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Not exactly

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CDs cite need for multi-benefit water control projects

Western Canada’s wheat-grading system is probably more objective than you think

Flood preparations alone won’t buy a litre of drought protection, say MCDA speakers

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff / Brandon

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o r 4 0 y e a r s We s t e r n Canada’s grain industry has dreamed about the black box — an affordable machine that would take a handful of wheat and quickly and accurately spit out its enduse quality on the elevator driveway.

Like flying cars and cellulosic ethanol, it’s just around the corner, but never arrives.

The black box is seldom raised now, but the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) and Alberta Wheat Commission are calling for an “objective” wheat-grading system, especially for falling number (see sidebar on page 7), a measure of bread-making quality, and determining levels of the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON).

But by calling for a more “objective” testing the WCWGA seems to be implying the current system is “subjective.”

The CGC says it will use instrument testing if practical, but adds the current system is not only objective, but able to take into account degrading factors no machine currently can.

And even though inspectors aren’t testing grain, the grades assigned based on appearance, are

Local projects for multi-beneficial water management were cited by staff with Seine-Rat River Conservation District speaking at the 42nd annual Manitoba Conservation Districts Association convention in December. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

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BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff / Brandon

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ill there be flooding? Will there be drought?

Planning for both is essential to help ward off the financial hits these weather extremes bring, speakers at last month’s Manitoba Conservation Districts Association convention said.

In the Seine-Rat River Conservation District (SRRCD) they’re looking at ways to be ready for whatever climate change brings, and to convince ratepayers of the financial necessity of doing so, said its manager.

“We’re trying to see if we can’t come up with a flood and drought adaptation plan... and the economics behind it,” Jodi Goertzen, the SRRCD’s district man-

ager told the 42nd annual convention of the Manitoba Conservation Districts Association.

“We’re working with the RM of Hanover because they have ideal locations that keep washing out that they would like to retain water on,” she said.

“We’re trying to figure out what’s the cost to them to do it so they can then show their ratepayers a cost analysis of doing nothing as opposed to the cost of retention.”

What they know already is that water control projects cost upwards of $200,000 but fixing and repairing roads and washed-out basements will run up bills in the millions, she said.

Ultimately, SRRCD wants to be able to make an economic argument for the merits for water holdbacks across all municipalities the SRRCD covers, she added.

Getting in front of all types of climate change risk was the key message by other presenters at last month’s convention, focused on a theme of ‘the economy of the environment.’

A preview If you want an idea of what climate change looks like think of 2011, Hank Venema, the director of the International Institutes for Sustainable Development’s Sustainable Natural Resources Management program told the Brandon conference.

Within a matter of weeks that year an intense period of precipitation and flooding flipped over to very dry conditions.

“I’m told that some sections of land See MCDA on page 6 »

INNOVATION EXPLOSION: IT’S ABOUT TO HIT THE FARM » PAGE 3

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Nitrogen reduction not the path

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f you take the nitrogen out of the equation for lake algal blooms it turns out you really haven’t changed things at all.

According to researchers at the Experimental Lakes Area, operated by Winnipeg’s International Institute for Sustainable Development, that’s because many of the algae responsible for the harmful blooms can turn around and fix their nitrogen from the air. Instead, they say you would need to concentrate on limiting phosphorus loading into the surface water bodies.

This is according to a recently published article in Springer’s Ecosystems journal that presents the results of a 46-year whole-ecosystem experiment.

Since 1969, researchers have been artificially manipulating a lake by adding varying amounts of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus to investigate the nutrients responsible for algal blooms.

Throughout the experiment, researchers have been continually adding phosphorus.

A photo taken by a drone of lake 227 at IISD Experimental Lakes Area where the experiment on eutrophication has been taking place since 1969. PHOTO: IISD

However, 40 years ago, researchers began reducing the amount of nitrogen they were adding to the lake, and from 1990-2013, they cut artificial nitrogen loading to zero. Despite these dramatic cuts in nitrogen loading, algal blooms continued to cover the lake.

“We have been researching the role of artificial nitrogen in algal blooms for almost 50

years now, and these latest results clearly demonstrate that ceasing nitrogen loading into lakes has little effect on the size or duration of algal blooms,” said Scott Higgins, lead author on the paper.

The research team says the study clearly shows that phosphorus should be the key target when tackling the issue, especially with limited resources.

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Explosion of innovation coming to the farm The chief technology officer for Monsanto Co. says the interface between data and biology will be a powerful tool

Hog Days celebrated in Brandon Dec. 14 marked the return of Manitoba’s Hog and Livestock Days, a biennial show highlighting the pork sector

BY Alexis Stockford Co-operator staff

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here is an explosion of innovation coming to the farm as a new age of sensors and satellite imagery intersects with the world’s oldest industry, the executive vicepresident and chief technology office for Monsanto Co. says.

Robb Fraley, who was in Calgary recently to address the GrowCanada Conference, said in an interview that although agriculture is the world’s most important industry, it is also the least modernized.

Investments in research and development are well below the amount spent by the communications, pharmaceutical and energy sectors. What investment there is, is fragmented, he said.

“I had my team look up all the different agriculture and food companies around the world; they quit after 4,000, so it’s a very fragmented industry that needs to consolidate,” Fraley said.

Fraley, recognized as one of the founders of genetically modified crops, noted Mon­s anto spends about US$1.5 billion annually on research and investment in advanced plant breeding, micro­­bials and digital data management tools.

“I look at what we spend in the digital ag space and then I look at what an Amazon or a Google spends... they’re spending US$10 billion to US$12 billion. Pharmaceutical companies are spending US$8 billion to US$10 billion,” he noted.

But Fraley said times are changing as digital technology becomes more commonplace in agricultural systems, allowing scientists and farmers to make better decisions more quickly.

“I think what is so exciting about being in agriculture today is we’re seeing a wave of startup companies coming and lots of innovations,” he said. “I’m talking thousands of new startup companies in this space.”

In addition, established companies are merging and recapitalizing. Monsanto and Bayer are merging, as are Dow Agro­ Sciences and DuPont Pioneer.

Syngenta has been purchased

by ChemChina.

Fraley disagrees with critics who have said the mega-mergers could lead to less investment because they remove competition from the market­place.

“The outcome of that is going to be that they are going to be able to

Robb Fraley is the executive vicepresident and chief technology officer for Monsanto Co. Photo: Laura Rance

invest in more research and development,” he said, noting the digital tools used by scientists today vastly increase the scale and pace of innovation.

Monsanto subsidiary Climate­ Corp launched its FieldView platform in Western Canada this year.

“I think once farmers see these tools and get the benefits, it’s going to move really, really quickly,” Fraley said.

The digital platforms not only help farmers control costs and improve productivity, they help farmers make better environmental decisions, a benefit he predicts will resonate with the non-farming public.

As well, Fraley said the public has already embraced the digital revolution, whereas the first products of the biotechnological revolution a quarter-century ago were harder for the general public to grasp.

As a result, he said the introduction of innovations such as vitamin A-enhanced Golden Rice that could vastly reduce blindness in Third World countries has been delayed.

Fraley said it’s important going forward that the industry get both the science and the communications strategy right, because ongoing innovation is necessary to ensure food security while improving the environmental footprint of farming.

“We did a great job on the science but we did a miserable job on the communication,” he said.

“The good news is we have the opportunity to tell that story differently and better.

“There’s a real opportunity as we all become better with our public communications and particularly our digital communications I think to reposition the tools of modern agriculture so that people have both an understanding and an appreciation,” Fraley said. laura@fbcpublishing.com

t was all about the pigs in Brandon.

Manitoba’s Hog and Live­ stock Days, more commonly known as Hog Days, returned to the Keystone Centre Dec. 14.

The biennial show was last held in 2015.

The pork-specific trade show was up about 25 exhibitors, bringing participation up to 135 booths.

“In two years, a lot of changes can take place with companies and I think that it’s amazing that we’ve had 135 this year and people come and ask if they could be part of the 2019 show, so that’s very good,” organizing committee member Rhonda Coupland said.

Participants and exhibitors ranged from within the province to as far away as Alberta and into the U.S. As in previous years, the day split exhibitors between equipment providers, service providers and resources and education such as ongoing research.

Coupland says the split has stayed constant between shows although topics of conversation — such as PEDv this year — might shift as industry issues change.

“The purpose of Hog Days is to put everybody in a building with all of the industry people and all of the exhibitors who have something to offer,” she said.

Hog Days has dropped from two days to one day in recent years. The change is less flexible for exhibitors, Coupland said, but argues that the current format is more time effective and concentrates turnout.

“We found (with) two days, by the second day it was very quiet, so I think going to one day has been really positive,” she said.

Bringing home the bacon Producers once again vied for bragging rights, plus trophies and prize money, during the event’s pork quality competition.

Thirty-two entries came in from across southern Manitoba, more than 2015.

“Normally, we get 30 or less, but this year we surpassed that and we are very fortunate,” said Ron Bazylo, industry development specialist with Manitoba Agriculture.

Among other areas, carcasses were evaluated on weight, back fat, quality of the loin eye prime cut, colour, texture and marbling. Judging is blind to eliminate bias.

Equipment dealers pitch to potential new customers during the 2017 Hog Days in Brandon Dec. 14. PhotoS: Alexis Stockford

St. François Xavier’s Barrickman Colony accepts its second-place trophy and $3,000 from the 2017 Hog Days pork quality competition.

“The people who enter this competition, the quality is extremely high because they’re only allowed to enter two hogs and, of course, they pick the best two in the barn,” Bazylo said.

Waldheim Colony near Elie took the top prize with 70 points out of a possible 100, followed closely by Barrickman Colony near St. François Xavier with 68 points.

Barrickman Colony’s Mike Hofer was visibly excited by the result.

“It’s awesome. It feels awesome. I just don’t know what to say,” he said.

Waldheim Colony was not available for comment.

Miami’s Skyview Colony, meanwhile, claimed third with 66 points out of 100.

“It’s a show and it’s a bit of excitement involved and it’s fun, actually, to do it and participate, even if you don’t win,” Skyview Colony’s Peter Hofer said.

Entering the competition was a last-minute decision for the Miami colony, he added.

Yield points, weight points, belly points and texture all rated high this year, judge Bob McKay told entrants, although colour, marbling and loin eye points significantly brought scores down.

Prize money gave $5,000 to first, $3,000 to second and $2,000 for third-place carcasses.

Winners will only see half of that money however. The other half is earmarked for a charity of the winner’s choice. Boundary Trails Health Centre, Winnipeg Children’s Hospital and St. Boniface General Hospital will receive $1,000, $1,500 and $2,500 respectively.

“That’s what we’ve been doing for the last 15 years when we’re winning stuff like that,” Mike Hofer said. “It goes to Children’s Hospital.”

Skyview Colony chose its nearest major hospital to receive the funds.

“They also receive a trophy and they’re fairly large trophies,” Bazylo said. “They keep these trophies and they can show them off in their operations and I’ve seen them on various operations and they’re pretty proud of their accomplishment.”

The prize-winning carcasses will also go to charity. Thea Dennis, executive director for Samaritan’s Purse, collected a voucher for the meat Dec. 14.

Attention now turns to Hog Days 2019, also in Brandon. astockford@farmmedia.com

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OPINION/EDITORIAL

No fake news here

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he tree is now down, the fruit cake all eaten So it’s time for our annual New Year’s greetin’ On the past year’s news we offer reflection And give a glimpse of the future direction Plus offer valuable free farming advice On what to grow, and when to sell at top price

John Morriss

For a while Manitoba farmers were getting a little bit pouty After several years of deluge, things almost seemed droughty But when it came time to get the grain cart to the tractor connected Many found the yields were much higher than expected Was it good management, or because new varieties yield so good?

With the price of seed these days, they sure as heck should We’re now told that farmers who make the best decisions Are the ones who’ve adopted an agriculture called “precision” Instead of just spreading fertilizer and seed willy-nilly You place a bit more (or is it less?) where it’s salty or hilly You’re not sure? Then don’t worry, that’s no longer a factor ’Cause these days you’re not the one who’s driving the tractor Big Data will decide, so with auto steer and other such tricks You can just climb in the cab and watch movies on Netflix This gave the guy who runs Seedmaster the thought To develop a new system that he calls the DOT If you don’t need a driver, then the cab’s not a factor If you don’t need either of those, then you don’t need a tractor All you need is an engine which onto your seeder you hitch it When it’s time to cultivate or spray, you just need to switch it Instead of old two-cylinder Deeres, with a new coat of paint Big 4WDs will soon be lawn decorations; we’ll say they look quaint I’ve watched U.S. politics for so many years that I can’t recall But I can say for sure that the past year Trumped them all The Donald loves to get cheers when he gives speeches defiant To Wisconsin farmers saying NAFTA’s not fair-trade compliant But kill the deal? Their dairy lobby now says “Not so much, it “Turns out Mexico’s now our biggest customer, we’d better not touch it” And when you take total U.S. ag buyers, and put them in order Who comes out on top? That country north of their border I don’t know about you, but I would find it quite nifty If I never hear another speech about growing enough for 2050 It seems that those giving these speeches don’t seem to know That the world’s full of grain with no place to go I think the first time I heard a panic about food stock decline Was at a grain outlook meeting back in 1979 But while grain prices since then have moved nary a ripple Due to inflation now everything else costs at least triple Instead of hearing about growing crops 33 years off, it Would be nicer to hear about growing this year’s at a profit I can’t think of anything more profitable in this part of the nation Than the introduction of canola to the Prairie rotation But because for extra cash farmers are sometimes a bit needy They make the canola rotation a little too speedy Whether it’s rumour or fact, I’m not sure that I know But I’ve heard some farmers rotate canola and snow Meaning more sclerotinia and blackleg; which while annoying Aren’t like clubroot, which can be whole-crop destroying So unless we want the whole canola industry to be toast Farmers need to stick to one in four at the most “Then what should I grow instead?” I hear you inquiring You’ve come to the right place if advice you’re desiring I’ve taken another internet course, and sent in my $19.95 fee So I now have my certificate which makes me an Ag Analyst PhD The first step is to examine each of your fields And this year rotate to something else to ensure higher yields Then go to town for coffee and ask your neighbours “Which crop is it “Best to plant this year?” Then make sure that you do the opposite If you plant wheat, some varieties I advise to be wary of ’em Make sure you buy ones that have high protein, and without fusarium Should you plant barley? Certainly — I wouldn’t be halting Just be sure that you buy the kind of seed that goes malting Canola? Well, there’s so many these days, it might be just as smart To pull out the seed guide and just throw a dart Should you grow that soon-legal tall crop, which once was tut-tutted?

I don’t think so — I predict the market will be pretty soon glutted Now most market advisers tell you that it’s foolish to seek The top of the market and always sell at the peak They’re just charging you a fee to clear your own conscience By blaming the wrong timing on them; I just call that nonsense How to sell at the top? Well, go back for coffee and inquire If the neighbours are selling or holding for higher That’s the best way for the top of the market to pick If all the neighbours are still holding, then sell your grain quick No more room for advice, so best wishes for a great year in farming With no drought or diseases or critters alarming May your insecticide sprayers stay parked without use May your calves all squirt out like poop from a goose Once again, best wishes from all of us here For good crops and good prices, and Happy New Year!

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Grandmother’s quilt, Grandfather’s ghost

BY ALAN GUEBERT Farm & Food

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slightly frayed, white and peach-trimmed quilt now lays unfolded on one of our spare beds. Twenty-nine of its 30 squares each feature the carefully stitched name of one member of the Ladies Aid of Immanuel Lutheran Church in rural Rising City, Neb. The stitching on the quilt’s 30th and final block, also in peach and positioned in the bottom right corner, is testament to its making. It reads: “Aug 1914 Nov 1936.”

Neither I nor anyone I know can explain the “Aug 1914” date. My mother, however, knows exactly what “Nov 1936” means. It was the month and year she, her three siblings, and parents left Nebraska to return to their native Illinois after Grandpa lost his 160-acre, Butler County farm to hard times.

But that black stain can’t be seen in the quilt.

What comes through clearly, though, is its many names. They are sturdy, solid names like Etta Bauer, Maggie Buck, Anna Poppe, and Eda Hahn.

Sturdy and solid, I suspect, because during the awful, terrible year of 1936, that was all they had left. Throughout it, however, the ladies brought their needles, thimbles, and love to their country church to make my grandmother a treasured keepsake.

And these solid, sturdy workers — Alice Klingemann, Esther Glock, Mattie Hoeft, and Anna Ditmar — were modest because they reserved the very centre of the quilt for the block that carries my grandmother’s solid, sturdy name, Lottie Hanebutt. It floats amid her neighbours’ names: Cente Glock, Metta Jaenike, Frieda Voss, Emma Hinze, Agnes Hinze.

Most of those last names can still be found at Immanuel today. They are chiselled into grey granite and white marble and they stand sturdy and solid still.

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Only my mother remains to remember the site of her family’s Depression farm and her memories are mostly of a hungry little girl tired of meal after meal of flour pancakes and cabbage. She never looked back or went back.

I did, however, and through coincidence and uncanny luck, was able to talk with the sons of two of the quilt’s makers. Both knew the exact location of the farm my grandparents operated until their lives, like most of American agriculture, unravelled in the 1930s. A stop at the county courthouse yielded an aerial photograph of the farmstead before most of its buildings were razed decades ago to grow corn no one needed then or now.

Three buildings remain: a cobweb-filled livestock barn, a drive-through corncrib, and a sagging, weathered brooder house. None have held anything other than mice and raccoons since Berlin, not Mexico, had a wall.

As I look around, sparse clouds begin to stack against the eastern horizon and a cold wind finds its way through the neglected shelterbelt.

A passing shadow, slight and quick moving like my grandfather, sends a chill through me and the pain the land still holds hits my chest like a hammer.

I look to the east to see, just a mile away, the church where the quilting ladies of Immanuel had, more than three generations ago, gathered in warmth and love despite the swirling dust and growing fear. Sunlight strikes the white building to make it look like a dove resting.

Was this the last image my grandfather saw as he walked off his lost farm 81 years ago? I hope so. Did he cry as he left or was he simply empty after watering the land with years of sweat and tears? I don’t know.

I do know, however, that I will never return to where he still walks.

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

January 1975

he map of the rail network in Western Canada looked a lot more like spaghetti in 1975. In our January 2 issue, we reported that the federal government had announced the basic rail network of 12,413 miles would be protected until 2000, and that 6,283 miles would be reviewed. It was later announced that would be by a Royal Commission under former Supreme Court Justice Emmett Hall.

The grain market was still feeling the effects of low world production and the massive Soviet purchases under the “Great Grain Robbery” in 1972, and we reported that Manitoba farm cash receipts in 1974 were a record $825 million. The wheat board had announced record final payments, bringing the return for No. 1 CWRS to $4.57 per bushel, which is $20.07 in current dollars.

However, yields were lower. A Statistics Canada report issued that month said average Prairie wheat yields for 1974 were 23.2 bushels on summerfallow and 17.6 bushels on stubble.

Later that month we reported on a report by a Manitoba legislature special committee on farmland ownership.

It said that non-resident ownership increased land prices and threatened the family farm. “The price of farmland has risen to the point where it is impossible to purchase a farm for any person who does not have very substantial financial means,” the report said, adding that it had made it difficult for young people to start farming or to take over from the previous generation.

That month the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange announced that it had indefinitely cancelled its beef futures contract for lack of interest. The contract had been introduced four years earlier.

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COMMENT/FEEDBACK

Not sufficient for gains to outweigh losses in trade

By Harwood D. Schaffer and Daryll E. Ray Policy Pennings

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ne of the surprise issues of the 2016 U.S. election was trade policy. For decades Republicans and some Democrats have supported a succession of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements including the pending TransPacific Partnership (TPP) agreement which includes the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations. Opposition to these agreements traditionally was concentrated among Democrats who represented areas with significant union membership.

This time around, both major candidates for president opposed trade agreements arguing that they did not adequately protect those whose employment was negatively affected by these agreements. When the TPP was signed in October 2015, it was expected that it would be ratified by the U.S. in early 2016.

After experiencing resistance in the first part of the year, conventional wisdom held that it would be brought up and ratified during the lame-duck session between the election and the swearing in of the new president and Congress. Given the opposition to the TPP by both presidential candidates, the TPP was off the table during the lame-duck session of Congress.

In agriculture, as in the industrial sector, there have been winners and losers and the winners have not compensated the losers.

With NAFTA, we saw U.S. corn flood across the Mexican border undercutting limited-resource Mexican farmers who depended on the sale of corn for human consumption for their livelihood. With few

opportunities for local employment, many of these farmers and their family members crossed the border looking for employment and a better life in the U.S. Ironically, the U.S.-Mexican corn trade did not result in lower tortilla prices in Mexico. For the U.S., it also did not result in increased total corn exports. Corn exports remained below the 1979-81 peak. In addition, the U.S. balance of trade for primary agricultural products with Canada and Mexico has averaged -$3.5 billion per year between 2006 and 2015. If manufactured food products are added into the calculation, the balance of trade for all agriculture averaged -$2.2 billion per year over the same period.

In particular, trade negotiators often put grain producers front and centre to help promote trade agreements but, when put into effect, the agreements seldom improve grains’ contribution to a positive U.S. balance of payments.

In our discussion of agricultural trade, we are not talking about items that a country cannot produce or cannot produce in quantities sufficient to meet domestic demand. In the U.S. we need to import agricultural products like bananas, mangoes, cocoa, coffee, and tea. But, it doesn’t take a trade agreement to open the market for those products; importing countries usually don’t put tariffs on products they cannot produce.

Our concern about agricultural trade policy centres around the issue of timely market adjustment in crop (not simply grain) production in the U.S. and around the world. How do you make free trade policies for a sector that does not make the timely adjustments in the quantities supplied and demanded that are central to the free market rationale? In addition,

what should agricultural trade policies look like in countries where agriculture provides employment for a large portion of the population and industrial employment is not sufficient to provide a livelihood for those moving off the land?

It seems to us that once we agree that aggregate agriculture is characterized by market failure, it makes little sense to impose the same trading rules on agriculture as for other economic sectors. It makes even less sense to expect for farmers of a nation to believe that we will give them access to markets in developed countries in exchange for accepting developed country rules for intellectual property rights.

Agriculture was once placed outside the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade because world leaders understood that agriculture was distinct from other economic sectors and required different rules.

Over the years, many began to believe that agriculture was no longer as distinct as it once was and it should be governed by the same rules as other products. As a result, the Agreement on Agriculture, which brought agriculture into the same trade agreement structure as other products, was negotiated as a part of the pro­ cess that brought about the World Trade Organization in 1995.

We are of the opinion that agriculture is different and agricultural trade should be negotiated separately from other sectors that do not face the kind of market adjustment problems that characterize agriculture.

The cheapest agricultural production in the world may be the most environmentally damaging. And because agriculture is a major user of land, the need to protect the environment should be taken into account in establishing trade policies.

As we have seen with Mexico, changes in agricultural policy can have a dramatic impact on local employment in importing countries. Certainly countries will want to consider the employment factor in any agricultural agreement they sign.

Free trade may make cheap food widely available, but for a billion or more people food is still too costly. What they need is: a) access to land on which they can produce their own food, b) access to stable employment that will enable them to purchase the food they need for themselves and their families, or c) policies that directly provide them with the food they need. Agricultural trade policies must take employment consequences into consideration and recognize the right to food as a basic human right.

To help deal with these issues, Via Campesina has argued for food sovereignty. According to the February 27, 2007 Declaration of Nyéléni, “Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.”

We believe that national governments need to take the livelihood of their citizens into consideration in any trade agreement, agricultural or otherwise. If we heard right, that issue was at the heart of the anti-trade sentiment expressed in the last presidential campaign.

Policy Pennings is a weekly column on agriculture policy issues co-authored by Dr. Harwood D. Schaffer, director, of the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Policy Analysis Center and Dr. Daryll E. Ray, retired director, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center.

A rural view of the KPMG provincial review

BY LONNIE PATTERSON

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here has been much discussion and analysis of the PMG Manitoba Fiscal Performance Review recently released by the provincial government.

However, the potential impacts that will occur in rural and remote Manitoba communities, if some of the review’s recommendations are implemented, have not yet been part of the dialogue. The review itself fails to recognize the realities of delivering public services across our province’s vast geography and into places with low population densities.

As the review characterizes it, there are “areas of opportunity to bend the cost curve” across government, some of them directly related to delivering services to rural and remote Manitobans. In this piece, I will highlight some policy recommendations that require much more analysis, with a specific focus on how rural and remote Manitoba could be impacted.

One of the review’s overarching themes relates to taking advantage of opportunities to change service delivery and reduce the costs per client served by, for example, using the internet and social media as alternatives to publishing advertisements in newspapers, and co-locating departments in rural/remote communities in order to “rationalize real estate.”

Emphasis on this theme neglects to point out that not all public services can be delivered online; internet and cellular coverage in rural/remote areas is patchy and unreliable. There can also be more costs associated with providing front-line services to Manitobans living far away from urban centres in communities with small populations, such as transportation and fewer people per front-line worker. It

is unclear from the review or the province how these important factors will be taken into consideration as changes to service delivery are implemented for the sake of “bending the cost curve.”

Funding to educate rural and remote students from kindergarten to post-secondary is very much at risk if recommendations are implemented to the existing funding model. In the K-12 system, eliminating the formula guarantee, freezing transportation funding, and eliminating the class size initiative are measures that will cut education funding for rural and remote communities.

The annual FRAME Report provides a detailed accounting of how education funding was spent across divisions.

According to the 2016-17 report, 19 of the 22 school divisions that received the formula guarantee were located in rural or remote Manitoba. In addition, rural and remote divisions by far spend more per pupil on transportation costs than their urban counterparts. Fuel price increases significantly impact their budgets. For example, the 2016 cost per pupil for transportation in the Frontier School Division was $1,867, while it was $220 in the Winnipeg School Division. Finally, rolling back the K-3 class size initiative will result in the loss of teaching positions, which are good jobs in rural and remote communities.

A 2011 Senate report on post-secondary education in Canada identifies students from rural and remote areas as a specific under-represented group. These students also incur higher housing and transportation costs, possibly leading to higher student debt upon graduation.

The KPMG review highlights two areas in the post-secondary education system as opportunities for spending reductions

that will make repaying education-related debt for rural and remote students more difficult: the elimination of the tuition tax credit, which has already taken place, and the possible reintroduction of interest in Province of Manitoba student loans. Both of these measures were aimed at decreasing students’ financial burden, putting graduates on a better financial footing so they could make investments such as purchasing a home or buying RRSPs earlier in their career.

KPMG’s recommendations for the Department of Families suggest opportunities for cost savings in two main program areas: adult disability services and employment, income and rent assistance.

There is a potential for vulnerable people living in rural and remote Manitoba to suffer greatly if reductions are made to these programs without a geographical lens.

There are nearly 20 municipalities in rural Manitoba where the population is growing and there is a higher-than-average level of poverty, which means that there are barriers to these individuals leaving their communities to access education or find jobs. Some of these individuals, as well as those living in other rural and remote communities, receive support from one or both of these program areas and will be acutely impacted if cost per client is the only criteria used as government considers cost reductions.

Rural municipalities could experience a direct financial impact with respect to infrastructure and policing costs. The review suggests investigating whether municipalities are in a better position to manage low-volume highways and agriculture drains, as well as a review of policing agreements to find efficiencies. The review suggests looking at the

long-term viability of organizations that receive funding through Sport, Culture, and Heritage, as well as the province’s role in supporting them.

How will viability be defined? Will this analysis take into account that viability in a community of 1,000 is more challenging than a community of over 700,000?

Will these organizations turn to their local municipal governments for support if provincial funding is reduced? These questions and more should be incorporated into the province’s decision-making process.

The fact that the geography of our province is vast and diverse must be considered by the province as they decide whether or not to act on recommendations in the KPMG review. Efforts to reduce government’s cost per client must take into account added costs of delivering services outside of cities and limits to current broadband and cellular infrastructure.

Reduced funding for education, less support from the Department of Families for those struggling with a disability or living on a low income, and downloading infrastructure to municipalities are recommendations that, if implemented as recommended, are poised to have a direct, negative impact on rural and remote Manitobans.

Over half of the PC caucus, nine of whom are members of Premier Pallister’s cabinet, represent rural or remote constituencies. These MLAs have an important job making sure that their constituents do not suffer in their government’s efforts to “bend the cost curve.”

Lonnie Patterson has a master of rural development from Brandon University and currently represents the South Centre Ward on Brandon city council.

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Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) inspection specialist Usman Mohammad demonstrates how inspectors use CGC grade standard samples to assist in grading grain consistently. PHOTOs: ALLAN DAWSON grading system Continued from page 1

connected to previous and ongoing testing by the CGC’s Grain Research Laboratory.

“We always tie it back to the science,” CGC inspection specialist Usman Mohammad told a grain-grading school organized by the Manitoba Wheat & Barley and Manitoba Canola Growers associations here Dec. 7.

For example Asked for an example, Moham­ mad said: “A test has shown that light and moderate mildew, there is no impact on end use, so we can literally increase the amount of heavy mildew into a sample (without lowering the grade).”

The CGC’s Western Grains Standards Committee (WGSC), which represents the grain supply chain, including farmers, recommended the change for mildew in 2016.

Similar tests are done on other degrading factors affecting milling and baking functionality such as frost/heat stress, midge damage and hard vitreous kernels.

To assist CGC and grain elevator inspectors alike with visually grading, the CGC prepares samples of wheat displaying specific degrading factors.

“Elevators should have these for comparison purposes,” Mohammad said. “They shouldn’t be applying a grade if they don’t have these tools.

“Even the most seasoned inspectors will use the tools.

“That is why we create them — to have consistency across the country — everybody is comparing it against the exact same tool.”

It takes four years of training to be a CGC grain inspector, he said.

Mildew is one of many degrading factors. It’s caused by fungi

“We always tie it back to the science.”

Usman Mohammad

under high moisture conditions in standing mature wheat, giving kernels a grey appearance.

“It’s not a health concern,” Can­­adian International Grains Institute (Cigi) technician Robyn Makowski told the meeting.

“It doesn’t produce any toxins, but it can… decrease your flour yields. But the main issue is that it affects the esthetics of the flour and the end products that are made with it.”

Nuances important Even if a machine could assess mildew, it couldn’t distinguish nuances around severity or frequency, Mohammad said. For example, most kernels in a sample might have a light amount of mildew, but on almost every kernel. Another sample might have a high amount of mildew, but only on a small percentage of kernels.

“That’s where with inspectors, your knowledge and experience comes in,” he said.

Frost and heat stress cause similar damage in wheat. The impact of both hinges on wheat maturity, the temperature and how long it was very hot or cold, Makowski said.

“The big thing is the decreased baking performance and decreased handling properties,” she said.

Harder kernels are damaged more when milled. Some damage is needed for water absorption, but too much can result in too much absorption making dough sticky and difficult to handle, she said.

Fusarium head blight is a fungal disease, and unlike mildew, can cause mycotoxins (DON).

Tolerances vary among countries.

The disease can also produce thin, chalky kernels, which have a negative effect on wheat protein, starch, test weight and milling and baking, she said.

Falling down Sprouting, which is sometimes accompanied by mildew, affects alpha amylase, an enzyme in wheat that converts starches to sugars. It also results in too much carbon dioxide in the breadmaking process, producing holes inside the bread, Makowski said.

Extra sugars can also caramelize resulting in white bread turning brown.

To measure the potential impact of higher levels of alpha amylase, flour and water are mixed in a slurry and the time it takes for a plunger to drop through it is measured. That’s the falling number. The faster the plunger falls, the poorer the bread-making quality is.

The minimum falling number is 250 seconds.

“Unfortunately if we have sprout damage and low falling numbers there’s not much that can be done,” Makowski said. We can try to blend it out but a very small amount of sprouted sample can ruin the whole batch.

“Unfortunately when we have sprout damage it is difficult to work with it.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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were under flood insurance and drought insurance claims in the same year,” he said.

Such a year — and the prospect of more ahead — shows the need to find ways to stretch the water budget across a longer period of time, he said.

Flood protection remains very important, but it’s also important to realize raising dikes a n d d i s c h a r g i n g m o re water “doesn’t buy a litre of drought protection,” Venema said. “ We need a different style of infrastructure to deal with these kinds of risks.”

Venema is also director of planning with the Prairie C l i m a t e Ce n t re w h i c h last year released a series of online maps projecting how Western Canada would be affected by heat and precipitation under various climate change scenarios.

Texas North Under worst-case scenarios by about 2065 this area will experience as many as 45 to 50 days of +30 C summer temperatures, making this a climate similar to that of the present-day Texas panhandle. If projections on future precipitation prove correct that dry season will also follow intensely wet springs.

That’s a climate scenario that makes developing distributive water management systems that provide flood and drought protection as well as other ecosystems services essential, he said.

“What we can reasonably project is we’re going to have a slug of water in the early part of the growing season, and we’re going to have to stretch that hydrological budget across a longer, hotter, drier growing season,” he said.

Moreover, projects that keep water on the land will also produce a host of spinoff benefits beyond flood mitigation, to nutrient recycling, and renewable energy production, and GHG reductions, he said.

In action The Pelly’s Lake Watershed Management Project, on a site near Holland, Man. in the La Salle Redboine Conservation District is a very good example of a surface water management

“We need a different style of infrastructure to deal with these kinds of risks.”

Hank Venema director of planning with the Prairie Climate Centre

system built to produce these multiple benefits, he said.

The 640-acre site includes two water-retention structures that hold back spring run-off equivalent to onethird of the Stephenfield Lake Reser voir, releasing it gradually beginning in June which serves as a late-season recharge for the reservoir. The lowlying site produces abundant cattails which are now harvested and burned as biofuel. The removal of the biomass is also preventing phosphorus from washing downstream to Lake Winnipeg.

“You’re harvesting water, probably one of the most ancient technologies in the world,” Venema said.

M a n i t o b a’s C l i m a t e and Green Plan has this approach in mind in its proposed surface watershed approach, with Manitoba’s 18 conservation districts, to be renamed watershed districts, playing a key role.

Growing demand The Green Plan also includes a new Growing Outcomes for Watersheds (GROW ) program for Manitoba, designed after the Alternative Land Use Services program, to be delivered in partnerships with landowners, non-governmental organizations, CDs and governments.

Goertzen spoke of how key those partnerships are, citing various successes SRRCD has had constructing water control projects.

Key to the future will always involve winning over landowners, she said.

In SRRCD some were completely opposed initially to water retention programs, but ultimately changed their tune once they saw the good that came from them. Nowadays the SRRCD is regularly pressed to do more water control programs, Goertzen said.

“We need more. There’s huge demand for it.” lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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Falling number, objective grain-grading debate not new The grain industry explored machine testing more than a decade ago

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

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alls for “objective” grain grading on the elevator driveway, especially for falling number, have been around for years, ebbing and flowing with the quality of the wheat crop.

These days it’s the Alberta Grain Commission and Western C a n a d i a n W h e a t G r ow e r s Association ( WCWGA) advocating for the change. They say since grain companies sell wheat to customers based on falling number and DON levels, grain companies should buy from farmers the same way to ensure fair farmer payments.

Thirteen years ago it was t h e Ke y s t o n e A g r i c u l t u ra l Producers (KAP) and the now defunct Canadian Wheat Board, an organization the WCWGA seldom agreed with, making the case.

KAP passed a resolution in 2004 calling on the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) to use falling number instead of sprout damage as a grading factor.

“We have an issue,” then KAP president David Rolfe told the association’s general council meeting in Brandon Oct. 25, 2004. “We’re not getting the true return on what we’re growing.”

Falling number is calculated by recording the time it takes a plunger to fall in a test tube containing a slurry of water and wheat flour. The faster the plunger falls, the lower the viscosity of the solution and the poorer the bread-making quality.

Falling number is an internationally recognized proxy for determining alpha amylase, an enzyme that affects bread making.

In 2005 the Canadian Wheat Board agreed machine testing for alpha amylase at elevators should replace sprout damage when grading wheat.

Later that year the CGC and grain companies started a pilot project to assess how well Rapid Visco Analyzers in elevators, measured alpha amylase “ We are ver y committed to moving forward on it (on machine testing), but we also want to make sure the technology is accurate so producers get paid fairly,” then CGC chief commissioner Chris Hamblin said in an interview.

If the pilot went well RVA machines could replace sprout damage when determining wheat grades starting August 1, 2006, she said.

The pilot showed machines were inaccurate, at least in an elevator setting as opposed to a laboratory, and also expensive at about $50,000 each. (There were more elevators back then than now too.)

As a result the CGC stuck with sprout damage as a grading factor.

In 2009 the CGC proposed testing an improved RVA — the StarchMaster2 — in elevators.

They came with special wheat grinders and robotics designed to work better in a grain elevator and produce more accurate

results. But the project fizzled out.

“We’re not adverse to making the change when the technology has proven itself,” Western Grain Elevator Association e x e c u t i v e d i r e c t o r Wa d e Sobkowich, said in a 2009 interview. “We just don’t want to get ahead of ourselves and make a change like that without having reliable tools available.” Sprout damage and the falling number test are only “indicators” of wheat flour quality, but so is the RVA test, he added.

“At least visual sprout is fast and it can be done cheaply at an elevator when you deliver and it’s (results) repeatable,” Sobkowich said. “One inspector can visually inspect sprout damage and a second and third inspector would come up with the same result.”

KAP passed a resolution in 2004 calling on the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) to use falling number instead of sprout damage as a grading factor.

Rapid Visco Analyzers are just one small step towards the longed-for ‘black box’ for grain testing.

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The machine test is better, Lawrence Klusa, the CWB’s quality control manager, said in a 2009 interview.

“The correlation between v i s i b l e s p ro u t a n d f a l l i n g number is weak so we don’t always get what we need (to meet sales),” he said.

Grain companies do the wheat marketing now and are meeting customers’ falling number specifications, Sobkowich, said in an interview Dec. 21, 2017.

Some years elevators test bins for falling number to ensure exports meet customer specification, he added. The WGEA is willing to explore machine tests in elevators as part of the CGC’s review of grain grading, but added it will only add cost without generating more money for farmers collectively.

But he also stands by his 2009 comments about the benefits of visually assessing sprout damage. It’s quick, inexpensive and not subjective in that the results are repeatable, Sobkowich said. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The ins and outs of mycotoxins and mould in feed Ruminant nutritionist offers tips to ensure feed doesn’t pose a health hazard to your cattle

BY ALEXIS KIENLEN FBC STAFF/EDMONTON

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ould and mycotoxins can be tricky, but there are a few tips that can help prevent them from hurting your cattle.

That was the message from Amanda Van De Kerckhove, ruminant nutritionist with Co-op Feeds, at a BeefTech event at Edmonton’s Northlands Park.

“It can be a little overwhelming when you look at all the factors that go into putting up quality feed,” said Van De Kerckhove. “A lot of it has to do with weather at the time of harvest.”

When it comes to grasses, it’s best to knock them down as soon as possible. The lignification pro­ cess at maturation happens so fast that feed quality will go down rapidly. Rain will not only leach nutrients out of grasses lying in swath, but give moulds the opportunity to grow.

It’s also a good idea to consider what was in the field before because inoculum could be

present from the previous year.

Ergot and sclerotinia can also infect feed if weather conditions are correct.

It’s also important to cover your feed and stack it appropriately.

The worst way to stack bales is in a mushroom-shaped stack, said Van De Kerckhove. Instead, put them in long lines in the direction of the prevailing wind.

“If you are putting up silage, get that harvest right,” she added.

“The moisture content from the plant will target the right maturity level in that plant.”

It all comes down to packing and getting oxygen out of that silage.

“If there is oxygen left in there, there’s opportunity for mould,” she said.

An open flap on silage can allow oxygen to come in and contaminate the feed. Mouldy feed can also cause intake and palatability concerns. There’s also the risk of air contamination, when spores and fungus growing on mould are released into the air.

“If you are feeding, you can bust it up in a hay buster or shred it

and you can get that blown off,” she said. “Just know that when you’re releasing those spores, you can have the potential to cause respiratory issues in the animal.”

Along with reducing feed quality, fungus or mould “also impairs the digestibility up to 15 per cent in terms of reduced production and reduced digestibility of that feed.”

The best solution is simply to not give mouldy feed to animals.

Invisible threat Moulds can also produce mycotoxins, which are the secondary toxic metabolites of a stressed mould.

“Mycotoxins are really a mixed bag. They’re invisible, colourless and odourless. You do need a chemical analysis for mycotoxins,” she said. “If animals are refusing feed, take note of that. It’s not something to take lightly.”

Mycotoxin tests cost about $150 a pop and you need to submit a representative sample.

There are multiple fungal classes that impact the crop and lead to mycotoxins. Fusarium produces

Type A and Type B tricothecenes, also known as deoxynivalenol (DON), which causes cattle to go off feed and cause diarrhea or digestive problems. Fusarium mycotoxins can cause a secondary infection, such as pneumonia, and can also affect sperm motility. A less common mycotoxin, an estrogen-like compound called zearalenone, doesn’t have an effect on feeder cattle but can cause reproductive issues in cows.

“By far, zearalenone is pretty low on my list of concerns,” said Van De Kerckhove.

The big mycotoxins are T2 and HT2, which are commonly — but not always found — with DON. Another concern is ergot, which appears at the honeying stage of flowering. Cool, cloudy weather at that time precipitates an elongation of that flowering. The honey dew can often infect more plants in the field, and change wheat and barley kernels into an ergot sclerotia.

Ergot can affect all cereal grains and forages, as well as any coolseason grass. The ergot body develops in the seed head, and

in some cases, gets knocked off in the harvesting process. In this case, it can affect the plant the next year.

“Everybody likes to think about the barley and the wheat — those are easy because you can see those when they come through the mill,” she said. “It will be those hays and grasses that you’re not suspecting to be a problem, and any cereal byproduct. Keep in mind that your forages can be contaminated.”

Cereal screenings are high risk, as are distillers grains.

The good thing is that fusarium mycotoxin effects are reversible — “get some clean feed in front of them, and it will be gone,” she said.

Ergot can cause vasoconstriction, which results in less blood to the extremities and can cause ears, tails and feet to fall off.

Animals may stamp their feet in order to try and get blood flow to their feet. Ergot can also cause reduced milk production if the cow eats infected feed when she is pregnant. akienlen@fbcpublishing.com

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Clock is ticking on electronic monitoring for transport trucks

Commercial trucks in the U.S., including agricultural shipments, will have a tighter leash on hours-of-service rules next year, and Canada isn’t far behind

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ld-fashioned transport t r u c k l o g b o o k s a re becoming a thing of the past, and agricultural haulers are getting ready for the change.

Both the U.S. and Canada hope to tighten compliance on how long drivers are on the road by switching out paper logs for mandatory electronic logging devices.

“Driver fatigue is recognized in Canada and internationally as a critical risk factor associated with motor vehicle crashes,” Transport Canada said in a draft release of the changes published in the Canada Gazette Dec. 16.

“Fatigue in commercial drivers is especially important given that crashes involving large trucks and buses can cause more severe injuries and more frequent fatalities than private passenger vehicle crashes.

“Commercial motor vehicle drivers are particularly at risk because of the monotonous nature of their work, extended work days, irregular schedules and poor sleep hygiene.”

The agency argues that there is incentive to ignore the rules under the current system, since transport companies that push more hours on the road gain competitive advantage over those staying inside the guidelines.

“In addition, as these drivers are able to work more hours, they may be paid more than those who are following the rules, thereby making it easier for non-compliant motor carriers to recruit and retain drivers at a time when the industry is dealing with a driver shortage,” the Dec. 16 economic impact statement read.

Drivers in the United States are already facing down the issue.

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Department of Transportation now requires most commercial vehicles to have an electronic logging device, although agricultural haulers will get a 90-day grace period before needing to comply.

Angie Hurst of Luckhart Transport says the U.S. requirement will have a “huge” impact on their business.

The company is based in Ontario and hauls regularly out of Manitoba, but regularly ships livestock south of the international border. About half of their 25-truck fleet has been outfitted with electronic logging devices so far. “ We’ve done our checklist of what needs to be done and we’re trying to work out the kinks because, you know, as with anything, these drivers aren’t used to using tablets and the new technology and stuff,” she said. “We’re working so that we are prepared if, after the 90-day extension, we have to make this happen.”

Transport Canada argues that the changes will put Canada back in line with U.S. policy.

Rick Wright of Heartland

Upgrading enforcement A c c o r d i n g t o Tr a n s p o r t Canada, about a quarter of hours-of-service violations are drivers who have been on the road too long. Another 11 per cent were operating two logs at once or falsifying records, while almost half (48 per cent) are due to incomplete or missing logs.

Drivers can already switch out paper log books for electronic recording devices, but Tr a n s p o r t C a n a d a a r g u e s t h o s e a re f i r s t - g e n e ra t i o n technology and, “The information generated from these daily logs can be falsified, incomplete, duplicated or missing altogether in an effort to avoid accountability for non-compliance with the regulations.”

As a result, it says, rules are difficult to enforce.

As well as mandatory electronic logging, the Canadian agency wants more specific requirements for supporting documents like bills of lading and set standards for the logging devices themselves.

The federal government is also making an economic argument for the change. Logging devices will cut down on time off work due to hours-ofservice violations, it says, as well as cutting administrative costs and tax dollars spent on inspections and audits.

Those benefits will be worth an estimated $36.4 million a year, the Dec. 16 report read.

At the same time, equipment, inspections and additional training are expected to cost $17.9 million annually.

If approved, haulers will have two years to prepare for the shift, time that Transport Canada says is needed to choose, install, test and train staff on the new equipment. There will be another two-year transition period for companies already using electronic recording devices to bring their equipment into compliance.

The regulation draft is now open for a 60-day public comment period.

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Ontario and Quebec have both been major markets for live cattle this year, according to Wright, both requiring long hours on the road. The U.S. has shown less demand, although any southbound shipments will also have to contend with electronic logging as of next spring.

“We don’t have the infrastructure in the cattle business to support those new proposed regulations,” he said. “If they come in as they’ve been presented, especially in Manitoba, it could make it a lot more difficult for us to market our cattle because we are a net exporter of feeder cattle. We have very few feedlots that finish any cattle here to slaughter weight.”

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Alberta South $ 154.00 - 158.00 — 81.00 - 95.00 70.00 - 87.00 — $ 185.00 - 193.00 187.00 - 201.00 195.00 - 209.00 202.00 - 218.00 217.00 - 240.00 240.00 - 269.00 $ 166.00 - 181.00 173.00 - 186.00 176.00 - 190.00 180.00 - 199.00 188.00 - 210.00 200.00 - 226.00

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

Futures (December 15, 2017) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change December 2017 116.28 0.65 February 2018 119.15 0.48 April 2018 120.30 0.20 June 2018 113.35 -0.08 August 2018 110.33 -0.72 October 2018 111.00 -0.25

Feeder Cattle January 2018 March 2018 April 2018 May 2018 August 2018 September 2018

Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

Ontario $ 116.59 - 145.78 123.48 - 142.75 51.78 - 72.36 51.78 - 72.36 70.53 - 96.41 $ 177.25 - 218.93 183.41 - 217.03 159.52 - 217.04 182.62 - 233.16 192.39 - 247.26 197.71 - 253.50 $ 142.31 - 178.05 148.50 - 185.60 164.29 - 185.04 152.80 - 204.55 161.44 - 214.74 154.39 - 210.53

Close 146.25 144.35 144.70 144.35 146.70 146.25

Change -0.07 -0.15 0.07 -0.10 0.50 0.43

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending Dec 9, 2017

Previous Year­

59,252 12,988 46,264 NA 633,000

48,480 13,040 35,440 NA 608,000

Week Ending Dec 9, 2017

Previous Year

1,408 29,280 13,824 556 984 11,934 337

892 23,911 13,405 727 566 7,941 324

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Hog Prices (Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg) E - Estimation MB. ($/hog) MB (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)

MB (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)

ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)

Source: Manitoba Agriculture Current Week 164E 153E 150.32

Last Week 163.85 152.07 149.26

Last Year (Index 100) 149.82 139.92 136.14

154.26

150.47

135.06

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

Futures (December 15, 2017) in U.S. Hogs

Close

December 2017

64.03

0.45

February 2018

67.63

-0.85

April 2018

72.25

-0.15

May 2018 June 2018

77.60 81.63

-0.40 -0.67

Will the market thrive in 2018?

The year that just ended saw a more or less steady upward trend DAVE SIMS CNSC

B

y most accounts 2017 was better than expected for most cattle auction marts across Manitoba. Volumes were up and prices weathered some early challenges, however, it leaves ranchers wondering if that trend will continue into the new year.

“We closed the year with prices that were higher than a year ago,” said Dave Nickel of Gladstone Auction Mart.

Looking back over the year, cattle prices generally crept upwards with the exception of a few spots early in 2017 and in August.

In mid-November of 2016, prices for feeder steers 400-500 lbs. were struggling to hit the $200 mark (per hundredweight). As of December 15 of this year, those same animals were closer to the $230 range.

Heifers in the 500- to 600-lb. range were averaging close to $155 (per hundredweight) back in November of 2016 while just a week ago they were well over $200.

“Prices generally got better as the year progressed,” said Herb Lock of Farm$ense Marketing. “Highs for the year in the calves and yearlings were probably in the late fall run which was totally unusual but welcome.”

He adds exports were up in 2017, which was a big catalyst for the rise in prices. He says Chinese demand was especially strong throughout the year. The safety measures Canada has put in place to keep its animals healthy were a big drawing card for Asian buyers. Cleanliness, the health aspect of the animals and food security were the main drawing cards, according to Lock.

One of the surprising elements to this year’s market was the fact more cattle came to market than a year ago.

“With the extra cattle, we weren’t anticipating as much strength, so that has translated into pretty good profitability at the feedlot and cowcalf sector,” noted Brian Perrilat, senior analyst with the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.

Winnipeg Wooled Fats — — Not Available This Week — —

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

Turkeys Minimum prices as of November 12, 2017 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A .................................................$1.910 Undergrade ....................................... $1.820 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ............................................... $1.890 Undergrade ........................................$1.790 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ............................................... $1.890 Undergrade ........................................$1.790 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A................................................. $1.890 Undergrade......................................... $1.805 Prices are quoted f.o.b. producers premise.

Toronto 140.87 - 186.41 183.17 - 200.95 194.60 - 212.51 196.66 - 236.51 225.49 - 439.37 —

SunGold Specialty Meats —

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

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

Goats Kids Billys Mature

Winnipeg ( Hd Fats) — — —

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

Meat may be the next candidate for ‘sin’ taxes

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Brace yourself... meat taxes may be coming.

Imposing ‘sin’ taxes on meat may be the next path some governments take in efforts to counter the environmental and health costs associated with high rates of meat consumption, according to research from Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return investor network (FAIRR).

In a warning to investors, the group, which manages over US$4 trillion in assets, says it is “increasingly probable” that implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change will lead some gov-

ernments to taxing meat in a similar way to current taxes on tobacco, carbon, and sugar.

While no legislation is currently in place anywhere in the world, debates are already taking place in some countries, including Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.

“Behavioural taxes are increasingly common.

That’s why we’ve seen 16 countries adopt a sugar tax in recent years,” said Jeremy Coller, CIO of Coller Capital and founder of the FAIRR Initiative in a news release. “The damage the meat industry causes to our health and environment makes it very exposed to similar levies, and it is increasingly probable we’ll see meat taxes become a reality.”

Coller added that “the continued subsidization of meat is the antithesis of what’s needed as policymakers and countries gear up to deliver on Paris. Farsighted investors should plan ahead for this day.”

The FAIRR white paper, entitled “The Livestock Levy,” finds that meat is on the same path as other products that are finding themselves hit with ‘behavioural taxes.’

“If policy-makers are to cover the true cost of livestock epidemics like avian flu and human epidemics like obesity, diabetes and cancer, while also tackling the twin challenges of climate change and antibiotic resistance, then a shift from subsidization to taxation of the meat industry looks inevitable,” said Coller.

Toronto ($/cwt) 137.38 - 253.88 — 115.50 - 269.05

Horses <1,000 lbs.

1,000 lbs.+

Nickel agrees that volumes at his stockyard were noticeably higher.

“We closed the year selling more head than last year or the year before,” he said.

However, Lock says one question facing the industry is how the Canadian herd will respond to the upsurge in prices.

He points out the U.S. herd has been rebuilding for three years and likely has two more ahead of it.

“With us, we’ve been flat for two years,” he said. “So what’s with the cattle industry herd inventories?”

Going forward in 2018, some analysts believe the large volume of cattle in the U.S. will weigh down the futures market. According to the USDA, the total number of cattle being prepared for slaughter at the beginning of December was nearly seven per cent higher than in 2016. The amount of animals being sent to feedlots in November was similarly higher compared to the same point a year ago.

Both cash and futures price could fall as a result which would eventually drag down the Canadian market.

The USDA also made adjustments to its camera grading system in the late fall, which resulted in less carcasses attaining higher grades than previous.

“Suddenly there weren’t as much choice middle meats around in the U.S. as anticipated,” said Perrilat. “That probably did support the market.”

Feed supplies were more than adequate throughout the year, so much so, that U.S. ranchers began sending their animals to Canadian feedlots in the last quarter.

“We’ve also imported almost 80,000 feeder cattle into Canada. So we have more cattle sold this fall, more cattle on feed,” said Lock, noting cattle tend to go where the feed advantage exists.

While some pundits believe the market could tilt downwards in 2018, Lock says there isn’t a clear reason yet to expect that to happen.

“There’s no reason to think this won’t continue,” he said. “Unless something goes wrong.”

briefs

CNS Canada

Sheep and Lambs Choice (110+ lb.)

(95 - 109 lb.)

(80 - 94 lb.)

(Under 80 lb.)

(New crop)

$1 Cdn: $0.7791 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.2834 Cdn.

Change

Other Market Prices $/cwt Ewes Lambs

EXCHANGES: December 15, 2017

column

Cattle Prices

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

Numbers below are reprinted from December 21st issue.

Toronto ($/cwt) 20.00 - 35.00 35.00 - 45.00

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GRAIN MARKETS

Numbers below are reprinted from December 21st issue.

column

Manitoba Elevator Prices

Buyers are canola!

Average quotes as of December 18, 2017 ($/tonne)

Artificial intelligence can’t quite cut it yet in market commentary as we see in our 2017 review Phil Franz-Warkentin CNSC

Futures from activity Picks back up the extent of their sideways Canada released its softest levels During the yield potential Buyers are canola However, at two weeks remains within a year average Soybeans could easily continue to be harvested

I

n an attempt to outsource the year-end commentary and put it on auto steer, the above ‘poem’ was created by inputting 12 months’ worth of analysis into an algorithm that worked its own brand of magic. It’s safe to say that artificial intelligence has a ways to go.

However, while this marketing koan may not provide the clearest picture of the year that just passed, the algorithm is right about soybeans and there may be some more truth to be found in the apparent randomness.

Canola had its ups and downs over the course of 2017, but when pulling back to look at the bigger picture the activity may best be described as ‘sideways.’

Canola prices are exiting 2017 at about $20 off of where they started, with the frontmonth January contract trading at about $490 per tonne on December 21. However, the trend line over the course of the year looks fairly flat, with canola generally holding within a $50 range of $475 to $525 per tonne.

Breaking out of that range in 2018 is always possible, but a catalyst will be needed.

At the end of 2017, canola was trending lower and looking like a break to the downside of that sideways range had more potential than a break higher in 2018.

While there will always be debate with any number Statistics Canada comes up with, the fact that the government agency pegged this year’s canola crop at a record 21.3 million tonnes provides little to get excited about.

There were definitely drought-stricken areas of the Prairies that will remain a concern in 2018 without some precipitation over the next few months. However, the moisture was apparently enough to make a crop in 2017, and the official numbers are a pretty big weight on the market.

Canola ending stocks are no longer forecast to be tight by July 2018, which will likely have end-users unlikely to bid up the market – at least until the spring when they may or may not be looking to buy acres. Exports and the domestic crush should both remain strong, but the supplies are there to meet that demand for now.

In the U.S., soybeans and corn both kept within rather broad, but ultimately sideways, trading ranges in 2017, with attention at the turn of the calendar firmly on South American crops and Chinese demand.

The only real excitement in the U.S. grain markets was found in Minneapolis spring wheat. The futures rallied to their highest levels in four years during the summer, as drought conditions across North Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan cut seriously into production. Cooler heads eventually prevailed, but spring wheat is still the only one of the major North American futures markets exiting 2017 at a higher level than it entered.

Beyond the typical supply/demand fundamentals that swayed the market, 2017 also had its fair share of outside influences. Chief among them was the volatile political situation in the United States. From the Canadian perspective, the possible end of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and adjustments to U.S. renewable fuels policy could both be something to watch in the new year. Resulting swings in the loonie will be another factor to watch.

Computer algorithms are hard at work predicting the weather, analyzing technical charts, estimating crop yields, producing bitcoins, and many other things. However, despite all of the advances in technology, taking all of that information and making sense of it remains a human endeavour much like growing the crops themselves.

A l l t h e b e s t i n t h e n e w y e a r, a n d remember...

Future

Basis

Cash

E. Manitoba wheat

227.81

23.12

250.94

W. Manitoba wheat

227.81

6.02

233.83 478.94

E. Manitoba canola

494.00

-16.06

W. Manitoba canola

495.00

-23.42

471.58 Source: pdqinfo.ca

Port Prices As of Friday, December 15, 2017 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

184.63

-0.18

U.S. hard red winter 12% Houston U.S. spring wheat 14% Portland

272.8

n/a

Canola Thunder Bay

515.10

-1.00

Canola Vancouver

530.10

-1.00

Closing Futures Prices

As of Thursday, December 14, 2017 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

495.00

-10.10

ICE milling wheat

n/a

n/a

ICE barley

n/a

n/a

ICE canola

Mpls. HRS wheat

227.81

8.18

Chicago SRW wheat

153.68

9.65

Kansas City HRW wheat

153.41

6.15

Corn

136.80

2.95

Oats

154.81

8.11

Soybeans

355.41

-8.27

Soymeal

353.30

-10.36

731.18

-8.38

Soyoil

Cash Prices Winnipeg As of Friday, December 15, 2017 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

Feed wheat

n/a

n/a

Feed barley

165.35

-5.05

Any poke above the point on record However the psychological point With yield provide signals As prices one way Futures Which would move

Rye

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

Flaxseed Feed peas

n/a

n/a

473.99

-3.15

n/a

n/a

Oats

186.74

3.89

Soybeans

378.10

-9.92

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

17.65

-0.05

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

Ask

Ask

Prairie wheat bids fall as dollar rises Canadian farmers are starting to lose the exchange rate protection they’ve enjoyed

BY ASHLEY ROBINSON CNS Canada

H

ard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada fell over the holidays, while the Canadian dollar was on an upward swing.

Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (13.5 per cent protein CWRS) wheat prices fell by approximately $3 to $4 per tonne in some areas of Western Canada, according to price quotes from a cross-section of deliver y points compiled by PDQ (Price and Data Quotes). Average prices ranged from about $228 per tonne in western Manitoba, to as high as $249 in parts of Alberta.

Quoted basis levels varied from location to location, but fell slightly to range from about $2 to $23 per tonne above the futures when using the grain company methodol-

ogy of quoting the basis as the difference between the United States 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$0.7971) CWRS bids ranged from US$182 to US$198 per tonne, which was down on a U.S. dollar basis on the week.

That would put the currency adjusted basis levels at about US$28 to US$34 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 $63 to $84 below the futures.

Canada Prairie Red Spring (CPRS) wheat bids were down a dollar.

Prices across the Prairies ranged from $172 per tonne in southwestern Saskatchewan to $191 per tonne in parts of Alberta.

PHOTO: thinkstock

Average durum prices were down slightly across Western Canada, with bids ranging from about $266 to $271 per tonne.

The March spring wheat contract in Minneapolis, which most CWRS

contracts Canada are based off of, was quoted at US$6.1475 per bushel on Dec. 29, which was up by three U.S. cents 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 March Kansas City wheat contract was quoted at US$4.2725 per bushel on Dec. 29, up by five U.S. cents compared to the previous week.

T h e Ma rc h C h i c a g o B o a rd o f Trade soft wheat contract settled at US$4.27 on Dec. 29, which was up by 2.25 U.S. cents on the week.

The Canadian dollar settled at 79.71 U.S. cents on Dec. 29, which was up by 1.33 cents compared to the previous week.

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

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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

World’s first verified sustainable beef plan is ready to roll It’s taken two years of work and looks much like McDonald’s pilot, but its creators say it’s a historic step forward

BY ALEXIS KIENLEN Staff / Edmonton

A

fter two years of consultations and review, the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef has rolled out the official list of procedures and standards for producing beef in a humane, environmentally friendly way.

And while the Certified Sustainable Beef Framework looks a lot like the one developed for McDonald’s 2014 pilot project, its launch is historic, said the roundtable’s executive director.

“If there’s a retail, food service, or consumer product that has this type of sustainability messaging or assurance that goes along with it, we now have a Canadian program,” Fawn Jackson said after the unveiling at the Western Canadian Soil Health and Grazing Conference.

“It’s not only a Canadian program, it’s the first in the world, so we’re really excited to be launching it.”

She compared it to Earls Restaurants’ highly controversial beef-marketing campaign in 2016, when the company said it would only use “certified humane” beef.

That created a furor because the restaurant chain initially said it couldn’t find enough Canadian beef that qualified and had to source most of it from the U.S. Canadian beef produced under the framework will be able to make the same claim, said Jackson.

This month’s launch was for producers, with a consumerfocused campaign planned for early in the new year.

Eventually, beef raised and processed under the framework will be eligible to use a logo — which is still being developed — that certifies it was produced according to an extensive list of guidelines dealing with things such as how cattle are raised and treated, how the environment is protected, and what’s being done in areas such as workplace safety and producing better-quality beef.

“If we’re going to put something on a package, we need to make sure that it means something on the ground and avoid duplicating efforts,” said Jackson.

“We want to support consumers (who want) sustainably sourced beef and support the understanding of sustainable beef production in Canada.”

The logo will attest that producers, backgrounders, feedlots, and processors have adhered to a long list of standards — called indicators — based on the five principles of sustainable beef developed by the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef several years ago.

While detailed and extensive,

Having a set of measurable procedures and standards for sustainable beef makes Canada a global leader in the production of humane, environmentally friendly beef, says Fawn Jackson, executive director of the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef. PHOTO: ALEXIS KIENLEN

“It’s not only a Canadian program, it’s the first in the world, so we’re really excited to be launching it.”

Fawn Jackson

the indicators reflect the best practices followed by most cattle producers, said Jackson. The two years of consultations and testing was aimed at ensuring they don’t bury ranchers under a mountain of paperwork.

The Canadian roundtable set up three committees — one reviewing indicators, another on verification, and a third dealing with marketing and communications — that had 70 members in all. The verification group held four rounds of public consultation (which attracted 250 responses) and the indicators committee reviewed pilots on 21 beef operations across the country. Along with fleshing out the certification process, the roundtable also went beyond the scope of McDonald’s pilot by detailing items such as requirements for choosing and certifying auditors, where records are kept, and the chain of custody requirements for both cattle and beef.

“Our mission was to drive the recognition and advancement of beef sustainability in Canada, with understanding to provide a world-class operation level certification program,” said Jackson, adding a report released last year confirmed Canadian ranchers are ranked as global leaders in sustainable beef production.

The standards are outcome based, which means it’s not the process but measurable results that count.

“This is a new approach, so it was a little harder for the indicator committee to tackle this, but I think they did a good job,” said Jackson.

While some of the indicators — such as air quality or carbon capture — can’t be precisely measured in practical terms, every one of the dozens of protocols will be given a score, ranging from 0 to 4. A score of 1 (also called Achievement) is the minimum standard and auditing will be conducted over a five-year cycle. The first year is a full audit, followed by a partial records assessment, and then three self-assessments.

“After the first audit, the certification body will assess the risk and put you in the risk categories,” said Monica Hadarits, the roundtable’s director of programs and verifications.

The program won’t require producers to do a lot of new things, said Jackson, adding she is confident they can meet the standard.

Cattle will be tracked through

the supply chain in order to be able to qualify under the program.

This will be done by certifiers who have applied to the program, including Verified Beef Production Plus (VBP+) and Where Food Comes From, an independent third-party auditor.

Each province will set its own fees. Alberta cow-calf producers will pay $650 for the initial audit and the rest of the five-year cycle, while feedlot operations will pay $850.

What’s not known is whether all of this will put more money in the pockets of ranchers who decide to join the program (which is entirely voluntary).

“Right now, there is no guarantee of anything financially,” said Page Stuart, a representative of the Alberta Cattle Feeders Association on the roundtable’s board.

“We do know that customers want to know what we do and that we’re engaged in responsible beef production.”

And it will be awhile before packages of beef or menus will bear a certified sustainable beef logo.

“Right now, there’s a mass balance approach. It’s about the per cent of product that comes from sustainable sources, not creating a differentiated product,” said Emily Murray, another board member and general manager of Cargill’s plant in Spruce Grove that makes McDonald’s beef patties.

During its pilot, the fastfood giant could only say that a portion of the beef in a Big Mac came from cows raised and processed in a verified sustainable manner. That path will also be followed under the framework. Once it’s up and running, a global certification process called ISEAL will be used to track how much beef is being produced under the roundtable’s process. (This same pro­ cess is used, for example, to estimate how much recycled content is in a paper or cardboard product.)

But there’s also an effort to produce a separate line of certified sustainable beef — and possibly make money off it.

Cargill is participating in a “Canadian Beef Sustainability Acceleration” pilot in which producers enrol in VBP+ and their cattle are tracked by BIXS (Beef InfoXchange System).

Loblaw, McDonald’s Canada, and Cara Operations’ Swiss Chalet chain are funding that pilot and the hope is that it will lead to certified beef products that command higher prices, with some of those premiums going to participating ranchers.

To learn more about the Certified Sustainable Beef Framework or to become verified, producers should contact their VBP+ group or go to www. crsbcertifiedsustainablebeef.ca. akienlen@fbcpublishing.com

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What does the framework involve?

There are a host of protocols and procedures, but they largely reflect what’s already occurring on most ranches STAFF Even the overview of protocols set out in the Certified Sustainable Beef Framework runs nearly 60 pages. But here are a few of the ‘indicators’ for cattle producers from the five areas that the framework covers:

Natural Resources One of the goals is to maintain or enhance water quality. To score 1 (a.k.a. Achievement level), riparian areas and wetlands must be monitored and managed while potential sources of contamination must be identified and mitigated. Having grazing and nutrient management plans merits a 2 (or Innovation) while documenting what happens when cattle are on pasture, reviewing that information, and periodically updating the plans gives a score of 3 (Excellence).

Other indicators in this area cover soil health, carbon sequestration, air quality in barns, and maintaining habitat for wildlife.

Animal Health and Welfare Many of the indicators in this area come directly from the Beef Code of Practice, with higher scores given to operations that go beyond basic requirements and implement a greater number of recommended practices. This is, by far, the longest section of the summary.

People and the Community This section deals with creating a safe workplace where everyone (including family members) are “treated with equity and respect in all instances.” Ensuring workers have the knowledge and equipment to safely do their job merits a 1 while having a formal and documented health and safety program that includes risk assessment and training earns a 3.

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An operation unable to get at least a 1 for these indicators has some serious issues. For example, a 0 is given for “knowingly shipping cattle that will end up immediately at slaughter prior to the completion of drug withdrawal time or with broken needles without notifying (the) next owner.” To get a 1 on the beef quality indicator, a producer only has to “be aware of the factors that influence quality beef.” Those operations that actually employ practices that improve meat quality get a 2 while documenting those efforts earns a score of 3.

This covers topics such as recycling and waste management, energy efficiency, and crop inputs.

The complete summary for beef production as well as other overviews for processors, auditors, and certification bodies can be found at www.csbcertifiedsustainablebeef.ca (see links at the bottom of the home page).

How’s your relationship with your vet?

Antimicrobials will soon require a prescription, but a vet can’t write one if he or she hasn’t worked closely with a producer

BY ALEXIS KIENLEN Staff / Edmonton

W

hen it comes to antimicrobials, one shoe has dropped and the other soon will.

And that means livestock producers who don’t have a working relationship with a vet better start developing one.

As of last month, producers can no longer import antimicrobials for use on their ranches and farms, and growth promotion claims have been removed from labels. And in a year’s time, livestock producers will no longer be able to purchase antimicrobials without a As of December 2018, you’ll need prescription. a prescription if livestock fall sick “There are new ways that the and need an antibiotic or other federal government is dictatantimicrobial. But you wouldn’t be ing how antibiotics will be hanable to just call up a vet and ask for dled in the future,” said Darrell one if you don’t have a VeterinarianDalton, registrar at the Alberta Client-Patient-Relationship.

PHOTO: CANADA BEEF Veterinary Medical Association.

Health Canada has put all antimicrobials that are important to human health on a pre- resistance, alternative antimiscription drug list and as of next crobials may not be available.”

The two drugs that will be December, they’ll need a prescription from a veterinarian to most affected by this move are penicillin and tetracycline, said use one.

That process is expected to Dalton.

And while antimicrobials can start in February as veterinary drug makers prepare for that be prescribed for sick animals, producers can’t just call up a vet deadline, said Dalton.

“They’ll gradually disappear and expect to get one.

“Producers will need to have off the shelves of the lay outlets and appear on the shelves a relationship with a veterinarof the veterinary hospitals,” he ian in order to get a prescription for antibiotics,” said Dalton. said.

And there’s a very precise Three classes of antimicrobials will require a prescription definition of ‘relationship,’ from a vet — Category I (very which is formally called a VCPR high importance) drugs are ( Veterinarian-Client-Patientpreferred treatments for seri- Relationship). Vets have to ous infections in humans and have documented evidence have either no, or very limited, of that relationship, which alternatives. Category II (high can include records of farm importance) are also a pre- or clinic visits, examination ferred choice of treatment but or lab reports, and consultahave alternatives. But Category tions. Not only must a vet have I I I ( m e d i u m i m p o r t a n c e ) recently seen and be persondrugs also make the list, even ally acquainted with the livethough they are not a preferred stock on a farm, he or she must choice of treatment in human have “assumed the responsibility for making clinical judgmedicine.

“Many of the chemical classes ments” about their health of antimicrobial drugs, or anti- and the farmer must have biotics, used in animals are also “agreed to follow the veterinarused in humans,” the Canadian ian’s instructions,” according to Animal Health Institute noted Canadian Veterinary Medicine in a recent release. “If these Association guidelines.

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“Producers will need to have a relationship with a veterinarian in order to get a prescription for antibiotics.”

Darrell Dalton

outlet and use them (antimicrobials) without any sort of professional oversight,” said Dalton.

There are lots of good veterinary clinics in the province, and access is good, even though it may be more challenging in some of the northern areas, he added.

“If you’ve got a truck and a trailer, you’ve got access to veterinary service.”

There are some changes in the feed laws as well. Any antibiotics in feed will only be allowed under the direction of a veterinarian.

“In the past two or three years, there has been a push from certain markets asking for antibiotic-free food,” said Dalton. “The public is now demanding or asking for products that are raised with fewer medications or antibiotics.”

The moves were praised by Dr. Herman Barkema, a veterinarian from the University of Calgary, in a speech at Alberta Milk’s recent AGM. “ I ’m r e a l l y b e h i n d t h e changes,” said Barkema. “I think they make sense.”

About 82 per cent of all antimicrobials are used in livestock, with 18 per cent for human health, one per cent for companion animals, and less than one per cent in crops, he said.

Swine and poultry producers have done a good job of limiting their antimicrobial use, but there’s still a long way to go in beef and dairy cattle, Barkema said.

Government officials are still working on some of the detailed rules on the new prescription system. The federal government has conducted a stakeholder review and is determining the best way for producers to access antibiotics and antimicrobials for their livestock, said Dalton.

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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

Feeder Steers

n/a

n/a

Dec. 19

n/a

Dec. 20

n/a

n/a

n/a

No. on offer

n/a

n/a

262

n/a

1,229*

n/a

n/a

n/a

Over 1,000 lbs.

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

900-1,000

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

182.00-192.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

800-900

n/a

n/a

155.00-183.00

n/a

185.00-199.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

700-800

n/a

n/a

160.00-190.00

n/a

188.00-208.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

600-700

n/a

n/a

180.00-210.00

n/a

194.00-224.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

500-600

n/a

n/a

200.00-237.50

n/a

202.00-227.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

400-500

n/a

n/a

200.00-240.00

n/a

215.00-245.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

300-400

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

235.00-265.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

900-1,000 lbs.

n/a

n/a

140.00-170.00

n/a

169.00-183.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

800-900

n/a

n/a

150.00-175.00

n/a

174.00-186.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder heifers

n/a

700-800

n/a

n/a

150.00-175.00

n/a

175.00-189.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

600-700

n/a

n/a

155.00-185.00

n/a

179.00-194.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

500-600

n/a

n/a

175.00-219.00

n/a

190.00-212.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

400-500

n/a

n/a

190.00-224.00

n/a

202.00-220.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

300-400

n/a

n/a

220.00-275.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

No. on offer

n/a

n/a

118

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

D1-D2 Cows

n/a

n/a

75.00-93.00

n/a

78.00-84.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

D3-D5 Cows

n/a

n/a

60.00-86.00

n/a

71.00-77.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Age Verified

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Mature Bulls

n/a

n/a

86.25

n/a

94.00-105.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Slaughter Market

Butcher Steers

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

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

Heiferettes

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

105.00-140.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

* includes slaughter market

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rdinarily voting over whether to recommend new wheat, rye or triticale varieties for registration can stretch on well into the afternoon.

This year it was over before the morning coffee break at the annual meeting of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT) in Winnipeg Mar. 2.

Many participants said they thought it was a record for the group, and in no small way former federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz is the reason why.

The process has been streamlined — one of several reforms Ritz asked the PRCWRT and 16 other recommending committees to do when he wrote them in 2013.

“I am challenging you to think about the future of variety regis-

tration and how best to ensure that Canada has an approach going forward that encourages innovation in variety development and balances the interests of producers and the entire value chain,” Ritz wrote.

Some saw the letter as the beginning of the end for recommending committees, which its critics alleged were bureaucratic and an impediment to getting new, higher-yielding varieties to farmers faster.

This year there were just 18 candidate cultivars before the PRCWRT, and a dozen weren’t up for voting because they’d already been supported for registration by the agronomic, disease and end-use evaluation teams, which results in an automatic registration recommendation, just one of the streamlining measures introduced since Ritz threw down the gauntlet.

Before they’d come back to the full committee for further discussion and voting.

This year only six varieties came before the cultivar voting panel (CVP), a subgroup of the PRCWRT, whose members represent the entire wheat value chain including farmers, breeders, agronomists, plant pathologists, exporters and end-users.

Up to 23 of the PRCWRT’s members serve on the CVP. The CVP’s creation is another s t re a m l i n i n g m e a s u re. It reduced the number of people voting, while still allowing all PRCWRT members to give expert insight.

The CVP also addresses Ritz’s concern that the process reflect the industry and its needs.

At the PRCWRT meeting in 2013 Fairfax, Alta., seed grower Henry Vos said farmers and endusers should decide what varieties to grow, not a committee.

But this year Vos said creating the CVP and having wheat commission representatives on it, is an important change. He said in the past, farmers had little for-

mal involvement or voice on the committee. Today he represents the Alberta Wheat Commission’s 14,000 farmer members on the CVP. “I like the committee structure,” Vos said. “I like the input of all the individuals. On varieties where there are concerns we have the cultivar voting panel, which represents the whole value chain. That is the most important part.”

Much of what Ritz sought has been accomplished, said Brian Beres, a former PRCWRT chair and member of the ad hoc committee working on reforming the PRCWRT, following this year’s meeting. He said the group worked very hard along with the PRCWRT’s outgoing chair Curtis Pozniak, who is a durum breeder at the University of Saskatchewan, to streamline the process.

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Lamb sector potential high but work needed Benchmarking, grading and research are all needed to move the Canadian lamb sector forward

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ike a doctor delivering bad news to a patient, Martin Gooch gave it straight to the sheep sector: the sheep industry continues to be disjointed and inefficient, with a lack of benchmarks to define a successful farm.

Like a good doctor, Gooch also delivered some optimism.

“You could double production and have room for growth and that is without expanding the current market for lamb,” says Martin Gooch, chief executive officer of Value Chain Management International. His organization analyzed the state of the industry for Ontario Sheep Farmers.

Gooch says there’s more potential in lamb production than in any other sector of Canadian agriculture. He presented the results of the analysis at the Ontario Sheep Convention in Alliston, Ont. Ontario Sheep Farmers chair Rob Scott says the goal of the study was to identify barriers to expansion in the industry.

“I was adamant, because of feedback I got from producers, that this not be the type of benchmarking study that got put in a folder and put on a shelf. I’m very happy with the way it turned out.”

Work started Ontario Sheep Farmers has adopted Gooch’s report and has started to work on its recommendations under the EweGROW program name, which general manager Jennifer MacTavish says will be one of the organization’s flagship programs.

The information wasn’t new, as Ontario lamb production has suffered from great potential at the same time as a lack of sector-wide growth for generations, despite attempts at building value-chain models in the past.

Gooch identified several foundational steps that are lacking in the sector that competitors around the world implemented decades ago.

Martin Gooch conducted an analysis of the Ontario sheep sector.

He says the sector has the characteristics of an emerging industry, with a lack of reliable information, marketing orientation and collective behaviour.

A lack of grading system and market communications means that lamb producers are not rewarded for producing higherquality lamb.

Gooch says the extensive surveys done with farmers and others in the sector during the study show that the lack of sector foundations has meant discouraged producers, especially larger sheep farmers with more than 400 ewes.

“Lamb is not rewarded according to its value,” says Gooch, meaning that a producer of highquality lamb versus low-quality lamb isn’t rewarded enough for their work producing a better product.

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The first is benchmarking, which has been lacking in the industry. It’s one of the reasons why there is little understanding of what are the gold standards, the best ways to produce lamb and make business decisions.

Gooch’s study looked at Canada’s competitors including the U.K., Australia and New Zealand. In Australia they have been benchmarking sheep flocks over 1,000 ewes since the 1970s, in New Zealand, they have been gathering 1,300 data points from 550 farm visits each year since the 1950s, and in the United Kingdom, average-size flocks have been surveyed since 1936.

Meat quality is the second area where improvement is

needed, says Gooch and that starts with actually measuring it.

“The purpose of grading is misunderstood,” says Gooch.

“The grading purpose is to provide objective feedback to producers on the value of lamb and how their operations are performing.

It can help to create common language that applies from farm to farm. Grading rewards producers who create good value and penalizes those who don’t.

Less research Gooch’s third area where the industry needs to improve is in research and engagement. The sheep industry has much lower levels of research conducted at

the University of Guelph compared to other industry sectors, says Gooch.

O n t a r i o S h e e p Fa r m e r s has started collecting grading data and will continue to do so, involving processors, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs as well as data from producers.

“Every year we’re going to get the processors to provide us with information on how lambs have been grading, to show the industry and the processors if there’s been any improvement,” says MacTavish.

The data will also help make the case for the sheep industry during discussions with funders and government.

“We have historically been short of the information needed to go in to make proper arguments,” says Scott. “Some of the stuff that’s going to come out of this is things we aren’t going to want to hear, but it’s what we have to hear.”

Through all the inability to fill the Ontario market, shepherds are still getting strong prices for lamb. That’s a disconnect from the global market where lamb is priced lower. That also means suppliers around the world are looking at the Canadian market.

An international marketing group set up a bridgehead in Toronto to figure out how they can get more of their lamb into the Ontario and Canadian market, says Gooch.

“Your market is so good, international competitors are purposely targeting your market,” he says. “You have other people stealing your breakfast.”

Continuous improvement Gooch’s report outlines first steps that can be taken to create more information flow, knowledge and eventually more sales in the industry. The road map aims for the industry to adopt the ethos of continuous improvement that underlies other sectors.

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Just a warning NDVI alone, however, will only tell a producer that there is a problem, not what the problem is, attendees heard.

Johnson advised the room to use as many tools as possible, including NDVI, soil mapping, soil tests and elevation mapping, to get a better picture of what is happening in the field and more accurately diagnose problems.

Johnson says he provides some guidance if a farmer doesn’t know how to interpret the data. His company may contract agronomists to help make sense of drone-generated results.

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hen it comes to precision agriculture, there is no such thing as too much quality data — assuming you have the software and internet connection to process it.

Southport hosted a precision ag discussion and drew farm consultants, service providers and producers Dec. 12 for its second workshop.

“It’s gone from satellite, really huge zones, to really small zones,” Matthew Johnson of M3 Aerial Productions said. “And the ability to micromanage — especially with the ability to use drones to spray — all that has totally changed, and that will continue to change, how the precision agriculture data collection and management processes are actually executed.”

His drone company has become one of Manitoba’s main commercial sources of NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetative Index) imaging, which measures nearinfrared light and visible light reflected from a crop.

The resulting image maps crop health through different zones in a field. A healthy plant will reflect more near-infrared light compared to visible light, which it tends to absorb, while the ratio of visible light reflected to nearinfrared light reflected will be higher in a stressed plant.

Don Campbell relays the peaks and valleys he had to navigate while starting up an emerging aerial application company using drones.

Campbell was one of several speakers during a precision agriculture workshop in Southport. Photo: Alexis Stockford

Trevor Thornton, Crop Care Consulting founder and one of the first western Canadian entrepreneurs to use Soil Optix, a high-definition topsoil mapping system, stressed proper soil tests regardless the technology in play.

“Ultimately, it all starts with the soil,” he said. “We have to know what we’re working with in the background rather than just say, ‘Well, Dad always did this blend, so I’m going to do it; well, we made more money last year so I’m going to put more money into that blend this year.’”

Farmers should have a good grasp on both nutrient levels in their soil and the interaction between nutrients and soil pH, something he says is often overlooked but can lead to fertilizer inefficiencies and loss of yield.

Reading topography Elevation mapping merges particularly well with NDVI, Johnson said.

A region may show red on the map because it is high and dry or highlight low-lying spots with drainage issues.

Some of that elevation mapping may now come from LiDAR, which uses laser pulses to measure the range from an aerial vehicle to the ground.

Vantage Manitoba has started using LiDAR elevation maps to design drainage plans.

The elevation map is the first step in any drainage plan, which is based on anticipated flows in the field, Simon Knutson, precision agronomist with Vantage Manitoba, said.

His company recently signed an agreement with Winnipeg avionics

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Va n t a g e a r g u e s t h e h i g h speed system will generate ready data, rather than each field being mapped on an as-needed basis.

Knutson says that has significantly cut the time needed to develop a farm drainage plan.

“It used to be that I would have to survey the field,” he said. “If someone sent me data, nine times out of 10 there were problems with it that I might have to go back to the field and check a few things. By having the LiDAR available off the shelf, it probably saves me a day on every field.”

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tions, he said. Vantage Manitoba says the elevation mapping will generate millions of data points per quarter section, the equivalent of RTK surveying swaths every foot, with accuracy down to one centimetre.

While the technology was tapped mainly for drainage, Knutson says it could be applied to any scenario where elevation mapping is used.

“It could be used for anything,” he said. “We could supply just the data if it’s a consultant that wanted to use it with their NDVI or something like that.”

The data could be loaded into an on-tractor display when using a scraper, he added.

About 75 per cent of southern Manitoba is already mapped, according to Vantage Manitoba, although coverage south of Brandon and north of Riding Mountain National Park has gaps. Knutson hopes most of those will be filled in this summer.

Atlis Geomatics plans to update data every three to five years to account for changes in the landscape.

Knutson says tracking changes over time may eventually help track erosion, although it’s not an aspect his company has explored yet.

Searching for signal Precision agriculture has hit a connectivity black hole in some parts of the province. For many living in rural Manitoba, particularly those along the U.S. border and north through the Riding Mountain area and beyond (all regions tagged for poor internet connection by a Brandon University study in 2016), that will come as no surprise.

Processing NDVI is data intensive, Johnson said. It takes 500700 pictures to cover a field, and his company might upload 1,500 photos at a time, at five to 10 megabytes each.

“We’re going to have to prove that we can reduce drift to an acceptable level.

On the commercial side of things, because we’re using ultra-low-volume applications, it’s going to be off label right now.”

Trevor Thornton, founder of Crop Care Consulting, discusses his work with topsoil mapping program Soil Optix during a recent precision agriculture workshop in Southport.

That alone has led some farmers to give up on the technology.

Johnson says he has spoken to producers who own drones, but have them collecting dust after the frustration of trying to pro­ cess the data.

“If you don’t have that highpowered computer that can process the imagery on your computer using a very expensive software, then you have to rely on uploading the data to be processed through a cloud server somewhere else and that’s thousands of megabytes’ worth of data that people have to upload and if they don’t have a good internet connection, then it’s totally not even an option,” he said.

His company has launched a “snail mail” service where farmers print data out and mail it to M3 Aerial Productions, which will handle the processing and return it (also by post).

“If you collect it in the morning and drop it in the mail same day, I’ll get it the next day if it’s in Manitoba — likely the next day — then I can process it that day and then hopefully be able to send it back,” he said.

Wait times province-wide sit at three to four days so far, he said, while Canada-wide

Don Campbell ROGA Drone founder

Simon Knutson, precision agronomist with Vantage Manitoba, pitches his company’s integration of LiDAR elevation mapping in Southport. Photos: Alexis Stockford

requests have a six-day average maximum.

Transport Canada regulations have also had a chilling effect, Johnson said.

Commercial drone rules apply to any use outside hobby flying, including use for agriculture.

Transport Canada changed the rules in 2017. To use an agricultural drone, farmers must now have a special permission (SFOC), or meet 63 exemption conditions, including a site suitability assessment, line-of-sight operation, at least $100,000 of liability insurance and no flying over 300 feet, within five nautical miles of an aerodrome and at least three miles from a heliport.

Even with an exemption, operators must take some ground school training.

Spraying by drone Don Campbell, founder of start­up ROGA Drone, says aerial drone application might be a “game changer” for farmers, although the technology is still emerging.

“There’s probably two ways of going about it right now,” he said. “We’re going to offer the service side of it for this upcoming year — try and educate some people and get the product out

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The cost of them and the return of investment is going to be much easier.”

His startup is based on the idea that drone application has advantages over plane or field equipment. Drones don’t leave wheel tracks, for example, which he argues will drop yield from compaction. They also can easily handle corners or irregular fields, need no runway or pad and can go into the field even if soil is too muddy for regular equipment. Campbell also claims that drone application will cost less per acre.

“The one that I’m kind of excited about is night spraying,” he told the room. “I’m just working on my next SFOC and there’s a section in there where you can tick off whether you want to do day or night flying. You still have to stay within visual line of sight, Ground school but if you have LED lights on Johnson’s company will be makyour sprayer and as long as you ing ground school more farmer can see it, Transport Canada’s friendly starting next year. biggest concern is lighting the M3 Aerial Productions is addground control area where ing a specific program for agriyou’re working.” culture to its existing courses.

At the same time, the technolThe program will tackle imagogy faces challenges. Tank size ing and data interpretation as is limited. Campbell has a 15-kg well as drone operation and tank on his drone, spraying at regulations. ultra-low volume. That tank “If you’re a farmer and you’re may be enough to push a drone using a drone or an agronomist over the 25-kg limit for an SFOC and you’re using a drone, you exemption. want to know the best ways of Drones are not built for what collecting data and processing he’s doing, Campbell added. data and the options that you Most of the models he consid- have, because for a lot of people ered were based on photograph it’s completely foreign,” Johnson drones. said.

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Is it time to revisit ISO?

Food bills will rise in 2018 Weather conditions and a switch to convenience foods will drive the trend

BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff

STAFF Different equipment brands work together better in Europe than in North America, according to one presenter at Southport’s second precision agriculture workshop Dec. 12.

Jeff Ziegler of precision ag firm Trimble says North America is years behind Europe in adopting ISO international standards on equipment compatibility.

Those standards (commonly referred to as ISOBUS) were rolled out in the ’90s, with the promise that eventually implements would be “plug and play” across brand lines.

The document itself covers 14 aspects of machinery, from physical compatibility to electronic applications, a feature that allows producers to have a single screen in their cab rather that a virtual garden for each implement.

That same complexity, though, has led to problems and eventual frustration with the system.

“Due to the complexity of the standard, and often different interpretations of what functionalities (parts) of the standard were offered to the end-customer, sales and dealers often sold solutions as ISOBUS compatible, basically without knowing what is behind the functionality of a certain product,” the Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF) reported in its overview of ISOBUS. “Apart from that, the ag industry used all kinds of different wording and naming towards the markets, such as, for example, ‘ISOBUS prepared,’ or ‘ISOBUS light,’ all misleading the end-customer.”

The AEF is responsible for a number of projects to overcome compatibility issues and improve ISO. In Europe, equipment manufacturers have bought into the standards, despite the speed bumps in the early ’00s.

In North America, ISOBUS also appears with major equipment companies.

Ziegler, however, says there is a long way to go.

“The idea of ISO is that all the brains are on the implement so when that implement is hooked onto the tractor, that tractor says, ‘Oh, I know that this is “this” implement,’ and it basically has all the right measurements and all the right configurations for the implement populate on the screen of the tractor,” he said. “The problem in North America (is) there have been a few manufacturers who sort of adopted the ISO standard, but they didn’t adhere to it completely, so that of course left a lot of people not really fond of ISO, but I think we’re getting to the point now, or at least in North America we’re finally getting to the point, where we’re maybe going to catch up with Europe a little bit.”

This year, Trimble acquired ISO pioneering company MuellerElectronics. The German company is a major supplier of electronic controls and software for agricultural equipment.

That addition will help push ISO in North America, Ziegler said.

“I don’t think any user is going to put up with the fact that it’s only ISO to a certain point on a thirdparty display, but it has the full capability on their own brand of display,” he said.

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he average Canadian family of four will be paying $348 more to feed themselves in 2018, with total expenditures pegged to rise to $11,948.

That’s according to the eighth annual Canada’s Food Price Report jointly released Dec. 13 by Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph.

“Canadians want to know what will impact the prices of their food,” said lead author Sylvain Charlebois.

“Our report continues to provide them with the information they are looking for – around food quality, trends and impacts on the price of food in their region of the country.”

Charlebois said while the

re p o r t f o re c a s t s m o d e s t increases in many food categories, the price of vegetables is expected to rise by as much as six per cent because of unaccommodating climate conditions. La Niña, a reoccurring weather phenomenon that affects global climate patterns, will likely result in below-average precipitation in farming-intensive regions of the southern United States. Fruit prices are expected to increase by as much as three per cent.

The report also predicts Canadians will continue to shift towards convenience foods, spending more in restaurants and for ready-to-eat products.

T h e a v e ra g e f a m i l y i s expected to spend $208 more when eating out compared to 2017, an increase of almost eight per cent. That means

that almost 30 per cent of consumers’ food budget will be spent on food service, the highest ever recorded.

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Canola dockage tips from CGC grading school During the dockage assessment process canola should be cleaned so farmers get the best possible grade

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff/Brandon

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ere’s a tip for canola growers about dockage, conspicuous admixture and grades — pay attention to the sieves.

If your canola is downgraded due to conspicuous admixture, or if you feel your dockage is too high, check with the buyer about what sieves were used to determine dockage — material that isn’t canola and buyers don’t pay for.

When assessing dockage in canola, sieve selection is key.

In some cases farmers will earn more money selling a higher grade of canola, even if it results in more dockage, but to be sure they should do the math.

“You can potentially increase the dockage percentage on a sample of canola if that will help improve the grade and value of your product,” Usman Mohammad, a CGC inspection specialist said in an interview following a grain-grading workshop here Dec. 7, organized by the Manitoba Canola Growers and Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers associations.

Un d e r C a n a d i a n G r a i n Commission (CGC) regulations, when determining dockage, grain company and CGC inspectors alike are required to clean canola so the farmer gets the best possible grade and an accurate assessment of dockage, Mohammad said.

“Most years, most canola grades No. 1 and that’s what the CGC has found through its harvest sample program this year.

But there might be rare cases where you won’t have a No. 1 because of too much conspic-

uous admixture remaining in the sample even after normal cleaning.

“There are a lot of considerations for grade improvement.

The last thing you want is to not get a No. 1 because the cleaning sequence wasn’t done according to the CGC-approved method.”

The provision, found in the CGC’s Official Grain Grading Guide, is called “cleaning for grade improvement” and states the following: “If the grade of a delivery can be improved by additional cleaning, perform the cleaning and add the additional material to dockage.

Cleaning for grade improvement can be done at any time after the cleaning assessment has been completed. After the cleaning assessment has been completed, examine the material to be removed and select your equipment according to the material you want to remove.”

The equipment consists of six CGC-approved round-hole sieves and five slotted sieves and the Carter dockage tester.

The CGC defines conspicuous admixture as “material that remains in the sample after cleaning and it is easily distinguished from canola without the use of magnification.”

Conspicuous admixture is removed by hand after the canola sample has been cleaned to determine the dockage.

(Conspicuous admixture is included as dockage.)

The tolerances for conspicuous admixture in No. 1, 2 and 3 canola is 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 per cent respectively. With such tight tolerances it’s important to use the right combination of sieves when determining dockage, Mohammad said.

Canadian Grain Commission inspection specialist Usman Mohammad demonstrating one of several CGC-approved sieves used to determine canola dockage during a grading school in Brandon Dec. 7. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

The CGC says inspectors are to use the round-hole sieve that allows “reasonably sound canola” to pass through while removing large material.

The slotted sieve reduces the “admixture of conspicuous inseparable material within the grade tolerance with a minimum loss of reasonably sound canola.”

When selecting a roundhole sieve the goal is to separate larger material on the top while allowing the canola to fall through, Mohammad said.

What’s on top of the roundhole sieve is part of the dockage. If a lot of canola doesn’t fall through the round-hole sieve it will also become dockage, reducing what the farmer is paid. To prevent that, the inspector can tr y a larger round-hole sieve, he said.

However, that can increase the admixture.

The dockage captured on top of the round-hole sieve is kept in a bowl. What falls

through will be mostly canola with smaller material such as weed seeds.

T h e s a m p l e — a p p r ox i mately 250 grams at a time — is then poured over a slotted sieve, which is moved from left to right 30 times using a sifting motion. The total distance from left to right is 20 cm or about eight inches. The fine material that falls through is also dockage and kept in a separate bowl.

Dockage is kept separately making it easier to try different-size sieves later if the canola is downgraded or if other adjustments need to be made.

Now the ‘screened’ canola is placed in a Carter dockage machine with settings prescribed by the CGC. The machine’s riddle removes any large material that’s left and it’s added to the dockage captured by the round-hole sieve.

Material removed via Carter machine aspiration is placed in a bowl and counted as dockage too.

Now the cleaned material is divided into portions of at least five grams and not more than 50.

From this portion the inspector hand picks the conspicuous admixture, such as cow cockle, lamb’s quarters, cleavers, smartweed, ball mustard and pigweed seed.

The admixture is weighed and the percentage calculated.

If admixture exceeds grade tolerances the inspector should consider using a larger slotted screen to reduce the admixture and improve the grade.

For example, say the admixture is 1.5 per cent, making the canola a No. 2. The inspector might have used a .028 slotted sieve, which is the smallest option. Using the largest slotted sieve — .040 — will allow a lot of material to fall through, reducing the admixture.

Say the admixture drops to 0.2 per cent, now the grade goes to a No. 1, but dockage has increased. By using a .035 slotted screen the admixture might increase to 0.8 per cent.

That’s still under one per cent so the grade remains No. 1 and there’s slightly less dockage.

“That’s an example of what an inspector needs to think about when assessing dockage on canola,” Mohammad said. “The point I am making is when you go straight to the .040 slotted sieve from the .028 there are other sieves in between you can use (.032, .035 and .038),” Mohammad said. “If you select the .040 s l o t t e d r i g h t a w a y y o u’v e really reduced your conspicuous admixture percentage well below the tolerance to improve your grade to a No. 1 but your dockage may be higher than what it actually should be.”

You might have some space to make further adjustments.

For example, you can use a .035 slotted sieve instead to reduce the admixture while a c h i e v i n g t h e s a m e g ra d e improvement and lowering the dockage percentage to help out the producer, he said.

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Farm equipment manufacturers looking to boost exports

These manufacturers are a small-town Canada success story and major employers for their home communities

BY ALEX BINKLEY Co-operator contributor

C

anada’s farm machinery makers want to grow their export market in the coming years, a development they say would be a good news story for rural Canada as a whole.

“Canadian-made farm equipment is among the highest quality and most sought out in the world,” Leah Olson, president of the Agricultural Ma n u f a c t u re r s o f Ca n a d a (AMC), told the Senate agriculture committee. “In 2016, Canadian far m equipment manufacturers exported more than $1.8 billion worth of implements to 151 countries, this in spite of just over 50 per cent of agricultural equipment manufacturers being located in rural communities of less than 10,000. Some of our members are located on the family farm or in communities where the number of people the manufacturer employs is larger than the community it is in.”

One reason more than half of agriculture equipment makers are in rural communities is that places them close to the producers who “despite the harsh growing conditions in Canada, provide manufacturers with feedback on the challenges they encounter in the field,” she said.

That relationship creates a sense of innovation that is reflected in “how we manufacture and manage our day-today operations,” she said. “It is what drives us to develop some of the best agricultural equipment in the world.”

a unique opportunity to help to inform the green agenda and ensure that farmers continue to be recognized as the key environmentalists that they are,” Olson said. “Amongst AMC members, many are solving challenges related to fertilizer and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

Olson added that in the future there’s little doubt Canadian farmers will be at the forefront managing and being stewards for healthy soil, water and air, and technological adoption is key to that.

“How we grow food today is not how we will grow it in 150, 50 or even 10 years from now,” Olson said. “As an exporter o f s a f e a n d s e c u re f o o d , Canada’s comparative advantage globally is its agriculture industry.”

To maintain that status, “the government has to be very careful as to how it wants to proceed because if it doesn’t allow far mers to continue making profits, then they won’t be able to reinvest into equipment that helps them be good stewards of the land,” she said.

Labour crunch Among the challenges faced by rural employers is findi n g w o r k e r s . We s t f i e l d , which makes grain augers in Rosenort, a half an hour outside of Winnipeg, “is bussing people from the city to come out to work because they need people to be working at the facility. It’s a great example of the sort of employment opportunities that are in rural Canada. When we look at innovation, and those manufactur-

“Canadian-made farm equipment is among the highest quality and most sought out in the world.”

ers export all around the world.

I know that we have a couple of members — one is in northern Alberta — and they export consistently to over 40 countries.”

Canadian agriculture machinery makers are all short lines, s h e s a i d . “ T h e y a re v e r y specialized and focus on whether it’s grain handling and storage, like in Ag Growth International or Meridian or it is har vesting equipment like MacDon. They compete world­wide.”

The companies are interested in adding artificial intelligence to their products, she said. More research is required to make machines work together on their own.

“When we look at where we want to be, it would be ideal if we had more drone technology, autonomous facilities in fields because then it helps the farmers who then don’t have to rely on labour shortages and trying to fill those labour shortages,” she said.

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“For example, visas and getting entry into a country more easily for business purposes,” Olson said. “Another example is supporting Export Development Canada in regions like Latin America w h e re s e c u r i n g f i n a n c i n g terms and conditions is not always feasible. Opening up international markets is integral to Canada’s innovative and sustainable future.”

AMC also said the government should consider a higher capital cost allowance for farmers, especially in light of the looming carbon tax, to allow a Canadian farmer to maintain profitability internationally.

It would enable farmers to a move to more quickly adopt the looming new technology in farming.

Equipment makers also innovate in response to the demand for a more sustainable food production, Olson said.

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Where are canola prices going?

To answer that question you’ll need a good handle on factors around the world affecting the oilseed complex DAVID DERWIN

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question I get asked a lot is, “Where are canola prices going?”

That’s not something you can answer just by looking out your back door, throughout your province, or even across the Prairies.

You really have to look around the world at all oilseed markets to get a better sense of where our canola prices could go.

So many factors worldwide combine to affect prices. From production science, to consumer trends, to shipping and logistics, from new product uses, government regulations and trade barriers, to commodity substitutability — all affect the marginal supply and demand of that last ounce of a commodity. And, it’s at that last marginal amount where prices get determined.

Given all these factors, how much is someone willing to pay for that last bushel compared to the next bushel? Any and all of these factors can be an issue.

But in the markets, something isn’t an issue until it becomes an issue, and then it can be a real issue.

In the big picture, while canola is a major crop in Canada, global canola/rapeseed oil production is only about 50 per cent of soybean oil production and 40 per cent of palm oil production worldwide. When you combine all the top 10 largest oils like sunflower, palm, peanut

and coconut, rapeseed oil production worldwide is about 15 per cent of the global edible oil market.

While Canada is the secondlargest canola/rapeseed producer, it only represents about 25 per cent of global production.

Even though production and growing condition across the Prairies will affect potential canola supply and therefore domestic prices, external global production and price influences can often offset these domestic factors, unless weather conditions here are really extreme. At the end of the day, our canola represents around five per cent of this global consumable oil market, based on USDA figures.

Finally, given Canada exports 90 per cent of its canola as seed, oil or meal to 50 markets around the world, domestic consumption doesn’t have much impact on our canola prices.

So, again, you really do need to look around the world to get a sense of other oilseed factors impacting our prices here at home.

To start, let’s look at a close competitor to us both in terms of product substitutability and proximity: the U.S. soybean market. The size alone of U.S. soybean production means it will have an impact on our canola prices. U.S. soybean production of about 120 million tonnes is about six times the 20 million tonnes of Canadian canola production.

Based on price charts in equivalent U.S. dollars, you can certainly see this influence: where soybean oil futures go, canola futures tend to move in the same general direction.

The same is true of the European rapeseed market.

Europe produces about 22 million tonnes of rapeseed and is

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Bottom line, until we get some evidence that this directionless trend has ended, expect canola prices to continue to go sideways. However, canola prices often move up or down $50/tonne in any given threemonth period. A $50/tonne swing can easily occur even as canola stays within its longerterm technical sideways price pattern around $500/tonne.

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So remember, in our world of interrelated markets, think globally about what’s going on around the global oilseed market, but act locally to protect revenues, manage risk and take advantage of pricing opportunities.

the world’s biggest producer of rapeseed oil at over 10 million tonnes. The European rapeseed oil price has been in a channel chart pattern for the past several years.

In fact, all the largest oil markets including soybean, rapeseed, palm and sunflower have a similar price pattern. All these global oilseed markets have been going sideways over the past couple of years, so expect more sideways canola price action until a definitive change in oilseed trends occur.

Where they go, canola will tend to follow.

Sometimes it also helps to look at what forward prices curves are doing to get a sense of underlying market fundamentals. Futures curves for canola, soybean and soyoil are all relatively flat or slightly upward sloping, suggesting that there aren’t any particular imbalances in current market David Derwin (dderwin@pifinancial. conditions. Once again, side- com) is a portfolio manager and ways prices can be expected, commodity/investment adviser with for now.

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Neepawa couple committed to prairie rehabilitation Paul and Larissa Koshel are the Whitemud Watershed Conservation District’s 2017 Conservation Award winners for their work restoring a small plot of native prairie plus a three-acre wetland

BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff / near Neepawa

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hen a small farm came up for sale east of town in 2012 Paul and Larissa Koshel jumped at the chance to buy it.

The couple was living in the town of Neepawa at the time, having moved down from The Pas in 2006 for Paul’s job as a school teacher at Gladstone and Larrisa’s as a registered nurse.

But the pair wanted to raise their three young daughters in an environment more like where they’d grown up themselves — and the 125-acre location two miles out of town with an already established saskatoon U-pick and other orchard trees was perfect.

“We were lucky to find this,” says Paul who had good memories of the U-pick/market garden his father had established in the 1970s up north.

The couple has since established their own one-acre market garden and now sells vegetables and fruits at local farmers’ markets and to restaurants in Neepawa.

Having this piece of land has also fulfilled another of Paul’s aspirations. His father has observed declines in birds, butterflies and pollinators over time in northern Manitoba, and he wanted to do something about it.

A year after their move here they began planting more orchard trees, short rows of windbreaks and something else the gently rolling slopes of this small acreage hasn’t had growing on it for some time — prairie crocus, little bluestem grasses, milkweed and other native plant species.

“Native prairies have always intrigued me,” said Paul, who shortly after arriving here began reading and researching how to re-establish them around their new home too.

Since 2014 they’ve put in a quarter acre of natural prairie, collecting grasses and forbs from sites within a 30-mile radius to produce seed for plots Paul is establishing to create seed mixes for planting.

It’s as labour intensive and painstaking as it sounds. He’s learned a lot of how-tos from friends near Franklin, who’ve already converted an entire quarter section back to prairie.

“There’s ways to do it and ways not to, and I’ve made mistakes,” he said. “The problem in our soil is there’s so many exotic weeds from Europe. You have to start small and seed plots are the best way to go.”

Their long-term goal is to have native prairie plots covering as much as possible of their entire acreage. That kind of pollinator habitat will benefit their U-pick business, and also restore a small portion of the natural world Paul’s father has been watching diminish over his own lifetime. That’s important to him on a personal level, said Koshel.

“Prairies are the rarest ecosystems,” he said, adding the trends don’t look good for what little remains with the compounded impact of climate change and pressure to convert to farmland intensifying.

“The Prairies have been around for 10,000 years. If I put

in a prairie, it should still be here for another 10,000 years.”

The other major undertaking to improve the farm for wildlife has been to convert a seasonal drainage area that flows into the Whitemud River into a threeacre wetland.

As a first step, the Koshels completed an Environmental Farm Plan in 2014 — no small feat given how little they initially knew about it, notes the couple.

Where they had help was from staff with the Whitemud Watershed Conservation Dis­ trict, who also worked with them on the wetland construction which was completed this year. Ahead is more natural rehabilitation work around the new marsh to eliminate existing non-native species and establish more native grasses, flowers and sedges, says the couple.

Meanwhile, they continue a winter feeding program for the abundant birdlife on the farm

and plan to add more sites to the dozen birdhouses built along a bluebird trail established just south of the farm.

For now, their immediate commitment is teaching their daughters how to respect the land and feel connected to it, growing food for their own table, running a viable fruit and vegetable operation and living a lifestyle that supports a smaller scale of agriculture.

There aren’t many smaller farms around and very little support for families to live rurally, says the couple.

“We’re just trying to fill a void in agriculture so it doesn’t disappear,” said Paul.

The Koshels were awarded t h e W h i t e m u d Wa t e r s h e d Con­s ervation District’s 2017 Conservation Award at the Man­ itoba Conservation Dis­t ricts Association 42nd annual convention last month. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

Paul and Larissa Koshel spend their winters feeding birds and summers operating their market garden and saskatoon U-pick on their 125-acre farm purchased five years ago. It’s a good place to raise their three daughters, Ella, 10, Rhea, nine, and Kira, seven, says the couple. Paul’s father, Harry, 91, also lives with the family. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

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Mixing and matching intercrops with WADO Results are in on the Westman Agricultural Diversification Organization’s intercrop trials this year

BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff

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ry conditions and roving deer added extra challenge to intercropping in southwest Manitoba, but Melita’s Westman Agricultural Diversification Organization (WADO) still gleaned results this past season.

Intercropping, also known as companion cropping, is an emerging practice in general.

Farmers are drawn to it for potential overyielding, disease or weed management or increased water use in wet years.

At the same time, dry years may drain subsoil moisture, a bad mix might pit crops against each other and a weather loss risks not just one crop, but two.

Added to that, the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation does not insure intercrops.

WADO hopes to clear up some of that risk.

The test farm near Melita ran intercropping trials this year on wheat-legume, pea-canola, hemp-legume and soybean-flax.

Wheat and legumes One of the less novel mixes at WADO, wheat-legume has emerged as a cover crop option for producers who want to keep green cover after harvest, turn livestock out to graze or by organic producers to control weeds.

WADO hoped to single out best seeding practices. The farm compared both alfalfa and clover broadcast prior to spring wheat seeding, drilled into the furrow and broadcast after cereal was seeded.

Melita’s dry spring came into play on emergence, WADO manager Scott Chalmers said.

Legumes seeded half an inch deep accessed moisture better, while broadcast seed did not respond until it rained.

Given that, Chalmers found seeding with the row was the best method and pre-seed broadcast followed, since the soil disturbance from wheat seeding worked in the legume.

“In the end, the biomass was basically the same despite whatever method you choose,” he said. “It’s more based on the seed viability depending on which treatment you pick.”

Respectively, in-row alfalfa and clover gave 381 and 279 kilograms of biomass per hectare compared to pre-seed broadcast (354 kg/ ha for alfalfa and 168 kg/ha for clover) and post-seed broadcast (327 kg/ha in alfalfa, 267 kg/ha in clover).

WADO had some concern about yield lag in wheat, an issue that did not emerge, Chalmers said.

While pre-seed broadcast clover returned the lowest biomass, it also gave the highest wheat yield. The plot took off 4,374 kg/ha of wheat, beating out the control plot by 200 kg/ ha. Others fell short of monocrop wheat, although the lowest yields (post-seed broadcast alfalfa and in-furrow clover) reached 3,870 kg/ha and kernel weights met or exceeded the check.

“I think if we had a better spring where we had a quick jump out of the ground, I think things would have been much different, but because of the delay, the wheat was really the main survivor and kind of overshadowed any effects that the leg-

Hairy vetch blooms mingle with hemp plants in WADO’s hemp-legume intercrop trials this year. PHOTOs: SCOTT CHALMERS

umes would have posed. We had a fantastic wheat yield,” Chalmers said.

Dr. Mar tin Entz of the University of Manitoba says those results match his own work in intercropping fall rye and legumes.

Like Chalmers, Entz found that adding legumes did not significantly impact yield and in-row seeding was better than broadcasting legumes.

Entz, however, also looked at soil type. Clay soils might give legumes a boost in a relay crop, Entz found in a 2001 study.

“Greater water-holding capacity of clay soils may make them better suited to late-season plant growth and less reliant on lateseason precipitation than sandy soils,” the study read.

rate of fertilizer for nitrogen that you put on,” Chalmers said.

The trial tagged 35 pounds per acre as an ideal phosphorus rate.

Chalmers said land equivalence ratio, which compares crop yield if grown together with yields if you grew crops separately under the same management, plateaued at that point.

Entz was not surprised at those findings.

While he has not examined nitrogen in pea-canola himself, “what Scott has found seems logical,” he said. “The nitrogen fertilizer regime in legume/non-legume intercrops is an important question.”

Two types of legumes, planted in three ways, peek out from the stubble after wheat is harvested in the WADO spring wheat-legume intercropping trial near Melita this year.

Adding canola significantly dropped aphids in peas, WADO reported. Peas alone had almost 17 aphids per plant, compared to mixed plots which all saw less than four.

Soybean and flax Soybean-flax yields will stay anecdotal, Chalmers said. WADO pulled back the trial after deer grazed plots enough that any samples would be invalid.

Flax visually overwhelmed the soybeans, however, Chalmers added. Flax thrived better in the dry conditions, particularly when planted in the same row as the pulse.

Pea and canola Pea and canola trials were all about the fertilizer.

The second year WADO has tested the mix, researchers hoped to better understand dynamics between phosphorus and nitrogen.

Results echoed 2016, despite the drier year.

Once again, WADO found that any application of phosphorus benefited the crop, while nitrogen hindered nodulation in peas and gave canola a competitive advantage.

Combined 2016 and 2017 numbers showed that pea nodules declined from well over 30 per plant when no nitrogen was added to 20 with 90 pounds per acre of nitrogen.

In terms of phosphorus, a jump from no nutrient to 30 pounds per acre increased nodules from just over 20 to just under 30 per plant.

“Without phosphorus, it’s not going to do anything,” Chalmers said. “Any applied phosphorus was great not only for plant growth and grain yield but for nodulation as well, which was interesting... and any nitrogen we applied to the system really was not advantageous to grain yield.”

Jumping from no nitrogen to 45 pounds per acre did give several hundred kilograms more yield per hectare, mostly due to canola yield, although jumping again to 90 pounds per acre did not significantly increase production. Phosphorus had a constant upwards trend. The first 30 pounds of phosphorus per acre saw a similar yield jump as 45 pounds per acre of nitrogen, while 60 pounds per acre of phosphorus led to the highest yield jump of any single-nutrient plot.

Plots with no phosphorus and 90 pounds per acre of nitrogen returned the lowest yields of any plot other than the unfertilized check.

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The early end also means that WADO couldn’t test soybean shelling during harvest.

Chalmers previously expressed concerns that harvest speed for flax would damage soybeans.

WADO initially hoped that a flax-soybean mix would give similar disease advantages as flax and chickpea have demonstrated in Saskatchewan. The combination dropped chickpea aschocyta instance from 51 to 17 per cent during a 2014 South East Research Farm study.

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WADO Continued from page 24

Hemp and legumes Hairy vetch showed the most promise, and the most risk, of the legumes mixed with hemp.

The trial also tested red clover, sweet clover, alfalfa. Two annual crops, fall rye and peas, were also planted.

“The hemp was the No. 1 crop,” Chalmers said. “The legumes did take, but once the hemp had bolted and had gone into flower, the legumes kind of took a second seat.”

Hairy vetch outstripped other legumes after hemp was taken off.

Biomass topped 2,000 kg/ha of dry matter, while no other relay crop returned more than 500 kg/ ha.

That same growth rate threatened harvest. Vetch grew high enough to tangle with seed heads and potentially plug combines.

“If you pick a tall variety, you’re probably not going to see much legume or vetch get up top, but if you’re picking a shorter variety, for example, Finola, I think the legume would have the upper hand and probably take over the crop.”

The effect may be even more dramatic on soil organic matter, according to Entz.

“Keep in mind that hairy vetch usually has three times more below growth than above-ground growth for the first six weeks of its life, so even an unimpressive amount of biomass of hairy vetch can make a big contribution,” he said.

“I think if we had a better spring where we had a quick jump out of the ground, I think things would have been much different, but because of the delay, the wheat was really the main survivor and kind of overshadowed any effects that the legumes would have posed.”

Scott Chalmers WADO manager

Legumes and fall rye dragged yields slightly, with the exception of the poorly established red clover.

Field peas showed more promise for yield. The mix returned 909 kg/ha of hemp and 347 kg/ha of peas for the largest total grain yield.

“Certainly, there would be some issues with separating that crop because hemp is harvested so green,” Chalmers said.

The slight overyield might not be worth the inconvenience, he added, although a wetter year might see more pea yield. astockford@farmmedia.com

Health Canada proposes some neonic restrictions

BY ALEX BINKLEY Co-operator contributor

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ealth Canada is proposing some restrictions on the use of three neonic pesticides for horticultural production but they would still be registered for use on field crops such as corn and soybeans.

Meanwhile the depar tment will continue working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of California on the impact of the pesticides on pollinators and insects, Health Canada announced Dec. 21.

As for the controversy over their impact on pollinators, Health Canada stands by its earlier conclusion “... that since the introduction of new planting practices for corn and soybeans in 2014, the number of bee death incidents have remained well below the high levels of 2012 and 2013. The number of bee death incidents related to sprayed pesticides also dropped during 2016.”

As for population declines in pollinators, “... no single factor has been identified as the cause,” it said. “The available science suggests that multiple

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factors acting in combination may be at play, including loss of habitat and food sources, diseases, viruses and pests, and pesticide exposure.”

Health Canada is examining the information collected in an attempt to answer these questions.

Debra Conlon of Grain Farmers of Ontario, said her organization was pleased to see Health Canada appreciate the value of neonic seed treatments and that it “recognizes that there are situations where the use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment would be critical to producing a viable crop.” It also “specifically states that the widespread use of these products is contributing to the low soil insect population and that neonics have replaced other less desirable chemistries.”

The department also acknowledged that bee “incidents” are down and the best management practices Ontario farmers have instituted are working.

“The report says that since the introduction of a dustreducing fluency agent for treated corn and soybean seeds in 2014, the number of incident reports associated with treated corn and soybean seeds in Canada has declined by 70 to 90 per cent.”

Pierre Petelle, president of CropLife Canada, said the department’s announcement validates what the industry has been saying all along. His organization is still analyzing the details of Health Canada’s announcement made just before Christmas.

“It will have definite impact on the horticulture sector,” Petelle said. “Overall the department is saying it wants to make sure its information on neonics is current but overall pollinators aren’t at risk.”

He said the department’s announcement undercuts the limits imposed by the Ontario government on neonic use. “It shows they got it wrong.”

How e v e r, t h e O n t a r i o Beekeepers’ Association blasted the department’s announcement as a gift to pesticide manufacturers. The decision “goes against overwhelming scientific evidence showing acute and chronic effects on bees, and the experience of Ontario beekeepers whose bees continue to suffer from a decade of overuse of neonicotinoids on soy, corn and winter wheat.”

There are three important neonicotinoids currently approved for agricultural use in Canada, imidacloprid, clothianidin, and thiamethoxam.

They have been under review since 2012.

The numbers of bee death incidents reported between 2014 and 2017 during the planting period were between 70 and 92 per cent lower, compared to 2013, Health Canada said.

The Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency “continues to track and investigate bee mortality incidents with the support of the appropriate provincial ministry and plans to complete in 2018 a comprehensive analysis of the incidents that occurred between 2012 and 2016.”

The agency said as a result of comprehensive scientific assessments of the effects of

clothianidin and thiamethoxam on bees and other pollinators, they are proposing to phase out some uses of these pesticides.

“We are also proposing to further restrict other uses in cases where the acceptable risk to bees and other pollinators could not be demonstrated,” PMRA wrote. “The PMRA is currently consulting Canadians on these proposed regulatory decisions for 90 days.”

The risk assessment for imidacloprid is being reviewed in light of additional data from the registrant, additional literature that has recently been published, and public comments.

“To date, our assessments of the available data and published literature do not point to unacceptable risks to human health from imidacloprid,” the department said. The PMRA is also looking at the potential for neonicotinoids to affect other parts of the environment including aquatic life such as fish, insects, and other organisms.

An environmental risk assessment of it “had showed that, in aquatic environments in Canada, imidacloprid is being measured at levels that are harmful to aquatic insects.

These insects are an important part of the ecosystem, including as a food source for fish, birds and other animals. For the protection of the environment, PMRA proposed to phase out all the agricultural and a majority of other outdoor uses of imidacloprid over three to five years.”

The department received about 46,000 comments on that, which it is still reviewing along with additional data from a variety of sources. A final decision on the acceptability of the continued use of imidacloprid in Canada is expected in late 2018.

Proposed decisions for thiamethoxam and clothianidin will be published in mid-2018. So far, the department says clothianidin and thiamethoxam do not pose risks to pollinators and their use will continue on a restricted basis.

A phase-out of foliar application to orchard trees and strawberries as well as municipal, industrial and residential turf sites would be proposed.

Pre-bloom application would be reduced from two to one for cucurbit (cucumbers, squash, etc.) vegetables. There would be additional protective label instructions for cereal crop uses.

Proposed changes to the way thiamethoxam can be used include phase-out of foliar and soil applications to ornamental crops that will result in pollinator exposure as well as on berry crops, cucurbit crops and fruiting vegetables and orchard trees. Foliar application to legumes, outdoor fruiting vegetables, and berry crops would no longer be permitted before or during bloom.

As the result of additional information supplied on clothianidin and thiamethoxam products was required, Health Canada is proposing that these products be granted a threeyear registration. The riskreduction measures proposed in these registrations mirror the risk-reduction measures proposed under the re-evaluation while recognizing the other ongoing regulatory activities associated with these products.

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Half of U.S. soy exports to China would fall afoul of new rules U.S. soybeans will likely become more expensive to ship to China as a result exceeding a new standard for speedy delivery, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data compiled by grain broker McDonald Pelz Global Commodities LLC. “It’s going to raise the costs of sending the soybeans to China,” said Richard Wilkins, a Delaware farmer and former chairman of the American Soybean Association.

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M o r e s t r i n g e n t q u a l - Better quality ity rules, which took effect Growers often receive a higher on Jan. 1, could require addi- price for selling soybeans with tional processing of the U.S. one per cent or less foreign oilseeds at Chinese ports to material, known as No. 1 grade, remove impurities. This could because importers pay more for raise costs and reduce sales better quality. to the world’s largest soybean Wilkins said the change importer, according to U.S. would deliver higher-grade soyfarmers and traders. beans to Chinese buyers withHalf of the 473 vessel ship- out requiring a premium price. ments in 2017 and half the total “They basically want to pay us 27.5 million tonnes of U.S. soy- for No. 2 grade but they want it beans exported to China this to be No. 1 grade,” he said. year contained more than one Osama El-Lissy, a deputy SEC_WAB17_MB_Catellier_SEC_WAB17_MB_Catellier.qxd 2017-12-20 11:05 AM Page 1 per cent of foreign material, administrator at the USDA, said

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farmers should not face additional burdens under the new standards.

“Nothing in the agreement we have with China would lead anyone to believe that there would be a change in whatever price arrangement (is) currently being agreed to,” El-Lissy said.

He said C hin ese buyers already may subject some shipments to additional processing. “Whatever time it’s taking now,” he said, “is likely to be the same amount of time that would apply post-Jan. 1.”

China will routinely accept U.S. soybean shipments with one per cent or less foreign material, according to the USDA. Existing specifications for No. 2 soybeans, the type most common in U.S. export contracts, have allowed for up to two per cent of dirt or weed seeds.

The new agreement by the USDA to label cargoes with more than one per cent foreign material came after China raised concerns about weed seeds in September.

China accounts for roughly t w o - t h i r d s o f g l o b a l s oy imports, totalling about 86 million tonnes this year through November, pr imar ily from Brazil, the United States and Argentina. Brazil and Argentina are not covered by the same agreement as the United States.

Income hit U.S. soybean far mers and export traders fear the deal will hurt incomes already straiSned by low crop prices brought on by four years of bumper crops.

Reducing the impurities to one per cent or less could increase U.S. exporters’ costs by 15 U.S. cents per bushel, an ED&F Man Capital Markets analyst said.

To p a g r i c u l t u r a l t r a d ers, including Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Louis Dreyfus, already have policies to encourage farmers to deliver soybeans with less than one per cent of foreign matter.

But the penalty for falling short is relatively minor. At elevators operated by each of the companies, they deduct the weight of foreign material in excess of one per cent from weighings.

The USDA plans to advise U.S. soybean farmers how to adjust 2018 production and harvesting techniques to reduce seed contamination.

Some weeds have thrived in soybean fields after developing resistance to the widely used Roundup herbicide.

ADM said it supported efforts by the North American Export Grain Association, a trade group that worked with the USDA on the agreement, “to achieve an outcome that is beneficial for American agriculture.” The association, Bunge and Louis Dreyfus did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Cargill, another large soybean handler, said it was evaluating the new policy and the potential impact on its business.

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Price spike in sulphur leaves farmers, fertilizer makers sour In the end it’s farmers who will bear the brunt of the higher prices

BY ROD NICKEL Reuters

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hosphate fertilizer pro­ ducers, including Mosaic and PotashCorp of Sask­ atchewan, are paying the high­ est prices in two years for sul­ phur, a key ingredient in their farm products, but farmers are the ones absorbing the extra cost.

Higher sulphur costs, the result of tight global supplies and strong Chinese demand, come as fertilizer makers strug­ gle against a crop price slump that has diminished farmer buying power and as new glo­ bal phosphate supplies come on stream.

The spike in thinly traded sul­ phur caused “a bit of pandemo­ nium,” as it is a byproduct of oil and gas output, making it difficult to fill shortages quickly, said Andy Jung, director of mar­ ket and strategic analysis at Minnesota-based Mosaic.

Mosaic and PotashCorp, among others, convert bright-

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yellow sulphur into sulphuric acid to make diammonium phosphate (DAP), a widely used phosphorus fertilizer.

While crucial for fertilizer, sulphur is a small, niche prod­ uct for energy producers that they remove from oil to prevent acid rain-causing emissions.

Potential beneficiaries of higher sulphur prices include pro­ ducers Teck Resources, which declined to comment, and Suncor Energy, which did not respond.

Mosaic and PotashCorp are paying US$110 per tonne for sulphur this quarter, up US$36 from last quarter, BMO analyst Joel Jackson said.

In response, fertilizer compa­ nies have increased DAP prices.

It sold at Tampa, Florida for an average US$385 per tonne last week, up 21 per cent year over year, according to Mosaic.

PotashCorp declined com­­ment.

Higher fertilizer costs come as North American farmers are already financially stressed.

“If they get too high,

“If they get too high, guys will just cut back.”

Todd Lewis Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan

A sulphur stockpile, the yellow at the centre of the photo, at Syncrude’s Mildred Lake plant in Alberta. PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS/TASTYCAKES

g u y s w i l l j u s t c u t b a c k ,” said Todd Lewis, president o f A g r i c u l t u r a l Producers Association of Sask­­­atchewan.

In t h e p a s t t w o w e e k s, Chinese sulphur prices have declined rapidly from their highs in typically volatile fash­ ion, offering some relief, Jung

said. Even so, Jackson expects contract sulphur prices in the first quarter of 2018 to exceed fourth-quarter prices.

Despite high prices, some sulphur producers hold large stockpiles.

About 10 million tonnes of sulphur sit at Syncrude’s oil

production site in northern Alberta, big enough to be vis­ ible from space, said a sulphur industry official not authorized to speak publicly.

Moving it is an expensive, time-consuming process, requir­ ing sustained high prices, the source said.

Syncrude spokesman Will Gibson said sulphur marketing decisions are up to its joint ven­ ture owners.

One of the owners, Imperial Oil, declined to comment.

For sulphur producer Can­ adian Natural Resources, an Alberta-based oil and gas com­ pany, revenue from the sub­ stance represents only a small share of its portfolio, spokes­ woman Julie Woo said.

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The European Com­ mission has approved Canadian canola for use in producing biodiesel in the European Union under its tougher envi­ ronmental standard, the Canadian gover nment said on Dec. 28.

The EU had required feedstocks used to pro­ duce biodiesel to emit 35 per cent less greenhouse g a s e s ov e r t h e i r l i f e cycle than fossil fuels, to count against a 2020 target for energy con­ sumption from renew­ able sources in member countries.

The standard rose to 50 per cent less emis­ sions on Jan. 1.

The commission pub­ lished a decision Dec. 28 confirming that Canadian canola meets the new standard, said Patrick Girard, spokes­ man for the Canadian government.

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Reaching consumers a complicated challenge for the agri-food sector Consumers are tribal these days, which makes talking to them tough

BY ALEX BINKLEY Co-operator contributor

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armers and food companies striving to better connect with consumers need to prepare for dealing with a diverse audience, says the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity (CCFI).

“There is no single consumer group,” the centre says in a report on its 2017 Public Trust Survey on public attitudes on food issues.

“Today’s consumers are diverse, yet engage and communicate similar viewpoints on food by forming tribes. Each consumer is unique and every consumer will display characteristics of other tribes, but ultimately everyone has a primary tribe to which they return.”

Reaching out to the tribes has to be key “when planning who and how to engage with to be most effective in earning trust,” CCFI said.

The 2017 survey built on the centre’s inaugural 2016 survey of public trust attitudes on food.

It found that “the rising cost of food and keeping healthy food affordable ranked as the top two concerns for the second year in a row over a long list of others including health care, energy and the economy.”

Keep these findings in mind when engaging the public, “particularly those who don’t work in

food or agriculture,” the centre said. They also added the industry should be prepared to discuss how what they do helps to keep consumers healthy and food affordable.

The survey results show a significant increase in the number of consumers who feel the food system is heading in the right direction – 43 per cent in 2017 compared to just 30 per cent in 2016, the survey said. “This increase was consistent across all segments – male, female, early adopters, moms, millennials, and foodies.

“Just under half of millennials (43 per cent) believe the food system is moving in the right direction. This is slightly less favourable than foodies (51 per cent), but more favourable than moms (38 per cent). Only 13 per cent believe the food system is on the wrong track.”

The rising cost of food and keeping healthy food affordable maintained the top two positions again in 2017. The safety of imported food made the top five, as the concern for the Canadian economy dropped out of the top five in 2017.

The survey also found concerns on many food system issues such as antibiotics, pesticides and GMOs remained constant in 2017, showing existing efforts to explain these topics haven’t reached everyone and new approaches should be considered.

Canadian food buyers are a complex lot, according to a newly released survey of them. PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS/LEFTOVERTURE

“Foodies are more concerned about most food system issues than other segments, yet also often more positive,” the survey said. They are an aware tribe presenting “a unique opportunity for those working in the food system. Foodies are engaged information seekers and sharers looking for authentic answers to everything food in Canada.”

A 2016 survey showed millennials were the least trusting group and the 2017 survey aimed to learn more about why. There appears to be some opportunity to address “those reporting neutral to negative views,” it concluded. “There is a desire for more information and to engage.”

The survey report also urged food system stakeholders to think about messengers, messages and channels to engage with millennials in “meaningful and authentic ways, perhaps like never before. Think in pictures and video and about what they value most first.”

Companies need to provide consumers with information that is accurate, easily understood and relevant to feedback, the survey said. They also need to be transparent communicating in “language and terms that are easily understood and that help make informed decisions.”

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“What’s really important to consumers versus what may be inflamed in the news, social media or by critics with a specific cause? How are Canadians different or the same as Americans?”

The centre also wants to help the industry decide what transparency means to their operations. “We asked consumers.

They responded that food processors and manufacturers are most responsible for providing information about how their food is grown or produced so they can make informed decisions.

“Some transparency activities are more imp ortant to consumers than others. For food safety, CCFI’s research shows that identifying all ingredients in the food on the nutrition label, regardless of quantity, is a much stronger activity demonstrating transparency than providing safe handling instructions on the package.”

The survey found food manufacturers are most responsible for being transparent on food safety measures followed by farmers and the government.

“Farmers are held the most responsible for demonstrating trust-building transparency when it comes to environmental impact and animal well-being,” the survey found.

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Nip forage diseases at the bud Spoiled feed can mean wasted profit and, depending on the pathogen, animal health issues

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oisture is the enemy when it comes to forage diseases.

For any farmer who has watched dark splotches appear on their low-laying alfalfa leaves or opened a bale only to find it spoiled, that will come as no surprise.

Fungi are the culprits for most forage diseases, Linda Jewell, AAFC plant pathologist said during the most recent Beef Cattle Research Council webinar on identifying and managing forage diseases.

Baling or ensiling wet plant matter can make problems worse, she said. The confined, wet environment creates a breeding ground for fungi, some of which may produce dangerous chemicals for livestock eating the feed.

“When you’re talking about, for example, ensiling, you’re expecting a natural fermentation process to happen,” she said.

“However, if there is more moisture there than there should be, the organisms that are responsible for the actual fermentation won’t necessarily end up being the major species that ends up being there. First of all, you might not get proper fermentation, so you might not get proper preservation of the plant, but you can also get spoilage happening.

“That can be kind of an insidious problem, especially if you’re feeding from, say, a bunker or a siled bale,” she added. “That’s because it can be really difficult to examine the entire face surface and you might not realize that there’s a centre of rot that’s taken hold.”

The problem can crop up after samples are taken to verify nutrient value, webinar attendees heard.

“When you’re talking about, for example, ensiling, you’re expecting a natural fermentation process to happen. However, if there is more moisture there than there should be, the organisms that are responsible for the actual fermentation won’t necessarily end up being the major species that ends up being there.”

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“Aphanomyces is one that I think we’re seeing,” he said.

“People just generally think that stands sort of time out — they age and they time out... the crown dies due to age — but more often than not it’s a disease in the crown that is causing the problem.”

T h e “ w a t e r m o u l d ,” s o named for its actively swimm i n g s p o re s , d r a w s m o re attention during the wet conditions that allow it to spread.

D a v e K o s l o w s k y, c h a i r of the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association, says most Manitoba farmers are more concerned with insects like alfalfa weevil than fungi.

“That varies from year to year,” he said. “Conditions have to be just right for it.”

There are a “sprinkling” of other diseases on the association’s radar, although there were few threats this year with the dry season, he said.

Cutting out disease Mo s t h a y s t a n d s a r e c u t before a disease can really take hold, Friesen said, and an early cut is among the most common forage disease management advice given to producers.

Jewell agrees.

“If you were planning to cut in a week from now and you’re looking out over your beautiful alfalfa field and you see that there’s a disease outbreak on the go and there’s a high chance that you’re going to start seeing defoliation soon, the reduction in yield and nutrient value that you’re going to see from cutting a little bit earlier than you would have liked to is going to be worth it if you cut it before the disease becomes very severe,” she said.

Disease is a greater threat f o r f o r a g e s e e d g r ow e r s , Friesen added, since plants r e a c h f u l l - s e a s o n g r ow t h before harvest.

Roger Burak, research manager for the Manitoba Forage Seed Association, singled out three main disease threats, the sclerotinia-like blossom blight, leaf spot and black stem.

Winterkill and snow moulds, which would affect a regular forage stand, would also cross over into seed, he said.

A p h a n o m y c e s , h ow e v e r, is not a major concern for the Manitoba Forage Seed Association.

The association hopes to see forages added to more fungicide labels, something Burak says is an ongoing challenge for producers who do face disease pressures.

“Because forage and forage seed is kind of a minor crop, a lot of the herbicide companies don’t put them on their label,” he said. “They put the major crops on their label, so really, even for us to combat a lot of diseases, there’s not a lot of registered products available to us.”

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Weather pattern trying to switch back to mild Issued: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 Covering: January 3, 2018 – January 10, 2018 Daniel Bezte Weather Vane

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he Christmas forecast played out pretty close to what the weather models predicted, as cold weather moved in over the holidays.

The one big difference was just how cold it ended up getting, with some areas seeing overnight lows drop into the mid -30s C. For this forecast period it looks like the very cold pattern we’ve been in for the last 10 or so days will begin to switch towards a more seasonable one.

This forecast period begins with yet one more area of arctic high pressure building in from the North. This high will take a more easterly track compared to the one that affected our region over the holidays. While the arctic high will bring a reinforcing shot of cold air, the eastern track will keep the coldest air to our north and east. Expect daytime highs to be around -20 C with overnight lows near -30 C. The weather models are then showing a broad area of low pressure tracking across the central Prairies over the weekend.

This low will bring clouds along with the chance of some light snow, but more importantly it will bring milder temperatures. Expect daytime highs to be around -10 C with overnight lows around -18 C. Unfortunately, this doesn’t spell the end of our cold temperatures as one more area of arctic high pressure builds southwards behind the weekend low. This high is forecasted to slide by to our west and then south on Monday and Tuesday, dropping temperatures back down into the -20 C range. Temperatures then look like they will moderate for the second half of next week as an area of low pressure develops over southern Alberta and then tracks across the Dakotas.

We could see a little light snow from this system late on Wednesday or Thursday, especially over western and southern regions, but accumulations look to be low.

Usual temperature range for this period: highs: -21 to -5 C, lows: -31 to -15 C. Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession with a BA (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He operates a computerized weather station near Birds Hill Park. Contact him with your questions and comments at daniel@bezte.ca.

Fear not the polar vortex, it is just misunderstood The name is alarming, but we’ve seen it all before

By Karen Braun Reuters

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he prospect of a colderthan-normal winter is enough to keep the public on edge, but add a menacing name like “polar vortex” and a simple forecast seems like an omen of the apocalypse.

Forecasters warned that cold outbreaks over North America linked to the polar vortex may be more likely than usual this winter, with the current cold blast for the Prairies just one sign of the times.

But blaming the polar vortex for any one or series of weather events is somewhat irresponsible as the term often carries negative perceptions despite the fact that by definition, the polar vortex is neither unusual nor extreme.

No one really knew what the polar vortex was until four years ago, when the bitterly cold start to 2014 drove up energy consumption and associated commodity prices in the United States. The media instantly fell in love with its sinister sound, and the term “polar vortex” soon gained notoriety — and misunderstanding.

Buzz-worthy though it sounds, the polar vortex is actually much less exciting. It has always existed

and is not always the source of extreme weather. In some ways, it is not even a vortex at all.

But the term will likely be misused and overused so it is important to understand the context.

The term “polar vortex” is not the easiest to understand because its usage varies even within the scientific community. It is short for circumpolar vortex and most broadly refers to the west-to-east airflow that circles the pole in middle and high latitudes.

There are two polar vortexes that meteorologists might be referring to when discussing the topic, especially as it pertains to the Northern Hemisphere. One of them describes a strong flow in the stratosphere above the Arctic Circle.

This stratospheric vortex appears in the winter months due to the sharp temperature differences between the mid-latitudes and the poles. If the stratosphere suddenly warms, the vortex weakens. This may or may not indirectly contribute to a cold weather outbreak in North America, Europe or Asia.

The other polar vortex is the one that primarily influences surface weather patterns and can often be linked to chilly winter blasts. It operates in the upper

middle latitudes at a height just below a commercial airliner’s cruising altitude.

This “tropospheric” polar vortex is a basic, year-round feature of Earth’s climate structure. It manifests in a string of high- and lowpressure anomalies — known as ridges and troughs — across the middle latitudes.

The advancement of these pressure centres is largely responsible for the rapidly changing weather we experience in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

The tropospheric vortex is the one that the media likes to highlight in the wintertime as the culprit of harsh, arctic-like conditions. But this same “vortex” can also be responsible for unusually cool summer weather, though broadcasters never make that attribution.

In fact, scientists have recently suggested that using the term “vortex” in connection with surface weather disturbances is not so useful as it is highly prone to misinterpretation, especially since it may incorrectly imply that a dramatic change in global atmospheric circulation has occurred.

Karen Braun is a market analyst for Reuters.

The views expressed here are her own.

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s I write this, the holiday season upon us and the year coming to an end, it’s not surprising that I had an extra-early deadline to hit. This means you’ll have to wait until at least the next issue before I’ll be able to do our annual look back at the previous year’s weather.

I also have to be careful about trying to talk about the current weather as a lot can change between the time I write this and the time you are reading it.

Over the years, I’ve occasionally written about some of the websites I use to look up weather, create forecasts, and read about what’s going on in the world of weather. So, for this issue I thought I would list my top weather websites and provide a brief description of what I use each of the sites for.

Below are the websites I use the most when trying to figure out weather forecasts. Whether it is trying to create my own forecast or deciding if I should trust what the current public forecasts are telling me, these sites can be extremely useful.

No. 1 on this list is: www. tropicaltidbits.com.

This website is primarily focused on tropical weather,

Whether it is trying to create my own forecast or deciding if I should trust what the current public forecasts are telling me, these sites can be extremely useful.

but it has a great and easy-touse page dedicated to forecasting models. On this page you have access to the Global Forecast System (GFS) model, which is one of the primary forecasting weather models.

Under this model you can view forecasts that go out 384 hours or 16 days. You can view forecasts that show pressure, precipitation, dew point, winds, temperatures, and temperature anomalies, just to mention a few of the variables available. You also have access to medium- and long-range forecast models that show both temperature and precipitation forecasts extending out from six weeks to six months. Along with the GFS model it also has the Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC) model which is the Canadian forecasting model.

The next website is: http:// weather.unisys.com.

This website also gives you access to the various weather

maps produced by the main American weather models.

Once again, key on this list is the GFS model. This website gives slightly different maps that include more of Northern Canada. This allows you to see how systems are moving in Northern Canada, which is especially important when dealing with cold air outbreaks!

One really nice thing about this website is that it gives you a lot of detail about what the different forecast maps or plots are telling you and how to read them. Other information on this website includes several different maps that show current conditions across North America, including temperature, dew point, wind chill, pressure and pressure changes.

These two sites are the main sites I use to create weather forecasts, or when I need to get ready to answer questions that are inevitably going to be asked of me when I head out to social events.

The next website is: http:// kamala.cod.edu/Canada/ latest.focn45.CWWG.html.

This site is a very specific address that gives you access to the latest significant weather discussion issued by the Prairie and Arctic storm prediction centre of Environment Canada.

This discussion gives you a better insight into the thoughts behind the forecasts being created for Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the western and eastern Arctic. Some days it doesn’t provide too much extra input, while other days it can be really interesting. If you take some time to play around a little bit on this website you can find various other special weather statements put out by Environment Canada – something to try to discover on your own.

Next website is: http://www. weatheroffice.gc.ca/.

Good old Environment Canada. I use this website to see what the latest 24- to 48-hour forecasts are for various regions. Probably the biggest part of this website that I refer to are the weather radar images, especially when rain or snow is happening or is expected shortly. The third key part of this website is the weather watches and warnings page that allows you to quickly see and read any watches or

warnings that have been issued across Canada. One other area that has some good and useful information is the analyses and modelling page. This can sometimes be difficult to find, but once you do, it gives you access to some of Environment Canada’s short- and long-range weather model information.

This is also where I find the snow depth map that I “clean up” and use a few times over the winter.

The last website I’ll mention in this issue is: https://earth. nullschool.net/.

While I don’t really use this website that often when I am creating forecasts, I think this is one of the coolest sites out there. This website takes the data from weather models and turns it into a stunning visual by placing the data on the globe. It defaults to surface wind data, but by clicking on the earth label you can switch it to other types of data. I would definitely check this site out, if just for the wind visualization. It really does an amazing job of showing how the wind flows around the world from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.

Well, that is all the room I have for this issue. We’ll continue with another list of top weather websites sometime in the next month or so.

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After a barnburner of a 40th anniversary show last year, Ag Days is going to be focusing on young farmers for 2018.

PHOTO: Gord Gilmour

Forty... plus one Manitoba Ag Days rolls into Year 41 with a celebration of young farmers

BY DUNCAN MORRISON Co-operator contributor

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ou’ve turned the Big 4-0, you’ve had the big celebratory splash with all your besties and it was one heck of a party... so... now what?

Well, if you’re the organizing crew at the 2018 Manitoba Ag Days, you get right back in the saddle and build off your very successful 40th Manitoba Ag Days celebration in 2017 by bringing the future of farming into the mix for 2018. In fact, organizers have declared the 41st annual Manitoba Agriculture Days show as the Year of the Young Farmer at Brandon’s Keystone Centre, January 16-18, 2018.

“Times are changing in agriculture and we want to embrace the change and empower the next generation,” said Kristen Phillips, Manitoba Ag Days general manager. “We have lots of young farmer events happening at our show this year.”

Phillips is particularly excited about hosting a Young Farmers Luncheon on Tuesday where the Hon. Ralph Eichler, minister of agriculture will attend. Phillips advised that agriculture students from University of Manitoba and Assiniboine Community College would be taking part throughout the show and networking at the Young Farmers Lounge.

“We have several young farmers

speaking on our program in the two theatres over the three days; and as a group, all of the young farmers will be introduced and acknowledged,” says Phillips.

Brad Crammond, Manitoba Ag Days co-chair and a producer from Austin, feels the timing was perfect to celebrate the future with the Year of the Young Farmer.

“The demographics on the farm and the industry are changing,” said Crammond. “We had a lot of fun reminiscing about the past at the 40th anniversary last year and now we are excited to celebrate the future.”

With the future of farming positioned in the spotlight via the young farmers focus, Phillips said the 2018 show will be the gold standard of excellence that attendees and exhibitors have come to expect from Canada’s largest indoor farm show. The event is a three-day exposition focusing purely on agriculture and has remained proudly committed to ensuring all exhibitors, speakers and presentations are strictly agriculture related.

The 100 per cent pure far m approach has consistently attracted visitors from all over Canada, the northern United States and overseas to attend the world-class event.

“We have over 550 exhibitors and 50,000 visitors yearly to our incredible show and facility,” says Phillips.

“We focused on those numbers and stayed to the basics that makes it great for all. We are ecstatic to part-

“Times are changing in agriculture and we want to embrace the change and empower the next generation.”

Kristen Phillips Ag Days general manager

ner with the Brandon Curling Club and the Keystone Centre for the next five years to secure the square footage that we first had at the 2017 anniversary show; which added 19,200 square feet to our show last year and we filled every single square inch of the facility with loyal and dedicated exhibitors.”

Phillips says last year’s Brandon Curling Club transformation was a tremendous success and had such a positive impact on the show that there was no question they needed to utilize the agreement once again and in future years.

Phillips also points to the speaker lineup as having a purely agriculture focus of interest to farmers.

“We ramped up our speaking lineup with lots of “real” topics. We took a real focus on agronomy, economics and livestock and we also received approval for 22.5 continuing education units for all of the certified crop advisers out there,” said Phillips.

Phillips says there are 17 entries in the new products and 14 entries in the Inventors’ Showcase this year, numbers that she was very pleased with, as well as the 10 entries into the farm safety feature of the show.

Bull Congress is jam packed again with 35 entries. The competitions and entries are all promoted on the newly revamped Manitoba Ag Days www.agdays.com website and at the show with show signage. Phillips says the updated website is a must visit for attendees and exhibitors alike.

“The Manitoba Ag Days website has been updated with new interactive maps that are easily accessible and easy to use to make your plan before or during the show; food vendors, washrooms and every exhibitor booth has been clearly marked on the interactive maps,” Phillips said.

Phillips says her team relies heavily on attendee and exhibitor feedback to make sure they hit the mark from year to year.

“We took a look at all of the surveys from last year and stuck to the majority vote to keep this a Free Admission, Free Parking, FamilyFriendly Event,” Phillips said. “But most of all we listened to our exhibitors and made changes within the floor plan to meet the requests of our exhibitors. Without the 550-plus exhibitors in our show we would not still be existing as a farm show in Canada, let alone be Canada’s largest indoor farm show.”

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“The Manitoba Ag Days committee has worked extremely hard and I believe this is the best program we have ever had,” said Brad Crammond, Manitoba Ag Days co-chair.

The speaker lineup features more than 60 speakers who will take to the podiums and stages of the FCC and MNP theatres over the course of the show. The schedule is posted online www. agdays.com and is all encompassing around all potential attendee interests around things including such areas of interest as crops, trade, livestock handling, water management and marketing.

For those keen on can ola yield, on Jan. 16, Florian Hagmann from Birch Hills, Sask. will share how he has successfully grown high-yielding canola year after year. Attention to details and ensuring that those details are taken care of in a timely manner are key elements of his success. Hagmann has been successful in growing over 100 bushels per acre of canola, and he likes to learn from other farmers as well as share his thoughts on why doing the “Little Things Matter!”

Later that day, Brian Voth, president, IntelliFARM Inc. will share his insights on grainmarketing challenges. Whether it’s the wrong timing and panic selling, rallies during the growing season which mean taking on production risk, or a

Dr. Roy Lewis was just one of many presenters who spoke at Ag Days 2017. He shared his observations of use of pain control measures while cautioning producers on overusage of antimicrobials. Photo: Lorraine Stevenson

plethora of quality issues to deal with, grain marketing has never been easy. Possibly the bane of most farm operations, more often than not marketing is where money is left on the table. The key is having a plan, and sticking to it, he says.

Craig Klemmer, principal ag economist, Farm Credit Canada, will look at the western Canadian agriculture environment that is constantly evolving. Central banks are beginning to unwind stimulus in the economy, Canadian trade negotiations are ongoing, and oil prices are finding a new equilibrium. What are the opportunities and risk for western Canadian agriculture? How do trade negotiations impact Canada-U.S. relation and supply chain?

Also, the cr itical synergies of water management and land use is also on the

slate as Dr. Allan Preston, chair of the Assiniboine River Basin Initiative, will present “ Wa t e r s h e d M a n a g e m e n t Ac ro s s t h e Fe n c e L i n e s – Challenges & Opportunities,” that will showcase water management efforts, decision-support tools and collaboration across the Assiniboine River Basin.

As is the case every year, there is always something for everyone in the presentations and speaker lineup. For the certified crop advisers in attendance, many of the presentations feature continuing education unit credits: Nutrient Management: 3.5; Soil & Water Management: 3; Integrated Pest Management: 2.5; Crop Management: 11.5; Professional Development: 2; Manure Management: 0; Sustainability: 0.

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rgentina’s breadbasket province of Buenos Aires will remain mostly dry over the days ahead, meteorologists said Jan. 2, after reporting scant rains over the weekend in the country’s biggest and most productive farm area.

The drought in some parts of Buenos Aires province has put upward pressure on international soy prices, on supply worries. Argentina is the world’s top exporter of soymeal livestock feed and its third-biggest supplier of raw soybeans.

“In most of Buenos Aires the rains were slight to non-existent,” Natalia Gattinoni, a meteorologist with the state-run INTA farm technology institute, told Reuters, in reference to the New Year’s weekend.

Looking forward for the foreseeable future, Buenos Aires can expect lower-than-average rainfall, she added.

CBOT March soybeans were down one cent at $9.60-3/4 a bushel on Jan. 2 Losses were kept in check by concerns that the low rain and high temperatures in Argentina will limit the size of the country’s harvest.

As of late in the final week of 2017 Argentine farmers had planted 82 per cent of the soybeans expected to be sown in the 2017-18 crop year,

A soybean field in Buenos Aires province, Argentina.

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according to the Buenos Aires grains exchange.

The amount of the remaining seedings to be completed will depend on fields being moist enough to be planted.

The Rosario exchange expects a 2017-18 soy harvest of 54.5 million tonnes.

“There is going to be some drought damage, but it’s not a disastrous season. The area most affected will possibly be the southwest part of Buenos Aires and (the province of ) La Pampa,” said Eduardo Sierra, climate adviser to the Buenos Aires Grains exchange.

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Show the world Ag Days

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Yet, despite having all those people inside the show’s excellent facilities in Brandon this January, organizers see Manitoba Ag Days as a vast gateway to the world’s agricultural attention.

Enter an engaged social media platform fuelled by show attendees, in particular the young farmers the show is dedicated to.

Kr isten Phillips, general manager of Manitoba Ag Days, says the show always places a premium on promoting the k n ow l e d g e, t e c h n i c a l a n d social transfer aspects that agriculture relies upon here in Manitoba and throughout the world’s agricultural regions.

T h i s y e a r t h e y ’r e h o p i n g show-goers will grab the torch and take it a few steps further, in the form of a “selfie” contest.

There will be a “red carpet” selfie station for young farmers to take shots and post them to various social media platforms. In our world today, technology plays a vital role in this social transfer and Phillips says that the organizing committee wanted to use the backdrop of Manitoba Ag Days to encourage that.

According to Phillips, any-

“We want to provide an opportunity for our young — under 40 years old — farmers to have an opportunity to learn more about agriculture outside of Canada.” kristen phillips

one who brings their selfie to the Ag Days office during Ag Days will win a special Ag Days hat (while supplies last), and be entered into a contest for a “two-week farm tour in Cuba.” “ We w a n t t o p rov i d e a n opportunity for our young — under 40 years old — farmers to have an opportunity to learn more about agriculture outside of Canada,” Phillips said.

The tr ip winner will be expected to provide a detailed report along with photos that Manitoba Ag Days would use to showcase the knowledge transfer.

The Cuba selfie draw will take place at 3 p.m. on Thursday, January 18, in the John Deere Booth in the Westoba Ag Centre Show Room.

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Inventors’ Showcase highlights innovation Once again there’s a chance to see the latest and greatest in new equipment

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griculture is a business where innovation is important.

The farmers who selected and adopt the right technology at the right time tend to win out over time.

Agriculture inventors know this and they’ll be front and centre at this year’s Ag Days through the annual Inventors’ Showcase.

The event is also a crowd favourite too, fuelled by the enthusiasm of the inventors, who are excited to show their invention to the world, in many cases for the first time.

This year attendees will see everything from conveyer systems to mowers, weed control applicators, water purifiers and drone engagement systems. The creative minds of agriculture inventors are constantly seeking to find new products that will strike a chord with producers.

This year there are 14 submissions to the competition. Organizers say on the new product front, things are really ramping up. From quieter dryers to smaller track loaders to improving yields, new agricultural products are sure to raise the eyebrows of all — and the wallets of a few.

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orty-one years ago, on a crisp and cold winter morning in 1977, Hans Rindlisbacher packed up his own handmade forage display and headed off to the Brandon Weed Fair.

He did know he hoped to educate farmers in attendance on the different varieties of grass common to Manitoba.

What he didn’t know was that this would be the first of what will be 41 annual pilgrimages to what later became Ag Days.

“I’m looking forward to the show,” says Rindlisbacher, who now pitches in his time and vast grass and forage expertise at the Manitoba Forage and Grasslands Association booth.

“It’s the highlight of my winter.

I’ve been to every single event; it used to be called the Weed Fair. They have all been very good. I enjoy it every year.”

During that first show the now-retired longtime resident of Brandon was present in his role as a provincial grassland technician.

Today he marvels at the transformation into Manitoba Ag Days, Canada’s largest indoor ag show, over the 41 years it has been held and says he continues to enjoy volunteering at the show. He really enjoys when the Agriculture in the Classroom students are there to learn more about agriculture and pop by the booth.

“I like to talk to the kids about agriculture,” he said. “They come from all over. It’s always interesting how they react.”

Those close to the show will tell you that volunteers make Manitoba Ag Days possible.

Hans Rindlisbacher will be taking in his 41st Ag Days this year, where you’ll find him at the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association booth. PHOTO: DUNCAN MORRISON

Organizers, exhibitors, retailers, and venue managers will all confirm: no volunteers, no show.

Fortunately, over the years, Manitoba Ag Days is supported by a battalion of volunteers from all walks of life who spend countless hours preparing, organizing and brainstorming how best they will help the show, their home association, new product, invention or their home community bask in the spotlight. Many of these volunteers have been around for a long time and have contributed so much of their free time to make the event special.

By pitching in year after year, many have crafted their own stories.

Kristen Phillips, Manitoba Ag Days general manager, adds her voice to the chorus singing the praises of the volunteers.

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“I’m looking forward to the show. It’s the highlight of my winter. I’ve been to every single event.”

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13 board members who put in hundreds of hours behind the scenes,” Phillips said. “We also have 20 volunteers who help with the show as volunteer show staff and they predominantly work the info booths, 50/50 booth, plus usher the theatres for us.”

That team is led by Kathy Birmingham and those interested in volunteering for Ag Days should email her at coordinator@agdays.com.

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Ag in the Classroom brings students to the event annually

BY DUNCAN MORRISON Co-operator contributor

O

n c e a g a i n yo u’l l b e seeing students from far and wide milling through exhibits, presentations and displays searching for clues at Ag Days.

They’ll be searching for clues and answers that fit that day’s fun assignment — while simultaneously learning a bit more about agriculture.

It’s t h e a n n u a l A g Da y s Adventure, a joint venture of Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) and Ag Days itself, according to Kristen Phillips, Ag Days general manager. Ag Days awards the group an education grant through its Ag Days Gives Back charitable

Middle school students will once again benefit from an opportunity to learn about farming at Ag Days 2018. PHOTO: Greg berg

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“ T h e Ma n i t o b a A g Da y s Adventure is a fantastic learning opportunity for Grade 7 and 8 students,” Phillips said.

“Several of the exhibitors gladly participate in the event and help educate the students on agriculture in Manitoba and the world.”

The 2018 Manitoba Ag Days Adventure will focus on the theme “think global, act local.”

First students will be given a perspective on global issues through their participation in World Game, where they model the world’s population and experience the idea of ratio and proportion. They also examine global land population, distribution and density, as well as the similarities and differences in agriculture production and agriculture imports and exports.

After World Game, students are then put into teams to cover the most ground and discover the importance of our local agriculture industry by going on an ag hunt to learn more about agriculture and agriculture careers from participating booths at the show.

“Youth education is very important to the board of Manitoba Ag Days and we think the Manitoba Ag Days Adventure is the perfect opportunity to inspire children to talk about agriculture, talk about where their food comes from and hopefully inspire some of them to consider a career in agriculture,” Phillips said.

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Safety first at Ag Days 2018 With farm safety becoming more prominent, Ag Days is stepping up this aspect of the show

BY DUNCAN MORRISON Co-operator contributor

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arm safety is a growing concern for everyone, and rightfully so. Consistently, farm accidents create media headlines that no one ever wants to read.

Organizers at Manitoba Ag Days 2018 consider attendees and patrons as their community and no one wants to see a member of your community hurt.

As such, Manitoba Ag Days organizers have developed a key component of their show around farm safety.

This year, 10 farm safety features will be profiled at the Manitoba Ag Days. Here are some of the highlights:

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Ag Days gives back

BY DUNCAN MORRISON Co-operator contributor

Every year Ag Days tries to give something back to Manitoba’s agriculture sector and rural communities.

This year they’re slated to provide $26,000 in grants to agriculturerelated charities, organizers say.

“We want to support the communities that our exhibitors and patrons live in,” said Kristen Phillips, Manitoba Ag Days general manager. “Being able to contribute to this industry has been a fantastic experience for us and we are excited to pay it forward in agriculture. Manitoba Ag Days takes great pride in helping other agricultural organizations.”

The generosity of the giving-back program first took shape during 2013 Manitoba Ag Days show when a 50-50 draw dedicated half of the proceeds to the winning ticket holder and the other half benefiting agriculturalrelated charities.

Applicants are encouraged to apply in two separate categories: 1) Education and Leadership; 2) Community Improvement; between January 1 and November 15 each year.

The 2018 winners will be announced at this year’s show at 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 in the MNP Theatre.

2017 Recipients • Community Improvement Local Community Infrastructure Upgrades & Improvements – Ecole Ile Des Chenes $5,000 • Agriculture and Heritage – Killarney-Turtle Mountain Arts Council $5,000 • Community Improvement – Safety & Emergency Services • The Farm Safety Foundation – Grain Safety Program $5,000 • Education and Leadership – Agricultural Youth Education • Agriculture in the Classroom – Manitoba $8,000 • ACC Diploma Scholarship – Morgan McBain $1,000 • U of M’s Diploma Scholarship – Renate Jochum $1,000 • U of M’s Degree Scholarship – Seth Baker $1,000 • Rylan Laudin Memorial Scholarship – $5,000

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The province will “definitely” see more hog barns now that Bill 24 is through the Legislature, Manitoba Pork Council (MPC) chair George Matheson said.

“It’s going to be slow, there’s no doubt about it,” he cautioned.

“That’s mainly due to return on investments. To build a barn, it’s extremely expensive and, of course, that’s a depreciating asset.”

MPC hopes its new development corporation will speed up that process. The corporation will guide producers through barn approval and building, the council says.

Hylife Foods already plans to expand. The farm-to-fork company is looking at new barn sites near Killarney, residents heard during an open house in November.

MPC expects hog numbers to reach eight million this year, although general manager Andrew Dickson says more is needed to bring processors up to full capacity.

Manitoba’s farm building code was also repealed this year and rolled into provincial codes as part of red-tape reduction efforts.

MPC hailed the move, and the addition of a low-human occupancy class. The new class comes with fewer fire restrictions, including fewer smoke alarms and exits.

Mike Teillet, MPC manager of sustainable development, said the new codes line up with Canada’s national farm building code, although the changes came under fire from advocacy groups, that pointed to Manitoba’s less than stellar record with barn fires and argued that fire protections shouldn’t be rolled back.

More barns may be incoming, but Matheson does not expect those changes to speed up gestation stall phase-out.

Producers have until 2024 to change sow housing, but Matheson says many are waiting for a 2019 decision to clarify loose housing or equivalent exercise rules.

“I don’t think that any producer I’ve met is against loose housing, it’s just being forced to do it and the expense required by 2024, that’s what worries them as much as anything,” he said.

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“It’s going to be slow, there’s no doubt about it. That’s mainly due to return on investments.

To build a barn, it’s extremely expensive and, of course, that’s a depreciating asset.”

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Watch argued that Bill 24 would cut back on environmental protections while encouraging more intensive livestock production, a proverbial smoking gun for many in the group, who argued that intensive livestock production also intensifies waste, nutrient stress and water quality concerns.

Lake Winnipeg was, once again, a main subject of debate.

Nutrient loads and related water quality issues and algae blooms have been a perennial problem and were a driving factor behind the anaerobic digester requirement in 2006. Federal programs have since got involved, although a report this year from Environment and Climate Change Canada says phosphorus levels dropped less than one per cent, and over half of that from Niverville’s municipal lagoon closure, despite five years and millions of dollars.

“In Manitoba, we have a number of sources for nitrogen and phosphorus,” Eva Pip, a retired biology professor, said during a Hog Watch event in late 2017. “In rural Manitoba, factory farms have become a ubiquitous sight... and many of them are at unbelievable density, for example in Hanover municipality, which is completely supersaturated now with hog barns.”

Expor t-based economics and rural decline also made the group’s talking points.

Hog Watch verbally clashed with MPC several times through the year.

“Hog Watch, I think, has been very unfair to us,” Matheson said.

“There’s no doubt about it that Lake Winnipeg is sick and needs help from all citizens, but Hog Watch always forgets that the drainage into Lake Winnipeg is a huge watershed.”

The Lake Winnipeg Basin draws from four provinces and four states and the Manitoba government now estimates that half of the lake’s nutrient load comes from upstream.

“Lake Winnipeg needs our attention, but for Hog Watch to focus on us and say that we were the prime cause of those problems is very unfair,” Matheson said.

The head of the Manitoba Pork Council accused the group of being anti-livestock in general.

Other rural Manitobans have taken exception to MPC’s plans to tackle Manitoba’s Planning Act next year, something that would cut back the approval process for building a barn.

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Critics, however, have worried that those plans might cut out municipalities on issues like odour management.

Matheson acknowledged those concerns.

Responsible The pork council hopes to see up to 4,000-head barns, double the current size, he said, but added that MPC hopes to work with municipalities and the province.

“We have to be responsible citizens,” Matheson said.

“Western Manitoba especially, the Interlake as well, (there are) vast areas where these barns can build, but they definitely have to be put in the right place where there’s an adequate amount of cultivated land to apply the manure and also, lots of buffers between that barn and residences that could be impacted by these odours.”

MPC admits that reducing barn fires and odour mitigation both need to be improved.

It has turned to the Manitoba Farm Safety Program, which launched infrared barn inspections this year after the New Bothwell fire.

Keith Castonguay, Manitoba Farm Safety Program director, says infrared cameras will identify hot spots from bad wiring before a potential short. Wiring is a major cause of barn fires, both Castonguay and Matheson say. Corroded wires from high humidity or corrosive gases may be hard to detect inside walls.

Fighting disease Barns in the southeast saw their PEDv year on record. The virus, which causes dehydration and diarrhea, is lethal for piglets and claims 80-100 per cent of naive weanlings.

A total 80 sites came down

with the virus this year, eight times more than all previous years combined. Over a million animals were put under surveillance and over 200 premises sat in the five-kilometre buffer zones around each infected site.

Thirty of those cases were due to animal movement.

“Those were a couple of different things,” Glen Duizer, veterinarian with Manitoba’s chief veterinary office, said. “Certainly, in some cases, in 18 of them, the movement happened prior to clinical signs being observed in a herd.”

In others, infected pigs were deliberately moved to a farm due to space issues or pigs were assumed to be non-shedding, moved, and then relapsed.

“One of the things that we’ve learned from this disease is that, whether it is because piglets or pigs in nurseries have become positive with PED — we don’t quite get the disease spread across the entire farm — or because there is some low level of carrier state that exists in some of these animals, we can go weeks after a group of pigs have recovered from PED. We can even have multiple negative tests, but there is a risk that those animals will start shedding the virus at a low level again, in some cases four to six to even eight weeks after they’ve recovered from the virus,” Duizer said.

The outbreak changed how many farms and transport staff approached biosecurity, the veterinarian said. Wash procedure came under the microscope while the sector introduced dedicated transport routes for cull sows coming from large assembly yards.

The fever-pitch concern over PEDv has since cooled. There have been no new cases since

Vietnam are a major trade focus for MPC and part of the continuing saga of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Countries are still trying to save the deal since the U.S. withdrew in early 2017.

Predictions for 2018

Oct. 24. Twenty-four infected sites no longer show clinical signs and an equal number are now presumptive negative, with both animals and barns cleared of the disease, although it may be lingering in manure storage.

“The lagoons and the manureholding facilities will probably always have a trace of it for quite some time,” Matheson said. “So, yes, things didn’t start off quite well, but you know, all things considered, we did very well. At one point, I would’ve said it’s next to impossible to eradicate it from the province. Now I think there is a possibility that we can, in fact, do that.”

Duizer expects a number of transitional farms will become presumptive negative over the next month. Some have been delayed since the province requires naive gilts to be in a barn for 30 days before the site is considered presumptive negative.

Those farms introduced exposed gilts and must first run those gilts through the production cycle and replace them.

All farms should be presumptive negative by March 2018, Duizer said.

Trade deals

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The pork industry is keeping a close eye on North American Free Trade Agreement talks.

The U.S. is Manitoba’s main destination for both meat and live pigs. About three million weanlings are traded south e ve r y ye a r a n d Ma n i t o b a exports 90 per cent of its pork production, also mostly to the U.S. “We hope that border stays open for trade and that trade freely flows one way and the other,” Matheson said.

Both beef and pork sectors are also bouncing between promised access to Europe and regulatory barriers.

CETA, Canada’s trade deal with the European Union, promises access to over 81,000 pounds of pork, but would require changes to labelling, more compatible inspection standards and trichinella-free validation for Canadian meat.

“It will be a market that we pay attention to, but I think the main potential is the Far East, especially China,” Matheson said.

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The pork sector will celebrate changes to the Livestock Manure and Mortalities Management regulation this year, with changes coming into play Jan. 1.

Provincial Sustainable Development Minister Rochelle Squires said the changes bring the pork sector in line with other livestock industries.

Among the changes, the province is removing in-season nitrate limits, laying out permit needs for seasonal feeding areas, removing some processing steps for permits, putting more information in public registries, adding variance options to accommodate biosecurity and changing how farms are monitored.

MPC also hopes the new year will bring wash station changes.

The group lobbied the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to allow trucks crossing back into Canada from the United States to be sealed at the border and washed at a designated site in province, something it says will allow more control over biosecurity.

That plan is now in the works, both MPC and the CFIA say.

Prices also look good as the calendar flips over.

“The futures didn’t look like they would be, they weakened off in the fall, but the first part of 2018 looks reasonably good,” Matheson said. “There will be, I think, some profits being made over the next seven or eight months.” astockford@farmmedia.com

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The EPA, in a draft risk asses­ sment report issued Dec. 18, also said it found “no other meaningful risks to human health” when glyphosate, the world’s biggest-selling weed killer, is used according to its label instructions.

For more than 40 years, farmers have applied glypho­ sate to crops, most recently as they have cultivated genetically modified corn and soybeans.

Roundup is also sprayed on res­ idential lawns and golf courses.

The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, fuelled concerns about health risks when it said in 2015 that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic.”

Monsanto, which is being acquired by Bayer AG, rejected the conclusion along with groups representing U.S. corn, soy and wheat farmers, citing other reviews.

The EPA’s latest assessment “confirms exactly what we’re saying: that agencies across the world say glyphosate is safe and the IARC report is a flawed anal­ ysis,” Gordon Stoner, president of the National Association of Wheat Growers, said on Dec. 20.

In November, the wheat growers’ association, Monsanto and other U.S. farm groups sued California to stop it from requiring cancer warnings on products containing glyphosate.

California, the top U.S. agri­ cultural-producing state, added glyphosate to its list of cancercausing chemicals in July and will require that products con­ taining glyphosate carry warn­ ings by July 2018.

“There is data suggesting cancer,” Jennifer Sass, a sen­ ior scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Council advocacy group, said on Dec. 20.

Europe wrestled for two years over what to do with glyphosate amid a debate over whether it causes cancer. The European Commission ulti­ mately renewed for five years the licence for the weed killer, whose licence was set to expire on Dec. 15.

A large, long-term study on glyphosate use by U.S. agri­ cultural workers, published last month as part of a project known as the Agricultural Health Study, or AHS, found no firm link between exposure to glyphosate and cancer.

Reuters reported in June that an influential scientist was aware of new AHS research data while he was chairing a panel of experts reviewing evi­ dence on glyphosate for IARC in 2015. He did not tell the panel about it because the data had not been published, and IARC’s review did not take it into account.

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“Between the few floods, the many wildfires and record dry temperatures, 2017 was a year of too much — too dry, too hot, too fiery, too wet, too cool, but not too cold.”

That observation sets the tone for Environment Canada’s top 10 weather stories of the past year. “Canadians had plenty to weather in 2017. Property damage from weather extremes cost Canadian insurers and governments millions of dollars. It was the eighth-warmest period in 70 years of reporting weather, with temperatures averaging 1.4 C above normal. This year also marked the 21st consecutive year warmer than normal, matching the trend for the rest of the world.”

British Columbia’s wildfires was the top story followed by a protracted dry spell across the Prairies. Spring flooding in Ontario and Quebec came in at third place, the soggy summer across Central Canada was sixth.

The B.C. wildfires came after a snowy winter that was weather story No. 4 and the province’s wettest spring. Summer turned hot and dry and aggressive wildfires forced 50,000 British Columbians to leave their homes.

“A province-wide state of emergency, the first in 15 years and the province’s longest one, began on July 7 and lasted until Sept. 15.”

In total, the BC Wildfire Service reported 1,265 fires that scorched 1.2 million hectares of timber, bush and grassland (an area twice the size of Prince Edward Island), smashing the previous record for burned land by 30 per cent. Total firefighting costs exceeded half a billion dollars and insured property losses reached close to $130 million, Environment Canada stated.

Meanwhile it was hot and dry across the Prairies with the southeastern region recording “its driest summer in 70 years, with many areas recording less than half their normal rainfall during the growing season.

“Credit must be paid to growers of any product that made it to market, with the heat and drought impacting crops across the board,” the weather service said. “Livestock also suffered, as watering holes and grazing land dried up, with hundreds of cattle dying from dehydration. The only positive outcome from the persistent dry heat was a reduction in mosquitoes.”

The soggy situation in Ontario and Quebec began in early May. “In the previous month, several major, slow-moving weather systems had soaked the region with record rains. Over half the snowpack, loaded with water, still needed to melt, and the seven-day forecast called for more showers falling on the partly frozen ground. Instantly, bloated rivers and streams overflowed, and sewers backed up.

Several rivers exceeded the maximum amount water released in the past and overflowed from Gananoque to Gaspésie.

“Both Ottawa and Montreal had their wettest spring in history — 400 millimetres or more

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with records dating back to the 1870s,” Environment Canada said.

The weather service noted that fall arrived on Sept. 22. During the next week, Eastern Canada enjoyed the warmest period in 2017. More than 1,000 heat records fell “as humidex values shot up close to or above 40, prompting a week-long stretch of heat warnings.

“In the lead-up to the five-day scorcher, there were two weeks of delightfully sunny, warm and rain-free weather. It was the most beautiful stretch of summer weather in the entire year.”

The unusual heat across the eastern half of North America was due to a strong ridge of high pressure south of the Great Lakes that caused a large northward bulge in the jet stream.

It’s likely that the four major hurricanes — Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria — that happened earlier in the season shook up the atmosphere, enabling summer temperatures to arrive eventually.

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Bakers, farmers struggle to make a little dough A poor crop is wreaking havoc on bakers and creating market opportunities for high-protein wheat

BY ROD NICKEL AND JULIE INGWERSEN Reuters

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hicago’s iconic sandwiches — Italian beef heroes dripping with gravy, and hotdogs loaded with pickles and hot peppers — wouldn’t be such culinary institutions without the bread.

But this fall, bakers faced a crisis getting the right kind of bread to delis and sandwich shops locally and across the United States.

Gonnella Baking Co. — which supplies the buns to Major League Baseball’s Wrigley Field — faced an unusual problem in October when flour from this year’s U.S. wheat harvest arrived at its factories containing low levels of protein.

That meant bakers couldn’t produce bread with the airy texture customers demand, setting off two weeks of tinkering with temperatures and the mixing process, and the eventual purchase of gluten as an additive. By the time the alchemy was done, Gonnella had thrown away more than $20,000 worth of substandard bread and buns, said president Ron Lucchesi.

“That really was a headache,” Lucchesi said.

T h e p ro b l e m s p a n s t h e $23-billion (all figures U.S. funds) U.S. bread market and highlights a paradox in the global wheat trade. Despite a worldwide grains glut, high-protein hard wheat is scarce after two years of poor U.S. harvests.

The shortage hurts bakers and millers who prize high-protein wheat, along with the farmers who grow it.

Wholesale bakers such as Grupo Bimbo, Flowers Foods a n d Ca m p b e l l So u p Co.’s Pepperidge Farms are feeling the squeeze on margins, said Stephen Nicholson, senior grains and oilseeds analyst with Rabobank. All three companies have seen their stock prices fall over the last two years, a period when the benchmark S&P 500 index gained more than 26 per cent.

Millers such as Archer Daniels Midland, Ardent Mills and General Mills have been able to pass on much of their higher wheat costs in sales of flour to bakers, he added. But bakers have not been able to pass those costs to grocers, who have been unwilling to pay higher prices because of increased competition and price deflation.

Global wheat inventories have risen to record-high levels due in part to heavy production from Russia. Meanwhile, U.S. per capita consumption of wheat flour in 2016 fell to its lowest level in nearly three decades, and U.S. farmers planted

A Chicago-style hotdog just wouldn’t be the same without the right bun. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

their smallest winter wheat crop in more than a century.

“It’s a low-margin, pennies business, but now you’ve got even more disruption,” said Robb MacKie, CEO of the American Bakers Association.

Ardent Mills — a joint venture of Cargill, CHS and ConAgra Foods — is finding enough high-protein wheat but also incurring higher costs, said Buck VanNiejenhuis, Ardent’s general manager in Canada.

ADM faces a similar situation, said Aaron Brown, its manager for Canadian origination and exports.

Campbell Soup declined to comment, but the company said in August that it expected costs to rise by two to three per cent in 2018. Representatives for General Mills and Grupo Bimbo’s U.S. bakery division declined to comment. Flowers Foods did not respond to requests for comment.

Shrinking profits, fewer acres Two years of heavy spring rains in Kansas, the largest producer of hard winter wheat, have sapped the protein levels of a crop that thrives in arid conditions.

Hard winter wheat makes up about 40 per cent of the $10-bil-

“It’s a low-margin, pennies business, but now you’ve got even more disruption.”

Robb MacKie American Bakers Association

lion U.S. wheat crop, which peaked in value at $17.4 billion in 2012 amid higher prices and plantings.

Total wheat plantings in Kansas fell this year to 7.6 million acres. That’s down from 9.4 million acres in 2012 and represents the second-smallest planting since the U.S. Department of Agriculture started keeping records in 1919.

Kansas farmers have seen their returns steadily diminish, with some incurring losses.

Farmers received an average of $3.20 per bushel for the 2016 harvest, down from $6.07 two years before. Data for the 2017 harvest is not yet available.

Farther north, farmers have been selling high-protein spring wheat for a premium due to tight supply. Protein premiums in Manitoba have reached their highest levels in at least five years.

Farmer Dan Mazier, located near Justice, Manitoba, sold his high-protein wheat for delivery next spring to squeeze out the highest price.

“If you have high-protein wheat, you’re in the driver’s seat,” he said.

Last spring, as the rains poured down in Kansas, that state’s Stafford County Flour Mills stockpiled as much highprotein wheat as it could find in anticipation of a substandard wheat crop. The protein level of the latest wheat harvest was “the lowest I’ve seen,” said general manager Reuel Foote.

He said the company bought 600,000 bushels of high-protein wheat — more than a quarter of its total wheat purchases — at a premium of 75 cents to $1 a bushel.

Gluten fee The additional gluten that some millers and bakers are using to compensate for the wheat’s low protein content comes at a cost. Gonnella paid up to 20 per cent more for gluten than usual because of the surge in demand, Lucchesi said.

But bakers can’t necessarily charge retail outlets more to make up those costs. Bread lacks the consumer loyalty

of other food staples, such as meat and fruit, and sales would likely slide if grocers raised prices, said Sylvain Charlebois, professor of food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Expor t markets are also affected. The limited amount of high-protein wheat available has caused the market to ration demand, maintaining shipments to countries willing to pay a premium, such as Japan, and sending less than usual to price-sensitive markets such as Mexico, said Rhyl Doyle, a wheat trader at Winnipegbased Paterson Grain.

Some bakers are tapping a protein pipeline to farms.

Warburton’s, the largest bakery in the United Kingdom, buys flour from mills that is made from wheat grown to the bakery’s specifications in a dedicated supply system.

Others, though, are counting on a drier spring than the last two years. A third straight lowprotein crop would leave millers hard pressed to scrounge up enough supply to meet blending needs, said Foote, of Stafford County Flour Mills.

“If next year’s crop is low like this, we’ll have a problem,” he said.

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Chinese beer makers tap into Canadian barley

A pint-size Australia crop has the beer-loving Middle Kingdom on the hunt for new supplies

BY ROD NICKEL AND DOMINIQUE PATTON Reuters

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hina has more than doubled its purchases of Canadian barley, taking advantage of bargain prices for the beer ingredient due to abundant high-quality supplies in Canada.

The extra sales come at the expense of Australia and Europe, the world’s two biggest barleyexporting areas, where harvests were disappointing due to a mix of drought and excessive rains.

Canada is the sixth-biggest barley shipper.

Canadian government data showed the country’s exporters, including Richardson International and Cargill, were on track for record-large shipments, selling 400,000 tonnes of barley to China from Aug. 1 through October, up sharply from 158,000 tonnes a year earlier.

“That’s really promising for us as farmers,” said Canadian grower Jason Lenz, who grew a bumper barley crop near Red Deer, Alberta. Surging sales are likely to expand Canada’s barley plantings next spring, he said.

Canadian supplies of malting-quality barley are the largest in four years, after ideal dry harvest weather, even though the overall barley crop shrank 10 per cent from last year, said Peter Watts, managing director of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre, an industry group.

The supply swing has drained the usual Canadian malting barley premium over Australian supplies by half, to $10-$20 per tonne (all figures U.S. funds), resulting in sharp demand from brewers of higher-priced

A beer on a table of a rooftop patio with the Shanghai skyline in the background.

China is on a buying binge for Canadian malt barley. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

Chinese beers such as Tsingtao Brewery, Anheuser Busch Inbev and China Resources Beer Holdings, Watts said.

Maltsters, including COFCO Corp. and Supertime, also buy Canadian barley to turn into malt, the product directly used in beer.

Beer consumption in China has declined since 2013, but its premium beer niche category has grown by double digits annually since at least 2012, according to Euromonitor data.

Canadian malting barley commands a higher price, especially for China’s premium beer market, because of its dark colour and higher protein, which allows for better foaming, Watts said.

He expects China to buy a record one million tonnes of Canadian barley by July 31, the end of the 2017-18 crop marketing year.

“This is helpful for the long run because it establishes Canada’s presence there,” he said.

The shifting trade dynamics are not likely to affect beer prices, Watts said.

A barley trader in China, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said it was premature to write off Australian malt barley supplies, as the crop is not yet fully harvested.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates Australia’s barley harvest at eight million tonnes, and European Union output of 59 million tonnes, both the smallest in five years.

“Australia has had problems with crops everywhere this year,” said Adam Davis, head of commodities at Merricks Capital in Melbourne.

European barley quality was disappointing this year, and the euro’s strength makes exports less competitive, said a German malting barley trader, who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Rival supplies to Canada’s could arrive quickly however, when Argentine farmers start harvesting barley this month, the trader said.

Asian livestock producers drive up export demand for U.S. wheat Soft red winter wheat isn’t usually used for livestock feed

BY TOM POLANSEK Reuters

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.S. export sales of a certain type of wheat we re t h e b i g g e s t i n more than three years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Dec. 28, as low prices prompted livestock producers in Asia to buy the grain as animal feed.

Soft red winter (SRW ) wheat, the variety traded on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT ), is usually used to make flour for cookies and crackers. However, prices for lower-grade supplies declined enough to make it a bargain for poultry and livestock farmers, U.S. and European export traders said.

U.S. wheat futures have fallen by more than half since reaching a four-year peak in 2012 as large harvests around the world have pushed global inventories to a record high

and reduced export demand.

On Dec. 12, the CBOT March SRW wheat futures set a lifeof-contract low of US$4.10-1/2 a bushel.

“The big thing is it’s making its way into a bit of the feed market,” said Karl Setzer, risk management team leader for MaxYield Cooperative in Iowa.

“We’re seeing a lot of people show up for it right now.”

Sales of 191,527 tonnes of SRW wheat for the week ended Dec. 14 were the biggest since July 31, 2014, according to new USDA data.

Animal feeders have taken advantage of low prices for other feed grains to buy U.S. s u p p l i e s , a s w e l l . We e k l y export sales of 1.6 million tonnes of U.S. corn were the most in a month and grain s o rg h u m s a l e s o f 4 3 8 , 1 3 2 tonnes, largely to China, also were the biggest in about three years.

Buyers are emerging after U.S. wheat growers have strug-

gled with poor-quality domestic harvests for the past two years, leaving high-protein hard wheat in short supply.

Last week, SRW wheat prices dropped to about US$175 per tonne for freeon-board (f.o.b.) shipments in January and February, said Al Conway, a U.S. trader and owner of Cascade Commodity Consulting Co. Prices were about US$185 per tonne for Russian wheat of a comparable protein level, he said.

“The rest of the world did not follow U.S. futures down and that’s why we were able to get the business,” he said.

For January f.o.b. shipments, U.S. and Argentine wheat are now the cheapest on the world market, with both priced about US$2 to US$3 per tonne, cheaper than wheat from the Black Sea region, a German trader said Dec. 28.

“U.S. SRW is looking cheap, especially in Asia,” another German trader said.

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U.S. states levy fines, limit dicamba application dates States are scrambling to respond to a drift complaint crisis that affected four per cent of the U.S. soybean crop

BY TOM POLANSEK Reuters

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issouri has issued its first fines over the misuse of a farm chemical in 2016 that went on to be linked in different formulations to widespread U.S. crop damage this year, the state said on Dec. 14.

Authorities fined eight people a total of US$145,125 for improperly spraying the chemical known as dicamba, used to kill weeds, in what Missouri called “the first wave of civil penalties issued to applicators,” according to a statement.

The delay between sprayings last year and the state’s action shows how a long process of investigating many complaints about dicamba use is straining resources in farm states.

The United States has faced an agricultural crisis this year caused by the new formulations of dicamba-based herbicides, which farmers and weed experts say have harmed crops that cannot resist the chemical because it evaporates and drifts away from where it is applied.

Monsanto and BASF say the herbicides are safe when used properly.

Illegally used In 2 0 1 6 , f a r mers sprayed dicamba illegally in states including Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas on soybeans that Monsanto engineered to resist new versions of the chemical, according to regulators and weed scientists.

Monsanto sold the GMO soybean seeds for planting in spring 2016 before the U.S. E n v i ro n m e n t a l Pro t e c t i o n Agency in the autumn approved use of the new versions of the herbicides, made by Monsanto and BASF. The herbicides are designed to be sprayed on the soybeans during the summer growing season and not drift away.

That delay left farmers who bought the seeds with no matching herbicide for use in summer 2016 and three bad alternatives: hire workers to pull weeds, use the less-effective glyphosate, or illegally spray an older version of dicamba at the risk of damage to nearby farms.

A resulting rash of illegal spraying that year damaged 42,000 acres of crops in Missouri, among the hardest-hit areas, as well as swaths of crops in nine other states, according to an August 2016 advisory from the EPA. Monsanto, which is being acquired by Bayer AG for US$63.5 billion, has blamed farmers for the illegal spraying in 2016. The company has said it could not have foreseen that the delayed approval of the new dicamba herbicides would result in damaged crops.

In 2017, damage related to dicamba herbicides covered 3.6 million acres in 25 states, or four per cent of 90 million acres of soybeans U.S. farmers planted last year, according to University of Missouri data. Several states have imposed new restrictions on dicamba use for 2018 to avoid a repeat of the damage.

Meanwhile Minnesota One of the states taking action is Minnesota, which became the latest U.S. state on Dec. 12 to

restrict the controversial weed killers, while Arkansas took a step back from imposing new limits.

Monsanto is banking on its dicamba-based herbicide and soybean seeds engineered to resist it, called Xtend, to dominate soybean production in the United States, the world’s second-largest exporter.

However, Minnesota will prohibit summertime sprayings of dicamba-based herbicides after June 20 in a bid to prevent a repeat of damage seen across the U.S. Farm Belt, according to the state’s Agriculture Department.

Farmers also will not be able to apply dicamba-based herbicides if temperatures top 85 F because research shows high temperatures increase crop damage from volatilization, according to Minnesota.

“We will be closely monitoring the herbicide’s performance with these restrictions in 2018,” said Dave Frederickson, Minnesota’s agriculture commissioner.

One of the states taking action is Minnesota, which became the latest U.S. state on Dec. 12 to restrict the controversial weed killers...

U.S. states are fining farmers and limiting application windows in the face of a spray drift crisis. PHOTO: allan dawson

Missouri and North Dakota have separately announced deadlines for spraying dicambabased herbicides next year.

In Arkansas, a legislative panel advised a state plant board to review its proposal to ban the use of dicamba herbicides after April 15, in a win for the agrichemical companies.

The panel recommended that

the board consider scientificbased evidence among other factors to revise the proposal, the state said.

Monsanto believes there is no scientific evidence to support cutoff dates for spraying dicamba herbicides, said Scott Partridge, vice-president of global strategy.

“They have essentially hit the

pause button here,” Partridge said about Arkansas.

Monsanto has sued Arkansas to prevent the state from prohibiting sprayings after April 15.

The company and BASF have said that proposal would hurt Arkansas growers by denying them access to products designed to be sprayed on dicamba-resistant soybeans and cotton during the summer growing season.

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Ag Days 2018 seminar schedule Tuesday, January 16

Wednesday, January 17

FCC Theatre Manitoba Canola Growers

MNP Theatre More Crops, Same Acres

FCC Theatre Money on My Mind

9:00 a.m.

How Did That Happen?! — A Review of Canola Production in 2017 Angela Brackenreed Agronomy Specialist, Canola Council of Canada

9:00 a.m.

High Yields — What is Possible & What is Not Dr. Rigas Karamanos Senior Agronomist, Koch Fertilizer Canada, ULC

9:15 a.m.

Time to Step Up Your Grain Game!

Darren Bond Farm Management Specialist, Manitoba Agriculture

9:30 a.m.

Precision in Canola Shawn Senko Agronomy Specialist, Canola Council of Canada 10:00 a.m.

100 Bushel Canola Yield – Little Things Matter!

Florian Hagmann Farmer, Birch Hills, Sask.

11:00 a.m.

Survival Guide to Marketing — From Field to Market Dustin Gabor Owner, Grain Shark Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers 1:00 p.m.

Nitrogen Management for High Yielding Spring Wheat in Manitoba Amy Mangin PhD Student, University of Manitoba

9:45 a.m.

Pushing the Crops Genetic Potential — Agronomic Practices to Make it Pay Jarrett Chambers, President, ATP Nutrition 10:30 a.m.

Healthy “Living” Soils Grow Crops Greg Patterson President, A&L Canada Laboratories Inc. 11:30 a.m.

Soil Health in a Changing Climate: A New Research Project Stephen Crittenden Soil Scientist, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Market Outlook & Mind Lookout 12:45 p.m.

Ag Days Gives Back 1:00 p.m.

The Tax Consequences of Doing Business in the United States Todd Jenkins,International Tax Specialist, MNP LLP

1:30 p.m.

What Puts the “Malt” in Malting Barley?

Lorelle Selinger North American Merchandising Manager, Cargill Malt

1:30 p.m.

Dignitaries Address The Honourable Ralph Eichler Minister of Agriculture His Worship Rick Chrest Mayor of City of Brandon

2:00 p.m.

Breeding Technologies Hit the Field Dr. Curtis Pozniak Professor, Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan

2:00 p.m.

Agriculture is More Than Just Farming Rosemund Ragetli Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture Junior Champion, Winnipeg, Man.

2:30 p.m.

We Have the Wheat Genome Sequence — Now What?

Richard Cuthbert Wheat Breeder, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada

2:15 p.m.

Making Sense of the Dollars & Cents Errol Anderson President, ProMarket Communications Inc.

3:00 p.m.

Increasing Farm Organization Impact Rob Hannam Founder, Synthesis Agri-Food Network 3:30 p.m.

Marketing is a Four Letter Word Brian Voth President, IntelliFARM Inc.

3:00 p.m.

How a Tweet Sparked a Conversation About Mental Health in Ag Kim Keller, Producer, Melfort, Sask.

3:20 p.m.

Breaking Down Barriers: My Mental Health Journey Lesley Kelly, Producer, Regina, Sask.

3:40 p.m.

Feeling “Down” On The Farm Marsha Harris Marriage & Family Therapist, Brandon University

10:00 a.m.

Rendering the Farm More Profitable • Jean-Guy Talbot, FCPA, FCGA, Founder & CEO, Talbot & Associates • Justin Chaput, Partner, Talbot & Associates 11:00 a.m.

Western Canadian Agriculture — Trumped!

Craig Klemmer Principal Ag Economist, FCC It’s All About the Beef!

1:00 p.m.

Stake on Hooves — Where’s the Money?

Sandy Russell Partner, Spring Creek Land & Cattle Consulting 2:00 p.m.

Grooming Future Leaders for the Beef Industry Brett McRae Manitoba Delegate, Young Cattlemen’s Council

All About Innovation!

1:00 p.m.

Buying With Confidence: Executing Your Equipment Plan Peter Manness Farm Management Consultant, MNP LLP 1:30 p.m.

SWAT MAPS: Making Variable Rate Great Again Cory Willness President, CropPro Consulting 2:15 p.m.

Fusarium Damaged Grains Options Dr. Rex Newkirk Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan 3:00 p.m.

Star Wars & Star Trek: How Precision Ag May Land in the Farm of the Future David Yee Vice-President of Operations, Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute 3:30 p.m.

Farming Re-Imagined: Dot Autonomous Power Platform Trent Meyer Executive Vice-President, Dot Technology Corp.

2:30 p.m.

Silage: How to Harvest More Value Per Acre!

Ray Bittner Livestock Specialist, Manitoba Agriculture 3:15 p.m.

Tails from the Cattle Pen Dr. Cody Creelman Veterinarian, Veterinary Agri-Health Services MNP Theatre Where the Water Flows 9:15 a.m.

Tile Drainage 101 – Panel Discussion • Todd Walker, Partner, Frontier Drainage Systems • Aaron Hargreaves, Producer, HarWest Farms LP • Ginette Caillier, Senior Water Resources Officer, Manitoba Sustainable Development 10:30 a.m.

Watershed Management Across the Fence Lines — Challenges & Opportunities Dr. Allan Preston Chair, Assiniboine River Basin Initiative 11:15 a.m.

Managing Surface Water on Farm to Achieve Both Agricultural & Environmental Benefits Dr. David Lobb Professor, University of Manitoba

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Thursday, January 18 FCC Theatre Soybeans, Soybeans, Soybeans 9:15 a.m.

Soybean Production 101 – Panel Discussion • Carl Bangert Producer, Beausejour, Man. • Charles Stewart Producer, Oak River, Man. • Luc Remillard Producer, St. Joseph, Man. 10:30 a.m.

Soybean – Canola Rotation: Why Not? A Pathologist’s Perspective Holly Derksen Field Crop Pathologist, Manitoba Agriculture 11:00 a.m.

The Ultimate Soybean Challenge: Applying Research to the Farm Cassandra Tkachuk Production Specialist, Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers 11:30 a.m.

Soybean Variety Selection — A Soybean is no longer a Soybean!

Dennis Lange Provincial Pulse Specialist, Manitoba Agriculture Agronomy – The Mixed Bag 1:00 p.m.

Weather for 2018? Expect the Unexpected!

Andrew Nadler Agricultural Meteorologist, Peak HydroMet Solutions 1:45 p.m.

Big Yields Mean Big Nutrient Consumption John Heard Crop Nutrition Specialist, Manitoba Agriculture 2:30 p.m.

Crop Rotations — Slippery Slope or Economic Opportunity?

Anastasia Kubinec Manager of Crop Industry Development, Manitoba Agriculture 3:15 p.m.

Hedge Your Energy Costs at Five Cents for 30 Years Alex Stuart Senior Vice-President, Sycamore Energy Inc.

MNP Theatre An Ecosystem Approach to Farming for Improved Profitability, Stewardship & Job Satisfaction 9:40 a.m.

Not My Grandpa’s Organic Farm Katherine Stanley Organic Extension Specialist, Manitoba Organic Alliance/ University of Manitoba 10:10 a.m.

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The beef sector enjoyed good prices and high market volumes through the fall run, while early concerns about feed quantity evaporated as the province mostly dodged the drought conditions seen in south-central Saskatchewan.

“It’s been, actually, a good year,” Brian Lemon, Manitoba Beef Producers general manager, said.

“It’s been a year dominated by, I think, some good signals from the market. Prices were better than they’ve been in recent history, so those are positives for us.”

Farmers who bought feeder cattle in fall 2016 enjoyed premium prices when those animals

returned to market, Rick Wright of Heartland Order Buying Co. said.

“They reinvested it here in the fall again, purchasing inventory, and our prices were anywhere from 30-55 cents per pound higher than last year on the calves during the fall run and we did stay pretty active throughout the market, so the cow-calf producers were really well rewarded for their efforts this year,” he said.

Manitoba cattle drew little interest from the U.S., although Wright noted that meat moved more freely. Few cattle have crossed the border out of Manitoba either this year or in 2016, he said, save those bound for custom feeding due to lack of pen space in Canada.

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chase Canad(ian) and, because of our geographic location and we have good quality of cattle in Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec are buyers every season and they’re ready to pay a premium when they get them.”

Volumes bound for Eastern Canada are typically low, he said, although they were a driver in the market this year. Eastern demand brought Manitoba’s prices 10-15 cents a pound higher than Alberta operations in some cattle classes, Wright said.

Pen space and transport bottlenecks Manitoba’s markets were hard pressed by the flood of cattle during this year’s fall run. Producers were already being warned to book their cattle by the second week of September.

Cattle from Alberta and Sask­ atch­ewan arrived earlier than normal this year, Wright said, and pens quickly filled.

“Our fall here in Manitoba was actually late,” he added. “We had a drawn-out fall and we didn’t see the real big numbers come until late October, early November.

Normally, we go head to head with Alberta at that particular time. This time, we didn’t have as many Alberta guys delivering quite as many cattle.”

Transport also became harder to arrange as driver schedules filled.

Pen space is still short, Wright said, but the transportation backlog is starting to ease as the industry wraps up for the end of the year.

“We’re going to see, after Christmas, some of the yearlings that were put in August and September will start to come out and those pen spaces will be available to refill,” he said.

Trade: National issues, local impacts Trade captured Manitoba Beef Producers’ attention this year, Lemon said. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a highly anticipated deal for beef producers, who hope it will open up the Japanese market, hit a major hurdle in early January 2017, after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the deal as one of his first acts in office. Canada and the 10 other countries are still attempting to save the deal without the United States.

CETA, Canada’s awaited deal with the European Union, also came into effect this summer, although the beef sector has seen little change. The deal promises 35,000 tonnes of fresh Canadian beef and 15,000 tonnes of frozen beef duty-free access by 2022, but key carcass washes used in Canada still need to be approved in the EU. EU regulations also close the door on hormonetreated beef.

“CETA, this past year on the trade file, was huge,” Lemon said.

“We’re still working through some technical issues to actually realize that access. We’re looking forward to TPP, hopefully, working itself out without the U.S. as part of the agreement, so that’s a positive.”

A new U.S. agreement with China (U.S. beef access for Chinese poultry) may also boost U.S. interest in Canadian cattle, Lemon said.

NAFTA renegotiations, meanwhile, have had no effect on the beef market, although producers are watching closely.

“I don’t think immediately we’re going to have a big impact on the cattle business,” Wright said. “Just for the fact that we’ve gone through pretty much 12 months with no American activity on the market as it is. I mean, we’re sending meat products

there. We’re not sending any live cattle there.”

Beef has avoided the spotlight in NAFTA talks so far, eclipsed by debate over supply-managed sectors like dairy.

Carbon tax Manitoba announced its flat $25-per-tonne carbon tax plan in late 2017.

Manitoba Beef Producers welcomed some parts of the plan, which included exemptions for farm fuel and on-farm emissions, but also argues that benefits should be retroactive for producers who are already pursuing a lower carbon footprint.

Input prices are another concern, with MPB arguing that costs will trickle down from manufacturers to producers.

MBP has since joined in provincial consultations on the green plan.

“Certainly, those are important opportunities where we’re able to get our messages out. Those are also, in some cases, somewhat limited in terms of what message actually gets heard just because you are part of a broad consultation,” Lemon said.

year, while herd sizes have not changed, he said. Calves moving in 2018 may “already be in the bank,” softening spring numbers, while futures data does not support current Canadian prices, Wright said.

“Our cost of feeding is higher than it is in the United States, so my opinion would probably be that the cattle we’ve sold this fall are slightly oversold,” he said.

Wright expects a market correction towards February and March, but the market will stay strong if U.S. cattle exports also remain strong, he added.

MBP is now looking to the expected changeover from Growing Forward 2 to the new five-year Canadian Agriculture Partnership, coming into effect March 2018.

“Getting it up and running is certainly a concern of ours and making sure that there aren’t any gaps in programming, recognizing that there’s a bureaucratic shift that has to happen overnight on March 31,” Lemon said.

MBP also expects sustainability and carbon tax to be key issues again in 2018.

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Forage dodges trouble Winterkill and an abnormally dry spring, followed by a dry summer, raised concerns over pasture and forage, but both Manitoba Agriculture and the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association reported generally good growth and adequate cattle feed.

“It started out dry and we all thought that hay production would be down, and on some fields, it was,” Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association chair Dave Koslowsky said. “An older hay stand didn’t yield as good as a newer stand, which is a normal thing in a dry year.”

Interlake producers took advantage of the open fall to extend their grazing season, while Koslowsky says some dry patches of the province are short on feed, particularly in the northwest near Swan River.

Brown pastures in central Manitoba forced a short grazing season, although hay quality was also up and there is a “reasonable supply of almost all classes of feed, including straw,” according to Manitoba Agriculture.

“Pastures that were overstocked or on lighter soils stopped growing in late summer, providing very little regrowth for grazing,” the final crop report read in October.

Cattle in the east were also moved off pastures one to two weeks early.

Despite that, 20 per cent of livestock operations in the east reported a winter feed surplus.

The southwest pulled through early concerns and an unimpressive first cut after timely rains.

Some areas will need to supplement for poor quality, however, the province reported.

Both the province and the forage association have noted a drop in subsoil moisture and the driest regions will need to recharge their dugouts. Some dugouts in the northwest dry patch reported 50-60 per cent capacity, with water quality concerns, the province said.

“Subsoil moistures are definitely dried down compared to what they were a year ago, so it is a concern coming into spring,” Koslowsky said. “We need some good rain, some good snow.”

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

Heritage Trust program rolled out to support small-town museums The new program will provide $5 million over three years to create endowment funds within local community foundations for museums and archives across Manitoba

BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff

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mall museums and archive sites across Manitoba begin a new year on a high note with the creation of a new endowment fund to help them along financially.

Last month the provincial government rolled out its new Heritage Trust program which will provide $5 million over three years to create endowment funds within local community foundations for museums and archives.

“We have heard a strong call for greater investment from our heritage organizations across Manitoba,” said Sport, Culture and Heritage Minister Cathy Cox who announced the program alongside Municipal Relations Minister Jeff Wharton just before Christmas.

Cox said the Heritage Trust program will be a partnership that provides stable long-term funding for Manitoba’s smaller museums and archives.

The province is dotted with nearly 200 of these smaller entities and 75 per cent are located in rural areas.

Their need for funding is widely varied but many of those in the smallest towns and villages have been operating on shoestring budgets, with dwindling volunteers wondering how to find cash to keep operating.

This is wonderful news, said Monique Brandt, executive director of the Association of Manitoba Museums, adding as far as she knows this is a firstin-Canada approach to funding the museum community.

“It’s fabulous,” she said. “This is a way for them to get money that isn’t tied in anything except to what they need to do for the museum. It doesn’t come with strings.”

The endowment program will provide a maximum of one provincial dollar for every two private dollars raised by qualifying heritage organizations. That creates an incentive for communities to develop an endowment pool worth up to $15 million to support heritage projects across Manitoba.

That’s a different approach than the grant-based system they’ve tried to operate under, said Brandt. Grants often required matched funding and had specific criteria which didn’t match museums’ needs, she said.

“An endowment fund is producing money that can be used

There are nearly 200 museums in Manitoba and 75 per cent are small rural locations often housed inside heritage sites. The Sipiweske Museum in Wawanesa is in the original office building of the Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company built here in 1901. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

any way you want,” she said.

“You could use it as matching funds for a grant. You can use it to repair a roof or for staffing.

Those are things really important but are really hard to find outside money for.

“What we’re really pleased about is, this is a way for the smaller community museums to build community support and to build their own resources so that they can be sustainable in the long run,” she added.

Manitobans are already supporting museums with donations from individuals and corporations amounting to $7.6 million in 2013, matched by about $7.8 million from the province.

But the operating budgets of museums vary widely, and many struggle to find qualified workers to fill summer positions and lack software to digitally manage collections.

Inadequate environmentally controlled storage systems is a huge concern as museum volunteers watch precious artifacts

put away for winter in unheated conditions.

Brandt said she hopes municipalities will contribute to this program too.

Municipal government per capita contribution to museums in Manitoba is, at $2.08, lower than the $3.58 national average, according to figures cited by the association in a submission to the province’s cultural policy review earlier this year.

“Almost every municipality has museums or archives within their constituency,” said Brandt. “I think this might be a way they could step up and help as well.”

There are also 75 archive sites throughout the province and these will also benefit from the new program.

“The creation of a Heritage Trust program that includes Manitoba archival institutions is indeed positive news,” said Heather Bidzinski, chair of the Association for Manitoba Archives.

“We are excited about the

“What we’re really pleased about is, this is a way for the smaller community museums to build community support and to build their own resources so that they can be sustainable in the long run.”

Monique Brandt executive director Association of Manitoba Museums

possibilities presented by this contribution to the long-term sustainability of the archival community.”

Wharton said just as major attractions are important to the province, so are our smaller museums, archives and heritage organizations.

“We are working with heritage organizations and com-

munity foundations across the province to create stable, longterm funding to maintain these important community infrastructure assets,” he said.

The province will enter into a three-year agreement with The Winnipeg Foundation to work with Manitoba’s other 54 community foundations to administer the program.

“This new initiative is an exciting breakthrough because endowments provide sustainable funding that can be counted upon year after year,” said Rick Frost, chief executive officer, The Winnipeg Foundation.

“The Heritage Trust program provides a unique opportunity for those wishing to support the preservation of Manitoba’s rich history.”

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COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Prairie fare One day at a time Small changes and goals can all add up to a healthier year in 2018 • Eat eggs more often. One whole egg a day does not increase the risk of heart disease or stroke. If you have diabetes limit whole eggs to four per week.

• Limit the size of meat portions to the size of a deck of cards or the palm of your hand; that’s roughly equal to 75 grams or three ounces.

• Make a meal using tofu or tempeh once a month.

BY GETTY STEWART Co-operator contributor

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fter the feasting and indulgence of the holiday season, it’s understandable that eating better and exercising more are two of the most common resolutions people make at this time of year.

But vague, large-scale goals like these often lead to disappointing results with only 58 per cent of people sticking to them by end of January, according to a 2017 survey.

To be more successful, psychologists like Dr. John Norcross of Scranton University recommend you set specific, realistic goals with concrete action steps and either declare those goals to others or write them down. He also cautions that you should be prepared for minor slips and setbacks and not to let them derail you. Successful resolvers have the confidence to stick to their goals and resume working on them when temporarily sidetracked.

Keep these recommendations in mind when it comes to setting goals for eating and living healthier. Set yourself up for long-term success. Avoid unrealistic targets, fad diets, cleansing, fasting or detoxing schemes, diets that avoid entire food groups or that rely on “superfoods” or an array of special supplements. Focus on small, incremental steps that you can incorporate into your everyday routine. Start wherever you are today with confidence and determination.

Here are some specific action steps to implement some of the healthy eating recommendations from leading chronic disease organizations in Canada. Remember, be realistic — pick and choose only a few suggestions from the list. Write them on your fridge, calendar or meal planner and work on them until they’ve become a habit. As you successfully incorporate one item into your daily routine, add another. Building on small successes will be much more rewarding than planning too much at one time.

Here are a few important points to keep in mind.

Eat more vegetables and fruits • Eat one additional serving of fruits and vegetables every day.

• Have a serving of fruit every breakfast. If you don’t eat breakfast, that’s a good challenge in itself; start every day by having a piece of fruit and work up to having three food groups at breakfast.

• Pack a fruit or veggie snack whenever you’re in the car for more than one hour.

• Bring a salad, vegetable platter or fruit dessert to potlucks or parties.

• Fill half your dinner plate with vegetables every day.

• Taste a new fruit or vegetable once a month.

• Add fresh or frozen spinach, kale or dark greens to soups, stews or casseroles.

• Choose dark-green lettuce or leafy greens instead of iceberg lettuce.

• Prepare and cut fresh veggies so they’re always easily accessible for snacking.

Eat more whole grains and high-fibre foods • Choose whole grain breads, pitas or tortillas for sandwiches, wraps and quesadillas. If 100 per cent whole grain is too much, start with 60 per cent whole wheat.

Reduce sugar, salt and overly processed foods

Don't get hung up with an unrealistic health goal for 2018. Instead concentrate on making a few changes here and there and just try to do a bit better every day. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

• Use whole wheat flour, oats, wheat germ and bran in baking recipes. In most baking recipes, you can substitute half of the white flour with whole wheat flour without changing anything else.

• Eat a bowl of air-popped popcorn as a snack instead of chips or crackers.

• Make a new recipe using oats every month (overnight oats, hot oatmeal, pancakes, granola, oat bread, oat snacks, etc.).

• Try a new whole grain recipe at least once a month. Try quinoa, buckwheat, wheat berries, hulled barley, amaranth, wild rice, brown rice, whole wheat pasta, millet, etc.

• P ick breakfast cereals made with whole grain, bran or oats and that are high in fibre.

The first ingredient listed should be a whole grain.

• C heck the “% Daily Value” on nutrition fact labels and choose whole grain foods (crackers, cereal, baked goods, granola bars, bread) with 15 per cent of fibre per serving.

• Add nuts (walnuts, almonds, pistachios) and seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, flax, hemp, or chia) in baking, on top of salads or as the basis of snacks.

Choose a variety of lean protein sources • Eat one high-protein, vegetarian meal per week. If this is too much for your family, try once a month, if you’re already doing this add a second or third meal per week. Try lentil or bean soup, three-bean chili, frittata, quiche, chickpea curry, pasta and beans, etc.

•E at fish once a week (especially salmon, tuna, mackerel, herring, halibut).

• Add

beans, peas and lentils to salads, soups and main entrees.

• Try a new pulse recipe once a month. Look for black beans, kidney beans, pinto beans, adzuki beans, mung beans, broad beans, red lentils, green lentils, split peas, chickpeas, etc.

• Cook one additional meal from scratch per week. Avoid using packaged sauces, soups or mixes.

• Reduce the number of meals you eat out per month by one or two. Fast-food and high-end restaurant food typically has more salt, sugar and fat than home-cooked meals.

• Make a habit of reading the “% Daily Value” on the nutrition facts label and choose foods with five per cent or less of sodium, trans fats and saturated fats.

• Switch to water or milk instead of pop, fruit beverages, Kool-Aid or juice. If this is a real challenge, take small steps by choosing water or milk every other time, once a day or whatever target works for you.

• Buy additional fresh, frozen or canned fruit for snacking instead of buying chips, cookies or packaged snack food.

• M ake homemade muffins, cookies and granola bars (using oats and whole grains when possible) to replace store-bought baked goods, packaged cookies or granola bars. Home-baked goods usually contain less sugar, fat, salt and preservatives, use better-quality ingredients and come in better portion sizes.

• Reduce sugar in baking recipes. In most recipes, you can use one-third less sugar without any other modifications.

• Use herbs, low-salt spice blends and citrus to flavour food instead of salt.

• Replace bottled salad dressings with homemade dressings and vinaigrettes.

• M ake sandwiches with oven-roasted chicken, beef, pork, tuna, salmon, eggs or nut butters instead of processed deli meats.

• P repare homemade freezer meals and snacks to have on hand for busy days.

• Make a weekly meal plan and buy groceries accordingly. This helps avoid impulse buying and lets you plan healthy meals and snacks.

Choose and use fats wisely • G rill, steam and bake food instead of deep-frying.

• Use soft margarine or canola or olive oil instead of hard margarine.

• Choose canola or olive oil instead of corn oil or vegetable oil.

• Choose eggs with omega-3 fatty acids.

Adopting several small changes and incorporating them into daily routines will go a long way to helping you achieve your goal to eat and live healthier in 2018.

I’m looking forward to joining you on that journey and providing more recipes and tips throughout the year.

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ndrew Jackson pressed the power button on the remote control and watched the TV screen blink off across the room.

He picked up a noisemaker from the end table beside his armchair and blew into it, producing a rather unconvincing celebratory squawk.

“Well, so much for that,” he said. “Another year is shot.”

“Happy New Year,” said Rose without enthusiasm, from her chair across the room. “Out with the old, as the saying goes.”

“And yet, here we are,” said Andrew, “still in.”

“Ah we’re not really old,” said Rose. “And I’m not sure you could accurately characterize us as being in either. Unless you just mean inside.”

“What will the new year bring?” said Andrew.

“What new joys? What new sorrows?” He picked up his glass of Scotch and took a sip.

“Will I get a new snowblower or will I not?

These are questions only time can answer.”

“I can answer the one about the snowblower,” said Rose.

“Don’t though,” said Andrew. “Exactly a year from now I want to sit in this chair and raise my glass and say well, that answers that. Only time could tell.”

“Everybody knows you’re going to buy a snowblower,” said Rose. “You bring it up, like, every day.”

“Well yes, I do,” said Andrew, “but I only bring it up as a question that is yet to be answered.” “ Well, I just answered it,” said Rose.

“Everybody knows you’re going to get yourself a new snowblower.”

“And yet,” said Andrew, “I may not.”

“Riiiiight,” said Rose. “You may not.”

“We shall see,” said Andrew. “Only time can tell.”

“And your wife,” said Rose. “Your wife can also tell.”

“Only time and my wife can tell,” said Andrew, “but unfortunately I never listen to my wife.”

“That’s true,” said Rose with a laugh. “So time will tell indeed. Next Saturday, I’m guessing.”

There was a brief pause while they both pondered the darkened TV screen and the darkness outside.

“Was it a good year, 2017?” asked Rose. “I always ask myself that at New Year’s and I can never tell for sure.”

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“It wasn’t horrible,” said Andrew. “But it is hard to tell just afterwards. I think you need a few years to go by before you can say whether a particular one was good or bad or just normal. In the end almost all of them are just normal.” He took another sip of Scotch. “Nineteen eighty-nine,” he said. “Now THAT was a good year.”

“What happened in 1989?” said Rose.

“In 1989,” said Andrew, “Harry met Sally. And I met you.”

“Of course! How could I forget?” said Rose.

“What a year that was!”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” said Andrew. “One day I would be on Cloud 9, absolutely positive that we were going to spend the rest of our lives together, just living happily ever after, and the next day I’d be convinced that I was going to blow it somehow and we’d be history by Friday.”

“Why Friday?” said Rose.

“Because Friday is when girls break up with guys,” said Andrew. “So they can go out with someone else on Saturday. I could be wrong about that,” he added, “but that’s what somebody told me and I never questioned it. I used to hate Fridays back then.”

“Goodness,” said Rose, “that’s not funny and it’s hilarious at the same time!”

“As many things are,” said Andrew. “I can laugh about it now. It was one of the best years of my life but it was not without stress.”

“I don’t look forward to a year where we have no stress,” said Rose.

“You don’t?” said Andrew. “Why not?”

“Because that’ll mean we’re dead,” said Rose.

“I see what you mean,” said Andrew. “Stress is good, when you look at it that way.”

“We should aim for limited stress,” said Rose.

“Like, when we’re half dead?” said Andrew.

“Not that limited,” said Rose.

“Yeah that would be going a little far, wouldn’t it?” said Andrew. “Actually I think we have a pretty good balance now. We’re older, and wiser, and better at handling what life throws at us.

Take me for instance. I’m not stressed by Fridays anymore, unless the forecast calls for snow.”

“And we both know what would relieve that snow-in-the-forecast stress, don’t we?” said Rose.

There was another lengthy pause.

“I love you, Rose Jackson,” said Andrew at length.

“Half as much as I love you,” said Rose.

“Let’s not start that again,” said Andrew.

“OK,” said Rose. “Two thousand and eighteen will be a great year though, as long as I’m with you.”

“Well I’m not going anywhere,” said Andrew.

“Except maybe to buy a snowblower.”

Rose grinned at him across the room.

“Only time will tell,” she said.

Using vases as plant pots Instead of just for displaying cut flowers why not use a vase to plant in?

By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

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s the Christmas decorations are packed away, we again rely on our houseplants to provide interest in our indoor surroundings.

Also, in keeping with the spirit of the new year, we may be looking for something a little different. To accomplish a unique and fresh look does not necessarily require going out and purchasing new plants, but perhaps using an entirely different container to hold a plant you already have.

In a local thrift shop I found a vase — a unique oval brown one that had an interesting form. It was the right price so I bought it — not to exhibit flowers — but rather to put a plant in.

I had just finished tending a tray of plants that I had started from slips — a miniature jade plant called “Elephant Food” jade — that would be a perfect fit for the vase. The cuttings had rooted nicely and the plants were a good size, ranging from eight to 15 cm in height.

I filled the vase with soilless mix and planted the jade into it, putting

the tallest plant in the centre with a shorter one on each side. As the three cuttings were all different heights, they made a nice asymmetrical line and suited the form of the vase very well.

I had sprinkled the top of the soilless mix with some insecticidal dust to deter pests before planting, and after the planting was done had watered the soil, being careful not to overwater since the vase has no drainage holes.

I also had a tall black vase that would be good for my orange oregano plant. Orange oregano has attractive dark-green foliage; the leaves are small and the plant sends out long stems which develop pendulous growth. Using the same technique, I planted bits and pieces of orange oregano in the vase to create an attractive design that would get bigger and more attractive as the plant grew. This design would be less architectural because the plant had a less formal, more cascading growth habit.

The plants in both vases are sun loving, so I rotate them between the living room and the south windowsill of the sunroom so they get adequate light. The living room is north facing

In a local thrift shop I found a vase — a unique oval brown one that had an interesting form. It was the right price so I bought it — not to exhibit flowers — but rather to put a plant in.

so leaving them in such a low-light location over a long period would cause them to become leggy and unattractive.

See if you can find unique containers that might be used to create novel plant displays in your home. Don’t discount using unusual vases. They have the advantage of not leaking water all over the furniture, but be careful not to overwater the plants because of the lack of drainage. Now, go hunt for that perfect vase!

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

Three miniature jade plants are a perfect choice for this oval vase. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

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COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Reena answers more questions Plus, reader feedback and some handy hints

wich as soon as it’s off the griddle. The lettuce stays surprisingly crunchy. Or take a handful of kale, chop it coarsely and place it on one buttered slice of bread and top it with the cheese.

Then add the other slice. Melt a bit of butter in the griddle to cook one side, flip the sandwich and add a bit more butter if necessary. Very chewy and delicious.

— Maureen

reEna nerbas Household Solutions

Dear Reena, How can I get rid of the gross stink of dead mice in a vehicle? A mechanic was asked to locate any nests or dead mice and he said he couldn’t find any. I’ve tried baking soda and charcoal briquettes.

— Sarah Hi Sarah, Are you sure the smell exists as the result of an animal?

When this happened to me last summer, we found a package of deli sandwich meat that had escaped from my grocery bag and hid under one of the car seats. If you are dealing with a dead animal, the smell will return at first even if you manage to zap it temporarily. The good news is that the smell does dissipate over time (unless it’s old unfound meat).

If you absolutely don’t see anything bring the car to an automotive centre. They will kill the smell with an ozone machine.

Dear Reena, Is there an alternative to dry cleaning clothing or a way to prolong the duration between cleanings? I find it very expensive and smelly, but I use dry cleaning services because my work requires that I wear business suits on a daily basis.

Thanks. — Ron

Handy household hints • Stop chairs from scratching the floor by securing dark baby socks to each chair leg with a rubber band.

— Submitted by Sharon

Get some good ideas from reader feedback about grilled cheese sandwiches. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

Dear Ron, If the care label instructs you to dry clean your clothing, this is your safest bet. “Green Dry Cleaning” businesses or “Wet Cleaners” are becomi n g i n c re a s i n g l y p o p u l a r.

The advantage to these is the absence of the strong, toxic chemical PERC (perchloroethylene). After dry cleaned items are brought home, remove the plastic immediately and hang items outside for at least one hour. Or you may choose to dry clean at home using commercial products such as Dryel (use according to the package directions). Or place clothing into a pillowcase with a few baby wipes and secure with a rubber band, toss into the dryer. Run the dryer on medium heat for

Re: Butter stored in fridge is too hard for spreading onto grilled cheese sandwiches

is all he needs. Otherwise, put a bit of butter on the pan/grill, melt and spread to evenly coat surface of pan, then put down one slice of bread. Put cheese on top of bread. When cheese starts to melt and/or when bread starts to toast on bottom, remove bread and set aside.

Melt another bit of butter in pan/grill and place second slice of bread in the melted butter.

Assemble sandwich and continue grilling. This method is a bit more fiddly but perfect for someone who really wants to use butter and doesn’t have a microwave. — Linda

Hi Reena, If Wayne owns a microwave, he can soften a bit of butter that way; intermittent short “zaps”

Dear Reena, Here’s what I do to “nutritionize” grilled cheese: Take a lot of lettuce and stuff it into the sand-

10 minutes (air-fluff wool, nonwashable silk and rayon). The disadvantage to these options is the clothing will require pressing. Freshen underarms or collar areas, by spraying with vodka. Vodka is amazing for removing smells and rejuvenating textiles. Remove spot stains by scrubbing soiled areas with shaving cream and a light-coloured cloth.

Feedback from readers

• I f you are a glasses wearer and have difficulty tweezing eyebrows because you can’t see them, wear your glasses upside down while tweezing.

— Submitted by Mavis and Karen • Prevent hair frizz by wringing your hair out using paper towel instead of fabric towels. Paper creates less friction and absorbs more water which quickens drying time.

— Submitted by Blair Note: Every user assumes all risks of injury or damage resulting from the implementation of any suggestions in this column.

Test all products on an inconspicuous area first.

Reena Nerbas is a popular motivational presenter for large and small groups.

Check out her website: reena.ca. Ask a question or share a tip at reena.ca.

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 interested in hearing all sorts of experiences about the elevators — funny, sad, or anything in between. Readers willing to share their stories can leave messages at 204-474-7469.

A 30,000-bushel elevator at La Salle, on the CPR La Riviere Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald, was built in 1938 by the Paterson Grain Company using materials salvaged from a demolished elevator at Dumas, Saskatchewan. It replaced an earlier elevator built around 1912 by local farmer Moise Cormier and sold to Paterson in 1916. Balloon annexes were built beside the elevator in 1940 and 1955, increasing its capacity to 89,000 bushels. The annexes were subsequently replaced by six steel tanks between 1986 and 1988.

Operated by a part-time manager, the facility is used to store beans. Photo source: Manitoba Historic Resources Branch (June 1992)

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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

WANTED: TRACTOR MANUALS, sales bro- WRECKING TRUCKS: All makes all chures, tractor catalogs. 306-373-8012, models. Need parts? Call 306-821-0260 Saskatoon, SK. or email: junkman.2010@hotmail.com Wrecking Dodge, Chev, GMC, Ford and others. Lots of 4x4 stuff, 1/2 ton - 3 ton, SASKATOON FARM TOY and Collectible buses etc. and some cars. We ship by bus, Show at the German Culture Center, Jan. mail, Loomis, Purolator. Lloydminster, SK. 12th, 13th & 14th 2018. Fri. 5 PM - 9 PM; Sat. 10 AM- 5 PM; Sun. 10 AM- 4 PM. SpeMcSherry Auction cial features: Farm Toys and Scenes; Construction Equipment; Vintage toys and Service Ltd SCHOOL BUSES: 20 to 66 passenger, much more! 306-237-4747, Saskatoon, SK. 1998 to 2007, $2700 and up. 14 buses in 12 Patterson Dr. stock! Call Phoenix Auto, Lucky Lake, SK. Stonewall, MB 1-877-585-2300. DL #320074.

MULVEY “FLEA” MARKET. Osborne and Mulvey Ave. E. Winnipeg. Saturday’s, Sunday’s, Holidays, 10AM-5PM. 40+ vendors.

A/C. Debit, Visa, MC. Table or booth rental info call 204-478-1217, mulveymarket.ca

2003 QUAD CITY CHALLENGER II(2 seater aircraft). 278 TT airframe, 40 hrs. on brand new factory engine, I-Com radio, intercom, headsets, wheel skis, cabin heat, cheap to fly, wicked fun, $20,000.

204-532-2187 weekdays, 204-532-2013 evenings/weekends, Russell, MB.

ANTIQUE TRACTORS: 1923 Rumely 2040;1925 Case 18-32; 1929 Case 25-45; 1946 JD AR. 604-798-2027, Chilliwack, BC. THE WINNIPEG AGRICULTURAL Motor Competitions 1908-1913, by Rick Mannen, 340 pages illustrated, $29.95 + shipping.

Contact Haugholm Books 519-522-0248.

WANTED: COCKSHUTT TRACTORS, especially 50, 570 Super and 20, running or not, equipment, brochures, manuals and memorabilia. We pick up at your farm. Jim Harkness, RR 4, Harriston, ON., N0G 1Z0, 519-338-3946, fax: 519-338-2756.

855 CUMMINS ENGINE W/CLUTCH, 335 HP, from 1972 Autocar, decompression start, approx. 1000 hrs. on complete overhaul, $5000 OBO. Call Don (after 6PM) at 204-767-2334. Silver Ridge, MB. ADRIAN’S MAGNETO SERVICE. Guaranteed repairs on mags and ignitors. Repairs.

Parts. Sales. 204-326-6497. Box 21232, Steinbach, MB. R5G 1S5.

COCKSHUTT GRAIN CHOPPER & endless belt; 15’ #36 MH discer w/packers; 14’ MH DD drill w/steel wheels. All in good shape; Various horse equip., Chamberlain, SK. 306-734-2970, cell 306-734-7335.

COCKSHUTT 30, heavy wheels, rebuilt motor, new tires, c/w 6’ rotary mower, $2500; 3 - John Deere B tractors, $1200 for all 3. Call 306-722-7770, Osage, SK. JOHN DEERE A, new rubber; John Deere LA, very good rubber. Both running with good tin; 28” cast iron bell. 306-463-7756, Kindersley, SK. 1954 JD 60, good running order, tires & tin good, $4200; JD 3 furrow plow on hyds., $350. 780-312-8653, Thorsby, AB. Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds. Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our friendly staff, and don’t forget to ask about our prepayment bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free!

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24’ GOOSENECK 3-8,000 lb. axles, $7890; Bumper pull tandem lowboys: 18’, 16,000 lbs., $4750; 16’, 10,000 lbs., $3390; 16’, 7000 lbs., $2975, 8000 lb Skidsteer, $1990 Factory direct.

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REMOTE CONTROL ENDGATE AND hoist systems can save you time, energy and keep you safe this seeding season.

Give Kramble Industries a call at 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or visit us online at: www.kramble.net

1995 DOEPKER 48’, 102”, tandem machinery trailer, single drop, hyd. tail/flip, alum. outriggers, 12,000 lb. winch, good cond., $30,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

2007 MACK, 10 speed Eaton auto., new 20’ CIM B&H, 940,000 kms., fresh Sask. safeties. Call 306-270-6399, Saskatoon, SK. www.78truxsales.com DL #316542.

1980 INT TANDEM Grain Truck, Cummins 2012 ADVANCE TC407, tri-axle alum. tank- dsl., 13 spd., good BH&T. Call for a good er, 41,600L, pump, loaded, new condition; price! 306-654-7772, Saskatoon, SK. 2011 Stainless TC407, tri-axle tanker, 11,100 USG, 2 comp., pump, scrubber.

Cell 306-921-7721, 306-752-4909, Melfort, SK. FREIGHTLINER CASCADIA, 530 HP Detroit PRECISION TRAILERS: Gooseneck and deleted eng., 46,000 lb. diff., 18 spd., full bumper hitch. You’ve seen the rest, now fenders, new tires and beacon, $80,000. own the best. Hoffart Services, Odessa, SK. 306-642-8551, Assiniboia, SK. 306-957-2033 www.precisiontrailers.ca

2010 IHC PROSTAR day cab, heavy spec., 800,000 kms., 46R double locks, 18 spd., 485 Cummins, (0 hrs. on factory rebuilt c/w warranty), new clutch (warranty), 10 new 24.5’s, nice clean heavy spec Western truck, $69,900. Will consider farm tractors or trucks on trade. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

130 MISC. SEMI TRAILERS, flatdecks, lowbeds, dump trailers, jeeps, tankers, etc.

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1986 DODGE 1 TON, duals, good 360 motor, rebuilt tranny (300 KM), rebuilt carburetor. New battery, newer fenders, cab floor, w/Haul-All packer/dump box, $4,900. Call 204-889-1697, Winnipeg, MB.

HI-BOY TRAILER, w/2-2500 gal. tanks, 3” Banjo ball valves & hoses. Tires good, $12,000 OBO. 306-834-7810, Dodsland, SK

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(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027 2016 SUBARU IMPREZA consumer reports as best small call starting at $23,360! Call www.mcsherryauction.com 2004 IH 7600 tandem truck, 670,000 kms, for best price!! 1-877-373-2662 or 13 spd., 425/65R22.5 front (20,000 lbs.), www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

11R22.5 rear (46,000 lbs.), $55,000.

AGRO WESTERN AUCTION RESULTS, 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. Know before you go! Recent results; 2014 Versatile 550 Delta Track 550, 1080 hrs., 2015 VOLVO 630, D13 500 HP, I-Shift, $268,837 CDN sold at auction Nov 2017 in 335,000 kms, 2016 Doepker Super B grain North Dakota.; 2013 Versatile 500 Delta hoppers, Air Max, like new, $191,000 unit.

Track, 1669 hrs., $272,500 CDN sold at HEATED SNOWMOBILE TRAILERS, starting Will separate. 204-761-6695, Brandon, MB auction Nov 2017, in Saskatchewan. The at $14,995!

Call 1-866-346-3148 or shop 2014 Versatile 550, 1 year, newer, $3663. online 24/7 at: allandale.com less, 589 hrs. less, 50 HP more, which one would you buy? Check out our website: www.agrowestern.com NORMS SANDBLASTING & PAINT, 40 ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES, Piapot years body and paint experience. We do Lions Club 19th Annual Show and Sale, at metal and fiberglass repairs and integral to Maple Creek Armories, Sat. January 27th daycab conversions. Sandblasting and 10:00 to 5:00, Sun. January 28th 10:00 to paint to trailers, trucks and heavy equip. 2015 FORD F250 XLT, Super Duty 4x4 Endura primers and topcoats. A one stop 3:00, 306-558-4802, Maple Creek, SK. crew cab, 6.7L Diesel, auto., trailer tow shop. Norm 306-272-4407, Foam Lake SK. package, backup camera, tailgate steps, Call our toll-free number to take advantage PRAIRIE SANDBLASTING & PAINTING. bronze fire exterior, tan cloth interior. of our Prepayment Bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks Trailer overhauls and repairs, alum. slopes 6 1/2’ box with cover and chrome tube and we’ll run your ad 2 more weeks for free. and trailer repairs, tarps, insurance claims, rails. 23,900 kms, balance of all factory That’s 5 weeks for the price of 3. Call 1-800- and trailer sales. Epoxy paint. Agriculture warranties, $47,500 firm plus GST. Call Bill 2011 FREIGHTLINER DAY-CAB, Detroit 667-7770 today! and commercial. Satisfaction guaranteed. 306-726-7977, Southey, SK. DD15, 455 HP, 13 spd., 12 front, 40 rear, 306-744-7930, Saltcoats, SK. 2013 RAM 3500 SLT, crew cab, 6.7L, auto, 175” WB, 715,800 kms., $44,900. DL# 1679. Norm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB. 2010 DAKOTA 38’, all aluminum TA, 4x4, dually, 99,900 kms., Sask tax paid, $29,800; 2010 Lode-King 28’ tri-axle lead, one owner, local trade, $41,995. Hendry’s Chrysler, 306-528-2171, Nokomis, SK. $24,000; A-Train wagon, $2900, Saskatoon, SK., 306-222-2413. Pictures online DL#907140 www.trailerguy.ca BRIDGE CITY DRIVELINE specializing in drive shaft repair and custom build; in- 2006 DOEPKER SUPER B steel grain cluding aluminum, diff service and over- trailers, A/R, scales, 11R24.5, 2018 safety $39,800. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit: haul. 306-933-4440, Saskatoon, SK www.combineworld.com ALLISON TRANSMISSION. Service, Sales OLDER GRAIN TRAILER, tandem, nice conand Parts. Exchange or rebuild. Call Allied dition, priced to sell! Call 306-654-7772, Transmissions Calgary, 1-888-232-2203; Saskatoon, SK. 2012 MACK CXU613 day-cab, Mack MP8, Spectrum Industrial Automatics Ltd., 455HP, Eaton 13 spd., $39,900. DL#1679.

Blackfalds, AB., call 1-877-321-7732.

Norm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB. 2004 F-150 HERITAGE, 5.4 auto., 2WD, 2002-2003 FLD 120/60 series trucks; 2007 2016 EXISS 28' Stock Combo Trailer, (2) only 80,000 kms., uses clean burning natu- W900, only 690 km, 2009 T800 single tur8000 lb. torsion axles, 8 yr. struct. & 3 yr. ral gas, economical to run! $3900. Cam- bo CAT; 2009 Cascadia, only 309,000 km; WRECKING SEMI-TRUCKS, lots of parts. BTB warranty, $29,149. Call 780-974-9700, Don Motors Ltd, 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK 2011 T800 550 Cummins; 2011 Pro Star Call Yellowhead Traders. 306-896-2882, Tofield, AB., www.heritagetrailers.ca rebuilt Cummins. All units no emissions, Churchbridge, SK. Very good shape. Call 306-752-4909, cell 306-921-7721, Melfort, SK. 2017 EXISS 20' Stock Trailer, (2) 7000 lb.

TRUCK BONEYARD INC. Specializing in torsion axles, 8 yr. struct. & 3 yr. BTB 1979 MACK TANDEM, R600 21' grain box, obsolete parts, all makes. Trucks bought warranty, $21,750. Tofield, AB. Call 300 HP, 10 speed, 3rd axle air lift, safetied, 2013 PROSTAR MAX FORCE 13, 18 spd., lockers, 46 rears, new rubber, 52” for wrecking. 306-771-2295, Balgonie, SK. 780-974-9700 www.heritagetrailers.ca $20,000. 204-324-9300 or 204-324-7622, 4-way high rise bunk, fresh safety, white colour, Altona, MB. E-mail: gpwiebe@sdnet.ca v. clean, Wabasco heater, 800,000 kms., ONE OF SASK’s largest inventory of used 20’ TANDEM AXLE cattle trailer, lift-off top heavy truck parts. 3 ton tandem diesel mo- (converts to open trailer), $4500 OBO. Call ALLISON AUTOMATIC TRUCKS: Several $40,000 OBO. 306-334-2958, Balcarres, SK tors and transmissions and differentials for 306-862-8460, 306-277-4503, Gronlid, SK. trucks with auto. trans. available with C&C all makes! Can-Am Truck Export Ltd., or grain or gravel box. Starting at $19,900; CALL GRASSLAND TRAILERS for your best Call K&L Equipment, 306-795-7779, Itu1-800-938-3323. deal on quality livestock trailers by Titan, na, SK. DL #910885. ladimer@sasktel.net TRUCK PARTS: 1/2 to 3 ton, new and Duralite (all aluminum riveted) and Circle used. We ship anywhere. Contact Phoenix D. Fall Special in stock- 25’ Duralite, YEAR END GRAIN TRUCK CLEARANCE! $23,500; 20’ Titan smooth wall classic 2007 Mack 400 HP, Mack eng., AutoShift, Auto, 1-877-585-2300, Lucky Lake, SK. steel stock, $14,500. 306-640-8034 cell, A/T/C, new 20’ BH&T, new RR tires, WRECKING VOLVO TRUCKS: Misc. axles 306-266-2016, Wood Mountain, SK. Email 716,000 kms., exc shape, was $67,500, NOW $63,500; 2007 IH 9200 ISX Cumand parts. Also tandem trailer suspension gm93@sasktel.net mins, 430 HP, AutoShift, alum. wheels, axles. Call 306-539-4642, Regina, SK. new 20’ BH&T, fully loaded, 1M kms., real nice shape, was $67,500, NOW $63,500; 2013 KENWORTH T660, 550 Cummins 2009 Mack CH613, 430HP Mack, 10 spd., ISX, 18 spd., Super 40’s, 804,630 kms.; 3 pedal AutoShift, new 20’ BH&T, alum. 2016 Lode King Super B grain trailers, wheels, 1.4M kms. has eng. bearing roll 205,301 kms. $145,000 for both. Will sell done, nice shape, was $69,500, NOW separate. 306-741-6297, Swift Current, SK $65,500; 2007 Kenworth T600, C13 Cat 425 HP, 13 spd., AutoShift, new 20’ BH&T, Farm Machinery .....................4103 - 4328 alum. wheels, new paint, 1.0M kms., excellent truck, was $71,500, NOW $67,500; Livestock .................................5000 - 5792 2005 IH 4400 tandem, w/570 IH eng., 320 HP, 10 spd., new 20’ BH&T, alum.

DELIVERY AVAILABLE ON ALL TRAILOrganic ....................................5943 - 5948 ERS. Full line-up of Wilson Trailers also wheels., 423,000 kms., very clean truck, available in BC! Call for more info on get- excellent tires, was $54,500, NOW Personal ..................................5950 - 5952 ting a trailer delivered to you! With almost $51,500; 1996 Midland 24’ tandem grain 2 decades of Sales & Service, we will not pup, stiff pole, completely rebuilt, new be undersold! Call 1-888-641-4508, Bassa- paint, new brakes, excellent tries, was Real Estate Sales ....................6110 - 6140 $18,500, NOW $16,500; 1999 IH 4700 no, AB., www.desertsales.ca S/A w/17’ steel flat deck, 230,000 kms., Recreational Vehicles ............6161 - 6168 IH 7.3 diesel, 10 spd., good tires, was $19,500, NOW $18,000; 2005 IH 9200 tractor, ISX 430 HP Cummins, 13 spd., alwww.goodon.com Rentals & Accommodations .6210 - 6245 um. wheels, flat top sleeper, good rubber, was $22,500, NOW $19,500.

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1994 WESTERN STAR 4964F Crane truck, 584,000 kms., T/A, Cat 3406, Eaton 18 spd., Ferrari 8300 Kg crane, fresh safety, $19,800. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit: www.combineworld.com SWEEPRITE SR4400, 53,870 kms., S/A, 6’ rear broom, Cummins 5.9L, $7980.

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2009 FORD F-550, RWD, 6.4 L diesel, auto, duals, 11’ deck, new front, 200,000 kms., ready to work! $15,900. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

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SPECIAL PURCHASE OF new and near new 2014-2015 Crosstrek XVs. Save up to $5000. Come in quickly!! 1-877-373-2662. www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if you want to sell it fast place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds.

It’s a Sure Thing. Call our toll-free number today. We have friendly staff ready to help.

1-800-667-7770.

ROUGH LUMBER: 2x6, 2x8, 2x10, 1” boards, windbreak slabs, 4x4, 6x6, 8x8, all in stock. Custom sizes and log siding on order. Call V&R Sawing 306-232-5488, Rosthern, SK.

CONTINUOUS METAL ROOFING, no exposed screws to leak or metal overlaps.

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.

CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place and finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any floor design. References available. Alexander, MB. 204-752-2069.

Quality Post Frame Buildings

2018 SUNDOWNER RS 8’x30’ GN, triple 7K axles, spare tire, 8/11/11 compartments, #J1KB6153, $34,500. 1-866-346-3148 or shop online 24/7 at: allandale.com

AUTOSHIFT TRUCKS AVAILABLE: Boxed tandems and tractor units. Contact David 306-887-2094, 306-864-7055, Kinistino, SK. DL #327784. www.davidstrucks.com

Experienced, Efficient and Affordable!

Over 50 years in business!

Ask about current promotions and lease options.

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www.windandweathershelters.com COMMERCIAL GRADE Wind and weather shelter buildings available in widths from 20’ to 90’. Prices starting at $2495. If you have bought an auction building and need to upgrade to more durable material or parts, we can help! Contact Paul 306-641-5464 or Ladimer 306-795-7779.

Located in Yorkton, SK.

SKIDSTEER ATTACHMENTS: Buckets, rock buckets, grapples, weld-on plates, hyd. augers, brush cutters and more large stock.

Top quality equipment, quality welding and sales. Call Darcy at 306-731-3009, 306-731-8195, Craven, SK.

2011 BRANDT 5200EX grain vacuum, 1000 PTO, new flighting, good condition, $16,900. Phone 1-800-667-4515 or visit: www.combineworld.com

• 28 Gauge Steel (Industry Leading) • Strongest Posts Available • 20+ Colours In-Stock

SMALL BUSINESSES FOR SALE: $50,000 to $500,000. Land and buildings not included. SUITE Business Services.

Ph/txt Bert 306-664-BERT(2378).

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SUITE Business Services: Helping small businesses to grow, start and sell their 2006 KOMATSU D65 EX-15. Approx. 5950 business. Ph/txt Bert 306-664-BERT(2378) org. hrs., 24” pads, straight tilt blade, 3 BUSINESS FOR SALE, $120,000. Offers tooth ripper, excellent working cond., very great growth opportunity in consumer and good UC, $139.500. Bush canopy available. pet industry. Saskatoon, SK. Call Bert Trades considered (warranty). Can deliver.

Call 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. 306-664-BERT(2378).

MOVE YOUR DIRT real cheap! Low prices!

PROVEN FARMING SKILLS but need land? (3) Cat 641 motor 28 yard scrapers; Cat Operator with growth to ownership oppor- 235 excavator w/digging bucket, not used tunities available; May require relocation. in 5 yrs.; Cat D9-G hyd. dozer w/tow Call 403-775-0536. winch; (2) Cat 980B loaders w/bucket; Cat 977-K loader. Equipment of all types. New & used parts. 2 yards over 50 acres. Cambrian Equipment Sales, Winnipeg, MB. (Ph) 204-667-2867 or (Fax) 204-667-2932.

FARMING OPERATING LOSSES For Sale: A longstanding farm that has now ceased its operations has substantial operating losses in a #'d company available for purchase and utilization by another farming operation. These losses can be used to offset farm income and/or farming capital gains. $97,500. 250-999-4777, Vancouver, BC. just.p@shaw.ca DEBTS, BILLS AND charge accounts too high? Need to resolve prior to spring? Call us to develop a professional mediation plan, resolution plan or restructuring plan.

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POLY GRAIN BINS, 40 to 150 bu. for grain cleaning, feed, fertilizer and left over treated seed. Booth C34 at the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon. Call 306-258-4422, Vonda, SK. www.buffervalley.com LIFETIME LID OPENERS. We are a stocking dealer for Boundary Trail Lifetime Lid Openers, 18” to 39”. Rosler Construction 2000 Inc., 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK. BROCK (BUTLER) GRAIN BIN PARTS and accessories available at Rosler Construction. 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK.

CONTAINERS FOR SALE OR RENT: All sizes. Now in stock: 53’ steel and insulated stainless steel. 306-861-1102 Radville, SK. SHIPPING CONTAINERS FOR SALE. 20’53’, delivery/ rental/ storage available. For inventory and prices call: 306-262-2899, Saskatoon, SK. www.thecontainerguy.ca

Fully Adjustable Auger Hopper

2008 G940 TANDEM drive articulated, Volvo D7E eng., net 165 HP, HTE 1160, shuttle auto shift trans. (11 fwd, 6 rvs), 14’ mold board, 5688 hrs., $74,800. DL#1679.

Norm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB. HORNOI LEASING NEW and used 20’ and 40’ sea cans for sale or rent. Call 306-757-2828, Regina, SK. 20’ and 40’ SHIPPING CONTAINERS and storage trailers. Large Sask. inventory.

Phone 1-800-843-3984 or 306-781-2600.

20’ TO 53’ CONTAINERS. New, used and modified. Available Winnipeg, MB; Regina and Saskatoon, SK. www.g-airservices.ca 306-933-0436.

JIM’S TUB GRINDING, H-1100 Haybuster with 400 HP, serving Saskatchewan. Call 306-334-2232, 306-332-7332, Balcarres.

HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS 10 to 25 yds., exc. cond.; Loader and scraper tires, custom conversions available. Looking for cable scrapers. Quick Drain Sales Ltd., NEUFELD ENT. CORRAL CLEANING, Cat payloader, Bobcat with rubber tracks and 306-231-7318, 306-682-4520 Muenster SK SPECIAL: All post & stud frame vertical beater spreaders.

Phone HYDRAULIC SCRAPERS: LEVER 60, 70, WINTER farm buildings. Choose sliding doors, over306-220-5013, 306-467-5013, Hague, SK. 80, and 435, 4 to 30 yd. available. Rebuilt head doors or bi-fold doors. New-Tech for years of trouble-free service. Lever Construction Ltd 306-220-2749, Hague, SK BRUSH MULCHING. The fast, effective Holdings Inc. 306-682-3332 Muenster, SK. way to clear land. Four season service, BEHLEN STEEL BUILDINGS, quonsets, competitive rates, 275 HP unit, also avail. 2014 L10 TAKEUCHI Skid Steer, 3500 hrs., convex and rigid frame straight walls, trackhoe with thumb, multiple bucket at- good condition, comes with tooth bucket. grain tanks, metal cladding, farm- comtachments. Bury rock and brush piles and 306-441-1684, Cut Knife, SK. mercial. Construction and concrete crews. fence line clearing. Borysiuk Contracting 2002 JCB 214 SLP backhoe; Case 2870 Guaranteed workmanship. Call your SaskaInc., www.bcisk.ca Prince Albert, SK., w/Degelman dozer; Fassi hyd. arm & 10’ toon and Northwest Behlen Distributor, 306-960-3804.

1-ton steel deck. Call 306-240-8086.

Janzen Steel Buildings, 306-242-7767, Osler, SK. MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. 1980 D6D DOZER, wide pad, winch; 1993 Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: D37 P6 6-way dozer, cab. 306-304-1959. STRAIGHT WALL BUILDING packages or Goodsoil, SK. www.maverickconstruction.ca built on site. For early booking call CAT D6D, PS, hyd. angle dozer 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: REGULATION DUGOUTS: 120x60x14’, 1980 wide pad, & winch, very low hrs. www.warmanhomecentre.com $2000; 160x60x14’, $2950; 180x60x14’, w/tilt, $3450; 200x60x14’, $3950. Larger sizes Call Scott, 306-533-6397, Regina, SK. INSULATED FARM SHOP packages or avail. Travel incl. in SK. See us on FB at built on site, for early booking call saskdugouts. 306-222-8054, Saskatoon SK 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: GREAT PRICES ON new, used and remanu- www.warmanhomecentre.com factured engines, parts and accessories for STRAIGHT WALL BUILDING packages or diesel pickups. Large inventory, engines on site. For early booking call 1997 CAT D6R crawler, enclosed cab can be shipped or installed. Give us a call built or visit our website: w/air, heat, canopy, front sweeps, rear or check: www.thickettenginerebuilding.ca 1-800-667-4990 www.warmanhomecentre.com screen, side covers, H.S. dozer, twin tilts, Thickett Engine Rebuilding. 204-532-2187, Cat. genuine UC at 70%, diff. steering. Russell, MB. WOOD POST BUILDING packages or built Priced well below retail at $ 44,500! Call on site. For early booking call Robert Harris, Gimli, MB. toll free: 3406B, N14, SERIES 60, running engines 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: 1-877-614-4203, or cell: 204-470-5493. and parts. Call Yellowhead Traders, www.warmanhomecentre.com Visit: robertharrisequipment.com for com- 306-896-2882, Churchbridge, SK. plete details & pics of all our equipment.

WANTED DIESEL CORES: ISX and N14 WOOD POST BUILDING packages or built Cummins, C15 Cats, Detroits Ddec 3, 4, on site. For early booking call JCB 550-17 EXTENDED boom forklift, very DD15. Can-Am Truck 1-800-938-3323.

1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: good condition, $85,000. 204-243-2453, www.warmanhomecentre.com 290 CUMMINS, 350 Detroit, 671 Detroit, High Bluff, MB. Series 60 cores. 306-539-4642, Regina, SK INSULATED FARM SHOP packages or DIESEL ENGINES, OVERHAUL kits and built on site, for early booking call parts for most makes. Cat, CIH, Cummins, 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: Detroit, Mack. M&M Equipment Ltd., Parts www.warmanhomecentre.com and Service phone: 306-543-8377, fax: 306-543-2111, Regina, SK.

2010 CAT D7R 2 LGP crawler tractor, Packard winch, AC, cab, canopy, sweeps, Adozer 16.6”, 36” pads, UC as new, 6282 hrs., very clean, $285,000; 2008 JD 850J WLT crawler dozer, c/w ROP’S, 12’ 6-way blade, SBG pads, 8700 hrs., $95,000.

204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. AFAB INDUSTRIES POST frame buildings.

For the customer that prefers quality.

EXCAVATOR BUCKETS, various shapes 1-888-816-AFAB (2322), Rocanville, SK. and sizes for different excavators. Call STEEL CLADDING: NEW Grade A, 3/4” 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. high rib, 29 gauge Galvalume $0.82/SF or 1986 CASE 450C dozer crawler, 6-way White-White $0.99/SF cut to your length!

All accessories available. Prairie Steel, Clablade $9500. www.waltersequipment.com vet, SK. Call 1-888-398-7150, or email 204-525-4521. Minitonas, MB. buildings@prairiesteel.com

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2013 MACDON A30-D 18’, double knife drive, steel crimpers, 1000 PTO, $19,900.

1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com

2009 CHALLENGER SP115C, 30’, Outback AutoSteer, PUR, roto-shears, gauge wheels, 2356 hrs., $39,900.

1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 2010 JD A400, 1132 hrs., AutoSteer, 36’, HB header, UII PUP, new knife & guards, $53,400. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit www.combineworld.com

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Increased auger capacity Eliminates overflows and bin mess New Fertilizer Lump Rolling Screen

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 Check out A & I online parts store www.pennosmachining.com

2012 CASE 8120, 3016 table, 1106 sep.

MERIDIAN GRAIN AUGERS available hrs., duals, lat. tilt, Pro 700, 262 AutoSteer, with self-propelled mover kits and bin power fold top, exc.cond., $195,000 OBO. sweeps. Call Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipaw- 403-340-9484, Trochu, AB. in, SK. Toll free 1-888-304-2837.

BOOKING NORCAN SOYBEAN Common YEAR END CLEARANCE: New SLMD #1. Put the new big red in your shed, not 1272 and HD10-53. Used augers: 2013 Sa- the seed dealers! Buy a bigger Case/IH BEAVER CONTAINER SYSTEMS, new kundiak SLMD 1272, loaded, $14,800; and used sea containers, all sizes. SLMD 10x66, loaded, $11,500; Farm King combine! Early discounts. Call Norcan Seeds, 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch, MB. 306-220-1278, Saskatoon and Regina, SK. 10x70 S/A, $6900; HD 8x39 w/20 HP Kohler and mover $6950. Also a dealer for 2000 CIH 2388 w/1015 header, $55,000; Convey-All Conveyors. Leasing available! 2004 2388 w/2015 PU header, $95,000; Call Dale at Mainway Farm Equipment, 2006 2388 w/2015 PU header, $110,000; 306-567-3285 or 306-567-7299, Davidson. 2002 2388 w/2015 PU header, $80,000; www.mainwayfarmequipment.ca 2008 2588 w/2015 PU header, $135,000.

Chicoine Farm Equipment, MERIDIAN AUGERS IN STOCK: swings, A.E. truck loading, Meridian SP movers. Call 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. Hoffart Services Inc., Odessa, SK., 2004 CASE/IH 2388, AFX rotor, lateral tilt Com e see us at our new 306-957-2033. feeder house, HHC, chopper, rock trap, location at M B Ag Days tanks extension w/roll tarp, DMC II MERIDIAN TRUCKLOADING AUGERS grain tester, exc. cond, very good tires, B ooth 142 4 TL10-39, loaded, $18,300 HD10-46, load- moisture $65,000.

306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. ed, $19,500; HD10-59, loaded, $20,425; W es tob a A g TL12-39, loaded with 37 EFI engine, PRICE REDUCED! 2002 CIH 2388, low hrs., $20,370. 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK. C entre C oncour s e chopper, very good PU, always shedded.

Jan.16-18th,2018 NEVER CLIMB A BIN AGAIN! Full-bin Su- 306-654-7772, Saskatoon, SK. per Sensor, reliable hardwired with 2 year Gerald Shym ko warranty; Magnetic Camera Pkg. - One man positioning of auger (even at night); Calder 306-742-4445 Hopper Dropper - Unload your hopper bins 2008 NH CR9060, 2120 eng. hrs., 1679 or 1-888-674-5346 without any mess; Wireless Magnetic LED thresh. hrs., $54,000 w/o March 2017.

Light - Position your swing auger at night Completely redone from the feeder chain to For allyour Keho, from the comfort of your truck. Safety and the chopper knives. Always shedded, very convenience are the name of the game. good cond., $109,000 OBO. 780-975-4235, G rain G uard,Aeration & www.brownlees.ca Brownlees Trucking Inc Thorhild, AB. toronchuk@mcsnet.ca Storm ax/ OPIProducts Unity, SK., 306-228-2971, 1-877-228-5598 NEVER CLIMB A BIN AGAIN! Full-bin Super Sensor, reliable hardwired with 2 year warranty; Magnetic Camera Pkg. - One man positioning of auger (even at night); Hopper Dropper - Unload your hopper bins KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD Aeration Sales without any mess; Wireless Magnetic LED and Service. R.J. Electric, Avonlea, SK. Call Light - Position your swing auger at night 306-868-2199 or cell 306-868-7738. from the comfort of your truck. Safety and convenience are the name of the game. www.brownlees.ca Brownlees Trucking Inc Unity, SK., 306-228-2971, 1-877-228-5598 BUILD YOUR OWN conveyors, 6”, 7”, 8” and 10” end units available; Transfer con- REMOTE CONTROL SWING AUGER veyors and bag conveyors or will custom movers, trailer chute openers, endgate build. Call for prices. Master Industries and hoist systems, wireless full bin alarms, Inc. www.masterindustries.ca Phone swing belt movers, wireless TractorCams, motorized utility carts. All shipped directly 1-866-567-3101, Loreburn, SK. to you. Safety, convenience, reliability.

RM45 MERIDIAN, $35,000; RM55 Me- Kramble Industries at 306-933-2655, ridian, $36,500; 1645 TL Convey-All, Saskatoon, SK. or www.kramble.net $29,500. Call 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg.

KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD/ OPI STORMAX. For sales and service east central SK. and MB., call Gerald Shymko, Calder, SK., 306-742-4445 or toll free 1-888-674-5346.

2008 WALINGA TRIDEM live bottom, TIM’S CUSTOM BIN MOVING and Haul- 107,493 kms, alum., 12 comp., hydraulic ing Inc. Up to 22’ diameter. 204-362-7103 control, very good condition, $44,800.

1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com FARM AND INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL binmover50@gmail.com motor sales, service and parts. Also sale GRAIN BIN INSTALLATION. Large diameof, and repairs to, all makes and sizes of pumps and phase converters, etc. Tisdale ter bin setup, concrete, and repairs. Now Motor Rewinding 1984 Ltd., booking Spring 2018. Quadra Develop306-873-2881, fax 306-873-4788, 1005A- ment Corp., 1-800-249-2708.

111th Ave., Tisdale, SK. tmr@sasktel.net FOR ALL YOUR grain storage, hopper Website: www.tismtrrewind.com cone and steel floor requirements contact: Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipawin, SK. Toll free: 1-888-304-2837.

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BALE SPEAR ATTACHMENTS for all loaders and skidsteers, excellent pricing.

Call now 1-866-443-7444.

Phone: 306-778-3338 Email: sales@gatcomfg.com

LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom hay hauling. 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK.

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BALE SPEARS, high quality imported from Italy, 27” and 49”, free shipping, excellent pricing. Call now toll free 1-866-443-7444, Stonewall, MB.

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1978 CHAMPION 740 motor grader, Detroit 6 cylinder, showing 2568 hours, 14’ FARM/CORPORATE PROJECTS. Call A.L. moldboard, scarifier, cab, new rear tires, Management Group for all your borrowing $16,900. Call 1-800-667-4515, or visit: and lease requirements. 306-790-2020, www.combineworld.com Regina, SK. 2006 KOBELCO SK290LC Excavator, 5708 hrs., tracks and undercarriage 75%, good pins, digging bucket, good cond., $59,800. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit SASKATOON FARM TOY and Collectible www.combineworld.com Show at the German Culture Center, Jan. 12th, 13th & 14th 2018. Fri. 5 PM - 9 PM; 2007 CAT D6N LGP Dozer, new underSat. 10 AM- 5 PM; Sun. 10 AM- 4 PM. Spe- carriage, 34” pads, diff. steer, 6-way blade, cial features: Farm Toys and Scenes; Con- 16,131 hrs., $94,900. 1-800-667-4515, struction Equipment; Vintage toys and www.combineworld.com much more! 306-237-4747, Saskatoon, SK. 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

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2012 CASE 4530, 3-bin, 70’ booms, 2000 hrs., ext. warranty, $152,000; 2011 4520 1-bin, 70’ booms, $145,000; 2010 Case 3520, 3-bin, 2670 hrs., $115,000; SPECIAL: 2010 4520 1- bin, 70’ booms, 1800 hrs., $125,000; 2010 Case 4520, 1-bin, 70’ booms, 1920 hrs., AutoSteer, $138,000; 2006 Case 4510, AutoSteer, FlexAir 70’ booms, 7400 hrs., $77,000; 2005 Case 4520 w/70’ FlexAir, 4000 hrs., $78,000; 2004 Case 4010, 80’ SPRAYER, 7000 hrs., $58,000; 2002 Loral AirMax 1000, 70’ boom, $63,000; 2009 AgChem 3 wheeler, 4000 hrs., G-force spinner bed, $88,000; 2004 KBH Semi tender, self-contained, $32,500; 2009 and 2012 Merritt semi belt tender, self-contained, $33,500 and $44,000; 24 ton Wilmar tender beds, $18,500 ea; 2010 Wilmar Wrangler 4560, loader, 1600 hrs., $25,500; 2009 Wrangler, 2400 hrs., $23,500; 18,000 gal. NH3 holding tank, $34,500. All USD prices.

406-576-3402 or 406-466-5356, Choteau, MT. Visit online: www.fertilizerequipment.net

BOOK NOW, TAKE DELIVERY, DON’T PAY UNTIL NOVEMBER, 2018. Top quality MERIDIAN bins. Price includes: skid, ladders to ground, manhole, set-up and delivery within set radius. Meridian Hopper Combo SPECIAL: 5000 bu., $14,990. We manufacture superior quality hoppers and steel floors for all makes and sizes. Know what you are investing in. Call and find out why our product quality and price well exceeds the competition. We also stock replacement lids for all makes & models of bins. Leasing available. Hoffart Services Inc., 306-957-2033, Odessa, SK.

STEEL FARM BUILDINGS On Sale: Prairie Steel Products is offering winter booking discounts on all steel farm buildings.

Book now for spring delivery and save! Visit our booth at the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon Jan. 9-12 for more info. BIN MOVING, all sizes up to 19’ diameter, w/wo floors; Also move liquid fert. tanks.

1-888-398-7150, www.prairiesteel.com 306-629-3324, 306-741-9059, Morse, SK. POLE BARNS, WOODSTEEL packages, hog, chicken and dairy barns. Construction SAVE FREIGHT! U-weld hopper cones for and concrete crews available. Mel or Scott, all brands of bins up to 24’. Middle Lake MR Steel Construction, 306-978-0315, Steel, 306-367-4306 or 306-367-2408. www.middlelakesteel.com Hague, SK.

2012 NH CR9090 Elevation, 1200 hrs., AutoSteer, 650R42 duals, European-built, MacDon/CNH pickups and headers available. $198,000. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 2003 NH CR940, 2588 hrs., chopper, spreader, unload auger ext., 900/ 60R32 fronts, headers/PU’s available, $49,800.

1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com

GRAVITY WAGONS: New 400 bu, $7,400; 600 bu., $12,500; 750 bu., $18,250. Large selection of used gravity wagons, 250-750 bu. Used grain carts, 450 to 1110 bushel.

View at: www.zettlerfarmequipment.com 2004 JD 7300, 1497 cutter head hrs., always stored in heated shop, owned for 1-866-938-8537, Portage la Prairie, MB. 10+ yrs., many new parts over last two 2012 BRENT 882 Grain Cart, 850 bu., years, c/w KP and 2004 JD 686 corn head 1000 PTO, hydraulic spout, 500 bu./min., and 2011 JD 630C grass head, excellent very good condition, $37,800 cond., $195,000 OBO. For details call 604-819-8870, Chilliwack, BC. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com

2014 JD S690, 753 hrs., Contour Master, 2630 monitor, Prodrive, premium cab, DUAL STAGE ROTARY SCREENERS and JD/MacDon pickup & headers available.

Kwik Kleen 5-7 tube. Call 204-857-8403, $289,900. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit Portage la Prairie, MB. or visit online: www.combineworld.com www.zettlerfarmequipment.com 2005 JD 9860STS, GS yield and mois2010 TERRAGATOR 8204 w/AirMax Preci- CUSTOM COLOR SORTING chickpeas to ture, AHHC, F/A, 3106 hrs., JD/MacDon sion 2 bed (2 bin), 4400 hrs., $93,500 mustard. Cert. organic and conventional. pickups and headers available. $59,800.

USD; 2014 Rogator 1300 AirMax, 60’ 306-741-3177, Swift Current, SK. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com booms, 3220 hrs., $127,000; 2012 AgChem Rogator 1300, 2000 hrs., 120’ LOOKING FOR A new widespread tailbooms, $152,000. Call 406-576-3402 or board for your STS? Don’t like your cur406-466-5356, Choteau, MT. www.fertilirent powercast set-up? We sell brand new CONT. FLOW BEHLEN M700, propane, sin- widespread kits for all STS models for zerequipment.net gle phase, good cond., Canola screens, $1495 or free with the trade-in of your old TORO-MASTER NH3 CADDY w/twin 2000 $10,500. 306-690-8105, Moose Jaw, SK. powercast! Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit tanks, high flotation tires and big plumbwww.combineworld.com ing, like new condition, $65,000 OBO. 204-648-7085, Grandview, MB. 2013 JD S670, w/615 pickup, full GPS, USED FERTILIZER SPREADERS: 4-8T; New FEED BLOWER SYSTEMS, Sales and Ser- loaded up nice, 1200 sep., $199,000; 2010 Loftness 8T; used Wilmar 16T tender. Call vice. Piping, blower and airlock repairs. JD 9870 STS, 1500 sep., no pickup head, 1-866-938-8537, Portage, MB. John Beukema 204-497-0029, Carman, MB $125,000. 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK.

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2013 CHALLENGER 560C (Massey 9560) COMB-TRAC SALVAGE. We sell new and fully loaded, 587 sep. hrs., c/w PU header, used parts for most makes of tractors, duals. Retired, mint unit. $280,000 OBO. combines, balers, mixmills and swathers.

306-345-2039, Pense, SK. 306-997-2209, 1-877-318-2221, Borden, SK. We buy machinery.

2009 MF 9795, 1723 hrs., duals, Fieldstar III, Redekop MAV chopper, pick- LOEFFELHOLZ TRACTOR AND COMBINE ups/headers available, $97,800. Salvage, Cudworth, SK., 306-256-7107.

We sell new, used and remanufactured 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com parts for most farm tractors and combines.

2015 MACDON FD75, 40’, double knife drive, split PU reel, pea auger, slow spd. transport, w/Crary air bar, shedded, field ready, exc. cond., $84,900 terms available.

Call Len, 204-324-6298, Altona, MB.

2010 NH/FLEXI-COIL 5500, 70’, 10” spacing, 3” paired row carbide atom jet knives, DS, full blockage; 2010 Flexi-Coil 430 bu.

TBT cart, 3 tanks, var. rate metering, 20.8x 38 duals, 10” deluxe load-in auger. Both units shedded since new and in excellent cond., $85,000. 306-675-6136, Kelliher, SK

2016 JD 6145M, 990 hours, MFWD, 520/85R38, w/H360 loader, grapple, $149,900.

Mossbank, SK. (M), 306-354-2411, www.southcountry.ca

2009 SeedMaster 5012 TXB, $75,000.

Please visit www.yorktonnewholland.com or call 306-783-8511.

AGRA PARTS PLUS, parting older tractors, tillage, seeding, haying, along w/oth- 2010 JD 1910, $27,143. 306-746-2911 or er Ag equipment. 3 miles NW of Battle- www.raymorenewholland.com ford, SK. off #16 Hwy. Ph: 306-445-6769.

2002 Morris Maxim 34’, 10” c/w 2320 TBT, $16,900. Call 306-783-8511 or visit TRIPLE B WRECKING, wrecking tractors, www.yorktonnewholland.com combines, cults., drills, swathers, mixmills. etc. We buy equipment. 306-246-4260, 2007 SeedHawk 50’, 10” c/w 777 TBH, 306-441-0655, Richard, SK. $109,900. www.raymorenewholland.com or 306-746-2911.

JD FLEX PLATFORMS: 922 - 925 w/wo air; 630F - 635F w/wo air reel. CIH Flex Platforms: 1020 25’ w/wo air reel - 30’ w/wo air reel; 2020 30’ w/wo air reel - 35’; 3020 30’ - 35’. NH Flex: 973 25’ - 30’; 74C 30’ 35’; 740CF 30’ air reel. Agco Flex Platforms: 500 25’ - 30’; 800 25’ w/air reel 30’; 8000 25’ - 30’; 8200 35’. After season specials including free delivery in spring with deposit. We also have header transports starting at $3000 for new 30’ w/flex bar kit. Reimer Farm Equipment, #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Call Gary at 204-326-7000.

DEGELMAN SIGNATURE 7200 rockpicker, completely redone. All new hard faced fin2008 MACDON PW7 16’, good belts, nice gers, hydronic drive, new paint, tires 95%, cond., for JD STS combines, $16,900. field ready, in mint condition!! 2 to chose 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com from $24,500. Can deliver. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. 2003 NH/HB 94C 30’ rigid draper, pea auger, hyd. fore/aft., transport, PUR, for CR/CX/AFX, other kits avail. $23,800.

1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com SCHULTE 9600 3PTH, used very little, $3900. 306-752-4909, cell 306-921-7721, 2013 MACDON FD75 35’ flex draper, Melfort, SK. transport, pea auger, AHHC, tilt. For JD, CNH, Agro, Claas available. 2016 DEGELMAN speed blade, top screens 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com c/w skid steer bracket, only used 10 hrs., $11,500. 306-495-7721, Kipling, SK. RECONDITIONED rigid and flex, most makes and sizes; also header transports. 6 1/2” ALLIED 3 PTH snowblower, push or Ed Lorenz, 306-344-4811, Paradise Hill, SK pull, 180 rotating chute. $500 OBO, Call Paul 306-233-7921, Wakaw, SK. www.straightcutheaders.com

2015 JD 6125M, 1616 hrs., MFWD, 520/70R38, w/H340 loader, $149,200.

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2012 CIH 500HD, 1915 hrs., 4 remotes, tow cable, luxury cab, red leather heated seats, 16 spd. PS, 57 GPM hyd. pump, 710 tires, buddy seat, gd cond., $228,000 OBO. Ph/tx Brandon 306-577-5678, Carlyle, SK. 2003 CASE/IH STX 450, quad track, 7065 hrs., Cummins, 16 spd. PS, 4 hyd. outlets, plus return line, 30” tracks, exc. cond. $125,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK.

2013 NH TXB66-12 c/w P1060 TBT and 2014 CIH Quadtrac 550, 2725 hours, 36” Twin NH3 tanks, $218,000. 306-746-2911 camo tracks, Pro 700 display, $336,900.

Montmartre, SK., 306-424-2212, or www.raymorenewholland.com www.southcountry.ca 1997 Morris Maxim 40’, $13,900. Please visit www.raymorenewholland.com or call 2016 CIH MAXXUM 115 MFWD, 692 hours, 115 HP, FEL, 540/1000 PTO, 3PTH, 306-746-2911. excellent condition, $99,800.

2012 MR 8650, $99,500. 306-946-3301 or 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com www.watrousnewholland.com 2015 CIH PUMA 185 MFWD, 1490 hrs., 2012 SEMST 8012 CT TXB w/300 onboard 185 HP, CVT, 540/100 PTO, 3PTH, duals, warranty, $149,800. tank & JD 1910, $260,000. 306-783-8511 fact.

1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com or www.yorktonnewholland.com 1998 JD 1900, $13,900. 306-946-3301 or www.watrousnewholland.com 1997 Morris Maxim 40’, $13,900. Please visit www.raymorenewholland.com or call 306-746-2911.

2010 BOURGAULT 3310 65’, Paralink, 12” spacing, mid row shank banding, double shoot, rear hitch, tandem axles, low acres, $135,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 2010 SEED HAWK 60’ Toolbar, 12” sp., w/Seed Hawk 400 cart, 2 fans, seed & fertilizer distributing kit auger. Also NH kit & winch $175,000. 306-449-2255, A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment Ltd., Storthoaks SK.

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2012 BOURGAULT 3320, 76’, 10” space, 2” tips, 4.5” packers, DS dry, MRB #3’s; 2014 Bourgault 7950 air tank, 5 tank meter, saddle, conveyor, scale, rear hitch. $340,000 for both. 204-648-7085. Grandview, MB.

2012 CIH STEIGER 550 Quadtrac 1995H, 30" tracks, dual hyd. pumps, leather, shedded, $289,000 OBO. Call 780-204-0391, Mayerthorpe, AB. jekfarm@gmail.com www.buymyfarmequipment.com

GOODS USED TRACTOR parts (always 2008 SEEDMASTER 8012, 2004 NH 430 buying tractors). David or Curtis, Roblin, tank, 3 compartments with 5 rollers, RaMB., 204-564-2528, 1-877-564-8734. ven NH3, $89,000 OBO. 306-272-7225, Foam Lake, SK. G.S. TRACTOR SALVAGE, JD tractors only. Call 306-497-3535, Blaine Lake, SK. JD 1830/1910, 61’, 10” spacing, 4” SP, dutch paired row, DS if wanted. TBH 430 SMITH’S TRACTOR WRECKING. Huge bu. cart, variable rate conveyor, power cal. inventory new and used tractor parts. Will separate, negotiable, $65,000 OBO. 1-888-676-4847.

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306-354-2411, www.southcountry.ca CAT D7 17A HDV Dozer, CCU w/Towner 2016 JD 6130M, 1000 hours, MFWD, 620 breaking disk, and LaPlat cable scraper, loader, PowerGard warranty till Oct. 2019, $15,000. 780-632-7352, Vegreville, AB. $138,300.

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306-354-2411, www.southcountry.ca 2014 JD 6130D, 1360 hrs., MFWD, 18.4x38, w/H360 loader, hood guard, SUNFLOWER HARVEST SYSTEMS. Call $76,900. Emerald Park/Regina, SK. (R) for literature. 1-800-735-5848. Lucke Mfg., 306-721-5050, www.southcountry.ca www.luckemanufacturing.com 2008 JD 7430, 1704 hrs., MFWD, diff. lock, 620/70R42, w/741 loader, $116,900.

Raymore, SK. (RM). 306-746-2110, www.southcountry.ca

5 BUILDING JACKS, 15 ton mechanical lift; 605A Vermeer baler, good belts, $600; Portable fuel tank fits in half ton or bigger, $125. 204-825-2784, Pilot Mound, MB.

2015 6140R, MFWD, 150 HP, 1870 hrs, 20 spd, FEL, 3PTH, 540/1000 PTO, diff. lock, front axle susp., 50 KPH+, $149,000.

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FEED MIX CARTS w/scales: Knight 280 bu., $5000; Gehl 500 bu.,$10,000; Kelly Ryan feeder cart, $2000; JD 785 spreader, $11,000; New Idea 362 spreader, $6500; International 7’ snowblower, $1000.

2008 JOHN DEERE 9530 4WD, 2700 hrs., 1-866-938-8537, Portage la Prairie, MB. 800 metrics, powershift, good condition throughout, $198,000 OBO. Call Neil ODESSA ROCKPICKER SALES: New De306-231-8300, Humboldt, SK. gelman equipment, land rollers, Strawmaster, rockpickers, protill, dozer blades.

REDUCED PRICE! 1983 JD 4450 MFWD 306-957-4403, 306-536-5097, Odessa, SK. w/Ezee-On FEL 2130 grapple, 15 spd. PS, 3 hyds., 7925 hrs. showing, 14.9-26F, 2005 JD 6420 tractor w/JD loader, 3000 20.8R32, duals available. 306-283-4747, hrs.; 2009 JD 568 baler w/net wrap, 8500 306-291-9395. Langham, SK. bales on it; 1998 NH 1475 14’ haybine; 881 8-bale carrier. Southey, SK. JOHN DEERE 7810, FWA, only 4500 hrs., Morris loaded with duals, shedded. Phone Text 306-535-5908, or call 306-524-4551.

780-990-8412, Edmonton, AB. RETIRING - SMALLER FARM EQUIPMENT: 1992 JD 4255, 2WD, w/265 loader, 3800 1999 MX220 Case/IH tractor; 27’ Flexihrs., great shape, $52,000 OBO. Medicine Coil air drill w/7120 tank; 1995 Ford S/A dsl., grain truck; Plus more! 306-842-5036, Hat, AB. 403-581-8269 or 306-628-7380.

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2012 NEW HOLLAND T9.450, 2985 hrs., powershift, $150,000. 204-921-0233, Rosenort, MB. www.equipmentpeople.com 2011 NH T9.390, 2112 hours, AutoSteer, 710/70R42, 4 hyd. outlets, 1000 PTO, $189,500. Southey, SK., 306-726-2155, MF #36 DISCERS. Will pay top dollar www.southcountry.ca and pick from anywhere. Phone Mike 306-723-4875, Cupar, SK.

WANTED: USED, BURNT, old or ugly trac1984 VERS. 875 4WD, w/Atom Jet hyd. tors. Newer models too! Smith’s Tractor kit, $27,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equip- Wrecking, 1-888-676-4847. ment Ltd., 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. LOOKING FOR CASE Magnum 7230, 7240, or 7250 with FWA. Call 306-463-7627, Wilkie, SK. 2006 MCCORMICK MTX 150 and 2004 2007 JD 9420, 4713 hrs., 1 owner, all MTX 140 with loader. Both low hours. Call LOOKING FOR DIKA root rake. Call available options, 800 Firestone deep 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. 780-305-6931, Barrhead, AB. tread tires, weights, 15 spd. Powershift, climate control, Active Seat, extra lighting, ALLIS CHALMERS 8010 4WD tractor SN# RW9420P051184, excellent condi- w/FEL & 3PTH., $6500 OBO. Call tion, $150,000. Charles Cattle Co., 306-862-8460, 306-277-4503, Gronlid, SK. SOLIDLOCK AND TREE ISLAND game wire 306-457-2935, Stoughton, SK. 1985 DEUTZ FAHR DX6.50, 135 HP, air and all accessories for installation. Heights 2015 JD 6150M, 909 hours, MFWD, diff. cooled, 7018 hrs., 540 PTO & hyds., runs from 26” to 120”. Ideal for elk, deer, bison, lock, 3 hyd. outlets, 520/85R38, w/H360 good, great haying tractor, $8900. sheep, swine, cattle, etc. Tom Jensen loader, $158,600. Assiniboia, SK (A), 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com ph/fax: 306-426-2305, Smeaton, SK. 306-642-3366, www.southcountry.ca PRESSURE TREATED fence 2016 JD 6130R, 1068 hours, MFWD, 2014 CHALLENGER MT765D, 620 hrs., GUARANTEED lumber slabs and rails. Call Lehner 520/70R38, w/640R loader, grapple, 3502 HP, Trimble Autopilot, 18” tracks, posts, Wood Preservers ask for Ron $152,900. Emerald Park/Regina, SK (R), PTO, 3 PTH, $229,800. 1-800-667-4515. 306-763-4232, Prince Ltd., Albert, SK. www.combineworld.com 306-721-5050, www.southcountry.ca

2015 CASE 580 QT, 1029 hrs., full load, 2012 JD 6150R, MFWD, 380 FEL and grap- Round up the cash! Advertise your unwant- MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. ext. warranty, PTO, eng. break, $430,000 ple, bought new in April 2013, 1775 hrs., ed equipment in the Manitoba Co-operator Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: OBO. 403-575-5491, Coronation, AB. shedded. Call 306-297-6404, Simmie, SK. www.maverickconstruction.ca classifieds.

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2014 JD 7210R, 1283 hours, MFWD, 710/70R42, JDLink, PowerGard warranty till Mar. 2020, $193,900. Assiniboia, SK., 306-642-3366, www.southcountry.ca CAT DOZER BLADE: 12’x3’, good shape, cutting edge never been turned, good 2014 JD 6190R, 4000 hrs., MFWD, diff. bolts, C-frame for blade, $1200. lock, 620/70R42, w/H380 loader 306-722-7770, Osage, SK. $146,900.

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306-424-2212, www.southcountry.ca 2013 JD 210K EP Skip Loader, 1336 hrs., STEIGER TRACTOR PARTS. New and used, from radiator to drawpin, 1969 to 2013 JD 9460RT, 2416 hours, GreenStar, 4WD, 70 HP, canopy, forks, 3 spd. PS, carrier, $39,800.

1999. Give us a call 1-800-982-1769 or JDLink, Commandview cab, 36” tracks, w/personnel www.bigtractorparts.com $319,000. Raymore, SK., 306-746-2110, 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com www.southcountry.ca CAT D3 WITH 6-way blade, new rails, Wrecking D6C. Call Danny (2) 2016 JD 9570RX, 550 hrs. & up, 5/6 $16,500; hyd. outlets, AutoSteer, premium cabs, Spence, 306-246-4632. Speers, SK. $613,400 & up.

Mossbank, SK., 12’ DEGELMAN 46/5700 4-Way dozer 306-354-2411, www.southcountry.ca blade, QA, $15,000; HLA snow wing dozer (2) 2015 JD 9470R, 912 hrs. & up, diff blade, trip cutting edge, $15,000. Wanderlock, 800/70R38, 5 hyd. outlets $386,400 ing River AB 780-771-2155, 780-404-1212 & up. Emerald Park/Regina, SK., 306-721-5050, www.southcountry.ca

2012 SEEDHAWK 50’ toolbar, 10” spacings, 500 SeedHawk tank, sec. control, shedded, SCHULTE 9600FM SNOWBLOWER front vg cond. 306-865-6603, Hudson Bay, SK. mount, orig. cutting blade, JD mount, low 2008 SEEDMASTER TXB 66-12, 66’, 12” hrs. $8900 firm. 780-853-4888, Vermilion. spacing, dual wheels, double shoot, all SWATHMASTER AND RAKE-UP Belt new manifold and new hoses, mint cond., 1978 JD 4440 2WD, 9300 hrs., 1200 hrs.

Rollers available brand new! Save vs. $78,000, or $125,000 with JD 1910 air on complete rebuild, meticulously mainOEM prices. Call us now! 1-800-667-4515, tained, 134a A/C, Pioneer hyd. coupler tank. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. www.combineworld.com conversion, 42" wheels, 50 series hood 2010 JD 1830 drill, 61’ 10” spacing, w/430 lights, upgraded steps, fresh eng. & trans. bu. 1910 grain cart, duals, double shoot, oils, $40,000. 306-577-9141, Wawota, SK. $69,000 OBO. 306-552-4905, Eyebrow, SK. 2011 ROGATOR 1396, 132’ alum. recir- 2010 BOURGAULT 3310 66’ 12” spacing 1992 JD 4055 MFWD, 9032 hrs., great for culating boom, 1300 SS tank, Raven Viper W/MRB, 6550 cart w/liquid kit. $165,000 baler or grain auger, exc. cond., $40,000 OBO. Kdranch@yahoo.com 306-846-4501, Pro, Raven SmarTrax steering w/slingshot, OBO. 306-552-4905, Eyebrow, SK. 306-846-7770, Dinsmore, SK. AccuBoom sec. control, AutoBoom height WANTED: JOHN DEERE 1910 air cart, in control, HID lighting, DeKoning air lift crop 1-800-667-9871 •• Regina 1-800-667-9871 Regina JD 9410R, 4WD, PS, 1480 hrs., 1000 dividers, both sets of Michelin tires, one decent shape. Call 306-862-8518, Choice- 2013 1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon PTO, high flow hyd. w/5 remotes, leather 1-800-667-3095 Saskatoon owner. Call 204-937-3429, 204-937-7047. land, SK. 1-800-387-2768 •• Winnipeg trim, premium HID lights, 620/70R42’s, Roblin, MB. 1-800-222-6594 •• Edmonton 1-800-667-3095 Manitoba FLEXI-COIL 5000 51’, 9”, w/2320, 4” rub- $199,500 USD. www.ms-diversified.com 1994 PATRIOT 150XL, 3438 hrs., 750 ber packers, in-row liquid phos. $18,500. Call 320-848-2496 or 320-894-6560.

“For All Your Farm Parts” gal., 70’, JD 4.5L, decent affordable spray- 306-690-8105, Moose Jaw, SK. BOOK NORCAN SOYBEANS Common #1 www.fyfeparts.com so you keep more green. Buy a bigger JD The Real Used FaRm PaRTs er! $24,800. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit www.combineworld.com with the savings! Early discounts. Norcan sUPeRsToRe Seeds at 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch MB. 2014 NH SP 240F-XP, 275 HP, 120’, 1200 54’ 2008 BOURGAULT 5710, good shape, • TRACTORS • COMBINES 1964 JD 4020: New top end, sleeves, pisstainless, fully loaded incl.

AIM Command, new points, c/w 2013 6550 tank, X30 • SWATHERS • DISCERS both sets tires, $209,000. 306-948-7223. monitor, $125,000 OBO. 306-567-7703 or tons, batteries, oils, & fluids. $9500 OBO. 204-739-3392, Fisher Branch, MB. 306-567-7184, Davidson, SK. WATROUS SALVAGE WaTRoUs, sK. (306) 946-2222 WANTED: CONTROL BOX for 6180 Morris 1990 JOHN DEERE 8560 4WD, 230 HP, air cart, part #N21062. 306-753-2667, or PTO, new rubber, always shedded, with JD AutoSteer, $43,500 OBO. Phone/text FLOATER TIRES: Factory rims & tires: JD 306-753-7244, Macklin, SK. 204-242-4332, Manitou, MB 4045, 710/60R46, $20,500; 800/55R46, $22,500; JD 4038, Case 4420, 650/65R38 STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specialMichelin tires and rims. Sprayer duals izing in rebuilding JD tractors. Want Series available. 306-697-2856, Grenfell, SK. 2012 BOURGAULT 70' 6000 mid harrow & 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 7000s to rebuild or for 72' 7200 heavy harrow, vg cond., $22,000 parts. pay top $$. Now selling JD parts.

204-466-2927, 204-871-5170, Austin, MB. OBO. 204-734-0144, Minitonas, MB. 2000 JD 7710, 5130 hrs; 2000 JD 8310; 2001 JD 7810; 2009 JD 7830, 3800 hrs.

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• Disc blades 2009 BOURGAULT 9400, 60', 1/2" harrows, 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. 2010 BOURGAULT 3310, 74', MRB's with tow hitch, 600 lb. trip, quick adapters, UTILITY TRACTORS: John Deere 6200, 2 • Oil Bath Bearings granular and liquid kits., 2" carbide tips, 4" $69,500 OBO. 204-734-0144, Minitonas, MB WD, open station with loader; JD 5085 E, round air filled packers. No frame cracks, • Scrapers $75,000 OBO. 204-526-0575, Regina, SK. BREAKING DISCS: KEWANEE, 15’ and MFWD w/loader. 204-522-6333, Melita.

• Hydraulics marcelrejean@hotmail.com 12’; Rome 12’; Towner 16-18’; Wishek 18’ 1997 JD 9400 4WD, 425 HP, 8562 hrs., 12 • Wheel Hubs & Parts spd., diff. lock, 4 hyds., 20.8x42 triples and 30’. 1-866-938-8537. new 400 hrs. ago, does light duty work, 2012 PILLAR OPENERS on Salford frame, We ship direct anywhere in floatation tires 10" spacing, blockage moni- 45- DUTCH 4” PAIR row low draft openers, mint condition, always shedded, $100,000. approx.

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306-861-4355, 306-675-6136, Kelliher, SK. Western Canada tors, 2 sets of packer tires, Case 3380 DS variable rate TBT air cart, good cond., 306-456-2522, Weyburn, SK. 2011 JD 9530T, 18 spd. PS, 36” tracks, 4 $119,000. 204-534-7920, Boissevain, MB. hyds. plus return line, front weights, end Darren.e.peters@gmail.com idler weights, AutoTrac ready, mint cond., Red Deer, AB $195,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. 2014 55' K-HART drill, Paralink 4612 open2000 JD 9400, 425 HP, 12 spd. powershift, 403-347-9598 ers, Quick depth changing, Bg MRB, high 4 hyd. outlets, plus return line, new hyd. floatation, 3" V-packers, great shape.

Toll free: pump (48 GPM), 8 new tires, 710/70R38, Awesome for high speed fertilizer banding mint cond., $105,000. 306-861-4592, Fillor seeding. Seed in tall stubble, $70,000 1-877-613-9500 more, SK. OBO. Del. possible. 204-526-0575, Swift www.kello-bilt.com Current, SK. marcelrejean@hotmail.com 2011 JD 7230 Premium, MFWD 3 PTH, 3 hyds., auto quad trans., w/JD 741 FEL FLEXI-COIL 5000, 57.5’, 7.5” spacing, 4” bucket & grapple, shedded, yard work HD WBM 10' wide angle blade with quick /small cattle farm. 4960 hrs., VG, $95,000. connect. Priced to sell at $2400 firm. rubber press, 2320 tank, deluxe monitor, $14,000. 204-476-6907, Neepawa, MB. 306-697-3545, 306-730-8792, Grenfell, SK aabsbobcat@hotmail.com Calgary, AB. PUMPS, PRESSURE WASHERS, Honda/Koshin pumps, 1-1/2” to 4”, Landa pressure washers, steam washers, parts washers.

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16’ PEELED RAILS, 2-3” $4.50/ea., 125 per bundle; 3-4” $9.50/ea, 100 per bundle; 4-5” $11.50/ea, 75 per bundle. Vermette Wood Preservers, Spruce Home, SK., 1-800-667-0094, email: info@vwpltd.com website: www.vwpltd.com

BLOCKED & SEASONED PINE FIREWOOD: Bags $90. Delivery available. Vermette Wood Preservers, Spruce Home, SK. 1-800-667-0094, email: info@vwpltd.com Website: www.vwpltd.com SEASONED SPRUCE SLAB firewood, one cord bundles, $99, half cord bundles, $65.

Volume discounts. Call V&R Sawing, 306-232-5488, Rosthern, SK. BLOCKED SEASONED JACK Pine firewood and wood chips for sale. Lehner Wood Preservers Ltd., 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK. Will deliver. Self-unloading trailer.

SAWMILL CUMMINS power unit & edger, $14,700; Forano feller buncher, $13,125; 1982 Tanga slasher 100, $17,250. All prices OBO. Call 204-222-0285, Winnipeg, MB.

PUREBRED CHAROLAIS BUYING BISON for processing. Call for REGISTERED options and prices, Ian 204-848-2498 or bulls: 40+ yearling and 5 coming 2 year olds, for sale by private treaty.

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MB. Brad 204-537-2367 or 204-523-0062 QUILL CREEK BISON is looking for fin- www.clinecattlecompany.ca ished, and all other types of bison. COD, paying market prices. “Producers working CATTLEMAN! JUST IN TIME for your fall with Producers.” Delivery points in SK. and breeding needs. We have an exc. selection of long yearling bulls. Both red and white, MB. Call 306-231-9110, Quill Lake, SK. all polled, some suitable for heifers. Call NILSSON BROS INC. buying finished bison Defoort Stock Farm, Cypress River, MB., on the rail, also cull cows at Lacombe, AB. 204-743-2109.

For winter delivery and beyond. Smaller groups welcome. Fair, competitive and as- PUREBRED CHAROLAIS BULLS for sale. sured payment. Contact Richard Bintner Polled and horned. Some red. 40+ bulls to 306-873-3184. choose from. Over 30 yrs. in the Charolais business. Wilf Neilson, Cougar Hill Ranch, LOOKING FOR ALL classes of bison from 204-732-2663, Toutes Aides, MB. (North calves, yearlings, cows and herd bulls. of Ste Rose).

Phone Kevin at 306-539-4090 (cell) or 306-429-2029, Glenavon, SK. 15 PUREBRED CHAROLAIS cows & 10 commercial cows, bred Charolais. Layne & 20 - 2016 PLAINS Bison females. Average Paula Evans, 306-252-2246, Kenaston, SK. weight December 13th, 749 lbs. $3750 each. Call 306-441-1408, Meota, SK. COMING YEAR OLD Charolais bulls for sale, wintering available. Call LVV Ranch COMPLETE BISON COW herd dispersal Forestburg, AB. 780-582-2254.

Productive herd, culled annually, 125 cows, 50 yearling heifers. Royal Black Bison Ranch Inc. 306-441-7128, Paynton, SK

CHAROLAIS RED ANGUS cows and heifers, ALTERNATIVE POWER BY KELLN SOpasture to bred to Red and Black Angus LAR, portable/remote solar water pumpbulls. 306-472-3723, Lafleche, SK. ing for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind generators, aeration.

110 BRED RED ANGUS Simmental cross Service and repair on all makes/models. heifers, bred Red Angus for 30 day calving Carl Driedger, 204-556-2346 or period, bulls out July 1st. 306-355-2700, 204-851-0145, Virden, MB. 306-631-0997, Mortlach, SK. 12’ 10 HP rollermill, large rolls, new 60 BLACK BRED heifers, bred Black Angus, RENN vg cond., half price of new, $6500, easy calving bulls, bulls out 60 days, start style, can deliver; PTO rollermill vg calving May 1st, all vaccinations & Ivomec, cond, $2950. FarmKing 204-729-5162, Brandon, MB. $2300. 306-283-4388, Saskatoon, SK.

SUNDANCE BUFFALO RANCH 2016 yearling Bison heifers: Top quality framey 2016 born M Line bison heifers for sale. Ready to breed in 2018. 403-502-2486, Irvine, AB. rick@porterandmacleanlivestock.com

LOOKING FOR an investor to purchase cow/calf pairs (up to 400) or looking to finance directly from the farmer. Prefer Red or Black Angus. Pay back over 8 years with a 30% return on your principal. Call 204-848-2205, ianarnold10@hotmail.com

KEEP JOBS IN CANADA. Elk Valley Ranches a Canadian Co. finishes bison in Canada. We are now buying cull cows, cull bulls, yearlings and calves. Paying top $$ with prompt payment. Kitscoty, AB, Frank at 780-846-2980. elkvalley@xplornet.com DAVIDSON GELBVIEH/ LONESOME www.elkvalleyranches.com DOVE RANCH 29th Annual Bull Sale, Saturday, March 3, 2018, 1:00 PM at their 100 BISON COWS, $5000 each. Call bull yards, Ponteix, SK. Complimentary 250-263-3152, Melville, SK. lunch at 11:00 AM. Pre-sale viewing and hospitality, Friday, March 2nd. Selling 100+ purebred Gelbvieh yearling bulls, Red or Black. Performance and semen tested. Vernon and Eileen 306-625-3755, Ross and Tara 306-625-3513, Ponteix, SK. Bidding in person or on-line: www.dlms.com View catalog and video on our websites: www.davidsongelbvieh.com and www.lonesomedoveranch.ca Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519 GRUNTHAL, MB. AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING

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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. ROTARY PHASE CONVERTERS, run 220V 3 phase motors, on single phase.

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PUREBRED HEREFORD FEMALES: Bred heifers and 2 & 3 year olds, bred Hereford, to calve Feb./Mar. Call 204-759-2188, 204-365-7426 or 431-282-3030, Strathclair, MB. MISTY VALLEY FARMS 42nd Annual Production Sale of Horned Herefords, Wednesday, February 7th, 2018 at the ranch, 1:00 PM MST. On offer: 60 long yearling bulls including Lanni Bristow’s sale group; 50 bred registered heifers; 65 bred commercial Hereford heifers; 15 open heifer calves from Mark Law. Bulls semen tested. Heifers pregnancy tested.

Misty Valley Farms, RR #1, Maidstone, SK. S0M 1M0. Call Harold Oddan at 306-893-2783 or Maurice Oddan at 306-893-2737; or Lanni Bristow at 780-943-2236; Mark Law 204-743-2049.

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.

6 BLACK SIMMENTAL/ANGUS bulls, out of Angus cows and a score black Simmental sire, $3500. Call LV Ranch, Forestburg, AB. 780-582-2254.

1-800-587-4711

NEW DATE! LAZY S RANCH 49th Annual Bull Power Sale, January 26th, at the ranch, Mayerthorpe, AB. 200 polled red & black Simmental, Angus and Beefmaker (Simm Angus) bulls. 780-785-3136. Video HOME RAISED TOP Quality Bred Heifers, vaccinated, Ivomec, bred to calving ease DRILL STEM FOR SALE: 300 2-7/8”. online: www.lazysranch.ca Black Angus bulls. Start calving mid March.

306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK. 66 Black Angus; 13 Red Angus X; 12 Hereford (SOLD). Winston Hougham, Please call 2 & 7/8” OILFIELD TUBING, cement and plastic lined, $25. Call 306-861-1280, 100 BLACK ANGUS heifers, bred to regis- 306-344-4913, 306-821-2751, Frenchman Weyburn, SK. tered Black Angus bulls. Can winter and Butte, SK. magnumranching@gmail.com calve out. 306-322-7905, Archerwill, SK. LAZY RAINBOW RIVER RANCH has 65 (10) 2 YEAR OLD BLACK ANGUS bulls, se- mostly Simmental cross second calving men tested, guaranteed breeders. High cows, bred to start calving for March; 65 8” to 6” MAINLINE; 6 - 5”x5” wheelines; quality. Reasonably priced. B/B Duncan, Simmental cross bred heifers, bred to start Bauer 1160’ w/4.5” hard hose reel; Also Cromer, MB. 204-556-2342, 204-556-2348 to calving in March. Phone 204-372-6945, Reinke 985’ pivot, refurbished. Call for or 204-851-0306.

Fisher Branch, MB. pricing, 306-858-7351, Lucky Lake, SK. REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS bull 10 PB RA & 5 RA/Simm. bred heifers, bred calves, low birthweight, very quiet. We’ve RA July 14-Aug. 28. Kept these as own rebeen in registered Blacks for over 50 yrs. placements out of 75 but must sell due to Buy now and save! EPD’s & delivery avail. drought/feed shortage. Processed one month ago: RA 1017 lbs., Simm X 1068 204-843-2287 evenings, Amaranth, MB. lbs. Call Roger: 306-221-1558, Minton, SK. SOUTH VIEW RANCH has Black and Red BISON CALVES WANTED. Harmony Angus coming 2-year-old bulls for sale.

Natural bison. Call or text 306-736-3454, Good selection. Call Shane 306-869-8074 or Keith 306-454-2730. Ceylon, SK. SE Sask.

SELLING: BLACK ANGUS BULLS. Wayside BRED BISON HEIFERS for sale. 85 pas- Angus, Henry and Bernie Jungwirth, ture raised, top cut. Ready to go Dec. 15. 306-256-3607, Cudworth, SK. Call or text 306-495-8800, SE Sask.

BRED HEIFERS due to calve in April, bred BISON WANTED - Canadian Prairie Bison to easy calving Angus bulls, preg checked. is looking to contract grain finished bison, 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, as well as calves and yearlings for growing SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca markets. Contact Roger Provencher at 306-468-2316, roger@cdnbison.com BLACK ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, semen tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery NORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, over 15 years, is looking for finished Bison, Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca grain or grass fed. “If you have them, we want them.” Make your final call with PUREBRED BLACK ANGUS long yearling Northfork for pricing! Guaranteed prompt bulls, replacement heifers, AI service.

Meadow Ridge Enterprises, 306-373-9140 payment! 514-643-4447, Winnipeg, MB. or 306-270-6628, Saskatoon, SK. 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 BRED HEIFERS due to calve in April, bred long trip. Oak Ridge Meats, McCreary, to easy calving Angus bulls, preg checked.

204-835-2365, 204-476-0147.

306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca Hit our readers where it counts… in the classifieds. Place your ad in the Manitoba Co- RED ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, seoperator classifed section. 1-800-667-7770. men tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca

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25 BLACK BRED heifers, bred Black Angus, easy calving bulls, bulls out 60 days, start calving May 1st, all vaccinations & Ivomec, $2300. 306-283-4105, Saskatoon, SK.

100 BLACK ANGUS 3rd and 4th calvers; MOLE HILL DESTROYERS: Level those 250 Black & Red Angus 2nd calvers. Swift rough hay fields, speed up haying operaCurrent, SK. 306-773-1049, 306-741-6513. tions, less downtime. Save money. For more information phone 306-542-7325.

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COMPLETE HERD DISPERSAL, 38 SimmenBRED, REGISTERED RED Angus heifers for tal/Angus Red, Red Blaze and a few Black sale. RSL Red Angus, Battleford, SK. bred cows. Cows are aged from 3-5 years old. Bred Red Simmental to start calving 306-937-2880, 306-441-5010.

March 20th. Cows have been preg.

REG. RED ANGUS bulls, calving ease, good checked and given Ivomec. $2300 OBO. weaning weights, no creep feed. Little de Call or text 306-452-7905. Redvers, SK. Ranch, 306-845-2406, Turtleford, SK. FOR SALE: 12 F1 POLLED Shorthorn Red Angus heifers, will make good brood cows.

Call 306-277-4351, Gronlid, SK. HERD DISPERSAL SALE: Bred cows 96 FB 14 RED ANGUS bred heifers, to start calvregistered Braunvieh cows, bred to FB ing March 25th. Ivomec’d and vaccinated.

Braunvieh bulls; PB black Braunvieh (homo Call evenings, Garry Yeo, 306-873-9078 or polled & hetero black bulls). Exposed June 306-873-3788, Tisdale, SK. 17th to Sept. 1st, $3200 OBO. Please call us at 403-816-1246, Huxley, AB., or e-mail: 50 SIMMENTAL & SIMMENTAL Cross bred calvin@fieldstonebraunvieh.com Website: cows and heifers, bred Simmental, start www.fieldstonebraunvieh.com calving March 1st. 306-762-4723, Odessa.

CHESAPEAKE BAY RETRIEVER puppies From great hunting parents, both health certified and titled in hunt tests. Registered, vaccinated, de-wormed and ready to go December 20th. Pedigrees available upon request. Inquire to: 306-776-2510 or e-mail: flatrocktrucks@outlook.com

GREG’S WELDING: Freestanding 24’ & 30’ corral panels and windbreaks; Also grain and silage troughs; as well as calf shelters.

Call for pricing, 306-768-8555, delivery available. Carrot River, SK.

10 YEAR OLD female Dalmatian, spayed, in good health, will take offers; 3 year old female PB German Shorthaired Pointer, $600 OBO. 204-322-5614, Warren, MB.

BUY & SELL: Horses, saddles and tack. FOR A FREE DEMONSTRATION without obAlso horse and stock trailers. Call Skip ligation, of a Luther Cattle Brush and Oiler, Arntsen, 306-221-9251, Delisle, SK. give Cliff a call at 306-734-2997, AylesbuLARGE PUREBRED ALASKAN malary, SK. It’s the one they love to use! mute/cross pups. Born Oct 10, these marked pups, possess strong stamina, FREESTANDING PANELS: 30’ windbreak well BOBSLEIGH, BUCKBOARD, BUGGY, and panels; 6-bar 24’ and 30’ panels; 10’, 20’ and loyalty, reasonably priced at $327.50.

Call 306-947-2190, Hepburn, SK. wagon for small ponies. All excellent con- and 30’ feed troughs; Bale shredder bunks; dition. 306-536-9210, Belle Plaine, SK. Silage bunks; Feeder panels; HD bale feeders; All metal 16’ and 24’ calf shelters. Will GREAT PYRENEES PUPS born to workcustom build. 306-424-2094, Kendal, SK. ing parents. Vet checked, first shots, ready January 15th, $300/each. 403-308-4781, FFS- FUCHS FARM SUPPLY are the Ca- E-mail: heathernelsonfarm@gmail.com nadian dealer for Farm Aid, parts and mix wagons.

306-762-2125, Vibank, SK. www.fuchs.ca CANADIAN CO-OPERATIVE WOOL Growers, buying wool. For nearest wool collection depot or livestock supplies cata- PAYSEN LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT INC. We manufacture an extensive line of cattle logue, 1-800-567-3693, www.wool.ca handling and feeding equipment including squeeze chutes, adj. width alleys, crowding tubs, calf tip tables, maternity pens, LOG SIDING, LOG cabin logs, Fir timbers, gates and panels, bale feeders, Bison Fir flooring, Cedar. Special orders. Check CANADIAN VERIFIED SHEEP Program equipment, Texas gates, steel water out more info. at: rouckbros.com (OFFS) workshop in conjunction with Sask. troughs, rodeo equipment and garbage in- Lumby, BC., 1-800-960-3388.

Sheep Development Board’s AGM and cinerators. Distributors for El-Toro electric Symposium will be held at Ramada Plaza branders and twine cutters. Our squeeze Hotel 1818 Victoria Ave, Regina, SK. Jan chutes and headgates are now avail. with a 12-13, 2018. Please call: 306-933-5200 or neck extender. Ph 306-796-4508, email: LOG AND TIMBER HOMES, Saskatoon, mail to: sheepdb@sasktel.net to register, ple@sasktel.net Web: www.paysen.com SK. Visit www.backcountryloghomes.ca or please visit: www.sksheep.com for details. call 306-222-6558.

CATTLE SHELTER PACKAGES or built on site.

For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

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THE CLUCK & QUACK Poultry Club Show and Prairie Invitational Pigeon Show.

January 12th-13th, 2018. At the MNP exhibition building, Island Park Fairgrounds, Portage LaPrairie, MB. For more information call (Poultry) Jack at 204-843-2246 or (Pigeons) Clint 204-843-2986.

NORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for over 15 years, is looking for Elk. “If you have them, we want them.” Make your final call with Northfork for pricing! Guaranteed prompt payment! 514-643-4447, Winnipeg, MB. BUYING ELK for Meat, Hunting and Breeding. Call for options and prices, Ian 204-848-2498 or 204-867-0085.

SIMMENTAL/ANGUS BRED HEIFERS, 45 home bred and raised, Reds and Blacks.

Quality functional group of heifers that will get out and work. Bred to calving ease MRL Black Simmental. Bulls were put out on June 1st. Heifers have been preg. checked and received Ivomec as well as first shot of Scourbos. $2600 OBO. Call or text 306-452-7905, Redvers, SK.

SVEN-APOLLO ROLLERMILLS, NEW and used, electric and PTO, all sizes, can deliver. Manitoba distributor direct. Call Randy 204-729-5162, Brandon, MB.

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CATTLE SHELTER PACKAGES or built on site.

For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: WWW.MEDALLION-HOMES.CA modular www.warmanhomecentre.com homes/lake houses/RTM’s. Visit our sales STEEL VIEW MFG. Self-standing panels, lot, or check online for stock, homes and windbreaks, silage/hay bunks, feeder pan- all other plans. Factory direct orders built els, sucker rod fence posts. Custom or- to your specs! Trade-ins welcome, buy and ders. Call Shane 306-493-2300, Delisle, sell used homes. Hwy 2 South, Prince Albert, SK. Call 306-764-2121 or toll free SK. www.steelviewmfg.com 1-800-249-3969.

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 Machine 306-242-9884, 1-877-255-0187. www.apollomachineandproducts.com

RTM CABIN, 22x32 FINISHED exterior, unfinished interior, 10’ walls, potential for loft. Well built. $35,000 OBO or trades of interest. 204-564-2540, Shellmouth, MB.

Farming is enough of a gamble, advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator classified section. RTMS AND SITE built homes. Call 1-866-933-9595, or go online for pictures It’s a sure thing. 1-800-667-7770. and pricing at: www.warmanhomes.ca

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Tel: 204-248-2110 Manitoba

RTMS AND SITE built homes. Call 1-866-933-9595, or go online for pictures and pricing at: www.warmanhomes.ca HOME HARDWARE RTM Homes and Cottages. Phone 1-800-663-3350 or go online for floor plans and specs at: www.northbattlefordhomehardware.com

VEGAS TIMESHARE: INT’L exchanges, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, full kitchen, laundry, fireplace, pools, selling due to health.

306-453-2958, Carlyle, SK. CONDO IN BEAUTIFUL Palm Springs area (Rancho Mirage): 2 bdrm, 1 bath, 1016 sq.ft. Open beam cathedral ceilings, mountain views, 55 plus gated community. Fully furn., $115,000 USD. Gym, tennis court, lg heated pool, spa and clubhouse. For info and pics, evezpalmsprings@kwrealty.com or call 306-725-7707, Govan, 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

LOOKING FOR YOUR piece of paradise? 21 ac. lots near Lac des Iles. Approx 140 ac. overlooking Lac des Iles. For more info: 306-238-7702, e.alexander@littleloon.ca

2002 JIFFY 920 Bale Processor, new rotor, ORGANIC CO2 FERTILIZER: CropPlus. A flails, and bushings. Call 306-839-4708, 100% natural, organic, mineral based, foPierceland, SK. liar applied fertilizer. It contains carbon dioxide, which is very beneficial in plant 2014 BALE UNROLLING deck off Chevy health. Apply with any sprayer. $10/acre.

3500, remote control, hyd. pump, good Cory Wiebe 204-247-2142, Roblin, MB. condition. 204-381-1240, Woodmore, MB. KELLN SOLAR SUMMER/WINTER WA- WANTED: ORGANIC LENTILS, peas and TERING System, provides water in remote chickpeas. Stonehenge Organics, Assiniareas, improves water quality, increases boia, SK., 306-640-8600, 306-640-8437. pasture productivity, extends dugout life.

St. Claude/Portage, MB. 204-379-2763.

LAND FOR SALE: 505.18 ac. of cross fenced grass ready to be turned back into grain land. Land is beside busy airport in Central Alberta. $3600/acre. Call 780-385-0524, Killam, AB. kelndor@syban.net

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SUPREME 700TMR w/scale, 6’ unloading conveyor, dry hay recutter at back, dual ARE YOU SINGLE and would rather be wheels, always shedded, excellent cond., in love? Camelot Introductions has been successfully matching people for over 23 $36,000. 204-758-3374, St. Jean, MB. years. In-person interviews by Intuitive 2000 HIGHLINE 6800 bale processor, Matchmaker in MB and SK. Call 306-978- ORGANIC LAND in MD of Mackenzie, north 1000 PTO. 204-525-4521, Minitonas, MB. LOVE (5683), 204-257-LOVE (5683) of Peace River: 1200 seeded ac., 1800 www.camelotintroductions.com sq.ft house w/garage, 6800 sq.ft. shop, Website: www.waltersequipment.com 60x120 cold storage, 100,000+ bu. grain HIGHLINE BAIL PRO 6600, LH discharge, Do you want to target Manitoba farmers? storage, power, phone, natural gas, dugaverage condition, $2400 OBO. Whitkow, Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator. out, on school bus route. 780-928-2538 or SK. 306-445-9833, cell 306-445-9814.

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DON MACINTYRE FARMLAND SALE. Taking bids until Feb. 16th, 2017, highest offer will not necessarily be accepted. Sale includes: Deeded lands (approximately 6 miles from Brooks), SW12-18-14-W4, NW12-18-14-W4 (does not include 8.63 acre subdivision of house and out buildings); EID adjoining lease (approx. 585 private grazing acres); 5 active oil/gas wells, annual income $19,240; All existing irrigation equipment (pumps, pivot, wheel sprinklers). For information contact James MacIntyre, 403-990-6804, Cochrane, AB.

RM OF BLUCHER 343: 2 quarters.

SW-29-35-01-W3M, NW-29-35-01-W3M, 305 acres cult. 3 hopper bins totaling 16,000 bu. Call Bob at 306-717-1987.

RM OF FOAM LAKE #276 for sale SE-35-28-12-W2, 160 acres (approx. 102 cultivated). Call 780-724-3735 for info.

WANTED: Saskatchewan grainland, housing, and vacant lots. Will pay min. 10% premium on current pricing. Within 25 miles of Leader SK. Box 5001, c/o The Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4

RM OF FRENCHMAN BUTTE: SW 35-52-25 W3 Ext 5 and NW 35-52-25 LAND WANTED TO rent or purchase in RM W3 Ext 2. 207 acres. For sale by Tender #248 and RM #218. Call 306-726-8090, with bids closing February 6, 2018. For details, visit www.moorelandtender.ca or Cupar, SK. pjhart@sasktel.net contact Vern McClelland, RE/MAX of FARMLAND NE SK (Clemenceau) 4 qtrs Lloydminster, 780-808-2700. plus 36 acre riverside parcel with 5 bdrm. home. Featuring: bins on concrete with di- RM OF ELDON: SW 22-49-24 W3 Ext 24 rect hit on railroad cars, 40 acres of mostly and NE 09-49-24 W3 Ext 8. 298.88 acres. mature spruce timber, 2 farmyards- 1 bor- Surface lease revenue. For sale by Tender dering Etomami River and 50 miles of pro- with bids closing Feb 1, 2018. Details at vincial forest, exc. elk hunting and other www.forrestlandtender.ca or contact Vern big game and goose. 580 acres wheat, McClelland, RE/MAX of Lloydminster, mustard, barley and peas. Full line of farm 780-808-2700. and sawmill equipment also available. Will WANTED: 1000 ACRE grain farm w/yard separate. Reg Hertz, 306-865-7469. in northwest Saskatchewan. Call anytime: 780-205-4296 or email 3star@telus.net GRAIN LAND TO RENT, 35 mile radius of Rouleau, SK. Call 306-776-2600 or email: kraussacres@sasktel.net RM OF ROSEDALE #283 By Tender: SE 1/4 22-29-4 W3, 160 cult. ac. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Submit tenders to: Box 37, Hawarden, SK., S0H 1Y0. Tenders close February 1, 2018.

For more info, call Larry at 306-229-9926.

8500 ACRE RANCH in RM of Reno, all grass, lots of water. $474 per acre.

306-299-4445, www.ranch-for-sale-sk.ca RM #68 OF BROKENSHELL, 1/4 section SW- 1-7-16-W2, approximately 160 cultivated organic acres. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted. Submit tenders to Box 661, Weyburn, SK., S4H 2K8. Tenders will close Feb. 1st, 2018. For more information call 306-842-5771, or 306-861-7072. Weyburn, SK. FOR RENT BY TENDER: RM of Nipawin, SK. #487, NE-14-49-15W2, NW-14-49-15W2, & SW-14-49-15W2, comprising of 472 cult. ac. There are no buildings on the land other than a house and barns on the 5 acre yard site. All of the land is currently farmed. Tenders are to be submitted in envelopes marked “Nipawin Tender”, to Dezarae Senft at Miller Thomson LLP, 600-2103 11th Ave., Regina, SK., S4P 3Z8, on or before noon on Fri., Feb. 23, 2018, and shall include: tender price, length of rental term, any other terms you are prepared to offer and a certified cheque/bank draft payable to “Miller Thomson LLP in trust” for 10% of the tender price (being 10% of the annual rent pmt. you are tendering). No conditional tenders will be accepted and the highest, or any tender, will not necessarily be accepted. Tenders will not be opened in public. The deposit of all unsuccessful tenderers will be returned by mail. The successful tenderer shall enter into a lease agreement on or before Mar. 16, 2018. The 10% deposit will constitute a deposit towards the first years rental payment. For further information, please contact Dezarae Senft, 306-347-8309.

Maurice SMigelSki of The PaS is offering the

following private land for sale: SE 4-54-28 W (partial only) The successful purchaser will be considered

by Manitoba Agriculture for possible transfer of the Crown land forage lease associated with this ranch unit. This forage lease currently consists of the following : NW 05-54-27 W

E 1/2 07 -54-27 W

N 1/2 29-53-28 W

SEC 31-53-28 W

W 1/2 33-53-28 W

S 1/2 04-54-28 W

S 1/2 05-54-28 W

S 1/2 07-54-28 W

NE 08-54-28 W

E 1/2 36-53-29 W

N 1/2 06-54-27 W

NW 28-53~28 W

N 1/2 30-53-28 W

SEC 32-53-28 W

NE 01-54-28 W

NW 05-54-28 W

SEC 06-54-28 W

S 1/2 08-54-28 W

NE 25-53-29 W

If you wish to purchase the private land contact the Lessee Maurice Smigelski at Box 83, ThePas, MB R9A 1 K3.

If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer write the Director, Manitoba Agriculture; Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB ROJ 1EO; or Fax: 204-867 ~6578 .

238 ACRE FARM on Drifting River. 200 workable ac., 100 yr. old shelter belt, w/ older useable house, and 11 out buildings.

New wiring to out buildings, new 200A panel in house, new base boards, and very good well. 431-738-1888, Dauphin, MB.

RIVER RETREAT: Saskatoon South - 177 acres forested, organic river front land. 50 acres cultivated. $6500 per acre. Phone 306-382-1299 or 306-382-9024.

JERRY LAMY OF CRANE RIVER, MB. is offering the following private land for sale: NW 17-29-12 W. The successful purchaser will be considered by Manitoba Agriculture for possible transfer of the Crown land forage lease associated with this ranch unit. This forage lease currently consists of the following: SW 17-29-12 W; Sec 18-29-12 W; Sec 19-29-12 W; W1/2 20-29-12 W; W 1/2 29-29-12 W; Sec 30-29-12 W; N1/2 31-29-12 W; SW 31-29-12 W; SW 32-29-12 W; Sec 13-29-13 W; Sec 14-29-13 W; E1/2 15-29-13 W; E1/2 22-29-13 W; Sec 23-29-13 W; Sec 24-24-13 W;; Sec 25-29-13 W; Sec 26-29-13 W; Sec 35-29-13 W; Sec 36-29-13 W; Sec 01-30-13 W; E1/2 02-30-13 W; E1/2 11-30-13 W; Sec 12-30-13 W. If you wish to purchase the private land contact the Lessee Jerry Lamy at Box # 171, Crane River, MB., R0L 0M0. If you wish to comment on or object to eligibility of this Unit Transfer write the Director, Manitoba Agriculture, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa, MB., R0J 1E0, or fax 204-867-6578.

NOW IS THE TIME to list, give your farm the right exposure. Get your farm listed now for the early spring buying spree. Local and foreign buyers are looking for large and small grain and cattle operation, small holdings and just land.

Call Harold 204-253-7373, Delta Real Estate. www.manitobafarms.ca

CERT. #1 Copeland: 94% germ., 95% vigor, 48.3 TKW, 100% Copeland. Sandercock Seed Farm, 306-334-2958, Balcarres, SK. CERTIFIED CDC MAVERICK. Hickseeds 306-354-7998 (Barry) or 306-229-9517 (Dale), Mossbank, SK. TOP QUALITY CERT. #1 CDC Copeland, AC Metcalfe, Newdale. Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. AC METCALFE, CDC COPELAND, CDC POLAR STAR, top quality. Wiens Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK.

JAMES FARMS FOR QUALITY SEED. Brandon, Cardale, Faller and Penhold Wheat. Summit and Souris oats, Haymaker TOP QUALITY CERTIFIED alfalfa and grass Forage Oats. Tradition Barley, Glas flax, seed. Call Gary or Janice Waterhouse McLeod RR2 and Barker R2xtend Soybeans. Forage and Grass Seeds, Various 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK. Canola and other Cereal Seed Varieties available upon request. Custom Processing, seed treating, inoculating. Delivery is available. Early payment discounts. Call 204-222-8785 or 1-866-283-8785 Winnipeg, MB. email djames@jamesfarms.com

HYBRID AND OPEN-POLLINATED canola CERTIFIED #1: CDC Copeland, AAC Syn- varieties. Certified #1 Synergy (Polish), ergy, CDC Maverick, CDC Austenson, AC Dekalb & Rugby. Phone Fenton Seeds, Ranger. Ardell Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. Vanscoy, SK. WANT TO FINISH combining in August?

AAC SYNERGY, Cert. top quality seed. Grow an early variety! Grow Early One TREATED OAT SEED for sale: Souris and Very high yielder, gaining acceptance with Polish canola and follow with Pintail winter Morgan, treated with Raxil Pro. Call Justin maltsters. Contracts available. Inquiries wheat. Call Mastin Seeds, Olds, AB., 306-469-0105, Big River, SK. welcome. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North 403-556-2609, mastinseeds.com Battleford, SK., cell 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net TOP QUALITY ALFALFA, variety of grasses CDC COPELAND, Fdn., Reg., Cert. top quality seed. Widely accepted malt variety. CERTIFIED GLAS and CDC Sorrel flax. and custom blends, farmer to farmer. Gary Inquiries welcome. Volume discounts. Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. Waterhouse 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, www.trawinseeds.ca SK., cell 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net CERTIFIED #1 CDC Sorrel, AAC Bravo.

Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

MINIMIZE INPUT COSTS & maximize yield potential. Grain & grazing/silage corn. The leader’s in non-GMO technology. A more sustainable way of farming! Free delivery.

MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. Call De Dell Seeds Inc. 204-268-5224.

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CERTIFIED #1 CDC Sorrel, AAC Bravo.

Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. CERT. #1 BETHUNE, 98% germ., 95% vigor. Sandercock Seed Farm, Balcarres SK., 306-334-2958.

CERTIFIED # 1 CDC GLAS - The variety to CERT. CDC PRECISION & AAC SPITFIRE grow! Top yield, excellent lodging resisExceptional yield potential and tance. 306-290-7816, Blaine Lake, SK. standability. Printz Family Seeds, Gravelbourg, SK., 306-648-3511, 306-380-7769.

CDC GLAS, Reg., Cert., top quality seed.

High yield, exc. standability, easy to harCERTIFIED TRANSCEND. Proven variety. vest. Great reviews from customers. InPrintz Family Seeds, Gravelbourg, SK., quiries welcome. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd., North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851 4 WHEEL BOMBARDIER Rotex, 250 hrs, 306-648-3511, 306-380-7769. like new, $4000; Wanted: 14’ bumper hitch CERTIFIED CDC ALLOY. Good disease or 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net dump trailer. 306-304-1959, Goodsoil, SK. package. Printz Family Seeds, Gravelbourg SK., 306-648-3511, 306-380-7769.

AAC SPITFIRE, TRANSCEND, top quality. Wiens Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK. CERT. & REG. CDC Precision; AAC Spitfire.

High germ. & 0% F.G., Fast Seed Farm Ltd., HOME FOR RENT: Furnished, 2 bed + den, 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. 2 bath, close to U of S, Saskatoon, SK. CERT. FDN, REG. Precision; CDC Alloy; $1300/mo. + utilities. Call 306-270-4323.

AAC Spitfire; Transcend, all exc. germ., 0% fusarium. Fraser Farms 306-741-0475, APARTMENTS FOR RENT, Langham, SK. Pambrun, SK. foc@sasktel.net Quiet, well maintained, close to schools. 1 and 2 bedrooms starting at $650. Contact Blaise at 306-349-9351.

CERTIFIED CDC Blackstrap, earliest black bean, direct harvest, high yield, excellent LARGE KABULI CHICKPEA seed, 94% disease pkg.; CDC Super Jet & CDC Jet germ. 0% disease. Fraser Farms, Pambrun, also available. Martens Charolais & Seed, SK., 306-741-0475. foc@sasktel.net 204-534-8370, Boissevain, MB. CERTIFIED Snowbird fababeans & Amarillo Peas. Call Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca

REGISTERED/CERTIFIED #1: Summit CERT. CDC PROCLAIM CL Reds, high Leggett, CDC Haymaker (Forage). Ardell germ. & 0% disease. Fast Seed Farm Ltd., Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK. 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. WANT TO FINISH combining in August?

Grow an early variety! Grow Juniper oats CERT. CDC IMPULSE, CDC Proclaim, CDC and follow with Pintail winter wheat. Call Maxim, CDC Redmoon, CDC Greenstar.

Mastin Seeds, Olds, AB., 403-556-2609, 98% germ, 0% disease. Fraser Farms, Pambrun, SK. 306-741-0475. foc@sasktel.net mastinseeds.com

FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER The following farmland is hereby offered for sale by Tender: TITLE NO. 1541661/3

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Landmark VB, CDC CERTIFIED AAC ARDILL yellow peas.

Plentiful, Cardale, Elgin ND, Goodeve VB, Call Hickseeds 306-354-7998 (Barry) or Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. 306-229-9517 (Dale), Mossbank, SK. CERTIFIED #1 AAC Brandon: 99% germ., 99% vigor, 38.58 TKW. Sandercock Seed FDN. & CERT. CDC Spectrum; CDC Amarillo. High germ. & 0% disease. Fast Seed Farm, 306-334-2958, Balcarres, SK. Farm Ltd., 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. CERTIFIED # 1 AAC Jatharia VB wheat, new. Midge tolerant. Shewchuk Seeds, REGISTERED/CERTIFIED #1: AAC Ardill, 306-290-7816, Blaine Lake, SK. CDC Inca, CDC Spectrum, CDC Limerick EXCELLENT QUALITY CERTIFIED #1: (green), CDC Proclaim Lentil (red). Ardell AC Andrew, SY Rowyn, Faller, Penhold & Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK. AAC Sadash. Call Frederick Seeds, CERT. CDC INCA; CDC Greenwater, exc.

306-287-3977, Watson, SK. germ. and disease. Fraser Farms, PamEXCELLENT QUALITY Cert. #1, CWRS: brun, SK, 306-741-0475. foc@sasktel.net CDC Landmark VB, AAC Viewfield, AAC Brandon, AAC Cameron VB, AAC Elie, Car- GREEN PEAS, yellow pea prices down, try dale, CDC Utmost VB, AAC Connery & AAC new green pea varieties! CDC Limerick, Redberry. Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, CDC Greenwater & CDC Spruce. Select, Watson, SK. Fdn., Reg. and Cert. Ask about CDC Forest.

CDC LANDMARK VB, AAC BRANDON, Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, AAC PREVAIL VB, top quality. Wiens SK., cell 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK.

NE ¼ 29-12-8 WPM, EXC FIRSTLY: THE NLY 1320 FEET PERP SECONDLY: ALL MINES, MINERALS AND SPECIAL RESERVATIONS AS RESERVED IN THE ORIGINAL GRANT FROM THE CROWN

TITLE NO. 1875000/3 NW ¼ 29-12-8 WPM EXC ALL MINES, MINERALS AND SPECIAL RESERVATIONS AS RESERVED IN THE ORIGINAL GRANT FROM THE CROWN.

The Owner advises that there is approximately 230 cultivated acres.

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FURTHER INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM: D’Arcy & Deacon LLP 2200-One Lombard Place Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 0X7 Attention: Brent R. Kendall Email: bkendall@darcydeacon.com 1-204-318-2239

COVER CROPS. HICKSEED LTD., Mossbank, SK. Now has on the floor for organic plowdown: Daikon radish (zero till); Hairy Vetch; Austrian Winter peas; Buckwheat; Yellow Blossom sweet clover. Also, green feed blends available.

For all your seed needs call Hickseed Ltd. Barry 306-354-7998 or Dale 306-229-9517

EXCELLENT QUALITY CERTIFIED #1 CS SUN BEACH MOTEL, 1 bdrm suite, $695, Camden, Summit, CDC Minstrel, CDC Ruf- CDC IMPULSE, CDC PROCLAIM, CDC Lakefront 2 bdrm, $850. 250-495-7766, fian, CDC Orrin. Frederick Seeds, MAXIM(small reds), top quality. Wiens Osoyoos, BC. www.sunbeachmotel.net Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK. 306-287-3977, Watson, SK.

SAWMILLS from only $4397 - Make Money and Save Money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock, ready to ship. Free info. and DVD: SASKATOON SOUTHWEST, River Valley www.NorwoodSawmills.com/168 or call View Estate, near golf course. Paved road CHATFIELD/POPLARFIELD: Opportunity to 1-800-567-0404. and all services to site, $229,500. Phone run your own cattle & grain farm. 1240 sq.

306-382-1299 or 306-382-9024. ft. bungalow. 800 ac. owned, 1920 leased.

200 acres cult. balance hay & fenced pasture. Many outbuildings, $799,000. Call CERTIFIED AAC BRANDON, AAC Jatharia. CERTIFIED CDC INCA, CDC Greenwater, Claudette: 1-888-629-6700. LJBaron.com Call Grant, 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, CDC Mosaic. Call Grant, 306-746-7336, 306-746-8070, Semans, SK. 306-524-4339, 306-746-8070, Semans, SK CERTIFIED CDC Landmark, AAC Cameron, Jatharia, Brandon CWRS wheat. Contact CERTIFIED #1 CDC Spectrum, CDC Acer Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. (Maple), CDC Amarillo and CDC Meadow.

Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca

Prospective Purchasers must rely entirely on their own inspection of the property and shall be responsible for payment of the GST or shall self-assess for purposes of the GST.

TIRED OF HAULING 20-40% of your soybean crop to market only to pay the soybean seed bill? There’s an alternative!

Visit: www.profitfromthebean.com or phone 204-856-3396.

GLYPHOSATE 1 SOYBEANS: Top yields, delivered. Common #1. Keep your own seed! Call Norcan Seeds, 204-372-6552, 204-739-3519. Fisher Branch, MB.

CERTIFIED Camden, Morgan, Baler and Haymaker. Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca CERTIFIED CDC MARBLE, dark speckled; TIMESHARE FOR SALE: Christie Lodge in CERTIFIED #1 CDC Ruffian, AC Leggett & Certified CDC 4371-4, red. Call Grant, SeVail, Colorado. Floating week, 1 bdrm., CDC Orrin. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, mans, SK. 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, Queen, fireplace, kitchenette, maintenance Tisdale, SK. 306-746-8070. fees $458/yearly. Never had the chance to use, but must sell for health reasons - can CERTIFIED CDC HAYMAKER. Hickseeds CERTIFIED #1 CDC Impala (small red) no longer leave Canada. Make offer and I 306-354-7998 (Barry) or 306-229-9517 Clearfield. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, will consider. Call 403-242-9234.

(Dale), Mossbank, SK. Tisdale, SK.

SECLUDED RIVER RETREAT: 80 acres on west bank, pt of 01-46-04 W3. Summer road and river access, $167,500. Phone 306-382-1299 or 306-382-9024.

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REGISTERED/CERTIFIED #1: CDC Landmark, AAC Brandon, AAC Jatharia, Cardale, CDC Utmost. Ardell Seeds, 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK.

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AAC BRANDON CWRS, Cert. top quality seed, very high yielder and protein. Highly recommended by growers. All inquiries welcome. Volume discounts. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd., North Battleford, SK., cell 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516 or email: gregfarms@sasktel.net

FARMERS, RANCHERS, SEED PROCESSORS BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS Heated/Spring Threshed Lightweight/Green/Tough, Mixed Grain - Barley, Oats, Rye, Flax, Wheat, Durum, Lentils, Peas, Canola, Chickpeas, Triticale, Sunflowers, Screenings, Organics and By-Products √ ON-FARM PICKUP √ PROMPT PAYMENT √ LICENSED AND BONDED SASKATOON, LLOYDMINSTER, LETHBRIDGE, VANCOUVER, MINNEDOSA

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37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0 Ph. (204) 745-6444 Email: vscltd@mts.net Andy Vanderveen · Brett Vanderveen Jesse Vanderveen

SY ROWYN CPSR, Cert. top quality seed, REG. & CERTIFIED CDC Calvi (itchless), high yielder with vg protein. All inquires high yielder. Fast Seed Farm Ltd., welcome. Volume discounts. Gregoire 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. Seed Farms Ltd., North Battleford, SK., cell 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516. Email gregfarms@sasktel.net

AAC ELIE, CWRS, CERT. top quality seed, sister wheat to AAC Brandon. Very high yielder with high protein. Positive reviews from growers. All inquires welcome. VolCERTIFIED CDC Austenson & Maverick ume discounts. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, feed barley. Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, North Battleford, SK., cell 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net Melfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca SELECT CDC GO seed, hand picked from CERTIFIED CDC Copeland & AC Metcalf. breeder seed. Contact: mastinseed.com Call Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, Call or text 403-994-2609, Olds, AB. SK. www.trawinseeds.ca WANT TO FINISH combing in August?

Grow an early variety! Grow Go Early HRS CERTIFIED #1 Metcalf(2R) & Legacy(6R). wheat. Call Mastin Seeds, Olds, AB., Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. 403-556-2609, mastinseeds.com Best pricing, Best option, Best Service

WANT TO FINISH combining in August?

Grow an early variety! Grow AAC Peace River yellow peas and follow with Pintail winter wheat. Call Mastin Seeds, Olds, AB., 403-556-2609, mastinseeds.com

WANTED HEATED CANOLA. No broker involved. Sell direct to crushing plant.

Cash on delivery or pickup. 306-228-7306 or 306-228-7325, no texts. Unity, SK.

BESCO GRAIN LTD. Buying all varieties of mustard. Also canary and some other specialty crops. 204-745-3662, Brunkild, MB Looking for off grade mustard, lentils or chickpeas. Custom color sorting of all types of crops. Ackerman Ag Services, 306-631-9577, Chamberlain, SK.

A Season to Grow… Only Days to Pay!

BUYING:

HEATED CANOLA & FLAX • Competitive Prices • Prompt Movement • Spring Thrashed “ON FARM PICK UP”

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LACKAWANNA PRODUCTS CORP. Buyers and sellers of all types of feed grain CDC CIBO, CDC CALVI, top quality. Wi- and grain by-products. Contact Bill Hajt or ens Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, Christopher Lent at 306-862-2723.

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ROUND ALFALFA/ALFALFA GRASS solid core greenfeed 5x6 JD hay bales for sale.

Call 306-237-4582, Perdue, SK. 1ST & 2ND CUT large round alfalfa bales.

Straight alfalfa & grass blend available. Call 306-594-4027, Norquay, SK.

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NUVISION COMMODITIES is currently purchasing feed barley, wheat, peas and milling oats. 204-758-3401, St. Jean, MB.

3X4 SQ. BALES: Alfalfa, Orchard, Timothy.

Exc. beef/dairy, 150 RFV, 24% pro., 1600 1700 lbs., 7-9¢. 204-270-0115, Lorette, MB.

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GOOD QUALITY 1st CUT small square Alfalfa bales, $3.75/bale. Can deliver.

204-326-3109, Steinbach, MB. GRASS MIXED HAY BALES, from $22-45 per bale. Also 2nd year second cut Alfalfa BUYING WILD FUR, whole frozen carcass, hay, all net wrapped. Call 204-372-6945, cash paid. Must have fur license.

Fisher Branch, MB. DL#6168, call 306-852-8802, Tisdale, SK. Email: madtrapper@hotmail.ca 100 MEDIUM SQUARE wheat straw bales, 3x3x8, baled dry & clean with a conventional combine, stored in hay shed, $20/bale; Some small square also avail.

Delivery available. Phone 204-755-3416, POLY TANKS: 15 to 10,000 gal.; Bladder Hazelridge, MB. tanks from 220 to 88,000 gallon; Water and liquid fertilizer; Fuel tanks, single and WANTED: ALFALFA 3x3 and 3x4 bales. double wall; Truck and storage, gas or dsl.

Will arrange for pickup at farm/field. Wilke Sales, 306-586-5711, Regina, SK. Phone Chris 204-746-0462, Brunkild, MB. LARGE ROUND BALES, hard core, 5x6, afalfa/grass mix and alfalfa 1st and 2nd cut, no rain; also grass bales of mature hay and TARPCO, SHUR-LOK, MICHEL’S sales, alfalfa grass w/some rain. 204-749-2194, service, installations, repairs. Canadian 204-526-0733, Rathwell, MB. company. We carry aeration socks and grain bags. Also electric chute openers for 300 ROUND TAME HAY bales, 1200 lbs., grain trailer hoppers. 1-866-663-0000. no rain, $45 ea; 200 canary grass bales w/Alsike clover, 1200 lbs., no rain, $35 ea; 150- 2016 tame canary hay bales w/Alsike clover, $25 ea.; 150 wild hay bales, $25 ea.; Farmking 3 PTH 7’ snowblower, $1150 GOOD USED TRUCK TIRES: 700/8.25/ OBO. 204-767-2208, Silver Ridge, MB. 900/1000/1100x20s; 11R22.5/11R24.5; 9R17.5, matched sets available. Pricing ROUND HAY BALES: First & second cut, from $90. K&L Equipment and Auto. Ph approx. 1550 lbs., grass/alfalfa, no rain, Ladimer, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK; Chris $60/bale. 204-539-2453, Swan River, MB. at 306-537-2027, Regina, SK. SMALL SQUARE OAT straw bales, 20.8x42 CLAMP-ON DUALS with rods and $2.50/ea. 204-371-6404, Ste. Anne, MB. spacers, for triples, taken off 9370 Case FIRST AND SECOND cut Alfalfa, 5x6 round tractor, $8000. Call A.E. Chicoine Farm bales, no rain, excellent quality. Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 306-865-6603, Hudson Bay, SK. MR. TIRE CORP. For all your tire needs, DURUM STRAW BIG square bales w/ rod- call Mylo at 306-921-6555 or Jeremy at dicut, no rain, w/some durum seed, 306-921-0068. Serving all Saskatchewan. $25/bale, 306-861-4592 Fillmore, SK. LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom TIRES, TIRES, TIRES, Radial, Bias, New, Used. 20.8x42, 18.4x42, 20.8x38, 18.4x38, hay hauling. 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK. 20.8R34, 18.4x34, 900/60R32, 800/65R32, 24.5x32, 18.4x30, 23.1x30, 16.9x28, 28Lx26, 18.4x26, 19.5Lx24, 16.5x16.1, 18.4x16.1, and more! Semis, skid steers. Best price & value guaranteed!

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POST SHAVINGS: Cattle feedlot, horse & WANTED: FEED BARLEY, 48 lbs. plus. poultry bedding. Bulk pricing and delivery Phone 306-345-2523, Stony Beach, SK. available; Landscaping Mulch: Available 1 yard bulk bags for $45, delivery WANTED: FEED GRAIN, barley, wheat, in Colored Landscaping Mulch: peas, green or damaged canola. Phone available; Available in 1 yard bulk bags for $115, deGary 306-823-4493, Neilburg, SK. livery avail. Vermette Wood Preservers, WANTED: FEED BARLEY Buffalo Plains Spruce Home, SK.. 1-800-667-0094. Email: Cattle Company is looking to purchase info@vwpltd.com Visit: www.vwpltd.com barley. For pricing and delivery dates, call HORSE QUALITY SMALL square bales for Kristen 306-624-2381, Bethune, SK. sale. Call 306-290-8806, Dundurn, SK. WANTED: OFF-GRADE PULSES, oil seeds and cereals. All organic cereals and spe- NEW HAY FOR SALE; Round bale picking cialty crops. Prairie Wide Grain, Saskatoon, and hauling, small or large loads. Travel anywhere. 306-291-9658, Vanscoy, SK. SK., 306-230-8101, 306-716-2297.

Hit our readers where it counts… in the clas- HAY FOR SALE - DELIVERED! Also custom sifieds. Place your ad in the Manitoba Co- hauling. V-V Trucking Ltd., 306-631-8544, operator classifed section. 1-800-667-7770. Moose Jaw, SK.

LARGE LATHE, asking 306-722-7770, Osage, SK.

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SEASONAL WORKER FOR grain operation.

Duties: roguing seed fields, hand labor, irrigating, field & yard work. Heavy lifting req. $13.60-15/hr. karlinfarms79@gmail.com

FARM LABOURERS WANTED. Lincoln Gardens is a seasonal vegetable farm located at Lumsden, SK. Seeking 8 seasonal field labourers, starting April 15, 2018. Duties include: Planting, weeding and harvesting vegetable crops. Sort, wash, weigh vegetables. Hand move irrigation pipes. 50 to 60 hrs./week. Must be available weekends.

Starting wage is $11.00/hr. Send resume with references to: Lincoln Gardens, Box 750, Lumsden, SK., S0G 3C0.

LOOKING FOR PERSON(S) to live in newer dwelling on established farm yard close to Drayton Valley, AB. Rent free in exchange for light chores (horses, dogs, cats) and some grass mowing. Must be reliable, trustworthy, non-drinker/smoker, v. clean in dwelling & like animals. Email resume to wyakin@telus.net or fax 780-542-6467.

FULL-TIME FARM LABOURER: Year round employment with house, including off farm acreage supplied. Year round salary dependent on experience and level of involvement in operation. We run a family run cow/calf operation, backgrounder feedlot, and grain farm. Non-smoking environment.

Class 1A license required. Families are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact Raymond to leave a message 204-937-7371

CUSTOM HARVEST HELP: Carlson Harvesting, Inc. is looking for combine, truck and tractor drivers for 2018. Must have clean driving record and ability to obtain a CDL. Apply online at www.carlsonharvesting.com or call with questions, 218-686-9189.

HOG FARM WORKERS, DeGroot Pork Net Inc., Silver, MB., is looking for full-time workers. Job duties include daily chores, assisting sows at farrowing, AI, breeding, some minor record keeping, etc. We have two locations in Interlake, MB. One is located 7 miles SW of Arborg, MB., and the other is at 9 miles SW of Fisher Branch, MB. Weekend work required. Experience an asset but not required. Starting wage is $12 -15.28/hr., plus benefits. Please E-mail resumes to: hr.degrootpork@gmail.com or mail to: Box 874, Arborg, MB., R0C 0A0, 519-800-4095.

MECHANIC/FARM WORKER WANTED for PT(or FT) work on modern mixed farm from Apr.-Nov. near Calgary, Must have good mechanical ability for operating seeder, combine and tractors, along with shop maintenance. Preferably Class 1. Housing negotiable, start now, good fit for semiretired with flex. hrs. Send resume to: lscattleco@xplornet.com fax 403-335-0086 KORNUM WELL DRILLING, farm, cottage or call between 9AM-4PM 403-335-3694. and acreage wells, test holes, well rehabilitation, witching. PVC/SS construction, ex- DAIRY HERD MANAGER wanted on a pert workmanship and fair pricing. 50% progressive dairy farm. Milking 240 cows government grant now available. Indian in a new facility with an automated milkHead, SK., 306-541-7210 or 306-695-2061 ing system in SE Manitoba. Management responsibilities include herd health, breeding program and some barn equipment maintenance. Be part of a management 35 TON WINCH, 2 speed reversible gear- team that includes the owners, a veteribox, 75’ of new cable still on the roll, $750. narian, a nutritionist and equipment specialists. For more info. contact Charles at Call 306-722-7770, Osage, SK. 204-371-0711 or David at 204-371-6081. $1500.

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FULL-TIME FARM LABOURER HELP. Applicants should have previous farm experience and mechanical ability. Duties include operation of machinery, including tractors and other farm equipment, as well as general farm laborer duties. $25/hour depending on experience. Must be able to cross US border. Location: Pierson, MB. Feland Bros. Farms, Greg Feland and Wade Feland, Box 284, Pierson, MB. R0M 1S0.

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CHILE AG TOUR Feb. 17 - 26. Santiago, Elqui Valley, Wineries, and farms. Costs may be tax deductible. 1-833-AGTOURS (833-248-6877). www.rwthomastours.com

U-DRIVE TRACTOR TRAILER Training, 30 years experience. Day, 1 and 2 week upgrading programs for Class 1A, 3A and air brakes. One on one driving instructions.

306-786-6600, Yorkton, SK.

DUFFERIN MARKET GARDENS is accepting applications for seasonal farm workers. Duties include: planting, weeding, harvesting and packing vegetables.

Long hours, much bending & heavy lifting.

Start: February 2018. Wage: $11.25/hr., Please send resume with references to fax: 204-745-6193. Or mail to: Box 1051, Carman, MB., R0G 0J0.

RIVER VALLEY SPECIALTY FARMS: DAIRY FARM MANAGER: Permanent full- Seeking seasonal workers for 2018. Positime position on robotic milk farm, experi- tion will be seasonal full-time, 40+ ence required. hmvandersluijs@gmail.com hrs/week. Wage $11.18/hour. Period of employment anticipated to be from April 2018 until August 2018. Duties include: FARM HAND REQUIRED for a cow/calf feed Harvesting and packing of asparagus, lot. Must be able to operate equipment. planting and weeding of pumpkins, squash Main duties will include feeding and care of and onions as well as weeding of organic cattle. Wage will depend on experience. On fields. Must be willing to work long hours farm housing available. Call 780-524-9322. and do repetitive tasks as well as bending and some heavy lifting. Applicants must be able to work in a variety of conditions in outdoor environments and must be able to work well with others. Education requirements not applicable, experience an asset.

Location of work is MacGregor and area, Manitoba. Please apply by e-mail to: admin@rivervalleyfarms.ca or in writing to: Box 33, Bagot, MB. R0H 0E0.

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. 2 SEASONAL FARM Machinery Operators required. Must be able to operate grain cart, tandem grain truck, FWA tractor w/rockpicker, 4 WD tractor for harrowing.

Also manual labour for upkeep of leafcutter bees and general servicing of equip.

May 1 to Nov. 15. $15-$18/hr. 101008187 SK Ltd., 303 Frontier Trail, Box 372, Wadena, SK., S0A 4J0. Fax: 306-338-3733, ph 306-338-7561 or cfehr9860@hotmail.com ALTHOUSE HONEY FARMS INC. 1/2 mile south Porcupine Plain, SK., 500 McAllister Avenue. 7 positions required for 2018 season, May to October. 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. Phone Ron Althouse 306-278-7345, Email: althousehoney@sasktel.net SASKATCHEWAN CUSTOM FARMING operation seeking Full-time and Part-time employees for 2018. Competitive wages and scheduled time off. Housing and meal plans supplied. Must be at least 18 and have or be willing to acquire AZ/1A license. Inquire by phone to: 306-776-2510, or e-mail: flatrocktrucks@outlook.com PASTURE RIDER REQUIRED for 2018 season. Monet Pastures Ltd., Elrose, SK., requires a full-time seasonal pasture rider to help care for 1950 cow/calf pairs May 1st to November 1st. Must supply own horses and tack. Experience with cattle disease is mandatory. Valid driver’s license required.

Must be able to rope and treat cattle in open pasture. Housing available. Wages $23 to $30/hour based on experience. For more information contact: Luke Ellingson 306-378-7451, Tim Calwell 306-378-7554, or email calseeds@sasktel.net AGROLOGIST/ LABOURER: Permanent position on grain farm. Non-smoking. Applicants should have previous farm experience, knowledge & mechanical ability. Duties include operating tractors, combines, sprayers, floater, grain augers, climbing grain bins, know how to operate GPS on equipment, variable rate applications as well as general farm labour duties. Applicants must have Class 5 license, 1A license, like animals, be responsible, honest and show initiative to take on any challenge that arises. Weyburn, SK. area.

Please call 306-861-3774.

LOOKING FOR PEOPLE interested in riding feedlot pens in Strathmore or Lethbridge, AB. area, w/above average horsemanship skills, willing to train. 2 positions available.

Wages depending on qualifications.

403-701-1548, Strathmore, AB.

FULL-TIME POSITION ON a cow/calf operation. Must have knowledge of calving, AI, general farm work, working with a show herd of Angus and Simmental cattle. One bedroom apartment available. The RK farm is located in Central Ontario. Contact Sandy Reid at rkanimalsupplies@xplornet.com or call 519-588-7560.

MOWER/UTILITY OPERATOR in Rural Municipality of Pittville #169: The Municipality invites applications from qualified individuals for the position of full-time seasonal mower/utility operator. Grader Operator experience would be an asset.

Must be able to take direction from RM Council/Administration and work well with others. Must be safety conscious, mechanically inclined, able to work unsupervised and possess a Power Mobile Equipment Certificate or be willing to obtain same. Must possess and maintain a minimum class 5 driver’s license. Applications close at 4:00 PM February 12th, 2018. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Email, mail or fax resumes with qualifications, references and salary expectations to: Mower/Utility Operator c/o R.M. of Pittville #169, Box 150, Hazlet, SK., S0N 1E0. Fax: 306-678-2132.

Email: rm169@sasktel.net FULL-TIME PERMANENT GRADER Operator in the Rural Municipality of Pittville #169: The Municipality invites applications from qualified individuals for the position of full-time permanent grader operator.

Grader experience will be an asset. Must be safety conscious, mechanically inclined and able to work unsupervised and possess a Power Mobile Equipment Certificate or be willing to obtain same. Must possess and maintain a minimum class 5 license.

Applications close at 4:00 PM February 12th, 2018. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Email, mail or fax resumes with qualifications, references and salary expectations to: Grader Operator c/o R.M. of Pittville #169 Box 150, Hazlet, SK., S0N 1E0. Fax: 306-678-2132. Email: rm169@sasktel.net

FARM MANAGER: PAGE FARMS is seeking a Farm Manager for the 3000 ac. grain farm SW of Winnipeg. Candidate must have exp. in all aspects of grain farming, as well as plan and execute for all areas of the farm (inputs, supplies, marketing, relationship building, employee mgmt., maintenance of equip., building & facilities, record keeping, book keeping & more) in an efficient & cost effective manner. Must be mechanically inclined & have a class 1A license (or be willing to obtain one). The position is salaried (will depend on experience) and also includes housing, vehicle & cell phone.

Great opportunity for a family, has a supportive community & schooling nearby.

To apply, forward resume with references & cover letter to: pagefarm@mymts.net or mail to: PAGE Farms, Box 59, Starbuck, MB R0G 2P0. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2018.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, The Saskatchewan Conservation & Development Association Inc. (SaskCDA) is currently accepting applications for the position of Executive Director. As the Executive Director, you will represent the Board at meetings with other Agencies dealing with water management. You will also deal directly with the Secretary-Treasurers of the 100 C&Ds and 13 WABs located throughout the province.

You will also be responsible along with the Board to organize an Annual General Meeting as well as any other meetings that may be called. You will be expected to keep the SaskCDA website current. The Executive Director is responsible, along with the Board, to determine an annual budget and to set and collect the membership and insurance fees for the C&Ds and WABs. The Executive Director maintains accurate accounting records and has the books audited. The Executive Director is also responsible to ensure that the SaskCDA maintains its status as a Non Profit Organization. Location of position flexible with location of suitable candidate. Salary and benefits as well as starting date are negotiable. Please E-mail ed@saskcda.org to request a job description.

FAVEL TRANSPORT is hiring Leased Operators. Livestock, Bulk, Reefer. Call us at 306-692-8488, Moose Jaw, SK. LOG TRUCK DRIVERS WANTED for winter run. Tractor/trailer experience a must.

Will train for logs. Ph 780-836-2538. Send resume to: Albert Greschner Holdings Ltd., Box 447, Manning, AB. T0H 2M0

KNUDSEN’S HONEY INC. is looking for 4 apiary workers for April-October 2018.

Work includes: building equipment, supering beehives, extracting honey, moving and feeding hives, 1 year of exp. Wage starts at $15/hour, workers comp. Farm is located: SW 9-41-9 W2 in RM of Porcupine, SK. Please apply online before March 1, 2018 to: AnnaBolvin@hotmail.com SEEKING FULL-TIME WORK: Experienced with cattle & calving, and most farm machinery. Clean Class 5. Ph. 204-731-1781.

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2008 Case IH 8010 Combine,

2940hrs, 900/60R32 DRIVES, DELUXE CAB, ELECTRIC SEIVE ADJ, LATERAL TILT 868380

131,000 2016 New Holland TS6.140 845TL Tractor, 139HP, 16X8 POWER SHUTTLE, 18.4X34 REAR TIRES FIRESTONE, 14.9-24 FRONT TIRES FIRES

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Grain Bag Loader, 2011 RICHG R10 . . . . . $18,396 Grain Vac, 2009 REM 2700. . . . . . . . . . . . $15,000 Heavy Harrow, 2015 ELMER Super 7 70FT $41,900 Mower/Zero Turn, 2013 CK RZT S54 . . . . $2,800 2011 FK POST HOLE DIGGER . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,900 Manure Spreader, 2014 LN 575H . . . . . . $27,321 Mower Conditioner, 2014 NH H7460 . . . $36,500 862907

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2014 VA 550DT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $388,000 2014 VA 550DT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $388,000 2013 MF 4610 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$60,000 2008 NH TV6070 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $75,000 2007 NH TG275 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $103,000

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2013 NH 740CF-35F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$34,000 2013 NH 840CD-35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$49,900 2012 JD 635D-35FT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $47,000 2010 NH 74C-30F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,900 2010 NH 94C-42FT CR/CX . . . . . . . . . . . . $65,000 2003 JD 936 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,000 2000 CIH 1042-36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,200

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2015 New Holland 840CD-35FT Header 35FT, DOUBLE KNIFE, TRANSPORT, GAUGE WHEELS, AHHC, X-AUGER

815869

249,000

837639

234,000

807147

63,000

736273

2007 New Holland TG275 Tractor,

6280hrs, 275HP, 19/4 FULL POWERSHIFT, DUAL 20.8R42’S REARS, 16.9R30 FRONTS, 4 EH REMOTES

2015 New Holland T5.115 Tractor,

114HP, 98PTO HP, 16X16 SEMI-POWERSHIFT 25MPH, HD MFWD AXLE

Highway #2 South

Highway #6 North

Highway #10 East

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