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Public more receptive to barn expansion The Manitoba Pork Council is looking for ways to engage younger audiences

By Shannon VanRaes Co-operator staff

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new survey on public attitudes towards pork production has found Manitobans still have concerns about construction of new hog barns — but public opinion is going in a positive direction.

“We see the public as somewhat more sympathetic towards the industry now, I’m not saying they’re 100 per cent supportive, they still have questions, they still have concerns, but it’s definitely better now than it was,” said Andrew Dickson, general manager of the Manitoba Pork Council.

Probe Research conducted the survey on behalf of the Manitoba Pork Council this spring, asking an in-depth series of questions on topics ranging from environmental stewardship and animal care, to media penetration.

Dickson said it’s the first time such a wide-reaching survey has been done. A previous poll only focused on the issue surrounding new hog barns.

Council chairman George See BARNS on page 6 »

Inset: Joel Dewitz (l), his wife Nancy and son Jeff farm near Steele, North Dakota. Joel wants other farmers to know the dangers of entering a grain bag when extracting grain with a grain vacuum. grain bag photo: allan dawson, family PHOTO: supplied

North Dakota farmers survive being shrink wrapped in a grain bag Joel and Jeff Dewitz are lucky to be alive — they were trapped in a grain bag while using a grain vacuum to remove spoiled grain

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

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arm accidents can sneak up on you.

Just ask Joel Dewitz, who is telling his story to warn other farmers of the dangers of grain bags and grain vacuums.

“I’m not proud of what we did, but I thought if maybe one person would happen to read the article and not do the same stupid thing we did, it would be worth it,” he said in an interview from his farm near Steele, in south-central North Dakota.

In late July, Dewitz and his son Jeff found themselves trapped inside the grain bag they were suctioning out with a grain vacuum.

Deer had punctured holes in the 10x300-foot grain storage bag filled with wheat. Some of the grain at the end of the bag was wet and spoiled.

Dewitz wanted to remove a semiload of dry grain using a grain vacuum and shovel out the wet wheat on the bottom. As he wanted to close the bag up again, he didn’t cut the end of the bag. Nor mally, a grain bag unloader would be used, which

extracts grain using an auger while rolling the bag up.

The end of the bag was opened and the father and son propped it open with scoop shovels. They entered the bag, one on each side of the grain vacuum hose, to feed grain into it.

The shovels loosened and fell over as grain was removed. Suddenly, the plastic bag sucked in around the hose entrapping them. They could still breath as a small amount of air was circulating from the hole where the tube See SHRINK WRAP on page 6 »

Jimsonweed: Toxic weed no threat to canola industry » PAGE 25

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INSIDE

Did you know?

LIVESTOCK

Replacing insecticides with sex in pest control

Lamb in demand Demand for lamb is rising faster than production

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Genetically engineered male moths prevent females from reproducing “We are at a crossroads right now with how we control pests, reduce pesticides and provide food for a growing world population in a changing climate.”

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CROPS Weeds go to school Assiniboine Community College sets up a weed garden

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FEATURE A biosecure success Canada’s pork industry put up a united front against PEDv

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CROSSROADS A raptor story Following these fierce birds a worthwhile hobby

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Editorials Comments What’s Up Livestock Markets

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Grain Markets Weather Vane Classifieds Sudoku

o r n e l l Un i ve r s i t y researchers are combining two biotechnologies to control dia mondback moths with sex instead of insecticide.

The pesky feeders on crucifer crops, including canola, mustards and vegetables, have developed resistance to many insecticides as well as Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), a soil bacteria that has been genetically engineered into corn and cotton to help control such pests.

The Cornell Chronicle newsletter cites recent research in which male diamondback moths genetically engineered with a gene that prevents females from reproducing can suppress populations and slow their evolution of resistance to Bt. “We are at a crossroads right now with how we control pests, reduce pesticides and provide food for a growing world population in a changing climate,” said Anthony Shelton, pro-

Anthony Shelton

fessor of entomology at Cornell’s New York State A g r i c u l t u ra l E x p e r i m e n t Station (NYSAES) in Geneva, New York, and co-author of the paper. “We need to put our heads together to solve these problems with new solutions.”

The genetically engineered moth was developed by the United Kingdom’s Oxitec Ltd. A paper published in BMC Biolog y describes green-

h o u s e t r i a l s w h e re h i g h numbers of the GE male moths were released into cages containing pest diamondback moths. Within a few generations, the engineered moths mating with the pest females led to a rapid decline of the pests.

The Chronicle said that in additional experiments, the researchers released low levels of the GE male moths in cages with Bt broccoli and pest moths. They discovered that the GE males kept pest populations in check and also delayed the buildup of resistance to the Bt broccoli.

“Adding the two biotechnologies together — engineered insects and Bt plants — demonstrates that you could both suppress the pest population and also d e c re a s e t h e n u m b e r o f Bt-resistant individuals in the population. The way forward in farming is responsible integrated pest management to improve available methods and to introduce new methods for safe and sustainable insect pest control,” Shelton said.

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What do you really think about AgriInvest? —

CFA wants to know The Canadian Federation of Agriculture says the quick, web-based survey is intended to help encourage governments to improve the program under the next Growing Forward framework

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

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ow do farmers use AgriInvest and how can the business risk management program be improved?

That’s what the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) wants to learn from a survey of farmers as it prepares for the next federalprovincial-territorial farm program starting April 1, 2018, replacing Growing Forward 2. “ We w a n t t o m a k e sure we are ready and as informed as we can be early in the process because negotiations and discussions around the frameworks start quite early,” Scott Ross, CFA’s director of Business Risk Management and Farm Policy said in an interview from his Ottawa office Aug. 25, 2015.

CFA has set out in broad terms policies it wants the next federal government to implement on behalf of farmers, but more work needs to be done with officials on the details.

“This is where we feel the survey will feed into it — getting those details and making sure that we have the most accurate picture we can of how producers use the program and how they want to use the program and the challenges they face with it right now.”

AgriInvest evolved from the defunct Net Income Savings Account (NISA).

Under AgriInvest, farmers can deposit 100 per cent of their allowable net sales annually into a savings account with up to one per cent of their deposit, to a maximum of up to $15,000, matched by the federal and provincial gover nments.

(Governments in the past matched 1.5 per cent of allowable net sales.)

AgriInvest is a self-managed producer-government savings account that allows producers to set money aside so it can be used to recover from a small drop i n i n c o m e, o r t o m a k e investments to reduce onfarm risks, Agriculture and

Agri-Food Canada says on its AgriInvest website.

I t ’s u p t o f a r m e r s i f they want to withdraw money from the AgriInvest account. When they do they must withdraw the government contribution first and it’s taxable.

C FA i s p r o p o s i n g t h e following changes to the program: • I ncrease the maximum matched producer contribution rate to 4.5 per cent of allowable net sales.

• S et the maximum allowable matching contribution to $100,000.

• E ncourage investments into a set of pre-approved, proactive risk mitigation and income generation i n ve s t m e n t o p p o r t u n ities by allowing producers to access their own AgriInvest contributions without triggering taxable government funds.

“We see at CFA a strong role to increase the value of what AgriInvest offers to producers in terms of an investment tool that helps them manage a whole wide array of different issues that are coming up in terms of o n- fa r m costs,” Ross said.

“But we wanted to get a better understanding of what kind of assets and investments they are making right now with the program to see how it has been used to date, and also get some insights as to whether the current amounts are sufficient to really meet the goals.”

Farmers are busy with harvest now, but the webbased survey, which can be done on a mobile device as well as a computer, takes just three to five minutes to complete, Ross said.

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Cool down canola ASAP

With the recent heat wave farmers need to be even more vigilant with their canola

BY CANOLA COUNCIL OF CANADA

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ll canola should be conditioned shortly after it goes in the bin.

Canola that goes into the bin hot is at much higher risk of spoilage and conditioning will reduce the grain temperature. It will also help dry down dockage, which may have higher moisture content than the seed. Note that straight-combined canola may have “greener” dockage, which could add to the storage risk.

Movement of air through conditioning will also help remove moisture from this dockage.

Storage risk is reduced significantly when canola moisture is eight per cent or lower and temperature is 15 C or lower.

How to condition canola: Put canola in aeration bins immediately after harvest and turn the fans on until canola has cooled to 15 C. If aeration bin space is not available, keep moving the canola from bin to bin until it cools.

Augering canola from one bin to another will circulate air through the seed, cool it off and remove any developing hot spots.

Moving canola after a couple of weeks on aeration adds another level of security to make sure the highly valuable crop is safe.

Monitor canola throughout the aeration process to make sure the temperature is coming down. Bin temperature cables simplify the monitoring process.

If temperatures stop falling or worse, start rising, this is a bad sign that heating may have begun.

Empty the whole bin to break up hot spots and cool off the mass, then put the canola back on aeration.

The first four to six weeks after putting the canola in the bin is the most critical time.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

OPINION/EDITORIAL

Talk about safety

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e’re going out on a limb here to say the farmers featured in this week’s front-page story are courageous, not because they survived their harrowing ordeal, but because they are talking about it.

The father and son duo made a mistake that could have ended tragically. Joel Dewitz admits to feeling pretty sheepish about the risks they took that day in Laura Rance July when they entered a grain bag while Editor a grain vac was operating. “I thought if maybe one person would happen to read the article and not do the same stupid thing we did it would be worth it,” he said of his decision to tell reporters about their close call with suffocation.

It’s easy to look on from the outside and say, “they should have known better,” than to crawl into what amounts to a big plastic bag with a vacuum hose sucking material out from one end.

But in their defence, grain bags are still relatively new on Prairie farms. A combination of big crops, sluggish transportation systems and the rising cost of building permanent storage means more farmers across the Northern Great Plains are starting to use them more frequently.

Working with different technology is nothing new for farmers.

Historically, they have always been on the front lines of innovation, rapidly recognizing the potential benefits and moving quickly to capture them.

But perhaps they aren’t as quick to anticipate potential hazards.

Grain bags appear benign. They aren’t going to collapse on someone like a building might. You can’t fall into one or fall off of one like you can with a grain bin.

Even when forewarned about the potential hazards, risky choices are routinely made in the name of expediency.

The lucky ones, like the Dewitzs, live to learn from them. They now say they would use better bracing and station someone on the outside ready to shut down the equipment if things go awry.

North Dakota Extension advisers recommend against entering a grain bag when using a grain vac under any circumstances because of the suffocation hazard.

When mistakes happen on your farm, don’t be afraid to talk about them. It’s important to share such “learning experiences” with families, friends and neighbours. Because, while mistakes will happen for as long as we are human, accidents don’t have to be the result.

Migrants or refugees?

Two little boys and their mother drowned last week trying to escape their wartorn homeland.

They are among thousands who have died under similar circumstances this year. But the unforgettable image of a Syrian toddler’s lifeless body washed ashore on a European beach has caught the world’s attention.

We’ve watched news reports for weeks about the so-called “migrant” crisis in Europe as tens of thousands of desperate people push their way through borders in search of a country that will accept them.

Describing them as “migrants” is an interesting choice of words and it has done much to frame the debate over what to do about them, and with them. Some countries would simply like to turn them away. Here in Canada, we are pretty good at pretending they are Europe’s problem.

Migrants, including our ancestors who settled on the Canadian Prairies more than a century ago, are people looking for a better future.

No one puts their kids on a leaky boat for a perilous journey across a sea if staying where they are is an option. These are refugees and they deserve to be treated with compassion and respect.

It’s not about being altruistic, although that would be nice. It’s about recognizing that what happens to “them” also happens to “us.”

“We’re living in an international age when good things and bad things can move at unprecedented speed, whether it’s investments, whether it’s drugs, illegal drugs, whether it’s terrorism, whether it’s pollution. The world, all of the complex problems in the world are horizontal, but all of the governments are vertical. We cannot solve these problems as sovereign nation states alone,” John Hamre, president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies told the 2014 Borlaug Dialogues last October.

“I think what Norman Borlaug realized 50 years ago was that the human condition is now becoming seamless. We are not the beneficiaries if we try to hide.”

Daniel Speckhard, president and CEO, Lutheran World Relief, told that same conference that what is happening in Syria today is a direct result of food insecurity caused by successive droughts and the resulting political tensions.

The family that made the news last week had tried unsuccessfully to come to Canada, where they had relatives who could support them.

It would be unfair to blame the fate of those little boys on Canada’s immigration system, but it is fair to ask whether this country and we as individuals are doing enough to address this broad and deepening human tragedy. laura@fbcpublishing.com

Time for a farm financial checkup MAFRD release

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hile the final numbers on this year’s harvest won’t be in for a few weeks, it is worthwhile to start thinking about the financial state of your operation post-harvest or roundup.

Commodity prices are very volatile and expenses are trending upwards because of a weaker Canadian dollar. Severe weather may have reduced your margins. Issues with delivery or shipping could cut your cash flow. If you end up in any of those situations, there are some things you can do.

Farm finance quick test Start with your current ratio: your crop and input inventory (accurately valued) and cash divided by your accounts receivable, your operating loans, advances and your principal payments on debt coming due within the next year.

If this ratio is 1.5 to one or greater, you probably can focus on other things for the short term.

If the ratio is under 1.5 to one, you should probably be concerned about how things will look for the winter. If the ratio is below one to one, you should be taking steps to make sure your farm survives to the next growing season.

You may also want to look at your debt service requirement. This is the total of your principal and interest payments that are due in the coming year, expressed in cost of production per unit.

As example: if you have a 2,000-acre farm with $600,000 of debt, with a debt service cost of $80,000 principal/year plus interest at five per cent, your debt service requirement per acre is $80,000 (principal) plus $30,000 (interest) equals $110,000, divided by 2,000 (acres), equals $55 per acre.

This number can be used to quickly gauge if your yield-price combination will be enough to pay the input costs and make your payments.

Talk to your lenders Proactive, regular contact with your lenders is an important part of farming. Lenders consider themselves as partners in your operation and will usually work at maintaining a relationship with you. You should view things the same way.

As a farm manager, keeping your lenders up to date with what is happening on your farm is very important, especially when things may be tightening up in cash flow or profitability.

With proper lead time, most lenders will try to work with you to maintain a manageable cash flow and keep your farm moving forward.

Other sources of financial help and information MAFRD farm enterprise specialists are located throughout the province and have the expertise and tools to help you analyze your farm finances and put together a plan to move forward. Visit the website for the specialist closest to you.

The Manitoba Farm Industry Board is in place to assist Manitoba farmers in financial difficulty.

One of its mandates is to provide mediation as an alternative to legal action by creditors. The board has financial advisers who can work directly with farmers. Call 204-945-0357 for more information.

Farm Debt Mediation Services is a Canadawide service for farmers. Its activity is governed by the Farm Debt Mediation Act, which protects farmers against foreclosure. This service has financial advisers who can work directly with farmers. Visit agr.gc.ca for more information.

Greg Fedak, Sharon Ardron, and Bob Gwyer are MAFRD business development specialists.

Farmers take back control of big data Who reaps the rewards from your farm’s data?

FERN’S AG INSIDER

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n what amounts to a revolt against the data-gathering initiatives of companies like Monsanto and DuPont, farmers are increasingly using sensors and other technology to gather their own data from their fields — and either crunching it themselves, selling it to aggregators and other ag-industry players, or both, reports the Wall Street Journal. Privacy concerns and the threat of companies using the data to charge more for seeds and chemicals are prompting a move toward farmer-owned datacollection systems.

The prevalence of relatively cheap sensors and data-transmission devices has energized a host of entrepreneurs. They hope to convince farmers that if there is money to be made selling their farm data, then farmers themselves should get some of it. The founder of one startup venture, Farmobile, told the Journal, “We’re monetizing something (farmers) hadn’t monetized before.”

There is real money at stake. The Journal says Monsanto has spent more than $1 billion in recent years to enhance its data-collection

efforts, and that DuPont expects to get as much as “$500 million a year in revenue from computerized farming services.”

But some farmers and entrepreneurs “say crop producers can get the most from their data by compiling and analyzing it themselves — for instance, to determine the best time to apply fertilizer to their soil and how much. Then, farmers could profit further by selling data to seed, pesticide and equipment makers seeking a glimpse into how and when farmers use machinery and crop supplies.”

What isn’t clear is who owns the data in situations where the farmer is renting the land, the farmer or the landowner? New data from the USDA’s Census of Agriculture shows that of the 353.8 million acres that were rented and farmed, 80 per cent was owned by non-farming landlords. The American Farm Bureau Federation believes the farmer should control the data, but also says it is the farmer’s responsibility to enter into an agreement with the landowner.

Reprinted from FERN’s Ag Insider by Chuck Abbott, a daily free newsletter from the Food and Environment Reporting Network, a non-profit news organization.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

U.S. presidential candidates take aim at undocumented workers Illegal immigrants have helped make many of the fruits, vegetables and meats consumed in North America possible

BY ALAN GUEBERT

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o hear most of the 2016 Republican presidential candidates tell it, the nation’s biggest problem is illegal immigration.

That’s right; it’s not the incendiary Middle East, the ever-on-edge global financial markets, ballooning overpopulation, rapid climate change, or terrorism either here or abroad. It’s illegal immigration.

It’s so bad, shouts poll-climbing billionaire Donald Trump, that the only solution to this problem is that “They’ve got to go!”

“They,” noted conservative columnist George Will in late August, are “approximately 11.3 million illegal immigrants.” If all were gathered to be deported, he said of the Trumpster’s big-sweep plan, the group would be “94 times larger than the wartime internment of 117,000 persons of Japanese descent.”

No one in U.S. agriculture has a hard count on how many undocumented workers are employed in American food production. Recent estimates, however, suggest roughly 70 per cent of the 1.2 million employed by American farms have no legal right to be in the U.S. If accurate, estimated the American Farm Bureau Federation in 2012, the last time such a mass deportation strategy was discussed (and, not coincidentally, the last presidential election year), the exodus would bring “labour shortages (that) will result in losses of up to $9 billion” to American agriculture.

A farm worker picks table grapes in Maricopa, California, United States, July 24, 2015.

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Ironically, however, many U.S. farmers don’t see expanding legal immigration as a good solution to agriculture’s chronic labour shortage, according to a Feb. 2015, National Public Radio report by Dan Charles.

Instead, Charles discovered, farmers’ loyalties are deeply split; they openly look the other way when they hire willing farm workers they suspect are undocumented because the farmers need the labourers. Besides, one grower told him, “They’re just trying to feed their families.”

But, the grower added, “giving more legal rights to those workers is probably bad for his business. He believes that (if ) some of the workers… working in agriculture… gain legal status (then) ‘the pressure is off.

Now they can go to the cities and look for construction jobs, or manufacturing jobs.’”

While there’s little data to back up that belief, Charles explained, a key reason undocumented workers do flock to U.S. farms is that rural America is “a good place to hide from the authorities.”

The hiding, of course, carries a price; there is little job safety and even fewer job benefits for undocumented workers and their families.

You and I, however, profit from this not-so-hidden labour force.

Undocumented workers — including women and children — pick most of the nation’s fruit and vegetables, slaughter most of our livestock, milk a growing number of our cows, and

mow millions of acres of our lawns.

They are the key source of cheap American labour for our food system and losing any portion of it will cost us dearly.

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture put a number on what that loss would be if, as some of the presidential candidates that year proposed, we patched our national sieve to keep these mostly brown hands away from our farms and out of our cities.

According to USDA, if the U.S. cut the number of undocumented workers within our borders by half, or 5.8 million, “Fruit, tree nuts, vegetables, and nursery production (would experience) long-run relative declines of two to 5.4 per cent in output and from 2.5 to 9.3 per cent in exports…”

And, “real wages would rise, on average from 3.9 to 9.9 per cent” because of an unmet, and ever-growing, farm labour shortage.

If, however, today’s temporary non-immigrant ag worker programs were expanded by just 156,000 people, the same four ag sectors would see production rise, imports increase, and — because of an ample, guaranteed supply of workers — labour costs fall.

So, the GOP candidates are right in one sense; the U.S. undoubtedly has an undocumented worker problem. Their proposed fix, however, is a disaster for everyone — you, me and “they.”

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

How it was raised does affect that grilling experience Most consumers prefer grain-fed over grass-fed beef

By Larry Corah

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he great thing about this country is we have many choices. But choices can be a challenge, too.

How does the production system impact your grilling and eating experience? Well, for nearly 95 per cent of all U.S. beef produced, the traditional system is weaning a calf at six to seven months. Then it’s placed in a forage-based stocker growing program for three to six months, followed by 140 to 160 days of grain feeding to finish.

That was certainly not the original beef production system. Up until the 1950s, all cattle were grass fattened, but about that time, Midwest farmers started finishing them on grain. All of a sudden the consuming public said, “YES, we greatly prefer the flavour of grain-fed beef.”

You likely knew that history. But here are some things you likely did not know about how the beef production system impacts your beef grilling and enjoyment.

Let’s start with a little Q & A. How long do cattle need to be on feed before the flavour profile we enjoy is created?

Numerous feeding trials have shown that 80 to 100 days are required before we start to taste the difference, but adding 40 to 60 more days further increases flavour and tenderness of the beef.

How much benefit is created by the added days?

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A study at South Dakota State University answered that question.

Researchers harvested one group of steers with .3 inch of fat cover but fed another group another 77 days to .5 inch of fat cover. They found that the extra time on feed resulted in an additional 105 points of marbling (a full qualitygrade difference) creating a more tender, flavourful product.

Our company also did a survey at Certified Angus Beef-licensed packing plants in which we evaluated carcasses by compositional end point. The underfed cattle (.2 inch of fat cover) had considerably lower marbling scores, per cent Choice and Prime carcasses and lower CAB acceptance rates.

So back to the meat case, how would grass-fattened beef compare to beef pro-

duced in a normal production system?

Workers at the Ohio State University just reported results (2015) of a trial they conducted to answer that question.

The researchers compared a traditional grain-fed system where calves are spring born and fall weaned then placed on a 90 per cent concentrate diet, to cattle “fattened” on grass. The latter group was also spring born and fall weaned, but placed on grass for a short fall grazing period after weaning. They were fed hay over the winter and then placed back on grass in the spring with harvest occurring at about 16 months of age.

There was a 180-pound carcass weight advantage for the traditional, grain-fed cattle. The trial resulted in a fat cover of .23 inch and marbling score of 427 (Slight marbling or quality grade of U.S. Select) for the grass-fattened versus a fat cover of .60 inch and marbling score of 604 (Modest, or Premium Choice) for the grain-fattened cattle.

A small percentage of consumers (less than 15 per cent, according to Nebraska research) do prefer grass-fattened beef.

The majority of consumers will continue to prefer grain-fed beef, which will be the future of U.S. beef as we compete globally. Grass-fattened beef is much more common outside of the U.S. Larry Corah, former vice-president of Certified Angus Beef, is now a consultant to the U.S.-based organization.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

FROM PAGE ONE BARNS Continued from page 1

Matheson also sees improvement in how the province’s pork producers are perceived by the public.

“We’re generally pleased with the public’s opinion on how we’re operating when it comes to the environment and animal care, which are the two greatest concerns the public seems to have,” he said. “We’re also encouraged by how the public felt about the industry and, for the mostly positive allowances given to producers to construct new facilities.”

Current numbers show that 56 per cent of the 1,000 adults polled by phone supported lifting the highly restrictive requirements around hog barns construction, commonly referred to as a “hog barn moratorium” by both industry and government. One-third of those surveyed, or 32 per cent, believed the so-called hog barn moratorium should remain in place.

Unsurprisingly, the results indicated that people living

in rural areas were more likely to support the expansion of hog barns than those living in urban centres, Dickson said.

Individuals who had attended college or university were more likely to support a moratorium.

Dickson said advertisements sharing producers’ environmental practices have helped improve the image of pork producers, as have campaigns showing the family side of farming. He said that producers are doing good things, but that they need to get that message to consumers.

However, the survey also indicated that the traditional advertising campaigns used by the council aren’t reaching all Manitobans, specifically younger Manitobans. Only 34 per cent of those polled remembered seeing media related to the pork industry, and the majority of those individuals was over the age of 55.

“There is a lot of focus on young people, and it’s something any organization or business has to think about,

how do you target that group?

How do you engage them appropriately and get them better informed… that is something we are going to look at, how do we reach out to this demographic? But they’re not an easy audience to get to, because they don’t use the traditional ways of communicating,” said Dickson. “It’s a bit of a conundrum. People say, well they use Twitter and all those things, but they resent any sort of corporate influence there, so we have to be careful about how we message these things.”

The pork council also uses community events, like the annual BBQ and Blues Festival in Winnipeg, to get both their message and their products in the public eye.

“We know one thing, if people feel good about the product, they tend to feel good about the producers of the product, and so one of our main tasks is to make sure the product they’re getting in the stores is of high quality, it’s well presented and well priced,” said the general manager.

Being open and transparent is also important, said Dickson, adding that is the reason the results of the survey have been posted online for the public to see.

But public opinion still does’t trump the financial realities faced by the producer, adds Matheson.

“It’s always a good thing to have the public on your side, but at the end of the day it’s economics that will drive expansion,” he said. “And we’re hoping that between positive public opinion and hopefully positive future economic returns that we’ll see new facilities constructed in this province.”

“We see the public as somewhat more sympathetic towards the industry now, I’m not saying they’re 100 per cent supportive, they still have questions, they still have concerns, but it’s definitely better now than it was.”

Andrew Dickson

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entered the bag, but they could hardly move. Dewitz said it made him think of being grabbed by a python — the more you struggle the worse it gets.

“Our feet were probably 18 inches from the end of the bag but we were closer to the vacuum hose, which was seven or eight feet into the bag,” Dewitz s a i d . “My s o n g o t c a u g h t stretched out flat so he could hardy move at all. I was on my knees and elbows and I did not have enough power to push back against the bag where my feet would come out the end and release the vacuum.”

Joel and Jeff could communicate, but not well over the roar of the grain vacuum.

“I had a phone in one pocket and a knife in the other pocket.

I could feel them in the bottom of my pocket, but I couldn’t

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“I’m not proud of what we did but I thought if maybe one person would happen to read the article and not do the same stupid thing we did it would be worth it.”

Joel Dewitz

get to the top of my pocket to get them out,” Joel said. “My arms were pulled down so tight I couldn’t get my elbow back alongside my body to get into the top of my pockets.”

Dewitz had his finger pushed into the bag wall up to his knuckles trying to poke through, but it was in vain. Jeff put an arm into the hose trying to reduce the suction.

Luckily Joel was able to b re a k a n a r m o f f h i s e ye glasses and used it to puncture the bag. He signalled to his son to pull on one side and Joel pulled on the other making the hole bigger. The seal was broken allowing them to escape.

Dewitz said he was relatively unscathed, but his son went into shock.

He recovered quickly after having his legs elevated and was given something to drink.

T h e y w e r e n’t s u r e h ow long they battled to get free.

Dewitz thought it might have been almost an hour; his son guessed 25 minutes.

“The concept of time didn’t mean anything to us,” he said.

“It would have been real easy to just go to sleep and not fight.”

They suggest one way to prevent a similar accident would be to use the cage from a chemical tote to prevent the bag from collapsing around the vacuum hose and always having someone on the outside ready to shut off the grain vacuum if necessary.

However, North Dakota State University says no one should enter a grain bag when using a grain vacuum because of the suffocation hazard.

“The suction can ‘shrink wrap’ a person so he or she cannot move and will limit space for breathing,” an NDSU extension release says. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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KAP doesn’t want new UAV regs to unnecessarily ground farmers Dan Mazier agrees safety is important, but in wide-open rural areas Transport Canada’s regulations need to be flexible enough to reflect the reduced risk of flight mishaps

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

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nmanned air vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, need regulation to ensure safety but the rules shouldn’t be so onerous as to prevent farmers from flying them, says Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier “KAP would like dialogue before they ( Transport Canada) make regulations,” Mazier said in an interview Sept. 3. “If they are going to put a certain regulation in at least consult farm groups or farmers and ask how they can work with it. “ This is supposed to be another tool for farmers. If they make it too onerous to get a licence or to use it they just won’t do it and there will be a lost technology that we just won’t be able to access because it’s just too much hassle.”

T h a t’ a t h e message KAP delivered in a submission, including nine recommendations, to the Canadian Aviation Regulations Advisory Council (CARAC) last month.

The council, a joint effort of Transpor t Canada and the Canadian aviation industry, consults with the public on aviation regulations.

In 2016 Transport Canada says it will amend regulatory re q u i re m e n t s f o r UAV s 2 5 kgs or less that are operated within visual line of sight. The changes are to ensure the safe operation of UAVs in Canada and will: • E s t a b l i s h c l a s s i f i c a t i o n s, including a proposal for the possibility of having a very small (lower threshold) category of aircraft.

• Clarify terminology.

• E s t a b l i s h a i rc r a f t m a r k ing and registration requirements.

• Address personnel licensing and training.

• Create flight rules.

Transport Canada also says it will preserve the Special Flight Operating Certificate (SFOC) process for higher-risk operations, including UAVs larger than 25 kgs and those operated beyond visual line of sight.

Transport Canada is also proposing pilots flying small UAVs engaged in complex operations be properly trained and required to obtain a pilot permit by taking a test.

Thanks to lower prices and i m p rove d t e c h n o l o g y UAV use has taken off. In 2014 Tr a n s p o r t C a n a d a s a y s i t issued 1,672 SPOCs compared to 345 in 2012. That’s almost a fivefold increase over two years.

UAVs are increasingly popular among farmers and those working for them. They are a fast and efficient way to check crops and livestock.

To a c c o m m o d a t e t h e i r growt h i n Novem ber 20 14 Transport Canada adopted an interim strategy issuing two exemptions to the SFOC requirements and guidance material for lower-risk UAVs operating within specific conditions and weighing 25 kgs or less. Users operating a UAV weighing more than 25 kgs, or operating in higher-risk environments, still must apply for an SFOC. The exemptions are valid until December 2016.

KAP says the new regulations need to be flexible and reflect the risk, Mazier said.

Ti g h t e r re g u l a t i o n s m a k e sense close to large urban areas where air space is busier and there are more people and buildings. But less oversight is needed in rural areas with lower populations and less congested skies, he said.

KAP made the following recommendations: 1) C re a t e re g u l a t i o n s t h a t ensure safety while still allowing for functionality.

2) Utilize different categories of operational requirements based on use and risk.

3) B e s p e c i f i c a b o u t g e o graphic limitations out-

lined in operational requirements.

4) A d a p t U A V O p e r a t o r Certificate Requirements to accommodate farmers and farm businesses.

5) Develop exemptions for farmers who wish to use UAVs in close proximity to limited use aerodromes while still fulfilling the operational requirements o f s m a l l UAV s ( L i m i t e d Operations).

6) I n c l u d e n o re q u i re m e n t for farmers to obtain an SFOC if they meet the UAV Operator Certificate

Requirements for the UAV they intend to use.

7) D e v e l o p a s y s t e m o f informing farmers about operating requirements.

8) D e v e l o p a p a r t n e r s h i p between general farm organizations, Transport Canada and other stakeholders to create educational tools for deliveri n g UAV i n f o r m a t i o n t o farmers.

9) Increase awareness around the use of UAVs and the regulatory requirements. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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Agricultural Hall of Fame The Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame inducted eight new members in July 2015. Here is one of the new inductees

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illiam (Bill) Gregor was born on Ja n u a r y 1 , 1 9 2 6 , to parents who emigrated from Ukraine and settled on a farm north of Roblin, Manitoba. He received his e d u c a t i o n at the nearby Hillcrest School.

In 1954, Bill married L o re e n ( n e e Mc K i n n o n ) and together they raised two children — a daughter, Carla, was born in 1956 and a son, Dean, in 1958. Bill and Loreen lived in Brandon until her death in 1982, following which he married Lila (Moore) Rookes. They continue to live in Brandon.

Bill’s working life began in 1944 when he enlisted in the Canadian Infantry.

Following the war and leavi n g w i t h a n h o n o u ra b l e discharge, Bill trained at Brandon Vocational School as a welder, machinist and tractor mechanic. In 1947, and for the next 22 years, he worked for the Frank Lawson and Sons farm machinery dealership in Brandon as a welder and then later as service manager.

Lawson and Sons had the franchise for the Firestone Rubber Company, that sup-

William Gregor

plied the tools and technology needed to change tractor steel wheels to rubber. Bill supervised the extra welders hired to make these changes and in his spare time during the winter taught farme r s h ow t o w e l d . W h i l e employed by Lawson, he experimented with putting hard surfaces on the points of cultivator shovels, thus extending their use by three t i m e s. Ma n u f a c t u re r s o f shovels picked up on his idea and soon started producing their own hard-surface shovels.

In 1948, Bill began installing the first hydraulic lifts for grain boxes. He also built an iron shear and a 45-tonne press for use in his own shop.

In 1969, Bill joined White Farm Equipment as its territory service manager. Many mechanics and farmers attended his service school seminars and workshops.

In 1975, he joined Cancade Manufacturing Ltd., a major manufacturer of truck boxes in Brandon. As Cancade’s plant manager for the next 13 years, Bill designed a no-leak end gate for truck boxes that is still being used today.

Since his retirement in 1988, Bill has been helping people restore old machinery, inventing labour-saving equipment and working in his shop at his nephew ’s t r u c k i n g f i r m , Ba l l i n g a l l Bros.

Throughout his working life, Bill’s passion and talents for innovative mechanics were used in the service of others, particularly the surrounding farming community.

Nominated by Carla Gregor – 2015

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East’s biggest oilseed crusher goes to Viterra Glencore’s grain arm will buy TRT-ETGO for almost $192 million

Viterra announced Aug. 27 it signed a deal to buy the shares of Twin Rivers TechnologiesEntreprises de Transformation de Graines Oleagineuses du Quebec.

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a s t e r n Ca n a d a’s b i g gest oilseed-processing plant is poised to become part of Canada’s biggest grain handler.

Viterra announced Aug. 27 it signed a deal to buy the shares of Twin Rivers TechnologiesEntreprises de Transformation de Graines Oleagineuses du Quebec, or TRT-ETGO, whose main asset is its canola- and soybean-crushing and refining plant at Becancour, Que. Viterra didn’t lay out the terms of its deal, but TRTETGO’s owner, Felda Global Ventures (FGV), said in a separate release that Viterra gets all TRT-ETGO’s common shares for 608.2 million Malaysian ringgit, or about C$191.7 million.

The plant at Becancour, across the St. Lawrence River from Trois-Rivières, has a crushing capacity of 3,000 tonnes per day (1.05 million tonnes per year) and 1,200 tonnes of daily refining capacity.

TRT-ETGO, built in 2010, processes vegetable oils for food and industrial markets, plus meal for livestock feed.

FGV, which took over the plant when it bought Bostonbased Twin Rivers Technologies in 2007, is “streamlining our downstream focus, and hence strengthening the group’s competitive position” by selling the facility, FGV CEO Dato’ Mohd Emir Mavani Abdullah said in the seller’s release.

The company, Dato’ Emir said, is “ready to take hard calls when it comes to delivering high total shareholders’ returns.”

Kuala Lumpur-based FGV, the world’s biggest crude palm oil producer, said last week the sale to Viterra is part of a “transformation strategy which FGV has embarked on since 2013” to shed non-core businesses and “ensure that our organization is focused on achieving efficiency and profitability.”

TRT-ETGO has recorded “weak financial performances” in its past three fiscal years, FGV said in a separate statement, citing low crush margins on top of “unfavourable weather and environmental conditions” in fiscal 2014, for net losses of between $35.8 million and $45.3 million in those three years.

The plant, FGV said, “is not expected to become profitable and contribute positively to the FGV group in the near future.”

Owning “the largest full swing plant in Canada” is expected to give Viterra the “ability to optimize our output by crushing canola or soybeans, depending on market conditions and end-user needs,” Kyle Jeworski, Viterra’s CEO for North America, said in the buyer’s release.

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

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Sept. 11-13: Double B Agricultural Festival, Beausejour. For info call 204205-0723 or email doublebrodeo@ highspeedcrow.ca.

Oct. 2-3: Manitoba Fibre Festival, Red River Exhibition Park, 3977 Portage Ave., Winnipeg. For more info visit www.manitobafibrefestival.com.

Sept. 12: Mather Fall Festival. For info visit www.cartwrightroblin.ca or email Tricia at deadrock@inethome.ca.

Oct. 3: Roland Pumpkin Fair. For info

Sept. 18-20: Harvest Moon

Oct. 3-4: Manitoba Plowing Days, 10 a.m. daily, five miles east of Boissevain on Hwy. 3. For more info call 204-534-6451.

Festival, Clearwater. Visit www. harvestmoonsociety.org/festival/.

Sept. 20: Open Farm Day in Manitoba, featuring 37 farms and ag sites. For more info and listings/ maps of farms, visit www.openfarmday.ca.

Sept. 26: Opasquia Fall Fair and Culture Days, The Pas. Call 204-6236771 or email opasquiaagsociety@ outlook.com.

Sept. 26: Pumpkinfest, Teulon.

Call 204-467-9064 or visit www. teulonfarmersmarket.com/pumpkinfest. html.

Sept. 26: Manitoba Organic Alliance’s Organic Showcase and networking dinner, Jane’s Restaurant, RRC Paterson GlobalFoods Institute, 504 Main St., Winnipeg. For tickets or more info call 204-956-2090 (ext.

378) or 204-546-2099.

Sept. 29-30: Western Nutrition Conference, Victoria Inn, 1808 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg. For more info or to register visit www.westernnutritionconference.com.

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Oct. 15: Red River Exhibition/Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame Harvest Gala, Victoria Inn, 1808 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg. For more info or tickets call Judy at 204-888-6990 or email founda tion@redriverex.com.

Oct. 29: Keystone Agricultural Producers fall general council meeting, PCU Centre, 245 Royal Rd. S., Portage la Prairie. For more info call 204-697-1140.

Oct. 29-31: Manitoba AgEx, Westoba Agricultural Centre of Excellence, Keystone Centre, 1175-18th St., Brandon.

For info visit manitobaagex.com.

Nov. 17-19: Canadian Forage and Grassland Association conference and AGM, Sheraton Cavalier, 612 Spadina Cres. E., Saskatoon. For more info visit www.canadianfga.ca/events/currentevents/.

Nov. 23-28: Canadian Western Agribition, Evraz Place, 1700 Elphinstone St., Regina. For more info visit www.agribition.com.

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Optical sorters can add value to grain by taking bad stuff out Monitored remotely

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff / Oakville

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ptical sorters, used to remove unwanted material in grain, are constantly improving and becoming more affordable, says Dale Alderson of Intel Seed.

Nowadays a sorter can remove nearly 100 per cent of the ergot in a cereal crop, take wild oats out of tame ones and dramatically reduce the percentage of fusarium-damaged kernels in wheat.

“One of the markets that we see as a pretty good opportunity is taking gluten — wheat and barley — out of oats,” Alderson said during a recent visit. “We can do that very effectively.”

There’s a premium price for gluten-free oats in the celiac market, Alderson said.

Intel Seed, a relatively new pedigreed seed seller and custom grain cleaner, also sells AMVT optical sorters. Prices for the Chinese-built machines run at US$175,000 for a 10-chute version to US$99,000 for a threechute model. Seven- and fivechute machines cost US$147,000 and US$128,000, respectively.

Don Campbell, another Intel Seed partner, said each chute can clean about 100 bushels of grain an hour, although volumes vary depending on how much material has to be removed and how difficult it is to do. Ergot bodies, which are black, are easier to remove than fusarium-damaged kernels, for example.

Intel Seed runs all the grain it cleans through traditional grain-cleaning equipment first, including a gravity table, which helps separate heavier material from lighter.

“You clean ahead of it so at the end of the day you get the colour sorter to do one or two jobs,” Alderson said. “Our sorter also sorts by shape.”

The sorting process can be monitored remotely via cellphone or laptop. Sensors shut things down if there’s a problem.

Au t o m a t i n g t h e s y s t e m cost Intel Seed about $40,000.

Alderson said it probably paid for itself in a year through reduced labour costs.

Besides its seven-chute sorter, Intel Seed has a three-chute model for demonstration and training purposes. Prospective buyers can bring in a five-gallon pail of grain and run it through to see how it performs.

Alderson said their sorter is user friendly. An operator can hand pick material to be removed and do the same with what’s to be removed, then the machine takes a picture of both.

“The machine automatically calibrates itself for the initial setting and then you just increase or decrease the sensitivity,” Campbell said.

The barley on the right started off as ergot-infested screenings with no value and an optical sorter virtually removed all the ergot turning it into grain that could be fed to cattle. The bag on the left is what was left.

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“They have a camera in front and back so if a kernel is bad on one side you can detect it. Plus you can put in shape and length and thickness. Besides the colour sort I believe there are eight different parameters that you can put in and it can sort just one or all eight at the same time.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

Dale Alderson (l) and Don Campbell of Intel Seed beside the company’s seven-chute AMVT optical sorter.

Standard Years ago, gravity tables were a new innovation but eventually became a standard part of the grain-cleaning process.

“Now nobody runs without one and I think colour sorters are becoming the same way,” Campbell said. “As the technology gets better and the price comes down, it makes it more affordable for cereal grains, whereas before it was more for speciality niche markets.”

This winter Intel Seed was busy processing winter wheat infested with kernels damaged by fusarium head blight. It would come in with 12 per cent damaged kernels and go out at one per cent.

“It’s really used for upgrading grain,” Alderson said. “It’s increasing the selling value of the grain.”

Pedigreed seed growers and retailers and inland terminal operators are potential optical sorter buyers, but Alderson said they’re a natural for organic farmers because they can’t use herbicides for weed control.

Moreover, organic grains earn big premiums adding incentive to get as much salable product as possible.

Intel Seed automated its seven-chute sorter, so it can operate unattended. However, a limiting factor is bin space.

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LIVESTOCK MARKETS

(Friday to Thursday) Winnipeg Slaughter Cattle Steers — Heifers — D1, 2 Cows — D3 Cows — Bulls — Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.)

— (801-900 lbs.)

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Alberta South $ 180.00 - 180.00 180.75 - 180.75 132.00 - 148.00 120.00 - 134.00 — $ 245.00 - 255.00 256.00 - 274.00 272.00 - 292.00 288.00 - 327.00 320.00 - 343.00 339.00 - 361.00 $ 232.00 - 245.00 239.00 - 254.00 252.00 - 270.00 270.00 - 290.00 290.00 - 318.00 316.00 - 340.00

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Futures (August 28, 2015) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change August 2015 144.65 -1.82 October 2015 142.55 -3.77 December 2015 144.85 -3.63 February 2016 144.68 -3.60 April 2016 143.75 -3.22 June 2016 135.75 -3.35

Feeder Cattle August 2015 September 2015 October 2015 November 2015 January 2016 March 2016

Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

August 28, 2015

Previous Year­ 53,308 12,400 40,908 N/A 596,000

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Ontario $ 172.26 - 192.35 172.66 - 190.21 95.69 - 135.15 95.69 - 135.15 134.94 - 166.35 $ 223.57 - 257.22 231.77 - 276.81 222.79 - 299.69 247.53 - 334.34 255.92 - 349.63 305.20 - 382.85 $ 201.01 - 232.43 226.35 - 255.48 223.62 - 276.88 222.78 - 287.28 224.69 - 309.91 263.79 - 333.64

Close 210.00 200.35 197.08 194.85 189.00 187.55

Change -3.20 -6.47 -6.90 -7.00 -6.72 -5.60

Week Ending August 22, 2015 838 28,870 14,881 588 1,388 6,912 375

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Previous Year 717 25,121 — 1,326 1,368 5,897 287

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anitoba’s cattle producers have fared better than most in Western Canada, according to one analyst, and local auction spots are filling up fast.

“You know, Manitoba has been through all of it. High prices — Manitoba has probably enjoyed it more than anybody else,” said Brian Perillat, manager and senior analyst with Canfax in Calgary.

Manitoba is well positioned to meet increased demand from Nebraska, Ontario and Quebec, he said.

“I’m getting more cattle booked for my fall sales now than I have ever before,” said Allan Munroe at Killarney Auction Mart. “Guys are calling earlier and making sure they got their spot.”

The booking frenzy likely has to do with cattle prices remaining highly profitable, despite recent moves lower.

The July Alberta feeder cattle price, which markets within Canada tend to follow, was $213.33 per hundredweight, down 6.1 per cent from June, but up 34.2 per cent from the same time frame the year prior, Statistics Canada said on Sept. 4.

“Without a doubt they’re still really strong,” said Tyler Fulton, director of risk management for h@ms Marketing Services and a cattle producer near Birtle.

Producers are still taking home several hundred dollars per cow, “which, historically, is excellent,” he said.

Canadian cattle prices have strengthened due to tight supplies, though market watchers aren’t sure how long those highs will last.

Canadian producers had 13 million cattle on their farms on July 1, a 2.1 per cent reduction from the same time frame the year prior, Statistics Canada said in its most recent livestock report.

The Canadian cattle herd has been consistently declining in recent years, as most recent data collected was 23 per cent below a peak level in 2005, according to StatsCan. The U.S. herd, however, is starting to rebuild, which could put a damper on prices.

U.S. cattle inventory as of Jan. 1 was up one per cent from 2014, according to Beef USA. In 2014, the U.S. cattle herd also had a one per cent run-up, for the first time in eight years.

“There will be just a little more meat around in North America, and sort of the global jitters, in terms of demand, will be a factor to watch,” said Perillat.

As for Manitoba’s lucky streak, its producers have been more fortunate than others in Western Canada, feed-wise, as droughts’ effects weren’t felt as harshly within the province.

That doesn’t mean conditions were good everywhere. “In this area the hay crop was below average, without a doubt,” Munroe said.

“We (were) sort of seeing that in June, and forage is expensive this year.”

However, he said, producers are resourceful and “they make it work.”

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

Source: Manitoba Agriculture

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 193 E 178 E 164.67 160.22

Futures (August 28, 2015) in U.S. Hogs October 2015 December 2015 February 2016 April 2016 May 2016

Last Week 196.86 181.87 187.09 189.89

Last Year (Index 100) 215.92 198.64 196.98 207.17

Close 67.05 62.05 66.43 70.25 75.15

Change 2.30 0.75 0.27 -0.60 -0.27

Other Market Prices Sheep and Lambs $/cwt Ewes Lambs

Manitoba positioned to meet southern, eastern demand Prices may not stay high as the U.S. builds up herds

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending August 22, 2015 54,227 11,647 42,580 N/A 540,000

$1 Cdn: $0.7536 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.3269 Cdn.

column

Cattle Prices

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

EXCHANGES: August 28 2015

Winnipeg Wooled Fats Choice (110+ lb.)

(95 - 109 lb.)

(80 - 94 lb.)

(Under 80 lb.)

(New crop)

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 September 6, 2015 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A ................................................$1.965 Undergrade ........................................$1.875 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ............................................... $1.950 Undergrade ....................................... $1.850 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ............................................... $1.950 Undergrade ....................................... $1.850 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A...................................................$1.910 Undergrade..........................................$1.825 Prices are quoted f.o.b. producers premise.

Toronto 119.31 - 134.45 173.02 - 202.19 193.94 - 210.85 197.31 - 222.91 214.69 - 298.43 —

SunGold Specialty Meats —

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

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

Goats Kids Billys Mature

Winnipeg (Hd Fats) Next Sale September 2nd

<1,000 lbs.

1,000 lbs.+

The world will be hungrier, wealthier, and more picky

BY PHIL FRANZ-WARKENTIN, COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA

H

ealth-conscious customers with money to spend will be looking to purchase more food over the next 20 years, while changing technologies and global economic uncertainty will bring their own challenges, according to a recent report out of Australia highlighting five megatrends expected to impact the agricultural sector in the coming decades.

Rural Industry Futures: Megatrends impacti n g Au s t r a l i a n a g r i c u l ture over the coming 20 years was compiled by t h e c o u n t r y ’s R u r a l Industries Research and Development Corporation

(RIRDC) together with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in an effort to draw out the longer-ter m trends that could impact rural industries going forward.

A ‘megatrend’ is defined in the report as “a trajector y of change that will have profound implications for industry and society.” Each megatrend is interlinked with the others and has its own supplyand-demand side implications for the agricultural sector, according to the report.

The five megatrends in the report include: • A hungrier world: Global populations are rising while land devoted to agricultural production is shrinking.

• A wealthier world:

Average annual incomes are also r ising as more p e o p l e a re e x p e c t e d t o move out of poverty, with diets shifting away from staple subsistence foods to higher-protein options.

• Choosy customers: The desire for healthier food options is expected to grow, with expectations on ethical and environmental factors also becoming a larger factor in customer choices.

• Transformative technologies: Advances in genetics, materials science, and digital technologies will alter how food is grown and how it is transported.

• A bumpier ride: Climate change and the increasing globalization of the world economy have the potential to create new and deeper risks for farmers, according to the report.

Toronto ($/cwt) 185.16 - 324.50 — 131.77 - 277.94

Horses Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Megatrends driving ag sector in coming decades

Toronto ($/cwt) 37.00 - 53.00 29.00 - 64.00

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GRAIN MARKETS column

Manitoba Elevator Prices

StatsCan’s stocks estimates bearish for canola

Average quotes as of August 28, 2015 ($/tonne) Future

Basis

Net

Weekly Change

Red spring wheat

185.94

31.52

217.46

-2.02

Red winter wheat

180.18

4.07

180.18

-2.42

Prairie spring wheat

176.08

1.37

177.45

-2.49

Canola

473.26

-20.38

452.88

4.09

Outside markets keep the pressure on commodities DAVE SIMS CNSC

C

anola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada trading platfor m suffered losses the week of Sept. 4 due to a mix of volatile market conditions, as well as a bearish report from Statistics Canada.

Sentiments were mixed as nearby contracts found themselves generally locked in a range of $460-$480 per tonne. The November contract sunk below the technically important $460 range by late week, with speculators holding short positions.

Earlier in the week, China’s stock market again found itself in troubled waters, suffering steep losses as investors panicked in the face of bearish industrial data. The losses spilled over to North American markets, while crude oil also finished weaker, which weighed on agricultural commodity markets everywhere.

From a technical standpoint, canola found itself $7 down on the second day of the week (Sept. 1), with losses in the vegetable oil market and seasonal harvest pressure also adding to the pressure.

From there, the most-active and fre quently quoted November contract attempted to correct itself, but ran into technical selling, which again weighed it down.

Thursday’s report from Statistics Canada made life even more difficult for canola traders, as it found there was a lot more canola out there than anybody knew. Heading into the report, analysts expected to find canola stocks of 800,000 to 1.7 million tonnes. However, the final tally, as of July 31, was 2.322 million tonnes.

Other factors that influenced canola throughout the week include recent wet

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conditions in parts of the Prairies that kept a weather premium in the market and ideas that the futures have been oversold. Traders say crush margins may show slight signs of improvement too.

Q u e s t i o n s ov e r C h i n a’s a p p e t i t e f o r oilseeds remain a key worry for many in the market, as there seem to be some traders who firmly expect the Asian giant to step up at some point, while others aren’t as certain.

U.S. soybeans also found themselves pressured, after a report by Informa Economics predicted this year’s har vest would be slightly bigger than initially thought.

Informa pegged soybean output at 3.924 billion bushels on yields of 47 bushels an acre, which was above the previous forecast.

Corn prices hit a one-year low after a mix of disappointing sales data and crop predictions. Informa raised its outlook for corn output this year to 13.688 billion bushels, up from last month’s estimate of 13.412 billion bushels, which was bearish for values.

The strength of the U.S. dollar continues to cause headaches for exporters of U.S. wheat. Cheaper supplies are readily available from companies in the Black Sea region and France.

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

Port Prices As of Friday, August 28, 2015 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

U.S. hard red winter 12% Houston

175.54

-4.86

U.S. spring wheat 14% Portland

224.68

2.75

Canola Thunder Bay

477.80

-5.50

Canola Vancouver

506.80

-6.50

Closing Futures Prices As of Monday, August 31 2015 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

ICE canola

474.80

-5.50

ICE milling wheat

226.00

-2.00

ICE barley

191.90

-10.20

Mpls. HRS wheat

188.68

-5.24

Chicago SRW wheat

179.95

-7.90

Kansas City HRW wheat

179.40

-4.78

Corn

147.63

-2.95

Oats

143.95

-7.13

Soybeans

322.98

-10.38

Soymeal

349.66

-4.74

Soyoil

595.35

-23.59

Cash Prices Winnipeg As of Monday, August 31, 2015 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

Feed wheat

215.00

0.00

Feed barley

210.00

0.00

n/a

n/a

501.15

-5.51

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Oats

178.32

3.24

Soybeans

343.92

-12.13

Sunflower (NuSun) Fargo, ND ($U.S./CWT)

17.25

.20

Sunflower (Confection) Fargo, ND ($U.S./CWT)

Ask

Ask

Cash wheat prices move lower across Western Canada CWRS basis levels across Western Canada range from $21 to $36 below the futures

BY PHIL FRANZ-WARKENTIN, COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA

C

ash wheat bids across Western Canada edged lower during the week ended September 4, as basis levels held relatively steady and the continued slide in the U.S. futures weighed on values.

Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were down by roughly $2 per tonne across the three Prairie provinces, according to price quotes from a crosssection of delivery points.

Bids ranged from about $207 per tonne in north-central Saskatchewan, to as high as

$222 per tonne in southern Alberta.

Quoted basis levels varied from location to location, but held steady overall at an average of about $31 above the futures when using the grain company methodology of quoting the basis as the difference between the U.S. dollar denominated futures and the Canadian dollar cash bids.

When accounting for the currency exchange rates by adjusting the Canadian prices to U.S. dollars ($1=US$0.7579 as of September 3) CWRS bids ranged from US$157 to U S $ 1 6 8 p e r t o n n e. T h a t w o u l d p u t t h e c u r re n c y

adjusted basis levels at about US$16 to US$27 below the futures.

Looking at it the other way around, if the Minneapolis f u t u re s a re c o n ve r t e d t o Ca n a d i a n d o l l a r s , C W R S basis levels across Western Canada range from $21 to $36 below the futures.

Average Canada Prair ie Re d Sp r i n g ( C pr S ) b i d s were down by $4 to $5 per tonne. CPRS prices came in at about $172 per tonne in Manitoba, $182 per tonne in Saskatchewan, and $192 to $196 per tonne in Alberta.

Soft white spring wheat pr ices did show some strength during the week, rising $4 per tonne on aver-

age. Prices ranged from $194 to $195 per tonne in Alberta.

Winter wheat prices were down by $3 to $9 per tonne.

Prices ranged from about $171 to $177 per tonne, with the best levels in Alberta.

Durum prices were steady to as much as $6 per tonne higher, with average bids in southern Saskatchewan unchanged at $323 per tonne.

The December spring wheat contract in Minneapolis, which most CWRS contracts in Canada are based off of, was quoted at US$5.1025 per bushel on September 3, down 11.25 cents from the week prior.

The Kansas City hard

red winter wheat futures, which are now traded in Chicago, are more closely linked to CPRS in Canada.

The December Kansas City wheat contract was quoted at US$4.6775 per bushel on September 3, down 15.75 cents from last week.

The December Chicago B o a r d o f Tr a d e s o f t wheat contract settled at US$4.6525 on September 3, which was 18.50 cents w e a k e r c o m p a re d t o t h e week prior.

The Canadian dollar closed at 75.79 U.S. cents on September 3, which was up about a 10th of a cent relative to its U.S. counterpart compared to the previous week.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

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

Domestic demand for lamb is rising But domestic production is static and processing capacity is declining

BY ANGELA LOVELL Co-operator contributor / Carberry

P

rices generally for commercial and purebred lambs were up a little bit from last year, say organizers of this year’s Manitoba Sheep Association Show and Sale held at Carberry on August 28 and 29.

For commercial lambs, pens of five averaged $197.50 per head, and for pens of two the average price was $214 per head. Jackpot ewe lambs fetched an average of $180 per head and all but two purebred rams sold at $500 per head on average.

Fifteen consignors brought 55 lots for sale, slightly down from last year’s 70 lots, but Sarah Lewis, show organizer, said she suspects that’s because Manitoba also hosted the All Canada Sheep Classic show this June in Winnipeg. Some producers may have chosen not to attend both.

New for this year’s show was a stock dog demonstration on Saturday and back after about a decade’s absence was the Sasktoba Sheep 4-H achievement.

“The overall quality of the stock this year was really good,” says Lewis. “The show and sale went very well.”

Entries wait to be judged in the Sasktoba Sheep 4-H achievement that was held for the first time in a decade at this year’s Manitoba Sheep Association Show and Sale in Carberry. photos: ANGELA LOVELL

Canadian Lamb Producers Co-operative meeting The Canadian Lamb Producers Co-operative (CLPC) held an informational meeting at the show to discuss how the cooperative works and the market opportunity for Canadian lamb products across North America.

The producer-owned co-op has hundreds of members across Canada, and aims to recruit a total of 1,000 lamb producers by the close of 2018.

Anyone producing lamb in Canada is eligible to join.

Currently Canada imports about 58 per cent of its lambs — the equivalent in weight of around 1.3 million animals.

Domestic markets continue to grow, thanks to increasing demand from ethnic markets, as well as from consumers looking for healthy, locally raised meats.

At the same time, however, processing capacity is declining and domestic lamb production is not increasing. This creates the perfect storm for the CLPC to supply convenient, value-added lamb products such as lamb burgers, sausages, kebabs and meatballs, said Terry Ackerman, chief executive officer of CLPC in his presentation to Manitoba lamb producers.

LÄM is the brand name chosen for the CLPC products, which contain only 100 per cent Canadian lamb. The Canadian Lamb Company, a marketing company owned by the CLPC,

A lot of Suffolk ewe lambs wait for their turn in the sale ring at this year’s Manitoba Sheep Association Show and Sale in Carberry.

will sell the products in North America. Ackerman says there is great demand for Canadian lamb, which is generally of a higher quality and has a better flavour profile than lamb produced in other countries.

The CLPC model has been designed to make use of all the meat on the lamb and maximize cash receipts for members, who pay a $500 fee per farm to join as a voting member, and a $30 one-time investment share fee per lamb, with a minimum of 25 shares required up to a maximum of 75 per cent of the member’s flock.

“We encourage people to keep some lambs out to play the market,” says Ackerman.

Producers sign a renewable, 36-month contract with CLPC and receive a guaranteed market and a guaranteed, published, annual floor price.

In return CLPC requires properly finished, slaughterable lambs with a high meat yield of between 48 to 51 per cent per carcass.

A unique grading system The co-op has developed a unique electronic instrument grading system which will provide members of the CLPC with a customized report about how much meat yield and fat was on the carcass of their delivered lambs.

The industry traditionally purchases lambs on a live weight basis, and the average meat yield on a carcass — even from the same breed — varies wildly from 35 per cent to 60 per cent. The excess fat is cut off at the processing plant when the animal is slaughtered, so whether they realize it or not, producers’ prices are discounted to allow for that wastage.

“We want to increase the amount of meat yield by giving the producers grading information that tells them whether their carcass had too much fat or not enough fat, or what kind of feed efficiency they are getting,” said Ackerman. “Currently

The electronic instrument grading device developed by the Canadian Lamb Producers Co-operative can grade 1,200 lambs an hour and measures the lean meat yield per lamb carcass.

there’s no information available to them that is sufficient or accurate enough to help increase the efficiency of their flocks.”

The co-operative plans to pay better prices based on the lean meat yield from each carcass, so it has developed, in partnership with ViewTrak Technologies of Edmonton, a $1.4-million grading device with funding support from Western Economic Diversification that can accurately grade 1,200 lambs an hour.

To generate baseline data for the device’s algorithm, the University of Guelph is comparing measurements taken by the device to physical measurements of 500 cut-up lambs in the laboratory. “ The grading device is inserted into the carcass between the 11th and 12th rib and it measures 60 points of the lamb carcass in a split second,” said Ackerman. “The information is sent via a link

to a computer and is populated by the algorithm. With every lamb we grade we will have more information to build a database for the co-op members who have invested in this system.”

Traceability is key CLPC has also developed an electronic traceability system based on RFID tags that follow the lamb from the farm right through processing and fabrication to the final product.

Producers deliver lambs to the closest of 40 collection points in nine provinces, which in Manitoba are located at Ashern, Blumenort, Brandon and Steinbach.

Ackerman said the valueadded lamb products will launch in November and he believes that there is at least a $3.6-billion marketing opportunity for these products in North America.

Interested producers can get more information at www. cdnlamb.com.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

Standing tall: How the pork sector survived the attack of a killer virus PEDv decimated the U.S. hog herd, but Canada showed how to do biosecurity right

BY ALEXIS KIENLEN Staff / Lacombe, Alta.

W

hen it comes to finding expert advice on biosecurity, cattle producers might want to sit down with their local hog farmer.

The country’s outstanding record on controlling the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus has a host of lessons for the cattle sector, says a swine veterinarian who was deeply involved in Alberta’s battle against PEDv. Start with the fact that everyone got on board, Dr. Egan Brockhoff told attendees at Livestock Gentec’s field day here.

“Almost every single pork producer in Canada took part in a national biosecurity training program and was audited,” said Brockhoff, a swine veterinarian with Prairie Swine Health Services. “ T h a t’s n e ve r h a p p e n e d before in the world. There’s never been a case where every single farmer who owned pigs participated.”

This sort of co-operation was spread across the entire sector.

“Canada was quite fortunate because we had the Canadian Swine Health board that was dedicated to nothing other than keeping the health of the Canadian pork industry at the top in the world,” he said. “That was its job, and it had huge cooperation across the country.”

The numbers tell the story.

In the U.S., the virus, which kills piglets and severely weakens sows, spread like wildfire — infecting thousands of farms and killing eight million pigs.

Based on the relative size of its hog sector, Canada should have had about 1,000 cases. But the total is just 109.

And a fifth of those came right at the start of the crisis in January 2014, when the virus showed up at 20 Ontario farms in a short period. All turned out to have purchased feed tainted with infected porcine plasma from the same feed mill.

“That’s not the first time this has happened in the Canadian livestock industry,” said Brockhoff. “But the lesson learned is, ‘How often do we talk about feed biosecurity?’”

The No. 1 risk That wasn’t the only question being asked, Brockhoff told the field day attendees at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Lacombe research station.

“The risk factors are something that we started to identify early on. This is where I ask you to think about your own industry: How can you mitigate risk factors?”

The single biggest thing you can do to lower risk is to be cautious when purchasing new animals.

“That is the absolute king,” said Brockhoff. “You go out, buy a new animal, bring it to your farm and what it has, you now have. And vice versa. That’s a No. 1 risk.”

So what does being cautious mean?

For Brockhoff ’s clients that means having him call the vet

Biosecurity means getting everyone to the table, talking about the risks, and doing whatever it takes to combat them, said Egan Brockhoff.

PHOTO: Alexis Kienlen

PEDv spread like wildfire in the U.S., but Canada successfully limited its spread. PHOTO: ALBERTA PORK

of the producer who is selling pigs. The two vets will talk about health and herd compatibility and if there’s any risk, the sale doesn’t happen and the pigs don’t move.

Another huge change is transport biosecurity.

Brockhoff, who grew up on a large feedlot and cow-calf operation in central Alberta, has never seen a cattle liner that’s been properly washed, dried and disinfected in his 40-plus years.

But that’s the standard in the hog sector even though “it takes a lot of work to wash out every pork livestock trailer in Canada and the United States.”

“Canada produces nearly 30 million pigs, the U.S. nearly 10 times that. There are more swine transports on the road than any

thing else in the North American livestock industry and we’re trying to make sure we wash every single one of them.”

Canada is fortunate because it uses fresh water in truck washes because recycling water (which is done in the U.S.) helps spread viruses and bacteria. But even then, washing and disinfecting can’t completely eliminate viruses. So thermal-assist drying is recommended — which means putting a trailer inside a building heated to 35 C for at least 90 minutes. In Alberta, there’s now a new mobile baking unit for trailers that heats the trailer’s surfaces to 70 C. While baking the viruses effectively kills them, freezing has no impact.

“Only when you clean, wash, disinfect, and dry these trans-

ports do you make them virus free or as close to that as possible,” said Brockhoff.

The washing of livestock transports in the pork industry is now audited.

A surprising danger But it’s not just the big and obvious sources of potential contamination that have come under scrutiny.

“The smartphone has become one of our greatest disease-carrying agents. There was a supercool study published in the U.K. a couple of years ago… 25 per cent of the cellphones sampled from people who lived in the city of London had fecal material on the surface.

“Those are Londoners, so I don’t know what that means. But for those of you who work with

livestock routinely, I’m going to guess those numbers are even higher, if you’re hanging out with livestock all the time.”

One of the big things that helped prevent the spread of PEDv was communication across the sector. The Canadian Swine Health Intelligence Network, which monitors data on pig health, was key and so were education initiatives.

But the two most vital things were having the right attitude and being determined to do whatever it took to fight PEDv, he said.

“Of the 109 sites that have been affected in Canada with PEDv, about half of them are now negative,” said Brockhoff.

“We are going to kick this virus out of Canada. It’s endemic to the U.S. and will be there for a long time but in Canada, we expect to have this virus gone.” akienlen@fbcpublishing.com

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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Feeder Steers No. on offer

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

2-Sep

n/a

n/a

1-Sep

2-Sep

31-Aug

3-Sep

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

93

591*

62*

360*

n/a

Over 1,000 lbs.

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

900-1,000

n/a

n/a

n/a

225.00-245.00

235.00-249.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

800-900

n/a

n/a

n/a

245.00-272.00

255.00-272.50

n/a

255.00-278.00

n/a

700-800

n/a

n/a

n/a

270.00-290.00

264.00-294.00

260.00-280.00

275.00-310.00

n/a

600-700

n/a

n/a

n/a

285.00-315.00

285.00-320.00

285.00-315.00

295.00-321.00

n/a

500-600

n/a

n/a

n/a

325.00-357.00

312.00-350.00

300.00-340.00

320.00-345.00

n/a

400-500

n/a

n/a

n/a

330.00-375.00

350.00-395.00

350.00-390.00

275.00-350.00

n/a

300-400

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

375.00-435.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

900-1,000 lbs.

n/a

n/a

n/a

195.00-225.00

214.00-231.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

800-900

n/a

n/a

n/a

225.00-240.00

233.00-247.00

210.00-225.00

n/a

n/a

700-800

n/a

n/a

n/a

240.00-268.00

241.00-260.00

240.00-260.00

220.00-270.00

n/a

600-700

n/a

n/a

n/a

270.00-315.00

258.00-287.00

255.00-285.00

220.00-285.00

n/a

500-600

n/a

n/a

n/a

290.00-325.00

282.00-319.00

280.00-315.00

235.00-270.00

n/a

400-500

n/a

n/a

n/a

320.00-350.00

300.00-335.00

300.00-320.00

220.00-295.00

n/a

300-400

300.00-300.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

106

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder heifers

Slaughter Market No. on offer D1-D2 Cows

n/a

n/a

n/a

128.00-138.00

127.00-134.00

n/a

128.00-139.00

n/a

D3-D5 Cows

n/a

n/a

n/a

115.00-127.00

122.00-127.00

n/a

120.00-130.50

n/a

Age Verified

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

130.00-136.50

n/a

n/a

n/a

Mature Bulls

140.00-170.00

n/a

n/a

169.00-181.00

166.00-175.50

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Aging horses by their teeth Carol Shwetz

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n 1885, Sydney Galvayne published a book in Glasgow outlining a system which claimed to accurately age horses by identifying distinct features of wear on the teeth.

Galvayne’s treatise became widely accepted and uncontested amongst horsemen for over a century. The Galvayne name even became memorialized when a distinct groove which travels down the side of the corner upper incisors was aptly named Galvayne’s Groove.

This yellow-brown groove was said to appear at the gum line of the upper corner incisors at the age of 10 and would lengthen as the horse aged. It would span the entire tooth by the age of 20, then leave the gum line and advance toward the bottom of the tooth until it wore out at age 30.

Recently Galvayne’s treatise was taken to the test by the scientific world where the centuryold system was discovered to hardly be the science that we once were led to believe, and that the practise of aging horses using dental characteristics has a degree of uncertainty.

Researchers in Britain and Belgium compared the traditional marking system as outlined by Galvayne against the horse’s accurately known date of birth and/or true age as recorded in the horse’s registration papers.

The researchers discovered surprisingly significant discrepancies in their comparisons, placing the reliability of a century-old practice for aging horses by their dentition under marked scrutiny. The studies showed that specific ages could not be assigned to individual horses according to the dental criteria outlined by Galvayne’s treatise due to the tremendous variation amongst individuals.

Researchers found there to be no consistency in dental traits amongst horses within specified age groups and that horses showed marked variability from the “textbook” findings.

Knowing the age of a horse can be important for a number of reasons. Not only does age determine the dollar value of a horse in horse-related transactions, age also determines what type of handling and care the horse will receive. Although registration of horses is a common practice today, there exists a surprising number of horses without a paper trail identifying their date of birth.

As a result, veterinarians are commonly called upon to identify the age of a horse. For example a 10-year-old gelding will be a better riding investment than a 20-year-old gelding, a two-year-old will require different handling than a fouryear-old, and a six-year-old brood mare has more foaling potential than a 16-year-old mare.

Without argument, significant changes do occur in the teeth of horses as they pass through time. Dental maturation of the horse progresses

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over a five-year period taking the horse from toothless at birth, through 24 baby teeth and ending with a count of between 36 and 42 permanent teeth.

Horses, just like human children, shed their baby/milk teeth at a highly predictable pace. Young horses lose their central incisors at 2-1/2 years, the ones next to the middle at 3-1/2 years and the corner incisors at 4-1/2 years. Due to the timely nature of tooth shedding and eruption a strong correlation exists and the age of horses by inspection of the teeth can be developed to a considerable degree of accuracy when identifying horses under five years of age.

As the horse ages beyond five years, errors in judgment tend to increase as a number of variables play a role in how the horse’s teeth age, thus making it more difficult to specifically age the horse. For example, breeds such as the Arabians are known to have slower wear patterns than draft horses due to the increased hardness of their enamel, thus presenting their mouths to be more youthful than they actually are. Other variables affecting tooth wear include diet, grazing conditions, management practices, vices, and more recently, dental work. The probability of error increases as age advances and becomes an informed guess as the horse enters its late teens and 20s.

Good reliability exists when distinguishing the difference between a six-year-old horse and a 16-year-old horse. However, correctly identifying whether a horse is 15 or 16 years of age is not too likely. Galvayne’s sys-

tem for assigning dental features to specific ages of horses offers more of a guideline than an absolute for age determination.

Carol Shwetz is a veterinarian focusing on equine practice in Millarville, Alberta.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

WEATHER VANE “Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.” Mark Twain, 1897

Will average conditions continue into fall?

Environment Canada sees above-average temperatures this month across the south Daniel Bezte Weather Vane

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nother month has come and gone, so it’s time to do our monthly look back, then look ahead to see what might be in store for us in September and rest of the fall season. It’s also the end of summer ( June through August) so we’ll also take a look back at the summer of 2015 and see how it measured up, weather-wise.

August was an interesting month for weather across southern and central Manitoba, with plenty of heat and humidity, but also a couple of shots of fairly cool weather. Combine hot, humid weather with periods of cool weather and you usually end up with thunderstorms occurring during the transition periods — and that’s exactly what happened.

Here’s how the numbers added up. Dauphin reported a mean August temperature of 17.8 C, pretty much right on the longterm average for the month. The warmest day was Aug. 14, when it hit 32.5 C. The coolest was on the 25th, when the temperature bottomed out at a chilly 3.2 C. Precipitation was a little on the light side, with 45 mm falling, compared to a long-term average of 61 mm. Rainfall occurred on nine different days, with only one extended period of rain-free weather occurring from August 24-30. Adding up all the numbers for summer, the Dauphin region saw a mean temperature about 1 C above average and rainfall about 15 mm below average.

Dropping southward, the Brandon region saw a mean August temperature of 18.1 C, about 0.4 C above the longterm average. Brandon’s warmest day was also the 14th, when the temperature peaked at a very warm 36.6 C. The coolest temperature was on the morning of Aug. 25, when a reading of 4.2 C was reported. Precipitation for the month was also a little on the light side, with 50 mm of rain recorded, about 15 mm below

the long-term average for the month. Rainfall was reported on 12 different days, with no extended dry periods. Overall, the summer in this region was warmer and drier than average, with a mean summer temperature 0.8 C above average and precipitation running almost 70 mm below average.

Finally, the Winnipeg region had a mean monthly temperature of 18.5 C — warmer than the Brandon and Dauphin regions, but 0.3 C below average.

Precipitation, thanks to some heavy rain late in the month, was above average, with 100 mm falling, compared to the long-term average of 75 mm. The warmest day, as in the other two regions, was the 14th, when Winnipeg hit a high of 34.3 C. The coldest temperature was on the morning of the 25th, at a very chilly 2.8 C. When we add up the numbers for the summer for this region, we see it was an average summer, with temperatures coming in about 0.3 C higher than average and precipitation coming in pretty much right on average.

Who called it?

Who was able to best predict August’s weather? Looking back it seems no one was right on the money. The Old Farmer’s Almanac called for warm and dry weather; the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac called for near-average conditions; Environment Canada had near-average temperatures out west and below average in the east, with near-average amounts of precipitation.

Finally, here at the Co-operator, I called for slightly above-average temperatures with periods of very warm and very cool conditions, along with precipitation near to slightly above average. I think I might give the nod to my forecast, but maybe I’m a little biased; I’ll leave that up to you.

On to our September and fall outlook. The Old Farmer’s Almanac calls for a cool, wet month, followed by near-average conditions to end the fall. The Canadian Farmers’ Almanac appears to call for a cold, wet month and fall, with several mentions of chilly weather and unsettled conditions. It even calls

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

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This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that fell across the Prairies (as a percentage of the average) during the 90 days ending Aug. 31, which pretty much covers the three summer months. Most areas of agricultural Manitoba received near to slightly above-average amounts of rainfall (green areas); a few small pockets were wet, and the far southwest was a little on the dry side. Farther west, Saskatchewan saw similar conditions to Manitoba, while most of Alberta was fairly dry.

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for snow near the end of October.

Over at Environment Canada, they are calling for above-average temperatures across southern regions during September, with near-average temperatures over central regions. The rest of the fall, according to E.C.,

looks to be mild, with aboveaverage temperatures expected.

Along with the mild temperatures, it calls for above-average precipitation.

Finally, my forecast: after spinning the weather wheel and throwing my darts (I had to do

it several times before I got the forecast I wanted), it looks like September is going to see nearaverage temperatures, with near- to slightly above-average amounts of rain. I think this pattern will continue into the rest of the fall, with tem peratures running around average, but with periods of very warm and fairly cool temperatures. Precipitation will also be around average, with some areas missing out on some of the rain while other areas end up getting a little too much.

As always, I hope whatever weather you end up getting is exactly what you need.

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

This year’s El Niño weather pattern could be strongest on record The impact of this El Niño in the Northern Hemisphere is hard to forecast

By Tom Miles Geneva / Reuters

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h e c u r re n t E l Ni ñ o weather phenomenon is expected to peak between October and January and could turn into one of t h e s t ro n g e s t o n re c o rd , e x p e r t s f r o m t h e Wo r l d Meteorological Organization said at a news conference Sept. 1.

Climate models and experts

suggest surface waters in the east-central Pacific Ocean are likely to be more than 2° hotter than average, potentially making this El Niño one of the strongest ever.

Typically, the warm air above the eastern Pacific is causing increased precipitation over the west coast of South America and dry conditions over the Australia/ Indonesia archipelago and the Southeast Asia region, said Maxx Dilley, director of

the WMO’s Climate Prediction and Adaptation Branch.

El Niño can also br ing higher rainfall and sometimes flooding to the Horn of Africa, but causes drier conditions in southern Africa, Dilley said.

Climate scientists are better prepared than ever with prediction models and data on El Niño patterns, but the impact of this El Niño in the Northern Hemisphere is hard to forecast because there is also an Arctic warming effect

at work on the Atlantic jet stream current.

“The truth is we don’t know what will happen. Will the two patterns reinforce each other? Will they cancel each other? Are they going to act in sequence? Are they going to be regional? We really don’t know,” said David Carlson, the director of the World Climate Research Program.

This El Niño could also be followed abruptly by a cooling La Niña, which, along

with the advance of global warming, was adding to the uncertainty, Carlson said.

“I think we all think that there’s some climate-warming signals starting to show up in the El Niño record,” he said.

But he added that it is still unclear how global warming is affected by the frequency or magnitude of El Niño events.

Since 1950, strong El Niño events occurred in 1972-73, 1982-83 and 1997-98.

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Assiniboine Community College looks to establish a weed identification garden to house more than 80 of Manitoba’s most common annual and perennial weeds

BY JENNIFER PAIGE Co-operator staff

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Assiniboine Community College (ACC) will be establishing a weed identification garden after a donation from the Manitoba Zero Tillage Research Association (MZTRA) — MZTRA board chair, Brad Lewis (l), ACC agribusiness instructor, Danielle Tichit. Photo: Jennifer Paige

“Having this garden is really going to elevate what I am able to demonstrate. In the past we have spent time out in the fields identifying weeds but it has always been whatever we could find. This garden will give me the opportunity to expose students to so much more.”

Danielle Tichit ACC agribusiness instructor

crucial skill when making sustainable weed management decisions.

“Having this garden is really going to elevate what I am able to demonstrate. In the past we have spent time out in the fields identifying weeds but it has always been whatever we could find,” she said. “This garden will give me the opportunity to expose students to so much more.”

The garden will be used as much as possible in the college’s programs, but will also be open to the public.

“We will be using this site in a number of our programs but will also be looking to bring in pro-

ducer groups, retailers and anyone who is interested in training their staff, or customers. It will also be open to the public, for local producers, but also urban residents, as we will have some common garden weeds included,” said Tichit.

MZTRA, which is winding down, decided to contribute $57,000 towards the project. The nonprofit, producer-directed organization was established in 1992, and ran a research farm, north of Brandon, where it hosted demonstration activities related to zerotill practices.

“We have had a great relationship (with ACC) over the years,”

said MZTRA board chair Brad Lewis. “We think this garden will be great for students, producers, and ag-related individuals and groups across the province.”

After many years of research, the MZTRA board of directors has decided that the organization has fulfilled its original mandate and will discontinue its operations.

“We have really fulfilled what they had set out to do,” said Lewis.

“And, interest in zero-till practices has seemed to have fallen off in recent years, but I think that is just because it has become a common practice in this area now.”

The MZTRA has allocated its remaining operational fund to leave a legacy in southwestern Manitoba, through this project.

“Having this garden will allow us to see these weeds as they progress through the various growing stages and this will definitely be helpful when trying to identify weeds in the field as well as getting a better understanding of when and how to deal with them,” said Lewis. jennifer.paige@fbcpublishing.com

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Assiniboine Community College is creating a weed identification garden with financial assistance from the defunct Manitoba Zero Tillage Research Association (MZTRA).

“The garden will provide students in multiple programs with tangible and real learning opportunities and has the potential for extension to the community,” said agribusiness instructor, Danielle Tichit. “I am looking forward to having this resource to enhance the understanding and skill set of our students.”

The identification garden will be developed at the college’s North Hill Campus, near its existing sustainable greenhouses.

“It is going to be a combination of raised beds around the outside of the site and that will be for all of the annual weeds. The centre of the garden will have culverts dug about six feet down, which is where our perennials will go in order to minimize any root spread,” said Tichit.

Construction and planting is to begin this fall and ACC will work with Manitoba Weed Supervisors Association to find weed seeds and planting stock for the garden.

“The weed supervisors have agreed to give us a hand, and so we should be able to start transplanting some root stock this fall,” said Tichit. “We will then look to get the annuals started in the greenhouse this winter and transplant them first thing in the spring.”

The site will serve as an outdoor classroom and will house more than 80 of Manitoba’s most common annual and perennial weed species.

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Northern Quinoa aiming for 100,000 acres Quinoa growers wanted — with the right location and right rotation

By Shannon VanRaes CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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et ready to see more quinoa waving in the Prairie breeze.

Saskatchewan-based Northern Quinoa Corp. is preparing to increase its acres nearly twentyfold over the next three years.

The company has about 5,250 acres of the ancient grain under contract this summer, but it would like to see 100,000 acres across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba by 2018. “ We p l a n o n i n c r e a s ing acres, for sure, as our customers grow, as we educate customers, we’re trying to increase demand,” said general manager Michael Dutcheshen. “I think our goal next year will be 20,000 acres, and we will move from there.”

It’s been more than two decades since quinoa moved f ro m t h e m o u n t a i n p l a teaus of South America to the Canadian Prairies. But Dutcheshen said it really only began to gain widespread popularity after celebrity endorsements in the late 2000s. But a consistent and economical supply from South America has resulted in cautious and calculated growth in Canada.

“Part of the reason we screen farmers is because there has to be a demand built up for their product as well,” he said. “It’s still a fairly niche grain compared to other crops, a lot of the manufacturers are still figuring out how to use it, and until that happens we’re not taking every single farmer who comes to us.”

With one exception.

“We never turn down an organic acre no matter where it is, even if it falls outside of our prime growing area, because we have such a strong demand for organic,” said company founder and president Joe Dutcheshen.

The biggest determinate in which applications are accepted is location, said Michael Dutcheshen.

“They don’t do well in the southern part of Saskatchewan a n d t h e d r i e r a re a s o f Manitoba, so we try to stay north of Highway 16,” he said.

“Following that, we look at crop rotations, we don’t follow canola, or wheat — wheat is a gluten crop and we try and sell quinoa to a gluten-free market.”

Certain residual chemicals can hinder growth in quinoa, Joe Dutcheshen adds.

The company also has Canada’s only registered quinoa variety that’s specially suited to the Prairie climate.

“It’s a product of about 15 years of natural selection, so non-GMO, and we’ve devel-

“Following that we look at crop rotations, we don’t follow canola, or wheat — wheat is a gluten crop and we try and sell quinoa to a gluten-free market.”

Michael Dutcheshen

oped it to be the earliestmaturing most vigorous variety for Western Canada,” said Joe Dutcheshen.

While it will still be a number of weeks before this year’s quinoa is ready to come off the fields, so far it’s looking good.

“Overall it’s been a very good year for quinoa, it’s a cool dryseason crop, and although it hasn’t been that cool, it likes that it’s not as wet as it has been in previous years,” said the general manager. “In Edmonton and the Lloydminster area it’s been bone dry, so the crops aren’t very good there in general, not just quinoa, but everything… But in Manitoba crops are actually looking very, very good this year.” shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

Fertilizer markets seen relatively steady

The fertilizer market has remained calm despite recent financial market crashes and swings in crude oil prices

By Dave Sims CNS Canada

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rices for nitrogen and potash have weakened over the first half of 2015, but according to an industry analyst, the relationship between fertilizer prices and commodity prices is pretty much in line with the 10-year average.

“I think we’ve seen some stabilization in fertilizer markets of late, which is promising,” said Andy Jung, director of market and strategic analysis with the Mosaic Co. in Minneapolis.

The fertilizer market has stayed relatively calm, he said, despite recent crashes in financial markets and wild swings in the price of crude oil.

At the same time, he said,

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devaluation in some currencies has put fertilizer import economics under strain and likely contributed to some downward pressure on prices in the past couple of weeks.

If a given countr y is an exporter of commodities, “the local currency price of those commodities will increase, which offsets the higher prices for inputs like fertilizer.”

This means the price for fertilizer has been generally rising in Canada since last fall, when the loonie began its descent relative to the U.S. dollar.

However, Jung said, from a global (US$) basis, fertilizer prices are actually down from 2014.

“They’re down from a year ago, a rough average of 10 per cent,” said Jung, adding that while the Canadian farmer has been paying more for fertilizer than a year ago, technically, he was getting a better exchange rate for his grain.

“It’s an inverse relationship with a number of moving parts,” he said.

While fertilizers are still in line with their historical norms relative to prices for corn, soybeans and wheat, the affordability metrics differ among nutrients.

According to Jung, nitrogen is relatively cheaper than average, potash prices are right in line with the historical ratio and phosphate is generally less affordable than average.

Supply issues elsewhere are also impacting production in 2015.

Availability so far hasn’t been an issue, but that could change once harvest begins, said Jung.

“If farmers delay purchases for too long, there’s a big rush in season once the crop is off the field and you’ll get these localized shortages,” he said, though that’s less likely with most crops coming off earlier than usual.

Producers should also keep an eye on yields, said Jung.

Good yields point to “a pretty significant draw on nutrition in the soil, which must be replaced, or it will become a limiting factor.”

Federal farm politicians lining up for debate The Ottawa debate will focus on current farming issues Staff

Canada’s incumbent agriculture minister and two of his federal critics are so far confirmed for a pre-election debate on farming issues later this month.

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture, working with media partner and Co-operator publisher Glacier FarmMedia, will host the national agriculture leaders’ debate on Sept. 30 in Ottawa.

We s t e r n S a s k a t c h e w a n Conservative MP and incumbent minister, Gerry Ritz is confirmed to attend, as are the Liberals’ agriculture critic, Nova Scotia MP Mark Eyking, and Green Party deputy leader and Thunder Bay MP Bruce Hyer.

The New Democrats’ lead agriculture critic, Niagara-area MP Malcolm Allen is also confirmed.

A representative from the Bloc Quebecois has not yet confirmed.

CFA says the bilingual debate, “will highlight issues facing Canadian farmers and give an opportunity for each party to outline its platform positions as they pertain to Canada’s farm and food future.”

Debate questions will come from Canadian farmers in prerecorded video clips.

Following the event, video of the debate will be available for viewing on sites across the Glacier FarmMedia digital network.

Farmers can pre-register at www.cfa-fca.ca, either to attend the event at Ottawa’s Fairmont Chateau Laurier from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET, or to watch the live webcast.

Public affairs cable channel CPAC plans to rebroadcast the farm debate but hasn’t yet confirmed if it will broadcast the event live. Cable or satellite subscribers will want to check their listings nearer the debate date.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

El Niño may push Argentina to soybeans over corn The Pacific Ocean warming tends to pile rainfall on Argentina

By Hugh Bronstein Buenos Aires / Reuters

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he El Niño weather phenomenon is expected to start dumping torrential rains on Argentina next month, pushing farmers to plant more low-cost soy and less corn despite concern over lack of crop rotation in one of the world’s main food suppliers.

Argentina, the No. 1 exporter of soymeal livestock feed — which is fuelling a shift in diet away from rice and toward beef, pork and poultry in Asia — expects to get walloped by El Niño-related storms just as planting gets underway in October.

With about a quarter of breadbasket province Buenos Aires already under water due to record August showers, soils may not be able to absorb the rains ahead. This is an additional headache for growers already bedevilled by stiff trade

controls and one of the world’s highest inflation rates.

“They are likely to hedge their bets this year by planting soy rather than corn, which is relatively expensive to cultivate,” said local farm economist Manuel Alvarado Ledesma.

Cheaper-to-grow soybeans have taken Argentina’s Pampas Grains Belt by storm over the last decade, raising concern that the lack of residual cornstalks and mulch left by other crops is robbing nutrients from soils.

Some recently seeded wheat has been wrecked by floods and conditions for harvesting in December and January might not go smoothly if forecasts of the strongest El Niño on record come true, said Anthony Deane of consultancy Weather Wise Argentina.

The El Niño phenomenon, marked by warmer-than-usual air above the eastern Pacific Ocean, tends to increase rain in Argentina while causing dry

conditions over the Australia/ Indonesia archipelago and Southeast Asia.

“It’s going to wreak havoc in northeastern, northwestern and central Argentina,” he said.

Saturated fields Deane said 40 per cent of Argentina’s main Grains Belt is on high enough land to avoid flooding from the October through April El Niño cycle, but he expects areas that are not flooded to enjoy very high production.

Indeed by eliminating the threat of drought, El Niño could be net positive for corn farmers with access to high-placed land, said Martin Fraguio, head of corn industry chamber Maizar.

“Highlands are more productive and thus in El Niño years they more than compensate for losses in the lowlands,” Fraguio said. “Droughts are equally bad for all areas, high and low.”

Argentine farmers are

“Talking about climate conditions in a year like this… it’s like we’re playing roulette.”

santiago del solar, farmer

expected to plant 2.72 million hectares with 2015-16 corn, down 20 per cent from the previous crop year, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said last month.

Reasons for the projected cut include low world corn prices and the exploding cost of seeds and fertilizers in a country where economists estimate inflation at about 27 per cent.

Farmers also complain about the corn and wheat export quotas that the government uses to ensure ample domes-

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tic food supplies. The Economy Ministry can raise and lower the quotas throughout the year, making crop planning difficult. “ Ta l k i n g a b o u t c l i m a t e conditions in a year like this, plus the uncertainty created by the export quotas, it’s like we’re playing roulette,” farmer Santiago del Solar said. “But if (we) plant soy and lose, it costs us less than if we planted corn.”

Argentina’s leading opposition presidential candidate Mauricio Macri says he would lift the quotas. The front-runner ahead of the Oct. 25 election is Daniel Scioli, who is from the party of outgoing President Cristina Fernandez. Scioli has yet to outline his farm policy platform.

“If Scioli wins and promises an end to the export quotas, farmers will probably plant more corn than they expected to in December,” said Alfredo Paseyro, head of the Argentine Seed Venders’ Association, an industry chamber.

Chinese firm making move for Australian farmland Melbourne / Reuters

China’s PengXin Group is bidding for two huge Australian cattle proper ties which together could cost more than A$1 billion (C$930 million) and would make the conglomerate the biggest owner of farmland in the country, a newspaper reported Aug. 28.

Shanghai-based PengXin is separately bidding for Consolidated Pastoral Co. and S. Kidman and C o. , A u s t r a l i a’s b i g g e s t l a n d o w n e r, t h e Australian Financial Review said, citing unnamed sources.

Pe n g X i n w o u l d u s e Consolidated Pastoral’s cattle stations in northern and western Australia to supply beef to Asia, while it would u s e So u t h Au s t r a l i a’s Kidman to supply meat to the Australian market, the newspaper said.

If its bids are successf u l , i t w o u l d a c q u i re a total 555,000 head of cattle, nearly as much as Australia’s biggest beef producer Australian Agricultural Co. owns, while its land holdings would be much larger than AACo’s.

PengXin became New Zealand’s third-largest dairy player through a similar acquisition strategy it began three years ago, the paper said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

Manitoban diagnosed with West Nile Current exposure risk is considered low STAFF

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Southern Manitoba woman in her 50s is the first human case of West Nile virus diagnosed this year, the Department of Ma n i t o b a He a l t h , He a l t h y Living and Seniors says in a release.

The victim did not experience neurological symptoms and was not hospitalized.

She is believed to have been exposed during the week of July 26. The investigation is ongoing.

The department says the current risk for exposure is estimated to be low, but it recommends taking action to avoid exposure to the virus’s main carrier, the Culex tarsalis mosquito.

The department’s surveillance program found this season’s first Culex tarsalis mosquito samples infected with WNV during the week of July 12. Manitobans can reduce the risk of mosquito bites by reducing the amount of time spent outdoors during peak mosquito hours, using mosquito repellent, wearing light-coloured, loose-fitting clothing, ensuring their window screens are maintained.

Manitobans are also urged to reduce the number of mosquitoes around their homes by eliminating standing water.

Information on any additional human cases, including age, gender, health region of residence and likeliest area of exposure, will be posted at www.gov.mb.ca/health/wnv/ as it becomes available.

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CFIA clears more states for poultry traffic Poultry and eggs are still blocked from eight states Staff

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ravellers entering Canada from the U.S. may now bring in uncooked poultry products, live poultry and eggs from seven of the 15 states that have had outbreaks of avian flu since December.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Sept. 1 confirmed it now considers the states of Washington, Idaho, California and Oregon free of highly pathogenic (“high-path”) avian influenza.

Montana, Indiana and Arkansas, which each had just one property confirmed with high-path avian flu, were declared avian flu free last month.

Washington had confirmed five properties with H5 avian flu in January and February, affecting 6,710 birds in total.

Neighbouring Idaho reported just one such property in January, affecting 30 birds.

Oregon reported two such cases in December and February respectively, affecting about 200 birds, while California reported two properties in January and February affecting 134,400 and 112,900 birds respectively.

CFIA’s restrictions on crossborder poultry traffic still apply to poultry, birds and eggs from Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Items still subject to CFIA’s

restrictions from those states include live birds and hatching eggs, eggs, yolks, egg whites (albumen), poultry meat, feathers, poultry manure, poultry litter and raw pet foods containing poultry products. Travellers “may not bring these items into Canada.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), as of Sept. 1, has lifted all restrictions on movement of live poultry and poultry products from 11 of the 15 affected states.

The four hardest-hit states — Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska, which between them saw over 46 million birds affected —

remain under APHIS restrictions for poultry transit and exports.

States not yet released from APHIS restrictions “are making good progress, and control areas in those states are being removed as they meet the time elements and other measures for release,” APHIS deputy administrator Dr. John Clifford wrote in his report Sept. 1 to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).

USDA has already lifted its restrictions on imports of poultry and related products from Ontario and British Columbia, which respectively saw three farms hit by highpath avian flu in April and 13 farms affected in December and February.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

Higherquality wheat likely in store for Prairies

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We s t e r n C a n a d i a n f a r m ers are seeing higher-quality wheat crops this year, which will meet pent-up demand within the market. However, p ro d u c e r s m i g h t n o t re a p the rewards as much as they would like, a market analyst says.

Wheat buyers will be looking for better-quality and higher-protein wheat, since Canada disappointed on some of those fronts last year, says Neil Townsend, direct o r o f m a rk e t re s e a rc h a t G3 Global Grains, formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board.

“Bu t o n t h e o t h e r h a n d w h e n t h e r e’s m o r e o f i t around you see that the premium for protein and the premium for quality gets kind of narrowed, and that’s probably the situation that we’re in, in Canada,” he says.

He says demand still exists, but since supply looks like it will be fairly heavy, this year might not be as profitable as farmers would hope.

Tow n s e n d s a y s a s s u m p tions that this year will be higher quality and protein is primarily based off anecdotal reports as harvest is about 30 per cent done in the Prairies.

“Looks like it’s going to be a better-quality profile than last year. So far the results would support that,” says Townsend.

Cro p s a re n o t s e e i n g a s much adversity during harvest as they did last year, as many farmers have been able to get crops off, dry them and maintain quality.

“In parts of the West obviously drought has an influence on smaller yields, but the drought also is positive in terms of quality when you get a smaller crop,” he says.

Statistics Canada predicts this year’s production will be around 24.6 million tonnes, compared with last year’s 29.3 million tonnes.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

EU dairy farmers struggle to survive in the post-quota market The end of quotas coincided with a global downturn that is driving farmers from the farm

By Gus Trompiz Paris / Reuters

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uropean dairy farmers caught out by a global market decline as they emerge from a 30-year-old quota system may have little choice but to produce at full pelt, hoping for a recovery in international prices next year.

Milk prices paid to EU farmers are down 20 per cent from last year at 30 euro ($0.34) a litre on average, leaving some farms operating below production costs and upsetting the plans of farmers and dairy processors that expanded capacity before the abolition of EU milk production limits last April.

The ending of output limits in the European Union has

U.S. corn, soy yields second biggest on record The next USDA production forecast comes out Sept. 11 Chicago / Reuters

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obust U.S. cor n and soybean har vests are expected despite excessive rains early in the growing season that raised concerns about final production totals, according to a poll conducted by commodity brokerage and analysis firm Allendale Inc. Average corn yields are estimated at 167.1 bushels per acre, with total production coming in at 13.548 billion bushels, according to the results of the poll. Soybean yields were pegged at 45.4 bushels per acre, with total production forecast at 3.791 billion bushels.

If realized, they would be the second-highest U.S. yields ever for both corn and soybeans.

Allendale surveyed farmers in 28 states between Aug. 17 and Aug. 28 for the poll, which was released Sept. 2.

The U.S. Agriculture Department projected an average corn yield of 168.8 bushels per acre and an average soybean yield of 46.9 bushels per acre in its August crop production report. It also forecast corn production at 13.686 billion bushels and soybean production at 3.916 billion bushels.

The government will update its harvest projections on Sept. 11.

contributed to world oversupply just as demand has been curbed by an embargo

by Russia, usually the biggest buyer of EU cheese, and a drop-off in Chinese dairy imports.

“The removal of quotas couldn’t have come at a worse time,” said Ian Macalpine, chair man of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers.

The slide in prices has revived memories of a previous downturn in 2009 that saw some EU farmers dump milk rather than sell it.

Protests have spread across Europe this summer, with farmers targeting supermarkets in Britain, France and also Germany, the EU’s top milk producer and a supporter of the quota abolition.

A milk canister is seen during a protest by European dairy farmers against the end of the milk quota system in front of the European Parliament in Brussels March 31, 2015. photo: REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

Australian sheep unofficially world’s woolliest Sydney / Reuters

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round 40 kilograms (88 lbs.) of wool have been sheared from a sheep found near Australia’s capital, the RSPCA said Sept. 3, making him unofficially the world’s woolliest.

The animal, named Chris by his rescuers, was discovered on the northern outskirts of

Canberra on Wednesday and was said to be struggling to walk under the weight of his coat.

Tammy Ven Dange, chief executive of RSPCA ACT, the Canberra division of the animal charity, estimated Chris had more than five years of wool on him and likely little contact with humans.

The 40.45 kg of wool removed from Chris mean that he was unofficially the carrier of the

world’s heaviest fleece, possibly shattering the current record set

by New Zealand sheep Big Ben, found to be carrying nearly 29 kg of wool in 2014.

Big Ben dethroned fellow Kiwi, Shrek, who gained national celebrity in his home nation, meeting then-prime minister Helen Clark and becoming the subject of several children’s books before his death in 2011.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

Poisonous weed not a threat to canola product safety Jimsonweed, found sometimes in Manitoba, was found in three Alberta canola fields recently

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

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toxic plant that’s been found in three Alberta canola fields isn’t a threat to Canada’s canola oil and meal industry, the Canola Council of Canada says.

“While jimsonweed itself can be poisonous, the heating process in canola oil and meal processing

denatures toxic alkaloids, so there isn’t a health concern in processed canola products,” Curtis Rempel, vice-president of crop production and innovation at the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) said in a news release Sept. 4. “It’s also important to remember that it’s the dose that makes the poison, and the high LD50 (lethal dose) of scopolamine, the major toxic alkaloid in jimsonweed, even further supports the fact that this

weed isn’t a concern in canola oil or meal.”

Rempel was reacting to published reports last week that jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), also known as locoweed, devil’s trumpet, pricklyburr and devil’s cucumber, was found in three canola fields in Alberta. All parts of the plant, which is in the nightshade family, are toxic and can kill livestock and humans if consumed in high enough quantities.

Jimsonweed is a common ornamental in parts the Prairies and Eastern Canada, and grows all over the U.S., Rempel said.

Jimsonweed occurs in the warmer parts of southern Ontario in cultivated fields and around farmyards, says weedinfo.ca, a website operated by Agriculture and Agri-Food.

It’s also found occasionally in Manitoba, sometimes in crops, but also in wild areas and along riverbanks, said Jeanette Gaultier, weed specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development.

“Jimsonweed is known here (in Manitoba), but it’s not common,” she said.

While it’s on Manitoba’s noxious weed list, jimsonweed is not seen as an aggressive weed that threatens to reduce crop yields, she added. It can be controlled by several herbicides.

Jimsonweed is currently listed as one of the 21 prohibited noxious weeds on the federal weed seeds order, but the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has proposed reclassification from prohibited to primary because it is already found in many parts of the country, the CCC release says.

“According to provincial weed specialists in Alberta, as of September 1 this weed has been limited to three fields of canola and all of these growers are working with their provincial departments and the CFIA on an eradication strategy,” Rempel said.

“We are currently focusing on fact gathering and analysis on the weed’s prevalence and biology, and collaborating throughout the canola value chain to determine best management practices. To help, we are asking growers and agronomists to continue to keep an eye out for this weed during harvest as early detection is an important step in management.”

If jimsonweed is suspected, growers are advised to contact a provincial weed specialist or CCC agronomist to help with identification and discuss containment and eradication strategies.

Jimsonweed was found in Westlock, Barrhead and Leduc counties in late August while farmers were swathing canola, a published report said. While Alberta is a major producer of canola seed, raising the spectre of spreading the weed, canola seed production is restricted to the southern part of the province.

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Jimsonweed before flowering. All parts of the plant are toxic. It’s present in Manitoba but not common, says MAFRD weed specialist Jeanette Gaultier. PHOTO: AAFC

Pooled wheat prices lower

Only the PROs for peas were revised higher

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ro j e c t e d p r i c e s f o r wheat marketed through CWB pools were lowered across the board in the latest Pool Return Outlooks (PROs) from the company soon to be known as G3 Global Grain Group.

Wheat PROs were down by $19 to $22 per tonne from July, with declining U.S. futures and large world supplies said to be behind the weakness.

Projected durum prices were revised lower by $15 per tonne, as better-thane x p e c t e d Ca n a d i a n a n d North American crops were easing any supply concerns in the market.

Canola PROs were down by $39 to $41 per tonne, in line with the futures, while malt barley prices held steady on the month.

Only the PROs for peas were revised higher in the l a t e s t C W B p ro j e c t i o n s, with prices up $15 from July in all pools due to smallerthan-expected Canadian yields.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN

Sheep and goat fall sales run begins There were 1,000 sheep and goats on offer for the Sept. 2 sale

BY MARK ELLIOT Co-operator contributor

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he Sept. 2 sheep and goat sale at Winnipeg Livestock Auction attracted 1,000 animals and some eager bidding. The fall run has begun and there will be two sales per month.

Prices on ewes ranged from $1.04 to $1.18 per pound.

Whether they were wool or haired breeds or sheared did not affect bidding.

A 160-pound Icelandic ram brought $0.99 per pound. The other rams brought a price range from $1.05 to $1.09 per pound.

There was a limited selection of heavyweight lambs. Two price ranges were created. One ranged between $1.06 to $1.10 per pound. The other range was from $1.36 to $1.69 per pound.

The 105- to 110-pound market lambs brought a price range from $1.40 to $1.79 per pound.

The 95-pound lambs brought $1.99 per pound.

There was a better selection of feeder lambs on offer. A couple of groups brought a price of $0.96 per pound. The other price group ranged from $1.95 to $2.04 per pound.

Lightweight lambs dominated this sale. The 70-plus weight lambs attracted strong bidding.

The top prices ranged from $1.96 to $2.17 per pound. An exception was a 71-pound group of lambs that brought $2.26 per pound.

The 60-plus weight lambs brought a price range from $1.87 to $2.17 per pound. An excellent selection for the buyers.

A group of 55-pound lambs brought $2.24 per pound, while another group of 55-pound lambs brought $2.31 per pound.

The group of 59-pound lambs brought $2.13 per pound.

The 46-pound lambs brought $2.20 per pound. The 47-pound lambs brought $2.11 per pound.

The Barbado-cross lambs brought a slightly lower bidding price, $1.70 per pound.

The lower-weight lambs were of less interest by the buyers, at this sale.

Dairy goat does, many Alpinecross were well represented.

However, a few La Manchacross does were present. The dairy goat does prices ranged from $1.13 to $1.84 per pound.

An exception was a 90-pound Alpine-cross goat doe receiving $1.84 per pound. Also, a 99-pound Alpine-cross goat doe received $0.75 per pound.

The goat buck classification was represented by heavy Boercross goats. There was interest for the Pygmy-cross goat buck that brought $1.57 per pound.

The dairy selection of goat kids remained and continued similar price bidding as the meat kids. The demand for goat kids remained high by the buyer. The lightweight goat kids drew less interest and lower bids.

The Ontario Report indicated that the sheep and lamb prices have been dropping from the past sales. The goat sales have been remaining fairly constant.

$142.50 - $169.99 $100.30 - $131.10 $58.13 - $80.58 Lambs (lbs.)

110+

$175.44 - $190.97

95 - 110

$189.05 - $194.02 $154 - $157.50

80 - 94

$189.05 - $194.02 $86.40 - $91.20

Under 80 70 - 79

$155.80 - $160.46 $125.28 - $148.92

60 - 69

$130.20 - $143.52

55 / 59

$123.20 / $127.05 / $125.67

46 / 47

$101.20 / $103.39

GOAT DOES

price / wt.

MEAT

weight

$1.81

90 lbs.

$1.46

99 lbs.

$1.06

110 lbs.

$0.84

142 lbs.

DAIRY

$1.13

75 lbs.

$1.54 / $1.84

90 lbs.

$0.75

94 lbs.

$1.46

99 lbs.

$1.45

100 lbs.

$1.27

65 lbs.

$1.10

125 lbs.

$1.66

140 lbs.

$1.57

75 lbs.

DAIRY

$2.27

77 lbs.

MEAT

$2.50 / $2.37

60 lbs.

$2.42

62 lbs.

PYGMY BUCKS MEAT PYGMY KIDS - UNDER 80

$2.46

68 lbs.

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Canola stocks increase dramatically in StatsCan report

Haying season continues

By Dave Sims CNS Canada

It appears there’s a lot more canola in Prairie fields and bins than anybody thought.

According to the Stocks of Principal Field Crops report Statistics Canada released Sept. 3, the country had 2.3 million tonnes of canola in its stocks as of July 31 — 500,000 to one million more than analysts estimated heading toward the report.

StatsCan also raised its estimate for last year’s (as of July 31, 2014) supplies to three million tonnes — 600,000 more than originally thought. “ Wow, t h a t’s h u g e,” said Wayne Palmer of Agri-Trend Marketing in Winnipeg.

The numbers, he said, suggest to him that canola exports have been overestimated up to this point, along with crush numbers.

“Now all of a sudden it doesn’t matter how big our crop is, it’s going to be very difficult to get a rally going here.”

StatsCan’s online production numbers were also adjusted. According to the agency, the 2014-15 crop increased from the previous estimate of 15.6 million tonnes, to 16.4 million.

Such dispar ities are going to lead most people to conclude the 201516 crop is probably larger than the current estimate, said Mike Jubinville of ProFarmer Canada.

“You’re going to hear people talking about a 15-million-tonne crop,” he said.

Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg agreed, wondering why the difference didn’t show up on previous stocks reports. It alters the canola situation dramatically, he said.

All-wheat ending stocks were pegged at 7.1 million tonnes, at the high end of trade guesses but still below the 10.4 million tonnes seen the previous year.

Barley stocks, at 1.2 million tonnes, were also at the high end of trade estimates and below the 1.9 million seen the previous year.

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Latvia, Greece win opt-out from Monsanto GM crop MON810 is the only GM crop grown in the EU

By Barbara Lewis Brussels / Reuters

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onsanto said it would abide by Latvia’s and G re e c e’s re q u e s t s under a new EU opt-out law to be excluded from its application to grow a genetically modified (GM) crop across the European Union, but accused them of ignoring science.

Under a law signed in March individual countries can seek exclusion from any approval request for GM cultivation across the EU. While the European Commission is responsible for approvals, requests to be excluded also have to be submitted to the company making the application.

GM crops are widely grown in the Americas and Asia, but Monsanto’s pest-resistant MON810 maize is the only variety grown in Europe, where opposition is fierce.

France and Germany have said they are opposed to GM cultivation, and while Britain is in favour, the Scottish government is against.

The EU law has riled the GM industry and the U.S., which wants Europe to open its doors fully to U.S. GM crops as part of a planned EU-U.S. free trade deal.

In a statement Aug. 27, the European Commission confirmed that so far only Latvia and Greece had asked for optouts from Monsanto’s request to continue to grow MON810.

In i t s f o r m a l re s p o n s e to Latvia, seen by Reuters, Monsanto says Latvia’s request “contradicts and undermines the scientific consensus on the safety of MON810.”

GM in Europe is a small fraction of Monsanto’s activity and Monsanto said in an emailed statement that these o p t - o u t s w o u l d h a ve n o impact on its business.

Monsanto said it had no immediate plans to request approvals for any new GM seeds in Europe.

Among the criticisms raised by anti-GM campaigners is that GM cultivation threatens biodiversity, although the industry refutes this.

Environmental campaigners on Aug. 27 urged other nations

to follow the example of Latvia and Greece.

Friends of the Earth Europe also circulated letters showing the European Commission is examining rules for imports of products with trace levels of GM and had requested the expert opinion of the European Food Safety Authority.

In a statement Aug. 27, the commission said its zerotolerance policy against nona u t h o r i ze d G M p ro d u c t s remains in place and it was simply seeking advice on “a scientific question” unrelated to trade negotiations with the U.S. The EFSA said it would issue a scientific opinion on the question by the end of 2017.

National Agriculture Leaders Debate to be held September 30, 2015 The Canadian Federation of Agriculture will be hosting a National Agriculture Leaders debate in lead up to the Federal Election. The debate will highlight issues facing Canadian farmers and give an opportunity for each party to outline its platform positions as they pertain to Canada’s farm and food future.

WHEN Wednesday, September 30, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WHO  Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Hon. Gerry Ritz  Malcolm Allen, NDP Agriculture Critic  Mark Eyking, Liberal Agriculture Critic  Bruce Hyer, Deputy Leader, Green Party  Bloq Québécois, representative TBC WHERE Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel, the Laurier Room, Ottawa RSVP & WEBCAST REGISTRATION Please register in advance for the webcast and RSVP if attending in person.

Registration information, as well as details on farmers’ priorities for the upcoming election, can be viewed here: www.cfa-fca.ca Debate questions will be posed via pre-taped video segments from farmers across Canada.

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is the country’s largest national general farm organization. Its members include provincial general farm organizations, national and interprovincial commodity organizations - representing over 200,000 Canadian farmers and farm families through its members. Founded in 1935 to provide Canada’s farmers with a single voice in Ottawa, the CFA works on behalf of Canada’s farmers to ensure the continued development of a viable and vibrant agriculture and agri-food industry in Canada.

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Chipotle sued over GMOfree menu claims

The chain’s online disclaimers are unlikely to be seen, a suit alleges Reuters

Chipotle Mexican Grill’s new GMO-free menu claims have lured diners and boosted the burrito chain’s stock price, but it has some consumers crying foul.

A Califor nia woman has accused the popular chain in a lawsuit of false advertising after it trumpeted on April 27 that it was the first national restaurant company to use only ingredients that are free of controversial genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

In her lawsuit filed Aug. 28 in Federal Court in San Fra n c i s c o, t h e p l a i n t i f f Colleen Gallagher also alleged Chipotle violated the U.S. Fo o d , Dr u g a n d Co s m e t i c Act because its food labelling is false and misleading, and deceived diners into paying more for their food.

“As Chipotle told consumers it was ‘G-M-Over it,’ the opposite was true,” the Piedmont, California resident said. “In f a c t , C h i p o t l e’s m e n u h a s never been at any time free of GMOs.” Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold declined to discuss the allegations, but said, “we do plan to contest this.”

Many U.S. diners have in surveys expressed a willingness to pay a premium price for food they perceive to be less processed and more natural or organic, and retail data backs that up.

Chipotle’s website carries disclaimers about the GMO content in its food.

Those disclaimers say that “most animal feed in the U.S. is genetically modified, which means that the meat and dairy served at Chipotle are likely to come from animals given at least some GMO feed.” They add that “many of the beverages sold in our restaurants contain genetically modified ingredients.”

Gallagher contended that m o s t C h i p o t l e d i n e r s a re unlikely to see these disclaimers, and will rely instead on the company’s advertising.

Her lawsuit seeks classaction status and unspecified damages.

A woman named Colleen Gallagher, represented by the same law firm, is also a plaintiff in a 2014 lawsuit in the same court alleging that Bayer AG’s claims about the health benefits of its One A Day multivitamins misled consumers.

On Aug. 18, U.S. District Judge William Orrick denied Bayer’s motion to dismiss that lawsuit.

Lawyers for Gallagher did not immediately respond on Aug. 31 to calls and emails seeking comment.

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

Raptor festival soars to new heights People flock to the Pembina Valley to watch raptors float on thermal air

By Bill Stilwell Co-operator contributor

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he term “raptor” might conjure up “Jurassic Parklike” visions of huge flying dinosaurs, but alas, that is not the case. Raptor is simply the term used to describe birds of prey.

Each year a massive raptor migration takes place as these magnificent birds return to Manitoba from their wintering grounds. Usually the best place to view this exciting phenomenon is along the river valleys of southern Manitoba where raptors float high overhead on the thermals created from rising air.

For five consecutive years, the tiny village of La Riviere, located in the Pembina River Valley, has held a festival that celebrates these magnificent birds that are common throughout Manitoba.

While the annual celebration is now over for this year, the enthusiasm for these spectacular birds of prey continues until they wing their way south in autumn.

Raptors are birds that hunt for food from the air. They have three general qualities that distinguish them, including keen binocular vision, which allows them to spot their prey while in flight. They also have a large curved bill and sharp talons to grasp and hold their prey.

During migration, raptors travel long distances with less effort by soaring on the thermals. A thermal is a column of rising air caused by heating of the earth’s surface causing upward lift.

Raptors extend their wings and circle upward riding the thermal until losing its lift. Then they glide to the next thermal and so on, until it reaches the nesting grounds. Thermals frequently form next to lakes, rivers, and above valleys.

For the past decade, an annual “hawk watch” was carried out in the Pembina Valley recording the number of migratory raptors. In 2014, they recorded 16 different species of raptors with a total of 11,327 birds at their count site a short distance north of the Pembina Valley Provincial Park. The most common species recorded was the red-tailed hawk, with 7,720 counted. As well, the total included 1,454 bald eagles, 702 sharp-shinned and 604 broad-winged hawks.

To celebrate the importance of raptors, the La Riviere Raptor Festival is held in the Pembina Valley each April. This valley is considered one of the best places to view the spring raptor migration. The festival centres on monitoring Manitoba’s premiere spring raptor migration and creates awareness of the significance of the Pembina Valley as a migratory corridor for birds of prey, according to the festival brochure.

This year an estimated 500 people attended to marvel at the spring migration and learn more about raptors. Festival events included a display of live birds of prey, guided bird walks, migration

A Swainson’s hawk rests on it’s handlers arm at the raptor festival. Photos: Bill Stilwell

Red-tailed hawk

Turkey vulture

viewing and educational displays.

Live birds on display included a Swainson’s hawk, American kestrel, barn owl, burrowing owl and great horned owl.

Even if you missed the spring migration, keep your eye on the skies through the rest of the summer to watch for hawks, eagles, turkey vultures, owls and other birds of prey.

Bill Stilwell is an award-winning writer and author based in Neepawa, Man. His website is at manitobawild.com.

A barn owl is displayed at the raptor festival.

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COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Prairie fare

Which flowers are edible?

julie gardenrobinson Food and Nutrition Specialist NDSU Extension Service

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he blooming flowers at this time of the year look good enough to eat. Some actually are.

Many flower varieties are edible, but before you munch on the centrepiece, you need to do your homework. Some flower varieties are poisonous, or at least could cause allergic reactions or stomach upset.

For example, apple blossoms should be tasted in moderation because the flowers contain chemicals related to cyanide.

Chamomile commonly used in teas can cause allergic reactions among people with ragweed allergies. Too many daylilies can have a laxative effect.

Flowers have been used as food throughout history, from the use of squash blossoms in Asian culture to roses in Italian culture. More recently, chefs and cake decorators have used flowers as garnishes.

Edible flowers can be floated on soups or

Veggie Dip 1/4 c. hot water 2 tsp. beef bouillon powder 1 8-oz. package light cream cheese 1/2 c. light mayonnaise 4 large green onions, chopped 1/3 c. chopped red, orange and yellow nasturtium petals, chopped (optional)

in punch bowls. They can be frozen in ice cubes or ice rings. Brightly coloured edible petals can be sprinkled over salads. Besides serving as the finishing touch, flowers have made their way into the main course or side dishes.

Some of the common edible flower varieties are the petals of roses, begonias, chrysanthemums, daisies, pansies, violets, nasturtiums, impatiens and daylilies. Not only can flowers add colour, they also can add flavour. Flowers differ in taste from mint-like to peppery.

Here are some tips to consider before eating the bouquet: Know your flower varieties. Consult with an expert or use a reputable plant identification guide. Remember that flowers used as plate garnishes arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily edible.

Be aware that people affected by allergies, hay fever or asthma could react to flowers used in food preparation.

Avoid flowers that have been exposed to pesticides unless the pesticides are labelled for use on edible flowers and the label directions have been followed. Avoid using flowers grown by the roadside because they may

have been exposed to pesticides. Flowers from florists or garden centres also likely have been treated with pesticides and are best left off the menu.

Pick fully open edible flowers after morning dew has evaporated. Use right away or refrigerate between layers of damp paper towelling.

Remove pollen-containing stamens and pistils from flowers. Pollen can detract from flavour. Pollen also can cause allergic reactions.

Gently wash flower petals right before use.

Slowly introduce edible flowers into your menu to avoid potential stomach upset.

Fo r f u r t h e r i n f o r m a t i o n , t h e No r t h Carolina State University Cooperative Extension Ser vice has an online publication with information about growing edible flowers and the flavours of edible flowers. It is available at http:// gardening.ces.ncsu.edu/2014/10/ choosing-and-using-edible-flowers/.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tasty veggie dip. Try it with or without added nasturtium petals. The light versions of cream cheese and mayonnaise cut calories and fat.

Dissolve beef powder in hot water. Chop onions, tops included. Mix ingredients and chill. Before serving, mix in chopped flowers if desired. Be sure flowers have not been in contact with pesticides, and wash carefully. Garnish with additional flowers if desired.

Serve with assorted fresh vegetables.

Makes 16 servings. Each serving has 50 calories, 4.5 grams (g) fat, 2 g carbohydrate, 1 g protein and 230 milligrams sodium.

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i Dad.” Jennifer Jackson pulled her hair back into a ponytail and rubbed sleep out of her eyes with the back of her hands as she crossed the dining room, heading for the coffee pot on the counter. Andrew looked up from the newspaper he had spread out on the table and gave his daughter a smile.

“Hi kiddo,” he said. “Have a good sleep?”

Jennifer nodded as she poured a steaming cup of brew into her favourite old mug. “I slept like a log,” she said. “I was really tired I guess.”

“Life is exhausting,” said Andrew. “I get tired just thinking about it.”

Jennifer seated herself at the table and reached for the sugar. “Yeah, no kidding,” she said. “It does not help to stay up every night till past midnight, I am discovering.”

“I wouldn’t know about that,” said Andrew.

“I stay up till midnight on New Year’s Eve. The rest of the year I try to be in bed by 10:30.”

“Of course you do,” said Jennifer. “Because you’re old. Nobody expects you to be up after 10. All your friends are fast asleep by then.” She heaved a sigh. “I, on the other hand, have all kinds of people texting me and tweeting at me till all hours of the night. And I can’t just ignore them. They’ll take it personally if I do.”

Andrew raised an eyebrow. “Isn’t there an app for your phone that automatically tells your friends when you go to bed?”

“Whoa,” said Jennifer. “There isn’t, but that’s a great idea! Somebody should invent that! An app where you just click on a button labelled “goodnight” and it sends a message to all your contacts on all your platforms and devices telling them to shut up and let you sleep!” She took a sip of her coffee. “You should patent that idea and then just wait for someone to come up with the app so you could sue them for royalties. And then when people asked me where I got the money to buy a brand new Porsche I’d say, “my dad is a patent troll,” and all my friends would freak out and think you were super cool.”

“All this talk of platforms and devices is beyond my level of technological know-how,” said Andrew, “but patents and lawsuits I understand.”

“Well,” said Jennifer, “patent trolls have made something like half a trillion dollars in

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settlements since the beginning of the digital revolution, so obviously that’s where the money is.”

Andrew thought about that for a second.

“How much do you want to bet someone has already patented that idea?” he asked.

Jennifer smiled. “I don’t think I’d take that bet,” she said. “Not without some long odds in my favour.”

There was a brief silence, as neither of the two could think of a reason to discuss that topic any further. They sipped coffee in silence for a few minutes, while Andrew turned his attention back to the newspaper.

He finished the article he was reading and turned to the next page. “So, what are you up to today?” he asked without looking up.

“I’m going out to the farm,” said Jennifer.

“Kendra and I are going riding. We’re gonna check on the sheep and the cattle and then ride down to the river and have a picnic.”

Andrew looked up and then turned his head to look out the window. “Better today than yesterday,” he said. “It was freakishly hot out yesterday.” “ Ye a h , n o k i d d i n g , ” s a i d J e n n i f e r. “ Ye s t e r d a y w o u l d h a v e b e e n l i k e r i d ing ’cross the desert on a horse with no air conditioning.”

Andrew chuckled. “Good one,” he said.

“Good song too. Although I could never figure out why, if they were riding all the way across a desert, they didn’t just give the horse a name.”

Jennifer laughed. “The song wouldn’t have been the same,” she said. “Riding ’cross the desert on a horse named Trigger just doesn’t have the same ring.”

“How’s Kendra?” asked Andrew. “I haven’t seen her for ages.”

“She’s good,” said Jennifer. “Madly in love.

I think she might get married next summer.”

“Really?” said Andrew. “That’s too bad.”

“Huh?” said Jennifer. “Why would you say that? You suddenly have something against marriage?”

“No, no,” said Andrew. “She’s just too young. What’s the rush?”

“OK then,” said Jennifer. “I hope you’re gonna be more supportive when I announce that I’m engaged.”

“If it’s within the next two years,” said Andrew, “don’t count on it.”

Jennifer grinned. “No worries,” she said.

“Not till I’m 30.”

Andrew raised his mug. “I’ll drink to that,” he said.

Jennifer raised her mug. “Down the hatch,” she said.

Swiss chard as a fall crop Plant in mid-May but leave for use in September

By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

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was raised on a farm, so that explains why I get such satisfaction from growing as much of my own food as possible. On the Canadian Prairies this can be a challenge as our growing season is so short, and some years we get fewer than 100 frost-free days.

One way to extend the season is to use cold frames and cloches (plant covers); another is to be willing to throw extra blankets on vulnerable plants when latespring or early-fall frosts threaten.

One method I use to keep up the garden veggie supply is to plant Swiss chard as a fall crop.

I plant it in mid-May when the rest of the garden seeds go into the ground, but don’t really use chard while there are so many other vegetables available during the summer. Come September, however, most of these vegetables will have stopped producing and the choices become limited.

At this time I start using chard.

I plant it in a row and in the fall I put sturdy stakes about 60 cm apart in the row, and from the first fall frost until well into October I

Whole plants of “Bright Lights” have been harvested and washed, ready to be eaten, refrigerated or put into the freezer for winter use. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

throw heavy blankets over when frost is imminent. Toward the end of October this might be almost every night and finally the temperatures — both daytime and nighttime — become too cold for the chard to survive. By this time, however, there is little of it left anyway, and I cut what is left and refrigerate it (chard will keep for about three weeks or so in the fridge). It can also be blanched and frozen.

Chard is an easy crop to grow.

The seeds are large and easy to plant; it is direct seeded into the soil and the seeds should be planted about 10 cm apart — plant it more thickly to ensure a good crop and thin the seedlings after they are well established.

The easiest way to thin them is to snip the unwanted plants off at ground level with sharp scissors. If you want the chard to grow to its full size for use in late

fall, space the plants about 15 cm apart. So have the plants close together if you intend to use the chard when it is young and farther apart if you are going to let it get to its mature size. The seeds germinate quickly and by mid-July there are stalks big enough to harvest. Chard likes a well-drained soil, adequate moisture and lots of sun, although like most vegetables grown for their foliage, it will tolerate some shade.

Chard is not bothered by disease and the only pest problem I have is slugs. The damaged portion of a leaf can be cut off and the rest of the leaf can still be used. I sometimes put a little line of coarse sand around the row to deter the slugs and I hand pick a few if I am out in the garden in early morning or on a cloudy day.

Besides being delicious, chard is a nutritional powerhouse. It is rich in vitamin C, potassium, vitamin A, and calcium. It can be boiled or steamed and eaten as a vegetable (I love it this way with some butter and lots of pepper!).

Chard also can be added to casseroles, quiche, stir-fries, soups, stews, and I have even had it in lasagna. A few small pieces of

chard leaf in a salad will add tang to the sweeter taste of the other greens, but it is best to use tender young leaves for this purpose.

If chard is harvested throughout the growing season, only the outer leaves should be taken as new leaves will emerge from the centre of the plant. Cut the stalks off as close to the ground as possible, leaving little or no stub. Harvesting damaged leaves and using what you can of them will keep your patch in a healthy state.

Growing up we only had green chard, but since then some wonderfully coloured chards have been developed. I particularly like the variety called “Bright Lights” and indeed the colours are so vibrant that when the sun is on them the stems do indeed look like bright lights. The ribs of the leaves are the same colour as the stem, and colours include light and dark pink, bright gold, ruby red, and orange. Swiss chard truly is a beautiful, nutritious vegetable and it can be enjoyed at this time of year to create some delicious vegetable dishes.

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

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Colour can affect learning Start off a new school year with a shade that can boost confidence, relaxation and productivity CONNIE OLIVER Around the House

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ack to school is an exciting time — new markers, binders, lunch bag and that all-important “first day” outfit. A successful school year begins at home, and bedroom colours can inspire confidence, relaxation, productivity, and a positive outlook.

“Knowing a colour’s character can provide more than just a beautiful space, it can help a child get better sleep, bring out their creative genius, and be more confident and calm,” says Bev Bell, creative director, Beauti-Tone Paint and Home Products Division, Home Hardware Stores Limited. When decorating a bedroom find the perfect colour inspiration for your child.

Colours and their influences

We tend to shy away from orange in a bedroom, however, it is the social colour that encourages confidence and independence. Orange is energizing and attention getting. This is a great colour for a playroom or play area of the bedroom. Use it on a focal wall so as not to overpower the room.

Yellow is as joyous as waking up to a beautiful sunny day, and it also helps with memory and concentration. That’s why the first postit notes were yellow. Be cautious though, of large doses of bright or citrus yellow. In some people it creates a feeling of anxiety and anger.

Red is high energy and excites the mind. It is associated with love, comfort and warmth. In a bedroom

it’s best left to smaller doses so as not to overpower the senses. For chic colour chemistry, combine red with a great grey or a warm taupe. A soft warm red plays well with all colours.

Pink helps calm anger and behavioural issues, and evokes feelings of compassion, caring and love.

Green is the shade that soothes the soul. It is a colour that brings on a sense of tranquility. Studies have shown it helps with reading and comprehension and it’s also great for sleep so it can work in a study area and a sleeping area of the bedroom.

Blue is the calmest colour of the spectrum and the most popular colour for bedrooms. It’s a well-balanced hue that is like music to your eyes.

Purple, the colour of royalty, is the perfect colour for your prince or princess. Because it is rarely found in nature, it is considered exotic and mysterious. This regal colour helps release a child’s artistic creativity.

When it comes to budding geniuses, there is nothing neutral about neutrals. Greys, taupe, and beige suppor t intelligent thought and focused studying.

Older children should have some input into the colour of their bedroom. Include them in the process then make your final decision based on how the colour will affect your child. You can update their space while having some influence on the effectiveness of their surroundings.

A new school year brings excitement and anxiety. Help your child through the initial angst by starting them off in a new décor that will calm and inspire them throughout the year.

Connie Oliver is an interior designer from Gimli, Manitoba

This muted shade of orange can work well in a bedroom. PHOTO: COURTESY

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 were rare or unusual.

Now Gordon Goldsborough, webmaster and journal editor with the Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is looking for Co-operator readers’ help to relocate 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. Does the building still stand?

2. If so, where is it?

3. What are its GPS co-ordinates?

4. 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.

In its time, this granary was the latest chapter in new efficiency for Manitoba grain farmers trying to lessen the difficulties of moving grain from field to storage and from storage to market. Built by Robert B. Sinclair in the Gunton area more than 75 years ago, the binning was done on the ground-level floor, then later dropped onto wagons on the lower floor through a trap door in the main floor.

The granary also featured extra reinforcing with steel rods, perhaps a reflection of the fact its original owner was a blacksmith by trade. The farm was later owned by the Fraser family.

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Website highlights benchmark grain prices

Shoe on the other foot? Look for improved basis this year It’s a very different situation from two years ago — now grain companies are keen to ‘keep their pipelines moving’

BY JEFF MELCHIOR Contributor

“To the extent that the supply is smaller because of the dry conditions, this should lead to relatively stronger basis levels over the coming year.”

BY JEFF MELCHIOR Producers across Western Canada will soon have a new tool to help them make decisions on when to sell and get the best value for their grain.

A website from the Alberta Wheat Commission called www.pdqinfo. ca is currently in test mode and will be rolling out new features over the coming year.

The site — which stands for ‘price and data quotes’ — currently offers benchmark prices for three wheat classes (Canada Western Red Spring, Canada Western Amber durum, and Canada Prairie Spring Red) and canola. It presently covers eight zones: three in Alberta, four in Saskatchewan, and one in Manitoba.

Just one part of a price information project supported by $740,000 in federal funding, PDQ Info is intended to offer producers and other grain industry stakeholders more timely and detailed market data than what is currently available.

More information reflecting a greater number of crops and zones throughout Canada will be added over the next six to 12 months, said John De Pape of Farmers Advanced Risk Management, the grainmarketing consulting firm leading the project. The goal is to provide key market info for farmers, analysts, government agencies and crop insurance firms, he said.

“There is a level of information we can provide in terms of deferred prices, trends in prices, and separating futures and basis,” he said. “We will be focusing on basis a lot, what it is in different regions and how the basis is changing. There’s a lot of information you need to market properly and we’re just trying to make that easier for everybody.”

The market data for the site is provided by grain buyers licensed with the Canadian Grain Commission and averaged by region before posting.

The site does not present the proprietary information of individual grain buyers, said De Pape.

“If you as a farmer want to know what your local elevator is paying you will have to go to their website or call them. We don’t want to interfere with that interaction.”

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bad-news year for crop production is a good year when it comes to basis — and so farmers should be shopping around this harvest, say market analysts.

“In general in years when supplies are tight locally or in a region, you would normally expect to see basis levels that are stronger than what you would see with a bumper crop,” said Alyssa Mistelbacher, an analyst with FarmLink Market Solutions in Winnipeg.

“A basis reflects the local supply-and-demand relationship, or rather the needs of a local crusher or grain company, so to the extent that the supply is smaller because of the dry conditions, this should lead to relatively stronger basis levels over the coming year. This is something that we are already seeing in wheat.”

John De Pape of Farmers Advanced Risk Management is also looking for basis to increase this fall if current conditions hold.

“Two years ago, basis got terrible because we as an industry didn’t have the capacity to move the grain that needed to be moved,” said De Pape. “The crop size was so huge compared to our ability to move it (and) farmers were desperate to move grain so the price had to go down and basis had to go down.”

But this fall, the game will be about best utilizing that capacity to fill orders from grain buyers.

“We will see basis improve simply because we have a set capacity in terms of handling and capacity and a smaller crop,” said De Pape. “The grain companies will bid up to keep their pipelines moving.

That’s when you’ll really see some competition in terms of price. The basis will improve if they have more than enough capacity.”

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But this tide will not lift all boats, the analysts said — and that’s why producers need to keep a close watch on local markets.

Like many market measurements, the fundamental principles of market basis are simple but the reality can be incredibly complex. For example, different classes and grades of wheat will have entirely different basis levels.

“With wheat in Canada, different classes of wheat are almost like different commodities — the basis for each will be different,” said De Pape.

That makes getting the best price a challenge, he said, adding many producers were caught off guard by the intricacies of marketing wheat after the end of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly.

“A lot of them thought, ‘Well, I can trade canola — I’ve hedged my canola, wheat won’t be any different,’” said De Pape. “I think they found out it was. Under the Canadian Wheat Board the farmer’s price was not related to the futures price at any given time.

Rather it was set by the wheat board as an initial and final payment. But negotiating payments with basis is quite complex.”

For example, buyers of hard red spring wheat set their price basis to the Minneapolis futures market, he said.

“But if they’re buying a lowerquality hard red spring wheat, maybe because the protein’s not there, the value for that wheat might be more relevant to the Kansas City futures contract because it might be competing against winter wheat.

“For most grain companies, their bid to the farmer will be a basis relative to Minneapolis regardless of where they’re going with it. But internally, if they’re buying No. 2 wheat that contains 12 per cent protein, it may be going into a lower-quality market so they may hedge that internally with Kansas City futures — or Chicago wheat futures, depending on the end use. “Buying wheat basis to Minneapolis futures and selling and hedging it in other markets make the basis paid to farmers do unexpected things.”

In its simplest terms, basis is the difference between the futures price of a commodity and the cash price. It’s a signal to grain companies looking to either attract more grain or slow down their intake as well as to farmers deciding whether to

sell or store their product. The best way to look at basis is to consider it a price, not a cost, said De Pape.

“Futures specify a very specific location, a very specific time, and a very specific quality. Any time those things are different, the price will be different.”

Mistelbacher describes basis as a localized interpretation of the futures market.

“Think of it this way: A futures value represents a global price for grain on a given day, which is used as a benchmark and helps to establish local values,” she said. “The purpose of the basis is to allow the local cash price to adjust to fit the reality of local buying and selling interest. It ultimately reflects the local market conditions.”

But basis can be a temperamental measurement. It’s influenced by a number of factors such as foreign exchange rate, transportation and handling costs, storage and profit margin — some of which can vary wildly not just from year to year but even within the growing season.

The steep fall in the Canadian dollar this year is going to have a big impact and so producers should also keep a close watch on the exchange rate.

“As the value of the Canadian dollar goes down in concert with the rising U.S. dollar, our cash basis levels expand, giving us higher cash value opportunities,” said Mistelbacher.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

Tree loss slows, but covers area twice size of Portugal in 2014 Losses are accelerating in previously overlooked areas in Brazil and Indonesia

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he rate at which trees were cut down slowed globally for a third year in a row in 2014, but tree loss still covered an area twice the size of Portugal, an environmental research group said.

Losses also accelerated in some previously overlooked regions as land was cleared to grow rubber, soy or palm oil, or for beef production, according to U.S.-based think-tank World Resources Institute (WRI).

Trees absorb carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed for causing global warming, as they grow and release it when they are burnt or rot.

The world lost 18.8 million hectares (46 million acres) of tree cover in 2014, down from 20.64 million hectares in

2013 and 23.53 million hectares in 2012, according to satellite data obtained by the University of Maryland and Google and published by the WRI. “This analysis identifies a truly alarming surge in forest loss in previously overlooked hot spots,” Nigel Sizer, a WRI director, said in a statement, pointing to West Africa, Asia’s Mekong River Basin, South America’s Gran Chaco region and Madagascar.

Tree cover loss also rose in Brazil and Indonesia, home to some of the world’s biggest tropical forests.

The Brazilian Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, faces incursions from illegal logging and the invasion of public lands near big infrastructure projects such as roads and hydroelectric dams.

The government recently called for a zero deforestation rate between now and 2030.

Brazil, a major soybean grower and cattle rancher, lost 2.3 million hectares of

Southeast Asia’s biggest economy imposed a moratorium on forest clearance in 2011, partly to slow habitat losses for orangutans, Sumatran tigers and other wildlife.

tree cover in 2014, the WRI said, from 1.9 million hectares the year before, although the rate had been slowing in previous years.

Indonesia, home to the world’s thirdlargest tropical forests and also the

world’s biggest palm oil producer, lost 1.5 million hectares of tree cover last year, from 1.1 million hectares in 2013.

Southeast Asia’s biggest economy imposed a moratorium on forest clearance in 2011, partly to slow habitat losses for orangutans, Sumatran tigers and other wildlife.

Brazil and Indonesia will have key roles at the United Nation’s Paris climate conference late this year, which aims to reach a plan to reduce global warming.

Countries with the fastest acceleration of tree cover loss were Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Uruguay, Paraguay, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Vietnam and Malaysia.

El Salavador experienced a significant decrease in the rate of tree loss in 2014, but this was mainly because the country had few forests left to clear, WRI said.

The WRI data does not take account of tree cover gains.

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Water management key to achieving sustainable development goals The world faces a 40 per cent shortfall in water supplies within 15 years

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s demand for water grows, the world must focus on how the precious resource will be shared among farmers, the energy sector and cities if it is to achieve the United Nations’ new development agenda, a World Bank expert said.

The world faces a 40 per cent shortfall in water supplies in 15 years due to urbanization, population growth and growing demand for water for food production, energy and industry, according to a United Nations report published in March.

The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which had focused attention on the needs of poor nations for the

past 15 years, included boosting access to clean water and sanitation.

The Sustainable Development Goals, due to be adopted at a UN summit in September to replace the MDGs, broadens water from a narrow access issue to a “fundamental rethink” of how it is managed, said Junaid Ahmad, director at the World Bank’s water global practice.

“We’re headed into a perfect storm in which over the next 20 years we will see the demand for water growing significantly, driven by thirsty agriculture, thirsty energy and thirsty cities,” Ahmad said on Sunday on the sidelines of a global water conference in Stockholm.

“If we are to achieve these goals of food and energy security, sustainable urbanization,

Ahmad said achieving the new water goal and scaling up access “We are in a world in means not only building pipes, which we are trying but also fixing institutions and to price carbon, but improving governance.

Another challenge, he said, is we do not know how putting a price on water. to value water.”

“We are in a world in which we are trying to price carbon, but we do not know how to value water,” he said, adding that because water is a human right, there is an assumption that it should be and ensure service delivery of free.

“Free water is probably the water and sanitation to citizens, we now need to figure out how most expensive water for poor water is going to be allocated people, because whenever you give out free water it’s captured across sectors.”

Some 2.6 billion people have by the politically powerful, not gained access to clean water by the poor.”

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“Groundwater is the biggest source of stored water that we have, and yet it has been progressively abused,” extracted at a faster rate than it is being recharged, he said.

More than two billion people still lack access to toilets, but Ahmad is optimistic that the new goal of universal sanitation coverage by 2030 can be achieved.

“It took developed countries many years to achieve universal access,” he said, noting that a World Bank simulation showed countries such as France took 25 to 30 years to provide toilets for everybody.

“If we look at history and the pace in which developed countries have changed, then what developing countries are doing today is pretty historic. They are catching up at a very fast rate.”

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Japan partly lifts poultry bans on Canada, U.S. Tokyo/Reuters

Japan’s Farm Ministry on Aug. 28 partially lifted a ban on imports of live poultry and poultry meat from Canada and the U.S. following an outbreak of bird flu.

Imports from British Columbia and eight U.S. states — Oregon, Wa s h i n g t o n , Id a h o, California, Kansas, Arkansas, Montana and Indiana — will resume after restrictions were imposed for up to nearly nine months, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement.

After the latest measure, restrictions on live poultry and poultry meat still remain in place on Ontario and seven U.S. states — Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska — pending local checks by Japanese officials, a ministry official said.

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Australia, New Zealand defend climate plans, say face high costs They say most nations, including Canada shouldn’t be pointing fingers at their lack of progress

BY ALISTER DOYLE Bonn, Germany / Reuters

Australia and New Zealand said Sept. 1 they faced unusually high costs to cut greenhouse gas emissions because of their respective dependence on coal and livestock, after criticism that they are doing too little to tackle climate change.

So far more than 50 nations representing 70 per cent of world emissions have submitted strategies to the United Nations for curbs on emissions beyond 2020, meant to be the building blocks of a UN climate deal due to be agreed in Paris in December.

Australia, giving details of a plan issued last month, said that its relatively strong economic growth, a rising population and dependence on coal for 64 per cent of electricity generation made it costly to rein in emissions.

“We think it is an ambitious target,” Australia’s climate ambassador Peter Woolcott told delegates at week-long talks in Bonn of a goal of reducing its emissions by between 26 and 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

New Zealand’s climate ambassador Jo Tyndall, the only other developed nation representative at the same session, said her country’s dependence on dairy farming and sheep was a big source of the greenhouse gas methane, produced by the animals’ digestive tracts.

The New Zealand target submitted in July, of cutting emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, “would represent quite a significantly higher cost to our economy” than action by many other countries, she said.

Still, a Climate Action Tracker, run by a group of scientists, has ranked both countries’ plans “inadequate,” along with plans by developed nations such as Japan and Canada.

It has given a slightly better rating, of “medium” to the United States and the European Union. The United States, for instance, plans to cut emissions by 26-28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025, five years earlier than Australia.

A problem is that there is no UN mechanism to assess which nations are doing most, or least, to rein in global warming that the UN panel of climate experts says is causing more heat waves, droughts and rising sea levels.

Some nations want the Paris summit, from Nov. 30-Dec. 11, to agree a strict set of reviews for every plan, putting pressure on laggards to do more.

Martin Kaiser of Greenpeace also said Australia and New Zealand’s goals were among the weakest. “There’s a huge gap,” between the ambition of developed countries and the cuts needed, he said.

The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

National emissions plans too weak to limit climate change Researchers label most plans ‘inadequate’ or ‘medium’ for keeping global warming to the 2 C limit

By Alister Doyle Bonn, Germany / Reuters

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ational plans for limiting greenhouse gas emissions fall short of tough action needed to slow climate change under a United Nations agreement due in Paris in December, European researchers said Sept. 2.

The plans submitted so far to the UN by about 50 nations representing 70 per cent of world emissions are too weak to keep temperatures below an agreed ceiling of 2 C above pre-industrial times needed to avoid the worst effects of warming, they said.

The Climate Action Tracker (CAT ), produced by four

European research organizations, assessed 15 major nations’ strategies for the period beyond 2020 and found seven were “inadequate,” including those of Japan, Australia and Canada.

Six were “medium,” including those submitted by top emitters China, the United States and the European Union.

Only Ethiopia and Morocco put forward plans that were rated “sufficient” contributions to limit warming to 2 C. The national plans are meant as the building blocks of a Paris accord due to be reached at a summit from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11. Many countries, including India, have not yet submitted plans.

“It is clear that if the Paris

meeting locks in present climate commitments for 2030, holding warming below 2 C could essentially become unfeasible, and 1.5 C beyond reach,” said Bill Hare, of Climate Analytics, one of the groups.

Senior government officials were meeting in Bonn for the second-to-last session of talks before Paris, struggling to cut an unwieldy draft 83-page text.

Almost 200 governments agreed in 2010 that a 2 C rise was the maximum allowable to avert the heaviest impact of climate change, including floods, droughts and rising sea levels.

About 100 developing nations favour a tougher ceiling of 1.5°.

Tony de Brum, foreign minister of the Marshall Islands,

said that weak national plans would have disastrous impacts on people living in low-lying islands because of a rise in sea levels.

“Our islands cannot survive in a world in which the temperature rises more than 1.5 C,” he said in a speech in Fiji.

David Waskow of the World Resources Institute think-tank, which is not part of CAT, said there were some recent encouraging signs for stronger action such as a co-operation agreement reached between Brazil and Germany last month.

Both he and CAT said Paris should include a mechanism to oblige nations to review their pledges at regular intervals, with a view to strengthening them.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 10, 2015

Syngenta to shed vegetable seeds business The company gets set to buy back over $2 billion in shares

By Ludwig Burger and Michael Shields Frankfurt / Zurich / Reuters

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wiss agricultural chemicals group Syngenta plans to buy back more than US$2 billion worth of stock to boost s h a re h o l d e r re t u r n s a f t e r rejecting a takeover approach from Monsanto, selling its vegetable seeds business to fund the measure.

T h e w o r l d’s l a rg e s t p e sticides company is under p re s s u re t o o f f e r t a n g i b l e rewards to shareholders after it turned its back last week o n a c a s h - a n d - s h a re s b i d from unwanted U.S. suitor Monsanto worth $47 billion at the time (all figures US$).

The Swiss group will part with the most profitable of its seeds businesses, which has gross profit margins of well

above 60 per cent compared with about 45 per cent for all seeds last year, complicating its efforts to widen group margins.

However, finance chief John Ramsay said a sale was the best way to exploit the strength of that business.

“We’re not getting proper re c o g n i t i o n e i t h e r by t h e m a r k e t o r by Mo n s a n t o’s approach for the fundamental value of our vegetable seeds assets,” Ramsay told Reuters.

In v e s t o r s w e l c o m e d t h e share buyback decision, lifting Syngenta shares by 3.6 per cent. With no alternative bidder on the horizon, analysts had speculated a buyback could help appease investors.

Ramsay added there was also little point in combining vegetable seeds with their respective pesticides, as

“We’re not getting proper recognition either by the market or by Monsanto’s approach for the fundamental value of our vegetable seeds assets.”

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vegetable seeds were mostly grown in greenhouses with pesticides applied more precisely than on crops grown outdoors in fields.

O n e o f Sy n g e n t a’s s t r a tegic principles since 2011 has been to develop and sell seeds in tandem with crop chemicals, but investors have

b e e n u n i m p re s s e d by t h e results.

Valuation multiples in vegetable seeds are “quite easily” in the three- to six-times sales range, the CFO said.

With revenues of $650 million, that implies targeted proceeds of up to $3.9 billion that should easily pay for the share buyback.

“Ultimately the two will wash out,” he said.

Bank of Amer ica Merr ill Lynch analysts put the value of the business at between $1.6 billion and $2.4 billion.

B e r n s t e i n a n a l y s t Je re m y Redenius estimated it could fetch more than $2.5 billion, adding that pressure from investors would not let up.

“The 2018 targets (for the entire group) still look unachievable and selling the highest gross-margin seeds business makes them even more distant,” he said.

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U.S. court slaps hold on water protection rule States and farmers say the rule oversteps federal authority

By Ayesha Rascoe Washington / Reuters

A U.S. court on Aug. 27 blocked a federal clean water rule from going into effect until a legal challenge has been resolved, handing a victory to states and business groups that have strongly opposed the regulation.

The U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota granted a preliminary injunction against the so-called Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in May. The rule, which clarified which waters are covered by the federal Clean Water Act, was supposed to go into effect on Aug. 28.

North Dakota and 12 other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government in June, charging that the rule constituted an improper expansion of its powers over the states.

The states asked for a preliminary injunction earlier this month.

They said allowing the rule to be implemented would cause irreparable harm.

District Judge Ralph Erickson ruled in their favour, putting a hold on the rule.

“It appears likely that the EPA has violated its congressional grant of authority in its promulgation of the rule,” Erickson said in the order.

The WOTUS rule has faced intense opposition from Republicans in Congress, farmers and energy companies. Critics of the rule contend that it vastly expands the federal government’s authority and could apply to ditches and small isolated bodies of water.

The EPA and Army Corps have argued that the water rule does not create new permitting requirements and only seeks to make jurisdictional determinations more predictable.

At least 10 lawsuits have been filed in federal district courts challenging the rule, with at least 27 states joining in the lawsuits.

Several petitions for review have also been filed with U.S. federal appellate courts.

“This is a victory in the first skirmish, but it is only the first,” North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said in a statement. “I remain confident that the rule will be declared unlawful once all the issues have been presented.”

The EPA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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France offers new farm aid as 1,500 tractors hit streets The new plan allows for three billion euros in investment aid

By Sybille de La Hamaide Paris / Reuters

F French farmers from Lorraine region drive their tractors on the A4 motorway near Reims in the Champagne-Ardenne region of eastern France on Sept. 2. Hundreds of tractors were heading toward Paris for a protest Sept. 3 where French farmers called for more help with low prices and high costs in the European Union’s largest agricultural producer country. photo: Reuters/Jacky Naegelen

rance offered its farmers additional financial help on Sept. 3 including tax rebates and investment aid after they drove 1,500 tractors onto the streets of Paris to protest against falling incomes and rising costs.

French farmers, struggling with the effects of Russia’s embargo on wester n food products and a slump in prices, say higher taxes and stricter

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environmental protection rules are hampering their competitiveness against European neighbours.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who highlighted pork, beef and milk producers as sectors facing the most severe crises, said the government’s priority was to lift farm gate prices.

The plan included a rise in government support for investment, co-funded by the European Union and French regions, to bring it to three billion euros (C$4.4 billion) over three years.

The government will also freeze the adoption of new, mostly environmental standards, allow livestock farmers to postpone all debt repayments due in 2015, and will reduce their tax bills.

“Our aim is to give new perspectives and hope to farmers,” Valls told reporters.

The government announced a first aid package in July in response to angry farmers who had blocked roads, including access to the Mont Saint-Michel tourist site, and dumped manure outside supermarkets.

The FNSEA, France’s largest farmers’ union which called for Thursday’s protest, welcomed the new package.

“The government has heard us,” FNSEA chairman Xavier Beulin told farmers gathered on the Place de la Nation, a regular venue for demonstrations in the east of the capital.

Police said there were 4,500 farmers and 1,580 tractors in the protest, although the FNSEA put the tractor figure at 1,733.

“We came to express our dismay. We can’t live from our job anymore,” said Patrice Jaouen, a 43-year-old dairy and vegetable farmer leading a tractor convoy from Brittany after driving 588 km since Tuesday.

“We don’t want short-lived subsidies, we don’t want public money, we want an overhaul of the system.”

European Union farm ministers are meeting on Monday to discuss the troubled livestock industry.

France will call for a rise in the minimum price for milk, export incentives and a lifting of Russia’s embargo on pork imposed last year after an outbreak of African swine fever in the east of the EU, Valls said.

France has found some support from fellow EU members in southern Europe for more action to help dairy farmers, given a severe market downturn.

But EU agriculture commissioner Phil Hogan has warned against going back on market reforms, and French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll failed on Aug. 31 to agree on specific proposals with his German counterpart ahead of the EU meeting.

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

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

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

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

The Pas

Birch River

Swan River

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Red River

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Red River

McSherry Auction Service Ltd

FARM AUCTION HIGH RIDGE FEEDERS ED & GLORI DALKE

Building Supply & ConSignment AuCtion

Minitonas Durban

Sat. Sept., 19 @ 10:00 am Stonewall, MB #12 Patterson Drive

Winnipegosis

Roblin

Dauphin

Grandview

Ashern

Gilbert Plains

Fisher Branch

Ste. Rose du Lac Russell

Parkland

Birtle

Riverton Eriksdale

McCreary

Lundar Gimli

Shoal Lake

Langruth

Neepawa

Hamiota

Gladstone

Rapid City Virden

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Boissevain

Killarney

Beausejour

Elm Creek

Sanford

Ste. Anne

Carman

Mariapolis

Pilot Mound Crystal City

Lac du Bonnet

Winnipeg

Austin Treherne

Westman

Waskada

Stonewall Selkirk

Portage Carberry

Brandon Souris

Melita

Interlake

Erickson Minnedosa

Reston

Arborg

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Morris Winkler Morden

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

GUN & MILITARIA SHOW Sunova Centre West St Paul Rec Centre 48 Holland Rd Located North of the North Perimeter Hwy between McPhillips & Main St off Kapelus Rd WINNIPEG, MB. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Adults $5.00 – Women free Children under 12 accompanied by an adult free There will be dealers from Ontario, Saskatchewan and Manitoba Show Sponsored by the MCC of C

ANTIQUES ANTIQUES Antiques For Sale FARMALL M WIDE FRONT; Farmall H wide front; Pony Massey tractor; 56 IHC truck 3-Ton; 12-ft deep tiller; 20-ft. flatdeck gooseneck trailer; 12-ft. press drill; IHC baler, for scrap; 2 cyl Miller Welder; gooseneck camper trailer. (204)855-2212 LARGE WOODEN THRESH MACHINE, built by Advance Runway. Phone (204)735-2567

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Sign up for daily enews at manitobacooperator.ca MEYERS SMALL ANIMAL & BIRD AUCTION 10:00am Sat., Sept 12th Arden MB. Peacocks, Ring Neck Pheasants, Ducks, Chickens, Guinea Fowl, Miniature Horses, Rabbits, Donkey, 16-in Saddle & Other Tack. To consign call (204)476-6262. Bradley Meyers Auctioneer. meyersauctions.com

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Westman DONOGH ANTIQUES, BRANDON, MB. Complete Liquidation Auction Sale Sat., Sept 19th 9:30AM DST location 4-mi south Brandon (their building has been sold) Everything Sells. Includes complete inventory quality antiques, Beautiful furniture; store fixtures; showcases & misc; 3 oak hall seats; 6 curved glass china cabinets; 2 oak roll-top desks; 4 armoires; plank harvest table, 50-pc Carnival glass collection; much, much more; Check websites www.mrankinauctions.com, www.rosstaylorauction.com or Phone for sale listing. Donogh Antiques (204)727-1088; (204)729-1212. Murray Rankin Auctions, (204)534-7401 Killarney MB, Very large Auction.

Building Supplies * Tractors * Trailers * Vehicles & Equipment * Farm Equipment * Recreational & Yard * Tools & Misc * Call To Consign!

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www.mcsherryauction.com AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions TARGET HOMEBUILDERS AUCTION construction auction. Sat., Sept 19th, 2015 9:30am Sheho, SK. Featuring One Residence House complete and 8 partially finished houses, property. Plus trucks, trailers, real estate, carpentry tools, household furniture, 2 garden sheds, plumbing supplies, fixtures, cupboards, etc. visit www.ukrainetzauction.com and watch for complete pictures and listing. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851 Farming is enough of a gamble, advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator classified section. It’s a sure thing.

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AUCTION SALES Auctions Various Hobby Farm Auction September 19th & 20th 2015.

Will be the First annual Hobby Farm Auction Held in Portage La Prairie, MB. This Auction is For anyone to come buy or sell animals, whether you only have a couple animals in the back yard, or a couple hundred. (204)872-2850, (204)981-9738 ambergerbrandt@hotmail.com SHOP & HOUSEHOLD AUCTION for Bill & Mary Reimer Sep 26, 11AM at Plumas. Directions: 8-mi W of Plumas on Pr. Rd#265 or 11-mi E of HWY #5 on Pr. Rd#265. TRUCKS: 1998 GMC 1500 SLE, 6.5-dsl, 4x4, crew cab, stereo, power locks, power windows, box liner, new tires, 384000-km; 2006 Chevy 1/2 ton, 8-cyl gas engine, crew cab, CD player, stereo, power locks, power windows, good tires, 87569-mi; CONCRETE FORMS AND TOOLS: 2x8 concrete wall forms new; large variety of used concrete forms including corners; metal round bin pad forms 8” to 30” in height; snap ties; wailer bars; Hilti DD 200 diamond drilling rig; Hilti DX 450 Ramset; variety of rebar; trowels; concrete anchors; safety poles; SHOP TOOLS: Lincoln power mig welder 255c (less tank); 20 metal cutting band saw; welding table w/vice; anvil w/cart; drill press; bench grinder; air impact 1” drive w/hose & 2 sockets; variety of chains; tire bead breaking hammer; router, planer, sander; bolts & nuts w/cabinet; lower tool box; 18v DeWalt impact; fuel hose and nozzle; 200-gal. fuel tank w/electric pump; steel rack w/steel; parts washer; 21 pc 1” drive socket set; many more tools; LAWN AND GARDEN: 314 JD garden tractor w/tiller; STX 46 JD Garden tractor w/mower; garden tools; BBQ wood or coal; 2-45 gal. plastic barrels; coolers; back pack sprayer; picnic table; 2 story play house w/slide; MISC: Monarch water pump (new); spraying control system; painting supplies; RV supplies; grain hopper; PTO water pump; HOUSEHOLD: Oak table w/6 chairs; china cabinet; sofa & love seat; sectional; 2-recliners; 2-wooden rocking chairs; 2-floor lamps; table lamps; upright piano and bench; 12-ft shuffle table; filing cabinet; fax machine; 3-office desks; toys; books; much, much more! Pennwest Auctions Peter Penner Austin, MB, CA Ph:(204)385-2970. Owner (204)637-2211. See list w/pictures on Global Auction Guide. pennwestauctions@gmail.com

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Sandy Hook, MB - #58 Player Park Rd. (204) 771-3399 65 Jeep CJ5 4 x 4 w Removable Top Totally Restored Safetied * 88 Ford Crown Victoria * Volkswagon Karmann Ghia Disassembled for Restoration * B.H. 8' Trailer Ramp End Gate * Car Hauler * JD x 360 Hyd 48" R Mower w Frt Mt . 44" Snowblower - only 35 Hrs * Snowblower * Merry Tiller * Stainless BBQ * Patio Bar & 4 Swivel Stools * 2011 Lund Mdl 1600 Fury 40 HP Merc & Trailer 25 Hrs * 2011 Arctic Cat 700 cc 4 x 4 Quad 500 M * Along with Yard Tools * Antiques & Household * Stuart McSherry (204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027

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• 1995 John Deere 8870 4wd, 20.8 x 42 duals 5521 hrs triple hyd, green lighted Degelman dozer sells after 8870 • 1979 John Deere 8440 with 1200 hour 50 series engine, pto, 3 pth, triple hyd • 18.4 x 38 duals green lighted • Present mounted Degelman dozer sells after 8440 • 1980 John Deere 4440, 3pth, quad shift, 6000 hrs., solid tractor, green lighted • 1977 John Deere 4430, 3 pth, dual hyd, quad shift, green lighted • 1964 John Deere 3020 Gas row crop, 3 pth, 6500 hrs., redone tractor • 1986 Cat 950B wheel loader 3 1⁄2 yard bucket, transmission overhauled, recently rebuilt, long block engine. Used in feed lot real nice condition SERIAL #63R04402

SATURDAY SEPT. 19, 11:00 AM, MORDEN,MB DIRECTIONS: FROM MORDEN MANITOBA HWY #3 AND FIRST STREET LIGHTS 6 ¾ MILE NORTH FROM HWY #23 AT ROSEBANK 5 MILES SOUTH ON #432, THEN 1 MILE EAST ON MILE 20N AND ¼ SOUTH FROM HWY JCT #3 AND #14, 7 MILES NORTH ON #3 THEN 4 WEST ON ROAD 20N. FROM JORDAN CORNER JCT #23 AND #3, 5 MILES SOUTH ON #3 THEN 4 WEST ON 20N AND ¼ SOUTH

TRUCKS

• 2005 Peterbuilt single axle, cat C7 engine, 6 speed automatic transmission complete with Roto Mix 16 ft 620 feed mixer. Serial #400346145, 65,059 miles 13,693 hrs. Clean, Digistar EZ4600 scale with data key.

• 1982 IHC Tandem Grain truck, 466 DT, 6 speed automatic trans, 168,000 one owner kms. Complete with 8.5 x 20 ft Load line grain body and head lift hoist roll tarp, saftied • Brent 876 Grain cart, pto drive, hydraulic drive kit sells separate • 2000 Chev 4x4 pickup saftied

FEEDING EQUIPMENT

• 2008 Haybuster model 2650 bale shedder • 2004 Hay buster tub grinder model H1100 tilt tub with belt conveyor Serial #H113424 • Farm King pto drive Roller mill 18” x 10” with auger • New Holland 256 side delivery rake • (2) New Holland manure spreaders NH 195 • 2002 Hesston 9 ft 3pth disc mower • 2001 Buhler Farm King 8’’ x 51 auger with 10 hp electric motor • 2011 Farm King 8’’ x 51 auger with 18 hp twin Honda GX 630 • 2012 Farm King 13” x 85 Auger with top loader swing hopper

SEEDING AND TILLAGE

• 2004 John Deere 1770 NT CCS 16 row x 30’’ planter, liquid fertilizer

DRY FERTILIZER

• Load king dual compartment drill fill unit • John Deere model 2400 Deep Tiller 43 ft. with Accu Depth, harrows • 40 ft Flexicoil Packers • IHC model 4700 vibra tiller cultivator 40 ft, gauge wheels, mulchers etc.

• Powermatic 80 ft Autofold Diamond harrows • Westco 8 row - 36’’ 3 pth, row crop cultivator • JD 20’ Stalk Shredder • JD Z830A Lawn Mower 758 hrs., 27hp 7 Iron Pro 60” Deck • Yamaha Grizzly 660 Quad 1516 km.

• JD Gator TS 4x2 465 hours Electric lift box

SHOP

• • • • • • • • •

Canox Gen set, with 220 welder plug etc.

7 Portable Ranchers Welding Wind break fences 3 bundles of 8 ft treated corral post 5-6” tops Some corral panels Bohlman water bowls 3000 bushel Friesen hopper bin on skid Misc vet supplies 3 Poly Tanks Very little small selling please be on time

BILL KLASSEN AUCTIONEERS

McSherry Auction Service Ltd

Sun. Sept., 13 @ 11:00 am

Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433

See our website: www.billklassen.com for complete listing or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake

SAM & GLENDA EDWARDSEN

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Red River

New/Used Recycled HD Truck Parts Call Ken 204-794-8383 #2, 45 Mountain View Rd. Winnipeg, MB

Trux-N-Parts Salvage Inc. AUTO & TRANSPORT Semi Trucks & Trailers

Auctioneer’s Note: Here is a good line of cattle equipment and a grain farm operation that we are ever so pleased to have the privilege to sell. The Dalkes run a good, clean, tight operation, as you will see when you arrive at this farm auction site.

Maintenance is of prime importance. Please avail yourself the opportunity to come and participate in the bidding at this fall farm auction. Note: Farm is sold, all merchandise should be off premises by Sat. Sept 26, 2015. Owners: 204-822-3624

SAVE on CLASSIFIEDS! Call today to find out about our pre-pay bonus.

Pay for 3 weeks - get 2 free. Call for details.

2004 ADVANCE SUPER B grain trailer. $25,000.

Macgregor, MB. Ph:(204)871-0925.

AUTO & TRANSPORT Vehicles Various OLD JEEP FOR SALE. Old truck 47 Chevy tonne & 1/2 for sale too. (204)848-2254

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BUILDING & RENOVATIONS

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HAYING & HARVESTING

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Doors & Windows

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HAYING & HARVESTING Baling Equipment FOR SALE: JD 567 round baler, 2004, 1 owner, megawide PU, kicker, shedded, excellent condition, asking $17,000 OBO. Call (204)535-2593, Baldur.

HAYING & HARVESTING Various FOR SALE:FOX MAX II corn silage harvester S.P 4WD, diesel motor, good rubber, NH3, row header 28-30-in spacing, cab. $2,500 OBO. Dauphin, MB. Phone:(204)638-5689.

Serving Manitoba, Saskatchewan, NW Ontario & Alberta....Since 1937 • Quality Commercial/Agricultural/Residential Overhead Doors & Operators.

• Aluminum Polycarbonate Doors Available.

• Non-Insulated and Insulated Sectional Doors Available.

• Liftmaster Heavy Duty Operators.

• Mullion Slide Away Centre Posts.

• Commercial/Agricultural Steel Man Doors and Frames.

• Your washbay door specialists. • Quality Installation & Service.

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Phone: 204-326-4556 Fax: 204-326-5013 Toll Free: 1-855-326-4556 www.reimeroverheaddoors.com email: kurtis@reimeroverheaddoors.com BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Roofing

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FOUILLARD STEEL SUPPLIES LTD. ST. LAZARE, MB. 1-800-510-3303

BUILDINGS AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post frame building company. For estimates and information call 1-888-816-AFAB(2322).

Website: www.postframebuilding.com CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place & finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any floor design. References available. Alexander, MB. 204-752-2069.

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FARM CHEMICAL / SEED COMPLAINTS We also specialize in: agricultural complaints of any nature; Crop ins. appeals; Spray drift; Chemical failure; Residual herbicide; Custom operator issues; Equip. malfunctions.

Licensed Agrologist on Staff.

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Cambrian Equip Sales Ltd (204)667-2867 or fax (204)667-2932

FARM MACHINERY Grain Augers HARVEST INTL GRAIN AUGERS New 13-82 Auger w/Flex Hopper, 540 PTO, scissor lift, HD Auger $19,500; New 13-82 Auger w/Flex Hopper w/Hyd Winch, Hyd Mover, 540 PTO $23,500. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. www.reimerfarmequipment.com Gary Reimer (204)326-7000.

FARM MACHINERY Grain Dryers WESTERN GRAIN DRYER, manufactures advanced screenless grain dryers, integrated w/PLC, HMI technology for automatic moisture & drying system controls. Update for Vertec, Ibec & other screenless dryers such as enclosed roof, drying tiers, & burners etc. are available. 1-888-288-6857. www.westerngraindryer.com

FARM MACHINERY Grain Vacuums

SEWING ALTERATIONS, ZIPPERS REPLACED, upholstery for furniture, boats & automobiles.

Phone (204)727-2694

CURT’S GRAIN VAC SERVICES, parts & repair for all makes & models. Craik SK, (306)734-2228.

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GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528 or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.

CUSTOM COMBINING: 460 CAT, W PU, $150/hr; 30-ft flex-head, $18/hr; 6 row allcrop header 30-in spacing, $22/hr. Carman MB & surrounding areas.

Mike Maddison (204)750-1030.

MURPHY SALVAGE New & used parts for tractors, combines, swathers, square & round balers, tillage, press drills & other misc machinery. MURPHY SALVAGE (204)858-2727 or toll free 1-877-858-2728.

CONTRACTING Custom Work CORRAL CLEANER W/3-YD LOADER & 3 vertical spreaders. Taking new customers. Call or text (204)730-3139.

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT 2003 HIAB MODEL# XS122B-2CL picker, VGC, $12,000 OBO; Magnum headache rack w/Canstar storage boxes, $1200 OBO. Ph (204)745-7445.

6 QUICK ATTACH EXCAVATOR buckets, some trenching & clean-up buckets, plus 6 excavator rippers, some Cat’s & WBM’s. (204)871-0925, MacGregor MB. D7 17A CAT, standard hyd., angle dozer, direct start, good under carriage, $16,000; JD 444C 2-yd wheel loader, $18,500; 1984 Mac dump truck $15,000. www.waltersequipment.com Phone: (204)525-4521.

Combines COMBINES Case/IH 1991 1680 COMBINE, 3346-HRS, rock trap, straw chopper, bin extensions, 4-wheel drive, always shedded, asking $28,000. (204)364-2398 30-ft IHC MACDON FLEX DRAPER HEADER w/gauge reels, 2 section pick-up reel, $30,000.

Ph:(204)871-0925. Macgregor, MB.

FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS NEW COMBINE PARTS Large Inventory of new and remanufactured parts

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WILL DO CUSTOM HARVESTING: Peas, cereals, canola, & soybeans. Flex heads, straight heads & PU headers. Professional operation fully insured.

Phone:(204)391-5491 or (204)371-9435.

JD 635 35-FT FLEX-HEAD, serial #7121676, new knives & guards last fall, header in excellent condition, ready to go, asking $14,900. (204)325-2496, Morris area.

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FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous 1981 GMC 7000 SERIES, factory, 17-ft B&H, 10X20 70% A1, $8,000; 1980 Chev 1/2 tonne flatdeck, winch, duals, $3,500; 1978 GMC 6000 series, factory 15-ft steel B&H, original 38,000-km, $12,000; 1988 Chev 20-ft factory flat-deck, 10X20, 75%, $3,500; 410 MF combine, PU, all good, $1,050; Vac tank 1800-gal. & pump A1 $10,000; Rotex SR7 power parachute for parts, $3,000; 21-ft Hart Carter PU reel, A1, $1,100; 25-ft U2 PU reel, A1, $4,000. Ph (306)238-4411.

1984 4400 22-FT VERSATILE swather w/cab, good condition, big rubber, asking $3,000; 1984 400 20-ft Versatile swather, good condition, asking $1,400; 1983 400 20-ft Versatile swather, double swath, asking $900 OBO; Haullin 53-ft extendable rafter trailer, all hydraulic, asking $3,500.

(204)728-1861.

39-FT CIL 203 DEEP tiller, 12-in spacing, 3-row harrows, new shovels, in excellent shape. No reasonable offer refused. (204)795-0626.

CASE 621 LOADER 8-FT. bucket; 1981 GMC 17ft. B&H; Ford Major loader 3-PTH, $6,500; 25-ft. UII reel; 16-ft. OMC boat & 60-HP motor trailer, $2,500; 18-ft. 1,800-gal vac tank & pump; 1981 Ford gravel truck tandem gas, $7,500; MF 860 PU & straight cut $5,500; 1999 GMC T8500 DSL tow truck 20-ft. $14,500. (306)236-8023 DISCS WISHEK 14-FT., 16-FT. 30-ft. Sunflower 30-ft. Rock cushion, $20,000; Breaking discs Kewanee 15-16-ft., Towner 18-in. JD 12-ft., $4,500; Hesston 40-ft. #2410 disc Rippers DMI 5 shank, $8,900; 7 Shank $10,900; Row Crop cultivators 4-12P JD 535 baler, $5,000; JD 336 Baler grain screeners, dual stage rotary, $200 up; Kwik Kleen 5 tube, $5,000; 7 tube, $6,500; Used fertilizer spreaders 4-8Ton. (204)857-8403 FORAGE HARVESTER NH 890, $2,500; IH 761, $2,500; JD 3970, $6,000; Hi-Dumps Jiffy, $3,000; Richardton 14-ft., Richardton 750, $17,500; Rex tandem forage wagon, $3,000; Flex heads JD 924, 925, 930; Case IH 1020 25-30-ft. 820 20-ft. Rigid Case IH 25-30-ft., $2,500 Up; JD 930 $2,500; Degelman 14-ft. Rock Rake, $9,000; 570 Rock pickers, $2,500 Up; Big Mac Prong Picker, $4,000.

(204)857-8403 FOR SALE: 60-FT CONVEY-ALL bean conveyor, $2,200. (204)331-4267 or (204)362-4479.

GRAIN CARTS LARGE SELECTION used carts Brent 610, 672, 674, 770, 772, 774, 874, 974 Univerferth 7000, 8000, 9250; UFT 750, 760 hyd dr.

Fickln 650-bu. $13,500; Grain Vacs REM 1026, 44,500; Brand $4,000-8,000; REM 2500 HD, $9,500; Westfield 10x70 auger, $2,000; 8x46 Scoop-a-Second $1,000; JD 510 Baler, $1,500; JD 535, $5,000; JD 336, $3,000; Sudenga Weigh Wagon, $3,500. (204)857-8403.

GRAVITY WAGONS NEW 400-BU, $7400; 600-bu, $12,500; 750-bu, $18,250, Tarps Avail. Large selection of used wagons, $2,000 & Up; 550-bu. year round $5,500; Parker 500-bu., $6,000; Parker 450bu., $5,000; Discs Krause 30-ft. Rock Cushion, $9,500; Wishek 30-ft. 742, $33,000; Fertilizer Spreaders 4-8 Ton, $3,000 & Up; Valmar 1620, $2,500; 3255, $3,500. (204)857-8403 NH 1400 COMBINE for parts, what offers. Also 7200 IH hoe drill 14-ft. $1,200. Phone (204)837-1553.

ROTARY MOWERS WOODS 7-FT. PT, $3,000; 15-ft., $6,000; JD 15-ft., $6,000; 20-ft., $11,000; NH 9-ft. sickle mower, $20200; JD 450, $2,000; IH 7-ft., $850; 6-ft. Finishing mower, $1,000; Hay conditioners $200 & up; Manure spreaders, JD 785, $11,000; Gehl 1410, $8,000; H&S 400-bu. $2,500; V Ditchers, $1,500 & up; NH 216 hyd rake, $7,500; Vermeer hyd rake, $7,500; Gehl 2270 haybine, $3,500; NH 116, $3,000. (204)857-8403

COMBINE FOR SALE, INTERNATIONAL 1460.

3447 hrs, pick up head, good working condition. $6,500. Ph: (204)828-3648. No sun calls please.

TRACTORS Various TRACTOR ALLIS CHALMERS CA. Comes w/3-PTH for a 2-sheer plow, rear cultivators, plus side cultivators, $2,000. Phone (204)661-6840.

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STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALIST

RED OR GREEN 1. 10-25% savings on new replacement parts for your Steiger drive train.

2. We rebuild axles, transmissions and dropboxes with ONE YEAR WARRANTY. 3. 50% savings on used parts.

1-800-982-1769 www.bigtractorparts.com

COMBINES Ford/New Holland

HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING

1992 TX 36 COMBINE, 3,320 engine hours. Has been used this fall. $10,000. Phone:(204)364-2422.

Arborg, MB.

The Icynene Insulation System®

1999 TX68 2,500 SEP $25,600, like new; 1997 TX68 2,300-hrs, $28,500, excellent condition. Nate Golas (204)280-1202 or (204)372-6056.

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

FOR SALE: TX66 1995 shedded 1905T, 2503E, newer concave, rub bars, feeder chain, elevator chain, chopper knives, PU belts, excellent condition, field ready, asking $30,000 OBO. Phone (204)535-2593, Baldur.

COMBINES Gleaner WANTED: L3 GLEANER COMBINE. Good condition. NH 1475 haybine. Phone: (306) 876-4707.

COMBINES John Deere

www.penta.ca

1-800-587-4711

IRON & STEEL

FOR SALE 9600 JOHN deere combine. Mint condition. Last yr-new straw chopper, seives, rear tires, new engine radiator, new fan pulleyes, repainted, always shedded. $55,000 OBO. Ph:Murray@Somerset (204)744-2534

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.

COMBINES White

LIVESTOCK

1980, 5542 WHITE COMBINE, in excellent condition. Phone (204)848-2254, Onanole MB.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

8900 WHITE COMBINE SHEDDED since new, not used last 8 yrs, melroe pick-up & straight cut header. Very good condition. PH:(204) 886-2247. Teulon, MB

COMBINES Accessories 2004 NEW HOLLAND 94C Draper- 25-ft Draper.

Platform w/Transport, $11,500. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer(204)326-7000. www.reimerfarmequipment.com JD PICKUP PLATFORMS 2 JD 212-6 Belt; 2 JD 214-7 Belt. Call for pricing. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000. www.reimerfarmequipment.com WANTED: STRAIGHT-CUT HEADER FOR F2 gleaner combine. No Sunday calls. Phone: (807)487-1598.

Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519

GRUNTHAL, MB.

AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING

REGULAR CATTLE SALES

every TUESDAY at 9 am September 15th, 22nd & 29th

Saturday, September 12th at 10 am Tack and Horse Sale

Monday, Sept. 14th & 28th at Noon Sheep and Goat with Small Animals & Holstein Calves

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

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

Tillage & Seeding

WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Black Angus 3 YEARLING BLACK ANGUS bulls, $2,900 each, Sire still on farm, Lorette area. Call Bill (204)770-4706.

TILLAGE & SEEDING Seeding Various

LIVESTOCK Cattle Various

42-FT. CASE IH 7200 hoe drill, $3,000 OBO; (204)745-7445.

FOR SALE: 50 COWS Red Angus X Simm, bred Black Simm. Fall Delivery. Richard (204)773-2824.

TracTors

LIVESTOCK Horse Auctions

TRACTORS Case/IH 2096 CASE TRACTOR, new tires, good condition, $15,000 OBO; Vers swather good condition 20-ft., $600 OBO; 1983 Cadillac DSL 2 door, VGC, taking offers. Jack Pawich (204)827-2162, Glenboro.

MPHB LOUD & PROUD ANNUAL Production sale, Sept 19th, 2015. Alameda SK Auction mart. Late consignments accepted. Preview 11AM, sale 1PM Saskatchewan time. All foals halter broke lots of broke horses. www.mbpainthorsebreeders.com karene7@mynetset.ca To consign call Chelsey (306)3397089, Nadine (306)483-5076 or Diane (204)522-8414.

TRACTORS John Deere

LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

3020 JD, GOOD CONDITION, quick detaching loader, bucket & bale forks, newer rear tires, new starter, rebuilt rad, 3-PTH, asking $7,900; 4030 JD, VGC, cab, heat & a/c, 3-PTH, recently rebuilt motor, 7000-hrs, $17,900. (204)755-2924 WANTED: JD 4055. MUST be in very good condition, lower hours. hone (204)768-3664.

TRACTORS Versatile

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

875 VERS. W/ATOM JET & good tires. Nice shape.

Ph:(204)325-2416.

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123

TRACTORS 2-Wheel Drive

LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT

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.

AN ASSORTMENT OF CREEP feeders & self feeders on wheels & skids. All Cypress Industries.

(204)325-2416.

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MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE FOR SALE: REFER UNIT, 4-cyl motor, runs, everything in working order, came out of 53-ft trailer. Phone (204)868-5040.

MUSICAL GIVE YOUR CHILD THE music you missed. Guitar, violin, piano, keyboard, band instruments, drums.

Hildebrand Music, Portage La Prairie Mall.

(204)857-3172.

NOTICES THE DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL Science of the University of Manitoba wants to purchase pregnant multiparous Holstein cows. Cow must be 3 to 4-months pregnant and in good health without obvious health concerns. Source farms must be Johne’s free, and preferably free of digital dermatitis (hairy warts) Potential sellers must allow University veterinarians to test cows for health status and consult with the farm’s veterinarian. Previous milk production records, preferably from DHI, are required.

Please contact Dr. J.C. (Kees) Plaizier Ph: (204)474-9500. Email plaizier@umanitoba.ca or Ms. Terri Garner Ph: (204)474-6352. Email terri.garner@umanitoba.ca

PERSONAL A LASTING RELATIONSHIP.... Share your life as it’s meant to be. 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. www.candlelightmatchmakers.ca

PETS & SUPPLIES FOR SALE: BORDER COLLIE/Blue Heeler cross pups, ready to go. Parents work well with cattle.

Good with children. Phone:(204)585-2106.

REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE Houses & Lots READY TO MOVE HOME Builder since 1976 MARVIN HOMES INC - 1520-sq.ft, spacious 3bdrm home, 2.5 baths, main floor laundry, master has full bath & walk-in closet, kitchen has corner pantry & 6-ft island. Call (204)326-1493 or (204)355-8484 Marvin Vogt, MARVIN HOMES, Mitchell, MB www.marvinhomes.ca

REAL ESTATE NOTRE DAME USED OIL Land For DEPOT Sale & FILTER AGRICULTURAL SALE. We are now • Buy Used Oil LAND •FOR Buy Batteries accepting on 3-1/4 sections, with approxi• Collect offers Used Filters • Collect Oil Containers mately 400 cultivated ac (wheat/canola) with older Southern Western yard site and bins.and Located in theManitoba RM of Odanah 23-13-17 NW, SW SE 26-13-17. Written bids will Tel:&204-248-2110 be accepted until Sept 15, 2015. Immediate possesion available. The owner reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids. Please submit written offers to purchase by mail or fax to: Michelle Budiwski Butterfly Consultations PO Box 296 Rivers, MB R0K1X0. Fax: (204)480-4537

SEED / FEED / GRAIN SEED/FEED/GRAIN Hay & Straw BIG ROUND BARLEY OR wheat straw bales also hay alfalfa grass bales. Phone (204)886-2083, Teulon.

FOR SALE: 250-ACS of Oat Straw to be baled in the Fisher Branch area, $12 per bale OBO. Phone (204)372-6057

THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: SW14-33-23W, S1/2 23-33-23W, SE12-33-23W, N1/2 14-33-23W, SE14-33-23W, E1/2 10-33-23W, N1/2 12-33-23W, SW12-33-23W, NW02-33-23W, E1/2 03-33-23W, SW 03-33-23W, SW07-33-22W, N1/2 01-33-23W, SE01-33-23W, SE31-33-22W, NE36-32-23W, W1/2 06-33-22W. 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 Ralph Ketel of Pine River, MB: SW01-33-23W, E1/2 02-33-23W, SW 02-33-23W, SEC 11-33-23W. If you wish to purchase the private land & apply for the Unit transfer, contact the Lessee Ralph Ketel at PO Box 250, Pine River MB R0L 1M0. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this Unit transfer, write the Director, MAFRD, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or Fax:(204)867-6578.

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