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November 10, 2016

Grain sector hails transport reform

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Feathers ruffled at information session

But some farm groups worry about the future of the maximum revenue entitlement

New farmers and established producers believe a new program for speciality birds will make it more difficult for them to participate in poultry production

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

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arm groups, grain shippers, crop processors and supply chain organizations are all praising Transport Minister Marc Garneau’s plan to make Canada’s grain transportation system more competitive.

But some farm groups are uneasy about the future of the maximum revenue entitlement (MRE).

Speaking to the Chamber of

By Shannon VanRaes Co-operator staff/St. Norbert

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eanette Sivilay felt her hopes of adding chickens to the co-operative farm she and her partners operate fading as she read through newly introduced rules governing small poultry production in Manitoba.

The Metanoia FarmerWorkers Cooperative, a community-shared agriculture initiative by students and alumni of Canadian Mennonite University, wouldn’t qualify for a proposed smallscale poultry production quota announced by Manitoba Chicken Farmers because they rent their land.

“I’m a young farmer and this does sound like a raw deal for me and my peers,” she said during an information session hosted by Direct Farm Manitoba Nov. 1. Sivilay later noted that many young farmers — particularly those who intend to market their products directly to the consumer — are also small farmers looking to get their start on rented land.

Others shared her concern, asking if the ban on rented land also extended to young farmers renting property from their parents or relatives. Some par-

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Flight simulator shows pesticide effects

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Pulse potential The health potential of pulses is food for thought

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High-tech approach at the University of Saskatchewan uses virtual reality more common to video games

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research project at the University of Sask­ atchewan is using a virtual reality flight simulator to measure how locusts are affected by pesticides.

Rachel Parkinson, a biology master’s student, is trying to see how insects react to neonicotinoids.

“There is a lot of controversy over these pesticides,” said biology professor, Jack Gray, Parkinson’s supervisor.

“They are used on a large scale because they are considered safer than other pesticides, but many recent studies show it is more complicated.”

Parkinson’s results suggest that the pesticide, even at low doses, may affect an insect’s ability to visually detect moving objects such as trees and predators, and possibly play a role in the “colony collapse disorder” responsible for the deaths of millions of bees worldwide.

Bees and locusts both have complex social and flying behaviours, which makes anything that can disorient them a potential threat.

Rachel Parkinson (r) and Professor Jack Gray use a “video game” to study pesticide effects on insects. PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN/DAVID STOBBE

Back in his own student days, Gray modelled the simulator’s software after the 1995 video game “Descent,” a spaceship shoot-’em-up.

The simulator works much like old rear projection televisions, but instead of a flat screen, images are projected onto a curved dome that sits in front of a tethered locust.

Once the locust is in the simulator, images of looming objects and trees are

projected onto the dome, immersing the insect in a virtual world that it can “move through” and “explore.”

By using a small electrode in the insect’s thorax, that controls flight.

The reaction time of locusts treated with the pesticide slows down, impairing their ability to avoid objects for as long as one day after treatment, Parkinson said.

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New York Times findings on GM crops disputed A Times study concludes GM crops don’t yield more than conventional ones, but two Canadian agricultural economists found GM crops are worth billions

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

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enetically modified (GM) crops haven’t increased yields or reduced pesticide use as promised by developers, according to a study conducted by the New York Times published Oct. 29.

But a Canadian study shows biotechnology, which includes genetic modification and new hybridization techniques in canola, boosted yields and put billions of extra dollars into farmers’ pockets.

“We calculated the cumulative benefit of this adoption at $30 billion from 1996 to 2012 and it has been on an upward trend for most of that period,” agricultural economists Stavroula Malla (University of Lethbridge) and Derek Brewin (University of Manitoba) wrote in a paper published last year in AgVio Forum.

“For the 2012 crop year, we estimated the net benefits at $726 million,” their paper reads.

Mo s t o f t h o s e b e n e f i t s came from genetic modifications to different varieties of canola resistant to the herbicides glyphosate (Roundup) and glufosinate (Liberty) as well as resistance to Clearfield herbicides developed through mutagenesis.

Farmers gain about $100 a hectare more with canolas developed through biotechnology versus conventional canola, Brewin said in an Oct. 21 interview.

“There are a lot of acres of this happening and that is why we are close to $1 billion in gain,” he said.

Brewin said there was only a brief period, right after the introduction of herbicide-tolerant canolas, when farmers were worse off because higher seed costs ate up all the gains.

He also said stronger plant breeders’ rights are helping farmers because some of what they pay for seed is being reinvested in new canola by private canola-developing companies.

“In the long run farmer-saved seed is undermining private sector investment (in new varieties),” he said.

The New York Times (http:// tinyurl.com/zcevc22) said it concluded GM crops haven’t boosted yields or reduced pesticide after comparing GM crop yields and pesticide use in Canada and the United States against those of conventional crops in Western Europe.

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“An analysis by the Times using United Nations data showed that the United States and Canada have gained no discernible advantage in yields — food per acre — when measured against Western Europe, a region with comparably modernized agricultural producers like France and Germany,” Danny Hakim wrote. “Also, a recent National Academy of Sciences report found that ‘there was little evidence’ that the introduction of genetically modified crops in the United States had led to yield gains beyond those seen in conventional crops.

According to the New York Times pesticide use in the U.S. hasn’t fallen as much as in France.

“Since genetically modified crops were introduced in the United States two decades ago for crops like corn, cotton and soybeans, the use of toxins that kill insects and fungi has fallen by a third, but the spraying of herbicides, which are used in much higher volumes, has risen by 21 per cent,” the New York Times story says. “By contrast, in France, use of insecticides and fungicides has fallen by a far greater percentage — 65 per cent — and herbicide

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use has decreased as well, by 36 per cent.”

The story triggered a lot of criticism on social media and charges of biased reporting.

Andrew R. Kniss, associate professor of weed biology and ecology at the University o f Wy o m i n g w r o t e o n weedcontrolfreaks.com (http:// tinyurl.com/z4zamkv) that in crops such as corn and soybeans, genetic modification hasn’t had a dramatic impact on yield because there are other ways to control pests. However, modifying sugar beets to be herbicide tolerant has boosted yields because weed control options were limited.

Although Kniss didn’t comment on canola, it probably applies there too.

Where the New York Times article falls short is on pesticide use, Kniss wrote.

“The NYT provides a few charts in the article, one of which supports the statement about France’s reduced pesticide use. But the figures used to compare pesticide use in France versus the U.S. are convoluted and misleading.

First, the data is presented in different units (thousand metric tons for France, compared to million pounds in the U.S.),

University of Manitoba agricultural economist Derek Brewin (pictured) and Stavroula Malla of the University of Lethbridge, have concluded biotech canola boosts western Canadian farmers’ income by almost $1 billion a year.

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making a direct comparison nearly impossible. Second, the pesticide amounts are not standardized per unit area, which is critically important since the U.S. has over nine times the amount of farmland that France does. It would be shocking if the U.S. didn’t use far more pesticide when expressed this way.”

Kniss acknowledges GM crops may not have lived up to the hype, but wrote the debate is detracting from more important agricultural issues.

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OPINION/EDITORIAL

The kids are alright

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s a slightly curmudgeonly older father, raised in the free-range parenting heyday of the 1970s, I will admit that it’s not uncommon to find myself rolling my eyes at kids today.

With their “everyone gets a medal” and “safe spaces,” I’ve found myself wondering just how prepared these kids will be for the real world.

Gord Gilmour It turns out the answer might Editor be that they’ll fare pretty darned well, and even find some solutions to thorny problems that have eluded all us old fogeys for generations.

That’s because it appears there are some real benefits to be had from this way of educating and raising kids — their greater empathy for example, and the near-total disappearance of bullying in the schools.

Its been going on quite awhile and we now find ourselves in the position that some of these younger folks are not only in the workforce, but are just now taking on positions of power and influence.

I think they’ll have a positive impact on our future, and also that there is a case of this unfolding right before our very eyes in the agriculture sector.

One of the key differences they bring to their table is a bred-to-the-bone desire to find consensus. That might seem like a modern fairy tale at times, but one only needs to look at the recent announcement from the federal government about transportation legislation to see how it can play out positively in the real world.

It would seem a vast swath of agriculture’s wish list made it into the upcoming legislation promised for 2017, something I find unexpected, to say the least.

In the run-up to the announcement farm leaders were struggling to get a meeting with Transport Minister Marc Garneau. A cynical observer — myself for example — might look at that and accept it was going to, once again, be legislation that looked like it was written by the legal department of the country’s major railways.

Of course that was never the case, previous legislation was formed drip by drip by the tremendous lobbying power of the railways. They can and will expend an enormous amount of resources shaping their regulatory environment to their benefit. While we might not like it, it’s neither illegal or, if we’re honest, even unethical. They’re commercial companies and of course they have the right to advocate for their best interests.

On the other side of the grain transportation debate has always been a motley assortment of farm groups with little by way of central messaging. They might have had shared interests, but they did a terrible job of advocating them and were too often distracted by the industry’s own internal political debates. It was in many ways like watching American revolutionary Benjamin Franklin’s exhortation that “We must all hang together or, assuredly, we shall all hang separately” brought to life.

This round was different, right from the start, and in my opinion the key to that difference can be found in the policy departments of the farm groups and commodity associations.

This is where a younger generation is well represented and their new ways can be seen.

This time, the effort from the agriculture sector began years in advance of the proposed legislation. It also drew together the farm and commodity groups and expanded the tent to include other industry associations like the Western Grain Elevator Association and Canadian Oilseed Processors Association, to name just two.

The shape of the effort was much different too. In the past there was never much of a concerted and co-ordinated effort.

The message was dispersed and unfocused and therefore confusing and hard to follow. This time out, the young policy people were instrumental in boiling things down to a few key points that everyone could agree upon.

They wanted reciprocal penalties for shippers and railways, a better definition of what adequate and suitable rail service actually meant, and a greater and more proactive role for the Canadian Transport Agency to look into complaints. They also asked for extended interswitching, and its competitive effect on railways to continue, and a full costing review of the maximum revenue entitlement to ensure railways haven’t just been pocketing the efficiency gains of the last 15 years or so.

It was an easily digestible package of requests and the various parties spent years hammering it home.

It’s true there’s some distance to go between a political speech and implementation, but there’s little doubt this strategy had its desired effect. For the first time the message has reached the ears of policy-makers and there’s a fighting chance that some problems will be solved.

I think it’s time to embrace this approach, and stop silently wishing these darned kids would get off our lawns. gord.gilmour@fbcpublishing.com

Me and my (carbon) shadow

By Bill Whitelaw JuneWarren-Nickel

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ll Canadians have a carbon shadow. It follows us everywhere.

It’s with us when we stick our keys into the ignition, when we turn up our thermostats and when the fridge light comes on.

It’s there whenever we do what we do in our lives.

This carbon companion makes it clear we’re energy-gorging citizens. It’s a constant reminder that the cost of our lifestyles is paid in hard carbon currency.

The carbon shadow concept is perhaps more useful than that of a carbon footprint when it comes to individual energy accountability.

A carbon footprint has a notional beginning and end. It defines a process where carbon is produced and consumed.

But a carbon shadow is fluid and dynamic. It accounts for the fact we’re in a constant process of often-mindless energy consumption. Only one thing ends it and by then, we are inert carbon.

Our carbon shadow reminds us that virtually everything we do is a variable in the carbon-consumption-and-production equation.

Two things are certain in Canada today.

First, the current carbon debate is one of the most important socio-economic and political conversations Canadians will ever face. It trumps poverty, health care, education and the range of other issues. If we don’t get it right, we can’t begin to truly address those other issues.

Second, too few Canadians participate in how these dialogues are shaped and driven by the various vested interest groups whose voices threaten to drown those of ordinary folks.

Part of the problem is that we have allowed carbon to be demonized as almost exclusively an environmental problem. That permits everyday Canadians, who often believe they’re good

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stewards of the environment, more or less, to define carbon as someone else’s problem: say an oilsands producer.

The reality is that they exist because there are consumers.

And the reality is that carbon is as much a social problem, and an economic challenge, as an environmental quandary.

Recasting carbon into societal and economic contexts encourages average Canadians to understand they are both problem and solution.

Just as we are constantly shadowed, we are in a perpetual mode of energy consumption. There are peaks and valleys, to be sure, but there is never really a moment when we are not sipping or gulping energy.

Why aren’t we more conscious of that? Why are we not more aware of the accountabilities that the privilege of so much energy abundance brings with it?

Our political leaders provincially and federally should shift their focus from pandering to the loudest carbon voices and pay more attention to what the average Canadian might think.

The belief that Canadians want carbon taxes shouldn’t be predicated on election results that had more to do with parties being voted out than ringing endorsements of vague climate ambitions. But the onus isn’t just on politicians to be more attentive. Everyday folk must be far more engaged and, perhaps more important, far more responsible when it comes to understanding the true costs of energy abundance.

Our failure as voters to deal with our carbon shadow means we have only one messy means to vent: at politicians. Those same elected officials need to comprehend they have misread their mandates and need to spend more effort building carbon connections with ordinary Canadians.

We all cast a carbon shadow. Give yours a voice.

Bill Whitelaw is president and CEO at JuneWarren-Nickle’s Energy Group.

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his ad by the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange in our November 22, 1973 issue encouraged farmers not to vote for rapeseed to be put under control of the Canadian Wheat Board in an upcoming plebiscite. The results were 52.7 per cent of keeping the open market, 46.2 per cent for CWB control and 1.1 per cent undecided.

In contrast to last week’s history item from 1959, when there was a call to reduce grain production, there was a tight market if not a shortage in 1973, when wheat prices were headed to the highest real levels in history. The U.S. was reported to be oversold after the Soviet “Great Grain Robbery” the previous year. Speaking to an international meeting in Rome, Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan said Canada would give tentative support to a world food security plan, but was wary of stock-holding programs because Canada in the past had to carry approximately 40 per cent of the world wheat surplus.

In the House of Commons, Wheat Board Minister Otto Lang rejected the idea of a mandatory federal co-ordinator to direct the railways on how to allocate grain cars. The suggestion had been put forward by MP and former prime minister John Diefenbaker, who accused the railways of treating requests for cars with “supercilious contempt.”

Rail cars weren’t the only things in short supply. North America was in the midst of an energy crisis and Energy Minister Donald MacDonald was encouraging voluntary consumption restraint, without which the government would be forced to impose harsh measures.

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COMMENT/FEEDBACK

‘You’re wrong’ is the wrong message Trying to dictate what products consumers should get or what food companies should supply them is surely a losing tactic “It’s hard to think of any other sector that insists on telling its customers they are wrong.”

By Alan Guebert Farm & Food

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hen most of us hear the words, “Have I got a great deal for you!” we grab our wallets because experience suggests any forthcoming deal won’t be great.

Similarly, when someone says, “Here’s the straight talk,” our baloney meters redline because we know the coming talk will be about as straight as a hound’s hind leg.

We in agriculture, however, often use language like “a great deal” and “straight talk” to promote cheap food and arcane farm policy. When someone outside of agriculture questions either view, we not only cling to our righteousness, we go a step further and tell them they are wrong.

In fact, it’s hard to think of any other sector that insists on telling its customers they are wrong.

Need proof? For years nine out of 10 consumers have asked for country-of-origin labelling (COOL) on retail meat and poultry sold in the U.S. “ Wrong!” our hog and cattle groups declare, “what’s best for our meat packer — global sourcing and no labelling — is what’s best for you.

Besides, COOL is illegal under the trading rules we helped write!”

Little wonder “trade” took a beating in 2016 election campaigns; the

straight talk used to sell these great deals was neither straight nor great.

The latest example of agriculture’s righteousness comes courtesy of U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance, or USFRA, an ag advocacy group funded by farm and commodity organizations and agribusiness.

In late October, USFRA began a “straight talk” campaign to counter yogurt maker Dannon’s effort to “source” its inputs, mostly milk, from farmers who choose to follow the company’s new rules on “animal welfare” and “other practices right down to the dirt.”

Dannon, the American subsidiary of the French food giant Danone, made no bones about its motives in initiating its “sustainable” milk program last April. It hoped “to tap into the public’s growing concern about the source of its food,” noted the New York Times.

And, of course, make money doing it — just “as companies includ-

ing Nestle and General Mills... and Unilever” had done earlier, added the Times. But USFRA did not begin “straight talk” campaigns against those food giants.

Dannon, however, crossed an unseen line, explained the online ag news service DTN Oct. 27, when it advocated that its milk-supplying farmers “commit to sourcing only non-GMO feed for dairy cattle producing milk for three (Dannon) yogurt product lines.”

T h a t s t e p, Ra n d y Mo o n e y, a Missouri dairy farmer and chairman of National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), told DTN, was the “tipping point.” (NMPF, like Dairy Farmers of America, Dannon’s previous milk supplier, are both members of USFRA.) Tipping point, shmipping point.

The fight, which Dannon said it welcomed, is not about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Instead, it’s about the word “sustainable.” Dannon has its own defi-

nition to fit its own marketing plan, it says, that “promotes simplicity and purity of products.”

USFRA, too, has a definition of sustainable, noted DTN, and it includes “biotechnology and practices that should define sustainable agriculture.”

Moreover, USFRA explains, its Dannon campaign is the beginning of a new willingness to “publicly call out food companies that criticize food produced with genetically modified organisms.”

That should keep the hired hands at USFRA busy for years because “calling out” food companies that ask farmers and ranchers to deliver what the marketplace demands will be as unending as it will be unsuccessful.

The companies, after all, don’t make the market; they follow the market. That’s the way the market works. That’s, in fact, the way it has always worked.

What doesn’t work — what’s never worked — is telling your customers they’re wrong. “Show me someone who says the market’s wrong,” a friend once mused, “and I’ll show you someone who’s on the wrong side of the market.”

Exactly. The market is your partner, not your enemy.

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

Assessing the potential for higher corn prices Many factors from around the globe will weigh in on prices, both positively and negatively

By Darrel Good University of Illinois

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h e m onthly average price of corn received

by U.S. producers has been less than $4 per bushel (all figures U.S. funds) for 27 consecutive months and that is expected to persist well into 2017.

There’s little to suggest a dramatic change in corn production in the USDA Crop Production report slated to be released Nov. 9, just prior to this publication’s press deadline.

Previous history of yield forecast changes in November in years when t h e f o re c a s t d e c l i n e d i n Se p t e m b e r a n d a g a i n i n October, as was the case this year, shows very mixed results. In the previous 40 years, there were 10 years when the average yield forecast declined in September and October. The November f o r e c a s t w a s b e l ow t h e October forecast in five years, was unchanged in one year, and was above the October forecast in four years.

As always, there were mixed expectations about the potential change in the forecast this year, with the average expec-

tation leaning towards a small reduction from the October yield forecast of 173.4 bushels. Any change was not expected to be large enough to alter prices very much.

The corn supply for the year ahead will also be influenced by production in the rest of the world, with special attention focused on the potential size of the South American crops. Brazilian production declined from 3.35 billion bushels in 2015 to 2.64 billion bushels in 2016 due to late-season drought. Early-season USDA projections are for production in 2017 to rebound to 3.29 billion bushels. In addition, Argentina is expected to expand corn area due to reductions in export taxes, with early-season USDA projections showing a 2017 production increase of 335 million bushels. It is too early in the growing season to assess yield potential, but production well below early projections would be required to push corn prices higher.

A more likely source of a reduction in corn supply may be reduced corn acreage in the U.S in 2017. Planted acreage increased about 6.5 million acres in 2016 and early expectations are for a three-

million-acre reduction in 2017, due to low corn prices and the high cost of producing corn relative to competing crops.

Corn prices would be expected to get a boost if acreage is reduced enough to result in smaller stocks at the end of the 2017-18 marketing year. Assuming a threemillion-acre reduction in harvested acreage and consumption during the 2017-18 marketing year near the 14.525 billion bushels projected for this year, the 2017 average yield would need to be below 173 bushels in order for yearending stocks to be reduced from the 2.32 billion bushels projected for the current year.

Under the acreage and consumption assumptions made here, a yield near trend value of 169 bushels would result in year-ending stocks of about 1.99 billion bushels.

Higher corn prices might also be generated by stronger demand that would result in some combination of increased consumption and the willingness of endusers to pay more for corn.

Domestically, feed and residual use of corn is already projected to increase by nearly nine per cent this year. A larger increase seems unlikely

based on current livestock inventories. In addition, the ability of livestock producers to pay a higher price for corn will be limited by current low livestock and livestock product prices. Corn used for ethanol production is projected to increase by only 1.3 per cent this year. A larger increase might be generated by a continued expansion in gasoline consumption, larger ethanol exports, and a decline in the use of sorghum as a feedstock. Ethanol production was up about four per cent in the first two months of the 2016-17 marketing year. It seems unlikely that corn used for ethanol production this year would exceed the current USDA projection by more than 100 million bushels.

At 2 . 2 2 5 b i l l i o n b u s h els, U.S. corn exports are expected to be 327 million bushels (17 per cent) larger than exports of a year earlier. The increase primarily reflects the smaller Brazilian crop harvested earlier this ye a r. E x p o r t i n s p e c t i o n s through the first eight weeks of the current marketing year were 74 per cent larger than inspections of a year earlier and unshipped sales as of October 20 were 90 per cent

larger than outstanding sales of a year earlier. However, it is misleading to judge export potential for the current year based on the pace of export sales and shipments relative to that of last year. U.S. exports started slowly in the 2015-16 marketing year and ended on a strong note due to the Brazilian production shortfall. In contrast, the current rapid pace of exports is expected to slow as the year progresses if South American production rebounds.

It appears unlikely that higher corn prices will be generated by a large reduction in the estimated size of the 2016 U.S. crop or stronger-than-projected demand for corn. That leaves a smaller-than-expected South American crop or a much smaller U.S. crop in 2017 as the potential sources of higher prices. If South American production increases as projected, a large decline in U.S. acreage and/ or a 2017 yield below trend value may be required to push the average corn price above $4 during the 2017-18 marketing year.

Darrel Good is a professor emeritus with the University of Illinois’ faculty of agriculture & consumer economics.

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ticipants also wanted to know if exemptions could be made for producers who had long-term rental agreements in place.

“Our requirements today are that people need to own the land and the facilities,” said Wayne Hiltz, executive director of the Manitoba Chicken Producers, which crafted the new speciality quota program. “That is how it is for all of our producers.”

Reasonable However, he said he believes the organization’s board of directors would consider any “reason­able” application, which might include allowing rented land if it was from family on a long-term basis.

In addition to landownership, the production window of 10,000 to 30,000 kg per year was also a concern raised by those in attendance.

“It seems to eliminate everybody who is young,” said Bruce Berry, an executive member of Direct Farm Manitoba and owner of Almost Urban Vegetables.

No one from the MCP board of directors attended the meeting. Reached later by phone, board chairman Jake Wiebe said some of the new program’s details are not yet finalized and remain open for discussion.

“The consultation process we went through at the beginning didn’t identify these issues we are beginning to hear, but we are beginning to hear some of them now,” Wiebe said. “And we are not adverse to looking at them and seeing if we can make it work.

“We are actually seriously trying to make this program work for the small-scale direct marketers, so if there are things where there is a reasonable solution and it comes to that, we’re not unreasonable — we will see if we can make something work.”

Lack of consultation Brad Anderson, vice-president of Direct Farm Manitoba, said the fact that these issues w e re n’t i d e n t i f i e d e a r l i e r causes people to question the board’s sincerity.

“That to me just shows the lack of consultation that goes into this whole procedure and it’s disappointing to me,” he said during the information session at the St. Norbert Community Centre. He added that recent small-farm reports in the province have pushed for the creation of programs and policies that support young farmers, not increased barriers.

“I think this program misses that mark and I think if consultation had taken place, that would have been a focus,” he said.

Rather than attracting new entrants, the program’s design could actually push existing producers out of poultry production.

As of December 31, all existing exemptions under the special market development and servicing policy, as well as the annual farm site marketing permit system, will be cancelled.

Under the new program, birds will have to be slaughtered at an inspected plant.

Wayne Hiltz speaks to direct farm marketers in St. Norbert. Photo: Shannon VanRaes

“We will of course want to hear from producers who do apply and we hope that their application will be taken on their merit and that some of them will qualify… If they do qualify and the program rolls out well, we’d be very pleased by that.”

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“We’ve held a speciality permit of 7,500 birds, but it’s put into turmoil..., so I’ve got to go back to the drawing board,” said Mike Hofer of Skyview Colony. “They are rescinding all our permits, where there is no problems, no health issues, nothing. Why?” Hofer said. “Our customers love our chickens, they want them that way, and now they are shutting it down.”

Shortage of processors Producers in attendance noted only one of the province’s three inspected facilities accepts underquota birds.

Wiebe said that the board was working to increase that capacity, but that it couldn’t force private businesses to change their practices.

Producers who have already built their own slaughter facilities won’t be granted any exemptions under the new program. Wiebe said that grandfathering in existing processes wouldn’t meet the goal of increased food safety.

“If the question is, is there enough inspected processing capacity available, we’re not sure,” he said. “But I think we are willing to work towards that goal. In other words how quick can we get there and how can we help in the process... but I think we wouldn’t have a leg to stand on if we exempted people.”

Wiebe said the new speciality quota system is due in part to a concern that birds processed in non-inspected facilities could pose a public health risk.

“The whole intent here is inspection and assurances for the consumer,” he said. “The idea was to provide the consumer with a bird or a product that had been inspected.”

He also indicated that the provincial government had been pushing for all birds sold in the province to be inspected.

Inspected A spokesperson for the province indicated discussions on the issue had taken place, after strategic planning done by the Manitoba Chicken Producers in 2014 identified the current system of exemption orders and permits as cumbersome to administer.

“The department had discussions internally and with stakeholders about how to address the issue of uninspected poultry around this time, because related acts and regulations were being reviewed. However, there were no formal consultations on the issue and no changes were ultimately made,” the spokesperson stated. “Uninspected farm gate sales continue to be permitted under The Public Health Act, the Food and Food Handling Regulations

and the Poultry Products Regulation under The Livestock and Livestock Products Act.” The spokesperson also said the Manitoba Farm Products Marketing Council, an appointed supervisory board that approves regulatory changes for supply-managed boards, had reviewed and approved the Chicken Producers’ plan.

“The council’s Small-Scale Producers and Processors Committee also met with MCP to review exemptions for small producers and the proposed speciality quota system,” the spokesperson noted, adding that “the council did not direct MCP to implement changes to its quota system in either of these or any other forums.”

For some meeting attendees however, the issue was bigger than the quota issue. They question the need for a regulated system altogether.

“This is what our regulated authority is,” said Hiltz. “You can not like it, that is your prerogative and I get that. But it is a supply management industry, there are regulations there and the regulations are for 999 or more (chickens) you need quota from our board.”

Balance Wiebe said the board is willing to look for a balance that meets the needs of smaller producers while perserving the integrity of the supply-managed system. He noted that conventional producers are giving up two per cent of their own quota to facilitate the speciality quota program, which will provide small producers quota free of charge, although registration and renewal fees do apply.

“We have provincial processors who have been in business for many years. They are heav-

ily invested and continue to invest... we have registered producers who have done the same and yet we have a market that is smaller and we have small producers who would love to be involved on a smaller scale. So we have tried to develop a program that would address that and balance those interests, we have certainly tried to do that,” he said.

“But we recognize that nobody is getting everything they are looking for, but hopefully everybody is getting something.”

Small-scale producers attending the session say the board’s proposal falls far short of balance.

“This today, it shows how far away we are from making a deal with Manitoba Chicken Producers, we are very far apart,” said Hofer.

Sivilay agreed.

“It seems like there is a pretty large distance between this program and what sounds like it could be workable for the people in this room,” she said.

But whether or not they liked the answers they received, small producers did leave with a better understanding of how the speciality quota program will work.

“We believe the program was explained in a way that let them make their own decision about whether it would fit their farm or not,” said Phil Veldhuis, president of Direct Farm Manitoba.

“We will of course want to hear from producers who do apply and we hope that their application will be taken on their merit and that some of them will qualify... If they do qualify and the program rolls out well, we’d be very pleased by that.” shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

GRAIN SHIPPING Continued from page 1

Commerce of Metropolitan Mo n t re a l Nov. 3 Ga r n e a u announced legislation in the spring will establish reciprocal penalties between shippers and railways in servicelevel agreements, better define adequate and suitable service, improve access to the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) and improve the timeliness of CTA decisions.

He also said the governm e n t w o u l d “a d d re s s t h e future of the maximum revenue entitlement and extended interswitching.”

Some observers have speculated that if Garneau intends to scrap the MRE, as was recommended in a review of the Canada Transportation Act, the MRE would have no future.

Many, including most farm groups, are not opposed to tweaking the regulation to address some of its shortfalls, including how the MRE reflects car purchases by the railways.

“We will continue to work with stakeholders to ensure there’s a proper balance in place — one that supports rail customers and delivers continued investments in the system,” Garneau said. “That’s how we will create a freight rail system that is even more competitive and efficient in the long term.”

Garneau’s circumspection left the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and its Prairie affiliates, the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), Agricultural Producers of Saskatchewan (APAS) and Alberta Federation of Agriculture (AFA) uneasy.

“It remains unclear what the government’s intentions are for the (MRE) regulation that protects farmers, who lack competitive options when it comes to shipping grain,” they said in a release.

Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay didn’t offer any more detail about the MRE when he spoke to farm leaders by telephone Nov. 3, KAP president Dan Mazier said in an interview.

“MacAulay also said we need

“MacAulay also said we need to keep his feet to the fire.”

Dan Mazier

Grain shippers of all types are heralding promised changes to the transportation regulatory environment announced Nov. 3 by Transport Minister Marc Garneau. PHOTO: CANADIAN PACIFIC

to keep his feet to the fire,” Mazier added.

The MRE allows the railways to charge whatever rate they want so long as total annual grain-shipping revenues don’t exceed the amount determined by the Canadian Transportation Agency through a formula created in 2000, which gave the railways a 20 per cent contribution to grain-shipping revenue over variable costs.

The MRE was a railway idea to ease farmers’ fears a lack of competition would allow the railways to overcharge them.

Un i v e r s i t y o f M a n i t o b a agricultural economist Derek Brewin has said because grain shippers are captive to the railways, farmers would see their average grain-shipping costs at least double from around $36.60 a tonne to $78.52 without the MRE, but under certain conditions they could jump 150 per cent to $109.97.

KAP, APAS, the AFA, the Saskatchewan Wheat Develop­ ment Commission and Sask­ atch­ewan Barley Development

Commission also want the government to study how much it costs the railways to ship grain so the MRE formula can be updated.

The groups suspect the railways are making much more now than intended because the system has become more efficient.

Garneau couldn’t have been clearer though on reciprocal penalties and adequate and suitable service, which everyone in the grain industry, except the railways, have been seeking for years.

“He touched on all of the key WGEA (Western Grain Elevator Association) asks,” its executive director Wade Sobkowich said in an interview. “Of course the devil will be in the details.

“We are very, very pleased with the announcement.”

Rick White, CEO of the Canadian Canola Growers Asso­c iation, said in a release: “Incorporating reciprocal penalties into service-level agreements has the potential to elevate the accountability in the supply chain to include the railways.”

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The WGEA agrees.

“In a true commercial environment, competition motivates a service provider to meet their clients’ needs,” Sobkowich said in a release. “Without competition, the railways feel no such obligation. Clarifying the definition will remove any uncertainty about railways’ obligation to provide ‘adequate and suitable’ accommodation for all traffic. The definition must be clear that decisions on assigning cars, crew and locomotive power are to be based on what customers need not on what best suits the railways’ business.”

The railways have opposed such changes, arguing regulations impede investment, which in turn results in less efficiency.

“We continue to review the full content of the minister’s agenda and look forward to working collaboratively with all stakeholders on key issues, such as the MRE, interswitching and reciprocal penalties,” CP Rail said in an emailed statement.

CN Rail didn’t respond when asked for comment.

Sobkowich said his association expects the railways will lobby hard to try and block Garneau’s changes.

“It will be very important that we are vigilant,” he said. “There are a hundred ways this thing could still go sideways.

“His speech was more specific than we thought it would be and we find that very encouraging.”

The Canadian Oilseed Processors Association called G a r n e a u’s a n n o u n c e m e n t “a big win” for farmers and processors.

“Oilseed processors have already benefited from the element of competition that the extended interswitching limit provides,” COPA executive director Chris Vervaet said in a release. “The option of a competing rail carrier has given our companies the ability to negotiate rates and service in a way we never have been able to before. We are pleased that the federal government understands this and is looking to address it.”

The previous federal government expanded interswitching to 160 km from 30 km in March 2014, to help alleviate a backlog of grain on the Prairies.

The Grain Growers of Canada said it’s pleased that Garneau announced Ottawa will invest $10.1 billion in trade corridor infrastructure to reduce bottlenecks.

The Alberta Wheat Com­ mission said it supports Garneau’s plan to expand the Canadian Transportation Agency’s authority. Farmers and grain shippers hope as a result the CTA can intervene early when it sees the potential for problems transporting grain. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

Funding continued for Foodgrains Bank The federal government commitment ensures stable funding for the next five years

BY SHANNON VANRAES

“Our vision at the Canadian Foodgrains Bank is a world without hunger and it is a vision we are proud to share with the Government of Canada.”

Co-operator staff

T

he federal government is renewing its partnership with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, promising $125 million to the organization over the next five years.

“I think this is an opportunity for the government of Canada to support the wonderful work of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and also to say to all of those farmers who are growing their crops to feed the hungry of the world, that the Government of Canada respects that contribution and wants to be a part of it,” said Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr, speaking on behalf of Marie-Claude Bibeau, minister of international development and La Francophonie.

The announcement was made at the Canadian Men­ nonite University in Win­nipeg on Nov. 7.

While unable to attend the event in person due to commitments in Ethiopia, the Foodgrains Bank’s executive director Jim Cornelius said that the organization deeply appreciated the long-standing commitment.

“It enables our member agencies and their partners to effectively respond to food crises around the world in a timely manner,” he said. “We are able to combine this government funding with donormatching dollars, much of which comes from Canadian farmers and rural communities, to help women and men recover from crises and build and strengthen their livelihoods.”

Bob Granke

From left, MP Doug Eyolfson, Bob Granke, chair of Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Minister Jim Carr, MP Terry Duguid, and MP Dan Vandal were on hand to announce $125 million Canadian Foodgrains Bank funding. Photo: Shannon VanRaes

Bob Granke, chair of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank’s board of directors and executive director of Canadian Lutheran World Relief echoed that sentiment at the announcement.

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The average yield rose to 4.35 tonnes per hectare from 4.02 tonnes a year earlier, it said in a statement. Ukraine had harvested 56.2 million tonnes of grain by the same date in 2015.

The ministry said farms had harvested 16.9 million tonnes of maize from 2.8 mil-

lion hectares, or 67 per cent of the planted area. The average maize yield rose to 5.97 tonnes per hectare from 5.34 tonnes in 2015.

Ukraine has completed its wheat and barley harvests.

The ministry has said Ukraine could harvest about 63 million tonnes of grain in total compared with 60 million in 2015.

Farms had also harvested 12.6 million tonnes of sunflower seed from 96 per cent of the sown area, 3.7 million tonnes of soybean and about 10.5 million tonnes of sugar beet, the ministry said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

MRE counterpoint claims system hurts everyone Barry Prentice says the MRE is bad for western grain farmers and the railways

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

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estern grain farmers and the railways would be better off if the maximum revenue entitlement (MRE) was scrapped, according to Barry Prentice, an agricultural economist and professor of supply chain management at the University of Manitoba.

“Farmers may be losing more on (grain) prices (because Canada is seen as an unreliable supplier) than they ever gain from the lower freight rate they might be encountering,” Prentice said in an interview Oct. 21, in response to a presentation by University of Manitoba agriculture economics professor, Derek Brewin.

“There are lots of reasons why this should be changed and I think it really is in the farmers’ interest to do that.”

Prentice’s position is based on the premise that competition in

grain shipping exists between the railways. Farmers were captive to the railways in 1916, but not now, he said.

“Today you can grow canola,” Prentice said. “Half the canola is sold to local crushing plants.

You can sell to the feed mill. It can be trucked across the border to the U.S. If the railways did try to extract more than what was competitive farmers would respond by selling more to these other areas and the railways would lose that volume, which is very important to the railways. I think the worries about the railways exceeding their power and taking advantage of the situation is a misplaced view.”

If competition exists then the more money farmers pay to ship grain will see the railways invest more in the system making it more efficient and providing farmers better service.

“There needs to be an incentive for the railways to actually make the expansion… and we can see right now that’s not hap-

University of Manitoba supply chain professor, Barry Prentice says the maximum revenue entitlement is bad for farmers as well as the railways. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

pening,” Prentice said. “If there’s not the incentive… why should they do it? I think it’s in producers’ interest that the railways have the incentive and do make those investments.”

Although farmers ultimately pay the cost of shipping grain, it’s a transaction between grain companies and the railways, Prentice said. And grain companies have power too. If a company moved just 10 per cent of its grain to its elevators on a competing rail line that would

have a huge impact on the line losing the business, he said.

“We have some really big grain companies,” Prentice said. “In fact a couple of these grain companies — Glencore (which owns Viterra) and Cargill — could buy and sell our railways.”

A l t h o u g h Un i v e r s i t y o f Manitoba agricultural economist Derek Brewin contends the MRE gives the railways freight rate flexibility to ration demand and encourage efficiency, according to Prentice it doesn’t.

He said the railways effectively charge a flat rate all year so as not to exceed the MRE, which would trigger a fine the forfeiture of the overage.

If the MRE is resulting in lower freight costs for farmers that means other shippers are crosssubsidizing farmers, Prentice said.

“I don’t think farmers want to be freeloaders and depend on potash and coal and other commodity shippers to pay their share of the capital investment

needed to move their grain,” he said.

The MRE also discourages the railways from shipping grain in containers, which is more expensive, but not reflected in the MRE formula, he said.

When the MRE was introduced in 2000, it was not intended to be permanent, Prentice said.

But that’s because the railways said the MRE would be moot since competition would keep them well under the maximum allowed.

“Under a cap framework, overall railway revenues are expected to decrease as a result of commercial forces while at the same time providing more price flexibility to encourage efficiencies,” Arthur Kroeger, who in 1999 led the industry in a process to reform grain transportation, said in a letter to then transport minister David Collenette. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

LIVESTOCK MARKETS (Friday to Thursday) Winnipeg Slaughter Cattle Steers — Heifers — D1, 2 Cows 75.00 - 84.00 D3 Cows 68.00 - 76.00 Bulls 95.00 - 101.00 Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.)

130.00 - 163.00 (801-900 lbs.)

150.00 - 168.00 (701-800 lbs.)

145.00 - 170.00 (601-700 lbs.)

150.00 - 168.00 (501-600 lbs.)

157.00 - 190.00 (401-500 lbs.)

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— (801-900 lbs.)

130.00 - 148.00 (701-800 lbs.)

140.00 - 155.00 (601-700 lbs.)

140.00 - 154.00 (501-600 lbs.)

150.00 - 168.00 (401-500 lbs.)

160.00 - 175.00

Heifers

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

(850+ lbs.)

Alberta South 137.50 - 140.00 139.00 - 140.00 75.00 - 93.00 65.00 - 82.00 — $ 154.00 - 167.00 158.00 - 170.00 160.00 - 173.00 164.00 - 179.00 169.00 - 185.00 179.00 - 204.00 $ 140.00 - 152.00 140.00 - 154.00 142.00 - 154.00 145.00 - 157.00 147.00 - 162.00 153.00 - 174.00

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Feeder Cattle November 2016 January 2017 March 2017 April 2017 May 2017 August 2017

Cattle Slaughter

November 4, 2016

DAVE SIMS CNSC $

Close 125.85 118.75 115.95 115.75 115.30 115.98

Change 1.97 0.22 0.48 0.65 0.80 0.80

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending Oct 29, 2016 53,458 12,275 41,183 NA 613,000

Previous Year­ 51,710 11,928 39,782 NA 555,000

Week Ending Oct 29, 2016 1,157 28,633 12,992 487 1,133 8,087 241

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Previous Year 943 27,739 13,842 793 897 6,901 310

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.)

Current Week 139E 128E 123.47

Last Week 141.25 131.81 124.57

Last Year (Index 100) 163.22 152.66 158.89

126.75

127.53

167.62

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

Futures (November 4, 2016) in U.S. Hogs

Close

Change

December 2016 February 2017 April 2017 May 2017 June 2017

47.00 53.50 60.90 68.33 72.80

1.63 1.18 1.03 -0.02 0.47

Other Market Prices Winnipeg Wooled Fats

Choice (110+ lb.)

(95 - 109 lb.)

(80 - 94 lb.)

(Under 80 lb.)

(New crop)

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Chickens Minimum broiler prices as of April 13, 2010 Under 1.2 kg..................................................$1.5130 1.2 - 1.65 kg....................................................$1.3230 1.65 - 2.1 kg....................................................$1.3830 2.1 - 2.6 kg.....................................................$1.3230

Turkeys Minimum prices as of October 30, 2016 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A ................................................$1.935 Undergrade ........................................$1.845 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ............................................... $1.905 Undergrade ....................................... $1.805 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ............................................... $1.905 Undergrade ....................................... $1.805 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................................$1.895 Undergrade...........................................$1.810 Prices are quoted f.o.b. producers premise.

V

olatile action on the U.S. futures continues to dictate much of the pricing seen at cattle auctions across Manitoba, according to a market watcher.

“I guess the best way to describe the fall run is that it’s pretty erratic. It did have some declines over the past month but also in the past 10 days it has picked up,” said Anne Wasko of Gateway Livestock Marketing Inc. This uncertainty may be one of the reasons why the number of head being taken to market remained on the lighter side for the week ended Nov. 4. Just under 10,000 animals were shown to buyers at the province’s eight major stockyards.

A narrow $5-$7 trading range exists right now for many classes, according to one market operator. Butcher cows were steady C$2 lower while most calves were slightly higher.

Feeder steers in the 400- to 500-lb. class were mostly $5 higher while heifers 800 to 900 lbs. were $5-$15 higher.

Demand continues to be particularly steady from the east as buyers look for topend mid- and heavy-weight steers, according to one of the auction houses.

“We’ve had some recent weakness in the Canadian dollar just in the last while which could be helping to support prices, but generally speaking Canadian prices have pretty much been following the U.S. lead down and back up again,” Wasko added.

According to reports from the U.S., a ceiling price seems to be slowly building on the sale of live cattle in the U.S. “The Canadian market is following the lead of the U.S. futures particularly out into the deferred months of 2017. So markets have been unstable to say the least,” said Wasko.

Weakness in the prices being paid for cattle, relative to last year, have caused some

“We’ve had some recent weakness in the Canadian dollar just in the last while which could be helping to support prices, but generally speaking Canadian prices have pretty much been following the U.S. lead down and back up again.”

Anne Wasko

producers to hang on to more head than usual, in the hope better prices materialize.

“Because of that, it’s keeping all price directions pretty similar. Everything is feeding off what the deferred futures for 2017 are telling the buyer,” she explained.

Sh e e s t i m a t e s t h e n u m b e r o f c a t t l e involved in this year’s fall run across the Prairies is 20 per cent lower than last year at the same time.

Good pastures and low feed prices also have helped give producers more options on when to market their animals, she added.

As a result, she expects stockyards to get busier in the coming weeks.

“Those numbers will pick up. We have seen other years where the run was more ‘Novemberish than Octoberish,’ and that’s what’s certainly happening in 2016,” said Wasko.

One side-effect of that trend though is the pressure it puts on producers to find available trucks. Wasko says this problem could intensify if the urge to sell comes at a time when the weather is poor.

“That’s often a problem as bottlenecks are common,” she noted.

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

briefs

Sheep and Lambs $/cwt Ewes Lambs

Cattle prices see-saw on erratic U.S. futures Price uncertainty is keeping cattle down on the farm and out of auction marts

Ontario 113.12 - 131.42 118.38 - 128.36 57.42 - 82.28 57.42 - 82.28 85.46 - 110.45 $ 140.32 - 174.24 146.96 - 170.24 140.89 - 172.43 143.90 - 185.37 144.88 - 199.89 138.47 - 213.30 $ 120.23 - 144.61 129.79 - 145.13 116.02 - 148.59 129.63 - 157.81 131.47 - 168.56 133.12 - 180.66

$

Futures (November 4, 2016) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change December 2016 104.08 -1.08 February 2017 105.28 -0.27 April 2017 105.10 0.17 June 2017 97.28 0.35 August 2017 94.88 0.05 October 2017 96.08 -0.15

Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

$1 Cdn: $0.7456 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.3412 Cdn.

column

Cattle Prices

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

EXCHANGES: NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Toronto 102.15 - 129.37 174.81 - 218.62 199.47 - 224.96 195.47 - 222.98 185.25 - 267.57 —

SunGold Specialty Meats —

REUTERS

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

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

Goats Kids Billys Mature

Winnipeg (145 Hd Fats) 120.00 - 165.00 170.00 - 245.00 —

<1,000 lbs.

1,000 lbs.+

Meat processor Maple Leaf Foods on Nov. 2 reported a 70.4 per cent jump in quarterly profit as lower costs and higher prices boosted earnings at its prepared meats business.

Maple Leaf said adjusted operating earnings in its meat products unit, the company’s primary source of income, more than doubled to $65.93

The company’s net earnings rose to $31.83 million, or 23 cents per share, from $18.68 million, or 13 cents per share, a year earlier.

million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30.

The company’s net earn-

ings rose to $31.83 million, or 23 cents per share, from $18.68 million, or 13 cents per share, a year earlier.

Maple Leaf recently completed a program started in 2010 to boost earnings by shutting some plants and modernizing others.

On an adjusted basis, Maple Leaf earned 32 cents per share, in line with the average analyst estimate, a c c o rd i n g t o T h o m s o n Reuters I/B/E/S. Total sales for Canada’s biggest pork processor rose 4.1 per cent to $852.1 million, beating analysts’ average estimate of $843 million.

Toronto ($/cwt) 156.00 - 289.41 — 113.84 - 255.63

Horses Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Maple Leaf profit jumps by over 70 per cent

Toronto ($/cwt) 17.50 - 73.20 40.00 - 63.25

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

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

GRAIN MARKETS column

Manitoba Elevator Prices Average quotes as of November 7, 2016 ($/tonne)

Harvest hopes fuel canola price decline

Future

Basis

Cash

E. Manitoba wheat

187.49

45.39

232.88

W. Manitoba wheat

187.49

39.20

226.69

E. Manitoba canola

508.40

-32.95

475.45

W. Manitoba canola

508.40

-39.40

469.36

The market had priced in winter halting harvest

Source: pdqinfo.ca

Port Prices Jade MarkuS CNSC

I

CE Futures Canada canola contracts lost ground on the week, pressured by ideas that the remainder of this year’s crop may be harvested before winter sets in, spurring weaker technical signals.

In the week ending Nov. 4, canola lost $6.70 in the January contract, closing at $508.40 a tonne.

While this year’s canola harvest has been less than ideal, with excess moisture slowing progress, recent high temperatures and limited precipitation in areas of Saskatchewan and Manitoba mean crops may not need to overwinter.

Heading into the weekend, Manitoba and Saskatchewan forecasts showed warmer temperatures and limited precipitation. While some farmers say it’s a long shot, those forecasts spurred ideas that fields may be able to dry out, which is bearish.

If producers are able to retrieve canola from the fields, there will likely be an influx of selling, which added to the losses on the week.

But not all areas will be able to recover with some sunshine, as two Alberta counties, Lac Ste. Anne County and Brazeau County, have declared agricultural emergencies due to excess moisture, limiting some of the market’s weather-related downside.

A weaker technical bias added to canola’s declines on the week, as Tuesday’s sharp sell-off shifted the market’s tone.

On Tuesday, Nov. 1, canola lost between $8 and $9 in front contracts.

Declines in the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean market caused spillover weakness in canola, furthering losses on the week.

In the week ending November 4, soybean prices dropped almost 20 U.S. cents per bushel in the January contract.

Harvest progress and increased farmer selling in the U.S. were, in part, responsible for the declines.

The oilseed is also expected to be technically bearish, with chart signals pointed downward.

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

As of Friday, November 4, 2016 ($/tonne) Last Week

U.S. hard red winter 12% Houston

151.20

0.10

U.S. spring wheat 14% Portland

225.14

-7.07

Canola Thunder Bay

518.40

-6.10

Canola Vancouver

528.40

-11.10

Closing Futures Prices On the other hand, strong export sales are keeping the market underpinned, which limited declines on the week, and could potentially act as a source of strength in coming sessions.

In other CBOT markets, corn prices declined in the week ending Nov. 4, with prices losing about six U.S. cents per bushel in the December contract.

Spillover pressure from soybeans was one source of the declines, while weakness in the crude oil market added to the downside.

Given corn’s link to biofuel, weaker energy prices reduce the likelihood that processors will blend more than mandated amounts of ethanol, which is bearish.

However, ideas that demand for feed-grade corn is picking up in the U.S. capped declines in the market.

Unlike its CBOT counterparts, wheat prices advanced on the week, gaining close to six U.S. cents per bushel in the December contract.

Fund buying pushed up the market, as traders were moving into position amid uncertainty about the U.S. presidential election and a dataset from the USDA due out this week.

Losses in the U.S. dollar index in the week ending November 4 were also bullish for wheat, as it makes the country’s commodities more appealing to international buyers.

U.S. producers are expected to be wrapping up winter wheat seeding, which limited the market’s upside.

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

Weekly Change

As of Friday, November 4, 2016 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

ICE canola

508.40

-11.10

ICE milling wheat

223.00

-14.00

ICE barley

132.50

0.00

Mpls. HRS wheat

187.49

-5.60

Chicago SRW wheat

152.21

-0.09

Kansas City HRW wheat

151.20

-2.02

Corn

137.30

-3.44

Oats

148.00

-2.43

Soybeans

364.04

-12.58

Soymeal

340.52

-20.50

Soyoil

765.36

-8.82

Cash Prices Winnipeg As of Friday, November 4, 2016 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

Feed wheat

n/a

n/a

Feed barley

148.35

5.51

n/a

n/a

466.12

11.81

Rye Flaxseed Feed peas

n/a

n/a

Oats

208.14

6.48

Soybeans

417.41

5.51

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

14.80

-0.10

Ask

Ask

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

Western Canadian wheat bids decline as temperatures rise Warmer weather and the hope of harvesting more crop hit wheat prices too

BY JADE MARKUS CNSC

S

pring wheat cash bids across Western Canada moved lower during the week ended Nov. 4, as warm weather in Western Canada may allow farmers to recover any unhar vested cereals from their fields.

Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were down by about $4 to $5 a tonne compared to the previous week, according to price quotes from a cross-section of delivery points across the Prairie provinces compiled by PDQ (Price and Data Quotes). Average prices ranged from about $221 per tonne in Saskatchewan’s southeast region, to as high as $234 in northern parts of Alberta.

Quoted basis levels varied from

Basis levels held reasonably steady, ranging from about $34 to $46 per tonne above the futures.

location to location, but held reasonably steady, ranging from about $34 to $46 per tonne 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 currency exchange rates by adjusting Canadian prices to U.S. dollars (C$1=US$0.7461 as of Nov. 4) CWRS bids ranged from US$165 to US$174 per tonne. That would put the currency adjusted basis levels at about US$13 to US$22 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 C$17 to C$29 below the futures.

Bids for Canada Prairie Red Spring (CPRS) wheat reported by PDQ were about $13 to $24 stronger compared to the previous week.

Average CPRS prices came in at about $158 per tonne in southeast Saskatchewan to $175 per tonne in south Alberta.

Av e r a g e d u r u m p r i c e s w e r e slightly higher, with bids coming in

between $305 and $318 per tonne in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

The December spring wheat contract in Minneapolis, which most CWRS contracts in Canada are based off of, was quoted at US$5.1025 per bushel on November 4, down about 14 U.S. cents per bushel from the previous week.

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$4.1150 per bushel on Nov. 4, up about a quarter of a U.S. cent compared to the previous week.

The December Chicago Board of Trade soft wheat contract settled at US$4.1425 on Nov. 4, which was up by close to six U.S. cents on the week.

The Canadian dollar was trading at 74.61 U.S. cents on Nov. 4, which was down by roughly one-tenth of a cent.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

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

Balancing copper content a challenge for shepherds Some soils provide too much, some too little, and both can be deadly

BY JENNIFER PAIGE Co-operator staff/Brandon

V

arying rates of copper in the soil across Canada has been giving sheep producers a tough go.

In September, the Manitoba Sheep Association reported that through June and July, processing plants in Ontario saw an increase in the number of adult carcasses being condemned due to jaundice.

“Copper toxicity is what is causing the jaundice being found at the slaughter plants in Ontario, which is caused by an overload of copper in the animal’s system,” said Jonathon Nichol, chair of the Manitoba Sheep Association.

Copper toxicosis can occur when sheep are fed rations that are high in copper. If animal feed is grown in soil containing high levels of copper, chances are copper levels in the feed are also high.

Complicating things further, copper content in soil varies greatly across Canadian geography, and according to Nichol, Manitoba has a reduced level of copper in its soil in comparison to Ontario, and has seen more reports of copper deficiency in sheep than copper toxicity, which can be equally harmful to herd productivity.

“We know that Ontario is having an issue with jaundice but Manitoba has a different copper content in the soil and in our feed than in Ontario, so we have seen multiple producers within the province that are on the opposite side of this problem, with a copper deficiency,” Nichol said. “This is something that producers need to be aware of. Yes, too much copper will kill a sheep but not enough copper will also kill a sheep.”

There are several locations within Manitoba that are known to be copper deficient and the province is also known to have molybdenum present in certain areas, which binds copper from being used effectively in sheep.

“The symptoms of a copper deficiency look similar to that of a high parasite load. The animal becomes anemic, some of them will go lame and some will get what is called wire wool, which creates a difference in the wool texture. But the end result, if the animal is too low in copper for too long, they start to do very poorly and if you do not catch that problem they won’t survive,” Nichol said.

Nichol says he has personally had a deficiency issue on his own sheep farm near Manitou.

“I assumed I had a worm problem and eventually, when I ran out of options, I started to look at every other potential possibility and narrowed it down,” Nichol said.

Too much or too little copper in feed rations can both cause health problems for sheep. PHOTO: Thinkstock

“This is something that producers need to be aware of. Yes, too much copper will kill a sheep but not enough copper will also kill a sheep.”

The gums of this sheep display the typical yellowish colouration. PHOTO: NADIS.org

If producers are seeing several anemic animals and have been deworming regularly but have not seen an improvement, Nichol suggests that they may want to talk to their vet about testing for copper deficiency.

Producers can test soil and feed to get an inkling of the trace levels of copper the herd is receiving, however, the only way to determine the true level of copper in the animal’s system is by testing a liver sample.

“A blood sample can’t really tell you. The only true way to find out what your copper level is in your sheep is through a liver sample and typically that is post-mortem,” Nichol said. “Liver samples are the best bet. It costs me approximately $200 a lamb to send in a piece of

Jaundice is seen here on the sclera of the eye. PHOTO: NADIS.org

liver to be sampled and that will tell me pretty quickly the amount of mineral and the amount of copper I am feeding them. The expense of having a couple of samples taken and tested is far less expensive than losing a bunch of animals.”

After testing liver samples and getting an understanding of copper levels, sheep can be supplemented copper, however, it takes time for the copper to both accumulate or leave the animal’s system.

“Copper builds slowly and also takes a long time to get out of the animal’s system. You can’t cure it overnight. It is not going to be a five-day course of antibiotics to solve the problem, it will take an extended period of time.”

On his own operation, after taking a number of liver tests and

Jonathon Nichol chair of the Manitoba Sheep Association

consulting his veterinarian, Nichol began supplementing his herd with copper and has seen positive results.

“I have had a lot of people who are concerned about what I have been doing on my operation, in terms of managing the copper deficiencies.

Some people were very skeptical, as we have been told for many years not to feed copper to sheep. But, I have done a lot of liver tests to see where my animals are at and why my problem is where it is,” Nichol said.

“I have noticed significant changes in the animals since I began supplementing copper. It takes three to five weeks to notice the big change but the anemia goes away and there are certainly less deaths.” jennifer.paige@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN

Christmas looms for producers There appears to be ample supply of animals for the coming holiday season

GOAT DOES

By Mark Elliot Co-operator contributor

A

s always the sheep and goat markets continue to respond to holiday demand, and the Nov. 2 sale at Winnipeg Livestock Auction was no exception. Producers offered 600 animals for sale, mainly intent on supplying the eastern Canadian market for Christmas, which requires allowing enough transport time to arrive when consumer demand peaks.

In the ewe class there was a good selection of wool and hair ewes. There appeared to be no price differences between them. At this time of the year some producers are looking to increase their herds — so age and quality are extremely important.

The buyers maintained similar bidding patterns as the last sale. The price bidding was from $0.70 to $0.90 per pound.

The selection on the rams was very limited at this sale.

A 165-pound Katahdin-cross ram brought $0.91 per pound.

A 185-pound Rideau-cross ram brought $0.95 per pound.

A 240-pound Suffolk-cross ram brought $0.87 per pound.

There were no heavyweight lambs.

The price bidding ranged from $1.40 to $1.69 per pound for the market lambs. There appeared to be no price differences between wool and h a i r l a m b s. How e v e r, t h e lambs that were extremely burr infested saw a slight drop in the bidding.

Feeder lambs domin a t e d t h e s a l e. T h e p r i c e ranged from $1.40 to $1.70 p e r p o u n d . T h e p re s e n c e of burrs became an issue in some groups of lambs. There appeared to be price differences between wool and hair lambs.

The selection of quality in the lightweight lambs varied — a lot. The variation in the bidding seemed to be triggered by numerous factors at this sale. Further development of some lambs could have assisted in the prices.

This was especially true with t h e 7 0 - p l u s - p o u n d l a m b s.

While the quality lambs had a price range from $1.57 to $1.72 per pound, many of the lambs did not reach this range.

The 60-plus-pound lambs showed similar patterns as t h e 7 0 - p l u s - p o u n d l a m b s.

Further finishing of the lambs was visibly missing.

The 50-plus-pound lambs had similar issues and very more noticeable entering the arena. Development in the finishing was really required.

The 40-plus-pound lambs were of very little interest to the buyers at this sale.

The dairy goats dominated this sale along with goat kids.

Alpine-cross goat does represented the majority of the dairy classification. Various b u ye r s we re i n t e re s t e d i n t h e s e d o e s. T h e t w o 1 4 8 pound pregnant Boer goat does seemed to create less interest at this sale.

Alpine-cross bucks repre-

Ewes

$168/$183.60 $131.75 - $142.80 $120.35 - $128.59

meat

110+

N/A

dairy

95 - 110

/ lb. $1.11

95 lbs.

$1.83

108 lbs.

$1.00

148 lbs.

$1.02

168 lbs.

$1.62

88 lbs.

$185.70

$1.76

90 lbs.

$153.90 - $168

$0.93

105 lbs.

$1.76

108 lbs.

Lambs (lbs.)

$126 - $137.70

$1.83

108 lbs.

$1.00

175 lbs.

meat

$1.40

150 lbs.

wether

$1.98

98 lbs.

dairy

$1.75

100 lbs.

80 - 94

$142.76 - $161.98

Under 80

$147.42 - $161.50

BUCKS

$136.12 - $144.40 $104.37 - $129.48

70 - 79

$70 - $83.22 60 - 65

51 - 59

$110.55 - $120.06 91.20-104.72

KIDS - Under 80

$94.08 - $105.61

MEAT

$59.45 - $68.12 40 - 49

$55 - $68.60

In the ewe class there was a good selection of wool and hair ewes. There appeared to be no price differences between them. At this time of the year some producers are looking to increase their herds — so age and quality are extremely important. The buyers maintained similar bidding patterns as the last sale. The price bidding was from $0.70 to $0.90 per pound.

$1.56

125 lbs.

$1.30

200 lbs.

$1.68

70 lbs.

$1.83

71 lbs.

$1.63

75 lbs.

$2.23

60 lbs.

$2.27

63 lbs.

$2.14

64 lbs.

$2.23

68 lbs.

$1.94

50 lbs.

$1.40

52 lbs.

$1.29

54 lbs.

$1.91

58 lbs.

$1.63

40 lbs.

$1.39

41 lbs.

$1.56

45 lbs.

DAIRY

$1.50

40 lbs.

pygmy

$1.50

40 lbs.

$1.56

45 lbs.

$1.08/$1.17

30 lbs.

DAIRY

sented the dairy bucks at this sale. A 200-pound Alpinecross buck showed its impressive structure entering the a re n a . T h e l i g h t e r- w e i g h t bucks received the stronger bidding. A 150-pound Kalahari Boer-cross goat buck showed its development and gentle temperament.

The goat kids class is always unpredictable in the sup ply for each sale. The bidding appears to be stronger whenever goat kids are available. The 70-plus goat kids had a price range from $1.63 to $1.68 per pound. Eight 71-pound goat kids brought $1.83 per pound. The bidding was stronger for the 60-plus goat kids reaching $2.14 to $2.27 per pound.

Three 68-pound goat kids b ro u g h t $ 1 . 9 4 p e r p o u n d .

As the goat kids decreased in weight the price bidding decreased. Some of the goat kids appeared to be underd e ve l o p e d b a s e d o n t h e i r growth potential. Many of the 50-plus-pound goat kids did not reach the price range from $1.72 to $1.91 per pound. Five 45-pound Alpinecross goat kids brought $1.30 per pound. There was very little interest for the 30-pound goat kids at this sale.

The Ontario stockyard sale report indicated that all goat classifications sold at strong interest from all buyers. The sheep and lambs sold under pressure and many times did not reach the last sale prices.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

Feeder Steers s

2-Nov

1-Nov

1-Nov

1-Nov

n/a

31-Oct

3-Nov

No. on offer

1,410

1,177*

804

1,881

n/a

1,070*

2,005*

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

900-1,000

160.00-163.25

140.00-165.00

130.00-158.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

800-900

155.00-190.00

140.00-177.00

137.00-165.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

150.00-167.00 (171.00)

n/a

700-800

130.00-170.50

140.00-175.00

140.00-163.50

150.00-170.00

n/a

155.00-170.00

160.00-175.00 (180.00)

n/a

over 1,000 lbs.

n/a

600-700

152.00-191.75

150.00-172.00

148.00-166.00

160.00-179.00

n/a

160.00-172.00

175.00-190.00 (191.50)

n/a

500-600

158.00-190.00

170.00-190.00

155.00-185.00

165.00-180.00

n/a

165.00-190.00 (198.50)

180.00-195.00 (198.00)

n/a

400-500

160.00-187.00

175.00-199.50

165.00-210.00

175.00-191.00

n/a

175.00-195.00 (200)

185.00-204.00 (206.00)

n/a

300-400

n/a

180.00-201.00

170.00-222.00

195.00-210.00

n/a

180.00-207.00

185.00-197.00 (210.00)

n/a

Feeder heifers 900-1,000 lbs.

135.00-149.50

n/a

96.00-107.50

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

800-900

150.00-155.25

140.00-149.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

135.00-153.50

n/a

n/a

700-800

119.00-154.00

125.00-148.00

121.00-150.00

130.00-141.00

n/a

130.00-145.00

135.00-154.00

n/a

600-700

129.00-166.00

140.00-152.00

125.00-146.00

140.00-152.00

n/a

135.00-150.00

145.00-159.00 (161.00)

n/a

500-600

125.00-176.00

140.00-159.00

150.00-174.00

140.00-156.00

n/a

140.00-156.00

140.00-170.00 (181.00)

n/a

400-500

130.00-170.00

150.00-172.00

165.00-189.00

155.00-170.00

n/a

150.00-173.00

170.00-188.00 (190.00)

n/a

300-400

n/a

160.00-173.00

135.00-184.00

150.00-175.00

n/a

165.00-185.00

n/a

n/a

Slaughter Market No. on offer

131

n/a

164

79

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

D1-D2 Cows

77.00-84.00

60.00-75.00

50.00-80.00

77.00-84.00

n/a

70.00-84.00

72.00-79.00

n/a

D3-D5 Cows

70.00-76.00

n/a

n/a

60.00-75.00

n/a

n/a

65.00-74.00

n/a

Age Verified

83.00-90.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

100.00-110.00

n/a

n/a

Mature Bulls

100.00-117.75

85.00-102.00

82.00-86.50

95.00-113.00

n/a

n/a

105.00-111.00 (113.00)

n/a

Butcher Steers

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

n/a

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n/a

n/a

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Feeder Cows

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

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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

100.00-113.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

110.00-121.00

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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Showcasing the value of the forage industry The Canadian Forage and Grassland Association will highlight Manitoba’s unique forage research initiatives at the organization’s national conference

BY JENNIFER PAIGE Co-operator staff/Brandon

I

f you want to talk about grasslands and forage, go to where the action is — and lately a lot of that action is in Manitoba.

In the eyes of the Canadian Forage and Grassland Associa­ tion (CFGA), Manitoba has been a standout in its efforts towards forage research and the ideal place to hold this year’s national conference.

“We have been working very closely with the Mani­t oba Forage and Grassland Associa­­ tion (MFGA) on developing a number of environmental scan type projects, and it has a lot of things happening pro­ vincially on the environmental benefits side of the forage sec­ tor. We thought it was a really good opportunity to partner up to highlight activities happen­ ing both nationally and provin­ cially,” said Cedric MacLeod, executive director of the CFGA. CFGA will hold its seventh annual national conference, themed “Green and Grass in 2016,” in Winnipeg November 15 to 17.

According to MacLeod, the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiative (MBFI) research farm, which is located just north of Brandon, was another rea­ son the CFGA was drawn to Manitoba as its host.

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“MBFI has really been gaining strength and it is a novel pub­ lic-private partnership type of applied research model. We feel quite strongly in the model and that it may be a good example for other provinces. We wanted to have a chance to tour that facility and highlight that on the agenda as well,” MacLeod said. “There are certainly other initiatives sim­ ilar to MBFI on the go across the country but I think at this point, MBFI is the shining example in Canada.”

Attendees will have a chance to tour the MBFI facility dur­ ing the conference pre-tour, as well as hear from repre­ sentative, Glenn Friesen from Manitoba Agriculture, during the conference in a session enti­ tled, “Driving Beef and Forage Innovation Right Here at Home.”

At the conference, CFGA also aims to show off the forage sec­ tor’s environmental benefits and economical value.

“We really want the attendees to stop for a moment and reflect on the sheer size and value of the sector,” MacLeod said. “We are talking about 70 million acres of crop ground in Canada being dedicated to forages with a $5.09-billion farm gate value, second only to canola and wheat.

That is really what we are trying to show off and make sure that forage gets its day in the sun.”

MacLeod says that in many cases the forage sector is under­ valued in the Canadian agricul­

Manitoba is developing a reputation for its grazing research efforts. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

ture system because it is largely a supplier industry to the livestock sectors.

“The dairy and beef sectors command a fairly large swath in Canadian agriculture and as a supplier we sometimes accept second fiddle, but we need to make sure we express our value. This is 70 million acres. It is huge and the natural capital that the forage sector provides is immense.”

The conference will include a lineup of speakers from across North America discussing cur­ rent management practices, export industry development and the environmental value brought to the Canadian econ­ omy by the sector.

“We have got a pretty clear focus on the environmental ben­ efits that the sector is bringing, in terms of the carbon storage

MacDon: R1 Source: Manitoba Co-operator, 1/2 page, 10.25" x 7.75", CMYK, November 10

“We are talking about 70 million acres of crop ground in Canada being dedicated to forages with a $5.09-billion farm gate value, second only to canola and wheat. That is really what we are trying to show off and make sure that forage gets its day in the sun.”

Cedric MacLeod executive director of the CFGA

value, the water filtration and nutrient management, and I think that is something we will be focusing on in the coming years,” MacLeod said.

Event speakers will include Dimple Roy, director of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Trevor

Herriot, writer and forage advo­ cate and Douglas Yungblut, an agriculture consultant who will discuss the economics of beef cow grazing versus cash cropping.

For more information visit, http://canadianfga.com/ CFGA_Conf/.

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

Late-fall heat wave continues Issued: Monday, November 7, 2016 · Covering: November 9 – November 16, 2016 Daniel Bezte Weather Vane

T

he general weather pattern hasn’t changed much over the last week across North America. A large area of high pressure is situated over central North America, with a large area of low pressure over the Gulf of Alaska. This means we will be seeing a continuation of our warm and relatively dry weather for at least one more week.

This forecast period begins with a rebuilding ridge of high pressure across our region that should bring plenty of sunshine along with very mild temperatures on Wednesday. Expect daytime highs to exceed the usual temperature range for this time of the year, with a few areas possibly seeing record highs. An area of low pressure is then forecasted to slide quickly through central Manitoba on Thursday, bringing clouds and a few showers along with it. This low will drag a cold front with it that will knock our temperatures down a little bit on Thursday and Friday, with highs expected to be in the 5 C range.

Over the weekend, we will see high pressure once again start to build across our region bringing a return to sunny and mild conditions. This ridge doesn’t look like it will be as warm as the one we experienced last week. It does look like we should still see daytime highs near the 10 C mark, with overnight lows around zero, which is 10 C above long-term averages for this time of the year.

This ridge is forecasted to stick around for Monday and Tuesday before finally pulling off to the southeast. After this the weather models are showing a shift in the overall weather pattern as the energy from the Gulf of Alaska low begins pushing eastwards across north-central Canada. Exactly what impact this will have on our weather is a little uncertain at this time, but it does look like temperatures will return to more seasonal values by the end of next week.

Usual temperature range for this period: highs, -6 to 6 C; lows, -15 to -2 C. Probability of precipitation falling as snow: 75 per cent.

WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA

14 Day Accumulated Precipitation (Prairie Region) October 21, 2016 to November 3, 2016

0 - 3 mm 3 - 6 mm 6 - 9 mm 9 - 12 mm 12 - 16 mm 16 - 19 mm 19 - 22 mm 22 - 25 mm 25 - 28 mm 28 - 31 mm 31 - 34 mm 34 - 37 mm 37 - 40 mm 40 - 43 mm 43 - 47 mm 47 - 50 mm 50 - 53 mm 53 - 56 mm Extent of Agricultural Land Lakes and Rivers

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

Copyright © 2016 Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada

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.

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

Created: 11/04/16 www.agr.gc.ca/drought

This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that fell across the Prairie provinces during the 14-day period ending on November 3.

The map does a really good job of showing the line of showers and rain that moved through eastern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba during this time, bringing as much as 50 mm of unneeded moisture.

Warmer temperatures at night the really big story The near absence of overnight-low records suggests climate change models might be right

BY DANIEL BEZTE

gfs 2- meter temperature anomaly

Weather Vane

I

think the biggest weather story of the last couple of weeks has been the unusual heat that has affected a large portion of Canada and the United States during the last few days of October and the first week of November. Maybe a different way of looking at it, especially in our region, has been the lack of any real cold weather so far this fall.

I usually clean up all my flowerpots in early October and this year was no different. I did have one small pot with petunias in it that still looked nice, so I left it sitting out. It is now November 7 and it still looks great! A buddy of mine is still heading out goose h u n t i n g b e c a u s e t h e y a re still around. Since we haven’t seen much subfreezing temperatures the wetlands are still unfrozen and the geese have no reason to leave yet.

I’ve never kept track of this kind of thing in the past, but looking back at the overnight lows over the last 40 days, so far the Winnipeg region has only seen 13 days where temperatures dropped below the 0° mark. The coldest temperature has been about -4 C and

the longest streak of belowfreezing overnight lows has been three nights. Farther west, around Brandon, over the last 40 days there have been only 19 days with below-freezing temperatures, with the coldest reading -6.8 in early October.

Looking at October, while our mean monthly temperatures were between 1° and 2° above average, the mean monthly low temperatures were between 2° and 3° above average.

I have included an extra map this week that shows the forecasted temperature anomalies for last Sunday (Nov. 6). Looking

at the map you can see that the warmest temperature anomalies on this date were centred right over and around southern Manitoba. Daytime highs in this region were a remarkable 12 to 18 C above average.

The heat hasn’t just been confined to our region. Record highs and latest dates for seeing the first fall frost have been broken across much of the central and western half of the United States. Some interesting data has been published recently in regards to temperature records across the United States and in par-

t i c u l a r, d a i l y t e m p e ra t u re records (I don’t know if anyone in Canada is tracking this).

According to a study done at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the difference between the number of daily record heat records and the number of daily cold records across the U.S. has been increasing since the 1960s. In the 1970s there were approximately five daily record lows to four daily record highs. In the 1980s the ratio was about six record highs to five record lows.

So far this decade the ratio is a little over two daily record highs for each daily record low. So far this year the ratio is an astonishing five record highs to every record low.

The study also discusses the fact that the number of record highs has only increased a little bit, but it is the number of record lows that has changed significantly, which seems to correspond to the idea that overnight lows are getting warmer. This supports the climate models that indicate that overnight lows will warm significantly under climate change.

Speaking of climate change.

The movie/documentar y “Before the Flood” follows Leonardo DiCaprio’s three-year journey to understand climate change as the United Nation’s

Messenger of Peace with a focus on climate change. The documentary is not a groundbreaking piece revealing new information on climate change, but rather an interesting view of the whole climate change situation worldwide.

The documentary is a little long at 96 minutes, but for the most part keeps your attention. The nicest part of the film was that Leonardo didn’t try to come off as an expert, which he readily admits he is not. Instead, he uses his star power to interview a number of different people from around the world to see how climate change is already impacting various regions. Unfortunately, it is only available for free until November 6 but I have a feeling it will be made free again after the U.S. election.

To wrap things up weatherwise for this week, the October sea ice extents have come out.

Over the Arctic, ice coverage for the month averaged out at a record-low value. Around the South Pole the Antarctic sea ice, which has been running well above average for several years now, has also dropped to near-record low levels. October’s value was the second lowest on record, coming in only slightly behind the record-low year of 1986.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

CROPS

Thompson spent much of his time at the podium telling researchers and pulse breeders at the meeting about the substantial differences his research is revealing about the functional traits of varieties. It all points to a need to better understand the benefits of the crops and breed for these functional traits, he said.

BY GORD GILMOUR Co-operator editor

P

ulses have an image problem.

They’re healthy and hearty fare. At times they can even seem like a wonder food, contributing to lower cholesterol, overcoming dietary fibre shortages and perhaps even slowing the spread of some cancers.

Despite this, however, they’re also seen as unglamorous and even at times something to be a bit embarrassed about, according to one dietary specialist.

Henry Thompson heads up the University of Colorado’s Cancer Prevention Laboratory and he’s a dietitian by training. He says frequently the crops are viewed as poverty food and the first choice of consumers when they earn a bit more money is to replace them with animal protein.

“They’re seen as poor-people food,” Thompson said in an interview at the sidelines of the Canadian Pulse Research Workshop last week in Winnipeg.

“But I tell people that’s wrong.

They’re not poor-people food.

They’re smart-people food.”

Underconsumed Getting the full dietary value of pulse crops means consuming enough of them, Thompson told the conference, something almost nobody does. He cited U.S. figures, but added the Canadian numbers would be almost identical. A diet containing 200 to 300 grams of pulses every day would completely eliminate the well-understood dietary fibre shortfall of most North Americans. However, the actual daily consumption is about 10 grams a day.

“If it should be around 200 or 300 grams a day, that’s a thirtyfold increase in consumption levels,” Thompson said.

North Americans and Europeans once ate far more pulses. For example, there were regional recipes like Boston-baked beans and French Canadian pea soup. As the population became more affluent, however, that began to change. Meat replaced beans and many of the

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Pulse crop breeder Tom Warkentin says grower funding has been the key to expanding acres. PHOTOs: GORD GILMOUR

“I tell people that’s wrong. They’re not poor-people food.

They’re smart-people food.”

Henry Thompson

woes of our modern diet began to surface.

For the pulse producer the risk is this trend could continue in other locations as customer countries become more affluent. Brazil, for example, has long been one of the largest edible bean producers and consumers. But in recent years per capita income has risen and almost in lockstep, per capita consumption has fallen.

“Brazil is turning away from beans,” Thompson said. “I talk to its public health officials, and they’re quite concerned about it because they know they’re a very healthy dietary option and they’re worried about the public health implications.”

Promotion helps One recent development that may help turn this around is the current International Year of the Pulse, as declared by the United Nations.

Thompson said he was very pleased to hear the UN make the declaration back in 2013, and he’s

Dietitian and health researcher Henry Thompson wants everyone to understand the value of pulse crops in their diet.

been even more pleased to see it seems to be helping penetrate the public consciousness. Prior to the start of the year, just 12 per cent of those surveyed knew about pulse crops and their benefits. A followup study conducted this past spring saw that climb to 30 per cent, he said.

“I think it’s really having an impact,” Thompson said. “That’s quite the jump in just five months.”

Another thing that could help is bringing the food industry on board as a partner to boost consumption.

It has a long track record at adopting other products, such as whole grains or oat bran, and ground pulses could fit that model — and give much greater health benefits while that happens.

Tom Warkentin of the University of Saskatchewan, widely recognized as Western Canada’s pre-eminent pulse crop breeder, told the meeting that breeding these crops is a delicate balancing act of competing interests from consumers to processors and, of course, the farmers who actually grow the crops and fund much of the research and breeding programs.

One of the crops he’s worked on most is field peas.

“When I talk to farmers, the two most common traits they tell me they’re interested in are yield and standability,” Warkentin said. “They want to grow more bushels and they want them to stand up so they can harvest them efficiently.”

That’s not to say the other traits that are desirable to other members of the industry aren’t important or can’t be bred for, but rather that breeders like himself need to know what to breed for and begin working those priorities into breeding programs.

In an interview following his presentation Warkentin said he’s proud of the advances the sector has made in recent years, and the growing number of acres the crops have captured.

“It’s a real success story,” he said.

Warkentin hopes to see the crops become the third rotational pillar, in addition to cereals and oilseed crops, for growers in the region.

“We’re not there yet, but we’re getting closer,” he said.

He also credited grower organizations with their willingness to fund research as a key reason the crops have been successful.

“Without farmers funding this research, the progress we have seen wouldn’t be possible,” Warkentin said. gord.gilmour@fbcpublishing.com

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Sweet potatoes may enter Manitoba rotations High in vitamins and nutrients, the humble sweet potato could become a Manitoba staple

Students at Assiniboine Community College’s horticulture production and sustainable food systems program harvested sweet potatoes in October. Photos: Submitted

BY SHANNON VANRAES Co-operator staff

H

alloween may be over, but Sajjad Rao is still working on something sweet and orange for Manitoba producers.

The Assiniboine Community College faculty member and Brandon University adjunct professor has been researching the viability of Prairie-grown sweet potatoes at the college’s threeacre research plot. Working with students in the school’s horticulture production and sustainable food systems program, he has narrowed his research down to four short-season varieties that show promise in Manitoba’s climate.

“When I started three years back, I had eight or 10 varieties which were from Nova Scotia and other varieties from the eastern side of the country,” said Rao. “So I basically started screening from

20 varieties... and I came up with the four varieties we are working with now.”

He is also working with Vineland Research and Innovation Centre in Ontario, which has already developed sweet potato varieties for other regions of the country. But Manitoba and other Prairie provinces present unique challenges in terms of a shorter growing season and cooler temperatures, which Rao believes is part of the reason sweet potatoes haven’t been seen as a viable option for Prairie producers in the past.

“I think it’s because the crop itself doesn’t give the impression that it can be grown here, because it is a purely tropical crop and we are in a temperate region of the world,” he said. “I mean they grow them in North Carolina but that is an entirely different climate.”

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But after three years of testing and trials, the researcher doesn’t see any reason why the supernutritious vegetable can’t be grown in Manitoba, even if he is a few years away from pinpointing the perfect variety.

“One thing I think of is crop diversification, it is always important for any cropping system. I mean continuously growing one crop in an area is not an ideal situation, so there should always be that need to add something different to the cropping system... for some that could be sweet potatoes,” said Rao. Because sweet potatoes don’t belong to the same family of plants as conventional potatoes, but are planted and harvested with some similar equipment, they could potentially provide a buffer against disease and pests, without a farmer having to reinvent the wheel, he said.

“This is a root crop and not

a tuber crop, so it is a different family and there are entirely different requirements, but the good thing is that they both grow underground so there is some awareness and there is the technology due to potato growers that are already out there due to the awareness of other crops like carrots and onions,” Rao said. “I think there is good adoptability.”

He hopes to begin field trials in Manitoba next summer.

“I have interested growers who are very much interested in growing sweet potatoes and probably, if everything works well in terms of planting material and everything else, could begin next summer,” he said, adding the first grower in line for test plots already grows some potatoes near the college.

As for who might adopt sweet potatoes on a commercial scale, Rao said it is still far too early to tell. But he believes it will

“My goal is to engage farmers now and to hopefully enrol them in this crop so they have some knowhow.”

Sajjad Rao

depend more on market forces than agronomy concerns once research has wrapped up and a variety is available.

“For my project I think it will be another three to four years till we have the agronomy package,” he said. “So my goal is to engage farmers now and to hopefully enrol them in this crop so they have some know-how.” shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

Spud producers pull off second record crop Prices are low and right now there’s no market for the surplus production

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff/Portage la Prairie

M

anitoba potato growers harvested, on average, a record 348 hundredweight (cwt) an acre this fall, up eight per cent from the previous record of 322 cwt set last year.

However, it’s not all good news, Keystone Potato Growers A s s o c i a t i o n m a n a g e r Da n Sawat­z ky told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ advisory council Nov. 3.

“We are struggling to find a home currently for about a million bags of surplus,” Sawatzky said.

“Hopefully something opens up down the road. Right now it’s not looking much like there will be an opportunity to market, but you never know how things will develop over the winter.”

Most processing potato farmers contract their production

before the crop is planted in spring.

This year Manitoba growers planted 64,825 acres of potatoes and harvested 62,860 acres, Sawatzky said.

“We left more in the ground this year than we have for a number of years for two reasons,” he said. “Some areas were flooded out during the season (mostly east and south of Winkler) and a little over two per cent probably was left because there was no place to put them.

In spite of acreage being abandoned, we still had excess production.”

Some farmers also left potatoes undug because they were only being offered $4 a bag, Sawatzky said later in an interview.

“No one likes to see food wasted,” he added.

Meanwhile, late blight is showing up in some stored potatoes, which puts them at risk of

rotting, despite farmers having sprayed their fields with fungicides to protect against the disease and also treating tubers going into storage.

On top of all that, potato prices are low.

“On pricing we continue to remain below 2009 levels,” Sawatzky said. “In spite of the great crop there are still pockets of not everyone being optimistic about the business. There continues to be focus on moving some of the risk back onto the producer. The latest discussions have been all around food safety and foreign material and putting more onus on the grower.”

Harvest went well this year, with most fields dug by the beginning of October, Sawatzky said. The exceptions were along Highway 2 and other areas where there was a bumper crop, which took longer to harvest. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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Wet conditions delaying Manitoba harvest, fertilizer applications Sunny forecast is just what many farmers need

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff/Portage la Prairie

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oo wet.

That sums up condi­ tions on many Manitoba farms as of Nov. 3 when the Keystone Agricultural Pro­ ducers (KAP) held its advisory council meeting here.

But that was before Mother Nature treated much of the province to a weekend of record-breaking temperatures, sunshine and wind. And as of press time Monday warmerthan-normal, sunny weather was forecast for the rest of the week.

It’s needed. Many KAP dis­ trict representatives, especially from western and northwestern regions, said there was still a lot of crop to harvest, field work to do and fertilizer to apply.

“It’s a bad situation,” said Fox w a r re n f a r m e r G e o rg e Graham. “It’s very wet.”

He estimated less than 20 per cent of the fertilizer applied by this time last year has been put on in his area. Graham said he hopes the Manitoba govern­ ment will extend the Nov. 10 deadline for applying fertilizer and manure.

KAP is working on that, presi­ dent Dan Mazier said.

KAP has been successful in getting past extensions. The deadline’s intent is to stop fer­ tilizer and manure from being applied on frozen fields, mak­ ing nutrients susceptible to running off and polluting lakes.

Minto farmer Bill Campbell said his fields were so wet there’s a 70 per cent chance they’ll be too wet to seed next spring.

Later in an interview Campbell said he isn’t worried about a lot of snow this win­ ter. Any meltwater will run off because his soil is already saturated from three feet of rain during the 2016 growing season.

“My concern is if we get a two-inch rain on the 4th of May after it tries to dry up, we are done,” Campbell said.

“I honestly believe we are worse than we were in the fall of 2010 and we all know what happened in 2011.

“Out of 1,800 acres we sowed 60.”

That year in Manitoba t h re e m i l l i o n a c re s d i d n’t get seeded due to excessive moisture.

There was a bountiful hay crop this year, but the qual­ i t y s u f f e re d , d u e t o ra i n , Henry Nelson, vice-chair of t h e Ma n i t o b a Fo ra g e a n d Grassland Association told the meeting. As a result there’s less dairy-quality hay for export.

Excessive moisture hurt some pastures, which will have to be reseeded, he added.

Cattle yards are a mess with mud and calves are getting sick, said Wawanesa farmer Simon Ellis.

Many farmers have high lev­ els of vomitoxin in their wheat due to fusarium head blight and excessive moisture, he said.

There were some good yields, including for wheat in District 3 — south-cen­ tral Manitoba — said Winkler

far mer Dustin Krahn. But vomitoxin is a problem, espe­ cially in the Faller and Prosper varieties, he said.

Dugald farmer Edgar Scheurer described his area as “swamp-like.” Nevertheless, harvest conditions went well for earlier-maturing crops, he said. However, for some, can­ ola yields were disappointing, especially in comparison to soybeans. As a result Scheurer expects farmers in his area will grow more soybeans in 2017 and less canola.

Scheurer said canola yields varied from 17 to 50 bush­ els an acre with an estimated average yield at 30. But some s oy b e a n f i e l d s y i e l d e d 6 0 bushels an acre. He stimated they will average 45 to 48 bushels. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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COLUMN

Stuck in a rut

MGEX spring wheat futures are rangebound and going nowhere fast David Drozd Ag-Chieve

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he nearby MGEX spring wheat futures have been stuck in a US$.60-perbushel trading range since July 2015. Prices have thus far been unable to exceed resistance in the US$5.42 area, as the selling overcomes the buying.

Subsequently, the US$4.82 level is proving to be support, an area where the buying picks up and the market begins to turn back up.

This sideways trading range has developed into a rectangle formation. Rectangles are important to note, as they provide a measurement of how far a market will move in the direction of the breakout.

Rectangles Rectangles, or box formations as they are sometimes called, are found frequently on futures price charts. In the majority of cases they prove to be continuation or sideways consolidation patterns in which prices, having been in an obvious trend, will pause for several weeks without making progress.

In the example I am using in

the accompanying chart, the market is digesting its decline.

The MGEX spring wheat weekly nearby futures have been in a sideways, US$.60-per-bushel trading range for the past 16 months. Less than one-third of the time this formation will evolve into a legitimate trend reversal. As a general rule, rectangles as reversal patterns are most likely to occur after a downtrend. Thus, they form a bottom prior to the start of a new advance.

A rectangle formation consists of a trading range which is bounded on both the top and bottom by horizontal lines (see accompanying chart). Within this range, the price fluctuations must form at least two tops and bottoms. Volume will normally taper off as the rectangle lengthens in time. The pattern reaches completion when the price exceeds either the upper or lower boundary.

The breakout from a rectangle is considered to be highly reliable as a forecasting tool. A minimum measurement is determined by the vertical distance of the rectangle projected at the point of breakout.

Rectangle completion can be premature, as prices will sometimes exceed the formation’s boundary only to return to the pattern before moving

in the direction of the original breakout.

Market psychology Since the rectangle basically outlines a trading range, the buying and selling behaviour which comprises this pattern denotes support and resistance levels within the current price trend.

Assuming the market is moving higher, the upper horizontal boundary begins to form due to profit-taking by longs, which turns prices lower. As occurs in other patterns, this decline attracts bargain hunters. The lower boundary represents a line of support where the demand, or buying of contracts, exceeds the supply. Similarly, the upper boundary represents a line of resistance where the supply of contracts for sale exceeds the demand, or buying of contracts.

Between these two extremes the market is in relative balance, with neither buyers nor sellers able to gain a lasting advantage.

Prices remain trendless for a time until either the buying at the upper boundary exceeds the selling, or the selling at the lower boundary exceeds the buying. When either occurs, the scales are tipped and prices break out of the formation.

MGEX SPRING WHEAT WEEKLY NEARBY Chart as of November 2, 2016

One should realize that a breakout through the upper boundary not only cleans out the supply of contracts which had previously halted the advance, but it puts all shorts into a losing position. Similarly, in a downtrend, when prices break through the lower boundary of this formation all longs are placed on the defensive. To understand where, on a chart, the anxiety level of shorts or longs increases is very useful, for it is shortly thereafter that their contracts become fuel for the fire.

Wheat producers who were selling wheat as the nearby

futures approached the area of resistance at US$5.42 were able to avoid having to sell at the market lows.

Send your questions or comments about this article and chart to info@agchieve.ca.

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

Argentina soy, corn crop seen hardly hit by La Niña-related dryness Meteorologists say if it does turn out there’s a drought, they won’t be blaming the weather phenomenon

BY HUGH BRONSTEIN BUENOS AIRES/Reuters

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he La Niña climate pattern will have minimal impact on Argentina soy, wheat and corn growing this season, setting the stage for ample harvests, local meteorologists said on Nov.7.

The La Niña phenomenon tends to bring dryness to Argentina’s Pampas Farm Belt. This can put upward pressure on world food prices by decreasing soy production in the world’s No. 3 soybean exporter and top supplier of soymeal livestock feed.

The country is also a major corn and wheat exporter.

“The (La Niña) event is present, but of very low intensity. Any dryness will be minimal. If there is a drought, it will be for reasons other than La Niña.” said German Heinzenknecht, a meteorologist at climate consultancy CCA. Wheat flowering in southern Buenos Aires province is currently being hurt by dry conditions, he said, while soy planting has been slowed by abovenormal rainfall in northern La Pampa, southern Cordoba and northwest Buenos Aires provinces.

La Niña is characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean and tends to occur every two to seven years. Severe occurrences have been linked to floods and droughts.

Forecasters at Reuters’ Agricultural

Argentine forecasters say they’re expecting a minimal effect on crops from La Niña this growing season. PHOTO: Thinkstock

Weather Dashboard said that wet weather dominated the picture across the major crop areas of South America in the past week.

The interactive map on Reuters’ Weather Dashboard showed continued

wet weather over most of Argentina’s productive farmland in the coming week, with the exception of a few northeastern areas.

“There could be isolated periods of drought this year, but it will not be a

typical La Niña year with massive dryness,” said Eduardo Sierra, weather consultant to the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange.

“All indications point to good harvest volumes,” he said.

Argentine growers are expected to plant 19.6 million hectares of soy in the 2016-17 season, down three per cent from the previous crop year as growers expand corn and wheat planting, the Rosario grains exchange has forecast.

President Mauricio Macri eliminated corn and wheat export taxes soon after taking office 11 months ago, in a bid to promote crop rotation after years of overplanting soy.

A record crop of 36 million tonnes of commercial-use corn is expected, up 20 per cent from 30 million tonnes in 2015-16, according to the Buenos Aires Exchange.

This is good news for neighbouring Brazil, which has been relying on Argentine corn for its struggling poultry and pork industry after drought in early 2016 slashed its corn output.

The Buenos Aires exchange forecasts Argentina’s 2016-17 soy crop at 53 million tonnes, down from 56 million tonnes a year earlier.

Argentine soy planting starts in mid-October with harvesting of lateplanted crops stretching into June.

Brazil’s soy crop is off to a good start to the 2016-17 season, after spring showers breathed life into farms that have struggled with drought over the past few years.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

Feds, province invest $432,000 towards farm safety education and training Keystone Agricultural Producers will administer the new program.

The hope is for sweeping change in attitudes towards safety, KAP president says

BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff

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eystone Agricultural Pro d u c e r s ( K A P ) w i l l receive a major cash injection of $432,000 over the next two years to establish a broad-reaching and extensive new farm safety program.

The funds announced by both provincial and federal ag ministers last week will flow through Growing Forward 2 and used to provide practical, on-farm expertise, resources and training for on-farm safety.

KAP’s president said last week he hopes this substantial investment in farm safety education helps their sector finally turn its back on its poor safety record.

The hope is for sweeping change in attitudes towards safety that will extend well beyond the two-year funding for it.

“It’s the start of a culture change in agriculture and helping it to adapt to modern-day work standards in Manitoba,” said Dan Mazier.

Mazier said the program will target all types of farmers and agricultural employers so they fully understand the regulations, rights and their responsibilities to create safer workplaces.

SAFE Work Manitoba is a program partner and will be working with KAP on programming for farmers that leads to adoption of best practices and standard operating procedure. The initiative will make a wide range of programs available, from hazardspecific training, to commodity-specific farm safety workshops and safety orientation programs, Mazier said. There will be on-site safety advisers to work directly with farm businesses to identify and address farm risks.

“O u r g o a l i s t o p r ov i d e resources for farmers that are practical,” Mazier said.

The ultimate goal is that their sector embrace a culture of safety and finally reverse its poor track record when it comes to the high rates of injury, stresses KAP general manager James Battershill.

“We have put an enormous amount of attention on farm safety already but certainly we still see more severe accidents and farm-related workplace accidents than most of the other industries in the province combined.”

And while deaths and injuries are devastating enough, a reputation as the most dangerous occupation that lacks a safety culture isn’t going to bode well when it comes to hiring and retaining skilled workers, Battershill said.

The changing labour market means agriculture will increasingly need to hire people who will simply expect that workplaces are safe and that attention is paid to their safety and well-being. “ We’re seeing consolida-

tion in the industr y and a greater reliance on non-family labour on the farm,” he said.

“Farmers know their industry is dangerous and it’s almost accepted that that’s the cost of doing business. But those skilled workers our members are competing for... that pool of labour’s experience in other industries is that workplace safety programs are the norm.”

“We need to make sure we’re making farms as attractive a workplace as possible.”

KAP will hire a program director to administer the program and also work with a new farm safety council KAP is now assembling.

Battershill is meeting with farm organizations and comm o d i t y g ro u p s a s k i n g f o r

representatives to sit on this council. It will provide key leadership and guidance for this initiative, he said. First and foremost they want a program “with lots of farmer common sense” in its delivery, he said.

This council will also provide critical leadership to get this initiative off the group because it’s fundamentally important that farmers know this is supported and led by their own farm organizations, not being imposed by a government entity.

“We’re really trying to find strong leadership within the industry to drive this forward,” he said. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

New Holland to buy into tillage equipment market CNH will take up Kongskilde’s tillage, hay and forage equipment businesses STAFF

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.S. ag equipment giant New Holland is set to enter the tillage equipment business and stretch out its space in the hay and forage market, with a deal for Danish m a n u f a c t u r e r Ko n g s k i l d e Industries.

N e w H o l l a n d ’s p a r ent CNH Industrial on Oct. 31 announced it will buy Kongskilde’s agricultural “grass and soil” business from Dansk Landbrugs Grovvareselskab (DLG Group) for an undisclosed sum, subject to the usual regulatory and antitrust approvals.

The deal includes the “wellestablished” Kongskilde, Overum and JF equipment

brands. CNH CEO Richard Tobin said the new owner plans to “build upon these proud heritages and significantly increase their market access.”

The company’s hay and forage lines include forage harvesters, mowers and rakes, while its soil product lines include plows, cultivators, seed drills, rock pickers, fertilizer applicators, weeders, rotavators and vertical tillage units.

Kongskilde will continue to operate through its current sales organization and its dealer network, New Holland said.

The deal also includes Kongskilde’s manufacturing plants at Kutno, Poland, about 130 km west of Warsaw, and at

Overum, Sweden, about 250 km southwest of Stockholm, plus assets including a lease contract for production work at Hudson, Illinois, about 150 km southwest of Chicago.

The deal doesn’t include Kongskilde Grain, the company’s grain-handling equipment business, nor its Kongskilde Industr y division, which makes handling equipment for industries including the paper, plastic and packaging sectors.

New Holland is no stranger to hay and forage, a market it entered with balers starting in 1940, but with Kongskilde’s tillage line, the deal “will create a major extension and enhancement of New Holland’s offering with the addition of a key product portfolio,” CNH said.

Ko n g s k i l d e i s a l s o w e l l

acquainted with the Canadian market, having entered North America selling cultivators and other tillage tools out of Exeter, Ont. in 1960. By 2010 it had bought U.S. equipment m a n u f a c t u re r P r o g re s s i v e Farm Products and consolid a t e d i t s No r t h A m e r i c a n operations in Illinois.

For Kongskilde’s parent firm, the deal is part of a broader plan to “divest non-core activities and strengthen the focus on its three core business areas,” DLG said Monday in a separate release.

D LG , ow n e d by D a n i s h farmers, is already one of Europe’s biggest agr ibusinesses, dealing in farm supply, livestock feed and farm fuels, and is also a major grain exporter.

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Winter cereal acres unclear due to wet conditions Statistics Canada estimates are due Dec. 6, but until then, nobody is really sure what’s been planted

By Jade Markus CNSC

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ariable conditions across Manitoba and Saskatchewan have made it difficult to estimate winter cereal acreage, the head of an i n d u s t r y g r o u p s a y s.

But crops that are in the ground have seen mostly favourable weather.

Jake Davidson, executive director of Winter Cereals Canada Inc., said he’s waiting for data from Statistics Canada due early December to get a better sense of fall rye and winter wheat acres.

“I don’t know whether to get excited or not,” Davidson said. “Our biggest problem this year was it was so wet.”

A mix of conditions across Manitoba and Saskatchewan makes it hard to tell how many producers have been able to seed winter cereals, he added.

“There are so many places where it was too wet to get the crop in and they couldn’t get the canola off,” Davidson said.

Seeding progress is also dependent on soil type, and areas like Carberry, Manitoba have had fewer issues due to sandy soil.

However, seeded winter wheat and fall rye should be off to a good start, Davidson said, as temperatures are dropping slowly.

“We’re just kind of sitting around waiting for the numbers to see whether it’s better than we think,” Davidson said.

Statistics Canada production estimates are due out on December 6.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

Ottawa looking at alternative to CETA compensation for dairy producers The move comes as a surprise to industry groups like the Dairy Farmers of Canada who were promised cash by the previous government

BY ALEX BINKLEY Co-operator contributor

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he federal government is considering a transition program rather than promised compensation for dairy farmers and processors hurt by increased European cheese imports under the Canada-Europe trade deal.

Government officials at an off-the-record briefing for reporters on technical details of the deal said Ottawa preferred “a package of transition assistance to position both processors and producers to be better able to compete with imports from the EU.” Caroline Emond, executive director of Dairy Farmers of Canada, told the Commons agriculture committee Nov. 3

that the news came as a surprise to her organization, which has been discussing compensation with the government for more than a year.

T h e Ha r p e r g ove r n m e n t promised $4.3 billion in compensation for producers hurt by the imports. Earlier this year, Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay said the commitment would be honoured. He is currently leading a trade mission in China. A request to Global Affairs Canada for more information was not responded to.

“The reporters have more infor mation than we do,” Emond said. “I can’t tell you anything more about what the government might offer. A transition program might be helpful.”

DFC has estimated that farmers and cheese makers could

lose $100 million to $200 million a year in sales because of the cheese imports, which are produced using governmentsubsidized milk.

The government officials said the details on the transition program will be announced in the near future. Separate programs will be available for farmers and dairy processors.

There would be no lump sum payments.

Following news that Canada and the European Union finally signed the deal on Oct. 30, DFC president Wally Smith said his group was “eager to see how the government is going to fulfil its promise of a mitigation and compensation package to Canada’s dairy farmers. We are pleased that, since 2013, we have been able to get the Government of Canada to

understand that lost market opportunities warrant mitigation and compensation.”

The market access granted in CETA will cost Canadian dairy farmers as much as $116 million in lost milk sales that produce high-quality, awardwinning Canadian cheeses each year, as imported cheeses from Europe take more shelf space.

Canadian dairy farmers have never opposed Canada signing more trade deals, as long as there are no negative impacts on dairy farmers as a result of these agreements, Smith also said.

Dairy farmers stand with many small and medium cheese makers across Canada in wanting to continue to grow the market for high-quality Canadian dairy products, he noted.

Canola crush at blistering pace Crush margins have more than doubled from the same time last year

BY PHIL FRANZ-WARKENTIN Commodity News Service Canada

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anola processors in We s t e r n C a n a d a a r e operating at a record pace, with crush pace running well ahead of the year-ago level.

The weekly crush came in at 171,190 tonnes during the week ended Nov. 2, according to the latest Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA) figures.

While that number was off the weekly record of 198,859 tonnes hit just the previous week, it still marked the eighth straight reporting period topping 170,000 tonnes. By comparison, a weekly crush above that mark was only hit 16 times during the previous crop year.

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Mosaic looks to restart Colonsay, Sask. mine

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ertilizer producer Mosaic may need to restart its idled potash mine at Colonsay, Sask. next year, as international buyers work through inventories, the company said Nov. 1.

Mosaic halted production at the mine in July for the rest of 2016 due to low global potash demand and weak prices.

Analysts have speculated that Mosaic may not reopen the mine in 2017, due to excessive global capacity and a faltering farm economy. Rival K+S AG will start production next year in Saskatchewan, and PotashCorp of Saskatchewan will complete expansion of its biggest mine there.

Fertilizer demand looks strong for spring crop-planting season, said chief executive Joc O’Rourke.

“We’re believing it will probably be necessary for us to be starting up Colonsay in the early new year,” O’Rourke said.

Potash inventories in Brazil are low, supplies are dwindling in India and fertilizer is moving faster in China, said Mosaic senior vice-president Rick McLellan.

The Colonsay mine’s capacity is 2.6 million tonnes annually.

Mosaic reported adjusted third-quarter profit that handily beat analysts’ estimates as the company sold more potash than it had expected.

The company’s shares rose five per cent in New York.

The company sold 2.2 million tonnes of potash, above its forecast of 1.8 million to 2.1 million, and up from 2.1 million tonnes a year earlier.

Still, the average realized price was $160 per tonne (all figures U.S. funds), down from $265 a year earlier.

Larger rival PotashCorp last week reduced its profit guidance for the year, saying that a recovery of the potash market would take more time.

Mosaic, the world’s largest producer of finished phosphate products, sold 2.5 million tonnes of phosphate in the quarter, at an average price of $326 per tonne of diammonium phosphate, compared with 2.1 million tonnes at $451 per tonne a year earlier.

Plymouth, Minnesota-based Mosaic’s net earnings fell to $39.2 million, or 11 cents per share, from $160 million, or 45 cents per share, a year earlier.

Analysts have speculated that Mosaic may not reopen the mine in 2017, due to excessive global capacity.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

Remembering fallen soldiers closer to home Legion members in Holland, Man. want geographical landmarks named after lost soldiers to be accessible

BY LAURA RANCE Editorial director

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embers of the Royal Canadian Legion in Holland, Man. are asking why a provincial program that honours fallen soldiers by naming a geographical landmark after them can’t remember them closer to home.

Les Ferris, who heads up the local branch, said they have been working with the local municipality and the provincial government in recent years to name local creeks and tributaries after fallen First World War soldiers who came from the area.

The province announced earlier this year it was extending a program that named 4,200 lakes, islands, bays and other geographical features after fallen soldiers who served from the Second World War to include those who gave their lives in the First World War. Families can nominate the names of their loved ones and ask that a geographical designation be made.

Ferris said it’s a noble gesture, but he questions why the designations must be limited to remote northern locations reachable only by float plane. His own uncle has a bay named after him on Stephen Lake north of Gillam.

There are no markers and he said he understands why that would be cost prohibitive.

His group would rather see those soldiers remembered close to places they called home — and at locations that are more accessible to their descendants and others interested in their stories.

“The homesteads in many municipalities date back over 135 years. There are creeks, hills etc. that are unnamed to this day,” Ferris said. “In many cases these First World War casualties grew up on or near these unnamed geographical features yet the province prefers to commemorate their sacrifice with remote locations owned by the Crown, but inaccessible to family members of the deceased.”

The legion thought it was making headway. After nearly five years of work before the official program was announced earlier this year, it was successful in getting three area creeks named after local servicemen. But recently, it received an email from Des Kappel, the provincial toponymist, that said any future designations would follow the program’s parameters as announced earlier this year. He also raised concerns that there could be conflicts over which name to use in the event two soldiers came from the same area.

Ferris said there are plenty of landmarks to go around. “We fail to see why your department would not allow geographical features in municipalities where these men grew up to be named after them,” Ferris said in a letter to Cathy Cox, minister of Sustainable development.

“As a legion our motto is ‘We will remember them.’ We hope your department will remember them honourably in their local communities rather than taking the easy way out in naming remote locations that no one will ever see.”

He said the minister’s office responded by saying the issue is under review.

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Brandon University to save MPE archives The treasure trove of historical documents are being ordered and catalogued

BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff

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huge collection documenting the entire history of Manitoba Pool Elevators is being put in order through a project at Brandon University’s (BU) S.J. McKee Archives.

Work began this fall to organize textual records in the large volume of documents known by archivists as fonds, but there’s much more work to process a huge volume of items including photos, minute books, organization records and other mixed media materials.

The project, which will cost $10,000, is being funded in part by a $4,500 Heritage Grant from the province, with additional funding coming from the Eileen McFadden Endowment and the Fred McGuinness Endowment for Rural Archives. The archives are in the John E. Robbins Library.

The funds have allowed them to hire a research assistant who will develop a preservation plan for these valuable records, said Christy Henry, BU’s archivist.

“The mixed media materials remained largely unpro­cessed and inaccessible until this project,” said Henry.

The collection is seen as an essential record of Manitoba’s agricultural history. When it was appraised a few years back the National Archival Appraisal Board said the MPE fonds have both national and provincial significance, declaring in its report that they are “clearly one of the most important fonds related to agriculture existing in Manitoba and one of the fundamental collections for the study of the settlement and

The former Manitoba Pool elevator in Homewood still shows the spot where the sign once hung. PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS/HS01

farm economy of Manitoba in the 20th century.”

The collection includes a huge array of items, including MPE organizational records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, photographs, slides, audio tapes and reel-toreel recordings. Also included in the fonds are books from the Pool’s library, the co-operative’s first newspaper, the Scoop Shovel and bound copies of the Manitoba Co-operator.

These items span and document the entire history of MPE from 1924 to 2001.

Manitoba historian Gordon Goldsborough, who has used

the MPE fonds extensively, says they’re an invaluable resource for learning about agro-Manitoba.

“It’s such a deep, deep resource. There’s so many things there a person could literally spend years going through it all.

I’ve spent cumulatively several weeks going through it and even then I felt I hadn’t scratched more than the surface of it.”

The documents were especially helpful while researching his latest book Abandoned Manitoba, he said. It includes a chapter on the Pool elevator at Helston (in the Municipality of GlenellaLansdowne). He found a wealth of material, he said, adding one

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reference he recalled was a decision by the farmers’ association to buy a sewing machine at the request of a local women’s organization.

“If a person wants to know something about rural Manitoba, for pretty much any community that had a Pool elevator at one time, there’s a box of records there relating to it.”

The S.J. McKee Archives took possession of much of the fonds in 1975 when the farmer-owned co-operative marked its 50th anniversary.

In the early 1970s there was considerable effort put into creating a Rural Resource

Centre at Brandon University after a partnership was struck between BU and the Pool, and it began shipping its records to the centre.

Henry said donations still are made to the archives. After the sale of Viterra more records were deposited, she said. The archives are the official repository for records from 1924 to 2000.

Farmers often bring her documents, said Henry.

“They’ll often bring me minute books and things like that.”

John Morriss, now retired editor and publisher of the Manitoba Co-operator has sent a variety of documents to the MPE fonds over the years.

“I had Bill Parker’s desk (MPE president from 1943-69) and credenza which had a few things that I sent over, notably the president’s guest book from the 1930s and 1940s. It had some interesting signatures from some of the early co-op movers and shakers,” said Morriss.

One was William Richard Mother­well’s, he recalls. “The most interesting may have been (early 20th century Russian botanist and geneticist) N.I. Vavilov’s. Stalin threw him in jail for disagreeing that you could plant winter wheat in Siberia.”

Morriss has also sent old photos from Co-operator’s files to the Western Canada Pictorial Index.

Henry said this part of the BU project, which will wrap up this month, will enable them to develop a preservation plan for the fonds. It is work to help inventory this collection’s vast amount of materials and make recommendations on next stages, she said. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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Areas of Alberta, Saskatch­ ewan and Manitoba have experienced “significant levels of rain in the last half of the growing season and snow since the beginning of October,” Farm Credit Canada said in a release Oct. 31.

The wet weather, FCC said, has “significantly delayed harvest and reduced the quality of crops in those areas.”

“We want to assure (growers) that we understand their situation and will help them through any financial hardship this has created,” FCC CEO Michael Hoffort said in the release.

The lender said it will work with customers to come up with solutions for their operation and will consider deferring principal payments

The wet weather, FCC said, has “significantly delayed harvest and reduced the quality of crops.”

and/or amending loan payment schedules, to “reduce the financial pressure on producers impacted by wet conditions.”

While it will offer customer support in “specific locations,” FCC noted it offers flexibility to all customers on a case-bycase basis through “challenging business cycles and unpredictable circumstances.”

E l i g i b l e F CC c u s t o m ers in the three Prairie provinces wanting to discuss their options with the lender are asked to contact their FCC relationship manager or Customer Service Centre.

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Russia looks lonelier as host of global grain meeting Russia is to host World Grain Forum Nov. 18-19 but the program seems to be dominated by local officials

BY POLINA DEVITT MOSCOW/Reuters

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global grain forum to be hosted by Russia, the first of its kind in seven years, looks set to be snubbed by western agriculture ministers as tensions rise over the Syria crisis.

T h re e w e e k s b e f o re t h e World Grain Forum, to be hosted by the Agr iculture Ministry in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on November 18-19, its public program looks dominated by local officials and analysts.

The timing could not be worse. Western powers are

threatening new sanctions against Moscow — already punished for its role in the Ukraine crisis — over Russian air strikes in Syria.

Russia’s Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev might have been hoping for a rare chance to see his EU counterparts at the forum, as he is banned from entering the bloc.

Few, if any, of them look likely to attend.

German Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt, for example, will visit Russia in Novem­ ber but will not attend the forum, a spokesman for the German ministry said. Ger­ many will be represented by specialist experts.

“Because of the tight a p p o i n t ­m e n t c a l e n d a r o f a minister it is naturally the case that not every invitation can be accepted and not every conference can be visited personally,” the spokesman for the ministry said.

The first World Grain Forum was held in Russia in 2009 on the initiative of then president Dmitry Medvedev, now Russia’s prime minister, after he tabled the idea at a summit of leaders from the Group of Eight (G8), which has since become the G7 after Moscow was excluded.

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“It is a pure matter of policy and sanctions.”

B r a z i l , Ja p a n , C h i n a a n d Ukraine as well as a leading official from the EU’s execut i v e b o d y, t h e E u r o p e a n Commission.

The provisional list of speakers this time includes professors from universities in the United States and Britain.

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Business is also coming,” said an industry source.

Organizers say they expect to see official delegations from over 50 countries and the Agriculture Ministry told Reuters it hopes more countries would confirm their participation in the coming weeks.

It did not provide the list of delegates but said that business and official representatives of more than 25 countries had already confirmed they would attend.

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Iron Harvest: Farming on deadly ground One hundred years after the fact, Europe’s battlegrounds can still yield a deadly crop

By Melanie Epp Co-operator contributor

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ctober 19, 2014 was a warm and sunny day a n d We s t F l e m i s h farmer Luc Persyn needed to do a little plowing. Little did he know that would almost kill him. When Persyn first heard the thump beneath his tractor he assumed he’d simply hit a rock, but then the cab slowly began to fill with deadly phosgene gas.

It’s been 100 years since the first bombs – artillery shells, chemical weapons and hand grenades – dropped in battlefields across the Western Front.

The most heavily hit region is undoubtedly West Flanders where Persyn lives.

Of the 1.4 billion bombs fired, it’s estimated that some 400 million to 500 million shells did not actually detonate. Of those, experts believe 10 to 15 per cent are chemical weapons, shells filled with toxic chemicals. To this day, those gases – some meant to kill, others meant to confuse or maim – remain, awaiting release.

During the First World War, the Germans and the French were the first to use phosgene gas as a chemical weapon.

Persyn’s bomb, however, was of British design. A colourless gas, phosgene has an odour similar to musty hay. To detect it, though, concentration levels need to be 0.4 parts per million. And at that level, it can be deadly.

Immediately after the gas was released, Persyn’s eyes and lungs began to burn. He knew he had to move. If he passed out, it could be hours before someone found him.

Pe r s y n d i d n’t g e t a w a y unscathed, though. His lungs and eyes burned, and he said he felt ‘funny’ – not dizzy, but funny. “I immediately felt that I had something in my system,” he said.

Pe r s y n k n e w h e n e e d e d medical attention – and fast – but he couldn’t reach his wife, so he called his daughter who works as a nurse in Ypres. She came immediately.

He remained at the hospital, where he was put on oxygen, for a day and night. Normal blood oxygen levels are between 95 and 100 per cent, says Persyn. “My blood oxygen level was 88... 75 is deadly.”

Persyn knows he is lucky.

Phosgene is highly toxic and meant to kill. Others in the region haven’t been so lucky, though. Unexploded munitions around Ypres have killed a total of 358 people since 1918. Another 535 have been injured.

On the way to the hospital, Persyn called the police to inform them of the bomb. A special Belgian military squad, known as DOVO, is tasked with collecting unexploded muni-

Luc Persyn displays some of his more recent findings, among them an unexploded bomb and a hand grenade. PHOTOS: MELANIE EPP

Bombs must be carefully loaded and stored in sand for transport back to the base.

A look inside an unexploded shell.

tions in Belgium. They can’t, however, be reached directly.

Farmers – for it’s mostly farmers who find the shells – must f i r s t c a l l t h e p o l i c e, w h o are trained to identify most bombs.

Depending on urgency, the disposal experts will come almost immediately. Their responsibility is collection; they do not actively search for unexploded shells.

Lieutenant D. Gunst, who works with the special tactical unit in LangemarkPoelkapelle, Belgium, says the army simply isn’t organized to do that.

On average, DOVO receives 3,000 calls a year that lead t o t h e r e m ov a l o f s o m e 3 0 0 t o n n e s o f m u n i t i o n s.

According to First Sergeant Gaetan Algoet, though, last year they received an incredible 4,025 calls. With a staff of just over 300 – most of whom are not explosive ordnance disposal qualified – it’s a big job.

In Be l g i u m , u n e x p l o d e d munitions are found nearly every day, most commonly between March and May during spring planting, and in the fall during harvest, says Gunst.

Since 1918, the squad has identified 90,000 bombs. It’s an ongoing issue with no end in sight. “In my lifetime no one will see the end of the problem,” says Gunst.

In the field, identification is limited to the eye. Once collected, the team takes munitions back to the base and sorts them by hand on an ID platform. It’s not possible to know for certain if some bombs contain chemicals.

Those in question are sent to one of two on-site X-ray labs for further identification. Some are dismantled by hand; others are exploded in a contained detonation chamber. At the moment, liquid content shells are safely stored.

Why did so many bombs land but not explode? As the w a r p r o g re s s e d , e x p l a i n s Gunst, the quality of the shells rapidly deteriorated. In some cases, soil contact was needed for detonation. Often, the soil was simply too wet. Instead of exploding on contact, the shells sunk into muck.

The task of finding the bombs that lie beneath the fields is immense. But what can farmers do? Persyn did look into having his fields pro-

fessionally cleaned, but he says the cost is too high. Instead, he’s decided to do it himself.

E n t e r D r. M a rc Va n Meirvenne, head of the department of soil management at the University of Ghent. At the exact time that Persyn was being treated in the hospital, Van Meirvenne was knocking on his door. The soil specialist has been mapping heavy metal concentrations (copper, zinc and iron) in West Flanders in an attempt to tie them to First World War munitions. Looking at original First World War aerial photos, he’s been able to determine which West Flemish fields were most heavily hit.

Persyn’s farm was on that list.

Using electromagnetic and magnetic detection equipment, Van Meirvenne and his team create maps with GPS co-ordinates for the location of munitions. Today, Persyn is using those maps.

Van Meirvenne feels strongly about the burden unexploded munitions puts on farmers. “All of the risk and all costs remain on the landowner,” he says.

“This is not correct because they did not put those shells into the soil, so why should they risk their lives or spend

huge amounts of money to clean it?”

“Something must be done because to continue living in an area full of unexploded ammunition, I mean... It’s not a situation that improves,” he said.

For now, though, Persyn has little choice but to do it on his own. Last year, he rented a front-end loader and began work in a recently harvested field.

In the first 10 minutes of work, he discovered an unexploded 90-kilogram British bomb. It took four men to carry it out of the field. Later he discovered a bunker, and nearby, some 200 unexploded shells that had been simply buried at the end of the war.

On average, he says he finds 30 shells – 10 unexploded, 20 empty – and 30 hand grenades each year. During potato harvest one year, he found 13 in one day.

It’s a risky task, but Persyn says he’s very careful. “You have to know that we are used to this here,” he says in dialect. “If you dig a hole, there’s a chance you’ll find a bomb.

This is how we grew up. This is our soil.”

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Prairie fare

Go wild

Wild game is a healthy alternative and part of an important hunting tradition

By Julie Garden-Robinson

Many wild game experts suggest making use of marinades or rubs.

NDSU Extension Service

W

e might see men and women dressed in blaze-orange coats, vests, caps and overalls at this time of year. The bright clothing is for safety and not necessarily a fashion statement. Fall is hunting season after all.

When I was a kid, I saw many people in orange clothing around my hometown in the fall. Pheasant, grouse, venison and goose were fairly common menu items in my home. Venison sausage was my favourite.

This part of the world, many people are adept at cooking wild game. Game meat has its own flavour, and a hunter certainly doesn’t like you to say the meat tastes “gamey.” I made that error one time with a now-retired colleague. Now I know that game meat has its own “characteristic flavour.” Yes, I can learn.

Just like us humans, the body composition of an animal depends on genetics, diet, exercise and other factors. Game meats often are considerably lower in fat than other types of meat, so they may seem a little drier. The diets of wild game are not managed as with domesticated animals, and game animals often get more exercise.

Much of the research on the nutritional composition of wild game was conducted at North Dakota State University many years ago. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has used the NDSU data on its nutrition databases.

Wild game is a good source of protein and is lower in fat and calories than some types of domesticated animal protein.

In fact, wild game such as venison (deer

PHOTO: Thinkstock

meat) is slightly higher in protein than some cuts of beef, pork and bison. Bison, venison, elk, moose and antelope also are lower in fat than some cuts of beef, pork and lamb, according to the USDA composition data.

Much of the flavour of meat resides in the fat, so most wild game cooks also suggest trimming any visible fat.

In addition, many wild game experts suggest making use of marinades or rubs. Fruit and vegetable juices such as pineapple and tomato juice can add flavour without lots of calories. Acidic fruit juices also tenderize meat.

Be sure to marinate meats in the refrigerator in a covered container. A tightly covered container allows you to shake the container gently and saturate the meat with the flavourful juice or marinade. Remember food safety, of course, and discard marinade that has come in contact with meat.

Do not use that marinade as a sauce.

As with any meat, be sure to cook to a safe temperature, but do not overcook the meat. Safety and quality are important factors in preparing meat.

Bison in a Field For the mini meat loaves: 1 tbsp. olive oil 1/2 c. sweet onion, peeled and diced 1 lb. ground bison (you can substitute with ground turkey, venison, beef) 1 c. seasoned bread crumbs (you can substitute with plain bread crumbs and 1 tbsp. Italian seasoning) 1 garlic clove, peeled and minced 1/2 c. grated Parmesan 1/2 c. non-fat milk 1 egg, beaten 1/4 tsp. salt 1/8 tsp. freshly ground black pepper Dash of ground sage (optional)

For the salad: 8 ozs. mixed greens and spinach

Combine wild game with some greens to really make a healthy meal. PHOTO: LETSMOVE.GOV

4 ozs. crumbled goat cheese (or feta or shredded cheese) 1/4 c. dried cherries or dried cranberries 1 (11-oz.) can mandarin orange segments, packed in juice (drained) Raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing or balsamic vinaigrette

Use a food thermometer to gauge doneness. The USDA recommends that venison reaches an internal temperature of 71 C (160 F) and game bird meat reaches 74 C (165 F).

Overcooking any type of meat can result in the meat becoming less tender and dry.

You aren’t trying to make jerky, right? You can make jerky if you want, though. We have directions for that on our website.

To learn more about field dressing, preparing and preserving wild game, check out the wild game resources on the NDSU Extension Service website.

Visit https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/food and click on “wild game” to access the information. I worked on some of these publications when I began my career, with mentoring from a now-retired nutrition specialist and a meat science professor. Yes, the meat science professor taught me that game meat is not “gamey.”

Bison have a rich tradition in North Dakota, so this recipe for an interestingly named main-course salad on the USDA’s Mixing Bowl website intrigued me. In earlier times, bison on the range provided food, clothing and shelter for indigenous populations. This recipe can be prepared with a variety of ground meat, including lean ground beef, venison or turkey.

To make the mini meat loaves: In a medium non-stick skillet, warm the olive oil over medium heat, add the onion and cook for two minutes, or until soft. Set aside. Preheat the oven to 375 F. In a large bowl, mix all the remaining mini meat loaf ingredients, including the sautéed onions. Combine well using your hands. Line a 9x11-inch glass baking dish with parchment paper, or grease with oil or non-stick cooking spray. Place cookie cutter on paper or pan and fill with meat loaf mixture.

Remove cookie cutter and repeat. Bake meat loaves for 30 minutes, or until cooked through and they reach an internal temperature of 71 C (160 F) (for bison, beef, venison). Cook meat loaves made with turkey to 74 C (165 F).

To make the salad: In a large bowl, combine all of the ingredients and toss well. To assemble: On each serving plate, arrange salad and place the mini meat loaf in “the field” (on the salad).

Makes four servings. Each serving has 592 calories, 30 grams (g) fat, 38 g protein, 42 g carbohydrate, 4 g fibre and 589 milligrams sodium.

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love the smell of bacon in the morning.”

Andrew Jackson appeared in the kitchen doorway and headed straight for the coffee maker.

“You love the smell of bacon any time of day,” said Rose, who was standing at the stove with an egg in each hand and a hot frying pan ready in front of her. She cracked the eggs together and a few seconds later both of them were sizzling in the skillet. “How many eggs today?” she asked.

“Three please,” said Andrew, pouring himself a large cup of coffee. “I’m hungry this morning.”

Rose cracked two more eggs and then picked up a spatula to stir the hash browns that were crisping up on another element. “Well, good,” she said, “because I made a lot of potatoes.”

“They will not go to waste,” said Andrew.

“Well, my waist maybe.” He took a sip of coffee, put the coffee cup down, grabbed a pair of plates, set them down on the counter next to the stove and then proceeded to set the table with the cutlery and cups they would need. A few minutes later they were both seated at the table, each with a steaming plate of hot breakfast in front of them.

“Dig in,” said Rose.

“Already digging,” said Andrew through a mouthful of hash browns. “Holy smokes,” he said, “these hash browns are ridiculous. What did you put in here?”

Rose laughed. “You like them?” she asked.

Andrew took another fork full. “Oh yeah.” He looked down at his plate. “I see tomato, green pepper, onion,” he said. “And I’m tasting rosemary and thyme and a hint of garlic but there’s something else I can’t put my finger on.”

“My secret ingredient,” said Rose. “I will never tell. I will take the secret to my grave.”

She grinned. “It’s Applewood smoked cheddar,” she said.

“That’s it,” said Andrew. “I should have known. Cheese. No matter how good life is, you can always make it better with cheese.”

“Indeed,” said Rose. They ate in silence for a minute or two. “What’s on your agenda for the day?” asked Rose eventually.

“I don’t have an agenda,” Andrew. “I was

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going to run out to the farm to help Randy winterize the house but he called to say they’re going to the city so we’ll do that tomorrow instead. So I’m free as a bird. How about you?”

“I was just going to putter around the house,” said Rose. “Bake cookies. Read a book. Sit in the sunroom and stare out at the world. Pretend I’m a character in a short story about the idylls of rural Canadian life.”

“Sounds fantastically boring,” said Andrew. “I love it.”

Rose nodded. “I’d like to have a day in which absolutely nothing happens,” she said.

“I could go for that,” said Andrew. “We could go for a stroll later. This weather is crazy for November. I mean really? Sixteen degrees? It’s like living in Vancouver. Only better, because property is affordable and we’re not surrounded by eco-snob yoga practitioners.”

“Or mountains,” said Rose.

“Yeah,” said Andrew. “I can’t stand mountains.

They’re so high and mighty.”

“But yeah,” said Rose, “the weather is very nice. Being outside for a while would be good.

As long as we only go where nothing ever happens.”

“We could go to Winkler,” said Andrew.

“Yes we could,” said Rose, “but I’d rather not.”

“All right then,” said Andrew pushing his now empty plate away and taking another sip of coffee. “So we’re agreed. Today’s agenda is complete relaxation and...,” here he was interrupted by the telephone ringing... “and nothing interesting happening.”

“Agreed,” said Rose, reaching for the phone.

She put the handset to her ear. “Hello?” she said. “Hello?” A puzzled look came over her face as she kept the receiver to her ear. “It’s just music,” she said to Andrew.

“Weird,” said Andrew. “Is it good music at least?”

“Could be worse,” said Rose. “It’s The Eagles.”

“Which song?” asked Andrew. “Put it on speaker.”

Rose pressed a button and the telephone’s external speaker came to life. “Johnny come lately,” Don Henley was singing, “there’s a new kid in town, everybody loves you...”

Rose’s eyes grew wide. “Oh my Lord! Brady? Is that you?” she said.

The music stopped and Brady’s voice crackled out of the speaker. “It’s me Mom,” he said.

Rose opened her mouth but no words came out.

There was a pregnant moment of silence.

“It’s a girl,” said Brady. “Her name is Michaela Rose. I hate to have to tell you this, but... you’re grandparents.”

“So much for our agenda,” said Andrew.

Poppies — a symbol of Remembrance Day These beautiful flowers also produce seed heads and seeds for a variety of uses

By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

N

ovember 11 brings back memories for many people and the poppy is one of the established symbols of Remembrance Day. However, they are useful for more than the beauty of their flowers and to remind us of the fields of poppies near European war memorials.

Poppies produce beautiful seed heads and abundant seeds, both of which can be used in a variety of ways.

Poppy seeds were — and still are to some degree — a common staple in Eastern Europe where they were an inexpensive substitute for nuts in baked goods.

Commonly called breadseed poppies, these plants were grown specifically for their seeds. Some people refer to them as opium poppies because other than the seeds, the rest of the plant parts are quite toxic and are used to manufacture opium.

Although growing poppies for culinary purposes is legal, growing them to manufacture drugs is, of course, illegal.

I have a double pink poppy that selfseeds every year. I have never planted the seeds; it was in the garden when my wife and I moved here almost 20 years ago.

Once you have poppies, you will always have them! The seed heads of my pink poppies are small compared to many

Poppy seed heads can be left natural (r) or colour added such as these burgundy painted ones (l). Black poppy seeds are seen spilling from a container. PHOTOs: ALBERT PARSONS

Green poppy seed heads, such as these produced by showy double pink poppies, are an attractive addition to floral designs.

breadseed ones — only about two cm in diameter — but they do produce abundant seeds. I am not a discerning poppy seed connoisseur, but I know a fellow gardener who is. He has Eastern European roots and grows several varieties of poppy seeds — some heirloom varieties — and he can tell the difference between each variety as the colour, taste and size of the seeds all vary.

He gave me some seeds of a white variety one year and I grew them in a row in the vegetable garden. They had large white single blooms with black eyes — Hungarian poppies I think — an heirloom

variety that produces blue-black seeds and large urn-shaped pods. He also showed me some white poppy seeds, produced by an heirloom Slovakian variety. Both are sought after by chefs as being of superior quality and having particular characteristics when used in baking.

The poppies that are grown for seed are either Papaver somniferum or P. Rhoeas, and they produce pods that are larger than some of the decorative poppies we grow in our annual gardens. Many of the latter have very small seed heads and the seed is very fine, not useful for culinary purposes.

Besides being grown for their seeds,

poppies with larger seed heads are useful to dry and use in dried flower designs. The green seed heads can be used during the summer in fresh flower designs as well.

I leave the seed heads on the plants and they remain green and gradually ripen.

I cut them and use them in fresh flower arrangements before they begin to turn brown due to maturation. The pods that I don’t use I hang upside down in a dry, warm place to cure. Before I hang them I place them in a paper bag to catch the seeds as they fall out as they ripen.

The seed heads have a row of tiny holes under the “cap” that sits atop each seed head. These holes are used by the plant to disperse the seeds. As the wind shakes the plants, the seeds will fly out of the holes after they have ripened — Mother Nature’s automatic seeder!

Besides being colourful additions to the vegetable patch, where volunteer poppies grow here and there all summer, these delightful plants can add colour to a mixed border, serve on their own in an annual border along a fence or foundation, and even grow in pots. It is wonderful that they can also provide a food product and decorative material for floral artists. Yes, poppies are for remembrance of our soldiers, but they can serve several other purposes as well.

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

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COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Camp Hughes plaque unveiling This national historical site was a training centre for First World War soldiers

By Donna Gamache Freelance contributor

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e often don’t remember the part our country played in training soldiers, especially during the First World War. One of these military training centres was at Camp Hughes, located west of Carberry in the RM of North Cypress-Langford. One hundred years ago it was, population-wise, the second-largest centre in Manitoba!

Camp Hughes was officially designated a national historical site several years ago and this past July a ceremony was held there to unveil a plaque recognizing its importance.

The unveiling was delayed until then to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the year the public had first been invited to view the training site. About 300 people were present for the ceremony. Representatives from the Friends of Camp Hughes and the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board both took part in the ceremony. Four information panels were also opened, explaining the activities carried out in the area.

Visitors were then invited to watch a re-enactment of some of the training undertaken there.

Camp Hughes was actively used as a training base from 1910-34, with the greatest numbers of trainees from about 1914-18. In 1916 there were nearly 28,000 troops there. The soldiers used tents but permanent buildings were also established for offices, retail

Hiding in a trench a person’s head is just visible.

Entrance to Camp Hughes. GAMACHE PHOTOS

stores, movie theatres, post office, photo studios, swimming pool, hospital, and prison.

Today these buildings no longer remain, most having been moved to the military base at nearby Shilo. The site is now a rolling, grassy area with a few scattered poplar bluffs, but a small cemetery and remains of the trench system are still there.

The trenches were used in this past summer’s re-enactment, with people in period costume, to help visitors understand how some of the training was carried out. Today the trenches, some 10 km of them, are shallow ditches covered with thick grass and prairie flowers. Now, as you walk through them, they are barely deep enough to hide a child.

But 100 years ago they were deep enough to shelter the trainees who used them to practise such wartime skills as moving undetected from place to place, communicating with each other, and throwing gre-

nades into prepared pits. First World War trainees also had to practise going “over the top” through barriers, such as barbed wire, in order to cross “no man’s land” to try to capture the enemy’s position.

These trenches are the only such First World War training system still existing in North America.

Bruce Tascona, past president of the Military History Society of Manitoba and director of the Legion House Museum, is one of those instrumental in achieving National Historic Site recognition for the camp. According to Tascona, Camp Hughes Heritage Days are normally held every year in early October. ( This year was the exception with the re-enactment and unveiling in July instead.) Most years the Heritage Days include people in historical dress, as well as displays of various archives from museums across Canada and speakers to explain features of the area.

Camp Hughes was actively used as a training base from 1910-34, with the greatest numbers of trainees from about 1914-18. In 1916 there were nearly 28,000 troops there.

For a more detailed version of life at Camp Hughes, check out Tascona’s book Camp Hughes: The War Years: A Story of the Canadian Military Training Ground During the Great War 1914-1916, available at McNally Robinson Books or directly from Tascona at tasconab@ mymts.net.

To get to the Camp Hughes

site follow PR 351 west from Carberry. Or, if coming on the Trans-Canada from the west, turn off onto No. 351 (at approximately 92W ) and drive about two kilometres east. At the “Camp Hughes Cemetery” sign, turn south onto a gravel road and drive about two more kilometres, crossing the railway track. Before you go, download a brochure for a self-guided trench tour from the Military History Society of Manitoba (see below). Allow an hour or two to explore this interesting spot. The brochure shows an easy-access route for those who find walking difficult, and a regular route for anyone who is able to climb up and down in the trenches.

For general archival pictures, the trench tour brochure or more information, check out: http://www.mhsm.ca/Z341/ index.php/camp-hughes.

Donna Gamache writes from MacGregor, Manitoba

This Old Elevator

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n the 1950s, there were over 700 grain elevators in Manitoba. Today, there are fewer than 200. You can help to preserve the legacy of these disappearing “Prairie sentinels.”

The Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is gathering information about all elevators that ever stood in Manitoba, regardless of their present status. Collaborating with the Manitoba Co-operator it is supplying these images of a grain elevator each week in hopes readers will be able to tell the society more about it, or any other elevator they know of.

MHS Gordon Goldsborough webmaster and Journal editor has developed a website to post your replies to a series of questions about elevators. The MHS is interested in all grain elevators that have served the farm community.

Your contributions will help gather historical information such as present status of elevators, names of companies, owners and agents, rail lines, year elevators were built — and dates when they were torn down (if applicable).

There is room on the website to post personal recollections and stories related to grain elevators. The MHS presently also has only a partial list of all elevators that have been demolished. You can help by updating that list if you know of one not included on that list.

Your contributions are greatly appreciated and will help the MHS develop a comprehensive, searchable database to preserve the farm community's collective knowledge of what was once a vast network of grain elevators across Manitoba.

Please contribute to This Old Grain Elevator website at: http://www. mhs.mb.ca/elevators.

You will receive a response, by email or phone call, confirming that your submission was received.

Goldsborough is especially interested in determining when elevators were demolished. Readers with photos of elevator demolitions and dates of when these occurred can contact him directly at gordon@mhs.mb.ca or call 204-782-8829.

A wooden grain elevator at Smith Spur (probably named for grain executive Sidney T. Smith) along highway No. 23 east of Lowe Farm, in the Rural Municipality of Morris, was operated by the Reliance Grain Company until 1948, when it was sold to Manitoba Pool Elevators. An annex was built in 1967. Closed in 1984, the annex was moved to Morris in 1989. Source: Julie Harris

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The three-wheel tractor craze A move to smaller less expensive tractors fuelled interest in these designs

By Alex Campbell Manitoba Agricultural Museum

T

he images of the 1916 Brandon Light Tractor Plowing Demonstration d e m o n s t ra t e a s i g n i f i c a n t craze in tractor design which was sweeping North America at the time.

By 1 9 1 6 t h e d a y o f t h e Prairie-style gas tractor was coming to an end. Designers and manufacturers realized they needed tractors which were suitable for smaller farms and for jobs such as seeding, harrowing and grain binding.

So smaller tractors began to be designed.

Cost was also a concern as the industry realized that if tractors were to replace horses, t h e n c o s t o f m a n u f a c t u re needed to be held down. This need to reduce cost led to the three-wheeler craze.

It appears that D.M. Harts­ o u g h re a l i ze d t h a t i f o n e designed a tractor with only one wheel being driven, then one could avoid the need for a differential so reducing the cost of the tractor. Hartsough had been involved with tractor design beginning with early experiments in 1899.

Ha r t s o u g h h a d g o n e o n to design the Big Four tractors built by the Gas Traction Company. He designed the Bull tractor which was put into production in 1914. It was a very odd-looking tractor with one large rear wheel which was driven. There was also another rear wheel which was much smaller and not driven. The tractor had one wheel at the front but in line with the rear drive wheel. A further oddity was that the small rear wheel could be adjusted up and down by means of a crank.

When plowing, the rear drive wheel and front wheel ran in the furrow. By adjusting the small rear wheel, you could keep the tractor level.

The big downfall to the Bull tractor was that it was not very powerful being rated as five horsepower at the drawbar and 12 horse on the belt in the first model. The Bull also had the alarming ability to sometimes fall over on its right side when making a right-hand turn. The problem occurred enough times, that later Bulls had a substantial metal rod hanging down from the outside of the right fender which was hinged at the fender. As the tractor began to tip over, the rod swung out, contacted the ground and arrested the fall. The Bull was cheap however, costing less than $500 and 3,800 Bulls sold in the first nine months. With a sales success like this, other manufacturers began to manufacture their copies of the Bull design.

The Bull tractor and other three-wheelers appeared at the 1916 Brandon Tractor Demonstrations. The Peoria

Canadian Bull tractor pulling a two-furrow, Powerlift “Enicar” made by J.I. Case Plow Works, Racine, Wis. PHOTOs: MANITOBA AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM

8-20 tractor and Grain Growers Special 12-24 tractor were very similar to the Bull design. Under its tin work, the Case 10-20 was also quite similar to the Bull. Emerson Brantingham’s Model L 10-20 tractor and the Har t Parr “Little Devil” were variations on the three-wheel design.

They had only one rear wheel with two front wheels which steered. The rear wheel was driven.

Little is known about the Peoria 8-20. It apparently was equipped with a Beaver fourcylinder engine and sold for $685 in the U.S. The Grain Growers Special 12-24 was a tractor sold by t h e G r a i n G r ow e r s G r a i n Company which later became the United Grain Growers. The Grain Growers entered the farm supply business in 1913 selling lumber, fence posts, barbed wire, binder twine and other items. In 1914 the Grain Growers decided to handle farm implements and contracted with U.S. machinery makers for supplies of plows and so on.

T h e Gra i n Growe r s a l s o signed a five-year contract with the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery (MS&M) Company for a supply of the MS&M’s Twin City Twentieth Century tractor which the Grain Growers rebadged as the Grain Growers Special. MS&M was the manufacturer of the Twin City line of tractors and in 1914 was also manufacturing Bull tractors for Bull Tractor Company.

The Twentieth Century tractor was sold only in Canada.

The tractor was larger than a Bull tractor and was equipped with a two-cylinder opposed engine. While the contract was signed for five years, MS&M appears to have quit manufacturing the tractor in 1917.

The Canadian government changed the rules the valuing of machiner y brought into Canada in 1916 which increased the duties collected and consequently the prices of machinery. While this rule did not last long in the face of serious complaints, the Grain Growers had a difficult time selling farm machinery with this rule in place. By 1922, the Grain Growers was out of the farm machinery business altogether.

The Case company entered t h e t h re e - w h e e l e d t ra c t o r business in 1915 when it introduced the 10-20 tractor. It was equipped with a four-cylinder vertical engine which was successful enough that it was used on the Case cross-mount tractors. The Case 10-20 possessed the ability to power the left-hand rear wheel in the forward gear only. No other three-wheeler design appears to have had this option.

The Model L was Emerson Brantingham’s initial foray into small tractor design and manufacture but could not be called a success as the engine had numerous design and manufacturing flaws.

The Hart Parr “Little Devil” was aptly named as it was powered with a two-stroke engine. It was possible for this engine to run in reverse and it would do so when lugged right down. Of course, when it

Emerson Brantingham 12-20 Model “L” tractor, pulling an Emerson three-furrow, No. 2 self-lift plow, with quick detachable shares.

began running in reverse, the drive train began running in reverse which meant the tractor was backing up. All of this could happen very suddenly.

The operator’s seat was rather exposed and a less-than-alert operator could be crushed between the tractor and implement. Most Little Devil tractors were soon recalled by Hart Parr and scrapped.

While the Happy Farmer t ra c t o r l o o k e d v e r y s i m i lar to the Bull tractor it possessed two driven rear wheels.

It is said of the Happy Farmer tractor that it made its owner h a p py o n t w o o c c a s i o n s only, the day it arrived on the farm and the day it left.

D.M. Hartsough designed the Happy Farmer shortly after he designed the Bull tractor. Hartsough had fallen out with his partner in the Bull Company and left the company to go to Happy Farmer.

D.M. Hartsough was a prolific designer involved with

the Big 4 tractor, the Bull tractor, Happy Farmer tractor, Lion tractor, possibly the Minneapolis Ford tractor, and the LaCrosse tractor, all within 20 years.

The early years of the tractor business were a very interesting affair with various designers working for competing companies almost at the some time, companies manufacturing tractors for other companies and stealing their ideas if not designs.

The three-wheeler craze did not last long as the design was just too limited. Bull was bankrupt by 1920 and other manufacturers of three-wheel tractors turned to more conventional designs. Case was the exception as the Case 10-20 stayed in production until 1922.

Alex Campbell is director of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. Visit the website at http://ag-museum.mb.ca/ for location and hours of operation.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

KAP develops carbon pricing position after intense debate

Farmer changes his mind on climate change

Farmers should be exempted from paying a price on emissions resulting directly from food production, while getting some of the carbon revenues to help them further reduce emissions

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff/Portage la Prairie

T

here was vigorous back and forth this week as the Keystone Agricultural Producers laid out its carbon policy Nov. 3 at the fall advisory council meeting in Portage la Prairie.

At times the discussion turned emotional as both sides had strongly held views on the issue.

Farmers’ should be exempted from paying a price on any carbon emitted directly from agricultural production, KAP says. Direct emissions include those from burning fossil fuels and applying fertilizer to produce food or fibre, as well as methane from livestock.

However, farmers would pay indirectly when buying products or services, such as nitrogen fertilizer, because carbon prices paid by manufacturers would presumably be passed on.

KAP also wants some of the revenue from carbon pricing invested in helping farmers cut carbon emissions, sequester carbon and develop more climatehardy crops.

“There was a lot of concern (during the discussion) and rightfully so,” KAP president Dan Mazier said after the meeting. “I think there is a lot of misinformation out there on what is going on in other provinces.”

Because Manitoba has few, large carbon emitters, agriculture contributes 40 per cent of the province’s gross emissions, KAP general manager James Battershill told the meeting.

The Paris agreement on climate change, which Canada has ratified, along with the United States, China, India, the European Union and many others, took effect Nov. 4.

Signing countries are legally bound to hold global warming to no more than 2 C above preindustrial levels. To do so countries will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists say if that 2 C threshold is exceeded, climate change will likely be disastrous and irreversible.

Canada has agreed to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030.

To that end the federal govern-

Minto farmer Bill Campbell says based on the erratic weather on his farm the past five years climate change is real. During a debate on carbon pricing at Keystone Agricultural Producers’ advisory council meeting in Portage la Prairie Nov. 3 he argued passionately farmers should participate in reducing greenhouse gas emission. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

ment will impose a $10-a-tonne price on carbon starting in 2018, rising to $50 by 2022.

Each province must design its own plan or Ottawa will implement one.

The Manitoba government wants a made-in-Manitoba plan and has asked KAP for ideas, Mazier said.

“Like I often say, ‘if you’re not at the table you’re usually on the menu.’”

Worries During the discussion some KAP members expressed concerns pricing carbon — essentially a tax — will make them uncompetitive in world markets. That’s the Saskatchewan government’s position. But other KAP members argued the right plan can minimize costs, and with incentives, farmers can be part of the solution.

Pricing carbon is a marketbased approach to encourage reduced emissions, Sean Goertzen, KAP’s climate project co-ordinator, told the meeting.

While Manitoba doesn’t have a plan yet, carbon prices elsewhere provide insight.

In Alberta for example, a carbon tax would add $67 a head to the cost of raising feedlot cattle, mostly due to higher trucking costs.

An average Alberta chicken producer would pay $6,000 more a year on natural gas for barn heating.

The British Columbia government, which has a carbon tax, rebates 80 per cent of the extra cost for natural gas used to heat greenhouses. Farm diesel and gasoline are also exempted from the B.C. carbon tax.

Alberta also offers farmers grants of up to $750,000 to purchase energy-efficient lighting, pumps, heaters, boilers, solar panels, and irrigation equipment, he said.

Somerset-area farmer Gerry Demare said a carbon tax will make Manitoba farmers, who rely heavily on exports, uncompetitive. It might start small, but the cumulative effect will add up, he warned.

“If it is not going to benefit your farm why do it?” he asked. “Take a stand guys. We are in a position where we could take a stand. Let’s take a stand for agriculture. Kudos to Saskatchewan.

“If you want to remain competitive you have to go against a carbon tax. There is no way to recover it unless you tax food and everyone is loath to tax food because it is a political death wish. Take a stand.”

Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler has assured KAP the Manitoba government doesn’t want to make farmers uncompetitive, Mazier said.

Nor do all carbon emissions have the same value, Battershill said. Carbon produced from food production is more justifiable than that emitted from a recreational Jet Ski. “People care and value the emissions connected to what you guys (as farmers) do because you provide a good that is essential to life,” he said. “So I wouldn’t get too hung up on this idea you are all of a sudden going to have an enormous financial burden imposed on you. That is not the way it has happened in other jurisdictions.”

Farmers can lead Farmers can help reduce carbon emissions, said Neil Galbraith of Minnedosa.

“I have a concern as farmers we are going to get our back up too much,” he said.

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff / Portage la Prairie

A lot of farmers are skeptical about climate change. Some are deniers.

“I was a doubter as well,” Minto farmer Bill Campbell said in an interview after Keystone Agricultural Producers’ advisory council meeting Nov. 3.

“But in the last five years I have kind of taken the approach that I can’t ignore it and I can’t say it is a non-issue.

Our weather patterns have been more extreme. They have been more volatile.

It (climate change) is coming to light I guess.”

Canada only produces 1.67 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases, which are blamed for rising global temperatures.

Still, Campbell said it’s an issue no one can afford to ignore.

Matt Horne, associate B.C. director at the Calgary-based Pembina Institute, agrees.

“You hear that argument a lot,” he said in an interview Oct. 13. “But you can apply that argument essentially to every jurisdiction. The U.S. or China are 20 or 25 per cent alone of global emissions, but they can’t solve the problem alone. If we don’t have, in essence, every country working towards this we are not going to solve the problem. Canada can’t solve the problem on its own, but we can undermine it if we are not part of the solution.”

Farmers must be profitable, but farmers also need to consider the environment, Campbell said.

“I’m not advocating farmers pay 50 bucks an acre to cover their carbon footprint,” he said. “But let’s get some numbers and some education. There are a lot of people who don’t know what’s going on here. We’ve got to get them educated and to be aware.

“I don’t think we can continue doing what we have been doing and not suffer consequences. I think we are going to have to change and we have to be open minded and we have to adopt.”

Consumers might have to to pay more for food, he said.

Food is cheap, it’s convenience that is expensive, he said. To save money consumers can buy more raw food and prepare it themselves.

“I can pretty near guarantee you that a certain percentage of the population has already booked to go somewhere warm (for a winter vacation) but they haven’t planned about their next month’s food budget,” Campbell said. “They spend more on their holiday preparation than they do on figuring out how they are going to feed their family in the month of December.”

“There is a lot of talk about social licence and what consumers will put up with us doing.

I think we need to be not only seen as trying to do the right thing, but also doing the right thing.

“If we truly all wanted to be sustainable we’d all have 10 or 20 per cent of our land in perennial forage... but how many of us do that? Not many because it is not as profitable. A good mixed farm is the way to go. But how many of us want to feed livestock every day in the winter? If we are straight grain farmers we want to be careful that we don’t say, ‘we can’t do anything or we shouldn’t be paying anything.’”

Forages can help, said Henry Ne l s o n , v i c e - c h a i r o f t h e Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association.

Perennial forages have bigger, deeper roots able to pull carbon deeper into the soil making it less likely to enter the atmosphere, he said.

It’s better to be proactive than reactive, said Bill Campbell of Minto.

Misty eyed and with a catch in his throat Campbell said: “How can you look at yourself in the mirror, and can you tell your grandchildren that you haven’t done your best, or your part, to contribute to help save the planet?”

Campbell used to welcome global warming. “But the last five years have changed my mind insomuch as I have lived through the flood of the century, the coldest winter of the century, we have had more hailstorms...” he said. “Right now we are so frigging wet you can’t walk across the field. So climate change is happening and I have come to that realization.

“We have been on easy street driving tractors, putting on fertilizer, running to town burning fossil fuels to no end.

“Now we are going to have to pay for some of those consequences that we’ve had of a better life than what are parents have had. So yes, we are going to have to make some adjustments.

And yes, we are going to have to pay a little bit.”

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Canadian dollar direction hinges on U.S. election Pre-election jitters were moving the greenback lower leading up to November 8

BY JADE MARKUS Commodity News Service Canada

T

he Canadian dollar is expected to trend higher through the end of 2016, one financial analyst says, but could be swayed by external influences, with the upcoming U.S. presidential election one near-term factor.

Due to uncertainty about some of Donald Trump’s policies, a Republican nomination could induce uncertainty in financial markets, potentially putting downward pressure on the U.S. dollar, said Paul Ferley, assistant chief economist at RBC Economics Research in Toronto.

Trump has promised sizable tax cuts, operating under the idea that bigger cuts will lead to faster growth, his website says.

On Nov. 1 a group of 370 economists, which includes eight Nobel laureates in economics, signed a letter urging Americans not to vote Trump, citing “a unique danger to the functioning of democratic and economic institutions, and to the prosperity of the country.”

Pre - e l e c t i o n jitters were moving the greenback lower in the sessions leading up to November 8.

Downward pressure on the U.S. dollar is often supportive to the loonie.

“He’s also been fairly critical of monetary policy, so it’s a question mark on that front,” Ferley said.

A Hillary Clinton presidency is likely to cause less uncertainty in financial markets, Ferley said, as many investors assume policy will be maintained close to that of the Obama administration.

“I don’t think you would see as nervous of a reaction,” he said.

Agricultural producers and exporters in the U.S. and Canada are watching to see how either administration will affect trade.

Trump has called for more protectionist trade policies, with public transcr ipts of a June speech saying he will stand up to trade partners to keep jobs in America. He is also against free trade deals.

Clinton has recently s a i d s h e o p p o s e s C A F TA (Central America Free Trade Agreement) and the TPP ( Trans-Pacific Partnership), but noted that negotiating trade relations with the rest of the world is important.

“It’s not clear whether that’ll hit agricultural goods, but that’s something to take watch of when the new administration takes office through the primaries,” Ferley said.

“There certainly seems to be a lot of pressure for increased protectionism, and it’ll be an issue for all exporters.”

Outside of the U.S. presidential election, the main drivers of gains or losses in the Canadian dollar are fluctuations in crude oil futures, and policy changes from the Ba n k o f Ca n a d a a n d U . S .

Federal Reserve.

Currently, RBC Economics expects the Canadian dollar to finish the year around C$1.33 or US$0.75, which is close to

Downward pressure on the U.S. dollar is often supportive to the loonie.

levels seen in early November.

“Our forecast assumes that we’ll get some strength in oil prices,” Ferley said, noting that volatility in those markets means that influence is not certain.

Gains in crude oil markets are supportive for the commodity-linked Canadian dollar, and ideas that producers may start cutting back on supplies could underpin the loonie.

Countering that anticipated strength, the U.S. Federal Reserve may tighten policy and increase interest rates as

PHOTO: Thinkstock

early as December, continuing through 2017, Ferley said.

That would indicate the U.S. economy is strong, and cause the greenback to gain, which would in turn put pressure on the Canadian dollar.

Fe r l e y s a i d t h e Ba n k o f

Canada is expected to hold interest rates steady through 2016 into 2017 — though there is a risk they could cut rates.

“Tightening by the Fed in the face of steady Bank of Canada policy would provide, on its

own, some downward pressure on the Canadian dollar,” he said. “ We t h i n k t h e r i s i n g o i l prices will counter that, and t h e Ca n a d i a n d o l l a r s t a y s close to current levels through next year.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

Better data on landownership crucial to protecting farms Nobody knows exactly what’s happening with farmland sales and how many sales are to non-farmers

BY ALEX BINKLEY Co-operator contributor

M

uch better national information on landownership is crucial to ensuring Canada’s food-producing capacity can keep growing, says Dan Mazier, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers.

Mazier, along with his counterparts from the Agriculture Producers Association of Saskatchewan and the Alberta Federation of Agriculture, told the Senate agriculture committee the dearth of data on landownership is a key stumbling block to protecting it.

“We urge the federal government to consider devoting more resources to collecting more comprehensive data on this issue,” he said. “Such information is needed to make clear, factually based claims of what the main causes of the problem are.”

T h e f e d e ra l g ove r n m e n t needs to encourage provinces and municipalities to institute clear, consistent and robust rules that protect this important resource, Mazier said, adding farmland needs to be viewed by all actors across Canada as a valuable, but limited, natural resource that is in need of substantial protections. He said the government should limit farmland ownership by non-farmers.

The government also needs t o p ro t e c t f a r m l a n d f ro m incursions such as pipelines “and place limits on those intending to repurpose farmland for other, non-farming uses.”

Land prices have risen in the last few years driven by higher commodity prices, low interest rates and the interest in nonfarm groups in acquiring land.

Mazier noted that in some years, Manitoba displayed the highest increase in farmland values amongst the provinces.

Rising farmland values are accompanied by higher municipal tax bills, which further squeeze any producer looking to expand or enter the business, he said.

“The simple principle of supply and demand leads to a situation where people are paying higher and higher prices to buy the limited amount of farmland that is available for sale,” he added.

“Bidding wars are becoming common when it comes to the sales of farmland.”

At the same time, “many farmers are seeking to acquire additional land so when they retire and pass on the family farm to their children or other family members, they will be in a position to divide it up into multiple parcels of land that can financially sustain a family.”

Other players in the landownership issue are institu-

“Information is needed to make clear, factually based claims of what the main causes of the problem are.”

Dan Mazier Keystone Agricultural Producers

tional investors such as wellfinanced conservation, environmental groups and foreign buyers who can outbid farmers for land. Then there are the municipalities seeking to expand into rural areas.

“Finally, and most obviously, there is a limited supply of farmland available to those seeking to purchase it,” he noted. “There is no doubt that a substantial portion of the approximately four million hectares of farmland lost between 1971 and 2011 was tied to urban development.”

Farmers who can afford to buy land now might not be able to withstand the shock of a sudden rise in interest rates, he continued.

“It s e e m s i m p r u d e n t t o assume that commodity prices will rise and continue to stay on the high side of averages into the future,” Mazier said.

KAP is also concerned about farm debt loads.

“We are creating a situation where farmers and Canadian agr icultural production in general are becoming very vulnerable to a market of interest rate changes,” Mazier said.

APAS president Norm Hall noted Canada is currently the sixth-largest grain-exporting nation, making the issue an important one here.

“Preserving productive agricultural land is critical if we are to maintain our competitive position in the internat i o n a l m a r k e t p l a c e,” Ha l l said. “It is also a very important moral issue, as the world needs to produce 70 per cent more food by 2050 to feed our growing population.”

Saskatchewan has limited farmland purchases by pension plans and other institutional investment firms and APAS says more needs to be done to assist young producers and new entrants who struggle to acquire the capital to enter the industry or expand their land base.

“Another area concerning the future of farmland ownership is our ability to compete with alternate land uses, such as urban growth, recreational uses and r ural residential development,” Hall said. “In our view, the most important way to protect farmland from these competing land uses is to ensure that primary producers are profitable enough to compete.”

He said there’s a pressing need for clearly defined government policy in this area. “ We need to ensure that the right to farm our land is expressly respected and understood in federal, provincial and municipal legislation, and in regulations and government policy,” Hall said.

“We also recognize the need for more data about landownership so we can understand the trends and developments and better develop policy.”

A FA p re s i d e n t Ly n n Jacobson said much of Alberta’s population growth has occurred between Calgary and Edmonton, which is also where much of its best farmland is located. Expanding food production elsewhere means using poorer-quality soils.

Alberta also faces a challenge with 150,000 abandoned well sites on agricult u ra l l a n d i n A l b e r t a t h a t needed to be reclaimed, he said.

“Reclamation procedures can greatly improve crop production potential,” Jacobson said. “However, the soil cannot be returned to its original state. Industrial growth in the form of oil and gas wells, plus batteries, gas plants, windmills, electrical transmission, and the roads that lead to the industrial sites, all continue to utilize far mland in the province.”

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Germany had announced in September 2015 that it will ban cultivation of crops with GMOs under new European Union rules allowing member states to opt out of their cultivation.

An EU law approved in 2015 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.

Under the draft German law, applicants seeking EU approval to cultivate GMO crops will be asked by the German government to remove Germany from the area in the EU where the crops are approved for growing.

An EU law approved in 2015 cleared the way for new GMO crops to be approved after years of deadlock.

If this is refused, a ban on growing the GM crop in Germany can be imposed even if the EU approves the plant strain as safe to cultivate.

W i d e l y g r ow n i n t h e Americas and Asia, GMO crops in Europe face divided opinion. Britain is partly in favour of them, while France and Germany are among countries that oppose them.

There is general agreement in Germany that the country should ban GMOs, but disagreement whether the bans should be imposed by federal or state authorities caused a long delay in agreeing the draft law on the ban.

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Bovine TB case probed in southeastern Alberta About 30 farms are already under quarantine, CFIA reports STAFF

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bout 30 farms in southeastern Alberta are under federal quarantine as federal and provincial officials try to track down cattle exposed to bovine tuberculosis (TB).

The investigation follows a notice in late September from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that a cow from Alberta had tested positive for bovine TB at a U.S. slaughter plant.

That finding has so far led to three premises in the province’s southeast being declared infected, as the lone confirmed infected animal’s home (index) herd is based on those three properties, a Canadian Food Inspection Agency spokesperson said Nov. 1.

Preliminary testing of the index herd has been completed and results are still pending from those tests, according to Alberta Beef Producers in a separate statement. Tests are now also underway on other herds that had direct contact with the infected animal, ABP said.

CFIA said Oct. 27 its veterinarians and inspectors are now contacting cattle producers in Newell County, around Brooks; the part of Cypress County north of Medicine Hat; the Municipal District of Acadia; and Special Areas No. 2 and No. 3, north of those municipalities.

The search area may expand as more information turns up about potentially exposed a n i m a l s a n d t h e i r m ov e ments, CFIA said. The number of herds quarantined could also increase, ABP said, as tracebacks seek out animals that have had contact with a TB-positive animal over the last five years.

Specifically, CFIA said it plans to track down animals that “may have been exposed” to bovine TB at individual premises in the search area, and/or at the Buffalo-Atlee or Suffield Block community pastures.

The quarantines prohibit any animals being removed from a quarantined farm without CFIA permission. Animals under movement controls are only allowed to move directly to inspected slaughter facilities under a CFIA permit.

Producers in the “general investigation” area who haven’t yet been contacted by CFIA are allowed to move animals and/or ship them to auctions or feedlots, but have to comply with livestock ID requirements.

If any animal under federal quarantine tests positive for bovine TB, CFIA said, the agency will follow “established procedures for destruction and compensation.”

tus if another separate case is confirmed in Canada within 48 months, ABP said. Other animals that test positive connected to this specific investigation won’t count as a separate case, but are instead considered part of the first case.

While the disease mainly affects ruminants, such as cattle, bison, elk, deer, goats and sheep, it can affect all types of mammals, including people — particularly those who have “extended close contact” with an infected animal while it’s alive. Due to its “extremely low prevalence” in Canada, however, findings of bovine TB aren’t considered a public health threat.

Wildlife, under certain circumstances, can transmit the disease to livestock. There’s no specific federal program to control bovine TB in wildlife populations, but CFIA works with the provinces and Parks Canada on surveillance programs in areas where livestock herds have been infected.

“While the disease mainly affects ruminants, such as cattle, bison, elk, deer, goats and sheep, it can affect all types of mammals, including people.”

The disease, for example, is still found in wild deer and elk in and around Riding Mountain Na t i o n a l Pa rk i n we s t e r n Manitoba. CFIA requires some producers in that area to have their herds tested for TB periodically.

A s u r ve i l l a n c e p ro g ra m , CFIA said, has allowed the Riding Mountain area and the rest of Manitoba to hold official bovine TB-free status since 2006.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 10, 2016

KAP says fund education through income tax and residences Farmers complain about skyrocketing tax increases on farmland, even though province-wide they are up only 15 per cent on average, according to a Manitoba government official

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff/Portage la Prairie

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eystone Agricultural Producers members have taken their stance on education tax reform one step fur ther and are calling for the funds to be raised through income tax and a tax on residences.

That adds to their longstanding call for removing the heavy tax burden on farmland and production buildings, and came during their annual advisory council meeting Nov. 3.

At the meeting KAP members passed a resolution asking the provincial government to make that change.

Until now KAP’s policy had been silent on the funding.

As a short-term measure KAP members also passed a resolution asking the Manitoba government to assess each farming operation separately, regardless of the relationships of the owners, when applying the school tax rebate and to remove the cap on the rebate, which refunds 80 per cent of the education tax on farmland up to $5,000.

Last year the cap cost farmers $7.5 million in lost rebates, KAP president Dan Mazier told the meeting. With the huge tax increase on many farm properties this year the cap could cost farmers $10 million, he said.

“We’ve heard over and over again from producers across the province about the dramatic rise in municipal and school taxes,” Dan Mazier said in his address to the advisory council. “I heard of one where a producer’s tax bill had increased by $20,000. This is not affordable and it’s not sustainable for our industry.”

The resolution to remove the rebate cap, and another asking the province to restore

Dugald farmer Edgar Scheurer told the KAP advisory council the “entire (education taxation) system needs to be changed instead of seeking “band-aid solutions.”

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farmland taxes to 2014-15 levels, which was tabled and then withdrawn, didn’t go far enough for Dugald farmer Edgar Scheurer. “ We need to change the entire system and not just ask for some band-aid solutions for this one year,” he told the meeting.

“We need to ask for some real changes in the system. I don’t think any of those resolutions (so far) address the problem.”

However, he said later he supported funding education through personal and corporate income taxes and taxing residences.

Scheurer is among a group of farmers in the Municipality of Springfield that says it won’t pay the land taxes until the taxation system is fairer.

Scheurer said he is getting calls from other farmers around the province thinking about doing the same next year.

“More the better,” he said.

Scheurer has seen taxes on some of his land jump 95 per cent.

KAP doesn’t have a position on farmers holding back their taxes in protest, but “it really shows the degree of frustration being shown by everybody,” Mazier said.

Harold Penner, who owns land in the Municipality of Emerson-Franklin, saw taxes on one of his quarter sections, go up a whopping 111 per cent to $4,091.52 from $1,934.99.

“I can’t recall such a big increase,” Mazier said.

“We need to change the entire system and not just ask for some band-aid solutions for this one year.”

Edgar Scheurer

“If this was on house or commercial property there would just be mayhem.

“It doesn’t reflect the ability to pay. We had floods in 2011 — three million acres lost, 2014 a million acres lost. We’ve got to rethink this.”

KAP is researching higher f a r m l a n d t a x e s t h i s y e a r, Mazier said. It found the average increase in the RM of Stanley is 43 per cent with farmers paying $7 to $29 more an acre.

Holland farmer Les Ferris said he’s being paying more than $20 an acre in taxes in the Municipality of Victoria since 2006.

Province-wide the assessed value of farmland is up on average 47 per cent, but on average tax bills on farmland are up just 15 per cent, Benjamin Lyle, a municipal services officer with the Manitoba government told the KAP meeting.

“So you can see there is not a direct link between assessment changes and taxes,” Lyle said.

“Rather it depends on what happens with the average value of properties in the munici-

pality you are in as well as the school division you are in.”

Lyle said in a lot of municipalities farmland assessments have risen faster than for other property.

“Now as part of your municipality, farmland is picking up a greater percentage than businesses and residences (of total taxes)...” said Starbuck farmer Chuck Fossay.

“It is a fact that farmland is picking up a greater percentage because everybody went out and bid up the price of land. Assessment is based on market value (of property).”

A way to correct the taxation imbalance is to reduce the portion value on farmland currently set at 26 per cent, Fossay added.

Taxes on property are based on its assessed value. The assessed value is based on what the Manitoba government’s assessment branch determines to be its market value multiplied by 26 per cent. So the assessed value of property with a market value of $1 million, is $260,000, Lyle said.

Then the municipal mill rate is applied to come up with the tax bill. Mill rates vary between municipalities.

If the assessed value of property is going to result in a municipality and/or school board collecting more taxes than are needed, the municipality cuts the mill rate.

However, this year in several municipalities, including Springfield, budgets are almost

flat yet farmers’ tax bills are up 40 per cent or more, while homeowners and some businesses have lower bills because o f t h e i n c re a s e d va l u e o f farmland.

A municipality can ask the province for permission to reduce or increase the portion applied to property values, Lyle said.

Mu n i c i p a l i t i e s c a n a l s o apply special levies to collect more revenue in urban areas to reflect the higher cost of services.

T h e c u r re n t s y s t e m f o r funding education is out of date, said Minto farmer Bill Campbell.

“This model was based on a half section farm and everybody living within four miles and they went to their local school,” he said. “It was probably a lot more fair and proportionate at that particular time.”

Farmland values have skyrocketed partly because Farm Credit Canada allows buyers to only pay the interest on the loan, he said.

The taxes on one of Camp­ bell’s quarters jumped $600 to $1,600 in two years. He said this year he’ll lose money on it due to too much rain, but the taxes still have to be paid.

However, Campbell argued there should still be some local education funding or the government will close all the schools. And then, like in the 1930s, children will have to board with relatives away from home to get an education. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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Kenworth, C13 425 HP Cat, AutoShift Call Glen 306-640-8034, 306-266-2016, 2016 NISSAN TITAN XD Platinum 5.0 dsl, trans., 13 spd., new 20’ BH&T, $71,500; SOUTHSIDE AUTO WRECKERS located Wood Mountain, SK. or email fully loaded, heated steering wheel, Nav, 2002 IHC 1654, 350 HP IH engine, 10 spd. in Weyburn, SK. 306-842-2641. Used car gm93@sasktel.net leather. 306-525-6700, Auto Gallery trans., new 20’ BH&T, 220,000 kms, parts, light truck to semi-truck parts. We Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632 $49,500; 1990 Kenworth T600, 450 HP buy scrap iron and non-ferrous metals.

Detroit, 10 spd., alum. front wheels, good 2016 FORD SUPER DUTY King Ranch, dsl, tires, pulls good w/1996 36’ Cancade 2 WRECKING VOLVO TRUCKS: Misc. axles 4x4, FX4 pkg, prem. sound, My Ford hopper grain trailer, nice shape, $35,000. and parts. Also tandem trailer suspension CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used Touch, Nav. 306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Trades accepted. Merv at 306-276-7518, highway tractors. For more details call axles. Call 306-539-4642, Regina, SK. 306-767-2616, Arborfield, SK DL #906768 204-685-2222 or view information at Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632 SUMMER CLEAROUT Sales Event. Up to www.titantrucksales.com Classified Category index $16,914 in Savings on select models, OAC. COMPONENTS FOR TRAILERS. Shipping 1-866-944-9024. www.dodgecityauto.com daily across the prairies. Free freight. See DL #911673.

Announcements & Calendars 0100 - 0340 “The Book 2013” page 195. DL Parts For Airplanes 0400 SUMMER CLEAROUT Sales Event. Up to Trailers, 1-877-529-2239, www.dlparts.ca $16,914 in Savings on select models, OAC. Antiques Sales & Auctions 0701 - 0710 1-866-944-9024. www.dodgecityauto.com Auction Sales 0900 DL #911673.

SASKATOON TRUCK PARTS CENTRE Ltd. North Corman Industrial Park.

New and used parts available for 3 ton trucks all the way up to highway tractors, for every make and model, no part too big or small. Our shop specializes in custom rebuilt differentials/transmissions and clutch installations. Engines are available, both gas and diesel. Re-sale units are on the lot ready to go. We buy wrecks for parts, and sell for wrecks! For more info. call 306-668-5675 or 1-800-667-3023. www.saskatoontruckparts.ca DL #914394

AUTOSHIFT TRUCKS AVAILABLE: Boxed tandems and tractor units. Contact David 306-887-2094, 306-864-7055, Kinistino, SK. DL #327784. www.davidstrucks.com

2015 FORD F350, Super Duty diesel, XLT, CrewCab, 4x4, loaded, low mileage, privacy glass. 306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632

SPECIAL PURCHASE OF New and nearnew 2014-2015 Crosstek XVs. Save up to 2017 BIG TEX trailer goosenecks: 25, 30’ $5000. Come in quickly!! 1-877-373-2662. and 33’ with mega ramps, 23,900 lbs. www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

GVWR. Start price, $12,495, incl. free spare. Jason’s Agri-Motive, Lafleche, SK., 306-472-3159. www.jasonsagri-motive.ca

1996 MIDLAND 24’ tandem pup, stiff pole, completely rebuilt, new paint and brakes, like new, $18,500. Merv 306-276-7518, 306-767-2616, leave message, Arborfield, SK. DL #906768.

WORKING STEAM TRACTORS: Great for Christmas giving! Engine runs 15 minutes per fueling. D405 regularly $539.94, on sale for $359.95; D10 stationary steam engine, with forward/reverse control and working whistle, regularly $359.94 on sale for $259.15. Shipping $24.95 flat rate. w w w. y e s t e r y e a r t o y s c a n a d a . c o m 1-800-481-1353.

PRECISION TRAILERS: Gooseneck and bumper hitch. You’ve seen the rest, now own the best. Hoffart Services, Odessa, SK. 306-957-2033 www.precisiontrailer.com

WANTED: TRACTOR MANUALS, sales bro- 2016 SUBARU IMPREZA consumer reports chures, tractor catalogs. 306-373-8012, as best small call starting at $23,360! Call Saskatoon, SK. for best price!! 1-877-373-2662 or www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

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NELSON’S AUCTION SERVICE, Antique & Collectibles Auction, Sat., Nov. 12, 2016, 9 AM, Nelson’s Auction Centre, Meacham, SK. Furniture, depression glass collection, glassware, lamps, tins, radios, clocks, cream cans, coins, manuals, records, livestock supplies, yard tools, signs, automotive parts and much more. For more info visit: www.nelsonsauction.com or call 306-376-4545. PL# 911669.

SCHOOL BUSES: 23 to 66 passenger, 1991 to 2007, $3000 and up. 16 buses in stock! Call Phoenix Auto, Lucky Lake, SK. 1-877-585-2300. DL #320074.

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2005 IHC 9200 daycab tractor, Cummins ISX 400 HP, 13 spd. trans, 40,000 rears, 967,000 kms, $13,900. K&L Equipment and Auto. Ph. Ladimer, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK. DL#910885.

2009 T660 CHROME Kenworth, 11-22.5 tires, 490 HP Cummins, AutoShift, AeroCab, $36,000. 306-786-6510, Yorkton, SK.

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GRAND FORKS AREA EQUIPMENT & TRUCK AUCTION NOTE: NEW DATE & STARTING TIMEMONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2016 – 10:00 AM STILL INDOORS AT THE ALERUS CENTER, GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA

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2006 WESTERN STAR 4900, 515 Detroit, 60 Series, 18 spd., 46 rears, full lockers, only 278,000 kms, $43,900.

306-921-7721, Melfort, SK. 2011 KENWORTH T800, 550 ISX, 18 spd., Super 40’s very good condition, $59,900.

Call 306-921-7721, Melfort, SK. 2011 PETERBILT 386, 550 ISX, 18 spd., lockers, leather, loaded, $53,500. Call 306-921-7721, Melfort, SK. T800 KENWORTHS ALL HEAVY SPECS 18 spd., full lockers, 2008, 2007 w/bunks.

Also daycab 2009, new trans. and clutch; 2009 KW T660, new ISX Cummins, tranny, and clutch, 18 spd., lockers; 2008 IH daycab Lonestars ISX Cummins, 46 diff., 3-way lockers; 2008 Western Star 10 spd. auto. w/clutch; 2008 IH 9900 daycab, ISX Cummins, 18 spd., lockers, 290,000 kms; 2007 Pete 379, daycab and bunk; 2013 IH 5900i, 42” bunk, 46 diff., 4-way lock, 18 spd., 390,000 kms; 2006 Pete 378, Cat 18 spd., 46 diff., 4-way locks w/roo-bar bumper; 2007 IH 9200, daycab, ISX 435, 13 spd; 1996 Kenworth T800, 475 Cat, 13 spd, rebuilt diffs and tranny. Ron Brown Implements, Delisle, SK., 306-493-9393.

DL #905231. www.rbisk.ca 2005 IHC 9900i 450 ISX Cummins, 13 spd, 290 rears, 12 fronts, eng. and bunk heaters, headache rack, 22.5 rubber, 1.2 kms, $19,500 OBO. 306-783-7547, Yorkton, SK.

WILL FEED COWS. Reasonable rates. Have feed- barley, alfalfa, corn silage plus hay bales. Feed analysis avail. 306-768-3226, 306-768-7386, Carrot River, SK.

CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used highway tractors. For more details call 204-685-2222 or view information at www.titantrucksales.com

LOOKING FOR COWS to custom feed for the winter. Call Clint, 306-266-4536, Glentworth, SK.

SPECIAL PURCHASE OF New and near new 2014-2015 Crosstek XVs. Save up to $5000. Come in quickly!! 1-877-373-2662. www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom hay hauling. Call 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK.

JIM’S TUB GRINDING, H-1100 Haybuster with 400 HP, serving Saskatchewan. Call 306-334-2232, 306-332-7332, Balcarres.

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2007 CHEV C6500, 2 WD, Duramax dsl., 7 spd. trans, 20’ flatdeck w/winches, only 152,000 kms, $21,900. 2008 Dodge 3500, 2 WD, Hemi gas engine, auto trans, 16’ flatdeck, 178,000 kms, $19,900 OBO. 2001 STERLING 9500, tandem water truck, 4500 gal. tank, C12 Cat, 13 spd., Bowie pump, $22,900; 1998 FREIGHTLINER FL80, tandem water truck, Allison trans, 3200 gal. water tank w/Honda GX160 pump, 293,000 kms, $21,900.

Trades considered. K&L Equipment and Auto. Ph. Ladimer, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK. DL#910885.

1999 IH 4700, SA, flatdeck w/17’ steel flatdeck, 11x22.5 tires, 230,000 kms, 444 IH dsl., 10 spd., safetied, real good shape, $19,500; 1994 GMC Topkick tandem w/24’ flatdeck, 563,000 kms, 3116 Cat diesel, 10 spd., 11x22.5 tires, real good shape, $21,500. Call Merv 306-276-7518, 306-767-2616, Arborfield, SK. DL 906768.

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BEE BUSINESS. Turnkey operation. Second generation bee farmer looking to retire. Vehicles, bee equipment, honey plant, buildings, etc. Perfect opportunity for young family. Near beautiful northern town of Carrot River, SK. 306-332-7422, 306-768-2628. kimbonish@hotmail.com

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High tensile roofing & siding, 16 colours to choose from. #1 Gr. Galvalume 26 gu..... 79¢/ft 2 #1 Gr. Galvalume 29 gu..... 75¢/ft 2 B-Gr. coloured................ 75¢/ft.2 B-Gr. Galv 29 gu............. 69¢/ft 2 B-Gr 30 gu Galv.............. 49¢/ft.2 Multi-coloured millends... 59¢/ft.2 CALL NOW!

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Ideal for lower slope roofs, rinks, churches, pig barns, commercial, arch rib building and residential roofing; also available in Snap Lock. 306-435-8008, Wapella, SK.

We also specialize in: agricultural complaints of any nature; Crop ins. appeals; Spray drift; Chemical failure; Residual herbicide; Custom operator issues; Equip. malfunctions. Licensed Agrologist on Staff. For assistance and compensation call

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1-866-882-4779. www.backtrackcanada.com 2009 FORD F350, 2 WD, V10, auto, air, tilt, 13’ deck w/toolboxes, power tailgate, 65,000 kms, $16,800. Ph. 306-270-5951, Martensville, SK. 2008 IH 7600, Cummins, 10 spd., 24’ van body with power tailgate, very clean; 2007 Freightliner, auto. trans, 22’ van body with power tailgate. Ron Brown Imp. 306-493-9393. DL 905231 www.rbisk.ca 1993 F700 TOW TRUCK, fully equipped 10 spd. Cummins, excellent condition, $24,900 OBO. Pro Ag Sales, 306-441-2030 anytime, North Battleford, SK.

2015 FORD EDGE, 2.0 EcoBoost, AWD, great fuel economy, Alloys, loaded, privacy glass. 306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632.

2015 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE LTZ, 7 pass, loaded, AWD, Tri-Zone Climate, roof, DVD. 306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632.

2015 GMC YUKON Denali, 6.2L, 420 HP, 7 pass., roof, Nav, 22” wheels, premium leather. 306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632 2013 GMC TERRAIN SLE-2, AWD, GMC IntelliLink Touch Screen, Bluetooth, heated seats. 306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632 2014 KIA SORENTO SX, AWD, 3.3L V6, Smarky Key, Nav, leather, heated seats.

306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632 2014 SUBARU FORESTER XT, 2.0L turbo 250 HP, AWD, leather, Panoramic sunroof, 18” Alloys. 306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632 2015 JEEP GRAND Cherokee, Laredo, fully loaded, 4x4, moonroof, heated seats, 8.4” screen. 306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632 2015 KIA SPORTAGE LX, AWD, loaded, Alloys, Bluetooth, heated seats, roof rails.

306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632.

2015 SUBARU CROSSTREK, full time AWD, loaded, htd seats, IIHS Top Safety Pick. 306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632.

2015 NISSAN ROGUE SV, Proximity Key w/push button start, 7 pass., loaded, Nav, blind spot. 306-525-6700, Auto Gallery Subaru. www.autogallery.com DL#917632 SUMMER CLEAROUT Sales Event. Up to $16,914 in Savings on select models, OAC. 1-866-944-9024. www.dodgecityauto.com DL #911673.

SPECIAL PURCHASE OF New and nearnew 2014-2015 Crosstek XVs. Save up to $5000. Come in quickly!! 1-877-373-2662. www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

2016 SUBARU FORESTER name top pick for 2016. Starting from $29,360. Great selection to choose from!! 1-877-373-2662 or www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL# 91407.

ROAD GRADERS CONVERTED to pull behind large 4 WD tractors, 14’ and 16’ blade widths avail. 306-682-3367, CWK Ent. Humboldt, SK. www.cwenterprises.ca

EQUIPMENT TOWING/ HAULING. Reasonable rates. Contact G H Wells Services and Trucking, 306-741-9059, Morse, SK.

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GARWOOD INDUSTRIES PULL Scraper 12 yard, hyd. control, 9’ cut width, hyd. unload assist, $16,900. 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com

2006 D61 PX-15, 2405 org. hrs., 6-way CUSTOM BALE HAULING. Will haul large blade, 34” pads, near new UC, 155 HP, exsquares or round. Phone 306-567-7199, cellent working cond., S/N B41323. Can deliver. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. Kenaston, SK.

42”-52” USED CONVEYOR BELTING for cattle feeders and livestock processing areas. larrykirk82@gmail.com

SEARCH 2005 PETE 378, pre-emission, C15 Cat, 18 spd., full lockups, flat-top, winch, safeROUGH LUMBER: 2x6, 2x8, 2x10, 1” tied, $37,500. 306-563-8765, Canora, SK. Search news. Read stories. Find insight. boards, windbreak slabs, 4x4, 6x6, 8x8, all in stock. Custom sizes on order. Log siding, cove siding, lap siding, shiplap, 1” and CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used 2” tongue and groove. V&R Sawing, Go public with an ad in the Manitoba Cooperator classifieds. Phone 1-800-782-0794. highway tractors. For more details call 306-232-5488, Rosthern, SK. 204-685-2222 or view information at www.titantrucksales.com

2014 F550 FORD, w/Maxon, 1650 lbs., 144”x90” deck with lift/gate, 6550 miles, mint condition, $42,500 OBO. Call 204-981-3636, Cartier, MB.

13.00x24 TOP TRUST New industrial tires, 16 ply, tubeless, $436.

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FARMERS AND BUSINESS PERSONS need financial help? Go to: www.bobstocks.ca SUMP PITS TO suit any application! All or phone 306-757-1997, 315 Victoria Ave., manufactured using durable polyethylene Regina, SK. for guaranteed long life! 1-855-765-9937 or view: www.polywest.ca

NEUFELD ENT. CORRAL CLEANING, payloader, Bobcat with rubber tracks and vertical beater spreaders.

Phone 2008 CAT 928H wheel loader, c/w bucket, set of forks available, 4800 hrs., new tires 306-220-5013, 306-467-5013, Hague, SK. 20.5R28, ride control, Quick Attach. Job CUSTOM LIQUID MANURE hauling, 3 ready, $115,000. Can deliver. Call anytime tanks available. Contact George in Hague, 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. SK. 306-227-5757.

WINTER IS ALMOST HERE! New 8’, 3 PTH, BRUSH MULCHING. The fast, effective PTO snowblower; 3- old trucks w/snowway to clear land. Four season service, blowers; 4- truck snow blades; 2- V-plows competitive rates, 275 HP unit, also avail. for graders; Side wings for graders; Bomtrackhoe with thumb, multiple bucket at- bardier w/broom; 2- 4x4 holder w/snowtachments. Bury rock and brush piles and blower; 4x4 trackless w/broom; 4x4 trackfence line clearing. Borysiuk Contracting less w/blade; 12- loaders, dozers and Inc., www.bcisk.ca Prince Albert, SK., excavators; IH TD9-92 w/loader, $5900; Cat D2-5U w/loader, $4900; 20- Graders 306-960-3804. being parted out; 7- work ready graders; MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. Over 400 buckets for loaders and backCall today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: hoes; Over 300 construction tires, new and used; Hundreds of hyd. cylinders; Over 70 www.maverickconstruction.ca sets of forklift forks; 52’ scissor lift; 15REGULATION DUGOUTS: 120x60x14’, Running forklifts from 2 to 9 ton, 1988 $2000; 160x60x14’, $2950; 180x60x14’, Clark 668 grapple skidder; 1989 TJ 380B $3450; 200x60x14’, $3950; Larger sizes line skidder; IH 3964 feller buncher; Case available. Travel incl. in Sask. Gov’t grants 125B delimber; JD 190D excavator; Sawavailable. 306-222-8054, Saskatoon, SK. mill and other bush equipment; 1998 EX270 excavator; Over 50 generators, 3 to 193 KW; Over 1000 new and used UC rollers; 2- 811 Bobcat backhoe attachments; PIONEER 2436 Primary jaw crusher with New and used parts of all types; Hundreds vibratory feeder, 671 Detroit dsl., $95,000 of misc. attachments. Central Canada’s largest wreckers of construction equipOBO. Call 204-372-6832, Broad Valley, MB. ment. 2 yards, over 50 acres. Cambrian CAT. CRAWLER TRACTORS: D4H, D6D, Equipment Sales Ltd., Winnipeg, MB. Ph. D6R, D7H, D7R, D8T. Komatsu D61PX-15, 204-667-2867, fax 204-667-2932.

D155AX-6. Standard and L.G.P. undercarriages. 2006 Komatsu PC-270LC-8, new 2 MACK TANDEM trucks w/dump boxes, chains and sprockets, 6400 hrs. Many $7700 ea; IH 366 dsl., 34,000 kms and 16’ more items available. Call for prices, info van body. Few other trucks in stock; 100’ and pictures. Robert Harris Equipment ladder truck; 2 Cat scrapers 463, $23,000 Sales, 204-642-9959, cell 204-470-5493. for pair; New 24’ garbage box. Salvage of all types. Call Cambrian Equipment Sales Gimli, MB. rjharrisequipment@gmail.com Ltd., 494 Panet Road, Winnipeg, MB., CAT HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS: 204-667-2867 fax 204-667-2932.

463, 435, 80 and 70, all vg condition, new conversion. Also new and used scraper tires. Can deliver. 204-793-0098, Stony Mountain, MB. CAT D8 14A, running condition, asking $12,000; 1995 Model 508 JCB zoom boom, approx. 10,000 hrs., pallet forks, sq. bale fork, bucket, good cond., well maintained, asking $25,000. 204-526-5225, 204-723-5002, Notre Dame, MB. 1988 JD 644E wheel loader, 23.5x25 tires, 4 cubic yard bucket with teeth, $29,750. 204-795-9192, Plum Coulee, MB. 1988 JD 644E wheel loader, 23.5x25 1992 CHAMPION GRADER, 740 Series III tires, 4 cubic yard bucket w/teeth, w/snow-wing, 14,000 hrs., 16R24TG Bridgestone tires, all around good cond., $29,750. 204-795-9192, Plum Coulee, MB. $38,000 OBO. 204-981-3636, Cartier, MB. 2010 CAT 950H WHEEL LOADER, 27,417 hrs., w/Cat quick coupler bucket, MAGNUM 8.0 KW light tower generator, 3-3/4 cu. yards, 23.5x25 tires, F.O.B. Kubota diesel, $4400. Call Larry at 306-563-8765, Canora, SK. $75,000. 204-795-9192 Plum Coulee, MB 2 VOLVO A-30D Articulated trucks, ATTACHMENTS: Skidsteer snow buckets, 23.5x25 tires, 2003 and 2004, $85,000 blowers, blades, brooms, forks. Conquest Equipment, 306-483-2500, Oxbow, SK. each. 204-795-9192, Plum Coulee, MB.

FARM/CORPORATE PROJECTS. Call A.L. Management Group for all your borrowing HOUGH 65 PAYLOADER, works well, and lease requirements. 306-790-2020, WANTED: 2- D7R CATERPILLARS, with $10,000; 1992 Champion grader 740, very SU bulldozer blades, 2005 to 2009.

Regina, SK. good condition, $22,500; Fiat Allis grader, 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. 165 HP, new tires, works well, $12,500.

DEBTS, BILLS AND charge accounts too 2004 CAT D6N LGP crawler, 6-way dozer, Call 306-696-6666, Broadview, SK. high? Need to resolve prior to spring? Call AC, canopy, diff. steer, cargo winch, new us to develop a professional mediation UC, 10,800 hrs., $90,000; 2007 KOMATplan, resolution plan or restructuring plan. SU PC200 LC-8 hyd. excavator w/QA cleanup bucket, 9’6” stick, aux. hyds., Call toll free 1-888-577-2020.

12,582 hrs., $55,000; Also all kinds of buckets, various shapes and sizes www.windandweathershelters.com 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. COMMERCIAL GRADE Wind and weather shelter buildings available in widths from 20’ to 90’. Prices starting at $2495. If you BANDIT 3210 LIQUID fertilizer system! CATERPILLAR 14D GRADER, 1964, have bought an auction building and need Introducing the all new and fully engi- good shape. Call for price 204-267-2292 to upgrade to more durable material or neered TBH caddy. Call 1-855-765-9937 or or 204-226-3612, Oakville, MB. parts we can help. Located in Yorkton. visit: www.polywest.ca WANTED: RUBBER TIRED CASE or Drott Contact Paul at 306-641-5464 or Ladimer excavator in good running condition. Call 306-795-7779.

CAST ALUMINUM PUMPS, from Polar 204-835-2345, McCreary, MB. Pumps! Designed for heavy duty applicaEXTREME DUTY BRUSHCUTTER. Made in tions where you need the durability. Call Canada, 1/4” steel, 66” cut Omni HD gear1-855-765-9937 or visit: www.polywest.ca box & Parker hyd. motor. Cuts up to 4” trees, two 1/2”x3”x24” blades on a stump jumper, c/w hyd. hoses and flat face couPRIVE BUILDING MOVERS Ltd.! Bonded, DIGITAL AGRICULTURE PUMPS and meplers. Std. flow operation, open rear dislicensed for SK. and AB. Fully insured. ters! Dura Products offer best in class solucharge prevents under deck build up, fits Moving all types and sizes of buildings. tions for consumers wishing to transfer most skidsteers, $4995. 72” & 80” also in Call Andy 306-625-3827, Ponteix, SK. liquid. 1-855-765-9937, www.polywest.ca stock. Agrimex, 306-331-7443, Dysart, SK. www.privebuildingmovers.com 2004 JD 270LC excavator, 2 buckets, 148” dirt and 1- 60” rake, low hrs., exc. cond, $75,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK 1975 CAT D8K, hyd. winch, twin tilt angle blade, 26” pads, very good undercarriage, CAT 463 LEVER SCRAPER, newer converCOUNTRY HOTEL FOR sale, 70 seat beverrecent engine rebuild, excellent running sion, 25 yd., new front tires, exc., $37,000; age room, 2 VLT’s, 5 rental rooms, living condition, 60 hour warranty, 14’ blade, 300 2013 20KW light plant, 2500 hrs., $8000. quarters attached. Good hunting. Close to CUSTOM SWATHING AND COMBINING, HP, S/N #71V2222, $75,000. Can deliver. 306-642-3225, 306-640-7149, Assiniboia.

Riding National Park and Lake Manitoba. cereals and specialty crops. 36’ and 42’ 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. Owner retiring after 25+ years. Call Bob HoneyBee headers. Will take damp wheat or Bev 204-352-4221, Glenella, MB. for combining. Murray 306-631-1411.

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HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS 10 to 25 yds., exc. cond.; Loader and scraper tires, custom conversions available. Looking for Cat cable scrapers. Quick Drain Sales Ltd., 306-231-7318, 306-682-4520 Muenster SK HYDRAULIC SCRAPERS: LEVER 60, 70, 80, and 435, 4 to 30 yd. available. Rebuilt for years of trouble-free service. Lever Holdings Inc. 306-682-3332 Muenster, SK. 2004 VOLVO BL70 backhoe 4x4, extenda-hoe, 1585 orig. hrs., orig. tires and bucket teeth, machine exceptional condition, used mainly for snow removal on acreage, $45,000 OBO. 306-370-1603, Beechy, SK. 2004 NH 200B grader and 760 Champion grader. Both good condition. Call 306-236-8023, Goodsoil, SK. 2003 D7R CAT, c/w angle blade, semi U blade and ripper; 2002 Trailtech 20 ton, pintle hitch, tilt deck trailer w/new decking, tires and fresh safety; 3000 gal. septic tank c/w 500 Fruitland pump, controls and hydraulics, complete for tandem truck.

306-845-3407, Turtleford, SK. $21,000 SKIDSTEER DEAL! Choice: JD 325 or Case 465 Series 3. Both 2700 hrs., CAH, new tires, 2007. 306-940-6835.

740 CHAMPION GRADER, 1984, 8.3 Cummins eng., snow wing, ready to work. $26,000. Call 306-563-8765, Canora, SK. NEW IN 2007 ELRUS 24-42 jaw crusher, mounted on 16 wheel Nordberg portable conveyor, $150,000 OBO. Pro Ag Sales, 306-441-2030 anytime North Battleford SK

GREAT PRICES ON new, used and remanufactured engines, parts and accessories for diesel pickups. Large inventory, engines can be shipped or installed. Give us a call or check: www.thickettenginerebuilding.ca Thickett Engine Rebuilding. 204-532-2187, Russell, MB. 3406B, N14, SERIES 60, running engines and parts. Call Yellowhead Traders, 306-896-2882, Churchbridge, SK. WANTED DIESEL CORES: ISX and N14 Cummins, C15 Cats, Detroits Ddec 3, 4, DD15. Can-Am Truck 1-800-938-3323.

290 CUMMINS, 350 Detroit, 671 Detroit, Series 60 cores. 306-539-4642, Regina, SK DIESEL ENGINES, OVERHAUL kits and parts for most makes. Cat, CIH, Cummins, Detroit, Mack. M&M Equipment Ltd., Parts and Service phone: 306-543-8377, fax: 306-543-2111, Regina, SK.

FARM AND INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL motor sales, service and parts. Also sale of, and repairs to, all makes and sizes of pumps and phase converters, etc. Tisdale Motor Rewinding 1984 Ltd., 306-873-2881, fax 306-873-4788, 1005A111th Ave., Tisdale, SK. tmr@sasktel.net Website: www.tismtrrewind.com

GSI FLAT BOTTOM bins. Call Wentworth Ag 1-877-655-9996 ask about our specials. wentworth@grainequipment.com or www.grainequipment.com AFAB INDUSTRIES POST frame buildings.

For the customer that prefers quality.

1-888-816-AFAB (2322), Rocanville, SK. STEEL CLADDING SALE: New Grade A 29 gauge white-white metal cladding 3/4” high rib cut to your length for only .75¢/sq.ft. All accessories, fasteners and flashings are available. Call Prairie Steel in Clavet, SK., 1-888-398-7150, or email buildings@prairiesteel.com 100’x200’x22’ Steel Farm Building. Ready for set-up on your farm today. Foundation specs can be supplied. Includes 26 gauge ext. sheeting and trims, $153,900 plus tax. Add doors and insulation as needed.

Other sizes available. 1-888-398-7150 or email buildings@prairiesteel.com ZAK’S AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS: Stick Frame building designed with longevity in mind. Call 306-225-2288 or go to www.zaksbuilding.com to request a quote.

ZAK’S AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS: Farm post buildings designed with longevity in mind. Call 306-225-2288 or go to www.zaksbuilding.com to request a quote.

POLE BARNS, WOODSTEEL packages, hog, chicken and dairy barns. Construction and concrete crews available. Mel or Scott, MR Steel Construction, 306-978-0315, Hague, SK.

EXCELLENT FARM CATS for sale come with warranty: Komatsu, Cat, Fiat Allis. Call for more info excellent working condition.

Most newer UC, rebuilt engine, and trans bush, guarded. Call for price. Can deliver.

204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

EXCAVATOR ATTACHMENTS IN STOCK. 1980 CAT D8K, dirt tilt blade, bush sweeps WBM/CAT/CWS. Western Heavy Equipgood UC, $46,000. 204-525-4521, Minito- ment, 306-981-3475, Prince Albert, SK. nas, MB. www.waltersequipment.com ATTACHMENTS PARTS COMPONENTS JD 544B LOADER, $14,500; Bobcat 943 for construction equipment. Attachments skidsteer, $14,900; NH LX865 skidsteer, for dozers, excavators and wheel loaders. $12,900; Soil mover 7 yard scraper, Used, Re-built, Surplus and New equip$7000; Ashland 6 yard. scraper, $5000 ment parts and major components. Call 1-866-938-8537.

Western Heavy Equipment 306-981-3475, Prince Albert, SK. SKIDSTEER LOADERS: 2008 Case 440, Series 3, $27,500 OBO; 2006 Case 440, 19.5L-24 TOP TRUST new industrial 12 ply, tubeless, $599. $24,500 OBO; 2007 Case 420, $22,500 tires, 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com OBO. Ph. 204-794-5979, Springfield, MB.

FALL SPECIAL on all post or stud frame farm buildings. Choose: sliding doors, overhead doors, or bi-fold doors. NewTech Construction Ltd. call 306-220-2749, Hague, SK. BEHLEN STEEL BUILDINGS, quonsets, convex and rigid frame straight walls, grain tanks, metal cladding, farm- commercial. Construction and concrete crews.

Guaranteed workmanship. Call your Saskatoon and Northwest Behlen Distributor, Janzen Steel Buildings, 306-242-7767, Osler, SK.

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WOOD POST BUILDING packages or built on site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com

BUILD YOUR OWN conveyors, 6”, 7”, 8” and 10” end units available; Transfer conveyors and bag conveyors or will custom build. Call for prices. Master Industries Inc. www.masterindustries.ca Phone INSULATED FARM SHOP packages or 1-866-567-3101, Loreburn, SK. built on site, for early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: NEW BATCO 1545FL field loader with www.warmanhomecentre.com mover w/EFI Kohler engine. Reg. $29,000, Cash $23,000. Only 1 left; One used 2013 STRAIGHT WALL BUILDING packages or 1545FL Batco, exc. cond., $17,000 cash. built on site. For early booking call 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK. 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com NEW BATCO 2075 w/electric kit. Retail $36,500. Blow-out Special, $28,500.

PRE-ENGINEERED STEEL BUILDINGS for 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK. all your agricultural, equestrian, industrial, shop or storage needs. Call 306-249-2355 BATCO CONVEYORS, new and used, for a free quote. Montana Construction grain augers and SP kits. Delivery and www.montanasteelbuilders.ca Saskatoon. leasing available. 1-866-746-2666.

TIM’S CUSTOM BIN MOVING and Haul- OPI GRAIN MANAGEMENT Systems. Call ing Inc. Up to 22’ diameter. 204-362-7103 Wentworth Ag 1-877-655-9996 ask about binmover50@gmail.com our specials. www.grainequipment.com GSI COMMERCIAL HOPPER bins. Went- Email: wentworth@grainequipment.com worth Ag 1-877-655-9996, ask about our specials wentworth@grainequipment.com www.grainequipment.com FITTINGS AND VALVES for your liquid JTL CORRUGATED HOPPER bins. Call handling needs, all offering the ultimate in Wentworth Ag 1-877-655-9996 ask about sealing power and corrosion resistance. our specials. www.grainequipment.com Call 1-855-765-9937 or www.polywest.ca Email: wentworth@grainequipment.com FOR DECADES, FARMERS and retailers GSI TOP DRY bins. Call Wentworth Ag have recognized fibreglass tanks are the 1-877-655-9996, ask about our specials. ideal tank for storing liquid fertilizer! Call wentworth@grainequipment.com or 1-855-765-9937 or visit www.polywest.ca www.grainequipment.com 300 TON SS liquid fertilizer GRAIN BIN SERVICES. Concrete, turnkey MERIDIAN two 3” SS valves, like new. installation, remodel, repair. We specialize tank, 306-921-6697, 306-921-8498, Melfort, SK. in large diameter setup and wind damage repair. Call Quadra Development Corp., 2015 VALMAR 7600 66’ boom, PTO fan dr., 1-800-249-2708, or d.lonseth@sasktel.net var. rate JD control, secondary mech. melarge floatation tires, 3 mtd. cameBIN MOVING, all sizes up to 19’ diameter, tering, w/wo floors; Also move liquid fert. tanks. ras, $75,000. Luseland, SK, 306-372-4521.

306-629-3324, 306-741-9059, Morse, SK. CUSTOM GRAIN BIN MOVING, all types up to 22’ diameter. 10% spring discount.

Accurate estimates. Sheldon’s Hauling, 306-961-9699, Prince Albert, SK. MERIDIAN AND WESTEEL fertilizer bins. on sale now. See your nearest Flaman store of call 1-888-435-2626.

BIN SENSE- Protect your livelihood. Check moisture and grain temperature right from your smart phone.

Call Flaman 1-888-435-2626.

NEW 2016 BRANDT swing away augers, 13110HP+, 4 to choose from. 2 electric and 1 hyd. swing away, 13,000 bu. per/hr.

3 augers, M13X110 HP, 1 auger, 10”x80’ $33,000 ea. Call any time, 204-743-2324, 10,000 BU. HOPPER BINS - Available for Cypress River, MB. set up this fall. See your nearest Flaman MERIDIAN GRAIN AUGERS: 2015, store or ph. 1-888-435-2626 for more info.

14x95, slightly used, $32,000. Comes with LIFETIME LID OPENERS. We are a stock- warranty. Brian 204-724-6197, Souris, MB. ing dealer for Boundary Trail Lifetime Lid Openers, 18” to 39”. Rosler Construction SAKUNDIAK: 8”x55’, 10 HP elec. motor; 8”x45’, 24 HP Kohler motor; 8”x50’, PTO 2000 Inc., 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK. drive; 7”x35’, 10 HP elec. motor; 6”x35’, BROCK (BUTLER) GRAIN BIN PARTS B&S motor. BRANDT: 7”x35’, 24 HP Kohler and accessories available at Rosler Con- motor; 7”x35’, Wisconsin motor; 8”x50’ blue auger, hyd. auger mover, hyd. winch, struction. 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK. flex spout, elec. clutch, Wheatheart binsweep, 24 HP motor. Ed 306-272-3848 or 306-269-7745, Foam Lake, SK. 20,000 BU. SUKUP stir bins (14-5), c/w 7 HP inline fan, built and ready to go. $18,500. Call or visit your nearest Flaman location, 1-888-435-2626.

JTL SMOOTH WALL hopper bins. Call R10-41 WHEATHEART AUGER, excellent Wentworth Ag 1-877-655-9996 ask about condition with mover and new clutch, our specials. www.grainequipment.com $8800. Call 306-272-4451, Foam Lake, SK. Email: wentworth@grainequipment.com MERIDIAN AUGERS IN STOCK: swings, CONTAINERS FOR SALE OR RENT: All truck loading, Meridian SP movers. Call sizes. Now in stock: 50 used, 53’ steel and Hoffart Services Inc., Odessa, SK., insulated SS. 306-861-1102, Radville, SK. 306-957-2033.

SHIPPING CONTAINERS FOR SALE. 20’- NEW MERIDIAN AUGERS with motor, 53’, delivery/ rental/ storage available. For clutch, reversing gearbox and lights. inventory and prices call: 306-262-2899, HD8-39, $15,350; HD8-59, $17,250; Saskatoon, SK. www.thecontainerguy.ca TL10-39, $16,995; HD10-59, $18,995.

306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK. SAKUNDIAK 8x1400, Onan, Wheatheart SP kit and clutch. 306-493-9393, Delisle, SK. AUGERS: NEW and USED: Wheatheart, Westfield, Westeel augers; Auger SP kits; Batco conveyors; Wheatheart post pounders. Good prices, leasing available. Call 1-866-746-2666.

MERIDIAN AUGERS in stock at Flaman.

Call or visit your nearest Flaman location, 1-888-435-2626.

HORNOI LEASING NEW and used 20’ and REMOTE CONTROL SWING AUGER 40’ sea cans for sale or rent. Call movers, trailer chute openers, endgate 306-757-2828, Regina, SK. and hoist systems, wireless full bin alarms, 20’ and 40’ SHIPPING CONTAINERS, swing belt movers, wireless TractorCams, and storage trailers. Large Sask. inventory. motorized utility carts. All shipped directly to you. Safety, convenience, reliability.

Phone 1-800-843-3984 or 306-781-2600.

Kramble Industries at 306-933-2655, 20’ TO 53’ CONTAINERS. New, used and Saskatoon, SK. or www.kramble.net modified. Available Winnipeg, MB; Regina and Saskatoon, SK. www.g-airservices.ca 306-933-0436.

2012 RICHIGER 10’ grain bagger, bought new in 2013, has truck unloading attachment, also elec. bag lifting cradle, used very little. Troy 306-867-7719 Glenside SK

DUAL SCREEN ROTARY grain cleaners, JD 2360, 21’ wide, DSA, CAHR, HoneyBee 2001 JD 9650 STS, 2843 thres. hrs, 4108 great for pulse crops, best selection in knife, big tires, recent eng. rebuild, runs eng., 2 sets of concaves, very nice, exc., $9500. 306-238-7969, Goodsoil, SK. Western Canada. 306-946-7923, Young SK $77,000. 306-648-2801 or 306-648-7848, Gravelbourg, SK. 2 MONOCHROMATIC COLOUR Sorters.

Ideal for removing Ergot from cereal NEW 2014 MD PW7 w/16’ Swathmaster grains. Each machine mounted in an insuto fit JD STS/S series, $24,900. lated container, c/w air compressor and 25’ UII PU REEL; 21’ Hart Cart PU reel; all 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com wiring. Satake AlphaScan II, Hi Flow 160. A-1. Grain trucks, IHC forklift, swath roller, Machine #2- Delta I-IC/CCD-5. Both ma- Ford Major diesel loader and blade. Call JD 8820 TITAN II combine with pickup and hopper extension. 306-283-4747, chines capacity- 500-700 bu./hr. Lars 306-236-8023, Goodsoil, SK. 306-220-0429, Langham, SK. 306-937-2575, 306-441-0242 BattlefordSK CUSTOM COLOR SORTING chickpeas to mustard. Cert. organic and conventional.

306-741-3177, Swift Current, SK.

Rebuilt Concaves

Rebuild combine table augers Rebuild hydraulic cylinders Roller mills regrooved MFWD housings rebuilt Steel and aluminum welding Machine Shop Service Line boreing and welding

Penno’s Machining & Mfg. Ltd. Eden, MB 204-966-3221 Fax: 204-966-3248

1990 JD 9500, 4100 engine hrs., 912 PU header, many new parts, harvest ready, $27,500 OBO; JD 930 rigid header with hyd. adjustable reel, good condition, $5000 OBO. 306-946-7928, Watrous, SK.

FARM FAN AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC grain dryer, Model CMS10E, single phase power, canola screen, propane heat, holds 240 bu., transport wheels, shedded since new, 466 IH ENGINE for a 1680; Also hydro good condition. Phone Ed 306-272-3848 transmission and planetary axles available. or 306-269-7745, Foam Lake, SK. 204-662-4510, 204-522-5283, Sinclair, MB HOMEBUILT PORTABLE, coal fired, hot water aeration system. Includes 5 HP, 220 1997 CASE 2188 combine, hydro, PU, volt centrifical fan. Automatic electronic chopper, Red Power Service Check, AFX controls for coal stoker and water tem- rotor, 3400 sep. hrs, $32,900. Reimer perature, $1500 OBO. Call 306-449-2412 Farm Equipment, #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer, 204-326-7000. evenings, Redvers, SK. www.reimerfarmequipment.com DRYAIR GRAIN DRYING SYSTEM. 1.2 million BTU boiler on propane, mounted 2000 CASE/IH 2388 w/1015 header, on trailer. Also 4 large heat coil radiators $65,000; 2004 2388 w/2015 PU header, on wheels. Large quantity of hose w/quick $115,000; 2006 2388 w/2015 PU header, couplers. Shedded, exc. cond., used very $130,000; 2009 7088 w/2016 PU header, little, $42,500. Phone 306-873-9221 or $180,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 306-323-2099, Archerwill, SK. MORIDGE BATCH GRAIN DRYER, propane, 2009 7120 CASE/IH w/2016 header, no tank, shedded, $3000 OBO. $165,000; 2007 7010 Case/IH, dual 306-736-2625, Kipling, SK. wheels, w/2016 header, $170,000. Call Chicoine Farm Equipment, AERATION FANS, rockets ductwork, temp A.E. monitoring equipment and more. Visit 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. your nearest Flaman store to see selection 1994 1688, 4300 eng. hrs., newer sieves, or call 1-888-435-2626. rails, feeder house, and bushings, $20,000 OBO. 306-220-1533, Saskatoon, SK. REFURBISHED PROTEIN TESTERS for sale. Protein in wheat and durum, 2 units avail. Protein in wheat, barley and durum, 2012 CLAAS LEXION 770, 300 sep. hrs., fully loaded, $320,000 CAD OBO; 2011 2 units available. Jason 204-772-6998.

Claas Lexion 760, 700 sep. hrs., fully loaded, $265,000 CAD OBO; 2010 Lexion 590, fully loaded, 500 sep. hrs., $220,000 CAD OBO. All in excellent cond., used only in ATTACHMENT FOR GRAIN VACS: To small grains; 2000 Lexion 480, $27,000 empty plastic grain bags. Blueprints CAD OBO. 218-779-1710, Bottineau, ND. available to build your own, or we’ll build for you. Guaranteed to work. John Ilchuk CAT COMBINE PARTS Salvaging 670, 250-878-1705, Kelowna, BC. 590, 580R, 485, 480, 470, 460R. New additions regularly. Call 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com

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SELLING USED COMBINE parts off MF 860’s and older; JD 8820’s and older; IHC 1480; L2 Gleaner, etc. J M Salvage, WRECKING: MASSEY 860 combine for 204-773-2536, Russell, MB. parts. Call J M Salvage 204-773-2536, Russell, MB. GOODS USED TRACTOR parts (always 2008 MF 9895, duals, MAV, PU header, buying tractors). David or Curtis, Roblin, 1900 hrs., AutoSteer, just gone through MB., 204-564-2528, 1-877-564-8734. shop, shedded, 0% OAC, $159,000. CamG.S. TRACTOR SALVAGE, JD tractors Don Motors, 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. only. Call 306-497-3535, Blaine Lake, SK. 2004 NH CR970 for salvage, running eng., tons of good parts. Call 1-888-606-6362. www.combineworld.com

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WESTERN GRAIN DRYER, mfg. of grain dryers w/auto. drying/moisture control.

Updates to Vertec roof, tiers, moisture control. Economic designed dryers avail. NH 1033 BALE wagon; Massey 124 baler; Wheel rake; McKee forage Harvester; Bale 1-888-288-6857. westerngraindryer.com spear; 36’ PT swather. 306-283-4747, GSI GRAIN DRYERS. Call Wentworth Ag 306-220-0429, Langham, SK. 1-877-655-9996, ask about our specials. wentworth@grainequipment.com or www.grainequipment.com

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SMITH’S TRACTOR WRECKING. Huge SUNFLOWER HEADER, 1010 CASE/IH, inventory new and used tractor parts.

30’, 12” pans, drum feed. Can sell with 1-888-676-4847. transport carrier. Call Grant 204-573-0454, COMB-TRAC SALVAGE. We sell new and Brookdale, MB. used parts for most makes of tractors, WHITE MF 9230 30’ straight cut header, combines, balers, mixmills and swathers. fits White 9700, 9720 and MF 8570, 8590, Phone 306-997-2209, 1-877-318-2221, $4000 OBO. 204-794-5979, Springfield MB Borden, SK. www.comb-tracsalvage.com We buy machinery.

2002 42’ SP42 HoneyBee, pea auger, transport, Cat adapter, $25,000; Used JD LOEFFELHOLZ TRACTOR AND COMBINE adapter plate for newer MacDon headers, Salvage, Cudworth, SK., 306-256-7107. $1400. Call A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, We sell new, used and remanufactured Storthoaks, SK., 306-449-2255. parts for most farm tractors and combines.

2000 36’ 1042 Case/IH w/Case adapter, $18,000; 2008 36’ SP36 HoneyBee, trans- AGRA PARTS PLUS, parting older tracport, pea auger, 7120 or 8120 Case adapt- tors, tillage, seeding, haying, along w/other, $37,000; 2010 40’ D60 MacDon, trans- er Ag equipment. 3 miles NW of Battleport, $60,000; 2010 40’ Case/IH, ford, SK. off #16 Hwy. Ph: 306-445-6769. transport, pea auger, $60,000. Call A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, TRIPLE B WRECKING, wrecking tractors, combines, cults., drills, swathers, mixmills.

Storthoaks, SK. etc. We buy equipment. 306-246-4260, MACDON HEADERS!! Lots available! 35’, 306-441-0655, Richard, SK. 40’ & 45’. D60’s, D65’s, FD70’s in stock now www.combineworld.com 1-888-278-4905 MACDON CA20/CA25 and HONEYBEE flex or rigid adapters and completion kits, 8’ ALLIED 3 PTH snowblower, good cond., plenty in stock. We want your trade! $750. Airflow tailgate for 2009 Ford F150, $150. Cab for 1946 Dodge truck, offers.

1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com 204-522-8938, 204-522-5762, Melita, MB. RECONDITIONED rigid and flex, most makes and sizes; also header transports. 2011 SCHULTE SDX960 front mount Ed Lorenz, 306-344-4811, Paradise Hill, SK snowblower, 9’, like new, used only one season, $12,500., Domremy, SK., phone www.straightcutheaders.com 306-423-5476, 306-960-227.

2009 CASE/IH 2152, 40’, single knife, AFX adapter, Stk: 021954, $34,000. SCHULTE SNOWBLOWERS- high grade 1-800-219-8867, Swift Current, SK. steel w/fully enclosed chain case. Heavily reinforced auger cuts into snow with ease. www.redheadequipment.ca See your nearest Flaman location or call 2006 HONEYBEE SP 36, 36’, JD adapter, 1-888-435-2626. dbl. knife, split reel, hyd. F&A, transport, Stk: 018675, $32,500. 1-800-219-8867, Prince Albert. www.redheadequipment.ca 2009 CASE/IH 2020, 35’, AFX adapter, double knife drive, AWS air reel, Stk: 019849, $29,500. 1-888-576-5561, Swift Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca

2005 IH FLX4510 Floater, 3656 hrs., Vi2013 CASE/IH 2162, 45’, slow speed perPro w/AutoSteer, 365 HP, Allison 6 transport, upper cross auger, AFX adapter, speed, granular and liquid kits, $64,900.

Stk: 016108, $89,500. 1-888-576-5561, www.combineworld.com 1-888-278-4905 www.redheadequipment.ca Swift Current

2011 CASE/IH 3020, 35’, single knife, Crary air reel, Stk: 017943, $33,750. FLOATER TIRES: Factory rims and tires: 1-888-576-5561, Swift Current, SK. JD 4930/4940, R4045; 800/55R46 Goodwww.redheadequipment.ca year tire and rim; 710/60R46 Goodyear 2010 NEW HOLLAND 94C, 36’, AFX adapt- LSW; Case 650/65R38 Michelins, $13,500. available for combines. er, double knife, cross auger, Stk: 020673, Duals $30,000. 1-800-219-8867, Swift Current, 306-697-2856, Grenfell, SK. BALE SPEAR ATTACHMENTS for all SK. www.redheadequipment.ca loaders and skidsteers, excellent pricing.

WANTED: 3 PTH sprayer. Call Glen Call now 1-866-443-7444.

306-266-2016, Wood NOW SALVAGING GLEANER S77, low 2004 MACDON 974, 36’, single knife, sin- 306-640-8034, hrs., duals, cab, tons of good parts. Call us! gle reel, transport, gauge wheels, Stk: Mountain, SK. or email gm93@sasktel.net 018902, $31,500.

1-800-219-8867, Mel1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com fort, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 1997 TX68, updated to 1999, drives like BALE SPEARS, high quality imported new, no hassle electronics, straight cut from Italy, 27” and 49”, free shipping, ex- available, $18,000 OBO. Nate Golas, cellent pricing. Call now toll free 204-372-6081, 204-280-1202, Fisher 1-866-443-7444, Stonewall, MB. Branch, MB.

2010 9870 STS and 40’ FD70 MacDon, 1360 sep. hrs., 1890 eng. hrs., auger ext., AutoTrac with receiver and 2630 display, hopper cover, thorough annual 2013 CLAAS 3300 RC Quadrant 3x4 square Michel’s history with receipts, Y&M, baler, approx. 7000 bales made, vg cond., maintenance always shedded, dual knife drive on head$110,000. Can deliver. Call anytime er, pea auger, $249,000.

Will sell separ204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. ately. 306-472-7704, Lafleche, SK. 2011 CASE/IH 1203 30’ SP, pickup reel and transport, $77,000; 2002 Westward 9250 30’ SP, pickup reel, $40,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 1998 35’ WESTWARD 9300, 960 header, PU reel, turbo, big tires, excellent cond., $29,500. Call 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK

GRAIN BAGS- 9’ and 10’ grain bags. All sizes up to 400’ long. Quantity discounts 1995 30’ MACDON Premier 2900, PU reel, avail. See your nearest Flaman location or 960 MacDon header, 21.5-16.1 tires, exc. cond., $19,500. 306-861-4592, Fillmore SK call 1-888-435-2626.

1995 CASE 8820, 30’ header, PU reel, 21.5-16.1 tires, excellent condition, $16,500. Call 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK GRAVITY WAGONS: New 400 bu, $7,400; 600 bu., $12,500; 750 bu., $18,250. Large PICKUP REEL PARTS WAREHOUSE: BEAVER CONTAINER SYSTEMS, new selection of used gravity wagons, 250-750 MacDon, UII, JD, Hart Carter, CNH, AGCO. and used sea containers, all sizes. bu. Used grain carts, 450 to 1110 bushel. We distribute parts for all PU reels. Call 306-220-1278, Saskatoon and Regina, SK. View at: www.zettlerfarmequipment.com 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com 1-866-938-8537, Portage la Prairie, MB. BOND SEA CONTAINERS. New, used and modified sea containers. All sizes avail. 2013 BRENT 882 grain cart, 875 bu., 20” Buy, rent or lease. Call Bond today auger, 1000 PTO, hydraulic kit available, 306-373-2236, joe@bondind.com or visit tarp, like new, shedded, $39,000. www.bondind.com 306-428-2847, 306-862-7731, Choiceland.

2010 JD 9870 STS, loaded, 4 WD, only 480 sep. hrs, 600 eng. hrs, $285,000 CAD OBO. 2010 JD 9870 STS, fully loaded, ProDrive, 5 spd. feeder house, HD lift cylinders, HD final drives, HD rear axle, premium cab, IMS, grain tank ext., HD unload auger, long auger, Contour-Master, only 550 sep. hrs., 650 straddle duals, $259,000 CAD OBO. Both combines would have 100 hour, up to $7500 parts and labour warranty. Call 218-779-1710.

2014 MACDON FD75, 45’, upper cross auger, slow speed transport, AFX adapter, Stk: 018099, $98,500. 1-888-576-5561, Swift Current. www.redheadequipment.ca 2004 HONEYBEE SP 36, 36’, UII PU reel, cross auger, transport, AFX adapter, Stk: 021798, $25,000. 1-888-576-5561, Swift Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca

2014 MACDON D65, 40’, stabilizer wheels, AFX adapter, transport, single knife, Stk: 2010 65’ 3310 BOURGAULT Paralink, 12” 018789, $65,000. 1-888-576-5561, Swift spacing, mid row shank banding, double shoot, rear hitch, tandem axles, low acres, Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca $145,000. 2002 49’ Morris Maxim air drill, 12” spacing, w/7240 Morris grain cart, $52,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. SWATHMASTER AND RAKE-UP 12’, 14’, and 16’ pickups available. Call for details! 2003 BOURGAULT 54’ 5710 air drill, 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com w/MRBs, Dickey John NH3 kit and set up for dual shoot, $30,000 OBO. 306-658-4240, 306-843-7549, Wilkie, SK.

WRECKING: JD 8820 combine for parts.

J M Salvage 204-773-2536, Russell, MB. WINTER PROJECT- 2006 Bourgault 6450, double shoot, 3 tank metering, some rust.

Special $42,500. Phone 306-874-2011, Cropper Motors, Naicam, SK.

1986 JD 6620 Titan II Posi-torque, chopper, PU 6 belt, 2553 hrs, really nice, $12,900. Reimer Farm Equip., #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer.

204-326-7000. reimerfarmequipment.com 2000 JOHN DEERE 9650, duals, fine cut chopper, long auger, shedded, $40,000.

Call 306-524-4960, Semans, SK. HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES. Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595 charles@arcfab.ca www.arcfab.ca

2011 JD 9770 STS combine, 570 threshing hours, bought new, 650 duals, hopper ext., pickup header, always shedded, only harvested wheat and canola, $275,000; Avail. for extra MacDon 36’ D60 straight cut PICKUP REEL PARTS WAREHOUSE: header. Rented farm out. 204-662-4474, MacDon, UII, JD, Hart Carter, CNH, AGCO. We distribute parts for all PU reels. Call 204-851-0211, Sinclair, MB. 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com 2013 JD S690, 503 sep. hrs., var. stream rotor, manual fold top, GS3 command cen2012 MASSEY FERGUSON 9740, 36’, 400 tre, premium cab, ProDrive trans, small hrs., vg., 0% OAC, $89,900. Call Cam-Don wire concave, w/PU header, $350,000 Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. OBO. 2630, GPS receiver, AutoTrac, also The Real Used FaRm PaRTs available. Call 306-869-7629, Radville, SK. sUPeRsToRe

DUAL STAGE ROTARY SCREENERS and Kwik Kleen 5-7 tube. Call 204-857-8403, Portage la Prairie, MB. or visit online: GSI AERATION DRYERS. Call Wentworth www.zettlerfarmequipment.com Ag 1-877-655-9996 ask about our specials. wentworth@grainequipment.com or GOT FUSARIUM? Looking to add value to your crops? Nexeed Equipment Soluwww.grainequipment.com tions offers Cimbria Delta air screen cleanGSI AIR SYSTEMS. Call Wentworth Ag ers, destoner, indent and gravity separa1-877-655-9996, ask about our specials. tors as well as Cimbria Sea optical color wentworth@grainequipment.com or sorters for seed, grain, pulses and fusarium damaged crops. For additional info www.grainequipment.com call/email Rod Cockerline, VP Sales at KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD/ OPI STORMAX. Nexeed Inc., 204-982-3531 ext. 2, WinniFor sales and service east central SK. and peg, MB. rcockerline@nexeed.ca or visit MB., call Gerald Shymko, Calder, SK., www.nexeed.ca 306-742-4445 or toll free 1-888-674-5346.

GSI GRAIN HANDLING Systems. Call KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD Aeration Sales Wentworth Ag 1-877-655-9996 ask about 2016 MACDON M205 (No DEF), 35’ and 40’ and Service. R.J. Electric, Avonlea, SK. Call our specials. www.grainequipment.com DK headers, c/w transports. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. 306-868-2199 or cell 306-868-7738.

Email: wentworth@grainequipment.com

JD 1820, 61’ air drill, 10” spacing, Atom Jet paired row boots, 4” pneumatic packers, NH3 Raven controller, sectional, JD 1910 430 cart, var. rate, 3 meters, $59,000. 306-743-7622, Langenburg, SK.

1999 9610, new rub bars, concaves, walkers and bearings. Chopper recently balanced, Rake-Up PU, field ready, Reduced! $65,000 OBO. 306-452-3878, Redvers, SK. 2008 9770 STS, dual wheels w/2010 615 PU header, $195,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 2009 JD 9770, 1205 hrs., 175 hrs. since extensive Greenlight, duals, 615P header, $190,000; 36’ MacDon 973, $19,500 OBO. Call 306-736-7782, Kipling, SK.

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.

50’ FLEXI-COIL HARROW packers w/P30 packers; Also, 36’ Wilrich vibrashank cultivator w/harrows. Both in good condition. $4000 OBO. 306-210-8186, Reward, SK. 2013 MORRIS 50’ heavy harrow, 9/16” tines, excellent condition, $28,000. Call 306-493-6460, Delisle, SK.

NOW SALVAGING: John Deere 1820 drill, good rubber packers, nice openers. Call for pricing and availability. 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com 2004 FLEXI-COIL 2340 TBH, very good, $14,900. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. 2010 8370 VR TBT cart, w/third tank, TopCon monitor, $72,900. Cam-Don Motors, 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

WATROUS SALVAGE WaTRoUs, sK. Fax: 306-946-2444

CASE/IH 5600 DEEP TILLAGE 31’, new 8” shovels, 3 row mulchers, equipped with shank blocks. 204-467-5601, Stonewall MB

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EX-GOVERNMENT STAND-BY UNITS: 12V92 w/400 KW, 600 volts, 388 hrs, $25,000; 12V92 w/400 KW, 600 volts, 419 hrs, $25,000; 12V92 w/400 KW, 600 volts, 638 hrs, $25,000; 16V92 w/500 KW, 600 ODESSA ROCKPICKER SALES: New De- volts, 700 hrs, $25,000; 16V92 w/800 KW, gelman equipment, land rollers, Straw- 600 volts, 700 hrs, $30,000; KT450 Cummaster, rockpickers, protill, dozer blades. mins w/250 KW, $15,000. Can-Am Truck Export Ltd, 1-800-938-3323, Delisle, SK. 306-957-4403, 306-536-5097, Odessa, SK.

HORSCH JOKER PT400, includes large floatation tires, rolling basket and cutaway disc, exc. cond. 204-573-6354 Brandon MB

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1997 51’ CASE/IH 5800 HD cultivator, w/Degelman mounted 3-row harrows, $42,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 2004 KRAUSE TL-3000-9F 25’ disc ripper, 22’6” working width, 9 shank, 22-23” discs, hyd depth control, $29,800.

1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com 2009 T9060, CUMMINS, AutoSteer, 800 duals, 3990 hours, $211,000. Cam-Don Motors, 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

WANTED: Stainless Steel liquid fertilizer storage tanks for transporting/storing 1600-50,000 gallons. Call 306-960-3000.

2004 DEERE 325 skidsteer loader, new 36’ WILRICH VIBRASHANK cultivator eng., c/w bucket, vg working condition. w/harrows, good condition, asking $1500 $25,000. Can deliver. Call anytime OBO. Call 306-210-8186, Reward, SK. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. ON THE GO Haul & Tow farm equipment FORD 7700, 3 PTH, 18.4x34 tires with hauling (air drills). Prairie provinces. wheel weights, 500 hrs. on rebuilt engine, 306-540-9400, White City, SK. 580 Allied FEL w/72” bucket, 84” Farmking snowblower, dual auger and hyd. chute.

More info. call 204-364-2385, Arborg, MB.

NEW VERSATILE SD550 offset disc, 15’, 550 lbs./ft., spring cushion gangs, HD bearing option, 26”x3/8” notched. CamDon Motors, 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

MF #36 DISCERS. Will pay top dollar and pick from anywhere. Phone Mike 2012 BOBCAT S 205 skidsteer loader, 1650 306-723-4875, Cupar, SK. hrs., c/w bucket, vg working condition, $28,000. Can deliver. Call anytime WANTED: USED, BURNT, old or ugly tractors. Newer models too! Smith’s Tractor 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. Wrecking, 1-888-676-4847.

1983 2290 CASE/IH w/loader, good tires, good shape, $16,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm 2010 CLAAS XERION, 2040 hrs., CVT 50 Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. kms/hr., front hitch, 800R38, $189,000; LIZARD CREEK REPAIR and Tractor. We 2008 NH T8020, 2900 hrs., $86,000; 2014 buy 90 and 94 Series Case, 2 WD, FWA Case 370CVT, 220 hrs., 50km/hr, front tractors for parts and rebuilding. Also have hitch, 900/R42, $225,500; 2014 Fendt rebuilt tractors and parts for sale. 718 profi, 750 hrs., front hitch, 50 kms/hr., 710R42, $165,000; 3 2016 Fendt 306-784-7841, Herbert, SK. 939, 830 hrs., 65 kms/hr., $248,000; 2005 1983 CASE 2290 w/Leon 707 FEL, 4700 Fendt 936’s, 400 hrs., loaded; 2011 Fendt hrs., rebuilt PS and diff., 4 remotes, dual 939, 830 hrs, 65 km/hr, $237,000; 2012 PTO, good tires, duals, $19,500. Prince Al- Fendt 939, 3100 hrs., 65 km/hr, front PTO, $195,000; 2005 Fendt 930, 10,000 hrs, bert, SK. 306-922-8155, 306-960-3230. new 900 tires, $79,000; 2012 MF 8670, 500 hrs., CVT, 50 km/hr, front PTO, $188,000. Many more in stock! Call 519-955-1331, www.rozendaalclinton.com 1981 CASE 2290, 6823 hrs., Bourassa 3 PTH, new Farm King 96” snowblower used 2 hours, FEL/bale spear, good rubber, shedded. Will sell w/wo attachments, $19,800 for all. 306-222-0041, Saskatoon.

JD 4230, 100 HP, PS, $12,500; JD 4020, 75HP, PS, $8750 OBO. 204-525-4521 Minitonas, MB. www.waltersequipment.com WRECKING FOR PARTS, JD 3020, diesel, c/w vg running eng., good sheet metal; 2390 Case, vg eng., vg sheet metal; 2090 Case c/w complete overhauled eng., vg sheet metal. 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB. 2001 JD 8210, 3850 hrs., AutoTrac ready; 2002 7710, 4200 hrs., 3 PTH. Both have 540/1000 PT0. 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. 2130 JD, 3 PTH, FEL, new front tires, good back fluid fill, runs good. Call Don 204-422-5216, Ste Anne, MB. 1999 JD 9400, 425 HP, 24 spd., new rubber, 4 hyds. w/return line, exc. cond., $85,000 OBO. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. JOHN DEERE 8630, PTO, tires like new, excellent condition, $19,500. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. 2014 JD 6125R MFWD, 125 HP, 540 hours, FEL w/bucket, PTO, 3 PTH, factory warranty, $139,800.

1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com 1980 JOHN DEERE 8440, 4 WD, PTO, 5500 hrs., 3 hydraulics, good condition, $14,500 OBO. 306-946-7928, Watrous, SK. 1977 4430, w/606 PT mover behind, very low hrs., always shedded, exc. cond., $34,000 OBO. 306-717-2971 Saskatoon SK

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Closed Bred Heifer - 300 reputation heifers Blair Mistelbacher Ltd. 70% home raised, 70 red, and 230 black/black baldy heifers.

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NEW MAHINDRA mFORCE 105P #1 selling tractor in the world. 105 HP, 5 yr. PT warranty, power shuttle, 24 spd. trans, 3 PH, optional loader lift capacity 4100 lbs, CAH, MSRP $88,400. 0% financing. The Tractor Co., Osler, SK., 306-239-2262.

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1984 CAT D7G DOZER, c/w 13.5’ twin tilt angle blade, hyd. winch, enclosed cab, new UC, excellent working condition, new 26” pads. Warranty, $78,000. Can deliver.

204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

SOLIDLOCK AND TREE ISLAND game wire and all accessories for installation. Heights from 26” to 120”. Ideal for elk, deer, bison, sheep, swine, cattle, etc. Tom Jensen ph/fax: 306-426-2305, Smeaton, SK.

JACK PINE FIREWOOD: split and blocked in mini bulk bags $100/bag. Other lengths available. 306-277-4660, Ridgedale, SK.

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FREE STANDING CORRAL PANELS: Feeders & Alley ways, 30’ or order to size.

Oilfield Pipe: 1.3, 1.6, 1.9, 1-7/8, 2”, 23/8, 2-7/8, 3-1/2. Sucker Rod: 3/4, 7/8, 1”. Casing Pipes: 4-9”. Sold by the piece or semi load lots. For special pricing call Art 204-685-2628 or cell 204-856-3440.

OSSAWA ANGUS, MARQUETTE, MB. has for sale purebred Black heifer calves. Also 2 year old bulls. Info. call 204-375-6658.

JL LIVESTOCK FALL FEMALE SALE on December 13, 2016. Offering: 200 PB heifers and 200 commercial heifers. Sired by Density, Net Worth, and Final Answer. AI’d to Final Answer, Angus Valley, and JL Preferred.

Call 306-736-7393 or 306-736-8698, Peebles, SK. SELLING: BLACK ANGUS BULLS. Wayside Angus, Henry and Bernie Jungwirth, 306-256-3607, Cudworth, SK. BLACK ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, semen tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca PUREBRED BLACK ANGUS long yearling bulls, replacement heifers, AI service.

Meadow Ridge Enterprises, 306-373-9140 or 306-270-6628, Saskatoon, SK. 28th ANNUAL KEYSTONE KLASSIC Black and Red Angus Sale, Saturday December 3, 2015 at 1:00PM, Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB. Presented by top producing Red and Black Angus breeders Offering 70+ females, including an elite selection of foundation bred heifers, fancy heifer calves and cow calf pairs. Junior discounts available. For more information or a catalogue contact T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd. at 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online: www.BuyAgro.com PL #116061

70 HEIFERS BRED to short grass bulls, June 25th to August 10th. 306-773-5909, 200 LENGTHS of 3-1/2” drill stem, some Swift Current, SK. rust would work well for fence posts, $28 each. 306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK. 2-7/8” OILFIELD TUBING, $40 each; 3/4” sucker rods, $6 each. Truckload quantities F BAR & ASSOCIATES Red and Black Angus bulls, bred heifers and yearling heifers only. Call 306-861-1280, Weyburn, SK. for sale this fall. Great genetics, easy handling, registered or commercial, delivery available. Detailed info. ph Allen & Merilyn Staheli, Eddystone, MB, 204-448-2124, or email amstaheli@inethome.ca RED ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, semen tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca HARMONY NATURAL BISON buying finished up to $6.25/lb HHW; Culls up to $5.25/lb HHW; Feeders up to $4.75/lb LW. Call/text 306-736-3454, SE Sask.

WANT TO PURCHASE cull bison bulls and cows, $5/lb. HHW. Finished beef steers and heifers for slaughter. We are also buying compromised cattle that can’t make a long trip. Oak Ridge Meats, McCreary, 204-835-2365, 204-476-0147.

28th ANNUAL KEYSTONE KLASSIC Black and Red Angus Sale, Saturday December 3, 2015 at 1:00PM, Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB. Presented by top producing Red and Black Angus breeders Offering 70+ females, including an elite selection of foundation bred heifers, fancy heifer calves and cow calf pairs. Junior discounts available. For more information or a catalogue contact T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd. at 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online: www.BuyAgro.com PL #116061

NILSSON BROS INC. buying finished bison on the rail at Lacombe, AB. for fall delivery and beyond. Smaller groups welcome.

Fair, competitive and assured payment. BRED COWS, HEIFERS, COW/CALF pairs exc. herdsires bought in AB and SK. Elm Call Richard Bintner 306-873-3184.

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DEVLOO CANOLA CRUSHER for sale, $840. Call Gerry 204-744-2773, Somerset, 16’ PEELED RAILS, 2-3” $7.50 ea., 125 per MB. Email: gdevloo@xplornet.ca bundle; 3-4” $9.25 ea., 100 per bundle; CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used 4-5” $11 each, 75 per bundle. Vermette highway tractors. For more details call Wood Preservers, 1-800-667-0094, Spruce 204-685-2222 or view information at Home, SK info@vwpltd.com www.titantrucksales.com GUARANTEED PRESSURE TREATED fence ROTARY MOWERS: Wood’s 15’, $6000; posts, lumber slabs and rails. Call Lehner JD 1508, $6000; JD 1518, $7500; JD Wood Preservers Ltd., ask for Ron 2018, $10,000; JD 709, $3000; JD 5’ 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK. $1000; Melroe 903 plow 7 and 8 furrow; Scrapers: Eversman 6 yd., $5500; Ashland MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps.

6 yd., $5000; V-Ditcher, $2000; Big Mac Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: prong type rockpicker $4000; Gehl 500 4 www.maverickconstruction.ca auger mix cart, $10,000; Knight Big Auggie, $5000. Call 1-866-938-8537.

WHEATHEART POST POUNDERS. Hydraulic drive w/Honda engine. Trailer mount and THE HANDLER IS available in 5 sizes and self-propeller kit avail. See your nearest proven on tens of thousands of farms from Flaman location or call 1-888-435-2626. across the world. Call 1-855-765-9937 or visit: www.polywest.ca

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707 LEON FEL, will fit JD 4020 Case or Int. Also 2 JD cabs, will fit 4020. $2000 for all.

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EASY ROLL WIRE Rollers for barbed and high tensile wire. 3 PTH or draw-bar mounts avail. 306-984-7861, Mistatim, SK.

1984 IHC 5088, 130 HP, triple hyds., dual PTO, $18,000. 204-525-4521, Minitonas, MB. www.waltersequipment.com

STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in rebuilding JD tractors. Want Series 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 7000s to rebuild or for parts. pay top $$. Now selling JD parts.

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CASE/IH MX 110 with Buhler 795 hyd. self levelling loader, LHR, 3PTH, plumbed for grapple, rebuilt powershift trans, 9400 hrs., MFWD, 110 HP, S/N JJA0113932, vg working, $42,000 OBO. Call 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

JD 8970, new tires; JD 4450, FWD, 3 PTH, new engine; JD 4440, rebuilt engine; JD 4255, FWD. Ph 204-871-5170, Austin, MB.

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1993 FORD 846, 7792 hrs., 230 HP, 4 WD, 18.4R38 duals, PTO, 4 hyds., diff lock, cab, AC, heat, 14 spd. std. trans., $46,000 OBO. CAT CHALLENGER: 75D, 85D, 75E, 85E, Call 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. MT835 or MT845, under 5000 hours. Must have been shedded at all times when not in use. Excellent condition. Full service records. All updates done. Phone David Minkus, 204-868-0277, Minnedosa, MB. 1983 VERS. 975, 8600 hrs., good 24.5x32 tires, well maintained, Atom Jet hyds., runs great, asking $35,000. 204-526-5225, 2013 CIH L785 FEL w/grapple and bucket.

204-723-5002, Notre Dame, MB. Fits on Case Puma 200, $18,000; Also have some rear weights as well, $1.75/lb.

2013 VERSATILE 450 PS, PTO, deluxe cab, 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. leather seat, AutoSteer, 790 hrs., very good condition, $289,000. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

JD 4430, good rubber, dual PTO, changed engine, new seat cushions, side foam, etc, $14,500; JD 4650, factory duals, clean good running cond., $23,500; JD 4840, factory duals, 42” tires, 3PTH, clean, front weights, $23,500. Phone 204-746-2016 or 204-746-5345, Morris, MB.

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MORRIS 600 SERIES 35’ deep till cultivator w/harrows, very good shovels, stonefree land, $3700. 306-493-6460 Delisle, SK

2013 JD 9460R PS, 753 hrs., PTO, Hi-Flow hyd., 710/70R42’s, HD Gudgeon, weight pkg., PowerGard warranty until 2018, $209,500. USD. www.ms-diversified.com 320-848-2496, 320-894-6560, Fairfax, MN

Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519

WANTED: ALL KINDS of bison from yearlings to old bulls. Also cow/calf pairs. Ph Kevin at 306-429-2029, Glenavon, SK. BLOCKED AND SEASONED FIREWOOD: $180 per 160 ft.≥ cord; bags $80 (includes refundable deposit for bag). Bundles of 4’-5’ or 6.5’ also available. Vermette Wood Preservers 1-800-667-0094, Spruce Home.

BISON WANTED - Canadian Prairie Bison is looking to contract grain finished bison, as well as calves and yearlings for growing markets. Contact Roger Provencher at 306-468-2316, roger@cdnbison.com

BLOCKED SEASONED JACK Pine firewood and wood chips for sale. Lehner Wood Preservers Ltd., 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, 20-25 COWS AND ONE 2 year old bull.

SK. Will deliver. Self-unloading trailer.

Nothing over 13 years of age. Downsizing.

Available middle of November. Offers. Call BIG GULLY FARM Bull and Heifer Sale Marvin 306-929-2775, Prince Albert, SK. Thursday, Dec. 8th, 5:30 PM MST, 12 miles North of Maidstone, SK. Horned and BRED HEIFERS FOR SALE, 77 Plains, 11 Polled, Long-yearling bulls, bull calves and Wood cross. The top herd bull is from bred heifers. Free wintering, delivery and Wolverine Bison sired to the yearling re- carcass ultrasound. Volume discount of 5% 2 or more. View videos, information BEV’S FISH & SEAFOOD LTD., buy di- serve Grand Champion bull in Denver in on catalogue at: www.biggullyfarm.com rect, fresh fish: Pickerel, Northern Pike, 2016. This is an impressive group of heif- and Leachman, 306-903-7299, or email: Whitefish and Lake Trout. Seafood also ers ready to go this fall. Bulls may be pur- Lance biggullyfarm@gmail.com Online bidding available. Phone toll free 1-877-434-7477, chased as well. Come view any time, or at: LiveAuctions.tv call Blair 306-231-9980, Plunkett, SK. 306-763-8277, Prince Albert, SK. 60 PLAINS BISON CALVES for sale by Tender. Sale will also include 3 yearling.

WANTED: OLDER GENIE LIFT, also sheep- Free range and grass fed. Please submit foot packer for farm. Call 306-236-8023, tender bids by November 25, 2016. E-mail Goodsoil, SK. to: kylie.garchinski@natureconservancy.ca or phone 306-296-7383, Claydon, SK. NEW AND USED generators, all sizes from 5 kw to 3000 kw, gas, LPG or diesel. Phone for availability and prices. Many used in stock. 204-643-5441, Fraserwood, MB. DIESEL GENSET SALES AND SERVICE, 12 to 300 KWs, lots of units in stock. Used and new: Perkins, John Deere and Deutz.

We also build custom Gensets. We currently have special pricing on new John Deere units. Call for pricing 204-792-7471.

BRED COW/HEIFER SALE, Johnstone Auction Mart, Saturday, November 19, 2016, 1:00PM. Check website for current listings and pictures, 306-693-4715, www.johnstoneauction.ca PL #914447

FRESH AND SPRINGING heifers for sale.

Cows and quota needed. We buy all classes of slaughter cattle-beef and dairy. R&F Livestock Inc. Bryce Fisher, Warman, SK. Phone 306-239-2298, cell 306-221-2620.

TRIPLE R LIMOUSIN HAS Bulls for sale.

2 yr. olds and yearlings, red and black.

Polled and performance, or calving ease ones. Limousin and Limousin cross Angus, Also open and bred heifers, and group of cows, commercial and purebreds. All bulls guaranteed and can deliver. Volume discount. 204-685-2628, cell 204-856-3440.

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JEWELS & DIAMONDS SIMMENTAL Production Sale, Friday November 18, 1:00PM Ponoka Ag Events Center, Ponoka, AB. Selling Fleckvieh, Fullblood, Red and Black. Proven productive cows, bred heifers, open heifer calves, semen and embryos. For more information or a catalogue contact T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd. at 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online: www.BuyAgro.com PL #116061

CWA SPECKLE PARK SALE, Wednesday November 23 at 4:30 PM. Featuring fancy heifer calves, herd sire prospects, embryos and semen. For more information or a catalogue contact T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd. at 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online at: www.BuyAgro.com PL #116061

CUSTOM GRAIN ROLLING on your yard w/new PTO Apollo rollermill. New Apollo Sven rollermill sales, used mills buying and selling. Re-grooving all makes. Manitoba Distributor Direct. Phone Farmers Premium Equipment, Randy 204-729-5162

TIME TO APPRECIATE Relationships! RTMS AND SITE built homes. Call Life is meant to be shared. We are here to 1-866-933-9595, or go online for pictures help you. Candlelight matchmakers. Confi- and pricing at: www.warmanhomes.ca dential, rural, photos/profiles to selected matches. Local, affordable. Serving MB, SK, NW-ON. Call 204-343-2475 or email candlelightmatchmakers@gmail.com

1998 BALE KING 880 shredder, LHD, 2 new tires, great condition, $6000. Call DO YOU KNOW an amazing single guy who shouldn’t be? Camelot Introduc306-487-7525, Lampman, SK. tions has been successfully matching people for over 22 years. In-person interviews GREG’S WELDING: Freestanding 30’ 5 bar by Intuitive Matchmaker in MB and SK. panels, all 2-7/8” drill stem construction, www.camelotintroductions.com or phone $470; 24’x5.5’ panels, 2-7/8” pipe with 5- 306-978-LOVE (5683).

1” sucker rods, $350; 24’x6’ panels, 2-7/8” pipe with 6- 1” rods, $375; 30’ 2 or 3 bar windbreak panels c/w lumber. Gates and double hinges avail. on all panels. Belting troughs for grain or silage. Calf shelters.

Del. avail. 306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK.

STOP WASTING GRAIN! Try our grain troughs: 30’ c/w skids, made of conveyor LAZY RAINBOW RIVER RANCH has 115 belting and pipe, $750 ea. 306-538-4685, Simmental, Charolais, Red and Black An- 306-736-7146, Kennedy, SK. gus cross bred heifers. Preg checked. Can feed til late fall as an option. Price negoFFS- FUCHS FARM SUPPLY is your partner tiable. 204-372-6945, Fisher Branch. in agriculture stocking mixer, cutter, wagons and bale shredders and inHERD DISPERSAL: 110 black and red feed leading Rol-Oyl cattle oilers.

Simmental cross cows and 19 black and dustry red Simmental cross heifers. All bred Black 306-762-2125, Vibank, SK. www.fuchs.ca Angus. 306-597-4406 leave msg, Togo, SK ZAK’S AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS: Cattle BRED COW HERD REDUCTION, by half. shelter and barn packages.

Call 150 head. Would trade for light or tough 306-225-2288 or www.zaksbuilding.com feed grain. Call 306-432-4803, Lipton, SK. to request a farm building quote today!

RANCH RAISED ONE IRON UNIFORM HEIFERS. Black Angus and BBF, bred June 17 to low birth bulls, full vaccination, asking $1800 each.

Chanig Ranch, 306-478-2658, Mankota, SK.

SVEN ROLLER MILLS. Built for over 40 years. PTO/elec. drive, 40 to 1000 bu./hr.

Example: 300 bu./hr. unit costs $1/hr. to run. Rolls peas and all grains. We regroove and repair all makes of mills. Call Apollo RANCH RAISED F1 Red Angus cross Machine 306-242-9884, 1-877-255-0187.

Simm. bred heifers, bred Red Angus. Have www.apollomachineandproducts.com had all shots. Calving mid April. Harvey Verishine 306-283-4666, Langham, SK. 15 QUALITY HEREFORD influence heifers, very quiet. Preg checked. Erwin Lehmann 306-232-4712, Rosthern, SK. 80 MIXED CATTLE, bred heifers and cows, various prices; Also 2- 3 year old bulls for sale. Call 306-656-4445, Harris, SK. 75 SECOND AND THIRD Black and Red Angus young bred cows. Call 306-773-1049 or 306-741-6513, Swift Current, SK.

WANTED: 200 Red or Black Angus cross younger cows, lease to own. References available. 306-542-2575, 306-542-7007, Veregin, SK.

HORSE AND TACK SALE, Heartland, Prince Albert, SK., Friday, Nov 18th, starting at 5:30 PM. Call 306-763-8463.

SHEEP AND GOAT SALE, Heartland Livestock, Prince Albert, Friday, Nov. 18th.

11:00 AM. Call 306-763-8463 to pre-book.

MIXED BREEDS, EXPOSED, various rams; Also approx. 30 goats, does and billys, various prices. 306-656-4445, Harris, SK. COTSWOLD EWES AND RAMS. Scrapie resistant genotype. Phone 306-285-3639, Lashburn, SK.

Buy Used Oil NOTRE •• Buy Batteries DAME • Collect Used Filters USED • Collect Oil Containers OIL & • Antifreeze FILTER Southern, and DEPOT Eastern Western

Tel: 204-248-2110 Manitoba

QUALITY HAMPSHIRE and DORSET ram lambs from proven flock. Heeroma’s 306-823-4526, Neilburg, SK.

SASK. SHEEP DEV. BOARD sole distributor of sheep ID tags in Sask., offers programs, marketing services and sheep/ goat supplies. 306-933-5200, Saskatoon, SK. www.sksheep.com

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123

12V. or Hydraulic Electronic Scale Opt.

1 877 695 2532 www.ezefeeder.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.

VEGAS TIMESHARE. INT’L exchanges, avail. 2 bdrm., full kitchen washer/dryer, living/dining room. 306-453-2958, Carlyle.

Call our toll-free number to take advantage of our Prepayment Bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and we’ll run your ad 2 more weeks for free.

That’s 5 weeks for the price of 3. Call 1-800782-0794 today!

CATTLE SHELTER PACKAGES or built on site.

For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com

20 EXCELLENT HOME raised Simm/Angus bred heifers, very quiet, exposed to Red Angus bull June 1st. Mitch 306-467-4975, 306-467-7912, Duck Lake, SK.

QH/ARABIAN CROSS bred mares, yearlings, spring foals and stallions, various prices. Call 306-656-4445, Harris, SK.

SHOWHOMES & CUSTOM RTMs by J&H Homes at www.jhhomes.com. RTM Builder since 1969. 306-652-5322, Saskatoon, SK.

WANT THE ORGANIC ADVANTAGE? Contact an organic Agrologist at Pro-Cert for information on organic farming: prospects, transition, barriers, benefits, certification and marketing. Call 306-382-1299, Saskatoon, SK. or info@pro-cert.org

IRISH WOLFHOUND and GREYHOUND pups for sale, ready to go. Call SCENIC 160 ACRES in RM of Cote 271 306-290-8806, Dundurn, SK. overlooking Pine Creek. 40 acres. cult.

Minutes from Duck Mountain National BLUE HEELERS PUPS for sale, ready to go. Park, Madge Lake. Good hunting. Wildlife consisting of moose, elk and bear. Open to $300. ea. Call 306-290-8806, Dundurn, SK. offers. Info. call 306-597-4405, Togo, SK. BONAFIDE REGISTERED AUSTRALIAN Kelpie pups, Australian bred. Parents make a living on cow/calf operation at community pasture. Also started working Kelpies.

Call Watkinson Working Kelpies, 306-692-2573, Moose Jaw, SK. PUREBRED BORDER COLLIE pups. From good working and personable parents.

FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER: Approx Contact 306-553-2213, Swift Current, SK. 10 miles East of Viking, AB. The following are offered for sale by tender subject to the encumbrances and interests as are recorded on the existing Certificate of Titles.

AFFORDABLE RADON mitigation solution SE 16-48-11-W4, 155.4 acres, approx. with Polywest, Liberty Pumps and Fantech! (130 crop land and 25.4 slough/native 1-855-765-9937 or visit: www.polywest.ca land); NW 16-48-11-W4, 160 acres (approx. 140 crop and 20 slough/native); NE 16-48-11-W4, 155.7 (approx. 90 tame grass, 65.7 slough/native). All have newer 4 wire fence. For more info. 780-777-5227 (leave message). Bids will be considered on the total package or by individual quarter section. The highest and/or any bid will not necessarily be accepted. If the BRIGHT FURNISHED CONDO. 2 bdrm, 2 successful bidder does not complete the bath, 926 sq. ft., convenient South Regina, purchase after the acceptance of the tenSK. location. All amenities nearby. Asking der, the deposit shall be forfeited. $155,000. Call 306-536-2357.

Cheques from unsuccessful bidders shall be returned to them. Tenders in sealed enRETIREMENT - HIGH END TOWNHOME, velopes marked ‘Camp Lake Lands’ must walk-out, 1580 sq. ft., East side Saskatoon, be received by 11:00 AM on Dec. 19, 2016 SK. Upscale, award winning complex. in the office of Nickerson, Roberts, HolinPriced $589,900 MLS. Florence Fofonoff, ski & Mercer, 608-10th St, Wainwright, AB, Royal LePage Hallmark, 306-221-7866.

T9W 1E2, accompanied by a certified cheque or bank draft in the amount of 10 percent of the value of the bid payable in trust to Nickerson, Roberts, Holinski & Mercer, Barristers and Solicitors.

LOG HOMES AND CABINS, sidings, paneling, decking. Fir and Hemlock flooring, timbers, special orders. Phone Rouck Bros., Lumby, BC. 1-800-960-3388. www.rouckbros.com RM COTE 271: 6 quarters grainland, Class A soil. 1400 sq. ft. bungalow, natural gas, school bus at door, Willing to sell quarters OWN A ZAK’S custom built home in the separately. Call 306-597-4405, Togo, SK. brand new subdivision in Neuanlage, SK. just minutes from Saskatoon. Go to: FARMLAND FOR SALE in RM No. 2: 1 quarwww.zaksbuilding.com or 306-225-2288. ter, SW 35-01-34 W1. Offers. Mail to: Box TIMBER FRAMES, LOG STRUCTURES 188, Carnduff, SK. S0C 0S0. 306-483-7477 and Vertical Log Cabins. Log home refinishing and chinking. Certified Log Builder with 38 years experience. Log & Timber 160 ACRES- TOBIN LAKE only 1/2 mile Works, Delisle, SK., 306-717-5161, Email away. Crown Land is on the east and south info@logandtimberworks.com Website at of property. Stunning 2222 sq. ft. home! www.logandtimberworks.com Exceptional architectural and craftsmanship. Re/Max Nipawin, Linda Swehla, LOG AND TIMBER HOMES, Saskatoon, 306-862-6390, Nipawin, SK. SK. Visit www.backcountryloghomes.ca or call 306-222-6558.

8 QUARTERS GRAIN LAND for rent in RM Kellross 247. Located 5 miles N of Leross, SK. 306-736-9018, 306-736-3272.

BEST CANADIAN HOMES built by Moduline Best prices! 1520 sq. ft., $111,900; 1216 sq.ft. $91,900; 1088 sq.ft. $87,900. Ready FOR SALE BY OWNER: Quarter section for delivery. Custom orders welcome. On- of prime hunting land, approx. 80-90 acres site consultation. Yellowhead Modular broke, large body of water, UG powerline, Home Sales, 306-496-7538, 306-849-0002 located along Supergrid 17 mi. NW of weekend calls. Personalized service. Blaine Lake, SK. Can be certified organic.

Close to Lac La Peche. 306-226-4646. www.affordablehomesales.ca

MEDALLION HOMES 1-800-249-3969 DMI Immediate delivery: New 16’ and 20’ modular homes; Also used 14’ and 16’ homes. Now available: Lake homes.

Medallion Homes, 306-764-2121, Prince WANTED: ORGANIC FEED GRAIN for or- Albert, SK. ganic dairy farm. Can be mixed grain.

204-326-9270, Steinbach, MB.

LAND FOR SALE BY TENDER: RM of Biggar #347. 3 quarters of tame mixed grass pasture, NE-28-34-17 W3, NE-33-34-17 W3; SE-33-34-17 W3. 460 acres fenced with some cross fencing, dugout, 2002 bored well, on SaskPower service, approx 40,000 yards gravel deposit. Tender closes December 2nd, 2016.

Highest or any tender not necessarily acTRADE AND EXPORT CANADA BUYING RTM COTTAGE, NEW construction, cepted. Sold as is. Bidders must do own inall grades of organic grains. Fast payment 22x32 finished exterior, unfinished interi- spection of property. Submit bids to: Bob and pick up. Call 306-433-4700. or, 10’ walls, potential for loft. Call Atkinson Box 271, Landis, SK. S0K 2K0. For 204-564-2540, Shellmount, MB. more information call 306-658-2042.

WANTED: ORGANIC LENTILS, peas and chickpeas. Stonehenge Organics, Assiniboia, SK., 306-640-8600, 306-640-8437.

WE CAN HELP YOU SELL YOUR LAND! Homelife Prairies Realty Inc. Over a hundred years of combined agricultural experience. Can sell big or small packages. Can evaluate your property and work with you to get you the best price! Look after the details and your best interest! For an evaluation or a cup of coffee contact: Tim Graham, 306-526-8196 or Robert Young, 306-586-0099, Emerald Park, SK. READY TO MOVE: Available immediately 1560 sq. ft. homes starting at $95,000. 3 bdrm, 2.5 baths, main floor laundry, mas- RM CANWOOD #494- just listed. This ter bedroom with full ensuite and walk-in 140 acre scenic property is close to the closet. Spacious living area, large kitchen Cookson pasture and the Prince Albert Nawith island. Info. call Marvin Homes Inc., tional Park. 1232 sq. ft. home built in Marvin Vogt, Mitchell, MB. 204-326-1493, 1960, 30x32 hip roof horse barn. Approx.

204-355-8484. marvinhomesinc@live.com 65 acres of tame hay. Balance is some harwww.marvinhomes.ca vestable spruce timber plus pasture openings. Just a great well sheltered yard.

MANITOBA MAN LOOKING for companion ZAK’S RTM HOMES and cottages, custom Fenced with 3 wires and treated post. to go for coffee and dances. 67-71 yrs. old. built, every time!! www.zaksbuilding.com MLS® 584810. For further info or to view Reply to: Box 2002, c/o Manitoba Coop- or call our talented staff at 306-225-2288 call Lloyd Ledinski, Re/Max of the Battleto help design your new home. erator, Box 2500, Saskatoon, SK., S7K 2C4. fords, 306-446-8800, 306-441-0512.

ORGANIC FEED GRAIN. 306-515-3500, Regina, SK.

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LAND AUCTION, Stoney Run Cattle Corp., Thursday, December 22, 2016, Days Inn, Estevan, SK., 7:00 PM. Join Mack Auction Company, Dec. 22 for your chance to own 6 quarter sections of prime grass and hay land in RM of Enniskillen #3. There is unlimited potential for this land with the close proximity of The Ceres Northgate Terminal, a multi-commodity logistics center strategically located on the Canada/US border in SE Sask!

The tame hay, native grass, water sources and perimeter barb wire fences are in exc. condition. 1. NW-8-1-3-W2 RM#3, FVA 64,800. 160 acres tame hay and native grass, partially fenced. 2016 taxes $380.28. 2. NE-8-1-3-W2 RM#3, FVA 58,200. 160 acres tame hay and native grass, partially fenced, shallow dugout.

2016 taxes $341.55. 3. SW-8-1-3-W2 RM#3, FVA 80,600. 160 acres tame hay, partially fenced, dugout. 2016 taxes $473.00. 4. SE-8-1-3-W2 RM#3, FVA 67,800. 160 acres tame hay, partially fenced, dugout. 2016 taxes $397.88. 5.

NW-1-1-3-W2 RM#3, FVA 49,000. 160 acres native grass, partially fenced. 2016 taxes $234.13. 6. NE-1-1-3-W2 RM#3, FVA 48,100. 160 acres native grass, partially fenced, dugout. Direct access to Hwy 9, located adjacent to Ceres Commodity Logistics Hub. 2016 taxes $230.29. Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill and photos. Join us on Facebook and Twitter. Mack Auction Co., your land Auctioneers.

306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815. PL #311962.

BIG RIVER, SASK AREA. This gorgeous home is approx. 3100 sq. ft. on 3 levels incl. attached garage. Very tastefully done.

In-floor heat with propane on 2 levels plus solar panels and windmill. Most furniture is included, c/w 154 acres of bush type land with 140 acres fenced with a 8’ high game fence plus 1 elec. wire. Major equip. incl. to operate this turnkey hunt/production farm. MLS® 561901. More info or to view call Lloyd Ledinski at Re/Max of the Battlefords, North Battleford, SK. 306-446-8800 or 306-441-0512.

FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER. Sealed bids for the purchase of the following land located in the Municipality of North Norfolk will be received until 4 PM on November 18, 2016 at Christianson TDS, 316 Saskatchewan Ave. E., PO Box 940, Portage la Prairie MB R1N 3C4. PARCEL 1: NW 1/4-25-11-9-WPM (160 acres, pasture). 1) MTS Netcom Inc. Caveat 1014531/3 and MTS Communications Inc. Caveat 1015741/3 will remain on title following the sale. 2) All tenders must be submitted in a sealed envelope and accompanied by a certified cheque for 10% of the tendered amount, payable to Christianson TDS. Cheques will be returned for all unaccepted tenders 3) If the tender is accepted, the certified cheque shall become a non-refundable deposit. If the Tenderer fails to complete the purchase of the property, the Seller shall retain the deposit as liquidated damages.

4) 2016 property taxes will be paid by the Seller. 5) Seller reserves the right to reject the highest tender or any or all tenders. 6) Tenders will be held in confidence and will not be released to the public or other bidders. 7) All bidders will be advised of acceptance or rejection on or before November 25, 2016. 8) Successful bidder will be required to enter into a formal Purchase Agreement, with a possession date no later than December 31, 2016, within fourteen (14) days of acceptance of tender, or sooner by mutual consent. 9) The Tenderer will pay the applicable Goods and Services Tax or provide an acceptable undertaking to self-assess. 10) Time is of the essence in submission of tender and closing of sale. 11) Bidders wishing to inspect the land may phone 204-239-7653 to set up an appointment.

1097 ACRE GRAIN Farm in prime area of Westman, 1000 acres cult., 2160 sq. ft. modern split level home in prime condition, heated workshop, machine shed; 40,000+ bu. grain storage. Owners rent 500 cult. acres close by. Sound enterprise w/yard 5 miles from town; 1120 acre mixed farm w/500 acres cult., 2 large open front cattle sheds, insulated calving barn, machine shed. Land all adjoining and fenced, good water, 3+2 bed bungalow, 6 miles from town; Vacant dairy farm with all equipment, ready for production w/freestall barn for 82 head, calving pens, young stock facilities, 10 unit abreast parlor; haybarn, machine shed, cattle shelter, cement silage clamps, 3800 sq. ft. modern home, 200 acres of land. Call Maurice for more details at Century 21 Westman.com, MB. 204-725-0555.

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FARMLAND FOR RENT in RM EmersonCLASSIFIEDS WORK Franklin. The following fields for rent in 2017: 1.) NE 1/4-17-1-3-E, 156 acres; 2) NE 1/4 29-1-3-E, 152 acres; 3.) RL 18 AG Plan 615, 11 acres; 4.) RL 34 AG Plan 4118, 20 acres; 5.) RL 34 AG Plan 4118, 30 acres; 6.) SE 1/4-17-1-3-E, 156 acres; 7) NW 1/4-8-1-3-E, 144 acres; 8.) SW 1/4-28-1-3-E, 158 acres; 9.)

SE 1/4-32-1-3-E, 158 acres; 10.) SW 1/4-4-1-3 E, 151 ac; 11.) SE 1/4-4-1-3 E, 160 acres. Fixed 5 year term with 2 instal- MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. ments April and October. Increase of land Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: taxes added to the 2nd payment. 40,000 www.maverickconstruction.ca bu. of storage in hoppers are also available. Submit offer by email and indicate what you are bidding on. Tender closes Dec. 31, 2016. Highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. Email to: landmann0815@aol.com

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FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER, RM of Portage la Prairie. Legal Description: SE-6-12-8W. Roll number: 406300. Acres: 141.7. The subject property is located in the RM of Portage la Prairie, 9 miles west on the Trans Canada Hwy. Of the 141.7 acres, 8.7 acres of bush are designated conservation land which has been left in its natural state. Soil Type: Classification Neuhorst: 1, Almasippi: 2. Tender must be for the entirety of the land described above, and all buildings attached thereto.

Sealed Tenders to purchase the land will be received by: Greenberg & Greenberg, Box 157, Portage la Prairie, MB. R1N 3B2 until 4:30 PM, November 30th, 2016.

Terms of Tender are as follows: 1. Each Tender shall be in writing and in a sealed envelope, plainly marked as to its contents and shall be submitted with a certified cheque payable to Greenberg & Greenberg, in trust, in an amount equal to 10% of the tender price. 2. If the Tender is accepted, the certified cheque shall become a non-refundable deposit. If the Tenderer fails to complete the purchase of the property the Seller shall retain the deposit as liquidated damages. On December 1, 2016 unsuccessful Tenderers will have their certified cheques returned to them by regular mail. 3. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by cash, certified cheque, or lawyer’s trust cheque and trust conditions on February 2, 2017 (the Closing Date). 4. Vacant possession will be provided on Closing Date. 5. The Buyers will pay the 2017 taxes. 6. The Vendors will pay all the property taxes and penalties relating to taxes accruing to Dec. 31, 2016. 7. The Tenderer will pay the applicable GST or provide an acceptable undertaking to self-assess. 8. Time is to be of essence in submission of tender and closing of sale. 9. Highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. 10. The Purchasers rely entirely on their own knowledge and inspection of the property independent of any representations made by or on behalf of the owners. For further particulars and inspection contact: Barry Greenberg, Greenberg & Greenberg, 204-857-6878.

FOR RENT: 40 ACRES cult. farmland, $60 per acre. City of Winnipeg, RM of St. Boniface, Plessis Rd. SW corner, 1.5 kms from the perimeter. Ph. 204-488-8495.

Email: egolumbia@hotmail.com FOR SALE BY TENDER farmland in RM of Roland NW-11-05-05W and part of SW-14-05-05W, approx. 232 cult. acres.

Please submit sealed written tenders by December 9, 2016 to: Mr. Mark Beard, Ammeter Law Group, 7 Donald Street, Winnipeg, MB. R3L 2S6. Mark envelope “Roland Tender”. Highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

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Phone: 204-761-6884 grant.tweed@century21.ca

2010 MONTANA 34’ 5th wheel trailer, 4 slides, satellite dish, king bed, large shower, fireplace, $32,500 OBO. 306-957-4526, Odessa, SK.

ELIAS SCALES MFG., several different ways to weigh bales and livestock; Platform scales for industrial use as well, nonelectric, no balances or cables (no weigh like it). Shipping arranged. 306-445-2111, North Battleford, SK. www.eliasscales.com

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2013 Malt Contracts Available Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 Phone 204-737-2000 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK. Phone 306-455-2509

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Agent: SK. Agent:MM&& JJ Weber-Arcola, Weber-Arcola, SK. Contracts Available Cash on delivery or pickup. 306-228-7306 2013 Malt Phone 204-737-2000 Phone 306-455-2509 306-455-2509 Phone or 306-228-7325, Unity, SK. BoxToll-Free 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 GOOD QUALITY HAY put up dry without 1-800-258-7434 rain. 400 big square bales, 3x4x8.

Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK. Phone 204-737-2000 306-364-4700, 306-320-1041, Leroy, SK. FARMERS, RANCHERS, Phone 306-455-2509 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 2250 BALES: alfalfa, alfalfa grass, slough SEEDMPROCESSORS Agent: & J Weber-Arcola, SK. hay, little to no rain, netwrapped. Baled w/JD 569, 1175-1300 lbs., 3¢-5¢ lb., Phone 306-455-2509

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CDC BOYER, CERT. #1, 96% germ. produces plump seed, good for green feed. Stoll’s Seed Barn Ltd., Delisle, SK. 306-493-7409.

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Call 204-736-3570, Brunkild, MB. MUSTARD SEED! We can supply you with new cert. treated or untreated seed. We can upgrade your low grade mustard.

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TOP QUALITY ALFALFA, variety of grasses and custom blends, farmer to farmer. Gary Waterhouse 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK. LACKAWANNA PRODUCTS CORP. Buyers and sellers of all types of feed grain and grain by-products. Call 306-862-2723, BUYING: ALFALFA SEED and all types of Nipawin, SK. grass seed. Call Gary at Waterhouse Seeds, 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK. WANTED: TOUGH OR LIGHT feed grain to for bred cows. Herd reduction. Call NORCAN restores grain farm profitability. trade Buy from Norcan and keep your own Gly- 306-432-4803, Lipton, SK. phosphate 1 soybean seed. Norcan farmers have reported yields over 60 bu./acre. WANTED: FEED GRAIN, barley, wheat, Call/text Nate, 204-280-1202 or Norcan peas, green or damaged canola. Phone Gary 306-823-4493, Neilburg, SK. Seeds 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch, MB.

volume discount. Call 306-867-7716, 306-867-8249, Outlook, SK. ROUND BALE PICKING and hauling, small or large loads. Travel anywhere. Also hay for sale. 306-382-0785, Vanscoy, SK. 400 BROME/ALFALFA 6x6 round hay bales, .04¢ per lb., no rain. 306-634-7920, 306-421-1753, Estevan, SK.

HAY BALES ROUND mixed 5x5, hard core, no rain, net wrapped, horse quality, $100/bale. Near Regina, SK 306-539-6123 260 ALFALFA AND OAT bales, weighing 1300 lbs., asking 5¢/lb. 306-280-8994, Hanley, SK.

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Highest yielding Clearfield red lentil Call 306-465-2525, 306-861-5679 Hansen Seeds, Yellow Grass SK. jsh2@sasktel.net

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Swather: 16.5-16.1 Firestone Traction I-3, $649. Combine Front: 30.5L32 FireWE BUY OATS stone SAT23, 14 ply, $2945; 30.5LR32 Call us today for pricing (800/65R32) Firestone Radial AT23, Box 424, Emerson, MB R0A 0L0 $3285; 460/85R38 (18.4R38) Alliance R-1W, $1199; 20.8R42 (520/85R42) Alli204-373-2328 ance R-1W, $1599; 520/85R38 (20.8R38) Firestone AT23, $1949. Combine Rear: 12.4-24 BKT R-1 8 ply, $299; 16.9R26 Alliance Radial R-1, $1079; 18.4-26 Firestone TF&R 8 ply, $865; 600/65R28 BKT Radial R-1, $1599. WHEEL: 27x32 10 hole wheel COMPLETE RCBS RELOADING rifle kit fits Case/IH $799. While quantities last! w/lots of extras for sale. 204-623-6335, Looking for wheels? Call OK Tire toll free 1-855-865-9550.

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Call 306-237-4582, Perdue, SK. ICE SHACKS- INSULATED shacks now on 1700 GOOD TO EXCELLENT 1st cut for $2159, November sale. Accessories 1500 lb. brome/alfalfa netwrapped round available, rod holders, slush buckets, hole TOW ROPES rated up to 250,000 lbs. and bales, 4.5¢/lbs.; 1000 exc. 2nd cut 1500 sleeves, catch covers and more. See your tow straps rated up to 240,000 lbs. See nearest Flaman location 1-888-435-2626. your nearest Flaman location or call lbs., .6¢/lbs. 306-834-7204, Kerrobert, SK. 1-888-435-2626.

HAY MIXTURE Timothy Alsic Clover Or- SLEIGHS- ICE FISHING and trapping chard grass, 200 bales, 1000 lbs. plus, sleighs. November sale, starting at only baled at the right time, no rain, $25.00 per $50. Call or visit your nearest Flaman locabale. Also have the same hay baled later, tion, 1-888-435-2626. no rain. Phone evenings ask for John KORNUM WELL DRILLING, farm, cottage 204-425-3312, Vita, MB. and acreage wells, test holes, well rehabilitation, witching. PVC/SS construction, exBIG ROUND BALES, 1200 lbs., Orchard pert workmanship and fair pricing. 50% grass alfalfa mixture, solid core, no rain, 3- 500 GAL. and 1000 gal. fuel tanks; 300 government grant now available. Indian $30/bale OBO. 2nd cut, same quality. gal. gas tank w/stand; 1000 gal. HD steel Head, SK., 306-541-7210 or 306-695-2061 Small square 2nd crop bales, 60 lbs/bale. water tank. 306-370-1603, Beechy, SK. Also small square wheat straw bales, $2.50/bale. 204-886-2083 eves Teulon MB POLY TANKS: 15 to 10,000 gal.; Bladder tanks from 220 to 88,000 gallon; Water HORSE HAY, MEDIUM SQUARE BALES, and liquid fertilizer; Fuel tanks, single and U-DRIVE TRACTOR TRAILER Training, Timothy, brome, alfalfa, 2nd cut available, double wall; Truck and storage, gas or dsl. 30 years experience. Day, 1 and 2 week no rain, no dust, stored inside. Delivery Wilke Sales, 306-586-5711, Regina, SK. upgrading programs for Class 1A, 3A and available. Stacked in your shed or barn. air brakes. One on one driving instructions.

Call/text 204-771-7496, Petersfield, MB. 306-786-6600, Yorkton, SK. 100 LARGE ROUND bales, Timothy and alfalfa, approx 1400 lbs, very good quality, SEPTIC TANKS: Fiberglass septic tanks, shedded. Call 204-886-2960, Teulon, MB. ranging from 750 gal. to 30,000 gallons.

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Call VARIOUS ROUND BALES, $25 - $40 per 1-888-435-2626. bale, 1300-1400 lbs. Holland and Notre Dame, MB. area. Ph or text 204-723-0658.

EXPERIENCED LIVE-IN CAREGIVER with LARGE ROUND 2nd/3rd cut alfalfa/hay over 12 yrs experience, is looking to care bales, $50 each. Large round hay bales SHUR-LOK TRUCK TARPS and replacement for a senior. Please call 306-551-7300. $35 each. 204-248-2446, Notre Dame de tarps for all makes of trucks. Alan, Lourdes, MB. Looking for a hand around the farm? Place a 306-723-4967, 306-726-7808, Cupar, SK. help wanted ad in the classifieds. Call 1-80038 ROUND HAY BALES 1st cut alfalfa mix, $35 each. 9 round bales 2nd cut pure TARPCO, SHUR-LOK, MICHEL’S sales, 782-0794. service, installations, repairs.

Canadian alfalfa, $40 each. Phone 204-882-2356, company. We carry aeration socks. We Ste Agathe, MB. now carry electric chute openers for grain 325 ROUND HAY BALES, alfalfa and alfalfa trailer hoppers. 1-866-663-0000. grass mix, average 1600 lbs., 3.5¢/lb. or $55/bale. 204-870-9450, Austin, MB. QUANTITY OF DAIRY quality 1st and 2nd cut large round and med. sq. hay bales; CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used Quantity of beef round hay bales. Mar- highway tractors. For more details call quette, MB. 204-981-7315, 204-375-6687 204-685-2222 or view information at APPROX. 200- 1st cut alfalfa/grass round www.titantrucksales.com bales suitable for beef cattle. Also approx.

70- 3rd cut 2015 alfalfa/grass round bales, GOOD USED TRUCK TIRES: 700/8.25/ 11R22.5/11R24.5; shedded. All bales netwrapped. Will load. 900/1000/1100x20s; 9R17.5, matched sets available. Pricing 204-799-8130, 204-837-9750, Headingley. from $90. K&L Equipment and Auto. Ph ROUND NET WRAPPED Alfalfa/Brome Ladimer, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK; Chris bales. No rain. Approx 1500 lbs., 4¢/lb. at 306-537-2027, Regina, SK. 306-482-7492, Carnduff, SK. MR. TIRE CORP. For all your semi and ALFALFA BROME and crested wheat hay half ton tire needs call Mylo 306-921-6555 big round bales, $50 each. Phone Brian Serving all of Saskatchewan.

306-531-3382, Craven, SK. LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom TIRES TIRES TIRES! Radial, bias, new, hay hauling. Call 306-567-7100, Imperial, used. 20.8x42, 18.4x42, 20.8x38, 18.4x38, 20.8R34, 18.4x34, 900/60R32, 800/65R SK. 32, 24.5x32, 18.4x30, 23.1x30, 16.9x28, CUSTOM BALE HAULING. Will haul large 28Lx26, 18.4x26, 19.5Lx24. Semis, skid squares or round. Phone 306-567-7199, steers. Best price and value guaranteed!

Kenaston, SK. www.combineworld.com 1-888-278-4905

DAIRY COW & CALF CARE: for someone who enjoys working with animals. Duties may include: feeding and caring for calves, treating sick cows and doing other barn work. Looking for self motivated, reliable individual who pays attention to detail.

Competitive wages. Call 204-379-2640 or 204-745-7864 or email your resume to: borstlap@xplornet.com Haywood, MB. FARM LABOURER REQUIRED for livestock operation. Duties include: operating, maintaining seeding & harvesting equip. Smoke free enviro., $17/hr. Housing avail. Lyle Lumax, 204-525-2263, Swan River, MB. ALTHOUSE HONEY FARMS INC. 1/2 mile south Porcupine Plain, SK. 7 positions required for 2017 season, May to Oct. Wages $13-$18/hr. depending upon experience. Job duties: assisting in spring hive inspection, unwrapping, and splitting, supering, building supers and honey frames, honey removal and extracting, fall feeding, applying mite control and wrapping hives for winter. No education required. WCB coverage. Ph. Ron Althouse 306-278-7345, email: althousehoney@sasktel.net LARGE YEARLING COW/Calf Operation has available a full-time position including family home. Qualifications include: A background in herd health, operation and maintenance of modern equipment, Class 1 and welding experience an asset. Wages and benefits negotiable. Horses not needed. Scott, 306-536-2157, Indian Head, SK. POSITION AVAILABLE, Cypress Hills, SK. area. Background yearling grasser operation and cow/calf. Modern facilities and equipment. Good working environment.

Class 1 preferred. Wages negotiable depending on experience. Ph. 306-295-7473.

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2004 Agco RT100 Tractor, MFD,

The Versatile DeltaTrack is a fully integrated purposebuilt four track system from Versatile. Available in three models 450DT, 500DT and 550DT, the DeltaTrack exceeds the performance and durability of existing track systems. The DeltaTrack is built using the most advanced track design in the agriculture industry and features proven Cummins engine technology, rugged CAT® powershift transmissions, and legendary Versatile reliability and serviceability.

43039

auto

2007 Vermeer 605M Round Baler,

$17,900 Neepawa

5951 hrs, 100 PTO HP, 3 hyd outlets, 540/1000 pto, loader

27570

MFD, utlets,

2005 Hesston 1270 Mower Conditioner, 14’ header

643039

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700381

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2009 Challenger MT865C Tractor, 4360 hrs, 36” tracks, 6 hyd

30,000

outlets, frt weights, controlled drawbar

$259,800 CHOOSE FROM OVER

Elie

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For commercial use only. Customer participation subject to credit qualification and approval by CNH Industrial Capital Canada Ltd. See your participating New Holland dealer for details and eligibility requirements. Down payment may be required. Offer good through {November 30, 2016}. Not all customers or applicants may qualify for this rate or term. CNH Industrial Capital Canada Ltd. standard terms and conditions will apply. Transaction will be unconditionally interest free. Offer subject to change or cancellation without notice. © 2016 CNH Industrial Capital America LLC. All rights reserved. New Holland Agriculture is a trademark registered in the United States and many other countries, owned by or licensed to CNH Industrial N.V., its subsidiaries or affiliates. CNH Industrial Capital is a trademark in the United States and many other countries, owned by or licensed to CNH Industrial N.V., its subsidiaries or affiliates.

USED EQUIPMENT www.agdealer.com/raymorenh

2016 MB FD75-35FT CNH . . . . . . . . . . . . $92,000 2016 MB FD75-35FT CNH . . . . . . . . . . . . $92,000 2016 MB FD75-35FT CNH . . . . . . . . . . . . $92,000 2015 NH 840CD-35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $75,000 2015 NH 840CD-35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $75,000 2015 MB D65-35FT CNH . . . . . . . . . . . . . $67,000 2015 MB D65-35FT CNH . . . . . . . . . . . . . $67,000 2015 MB D65-35FT CNH . . . . . . . . . . . . . $78,000 2015 MB D65-35FT CNH . . . . . . . . . . . . . $67,000

770206

$

78,000

ATV 2009 CK 3100S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,250 Utility Vehicle 2010 NH 115 rustler . . . . . $8,500 Mower Conditioner 2014 NH H7150 . . . $38,900 Mower Conditioner 2013 NH H7460 $39,286 Mower Conditioner 2011 NH H7460 . . . $25,900 Mower/Zero Turn 2012 CK RZT 54 KW $3,650 Deep Tillage 1984 MR CP750. . . . . . . . . .$16,000 Forklift 2006 JC 940 RTFL . . . . . . . . . . . $40,000 Forklift 2004 SX SD 80. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $64,000 Grain Auger 2011 FK 10x70TMMR . . . . . .$10,000 Grain Auger 2011 FK TMR10x70 . . . . . . . . $9,500 Harrow Heavy 2014 BO 7200-84 . . . . . $45,900 Harrow Heavy 2013 BO 6000-90 . . . . . $35,900 Harrow Heavy 2014 MR Field Pro-70 $41,900 Harrow Packer 1998 MR Rangler II . . . .$12,500 759568

$

$

$

59,000

169,000

24,900 $

MISC.

30FT & 18FT Sickle Windrower / Swather, 650hrs, HB30FT HCC Reel, Shears, 896 18FT Hay Head

Pump, Excellent cond., 8” X 83’ SINGLE KNOZZLE, 110 PTO HP

Tractor, 4WD, Excellent cond., BOOMER 47 $27,500 260TLA Loader $7,500 BOOMER 37 $21,900 250

805423

805424

‘16 WATER CANNON 8”X83’

475,000

175,000 $

‘11 New Holland T8.275

Tractor, MFD, 1435hrs, 275HP, 18F/4R POWERSHIFT, 480/80R46 DUALS, 380/85R34 FRONTS

2013 CHLGR WR9740. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $88,000 2012 JD A400-30FT & 18FT Sickle . . . $120,000 1989 JD 590 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,500 2002 MB 2952-36FT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $62,000 1999 MB 9200. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $46,900 2003 NH HW320-25FT/HS16 . . . . . . . . . .$41,000

772465

770207

$

‘96 New Holland 9482

2016 VA 550DT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $490,000 2014 VA 550DT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $395,000 2011 NH T8.275 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$175,000 2010 NH T7040 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $110,000 2003 NH TM140 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $59,900 1998 MF 8160 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $59,900 1996 NH 9482 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $56,000 1995 NH 9480. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65,000

‘12 John Deere A400

Air Cart, Excellent cond.

781371

Tractor, 4WD, 7200hrs, Engine Hours: 7200 Engine Horsepower: 310 20.8R42 Duals Performance Moni

TRACTORS

$

‘11 New Holland P1060 TBH

56,000

790401

2014 JD 4830 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $269,000 2012 NH SP.240F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $250,000 2012 GDYR 380/90R46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call 1994 WM 765HT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$19,000 1993 SCOUP 3630 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23,500 1990 FC SYS 62 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,200

$

c/w 1910TBT Air Drill, DS DRY, LIQUID, SEED BRAKES, BLKG, 430BU CONVEYOR, SECTIONAL

SPRAYERS

804835

$

‘15 John Deere 1870-56FT-12IN

14,900

COMBINE HEADS

274,000

802779

2001 JD 9650STS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $55,000 2016 NH CX8.90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $457,000 2015 NH CX8090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $459,000 2013 NH CX8090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $325,000 2013 NH CX8080 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $344,000 2012 NH CX8080 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $205,000 2012 NH CX8080 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $238,000 1998 NH TR98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $29,000 1990 NH TR86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000

SWATHERS

‘15 Versatile 500DT

Tractor, 4WD, 550HP, Excellent cond., PS, 30” TRACKS, 110GPM, 6 REMOTES, PTO, LUX CAB, GPS

‘15 New Holland Boomer 24

459,000

2009 NH BR7090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,000 2008 NH BR7090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,500 2008 NH BR7090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,900

COMBINES

2013 NH 840CD-35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $67,000 2013 NH 840CD-35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $67,000 2010 NH 94C-42FT CR/CX . . . . . . . . . . . $65,000 2009 JD 635F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $32,000 2009 NH 94C-42FT CR/CX . . . . . . . . . . . $50,000 2008 NH 94C-36FT CR/CX . . . . . . . . . . . $39,000 2003 JD 936 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $29,900 2000 CIH 1042-36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,200

120,000

ROUND BALERS

2007 NH BR780A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,900 2007 NH BR780A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,000 2006 NH BR780A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,900

‘15 MacDon D65-35FT

CNH Header, 35FT, CNH ADAPTER, TRANSPORT, ROCK RETARDER KIT

$

2015 JD 1910 TBT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $139,000 2014 SEMST SXG-604 6012 . . . . . . . . . $205,000 2012 JD 1870-56FT-12IN . . . . . . . . . . . . $135,000 2012 SEMST 8012 CT TXB w/300 Onboard tank and JD1910 . . . $295,000 2012 MR 8650. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $105,000 2011 MR 8370 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $66,429 2011 NH P1060-TBH-MEC . . . . . . . . . . . . $59,000 2010 JD 1910 TBH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $55,000 2009 NH P2070 70FT X 12IN. . . . . . . . . . $65,000 2009 SEMST 5012 TXB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $88,000 2005 MR MAX II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $72,500 2004 SEMST 5440 TBH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $49,000 2002 MR MAXIM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$19,000 2000 FC 5000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$19,000 1998 JD 1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,900 1996 CC AT-4010-5 PLX . . . . . . . . . . . . . $45,900 1984 BO 28-32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,500

‘10 New Holland 94C-42FT

CR/CX Draper Head, 42FT CR/CX, GUAGE WHEELS, SPLIT UII REEL, HYD F/A, HYD TILT

43,000

SEEDING

‘08 New Holland BR7090

Round Baler, Good cond., 1.5M PICK UP, LACED BELTS, 31X13.5-15 TIRES, HYD, PICK UP

409,000

‘15 New Holland 840CD-35FT

746039

$

$

Header, 35FT, TRANSPORT, GUAGE WHEELS, AHHC, X-AUGER

‘13 New Holland CX8090

Combine, 1785hrs, 360HP, Good cond., 900/65R32 Tires, CAST, BLOWERS,76C Swathmaster

718052

89,000

$ Combine, 682hrs, 449HP, Excellent cond., 520 DUALS, CAST, Y&M, SPREADERS, HIDS, 790CP-15FT

‘08 New Holland CX8080

Grain Vac, VRX

59,000

737592

‘15 Rem VRX

$

736273

344,000

733839

‘09 New Holland 94C-40FT

$

Header, Excellent cond., DOUBLE KNIFE DRIVE, 6 BAT UII SPLIT REEL, DOUBLE DRIVE, HYD FORE/AFT

$

$

Air Drill, Excellent cond., 60FT 12IN, TIRE N TIRE, HD FRONT CASTERS, DUAL FRONT WING CA

‘14 SeedMaster CT6012

Air Drill, NH Opener, Double Shoot, Floatation Tires

739591

54,900

$

$

‘09 New Holland P2070 - 70’

700503

13,800

677932

159,000

693358

65,000

618931

Tractor, 25hrs, 450HP, 36” TRACKS, POWERSHIFT REV FAN, HID’S, 110GPM, 6 REMOTES,GPS

Tractor, 15hrs, 500HP, 30” TRACKS, PS, 110GPM 6 REMOTES, PTO, HID, GPS

‘14 Versatile 450DT

‘14 Versatile 500DT

Highway #2 South

Highway #6 North

Highway #10 East

Fax: 306-946-2613

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