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Livestock price insurance payouts triggered for some farmers Some farmers wondered if signing up made sense when prices were near record highs

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TPP deal opens Canadian dairy market more than first reported

Milk protein isolates will enter tariff free, making it even more difficult for Canada to dispose of surplus skim milk

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

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e c e n t we a k e n i n g c a t tle prices have triggered some payouts to Manitoba cattle producers enrolled in the Western Livestock Price Insurance Program.

The federal-provincial program was launched in Manitoba in April 2014 to insure cattle and hog prices. While farmers never like lower prices, the good news is the program is helping offset the impact, said Jason Dobbin, livestock price insurance co-ordinator with Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation.

“Initially farmers wondered if they needed the program when prices are at record highs,” he said. “But markets have declined and the guys who did sign up are getting paid and the program is mitigating their risk.”

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anadian dairy farmers will give up more than 3.25 per cent of their domestic market if Canada ratifies the Trans-Pacific Partnership ( TPP) trade deal, according to Al Mussell, an agricultural economist and research lead with Agri-Food Economic Systems in Guelph, Ont. But how much more isn’t clear since the text of the agreement hasn’t been released.

Communiqués from the United States, Australia, and New Zealand reveal that Canada agreed to eliminate tariffs on milk protein isolates immediately upon TPP coming into force and tariffs on dried whey will be phased out, Mussell said in an interview Oct. 15.

The dairy sector had expected Canada might have to relinquish five or even 10 per cent of its market under the TPP deal reached Oct. 5 between Canada, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the U.S. and Vietnam.

When the Canadian government announced 3.25 per cent access, along with $4.3 billion in subsidies to offset lost income for dairy and other supply management producers, plus additional access for Canadian dairy products in the U.S., “it seemed too good to be true,” Mussell said.

“In some ways it is too good to be true because between CETA (CanadaEurope Trade Agreement) and TransPacific, we are going to be wide open on (imports) of milk protein isolates immediately when it comes into force, and we’re going to have phased-in access on dried whey.”

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FARM TRAGEDY: Three Alberta girls drown in canola » PAGE 3

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

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Flies, worms, crickets crawl onto EU policy-makers’ menu

Preconditioning calves Well-performing calves are in demand by feeders

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Insects are more likely to serve as an animal feed than as food

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CROPS A good fit?

Camelina could fit with farmers’ rotations but markets are small

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FEATURE Move over rice Asia is embracing wheat-based foods

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CROSSROADS Looking for a new home Energy costs and humidity will force Roland’s 4-H Museum to vacate

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ouseflies, crickets and silkworms can be safe, nutritious and more environmentally friendly alternatives to chicken, beef or pork, research carried out for the European Commission finds.

Still, they are less likely to be found on European restaurant menus than in animal feed, carefully controlled to prevent the kind of prions, or abnormal proteins, blamed for BSE. The commission, the EU executive, is working on revised legislation on novel foods, after a previous proposal failed because of opposition to animal cloning.

It asked the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to research the safety of eating insects.

In a scientific opinion published on Oct. 8, EFSA said the use of insects as a source of food and feed potentially had important environmental, economic and food security benefits.

Farming of insects can lead to lower emissions of greenhouse gases and ammonia than cattle or pigs and higher efficiency in converting feed to protein, the report said.

“How and to what extent the inclusion of insects in gastronomy can impact the general consumption pattern in the population is unclear but (it) holds the potential for a rapid change in future consumption patterns,” EFSA’s report said.

Belgian supermarket operator Delhaize in 2014 introduced tapenades based on mealworms in its Belgian supermarkets, but they were not a hit.

“We opted not to have any visible insects in the products to lower the initial reluctance but even

A pack of macaroons containing dehydrated insects at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville in southwestern France in February 2014. The company processed insects live, dehydrated or in a flour-like powder for use in pastries. photo: reuters/ regis duvignau

then we saw that the customer wasn’t ready for it,” a spokesman said.

Insect species believed to have the greatest potential for human food or animal feed in the EU include houseflies, mealworms, crickets and silkworms.

Especially in paste or other processed forms, they are considered as alternatives to mainstream animal sources of food such as chicken, pork, beef and fish as well as useful for animal feed.

In the event whole insects are distributed as food, they would be expected to undergo some processing, such as chilling and drying, and would be labelled with instructions for use.

In some cases, parts of the insect, such as the wings and legs of crickets, should be removed “to improve the eating experience and reduce choking risks,” EFSA said, drawing a comparison with peeling prawns.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

Fewer farm deaths, but still far too many Improvements in farm equipment cited as main reason for a slight decline in farm fatalities

BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff

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ngineering improvements to farm equipment have made farming safer and are helping reduce the number of farm deaths each year in Canada — but only slightly.

High numbers of farmers, their family members and farm workers still die on the job each year, according to updated data released last week by Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting (CAIR).

“The fatality rate is in slow decline,” said Don Voaklander, director of the Alberta Centre for Injur y Control and Research, who presented the updated statistics during the annual general meeting of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association in Saskatoon.

“The good news is we’re not getting any worse,” he said. “The bad news is proportionately we’re not getting any better. We’re status quo all through the years.”

There are still an average of 85 deaths on farms across Canada every year, according to the report which has been documenting farm fatalities since 1990 and now has records to 2012. In the 1990s the average number of fatalities per year was 116.

The reduction is attributable mainly to changes in farm equipment design, Voaklander said in an interview.

“The good news is we’re not getting any worse. The bad news is proportionately we’re not getting any better. We’re status quo all through the years.”

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“We have had some declines in deaths by rollovers and that’s because older tractors without ROPs (rollover protection) are going out of service,” he said. There is also a slight decrease in entanglement injuries, or those associated with clothing caught in machinery. That’s because the guarding on equipment is now more easily replaced if it’s removed. (Deaths by entanglement persist, however, with an exposed power takeoff being the leading cause.)

Yet, even as farm equipment is safer, it’s also bigger. The injury data also shows a slight increase (1.7 per cent) in deaths from being pinned or struck by farm equipment.

Human error is likely involved, but physical size of the equipment and more blind spots also play a role, Voaklander said.

“We don’t have enough data there to really suggest a pattern yet, but it is starting to look

like that may be due to the increased size of equipment,” he said. “You’ve got a big implement behind the tractor, and the tractor may be turning slowly but the equipment at the outside end may be moving quickly. With some of the very large modern equipment, that outside edge moves very quickly… and it catches people off guard.”

Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting (CAIR) is a collaborative national program funded by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) through Growing Forward 2, a federal, provincial, territorial initiative. The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and safety of farmers, their families and agricultural workers. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

Three young Alta. sisters lost to grain truck mishap Exact details have not been released but the girls playing on a grain truck became buried in canola Carlier also expressed condolences to the family.

“My thoughts are with the family of the three girls who died in the Hamlet of Withrow and my heart aches for them today. As a father myself, I believe no parent should have to bear the loss of a child,” he said in a statement.

“I join Albertans in expressing grief and sympathy for the parents of these girls as they go through this unimaginable sorrow.”

A crisis management team is at the elementary school in nearby Condor — which the girls attended up until two years ago — offering grief counselling to students and staff during this “very confusing and difficult time,” Wildrose School Division superintendent Brad Volkman said.

By Jennifer Blair Staff/Rocky Mountain House, Alta.

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community in central Alberta is in mourning following the deaths of three young sisters in a grain truck mishap on Oct. 13.

“This is hitting us all very hard. Frontline responders are routinely called out to sad situations, but things are always harder when there’s children involved,” said Sgt. Mike Numan of the Rocky Mountain House RCMP. Catie Bott, age 13, and her twin sisters Dara and Jana, both 11, were playing on a grain truck being loaded at their farm near Withrow, about 60 km west of Red Deer, when they became buried in canola, Numan said.

Details of exactly what happened weren’t released, but flowing grain is extremely dangerous because it exerts a “tremendous pull,” according to the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association. A person can become engulfed and rendered helpless in as few as three seconds and fully buried in 20 seconds or less.

“Adults at the farm were able to free the children from the grain and immediately began CPR,” said Numan. “A short time later, the emergency medical services personnel arrived and continued CPR. “Despite their efforts, they were not successful in reviving the 13-year-old and her 11-year-old sister, who both died at the scene. Their 11-year-old sister was taken

Correction The community has been hit “very hard” by a farm accident that killed three young sisters, said Sgt. Mike Numan of the Rocky Mountain House RCMP. Photo: Jennifer Blair

to the hospital in Edmonton via STARS air ambulance, and succumbed to her injuries at 3:18 this morning.”

The Bott family — father Roger, mother Bonita, and surviving son Caleb — was too distressed to speak following the accident, but said in a statement they have no regrets about raising their children on the farm.

“Our kids died living life on the farm. It is a family farm, and we do not regret raising

and involving our kids on our farm. It was our life,” said the Bott family’s statement.

Numan choked back tears as he read the statement.

“The RCMP expresses its deepest condolences to the family and the local community, and is committed to providing them with the victim services support they may require in the aftermath of these sudden deaths,” he said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

OPINION/EDITORIAL

A terrible loss

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he deaths of the Bott sisters from Withrow, Alta., last week touched all of us. We extend our deepest sympathies to their family and all who knew them.

The tragedy has focused attention on farm safety, particularly how dangerous the farmyard can be for young children. From some quarters of the farming community has come a defiant defence of the farming Laura Rance way of life.

Editor It’s true that many of us grew up doing things very similar to what cost these young people their lives. We wore our farm upbringing like a badge as we went out into the world. What we lacked in city street smarts and worldliness, we made up for with resilience and resourcefulness gained from our farmyard work and play from an early age.

But it is also true that farming is different now, just as life is different for youth growing up in urban environments. Terrible things happen to kids there too.

The world our kids inhabit is bigger and faster and far less forgiving. When errors in judgment occur, the margins for response are narrower and the opportunity for recovery smaller. What might have been a near miss a generation ago, becomes an irrevocable tragedy today.

We need to encourage our kids to explore and interact with their environment, while teaching them to make good — and safe – choices. Until they are old enough to make their own choices, we make those choices for them. But even when parents make all the best choices, sometimes kids do their own thing.

The challenge for parents everywhere is to prepare our kids for their world as best we can, without raising them in a bubble. That’s complicated on the modern farm, where work, life and play intersect daily, and where the culture remains steeped in the traditional view of the family farm and the role kids play.

There are no easy answers. Each farm family struggles with this in its own way. But there is excellent guidance available from the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association on how to reduce the risk of children becoming injured or killed in farm accidents.

But Catie, 13, and her twin 11-year-old sisters Dara and Jana, didn’t die because they lived on a farm. Likewise, accident’s don’t ‘just happen.’

They died because someone made a mistake, as humans are wont to do.

We don’t lay blame. We share in the grief. We hug our loved ones.

We learn and we all take responsibility for doing what we can to prevent it from happening again.

An inconvenient truth

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.S. Wheat Associates and the National Association of Wheat Growers recently released the results of a study they commissioned on how much farm supports in four key markets are costing U.S. farmers.

The premise behind the analysis, conducted by Iowa State University economists, is that countries such as Brazil, India, Turkey and China are depriving U.S. farmers — and likely farmers in other wheat-exporting countries such as Canada — of sales by encouraging their own farmers to produce wheat.

“Wheat support policies and trade barriers encourage domestic production and depress world prices,” the study says. “Removal of these policies, which reduces domestic wheat prices, results in a reduction in domestic production and an increase in domestic consumption. Lower supply and increased demand lead to higher global prices of wheat, which tend to benefit wheat-exporting countries.”

However, economists with the University of Tennessee counter that those countries, with the exception of India, are net importers of wheat.

“One of the definitions of trade-distorting behaviour is the exporting of a product at a price lower than the cost of produc-

tion,” note Harwood D. Schaffer and Daryll E. Ray. In their view, the notion that domestic subsidies in those countries distort trade is “weak at best.”

The U.S. wheat study is premised on the notion that domestic supports for wheat production displace sales from the lowercost producers elsewhere. It seemingly makes sense to minimize the total cost of food.

While that may be the case, the economic assumption is that trade should rationally flow to the lowest-cost supplier, and if that isn’t happening, there is something wrong with the world.

Perhaps there is, but for all the right reasons.

As Schaffer and Ray point out, nations have a compelling need to ensure their populations are fed and their most reliable insurance on that front is domestic production — even if it is more expensive.

“Food security for many countries is what military security is for the U.S. Short of brutal force, no government is able to survive the reaction of a starving public,” they write.

The hunch from here is that policies that foster political stability and economic growth are more of an asset to trade than a hindrance. laura@fbcpublishing.com

Support should go to local sources University of East Anglia release

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ew research by Shawn McGuire of the U.K.’s University of East Anglia challenges some of the conventional approaches to supporting food security, in particular the priority given to commercial seed shops as the main way to supply farmers with new crop varieties. The findings suggest that money could be more effectively spent to reach poor farmers, by working with other channels, particularly with local markets.

Contrary to assumptions that all farmers scale back in the face of stress, the results show that most farmers do not change the amount they sow. Of the more than 2,500 small farmers surveyed in six countries only a minority reduced sowing amounts (when under stress) and many increased them.

The research comes as a new animated film about the research is launched, aiming to highlight the issues around seed supply and to encourage debate as well as policy change. The film, entitled “Seed is Big Business in Development,” illustrates how nearly all of the spending by governments and development organizations goes towards one or two seed channels — commercial markets or communitylevel projects. However, these supply just two per cent of the seed used by farmers. The most important channel, local markets, supplies more than half of all seed yet is ignored, or even undermined by policy and practice.

“Whether it is chronic stress, such as drought, or acute stress such as an earthquake, most people can strategize and obtain seed to sow,” said McGuire, a senior lecturer in the School of International Development at the university.

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“Even in a crisis farmers are able to access seed and grow crops.

“We need to understand that systems don’t just collapse in times of stress or disaster. We shouldn’t underestimate the resilience of these farmers, they have many different ways of getting seed and will change their crops to suit the conditions and opportunities available to them. It is as much about opportunities as threats. Often when people sow less of a crop, it is not due to a lack of seed, but to other issues, such as land shortages, or because they are switching to another crop with better market value.”

McGuire added: “That is not to say that things can’t be improved. Policy-makers and donors need to step back and see the bigger picture.

Improving the quality of seed available to farmers, and everyone’s access to seed, are important challenges. But this should focus on a wider set of crops and supply channels.”

The study surveyed smallholder farmers in Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, looking at how much seed they sow, what crops they grow and why during times of stress compared to what they normally do.

“Many major organizations promote food security and this work challenges some widely held assumptions about how to do this.

Commercial shops are not the only way; farmers get seeds from many different sources, depending on their crop, market links, exposure to risk, and so on,” McGuire said.

“Food security policy should be based on an understanding of the seed systems farmers actually use. Development efforts should collaborate strategically with seed supply channels that reach small farmers, such as local markets. There are many innovative ways to do this.”

October 1981

f you were looking for a good interest rate on your farm machinery purchase in October 1981, you could take advantage of this offer at 16 per cent or less. That was a better deal than through FCC — our front-page story in the Oct. 15 issue reported that its rate increase to 16.75 per cent had been greeted with outcries across the country. However, a Manitoba FCC spokesman said the increase was meaningless because the organization’s coffers in the province were virtually empty anyway.

The Crow rate issue was still bubbling away that month — Transport Minister Jean-Luc Pepin had expressed his “personal opinion” that it should change, while Wheat Board Minister Hazen Argue expressed his “personal opinion” that it should not.

Also differing were opinions on car allocation for rapeseed, and whether grain companies should receive cars based on their export sales or receipts in the country.

That week we reported that the USDA was estimating a record world grain crop, but that was not due to production in the Soviet Union. Its harvest was forecast at a dismal 170 million tonnes, nine million below the previous year. Our editor correctly speculated the Soviets would soon be in the market for large amounts.

After what was apparently a mutual understanding between Canadian and New Zealand producers, Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan had announced that imports of New Zealand lamb would be suspended until Easter, 1982 in order not to disrupt the Canadian market.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

Local food systems in Manitoba on the minds of young, small farmers Agri-food policy must focus on more than economic development and food safety

By Jeanette Sivilay

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t’s an icy winter evening and I’m visiting at the kitchen table with Lydia, a fellow young farmer living near Dunrea, Man. Every so often we are distracted by the clickity-clack of hooves.

There is a baby goat in a box by the coat rack. Its mother kicked it out, Lydia explains, and in this weather without shelter it won’t survive.

Like many farmers, both new and seasoned, Lydia and her partner are embracing small-scale, sustainable agriculture and are focusing on selling their food directly to families throughout the province by developing community food networks. All of their family income is derived from these sales, which is an accomplishment for any farmer, never mind ones who are young and first generation.

Lydia is part of a growing number of food producers and eaters around the world who are building local food systems that benefit community, economy, and health, and that give people more power and control over their food systems.

Governments are starting to understand that grassroots local food systems are increasingly important and of interest to citizens.

Early this year, a Manitoba government-mandated working group called Small Scale Food Manitoba issued a report highlighting over 20 recommendations to create a more viable

regulatory and political environment for small, local food producers.

The province appointed two staff positions to specifically support local food initiatives, is developing online resources and food-processing manuals, and has expressed an interest in giving small, local farmers a voice in policy-making.

In addition, the Manitoba Egg Producers, the provincial egg-marketing board, increased the quota exemption of laying hens from 99 to 300. This allows small farmers to provide more local eggs without facing barriers of costly and often unavailable quota.

While government and some elements of industry have taken positive steps, they are still catching up to Manitobans who have been proposing these and other solutions for years.

In 2005, Manitobans called for better public policy for community food security, releasing the Manitoba Food Charter, a document written after an extensive process of community deliberation between farmers, eaters and indigenous peoples in more than 70 meetings across the province.

In 2013, many supported The Real Manitoba Food Fight after the province confiscated cured meats from a local farm just months after awarding a prize to the same producers for meat deemed one of the most exciting new farm products in the province.

Momentum from The Real Manitoba Food Fight created Sharing the Table Manitoba, a diverse coalition

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Cost of GMO seed a concern The Oct. 8 article “Selective use of science won’t sell GMOs” was clear on the shortfall of science to explain the safety of GMOs, but the article did not address the two concerns about feeding the world or the selling of GMO seed. Likely, I missed some studies not published by Monsanto that showed that GMO seed was more productive than nonGMO seed. However, I found no studies that proved GMO seed provided more bountiful crops than nonGMO seed. Hence the fact that we need GMO seed in order to feed the world is potentially a myth. Stick to regular crops. They may hold the best hope for feeding the world. Regular crops likely adapt to climate change as well as the human-altered seed.

My other concern is about the cost of GMO seeds. In a recent case where prescription drugs were involved, drug prices were increased 5,000 per cent. I believe it is immoral to increase a company’s profits merely by unnecessarily altering a crop. It appears the profit measure should be down the line from feeding hungry people. If GMOs prove to be helpful to humanity, surely the technology used should be shared freely with those who wish to feed the world.

Barry Hammond Winnipeg, Man.

of people concerned about local food systems who are interested in seeing government incorporate the priorities of food producers and their urban, chef and eater allies into policy.

Sharing the Table Manitoba believes that policy must focus on more than just economic development and narrow understandings of food safety.

Citizens must have a say in decisionmaking and policies that affect community food systems. We are working to bring citizens together to ensure that these systems nurture individual and ecological health, community well-being, and economic development.

This is the momentum that has brought me to Lydia’s farm, and back in her kitchen our conversation flows to these topics easily — policy has to take into account the needs of the community or disconnects will remain between government and citizens participating in community food systems. At the individual level, world views are shifting, we see it specifically in our own conversations as farmers, and broadly in the new wave of Manitobans choosing to plug in to their local food communities.

The right to healthy, culturally appropriate food, and the right to determine how our food is grown are two pillars of food sovereignty — a concept being taken up by many people around the world who are demanding more just and sustainable food systems.

Food sovereignty involves asking tough questions about where power is located in our food system and challenging corporate agribusiness and government authorities to remember that food must remain in the commons — in community. Until this nut is cracked, community food systems will struggle to grow. Sharing the Table Manitoba is excited to deepen the conversation around local food and expand the change that is possible.

The energy in Lydia’s kitchen is palpable. The local food movement in Manitoba is relatively young, but these are exciting conversations. Both Lydia and I are embedded in the places we farm, and our relationships with the land and the people we feed keep us excited about raising and growing good, healthy, sustaining food. Yet we are also eager to connect with people in other places to work globally for a more just and sustainable food system.

Here in Manitoba, local food producers and allies are ready and willing to share a table and discuss the future of food in Manitoba. The province is welcome here and is invited to listen, learn and to open up the closed spaces of policy-making to the many people in communities around the province building a healthy, just and sustainable food system.

Jeanette Sivilay is a writer with Sharing the Table Manitoba, and an urban CSA farmer in Winnipeg, Man.

Tweet, tweet and that’s no Twitter U.S. farm incomes are crashing and the waves are rippling

By Alan Guebert

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he tweeting heard by U.S. farmers and ranchers this fall isn’t that loquacious social media birdie Twitter. Instead, it’s canaries — coal mine canaries, to be exact — and their song is neither short nor sweet.

According to U.S. Department of Agriculture data, this year’s 36 per cent fall in net farm income is the biggest drop since the bad year of 1983. Just two years ago, net farm income set a record, $123.7 billion. This year, USDA sees it collapsing to $58.3 billion, down from 2014’s still-good $91 billion.

A $32.7 billion, 12-month belly flop like that requires almost every ag sector to fall face first off a cliff. This year’s cash sales compared to last, forecasts USDA, show: corn down an estimated $7.1 billion; soybeans down $3.4 billion and wheat off by $1.6 billion; total U.S. dairy receipts down by 29 per cent, hog receipts off 27 per cent and total livestock sales down a whopping $19.4 billion.

By contrast, government payments show a big increase: USDA pegs 2015 farm program costs at $11.4 billion, 16 per cent more than 2014 and the most since 2010.

Farm and ranch suppliers have initiated cutbacks while others are well into company-wide layoffs.

For example, in early October, Monsanto Co. (just six weeks after ditching its $46-billion takeover attempt of competitor Syngenta — what was it thinking?) announced a 12 per cent cut in workforce. This followed an announcement that it had booked a $500-million loss for its fourth quarter, typically a slow quarter for most seed companies. Last year, however, that quarterly loss was $156 million. In early October, the Wall Street Journal reported Monsanto’s share price was down 26 per cent for 2015.

In mid-July, Deere & Co. was trading at $92. One

month later it was $86; today it’s closer to $75 as the company deals with 2015 total sales that are estimated to be 25 per cent lower than 2014.

Some ag sectors, like crop insurance, are undergoing deep retrenchment.

In late March, Deere completed the sale of its crop insurance business to Farmers Mutual Hail Co. of Des Moines. On July 31, Monsanto sold Climate Corp.’s crop insurance business to AmTrust Financial Services. In August, Wells Fargo announced the sale of its crop insurance arm, Rural Community. At least one more insurance firm is rumoured to be on the sales block, also.

Why all the running away from a business that just two years ago, during the writing of the crop insurance-laden 2014 Farm Bill, looked like a government-backed sure bet?

For the same reason Deere and Monsanto are suffering in their respective core businesses: falling grain prices mean falling insurance price guarantees and that means limited — or worse, no — profits. As such, marginal players (often defined as those with less than $1 billion of in-force policies) are ditching their crop insurance branches in search of deeper-rooted, greener trees.

Those will be nearly impossible to find in almost any ag sector next year. Even cash-renting landowners, those often-scorned townies with no cropgrowing risk at all, are in the gun sights of Land Grant economists who now suggest tenants “negotiate” with landlords to lower 2016 cash rents.

“Rents are the major input cost for soybeans and corn,” wrote David Bau of the University of Minnesota Extension Service Oct. 5, “accounting for 44.5 per cent and 28-1/2 per cent, respectively.”

First, maybe, send ’em a canary. Goodness knows, farmers and ranchers have more than they need.

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to 95 per cent of the forecast price.

“Guys don’t understand there are so many coverage levels,” Dobbin said. “They look at the top coverage level and say, ‘I’m not going to pay $70 a head (for price insurance).’ But what they don’t understand is it could range from $10 a head to $70 a head. Our premium is based on volatility in the options market and markets are volatile now.”

Premiums collected are placed in a fund to cover payouts. If payouts exceed the premiums collected, deficits are first covered by reinsurance and if necessary by a loan from the federal and provincial governments.

Under the program farmers select the price they want to insure and when they intend to sell. The price they insure becomes a floor price. A payout is triggered when the weekly average settlement price falls below the insured price.

The settlement price is based on auction mart and satellite sales.

“You have three weeks before your policy expires to make a claim (if you’re in a claim position),” Dobbin said. “If you’re in a claim position you can claim as much or as little of your (insured) weight as you want. You have the choice of doing nothing and the program will automatically pay you on the last date (of your insurance coverage).”

Sale timing is flexible Farmers often wrongly assume they have to sell their cattle at a certain time under the program.

They don’t.

The potential payout is based on the difference between the insured price and the average settlement price. The farmer can sell for more than the settlement price and keep it even though they also are getting a payout.

“That’s the beauty of this,” Dobbin said.

Average settlement prices are emailed to farmers every Monday.

They might be in a claim position and can decide to make a claim.

But if their policy is still good for a week or two and they think prices will go even lower, they can wait and make a claim later. If they were

right, they’ll get a bigger payout.

But the opposite is true too — if prices go up they will get a smaller payout. And if they rise enough to match or exceed the insured price, they won’t get anything.

Under the program farmers insure a price per hundredweight (cwt). Farmers insure a total weight of the animals they want covered rather than a specific number of animals. Farmers can insure a minimum of 100 pounds.

“… markets have declined and the guys who did sign up are getting paid and the program is mitigating their risk.”

Jason Dobbin MASC

You can test drive Farmers who are skeptical about the program can insure just a few animals to see how it works, Dobbin said.

Here’s an example for a cowcalf farmer in the program based on recent settlement prices: A farmer insured 1,740 cwt (or 174,000 pounds of calves) at a price of $286 per cwt for total coverage of $497,640. The recent settlement price was $269.40 per cwt for a total of $469,504.20. The difference between the insured and settlement prices was $16.17 per cwt, resulting in a payout of $28,135.80.

The premium cost to the farmer was 3.6 cents a pound ($3.60 per cwt) for a total cost of $6,316.20.

The net benefit to the farmer, less the premium cost, is almost $22,000 or almost 13 cents a pound.

The program, which has operated in Alberta since 2009, has close to 900 Manitoba farmers enrolled currently, Dobbin said.

Farmers who want to learn more about the Western Livestock Price Insurance Program can ask Dobbin to visit them one on one or in small groups. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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and ice cream. They can also replace skim milk powder, also used to make dairy products. Canada already has too much skim milk. A small amount has even been destroyed, Mussell said.

Moreover, imported milk protein isolates and dried whey will be cheaper.

“We’ve set ourselves up here to have potentially large volumes of basically skim milk-dense products coming in and that will make our situation just that much worse,” he said. “It’s going to be a pretty desperate situation.”

Surplus skim milk has been an issue in Canada for years, but it got a lot worse when the U.S. began shipping more milk protein isolates north a few years ago. Milk protein isolates are classed as a protein, not a dairy product in Canada’s tariff schedule, and under the North American Free Trade Agreement new tariffs are prohibited. As a result U.S. milk protein isolate exports to Canada have risen exponentially, Mussell said.

Meanwhile, in the early 2 0 0 0 s t h e Wo r l d Tra d e Organization capped how much skim milk Canada could export, ruling supply management’s protection from imports is equivalent to a subsidy.

“So here we are in this exceptionally awkward situation in which we had some

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skim surplus to begin with, but then we were restrained on exports and now we’ve got unrestrained imports coming in,” he said. “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a very serious problem for us.”

In fact, Canadian dairy farmers and processors had already been discussing how to get their skim milk prices down to match lower world prices before the TPP agreement was reached, Mussel said.

Last week Ontario’s milk board said it would move unilaterally if necessary to find a way to make its skim milk competitive.

“It gives you some sense of the urgency,” he said.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that if we can find a way to price competitively (and) if we can get export market access, there is no reason why we could not retain supply management and in so doing we would avoid many of the challenges we are seeing elsewhere in the world,” Mussell said.

The European Union is spending 500 million euros to bail out its struggling dairy sector, meanwhile some EU dairy farmers are “ramping up production,” he said.

That should make people think about how different countries support their dairy sectors, he added.

The U.S. subsidizes its dairy farmers, including buying cows in the past in an effort to rein in milk production that exceeded demand.

The Dairy Farmers of Canada declined to comment on Mussell’s analysis when contacted last week.

“At this time, we are currently reviewing the information that is available to us,” DFC spokesperson Sandra Da Silva said in an email. “We are still waiting for further details on the (TPP) agreement. Before commenting further on the dairy access, we want to ensure we have had the time to review all the information.”

Even though Canadian dairy farmers face more foreign competition, “(t)here is nothing in the Trans-Pacific Partnership that would cause the elimination of supply management,” Mussel said. “What would cause that frankly would be some combination of the farmers and provincial governments not wanting to do this anymore and there’s no indication of that whatsoever.”

More on Mussell’s analysis can be found at:http://www.agrifoodecon.ca/uploads/userfiles/ files/canadian%20dairy%20 in%20tpp%20briefing%20 note%20%20october%202015. pdf. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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New Zealand trade minister says TPP no threat to Canada’s supply

BY SHANNON VANRAES Co-operator staff/Hamilton, New Zealand

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a n a d a’s s u p p l y managed sectors s h o u l d n’t w o r r y about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to New Zealand’s lead negotiator and trade minister, Tim Groser.

“I can understand why producer groups would wish to perceive this in a different way, but this is not the end of supply m a n a g e m e n t ,” Gro s e r told reporters during the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) annual congress here last week. “I don’t think anyone in Canada will be able to sustain the idea that this is the end of the Canadian dairy industry and supply management.”

Groser also said that the involved countries a re w o r k i n g t o m a k e details of the agreement made public as soon as possible, party at the behest of the Canadian government.

“We are very, very conscious of the pressures on the Canadian government because our Canadian friends are facing an election in a few days’ time,” Groser said.

He indicated 99 per cent of the trade agreem e n t’s t e x t h a s b e e n finalized and international lawyers are working to “stabilize the interpretation of the one per cent.”

Groser was unaware of the details of the Canadian government’s compensation programs to supply management farmers expected to be hurt by the TPP agreement. That’s a domestic issue, he said.

New Zealand is a major dairy-producing nation accounting for three per cent of the world’s milk. A founding member of the TPP, New Zealand exports about 90 per cent of it’s agricultural output.

Groser advocated for more open markets and to end protectionism.

“It was export or die for us,” he said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

U.S. lawyers rustle up clients to sue Monsanto on Roundup One firm has held town hall gatherings in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska seeking clients

BY CAREY GILLAM Reuters

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ersonal injury law firms around t h e Un i t e d St a t e s a re l i n i n g up plaintiffs for what they say could be “mass tort” actions against agr ichemical giant Monsanto Co. that claim the company’s Roundup herbicide has caused cancer in farm workers and others exposed to the chemical.

The latest lawsuit was filed Oct. 14 in Delaware Superior Court by three law firms representing three plaintiffs.

The lawsuit is similar to others filed last month in New York and California accusing Monsanto of long knowing that the main ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, was hazardous to human health. Monsanto “led a prolonged campaign of misinformation to con-

vince government agencies, farmers and the general population that Ro u n d u p w a s s a f e,” t h e l a w s u i t states.

The litigation follows the World Health Organization’s declaration in March that there was sufficient evidence to classify glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”

“We can prove that Monsanto knew about the dangers of glyphosate,” said Michael McDivitt, whose Coloradobased law firm is putting together cases for 50 individuals. “There are a lot of studies showing glyphosate causes these cancers.”

The firm held town hall gatherings in August in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska seeking clients.

Monsanto said the WHO classification is wrong and that glyphosate is among the safest pesticides on the planet.

“The most extensive worldwide human health databases ever compiled on an agricultural product contradict the claims in the suits.”

Charla Lord Monsanto

“Glyphosate is not a carcinogen,” company spokeswoman Charla Lord said in an emailed statement. “The most extensive worldwide human health databases ever compiled on an agricultural product contradict the claims in the suits.”

Questions about Roundup’s safety have dogged the company for years.

Attorneys who have filed or are eyeing litigation cited strong evidence that links glyphosate to non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). They said claims will likely be pursued collaboratively as mass tort actions.

To find plaintiffs, the Baltimore firm of Saiontz & Kirk advertises a “free Roundup lawsuit evaluation” on its website. The Washington, D.C. firm Schmidt & Clark is doing the same, as are other firms in Texas, Colorado and California.

Monsanto is also fending off claims over its past manufacturing of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). At least 700 lawsuits against Monsanto or Monsantorelated entities are pending, brought by law firms on behalf of people who claim their non-Hodgkin lymphoma was caused by exposure to PCBs.

Hay prices stabilize in Manitoba, Saskatchewan Timely rains allowed for a second cut in dry areas

BY DAVE SIMS CNS Canada

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imely rains have drastically improved the forage crop outlooks for Saskatchewan and Manitoba, while also putting prices back into their normal ranges.

“Skyrocketing hay prices have stabilized… supplies are good,” said Terry Kowalchuk, a provincial forage crop specialist in Regina.

Prices are mostly back down into the $80- to $100-per-tonne range, he added. “Some people had been asking $120 or $140.”

Dry conditions early in the year were threatening the viability of the forage crop, but rain in the latter stages of the summer helped them recover. Good soil moisture saved them, Kowalchuk said.

“It probably was one of the driest springs on record… without the spring soil moisture we would have been in dire straits.”

It was a similar situation in Manitoba, according to another industry watcher.

“Earlier in the year we were looking at potential feed shortages in the southwest and northwest areas of the province,” said John McGregor, an extension specialist in Winnipeg for the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association.

Timely rains late in the growing season enabled farmers to get a second cut in those areas that was average to above average, he added. “We’re looking for average yields in most of the province.”

Most of the soil in the province is also “fully charged,” which bodes well for next spring.

Forage prices are slightly below last year’s. Alfalfa is at the eightcents-per-pound range; alfalfa mixtures were in the five-centsper-pound range.

Grass/hay mixtures were in the three- to 3.5-cent range, according to McGregor.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

G3 Canada’s farmer equity plan The trustees act in the best interest of the farmers’ trust created Aug. 1, 2013 by then CWB the newly formed company kept the money instead of paying CWB’s owner — Co-operator staff the Canadian government.

While the transaction raised eyebrows hree trustees have been appointed to among some executives with Canadian oversee farmers’ equity in G3 Canada grain companies and it was criticized by Limited, the grain company cre- several farm groups as a giveaway of farmated in July when CWB, the federal govern- ers’ assets, CWB officials countered that it ment’s grain company, and G3 Global Grain made for a financially stronger new company and competitor in the Canadian grain Group, joined forces.

The trustees are Kevin Augusta, a former sector.

Starting with the 2013-14 crop year, CWB director of commercial banking with CIBC, David Carefoot chief financial officer at began giving farmers $5 worth of equity in Princess Auto Ltd. and Kim McConnell CWB for every tonne of grain they delivered. The Farmer Equity Plan continues founder and former CEO of AdFarm.

CWB consisted of the assets of the with G3 Canada. It allows farmers to share Canadian Wheat Board after the govern- in G3 Canada’s future growth, although like ment ended its monopoly on the sale of all equity, there’s no guarantee about how western wheat and barley destined for much it will be worth when converted to export or domestic human consumption cash. However, according to G3 Canada’s website there’s no risk to farmers because Aug. 1, 2012.

G3 Global Grain Group is a joint ven- they get the equity for free.

Farmers who delivered grain to CWB ture firm majority owned by multinational, publicly traded Bunge, the world’s and now G3, don’t get shares in the comthird-largest grain and food company and pany directly but rather receive trust units. state-owned Saudi Agricultural Livestock The farmers’ equity trust, overseen by the three trustees, owns 499,900 Class B shares Investment Company (SALIC).

G3 Global Grain Group ostensibly in G3 Canada. That’s 49.9 per cent of the SEC_BRANDON15_#19_MC_SEC_BRANDON15_#19_MC.qxd 2015-10-14 6:26 PM which Page 1 is 50.1 per cent company, bought CWB for $250.5 million. However, new

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owned by G3 Global Grain Group (Bunge and SALIC).

One reason for structuring the company this way is to keep it private rather than publicly traded. Public companies are required by law to disclose their financial statements, giving competitors access to potentially sensitive commercial information.

The trustees will oversee the trust until all the shares have been allocated or the trust shares are sold.

“The value of these shares and this equity position reflects the adjusted closing amount of G3 Global Grain Group’s investment on July 31, 2015,” the trustees said in an email last week. “The trust also received $10 million (pre-tax) to be used for operations over the lifetime of its existence.”

The share units in the equity trust cannot be sold until all the shares have been allocated or for seven years, which is when G3 has the right to buy them all.

Carefoot will represent the trust on G3 Canada’s board. Augusta will chair trustee meetings.

G3 Canada CEO Karl Gerrand has been appointed to serve as an advisory trustee, a role without voting privileges.

Trustees’ expenses related to their duties will be covered and they will be compensated for their work, McConnell said in an email.

A website is being set up to communicate with farmers who own equity units in the trust.

Augusta had a 38-year banking career and played a lead role in banking with many of Canada’s major grain companies. He is a past president of the Manitoba Club and active in the Winnipeg community.

Carefoot, a government-appointed Canadian Wheat Board director from May 2008 to July 2015, is a chartered professional accountant and a chartered business valuator. He has held chief financial officer and other senior leadership positions with Agricore United, Viterra and Ducks Unlimited.

McConnell is a director on a number of corporate boards and foundations and the recipient of many national business awards. In 2012 he was inducted into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

FPCC to hold hearings on pork agency A new levy would also be collected from imported pork and pork products

By Alex Binkley Co-operator contributor

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he Farm Products Council of Canada will hold public hearings on a proposed national pork promotion and research agency funded by farmer levies. It would replace provincial bodies across the c o u n t r y a n d i m p o s e l e vies on imported pork and pork products.

The council is currently collecting comments on the agency developed by the Canadian Pork Council. FPCC will announce the dates for the public hearings in early November. After completion of the hearings and a review of the evidence, the council will make a recommendation to the government.

A similar agency, Canada Beef, already exists for the cattle sector.

In a notice to the industry, the council says it needs to determine the level of support for the agency, its effect on farmers and importers, how the levies would

be collected and what powers the agency should have.

The pork council submitted the proposal at the end of July after several years of pulling it together, says spokesman Gary Stordy.

“The objectives of the national agency will centre on promoting the consumption of pork products in the domestic market, furthering development of export markets for Canadian pork and supporting the conduct of scientific-technical and market research initiatives. These objectives are intended to strengthen markets for hogs and pork, optimize production efficiencies, increase domestic consumption and enhance financial returns from the marketplace to the benefit of participants across the Canadian pork value chain.”

Pork producers in nine provinces already fund market promotion, development and research activities. While these efforts have been successful, “the increasing complexity of the issues impacting the sector, their

interwoven nature and the escalating cost of addressing these concerns means that a more strategic, co-ordinated approach is required.”

The pork council says there are two primary reasons for creating such an agency. “In several provinces the current levy being collected and spent on research, promotion and market development is decreasing. An agreed national levy amount will be more uniform, equitable and stable.

“Second, imports have never contributed towards the eligible activities. An equivalent levy, applied to live animals, pork or pork product imports, could be expected to generate up to an additional $2-million-plus gross per annum.”

Approval by FPCC would meet international trade rules for import levies, the council says.

“Provincial boards would continue to use their existing levies to carry out eligible activities at the provincial level but would provide copies of their audited

“In several provinces the current levy being collected and spent on research, promotion and market development is decreasing. An agreed national levy amount will be more uniform, equitable and stable.”

Canadian Pork Council

annual reports, prepared for their respective provincial supervisory bodies, to the national agency.”

A national agency would be better able to fund domestic and export market promotion initiatives as well as increased “animal science and technical research aimed at improving production efficiencies and competitiveness of pork in domestic and foreign markets.”

Canada Beef has been able to generate an economic return of $9 for every $1 collected in levies, the brief noted. “Canada Beef Inc. has also reported that the total industry investment leveraged through its Market Development

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Canada’s pulses seen too pricey for India

BY PHIL FRANZ-WARKENTIN CNS Canada

Problems with India’s own pulse crop production are lending some support to lentil and pea prices in Canada, as India is a major buyer.

However, the firm Canadian prices may have more to do with domestic competition between exporters than with any increase in offshore movement, according to a pulse dealer.

David Newman, of Victoria, B.C.-area special crops-marketing firm Commodious Trading, said that while there may be demand from India, Canadian lentil and pea prices are high enough that they should ration any actual export movement.

The larger players are positioning themselves to secure product from farmers in order to maintain their market share, according to Newman.

While the demand is there, he said, replacement costs were likely higher than what overseas customers were willing to pay.

In addition to India, other global demand centres — including China, the Middle East and North Africa — were also not showing enough demand to warrant rising prices.

Some buyers, Newman said, were also now likely waiting on production out of Australia and Argentina.

With the global demand being rationed, farmers are still in a strong position as grain companies likely can’t buy anything for cheaper than current values, he said.

However, any further advances in peas or lentil bids are also unlikely.

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Program saw every dollar it invested result in industry partners expending $65.”

The council says the agency would be able to better explain to consumers issues such as animal nutrition, animal welfare, quality assurance, animal health and environmental impact.

CPC noted that over the past five years (2010-14), Canada imported 198,000 tonnes of pork and pork products on average per year. While live hog imports averaged a mere 2,600 head per year over this same period, that could increase in future with given improvements to the U.S. animal health status.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

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.)

— (701-800 lbs.)

— (601-700 lbs.)

— (501-600 lbs.)

— (401-500 lbs.)

— Heifers (901+ lbs.)

— (801-900 lbs.)

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Heifers

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

(850+ lbs.)

Alberta South — — 107.00 - 125.00 90.00 - 110.00 137.14 - 137.14 $ 229.00 - 240.00 238.00 - 251.00 244.00 - 260.00 255.00 - 273.00 273.00 - 297.00 305.00 - 338.00 $ 215.00 - 226.00 225.00 - 236.00 228.00 - 240.00 236.00 - 255.00 249.00 - 268.00 270.00 - 294.00

Futures (Ocotober 16 2015) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change October 2015 132.95 1.77 December 2015 136.55 -1.13 February 2016 138.58 -0.60 April 2016 137.88 -0.88 June 2016 129.20 -1.70 August 2016 126.73 -1.78

Feeder Cattle October 2015 November 2015 January 2016 March 2016 April 2016 May 2016

Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

October 16, 2015

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$

Close 189.78 185.90 179.20 176.45 176.78 176.63

Change 1.90 1.80 0.30 -0.95 -1.15 -1.13

Week Ending October 10, 2015 1,046 29,747 13,498 469 977 4,932 214

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Previous Year 765 25,707 18,428 1,074 936 7,040 160

Hog Prices (Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)

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 183 E 170 E 175.48 179.00

Futures (October 16, 2015) in U.S. Hogs October 2015 December 2015 February 2016 April 2016 May 2016

Last Week 186.23 173.30 175.13 178.08

Close 66.83 69.13 72.45 77.00 79.80

Last Year (Index 100) 218.42 204.66 222.88 226.67

Change 0.67 0.05 -0.60 -0.83 -1.45

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Winnipeg Wooled Fats Choice (110+ lb.)

(95 - 109 lb.)

(80 - 94 lb.)

(Under 80 lb.)

(New crop)

Next Sale October 21st

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 October 18, 2015 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A ................................................$1.985 Undergrade ........................................$1.895 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ................................................$1.970 Undergrade ........................................$1.870 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ................................................$1.940 Undergrade ........................................$1.855 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................................$1.940 Undergrade..........................................$1.855 Prices are quoted f.o.b. producers premise.

Toronto 111.79 - 129.31 184.79 - 207.93 202.49 - 221.06 198.97 - 221.54 182.77 - 257.39 —

“Good cereal crops also resulted in more feed straw being available.”

DAVE SIMS

Cattle Grades (Canada) Previous Year­ 54,559 12,996 41,563 N/A 564,000

Beef price optimism takes cattle futures higher Auctions saw stronger prices and higher volumes

Ontario 146.01 - 163.94 145.71 - 161.76 77.33 - 105.55 77.33 - 105.55 119.09 - 150.63 $ 217.64 - 241.02 217.56 - 248.65 198.87 - 262.19 232.27 - 297.60 232.63 - 314.38 252.70 - 343.26 $ 173.85 - 201.20 198.99 - 229.57 199.44 - 235.65 204.30 - 261.09 217.63 - 297.22 241.24 - 308.89

$

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

Week Ending October 10, 2015 51,214 11,877 39,337 N/A 557,000

$1 Cdn: $0.7732 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.2933 Cdn.

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Cattle Prices

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

EXCHANGES: OCTOBER 16, 2015

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

M

anitoba cattle prices firmed during the week ended Oct. 16 as local interest honed in on medium-weight steers, while calves and yearlings saw gains of their own.

Volumes exceeded the previous week’s, as the number of animals making their way to market broke through the 10,000-head mark.

The feeder market was $3-$5 higher, while demand was fully steady on most cows and bulls, one stockyard reported. Top bulls brought as much as $140 per hundredweight. The manager of Heartland Livestock in Brandon said the market seemed a little stronger all the way through.

Steers in the 600- to 700-pound range may have shown the greatest increase, as there was “just more demand this week for them,” Keith Cleaver said, adding heifer calves also posted gains.

Another outlet said calves and yearlings all advanced on the week, with offerings headed east, west and into the local market. Another auction mart described the market as “aggressive” on the top-quality coloured and Ontariostyle calves.

The firmness in prices halted some weakening seen in the past couple of weeks. Cleaver cited local interest as one of the main reasons behind the reversal — “lots of local interest from the Canadian market, not so much the U.S.” Live cattle futures in Chicago trended higher on Friday due to a round of profit-taking, according to a report.

john mcgregor Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association

The optimism that beef prices will resume their upward trajectory has carried futures prices south of the border to their highest levels in three weeks.

If consumers seem unwilling to pay premium prices for more expensive cuts of meat, packers will have less reason to bid up the prices for cattle, which could be felt at auction marts, one trader said.

One positive for Manitoba ranchers this fall has been the late-season recovery of the forage crop. Early on in the year, it didn’t look like there would be much of a second cut of hay due to spring dryness. Late-season wetness resulted in haying operations that are still ongoing in the northwest and Interlake.

“Corn silage is still being harvested in the Interlake, with the rest of the province finished its harvest,” noted John McGregor of the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association.

Manitoba’s southwest corner and northwest had been vulnerable to feed shortages before the rain arrived, but the second cut of hay came off above average, according to McGregor.

“Good cereal crops also resulted in more feed straw being available to producers as well.”

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

briefs

Indian official urges Muslims to give up beef NEW DELHI / REUTERS / The head of an Indian state belonging to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party has urged the country’s minority Muslims to stop eating beef out of respect for the sentiments of Hindus, a call that could further inflame social divisions.

The comments by Manohar Lal Khattar, chief minister of the northern state of Haryana, come after a Hindu mob lynched a Muslim man over rumours he ate beef, fuelling a fierce debate over rising intolerance towards religious minorities in India.

Cows are considered holy by many, but not all,

Hindus, who form a majority of India’s population of 1.2 billion. Beef is eaten by Muslims and Christians, as well as many lower-caste Hindus.

Although Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies have long campaigned for a ban on cow slaughter, India has emerged as the world’s largest exporter of beef.

The trade is mostly run by Muslims.

“In this country, they (Muslims) will have to give up eating beef,” Khattar told the Indian Express newspaper in an interview.

“They can be Muslim even after they stop eating beef, can’t they? It is written nowhere that Muslims have to eat beef, nor is it written anywhere in Christianity that they have to eat beef.”

Khattar said the killing was wrong, but attributed it to a “misunderstanding” caused by “loose” comments about cows.

The lynching drew widespread condemnation. More than 20 writers have returned awards in the past two weeks, saying India’s secular fabric was under attack from Modi’s hardline Hindu nationalist supporters.

Modi called the lynching “sad” and “unwelcome” in his first response this week, after weeks of silence. But critics say his decision to remain silent about several incidents deemed anti-Muslim has only emboldened his hardline supporters.

Political opponents have accused Modi’s party of looking to create religious tension ahead of a crucial electoral test this month.

Goats Kids Billys Mature

Winnipeg (Hd Fats) — — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 116.59 - 260.35 — 126.51 - 218.11

Horses <1,000 lbs.

1,000 lbs.+

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 24.00 - 46.80 41.50 - 59.23

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

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

GRAIN MARKETS column

Manitoba Elevator Prices

Canola futures seeking direction one way or other

Average quotes as of October 19, 2015 ($/tonne) Future

Basis

Net

Weekly Change

Red spring wheat

189.01

27.88

216.89

0

Red winter wheat

176.64

2.38

179.02

-11.78

Prairie spring wheat

176.61

-5.23

171.37

-7.35

Canola

475.33

-20.64

454.69

3.32

Farmers’ deliveries are at their strongest levels ever Phil-Franz Warkentin CNSC

I

CE Futures Canada canola contracts saw some choppy, but ultimately rangebound, activity during the week ended Oct. 16. The futures are looking for some direction right now, but whether that means a move up or down remains to be seen.

November canola touched both sides of its current $10 range over the past week, finishing right in the middle as participants look for something to trigger a breakout one way or the other.

Resistance to the upside has held firm at $480 per tonne over the past month, despite repeated attempts at moving above that point. On the other side, the $469- to $470-per-tonne level has proven to be solid resistance ever since prices climbed above that point on Sept. 24.

The relative strength index (RSI) is sitting right around the 50-point mark, which means the market is neither overbought nor oversold from a chart standpoint. Moving averages are also flattening out, and technical arguments could be made for either a rise or a fall — depending on the indicator.

While the technicals look muddy, fundamentals are equally difficult to get a handle on.

Production estimates continue to rise, while farmer deliveries into the commercial pipeline are running at their strongest levels ever. Total visible supplies in commercial hands were at over 1.5 million tonnes, as of Oct. 12, according to the latest Canadian Grain Commission data.

That’s well above the average on-hand supplies — and bearish by any stretch.

At the same time, the domestic crush is running at a very strong pace, with weekly crush numbers hitting their highest levels ever, according to data from the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association. The export pace is a bit behind last year’s level, but still solid overall with over 1.7 million tonnes moved out of the country as of October 11, according to Canadian Grain Commission data.

Port Prices As of Monday, October 19, 2015 ($/tonne) Last Week

U.S. hard red winter 12% Houston

Weekly Change

n/a

n/a

232.22

-2.84

Canola Thunder Bay

481.20

1.10

Canola Vancouver

501.20

1.10

U.S. spring wheat 14% Portland

Highs in for soy In the U.S., soybean futures moved up during the week, but ran into resistance and drifted back below some key chart levels by Friday.

The November contract climbed above the psychological US$9-per-bushel mark and hit an intersession high of $9.1975 at one point. That was the best level in two months, and came despite the advancing U.S. harvest.

However, by Friday prices were trending downward and November settled at US$8.9825 per bushel. Many analysts are of the opinion that the highs are likely in for the time being, with farmer selling only expected to become more of a feature in the weeks ahead.

Corn and wheat both moved lower during the week, with wheat seeing the biggest losses of the grains.

Overpriced U.S. wheat in the global market remains the common theme in the wheat market. However, weather issues in other wheat-growing parts of the world — including Australia and the Black Sea region — do have the potential to provide some support for wheat if the problems continue.

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

For three-times-daily market reports and more from Commodity News Service Canada, visit the Markets section at www.manitobacooperator.ca.

Closing Futures Prices

As of Monday, October 19, 2015 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

ICE canola

471.20

1.10

ICE milling wheat

225.00

-14.00

ICE barley

185.00

0.00

Mpls. HRS wheat

185.37

-9.74

Chicago SRW wheat

178.48

-9.46

Kansas City HRW wheat

173.52

-11.48

Corn

146.84

-7.18

Oats

147.19

5.35

Soybeans

327.39

3.58

Soymeal

342.50

7.16

Soyoil

620.49

-4.85

Cash Prices Winnipeg As of Monday, October 19 2015 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

Feed wheat

191.78

2.20

Feed barley

172.24

1.84

n/a

n/a

462.57

-9.84

Rye Flaxseed Feed peas

n/a

n/a

Oats

182.85

1.95

Soybeans

367.81

5.88

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

Ask

Ask

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

Ask

Ask

Western Canadian wheat bids lower with U.S. futures Average CWRS prices were down $9 to $10 across the Prairies

BY DAVE SIMS Commodity News Service Canada

C

ash wheat bids across Western Canada were slightly lower during the week ended October 16, as the U.S. futures dropped and basis levels eroded.

Av e r a g e C a n a d a We s t e r n Re d Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were down by $9 to $10 per tonne across the three Prairie provinces, according to price quotes from a crosssection of deliver y points. Bids ranged from about $216 per tonne in Manitoba, to as high as $231 per tonne in southern Alberta.

Quoted basis levels varied from location to location, but declined by $1 on average to sit at $35 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$0.7745 as of October 16) CWRS bids ranged from US$167 to US$179 per tonne. That would put the currency adjusted basis levels at about US$9 to US$21 below the futures.

Looking at it the other way around, if the Minneapolis futures are converted to Canadian dollars, CWRS basis levels across Western Canada range from $12 to $27 below the futures.

Average Canada Prairie Red Spring (CPRS) bids were down $9 per tonne.

CPRS prices came in at about $176 per tonne in Manitoba, $176 per tonne in Saskatchewan, and $176 per tonne in Alberta.

Soft white spring wheat prices were down by $8 to $9 per tonne on average. Prices were at $180 per tonne in Alberta.

Winter wheat prices were down by $9 to $10 per tonne. Prices were approximately $176 per tonne across all three provinces.

Av e r a g e d u r u m p r i c e s w e r e unchanged with average prices in souther n Saska t c h e w a n h o l d i n g steady at $323 per tonne.

The December spring wheat cont ra c t i n Mi n n e a p o l i s, o n w h i c h most CWRS contracts in Canada are

based, was quoted at US$5.1225 per bushel on October 16, down 17.25 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$4.8350 per bushel on October 16, down 16.75 cents from the week prior.

The December Chicago Board of Trade soft wheat contract settled at US$4.9225 on October 16, which was down 17 cents compared to the week prior.

The Canadian dollar closed at 77.45 U.S. cents on October 16, which was down two-tenths of a cent relative to its U.S. counterpart compared to the previous week.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 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

Preconditioning pays big dividends after decades

Should you precondition your cattle?

By Alexis Kienlen

Preparing calves for the feedlot reduces antibiotic use and improves feed efficiency and animal health

STAFF

file photo

By Alexis Kienlen

“For the good of the animal, we need to pull back together and work together to improve consumer perception.”

STAFF

W

hile preconditioning your calves may not always put extra dollars in your pockets, it’s good for the health of the entire beef industry.

That was the message from veterinarian Cody Creelman during a recent Beef Cattle Research Centre webinar.

Preconditioning includes anything a producer does to a weaned calf that reduces shrink and chance of illness or death when it arrives at the feedlot, said Creelman of Veterinary Agri-Health Services in Airdrie.

It can range from a single blackleg shot to a comprehensive herd health program that includes vaccination, top-quality nutrition, and a host of best management practices.

“If I was a producer, I would make sure that I knew my input costs as best as I possibly could,” said Creelman.

“I could figure out which preconditioning system was going to fit my individual system of raising cattle. I would consult with veterinarians, nutritionists and marketing consultants and find a system that works for me.

Feedlots do want these types of cattle.”

When calves between 500 to 700 pounds hit the feedlot, they generally receive antibiotics, vaccines to protect against re s p i ra t o r y a n d b a c t e r i a l pathogens, and treatments for parasites.

The vaccines and antibiotics typically cost $30 per head (plus $12 in labour), but because feedlot operators don’t know

Cody Creelman

the history of the cattle, they want to ensure they remain healthy.

Calves have a five per cent chance of catching bovine respiratory disease (BRD) — also known as shipping fever — which will cut their daily gain by nearly a pound per day compared to other calves. But cowcalf producers can reduce the incidence of the disease and mortality at the feedlot by giving a respiratory pathogen vaccine any time between branding and three weeks before weaning. Some pharmaceutical companies guarantee “zero per cent BRD pulls” when their vaccine is used, and will compensate feedlots if a cow becomes sick and has to be pulled from its pen for treatment, said Creelman. The net effect is reduced antibiotic use and mortality, and increased feed efficiency and beef quality, he said.

“There’s also an increase in animal welfare and consumer perception of the industry,” he said. “All of this data is out there showing what preconditioned calves can do when they hit the feedlot.”

Reducing the risk of anti-

biotic strains of the disease is another big reason for preconditioning, he said.

“I do not look forward to the day when antibiotics do not work as well as they did. So we have to do more than we’re doing in our current system,” said Creelman.

And there’s no reason not to precondition calves, he said.

“You’re running those calves through for branding anyway, so why not give them all the vaccines they need to be preconditioned? Then when they get vaccinated at the feedlot, that acts as a boost, not a primary vaccine.”

Another part of preconditioning is to ensure calves are acquainted with feed bunks and water troughs.

“They can’t just go to the feedlot and wander around lost until they just one day bump into the feed bunk,” he said.

As well, producers should be ensuring their feed is high quality and, if need be, consulting with a nutritionist to learn more about the minerals.

“You can get up to three pounds of gain a day at home. It may take a bit of practice to get that, but if you can achieve that,

that’s a lot of salable pounds at 30, 45 or 60 days that will put some extra cash in your jeans,” said Creelman.

He also recommended lowstress weaning and direct marketing to the feedlot.

“Decreasing the bug soup and kindergarten effect of going through the auction mart system can be a viable option when it comes to management as well,” he said.

Still, producers aren’t guaranteed a premium for the extra work involved in preconditioning. But if they don’t, cowcalf producers are just passing risk on to the feedlot, said Creelman.

“Even though we’re in the same industry, I feel like there’s a lot of us versus them out there,” he said. “There’s a lot of mistrust. For the good of the animal, we need to pull back together and work together to improve consumer perception.”

And while preconditioning information may not always be passed along to the buyer right now, that may soon change.

Traceability programs, certified preconditioning, and electronic video auctions can all help ensure that information about preconditioning stays with the animal throughout the value chain, he said.

Pro d u c e r s c a n a l s o s e l l directly to the feedlot, and build up a good relationship with the feedlot owner.

“Even with tools like BIXS, you can extract your carcass data out and then extract the personalized data to leverage buyers in subsequent years,” he said. akienlen@fbcpublishing.com

While preconditioning makes sense from a health perspective, it’s far from standard practice.

In fact, a western Canadian cow-calf survey found only nine per cent of producers preconditioned in 2013.

And those who do typically have a clear financial incentive, said Canfax Research Services manager Brenna Grant.

“Frequently, producers consider preconditioning when they have extra feed, or when feed prices are low and they’re looking to add value to their product by putting weight on calves,” Grant said during a Beef Cattle Research Centre webinar on preconditioning.

“They may consider preconditioning when prices are low and they want to sell their cattle to a different market. (Or) they’re wanting to retain their calves until prices recover.”

But today’s high cattle prices offer an opportunity for producers to do the right thing — and get paid for it.

“The cost of death at the feedlot is at one of the highest levels that we’ve ever seen,” said Grant.

“There is a potential of premiums becoming available because it’s more profitable for our feedlot to pay to have a calf that’s going to stay alive versus something that may be immune compromised in those first 45 days.”

Knowing the cost of production is critical. Prices generally soften in November and December as feedlots fill their pens. In 2014, prices continued to increase during the fall run, which paid off for producers who were able to retain ownership of their animals.

“Not only were they able to get additional pounds, they were able to sell them at a higher price. 2014 was an ideal year for preconditioning,” she said.

However, live cattle futures are now under pressure, and the seasonal price decline from October to December — usually about eight per cent — could be larger this year.

Historically, a producer needed to have less than 80 cents per pound for cost of gain to make preconditioning worthwhile.

“When you have higher prices, every pound added is actually worth more,” said Grant. “You can invest more in adding those pounds than you would have historically.”

To determine if preconditioning is worthwhile, producers need to include their yardage, labour, and all costs, not just feed costs. An online tool to calculate the cost of production can be found at www.beefresearch.ca (click on Research; then Animal Health & Welfare; and then Preconditioning). akienlen@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN

Varied bidding for different weight ranges Buyers were applying sharp discounts to smaller lambs with clear signs of worms GOAT DOES

BY MARK ELLIOT Co-operator contributor

T

here were 800 sheep and goats delivered for the Oct. 7 Winnipeg Livestock Auction sale. Prices for some classifications remained high, while others have started to drop.

The Ontario sheep and lamb market has shown this trend in recent sales. Only the goats in the Ontario report have remained constant and steady at these various sales.

The ewe price ranged from $0.80 to $1.01 per pound with no differences between wool and haired ewes. The weight appeared to determine the various price ranges.

The heavyweight lambs saw lower bidding. Lambs ranging from 151 to 168 pounds produced $1.24 to $1.35 per pound.

The lambs weighing 111 to 124 pounds brought $41.60 to $1.70.

Quality market lambs had the attention of the buyers at this sale.

Market-ready lambs had a price range from $1.70 to $1.86 per pound. There was extremely low/ limited bidding for culls.

Feeder lamb prices were slightly lower. This classification was not represented as fully as in some other sales.

The lightweight classification dominated the lambs at this sale.

However, there were numerous worm problems on the lightweight lambs, which really decreased the value. In some cases, the buyers treated these lambs as lower-priced culls.

The 70-plus-pound lambs were of interest and had a price range from $1.89 to $2.04 per pound.

The 60-plus-pound lambs

briefs

Brazilian cattle presumed lost from overturned boat Sao Paulo/Reuters Thousands of cattle owned by beef producer Minerva SA are thought to have died when a boat leaving a port in northern Brazil overturned, the company and Williams Shipping Agents said Oct. 6.

Minerva said in a securities filing that a ship transporting its cattle had tipped over after departing from the Vila do Conde port in Barcarena. There were no human victims, it said.

Local news site G1 showed images of some cattle escaping from the side of the ship and swimming at the waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface while most remained trapped.

Williams Shipping Agents said the ship was carrying 5,000 cows, though a Minerva representative could not confirm the number.

Minerva said in the filing that once the cattle left the dock they became the responsibility of the shipping firm, which it did not name.

Ewes

$168.10 - $184.80

85 lbs.

$102 - $144.20

$1.41

93 lbs.

$61.75 - $99

$0.91

144 lbs.

$1.84

80 lbs.

dairy

$203.85 - $208.32 $177.60 - $198.90

95 - 110

80 - 94

$184 / $190.55

61 - 66

meat

35 - 39

$1.84

80 lbs.

$1.97

85 lbs.

$161.02

$1.92

90 lbs.

$140.25 - $145.29

$1.66

125 lbs.

$1.29

175 lbs.

dairy

$136.08 - $152

KIDS - Under 80 MEAT

$1.18

74 lbs.

$67.50 - $77

DAIRY

$1.86

70 lbs.

$139.92

MEAT

$2.05 / $1.77

65 lbs.

$1.97

69 lbs.

DAIRY

$2.58

60 lbs.

MEAT

$2.20

51 lbs.

$2.33

55 lbs.

$117.65 - $123.50

40 - 49

88 lbs.

100 lbs.

BUCKS

$128.70 - $130.92

52 - 58

$1.58 $0.65

$174.24 - $179

Under 80 70 - 78

animal weight

$1.97

Lambs (lbs.)

110+

meat

/ lb.

$114,95 - $118.56 $100.17 - $105.45

MEAT

$2.02

42 lbs.

$99.23

DAIRY

$2.50

40 lbs.

$69.09 - $76.80

MEAT

$1.60

125 lbs.

$50.70 $26.25 - $28.50

ranged from $1.90 to $2.10 per pound. A group of 23 66-pound Cheviot-cross lambs brought $2.12.

The 50-plus-pound lambs remained with this bidding range.

The lambs brought $1.91 to $2.08 per pound. However, this weight group had many lambs showing severe worms, thus much lower prices.

The 40-plus-pound lambs were inconsistent in the quality, which was reflected in the bidding. Prices for the 30-pluspound lambs clearly showed that worms decreased the value by half. Unfortunately, a little management assistance would had improved this situation.

Goats There were relatively few goats at this sale. The dairy goat does were represented by Alpine-cross and La Mancha-cross goats. The 100pound Alpine-cross doe had not reached full weight for this largeframe goat. The lower-weight meat goat does were of more interest to the buyers.

The Alpine-cross buck showed its dominance in the pen and entering the arena. The ringmaster was wary of any sudden movement from this tall buck.

The bidding on meat goat bucks remained fairly constant.

The buyers indicated strong interest in the various weight ranges of the goat kids.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Feeder Steers No. on offer Over 1,000 lbs.

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

13-Oct

13-Oct

13-Oct

13-Oct

14-Oct

12-Oct

15-Oct

16-Oct

800

870*

864

1,630

3,307*

1,079*

1,066*

1,040

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

200.00-213.00

900-1,000

222.00-239.00

200.00-238.00

190.00-210.00

218.00-235.00

221.00-230.00

n/a

n/a

215.00-230.00

800-900

200.00-248.00

210.00-249.00

200.00-239.00

228.00-245.00

225.00-245.00

230.00-245.00

n/a

220.00-252.00

700-800

239.00-270.00

230.00-250.50

220.00-250.00

240.00-258.00

245.00-261.00 (264.00)

245.00-261.00

220.00-238.00 (240.00)

230.00-273.00

600-700

240.00-272.00

240.00-275.75

240.00-271.00

260.00-282.00 (287.00)

258.00-288.00 (294.00)

260.00-284.50

240.00-268.00 (270.00)

240.00-296.00

500-600

280.00-313.00

270.00-309.50

270.00-306.00

275.00-313.00

275.00-306.00

285.00-312.50

270.00-292.00 (299.00)

265.00-317.00

400-500

300.00-345.00

300.00-354.00

300.00-335.00

295.00-330.00

292.00-328.00

300.00-339.00

275.00-315.00 (319.00)

280.00-341.00

300-400

n/a

310.00-356.00

350.00-420.00

330.00-370.00

325.00-375.00

340.00-371.00

275.00-340.00 (342.00)

300.00-375.00

n/a

260.00-313.00

n/a

190.00-215.00

210.00-228.00

n/a

n/a

200.00-217.00

Feeder heifers 900-1,000 lbs.

800-900

n/a

260.00-307.00

180.00-200.00

218.00-234.00

220.00-232.00

n/a

n/a

200.00-235.00

700-800

190.00-230.00

230.00-268.00

200.00-231.00

215.00-230.00

224.00-233.50

n/a

n/a

220.00-235.00

600-700

231.00-240.00

220.00-243.50

220.00-265.00

225.00-240.00

232.00-245.00

230.00-245.00

230.00-240.00 (242.50)

218.00-250.00

500-600

230.00-259.00

200.00-232.00

250.00-280.00

245.00-263.00

236.00-257.00

250.00-275.00

240.00-268.00 (270.00)

230.00-270.00

400-500

240.00-285.00

212.00-224.00

260.00-330.00

270.00-297.00

252.00-282.00

265.00-306.00

260.00-310.00 (316.00)

260.00-316.00

300-400

n/a

200.00-215.00

275.00-365.00

285.00-310.00

n/a

n/a

275.00-305.00 (308.00)

280.00-318.00

No. on offer

118

n/a

82

103

n/a

n/a

n/a

160

D1-D2 Cows

90.00-180.00

n/a

102.00-110.00

105.00-115.00

108.00-113.00

100.00-108.00

105.00-112.00 (115.00)

100.00-108.00 (114.00)

D3-D5 Cows

75.00-95.00

n/a

95.00-105.00

90.00-104.00

102.00-107.00

n/a

94.00-106.00

95.00-103.00

Age Verified

100.00-115.00

up to 108.00

90.00-105.00

n/a

110.00-117.00

103.00-115.50

n/a

n/a

Good Bulls

129.00-147.00

130.00-141.00

130.00-138.00

135.00-155.00

139.00-147.00

135.00-145.00

120.00-140.50 (145.00)

130.00-138.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

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Butcher Steers Butcher Heifers

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

n/a

124.00-131.25

n/a

119.00-145.00

n/a

n/a

115.00-130.00

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Lean Export Cows

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

140.00-155.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

140.00-150.00

n/a

Heiferettes * includes slaughter market

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

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Demystifying equine lameness Overtraining young horses can set the stage for lameness issues later in life Carol Shwetz

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ameness has become somewhat of a catch-all term for a broad spectrum of abnormalities in a horse’s movement caused by pain or reduced motion. Though often thought of as a problem of the feet or legs, the roots of many lamenesses are now being discovered to originate elsewhere.

These discoveries are important since horse owners and veterinarians are no longer left simply managing pain, but rather they are becoming increasingly empowered to manage the lifestyle and welfare leading to the ever-growing phenomena of lameness in the present-day horse population.

Lamenesses in horses rarely “just happen.” Whilst addressing the horse’s present condition or local lesion is very important it is equally important to question the root cause of the lameness.

“How and why did the horse arrive at this place of lameness?”

Of course, some lamenesses such as hoof abscesses, stone bruises, or trauma to the limbs are more simple than others, such as developmental bone diseases, arthritis, bowed tendons, and laminitis which often have much deeper roots of cause.

Nutrition, living conditions, horsemanship, riding practices, tack, dental care, hoof care, and exercise programs (too little, too much or poorly executed) are factors which influence and contribute to the horse’s state of soundness and these are equally important factors to consider when evaluating lameness.

For example a youngster that is “overconditioned” to meet show and/or sale agendas and then asked to meet performance and training standards beyond its physical maturity is a prime candidate for lameness a few years later as it reaches four or five years of age.

One could certainly report the horse’s lameness to be the result of developmental bone disease or arthritis however, these labels only describe the symptomatic pathology and do little to acknowledge the causative insults. Although the connection between an overly rich diet, an overzealous training program and lameness spans the time period of many years, these connections are nonetheless repeatable and predictable in the population of young performance horses.

On the surface, pain management appears to provide a reasonable means to improve the horse’s welfare, yet the horse’s welfare would have been better served by both a moderate and proper diet and a reasonable and patient training program.

Another example is the horse that is struggling with gastric and/or intestinal ulcers. These horses may present a confusing picture of mixed lamenesses exhibiting short striding and/ or gaiting asymmetrically in an attempt to find a way of going which best suits their ailing gut.

Ultimately dietary corrections and environmental enrichment

are necessary to address the unsoundness.

From my perspective, even the riding horse that begins to buck is showing a form of lameness as the horse is no longer willing to move forward. A thorough investigation may reveal the source of bucking to be an ill-fitting saddle or dental discomfort. Once the source is found and corrected the horse no longer bucks.

Many lamenesses are in the process of happening when owners report issues such as resistance, or behaviour/attitude problems. These are often the beginnings of what eventually turns into pathology.

Lamenesses in the limbs can often be the result of a sustained duration of compensations and adaptations from loss of mobility in structures elsewhere in the body, such as the dental arcade, neck, shoulder girdle, back, or pel-

Vet students at the University of Calgary assess a horse for lameness.

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vis. For example, a sore back can lead to abnormal limb kinematics and thus the horse appears lame.

Hence the end issue of lameness often does not exist in isola-

tion rather, is rooted somewhere else in the body.

Pain and/or lameness is merely a messenger or an end point, seeking resolve and understand-

ing. Changes at the root level capable of returning and ensuring soundness in horses can be remarkably simple practices such as proper nutrition, turnout time, improved tack or horsemanship, patience, rest, or proper dental/ hoof care.

Pain management for lameness is only one small part in the recovery of the horse to soundness. Painkillers bear the unfortunate outcome of asking the horse to ignore the pain and continue using its body in spite of the horse’s own internal message to rest select joints, bones, tendons, or muscles.

So, although the reliance on painkillers may appear superficially beneficial and bring shortterm results, their indiscriminate use may ultimately decrease the horse’s performance career.

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

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Discovering CoCoRaHS: Tracking Weather and Precipitation Introduction

4-H Manitoba members who are interested in the weather will want to take this project, to learn about precipitation and how it affects their lives. Rain, hail, tornadoes and lightning are just some of the topics covered. Members will also learn about the CoCoRaHS program and how citizen-science can benefit their communities.

DISCOVER THE SCIENCE BEHIND OUR WEATHER! 4-H Manitoba members/families can contact the Manitoba Provincial Coordinator, Tiffiny Taylor, at 204-228-0842 or manitoba@cocorahs.org for more details. All 4-H Manitoba members will be provided with access to training and will be supplied with an official CoCoRaHS Rain Gauge to measure precipitation.

Do you enjoy rainy days? Maybe you prefer spending time outdoors in fresh snowdrifts. Checking the weather is a great way to make outdoor plans for warm, sunny days and to plan to stay indoors on cool, rainy Table of Contents days.

Introduction In Canada, weather patterns can vary widely from province to province, season to season, and day to day. Canada is home to Project Summary

mountains, deserts, rainforests, and prairies, each with unique weather patterns.

The CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow) network keeps a record of precipitation across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. In partnership with 4‐H Manitoba, CoCoRaHS provides 4‐H members with a FREE rain gauge and a greater awareness of their environment.

Canadians are famous for talking about the weather. Your observations will lead to a greater understanding of the weather. This project will help you expand and share your weather knowledge. As part of this project you need to become a CoCoRaHS weather reporter. Contact the Manitoba Coordinator at Manitoba@cocorahs.org to order a rain gauge and visit http://www.cocorahs.org/Canada.aspx for more information about their collection process and to register your station.

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WHAT IS CoCoRaHS? CoCoRaHS stands for “Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network.

CoCoRaHS is a unique new weather monitoring program that exists right here in Manitoba. This grass-roots volunteer network of weather enthusiasts measure & submit precipitation data from their own backyard each day. The data our observers provide is fed to Environment Canada, which helps forecasters protect and prepare us for flood & drought events & severe weather. ~ CoCoRaHs is hands-on citizen science!

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Cooler air keeps trying to move in Issued: Monday, October 19, 2015 · Covering: October 21 – October 28, 2015 Daniel Bezte Weather Vane

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t’s becoming more and more evident we are moving into the transition phase between fall and winter, as the weather models have a tougher time figuring out the forecast. The first part of last issue’s forecast was pretty good, but the timing of the systems then started to slip.

This forecast period will begin with a trough of low pressure sliding off into Ontario, with western regions seeing mostly sunshine and eastern regions struggling with clouds.

Temperatures will briefly cool down behind this trough before warming back up into the midteens on Thursday, as an upper ridge builds in. This upper ridge will be quickly pushed off to the east as an area of low pressure develops over the central states and quickly zips to the northeast on Friday. This low will bring clouds and showers to most regions on Friday, with some significant rainfall possible. Luckily, it looks like this low will move through pretty fast and clearing skies should move in early on Saturday. Temperatures will

cool down behind this low under a northerly flow, with highs on Saturday and Sunday expected to be in the +8 to +10 C range.

A large area of low pressure off the Pacific coast will help to generate an area of low pressure over Alberta on Monday. This low is currently forecast to travel across the central Prairies on Tuesday and Wednesday. Winds will become southerly ahead of the system, helping to boost temperatures back into the +13 to +15 C range by Tuesday. It looks like most of the precipitation from this system should stay to our north, but a more southerly track is possible. Much cooler air will work into the back side of this system and there is a chance we could see a little bit of snow as the system pulls out. Highs for the second half of next week are forecast to be in the +3 to +5 C range.

Usual temperature range for this period: Highs, +3 to +15 C; lows, -6 to +3 C. Probability of precipitation falling as snow: 20 per cent.

departure from average for temperatures in Winnipeg over the last year

This issue’s graphic shows the departure from average for temperatures in Winnipeg over the last year. These long-term trends show the values across all of agricultural Manitoba were about the same. The middle graph shows the 31-day running mean of daily temperatures, which helps to smooth out the data and shows the longer-term trends. With the exception of a couple of very small below-average periods, we’ve seen aboveaverage temperatures since last June.

Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession with a BA (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He operates a computerized weather station near Birds Hill Park.

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

How super-cooled water behaves to make snow Relatively warm temperatures make ice crystals stickier and snowflakes larger

BY DANIEL BEZTE Co-operator contributor

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s we slowly work our w a y t ow a rd w i n t e r I thought it might be time to begin our look at the sometimes-dreaded “S” word: snow. Instead of just jumping straight into a discussion about snow, I think we’ll take a bit of a slower approach that will hopefully help lessen the pain for some. In this article we’ll look at the process that creates precipitation in cold clouds — which, in our part of the world, are the predominant method of precipitation formation, whether it’s summer or winter.

Before we look at the precipitation process in cold clouds, we need to explore the idea of super-cooled water. All of us at some point have experienced freezing rain. Under most occurrences of freezing rain we find temperatures just slightly below 0 C. This means the surfaces on which raindrops are falling and freezing are just a little below 0 C. Now, if you have ever dropped some cold water onto a freezing surface, you would notice the water does not freeze instantaneously, unless the surface is very cold. Why, then, does the raindrop falling from the

While other substances are most dense when solid, water is most dense at +4 C. If water didn’t behave this way, we wouldn’t be here.

sky freeze as soon as it hits a solid surface? Because that falling raindrop was supercooled — the liquid water in the raindrop is actually below the freezing point!

How is this possible? Well, we a l l l e a r n e d t h a t w a t e r behaves differently than most other substances on Earth. While other substances are most dense when they become solid, water is most dense at +4 C. If water didn’t behave in this way, we wouldn’t be here. Just think what would happen to rivers, lakes and oceans if ice were heavier than water! Well, the uniqueness of water doesn’t end there. Strangely enough, when we are looking at water in the atmosphere, it doesn’t normally freeze at 0 C. For atmospheric water to freeze, it has to have something to freeze onto. Just like water droplets need something to condense onto, ice crystals need something

to freeze onto. The problem which arises is that in the atmosphere, there are large numbers of particles for water to condense onto (condensation nuclei), but very few particles for water to freeze onto (ice nuclei). For ice to form (at temperatures just below 0 C) you need a six-sided structure, and there are not many of those around. Ice crystals themselves are six sided, but where do we get the ice crystal in the first place? Because of this, if the cloud temperature is warmer than -4 C, the cloud will be made up of supercooled water. If we cool the cloud down to around -10 C, ice crystals will begin to form even if there are no ice nuclei, so at these temperatures the cloud will consist of a mixture of ice crystals and supercooled water. Once temperatures fall to -30 C the cloud will consist almost entirely of ice crystals, and if we are colder then -40 C, the whole

cloud will be made up of ice crystals.

So now we know that within cold clouds we will usually have a combination of ice c r y s t a l s a n d s u p e r- c o o l e d water. How does this tie into the creation of precipitation in cold clouds?

In warm clouds rain develops through a process known as collision and coalescence, where water droplets collide and grow together until they are big enough to fall to the ground. In a cold cloud we have a similar process (although it’s called something different), but before this can occur, another process has to work its magic: the Bergeron process.

The Bergeron process relies on another unique property of water: if there is just enough water vapour in the air to keep a super-cooled water droplet from evaporating, there is more than enough water vapour in the air for an ice crystal to grow larger! Because the saturation vapour pressure over ice is lower than that over water, ice crystals will attract water vapour more readily than water droplets will.

Our cold cloud now has ice crystals in it and these ice crystals are growing. As the crystals grow they pull water vapour from the atmos-

phere. As the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere drops, our super-cooled droplets will begin to evaporate to help make up the difference.

These droplets evaporate and the ice crystals continue to grow at the expense of the super-cooled water droplets.

After a while, the cloud consists mostly of ice crystals.

This process by itself would only result in light amounts of precipitation, though, for heavier precipitation we need the second process to kick in.

In a cold cloud, we call this second process riming and aggregation.

As I pointed out earlier, this second process is much like the collision and coalescence process in warm clouds. Ice crystals fall and collide into either super-cooled water and grow larger (riming), or they collide into other ice crystals and grow larger (aggregation). Aggregation occurs best when cloud temperatures are only slightly below 0 C, as the warmer temperatures allow the ice crystals to have a wet surface that helps other ice crystals stick to them. This is one of the reasons we see large snowflakes when it is relatively warm.

Next week we’ll continue our discussion by looking at different forms of precipitation.

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“I really think that the opportunity for camelina in Manitoba lies as a complementary crop with soybeans”

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Camelina is a low-input oilseed that grows well in cool conditions and is capable of withstanding drought. Photo: Supplied by Smart Earth Seeds

and alternaria. We have had crops where canola has grown beside camelina and flea beetles pretty much wiped out the canola but hasn’t touched the camelina,” Grushcow said.

Camelina is also shatter resistant, matures relatively early and tolerates heat and drought.

Market is uncertain Despite its agronomic advantages, camelina has never taken off due to limited demand.

“Camelina is one of those crops that we don’t have a huge marketplace for yet but I believe there is some interest growing. Other areas of the world are interested in us growing it as we have the right climate for it, but we are still examining compatible varieties,” said Lionel Kaskiw, production adviser with Manitoba Agr iculture, Food and Rural Development. “There has been some research done in Manitoba, but the majority of the acres

in Canada is being grown in Saskatchewan right now.”

Ca m e l i n a h a s s o f a r b e e n used mainly in bio-based products, including biolubricants.

However, in 2010, Health Canada approved camelina oil for sale as human food. It is high in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, which have well-established health benefits.

“Camelina has one really important thing going for it and that is the omega-3 content, which is about 40 per cent of the total fatty acid. Compared to soybean oil, which is very minimal, less than five per cent — this is similar to canola as well,” said Stefanie Hixson, post-doctoral fellow with the department of chemistry and biology at Ryerson University.

There is a growing demand for products high in omega-3.

According to the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids, daily intake of 500 mg of omega-3 is recommended for optimal cardiovascular health. A world population of seven billion would amount to an annual requirement of more than 1.25 million tonnes.

Feed supplementation Part of that demand could be supplied by meat with its omega-3 content boosted by camelina in the feed. “ Me a l i n b r o i l e r c h i c k e n feed was approved by CFIA last November, which is a huge step forward for us. The other factor is now that we are working with CFIA to get other livestock approved,” Grushcow said.

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“The interesting thing about camelina from an agronomic point of view is that it is a low-input crop. If you compare it to something like canola, where the seed cost can be $40 to $50 an acre, camelina seed cost is below $20 an acre,” said Jack Grushcow, founder and CEO of Smart Earth Seeds, which has been working with camelina for more than 10 years.

“Producers have a lot of acres to plant and have to lay out a lot of cash every year. If they complement even 10 per cent of their regular production into camelina, it just reduces overall expense.”

A member of the Brassicaceae family, camelina is also known as false flax or German sesame and is similar to canola. It grows to 90 cm tall with branched smooth or hairy wood stems and five- to eight-centimetre-long arrowshaped leaves.

Camelina originated in Europe and was first grown in Canada in 1863. Agriculture Canada scientists began researching the crop in Saskatchewan in 1999, and continue to develop new lines.

Camelina has excellent yield potential over an 85- to 100-day season and grows well in cool temperatures.

“Its season is 10 days shorter than canola, which means it can be grown farther north than a typical canola crop and you can combine it earlier, avoiding frost,” Grushcow said.

Camelina requires less moisture than canola and is resistant to blackleg and some strains to downy mildew.

“It is also resistant to many of the pests and diseases that bother canola like flea beetles

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A study at the University of Alberta found that feeding higher amounts of camelina meal to broiler chickens produced breast and thigh meat that was two to four times higher in omega-3.

CFIA is currently considering including the meal in layer feed.

Camelina meal has also been approved for animal rations in the U.S. for all species. Industry members believe it will eventually be approved for all species in Canada and have high hopes for its potential use in the aquaculture and pet food industries.

Production and marketing challenges Grushcow said production

challenges include the lack of a registered broadleaf herbicide, and the small size of the seed — a quarter to half the size of canola.

“We are also trialling a largeseeded variety — the seed is 40 per cent bigger. There has never been a variety released like that and we are quite excited. We are aiming to release it for the 2017 crop year,” Grushcow said.

Currently seed grown in Canada is shipped to the States to be crushed.

“In the next two to three years my goal is to find a place in Wester n Canada where I can have camelina crushed or build a crush facility. Once we further develop the market, we can start to build local

production and that will really help our economics overall,” Grushcow said.

The United States Department of Agriculture recently began exploring intercropping and relay cropping camelina with soybeans, for which Grushcow sees potential in Manitoba.

“I really think that the opportunity for camelina in Manitoba lies as a complementary crop with soybeans. We are starting to do some trials on that now and if it works well it will be a really big opportunity,” he said.

Smart Earth Seeds will be working to replicate trials similar to the USDA with the hopes of working camelina into soybean rotations. jennifer.paige@fbcpublishing.com

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Aquaculture could be big market for camelina Fish-farming companies are looking for a crop-based alternative to fish meal from wild stocks

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recent discover y in the aquaculture industr y may soon make camelina oil a highly sought alternative for fish feed.

Cu r re n t l y h a l f o f t h e w o r l d’s s e a f o o d s u p p l y comes from farmed fish, but fish meal from wild stock is still part of the ration, putting a strain on the population.

“The proportion of wild fish that is going towards industrial use as opposed to feeding people is very high and this roundabout way of supplying nutrients isn’t very sustainable,” said Stefanie Hixson, post-doctoral fellow at the department of chemistry and biology at Ryerson University.

“It is also getting more and more expensive for commercial feed companies to purchase fish oil and so the commercial fish feed industry is looking for an environmentally and economically sustainable alternative for fish oil, and that is where camelina comes in.”

Fi s h f a r m s h a ve b e e n exploring crop-based oilseeds like soybeans and canola as a substitute to

fish oil. Researchers have found that camelina is the best match to the fatty acid composition required.

Hixson explored the connection between fish oil and camelina oil in a $6.1-million project supported by Genome Atlantic, the Atlantic Canada Opportunity Agency and t h e At l a n t i c In n ov a t i o n Fund.

T h e f o u r- y e a r p r o j e c t was the first of its kind and focused on evaluating camelina oil as an ingredient for fish feed. Results of the project have been used to apply for CFIA approval for camelina in fish rations.

“I definitely see this being approved by CFIA and I also see interest from seed companies. Some of the large, big players in the industry are interested in using camelina, they are just waiting for the final OK from CFIA,” Hixson said.

“Camelina oil comes close to matching fish oil but it is missing two key fatty acids, which are ETA and DHA. Even replacing a majority of the fish oil with camelina oil, you will still need to put a little bit of fish meal and fish oil in the diet,” Hixson said. jennifer.paige@fbcpublishing.com

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Drought eats at Cuba’s sugar crop Rainfall through August was at its lowest since 1901

BY MARC FRANK Havana/Reuters

The worst drought in a century has damaged Cuban sugar cane set for harvesting in the coming months, though recent rainfall means output could still top the previous harvest, the president of the state-run sugar monopoly said on Oct. 6.

Cuba produced 1.9 million tonnes of raw sugar during the 2014-15 harvest, 18 per cent more than the previous one, and said earlier this year it expected similar growth in the 2015-16 season, which begins in November and stretches into May. This year’s rainfall through August was the lowest since 1901, according to the government, though precipitation has increased since then. Less than 10 per cent of Cuban sugar plantations are irrigated.

“Perhaps the growth we expected will not be what we hoped for, but there will be an increase,” Orlando Garcia, the CEO of AZCUBA, told Reuters.

The company’s vice-president, Noel Casanas, said estimates used to sign export contracts had been postponed until the end of October.

“The drought, especially in June and July, hit us hard. Since then it has got better, but no doubt there is an impact, especially in eastern Cuba, perhaps not as disastrous as it could have been, but there may not be the same rate of growth as in previous years,” Casanas said.

AZCUBA was founded with the goal of reversing a long decline in output from eight million tonnes in 1990.

Cuba consumes between 600,000 and 700,000 tonnes of sugar a year and has an agreement to sell China 400,000 tonnes annually.

Sugar was long Cuba’s most important industry and export but today ranks eighth in foreign currency earnings behind services, remittances, tourism, petroleum products, nickel, pharmaceuticals and tobacco products.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

Bayer braces to compensate grape growers European growers reported lost yields after using a Bayer fungicide Zurich / Reuters

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ayer expects to pay wine growers compensation starting early next year after vineyards in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Switzerland reported 2015 crop damage possibly linked to one of the company’s fungicides.

European grape growers reported deformed leaves and lower yields after using Bayer CropScience’s Moon Privilege, also known as Luna Privilege in Canada and some other markets.

In Switzerland, losses are estimated at 80 million Swiss francs (C$109 million), according to marketing group Swiss Wine.

Bayer has acknowledged “atypical symptoms” in vines where the fungicide was applied in 2014. Bayer said it was collecting data and assessing how much it will offer to wine growers.

“Bayer will on a voluntary basis compensate affected wine growers which have used the Moon Privilege/Luna Privilege fungicide last year,” a Bayer spokesman said, adding no “clear cause” had been determined.

Bayer has said it expected more than 250 million euros (C$370 million) in annual peak sales from its Luna product line launched in 2012 for fruits and vegetables.

Austria Wine, the marketing arm of that country’s wine industry, didn’t immediately respond to requests for figures for possible damage that may be linked to Moon Privilege.

Jean-Marc Amez-Droz, Swiss Wine’s general secretary, estimated harvest losses totalling 6.65 million kg of grapes in 2015, or about 4.85 per cent of 2014’s crop.

Hardest hit were Pinot Noir grapes, often grown in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and Chasselas, a white wine grape prevalent in French-speaking Vaud canton. A few growers lost their entire 2015 harvest, Amez-Droz said. “ Wine makers are missing about six million bottles of wine,” he said. “The very young berries just didn’t grow. The development of the berries was totally out of the ordinary.”

Growers who deployed the fungicide late in 2014 in rainy conditions saw more damage than those who applied it earlier in dry weather, Amez-Droz said, a trend confirmed by Bayer.

Switzerland’s Federal Office of Agriculture suspended its approval of Moon Privilege in wine growing in July.

On Oct. 14, a spokesman said private growers would need to resolve their own damage claims but the Agriculture Ministry would continue to work with Bayer to determine the cause.

The ministry was also aiming to boost approvals stringency.

“Approval will take at least a year longer, as now we’ll have to investigate damage that might occur a year following application,” spokesman Juerg Jordi said. Bayer must start from the beginning if it is to sell Moon Privilege again in Switzerland for grape growers, he added.

Luna Privilege, as used in Canada, contains the Group 7 fungicide fluopyram at 500 grams per litre. The product is

approved in Canada for control and prevention of certain diseases in apples, watermelon, dry beans, chickpea, lentil, peanut, potato, cherry, strawberry and almond crops.

Also, in Canadian wine grapes, the product is approved for control of botrytis bunch rot and grey mould, in varieties such as “but not limited to” Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot, Pinot Noir and Zinfandel.

Bayer’s other Luna product approved for use in Canada is Luna Tranquility, which also includes fluopyram, at a lower rate (125 g/l), combined with the Group 9 fungicide pyrimethanil at 375 g/l.

Luna Tranquility is approved for control of botrytis bunch rot, grey mould and powdery mildew in wine grape crops, and for control of other diseases in potato and apple crops.

Barring a renewal, both products’ current registration status with Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency is due to expire at the end of 2016.

Wine grape growers in Switzerland alone claim losses of over $100 million on their 2015 crop. Photo: canstock

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

Not much interest in Glencore ag assets at G3

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The grain firm formerly known as CWB has other irons in the fire

BY ROD NICKEL Winnipeg/Reuters

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rain handler G3 Canada, a joint venture between a Saudi Arabian firm and Bunge Ltd., doesn’t have much interest in bidding for a stake in rival Glencore’s agricultural business, its chief executive said Oct. 13.

Swiss-based Glencore, the trader and miner whose shares have been battered by the commodities slump, is looking to sell a stake in its global grains business to cut about a third of its US$30 billion in debt and regain investor trust. It has held talks with a Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund and China’s state-backed grain trader COFCO, along with Canadian pension funds, Reuters has reported.

“I don’t really know what it is that Glencore is hoping to do, or whether or not it would e ve n c o n s i d e r a n e x i s t i n g competitor in the Canadian market as a viable suitor for the pieces it’s trying to sell off,” G3 CEO Karl Gerrand told Reuters in an interview.

G l e n c o r e’s a g r i c u l t u r a l assets include Viterra, one o f C a n a d a’s l a r g e s t g r a i n handlers.

“Should there be something of interest to us that would make sense, we would certainly look at it, but at this point I’m not really seeing that there is much there that

G3 CEO Karl Gerrand, shown here in April in Winnipeg, said the company isn’t particularly interested in making a move on Glencore’s Viterra assets. photo: dave bedard

would be of interest to us,” Gerrand said.

Gerrand declined to comment on whether G3 has had discussions with Glencore.

Investor group G3 Global Grain Group, a joint ven ture of U.S.-based oilseed processor Bunge and Saudi Agricultural and Livestock I n v e s t m e n t C o. ( S A L I C ) , bought a controlling stake in the former Canadian Wheat Board in July and renamed the company G3.

It is not clear which Saudi A r a b i a n s ov e re i g n w e a l t h fund may have interest in Glencore, but it would not work for SALIC to be a partner in both G3 and Viterra simultaneously, Gerrand said.

U.S. farm co-operative and

grains trader CHS Inc. said last month it would be interested in Glencore’s Canadian grain-handling assets at a discounted price.

G 3 a l s o s a i d Tu e s d a y i t had begun construction of a port grain terminal with 50,000 tonnes of storage at Hamilton, Ont., to be ready for 2017.

The company is also studying a possible grain terminal at Port Metro Vancouver and looking to buy or build eight to 10 countr y elevators in Alberta and Saskatchewan to collect grain, Gerrand said.

“It’s a l w a y s b e t t e r i f we can buy versus build, so we’re keeping our ears to the ground” for opportunities, Gerrand said.

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UFA, CHS to partner on fertilizer plant The co-ops’ Bridgeland j.v. will also offer agronomic services STAFF

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he Canadian arm of U.S. farm, fuel and agri-food co-op CHS is moving to expand its stake in Alberta’s ag input retail market, this time partnering with one of Canada’s top ag co-ops.

CHS Canada and Alberta’s U FA a n n o u n c e d a p a r t nership deal Oct. 14 for a seed and crop input retail operation, plus agronomic and advisory services, in the province’s Peace region.

The partnership will start with a new fertilizer plant already being built at the RedTail Business Park south of Sexsmith.

The plant, with a highspeed blending facility, is expected to be complete early next year and to provide UFA members and customers in the Peace region with “local access to a range of dry fertilizer products,” the two co-ops said.

The UFA/CHS joint vent u re w i l l o p e r a t e a s a n “independent organization” under the name Bridgeland, to be governed by a board with two representatives each from UFA and CHS. “The new venture brings new capabilities to both organizations and will position us more competitively in the marketplace,” UFA CEO Carol Kitchen said in a release. “Ultimately this will help farmers in the Peace Country grow and prosper.”

Partnering with Minnesota-based CHS in the Peace region “will allow us to support agricultural investment and enhance the services we provide here.”

“CHS is always looking for partnerships that will enhance our efforts to help farmers grow their operations.”

Lynden Johnson executive vice-president for CHS Country Operations

“CHS is always looking for partnerships that will enhance our efforts to help farmers grow their operat i o n s,” Ly n d e n Jo h n s o n , executive vice-president for CHS Country Operations, said in the same release.

“This new venture blends the best of both organizations to strengthen what our local experts with global connections can deliver f o r p r o d u c e r s i n Pe a c e Country.”

CHS Country Operations first entered the Alberta ag retail market in 2012, buying DynAgra’s four Alberta retail outlets, now branded “CHS Dynagra.”

CHS in 2014 also took over four former Viterra ag retail stores, three Agrium CPS stores and three Viterra anhydrous outlets in Alberta.

Last year’s sale was part of a divestiture of Viterra and Agrium assets, required by the federal Competition Bureau following Agrium’s 2013 purchase of Viterra’s ag retail business.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

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Cargill Q1 profit jumps despite commodities slump

Edible bean harvest wraps up, hail damage evident Prices are low as markets remain quiet

BY KARL PLUME

BY JADE MARKUS

Chicago/Reuters

CNS Canada

Global commodities trader Cargill Inc. effectively navigated tumbling commodities markets and volatile currencies to turn in a 20 per cent gain in first-quarter profit, the privately held company said Oct. 7.

The Minnesota-based company’s grain and oilseed supply chain and energy businesses were standouts in the quarter ended Aug. 31, in stark contrast with several rival agribusinesses that have struggled in the commodities market downturn.

Cargill, which holds major stakes in Canadian grain handling, beef packing and food processing, reported net earnings of $512 million for the fiscal first quarter, compared with a profit of $425 million a year earlier (all figures US$). Revenue declined 17 per cent to $27.5 billion, from $33.3 billion.

“Our team ably navigated the quarter’s weather-driven agricultural commodity markets, as well as the effects of more volatile emerging markets, currency fluctuations and other macroeconomic uncertainty,” CEO David MacLennan said in a release.

Cargill’s origination and processing unit, which buys, sells, stores and processes crops such as corn and soybeans, was its largest contributor in a quarter marked by falling prices and tepid global demand.

Soybean-processing profit strengthened amid bumper crops in North and South America, Cargill said.

Rival agribusiness Louis Dreyfus Commodities recently said first-half profit fell by half due to falling commodity prices and faltering growth in major markets such as China and Brazil.

Archer Daniels Midland and Bunge, which along with Cargill and Dreyfus are known as the “ABCD companies” that dominate global grain trading, report results in coming weeks.

Results were down in Cargill’s animal nutrition and protein segment as high cattle and beef prices steered consumers to cheaper pork and poultry.

The company sold its pork business to meat packer JBS this summer.

Cargill’s food ingredients segment also posted lower quarterly results, pressured by weak profits in sweeteners and starches, which slumped amid historically low sugar prices, the company said.

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anitoba’s edible bean harvest is done, but markets are sitting little traded and offering low prices to producers, analysts say.

The effects of hailstorms in south-central Manitoba are now apparent, said Dennis L a n g e, a f a r m p r o d u c tion adviser with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development at Altona.

“It’s going to affect yields and the quality to some degree, because when you get a bean that’s hail damaged, you get a blemish on the seed,” he said.

At worst, several fields lost

three to four per cent of their potential yield to storms in August.

Statistics Canada has pegged this year’s Canada-wide production at 244,900 tonnes, down from 2014’s 273,200.

Manitoba’s edible bean production for 2015 has been reported as average to slightly below average. Production this year will near 77,800 tonnes, down from 82,700 the year prior.

“I think most producers are happy with what they see this year; it’s about average quality,” Lange said.

Now that harvest is finished, producers are starting to think about what types of beans to grow next year, but will likely wait until about mid-winter.

Farmers don’t usually fluctuate too much, Lange said; they usually drop maybe a few thousand acres every once in a while, depending on what contracts are like.

“They’re always looking at preparing land going into next year as well,” he said.

Normally prices would see some volatility due to harvest pressure, but things have been different this year, and the market has sat quiet for a while, said Peter Klippenstein of SaskCan Pulse Trading.

Delivered elevator pinto bean prices range from 21 to 32 cents per pound and black beans are, at highest, 25 cents per pound, according to Prairie Ag Hotwire.

Klippenstein said those prices are low compared to previous years.

The little-changed edible bean market can be chalked up to a slower global economy, and competition from Mexico, said Ben Friesen, processing manager for Legumex Walker.

“Mexico does have a good crop and it’s exporting pinto beans instead of importing.

That causes a lot of quietness in the market.”

In coming weeks, he said, the market will likely see more producer selling.

“I think it’s going to take a month or so to get everybody sorted out, see what really is available.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

India’s drought a bonanza for Canada’s pulse growers Bids to buy Canadian red lentils and yellow peas climb

BY ROD NICKEL AND RAJENDRA JADHAV Winnipeg/Mumbai/Reuters

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rices for Canadian pulses typically ease toward the end of the year but a recent dry spell in distant India, the world’s top producer and consumer, is driving them up.

Back-to-back drought years for the first time in three decades have eroded India’s output of pulses and boosted imports. Global prices of c h i c k p e a s, y e l l ow p e a s a n d l e n tils have as a result hit record highs in what is a windfall for farmers in Canada, Australia, Russia, Myanmar and the U.S. Lee Moats, who farms near Riceton, southeast of Regina, said he was selling red lentils for 50 per cent more than a year ago, and was holding back crops in the hope that prices will climb higher.

“India is a very large pulse importer, and there is a shortfall, and that’s where Canada comes in,” he said.

Canada is the top supplier of pulses to the Asian country, which is expected to import one million tonnes more this year.

Bids to buy Canadian red lentils and yellow peas are far higher than normal for this time of the year, typically a period when prices ease with new supplies, said Chuck Penner, analyst at LeftField Commodity Research in Winnipeg.

Prices should get a further boost with Canada’s 2015 pea output projected, by Statistics Canada, to drop 17 per cent from a year ago to 3.16 million tonnes. Exports from Aug. 1 to Oct. 4 rose five per cent to 906,000 tonnes, data from the Canadian Grain Commission shows.

Pulses on display for sale at a market in Ahmedabad, India on June 20. Prices of many foodstuffs are surging in India, posing a major headache for a government hoping to reboot the economy. photo: reuters/amit dave

“ T h i n g s a re g o i n g t o g e t e v e n tighter… We are going to have to hit the brakes hard in terms of what we can supply to India,” Penner said.

India’s appetite Pulses are a key source of protein in India, which has been struggling to increase its output to meet local demand.

Imports could rise to 5.5 million tonnes this year, said Nitin Kalantri, a

miller from the state of Maharashtra.

This would cost India $4.5 billion, versus the $2.6 billion it spent to import 4.5 million tonnes in the year ended March, he added (all figures US$).

India, which consumes nearly 22 million tonnes of pulses annually, sources yellow peas and lentils mainly from Canada and the U.S., chickpeas from Australia and Russia, and green gram and pigeon peas from Myanmar.

This year, India suffered a poor

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summer harvest and there are worr i e s t h e d ro u g h t w i l l h i t w i n t e rsown chickpea after growing regions received as much as 40 per cent less rainfall.

Canadian farmers are likely to plant more pulses next spr ing, assum ing they will provide better returns than grains and canola, said Darren Lemieux, head trader for Simpson Seeds, a special crops processor and exporter at Moose Jaw.

Man. hail, reseed damage claims above average The bulk of this year’s MASC claims is frost related

BY JADE MARKUS CNS Canada

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anitoba farmers h a v e s e e n m o re weather-related hardships this year than normal, made evident by aboveaverage hail and reseed damage claims.

Summer hail and frost at the end of June and the beginning of July took a toll on crops, leading to insurance claims above the fiveyear average.

Ma n i t o b a A g r i c u l t u ra l Service Corp. (MASC) hail damage insurance claims for 2015 came in at 3,380, compared with the five-year average of 2,000.

“It is slightly more than the highest we’ve had,” said David Van Deynze, manager of claims at MASC. Farmers also made an especially high amount of reseed-related claims.

Frost claims are lumped in with other losses, but registered reseed claims to MASC came in at 3,290, compared

with the 1,000-claim fiveyear average.

Van Deynze said it’s been one of the busiest reseed years they’ve ever had as well, and the vast majority of this year’s claims is frost related.

“I know even the most prosperous farmers face challenges dealing with everything from crop disease to risk management, this year was a prime example,” said provincial Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn.

Despite a large amount of reseeding, most producers are pleased with how their crops turned out, he said.

“They are going to be yielding average to above average, just because timely moisture accelerated the germination of it,” he said.

Canola, he said, saw significant seeding. Final production numbers will be coming post-harvest, but Statistics Canada estimates this year’s canola production at 2,540,100 tonnes compared with 2,510,600 last year.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

Don’t gamble by not aerating your canola Uneven maturity means there’s more green seed this year, and that ups the risk of spoilage Alberta Agriculture and Forestry release

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ou can lose a lot of money in a hurry, so watch for potential canola storage problems as fall transitions into early winter, says a provincial crop specialist.

“Canola seed’s high oil content makes it very susceptible to deterioration in storage,” said Neil Whatley. “Safe, longterm canola storage is at or below eight per cent moisture content and cooler than 15 C. Declining outside air temperatures also need to be properly dealt with to ensure safe storage.”

Ca n o l a re s p i re s o r g o e s through a ‘sweat’ period for up to six weeks after being binned.

“Even if it’s initially binned d r y, c a n o l a s h o u l d c o n tinue to be monitored,” said Whatley. “Respiring canola generates additional heat and moisture, creating an unstable condition. This instability can potentially result in hot spots or mould growth, and when mould begins to form, it creates more heat that accelerates the spread of more mould growth.”

But spoilage can be eliminated if the canola is sufficiently conditioned to the p o i n t w h e re t h e a e r a t i o n cooling front moves entirely through to the top of the grain mass, he said.

Changing outside air temperatures in the spring and f a l l c a u s e re p e a t e d m o i s ture cycles in a bin, permitting moisture to concentrate i n c e r t a i n b i n a re a s, a n d potentially leading to spoilage and heating. As outside air temperatures decline during October and November, the grain nearest to the outside bin edges cools first. This cooling system then migrates downward along the bin edge, and then upward through the central core.

“A s t h i s c o o l i n g s y s t e m migrates, it gathers moisture and warmth that creates a pocket of humid and warmer air at the top of the central grain core where spoilage and heating can begin,” said Whatley. “So as outside air temperatures decline, aeration fans should be operated again until canola at the top of the bin is cooled to the average daily temperature.”

It’s wise to aerate repeatedly until the whole bin of canola is between 0 C and 5 C. “November is an important month to check canola bins again to see if they are stable going into winter as temperatures drop below 0 C and stay there.”

Producers may also consider turning one-third of the canola bulk out of a full bin by truck in November.

“Moving the grain disrupts the moisture cycle created by declining outside temperatures, cooling the grain mass and reducing the risk of spoilage,” said Whatley.

“Even if bin temperature is being monitored with sensors, this may not provide a complete reading of the whole bin as problems may emerge in pockets away from the sensors.

“Even if bin temperature is being monitored with sensors, this may not provide a complete reading of the whole bin as problems may emerge in pockets away from the sensors.”

Neil Whatley

“So turning the grain ensures cooling as well as allowing producers to smell the grain as they are moving it to let them know if any grain is in the first stages of spoilage. If green counts, moisture, weeds or dockage are high, turning the whole bin may be safest.”

As the temperatures fall, the chance of spoilage goes up if you’re not keeping a close eye on canola in the bin.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

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Mosaic settles U.S. environment claims for over $800M

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The claims were related to the storage and disposal of phosphoric and sulphuric acids at some of Mosaic’s plants, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Environmental Protection Agency said on Oct. 1.

Mosaic will set up a $630-million trust fund, which will be invested until it reaches $1.8 billion, to “cover future closure of four Mosaic facilities — the Bartow, New Wales and Riverview plants in Florida and the Uncle Sam plant in Louisiana,” the DOJ said (all figures US$).

The funds will also be used for the treatment of hazardous waste water at the plants and two other plants already undergoing closure, the department said.

The company will pay a penalty of $8 million and invest $170 million in modifying its waste management practices.

It will also set up environmental projects valued at $2.2 million in the two states.

Mosaic said it did not expect the settlement to “adversely” hurt its output volumes.

The deal has to be finalized by the Federal Court, the company said.

Farmers log huge canola deliveries

BY PHIL FRANZ-WARKENTIN CNS Canada

A “lack of significant farmer selling” has been a common talking point from analysts when they’ve had to account for some unexplained strength in the canola market in recent weeks.

That line may now need to be retired, however, as the official data tells a different story.

According to Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) numbers released Friday, farmer deliveries of canola into the commercial pipeline totalled 673,400 tonnes during the week of Sept. 21-27.

That’s the largest deliveries in a single week going back to at least 2007, according to CNS records.

For comparison purposes, weekly canola deliveries only topped 600,000 tonnes on one other occasion in the past nine years: Week 7 in 2014-15, at 619,800 tonnes.

Typical canola deliveries into the commercial pipeline are in the 200,000- to 400,000-tonne range, with average weekly movement during the entire 2014-15 grain-marketing year coming in at about 320,000 tonnes.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

Old-time grain storage systems Stacking sheaves was an important task but one that was rarely photographed

by Alex Campbell Manitoba Agricultural Museum

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n the fall of 2014, Bruce Black of the Brandon area lent the museum copy negatives of photographs taken on the farms operated by the Black family in the Brandon area.

The museum was able to digitize the images taken from the negatives. Photos in this period are not common, as cameras and film were expensive. They were saved for special occasions as a result which resulted in the photos from this time period being largely of people and family events.

Photos of day-to-day agricultural activities are somewhat rare. The image here comes from this collection and shows the stacking of sheaves on one of the Black family farms sometime around the First World War. St a c k i n g s h e a v e s w a s a somewhat common practice in the pioneer period for any number of reasons. The simplest reason would be that the farmer did not have enough on-farm bin space to hold grain and there was often limited possibilities to sell grain in the fall to an elevator for various reasons.

In the pioneer era, grain was exported off the Prairies through the Lakehead which closed when the Great Lakes f r oz e ov e r i n t h e w i n t e r.

So there was a great rush by farmers to sell grain in the fall before the Lakehead ceased operation for the winter.

In this era, obtaining loans from a bank was very difficult for a farmer and there were no government business risk programs. If the farmer could not sell grain or some other commodities, the farmer, more than likely, had no money to purchase winter supplies and pay bills. The result was there was a great rush by farmers to sell grain in the fall which then often resulted in the elevator system becoming plugged.

Rapid expansion This was compounded by the rapid expansion of cultivated acres on the Prairies in the time period 1895 to 1914 which left the railways and grainhandling system struggling to provide rail cars, elevators and other needed facilities. If the farmer could not move grain to the elevator and farm bin space was limited, the best alternative was to stack the sheaves for the spring.

Another reason for stacking was that the farmer may have not had his own threshing machine and depended on a custom thresher. If the farmer was towards the end of the custom thresherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s run, the farmer may have felt it was wise to stack the sheaves to prevent weather damage and avoid the problems of an early snowfall as far as possible.

Oat sheaves may have been stacked as the farmer was using the oats for feed on the farm so there was no rush to thresh them and the farmer had other work that needed to be done before the snow flew, such as the fall plowing.

As can be seen here, the sheaves were stacked to form a beehive shape to shed rain as much as possible. The stacks

here are estimated to be about 15 feet in diameter.

Of course the larger diameter the stack was, the greater the number of sheaves protected

from the weather however, there was a limit to the diameter. If the diameter of the stack become too large it would be difficult, if not impossible, to

fork the sheaves from the side of the stack farthest from the thresher into the thresher in one motion. The farmer would be aware of this and of how much labour he could find when time came to thresh the stacks. He would use the stack diameter that suited him.

Sloped to shed rain

Members of the Black family are seen here stacking sheaves on one of the Black family farms. There are several buildings close to the stacks which may be granaries indicating the Blacks are intending to set up the thresher so that grain can be dropped directly into the granaries from the thresherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elevator. Usually farmers in this era were very aware of fire and would not place stacks in close proximity to buildings without a very good reason. And threshing directly into a granary was a common reason. One can also see the problems posed by wooden-wheeled wagon chassis, the wagon deck had to be high to clear the wheels and the pitcher had to pitch the sheaves that much higher. By the end of the day the pitcher would be feeling this! â&#x20AC;&#x201A; Photo: supplied

The sheaves were laid with their heads facing inwards to further protect the grain. It is thought that a farmer building a stack worked from the inside to the outside and deliberately kept the inside of the stack somewhat higher so the sheaves sloped to the outside, again to better shed rain.

The stacks seen here are estimated at about 20 feet tall.

Again, the taller the stack, the more grain could be protected from rain. However, there is a practical limit to how high the stacks were made, the physical ability of the sheaf pitcher on

the wagon and how high this person could pitch sheaves.

On Sunday July 31, 2016 the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and the Manitoba Agricultural Museum will host Harvesting Hope: a World Record to Help the Hungry.

To help end global hunger, over 500 volunteers from 100 communities across Canada will operate 125 early 20th century threshing machines to harvest a 100-acre crop of wheat. When in operation, the equipment will require over four football fields of space. For more information on attending or how to participate please visit http://www.harvestinghope.ca/ or follow us on twitter @harvesthope2016.

The Manitoba Agricultural Museum is open year round and operates a website at http://ag-museum.mb.ca/ which can provide visitors with information on museum including location and hours of operation.

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Southeast Asia set to suffer smoke for months El Niño expected to worsen situation caused by clearing forest for palm oil plantations

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ndonesian forest fires that have caused choking smoke to drift across Southeast Asia are spreading to new areas and are unlikely to be put out until next year, experts said Oct. 19.

Indonesia has come under increased pressure from its neighbours to contain the annual “haze” crisis, which is caused by slash-and-burn agriculture practices, largely on Sumatra and Kalimantan.

But it has failed to put out the fires, with “hot spots” growing in eastern parts of the country and industry officials and analysts estimating the smoke will last until early 2016.

“Maybe it will last until December and January,” said Herry Purnomo, a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research, adding that hot spots had reached Papua, a region that usually avoids widespread fires.

This Sept. 24 satellite photo of Borneo and Sumatra shows the widespread smoke from forest fires in the region. Photo: NASA

“It is because people are opening new agriculture areas, like palm oil,” he said.

A senior official at a company active in Indonesia’s forested areas said the haze could continue until March.

Indonesia usually enters its wet season in October and November, but this year the country is expected to face moderate El Niño dry conditions which could strengthen until December and may hinder efforts to control the fires.

Indonesia’s national disaster management agency has made several forecasts for when the forest fires will be brought under control, many of which have now passed, but their latest target date is early November.

On the ground, NASA satellites detected 1,729 fire alerts across Indonesia on Oct. 14, a national holiday, more than any single day in the last two years.

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G e r m a n A g r i c u l t u re Minister Christian Schmidt has informed the EU Commission that Germany will not permit GMO cultivation on its territory, a letter from Germany’s Agriculture Ministry to the commission seen by Reuters said.

An EU law approved in March cleared the way for new GMO crops to be approved after years of deadlock. But the law also gave individual countries the right to ban GMO crops even after they have been approved as safe by the European Commission.

Un d e r t h e n e w E U rules, countries must by Oct. 3, 2015, inform the EU Commission if they wish to opt out of new EU GMO cultivation approvals.

Widely grown in the Americas and Asia, GMO crops in Europe have divided opinion.

Britain is in favour of them, while France and Germany are among countries that oppose them.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

Red Deer rancher up for the chase

By Alexis Kienlen STAFF

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hen people see Joel Martens and his horse Hummer, they often start running — and for good reason.

The Red Deer rancher is the Ranch Tracker — operating his version of “Mantracker,” a Canadian reality TV show in which contestants try to avoid capture while traversing the wilderness to a ‘finish line.’

“It’s quite fun,” said Martens, who grew up in Saskatchewan on a cattle and grain farm and runs Heritage Ranch. “It gets very intense. Once I find them or locate them, then the chase is on. I’ve had guys run and put on some very good foot chases.”

And the adrenaline rush can be addictive.

“Everybody who has gone says, ‘We’re doing this again,’” said Martens. “Even some of the ones who I don’t cross paths with at all say it’s intense. Even though they don’t see me, they were expecting me around every corner.

Hearts start to race when Joel Martens — a.k.a. the Ranch Tracker — and his horse Hummer are hunting for you. PHOTO: AVENUE MAGAZINE

“It’s quite an experience and the steak afterwards is awesome.”

Martens, who has a background working with horses, tried out for “Mantracker” when the television show was searching for its latest tracker. He made the top 12,

but only four were invited to compete on the show. Still, the endeavour inspired him to bring tracking to the privately run ranch, located on 207 acres of city-owned land just off Highway 2 in Red Deer.

Participants start the game at head office and must find four flags that ranch staff have hidden on the property before Martens finds them. Players are given a map, and a 15- to 20-minute head start.

“They have a good chance to get themselves oriented and figure out where things are, and then I take off from the ranch and come looking for them,” said Martens, who isn’t told where the flags are.

Games typically last a couple of hours, and teams have ranged from couples playing together to corporate challenges of 50 people. For the latter, teams are divided into smaller groups, competing against each other and the Ranch Tracker at the same time. Whoever finds all the flags first sends Martens a text to let him know they’ve won.

This year, he’s looked for about 100 people during about 20 games. About onequarter of the players manage to evade him.

“It’s a pretty fair competition,” he said.

“I always try and play hard whether it’s a first-timer who wants to go for a walk versus people who come out in full camo.

I work just as hard at it.”

Once Martens gets within 10 feet of a player, they know they’re caught.

“Sometimes they don’t run at all, and sometimes you surprise them on the trail,” he said.

Martens has one tool in his arsenal that helps him get his man (or woman) — his 10-year-old Morgan horse, Hummer.

“I pay attention to my horse,” said Martens. “He gets excited and he loves the hunt. He’s always looking. Either he or I will pick them up first.”

The ranch is a public park and there are people walking and biking through it all the time, so there are lots of distractions, and following tracks doesn’t always work.

“A lot of it is about a search pattern,” said Martens.

A game of Ranch Tracker costs $149 per person, which includes a steak dinner at the Heritage Ranch restaurant. The website is www.heritageranch.ca. akienlen@fbcpublishing.com

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“We want to share some of the show’s success with the individuals who make it successful by allowing communities and organizations the opportunity to apply for funds to help support valuable projects and initiatives in the heart of our agriculture industry,” Ag Days chair Dave Laudin said in a release.

The community improvement category is made up of capital and upgrade projects, agriculture and heritage and safety and emergency services.

“As a board we felt these were three areas that are necessary for rural communities to continue to grow and thrive,” Laudin said. “If your community has projects such as playgrounds, renovations to recreation facilities, emergency services needing new equipment or an annual fair or event that need supports, please apply.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

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Where will 4-H’s collective memory go?

Caretakers of the museum’s collection of artifacts say high humidity and Hydro costs are forcing them to look for a new home

The old bank building housing Roland’s 4-H Museum collection of uniforms, banners and other donated 4-H memorabilia is an expensive place to heat in winter.

BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff / Roland

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oland’s 4-H Museum’s collection will stay put a no t he r winter while a local group continues to search for a new home for it.

Earlier this year, a spokesperson for the museum said they’d pack up the collection of uniforms, banners, scrapbooks and other donated items this fall as a precaution against chill and humidity.

Its current home, the former Royal Bank building built in 1902, is proving too difficult to heat and control the humidity, which is damaging to the artifacts.

But the 4-H Museum has n ow h e re e l s e t o g o r i g h t now, said Colleen Hodgson, a member of the Historical Society of the RM of Roland.

They explored the idea of building an addition onto the municipal hall to house it so the collection could be on display year round.

“That idea did not pan out,” sh e sai d. “ Th e who le ha ll would have had to be updated — a lot of engineering issues that were going to be very, very costly.

“So now we need to come up with another idea.”

In the meantime, they’re wondering what support actually exists for preserving this collection beyond Ro l a n d . T h e m u s e u m w a s begun by members of Roland’s historical society in 1988 during the 75th anniversary of the 4-H program.

But during the 100th anniversary celebrations in Roland in 2013 officials with the Ottawa-based Canadian 4-H Council declared it a national site.

T h a t ra i s e d h o p e s s o m e resources will follow, said Hodgson. But Roland is still fundraising to pay that $3,000 Hydro bill. There have been no indications from the national group of assistance to help cover the capital costs of a move or site upgrade.

“So now we need to come up with another idea.”

“ We k n ow t h e y ’r e ( 4 - H Canada) not flush with money either,” said Hodgson. “But we have dealt with it as it is for 25 years. Now that they’ve claimed it as a national museum, you would hope that there would be some more help.”

No one from the Canadian 4-H Council was available last week for an inter view, but in an emailed statement Jennifer Austin, the organization’s director of marketing and communications, said the organization recognizes the significance of the museum to the tradition of 4-H and 4-H Canada has contributed significant resources to it.

PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

They’re waiting to hear what Roland recommends before they can offer help, Austin wrote.

“The Manitoba provincial association is working with them to develop a plan for the future that will assess the current financial issues,” she wrote. “Once that plan is developed, we will assess if we are able to support. We look forward to seeing this detailed plan.”

The Manitoba 4-H Council a l s o w a n t s t o h e l p, s a i d Ma n i t o b a 4 - H ’s e x e c u t i v e director Clayton Robins, noting the provincial group supports the museum directly with an annual percentage of membership fees allocated to help with operating costs.

“We know that they need significantly more dollars because the building that they’re in doesn’t have a whole lot of good service left in it,” he said.

However, Robins also said it remains up to Roland to decide what’s the next step for the site.

“Once they know exactly

what they need in terms of the building and the cost and the plan going forward, our commitment is to work with them to help them find those dollars,” he said.

Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development also has staff and processes in place to help organizations like Roland’s museum board to do strategic planning, Robins added.

“That’s been offered to the museum board to go through that process.”

But that’s the clincher. Theirs is a small group with little time to do this, Hodgson said.

“These are volunteers on our board,” she said. “They don’t want to be going to seminars to learn how to fill out a form to ask for grant money.”

H o w e v e r, o n c e h a r v e s t is done, and Roland has its annual fall supper and fair behind it, they’ll regroup to look at their options again, she added. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

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Prairie fare 4-H foods projects teach lifelong lessons julie gardenrobinson Food and Nutrition Specialist NDSU Extension Service

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pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service, and my health to better living, for my club, my community, my country and my world.”

If you recognize this pledge, chances are you have been in 4-H, or perhaps your child and/or other relative has been in 4-H. Maybe you are or have been a 4-H volunteer leader. Growing up as a “town kid,” I was not in a 4-H club.

Typically, kids who lived on farms were in 4-H. However, I liked doing all the sorts of things that my friends in 4-H did, including gardening, baking and sewing. I certainly liked looking at all my cousin’s purple “grand champion” ribbons earned at the county fair for her 4-H projects.

Two of my own “city kids” are 4-H members and my third child was enrolled through his senior year of high school. My children have gathered bountiful lifelong skills in everything from public speaking to health, gardening, sewing, baking, science and technology, outdoor skills, dog training, art and photography.

With my kids’ involvement in 4-H clubs, I became a club leader many years ago. I have learned new skills, too. I learned how to train our three dogs, as much as dachshunds allow “training.”

I also learned how to take decent photos with my digital camera. As part of my job at NDSU, I also help create 4-H food and health-related materials.

In the U.S., 4-H club-based programs were launched in 1902 by A.B. Graham, an Ohio school principal. Now the 4-H youth development program reaches more than six million youth in urban, suburban and rural areas throughout the U.S. and beyond. Food-related programs have been popular topics for children enrolled in 4-H. The other day, our state 4-H program leader lent me two 4-H food curriculum member manuals dated 1947. He knows I enjoy looking at historical food- and cooking-related information. I carefully examined the fragile sheets of paper that probably were typed using a manual typewriter and copied with carbon paper.

As I paged through the curriculum for “4-H girls,” I became a little nostalgic reading the recipes. By the way, presently, food projects are not only for girls; boys enjoy food projects, too.

In the years right after the Second World War, girls engaged in this food curriculum were advised to drink six glasses of water, wash their hands before meals, and eat three meals a day with no sweets between meals “except at a party.” They were to strive to miss no days from school because of illness. That’s still good advice.

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I was a little amused by hygiene recommendations, considering the vast array of shampoos and soaps available today.

1940s-era young girls were advised to take a warm sponge bath or tub bath twice a week and shampoo their hair twice a month.

After viewing this document, I can see why women who took part in these programs as children were self-sufficient as adults. The curriculum taught them how to butcher and pluck chickens and cut them up for dinner. They learned how to cook, bake and preserve foods.

Interestingly, the 4-H food guide stated that during the Second World War, $1.5 million worth of vegetables were spoiled due to improper canning. When I ran the figure in an online inflation calculator, the value of the wasted food would be more than $25 million in today’s dollars.

Yes, proper food preservation can save money and your life, too.

Much of the canning research was done during the 1940s. Participants in the 1947 4-H food curriculum were taught the principles of pressure canning, which allows the temperature in the centre of jars to reach 240 F. This temperature inactivates the deadly bacteria that can produce the botulism toxin in the right environment.

Botulism is potentially fatal.

I was happy to note that even in 1947, oven canning was not considered safe. By the way, if anyone shares guidelines to can food in the oven with you today, let them know the National Center for Home Food Preservation considers this a dangerous practice. Dry heat from your oven does not penetrate jars sufficiently to heat the food to safe temperatures.

Further, the 4-H guide cautioned that oven canning might result in “jars exploding, the oven door may fly off, or a person may be injured from flying glass.” Yes, in 1947, they had a good handle on the dangers of oven canning.

A couple of the 4-H recipes included eggs that were not fully cooked. Now we would recommend using pasteurized (heat-treated) eggs in their place.

Lard was used in the pie crusts instead of other types of fat. Lard still makes the flakiest pie crusts, by the way.

In the 1940s, refined flour was used in nearly all the bread, cookie and muffin recipes. As we have learned more about the health benefits of whole grain ingredients, such as whole wheat flour and oatmeal, our emphasis in nutrition has been to make at least half of your grains whole grains.

My step back in food history was an interesting one. Here’s a recipe from the 1947 “Foods the 4-H Way” member manual. This reminds me of a recipe that my mother used to make. See https:// www.ag.ndsu.edu/food for more information about food preservation and nutrition.

1/2 c. sugar

Heat oven to 325 F. Heat milk in a saucepan to scale (bubbles will form around side; do not boil). Break bread into pieces about one inch in size. Place bread in hot milk, then add butter and let stand 20 minutes.

Beat eggs slightly. Add sugar, salt and vanilla to eggs. Add to bread and milk mixture and mix thoroughly. Add raisins. Pour into a buttered baking dish and bake for 60 minutes. Test with a knife. If it comes out clean, the bread pudding is done.

1/2 tsp. salt

Makes six servings.

1 tsp. vanilla

Each serving has 320 calories, 6 grams (g) fat, 11 g protein, 55 g carbohydrate, 3 g fibre and 380 milligrams sodium.

3 c. soft bread pieces 1 quart scalded milk 2 tbsp. butter 2 eggs, slightly beaten

1 c. raisins

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

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ndrew Jackson whistled a cheerful tune as he walked briskly up the sidewalk, away from his house, in the direction of Main Street.

Sparrows, chickadees and redpolls launched themselves out of the hedges as he approached, only to return seconds later, chirping their displeasure, when he had passed. A tiny dog yapped at him from behind a picket fence and Andrew leaned over to say hello.

“Good job little fella,” he said. “Keepin’ the family safe I see, like a good Conservative! Bully for you!”

The dog stopped yapping and wagged its tail. “But still makin’ me feel welcome,” said Andrew, “like a good little Liberal!” He reached down and scratched behind the dogs ears. “But you could use a trim there my boy,” he said. “You’re getting a little shaggy.

Makes you look like you might be NDP.” The dog stopped wagging, turned sideways along the fence and lifted a hind leg.

Andrew backed away. “No offence,” he said. “I meant nothing by it. You vote whichever way you want, puppy, just not on my boots please.” The dog lost interest and trotted away in search of other adventures, and Andrew did the same, although he didn’t actually trot.

He turned the corner onto Main Street, took a moment to stick his head in the door of the hardware store and call out a hello to his daughter-inlaw, Jackie, as he did whenever he passed there on a Saturday, and then continued on in the direction of the café. Two minutes later he was seated, as usual, at the table by the window with his good friend Grant and two other acquaintances.

“A good morning to you all!” he said, and took a sip of the coffee that had magically appeared in front of him the moment he sat down. Grant and the others looked at him suspiciously.

Andrew gazed back at them. “What?” he said.

“You are suspiciously cheerful,” said Grant. “What do you know that we don’t?”

Andrew smiled expansively. “Nothing,” he said.

“You know it too. Two days from now this will all be behind us.” The others looked at him quizzically.

“The election campaign from hell,” said Andrew in explanation.

There was an immediate murmur of agreement around the table.

“That will be a relief,” said Jack Cyr who had just finished off a plate of eggs and was moving on to the plate of toast. “It’s been a test of endurance, that’s for sure.”

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“It’s been tiring,” agreed Bill Barkley, who was sitting across from Jack. “I’ve never had to hate so many people for such a log time. Frankly, I’m exhausted.”

Grant gave Bill a curious stare. “Who do you hate, Bill?” he asked.

“Everybody,” said Bill. “I’m not prejudiced.”

“Good for you,” said Grant. “It’s important to treat everybody equally.”

“Except Mormons,” said Bill.

“What do you have against Mormons?” asked Andrew.

“Nothing,” said Bill. “They’ve always left me alone.”

“Good point,” said Jack.

“There are no Mormons around here,” said Andrew.

“That definitely helps,” said Bill.

“Well anyway,” said Grant, “it’s looking as though Canadians will once again move, in a fit of frustration, from a government plagued with scandal and corruption to a new government soon-to-be plagued with scandal and corruption.”

“Well obviously,” said Andrew cheerfully. “Is there any other choice?”

No one offered another choice.

“The point is,” said Andrew, “that after Monday, for the next five years or so, we can do what we always do.”

“What do we always do?” Jack wanted to know.

“We prove to the politicians that they’re wrong,” said Andrew.

“Wrong about what?” asked Jack.

“Everything,” said Andrew.

There was a moment of silence while the others considered this.

“Everything?” said Grant.

“Name one thing they’re not wrong about,” said Andrew.

There was another long pause.

“See what I mean?” said Andrew. “You can’t do it.”

“But if they’re wrong about everything,” said Jack, “then how do I know who to vote for?”

“It doesn’t matter,” said Andrew. “Just go to the polls and ask for a quick-pick.”

“Who are you going to vote for Andrew?” asked Bill.

“That’s for me to know,” said Andrew, “and for you to keep your nose out of.”

“I’m voting Liberal,” said Jack. “Because my kids are a bunch of marijuana-smoking criminals. But if the Liberals win my kids will suddenly be a bunch of marijuana-smoking lawabiding citizens. Which is a tiny bit better, I think.”

“Well hopefully,” said Grant, “whoever wins, things will get at least a tiny bit better.”

“I’ll vote for a tiny bit better,” said Andrew.

“All in favour, say aye.”

“Aye, aye, aye,” said the other three.

Wintering scented geraniums Here’s a tried-and-true method for taking cuttings and establishing new plants

By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

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ardeners like me who move many houseplants outdoors for the summer, now have a house full of overgrown plants. These must be cut back severely so they don’t occupy so much space and also so they can rejuvenate themselves during the winter. If the plants are not cut back, they will become even more overgrown and by next spring they will not be attractive at all.

There are some plants, however, that I do not cut back. I take slips or cuttings and discard the parent plant altogether (although not until I am sure that the cuttings have rooted just to be on the safe side). Although plants grow at a slower rate in the late fall and winter months, the cuttings will grow enough that by spring, they will be just the right size to be moved into the outdoor garden.

Coleus, Cuban oregano — in fact all of the plectranthus varieties, German ivy, and some of the tender succulents that have spent the summer outdoors will benefit from this treatment.

One group of plants that responds particularly well to this treatment is my collection of scented pelargoniums. Most of these assume a semi-trailing growth habit as they grow, and by summer’s end

Twelve-cm long terminal cuttings of pelargonium “Apple Sun,” cut off just below a leaf nodule, are dipped into rooting hormone and then inserted into dampened soilless mix to root.

PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

they can be quite large. Scented geraniums can be somewhat leggy, growing tall and not particularly bushy toward the bottom. Therefore, when I am taking cuttings from them I put about a dozen

cuttings in one six-inch pot. The cuttings, taken from the ends of stems (called terminal cuttings for that reason) should be about 12 cm long, and I dip the bottoms into a rooting hormone before I insert them into the dampened soilless mix in the pot. The cuttings are planted about four cm apart so they will be crowded, but I always count on a few not rooting and I can also remove some of the excess plants in the spring, potting them up individually for the local garden club’s spring plant sale.

I make sure to remove any flowers or buds from the cuttings to reduce stress on them, and I place the pots in bright light but not in direct sunlight. The air in my sunroom is moist enough that I do not tent the pot but if you were doing this in the house where the air is drier, you might tent the pots with plastic to prevent the planting medium from drying out.

Scented pelargoniums take a long time to root, and even after a month some of them still will not be rooted. Be patient!

Most will eventually root and the emergence of new growth will signal when a cutting has rooted. Gently wiggling a cutting and pulling up slightly on it will also let you know if it has rooted — it will easily pull out of the soil if it hasn’t rooted but you will meet with resistance if it has developed roots. After the cuttings

have rooted I move the pots to a sunny spot in front of a window in my sunroom.

Pelargoniums like lots of sun and if they don’t receive enough light they become leggy. Leggy plants can be pinched but they also can be allowed to trail.

Sometimes I insert a trellis constructed of small bamboo sticks and garden twine into the pot and train the plants up onto it if I want the growth to have an upward form.

As spring approaches, the new plants will have grown quite a bit and I feed them to encourage even more new growth. I sometimes pinch the plants at this time to encourage branching, and if I think they are too crowded I slip the root ball out of the pot and gently remove a few plants without disturbing the root ball too much. These plants are potted up separately or three to a pot.

Using cuttings and establishing new plants of scented geraniums produces nice new plants for the summer garden or for indoor display. Discarding the parent plants in the fall after cuttings have been taken allows for more efficient use of the space in front of sunny windows during the winter. If you have overgrown scented pelargoniums — or other houseplants — consider this method of wintering them. It works for me!

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Criticizing a person’s weight may actually cause them to gain Comments to encourage someone to lose weight may actually backfire University of Waterloo release

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omen whose loved ones are critical of their weight tend to put on even more pounds, says a new study on the way people’s comments affect our health.

Professor Christine Logel f r o m R e n i s o n Un i v e r s i t y College at the University of Waterloo led the study.

“When we feel bad about our bodies, we often turn to loved ones for support and advice.

How they respond can have a bigger effect than we might think,” said Logel, who teaches social development studies.

The study found that women who received a higher number of what the researchers called acceptance messages about

their weight saw better weight maintenance and even weight loss than their counterparts who did not receive this positive messaging from their loved ones.

The researchers studied university-age women, a demographic often dissatisfied with personal weight. The team of social psychologists asked the women their height and weight, and how they felt about what they see on the scale.

About five months later, they asked them if they had talked to their loved ones about their concerns, and if so, how they had responded. About three months after that, they tracked whether their weight and their concerns about it changed in that time.

“On average, the women in the study were at the high end of Health Canada’s body mass

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index (BMI) recommendations, so the healthiest thing is for them to maintain the weight they have and not be so hard on themselves,” said Logel.

“But many of the women were still very concerned about how

much they weigh, and most talked to their loved ones about it.”

Overall, the women in the sample gained some weight over time, which is not uncommon for young adults. But if the women got the message that they look fine, then they maintained or even lost a bit of weight. Women who received c o m p a ra t i ve l y f e w we i g h t acceptance messages gained almost 4.5 pounds on average, whereas women who received comparatively more weight acceptance messages lost a pound.

The results showed that when women concerned about their weight heard that their loved ones accepted them as they are, they felt better about their bodies, and subsequently they did not gain like other women did.

“Lots of research finds that social support improves our health,” said Logel. “An important part of social support is feeling we are accepted just the way we are.”

Pressure about weight loss was not helpful for women already concerned about it.

And it actually led women who weren’t originally concerned about their weight to gain some.

“We all know someone who points out our weight gain or offers to help us lose weight.

These results suggest that these comments are misguided,” said Logel.

The research suggests that feeling better about themselves caused the women to be more active or eat more sensibly. Receiving unconditional acceptance might have lowered their stress, a known cause of weight gain.

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

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

Two weeks ago we looked at the original home of Wasyl Stelmach, which he built for his family on his Riverton-area homestead about 1922. He also constructed several other traditional Ukrainian-style farm buildings on the same site, which display the same care and craftsmanship he put into his house. These buildings, a bar or “stodola” and a “stinya” are illustrated in the photograph. The “stinya” on the left housed poultry in one half and hogs in the other. This name refers to any building in which a variety of stock was kept. A neatly cut small hatchway for the chickens was constructed at ground level and can be seen just to the left of the door. The large loft area was used for feed and small equipment storage. The unusually steep pitch to the roof is a design transfer from the time when most Ukrainian buildings were built with thatch roofs which had to be steeply pitched to promote rapid run-off of rain. This same steep pitch is evident on the barn, which also features a prominent front gable and eave extension. This top-heavy roof design was more commonly found on smaller buildings such as the summer kitchens or storage sheds, however, Stelmach preferred this feature as it provided shelter for the stock and allowed for a convenient exterior loft access. It also increased the storage capacity of the loft, and protected the mud-plastered walls from rainwater damage. As with the other buildings, the logs used in the construction of the barn were carefully cut and shaped by hand. Some of the timbers are as much as 14 inches wide and extend the full 44-foot length of the building. Dovetailed joints, as usual, were used in the corners. A shed-roofed annex was added to the barn in later years for young stock. Because of their relatively recent construction, all of the log buildings on the Stelmach homestead are in excellent physical condition and are still being used by son Joseph. The Stelmach homestead is one of the best preserved of all early Ukrainian farmyards in the Interlake region. Donald Tyluk, who recently purchased the property, recognizes the value of such structures and plans on maintaining them in present condition.

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Rice off menu as Asia’s tastes turn to bread, pastries Flour demand last year hit 33.6 kg per capita, its highest since 2006

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sia is losing some of its appetite for rice in favour of wheat, a trend that is nowhere more pronounced than South Korea where bread and pastries have become a new staple.

From working mothers, who find toast more convenient to prepare for breakfast, to city dwellers flocking to new eateries for baguettes, South Koreans are at the forefront of an Asia-wide trend that has seen wheat demand climb at nearly twice the rate of rice consumption since 2008.

And while Asia is largely self-sufficient in rice, demand for bread and noodles from Mumbai to Manila has made Asia the largest and fastestgrowing market for wheat imports, s h i p p i n g i n m o re t h a n 4 0 m i l lion tonnes annually for the past five years or 25 per cent of world imports.

“I eat bread with coffee almost every morning,” said Lee SeungHee, a 47-year-old working mother of two, who often gives her children bread as a snack between meals.

“My husband likes to have rice meals, so I try to cook rice for him.

But when I’m too busy, I just give him bread.”

South Koreans spent an estimated 6.36 trillion won (C$7.2 billion) last year on bread, sandwiches, bagels a n d p a s t r i e s, a c c o rd i n g t o S P C Group, owner of the Paris Croissant and Paris Baguette chains, which has even opened two stores in the French capital Paris as part of global expansion.

Meanwhile, South Korea’s r ice consumption hit a record low of 65.1 kg per person last year, while flour consumption was the highest since 2006 at 33.6 kg, according to industry and official data.

“Housewives are increasingly having bread and coffee for brunch late morning instead of rice and kimchi,” said Kang Byung-Oh, a business professor at Chung-Ang University.

SPC Group, which runs Asia’s biggest bread-making plant and has about 5,000 bakeries in South Korea, said the local bread market has grown at an average of 15 per cent per year since 2005.

“You can find this trend across Asia, as Asian countries become westernized… Food products from wheat flour are quick, convenient,” said Koh Hee-Jong, an agriculture and life science professor at Seoul National University.

Noodles Rising wheat consumption has been focused on large cities where an emerging middle class is exposed to a proliferation of convenience foods from pizzas to sandwiches.

In Indonesia, noodle consumption has helped increase wheat demand in the world’s second-biggest importer by more than 60 per

Women choose sandwiches for lunch at a bakery in central Seoul on Oct. 13. Asia is losing some of its appetite for rice in favour of wheat, and bread and pastries have become a new staple. photos: reuters/kim hong-ji

“My husband likes to have rice meals, so I try to cook rice for him. But when I’m too busy, I just give him bread.” lee seung-hee South Korea

cent since 2005 to nearly eight million tonnes annually.

Even in India, the world’s secondlargest wheat grower, consumption is projected to surpass output by more than five million tonnes this year, sparking the largest imports in eight years.

Indian wheat demand is especially strong in the Northern Plains where it is grown, but is rising in the south where naan bread and chapattis vie with traditional rice consumption.

Bangladesh is expected to import a ro u n d t h re e m i l l i o n t o n n e s o f wheat a year to help meet four million tonnes of local demand.

“We used to take rice three times a day. Now we are taking rice only once a day,” said Humayra Ahmed, a bank employee and mother of two children in Dhaka.

China has also seen wheat demand soar and consumed a record 118 million tonnes in 2014.

Along with record pizza sales and noodle consumption, demand for cakes and pastries is also increasing.

“It’s a symbol of lifestyle, consumers pair them (cakes and pastries)

An employee serves sandwiches during lunchtime at a bakery in central Seoul earlier this month.

with coffee and chatting, and hanging out with friends,” said Linda Li, senior research analyst at Mintel China.

Producers With wheat production relatively low in some Asian countries — South Korea only produces about one to two per cent of its consumption — there is little alternative but to import more.

Australia, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, the U.S. and Europe have been the chief beneficiaries of Asian wheat

demand, seeing collective exports swell by over 40 per cent since 2005.

But a relentless climb in wheat consumption places a strain on exporters. “ When you look at wheat consumption, it is to a very large degree driven by general increase in consumption as well as swap out of rice and other staples,” said Ole Houe, an analyst at brokerage IKON Commodities in Sydney. “We need to produce a record crop every year just to meet the demand.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

Two different ways to breed the perfect cow At CL Ranch, it’s all about breeding for observable traits, but genomics is the foundation for Rocky Mountain Holsteins

By JENNIFER BLAIR Staff / Calgary

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ou won’t find a single Angus cow in Cherie Copithorne-Barnes’ herd.

But then again, you won’t find any other specific breeds either.

“One of the philosophies that we have here at CL Ranch is we’re not breed specific — we’re trait specific,” said CopithorneBarnes, CEO of the 23,000-acre ranch near Calgary. “ We are synthetic crossbreeders, and we’re building calves to match this environment.”

And the environment is a unique one. Nestled in the rolling foothills near Kananaskis Country, CL Ranch has more than 2,000 head of grass-fed cattle that need to be sturdy enough to survive droughts and snowstorms.

For that, size matters.

“We’ve found that the ideal size of cows out here is about

1,250 to 1,300 pounds, and no bigger than that,” she said.

“Our base herd — which was Hereford and Simmental with a little bit of brown Swiss — was really getting too large and was losing a lot of muscling in the hind end.”

So Copithorne-Barnes introduced an “old, traditional English breed” into the mix — the Sussex.

“From a characteristic perspective, personality, and carcass traits, they’re almost exactly like an Angus,” she said.

“But it brought in some of the more compact characteristics that we need for these cattle.”

Sussex can “survive on a lowcost, forage-based ration and still perform.”

“We’ve got to be sure these cows can handle this grass, whether or not it’s green and lush,” she said. “They have to be able to forage out here for as long as possible, and their ability to forage and gain three pounds a day is really good.”

“We don’t make our money by our milk cheque. We make our money off our breeding stock.”

Ron Churchill

Solid feet, legs, teats, and udders are a must.

“We don’t allow for excuses.

We aim for the perfect breeding, and we go from there by watching those phenotypic (observable) traits.”

But on their own, Sussex cattle are too small to stay competitive in the Canadian market. That’s where cross-breeding comes in.

“For that reason, we’re not married to any specific breed.

We’re just trying to get that perfect cow that we know will do well out here,” said Copithorne-

Barnes. “We’re breeding for traits, and traditional breeding has been done for bloodlines and characteristics within those bloodlines. We’re actually going after the individual phenotypic traits.”

But that approach comes with challenges, she said.

“The genomic side of things is coming and is advancing, but because of the different variations on the breeds that are going in, the heritability on it isn’t quite there yet. The science is getting better and better with each generation of equipment that’s being used. But unless you have 2,000 samples, they can’t guarantee that the genes are going to express themselves the same way it would if it were line bred.”

So simple observation remains key.

“We’re still on the phenotypic side, but we are very closely monitoring and learning that, through genomics, some of these traits are in fact holding true.”

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Million-dollar genetics It’s a different story at Rocky Mountain Holsteins, which specializes in — you guessed it — purebred Holstein cattle.

“We’re a little different than most dairies. We are what we call an elite breeding genetic barn,” said farm manager Ron Churchill.

“We don’t make our money by our milk cheque. We make our money off our breeding stock.”

The Cochrane operation — owned by David Chalack and Glenn Hockley — runs its 180-head dairy cattle herd on 240 acres of prime real estate.

But they’re not in the dairy business.

“We only milk 30 cows, and probably 80 per cent of those are very elite genetic cows that we use for breeding stock all over the world,” said Churchill.

“We put a lot of money into our animals, and we get a lot of money out of some of them.”

Rocky Mountain Holsteins focuses almost solely on breeding stock — primarily embryo transfer and in vitro fertilization — but live animal sales are lucrative as well.

“Every two years, we have a genetics sale. In July, we sold 104 animals, and the average was $9,000,” said Churchill, a d d i n g o n e c ow s o l d f o r $197,000.

In a two-year cycle, Rocky Mountain Holsteins makes around $1 million in sales, between embryos (which can run around $1,500 a pop), royalties on their bulls, and live animals.

But it takes money to make money, such as paying $60,000 for a single calf. But it was a profitable transaction — she eventually sold for nearly twice that after being bred and flushed of embryos for around 15 pregnancies.

Selling stock is never a challenge for the group.

“We do a lot on Facebook, and we have a website that we keep updated,” said Churchill, adding most genetics sales are into international markets.

“There’s people who know our cow families, and they’re following us. If we put on that we’ve got a cow we just flushed and got embryos out of, the phone’s ringing and they’re gone pretty quick.”

But how did Rocky Mountain Ho l s t e i n s d e ve l o p s u c h a high-demand Holstein line?

Through genomics, said Churchill.

“We test the calves for their DNA and what traits they would pass on,” he said. “What we hope is that when we DNA test them, we’ll get a good one or two out of the bunch that we can either breed from or market.”

Unlike the rest of the dairy industry, which looks for herd health traits like easy calving and good feet, Rocky Mountain Holsteins breeds for, well, breeding.

“When we’re breeding, we’re not breeding for a cow that’s going to stand in a barn,” said Churchill. “We’re breeding for a bull that’s going to work in a 3,000-cow dairy. We don’t want to make big cows. We want to make nice cows that milk hard and have less problems.” jennifer.blair@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

Rice empowers Cameroon women farmers Project provides more than 13,000 farmers with improved seeds, fertilizer, herbicide, equipment and training

An African rice field. Some farmers in wet areas find rice to be a better alternative to maize or vegetables. Photo: Thinkstock

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omen farmers in wester n Cameroon are leading the way in commercial rice production, benefiting from new seeds and marketing opportunities that are helping them cope with climate stresses and provide for their families.

A program run by the Upper Nu n Va l l e y D e v e l o p m e n t Authority (UNVDA), a government agro-industry body, aims to help rice farmers adopt better crop varieties, use water more efficiently and adapt to climate change.

“I have been able to pay school fees for my children and medical bills from the sale of my rice crop, unlike before when the harvest from my vegetable farm was uncertain,” said Bridget Ngang, one of over 300 female commercial rice farmers in Ndop.

Her vegetables were often r u i n e d w h e n h e a v y ra i n s brought floods, she explained.

Ca m e r o o n’s In s t i t u t e o f A g r i c u l t u ra l Re s e a rc h f o r Development (IARD), together with international partners, has developed improved rice varieties that are more resistant to climate extremes, as well as farm technologies to increase rice productivity.

In the last 15 years, scientists have released 18 varieties under a line called New Rice for Africa (NERICA), developed by the Africa Rice Center which crossed an African species tolerant to local stresses, including drought and pests, and a high-yielding Asian species.

“These varieties can resist submersion, droughts and high temperatures including pests and diseases,” said UNVDA general manager Chin Richard Wirnkar.

The local development authority is involved in a project led by the Africa Rice Center which has established a “rapid impact” seed program to distribute new high-yield seed varieties to farmers.

It also promotes post-harvest technologies like rice milling and packaging, processing activities, and stronger links with input dealers and micro-finance institutions.

The project gives households opportunities to raise their income by developing new ricebased products like rice flour and husks for fuel, and exploring the use of rice in fortified foods, including vitamin-rich cereals.

land, and also allows them to participate in decision-making on land matters, but customary norms have made it hard for women to obtain land.

When UNVDA launched its project in 2012 to support over 13,000 rice farmers nationwide with improved seeds, fertilizer, herbicide, information, training and equipment rental, the women in Ndop did not want to miss out.

With help from the African W o m e n ’s N e t w o r k f o r Community Management of Forests (REFACOF), they held a series of protests, pushing local authorities to allocate them land so they could join men in commercial rice farming.

Ngang and Agoh are just two of millions of African women farmers who have suffered from cultural practices or laws denying them access to land. But their success in overcoming those barriers suggest things may be changing in Cameroon.

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and had to import up to 375,000 tonnes to meet demand, according to figures cited by the IRRI. But experts say production has been on the rise since women embraced the commercial rice production scheme. The land developed for rice fields under the UNDVA project more than doubled last year to around 3,300 hectares, and it is adding 700 hectares more in northwestern villages.

Things were not the same even five years ago, when tradition prevented women in the area acquiring or inheriting land they could use for large-scale commercial farming.

“We were condemned to produce on small rented plots that limited us to subsistence agriculture with crops like maize and vegetables that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change and food crop loss,” said Agoh.

Cameroon’s 1996 constitution grants women the same rights as men to access, own and control

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Income boost Mary Agoh, 52, farms rice on 15 hectares (37 acres) of land in Ndop, in Cameroon’s Northwest Region, from which she now comfortably feeds her family, selling her surplus to wholesale buyers to boost her income.

In a country where 40 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line, Agoh is now counted among the wealthy.

She and Ndop’s other women rice farmers are helping boost Cameroon’s rice production to unprecedented levels.

In the last few years, Cameroon grew less than 20 per cent of the rice it needed.

In 2012, the country produced 102,000 tonnes of paddy rice

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

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Wawanesa-area producer recognized for conservation accomplishments Conservation district award winners have worked to preserve waterways through an off-site watering station and dam construction

BY JENNIFER PAIGE Co-operator staff

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onservation is a consideration in all the decisions on Walter and Wendy Cullen’s farm beside the Souris River and along the Assiniboine delta aquifer.

“Living next to the river has its challenges to say the least, but you have to work with what you’ve got and work with the land instead of fighting against it,” Walter said. “Incorporating conservation efforts is necessary for the future and that is what we are all here for.”

The Cullens were awarded the 2014 Assiniboine Hills Conservation District Award for their continued conservation efforts within the community and on their third-generation farm near Wawanesa.

“Paying attention and taking waterways into consideration is definitely beneficial to everyone and in their own way farmers are probably some of the best conservation people in the world,” Walter said.

This year the Cullen family marked another milestone — 100 years of owning and operating the Oak Springs Farm.

“My grandparents came here in 1915, so it has been 100 years this year that the Cullens have been on this land,” Walter said.

“Paying attention and taking waterways into consideration is definitely beneficial to everyone and in their own way farmers are probably some of the best conservation people in the world.”

Walter Cullen

He purchased the family farm from his father in 1974, and today operates 100 cow-calf pairs and 1,300 acres of owned and rented land for grain, hay and pasture.

Walter has been on the Assiniboine Hills Conservation District board for 13 years and is currently a councillor for the RM of South Cypress.

“Being involved with the district has been a win-win for me and I really think that it would be a winwin for anyone who gets involved.

There are so many things they do that are beneficial to the land and your farm,” Walter said.

Over the years the Cullens have undertaken several conservation efforts, including creating an off-site watering system for their cattle.

Wendy and Walter Cullen were named the 2014 Assiniboine Hills Conservation District Award winners. Photos: Jennifer Paige

“We created the watering system to try and see if it would keep the cows off of the river and it was amazing; they would go and drink at the trough instead of walking down to the river. I never would have believed it if someone told me but it worked,” said Walter.

The Cullens also built a dam to reduce water erosion and use a

molehill leveller to extend the life of forage stands.

“We have used the leveller for a number of years,” said Walter.

“Moles make a mess of the alfalfa.

We use the leveller and it has really prolonged our alfalfa for years.”

Both Walter and Wendy encourage residents to get involved with their local conservation districts and to be mindful of preserving waterways.

“We live on the aquifer here as well, which is the best drinking water and that is something that we should all be protecting,” Walter said. “The mindset of people needs to get away from clearing every acre of land.

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Walter and Wendy Cullen created an off-site watering system to keep their cattle away from the river.

we are trying to protect the land as much as we can but the more people who become involved the better.” jennifer.paige@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

Rich nations’ farm subsidies disadvantage poor countries’ farmers Support artificially lowers price, allowing food to be sold on international markets below the cost of production

BY CHRIS ARSENAULT Thomson Reuters Foundation / Toronto

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ich nations are spending $250 billion annually subsidizing their agricultural sectors to the detriment of poor farmers as they artificially lower prices for some crops and block market access for growers from poor countries, a new study said.

Wealthy nations spend 20 times more on farm subsidies than the $12 billion they allocate to food aid and support for poor farmers annually, John McArthur, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, the think-tank which led the new research, said Oct. 16.

Ja p a n s p e n d s 5 9 t i m e s as much supporting its own farmers than on food aid and nutrition support, while countries in the European Union spend 42 times as much and the United States spends 16 times as much, the Brookings Institution study said.

“There are a lot of ways countries can give artificial support for their own farmers, hurting farmers in Asian or African countries who could supply that (product) for better value,” McArthur told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Subsidies from the 31 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a group of wealthy countries, included direct payments to farmers, trade barriers to food from poor countries, and mandates for biofuels, he said.

These supports for farmers in wealthy countries can hinder food production in developing states by artificially allowing food to be sold on international markets below the cost of production, hindering access for unsubsidized growers.

T h i s p r o c e s s , k n ow n a s “dumping” in international trade, discourages poor farmers from investing in their operations or ramping up production as they cannot fairly compete with subsidized crops. This in turn hurts food security in poor countries.

But it is not only rich-world subsidies that hurt poor farmers. Countries in Africa and Asia also need to invest more in infrastructure, fertilizer and crop insurance to help growers reach their potential to feed the 795 million worldwide who don’t have enough to eat.

Undernourishment in the developing world has been falling by roughly one percentage point ever y three years.

But to eliminate hunger entirely by 2030, in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals, the speed of hunger reduction needs to significantly accelerate, McArthur said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

Critics see TPP as edge of wedge for U.S. milk A U.S. economist sees the deal as a breakthrough for U.S. suppliers Staff

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U.S. dairy sector economist is the latest observer to suggest Canada’s concessions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership may eventually lead to more imports of U.S. milk than Ottawa bargained for.

Agricultural economist Andrew Novakovic of New York’s Cornell University said in a release that the TPP, for U.S. producers, marks a major opportunity in Canada’s supplymanaged dairy market.

“The breakthrough for the dairy chapter was a Canadian agreement, under heavy U.S. lobbying, to expose their closed system to slightly greater imports, which (Canada) cleverly will do within their production quota system,” he said Oct. 7.

Canada said Oct. 5 that despite “significant and broad demands from several of our TPP negotiating partners,” it offered “only limited” new access for supply-managed products such as dairy.

Access to the Canadian dairy market, granted through quotas to be phased in over five years, amounts to 3.25 per cent of Canada’s current annual dairy production, with a “significant majority” of that additional milk and butter to be directed to value-added processing, the federal government said Monday.

Dairy farm profitability in Canada is “more stable than the U.S., but not dramatically higher,” Novakovic said. “The implication is that (Canada’s) supply-managed system has, over time, allowed increased costs to be rewarded with increased prices.”

From 1991 through 2000, he said, Canadian farm milk prices averaged 18 per cent higher than those in the U.S., but since 2000, they have averaged 62 per cent higher.

Hindu mob lynches Indian Muslim rumoured to have killed a cow Eating beef is not illegal in the region, but killing a cow is forbidden

By Rupam Jain Nair New Delhi/Reuters

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Access via the Trans-Pacific Partnership will allow U.S. dairy suppliers to build commercial relationships and consumer confidence in Canada, a U.S. dairy economist says. file photo

“Eliminating the protection of the Canadian cocoon is a frightful prospect for Canadian farmers and an alluring opportunity for world exporters, including New Zealand and the U.S.” Provincial dair y associations estimated 3.25 per cent of Canada’s 2016 dairy production will amount to about 250 million litres of milk. The British Columbia and Alberta boards estimated the deal would displace about 23 million and 22 million litres of milk respectively from their provinces’ producers.

C a n a d a ’s c o n c e s s i o n , Novakovic said, “represents a brand new opportunity for the U.S. to develop marketing relationships with Canadian processing and marketing companies and the confidence of Canadian consumers.”

That opportunity, he said, “will be available to any dairy firm in the U.S., but it will be especially enticing to border states, like New York. As a beginning, it is assuredly mod-

“As a beginning, it is assuredly modest, but what is terribly important is that it is a beginning.” andrew novakovic Cornell University

est, but what is terribly important is that it is a beginning.”

Denis Richard, president of Quebec agri-food co-operative La Coop federee, said the “breach” to Canada’s tariff barriers for dairy is “of great concern” and it adds to the “laxity of border protection that has arisen in recent years through the uncontrolled importation of milk proteins and poultry.”

Ottawa, he said in a separate release Oct. 5, “needs to put a lock on all new dairy and poultry imports. The future of supply management itself,

and that of thousands of dairy farms across Canada, depends on it.”

Measures announced Oct. 5 to strengthen border controls against unauthorized dairy imports “will not stop the flow of milk protein entering the country,” he added. “It is urgent that a solution to this issue be found.”

Ottawa’s further plans for a $1.5-billion compensation package for loss of quota value over 10 years, and $2.4 billion for lost income over 15 years, seem “unnecessarily high, if we are only talking about a 3.25 per cent dairy quota cut,” Jan Slomp, president of Canada’s National Farmers Union, said in a separate release.

Those dollar amounts, he said, suggest “the intent is to completely dismantle dairy supply management over the next 10 years.”

Canada’s supply-managed sectors, he said, instead “should have been kept right out of TPP negotiations.”

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Hindu mob killed a Muslim man in India over rumours that he butchered a cow, unleashing violence Sept.

30 that police blamed on tension fuelled by politicians who seek strict protection of an animal many Hindus consider sacred.

While many members of India’s majority Hindu community see cows as holy, beef is widely eaten

by Hindus in parts of the south, as well as by members of lower castes and minority Muslims and Christians.

Tougher measures to safeguard cows are often used as a rallying call by politicians seeking to win Hindu votes, sometimes leading to Hindu-Muslim riots.

Mo h a m m a d A k h l a q, a blacksmith, died after being kicked and beaten with stones by at least 10 men in the town of Dadri, 50 km (30 miles) from the capital, New Delhi, Sept.

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A larger group had earlier gathered outside his home, accusing his family of secretly eating beef.

“I screamed and shouted to tell the mob that we did not eat beef, and they should stop beating my father and my brother, but they pushed me away,” his daughter, Sajida Saifi, who watched the attack helplessly, told Reuters.

Akhlaq’s son was taken to hospital with severe injuries.

The murder triggered clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the town, and extra police were deployed to keep the peace.

The rhetoric about cow protection had emboldened some people to act as vigilantes, said police officer Anurag Kumar, who is investigating the lynching.

“The incident is shocking,” he said. “The Hindu mob felt they had a licence to kill.”

India is the world’s largest exporter of beef and its fifth-biggest consumer, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government wants a nationwide ban on cow slaughter and the beef trade, which is run mostly by Muslims.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

California adopts tough rules for antibiotic use in livestock The state Agriculture Department would monitor sales and use

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alifornia Governor Jerry Brown on Oct. 10 signed a bill that sets the strictest government standards in the U.S. for the use of antibiotics in livestock production.

The move from California, known for its leadership on public health and environmental issues, comes amid growing concern that the overuse of such drugs is contributing to rising numbers of lifethreatening human infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as “superbugs.”

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that two million people in this countr y are infected with drug-resistant bacteria each year and that 23,000 die as a direct result.

“This puts California at the forefront of U.S. efforts to address the overuse of antibiotics in meat production,” said Avinash Kar, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Roughly 70 per cent of antibiotics important for human m e d i c i n e a re s o l d i n t h e United States for use in meat and dairy production, public health experts say.

Veterinary use of antibiotics is legal. However, as the number of human infections from antibiotic-resistant bact e r i a i n c re a s e s, c o n s u m e r advocates, public health experts and investors have become more critical of the practice of routinely feeding antibiotics to chickens, cattle and pigs.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

Saputo buys goat cheese maker Woolwich Dairy

Gene editing could pave way for pig organ transplants

The family-owned Ont. firm has plants in Quebec and Wisconsin

Risk from pig viruses so far prevents whole organs’ use in humans

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.S. researchers have used a new gene editing technique to trim away potentially harmful virus genes that have impeded the use of pig organs for transplants in humans.

The study, published in the journal Science, expands on capabilities of the genome editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9, which works as a type of molecular scissors that can selectively trim away unwanted parts of the genome.

Previous efforts with the technology have only managed to cut away six areas of the genome at one go. In the latest study led

by Dr. George Church, a geneticist from Harvard Medical School, researchers simultaneously snipped away genetic material in 62 specific locations in the pig genome.

While Church’s team has shown that it is feasible to drastically edit the genome of pigs to remove native pig viruses from pig cells, it has not shown that such organs would be safe to use in people.

Still, Church said in a statement he believes the technology will one day make it possible for pig organs to be used as a sub-

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stitute for human organs for patients in need of a transplant and for whom there are no suitable donor organs.

Church first revealed his team’s feat at an Oct. 5 workshop at the National Academy of Sciences, which is studying the potential risks and ethical concerns of human genome editing.

The technology has ignited an ethical debate after biologists in China reported carrying out the first experiment to alter the DNA of human embryos. British scientists have subsequently asked for permission to edit human embryos.

In the pig experiment, one concern is the potential for genomic rearrangements, in which the editing technique inadvertently makes unwanted changes to the genome. In the Harvard trial, this did not appear to happen.

Church has co-founded a biotechnology company called eGenesis to produce pigs for organ transplants.

Pig-to-human transplants are not novel. Currently, pig heart valves that have been scrubbed and depleted of pig cells are commonly used to repair faulty human heart valves.

But whole pig organs, which are functionally similar to human organs, cannot be used because of the potential for transmission of latent retroviruses, which are harmless in pigs, but could cause illness in people.

Using CRISPR-Cas9, the researchers said, they showed a reduction of more than a thousandfold in transmission of such retroviruses to human cells using the team’s engineered cells.

anada’s biggest cheese maker is expanding its reach in the goat dairy market with an all-cash deal for Ontario goat’s-milk processor Woolwich Dairy.

Montreal-based Saputo announced Oct. 5 it has paid $80 million for the familyowned cheese-making company, including its three plants and distribution centre.

Based at Orangeville, north of Guelph, Woolwich has operated since 1983 and has been owned by the Dutra family since 1989.

The company makes Chevrai, goat brie, cheddar, feta and mozzarella cheeses and branched out in 2011 to include the Wholesome Goat line of goat’s-milk ice creams and goat cheese-based salad dressings.

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Woolwich Dairy operations which will remain active.”

The company sources goat’s milk from over 200 goat farmers in Ontario, supplying its 40,000-square-foot plant at Orangeville. Woolwich in 2011 also set up a 25,000-squarefoot distribution facility at Amaranth, just west of Orangeville.

Wo o l w i c h’s F r o m a g e r i e Madame Chevre plant, built in 2005 at Princeville, Que., southeast of Trois-Rivieres, is focused on high-end surfaceripened specialty cheeses.

Wo o l w i c h s i n c e 2 0 0 8 has also operated a plant at Lancaster, Wisconsin, about 130 km west of Madison, buying from U.S. producers and focused on the U.S. market.

Saputo, whose own brands include the Alexis de Portneuf line of goat cheeses, said buying Woolwich, which employs about 190 people, allows it to “increase its presence in the specialty cheese category in North America.”

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M Beef will close its southwestern Minnesota beefprocessing plant on Dec. 11, due to tight cattle supplies, the company said Oct. 13.

The company announced the Windom plant’s closure to employees and owners during meetings Oct. 12, according to local media.

Prices for slaughter cattle last year hit record highs in the wake of severe drought in 2012 that forced ranchers to downsize their herds.

“Closing the facility was a very difficult but necessary decision based on years of deteriorating industry conditions, including rising cattle prices and limited cattle supply,” said Lisa Hernandez, president of PM Beef Holdings.

The company said it would continue to search for a buyer who might eventually resume operations, Hernandez said.

The PM Beef facility at Windom, about 150 km east of Sioux Falls, S.D., employs about 300 people.

Industry experts estimated the plant slaughters roughly 900 head of cattle per day, c o m p a re d t o s o m e o f i t s larger competitors such as Tyson Foods and JBS Swift, which have an estimated daily slaughter capacity of about 5,000 head.

The closing will hurt those who supply high-grade cattle for the PM Beef plant, said Jim Robb, director of the Co l o ra d o - b a s e d L i v e s t o c k Marketing Information Center, adding that PM Beef’s competition would likely buy those cattle at less money.

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Four-day meat ban in Mumbai sparks outrage India’s Jain community is observing an eightday religious fast Mumbai / Reuters

India’s financial capital banned the slaughter and sale of meat for four days this month following a demand from the strictly vegetarian Jain community, sparking outrage among meat eaters already upset by a permanent beef ban imposed this year.

Ban opponents created the Twitter hashtag #banistan, which trended along with #meatban, urging people to “eat and let eat.”

Members of India’s tiny, but financially powerful, Jain community will observe a religious fast for eight days from Sept. 11.

Officials said they demanded the ban as their religion prescribes non-violence to all living beings.

The ban in Mumbai will be imposed on four non-consecutive days from Sept. 10, said Kaleem Pathan, deputy general manager of the city’s Deonar abattoir. It covers the slaughter of buffalos, goats and hogs, but excludes fish and poultry.

It is not unusual for authorities to impose meat-free days and ban alcohol on India’s national days, but the latest strictures angered many who said religious groups should not impose their preferences on an entire city.

“The Jains are entitled to their own beliefs and can peacefully follow what they believe in,” said Mumbai resident Lavanya Chhabra, who runs a firm making air fresheners for cars.

“But they should not be in any way involved in imposing a ban that affects others.”

Mohammed Ali Qureshi, president of industry body the Bombay Suburban Beef Dealers’ Association, said, “Jains do not eat onions and garlic as well, so tomorrow is the government going to ban those items also?”

The community forms just two per cent of the population in the western state of Maharashtra, where Mumbai is located, Qureshi said, adding, “This is clearly not the right thing to do.”

India is home to 300 million cattle and is the world’s largest beef exporter and fifth-biggest consumer.

Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party came to power last year, rhetoric on the protection of cows, which Hindus consider holy, has increased.

Critics say tougher anti-beef laws discriminate against Muslims, Christians and lower-caste Hindus who rely on the cheap meat for protein. Butchers and cattle traders, many of them Muslim, say the push threatens thousands of jobs.

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he Yukon government has launched a pilot program to help cover veterinarians’ travel and service expenses for farm calls.

The territory government on Sept. 15 announced it will accept up to 30 farmers for the pilot of the Veterinary Services Program, running from now to the end of March 2016.

The program will reimburse participating veterinarians for up to $1,000 per farm. Eligible costs include a veterinarian’s travel costs to and from a farm; professional service and farm call fees; and fees for up to three phone consultations.

Farms that raise beef cattle, dairy cattle, goats, sheep, poultry, swine, alpacas, llamas, yaks, elk, bison, muskox and/or farmed fish for human consumption are eligible to enrol in the pilot.

Horses, which are “not raised for food in Yukon,” are not covered. People with “six or fewer poultry” will be eligible for $250 per premises per year.

Livestock owners would still be responsible for paying fees for testing samples and for any drugs, vaccines or treatments their animals require.

Beyond the end of March, the government said, the program “may be renewed if an evaluation shows it is successful and financial support continues to be available.” The pilot is backed by the Growing Forward 2 federal/provincial/territorial ag policy funding framework.

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Because many farmers live far from veterinary clinics, “travel costs can be a barrier to obtaining veterinary services,” the government said.

Yukon livestock producers previously had such a program in place to cover vets’ travel costs and “there has been an interest from several parties to re-establish this.”

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MEF Announces Laying Hen Quota Draw

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MACK AUCTION COMPANY presents a relocation auction for Ensign Well Servicing Sat., Oct. 24th, 2015 10:00am. Ensign yard Hwy 39 East Service Road Estevan, SK. Contact person Jeff (780)201-9376 Live internet bidding www.bidspotter.com! Commercial & Oilfield equip plus much more! 2012 Mahindra FWA tractor w/only 498-hrs; Farm King 755 3-PTH finishing mower; 1997 Volvo tandem pump truck w/Series 60 engine; 1991 tandem axle Pump truck w/Cummins engine; 2010 Kenworth T660 hwy tractor semi w/Double sleeper & all new rubber; 2006 IH hwy tractor truck w/big sleeper & Cummins engine; 1995 Freightliner tandem truck w/Cummins & 9-SPD; 1996 IH Navistar tandem axle truck w/DT4; 1996 IH tandem axle truck w/10-SPD; 2007 Ford F150 XLT regular cab 4WD; 2006 Ford F350 Super Duty crew cab; 2005 Ford F350 Super Duty Crew Cab 2WD, 5th Wheel tandem axle mobile pump & tank unit; 1972 Frue-hauf 40-ft. tandem catwalk trailer; Cat 930 wheel loader w/pallet forks & bucket; 2007 2660 Genie tough terrain scissor lift w/26ft. height, Mission pumps; well head flanges; tubing elevators; rig riders; pump manifolds; drilling blocks; draw works clutches; Wagner accumulator; anchor augers, ac-cumulator bottles; subsite line locators, Carolina hyd press; Carolina power hack saw; Carolina en-gine hoist; Jet pallet jack; Acklands welder; desk; chairs, cabinets plus much more! Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us on Facebook & Twitter. (306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962

AUTO & TRANSPORT AUTO & TRANSPORT Auto & Truck Parts

For five laying hen quotas of 6,000 (six thousand) hens each.

Due to Manitoba Egg Farmers’ animal care policy, the laying hens will be required to be housed in a non-conventional setting. Free run, aviary, or furnished housing (nest box and perches) are acceptable.

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75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard 100,000PSI high tensile roofing & siding. 16 colours to choose from.

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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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6 QUICK ATTACH EXCAVATOR buckets, some trenching & clean-up buckets, plus 6 excavator rippers, some Cat’s & WBM’s. (204)871-0925, MacGregor MB.

PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: NE14-12-17W in the RM of Elton – Approx 121 cultivated in 2014. The remaining area is grass, slough, and creek bed.

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Not responsible for errors in description. Subject to additions and or deletions. Property owners and Fraser Auction Service not responsible for any accidents. GST & PST where applicable. TERMS: Cash or cheque. NOTE: cheques of $50,000 or more must be accompanied by bank letter of credit. Sale conducted by FRASER AUCTION SERVICE 1-800-483-5856 www.fraserauction.com

Large Inventory of new and remanufactured parts

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Parcel consist of 1 quarter section of land approx 160 acres (Based on 2014 tax assessments) Copies of Property Tax Bill is included in package showing assessments and acre area. R.M. map showing property is also included in package.

CAVEATS: The buyer will accept title subject to existing caveats and the land in its current condition.

WATROUS SALVAGE WaTRoUs, sK. Fax: 306-946-2444

03 D6R XW SERIES II Cat, w/1 BB1 ripper, 28-in. pads, A/C cab, diff steering, $80,000; 2000 D6R Cat LGP, cab A/C, canopy, diff steering, winch, Aframe dozer 16-ft. 8-in., very clean, $85,000; 2007 D6M LGP Cat C-W 6 way dozer, A/C cab, canopy, diff steering, 1 BB1 MS ripper, 8,626-hrs, extremely clean, under carriage is like new, $96,000; 04 D6N LGP crawler, 6 way dozer A/C cab, diff steering, Allied W6G winch, 1,624-hrs, $84,000.

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Information on land to be sold by written opening bid and phone auction:

The Real Used FaRm PaRTs sUPeRsToRe Over 2700 Units for Salvage • TRACTORS • COMBINES • SWATHERS • DISCERS Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN (306) 946-2222 monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

BUSINESS SERVICES Crop Consulting

CORRAL CLEANER W/3-YD LOADER & 3 vertical spreaders. Taking new customers. Call or text (204)730-3139.

FARM LAND AUCTION IN BRANDON, MANITOBA • WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28th • 1:00 PM

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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.

ST. LAZARE, MB. 1-800-510-3303

CONTRACTING

LAND SALE

GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528 or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.

1-800-667-9871 •• Regina 1-800-667-9871 Regina 1-800-667-3095 •• Saskatoon 1-800-667-3095 Saskatoon 1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg 1-800-667-3095 Manitoba 1-800-222-6594 •• Edmonton

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BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Roofing

BUSINESS SERVICES

Applications are only open to individuals or Hutterite Colonies residing in Manitoba; Partnerships and Corporations are not eligible. No individual and no Hutterite Colony shall be eligible to be selected if that individual or that Colony is or at any time was a registered egg producer or is/was a partner or a shareholder of an entity that is/was a registered egg producer.

Completed applications must be post-marked no later than Friday November 13, 2015 and must include the $210 application fee.

Visit our website: Incomplete applications will not be accepted. www.eggs.mb.ca The new entrant draw will take place on to download the application November 26, 2015 and will be conducted by form and detailed instructions. an independent third party auditor.

• Quality Commercial/Agricultural/Residential Overhead Doors & Operators.

• Aluminum Polycarbonate Doors Available.

• Non-Insulated and Insulated Sectional Doors Available.

• Liftmaster Heavy Duty Operators.

• Mullion Slide Away Centre Posts.

• Commercial/Agricultural Steel Man Doors and Frames.

• Your washbay door specialists. • Quality Installation & Service.

• 24 Hour Service. • Replacement Springs & Cables.

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STEINBACH, MB. Ph. 326-2443 Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727 Fax (204) 326-5878 Web site: farmparts.ca E-mail: roy@farmparts.ca FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous 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 1836 SKIDSTEER LOADER, Kubota DSL motor, 3,600-hrs, good tires, asking $9,500. Phone (204)761-7680

CAT 60 HYDRAULIC SCRAPER. Excellent shape.

Tires very good. $23,500.

John Dueck 204-746-8733 Morris, MB. FOR SALE: D-7-17A. New clutch, approx. 50-hrs ago; engine rebuild, approx. 250-hrs ago. W/angle dozer & winch. Very nice, tight machine. Very nice under carriage. $25,000.Phone:(204)871-0925.

FARM MACHINERY 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

Available at:

Redfern Farm Services Ltd. Rivers, MB

(204) 328-5325 www.dseriescanola.ca

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FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous DISCS BUSHOG 25-FT, $2500; Bushog 30-ft, $7500; Krause Rock cushion 30-ft, $9500; JD 16-ft, $3500-$5000; Breaking discs Towner 18-ft; Kewanee 12, 14, 15-ft; DMI ripper, 5 shank, $8900; 7 shank, $10,900; McKee 7-ft snowblower $1200; Leon front blade 12-ft, $3500; 10-ft blade, $1500; Box scraper 10-ft, $2450; 3-PH Blade 9-ft $950; Hyd post auger, $2200; Grain screeners $200 up; Kwik Kleen 5 tube, $4500; 7 tube, $6500.

(204)857-8403, www.zettlerfarmequipment.com JD 4 BOTTOM AUTO reset plow 4x22-in. shears, $2,500; Intl 2250 Loader off 5088 Intl tractor, excellent condition, $3,000. Phone (204)886-2994 or (204)886-7471.

NEW GRAVITY WAGONS 400B, $7400; 600B, $12,500; 750B, $18,250. Large selection used wagons; 250-750 Bushel used grain carts, 475-1050 Bushel; PTO & Hydraulic drive Grainvacs: Brandt #4000, $8000; #4500, $8500; REM 2500 HD, $9500; Weigh wagon, $3500; Valmar #2420, $3000; #3255, $3500; #1620, #1655; Wishek discs: #842 14-ft, $25,000; #742 30-ft, $33,000; #842 30ft, $40,000; Land levellers 10-ft, $2450. Phone (204)857-8403.

USED FERTILIZER SPREADERS 4-8 ton large selection, Haul all drill fill w/brush auger, $2500. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com (204)857-8403.

Spraying EquipmEnt

LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT

SPRAYING EQUIPMENT Sprayers

12V. or Hydraulic Electronic Scale Opt.

JD 4720 2006: 90-ft boom, SS tank, 2,060-hrs, VGC. 2 sets of wheel. Ph:(204)752-2252.

TracTors

1 877 695 2532 www.ezefeeder.ca

TRACTORS Case/ IH

MUSICAL

2096 CASE TRACTOR, new tires, good condition, $15,000 OBO; 630 Case-o-matic w/new rubber, $2,000 OBO; 430 Case dual trip range drive, $1,600 OBO. Jack Pawich (204)827-2162, Glenboro.

CD’S GOSPEL, FIDDLING; Q-chord $300; Trumpet, Clarinet, Flute, $250/each. Lapsteel $229; 6-string banjo $249; Digital piano, $399.95; 76 note keyboard, $299; Violin set, $129.95; Mandolin, $129.95; Harmonicas, $10-$225; Guitars $79.95-$699; Amplifiers $69.95-$1,000; Microphones $19.95-$200. Hildebrand Music, Portage La Prairie mall. Phone:(204)857-3172.

FOR SALE 1086 IHC with 8814 hrs. 20.8 radial duels like new. CAH tractor is very clean. Ph: (204)797-3515

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

TRACTORS Various

Combines COMBINES Ford/New Holland 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.

COMBINES John Deere

BOLENS IZEKI TRACTOR, 15 horsepower diesel front and rear PTO, 3 speed rear PTO category 1, 3 point hits, turf tires, mower deck. Ph: (204) 735-2478.

WANTED: COCKSHUT 1900/1950 4WD parts tractor. Phone:(204)724-6309.

WANTED: MODEL 4-270 WHITE 4WD, In good condition. Phone:(204)467-2618 after 7:00 p.m.

JOHN DEERE 1986 224 Sunflower header, 24-ft w/9-in sunflower pans & power drum, $5000. Phone for more info, (204)483-0764.

Big Tractor Parts, Inc.

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

LIVESTOCK LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

Geared For The Future

STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALIST

Available at:

Baldur Agro Baldur, MB

(204) 535-2598 www.dseriescanola.ca COMBINES Accessories

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

HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING

Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519

GRUNTHAL, MB.

AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING

REGULAR CATTLE SALES

every TUESDAY at 9 am October 27th

Monday, October 26th at Noon

Sheep and Goat with Small Animals & Holstein Calves

Saturday, October 31st at 10 am

Tack and Horse Sale

For on farm appraisal of livestock or for marketing information please call

Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250 Auction Mart (204) 434-6519 MB. Livestock Dealer #1111

WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM

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LIVESTOCK Cattle – Black Angus FOR SALE: HERD DISPERSAL. 6 bred cows, healthy, sound, young, quiet, Purebred, w/3 May 2015 calves. $22,000. Phone(204)534-6185. Boissevain, MB. Registered Black Angus Bulls Three, 2-yr old Registered Black Angus bulls for sale. $3000/bull. (204) 489-1681 sherlynn2007@yahoo.com

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

www.penta.ca

IRON & STEEL

1-800-587-4711

IRON & STEEL

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Red Angus 10 RED ANGUS COWS with spring calves. Phone (204)371-6404.

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

1-800-782-0794.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Hereford FOR SALE: REG POLLED Hereford cows 2, 3 yr olds; 1, 4 yr old w/Heifer calf. Also some hay bales.

Phone Martin (204)425-3820, Vita, MB.

125 BISMARCK STREET, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA (off Springfield Rd)

STORE • No minimum order • Sells steel by the length, or by the foot & full or part sheets

• While-you-wait we can: saw, shear, punch, drill • Express delivery

CONTACT THE STORE DIRECT:

store@brunswicksteel.com 204-224-6212

SERVICE CENTRE • Competitively priced on volume orders • Superior stock selection • Processing Services

CONTACT THE SERVICE CENTRE:

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES All Terrain Vehicles

• Hardox Wearparts • Express Orders

LIVESTOCK Cattle Various FOR SALE: 50 COWS Red Angus X Simm, bred Black Simm. Fall Delivery. Richard (204)773-2824.

LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

sales@brunswicksteel.com 204-224-1472

MAKE IT. WORK.

(204) 759-4240 www.dseriescanola.ca

KELLN SOLAR SUMMER/WINTER WATERING System, provides water in remote areas, improves water quality, increases pasture productivity, extends dugout life. St. Claude/Portage, 204-379-2763.

REAL ESTATE Land For Sale

FARM LAND FOR SALE BY TENDER 25 QUARTER SECTIONS* IN MUNICIPALITY OF LOUISE AND MUNICIPALITY OF PEMBINA ESTATE OF LATE ROBERT EDWARD ALVIN FINDLAY. 15-08-14 4:03 PM 1142 D-Series Manitoba Calssifieds.indd 4 REAL ESTATE Sealed tenders in writing will be received for the purchase of the following property: Parcel 1: NW Houses & Lots 13-01-09 W 155-ac. pasture, creek and bush, 5 ac.

Cultivated; Parcel 2: NE 13-01-09 W 60-ac. cultivatREADY TO MOVE HOME Builder since 1976 ed, 100-ac. bush pasture; Parcel 3: NE 14-01-09 W MARVIN HOMES INC - 1520-sq.ft, spacious 3135-ac. cultivated, 25-ac. bush pasture; Parcel 4: bdrm home, 2.5 baths, main floor laundry, master SW 23-01-09 W 140-ac. cultivated, 20-ac. bush has full bath & walk-in closet, kitchen has corner pasture; Parcel 5: SE 23-01-09 W 120-ac. cultivatpantry & 6-ft island. Call (204)326-1493 or ed, 40-ac. bush pasture; Parcel 6: NW 24-01-09 W (204)355-8484 Marvin Vogt, MARVIN HOMES, 143-ac. cultivated, 17-ac. bush & river; Parcel 7: Mitchell, MB www.marvinhomes.ca SW 24-01-09 W 100-ac. cultivated, 60-ac. bush pasture; Parcel 8: NW 22-01-10 W 155-ac. cultivatREAL ESTATE ed, 5-ac. Runway; Parcel 9: SW 22-01-10 W 160-ac. Cultivated; Parcel 10: NW 23-01-10 W Land For Rent 145-ac. cultivated, 15-ac. Slough; Parcel 11: SW 23-01-10 W 141.44-ac. Cultivated; Parcel 12: SE LAND FOR RENT- Roblin, MB area. 60 cultivated 23-01-10 W 140-ac. cultivated, 20 -c. bush; Parcel acres & 100-acs of bush & pasture land w/water ac13: NW 26-01-10 W 80-ac. cultivated, 2 x 50,000cess & fenced. 20-acs of hay land also available. bu. & 2 x 75,000-bu. Westeel bins w/floor air & auInquiries (204)746-3999 gers, 100 x 50 floor heated machine shed/workshop, 300 x 32 x 19 loose housing w/lean-tos, 54 x REAL ESTATE 36 machine shed, 1 1/2 storey 4-bdrm, 2 bath, Land For Sale house. Parcel 14: SW 26-01-10 W 150-ac. cultivated, 10-ac. slough; Parcel 15: NW 27-01-10 W 87-ac. cultivated, 73-ac. Slough; Parcel 16: SW BERNARD DYCK OF STE Rose du Lac, MB in27-01-10 W 120-ac. cultivated, 40-ac. slough; Partends to sell private lands: NW 12-24-16W; Part cel 17: NE 27-01-10 W 98-ac. cultivated, 62-ac.

NW 16-24-16W; Part NE 20-33-15W to Christoslough, loose housing, shed; Parcel 18: SE pher Popowich who intends to acquire the follow27-01-10 W 150-ac. cultivated, 9-ac. Star Mound ing agricultural Crown land leases: All of Section hill top; Parcel 19: NW 28-01-10 W 140-ac. cultivat22-33-15W; All of Section 21-33-15W; All of Section ed, 20-ac. slough; Parcel 20: NE 28-01-10 W 97-ac.

15-33-15W; NE 16-33-15W; NW 16-33-15W; SE cultivated, 63-ac. slough & grass, water way; Parcel 16-33-15W by Unit Transfer. If you wish to com21: SW 28-01-10 W 128-ac. cultivated, 32-ac. ment on or object to the eligibility of this purchaser slough; Parcel 22: SE 28-01-10 W 155-ac. cultivatplease write to: Director, MAFRD, Agricultural ed, 5-ac. slough; Parcel 23: NW 02-02-10W 157-ac.

Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J cultivated, 3-ac. slough; Parcel 24: NE 02-02-10 W 1E0; or Fax (204)867-6578.

160-ac. cultivated; Parcel 25: SE 02-02-10 W 160-ac. Cultivated. *TOTAL ACRES: 3,981.44.

WANTED: HALF SECTION OF land, or existing Terms and Conditions of Tender and Sale: 1. Interdairy farm to build new dairy barn. Must have good ested parties must rely on their own inspection of water supply, any area considered. Phone: the property. 2. Each tender must be accompanied (204)305-0340 or (204)534-8260. All inquires hanby a $10,000.00 deposit cheque payable to Treble dled in strict confidence.

Law Office Trust. Deposit cheques accompanying unacceptable bids will be returned. 3. If a tender is accepted, the submitting party will be notified of the FARM LAND FOR SALE BY TENDER acceptance and will be required to pay a non-reSealed, written tenders for property in the fundable deposit of 10% of the accepted tender Municipality of Lorne described below will be upon signing an offer to purchase. 4. Possession received by: date December 1, 2015. 5. If the balance of the purchase price is not paid by December 1st, 2015, or McCULLOCH MOONEY other satisfactory arrangements are not in place, JOHNSTON SELBY the deposit shall be forfeited to the vendor as liqui351 Main Street, PO Box 279 dated damages and not as a penalty. 6. Tenders for Manitou, MB. R0G 1G0 more than one parcel must show a separate price for each parcel. 7. Highest or any tender not necesPROPERTY: sarily accepted. Please submit tenders to Treble PARCEL 1: NW ¼ 21-6-8 WPM, Law Office, 115 Broadway Street, Box 10, Crystal City, Manitoba R0K 0N0 before 4:00pm October Excepting Public Road Plan 1194 30th, 2015. For further information contact Doug MLTO (approx. 150 cult. acres).

Treble at (204)873-2427 fax:(204) 873-2656 email: PARCEL 2: SW ¼ 22-6-8 WPM, doug_treble@mts.net

REAL ESTATE

Excepting all Mines and Minerals as set forth in the Original Grant from the Crown (approx. 100 cult. acres).

TENDERS CLOSE: 2:00 pm, November 12, 2015

For further information contact Larry J. Selby at: Phone: 204-242-2801 Fax: 204-242-2723 Email: larry@mmjslaw.com GLADSTONE NE ONE SECTION pasture land fenced, dug outs $225,000* Gladstone 10.31-acres w/mobile & newer shed 24x30-ft 4-mi west on #16 $89,000* Plumas NE close to town two bdrm, quonset, shop etc on 4.1-acres $115,000* Minnedosa Neepawa 2.27-acres 3-bdrm 1.5 bath VG road, $174,000 0B0* Neepawa New 3-bdrm apartment 4 appl. *New 4-plex avail to rent or buy unit. 3; main fl suites avail. Liz (204)476-6362 Gill & Schmall Agencies.

Available at:

ALTERNATIVE POWER BY SUNDOG SOLAR, portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind generators, aeration. Service & repair on all makes/models. Carl Driedger, (204)556-2346 or (204)851-0145, Virden.

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P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123 LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT

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WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

(Processed parts within 24hrs)

• Stainless & Aluminum

Available at:

Strathclair Consumers Co-op Strathclair, MB

(204) 365-2491 www.dseriescanola.ca

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REAL ESTATE Farms & Ranches – Manitoba EXCELLENT LIVESTOCK FARM 1,732 deeded acres w/4,425-ac of Crown land. All the land is fenced & the farm has very good buildings & metal corral system. The farm can carry up to 400-450 cow/calf pairs. There is a small bungalow home; Excellent 254-ac property located in the RM of Alexander at the junction of Maskwa & the Winnipeg River. This would make a first class cottage development, or is suitable for other uses; 1,270 deeded acres cattle farm by Lac du Bonnet, also 640-ac crown land. Turn key operation; Turn key 4,500-ac cattle ranch by Pine River, MB. Price of farm includes cattle, cattle equipment & machinery. In one of the more scenic areas of Manitoba. Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753. Homelife Home Professional Realty Inc. www.homelifepro.com

REAL ESTATE Farms & Ranches – Wanted FARMS WANTED! Considering selling your farm?

Not sure what your farm is worth? Not sure where to start? Call me to discuss all options. All calls are confidential & dealt with in a professional manner.

Currently there is strong demand for Grain & Livestock Farms from both domestic & overseas buyers. Rick Taylor, Sales Associate, HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc. Ph:204-867-7551. rtaylor@homelife.com, www.homelifepro.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 22, 2015

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Power up your canola.

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Monsanto and BASF have joined forces to offer a powerful combination of products. When you purchase Genuity® Roundup Ready® canola for the 2016 growing season, add PRIAXOR®, LANCE® and/or LANCE® AG fungicides and you could earn up to $4.00/acre in rebates. With PRIAXOR’s continuous blackleg control and the sclerotinia protection of LANCE and LANCE AG, you can increase the yield potential and quality of your canola by keeping disease pressures at bay.

For complete details on this offer, see your retailer or visit powerfulcombination.ca Monsanto Company is a member of Excellence Through Stewardship® (ETS). Monsanto products are commercialized in accordance with ETS Product Launch Stewardship Guidance, and in compliance with Monsanto’s Policy for Commercialization of Biotechnology-Derived Plant Products in Commodity Crops. Commercialized products have been approved for import into key export markets with functioning regulatory systems. Any crop or material produced from this product can only be exported to, or used, processed or sold in countries where all necessary regulatory approvals have been granted. It is a violation of national and international law to move material containing biotech traits across boundaries into nations where import is not permitted. Growers should talk to their grain handler or product purchaser to confirm their buying position for this product. Excellence Through Stewardship® is a registered trademark of Excellence Through Stewardship.

ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW PESTICIDE LABEL DIRECTIONS. Roundup Ready® crops contain genes that confer tolerance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup® brand agricultural herbicides. Roundup® brand agricultural herbicides will kill crops that are not tolerant to glyphosate. Tank mixtures: The applicable labeling for each product must be in the possession of the user at the time of application. Follow applicable use instructions, including application rates, precautions and restrictions of each product used in the tank mixture. Monsanto has not tested all tank mix product formulations for compatibility or performance other than specifically listed by brand name. Always predetermine the compatibility of tank mixtures by mixing small proportional quantities in advance. Genuity and Design®, Genuity®, Monsanto and Vine Design®, Roundup Ready® and Roundup® are registered trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC, Monsanto Canada, Inc. licensee. AgSolutions is a registered trademark of BASF Corporation; PRIAXOR and LANCE are registered trademarks of BASF SE; all used with permission by BASF Canada Inc. © 2015 Monsanto Canada Inc. and BASF Canada Inc.