

325.00-360.00

330.00-370.00

330.00-355.00

305.00-310.00 (320.00)

310.00-372.00

900-1,000 lbs.

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

184.00-210.00

n/a

n/a

175.00-185.00

800-900

n/a

200.00-225.00

175.00-200.00

200.00-215.00

205.00-221.00

n/a

n/a

190.00-208.00

Feeder heifers

700-800

270.00-293.00

210.00-228.50

195.00-230.00

215.00-232.00

209.00-222.00 (225.00)

n/a

200.00-220.00 (226.00)

200.00-225.00

600-700

250.00-299.00

240.00-260.50

225.00-252.00

230.00-257.00

227.00-245.00

240.00-263.00

240.00-268.00 (270.00)

220.00-264.00

500-600

245.00-300.00

250.00-295.00

240.00-315.00

255.00-277.00

240.00-272.00

255.00-275.00 (285.00)

250.00-287.00 (290.00)

230.00-284.00

400-500

250.00-299.00

290.00-325.00

275.00-316.00

275.00-300.00

270.00-314.00

275.00-317.00

270.00-302.00 (305.00)

265.00-290.00

300-400

270.00-293.00

300.00-335.00

295.00-360.00

290.00-320.00

285.00-330.00

290.00-327.00

285.00-330.00 (322.00)

280.00-340.00

No. on offer

450

n/a

157

n/a

n/a

n/a

354

250

D1-D2 Cows

110.00-120.00

80.00-122.00

90.00-115.00

115.00-128.00 (131.00)

112.00-122.00

92.00-105.00

115.00-125.00 (132.50)

118.00-125.00

D3-D5 Cows

100.00-110.00

n/a

n/a

100.00-115.00

100.00-110.00

n/a

105.00-116.00

105.00-115.00

Age Verified

120.00-136.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

115.00-127.00

110.00-122.00

n/a

n/a

Good Bulls

Slaughter Market

130.00-145.00

100.00-140.00

128.00-135.25

135.00-147.00 (153.00)

137.00-148.00

115.00-130.00

125.00-146.00 (147.50)

135.00-148.00

Butcher Steers

n/a

n/a

n/a

158.00-165.00

155.00-163.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

n/a

n/a

155.00-163.00

154.00-161.50

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

n/a

120.00-128.00

n/a

125.00-139.00

135.00-145.00

n/a

128.00-142.00

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

n/a

118.00-123.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Lean Export Cows

n/a

n/a

100.00-110.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Heiferettes

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

120.00-162.00

n/a

* includes slaughter market

(Note all prices in CDN$ per cwt. These prices also generally represent the top one-third of sales reported by the auction yard.)

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A government statement said Monday that tests had confirmed an outbreak of the H5N8 bird flu strain at a farm in the western municipality of Zoeterwoude, where 28,000 laying hens were ordered destroyed on Sunday.

The cull was a precautionary measure, it said. Authorities are testing poultry at other farms in the area.

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Prove your concept before seeking investors A move away from antibiotics is opening up new opportunities in livestock research and investment

By Shannon VanRaes CO-OPERATOR STAFF

“There’s a lot of antibiotic alternatives, that I think are opportunities that I think can address resistance issues, and they also offer broadspectrum activity, so I think as investors we need to be looking at those more.”

W

hat are producers and investors looking for when it comes to innovation in the livestock sector?

Not always the same thing it would seem.

Speaking at the Agri Innovation Forum in Winnipeg last week, a panel of producers and business leaders discussed where innovation is heading when it comes to animal agriculture and animal health.

“Convenience,” said Bill Price, owner of Global Beef Consultants and Missouri Valley Feeders. “Convenience would be No. 1, and safety to our employees and safety to the cattle.”

As foreign labour becomes a larger part of the agricultural workforce, Price said products need to be easy to use and simple to understand for those with English as an additional language.

The business owner and

and they want a quick response to it and it’s just not there,” said Randy Simonson, CEO of Grazix Animal Health.

“But there is no question that the multinationals are very important to our industry; they’ve got the market penetration that we need.”

When startups have technology they want to develop or market, it’s often the large multinationals they turn to for assistance, whether that means a sale, partnership, merger or collaboration, Simonson noted.

For those just starting out down the long road of getting new technology to market, Thomas Overbay, a partner at Expedite Animal Health, said it’s important to have an end goal in mind when researching, if you plan to pitch your idea to a larger company, or market it on your own.

“One thing we always advise those people we’re working with, is to start with the end in mind,” Overbay said. “You need to have good science, but at the end of

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we’re not getting support from… our bigger pharmaceuticals.”

rancher also said that as North American-owned and -operated livestock production expands overseas, veterinary practices here will also need to be implemented by individuals working in the overseas operations.

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“So we have a concern, and

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With producers facing pressures to move away from antibiotic use in animal agriculture, particularly as growth promoters, alternatives are presenting researchers, developers and investors with what is possibly the fastest-growing area of opportunity.

“One of the focuses I’ll just mention is non-antibiotic options that can improve performance, in livestock and so we’re investing heavily in the vaccine space, the enzyme space, and probiotics,” said Brent Difley, development manager at Elanco Animal Health.

But startups that approach the company with antibiotic alternatives — or any other product — need to have proof of concept already well in hand before discussions can go any further, he said.

Simonson said he doesn’t think the recent move in the United States to phase out antibiotics as growth promotants will end the use of antibiotics by producers, but he does see alternatives as necessary and profitable areas of development.

“I don’t think it’s going to go away, but at the same time, as we’ve heard… there’s a lot of antibiotic alternatives, that I think are opportunities that I think can address resistance issues, and they also offer broad-spectrum activity, so I think as investors we need to be looking at those more,” he said, adding the more diseases one treatment can protect against, the more efficient.

“The other thing is cost of delivery. It costs a lot to handle each of these individual animals, you’ve got to run them throughout the chutes in the cattle situations, there’s a lot of costs just in that, so looking at technologies that can mass deliver I think is very important,” he said.

Price agreed, adding that efficiency is key to his operations.

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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.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 4, 2014

SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN

Feeder lambs filling the winter feedlot demands There were limited goat numbers on offer at this sale

By Mark Elliot CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR

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roducers delivered 818 sheep and goats to the Nov. 19 Winnipeg Livestock Auction sale. The goat selection was very limited.

The feeder lambs dominated this sale.

A herd dispersal of goodquality younger ewes attracted limited interest from buyers. The haired ewes drew lower bidding. The buyers were clearly putting pressure in the cull ewes. A group of eight 193-pound Suffolk-cross ewes were rewarded for the quality and uniform structures and brought $185.28 ($0.96 per pound).

The bidding on the rams followed no set pattern. A g o o d 1 6 0 - p o u n d b re e d i n g ram brought $182.40 ($1.14 per pound).

There were no heavyweight lambs.

There was a higher volume of market lambs. Two groups of 96- and 99-pound lambs, for which price offers did not meet the producer’s expectations were passed. The price ranged from $1.65 to $1.82 per pound, for weight ranging from 96- to 105-pound lambs.

The feeder lambs dominated this sale. Producers started to supply for the winter feedlot season, with larger amounts of lambs. The price ranged from $1.425 to $1.83 per pound.

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The 60-plus weight lambs kept similar prices for most of the lambs. An exception was a group of three 60-pound Barbado-cross lambs, which brought $72 ($1.20 per pound).

The bidding slowed for the 50-pound-plus weight lambs, with the thoughts of winter

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About 15,000 ducks died of the H5 strain of the disease at the first farm and another 500 died at another, the Parisbased OIE reported on its website, citing data submitted by the Indian Ministry of Agriculture.

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A highly active 40-pound C l u n Fo re s t - c ro s s l a m b brought $54 ($1.35 per pound).

Three 37-pound Suffolkcross lambs brought $1.25 per pound. Five 38-pound Cheviot-cross lambs brought $0.825 per pound.

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U.S. cattle are hitting record weights and the heavier trend should continue next year, but beef production will still fall short of demand and keep prices high, industry experts said.

Processors are so desperate for meat supplies that they have stopped docking feedlots for carcass weights over 900 lbs.

Latest U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows that during the week of Nov. 8, average steer and heifer carcasses weighed a record 903 lbs. and 830 lbs. respectively.

Those weights, on average, could hit 884 lbs. for a steer and 808 lbs. for heifers in 2015, up 12 lbs. and eight lbs. respectively on this year’s averages, University of Missouri economist Ron Plain said.

Total beef production, however, is likely to be 23.7 billion lbs. in 2015, down from 24.5 billion lbs. this year, according to the USDA, as heifers are held back for breeding to increase cattle numbers.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 4, 2014

WEATHER VANE

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Fairly quiet pattern developing Issued: Monday, December 1, 2014 · Covering: December 3 – December 10, 2014 Daniel Bezte Co-operator contributor

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ur last forecast started off right on track, but a stronger-thanexpected storm system brought widespread measurable snow to southern and central Manitoba last Friday and Saturday and altered the general flow enough to change the rest of the forecast.

C o l d w e a t h e r m ov e d i n behind this storm system, as high pressure dropped southeastward out of the western Arctic. This high will sit to our east during the first half of this forecast period and will actually slowly help our temperatures to warm up. As the high sits and spins it will slowly draw warm air northward along its western side.

This means we should see daytime highs warm by a couple of degrees each day this week, making it to around -6 C by Fr iday. This large area of high pressure will also keep us in mainly clear skies with little chance of any snow.

Over the weekend a weak low may try to zip across from Alberta, but at most we’ll see some clouds and a few flurries from this system. A weak arctic high is then forecast to start sliding southeastward, but this high looks as if it will stay farther to the north, cutting across northern Manitoba. This should keep the coldest air well to our north, but we’ll see temperatures cool down a little bit to start next week.

Looking further ahead, the weather models show a strong stor m system spinning up off the northern coast of B.C. These systems will often help to pull warm air up ahead of them, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we see mild weather move in late next week. We should also remain dr y, at least until this large system finally moves ashore.

Usual temperature range for this period: Highs, -16 to 0 C; lows, -26 to -9 C. Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession with a BA (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He operates a computerized weather station near Birds Hill Park.

Contact him with your questions and comments at daniel@bezte.ca.

WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA

This issue’s map is the first snow cover map of the season and shows the snow depth across the Prairies as of Nov. 30. The map was created by Environment Canada, but I did a lot of “cleaning up” to make the map easier to read. For this reason some of the data has been lost, so the map should only be used to give a rough idea as to how much snow cover there actually is. That said, we have seen fairly early development of a significant snowpack this year, as a good portion of the Prairie provinces has 10-plus centimetres of snow cover. The dotted black line on the map is the average extent of the one-cm snow line at this time of the year.

Cold November, warm December?

Manitoba was the driest province on the Prairies in November this year

By Daniel Bezte co-operator contributor

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he month of November started where October left off, nice and warm.

During the first week or so of the month, temperatures right across the Prairies ran a good 5° above average. Edmonton saw highs in the low double digits on Nov. 6, while Calgary saw temperatures soar to 16 C the same day. In Saskatchewan, Regina topped out at 12 C on Nov. 1. Manitoba also saw some nice mild temperatures, with Winnipeg seeing daytime highs right around 10 C on a couple of days. All in all, it seemed winter would take its sweet time moving in — at least, that’s what it looked like.

Then came the second week of November and the remnants of a powerful typhoon over the Pacific turned into one of the strongest storm systems ever recorded in the Gulf of Alaska. This system, in turn, influenced the weather across Nor th Amer ica, causing a strong ridge of high pressure to build along the West Coast and a deep trough of low pressure to form over the western half of the continent. The end result was a pattern that allowed cold arctic air to pour southward, bringing some record-breaking

Snowfall is always much tougher to predict, as one storm can bring a winter’s worth of precipitation in a day or two

cold temperatures from Alberta eastward.

Needless to say, when all the numbers for the month were added up, all three Prairie provinces reported well-below-average temperatures. Starting in Alberta, all three centres (Calgary, Edmonton, Peace River) reported mean monthly temperatures about 2.5 C below the long-term average. As we move eastward, the temperatures get colder compared to average. In Saskatchewan, Regina recorded a mean monthly temperature 3 C colder than average, while Saskatoon was not far behind, 2.6 C below average. In Manitoba it was even colder, with Winnipeg reporting a mean temperature 3.4 C below average. Dauphin was the cold spot, with a mean monthly November temperature of -9.1 C, 3.8° colder than average.

The pattern of precipitation during November was opposite of the temperature trend. Manitoba was the driest of the three

Prairie provinces, with all three locations (Winnipeg, Brandon, Dauphin) reporting belowaverage amounts. The Winnipeg region was the driest with about 40 per cent of average precipitation reported. In Saskatchewan, Regina saw average amounts of precipitation; Saskatoon was wetter, recording nearly twice the monthly average. Alberta saw a much wetter-than-average November, with all three locations reporting aboveaverage amounts. Edmonton reported 31.4 millimetres of water-equivalent precipitation, nearly double its average. Calgary was the wet spot thanks to a couple of different storm systems. Calgary recorded around 43 mm of water-equivalent precipitation, over three times its average.

Who called it?

Put it all together and November was colder and wetter than average across Alberta and Saskatchewan, and colder and drier

than average across Manitoba.

If we look back at the different long-range forecasts that were made, it appears none were correct. Some predicted wetterthan-average conditions across the Prairies, but all of them predicted either near-average temperatures or warmer-thanaverage conditions.

Now, the $1-million question: What will December hold in store for us this year? Will we see a continuation of the cold weather or will we see the cold weather break and nice mild weather move in to take its place? How about precipitation?

Will it be dry or average, or are we going to see big storms bring record-breaking snowfalls?

Well, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, December is going to be a little warmer than average right across the Prairies, with near-average amounts of snowfall. It then does a 180-degree turn for January with a call for wellbelow-average temperatures and below-average snowfall.

The Canadian Farmers’ Almanac appears to call for colderthan-average temperatures, especially late in the month as it indicates bitterly cold temperatures moving in just before Christmas. It looks like it will be a very snowy month, according to these folks as they

mention stormy conditions at least six times during the month. This cold and snowy pattern looks like it will continue into January as they mention heavy snow and intense storms along with cold temperatures for much of the month.

Next we look at Environment Canada’s forecast. It calls for above-average temperatures for everyone except for southeastern Manitoba, where average temperatures are expected.

These types of temperatures are expected to continue into January. Precipitation looks like it will be near to slightly below average for both December and January, with much of Saskatchewan seeing the best chance of below-average amounts.

Finally, for my long-range outlook, my weather Ouija board tells me to trust Envir o n m e n t C a n a d a’s f o r e cast. While I think we’ll still see a few bone-chilling cold snaps, overall I think the mild weather will win out over the cold. Snowfall is always much tougher, as one storm can bring a winter’s worth of precipitation in a day or two. If we do see milder-than-average temperatures, though, the odds are that we’ll see near- to belowaverage snowfall. Now it’s time to sit back and see what Mother Nature has in store for us.

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CROPS Check your canola bins ASAP The CCC says buyers are reporting a sudden surge in heated canola

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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Ed Rempel, a Starbuck farmer and president of the Manitoba Canola Growers Association checks the temperature of his stored canola. Buyers are reporting a sudden rise in heated canola. photo: allan dawson

and we need to be diligent in monitoring those bins... as we head into the winter.”

The key to safe canola storage is ensuring the crop is dry (eight per cent moisture) and cool (15 C or lower).

Oil and water don’t mix and canola is more than 40 per cent oil. Canola seed can “sweat” for up to six weeks after it’s binned, warned Anastasia Kubinec, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development’s oilseed specialist.

“We didn’t really have a cold snap in October so some canola could have stayed warm,” she said.

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Top 10 risky storage situations for canola Canola Council of Canada Canola can heat and spoil in the bin, costing growers a lot of lost income.

Here are 10 situations that will increase the storage risk: 10. Can’t remember what’s in the bin.

Keep a composite sample for each bin of canola. Record average moisture and grain temperature when canola goes in the bin.

Use this information, along with a visual assessment of green count and dockage in the sample, to see which bins may be at higher risk.

9. No cables. Bins with cables make it easy to keep tables on temperature.

Bins without cables will need to be probed, or turned over with the truck and auger to check temperature. Even with cables, monitoring is still highly recommended.

8. Inaccurate cables or moisture meter. Calibrate the moisture meter

each year to ensure accuracy. Check a few samples at home and at the elevator to see they’re the same. Check cables before filling the bin.

7. Subpar bin space. Not all canola goes into aerated bins. Make sure canola doesn’t go into bins treated with malathion for storage insects. If canola has to go into a ring on the ground, seal the bottom and the top to keep out moisture and make cleanup easier.

6. Larger bins. Bigger bins have greater compaction. Tall and narrow bins have the greatest compaction. More compaction means reduced airflow. Canola is denser than cereals and therefore needs more fan horsepower for proper aeration.

5. Dockage. Insect bodies, plant material, and weed seeds tend to contain more moisture than canola seeds.

High-moisture dockage may not elevate overall grain moisture tests, but if it congregates in pockets, it can create local-

ized hot spots. Grain with no dockage can also be at risk.

4. Green canola seeds can increase the storage risk, even if canola is dry and cool.

3. Damp or tough canola. Canola is considered “dry at 10 per cent moisture, but eight per cent is safer for long-term storage.

Anything above 10 per cent should be dried.

A standard aeration fan should do the trick if the air is warm with low humidity and if canola moisture is just a point or two above 10 per cent. A dryer may be required for canola above 12 per cent. Remember, a bin’s average moisture might be dry, but a couple of tough loads could have gone in, or small areas within each load may have been harvested from weedy slough patches and have higher moisture and higher dockage.

These small pockets cause heating. Link: http://www.canolawatch.org/2011/05/02/ tips-for-drying-tough-and-damp-canola/.

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green, should still be aerated. Target 15 C at harvest and watch throughout the winter for any rise. External temperatures moving from hot to cool in a few days create perhaps the worst situation for safe canola storage. A wide temperature differential between hot grain inside the bin and cool air outside sets up strong convection patterns in the bin. Moisture will be moving and concentrating at the top of the top middle core of the bin. Cool that grain fast.

1. Neglected bins. Growers are busy enough at harvest just getting the crop off, but take time to check all bins within the first two weeks after filling and again a couple more times until the canola is cool and winter sets in. Canola seed continues to sweat during the first four to six weeks after harvest, making this a critical period to move air through the bin and remove that moist air. It cannot always wait until after harvest. Canola can jump from 30 C to 50 C and beyond in two weeks or less.

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aby it’s cold outside, but your canola bins could be hot — dangerously hot.

That’s why the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) wants farmers to check their bins right away.

“Canola delivery points report a spike in heated canola over the past couple of weeks,” the CCC said in its Canola Watch email Nov. 28.

“Crushers have capacity to accommodate a certain amount of mildly heated canola, but some locations are maxed out and have pushed back delivery of heated canola well into the new year, given the sudden increase in volume.”

One Manitoba canola buyer, who asked not to be named, confirmed he’s seeing heated canola coming to market.

“We had a very challenging fall that has led to some of this,” the CCC’s Manitoba agronomy specialist, Angela Brackenreed, said in an interview Nov. 28. “A lot took crop off at fairly high moisture levels and those with just natural air drying really had trouble to get that moisture content lowered. We just had cool conditions this fall.”

Some areas had more green canola seed due to early cutting or early frost. And some flooded fields resulted in more weed seeds in the crop.

Both have higher moisture content, which can lead to canola spoiling.

“It’s really unfortunate and I really feel for those producers who have had canola heat,” Brackenreed said. “It’s a sobering reminder for all of us that canola is fairly volatile in storage

Warm, moist grain can start to heat and then spoil. It can start small, but quickly spread.

Bin temperature sensors are the best way to monitor canola, Kubinec said. The cost of buying sensors is underwritten if farmers take an on-farm food safety course being offered through Growing Forward 2, she said.

If the bin smells bad, snow has melted from the bin roof or there’s crusted canola at the top of the bin, spoilage is occurring and the crop could be already badly damaged.

Even with temperature sensors the safest way to monitor canola is to pull at least a third of the crop out, Brackenreed said.

Start with the most vulnerable bins. That’s why it’s important to have good records, she said.

Don’t mix good canola with spoiled canola.

If spoilage is detected try to market that canola right away, Brackenreed said.

Aeration fans should be started as soon as canola covers the perforated bin floor and operated continuously in the fall until either the crop temperature is reduced to 0 C or the crop is dry, according to information from Alberta Agriculture.

Temperature differences in stored canola result in moisture moving from warmer to colder areas of the bin, the CCC says. During late fall, cold air sinks in the grain at the outside of the bin and warm, moister air, in the centre of the bin, rises and condensation may occur when it reaches the cold seeds near the surface. This free moisture near the surface can lead to rapid spoilage.

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Quebec haymakers use homemade dryer to improve quality The Normandins also modified a small hay baler to convert big square bales into small ones

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF / SAINT-CÉSAIRE, QUE.

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David Normandin of Norfoin Inc. a family-owned haymaking operation in Saint-Césaire, Que., explains the operation, including their homemade wood-fired hay dryer, which can dry 100 large square bales at a time. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

avid Normandin and his brother Mathieu preferred driving tractors to milking cows and that’s why they make hay and not milk.

The brothers, along with their father Luc and Luc’s partner’s daughter, Audrey Mailloux, operate Norfoin Inc., 57 km southeast of Montreal in the Montérégie region of la belle province.

The operation had been a dairy farm started by David Normandin’s grandfather in 1958, but switched to haymaking in 2000, Normandin told a tour group attending the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association annual meeting in nearby Bromont Nov. 17.

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The family operation puts up around 6,000 large square bales from its own 618 acres of land, plus bales from another 198 acres under contract. It also buys 6,000 large square hay bales.

The Normandins dry almost all their hay, have almost an acre of inside hay storage, including a new 50x110-foot building, which will eventually be heated, and they can convert large bales to small square ones as required.

About half of Norfoin’s hay is sold in Quebec and the rest is exported to the United States through hay brokers, Normandin said.

The company puts up various hay mixes, including alfalfa, timothy, orchard grass, fescue and clover. And the hay goes to a wide variety of livestock, including milk cows, dry cows, calves, horses and even zoo animals.

Hay buyers demand top quality so the Normandins strive to get their hay up in good condition and keep it that way.

After the hay is crimped and cut, it’s ‘tedded’ or fluffed up to speed drying. Then it’s raked and baled. The bales are picked up the same day to prevent sucking up moisture from the field. They can pick up bales as quickly as they are made, Normandin said.

The hay is baled at about 25 per cent moisture.

“We dry about 90 per cent of our hay (to 10 to 12 per cent) with a custom-made bale hay dryer,” Normandin said.

“We saw a dryer in Europe but it was really expensive so we thought about building it. We began the first year with some prototypes, then we built a dryer to meet our needs. Now we dry 100 (big square) bales at a time.”

The dryer is wood fired. Wood is plentiful and cheaper than other forms of energy, he said.

Hay and fire don’t mix. A wood fire heats water, which feeds a radiator used to warm air blown through the bales. It takes six to 15 hours to dry a bale depending on its moisture content. They can dry about 300 bales a day.

The dried bales are stacked 11 high in sheds.

All of Norfoin’s hay is put up in large square bales because it’s faster, Normandin said.

“We can do the work of 10 people with a small square baler with only four people with one big square baler,” he said.

However, five years ago, after sales of large squares slowed, the company built its own system to turn large square bales into small ones. Now half of Norfoin’s hay is sold as small squares.

The family brought a small square baler into one of its sheds, powered it with an electric motor and modified it so it turns a big bale into small ones.

Normandin said they cut their hayfields two to four times a season. Nitrogen is applied after each cut and manure is spread every spring.

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Corn quality better than expected

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By Terryn Shiells COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA

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anitoba’s corn farmers weren’t sure what they were going to find when they combined their fields this fall after the unfavourable growing conditions this year. But, the overall quality was a lot better than expected.

“We were worried going in that it would be a lighter crop because of the frost in September,” Morgan Cott, agronomist with the Manitoba Corn Growers Association said.

“Quality-wise, there’s some light grain, but there’s some pretty heavy grain too. So, the average I think is good overall.”

Most of the quality problems seen during the year were linked to unfavourable we a t h e r, i n c l u d i n g e xc e s s moisture, as some regions were blasted ever y time it rained.

There were some reports of mould causing problems in crops, but it doesn’t seem to be a major issue for many producers, Cott said. Insects were also not causing any damage, and were easy to manage throughout the growing season.

Yields across the province varied from region to region, but were slightly below the long-term provincial average which is probably around the 110-bushels-an-acre mark, Cott said.

“There are some low yields, and there are some really high yields, so we’re expecting an average province-wide to be probably between 95 and 105 bushels,” she added.

The corn harvest is done for the year across the province, but there were some farmers who weren’t able to combine all of their crops.

“I think there’s some corn standing in a few areas of the province, if you take a good drive around, that didn’t get to come off but I don’t know how much it was,” Cott said.

“Harvest was pushed back in a few areas and it just wasn’t ready to come off.”

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Oil price drop double-edged sword Analysts say lower oil prices will drive down commodity prices

By Dave Sims COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA

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s oil prices plunge across No r t h A m e r i c a , t h e impact on Canadian farmers is starting to be felt in several conflicting, but noticeable ways, according to Prairie farm leaders and market-watchers.

As of Nov. 26, the price of oil had fallen to just above C$66 a barrel with some analysts predicting it would hit C$60 in the coming weeks.

Cheaper fuel should mean reduced operating costs, said Doug Chorney, the president of Keystone Agricultural Producers in Manitoba.

“Many guys use lots of propane, natural gas and oil on the farm so that is something we mind,” he said.

The president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan agrees.

“It should free up a little extra spending cash for us that would

normally have gone to buying the products,” said Norm Hall.

However, Hall did note the price of diesel, which is what the majority of farm machinery runs on, had not fallen significantly lower.

“Gas has dropped 25 to 30 cents a litre, diesel just a few cents,” he said.

However, while farm inputs may have gone down, the sinking cost of a barrel of oil may have further consequences down the line.

“There is usually a spillover effect when the energy complex declines,” said Chorney.

Price pressure

A commodity expert from Winnipeg said the pressure will likely grow on grains and oilseeds too, because of the drop in oil.

Mike Jubinville of ProFarmer Canada explained that corn and oil are two of the three ‘kings’ (with gold being the other one) in markets.

“I think the net effect will be

a negative when it comes to the bottom line of dollars earned per acre of production of selected crops. There’s a balance in there but I think the net effect is negative, certainly at this point in time,” he said.

The slowing state of the world’s economy is only being compounded by the drop in oil, he said.

“It slows demand, which means we have excess supply in the system relative to demand and compounding this problem is the speculative money being pulled away from the long side, and maybe even being repositioned to the short side of the futures for oil,” he said.

The end result, he says, is a cascading downward effect that spills into other commodities.

“While fundamentals are always key to determining any commodity’s future price trend, it’s hard to fight those headwinds when you have spilling selling pressure that’s being advanced by one of the larger commodities

against the smaller commodities,” said Jubinville.

Declines

A lot of biodiesel is also created using soyoil and canola oil, noted Chorney, adding declines in production would put pressure on oilseeds. As well, ethanol use is already sagging due to its relatively high cost compared to standard gasoline.

“So when gas is cheaper because crude oil is cheaper, that means ethanol is worth less, which means corn is worth less. Corn is the leading coarse grain in the market and it will have spillover effects on things like wheat, barley and oats,” Chorney said.

When it comes to fertilizer, Chorney isn’t sure if prices will drop significantly because of the oil plunge. Natural gas is traditionally regarded as a key driver of nitrogen prices, which is one of the main ingredients in fertilizer.

“We have seen fertilizer prices rise with the price of grain, so they’ll price fertilizer to what the

market will bear,” he said, adding that forward purchasing of fertilizer supplies was usually brought on by a rising market.

Hall noted both Saskatchewan and Alberta depended largely on oil for their annual income.

“You look at the provincial budgets in Alberta and Saskatchewan, our governments depend on royalties which are based on oil prices for revenue,” he said, noting a few producers with oil wells on their properties also had mineral rights.

The Canadian dollar often follows the movements in crude oil closely, and the currency lost twothirds of a cent relative to its U.S. counterpart on Friday to trade at US87.51 cents. Currency analysts are predicting more weakness ahead for the loonie.

“When the Canadian dollar declines against the American dollar it helps us as an exporting country. We’ll see more dollars return to us. I think that has the biggest impact on agriculture,” said Chorney.

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Third of Ukraine winter barley crops are in poor state KIEV /REUTERS / More than a third of Ukrainian winter barley crops are in a poor state, raising concerns about the 2015 harvest, Kiev-based UkrAgroConsult agriculture consultancy said on Monday.

According to the consultancy’s data, just 18.3 per cent of winter barley is in a good state, 43.1 per cent is satisfactory and 38.6 per cent weak and sparse.

Last year, the share of weak crops accounted for less than 10 per cent.

“This can be explained by a long rain-free period in the fall, late rainfalls and strong frosts at the time when one or two leaves were being developed in barley seedlings,” UkrAgroConsult said. The area under winter barley totalled 993,000 hectares this year, or 97 per cent of the initial forecast, according to the Agriculture Ministry.

Winter barley accounts for around a third of Ukrainian total barley harvest. This year, Ukraine harvested 9.3 million tonnes of barley compared with 7.6 million tonnes last year.

Weather forecasters said last week that a significant part of Ukrainian winter wheat area is also under threat as crops have been significantly delayed in their development and could be damaged by frost.

Winter wheat accounts for about 95 per cent of Ukrainian total wheat output.

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Brought to you by SteffesGroup.com TRACK TRACTORS 2003 Caterpillar MT765 track tractor, 4 hyd., 3 pt. hitch, PTO, front weights, 120” gauge, 18” tracks, 5,710 hrs., recent engine and main hyd. pump work, work information available, S/NAZE01039 1997 JD 9400, 4WD tractor, deluxe cab, 12 spd., 3 hyd., AutoTrac ready, 710R38 duals, 8,269 hrs., recent injector and transmission work, work information available, S/NRW9400S001532 2012 JD 9360R, MFWD, deluxe cab, leather trim, powershift, 5 hyd., high flow hyd., PTO, GreenStar ready, diff lock, (2) 165 lb. & (4) 450 lb. rear outside weights, 480/80R50 duals, 1,011 hrs., S/N1RW9360RVCP002854 1976 Oliver 1755, 2WD, gas, 2 hyd., 3 pt., Dual hyd. loader, 18.4-34 tires at 80%, New paint, runs and operates very well, S/N260178676 1950 JD A, Roll-O-Matic front, PTO, rock shaft, front end loader, PTO hyd. pump for loader, 12.4-38 rear tires, has set in shed for a number of years, ran when put in shed, not started due to cold, S/N659484 COMBINES 2009 NH 9060, Field Tracker, 2WD, auto steer, rock trap, chopper, long unloading auger, 20.8-42 duals, 1,547 sep. hrs., 2,324 engine hrs., S/NHAJ111516 2002 Case-IH 2388, axial flow, specialty rotor, RWA, AHH, RS, fore/ aft, AFS Y&M, mapping, 600 monitor, rock trap, Crary hopper ext., 3 cyl. lift, 30.5L32 front tires, 18.4R26 rear tires, 1,812 sep. hrs., 2,324 engine hrs., S/NJJC0269284 2000 Case-IH 2388, axial flow, AFX rotor, RWA, deluxe controls, AHH, RS, fore/aft, Auto Trac ready, Y&M, chopper, chaff spreader, rock trap, hopper ext., 3rd cyl.lift, almost new 30.5-32 front duals, New 16.9.24 rear tires, 2,675 sep. hrs., 3,666 engine hrs., S/NJJC0267487 1980 Case-IH 1680, axial flow, AFX rotor, RWA, AHH, fore/aft, rock trap, chopper, chaff spreader, hopper ext., 3rd cyl. lift, 30.5-32 front tires, 14.9-24 rear tires, 4,594 engine hrs., S/NJJC0116881

JD 1293 corn head, 12x30”, ContourMaster, hyd. deck plates, knife rolls, AHH, stubble lights, single pt. hookup, chains like new, poly in decent shape 1979 JD 212 pickup head, 12’, 6-belt pickup, wind guard, S/N220894 JD 653 all crop head, 6x30”, sunflower back GRAIN CARTS 2003 Kinze 1050 Harvest Commander cart, walking tandems, 1000 PTO, hyd. spout, scale, 20.8-42 tires, S/N505211 2001 Killbros 1800 grain cart, hopper extension, 1000 PTO, 35.5-32 tires, S/ND19850115 SWATHER Versatile 400, 15’, Ford 6 cyl., New battery, near new sickle, very good tires AIR DRILLS 2000 Concord 4010 air drill, 40’, 10” spacing, S/NCKB0019537 1996 Case IH 8500 air drill, 45’, 7-1/2” spacing, single shoot, wing fold, packer wheels, hyd. drill fill, split tank, S/N135354 TILLAGE EQUIPMENT 2014 Case-IH Tigermate 200 field cultivator, 60.5’, 6” space, 7.5” Maxxi-Grip sweep 2014 Unverferth 165 rolling harrow, 64’, leveler bar & telescoping hitch, tandem wheels & singles on wings 2001 JD 2400 chisel plow, 44’ 1994 JD 980 field cultivator, 45’ Elmers SB36 S-tine cultivator, 36’, 4” spacing, 5” sweeps 1983 Case-IH 4900, C-shank DMI crumbler, 55’, ext. pole Kent Chiselvator coulter chisel, 24’, 15” shank space, twist shovels JD 2700 plow, 7 bottom, full pull JD plow, 2 bottom, 1 way, auto lift JD antique plow, 2 bottom

diff lock, wet kit, Safe-T-Pull, 160” WB, 587,672 miles 1995 White/GMC Aero WCA, M11 Cummins, 350 hp., 9 spd., engine brake, air ride, 18’ box, hoist 1990 Volvo Aero WCA, day cab, N14 Cummins, 315 hp., Rockwell 9 spd., air ride, air slide 5th, 164” WB 1990 Volvo Aero WIA, 36” sleeper, Big Cam N14 Cummins, 365 hp., Fuller 9 spd., air ride, air slide 5th, 180” WB 1993 IHC 4900 single axle, day cab, IHC DT466, Spicer 5&2 spd., air up/ down pusher axle with 10.00-20 tires, 17’ of frame behind cab, 183” WB, 2” receiver hitch, 3,500 gallon SS water tank, Honda 5.5 hp. motor, Pacer 2” pump 1987 IHC, day cab, 9 spd., MLL Cummins, diff lock 1980 Ford 700 bulk truck, 4&2 spd., 390 engine, 2 hose reels & meters, 1,700 gal capacity, Neptune pumps, shows 17,282 miles 1973 Ford 750, tag tandem, V8 gas, 5&2 spd., 19’ Westgo box, hoist, w/drill fill, shows 65,539 miles HOPPER BOTTOM TRAILERS 2015 Timpte, 42-1/2’x66” sides 2015 Timpte, 42-1/2’x66” sides 2006 Cornhusker 800, 42’x96”x75” 1995 Doonan 8X21CT hopper bottom pup, 21’x96”x76”

JD 2450 heavy duty category II bucket, 97”, New, for H480 loader AgChem Red Ball chemical tank Chemical tank, 300 gal.

Category II 3 pt. quick hitch (5) Lesson electric motors, 10 hp.

MOWERS 2006 JD CX20 pull-type, 20’ 2003 JD HX20 rotary cutter 1988 JD 606, 6’, semi-mount SNOWBLOWERS 2013 Normand EX 72-220 snowblower, 72”, 26-1/2” high 2013 Normand EX 62-220 snowblower, 62”, 26-1/2” high 2013 Frontier SB1194 snowblower, 94”, hyd. spout adj.

2013 Frontier SB1194 snowblower, 94”, hyd. spout adj.

2012 Frontier SB1184 snowblower, 84”, hyd. spout adj.

2012 Frontier SB1184 snowblower, 84”, hyd. spout adj.

2012 Frontier SB1184 snowblower, 84”, hyd. spout adj.

2011 Frontier SB1194 snowblower, 94”, hyd. spout adj.

Renn 960SB snowblower Erskine V-blower V-style snowblower, 7’, single stage 2012 JD snow thrower, set up for JD 345, New (2) JD snow throwers, 46” JD snow thrower, 38”

MOTOR GRADER & CONSTRUCTION ITEMS 1996 JD 772 BH motor grader 1996 Caterpillar CS 433 smooth drum compacter, 80” drum OTHER TRAILERS 1998 Fontaine HT 100 A-HGR tri-axle TowTem heavy duty hyd. rock grapple, rotates 360 degrees drop deck, 48’x102” Frontier HT1242 high speed heavy 2009 M&B walk-behind broom MB hyd. sweeper, 6’ duty header trailer, 42’ 2011 PJ tandem axle tilt bed trailer, Work basket for forklift 20’x83” wood deck SKID STEER LOADER Datsun pickup box trailer 2012 JD U66 general purpose SPRAYERS & SPREADERS loader bucket, 66”

2009 Case-IH Patriot 4420 selfpropelled sprayer, 120’ boom, SUGARBEET EQUIPMENT 1,200 gal. SS tank, shows 1,932.9 2011 Amity 2700 harvester, hrs., S/N25178 12x22”, S/N700400 1997 Loral EZ Rider 3000, IHC 2010 Amity 2700 harvester, DT530, 30,193 miles, 2,909 hrs., 12x22”, S/N700488 S/N1HTGBADR1VH454261 2011 Alloway BT267 defoliator, 1985 Flexi-Coil 62 pull-type sprayer, 12x22”, S/N3313 110’, S/NA000H01723 2007 Amity 41222 defoliator, SCRAPER 12x22”, S/N907 2012 Icon 823 direct mount scraper, Alloway Topmaster defoliator, HEADS 23 yd., hyd. ejection 2008 JD 635F flex head, 35’, fore/aft, 4x30”, 1 drum steel OTHER EQUIPMENT stubble lights, full finger auger, poly SEMI TRACTORS Knight 4052 mixer wagon w/scale, bottom, single pt. hookup, & TRUCKS hyd. drive S/NH00635F725608 2004 Mack Vision CX tandem axle, 2007 JD 635F flex head, 35’, fore/aft, day cab, 380 hp., 10 spd., jake brake, H&S GM 170 feed grinder stubble lights, full finger auger, poly diff lock, wet kit, Safe-T-Pull, 160” WB, Willmar 4300 Wrangler articulating loader, ROPS bottom, single pt. hookup, 589,221 miles S/NH00635F720891 2004 Mack Vision CX tandem axle, 2012 Meridian 375 seed tender IHC 1020 flex head, 25’, hyd. fore/aft, day cab, 380 hp., 10 spd., jake brake, Westfield MK1071 auger, 71’x10” off IHC 1680, S/NJJC0088440

ATVS & RECREATION 2011 Bobcat 3400 all terrain XUV, 4WD, gas, 1,530 hrs.

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To All Our Clients & Friends From Across Western Canada

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CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT in Boissevain, MB. Farm personal tax returns, prepares corporate financial statements. Agristability. Call Scott Campbell, CGA at (204)534-2951.

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Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103 or E-mail Requests binmover50@gmail.com

80-FT. BUCKET ELEVATING LEG w/3 phase 10-HP electric motor. Phone (204)886-3304.

CAMBRIAN EQUIPMENT. 25 FORKLIFTS, some good ones & some parting out. Over 80 sets of forks, frames & attachements of all types. Central Canada’s largest wreckers of construction equipment, with two yards over 50-ac. We have what you need. Call:(204)667-2867 or Fax:(204)667-2932.

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JOHN DEERE 750CLT DOZER w/6-way blade, cab, air, w/ripper JOHN DEERE 310SG 4x4 BACKHOE LOADER (6) EXCEPTIONAL FIELD SERVICE TRUCKS Set up with welders/generators, fuel tanks, air compressors - all are in like new condition SEVERAL CHEV. 3/4 AND 1-TON 4x4 PICKUPS This is only a partial listing. Go to www.maringauction.com for more photos and complete list. 98% of all equipment was bought new.

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MATT MARING AUCTION CO. INC. PO Box 37, Kenyon, MN 55946 507-789-5421 • 800-801-4502

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Palm-greasing, of sorts 1 Rise Get your bearings again 2 "The King and I" tutor Huck Finn's transport 3 Inept outfielder, in "Peanuts" Welder's creation 4 On dry land Positive result of a real bad 5 Tallest living mammal thaw in the Interlake, maybe? 6 Moose Jaw's Linkletter UN workers' rights gp.

7 Very active type Golda of Israel 8 Peruvian mountain man Laughing scavenger 9 Like rice and potatoes Where a hair cut stops 10 Small reddish Amazonian School volunteer gp. monkey Fairway hazard 11 Doubly curved moulding Throwing up, technically 12 "Sunny" composer Jerome Hastens, to Shakespeare 13 Once, antiquatedly Klugman's "Quincy" co-star 18 Warning sound Robert ___ 19 Valued at Description of Manitoba 23 Stumble Hydro's lake management 25 Plied with Pinot, e.g. plan, to some?

26 Texas tourist draw "My feet ___ killing me!"

27 Safari headgear "M*A*S*H" co-star Loretta 28 Straight (pref.)

Instructive sessions 29 Granola tidbit Where to put furnace waste 30 Reason for a raise Good auditors to hire to take 31 Related through mom

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FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS NEW COMBINE PARTS

New GX 390 Honda 13-hp motor .........................................Retail $1367 or OBO New GX 630 Honda motor, 20-hp, 20 amp charging oil alert ...Retail $2395 or OBO New GX 690 Honda motor, 24-hp 2 years warranty ...........Retail $2765 or OBO Equinox 1250-gallon tanks as large as 5000 gallons. Septic tanks available 750 gallons to 1350 gallons....................... Phone for Prices

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 1750 COCKSHUTT TRACTOR W/LOADER & cab, asking $2,700; Allied 72-in snowblower, 3-pt hitch, good condition, asking $750. Phone: (204)728-1861.

5230 CASE IH, 3,200-HRS, 3PH, loader grapple $30,000; 16-ft Hesston disc-bine, cut 1,000-ac $25,000; 2005 NH BR780 net/twine, shedded, $13,000. Millet, AB. Phone:(780)352-4947.

CAMBRIAN EQUIPMENT CASE 125B delimber, good working order; IH 3964 feller buncher; (2) new Pembenton tree shears to fit CAT 320 & 330; sawmill all steel 48-in blade, 50-ft long; 450 Timberjack grapple skidder; Clark 668 skidder; CAT 966C hilift w/pulp clam; parting out several skidders. Acres & acres of salvage, 2 yards over 50-acres!

Phone:(204)667-2867, Fax:(204)667-2932 CAMBRIAN EQUIPMENT NEW STEAMCLEANER Easy-Kleen magnum plus 4000. New electric & gas fuel pumps, 12V, only $59/each; New standard 12V fuel gauges, $13/piece; New Delco Remy 12V type 300 starters, $249; 7 units of scissor type lifts, up to 52-ft; Large stock of new & used loader & tractor parts, acres & acres of salvage, 2 yards over 50-ac.

Phone:(204)667-2867, Fax:(204)667-2932.

DISCS JOHN DEERE 637 rock cushion 35-ft new notched blades on front, $39,000; Wishek 842 26-ft, $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.

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: D7F CAT PS angle dozer, ripper, bush equipped, A1; MF 2675 dsl cab w/Degelman dozer blade. Phone:(306)238-7501.

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.

IHC#80 SNOWBLOWER, LITTLE WORK done, good condition; 2003 Chevy pick-up end gate for 5th wheel hitch; 1981 950 JD diesel tractor, $1,500, rotary motor. Phone:(204)822-3835.

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.

TRACTORS Various

Big Tractor Parts, Inc. Geared For The Future

STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALIST

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year From All The Staff

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.

A&T Sales & Const. Ltd. 607 Stephens Street - Morden, MB R6M 1R7 Phone: (204) 822-1354

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Wanted 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.

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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

www.bigtractorparts.com

TILLAGE & SEEDING Air Seeders 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

TRACTORS Case/ IH 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.

TRACTORS John Deere 1997 9400 4WD, very good tires, 7,000-hrs, VGC, $95,000 OBO. (204)745-7445.

HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES. Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595 charles@arcfab.ca www.arcfab.ca

Spraying EquipmEnt 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.

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.

FOR SALE: JD 1840- Hi/Low Shift, 3PT; JD 2130Hi/Low Shift, 3PT, 2 Hyd’s; JD 2355- MFWD, 3PT, Canopy, Loader; JD 2750- Hi/Low Shift, 3PT, w/FEL; JD 2750- MFWD, CAH, 3PT, w/Loader; JD 2955- MFWD, CAH, 3PT, w/Loader; JD 40208SPD Power Shift, 3PT; JD 4230- Quad Shift, 2 Hyd’s; JD 4240- Quad Shift, 2 Hyd’s; JD 4250Quad Shift, 3PT, Duals; JD 4440- Quad Shift, 2 Hyd’s, Duals; JD 4440- Quad Shift, 3PT, 3 Hyd’s; JD 4450- MFWD, 15SPD, 2 Hyd’s, w/FEL; JD 4450- MFWD, 15SPD, 3PT, Loader; JD 46402WD, Quad Shift, Loader; JD 6400- PQ, 3PT, MFWD, w/640 FEL; JD 6420-24SPD, PQ, w/LHR, 3PT, MFWD; JD 8650- WD, Quad Shift, PTO. All tractors can be sold with new or used loaders.

Mitch’s Tractor Sales Ltd. St. Claude, MB. Cell:(204)750-2459. www.mitchstractorsales.com

TRACTORS 2-Wheel Drive STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in JD tractors in need of repair or burnt, or will buy for parts. JD parts available. Phone: 204-466-2927 or cell: 204-871-5170, Austin.

Bred Cow & Heifer Sale

Friday, December 12, 2014 11 am ---Highway #1 West, Whitewood, SK---

Featuring:

**DISPERSAL of 65 Red, Black, CharX cows bred Red, Black, Char includes 18 3rd calvers **DISPERSAL of 40 Red, char cows bred Red Angus (bull for sale) **DISPERSAL of 32 Char & RedX cows bred Polled Hereford (bull for sale) 20 Red/Blk Angus Purebred Registered hfrs and 2nd calvers.

60 Black/Black Baldy bred Black April calving.

Plus others.

For more information please call Whitewood Livestock at 306-735-2822 or check our website at www.whitewoodlivestock.com

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HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING

The Icynene Insulation System® • Sprayed foam insulation • Ideal for shops, barns or homes • Healthier, Quieter, More Energy Efficient®

08 STX 430 brand new 620-70-42 tires, delux cab, heated leather seat, $160,000.

Phone (204)871-0925, McGregor.

COMBINES Accessories

LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

www.penta.ca

1-800-587-4711

IRON & STEEL FREE STANDING CORRAL PANELS, Feeders & Alley ways, 30ft or order to size. Oil Field Pipe: 1.3, 1.6, 1.9, 1 7/8, 2-in, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2. Sucker Rod: 3/4, 7/8, 1. Casing Pipes: 4-9inch. Sold by the piece or semi load lots. For special pricing call Art (204)685-2628 or cell (204)856-3440.

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LIVESTOCK Cattle – Angus 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.

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 – Black Angus

LIVESTOCK

FOR SALE: PUREBRED BLACK Angus heifer calves, also bull calves, long yearlings & 1 coming 3-yr old herd sire. Ossawa Angus at Marquette (204)375-6658, cell (204)383-0703.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Charolais

GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK AUCTION MART. LTD.

Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519

GRUNTHAL, MB.

AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING

REGULAR CATTLE SALES every TUESDAY at 9 am Dec. 9th & 16th

Saturday, Dec. 6th at 10 am

Bred Cow Sale

Tuesday, Dec. 9th at 1 pm Special Cattle Sale fundraiser for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank during regular sale.

Tuesday, Dec. 16th at 12 pm

Regular Cattle Sale - last sale of the year.

*First Sale of 2015: Tuesday, Jan. 6th For on farm appraisal of livestock or for marketing information please call Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250 Auction Mart (204) 434-6519 MB. Livestock Dealer #1111

WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM

BRED COW SALE Mon., Dec. 15, 2014 @ 10:30 a.m.

Regular Butcher & Feeder Sale @ 9:00 a.m.

Over 200 Bred Cows

SHEEP, LAMB & GOAT SALE Wed., Dec. 17, 2014 @ 9:00 a.m.

(Breeding Ewes Consigned) (Good Christmas Demand On Fat Goats And Lambs)

“LAST SALE FOR THE YEAR” Fri., Dec. 19, 2014 @ 9:00 a.m.

We Have 6 to 8 Cow Buyers 7 to 8 Order Buyers - 4 to 6 Local Buyers And Over 1000 Sellers “Where Buyers & Sellers Meet” For more information call: 204-694-8328 or call Mike at 204-807-0747

www.winnipeglivestocksales.com Licence #1122

2 MATURE POLLED CHAROLAIS herd sires, easy calvers, Steppler Charolais bloodlines. Available for fall calving. (204)857-8220, (204)857-2260.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Gelbvieh PRAIRIE GELBVIEH ALLIANCE ANNUAL Female Sale Dec. 13th, 2014 7:00pm at Temple Gardens Mineral Spa Moose Jaw, SK. Cattle viewing Moose Jaw Exhibition Grounds. For reservations or info call Ian (306)4562555 Chad (306)436-2086 or Kirk (306)222-8210.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Maine-Anjou 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.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Simmental 20 SIMMENTAL REGISTERED BRED heifers, due to calve Feb. 5, 2015. Ray-J Simmental. Phone: (204)733-2324.

MRL HERDBUILDERS BRED HEIFER Sale. Dec. 12th at the Ranch, Carievale, SK. 140 Bred Heifers, 75 PB, Simmental Red, Black, Fleckvieh 20 Registered Red Angus, 45 Commercial Simmental/Angus. All AI bred to industry leading & calving ease sires. Contact McMillen Ranching Ltd. Lee: (306)483-8067 Dave:(306)483-8660. View catalogue at www.mrlranch.com 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.

SPRING CREEK SIMMENTALS will sell 108 bred heifers & cows in their GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY SALE. Sale time is 1:00pm Dec 6th, 2014 at Heartland Livestock, Virden MB. For information or catalogue contact Brian McCarthy (306)435-3590, cell (306)435-7527.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Various COMPLETE HERD DISPERSAL, 1,250 Black Angus cows, start calving April 15th. Also 50 Black Angus bulls. Call (204)447-2382, evenings.

FOR SALE: 500 BRED heifers, 300 Black & Black X bred. 100 Red & Red X bred, & 100 Char X. Heifers have all had their vaccinations, Blacks are bred to Black Angus bulls, Reds & Chars bred to Red Angus & are all easy calving. Calving start date, March 20th. Call (204)768-0184.

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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LIVESTOCK Cattle Wanted

LIVESTOCK Sheep Auctions

TIRED OF THE HIGH COST OF MARKETING YOUR CALVES??

300-700 LBS. Steers & Heifers Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400 Ben: 721-3400 800-1000 LBS. Steers & Heifers Don: 528-3477, 729-7240

Contact: D.J. (Don) MacDonald Livestock Ltd. License #1110 Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds. Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our friendly staff, and don’t forget to ask about our prepayment bonus.

Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free! 1-800-782-0794.

LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT

SHEEP, LAMB & GOAT SALE BREEDING STOCK SPECIAL Wed., Dec. 17, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.

• 55 Crossbred Ewes • 50 Dorset Ewes • 40 Dorper Ewes

“Where Buyers & Sellers Meet” 204-694-8328 or call Mike at 204-807-0747

BRED COW SALE Mon., Dec. 15, 2014 @ 10:30 a.m.

Regular Butcher & Feeder Sale @ 9:00 a.m.

• 30 Red Angus X Simmental Heifers And Cows Bred Red Angus.

• 20 Black Cows Bred Black (2nd, 3rd, 4th Calves) • 20 X-Bred Cows Bred Limo We Have 6 to 8 Cow Buyers 7 to 8 Order Buyers - 4 to 6 Local Buyers And Over 1000 Sellers

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123 LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT NH 357 MIXMILL 540 PTO, 4 screens, long auger, PWR bale feed, large tires, factory fenders, shedded, VGC, asking $3,800 OBO; Like new pasture calf feeder c/w panels & side tubs; Assort Corral panels 10 & 12-ft. (204)825-2867

Farming is enough of a gamble, advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator classified section. It’s a sure thing.

1-800-782-0794.

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.

TRACTORS Various

TRACTORS Various

“Where Buyers & Sellers Meet” To Consign or for more information call:

204-694-8328 or call Mike at 204-807-0747

www.winnipeglivestocksales.com Licence #1122

www.ezefeeder.ca

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE OATS, FEEDLOT MIX, W/SALT-MINERAL, $2.80/bu.

Tractor chains, $100. Also, barrels of used oil, offers.

(204)822-3649. Morden, MB.

See your local CPS expert. Sign up for the CPS PrePay program.

PERSONAL

Licence #1122

LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

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1 877 695 2532

www.winnipeglivestocksales.com

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Give us five minutes and we’ll give you 5% back

12V. or Hydraulic Electronic Scale Opt.

Sale Will See Strong Demand For Good Finished Lambs And Goats.

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

LIVESTOCK Cattle Various

THE PORTAGE COMMUNITY PASTURE has the following positions avail for the 2015 grazing season. 1) Seasonal Pasture Manager 2) Seasonal Pasture Riders. Please send resume’s to: Portage Community Pasture Box 226 Oakville, MB R0H 0Y0. Deadline for Applicants is Dec 12th, 2014

BREEDING RAMS OPEN EWE LAMBS

To Consign Or For More Information Call:

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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.

REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE Houses & Lots

*Conditions apply.

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READY TO MOVE HOMES -Marvin Homes- Your REAL ESTATE RTM Home Builder since 1976. Super Deal!Only one unit left. 1320-sqft, 3 bdrm, 2 bath; Master suite Land For Rent 3 40516_A CPS_PrePay Print_4x4_rev1.indd has walk-in closet & 3-piece bath. Main floor laundry; Beautiful kitchen w/island. Suitable for baseWANTED TO RENT CULTIVATED acres for 2015. ment or crawlspace. Call for more info. Marvin Prefer minimum 3-yr agreement. Call (204)362-0433 or Homes, Mitchell, MB. (204)326-1493 or (204)327-5324.

(204)355-8484. www.marvinhomes.ca

REAL ESTATE Land For Sale

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REAL ESTATE Land For Sale

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

160-ACRES CULTIVATED LAND, LOCATED North West of Lowe Farm MB. $4,350 per acre.

Call (204)746-8243.

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.

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.

We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if you want to sell it fast place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds. It’s a Sure Thing. Call our toll-free number today.

We have friendly staff ready to help. 1-800-782-0794.

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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!

Terry McGarry Ph: 204-981-3730 Fax: 204-253-0879 Email: trmcgarr@mts.net

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JOEL & STEPHANIE DELAURIER of Ste Rose du Lac MB intends to sell private lands: E1/2 36-24-11W, Sec 1-25-11W, N1/2 02-25-11W, Sec 12-25-11W, E1/2 11-25-11W, SE 14-25-11W, W1/2 13-25-11W, W1/2 26-24-11W, SE 26-24-11W to Anthony Duffy who intends to acquire the following agricultural Crown land leases: NW 02-25-11W, E1/2 10-25-11W, NW 31-24-10W, W1/2 25-24-11W, E1/2 35-24-11W, SW 35-24-11W, W1/2 36-24-11W, W1/2 06-25-10W, S1/2 02-25-11W, NE 35-24-11W, W1/2 30-24-10W, SW 31-24-10W, NE 24-24-11W, NE 25-24-11W, NE 26-24-11W, SE 36-24-11W, SW 05-24-10W, E1/2 06-24-10W, SE 07-24-11W, W1/2 11-25-11W, Sec 13-25-11W, SW 14-25-11W, NE 35-25-11W, SW 07-24-10W by Unit transfer. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this purchaser please write to: Director, MAFRD, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or fax (204)867-6578.

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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.

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“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.

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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 »

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.

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Boost investment, women’s land tenure, researcher says More governments are moving to recognize women’s land rights, but they still face cultural and commercial barriers

By Chris Arsenault london / thomson reuters foundation

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ive women the same access to land, credit, advice and markets as men, and they could increase yields on their farms by more than 20 per cent, boosting total global agricultural output by up to four per cent, a leading land rights researcher said.

Women produce nearly half of the food grown in the developing world, yet women farmers receive only five per cent of all agricultural extension services globally — including credit, training, marketing and research, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

If women farmers were given more resources, they could help reduce the number of hungry people in the world by up to 150 million people, according to the UN World Food Program.

Fo r y e a r s , c a m p a i g n e r s h a v e a r g u e d f o r m o re i n v e s t m e n t i n women farmers, and better recognition of their land rights.

E l i s a S c a l i s e, d i re c t o r o f t h e Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights said in many countries and regions, the situation for women farmers had improved. “ The global trend is positive,” Scalise said in an interview on the sidelines of a women’s conference organized by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“Regional bodies and national governments are at least talking about women’s land rights now, and just five to 10 years ago this was not the case,” she said before a debate on access to land.

Protection

For example, Kenya used its 2010 constitution to provide protections for female property rights.

In China, where women are estimated to account for more than 70 per cent of the agricultural workforce, the need to protect women’s land rights was, for the first time in its modern history, included in a major policy document released earlier this year, Scalise said.

Citing research that showed land

Women from a local cocoa farmers’ association called BLAYEYA work with cocoa beans in Djangobo, Niable in eastern Ivory Coast. BLAYEYA is a women’s-only association with each member owning a field and planting cocoa. Photo: REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon

did better under the management of women farmers, she said in Vietnam capital investment in rural areas was higher when women hold land title, and in Rwanda, female-headed households were more likely to invest in soil conservation measures.

David Norman, senior manager for sustainable development for SABMiller, a multinational beer company, agreed that improving women’s land rights can boost economic growth.

“There is a return on investment” when female farmers are empowered, Norman told the Trust Women conference.

Scalise says women who own land have 3.8 times more income than those who don’t, their children are 33 per cent less likely to be severely

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under weight, and they are eight times less likely to face domestic violence.

Push back

Yet women are still battling to secure their land rights.

“We have a real challenge that could push back women’s rights to land — the commercialization of agricultural land,” Mark Goldring, chief executive of advocacy group Oxfam, told the Trust Women conference.

Land equivalent to eight times the size of the U.K. has been sold to major companies in the last decade... as agriculture becomes more commercial... the traditional status of women gets worse,” Goldring said.

Of 143 countries surveyed by the World Bank earlier this year, 37 still have discriminatory land laws in place.

Changing this needs to “start with understanding that land rights are part of a cultural system, and that cultural systems also define gender roles,” Scalise said. “That link is critical.”

Having a strong champion in government helps, she said, along with providing special effort to ensure women can attend public forums and decision-making events.

“There must be political will for putting technical and budgetar y resources behind ensuring that the needs of both women and men are integrated into land rights reform programs,” Scalise said.

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It’s durum but it’s not pasta Durum wheat is famous for making good pasta, but there’s another market which is almost as large.

Couscous is a staple food in the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria and Libya.It’s made by steaming durum semolina (coarse flour) and is served with a meat or vegetable stew.

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Louis Dreyfus picks ex-Viterra head as new CEO Reuters / Louis Dreyfus Commodities named Mayo Schmidt, former head of Canadian grain handler Viterra, as its new chief executive.

Louis Dreyfus, one of a quartet of “ABCD” companies that dominate agricultural commodity trading alongside Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Cargill, is trying to sustain growth as the big four vie with newcomers such as Glencore to acquire assets.

Schmidt’s appointment on Friday was in line with the trading house’s preference for an external candidate and comes after it raised the possibility of a share listing or a tieup with a partner in the future.

Roadblocks to increased European trade remain The EU’s approach to GMOs and pesticides will make market access difficult for grains and oilseeds exporters

By Alex Binkley Co-operator contributor

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olitical interference in what should be sciencebased decisions will continue to plague Canadian exports to the European Union, despite the new trade deal eliminating many tariffs, a CropLife Canada official says.

While the removal of tariffs should eventually boost Canadian shipments by up to $1.5 billion a year from the current level of $2.4 billion, the deal won’t solve “consistent difficulties with EU cultivation approvals and import approvals of products of genetic engineering,” Dennis Prouse told the Senate agriculture committee holding hearings into the state of Canada’s agri-food exports.

“Growers of cereals, oilseeds, pulses, horticulture and many others destined for EU markets will potentially be prevented from using a large number of safe, effective pesticides assessed

by Health Canada.”

Dennis Prouse

Vice-President, Government Affairs, CropLife Canada

“The reason, quite simply, is political oversight on what we believe should be a science‑based regulatory decision,” said Prouse, vice-president of government affairs for the organization representing herbicide and pesticide manufacturers.

“While the EU continues to

verbally support a science‑based approach, the reality is that there is now a cumulative 37 years of backlogged approvals.”

The de facto ban creates a barrier to trade for Canadian farm commodities, he said. “In order for CETA to truly be a success for Canada’s agriculture sector, we must insist that EU mem-

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ber states adhere to clear science‑based standards.”

The EU also appears to be moving away from a sciencebased approach for crop protection products, he said.

“The EU approach will impact not only trade and pesticides current and future, but also food, feed and seed products produced by using these pesticides. The import tolerance specified by the EU for these products is effectively zero, so even trace amounts could prevent the product from entering the EU.” Europe is also advocating a hazard‑based cut-off criteria that has the potential for negative and far‑reaching impacts on global commerce, even though it runs contrary to the World Trade Organization’s Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, he noted. Basically the policy would allow Europe to ban any crop on which particular pesticides are used even if they are deemed safe in the supplying country.

“Growers of cereals, oilseeds, pulses, horticulture and many others destined for EU markets will potentially be prevented from using a large number of safe, effective pesticides assessed by Health Canada,” he said. “Growers need all the tools they have as well as future innovations to combat pest problems and feed a growing world population. Europe’s actions in this area could have tremendous negative impacts on innovation and introduction of new technologies.”

Canada faces similar headaches with China, which is an important market for Canadian grains and oilseeds exporters.

In 2013, Canada exported roughly $3.2 billion worth of canola and soybean products to China, accounting for more than 15 per cent of total Canadian exports to China. Canada’s exports to China have more than doubled from 2008 and 2013, now accounting for approximately $20.5 billion. It has surpassed Britain as Canada’s No. 2 export destination.

“In parallel with the trade growth of Canadian grains and oilseeds to China has been the adoption of new technology

by Canadian farmers, making their farm business and the entire industry more profitable, efficient and environmentally sound,” he said. While more than 90 per cent of the Canadian canola crop consists of GM varieties, China is inconsistent with timely approvals of new crops.

“The inability to secure timely import approvals for new biotechnology products and a growing concern that factors other than science are being used as justification to reject applications, has created a situation where Canadian exports are in jeopardy of being rejected in China,” Prouse said.

“This hurts research and development in Canada and limits the technology available to Canadian farmers.

“Efficient, transparent and science‑based regulatory approvals

by China for Canadian crops is a top priority for our sector,” he added.

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

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

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

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

2.

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4.

Does the building still stand?

If so, where is it?

What are its GPS co-ordinates?

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

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

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While few would suggest that Manitoba farmers ever developed a particular barn style or design that might be considered unique to this region only, the province does contain just about every conceivable ethnic or geographical design from elsewhere in the farm world. This particular building represents one of the strongest influences in early Manitoba agriculture — the Mennonite settlers. Abe Neufeld built this combination house and barn in 1875 about one-half mile southeast of Rosetown. More than 106 years later, his great-grandson Abe E. Kehler and family are still living there. Built in the traditional Mennonite village style of a single structure for livestock, machinery and family, the barn portion measures 28x80 feet and the house portion 26x40 feet. This house takes on added significance when one considers that the first wave of Mennonite settlers did not step from the riverboat in Fort Garry until July 31, 1874.

According to reports, 325 men, women and children then settled on the East and West Reserves to take up farming and this particular house was built the following year. The combining of quarters for family and livestock was not exclusive to Mennonite settlers, but, in fact, had been well established in Quebec and other eastern regions for several centuries. In Manitoba, however, the combination barn-house is almost exclusively associated with the early Mennonite community.

Selecting the right cereal variety has never been easier

Majority of Canadian flax grading as No. 1: CGC

By Commodity News Service Canada

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bout 99 per cent of Canada’s flax crop is grading as No. 1 Canada Western flaxseed so far this year, according to preliminary quality data from the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC).

The data comes from the CGC’s harvest sample program, and is based on the first 267 samples received, including 40 from Manitoba, 186 from Saskatchewan and 41 from Alberta and the Peace River Region of British Columbia.

Though most of the samples have graded as No. 1 so far, later-arriving samples may be graded lower due to damaged or heated seed, the CGC said.

This year No. 1 Canada Western flaxseed has a mean oil content of 45.5 per cent at dry basis (DB).

This is similar to last year’s mean of 45.9 per cent (DB), and the 10-year mean for No. 1 Canada Western flaxseed of 45.6 per cent (DB).

Crude protein levels for No. 1 Canada Western flaxseed has a mean of 21.6 per cent (DB) which is higher to last year’s mean of 21.2 per cent (DB), and below the 10-year average of 22.3 per cent (DB).

This year’s crop is showing higher iodine value with a mean of 193 units when compared to last year’s mean of 189 units.

The 10-year average for iodine value is 191 units, according to the CGC.

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Uniquely Manitoba helps artists connect to buyers Since 2004 non-profit association Uniquely Manitoba has been helping Manitoba artists and crafters develop, promote and sell their wares

By Lorraine Stevenson co-operator staff

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ou might say it was a uniquely Manitoba moment that brought together Jake Goertzen and a non-profit association helping artists.

The sculptor from Horndean, Man., was hauling a nine-foot, 2,000-lb. metal bison on a flatdeck down Winnipeg’s Pembina Highway, when the marketing manager for Uniquely Manitoba caught up with him.

Since 2004, the organization has helped Manitoba artists and crafters develop, promote and sell their work.

Program manager Darlene Dolinski asked him that day if he was interested in becoming a member. He was.

“They’ve been really helpful to me,” said Goertzen, who creates both representational and abstract artworks, as well as ornamental metal work. Since joining Uniquely Manitoba, his work has been featured on the front pages of its annual magazine, and in its online e-book catalogue or virtual gift show, alongside many other Manitobans’ works of art and fine handcrafted items.

He’s not selling a 2,000lb. bison replica every day, of course. But being part of this program definitely helps build connection to a wider market, said Goertzen, who lives and works in an old school converted to his home and art studio in the southern Manitoba village.

Distance to market isn’t the only challenge faced by rural, northern and small-town artists, says Marilyn Gault, president of Uniquely Manitoba.

Distance and more

The association is a revamped version of a program she worked with while a business consultant with the Small Business Development Branch of the provincial government. Gault says she saw an enduring need to help Manitoba’s cultural entrepreneurs become better at the business of selling art, so carried it on after retirement.

There are a lot of creative people in Manitoba making very beautiful things, but they don’t necessarily know how to promote and sell what they do, said Gault.

Horndean sculptor Jake Goertzen is a member of the Uniquely Manitoba non-profit association that helps this province’s cultural entrepreneurs develop and market their work. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

“Artists are great at their art, and love what they do, but they’re not necessarily business people.”

Marilyn Gault

President Uniquely Manitoba

“Artists are great at their art, and love what they do, but they’re not necessarily business people,” she said.

A membership in Uniquely Manitoba offers these artists not only exposure through their e-catalogue and annual magazine, but access to business seminars geared to their unique needs. The program also will review an artist’s pieces for workmanship, salability, packaging, labelling and export potential. They help

artists put a price on their work. “ We’ve d e ve l o p e d p ro grams for artists to take a look at what it was costing them, and how they could go about selling more if they wanted to,” said Gault.

“What we’ve done is teach artists how to put a reasonable price on their work, and to package it in a way that enhances the value of it.”

Catalogue

It costs $100 to be part of Uniquely Manitoba, which buys a listing in the online e-book, as well as the association’s annual catalogue distributed to corporations, embassies and other ar t buyers. They are constantly promoting artists’ work and linking them up to regional, provincial, and international trade shows, said Dolinski.

“Uniquely wants to be the hub of connecting and directing people to the artists, or connecting them to

the galleries where artists are, or to gift stores,” she said.

None of this comes with a promise the phone will start ringing off the hook, said Gault. But it’s pretty much guaranteed not to if you don’t promote your work as an artist, she said.

“You can’t just weave baskets in your kitchen and think people will beat a path to your door,” she said. “We provide venues for them to display and sell, so they can get recognized and get their name out there.”

It is important to network and make connection this way, because art is a tough sell in Manitoba, said Goertzen.

“Almost all the artists I know have a working spouse or some situation where they’re freed up so they can do art.

Very few of them make a significant income from art,” he said.

But there are plenty making many beautiful things.

A quick scan of Uniquely

Manitoba’s catalogue features fine art and photography, and many specialized items from handmade shawls and linens and jewelry and Aboriginal beadwork to keepsake art quilts. In 2014, several speciality food items have also been included.

All these items are just a mouse click away on their website, and that’s something Manitobans might want to start thinking about as the gift-giving season begins, Dolinski said.

“It’s absolutely a great place to look for gifts,” she said.

“These are all Manitoba made and handmade for personalized giving. And aren’t we all trying to find that gift that is unique?”

To see Uniquely Manitoba’s e-book or to get more information about the association please log on to: www. uniquelymanitoba.ca. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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RecipeSwap

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

The Stop Lorraine Stevenson CROSSROADS RECIPE SWAP

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s we head toward Christmas, many of us give generously to charitable causes.

Food banks are one of them and they definitely need our help.

Goodness knows what would happen if we suddenly closed our wallets on them.

Over 60,000 Manitobans turned to one in the month of March, according to the Hunger Count 2014 released early last month by Food Banks Canada.

But as any food bank manager will also tell you, they want to close their doors eventually. The charitable model of food assistance is unsustainable, and so they persist to find a better way of ensuring all Canadians have equal access to healthy food.

This fall Taste Canada, a non-profit organization which annually recognizes Canadians’ best food writing, has given a top award to two authors writing about how they did indeed transform a food bank into something more empowering for those who need help putting food on the table.

The Stop — How the Fight For Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement is about how Nick Saul, executive director of a Toronto-based inner-city food bank, after taking the post in the late 1990s and seeing a dreary, dilapidated space giving out poor-quality, unhealthy food decided there had to be another way.

The Stop (the name of the food bank) is, or rather, was, typical — starting out in a church basement in the Kensington Market area of the city as a temporary stop-gap measure, but then grinding along in perpetuity year after year after that because it was so desperately needed.

As Saul and co-author Andrea Curtis point out in The Stop, food banking across our entire country has become entrenched, no longer an emergency measure as it was intended, but wholly part of our social fabric and political landscape.

But that’s much like seeing sandbags as a permanent way to hold back water.

The Stop is the story of how Saul and others radically transformed the food bank into a thriving community food centre instead, with associated community gardens, kitchens where families learn how to cook, a greenhouse, farmers’ markets, and a place with a much bigger vision for responding to the complex issues of poverty, food access and the rising rates of diet-related disease.

Saul is now president and CEO of Community Food Centres Canada, an organization starting to bring the innovations of The Stop to other communities across Canada. Suffice it to say, these are places that hold the potential to be a far more effective and long-lasting intervention for household food insecurity than any one-time hamper of canned goods will ever be.

It’s an idea worth sharing. Taste Canada, awarding The Stop the 2014 top prize for best writing raising awareness about social and political issues around food, thought so too.

Oatmeal Risotto with Cherry Tomatoes and Basil I love any kind of risotto and would like to share these two recipes with you this week.

Risotto is a traditional Italian dish and made with rice, but this recipe found on The Whole Grains Council’s website (whole grainscouncil.org) uses oatmeal instead. It’s made with quick oats cooked in broth.

3 c. vegetable broth 1 c. quick oats 1/4 c. grapeseed oil 1 to 2 garlic cloves, sliced thin 10 cherry tomatoes, quartered 5 basil leaves, torn Kosher salt and pepper to taste 3 tbsp. grated Parmesan or shredded mozzarella (optional)

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In a saucepan, bring the broth to a boil.

Add the oats, return to a boil and simmer for five minutes. Let cool completely, then refrigerate for four hours so the oatmeal firms up nicely. Heat the grapeseed oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and sauté until golden brown. Add the cherry tomatoes, sauté quickly, then add the basil and cook another 30 seconds or so. Fold in the oatmeal, season with salt and pepper, and mix to incorporate ingredients and warm the oatmeal. Distribute on plates, garnish with fresh basil and cheese.

PHOTOS: THINKSTOCK

Parsnip, Sage, Rosemary in no-time Risotto This is my version of another recipe I adapted in order to use abundant sage and rosemary from the garden this fall. The continuous stirring risotto making requires can put some cooks off because it sounds time consuming. But this dish really doesn’t take much time to cook, and I think you’ll be growing parsnips next year just to be stocked up to make it. It is really delicious.

— Lorraine 8 c. chicken broth 5 tbsp. butter, divided 1-1/2 c. chopped onion About eight parsnips, peeled trimmed and cut into 1/2-inch pieces 10 tsp. chopped rosemary and sage 1-1/2 c. arborio rice 3/4 c. Parmesan cheese Balsamic vinegar

Recipe courtesy of The Whole Grains Council and German Lam.

Boil broth then reduce heat and keep warm.

Melt four tbsp. butter in another saucepan and sauté onion about 10 minutes. Stir in parsnips and half the herbs and cook until parsnips soften. Add rice and stir about two minutes, then add warm broth enough to cover the mixture and let simmer until broth is almost absorbed, stirring occasionally and adding more broth until parsnips are tender. Remove from heat and add remaining herbs and remaining one tbsp. of butter (melted) and cheese. Add salt and pepper or additional herbs if you like something really savoury. Drizzle with balsamic vinegar and serve.

Serves 4.

Serves 6.

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Community rallies for new playground Danone officials drop by to share a great story

By Darell Nesbitt Freelance contributor

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ith the final touches put in place, it was time to celebrate over the noon hour at the Strathclair Community School at the end of September, with a few special guests who felt it was a great story for a small town.

“It’s an exceptional story,” said Randy Strilkiwski, retail development specialist, Danone Inc., speaking about how a Strathclair parent stumbled on the Danone Greek Yogurt ‘Rally for Playtime’ contest, and how the group of girls acted on it.

And for their efforts, the e x c i t e m e n t o n t h e p l a yground was all the thanks they needed, as they graciously accepted a cheque for $25,000.

Valerie Wareham, secretary of the Strathclair Playground Fundraising Committee, said it was by luck that parent Wendy McDonald stumbled upon the contest, which turned out to be a blessing for the school and community of Strathclair.

School principal, Mark Geekie said, “I want to extend another huge thank you to all of the members of the playground committee for getting us a new set of swings

and a new play structure. It is just amazing how fast this all came together! I also want to thank all of the volunteers who helped to remove the old equipment, prepare the ground for the new stuff, and put all of the new equipment together. It just goes to show what a group of people in a rural community can do!”

And for their efforts, the excitement on the playground was all the thanks they needed, as they graciously accepted a cheque for $25,000.

By offering the chance to win a playground makeover, the yogurt company wanted to help Canadian schools offer a better recess experience.

Danone Inc. looks at recess as being an important part of a child’s day, and the fact that playgrounds are a good place to be active, spend some energy, play with friends and try new games or sports.

Wa r e h a m a d d e d t h a t t h e Ru ra l Mu n i c i p a l i t y o f

Girls having fun on a saucer swing prior to the official opening of the new playground. Clockwise from back left: Lexy Waddell, Montana McDonald, Dusty Kawchuk, and Jorja Pedersen. PHOTO: DARRELL NESBITT

Strathclair and the Park West School Division were also on board in seeing a new structure implemented to replace the 30-plus-year-old one.

While the playground will serve the school, it will also serve the wider community,

with equipment selected and erected for youth aged two to 12. The fundraising committee is also aiming to implement a few basketball nets for the older students, and are still accepting donations.

Independent research con-

cludes that playgrounds are among the most important environments for children outside the home, thanks to physical and social activity.

Darrell Nesbitt writes from Shoal Lake, Manitoba

Add an unusual plant to your collection Mexican hat plant is a succulent with strange propagation behaviour

By Albert Parsons

If this method of producing young isn’t peculiar enough, the Mexican hat has an even more unusual way of propagating.

Freelance contributor

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have what most people would consider an extensive indoor garden in my all-season sunroom, but even though I am fortunate to have such a space to grow plants all year round, I have to make choices, as space is always an issue. I do like to include unusual plants or ones that behave in an unusual way in my collection. One such plant that I just recently acquired is the Mexican hat plant, sometimes called mother of thousands, and having the long Latin name Bryophyllum daigremontianum.

This plant belongs to the same genus as the kalanchoe, and although the two plants share some common characteristics, the kalanchoe is grown as a flowering plant while the Mexican h a t p l a n t i s n o t . It o n l y rarely flowers, producing a tall, umbrella-shaped umbel of small, pink, bell-shaped flowers. I grow this plant partly for its unusual foliage (it is a succulent plant native to Madagascar) as it fits into my collection of cacti a n d s u c c u l e n t s. T h e re a l attraction the plant has for

The Mexican hat plant will likely be the tallest in a succulent plant collection. PHOTOS: ALBERT PARSONS

Tiny plantlets line the edges of the plant’s leaf.

me, however, is its strange propagation behaviour.

The Mexican hat plant can get to be about a metre tall but I usually take slips and establish new plants when it gets over 35 cm. The plant has oblong, lance-shaped leaves that are about 15 cm long and three cm wide and for some reason, as it grows, the upper leaves are quite a bit larger and heavier than the lower ones, so it becomes top heavy and bends over. The plant also develops lateral roots on its stem and when the plant bends over these roots will root into the

ground (not as likely to occur in a pot) and new plants will emerge. The plant produces new offspring in this odd way.

If this method of producing young isn’t peculiar enough, the Mexican hat has an even more unusual way of propagating. Two or three leaves emerge from the stem at each leaf node and these nodes are spaced along the stem about eight to 10 cm apart. The edges of the leaves — which are green with blotchy purple undersides — have spoonshaped bulbous spurs along the edges that bear young

plantlets. These tiny plantlets gradually develop roots and then they fall to the soil surface and grow into new plants.

The edges of the leaves at one point, before the plantlets begin to fall, are completely lined with these tiny plantlets, giving the leaves a very unusual appearance — and the texture some people think is alligator-like, so they call it the alligator plant.

I sometimes take a few of the tiny plantlets that have fallen to the soil surface and place them on the surface of a pot of soil where new plants will develop. Other times I simply leave some of them on the soil surface of the pot in which the parent plant is growing and when a few of them are

three or four cm tall, I pot them up individually.

Besides using my Mexican hat plant as an interesting houseplant, it makes a great entry in the “novelty plant” class at our local fair. I incorporate a few of these unique plants into the succulent containers I plant up in the spring for use in my outdoor garden.

Although it is quite fast growing, getting much taller than most other succulents, it does not get too large in the short three months that the planters are outside. Like most other tender succulents, the Mexican hat plant will not tolerate frost so I always bring them indoors before fall frost and do not put them outdoors until danger of frost is past.

All parts of the Mexican hat plant are poisonous to humans and pets. Since I don’t generally go around sampling my houseplants and I have no pets, this is not a concern for me.

Anyone with small children or pets should take precautions if growing this most unusual plant — unique enough to warrant a space in any indoor garden.

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

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WD-40 — to use or not to use?

Plus, feedback from readers and a tip Reena Nerbas Household Solutions

Dear Reena, I read your articles in our local paper and I thought I would ask you for your advice on a crayon problem. I washed a load of laundry and put it in the dryer.

When the laundry came out of the dryer — you guessed it — my six-year-old had left a four-pack of crayons from a restaurant in the pocket of his jeans. There is now crayon on everything, jeans, yoga pants, sweatshirts, T-shirts and a winter coat. I have cleaned up the dryer using WD-40 and dish soap but I am not having much luck with the clothing.

In need of your advice, Carrie So Carrie, Do you think you’ll laugh about this someday? Since this is wax, treat it just like you would candle wax. Place stained side down on a pad of paper towels; spray with WD-40. Let stand five minutes. Turn fabric over and spray the other side. Work liquid detergent onto stains. Wash in hot water with laundry detergent and either coloursafe bleach, borax, OxiClean, washing soda or vinegar.

Warning: Never spray WD-40 directly inside the dryer drum.

Dear Reena, We recently bought a new tablecloth while we were in southern France. I put a table protector under the tablecloth, one of those that are plastic on one side and soft material on the other. The two sides are sewn together in diamond shapes, similar to cloth placemats. We had to put an extra leaf in the table which meant that we had to remove the table protector, and to my horror, some parts of it stuck to the table as I was gently pulling it off. I had the plastic side towards the top and the soft side on the table. I now have a table that I hope is not ruined. Can you give me some advice as to how I can remove the cloth that is stuck to the table? I used water first which

READER’S PHOTOS

Checking out the snow. PHOTOS: CINDY MURRAY

PHOTO: Thinkstock

allowed me to remove some of it. I also used Murphy’s Oil Soap plus Liquid Gold, neither of which helped. Was I wrong in placing the table protector with the plastic side facing up? Someone told me WD-40 is the answer, but I want to hear from you first. I would so much appreciate any advice you can give me.

Thank you. Darlene Dear Darlene, Be careful! Although WD-40 will do the trick, the varnish will most likely need reapplication. WD-40 has a great reputation for stripping paint and varnish because it is a solvent. I would prefer if you begin by covering the area with a tea towel and using a warm iron or a hot hair dryer to heat the stuck-on table protector. Or use a product called Goo Gone (found at any hardware store), and peanut butter or mayonnaise are also great options and won’t strip the wood. Then use a plastic putty knife to gently scrape the plastic. When laying down a table protector, the felt side goes on the bottom, the vinyl on the top.

Dear Reena, How can I get Silly Putty out of my blue jeans?

Lori Dear Lori, Spray the area with WD-40 (or rubbing alcohol) and wipe the putty away.

Next apply dish soap and water onto the clothing. Blot and wash as usual.

Feedback from readers: Dear Reena, I just want to tell your readers that although WD-40 does have many uses for things around the house, bike chains are not one of them. In my experience, WD-40 will strip away the existing lubricant that you need for the drive train. To lubricate bike chains, please buy proper waterproof bike chain lubricant. Pass it on.

Marcus (bike store owner)

Dear Reena, As a gift I received a brand new set of glassware. Ridiculously fastened stickers were cemented onto each piece. I sprayed WD-40 onto every sticker and they all peeled off as easy as pie!

Thanks, Morgan Fabulous tip of the week: • Snow can build up on your satellite dish and mess up your reception.

Spray a coating of WD-40 on the dish and the snow will slide off instead.

I enjoy your questions and tips, keep them coming.

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COCORAHS, 4-H MANITOBA & THE MANITOBA CO-OPERATOR PRESENT…

WEATHER You Like It or Not… It Matters!

Hey 4-H’ers!

We are calling upon 4-H youth members & citizen scientists alike to submit an exciting short story or experience you’ve had with weather. If you can tie that in with the importance of “en-gauging” in the CoCoRaHS program (those details below), then you may be eligible for a cash prize and have your story published in the Manitoba Co-operator, along with 4-H’s eZine & The Banner.

CONTEST

Contest Categories: Open to ages 9-11 in the Junior category ~ Ages 12-14 in the Intermediate category ~ Ages 15-25 in the Senior/Adult category. *Ages 6-8 in the Cloverbud category can submit a colouring activity sheet or photo collage.

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.

You are going to need to do a little bit of research folks!

All stories must conclude with a tie-in to the CoCoRaHS program. Visit www.cocorahs.org/canada to find information, watch the video http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=eXHM-v_2H8I and then tell us how using a rain gauge and contributing to weather monitoring can benefit you or your community, or farmers, flood & drought forecasters, meteorologists, or conservation, and so much more!

Prizing: There will be a 1st place winner picked for each category: Junior, Intermediate & Senior/Adult. The winner will receive a $ 150 cash prize (pre-paid Visa card), and their story will be published in the Manitoba Co-operator in the Jan 8th, 2015 Issue…just in time for pick up at the Ag Days Show in Brandon! 2nd & 3rd place contestants in the older categories, and Cloverbud winners, will receive items from the 4-H Manitoba Store.

Submission Details: Please email submissions to 4-H Manitoba at 4hassist@ 4h.mb.ca with the contest name “Weather You Like It or Not It Matters” in the Subject line, your age category, full name and contact information. *Cloverbuds can access and print off their colouring sheet at: www.4h.mb.ca or by email request to: manitoba@cocorahs. org. Please mail them to: Manitoba 4-H Council, 1129 Queens Avenue, Brandon MB, R7A 1L9 Contest will open for submissions starting Thursday Oct 30th, 2014, and closes by Noon on Dec 18th, 2014. Submissions will be reviewed during the school break. Winners will be announced and published in the Manitoba Co-operator on Jan 8th, 2015. For more details please contact Tiffiny Taylor at 204-228-0842 or email: manitoba@cocorahs.org

http://www.cocorahs.org/CanadianApplication.aspx