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On Saturday, May 4, Arden held the 19th annual Crocus Festival at the Arden Community Centre. The festival featured lots of family fun, including a small animal farm, pony rides and a show put on by Karlheinz the Bubbleman! The Bubbleman had a variety of tricks, from setting bubbles on fire (below), to enclosing spectators inside giant bubbles (left). PHOTOS BY KIRA PATERSON
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Friday, May 10, 2019 • Vol.123 No. 41 • Neepawa, Manitoba
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Opportunities abound for the beef industry
By Kira Paterson
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With Manitoba being the third largest beef producing province in Canada, the cattle industry in this province is a very important one. Every year brings new developments and challenges to the industry and this year is no exception. Tom Teichroeb, president of the Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP), said that cattle farmers in the province have a lot to look forward to, in terms of new projects and opportunities, but a lot of work ahead of them to deal with some challenges they’ve been facing. Adversity in the industry One of the challenges the industry will face is coming back from the 2018 drought. “As most people are aware, there are many parts of Manitoba that were extremely dry. In the area that I’m in, which is Langruth and Gladstone, and the area towards Neepawa, there certainly wasn’t the amount of precipitation that I think that people initially thought there would be [in 2018]. So we’re most certainly hoping that this year, [the spring melt] helps and we’ll get our reserve back,” Teichroeb said. With the lack of moisture during the growing season last year, forage and feed grains were in short supply by winter, when pasture grazing is no longer an option. “The [feed] costs were significant from last year... That was certainly very impactful for many ranchers across Manitoba– and across Canada, for that matter,” Teichroeb said, noting that the large amount of snow the province saw over the winter means that the
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The first calves of the year at the Paterson farm, in Lansdowne, were a pair of twins! They’ve been inseparable since birth.
spring melt could replenish groundwater levels, giving him optimism about the 2019 feed growing forecast. Another significant challenge that Teichroeb said has arisen recently is a change in transportation regulations. Previously, farmers were allowed to transport their livestock for a duration of 48 hours, but the time has now been reduced. “We rely heavily on the eastern market and now we have been told that we will need to comply with 36 hours of trucking and then have to unload those
animals in a stock feeder to give them water and be able to reload them later. So that is very impactful on the industry,” Teichroeb explained. “We need to really go back to government and make a concerted effort that we change that. It is simply unacceptable, and a lot of the research that is out there... supports the current practice of bringing cattle there. And currently, we have a 99.9 per cent success rate, meaning those cattle are alive. And so now, we’re going against our own research– the government
is going against its own research– suggesting that we need to shorten up the travel time,” he added. “It will, without a doubt, negatively impact our industry.” Positive potential Despite the challenges that go along with the business of living things, there are always new projects and opportunities that can improve the industry. “I’m just super excited about the new year, and the opportunities that lie ahead,” Teichroeb said. “One thing that was significant for us this year
was we’re getting [access to] Crown land back.” After a public consultation in the spring of 2018 about modernizing the Agricultural Crowns Lands (ACL) Program, the acquisition of agricultural Crown lands had been put on hold while the government was in the process of assessing and amending the ACL Program. On Nov. 8, 2018 the Crown Lands Amendment Act was announced. According to the Government of Manitoba, the new legislation will protect Community Pastures, using
a special designation and provide a new, fairer process of allocating agricultural leases and permits. “So we do know for sure that it is going to be some type of an auction,” Teichroeb explained about the new lease allocation process. “What we’re still working on is the policies and regulations that will govern this new act. So we are in the midst of that. I think Agriculture Minister Eichler’s goal is to have our first auction this fall. More “beef” on page B7
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