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Was Viterra planning to leave the canola council too?

Richardson’s decision to leave doesn’t endanger the council, says its president

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Ag Days holds the course on exhibitor numbers This year’s Ag Days lines up with previous years in terms of size

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ichardson Inter– national’s decision not to renew its Canola Council of Canada membership Dec. 31, was a shocker, but it could have been even worse.

According to several reliable sources, Viterra, Canada’s second-biggest grain comSee CANOLA COUNCIL on page 6 »

t wasn’t a milestone anniversary year for Manitoba Ag Days, but the 2018 show matched numbers from last year’s 40th anniversary expansion.

Last year, the show added both footage and exhibitor slots after opening up the over-19,000-square-foot Brandon Curling Club for booths. This year, the show once again topped 540,000 square feet and over 800 booths.

“One unique thing about Ag Days is we are free admission, free parking, you don’t have to register and the seminars are free to attend,” Kristin Phillips, show manager, said. “Not many shows in the country will do that and so, I think that is why we are Canada’s largest indoor farm show and we’ve been so successful.”

Phillips expects curling club space to stay open for the next five years after signing an agreement with the club.

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Young farmers It is the “Year of the Young Farmer,” according to the Ag Days theme, something that set a new tone from last year’s 40th anniversary show, Phillips said.

“We wanted to really focus on agriculture and agronomy and economics and that next generation. By definition, a young farmer is someone between the ages of 18 and 40 and we really wanted to take that generation and promote them and show them what options are out there for them,” she said.

The hockey ice at Brandon’s Keystone Centre was replaced with ag company booths during the 2018 Manitoba Ag Days Jan. 16-18. Photo: Alexis Stockford

A young farmers’ lounge was added to the floor plan, while a selfie social media contest promised a 10-day Cuban farm tour.

“They’ll actually go and see what agriculture is like over there and then part of the reporting requirement for them is they have to come back and write at 2,500-word essay on the experience and what they’ve learned about agriculture in that other country,” Phillips said.

Brett McRae, whose purebred cattle and grain farm lies just outside Brandon, was one of many young producers to attend.

McRae was both exhibitor and speaker. The driving force behind McRae Land and Livestock, a business he runs in tandem with his parents’ Mar Mac farms, he split his time between the show’s seminar lineup See AG DAYS on page 9 »

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How flowers won

Silage opportunities

Flowering plants conquered the world, now scientists think they know why

An Ag Days speaker makes his case for wider use of silage

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CROPS Conventional wisdom Standard practices win out in the annual Soybean Challenge

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Under fire Organic growers not happy with MASC’s organic program

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CROSSROADS Growing project The Foodgrains Bank celebrates a successful 2017 season

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t’s a problem that puzzled even geneticist Charles Darwin so much he called it the “abominable mystery” — how did flowering plants take over the world?

They’re relative newcomers, yet they dominate most landscapes, are incredibly diverse, form the basis of our food system and drive the animal diversity we see all around us.

A recent paper in the openaccess journal PLOS Biology suggests it’s all about the cell size. Researchers from San Francisco State and Yale universities found flowering

plants have small cells when they’re stacked up against other plant types, something that’s made possible by a similarly smaller genome.

It makes it possible to build more and more complex cells in the same space, and makes the cells created more efficient at tasks like photosynthesis. Additionally, by shrinking the size of each cell, water and nutr ient delivery can be made more efficient.

Comparing hundreds of species, the researchers found that genome downsizing began about 140 million years ago and coincided with the spread of the earliest

flowering plants around the world. “The flowering plants are the most important group of plants on earth, and now we finally know why they have been so successful,” they wrote.

Although this research answers a major question, it opens the door to many more. Why were the flowering plants able to shrink their genomes more than other plant groups? What innovations in genome structure and packing have the flowering plants exploited? How have the ferns and conifers managed to elude extinction despite their large genomes and cells?

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

Lower premiums for crop insurance in 2018

The unpopular pre-harvest deductible on corn and soybeans is gone, there’s coverage for novel crops and hail coverage options have been raised

Small crop insurance payout in 2017 As a result $150 million has been added to the program’s reserve fund

BY ALLAN DAWSON

“A lot of it was around budget pressures as well,” Van Deynze said. “We had to find ways to have a smaller budget and try to impact producers the least possible, and this was a compromise we tried to come to for it.”

It was the wrong approach given agriculture’s contribution to Manitoba’s economy, Krahn said.

“I think they got the message loud and clear and now they’ve acted on it so we’re very appreciative of that,” he said.

It shows lobbying works and that governments do listen, Krahn added.

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nsuring soybeans in Manitoba will be a lot cheaper this year, with premiums dropping an average of 17 per cent.

That’s the biggest move in an acrossthe-board premium drop that sees an average reduction on all crops of seven per cent, Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler said while speaking at Ag Days here Jan. 16 Other big changes to crop insurance coming in 2018 include: • Elimination of the unpopular pre-harvest deductible on corn and soybeans, • Permanently insuring soybeans that had been part of a test project, • Increasing hail coverage, • Offering insurance for novel crops, and • Creating a new category for wheats in the Canadian Grain Commission’s Canada Northern Hard Red class.

“These improvements have been implemented to reflect changes in the industry by ensuring better coverage for soybeans, hard red wheat and new emerging crops,” Eichler said.

“That is the farmer’s money,” he said.

“We want to be able to remain competitive, and with the increasing crop production over the last year, and very little payouts, we were able to accomplish a significant reduction in those premiums,” Eichler told reporters later. (See sidebar.)

Crop insurance coverage is expected to total $2.7 billion in 2018, he said.

Better data Soybean premiums went down because more long-term soybean yield data was used in the premium calculation, David Van Deynze, the Manitoba Agricultural Service Corporation’s (MASC) vice-president of insurance operations, said in an interview Jan. 17.

Premiums are usually based on 25 years of yields, but soybeans haven’t been grown on large acreages that long in Manitoba.

“We’ve got some recent good data and we decided to put a bigger emphasis on the data,” he said “Soybean losses have been relatively low for the last number of years. So it’s a pretty decent drop on our soybean premiums as a result of that.”

The value assigned to insured crops, used to calculate payouts, is down an average of 2.2 per cent, Van Deynze said.

(See 2018 crop dollar values at https:// tinyurl.com/y9rnun3k.)

Canola, soybean, red spring wheat and northern hard red wheat values are $10.55, $10.61, $6.53 and $5.31 a bushel, respectively.

MASC will send out premium and other crop insurance information to farmers in February.

Premiums and coverage are based, in part, on each farmer’s production history and those in their risk area.

“These improvements have been implemented to reflect changes in the industry by ensuring better coverage for soybeans, hard red wheat and new emerging crops.”

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For some crops, such as corn, individual long-term average yield is used.

About 200,000 acres north of PTH 16 in the Parkland area of Manitoba will be permanently eligible for soybean coverage starting this spring, Van Deynze said. The change follows several years of testing to ensure soybeans were suited for the area.

The Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers issued a statement supporting the change.

Corn growers happy The president of the Manitoba Corn Growers Association (MCGA) is praising Eichler and MASC for dropping the controversial pre-harvest deductible on corn and soybeans.

“The corn growers are very pleased with this,” Myron Krahn said in an interview Jan. 17. “It is something that we’ve raised with MASC every year since it introduced this deductible. We’ve been very firm that we’ve never liked this from the start. We’ve always thought it was treating corn growers unfairly.”

Although there hasn’t been a big writeoff of corn since 2010 when the deductible was implemented, it has hurt some individual farmers, Krahn said.

Under the policy if corn and soybean fields were written off in the fall before harvest, farmers received 85 per cent of their insurance coverage — a 15 per cent penalty.

It was implemented following the writing off a large number of corn acres in 2009 due to mould.

MASC officials said at the time it was done partly so farmers who don’t harvest a crop aren’t financially better off than those who do. Harvesting corn is expensive and almost always includes drying.

If crop quality is poor, ripping it up and getting a crop insurance payout could be more attractive than harvesting it.

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In retrospect, MASC might have been too lenient when writing off cornfields, Van Deynze said. In 2009 some poor-quality corn was sold to make ethanol.

“There’s a bit of a feeling that we, the industry, and producers, jumped the gun a little bit on this mouldy corn and working it up,” Van Deynze said.

“I think we’re now a little bit more prepared as an industry to deal with a situation similar to 2009. That may have factored into it as well.”

Asked if it will be harder now to write off mouldy corn, Van Deynze said: “There is very little likelihood MASC is going to write that off purely from a mould perspective.”

MASC is creating a new insurance category for wheats in the CGC’s Canada Northern Hard Red class. The main varieties — Faller, Prosper and Elgin ND — are higher yielding and have been grown in Manitoba for several years.

The varieties had been MASC’s feed wheat category.

The ‘feed wheat’ category is now called ‘other spring wheat.’

Manitoba farmers will now be able to insure novel crops, Van Deynze said.

“We have a number of producers who always like to try new things and it’s always a challenge from a crop insurance perspective to say how much coverage this crop should have,” he said. “We don’t know if it’s suitable for Manitoba, we don’t know how it grows necessarily.”

Under this new option farmers can insure a novel crop for $120, $160 or $200 an acre. Payouts are triggered when traditional crops fail.

“So if you have a claim on your wheat and your canola and soybeans we will give you a similar claim on your novel crops making the assumption that they were affected similarly with the weather pattern we had that particular year,” Van Deynze said.

MASC’s hail coverage, which is funded totally by farmers without government subsidies, is also going up.

Farmers can select $150, $200 or $250 acre coverage, up from $120, $160 and $200, respectively, he said.

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The final tally isn’t in but total Manitoba crop insurance payouts in 2017 are currently estimated at around $60 million.

That shouldn’t be a surprise given collectively farmers enjoyed above-average yields for many crops, even setting some new records.

The Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) will release its 2017 yield data in Yield Manitoba, Feb. 15 as a supplement to the Manitoba Co-operator.

The information will also be available online.

“It was a quiet year for us,” David Van Deynze, MASC’s vice-president of insurance operations, said in an interview.

As a result MASC was able to add $150 million to its reserve fund, bringing the total to about $585 million, he said.

Crop insurance, also known as AgriInvest, is meant to be actuarially sound. While there’s a large surplus now, a major crop failure could easily wipe it out and more.

“When we add $150 million to our bank account (surplus) that’s the part that contributes to some lower premiums,” Van Deynze added.

Despite there being bumper crops across most of Manitoba in 2017, risk area 16 around The Pas was an exception. Wet soils saw only about 5,000 of a possible 50,000 acres get seeded.

And much of what was seeded turned out poorly.

While there were only 356 Excess Moisture Insurance (EMI) claims on 159,700 acres in 2017, most of them came from The Pas area.

Hail claims were down significantly too — just 1,860 resulting in $16 million in payouts, Van Deynze said.

As a result, MASC added $5.6 million to its hail reserve fund, which is separate from the general crop insurance reserve.

“Normally in a year we have something that doesn’t go well, like a reseed situation or an EMI situation, or a post-harvest situation,” he said. “In this particular year (2017) we really did not have any significant part of that. It was quite a good year overall. The yields were good. There wasn’t a lot of excess moisture.”

More than 8,400 Manitoba farms are enrolled in crop insurance, the Manitoba government said in a news release Jan. 16.

Manitoba has the highest level of crop insurance participation in Canada, covering more than 70 different crops on more than 90 per cent of the province’s annual crop acres.

Farmers can also insure forage yields and stand establishment.

Crop insurance premiums are shared 40 per cent by participating farmers and 36 and 24 per cent, by the federal and Manitoba governments, respectively Administration costs are covered by the two governments — 60 per cent by Canada and 40 per cent by Manitoba. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

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metaphorical bombshell exploded t h i s we e k ove r t h e c o r n e r o f Portage and Main, the historic heart of Canada’s grain trade.

Richardson International, Winnipeg’s largest homegrown grain trader, is pulling its financial support out of the Canola Council of Canada, Soy Canada and the Flax Council of Canada (see Allan Dawson’s story on the front page).

Gord Gilmour As a result, the flax council has already Editor announced it will be shuttering its Winnipeg office, a move that also affects the Manitoba Flax Growers’ Association, which had shared the spot. Both groups say they’ll survive, but admit the funding hit will have an effect.

Soy Canada says the impact will be minimal. In no small part that’s due to its funding formula. Annual membership fees paid by industry members — such as seed companies, crushers and exporters — are based on sales or volume and are capped at a maximum of $25,000.

The biggest loser under this scenario is surely the Canola Council of Canada, which received the lion’s share of the $1 million that Richardson says it shelled out annually.

Richardson executives told media they weren’t convinced the company was getting value for money. In particular, they noted they’ve been encouraging the oilseed groups to merge together to get more bang for their buck.

The groups in question were apparently reluctant. The smaller ones worried they’d be lost in the shuffle and the far-larger canola council was said to be concerned that its efforts would be diluted.

Here Richardson may have a point. After all, provincial farm groups are having this very discussion amongst themselves, with the stated goal of bringing the concept of a merger to memberships for a vote. It’s never a bad idea to look for a better way.

It would appear, however, Richardson has concerns going well beyond capturing a few more efficiencies. It seems it is also pushing for a change to the mandate of the organizations.

Richardson is a privately held company. It is completely within its rights to spend (or not spend) its money.

But for a grain company whose very existence and profitability hinges on volume of grain handled, it’s a strange choice to ignore the canola council’s exemplary record of growing and maintaining volume through agronomy.

It appears that Richardson sees the canola council’s efforts as redundant.

It’s true that the industry has its own complement of agronomists, but there is a nuance between the roles of sales agronomists and independent extension advisers that should not be ignored — at least not by farmers.

It also doesn’t recognize that the canola industry has some looming agronomic challenges, particularly clubroot. It was a Canola Council of Canada agronomist who first identified the disease in Alberta and the organization leads the charge against it.

Richardson also appears to object to the canola council’s market development work, noting global canola production is now measured in tens of millions of tonnes annually. The company appears to feel there’s no need to sing the crop’s praises, and where there is, the private trade is doing a fine job.

That assumes the status quo will continue, however. Canola is still a relatively small crop. Global annual soybean tonnage alone is four times as large as canola production. The global oilseed market is a crowded place with many contenders and a lot of sharp elbows.

Canola has long made hay on its reputation as a healthy food ingredient. But the continuation of that can’t be assumed. In early December, Temple University suggested canola oil could be linked to poor memory and reduced learning ability in Alzheimer’s patients.

There will undoubtedly be more research in this area, which will either prove these findings or deposit them in the junk science box. There’s no question canola has its enemies. A quick Google search of the internet containing the terms “canola, “oil,” and “harmful” returned nearly 400,000 hits in 0.57 second.

That’s not to say science won’t evolve and not always in the way an established industry desires. Note how research changed our understanding of the effects of trans fats created when vegetable fats are hydrogenated on human health, with repercussions that ripple throughout the food industry.

In the meantime, it is important to have an industry voice that can offer a reasoned response to public concerns.

Beyond that, the industry needs leadership that will chart a course for the future, both in meeting emerging market demands and supporting research.

The Canola Council of Canada takes a value-chain approach to commodity development. It has continued to evolve over the 50-plus years it has been in existence.

Richardson’s withdrawal is a blow but the council is in no imminent danger of demise. Farm groups and other industry players have stated they’ll continue to support it.

Richardson should too, for its own sake. gord.gilmour@fbcpublishing.com

Funds began 2018 with bleakest-ever take

BY KAREN BRAUN Reuters

The Chicago grains market rang in 2018 on a less than festive note.

Speculators have never opened a year with a more bearish attitude as potential weather threats to crops worldwide are no match for the overflowing stockpiles.

It is uncommon for commodity funds to be so negative toward grain and oilseed futures at this time of year given that the South American corn and soybean crops are still young and winter wheat crops across the Northern Hemisphere can be battling some of the coldest weather of the season.

The market’s recent pessimistic take on soybeans is of particular note, especially considering the extreme concern over the dry outlook for Argentina’s growing season crop just one month ago.

The general lack of concern for Argentina’s soybean crop is also reflected by the funds’ selling trend in CBOT soybean meal futures and options, as the South American country leads world trade in the soybean products.

Activity in the soybean oil arena was muted over the holiday period as money managers slightly shaved their net long position.

Soybean futures found some support early in the year amid re-emerging Argentine weather worries. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange said late Jan. 4 that 2.25 million soy hectares were yet to be sown in the country’s top producing province due to drought.

Over the last three sessions, trade sources suggest that commodity funds have been outright buyers of soybean meal and net buyers of soybeans and soyoil.

Money managers continued their recent

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buying trend in both CBOT corn and wheat futures and options, but they still hold the most bearish-ever stance toward both grains for the time of year. Plentiful global supplies remain in control of the market.

Cold weather has been the short-term focus of the wheat market, and encouraged the largest round of fund buying in Chicago wheat futures and options since July.

Money managers chopped their net short position in CBOT futures and options in the week ended Jan. 2 to 128,178 contracts from 145,735 in the previous week.

The new stance toward soft red winter wheat is specs’ largest ever to open a year, but front-month wheat futures recorded a yearly rise of nearly five per cent in 2017, snapping a four-year slide tied to ample inventories worldwide.

Despite a 3.5 per cent rise in K.C. wheat futures over the period – also linked to the chilly weather – funds did not substantially cut their bearish bets.

Through Jan. 2, the managed money net short in K.C. wheat futures and options was reduced to 28,961 contracts from 34,422 in the week prior, but the new stance is still the most pessimistic for the time of year.

Funds maintained their slightly bullish attitude toward Minneapolis-traded wheat futures and options, selling just 29 futures and options contracts on the week for a new net stance of 1,822 contracts.

Commodity funds were likely net sellers of wheat futures toward Jan. 5, losing enthusiasm as the end to the recent U.S. cold snap came into view and disappointing wheat export sales data landed.

Karen Braun is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed here are her own.

January 1960

More than 100 Manitoba livestock producers had purchased this electric mix mill advertised in our January 7, 1960 issue. It could mix and grind up to four ingredients at a cost of 23 cents per ton.

Free trade, or the lack of it, was the main news item on the front page that week.

Manitoba Pool Elevators president W.J. Parker, on behalf of the three Prairie Pools and United Grain Growers, had written a letter to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker citing “grave concern” over Canadian duties and import tariffs placed on Japanese goods. Parker said Japan had become Canada’s second-largest market for wheat as well as an important customer for barley and oilseeds, and that it could become the largest wheat market “provided Canada pursues a trade policy designed to encourage the purchase by Japan of cereals from us.” Diefenbaker’s reply, printed in the next issue, noted that imports of Japanese textiles and other products had risen at such a rate as to cause serious injury to Canadian manufacturers.

There was better news on another trade matter — California and Montana had lifted an embargo on Canadian sheep imports following changes made to our scrapie control program.

Federal Agriculture Department entomologists had released a grasshopper forecast for Manitoba, estimating that 2,812 square miles would be infested compared to 5,441 in 1959. They also said that for the first time it had been found that six-spotted leafhoppers could overwinter in the province.

The department’s cereal rust specialist in Winnipeg said that while Selkirk wheat was still as resistant to the devastating 15B rust strain as when it was introduced in 1955, it was not certain it would remain so indefinitely.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

Time to tax meat?

Many think so but they’re advocating for this measure from an ideologically driven perspective

BY SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS Dalhousie University

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he idea of having to pay a sin tax for environmentally detrimental foods seems to be gaining more support — but who gets to decide what’s a sin?

For some, eating meat is considered a sin, and therefore meat products should be taxed, like alcohol and tobacco. A new report published recently by a group called Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return Initiative (FAIRR) argues that a tax on meat is inevitable.

The meat industry, particularly cattle, has been facing relentless criticism over the last decade. Very rarely have we seen reports encouraging consumers to eat more meat.

For one thing, science-based findings connecting climate change and meat have been accumulating. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has reported that livestock account for about 14.5 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Other surveys have even suggested up to 18 per cent.

Greenhouse gas emissions produced by the cattle industry will only increase, as the middle class in both India and China are expanding, and as such, demand for animal protein is exploding.

And then there’s health. Two years ago, the World Health Organization linked meat consumption to cancer.

The report demonstrated that eating processed meat products increases the risk of developing cancer. Several meat-producing countries including Canada, the U.S. and Brazil ridiculed

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Higher rents hurt young beef producers The Pallister government announced by news release on December 13 that it was consulting on changes to how it awards Crown leases to beef producers. But look closer and you will see that the promise of consultation is empty. Starting January 1, new regulations have already come into effect which fundamentally reshape how beef producers rent agricultural Crown land.

For decades, beef producers rented

the report, as processed meats were added to the same category as asbestos. But several other governments, including China and some European countries, have actively discouraged their populations from consuming an unreasonable amount of meat.

The other major headwind the industry faces is related to the ethical treatment of animals. A number of people believe livestock production to be unethical and that the industrial production of meat should be outlawed, period. The ethics narrative around meat has been gaining traction.

Now, if you think the FAIRR initiative is some minor, under-resourced group desperately trying to seek attention, think again. It includes a portfolio of 57 investors with more than $2.3 trillion under management. This alliance clearly wants to influence the plant-based protein agenda, and have had their fair share of success in doing so. Already, agrifood giants like Tyson Foods and Cargill are looking at “beyond-meat” solutions. Demand-focused companies are seeing the writing on the wall.

Statistics show demand for meat in Canada is still stubbornly robust.

The average Canadian would typically consume about 87 kilos of meat products in one year, which is just slightly lower than the amount from five years ago. This year, beef consumption in our country reached 25.4 kilograms per capita, and some expect demand for the product to increase to 25.5 kilograms next year.

Surprising, perhaps, but beef prices have come down, making the product more attractive for the consumer

on a budget. Some significant variations amongst provinces should be noted, though. Alberta is by far the largest consumer of beef as the average adult Albertan male will eat 83 grams a day. That’s 53 per cent more than the average in Newfoundland, and 18 per cent more than in neighbouring British Columbia.

Crown land based on a point system that prioritized access for young farmers. The system worked to cut out speculators trying to snatch up land and ensured that only Manitobans actively working and doing the majority of the work could get a lease. This made a lot of sense, and it worked. Our young producers could expand their operations on land that was close to them, and they were given a fair price based on an evaluation of similar private rents.

The Pallister government’s Agricultural Crown Land Leases and Permits Regulation changes all of this. Protections against land speculation have been removed, such as the requirement that the renter do the majority of the work and that the renter actually has immediate need for the land.

Instead, the new regulations set up a new tendering system where the only thing that matters is the highest bid. This means that young producers can now be outbid on land right next door to them. Worse yet, these bids will now set the market price for everyone else. Starting Jan. 1, 2020, rental prices for our beef producers will be set by land speculators in a new land lease market exchange. The result of this new system is almost certainly a rapid rise in the lease price of land for

all beef producers. Large landowners and out-of-province corporations will quickly bid up the price.

The minister of agriculture says he will be doing “industry consultation” in the coming days. But he should have done wide consultation across the province before he passed new regulations. The minister also says that his approach has to be taken to satisfy trade arrangements. But our neighbour Saskatchewan continues to use a point system to award land leases to beef producers.

It doesn’t have to be this way. The minister can take the right step by revoking his regulations and openly consulting with beef producers all across this province. It’s the least he can do for our young producers.

“Taxing a food product (meat) which has been entrenched in our culture for so long is idealistically silly.”

Canadian consumers have stayed on the side of our livestock industry, but numbers are showing signs of a change in consumer habits.

Demand for pork is expected to fall to unprecedented levels in 2018, dropping 13 per cent from its 2015 level. Demand for chicken, one of the cheapest types of animal protein out there, plateaued in 2016 and has since softened. Although beef could experience a rebound in 2018, expected increases aren’t spectacular, given how low retail prices are these days. Canadians are not giving up on meats, but they are willing to spend more time away from the meat counter.

But little can be accomplished by taxing meat. Taxing food in gen-

Ron Kostyshyn Former NDP minister of agriculture

Rolling along The article in your Jan. 11 issue, titled “Can agriculture fix its troubled relationship with climate?” includes statements that the world’s food production and distribution system is off the rails and that hunger is on the rise.

eral, any food product, is morally questionable. A retail tax on food is regressive and can potentially penalize the underprivileged. Some have argued that meat is the new tobacco.

This sensationalism-intended parallel is unwise, since tobacco is not essential to life and food is.

The implementation of such a tax would also be challenging. If federal or provincial governments were to tax meat, funds would likely be used to support other relevant public programs. But as with any tax, transparency on how funds are dispersed within the massive, bureaucratic governmental machinery is weak.

Also, many great small businesses around the country have offered high-quality meat products to local markets. Many of them are family businesses.

Meat has played a significant part in consumers’ lives in the western world for centuries. Penalizing consumers for continuing a culinary tradition is inexplicable. Taxing a food product which has been entrenched in our culture for so long is idealistically silly.

We should let the market evolve and allow consumers to make their own choices. That said, the livestock industry ought to look at market data and start listening to consumers in order to better appreciate their concerns.

As one of the most trusted groups in our economy, livestock producers are ideally positioned to renew their social contract with the public.

Sylvain Charlebois, is professor in food distribution and policy and dean of the faculty of management at Dalhousie University.

The following facts, readily verifiable online through the World Bank and UN Food and Agriculture Organization websites, may help some readers adopt a more optimistic outlook.

There were an estimated 5.3 billion people in the world in 1990 of which 4.29 billion (81 per cent) were adequately nourished and 1.01 billion (19 per cent) were undernourished. By 2016 there were 7.4 billion people in the world of which 6.585 billion (89 per cent) were adequately nourished and .815 billion (11 per cent) were undernourished.

So “off the rails” agriculture managed to provide adequate nourishment for an additional 2.295 billion people in 26 years including reducing the absolute number of malnourished people by 195 million. To put that figure of 2.295 billion people in perspective consider that the world population in 1940 was 2.3 billion.

Canadian farmers ought to be proud of their contribution to this awesome achievement.

Oh, and annual emissions of CO2 increased by about 60 per cent worldwide from 1990 to 2016.

Brian Ransom Woodlands, Man.

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pany behind Richardson, had planned to leave too.

The 51-year-old council, a paragon of value chain consensus, is credited with making canola Canada’s highest gross revenue crop. Losing Canada’s two biggest grain companies would’ve been a major financial and psychological blow to the council.

“I think our biggest concern is if other grain companies, such as Viterra, also leave then that really Sources say Viterra didn’t reweakens the idea of a full valueadded chain being represented new its membership in the flax at the council table,” Manitoba council and it won’t renew its Soy Canola Growers Association’s Canada membership when it expresident Chuck Fossay said Jan. pires March 31.

Richardson, Canada’s biggest 18, in response to Richardson’s grain company, didn’t renew its decision. (See sidebar.)

After months of working with membership in the canola and Richardson, to push for efficien- flax councils and won’t renew its cies, including merging the cano- membership with Soy Canada la council, Flax Council of Canada either, Jean-Marc Ruest, Richand Soy Canada into a single oil- ardson’s senior vice-president seed organization, Viterra opted of corporate affairs and general to stay with the canola council, counsel, confirmed in an interbut with a lower membership fee. view Jan. 17.

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“We had provided notice to the three organizations — well over a year ago — that our funding commit ments would end at the end of 2017.”

Jean-Marc Ruest

whether it had planned to withdraw from the canola council Dec. 31.

Flax council president Brian Johnson said in an interview Jan. 17 he wasn’t sure yet whether Viterra was withdrawing or not.

Soy Canada executive director Ron Davidson said Jan. 18 both Viterra and Richardson remain members until at least March 31.

“I am trying to look at all this now and see what we can propose back,” he said, noting he has only been on the job for 2-1/2 months. “We will be continuing to try and reach out.”

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Jan. 18 if Viterra was planning to leave the canola council, council president Jim Everson replied: “Not that I am aware.”

Asked about Viterra’s membership status and a fee cut, the council replied in an email: “Viterra is a member and funder of the CCC. We do not, as a matter of policy, provide individual organization’s financial commitments to CCC.” In 2017 canola council’s members paid a levy of 23 cents per tonne on canola sold by farmers, exported by grain companies or crushed by processors, the email said.

According to one source, the council plans to cut the levy to 15 cents a tonne.

Richardson’s decision to leave the canola, flax and soybean groups, was not made suddenly, or in a fit of anger, Ruest said.

“We had provided notice to the three organizations — well over a year ago — that our funding commitments would end at the end of 2017,” he said.

Creating a single oilseed council is just a starting point, he stressed.

“We’re looking for a way of getting better value for the dollars that we’re spending in these industry associations,” he said. “We spend well over a million dollars a year funding these three organizations.”

Richardson continues its membership in a number of other industry associations, including Cereals Canada, the Canada Grains Council, the Western Grain Elevator Association and Canadian Oilseed Processors Association, Ruest said.

Richardson also helps fund the Canadian International Grains Institute.

It’s not just the money, but the staff time it also takes when a member of different groups, he added.

Richardson questions how much the canola council spends on market develop — something Richardson is prepared to do itself as an exporter, Ruest said.

It also wonders about the council’s funding model. As a major canola exporter and processor, Richardson contributes a lot of money to the council, but

gets the same benefit as those who pay less, Ruest said.

“So we either get different services, or different governance rights, otherwise if everything’s equal then the cost of membership should all be equal,” he said.

Richardson also questions the council’s agronomic research and extension because companies, such as Richardson, do the same.

“At some point you have to hit the pause button and look at it and say, ‘is that really required and if so to what extent?’”

The council has 38 employees.

In 2016 it received almost $8.3 million from its core funders — exporters, crushers, farmers and life science firms — its financial report says.

In contrast Cereals Canada coordinates the wheat sector with just six employees. It’s 2017 revenue collected from its members who are similar to those in the council, was just over $1 million.

Canadian canola and wheat plantings are close, averaging 20.3 million and 22.6 million acres, respectively, over the last four years, according to Statistics Canada.

Canola and wheat production averaged 18.9 million and 29.7 million tonnes, respectively.

Wheat is a much more diverse crop with many more end uses, classes and grades than canola, Ruest said.

Milling wheat is more complex than crushing canola, he added.

The canola council is not endangered by Richardson’s withdrawal, Everson said.

“We have a very solid value chain, a very solid budget and work plan and we’re very confident about where we’re going,” he said.

He agrees with Ruest about meeting members’ needs.

“I think we’re having a very good discussion within the value chain about those directions and those influences and will continue to do so,” Everson said. “Richardson is an important voice in our industry, but we have a value chain organization.

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Merged oilseed council proposal needs more study, MCGA prez says Soy Canada and the canola council rejected the idea

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huck Fossay knew Richardson International was threatening to leave the Canola Council of Canada, but he never expected it to happen.

“I was actually surprised it pulled the plug,” the president of the Manitoba Canola Growers Association said in an interview Jan. 18. “We knew that Richardson had concerns.

We’ve known that probably for five to six months — maybe a bit longer.

But then the concerns started to get serious.”

One of the sticking points was Richardson’s call to merge canola, flax and soybean into a single council.

“It’s probably something that would need to be looked at in a lot more detail,” Fossay said. “There are issues beyond ‘we’re going to save money.’ To some degree it’s a little bit like the five commodity groups that want to merge.

Some people say it sounds really good, but what is going to happen in three, four or five years?”

Canola and soybeans compete for similar oil and meal markets and there could often be conflict, he said.

Is the council a victim of its own success boosting canola production and exports?

There might be something to that, Fossay said. Acreage and production has risen rapidly and so too has the council’s revenues. It might be time to reassess priorities, he said.

But the council already does that, council present Jim Everson said.

The canola council has done a lot right, Fossay added.

“It dealt with the dockage issue in China a few years ago,” he said, referring to China’s push to reduce canola dockage to one per cent. “Who would’ve been there fighting to retain the two per cent dockage standard if the canola council wasn’t around?

Who would have paid for it if the companies had agreed to reduce their dockage to one per cent?”

Farmers would’ve paid, he said.

The council, with the backing of the provincial canola growers’ association and the other members will survive, Fossay said.

“It may not look the same. It may have some different priorities, but I think it’s still going to

be around for several more years to help farmers in both producing the canola and marketing the canola.”

The flax council supports a single oilseed council, president Brian Johnson said in an interview Jan. 17.

Soy Canada and the canola council don’t, Soy Canada executive director Ron Davidson said in a Jan. 18 interview.

“My perception is all the organizations had a similar position,” he said. “Yes, we will continue to work together where that makes sense, but all of them didn’t think that one amalgamated organization would be the best outcome.”

Soy Canada, with just four staff and a $25,000 cap on company memberships, is already efficient, he said.

It also sees a lot of future

growth. Canadian soybean production has doubled in the last 10 years and Davidson expects it to double again in the next 10 years.

Richardson has not renewed its flax council membership and says it will not renew its Soy Canada membership when it expires March 31.

Sources say Viterra is doing the same. Viterra had not commented.

Since membership fees are capped there’s less negative impact when a member leaves Soy Canada, he said.

“This is not something that’s desirable or easy,” he added.

“Frankly we want to go back and explore this a bit more. We will look at other options and what their concerns are.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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ing sure that what we do as an association is tracking with what the industry’s needs are.”

The council’s success in uniting the canola industry is a Canadian comparative advantage, he said Markets change and vary with the product and country. Canola doesn’t need as much promotion in the United States as it does in a newer market such as Vietnam, Everson said in defence of market development.

The council’s agronomy efforts help grain company agronomists, he added.

“We have a very solid value chain, a very solid budget and work plan and we’re very confident about where we’re going.”

Jim Everson

It’s also strongly supported by farmers, the Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta canola associations, said in a news release.

“That certainly is the message we have got over the years... ” Fossay said.

“It’s important to have thirdparty, impartial research.”

Ruest said the council could transfer agronomy to the provincial canola grower associations.

Richardson holds no animosity towards the canola council, Ruest said.

“We’re disappointed we got to this result, but that doesn’t make us hostile to the canola council,” he said. “We support the canola council. We’ll probably have initiatives where we can work with it. We may be able to come back to the fold at some point in time.

But that’s a decision for them to make. We don’t want to drag people along with us who are reluctant or don’t want to participate.

That doesn’t help anything either.

It’s OK to have disagreement and different viewpoints on what’s important and what’s not.”

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JBS to shed U.S. feedlot chain

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he remaining feedlots in meat-packing giant JBS’s Five Rivers Cattle Feeding business, the world’s biggest cattle feeding operation, have found a buyer.

JBS on Jan. 17 announced a deal to sell the U.S.-based assets of Five Rivers to affiliates of New York-based Pinnacle Asset Management for about US$200 million.

The deal gives Pinnacle 11 feedlots in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, with feeding capacity for more than 900,000 head of cattle.

It also includes a long-term agreement to supply cattle to JBS USA’s 10 North American beef-packing plants, which include its Canadian plant at Brooks, Alta.

The sale to Pinnacle follows JBS’s deal last summer to sell its Five Rivers feedlot operations at Brooks to MCF Holdings, an arm of the feedlot’s previous owner, livestock trading firm Nilsson Bros., as part of JBS’s divestment program.

T h e c u r re n t Fi v e R i v e r s management team will remain in place, led by CEO Mike Thoren, Pinnacle said in a release.

Pinnacle, which focuses on commodities-based investments, plans to run the Five

Rivers business in an operating partnership with Oklahoma City-based cattle feeding firm Arcadia Asset Management, founded by Fed Cattle Exchange co-founder Jordan Levi.

Another commodities investment firm, Ospraie Management, will serve as a “strategic par tner” with Pinnacle.

The deal, JBS said, still requires the “usual regulatory approvals and adjustments” and Pinnacle securing the required funding. JBS said it plans to use part of the proceeds to continue to pay down debt in Brazil.

“The transaction concludes the divestment program previously announced and unanimously approved by the JBS S.A. board of directors, and more favourably positions the company for future opportunities,” JBS USA CEO Andre Nogueira said in Pinnacle’s release.

JBS’s divestment plan began last June after it became tangled in a corruption scandal which raised concerns about the Brazilian meat-packing giant’s financing costs.

JBS had owned Five Rivers since 2008, buying what was then a joint venture between Smithfield Foods and Continental Grain Co. Five Rivers’ businesses date back to the late 1920s, when cattle feeding pioneer Warren Monfort began operating at Greeley, Colorado.

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and courting customers for his purebred Angus and Simmental genetics. Mar Mac farms was one of 23 farms and 30 overall exhibitors to take part in the bull conference this year.

McRae’s turn on stage also nodded to the role of the young f a r m e r. Hi s p re s e n t a t i o n , “Grooming Future Leaders for the Beef Industry,” ran down the organizations and events like the Young Cattlemen’s Council and Cattlemen’s Young Leaders program that have helped him on his way.

Breaking into the industry now is different than it was for past generations, McRae admitted.

“It’s definitely a different economic climate than it was when many of these established producers got started,” he said.

Like many young producers, McRae is building on an existing family farm. He knows others, however, who are the first generation to take up agriculture.

“Each of those friends are very different production models on how they get up and going,” he said. “I think right now there’s a lot of opportunity in agriculture, but there’s also lots and lots of pitfalls a young farmer can run into.

“We go through the same things that any starting business is going through,” he added.

“Cash flow is crucial in our operations.”

Capital, such as land price and equipment, throws another obstacle in the way and might be one of the greatest challenges for first-generation farms.

Ag Days gives back Half of the show’s 50/50 proceeds will once again go back to the community. Besides scholarships, the Ag Days committee offers funds in four categories from community infrastructure and emergency services to protecting agriculture and heritage and promoting education.

“One unique thing about Ag Days is we are free admission, free parking, you don’t have to register and the seminars are free to attend.”

Kristin Phillips

“It’s going to enable us to launch The Real Dirt on Farming for the province and anyone who’s involved in the agriculture industry and being able to talk to consumers knowledgeably,” MAAS president Donna Sagin said.

The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) also received $5,000. The Farm Safety Feature returned to the show this year with CASA’s BeGrainSafe program as the centrepiece. The program now has its own mobile grain entrapment demo trailer after borrowing a similar unit last year.

“Manitoba Ag Days helped us last year with the build of the trailer, and then this year we’re going to be delivering firefighter and rescue training,” CASA development specialist Liz EllisClark said.

BeGrainSafe ran rescue demonstrations throughout the show.

Brett McRae, a local purebred cattle operator, poses alongside one of his animals at the 2018 bull conference section of the show. Photos: Alexis Stockford

Other draws

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Three of four recipients were explicitly agriculture related.

Agriculture in the Classroom scooped up $8,000 to the Grade 7/8 Ag Adventure Program which educates students on Canadian and global agriculture before touring the show, while the Manitoba Association of Agricultural Societies (MAAS) received $5,000.

This year’s New Product and In ve n t o r’s Sh owc a s e b o t h had a full docket of products.

Seventeen products got their launch, with variable-rate services SWAT MAPS and SWATBOX from CropPro Consulting earning Ag Days’s best new product of 2018. Soaring Eagle Grain Equipment came out on top of 14 inventions with its swinging drive over, followed by a convertible belt conveyor system

Malachi Dyck of Stonewall gets a helping hand out of the cab at the large machinery booths during Ag Days 2018 in Brandon.

Wes Martens (right) of Killarney takes the next generation into the combine cab at Ag Days 2018 in Brandon Jan. 16-18.

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Outside the bull congress and trade show, already a draw both in and out of Manitoba, the show lined up 63 speakers and seminars. Manitoba Canola Growers, Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers, Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives and Manitoba Beef Producers all filled a slate over the three days.

Agronomy, maximizing yield, pathology, farm management practices, sustainability, organic production, market updates and trade forecasts were key presentations.

Tuesday took a solemn turn as speakers looked to rip back the curtain on mental health in ag.

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the word ‘agriculture,’ it’s those two parts of the word, agri and culture, and culture’s made up of people and when the people are struggling, so does the industry.”

Marsha Harris of Brandon University and fellow speakers Lesley Rae Kelly and Kim Keller praised Ag Days for adding mental health onto the schedule.

Canada’s largest indoor agriculture trade show largely dodged the wintery weather it has been known for. It was the latest in a string of mild shows, Phillips said, although the days leading up to Ag Days stayed frigid.

“Actually, the last three years have been milder Ag Days,” she said. “Move in has been brutally cold, so the exhibitors move in, in this extreme cold weather, and then it warms up for the shows.”

Dates have already been set for Ag Days 2019. The show will return to Brandon’s Keystone Centre Jan. 22-24 next year. astockford@farmmedia.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

(Friday to Thursday) Winnipeg Slaughter Cattle Steers — Heifers — D1, 2 Cows 80.00 - 88.00 D3 Cows 68.00 - 76.00 Bulls 88.00 - 96.00 Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.) $ 145.00 - 178.00 (801-900 lbs.)

165.00 - 184.00 (701-800 lbs.)

170.00 - 190.00 (601-700 lbs.)

185.00 - 212.00 (501-600 lbs.)

190.00 - 220.00 (401-500 lbs.)

200.00 - 227.00 Heifers (901+ lbs.)

140.00 - 155.00 (801-900 lbs.)

145.00 - 163.00 (701-800 lbs.)

150.00 - 168.00 (601-700 lbs.)

155.00 - 175.00 (501-600 lbs.)

160.00 - 188.00 (401-500 lbs.)

165.00 - 205.00

Heifers

Alberta South $ 164.00 - 164.00 160.75 - 160.75 87.00 - 100.00 77.00 - 91.00 100.33 - 100.33 $ 175.00 - 186.00 177.00 - 188.00 182.00 - 193.00 193.00 - 211.00 212.00 - 236.00 229.00 - 257.00 $ 159.00 - 170.00 164.00 - 175.00 168.00 - 181.00 175.00 - 190.00 183.00 - 204.00 190.00 - 214.00

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

(850+ lbs.)

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

Futures (January 19, 2018) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change February 2018 121.95 4.88 April 2018 123.48 4.60 June 2018 115.35 4.35 August 2018 112.60 4.02 October 2018 113.35 3.22 December 2018 115.28 3.25

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

Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

January 19, 2018

Previous Year­ 46,480 10,398 36,082 NA 609,000

CNSC Ontario 117.62 - 145.54 113.20 - 145.84 51.51 - 70.59 51.51 - 70.59 76.82 - 92.70 $ 162.90 - 196.58 171.42 - 200.78 146.67 - 198.75 153.72 - 220.18 170.98 - 237.51 165.69 - 229.56 $ 137.85 - 163.30 139.12 - 167.49 133.70 - 175.18 142.13 - 179.59 137.49 - 182.07 145.03 - 188.84 $

Close 149.18 147.18 147.38 146.95 149.43 149.00

Change 5.35 5.80 5.53 5.02 4.40 4.00

Previous Year 854 21,979 11,753 513 703 9,319 237

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.)

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

Futures (January 19, 2018) in U.S. Hogs February 2018 April 2018 May 2018 June 2018 July 2018

Source: Manitoba Agriculture Current Week 179E 166E 163.55 163.89

Last Week 170.55 158.55 152.04 151.22

Close 73.05 75.90 80.13 85.00 85.30

Last Year (Index 100) 169.69 159.10 157.74 156.15

Change 2.08 2.08 1.43 1.33 1.83

Other Market Prices Sheep and Lambs $/cwt Ewes Lambs

Choice (110+ lb.)

(95 - 109 lb.)

(80 - 94 lb.)

(Under 80 lb.)

(New crop)

Winnipeg (100 Hd) Wooled Fats — — — — — —

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 139.80 - 179.80 192.55 - 218.86 216.92 - 241.39 224.81 - 261.83 254.66 - 323.92 —

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) — — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 103.85 - 324.12 — 109.78 - 277.34

Horses <1,000 lbs.

1,000 lbs.+

“I doubt the guys in Saskatchewan and Alberta are going to gamble trying to find more feed to hang on to calves.”

DAVE SIMS

Week Ending Jan 13, 2018 1,248 30,137 13,562 516 580 10,303 291

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Cattle prices decline on lack of buyer interest A wall of heavier-weighted cattle is expected come summer

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending Jan 13, 2018 57,649 12,735 44,914 NA 611,000

$1 Cdn: $0.8026 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.2459 Cdn.

column

Cattle Prices

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

EXCHANGES: January 19, 2018

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 18.87 - 40.00 34.00 - 90.00

P

rices for cattle in Manitoba appear to have carved out a bottom, as lukewarm buying interest and a late slide in U.S. futures pointed the way lower.

Around 6,300 animals made their way to market during the week ended Jan. 19, up from roughly 3,300 the week before.

Prices were mostly similar to last week’s showing, with one of the exceptions being heavier-weight heifers, which showed continued weakness.

However, one market watcher said we may have seen the worst of the slump for now.

“It doesn’t look like we’re dropping any more than we already have dropped,” said Allan Munroe of Killarney Auction Mart.

According to Munroe, there is worry in the trade about all the heavier-weighted animals that appear headed to the summer market.

“Everyone is worried about those late-summer fats,” he explained. “That’s why we’re seeing a slide in the 700- to 900-lb. steers.”

A lot of ranchers want to get rid of their 700to 900-lb. feeders before they hit a wall of heavier-weighted cattle in July or August, he added.

That expected glut of animals could also place challenges on feedlot operators to get them ready in time, he said.

Carcass weights are also on the increase — another factor impacting the market.

Despite the bearish scenario, Munroe said, there are still some producers who plan to hang in there.

“We will see some guys dig their heels in and hold off marketing. But most people will sell within a three- to four-week period,” he said.

allan munroe Killarney Auction Mart

This year’s calf crop is up roughly eight per cent, he noted, and a “big chunk of them” are also going to hit the market in the summer.

“For guys who bought them last fall, it’s going to be ugly,” he said.

Interest from the U.S. is low right now, with just the odd buyer coming to cattle sales.

However, he said, orders are coming in from Ontario, which should help ranchers clear out pen space.

When it comes to feed, Munroe said most producers are getting by with what they have and he doesn’t see any shortages looming.

The situation may not be quite as rosy across the border in Saskatchewan which could eventually see more cattle released onto the market.

“I doubt the guys in Saskatchewan and Alberta are going to gamble trying to find more feed to hang on to calves,” he noted.

Futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange had been rising for much of the week before losing steam Friday. Packers and feedlots were facing off again over prices. A lack of physical cattle trade took much of the cash transactions out of the market.

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

briefs

Hogs hit high gear in U.S. Reuters / Farmers in Iowa, where a third of U.S. hogs are raised, have ratcheted up swine barn construction while capitalizing on low-cost feed and thriving U.S. pork exports.

Higher profits have prompted pork producers to build new packing plants.

Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) data shows that this has pushed permits for pig buildings in Iowa to a five-year high as farmers look to house record numbers of U.S. hogs.

“The main factors for increased pork investment in buildings are attractive feed costs and very strong exports,” said Gregg Hora, a hog farmer in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Hora is not adding space to his swine farms, but said others are doing so given the

annual U.S. hog herd growth of three to four per cent, tied to robust global demand for pork.

D N R’s 2 0 1 7 s t a t i s t i c s showed approvals for construction of new hog barns capable of holding more than 1,250 head, and expansions of existing ones, totalled 451, up nearly 12 per cent from 2016.

The U.S. hog herd reached an all-time high 73.2 million head as of Dec. 1, 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

U.S. corn prices are hovering around US$3.50 per bushel, well under the all-time high exceeding US$8 in 2012, when there was a historic drought in the U.S. Midwest.

U.S. Meat Export Federation d a t a s h owe d U . S . p o rk exports from January through November of 2017 were on pace for a new volume record at 2.23 million tonnes valued at US$5.9 billion.

Hog farmer profit improved

after new packing plants sprang up in the United States last year.

Industry slaughter capacity in 2017 grew eight per cent versus 2016 after new or revamped facilities came online in Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri and Iowa, said John Nalivka, president of Oregonbased Sterling Marketing.

He expects capacity to rise another six per cent in 2018 when another Iowa plant comes online.

“A solid hog market coupled with low-cost feed have allowed producers to make money while chasing this capacity,” he said.

He calculated that farmers last year on average made about US$21 per head on hogs sold to packers versus US$5 the year before.

Shoppers are embracing plentiful budget-friendly pork chops and bacon, with robust demand expected this year thanks to the booming U.S. economy.

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

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

GRAIN MARKETS column

Manitoba Elevator Prices Average quotes as of January 22, 2018 ($/tonne)

Bearish factors outweigh bullish news in canola

Future

Basis

E. Manitoba wheat

223.59

19.00

242.58

W. Manitoba wheat

223.59

2.77

226.36

E. Manitoba canola

496.00

-13.48

482.52

W. Manitoba canola

496.00

-23.21

Reduced promotional funding may weigh on canola in future Phil Franz-Warkentin

Cash

472.79 Source: pdqinfo.ca

Port Prices

CNSC

As of Friday, January 19, 2018 ($/tonne) Last Week

C

anola futures hit some of their lowest and highest levels of the past month during the week ended Jan. 19, with the end result being a continuation of a rather choppy and sideways pattern.

Canola finished the week on a high note, but there’s more bearish news than bullish in the background for now. Large net fund short positions, relatively soft crush margins, and ample old-crop supplies should all keep a lid on any potential rallies barring an outside catalyst.

While the jury is still out on the veracity of Statistics Canada’s record-large 201718 canola crop estimate, the large official number has brought some complacency into the market, with little concern from endusers over running out of stocks before next year’s crop is available.

While that 2018 crop is still a long ways off from even being seeded, the early money is on an increase in canola acres in Western Canada. While prices may not be all that great, the lost pulse acres will go somewhere and canola should still deliver decent returns.

In the meantime, while the futures market is looking sluggish, basis opportunities should pop up from time to time.

News that Richardson International would no longer be providing funding to the Canola Council of Canada did little from a marketing standpoint, but could create some ripples down the road. The company contributed an estimated $1 million to the council on an annual basis, with that loss likely cutting into some of the research and promotional efforts of the organization.

The question now is whether or not Richardson’s move will have a domino effect on other commercial players. Ultimately, a shift to an amalgamation of individual commodity groups is likely, but what will actually take place remains to be seen.

In the U.S., soybeans spent the week seeing some follow-through buying interest after jumping higher in response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest supply/ demand estimates, released Jan. 12.

Weekly Change

U.S. hard red winter 12% Houston

221.38

2.29

U.S. spring wheat 14% Portland

269.51

-1.55

Canola Thunder Bay

506.00

-2.20

Canola Vancouver

522.00

-2.20

Closing Futures Prices

As of Thursday, January 18, 2018 ($/tonne)

ICE canola

For three-times-daily market

Last Week

Weekly Change

496.00

3.90

ICE milling wheat

n/a

n/a

ICE barley

n/a

n/a

reports and more from

Mpls. HRS wheat

223.59

-6.71

Commodity News Service Canada,

Chicago SRW wheat

155.34

-2.94

visit the Markets section at

Kansas City HRW wheat

157.08

-3.67

Corn

138.77

0.49

www.manitobacooperator.ca.

Oats

167.29

6.16

Soybeans

359.08

5.79

Soymeal

365.42

15.10

711.77

-30.21

Soyoil

Shifting weather forecasts out of Argentina that heightened concerns over hot and dry conditions for soybeans in the country were also supportive, although the crops are a far cry from being written off and conditions are generally decent in Brazil where the harvest is just getting started.

Corn futures moved up as well, but remain stuck in a fairly sideways trading pattern.

Wheat spent the week clawing back some ground after dropping sharply following USDA’s larger-than-expected winter wheat acreage estimate. While above expectations, the acreage base would still be the smallest in more than 100 years.

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

Cash Prices Winnipeg As of Friday, January 19, 2018 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

Feed wheat

n/a

n/a

Feed barley

171.78

2.30

Rye

n/a

n/a

465.72

-0.79

n/a

n/a

Oats

188.69

5.19

Soybeans

368.17

5.14

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

17.60

0.00

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

Ask

Ask

Flaxseed Feed peas

Prairie wheat bids mixed along with U.S. futures Minneapolis March spring wheat futures declined 4.25 U.S. cents on the week

BY ASHLEY ROBINSON CNS Canada

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h e a t b i d s i n We s t e r n C a n a d a w e re m i x e d f o r t h e we e k e n d e d Ja n . 1 9 , f o l l ow i n g t h e l e a d o f U . S . m a rkets where wheat futures fell in Minneapolis and rose in Kansas and Chicago.

Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were mixed in Western Canada with some falling $1 and others increasing $1, according to price quotes from a cross-section of delivery points compiled by PDQ (Price and Data

Quotes). Average prices ranged from about $226 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 $25 per tonne above the futures when using the grain company methodology of quoting the basis as the difference between U.S. dollar-denominated futures and Canadian dollar cash bids.

When accounting for currency exchange rates by adjusting Canadian prices to U.S. dollars, CWRS bids ranged from US$181 to US$200 per tonne, down slightly on a U.S. dollar basis on the week. That would put the

currency adjusted basis levels at about US$24-$43 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 $30 to $53 below the futures.

Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheat bids were down by $1. Prices across the Prairies ranged from $174 per tonne in southwestern Saskatchewan to $194 per tonne in parts of Alberta.

Average durum prices were little changed, with a few rising slightly across Western Canada, and bids ranging from about $268 to $274 per tonne.

The March spring wheat contract in Minneapolis, off of which most

CWRS contracts Canada are based, was quoted Jan. 19 at US$6.085 per bushel, down 4.25 U.S. cents from the previous week.

Kansas City hard red winter wheat futures, traded in Chicago, are more closely linked to CPSR in Canada. The March K.C. wheat contract was quoted at US$4.275 per bushel on Jan. 19, up 1.25 U.S. cents compared to the previous week.

T h e Ma rc h C h i c a g o Bo a rd o f Trade soft wheat contract settled at US$4.2275 on Jan. 19, up 2.25 U.S. cents on the week.

The Canadian dollar settled Jan. 19 at 80.26 U.S. cents, up by over a quarter of a cent compared to the previous week.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

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

Making silage cost palatable for producers Silage becomes more palatable for producers if you look beyond simple cost per acre, Manitoba Agriculture’s Ray Bittner told the Ag Days audience Jan. 17

BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff

I

t’s time to add a little fermentation to your feed plan.

That’s the message Manitoba Agriculture’s Ray Bittner had for his Ag Days audience. The livestock specialist centred his talk around maximized silage value.

Silage is old hat for producers in the Interlake, but its expense, and the fact that it often requires a custom cut, makes it less popular to the south where land is less prone to moisture problems.

“It can fit in, really, any different type of situation all the way from cow-calf to backgrounding to finishing animals,” Bittner said.

Corn silage and barley silage are already known tools in finishing operations. Corn silage, in particular, is commonly cited by public and industry specialists and Manitoba Agriculture includes guidelines for both barley and corn silage finishing, along with hay.

“I think things like alfalfa silage for a cow-calf producer are a really good fit too, and the reason I say that is alfalfa silage provides the protein and calcium, real good amounts of it, and you can fill the rest of that diet on a gestating cow with straw or some really inexpensive feed just to fill the hole,” Bittner said.

Silage cost per acre is higher than hay, Bittner acknowledged, but better nutrition and calf health, fewer abortions due to moulds, easier calving, rebreeding and faster gains all make the expense worth it in his view.

In a test of 40,000 samples from 2007 to 2015, Manitoba Agriculture found that all types of silage outstripped dry hay in terms of digestible nutrients.

Cost concerns “One of the concerns that producers have is how much money do I have right now?

How much can I spend right now? An old round baler and a Haybine (mower-conditioner) is a pretty cheap way of making forage,” he said.

“Silage is always more expensive. It just is.”

The 2018 guide to estimating silage production costs, published by Manitoba Agriculture, estimates that it will cost $280.50 to produce an acre of barley silage this year, including

Ray Bittner of Manitoba Agriculture makes the case for silage during Ag Days 2018. Photo: Alexis Stockford

all labour, and $424.03 to produce an acre of corn silage. For alfalfa, it will cost the producer an estimated $327.80 an acre if the stand is new, and $244.80 an acre otherwise. Bittner pointed out that silage often involves custom labour the farmer must pay out.

Barley and alfalfa silage (first year) will cost a farmer $30.64 an acre in labour, a number that increases to $45.82 for corn silage and drops to $18.14 for alfalfa in subsequent years, according to 2018 cost-of-production estimates. Machinery lease and investment numbers are higher for silage over hay across the board.

In comparison, it will cost $290.14, including $30 of labour from the farmer, to produce an acre of new alfalfa and $298.95 an acre, with the same labour, for the first year of alfalfagrass mix. Those costs drop to $257.55 and $227.35, respectively, both with $24 of labour, in following years.

Manitoba Agriculture counts the extra labour and capital investment as one of silage’s main detractors.

“Also, silage has limited market potential, because trucking costs limit distance to market, it must be produced near the location where it will be fed,”

“It can fit in, really, any different type of situation all the way from cow-calf to backgrounding to finishing animals.”

Ray Bittner Manitoba Agriculture livestock specialist

the province’s 2018 production cost guidelines reads.

At the same time, the province says, silage does not need good haying weather for harvest. Without that limit, the feed can be harvested at optimal nutritive levels, rather than have a sudden wet spell orphan swaths in the field as relative feed value drops.

Producer’s view Kevin Duddridge, a cow-calf producer near Pansy, Man., says he has turned to silage for the past four winters and he has been “thrilled” with the result.

“With feeding bales, you get a tremendous amount of waste,” he said. “It’s very, very difficult to make good-quality dry hay, especially if you’re spreading manure or fertilizing your fields.

You get mould problems. You get moisture problems. You get heating problems and if you don’t have good-quality hay,

you compromise your feeding program for the whole winter.”

From mid-October to June, Duddridge feeds his herd a mix of grass or grass-alfalfa and chopped corn silage.

The two feeds are normally cut half and half. They are tested for nutritive value each fall and the mix is adjusted through the winter for temperature, dry matter needs and reproductive cycle.

“You target what you want to feed,” Duddridge said. “What level of protein, what level of energy do you want?”

The producer cuts the crop himself, but gets it custom chopped each year.

Making it work The expense may not be as extreme if farmers think of cost per nutrient, Bittner said.

Using current cost-of-production numbers, Bittner argued that hay is actu-

ally more expensive when expressed in pounds of TDN. Dry hay topped off at over 9.5 cents per pound, compared to alfalfa bale silage at under nine cents, alfalfa chopped silage at just over 8.5 cents and both corn and barley silage hovering between eight and 8.5 cents.

Protein in corn silage was costly. Corn chop silage was by far the most expensive of the five tested feeds at over 60 cents per pound of protein. Barley chop silage protein was also more expensive than dry hay, although both hovered between 40-50 cents. Alfalfa silage, both baled and chopped, had the least expensive protein.

Ration is part of the answer when it comes to silage’s higher cost, Bittner said, adding that quality alfalfa silage can be mixed half and half with straw.

Harvesting early will also be key to capturing the most return, he said. An early cut generally means higher silage quality, less waste, fewer mould counts, better digestible feed and opens the door for an extra cut.

Bittner added adopting silage will vary with each operation considering it, and isn’t an allor-nothing thing. astockford@farmmedia.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

Beef and forage highlights to hit Manitoba communities Producers will have a one-stop shop for beef commodity group and forage news next week as Beef Days starts its week-long tour

BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff

A

g D a y s i s ov e r, b u t M a n i t o b a’s Beef Producers will have its own round in the spotlight starting next week.

This year’s Beef and Forage Days will cover five stops from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2. The tour starts in the Interlake with Eriksdale before moving to Ste. Rose and Minitonas in the following days.

Holland will host the event Feb. 1, while Vita will close out the week.

“It’s a good opportunity to get out and, this time of year, a good chance to talk to producers and kind of give them an opportunity to network, give them an opportunity to hear some perspectives from different people,” Brian Lemon, Manitoba Beef Producers general manager, said.

Manitoba Beef Producers, Manitoba Agr iculture, the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association and Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives research farm are once again driving forces behind the week.

Event lineup will include updates from those groups, market information and seminars on improving pasture production.

“It’s really good because we’re looking into a lot of research — looking at, not only just forages, but cover crops and any type of plants growing in the soil to improve soil health and incorporating the animals into that rotation and hopefully improving our soil health in the future,” said Andrea Hamilton, Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association board member.

Hamilton expects fungi to come up in conversation during the week. The MFGA commonly argues that perennial forage gives a better environment for fungi, allowing soil to build a better fungal-bacterial balance.

Lemon says he expects veterinary drug changes to crop up during the usual Ask the Vet section.

Health Canada has cracked down on antimicrobial use for livestock in general, following the launch of a national framework on antimicrobial resistance in 2017.

About 73 per cent of antimicrobial drugs are used in both animals and people, the national health agency says.

The first changes have already been felt. Starting in November, producers using own-use rules to ship veterinary drugs from

the U.S. may have had trouble getting back over the border. The CFIA wiped clean the list of approved drugs, requiring producers and commodity groups to petition for drugs to be returned to the list.

More changes are on the way.

Starting in December 2018, “medically important” antimicrobials will require a prescription from a veterinarian.

Meanwhile, commodities like chicken are already on track to phase out antimicrobials.

“They’re not targeting us,” Lemon said. “We’re just caught up in the wake of, really, a global, global issue around antibiotic resistance. So, we’re really having to do our part to be responsible.”

The producer group added

“It’s a good opportunity to get out and this time of year, a good chance to talk to producers and kind of give them an opportunity to network, give them an opportunity to hear some perspectives from different people.”

premise ID and manifests to the Beef Days schedule. Manitoba is tightening traceability, and producers will soon need a manifest to unload cattle at a feedlot, MBP has said. The same rules apply any time cattle are moved via trailer, including movement from one pasture to another on farm.

In practice, the requirement reinforces the need for premise ID, since paperwork asks for the ID of both the departure and arrival point when moving cattle.

“We really need to drive that message home,” Lemon said.

“We’re moving to a place where animal movement reporting, premise ID, is really going to

become more front and centre with the regulators and so, as an industry, we need to show that we’re doing our part.”

The CFIA and Canadian Cattle Identification Agency says that more traceability will help fight livestock disease by tracking animals, as well as the locations and other herds they came in contact with. Traceability has also begun to tie into sustainability, with the Canadian Beef Sustainability Acceleration pilot using BIXS to track verified cattle through Cargill’s certified sustainable food chain.

As of November 2017, about 45 per cent of beef producers in Manitoba did not have a premise ID. astockford@farmmedia.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Brandon

Virden

Feeder Steers

Jan. 17

n/a

Jan. 16

Jan. 16

No. on offer

570

Over 1,000 lbs.

Heartland

Heartland

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

Jan. 17

Jan. 15

Jan. 18

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449

413*

2,078*

646*

1,806

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900-1,000

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165.00-179.00

169.00-179.00

170.00-180.50

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800-900

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170.00-182.00

170.00-183.00 (187.00)

170.00-182.50

165.00-182.00

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700-800

154.00-189.00

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150.00-183.50

177.00-190.00

177.00-189.00 (195.00)

175.00-190.00

175.00-195.00

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600-700

177.00-206.00

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170.00-204.00

185.00-205.00

188.00-211.00

185.00-202.00

195.00-215.00

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500-600

200.00-239.00

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180.00-212.00

205.00-221.00

209.00-226.00

200.00-225.00

205.00-231.00

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400-500

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210.00-251.00

215.00-235.00

220.00-250.00

215.00-230.00

215.00-236.00

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300-400

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900-1,000 lbs.

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140.00-158.00

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800-900

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140.00-160.00

155.00-168.00

150.00-165.00

150.00-163.00

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Feeder heifers

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700-800

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145.00-173.00

160.00-174.00

157.00-168.00

160.00-170.00

167.00-179.00

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600-700

150.00-177.50

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150.00-182.50

165.00-182.00

164.00-176.00

165.00-178.50

170.00-184.00

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500-600

170.00-191.50

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160.00-193.00

185.00-203.00

179.00-198.00

175.00-195.00

185.00-209.00

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400-500

182.00-199.00

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170.00-199.00

200.00-225.00

190.00-214.00

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200.00-223.00

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300-400

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No. on offer

130

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12

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198

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D1-D2 Cows

78.00-87.00

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75.00-85.00

85.00-95.00

85.00-93.00

78.00-85.00 (86.50)

84.00-92.00

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Slaughter Market

D3-D5 Cows

72.00-79.00

n/a

n/a

70.00-84.00

82.00-88.00

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72.00-81.00

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Age Verified

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

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Mature Bulls

90.00-104.00

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n/a

90.00-102.00

92.00-102.00

100.00-106.00

95.00-104.00

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Butcher Steers

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Butcher Heifers

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Feeder Cows

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Fleshy Export Cows

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Lean Export Cows

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100.00-133.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

105.00-145.00

n/a

95.00-138.00

n/a

Heiferettes * includes slaughter market

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

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

U.S. faces oversupply Ontario’s dairy farmers ramp up their own marketing of antibiotic-free They’ve pulled out of the national milk marketing program chicken after giving notice in June 2017 One of the top U.S. chicken producers says there’s more than eight times as much supply as demand

BY TOM POLANSEK Reuters

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upplies of chicken raised without antibiotics are outstripping demand, a major U.S. poultry producer said Jan. 16, a sign of overproduction that could eat into processors’ profits.

Large chicken and restaurant companies, includi n g Ty s o n F o o d s a n d McDonald’s, have raced to cut antibiotics from poultry supplies as public health experts have warned about the link between use of the drugs in farms and the rise of drug-resistant bacteria.

A n t i b i o t i c - f re e c h i c k ens made up an average of 40.5 per cent of all fresh U.S. production for the first 10 months of 2017, Sanderson Farms said in a regulatory filing. However, only 6.4 per cent of sales were for products sold as antibiotic free (ABF), according to Sanderson, the third-largest U.S. poultry producer.

The company declined to identify the source of the data.

Consumers of antibioticfree chicken, which can cost more to produce, mainly want breast meat and chicken tenders, Sanderson said. Producers are forced to sell other parts of the bird, including wings, against lower-priced meat from conventionally raised chickens.

“Industry data indicates that the supply of ABF chicken is currently significantly greater than demand for the product, and that oversupply has increased,” the company said in its filing.

Sanderson’s assertion challenges a belief that the U.S. supply of antibiotic-free chicken is not enough to meet demand. As recently as three years ago, some poultry producers claimed that switching from conventionally raised birds would be too expensive to stay in business.

Sanderson is the only large U.S. chicken producer that has not committed to limit the use of antibiotics, though it has a plan to eliminate them if it is in the company’s best interest.

Chief financial officer Mike Cockrell said in an interview proper antibiotic use was good for animal welfare and gave the company a competitive advantage.

“It allows us to produce product at a more affordable price point,” he said.

Pe rd u e Fa r m s , w h i c h eliminated the routine use of antibiotics in its chicken in 2016, does not know the source of Sanderson’s data, Perdue spokeswoman Andrea Staub said in an email. Demand is strong for Perdue products, she added.

Tyson, the biggest U.S. chicken producer, did not respond to a request for comment.

The market for antibioticfree chicken is mainly limited to breast meat, said Christine McCracken, animal protein analyst for Rabobank.

“All indications are that demand is increasing,” said Austin Wilson, program manager for activist group As You Sow, which is pushing Sanderson to stop using certain antibiotics.

“Even if it’s not currently keeping pace, it may catch up.”

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airy Farmers of Ontario is starting to build its own consumer marketing department now that it’s retaining marketing funds collected from farmers and no longer sending 10s of millions of dollars to Dairy Farmers of Canada.

What does it mean? Dairy Farmers of Ontario’s withdrawal from national marketing of milk has meant upheaval at Dairy Farmers of Canada’s marketing department. It will mean that there will be less large-scale advertising of milk, especially fluid milk and little advertising in Ontario until Ontario’s program is up and running.

Dairy Farmers of Ontario’s (DFO) board gave notice in June 2017 that it would no longer be remitting its marketing funds to Dairy Farmers of Canada’s large marketing department, based in Montreal, as of Jan. 1, 2018.

DFO asked DFC to prove re t u r n o n t h e m o re t h a n $40-million investment Ontario farmers make in consumer milk marketing.

“We were not able to obtain this information from DFC in a way that met our objectives,” says DFO CEO and general manager Graham Lloyd. He says that the board of directors has said it will not move quickly until it is sure of its future direction. It has appointed a group of dairy market experts and has started a search for a director of market development.

Graham Lloyd, Dairy Farmers of Ontario CEO and general manager, says that dairy marketing activities need to show that they can build the market for milk.

PHOTO: JOHN GREIG

The expert group reported some recommendations in December, says Lloyd, including that DFO should support p re c o m p e t i t i o n d a i r y a d s – meaning supporting milk product consumption in general. There’s a need to work directly with partners in retail and food services before promotions are created, along with developing a capital investment program to help reduce barriers to funding of programs. The last recommendation was to continue community investment.

Lloyd says programs that are likely to be continued include the milk calendar, the elementary school milk program, provincial and community-level programs and sponsorships.

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met with the Dairy Processors Association of Canada and the Ontario Dairy Council.

“We want to be their partner,” says Lloyd.

“The goal has to be with all of the programs, with some exceptions, to increase demand for Canadian milk and dairy components,” he says, reiterating the concerns that DFO board had with the national marketing programs.

Dairy farmers in the province will be out of dairy marketing to consumers for a period of time and some farmers at the DFO annual meeting questioned whether consumers will still see the type of advertising they were used to.

“It won’t be in all fancy ads,” he says. “We will be using data for certain to identify what markets are growing. We own that data so let’s use it.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

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

Nice winter weather expected Issued: Monday, January 22, 2018 · Covering: January 24 – January 31, 2018 Daniel Bezte Weather Vane

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he first half of last week’s forecast was pretty good as mild Pacific air flooded in from the west and northwest, bringing near-record to record highs across much of southern and central Manitoba. The forecast area of low pressure that was expected to track through the Dakotas last Monday ended up tracking much farther south.

While this didn’t have any direct impact on us, this shift in the general flow kept the forecast cold arctic high from dropping south.

This forecast period will begin with pleasant winter weather, with weak arctic high pressure sitting to our northeast and a large Pacific low slowly working its way west. This means once again, we will be stuck between systems. This will result in cloudy to partly cloudy days with daytime highs expected to be in the -6 to -10 C range and overnight lows in the -14 to -18 C range.

By Friday, what is left of the Pacific low is expected to move across the Dakotas, spreading

an area of snow into our region.

Current weather models predict around three to five cm of snow from this system. This low is expected to move quickly to the east, with a weak area of arctic high pressure settling in over the weekend. This high should bring mainly sunny skies along with slightly cooler temperatures, with highs expected to be around -15 C and overnight lows in the -25 C range.

For next week, the weather models show a second Pacific low pushing on shore. This low is forecast to track through the central and northern Prairies on Tuesday and Wednesday. This track will keep most of the precipitation from this low to our north. Southern and central regions will likely see clouds, a few flurries and mild temperatures as the low pulls warm air northward. Expect daytime highs near the freezing mark, with overnight lows around -10 C. Usual temperature range for this period: Highs: -21 to -6 C; lows, -33 to -16 C. Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession with a BA (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He operates a computerized weather station near Birds Hill Park.

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

WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA

This issue’s map shows the global temperature percentiles for 2017. The one thing that immediately jumps out is the fact that the map does not show any region that experienced much cooler-than-average temperatures during 2017.

This forecast period will begin with pleasant winter weather, with weak arctic high pressure sitting to our northeast and a large Pacific low slowly working its way west.

Earth books its third-warmest year on record We may soon see what happens when the taps turn off in a city of about four million

BY DANIEL BEZTE Co-operator contributor

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he final data on worldwide temperatures for 2017 has all been crunched and according to most institutes, 2017 was indeed the third-warmest year on record and the warmest non-El Niño year on record. NOAA, the Japan Meteorological Agency and the University of Alabama in Huntsville all recorded 2017 as the third warmest in their databases. According to NASA, 2017 was the second warmest on record. NASA’s data incorporates more of the Arctic, which has been experiencing some of the largest amounts of warming on the planet. The top five warmest years on record are as follows: 1) 2016; 2) 2015; 3) 2017; 4) 2014; and 5) 2010.

What is interesting is that while 2017 was a little cooler than the last two El Niño years, it was considerably warmer than 2014, according to the Weather Underground. Another way to look at or measure global heat is by the number of hot and cold records that were set. During 2017, there were 17 national alltime heat records that were set or tied around the world, while only two all-time cold records were set.

Tied into the warm global temperatures, the next big weather story that has come up over the past week just might turn out to be the biggest weather story of the year.

Unfortunately, it just might be the first of many more of these types of stories in years to come: the report out of Cape Town, South Africa, that it will officially run out of water by late April of this year. What has been referred to as “Day Zero” is when the water levels in the region’s reservoirs drop below the point where water can be safely pumped out. This would be the first time a major city has reached this point and it basically means that the taps city-wide would be turned off — no running water! What does that actually mean? According to Mark New of the University of Cape Town, there will be no water to shower, flush toilets, fight fires, do dishes, or fill up water bottles.

There are strategies in the works that might help push off Day Zero, which include drilling wells to tap into emergency groundwater supplies, and cutting off water supplies for periods of time each day. While both strategies will help, the best they could do is postpone Day Zero by less than a month.

This region has what can be

Our warm, dry region

Water levels are seen at about 24 per cent full at Voelvlei Dam, one of the region’s largest water catchment dams, near Cape Town, South Africa on Nov. 8, 2017. photo: reuters/mike hutchings

considered a Mediterranean climate, which has mild and wet winters with hot, dry summers. Over the last four years this region has been dealing with severe drought, with some researchers indicating that this drought is a once-in-800-year event. With a warming planet, these types of events are likely to occur more often. What

will be interesting to watch is the possible fight that may develop between farmers and city dwellers, with about 50 per cent of the water available in the reservoirs allocated to agriculture. What will happen when nearly four million people run out of water? This could be our first glimpse of things to come.

Now, how can I wrap up this week’s weather article on a little more of a positive or sunny note? Well, after a bitterly cold holiday season and first week of January, temperatures have rebounded nicely across our region. In fact, the average or mean temperature for January is now running about 1.5 C above the long-term average, thanks in most part to recordto near-record-breaking temperatures that moved in late last week. With the current forecast calling for near- to above-average temperatures until the end of the month, it looks like 2018 is starting off on the warm side.

What has been a little unusual this winter is the dry weather we have been experiencing. Very little snow cover exists across most regions, and while there is still lots of winter left, it won’t take much warm, sunny weather to melt off most of the snow. This situation could lead to much warmerthan-average temperatures in March as the energy from the growing spring sunshine goes into warming the air instead of melting snow. We do have to keep in mind, however, that March and early April can see some of the biggest snowfalls of the year.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

CROPS 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

Management practices go head to head in Soybean Challenge “At the end of the day, if you don’t get your seeding rate right, nothing else you do during the growing season is really going to make up for it.”

BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff

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t was the battle of the beans in Portage la Prairie last year, in the hope of shedding some light on best practices for soybeans.

Results from the 2017 Ultimate Soybean Challenge were presented at this year’s Ag Days in Brandon.

Three teams, with three very different management strategies, looked to outshine their competition at the AAFC Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre in that community.

For Team A, the goal was to follow the best management practices outlined by conventional wisdom. Team B wanted to save money on seed, but spend it elsewhere on “smaller-ticket items,” like fungicide and growth hormones.

Team C purposefully strayed from the beaten path. Led by AAFC’s Curtis Cavers and Manitoba Agriculture crop nutrition expert, John Heard, the third plot turned to, “novel or alternative practices,” the Ag Days audience were told.

So who was the winner?

Established best management practices won the year.

Led by Cassandra Tkachuk, production specialist with the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers, and the University of Manitoba’s Kristin MacMillan, Team A finished with 47 bushels an acre. Lange’s “small-ticket” items landed him and his partner, fellow Manitoba Agriculture employee Terry Buss, in second with 35 bushels an acre, while Team C returned 24 bushels an acre.

Canopy cover was a big part of their success, Tkachuk told the audience.

Their team opted for 190,000 seeds per acre, up from the other teams at 150,000. The bigger boost, however, came from a slightly lower seeding depth, something that allowed their seeds to get better moisture in 2017’s dry conditions and explode to 86 per cent seed survival, compared to 40-41 per cent in the other groups.

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Differences

Cassandra Tkachuk announces the winners of the 2017 Ultimate Soybean Challenge during her Ag Days presentation Jan. 18, 2018. Photo: Alexis Stockford

In the end, Team A’s plot emerged with 163,000 plants per acre, while Team B and C lagged with 61,000 and 60,000 plants per acre, respectfully.

Those numbers are a departure from last year’s challenge, which Lange says returned 110,000 plants per acre under a similar lower seeding rate.

Stand key Lange pointed to research out of North Dakota, which suggests anything below 80,000 plants an acre will suffer yield loss, regardless of row spacing.

“At the end of the day, if you don’t get your seeding rate right, nothing else you do during the growing season is really going to make up for it,” he said. “Even though our seeding rate was right, we didn’t get the stand that we wanted, so anything we did during the growing season didn’t increase our yield, but still maintained our yield.”

Team A’s canopy translated to less weed concern. Soybeans are poor competitors with weeds, Tkachuk told the audience, and the faster the canopy closes, the better.

That played out in the field.

Team A’s tighter canopy trans-

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lated to $8.98 spent per acre (two glyphosate passes) on herbicide, one pass less than Team B’s $13.47 per acre. Team C was forced to take a more dramatic hit, spending $43.92 an acre on Treflan and Basagran, plus fuel for two mechanical weed control passes that other teams avoided.

“Team A and B had great weed control, but Team C, the weed control just wasn’t there and that’s what took that extra yield off,” Tkachuk said.

Un l i k e t h e c o m p e t i t i o n , Tkachuck’s team chose a double inoculant, despite the additional cost. Her team spent $7.74 an acre on inoculant, compared to $3.60$3.65 for other teams.

“We made that decision because of the field history, assuming that soybean production had not taken place on that field previously,” she said.

Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers recommends at least two well-nodulated soybean crops, at least one in the last four years, and no flood or drought before dropping to single inoculation.

Team A did have more nodules, although all three met the five to 10 nodules per plant laid out by the commodity group.

There was significant variability in the plots, something Tkachuk tags as a take-home message from the experiment.

“Do more counts,” she advised.

“Don’t just pull out one plant and say, ‘Oh, this isn’t good,’ or ‘Oh, this is great.’ You need to really get a clear picture across the field.”

Team A saved money by opting out of seed treatment, while Team C took on $5.64 an acre of cost and Team B placed its bets on additional seed treatment with $12.50 an acre, along with $5.64 an acre for fungicide and $5 an acre for growth hormone.

Standings didn’t change when it came to profitability.

Team A’s best management practices gave it a $437.86-per-acre return over input and fuel costs compared to $300.96 for Team B and $187 an acre for Team C. Tkachuk took those results to mean that extra seed in the ground is well worth the money and soil depth gives a much-needed edge during a dry season.

Both Tkachuk and Lange say they would like to run the challenge again in a different year (and a different moisture situation). At the same time, Tkachuk pointed out that the challenge was more demo exercise than rigorous research.

This was the second time Manitoba has attempted the challenge, but the first teams have seen it through. Last year, teams could compare on initial plant stands, but plots were hailed out before harvest.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

Breaking down industry silos with data Canada has some good systems but too often they don’t pull together one ‘supercluster,’ spokesperson says

BY JOHN GREIG Glacier FarmMedia

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h e Sm a r t A g r i - Fo o d Super Cluster aims to use efficient and powerful data to create better collaboration within the agriculture sector.

It is one of nine superclusters in the running for $950 million in federal funding for superclusters that make a broad economic impact.

Another agriculture-sector cluster, the Protein Industries Canada Supercluster, is also vying for a piece of the federal funding.

The Smart Agri-Food Super Cluster (SASC) completed three consultations in the past week, engaging farm industry participants as part of its larger process to break down industry barriers.

The first consultation was in Ottawa Jan. 11, on the bioecon-

omy, the second in Calgary, Jan. 12 on livestock and the third was Jan. 16, in Ottawa, on the digital economy.

“We brought folks together from various points in the value chain, to see where systems fit together,” says Rob Davies, interim chief financial officer of SASC. The discussion in Ottawa included smart farming, machine learning, analytics and data to increase productivity.

SASC plans for two ‘nodes’ to manage the supercluster – one in Olds, Alta. and the other in Ottawa. Part of the goal of the consultations is to make sure the people in one node understand what is happening in the other. There were more than 120 people at the digital session in Ottawa, with 40-50 at the others.

The SASC has attracted large players in data and information, including Telus and Microsoft, along with other

“We brought folks together from various points in the value chain, to see where systems fit together.”

Rob Davies SASC

companies not traditionally known as being involved in agriculture. International agricultural sustainability organizations are also involved, such as Field to Market.

Davies says the companies appreciate the long-term view being taken by the SASC. The funding will be for five years, but “we expect that far more than five years down the horizon this process will continue to drive value.”

The creation of common

systems of data collection and connectivity will continue to operate for many years.

“This is a transformational change in our industry. It’s going to take co-operation and co-ordination. It’s been a challenge for years getting that collaboration together. This is a systems approach and they want to be part of it,” says Davies.

“Canada can really take an international leadership position. We have great systems.

We’re just not connecting them very well.”

Like the other supercluster proposals, the SASC aims to be broad and have impacts across the industry and across the country, so it also includes goals for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (as part of the bioeconomy area), programs for young women agriculture innovators and gardens and greenhouses for Indigenous communities.

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Grain handle down in CP’s ‘best-ever’ fourth quarter The railway’s full-year grain handle rose two per cent STAFF

U.S. income tax reform and significant increases in non-grain traffic more than offset a dip in Canadian Pacific Railway’s grain handle in its fourth quarter of 2017.

Calgary-based CP on Jan. 18 reported net income of $984 million on $1.713 billion in gross revenues in what it described as its “best-ever” fourth quarter, up from $384 million on $1.637 billion in the year-earlier period.

The railway’s full-year net income for 2017 hit $2.405 billion on $6.554 billion in revenues, up from $1.599 billion on $6.06 billion in 2016.

The railway’s fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) rose 159 per cent, to $6.77, due in part to income tax recovery of $527 million, “primarily as a result of U.S. tax reform net of Canadian provincial tax rate increases,” CP said.

CP in its Q4 ending Dec. 31 moved about 115,100 carloads of grain, down four per cent from the year-earlier period, while its revenue per carload of grain rose $31, to $3,690.

The railway’s full-year grain handle came in at 440,700 cars, up two per cent from 2016, with revenue per grain carload at $3,477, up $51.

CP has previously reported its Canadian and U.S. grain handles as separate business lines, but consolidated the two into a single “Grain” business line starting in its first quarter of 2017.

Carloads of fertilizers and sulphur in Q4 were up one per cent at 14,500, with revenue per carload of $4,118, down 10 per cent.

Full-year fertilizers and sulphur carloads dropped three per cent to 57,700, for revenue per carload of $4,178, down 11 per cent.

Revenue per carload was down in all CP’s business lines other than grain and coal in Q4, but Q4 carloads rose significantly in several lines, including intermodal (261,300, up six per cent), energy, chemicals and plastics (75,500, up 16 per cent), metals, minerals and consumer products (64,200, up 27 per cent) and potash (34,500, up seven per cent).

CP also booked an improved operating ratio (OR) of 56.1 per cent for Q4 and a record 58.2 per cent for the full year. The OR, a ratio of operating expenses to net sales, is cited as a measure of a company’s relative efficiency in its business sector.

Describing CP’s Q4 as “a record by almost every measure,” CEO Keith Creel said Jan. 18 the company expects revenue growth for 2018 “in the midsingle digits and adjusted diluted EPS growth to be in the low double digits.”

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Mapping profit can drive precision farming decisions Putting variability down on paper as profit, not yield, helps make for better choices

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recision farming can find the high-yield and lowyield, high-fertility and low-fertility areas of a farm, but the missing link has been how that ties to profitability.

Why does it matter?

The capacity to apply nutrients variably across a crop field isn’t new, but it’s been difficult for farmers to see the justification of the cost of equipment and price for mapping. Profit mapping could change all of that. Think variability in terms of profit, not yield.

“This is the beginning of m a k i n g p re c ision far ming more valuable for us,” says Dr. Clarence Swanton, a weed scientist at the University of Guelph, who has done research with profitability mapping.

He and Mike Wilson, a certified crop adviser and affiliate program lead with Veritas, in Chatham, Ont. talked about the practical application of profitability mapping at the Southwest Ag Conference in Ridgetown, Ont.

“There are areas that can net $400, but there are also areas that are losing $400 to $500 per acre.”

A loss that large can be hard to make up, but identifying areas where there’s a $40 loss can be helpful. If fertility tests show that the levels are already healthy, then variable-rate application can put less fertilizer or seed in that area where crops don’t grow as well.

The profitability maps help increase the bushels for every $1,000 spent by reducing the inputs per lower-productivity area.

A $400-loss area may have no solutions. It might make more sense to do something else with that land, says Wilson.

Same profit, more diversity Swanton agrees and he says that profitability mapping

could help balance ecosystems and profitability on farms.

He foresees a time when farmers will be able to tell when it makes sense to just plant a cover crop instead of a particular crop, because it is unprofitable. It could also tell a farmer when land, or parts of farms make little sense to rent.

Swanton is excited about the idea that farms could be just as profitable, by enhancing yields in most profitable areas, and then increase the biodiversity on their farms by retiring or doing something else with unprofitable areas.

“Think of the public relations if we increase the biodiversity across our land,” he says.

Mike Wilson is working on profitability mapping solutions for farmers with Veritas.

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Here’s how profitability mapping works on a farm: Take the data available for a farm: yield maps, fertility maps and as-applied input maps and tie them to the profit for each area including the price received for the crop.

The profit layer is calculated by a computer program and shows the profitability down to specific areas of a field.

As a result, the input decisions – seeding rate, fertilizer, chemicals – can be based on more than just yield and soil fertility, it can be based on decisions that have an impact on profit.

Profitability also allows a farmer to “call BS on the scripts being produced for you. If it’s not performing how you want it to perform, ask them to change it,” says Wilson.

Wilson says that each time c o r n i s p l a n t e d a n d h a rvested, the combine driver knows that there are areas that don’t yield as well, both visually and by the yield monitor.

However, Wilson says that the work they’ve been doing with profitability maps shows that there can be serious variability between high- and low-profit areas.

“There are areas that can net $400, but there are also areas that are losing $400 to $500 per acre.”

Seeing that $400 loss gets people’s attention, says Wilson.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

China’s COFCO makes painful cuts in drive to lead global food trade The state-owned trading company is aiming to elbow its way in to the club of top grain traders Reflecting progress towards its targets, by the middle of last year the group was already the secondbiggest grain exporter from Argentina, one of the world’s top food producers.

BY JONATHAN SAUL, GUS TROMPIZ AND HALLIE GU Reuters

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h i n a’s COFCO International is in the throes of a staffing upheaval as the group pursues its professed ambition of sitting at the top table of global agricultural traders.

But doubts persist among some in the industr y over whether the trading firm will really challenge the exist ing four dominant players in grains, oilseeds and sugar. In the end, they suspect, it may prioritize securing strategic food supplies for China over commercial aims in an era of rising trade tensions.

State-owned conglomerate China National Cereals, Oils

Dutch grain trader Nidera is one of the recent acquisitions COFCO hopes will transform it into a top international grain company. PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS/Michael Trolove

and Foodstuffs Corp. began building its foreign commodities operations in 2014 and formally launched the COFCO International Ltd. (CIL) trading division in April last year.

Its assets include port facili-

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Last month Yu Xubo, president of the Beijing-based parent COFCO Group, laid out a bold expansion. “We aim to

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Painful integration China is securing its global s u p p l y l i n e s, m ov i n g i n t o mining ventures in Africa, expanding its ocean shipping fleet and buying ports around the world. This effort is accelerating under President Xi Jinping’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road initiative involving huge infrastructure projects connecting China to Europe and beyond.

But COFCO International — in which Singapore, Londonbased Standard Chartered and the World Bank’s commercial arm also hold stakes — has spent most of the past year integrating past purchases rather than expanding.

This process has been painful at a difficult time for all traders. Four years of bumper global grains and oilseeds harvests have squeezed profits at the established players: Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus, known as the “ABCDs” due to their initials.

“It has been a challenging period,” said one source with knowledge of COFCO I n t e r n a t i o n a l ’s s t r a t e g y.

But the source told Reuters the worst was over, with the trader poised to try to take market share from rivals. “The big ambition is still there — to be the new C of the ABCDs.” COFCO International has been trying to integrate two purchases, together wor th more than US$3 billion, that it agreed three years ago — of Rotterdam-based grain trader Nidera and the agribusiness o f Si n g a p o re - l i s t e d No b l e Group.

This has meant heavy job losses. A company official s a i d l a s t m o n t h t h a t ove r 2,500 jobs had been shed in its Brazilian sugar operations alone, with further cuts expected there, although this was separate from the integration process.

COFCO Group has also sent a t e a m o f m a n a g e r s f ro m Beijing to take pivotal roles in operations across the globe, including in Canada, Brazil and Europe, company memos seen by Reuters showed.

A spokesman for Genevabased COFCO International said around 50 of its staff a re f o r m e r CO F CO G ro u p employees, although he noted this was out of a total workforce that exceeds 13,000.

The spokesman declined to comment further on human resources issues.

Chief executive Johnny Chi, who held top positions with COFCO Group in China, has overseen the departure of several top staff at Nidera, from which the trader inherited big losses. These included a US$150-million financial hole in its Latin American operaSee COFCO on page 21 »

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tions and US$200 million in unauthorized trading losses on its biofuels desk.

Company memos show Chi has been followed by Frank Feng, appointed chief risk officer for South America and Lucas Shi, who has taken the same role at a regional level in the “Southern Cone” count r i e s i n c l u d i n g A rg e n t i n a .

Another recruit from Beijing is Dong Guo, who has become chief research officer.

Sources said Nidera teams have been shrunk or removed in Europe and North America.

This followed a management reshuffle in Brazil after the accounting irregularities.

T h e f i r m h a s a l s o h i re d high-profile figures from the industry, with Pierre Lorinet, former chief financial officer at trade house Trafigura, and Serge Schoen, an ex-Louis Dreyfus chief executive, both joining its board.

Cultural questions Whether the firm has achieved a turnaround yet i s u n c l e a r. No p r o f i t a n d loss accounts are available f o r C O F C O In t e r n a t i o n a l ,

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est known as the parent for several Canadian and U.S. manufacturers of grain handling and storage equipment, Ag Growth International is expanding its tech portfolio.

Winnipeg-based AGI announced Jan. 17 it has bought Burnaby, B.C.-based CMC Industrial Electronics and Iowa-based Junge Control (JCI) for undisclosed sums.

CMC, which formed in 1997 and has facilities at Burnaby and Minneapolis, makes commercial bin monitoring sensors and systems as well as hazard monitoring sensors and systems for “material-handling applications” in the grain, feed and milling sectors.

CMC’s new product offerings include the Grain Ranger system, launched in February last year.

The system communicates with legacy analog and digital grain temperature cables to provide bin temperature data to a user’s computer, phone or tablet.

JCI, meanwhile, makes automation, measurement, blending and batching systems, equipment and software for the agriculture and fuel industries.

AGI said Cedar Rapids-based JCI’s precision blending and measurement systems, used mainly in liquid fertilizer blending, are “highly complementary” to the new parent firm’s fertilizer product offering.

CMC and JCI booked combined sales of about $15 million in their most recent full fiscal years, with adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $4 million, AGI said.

AGI, whose equipment brands already include auger makers Westfield and Wheatheart and grain bin makers Twister and Westeel, among others, said the new acquisitions “add significant strength to our applied technology platform.”

in which the Beijing parent holds 48 per cent and the sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp. 12 per cent.

COFCO International announced in November an agreement to sell its crop seeds business to Swiss-based Syngenta AG — which has been bought by ChemChina — but did not disclose price terms.

“The seeds sale has boosted the balance sheet,” a second source said. “2017 has been an effective year and COFCO International is back on track and can start thinking again about growing.”

COFCO has said it will pursue partnerships to expand overseas after signing a supply deal with U.S. co-operative Promark last year.

One former COFCO International manager who left in the past year said the firm had been struggling over how to cut costs and ensure future revenues after shedding people who had been making it money. Other problems lay in overcoming cultural differences across its global operations. “ I t ’s a b i g m a c h i n e . I t d o e s n’t t h i n k l i k e a b u s i -

ness. It thinks like a government,” the former manager told Reuters, declining to be named.

The spokesman for COFCO International Ltd. (CIL) said “differences in corporate culture are normal in the context of a merger of companies.”

“CIL is currently deploying a new common corporate culture across all CIL locations which was developed by various CIL management in 2017,” he added.

Feeding China Chi has played down suggestions that the firm is torn between competing objectives, unsure whether to pursue its own commercial aims or the strategic interests of its home country. In November, he told the Financial Times it did not want to be “just a procurement platform for COFCO Corporation or China.”

But some remain skeptical.

“What COFCO International should strive for is to be the most efficient procurement office for China – the feeding of China’s population is of the utmost strategic importance,” said Jean-Francois Lambert, founding partner of Lambert

“It’s a big machine.

It doesn’t think like a business. It thinks like a government.” former COFCO manager

Commodities consultancy.

“This is in fact its prime objective.”

With such powerful Chinese shareholders, the firm has the financial clout to become an ABCD “if it wants to,” said Jay O’Neil, senior agricultural economist at Kansas State University.

COFCO International had overpaid for the investments in Nidera and Noble and not got the results it was looking for, he told Reuters. However, he noted the possibility that the purchases were designed to let COFCO and China diversify supplies of soybeans and to “protect them from potential political issues with the U.S.” President Donald Tr ump has repeatedly complained a b o u t t h e s i z e o f C h i n a’s

trade surplus with the United States, and accused the country of stealing U.S. intellectual property.

The views of COFCO In t e r n a t i o n a l’s s h a re h o l d ers remain unclear. COFCO Group did not respond to requests for comment while C h i n a In v e s t m e n t Co r p. declined to comment, as did Standard Chartered and China-based private equity firm HOPU Investments.

Singapore state investor Temasek said it did not direct the business of its portfolio companies, while the World Bank’s commercial arm IFC said its investment aimed to drive world food supply efficiency.

I f C O F C O In t e r n a t i o n a l sticks to Yu’s stated commercial ambitions, it cannot achieve this through internal growth and will have to return to the acquisitions market, K a n s a s St a t e Un i v e r s i t y ’s O’Neil said.

“I do not see them as taking a significant percentage of market share away from others until and unless they buy into one of the ABCDs. And if they do that, well then they will be an ABCD.”

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MASC under fire at organic insurance update Producers call organic insurance ‘a joke’ while MASC says it’s already a money-loser

BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator contributor

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rganic producers are not happy with their crop insurance.

Maurice Gaultier, Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) insurance sales and service manager for the southern region, faced pointed questions Jan. 18 during his organic insurance update at Ag Days.

MASC and the Manitoba Organic Alliance have been looking for a middle road on insurance for months. Both have said that the program is not working as it stands. Farmer uptake lags, there are wide concerns over valuation and MASC’s bottom line lands in the red every season.

There will be no substantial changes to the program this year and a 2019 timeline is still questionable as well, Gaultier said, to the disappointment of the crowd.

The issues MASC’s price valuation falls far short of what a producer could expect on the market.

The insurance provider values oats and wheat at 1-1/2 times their conventional price, a bar that both sides agree is below market price. Flax, meanwhile, doubles its value.

Organic red spring wheat is valued at $9.39 per bushel, while winter wheat brings in $6.94, oats are valued at $4.16 and flax goes up to $22.10 a bushel.

Those prices are “a joke,” producers told Gaultier Jan. 18.

“It hasn’t been $9 in 10 years,” one listener said when presented with wheat valuation numbers.

Yuri Genik, who farms near Dauphin, estimates that the actual price point lies between two and four times conventional prices.

MASC, however, argues that it is already losing money from the organic program.

The corporation lost about $300,000 on the organic program between 2005 and 2015, Doug Wilcox, MASC manager of insurance program development, said during the Manitoba Organic Alliance annual meeting in October.

“We’re paying out far more than what the premium is actually bringing in,” Gaultier said.

Higher values will also come with higher premiums, MASC warns. Organic wheat now comes with a $17.72 per acre premium, compared to $6.22 for conventional, while flax will cost the producer $20.74 an acre, compared to $7.27 in conventional flax. The spread is tighter for oats, at $13.34 compared to $6 per acre for conventional.

Gaultier also noted that a producer’s coverage will improve with successful years. There is a 10-year transition for each crop before probable yield is based entirely on individual yield, although the corporation also has a five-year fast track for new organic producers.

Genik isn’t totally satisfied with that argument.

“They’re charging us a much higher premium for a lot less coverage... it doesn’t take somebody very smart to figure out

that, that just isn’t a sustainable thing to be even carrying,” he said. “It doesn’t take risk off.

It actually, in some cases like myself, added risk to the plate because of the cost of the insurance and what just happened after.”

His farm was “devastated” last year after a hard spring meant he missed seeding windows, he said.

Conventional only Despite complaints in the room, Alan McKenzie says he has had good experience with his adjusters. The longtime organic producer was one of several organic speakers on the lineup during Ag Days.

“We’ve had very good adjusters who’ve treated us fairly and, yes, the organic coverage is not near enough money for what you pay for it, so we, half of the time, just use conventional coverage because it’s dollar-for-dollar better bang for your buck,” he said.

About three-quarters of his crop could be insured organic this year, but only a quarter of his acres will typically have organic insurance, he said.

“If I’m feeling confident that it’s a good, clean field, I’ll just roll the dice and run conventional on it, where, if I’m concerned that it might have some weed pressure issues or something like that, that could cause some red flags to show up, or I’m just kind of worried in general, then I’ll kind of throw the organic coverage on it,” he said.

At the same time, current valuation is “ridiculous,” he added.

“You can traditionally show that wheat has been 2.5 times (conventional), so I think that’s where it should really come out at — at least twice anyway,” he said, pointing to the markup on flax.

“I understand too that higher valuation comes with a higher premium and then it comes to a point of, how much you can afford. But definitely it’s way too low,” he said.

Katherine Storey, president of the Manitoba Organic Alliance, agrees.

“You can’t have numbers like that and expect people to participate,” she said.

keep dropping out. The ones who are actually doing a fairly good job or doing the best they can, the ones who will be supporting the program with higher yields and much fewer claims are now gone, so now you’re left with a lot more of these people who have claims more often that are basically taking away from the system,” he added.

Storey, however, says it shouldn’t matter how many are participating in the program.

“Either the program works or it doesn’t and it’s our job to figure out why it’s not working and maybe we won’t be able to offer a solution because of that small pool, but at least we should be able to identify where in the program the programs are happening,” she said.

Lack of data The small pool also ties into data availability.

MASC is confident in its conventional crop data, since the vast majority of acres are insured. With fewer participants, that is not the case in organic insurance.

MASC estimates that only See MASC on page 23 »

Maurice Gaultier, MASC insurance sales and service manager for the southern region, fields questions Jan. 18 during an update on organic insurance.

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MASC says that some farmers may choose to insure their crops conventionally, although it’s unclear how many producers have taken them up on the option. Farms that choose conventional insurance take a risk on weeds, since weeds are a designated peril in organic insurance and farmers can get coverage for having to reseed.

MASC’s profit problem may stem from this shrinking pool, farmers say. Profitable producers have slowly dropped out of the program, creating a higher proportion of high-risk users in the pool and eating at MASC’s bottom line, they argued Jan. 18.

“It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy,” Genik said.

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one-third of organic producers are insured organically and kicking data back into the corporation. They guess another one-third are using conventional insurance and one-third do not insure with MASC at all.

The corporation says changes this year may help address some of that lack.

Farmers will be able to report acres as organic, even if they’re not insured organic.

Price data is also a sticking point, David Van Deynze, MASC vice-president of insurance operations says.

“Typically, for our conventional crops, there’s a lot of forecasting data,” he said.

“There’s a lot of people who are in that business to say what the price of wheat is going to be a year from now — canola, same thing — there’s just not that level of data and forecasting tools available for organic crops, so it’s a challenge for us to essentially predict what the organic price is going to be into the future and that’s kind of the way our insurance program is designed.”

Producers in the Jan. 18 meeting argued that they are already producing acreage and yield data in their seeding and harvest reports.

They have provided contracts to indicate what they would have been paid for a

“The cost of the premiums are high, the coverage is terrible and so, in the end, it ends up that more and more people keep dropping out.”

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crop while trying to make a claim, they added.

Van Deynze, however, says there is an inherent bias to relying on claims for price data.

“Only a small percentage of producers actually make claims, right? So we don’t get a very representative dataset in the first place,” he said.

“And then secondly, sometimes with contract prices, if there’s a claim, there could be a claim on a crop because of quality issues, for example, so now you’ve got a price that we receive, but it might be a lower quality than what the normal quality is for a particular crop.”

More crops needed Only three crops meet the acreage needed to be insured, MASC says, although the Manitoba Organic Alliance argues that hemp, peas, fall rye

and barley should also make the list.

Wilcox’s figures showed 1,964 acres of organic barley and 2,991 acres of rye in 2016, he presented last October. MASC usually requires a consistent 5,000 acres before insuring a crop.

“We’ve been asked once or twice in the past to potentially insure those crops, but we’re worried about taking on a large acreage of organic crops when, with the core programs we have right now having high losses, we’re hoping to get those programs organized and straightened out before we expand to forages or barley or hemp or whatever is recommended we go forward with next,” he said at the time.

Storey says that all issues brought up Jan. 18 have also made their way to a working group between the Manitoba Organic Alliance and MASC. The group has had two meetings, with another expected in February or March.

“We’re understanding the program more. They’re understanding organics more. I think it’s going in a good direction.

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Heavy rains not seen slowing Brazilian winter corn There might be a small acreage drop, but the country is expected to continue to be a leading exporter

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orecasts of heavy rainfall during Brazil’s soyhar vesting season are unlikely to discourage farmers from planting winter corn, according to Agroconsult, as it kicked off an annual crop tour Jan. 16 in the top grain-producing state of Mato Grosso.

Once an afterthought, winter or second corn is planted after soybeans are harvested in states like Mato Grosso, which is now starting to harvest oilseeds planted last September.

“Unless rains really disrupt soy-harvesting work, conditions remain favourable for farmers to plant winter corn after soybeans,” said Fábio Meneghin, an analyst with Agroconsult, the agribusiness consultancy.

One factor driving winter corn planting is domestic prices, which rebounded from last July and closed the gap with soy. The recovery, he said, gives farmers more bargaining power in bartering with suppliers because their produce is worth more as they trade corn for fertilizers and other inputs needed for planting.

Also, seeds providers estimate that over the next three weeks farmers will have bought all of the seeds for planting winter corn in the states of Mato Grosso, Paraná, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul, indicating they are keen on planting the cereal, Meneghin said.

T h e a n a l y s t ’s r e m a r k s underpin expectations that Brazil will have another bumper second-corn harvest, remaining a leading competitor with the United States in export markets, especially in the second half of the year.

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“Unless rains really disrupt soy-harvesting work, conditions remain favourable for farmers to plant winter corn after soybeans.”

Fábio Meneghin Agroconsult

season will account for about three-quarters of Brazil’s production, according to government data, which pegged total output at over 92 million tonnes in 2018.

We a t h e r m a y h a v e an impact on the quality of Brazil’s winter corn, Meneghin said, noting the ideal window to plant second corn closes around Feb. 25 in Mato Grosso.

Because of delays in beginning soy planting in some areas and expected rains during harvesting work, he anticipates a bigger percentage of the winter corn crop planted outside the ideal period.

B e f o r e t h e c r o p t o u r, Agroconsult forecast a four per cent drop in winter corn output from last season, to 65.6 million tonnes. Brazil’s total cor n production will shrink an expected seven per cent mainly due to a fall in summer corn planting.

Still, Agroconsult estimated a two per cent rise of Mato Grosso’s winter corn area, and no growth in Goiás, Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul. In Brazil, there will be marginal growth in the area planted to 12.3 million hectares, pushed by growth in Mato Grosso.

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Limagrain says protests could force relocation

The French seed group says GMO protesters may force its research and development out of that country REUTERS

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imagrain, the world’s fourth-largest seed maker, will consider moving its research activities out of France if field trials in its home market continue to be sabotaged by opponents of genetically modified crops.

The French co-operative group was targeted last month by protesters who invaded test fields southeast of Paris and scattered non-commercial seed. That was the latest in a series of actions by opponents of gene editing technology, which they say will herald

a new generation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Limagrain said the incident ruined a 37-hectare trial of wheat based on conventional breeding and showed the risk of a repeat of virulent debate over GMOs. “If we have repetition of this kind of problem, I will be the first to say that we should relocate our research and not conduct it in France,” JeanYves Foucault, Limagrain president and one of the farmers who own the co-operative group, told reporters.

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“If we have repetition of this kind of problem, I will be the first to say that we should relocate our research and not conduct it in France.”

Jean-Yves Foucault Limagrain president

subsidiary Vilmorin, previously stopped performing GMO field trials in France, where commercial growing of such crops is banned.

The emergence of new b re e d i n g t e c h n i q u e s h a s reignited debate over genetic modification in Europe.

So-called gene editing has

been hailed by researchers as a revolutionary tool but has led to fierce arguments over whether gene edited crops should be treated as GMOs. Crop developers say such crops should not fall under the European Union’s strict GMO rules because the new technology does not involve

the transfer of genes from different species. Critics, meanwhile, say they are GMOs by another name.

The EU has yet to decide h ow t o c l a s s i f y t h e n e w techniques.

Later in January the adviser to the European Court of Justice is due to issue an opinion over whether a breeding method called mutagenesis should fall under GMO regulations.

This would give an indication of the likely ruling to be given by the court in the coming months, which will in turn influence subsequent EU rules on gene editing.

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Agri-food firm Cargill expects to provide more marketing opportunities for western Manitoba growers — particularly of soybeans — with a major elevator expansion.

The U.S. company’s Winnipegbased Canadian arm on Jan. 18 announced it will put up $15 million to add 9,000 tonnes of storage capacity to its 13,500-tonnecapacity elevator at Oakner, Man., about 70 km northwest of Brandon.

Renovations at the facility, south of the intersection of highways 21 and 24, are also to include “faster” grain receiving and shipping capabilities and an upgraded 100-plus rail car track system, which connects to the Canadian National Railway (CN) main line.

Dave Baudler, grain managing director for Cargill in North America, said in a release that the upgrades at Oakner “will have a positive impact on both long and local supply chains.”

Construction work is expected to be complete late this year and will interrupt grain deliveries in Oakner for “a short period of time,” the company said.

During that time, the company said, it will work with affected customers to find “other options” for delivering grain.

The company’s other elevators in western Manitoba include sites at Nesbitt, about 30 km south of Brandon; at Elva, about 80 km south of Virden; and at Dauphin. It also has elevators at Yorkton and Balcarres in southeastern Saskatchewan.

“More grain storage space and rail capacity provides more opportunities for farmers in the area to sell and move their grain,” the company said. “In particular, this expansion provides more options for soybean growers.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

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

Growing Projects

celebrate a successful 2017 Canadian Foodgrains Bank ‘farm’ last year covered 16,640 acres and stretched from the Maritimes to Alberta

Supporters of the Arborg and District Growing project pose for a portrait on harvest day. Meaza Melkamu, (second from right), a policy adviser working for the Foodgrains Bank’s conservation agriculture program in Nairobi was on site to take part in the harvest gathering that afternoon. PHOTO: CANADIAN FOODGRAINS BANK

BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff

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a n a d i a n Fo o d g r a i n s Bank staff often refer to growing project acres planted across the country as “the farm,” and last year it covered 16,640 acres.

Projects from P.E.I. to Alberta involving what also adds up to thousands of supporters sowed them to wheat, barley, corn, pulses, soybeans, canola and other grains.

Roughly 5,000 of the Canadian Foodgrain Bank’s farm is in Manitoba, with 35 to 40 projects tending them each year.

The 2017 season proved to be an excellent year productionwise, said Harold Penner, until recently Manitoba’s regional representative and now taking on a new role with the CFB. “Canola did fantastic at over 60 (bu.), wheat over 80.

Especially the cereals did very well,” he said, adding the only downside was among projects that sowed soybeans, which didn’t do quite so well.

Alberta’s 35 growing projects overall also had a very good year last year, in marked contrast to 2016 when several

projects weren’t even able to be harvested due to wet conditions. There were those especially to the north that had weather-related struggles once again, said Terence Barg, Alberta’s CFB northern rep.

“But everybody who had a project this year was able to harvest,” said Barg, adding that overall yields were surprisingly good.

One of the anomalies for 2017 was that several projects harvested in spring what they couldn’t get to under the conditions of the fall of 2016.

“Several projects actually took off two crops (this past) year,” Barg said.

Saskatchewan’s 26 projects were also harvested without any major issues, while supporters also took off crops distributed among Ontario’s 100 projects, and the 16 across the Atlantic provinces.

The one-project one-field approach remains very well suppor ted among the 243 projects logged across the country — and little wonder.

They’re community building and inspirational, said Penner, noting examples like the phenomenal project that took place in Killarney last September.

“Just Google 26 combines,” said Penner. “You’ll see the big harvest they had.”

Some challenges Even so there is ongoing conversation about how to keep projects going, and as such, ways to support projects are evolving.

“We keep hearing of how hard it is sometimes to keep these projects going,” said Penner. “ We h a v e d i f f e re n t approaches now. Whatever works in a community.”

Some projects now opt to host autumn get-togethers with supporters bringing chequebooks, for example.

Other groups organize with members dedicating proceeds from their own fields instead of having one central location.

Plus, there are now six Grow Hope projects established, including two in Manitoba where they began, plus two in Ontario and the others in Alberta.

These began in 2015 after Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), as one of the CFB's members, began looking for new ways to ways to support its own account. It proposed this way of bringing those liv-

“We have different approaches now.

Whatever works in a community.”

Harold Penner Canadian Foodgrains Bank

ing in urban areas on to “the farm,” so to speak, by becoming “virtual farmers” as sponsors of acres a farmer agreed to plant.

Manitoba’s first project was held on the farm of Grant and Colleen Dyck in Niverville that year with proceeds of $92,400 from nearly 200 acres of wheat flowing to the CFB. In 2017 Grow Hope supporters sponsored 400 acres, with Crystal Spring’s Hutterite Colony near Ste. Agathe also putting up acres.

Alberta’s two Grow Projects — o n e l o c a t e d n e a r Fo r t Saskatchewan and the other near Carstairs — are well supported too.

“Often urban people want to be involved in the work of the CFB but will say ‘we’re not

farmers,’” Barg said. Grow Hope projects not only give urban folk a way to be directly involved, but to learn more about far ming and what’s involved in growing food too.

“This is a very tangible way for them to be involved,” he said.

Last year 650 acres were harvested among the half-dozen Grow Hope projects in the three provinces.

As 2018 begins Penner will be working to assist the CFB’s director of resources. One of his aims this year is to visit B.C. where no farm projects currently have been organized.

He’s hoping to see what interest can be drummed up there too.

“Whatever people can do and want to do, we’re happy to support,” he said.

Meanwhile, Gordon Janzen, has now taken on the job as Manitoba’s regional representative and said he’s looking forward to meeting more supporters of CFB Growing Projects as the year unfolds.

“I’m just amazed at the number of people supporting the Foodgrains Bank and their generosity,” he said. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Prairie fare Study shows more benefits of family mealtimes Here are a few tips to help you make regular family mealtimes a reality

BY JULIE GARDEN-ROBINSON NDSU Extension Service

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ne morning as I was brushing my teeth, I heard a snippet on a news program about new Canadian family meals research.

I zipped into the living room with my toothbrush still in hand, wanting to hear more.

We at the NDSU Extension Service launched “The Family Table” a year ago to encourage families to eat together more often, so my ears “perk” when I hear anything about it.

I have been waiting for more research to be published on the long-term benefits of family mealtimes. Many short-term studies have been published, but the new study followed children from infancy to age 10.

I was a little surprised at the national newscasters saying, “Of course, kids who eat with their families are healthier.” We certainly hope that is the case, but without actual published peer-reviewed research, we can’t make pronouncements about the health benefits of anything.

In the field of nutrition and child development, “guessing” about health benefits is not sound advice.

As part of the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, researchers tracked hundreds of children from the age of five months to age 10. Children who ate with their families more often had better communication and social skills and were less likely to be aggressive toward others. They also were more physically fit, ate less fast food and drank fewer soft drinks.

Eating more healthful meals and getting more physical activity can help children and adults maintain a healthful weight, too.

The researchers said that family meals could be promoted as advantageous, as we have been using earlier research to promote family mealtimes.

Our 2018 theme is “We’re cookin’ now!” and we will feature more skill-based information that can help anyone who has a kitchen and eats food. (Yes, that’s you.)

Visit https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/familytable to learn more about “The Family Table.” Eat,

Vegetables should fill at least half your plate for a healthy meal. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

connect and savour at the family table. Join the challenges and sign up for an electronic newsletter with recipes and tips. Follow the program on Facebook for more tips, meal plans and ideas for getting conversations going during family meals.

Here are some tips to help make eating as a family a reality.

Figure out which days (and meals) work best for your family to eat together each week.

Try for at least three meals per week, and preferably more. Nothing going on Monday night? Eat dinner as a family. Basketball game Thursday evening? Eat breakfast together before work and school. Communicate with all family members so everyone is in the loop.

Use the available public recommendations as a guide to healthy eating. Most say about half of your plate should be fruits and vegetables and half of your plate should be grains and proteins (one-fourth of each). Don’t forget to incorporate a serving of dairy or other calcium-rich food. Aim for whole grains and low-fat or fat-free dairy products.

Plan your meals. Find a day that works for you to sit down and plan meals for the entire week. Choose recipes that contain similar fresh foods. For example, if you are making a

Hearty spicy bean chili 2 (15-oz.) cans black beans, drained and rinsed 2 (15-oz.) cans kidney beans, drained and rinsed 2 (15-oz.) cans butter beans, drained and rinsed 1 (15-oz.) can diced tomatoes 1 (6-oz.) can tomato paste 1 (1.25-oz.) packet reduced-sodium chili seasoning 1 tbsp. oil 2 cloves garlic, minced

pasta recipe that contains spinach, find other recipes that use spinach or serve a spinach salad one day. This eliminates waste of fresh produce, which also saves money.

Serve fruit as a dessert for your family meal.

Because fruits contain natural sugars, they satisfy the sweet tooth. Try healthful options such as fruit smoothies and yogurt parfaits.

Allow your children to help or make their own, which turns dessert into a fun family activity.

Take chances. Don’t be afraid that your kids won’t like what you make. Children and adolescents want their parents to serve healthful meals, according to researchers studying family mealtimes. Now is the time to try something new and get feedback during your meal together.

Have fun. Family meals aren’t supposed to be stressful. They are meant to be an opportunity for family bonding, interaction and growth. Enjoy your time together.

Here’s a one-dish meal that is tasty topped with cheese, with a side of cornbread. Beans are rich in fibre, protein, folate and other vitamins. You can freeze the leftovers for a quick meal on another night or make loaded baked potatoes topped with chili and shredded cheese within a few days.

Drain and rinse beans. Set aside. Heat oil in large pan. Add diced yellow onion, jalapeno and garlic, then sauté until the onion turns clear. Boil 2 cups of water on the stove or in the microwave. Once boiling, add 2 teaspoons of the vegetable bouillon until completely dissolved. Combine all can ingredients into a large slow cooker followed by the onion, garlic and jalapeno mixture, and then the broth. Add in the chili seasoning and mix well.

Leave slow cooker on high for approximately 45 minutes or until chili reaches a desirable temperature.

1 medium yellow onion, minced 1 small jalapeno, seeds removed and diced (optional) 2 tsp. vegetable bouillon plus 2 c. water

This one-dish meal includes beans, which are rich in fibre, protein, folate and other vitamins. PHOTO: NDSU

Makes 15 servings. Each serving has 200 calories, 2.5 grams (g) fat, 11 g protein, 36 g carbohydrate, 10 g fibre and 390 milligrams sodium.

Julie Garden-Robinson is a North Dakota State University Extension Service food and nutrition specialist and professor in the department of health, nutrition and exercise sciences.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Keeping a piece of Ukrainian culture alive

Readers’ PhotoS

Passion for sharing music led to crafting the tsymbaly, playing it and giving lessons

By Darrell Nesbitt Freelance contributor

T

he tsymbaly has played a big role in the life of Rossburn, Manitoba resident Diane Twerdun and her late husband, Harry. From crafting the instrument, to playing it and giving lessons, the Twerduns kept this piece of Ukrainian culture alive locally, and across the country.

Twerdun has been passionate about sharing her enjoyment of music since moving to the community in the late 1960s.

“Involvement has included a course at the University of Manitoba, a trip to Ukraine, and a personal endeavour, along with my late husband Harry, to share an interest in Ukrainian culture through the tsymbaly — the Ukrainian version of the hammer dulcimer,” she said.

Harry, who ran a woodworking shop, invested a great deal of time and care into crafting the instrument, eventually distributing them throughout Canada to satisfied musicians.

“My husband was a very fine worker who carefully watched, listened to problems, and was up to the challenge of finding the exact type of wood required to fix or create a one-of-a-kind tsymbaly,” said Twerdun.

It took Harry 26 tries before he felt the tone and craftsmanship of the tsymbaly was right to make someone else happy. As for the other 25 designs, they didn’t go to

Too cold for this weasel to venture out. PHOTO: CINDY MURRAY Diane Twerdun demonstrates the playing of a tsymbaly. PHOTO: DARRELL NESBITT

waste, as students instructed by Diane, practised on them, crafting their own artistry by striking two beaters against the 100 or so tightly wound strings, strung in groups of three to five, which are tuned in unison.

The trapezoid-shaped, wooden stringed instrument originated in the 17th century and became very popular in Ukraine, becoming a staple in areas of Canada settled by Ukrainian immigrants.

Once the students had their art crafted, they hit the road, performing at the Rossburn Centennial in 1984, tours in 1985, and accepted the invitation to perform at the Dauphin Ukrainian Festival in 1986.

Diane also gave instruction at St. Vladimir’s College in Yorkton, and was involved in the Artists in the School program at Dauphin.

She stopped teaching in the early 2000s, but the impact of her passion still resonated.

“While I have stopped instructing and playing for the most part, it’s sure nice to hear from former students,” Twerdun said.

“A lot are still playing, their kids are playing, with a number being asked to share the Ukrainian culture at their own schools.”

It’s something Twerdun is proud of, and she is still keen on preserving the Ukrainian culture. She would like to see today’s generation be able to explore their Ukrainian ancestry through sound by the playing of an instrument.

“Music is such a wonderful thing, you can get lost in it, much like a book,” she said.

Blending in with the surroundings. PHOTO: LILLIAN DEEDMAN Darrell Nesbitt writes from Shoal Lake, Manitoba

Strong and durable Gryphon begonia This plant was named after a mythical creature and definitely lives up to its name

By Albert Parsons

It is named after a mythical creature that has the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle — a very appropriate name for this strong and durable plant.

Freelance contributor

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n the spr ing of 2016 I bought two potted begonias, which were a type of Rex begonia, but they seemed somehow sturdier from other Rex begonias I had previously grown. I used them in two large mixed containers, and they were part of an underplanting that included tradescantia and plectranthus beneath tall red salvia, cannas and acidanthera. They performed satisfactorily but didn’t get very large — probably too crowded by the other plants and objected to the canopy of taller plants above them.

I potted the plants up into one large pot in the fall and took them into the sunroom for the winter, placing them near, but not in front of a southfacing window. They didn’t put forth much new growth during the late fall and early winter (which I didn’t expect them to do), and the foliage became paler than it had been outside,

My Gryphon begonia is in the sunroom for the winter where its lovely green and silver foliage will be appreciated. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

so I was surprised weeks later to see that the begonias were in full bloom. The flowers were held above the foliage on stiff stems and consisted of clusters of shell-pink orchid-like blooms produced on the ends of the stems — not unlike other Rex begonias. After the blooms faded I snipped off the flower stems.

In t h e s p r i n g o f 2 0 1 7 I decided to give the plants more

space outdoors by planting them in a large container by themselves, but soon realized that with their upright growth habit the container would need a spiller to cascade over the edge, so added a nettle vine. I used a soilless mix in the container and added some slowrelease fertilizer, as Gryphon begonias — the actual name of the ones I had — like rich soil that is kept moderately moist.

I fertilized the container with a soluble 20-20-20 solution a few times toward the end of the summer when I thought the slow-release fertilizer had been exhausted, and was rewarded with an impressive display from the plants. The tropical foliage was striking with large maple-shaped leaves that are deeply cut and lobed and marbled silver and green.

Gryphon begonia is a fastgrowing plant that gets about 60 cm tall. It is named after a mythical creature that has the

body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle — a very appropriate name for this strong and durable plant.

The Gryphon begonia was a Proven Winners introduction and was renamed “Pegasus,” so you may find that name on the plant tag in a garden centre. I think the plant is patented but seed is available, and since it is quite fast growing, raising plants from seed might be an interesting endeavour.

Gryphon begonia works well in pots, hanging baskets and containers. Filler plants will not be needed as the begonia will fill up the whole pot and will object to neighbours encroaching on its space.

I am enjoying my Gryphon begonia in the sunroom this winter, and looking forward to its spring display of bloom, and it will definitely find itself in the outdoor landscape next summer, putting on its spectacular display of tropical foliage. It’s a true winner!

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018

COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Focus Africa — helping women in need Winnipeg group partners with African-led resource centre

By Joan Airey Freelance contributor

F

ocus Africa is a small group of Winnipeggers, half Canadian born and half African born, who partner with Beacon of Hope (BOH), an African-led resource centre in a slum near Nairobi, Kenya.

Myr na Ronald is one of numerous volunteers raising money to help Beacon of Hope.

She has accompanied her husband (an Infectious Disease physician) to Africa over the past 30 years getting to know the people who have been directly affected by the HIV/ AIDS pandemic. At a Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference in Brandon, Ronald had a display of clothing, bags, purses, and kitchen linens for sale, made by the women affected by AIDS. “When in Africa I have taken

Some of the articles made in Africa by women affected by AIDS.

orphans by bus to their doctors’ appointments, counselled teens about re-entering school, helped women to better their tailoring skills, learned how to build schools and made sure money allocated appropriately goes to designated projects. We

leave this month for four weeks in Africa,” said Ronald.

Jane Wathome, the director of BOH, saw many women at work, church and in her neighbourhood caught in a cycle of extreme poverty, the sex trade and HIV/AIDS. She decided to pursue further training in counselling and theology in order to help. During her studies she partnered with MAP International, an organization that helps people living in poverty, and was introduced to a slum in Ongata Rongai.

Wathome and a group of friends arrived in the area in September 2001 where they met women living there who had taken initiative to deal with HIV/AIDS that was afflicting their families, and the creation of Beacon of Hope resulted from this in May 2002.

The mission of BOH is to bring hope to women liv-

ing with and affected by HIV/ AIDS by empowering needs.

Ongata Rongai has a population of 147,000, and to date BOH has helped over 7,000 women through training in income-generating programs, to be independent and have resources for their children to be fed and schooled. The vision of the women of Ongata Rongai is to grow to become a training centre for Nairobi, Kenya and other African countries.

Ronald said, “Our group in Winnipeg does two things to raise funds for BOH. Every October we have a fundraising event. This has been an African dinner or dessert and coffee evening with African drumming and stories. This year we finished paying for a birthing centre so women can have safe, clean deliveries. We also set up the African market several times during the year where we can

Myrna Ronald, a volunteer for Focus Africa, with their display at Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference. PHOTOS: JOAN AIREY

sell the beautiful items, with all funds raised going back to the women of BOH.” To learn more about this project go to: www.focusafrica.ca.

Joan Airey writes from Rivers, Manitoba

Make a turtle stool — perfect for your kids or grandkids

By Blythe Kneeshaw Freelance contributor

W

hen our daughter-inlaw was a little girl, her grandpa made her a turtle stool that she loved, and we decided to make our grandkids some as well.

The template scale for the feet, head and tail shown in the photo is one-inch squares. We made one set of pieces from solid ash. Even though pilot holes were drilled, the solid wood was prone to split when screwed onto the body, so the remaining turtles were

made from three-quarter-inch plywood.

It is easier to cut the feet from a strip of plywood as they will be exactly the same height. Router the pieces to round off the edges, then sand.

The body is a three-quarterinch piece of 10x9-inch plywood.

Draw a line from corner to corner to mark the placement of the legs, then cut the corners off slightly to give the body a rounded appearance. Place one foot at each corner and the head and tail will be placed on the 10-inch line.

Drill pilot holes to stop pieces from splitting, and remember

Template for feet, head and tail.

to apply carpenter’s glue when attaching pieces. After the glue has dried, stain and varnish the pieces.

Place a three-inch piece of

The finished stool. PHOTOS: BLYTHE KNEESHAW

foam on the turtle’s back and pull over that a piece of carpet and staple to the bottom. Rubberbacked mats work very well.

Make slits in the carpet around

the feet, head and tail, and also at the corners to achieve a rounded look. Trim away excess.

Sometimes pieces will overlap but the stapling will hold down evenly.

The carpet will pull over to cover the whole bottom. Fortunately, the carpet does not show joins and overlaps as the pile hides the cuts and the staples.

Felt pads could be added to the bottoms of the feet.

Lastly, stick-on eyeballs are added and the turtle is ready for a child to enjoy.

Blythe Kneeshaw writes from near Carberry, Manitoba

This Old Elevator

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n the 1950s, there were over 700 grain elevators in Manitoba. Today, there are fewer than 200. You can help to preserve the legacy of these disappearing “Prairie sentinels.”

The Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is gathering information about all elevators that ever stood in Manitoba, regardless of their present status. Collaborating with the Manitoba Co-operator it is supplying these images of a grain elevator each week in hopes readers will be able to tell the society more about it, or any other elevator they know of.

MHS Gordon Goldsborough webmaster and Journal editor has developed a website to post your replies to a series of questions about elevators. The MHS is interested in all grain elevators that have served the farm community.

Your contributions will help gather historical information such as present status of elevators, names of companies, owners and agents, rail lines, year elevators were built — and dates when they were torn down (if applicable).

There is room on the website to post personal recollections and stories related to grain elevators. The MHS presently also has only a partial list of all elevators that have been demolished. You can help by updating that list if you know of one not included on that list.

Your contributions are greatly appreciated and will help the MHS develop a comprehensive, searchable database to preserve the farm community's collective knowledge of what was once a vast network of grain elevators across Manitoba.

Please contribute to This Old Grain Elevator website at: http://www. mhs.mb.ca/elevators.

You will receive a response, by email or phone call, confirming that your submission was received.

Goldsborough is 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.

Annexes were built when more grain storage was needed than the elevator could provide. During the Second World War, numerous annexes were built across the Prairies to hold grain that could not be shipped to European markets. “Balloon annexes” were wooden frame structures, so named due to their tendency to balloon outward from the weight of grain inside. Here we see the Manitoba Pool elevator at Eden, in the RM of Rosedale, that had three balloon annexes when this photo was taken in the late 1940s. Built in 1928, the elevator closed in December 1977. Its railway line was abandoned in early 1981 and the tracks were removed. The elevator is no longer present at the site. Source: Manitoba Pool Collection, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University

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BRIDGE CITY DRIVELINE specializing in WANTED: TRACTOR MANUALS, sales bro- drive shaft repair and custom build; inchures, tractor catalogs. 306-373-8012, cluding aluminum, diff service and overhaul. 306-933-4440, Saskatoon, SK MULVEY “FLEA” MARKET. Osborne and Saskatoon, SK. Mulvey Ave. E. Winnipeg. Saturday’s, Sunday’s, Holidays, 10AM-5PM. 40+ vendors. Do you want to target Manitoba farmers? ALLISON TRANSMISSION. Service, Sales A/C. Debit, Visa, MC. Table or booth rental Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator. and Parts. Exchange or rebuild. Call Allied Transmissions Calgary, 1-888-232-2203; info call 204-478-1217, mulveymarket.ca Manitoba’s best-read farm publication.

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1976 CITABRIA 7ECA, 1637 hrs., some assembly required, $8000. 519-595-8580, Milverton, ON.

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2015 DODGE RAM 3500, crew, Longhorn, 6.7L Dually, Aisin auto., 58,500 kms, $64,995. Hendry’s Chrysler 306-528-2171, Nokomis, SK. DL #907140.

2009 DODGE 3500 diesel, 1 ton, 4WD, with 5th wheel deck, 196,000 kms., new clutch, tires & glass, recent front suspension upgrade, $29,500; Double A 5th wheel trailer w/elec. winch, rear loading ramps, $12,500. Lamont Farm Centre Ltd, Lamont, AB. 780-895-7338, 780-940-6372.

2012 DEOPKER SUPER B grain trailer, valid safety, job ready, $69,500. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

2011 FREIGHTLINER DAY-CAB, Detroit DD15, 455 HP, 13 spd., 12 front, 40 rear, 175” WB, 715,800 kms., $44,900. DL# 1679. Norm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB.

PRAIRIE SANDBLASTING & PAINTING. Trailer overhauls and repairs, alum. slopes and trailer repairs, tarps, insurance claims, and trailer sales. Epoxy paint. Agriculture and commercial. Satisfaction guaranteed.

306-744-7930, Saltcoats, SK. 2010 DAKOTA 38’, all aluminum TA, $29,800; 2010 Lode-King 28’ tri-axle lead, $24,000; A-Train wagon, $2900, Saskatoon, SK., 306-222-2413. Pictures online www.trailerguy.ca

2004 F-150 HERITAGE, 5.4 auto., 2WD, only 80,000 kms., uses clean burning natural gas, economical to run! $3900. CamDon Motors Ltd, 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK

2006 DOEPKER SUPER B steel grain trailers, A/R, scales, 11R24.5, 2018 safety WRECKING SEMI-TRUCKS, lots of parts. $39,800. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit: 2013 CHEVY SILVERADO 2500HD, ARE Call Yellowhead Traders. 306-896-2882, www.combineworld.com Topper, $24,995. Greenlight Truck & Auto, Churchbridge, SK. Saskatoon. 306-934-1455, DL#311430, TRUCK BONEYARD INC. Specializing in www.GreenlightAuto.ca obsolete parts, all makes. Trucks bought 2008 NORBERT GOOSENECK stock trailer, for wrecking. 306-771-2295, Balgonie, SK. 7000 lb. axles, 16', 306-662-2951, Maple 2009 FORD ESCAPE, 4x4, 3L, $5995.

Greenlight Truck & Auto. Saskatoon. Sale ONE OF SASK’s largest inventory of used Creek, SK. cnschock@xplornet.ca at 2820 Jasper Ave, Jan 26. DL# 311430. heavy truck parts. 3 ton tandem diesel mo306-934-1455, www.GreenlightAuto.ca CALL GRASSLAND TRAILERS for your best tors and transmissions and differentials for all makes! Can-Am Truck Export Ltd., deal on quality livestock trailers by Titan, Duralite (all aluminum riveted) and Circle 1-800-938-3323.

D. Fall Special in stock- 25’ Duralite, WRECKING VOLVO TRUCKS: Misc. axles $23,500; 20’ Titan smooth wall classic CAB AND CHASSIS: 2010 Chev 3500 1 and parts. Also tandem trailer suspension steel stock, $14,500. 306-640-8034 cell, ton dually, will take 10’-12’ deck, 6L gas, 306-266-2016, Wood Mountain, SK. Email 195,000 kms, fresh Sask. safety, $8900; axles. Call 306-539-4642, Regina, SK. gm93@sasktel.net 2010 Chev 3500 1 ton dually, 2 WD, 6.6L SASKATOON TRUCK PARTS CENTRE Duramax, 330,000 mi., $6900; Mechanic’s Ltd. North Corman Industrial Park.

Special: 2001 Sterling L8500, will take 20’ New and used parts available for 3 ton box, C12 Cat eng., 13 spd. Eaton, 454,000 trucks all the way up to highway tractors, kms, needs motor work, $12,900 OBO. Call for every make and model, no part too big K&L Equipment, 306-795-7779, Ituna, or small. Our shop specializes in custom SK. DL #910885. ladimer@sasktel.net rebuilt differentials/transmissions and clutch installations. Engines are available, YEAR END GRAIN TRUCK CLEARANCE! both gas and diesel. Re-sale units are on 2007 Mack 400 HP, Mack eng., AutoShift, the lot ready to go. We buy wrecks for A/T/C, new 20’ BH&T, new RR tires, parts, and sell for wrecks! For more info.

716,000 kms., exc shape, was $67,500, call 306-668-5675 or 1-800-667-3023.

NOW $63,500; 2007 IH 9200 ISX CumDELIVERY AVAILABLE ON ALL TRAIL- mins, 430 HP, AutoShift, alum. wheels, www.saskatoontruckparts.ca DL #914394 ERS. Full line-up of Wilson Trailers also new 20’ BH&T, fully loaded, 1M kms., real WRECKING TRUCKS: All makes all available in BC! Call for more info on get- nice shape, was $67,500, NOW $63,500; models. Need parts? Call 306-821-0260 ting a trailer delivered to you! With almost 2009 Mack CH613, 430HP Mack, 10 spd., or email: junkman.2010@hotmail.com 2 decades of Sales & Service, we will not 3 pedal AutoShift, new 20’ BH&T, alum.

Wrecking Dodge, Chev, GMC, Ford and be undersold! Call 1-888-641-4508, Bassa- wheels, 1.4M kms. has eng. bearing roll others. Lots of 4x4 stuff, 1/2 ton - 3 ton, no, AB., www.desertsales.ca done, nice shape, was $69,500, NOW buses etc. and some cars. We ship by bus, $65,500; 2007 Kenworth T600, C13 Cat mail, Loomis, Purolator. Lloydminster, SK. 425 HP, 13 spd., AutoShift, new 20’ BH&T, alum. wheels, new paint, 1.0M kms., excellent truck, was $71,500, NOW $67,500; 1996 Midland 24’ tandem grain pup, stiff pole, completely rebuilt, new paint, new WANTED: VOLKSWAGEN JETTA TDI diesel brakes, excellent tries, was $18,500, NOW car. Prefer a 2010-2016 with lower mile$16,500; 1999 IH 4700 S/A w/17’ steel age and 16” tires but will consider others. flat deck, 230,000 kms., IH 7.3 diesel, 10 306-859-4420, Beechy, SK. spd., good tires, was $19,500, NOW $18,000; 2005 IH 9200 tractor, ISX 430 2013 VW JETTA GLI, loaded, $14,995.

HP Cummins, 13 spd., alum. wheels, flat Greenlight Truck & Auto, Saskatoon. Sale 2018 SUNDOWNER Rancher 24’ stock trailtop sleeper, good rubber, was $22,500, Jan 26 at 2820 Jasper Ave. DL# 311430. er, 2 gates, #6105, $25,900. Shop online NOW $19,500. All trucks SK. safetied.

306-934-1455, www.GreenlightAuto.ca 24/7 at: allandale.com 1-866-346-3148 Trades considered. Arborfield SK., Phone 2012 SUBARU LEGACY, heated leather, Merv at 306-276-7518 res., 306-767-2616 command start, 44,128 kms., $19,995. Call cell. DL #906768.

1-877-373-2662 or visit our website 24’ GOOSENECK 3-8,000 lb. axles, $7890; AUTOSHIFT TRUCKS AVAILABLE: Boxed www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL# 914077 Bumper pull tandem lowboys: 18’, 16,000 tandems and tractor units. Contact David SUBARU ONCE A YEAR Demo Sale, own lbs., $4750; 16’, 10,000 lbs., $3390; 16’, 306-887-2094, 306-864-7055, Kinistino, the best of the best for less! Great selec- 7000 lbs., $2975, 8000 lb Skidsteer, $1990 SK. DL #327784. www.davidstrucks.com tion to choose from! 1-877-373-2662, Factory direct.

1-888-792-6283. www.subaruofsaskatoon.com DL#914077 www.monarchtrailers.com 1995 GMC TOPKICK Tandem, Cat 3216, TRAIL KING 50’ step deck, tri-axle, 17.5 Allison 6-spd. auto push button, spring tires at 70%, fresh Manitoba safety, new susp., new Firestone 11R22.5 front/rear, drums and brakes, good shape, $10,000; 20’ Courtney Berg unibody w/rear cross Set of B-train flat decks (24 front, 32 rear), auger side discharge, front and rear hoist tires at 50%, brakes at 70%, $7500. and auger controls, Michel’s roll tarp, ladders, 52,558 kms., 3979 hrs., $89,900.

204-773-6890, Inglis, MB. 306-834-7579, Major, SK. GRAIN TRAILER 40' TA, alum., air ride, COMPONENTS FOR TRAILERS. Shipping recent tarp, no fert., low kms., very good daily across the prairies. Free freight. See 1994 INTERNATIONAL EAGLE Tandem, cond. $28,000. 306-276-2080, Nipawin, SK. “The Book 2013” page 195. DL Parts For Detroit 60, 365 HP, 10 spd., Courtney Berg Trailers, 1-877-529-2239, www.dlparts.ca 20’ unibody w/rear cross auger for side discharge, Michel’s roll up tarp, ladder, 1995 DOEPKER 48’, 102”, tandem machin- front and rear box controls, rear pintle, air ery trailer, single drop, hyd. tail/flip, alum. hook-ups, 11R24.5 tires - new rear/90% outriggers, 12,000 lb. winch, good cond., front, $45,000. 306-834-7579, Major, SK. $30,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. REMOTE CONTROL ENDGATE AND 2012 ADVANCE TC407, tri-axle alum. tank- hoist systems can save you time, energy er, 41,600L, pump, loaded, new condition; and keep you safe this seeding season.

2011 Stainless TC407, tri-axle tanker, Give Kramble Industries a call at 11,100 USG, 2 comp., pump, scrubber. 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or visit us Cell 306-921-7721, 306-752-4909, Mel- online at: www.kramble.net 2008 DEOPKER SUPER B grain trailer, al- fort, SK. INT TANDEM Grain Truck, Cummins um. rims, lifting axle, valid safety, road PRECISION TRAILERS: Gooseneck and 1980 13 spd., good BH&T. Call for a good ready! Very good condition, $64,000. bumper hitch. You’ve seen the rest, now dsl., price!

306-654-7772, Saskatoon, SK. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. own the best. Hoffart Services, Odessa, SK. 306-957-2033 www.precisiontrailers.ca 130 MISC. SEMI TRAILERS, flatdecks, lowbeds, dump trailers, jeeps, tankers, etc. 2015 VOLVO 630, D13 500 HP, I-Shift, NORMS SANDBLASTING & PAINT, 40 Check www.trailerguy.ca for pictures 335,000 kms, 2016 Doepker Super B grain hoppers, Air Max, like new, $191,000 unit. years body and paint experience. We do and prices. 306-222-2413, Saskatoon, SK. metal and fiberglass repairs and integral to BEHNKE DROP DECK semi style and Will separate. 204-761-6695, Brandon, MB daycab conversions. Sandblasting and pintle hitch sprayer trailers. Air ride, paint to trailers, trucks and heavy equip. tandem and tridems. Contact SK: 2002-2003 FLD 120/60 series trucks; 2007 W900, only 690 km, 2009 T800 single turEndura primers and topcoats. A one stop 306-398-8000; AB: 403-350-0336. bo CAT; 2009 Cascadia, only 309,000 km; shop. Norm 306-272-4407, Foam Lake SK. 1981 NEIL’S 61’ double drop flat deck, 2011 T800 550 Cummins; 2011 Pro Star OLDER GRAIN TRAILER, tandem, nice con- snap-off neck, 36’ working deck, $7000; rebuilt Cummins. All units no emissions, dition, priced to sell! Call 306-654-7772, 1998 Trailtech tandem 12’ sprayer trailer, Very good shape. Call 306-752-4909, cell Saskatoon, SK. $8000. Call 780-221-3980, Leduc, AB. 306-921-7721, Melfort, SK.

2012 MACK CXU613 day-cab, Mack MP8, 455HP, Eaton 13 spd., $39,900. DL#1679.

Norm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB. 2013 PROSTAR MAX FORCE 13, 18 spd., 4-way lockers, 46 rears, new rubber, 52” high rise bunk, fresh safety, white colour, v. clean, Wabasco heater, 800,000 kms., $40,000 OBO. 306-334-2958, Balcarres, SK

2013 KENWORTH T660, 550 Cummins ISX, 18 spd., Super 40’s, 804,630 kms.; 2016 Lode King Super B grain trailers, 205,301 kms. $145,000 for both. Will sell separate. 306-741-6297, Swift Current, SK 2008 PETERBILT 386, yellow, daycab, 18 spd., 850,000 kms., 46k rears full locks, vg cond., $24,900. 780-206-1234, Barrhead.

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 1999 JOHNSTON STREET Sweeper, 16,126 miles/3037 hrs., Cummins 4 cyl., hyd. pump, $12,900. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com

2009 F550 6.4 diesel, auto, 2WD, 11’ deck, cruise, air, 200,000 kms, new front rubber, very good, $15,900. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd, 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

2007 YUKON XL 5.3L, heated leather, very good. $5000 done on front end with receipts. Car proof avail., runs/drives great, 315,000 KM. $13,000 OBO. 306-377-4649, Fiske, SK. bcheinrichs7@gmail.com 2014 SUBARU FORESTER, venetian red pearl/black, 2.0 turbo, 58,943 kms., $29,995!! 1-877-373-2662, DL#914077, www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca SUBARU ONCE A YEAR Demo Sale, own the best of the best for less! Great selection to choose from! 1-877-373-2662, www.subaruofsaskatoon.com DL#914077

2015 SUBARU XV, crystal white, black heated lthr, NAV, dual climate ctrl, sunroof, 19 kms., $27,495! 1-877-373-2662 www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL#914077

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.

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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.

NH3 CONVERSION KIT/PUMP. Fits 66’ Bourgault air seeder, $13,000. Call Phil Stewart, 780-813-0131, Vermilion, AB.

BRUSH MULCHING. The fast, effective way to clear land. Four season service, competitive rates, 275 HP unit, also avail. trackhoe with thumb, multiple bucket attachments. Bury rock and brush piles and fence line clearing. Borysiuk Contracting Inc., www.bcisk.ca Prince Albert, SK., 306-960-3804.

MERIDIAN GRAIN AUGERS available with self-propelled mover kits and bin sweeps. Call Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipawin, SK. Toll free 1-888-304-2837.

MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps.

3 PICTURE WINDOWS for sale, triple pane Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: Low-E, 62” square with 2 casement win- www.maverickconstruction.ca dows for venting on top third. $1100 each, REGULATION DUGOUTS: 120x60x14’, stored inside. 306-375-2910, ext. 704 or $2000; 160x60x14’, $2950; 180x60x14’, 307, Kyle, SK. $3450; 200x60x14’, $3950. Larger sizes avail. Travel incl. in SK. See us on FB at saskdugouts. 306-222-8054, Saskatoon SK

YEAR END CLEARANCE: New SLMD 1272 and HD10-53. Used augers: 2013 SaPOLY GRAIN BINS, 40 to 150 bu. for grain kundiak SLMD 1272, loaded, $14,800; cleaning, feed, fertilizer and left over treat- Farm King 10x70 S/A, $6900; HD 8x39 ed seed. Call 306-258-4422, Vonda, SK. w/20 HP Kohler and mover $6950. Also a dealer for Convey-All Conveyors. Leasing www.buffervalley.com available! Call Dale at Mainway Farm Equipment, 306-567-3285, 306-567-7299, Davidson www.mainwayfarmequipment.ca

CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place and finish of concrete floors. Can ac- 2011 JD 225DLC hydraulic excavator, QC commodate any floor design. References bucket, hyd. thumb, Isuzu diesel, $74,500; available. Alexander, MB. 204-752-2069.

2005 JD 700J LGP crawler w/6-way dozer, EROPS, 4000 hrs., $82,500; 1998 Cat 963B LGP crawler loader, 2.5 cu. yd., EROPS, air, heat, $32,500. Robert Harris, Gimli, MB. toll free: 1-877-614-4203, or cell: RESTAURANT IN ASSINIBOIA, successful 204-470-5493. For details & pics of all our operation; Large industrial building in the equipment: robertharrisequipment.com heart of Balken oil play for lease/sale; Kenosee Lake cabin and campground for 2015 JOHN DEERE 130G track hoe, sale, incl. carwash and laundry mat; Devel- w/quick attach bucket, hyd thumb, c/w opment lands around Regina/Saskatoon; 50” ditching bucket, excellent shape, 600 Large building and property on Broadway hrs. $122,250. Lawrence 204-586-9176 or Ave., Yorkton; 3 lots on South Service Micheal shop, 204-871-6483, Austin, MB. Road, Weyburn.

Brian Teifenbach, 306-536-3269, Colliers Int. Regina, SK., JCB 550-17 EXTENDED boom forklift, very good condition, $85,000. 204-243-2453, www.collierscanada.com High Bluff, MB.

CONTAINERS FOR SALE OR RENT: All MERIDIAN AUGERS IN STOCK: swings, sizes. Now in stock: 53’ steel and insulated truck loading, Meridian SP movers. Call Hoffart Services Inc., Odessa, SK., stainless steel. 306-861-1102 Radville, SK. 306-957-2033.

SHIPPING CONTAINERS FOR SALE. 20’53’, delivery/ rental/ storage available. For MERIDIAN TRUCKLOADING AUGERS inventory and prices call: 306-262-2899, TL10-39, loaded, $18,300 HD10-46, loaded, $19,500; HD10-59, loaded, $20,425; Saskatoon, SK. www.thecontainerguy.ca TL12-39, loaded with 37 EFI engine, $20,370. 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK.

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SUITE BUSINESS SERVICES: Helping small businesses to start, grow and sell their business. Small businesses for sale, from $50,000 to $500,000. Phone or text Bert, 306-664-BERT(2378).

BUSINESS FOR SALE, $120,000. Offers great growth opportunity in consumer and pet industry. Saskatoon, SK. Call Bert 306-664-BERT(2378).

PROVEN FARMING SKILLS but need land?

Operator with growth to ownership opportunities available; May require relocation.

2008 JD 850J WLT crawler dozer, c/w Call 403-775-0536.

ROP’S, 12’ 6-way blade, SBG pads, 8700 hrs., $95,000. 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. EXCAVATOR BUCKETS, various shapes and sizes for different excavators. Call 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. 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

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(3) Cat 641 motor 28 yard scrapers; Cat 235 excavator w/digging bucket, not used in 5 yrs.; Cat D9-G hyd. dozer w/tow 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) LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom 204-667-2867 or (Fax) 204-667-2932. hay hauling. 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK. INTERNATIONAL CLOSED DOOR baler, model NA1450; 2 hydraulic pin presses; 1 portable hydraulic track press; 3 Goodman battery locomotive carts w/hundreds of JIM’S TUB GRINDING, H-1100 Haybuster feet of track. Cambrian Equipment Sales, with 400 HP, serving Saskatchewan. Call Winnipeg, MB. (Ph) 204-667-2867 or (Fax) 204-667-2932.

306-334-2232, 306-332-7332, Balcarres.

1998 D6RLGP TWIN TILT angle dozer, winch, full cab canopy, would trade for D6N. 306-278-7740, Porcupine Plain, SK. NEUFELD ENT. CORRAL CLEANING, payloader, Bobcat with rubber tracks and vertical beater spreaders.

Phone 306-220-5013, 306-467-5013, Hague, SK.

PULL TYPE ROAD GRADER, conversion by CWK Enterprises, Humboldt, SK. 16’ blade, used 1 day, new condition, $35,000.

306-476-7728, Fife Lake, SK.

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2008 G940 TANDEM drive articulated, Volvo D7E eng., net 165 HP, HTE 1160, shuttle auto shift trans. (11 fwd, 6 rvs), 14’ BUILDING FOR SALE, 100’x125’, to be takmold board, 5688 hrs., $74,800. DL#1679. en down, $40,000. 204-997-9689, WinniNorm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB. peg, MB. SKIDSTEER ATTACHMENTS: Buckets, rock AFAB INDUSTRIES POST frame buildings. buckets, grapples, weld-on plates, hyd. au- For the customer that prefers quality. gers, brush cutters and more large stock. 1-888-816-AFAB (2322), Rocanville, SK. Top quality equipment, quality welding and sales. Call Darcy at 306-731-3009, STEEL CLADDING: NEW Grade A, 3/4” 306-731-8195, Craven, SK. high rib, 29 gauge Galvalume $0.82/SF or ATTACHMENTS PARTS COMPONENTS White-White $0.99/SF cut to your length! for construction equipment. Attachments All accessories available. Prairie Steel, Clafor dozers, excavators and wheel loaders. vet, SK. Call 1-888-398-7150, or email Used, Re-built, Surplus, and New equip- buildings@prairiesteel.com ment parts and major components. Call Western Heavy Equipment 306-981-3475, Prince Albert, SK. 1978 CHAMPION 740 motor grader, Detroit 6 cylinder, showing 2568 hours, 14’ moldboard, scarifier, cab, new rear tires, $16,900. Call 1-800-667-4515, or visit: www.combineworld.com

FARM/CORPORATE PROJECTS. Call A.L. Management Group for all your borrowing 2006 KOMATSU D65 EX-15. Approx. 5950 and lease requirements. 306-790-2020, org. hrs., 24” pads, straight tilt blade, 3 tooth ripper, excellent working cond., very Regina, SK. good UC, $139.500. Bush canopy available.

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DEBTS, BILLS AND charge accounts too Call 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. high? Need to resolve prior to spring? Call us to develop a professional mediation 1986 CASE 450C dozer crawler, 6-way plan, resolution plan or restructuring plan. blade $9500. www.waltersequipment.com 204-525-4521. Minitonas, MB. Call toll free 1-888-577-2020.

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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 without any mess; Wireless Magnetic LED Light - Position your swing auger at night 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

2007 CAT D6N LGP Dozer, new undercarriage, 34” pads, diff. steer, 6-way blade, 16,131 hrs., $94,900. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 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 HYDRAULIC SCRAPERS: LEVER 60, 70, 80, and 435, 4 to 30 yd. available. Rebuilt for years of trouble-free service. Lever Holdings Inc. 306-682-3332 Muenster, SK.

HORNOI LEASING NEW and used 20’ and REMOTE CONTROL SWING AUGER 40’ sea cans for sale or rent. Call movers, trailer chute openers, endgate and hoist systems, wireless full bin alarms, 306-757-2828, Regina, SK. swing belt movers, wireless TractorCams, 20’ and 40’ SHIPPING CONTAINERS motorized utility carts. All shipped directly and storage trailers. Large Sask. inventory. to you. Safety, convenience, reliability.

Kramble Industries at 306-933-2655, Phone 1-800-843-3984 or 306-781-2600.

Saskatoon, SK. or www.kramble.net 20’ TO 53’ CONTAINERS. New, used and modified. Available Winnipeg, MB; Regina and Saskatoon, SK. www.g-airservices.ca 306-933-0436.

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 1-866-938-8537, Portage la Prairie, MB. 2012 BRENT 882 Grain Cart, 850 bu., 1000 PTO, hydraulic spout, 500 bu./min., very good condition, $37,800 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com

2012 BRANDT 1020XR, S/N 101932, 1000 PTO or hyd. drive, 900/60R32, roll-over tarp, scale, hyd. pivot spout, 20” auger, original owner, like new cond., $52,000.

BEAVER CONTAINER SYSTEMS, new 306-834-7579, Major, SK. used sea containers, all sizes.

WINTER SPECIAL: All post & stud frame and farm buildings. Choose sliding doors, over- 306-220-1278, Saskatoon and Regina, SK. head doors or bi-fold doors. New-Tech Construction Ltd 306-220-2749, Hague, SK HUTCH C-1600 ROTORY grain cleaner, $4500. 306-773-9058, 306-741-0897, POLE BARNS, WOODSTEEL packages, Stewart Valley, SK. tdwall@sasktel.net hog, chicken and dairy barns. Construction and concrete crews available. Mel or Scott, DUAL STAGE ROTARY SCREENERS and MR Steel Construction, 306-978-0315, KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD/ OPI STORMAX. Kwik Kleen 5-7 tube. Call 204-857-8403, Hague, SK. For sales and service east central SK. and Portage la Prairie, MB. or visit online: BEHLEN STEEL BUILDINGS, quonsets, MB., call Gerald Shymko, Calder, SK., www.zettlerfarmequipment.com convex and rigid frame straight walls, 306-742-4445 or toll free 1-888-674-5346.

CUSTOM COLOR SORTING chickpeas to grain tanks, metal cladding, farm- commustard. Cert. organic and conventional. mercial. Construction and concrete crews. KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD Aeration Sales 306-741-3177, Swift Current, SK. Guaranteed workmanship. Call your Saska- and Service. R.J. Electric, Avonlea, SK. Call 306-868-2199 or cell 306-868-7738. toon and Northwest Behlen Distributor, SEED CLEANERS MOUNTED on trailer.

Janzen Steel Buildings, 306-242-7767, Clipper air screen, 6 indents, 45 KW genOsler, SK. set, etc. 403-892-8377, Coalhurst, AB. WOOD POST BUILDING packages or built on site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com

HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS 10 to 25 yds., exc. cond.; Loader and scraper tires, custom conversions available. Looking for Cat cable scrapers. Quick Drain Sales Ltd., 306-231-7318, 306-682-4520 Muenster SK 2002 JCB 214 SLP backhoe; Case 2870 w/Degelman dozer; Fassi hyd. arm & 10’ 1-ton steel deck. Call 306-240-8086.

WANTED: USED RUBBER TIRE HOE, similar to medium sized track hoe.

306-304-1959, Meadow Lake, SK. 1980 CAT D6D, PS, hyd. angle dozer w/tilt, wide pad, & winch, very low hrs.

Call Scott, 306-533-6397, Regina, SK. KELLO/ ROME/ TOWNER/ KEWANEE disc blades and bearings: 22” to 36” Ingersoll notched. Oilbath, regreaseable and ball bearings to service all makes of construction and ag. discs. 1-888-500-2646, Red Deer, AB. www.kelloughs.com RECLAMATION CONTRACTORS: Bigham 3 and 4 leg mechanical trip 3 PTH Paratills in stock; Parts for Bigham & Tye paratills; 6 & 8 leg paratills available for farm use.

1-888-500-2646, Red Deer, AB.

BUILD YOUR OWN conveyors, 6”, 7”, 8” and 10” end units available; Transfer conveyors and bag conveyors or will custom build. Call for prices. Master Industries Inc. www.masterindustries.ca Phone STRAIGHT WALL BUILDING packages or 1-866-567-3101, Loreburn, SK. built on site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: RM45 MERIDIAN, $35,000; RM55 Mewww.warmanhomecentre.com ridian, $36,500; 1645 TL Convey-All, $29,500. Call 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg.

INSULATED FARM SHOP packages or built on site, for early booking call 2008 WALINGA TRIDEM live bottom, 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: 107,493 kms, alum., 12 comp., hydraulic www.warmanhomecentre.com control, very good condition, $44,800.

1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com WOOD POST BUILDING packages or built on site. For early booking call WESTERN GRAIN DRYER, mfg. of new 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: grain dryers w/advanced control systems. www.warmanhomecentre.com Updates for roof, tiers, auto moisture controller. Economic designed dryers avail.

STRAIGHT WALL BUILDING packages or 1-888-288-6857, westerngraindryer.com built on site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: CONT. FLOW BEHLEN M700, propane, sinwww.warmanhomecentre.com gle phase, good cond., Canola screens, $10,500. 306-690-8105, Moose Jaw, SK. INSULATED FARM SHOP packages or built on site, for early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com FEED BLOWER SYSTEMS, Sales and Ser1998 SNORKELIFT ATB46N boom lift, SN 2010 TERRAGATOR 8204 w/AirMax Preci- vice. Piping, blower and airlock repairs.

974668, 2WD, Kubota, dsl., 20 HP, 4 sec. sion 2 bed (2 bin), 4400 hrs., $93,500 John Beukema 204-497-0029, Carman, MB boom, 1341 hrs., $9500. 306-834-7579, USD; 2014 Rogator 1300 AirMax, 60’ 2011 BRANDT 5200EX grain vacuum, Major, SK. booms, 3220 hrs., $127,000; 2012 Ag- 1000 PTO, new flighting, good condition, Chem Rogator 1300, 2000 hrs., 120’ $14,900. Phone 1-800-667-4515 or visit: booms, $152,000. Call 406-576-3402 or www.combineworld.com 406-466-5356, Choteau, MT. Visit us onTIM’S CUSTOM BIN MOVING and Haul- line at www.fertilizerequipment.net ing Inc. Up to 22’ diameter. 204-362-7103 binmover50@gmail.com

GREAT PRICES ON new, used and remanufactured engines, parts and accessories for diesel pickups. Large inventory, engines can be shipped or installed. Give us a call or check: www.thickettenginerebuilding.ca GRAIN BIN INSTALLATION. Large diameThickett Engine Rebuilding. 204-532-2187, ter bin setup, concrete, and repairs. Now Russell, MB. booking Spring 2018. Quadra Develop3406B, N14, SERIES 60, running engines ment Corp., 1-800-249-2708. and parts. Call Yellowhead Traders, FOR ALL YOUR grain storage, hopper 306-896-2882, Churchbridge, SK. cone and steel floor requirements contact: WANTED DIESEL CORES: ISX and N14 Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipawin, SK. Toll Cummins, C15 Cats, Detroits Ddec 3, 4, free: 1-888-304-2837.

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BOOK NOW, TAKE DELIVERY, DON’T 290 CUMMINS, 350 Detroit, 671 Detroit, PAY UNTIL NOVEMBER, 2018. Top Series 60 cores. 306-539-4642, Regina, SK quality MERIDIAN bins. Price includes: skid, ladders to ground, manhole, set-up and delivery within set radius. Meridian Hopper Combo SPECIAL: 5000 bu., FARM AND INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL $14,990. We manufacture superior quality motor sales, service and parts. Also sale hoppers and steel floors for all makes and of, and repairs to, all makes and sizes of sizes. Know what you are investing in. Call pumps and phase converters, etc. Tisdale and find out why our product quality and Motor Rewinding 1984 Ltd., price well exceeds the competition. We 306-873-2881, fax 306-873-4788, 1005A- also stock replacement lids for all makes & 111th Ave., Tisdale, SK. tmr@sasktel.net models of bins. Leasing available. Hoffart Website: www.tismtrrewind.com Services Inc., 306-957-2033, Odessa, SK. BIN MOVING, all sizes up to 19’ diameter, w/wo floors; Also move liquid fert. tanks.

306-629-3324, 306-741-9059, Morse, SK.

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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.

BALE SPEARS, high quality imported from Italy, 27” and 49”, free shipping, excellent pricing. Call now toll free 1-866-443-7444, Stonewall, MB.

2012 CASE 4530, 3-bin, 70’ booms, 2000 hrs., ext. warranty, $145,000; 2011 4520 1-bin, 70’ booms, $143,000; 2010 Case 3520, 3-bin, 2670 hrs., $115,000; SPECIAL: 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; 2010 International New Leader G4, 3000 hrs., $88,000; 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; 2012 Wilmar Wrangler 4560, loader, 1600 hrs., bucket and fork, $29,500; 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

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2013 JOHN DEERE 569, net wrap & twine, Mega Wide plus pick-up, only 5500 bales, variable core, kicker, 1000 PTO, exc. cond., $41,000. 306-834-7204, Kerrobert, SK.

2010 JD A400, 1132 hrs., AutoSteer, 36’ BROCK (BUTLER) GRAIN BIN PARTS USED FERTILIZER SPREADERS: 4-8T; New HB header, UII PUP, new knife & guards, and accessories available at Rosler Con- Loftness 8T; used Wilmar 16T tender. Call $53,400. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit 1-866-938-8537, Portage, MB. www.combineworld.com struction. 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK.

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2009 CHALLENGER SP115C, 30’, Outback AutoSteer, PUR, roto-shears, gauge wheels, 2356 hrs., $39,900.

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2010 HONEYBEE 88C 42’ flex draper, pea auger, vg cond., $25,000 Cdn OBO.; Also available late model Class/Lexion, MacDon, CIH, NH & JD flex heads and flex drapers. 218-779-1710. Delivery available.

AGCO GLEANER-MF FLEX PLATFORMS: 500 25’-30’; 800 25’-30’; 8200 30’-35’. Some with air systems. Gary Reimer, 204-326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy.#12 North, Steinbach, MB.

2012 CASE 8120, 3016 table, 1106 sep. hrs., duals, lat. tilt, Pro 700, 262 AutoSteer, CIH FLEX PLATFORMS: 1020 20’-25’-30’; power fold top, exc.cond., $195,000 OBO. 2020 25’-30’-35’; 3020 25’-30’-35’. Some with air systems. Call Gary Reimer, 403-340-9484, Trochu, AB. 204-326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment, BOOKING NORCAN SOYBEAN Common Hwy.#12 North, Steinbach MB. #1. Put the new big red in your shed, not the seed dealers! Buy a bigger Case/IH NEW HEADER TRANSPORTS 30’-42’: 30’ combine! Early discounts. Call Norcan ESB 30 Arc Fab, $30,000; 36’ SB 36 w/dolly, $4950; 36’ Mankota 36’, lights, brakes, Seeds, 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch, MB. $5450; 42’ Harvest International 3842, 2000 CIH 2388 w/1015 header, $55,000; brakes, lights, $7500. Reimer Farm Equip2004 2388 w/2015 PU header, $95,000; ment, Hwy. #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Call 2006 2388 w/2015 PU header, $110,000; Gary at 204-326-7000.

2002 2388 w/2015 PU header, $80,000; 2008 2588 w/2015 PU header, $135,000. JOHN DEERE FLEX PLATFORMS: A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 920F-925F-930F-630F-635F. Some with air 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. systems. Reimer Farm Equipment, #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Call Gary at 204-326-7000.

2004 CASE/IH 2388, AFX rotor, lateral tilt feeder house, HHC, chopper, rock trap, JD FLEX PLATFORMS: 922 - 925 w/wo air; grain tanks extension w/roll tarp, DMC II 630F - 635F w/wo air reel. CIH Flex Platmoisture tester, exc. cond, very good tires, forms: 1020 25’ w/wo air reel - 30’ w/wo $65,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. air reel; 2020 30’ w/wo air reel - 35’; 3020 - 35’. NH Flex: 973 25’ - 30’; 74C 30’ PRICE REDUCED! 2002 CIH 2388, low hrs., 30’ 740CF 30’ air reel. Agco Flex Platchopper, very good PU, always shedded. 35’; forms: 500 25’ - 30’; 800 25’ w/air reel 306-654-7772, Saskatoon, SK. 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 2012 760TT, Terra Trac, 3000/1500 hrs., bar kit. Reimer Farm Equipment, #12 N, new tracks, $40,000 w/o, nice, $159,000 Steinbach, MB. Call Gary at 204-326-7000.

Cdn. OBO. 218-779-1710. Delivery avail.

NEW HOLLAND FLEX PLATFORMS: 74C PRICED TO SELL! Multiple Lexion 700 & 30’-35’; 973 25’-30’; 740 CF 30’-35’. Some 500 series combines. All in excellent con- with air systems. Call Gary Reimer, dition. 218-779-1710. Delivery available.

204-326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment, 2006 LEXION 590R, 1850 sep. hrs., 2900 Hwy.#12 North, Steinbach MB. eng. hrs., 4x4, loaded, $99,500 CAD OBO. 2003 NH/HB 94C 30’ rigid draper, pea Delivery available. 218-779-1710. auger, hyd. fore/aft., transport, PUR, for 2012 CLAAS/LEXION 740, 400 sep./700 CR/CX/AFX, other kits avail. $23,800. eng. hrs., 4x4, loaded, exc. cond, $219,000 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com CAD OBO. Delivery avail. 218-779-1710.

MACDON PEA AUGERS: Brand new, 35’ 2- 2009 LEXION 585R Track Combines, $5450, or 40’ - $5950. Honeybee also 1700 sep./2400 eng. hrs., 4x4, loaded, al- available! Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit ways shedded, exc. condition, $169,000 www.combineworld.com CAD OBO. Delivery avail. 218-779-1710.

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LIKE NEW CR9090, CR9080 and CR8090, 1-800-667-4515 or visit our website: all very low hours. Discounted prices, save www.combineworld.com $$$. Call 218-779-1710. Delivery available.

2013 MACDON FD75 35’ flex draper, 2012 NH CR9090 Elevation, 1200 hrs., transport, pea auger, AHHC, tilt. For JD, AutoSteer, 650R42 duals, European-built, CNH, Agro, Claas available. $69,900.

MacDon/CNH pickups and headers 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com available. $198,000. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com RECONDITIONED rigid and flex, most makes and sizes; also header transports.

2003 NH CR940, 2588 hrs., chopper, Ed Lorenz, 306-344-4811, Paradise Hill, SK spreader, unload auger ext., 900/ 60R32 www.straightcutheaders.com fronts, headers/PU’s available, $49,800.

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EASY www.fyfeparts.com ON TRACTOR LOADER, new cond., 2 2004 JD 7300, 1497 cutter head hrs., frames for long or shorter tractor body, always stored in heated shop, owned for $7000. 306-221-3887, Saskatoon, SK. 10+ yrs., many new parts over last two years, c/w KP and 2004 JD 686 corn head and 2011 JD 630C grass head, excellent cond., $195,000 OBO. For details call 604-819-8870, Chilliwack, BC. MULTIPLE 9870 & 9770 JD combines, field ready with very low hours (700-900 sep. hrs.), various options in excellent condition. Delivery available. Ph 218-779-1710.

2005 JD 9860STS, GS yield and moisture, AHHC, F/A, 3106 hrs., JD/MacDon pickups and headers available. $59,800.

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2014 JD S690, 753 hrs., duals, ContourMaster, 2630 monitor, Prodrive, premium cab. JD/MacDon pickup & headers available, $289,900. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit www.combineworld.com

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DEGELMAN SIGNATURE 7200 rockpicker, completely redone. All new hard faced fingers, hydronic drive, new paint, tires 95%, field ready, in mint condition!! 2 to chose from $24,500. Can deliver. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

DI-ACRO HAND SHEAR 36”x16 gauge, mild steel and 24’’ BerkRoy finger break complete with heavy duty cabinet on castors, $2,300. 204-800-1859, Winnipeg, MB.

SCHULTE 9600 3PTH, used very little, $3900. 306-752-4909, cell 306-921-7721, Melfort, SK. FARM-KING MODELS: 96”, $3900; 84”, $3450; 74”, $3200; 50”, $1900.

306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK. 7’ SCHULTE FRONT MOUNT snowblower for 60-90 HP tractor, in working order, $2750. Call 306-845-2404, Livelong, SK.

2014 NH SP240F 120’, 1200 gal. SS tank, IntelliView IV , AccuBoom, AutoBoom, Stk 024111, $299,000.

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2011 SPRA-COUPE 4660, AutoSteer, AutoBoom 400 gal tank, 700 hrs., 125 HP Perkins diesel, 5 speed Manual, Master Switch, JD Greenstar 2600 display w/ Starfire ITC receiver, 9.00x24-8 ply front, 320/85Rx24 rear, $95,000 Cdn. Paradise Valley, AB. Text or email only please: 780-871-3963, teasdalejw@gmail.com 2013 CASE/IH 3330 high clearance sprayer. Has active suspension, sectional control, AutoBoom height, 100’ boom, 2 sets of tires, crop dividers, Outback S3, leather interior, 580 engine hours. Mint condition, bought new, always stored inside. Rented farm out. $255,000 OBO. 204-662-4474, or 204-851-0211, Antler SK. 1994 PATRIOT 150XL, 3438 hrs., 750 gal., 70’, JD 4.5L, decent affordable sprayer! $24,800. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit www.combineworld.com 2013 JD 4940, 120’, 1500 eng, 380 tires & duals on rear, 1200 gal. stainless, all options, $219,000. 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK 2014 CASE 4430, $270,000, 2035 engine hours, 120’ boom, AIM, Viper Pro, fan reverser, 2 sets of tires, dividers, loaded, exc. cond., 306-398-7677, Cutknife, SK. 2013 JD 4940 120’, BoomTrac, sect. control, AutoSteer, 2630 monitor, Stk: 02415, $240,000. 1-888-905-7010, Prince Albert, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2010 JD 4830, 100’ booms, 1000 gal. tank, AutoSteer, Swath Pro, AutoBoom St: 021520, $215,000. 1-888-905-7010, Saskatoon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 1998 CASE/IH SPX3185 90’, 2 sets tires Stk: 017817, $79,000. 1-888-905-7010, Saskatoon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2015 CASE/IH 4440 120’, AIM, AutoBoom, AccuBoom, Pro 700 Stk: 023153 $475,000. 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca FLOAT TIRES TO fit JD 4940, 850/55R42, two years old, very good condition, $18,000. 306-741-7743, Swift Current, SK.

120' SPRAY-AIR TRIDENT 3600 sprayer, with 1300 gallon tank, $16,000 Cdn. Please call 406-783-5510, Scobey, MT. Email: charlie@cahillseeds.com FLOATER TIRES: Factory rims & tires: JD 4045, 710/60R46, $20,500; 800/55R46, $22,500; JD 4038, Case 4420, 650/65R38 Michelin tires and rims. Sprayer duals available. 306-697-2856, Grenfell, SK. 2012 FLEXI-COIL S68XL 96’ High Clearance, 1350 tank, hyd. drive, RiteHeight boom ctrl, sec. ctrl, 480/80R38 tractor lug, $26,000. 306-834-7579, Major, SK.

2013 JD S670, w/615 pickup, loaded up nice, 1200 sep., $199,000; 2009 JD 9770, 1350 sep., no pickup, $125,000. DEUTZ TRACTOR SALVAGE: Used parts for Deutz and Agco. Uncle Abe’s Tractor, 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK. 519-338-5769, fax 338-3963, Harriston ON 1990 JD 9500, 4140 sep. hrs., dual spd. cyl., chopper, chaff spreader, recent tires, GOODS USED TRACTOR parts (always all belts good, 912 PU. Taking offers. Call buying tractors). David or Curtis, Roblin, or text Wes at 306-587-7401, Cabri, SK. MB., 204-564-2528, 1-877-564-8734.

2006 JD 9760 STS, 3100 engine hours, G.S. TRACTOR SALVAGE, JD tractors new duals, big rubber on back, shedded, only. Call 306-497-3535, Blaine Lake, SK. heavy land use, 1 harvest since Greenlighted, $91,000. 306-596-6197, Estlin, SK. SMITH’S TRACTOR WRECKING. Huge inventory new and used tractor parts.

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2002 JOHN DEERE 1820 air drill, 54', 10" spacing, auto rate, 2012 Agtron primary blockage system, Bourgault 3" carbide knock on spoons, JD structural reinforcement kit on drill and cart, 1900 JD 350 bu. cart, $27,000 OBO. Call 306-268-4350, 306-268-7858, Bengough, SK.

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2011 BOURGAULT 3310, 74’, 12” spacings, MRS, 6550 tank, X20 monitor, duals, bag lift, 2 fans, 1 high capacity fan, cameras, Capstan NH3 kit, sectional control, $177,000. 204-748-8156, Elkhorn, MB.

2009 JD 1835/1910, MRB, NH3, 4" rubber packers, double shoot, 430 tank size, $65,000 OBO. 306-921-6693, Melfort, SK.

2010 NEW HOLLAND P2060 air drill, 70', 10" spacing, single shoot, 3.5" carbide tips, 4" rubber packers, scraper & harrow kit, TBH hitch, low acres, shedded, mint condi$58,000. 306-372-4868, Luseland, SK. 2009 MF 9795, 1723 hrs., duals, Field- COMB-TRAC SALVAGE. We sell new and tion, star III, Redekop MAV chopper, pick- used parts for most makes of tractors, marjandsheldonreiter@gmail.com ups/headers available, $97,800. combines, balers, mixmills and swathers.

CIH ATX700, 60’, 12” sp., 5.5” rubber pack1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 306-997-2209, 1-877-318-2221, Borden, ers, Raven NH3, closers and single bar harSK. We buy machinery. row. $28,000. 204-648-7085, Grandview.

JD 1830/1910, 61’, 10” spacing, 4” SP, dutch paired row, DS if wanted. TBH 430 bu. cart, variable rate conveyor, power cal.

Will separate, negotiable, $65,000 OBO. 306-743-7622, Langenburg, SK. 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. 2011 SEED HAWK 50’ toolbar, 12” spacing, w/600 cart, dual wheels, auger and bag lift, $225,000; 2010 Seed Hawk 66’ toolbar, 12” spacing, w/400+ Seed Hawk seed cart, 2 fans, seed and fertilizer kit, also NH kit, $175,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. CONCORD 56’, 12” spacing, Bourgault 3” paired row tips, duals on wings, scraper on each packer wheels, exc. cond., $14,500; 3400 Concord tank, $9500, or both for $22,000 OBO. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. 2009 SEEDMASTER 60-12, 60’, 12” spacing, DS, new manifold, new hoses, vg cond., $68,000 or w/JD 1910 air tank, $115,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. 2008 SEEDMASTER TXB 66-12, 66’, 12” spacing, dual wheels, double shoot, all new manifold and new hoses, mint cond., $78,000, or $125,000 with JD 1910 air tank. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. 2006 JD 1820, 61’, 12” space, single shoot, steel packers, new hoses, excellent cond., $19,500; JD 1900 air tank, single shoot, loading auger, excellent cond. $22,500 or $39,500 for both. Call 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. FLEXI-COIL 2320 TBH air tank, double shoot, excellent condition, $11,500 OBO. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. 2- 60’ EZEE-ON 7560 Air Drills, 400 bu. 4000 TBH tanks, var. rate ctrl, new in 2007, 2000 ac./year per drill, 3” steel packers, 8” spacing, 2” paired row openers, excellent for organic farming, $40,000 per drill OBO. Charles Cattle Co. Ltd., 306-457-7529, Stoughton, SK. 2010 SEED HAWK, 40’, 12” spacing, liquid kit, w/340 bu. JD 1910 cart, $112,000 OBO; Pattison 2100 gal. liquid fert. cart, $23,500. 306-698-7787, Wolseley, SK. 2004 NH SD440 57’, 12” spacing, DS, Dutch side band openers, 4” rubber packers, SC430 NH tank, var. rate, 430 bu., $53,000. 306-861-0176, Yellow Grass, SK. 2010 BOURGAULT 3310 66’ 12” spacing W/MRB, 6550 cart w/liquid kit. $165,000 OBO. 306-552-4905, Eyebrow, SK. 2010 JD 1830 drill, 61’ 10” spacing, w/430 bu. 1910 grain cart, duals, double shoot, $69,000 OBO. 306-552-4905, Eyebrow, SK. ATOM JET OPENERS: Buy now at preseason discounts. We take your trades!

1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 1996 BOURGAULT 5710, S/N AH2458, 40’, 9.8” spacing, single shoot, 3.5” steel packers, Model 4300, 3 compartment, 120/60/120 TBH tank, S/N 6717, single flow, 3/4” knock on openers, $12,000.

306-834-7579, Major, SK. 2012 BOURGAULT 3320 QDA 66’, 10” sp., c/w L6550 tank, MRB, NH3 kit, duals Stk: 02317, $295,000. Call 1-888-905-7010, Saskatoon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2010 CASE/IH ATX700 70’, rubber packers, high float tires, double shoot, Stk: 020407, $94,000. 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2010 SEEDMASTER 72-12 72’, 12” space, JD 1910 air cart, 3-tank metering, Stk: 020958, $132,000. 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2006 BOURGAULT 5710 40’ 9.8” spacing, steel packers, 6200 Stk: 020500, Cart $60,000. www.redheadequipment.ca or 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, SK. 2009 SEED HAWK 66-12 66’, 12” sp., single knife, pneum. pkrs, 30.8 rear tires, Stk: 021475, $205,000. 888-905-7010, Prince Albert, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2010 CASE/IH ATX700 70’, rubber packers, high float tires, double shoot, Stk: 020407, $94,000. 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2010 JOHN DEERE 1830 61’, 10” sp, DS dry, Poirier openers, Alpine liquid kit Stk: 023964, $67,500. 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2013 SEED HAWK 60-12 60’, twin wing, semi pneumatic packers, DD, SH 800 TBH, Stk 017840, $335,000. Prince Albert, SK., 1-888-905-7010. redheadequipment.ca 2009 SEED HAWK 72-12 72’, 12” sp., twin wing, pneum. packers, 600 TBT cart, stk: 021477, $205,000. 888-905-7010, Prince Albert, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2010 JOHN DEERE 1830 61’, 10” sp, DS dry, Poirier openers, Alpine liquid kit Stk: 023964, $67,500. 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2012 BOURGAULT 3320 QDA 66’, 10” sp., c/w L6550 tank, MRB, NH3 kit, duals Stk: 02317, $295,000. Call 1-888-905-7010, Saskatoon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2006 BOURGAULT 5710 40’ 9.8” spacing, steel packers, 6200 Stk: 020500, Cart $60,000. www.redheadequipment.ca or 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, SK. 2015 SEED HAWK 84-12 84’ 12” spacing, steel seed and fertilizer knives, Stk: 022334, $352,000. 1-888-905-7010, Saskatoon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2009 SEED HAWK 66-12 66’, 12” sp., single knife, pneum. pkrs, 30.8 rear tires, Stk: 021475, $205,000. 888-905-7010, Prince Albert, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2013 SEED HAWK 60-12 60’, twin wing, semi pneumatic packers, DD, SH 800 TBH, Stk 017840, $335,000. Prince Albert, SK., 1-888-905-7010. redheadequipment.ca FLEXI-COIL 5000 51’, 9”, w/2320, 4” rubber packers, in-row liquid phos. $18,500.

306-690-8105, Moose Jaw, SK. 2009 SEED HAWK 66’, 12” spacing, single knife, 600 bu. TBH tank, 30.8 rear tires, always shedded, field ready, $160,000.

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2015 JD 1910 TBT air cart. Has 650 duals, hydraulic variable rate, sectional control capability, 10” remote hydraulic auger with conveyor flip out. Only did 6000 acres, always shedded, new condition. Rented farm out. $98,000 OBO. Call 204-662-4474, or 204-851-0211, Antler, SK.

2015 CASE 580 QT, 1029 hrs., full load, ext. warranty, PTO, eng. break, $430,000 OBO. 403-575-5491, Coronation, AB.

1996 BOURGAULT 8800, 40’, 8” spacing, single fan, manifolds granular package, sweeps, knock on, front castor wheels, $21,000. 306-834-7579, Major, SK.

STEIGER TRACTOR PARTS. New and used, from radiator to drawpin, 1969 to 1999. Give us a call 1-800-982-1769 or www.bigtractorparts.com

2016 CASE/IH STX 420, 4 wheel drive, 710/R42 Firestone tires, full AutoSteer, PTO, high capacity pump, 4 remotes, full LED light package and deluxe cab. Field 54’ 2008 BOURGAULT 5710, good shape, ready, 410 hrs., $350,000. 403-901-5390, new points, c/w 2013 6550 tank, X30 Strathmore, AB. monitor, $125,000 OBO. 306-567-7703 or 306-567-7184, Davidson, SK.

1986 PANTHER 1000, with 3406 CAT engine, PowerShift transmission (no PTO), rubber, 9800 hrs., 335 HP, 40 2006 JD 1780 planter, 12 row, 30" spacing, 20.8x38 hydraulic, new batteries, and tires are vacuum tanks with liquid fertilizer, and row GPM decent.

306-594-7716, Norquay, SK. cleaners. Good condition, $35,000 Cdn. OBO. 406-783-5510, Scobey, MT. Email: 1998 STEIGER 9390, 4WD, S/N charlie@cahillseeds.com JEE0072255, Cummins N14, 425 HP, standard, Trimble 500, EZ Steer, 4 hyds., aux 7200 MAX EMERGE II JD Planter, 12 row, hyd. return, 710/70R38 at 65%, front and 30" spacing. Dry fertilizer boxes w/3 PTH & rear suitcase weights, 4575 hrs., $89,500. row cleaners, $18,000 Cdn OBO. Scobey, 306-834-7579, Major, SK. MT. 406-783-5510 charlie@cahillseeds.com

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2014 MT965C, 800’s, 5 hyds., GPS, 1025 hrs., 525 HP, loaded, $329,900; 2013 MT 545D, loader & grapple, 24 spd., dual PTO, 1512 hrs., cab susp., 155 HP, $129,900; 2012 MT955C, 2400 hrs., 800’s, PTO, $279,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK.

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2013 JD 9410R, 4 WD, 2100 hrs., power shift PTO, excellent condition, $279,000 OBO. 306-921-6693, Melfort, SK. 2017 JD 6120M w/new 623R loader, 225 hrs, new Maxi grapple, 3 SCV's, PowerQuad 24/24, 40,000 kms., MFWD, 114L PFC pump, Auto mast latch TLS axle , 540/1000 PTO, $128,500. Finance/Lease OBO on cash deal. 403-638-8015, Sundre, AB.

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2017 JD 6155M: Beautiful loaded demo unit with only 99 hrs! Front fenders. 20/20 42’ BOURGAULT 9800 chisel plow, HD dou- PowerQuad Plus w/shuttle lever and 40 ble spring, w/4-bar heavy harrow, $29,500 km/h trans. 580/70R38 rear, 480/70R28 Cdn OBO. 218-779-1710 Delivery available front tires. Front axle TLS suspension, 3 remotes, 663R loader w/grapple bucket BREAKING DISCS: KEWANEE, 15’ and and self leveling. 540/750/1000 RPM rear 12’; Rome 12’; Towner 16-18’; Wishek 18’ PTO w/fender controls. Rear TPH w/fender and 30’. 1-866-938-8537. controls, A/C air suspended seat. $144,950 OBO. Call 306-861-2500, Weyburn, SK. 1996 BOURGAULT 9400 HD chisel plow, kruitenterprises@gmail.com 60’, 4-bar harrows, 600 lb. trip shanks, new tires, knock on sweeps, $48,000. 2016 JD 9620R, 332 hrs., 800 metrics, 306-834-7579, Major, SK. hyd. suspension, weight pkg., 1000 PTO, 58 gal. pump, $319,500 USD. Call 320-848-2496 or 320-894-6560, or visit www.ms-diversified.com 2010 FENDT 820, CVT, loader and grapple, 2017 JD 6175R, H380 loader w/grapple, 710’s, 4 hyds., dual PTO, 200 HP, 85 hrs., IVT, Triple Link, $154,500 USD; $137,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK. 2016 JD 6155R, 640R loader w/grapple, 125 hrs., IVT, $142,500 USD. Call 320-848-2496 or 320-894-6560, or visit www.ms-diversified.com DEUTZ 72-06, engine shot, good tires; 2013 JD 9410R, 4WD, PS, 1480 hrs., 1000 WANTED: A/C 7010, 7030, 7040 for parts. PTO, high flow hyd. w/5 remotes, leather 306-395-2668, 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK. trim, premium HID lights, 620/70R42’s, $199,500 USD. www.ms-diversified.com Call 320-848-2496 or 320-894-6560. ridgemetal@hotmail.com • www.ridgelandmanufacturing.ca

2 JOHN DEERE 8970’s: 5400 hrs., power1998 CASE/IH 9370, 4 WD, 4300 hrs. PS, shift, $79,000 Cdn OBO; 6800 hrs., 24 20.8R42, AutoSteer, good cond., $91,000 spd., $69,000 Cdn. OBO. Both have PTO OBO. Call 306-962-3934, or 306-962-7888, and 3PTH. 218-779-1710. Delivery avail.

Eston, SK. Email: robib@sasktel.net BOOK NORCAN SOYBEANS Common #1 2011 CASE/IH STX 400, 4WD 3085 so you keep more green. Buy a bigger JD hrs., 16 spd PS, 710/70 duals at 70%, PTO, with the savings! Early discounts. Norcan deluxe cab, HID l, 4 hyds, high cap hyd. Seeds at 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch MB. pump, c/w 16' Degelman 6900 4-way STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specialdozer. may c/w JD 2600, JD ATU 200, izing in rebuilding JD tractors. Want Series bubble, excellent, $220,000. 306-365-7659, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 7000s to rebuild or for Lanigan, SK. mcwildeman@aski.ca parts. pay top $$. Now selling JD parts.

204-466-2927, 204-871-5170, Austin, MB. 2004 JOHN DEERE 9420, 24 speed, 620/70R42 duals, 5 hydraulics w/return, integrated AutoSteer, 4092 hrs., $145,000 OBO. 204-572-7999, Grandview, MB. UTILITY TRACTORS: John Deere 6200, 2 WD, open station with loader; JD 5524, MFWD w/loader. 204-522-6333 Melita MB 2011 JD 9530T, 18 spd. PS, 36” tracks, 4 hyds. plus return line, front weights, end idler weights, AutoTrac ready, mint cond., $185,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. 2013 CIH 450HD, 4WD, 1980 hrs., deluxe cab, HID's, high capacity hyd., full factory guidance w/372 receiver and Pro700 monitor, 1000 PTO, 710 metrics, weight pkg., vg cond., $230,000 OBO. Kelvington, SK., 306-327-7527, mjf1980@hotmail.ca

2000 JD 9400, 425 HP, 12 spd. powershift, EZ-Steer 4 hyd. outlets, plus return line, new hyd. pump (48 GPM), 8 new tires, 710/70R38, mint cond., $105,000.

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2011 JD 9430, 3000 hrs., 710x42 Fire2016 CIH FARMALL 75A, MFWD, 20 hrs., 8 stones, 18 spd. PS, Active Seat, rubber forward gears/2 reverse, 3PTH, 540 PTO, 70%, exc. cond., $225,000 OBO. Charles $29,000 OBO. 204-648-7085, Grandview Cattle Co. Ltd. 306-457-7529, Stoughton.

2001 MX120 w/loader; 2000 MX135; and 2015 6140R, MFWD, 150 HP, 1870 hrs, 2001 MX170 w/loader. Call 204-522-6333, 20 spd, FEL, 3PTH, 540/1000 PTO, diff. lock, front axle susp., 50 KPH+, $149,000.

Melita, MB. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com TIRES, TIRES, TIRES, Radial, Bias, New, Used. 20.8x42, 18.4x42, 20.8x38, 18.4x38, 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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2008 JOHN DEERE 9530 4WD, 2700 hrs., 800 metrics, powershift, good condition 2012 CIH 500HD, 1915 hrs., 4 remotes, throughout, GPS ready, delivery can be artow cable, luxury cab, red leather heated ranged, $198,000 OBO. Call Neil seats, 16 spd. PS, 57 GPM hyd. pump, 710 306-231-8300, Humboldt, SK. tires, buddy seat, gd cond., $228,000 OBO. 2011 7430 PREMIUM, loader and grapple, Ph/tx Brandon 306-577-5678, Carlyle, SK. 6X4 trans. 4500 hrs., 20.8x38 rears, 2004 CASE/IH STX 450, quad track, 7065 $124,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK. hrs., Cummins, 16 spd. PS, 4 hyd. outlets, REDUCED PRICE! 1983 JD 4450 MFWD plus return line, 30” tracks, exc. cond. w/Ezee-On FEL 2130 grapple, 15 spd. PS, $125,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. 3 hyds., 7925 hrs. showing, 14.9-26F, WANTED: 1370 or 1570 Case, blown eng 20.8R32, duals available. 306-283-4747, or in running condition. 306-395-2668 or 306-291-9395. Langham, SK. 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK. JOHN DEERE 7810, FWA, only 4500 hrs., with duals, shedded. Phone 2015 CIH PUMA 185 MFWD, 1490 hrs., loaded 185 HP, CVT, 540/100 PTO, 3PTH, duals, 780-990-8412, Edmonton, AB. fact. warranty, $149,800. 2005 JD 7220, IVT trans., 3 PTH, 741 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com loader/grapple; JD 7710, FWD, LHR, 3 PTH, JD 740 loader/grapple available.

2016 CIH MAXXUM 115 MFWD, 692 780-674-5516, 780-305-7152 Barrhead AB hours, 115 HP, FEL, 540/1000 PTO, 3PTH, excellent condition, $99,800.

1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com TRACK UNDERCARRIAGE PARTS for 2012 M135X, loader and grapple, 3PTH, MORRIS 7180 AIR tank, new meter body JD, CIH, and Challenger track machines in 16x16 PS trans., 2400 hrs., 20.8x38, 135 on fert. tank, good hoses & recent loading stock. Bogeys, idlers, bearings, seals, HP, $73,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK auger, $5000. 306-276-7788, 306-769-8887 tracks, factory direct. 1-800-667-4515, Arborfield, SK. breavie@live.ca www.combineworld.com

AGRA PARTS PLUS, parting older tractors, tillage, seeding, haying, along w/oth- 2008 SEEDMASTER 8012, 2004 NH 430 er Ag equipment. 3 miles NW of Battle- tank, 3 compartments with 5 rollers, Raford, SK. off #16 Hwy. Ph: 306-445-6769. ven NH3, $89,000 OBO. 306-272-7225, Foam Lake, SK. TRIPLE B WRECKING, wrecking tractors, 2008 MACDON PW7 16’, good belts, nice combines, cults., drills, swathers, mixmills. 2012 SEEDHAWK 50’ toolbar, 10” spacings, NH3 CONVERSION KIT/PUMP. Fits 66’ 2015 220 PUMA, 4300 hours, deluxe cab, 3 2014 MF 7616, deluxe cab, cab susp., cond., for JD STS combines, $16,900. etc. We buy equipment. 306-246-4260, 500 SeedHawk tank, sec. control, shedded, Bourgault air seeder, $13,000. Call Phil point, Trimble GPS, $162,500. Please call loader & grapple, CVT, 150 HP, 2510 hrs., 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com Stewart, 780-813-0131, Vermilion, AB. vg cond. 306-865-6603, Hudson Bay, SK. 306-682-0738, Humboldt , SK. 306-441-0655, Richard, SK. $139,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK

2014 & 2016 MacDon FD75 headers, 40' models, dbl. knife, spare knife, cross auger, all options, exc. cond. 2014: $69,000; 2016: $79,000. 306-533-4891, Gray, SK.

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20 YOUNG PUREBRED Black and Red Angus cows, $46,000. 1 Black Angus bull, $4000. $50,000 takes all. 306-865-4168, Hudson Bay, SK.

1998 NH 9882, 4 WD, 6151 hrs., 425 HP, new 20.8 triples, good condition, $90,000 OBO. 306-921-6693, Melfort, SK.

1991 FORD/VERSATILE 1156, 8900 hrs., 20.8x42 triples, 470 HP, $69,000 CAD OBO. Delivery available. 218-779-1710.

1992 FORD/VERSATILE 946, JD AutoSteer, 6000 hrs., very nice, $44,500 Cdn. OBO. Delivery available. 218-779-1710.

WANTED TRANSMISSION FOR 835 Versatile, 12 speed. Please leave a message 204-822-1343, Thornhill, MB.

BLOCKED & SEASONED PINE FIREWOOD: 1984 VERS. 875 4WD, w/Atom Jet hyd. Bags $90. Delivery available. Vermette kit, $27,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equip- Wood Preservers, Spruce Home, SK. ment Ltd., 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 1-800-667-0094, email: info@vwpltd.com WANTED: 875 or 895 Versatile tractor in Website: www.vwpltd.com good running condition. 306-446-0164 BLOCKED SEASONED JACK Pine firewood (H), 306-481-4701 (C), North Battleford SK and wood chips for sale. Lehner Wood Preservers Ltd., 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK. Will deliver. Self-unloading trailer.

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NEW AND USED generators, all sizes from Delivery available. Call 218-779-1710.

5 kw to 3000 kw, gas, LPG or diesel. Phone 2006 MCCORMICK MTX 150 and 2004 for availability and prices. Many used in MTX 140 with loader. Both low hours. Call stock. 204-643-5441, Fraserwood, MB. BUYING BISON for processing. Call for 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. options and prices, Ian 204-848-2498 or 204-867-0085.

2014 CHALLENGER MT765D, 620 hrs., 3502 HP, Trimble Autopilot, 18” tracks, QUILL CREEK BISON is looking for finPTO, 3 PTH, $219,800. 1-800-667-4515. ished, and all other types of bison. COD, The Icynene www.combineworld.com paying market prices. “Producers working with Producers.” Delivery points in SK. and Insulation System® MB. Call 306-231-9110, Quill Lake, SK. CAT DOZER BLADE: Ideal for making a pull dozer, 12’x3’, good shape, cutting edge never turned, good bolts, C-frame for blade, $1200. 306-722-7770, Osage, SK. LEON 700 FRONT END LOADER, with QA 7’ bucket, with mounts off 90 series Case tractor; 4 like new Blizzak winter tires, 245-70-17, Call 780-764-2152, or cell 780-718-0746, Hilliard, AB.

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SUNFLOWER HARVEST SYSTEMS. Call for literature. 1-800-735-5848. Lucke Mfg., www.luckemanufacturing.com FOR SALE: 60' Excel Land Roller with 5 plex DRILL STEM FOR SALE: 300 2-7/8”. rollers, great for following the land contour. 306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK. Like new condition, $60,000. Please call 306-276-7788, or 306-769-8887. Email: breavie@live.ca Arborfield, SK. 41’ JD CULTIVATOR, with 1500 gal. NH3 8” to 6” MAINLINE; 6 - 5”x5” wheelines; tank, $12,500. Call 306-963-7724 or Bauer 1160’ w/4.5” hard hose reel; Also Reinke 985’ pivot, refurbished. Call for 306-963-7880. Imperial, SK. pricing, 306-858-7351, Lucky Lake, SK. ODESSA ROCKPICKER SALES: New Degelman equipment, land rollers, Straw- BLUE WATER IRRIGATION DEV. LTD. master, rockpickers, protill, dozer blades. Reinke pivots, lateral, minigators, pump and used mainline, new Bauer travelers 306-957-4403, 306-536-5097, Odessa, SK. dealer. 25 yrs. experience. 306-858-7351, NH 273 SQUARE baler with hydraulic ten- Lucky Lake, SK. www.philsirrigation.ca sion, $1000; 546 Rock-O-Matic rock picker, $3800; MF88 diesel tractor, w/FEL, WESTERN IRRIGATION: CADMAN Dealer. good rubber, $2200 OBO. 306-395-2668 or We BUY and SELL traveling guns, pumps, pipes, etc.; EcoSmart water purification 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK. systems, no salt, no chemicals; Large sup7100 JD CORN PLANTER, 12 row, 24” ply of good used buyback centre pivots at spacing, 3 point hitch, good shape. low prices. 306-867-9461, 306-867-7037, 306-236-5891, Meadow Lake, SK. Outlook, SK. derdallreg@hotmail.com Call our toll-free number to take advantage of our Prepayment Bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and we’ll run your ad 2 more weeks for free.

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PUMP MOTORS, propane & diesel, wheel moves, all sizes of alum. pipe. Call Dennis to discuss your needs! 403-308-1400, Taber, AB.

NILSSON BROS INC. buying finished bison on the rail, also cull cows at Lacombe, AB. For winter delivery and beyond. Smaller groups welcome. Fair, competitive and assured payment. Contact Richard Bintner 306-873-3184.

BURNETT ANGUS 34TH Annual Bull Sale, Saturday, April 7, 2018, 2:00 PM, The Ranch, Swift Current, SK. 60 yearling bulls, many genetically developed for breeding heifers. Sires represented: Shipwheel Chinook, OCC Missing Link, Sooline Motive, 20 - 2016 PLAINS Bison females. Average Stevenson Rockmount, Bruiser, Optimum weight December 13th, 749 lbs. $3250 (Chisum son), Crowfoot Fred. Bryce 306-773-7065 or Wyatt 306-750-7822, each. Call 306-441-1408, Meota, SK. wburnett@xplornet.ca 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. PUREBRED RED AND BLACK Angus bulls. rick@porterandmacleanlivestock.com We have a good selection of 2 yr. old bulls for sale. Check out our catalogue online at KEEP JOBS IN CANADA. Elk Valley www.reddiamondfarm.com Semen tested, Ranches a Canadian Co. finishes bison in guaranteed and delivered. Call Michael Canada. We are now buying cull cows, cull Becker, 204-348-2464, Whitemouth, MB. bulls, yearlings and calves. Paying top $$ with prompt payment. Kitscoty, AB, Frank RED ANGUS PUREBRED 2 year old bulls. at 780-846-2980. elkvalley@xplornet.com Contact DBM Angus Farms, Holland, MB., Brian 204-526-0942, David 204-723-0288. www.elkvalleyranches.com Online catalogue: www.dbmangusfarms.ca LOOKING FOR ALL classes of bison from calves, yearlings, cows and herd bulls.

Phone Kevin at 306-539-4090 (cell) or 306-429-2029, Glenavon, SK.

NORDAL LIMOUSIN & ANGUS 2018 Bull Sale, Feb. 15th, Saskatoon Livestock Sales Saskatoon, SK. Offering 60 Black & Red Angus 2 year old bulls, low birth weights, performance & maternal combinations available.

Contact Rob Garner 306-946-7946, Simpson, SK. Catalogue & information at: nordallimousin.com Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519 GRUNTHAL, MB. AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING

REGULAR CATTLE SALES TUESDAY at 9 am

**Jan 30th, Feb 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th**

Monday Jan 29th at 12:00am Sheep and Goat with Small Animals & Holstein Calves Sale

WANTED: Older and newer tractors, in running condition or for parts. Goods Used Tractor Parts, 1-877-564-8734.

GRUNTHAL Monday Feb 12th atLIVE12:00pm Sheep and GoatAUCTIO with Small Animals STOCK & Holstein Calves

VERSATILE 800 or 835 in good condition wanted! 204-247-0211, Roblin, MB.

1X3.0714 For on farm appraisal of livestock

WANTED: USED, BURNT, old or ugly tractors. Newer models too! Smith’s Tractor SPRUCE FOR SALE!! Beautiful locally grown trees. Plan ahead and renew your Wrecking, 1-888-676-4847. shelterbelt or landscape a new yardsite, LOOKING FOR: Edwards hoe drill model get the year round protection you need.

912 or 812; Hydraulic pump for 7020 Allis We sell on farm near Didsbury, AB. Also tractor; Sprayer slide-in truck w/booms. can deliver in Western Canada. 6 - 12’ spruce available. Now taking spring orders Call 403-650-8369. while supplies last. Phone 403-586-8733 or visit: www.didsburysprucefarms.com

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 GUARANTEED PRESSURE TREATED fence posts, lumber slabs and rails. Call Lehner Wood Preservers Ltd., ask for Ron 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK. MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps.

Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: www.maverickconstruction.ca

MORTGAGE INVESTORS WANTED: Earn 8-15% per annum, investing in first and second mortgages. All investments secured

by Canadian farmland with interest paid monthly. Call 888-393-8686, visit website: http://www.farmlender.ca/investors/ info@farmlender.ca Brampton, ON.

SEASONED SPRUCE SLAB firewood, one cord bundles, $99, half cord bundles, $65.

Volume discounts. Call V&R Sawing, 306-232-5488, Rosthern, SK.

BRED HEIFERS due to calve in April, bred to easy calving Angus bulls, preg checked.

306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca

WANTED: FB SIMMENTAL commercial cows, big red and white ones, no Angus cross, must be young. Call 306-734-2970, cell: 306-734-7335, Chamberlain, SK. BLACK 2 YEAR OLD’s; Also Red, Black and fullblood yearling bulls. Moderate birth weights, excellent temperaments. All bulls sold private treaty. Call Bill or Virginia Peters, 306-237-9506, Perdue, SK. 4TH ANNUAL JEANS & GENETICS Simmental Bull Sale, Tuesday February 13, 2018, 1:00 PM at the Ponoka Ag Events Centre in Ponoka, AB. Offering a great selection of Red, Black, Fullblood, and Fleckvieh Simmental bulls. For a catalogue or more info., contact T Bar C Cattle Co. at 306-220-5006. To view the catalogue online, visit us at www.buyagro.com. Watch and bid online at www.dlms.ca DIAMOND M RANCH 7th Annual Bull Sale, Sunday, February 11, 2018 at the ranch west of Estevan. Selling 60 coming two year old Simmental & Simm./Angus bulls, as well as 40 commercial heifers. All bulls are semen tested and guaranteed.

For more information or a catalogue contact Jordan Mantei 306-421-1915 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online at www.buyagro.com. Watch & bid online at www.dlms.ca PL#116061 6 BLACK SIMMENTAL/ANGUS bulls, out of Angus cows and a score black Simmental sire, $3500. Call LV Ranch, Forestburg, AB. 780-582-2254.

SIMMENTAL COWS FOR SALE: Offering your pick of 110. 10 head calving March & April; Feeder bull calves, polled FB semen, FOR SALE: POLLED HEREFORD Bulls universe breeding. Dale at Silver Swiss Yearlings & Long Yearlings, semen tested Simmental, 780-853-2223, Vermilion, AB. & performance records avail. Call Don Guilford, Hereford Ranch, 204-873-2430, Clearwater, MB. PLEASE JOIN US Thursday Feb. 8th, 2018 at 2:00PM for Carlrams Ranching Bull Sale.

60 Hereford bulls; 12 Angus bulls. Please be our guests for lunch at noon. Catalogue available online at buyagro.com For more info. call 306-398-7879, 306-398-7343, 306-823-3912, 306-823-3933 Cutknife, SK

5TH ANNUAL CTLA Registered Longhorn Sale with guest consignors Red Spring Ranch Quarter Horses. Saturday April 7th 2018, 1 PM at Saskatoon Livestock Sales.

Consignments now being accepted. Entries close Feb. 19th. For info. 306-867-9427, 306-296-4712, or 780-966-3320.

BANNERLANE HORNED HEREFORDS Annual Sale, Tuesday, Feb. 6th, 2018, 2:00 PM CST (1:00 PM MST) at the farm, Livelong, SK. 30 coming 2 year old bulls, semen tested; 35 bred heifers, preg. checked; 3 registered heifers. Dinner at noon. Central point free delivery. Email: bannerlane@littleloon.ca or phone Rob Bannerman, 306-845-2764, 306-248-1214.

Catalogue online at: www.hereford.ca

TOP 500 BRED COWS out of our 1000 cow herd for sale. These cows have been culled to look after themselves and bring home 500 to 550 lb. calves in October.

They start calving in April but most calve in May. There are 130 Charolais or Simmental crosses and 370 Black or Red Angus crosses. $2200 for pick with discounts MISTY VALLEY FARMS 42nd Annual for volume. Could feed till end of March at Production Sale of Horned Herefords, cost, can deliver. Please call Randy at Wednesday, February 7th, 2018 at the 204-483-0228, Elgin, MB. 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.

RED ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, semen tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca

COMPLETE HERD DISPERSAL, 38 Simmental/Angus Red, Red Blaze and a few Black bred cows. Cows are aged from 3-5 years old. Bred Red Simmental to start calving March 20th. Cows have been preg. checked and given Ivomec. $2300 OBO. Call or text 306-452-7905. Redvers, SK.

RED ANGUS BULLS on moderate growing ration, performance info available. Valleyhills Angus, Glaslyn, SK. Adrian or Brian and Elaine Edwards, 306-441-0946, 306-342-4407, www.valleyhillsangus.com REG. RED ANGUS bulls, calving ease, good weaning weights, no creep feed. Little de Ranch, 306-845-2406, Turtleford, SK.

or for marketing information please call Brad Kehler (Manager) Cell 204-346-2440 Auction Mart (204) 434-6519 MB. Livestock Dealer #1436

MF #36 DISCERS. Will pay top dollar and pick from anywhere. Phone Mike 306-723-4875, Cupar, SK.

SOLIDLOCK AND TREE ISLAND game wire and all accessories for installation. Heights from 26” to 120”. Ideal for elk, deer, bison, sheep, swine, cattle, etc. Tom Jensen ph/fax: 306-426-2305, Smeaton, SK.

NORDAL LIMOUSIN & ANGUS 2018 Bull Sale, Feb. 15th, Saskatoon Livestock Sales Saskatoon, SK. Offering 60 Black & Red Angus 2 year old bulls, low birth weights, performance & maternal combinations available.

Contact Rob Garner 306-946-7946, Simpson, SK. Catalogue & DAVIDSON GELBVIEH/ LONESOME information at: nordallimousin.com DOVE RANCH 29th Annual Bull Sale, SELLING: BLACK ANGUS BULLS. Wayside Saturday, March 3, 2018, 1:00 PM at their Angus, Henry and Bernie Jungwirth, bull yards, Ponteix, SK. Complimentary lunch at 11:00 AM. Pre-sale viewing and 306-256-3607, Cudworth, SK. hospitality, Friday, March 2nd. Selling BRED HEIFERS due to calve in April, bred 100+ purebred Gelbvieh yearling bulls, to easy calving Angus bulls, preg checked. Red or Black. Performance and semen 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, tested. Vernon and Eileen 306-625-3755, Ross and Tara 306-625-3513, Ponteix, SK. SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca Bidding in person or on-line: BLACK ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, se- www.dlms.com View catalog and video on men tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery our websites: www.davidsongelbvieh.com available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, and www.lonesomedoveranch.ca Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca JEN-TY GELBVIEH ANNUAL BULL BLACK ANGUS BULLS on moderate grow- SALE, March 6th, 2018 at 1:00 PM, at the ing ration, performance info available. Val- Medicine Hat Feeding Co., Medicine Hat, leyhills Angus, Glaslyn, SK. Adrian or Brian AB. On offer: Red and Black Purebred yearand Elaine Edwards, 306-441-0946, ling bulls. For more information or for a catalogue call 403-378-4898. View on-line: 306-342-4407, www.valleyhillsangus.com jentygelbviehs.com PUREBRED BLACK ANGUS long yearling bulls, replacement heifers, AI service. TWIN BRIDGE FARMS and Twin View Meadow Ridge Enterprises, 306-373-9140 Livestock 7th Gelbvieh Bull Sale, Monday, March 12th, 2018, 1:00 PM at the Silver or 306-270-6628, Saskatoon, SK. Sage Community Corral in Brooks, AB. Selling 45 yearling Gelbvieh bulls. Red and black genetics on offer. Guest consignor Keriness Cattle Co. For information contact: Ron and Carol Birch 403-792-2123, Aaron Birch 403-485-5518, or Don Savage Auctions 403-948-3520. View catalogue online at www.donsavageauctions.com Sale will be broadcast on Live Auctions.TV

SELLING FOR THE ESTATE of Harvey Blanchette. One 3 year old white bull, very sound and quiet. PB name is BMC11C, Sire BMV1274, Dam-uphill rose 6Z. 306-342-4918, Glaslyn, SK.

POLLED PUREBRED CHAROLAIS bulls. We have a good selection of 2 yr. old bulls for WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM sale. Check out our catalogue online at www.reddiamondfarm.com Semen tested, LARGE DISPERSAL, BRED HEIFERS, guaranteed and delivered. Call Michael Saturday, February 3, 2018 1:00 PM, John- Becker, 204-348-2464, Whitemouth, MB. stone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. Carrobourg dispersal of 380 bred heifers and REGISTERED PUREBRED CHAROLAIS young cows, plus other bred heifers. Pics bulls: 40+ yearling and 5 coming 2 year & details online www.johnstoneauction.ca olds, for sale by private treaty. Belmont, 306-693-4715, PL #914447 MB. Brad 204-537-2367 or 204-523-0062 www.clinecattlecompany.ca

CATTLEMEN! SPRING IS JUST around 100 BLACK ANGUS heifers, bred to regis- the corner. It’s time to think about your tered Black Angus bulls. Can winter and spring breeding needs. Again this year we have an excellent selection of registered calve out. 306-322-7905, Archerwill, SK. Charolais bulls. On offer are 18 2-year olds PUREBRED BLACK AND RED Angus bulls. and 30 yearlings. Both red and white. All We have a good selection of 2 yr. old bulls sold by private treaty. Shop early for best for sale. Check out our catalogue online at selection. A small deposit will hold until www.reddiamondfarm.com Semen tested, spring delivery. Visit on the web at guaranteed and delivered. Call Michael www.defoortstockfarm.com or call Gord or Sue at 204-743-2109, Cypress River, MB. BUYING FINISHED BISON. Call or text Becker, 204-348-2464, Whitemouth, MB. Harmony Natural Bison, 306-736-3454,SE OSSAWA ANGUS, MARQUETTE, MB. PUREBRED CHAROLAIS BULLS for sale.

Sask. has for sale yearling and 2 year old bulls Polled and horned. Some red. 40+ bulls to open yearling heifers.

Call choose from. Over 30 yrs. in the Charolais BISON WANTED - Canadian Prairie Bison and business. Wilf Neilson, Cougar Hill Ranch, is looking to contract grain finished bison, 204-375-6658 or 204-383-0703.

204-732-2663, Toutes Aides, MB. (North as well as calves and yearlings for growing of Ste Rose). markets. Contact Roger Provencher at BLACK ANGUS BULLS YEARLINGS & Long Yearlings, some Heifer Bulls, semen 306-468-2316, roger@cdnbison.com tested & performance records avail. Please COMING 2 YR. old polled PB Charolais Call Don Guilford, Hereford Ranch bulls, some red factor. Call Kings Polled 10 - 2016 GRASSFED BISON HEIFERS: 204-873-2430, Clearwater, MB. Charolais, 306-435-7116, Rocanville, SK. Average weight (Nov/17) 820 lbs., Sire by XY BISON bull from CWA Show & Sale, REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS bulls: 2 13th ANNUAL HEJ Charolais Bull Sale, $3500. 306-867-0035, Conquest, SK. year olds and 1 year olds w/moderate BW Friday February 23, 2018, 1:00PM at the on home test. Semen tested. Delivered Innisfail Auction Market. Offering 60 Red Black & White bulls. All bulls are 50-2016 BISON FEMALES, weight on within 200 kms. Call Holloway Angus, Sou- Factor, vet inspected and semen tested. Contact Nov.30/2017 was 815 lbs. $4000, please ris MB., 204-741-0070 or 204-483-3622. the Rasmussen’s 403-227-2824 or T Bar C call 306-342-4253, donjanzen@gmail.com (10) 2 YEAR OLD BLACK ANGUS bulls, se- Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. For a catalogue Glenbush, SK. or more information.

View the catalogue men tested, guaranteed breeders. High online at: www.buyagro.com NORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for quality. Reasonably priced. B/B Duncan, over 15 years, is looking for finished Bison, Cromer, MB. 204-556-2342, 204-556-2348 POLLED PB YEARLING Charolais Bulls, grain or grass fed. “If you have them, we or 204-851-0306. performance and semen tested. Can keep want them.” Make your final call with until May, $3000-$4000. Charrow CharoNorthfork for pricing! Guaranteed prompt SOUTH VIEW RANCH has Black and Red lais, Call Bill 306-387-8011, 780-872-1966, Angus coming 2-year-old bulls for sale. payment! 514-643-4447, Winnipeg, MB. Good selection. Call Shane 306-869-8074 Marshall, SK. WANT TO PURCHASE cull bison bulls and or Keith 306-454-2730. Ceylon, SK. “MUSCLE UP” at Stephen Charolais cows, $5/lb. HHW. Finished beef steers Bull Sale with guests DRD and Bar H and heifers for slaughter. We are also buyCharolais, Friday, Feb. 16th, Whitewood, ing compromised cattle that can’t make a Livestock Sales, SK. On offer 47 two year long trip. Oak Ridge Meats, McCreary, old and yearling Full French, French Influ204-835-2365, 204-476-0147. ence, purebred and Red Factor bulls. View catalogue online at: bylivestock.com Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Broadcast by: DVAuction.com or call Kelly canada’s ag-only listings giant Stephen 306-435-7383.

Classifieds. Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our friendly staff, and PRINT | MOBILE | ONLINE don’t forget to ask about our prepayment boCOMING YEAR OLD Charolais bulls for nus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free! sale, wintering available. Call LVV Ranch 1-800-667-7770.

Forestburg, AB. 780-582-2254.

BRAUN RANCH Horned Hereford Bull Sale.

March 9, 1:00PM at the ranch, Simmie, SK. 20 two year olds bulls, 30 yearling bulls, 5 purebred open heifers, 25 commercial open heifers. View catalogue and sale SIMMENTAL/ANGUS BRED HEIFERS, 45 videos on-line at: www.braunranch.com home bred and raised, Reds and Blacks.

Contact Craig Braun at 306-297-2132.

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. $2500 OBO. Call or text 306-452-7905, Redvers, SK. 14 RED ANGUS bred heifers, to start calving March 25th. Ivomec’d and vaccinated.

Call evenings, Garry Yeo, 306-873-9078 or 306-873-3788, Tisdale, SK. 50 SIMMENTAL & SIMMENTAL Cross bred cows and heifers, bred Simmental, start SQUARE D BULLS FOR SALE: 2 year olds, calving March 1st. 306-762-4723, Odessa. fall & spring yearlings. Quiet, performance and semen tested. Delivery can be arranged. Group of young females to calve in March. Please contact Jim Duke at 306-538-4556, 306-736-7921, Langbank, SK. Email: square.d@sasktel.net Website: square-dpolledherefords.com

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. COZY CAPS! Ear protection for newborn Phone 306-239-2298, cell 306-221-2620. calves! 306-739-0020, Wawota, SK. Email cozycaps@outlook.com NORDAL LIMOUSIN & ANGUS 2018 Bull Sale, Feb. 15th, Saskatoon Livestock Sales Saskatoon, SK. Offering 25 polled Red & Black 2 year old Limousin bulls. Contact Rob Garner 306-946-7946, Simpson, SK. Catalogue & info at: nordallimousin.com

60-80 RED & BLACK ANGUS cross, Red Angus bulls went out on July 6th. Leave a message, 306-834-5156, Kerrobert, SK.

400 REPLACEMENT QUALITY heifers: 800 lbs. by mid-March, You pick. Can feed until grass time. Will finance feed and cattle until they go. Trucking available. No TBA implants/ balance growing rations/ complete vaccination program. Not asking fortune for these heifers, just a premium 2 YR. OLD Salers bulls, 18 Red and Black aover market. Phone Blaine 306-621-9751 bulls, mostly polled. Excellent dispositions. or Steve 306-621-2522, Yorkton, SK. Bulls for cows and heifers. See Facebook, 403-872-1549, www.skywestsalers.com 20 BLACK COWS, will feed until March; Red Deer County, AB. Please email: Also 4 black bull calves. 306-441-6608, travisdepalme@outlook.com North Battleford, SK.

REGISTERED SHORTHORN OPEN heifers for sale, 3 early 2017 open heifers, 2 Roans and 1 Red, weighing 800-900 lbs. Please call 204-748-3136, gwtough@rfnow.com Hargrave, MB.

100 BLACK ANGUS 3rd and 4th calvers; 250 Black & Red Angus 2nd calvers. Swift Current, SK. 306-773-1049, 306-741-6513.

CATTLEMENS FINANCIAL CORP. Programs for cow/calf operators and feedlots, proceeds as you sell and equity draws.

780-448-0033 or www.cattlefinance.com

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WANTED: CULL COWS and bulls. For book- PAYSEN LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT INC. ings call Kelly at Drake Meat Processors, We manufacture an extensive line of cattle 306-363-2117 ext. 111, Drake, SK. handling and feeding equipment including squeeze chutes, adj. width alleys, crowding tubs, calf tip tables, maternity pens, gates and panels, bale feeders, Bison equipment, Texas gates, steel water troughs, rodeo equipment and garbage incinerators. Distributors for El-Toro electric branders and twine cutters. Our squeeze HORSE SALE, Johnstone Auction Mart, chutes and headgates are now avail. with a Moose Jaw, SK., Thursday February 1st, neck extender. Ph 306-796-4508, email: 2018. Tack sells at 2:00 PM. Horses sell at ple@sasktel.net Web: www.paysen.com 4:30 PM. All classes of horses accepted.

Next Regular Horse Sale - April 5th, 2018. CATTLE SHELTER PACKAGES or built on For early booking call Please call 306-693-4715. PL# 914447. site.

1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.johnstoneauction.ca www.warmanhomecentre.com HORSE AND TACK SALE, Northern Livestock Sales, Prince Albert, SK., Thursday, STEEL VIEW MFG. Self-standing panels, windbreaks, silage/hay bunks, feeder panFeb 15th, 6:00 PM. Call 306-763-8463. els, sucker rod fence posts. Custom orders. Call Shane 306-493-2300, Delisle, SK. www.steelviewmfg.com

COMMON CERTIFIED ORGANIC Alfalfa (tap rooted), common cert. organic Red and common cert. organic Alsike Clover, 50 lb. bags. 306-382-1299, Saskatoon, SK. BAR M RANCH - ASHCROFT, BC: Prime location with great valley views. 573 ac. in 4 titles plus lease land, all gravity fed water under 3 centre pivots, 4 residences and 1000 head feedlot. Shop, equipment storARE YOU SINGLE and would rather be age, calving barn, large steel hay shed, in love? Camelot Introductions has been and horse barn are some of the improvesuccessfully matching people for over 23 ments. Adjacent range for 4500 AUM’s years. In-person interviews by Intuitive which translates to 565 cow/calf pairs.

Matchmaker in MB and SK. Call 306-978- Early turn out and later gather means only LOVE (5683), 204-257-LOVE (5683) 90 feeding days. Some development powww.camelotintroductions.com tential and 2.5 hrs. to Fraser Valley. 100 ac. certified organic along with 5-50 ac. currently leased to a local vegetable grower. Call Tim @ Ranches Only for more info or to arrange a viewing. 250-280-7653.

2 - 2017 PB Quarter Horse chestnut fillies, $750 each. Will consider young bred cow on trade. 306-865-4168, Hudson Bay, SK.

TOM@SASKFARMLAND.COM Interested in the value of your farmland and considering selling? Up to date market evaluations done at your farm. Coldwell Banker Signature. Tom Neufeld 306-260-7838.

BUY & SELL: Horses, saddles and tack.

Also horse and stock trailers. Call Skip Arntsen, 306-221-9251, Delisle, SK. 2007 WORKSTAR 7400 IHC feed truck, 7780 hrs. on the truck, bought new (Oct. HORSE COLLARS, all sizes, steel and alu- 2008) c/w new Cattelac 600 mixer, excelminum horseshoes. We ship anywhere. lent cond, $100,000. 306-672-7502 or Keddie’s, 1-800-390-6924 or keddies.com 306-672-3516, Gull Lake, SK. SVEN ROLLER MILLS. Built for over 40 years. PTO/elec. drive, 40 to 1000 bu./hr.

Example: 300 bu./hr. unit costs $1/hr. to run. Rolls peas and all grains. We regroove and repair all makes of mills. Call Apollo Machine 306-242-9884, 1-877-255-0187.

SHEEP/GOAT SALE Saturday, February 10, www.apollomachineandproducts.com 2018, 1:00 PM, Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. All classes sheep and goats accepted. Sheep ID tags and prebooking mandatory. Call 306-693-4715.

USED PIPE AND SUCKER RODS: 2-3/8", 2www.johnstoneauction.ca PL #914447.

7/8", 3-1/2" used pipe, $36/ea.; 7/8", 1" sucker rods, $12/ea. Call 306-460-7966, or 306-460-4166, Kindersley, SK.

WANTED: BUTCHER P QUINTAINE HOGS AND SON LTD SOWS AND BOARS 1X1.3572 FOR EXPORT

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123

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.

WANTED: ANTIQUES & JUNK you want to clear out. Almost anything in old buildings.

Pay cash, will travel! 403-915-0447, S. AB.

Buy Used Oil NOTRE •• Buy Batteries DAME • Collect Used Filters USED • Collect Oil NOTRE DAME OIL &OIL •Containers USED Antifreeze 1X1.7143 FIL TER Southern, and DEPOT Eastern Western

Tel: 204-248-2110 Manitoba

WANT THE ORGANIC ADVANTAGE? Contact an organic Agrologist at Pro-Cert for information on organic farming: prospects, transition, barriers, benefits, certifi40 BLACK & BWF COWS, bred to Black cation and marketing. Call 306-382-1299, bulls, to calve in March, $1650; 60, 3 year Saskatoon, SK. or info@pro-cert.org old Black, BWF & Simmental cross, 2nd calvers, bred for March, $2300. Call 204-856-3402, Austin, MB. ORGANIC BORAGE PRODUCERS: DSC is looking for organic Borage producers for the 2018 harvest season. 306-697-3152, Grenfell, SK. dandilee.colby@outlook.com ORGANIC CO2 FERTILIZER: CropPlus. A 100% natural, organic, mineral based, foliar applied fertilizer. It contains carbon dioxide, which is very beneficial in plant health. Apply with any sprayer. $10/acre.

Cory Wiebe 204-247-2142, Roblin, MB.

SUPREME 700TMR w/scale, 6’ unloading conveyor, dry hay recutter at back, dual WANTED: ORGANIC LENTILS, peas and wheels, always shedded, excellent cond., chickpeas. Stonehenge Organics, Assini$36,000. 204-758-3374, St. Jean, MB. boia, SK., 306-640-8600, 306-640-8437.

ALTERNATIVE POWER BY KELLN SOLAR, portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind generators, aeration.

Service and repair on all makes/models.

Carl Driedger, 204-556-2346 or 204-851-0145, Virden, MB. NH 358 MIX MILL with PBF, very nice cond. Still on first corner of hammers, extra screens, $9000, hard to find. Call Randy at 204-729-5162, Brandon, MB. SVEN-APOLLO ROLLERMILLS, NEW and used, electric and PTO, all sizes, can deliver. Manitoba distributor direct. Call Randy 204-729-5162, Brandon, MB. 2008 HIGHLINE 8100, in good condition, $10,000. 306-963-7724, 306-963-7880.

Imperial, SK.

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ROUGH COLLIES: BEAUTIFUL Lassie pups, in S/W and Tricolour, available Jan.15/18 to approved homes, $500. 306-201-9207, Regina, SK. Email: fonehill@canwan.com

IRISH WOLFHOUND PUPPIES, 3 females, have shots, $1200. 780-954-2415, Jarvie, AB. Email: michellelovin36@gmail.com BOSTON TERRIERS:5 adult breeding pairs.

Producing all colours. No inbreeding. Brindle pups avail. 780-365-2217, Andrew, AB.

RED BLUE HEELER PUPS: From good working and good natured parents, ready to go, $300. 306-725-4510, Bulyea, SK.

BUYING ELK for Meat, Hunting and Breeding. Call for options and prices, Ian 204-848-2498 or 204-867-0085.

PLEASE JOIN US Thursday Feb. 8th, 2018 at 2:00PM for Carlrams Ranching Bull Sale.

60 Hereford bulls; 12 Angus bulls; Please be our guests for lunch at noon. Catalogue available online at buyagro.com For more info. call 306-398-7879, 306-398-7343, 306-823-3912, 306-823-3933 Cutknife, 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.

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LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF NEWELL: 301.91 acres, irrigated m/l with 231 acres EID first water rights. For sale by owner $2,500,000. Three titled parcels: Parcel A 159.8 acres (NW 3-21-15 W4); Parcel B 107.71 acres (Portion of SW 3-21-15 W4); Parcel C 34.4 acres (portion of NE 3-21-15 W4). Irrigated #1 soil well suited for any forage, cereal or specialty crops including very successful potato crops on this unique elevated land with sandy #1 soil. The best historical use of this agricultural land has been potatoes and alfalfa seed. T-L pivot covers approximately 192 acres. Wheel move irrigation covers approximately 39 acres. EID water service is provided by two water delivery points. 3 phase electricity provides power for the electric irrigation pump and hydraulic system that runs the pivot. Additional surface lease rental income of $17,000 per year. The 107.71 acre Parcel B has delivery of fresh water from the County of Newell Water Project (CNWP). This parcel would make an excellent building site for a residence and additional support buildings. Access to the land is on Range Road 153 North off secondary Highway 550, approximately 4 kms West of the intersection of Highway 36 and Highway 550. Contact Greg Neufeld by phone or email: 403-862-0811, gneufeld@cgeng.ca

GREAT PYRENEES/AKBASH CROSS pups, born Nov. 17 with sheep, both working parents, $250; Two 8 month old bonded ORGANIC LAND in MD of Mackenzie, north dogs, $600 ea. 306-845-2404, Livelong, SK of Peace River: 1200 seeded ac., 1800 sq.ft house w/garage, 6800 sq.ft. shop, GREAT PYRENEES PUPS born to work- 60x120 cold storage, 100,000+ bu. grain ing parents. Vet checked, first shots, ready storage, power, phone, natural gas, dugJanuary 15th, $300/each. 403-308-4781, out, on school bus route. 780-928-2538 or E-mail: heathernelsonfarm@gmail.com 780-841-1180.

175 MAIN ST., PIERCELAND, SK. 60’x90’ commercial building, perfect for any business, $399,000. MLS®SK711082. Meadow North Realty: Call 306-236-4610, or email mnr@sasktel.net www.meadownorth.ca

LOG SIDING, LOG cabin logs, Fir timbers, Fir flooring, Cedar. Special orders. Check out more info. at: rouckbros.com Lumby, BC., 1-800-960-3388.

SECTION OF LAND FOR SALE, includes modern bungalow w/3 bedrooms, top of the line appliances, triple pane windows, and wrap around cedar deck. Deep well w/good flow, septic tank with out flow.

Large quonset, storage shed, and utility building w/heat & power. 40 cleared and seeded acres fenced for livestock, plank fencing, round pen, shelters and heated Ritchie auto water. Farm consists of 230 ac. of Alfalfa w/some Timothy. Rest of the land is partially cleared w/mature Birch and Spruce. Backs onto Crown land w/lake. Hunters paradise, $1,600,000.

Call 780-524-4173, Little Smoky, AB.

4 QUARTERS FARMLAND for sale, 40 miles SE Weyburn. Grains, canola, legumes. 9 oil well leases. House, electricity, water, $998,500. 604-971-2870, Benson, SK. WWW.MEDALLION-HOMES.CA modular rickzimmerman6@gmail.com homes/lake houses/RTM’s. Visit our sales lot, or check online for stock, homes and FARM FOR LEASE: 2 farms consisting of all other plans. Factory direct orders built approx. 627 acres of cropland. Located in to your specs! Trade-ins welcome, buy and the vicinity of Macoun, in the RM of Camsell used homes. Hwy 2 South, Prince Al- bria. The area is well suited for wheat, cabert, SK. Call 306-764-2121 or toll free nola and pulse production. Bonnefield 1-800-249-3969. plans to negotiate with excellent farmers to form long-term lease arrangements to 2016 FOREST RIVER Quailridge, call for ensure this land is maintained profitably Pricing! Sunridge RV, Radisson, SK. Sale in and sustainably for the long term. Please Saskatoon Jan. 26th at 2820 Jasper Ave. email: cambria2farm@bonnefield.com for additional information.

1-877-827-4845, www.sunridgervs.ca NOTICE OF TENDER SW-08-40-09 W2, RM of Porcupine #395. Closing Feb14/18. For more info, contact Selling Officer: David RTMS AND SITE built homes. Call Hnatyshyn-assistant Heidi, Hnatyshyn 1-866-933-9595, or go online for pictures Gough, #601-402 21st St E, Saskatoon, SK. and pricing at: www.warmanhomes.ca Ph: 306-653-5150, fax: 306-652-5859, email: heidi@hglaw.ca RTMS AND SITE built homes. Call 1-866-933-9595, or go online for pictures ORGANIC RANCH: 160 acres, Private and pricing at: www.warmanhomes.ca Paradise! Home, Corrals, Pastures. Please call 306-812-7713, Moose Range #486, SK. J&H HOMES: Western Canada’s most trusted RTM Home Builder since 1969. QUARTER SECTION IN RM of Bjorkdale, SK. View at: www.jhhomes.com 306-652-5322 #426. SW 19-45-09 W2, 147 acres, approx.

100 cultivated. Phone 306-864-7922.

HOME HARDWARE RTM Homes and Cottages. Phone 1-800-663-3350 or go on- FOR RENT: ALL of Section 23-23-27 W2, in line for floor plans and specs at: RM of Craik #222. Call 306-734-2997. www.northbattlefordhomehardware.com

VEGAS TIMESHARE: INT’L exchanges, 2 GRAIN LAND TO RENT, 35 mile radius of bedroom, 2 bath, full kitchen, laundry, Rouleau, SK. Call 306-776-2600 or email: fireplace, pools, selling due to health. kraussacres@sasktel.net 306-453-2958, Carlyle, SK. WOOD RIVER RM #74. By tender S1/2 12-8-6-W3; N1/2 12-8-6-W3; N1/2 CONDO IN BEAUTIFUL Palm Springs area 7-8-5-W3. Please bid on each half sec(Rancho Mirage): 2 bdrm, 1 bath, 1016 tion separately. Tenders must be resq.ft. Open beam cathedral ceilings, moun- ceived by 1:00 pm, Feb. 8, 2018. Mark tain views, 55 plus gated community. Fully tenders “Filson Brothers Tender”. Highest furn., $115,000 USD. Gym, tennis court, lg or any tender may not necessarily be acheated pool, spa and clubhouse. For info cepted. Send tenders to Duane Filson, and pics, evezpalmsprings@kwrealty.com Box 340, Lafleche, SK., S0H 2K0, or by or call 306-725-7707, Govan, SK. email to duane.filson@sasktel.net For info call 306-472-7772. Woodrow, SK. 2 DEEDED TIMESHARES for sale: 1 in Nashville & 1 in Las Vegas. Call Barry for SASK FARMLAND FOR SALE or rent by details, 250-423-1771, Grasmere, BC. owner in R.M. of Aberdeen #373. 20.5 quarters, 2900 cult. ac. 306-374-8877.

WOW! HAVE YOUR OWN space to quad, hunt, boat, and fish on 2 quarter sections adjoining North Thomas Lake. Property joins onto upscale cabin subdivision with a mile of Thomas Lake shore on one side and a half mile of private lakeshore on other side. Plenty of building sites with huge potential for future subdivision. Have it all for yourself for $425,000. Phone or text 204-483-0228, Sandy Lake, MB.

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.

SASKATOON SOUTHWEST, River Valley View Estate, near golf course. Paved road and all services to site, $229,500. Phone 306-382-1299 or 306-382-9024.

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.

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.

LAND FOR SALE in RM McCrainy SW 1/4 16-30-28-W2, gravel on adjacent 1/4. Bids close Feb. 18, 2018. 306-229-2181, Kenaston, SK. Email: brad.rink@mapleleaf.com 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 MAPLE CREEK #111. For sale N 1/2 35-11-26-W3. 320 cult. acres, 60x100’ steel quonset on 2’ cement fdn, power, water for up to 100 head of cattle, 1 mile of Hwy #1 frontage. Will be sold by February 20th. Call 403-866-2214.

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 1745 ACRES RANCH land with wind opportunity! ID#1100624: Assiniboia, SK. 1745 acres +/-, 1/2 hour South of Assiniboia (close to St. Victor - Big Money valley). All deeded land except 1 quarter, which is Crownland lease. 1980 house approx. 1100 sq. ft., 40’x60’ steel quonset, 40’x50’ shop w/concrete floor, not heated, 40’x60’ quonset/ cattle shed. All natural spring water on the property. Mostly native grass/pasture. Another opportunity with this land is that 5 quarters are signed up with Suncor for possible future wind/solar power. Real Estate Centre, 1-866-345-3414. For all our listings visit: www.farmrealestate.com

CANADIAN FARM REALTY FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER Sealed bids for the purchase of the following parcels of land, located in the RM of Rhineland, Manitoba, will be received up to 5.00 pm on February 20, 2018 at the offices of CanadianFarmRealty.com, Box 7, Graysville, MB, R0G 0T0, Attention: Dolf Feddes Parcel Legal Acres Number Description 1 South 1/2 of NE33-2-1W North 1/2 of SE33-2-1W 161.3 2 East 1/2 of SW33-2-1W 80.1 The following will apply to all tenders: Interested parties must rely on their own inspection and knowledge of the property.

Bids shall address each parcel as a separate unit. Tenders are required to offer a total purchase amount for the parcel that is the subject of such tender. The vendor reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Purchaser will be responsible for total of 2018 property taxes.

All offers are to be submitted in sealed envelopes accompanied by a certified cheque or bank draft payable to “Royal LePage Riverbend Realty in Trust” for 5% of the tendered amount. Cheques will be returned in respect to tenders that are not accepted.

Successful bidders will be asked to enter into a formal Purchase agreement with a possession date of March 16, 2018. The purchaser(s) shall be responsible for payment of GST or shall self-assess for GST. Offers on any one parcel shall not be contingent on the successful purchase of another parcel.

Tenders will be held in confidence and not be released to the public.

Any questions regardingFARM these parcels, CANADIAN or this tender can be directed to: Dolf REALTY Feddes, REALTOR at 204-828-3371 (office) or 204-745-0451 (cell). Royal 1X6.5000 LePage Riverbend Realty www.canadianfarmrealty.com Visit our farm listings and videos at www.canadianfarmrealty.com FARMLAND IN RM of DeSalaberry, MB for sale by Tender: 320 acres of well drained lands, two adjacent farm yards, garage, machine shed, grain storage. Sealed bids received until 5:00 PM, February 28, 2018.

For bid package, contact: Art Stacey at 204-934-2537, ajs@tdslaw.com 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.

RM OF FRENCHMAN BUTTE: SW 35-52-25 W3 Ext 5 and NW 35-52-25 W3 Ext 2. 207 acres. For sale by Tender with bids closing February 6, 2018. For details, visit www.moorelandtender.ca or contact Vern McClelland, RE/MAX of Lloydminster, 780-808-2700.

RM OF ELDON: SW 22-49-24 W3 Ext 24 and NE 09-49-24 W3 Ext 8. 298.88 acres.

Surface lease revenue. For sale by Tender with bids closing Feb 1, 2018. Details at www.forrestlandtender.ca or contact Vern McClelland, RE/MAX of Lloydminster, 780-808-2700.

PRIME FARMLAND SALE: Manitoba crop, beef or mixed-use farm with a history of excellent production. A great start-up, expansion or investment opportunity!

204-945-0891 Email: bwords@mymts.net www.greenfarmforsale.com

WANTED: GRAIN FARM approx. 1000 acres for purchase or rent in north half of TURNKEY OPERATION: 25 miles NE of Saskatchewan. Prefer with yardsite. Call: Neepawa, MB. 4.5 quarters, 200 cows, feed for 500 cows, equipment and excel780-205-4296 or email: 3star@telus.net lent newer yardsite. Phone 204-402-0780.

CANADIAN FARM REALTY Stay connected with current land values.

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR PAST CLIENTS, COLLEAGUES AND CURRENT CUSTOMERS FOR STOPPING BY TO VISIT OUR TEAM AT AG DAYS. CHATFIELD/POPLARFIELD: Opportunity to run your own cattle & grain farm. 1240 sq. ft. bungalow. 800 ac. owned, 1920 leased.

200 acres cult. balance hay & fenced pasture. Many outbuildings, $799,000. Call Claudette: 1-888-629-6700. LJBaron.com It doesn’t get any better than this. Prepay your ad for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free!

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Sheldon Froese 204-371-5131 CANADIAN FARM Stacey Hiebert 204-371-5930 REALTY Dolf Feddes 204-745-0451 Junior Thevenot 204-825-8378 1X2.1429 Henry Carels 204-573-5396 Catharina Carels 204-720-4779 Visit our farm listings & videos at www.canadianfarmrealty.com

FARM FOR SALE BY TENDER Crop, Beef or Mixed-use Farmland Prime Manitoba farmland with a history of excellent crop production.

A great opportunity for a start-up or an established farm operation wanting to add more land to an existing land base.

www.greenfarmforsale.com NE-21-15-26W (160 acres) SE-21-15-26W (160 acres) NE-15-15-26W (160 acres)

NW-15-15-26W (160 acres) NE-22-15-26W (160 acres) SE-22-15-26W (160 acres)

Single buyer for all 6 quarters preferred although all serious offers will be considered. Owners reserve the right to reject highest, any or all tenders.

Land Rental Agreements on 568 acres end 9/30/18 & must be honoured as a condition of sale. Two separate tenants have the option to buy their rented parcels by matching the highest arms length offer satisfactory to the landlord (Estate of D.T. Green).

Submit tenders in a sealed envelope marked “GREEN Tender” to the law office of SimsGREEN & Company,BARBARA P.O. Box 190, Birtle, Manitoba R0M 0C0. Tenders must be accompanied by a deposit in the form of a certified cheque or bank draft for 5% of ten2X2.9286 der, payable to “Sims & Company”. Include name, mailing address and telephone number. Deposit cheques for unaccepted bids will be returned.

Tender deadline: Feb. 28, 2018 EMAIL: dtg@greenfarmforsale.com

Possession: May 1, 2018 Call: 204-261-9352

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CLAYTON KUNZELMAN OF WAWANESA, MB. is offering the following private land for sale: NW 21-18-1W, SE 30-18-1W. 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: N 1/2 20-18-1W, SEC 29-18-1W. If you wish to purchase the private land, contact the Lessee Clayton Kunzelman at Box 269, Wawanesa, MB., R0K 2G0. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer write the Director, Manitoba Agriculture, Agriculture Drown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa, MB., R0J 1E0 or fax 204-867-6578.

4 1/2 QUARTERS- BIRTLE, MB: 706 total acres. Mixed farm. 3000 sq.ft. dwelling, 5 bdrm, 3 bath. 30x215 pole shed. 2nd yardsite, 2 - 32x55 pole sheds, 40x60 machine shed. Grain storage. Gravel pit. 2 wells.

Karen Goraluk, Salesperson, 204-773-6797, NorthStar Insurance & Real Estate, north-star.ca MLS#1726260

FROESE SEEDS SUITE Accommodation available in Saskatoon. Rent the entire 3 bdrm suite or an individual room for your next stay. Please visit our website or contact for more info. Starting at $75 per night. Call 306-343-6586, Saskatoon, SK. kimlarson@live.com froeseseedsbnb.ca

CERT. CDC PRECISION & AAC SPITFIRE Exceptional yield potential and standability. Printz Family Seeds, Gravelbourg, SK., 306-648-3511, 306-380-7769.

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CERTIFIED CDC ALLOY. Good disease package. Printz Family Seeds, Gravelbourg SK., 306-648-3511, 306-380-7769.

BY TENDER: RM of Minto-Odanah, SE 1/4 3-13-17 WPM, approx. 130 acres, no mines and minerals, not subject to a right of first refusal; SW 1/4 3-13-17 WPM, approx. 130 acres, no mines and minerals, not subject to a right of first refusal. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Closing date for sale to be March 31, 2018.

Mail tenders to: Burgess Law Office, 3000G Victoria Avenue, Brandon, MB., R7B 3Y3.

Tenders must be received on or before 12:00 Noon, February 9, 2018.

CERTIFIED TRANSCEND, very good quality. Call 306-843-2934, Wilkie, SK. www.herle.ca AAC SPITFIRE, TRANSCEND, top quality. Wiens Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK.

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CERT. AC METCALFE, 99% germ., 96% vigor, 0% smut, 0% fus., 49.4 kernel weight, 4 WHEEL BOMBARDIER Rotex, 250 hrs, will be cleaning late Jan. $8.25/bu. Olylike new, $4000; Wanted: 14’ bumper hitch nick Seeds, 306-338-8078, Quill Lake, SK. dump trailer. 306-304-1959, Goodsoil, SK. 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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2013 GLASTRON MX 205, $37,500. Axxis Motorsports, Hwy 11 & Floral, Saskatoon.

Sale Jan 26, 2820 Jasper Ave. 306-2493488, www.axxismotorsportsltd.com

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

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: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/168 or call 1-800-567-0404.

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

ACREAGE FOR SALE: 2 storey, 4 bed, 2.5 baths, 18.48 acres 10 min. NW of Airdrie, AB., Contact Azmy Yacoub, Real Estate Professional Inc., 403-399-2227

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. Volume discounts. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, SK., cell 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net

SUN BEACH MOTEL, 1 bdrm suite, $695, Lakefront 2 bdrm, $850. 250-495-7766, Osoyoos, BC. www.sunbeachmotel.net

142 ACRES IN & overlooking beautiful Assiniboine Valley- Binscarth, MB: 3090 sq.ft. home. 2 car garage. 50x80 insulated shop/in-floor heat, built in 2006.

400 amp, single phase power. 28x80 insulated shop. 40x60 storage. Close to mines at Esterhazy. Karen Goraluk, Salesperson, 204-773-6797, NorthStar Insurance & Real Estate, north-star.ca MLS#1726260

LOOKING FOR PASTURE, hay, and cultivated quarters to rent or buy NE of Southey, SK. Needing pasture this summer, can haul.

403-485-1324, lesleymarsh@hotmail.com

SY ROWYN CPSR, Cert. top quality seed, high yielder with vg protein. All inquires welcome. Volume discounts. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd., North Battleford, SK., cell 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516. Email gregfarms@sasktel.net

2014 POLARIS Switchback Pro, $9500.

Axxis Motorsports, Hwy 11 & Floral, Saskatoon. Sale Jan 26, 2820 Jasper Ave. 306- MINIMIZE INPUT COSTS & maximize yield potential. Grain & grazing/silage corn. The 249-3488, www.axxismotorsportsltd.com leader’s in non-GMO technology. A more 2017 POLARIS 600 Switchback, pre- sustainable way of farming! Free delivery. owned, $10,750. Axxis Motorsports, Hwy Call De Dell Seeds Inc. 204-268-5224.

11 & Floral. www.axxismotorsportsltd.com 306-249-2488, Saskatoon, SK. GRAZING CORN CM440 conventional variety. Early maturity, whole plant is palWe know that farming is enough of a gamble atable making for easier cleanup in the so if you want to sell it fast place your ad in the spring, high quality forage during winter Manitoba Co-operator classifieds. It’s a Sure months. No planter required. Low seed Thing. Call our toll-free number today. We have cost.

CanaMaize Seed Inc., call friendly staff ready to help. 1-800-667-7770.

1-877-262-4046 www.canamaize.com

CERTIFIED AAC ARDILL yellow peas.

Call Hickseeds 306-354-7998 (Barry) or 306-229-9517 (Dale), Mossbank, SK. CERTIFIED #1: CDC Limerick. Lung Seeds Ltd. 306-368-2414, Lake Lenore, SK.

CERT. & REG. CDC Precision; AAC Spitfire.

High germ. & 0% F.G., Fast Seed Farm Ltd., CERTIFIED CDC SORREL. Van Burck 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. Seeds, 306-863-4377, Star City, SK. CERT. FDN, REG. Precision; CDC Alloy; www.vanburckseeds.ca AAC Spitfire; Transcend, all exc. germ., 0% fusarium. Fraser Farms 306-741-0475, CERTIFIED #1 CDC Sorrel, AAC Bravo. CERTIFIED #1: CDC Calvi & CDC Cibo.

Pambrun, SK. foc@sasktel.net Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. Call Lung Seeds Ltd. 306-368-2414, Lake Lenore, SK. CERTIFIED #1 CDC Sorrel, AAC Bravo.

Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. REG. & CERTIFIED CDC Calvi (itchless), high yielder. Fast Seed Farm Ltd., CERTIFIED #1, high germ: CS Camden, CDC Ruffian, CDC Morrison. Seed Source, CERT. #1 BETHUNE, 98% germ., 95% vig- 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. or.

Sandercock Seed Farm, Balcarres SK., Archerwill, SK., 306-323-4402.

306-334-2958.

CERTIFIED Camden, Morgan, Baler and Haymaker. Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, CERTIFIED # 1 CDC GLAS - The variety to grow! Top yield, excellent lodging resis- BESCO GRAIN LTD. Buying all varieties of Melfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca mustard. Also canary and some other spetance. 306-290-7816, Blaine Lake, SK. CERT. CDC RUFFIAN, CDC Minstrel, AC cialty crops. 204-745-3662, Brunkild, MB Morgan. Van Burck Seeds, Star City, SK CERTIFIED #1: CDC Glas & CDC Bethune.

306-863-4377. www.vanburckseeds.ca Call Lung Seeds Ltd. 306-368-2414, Lake Looking for off grade mustard, lentils or chickpeas. Custom color sorting of all Lenore, SK. CERTIFIED #1 CDC Ruffian, AC Leggett & types of crops. Ackerman Ag Services, CDC Orrin. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, CDC GLAS, Reg., Cert., top quality seed. 306-631-9577, Chamberlain, SK. Tisdale, SK. High yield, exc. standability, easy to harCERTIFIED CDC HAYMAKER. Hickseeds vest. Great reviews from customers. In306-354-7998 (Barry) or 306-229-9517 quiries welcome. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd., North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851 CONFECTION SUNFLOWER SEEDS Wanted: (Dale), Mossbank, SK. or 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net XL's, scuffed, bird feed & high quality CERTIFIED #1: C.S. Camden. Lung Seeds confection. 204-327-6488, Rosetown, MB. Ltd. 306-368-2414, Lake Lenore, SK. EXCELLENT QUALITY CERTIFIED #1 CS Camden, Summit, CDC Minstrel, CDC Ruffian, CDC Orrin. Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK.

CERTIFIED CDC Landmark, AAC Cameron, Jatharia, Brandon CWRS wheat. Contact Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca

Now Agents For:

CERTIFIED CARDALE, AAC Redwater, CDC Utmost VB, CDC Landmark VB, Pasteur.

Van Burck Seeds, 306-863-4377, Star City, SK. www.vanburckseeds.ca

CDC Inca Yellow Pea CDC Proclaim Red Lentil CDC Palmer Chickpea

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Landmark VB, CDC Plentiful, Cardale, Elgin ND, Goodeve VB, Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

ALso: AAC Lacombe Yellow Pea CDC Precision Durum Guttino and KWs Daniello Hybrid FallINC Ryes SEEDNET and so much more!

CERTIFIED #1: CDC COPELAND, AC Metcalfe, CDC Polarstar, AAC Connect, CDC CERTIFIED #1 AAC Brandon: 99% germ., Fraser. Lung Seeds Ltd. 306-368-2414, 99% vigor, 38.58 TKW. Sandercock Seed Farm, 306-334-2958, Balcarres, SK. Lake Lenore, SK. CERTIFIED # 1 AAC Jatharia VB wheat, TOP QUALITY CERT. #1 CDC Copeland, new. Midge tolerant. Shewchuk Seeds, AC Metcalfe, Newdale. Frederick Seeds, 306-290-7816, Blaine Lake, SK. 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. CERTIFIED #1: AAC Brandon, AAC CameAC METCALFE, CDC COPELAND, CDC ron VB & Carberry. Lung Seeds Ltd. POLAR STAR, top quality. Wiens Seed 306-368-2414, Lake Lenore, SK. RV SHOW SPECIAL! 2017 Ace 27.2 Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK. NEW WHEAT KING! Certified #1 AAC #H0A07707, $99,900. 1-844-488-3142 or Brandon, 98% germ. Nakonechny shop online 24/7 at: allandale.com CERTIFIED #1: CDC Copeland, AAC Syn- Seeds, 306-932-4409, Ruthilda, SK. ergy, CDC Maverick, CDC Austenson, AC Ranger. Ardell Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, AC VESPER VB, WASKADA. Fdn., reg., Vanscoy, SK. cert. #1. High yielders, good protein, excellent quality! Nakonechny Seeds, AAC SYNERGY, Cert. top quality seed. 306-932-4409, Ruthilda, SK. Very high yielder, gaining acceptance with maltsters. Contracts available. Inquiries EXCELLENT QUALITY CERTIFIED #1: welcome. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North AC Andrew, SY Rowyn, Faller, Penhold & Battleford, SK., cell 306-441-7851 or AAC Sadash. Call Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net CDC COPELAND, Fdn., Reg., Cert. top CLASS B MERCEDES Roadtrek van, out- quality seed. Widely accepted malt variety. standing value & quality! 1-866-346-3148 Inquiries welcome. Volume discounts.

Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, Shop online 24/7 at: allandale.com SK., cell 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Spectrum, CDC Acer (Maple), CDC Amarillo and CDC Meadow.

Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

EXCELLENT QUALITY Cert. #1, CWRS: CDC Landmark VB, AAC Viewfield, AAC Brandon, AAC Cameron VB, AAC Elie, Cardale, CDC Utmost VB, AAC Connery & AAC Redberry. Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK.

ILTA GRAIN 1X1.2857 CALL FOR 2018 EDIBLE BEAN PRICES For info call, text or email Dustin Unger 1-204-362-4113 dustinu@iltagrain.com

CDC AMARILLO, CDC INCA, certified #1, excellent quality! Nakonechny GLYPHOSATE 1 SOYBEANS: Top yields, Seeds, 306-932-4409, Ruthilda, SK. delivered. Common #1. Keep your own seed! Call Norcan Seeds, 204-372-6552, ABARTH, CDC SPECTRUM, AAC Carver 204-739-3519. Fisher Branch, MB. certified yellow peas, very good quality.

306-843-2934, Wilkie, SK. www.herle.ca LARGE KABULI CHICKPEA seed, 94% germ. 0% disease. Fraser Farms, Pambrun, FDN. & CERT. CDC Spectrum; CDC Amaril- SK., 306-741-0475. foc@sasktel.net lo. High germ. & 0% disease. Fast Seed TOP QUALITY CERTIFIED alfalfa and grass Farm Ltd., 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. seed. Call Gary or Janice Waterhouse REGISTERED/CERTIFIED #1: AAC Ardill, 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK. CDC Inca, CDC Spectrum, CDC Limerick CORN SEED - Open pollinated. Approx. (green), CDC Proclaim Lentil (red). Ardell $28/acre, at 26,000 PPA. Tall leafy plants, Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK. 7'- 9' with 8"-10" in cobs. Excellent grazing/ silage. Delivery Available, 204-723-2831, CERT. CDC INCA; CDC Greenwater, exc. Austin, MB. cattcorn18@gmail.com germ. and disease. Fraser Farms, Pambrun, SK, 306-741-0475. foc@sasktel.net 1000 BU. ORGANIC FLAX seed, grade #2, HYBRID AND OPEN-POLLINATED canola GREEN PEAS, yellow pea prices down, try and borage seed available, various GLA’S. varieties. Certified #1 Synergy (Polish), new green pea varieties! CDC Limerick, 306-595-2094, Pelly, SK. Dekalb & Rugby. Phone Fenton Seeds, CDC Greenwater & CDC Spruce. Select, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. Fdn., Reg. and Cert. Ask about CDC Forest.

Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, TOP YIELDING CANOLA from Canterra Gregoire cell 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516.

Seeds. Check out yields in the seed guide SK., gregfarms@sasktel.net COVER CROPS. HICKSEED LTD., and purchase from Lung Seeds Ltd. SK. Now has on the floor 306-368-2414, Lake Lenore, SK. We know that farming is enough of a gamble Mossbank, for organic plowdown: Daikon radish so if you want to sell it fast place your ad in the (zero till); Hairy Vetch; Austrian Winter Manitoba Co-operator classifieds. It’s a Sure peas; Buckwheat; Yellow Blossom sweet Thing. Call our toll-free number today. We have clover. Also, green feed blends available.

CERTIFIED GLAS and CDC Sorrel flax. friendly staff ready to help. 1-800-667-7770.

For all your seed needs call Hickseed Ltd. Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. Barry 306-354-7998 or Dale 306-229-9517 www.trawinseeds.ca

CERTIFIED # 1, high germ: AC Metcalfe, REGISTERED/CERTIFIED #1: Summit CERTIFIED CDC Blackstrap, earliest black CDC Copeland. Seed Source, Archerwill, Leggett, CDC Haymaker (Forage). Ardell bean, direct harvest, high yield, excellent disease pkg.; CDC Super Jet & CDC Jet Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK. SK., 306-323-4402. also available. Martens Charolais & Seed, Stretch your advertising dollars! Place an ad 204-534-8370, Boissevain, MB. CERTIFIED CDC Austenson & Maverick in the classifieds. Our friendly staff is waiting feed barley. Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, for your call. 1-800-667-7770.

CERTIFIED Snowbird fababeans & AmarilMelfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca lo Peas. Call Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca CERTIFIED CDC Copeland & AC Metcalf.

Call Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, CERTIFIED AAC BRANDON, AAC Jatharia. CERT. NSC StarCity, NSC Leroy Soybeans.

SK. www.trawinseeds.ca Call Grant, 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, Van Burck Seeds, Star City, SK. 306-863-4377. www.vanburckseeds.ca 306-746-8070, Semans, SK. CERTIFIED AC Metcalfe, AC Newdale, CDC Copeland, Legacy, CDC Austenson, CDC CERT. # 1, high germ: CDC Landmark VB, CERTIFIED #1: SNOWBIRD. Call Lung Maverick, CDC McGwire. Van Burck AAC Cameron VB, AAC Jatharia VB, CDC Seeds Ltd. 306-368-2414, Lake Lenore, SK. Seeds, Star City, SK 306-863-4377. Utmost VB, AAC Brandon. Seed Source Archerwill, SK. 306-323-4402. www.vanburckseeds.ca

2015 COACHMAN VIKING Ultra-Lite, $19,980. Sunridge RV, Radisson, SK. Sale CERTIFIED #1 Metcalf(2R) & Legacy(6R). in Saskatoon Jan 26th at 2820 Jasper Ave. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. 1-877-827-4845, www.sunridgervs.ca CERT. #1 Copeland: 94% germ., 95% vig2014 JAYCO WHITE HAWK, 34’ 11”, dbl. or, 48.3 TKW, 100% Copeland. Sandercock slide, $28,980. Sunridge RV, Radisson, SK., Seed Farm, 306-334-2958, Balcarres, SK. Sale in Saskatoon Jan 26th at 2820 Jasper Ave. 1-877-827-4845, www.sunridgervs.ca CERTIFIED CDC MAVERICK. Hickseeds 306-354-7998 (Barry) or 306-229-9517 (Dale), Mossbank, SK.

CERTIFIED CDC INCA, CDC Greenwater, TIRED OF HAULING 20-40% of your CDC Mosaic. Call Grant, 306-746-7336, soybean crop to market only to pay the 306-524-4339, 306-746-8070, Semans, SK soybean seed bill? There’s an alternative!

Visit: www.profitfromthebean.com or CERTIFIED CDC AMARILLO. Van Burck phone 204-856-3396.

Seeds, Star City, SK. 306-863-4377. www.vanburckseeds.ca

1X2.1429

Phone: 403-715-9771

Email: office@seednet.ca

CDC CIBO, CDC CALVI, top quality. Wiens Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK.

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.

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 WILBURLLOYDMINSTER, ELLIS SASKATOON, LETHBRIDGE, VANCOUVER, FEED DIVISIO MINNEDOSA

JAMES FARMS FOR QUALITY SEED. 1X3.0714 Brandon, Cardale, Faller and Penhold 1-204-867-8163 Wheat. Summit and Souris oats, Haymaker Forage Oats. Tradition Barley, Glas flax, McLeod RR2 and Barker R2xtend Soybeans. Forage and Grass Seeds, Various Canola and other Cereal Seed Varieties available upon request. Custom Processing, seed treating, inoculating. Delivery is available. Early payment discounts. Call LACKAWANNA PRODUCTS CORP. Buy204-222-8785 or 1-866-283-8785 Winni- ers and sellers of all types of feed grain peg, MB. email djames@jamesfarms.com and grain by-products. Contact Bill Hajt or Christopher Lent at 306-862-2723. clent@lpctrade.com bhajt@lpctrade.com

SEED BARLEY FOR SALE, 99% germ, phone 306-435-9122, Rocanville, SK. TREATED OAT SEED for sale: Souris and Morgan, treated with Raxil Pro. Call Justin 306-469-0105, Big River, SK.

Vanderveen Commodity VANDERVEEN Services Ltd.

COMMODITY SERV 37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0 1X1.5000 Ph. (204) 745-6444

Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers

Email: vscltd@mts.net

TOP QUALITY ALFALFA, variety of grasses and custom blends, farmer to farmer. Gary Waterhouse 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK.

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A Season to Grow… Only Days to Pay!

COMMON CERTIFIED ORGANIC Alfalfa (tap rooted), common cert. organic Red and common cert. organic Alsike Clover, 50 lb. bags. 306-382-1299, Saskatoon, SK. NUVISION COMMODITIES is currently purchasing feed barley, wheat, peas and milling oats. 204-758-3401, St. Jean, MB.

CERTIFIED CDC MARBLE, dark speckled; Certified CDC 4371-4, red. Call Grant, Semans, SK. 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, 306-746-8070.

COMMON YELLOW FLAX seed, 2500 bushel, golden flax seed from 2017 crop, 98% germ., 87% vigor, 1000 kernel weight 5.8g, brown count .04%. $28.00 FOB, Lemberg area, $28/bu., pickup. Call 306-730-8375, or 306-730-8375, Lemberg, SK. Email: Rhfarms1884@sasktel.net

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Impala (small red) Clearfield. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, LOOKING FOR OLD and new crop soybeans Tisdale, SK. FOB Western Canada. Licence and bonded company. Call, email, text Now for CDC MARBLE, reg. #1, 99% germ., exc. grain pricing at the farm! Market quality! Limited supply. Nakonechny competitive Place Commodities Ltd, accurate real time Seeds, 306-932-4409, Ruthilda,SK. marketing. 403-394-1711, 403-315-3930. info@marketplacecommodities.com CDC PROCLAIM CL, new Red. 100% germ., 0% ascochyta. Nakonechny Seeds, 306-932-4409, Ruthilda, SK.

NEW CERTIFIED CDC LANDMARK VB; AC Andrew soft white, very good quality. CERT. CDC IMPULSE Clearfield red lentil, 306-843-2934, Wilkie, SK. www.herle.ca best in it’s class. 306-843-2934, Wilkie, SK. www.herle.ca CDC LANDMARK VB, AAC BRANDON, AAC PREVAIL VB, top quality. Wiens CDC IMPULSE, CDC PROCLAIM, CDC Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK. MAXIM(small reds), top quality. Wiens REGISTERED/CERTIFIED #1: CDC Land- Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK. mark, AAC Brandon, AAC Jatharia, Cardale, CDC Utmost. Ardell Seeds, 306-668-4415, CERT. CDC PROCLAIM CL Reds, high germ. & 0% disease. Fast Seed Farm Ltd., Vanscoy, SK. 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. Call our toll-free number to take advantage of our Prepayment Bonus. Prepay for CERT. CDC IMPULSE, CDC Proclaim, CDC 3 weeks and we’ll run your ad 2 more weeks Maxim, CDC Redmoon, CDC Greenstar. for free. That’s 5 weeks for the price of 3. 98% germ, 0% disease. Fraser Farms, Pambrun, SK. 306-741-0475. foc@sasktel.net Call 1-800-667-7770 today!

BUYING:

HEATED CANOLA WESTCAN FEED & FLAX & GRAIN • Competitive Prices 1X1.4286 • Prompt Movement • Spring Thrashed

“ON FARM PICK UP”

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WANTED: FEED BARLEY, 48 lbs. plus.

Phone 306-345-2523, Stony Beach, SK. WANTED: FEED GRAIN, barley, wheat, peas, green or damaged canola. Phone Gary 306-823-4493, Neilburg, SK.

GROW SOYBEANS? If you grow 1000 acres earn a free new pickup truck every year and give last year’s away. Free report at www.profitfromthebean.com or call 204-856-3396.

WANTED: FEED BARLEY Buffalo Plains Cattle Company is looking to purchase barley. For pricing and delivery dates, call Kristen 306-624-2381, Bethune, SK. WANTED: OFF-GRADE PULSES, oil seeds and cereals. All organic cereals and specialty crops. Prairie Wide Grain, Saskatoon, SK., 306-230-8101, 306-716-2297.

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WHY NOT KEEP MARKETING SIMPLE? You are selling feed grains. We are buying feed grains. Also buying chickpeas, lentils and golden flax. Fast payment, with prompt pickup, true price discovery. Call Jim Beusekom, Allen Pirness, David Lea, Vera Buziak or Matt Beusekom at Market Place Commodities Ltd., Lethbridge, AB. Phone 1-866-512-1711. Email info@marketplacecommodities.com or

ROUND ALFALFA/ALFALFA GRASS solid core greenfeed 5x6 JD hay bales for sale.

Call 306-237-4582, Perdue, SK. DAIRY QUALITY & beef hay: 500 round bales, approx. 1500 lbs. Feed test available. Faubert Farms, Marengo, SK. Call Murray 306-463-9691.

2017 SMALL SQUARE straw bales, about 600 small square straw bales. Good solid bales. Shedded, $3 each. Delivery available, 306-862-1998, 306-609-0244, Codette, SK. 3X4 SQ. BALES: Alfalfa, Orchard, Timothy.

Exc. beef/dairy, 150 RFV, 24% pro., 1600 1700 lbs., 7-9¢. 204-270-0115, Lorette, MB. EXCELLENT BEEF ALFALFA, 18.5% protein, 20% orchard grass, square bales, inside.

Can deliver. 204-371-5744, Landmark, MB. BALES: Grass hay 5x6 bales, maxed out; Also Timothy straw. Can deliver loads of 34 or you haul. 204-739-3132, Dallas, MB. 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, Hazelridge, MB. WANTED: ALFALFA 3x3 and 3x4 bales.

Will arrange for pickup at farm/field.

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. 204-749-2194, 204-526-0733, Rathwell, MB. LARGE AMOUNT OF net wrapped round bales. Alfalfa/Timothy, 1st and 2nd cut alfalfa grass, mixed grass plus oat straw baled behind JD 9600’s. 1420 to 1740 lbs.

Some 2016 available. Most 2016 and 2017 baled with little or no rain. Analysis available. Loading with possible trucking capability. 204-529-2565, Cartwright, MB. LARGE QUANTITY ROUND Alfalfa bales, mesh wrapped, good quality, no rain. Also large round straw bales. Ask for Craig, 204-648-4711, leave message or text with return number. Gilbert Plains, MB. FIRST AND SECOND cut Alfalfa, 5x6 round bales, no rain, excellent quality.

306-865-6603, Hudson Bay, SK. DURUM STRAW BIG square bales w/ roddicut, no rain, w/some durum seed, $25/bale, 306-861-4592 Fillmore, SK. LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom hay hauling. 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK.

POST SHAVINGS: Cattle feedlot, horse & poultry bedding. Bulk pricing and delivery available; Landscaping Mulch: Available in 1 yard bulk bags for $45, delivery available; Colored Landscaping Mulch: Available in 1 yard bulk bags for $115, delivery avail. Vermette Wood Preservers, Spruce Home, SK.. 1-800-667-0094. Email: info@vwpltd.com Visit: www.vwpltd.com HORSE QUALITY SMALL square bales for sale. Call 306-290-8806, Dundurn, SK.

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NEW HAY FOR SALE; Round bale picking and hauling, small or large loads. Travel anywhere. 306-291-9658, Vanscoy, SK. HAY FOR SALE - DELIVERED! Also custom hauling. V-V Trucking Ltd., 306-631-8544, Moose Jaw, SK. 100 ROUND BALES, 1400-1450 lbs., 5¢/lb. at the farm, first cut, no rain.

306-893-4010, Maidstone, SK. FOR SALE, 200 large round mixed hay bales, 780-826-0883, Cold Lake, AB. Do you want to target Manitoba farmers?

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BUYING WILD FUR, whole frozen carcass, cash paid. Must have fur license.

DL#6168, call 306-852-8802, Tisdale, SK. Email: madtrapper@hotmail.ca

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

TARPCO, SHUR-LOK, MICHEL’S sales, service, installations, repairs. Canadian company. We carry aeration socks and grain bags. Also electric chute openers for KORNUM WELL DRILLING, farm, cottage grain trailer hoppers. 1-866-663-0000. and acreage wells, test holes, well rehabiliwitching. PVC/SS construction, exFarming is enough of a gamble, advertise in tation, workmanship and fair pricing. 50% the Manitoba Co-operator classified section. pert government grant now available. Indian It’s a sure thing. 1-800-667-7770.

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FOR SALE BY TENDER: RM of Dauphin, Parcel #1, NE, NW, SE of 23-28-20, NE & SE 14-18-20, and NW 24-28-20. Approx.

690 cult. ac., 1664 sq. ft. house, 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, farm buildings, 100,000 bu. of bin storage mostly on aeration, cattle facility. Parcel #2, SW 30-28-19, E 1/2 31-28-19, approx. 385 cult. ac. RM of Ethelbert, Parcel #3, NE 10-29-21, NE 9-29-21, NE 10-28-22, appox. 400 cult. ac.

Parcel #4, NW 10-29-21, house & farm buildings, *Parcel #3 & #4 could be sold together. Most of the acres that were seeded into canola for 2017 yielded 60+ bushels/acre. The land being offered for sale can also include two full lines of older farm machinery which is in very good condition. Highest or any tender may not necessarily be accepted. Tenders must be received in writing by 12 noon Feb. 12, 2018, to P.O. Box 44, Sifton, MB., R0L 1X0.

For more info call 204-655-3458.

20.8x42 CLAMP-ON DUALS with rods and spacers, for triples, taken off 9370 Case tractor, $8000. Call A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

REASONABLY PRICED HAY in big squares. Only 157 remaining can arrange MR. TIRE CORP. For all your tire needs, call Mylo at 306-921-6555 or Jeremy at for trucking. 306-320-1041, Leroy, SK. 306-921-0068. Serving all Saskatchewan.

Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds. Call our toll-free number and We know that farming is enough of a gamble place your ad with our friendly staff, and so if you want to sell it fast place your ad in the don’t forget to ask about our prepayment bo- Manitoba Co-operator classifieds. It’s a Sure nus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free! Thing. Call our toll-free number today. We have friendly staff ready to help. 1-800-667-7770.

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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: Seeking seasonal workers for 2018. Position will be seasonal full-time, 40+ hrs/week. Wage $11.18/hour. Period of employment anticipated to be from April 2018 until August 2018. Duties include: Harvesting and packing of asparagus, planting and weeding of pumpkins, squash and onions as well as weeding of organic fields. Must be willing to work long hours 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.

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

POLY TANKS: 15 to 10,000 gal.; Bladder tanks from 220 to 88,000 gallon; Water and liquid fertilizer; Fuel tanks, single and double wall; Truck and storage, gas or dsl.

Wilke Sales, 306-586-5711, Regina, SK. Round up the cash! Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds.

FULL-TIME DAIRY HERDSPERSON, permanent position, duties: monitoring cattle health, AI, & milking. Experience required, 3 year minimum as herd manager and diploma. $15.50/hr., English work language.

Mail resume to: St. Brigid’s Dairy Ltd., 42352 Brandon Rd., Brussels, ON., N0G 1H0. Email: stbrigidsdairy@gmail.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 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

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. CARPENTRY & PRODUCTION LINE welding program. 2 certificates, 2 employment SEEKING EXPERIENCED FARMHAND: streams, 1 tiny home. Apply now for Fall Full-time on mixed farm, cattle experience 2018 at greatplainscollege.ca Rosetown SK required. Class 1 license an asset. Mechanical & welding skills a plus! Wage $15-$20/hour depending on experience.

Email: crocushillfarms@gmail.com FULL-TIME FARM LABOURER HELP. 403-533-2494, Rockyford, AB. Applicants should have previous farm experience and mechanical ability. Duties in- LOOKING FOR PEOPLE interested in riding clude operation of machinery, including feedlot pens in Strathmore or Lethbridge, tractors and other farm equipment, as well AB. area, w/above average horsemanship as general farm laborer duties. $25/hour skills, willing to train. 2 positions available. depending on experience. Must be able to Wages depending on qualifications. cross US border. Location: Pierson, MB. 403-701-1548, Strathmore, AB. Feland Bros. Farms, Greg Feland and Wade Feland, Box 284, Pierson, MB. R0M 1S0. PERMANENT AND CALVING HELP wanted.

Large 1,000 head cattle ranch and mixed 701-756-6954. grain farm in Alberta Foothills (Cochrane), GRAIN FARM MANAGER, Livestock Manager is seeking a long term employee to join & Farm Workers required on large grain and our team as a Ranch Hand as well as short livestock operation in the Eddystone, MB. term/seasonal calving help. All positions area. Opportunities are available for: 1. are to start immediately. Successful candiGrain Farm Manager; 2.Cattle Manager; dates will have strong experience in and 3.Farm Workers. Competitive salaries. be willing to participate in all aspects of Housing and other incentives are available! equipment operation, ranch facility mainCall or text Steve at 204-805-1197, or tenance, cattle handling and care. Driver’s license required and Class 1 is an asset. email: steve.manning@samc.ag Competitive wage, bonus program, housFARM LABOURER REQUIRED for livestock ing and other benefits available. Please operation. Duties include: operating, main- send resume with questions to Paula at taining seeding & harvesting equip. Smoke andersonp@simpsonranching.ca Additionfree enviro., $17/hr. Housing avail. Lyle al information will be provided to qualified Lumax, 204-525-2263, Swan River, MB. candidates upon receipt of resume.

FARM & RANCH HELP Wanted in southern Saskatchewan. Must have some experience and drivers licence is an asset.

306-537-2624.

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 WANTED: GRAZING LEASE MANAGER/ or call with questions, 218-686-9189.

CONTRACTOR. Bow Island grazing lease headquarters is located 3 miles east and 8 HILBERT HONEY CO. LTD is now accepting miles north of Bow Island, AB. The pasture applications for the 2018 season, April to consists of approx. 38, 000 acres of dry October. Following positions are required: land pasture and 1080 acres of irrigated 4Apiary Workers (NOC 8431): pasture split by the South Sask River. It $12.03-$13.50/hr. Minimum 2 years of annually supports anywhere from 8000 to commercial beekeeping experience and 11,000 aum’s of grazing. 2017 numbers valid drivers license is required. Duties inconsisted of 1750 cow calf pairs and 250 clude: colony manipulations and assessyearlings held in 7 herds. The contractor ment, disease and pest control, nucleus will be expected to operate the pasture production, harvesting and processing of and manage all the herds in conjunction honey; Also need 8- Apiary Labourers. with irrigation timing in order to fully uti- $10.96-$11.50/hr. No previous experience lize available grazing. Other duties will in- is necessary but must be able to work in clude: Recording entry and exit of cattle; the presence of honey bees. Duties inTreatment of sick animals; Repair & main- clude: site preparations and maintenance, tenance of fences, buildings and irrigation cleaning of hive equipment, shop work, works; Along with other duties assigned by honey extraction. All positions are full the board. The contractor must supply: time. Accommodations available. We are Horses & tack, pickup truck(s), horse trail- located 13 kms South of Humboldt, SK. er, fuel for own vehicles, all hand tools, all along Hwy 20. Apply by fax: 306-682-3096 additional help including an irrigator for or e-mail: hilberthoney@gmail.com pivot & flood irrigation & liability insurance for the contractor and help. Employment is SEEKING AMBITIOUS, DEPENDABLE & year round with grazing duties from April 1 self-starting individuals. The primary role to October 31 and winter duties feeding will be maintaining cranberry fields in all the bull herd for the balance of the year. aspects, such as hand weeding, weed NB rental housing is available at the head- whacking, pruning, fertilizing, and digging quarters. The board will provide equip- drains. Experience is an asset but not rement such tractor, silage wagon, ditcher, quired. The job is physical in nature and etc. as deemed necessary by the board. applicants must be willing to work extendPlease submit your resume to: Bow Island ed hours if needed. Wage is $11.35/hr., 60 Grazing Association c/o Lyndon Haugen, hours/week. Start date will be July 2017.

Box 422, Bow Island, AB., T0K 0G0. Dead- Apply by fax: 604-591-1053 or by email to: line for submission is February 16, jennifer_kelly@hotmail.ca 2018. For more info. phone: Ryan Renke 403-529-9080, Bill Klassen 403-952-1024 or Paul Gruninger 403-308-6249.

FULL-TIME FARM AGRONOMIST wanted for large irrigation farm in southern Alberta as soon as possible. Duties: Scouting of crops, arrange seed & pricing, arrange applications of fungicide & aerial application.

Calibration checks for planter, fertilizer applicator and seed cutter. Assist staff as resource for decisions on chemical products and technology. Support crop and growing management planning & decisions. Input data requirements for government/private companies, surveys and programs. Work with retailers, Co-op and associations with seed and chemical trials. Collect and/or supervise soil, petiole and crop for analysis in the growing season. Be able to attend local association seminars, meetings and tours as a representative of our farm, report back to management. Comply with safety on the farm, safe driving practices, and co-ordinate with the same on the farm. These are not intended to be construed as all responsibilities, duties and skills for this position. Qualifications: Undergraduate degree in Agricultural Sciences is required. Knowledge in production of potatoes, seed, canola, soybeans and grains is definitely an asset. Excellent organization, time management skills and group interactive skills. Technical interests and skills in all responsibilities. Successful candidate should be a self-starter with a strong work ethic. Competitive compensation, email resumes to: Stan Kanegawa @ kanegaw@telusplanet.net

NORTHLAND LOGISTICS CORP is hiring Class 1 Drivers for its Grande Prairie, AB. locations. On-site accommodations available for out-of-town workers. We offer competitive wages, & benefits. Contact Cindy @ 780-957-3334 or email your resume safety@northlandtank.ca

HELPER WANTED ON mixed farm. Steady job for right person. Room and board avail.

403-631-2373, 403-994-0581, Olds, AB. PRETTY VALLEY HONEY FARM is looking for full-time Apiary worker. Duties: workCARETAKER WANTED FOR small ranch ing with bees, feeding bees, harvesting near Lac la Hache, BC. Home provided in honey, operating apiary equip. At times exchange for chores. 250-315-0238. hard physical labour, build and maintain apiary equip. Minimum 1 yr. experience of RANCH HANDS WANTED: 1000 cow ranch, apiary work required. Minimum Class 5 seeking workers to do all aspects of ranch- driver’s license required, high school diploing, haying and operating equipment. ma or equivalent. Wage $11.85-$12.00/hr.

Knowledge of pivots & mechanical skills a SW 26-35-26-W in the RM of Minitonas, plus! Top wages and housing included. MB. Email: eckhardrinsdorf@gmail.com Alexis Creek, BC. Call 250-394-4623, Email: c1ranch99@gmail.com 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 CARETAKER/FARMHAND SCENIC RANCH starts at $15/hour, workers comp. Farm is south of Longview Alberta requires couple located: SW 9-41-9 W2 in RM of Porcuto fill caretaker role. Lawn care, livestock pine, SK. Please apply online before March feeding, and general supervision in 1, 2018 to: AnnaBolvin@hotmail.com exchange for housing. Ideal for retired couple with farm background. Commencing SEEKING FULL-TIME WORK: Experienced June 2018. Please email resume to: with cattle & calving, and most farm mabwwatson@telus.net 403-651-7912. chinery. Clean Class 5. Ph. 204-731-1781.

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EXPERIENCED TURBINE AG Pilot Req'd: Roland Air Spray based out of Roland MB requires 1 commercial pilot for upcoming spray season starting June 1 2018 September 15 2018. Applicant must have; (1) A Canadian Commercial pilots Licence & Manitoba Aerial Applicators Licence. (2) Min experience of 2500 hours of Agriculture of which 1000 hrs must be on turbine air tractor. (3) Must maintain journey logs following Transport Canada guidelines. (4) Must be insurable with up to date medical.

(5) Be capable of operating Satloc Bantam GPS or Ag Nav Platinum system. (6) Proficient in English. Accomodations and vehicle provided if required. Wage\salary: $60\hr based on 40 hour work week. Possible seasonal bonus based on performance.

Workers Compensation provided, Benefits package available. Do Not Apply unless you meet all the above requirements.

204-745-6111 or 204-745-8484, https://www.rolandairspray.com/

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