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One sample, two verdicts A Manitoba grower’s malting barley tested dramatically different for fusarium at the elevator and a maltster. Why?

BY ROBERT ARNASON BRANDON BUREAU

A western Manitoba farmer has been frustrated by vomitoxin testing this winter because inconsistent results may cost him $70,000 on his barley crop.

Ashley Mackedenski, who manages 2,500 acres with his brother near Rossburn, Man., seeded barley on about half of the farm last year.

Like thousands of other western Canadian farmers, fusarium was a challenge for Mackedenski.

The six-row barley on his farm had low levels of fusarium and the associated fungal vomitoxin, also known as deoxynivalenol (DON), which is a mycotoxin hazardous for humans and livestock. However, 35,000 bushels of two-row barley had higher amounts of vomitoxin.

Mackedenski bought a cleaner and vacuumed the barley this winter, hoping the crop would meet the malting barley standard.

When he took a truckload to an elevator near Rossburn, testing indicated the barley had .8 parts per million of vomitoxin.

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Canada approves food irradiation for meat, but will consumers buy in?

Beef industry says there are no immediate plans to install equipment, but approvals are now in place

BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

Health Canada has approved irradiation of ground beef, but it may be some time before meat treated with irradiation appears on store shelves.

The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association requested approval for irradiation of ground beef in May 2013.

After a series of assessments, the department determined it is safe and does not significantly alter the

nutritional quality.

No companies have indicated they are going to install the units needed to send an electron beam through meat to destroy food borne pathogens such as E. coli H5: 0157 and salmonella. The process does not involve radioactivity.

“To my knowledge, we don’t have anyone who has actually decided to do it,” said Ron Davidson of the Canadian Meat Council, which represents federally inspected processors.

It is costly to install, and processors want assurances of market demand in Canada and among trading partners before making a $1 million investment.

In addition, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has regulatory concerns.

A company that decided to have this process done on a contract basis off site would need CFIA recognition of the facility because it is an intervention of the meat.

“The regulatory framework does not exist at this point to register third party suppliers,” Davidson said.

Canada already allows irradiation to treat potatoes, onions, wheat, flour, whole wheat flour and spices.

It has been available in the United States since 1997, but sales of irradiated ground beef have been low because it retails for about 10 cents more a pound.

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President Donald Trump’s trade policies don’t sit well with the country’s farmers. 5 HURTING ON THE FARM: U.S. farmers continue to take a beating from low commodity prices.

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Alta. gov’t says grazing will continue in Castle Park

BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

The Alberta government has promised that cattle grazing can continue in the newly created Castle Wildlands Provincial Park.

Grazing permit holders met with Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips March 3, where she assured them they can continue to use the area.

As well, the area will be administered by the same agrologists in the province’s public lands division with which they had previously worked.

Phillips understands how important grazing in the forestry areas is to the approximately 28 ranchers who use it, said Daryl Carlson, whose family has had a permit in the area for more than 50 years.

“She also recognizes the value of grazing in maintaining and developing the biodiversity of the vegetation in the forestry, and grazing can be a valuable tool in managing that,” he said.

No hunting is typically allowed in parks, but some will be permitted in this area to keep wildlife under control. In some instances, the forestry area is overgrown, and traditional wildlife habitat has been lost.

Bears, deer, elk and other wildlife often leave the park and invade nearby private land in search of food.

Ranchers want to continue grazing in the park, but they want to be consulted about new management plans.

“The general idea in most of society was the way to take care of our grassland was to mostly rest it and graze it once in awhile, lightly,” said Fort Macleod rancher Bill Newton.

There now is a shift toward accepting managed grazing as part of land preservation, he said.

The province will continue to work with permit holders on a formalized agreement, and ranchers living north of the parks in the Livingston Range and Porcupine Hills will be consulted on future plans, Phillips said.

“Ranchers want clarity on grazing permits,” she said in a March 1 news conference.

“They want grazing permits that are managed by rangeland operations staff, and we are working with grazing permit holders on a formalized agreement.”

The province is holding a series of public information sessions and stakeholder meetings beginning March 8 to examine conservation and land use issues in the southern Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountain region.

“Recreation planning for the broader Eastern Slopes will be guided by linear disturbance limits to protect and manage ranching and forestry in the region as well as support recreation in the area.”

The two new parks in southwestern Alberta cover 254,518 acres. barbara.duckworth@producer.com FOR A RELATED STORY, SEE PAGE 11.

Paton Farms of Waseca, Alta., had one field left to combine when winter arrived last fall. With the reasonably good weather and a dryer on hand, the Patons headed to the field March 3. This is a low lying field that can be wet in the spring, so Keith Paton and his son, Aaron, thought they would try to finish it now. Aaron was the combine operator, and when his father was asked what it was testing, he jokingly replied, “about 200.” | DON WHITING PHOTO

ALBERTA FARM WORKERS

Right to strike a sticking point in farm worker legislation Minimum wage another controversial area as reports of committees appointed to make recommendations are made public

BY BARB GLEN LETHBRIDGE BUREAU

Recommendations on how labour relations regulations and employment standards should or could be applied to Alberta’s farm and ranch workers are open for public input until April 3.

Reports from two of six committees appointed by the provincial government were released March 6 and are the latest developments in the NDP government’s controversial Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act, formerly known as Bill 6.

Alberta Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier said the government has “learned some tough lessons” since it brought forward the bill and then passed the act.

Introduction of the bill caused widespread angst in the farm and ranch community, sparking protest rallies across the province.

Lack of consultation was frequently cited as a criticism.

“These working groups have been an important step in rebuilding relationships and ensuring that all areas of the ag sector have a voice at the table,” Carlier said in a news conference at which two

reports were released.

“I think this process … really helped appease a lot of those worries about consultation. I really think that our consultation has been robust.”

Bill 6 and the subsequent act prompted formation of the Ag Coalition that represents 29 agriculture groups in the province with the mandate to provide a unified response and input into how the act is applied.

Some of its members were appointed to the six working groups tasked with providing recommendations to government.

T h e 1 2 - m e m b e r g ro u p o n labour relations did not reach consensus on several issues.

Removing farm workers’ right to strike was among points of disagreement, as was requiring five workers as the minimum with which to unionize.

The group did agree on exempting family members from the code, getting ag representation on the Alberta Labour Relations Board and on the need for clear and effective communication about the code and its application.

“It became clear that a significant concern from the agricultural community participants was with their perceptions of the impact of the right to strike or lockout on the agricultural sector, particularly the impact of work stoppage on animal health and food-crop spoilage,” labour relations committee chair Cheryl

Yingst Bartel wrote in her report.

“Some of the options discussed included regulations to limit the time periods when a strike could occur in various agricultural industries, changes to the emergency provisions in the code and removal of the right to strike.”

The report dealt with areas of disagreement by itemizing “strategic options” and the rationales for and against those options.

Minimum wage issue The report from the employment standards group showed consensus on all but one point.

Members did not agree on a suggestion that minimum wage for non-family employees below age 16 should be 75 percent of the general minimum wage rate.

The group agreed on exemption for farm workers on hours of work, breaks, overtime and overtime pay provisions in the employment standards act. It also agreed on vacation days, vacation pay, hours of work limits for youths, requirement to pay at least minimum wage and exemption of familymember employees from the standards.

The two ministers repeatedly emphasized ongoing consultation about the act and its eventual details. Gray said she would ensure all comments received about the reports would be considered, but “the recommendations in both of these reports are really speaking to giving waged

non-family farm workers access to the same rights and the same standards that are enjoyed by workers across Alberta.

“Now we’re looking to see what further changes to employment standards, labour relations code and occupational health and safety technical standards applying to farms and ranches are needed, but our government has committed to doing this only after consultations with industry.”

Page Stuart, co-chair of the Ag Coalition, said March 6 that the group will consult with its members about results from these two reports and provide input to government.

“We’re pleased that the government has committed to that continued engagement,” said Stuart.

“It’s critical that the detail be right. Right now, it’s a process.”

The four other working groups, three of them dealing with aspects of occupational health and safety and one on worker’s compensation, have yet to file their reports and recommendations.

Gray said no time frame or deadline has been established by government to finalize the full chapter and verse of the act.

“We’re not rushing this,” she said.

The complete labour relations and employment standards reports can be found at www. alberta.ca/farm-and-ranch-consultations.aspx. barb.glen@producer.com

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The Kuhn Speedrake SR112 - G11 looked like a piece of modern art at the outdoor displays of Lethbridge’s AgExpo March 2. However, it was among many other types of equipment, large and small, at the agricultural trade show. The outdoor show area has 150,000 sq. feet of space and there were more than 350 indoor exhibitors at Lethbridge Exhibition Park for the three-day event. | BARB GLEN PHOTO

COMMODITY CLASSIC

Bayer hopes merger will aid wheat program Potential merger with Monsanto should accelerate work with hybrid wheat varieties, says Bayer’s research head

approval. Percy said everything is on track, and the company anticipates the deal closing by the end of this year.

“This deal between Monsanto and Bayer is all about innovation,” he said.

“It’s all about accelerating innovation and about growth.”

Percy provided an example of

how the merger will get new products to market faster. He said chemical companies introduce new herbicides and then it might take a decade before a seed technology company comes up with a herbicide tolerant trait to pair with the chemistry.

“With this combination, we have the opportunity to co-develop,” he said.

If the deal receives all the necessary regulatory approval, the new research and development team will consist of 10,000 researchers, technicians and scientists, half from each company. It will have a $3.5 billion annual budget.

Fraley said he was initially “taken aback” and did a little head shaking when he heard that Bayer was attempting to acquire Monsanto.

But after some reflection, he realized Monsanto had come to the conclusion over the last three or four years that it needed to invest more in research and development, and this was the perfect opportunity to obtain that extra capital.

“We’re going to improve yields dramatically, we’re going to reduce farmers’ costs and we’re going to help simplify a lot of the decision

making,” he said.

Fraley doesn’t believe there will be too much trouble with regulators because the two companies have complementary businesses with little overlap. Bayer is focused on chemistry and Monsanto on traits and data management.

One area where there is significant overlap is canola breeding.

They are the two big players in that c r o p. T h e n e w e n t i t y w o u l d account for 65 percent of canola acres in Canada and 95 percent of the canola trait business.

Percy said Bayer recognizes the combined company would have a huge market share in canola.

“Possibly divestment is an option, but that’s something that has to be discussed with the regulators,” he said.

Fraley said transparency and public discourse will be crucial when introducing any new products.

“Certainly if there’s anything that we’ve learned from our experience with GMOs, is we know that good science by itself is not enough,” he said.

“It has to be accompanied by great communication and a transparent relationship with the public.”

“What’s going on here? Same sample. Same stuff,” he said.

“I realize that if I take my wheat to one elevator, the protein may be 13.2 (percent). And you take it to the next elevator and it may be 12.9.

It’s very close. It’s not 12.9 and 13.9.”

The inconsistenc y has kept Mackedenski up at night. The difference in price between his malting barley contract and the value of feed barley is nearly $2 per bushel.

“We shipped out two loads to the maltster. They’ve both been rejected and I’ve lost out $8,000 on the

two loads,” he said.

More significantly, Mackedenski produced 35,000 bu. of two-row barley. He could be out $70,000 if the rest of the grain doesn’t make grade.

Mackedenski didn’t share the names of the elevator or the maltster because he’s been dealing with the companies for years. He has spoken to both parties about their testing methods but hasn’t been able to resolve the problem.

A potential loss of $70,000 is stressful, but Mackedenski is also bothered by the inconsis-

tent test results.

“I realize that a change in sampling will cause different readings, but why isn’t everyone doing it the same way?”

In cases like this, where there is a significant difference in test results, two factors are usually responsible, said Norm Woodbeck, manager of agri-operations in Canada for Intertek, a testing and quality assurance firm.

“The (grain) sample and human

BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Wheat will be one of the crops that benefits most from Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto, say the heads of research for both organizations.

“Wheat is one of the areas that this potential merger is going to really accelerate,” Adrian Percy, global head of research and development with Bayer, told reporters attending a news conference at the 2017 Commodity Classic in San Antonio.

Bayer launched its wheat breeding program in 2010 and hopes to have hybrids on the market in the 2020s. It has also invested heavily in wheat chemistry. Monsanto’s strength is germplasm and traits.

“Bringing these two programs together is really going to accelerate the innovation that we certainly need in the cereal area,” said Percy.

Robert Fraley, chief technology officer with Monsanto, said wheat is an example of a crop that does not have the level of investment it needs in either Bayer’s or Monsanto’s individual programs.

“You put those together and you create the capability to bring a lot of

Adrian Percy, global head of research and development with Bayer, left, and Robert Fraley, chief technology officer with Monsanto, say the merger of the two companies will benefit wheat more than other crops. | SEAN PRATT PHOTO new technology into wheat,” he said.

“I’m excited about it because I think wheat is a crop that quite frankly needs new technology, and the technology is there and I think we can apply it.”

Bayer has made submissions in 20 of the 30 jurisdictions where the merger requires regulator y

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ONE SAMPLE, TWO VERDICTS » CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Mackedenski’s malt barley production contract said the grain had to have one p.p.m. or less, so he assumed the cleaning was a success.

However, when the same truckload went to the maltster, the barley failed the test. It came back at 1.8 p.p.m.

Undeterred, Mackedenski tweaked the cleaning method and sent another truckload to the elevator.

The result was even lower, 0.6 p.p.m. of vomitoxin.

However, when that truckload of

DID YOU KNOW? Sampling errors account for 76 percent of total errors when testing for mycotoxins. Taking good, representative samples can improve testing accuracy.

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barley went to the maltster, it failed again. Now it was 1.7 p.p.m.

At that point Mackedenski began to ask an obvious question: how can tests at an elevator and a maltster produce completely different results?

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Farmers unimpressed with Trump’s anti-trade policies

BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Rural America is largely credited with giving Donald Trump the U.S. presidency, but there is one policy area where farmers are not happy with the White House.

Trump’s protectionist actions and rhetoric have put him at odds with his biggest supporters.

John Heisdorffer, vice-president of the American Soybean Association, said the group is upset that Trump pulled out of the TransPacific Partnership agreement days after his inauguration.

The association spent the last three years working on the agreement.

“We thought we had her right to the point last fall,” he said.

“After you put that time and work into it, it was kind of devastating.”

One of the association’s priorities is to ensure Trump follows through on his word to negotiate bilateral deals with some of the TPP participants.

“He said he’s going to somehow get better deals, so we’ve got to stay optimistic that he can hold true on that,” said Heisdorffer.

Trade was top of mind for all of the major farm groups at the 2017 Commodity Classic, a gathering of U.S. corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers.

Wesley Spurlock, president of the National Corn Growers Association, expressed concern that Trump wants to reopen the North American Free Trade Agreement and has alienated Mexican politicians with his protectionist rhetoric and threats of a tariff on imported Mexican goods to pay for a wall to keep illegal immigrants out of the United States.

Mexico has become the largest market for U.S. corn exports under NAFTA , and the corn growers association does not want to risk losing that market.

A Mexican senator says he is going to introduce a bill to source all of the country’s corn from South America instead of the U.S. Spurlock is not overly concerned about the threat. He said

the senator has ulterior motives for talking about introducing such a bill.

“He is a senator that is trying to make a name for himself to try and run for president,” he said.

Still, the threat of retaliation makes him nervous, not only for corn but for U.S. meat exports because a lot of corn is fed to the livestock that produce that meat.

Brett Blankenship, past-president of the National Association of Wheat Growers, is also concerned about trade because about 45 percent of the U.S. wheat crop is exported.

The World Trade Organization recognizes 250 bilateral trade agreements around the world.

The U.S. is party to only 17 of those agreements.

“We had an opportunity to catch up in a great way with the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” he said.

Blankenship said the wheat industry was very much in favour of the agreement and was upset when Trump pulled out. He would like to see Trump’s admin-

istration negotiate bilateral agreements with TPP countries as soon as possible in lieu of signing the TPP. “It seems to be a lot more legwork, but it would be very important to accomplish that,” he said.

Soybean growers are also worried about Trump’s constant provocation of China, a market that consumes 30 percent of U.S. soybean exports.

“Every fourth row of soybeans goes to China. That’s pretty dramatic for us,” said Heisdorffer.

He is pleased that Trump has chosen Iowa Governor Terry Branstad to be the next U.S. ambassador to China. Brandstad is friends with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“He has a very good relationship with President Xi,” said Heisdorffer.

He hopes that relationship will help smooth diplomatic relations between the two global superpowers and keep U.S. soybeans flowing to China. sean.pratt@producer.com

EVERYBODY LOVES A TRAIN

It just gives another set of tools to the beef processors to remove things like E. coli.

RON DAVIDSON CANADIAN MEAT COUNCIL

MEAT IRRADIATION » CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “It is called grey beef because it is a bit off colour and it has not sold very well,” said food safety specialist Keith Warriner of the University of Guelph.

“There is no indication from the U.S. that it has been a big success,” he said.

Irradiation does not make the food sterile. The shelf life is extended, but meat should still be handled and cooked properly.

“It just gives another set of tools to the beef processors to remove things like E. coli,” he said.

The process has been understood for more than a century, and the U.S. approved it for wheat, potatoes, spices, fruits, vegetables, ground beef, pork, and poultry.

It is accepted in a number of countries. The European Union does not allow it, although some individual members permit it for poultry and a few limited products. barbara.duckworth@producer.com

FACTS ABOUT FOOD IRRADIATION What is food irradiation?

• It’s a process in which food products are exposed to a radiant energy such as gamma rays, electron beams or x-rays to kill harmful bacteria such as E. coli O157:H7, campylobacter and salmonella. The process also can control insects and parasites, reduce spoilage, and inhibit ripening and sprouting.

How does irradiation work?

• Food is packed in containers and moved by conveyer belt into a shielded room. There the food is exposed briefly to a radiant-energy source. The amount of energy depends on the type of food. Energy waves passing through the food break molecular bonds in the DNA of bacteria, other pathogens and insects. These organisms die or are rendered unable to reproduce.

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error. Somebody is not following proper methods,” said Woodbeck, a former chief inspector with the Canadian Grain Commission.

Growers may assume the sample is the same if it came out of the same pail, but that’s not the case.

“It’s not the same sample. You can still have variability,” Woodbeck said. “There’s always inherent variability.”

Improper sampling may be the cause, but it’s also possible that a lab technician at the elevator or maltster didn’t follow the testing procedure.

However, a difference in the

type of test at the elevator and maltster shouldn’t cause this sort of discrepancy. Two methods are typically used for a rapid test for vomitoxin: a strip test and the Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) test.

Woodbeck said the U.S. Department of Agriculture has certified the accuracy of those tests.

“The technology that’s out there right now, I personally believe there are no issues with it,” he said.

“There are a few different methodologies out there, but at the end of the day the result should still be relatively close.”

Shari Lafreniere, senior analyst with 2020 Seed Labs in Winnipeg, said results from the different tests are consistent, but in Canada there isn’t government oversight or a regulation saying that tests must be done a certain way.

“Any kind of vomitoxin testing in Canada … it’s not accredited,” she said. “ There’s no one out there checking on (the) elevators … unless the individual maltster or chain of elevators has someone internally (in) quality control doing it, but the government itself is not doing it.”

The results on Mackedenski’s

barley were not close, and he’s concerned about the bigger picture. More than 10 far mers around Rossburn have similar problems with vomitoxin in their malting barley this year.

If wet weather and fusarium plague farmers in future years, consistent testing at the elevator and other locations could be critical for the cereal industry. “ This could be a problem, ongoing, for the next few years,” he said.

“Maybe this is something we really have to address.” robert.arnason@producer.com

How can you tell if food has been irradiated?

• Labelling laws require that irradiated foods include labelling with either the statement “treated with radiation” or “treated by irradiation” and the international symbol for irradiation, the radura.

Source: U.S. Food & Drug Administration

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INVESTMENT IMPACT

Canola’s economic influence explodes

BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU

The physical and mental demands of seeding can push marketing onto the backburner. A U.S. grain marketing economist had developed simple marketing plans with fixed decision dates so that potential spring and summer price rallies aren’t missed while focusing on fieldwork. | FILE PHOTO CROP MARKETING

Pre-harvest marketing plan helps avoid post-harvest regret Put dates for pricing decisions on paper so it makes a ‘real plan for action,’ says economist

BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Ed Usset says now is a good time to be contracting some of the 2017-18 soybean crop.

The grain marketing economist with the Center for Farm Financial Management at the University of Minnesota has created simple one-page pre-harvest marketing plans for soybeans, corn and spring wheat.

He created the plans six months ago, which consist of minimum prices and decision dates.

By setting down specific dates for pricing decisions, the system forces farmers to regularly assess the market’s position relative to his costs of production during the period when it often rallies to “buy acres.”

Otherwise, marketing might take a back seat to the demands of seeding time.

The first decision date for soybeans is April 11, and the minimum price a farmer should consider selling his beans at before that date is a November futures price of US$10.25 per bushel.

Usset arrived at that number by calculating the cost of production

for growing soybeans in southwestern Minnesota. The cost of production includes a modest return for family living.

“I’m not interested in pricing below that,” he told delegates attending the 2017 Commodity Classic in San Antonio.

The November futures contract closed at $10.33 the night before he gave his presentation. “ You’ve got an opportunity today in soybeans,” Usset told the farmers taking in his presentation.

The $10.25 minimum price is the starting point for the marketing plan. The next decision date is May 10 and the minimum price for that period is $11 per bu. The last decision date is June 9 with an $11.75 minimum.

“Decision dates make it a real plan for action,” he said.

The objective is for the farmer to price 75 percent of his anticipated soybean crop by mid-June.

“Spring is traditionally the best time to get something done. There is a strong tendency for markets to be a little high in the spring.”

Usset said there have been price rallies in each of the last three springs. He also determined a “realistic” maximum price of

$12.50 for soybeans.

“Now you’ve got the bookends to put your price objectives in between,” he said.

A farmer who expects to produce 25,000 bu. of soybeans would price 5,000 bu. on the first, third and fourth decision dates and 2,500 bu. on the second.

Most of his presentation focused on the soybean marketing plan, but he briefly touched on corn and wheat.

His corn plan starts with a minimum December futures price of $4.50 per bu. and works up to $6 by the June 9 decision date.

The spring wheat plan starts with a minimum September futures price of $6 per bu. and rises to $8 per bu. by June 9.

That’s where things get tricky.

His minimum corn futures price is 50 cents per bu. higher than today’s value and his spring wheat trigger is 40 cents higher.

Usset said he would still get something done this spring on wheat and corn, pricing 20 to 40 percent of anticipated production.

“Why on Earth would I sell corn (50 cents per bu.) below production costs? Because that’s better than $1 below production costs at harvest.”

Usset acknowledged it is an imperfect plan, but it is better than having no marketing plan at all.

He encouraged farmers to use simple, low-cost marketing tools early in their marketing plan, such as forward contracts and futures contracts.

Later in the plan, if there is a bull market, they can get creative and use put options to establish a minimum price and capture some of the upside as well.

Usset said farmers shouldn’t get upset if they lock in soybeans at $10.25 per bu. and then the price increases to $11 or $12.

“Just get it priced and then hope to heck you’re wrong,” he said.

“You’re a producer. You always want prices to go higher.”

His plans can be found on the university’s website at www.cffm. umn.edu/grainmarketing/marketingplans.aspx. sean.pratt@producer.com

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Canada’s canola industry produces tens of billions of dollars of economic value, creates hundreds of thousands of jobs and is a major export earner.

It’s a stunning result for a crop that didn’t truly exist 50 years ago and that had only one-third the impact just a decade ago.

“We see an incredible amount of investment,” said Brian Innes, the Canola Council of Canada’s vicepresident for government relations, referring to a new study that the council commissioned.

According to the analysis, produced by LMC International, the canola industry now: • has a total economic impact on the Canadian economy of $26.7 billion • employs 250,000 people directly and indirectly • pays $11.2 billion in wages • exports 90 percent of its products That is a dramatic improvement on the canola industry’s impact just 10 years ago, according to the report.

The total economic impact is three times as great as in 2005.

The analysis includes direct and indirect impacts because much of the economic activity created by canola occurs outside farms, seed developers, elevators and processors.

The subject of canola’s massive increase in production and economic spinoffs was to be highlighted at the council’s annual convention, which ran March 7-9 in Winnipeg and celebrated the 50th anniversary of the industry event.

Innes said canola’s impact is huge on the Prairies but is less well recognized in other provinces, even though many jobs in those places are also the result of canola. That can include jobs and money in the transportation system, ports and food companies.

Innes said an important aspect of today’s canola industry is the less boom-and-bust nature of the industry now compared to the past.

“The ups and downs of previous years have evened out … reflecting how canola has matured into a reliable mainstay of the Canadian economy,” said Innes. ed.white@producer.com

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High oleic soybean in red tape U.S. regulatory delays will put soybean approval four years behind

BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — High oleic canola is getting another year of reprieve from facing full-on competition from high oleic soybeans.

The original goal of the U.S. soybean industry was to have commercial introduction of two high oleic soybean traits in 2014. That will not happen until 2018 at the earliest because of regulatory delays.

Monsanto is still awaiting approval of its Vistive Gold soybeans in China, while DuPont Pioneer is in the ninth year of the European Union approval process for its Plenish soybeans.

DuPont is doing a limited launch of Plenish soybeans in regions of certain states where crush plants are selling the meal locally rather than shipping it to overseas markets.

Monsanto is taking a more cautious approach with its Vistive Gold beans because 30 percent of the U.S. soybean crop is shipped to China, and the company does not want to risk contaminating shipments with an unapproved crop.

“It’s a pretty big liability thing,” said Mark Winkle, senior director of U.S. domestic programs with the United Soybean Board.

He is forecasting 650,000 to 700,000 acres of high oleic soybean acres this year, up from 450,000 acres last year. It will be almost entirely Plenish soybeans.

“It’s not big acres yet,” he said.

Winkle anticipates both companies will receive the remaining approval they require from China or the European Union by the end of 2017 or early 2018.

That would pave the way for full commercialization of both products in 2018, at which point the U.S. soybean industry can start winning back market share it lost to high oleic canola oil from Canada because of trans-fat labelling laws.

U.S. soybean farmers lost an estimated 1.8 billion kilograms of a n n u a l s oy b e a n o i l d e m a n d because of trans-fat labelling. A decision by the U.S. Food and Drug

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The mighty U.S. soybean has been losing ground to high oleic canola in the domestic oilseed market. | FILE PHOTO Administration to phase out partially hydrogenated oil could mean another 680 million kg of lost demand.

The United Soybean Board has established a target of having 18 million acres of high oleic soybeans by 2023 producing four billion kg of oil.

Winkle said the acre and production targets are still valid, but the timeline might have to be pushed back a couple of years because of the regulatory delays.

If the acreage target is achieved, high oleic soybeans would be the fourth largest crop in the U.S. behind corn, commodity soy-

beans and wheat.

Mike Beard, a farmer from Frankfort, Indiana, has been growing Plenish soybeans for three years.

He said they always out-yield his commodity soybeans.

He receives a 50 cent per bushel premium for growing the crop and keeping it identity preserved.

“This is not near as difficult an identity preservation as it is with a seed bean. It’s a better deal actually,” Beard said during an interview at the 2017 Commodity Classic conference in San Antonio.

He grows Plenish under contract with a local processor. The contracting program was filled almost

as soon as it opened.

“There has been good acceptance in my area by farmers,” said Beard.

Winkle said that has been the case wherever Plenish beans are sold.

Beard said farmers are eager to grow high oleic soybeans to win back the market share that has been lost to healthier oil.

“I’m extremely excited to see this crop being grown in a volume that will allow our customers to experience this new oil and the advantages it has,” he said. sean.pratt@producer.com

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Some Asian countries restrict U.S. poultry SEOUL/CHICAGO (Reuters) — South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong have limited imports of U.S. poultry after the United States detected its first case this year of avian flu on a commercial chicken farm, South Korea’s government and a U.S. trade group said March 6.

South Korea will ban imports of U.S. poultry and eggs after a strain of H7 avian flu virus was confirmed March 5 at a chicken farm in Tennessee, South Korea’s agriculture ministry said.

Japan and Taiwan will block poultry from the state, while Hong Kong will restrict imports from the Tennessee county where the infected flock was located, said James Sumner, president of the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council.

The limits will reduce the potential for major U.S. chicken companies to sell poultry overseas.

The Tennessee farm infected with avian flu was contracted to sell birds to Tyson.

South Korea’s import ban took effect March 6. Live poultry and eggs are subject to the ban, while heat-treated chicken meat and egg products can still be imported, the statement noted.

South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy, has been importing eggs from the U.S. as its worst-ever avian flu outbreak tightens the country’s egg supplies.

South Korea has imported nearly 1,049 tonnes of U.S. eggs this year, a c c o rd i n g t o m i n i s t r y d at a, accounting for more than 98 percent of its total egg imports as of March 3.

Sumner said South Korea’s decision to prohibit shipments of U.S. shell eggs was disappointing. Its move to continue imports of certain processed egg products was “good because Korea’s got this terrible AI (avian flu) problem, and they were definitely in need of eggs,” he said.

Multiple outbreaks of avian influenza have been reported in poultry farms and wild flocks across Europe, Africa and Asia in recent months, something infectious disease experts put down to greater resilience of strains currently circulating rather than improved detection or reporting.

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OILSEEDS UP

Current rally more than biofuel based MARKET WATCH

D’ARCE McMILLAN

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he triggers for grain price movements are often clear, but not always, as was the case last week when crop prices, including canola, rose.

The controversy over potential American biofuel policy changes was certainly one factor that pushed crop futures prices higher, but other factors were also at work.

The biofuel hubbub was typical of the political climate in Washington, D.C., these days with leaks of potential big changes to policy, denials and allegations of conflicts of interest and crony capitalism.

The tale is laid out in a separate story on this page.

The media reports and rumours floating in the biofuel industry were enough to lead the market to believe that the result would be increased demand for corn and soybeans to make into biofuel.

Soy oil led the market higher.

DTN reported that part of supposed biofuel incentive talk was that the biodiesel tax credit would be brought back but paid only to American producers rather than blenders.

The previous version of the credit went to blenders, which could

apply it to imported biodiesel.

Limiting it to U.S. producers would be a big boost to local soybean demand, and that was behind the initial 6.7 percent spike in soybean oil futures.

When the White House denied that changes were in the offing, the crop market backed down, but not all the rally was lost.

May soybeans rose 1.3 percent over the week, soy oil climbed 5.2 percent and canola rose $15.90 a tonne, or 3.1 percent.

Some might believe that changes to biofuel laws will eventually come. However, there are also other issues supporting crop prices.

Weather, supply One was that rain in north-central areas of Brazil was flooding an unpaved section of BR-163, known as the soybean highway.

The road, which links key soy producing regions of Mato Grosso state to ports on the Amazon River, has been undergoing a billion dollar upgrade and paving, but a small amount remains a dirt road.

The flooding and mud slowed deliveries of the record large soybean crop.

Private analytics firm Informa Economics raised its forecast of Brazil’s crop last week to a record 108 million tonnes, trade sources told Reuters, up nearly two million tonnes from its previous estimate.

However, another reason for slower than expected exports from Brazil is that farmers are reluctant sellers. Brazil’s currency has risen against the American dollar, and

that means the amount farmers receive for their crop, in the local currency, has fallen.

Soybean producers in Brazil have sold 45 percent of the crop, compared with 54 percent a year ago and a 50 percent multiyear average, Reuters reported.

Another factor that could be supporting crop prices is a small, but growing worry about American weather.

A large part of the country is experiencing spring-like weather much earlier than normal. Dodge City, in western Kansas, was particularly warm March 6 with a high of 26 C with strong, drying winds.

The winter wheat crop is coming out of winter dormancy early and will need moisture to grow. But Kansas, the largest hard red winter wheat producer, is dry, and a large part of the southern Midwest and southeastern United States also have had well below normal precipitation in the past 60 days. Also, an actively growing wheat crop is at risk of damage if the weather turns frosty again.

It is too early for U.S. weather to be a significant concern, but the unusual spring is likely something in the back of traders’ minds.

With Pacific Ocean temperatures warming and the potential for an El Nino to develop, there is a greater possibility for the warm weather in the southeastern U.S. and southern U.S. Plains to continue through spring, but that does not rule out cold snaps.

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Hints of a change in the biofuel program that would move biofuel blending away from refiners to gasoline marketers and add new incentives for biofuel production lifted crop futures. | USDA PHOTO WHO SAID WHAT?

U.S. biofuel sector up in arms over policy confusion Rumours fly over ‘executive order’ regarding changes to biofuel blending responsibilities NEW YORK, N.Y. (Reuters) — Crop futures rose recently as the United States biofuel industry was shaken over confusion about White House plans for overhauling the U.S. biofuel program.

Although administration spokespeople denied talk that changes were coming that could include methods to increase the amount of ethanol and biodiesel in the fuel supply, the market held on to much of the crop price rally.

Comments from the head of the Renewable Fuels Association sparked the turmoil.

Bob Dineen initially said only that a Trump administration adviser provided the information about the administration’s plans, but later said it came from billionaire investor Carl Icahn.

U.S. President Donald Trump in December named Icahn a special adviser to help in deregulating industry.

Dinneen said March 2 that Icahn had been the source.

According to Dinneen, Icahn said “the plan was to issue an executive order” that would shift the onus of blending biofuels into gasoline away from refiners and further down the supply chain to gasoline marketers.

The RFA issued a statement Feb. 28 saying it had been informed by “an official with the Trump administration” that an executive order was coming to alter the biofuels program in a way that eased the burden on refiners, and that the move was “not negotiable.”

The statement did not identify the official.

The White House responded saying an executive order was not in the works, and claimed no knowledge of a Trump official negotiating with the RFA. Icahn, who owns a controlling stake in refiner CVR Energy Inc.,

said March 2 that he had indeed been negotiating for RFA’s support of a change to the biofuels program, but denied saying an executive order was pending.

“I told Mr. Dinneen that I didn’t know what the president would do, but believed he would be supportive and it would be ideal if we could get this fixed with an executive order,” Icahn said.

He said the negotiation between Dinneen and Icahn resulted in a joint memorandum from them imploring the White House to alter the biofuels program by removing the blending requirement from refiners, and by providing incentives for more ethanol production.

Icahn said refining company Valero was part of the negotiations.

A Valero spokesperson confirmed in an emailed statement that company representatives had met with Dinneen and Icahn.

The White House did not comment on those negotiations, but said Icahn “does not have a position with the administration nor a policymaking role.”

“He is simply a private citizen whose opinion the president respects and whom the president speaks with from time to time,” White House spokesperson Kelly Love said.

Seven Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, sent a letter to the White House last month, saying Icahn’s role as an adviser to Trump created potential financial conflicts of interest and called for a review.

Refiners, including CVR, have long been seeking a way out of being responsible for blending biofuels into gasoline saying the requirement costs them millions of dollars.

Shares of CVR have soared 80 percent since Trump was elected.

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FED CATTLE HIGHER

HOGS WEAKEN

BISON STEADY

Fresh highs for the year were posted with the steer average at $163.22 per hundredweight, up $2.79, and heifers at $161.87.

Fed steer prices in the first quarter have rallied only four percent from the low point this year.

Over the past decade, the rally in the first quarter has on average been 12 percent. That is unlikely to happen this year, but prices could still rise during the rest of March.

Cattle bought last week were set for delivery the week of March 13.

There have been reports that packers are taking longer to lift cattle than initially stated.

Alberta fed cash prices have recently moved back to a discount against the Nebraska market.

Cash-to-cash basis levels usually weaken into March, and the month usually has the weakest basis of the year.

Weekly exports totalled 7,209 head, which is the most this year and the first time this year that exports topped the volume seen last year at the same time.

Retailer and food service segments should be in the midst of procuring early spring beef needs.

Cow slaughter volumes are expected to moderate, and additional hours could be committed to the A grade slaughter in the coming weeks.

U.S. hog cash prices fell hard last week because traders expect larger market-ready numbers are coming down the pipeline.

Cut-out values were volatile as pork belly values swung widely.

The overhyped story a few weeks ago about bacon shortages might have pushed pork prices too high, and now they are correcting.

The Canadian dollar dropped sharply last week, helping to support Canadian hog prices, but the market still fell.

The U.S. national live price average for barrows and gilts was US$53.57 per cwt. March 3, down from $54.42 Feb. 24.

U.S. hogs averaged $67.38 on a carcass basis March 3, down from $68.56 Feb. 24.

The U.S. pork cutout was $80.63 per cwt. March 3, down from $81.91 Feb. 24.

The estimated U.S. weekly slaughter for the week to March 4 was 2.311 million, up from 2.268 million the previous week.

Slaughter was 2.224 million last year at the same time.

In Canada, the March 3 Signature Five price was C$171.69 per 100 kilograms, down from $178.06 the previous week.

O n a per hundredweight basis, the price was $77.88 down from $80.77 the previous week.

The Canadian Bison Association said Grade A bulls in the desirable weight range sold at prices up to C$6.25 per pound hot hanging weight. U.S. buyers are offer ing U S$4.60 w ith returns dependent on exchange rates, quality and export costs.

Grade A heifers sold up to C$6-$6.20. U.S. buyers are offering US$4.40.

Animals outside the desirable buyer specifications may be discounted.

COWS STRONGER Non-fed volumes tightened, helping to lift prices.

D1, D2 cows ranged $88-$105 to average $97.70, up $1.30. D3 cows ranged $77-$94 to average $86.

Rail grade cows ranged $182$187, up $1.

Butcher bull prices rose $2.50 to average $110.70.

Non-fed slaughter for the year is running five percent ahead of last year. Exports are running 33 percent below a year ago.

Additional slaughter cow supplies should begin to hit the market as spring calving intensifies.

FEEDERS RISE Stockers calves lighter than 500 pounds were steady to higher.

Feeder steers 500-800 lb. traded $1-$3 higher while heifers were steady to $1.75 higher.

Large feeder steers heavier than 800 lb. rose $1.25-$2.25, while heifers were steady to $1.50 higher.

Weekly sale volumes of 35,207 head were up two percent from the previous week.

Auction volumes are expected to peak around the middle of the month.

Auction volumes are running 11 percent ahead of last year.

Feeder exports are running nine percent behind last year.

Marketings should build over the next couple of weeks, but volumes

will remain manageable.

Demand for cattle to put on grass and for feedlot replacements should continue.

Calf prices should rise, and larger feeders are anticipated steady to a little higher.

BEEF STRONGER U.S. boxed beef prices rallied sharply with Choice up US$12.16 at $208.35 and Select up $10.89 at $203.72.

With these sharply higher prices, the cutout is now four to five percent below year ago levels compared to being 13 percent below in early February.

Weekly Canadian cut-out values to Feb. 18 on AAA rose C$4.86 to $261.50 and AA climbed $2 to 253.03.

T h e A A A- C h o i c e s p re a d strengthened to +$14 from +$7, but the spread is expected to narrow in the coming weeks because of strong U.S. prices.

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SHEEP STEADY Beaver Hill Auction in Tofield, Alta., reported that 571 sheep and 298 goats sold Feb. 27.

Wool lambs lighter than 54 lb. were $230-$260 per cwt., 55-69 lb. were $235-$253, 70-85 lb. were $230-248, 86-105 lb. were $200-$230 and 106 lb. and heavier were $188-$195.

Wool rams were $116-$130 per cwt. Cull ewes were $103$140.

Hair lambs lighter than 54 lb. were $210-$249 per cwt., 55-69 lb. were $236-$253, 70-85 lb. were $220-$240, 86-105 lb. were $190-$220 and 106 lb. and heavier were $182-$189.

Hair rams were $109-$167 per cwt. Cull ewes were $112-$175.

O n t a r i o St o c k y a rd s I n c . reported that 467 sheep and lambs and 14 goats traded Feb. 27. A light run of sheep, lambs and goats sold steady to stronger.

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AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES

Remember cropping systems when funding ag research

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ntercropping is a fascinating topic when proponents such as Colin Rosengren speak about it.

Growing multiple crops on the same field at the same time goes against more than 100 years of agricultural orthodoxy.

The goal for mainstream farming, and the assumed route to optimum profit, is to have a uniform crop of one species and eliminate all competition from weeds.

So eyebrows rise when a farmer like Rosengren says he can improve his soil, reduce herbicide and fungicide use and make significantly more net profit from growing canola, peas and red lentils together in the same field than he can growing them separately.

It generates many questions about the details of seeding multiple crops, how the mixture performs regarding weed and disease pressure, how to time the harvest of crops with different maturity, how to separate the grains once they are combined and how the system affects crop quality.

Also crop insurance company reluctance to cover mixed crops is a major barrier.

The intercropping experiences of Rosengren of Midale, Sask., and Ryan Boyd of Forrest, Man., were covered in the March 2 Western Producer.

They are producers who think outside the box. Rosengren is a particularly interesting farmer who not only experiments with cropping alternatives but also is deeply involved with the development of the innovative CleanSeed CX-6 Smart Seeder now appearing at many shows and farm demonstrations.

And he is a partner in Three Farmers, a processor and marketer of cold pressed camelina oil as well as a snack food using roasted chickpeas.

He is not a fanatic out on the fringe.

And yet intercropping and other cropping and field management experiments

are usually on the fringe when it comes to agricultural research funding.

They are studied by a team in plant science at the University of Manitoba, the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, and others. Canola-pea combinations, peaola, might be the best studied. But the resources allocated pale compared to crop breeding and pesticide development.

That is no surprise. New systems do not generate profits for the developer like new products can. And a higher yielding variety or a better fungicide is more likely to be widely adopted and its value is easier to calculate.

Such products advance modern, high technology farming that is, by many measures, wildly successful.

But it is not irrational to question the sustainability of current practices when facing the growing problems of herbicide resistant weeds, expanding crop disease, rising input costs and uncertain climate.

Perhaps a larger allocation of resources into research into systems that more closely mimic nature’s complexity could be our contingency plan. There must also be a way to insure these crops.

With more study and support, intercropping might become a popular, profitable and sustainable option.

The concept has been successful before.

The aboriginal people of North America practiced a form of intercropping with their three sisters — corn, beans and squash.

The beans fixed nitrogen from the air, corn provided support for the bean’s vine and squash provided ground cover to hold soil moisture while its spiny stems protected the crop from browsing animals.

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FEDERAL BUDGET

Will budget see promises kept on ag investment, farm taxes?

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KELSEY JOHNSON

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t’s budget season in Ottawa — a time when office pools guessing the date of the Big Day are in full swing and folks are drafting up their potential Budget 2017 wish lists.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau hasn’t said when the budget will be unveiled, although a glance at the parliamentary calendar would suggest March 21 is the most likely day. (Its odds increased after Liberal MP and transport Committee chair Judy Sgro let it slip during a February committee meeting that it was her understanding the budget would fall on that day.)

Morneau’s office has refused to confirm whether Sgro is correct.

The budget date had not yet been released as of press time March 6.

Federal budgets typically happen on a Tuesday before the end of the fiscal year. (It’s worth stressing that rule isn’t fast and firm. There have been budgets in April, despite the fact they don’t always mesh with the parliamentary budget cycle.)

Federal budgets normally don’t hold much excitement for the Canadian agriculture sector. More often than not the agriculture stories that follow a budget focus on what wasn’t in the budget for the sector.

To be fair, this is largely because agriculture is a joint federal-provincial file. Most of the sector’s fiscal needs around research, crop insurance programs, disaster relief and innovation are secured via five-year funding agreements.

Still, there are likely a few files worth keeping an eye on as Ottawa heads into budget season.

During the 2015 election, the Liberals promised to invest $160 million over four years into an AgriFood Value Added Investment Fund. The fund would have provided “technical and marketing assistance to help food processors develop new value-added products that reflect changing tastes and market opportunities.”

That promise was reiterated in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s mandate letter to Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay — albeit without a dollar amount.

The 2017 budget comes as Morneau’s economic advisory committee picked Canada’s agri-food industry as a key growth industry for Canada’s economy going forward. Growth potential in the sector, council members have said, is tremendous.

Tapping that growth potential will require significant investment in areas such as infrastructure, skills training, marketing, research and innovation — key areas that

are the backbone of most federal budgets.

MacAulay has repeatedly said the 21st century could be Canadian agriculture’s moment to shine.

Whether Morneau agrees remains to be seen.

Budget 2016 also put a freeze on fundamental research funding for the sector pending the outcome of a full review by Science Minister Kirsty Duncan on how that money is allocated.

The review’s findings haven’t been released yet. More than 1,250 submissions were put forward to the review panel during its investigation.

The Liberals promised to invest $100 million over four years for agriculture research during the 2015 campaign.

On the tax side, Canada’s farm sector has been hoping Ottawa will fix several technical tax issues that are making it difficult to transfer their operations within the family.

Thus far the finance department

has refused to make those changes.

On the supply management side, the federal agriculture minister said in November that Canada’s Duties Relief Program would be reviewed.

The program allows companies to import goods to Canada without paying duties provided those goods are exported back out of the country later on.

It was designed to make life easier for industries such as Canada’s steel and manufacturing sectors, which are heavily integrated and routinely ship product back and forth across the border.

Canada’s dair y and poultr y industries argue the program is being used to circumvent tariffs put in place to protect the country’s supply management system.

The outcome of that promised review has not yet been made public.

Kelsey Johnson is a reporter with iPolitics, www.ipolitics.ca.

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FOREIGNERS

Preserving park about putting water first

Opening door to immigrants

BY A. SYSLAK

EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK

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he recent announcement of the legislated protection of the Castle Wildland and Provincial Parks is cause for celebration — for water and for the health and well-being of Albertans and all Canadians.

For more than 40 years we have known that this area is special and merits protection. It is home to an incredible diversity of natural life, and most importantly, it is headwaters for the Oldman Watershed.

Clean water for Albertans and those downstream is priceless.

Because of this, local landowners, businesses, concerned citizens and a wide range of organizations have worked toward its protection.

A re c e nt A l b e r t a - w i d e p o l l showed that 88 percent of Albertans want more wilderness protected. Protection of the Castle with a focus on low impact recreation ensures the long-term preservation of these lands and waters for the future. The Castle adds two new parks to our amazing protected areas network in Alberta.

Albertans love getting outdoors.

In fact, 76 percent of all adult Albertans participate in some form of outdoor recreation with the vast majority of these users (86 percent) preferring non-motorized recreation.

Like Kananaskis, the Castle region offers amazing opportunities for outdoor recreation for all Albertans.

It is an amazing gift to the citizens of our province. Healthy parks contribute to healthy people.

After months of consultation with the public and stakeholders,

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Plans for Alberta’s Castle wilderness area are an example of how to balance the various demands on these regions. | FILE PHOTO including both motorized and non-motorized recreation groups, the creation of the Castle parks reflects what Albertans want from a world-class park — protection of water, nature and quiet places to hike, fish, camp, picnic, hunt or just enjoy the outdoors.

Putting conservation first has meant some difficult decisions with respect to high impact uses.

Science has shown that to protect the water and other important ecological values, forestry and offhighway vehicle (OHV) use are not appropriate for this sensitive region.

Low-impact recreationalists who have been displaced from the region by motorized users can now return to the special places they

love. Local landowners and ranchers who have stewarded both public and private lands can now know that their efforts will not be undone by high-impact industrial or recreational land uses. The parks will be open for all Albertans — just not their machines.

Government and stakeholders are working diligently to find solutions for regulated properly managed OHV use in less sensitive areas, recognizing the need for places for responsible users. This isn’t about taking away; it is about seeing the big picture, planning accordingly and putting water first.

Finally, creating two new parks in the Castle is a great step forward in the effort to reach international

targets of 17 percent protection of our lands. It is taking a leadership role in Canada with respect to conservation and putting nature at the centre of our decision making to ensure a healthy future.

The increasing consensus is that nature needs far more than 17 percent to be healthy and viable — and meet our own needs — into the future. We celebrate this step and encourage the government to create more parks in Alberta and find solutions to land-use issues on public lands that respect sciencebased limits for land and water.

A. Syslak is with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s southern Alberta chapter

WEATHER EXTREMES

Climate change implications complicated HURSH ON AG

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espite all the emphasis on climate change, it isn’t at all clear what it will mean for prairie agriculture.

Yes, the frost free period appears to be increasing in many parts of the Prairies, but there’s huge variability. According to Paul Bullock, a soil scientist at the University of Manitoba, the frost free period can vary by a month from one year to the next.

Bullock gave a presentation at the recent Prairie Grain Development Committee meeting in Winnipeg.

PGDC is where new lines of many types of crops are assessed for whether they will be supported for registration. Like farmers, plant breeders would love to know the

implications of climate change.

I was especially interested in hearing Bullock’s presentation because we were ag college classmates. With his farm background and continuing ties to a farm in northwestern Saskatchewan, he has a practicality often lacking by those trying to make sense of climate change and agriculture.

However, Bullock isn’t a climate change denier by any means. He believes the extensive global measurements that show 2016 was the warmest year on record. In fact, most of the warmest years have been in the last decade.

He says southern Canada has seen a 1 to 2 C rise over the last 100 years. The change is most notable in higher minimum temperatures, and since 1950 the main effect has been in the winter.

However, the picture is not at all clear when it comes to characterizing the weather tendencies for growing crops in Western Canada.

Since Canadian agriculture is at the northern extreme of crop production with a short frost free period and limited heat unit accumula-

tion, a warming climate might mean we can grow bigger crops and a wider range of crops, including soybeans and corn.

Bullock’s work and the work of other scientists show any increase in the frost free period is spatially inconsistent, meaning it’s longer at some reporting locations and shorter at others. Crop heat units have increased only sporadically, and some have actually decreased.

Overall, there is actually little change over the past 10 years.

What about precipitation? Bullock says this isn’t monitored well, and it’s even tougher to draw conclusions.

In general, there has been an increase in spring rain. Snowfall is difficult to measure accurately, but it has gone down.

Following the widespread prairie drought in 2002, many big projects geared up to study how to cope with a lack of rain. By the time those projects were up and running in 2005, the wet years had started. In 2011 there were a record number of unseeded acres in Manitoba because of flooding, which were

followed by a lack of rain that hurt the crops that had been seeded.

Will increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere actually aid plant growth? More uncertainty. And then there are the indirect effects of changing weed, disease and insect pressure. It’s reasonable to expect a broader range of pests.

An increase in severe weather seems likely. More global heat should mean more low-level moisture and the greater potential for storm energy.

In the end, even someone with Bullock’s credentials can’t provide much practical guidance for farmers and plant breeders. The potential exists for increased floods as well as droughts in addition to more severe weather.

“Can we push coping mechanisms wider?” asks Bullock.

Increasing crop production resilience to weather extremes may sound like a strategy, but it won’t be easy to accomplish.

Kevin Hursh is an agricultural journalist, consultant and farmer. He can be reached by e-mail at kevin@hursh.ca.

mmigrants, asylum seekers, border crossers, illegal aliens, refugees, migrants, seasonal workers: they are all terms for those who are not citizens but have a significant need to come to our country.

Most folks don’t pack up and go to another country, short of a holiday, unless there is something really wrong at home.

As of late, farmers who live near the U.S. border are seeing more traffic across those frontiers.

While some, just north of the Rio Grande, worry about drug mules and other desperate folks crossing their land, several that I have I met over the years say they offer helping hands, especially when the weather is inclement.

I think it’s partly the rural ethic and that “fellow-man and do unto others” thing that most of us were raised with that cause this behaviour. It’s also in keeping with both domestic and international laws.

That tends to not make the news in the United States.

Instead, we see reality television shows, Fox News included, and quasi-documentaries about rural vigilantes guarding what they see as their turf and spouting alarmist rhetoric. They are shown carrying guns under the pretense of being good Americans acting on their Second Amendment rights.

Fear drives people from their homes, and that is the source of our most recent wave of folks crossing into Canada from the U.S. It’s a fear of poverty, fear of persecution for beliefs or origins and fear of passing either one on to the kids.

This is not well-planned, economic emigration — this is desperation.

People are currently arriving on Canada’s southern border filled with fear, hoping Canada will be a better bet than the U.S. Many had visitors’ visas for the U.S. and hoped to remain there, but are now fleeing north, fearing actions by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. They are crossing in rural areas, using the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement that allows asylum claims from folks who’ve entered somewhere other than an official port of entry, where, by law, they could be turned back.

This does place large burdens on some small, rural Canadian farming communities. Places like Emerson, Man., and Hemmingford, Que., are offering shelter and food as they fight fear brought by nations far away and just next door.

What else would you expect from Canadians? And in Canada these good tales are newsworthy. michael.raine@producer.com

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LOWER PRICES To the Editor: Both Kevin Hurst and Levi Wood (seem happy) to be making less money selling wheat than if we still had our farmer-directed Canadian Wheat Board. (WP Feb. 23.)

Elevator excess basis, weaker protein premiums, disappeared assets, exporters undercutting, trouble keeping track of quality branded Canadian wheat, and poor delivery co-ordination all saddle western farmers with losses approaching $8 billion and counting without our single desk.

Why would anyone work harder to make less money? Why bring American wheat here to bog our system capacity and dilute our price? What next? Would Hurst and Wood advocate for a U.S. style farmer-support system here?

Wood states post-CWB exports to the U.S. have increased. This is true. He doesn’t say that this is because the price of Canadian wheat has now dropped below that of American wheat at port, and farmers close to the boarder are hauling south to get some of their money back if they are lucky.

Before anyone brings up the “buy-back,” remember, A) we have all lost that much and more since Aug. 1, 2012, and B) if you couldn’t make more than the buy-back on a private deal, that meant the CWB was doing a better job of marketing than you anyway.

Many think that the 62 percent majority who voted to keep the CWB as it was has grown.

The challenge for Hurst, Wood and former Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, or anyone else who thinks that getting rid of our own marketer was a good idea: find even one peer-reviewed economic study that shows western wheat farmers had a net benefit because of the end of our CWB, or admit a mistake.

Ian L. Robson Deleau, Man

CLIMATE CHANGE To the Editor: It was with some incredulity that I read Stephanie McDonald and Dana Stefov ’s article entitled Remember the poor in climate agenda in the Producer (Feb. 2).

T h i s a r t i c l e i s re p l e t e w i t h assumptions and statements that conflict with the scientific realities of anthropogenic climate change.

First, the droughts experienced by farmers in various parts of the world have nothing to do with anthropogenic climate change, and certainly not warming trends. As Roger Pielke Jr., a profes-

OPEN FORUM sor of Environmental Science from the University of Colorado, stated to a Senate hearing, anthropogenic global warming has yet to cause any change in extreme weather events. As he put it, any “echo” of human-induced global warming within the “short-term variation” (weather) will not be measurable for at least another 60 years, and probably 100 years.

Simply put, a climate data point is a 30-year average and the weather “echo” of changes in temperature lags multiple decades behind any atmospheric temperature change.

We have not yet experienced any change in weather patterns due to human-released CO2 heating effects, and few of us, who are currently alive and reading this, will live long enough to do so.

Second, according to the Inter-

governmental Panel on Climate Change’s own analysis, if all the measures agreed on during the Paris Climate Conference are put into effect on time, the difference in temperature at year 2100 from the difference expected if we do absolutely nothing, will be in the region of 0.04 C. This is well below the accuracy resolution of even NASA’s deep atmospheric temperature measuring system, so the change expected 83 years from now will be effectively zero. We might have to wait two to three centuries before the effect is measurable.

As former Vice-President Al Gore has publically admitted, these measures are “symbolic.”

The science is pretty unequivocal: human released CO2 is having an effect on the atmosphere’s ability to trap solar radiation, most scientists agree on this point (97 per-

cent seems to be a popular figure). However what is far from clear, from a scientific viewpoint, is whether this effect is significant in comparison to other existing natural forcing agents, whether climate sensitivity to atmospheric gas concentrations is statistically signific a nt a n d , m o s t im po r ta ntly , whether the effects represent a net positive or negative effect on a global scale.

A growing view among ecologists is that both increase temperatures and an increase in atmospheric CO2 may well represent a significant increase in the Earth’s biomass carrying capacity. A warmer atmosphere increases its water vapour carrying capacity, with attendant increases in rainfall, causing the Earth’s temperate and tropical bands to expand and our

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desert bands to shrink.

The poor of North Africa have been dealing with the negative effects of climate change for at least the last 3,500 years. The failure of agriculture in northern Europe during the mini ice age of the 16th through 19th centuries forced many to take the risky voyage to North America in order to survive.

So, when you remember the poor when considering climate policy, it is not enough to look at local weather variations in Cub; you must take a holistic global view.

Symbolic measures that do nothing more than cost us the economic power to help the poor around the world offer little more than hollow platitudes to the suffering.

Stewart Staudinger Alix, Alta.

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AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

Investors’ new frontier: agriculture SEAN PRATT ATTENDED BAYER’S AGVOCACY FORUM IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, AND FILED THIS REPORT. SEE RELATED STORIES ON PAGES 14-15 SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Investors are suddenly taking a keen interest in agricultural technology, according to an expert who tracks where the dollars are going.

Investment in agricultural techn o l o g y s t a r t- u p c o m p a n i e s around the globe peaked at a record US$4.6 billion in 2015, up from $2.4 billion in 2014 and $500 million in 2013, according to AgFunder.

Investment fell to $3.2 billion in 2016, but that was partly because

of a weakening venture capital market and the absence of a few very large deals like those that occurred in 2015, said Louisa Bur wood-Taylor, AgFunder ’s head of media.

She said there were 580 deals in 2016, which is up from the 526 negotiated the previous year, indicating sustained strong interest in agricultural technology firms.

“I’ve seen it completely blow up as a sector of interest for investors,” Burwood-Taylor told dele-

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gates attending Bayer’s AgVocacy Forum.

In an interview following her presentation, she expanded on why that is the case.

“I think it’s because people have realized that agriculture has in

some ways been left behind technologically.”

Agriculture is the least digitized industry in the world, according to McKinsey & Co., a global management consulting firm.

“It’s almost like a last frontier,” said Burwood-Taylor.

Ben Chostner, vice-president of Blue River Technology, a San Francisco company that develops “see and spray” machines that apply chemicals only where needed, said even Silicon Valley is getting into the act.

Five years ago nobody in Silicon Valley was interested in agricultural technology, but that is slowly changing.

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We find a lot of traction with people who are tired of helping people click on ads. They want to tell their grandchildren about how they spent their career trying to make the world a better place.

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panies like Blue River Technology.

“We find a lot of traction with people who are tired of helping people click on ads,” he said.

“They want to tell their grandchildren about how they spent their career trying to make the world a better place.”

Some big shifts in where venture capital money was flowing occurred last year. Investment in agricultural biotechnology firms reached $719 million, a 150 percent increase over the previous year.

“Some of that is based on the hype around new technologies like gene editing,” she said.

By contrast, the robotics and mechanization category did not fare nearly as well, raising $109 million, which was down 89 percent from the previous year.

“There has been a lot less investment there, and I think that’s because it’s very capital intensive,” said Burwood-Taylor.

The decline was primarily due to the 68 percent drop in drone technology investment, which was a hot technology in 2015.

Drone technology was cool and “super-exciting,” but once farmers had taken photos of their fields there wasn’t much left they could do with the machines.

“There was a big hype, and I think some farmers are very disappointed how it performed for them,” she said.

Companies are working on the next generation of drones that will be smarter and provide growers with more information based on the photos they take.

“I definitely think drone technology is going to be huge for agriculture, and I’m sure most people agree,” said Burwood-Taylor.

“But what they actually offer farmers has got to change and get better.”

Just because more money is flowing into agricultural technology does not mean it is easy to get.

“It’s still a hard slog,” she said.

There are about 20 dedicated agricultural technology venture capital funds, which isn’t a lot. The rest of the money comes from technology venture capital funds, which may not be familiar with the sector.

“Agriculture is incredibly diverse and complicated, so you’re having to bring (investors) up the learning curve, and it just makes the whole investment process longer,” said Burwood-Taylor.

Another problem is that some agricultural technologies require patient investors because there is extensive testing and regulations in the industry, and investors typically are not patient folks. sean.pratt@producer.com

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Demand will push commodity prices up, says analyst Although productivity is rising, climate change is taking a bite out of higher yields, he warns

BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — There are three themes a person needs to know to understand the current state of the global economy, says a commentator on the topic.

The first is that China overdid it.

“China underwent an investment bubble that has burst,” said Vikram Mansharamani, who topped LinkedIn’s list of 10 Top Voices in Money and Finance for 2015.

“It’s over. They overbuilt.”

China has too much capacity, which means slumping demand for many commodities, considering it consumes 60 percent of the world’s concrete, 48 percent of its copper and 54 percent of its aluminum production.

China consumed more concrete between 2005 and 2015 than North America did between 1900 and 2000.

Half of China’s airports are operating at 50 percent or less capacity.

The slowdown in demand has depressed most commodity prices and is wreaking havoc with currencies around the world.

The second theme is that technological innovation is making the global oversupply situation worse.

Manufacturers are able to produce more with fewer inputs.

Uber, the world’s most valuable transportation company, doesn’t own one car.

Airbnb, the world’s most valuable lodging company, doesn’t own one hotel room.

Facebook, the world’s most valuable media company, doesn’t produce any content.

Companies are able to add to the supply of goods and services with very little cost through technological innovation. It would all be very depressing if it weren’t for the third theme, which is the population boom that is occurring in India and Africa, two of the world’s fastest growing economies.

The average woman in Africa will

Vikram Mansharamani says growing populations could result in higher demand for food, but higher prices in poorer countries could lead to food riots. | SEAN PRATT PHOTO have 4.4 children in her lifetime, which is more than double the 2.1 needed to sustain a population.

“Africa is about to explode from a population perspective,” Mansharamani told delegates attending Bayer’s AgVocacy Forum.

In Nigeria, 540 babies are born every hour. The country the size of Texas is forecast to be home to one billion people by the end of the century.

Rapidly expanding populations in two regions of the world with rapidly growing economies will result in an “exploding middle class,” which means more meat and grain consumption.

“Fundamentally we’re going to see a demand shock that results in higher prices for food,” he said.

That in turn will lead to food riots in countries like Nigeria, the Philippines, Pakistan, Vietnam and Indonesia, where people spend more of their income on food than anywhere else in the world.

For instance, the average person in Pakistan earns around $100 per month, 41 percent of which goes to food. If food prices rise 25 percent, that means $10 has to come out of somewhere else in the budget, but there is no extra money.

“Fundamentally that results in people taking to the streets,”

said Mansharamani.

There is a risk that productivity in the agriculture sector will grow faster than demand, but he thinks that is unlikely, especially considering every one percent increase in temperature brought on by climate change will reduce yields by 10 percent.

The other reason for his optimism about rising commodity prices is that China is spending US$1 trillion rebuilding the Silk Road.

“It’s conceivable we start seeing a whole commodity boom 2.0 coming back,” said Mansharamani. sean.pratt@producer.com

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U.S. farmers not living on easy street Many producers are struggling to stay afloat as commodity prices for many crops remain below the cost of production

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Jay Hill recalls the exact moment he decided he was going to be a farmer.

He was a little boy shovelling cat poop out of his tractor tire sandbox on his parent’s 10-acre suburban farm in southern New Mexico and he looked out at the land and decided he wanted to grow stuff.

By the age of 14 he had formulated a business plan and convinced his father to arrange for an operating line of credit.

His first crop was onions, and he harvested the crop during one of the best onion markets in New Mexico’s history.

“That was my springboard,” Hill told delegates attending Bayer’s AgVocacy Forum. “That catapulted me into agriculture.”

The vegetable farm has expanded to just shy of 1,000 acres. It produces eight million kilograms of onions a year, 1.4 million kilograms of lettuce and an assortment of other vegetables.

There is also a restaurant and grocery distribution segment.

When Hill started the farm he had an idealistic vision of driving around on his John Deere 4455 tractor and baling hay at night.

“I didn’t see staying up until three o’clock in the morning with the accountant praying to God that your last contract comes in right before the bank forecloses,” he said.

After enduring a few years of lacklustre commodity prices, reality has set in. It has reached a point where Hill can’t fathom who would step in behind him to take on the risk of running the business.

“I didn’t think I would be 32 years old and almost $10 million in debt right off the bat,” he said.

Farmers across the United States are hurting with commodity prices that have often been below the cost of production the past couple of years.

Deb Gangwish, co-owner of PG Farms Inc. and the Diamond G, two diversified farms in central Nebraska, said the farms haven’t generated a return on investment in years, and 2017 looks to be another grim year.

“Times are incredibly difficult, tougher than we’ve ever encountered,” she said.

The family will be spending $3 million on crop inputs and $1 million on irrigation in 2017. Meanwhile, commodity prices are still in the tank.

“This ag economy is killing us,” said Gangwish.

She has a friend in the construction business who says he is doing no work for farmers for the first time in six years. Bankers she talks to are concerned about the financial health of some of their farm clients.

Gangwish is attempting to weather the storm by diversifying. They grow crops, raise cattle, operate a feedlot, do custom harvesting and trucking and operate two farms located three hours apart.

Hill said diversification is the key to the survival of Hill Farms and Wholesome Valley Farms.

He grows a wide variety of crops, operates a small beef cattle herd, produces vegetable seeds for Bayer and runs a grocery distribution company that delivers produce to about 65 area restaurants.

“They say the darker years always makes you stronger, and it has,” said Hill.

He has also diversified into organic production while still growing conventional and genetically modified crops. That was to appease the millennials who found his 100-acre plots of conventional head lettuce off-putting.

“People look at me as a largerscale farmer and they say, ‘where’s your overalls and your pitchfork?’

And so I diversified and went the organic route a little bit,” said Hill.

Gangwish also credits technology for saving her farm. She said products such as those offered by Monsanto’s Climate Corp. have proven invaluable.

Hill said technology can be a double-edged sword. A company from Israel came to his farm to showcase a robotic machine for harvesting green chilies.

“The next thing I know I’ve got one of my harvest crews on strike,” he said.

The machine would have paid for itself in half a year because it could replace the work of 60 people, but he didn’t buy it.

“Because I still need that same group of people to go to a lettuce field. I need that same group of people to go to a cabbage field.”

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2017 COMMODITY CLASSIC

Optimism jumps with Trump

PASS THE CALF

Despite the positive outlook, farmers say they are in worse financial shape

BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

S A N A N T O N I O , Te x a s — American farmers are optimistic about the future despite their worsening financial shape.

The University of Purdue produces an Ag Economy Barometer that tracks farmer sentiment.

It is based on a monthly survey of 400 farmers across the United States with gross farm sales in excess of US$500,000.

The barometer hovered around 100 between its launch in October 2015 and October 2016.

It fell to a low of 85 in the spring of 2016 because of bleak spring crop budgets, falling prices and nervous lenders.

By July it had jumped to a high of 116 because of a price rally that drove corn up to $4.50 per bushel.

Then came fall and optimism of a short corn crop faded, prices tumbled and so did the index, down to 92.

Dave Widmar, senior research associate with the Center for Commercial Agriculture at Purdue University, asked growers attending the 2017 Commodity Classic to guess what has happened to the barometer since October.

Most of them felt it would have risen, and there was a collective gasp from the audience when Widmar showed what happened to the barometer over the next three months.

It did rise — a lot.

By January 2017 the barometer was at 153, a 66 percent improvement from October 2016.

“Something changed post-

harvest,” he said.

Widmar had to wait a bit for the audience to catch on to what he was saying. It started with a few laughs and built into a full-room chuckle as people figured out the source of farmer optimism.

“There is definitely some correlation between the November election results and producer sentiment,” he said.

A similar thing happened in the United States as a whole. Consumer sentiment was at a 13-year high in December and January.

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Fred Seamon, executive director of CME Group, said other factors were behind the surge in positive sentiment besides newly elected President Donald Trump.

Prices for the major commodities hit seasonal lows in late summer and early fall of 2016.

“From that point forward we have rallied somewhat in prices, not that prices are good by any means, but they’re much better than what they were six to nine months ago,” he said.

As well, export demand for corn, soybeans and wheat has been strong and ethanol production has hit a near record, so

growers are moving a lot of their crops.

Widmar said a growing number of farmers feel their operations will be in better financial condition a year from now. The number was 39 percent in January, up from 13 percent a year ago.

However, he said that means 61 percent think they will be in the same or worse financial shape.

When growers were asked how their operations are doing today versus a year ago, 58 percent said they were in worse financial shape.

That is down from 74 percent in November 2016, but it is still more than half of growers saying they’re worse off.

“That really underpins the bleak and difficult conditions that producers face,” he said.

Jim Mintert, director of the centre where Widmar works, showed the total cost of production for a farm in Indiana on average soil over the last decade.

It went from $3 per bushel in 2007 to a high of $5 per bu. in the ethanol era of 2012-13. The cost in 2017 is estimated to be $4.40 per bu.

Fertilizer and cash land rent costs are down, but seed and pesticide costs are up.

The problem is that corn prices have been below the cost of production since 2014 and that is also expected to be the case this year.

“Our challenge as an industry is to find ways to become more efficient and reduce our production costs over these next several years,” he said.

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ON THE FARM

Growers tap thirst for local, organic U.S. hops growers confident hard work will pay off

BY KAREN MORRISON SASKATOON NEWSROOM

MATTITUCK, N.Y. — Certified organic hops growers on Long Island have found their niche within a niche in microbreweries and the demand for locally made products.

Marcos Ribeiro and Pat Libutti of Craft Master Hops grew 12 acres of hops in their first year and will add another six this spring.

“Organic breweries have a hard time finding certified crops so we get a premium from these,” said Ribeiro of his U.S. Department of Agriculture certified organic hops.

It’s a tough row to hoe for the growers, who hand weeded the crop last year and installed 1,100 non-treated poles held in place by guy wires.

T h e y s p e n d a b o u t a m o nt h stringing coconut fibre imported from Sri Lanka between poles and more time training the vines to grow along these supports.

They employ two full-time workers and will add another this year.

Ribeiro thinks it’s worth the extra time and effort.

“It’s a small microcosm, but eventually it will pick up like organic produce,” he said.

Added Libutti: “We really enjoy what we do and that’s what motivates us.… It’s our business and like any business, there will be highs and lows. Especially when harvesting, there’s a lot of work to do but it has to be done.”

Organics is a lifestyle choice for the two men and their families, who live a short commute from the farm.

“It’s a more pleasant experience on a daily basis,” said Libutti, who used to work in real estate development and construction.

Ribeiro, who got his start growing mushrooms, greens and tomatoes, also operates a masonry company, agreed.

“Once you get into the business, you learn how vegetables and crops are treated and you want to

ABOVE: Pat Libutti is interviewed in his hops crop. | MARCOS RIBEIRO PHOTOS

LEFT: Brewers Eric Alhberg, left, and Shane Murphy, right, check hops with grower Marcos Ribeiro.

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CRAFT MASTER HOPS Mattituck, New York push organics,” he said.

Added Libutti: “We believe the plants grown will have a purer taste.”

In addition, they say the industry is moving toward measuring pesticide and herbicide levels in crops.

Their crops include Cascade, Centennial, Chinook and CTZ

varieties, all of which will take four years to reach full production.

Hops plants grow back from the root beginning in April and can live for decades. Starting in late August, a hedge trimmer is used to cut near the base before the harvester enters the rows.

“If you cut all the way down, you’re doing the plant a disservice.

All growth to six or seven feet is based on last year’s reserves,” Ribeiro said.

“Like asparagus, the colder it is, the slower it grows.”

Their farm was previously used as a dump site, so the pair spent eight weeks removing 1,000 garbage bags of debris.

The upside was the six million pounds of good compost found on good-draining, rich, dark loamy soil in this sunny microclimate .

Agricultural land in the area

starts at about $25,000 per acre so they are leasing 18 acres this year to try their hand at growing malting barley.

Ribeiro said their investment also included a 10,000 pound harvester, “half a bus in size,” which separates the leaves from the cones, a dryer, a pelletizer and a large walk-in refrigerator for storage.

Yields for conventionally grown hops are 1,900 lb. per acre, while organic crops yield about 30 percent less, he said.

Their farm was assisted by New York’s recent craft brewers bill.

The legislation is designed to support the state’s breweries and wineries, increase demand for locally grown farm products and expand industry-related economic development and tourism.

It protects a tax benefit for small breweries that produce beer in

New York, exempts breweries that produce small batches of beer from paying an annual state liquor authority fee and creates a farm brewery licence that will allow craft brewers to expand their operations, open restaurants or sell new products.

Ribeiro conceded it’s tough to get into agriculture as an outsider.

“People won’t give you opportunities. It’s a barrier to entry when you don’t know people,” he said.

“Once you show you’re in and it’s for real, opportunities do open up.”

Libutti saw an opportunity for proprietary rights in planting hops breeders’ research plots and acquiring naming rights on what they grow. Brewers who obtain exclusive rights to this new crop can promote that in their marketing strategies.

“It brings in a variety not being grown where we are before and brewers will have another variety option,” he said. “In that business, they are always looking for something new and different.”

The partners sell both wet and dry pelletized hops to local breweries. Ribeiro said the wet ones are time sensitive and must be cut and used the same day.

“It brings out flavour you can’t get with pelletized hop.” karen.morrison@producer.com

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Remember when? Days of being mom relived Dementia dolls are used as therapy to calm Alzheimer’s patients and create a sense of purpose

BY MARIA JOHNSON FREELANCE WRITER

LACOMBE, Alta. — Doll therapy for Alzheimer ’s patients can reduce anxiety, improve communication and reduce wandering.

Tosha Serle, social worker and site manager at Northcott Care Centre in Ponoka, Alta., said it gives them focus and purpose.

“You can have someone who is agitated and they are given a baby and it calms them,” she said.

It’s the inherent calming, caring and loving aspects of nurturing that has led to the use of dementia dolls as a self-administered therapy for some Alzheimer’s sufferers.

Some believe medications could be reduced or even eliminated in patients using the dolls.

Serle said there are guidelines for the use and introduction of dementia dolls. They should be life-like and representative of an infant 12 months or younger in age.

The dolls are not handed out but rather placed where they can be discovered and chosen. Serle said most people don’t like the responsibility of caring for a baby imposed on them.

Some patients understand the dolls are not real while others believe they are. If the doll has a name, it should be referred to by

Northcott Care Centre in Ponoka, Alta., use dolls to help reduce anxiety in Alzheimer’s patients. Social worker Tosha Serle says female patients enjoy caring for the dolls, which are life-like and look like infants. | NORTHCOTT CARE CENTRE PHOTOS that name.

Family members are sometimes upset seeing their loved one attached to a doll and find it childlike, demeaning or inappropriate.

Serle compared the deteriorating brain of an Alzheimer’s patient to

the unraveling of a knitted sweater.

As they regress, early memories are the ones that are forefront in the mind.

For women, it can be the many years spent nurturing their children and families that they remem-

“It’s all of our responsibility to speak up for agriculture.”

ber. The doll might help fill that space and purpose by providing a sense of being needed.

In the past, it was felt that Alzheimer’s patients should be brought to the present but that is now considered to be counter productive, making them more unresponsive, agitated, frustrated and unhappy.

Serle said that once family members witness the positive effect on their loved one’s quality of life, they are more accepting.

She said doll therapy has been in use since before she started at

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Northcott seven years ago, citing the five dolls on site in the 72-bed facility. Women have claimed all of the dolls.

Nurturing is a basic human instinct present in all people but often stronger in women than men and strengthened in those who have raised children.

“We do have men in the facility who enjoy having children coming to visit but there are no men here with dolls,” Serle said. “The dementia dolls are definitely not a solveall, but they work for some.”

Three years ago, our daughter and her husband moved out of province and out of range for us to drive over for the occasional visit. We seldom get to see her. And now that she and her husband have a new baby, I am missing her more than ever. We get over twice a year and we get to see pictures on our computer regularly but that does not seem to be enough. I would like to contribute more to my daughter and her family but I am not sure what to do when we are so far away.

Do you have any suggestions?

A:

I can only imagine how frustrating it is for you to want to help your daughter and her family and to find yourself unable to do so.

The world in which your daughter and her new baby are in is not that much different from the world that confronted you as a young mom.

People are judging new parents and often those judgments are discouraging. There is still someone in the office that is going to make a sharp remark when the baby makes your daughter late for work.

There are still people in the grocery store who show their impatience when the baby lets loose with a howling session. You can still hear rude comments in an airplane when a child is not settling in quietly.

Your daughter is still going to run into other parents who are jealous and hostile, sometimes even mean.

Even from a distance, you can be sensitive to your daughter and let her know that you are there for her with a telephone call or a brief text message. All that she needs to know is that you understand.

Check out End Mommy Wars on YouTube, a seven-minute piece that addresses what moms confront. The show could open the door for conversation between the two of you.

She is miles away but the support your daughter will get from that chat could mean the world to her.

Jacklin Andrews is a family counsellor from Saskatchewan. Contact: jandrews@ producer.com.

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TASTEBUD TEASERS

Appetizers: good things come in small bites Other ideas for little bites: • little salad on half a snap pea or slice of grape tomato • devilled quail egg with a small dollop of caviar or salmon roe • cooked fingerling potato scooped out and filled with horseradish flavoured sour cream topped with a slice of medium rare steak • a crispy potato chip, such as kettle cooked, topped with creme fraiche and caviar or salmon roe • half a grape tomato topped with a shard of aged pecorino with half a pickled chanterelle or gherkin

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A

muse bouche, translated from its French origin, means to entertain the mouth. These single bite morsels are not meant to be filling but to pique your interest for the food to come.

There are three parts to the mini hors d’oeuvre: the carrier, filling and garnish. The carrier could be a cooked fingerling potato, half a grape tomato, a crisp potato chip or cucumber or anything that you can find in your refrigerator or pantry.

Anything goes for the filling but just keep it small. Use a simple salad, slice of meat or cheese or a pate.

Garnish with a dusting of smoked paprika, microgreens or slivers of pickle.

ARANCINI These Italian appetizers are made from leftover risotto. They can be stuffed with melted cheese or small spicy cooked sausage. The risotto ball becomes creamy as the parmesan melts again when fried.

Serve hot.

BASIC RISOTTO 1 c. Arborio rice 250 mL 2 c. chicken stock 500 mL kosher or sea salt, to taste 1 c. finely grated 250 mL parmesan cheese 3 tbsp. olive oil 45 mL 2 tbsp. finely chopped 30 mL shallots 1/2 c. dry white wine 125 mL Heat the oil in a medium-sized

Arancini are filled with creamy cheese that melts when fried. Small bite appetizers can be made by filling snap pea pods, grape tomatoes or crisp potato skins. | SARAH GALVIN PHOTOS cooking pot until hot but not smoking. Add chopped shallots and cook until clear but not browned. Add the rice and toss to coat it in the oil. Add wine and reduce until it is almost gone.

Add stock one-half cup (125 mL) at a time, waiting for it to be almost absorbed before adding more and until the rice is cooked al dente. The rice should not be crisp and raw but it should not be fully soft.

When the rice is cooked, stir in parmesan cheese and serve. The final risotto should not be dry but a bit soupy.

Serve risotto with braised short ribs, a ragout or alone. Grate more parmesan on top or save it and make arancini the next day.

Variations: Coarsely chopped mushrooms or a finely chopped medley of vegetables can be added with the onions.

Crushed saffron threads can be added to the chicken stock.

ARANCINI 2 c. cooked risotto, 500 mL well chilled 3/4 c. fine breadcrumbs 175 mL 1 egg, lightly beaten 1/2 c. mozzarella or a 125 mL hard cheese that melts, cut into small cubes salt and pepper, to taste frying oil, such as canola Place the lightly beaten egg in a small bowl. Place the breadcrumbs in another small bowl. Season the breadcrumbs with salt and pepper.

Lay out the cold risotto, cheese to stuff, lightly beaten egg and breadcrumb mixture in an assembly line.

Using a large spoon or small ice cream scoop, put about two tablespoons (30 mL) of the risotto in your hand. Flatten it into a circle and place the small piece of cheese on it.

Wrap the rice around the filling so it is covered completely.

Dip in the egg and then the breadcrumbs. Place on a plate and continue

until all the ingredients are used.

Place the rice balls in the refrigerator for about half an hour, until firm.

Meanwhile, heat about two inches (5 cm) of frying oil in a small but deep, pot to 350 F ( 180 C). Put layers of paper towels on another plate.

When the risotto balls are chilled, fry two or three at a time. Turn to be sure they are browned all around.

Remove to the paper towel-lined plate. Continue until all balls are cooked.

Serve immediately on small individual plates or large spoons or keep warm in a 250 F (120 C) oven up to a half an hour. Serve with a tomato based sauce that is either spicy or mild. I like them with a lowbush cranberry sauce. Garnish with a snip of parsley or green onion.

SHRIMP CEVICHE ON ENDIVE LEAVES 1/2 lb. medium sized 225 g shrimp, uncooked

1/4 c. fresh squeezed 60 mL lime juice 1/4 c. fresh cilantro 60 mL leaves, chopped 1/2 fresh jalapeno, seeded and deveined and finely chopped 1/2 c. fresh tomato, 125 mL seeded and finely chopped 1/4 c. red onion, finely 60 mL chopped 1 endive Devein and remove shell and tail from shrimp. Slice thinly and add to a medium sized bowl with the lime juice. Let it sit for about 15 minutes in the acidity of the lime juice.

Add remaining ingredients and mix to coat shrimp. Serve on individual endive leaves or saltine crackers.

Sarah Galvin is a home economist, teacher and farmers’ market vendor at Swift Current, Sask., and a member of Team Resources. She writes a blog at allourfingersinthepie.blogspot.ca. Contact: team@producer.com.

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FARM SAFETY The Progressive Agriculture Foundation marks 23 years of delivering presentations on potential dangers and safety around farm chemicals, grain bins and equipment, train crossings, wildlife and other hazards unique to rural areas

BY KAREN MORRISON SASKATOON NEWSROOM

An entanglement in a tractor’s power take-off launched the idea for Progressive Agriculture safety days in Lac La Biche, Alta.

Colleen Pierce’s son, then in Grade 6, was pounding posts with his father the fall day it happened.

He was wearing his father’s coveralls and straddling the power take-off when it grabbed the garment and pulled him in.

“You realize how quickly farm incidents can happen,” said Pierce.

“Sometimes you just don’t realize the dangers. You are thinking about getting something done and don’t realize the risks.”

He was airlifted to Edmonton and recovered from serious leg injuries.

After his recovery, the young 4-H club member researched how such incidents could be prevented, found the Progressive Agriculture Foundation and encouraged his family to get involved.

Now in its 10th year, the safety presentations and evening programming presented by grades 5 to 8 students reflect topics particularly concerning in the region.

They include subjects such as bear awareness, distracted driving and electrical, chemical, fire and underground pipelines safety.

This year, they are slated for April 25-26.

“With each and every session, you want it to be age appropriate and interactive,” said Pierce.

“They (children) are just like sponges.”

Participants move between as many as 18 stations every 15 to 20 minutes. Each one includes a brief introduction, a hands-on or interactive component and a quick summary.

Stephanie Janssens, a Manitoba paramedic and safety day co-ordinator, sees the aftermath of accidents in her job. The most common farm accidents are tractor runovers and rollovers and getting pulled into augers or sucked under grain piles.

“I want to create awareness so that kids know the dangers out

Tyler Mann of Alberta Fish and Wildlife stressed bear awareness and other concerns with wildlife during Progressive Agriculture safety days in Lac La Biche, Alta., in 2016. This year’s presentations are slated for April 25 and 26. | BRYAN KUMPULA PHOTO there as well as the parents,” Janssens said.

Her safety day, slated for May 31 in Killarney, targets youth because early education is key to preventing some of these incidents.

“It’s not only for things that happen on the farm but even how to call 911,” said Janssens, who is surprised by how many children don’t know their land location.

She also stressed the importance of easy access to first aid kits in vehicles, barns and homes and being aware of what and who are nearby when operating farm equipment.

In Lac La Biche, sessions focused on rail crossings, the use of guns, biking and quadding with helmets, sun protection, drug safety and seat belt use in vehicles.

“We talk about (medication) prescriptions and how not to take anything that might look like candy,” said Pierce, who cited particular dangers to small children who can’t read labels.

She said grandparents who haven’t had children afoot for some time may not have locked up their cleaning supplies.

Take-home bags help educate extended family about the dangers

Children do not absorb or process information as quickly as adults and are less able to transfer knowledge learned in one environment to another

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lurking in and around their homes.

“It’s the whole awareness of things that can happen or potential dangers. It’s reminding us how quickly things can happen,” said Pierce.

The non-profit Progressive Agriculture Foundation provides resources, take-home bags, insurance coverage and T-shirts free of charge to participating communities.

Online resources include 30 topics with hundreds of hands-on activities for each.

The only requirement is for coordinators to attend a training session, at a cost of $100.

Bernard Geschke, program specialist with the foundation, said the far-reaching program staged by volunteer co-ordinators hosts more than 400 safety days annually in Canada and the United States.

About 100,000 people have participated in Canada to date with 90 safety days planned this year.

He said topics are chosen by local providers and have changed since the program launched 23 years ago.

“We always have to be changing with the times to stay current,” said Geschke.

It now includes internet, social media and computer safety and addresses strategies for children who might be home alone for certain periods of time.

He said farms are unique because they include family, employees and multiple generations.

“And kids that live, work and play right there in the area,” he said.

WHAT PUTS YOUNG WORKERS AT RISK? • lack of experience • unfamiliar with work • enthusiasm sometimes outweighs judgment • risk-taking attitudes • drive to prove themselves • reluctance to ask questions Source: National Children’s Centre for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety

Geschke thinks parents can guide the safety messages and lead by example.

Kids are watching when parents are stepping over the power takeoff shaft or not wearing a helmet while riding an all-terrain vehicle.

“If Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa do some of those high-risk things, those kids will do some of the high-risk things,” said Geschke.

He said the program measures its success by testing children on their safety knowledge before and at the end of the safety day, but also in follow-up tests three to six months later.

“If that child has retained it for three to six months, odds are they will remember it for life.”

For the future, Geschke said the foundation is considering a farm safety app, given the abundance of cellphones and electronics used by young people today. karen.morrison@producer.com

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PERSONAL SAFETY

Hearing and breathing: don’t take them for granted If you need to shout, you need hearing protection, says expert

BY KAREN MORRISON SASKATOON NEWSROOM

Ringing in your ears after a day in the tractor is a sign that you’ve already suffered hearing damage.

During an Invest in Your Health program in Saskatoon March 1, University of Saskatchewan agriculture college students were offered head to toe personal protective equipment from the AgriSafe Network.

The presentation helps people identify their exposures in agriculture and access gear such as ear plugs, disposable coveralls, face masks and safety glasses to reduce their risks on the farm and in their jobs.

Students also received hearing tests, were fitted with two strap respirators and had their blood pressure and body mass index checked.

“You have many opportunities for exposures that others don’t have in other operations and occupations,” said Carolyn Sheridan of the U.S.-based network.

“You are the next generation of farmers in agriculture and a way to change the statistics.… We don’t want you to become one of those stories.”

Sheridan said farm studies have shown that many children start helping as preschoolers with most actively feeding livestock stock or running machines by age 14.

“In no other industry do people start helping at such a young age,” she said. “You are an important part of the workforce.”

She, with network co-worker David Sullivan and Kendra Ulmer of the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture, offered students tips to reduce the risks in farming.

They say few regularly use ear protection but should.

“If you need to shout to talk to someone only three feet away, it’s an indication you should be wearing protection,” said Ulmer.

She demonstrated how to properly insert the common spongy ear plugs by pulling up on the upper ear, inserting and holding it in place for three seconds to allow it to expand.

“A good fit is most important,” Ulmer said, citing the variety of shapes and sizes available.

Doubling up with ear muffs was also suggested.

Ulmer and Sheridan explained how easily damage to hearing can occur, noting how the sensory cells in the inner ear lie down in response to high noise environments.

“Once the ear hair cells are damaged, they don’t grow back,” said Sheridan.

Lung concerns from moulds and pollens were also addressed.

“Stuff gets deep down in the lung and never comes out,” Sheridan said. “A one strap mask provides absolutely no protection.”

Instead, she recommended two strap National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health approved respirators.

A variety are available on the mar-

ket with filters and cartridges suited for specific exposures.

Sher idan also said far mers should think about what they touch after pesticide use, from people to animals, and encouraged good hand washing before eating, smoking, drinking or using the washroom.

She advised seeking guidance from pesticide labels to ensure you have appropriate levels of

protection.

“We don’t want you to overprotect yourself as much we don’t want you to under-protect yourself.”

The trio also recommended ANS 287 safety goggles with a minimum rating of four that fit snugly enough to not permit fingers to get underneath them easily.

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Kendra Ulmer, left, tests Brooke Moon’s hearing during the Invest in Your Health session for agriculture students at the University of Saskatchewan March 1. | KAREN MORRISON PHOTO

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» CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Those working outdoors should re-apply sunscreen every two hours in all seasons.

Sheridan said moles and rough scaly patches on ears are potentially pre-cancerous conditions.

Blue jeans, hats and sunglasses offer good protection from the sun.

Student Malayna Tetreault found

benefits in refreshing safety messages in advance of the coming growing season and the launch of her job as a business agronomist.

In the spur of the moment while hunting, she often fires off a gun without first protecting her ears.

“I didn’t realize how little sound could actually hurt your hearing,” Tetreault said.

Student Brooke Moon recalled

Cleaning grain bins, the dust, you get used to it, but you probably shouldn’t get used to it. You should be wearing respirators.

BROOKE MOON AGRICULTURE STUDENT

not being able to hear for a week after a gun target practice.

The message for her was loud and clear.

“Wear PPE all the time, instead of when you think you need it.”

Moon, who has been helping on her family’s cattle and grain farm at Leoville, Sask., since she was four, said the respirator given to her will replace the one-strap masks now used and protect her when cleaning grain bins and mixing and applying chemicals.

“Cleaning grain bins, the dust, you get used to it, but you probably shouldn’t get used to it. You should be wearing respirators,” she said, noting her father’s lung issues are

likely from his exposures.

“It’s probably a good idea for him to come to something like this and get fitted.”

She recalled attending farm safety days in grade school.

“It would have been nice to have more information, probably 15 would have been a perfect age,” said Moon.

Sullivan hopes young people, through programs such as Invest in Your Health and Progressive Agricultural Safety days, will spread the safety message.

“Giving students that information at a young age empowers them for the future. We need them to step up and take that (education) role,” said Sullivan.

He said safety messages delivered by those with farming backgrounds like the three presenters this day are well received.

In addition, health-care professionals such as Ulmer and Sheridan can also detail what can happen from accidents and explain the hidden exposures that many don’t think about from dust and noise. karen.morrison@producer.com

Ear plugs or muffs are required when exposed to noise above 85 decibels Getting a snug fit on a respirator is key as Malayna Tetreault, seated, learned from Carolyn Sheridan during an AgriSafe Network presentation in Saskatoon. | KAREN MORRISON PHOTO

AGRICULTURAL TRAINING CHILDREN AND YOUTH • explain task, emphasize key point • answer all questions • ask child to repeat instructions • demonstrate the task • watch child perform task, correct mistakes and review proper procedure • keep sessions short

WHEN TO TRAIN TEENS • • • •

first time doing task with every new task or tool with any new hazard after an incident, injury or close call • periodically for review

TRACTOR OPERATION: • Children should operate only wide-front tractors equipped with rollover protection and seatbelts.

• An adult should ensure the child can reach all controls while wearing a seatbelt, a pre-operations service check has been completed and no extra riders are allowed on the tractor.

• They should operate the tractor only in daylight, under dry conditions and not on steep slopes and a reasonable distance from fences, trees and ditches.

Source: National Children’s Centre for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety

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MENTAL, PHYSICAL DANGERS

Floodwaters leave health issues in their wake Lurking in the muddy water, mould spores or chemicals are serious threats to those without proper protection HEALTH RISK FACTORS DURING FLOOD RECOVERY

BY KAREN MORRISON SASKATOON NEWSROOM

Risks from spring flooding don’t end when the water recedes, said a safety expert.

Carolyn Sheridan, clinical director with the AgriSafe Network, said farmers are busy dealing with the immediate crisis during the acute phase of a flood.

“Then it’s afterwards that we have all these other things that hit us,” she said.

That includes both physical and mental challenges.

Mould spores from wet hay or feed can cause long-term lung damage, so appropriate respiratory protection beyond the often-used single strand mask is important.

She recommended the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health two-strap type, saying it is about the same size and weight as the single strand mask but offers a better seal and more protection.

“A respirator is only as good as its fit,” said Sheridan.

A variety of products and cartridge attachments are available for a host of environments with some filtering out 100 percent of air.

“You do get what you pay for,” she said.

Masks and other personal protective garb such as gloves and cover-

water may not be safe for drinking, cooking or bathing

Other risks:

transmission of disease can occur between humans and animals

• hot temperatures and high humidity can cause heat-related illness • microbial (mould) growth rapidly increases and spreads via floodwater, which can emit odour and cause respiratory irritation

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alls are also advised to protect against zoonotic diseases that are transferred to animals from humans in fungal spores.

Symptoms can mirror the flu and range from fever and coughs to chest and body aches.

“The incidence of zoonotic disease rises rapidly when there’s been a flood,” Sheridan said.

She conceded that the use of personal protective equipment can cause its own set of problems for the wearer, especially when working in the heat or in enclosed spaces.

“You’re often working alone a lot and can be overcome with heat illness and be unable to call for help and be in a serious situation,” said Sheridan. “Long sleeves can be a pretty good substitute.”

In addition, use the buddy system so that someone is working with you or checking in periodically.

• floods can increase the transmission of hepatitis A, tetanus and fungal diseases and spores found in dust, dirt, animal droppings and animal carcasses • a flood can cause emotional and physical stress and and can even cause depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder

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Sheridan advised accessing expert resources in your community for guidance and assistance with chemical spills or well water contamination following floods.

Finding resources to assist with the emotional toll of such events is equally important, she said.

Be prepared by knowing what mental health care is available in your community.

Symptoms of poor mental health can include suicidal thoughts, changes in sleep or eating patterns, increased use of drugs or alcohol, withdrawal, aggressive behaviour

and irritability.

“Stress can really impact the whole rest of the spectrum,” she said. “We don’t react like we should and just try to get through the moment.… Be prepared ahead of time if at all possible.” karen.morrison@producer.com

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Carbon pricing sparks frustration at CFA meeting WESTERN PRODUCER REPORTER KAREN BRIERE ATTENDED THE CANADIAN FEDERATION OF AGRICULTURE ANNUAL MEETING IN OTTAWA AND FILED THIS REPORT

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Frustrated farmers lined up at a microphone during the Canadian Federation of Agriculture annual meeting last week to vent about provincial carbon policies.

One delegate noted Saskatchewan, which is staunchly opposed to any scheme, probably has it right by waiting to see what works and what doesn’t.

Those already affected by new costs say competitiveness is at risk.

“For those of you who don’t have the distinct pleasure of having a cap-and-trade system, take ours please,” said Mark Wales, a director of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture.

Since new taxes were imposed Jan. 1 Wales said diesel, both clear and coloured, has gone up 5.4 cents per litre, gasoline is up 4.6 cents, and natural gas and propane are each up 3.3 cents.

The average greenhouse operator is facing new annual costs of $6,500, he said, and this new revenue is all likely to go toward transit in Toronto and subsidizing electric vehicles.

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“The challenge is we’re being downloaded everybody’s climate tax costs as of Jan. 1 and we cannot collect back one penny of that from the marketplace ever,” Wales told a carbon policy panel. “That’s what a cap-and-trade system will do to you unless there is some offsetting benefit.”

He s a i d v a g u e g ov e r n m e n t promises of carbon offset benefits are unlikely to materialize, and if they do, the government wants sequestration guarantees of 100 years.

British Columbia agriculture council delegate Lynda Atkinson, who raises cattle and horses, said farmers there do get a rebate on diesel but use other fuels for which they aren’t compensated.

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NEWS » CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Andy Kuyvenhoven, an Ontario greenhouse grower who represents the Canadian Ornamental Horticulture Alliance, said he can’t square the challenge to grow more food with the penalty of carbon tax.

The meeting heard that farmers around the world will have to produce more food in the next 40 years than in the preceding 10,000 years.

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He said some greenhouse vegetable growers from Ontario are moving to Ohio, where there is no carbon policy.

“That’s not reducing global carbon,” he said. “All we did was pack up our bags and go somewhere else.”

In his cut-flower business, competition from South American or African production is taking shelf space at lower costs but Kuyvenhoven said the carbon required to fly the product to Canada isn’t recognized.

“How do I manage? Where are my tools?” he asked, referring to the fact that there are no rebates or exemptions, or recognition for carbon aggregation in Ontario’s policy.

Susan Wood-Bohm, executive director of Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions, said Alberta began its carbon regulations in 2007 and is only now getting it right.

“You’re going to have to grow up a bit in this world and it’s not easy, but there are some tools that you should really keep an eye on,” she said.

The decision to take money from large final emitters such as oil and gas companies and put it in a fund to help others reduce emissions was “brilliant,” she said.

“Agriculture in Alberta is booming from the perspective that they do have new technologies coming on,” she said, citing perennial crops and feed additives to reduce methane emissions.

Marion McBride, an organic producer representing the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, said carbon taxes appear to be a method of shuffling money rather than dealing with carbon itself.

She said she is concerned about Wood-Bohm’s comment that offset rewards will come from doing something beyond business as usual on the farm.

“I’m not going to go to zero till and I have increased the organic matter on my farm enough to have to pay more taxes on it,” McBride said. “I didn’t do it with the typical methods that most of you here are accustomed to.

“We’re doing everything we can right now to be sustainable. We’re not going to take the bus,” she added to applause.

Panel member and Claresholm, Alta., farmer Dean Hubbard said he has calculated that since his operation moved to zero till in 1995 he has doubled soil organic matter.

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has sequestered its responsibility for 563 years, based on the average person’s carbon footprint.

The carbon policy in that province will push his costs up by six percent, he said.

Meanwhile, Dale Beugin, research director of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, an independent economics organization, said carbon pricing is the lowest-cost way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

He said over time people will make choices all through the economy that will change their behaviour.

Competitiveness is a real concern, he said, and good policy will ramp up the carbon cost slowly and predictably.

“Alberta has put a lot of thought into this,” Beugin said. “Their policy is explicitly designed to try to manage those effects.” karen.briere@producer.com

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Glyphosate presence in honey raises concerns Public pressure forced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to test for chemical residues, but testing is not done in Canada

BY ROBERT ARNASON BRANDON BUREAU

For years, environmentalists have said insecticides must be banned to protect bees.

Now, some of those same environmental groups are saying that glyphosate must be banned to protect consumers from tainted honey.

Last fall, the U.S. Organic Consumers Association and Beyond

Pesticides filed a lawsuit against Sue Bee Honey of Sioux City, Iowa, because its honey tested positive for traces of glyphosate. The lawsuit said Sue Bee’s labelling, advertising its honey as “Pure” and “Natural,” is false and misleading.

Paul Gregory, a beekeeper from Fisher Branch, Man., said glyphosate and the lawsuit were hot topics in Texas this January at the North American Beekeeping conference.

“Something like 80 percent of American honey tested had levels of glyphosate.”

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, may have contaminated the honey because bees forage on corn and soybeans.

Those crops are sprayed with the herbicide during the growing season.

A report by U.S. Right to Know, a proponent of labelling genetically modified food, said U.S. Food and

Drug Administration scientists tested American honey in the last year and found glyphosate levels of 20 to 100 parts per billion and higher.

Samples of Sue Bee honey had glyphosate residues of 41 p.p.b. The European Union has a tolerance level of 50 p.p.b. in honey.

The levels are worrisome because glyphosate has been highly controversial since March of 2015, when the International Agency for Re-

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Many scientists, including prominent toxicologists, condemned IARC, saying the science behind its decision was flawed, but the classification of “probably carcinogenic” changed the conversation about glyphosate.

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» CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Public pressure in the U.S. forced the FDA to test food for glyphosate residues. The agency had not previously tested for the herbicide.

Gregory raised the glyphosate issue at the Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association convention, held late February in Winnipeg.

If consumers think honey is contaminated with pesticides it could damage the entire industry because honey has a reputation as a pure food, he said.

Canada’s honey industry is aware of the lawsuit and the concerns about glyphosate residue in the U.S., said Rod Scarlett, Canadian Honey Council executive director.

However, prairie bees live in an environment with more wild land and less cropland than American honeybees.

“For the most part, I don’t expect that we would have as much of an issue up here,” he said. “Our habitat is quite a bit different. Even in intensive farming areas there are still areas that are natural.”

The amount of glyphosate in Canadian honey might be extremely low but it’s impossible to know unless testing is done.

“It would be nice to keep ahead of that (public backlash) and do a national survey and find out how much glyphosate is in honey,” Gregory said.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has been testing foods, grains and oilseeds for glyphosate residues since 2015. The agency said, in 2016, that it would publish results of

If consumers believe honey is contaminated with residues it could hurt the entire industry, warned a Canadian industry official. | FILE PHOTO the testing in April of 2017.

It’s unclear if the CFIA has been testing honey for glyphosate but the controversy over residues may persist, regardless of the evidence.

“If an environmental group decides to latch on (to this) it could create problems,” Scarlett said.

“Whether or not honey is the issue, or it becomes a different commodity, that’s up in the air.”

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Feed producers make more, use less: survey Livestock producers are becoming more efficient, producing more meat with less feed

BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

The world produced a record one billion tonnes of animal feed last year, and it did so with seven percent fewer feed mills.

China and the United States produced a third of the world’s feed supply, said Aidan Connolly, chief innovation officer and vice-president of corporate accounts for Alltech, an international animal nutrition and health company.

Alltech’s most recent global feed survey found that the top 10 feed producing countries in 2016 were China, the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, India, Russia, Germany, Japan and France. Canada was among the top 30.

As well, two percent more protein was available, which resulted in increased consumption of meat, milk and eggs.

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“Not only are we getting more food out of our farms, we are also doing so with less requirement for feed,” Connolly said. “Feed efficiency is actually increasing.”

Lower prices for ingredients such as corn and soybeans helped reduce the cost of feed, which accounts for 70 percent of livestock’s cost of production.

“Overall feed prices are down, and therefore food production costs are down,” said Connolly.

“From a global perspective, we estimate the value of the feed industry at $460 billion.”

Production varies on a regional basis.

North American feed production is flat, while Brazil is the largest producer in Latin America with increased prices, particularly for pig and poultry feed.

European feed production has increased with the greatest growth seen in Spain. This trend has continued for the last five years, and Spain produced nearly 250 million tonnes last year, an eight percent increase over 2015. Most of the feed was destined for pigs and chicken.

Production declined in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Turkey.

China is the top feed producer in Asia at nearly 188 million tonnes.

Its prices are also going up.

Vietnam saw a 20 percent growth in production. Most was destined for pigs and broilers.

Africa is also growing with Nigeria, Algeria, Tunisia, Kenya and Zambia each showing significant growth of more than 30 percent.

The continent produced nearly 40 million tonnes of feed last year.

THE GLOBAL FEED INDUSTRY IS ESTIMATED TO BE WORTH Poultry is the largest consumer of processed feed at 44 percent, which is actually a slight decline from last year.

Hog consumption has increased because of expansion in areas such as China.

Global dairy feed production was flat, but increases were noted in the U.S. and India. European production was lower for dairy.

Beef feed production in the U.S. increased 10 percent from last year.

China, Spain, Turkey and Mexico all showed increased beef feed production.

Estimating beef and dairy cattle feed production can be difficult because these animals also consume grass and other forages, said Connolly.

Global turkey feed production is decreasing, which may be partly connected to producers switching to large broilers.

There was a drop in feed for ducks, geese and other poultry, which used about 6.6 million tonnes last year.

Equine feed is flat at less than eight million tonnes globally.

The U.S., Argentina, Brazil and Ca na d a p ro d u c e s i g n i f i c a nt amounts of horse feed.

Pet food is going up with around 25 million tonnes produced last year. Companies such as Nestle and Mars Inc. dominate the pet food market.

Aquaculture and the aqua feed industry have seen six years of growth in line with increased consumption of farmed fish.

China is the world leader in fish feed production at 16 million tonnes. It’s estimated that threequarters of the world’s fish feed is consumed in the Asia Pacific region.

Different species are produced in different regions.

Carp is most popular in China, farmed catfish is produced in the U.S. and Vietnam, while Canada, Chile and Norway grow a lot of salmon. Farmed shrimp is produced mostly in India, Thailand and Indonesia, while Peru is a major trout producer.

“Farmed fish for the first time last year exceeded the amount of fish coming out of the sea, so our expectation is that aqua feed will continue to grow,” Connolly said. barbara.duckworth@producer.com

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Consumers willing to pay premium for organic, natural beef With more shoppers seeking quality sirloin and ribeye, wholesalers are seeking a market for lower cuts

BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

RED DEER — There is a growing trend among beef lovers to seek more organic and natural products.

Changing tastes and the desire for higher quality have been noticed by beef sellers who supply grocery stores and restaurants.

At Centennial Foods, the beef business is changing as more customers from food ser vice, wholesale and retail are making

specific requests.

Restaurants such as A&W and Earls that are seeking more growth hormone and antibiotic-free beef changed the conversation, said David Carriere of Centennial Foods.

“Consumers are more focused on higher-quality beef, so we are now competing with the retailer for the middle cuts,” he said at the Alberta Beef Industry Conference, held Feb. 15-17 in Red Deer.

“It is no longer the food service-

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want quality beef and they are going to pay for it.”

The company sells to institutions, food service and grocers across Western Canada.

More independent stores and butcher shops are emerging, and they want to differentiate themselves from Costco and Superstore.

There is high demand for organic sirloin, strip loin and rib eye but less interest in other products.

“The challenge is, we have to work with suppliers to buy products in balance,” he said.

“If there is too much demand for one cut, what is done with the rest of it?”

The company imports from the United States and South Pacific when there are shortages. As well, it brings in more from the United States during barbecue season when everyone wants steak.

Beef constitutes about 50 percent of what it sells, but a shift has occurred in the last few years toward more poultry and seafood.

The company has also noted shrinking demand because of changing demographics.

The baby boomer generation is eating less, while millennial are selecting a more varied diet and many new Canadians do not eat beef.

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Organic meat is always in demand, said Mike Beretta, chief executive officer of Beretta Farms and One Earth Farms.

The company markets its products directly to a range of customers under a number of brand names.

“From day one it has been natural and organic,” he said.

“We stayed off the commodity train and did the direct marketing ourselves,” he said.

Beretta said the company remained strong during the market difficulties experienced during the BSE crisis in Canada because it offered an organic niche product.

It is the main Canadian supplier to Earls, but it must also find customers for the parts of the carcass that high-end clients do not want.

“We have ongoing challenges to balance the whole carcass,” he said.

Smaller companies are also receiving changing requests, said Mike Lovsin, president of Freson

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Bros., an independent grocery chain of 15 stores in rural Alberta.

“We started hearing about healthy choices from our customers,” he said.

“We are hearing in the last 18 months requests for more natural or organic.”

The business started as a butcher shop in Hinton and is committed to Alberta beef, pork and poultry.

However, Lovsin said it realizes the organic market may become a subset product.

“We stake our reputation on Alberta beef,” he said.

“The best beef in the world is grown here. We need the Alberta shopping experience.”

However, significant shortages occur at certain times of the year so the company watches the markets and makes sure it has significant supply to cover high demand periods.

Servicing rural Alberta is also a challenge because many towns have seen their populations shrink when people employed in the oil and gas fields lost their jobs.

The remaining customers have traded down from higher end cuts to more ground meat.

People are also seeking convenience. A big seller for Freson Bros. is a ready-to-eat roast beef sandwich.

“We are still selling a lot of beef, but how the customers get it is different from five years ago,” Lovsin said. barbara.duckworth@producer.com

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Grains council raises forecast for 2016-17 global crop LONDON, U.K. (Reuters) — The International Grains Council has raised its forecast for the global grains crop in 2016-17, partly because of improved outlooks for corn crops in Brazil and Mexico and wheat production in Australia.

The IGC, in a monthly report, put total grains production at 2.102 billion tonnes, up eight million from the previous month’s projection

and well above the previous season’s 2.006 billion.

“Australia accounts for much of this month’s adjustment, including record harvests of wheat and barley, while prospects for maize (corn) improved in South America,” the IGC said.

The IGC said much of the increase in production was absorbed by higher expected consumption.

Stocks at the end of the season were forecast to reach 508 million tonnes, up one million from the previous projection but 33 million tonnes higher than a year earlier.

World wheat production in 201617 is seen at 752 million, unchanged from the previous forecast, with an upward revision for Australia offset by a lower outlook for Kazakhstan.

The IGC raised its forecast for the

global corn crop in 2016-17 by four million tonnes to 1.049 billion tonnes, partly reflecting a higher forecast for Brazil (87.4 million versus 85.4 million) and Mexico (26 million versus 24.5 million).

The outlook for the 2017-18 w h e at c ro p w a s s e e n m o s t l y favourable with only a small yearon-year decline of about two percent anticipated.

The IGC raised its forecast for world soybean production by two million tonnes to an all-time peak of 336 million tonnes owing to improved weather in South America.

“In addition to record crops in the U.S. and Brazil, better harvests are anticipated across a range of relatively small producers, including China, India and Ukraine,” the IGC said.

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KNIFE SELECTION

User friendly knife increases safety, makes tasks easier OUTDOOR PURSUITS

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t is easy for the average person to be intimidated or overwhelmed by the countless knives that are on the market. It is possible to cut through it all with some simple guidelines.

Determine first what the knife will be used for. Will the knife be used for daily cutting tasks, in the kitchen or a specific kind of outdoor activity?

Ask yourself the size of the average cutting task for new knife. Making big cuts is generally more efficient with larger blades.

Small cutting tasks are best done with a smaller blade. Smaller knives are also easier to regularly carry.

Our arms and hands generally make arcs when making a slicing motion, and curved blade edges efficiently suit that kind of movement. Chopping or sawing movements tend to favour straighter blade edges.

The comfort and feel of the handle are important considerations, especially if you will be using the knife for extended periods. The handle should be large enough for your hand, be comfortable and provide plenty of grip even when wet.

A good knife will easily direct the blade edge and point as a natural extension from its handle without needing much conscious thought from you. The blade should be a straightforward extension of your will through the handle.

If a folding mechanism is present, ensure it works easily, reliably and securely with a few test blade deployments and retractions.

Avoid a knife lock that allows any kind of unwanted movement from its blade when either retracted or deployed.

There are more types of blade steel on the market than can be put into a single article. Ask your retailer about the type of the steel used in the blade in which you are interested and avoid knives that just use generic terms like “stainless” or “surgical” steel because their quality can vary widely.

The appearance of a knife is one of the last factors to consider. Many attractive knives have significant shortcomings in their actual function as a tool.

The last thing to consider is your budget. Some would put this first,

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If budget constraints prevent purchasing the knife best suited for your requirements, following the above steps will put you in a better position to adjust your final selection for a hopefully balanced and satisfactory purchase.

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Chinese willing to pay more for imported pork American pork costs twice the price of domestic product

BY RICHARD SMITH FREELANCE WRITER

China’s import prices have been rising since last year and have even driven up international pork prices.

Analysts expect this to continue this year, but Cesar Urias, market access and government programs management director for Canada Pork International, takes a more nuanced approach.

Urias said those forecasts may have been reasonable last year,

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international market prices because of the premium that Chinese buyers pay for imported pork products. This premium tends to be more significant than prices paid in other markets. “This is applicable to Canadian pork exports (too),� he said.

Smithfield Foods, an American company that China’s Shuanghui Group acquired in 2013, raises and slaughters pigs in the United States and ships carcasses to China for processing and packaging.

Dermot Hayes, an economics professor with Iowa State University, said he saw pork with the Smithfield Foods label selling for twice what the local Chinese product was bringing.

China’ central government has imposed a duty on all pork and allowed local governments to shut

down facilities and kill 10 million sows.

The move is part of a seven-year government effort to reduce pollution by shutting down smaller units located in cities. “They are finally getting rid of the last of the backyard units,� Hayes said. “However, the pig producers located farthest away from people are making so much money it’s crazy.�

Trade figures provided by Joel Haggard, senior vice-president of the U.S. Meat Export Federation’s Asia Pacific region, show a 108 percent year-on-year increase in Chinese pork imports last year, excluding Hong Kong.

The European Union accounted for 68 percent of this trade, followed by the United States with 13 percent, Canada with 11 percent,

Brazil with five percent and Chile with three percent.

In decreasing order of volumes, exporters to China include the U.S., Germany, Spain, Denmark, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Brazil, Chile, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hungary, Belgium, Romania, Mexico, Slovenia and Italy.

Hayes said the U.S. is lagging behind where it should be in exports to China, and Canada is taking advantage of this. “Canadian exports are really high right now,� he said.

Urias said this means the Canadian industry should focus on securing sustainable access to China. “The demand for Canadian pork products is unmistakable, yet disruptions may arise from technical obstacles to trade, as the industry has experienced in recent years.�

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ECONOMIC RETURNS

U.K. farming delivers value for the dollar Report pegs agricultural spending at $26 billion on goods and services

BY CHRIS MCCULLOUGH FREELANCE WRITER

A study commissioned by the National Farmers Union in the United Kingdom has calculated that the country’s agriculture industry provides a return of $12.07 for every $1.63 invested.

The study was conducted to highlight the importance of U.K. farming as the nation heads into Brexit negotiations to leave the European Union common market.

It marks the first time a monetary value has been calculated for agriculture in the U.K. The figure was achieved by researchers who weighed the costs of agriculture, such as subsidy payments, soil, water and air costs and greenhouse gas emissions against the value of tourism, renewable energy production, carbon sequestration and habitat and species protection.

It also took into consideration more easily measured contributions such as agriculture’s gross value to the U.K. economy and the sector’s purchase of goods and services.

NFU President Meurig Raymond said the report demonstrates that money invested by government in farming is money invested “wisely.�

Farmers are proud to produce food for a growing population, but also go above and beyond this, playing a huge role in contributing to the wealth and prosperity of the country. Decision-makers in government can take this important message to the formal post-Brexit negotiations. “For centuries farms have been deeply rooted in the rural community, stimulating the wider economy. Today’s report shows farming spends $25 billion on goods and services.�

Raymond said with farms operating on 70 percent of British land, it is important they remain viable to

ensure their economic contributions to the overall economy continue.

Steve Lucas, managing director of Development Economics, which carried out the study on the NFU’s behalf, said the report comes at an important time in the debate around the Brexit negotiations. “This shows how critical farming is to the country and why the government must prioritize the sector during Brexit negotiations.�

A study commissioned by the National Farmers Union is the first to calculate a monetary value for agriculture in the United Kingdom. Here, dairy cattle graze in a field near Perthshire, Scotland. | REUTERS/RUSSELL CHEYNE PHOTO

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FUNDING BOOST

B.C. land commission clears backlog, hikes fees An increase in staffing to handle applications and improve response time also came with a new fee schedule

BY TERRY FRIES FREELANCE WRITER

SUMMERLAND, B.C. — British Columbia’s Agriculture Land Commission says it has eliminated its application backlog and greatly improved response times, thanks in part to a $1.1 million budget boost.

The announcement from the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture said the commission eliminated a backlog of 185 applications during the last year.

It was also able to process more than 90 percent of all the new applications it received since April 1 within 90 business days.

“Historically, the ALC hasn’t had a lot of staffing resources and travel budgets for commissioners,” said Kim Grout, the commission’s chief executive officer.

The agriculture ministry increased the commission’s budget by 33 percent last March and set out performance standards.

Grout said it took the commission until September to reach full staffing levels, so it didn’t hit all the targets as often as it would have liked before then. However, she expects that will improve.

“Now that we have all the staff trained and everybody up to speed, we just see ourselves as improving as we move into the next fiscal,” she said.

A key performance measurement set out by the ministry includes a full refund for applicants who fail to receive a decision on their completed application within 90 business days.

Following the start of the new standards, the commission processed 144 applicants within the 90-day requirement out of 154 it received between April 1 and Dec. 31 last year.

The commission also posted improvements to a standard that requires a response within five business days, either acknowledging a complete application or identifying situations in which more information is required. It hit that target 92 percent of the time.

The agriculture ministry also reported that the commission reached a decision on completed applications within 60 days 80 percent of the time.

However, the changes come with a cost. Application fees that once cost $600 across the province now cost $1,500 in Zone 1, which includes Vancouver Island, the South Coast and the Okanagan, and $900 in Zone 2, which includes the North, the Central Interior and the Kootenays in southeastern B.C. Local governments continue to receive $300 of the fee, as they did before the change.

Despite the fee increase, Grout said she has heard no complaints other than from some local governments that think they should receive a greater proportion of the fee.

“Some people are prepared to pay if they get the answers they are looking for in a reasonable amount of time,” she said.

“People are looking for service delivery.”

As evidence for the muted reaction to the fee increase, Grout pointed to a consistency in the number of applications the commission has received since the increase.

“The number of applications we get is between 400 and 500,” she said.

“Actually, we’ve been seeing an escalation in some (areas).”

People are seeing more value in applying if they get a quick decision, she added.

As part of last year’s reforms, the commission also streamlined internal systems to help speed up the application process.

“We did a bunch of process reviews and kind of reorganized who does what,” Grout said.

The ALC is an independent body that protects agriculture land in the province.

Land classed as farmland must gain approval from the commission for any development or change in use.

It has an annual budget of $4.5 million.

B.C. AG SUPPORT

Gov’t supports Buy Local

BY TERRY FRIES FREELANCE WRITER

SUMMERLAND, B.C. — A buy local program designed to support British Columbia agriculture has been given an extra $2 million from the provincial government.

The program supports agriculture and food companies that produce products that are grown, harvested and processed in the province.

“With stable long-term funding for the Buy Local program, local agrifood companies can continue to thrive and grow and reach larger audiences all over the province, provincial Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick said in a news release.

The Buy Local program is expected to receive a total of $6 million

over three years.

Businesses and organizations that apply are required to contribute 50 percent of the project cost, after which the Buy Local program provides matching funds.

Businesses can apply for costshared funds up to a maximum of 30 percent of the company’s reported annual revenue.

To be eligible, projects must increase B.C. agriculture, food and seafood sectors and help build consumer demand and sales for B.C. agriculture and food products sold in the province.

The government said in a news release that since 2012, its funding has helped successfully develop 200 projects and leveraged $29 million in investments through matching funds.

Under B.C.’s Agriculture Land Commission’s new performance standards, the application fee is fully refunded if a decision is not received within 90 business days. | FILE PHOTO

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WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE Federal government’s gender equality policies lacking when it comes to supporting ag industry, says conference organizer

BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU

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Kim Keller, one of the founders of Saskatchewan Women in Ag, says government could support women by acknowledging that they are playing a bigger role in the ag sector. | SUPPLIED PHOTO

hen Agriculture Minister L aw re n c e Ma c Au l ay announced two women would fill top posts on federal commissions earlier this year, the press release indicated each would serve as “a model to young women considering a career in agriculture.”

Jennifer Hayes, named a commissioner to the Canadian Dairy Commission, and Patti Miller, who now heads the Canadian Grain Commission, both have strong agricultural backgrounds and sector involvement.

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Their appointments indicate the value the government places on women involved in the industry, says Liberal Alaina Lockhart, a rookie MP who represents Fundy Royal and who sits on the standing committee on agriculture.

She said MacAulay often talks about and with women who farm or are involved in the industry.

Last summer, for example, he spent time at a University of Guelph roundtable where he met with women to discuss their issues and role in agriculture.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has also been vocal in his support for gender parity.

But how that translates into action, particularly for rural and farm women, is unclear.

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When Advancing Women in Agriculture conference creator Iris Meck appeared before the standing agriculture committee last December she noted she wasn’t able to apply for any government funding, although some participants were eligible for some under federalprovincial programs.

She pulled no punches in response to a question from NDP agriculture critic Ruth Ellen Brosseau about how the government could encourage more women to be involved in agriculture: “I think it’s important that the government does get involved in not only funding the women who attend this conference from the farmer and rancher perspective or group, but the government should also take the opportunity to fund speakers at a conference such as this.… I find it very frustrating being an entrepreneur when a government association can get funding to hold six meetings across the province to write a

report, while I have 2,500 women coming to conferences, 500 at every conference, which is basically unheard of today, and I don’t get one dollar.

“Sponsor a speaker. Do something to show your involvement and support of the women who come to this conference.”

Lockhart, who has a background in human resources, said that after hearing from Meck she consulted with women in two agricultural associations in her own New Brunswick riding.

They told her that at most meetings half the attendees are women. “ ‘We’re getting what we need and we’re at the table,’ ” Lockhart said they told her.

She said in some respects women face different challenges than men — flexible hours for child care, for example — but in others they need exactly the same support, such as strong business risk management programs.

Mary Robinson, past-president of the Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture, says there is a danger in staking out too much territory for women when what they really want is equal consideration.

She said farm organizations must consider what skills they need around their boardroom tables and then do a better job of finding the right person for the job.

“I’m not really interested in a women’s group because I think it kind of further fuels the bias,” she said. “I like the idea of us breaking down the barriers in our organization.”

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Kim Keller, one of the founders of Saskatchewan Women in Ag, agreed that barriers need to come dow n. Although members of Women in Ag are looking for some specific mentorship or support from other women, men are also welcome to their events.

She said the best government support would be to promote agricultural awareness and that there are jobs for everyone.

“I think there’s a place for government to support all minority groups in agriculture,” she said. “I don’t know if that support means financially or just bringing awareness to the fact that women are playing a bigger part in agriculture.”

Keller said new organizations could benefit from government funding for things like learning how to set up a board and govern. karen.briere@producer.com

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RENEWABLE FUEL

U.S. ethanol sector pumped over Trump’s energy position SAN DIEGO, Calif. (CNS Canada) — Building partnerships and growing markets was the theme of the National Ethanol Conference in San Diego, California, and members of the U.S. Renewable Fuels Association believe those goals align well with an increased focus on national security and America First protectionist policies under new U.S. President

Donald Trump.

The head of the country’s largest industry group was optimistic for the future of the ethanol sector one month into Trump’s presidency.

While ethanol profits advanced year-over-year in 2016, prices for the commodity started to decline in the early weeks of 2017.

A general weakening of demand for U.S. agricultural products was

an early focus of the conference.

U.S. net farm income fell to a seven-year-low in 2016, while the aggregate value of crops hit the lowest point since 2010.

“There is a sense of unease spreading across rural America,” said Bob Dinneen, president and chief executive officer of the RFA and the industry’s lead lobbyist before the U.S. Congress and administration.

He said the industry is committed to strengthening and stabilizing farm income by providing demand.

“Of course, we’re doing this with a new president, new leadership.”

He believes the renewable fuel industry’s success depends on its ability to build partnerships with new allies and a coalition reflecting the country’s political reality.

Pointing out that ethanol can be “homegrown,” Dinneen followed up by aligning the U.S. ethanol industry with elements of Trump’s top-priority issues.

Trump campaigned on an America First attitude toward manufacturing and trade — something he’s kept since his election.

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However, he believes the president will support the interests of the industry.

“Trump’s a businessman, who most certainly appreciates the importance of trade,” Dinneen said. “Frankly, it’s going to be refreshing to have a leader who is willing to stand up for America in trade disputes.”

Scott Pruitt, who was recently appointed administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, sued the EPA more than 10 times while attorney general of Oklahoma. During his time in that position, he fought the Renewable Fuel Standard, a program run by the EPA that dictates the amount of plant-based fuels to be blended into gasoline.

Boosting domestic energy production is in America’s national security interest.

President Trump is committed to achieving energy independence from the OPEC cartel and any nations hostile to our interests.

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Trump also named Rick Perry, former governor of Texas, to be energy secretary, despite having previously said the Department of Energy should be shut down.

Dinneen said industry participants have been anxious about the appointment of Pruitt and Perry because those decisions may signal weakness in the president’s support for RFS. “ Their anxiety was relieved throughout the confirmation process when Mr. Pruitt repeatedly affir med his commitment to uphold the law as Congress had written it,” Dinneen said.

“Trump, Pruitt and Perry understand that their perspective has changed and that they now represent the nation.”

Trump’s America First Energy Plan, released on inauguration day Jan. 20, made it clear the president intends to overhaul the regulatory codes to which the energy sector adheres.

“President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan,” the online document on the White House website said.

“The president’s commitment to regulatory reform provides a perfect opportunity to finally bring fuel regulations into the 21st century,” Dinneen said.

However, the energy plan made no mention of ethanol or other biofuels.

“We are seeking to change that,” said Jeff Oestmann, president and CEO of East Kansas Agri-Energy.

Oestmann is also a member of the RFA board of directors and a v e t e ra n o f t h e U n i t e d St at e s Marine Corps. He drafted a letter to Trump on behalf of U.S. military veterans who work in the ethanol industry.

The letter said thousands of veterans choose to work in the renewable fuels industry because they

believe it contributes to national security, Oestmann said.

T hat ’s d i re c t l y i n l i n e w i t h Trump’s America First Energy Plan, he said.

“Boosting domestic energy production is in America’s national security interest,” the plan said.

“President Trump is committed to achieving energy independence from the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) cartel and any nations hostile to our interests.”

It a l s o n o t e d t h e p re s i d e nt intends to work with allies in the Persian Gulf to develop a positive energy relationship as an anti-terrorism strategy.

“Personally, I would rather buy my oil, my fuel, from the Midwest than the Middle East,” said Oestmann.

Despite not mentioning renewable fuels in his energy plan, Trump stated his commitment to the industry in a letter read aloud

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The U.S. ethanol industry hopes it will benefit from the policies of new President Donald Trump. | REUTERS/JIM YOUNG PHOTO

by Dinneen. In the letter, Trump said that renewable fuels are important to America’s economy and energy independence.

He also called regulations on the industry “job-killing.”

Dinneen believe the Trump ad-

ministration will stand up for American trade and ethanol.

In 2016, the renewable fuels industry exported 1.05 billion gallons to nearly 60 countries across the globe, which is the secondhighest export volume on record,

RFA data says.

The top markets for U.S. ethanol are Brazil, Canada and China, with the latter being the fastest growing export market by volume.

However, China’s implementation of tariffs has significantly slowed those imports, driving prices for ethanol lower, Dinneen said.

He added that the RFA, among other industry groups, have asked Trump to put China’s recent trade actions near the top of the administration’s China trade agenda.

Trump had campaigned on a promise to be tough on trade with China. In the coming months it will become clear where the line is between spurring demand and protectionism.

The RFA is fixated on growing demand, Dinneen said.

“But we have much more to do.

We must expand existing markets, and open new markets for ethanol here, and abroad.”

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Big harrows meet big liquid tank and the result is big acres covered quickly

BY RON LYSENG WINNIPEG BUREAU

There’s nothing new about dribbling on liquid fertilizer and incorporating it with a tine harrow.

However, doing it big and doing it fast gives the method a new twist.

Growers are placing less emphasis on one-pass farming. The utopian ideal of doing all seed placement, fertilizer placement and trash management in a single swipe compromises the quality of all three functions.

Instead, growers are placing more emphasis on the best possible placement of seed and fertilizer, even though it means two or three extra passes.

The other evolving issue is the debate pitting conventional Canadian style equipment that’s big and slow against European style equipment that’s small and fast.

However, Elmer Friesen doesn’t look at it that way. He thinks he can do big and fast at the same time — and it looks like he’s right.

Friesen, owner of Elmer’s Manufacturing in Altona, Man., has been designing and building tillage and seeding equipment for nearly 40 years. Three of his most popular products are the 80-foot Super 7 Harrow, the NutriMaster fertilizer caddy, which can go as high as 6,500 US gallons, and driven and non-driven rubber tracks for field implements.

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at his 3,000-acre family farm and thinking about making the seeding operation happen faster without sacrificing the quality of seed placement.

He figured that combining seed bed preparation with fertilizer application held the potential to save a lot of time.

Working with his engineering staff, Friesen married an 80-foot Super 7 to a 4,200 US gallon NutriMaster mounted on rubber tracks.

He reasoned that the unique rig was big and it would be fast. As well, it would leave a good seed bed for optimal seed placement.

The shop ran one-inch flexible hoses from the NutriMaster to the Super 7 frame, mating them to PVC piping secured to the frame. Adapters were installed at each tine location with 1/4 inch flexible hoses running down to the tine. The small hoses connect to custom welded tubes on the front row of tines.

Harrowing immediately after the

liquid was applied would ensure 100 percent incorporation into the soil. The rig was now ready to apply and incorporate virtually any type of liquid product.

The company conducted tests on Friesen’s farm by running the 80-foot rig with 28-0-0 at a rate up to 60 gallons per acre at eight m.p.h. on a 320-acre field. It fertilized and harrowed the field fertilized in 4.1 hours with an estimated time saving of 40 percent.

In the first scenario there’s a tractor, a harrow and caddy running simultaneously.

The 80-foot Super 7 with NutriMaster covers 77.5 acres per hour.

The 320-acre field is fertilized and sprayed. Total time is 4.1 hours.

In the second scenario, there’s a 100-foot sprayer pass and then a tractor and a harrow pass.

The 100-foot Sprayer covers 181 acres per hour. The 320 acres are sprayed in 1.76 hours. Then the 80-foot Super 7 Harrow does a pass

at eight m.p.h. taking 4.4 hours. For application and incorporation, the total time is 5.76 hours.

Nearly two hours of machine time can be saved purely on fieldwork, not including transport, preparation and maintenance.

Running the fertilizer caddy ahead of the harrow lets you fertilize and prepare the seedbed at the most opportune time and saves the cost of the sprayer and operator.

The large capacities of fertilizer caddies reduce the number of fill stops compared to the number of fill stops for a sprayer. Total weight of the full cart on tracks is 53,800 pounds. The non-driven tracks sell for $60,000.

When calculating any fuel savings, the results were deemed negligible because the increased weight the tractor must pull cancelled out the fuel consumption of the sprayer. ron.lyseng@producer.com

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GRAIN DRYING

Going Wilde with in-the-bin aeration drying Producer designs gauge to provide real time readout of flow rate while drying grain with an aeration fan

BY RON LYSENG WINNIPEG BUREAU

BRANDON — If you don’t know the airflow rate in a bin, you have no idea whether in-bin aeration drying is working. The result could

be a bin full of spoiled grain.

If you have real-time airflow readouts as you’re augering in, you can fill to the optimal level to get good drying with any fan you’re running, says farmer Glenn Wilde of Wilde Ag Ventures in Cudworth, Sask.

Wilde has developed a simple device he calls the Static Pressure Based Air Flow Indicator. He emphasizes that the instrument is not a flow meter.

Instead, it’s an indicator to be used in conjunction with the man-

ufacturer’s fan curve that’s appropriate for individual fans. An actual flow meter is a much more costly instrument.

“Any time you’re doing in-bin grain drying with an aeration fan, you need at least one (cubic feet per

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WHAT CAUSES AIRFLOW RESISTANCE IN A BIN? There are two factors that affect bin airflow: the type of grain (size and shape of kernels) and the amount of grain in the bin. A grain depth of 10 ft. provides medium airflow resistance, while a grain depth of 20 ft. provides high airflow resistance.

By monitoring static pressure on the Wilde gauge, a farmer can prevent over-filling the bin to the extent that airflow is jeopardized. A high static pressure reading means there is too much resistance.

peas & corn: low resistance to airflow, gauge shows low static pressure, high airflow rate.

wheat & barley: medium resistance to airflow, gauge shows high static pressure, low airflow rate.

canola & flax: high resistance to airflow, gauge shows high static pressure, low airflow rate.

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barley, 10’ bin load: medium resistance to airflow, gauge shows low static pressure, high airflow rate.

Saskatchewan farmer Glenn Wilde has developed this static pressure-based airflow indicator so the operator can judge the density of grain as it’s augered into the bin. Applying the cubic feet per minute number to the appropriate fan chart determines if aeration drying will work in that bin. | RON LYSENG PHOTO

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“There’s no easy way of knowing your flow rate, unless you measure static pressure and you have your fan curve handy. That lets you look up the flow rate on the chart. All we’re doing is combining the gauge and the fan curve chart. Now you actually have a direct real time readout of your flow rate while you’re filling the bin.

“It’s most critical when you’re trying to dry small canola or flax seeds because there’s so little space between them. You really have to be careful the column doesn’t become too high. Instead of trial and error, our system puts a little science into the process.”

The face of the gauges Wilde displayed at the recent Manitoba Ag Days show in Brandon has three scales for quick reference: • The inner blue line reads inches of water from zero to 10.

• The middle red line reads c.f.m. for a five horsepower Edwards #80511 Grain Guard.

• The outer red line reads c.f.m. for a three h.p. Edwards #80311 Grain Guard.

Wilde has only calibrated the system for those two fans, which are commonly used on the Prairies.

He will custom calibrate gauges for any fan on the market at no extra cost to the customer.

He would need the manufacturer to provide him with the engineering specs.

Once he has that information, he would design and install a face plate specific to that fan.

Wilde has only installed his gauges on smooth-sided hopper bins. He said producers drill a hole through the side downstream from fan outlet to mount the gauge and thread in the self-taping stem.

The gauge remains installed for the life of the bin. He hasn’t installed any gauges on corrugated bins yet.

The gauge has a list price of $35.

For more information, contact Wilde at 403-803-6092 or email wav@shaw.ca. ron.lyseng@producer.com

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WEATHER AND SOIL

Return of the Dirty Thirties — with a vengeance Might we live to see another dust bowl drought, only this time worse?

BY RON LYSENG WINNIPEG BUREAU

We’re all pretty confident we’ll never experience another dust bowl. So much so that it never even enters our conscious minds. Zero till, irrigation and drought-tolerant crops remove all fear of a repeat.

But maybe we’re all wrong.

Two researchers at the University of Chicago think so.

They argue that it’s inevitable we will experience massive crop failures like those our parents and grand-parents saw in the 1930s.

Only, the next dust bowl will be even more devastating for crops than the one 80 years ago, say

Michael Glitter, a graduate student in geophysical sciences, and Joshua Elliott, a scientist at the Center Climate and Energy Policy.

The researchers analyzed historical weather and crop data to see how extreme drought and heat would affect corn, soybeans and wheat. They found that conditions similar to the 1930s would drastically reduce modern crop yields.

“We expected to find the system much more resilient because 30 percent of production is now irrigated in the United States and because we’ve abandoned corn production in more severely drought-stricken places such as Oklahoma and West Texas,” Elliott said.

“But we found the opposite. The system was just as sensitive to drought and heat as it was in the 1930s.”

Farming technology has advanced in the past eight decades, but most of the effort has concentrated on yield rather than resilience and sustainability. Elliot said in a report that many of North America’s main crops remain vulnerable to extreme weather.

Added Glotter: “We knew a dust bowl-type drought would be devastating, even for modern agriculture, but we expected technological advancements to mitigate those damages much more than our results suggested,” he said.

“Technology has evolved to make yields as high as possible in normal years. But as extreme events become more frequent and severe, we may have to reframe how we breed crops and select for variance and resilience, not just for average yield.”

The researchers said a decade like the 1930s would be more catastrophic now because today’s severe drought conditions are accompanied by rising temperatures.

“By mid-century, even a normal year in precipitation could be as bad as what we saw in 1936,” Elliott said.

“And a year with even a 10 to 20 percent loss of precipitation becomes extraordinarily damaging.”

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First, get your spreadsheet and do a sensitivity analysis. Take a look at a modest increase and a medium-term increase.

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The bottom line is, whether you are borrowing or investing, rates are likely to rise. It is better to take a proactive stance in managing your interest rate risk. The more information you have and the more you manage those risks, the better positioned you are for the future.

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Japan uses emergency corn stockpile after U.S. delay Poor weather in the U.S. hampered exports, forcing Japanese feed makers to drain 340,000 tonnes from the country’s stockpile TO K YO, Jap a n ( R e u t e r s ) — Japan, the world’s top corn importer, has tapped at least 340,000 tonnes of the grain from emergency stockpiles after inventories fell to critically low levels because of a delay in shipments from the United States.

An official at the agriculture ministry said last week that it had received and approved applications from 11 feed makers by the end of February for the use of 340,000 tonnes of grain — includ-

ing a small volume of wheat — from the 850,000 tonnes held in emergency stockpiles.

Blizzards, avalanches and heavy rain in the northwestern United States early this year have hurt the transportation of corn, soy and wheat to ports, causing lengthy delays to grain loadings in Japan’s main corn supplier.

Seventeen Japanese feed makers are required to hold the stocks of feed grains, mainly corn, and need to seek approval from the govern-

ment to use it in an emergency.

The volume of 850,000 tonnes is equivalent to about a month of domestic demand, according to Takanari Ishibashi, deputy director of agriculture ministry’s feed department.

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Most of the feed makers that tapped the stockpiles plan to refill inventories by around March 20.

Others expect to do so by early April, he said.

The 340,000 tonne amount is the biggest monthly volume sought for use of emergency stockpiles of grains since the government adopted a new stockpiles system last April, Ishibashi said.

However, Japan tapped more than 750,000 tonnes of emergency stockpiles in 2011, when a massive earthquake and tsunami in north-

ern Japan disrupted supply chains and caused the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.

Amid the shortages, Japanese trading houses are scrambling to find immediate supplies from other countries, including China.

China’s COFCO Corp. is in talks to sell a small cargo of corn to Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp, two sources said last month, a rare foreign sale of grain from the world’s second largest producer.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects Japan to import 15 million tonnes in 2016-17.

WEATHER

Morocco sees good harvest after double 2016 rainfall RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) — Recent rainfall in Morocco is expected to yield a favourable crop harvest this season after last year’s drought, which has been recorded as the worst in three decades, the country’s agriculture ministry said.

With an increase in average national rainfall to 287 millimetres, up 136 percent from last year’s average of 122 mm, the ministry statement said the impact was “positive” for vegetation, dam-filling rates and groundwater levels.

This season’s rain comes after last year’s abnormally dry weather across North Africa, which slashed the country’s cereal harvest last season to 3.35 million tonnes, down 70 percent from the previous record of 11 million tonnes.

Last year’s drought was the worst in 30 years, according to the government.

Seeded grain-dedicated lands were 12.63 million acres at the start of the campaign, exceeding earlier expectations of 12.36 million acres, including 44 percent of soft wheat, 35 percent of barley and 21 percent of durum wheat.

Wheat is a key commodity in daily life in Morocco, and agriculture accounts for more than 15 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

It is the source of employment for nearly 35 percent of the country’s workforce.

The government said it expects the economy to grow by 4.5 percent in 2017, based on a cereals harvest of seven million tonnes.

Morocco was the third largest buyer of Canadian durum in the 2016 calendar year, buying 623,696 tonnes worth $228.4 million.

Algeria was number one and Italy number two.

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FINANCIAL OUTLOOK

Bayer’s ag profit to stagnate in coming year The company pegs growth in seed and protection products at one percent in 2017 LEVERKUSEN, Germany (Reuters) — Bayer forecast a year without earnings growth for its agricultural products business late last month as it seeks to complete its US$66 billion deal to take over American seed giant Monsanto.

The German company has said the deal, which would put the size of its agricultural business on a par with its health care unit in terms of revenues, would enable it to develop new combinations of seeds and pesticides to compete against big rivals such as Dow and DuPont, which plan to merge their agricultural businesses.

However, in 2017 Bayer’s Crop Science division is expected to produce underlying earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization unchanged from last year, the group said Feb. 22 in reporting fourth-quarter group earnings that slightly beat market expectations.

“We’ve had outstanding harvests over the last three years, resulting in a certain oversupply in crops and a cyclical dent in our business,” said Liam Condon, head of Bayer’s Crop Science unit, adding that the trend could soon change.

“Given the likelihood of extreme weather phenomena, it doesn’t take much for the cycle to turn.”

A recovery in demand was likely to be seen first in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America toward the end of 2017, while markets in North America and Europe would not see a return to more robust growth before 2018.

Bayer said in its annual report it expected seed and crop protection market growth of one percent this year compared with a one percent decline in 2016.

Prices of agricultural commodities such as corn, soy and wheat have recovered somewhat from multi-year lows hit in September last year.

Growth in prescription drugs sales were partly offset by weaker than expected earnings at its consumer care products division, with sales of allergy treatment Claritin falling nine percent, coming under pressure from rival products.

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Confident of approval The group also said it was on track to gain all regulatory approvals for the takeover by year-end, with Condon saying that this forecast anticipated a likely in-depth investigation by the European Union’s competition regulators.

Bayer said earlier this winter that its chief executive officer, Werner Baumann, and his counterpart at Monsanto had had a “productive” meeting with Donald Trump before Trump took office as president, to discuss the proposed merger.

For the group overall, Bayer predicted a medium single-digit percentage increase in adjusted EBITDA for 2017, helped by fastgrowing revenues from stroke prevention pill Xarelto.

In the fourth quarter, adjusted group EBITDA rose 13.7 percent to $2.30 billion.

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2015 JD 1830 60 FT. AIR DRILL

c/w 2015 JD 1910 550 bu. cart MACDON MODEL D65-S

36 ft. header

168 hrs.

2015 JD W150 WINDROWER

2012 BRANDT 1020XR GRAIN CART

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Unreserved Public Farm Auction

South Trail Farms

Rosetown, MB | March 20, 2017 · 11 am

2012 John Deere 9460R, 2001 John Deere 1900 & 2001 John Deere 730 44 Ft

2012 John Deere 8235R, 2007 Elmers 24-22 Tool Bar & 2– John Deere 7300

2009 John Deere 9770STS

2003 John Deere 4710 100 Ft

2010 Massey Ferguson 9435 25 Ft

2013 Unverferth 8250

1995 John Deere 8100 & Elmers 24 Row 22 In.

2006 Kenworth T800 & 2012 Load Line 32 Ft

1985 Freightliner FLC12064T w/2004 Bau-Man 22 Ft

1990 Kenworth T600AII

AUCTION LOCATION: From WINKLER, MB, go East on Hwy 14 to Plum Coulee, MB, then go 15.3 km (9.5 miles) South on Road 306 to Rosetown, MB, then go 1/8 mile East on Mile Rd 3N. Yard on North Side. GPS: 49.046, -97.748 A PARTIAL EQUIPMENT LIST INCLUDES: 2012 John Deere 9460R 4WD Tractor · 2006 John Deere 9520 4WD Tractor · 2012 John Deere 8235R MFWD Tractor · 1995 John Deere 8100 MFWD Tractor · 1992 John Deere 4560 MFWD Tractor · 2009 John Deere 9770STS Combine · 2000 John Deere 9650 Combine · (7) Headers · 2010 Massey Ferguson 9435 25 Ft Swather · 1998 Westward 3000 25 Ft Swather · 2003 John Deere 4710 100 Ft High Clearance Sprayer · 2006 Kenworth T800 Sleeper T/A Truck Tractor · 1976

Ford T8000 T/A Dump Truck · 1985 Freightliner FLC12064T T/A Potato Truck · 2012 Load Line 32 Ft T/A End Dump Grain Trailer · 2014 PJ Trailers T6202 20 Ft T/A Hydraulic Tilt Equipment Trailer · 1979 Ford HZ411V Wheel Loader · 2006 John Deere 325 Skid Steer · Letourneau LS 10 CY Hydraulic Pull Scraper · 2001 John Deere 730 44 Ft Disc Air Seeder · 2013 John Deere 1910 350± Bushel Tow-Between Air Tank · 2013 Unverferth 8250 850± Bushel S/A Grain Cart ...AND MUCH MORE!

For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: rbauction.com Mitch Rempel: 204.327.5239 (h), 204.362.4886 (c) southtrailfarm@hotmail.com Wes Kehler: 204.327.5239 Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager – Brad Goossen: 204.781.2336 800.491.4494

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Brandon Auction Site – March 16

Lethbridge Auction Site – March 23

2012 John Deere 9460R, 2001 John Deere 1900 & 2001 John Deere 730 44 Ft Rosetown, MB – March 20

Calven & Chris Garrett

2006 Case IH STX480 Eaglesham, AB – April 3

Ted, Margaret & Brian Gehlert

2 Parcels of Real Estate Spruce Grove, AB – April 8

Garth & Karen Handke

2015 Case IH 620 Waldron, SK – April 12

Blackwell Hay Farms

2014 John Deere 8370R & 2015 Farm King 6650 35 Ft Cochrane, AB – April 18

R & S Berge Farms Ltd.

2009 Miller Nitro 4365 Hagen, SK – April 24

Wilson Seed Farm

2014 Case IH 600 Drumheller, AB – March 22

Richard Garant & Charlie Turcotte

2012 Case IH Patriot 3230 100 Ft McLennan, AB – April 4

Glenn & Pam Leisle

2014 Case IH Patriot 4430 120 Ft Morse, SK – April 8

Miller Bros.

Scott & Janet Dowling

Velvet Mountain Farms Ltd

3– Unused– 2017 New Holland CR9.90 Elevation Swan River, MB – April 18

Pat & Mary Kloster and Joan Kloster w/ Gary & Joan Zimmer

2002 New Holland CX860 Luseland, SK – April 24

Gilbert & Donna Van Eck

2— John Deere 9520 & 2— Brent 1084 Draper, SD, USA – March 24

GNH Ventures

2009 John Deere 6130D Fort Macleod, AB – March 25

Will & Ruth Petker

Garth & Kerry Cole

West Central Consignment Auction

1997 John Deere 9600 Grenfell, SK – April 8

Hedlin Farms

2— 2014 New Holland CX8090 Thorhild, AB – March 29

Collopy Farms Ltd.

2012 Case IH 550 Frobisher, SK – April 6

Rick Kitzul & Estate of Brenda Kitzul

2014 Versatile 450 Ituna, SK – April 10

Bazincan Farms Inc.

2012 John Deere 4730 100 Ft Watrous, SK – April 13

Blackstock Farms Ltd.

2009 John Deere 9770 STS Maymont, SK – April 18

Justin & Kevin Lawrence

Rick, June & Roy Kubica

2005 John Deere 9620 Eatonia, SK – April 8

2006 John Deere 9760STS Athabasca, AB – April 12

GD Land & Cattle Co Ltd.

2– 2016 John Deere 9570R - Low Hours w/2015 Degelman 7900 18 Ft 4 Way

2008 John Deere 9770STS RWA & 2008 John Deere 936D Sunset House, AB – April 5

1996 Case IH 2188 Elrose, SK – April 5

Zachoda Farms Ltd.

2010 New Holland T9040 Unity, SK – April 12

Saskatoon Auction Site – April 3

1 of 2— Unused – 2017 Seed Hawk XL Series 70 Ft w/800

2 of 4— 2016 John Deere 8370R

2012 Case IH Steiger 500HD

South Trail Farms

Regina Auction Site – March 28

1997 Case IH 2188 Cut Knife, SK – April 19

The Estate of Orville Morrow

2002 Gleaner R72 & 1994 Gleaner R62 Manor, SK – April 25

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1992 John Deere 8560 Lafond, AB – April 25

2013 Case IH 7130 Ituna, SK – April 13

Jake Rempel

1994 John Deere 9600 RWA & 1993 John Deere 9600 Valleyview, AB – April 20

Dyck Enterprises Ltd

1997 & 1995 John Deere 9600 Waterhen, MB – April 25

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68 of 100+ Upcoming Public Unreserved Agricultural Auctions March to May 2017 Grande Prairie Auction Site – Apr 12-13

DJ Schock Farm Ltd.

2011 New Holland CR9060 Moose Jaw, SK – March 30

Sungrass Ranch Ltd.

2000 John Deere 9650 Hanna, AB – April 6

Shiels Farms Ltd.

2013 New Holland T9.450HD

Denmark Enterprises Ltd

Unused– 2016 Versatile 500 Legendary Limited Edition Storthoaks, SK – March 30

Magill Ranch

11 Registered Quarter Horse Brood Mares Dawson Creek, BC – April 15

Andre Grenier

2003 New Holland CX840 St. Leon, MB – April 20

Weatherall Farms Ltd.

2008 John Deere 9770STS Mannville, AB – April 26

LDR Holdings Inc.

2013 New Holland T7.170 Wapella, SK – March 31

Patrik & Jessica Stocker

Double Dawson Farm Ltd.

2013 John Deere W110 Nipawin, SK – April 10

The Estate of Larry Kryvoblocki

2008 New Holland CR9070 St. Walburg, SK – April 15

CB Farms Ltd.

2005 Lexion 580R Wolseley, SK – April 7

Mid Prairie Acres

2011 New Holland CR9080 Abernethy, SK – April 11

Michael Volk

2006 New Holland TV145 Scott, SK – April 17

Dennis & Gisele Toms

1994 John Deere 9600 Redvers, SK – April 26

2005 John Deere 9660 STS Harris, SK – April 21

Bert & Heather Brumwell

2005 John Deere 9660 Loverna, SK – April 27

2016 Claas 970 Jaguar

Lindsay Farms Ltd.

2012 John Deere S680 Mazenod, SK – March 31

Andy & Ildiko Orosz

2— 2012 John Deere S680 Limerick, SK – April 1

Horn Ridge Ranch Ltd.

2004 John Deere 9660 Dubuc, SK – April 7

Verne & Joanne Helm and Tyler & Crystal Helm

2012 New Holland CR8090 & 2008 New Holland CR9070 Shellbrook, SK – April 11

Thirsk Company Ltd.

Morbeck Farms Inc.

2013 John Deere S670 Ituna, SK – April 21

Lethbridge Auction Site – May 18

229.8± Title Acres on (2) Titles – Francois Lake, BC

Johan Jacobs

2014 MacDon M155 30 Ft Veteran, AB – April 7

2004 John Deere 9760STS Hazlet, SK – April 10

Rendal & Marti Bishop

Prince George Auction Site – May 2

North Battleford Auction Site – Apr 20

2015 Bourgault 3320PHD XTC 68 Ft w/L7550

Featuring

2013 Case IH 7230 Ribstone, AB – April 17

Alex & Debbie Parker

2004 John Deere 9660STS Imperial, SK – April 22

Clayton & Joan Thompson

2013 New Holland T6.150 Elrose, SK – April 28

17 Parcels of Real Estate Spruce Grove, AB – April 7

Epp Farms

200+ Head of Cattle Athabasca, AB – April 11

The Estate of Garry Nelson

2002 New Holland TJ450 McGee, SK – April 18

GMJ Farms Ltd.

2005 Case IH 2377 Dodsland, SK – April 22

Dan Huchkowsky

1986 Case IH 4894 Hague, SK – April 29 Auction Company License 309645 & 303043

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WRECKING LATE MODEL TRUCKS: 1/2, 3/4, 1 tons, 4x4’s, vans, SUV’s. Cummins, Chev and Ford diesel motors. Jasper Auto Parts, 1-800-294-4784 or 1-800-294-0687.

MACK AUCTION CO. presents a Farm Equip. Auction for Ron and Donna Labbie, 306-869-7020, Saturday, April 8, 2017, 10 AM. Directions from Radville, SK., 4 miles South on Hwy 28, 1 mile East on Grid 705 and 1/4 mile North. Watch for signs! Live internet bidding www.bidspotter.com.

1998 JD 9300 4WD tractor w/6545 hrs and Greenstar ready, JD 8760 4WD tractor w/4415 hrs, 2013 Case/IH Patriot 3330 SP 100’ sprayer w/440 hours, 4- Michelin 650/65R-38 sprayer tires and rims, 2320-R46 sprayer tires and rims, 1986 Trailmobile 45’ Highboy tandem flat deck trailer with 2- 2200 gal. poly water tanks and Chem Handler II, single axle dolly convertor, 2011 NH CR9060 SP combine with MAV/Redekop chopper w/1035 rotor hrs, 2008 NH 76C Swathmaster PU header with Michel’s Crop Catcher, 2008 MacDon FD-70 flex draper 35’ straight cut header w/NH adapter, 2007 NH HW325 SP 30’ swather w/515 eng. hrs, Farm King steel drum swath roller, Koenders poly drum swath roller, 2012 41’ JD 1870 air drill and JD 1910 air cart paired row with blockage monitors, Morris Magnum II 47’ cult. w/2055 Valmar, 1995 IH tandem grain truck with ultracel steel box, 1976 Dodge 600 grain truck w/steel box and roll tarp, 2003 Real Industries 24’ gooseneck flat deck trailer, Real Ind. 21’ gooseneck stock trailer, Westfield MK 100-61 swing auger, Westfield MK100-71 swing auger, Sakundiak 8-1200 auger w/Kohler Pro 25 HP eng., Sakundiak HD7-1400 auger with Kohler 20 HP motor, Westfield W70-26 auger w/elec. motor, Grain Guard and Keho aeration fans, grain dockage pans and sieves, Degelman ground drive rockpicker, EZ-Guide 500 and EZ Steer 500 GPS, JD 148 FEL pallet forks, free standing corral panels, drill stem round bale feeders, quantity of drill stem and sucker rod, quantity of corral panels and gates, squeeze chute, shopbuilt crowding tub w/curved alley and loading chute, Westeel 1000 bu. hopper bottom bin, 100’ rubber belt grain trough with rolling feed cart, portable calf shelters, tractor tire grain feeders, vet supplies, Z Star side by side UTV, Sanborn upright air compressor, 1000 gal. fuel tank and elec. pump, used oil tank, shop built high clearance sprayer and jack stand, antique enamel dbl. sided Goodyear sign. For sale bill and photos view mackauctioncompany.com Join us on Facebook and Twitter. Mack Auction Co. 306-421-2928, 306-487-7815. PL#311962

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ALLISON TRANSMISSION. Service, Sales and Parts. Exchange or rebuild. Call Allied Transmissions Calgary, 1-888-232-2203; Spectrum Industrial Automatics Ltd., Blackfalds, AB., call 1-877-321-7732.

TRUCK PARTS: 1/2 to 3 ton, new and used. We ship anywhere. Contact Phoenix Auto, 1-877-585-2300, Lucky Lake, SK. 1999 FL120. Recent new: turbo, alt., seat, air horns, airbags, 22.5 tires. 4 Fenderco fenders, trans. good, engine dead, $4000 OBO. 306-963-7732, Imperial, SK. WIDE SELECTIONS AT BEST PRICING. Full lineup of Wilson, Sundowner, Norbert SASKATOON TRUCK PARTS CENTRE stock trailers to help you get your cattle to Ltd. North Corman Industrial Park. market. With 15 years of sales and service New and used parts available for 3 ton we will not be undersold! Bassano, AB., trucks all the way up to highway tractors, 1-800-641-4508. www.desertsales.ca for every make and model, no part too big or small. Our shop specializes in custom rebuilt differentials/transmissions and clutch installations. Engines are available, both gas and diesel. Re-sale units are on the lot ready to go. We buy wrecks for parts, and sell for wrecks! For more info. call 306-668-5675 or 1-800-667-3023. www.saskatoontruckparts.ca DL #914394 SOUTHSIDE AUTO WRECKERS located in Weyburn, SK. 306-842-2641. Used car parts, light truck to semi-truck parts. We 2017 NEVILLE BUILT ground load stock buy scrap iron and non-ferrous metals. trailer, rubber floor, 3 gates, air ride, floor WRECKING TRUCKS: All makes all clean outs, $56,900 + taxes. Regina, SK. models. Need parts? Call 306-821-0260 306-359-7526. DL #913604. or email: junkman.2010@hotmail.com Wrecking Dodge, Chev, GMC, Ford and 2011 WILSON RANCH HAND alum. stock others. Lots of 4x4 stuff, 1/2 ton - 3 ton, trailer, 24x7’, good cond., $20,000 OBO. buses etc. and some cars. We ship by bus, 306-335-2771, Lemberg/Sintaluta, SK. mail, Loomis, Purolator. Lloydminster, SK. VS TRUCK WORKS Inc. Parting out GM 1/2 and 1 ton trucks. Call 403-972-3879, Alsask, SK. www.vstruckworks.com ONE OF SASK’s largest inventory of used heavy truck parts. 3 ton tandem diesel motors and transmissions and differentials for all makes! Can-Am Truck Export Ltd., 1-800-938-3323.

TRUCK BONEYARD INC. Specializing in obsolete parts, all makes. Trucks bought for wrecking. 306-771-2295, Balgonie, SK. WRECKING VOLVO TRUCKS: Misc. axles and parts. Also tandem trailer suspension axles. Call 306-539-4642, Regina, SK. WRECKING SEMI-TRUCKS, lots of parts.

Call Yellowhead Traders. 306-896-2882, Churchbridge, SK.

TANKER TRAILERS: Stainless steel alum. 2003 REAL INDUSTRIES 24’ gooseneck potable, tandem and tri-axles, 4000- 7500 flat deck trailer. Ron and Donna Labbie Farm Equip. Auction, Saturday, April 8, gal $12-$18,000. 306-563-8765 Canora SK 2017, Radville, SK. area. For sale bill and 1987 B TRAIN, 14’ lead side dump, 24’ end photos visit mackauctioncompany.com for dump. New safety, new paint, $24,000. sale bill and photos or join our Facebook Can-Am Truck Export Ltd, 1-800-938-3323 page. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962.

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16 WHEEL COLUMBIA lowbed, c/w 16 PRECISION TRAILERS: Gooseneck and wheel Jeep, $48,000. 780-983-0936, bumper hitch. You’ve seen the rest, now Clyde, AB. own the best. Hoffart Services, Odessa, SK. FOR SALE OR TRADE: New enclosed 306-957-2033 www.precisiontrailers.ca Wells Cargo trailer. To sell or trade for a BEHNKE DROP DECK semi style and gooseneck horse trailer. Can deliver. pintle hitch sprayer trailers. Air ride, 250-500-2572, Fort St. John, BC. t a n d e m a n d t r i d e m s . C o n t a c t S K : CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used 306-398-8000; AB: 403-350-0336. highway tractors. For more details call 204-685-2222 or view information at www.titantrucksales.com

2017 BIG TEX trailer goosenecks: 25’, 30’ and 33’ with mega ramps, 23,900 lbs.

GVWR. Start price, $12,495, incl. free spare. Jason’s Agri-Motive, Lafleche, SK., 306-472-3159. www.jasonsagri-motive.ca 2015 DAKOTA ALUM. seed tender with SS 2012 SUPER B Highboy, $40,000. Reposconveyer system, self-contained w/remote session- open to offers. 780-307-1120, controls, or can be run off truck wet kit, Clyde. AB. exc. cond., fresh MB safety. 45’Lx102”W, loaded trailer, air ride, alum. outside rims, TRADING: 32x32’ hay trailers for a tri-axle 11R24.5, $107,000. Located at Kamsack, end dump gravel trailer. Ph/tx Hay Vern 204-729-7297, Brandon, MB. SK. Call 204-526-0748 or 204-526-0321.

2016 BISON RANGER 8310 RG, #G2005068, $59,900. Living quarters. 2005 WILSON ROAD BRUTE drop deck Phone 1-866-346-3148 or shop online trailer, 48’ long x 102” wide, alum. wheels, 24/7 at: Allandale.com 255/70R22.5 tires, $18,500. Sanford, MB. 204-736-4854 or 204-226-7289.

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DL#907173. www.watrousmainline.com 2017 GMC CANYON Cab SLT 4X4, 3.6L, V6, Nav, loaded, heated leather $44,795.

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www.titantrucksales.com to check out our inventory of quality used highway tractors! Or call: 204-685-2222 MacGregor MB 2008 FORD F350 4x4 Super Duty Crew, 2005 DODGE DAKOTA, fully loaded, priced 6.4L auto trans., 120,000 kms, exc. cond., t o s e l l ! F o r m o r e i n fo r m at i o n c a l l PST paid. 306-382-4255, Dalmeny, SK. 306-221-2208, Rosetown, SK.

SCHOOL BUSES: 20 to 66 passenger, 1991 to 2007, $2300 and up. 16 buses in stock! Call Phoenix Auto, Lucky Lake, SK. 1-877-585-2300. DL #320074.

2016 EXISS STK24, 2- 7000 lb. axles, 16” tires, 2 gates, 6’6” tall, full swing half slide rear gate, 8 yr warranty, $25,900 + tax2016 SUBARU IMPREZA consumer reports es. 306-359-7526, Regina, SK. DL913604. as best small call starting at $23,360! Call fo r b e s t p r i c e ! ! 1 - 8 7 7 - 3 7 3 - 2 6 6 2 o r www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

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2 0 1 7 F E AT H E R L I T E 8 1 2 7 - 7 0 2 4 , #HC143379. Calving Special! Regular: 2015 AHV LODE-KING aluminum Super B $35,235, Sale: $26,500. Edmonton/Red hoppers, extra light pkg., round stainless Deer, AB. Phone 1-866-346-3148 or shop fenders, current safety, excellent 11Rx22.5 online 24/7 at: Allandale.com tires w/alum. wheels, exc. cond., no air lift or elec. tarps. 8 sets avail., $88,000 OBO each. 1-866-236-4028, Calgary, AB. 24’ GOOSENECK 3-8,000 lb. axles, $7890; REMOTE CONTROL TRAILER CHUTE Bumper pull tandem lowboys: 18’, 16,000 openers can save you time, energy and lbs., $4750; 16’, 10,000 lbs., $3390; 16’, keep you safe this seeding season. FM re- 7000 lbs., $2975, 8000 lb Skidsteer, $1990 mote controls provide maximum range F a c t o r y d i r e c t . 1 - 8 8 8 - 7 9 2 - 6 2 8 3 . and instant response while high torque www.monarchtrailers.com drives operate the toughest of chutes.

Easy installation. Kramble Industries, STAINLESS AND ALUMINUM Super B’s/ call 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or visit tri-axle tankers, TC 406 and 407. Call for us online at: www.kramble.net specs, 306-921-7721, Melfort, SK. PRAIRIE SANDBLASTING & PAINTING. STEPDECKS: 48’ TANDEM, $12,000; HiTrailer overhauls and repairs, alum. slopes boys, lowboys, vans, beavertails, car hauland trailer repairs, tarps, insurance claims, ers, $8000 and up. 306-563-8765, Canora and trailer sales. Epoxy paint. Agriculture and commercial. Satisfaction guaranteed.

306-744-7930, Saltcoats, SK. 2010 WILSON TRI-AXLE grain trailer, 3 hopper, 1 rear hopper, new brakes, tarp and wheel seals, safetied, exc., $42,000 OBO. Call 306-648-7123, Gravelbourg, SK

NORMS SANDBLASTING & PAINT, 40 years body and paint experience. We do metal and fiberglass repairs and integral to daycab conversions. Sandblasting and paint to trailers, trucks and heavy equip.

Endura primers and topcoats. A one stop shop. Norm 306-272-4407, Foam Lake SK. 2013 WILSON GRAIN TRAILER, current safety, $35,000. Call 204-955-2548, Ile Des Chenes, MB.

BS DUMP WAGON, 18 ton, never used 2016, hyd. endgate, HD walking-beam axle, flotation tires 550/60x22.5, hyd. brakes, adjustable hitch, $34,500. 403-877-1094, Innisfail, AB. TOPGUN TRAILER SALES “For those who demand the best.” PRECISION AND AGASSIZ TRAILERS (flatdecks, end dumps, enclosed cargo). 1-855-255-0199, Moose Jaw, SK. www.topguntrailersales.ca

2016 Featherlite 53’ Semi Stock Trailer 8`6”W x 7’H x 53’L, Tandem axle, Centre gate.

TA21607

2016 RENN 17’ Pup Trailer, SL1700, Tri-Axle, Air Ride, 11R24.5 Tires.

TA21504

2016 RENN 33’ Tri-Axle End Dump, SL3300, Air Ride, 11R24.5 Tires, Available in White or Charcoal, Stk #TA21503/TA21516

2016 Featherlite 8542-704H4 Horse Slant Load, 7’ W x 7’ H x 21’8” L with 52” dressing room, 6.0K rubber torsion, Stk# TA21529

2016 RENN 33’ Hardox Side Dump, 2016 Featherlite 2 Horse Slant, SLSDGEN2, Air Ride, 9409-672H, 14’2” L x 6’7”W x 8’6”H, 11R24.5 Tire.

3.5k Torsion Sup. Stk # TA21523 Stk# TA21615

2013 Kenworth T300, with 18’ Van Body, Paccar Engine, 200 HP, 5 spd auto, 8,000 # F/A, 11,000 # R/A, 161,000 kms, TRC21667, $38,000

2013 Freightliner Coronado, D15, 515 HP, 18 spd, 13,200 F/A, 46,000 # R/A, 824,000 kms, TRU21637 $79,900

2012 Western Star 4900 EX, DD15, 565 HP, 18 spd, 13,000# F/A, 46,000# R/A, Four Way Lockers, Good Rubber, 699,000 kms, Stk#TR21533A $79,000

(7)-2012 Kenworth T-800, ISX, 450 HP, 18 spd, 2014 Volvo 730, D13, 500 HP, 12,500 #F/A, 40,000 # R/A, 687,000 - 955,000 I-Shift, 13,200 # F/A, 46,000 # R/A, kms, TRU21657-TRU21664 Call for pricing 655,000 kms, TRU21656 $96,000 INCLUDES 24 MONTH POWERTRAIN WARRANTY

2015 Volvo 730 D13, 500 HP, I-shift, 12,500 # F/A, 46,000 # R/A, 425,000 kms, TRU21655, $112,000

NEW HAY TRAILERS 10x40’, built w/new steel, 10.000x22.5 tires, hauls 20 round bales or squares, $6500. Call KCL General Repairs, Ashern, MB., 204-739-3096.

BERG’S END DUMP grain trailers w/Berg’s signature quality finish. Ph for Winter pricing specials and 30 day trials. Berg’s Grain & Gravel Body 204-325-5677, Winkler, MB NEW NEW 2018 tri-axle 45’, air ride, 78” sides, Canadian made, $53,000 low price.

Buy now! Call 306-563-8765, Canora, SK. CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used highway tractors. For more details call 204-685-2222 or view information at www.titantrucksales.com

2015 LODE-KING SUPER B, Bridgestone tires, good as new aluminum wheels, $65,000. Sanford, MB. 204-736-4854 or 204-226-7289.

1982 LODE-KING GRAIN trailer, 40', 2 NORBERT 24’ GOOSENECK trailer, 2- 7000 comp., spring susp., good tires and tarp, lbs. axles, 2 hitches, good shape, $7500.

403-597-2006, Sylvan Lake, AB. $8500 OBO. 306-476-7248, Fife Lake, SK. 100 MISC. SEMI TRAILER FLATDECKS/ stepdecks, $2,500 to $30,000. 20 heavy lowbeds, $10,000 to $70,000. Tankers, REAL INDUSTRIES 21’ gooseneck stock end dumps. 306-222-2413, Saskatoon, SK. trailer. Ron and Donna Labbie Farm Equip. www.trailerguy.ca Auction, Saturday, April 8, 2017, Radville, SK. area. For sale bill and photos visit COMPONENTS FOR TRAILERS. Shipping www.mackauctioncompany.com or join daily across the prairies. Free freight. See our Facebook page. 306-421-2928 or “The Book 2013” page 195. DL Parts For 306-487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL311962 Trailers, 1-877-529-2239, www.dlparts.ca

Please visit our website at: www.sterlingtruckandtrailer.ca Regina, SK 1-800-667-0466 Saskatoon, SK 1-888-242-7988 Lloydminster 1-844-875-2021

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2016 GMC 1500 REG. Cab 2WD, 4.3L, V6, loaded, Bluetooth, cloth. $25,149 Phone 1-800-667-0490. DL#907173. Visit our website: www.watrousmainline.com

2011 FORD EXPLORER XLT, heated cloth, only 90,000 kms, like new rubber, $19,900 Cam-Don Motors 306-237-4212 Perdue SK

2004 F150, 5.4 auto, only 65,000 kms., 2WD, runs on fuel efficient natural gas, fresh safety, $6950. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

2002 DODGE RAM 3500, 4x4 Dually, 6 spd., 5th wheel w/hyd. system, rear air bag suspension, 200,000 kms, $15,000 OBO. 204-981-3855, Dugald, MB. 2006 DODGE POWER Ram 1500 SLT, 4x4, 4 dr., 180,000 kms, spray-in boxliner, tan, clean, well maintained, no accidents, $9500. 780-870-1680, Lloydminster, AB. 2012 CHEV LT, ext. cab., 5.3L, 14,400 orig. kms, shedded, never winter driven, extras, $29,000. 306-764-7865, Prince Albert, SK. CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used highway tractors. For more details call 204-685-2222 or view information at www.titantrucksales.com WANTED: 1979 F150, reg. cab, 4x4 auto., longbox, in good running cond. or parts; Also looking for older Ford trucks in running cond. 403-249-1468, Cochrane, AB.

2009 Mack CH613, MP8 Mack eng., 430 HP, 10 spd., AutoShift, 463,000 kms, exc. shape, new 20’ box, A/T/C, $73,500; 2009 IH Transtar 8600 w/Cummins eng.

10 spd., AutoShift, new 20’ BH&T, 742,000 kms, exc. tires, real good shape, $69,500; 2007 IH 9200, ISX Cummins, 430 HP, AutoShift, alum. wheels, new 20’ BH&T, fully loaded, 1,000,000 kms, real nice, $67,500; 2009 Mack CH613, 430 HP Mack, 10 spd., AutoShift, new 20’ BH&T, alum. wheels, 1.4 million kms, has bearing roll done, nice shape, $69,500; 2007 Kenworth T600, C13 Cat, 425 HP, 13 spd., AutoShift, new 20’ BH&T, alum. wheels, new paint, 1.0 million kms, exc. truck, $71,500; 1996 Midland 24’ tandem pup grain trailer, stiff pole, completely rebuilt, new paint and brakes, exc. shape, $18,500; 1985 Ford L9000, Cummins, 10 spd., 20’ BH&T that’s been totally rebuilt, new paint, exc. tires, $28,500; 1999 IH 4700 S/A w/17’ steel flatdeck, 230,000 kms, IH dsl., 10 spd., good tires, $19,500; 1998 Freightliner tractor, C60 Detroit, 430 HP, 13 spd., alum. wheels, sleeper, good rubber, $17,500; 2005 IH 9200 tractor, ISX Cummins, 430 HP, 13 spd., alum wheels, flat-top sleeper, good rubber, $22,500. All trucks SK safetied. Trades considered. All reasonable offers considered. Arborfield SK. DL 906768. Call Merv 306-276-7518 res., 306-767-2616 cell .

AUTOSHIFT TRUCKS AVAILABLE: Boxed tandems and tractor units. Contact David 306-887-2094, 306-864-7055, Kinistino, SK. DL #327784. www.davidstrucks.com CAB AND CHASSIS: 2000 Sterling tandem, 435 HP Cat, 10 spd. trans, will take 20’ box, extremely low kms, $19,900. Call K&L Equipment, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK. DL #910885. ladimer@sasktel.net CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used highway tractors. For more details call 204-685-2222 or view information at www.titantrucksales.com GMC 6500, single axle, built in vac system, 66,439 miles, Phone 306-483-7322, Frobisher, SK. REMOTE CONTROL ENDGATE AND hoist systems can save you time, energy and keep you safe this seeding season.

Give K r a m b l e I n d u s t r i e s a call at 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or visit us online at: www.kramble.net

2011 GMC SIERRA 3500HD, diesel , 11.5' Courtney Berg hydra deck, dually, 1 ton, 108,000 kms, (new motor at 80,000 kms), $35,000. 403-820-2057, Rosedale, AB.

1990 IHC 2554, 466 13 spd., 22.5” rubber, 15’ box, good unit, ready to work! $18,900.

Cam-Don Motors 306-237-4212 Perdue SK 2012 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 LTZ, 1 Owner. Fully loaded w/extra bling added, some warranty remaining, shedded, parked for winters, box lined w/rubber mat and tonneau cover, 50,000 kms, exc. cond, $29,500 OBO 306-283-4381, 306-361-7264 Langham, SK. foadaland@sasktel.net

1976 HEAVY 6500 GMC with 400 bu. box and roll tarp, new hoist, asking $12,000 OBO. 306-778-3749, Swift Current, SK. 1995 IH TANDEM grain truck with ultracel steel box, also selling 1976 Dodge 600 grain truck with steel box and roll tarp.

Ron and Donna Labbie Farm Equipment Auction, Saturday, April 8, 2017, Radville, SK. area. Visit mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill/photos or join our Facebook page. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL #311962.

2014 VOLVO 630, heavy spec., D13 motor, I-shift trans., 46,000 rears, 635,000 kms., recent new injectors and eng. work. Factory warranty remaining until September 2017. Ready to go to work! $85,000 OBO. 306-320-1568, Nokomis, SK.

CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used highway tractors. For more details call 204-685-2222 or view information at www.titantrucksales.com BARKMAN CONCRETE FLOOR SLATS from hog feeder barn: 3 yrs of use, excellent condition! Gang slats, 84x42, 234 avail $70/pc; Filter crete, 54x24, 61 available, CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used $25/pc; Slotted penning blocks, 36x21, highway tractors. For more details call 150 available, $3/pc. Call 204-326-1668, 204-685-2222 or view information at Steinbach, MB. r_spenner@hotmail.com www.titantrucksales.com 3500 GALLON FUEL DELIVERY TANK, fits on T/A truck. One large or five small compartments, dual pumps, power reels, very clean, $9500. 780-983-0936, Clyde, AB. COVER-ALL 40x60’ TRUSS arch shelter, Offers. Phone 306-563-6022, 20’ FLATDECK HOIST, 2007 GMC 7500, dismantled. dsl, S/A, 6 spd. hyd. brakes, Sask. truck, Canora, SK $22,000. 306-563-8765, Canora, SK.

2009 FORD EXPLORER LTD., V8, AWD, loaded, 4 leather buckets, new winter tires, very good condition, 219,000 kms. WELL ESTABLISHED TIRE store in Wainwright, AB., Turn-key operation in thriving Photos. 306-843-2934, Wilkie, SK. center! For details, 780-842-0673, ask for 2016 SUBARU FORESTER name top pick Keith or Kirby - Buffalo Realty Inc. for 2016. Starting from $29,360. Great selection to choose from!! 1-877-373-2662, www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

2017 CHEV TAHOE Premier, 5.3L, V8, loaded, sunroof, Nav, heated & cooled leather, $77,795 Phone 1-800-667-0490. www.watrousmainline.com DL#907173.

2017 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN LT, 5.3 L, loaded, Nav, heated leather. $72,995 Phone 1-800-667-0490. www.watrousmainline.com DL#907173.

HAIRDRESSING AND BUILDING for sale.

2017 GMC YUKON EX slt, 5.3L, loaded, Turnkey ready, new updates, doors, furnace sunroof, Nav, DVD, heated & cooled leath- and more. A very busy business for a young er, $76,995 Phone 1-800-667-0490. person willing to put in the time and work. www.watrousmainline.com DL#907173.

Willing to stay til establish. 306-648-7776, SPECIAL PURCHASE OF new and near- Kincaid, SK. scisssorcellar@xplornet.com new 2014-2015 Crosstek XVs. Save up to $5000. Come in quickly!! 1-877-373-2662. TEMPO/TIRE SHOP #48 Hwy. Windthorst, SK, independent auto repair business for www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077. sale in Regina; Hotel and restaurant on Hwy.#48; 160 acres near Regina with yard and business opportunity; SW SK. restauCHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used rant, lounge incl, 15 room motel. Brian highway tractors. For more details call Tiefenbach, 306-536-3269, Colliers Int. 204-685-2222 or view information at www.collierscanada.com Regina, SK. www.titantrucksales.com FOR SALE: 35 year old Appliance Repair SPECIAL PURCHASE OF new and near business. Located in growing Sask. market. new 2014-2015 Crosstek XVs. Save up to Warranty/Repair top brands. Yorkton, SK. $5000. Come in quickly!! 1-877-373-2662. ApplianceRepairSask@gmail.com www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

OLD WEST EXPRESS Hamburgers and Fries is looking to expand our brand. Great for a family enterprise. We have a rigid policy of WANTED: 1967-1979 F100/F150 Ford, firm flexibility. Cliff 306-734-2997. Check regular cab, short box, would prefer in our website: www.oldwestexpress.com good cond. 780-918-6816, Edmonton, AB. MANUFACTURING BUSINESS: Welding and light fabricating. One-of-a-kind product. Mainly Ag. Peak sales Sept - March.

Owned for 30 years, room for growth.

Relocatable, $195,000. With inventory; 50’x70’ shop, $350,000. 306-446-4462, North Battleford, SK. glelias@hotmail.com STRONG SINGLE HIVES or nucs for sale.

Call Andy, Steinbach, MB., 204-381-7993, 204-346-9701. andyloewen@hotmail.ca

2006 INTERNATIONAL 7500 Snowplow with wing and tailgate salter 9.3L - DH, 310 HP, Allison auto 6 spd, 20 front, 40 rear axles, 4 wheel lock, 210" WB, very clean, painted frame 2012 (oiled annually since), 163,000 kms, $50,000 OBO. Located near Windsor, ON. 519-981-9536, 800-461-3241 Email: hondarider_123@hotmail.com MITE FREE HONEY Bee packages, 1.5 KG 2012 IHC TRANSSTAR, low pro, Max 300 packages with Queen. Spring delivery.

306-534-2014, 306-740-8026, Spy Hill, SK. HP diesel Allison auto trans, single axle, loaded cab, 13’ Armstrong landscape moesplace@sasktel.net dump, $39,900; 2006 STERLING L9500, tandem, dsl eng. 10 spd. trans., 15’ box, low low kms, $39,900. K&L Equipment and Auto. Call Ladimer, 306-795-7779, WILL DO STYROBLOCK cocoon harvesting and custom pollination. Call Maurice Ituna DL #910885 Wildeman, 306-365-7802, Lanigan, SK. ATTENTION GRAVEL HAULERS: 6 tandems in stock, 1998-2007; 2013 Cancade LEAF CUTTER BEES, (loose cell). Good tri-axle end dump; Tri-axle 18’ dump. Yel- clean bees with no disease. 204-739-3014, lowhead Sales, 306-783-2899, Yorkton, SK Ashern, MB. hkwebster@xplornet.ca

1994 WESTERN STAR, VIN #HXRK 932457, 3406 Cat, Model 4864F, 425 HP, 13 spd., tires good, HD suspension, $17,500 OBO. BEE BUSINESS. Turnkey operation. SecPlease call 306-476-7248, Fife Lake, SK. ond generation bee farmer looking to retire. Vehicles, bee equipment, honey plant, loucksfarms@sasktel.net buildings, etc. Perfect opportunity for 2001 WESTERN STAR, Series 60 Detroit, young family. Near beautiful northern 18 spd. trans., 46 rears, 450,000 kms, town of Carrot River, SK. 306-332-7422, $7,000 work order, fresh CVIP, $42,000. 306-768-2628. kimbonish@hotmail.com 780-983-0936, Clyde, AB. 2003 KENWORTH W900L, Cat C15, 475-550 HP, 18 spd. heavy 40 rears, 4:11 1998 KENWORTH T800, new grain box, ratio, high level VIT int. w/leather seats, Detroit engine, 60 Series, 10 spd. trans., $59,000 OBO. 306-786-6600, Yorkton, SK. $48,000. 204-325-5677, Winkler, MB. 2007 IHC 9900 DAYCAB, 18 spd. Eaton AutoShift, ISX 450 HP, 24.5 rubber, full lockers, wet kit, 655,000 kms. Call 306-270-6399, Saskatoon, SK. www.78truxsales.com DL #316542 2008 PETERBILT 387, owner retired, truck going strong. Extremely well maintained 1 owner. Must be seen to be appreciated, 500 Cummins set at 485, 13 spd., very g o o d r u b b e r, n e ve r r u n i n s u m m e r, 1,200,000 kms., $48,000. 306-778-3666, Swift Current, SK. b.whitney@sasktel.net 2002 KENWORTH T800 w/new grain box, rebuilt engine and turbo with warran- 2009 KENWORTH W900L, 485 HP ISX, 18 spd., 3:70 rears, 244 WB, new 22.5 rubber, ty. $68,000. 204-325-5677, Winkler, MB. 1.4 million kms, $54,500. 204-867-7291, 2007 FREIGHTLINER COLUMBIA, new 20' Minnedosa, MB. box, 13 spd. Eaton, 450 HP Mercedes 2011 PETE 386 and 2011 Kenworth T800. engine, MB safety, $45,000; 2- 2007 IH Both- 550 ISX, 18 spds, loaded, low kms.

9400, automatics w/million kms, ready to $58,000 OBO; Kenworth, $59,000 get boxed, $56,000. 204-724-9529, Rivers, Pete, OBO. Phone 306-921-7721, Melfort, SK. MB. www.oakriverindustries.com 2007 MACK, 10 speed Eaton auto., new 20’ CIM B&H, fresh Sask. safeties. Call 306-270-6399, Saskatoon, SK. www.78truxsales.com DL #316542.

2007 WESTERN STAR 4900SA tri-drive, C15 Cat, 550 HP, 18 spd., full lockers, new 24’ CIM B&H. 306-270-6399, Saskatoon, SK. www.78truxsales.com DL #316542.

30+ TANDEMS: Standards & Automatics, $ 4 6 , 0 0 0 a n d u p . Ye l l ow h e a d S a l e s , 306-783-2899, Yorkton, SK. ALLISON AUTOMATIC TRUCKS: Several trucks with auto. trans. available with C&C or grain or gravel box. Starting at $19,900; 2002 IH 4400 DT466, Allison automatic, 20’ B&H, $56,900. Call K&L Equipment, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK. DL #910885. ladimer@sasktel.net

2013 PROSTAR IH day cab truck with indash GPS, 500 HP Maxx force 18 spd., 46,000 rears, 3.91 ratio, 228” WB, approx.

129,000 kms, 11R22.5 tires, c/w wet kit fo r o n ly $ 5 8 , 0 0 0 . N ew M B . s a fe t y.

204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

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.

RAILWAY TIES: $16 each or $350 for a bundle of 25. Phone 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com 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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2005 and 2006 CAT 315CLS hyd. excavator plumbed, thumb, quick coupler, dig and clean-up bucket, approx. 12,500 hrs., $44,000 ea. 780-983-0936, Crossfield, AB. CAT 953 CRAWLER loader, heated cab, new UC, low hrs., excellent condition. Call for price. 780-983-0936, Clyde, AB. CASE 590 BACKHOE, 4x4, extend-a-hoe; JD 772BH grader, with snow wing. Call 306-238-4411, Goodsoil, SK. EQUIPMENT HAULING. Serving Western Canada and Northwest USA. Call Harvey at 1-877-824-3010 or cell 403-795-1872.

Vandenberg Hay Farms Ltd., Nobleford AB. Email: logistics@vandenberghay.ca

1999 K LITE LIFTKING 8M22 forklift, 8000 lbs. max load, 12’ lift height, Cummins dsl. c / w b l a d e at t a c h m e n t , $ 8 5 0 0 O B O. 780-218-2151, Andrew, AB. CAT HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS: 463, 435, 80 and 70, all vg condition, new conversion. Also new and used scraper tires. Can deliver. 204-793-0098, Stony Mountain, MB. KELLO DISC BLADES and bearings: 22” to 42” notched. Parts: oilbath and greaseable bearings to service all makes of heavy construction discs. Call: 1-888-500-2646, Red Deer, AB. www.kelloughs.com 1988 JOHN DEERE 544C loader, 7000 hrs., 4 yd. bucket, $24,000. Call 306-524-4960, Semans, SK.

NORTHWEST TUB GRINDING: Mobile truck mounted 1150 Haybuster tub grinder for your hay and straw grinding needs. Call for rates and bookings, Ron 306-883-7124, Email: rtoews63@gmail.com Leoville, SK.

SKIDSTEER: 2008 CASE 465 Series III, cab, heat, new tires, 2700 hrs., $21,000.

Call 306-940-6835, Prince Albert, SK.

2011 HITACHI ZX270 LC-3 hyd. thumb excavator, 6950 hrs., 12’ 6” stick, c/w QA JIM’S TUB GRINDING, H-1100 Haybuster bucket, very good shape, $119,000. Call with 400 HP, serving Saskatchewan. Call 204-325-8019, 204-362-1091, Winkler, MB 306-334-2232, 306-332-7332, Balcarres.

EXCELLENT FARM CATS for sale come with warranty: Komatsu, Cat, Fiat Allis. Call for more info excellent working condition.

Most newer UC, rebuilt engine, and trans bush, guarded. Call for price. Can deliver.

204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. VANFIELD TUB GRINDING, (3) 525HP truck mounted 1150 Haybusters: 1 located in Delia, AB and 2 in Bashaw, AB. 50 bales/hr. avg., can grind grain and bales through 1/ 8"-7" screens, whatever you prefer. Call for more details, Rick 403-741-627 or Warren 403-783-0662. Kudras89@hotmail.com

CLIFF’S USED CRAWLER PARTS. Some o l d e r C at s , I H a n d A l l i s C h a l m e r s .

780-755-2295, Edgerton, AB. 1974 CAT D7F, 14’ angle dozer, 26” pads, 3306 eng., 60% UC, vg cond., $42,000 OBO. 204-467-2109, Stonewall, MB.

2013 GENIE AWP405 40’, 40” electric personnel lift, (lifts 300 lbs), ground and platform control, $10,800. 1-800-667-4515.

FORESTRY MULCHING: Clearing farm- www.combineworld.com land, fence lines, shelter belts, road allow- 2007 CASE CX290, 2000 hrs., QA, 12’ stick, ances, brush cutting with GT25, 230HP. UC 99%, 36” and 60” digging buckets, 72” Reasonable rates. JDAR Contracting, cleanup bucket; 2004 Volvo 720 grader, 306-232-7525, 306-280-5749, Hague, SK. 16’ blade, 3000 hrs.; Choice of 621F or NEUFELD ENT. CORRAL CLEANING, 621E payloader, both have under 1000 payloader, Bobcat with rubber tracks and hrs; Quick coupler buckets; choice of snow v e r t i c a l b e a t e r s p r e a d e r s . P h o n e wings. 306-536-9210, Belle Plaine, SK. 306-220-5013, 306-467-5013, Hague, SK. RECLAMATION CONTRACTORS: Bigham MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. 3 and 4 leg mechanical trip 3 pt. hitch Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: Paratills in stock; parts for Bigham and Tye Paratills. Call Kelloughs: 1-888-500-2646. www.maverickconstruction.ca CUSTOM LIQUID MANURE hauling, 3 GARWOOD IND. 12 yard pull scraper, tanks available. Contact George in Hague, hyd. control, 9’ cut width, hydraulic unload assist, $16,900. 1-800-667-4515 or view SK. 306-227-5757. www.combineworld.com REGULATION DUGOUTS: 120x60x14’, $2000; 160x60x14’, $2950; 180x60x14’, 2 - 2 0 0 7 VO LVO A 3 0 D r o c k t r u c k s , $3450; 200x60x14’, $3950; Larger sizes $89,000 ea. More items avail. Robert HarTravel incl. in Sask. Gov’t grants ris, 204-642-9959, 204-470-5493, Gimli, FARM/CORPORATE PROJECTS. Call A.L. available.

MB. www.Robertharrisequipment.com Management Group for all your borrowing available. 306-222-8054, Saskatoon, SK. and lease requirements. 306-790-2020, BRUSH MULCHING. The fast, effective Regina, SK. way to clear land. Four season service, competitive rates, 275 HP unit, also avail.

DEBTS, BILLS AND charge accounts too trackhoe with thumb, multiple bucket athigh? Need to resolve prior to spring? Call tachments. Bury rock and brush piles and us to develop a professional mediation fence line clearing. Borysiuk Contracting plan, resolution plan or restructuring plan. Inc., www.bcisk.ca Prince Albert, SK., Call toll free 1-888-577-2020.

306-960-3804.

LOOKING FOR CUSTOM FARM WORK, seeding, spraying and combining. Call for pricing and to book spring acres. Call Mike KOMATSU D85 P-21 dozer, rebuilt motor, 306-469-7741, Big River, SK. trans., torque, steering, final drives, 85% UC, 36” pads like new, 16’ twin tilt angle blade, AC, heat, warranty, $98,000. Can deliver. 204-743-2324 any time Cypress CUSTOM PLANTING: Corn, sunflowers River, MB. and soybeans. In Sask. and Manitoba. Call ROAD GRADERS CONVERTED to pull 306-527-2228. behind large 4 WD tractors, 14’ and 16’ blade widths avail. 306-682-3367, CWK Ent. Humboldt, SK. www.cwenterprises.ca JD 670-A GRADER, 8 spd. powershift, exc.

ANDRES TRUCKING. Hauling equipment, rubber, moldboard complete with catcher, bins, livestock, towing. Canada/USA. Call $16,000.; Degelman 46-5700 Series dozer or text 306-736-3454, South East, SK. for MFWD 780-679-7795, Camrose, AB. EQUIPMENT TOWING/ HAULING. Reasonable rates. Contact G H Wells Services FORESTRY MULCHING SERVICES, Forestry 2007 GERRY’S TRIDEM scissor neck lowand Trucking, 306-741-9059, Morse, SK. mulchers for hire. Road allowances; Fence boy, 10’ wide, roll/flip over beaver tails at lines; Clearing farmland. Also subsoiling back, mid-ship roll on air bags, Alcoa rims.

LARRY’S EQUIPMENT HAULING: Farm services- grinding roots and stumps up so 403-527-8499, Medicine Hat, AB. machinery and construction equipment. you can seed your farm land breakings WANTED: MOLDBOARD AND circle for Serving Western Canada. 780-720-4304. instantly. No more picking roots and 562 or 600 Champion grader or complete stumps! Call 306-921-8532, Melfort, SK. machine running or not. Phone Paul, LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom Prairiepowermulchers@hotmail.com 306-233-7921, Wakaw, SK. hay hauling. 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK. 2017 CUSTOM FARMING Services available. HYDRAULIC SCRAPERS: LEVER 60, 70, Seeding, spraying, swathing & harvesting. 80, and 435, 4 to 30 yd. available. Rebuilt Contact Joe at 306-331-9393, e-mail: for years of trouble-free service. Lever joe@mfiag.com Website: www.mfiag.com Holdings Inc. 306-682-3332 Muenster, SK.

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Estevan, SK...............306-634-5111 McLean, SK................306-699-7284 Tisdale, SK.................306-873-4438

www.wood-country.com LANDMASTER DOZER: Professionally Engineered & Manufactured. Lease to own.

Zero down. Semi-annual payments. Lease term up to 72 months. Call for details and pricing. Sask - Neil 306-231-8300 or Alta.

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2 0 1 0 C AT 9 5 0 H W H E E L L O A D E R , 27,417 hrs., w/Cat quick coupler bucket, 3-3/4 cu. yards, 23.5x25 tires, F.O.B. $75,000. 204-795-9192, Plum Coulee, MB

290 CUMMINS, 350 Detroit, 671 Detroit, Series 60 cores. 306-539-4642, Regina, SK GREAT PRICES ON new, used and remanufactured engines, parts and accessories for diesel pickups. Large inventory, engines can be shipped or installed. Give us a call or check: www.thickettenginerebuilding.ca Thickett Engine Rebuilding. 204-532-2187, Russell, MB. BRAND NEW ISZUZU A-4EG1-PW S/N #194474, 4 cyl., naturally aspirated, inline diesel, rated at 89 HP intermittent, 80 HP continuous, still on factory shipping block, excellent replacement for large skidsteers, smaller trackhoes or swathers, etc., $8000.

780-363-2215, Chipman, AB. CUMMINS 5.9L ENGINE, 180 HP, 1990, 410,000 kms, 80,000 kms on rebuilt head and injector, $3200. KCL General Repairs, 204-739-3096, Ashern, MB. USED, REBUILT or NEW engines. Specializing in Cummins, have all makes, large inventory of parts, re-powering is our specialty. 1-877-557-3797, Ponoka, AB. WANTED DIESEL CORES: ISX and N14 Cummins, C15 Cats, Detroits Ddec 3, 4, DD15. Can-Am Truck 1-800-938-3323.

CAT C12, 355 HP, runs good, still in truck, come and have a listen! $7500. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. 3406B, N14, SERIES 60, running engines and parts. Call Yellowhead Traders, 306-896-2882, Churchbridge, SK. B R A N D N E W I S U Z U, 4 J G 1 TA B , t y p e 4JG1TABCA, S/N #203704, 4 cyl., turbo charged, 85 HP, compact engine, in factory shipping crate, exc. replacement for mid-size skidsteers, manlifts, small trackhoes, w/small very adaptable for mounting, $8500. 780-363-2215, Chipman, AB.

FARM AND INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL motor sales, service and parts. Also sale of, and repairs to, all makes and sizes of pumps and phase converters, etc. Tisdale Motor Rewinding 1984 Ltd., 306-873-2881, fax 306-873-4788, 1005A111th Ave., Tisdale, SK. tmr@sasktel.net Website: www.tismtrrewind.com WANTED: LELAND ELECTRIC motor to fit Beatty vertical working head on 2â&#x20AC;? well casing. 780-632-7151, Vegreville, AB.

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#1 METAL CLADDING Many types and profiles available.

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BOOK NOW, TAKE DELIVERY, DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T Download the PAY UNTIL NOVEMBER, 2017. Top quality MERIDIAN bins. Price includes: free app today. skid, ladders to ground, manhole, set-up and delivery within set radius. Meridian Hopper Combo S P E C I A L : 5000 bu., $14,400. We manufacture superior quality hoppers and steel floors for all makes and sizes. Know what you are investing in. Call and find out why our product quality and price well exceeds the competition. We 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; AND 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; SEA CONTAINERS, for sale also stock replacement lids for all makes & in Calgary, AB. Phone 403-226-1722, models of bins. Leasing available. Hoffart 1-866-517-8335. www.magnatesteel.com Services Inc, 306-957-2033, Odessa, SK.

12,000 BU. SUPERIOR COMBO with triple skid. Set-up $28,940. Middle Lake Steel. 306-367-4306 or 306-367-2408.

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Ne w , Us e d & M o d ifie d 2009 TERRAGATOR 8204, Cat, TerraShift, Airmax Precision 2, twin bin, SmarTrax, 4530 hrs., $83,500; 2008 4 WD Ag-Chem 8244, airflow bed, 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122; booms, $69,500; 2006 8204 twin bin, 5600 hrs., $56,000.

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3 ANHYDROUS WAGONS: 4T(2000g), $12,000; 3T(1500g); 2.5T(1250g); Also, 52' Bourgault 9200DT w/auto NH3, sectional, etc, loaded. Offers. Call 204-734-0361, Bowsman, MB. cgust@xplornet.com POLY GRAIN BINS, 40 to 150 bu. for grain cleaning, feed, fertilizer and left over treated seed. 306-258-4422, Vonda, SK. www.buffervalley.com

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306-629-3324, 306-741-9059, Morse, SK.

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SPRING SPECIALS: ALL aviation, commercial and farm, post & stud frame buildings on sale! Standard and custom sizes available. Door options include bi-fold, overhead and sliders. Book early to receive free delivery!! Call 306-220-2749, Hague, SK., www.newtechconstruction.ca

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DIAMOND CANVAS SHELTERS, sizes ranging from 15â&#x20AC;&#x2122; wide to 120â&#x20AC;&#x2122; wide, any length. Call Bill 780-986-5548, Leduc, AB. www.starlinesales.com BEHLEN STEEL BUILDINGS, quonsets, convex and rigid frame straight walls, grain tanks, metal cladding, farm- commercial. Construction and concrete crews.

Guaranteed workmanship. Call your Saskatoon and Northwest Behlen Distributor, Janzen Steel Buildings, 306-242-7767, Osler, SK. POLE BARNS, WOODSTEEL packages, hog, chicken and dairy barns. Construction and concrete crews available. Mel or Scott, MR Steel Construction, 306-978-0315, Hague, SK.

NEW AWARD WINNING AERATION GATCO Cross Flow Aeration blows all other aeration systems away! Horizontal air movement with immediate venting means better performance. Save big by using smaller fans yet dry/cool much faster than vertical methods. With natural air or supplemental heat performs in a batch dryer capacity in 10,000 bu. bins and under. Install in any existing or new bins GATCO is also a BIN-SENSEÂŽ Dealer for temperature and moisture monitoring systems. Phone GATCO 306-778-3338. www.gatcomfg.com FOR ALL YOUR grain storage, hopper cone and steel floor requirements contact: Kevinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Custom Ag in Nipawin, SK. Toll free: 1-888-304-2837.

TIMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CUSTOM BIN MOVING and Hauling Inc. Up to 22â&#x20AC;&#x2122; diameter. 204-362-7103 binmover50@gmail.com

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FLOATERS: 2 - 2014 New Leader L4000â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, w/spin spreaders, on IHC Navistar truck chassis, only 39,850 kms, 295 cu-ft. box w/tarp, AutoSteer, excellent condition, choice, $219,000. Agriterra Equipment, High River, AB. 403-652-2414.

2015 CASE/IH 4530 floater, approx.

500 hrs., 3 bin, ViperPro, AutoSteer, VR capable, radial rubber, Micheals roll tarp w/hopper ext., 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122; booms, fully loaded, always shedded, mint unit, $385,000 OBO. 306-542-3684, 306-542-7966, Kamsack SK

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M&K Welding Email: sales@mkwelding.ca www.mkwelding.ca

POLY FIBERGLASS LIQUID fertilizer tanks: 30,000 gallon and 10,000 gal. Ph Patrick 306-631-9577, Chamberlain, SK.

FERTILIZER SPREADERS, 4-8 ton, 10 ton Willmar Tender. Call 204-857-8403, Portage La Prairie, MB.

*Westeel Rosco sheets, ladders, stiffeners *Remote lid openers *Butler sheets *Bin Bolts Melfort, Sask

U-WELD HOPPER Cones, sizes from 12 to 24. www.middlelakesteel.com Phone 306-367-4306 or 306-367-2408.

ALP INE 32 â&#x20AC;&#x2122; X 5 0â&#x20AC;&#x2122; X 18 â&#x20AC;&#x2122; In clu d es fra m ed op en in g for 14x14 overhea d & 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x7â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, s ervice d oor, excellen t s hop or s tora g e bu ild in g , com es w ith fou n d a tion d ra w in g s & m a n u a ls , d elivered to m os ta rea s . O n ly $15,500.

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CUSTOM BUILT HOPPER BOTTOMS for all bins, large and small. Magnum Fabricating, 306-662-2198, Maple Creek, SK. www.magnumfabricating.com

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ELECTRICAL ROTO PHASE Converter, 60HP, 3 phase, c/w 75KVA 240/600 volt transformer, new condition. 250-489-9502, Cranbrook, BC. gmtf@shaw.ca

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2011 4520 1-bin, 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122; booms, $145,000; 22010 Case 4520â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122; booms: 3-bin, 3100 hrs., $168,000; Special: 2010 Case 3520, 3-bin, 3 wheeler, $87,500; Two 2007 Case 4520â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3-bin, 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122; booms, 3300 hrs., AutoSteer, $134,000 and $98,000; 2006 Case 4510, AutoSteer, FlexAir 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122; booms, 7400 hrs., $77,000; 2005 Case 4520 w/70â&#x20AC;&#x2122; FlexAir, 4000 hrs., $78,000; 2004 Case 4010, 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122; SPRAYER, 7000 hrs., $58,000; 2- 2004 Loral AirMax 1000s, 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122; booms, immaculate, $76,000 and $62,000; 2006 2-bin AgChem, 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122; booms, $58,000; 2002 KBH Semi tender, self-contained, $32,000; 2009 and 2012 Merritt semi belt tender, self-contained, $32,000 and $44,000; 2- 24 ton Wilmar tender beds, $17,500 ea; 2012 Wilmar Wrangler 4560, loader, 780 hrs., $28,500; 2009 Wrangler, 2400 hrs., $23,500; 1974 10,000 gal. NH3 transport, $38,500; 18,000 gal. NH3 holding tank, $34,500. USD prices.

406-576-3402, 406-466-5356, Choteau.

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LIFETIME LID OPENERS. We are a stocking dealer for Boundary Trail Lifetime Lid Openers, 18â&#x20AC;? to 39â&#x20AC;?. Rosler Construction 2000 Inc., 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK.

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WOOD POST BUILDING packages or built on site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com STRAIGHT WALL BUILDING packages or built on site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com ARM RIVER POLE BUILDINGS, 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x60â&#x20AC;&#x2122; to 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x300â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Sask. only. Call 306-731-2066, Lumsden, SK., metalarc@live.ca AFAB INDUSTRIES POST frame buildings.

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1-888-816-AFAB (2322), Rocanville, SK.

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7 0x160x20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; - 4 p ly la m in a ted p o s tb ld g c/w 40x20 b ifo ld d o o r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $80,205.95 Phone with your building size requirements for a free estimate.

14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hopper H/Duty â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2x4x4 Skid......$3,4 9 0 15â&#x20AC;&#x2122;-10â&#x20AC;? Hopper M/Duty- 2x4x4 Skid.$3,9 6 5 18â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hopper M/Duty-2x4x4 Skid.........$5,39 0 19â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hopper M/Duty- 2x4x4 Skid........$5,7 6 0 Prepaid O rdersO nly Extra 5% D iscount A pplied O n A bove Prices  A eration,Triple Skids, Trucking Available,SteelB in Floors, Visa/Mastercard accepted.B in A nchors.

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HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS 10 to 25 yds., exc. cond.; Loader and scraper tires, custom conversions available. Looking for Cat cable scrapers. Quick Drain Sales Ltd., 306-231-7318, 306-682-4520 Muenster SK CAT 463 PULL SCRAPER, hyd. machine, 21 yard capacity, very nice shape, $50,000.

OBO. 204-669-9626, Winnipeg, MB.

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HORNOI LEASING NEW and used 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and 4 0 â&#x20AC;&#x2122; s e a c a n s fo r s a l e o r r e n t . C a l l 306-757-2828, Regina, SK.

SHIPPING CONTAINERS FOR SALE. 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122;53â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, delivery/ rental/ storage available. For MERIDIAN AND WESTEEL fertilizer bins. inventory and prices call: 306-262-2899, on sale now. See your nearest Flaman Saskatoon, SK. www.thecontainerguy.ca store of call 1-888-352-9890.

20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; TO 53â&#x20AC;&#x2122; CONTAINERS. New, used and modified. Available Winnipeg, MB; Regina CUSTOM GRAIN BIN MOVING, all types and Saskatoon, SK. www.g-airservices.ca up to 22â&#x20AC;&#x2122; diameter. 10% spring discount. 306-933-0436.

Accurate estimates. Sheldonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hauling, 306-961-9699, Prince Albert, SK.

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BIN SENSE- Protect your livelihood. Check moisture and grain temperature right from your smart phone. Call Flaman 1-888-352-9890.

BROCK (BUTLER) GRAIN BIN PARTS and accessories available at Rosler Construction. 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK.

HOPPER BINS 5,000-17,000

BIG WINTER DISCOUNTS ENDS SOON Call for special pricing

1-866-665-6677 Volume discounts

2005 PETERBILT STAHLY, Cummins, Allison auto, New Leader L3020 G4, monitor, Leader controller, Starlink GPS 4145 BEAVER CONTAINER SYSTEMS, new New $78,000; 2004 Peterbilt, Cummins, a n d u s e d s e a c o n t a i n e r s , a l l s i z e s . hrs, Allison auto, 1800 gal stainless, 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122; boom, 306-220-1278, Saskatoon and Regina, SK. Raven controller, Raven AutoSteer, Raven section shutoff, 4270 hrs, $65,000. USD prices. 406-576-3402, 406-466-5356, Choteau, MT. www.fertilizerequipment.net

KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD Aeration Sales and Service. R.J. Electric, Avonlea, SK. Call 306-868-2199 or cell 306-868-7738.

KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD/ OPI STORMAX. For sales and service east central SK. and MB., call Gerald Shymko, Calder, SK., 306-742-4445 or toll free 1-888-674-5346.

2012 TENDER TRAILER: 30 MT ConveyAll trailer, tri-axle, 5 hoppers, self contained hyd. drive powered by Subaru gas BATCO CONVEYORS, new and used, motor 36 HP, exc. cond., field ready, grain augers and SP kits. Delivery and $85,000. Bill 780-210-0800, Andrew, AB. leasing available. 1-866-746-2666.

GRAIN BIN INSTALLATION. Large diameter bin setup, concrete, repairs. Quadra Development Corp., 1-800-249-2708.

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NEW BATCO 2075 w/electric drive kit.

Retail $36,500. Blow-out Special, $28,500.

2013 CONVEY-ALL TCSNH1045 HDMK 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK. conveyor w/new belt, $17,000; 2013 BUILD YOUR OWN conveyors, 6â&#x20AC;?, 7â&#x20AC;?, 8â&#x20AC;? R1041 Wheatheart w/38HP mover and and 10â&#x20AC;? end units available; Transfer con- clutch, $9995. Both in excellent condition. veyors and bag conveyors or will custom 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK. build. Call for prices. Master Industries Inc. www.masterindustries.ca Phone MERIDIAN GRAIN AUGERS available with self-propelled mover kits and bin 1-866-567-3101, Loreburn, SK. sweeps. Call Kevinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Custom Ag in Nipawin, SK. Toll free 1-888-304-2837.

CHIEF WESTLAND AND CARADON BIN extensions, sheets, stiffeners, etc. Now available. Call Bill, 780-986-5548, Leduc, AB. www.starlinesales.com

DARMANI GRAIN STORAGE

50â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 7â&#x20AC;? BLUE BRANDT grain auger complete FERTILIZER TRANSPORT TANKS in stock. with new 20 HP engine, Wheartheart movC o n t a c t yo u r n e a r e s t F l a m a n s t o r e er, hyd., winch, good condition, $6000 306-745-8880, Langenburg, SK. 1-888-352-9890.

10,000 BU. HOPPER BINS winter booking prices ending soon. Qualify for guaranteed delivery and set up. See your nearest Flaman store or call 1-888-352-9890 for info.

FLAT BOTTOM 5,000-31,000

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WINTER CLEARANCE: Loaded HD8-39/ HD8-46/ TL 10-39 plus SLMD12 - 72 and SLMD12 - 95 plus. Used Augers: Sakundiak 7x45 c/w new tube, flighting and power fist Honda; 2012 SLMD 12-72 w/winch and swing mover; Brandt 10x60 S/A: Wheatheart 8x51’ c/w mover. Also dealer for Convey-All Conveyors. Leasing avail!

Call Dale at Mainway Farm Equipment, 306-567-3285, 306-567-7299, Davidson, SK. www.mainwayfarmeguipment.ca

(2) CARTER DAY 612 graders; Carter Day 412 cleaner, setup for flaxseed w/newer shells. Call Ted Petracek 306-745-3829, Email: psf@sasktel.net Esterhazy, SK.

NEW MERIDIAN AUGERS: TL12-39 with 37 HP, EFI Vanguard engine, c/w mover, HD clutch, reversing gearbox and lights.

Retail $24,200, cash price $19,500.

306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK.

NEED TO DRY GRAIN? Use New Crossflow Grain Drying technology for all your grain drying needs. Convert some bins into batch grain dryers. Phone Gatco for details 306-778-3338 or www.gatcomfg.com

DUAL STAGE ROTARY SCREENERS and Kwik Kleen 5-7 tube. Call 204-857-8403, Portage la Prairie, MB. or visit online: www.zettlerfarmequipment.com

AUGERS: NEW and USED: Wheatheart, Westfield, Westeel augers; Auger SP kits; Batco conveyors; Wheatheart post pounders. Good prices, leasing available. Call 1-866-746-2666.

REMOTE CONTROL SWING AUGER movers, trailer chute openers, endgate and hoist systems, wireless full bin alarms, swing belt movers, wireless TractorCams, motorized utility carts. All shipped directly to you. Safety, convenience, reliability.

Kramble Industries at 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or www.kramble.net BRANDT 8x50, BLUE, hyd. mover, winch, bin sweep, good cond. Ed 306-272-3848, 306-269-7745, Foam Lake, SK. MERIDIAN AUGERS in stock at Flaman.

Call 1-888-352-9890. or visit your nearest Flaman location.

WESTERN GRAIN DRYER, mfg. of new grain dryers w/advanced control systems.

Updates for roof, tiers, auto moisture controller. Economic designed dryers avail.

1-888-288-6857, westerngraindryer.com

WESTFIELD MK 100-61 swing auger, Westfield MK100-71 swing auger, Sakundiak 8-1200 auger with Kohler Pro 25 HP engine, Sakundiak HD7-1400 auger with Kohler 20 HP motor, Westfield W70-26 auger w/elec. motor. Ron and Donna Labbie Farm Equip. Auction, Saturday, April 8, 2017, Radville, SK. area. For sale bill and photos visit mackauctioncompany.com or join our Facebook page. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL311962 MERIDIAN AUGERS IN STOCK: swings, truck loading, Meridian SP movers. Call Hoffart Services Inc., Odessa, SK., 306-957-2033.

NEVER CLIMB A BIN AGAIN! Full-bin Super Sensor, reliable hardwired with 2 year warranty; Magnetic Camera Package - 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.

C o n t a c t B r o w n l e e s Tr u c k i n g I n c . , 306-228-2971, 1-877-228-5598, Unity, SK. www.brownlees.ca

BAG Supplies Canada Ltd. Bulk Bags/Tote Bags/Super Sacks

SAFE PORTABLE GRAIN DRYING: Multiple locations in Western Canada.

Economical, efficient, fume-free, flameless grain drying units that have the ability to dry multiple grain bins simultaneously on your own site. No operator required. Phone 1-855-573-4328. info@conleymax.com or visit: www.conleymax.com 6 TIER VERTEC grain dryer, batch and/or continuous. 204-325-2590, Morden, MB.

If we don’t have it in stock, we’ll custom make it for you! info@bagsupplies.ca www.bagsupplies.ca Tel: 1-519-271-5393 Fax: 1-519-271-2027 2014 TRIDEKON GRAIN Boss extractor, #14-GB-13-10. Used on approx. 35 bags.

Bailey Bros Seeds 306-935-4702 Milden SK

2010 9870, ProDrive, Harvest Smart, selflevel shoe, Rice dual tires, 615 PU, exc., w/2010 635D draper header, $249,000.

Can separate. Henry 403-588-0958 Alix AB 2012 JD S670 combine, 615 header, duals, 1070 threshing hrs., excellent condition, $220,000. 306-252-2858, Kenaston, SK. 2013 CLAAS 3300 RC Quadrant 3x4 square baler, approx. 7000 bales made, vg cond., $110,000. Can deliver. Call anytime 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

BRUNS 400 BU., upper box complete with 12 ton Martin running gear and roll tarp, shedded and in excellent condition $6000.

Phone 306-745-8880, Langenburg, SK.

2004 CIH 8010 w/2016 PU, 2899 eng hrs.

2191 thres hrs., 900 metric, long auger, recent $36,000 w/o, put through shop every year, asking $97,000. 306-287-7645, Watson, SK.

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.

2000 CASE/IH 2388 w/1015 header, $65,000; 2004 2388 w/2015 PU header, $115,000; 2006 2388 w/2015 PU header, $130,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

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www.grainlegs.ca CLAAS LEXION 740, 750, 760, and 780 7 SCREEN KWIK-KLEEN with 2 sets of several different options available. Headorder@ridgemar.ca screens; Sukup rotary screen electric facers and delivery. Save $$$, 218-779-1710. tory complete with augers and hopper. NORDIC ELEVATOR 8000 bu./hr. leg 75’ Gully, MN. w/new belt, cups, 20 HP motor, 575 V, inCall 306-460-9440, Kindersely, SK. cludes ladder, cages, platform. On the CARTER DISC GRAIN cleaner w/elec. mo- ground, ready to load, $25,000. Call tor on stand, 100+ discs. 306-283-4747, 306-335-2280, Lemberg, SK. 306-220-0429, Langham, SK. GRAIN CLEANER, BUILT in 2000, first ran in 2001. It has a Hart Carter #32 indent, a grader attached with 5.5-64 shells followed by air and screen mill, powered by a Int. 414 dsl. eng. that drives a hyd. pump that runs all augers through fluid power. Extra parts, sieves, bearings, auger tubes, auger flighting, troughs and many more parts scissorcellar@xplornet.com 306-648-7887.

CUSTOM COLOR SORTING chickpeas to mustard. Cert. organic and conventional.

306-741-3177, Swift Current, SK. REBUILT VISTASORT COLOUR SORTER, capacity 300-500 BPH, LED, full colour, all seed types. Price includes commissioning and training. Contact 1-800-667-6924 ask for Chris or Steven for details.

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1-888-606-6362. www.combineworld.com 2009 NH 9070, 1793/1474 hrs, IntelliView II display, Y&M, remote sieve adjust, elec. stonetrap, duals, diff. lock, long auger, PSD, deluxe chopper, chaff spreader, c/w 76-C 14’ Swathmaster PU plus 2003 NH 94-C 36’ draper header, fore/aft, split PU reel, single knife drive, gauge wheels, transport, all stored inside, $190,000 OBO. Call 780-608-9290, Strome, AB.

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2010 MD FD70 40’, transport, DKD, AHHC, hyd tilt, pea auger. JD/CNH/Agco/Lexion kits avail.....$59,800 1-888-606-6362. www.combineworld.com

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2010 HONEYBEE 88C flex draper, 36’, UII PU reel, double knife drive, hyd. fore&aft, runs well, $29,800. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

2011 NH CR9060 SP combine with MAV/Redekop chopper with 1035 rotor hours. Ron and Donna Labbie Farm Equip.

Auction, Saturday April 8, 2017, Radville, SK. area. For sale bill and photos visit www.mackauctioncompany.com or join our Facebook page. Mack Auction Co. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815. PL311962

2006 9660 WTS, 914 PU, duals, 2300/ 1550 hrs., $132,500. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

Reconditioning all types of hydraulic cylinders, pumps, motors, & hydro-static systems.

Full machine shop services, allowing us to custom-make any cylinder parts or complete cylinders.

We can also resurface many of your pump, motor, or hydro-static systems original parts, saving you a great deal of money on the high cost of new parts.

Welding & brazing.

‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’

PUMPS, PRESSURE WASHERS, Honda/Koshin pumps, 1-1/2” to 4”, Landa pressure washers, steam washers, parts washers.

M&M Equip. Ltd. Parts & Service, Regina, SK. 306-543-8377, fax 306-543-2111.

G.S. TRACTOR SALVAGE, JD tractors only. Call 306-497-3535, Blaine Lake, SK. GOODS USED TRACTOR parts (always buying tractors). David or Curtis, Roblin, MB., 204-564-2528, 1-877-564-8734.

We are more than just combines…

We offer a wide selection of field-ready used Agricultural & Industrial Equipment.

2008 MACDON FD-70 flex draper 35’ straight cut header with NH adapter. Ron and Donna Labbie Farm Equip. Auction, Saturday, April 8, 2017, Radville, SK. area.

Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill and photos or join our Facebook page. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL #311962.

2005 HONEYBEE SP36 rigid draper, 36’, UII PU reel, transport, hyd. fore&aft, pea auger, $14,900. Phone 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com MACDON 40' FD70 flex draper, cross augers, hyd. tilt, PU reel fore/aft, JD adapter, $69,500 OBO. 306-867-7227, Macrorie, SK. dtlammers@xplornet.com

RECONDITIONED rigid and flex, most makes and sizes; also header transports.

Ed Lorenz, 306-344-4811, Paradise Hill, SK www.straightcutheaders.com

2004 NH CR940, 2029 hrs, AHHC, lat tilt, Trimble Autosteer, chopper, long auger....$54,800

Call 1-888-920-1507

Phone 306-795-7255

2013 JD 640D 40’, hydra float, pea auger, hyd. tilt, for STS/S series, very good condition, $49,800. Call 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

CURT’S GRAIN VAC SERVICES

ST1000 SOUCY TRACKS, used only for 1100 acres, extremely good in wet conditions! $58,250. 204-324-9335, Altona, MB. tallgrass_farm@yahoo.ca

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2009 MACDON D60 35’, upper cross auger, single knife, transport, canola closure 1981 INT. HARVESTER C 1440, 1179 hrs., kit, header done 7- 8000 acres, Case or NH header/reverser, axial-flow, AC, Melroe adapter, $45,000 OBO. Ph. 403-588-9497, 378-10 PU reel, shedded. 250-785-5365, Bashaw, AB 250-262-7840, Fort St. John, BC. CIH 2020 35’, new sickles and guards in 2007 Case/IH 7010, dual wheels, w/2016 2016, exc. cond; 8 concaves for 88 series; header, $170,000. Call A.E. Chicoine Farm Massey 30’ PT swather, good cond.

Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 306-398-2626, 306-398-7818 Cut Knife SK

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BALE SPEAR ATTACHMENTS for all loaders and skidsteers, excellent pricing.

Call now 1-866-443-7444.

MORRIS 14 BALE wagon. Will trade for AFTER SEASON SALE! All makes of combine platforms: Flex, Rigid, Corn heads. cows. Call 306-290-8806, Dundurn, SK. Reconditioned and field ready. Reimer Farm Equipment, #12 Hwy. N, Steinbach, MB. Call Gary Reimer, 204-326-7000. www.reimerfarmequipment.com

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2014 JD S680 PRWD combine, 582 hrs., 650/85R38’s w/duals, Pro-Drives, chopper “ Fo rAllY o u rFa rm Pa rts” w/PowerCast tailboard, PowerFold bin ext., PowerGard Warranty til March 2019, w w w .f yf e p a rts .c om $252,500 USD. www.ms-diversified 8 ROW CORN head, Demo 2016 Dominoni 320-848-2496 or 320-894-6560.

8R30 chopping corn head. Stalk crushers, hyd deck plates, side augers, single point 2004 JOHN DEERE 9760 STS, SP 3400 JD hook-up, $65,000. Call 306-381-7689, eng. hrs/2350 sep hrs. Have owned since Hague, SK. jasonfeitsma@hotmail.com 2011. TouchSet controls, Michel's hopper WALINGA GRAIN VAC #508, 540/1000 cover, long unload auger, 615P incl., good PTO, 1 owner, always shedded, only used cond., $85,500. 306-227-4503, Saskatoon, on 1/2 sec. farmland, new hoses, A-1 SK. norheimranching@sasktel.net cond., $4800. 306-944-4852 Humboldt, SK 2001 JD 9750 STS, 2818 sep. hrs., 35.5L32 CONVEYAIR GRAIN VACS, parts, acces- fronts, 914 PU, clean, always shedded, PICKUP REEL PARTS WAREHOUSE: sories. Call Bill 780-986-5548, Leduc, AB. $ 7 7 , 0 0 0 ; 2 0 0 3 J D 6 3 0 f l e x h e a d e r, MacDon, UII, JD, Hart Carter, CNH, AGCO. $18,000. 204-739-3548, Fisher Branch MB www.starlinesales.com We distribute parts for all PU reels. Call SEVERAL LOW HOURED., S670, S680, 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com S690 available options. Headers and delivJD 1870 CONSERVA PAK- Seed Tips. More ery. Save $$$. 218-779-1710. Gully, MN. carbide than OEM tips for longer life. Paired row, $140; Sideband, $110. Ask us how to 2004 JD 9860 SP, 9860 STS, 3000 eng. hrs, save 15% on your order. 306-708-4327.

2000 sep. hrs, 615P PU, loaded, Greenlight- 2008 NH 76C Swathmaster PU header with info@pbosupply.com Crop Catcher. Ron and Donna JOHN DEERE ROUND BALER Sales, Ser- ed yearly, excellent condition, $115,000. Michel’s Labbie Farm Equipment Auction, Saturday, vice & Parts. Call Gerald at 204-385-2347 780-940-6670, 780-963-5048, Stony Plain, April 8, 2017, Radville, SK. area. Visit AB. cowfarm@canadasurfs.net or 204-872-2347, Gladstone, MB. www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale BALE SPEARS, high quality imported 2000 JOHN DEERE 9650, walker, fine cut bill and photos or join our Facebook page. from Italy, 27” and 49”, free shipping, ex- chopper, long auger, shedded, $39,000. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815, Mack Auction Co. PL #311962. c e l l e n t p r i c i n g . C a l l n o w t o l l f r e e Call 306-524-4960, Semans, SK. 1-866-443-7444, Stonewall, MB. 2008 JD 9870 STS, Greenlighted from MD PW8 16’ pickups for CNH and 2006 HESSTON 814 round baler, 8970 2012-2016, no peas, always shedded, NEW Deere, trades wanted! $29,800. bales, 1000 PTO, twine and net wrap, hy- $65,000+ work orders in last 5 years, Ser- John 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com draulic PU, automatic oiler, $12,500. viced at Agland, Lloydminster. GreenStar ready, 1838 eng./1227 sep. hrs., $205,000 780-349-9734, Westlock, AB. OBO. Call 780-205-4423, Lashburn, SK.

1998 INTERNATIONAL 8825 HP, 25” double swath, 1347 hrs. GPS. 306-483-7322.

SELLING GRAIN LEGS, distributors, con- Frobisher, SK. veyors and truck scales. Also other elevators parts. 403-634-8540, Grassy Lake, AB.

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2014 JD S690 PRWD combine, 456 hrs., 580/85R42’2 w/duals, Pro-Drives, chopper w/PowerCast tailboard, PowerFold bin ext., PowerGard warranty until May 2019, $269,500 USD. www.ms-diversified 320-848-2496 or 320-894-6560.

2008 GSI 1226, 3 PH NG/LPG, 10.5 million BTU, batch or continuous, 3640 BPH. Portable, needs nothing, still in operation, 2007 NH HW325 SP 30’ swather with 515 $99,000. 780-206-1234, Barrhead, AB. engine hours. Ron and Donna Labbie Farm GRAIN AERATION & Drying clinic, Tuesday Equipment Auction, Saturday, April 8, March 14, 2017, Arborg Community Hall, 2017, Radville, SK. area. For sale bill and Arborg, MB, 9:30-4:00PM. Key note speak- photos visit mackauctioncompany.com or er John Gnadke, Harvest Management join our Facebook page. 306-421-2928 or Consultant. To register call 204-642-2572.

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2016 Case IH 9240 620 Duals, Lux Cab, Lat Tilt w/Rocktrap, Accuguide, 50 Ft Folding Unload, Magnacut Chopper, HID Lights, Stk: 022940 (SC) ....................................................................................... $499,000

2011 Bourgault 3310 55 Ft, Double Shoot, V-Packers, 6550 Tank, 4 Tank Metering, 591 Monitor, Double Shoot, Deluxe Auger, 900 Tires, stk: 020803 (SC) ...................................................................... $191,000

2016 Case IH 8240 520 Duals, Lat Tilt, Rocktrap, Ext Wear Rotor, Standard Chopper, Deluxe Cab, Leather Seat, Trailer Hitch, Pro 700, Accuguide Ready, Stk: 022147 (SC) ................................................ $425,000

2009 Bourgault 3310 75 Ft, 12â&#x20AC;? Sp, Paralink, Dbl Shoot, S25 Hyd MRBs, Barton Openers, Blockage, 6700 Cart, 3 Tank Meter, Conveyor, Bag Lift, 591 Monitor, Stk: 022282 (ES) ...................................... $240,000

2014 Case IH 7130 800 Singles, Deluxe Cab, Lateral Tilt, Extended Wear Rotor, Electric Folding Hopper Cover, Chopper, Yield & Moisture, Stk: 014705 (SA) ................................................................... $279,500

2006 Bourgault 5710 40 Ft, 9.8â&#x20AC;? Spacing, Steel Packers, 6200 Cart, Single Fan, Splitter, Stk: 020500 (SC) ............................................................................................................................................... $60,000

2012 Case IH 7230 520 Duals, Lat Tilt, Ext Wear Rotor, Hyd Folding Cover, Std Chopper, HID Lights, Accuguide, Air Compressor, Stk: 021503 (PA) ............................................................................. $269,000

2010 Bourgault 3310 55 Ft, 12â&#x20AC;? Spacing, V-Style Packers, MRBs, 6550 Cart, 900 Tires, Bag Lift, 4 Tank Metering, Deluxe Auger, Stk: 021101 (SC)........................................................................ $216,000

2010 Case IH 8120 900 Singles, Leather Seat, Ext Wear Infeed, Fine Cut Chopper, HID Lights, Accuguide, Small Tube Rotor, Stk: 018938 (SC) ............................................................................................ $205,900

2012 Bourgault 3320 QDA 66 Ft, 10 In Spacing, C/W L6550 Tank, Midrow Banders, NH3 Kit, Duals, CRA 591, Dual Fan, Deluxe Auger, Double Shoot Dry, Stk: 023175 (SA) ............................................. $295,000

2010 Case IH 7088 800 Singles, Lateral Tilt, AFX Rotor, Chopper, Yield & Moisture, Trailer Hitch, New radiator, 1200 Engine & 900 Rotor Hours, Stk: 017933 (SC) ...................................................... $182,000

2007 Bourgault 5710 64 Ft, 9.8 In Spacing, Midrow Banders, 3.5â&#x20AC;? Steel Packers, 2001 Bourgault 5440 Tank, 3 Tank Metering, Auger, 491 Monitor, Stk: 016344 (SA)..................................................... $110,000

2001 Case IH 2388 Long Auger, Specialty Rotor, Chopper, SwathMaster Pickup, Stk: 021973 (LL) ........................................................................................................................... $89,000 2006 Case IH 8010 14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; CIH 2016 Pickup, 520 Duals, Rocktrap, Pro 600 Monitor, Std Rotor, Maurer Topper, Fine Cut Chopper, Long Auger, Stk: 021412 (ME) ........................................................................ $155,500 2014 John Deere S670 520 Duals, 28L Rear Tires, Autoguidance, Fine Cut Chopper, HID Lights, 615 Pickup Header, Stk: 022003 (SA) ........................................................................................................... $375,000

2010 Case IH ATX700 70 Ft, Rubber Packers, High Float Tires, Double Shoot, Dutch Openers, 3430 TBH Cart, 30.5/32 Duals, VR Cart, ISO Bus, No Monitor, Stk: 020407 (SC) ......................................... $94,000 2010 Case IH PH800 70 Ft, 10â&#x20AC;? Sp, New Dutch Paired Row, Sngl Shoot, High Flot Tires, CIH 3430 TBH Cart, VR Drive, Dual Fan, 20.8/38 Duals, 10â&#x20AC;? Auger, Stk: 012985 (LL)................................................ $109,000 2013 Seed Hawk 60-12 60 Ft, Twin Wing, Semi Pneum Pckrs, Dbl Shoot, SH 800 TBH, Sect Control, 10â&#x20AC;?

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2015 Case IH Steiger 420 520/85R46 Triples, Lux Cab, HID Lights, Pro 700, Accuguide, 372 Omnistar, 4 Remotes, High Cap Hyd Pump, PTO, Stk: 019872 (SC) ................................................................ $379,000

2011 Case IH 3330 100 Ft, 380s & 650s, Active Suspension, AIM, Pro 600 Monitor, Accuguide, Accuboom, Autoboom, HID Lights, Fenders, Stk: 021906 (SA) ...................................................................... $225,000

2015 Case IH Steiger 500 Quadtrac, PTO, 6 Remotes, Luxury Cab, HID Lights, Hi Cap Hyd, Tow Cable, Accuguide, Pro 700 Monitor, 372 Receiver HP/XP, Stk: 020528 (SA) .......................................... $525,000

2011 Case IH 4420 120 Ft, 2 Sets Of Tires, Deluxe Cab, Pro 600, Aim Command, 262 Receiver, 2500 hours, Stk: 020293 (SC) ............................................................................................................. $240,000

2015 Case IH Steiger 540 Triples, Diff Lock, Hi-Cap Pump, Full Hyd GPS w/ Pro 700, 4 Remotes, Tow Cable, Front Weight Bracket, 284 Hours, Stk: 019374 (SC) .................................................. $384,500

2014 Case IH 4430 120 Ft, Luxury Cab, Active Susp, Pro 700 Monitor, Accuboom, Accuguide, AIM Command, 2 Sets of Tires, Stk: 021957 (ES) .............................................................................. $385,000

2014 Case IH Steiger 620 Quadtrac, Lux Cab, HID Lights, Pro 700, Accuguide, Dual Hyd Pumps, 6 Remotes, PTO, 36â&#x20AC;? Tracks, Tow Cable, Stk: 023110 (SA) .......................................................... $497,000

2015 Case IH 4440 120 Ft, Lux Cab, Active Susp, 710â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s & 380â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3â&#x20AC;? Front Fill, Pro 700, AIM Pro, HID Lights, Accuguide, Accuboom, Autoboom, Fenders, Stk: 019629 (PA) .................................................... $480,000

2014 Case IH Steiger 600 Quadtrac, Lux Cab, HID Lights, Elect Armrest Adj, Accuguide, Pro 700 Monitor, 372 Receiver HP/XP, Stk: 020526 (ME) ...................................................................................... $490,000

1998 Case IH SPX3185 90 Ft, 2 Sets Of Tires, Stk: 017817 (SA) ................................................. $79,000 2010 John Deere 4830 100 Ft Booms, 1000 Gallon Tank, Autosteer, Swath Pro, Autoboom, 2 Sets Of Tires, Crop Dividers, Stk: 021520 (SA) ................................................................................................. $215,000

2013 John Deere 9560R Triples, Wheel Weights, Rear Weights, JD Steering c/w Receiver & Monitor, Dual Hyd Pumps, 5 Remotes, Xenon Lights, Tow Cable, Stk: 020587 (ES) .......................................... $400,000

2012 John Deere 4940 120 Ft, 1200 Gal, Boom Trac Pro 5 - Leveling, Chem Eductor, Halogen Light Pkg, Sect Control, GPS Receiver & Monitor, 1300 hours, Stk: 020967 (SC) ....................................... $297,000

1997 John Deere 9400 36â&#x20AC;? Tracks, High Flow Hyd Pump, PTO, 6 Remotes, Electric Mirrors, Full Weights, Hydraulic Hitch, HID Lights, Steer Ready, Stk: 023369 (ES) ........................................................ $100,000

1998 Willmar 6400 80 Ft, 600 Gal, Light Bar, Foam Marker, Rinse Tank, Triple Nozzle Bodies, Sectional control, Stk: 022241 (LL) .............................................................................................................. $29,900

2014 New Holland T9.700 Michelin 800/70R38 Duals, Full Weight Pkg, Luxury Cab, HID Lights, Twin Hyd Pumps, 6 Remotes, Autoguidance, Stk: 019952 (SC).................................................................. $459,000

1999 Apache 790 90 Ft, 440 Raven Rate Control, Outback S3, UC4 Norac Boom Height Control, Stk: 021953 (PA) ......................................................................................................................... .$69,000

2015 Case IH Magnum 180 480/70R30 & 620/70R42 Singles, Lux Cab, HID Lights, Hi Flow Hyd, 4 Remotes, L785 FEL, 102â&#x20AC;? Bucket & Grapple, 540/1000 PTO, Stk: 019967 (SC) ..................... $210,000

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UNRESERVED AGRICULTURAL & CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AUCTION Hosted by: Sunrise Equipment Auctions Inc. 593249 Oxford Road 13, Norwich, Ontario, Canada

MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017 STARTING AT 9.00 A.M. "VDUJPO XJMM GFBUVSF BO PVUTUBOEJOH TFMFDUJPO PG "H $POTUSVDUJPO JUFNT JODMVEJOH t 'BSNFS 1BDLBHFT t-BUF .PEFM "H $POTUSVDUJPO &RVJQNFOU t%FBMFS *OWFOUPSZ 3FEVDUJPO tLarge Selection of Lawn & Landscape Equipment EXCAVATORS: JOHN DEERE - 590D, 40” BUCKET, 28” PADS; JOHN DEERE - 290D, HYDRAULIC THUMB, LOCALLY OWNED, COMPLETE WITH MANUALS; JOHN DEERE - 50C, RUBBER TRACKS, CAB, BLADE, AUX HYDRAULICS. FORKLIFTS: 2007 MANITOU - MVT628 TELEHANDLER, C/W CAB, 4X4, HYDRAULIC SIDE SHIFT. DOZERS: KOMATSU - D39E 6 WAY DOZER, CAB; BRISTOL - MODEL 22 MINI DOZER, DIESEL, 6FT BLADE, COLLECTOR ITEM; CAT D4D, ROPS, MANUAL ANGLE BLADE, DIESEL, DIRECT START; NEW HOLLAND - DC100, 6 WAY BLADE, 2800HRS. LOADER BACKHOES: JOHN DEERE - 310SE, 4X4, CAB, EXTENDA-HOE, NICE; JOHN DEERE - 410B, 2WD, DIESEL, CAB; CAT - 420D TLB, C/W E-HOE, 4900HRS, AUX. SKID STEERS: 2013 JOHN DEERE - 326D, CAB, 2 SPEED, HI-FLO, 2587HRS2005 JOHN DEERE - 317, DIESEL, 2500HRS; NEW HOLLAND - LS150 SKID STEER; NEW HOLLAND - LS160, 2597HRS; NEW HOLLAND - 255 SKID STEER. WHEEL LOADERS: 2009 TEREX - TL65 ARTICULATING LOADER, CAB, AIR, LONG REACH, 3948HRS ARTICULATING ROCK TRUCKS: 2014 TEREX - TA300, GEN 9, ARTICULATING ROCK TRUCK, 30 TON CAPACITY, 6WD, CAB, AIR, AUTO GREASER, REAR CAMERA, 23.5X25 TIRES, 2700HRS, S/N: 131173; 2014 TEREX - TA300, GEN 9, ARTICULATING ROCK TRUCK, 30 TON CAPACITY, 6WD, CAB, AIR, AUTO GREASER, REAR CAMERA, 23.5X25 TIRES; 2014 TEREX - TA300, GEN 9, ARTICULATING ROCK TRUCK, 30 TON CAPACITY, 6WD, CAB, AIR, AUTO GREASER, REAR CAMERA, 23.5X25 TIRES. LOADER TRACTORS: 2013 CASE IH PUMA - 170, 4X4, 775 LOADER, 2727 HRS, CVT TRANSMISSION, DELUXE CAB, 20.8X42 DUALS; CIH - 885, 4X4, 2255 LOADER, 1900HRS; FORD NEW HOLLAND - 545D, 3PT & PTO, 2900HRS, EX CONSERVATION AUTHORITY UNIT; 2014 JOHN DEERE - 5085E, 4X4, CAB, AIR, LOADER; JOHN DEERE - 6110, 4X4, CAB, LOADER; JOHN DEERE - 5525, CAB, AIR, 4X4, LOADER, 3306HRS; JOHN DEERE - 5520, 4X4, 541 LOADER, ROPS; JOHN DEERE - 1840, DIESEL, 2WD, 140 LOADER; JOHN DEERE - 6400, 4WD, CAB, LOADER; 2009 JOHN DEERE - 5095M, 4X4, 563SL LOADER, 2 REMOTES, ROPS, 3422HRS; 2013 MASSEY - 2635, 4X4, DL250 LOADER, 496HRS; 2010 NEW HOLLAND - T6050, 4X4, CAB, AIR, 840TL LOADER, 4494HRS; NEW HOLLAND - TS100, 4X4, CAB, LOADER; WHITE - 6710, 4X4, LOADER. COMPACT & ESTATE TRACTORS: 2013 JOHN DEERE - 2520, 4X4, 60” MOW-

ER, HYDRO, 620HRS; JOHN DEERE - 655, 44, DIESEL, MOWER; NEW HOLLAND - TN-55D, CAB, 4X4, TURF TIRES, NICE. TRUCKS & TRAILERS: 2007 LOADTRAIL - 25’ TAGA-LONG 2X10,000LBS AXLES; 1995 KENWORTH - T300, CUMMINS, TILT & LOAD, 460,000KMS; 1991 GMC - 7000 TOPKICK, HOLAN 805 BUCKET AERIAL DEVICE, CAT 3116 ENGINE, 185HP, 5X2 TRANS, AIR BRAKES, 143,000KMS; 1986 FORD F800, DIFFER DERRICK MODEL #900AB, PROPANE V8 ENGINE, 5X2 TRANS, 50,708KMS. FARM TRACTORS: 2015 JOHN DEERE - 5065E, 2WD, 16.9X28, 690HRS; 2011 JOHN DEERE - 5083E, 3973HRS; 2007 JOHN DEERE - 7520, 4X4, IVT TRANS, 420/46 TIRES, DLX CAB, 7400HRS; 2006 JOHN DEERE - 6320L, 4X4, NARROW, 40KM TRANS, FRONT HITCH, 6300HRS; JOHN DEERE - 8330, 4X4, CAB, AIR, DUALS, 7600HRS; JOHN DEERE - 4040 JOHN DEERE - 2355, 2WD, DIESEL; JOHN DEERE - 2950, 2WD, DIESEL; JOHN DEERE - 5225, 4X4, CAB, AIR, FRONT HYD BLADE; JOHN DEERE - 2140, DIESEL, 2WD; JOHN DEERE - 6320, 4X4, 24 SPEED, CAB MASSEY - 4255, 2WD, CAB, AIR; MASSEY - 1085, DIESEL, CAB; 2006 MCCORMICK - MTX200, 6200H, POWERSHIFT, FRONT 3PH, 480/70R30, 520/85R42 NEW; 2010 NEW HOLLAND - T8020, 4200H, SUPER STEER, FRONT 3PH, 5 HYD, 600/70R30, 650/85R38, 19 SPEED, AUTO STEER READY; 2009 NEW HOLLAND - T8040, 5600H FRONT SUSPENSION, WEIGHTS, 600/70R30, 650/85R38, 4 HYD, 19 SPEED, AIR BRAKES SYSTEM; VERSATILE - 555, W/ DUALS; WHITE - 2-155, 4WD, CAB; ZETOR - 11641, 4X4, CAB, AIR, 3500HRS; FORD - 7710, 2WD, II, CAB, AIR; IHC - 966, 2WD, OPEN STATION, “BLACK STRIPE”, 4700HRS, 18.4X42, 2 OWNER TRACTOR; IHC - 1586, 2WD, CAB, AIR; IHC - 786, 2WD. COLLECTOR TRACTORS: AC - 5050 (BARN FIND); ALLIS CHALMERS - B1 RIDING LAWN TRACTOR (BARN FIND); CASE - TRACTOR (BARN FIND); FORD - 850, REBUILT; FORD - 8N, W/ BLADE; IHC - 504IHC - SUPER C (BARN FIND); JOHN DEERE - 1010 (BARN FIND); JOHN DEERE - 50 , C/W POWER STEERING (BARN FIND); MASSEY FERGUSON - 35, GAS, ON TURF, C/W LANDPRIDE 6’ FINISHING MOWER; MASSEY FERGUSON - 135 (BARN FIND); MASSEY FERGUSON - 135 (BARN FIND); MASSEY HARRIS - S/N: 109420. COMPACT & ESTATE TRACTORS: 2010 KUBOTA - B3030HSDC, 4X4, CAB, HYDRO TRANS. HAY EQUIPMENT: 2009 KUHN - FC353GC CENTER PIVOT DISCBINE, 11FT6” CUT;

2008 KVERNLAND - 4236 DISCBINE, 11’8” WIDE; CASE - RS551 BALER; CASE - RBX461 BALER, W/ NET WRAP; JOHN DEERE - 328 BALER, W/ KICKER; JOHN DEERE - 556 ROUND BALER; JOHN DEERE - 456 ROUND BALER, WIDE PICKUP; NEW HOLLAND - BB940 BIG SQUARE BALER, W/ CUTTER; NEW HOLLAND - 166 INVERTER; NEW HOLLAND - 1432 DISCBINE; NEW HOLLAND - 1411 DISCBINE; NEW HOLLAND - BR7090 ROUND BALER W/ NET CHOPPER; NEW HOLLAND - BR780 ROUND BALER, W/ NET WRAP; NEW IDEA - 5312 12’ DISCBINE; NEW IDEA - 7210 BALER 3X BALE BASKETS. GRAIN BUGGY: BRENT - 475 GRAIN BUGGY. MISC EQUIPMENT: 2008 BIG JIM - 46FT CROW FOOT PACKER; FARM KING - 3PT BLADE, W/ HYDRAULICS; NEW HOLLAND - 824 2 ROW CORN HEAD; HARDY - 300 GALLON SPRAYER; RAVEN - 440, 1100 GALLON, 60FT SPRAYER; LANDPRIDE - FSP500 FERTILIZER SPREADER “UNUSED” ADAPTER JD640 QT MOUNTED TO AO600 QT HORST PALLET FORKS FOR AL595Q 3 PRONG BALE SPEAR GBL CARRIER HAUKAAS MARKERS MASCHIO 1.6M FLAIL MOWER, HAMM MASCHIO GIRAFFA’S 36’ 2WS HEADER CARRIER 12’X8” AUGER FILL; HARDI - 300 GALL SPRAYER & BOOMS. SPREADERS: JOHN DEERE - 780 HYDRO PUSH TANDEM AXLE; CASE IH - 495 TANDEM AXLE. TILLAGE: 2012 JOHN DEERE - 637 35FT FLEXFOLD DISC, HYD FORE/AFT LEVELING; 2012 JOHN DEERE - 637 29FT, 9INCH SPACING, REAR HITCH; JOHN DEERE - 714, 9 SHANK MULCH TILLER; JOHN DEERE - 980, 30FT CULTIVATOR; KUHN - 183, 5 BOTTOM ROLL OVER PLOW, 3PT HITCH, MULTI MASTER; LEMKEN - 9/450 DISC, 4 1/2 METER WIDE; 2009 SALFORD - 570 RTS, 24FT 41 COULTER; 2004 SALFORD - 450 RTS, 24FT WIDE, ROLLING BUCKETS & HARROW. PLANTING: 2010 JOHN DEERE - 1990 CCS 30FT AIR DRILL, NO TILL, C/W MAVKASS MARKERS, SEED COUNTER, MONITORS, FILLING AUGER, (AS NEW); 2007 JOHN DEERE - 1590 15FT NO-TILL DRILL, 10” SPACING, RATE CONTROL; 2007 JOHN DEERE - 1590 20FT NO-TILL DRILL, AUGER, FERTILIZER, MARKERS; JOHN DEERE 7200 6 ROW, 30” WIDE, LIQUID FERTILIZER; NEW IDEA - 9300 6 ROW, 30” WIDE, LIQUID FERTILIZER. UTILITY VEHICLES: 2015 JOHN DEERE - 825iS4, GAS, 4 SEATER, CANOPY, 4WD, 568HRS; 2015 JOHN DEERE - 825iS4, GAS, 4 SEATER, CANOPY, 4WD, 326HRS; 2015 JOHN DEERE - TS GATOR, 363HRS; 2007 JOHN DEERE - 620I, 4WD, GAS, 735HRS; 2012 YAMAHA - GOLF CART.

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$39,995 2014 Ford F-150 V6

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$33,495 2014 Dodge Ram 1500

t '"3.&3 1"$,"(&4 t 4&--*/( 0/ #&)"-' 0' )*-."3 )0'.&:&3 8)0 )"4 40-% )*4 '"3. "/% 3&5*3*/( '30. '"3.*/( $0/5"$5 )*-."3 TRACTORS: 2009 NEW HOLLAND - T4020, 4X4, CAB, 1700HRS, AGRIBIB, 16.9X30, 11.2X24; FORD - TW25, 4X4, CAB, 5500HRS; FORD - 1520, 4X4, 1100HRS. FARM EQUIPMENT: IHC - 720 5 FURROW PLOW, AUTO RESET, COULTERS; JOHN DEERE - 45, 3PH, 3 FURROW PLOW; HOWSE - 3PH, 1 FURROW PLOW, COULTER, DEPTH WHEEL, ALMOST NEW; DMI - COULTER CHAMP, HD, 9 SHANK SOIL SAVER, REAR DISC LEVELER; LANDOLL VT7410, 14’; HAROLD JONES - LAND ROLLER 30’ DRUM 24’; WHITE - 5100 SEED BOSS CORN PLANTER, 6 ROW, 30”, DRY FERTILIZER, INSECTICIDE, YETTER ROW CLEANERS, MARKERS, PTO PUMP, SM3000 MONITOR; SUNFLOWER - 9411 NOTILL DRILL, 15’ (18@10”), MARKERS, WEIGHT TRANSFER CART, 4119AC; YETTER - ROTARY HOE 15’; INTER ROW - CULTIVATOR, 6 ROW 30”; MS - 1915 500GAL SPRAYER, 45’ S.L. BOOM, FOAM, CHEM INDUCTOR, RATE CONTROLLER, FLAT BED WAGON W/ 1300GAL WATER TANK; HONDA - TRANSVERSE PUMP, 2” W/ SUCTION & DISCHARGE HOSES; HOULE - 7’ HEAVY DUTY STONE FORK; RJ - 500BU GRAVITY WAGON; BRUNS - 450BU GRAVITY WAGON; BRUNS - 450BU GRAVITY WAGON; MF- SILO BLOWER; WALINGA - 4” BLOWER W/ 10HP MOTOR, FITTINGS & FLEX HOSES; BUHLER FARM KING - 8X51 AUGER, PTO DRIVE; WESTFIELD - 8X26 AUGER, 5HP MOTOR; MARKET - 12’ FERTILIZER AUGER, STEEL & BRISTEL FLIGHTING, TRUCK MOUNT FOLDING FERTILIZER AUGER, HYDRAULIC DRIVE; KINGSKILDE - TRIPLE K CULTIVATOR, 3PH, 13’, S-TYNE, 2 GAUGE WHEELS, CULTIVATOR, 3PH, 7.5’, 7 C SHANKS, 8 S-TYNES8’ 3PH BLADE6’ 3PH BLADE; BUSH HOG - RDTH72 FINISHING MOWER, 72” WIDE, REAR DISCHARGE, SCALPING ROLLERS; BUSH HOG - SQUEALER MOWER, MODEL SQ60, 5’ WIDE, REAR DISCHARGE TANDEM UNDER CARRIAGE; BAUER IRRIGATION PUMP, 3PH, 540 PTO, 4” POTATO HILLER/FURROWER, 2 ROW, 18” DISCS, ADJUSTABLE ROW WIDTH; LAWN ROLLER, 48” WIDE, 24” DRUM; RIDING MOWER W/ MOWER DECK, FRONT MOUNT; SNOWBLOWER & CAB; PRESSURE WASHER W/ HOSE & GUN, 220V SET OF MARKERS; AND MORE. 4&--*/( 0/ #&)"-' 0' 4*5,0 '"3.4 8)0 "3& 3&%6$*/( */7&/503: $0/5"$5 -"33: TRACTORS: JOHN DEERE - 6400, 4X4, 640 LOADER, ROLL BAR, RACK & PINION, OPEN STATION, POWER QUAD, 4 REMOTES, R&P AXLES, 16.9X30 TIRES, 380R24 TIRES; JOHN DEERE - 5500, 4X4, 540 LOADER, CANOPY, 2 REMOTES, 14.9X38 TIRES, 12.4X24 TIRES; JOHN DEERE - 5400, 2WD, ROPS, 2 REMOTES, JOYSTICK, 5900HRSJOHN DEERE - 6400, 4X4, OPEN STATION, 16.9X38 REARS, 380R24 FRONTS POWER QUAD; JOHN DEERE - 5300, 2WD, OPEN STATION, GINSENG TRACTOR, 9.5R48 REAR TIRES; JOHN DEERE - H IHC - 274, DIESEL, OFFSET CULTIVATOR TRACTOR, SIDE DRESSER, 854 HRS; IHC - 40 TRACTOR, 12 VOLT, CULTIVATOR, FAST HITCH. DISCBINE: JOHN DEERE - 946 DISCBINE, USED FOR 2 SEASONS CUTTING RYE, ONLY 400 ACRES, EXCELLENT CONDITION. CORN PLANTER: JOHN DEERE - 7000, 4 ROW PLANTER, WIDE ROW, MONITOR. SPRAYERS: RITTENHOUSE - HI-CLEARANCE GINSENG SPRAYER, 300 GALLON. OTHER EQUIPMENT. 4&--*/( 0/ #&)"-' 0' 3*/64 ,3&.&3 '"3.4 -5% 8)0 "3& 3&%6$*/( '"3.*/( 01&3"5*0/4 "/% "3& 0''&3*/( 5)*4 &9$&15*0/"- 26"-*5: -*/& 61 0' &26*1.&/5 $0/5"$5 3*/64 COMBINE & HEADERS: 2013 GLEANER - S-67 COMBINE, 4X4, 680 SEPARATOR HOURS, 980 ENGINE HOURS, TRITURE SUPER 6 MODEL, 620/R70 38 TIRES, STRAW SPREADER, VERY NICE CONDITION; 2013 GLEANER - 3000 8 ROW NARROW CORN HEAD, AUTO HEADER HEIGHT; HORST - HEADER CART. SPRAYER: 2006 ROGATOR - 1274C SPRAYER, 4X4, 90FT BOOMS, 1200 GALLON STAINLESS TANK. PLANTER: 2010 MASSEY/WHITE - 8800, 16 ROW, 30”, LIQUID FERTILIZER, NARROW TRANSPORT, 4 SETS OF SEED PLATES, TRASH CLEANERS. HOSE REEL: 2016 CADMAN - 4000S, WIDE BODY, 1250FT OF HOSE; CADMAN - DIESEL IRRIGATION PUMP, 546HRS, CUMMINS 5.9 DIESEL. BEAN WINDROWER & PULLER: 2015 PICKETT - 6 ROW BEAN WINDROWER & PULLER, LOW USE ONLY 125 ACRES, C/W GUIDANCE ROW CROP CULTIVATOR: IHC - 8 ROW HYDRAULIC FOLD CULTIVATOR. GRAIN BUGGYS: BRENT - 320 GRAIN BUGGYJIFFY - HI-DUMP WAGON. GRAIN TRUCKS: 1999 WESTERN STAR - TANDEM, C/W 2 BRUNS 500 BUSHEL GRAVITY BOXES & TARPS; 1993 FORD L8000 TANDEM, C/W 2 BRUNS 430 BUSHEL GRAVITY BOXES & TARPS; 1991 FORD - AERO MAX L9000 TANDEM, C/W 2 KILBROS 385 BUSHEL BOXES & TARPS.

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2008 Subaru STI

2013 Honda Ridgeline Auto, AWD ,CREW, White, STK#U02224, 76,330KM

Auto, LT D, SUV, White STK#S4400A, 108,363KM

2012 SUBARU LEGACY Auto, TP, CLOTH, White, 84,228KM, STK#S4225A .............. $18,995 2008 SUBARU OUTBACK Auto, XT, AWD, Leat, SR, HS, PP, Nav, DVD, Grey, 35,113KM, STK#U0901 ................ $14,995 2010 SUBARU OUTBACK Auto, SP, AWD, Auto, Cloth, HS, PP, SR, White, 56,217KM, STK#U01053 .............. $22,995 2010 SUBARU STI Manual, AWD, Silver, 36,002KM, STK#U01811 .............. $36,995 2014 SUBARU STI Manual, ST, awd, nav, Black, 27,432KM, STK#U02037 .............. $43,995 2008 SUBARU TRIBECA Auto, PREM, AWD, Leat, SR, HS, PP, Nav, DVD, Grey, 68,986KM, STK#U0898 ................ $17,995 2012 SUBARU TRIBECA Auto, LIMITED, AWD, Black, 60,021KM, STK#S3144A .............. $25,995 2010 SUBARU WRX Manual, LTD, AWD, Grey, 74,675KM, STK#S4127A ...$25,995

2012 SUBARU WRX Manual, AWD, Grey, 23,264KM, STK#U01620 .............. $34,995 2015 SUBARU WRX Auto, BASE, AWD, White, 30,963KM, STK#U02102 .............. $32,495 2014 SUBARU XV Auto, TP, AWD, Orange, 16,790KM, STK#U01827 .............. $24,995 2004 TOYOTA CAMRY Auto, LE, cloth, Gold, 153,883KM, STK#S4398A .............. $8,995 2010 TOYOTA COROLLA Auto, LE, Tan, 87,236KM, STK#S4387A ................................. $14,995 2013 TOYOTA MATRIX Auto, White, 20,875KM, STK#S3736B ................................. $19,995 2011 TOYOTA SIENNA Auto, Red, 75,873KM, STK#S4137A ................................. $19,995 2009 VOLKSWAGEN TIGUAN Auto, FWD, Blue, 80,000KM, STK#S3330A ....................... $17,995

Auto, FX4, Leather V6, Black, STK#S4427A, 58,907KM

Auto, Outdoorsmans, 4X4, Pick up, Blue, STK#S3976A, 38,013KM

Manual, ST, AWD, HB, Grey, STK#S4311A, 11 5,000KM

2006 AUDI A3 Auto, FWD, Dark Grey, 111,852KM, STK#U01478A ........... $10,995 2008 BUICK ENCLAVE Auto, Grey, 148,269KM, STK#S4251A ............ $16,995 2011 BUICK LACROSSE Auto, CXL, Grey, 48,836KM, STK#U01481 .............. $20,995 2012 CHEVROLET EQUINOX Auto, LT, Mocha, 47,894KM, STK#S3850B .............. $20,995 2009 CHEVROLET MALIBU Auto, White, 31,896KM, STK#S3212A .............. $12,995 2012 CHEVROLET SILVERADO Auto, LT, 4X4, Red, 35,461 KM, STK#U01931A ............. 28,995 2014 CHRYSLER 200 Auto, TP, White, 28,747KM, STK#U01694 .............. $17,995 2007 FORD F-150 Auto, LARIAT, Auto, SC, leather, PP, hs, CD chg, 4X4, SR, Black, 57,542KM, STK#U0443 ................ $22,995

2012 GMC SIERRA Auto, SLT, 4X4, LEATHER, Grey, 49,369KM, STK#S3761A .............. $35,995 2012 HONDA CIVIC Auto, Brown, 54,532KM, STK#S3246A .............. $14,995 2012 HYUNDAI ELANTRA Auto, Silver, 15,920KM, STK#S2939A .............. $16,995 2012 JEEP COMPASS Auto, NORTH, CLOTH, HEATED, Grey, 76,390KM, STK#S3943B .............. $16,995 2014 JEEP WRANGLER Manual, LEATHER NAV, Black, 53,561KM, STK#S4309A....$37,995 2015 MAZDA CX5 Auto, GS, AWD, Grey, 30,096KM, STK#S4342A .............. $28,995 2014 MITSUBISHI LANCER Auto, SE, CLOTH, Red, 53,126KM, STK#S4267A .............. $14,995 2015 NISSAN SENTRA Auto, Grey, 25,204KM, STK#S4005A ................................. $17,995

2007 PONTIAC G6 Auto, GT , Auto, Cloth, SR, PP, Green, 61,462KM, STK#S2434A .............. $12,900 2012 RAM 1500 Auto, SLT, 4X4, White, 43,441KM, STK#U01834 ................................. $26,995 2014 RAM 1500 Auto, OUTDOORSMANS, 4X4, Blue, 38,013KM, STK#S3976A .............. $33,495 2010 SUBARU FORESTER Auto, AWD, White, 45,100KM, STK#U01876 ................................. $22,995 2011 SUBARU FORESTER Auto, TP, AWD, Silver, 25,282KM, STK#U01796 ................................. $24,495 2015 SUBARU FORESTER Auto, XT, AWD, White, 19,993KM, STK#S4381A ................................. $31,995 2008 SUBARU IMPREZA Auto, SPORT, AWD, Cloth, PP, HS , White, 60,187KM, STK#U0837 ................ $15,995 2013 SUBARU IMPREZA Auto, AWD, Grey,53,808 KM, STK#U01944 ................................... 18,995

2013 Ford Edge

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2016 CADILLAC SRX LUXURY AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded, sunroof, NAV, heated leather, 20,820 km. Stk. #M7284..................................................................................................$43,395 2016 BUICK ENCORE CXL, 1.4L 4 cyl., turbo, loaded, sunroof, heated leather, silver, 20,235 km. Stk. #M7303. 3 IN STOCK...............................................................................$29,995 2016 BUICK ENCLAVE LEATHER, AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded, heated leather, 24,117 km. Stk. #M7296..................................................................................................$42,395 2016 GMC ACADIA SLE2, AWD, 3.6L V6, heated cloth, red, 32,259 km.

Stk. #M7269. ...................................................................................................................$36,995 2016 CHEV TRAVERSE AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded, heated cloth, blue, 18,332 km.

Stk. #M7308 ....................................................................................................................$36,395 2016 BUICK REGAL TURBO AWD, 2.0L 4 cyl. loaded, sunroof, NAV, heated leather, 23,114 km. Stk. #M7298..................................................................................................$30,395 2016 CHEV EXPRESS CARGO VAN 2400, 4.8L V8, cruise, vinyl seating, white, 19,839 km, Stk. #M7290. 2 IN STOCK...............................................................................$29,395 2016 CHEV TRAX AWD LT, 1.4L 4 cyl., turbo, loaded, sunroof, cloth/leatherette, silver, 11,636 km. Stk. #M7306. 3 IN STOCK...............................................................................$23,395 2016 CHEV MALIBU LT, 2.5L 4 cyl., loaded, sunroof, cloth, summit white, 16,423 km.

Stk. #M7302. 3 IN STOCK .................................................................................................$21,395 2016 BUICK VERANO CS, 2.4L 4 cyl., loaded, cloth, silver, 19,519 km. Stk. #M7301.

2 IN STOCK ......................................................................................................................$19,395 2016 CHEV CRUZE LT, 1.4L 4 cyl. turbo, loaded, sunroof, cloth, white, 8864 km.

Stk. #M7307 ....................................................................................................................$19,395 2016 CHEV SONIC SEDAN LT, 1.4L 4 cyl. turbo, loaded, sunroof, heated cloth, silver, 21,859 km. Stk. #M7299..................................................................................................$16,395 2015 CHEV 3/4 TON CREW CAB LWD, 6.6L V8 D/Max, loaded, cloth, 40,666 km.

Stk. #M7237 ....................................................................................................................$47,995

USED SPORT UTILITIES, S-TRUCKS & SUBURBANS

2015 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE SRT-8, 6.4L Hemi, loaded, sunroof, heated steering wheel, cloth, white, 66,000 km. Stk. #H13562A .................................................................$54,395 2015 NISSAN MURANO PLATINUM AWD, 3.5L V6, loaded, NAV, sunroof, heated leather, grey, 40,213 km. Stk. #G1054B ........................................................................................$35,995 2015 LINCOLN MKC RESERVE AWD, 2.3L 4 cyl. loaded, NAV, sunroof, leather, white, 49,030 km. Stk. #H1216A ................................................................................................$36,395 2015 FORD EDGE SEL AWD, 3.5L V6, loaded, NAV, sunroof, heated leather, green, 33,015. Stk. #H1212A ......................................................................................................$33,395 2015 FORD EXPLORER XLT, 3.5L V6, loaded, cloth, black, 69,242 km.

Stk. #G1479B...................................................................................................................$24,995 2015 CHEVROLET EQUINOX 1LT, AWD, 2.4L 4 cyl. loaded, heated cloth, silver, 69,170 km Stk. #H1275A .................................................................................................$23,395 2014 GMC ACADIA DENALI AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded, sunroof, heated & cooled leather, black, 44,190 kms, Stk. #H1496A ................................................................................... $40,395

2014 BUICK ENCLAVE AWD PREMIUM, 3.6L V6, loaded, NAV, sunroof, heated leather, brown, 43,754 km. Stk. #H1057A .....................................................................................$35,995 2014 BUICK ENCLAVE AWD PREMIUM, 3.6L V6, loaded, sunroof, NAV, heated leather, white diamond, 65,417 km. Stk. #HJ1218A .......................................................................$34,995 2014 FORD EXPLORER XLT AWD, loaded, nav, heated leather, White, 91,254 kms, Stk. #H1195A ...................................................................................................................$25,395 2014 GMC TERRAIN SLE2 AWD, 2.4L, 4 cyl. loaded, NAV, heated leather, quicksilver, 67,229 km. Stk. #H1056A ................................................................................................$21,995 2014 CHEV TRAX 1LT AWD, 1.4L 4 cyl., loaded, cloth, white, 53,526 km.

Stk. #H1387A ...................................................................................................................$20,395 2013 CHEV AVALANCHE BLACK DIAMOND, 5.3L V8, loaded, cloth, silver, 99,857 km. Stk. #M7282A................................................................................................$32,395 2013 GMC ACADIA SLT-2 AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded, sunroof, heated leather, white, 90,177 kms, Stk. #H1392A...............................................................................................$31,395 2013 FORD EXPLORER XLT, 3.5L V6, loaded, NAV, sunroof, heated leather, grey, 79,077 km. Stk. #H1268A ................................................................................................$29,995 2013 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE LAREDO, 3.6L V6, loaded, sunroof, heated leather, white, 125,066 km. Stk. #H1117A.....................................................................................$26,395 2013 BUICK ENCLAVE CXL AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded, heated leather, silver, 152,885 km.

Stk. #H1124A ...................................................................................................................$23,395 2013 GMC TERRAIN SLT AWD, 2.4L 4 cyl, loaded, sunroof, heated leather, black, 41,998 kms, Stk. #H1534 .................................................................................................$22,395 2013 CHEV EQUINOX 2LT AWD, 2.4L 4 cyl. loaded, heated cloth, silver, 78,659 km.

Stk. #H1091A ...................................................................................................................$18,995 2012 GMC ACADIA DENALI AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded remote start, sunroof, 7 passenger, leather, black, 106,186 km. Stk. #H1010A .........................................................................$25,995 2012 GMC YUKON XL SLE 4X4, 5.3L V8, loaded, 9 passenger, cloth, silver, 158,505 km. Stk. #H1250A ..............................................................................................$27,395 2012 BUICK ENCLAVE CXL AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded, heated leather, diamond white, 90,170 km. Stk. #H1154A ................................................................................................$34,995 2012 BUICK ENCLAVE CXL AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded, remote start, heated leather, burgundy, 106,535 km, Stk. #H1137A ...............................................................................$25,395 2012 NISSAN XTERRA SV 4WD, 4.0L V6, loaded, cloth, white, 68,380 km, Stk. #G1726A...................................................................................................................$22,995 2012 BUICK ENCLAVE CX AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded, heated leather, silver, 152,885 km.

Stk. #H1124A ...................................................................................................................$23,395 2012 CHEV EQUINOX 2LT AWD, 2.4L 4 cyl. loaded heated leather, greystone metallic, 99,153 km. Stk. #H1153A ................................................................................................$17,995 2012 DODGE JOURNEY RT AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded, DVD, sunroof, heated leather, 135,000 km. Stk. #H1215A ..............................................................................................$15,995 2011 CHEV TRAVERSE 2LT AWD, 3.6L V6, 7 passenger, loaded, heated leather, black, 132,706 km. Stk. #H1235A ..............................................................................................$17,395 2010 HUMMER H3 4WD, 3.6L 5 cyl. loaded, sunroof, heated leather, 104,652 km.

Stk. #G1670A...................................................................................................................$24,995

2010 MERCEDES-BENZ ML350, 3.0L V6, diesel, loaded, NAV, sunroof, heated leather, 159,216 km. Stk. #H1132A ..............................................................................................$24,395 2010 BUICK ENCLAVE CXL AWD, 3.6L V6, loaded, heated leather, quicksilver metallic, 129,402 km. Stk. #H1068A ..............................................................................................$19,995

USED 3/4 TONS

2016 CHEV 3/4 TON CREW CAB SLE LONG BOX 4X4, 6.6L V8, loaded, 2â&#x20AC;? levelling kit, heated cloth, dark brown, 34,470 kms Stk. #H1323A .........................................................$59,395

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2016 GMC 1/2 TON CREW CAB SLT, 5.3L V8, 2â&#x20AC;? lift, NAV, heated leather, charcoal, 9657 km, Stk. #M7283.....................................................................................................$56,995 2016 GMC 1/2 TON CREW CAB SLT 4X4, 5.3L V8, loaded, heated leather, black, 57,915 km. Stk. #H1140A ................................................................................................$48,395 2016 CHEV 1/2 TON CREW CAB 4X4 LTZ, 5.3L V8, loaded, NAV, leather, slate grey, 30,129 km. Stk. #H1232A ................................................................................................$48,395 2015 GMC 1/2 TON CREW CAB SLT 4X4, 5.3L V8, loaded, 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;5â&#x20AC;? box, heated leather, white, 65,079 km. Stk. #H1099A.......................................................................................$44,395 2015 GMC 1/2 TON CREW CAB SLT 4WD, 5.3L V8, loaded, NAV, heated leather silver, 64,790 km. Stk. #M7273..................................................................................................$41,995 2015 CHEV 1/2 TON DOUBLE CAB WT 4WD, 5.3L V8, loaded, cloth, white, 33,891 km. Stk. #H1383A ................................................................................................$33,395 2015 DODGE RAM 1/2 TON QUAD CAB SLT 4X4, 3.6L V6, loaded, cloth, blue, 95,574 kms, Stk. #M7313 ................................................................................................$24,395 2014 CHEV 1/2 TON CREW CAB LTZ GFX ULTIMATE 4X4, 5.3L V8, loaded, NAV, heated and cooled leather, black, 61,983 km. Stk. #H1033A ..............................................$41,995 2014 GMC 1/2 TON CREW CAB ALL TERRAIN 4X4, 5.3L V8, loaded, heated leather, black, 52,634 kms, Stk. #H1546A .....................................................................................$41,395 2014 CHEV 1/2 TON DOUBLE CAB LTZ 4X4, 6.2L V8, loaded, heated leather, silver, 80,785 km. Stk. #H1257A ................................................................................................$37,395 2013 CHEV 1/2 TON CREW CAB LT 4X4, cloth, deep ruby metallic, 61,000 km.

Stk. #G1776A...................................................................................................................$31,995 2013 GMC 1/2 TON CREW CAB SLE 4X4, 5.3L V8, loaded, cloth, white diamond, 121,935 km. Stk. #H1151A ..............................................................................................$27,995 2012 GMC 1/2 TON CREW CAB 4X4, 5.3L V8, loaded, sunroof, heated leather, white, 120,664 km. Stk. #G1771A ..............................................................................................$25,995 2012 CHEV 1/2 TON CREW CAB LTZ 4X4, 5.3L V8, loaded, heated leather, 123,256 km. Stk. #H1087B ..............................................................................................$25,995 2011 GMC 1/2 TON CREW CAB ALL TERRAIN 4X4, 5.3L V8, loaded, heated leather, white, 59,811 kms, Stk. #H1399A .....................................................................................$30,395 2011 CHEV 1/2 TON CREW CAB LT 4X4, 5.3L V8, loaded, cloth, blue, 75,820 km.

Stk. #H1326B ...................................................................................................................$26,395

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26,000

36,000

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2009 MACK CXU613

2012 KENWORTH W900B

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32,000

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49,000

$

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2009 MACK CXU613

500 HP Cummins ISX, 18 sp, 12 front 46 rear, 3:91 gears, 22.5” alloy wheels, 4x4 diff. locks, 244” WB, 743,820 km

485 HP MP8, 18 sp, 12 front super 40 rear, 22.5” alloy wheels, 4:10 gears, 4x4 diff. locks, 230”WB, 56” midroof bunk, 1,223,006 km

75,000

$

2009 MACK CXU613

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$

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485 HP MP8, 18 sp, 12 front super 40 rear, 22.5” alloy wheels, 4:10 gears, 4x4 diff. locks, 220”WB, 48” flat top bunk, 990,582 km

550 Cummins ISX, 18 sp, 12 front super 40 rear, 22.5” alloy wheels, 3:91 gears, 244” WB, 4x4 diff. locks, 1,050,071 km

26,000

$

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72,995

$

5.3L V8, LOADED, NAV, HEATED LEATHER. #H1181

OR $486 BI-WEEKLY @ 1.99% for 84 MONTHS

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76,995

$

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77,795

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44,595

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$

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$

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53,995

$

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62,995

$

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OR $420 BI-WEEKLY @ 0.99% for 84 MONTHS

5.3L V8, LOADED, MAX TRAILER PKG. NAV, HEATED & COOLED LEATHER. #H1405

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47,995

$

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$

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$

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2009 Freightliner Cascadia

2012 International ProStar

Tandem Axle Grain Truck, Detroit Diesel engine (455/475) HP, Eaton Fuller D/O transmission (13 speed), Air brakes, 838546km, 12000 lbs front axle capacity, 40000 lbs rear axle capacity, 4-Way rear lockup, A/C. Regina, SK

Tandem Axle Grain Truck, MaxxForce 13 engine (450) HP, Eaton Fuller Ultra Shift transmission (13 speed), Air brakes, 1030896km, 12000 lbs front axle capacity, 40000 lbs rear axle capacity, 3-Way rear lockup, A/C, Brand new Box Hoist and PTO. Regina, SK

$105,000

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Stk# 021101. 1-888-576-5561, Swift Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca JOHN DEERE 1890 disc drill, 43’, 10” spacing. Phone 306-842-6246, Griffin, SK.

2015 SEED HAWK 50-12, only 200 acres! used to seed grass seed mixed with phos. in 1 tank only, like new 400 bu. var. rate cart, liquid kit avail. Will trade up to a 50-10, $190,000. 204-937-3933 Roblin MB

JD 1895 43’ PRECISION disc drill, MRB’s, 10.5” sp., 1910 430 cart, low low acres, $89,000. 403-654-0430, Vauxhall, AB. 1997 CONCORD 4812, DS dry with NH3, Dutch openers, 2000 JD 1900 seed cart, 270 bu, $25,000. 306-452-3233, Antler, SK 2011 MORRIS CONTOUR 51’, 10” spacing, side band openers, c/w 2012 7240 3rd tank, $99,000. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. 2002 BOURGAULT 5710 47’ air drill, DS, excellent cond., $25,000. 306-398-2626, 306-398-7818, Cut Knife, SK.

2009 BOURGAULT 3310, 75’ 12” spacing, Paralink, DS, S25 hyd. MRB’s, Stk# 022282, $240,000. 1-866-659-5866, Estevan, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca FLEXI-COIL 300B c/w Barton openers, 38’, 12” spacing, $8900. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. Make tire swaps and changes safe and 2001 MORRIS MAXIM II, 40’, 10” spacing, easy. Lifts, rolls, and rotates tires with single shoot, carbide tips, w/7240 TBH. precision and accommodates 24” to 46” 306-296-4640 evenings, Frontier, SK. wheels and up to 4000 lbs...Call us!

800 FLEXI-COIL 33’, DS, w/1720 tank, 1-888-606-6362. www.combineworld.com (last 800 made), 12” spacing, 550 lbs. shanks, Poirier seed boots, low acres, tank 2006 BOURGAULT 5710, 40’ 9.8” spac2013 JD 4940, 120', 1478 hrs., 1200 gal. shedded until this year. 306-745-7505 or ing, steel packers, 6200 cart, $60,000. tank, chem mix tank, 5 nozzle bodies, fence 306-877-2014, Dubuc, SK. Stk# 020500. 1-888-576-5561, Swift Currow nozzles, rinse tank, GS3 Display, Autorent, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca Trac SF1 section controls, hyd. axle, adjust 2010 CASE/IH PH800, 70’, 10” spacing, 5 sensor BoomTrac Pro weather antenna, new Dutch paired row, SS, duals, Stk 2008 BOURGAULT 3310 55', 10" spacing $295,000 OBO. Phone 306-867-7227, #012985, $109,000. 1-800-535-0520, mid row banders. Single shoot w/6450 Lloydminster, www.redheadequipment.ca trailing cart and Bourgault LFC 2000 gal.

Macrorie, SK. dtlammers@xplornet.com leading liquid twin piston pump, variable 2001 JD 4710, 100’ boom, 3400 hrs., rate distribution kit. Wayne 306-845-8383, height control, w/JD 2630 monitor, 800 Turtleford, SK. wwooff@sasktel.net gal. tank, sectional control, 2 sets tires, 3” LARGE 70’ SEEDMASTER, M fold, 12” spacing, lift fill, $113,900. 306-535-9141, Balcarres, SK Smart hitch, c/w 2013 Flexi-Coil 580 SELECTION kit, auger 10”, dual 650’s and Valmar 1665 ca2013 CASE/IH PATRIOT 3330 SP 100’ nola box. 306-648-7765 or 306-648-3216, sprayer with 440 hours. Ron and Donna OF Gravelbourg, SK. Labbie Farm Equipment Auction, Saturday, April 8, 2017, Radville, SK. area. Visit 2007 BOURGAULT 5710, 64’, 9.8” spacwww.mackauctioncompany.com for sale ing, 3.5” steel packers, MRB’s, $110,000. bill and photos or join our Facebook page.

Stk# 016344. 1-800-667-9761, SaskaAND Phone 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815 toon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca Mack Auction Co. PL 311962.

2013 SEED HAWK 60-12, 60’, twin wing, DS, sec. control, 10” auger, 800 TBH, OPENERS Stk# 017840, $335,000. 1-844-323-3003, Prince Albert, www.redheadequipment.ca AVAILABLE! 2013 BOURGAULT 3320 XTC 66’, 10” space, MRB, DS, Bourgault updates done, blockage and X20 monitors c/w 6700 cart, 2 fans, 4 metering tanks, conveyor, duals, unit always shedded, exc. cond., Call us for more info whole $305,000. 780-872-3262, Lashburn, SK. 1-800-667-4515 2008 SEEDMASTER SXL 2100 50’ 12” 300 www.combineworld.com bu. seed, 2100 gallon fert. all on board.

Smart hitch, 4 cameras, one owner unit 2015 MORRIS 9650 ICT sectional con- $125,000 OBO. 306-591-1133 Pense, SK. trol air cart, seeded approx. 9000 acres, 2013 SEEDMASTER 7012 M-fold, dual X30 TopCon monitor, Agtron blockage, vg casters, sec. control w/Viper, 2 on-board HEAVY DUTY WHEEL DOLLY. Change your cond, $157,000. 306-276-7360 Nipawin SK 275 bu. tanks, dual 750 tires, UltraPro casprayer tires in less than an hour! Over 100 2010 MORRIS 8370, 3 tank, variable rate, nola metering, 8 cameras, always shedunits sold last 12 months. Perfect tool for TBT, 440 bu., $69,900. Cam-Don Motors ded. 306-488-4517, Dilke, SK. safely and quickly moving or changing Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. large wheels/tires, $1,499. 403-892-3303, 2013 NH P2070 zero-till air drill 50', as new 2005 FLEXI-COIL 5000, 57’, 10” spacing, 2800 acres, $160,000 OBO. 780-524-7952, Carmangay, AB. steel packers, double shoot, 3450 tank, 3 Valleyview, AB. shotshell33.cd@gmail.com 2007 JD 4720, 800 gal., 1070 sprayer hrs., comp., mechanical drive cart, vg shape, 2012 JD 1830 w/1910 tank, TBH, 3 tanks, 90', 3'' fill, sec. control, 2 sets tires, crop $60,000 OBO. 403-317-4976, Burdett, AB. dividers, GreenStar display, Starfire 3000, 2008 BOURGAULT 3310, 65’, single shoot, 4" rubber packers, primary blockage, $115,000 OBO. 403-888-6732, Acme, AB. $170,000 OBO. 780-307-1148, Dapp, AB. $85,000 OBO. 306-563-8482, Yorkton, SK. timrtoews@gmail.com 2011 JD 4830, 100’, with only 1150 35’ JD 610, w/1610 Flexi-Coil air tank, DS hours, full AutoSteer, 1000 gal. SS tank, all with liquid kit, Technotill openers, $14,500 50’ SEED HAWK, 15” centers, twin wing, options, both sets of tires, $219,000. OBO. 306-835-2087 or 306-746-7770, 500 bu., 3 comp. on-board tank, liquid and dry, S.B.R. hitch, Vaderstaad gear boxes, 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK. Raymore, SK. full blockage on seed, quick pin openers, SPRA-COUPE 7650, 2005, 80’ booms, 21’ EDWARDS ZERO-TILL hoe drill, 2115 $100,000. 306-736-7653, Kipling, SK. 725 gal. tank, 380/90R46 skinniest, 620 Bourgault tank, eng. drive and liquid fert. 2005 FLEXI-COIL 5000 57’, 10” spacing, rear floats, 5000 rate controller w/Out- caddy, as is $6500. 204-476-6907, MB. 3850 TBT cart, double shoot, dual fan, back S3 mapping and sec. control, 3-way $39,000. Call 306-223-4417, Laird, SK. nozzles, front tires brand new, rear diff. re- 2003 MORRIS MAXIM II, 34', DS, 12" spacing, Dutch 3" side band openers, 3" packers, built last spring, 2678 hrs., always shedTBT FC 2320 tank, $27,000. 306-726-8171, ded, $70,000. 306-246-4442, Hafford, SK. Southey, SK. kvanb@live.com

BRANDT 2500 SPRAYER, 100’ c/w 1200 gallon tank, OutBack monitor, good cond.

Call 403-580-0155, Medicine Hat, AB.

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1998 BOURGAULT 5710 54’, 10” spacing, 4350 tank, c/w MRB’s, 3 comp. tank, new YOUR ONE STOP FOR NEW , 1986 TRAILMOBILE 45’ Highboy tandem tires, $38,000. 306-472-7970, Lafleche, SK SPRAYTEST REMOTE BOOM CONTROL flat deck trailer with 2- 2200 gal. poly waUSED & REBUILT AG PARTS. Use wireless remote to turn on individual ter tanks and Chem Handler II. Ron and 2009 SEED HAWK 72-12, 72’, 12” spacboom sections for nozzle checks.

Dis m a n tlin g a ll m a jor m a ke s Donna Labbie Farm Equipment Auction, ing, twin wing openers, 600 TBT cart, Easy install with plug and play harness to a n d m ode ls of tra ctors , Saturday, April 8, 2017, Radville, SK. area. Stk# 021477, $205,000 1-844-323-3003 fit your sprayer.

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Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for Prince Albert, www.redheadequipment.ca com b in e s , s w a th e rs , b a le rs sale bill and photos or join our Facebook SPRAYTEST BLUE LED SPRAYER LIGHTS a n d fora ge h a rve s te rs . page. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815 2012 MORRIS CONTOUR II 61’ air drill, Light Up the entire boom to spray 12” spacing, w/8650 XL air cart w/duals, Mack Auction Co. PL #311962.

Plu s M u ch M o re! var. rate, Eston special fertilizer Broadcast in reduced light or night spraying CHEM HANDLERS in stock. All sizes kit, Bourgault tillage tool, 3/4” Eagle Beak Toll free: knives, $185,000. Ph Gerald 306-379-4530 available.

Contact your nearest Flaman 1-855-859-1200 or Nathan 306-831-9246, Fiske, SK. Ph: 306-859-1200 store 1-888-352-9890.

Bu yin g Fa rm Equ ipm en t spraytest@sasktel.net FLOATER TIRES: Factory rims and tires: JD 1830, 2008, 50’, JD 1910 TBH air cart, Fo rD ism a n tlin g John Deere 4045, 710/60R46, $19,500; 430 bu., 10” sp, Pattison liquid fert., moniwww.spraytest.com TRIPLE B WRECKING, wrecking tractors, 800/55R46, $23,500; JD 4038, Case 4420, tor and harness. 306-493-7409, Delisle SK combines, cults., drills, swathers, mixmills. 2012 JD 4830, 1333 hrs., 100’, 1000 gal. 6 5 0 / 6 5 R 3 8 M i c h e l i n t i r e s a n d r i m , CASE CONCORD 4010, 3400 tank, Edge-On etc. We buy equipment. 306-246-4260, ss tank, 420 tires, AutoTrac, AutoBoom, $13,500. Sprayer duals available. Call shanks Anderson triple dry NH3, $23,000.

306-441-0655, Richard, SK. 306-697-2856, Grenfell, SK. GPS, exc, 306-741-2649, Pennant, SK. 403-321-0386, 403-321-0388, Drumheller

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2010 BOURGAULT 3310 65’, Paralink, 12” spacing, mid row shank banding, DS, rear hitch, tandem axles, low acres, $140,000.

2002 49’ Morris Maxim air drill, 12” space, w/7240 Morris grain cart, $45,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

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2009 MILLAR CONDOR 40, 100’ boom, 1000 gal. tank, 100 gal. rinse tank, AutoBoom, AutoSteer, AutoHeight, 2 sets rear tires, crop dividers, 1600 hrs., new diff. 2013 SEED HAWK 6012, TBH 600 air cart, and planetary, good cond. 306-769-8887, double shoot, $215,000. 306-831-9497, 306-276-7788, Arborfield, SK. Tessier, SK.

2008 SEEDMASTER 3310 w/1998 JD 1900, single shoot NH3, TBH 340 bu., var. rate, DS cart, camera, hopper, blockage monitor, $80,000. 780-777-9533, Andrew, AB. PACKER WHEELS: Many wheels available for Bourgault, SeedMaster and Seed Hawk air drills, $45. Phone 1-800-667-4515 or visit: www.combineworld.com 2013 BOURGAULT 3320/6550, 66’, MRB’s, Drill: $159,000; Cart: $110,000. Possible trades? Call 306-563-8482, Yorkton, SK. MOON HEAVY HAUL pulling air drills/ air seeders, packer bars, Alberta and Sask. 30 years experience. Call Bob Davidson, Drumheller, AB. 403-823-0746.

2012 JD 1870 41’ air drill and JD 1910 air cart, paired row with blockage monitors.

Ron and Donna Labbie Farm Equipment Auction, Saturday, April 8, 2017, Radville, SK. area. For sale bill and photos visit www.mackauctioncompany.com or join our Facebook page. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL311962 SALFORD 40’ 522, on 7-1/2” spacing, mid row banders, liquid kit, new discs last year, Salford 3505 air cart, 3 tank, 800x32 tires, dual fans, double shoot, $140,000 OBO. 780-621-4656, Evansburg, AB. 2012 BOURGAULT 3320 QDA, 66’, 10” NH3 kit, MRB’s, duals, deluxe auger, $295,000. Stk# 023175. 1-800-667-9761, Saskatoon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 49’ MORRIS MAXIM, single shoot w/6240 tank. Call 306-460-9440, Kindersley, SK. 2011 BOURGAULT 3310, 55’ DS, v-packers, 6550 tank, 4 tank metering, $191,000.

Stk. 020803. 1-888-576-5561, Swift Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca

2013 AMITY 4010 w/SS 3350 tank. Bought new, only 4800 acres, Dutch eagle beak, twin row 4 1/2" w/NH3 seed boots, disc leveler, wireless seed boot monitors, hyd. drive seed rollers, on-the-go rate adjustment, $165,000 OBO. Call 701-220-1285, Tuttle, ND. Email: roxy@bektel.com 40’ BOURGAULT 8800 air seeder with 2155 tank, $14,000 OBO. Call 306-395-2668 or 306-681-7610. Chaplin, SK. 1996 BOURGAULT 40’ 8800/3195, harrows and packers, $16,000. Call 306-563-8482, Rama, SK. ACCEPTING OFFERS ON: 2007 37’ EzeeOn air seeder, under 4000 acres, 10” space, single shoot, c/w Morris 7180 tank, 306-640-7052, Crane Valley, SK. 40’ BOURGAULT AIR SEEDER, granular kit, 3225 tank, 40’ P-30 packer bar, $10,000.

Will separate. 306-948-7652, Biggar, SK. EZEE-ON 2175 AIR tank, complete for sale. Call 306-944-4945, Plunkett, SK. 1998 MORRIS CONCEPT 2000, 43’, 10” sp, new Bourgault narrow point openers, 7240 TBH, $24,000. 306-463-8416, Eston, SK.

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WANTED: NEW OR GOOD used Bourgault single shoot 3/4” knock-on knives.

306-753-7810, Primate, SK. MORRIS CONCEPT 2000 34’ air seeder, c/w 10” spacing 1720 Flexi-Coil grain tank.

403-580-0155, Medicine Hat, AB.

JD 7200 PLANTERS IN STOCK, 8 to 16 row, any planter makes available. Call Reimer Farm Equipment, Gary Reimer, 204-326-7000, Hwy. #12, Steinbach, MB. WANTED: 4W305; 4W220; 220 and D21.

070, 8050 or 8030 MFWD. RETIRED: CASE/IH 7200 hoe drills 42’, 8701-240-5737, Minot, ND. with fertilizer, factory hyd. movers, dual hyd. markers, Eagle Beak shovels, $5600. 1982 ALLIS 7010, c/w 795 Allied loader, very good condition. Call 306-865-3927, Call 403-545-2382, Bow Island, AB. Hudson Bay, SK. 28’ IHC HOE DRILLS with grass seeder, on Bergen mover and marker, $1500; 20’ slide in Wheatbelt drill fill system, $500.

780-663-2201, 780-679-5606. Ryley, AB. WANTED: 2270 WHITE Tractor in good 50 COMPLETE BARTON II openers, off running condition. Call 306-542-7684, Flexi-Coil 6000 drill. Call 306-677-2689, Kamsack, SK. Swift Current, SK.

MORRIS 743 CHISEL PLOW, 12” spacing, CASE/IH 3400 AIR seeder tank, excellent good 16” sweeps, w/Degelman hyd. driven condition, asking $20,000 CDN or OBO. rod, $10,000. 306-463-8416, Eston, SK. 204-746-5126, Dufrost, MB. 2011 SEED HAWK 50’, 12” sp., tool bar with 600 cart dual wheels auger and bag lift. $229,000; 1997 39’ Morris Magnum air drill, 10” spacing, Atom openers w/Morris 180 cart, $23,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 2010 NH ST830 56’, 12” spacing, 550 lb. trips, air package, Technotill seed system, excellent, $67,500 OBO. 306-441-4003, North Battleford, SK. VERSATILE SD550 Ezee-On 15’ offset 2010 BOURGAULT 6450, deluxe auger, 2 2016 , 550 lbs./ft., HD bearing pkg., fans. 1 owner, $66,000 OBO. Yorkton, SK. disc 26”x3/8” notched. Lease or finance OAC. 306-563-8482.

Cam-Don Motors 306-237-4212 Perdue SK 2011 BOURGAULT 6700 air cart X20, 4tm, bag lift, $135,000 OBO. Possible trades. BREAKING DISCS: KEWANEE, 14’ and 12’; Rome 16’ and 9’; Wishek 14’ and 30’.

Weyburn, SK. 306-563-8482.

2- DMI 7 shank rippers. 1-866-938-8537.

WANTED: OLDER MODEL 40’ deep tillage cultivator in good condition. Call 403-575-0194, Consort, AB. 1998 CASE/IH 5800 deep tillage, 39', Dickey John NH3, Bourgault carbide tips, 3 bar harrows, $25,000. Call 204-937-4862 or 204-937-0876, Roblin, MB. KELLO-BILT STW225 DISC, as new; Morris 641 cultivator with 4-bar harrows. Call 403-784-3517, Lacombe, AB. LAND CHEETAH “BUILT TO LAST.” HD reinforced frames. HD bushing plates and bushings. HD hitch with rock tray and hyd. locks. Hyd. wing locks w/check valves.

Hyd. 12 ply steer tires. 51’, $44,000; 60’, $46,500. 84’ models available. Strathmore, AB., call 403-899-6246, 403-312-7259.

2014 33’ SUNFLOWER 1435 tandem disc, has new plain blades $55,000. Call A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 2008 ST830 47’ chisel plow, 5 plex, 650 lb. trips, 8” knock-on shovels, anhydrous Raven rate control, factory hitch, hyd. winch, 9/16” heavy harrows, $75,000 OBO. Call 204-733-2446, Ochre River, MB. 1992 37’ CASE/IH 5600 HD cultivator, with Degelman mounted 4-row harrows, $25,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

GAUGE WHEEL & GAUGE WHEEL KIT WINTER DISCOUNTS on new and used rollers, all sizes. Leasing and delivery available. 403-580-6889, Bow Island, AB. 2005 70’ BOURGAULT 6000 mid harrows, low acres, excellent condition. $24,000.

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306-475-8880, Langenburg, SK. 2016 DEMO 80’ DEGELMAN land roller, Odessa Rockpicker Sales. 306-957-4403, Odessa, SK. D E G E L M A N 7 0 0 0 5 0 ’ h e av y h a r r ow, w/2055 Valmar applicator, good cond., $32,000. 780-872-3262, Lashburn, SK. LAND CHEETAH “Built to last” Heavy Duty reinforced frames. Heavy duty bushing plates and bushings. Heavy duty hitch with rock tray and hyd. locks w/check vavalues Hydraulic wing locks with check valves -Hydraulic 12ply steer tires 2008 DEGELMAN LANDROLLER 5 flex, 64', $52,500 OBO. 306-867-7227, Macrorie, SK. dtlammers@xplornet.com WANTED: MCFARLANE 70’ or 80’ harrow.

Call 780-826-3946, Fort Kent, AB.

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KELLO-BILT 8’ to 20’ offset discs w/24” to 36” notched blades; Kello-Bilt 24’ to 38’ tandem wing discs w/26” and 28” notched blades and oilbath bearings. Red Deer, AB. www.kelloughs.com Call: 1-888-500-2646.

COMPACTED SUBSOIL ISSUES? Avoid “band-aid” solutions. Since 1984. Call Rick 2009 JD 1790 CCS planter, 16/31 row, 30” 403-350-6088, anytime. or 15” row spacing, drawbar hitch, Yetter floating row cleaners, Ridgeland mud cleaning gauge wheels, Keaton seed firmers, In-furrow liquid fertilizer, Precision planting 20/20 monitor, E-sets, air force Auto-down force control. Corn, soybean MORRIS MAGNUM II 47’ cultivator with and canola seed meters w/loading convey- 2055 Valmar. Ron and Donna Labbie Farm Equip. Auction, Saturday April 8, 2017, or, $130,000. 306-697-7203, Grenfell, SK. Radville, SK. area. For sale bill and photos TOPCON SEEDER UPGRADES, VRC, section- visit www.mackauctioncompany.com or al control, granular, liquid, NH3, Order join our Facebook page. 306-421-2928 or before March 20 save 15%. info@navag.ca 306-487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL311962

2008 CIH 535 Quadtrac, 6 hyds., GPS, 30” JD 4755 2 WD, vg shape, differential lock. track, 3475 hrs., 700 monitor nice cond., 306-576-2171 or 360-560-7679. Wishart, $219,000. 780-853-7205, Vermilion, AB. SK. UNRESERVED AG & CONSTRUCTION 2003 9400, full powershift, 10,300 hrs., Equip. Auction, Mon. March 27 at 9:00 AM. 710-70R42, wired for OutBack GPS, exc.

2013 CIH Puma 170. 519-424-1562. Bid $79,000; JD 4640, FWA 7800 hrs., FEL, Online: www.sunrise-equipment.com $29,000. 403-654-0430, Vauxhall, AB. 1985 IHC 5488, 187 HP, 7590 hrs., like 2002 JD 9520 with PTO, powershift, 800 new radials and duals, front weights, triple m e t r i c s , G r e e n l i g h t e d , 6 7 0 0 h r s . , hyds., 1000 PTO, asking $17,500. Call $139,000. 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK. 780-349-9734, Westlock, AB. STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in rebuilding JD tractors. Want Series 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 7000s to rebuild or for STEIGER TRACTOR PARTS. New and parts. pay top $$. Now selling JD parts. used, from radiator to drawpin, 1969 to 204-466-2927, 204-871-5170, Austin, MB. 1999. Give us a call 1-800-982-1769 or 1995 JD 8970, 24 spd. trans., 710/70/38 www.bigtractorparts.com tires, GPS ready, 7642 hrs., $72,500.

1997 9370, 3592 hrs., 8 new Goodyear 306-327-7270, Kuroki, SK. 24.5x32, GPS, new injectors, exc. cond., $103,000. 306-280-6192, Rabbit Lake, SK. 2000 JD 7710, 5130 hrs; 2006 7720, 6200 1983 IHC 6788, 5200 hrs., new rubber, JD 8760, 4 WD, full powershift, 8968 hrs., hrs; 2003 7810, 4200 hrs; 1998 7810, good cond. 403-784-3517, Lacombe, AB. 30.5L32 flotation singles, can add duals if 5900 hrs. All MFWD and can be equipped LIZARD CREEK REPAIR and Tractor. We needed, 3 hyd., $37,500. 204-856-6119, w/loaders. 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. buy 90 and 94 Series Case, 2 WD, FWA MacGregor, MB. 1988 JD 4650, Greenlighted in April 2016, tractors for parts and rebuilding. Also have 2002 JD 7810, MFWD 6470 hrs., front 3 (one of the last JD’s without DEF), exc. r e b u i l t t r a c t o r s a n d p a r t s fo r s a l e . point linkage, pickup hitch, 40 kph, LHR, rubber, 3 hyds., 7600 hrs., $42,500 OBO.; 306-784-7841, Herbert, SK. TLS, 3 SCV's, all oils and filters changed, 1969 JD 3020 diesel, w/cab and JD load1996 C ASE 5240, 5300 hrs., can be front 600/65/R28, rear 710/70/R38, vg er, exc. rubber, runs and works excellent, $9750. 403-504-9607, Medicine Hat, AB. cond.

306-457-7842, Kisbey, SK. equipped w/loader; 2001 MX120, 4800 hours; 2001 MX170, available with new 1996 JOHN DEERE 8570, 4450 hrs., 24 2014 JD 9360R, 4 WD, 18 spd. powershift, loader. Call 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. spd., PTO, very good condition, asking 5 hyds., 620x42 Michelins, 670 hrs., exc., $285,000. 780-679-7795, Camrose, AB. UNRESERVED AG & CONSTRUCTION $71,000. 306-421-0679, Estevan, SK. Equip. Auction, Mon. March 27 at 9:00 AM. 2003 JD 9420, 5261 hrs., 24 spd., Green- 1972 JD 4520 w/cab, powershift, $13,500; CIH 885, 2255 Loader. 519-424-1562. Bid star ready, 7/10-70R42, $130,000. Earl 1964 4020, cab, std. shift, JD 46A loader, Online: www.sunrise-equipment.com Grey, SK. 306-939-4800 or 306-726-7807. bucket, $12,500. 204-207-0017, Roblin MB PARTS FOR CASE 4994: Brand new (in crate) Scania V8 eng. c/w turbo and fuel UNRESERVED AG & CONSTRUCTION 1998 JD 9400, powershift, shedded, tow Equip.

Auction, Mon. March 27 at 9:00 AM. cable, 710x70R38 rubber, 7000 hrs., pump, $15,000 OBO; Brand new front diff w/planetaries, $12,000 OBO. McLennan, 2015 JD 5065E. 519-424-1562 Preview & $74,000. 306-524-4960, Semans, SK. Bid Online: www.sunrise-equipment.com AB. 780-837-5569, aifarms@yahoo.ca 2001 JD 7810, FWD, Power Quad, LHR NEW UNDERCARRIAGE REPLACEMENT UNRESERVED AG & CONSTRUCTION w/E-range, 3PTH, 3500 hrs.; 7410, FWD, parts for CIH Quadtracs. Bogeys $798 and Equip. Auction, Mon. March 27 at 9:00 AM. 741 loader and grapple, 3PTH, 5500 hrs. seal $189. More shipments arriving. JD 6400 519-424-1562 Preview & Bid On- 780-674-5516, 780-305-7152 Barrhead AB line: www.sunrise-equipment.com 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com UNRESERVED AG & CONSTRUCTION Equip. Auction, Mon. March 27 at 9:00 AM. 2011 JD 5083E. 519-424-1562. Bid Online: 2015 KUBOTA M126GXDT, MFWD, 650 hrs., www.sunrise-equipment.com M56 SL loader, 3 function joystick, radial 1998 JD 9300 4WD tractor with 6545 hrs tires, 2 remotes, 540/1000 PTO, diff. lock, and Greenstar ready, also a JD 8760 4WD Intellishift, 24 spd. trans., Left -hand shuttractor w/4415 hrs. Ron and Donna Labbie tle, 20.4 GPM hyd. pump, 3 PTH. Warranty Farm Equipment Auction, Saturday April 8, until Oct./17. Delivery avail., exc. cond., 2017, Radville, SK. area. For sale bill and $95,000 OBO. 780-674-4727,780-305-1617 photos visit mackauctioncompany.com or Neerlandia, AB. dvanbeek@xplornet.com join our Facebook page. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL311962 2003 CASE/IH STX 425, 4 WD, 1320 hrs., 2010 JD 7430, Premium, FWA, 4300 hrs., Hi-Flow hyd. pump 54 GPM, 24 spd. std. loader ready, 1 owner, 3PTH, excellent 1982 MASSEY 4800, 3 spd. powershift, PTO, 230 HP, 18.4x38 tires, $20,000 OBO. trans., 4 hyd. outlets, Trimble hydraulic condition. Call 403-896-4673, Clive, AB. 306-648-8144, Gravelbourg, SK. integrated AutoSteer, Trimble CFX 750 display, rear weights, 520/85R42 triples, RETIRED: 8770, 20.8x42, 4 hyds., JD GPS UNRESERVED AG & CONSTRUCTION system, 24 spd., 1640 hrs., shedded, mint, exc. cond., always shedded. 204-242-2940, Equip. Auction, Mon. March 27 at 9:00 AM. $86,000. 403-545-2382, Bow Island, AB. Manitou, MB. Email: wiebeg@xplornet.ca 2013 Massey 2635. Preview & Bid Online: JD 8630, PTO, tires like new, excellent www.sunrise-equiment.com 519-424-1562 condition, $19,500. Call 306-861-4592, MF88 DIESEL TRACTOR w/FEL, good rubFillmore, SK. ber, $3000. 306-395-2668, 306-681-7610.

UNRESERVED AG & CONSTRUCTION Chaplin, SK. Equip. Auction, Mon. March 27 at 9:00 AM. 2014 JD 5085E. 519-424-1562 Preview & 2012 MASSEY 6490, 2200 hrs.; 2007 MF 8480, 5100 hrs. Both MFWD. Call Bid Online: www.sunrise-equipment.com 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. UTILITY TRACTORS: John Deere 6200, 4400 hrs; JD 6310 w/640 loader, 4500 1983 MF 2805, 20.4x38 duals (good), good V8 motor, needs hyd. pump on RH exterior hrs. Call 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. $4000 OBO. 306-735-2936 Whitewood, SK UNRESERVED AG & CONSTRUCTION Equip. Auction, Mon. March 27 at 9:00 AM. JD 6110 4x4. 519-424-1562 Preview & Bid Online: www.sunrise-equipment.com 2013 NH T9670, 4 WD, 1770 hrs., mega2008 IH Magnum 275 MFWD 3168 hrs, PTO, LH rev, powershift, weights, rear 1998 JD 9300 4WD, 4 hyds., GreenStar flow hyds., 6 hyd. outlets, powershift, Aur e a dy, a l w ay s s h e d d e d , 4 3 7 0 h r s . , toSteer, frt. weights. Ralph 306-531-9931, duals.....$112,800 Regina, SK. View at: McDougallbay.com 20.8/42duals, $99,000. 306-753-7575.

1-888-606-6362. www.combineworld.com WANTED: JD 8630 w/original 30 Series 2013 140A FARMALL Case/IH w/loader, engine. Call 701-340-5061, Minot, ND. 1800 hrs., $82,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm WANTED: JOHN DEERE wheel/suitcase Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. weights for JD 9320 tractor, wheel size LEON 2530 BLADE 12’, 6-way hydraulic 710/70R38. 306-441-5865, Battleford, SK. blade, very little use, off Farmall 140A. Can be made to fit other tractors, $8980 RETIRING: 1980 JD 4640 tractor, recent drop-in 50 Series eng. and trans. service.

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1993 FORD 846, 7792 hrs., 230 HP, 4 WD, 18.4R38 duals, PTO, 4 hyds., diff lock, cab, AC, heat, 14 spd. std. trans., $46,000 OBO. Call 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

1993 FORD 946 4 WD, 8000 hrs, 325 HP, 20.8x42 radial duals, 4 hyds, 1 return, $52,000 OBO. 306-594-7755, Hyas, SK. 1991 FORD 846, 7800 hrs. (500 on rebuilt eng.), 4 remotes, no PTO, std. trans., w/wo 14’ Degelman blade, asking $40,000. 306-648-8144, Gravelbourg, SK.

1993 FORD VERSATILE 876, 5765 hrs., excellent shape, $35,000. 306-463-8416, Eston, SK. VERSATILE 700 with Leon 12’ angle blade, big singles, approx. 6200 hrs., extra heater in cab for winter use, $9750; Vers. 825, 18.4x38 duals, approx. 8200 hrs., good running cond., $11,750. 403-597-2006, Sylvan Lake, AB. VERSATILE 375, 400, 435, 550 used; 450, 500 and 550DT new. Call KMK Sales Ltd. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK. 1990 VERSATILE 946, 4WD Designation 6 tractor, only 5011 hrs, standard trans, new starter, 4 hyds, manuals, always shedded, very good cond, $50,000. 403-540-6406, Calgary, AB. dunbow@yahoo.com 2010 2375, 4 WD, 520 rubber, 4 remotes, 1900 hrs., full weights, always shedded, $130,000 OBO. 306-577-1204, Carlyle, SK. 2375 VERSATILE, 310 hrs., warranty until Nov, 2017, private sale. 306-441-6160, or 306-398-4025. Baldwinton, SK. VERSATILE 895, 9000 hrs., exc. shape, $19,500; JD 4640, FWA 7800 hrs., FEL, $29000. 403-654-0430, Vauxhall, AB. 1982 835 VERSATILE, 8837 hrs., Atom Jet hyds., air ride seat, extra lighting, 18.4x38 duals, good condition, $21,500. Call 306-630-9838, Brownlee, SK.

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RESTORED 1946 ($4000) and 1948 ($3800) John Deere D's. 250-374-8285, Kamloops, BC. Email: terrymaslasz@hotmail.com JD 9300, 1997, 5996 hrs., 24 spd., triples, 4 hydraulics, wired for GPS, excellent. Call 306-493-7409, Delisle, SK.

2010 CASE/IH MAGNUM 275, 2696 hrs., 3 PTH, big 1000 PTO, $126,500. For info. call Brandon at 306-577-5678, Manor, SK. 2013 CASE/IH 140 Maxim MFWD, 2500 hrs., FEL w/grapple, 9' 3 PTH, fully hydraulic angle blade, very good condiiton, $115,000. 780-723-0416, Edson, AB. darcy12@telus.net

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2012 9510R, 960 hrs., PS, 17’ 6-Way blade, premium cab, 9030 lbs. cast, no PTO, ext. warranty, many extras. Reduced! $325,000. 780-808-3141, Lloydminster, AB RETIRED: JD 4230, 4000 hrs., powershift trans., 3 PTH, excellent condition, $25,000. 403-545-2382, Bow Island, AB. JD 4630, loader, cab; Case 2870, 4x4, Degelman dozer; Cockshutt 550 gas; 1991 GMC 17’ B&H. 306-238-4411, Goodsoil, SK

1994 NH 9880 4WD, 6848 hours, quadshift, 4 hyds, 20.8R42 tires, 30 GPM good cab.

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FENDT 939, 2011, 1100 hrs., 65 km/hr., $235,000; Fendt 936, 2016, 500 hrs., loaded; Fendt 939, 2015, 1850 hrs., Vario-Grip, $249,000; Fendt 939, 2011, 3400 hrs., 65km/hr, front PTO, $180,000; Fendt 930, 2005, 10,000 hrs., new 900 tires, $79,000; Claas Xerion 2010, 2040 hrs., CVT50k, Front 3 PTH, 800R38, $187,000; MF 8690, 2012, 3500 hrs., CVT50k, front 3 PTH, $125,000; MF 8737, 2016, 400 hrs., front PTO, loaded; JD 8345R, 2014, 2700 hrs., IVT50k, front 3 PTH, $198,000; JD 7230R 2013, 3000 hrs., IVT50k, new Q88 loader; JD 6170R, 2013, 1750 hrs., IVT50K, new Q76 loader; Case 370CVT, 2014, 220 hrs., 1994 NH 9882, 7200 hrs., 710x38 (150 50k, front hitch, 900/R42 $225,500. Many hrs), new pivot points and rad, LED lights, more in stock. 519-955-1331, Clinton, ON front weights, vg, shedded, $89,900. Cam- www.rozendaalclinton.com Don Motors 306-237-4212 Perdue SK GRATTON COULEE AGRI PARTS LTD. Your UNRESERVED AG & CONSTRUCTION #1 place to purchase late model combine Equip. Auction, Mon. March 27 at 9:00 and tractor parts. Used, new and rebuilt.

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2013 LS P7040C, MFWD, 97 HP, 525 hrs., with LL 7101 FEL, 40 gear shuttle shift trans., PTO, 78" 3 PTH, QA bucket, like new cond., $54,000 OBO. 780-482-5273, Edmonton, AB. group.6@outlook.com

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16â&#x20AC;&#x2122; DEGELMAN 4-way dozer blade, Q/A, WANTED: HESSTON hay auger header, complete with hoses, will fit Case 375-435 m o d e l 6 6 6 5 , p r e f e r a b l y 1 4 â&#x20AC;&#x2122; . C a l l Call 306-460-9440, Kindersley, SK. 780-353-2354, Bonanza, AB.

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Spring discounts. Full line of new and used equipment. 1 Cadman 4000S wide body big gun, like new; Also alum. pipe, pumps and motors. If we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have it, we will get it for you! Call 306-867-9461, 306-867-7037, Outlook, SK.

LANDMASTER DOZERS: YEAR END BLOWOUT PRICING, Professionally Engineered & Manufactured, 1 PD14 remaining, 1 PD18 remaining. For details & pric- MF #36 DISCERS. Will pay top dollar and pick from anywhere. Phone Mike ing - Neil 306-231-8300. landmaster.ca 306-723-4875, Cupar, SK. WANTED: USED, BURNT, old or ugly tractors. Newer models too! Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tractor Wrecking, 1-888-676-4847.

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2011 HITACHI 270 CL-3 excavator Isuzu, 4 cyl. 147 HP dsl. eng., 5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; WBM bucket w/hyd. thumb, 32â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; tracks, 8692.5 hrs., AC, heater, 2 spd., exc. working cond., $ 1 2 5 , 0 0 0 . C a n d e l i ve r. ( Wa r r a n t y ) .

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1986 CATERPILLAR 926 wheel loader, 9670 orig. hrs, 1.75 bucket w/teeth, 17.5-25 tires - 55% remaining, loader linkage and articulation tight, powershift trans., 4 cyl.

Cat eng., 105 HP, $32,500. 403-571-5515 Calgary, AB. nucen@shaw.ca 2006 CAT D8T SU dozer, single shank ripper, cab air, 11,000 hours, work ready, $150,000. 204-795-9192 Plum Coulee, MB DEGELMAN DOZER BLADE, 14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 6-way blade, mounted on Case STX 325, $22,000 OBO. Call 306-421-0679, Estevan, SK.

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2011 DEGELMAN 7900 16â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 6-way blade, 1â&#x20AC;&#x2122; side extensions to make it 18â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, mounting brackets & hyd. hoses to fit JD 9530 4WD, $29,000. 306-698-7808, Wolseley, SK. 68â&#x20AC;? BOBCAT snowblower and 68â&#x20AC;? snow bucket. Call 306-460-9440, Kindersley, SK. FRONT END LOADER, has itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own oil reservoir, pump and controls, newer bucket. $600 OBO. 306-799-4628, Briercrest, SK.

EQUIPMENT FOR SALE: 2011 CIH 500HD tractor, $300,000; 2013 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122; SeedMaster air drill, slim fold w/2012 Bourgault 6550 air tank, $270,000; 1970 Chev grain truck 600 bu. box, 6 spd. auto (great yard truck), $20,000; 2014 Wilson trailer, less than 3000 kms, $58,000; 2000 Trailtech sprayer trailer with tanks, chem handlers and product pumps, $20,000; 1999 RoGator high clearance sprayer with AutoSteer, $81,000; 2003 JD 9650 combine w/GPS a n d C o n t o u r - M a s t e r fe e d e r h o u s e , $85,000; 2010 JD 635 flex header w/air reel and transport, $37,500; 2002 Honeybee 36â&#x20AC;&#x2122; header w/Headsight kit, $25,000; 2011 Schulte 8000 rockpicker, high dump, $20,000; 2009 Farm King 1385 auger w/hyd. swing, mechanical drive, $12,000; 1993 Farm King 1070 auger w/hyd. swing, mechanical drive, $4000; Wheatheart 8x45â&#x20AC;&#x2122; auger, $2500; Bin sweep, $500. Call Ron at 306-648-5394, Ferland, SK. KIRCHNER HAY BALE bucket grapple, 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;; 2 Melroe Kirschmann seed drills 14â&#x20AC;&#x2122;; CCIL rodweeder 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122;; Rotovator 3 PTH rototiller 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Call 403-701-9556, Okotoks, AB. SUNFLOWER HARVEST SYSTEMS. Call for literature. 1-800-735-5848. Lucke Mfg., www.luckemanufacturing.com ODESSA ROCKPICKER SALES: New Degelman equipment, land rollers, Strawmaster, rockpickers, protill, dozer blades.

306-957-4403, 306-536-5097, Odessa, SK. WIRELESS FULL BIN SENSOR; New natural gas/propane grain heater; T-Jet Centerline 220 GPS guidance system; Westfield folding hydraulic end gate drill fill.

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BLUE WATER IRRIGATION DEV. LTD. Reinke pivots, lateral, minigators, pump and used mainline, new Bauer travelers dealer. 22 yrs. experience. 306-858-7351, Lucky Lake, SK. www.philsirrigation.ca BLOCKED AND SEASONED FIREWOOD: $180 per 160 ft.â&#x2030;Ľ cord; bags $80 (includes refundable deposit for bag). Bundles of 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122;-5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or 6.5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; also available. Vermette Wood Preservers 1-800-667-0094, Spruce Home.

RAINBOW TROUT, 3"-6" fingerlings available for spring stocking. Call 306-260-0288, 306-270-4639. info@keetsfishfarm.com SMALL ACREAGE EQUIPMENT: King Cutter Saskatoon, SK. www.keetsfishfarm.com 3 PTH cultivator; King Cutter 3 PTH potato furrower; Troy-Bilt 22â&#x20AC;? walk behind rototiller. Call 403-701-9556, Okotoks, AB. BEVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FISH & SEAFOOD LTD., buy direct, fresh fish: Pickerel, Northern Pike, Whitefish and Lake Trout. Seafood also available. Phone toll free 1-877-434-7477, 306-763-8277, Prince Albert, SK. 5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; BARE ROOTED ASSINIBOINE POPLAR, excellent shelterbelt tree, seedless.

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U&K Greenhouses. Phone or text DIESEL GENSET SALES AND SERVICE, 306-695-2056, Indian Head, SK. Email: 12 to 300 KWs, lots of units in stock. Used uk.greenhouses@sasktel.net and new: Perkins, John Deere and Deutz.

We also build custom Gensets. We currently have special pricing on new John Deere units. Call for pricing 204-792-7471.

NEW AND USED generators, all sizes from 5 kw to 3000 kw, gas, LPG or diesel. Phone for availability and prices. Many used in stock. 204-643-5441, Fraserwood, MB.

GENERATORS: USED, LOW hour take-outs, 20-2000KW. Diesel, Propane & Natural gas 701-371-9526, www.abrahamindustrial.com SPRUCE FOR SALE!! Beautiful locally SK Fa rm Boys - Hon e s t Prom p t NEW AND USED GENERATORS, Multiquip, grown trees. Plan ahead and renew your Se rvice : Perkins, Cummins, Magnum, Honda, new shelterbelt or landscape a new yardsite, Ca ll An ytim e cond., in stock. 250-554-6661, Kamloops, get the year round protection you need.

3 06 .9 46 .9 6 6 9 or 3 06 .9 46 .79 23 BC. Email: denis@bcdieselgenerators.com We sell on farm near Didsbury, AB. or deliver anywhere in Western Canada. 6 - 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; WANTED ROPE MAKING gear machine, www.bcdieselgenerators.com spruce available. Now taking spring orders Please call Dave 250-479-2793 Victoria, while supplies last. Phone 403-586-8733 BC. dave@lazymaplefarm.ca or visit: www.didsburysprucefarms.com WANTED: FLEXI-COIL SYSTEM 75 hyd. folding coil packers. Regina, SK. area.

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SASKATOON CO-OP AGRO CENTER is acCall cepting sealed tenders until 12:00 Noon, Friday, March 31, 2017 for the purchase of and use discount code a Wheatheart heavy hitter post pounder.

For more info., please call 306-933-3835 or stop by Saskatoon Co-op Agro Center, #1327 N Service Road, Hwy #16 West, Saskatoon, SK. S7K 3J7.

FENCE REMOVAL. Wire rolled, posts piled. Call 306-783-5639, 306-641-4255, Ebenezer, SK. GUARANTEED PRESSURE TREATED fence posts, lumber slabs and rails. Call Lehner Wo o d P r e s e r ve r s L t d . , a s k fo r R o n 2013 AUTOFARM GPS, complete, very 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK. good condition, IOS compatible, $2500.

MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. Please call 403-443-2162, Three Hills, AB. Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: www.maverickconstruction.ca

CASE/IH 2870 4 WD, Degelman blade, $17,000; 1999 NH LS170 Bobcat, $13,000; Vac tank, 1800 gal. and pump $8000; IHC Model 252 forklift, gas, $5000.

306-238-4411, Goodsoil, SK. CORRAL CLEANING EQUIPMENT: 3 TriDrive Western Star spreader trucks (2 2006, 1 - 2016); 2000 Western Star w/40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; spreader trailer and silage racks; 2012 JD 644K wheel loader w/skidders and scale; 2012 Hitachi 250-5 excavator w/thumb; 2005 Ford F550 crew cab service truck.

High River, AB. Call or e-mail for more information - 403-652-0437, ken@kscc.ca BOBCAT 943 SKIDSTEER, $14,900; NH LX865 skidsteer, $12,900; McKee 7â&#x20AC;&#x2122; snowblower, $1,000; Lorenz 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; HD snowblower, $1,500; Gehl 500 cu. ft., 4 auger feed cart, $10,000; Eversman V-Ditcher $2,000, Ashland 4.5, 6, and 8 yard scrapers, Phoenix rotary harrow 35â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 42â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, and 53â&#x20AC;&#x2122;; Knight 3 auger feed cart, $5,000. 1-866-938-8537.

WATER IN THE WRONG PLACE: Used pumping motors, PTO carts, 6â&#x20AC;? - 10â&#x20AC;? alum. pipe. 50 years experience. Call Dennis 403-308-1400, Taber, AB.

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info@bisoncentre.com 780-955-1995 PURE PLAINS BREEDING BULLS from Alberta Bison Ranch are selected out of a large closed group that have been eating natural feeds and selected for ADG. 780-284-0347, Mayerthorpe, AB. Email: albertabisonranch@gmail.com Visit online: albertabison.ca WANT TO PURCHASE cull bison bulls and cows, $5/lb. HHW. Finished beef steers and heifers for slaughter. We are also buying compromised cattle that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a long trip. Oak Ridge Meats, McCreary, 204-835-2365, 204-476-0147.

NILSSON BROS INC. buying finished bison on the rail, also cull cows at Lacombe, AB. For spring delivery and beyond. Smaller groups welcome. Fair, competitive and assured payment. Contact Richard Bintner 306-873-3184.

WANTED ALL CLASSES of bison: calves, yearlings, cows, bulls. Willing to purchase any amount. dreyelts1@rap.midco.net Call 605-391-4646.

ANDERSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FOUR BAR X RANCH & MARTENS CATTLE CO. Annual Angus and Charolais Bull Sale. Monday April 3rd, 1:00PM at the Spiritwood Stockyards, Spiritwood, SK. Selling 30 Black Angus bulls and 30 Charolais bulls. All bulls are semen tested. Wintering and delivery available. For a catalogue or more info. contact Kevin 306-883-7355, Sylvan 306-883-7967 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061.

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JOHNSON LIVESTOCK ANNUAL ANGUS Bull Sale, Thursday March 16th, 1:00PM at the ranch near Peebles, SK. Presenting 165 Black Angus bulls including extra age fall born and yearling bulls. Wintering and delivery available. For a catalogue or more information contact Andrew 306-736-7393 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. To view catalogue on-line: www.buyagro.com and on sale day, watch and bid online at: www.dlms.ca PL#116061.

QUILL CREEK BISON is looking for finished, and all other types of bison. COD, paying market prices. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Producers working with Producers.â&#x20AC;? Delivery points in SK. and MB. Call 306-231-9110, Quill Lake, SK.

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TRIPLE J FARMS 9th Annual Black Angus Bull Sale, Wednesday March 29th, 1:00PM at the farm, Whitewood, SK. (12 mi. S of Whitewood on Hwy #9), offering 60 yearling Black Angus bulls. For a catalogue or more info. contact Brad and/or Sharon Jeannot 306-735-7760, Ben Wright 519-374-3335 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061. Sale day watch and bid on-line at: www.dlms.ca

RED ANGUS YEARLINGS and 2 year old bulls for sale. For a listing of bulls and pictures go to: www.tophamredangus.com Call Ian 306-295-4040, Eastend, SK.

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JOHNSTON/ FERTILE VALLEY Private Treaty Bull Sale. All JFV bulls will be sold off the yard this year. Over 125 thick, easy fleshing good haired yearling and 2 year old bulls selected from 600 low maintenance, high production cows. They are sired by the leading A.I. bulls in the industry including Regard, Resource, Renown, International, Ten Speed, Glanworth 57U, Special Focus and Brilliance. Many of these bulls are suitable for heifers. All bulls are semen tested with complete performance info. available. Deferred payment program with 60% down and 40% interest free due Dec. 1, 2017. Come and see one of the most respected cowherds in Canada. Select the bull or group of bulls that you really want at your leisure without the pressure of a sale. David and Dennis Johnston 306-856-4726, Conquest, SK. View the cowherd online at website: www.johnstonfertilevalley.com BASKM ANGUS is selling 5 two year olds and 1 yearling bull in the Tri-N Charolais and Guest Bull Sale 2:00 PM, DST, Saturday, April 1st, Heartland Livestock, Virden, MB. View catalogue and videos online at bylivestock.com Matt Ginter 204-721-4805 HOLLINGER Land & Cattle 5th Annual Bull and Female Sale, Monday March 20th, 1:00 PM at the ranch, Neudorf, SK. Offering 40 Black Angus yearling bulls, 11 purebred females and select pens of open commercial heifers. For more information or a catalogue contact Chad 306-331-0302 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View catalogue on-line at: www.buyagro.com and on sale day, watch and bid on-line at www.dlms.ca PL#116061.

SOUTH VIEW RANCH has Black and Red Angus 2 year old bulls. Ceylon, SK. Call Shane 306-869-8074, Keith 306-454-2730.

SELLING: BLACK ANGUS BULLS. Wayside Angus, Henry and Bernie Jungwirth, 306-256-3607, Cudworth, SK. 20th ANNUAL TRIPLE ‘A’ BULL SALE, Saturday April 1st, 1:00PM CST at the Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. On offer 85 Black and Red Angus yearling bulls, performance tested. For a catalogue or more info contact T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061. Sale day watch and bid on-line at: www.dlms.ca BLACK ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, semen tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca 20th ANNUAL MINBURN BULL SALE on March 23rd, 2017 at 1:00PM at the farm near Minburn, AB. Offering 50 bulls: 42 Black Angus yearling bulls and 8 Red Angus yearling bulls. Contact Danny Warril ow 7 8 0 - 8 5 3 - 0 4 2 7 , D e v i n Wa r r i l ow 780-581-4329 or Rob Holowaychuk, OBI 780-916-2628. View catalogue on-line at: www.cattlemanagement.ca. Online bidding and video sale with: www.dlms.ca EDIE CREEK ANGUS has 46 Meaty, Moderate, Maternal, Black & Red Angus 2 year old bulls for sale. March 11th, Ashern Auction Mart at 1:00 PM will be our 10th Annual Sale! Easy calving, easy fleshing, developed as 2 year olds to breed more cows for more years! Great temperaments, many suitable for heifers. 204-232-1620, www.ediecreekangus.com OLE FARMS is offering a large selection of Black and Red Angus 2 year old bulls.

Call 780-689-8324, Athabasca, AB. SOUTH SASK SIMMENTAL & ANGUS Annual Bull Sale, Monday March 13th, 1:00PM, Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. Selling 70 Black & Red Angus bulls and Red, Black and Fullblood Simmental. Wintering and delivery available.

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COW-BOYS Angus Bull & Female Sale Friday March 24, 1:00PM, Virden, MB. Selling 90 Red and Black Angus bulls, as well as a select group of purebred heifer calves, presented by RamRod Cattle Co., CorVet Cattle Co. and Fraser Farms. Wintering and delivery available. For catalogue or more information contact Tony Dekeyser 204-264-0270, Jeff Fraser 204-522-5964, Corey Jones at 204-264-0444 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View catalogue on-line at: www.buyagro.com and on sale d a y, w a t c h a n d b i d o n - l i n e a t : www.dlms.ca PL#116061.

16th ANNUAL COMMON SENSE BULL and Female Sale. Everblack Angus and Allandale Angus. Monday March 27, 2017 at 2:00PM, Vermilion, AB. Offering 106 lots: 71 two year old Angus bulls; 22 yearling Angus bulls; 15 open heifers. Contact Ernie Gibson 780-853-2422, Jordan Gibs o n 7 8 0 - 5 8 1 - 1 1 5 9 , Way n e S t e t s o n 780-853-7523 or Rob Holowaychuk, OBI 780-916-2628. View catalogue on-line at: www.cattlemanagement.ca. Online bidding with: www.dlms.ca BLACK PEARL ANGUS Bull & Female Sale, Sunday March 12th, 2:00PM at the Edwards Livestock Centre, Tisdale, SK. Selling yearling & 2 yr. old bulls and select open heifers. Females sell with a young incentive program. Payment plan, wintering and delivery available. For catalogue or more information call or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View catalogue on-line at: www.buyagro.com Watch and bid on-line at: www.dlms.ca PL#116061 BLACK ANGUS YEARLING and 2 year old bulls on moderate growing ration, performance info. available. Adrian or Brian and Elaine Edwards, Valleyhills Angus, Glaslyn, SK. call 306-441-0946, 306-342-4407. www.valleyhillsangus.com 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 50 BLACK ANGUS heifers with calves at fo o t ; A l s o 4 0 A p r i l / M a y c a l v e r s .

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PALMER CHAROLAIS/NIELSON LAND AND CATTLE CO. Charolais and Black and Red Angus Bull and Heifer Sale, Monday, March 13, 2:00 PM, at the Palmer farm, Bladworth, SK. Offering 45 Black and Red Angus yearling bulls, 10 Black and Red PB Angus yearling heifers, 10 Black and Red Angus bred commercial heifers and 47 two year old and yearling Charolais bulls, most polled, some red factor. Top quality cattle with great pedigrees that will work. Call Larry Nielson BURNETT ANGUS ANNUAL Bull Sale on at 306-567-7493 or call Velon Herback, Saturday, April 1, 2017, 2:00 PM, at the 306-567-7033. Catalogue and videos Ranch, Swift Current, SK. 60 Black Angus online at: www.bylivestock.com yearling bulls. Many low birthweight, short gestation, genetically bred for breeding KEY RANCH BLACK Angus bulls reg. top heifers, performance, leptin and fertility quality yearlings. Moderate frame, balanced tested. Guest consignors: Schwan Angus, bulls to build long term profitability in a Grant Scheirlinck, Greg Gillis. Contact; cow herd. Good selection. Cow & hfr bulls.

Bryce 306-773-7065, Wyatt 306-750-7822. Calving ease bred in. Exc. dispositions. wburnett@xplornet.ca Outcross genetics. Bulls will be semen tested and delivered. 306-221-4715 Asquith SK 9th Annual IMPACT Angus & Charolais Bulls Sale, Saturday March 25th, 1:30PM at Saskatoon Livestock Sales. 50 Black & BENCHMARK ANGUS 21ST ANNUAL BULL Red Angus yearling bulls. For a catalogue Sale, April 3, 2017, 1:30 PM at the Ranch, or more info. contact Randy Tetzlaff at Warner, AB. 90 Red and Black Angus bulls, 3 0 6 - 9 4 4 - 2 7 3 4 , J a s o n G e o r g e a t individually tested on grow safe for feed 306-567-7939 or T Bar C Cattle Co. conversion and residual feed intake. Call 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online Mike at 403-394-4903, or call Shane, at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061.

403-795-0262, Doug at 403-328-6966. www.benchmarkangus.com DURALTA FARMS 12th Annual Angus Bull & Female Sale, Friday March 17th, 1:30PM at the farm, Vegreville, AB. Selling QUALITY ANGUS AND Polled Hereford bulls 70 Red and Black Angus Simmental bulls for sale. Great selection, semen tested, as well as a select group of Angus and quiet. Priced to sell. Phone 403-556-0301, Simmental open heifers. Wintering and Olds, AB. Email: ablatimer@xplornet.ca delivery available. For catalogues or info. www.remitallwest.com call Dave Durie 780-208-4888 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View catalogue on-line at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061 DURALTA FARMS 12th Annual Angus 25TH TOP CUT BLACK ANGUS Bull Bull & Female Sale, Friday March 17th, Sale, Friday, March 24, 12:30 PM CST at 1:30PM at the farm, Vegreville, AB. Selling Cowtown Livestock Exchange, Maple 70 Red and Black Angus Simmental bulls Creek, SK. On offer 75- 2 yr. old bulls and as well as a select group of Angus and 24 yearling bulls. 100 quality Commercial Simmental open heifers. Wintering and replacement heifers. For info. contact: delivery available. For catalogues or info.

Craig Angus 306-622-2021; Bear Creek call Dave Durie 780-208-4888 or T Bar C Angus 306-558-0011; Hawkeye Ranching Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View catalogue Co. Ltd., 306-622-2632; Forbes Angus, on-line at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061 306-558-2063. Catalogue at BuyAgro.com 20th ANNUAL TRIPLE ‘A’ BULL SALE, GOOD QUALITY PB Black Angus 2 yr. old Saturday April 1st, 1:00PM CST at the bulls, semen tested and guaranteed breed- Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. ers. Phone David or Pat 306-963-2639 or On offer 85 Red and Black Angus yearling 306-963-7739, Imperial, SK. bulls, performance tested. For a catalogue more info contact T Bar C Cattle Co. 36th ANNUAL EARLY SUNSET RANCH or View the catalogue online Angus & Simmental Bull & Female Sale. 306-220-5006. at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061. Sale “Only the Good Ones will Sell” New Sale day watch and bid on-line at: www.dlms.ca date: March 25th, 2017 1:00PM at the farm near Edam, SK. Offering 65 lots: 21 yearling Angus bulls; 17 yearling Simmental bulls; 15 open Angus females; 12 open Simmental females. Contact Jim Grant 306-441-3590 or Rob Holowaychuk, OBI 780-916-2628. View catalogue on-line at: www.cattlemanagement.ca. Online bidding with: www.dlms.ca 17TH ANNUAL ON TARGET Bull Sale, Tuesday March 14, Barrhead, AB. 1:00PM. “Targeting The Needs of our Customers” Offering 102 lots: 41 Black Angus yearlings; 32 Red Angus yearlings; 29 Simmental yearlings. Contact Dwayne Emery 780-305-4209, Brad Yoder 780-674-1196, Mark Jones 780-349-1353, Barclay Smith 780-305-6716 or Rob Holowoychuk OBI 780-916-2628. View catalogue on-line at: www.cattlemanagement.ca. Online bidding with: www.dlms.ca

27TH ANNUAL NORTHERN Progress Bull Sale, Friday, April 7th, Saskatoon Livestock Sales, Saskatoon. 1:30 PM. Featuring 40 yearling (31 Red, 9 Black) and 20 2 yr. old Red Angus bulls. Lots of calving ease bulls with performance. RSL Red Angus, Battleford, SK., 306-937-2880 or 306-441-5010.

SOUTH SASK SIMMENTAL & ANGUS Annual Bull Sale, Monday March 13th, 1:00PM, Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. Selling 70 Red & Black Angus bulls and Red, Black and Fullblood Simmental. Wintering and delivery available.

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RED ANGUS YEARLING and 2 year old bulls on moderate growing ration, performance info. available. Adrian or Brian and Elaine Edwards, Valleyhills Angus, Glaslyn, SK. call 306-441-0946, 306-342-4407. www.valleyhillsangus.com

DIAMOND W 15th ANNUAL BULL SALE, Tuesday, March 21st, 1:30 PM DST, Valley Livestock, Minitonas, MB. Offering 47 Charolais yearling and 2 year olds, many polled, some red factor, 21 Red and Black Angus 2 year olds and yearlings. Sound, semen tested with delivery avail. For catalogues and info., contact Orland or Ivan Walker, 306-865-3953. Sale broadcast live on www.dlms.ca Catalogue online at: www.bylivestock.com 9th Annual IMPACT Angus & Charolais Bulls Sale, Saturday March 25th, 1:30PM at Saskatoon Livestock Sales. 50 Red & Black Angus yearling bulls. For a catalogue or more info. contact Randy Tetzlaff at 306-944-2734 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061.

SOUTH VIEW RANCH Red and Black Angus Bull Sale, Thursday April 13th.

Offering 90+ Red and Black Angus yearling bulls. Performance data, semen tested. Phone Shane 306-869-8074 or Keith 306-454-2730, Ceylon, SK. COMMERCIAL 2 YR old Red Angus heifer bulls and performance bulls. 38+ cm scrottles. Perfect breeding condition.

Contact Harv Verishine 306-283-4666, 306-281-5424 cel, Langham SK. RED ANGUS PUREBRED 2 year old bulls.

Open heifers also available. Contact DBM Angus Farms at Holland, MB., Brian 204-526-0942 or David 204-723-0288.

REGISTERED RED ANGUS BULLS Quiet, easy calving, low to moderate birth weights, good growth, E.P.D.’s available, guaranteed breeders (vet checked & semen tested). From 10 Herd Sires. Selling quality bulls for heifers & cows since 1992.

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REGISTERED YEARLING BULLS, Semen tested, vet inspected, guaranteed breeders, delivered. 306-845-2557, 306-845-7601, Turtleford, SK. evandglen@littleloon.ca For details go to: www.belleredangus.com WAVENY ANGUS FARM. Two year old and yearling bulls available. Semen tested, ready to go. Correct and growthy. Call Mike Chase 780-853-3384, or 780-853-2275, Vermilion, AB.

POLLED YEARLING BLONDE BULLS for sale, Estevan, SK. area. Phone 306-634-2174 or cell 306-421-6987.

REGISTERED PB CHAROLAIS yearling and 2 yr. old bulls by private treaty. Semen tested and guaranteed. Call Brad 204-537-2367, 204-523-0062, Belmont, MB. www.clinecattlecompany.ca

REGISTERED BULLS FOR sale 1 and 2 yr olds, bred for calving ease, performance and do-abilty. 306-921-6792, Melfort, SK. Find us on Facebook at: Cripple Creek Ranches.

JACKSON CATTLE CO. has on offer black yearling and red & black 2 yr. old Angus bulls. Selling in the Blairs Pursuit of Excellence Bull Sale, April 4th, 2017, 1:00 PM, at Jackson Cattle Co. Bulls are available anytime for viewing at the ranch, Sedley, SK. 306-537-9251 (Levi) or 306-537-4690 (Chance). Email: jcc@sasktel.net catalog available on-line: www.blairscattleco.com

GOOD QUALITY YEARLING and 2 year old Charolais bulls. Mostly AI sired. Semen tested. Some Red Factors. Will feed until breeding time. Contact Bar H Charolais, Grenfell, SK. Kevin Haylock, 306-697-2901 or 306-697-2988.

TRI-N CHAROLAIS AND GUEST BASKM Angus Bull Sale, 2:00 PM, DST, Saturday, April 1st, Heartland Livestock, Virden, MB. Offering 46 Charolais yearlings, most are polled, many red factor with calving ease and hair. Also selling 6 Black Angus two year olds and yearling. View catalogue and PRAIRIE DISTINCTION CHAROLAIS Bull videos online at bylivestock.com or call Sale, Tuesday, March 28th, Neepawa, MB. Merv Nykoliation, 204-851-2290.

Ag Society. 17 two year olds and 45 yearlings from 7 Manitoba breeders. Sale on- ELDER CHAROLAIS 7th Annual Bull Sale. line at: www.dlms.ca. View catalogue at: Thursday, March 23rd, 1:30 PM, at the www.bylivestock.com or ph. 306-536-4261 farm, Coronach, SK. 40 yearling bulls most are polled, some red factor. Top quality WHITECAP/ROSSO CHAROLAIS and bulls that will calve and then give you the Howe Red Angus Bull Sale. April 5th, performance you want. Ron 306-267-4986 2017, 1:00PM, 8 miles South of Moose or Mike 306-267-7730. View catalogue Jaw, on #2 Hwy, 1.5 miles East on Baildon and videos at: www.eldercharolais.com grid. Selling 47 two year old Charolais and 25 yearling Charolais, plus 35 Red Angus. PALMER CHAROLAIS/NIELSON LAND Contact Darwin 306-690-8916, Kelly AND CATTLE CO. Charolais and Black and 306-693-2163 or Mike 306-631-8779.

Red Angus Bull and Heifer Sale, Monday, RED WHITE TAN Charolais bulls, yearling March 13, 2:00 PM, at the Palmer farm, and two year olds, Canyon Timeout, and Bladworth, SK. Offering 47 two year old and Landmark bloodlines, semen tested and yearling Charolais bulls, most polled, some delivered. Wheatheart Charolais, Rose- red factor, 45 Black and Red Angus yearling bulls, 10 Black and Red PB Angus yearling town, SK., 306-882-6444 or 306-831-9369 heifers and 10 Black and Black Baldy bred YEARLING & 2 YEAR old Charolais bulls, commercial heifers. Top quality cattle with Creedence Charolais Ranch, Ervin Zayak, great pedigrees that will work. Velon Herback, 306-567-7033 or Larry Nielson at 780-741-3868, 780-853-0708 Derwent, AB 306-567-7493. Catalogue and videos online REG. CHAROLAIS YEARLING and 2 yr. old at www.bylivestock.com bulls, reds, whites. Yearling heifer calves.

Richard Smith 780-846-2643, Kitscoty, AB. STEPPLER FARMS 6TH Annual Charolais Bull Sale, Sunday, March 12, 1:00 PM, StepJTA DIAMOND CHAROLAIS BULL SALE pler Sale Barn, Miami, MB. 65 yearlings and 1:00PM on the farm, Saturday, April 1st, 20 two year olds, sound, good haired and 2017. 39 bulls, tan and whites; 11 two thick, most are polled. Sale broadcast at year olds and 28 yearlings. Avg. weaning www.dlms.ca. For catalogue or info. contact weight 796 lbs. No creep. Yearlings $3000 Andre Steppler, cell 204-750-1951. Please and up; 2 yr. olds start at $4250. Will keep view videos and catalogue online at: until May 1st. Must be insured. For more www.stepplerfarms.com info. call Jerome and Cindy Tremblay 306-394-4406, Courval, SK. PUREBRED CHAROLAIS BULLS: Good selecREGISTERED CHAROLAIS BULLS, 2 year tion of yearling & 2year olds. Polled, white & tan, $3300 and $3600. Van Buuren olds and yearlings. Polled, horned, some red. Quiet hand fed, hairy bulls. 40+ head Charolais, 204-522-0855, Pipestone, MB. available. Wilf at Cougar Hill Ranch 306-728-2800, 306-730-8722, Melville, SK

BRED HEIFERS due to calve in April, bred to easy calving Angus bulls, preg checked.

306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, A. SPARROW FARMS Ltd. Annual Charolais SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca Bull Sale, tomorrow March 10th, 2:00 PM, ARM RIVER RED ANGUS has on offer on the farm, 2 miles East, 2 miles South yearling and 2 year old bulls sired by Red and 1/2 mile East of Vanscoy, SK. Cam Cockburn Patriot 12R, Red Golden Eagle Sparrow, 306-668-4218.

Yosemite 6A, NRA Dateline 109Y (Black CEDARLEA FARMS GIT R DONE Bull Red gene carrier) Red 6 Mile Summit 467Z Sale, Tuesday, April 4, 1:00 PM, at the and grandsons of Canadian World Angus Windy Willow Angus farm, Hodgeville, SK. Forum Reserve Champion “Red Lazy MC 50 Charolais yearlings sell. Most are Smash 41 N.” Arm River Red Angus bulls polled, some red factor. Bulls that will are selected from cows that calve unas- calve well, give you added performance, sisted. They are born easy with a will to hair and docility. Also 75 Black and Red live, the genetics to grow and the quality Angus bulls and a group of open Angus to sell. Select your next herd sire from heifers from Windy Willows. Garner or Lori central Sask Red Angus bull supplier in our Deobald, 306-677-2589. View videos and 31st year. 306-567-4702, Davidson, SK catalogue online: www.cedarleafarms.com KENRAY RANCH RED ANGUS BULLS: MACMILLAN CHAROLAIS Purebred reg.

40 responsibly developed, fully guaranteed yearling bulls available. Bred for growth, yearling bulls available. 30+ years in busi- easy keeping and market demand. Thick ness. Open house March 25th. On-line sale bulls with good feet, lots of hair and very April 5th - 6th. www.DVAuctions.com For quiet. Bulls are semen tested and can be more info. contact Sheldon 306-452-7545 kept until May 1. Call Lorna 306-227-2774 or Ray 306-452-7447, Redvers, SK. E-mail: or 306-931-2893, Saskatoon, SK. www.kenrayranch.com HORSESHOE E CHAROLAIS 19th Annual VIDEOS: WWW.DKFANGUS.CA Select Bull Sale, Saturday March 11th, 2:00 PM, now. Get later. Great selection. Superior Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. quality. DKF Red And Black Angus bulls On offer 70 bulls, yearlings and 2 yr. olds. at DKF Ranch, anytime. Gladmar, SK. All bulls semen tested. Delivery available.

Scott Fettes 306-815-7023; Dwayne Layne and Paula Evans at 306-252-2246, 306-969-4506.

Kenaston, SK. Bid online with DLMS. View RED ANGUS BULLS with excellent hair and catalogue: www.horseshoeecharolais.com exceptional feet. Rugged cow bulls and beefy heifer bulls. EKW Red Angus, Elmer DIAMOND W 15TH Annual Bull Sale, Tuesday, March 21st, 1:30 PM DST, Valley Wiebe, 306-381-3691, Hague, SK. Livestock, Minitonas, MB. Offering 47 HOWE RED ANGUS & Whitecap/Rosso Charolais yearling and 2 year olds, many Charolais Bull Sale. April 5th, 2017, polled, some red factor, 21 Red and Black 1:00PM, 8 miles South of Moose Jaw on Angus 2 year old and yearlings. Sound, se#2 Hwy, 1.5 miles East on Baildon grid. men tested with delivery available. For Selling 35 Red Angus plus 47 two year old catalogues and info. contact Orland or Charolais and 25 yearling Charolais. Con- Ivan Walker 306-865-3953. Sale broadcast t a c t D a r w i n 3 0 6 - 6 9 0 - 8 9 1 6 , K e l l y live on www.dlms.ca. Catalogue online at: www.bylivestock.com 306-693-2163 or Mike 306-631-8779.

CREEK’S EDGE PUREBRED Charolais bulls for sale off the farm. 60 yearlings and 6 two year olds. We welcome you to our bull pen anytime. Also selling purebred Charolais replacement heifers. Please phone Stephen 306-279-2033 or 306-279-7709, Yellow Creek, SK. View all our bulls online www.creeksedgecharolais.ca

DOUBLE ‘F’ CATTLE CO. 8th Annual Bull Sale, March 30th, 2:00 PM at Heartland Livestock, Prince Albert, SK. Selling 50 rugged Black Angus bulls and an elite group of replacement heifers. Kelly Feige 20 RED ANGUS 2 yr old bulls. Calving ease 306-747-2376, 306-747-7498. Catalogue and maternal lines. Board and delivery online after Mar 1. www.doublefcattle.com avail. Rob Garner 306-946-7946, Simpson 19th ANNUAL 49th PARALLEL Black Angus SOUTH VIEW RANCH has Red and Black Bull Sale, Monday, March 27th 2017, Angus 2 year old bulls. Ceylon, SK. Call 1:00PM, Mankota, SK. On offer: 80 year- Shane 306-869-8074, Keith 306-454-2730. ling bulls; 10 Purebred open replacement heifers; 75 commercial open replacement heifers. For more information or catalogue contact Glendar Angus 306-478-7722 or DEER RANGE FARMS Bull And Female Sale Ross River Ranch 306-741-6251.

March 20, 2017, 1:00 PM, Heartland Livestock. Swift Current, SK. Features 50 2 year old Red Angus Bulls, 8 Simmental bulls, 25 Red Angus bred heifers. This an outstanding set of long-bodied, sure footed bulls that will add pounds to your calf crop.

Gorgeous bred heifers to start calving late March. 306-773-9872. tkolson@sasktel.net www.DeerRange.ca

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9th Annual IMPACT Angus & Charolais Bulls Sale, Saturday March 25th, 1:30PM at Saskatoon Livestock Sales. Selling 40 Charolais bulls. For a catalogue or more info. contact Mike McAvoy at 306-241-1975 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061.

GELBVIEH BULLS. Reg. 2 yr old and yearling polled bulls from our 38 year breeding program. Reds and blacks. 780-672-9950, Camrose, AB. Email: gwinder@syban.net POLLED YEARLING and 2 year old bulls, quiet, good haired. Call Selin’s Gelvieh 306-793-4568, Stockholm, SK.

17TH ANNUAL SASKATOON Gelbvieh Bull and Female Sale, Saturday, March 18, 2017, Saskatoon Livestock Sales. Pre-sale viewing and customer appreciation Friday, March 17, 2017. Gelbvieh bulls add pounds at weaning, feed efficiency, and superior maternal strength. Selling 40 stout polled red and black yearling PB and balancer Gelbvieh bulls and select females.

Sale can be viewed online via DLMS. For more info. and catalo gue: Darcy 306-865-2929 or 306-865-7859, or Darrell 780-581-0077, www.gelbviehworld.com or sales consultant Kirk Hurlburt 306-222-8210. www.stonegatefarms.ca TWIN BRIDGE FARMS 6th Gelbvieh Bull Sale, Monday, March 13, 2017, 1:00 PM at the Silver Sage Community Corral, Brooks, AB. Selling 45 yearling Gelbvieh Bull. Red and black genetics on offer.

Guest Consignor Keriness Cattle Co. For info. contact: Ron and Carol Birch and Family, 403-792-2123 or 403-485-5518 or Don Savage Auctions 403-948-3520.

Catalogue at www.donsavageauctions.com Sale will be broadcast on Live Auctions.tv 2nd ANNUAL FLADELAND LIVESTOCK Bull Sale, Wednesday March 15, 2017, 1:30PM at Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. Selling 34 Red and Black yearling Gelbvieh bulls. Call Del 306-869-8123 or Clint 306-861-5654. View catalogue and videos at: www.fladelandlivestock.com

ROCKY TOP GELBVIEH has bulls for sale by private treaty. Yearlings and 2 year olds, both reds and blacks available. They're backed by a well rounded, good quality cow program. Semen testing will be done mid March. Feel free to call anytime for more information and pricing. Delivery available.

403-350-5791, Bashaw, AB. PLEASANT DAWN CHAROLAIS 15th Annual Bull Sale, Saturday, March 18, 2:00 PM, Heartland Livestock, Virden, MB. All polled, some red factor, offering 57 yearlings bulls. Wintering, delivery and sight CRITTENDEN BROS. Polled Herefords unseen purchase program available. Bred “Supplying The Seed” Bull & Female for calving ease with growth, hair and Sale, Thursday April 6th, 1:00 PM at the s o u n d n e s s . S a l e b r o a d c a s t l i ve o n Crittenden Sale Barn, Imperial, SK. Selling www.DLMS.ca. Call Tully or Trent Hatch 60 polled Hereford yearling and fall born 204-855-2402 or 204-855-3078. Cata- bulls and females. For more information or a catalogue contact Howard 306-963-7880 logue & videos www.pleasantdawn.com or contact T Bar C Cattle Co. H U N T E R C H A R O L A I S B U L L S A L E , 306-220-5006. View catalogue on-line at: Thursday, April 6th, 1:30 PM DST, at the www.buyagro.com PL#116061 farm, Roblin, MB. Offering 40 yearling bulls from over 30 years of breeding. Most are polled, some red factor. Also 5 Polled Hereford yearling bulls. These are top quality, quiet, good haired bulls that will calve well and then add performance. Plus 10 Charolais cross open heifers. View catalogue/ videos www.huntercharolais.com or call Doug 204-937-2531.

HTA CHAROLAIS AND GUEST RAMMER Charolais Bull Sale, Wednesday, March 22, 1:00 PM. Beautiful Plains Ag Complex, Neepawa, MB. 53 yearling bulls, most are polled, some red factor with good disposiYearling Bulls tions. These are the best in performance genetics. Live Broadcast at www.dlms.ca

by Private Treaty Call Shawn Airey 204-724-8823, Matthew WILGENBUSCH Charolais 14th Annual Ramsey 204-365-0976. Catalogue online North of the 49th Bull Sale, on Monday, Michael and Sandi Gray at: www.htacharolais.com.

April 3rd, 1:00 PM at the farm, Halbrite, The largest Charolais bull sale in Sask.

Perdue, Sk. (306) 227-1017 POLLED PB YEARLING CHAROLAIS SK. bulls, performance and semen tested. Will offers a top set of bulls that are sound, www.spittalburnfarms.com keep until April, $3000-$4000. Charrow good haired and guaranteed to work. SellC h a r o l a i s , B i l l 3 0 6 - 3 8 7 - 8 0 1 1 , ing 20 two year old and 80 yearling bulls, most are polled, some red factor. Sale on780-872-1966, Marshall, SK. line at dlms.ca. View videos and catalogue RED ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, semen tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery CHAROLAIS BULLS, YEARLING and 2 year at: wilgenbuschcharolais.com. For more available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, olds. Contact LVV Ranch, 780-582-2254, info. or a catalogue call Craig Wilgenbusch Forestburg, AB. at 306-458-7482.

Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca

SQUARE D HEREFORDS: Herd bull prospects, 2 yr. old, fall born yearlings and spring yearling bulls. Quiet, performance tested. Delivery can be arranged. Hereford females bred Hereford, registration papers ava i l a b l e . J i m D u ke 3 0 6 - 5 3 8 - 4 5 5 6 , 306-736-7921, Langbank, SK. email: square.d@sasktel.net view our website: square-dpolledherefords.com ANL POLLED HEREFORDS ANNUAL Bull Sale with guest Brooks Farms, Sunday March 19th, 2:00PM at the farm in Steelman, SK. Selling 25 yearling and 2 yr. old bulls and a select group of open Baldie heifers. Wintering and delivery available.

For more information or a catalogue contact Karl at 306-487-2670, Jeremy at 306-485-8003 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View catalogue on-line at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061.

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EXCELLENT SELECTION of 2 year old bulls. Fed for service not for show; 2 herdsires. Polled herefords since 1950. Erwin Lehmann 306-232-4712, Rosthern, SK. HOLMES POLLED HEREFORDS have a large selection of yearling bulls. Some bred for top performance, some bred more for calving ease. Buying bulls off the farm so you can see their Dams makes good sense. Call Jay Holmes, 306-524-2762, 306-746-7170, Semans, SK. WILSON-LEES VALUE ADDED Bull Sale, Friday April 7th, 2:00PM in Kisbey, SK. Offering 70 Hereford yearling & 2 yr old bulls All bulls are semen tested and vet inspected. Delivery available. For a catalogue or more info. contact T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061.

POLLED SALERS BULLS on farm and at MB. Test Station (Sale Date April 1). BW from 77 lbs. Strong growth and maternal milk traits. Semen tested, guaranteed. Can arrange delivery. Ken at 204-762-5512, Lundar, MB. www.sweetlandsalers.com

BAR 3R LIMOUSIN 22nd Annual Bull Sale, Thursday, March 16, 2016, 1:00 PM (MST) at the Crossroads Center, Oyen, AB. Selling 40 Red Black polled yearlings and 2 year olds. Sight unseen purchasing available. Boarding available Free delivery.

View catalogue at: www.bohrson.com For info. contact Kevin Rea, 306-463-7950 or Ken Rea, 306-463-7454, Marengo, SK. 2nd ANNUAL ON THE FARM Bid Off Bull Sale. Bidding starts Friday March 24, 1:00 PM CST. Closes Saturday, March 25, 2:00 CST, 2017, Neudorf, SK. 40 yearling and 2 yr old bulls. Details & updates available on our websites: www.bendershorthorns.com www.starpfarms.com Call Glen and Ryan Bender, Neudorf, SK. 306-728-8613 and 306-748-2876 or Rayleen 306-231-3933.

WASCANA CATTLE COMPANY selling 8 Polled Hereford 2 yr. old bulls on March 18 at Canada's Red, White and Black Bull Sale in Moose Jaw, SK. Six more for sale off the farm. Semen tested, tie-broke, delivered.

Harvey Duke 306-536-4490, Regina, SK.

31ST ANNUAL PRAIRIE Gold Limousin Bull Sale 35 thick heavy muscled red and black polled bulls selling March 24, 2017 at Saskatoon Livestock Sales, Saskatoon, SK. Phone 306-567-7456 or 306-221-1159. lredwards@sasktel.net

BIG ISLAND LOWLINES Premier Breeder.

Selling custom designed packages. Name your price and we will put a package together for you. Fullblood/percentage Lowline, embryos, semen. Black/Red carrier.

Darrell 780-486-7553, Edmonton, AB.

POLLED HEREFORD BULLS for sale. Docile bulls with low birthweight and performance. Call 306-867-4231, 306-270-5524, Outlook, SK. Email: carm.dvm@sasktel.net Website: www.hmshicliffe.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. Phone 306-239-2298, cell 306-221-2620.

DEAGLE CATTLE CO. LTD. 5th Annual “Maine Difference Bull Sale”, April 1, 2017 1:00 PM, Dryland Market, Veteran, AB. On Offer: 50 black, red Percentage and Purebred 2 year old bulls. On offer: 350 open palpated Maine Cross heifers. Info: Rick at 403-575-5521, www.deaglecattleco.com WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM has for sale a good selection of Maine-Anjou and Red Angus yearling and 2 year old bulls. We are selling by Private Treaty from the yard.

All bulls semen tested and can be delivered. Call Sid at 204-373-2631, Ridgeville, MB. View catalogue and videos online at www.wilkinridge.blogspot.ca 2 YR. OLD AND YEARLING BULLS, calving ease and performance. Vet inspected.

Guaranteed. Will feed and deliver. Melfort, SK. 306-921-7175, 306-752-3808, mspratt@sasktel.net donarofarms.com MANITOU MAINE-ANJOU BULLS. Best selection of the real Maine bulls in Canada.

Gary Graham, 306-823-3432, Marsden, SK. grahamgs@sasktel.net

GOOD SELECTION OF stout red and black Limousin bulls with good dispositions, calving ease. Qually-T Limousin, Rose Valley, SK. 306-322-7563 or 306-322-7554.

POLLED RED AND Black Limousin 2 year old bulls. Board and delivery available. Rob Garner, Simpson, SK., 306-946-7946.

STOUT YEARLING and 2 yr. old Limousin bulls, polled, horned, red, black. Quiet bulls w/great performance. Short Grass Limousin, 306-773-7196, Swift Current SK RED POLL BULLS. Registered yearlings; CIRCLE T LIMOUSIN purebred Red and two yr olds; easy calving, naturally polled Black performance tested bulls. Guaran- calves. 780-892-3447, Wabamun, AB. teed, semen tested, by trade leading sires.

306-634-8536, 306-634-4621, Estevan, SK

KEN-DOC LIMOUSIN selling polled bulls at the Prairie Gold Limousin Bull Sale, Saskatoon Livestock Sales, March 24th, 2017.

These are thick, deep, quiet bulls. Contact Ken Gillies, 306-221-1159, Saskatoon, SK. SPRINGER LIMOUSIN has very quiet 2 yr old and yearling Purebred Limousin bulls.

Red or Black. Call Merv at 306-272-4817 or 306-272-0144, Foam Lake, SK.

WHO’S YOUR DADDY’S 14th Annual Bull Sale will be selling 62 Shorthorn bulls, 2 yr olds and yearlings and 8 open replacement heifers, on April 6, 2017 at the Saskatoon Livestock Sales, Saskatoon, SK. Richard Moellenbeck 306-287-7904, Carl Lehmann 306-232-3511 or Scot Muri 306-741-6833.

View catalogue: www.muridale.com Online bidding at www.dlms.ca 2ND COWMAN’S ADVANTAGE Shorthorn Bull and Female Sale, Saturday, April 1, 2017 at Innisfail Auction Mart, Innisfail, AB. Selling 45 two yr old and yearling bulls and groups of open commercial heifers.

Call Don Savage Auctions 403-948-3520.

Catalogue at www.donsavageauctions.com Broadcast online at www.dlms.ca POLLED PB BULLS. Will be halter broke and semen tested. Yearlings and one 2 year old. Moderate birthweight built for calving ease. Call Uphill Shorthorns, 204-764-2663 cell, 204-365-7155 res.

Hamiota, MB. rgray4@mymts.net HERD DISPERSAL REG. PB Shorthorn mature cow herd dispersal for River Acres Stock Farm. Bull exposed June 23, 2016.

Calving April/May. Sale will be held at Edwards Livestock Centre on March 12, 2017 at Black Pearl Sale. 306-873-7779, 306-873-7837, Tisdale, SK.

FULLBLOOD FLECKVIEH and Black PB year- RED DEVON BULLS and crosses, yearlings. ling bulls, reasonable birthweights, $3500. Polled and horned. 403-566-2467, WardCurtis Mattson 306-944-4220 Meacham SK low, AB. E-mail: dmrranching@gmail.com SHEEP AND GOAT SALE, Heartland Livestock, Prince Albert, Friday, April 7th, 18th ANNUAL KUNTZ-MCINTOSH-SAJ 10 WHITE HEIFERS and 27 tan Charolais 11:00 AM. Call 306-763-8463 to pre-book.

Simmental Bull Sale. Tuesday March heifers, bred Red Angus, start calving in 14th, 1:00PM CST, Lloydminster Exhibition Feb., $2450 each; 12 bred Charolais cross Grounds. 65 yearling Red, Black, Fullblood cows, bred tan Char., start calving May. and full Fleckvieh Simmental bulls. Winter- $1500 each. 204-207-0017, Roblin, MB. ing and delivery available. For more info. 75 SECOND AND THIRD Black and Red An- SUNGOLD SPECIALTY MEATS. We want contact Trevor Kuntz 306-441-1308, Blair gus young bred cows. Call 306-773-1049 your lambs. Have you got finished (fat) lambs or feeder lambs for sale? Call Rick McIntosh 306-441-7755, Stuart Jamieson or 306-741-6513, Swift Current, SK. at: 403-894-9449 or Cathy at: 306-397-2708 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. Watch and bid on-line at: CUSTOM CATTLE GRAZING on former 1-800-363-6602 for terms and pricing. www.dlms.ca and View catalogue on-line PFRA community pastures in Etherbert, www.sungoldmeats.com at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061.

MacCreary and Lenswood. Call Terence SELLING LAMBS AND GOATS? Why take one price from one buyer? Expose BLACK & BLACK BALDIE Simmental Bulls, Caumartin 204-278-3515. your lambs and goats to a competitive good selection of yearlings 2 year olds. Ex- 4 COW/CALF PAIRS, Hereford/Angus market. Beaver Hill Auctions, Tofield, AB. cellent quality with good hair coats and cross $2500 pair. Phone 306-342-4572, Sales every Monday, trucks hauling from disposition second to none! Semen tested. Glaslyn, SK. SK, BC, AB. www.beaverhillauctions.com Delivery available. Call Regan Schlacter Call: 780-662-9384.

20 BRED RED and Black Angus heifers for 306-231-9758, Humboldt, SK. sale, $2200 OBO. Call Spruce Acres, PROUDLY WESTERN SIMMENTAL Bull 306-272-3997, Foam Lake, SK. Sale, Saturday March 18th, 1:00PM at the Whitewood Auction Barn, Whitewood, SK. ENTER TO WIN! 20 Bred heifers or WESTERN SHEEP Selling 70 yearling Red, Black & Fullblood $40,000. Proceeds to new ice hockey rink.

MARKETING LTD. Simmental and SimmAngus cross bulls. To get your tickets call 780-871-3677 or Wintering and Delivery available. For cata- dewberry@gmail.com AGLC #449678. a division of logues or more info. contact T Bar C Cattle SOUTHERN ALBERTA Co. 306-220-5006. View catalogue on-line: RK AN IM AL S UPPL IES - Be o n ta rget.

LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE www.buyagro.com PL#116061.

Us e the p ro d u cts en d o rs ed b y the Buying all classes of sheep, p ro fes s io n a ls . RK & S UL L IV AN S UPPL IES FULLBLOOD & PUREBRED yearling bulls lambs and goats. for sale, moderate BW, pail fed oats and Fo r a fre e c a ta lo gu e : 1-8 00-440-26 9 4 free choice hay. 306-386-7342, Meota, SK. Contact Darren Shaw 403-601-5165 S hop O n lin e Same Day Trade Payment. Farm Pickup.

PIZZEY SIMMENTAL is selling at the Competitive Pricing. farm yearling and 2 year old Red, Black w w w .r ka n i m a l su ppl i es.co m darren@livestock.ab.ca and full Fleckvieh bulls, moderate BW. Call Calvin 204-847-2055, Fox Warren, MB. BRED COWS, Simmental Red Angus cross, PAINT ‘EM BLACK 2nd Annual Bull and Fe- bred Simmental or Limousin, start calving male Sale March 22, 2017 1:00PM at Cow- March 27th. 306-266-4848, Fir Mountain. town Livestock, Maple Creek, SK. Presented by Herter Simmentals 403-878-6541 (5) 2nd LITTER SOWS, exposed to boar with Townview Farms 306-297-7517. Onmid Nov, $350 now, $400 March 1st; Pigs line catalogue at: hertersimmentals.com for butchering. 306-867-8249, Outlook, SK

WANTED: SQUEEZE OR FLIP TABLE for hogs, home built or otherwise. Call Gord or Cecile 250-500-3399, Fort Nelson, BC. H. S. KNILL TRANSPORT, est. 1933, specializing in purebred livestock transportation. Providing weekly pick up and delivery service across Canada/USA and Mexico.

Gooseneck service available in Ontario, READY TO LAY Pullets. Brown and white Quebec and USA. US and Canada customs egg layers ready for June pick up. Floor bonded carrier. Call 1-877-442-3106, fax raised 306-435-3530, Moosomin, SK. 519-442-1122, hsknill@pppoe.ca or www.hsknilltransport.com 155 King Edward St., Paris, ON. N3L 0A1.

WLB LIVESTOCK BEEF BULL SALE, Black/Red Simmental and Polled Hereford, yearling and two year old beef bulls. March 21, 2:00 PM, CST at the farm, 6 miles N, 1 mile E, 1/2 mile N of Douglas, MB. Call Bill Biglieni, 204-763-4697, 204-729-7925.

Videos online: www.wlblivestock.com 25 BRED RED and Black Angus cows, WANTED: FISHER’S HUMANE POULTRY TOP QUALITY RED FACTOR yearling Sim- $ 1 7 0 0 e a c h . C a l l S p r u c e A c r e s , killer. Call 250-265-3265, Naksup, BC. mental bulls. Good hair coats. Polled; also 306-272-3997, Foam Lake, SK. 1 Red Factor Simm/Angus cross 2 year old 200 RED & BLACK Angus bred heifers. Can bull, polled. Call Green Spruce Simmental sell as bred or calved. Call 306-773-1049, 306-467-4975, 306-467-7912, Duck Lake.

306-741-6513, Swift Current, SK. OPEN REPLACEMENT HEIFERS, exc. quality, Red Angus cross Simmental, Red Angus cross Hereford, full health program o n e i r o n . D avey C at t l e C o m p a ny 306-843-7606. Pictures and references avail. Wilkie, SK.

RED AND BLACK Purebred and commercial Simmental replacement heifers. Bill or Virginia Peters, 306-237-9506, Perdue, SK.

13th ANNUAL Wheatland Cattle Co. Bull Sale. Thursday, March 23rd, 2:00PM at the farm, Bienfait, SK. Offering Black & Red Simmental, SimmAngus and Angus bulls. As well as commercial heifers. For more information or a catalogue contact 6 THICK, YEARLING, reg'd purebred, N E W T R E N D S A L E R S B U L L S A L E , Vern at 306-421-2297 or T Bar C Cattle simmental bulls. 5 blacks and one red. Top Thursday March 16th, 2:00PM, Cow Co. 306-220-5006. View the catalogue quality genetics, born unassisted, excellent online at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061.

Palace, Olds, AB. Offering 45 yearling Red performance.

One full and two half bros. to and Black polled Saler bulls. For cata- 2 YR. OLD black bulls- yearling Red, Black 2016 Agribition selling female. Visit logues or more information contact Pete and full-blood bulls. Moderate BW. Bill or Hilltop holdings high simmentals on facebook at 403-650-8362, Wayne at 403-860-9469, Virginia Peters, 306-237-9506, Perdue, SK. pics and perf data.

Call Gary Anwender for Gerry at 403-936-5393 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View catalogue on-line SOUTH SASK SIMMENTAL & ANGUS 306-815-7878, Radville, SK. Annual Bull Sale, Monday March 13th, 4 YEAR OLD Polled Fullblood Simmental at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061.

Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose PB REGISTERED Red or Black yearling 1:00PM, $4500 OBO; 10 yearling black SK. Selling 70 Red, Black and Full- bull, bulls and replacement heifers. Elderberry Jaw, bulls. North Creek Simmentals, blood Simmental and Red & Black Angus Simmental Farm Salers, Parkside, SK., 306-747-3302. call Barry 306-230-3123, Borden, SK. bulls. Wintering and delivery available. For THICK BUTT BULLS excellent disposition, more information or a catalogue phone T p o l l e d . D y n a R i c h S a l e r s . C a l l Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View catalogue at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061.

403-746-2919. Eckville, AB. SOUTH DEVON AND POUNDMAKER (SD cross Angus) bulls. Yearling and 2 year olds. Semen tested. Ivomeced and vaccinated. British breed. Quiet, good growth. $2500-3500. 403-566-2467, Wardlow, AB. E-mail: dmrranching@gmail.com

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THE SUPREME SPECKLE PARK Bull & Female Sale, Saturday April 8th, 2:00PM at Saskatoon Livestock Sales, Saskatoon, SK. Selling Speckle Park yearling & 2 yr old bulls with a select group of females. These genetics are being offered by Notta Ranch, Spots ‘N Sprouts, Revenworth Cattle and Guests. For more info. or a catalogue contact T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-220-5006. View the catalogue online at: www.buyagro.com PL#116061. Sale day watch and bid online at: www.liveauctions.tv YEARLING SPECKLE PARK bulls sired by RH Yager 99Y; and a 6 year old herdsire.

306-877-2014, Dubuc, SK. 10 BRED HEIFERS, calving April and May bred Speckle Park, 1200 lbs. plus, full herd health. Ph 204-365-0066, Shoal Lake, MB.

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FOR SALE 750 BLACK coming 2nd calves, bred Charolais bulls out July 1st. Excellent set of highly productive ranch cows. 350 Red Angus AI bred heifers, start April 20th calving. Full herd health program. 2002 521DXT CASE payloader w/grapple 306-435-7313, Moosomin, SK. fork. Call 306-773-1049 or 306-741-6513, Swift Current, SK. WANTED: SCHULER 125BF silage wagon, WANTED: CULL COWS and bulls. For book- c/w removable endgate, good condition. ings call Kelly at Drake Meat Processors, 780-632-7151, Vegreville, AB. 306-363-2117 ext. 111, Drake, SK. FFS- FUCHS FARM SUPPLY is your partner in agriculture stocking mixer, cutter, feed wagons and bale shredders and industry leading Rol-Oyl cattle oilers.

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MANURE SPREADING BUSINESS equipHORSE AND TACK SALE, Heartland, Prince ment;1981 Cat 943;1985 Ford 8000;1995 Albert, SK., Friday, April 7th, starting at McKee spreader; 1986 Ford 8000; 1986 5:30 PM. Call 306-763-8463.

McKee Spreader; 1979 Linden Tandem Axle Trailer. $75,000. 780-913-3022, Mundare, AB. jeffulan@telus.net 4 BRED MINIATURE Jenny donkeys, due in GREG’S WELDING: Freestanding 30’ 5 bar panels, all 2-7/8” drill stem construction, spring. Call 780-672-6026, Ohaton, AB. $450; 24’x5.5’ panels, 2-7/8” pipe with 51” sucker rods, $325; 24’x6’ panels, 2-7/8” pipe with 6- 1” rods, $350; 30’ 2 or 3 bar 10 YEARLINGS: 5 black Friesian/Haflinger, windbreak panels c/w lumber. Gates and 2 bay Friesian/Haflingers, 3 Fjord/Hafling- double hinges avail. on all panels. Belting troughs for grain or silage. Calf shelters. ers. $900 ea. 306-682-2899, Humboldt, SK Del. avail. 306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK. CATTLE SHELTER PACKAGES or built on site. For early booking call HORSE COLLARS, all sizes, steel and alu- 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: minum horseshoes. We ship anywhere. www.warmanhomecentre.com Keddie’s, 1-800-390-6924 or keddies.com H I - H O G C AT T L E S Q U E E Z E . C a l l JOHN DEERE SANTA Cutter Sleigh, made 306-773-1049 or 306-741-6513, Swift in 1900’s, always shedded, $2500; JD cus- Current, SK. tom made harness, used only in parades, INTERMEDIATE WHEAT/GRASS & Slender $2500; Misc. horse items, double tree’s, wheat grass seed for sale, $3/lb, minimum sleigh poles, bells, etc. 204-773-0191, order 1000 lbs. 204-792-7274, Cartier, MB. Rossburn, MB. E-mail: bqually@mymts.net

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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. ATTENTION ELK PRODUCERS: If you have elk to supply to market, please give AWAPCO a call. $10 per kilo. Hot hanging.

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FROSTFREE NOSEPUMPS: Fully sustainable livestock watering. No power required to heat or pump. Prevents contamination. Grants available. 1-866-843-6744. www.frostfreenosepumps.com PAYSEN LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT INC. We manufacture an extensive line of cattle 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 chutes and headgates are now avail. with a neck extender. Ph 306-796-4508, email: ple@sasktel.net Web: www.paysen.com

OKANAGAN FARM 62 acre hay land, river front, near Mara/Shuswap Lake, 3 titles 19, 19, and 24. Irrigation rights on Shuswap River, flat highly productive, near ski hills, golf, boating. $450,000, $500,000, and $650,000. Enjoy the Okanagan/Shuswap summers and winters. Call 250-803-8298.

ORGANIC SEED FOR SALE: Organic Alfalfa, Sweet Clover, Red Clover, Alsike Clover.

Organic innoculaed. Free Delivery. Please call 306-921-9942, Star City, SK. Email: ivanaudrey@sasktel.net

STEEL VIEW MFG. Self-standing panels, windbreaks, silage/hay bunks, feeder panels, sucker rod fence posts. Custom orders. Call Shane 306-493-2300, Delisle, SK. www.steelviewmfg.com

R M O F C O R M A N PA R K # 3 4 4 , NE-16-35-05-W3, 148 acres. Excellent development property, 1/2 mile S of Casa FARMER 51, never married, looking for a Rio on Clarence Ave. Power and well onyounger woman preferably with son/kids site. Duane Neufeldt, Re/Max Saskatoon, to be a special part of my life and farm in 306-948-8055 www.duaneneufeldt.com NW SK. Don’t be shy, privacy assured.

Much appreciated if you could please reply with recent photo, phone # and a brief description of yourself to: Box 5595, c/o The Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 2C4 LOG HOMES AND CABINS, sidings, paneling, decking. Fir and Hemlock flooring, MANITOBA SENIOR FARMER looking to timbers, special orders. Phone Rouck find somebody trustworthy, active and Bros., Lumby, BC. 1-800-960-3388. kind, if SWF would reply so would I. Reply www.rouckbros.com Box 5597, c/o The Western Producer, Box 2500, Saskatoon, SK. S7K 2C4.

STEINWAY UPRIGHT PIANO, 1982 Steinway Model 1098, vg cond., recently refurbished, replacement cost is $50,000.

Recently appraised at $12,000 (Cdn.) No reasonable offer will be refused. $11,000 OBO. Call 613-325-9228, Regina, SK. I WOULD LIKE TO FIND a male friend 65 jpellson1@me.com years or over, who is either unmarried or a widower. I am 82 years, am an artist by profession and also a committed Christian believer. I would like this friend to share my faith and my interest in life. Please reply to: Box 5593, c/o The Western Producer, Box 2500, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4 ORGANIC PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION of MANITOBA COOPERATIVE (OPAM).

Non-profit members owned organic certification body. Certifying producers, processor & brokers in Western Canada since 1988. Miniota, MB. Contact: 204-567-3745, info@opam-mb.com

TO BE MOVED: 1977 27x40’ bungalow on farm, 2 bdrms, 1 bath, 16x24’ wrap around deck, new hardwood floors, windows and doors, siding and insulation 5 yrs. old, new never used fridge/stove microwave, builtin dishwasher. Would make a perfect cabin or starter home. Have mover’s quote. Ask58 YEAR OLD Cowboy Rancher wanting to ing $60,000. 780-205-4423, Lashburn, SK. meet attractive, fit female for long term relationship. Please send pictures and tell me about yourself. Box 5596, c/o The Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4

WANT THE ORGANIC ADVANTAGE? Contact an organic Agrologist at Pro-Cert for information on organic farming: prospects, transition, barriers, benefits, certifi- PSYCHIC ANNE EDWARDS, 36 yrs. experication and marketing. Call 306-382-1299, ence. Find out what’s in the stars for you!

Answers all questions in love, business, fiSaskatoon, SK. or info@pro-cert.org nances and career. Free 15 minute reading for first time callers. Phone 647-430-1891.

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Looking for a fit country gal who would enjoy a farm life. Successful North Central Alberta cattle/grain rancher, 53 yrs., 5’10, fit, loves outdoors, sports, fishing, rodeos, golf and travel. Tell me all about yourself and include a photo. Please reply to: greatcatch@mymts.net

TIMBER FRAMES, LOG STRUCTURES and Vertical Log Cabins. Log home refinishing and chinking. Certified Log Builder with 38 years experience. Log & Timber Works, Delisle, SK., 306-717-5161, Email info@logandtimberworks.com Website at www.logandtimberworks.com

RETIRING, DOWNSIZING, EMPTY NEST: This home is perfect for you! 1434 sq. ft. bungalow (quality craftsmanship, custom built 1992), clean, well maintained, original owner, 3 large bdrms (1 up, 2 down), 2 baths (1 up w/jet tub, 1 down w/shower), oversized dbl att. garage; infloor heat throughout, spacious kitchen w/island, oak cabinets, formal dining room, sunroom, main floor laundry, AC, fully dev. bsmt., wheelchair accessible, greenhouse, continuous metal siding, shake roof, natural gas BBQ hook-ups.

Front and back decks. Much to appreciate on this quiet riverfront property, w/adjacent walking paths, $470,000; Adjacent empty lot is also for sale - additional to asking price. 403-660-2996 Drumheller AB

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REG. GERMAN SHEPHERD pups, 1st shots, microchipped, vet checked, ready Mar. 22, $1100. 306-287-4063, Englefeld, SK.

GUARD DOGS: LIVESTOCK and people Sire: Caucasian Owcharka (originally from Caucasus Mountains in Georgia, former USSR). Dam: Scarplaninac (originally from Macedonia). Excellent guard dogs, vg with its own family and children. Fully vaccinated and dewormed for its age, $1,000.

Phone 204-646-2543, St. Laurent, MB. frieda@brankosbeagles.com TRUE BLUE HEELERS has a new litter.

WANTED: ORGANIC LENTILS, peas and From great working parents. 1st shots and chickpeas. Stonehenge Organics, Assini- d e - w o r m e d , $ 4 0 0 . 3 0 6 - 4 9 2 - 2 4 4 7 , boia, SK., 306-640-8600, 306-640-8437.

306-290-3339, Clavet, SK. WANTED: ORGANIC, HEATED or FEED BORDER COLLIE PUPS red and white, QUALITY FLAX and feed peas. Call: from working parents, ready to go, $500.

204-379-2451, St. Claude, MB. 306-587-7169, Success, SK.

DOUBLE RV LOT for sale, Yuma, AZ. With RV support building - washer/dryer, toilet, shower etc. 403-871-2441, 928-503-5344.

2007 MOBILE HOME, 1216 sq. ft., 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 16x76, exc. cond., $70,000. Appliances incl. Joel 403-664-9214, Oyen, AB.

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 WANTED: CERTIFIED ORGANIC cull cows run. Rolls peas and all grains. We regroove and pre-conditioned feeder cattle. Phone and repair all makes of mills. Call Apollo 204-522-0842, Pipestone MB. Machine 306-242-9884, 1-877-255-0187.

BUILD YOUR DREAM home on 7 acres in www.apollomachineandproducts.com gorgeous Creston, BC, $249,000 OBO. Video and information can be found at www.propertyguys.com ID#198236 LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT. WE manufacture livestock equipment from heavy oilfield pipe. 5 bar 30' panels, $420; 30" silage NW BC GOLD Lease- Cassiar. Ancient river bunks, $600. We also build handling bed, 1895 Chinese “hand mine” claim, apsystems, allies and custom setups for your prox. 105 acres and some equip. for sale needs. Call 780-562-0076, Westlock, AB. or trade. Email: duckdodger@sasktel.net batwelding@icloud.com FREESTANDING PANELS: 30’ windbreak panels; 6-bar 24’ and 30’ panels; 10’, 20’ and 30’ feed troughs; Bale shredder bunks; Silage bunks; Feeder panels; HD bale feeders; All metal 16’ and 24’ calf shelters. Will custom build. 306-424-2094, Kendal, SK.

178 ACRE RANCH, beautiful view of the Seven Sisters mountains, exc. land and water, house, barn, shop, hay shed and outbuildings, on Hwy #16 between Smithers and Terrace, $650,000. 250-849-8411.

MEDALLION HOMES 1-800-249-3969 Immediate delivery: New 16’ and 20’ modular homes; Also used 14’ and 16’ homes. Now available: Lake homes.

Medallion Homes, 306-764-2121, Prince Albert, SK. 2008 SRI, 2016 sq. ft., 6 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, exc. cond. $144,900 OBO. Call Al 306-221-4493, Vanscoy, SK.

2012 SRI MODULAR home, 1672 sq. ft. 3 bdrm, 2 bath, very nice open floor plan. Big entrance/laundry room into a family room w/2 beds and large bath off it. Beautiful KI w/upgraded cabinets and big pantry.

Master has big walk-in and bath w/jet tub.

Located in Consul, SK., easily moved. FSBO. 306-299-7707, shawnmackie@outlook.com J&H HOMES: Western Canada’s most trusted RTM Home Builder since 1969.

View at www.jhhomes.com 306-652-5322 RT M S A N D S I T E b u i l t h o m e s . C a l l 1-866-933-9595, or go online for pictures and pricing at: www.warmanhomes.ca

BUYERS for farms and ranches. Henry Vos, 780-835-1992, Royal LePage Realty. www.peaceriverfarmsandranches.com

LAND FOR RENT The Public Guardian and Trustee of Saskatchewan as property guardian for Frederick Morozoff, will accept a cash rental bid for a three (3) year lease on the following land:

R.M. OF KEYS #303 LSD 5 SW 25-31-03-W2 Ext 11 39.91 cultivatable acres LSD 6 SW 25-31-03-W2 Ext 12 39.90 cultivatable acres LSD 7 SE 25-31-03-W2 Ext 57 20 cultivatable acres LSD 8 SE 25-31-03-W2 Ext 59 9.91 cultivatable acres Blk/Par A Plan 101719942 Ext 59 9.94 cultivatable acres Blk/Par D Plan 101719942 Ext 60 9.95 cultivatable acres NW 20-31-02-W2 Ext 58 24 cultivatable acres NW 20-31-02-W2 Ext 21 25 cultivatable acres Property will be rented in “As Is” condition.

No minerals included.

Sealed bids, clearly marked “FREDERICK MOROZOFF”, should be received in our office by no later than 5:00 p.m. on March 16, 2017. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

2014 MODULAR HOME to be moved: 1672 sq. ft. 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, beautiful 22'x72' home built in 2014 with many upgrades.

For further information phone: Master bdrm has ensuite, large tub and Faye Mintzler at (306) 787-7920 shower along w/double sinks. Other 2 or email: faye.mintzler@gov.sk.ca bdrms are spacious sharing Jack and Jill bathrooms with walk-in closets. Open Public Guardian and Trustee concept w/vaulted ceilings. Open kitchen of Saskatchewan w/working island and lots of cupboard 100 - 1871 Smith Street space. 30'x12' porch and 12'x16' deck made REGINA SK S4P 4W4 to move with unit. Deck is 2x10 w/trek decking. Skirting is R8 insulated. Septic Fax (306) 787-5065 tank can be part of unit if desired. Located 65 kms west of Saskatoon, SK. For sale by WANTED TO LEASE irrigated land to proowner. Call 306-491-0502, Delisle, SK. ducer forages or buy standing irrigated Email: njmcconn@gmail.com pure Timothy or pure Alfalfa; Also looking to lease land or buy standing pure Timothy crops west of Hwy #2. Call Barry at: 403-507-8660, e-mail: info@barr-ag.com

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MACK AUCTION CO. presents a large Real Estate and Land Auction the Estate of William Krell, Monday, April 10, 2017, at 10:00 AM. Directions from Stoughton, SK. go 2 miles South on Hwy #47, 1 mile West and 1/4 mile North. 1) SE-17-08-08-W2 RM OF Tecumseh #65, FVA 69,500, 110 cultivated acres, 2016 yellow flax crop, 2016 taxes $301.57, 2 storey character home, 26x32 double car garage, concrete floor and electric heat; 50x100 steel quonset, overhead and sliding doors; 40x54 steel work shop, overhead door, concrete floor, electric heat, bathroom; 40x60 steel quonset; Hip roof barn with lean to and copulas; Livestock watering bowls; Numerous wood outbuildings for storage; steel grain bins on cement foundations. 2) SW 17-08-08-W2, RM#65 - FVA 79,300, 159 titled acres, 110 cult. acres. 3) NW 17-08-08-W2, RM #65 FVA 74,700, 160 titled acres, 120 cult. acres. 4) SW 16-08-08-W2 RM #65 - FVA 81,400, 160 titled acres, 150 cult. acres, $7000 surface lease revenue. 5) NW 09-08-08-W2, RM #65 - FVA 78,600, 160 titled acres, 122 cult. acres, 2016 Canola crop, 2016 taxes $340.22, $5600 surface lease revenue. 6) NE 09-08-08-W2, RM #65 - FVA 70,500, 158 titled acres, 115 cult. acres $7200 oil surface lease revenue, 40x80 wood arch rib storage, 28x60 wood grain annex, steel 2911 and 1350 bu grain bins. 7) SW 09-08-08-W2, RM #65 FVA 68,900, 160 titled acres, 125 cult. acres. 8) SE 09-08-08-W2, RM #65; FVA 75,100, 160 titled acres, 115 cult. acres. 9) NW 10-08-08-W2, RM #65 - FVA 77,000, 157 titled acres, cult. acres $2300 oil surface lease revenue. 10) NE 10-08-08-W2, RM #65 - FVA 78,600, 160 titled acres, 151 cult. acres. 11) SW 32-07-08-W2, RM #65 - FVA 60,100, 193 titled acres, 152 cultivated acres. 12) SE 32-07-08-W2, RM #65 - FVA 58,000, 176 titled acres, 123 cult. acres. 13) 312 Donnelly Street, Stoughton; 50’x120’ non-serviced commercial/residential lot. 14) 316 Donnelly Street, Stoughton; 50’x120’ non-serviced commercial/residential lot. Visit: www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill and photos. Join us on Facebook and Twitter. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815, Mack Auction Co. PL 311962 160 ACRES near Regina with yard and business opportunity; 15 acres w/large character home, plus 2nd home on property within 35 miles of Regina or Weyburn on Hwy. #35; 160 acres w/large home, 3 car heated garage, large shop, horse barn, plenty of water, 20 min. NE of Regina.; Near Pilot Butte, 80 acre development land; 90+ acres, Hwy. #11, 7 mi. North of Saskatoon, development; RM Perdue, 2 quarters W. of Saskatoon on Hwy #14; 2 miles East of Balgonie Hwy. #1, 145 acre development land. Brian Tiefenbach 306-536-3269, Colliers Int., Regina, SK. www.collierscanada.com

CASH RENT: 6 quarters in 1 block, RM FARMLAND FOR SALE in Mannning, AB. Kingsley #124, Kipling/Whitewood area.

Some full sections. Call Evelyn Petkus, One quarter 7 miles from home residence Royal LePage Valley Realty, 780-836-6478. may consider selling. 306-696-2957.

ID#1100386 Coutts Crossing Kennels: Commercial pet boarding facility and equine breeding farm. Quonset and outdoor horse arena. Comes with 80 acres of good farmland and a 1400 sq. ft. bungalow plus a mobile home. Co-op water rights.

Perfect place for a new veterinarian, MLS®; Modern Hog Farm in CHIN: Modern 350 sow farrow to finish operation, isolated from other hog operations.

New hog finishing barn, new feed mill, permit to expand to 500 sows. 1762 sq.ft. home and a shop. Livestock included, loose housing sows, electronic feed system MLS®. Real Estate Centre, 1-866-345-3414. For all our listings visit: www.farmrealestate.com

YEAR ROUND RESORT LIVING. Whispering Pines Golf and Country Club is a gated maintenance free community overlooking Pine Lake on golf course with year round amenities 20 mins. from Red Deer, AB. 1900 sq. ft. on 3 fully finished levels, 3 bdrms, 2-1/2 baths, fireplace in bdrm ensuite. Beautiful club house with fine dining, pool, fitness room. For sale or trade.

780-482-5273. group.6@outlook.com FARM/RANCH FOR SALE. Working cattle FISHING LODGE/MOTEL. 204-472-2351. ranch. 8 deeded quarters, 2 lease quarters for sale. 4 quarters in one block all fenced Cranberry Portage, MB. and cross fenced used for pasture, 1 quarter fenced used for hay and then pasture, 4 quarters hay land in 3 year, 90 acres fenced in elk fence used for pasture, 42 acre yardsite incl. 2014 1680 sq. ft. modular home w/carport, hip roof barn, insulated shop, 4 SEASON CABIN at Asessippi Ski Resort water well that will water 450 cattle, natuMB. 2 bdrm plus loft, 1 bath, orig. owner. ral gas, internet tower. Would be willing to Built 2008, sided, furnished. Walk-out with sell in 2 or 3 separate pkgs. Lots of hunting, scenic view. Ski, skate, swim, fish, golf. fishing and sports available. 780-524-7548, $199,900. Please call 306-347-9908. Valleyview, AB. w.jaschinski@icloud.com m.starkleader@sasktel.net http://www.ase ssippicove.com/41Aesessippi.shtml

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5 PLUS ACRE FARM, frontage on Slocan River, fenced, 2,860 sq. ft. home, guest cabin, barns, trees, gardens, rich soil, full sun, mountains, all services. $437,500.

250-304-4669. Castlegar, BC. 2.6 ACRE FALLOW ORGANIC FARM: Equipment to start 500 hives, complete 16x20 extracting honey house, 3 bdrm home in Grand Forks, BC. East-West Valley, mountains, 2 rivers and flowers! Beekeepers dream. E-mail: brian@thate.ca

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Ca ll DOUG REAL ESTATE AUCTION, Ole Peteherych, 306-634-3540, Thursday, March 30, 2017, Days Inn, Estevan, SK., 7:00 PM. Join Mack Auction Company on Thursday, March 30 for your chance to own 6 quarter sections of fenced pasture land in the North Portal/Northgate SK. area. Lots 1 & 2 share a common water source and will be combined. This half section is located adjacent to the community pasture’s east corrals. RM Coalfields #4: 1. SW-22-0104-W2, pasture. 2. SE-22-01-04-W2, pasture. Abandoned farm yard with power service. Lots 3, 4, 5 & 6 will be combined.

These 4 quarters are crossfenced and share water sources, valleys and coulees.

RM Enniskillen #3: 3. SW-28-01-03-W2, pasture. 4. SE-28-01-03-W2, pasture. Seasonal access road and low level crossing.

5. NE-28-01-03-W2, pasture. Grid road access, also known as the Little Dipper Ranch Heritage Site. 6. NW-27-01-03-W2, pasture. Grid road access. Mack Auction Co. 306-421-2928, 306-487-7815. For sale bill and photos: mackauctioncompany.com Join us on Facebook & Twitter. PL311962.

FOR SALE BY TENDER: RM Of Coalfields NO. 004, NW-25-2-5W2M and SW-25-2-5 W2M. All offers to be submitted in writing on or before Friday, March 17, 2017. Highest or any offer not necessarily accepted. Minerals not included. Please forward all bids and enquiries to: McGeough Zepick Law Office, 1222-5th Street, Estevan, SK. S4A 0Z6. Email: mzlaw@sasktel.net Phone 306-634-8822.

3 06 -9 55-226 6 Em a il: s a s kfa rm s @ s h a w .ca RM OF GRANT NO. 372: SW 34-40-28 W2, SE W1/2 of 34-40-28 W2, NW N1/2 of 27-40-28 W2. Approx. 290 cult. acres.

Yardsite has power, gas, 3 shops. Taking offers until March 25th, 2017. Please send offers to: PO Box 29018, Saskatoon, SK. S7N 4Y2. For more info. call 306-221-6722 RM OF GLENSIDE 377: Prime ranching opportunity! 1296 sq. ft. bungalow built in 1988. Detached garage, metal shop/riding arena, horse barn and newer corrals. 308 total acres of land. (Both native and tame grass, cross fenced into many paddocks).

SE 04-40-14 W3 and SE 33-39-14 W3. $499,000. For more info. phone Duane Neufeldt, RE/MAX Saskatoon - Biggar 3 0 6 - 9 4 8 - 8 0 5 5 . w w w. d u a n e n e u feldt.com TOM@SASKFARMLAND.COM RM Of McCraney. Penno Ranch 1,117 acres.

Fenced, cross fenced, dugouts, corrals, outbuildings, new shelter. 1440 sq. ft. bungalow. $1,399,900 MLS. Tom Neufeld, 306-260-7838 Coldwell Banker.

RM HAZEL DELL #335. 419 acres chemical free farmland all in one block. Private setting. Older mobile home, good water. Info phone 306-814-0014, Preeceville, SK.

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TOM@SASKFARMAND.COM Crystal Springs. Recreational 160 acres. 62 acres hayland, 90 acres bush and water. Heavy big game activity. Tenant avail. $115,000 MLS. Tom 306-260-7838, Coldwell Banker.

TOM@SASKFARMLAND.COM Lucky Lake 160 acres, excellent quality land, huge 2,428 sq. ft. home. Working corrals, barn, shelters, heated shop. Tenant available. $575,000 MLS. Tom Neufeld at 306-260-7838, Coldwell Banker.

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LAND FOR SALE: RM of Wallace No. 243.

NW 14-27-01 W2. 160 acres (140 cult.), Assessed 43,340. Call 204-414-4129.

Beautiful 4 level split, 3 bed, 3 bath home situated on 159 acres, minutes from Prince Albert on Hwy #302 East.

Large 2 tier deck overlooking a fish pond and yard site. This property boasts all the amenities a horse owner could ever want, the first of which is a 100ft.x160ft. indoor riding arena as well as multiple corrals, smaller animal buildings and a large shop with heavy concrete floor. Only 1/2 km to School. Only 12 minutes from Prince Albert.

QUALITY FARMS FOR SALE 33/4’s Top-quality grain land 157 acres cult per quarter, $104,325 ave. assessment all in tight block Moosomin Sk. Check out this Premium operation!

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8000 acre Turn-key grain, cattle, feedlot - extremely well kept & managed, step into an operating profitable Agri-business located in SE Sask.

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Ca ll PO TZU S LTD. Phone: 306-782-74 23 Fa x: 306-786-6909 Em a il: info@ potzu s.com FARMLAND FOR SALE OR RENT, RM of Emerald No. 277, NW 16-28-13 W2. Possibly more available. Send offers to: Box 59 Leross, SK. S0A 2C0. Ph. 306-675-4968

HANLEY-KENASTON AREA. 320 acres, bungalow, new shop, barn with added stock shelter, good water, natural gas, all underground services. 40 minutes from Saskatoon. Home quarter may be purchased separately. Asking $539,000. Call 306-252-5200 or Calgary 403-275-8008.

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RM OF ROSEMOUNT #378: Starter farm/ranch! Older 1-3/4 storey character home, approx. 2000 sq. ft., heated detached garage, quonset, open front shelter, corrals, bins. 186 acres of land. (70 cult., remainder pasture and yardsite). NW 36-36-16-W3 and part of SW 36-36-16-W3 $349,000. For more info. phone Duane Neufeldt, Re/Max Saskatoon - Biggar 306-948-8055 www.duaneneufeldt.com

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L OOK IN G F OR L AN D LAND AUCTION for Val Veroba, Kelly Fleck, Dallas Fleck & Sherry Moffat, on Thursday, March 23, 2017, Days Inn, Estevan, SK., 7:00 PM. Please join Mack Auction Company on March 23rd for your chance to own 12 quarter sections of prime farmland in RM of Browning #34.

Over $60,000 of Surface Lease Revenue being sold with the land located in the center of the Lampman/Steelman gas and oil fields! NW-19-04-06-W2; NE-19-0406-W2, $13,350 SLR; SW-19-04-06-W2, $3600 SLR; SE-19-04-06-W2, $10,000 SLR (Sub-divided yardsite does not sell); SE-29-04-06-W2, existing Surface Leases not incl. in sale (Sub-divided yardsite does not sell); SW-29-04-05-W2, $2725 SLR; SE-29-04-05-W2, $3050 SLR; NE-28-0405-W2, $5775 SLR; SE-28-04-05-W2, $7175 SLR; SE-18-04-05-W2, $8450 SLR (Sub-divided yardsite does not sell); SW-17-04-05-W2, $6650 SLR; SE-06-0405-W2. For sale bill and photos visit www.mackauctioncompany.com Join us on Facebook and Twitter. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL311962

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GRAIN LAND TO RENT, 35 mile radius of Rouleau, SK. Call 306-776-2600 or email: kraussacres@sasktel.net

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TOM@SASKFARMLAND.COM Perdue 416 acres pasture/hay land. New 4-wire fence, 3 dugouts, steel corrals and chute, 2016 alfalfa/brome mix. $367,000 MLS. Tom at 306-260-7838 Coldwell Banker.

LAND FOR SALE RM OF MARRIOTT. SE 5-33-13-3 2016 assessment 36,300. NE16-33-14-3 2016 assessment 55,900. SE21-33-14-3 2016 assessment 49,000.

Highest or any offer will not necessarily be accepted. Offers may be accepted on individual quarters or any combination. Please contact Larry Kirk at Busse Law for bidding package. phone 306-948-3346; Fax 306-948-3366, Email: larry@busselaw.net Closing date: March 24, 2017.

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NW-19-28-01-W3, SW-19-28-01-W3, NE-10-28-02-W3, NW-10-28-02-W3.

Please submit written tenders to: PO Box 12, Bladworth, SK. S0G 0J0. Closing date March 20, 2017. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

RM CANWOOD #494, 3 quarters: Grain, pasture and hay, 265 acres cult. On school bus route. Underground power and phone.

Nice yardsite, 3 bdrm bungalow, 2 double car garages, 2013 assessment 203,700.

306-747-2775 after 6PM, Shellbrook, SK. LOOKING FOR THREE or more sections of farmland to list. Have Buyers. Contact Earl Cooper 306-241-7751 or Reg Kotlar 306-221-1880 at Sutton Group Norland Realty Ltd., Saskatoon, SK.

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SW 30-31-02-W2M 160 Cultivatable Acres Property will be sold in “As Is” condition.

No minerals included in sale.

Sealed bids, clearly marked “Frederick Morozoff”, should be received in our office by 5:00 p.m. on March 16, 2017 accompanied by a deposit of 10% of the bid in the form of a money order or certified cheque to the address below.

(Deposits will be refunded except for that of the successful bidder.)

The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

For further information phone: Faye Mintzler at (306) 787-7920 or email: faye.mintzler@gov.sk.ca Public Guardian and Trustee of Saskatchewan 100 - 1871 Smith Street REGINA SK S4P 4W4 Fax (306) 787-5065

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LAND FOR SALE The Public Guardian and Trustee of Saskatchewan as property guardian for Frederick Morozoff, will accept bids on the following:

LAND FOR SALE: RM of Moose Range #486, SW-08-52-11 W2, 160 acres, power & well on site. Email offers: jbdt@shaw.ca

Kevin Jarrett (306) 441-4152

14/4 grain operation all in block, 2100 acres cultivated, very economical unit to farm. Very well maintained, neat and tidy - Windthorst area.

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FOR SALE IN the RM of Marquis No. 191: NW 01-19-26 W2, assessment $117,700; SW 01-19-26 W2, assessment $107,600.

Highest or any offer not necessarily accepted. Taking offers until March 16th, 2017. Mail offers to: Box 37, Tuxford, SK. S0H 4C0. Phone or text 306-631-8454.

CRAIK: 6 DEEDED & 4 leased quarters, (1600 acres). Approx. 430 acres are cultivated, 350 acres seeded to canola this year and 80 acres hay. The rest is native grass/pasture able to graze 200-250 head of cattle. Guest Ranch has lots of accommodation and facilities, $1,450,000.

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T W O Q UA RT E R S E C T I O N S i n R M o f Woodlands NE 9-15-3W, 160 acres and SW 16-15-3W, 130 acres- previously cult.

Highest tender or any tender not necessarily accepted. Offers must exclude GST or any other levies which may be payable by the purchaser. Purchaser must rely on their own research and inspection of the property. Ten (10)% of purchase price is to accompany the tender and be made payable to: MLT Aikins LLP to be held in trust.

Please forward tender by March 13, 2017 to MLT Aikins LLP, 30th Floor, 360 Main Street, Winnipeg, R3C 4G1. Attention: KK Pinkowski, kpinkowski@mltaikins.com Inquiries: mgallagher@mltaikins.com E X C E L L E N T L I V E S TO C K FA R M S : 1) 1732 deeded acres w/4425 acres of Crown land, fenced, small bungalow, very good buildings and metal corral system, can carry 350 cow/calf pairs. 2) Excellent horse ranch in Erickson, MB., Riding Arena and buildings in fantastic condition. 3) 640 acres mixed farm within 15 min. of Brandon. 4) 800 acre cattle farm, Rorketon, MB., 1500 sq.ft. home, heated shop.

5) 320 acre grain farm, Elgin area. Jim McLachlan 204-724-7753, HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc, Brandon, MB., www.homelifepro.com

FOR SALE - RM #395: S1/2 of 11-45-08 W2, 320 acres; S1/2 of 12-45-08 W2, 311 acres; part of NW 11-45-08 W2, 84 acres; Part of NE 11-45-08 W2, 55 acres; NW 36-44-08 W2, 157 acres; SE 33-44-08 W2, 78 acres; SW 03-45-08 W2, 120 acres. For FARM LAND FOR SALE BY TENDER in more info. call 306-889-4329. the Rural Municipality of North Norfolk. SE 1/4 of 34-12-09 WPM. Exc all RM VISCOUNT #341 land for sale. SW, mines and minerals as set forth in transfer NW, NE-34-34-25-W2. Native pasture with 96001 PLTO. Tender must be for the 130 acres cult. 306-944-4227, Plunkett, SK entirety of the land described above, and all buildings attached thereto. Sealed TOM@SASKFARMLAND.COM RM of tenders to purchase the land will be reMcCraney. Didur Farm, 958 acres. Six ceived by: Greenberg & Greenberg, Box quarters good quality cultivated dirt. Avg. 157, Portage la Prairie, MB. R1N 3B2 until assess $56,500. Tenant available. Will sell 4:30 PM March 15, 2017. Terms of the individual or combinations, $929,000 MLS. Tender are as follows: 1) Each Tender Tom at 306-260-7838, Coldwell Banker. shall be in writing and in a sealed enveFOR SALE BY TENDER - RM Of Key lope, plainly marked as to its contents and West No. 070: SE-14-08-23 W2; shall be submitted with a certified cheque SW-13-08-23 W2; NW-12-08-23 W2. payable to Greenberg & Greenberg, in All offers to be submitted in writing on or trust, in an amount equal to 10% of the before Friday March 10th, 2017. Highest tender price. 2) If the tender is accepted, or any offer not necessarily accepted. In- the certified cheque shall become a noncludes 2 bins (3800 bu. & 4000 bu.). Min- refundable deposit. If the Tenderer fails to eral not included. Please forward all bids complete the purchase of the property the and enquiries to: McGeough Zepick Law Seller shall retain the deposit as liquidated Office, 1222-5th Street, Estevan, SK, S4A damages. On March 17, 2017 unsuccessful Tenderers will have their certified cheques 0Z6. 306-634-8822, mzlaw@sasktel.net returned to them by regular mail. 3) The WANTED: UP TO 190 quarters of grain balance of the purchase price shall be paid land. Will consider most parts in SK. and by cash, certified cheque, or lawyer’s trust cheque and trust conditions on April 14, AB. For more info. phone 306-221-2208.

2017 (the Closing Date). 4) Vacant possession will be provided on Closing Date. 5) FARMLAND AND YARDSITE for sale, 2034 The Buyers will pay the 2017 taxes. 6) The acres and mature yardsite. House, garage, Vendors will pay all the property taxes and quonset, plenty of water. One section block, penalties relating to taxes accruing to DeRM 193, 9 adjoining quarters in RM 223. cember 31, 2016. 7) The Tenderer will Phone 306-850-0774, Eyebrow, SK. pay the applicable Good and Services. Tax ncseaman@gmail.com or provide an acceptable undertaking to self-assess. 8) Time is to be of the essence TENDER - CASH Rent, 155.42 acres and in submission of tender and closing of 159.63 acres, Tenders will be considered to sale. 9) Highest or any tender will not neccash rent the NE- 01-16-08-W3 and NW-12 essarily be accepted. 10) The Purchasers -16-08-W3 located in the RM of Morse rely entirely on their own knowledge and #165 (Ebel Brothers) until Wednesday, inspection of the property independent of March 15, 2017. Call 306-773-2891, Swift any representations made by or on behalf Current, SK. ngibbings@andlaw.ca of the owners. For further particulars and inspection contact: John A. Jones, Greenberg & Greenberg, Box 157, Portage la Prairie, MB. R1N 3B2. Phone 204-857-6878

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3 QUARTERS WITH YARDSITE: 477 acres in a block. Mixed farm, 300 arable acres.

Fenced and cross fenced, 2 shallow wells., 40’x60’ machine shed, 34’x44’ pole shed, barn, corrals, hay fence. 24’x32’ bungalow, w/double attached garage. Located beside the Riding Mtn. National Park. Contact Karen Goraluk-Salesperson, 204-773-6797.

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MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps.

Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: www.maverickconstruction.ca PASTURES AVAILABLE FOR grazing season 2016. Small or large group. References available. Ph. 306-937-3503, Cando, SK.

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WILLNER-ELBOW GRAZING (WEG) has avail. grazing for the 2017 grazing season.

New applicants are welcome! All existing patrons are required to apply for additional grazing if so requested. Applicants will be received until March 16, 2017. Additional info. can be obtained by contacting Neil Palmer at 306-567-8040 or Ian McCreary at 306-567-2099.

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CERTIFIED BARLEY, VARIETIES available: AC Metcalf; CDC Maverick; CDC Austenson.

Call for pricing and availability. Delivery available, 250-782-7820, Dawson Creek, BC. shaun@spgrain.ca www.spgrain.ca

CERTIFIED AAC PREVAIL, AAC Foray and AAC Pasture. Volume and cash discounts.

Please text or call Jeff at Sopatyk Seed Farms, 306-227-7867, Aberdeen, SK. Email: jeffsopatyk@me.com

FOUNDATION, CERTIFIED: MF Alfalfa, Alfalfa and Clovers Grasses for sale: Alfalfa: Rangelander, Algonquin, Multifoliate. Sweet Clover, Red Clover, Alsike, Grasses. Email us for a price list. Pasture and hay blends.

Delivery, 306-921-9942, Star City, SK. CERTIFIED AAC BRANDON, AAC Jatharia Free Grant, Greenshields Seeds, 306-746-7336, ivanaudrey@sasktel.net 306-524-4339, Semans, SK. CERT. # 1, high germ, low fus: AAC Cameron VB, AAC Jatharia VB, CDC Utmost VB, AAC Brandon, CDC Plentiful. Seed Source Archerwill, SK, 306-323-4402.

WE KNOW IT Because we grow it! AAC HYBRID AND OPEN-POLLINATED canola Brandon, Waskada, Cert. #1. Limited sup- varieties. Certified #1 Synergy (Polish), ply! Excellent quality! N a ko n e c h n y Dekalb, Rugby. Phone Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. Seeds, 306-932-4409, Ruthilda, SK.

#1 REG. & CERT. CDC Austenson feed, 99% germ., 97% vigor; Also Malt Barley Reg. & Cert. CDC Kindersley and Metcalf.

Call Andrew 306-742-4682, Calder, SK. CERT. AC METCALFE, AC Newdale, CDC Copeland, Legacy, CDC Austenson, CDC Maverick. Van Burck Seeds, Star City, SK 306-863-4377. www.vanburckseeds.ca RM OF BIGGAR, BIGGAR, $580,000. CERTIFIED CDC AUSTENSON barley. Call This acreage has 9.8 acres with a 3 bdrm, Ennis Seeds 306-429-2793, Glenavon, SK. 2 bath home with a dbl. attached garage.

This home has been 90% renovated inside CDC COPELAND BARLEY, reg. and cert., and outside over the past 2 years. 32x50’ top quality seed. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, CERTIFIED #1 SHAW CWRS, high yieldheated shop with 3 bays. Back yard has North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851, ing. Pratchler Seeds Farm, 306-682-3317 or 306-231-5145, Muenster, SK. 60x100’ metal clad pole shed, 33x66’ steel 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net quonset, and 30x75’ wood straight wall CERTIFIED #1 LEGACY (6R). Call Fenton older shed. Excellent location, 8 miles Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. north and 3 miles west of Biggar, SK. MLS® 586422. Wally Lorenz, Realtor, CERTIFIED #1 CDC COPELAND barley, Re/Max of the Battlefords, 306-843-7898. quantity discounts and financing available.

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CERT. #1 AAC Synergy, CDC Copeland, • LARGE KERNELS excellent quality. Northland Seeds Inc., 306-324-4315, Margo, SK. • GOOD STRAW STRENGTH Best pricing, Best • SHATTER RESISTANT option Best service 2007 OKANAGAN ECLIPSE 28.5’ 5th wheel, bunk beds, big shower, winter pkg., WE BUY: low kms, Mumby hitch, $22,000. Financing • AAC Synergy Malt Barley avail. Leduc, AB. larry-s@telus.net • 15.0+ protein Hard Red Spring Wheat 1974 BOLER TRAILER, new radial tires, and 11.5 Protein Winter Wheat For a dealer near you, contact us! sleeps 4, furnace, always shedded and • Soybeans and Peas covered. 306-696-2957, Whitewood, SK. www.seednet.ca 403-715-9771 • Feed Wheat, Barley and Corn CERT. CDC Utmost VB, CDC Plentiful.

Farm Pick up Available MR fusarium resistance. AC Andrew, AC 2013 CHALLENGER 37KT, 31,000 miles, 1-800-258-7434 matt@seed-ex.com E n c h a n t V B a n d A C c o n q u e r V B . excellent cond, many extras, $115,000. St. CERTIFIED #1: CDC Copeland; CDC Mave- 306-843-2934, Wilkie, SK. www.herle.ca Gregor, SK. 306-366-2112, 306-231-3410. rick and CDC Austenson. Fedoruk Seeds, CERT. #1 CDC Utmost, AAC Brandon, Car306-542-4235, www.fedorukseeds.com dale. Call Ardell Seeds, 306-668-4415, WANTED PARTS for GMC motorhome, Kamsack, SK. Vanscoy, SK. b u i l t b e t we e n 1 9 7 3 a n d 1 9 7 8 . C a l l 306-463-7527, Kindersley, SK. CERTIFIED # 1, high germ, 0-3% fus.: VESPER-WASKADA VB, MT wheat AAC Synergy, AC Metcalfe, CDC Copeland, Certified #1. 99% germ., 99% vigor, 0% Legacy. Seed Source, Archerwill, SK, fus. gram. Excellent quality! Ready for 306-323-4402. pick-up! Nakonechny Seeds, 306-932-4409, Ruthilda, SK. TOP QUALITY CERT. #1 CDC Copeland, AC Metcalfe, Newdale. Frederick Seeds, AAC JATHARIA VB, certified #1, midge 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. tolerant, high yielding. Stoll’s Seed Barn Ltd., Delisle, SK. 306-493-7409.

CERT. CDC AUSTENSON feed barley.

Call Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060 Melfort, CERTIFIED #1 - High germ., low disease: AAC Brandon; CDC Plentiful; CDC Utmost SK. www.trawinseeds.ca VB; Cardale; AAC Connery; AAC Penhold; CERT. CDC COPELAND, AC Metcalfe Elgin ND. Fedoruk Seeds, Kamsack, SK., barley. Call Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060 306-542-4235. www.fedorukseeds.com Melfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca CERT. #1 CDC Copeland, CDC Metcalfe, HRSW CERTIFIED #1 SHAW VB, midge 2017 ACE 29.4, #H0A08956, show pricing! AAC Synergy, CDC Maverick, CDC Austen- tolerant; Cert. #1 Vesper, midge tolerant; CPSR certified #1 AAC Foray, midge toler$ 1 1 8 , 9 0 0 . A M V I C L i c . D l r. C a l l son. Ardell Seeds, 306-668-4415, Vanscoy. ant. Call Andrew 306-742-4682, Calder, SK 1-866-346-3148 or shop online 24/7 at: Allandale.com CERTIFIED AC CARBERRY and AC Shaw VB. 0% FHB. Contact Ennis Seeds DE DELL SEEDS INC. high yielding grain 306-429-2793, Glenavon, SK. corn, high yielding silage corn, proven in 1993 GRAND TOURING Ski-Doo, front cov- the prairies. The leaders in non-GMO tech- CERTIFIED #1 CDC Plentiful, Cardale, er, stored inside, used very little by elderly nology. Prairie dealer. Beausejour, MB. Elgin ND, Goodeve VB, Vesper VB. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. couple. 306-696-2957, Whitewood, SK. Free delivery. Call 204-268-5224.

PARTS FOR VINTAGE snowmobiles, 1990 GRAZING CORN CM440 conventional va- CERTIFIED CDC Plentiful, CDC Utmost VB. and older. Call Don at 780-755-2258, riety. Early maturity, whole plant is pal- Craswell Seeds Ltd., Strasbourg, SK., Wainwright, AB. doncole@mcsnet.ca atable making for easier cleanup in the 306-725-3236. spring, high quality forage during winter CERTIFIED CARDALE, AAC Redwater, CDC months. No planter required. Low seed Plentiful, CDC Utmost, Pasteur. Va n c o s t . C a n a M a i z e S e e d I n c . , c a l l Burck Seeds, 306-863-4377, Star City, 1-877-262-4046 www.canamaize.com SK. www.vanburckseeds.ca

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 1-800-566-6899 ext. 168.

WOOD-MIZER PORTABLE SAWMILLS, eight models, options and accessories.

1-877-866-0667. www.woodmizer.ca

ELIAS SCALES MFG., several different ways to weigh bales and livestock; Platform scales for industrial use as well, nonelectric, no balances or cables (no weigh like it). Shipping arranged. 306-445-2111, North Battleford, SK. www.eliasscales.com

CHIN RIDGE SEEDS, Taber, AB CERTIFIED AAC Spitfire, Transcend Durum; AAC Brandon, AC Muchmore HRSW; AAC Chiffon Softwheat; AAC Penhold CPSW; AC Bravo Flax; AAC Lacombe, CDC Greenwater Peas.

See www.chinridge.com for more varieties 1-800-563-7333 CERT. AAC SPITFIRE, ACC Marchwell VB. Myles, Fox Family Farm 306-648-8337 Gravelbourg, SK. www.foxfamilyfarm.ca CERTIFIED TRANSCEND DURUM. Call Craswell Seeds Ltd., Strasbourg, SK., 306-725-3236.

CERTIFIED AC TRANSCEND. 306-843-2934, Wilkie, SK. www.herle.ca REGISTERED,CERTIFIED AAC MARCHWELL VB, AAC Spitfire, AAC Raymore, Eurostar Durum. High quality, low disease. Reisner Seed Farm, 306-642-8666, Limerick, SK. breisner@sasktel.net

CERTIFIED #1 AC MORGAN, 0% fusarium/graminearum, 95% germ., 98% vigor.

Lepp Seeds, 306-254-4243, Hepburn, SK. CDC BOYER, CERT. #1, 99% germ., 96% vigor, produces plump seed, good for greenfeed and milling. Stoll’s Seed Barn Ltd., 306-493-7409, Delisle, SK. EXCELLENT QUALITY CERTIFIED #1 CS Camden, Summit, CDC Minstrel, CDC Ruffi a n , C D C O r r i n . F r e d e r i c k S e e d s , 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. CERTIFIED OATS, VARIETIES available: CDC Haymaker; AC Mustang; CDC Seabiscuit. Call for pricing and availability. Delivery avail., 250-782-7820, Dawson Creek, BC. shaun@spgrain.ca, www.spgrain.ca CERT. #1 SUMMIT, CDC Haymaker (forage), excellent quality. Ardell Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK.

CERT., REG. CDC Copeland. Volume and cash discounts. Please text or call Jeff at Sopatyk Seed Farms, 306-227-7867, Aberdeen, SK. jeffsopatyk@me.com LARGE QUANTITY of Certified Newdale barely. Inland Seed Corp., 204-683-2316, Binscarth, MB. CERTIFIED #1 METCALF. Pratchler Seeds Farm, 306-682-3317 or 306-231-5145, Muenster, SK. CERT. CDC COPELAND Malt barley seed.

99% germ., 98% vigor, 50g TKW and low disease. LaForge Farms Ltd. 306-773-0924, Swift Current, SK.

CERT. CS CAMDEN milling oat and CDC baler forage oat. Trawin Seeds, Melfort, SK., 306-752-4060. www.trawinseeds.ca CERT. #1 CS CAMDEN, Triactor, Souris. excellent quality. Northland Seeds Inc., 306-324-4315, Margo, SK. CERT. CDC RUFFIAN, CDC Minstrel, AC Morgan. Van Burck Seeds, Star City, SK 306-863-4377. www.vanburckseeds.ca CERTIFIED #1 CDC RUFFIAN, AC Leggett, CDC Orrin. Call Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. CERTIFIED #1: CDC Haymaker; Summit; CDC Ruffian; and CS Camden. Fedoruk Seeds, 306-542-4235, Kamsack, SK. www.fedorukseeds.com CERTIFIED AND REGISTERED Justice and Summit oats. Inland Seed Corp., 204-683-2316, Binscarth, MB.

CERT. #1 AAC BRANDON, Unity VB, Vesper VB, Shaw VB, Carberry, Waskada, AC Barrie. 96% - 99% germ., 0% gram./fus.

Lepp Seeds, 306-254-4243, Hepburn, SK. CERTIFIED #1 AAC Brandon HRS, high germ., low fusarium gram. Seed Source, 306-323-4402, Archerwill, SK. CERTIFIED STETTLER WHEAT, clean, germ 96%, good sprout resistance, 0% fus. Can deliver. 250-782-0220, Dawson Creek, BC. CERT AAC JATHARIA VB CWRS, Brandon Plentiful, Utmost VB. Melfort, SK. Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060 www.trawinseeds.ca

CERTIFIED ABARTH European variety, better standability and disease package.

306-843-2934, Wilkie, SK. www.herle.ca CERT.#1 CDC Limerick and Cooper, excellent quality. Northland Seeds Inc., 306-324-4315, Margo, SK. CDC AMARILLO, CERTIFIED #1, excellent quality! limited supply. Ready for pickup! Nakonechny Seeds, 306-932-4409, Ruthilda, SK.

COMMON ALFALFA SEED, creep and taproot varieties, cleaned and bagged.

306-963-7833, Imperial, SK. INOCULATED ALFALFA SEED. Maurice Wildeman, 306-365-7802, Lanigan, SK.

AAC LACOMBE

• HIGH YIELDS

Irrigation and Dryland

• EXCELLENT STANDABILITY CERTIFIED CDC SORREL. Van Burck Seeds, 306-863-4377, Star City, SK. www.vanburckseeds.ca CERT. GLAS, CDC Sorrel, CDC Bethune f l a x . Tr a w i n S e e d s , M e l f o r t , S K . , 306-752-4060. www.trawinseeds.ca CDC GLAS FLAX, reg. and cert., top quality seed. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net

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ALFALFAS, GRASSES, CLOVERS - For Sale: Tap, creeping root and MF alfalfas, Sweet Clover, Red Clover, Alsike clover, Meadow Brome. Smooth Brome, Crested Wheat, Timothy, Slender wheatgrass, Cicer milkvetch, Sainfoin. Pasture and hay mixes.

Organic and conventional. Free Delivery.

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CERTIFIED CDC AMARILLO - Yellow peas.

306-863-4377, Star City, SK. Van Burck HAY BLENDS AND PASTURE BLENDS, no charge custom blends. Dyck Forages & Seeds, www.vanburckseeds.ca Grasses Ltd., Elie, MB. Free delivery.

COMMON GREEN PEA, good standing va- 1-888-204-1000, www.dyckseeds.com riety, 94% germ., powdery mildew resistALFALFA, CLOVER, BROMEGRASS, Timoant, bin run. 306-335-2777, Abernethy, SK thy, wheat grass. Trawin Seeds, Melfort, CERTIFIED #1 CDC Amarillo, high germ. SK., 306-752-4060. www.trawinseeds.ca and quality. Seed Source, 306-323-4402, Archerwill, SK. GREEN PEAS: CDC Raezer, CDC Limerick, LOOKING FOR OLD and new crop soybeans CDC Greenwater, Fdn., Reg. and Cert. on FOB Western Canada. Licence and bonded all, top quality seed. Gregoire Seed Farms grain company. Call, email, text Now for Ltd, North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851, competitive pricing at the farm! Market 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net Place Commodities Ltd, accurate real time CONVENTIONAL SOYBEANS: AAC Edward, CERT. #1 CDC Amarillo, CDC Limerick marketing. 403-394-1711, 403-315-3930.

OAC Prudence - Certified, Reg., Fdn. Not (green). Ardell Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, info@marketplacecommodities.com glyphosate tolerant. Big Dog Seeds, Vanscoy, SK. 306-483-2963, Oxbow, SK. CERTIFIED CDC LEROY forage peas. Great CERTIFIED NO.1 CDC SNOWDROP Faba silage mix, small seed size = low seeding RED LENTILS, 99% germ., 96% vigor, bean, quantity discounts available. Call/ costs. Blend with barley, oats or wheat. 36¢/lb. Call 306-630-9838, Brownlee, SK. text 306-290-7816, Blaine Lake, SK. Registered grade available too! $12.50/bu.

NORCAN restores grain farm profitability.

CERT CDC Blackstrap (early); CDC Super- Pickup, 403-654-2158, Vauxhall, AB. Email: Buy from Norcan and keep your own Glyjoerg@columbiaseed.ca Visit on-line: jet; CDC Jet. High germs. Martens Charophosphate 1 soybean seed. Norcan farmwww.columbiaseed.ca lais & Seed, 204-534-8370, Boissevain, MB ers have reported yields over 60 bu./acre.

HAVE WET FIELDS? Try Faba beans! Cert. CERTIFIED PEAS, VARIETIES available: Call/text Nate, 204-280-1202 or Norcan CDC Meadow; AAC Peace River; CDC HoriSeeds 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch, MB. CDC Snowdrop, small seed, zero tannin. zon. Call for pricing and availability. Deliv306-843-2934, Wilkie, SK. www.herle.ca ery avail. 250-782-7820, Dawson Creek, BC. SMALL RED LENTILS, 93% germ, 92% cold InVigor, no disease. 306-483-7322. Frobshaun@spgrain.ca www.spgrain.ca isher, SK. REGISTERED CERTIFIED CDC Greenwater; Certified CDC Striker. Martens Charolais COMMON RED LENTIL seed, good germ. and vigor, bin run, 1300 bushel. Call and Seed, 204-534-8370, Boissevain, MB. 306-567-0176, Davidson, SK. CERT. REG. FDN. CDC Impulse and CDC CERTIFIED #1 CDC Amarillo and CDC GLY SOYBEAN SEED, early, mid, and long Meadow.

Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Proclaim red lentil seed. Higher yielding season available. Top yield, bulk or than Maxim. Volume and cash discounts. Tisdale, SK. bagged. Keep your own seeds with the Please text or call Jeff at Sopatyk Seed convenience of Glyphosate! No contracts Farms, 306-227-7867, Aberdeen, SK. or TUA’s. Dealers wanted. Call/text Nate, Email: jeffsopatyk@me.com 204-280-1202 or Norcan Seeds CERT. CDC MAXIM CL. Craswell Seeds 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch, MB. Ltd., Strasbourg, SK., 306-725-3236.

MARROWFAT PEAS AND small red lentils.

CERTIFIED CDC GREENSTAR LG Lentil, 92% CERTIFIED CDC CALVI. Phone Grant at Clean bulk common Marrowfat peas, vg germ., 88% vigor, 72.55g TKW, low disease. G r e e n s h i e l d s S e e d s , 3 0 6 - 7 4 6 - 7 3 3 6 , standing variety, disease resistant; Small Call LaForge Farms Ltd., 306-773-0924, 306-524-4339, Semans, SK red lentil good yielding Clearfield variety.

Swift Current, SK. All good germ., low disease. FOB. Pick up.

NEW CERTIFIED CDC Calvi, CDC Bastia, Lakeside Seeds, 306-554-2078, Wynyard, CDC Togo. Itchless. Very good condition. SK. lakesideseeds@gmail.com 306-843-2934, Wilkie, SK. www.herle.ca

REGISTERED,CERTIFIED CDC SORREL. Reisner Seed Farm 306-642-8666, Limerick, SK. breisner@sasktel.net CERTIFIED #1 CDC Sanctuary flax, high germination. Don Schmeling, Riceton, SK., 306-530-1052.

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Sorrel, AAC Bravo.

Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

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CERTIFIED AAC JATHARIA VB and CDC UTMOST VB wheat, Reisner Seed Farm, CERTIFIED #1 CDC Impala (small red) 306-642-8666, Limerick, SK. Clearfield. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. EXCELLENT QUALITY CERTIFIED #1 Cardale, CDC Utmost, CDC Plentiful, CERT. #1 CDC Maxim red, 98% germ., Muchmore, AAC Elie, AAC Connery, AAC CDC Improve green, 96% germ. Don Brandon, Elgin ND. Frederick Seeds, Schmeling, Riceton, SK., 306-530-1052.

306-287-3977, Watson, SK. NEW CERT. CDC Proclaim CL red lentil CERTIFIED WHEAT SEED, Varieties avail.: 306-843-2934, Wilkie, SK. www.herle.ca AAC Penhold; AAC Stettler; Thorsby. Call for CERTIFIED CDC MARBLE, dark speckled pricing and availability. Delivery available, lentils. Call Grant, Greenshields Seeds, call 250-782-7820, Dawson Creek, BC. 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, Semans, SK shaun@spgrain.ca www.spgrain.ca CERT. #1 CDC Proclaim (small red), CDC Marble (French green). Call Ardell Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK.

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Bastilla Glabrous, 92% GREENLAND LARGE GREEN lentil seed, 94% germ, low disease. Complete seed test germ. Andrew 306-742-4682, Calder, SK. avail. 70¢/lb. 306-626-3512, 306-774-5536 REG. AND CERT. CDC Calvi, great sbsorensen@sasktel.net standability, excellent quality. Northland Seeds Inc., 306-324-4315, Margo, SK. CERT. CANTATE CANARY SEED. Highest yielding available variety. Hansen Seeds, 306-465-2525 or 306-861-5679, Yellow Grass, SK. jsh2@sasktel.net

BESCO GRAIN LTD. Buying all varieties of mustard. Also canary and some other specialty crops. 204-745-3662, Brunkild, MB MUSTARD SEED FOR SALE! Looking for off grade mustard, lentils or chickpeas. Custom color sorting of all types of crops.

Ackerman Ag Services, 306-638-2282, Chamberlain, 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. FEED BARLEY: $3 bin run delivered within 100 kms. of Raymore, SK. Minimum 1000 bushels. Call 306-746-7205.

WANTED: FEED BARLEY Buffalo Plains Cattle Company is looking to purchase barley. For pricing and delivery dates, call Kristen 306-624-2381, Bethune, SK. VAN RAAY PASKAL Farms in Iron Springs area is looking for Feed Barley. Put more $$$ in your pocket and sell direct to us with no brokerage fee. Call 403-732-5641.

CERTIFIED SEED: CERT. cereal; AC Metcalfe barley; AAC Brandon wheat; CDC Plentiful AAC Synergy barley; CDC Saffron; AAC Bravo flax; Cert. CDC Maxim lentils. All good germ. and disease. Some varieties available in Foundation and Registered too.

Pick up. 306-554-2078, 306-554-7883, WANTED: OFF-GRADE PULSES, oil seeds CERT. #1 CDC IMPULSE CL red lentil. Wynyard, and cereals. All organic cereals and speSK. lakesideseeds@gmail.com Highest yielding Clearfield red lentil Call cialty crops. Prairie Wide Grain, Saskatoon, 306-465-2525, 306-861-5679 Hansen SK., 306-230-8101, 306-716-2297.

TOP QUALITY CERTIFIED alfalfa and grass Seeds, Yellow Grass SK. jsh2@sasktel.net seed. Call Gary or Janice Waterhouse FOUNDATION, REGISTERED, CERTIFIED 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK. CDC Impulse red lentil. Reisner Seed Farm, CERTIFIED CANADA #1 MF5301 alfalfa 306-642-8666, Limerick, SK. seed, pre-inoculated, $3.50/lbs. Volume discounts. Ph 204-642-2572, Riverton, MB. COMMON #1 SEED OATS, cleaned, 99% germ. Lepp Seeds Ltd. 306-254-4243, CERT. ALFALFA and GRASSES. Elie, MB. Hepburn, SK. CERTIFIED CDC AMARILLO. Volume and Free delivery. Dyck Forages & Grasses Ltd. cash discounts. Please text or call Jeff at OATS FOR SEEDS, 98% germ., 94% vigour, 1-888-204-1000 www.dyckseeds.com Green and/or heated Sopatyk Seed Farms, 306-227-7867, 2% fus. Call 306-867-7716, Outlook, SK. COMMON ALFALFA SEED, pre-inoculated, Aberdeen, SK. jeffsopatyk@me.com Canola/Flax, Wheat, 90% germ., $2.85/lbs. Volume discounts.

Barley, Oats, Peas, etc.

CERTIFIED CDC Amarillo, CDC Limerick, 204-642-2572, Riverton, MB. CDC Greenwater, CDC Mosaic. Phone BOW V AL L EY TRADIN G L TD. CERT. INOCULATED ALFALFA. Maurice Grant, Greenshields Seeds, 306-746-7336, TOP QUALITY ALFALFA, variety of grasses and custom blends, farmer to farmer. Gary Wildeman, 306-365-7802, Lanigan, SK. 306-524-4339, Semans, SK Waterhouse 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK.

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ALFALFA, TIMOTHY, Brome, Clover, hay and pasture blends, millet seed, Crown, Red Prozo. 204-685-2376, Austin, MB. ALFALFAS/ CLOVERS/ GRASSES, hay blends and pasture blends. Custom blends no charge. Free delivery. Dyck Forages & Grasses Ltd., Elie, MB, 1-888-204-1000.

Visit us at www.dyckseeds.com $28/ACRE, CATT CORN, open pollinated corn seed. Lower cost alternative for grazing and silage. 7-9’ tall leafy plants, 8-10” cobs, early maturing 2150 CHUs. Seed produced in MB. for over 10 yrs. High nutritional value and palatability. Delivery available. 204-723-2831, Check us out on Facebook at: Catt Corn YELLOW BLOSSOM SWEET Clover seed, 99.5% pure, low price, delivered MB and SK. Rick Smylski, 204-638-7732.

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HAULING 45 TONNES OF HAY on ea. of 2 identical Super B units. 48 large round bales; or 78- 3x4 squares; or 120- 3x3 squares per load. Receive up to 10% volume discount depending on volume. Ph/tx Hay Vern 204-729-7297, Brandon, MB. HAY BALES, 1400 lbs., 25% alfalfa, 75% Meadow Brome, no rain. 306-963-7656, Imperial, SK.

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TOP QUALITY GRASS HAY for sale, shedded, can deliver, 306-501-9204 ask for Paul. Belle Plain Colony, Belle Plain, SK. 1000 ROUND ALFALFA/GRASS bales; Also slough hay bales. Made with JD 569, net wrapped. 306-867-7716, Outlook, SK.

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CGC licensed & bonded merchandiser specializing in: - Feed Barley - Feed Wheat - Milling Durum and Wheat - Feed Pellets - Off Grade Pulses & Oilseeds - Pulse and Wheat Screenings www.jglgrain.com Toll Free 1-877-907-1517 Saskatoon, SK 1-306-374-1517 Moose Jaw, SK 1-306-624-2378 Email info@jglgrain.com

1000 BROME/ALFALFA 5x6 bales, $60 per bale. Fillmore/ Griffin, SK. area. Ph Gerald 306-861-7837.

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Call 306-237-4582, Perdue, SK. HORSE QUALITY HAY bales rounds and small square, grass or alfalfa. Call 306-290-8806, Dundurn, SK.

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2015 1st & 2nd cut, 2016 1st cut alfalfa/ 2ND CUT ALFALFA, 3x4x8’ squares, 140 grass round bales, price negotiable. Will tons; Also big square flax straw bales. load. 204-265-3349, Beausejour, MB. 403-501-1837, Tilley, AB. FINE CHOPPED ALFALFA silage bales, individually wrapped, 1200 lbs., hay analysis ALFALFA CUBES, LIVESTOCK PELLETS, available, dairy quality. Call 306-963-7656, bedding and grass seed. Cubes: $250, Imperial, SK. 500 kg tote; $12.70, 20 kg bag; Bulk available. Bulk livestock pellets. Bedding ROUND WHEAT STRAW bales and green- shavings. Grass seed dealer. Delivery f e e d o a t b a l e s , a l l n e t w r a p p e d . available. 780-201-2044, Bonnyville, AB. Phone/text 306-291-9395, Langham, SK. Email: info@tncfeedsandbrushing.com LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom 164 SECOND CUT Alfalfa bales, forage testhay hauling. 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK. ed, dairy quality, 1400 lbs., 5.5x5', $85/bale SHEDDED DAIRY AND FEEDER HAY, OBO. 306-526-8318, Qu'Appelle, SK. 3x4x8 square bales; Greenfeed and straw.

Tests available. 403-633-8835, Tilley, AB.

SHAVINGS: Cattle Feedlot/horse/poultry b e d d i n g . B u l k p r i c i n g a n d d e l i ve r y available. Vermette Wood Preservers, Spruce Home, SK. 1-800-667-0094. Email info@vwpltd.com View www.vwpltd.com ROUND ALFALFA/GRASS MIXED hard core, 5x6, average 1450 lbs., 3.5¢/lb.

306-736-2445, 306-577-7351, Kipling, SK. 5x5 ROUND ALFALFA/BROME hay bales, $40/bale. Phone 306-842-6246, Griffin, SK 380 GREENFEED BALES, 4x4x8; 150 square hay bales, 4x4x8; 300 5x6 hay bales, 2 years old. $45 per bale. 306-728-7195, 306-730-9735, Melville, SK. ALFALFA 3x4 SQUARES, 2nd and 3rd cut; Feed tests available. Call 403-501-9307, 403-362-6682, Tilley, AB.

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500 ROUND GREENFEED BALES, average 1750 lbs., $50 per bale. 306-845-2182, 306-845-7344, Turtleford, SK. LARGE AND SMALL square hay, 1st and 2nd cut alfalfa in 4x4 squares. 3rd cut alfalfa, 3rd cut alfalfa/grass and 2nd cut timothy/ orchard in small squares. Feed analysis and delivery available. Can load dry vans and containers. 403-952-1030, Bow Island, AB. Email: klassenhay@gmail.com 1000 + HAY BALES: Alfalfa, Timothy or Meadow Brome, net or twine, $15-$50/ea.

Call 306-278-7778, Porcupine Plain, SK.

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LACKAWANNA PRODUCTS CORP. Buyers and sellers of all types of feed grain and grain by-products. Contact Bill Hajt or C h r i s t o p h e r L e n t at 3 0 6 - 8 6 2 - 2 7 2 3 . clent@lpctrade.com bhajt@lpctrade.com

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WANTED: FEED GRAIN, barley, wheat, peas, green or damaged canola. Phone Gary 306-823-4493, Neilburg, SK.

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Call 306-764-6372, Prince Albert, SK. GOOD QUALITY HAY put up dry without rain. 200 big square bales, 3x4x8. Reasonably priced. 306-320-1041, Leroy, SK. 400 BROME/ALFALFA 6x6 round hay bales, 4¢/lb., no rain. Contact 306-634-7920, 306-421-1753, Estevan, SK. 2 5 0 L A R G E RO U N D 1 5 0 0 l b . t w i n e wrapped bales, good quality, 4¢/lb or $60/bale, loaded. Near Hwy #47. Call or text 306-728-9033, Melville, SK.

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TIRES AND RIMS: 80/80R38’s, 10 bolt, 11.25 bolt circle, $1150/ea.; 480/80R38 tires only, $750; 18.4x26 12 ply c/w 10 bolt rim, 11.25 bolt circle, $999. Call 1-888-907-9182. www.agshield.com RIMS FOR SALE! We are clearing out our excess rims! Get all standard size combine rims for 50% off our reg. price. Excludes duals and specialty size rims. Offer ends May 30th, 2017. 1-800-667-4515 or view www.combineworld.com CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used highway tractors. For more details call 204-685-2222 or view information at www.titantrucksales.com

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SEMI TIRES. We stock a full line of tires for all your trucking needs. Drives starting at $255, trailers starting at $240. Full warranty on all tires. Call 306-714-0121, Shellbrook, SK. www.triplejayceetire.com

COMBINE WORLD can provide dual solutions for a multitude of agricultural equipm e n t ! C a l l u s n o w fo r p r i c i n g a n d COVER CROPS. Do you want to be free of availability! 1-800-667-4515. fertilizer bills and have cleaner fields? N TIRES TIRES TIRES! Radial, bias, new, Fixation P&K scavengers. Taproot short used. 20.8x42, 18.4x42, 20.8x38, 18.4x38, and long season plants. Limited quantity. 20.8R34, 18.4x34, 900/60R32, 800/65R Give me a call 204-851-2101, Virden, MB. 32, 24.5x32, 18.4x30, 23.1x30, 16.9x28, 28Lx26, 18.4x26, 19.5Lx24. Semis, skid TRIPLE SUPERPHOSPHATE FERTILIZER steers. Best price and value guaranteed!

(46% P2O5) Limited volume of granular TSP www.combineworld.com 1-800-667-4515 (0-46-0-15Ca) available. BD: 70lbs/cu ft, SI 10.1, 2-4mm (96%), pH in solution 1-3, $570 CAD/MT, FOB SE Sask. 613-802-2559, ryan@v6agronomy.com

ALL TYPES OF HAY AND STRAW NUVISION COMMODITIES is currently purchasing feed barley, wheat, peas and milling oats. 204-758-3401, St. Jean, MB.

U-DRIVE TRACTOR TRAILER Training, 30 years experience. Day, 1 and 2 week upgrading programs for Class 1A, 3A and BIAS SIDEWALL TIRES for drive-over air brakes. One on one driving instructions. piles and bunker silos. Phone Murray Hut- 306-786-6600, Yorkton, SK. ton at Tire Sidewall Depot 519-345-2289 or 519-275-4356, Staffa, ON.

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90 BARLEY BALES, netwrapped, 2090 lbs., $75 each or 30 or more for $70 each.

HAY BALES ROUND mixed 5x5, hard 306-397-2677, 306-441-0677. Edam, SK. core, no rain, net wrapped, horse quality, $60/bale. Near Regina, SK 306-539-6123 190+ GREENFEED ROUND bales, 2015, netwrapped, 1500 lbs. plus, no rain, $45 ICE FISHING SHACKS and accessories. per bale. Call 204-851-2101, Virden, MB. End of Season Sale. Contact your nearest Flaman store 1-888-352-9890.

QUALITY HAY 1st, 2nd and 3rd cut dairy and beef hay, 3x4 square bales, shedded; Triticale greenfeed with delivery available.

403-633-3777, 403-363-3318, Tilley, AB. TRITICALE GREEN FEED, 200 big square bales Put up well. Lots of grain. Feed analysis avail., $80/ton. Pickup. 403-793-7860. coalcreek2010@gmail.com Brooks, AB.

TARPCO, SHUR-LOK, MICHEL’S sales, service, installations, repairs. Canadian company. We carry aeration socks and grain bags. Also electric chute openers for grain trailer hoppers. 1-866-663-0000.

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WORKING RANCH MANAGER. Meunier Stock Farms Ltd. is seeking an independent, hardworking individual for our ranching division near Sangudo, AB. Looking for a person who enjoys working outside with cattle on intensively managed ranch land.

The Working Manager will be a forward thinking self-starter who is open to new ideas and willing to work in all areas of the ranch. Please call 780-674-0148. Email: meunierfarms@mcsnet.ca FARM LABOURER REQUIRED for mixed farm to operate machinery, cattle handling and general farm duties. Driver’s license required. Single or family accommodations including utilities. Ph 403-575-0712 or fax resume 403-577-2263, Consort, AB. FULL-TIME FARM LABOURER HELP. Applicants should have previous farm experience and mechanical ability. Duties include operation of machinery, including tractors and other farm equip., as well as general farm laborer duties. $25/hour depending on experience. Must be able to cross US border. Location: Pierson, MB/Gainsborough, SK. Feland Bros. Farms, Greg Feland and Wade Feland, Box 284, Pierson, MB. R0M 1S0. 701-756-6954.

FARM EMPLOYEE FULL-TIME position available on grain and cow/calf operation in Foremost area of S. AB. Class 1 drivers license required. Min. Grade 12. Pay and benefits based on experience. Email resume to dyapplicants@gmail.com FEEDLOT PROCESSOR. BEEF feedlot near Bethune, SK. requires a permanent, fulltime processor with a strong background in beef cattle. Experience preferred and duties will include but are not limited to low stress cattle handling, processing, ship and receive cattle, accurate record keeping.

Candidates should have an exc. work ethic.

The ability to diagnose animal health and determine treatment if required. Skills in other aspects of a modern day feedlot operation (eg. equipment) are considered an asset. Wage dependent on experience.

Benefit package available after 3 months probation. Please send your resume to accouting@bpcattle.com or fax it to 306-624-2389.

FULL TIME POSITION available on a larger grain farm, duties to include planting, spraying, harvesting, and hauling grain.

Must have Class 1, and previous farm exp.

Housing with utilities avail. Call Dwayne Drake 204-748-8156 Elkhorn, MB. FARM LABOURER REQUIRED for livestock operation. Duties include: operating, maintaining seeding & harvesting equip. Smoke free enviro., $17/hr. Housing avail. Lyle Lumax, 204-525-2263, Swan River, MB.

PEN RIDER. BEEF feedlot near Bethune, SK. requires a permanent, full-time pen rider.

Previous work experience in the livestock industry and feedlot experience is preferred. Minimum 1 year of pen riding experience. Good horsemanship skills and the ability to work in all weather conditions.

Duties include ride and pull cattle for disease, treat and diagnose cattle as per feedlot protocol, help w/shipping, processing and other cattle duties. Must be able to work on own and w/others. Work environment is primarily outdoor based tending to livestock. May require occasional heavy equipment work. Wage dependent on experience. Benefit package available after 3 months probation. Please send resume to PTO WATER PUMP, Bau-Man, sizes 6” to accounting@bpcattle.com or fax to 16” w/capacities of 1,250 to 10,000 GPM. 306-624-2389.

Lay flat water hose and accessories also available. 306-272-7225 or 306-272-4545, Foam Lake, SK. tymarkusson@sasktel.net LARGE GRAIN FARM and Custom Farming Operation is seeking qualified operawww.highcapacitywaterpump.com tors to start in April. Must have minimum 2 years experience operating large farm machinery. Year round and seasonal employment available. Class 1A preferred, but KORNUM WELL DRILLING, farm, cottage may also help the right individual to obtain and acreage wells, test holes, well rehabili- license. Wage dependent on individual’s tation, witching. PVC/SS construction, ex- performance and experience. Accommodapert workmanship and fair pricing. 50% tions provided. Call Brent 306-421-9270, government grant now available. Indian f a x r e s u m e 3 0 6 - 4 5 6 - 2 8 3 5 o r e m a i l bkfarms@outlook.com Bromhead, SK. Head, SK., 306-541-7210 or 306-695-2061

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FULL-TIME FARM LABOURER required for grain operation in Regina, SK. area. Duties include operating and maintaining large seeding/harvesting equip. and general farm labour tasks. Applicants should have previous farm experience, 1A license, be reliable and understand long working hrs. during peak season, Sundays off. Wages dependant on experience. Fax resume with references to 306-525-1692. Ph 306-522-9375.

FT FARM POSITION for mid size grain and cattle operation, with health plan. Must be raised on farm and have lots of farm experience in modern equipment. 306-536-7892 GROWING FAMILY FARM is looking for a full-time farm worker. You will be involved in all aspects of grain production and farm maintenance. We are looking for a trustworthy individual who can grow in responsibility as the farm grows. Experience with machinery, housing potentially available.

Email resume to rennbreitkreuz@yahoo.ca Onoway, AB. GRAIN FARM SEEKING FT seasonal farm equipment operator/general farm labourer. Must have valid driver’s license, Class 1 an asset. Looking for someone to commit for entire farming season. Must have farming experience (combines, swathers, sprayers, etc.) Position will include the safe and efficient operation, repair & trouble shooting of farm machinery.

Must be able to perform physical duties & work long hours during peak times. We offer housing and flexible hours during nonpeak times. Top wages. Peace Country, AB. 780-864-0135. E-mail resume with references to: albertafarm2012@gmail.com

RANCH FOREMAN. SIMPSON Ranching Ltd., a 1000 head Hereford cow/calf ranch and 3500 acre hay and mixed grain farm is seeking a well rounded individual to oversee and participate in daily operations of the cattle ranch near Cochrane, AB. We run a reputation herd w/management focus on the use of documented best management practices for livestock, land, water and facilities. Candidate must be able to physically perform all ranch related work, lead a team of people, have exc. beef cattle handling and equipment operation skills and above avg. horsemanship skills. Fulltime position, housing included, compensation commensurate with skills and experience, benefits avail. Submit cover letter, resume, and references via email by March 15, 2017. hr@simpsonranching.ca FARM MANAGER, HCI Indian Head, SK. HCI is presently searching for a full-time Farm Manager to oversee the day to day operations of the farm. Duties include annual crop planning and budgeting, managing and supervising 10 - 12 farm staff, maintaining accurate and up-to-date farm records, crop scouting and crop input decisions, over-seeing maintenance of farm machinery and buildings, helping w/farm operations as well as all other duties associated with managing a modern, innovative and profitable farming business. Applicants should have a minimum of 5 years farm experience and ideally past management experience. He or she must have a min. of a high school diploma and preferably a postsecondary degree or diploma. Strong interpersonal, communication, organizational and computer skills are a requirement.

306-539-8918.

EXPERIENCED COUPLE WANTED on small mixed farm, cow/calf, hay making, irrigation gardening. Accommodation provided.

References required. John, Qualicum Beach, BC., call 250-752-6746 Email jmncontractingltd@gmail.com FULL-TIME POSITION on a purebred/ commercial cattle operation. Need to be a self-starter w/an agricultural background.

Mix of cattle work and small amount of mechanical. Competitive wage w/benefits and room to advance. Accommodation available. Starting ASAP. Hill 70 Quantock Ranch Ltd., 780-875-8794, Lloydminster, AB. Email: info@hill70quantock.com

FULL-TIME DAIRY Herdsperson wanted immediately, near Outlook, SK. Must have experience in dairy herd health, computers and be mechanically inclined, self-motivated and willing to learn. E-mail resume: jakeboot@yourlink.ca Fax: 306-867-9622. 2 SEASONAL FARM MACHINERY operators Phone 306-867-9926. required. Must be able to operate grain FARM HELPER REQUIRED on grain farm, cart, tandem grain truck, FWA tractor April 1- Nov 30th. Class 1, farm experience w/rockpicker, 4 WD tractor for harrowing. and some mechanical skills would be an Also manual labour for upkeep of leafcutasset. Wages depending on experience. ter bees and general servicing of equipment. May 1 to October 31. $15-$18/hr.

Phone 306-755-4444, Tramping Lake, SK. 101008187 SK Ltd., 303 Frontier Trail, Box FA R M I N G R A N C H I N G O P E R AT I O N 3 7 2 , W a d e n a , S K . , S 0 A 4 J 0 . F a x : Seeking experienced worker to operate 306-338-3733, phone: 306-338-7561 or farm equipment and handle cattle. Me- email: cfehr9860@hotail.com chanical ability preferred. Housing provided. Resume, references and criminal record check required. Wages negotiable.

Trevor: 403-575-5237, tdeagle@live.ca LARGE COW/CALF RANCH in NE Sask.

WILLNER-ELBOW GRAZING CORP. seeks energetic Ranch Hand. Bunkhouse (WEG), est. by pasture patrons, is seeking accommodation provided. Email resume: 2 seasonal riders to work with an experi- knilson@sasktel.net Fax 306-428-2192. enced Manager caring for approx. 2100 pair of cattle on 41,000 acres of pasture. SEASONAL FARM WORKER for a mixed WEG is centrally located in the province farm operation in the Calgary, AB. area. between Saskatoon, Regina and Moose Seeding, haying and harvesting experience Jaw. Applicants must have their own necessary. Class 3 license an asset but not horse/tack, must display horsemanship required. Wages depend on experience. No and good roping skills. Work includes cat- housing. Fax: 403-279-6957 or E-mail: tle take-in and take-out, diagnosis/treat- gmharmeson@gmail.com ment of sick or injured cattle, low stress cattle checks and field moves, water checks and general maintenance. We offer FULL-TIME PERMANENT POSITION accommodation, competitive compensa- available on 700 cow/calf operation in the tion along with opportunity for career Central part of the Interlake area, MB. growth and advancement. For more info. We’re looking for an individual or prefcontact Ross Sigfusson 306-567-4709 or erably a couple to become the leading jansig@sasktel.net or Doug Vollmer at force in our operation. Individuals must be 3 0 6 - 5 6 7 - 7 6 1 6 o r B r e n t G r i f f i n a t honest, self-motivated and personable while willing to adapt and learn the opera306-867-3714, Bladworth, SK. tion. Duties would include: Calving; HayFEED MILL OPERATOR. Beef feedlot near ing; Moving/monitoring cattle pastures; Bethune, SK requires a permanent full-time Fencing; Winter feeding; and General employee to operate feedmill to maximum maintenance. A Class 5 license is required efficiency. Looking for self-motivated and with Class 1 license an asset. Applicants detail orientated individual who also takes should have experience with the operation pride in his/her work. Must maintain quali- of John Deere equipment. Ability to mainty controls, inventory records, and receive tain equipment would be an asset as well incoming products. Job requires physical as cattle experience. Salary to be negotiatactivity with lifting. High attention to detail, ed depending on experience. A bonus sysbasic computer skills, mechanically tem dependant on calving numbers is also inclined, good communication skills and in place. On-site housing located at the must maintain mill to CFIA regulations. work location is available which can house Wage dependent on experience. Benefit one individual, a couple or a family. For package available after 3 months probation. the right individual or individuals training Email resume to accounting@bpcattle.com can also be provided. Please send resume (or info requests) to: playcross@yahoo.ca or fax to 306-624-2389.

FARM HELP WANTED, April 15 to Nov. 30.

Would hopefully return next year.

Some experience in farm equipment operation, mechanical abilities, clean driver’s license, $15-18/hr., depending on experience. Extra training will be provided. Ph. 306-335-2777, fax resume and references to: 306-335-2773, Lemberg, SK.

RANCH HAND: 350 head cow/calf operation, 2500 head custom grazing in Central AB. looking for help from someone that can calve cows, feed, make hay, fix fence, ride and rope. Mechanically inclined & welding would be a plus. Accommodation avail.

780-621-0981, cvranch@xplornet.com

DO YOU LIKE THE OUTDOORS AND CAMPING? Located at Mile 375 on the Alaska highway in Northern B.C. Looking for a mature couple or single male or female with own travel trailer to live in for the duration of the summer employment. You must be mature, self-motivated and can work alone. Must be able and willing to do a multitude of tasks including cleaning, housekeeping, depending on what is needed at any given time. Must be able to work with tourists that come to our Lodge. Must be pleasant in nature and enjoy dealing with people from all different countries.

250-774-1005, www.tetsariver.com SEMI-RETIRED, RETIRED (But not tired) Agrologists for contract inspection, auditing, evaluation and extension work in ProCert’s expanding Organic, Gluten-Free, Grass Fed certification business. Please send Letter of Intent, Curriculum Vitae and References to Cody Sander at email: c o d y. s a n d e r @ p r o - c e r t . o r g f a x 306-382-0683 or phone 306-382-1299.

WANTED: EQUIPMENT OPERATORS for spring seeding, April 15th - June 1st. Possibility of full-time for the right candidate.

Call Mike 306-469-7741, Big River, SK. HIRING EXPERIENCED Teamsters, Horse wranglers & Back Country Cooks for horseFLAT ROCK FARMS is immediately hiring back holiday business in the mountains of for positions on SK. grain farm. Agricultu- Alberta (Kananaskis). Please send resumes ral knowledge an asset. Training for 1A li- and references to: anchord@anchord.com cense avail. Preference will be given to applicants with common sense, a willingness EXPERIENCED TURBINE AG Pilot Roland Air to learn skills and follow directions. Appli- Spray Ltd., based out of Roland MB. is lookcants must have clean driver’s abstract, ing for 1 Commercial Pilot for the upcoming clean criminal record, must be free of so- spray season. Starting June 1, 2017 - Sept. cial media and cell phone addictions. Com- 15, 2017. Applicant must have the followpetitive pay, meal plan and accommoda- ing: 1.) A Commercial Pilots Licence & tions Ph 306-776-2510. Fax 306-776-2517 Manitoba Applicators Pesticide Licence. 2.)

2500 hrs of Agricultural experience of Email: flatrocktrucks@outlook.com which 1000 hrs must be on a Turbine Air BARN MANAGER: 600 SOW Farrow to Finish Tractor. 3.) Must maintain journey logs hog barn Must have experience working following transport Canada Guidelines. 4.) with hogs and management experience. Must be insurable, with up to date medical.

Mechanical aptitude would be an asset. 5.) Be capable of operating Satloc Bantam Wages dependant upon experience. Hous- GPS or AgNav Platinum System. 6.) Profiing may be available. Located near Battle- cient in English. Wage/Salary $60/hr based ford, SK. Fax 306-652-6665 or email: on a 40 hr. work week. Possible seasonal bonus based on performance. Workers beckton.ag@sasktel.net Compensation provided. Benefit package POSITION AVAILABLE, Cypress Hills, SK. available. Accommodation and vehicle area. Background yearling grasser opera- provided if required. Do Not Apply unless tion and cow/calf. Modern facilities and you meet all the above requirements. equipment. Good working environment. Please email resume to: mike@rolandair.ca Class 1 preferred. Wages negotiable de- Call 204-745-8484 or 204-745-6111. http://www.rolandairspray.com/ pending on experience. Ph. 306-295-7473.

RM OF LOON LAKE No. 561 - Chief Administrative Officer (CAO). The CAO is the principal policy advisor to both the Reeve and Council & Mayor and Council and is the sole employee of Council.

He/she is the senior administrative leader in the organization, and will directly oversee the Assistant Administrator and the casual office staff. In addition, the CAO will also: Provide effective advice and support both the Reeve and Council & Mayor and Council in developing, implementing, and executing policies and strategies; Deliver solid leadership to the RM and Village; Promote opportunities to the public for public participation on civic issues; Ensure that RM staff are committed to providing the highest level of service to the general public and the business community through clear and transparent communication. The successful candidate will possess the following: A post-secondary education, or a combination of relevant training and senior leadership experience; A demonstrated track record of strong leadership and direction with prior senior management experience preferably in a municipal setting; Excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to work and communicate effectively with elected officials, government bureaucrats, business and industry leaders as well as the general public; A thorough understanding of the financial and budgeting process; Appreciation of the legislative process. Knowledge of the Saskatchewan Municipalities Act and related statutes would be an asset; Experience in strategic planning, organizational development and achieving results in building terms; Experience in implementing development plans, capital works and infrastructure improvement programs; Be able to start work as soon as possible; Experience with munisoft software; Councils are willing to train the successful candidate. This office is a joint office between the RM of Loon Lake No. 561 and the Village of Loon Lake. The Chief Administrative Officer is the employee of the RM of Loon Lake but provides Administrative Services to the Village of Loon Lake. The rural population is 756 in the RM of Loon Lake No. 561 and the urban population is 288 in the Village of Loon Lake. RM of Loon Lake is mostly made up with farming operations but has ten Lakeshore developments and one Country Residential subdivision. The Village of Loon Lake has a K-12 school, healthcare centre, grocery store, insurance agency, CIBC bank, bar, lots of churches, curling rink, skating rink and community hall. Please view our websites o n - l i n e at : w w w. r m l o o n l a ke . c o m o r www.loonlakesask.com. For further info. please contract: Greg Cardinal, Reeve at 306-236-3637 home or 306-236-8968 cell.

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FEED MILL MANAGER: Olysky is currently recruiting a Mill Manager to join our team near Rama, SK. The Mill Manager is responsible for overall management, production and operation of the Feed Mill. This mill produces 100,000+ tonnes of pelleted and mash feed per year. Previous feed mill experience (preferably at management level) is an asset. If you are interested in applying for this position please fax your resume to 306-682-1926 or email to: OlyskyResumeBank@olymel.com CONSULTING ROAD CONSTRUCTION Project Manager The RM of Elcapo No.154 invites applications for a consulting Road Construction Project Manager. This position is on a per road construction project basis with the successful applicant to be responsible for providing their own vehicle. The position will require experience in operating Sitech's (Trimble) data collector and corresponding software in order to provide Council with a detailed design to the standard established by Council including estimated quantities and costs. The Road Project Manger will then be required to oversee the construction of the road project to ensure it is constructed to design and to be able to verify and account for quantities on material used in the construction on the road. Contact 306-696-2474.

ARTYS AIR IS looking for a Base Manager for an aerial spraying base located in SK. Ideal candidate would have knowledge of the industry; background in agriculture; interest in aviation; willing to work long seasonal hours; excellent communication and people skills; knowledge of chemicals.

Provided for the job would include living accommodations, vehicle, phone. Artys Air offers competitive wage, as well a bonus structure, rewarding opportunity for the right person. artysair2@gmail.com

WANTED TRUCK DRIVER to work in Edson, AB. area. Clean Class 1 licence, drivers abstract, experience w/hauling various types equip. is required. Ph 780-728-7140.

FULL-TIME LONGTERM CLASS 1 Truck Driver required with 2 years experience to p u l l d r y va n s i n C a n a d a a n d U S A .

204-955-2548, Ile Des Chenes, MB. NEED CLASS 1 DRIVERS to haul livestock.

Experience required. Health plan and safety bonuses. Also need drivers to haul aggregate. Year round work. 403-625-4658.

FORBES BROS LTD. Is currently recruiting for: POWERLINE TECHNICIAN “TRANSMISSION” (NOC 7244) JOURNEYPERSON We are looking for 40 candidates to work in; Saskatchewan: Saskatoon, Regina, Prince Albert, and Kennedy Manitoba: Thompson, Portage La Prairie, Brandon, Dauphin, Gillam, and The Pas. Alberta: Medicine Hat, Lake Louise These positions are permanent full-time $50.00/Hr (Journeyperson Rate), 40 - 84 Hours per Week with Permanent Full Time Shift, Overtime, Weekend, as per Collective Agreement.

Day Work, and Camp Work (Rotations 28 & 7).

Essential Job Functions (day to day responsibilities): Install, maintain, troubleshoot and repair power lines and cables that run between transmission electrical systems, towers and poles (stringing/wire work). Assemble, erect and maintain steel, wood or concrete poles, towers and guy wires. Construct and maintain footings and bases for transmission towers and poles. Splice, solder and insulate conductors and related wiring to connect power distribution and transmission networks.

Requirements: As the successful candidate you have: Journeyperson Certificate, Journeyperson Red Seal Certificate, or uncertified Journeyperson with 3-5 year’s work experience in the trade, Valid Driver’s Licence, and completion of Drug and Alcohol testing.

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities: Fast-paced environment, physically demanding, ability to distinguish between colours, bending, crouching, and kneeling.

Benefits: Medical benefits, Dental benefits, Life Insurance Benefits, Group Insurance Benefits, Pension Plan Benefits, Vision Care Benefits. As per collective agreement.

We encourage all qualified Canadian and Permanent Residents to apply.

HOW TO APPLY EMAIL • FAX • PHONE • MAIL • IN PERSON #300, 10403-172 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5S 1K9 www.forbesbrosltd.ca Phone: 780-784-2016 Fax: 780-481-1373 Email: work@forbesbrosltd.ca

LIVESTOCK NUTRITIONIST New Rosedale Feed Mill has an immediate opening for a Multi Species Livestock Nutritionist at our feed plant located near the thriving city of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. New Rosedale Feed Mill is a well-established manufacturer and retailer of complete feeds, macro and micro premixes, minerals and ingredients. New Rosedale Feed Mill markets to producers and a dealer network across western Canada. Expansion into the molasses lick tub market is currently in progress.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the formulation of complete feeds, macro and micro premixes and minerals for swine, poultry and some ruminant species. The Nutritionist will interface with clients across Western Canada, suppliers and feed mill operations personnel. The successful client will have a good understanding of current and proposed Canadian feed regulations and feed manufacturing processes related to HACCP certification.

Candidates should expect to work with minimal supervision and have a minimum of a M.Sc. in livestock nutrition or closely related discipline, 2 years of feed industry experience, excellent language - computer and customer relations skills. Eligibility for membership in the Manitoba Institute of Agrologists is required. Experience with computer formulation is essential and familiarity with the Brill feed formulation system will be an asset.

The successful candidate is expected to relocate to the Portage la Prairie area and will be required to travel through out the prairie provinces to support sales personnel.

Salary commensurate with experience.

APPLICATION PROCESS: If you are interested in applying for this position, please submit your initial application or questions to apply@bdav.ca. The posting will remain open until filled. We thank all applicants for their interest in New Rosedale Feed Mill; however only those selected for interviews will be contacted. No calls to the feed mill will be accepted.

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Kids will be kids LEFT: Running away from home has become a regular occurrence for a twin calf. Cody Longson uses an all-terrain vehicle to return it to its sibling and mother on his ranch near High River, Alta.

ABOVE: Calves find a piece of plastic to hold their interest on a snowy February day.

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ENERGY FACILITY

SaskPower seeks input on location for new power projects Open houses to be held for feedback from residents in the Regina area on the transmission line and power facility

BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU

SaskPower is reviewing input from a series of open houses as it determines the best location for a new natural gas power-generating facility and transmission line.

The two separate projects are both planned for the Regina area.

Doug Opseth, director of supply planning at the crown corporation, said more generating capacity is required.

“Even with the slowdown in the economy, we’re still seeing load growth,” he said.

SaskPower expects the generating plant will be needed as early as 2022. It has identified four general locations for the facility: the Moose Jaw Industrial area, the Belle Plaine area, a region it is calling West Sherwood northwest of Regina and the Rowatt area southeast of the city.

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“At some point we’re going to need that new generating capacity somewhere,” Opseth said.

“Our plan is that it would be a new combined cycle natural gas facility, which utilizes natural gas to generate electricity.”

Feedback from residents in the potential site areas will help determine some specific locations.

Another series of open houses will be held later this year to update

residents on preferred locations, and a final decision is likely early next year.

The transmission line project is a 42-kilometre 230-kilovolt line to carry electricity from the Condie switching station to an existing line northwest of Belle Plaine. It is also required to integrate new power generated from the Chinook Power Station to be built near Swift Current next year.

The structures will be two-pole galvanized steel. According to information from SaskPower, minimum clearance over farmland is 8.1 metres, or 26.6 feet. The right-ofway width is 40 metres, or 131.2 feet.

There are several proposed corridors for the line, but they are all within miles of each other. The preferred route will be chosen by June with construction expected to begin in August 2018.

Opseth agreed that transmission

lines often generate the most concern from residents because they cross multiple quarter sections.

The gas plant will require the purchase of one-quarter section, although there will be transmission lines from it, too.

Compensation guidelines SaskPower compensates land owners for easement rights, depending on the effect the transmission line has on individual property and crops. It is based on: • loss of ownership rights • area taken out of production permanently • increased costs, reduced returns and intangible costs as a result of farming around the structure • damage to remaining property • construction and maintenance damage • weed control

Opseth said SaskPower has many natural gas generating plants in the province.

They emit far less carbon than coal facilities and ideally back up solar and wind generation.

“I think a lot of people think of SaskPower still as a coal utility when in reality most of our generating facilities are natural gas or hydro and wind,” he said.

Natural gas generation accounts for about 40 percent of capacity, followed by conventional coal at 32 percent, hydro at 20 percent, wind at five percent and coal with carbon capture storage and other at three percent.

The province wants half of generation by 2030 to come from nonrenewable sources, 30 percent from wind, 15 percent from hydro and five percent from other sources. karen.briere@producer.com

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ANTIBIOTIC USE

Super bugs put people, animals, food at risk: EU Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat around the globe and prudent use is urged LONDON, U.K. (Reuters) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in people, animals and food across the European Union pose an alarming threat to public and animal health, according to disease and safety experts.

A report on antimicrobial resistance in bacteria by the European Food Safety Authority and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said 25,000 people die annually in the EU from these resistant strains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Antimicrobial resistance is an alarming threat putting human and animal health in danger,â&#x20AC;? said Vytenis Andriukaitis, the EUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health and food safety commissioner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have put substantial efforts to stop its rise, but this is not enough. We must be quicker, stronger and act on several fronts.â&#x20AC;?

Drug resistance is driven by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, which encourages bacteria to evolve to survive and develop new ways of beating the medicines.

Multi-drug resistance The report said that multi-drug resistance in salmonella bacteria, which can cause the common and serious food-borne infection salmonellosis, is high across the EU. Mike Catchpole, the ECDCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief scientist, said he was particularly concerned that some common types of salmonella in humans, such as monophasic salmonella typhimurium, are showing extremely high multidrug resistance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prudent use of antibiotics in human and veterinary medicine is extremely important,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all have a responsibility to

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ensure that antibiotics keep working.â&#x20AC;?

Resistance to carbapenem antibiotics, which is usually the last remaining treatment option for patients infected with multi-drug resistant bacteria, was detected for the first time in animals and food, albeit at low levels, as part of EU-wide annual monitoring for the report.

It said very low levels of resistance were observed in E. coli bacteria found in pigs and in meat from pigs.

Resistance to colistin, another last-resort human antibiotic, was also found at very low levels in salmonella and E. coli in pigs and cattle, the report said.

Marta Hugas, head of EFSAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biological hazards and contaminants unit, said geographic variations can be found across the EU with countries in northern and western Europe generally having lower resistance levels than those in southern and eastern Europe.

She said this was most likely because of differences in the level of use and overuse of the medicines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In countries where actions have been taken to reduce, replace and rethink the use of antimicrobials in animals, show lower levels of antimicrobial resistance and decreasing trends,â&#x20AC;? Hugas said.

A dirt drift formed around this piece of equipment on a farm near Estevan, Sask., in May 1939. |

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The Saskatchewan legislature unanimously endorsed a petition calling on the dominion government to change its wheat policy.

The petition, which had been circulating throughout the province for much of the winter, had been brought to Ottawa by a 400-member delegation.

Meanwhile, the Manitoba legislature asked Ottawa to establish a minimum price of $1 per bushel for No. 1 Northern wheat.

The federal government included in its budget a provision that would allow creditors to offer financially precarious small businesspeople, including farmers, a four percent interest rate break for a refinancing loan. Ottawa would make the initiative possible by not taxing bank revenues from interest charged to such loans.

O.S. Longman, Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s field crops commissioner, told an agricultural short course in Calgary that western agriculture had suffered because of a lack of â&#x20AC;&#x153;sense of stewardship for the land. The fundamental weakness in our agriculture has been that we have acquired land not for use but for speculative purposes.â&#x20AC;?

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The farmers unions in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia decided to distribute pledge cards to producers as part of an effort to organize a farmer boycott in which they would commit to not buying new cars, trucks, tractors and other durable goods.

The idea of a boycott to force down the high cost of agricultural supplies was starting to gain traction on the Prairies.

Leo Kristjansen, an economics professor at the University of Saskatchewan, argued for the public ownership of all inland and terminal grain elevators because of the systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inefficient use of labour and management resources.

Western Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four major dair y co-operatives received approval from the federal governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bureau of competitive policy to merge. Dairy Producers Cooperative Ltd., Central Alberta Dairy Pool, North Alberta Dairy Pool Ltd. and Fraser Valley Milk Producers Co-operative Association, now needed to take the proposal to their 5,000 members.

10 YEARS AGO: MARCH 8, 2007 Marvin Shauf, a former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool vice-president who had served as the Canadian Federation of Agricultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second vice-president for eight years, lost his bid for another term to Ron Bonnett, former president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. Shauf had been hoping to replace Bob Friesen as CFA president when he eventually stepped down. Instead, it was Bonnett who eventually became CFA president. He was recently re-elected to another term.

Maple Leaf Foods announced it would close its Saskatoon hog slaughter plant June 1. Employees and hog industry officials knew the plant was closing but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it would happen so fast. bruce.dyck@producer.com

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IMPORT TARIFF

India considers reinstating 25 percent wheat import tax High imports from traders and expectations of a bumper crop may prompt the government to hike the duty from its current 10 percent NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) — India could impose a 25 percent import tax on wheat by the middle of March, two government sources said March 1, reinstating the tariff after a gap of nearly three months in response to recent large purchases from overseas.

India, the world’s second-biggest wheat producer, lowered the import tax on the grain to 10 percent from 25 percent in September 2016 and scrapped the duty Dec. 8 last year.

The decision encouraged imports from private traders who have sealed deals to buy more than five million tonnes of wheat since mid-2016 to meet a supply shortfall left by two years of drought.

Higher imports and expectations of a bumper crop has now prompted the government to consider reinstating the 25 percent tax, two sources directly involved in the decision-making process said. “ The government could reimpose the duty within the next fortnight,” one of the sources said.

Indian farmers will harvest the new-season crop from this month, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government wants to curb imports to avoid a crash in local prices, fearing a backlash from millions of poorer citizens.

Most flour millers, biscuit and confectionary makers in the coastal towns of southern India find it cheaper to import, especially from Australia, than to buy the grain from farmers in the key producing states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar

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Ukraine to seed 500,000 acres over last year KIEV, Ukraine (Reuters) — Ukrainian farmers, who were expected to start seeding the 2017 grain crop earlier this month, are expecting to plant 17.8 million acres of various grains, the agriculture ministry said late last month.

Last year, Ukraine, the world’s third-largest grain exporter, started spring seeding Feb. 24, taking advantage of favourable weather.

Farmers seeded 17.3 million acres of spring grain last year and the ministry said this year’s sowing area could rise to about 17.8 million acres.

It said the area under spring and winter grains would total 35.6 million acres this year.

Ukraine harvested a record 66 million tonnes of grain in 2016, including 28 million tonnes of corn and 26 million tonnes of wheat.

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Wanted: omega-3 fish feed alternatives Soaring demand for fish oil has grain companies scrambling to develop new crops high in omega-3 fatty acids (Reuters) — The world’s top agricultural traders and biotechnology firms are finding novel ways to

make fish oil substitutes from grains and algae as they seek to cash in on consumer health fads

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The surging demand has pushed fish oil prices to a record high and presented the aquaculture industry with a problem: how to source more fish oil without putting depleted global fish stocks under even more pressure. Ninety percent of marine fish stocks worldwide are already fully or partially over-fished, according to the United Nations.

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The short supply has attracted the world’s largest grain traders, such as Cargill Inc., Bunge Ltd. and Archer Daniels Midland Co. These agricultural giants are in the midst of transforming themselves into food processing and ingredient suppliers as they look to diversify away from bulk trading of grains and raw materials amid a four-year global supply glut.

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NEWS GRAIN TRADERS TAP IN Dow Chemical: developing a canola with high omega-3 acids Cargill , BASF : plan to develop a canola to make oils for fish food Bunge,TerraVia: producing a product using algae for fish diets Archer Daniels Midland: launched an algae-based fish food last year

» CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE The $2.4 billion fish oil sector is a niche for major grain traders and represents a fraction of their income. However, fish oil is the sort of high-return product they are targeting as they grapple with slim margins in their traditional business.

As demand outstripped supply, wholesale prices in top fish oil producer Peru soared to an average of $2,986 per tonne in 2016, the highest ever recorded.

Global annual production of fish oil has for years been limited to about one million tonnes, said Einar Wathne, president of Cargill’s aqua nutrition business.

“It could be a kind of showstopper for growth in aquaculture if we can’t find other sources for these valuable omega-3 fatty acids,” Wathne said.

Cargill’s plan to produce more fish oil could soon change the colour of up to half a million acres of the landlocked Montana prairie, company executives said.

The firm plans to pay farmers there to grow a new variety of canola. Half a million acres would be eight times as much farmland as is currently planted with canola in the state.

Vegetable oil made from canola is high in omega-3s, and Cargill teamed up in November with chemical company BASF to develop a canola type by 2020 that it will use to make oils for fish food.

The new canola is genetically modified to make long chain omega-3 fatty acids by introducing genes from ocean algae, another source of the fats.

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emerging business.

Bunge and TerraVia are supplying the product to BioMar Group, the third-largest fish feed supplier.

The fish oil alternatives come with their own challenges.

Algae oil is expensive to produce, and the canola and soybean varieties that are used to make oil rich in omega-3 are genetically modified.

That can be a sensitive issue for countries such as Norway, which is the world’s biggest salmon producer and has tough restrictions on genetically modified food.

With high prices and concerns about sustainability, fish farms have reduced use of oil and protein-rich meal in diets, risking production of less-healthy fish.

That’s why the development of fish oil substitutes is critical, said Vidar Gundersen, BioMar’s global sustainability director.

“The timing now is of the essence,” he said.

The $166 billion aquaculture industry accounts for half the world’s fish, and sales are expected to increase up to five percent annually for at least the next three years.

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“It may be appealing, an opportunity to try new crops,” said Tom Clark, one of Montana’s few canola growers.

However, he said managing to change farmers’ habits on such a large scale would be challenging.

In addition to Cargill, Dow Chemical is developing its own variety of canola to make oil with similar omega-3 acids as fish oil, and is counting on Canadian prairie farmers to grow it.

U.S. seed giant Monsanto is developing soybeans that can be processed into soy oil with the omega-3 fatty acids for food products such as baked goods and soups.

ADM launched an algae-based product DHA Natur for fish diets last year, and has “robust plans in 2017” for the product, said spokesperson Jackie Anderson.

Bunge, working with TerraVia Holdings Ltd., started using algae to convert sugar into an omega 3 ingredient for fish diets last year.

The company has capacity in Brazil to annually produce tens of thousands of tonnes of their product, AlgaPrime, said Walt Rakitsky, TerraVia’s senior vice-president of

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Ont. company faces legal action on several fronts The CFIA has charged the tomato processor with mislabelling product and faces lawsuits from farmers for breach of contract

BY MARY BAXTER FREELANCE WRITER

A tomato processor in Ontario’s Essex County facing potential legal action from local farmers for leaving most of last year’s contracted crop in their fields is juggling even more legal woes.

And some of the challenges confronting Thomas Canning (Maidstone) Ltd. kindle questions about the complexity of Canada’s labelling system.

The canner and its chief executive officer, William (Bill) Thomas, return to an Ontario Court of Justice in Windsor, Ont., March 9 to

tackle charges laid by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in 2015 concerning alleged misrepresentation of the organic status and country of origin of canned tomato products.

A preliminary hearing begins May 31 to determine if enough evidence exists for a trial to proceed.

The company, which makes regular and organic canned tomatoes under the Utopia brand, and Thomas each face four counts under sections of the Food and Drugs Act, two counts under the Canada Agricultural Products Act and four counts under the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act.

Thomas faces an additional count under the Canada Agricultural Products Act. Thomas did not respond to requests for an interview. Neither the company’s lawyer, Laura L. Joy, nor crown attorney Paul Bailey responded to interview requests.

The CFIA could not comment on the matter because it was before the courts, said spokesperson Lisa Murphy.

CFIA information filed at the Windsor Court of Justice alleges the company labelled and sold regular canned tomatoes as organic tomato products and Product of U.S.A. tomato products as Product

of Canada to retailers and distributors, including major Canadian grocers such as Loblaw Companies Ltd. and Sobeys.

Maximum fines for conviction on indictment under the Food and Drugs Act and the Consumer Packaging Labelling Act are $5,000 and $250,000 respectively. The maximum fine for an indictable offence under the Canada Agricultural Products Act is $250,000.

Thomas Canning has had other run-ins with the CFIA. Suspensions under processed product regulations in 2014 and 2016 briefly shut down the business’s export and inter-provincial trade

privileges. In 2013, the agency confiscated canned tomatoes because of non-compliance “such as misleading labelling under federal processed product regulations.”

Lycoland Farms Ltd. in Leamington, Ont., owned by brothers David and Peter Epp, was among 14 growers the canner had contracted to grow tomatoes last year. David Epp said he was not aware of the charges.

“As a Thomas grower, none of that was revealed to us.”

It should have been, he said.

Epp said he was aware of another lawsuit between the processor a n d Hi g h b u r y C a n c o C o r p. , another local processor, before he a g re e d t o g row t o mat o e s f o r Thomas in 2016.

In a Dec. 1, 2015, statement of claim filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Highbury Canco claimed Thomas Canning had supplied only partial payment for the 40,000 tons of tomatoes it had contracted Highbury to process into paste that year.

He contracted in excess of $5 million and took about $1 million.

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In April 2016, Judge S.K. Campbell granted a summary judgment in favour of Highbury Canco for $2,565,209.90, the full amount the processor said it was owed.

Epp said he and other growers were concerned about the lawsuit as they headed into the 2016 growing season, but Thomas assured them he would process all the tomatoes at his Maidstone facility and had a $3-million grant from the Ontario agriculture ministry’s rural economic development program to upgrade the aging plant to handle a larger volume.

“We knew we were taking a risk,” Epp said, “but he did have a plan, we had no reason to doubt; he did pay for the tons the year before.”

However, the expansion wasn’t finished in time for most of the harvest. Epp said growers ended up having to abandon three-quarters of the crop in fields because the cannery couldn’t take it.

“He contracted in excess of $5 million and took about $1 million.”

The crops were too spoiled to market elsewhere by the time growers extracted themselves from the cannery contract, he added.

Epp said Thomas paid for crop delivered but not for what was abandoned. Now, growers’ patience has run thin.

Epp and other growers have hired a lawyer, intent on legal action for breach of contract.

If they do file a suit, the growers will follow in the footsteps of 882819 Ontario Limited - D/B/A Morrice Transportation, which sought legal action to recoup $20,000 of unpaid bills from Thomas for cross-border shipping from March to June 2016.

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David Epp is one of the Ontario farmers who had to leave tomatoes in the field last year because they weren’t accepted by the Thomas Canning processing company. He said he will have to take steps this year to adjust his fields’ pH levels because he had to plow under so many tomatoes. The crop might be organic matter, but it is highly acidic organic matter. | MARY BAXTER PHOTO

» CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE An Ontario Superior Court small claims division judge in Windsor upheld the trucker’s claim in

September 2016.

Epp questioned how the provincial government could have approved the canner in 2014 for a three-year grant only months after the 2013

federal regulatory violation.

The province requires rural economic development program applicants to comply with all laws and, if they receive a grant, to remain in compliance for its term.

Kristy Denette, a spokesperson for the provincial agriculture ministry, said in an email that the ministry knew of the 2016 suspension but hadn’t been aware of the 2013 or 2014 violations when the canner’s grant application was approved.

The ministry’s grant agreement is still in effect and ends Dec. 31.

Charles-Antoine Dubois, another ministry spokesperson, said by email the ministry can hold the canner accountable for fulfilling the terms and conditions of the grant.

This is the second time in recent years that the CFIA has levied farreaching charges against an agribusiness for labelling violations.

Last year, greenhouse grower Mucci Farms was fined nearly $1.5 million for falsely labelling and selling imported vegetables as Canadian product.

Steve Lamoure, chair of the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Processors Association, calls the charges against Thomas “fairly serious.”

A guilty verdict would affect the entire canning industry.

“We’re trying to do what we have to do, and when somebody (allegedly) tries to circumvent that, it upsets the balance of the other processors.”

Lamoure said labelling requirements for product of Canada are growing increasingly complicated.

Even the origin of the can counts.

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n e r s s u c h a s L a m o u re’s ow n employer, Sun-Brite Foods Inc. in Kingsville, sourcing Canadianmade cans became a huge hurdle after the 2015 closure of the Crown Metal Packaging Canada LP plant in Chatham, Ont. Norm Beal, executive director of Food and Beverage Ontario, which represents the province’s processing industry, said concerns are growing about the volume of labelling requirements, particularly for functional food claims.

As the number of requirements grows, so do the cost of compliance and the risk for labelling infractions. “(Nevertheless), we need checks and balances to make sure that people are not labelling incorrectly or purposely that they are trying to

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mislead the consumer, which would be a bigger concern.”

He said the issue of mislabelling tends to occur more with imports.

“So we would much prefer to see greater enforcement of these products into our country.”

Erin Cheney, an agrifood research associate at the Ivey Business School at Western University in London, said as labelling becomes more complicated, so too does policing the requirements.

She pointed to a third phase of modernization of federal food labelling regulations now underway.

“Maybe under the new food modernization act, maybe there’s explanation for this, and maybe there’s additional resources,” she said.

“It will be interesting to see.”

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WEIGHT GAIN

Producer sold on testing for feed efficiency

BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

Andy Schuepbach wants to produce more beef with less feed.

The owner of Lilybrook Herefords near Claresholm, Alta., participates in the Canadian Hereford Association residual feed intake (RFI) research project, and he believes collecting that information along with other data points such as birth, weaning and yearling weights has improved his herd.

If he can reduce the amount each cow consumes, the savings on feed will cover the cost of testing.

“It is expensive to test, but it is one of those things that can make a huge difference on the bottom line,” he said in an interview at the Calgary Bull Sale.

All his sales entries had been tested for RFI. The Hereford association has been measuring bulls for this trait for about five years. Yearlings are put on feed at Cattleland Feedyards at Strathmore, Alta., and Olds College and then measured to see how much they gained compared to how much they ate.

More than 1,500 bulls have been assessed using the Grow Safe feeding system to measure individual feed consumption and other pieces of data.

Lilybrook placed 115 bulls on test last year, and this year 135 yearlings went into the program.

“We always try to get as many bulls in there as we can. I believe in it,” he said.

“Those bulls that are high on RFI gain that much quicker.”

A high number means the bulls require less feed to gain weight, while a lower ranking means they are less efficient.

Schuepbach, a former Hereford association board member who sat on the breed improvement committee, said this kind of information provides scientific evidence on feed intake and weight gain.

“As a breed, we always said we were feed efficient, so you’ve got to prove it,” he said.

Schuepbach said a diligent record keeper retains ownership of his steers and sends them to Kasko Feedyards at Coaldale, Alta., where he receives close-out data on his animals’ performance as well as carcass data.

His records tell him that his cattle are improving.

RFI is a heritable trait, but more research is needed to assess how well offspring perform.

He selects for a full range of traits beyond feed efficiency.

“If you balance all the traits, I don’t think there is a negative to it.” barbara.duckworth@producer.com

Ringman Brad Dubeau watches for bids at the 117th annual Calgary Bull Sale. The grand champion bull, in the background, came from Crone Herefords of Hardisty, Alta., and sold for $26,000 to Fenton Hereford Ranch of Irma, Alta. | BARBARA DUCKWORTH PHOTO CALGARY BULL SALE

Veteran breeders nab top prize Crone family of Hardisty, Alta., nets $26,000 for grand champion Hereford bull

BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

The Calgary Bull Sale is a 27-year tradition for Stewart and Cathy Crone.

This year has a special meaning for them now that they have won grand champion bull for the first time with SGC 814Y Diamond Amigo 45C, born in 2015.

It sold for the sale’s top price of $26,000 to Fenton Hereford Ranch of Irma, Alta. Five of their six entries were by the same sire and averaged $9,792.

Many families attending this 117-year-old sale are multi-generational, but the Crones started their herd in 1980.

Stewart grew up on a commercial cow-calf operation but had a preference for Hereford cows and wanted to start his own registered herd.

“Very few of us in this business start up on our own and stay on.

Most are second or third generation or more,” he said after the March 1-2 sale.

He started with a few bred heifers and eventually bought out two

large herds from Alberta breeders Evelyn Evans in 1984 and Ewald Radke in 1989.

As a first generation breeder, he received a helping hand from a friend and neighbour.

“Al Fenton took me under his wing and carried me along. If that hadn’t happened, I probably wouldn’t have stuck it out either,” he said.

“Every purebred breeder needs to find a guy to mentor and help him get going.”

This spring he and Cathy will calve out 200 cows starting in April.

They once ran their own production sale from their ranch at Hardisty, Alta., but these events take planning and plenty of manpower, so they decided on a new marketing plan. Bulls are sold at Calgary and the East Central Spring Bull Sale at Veteran, Alta., as well as by private treaty.

He worked in the oil patch for 18 years, investing in the ranch and m a n a g i n g t h ro u g h y e a r s o f drought, market volatility and BSE. When he left his off-farm job,

Cathy started working for Canada Post.

“We survived like everybody else in agriculture did. It will be something to tell our grandchildren,” he said.

They have three daughters and three granddaughters who are all part of the cattle operation.

With everyone involved in the cattle business, he considers it part of his DNA. All his bulls have DNA collected for parentage verification and additional information to improve bloodlines.

“They are a tool, but you still need to be a cattleman and use your own eye and breed for phenotype that you like,” he said.

He prefers easy fleshing cattle with length that perform well on less feed. He also selects for strong maternal characteristics and docility.

“Temperament is our breed’s strength and we select and cull for it vigorously,” he said. “I will not deal with the other temperaments.”

He often works alone and needs quiet, reliable cattle.

He has also volunteered to sup-

SALE HIGHLIGHTS • Sale average was $7,430 on 114 bulls.

• The reserve champion came from Brad Dallas of Bowden, Alta. The bull sold for $9,000 to an American buyer.

• Ten ranch horses sold for an average of $7,870.

• Two lots tied for top place and each sold for $10,500.

• Will MacKinaw of R Bar Ranch of Bluffton, Alta., sold a 2007 gelding for $10,500.

• MacRae Ranch of Hardisty, Alta., sold a red roan registered Quarterhorse named Snaps Roany Pony for $10,500. port the breed. He is a past-president of the Alberta Hereford Association and the Northern Alberta Hereford Club, and as a consigner to the Calgary Bull Sale, he is involved with the Alberta Cattle Breeders Association. barbara.duckworth@producer.com

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SASKATCHEWAN EQUINE EXPO

Grazing lease changes proposed Safe trailer ride ensures New system provides fair profit sharing between leaseholder and government, says gov’t official

BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

HANNA, Alta. — Alberta grazing leaseholders may soon see a new rental rate formula.

A flat fee is proposed, with a tiered approach based on market prices. It will affect people who are grazing cattle on provincially owned lands.

Ranchers in southern Alberta currently pay a base rate of $2.30 per animal unit month, while those in the north pay $1.30 per AUM. “It is not necessarily an adjustment upward. In cases where the markets are down, (the new fee) will be less in rentals than it is currently,” said Amanda Miller, provincial range management specialist with Alberta Environment.

“These rates would be adjusted annually and they would change based on the price of cattle in the fall and the relationship to the purchase costs of cattle in the spring,” she said at the Alberta Grazing Leaseholders Association annual meeting in Hanna Feb. 22.

The formula considers the purchase of yearlings in the spring, gain on the lease during the grazing season and sale price in the fall.

Producers would pay the base rate plus a calculated variable rent that

equals the net revenue from the cattle market.

“We believe it provides a fair amount of profit sharing between grazing leaseholders and government,” she said.

Rental rate changes would be phased in over five years and all grazing disposition holders would receive a letter informing them of the changes.

Adjustments to the rates must be made through an amendment to the Public Lands Act and a ministerial order is required to implement them.

It will be reviewed in five years and costs will be surveyed every 10 years to ensure the formula is based on current costs.

The government and provincial beef organizations have been reviewing rents for years because rates have not changed since 1994.

This most recent proposal is likely to go into effect in 2018.

Assignment fees paid for administrative costs will be a flat fee of $3,150. Renters continue to pay the property taxes and handle capital costs like fences, buildings or water delivery.

More information on the changes can be found at bit.ly/2mGhnX8 barbara.duckworth@producer.com

GRAZING FACTS • Public land provides grazing of more than 1.6 million animal unit months.

• AUM is the amount of forage needed by an animal unit grazing for one month. The quantity of forage needed is based on the cow’s metabolic weight, and the animal unit is defined as one mature 1,000 pound cow and its suckling calf.

• There are 5,700 grazing leases in Alberta on five million acres of public land.

• Grazing leases are long-term authorizations to individuals, corporations or associations.

Lease size ranges from an average of less than a section (640 acres) in central Alberta to almost three sections (1,920 acres) in the southern Alberta grasslands.

• Grazing licences are long-term authorizations used mainly in forested areas where access for other priority activities, such as forest management, need to be accommodated.

• There are 560 grazing permits on 119,000 acres of land.

Grazing permits are issued on an annual basis, often on land such as fragmented parcels and periodically wet areas.

happy, healthy horse Owners need to reduce stress caused by confinement

BY WILLIAM DEKAY SASKATOON NEWSROOM

Transporting horses on trailers requires training, preparation and common sense, said a panel of experts during a recent horse expo in Saskatoon.

“For the most part, I would say that people who are professional livestock and horse producers are generally well-equipped, wellprepared and well-educated about transporting safely and humanely,” said Stephen Manning from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan.

Manning was part of a panel discussion held during the Saskatchewan Equine Expo Feb. 16-19.

However, Manning, a veterinarian, added that some horse owners are ill-prepared during an emergency caused by a malfunction while transporting an animal.

Shirley Brodsky from the Saskatchewan Horse Federation said the profile of horse owners has shifted and that has led to an increase in how often horses need to be transported on trailers.

“There used to be more rural horse owners, but now there’s a lot

of urban-owned horses that are boarded at stables and there are not a lot of people who have experience with livestock.

“They are in positions where they need to transport, but are not prepared or don’t know,” she said.

Safety and health concerns for the horse can occur because of the inexperience.

“Every time I get behind the wheel of my truck with horses on the back it’s a huge responsibility,” said Brodsky.

She said she has logged millions of miles transporting her horses to shows over the years.

Manning and Brodsky offered tips on safe and healthy trailering.

“Most of the main reason we’re hauling horses is we’re going to an event or competition. The main focus of a good trip is to get the horse there in good shape and not stressed, and ready to compete.

Otherwise you might as well stay home,” Brodsky said. “ You can undo months and months of training and preparation with a bad trailer ride.”

Trailering is a stressful activity for horses who tend to be claustrophobic and don’t like being confined.

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SAFE TRAILER RIDE » CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE “These are big flight animals and their first reaction in stress is to run away. They are not prone to crawling into little spaces. It’s not how they are programmed,” said Brodsky.

“It’s about training and desensitizing and building a foundation of trust.”

Advance preparation before a long trip is high on Brodsky’s list.

“Don’t throw anything new at a horse. If it has never been on a trailer don’t do it the morning you’re leaving for a show. If it’s never worn leg wraps, don’t throw them on the first morning, put them on in the stall. Introduce that well in advance of your travel date,” she said.

Balancing in a moving trailer is a lot of work for the horse, which feels more stress during a long road trip.

A few days before an extended haul, Brodsky takes her horses on a short and gentle trip to get them used to a nice ride. She also thinks every horse should learn to stand in a motionless trailer.

“There are events you will go to where you are not allowed to unload until they see your paperwork. Another good reason to make a horse wait is for biosecurity reasons. Make sure that any manure, or bedding or old feed is removed from the stall before you unload,” she said.

“If he’s happy standing on the

trailer, that’s a bonus.”

Manning said the horse’s normal feeding patterns should be maintained to minimize the risk of gastrointestinal issues.

“Bring hay and other feed with you on your trip, if it’s feasible to do so,” he said.

As well, he said taking along water from home that the horse is used to is important.

“Horses are very particular when choosing to drink and they can be very fussy about the taste of the water regardless of quality. So they may choose not to drink strange water even if it’s good quality,” he said.

“It’s all about total dissolved solids with horses.”

Horses should be offered water at least every four hours during longer trips, but they may or may not choose to drink.

“Some would say you should add electrolytes or some sort of flavouring to water to encourage horses to drink. You’d want to start this ahead of time and train them ahead of time before you hit the road,” said Manning.

Brodsky said the morning before a trip she gives her horses a water rich meal.

“Keep the diet the same. But I will make their hay very wet because often horses don’t drink on the road. So the more water I can introduce into their gut the day of travel the happier I am,” she said.

Manning said horse owners should try to feed their animals in a position that allows them to eat with their heads down. That will reduce the likelihood of inhaling dust and reduce the incidence of respiratory disease.

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Keep the diet the same. But I will make their hay very wet because often horses don’t drink on the road.

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Brodsky said because many horses won’t urinate when the trailer is in motion, it is important to stop to give them a chance to pee.

Temperature inside the trailer is another significant consideration.

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ing in extreme heat or cold if possible.

“If you’re travelling south to Arizona and it’s very, very hot, especially when the horses are not used to that, try to avoid trailering in the midday period when the temperature is very high,” he said.

Added Brodsky, “Often we’re sitting in an air conditioned truck and are kind of oblivious to changes in (trailer) temperature. When you’re sitting in your vehicle, you sometimes forget that there’s guys back there.

“They generate a lot of heat when they’re working on a trailer so they might feel comfortable before they load but if you check them an hour down the road they might be pretty sweaty.”

A useful tip on a hot day is stirring ice cubes into the bedding shavings.

“It cools the trailer and it also stays cool a long time because it’s insulated in the shavings. It will also melt and cut some dust. It’s a lot of natural air conditioning,” she said.

Bedding should also be adequate so that if the horses scuff it around they are not sliding and skidding.

Trailers should have protective stall bars installed, particularly if the windows are down because horses may get their heads out too far.

“Horses have no concept of their own diameter. They’ll attempt things that are not possible,” said Manning.

While driving, Brodsky said it’s important to be sensitive to the feel of the vehicle, as well as lurches and bumps on the road.

“Often it’s an indication that a horse may have scrambled, fallen, or maybe you’ve blown a tire. Don’t just say, ‘that’s OK, it has stopped now,’ ” said Brodsky.

“I had people arrive at a horse show on a rim of rubber on one of their tires. They felt a big bump, but then it stopped so they kept going.

They had three very expensive jumping horses on board and if that second tire had gone they’d have probably rolled and possibly killed themselves and all the horses.”

Another important consideration is to have the appropriate trailer size and type for the horses being transported.

Manning said the discussion continues about which position is best for an animal in a trailer.

“There’s pretty good research that says if a horse is loose in a trailer and they decide how they want to stand, most of them will stand facing backwards. Bracing with the hind legs is more comfortable and easier for them to do than with the front,” said Manning.

“I really think it’s about having an appropriate height for the horses you’re transporting, having an appropriate width and length of stall for the horse and whether or not you’re going to tie them,” he said.

“You don’t want them travelling with their head up all the time.”

STEVE MANNING UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN

At the end of an event if time permits, Brodsky often arranges with the show office to stay for a night to give her horses downtime before hitting the road home.

“Give them a little time to unwind and relax before you put them back on the trailer. When we get home we always isolate our show horses for a few days,” she said.

“These are basic commonsense approaches, but they have worked really well for us. The least stress you cause in an animal trailering, the better off. It’ll keep them healthier too.”

More information is available in the Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Equines at nfacc. ca/codes-of-practice/equine. william.dekay@producer.com

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BRD IN NURSING CALVES

Tackling pre-weaning respiratory disease in beef calves ANIMAL HEALTH

JOHN CAMPBELL, DVM, DVSC

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hen we think of bovine respiratory disease in beef cattle, we often think of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;shipping feverâ&#x20AC;? pneumonias that occur in weaned calves shortly after arrival in the feedlot.

Respiratory disease is the most common cause of death of feedlot cattle, and a great deal of research has been focused on the disease at this stage of production.

However, BRD is also the most common cause of death for nursing beef calves older than three weeks, and much less is known about the syndrome in this age class.

Researchers from the Meat Animal Research Center at the U.S. Department of Agricultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Agricultural Research Service tracked the annual incidence of BRD in pre-weaned calves in its research herd.

Over a 20-year period, the annual incidence varied from a low of three percent to a high of 24 percent with an overall annual average of 11 percent. On average, the mortality rate of calves suffering from pre-weaning BRD was 13 percent.

A research team led by Amelia Woolums surveyed cow-calf producers from three eastern states (Florida, Georgia and West Virginia) and from three plains states (Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska) in an attempt to learn more about this poorly understood disease.

One out of every five herds reported having had some calves with respiratory disease before weaning, and almost half of these herds with pre-weaning BRD cases reported having at least one calf die from BRD pre-weaning.

The most common age group reported as having BRD represented calves that were one to four months old.

The survey included questions on a wide variety of management practices, and the research was able to identify a number of risk factors associated with the occurrence of pre-weaning BRD. Larger herds were more likely to have calves affected with preweaning BRD. The occurrence of diarrhea in the calves and respiratory disease in adult cows was also associated with the occurrence of pre-weaning BRD. Diarrhea in calves may be related to a lack of colostrum intake, which is a predisposing factor to many infectious diseases in calves, including pneumonia and diarrhea.

Diarrhea has also been shown to be associated with the development of respiratory disease in dairy calves. Control of diarrhea in beef herds by ensuring adequate colostral intake and through environmental management may also help to control pre-weaning pneumonia.

When Woolumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research team examined the incidence of preweaning BRD in these herds, they

were able to identify a number of other risk factors, including introducing calves from outside sources, feeding of creep feed to nursing calves and the use of estrus cycle synchronization programs for cows or replacement heifers.

Introducing calves from outside sources is an obvious biosecurity risk because we may be introducing calves carrying a variety of respiratory disease pathogens into the herd.

Bringing young calves into the herd also brings the risk of introducing bovine diarrhea virus into the herd. This virus can infect other calves and cause severe immune system suppression, making calves more prone to pneumonia or other infectious diseases.

A number of the outbreaks of preweaning BRD that I have investigated have been related to the introduction of purchased calves that were infected with BVD virus.

Feeding creep feed and using estrus synchronization programs can be potential risk factors for bovine respiratory disease in preweaned calves because they may bring more contact between calves in the creep feeding area or during confinement while management procedures are carried out.

Producers who use these management procedures may actually increase the opportunities for disease transmission between calves or from cows to calves.

The researchers emphasized that both creep feeding and estrus syn-

A U.S. Department of Agriculture study showed calves one to four months old have the highest risk of contracting respiratory disease. | FILE PHOTO

chronization programs are useful management tools and that modifying calf-handling practices or increasing the strength of immunity of calves through appropriate vaccination programs might help

to lower the incidence of disease in herds that use them.

John Campbell is head of Large Animal Clinical Sciences at the University of Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

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As society, technology advances, so does agriculture Farms are getting bigger, farmers are educated, using high-tech equipment, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t family farms

BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU

The exodus of people from farms to urban centres over the past 80 years drove social and economic change that few people recognize, says agriculture economist Al Mussell.

“There’s a story that we’re not telling, and it’s a pretty amazing story, I think,” said the Agri-Food Economic Systems research lead from Guelph, Ont. “We managed to transfer just under three million people off farms and into urban work and life, and we did it while increasing farm cash receipts, decreasing farm prices adjusted for

inflation, keeping food prices essentially at the rate of inflation and fuelling tremendous economic growth in Canada.”

Mussell said much of this was driven by technological advancement.

This helped develop an increasing professional farm segment, but it also benefitted urban people, and they don’t always recognize that, he said.

A lot of new Canadians at the dawn of the agricultural era discovered that farming wasn’t for them but that educated workforce was able to take their diversified talent and put it to work developing cities and a post-Second World War

manufacturing sector.

There were hiccups and mistakes along the way, but farmers and industry learned to adapt. For example, soil erosion that occurred early because of cultivation has been managed by minimum or zero tillage.

Mussell said people who are multiple generations removed from farms need to understand how society developed and the role that rural and farm people played.

“This story of Canadian social development based on agricultural transition is not tangible to them, and perhaps not even known,” said Mussell’s policy note.

“That progress leading to a much

I think you want the best technology, the best people, and that comes with an increasingly professional farming segment.

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smaller, more professional farming segment of the Canadian economy has significantly influenced the Canadian economy and society more broadly may come as a genuine surprise.”

Farmers and the industry have

been focusing on “telling our story” to counter claims from food activists and others, but he said they need to tell the bigger story, too.

Those who decry industrialized or commercial farming must realize that fewer farmers are feeding more people, and they need technology to do that.

No one wants to work on the typical American Gothic image of a farm, Mussell said, where standards and processes might not be the best.

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OTTAWA — Investors are excited about agricultural opportunities identified by the federal government’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth, says the council chair.

Dominic Barton, who is also global managing director of the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, said Canada’s agriculture and food sector represents significant untapped economic potential.

There is an opportunity for both foreign and domestic investors to better position the sector.

“We think it is an industry that is not given the respect it deserves,” Barton said to applause at the recent Canadian Federation of Agriculture annual meeting.

“The future is agriculture.”

The council says that public and private partnerships can unleash the sector’s full potential. In its first recommendations released last fall, it focused on attracting more foreign direct investment, developing a national infrastructure strategy and increasing immigration.

A second wave of recommendations released in early February suggested policies to drive innovation, improve workforce skills and participation, and position Canada as a global trading hub.

All those would help boost agriculture and food production, Barton said.

Globally, agriculture represents $13 trillion and 10 percent of all consumer spending around the world, he said.

“In the next 40 years, we’re going to have to match the food production that we did in the last 10,000,” he said. “That’s a pretty big bar.”

Two billion more middle-class consumers in Asia who want more protein will drive that demand.

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NEWS » CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Barton said Canada has the land, water, political stability and access to capital to supply that food. The government needs to adopt policies that can make it happen.

“Canada ranks fifth in agriculture exports and 11th in agfood exports, behind smaller countries like Holland and behind less economically advanced countries like Brazil in both categories,” says the council’s memo on the sector.

“Enabling the sector to move up to second place in agriculture and to fifth place in agfood would imply

an additional US$30 billion in exports in today’s distribution of global export shares, equivalent to nearly two percent of current GDP.”

Canada ranks behind Holland and Brazil in agriculture and agfood exports Public and private collaboration is critical to making this work.

The council has recommended stakeholders from both areas launch

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an agfood pilot to identify the major obstacles to growth, set goals and recommend concrete action.

The approach would then be improved, refined and applied to other areas of the economy.

“What we found interesting is the input we’re getting from companies, not just in the agfood area but also investors as being very significant,” Barton said in an interview.

The sector hasn’t always been seen as the “sexy” place to put money, but that is changing as investors realize the opportunity, he said.

They are beginning to see it for

the high-tech industry that it is.

He said there are challenges ahead. Canada must improve its infrastructure, add more value to products and deal with its aging workforce.

For example, job vacancies in the meat processing industry are hurting that sector’s ability to compete.

Barton said the council has recommended for ming a sector council of 10 to 15 private sector leaders who would champion agriculture and food, represent the broad value chain and report directly to the federal minister of agriculture.

He said the private sector is best positioned to lead, while the government would work with the provinces and trade partners and set policies.

Since the council released its recommendations, Barton said investors and others such as universities are asking how to participate.

“We’ve got a ways to go to get people to understand what it is,” he said.

“The Canadian public, they’re not thinking about this enough.”

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CDN. DOLLAR: Canadian dollar

Canada five-year bond rate

1.158%

$0.7463

1.25%

0.780

1.20%

0.770

1.15%

0.760

1.10%

0.750

1.05% 1/30

2/6

2/13 2/17 2/27 11/2

0.740 1/30

2/6

Bank of Canada 5-yr rate

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Your mission: cut fixed costs

Expectations of a more friendly business climate from the Trump administration supported stock market prices. Expectation for a March U.S. interest rate hike grew. For the week, the TSX composite rose 0.5 percent, the Dow was up 0.9 percent, S&P 500 rose 0.7 percent and Nasdaq gained 0.4 percent.

A profitable farm depends on how well fixed costs are managed, says farm management expert

Cdn. exchanges in $Cdn. U.S. exchanges in $U.S.

BY ROBERT ARNASON

NAME

EXCH CLOSE LAST WK

ADM AGT Food Bunge Ltd. Ceapro Inc.

NY TSX NY TSXV

GRAIN TRADERS BRANDON BUREAU

Brent Gloy, a U.S. agriculture economist, has three messages for Canadian farmers.

Get fixed costs under control, reduce fixed costs and take steps to cut fixed costs.

Gloy hammered home his fixed cost mantra in February at Crop Connect, an ag industry conference held in Winnipeg.

Canadian growers should learn a lesson from south of the border, he said. With grain and oilseed values in the tank, many U.S. farmers are suffering because they paid $300,000 for a new tractor or $8,000 an acre for land five years ago.

“There are a lot of farmers feeling a lot of financial stress,” said Gloy, who runs a service called Agricultural Economic Insights and farms in southwestern Nebraska.

“They made bad decisions when times were good and now they’re going to pay a price for those questionable decisions.”

Grain prices are stronger north of the border thanks to the 75 cent Canadian dollar, but this is not a time for complacency. Gloy said it’s the perfect time to take a hard look at production costs.

“If (the) exchange rate were to change … your fixed costs are what’s going to hurt you. Be very careful about building your fixed costs in this environment,” said Gloy, who was formerly an agricultural economist at Cornell University.

“You’re all on the same (global) cycle. Exchange rates may make it feel different right now, but the reality is the world has added a lot of acres.”

Wheat is a perfect example. Russia and Ukraine are producing more wheat than ever, driving up global stocks and pushing prices down.

“We grow a lot of wheat on our farm. Right now it is horrific, economically,” Gloy said.

“In most cases we’re getting to the point where revenues barely exceed marginal costs.”

He said fixed costs are around 50 percent of total costs on U.S. grain farms.

Estimates suggest fixed costs are a smaller percentage in Western Canada. For example, Manitoba Agriculture estimates the following crop production costs to grow spring wheat: • Operating costs, such as seed and fertilizer, are $192.30 per acre.

• Fixed costs, land investment, machinery depreciation, machinery investment and storage are $122.17 per acre.

Fixed costs for most crops represent about a third of production

45.20 33.60 81.65 1.58

45.26 32.96 81.05 1.62

PRAIRIE PORTFOLIO NAME

EXCH CLOSE LAST WK

Cervus Equip. TSX Input Capital TSXV Rocky Mtn D’ship TSX ConAgra Brands NY

14.69 1.77 10.65 41.15

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FOOD PROCESSORS NAME

EXCH CLOSE LAST WK

Hormel Foods Lamb Weston Maple Leaf Premium Brands Tyson Foods

NY NY TSX TSX NY

35.37 40.40 31.62 71.88 63.60

34.66 39.58 30.94 70.30 62.68

FARM EQUIPMENT MFG. NAME

EXCH CLOSE LAST WK

AGI TSX AGCO Corp.

NY Buhler Ind. TSX Caterpillar Inc. NY CNH Industrial N.V.NY Deere and Co. NY

52.93 61.44 4.65 95.12 9.52 110.83

53.10 61.73 4.80 95.48 9.17 108.62

FARM INPUT SUPPLIERS NAME

Brent Gloy, an ag economist from Nebraska, said Canadian farmers should take steps to reduce fixed costs. Lessons can be learned from the U.S., where farmers bought expensive land or equipment five years ago and they’re now paying the financial price. | ROBERT ARNASON PHOTO

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Agrium TSX BASF OTC Bayer Ag OTC Dow Chemical NY Dupont NY BioSyent Inc. TSXV Monsanto NY Mosaic NY PotashCorp TSX Syngenta ADR

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Fixed costs are the hardest to get down. They take the most effort to figure out, in part because they’re hard to estimate…. If you have another hour of your time and you can spend it anywhere, spend it on this.

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costs, said Darren Bond, Manitoba Agriculture’s farm management specialist.

However, Bond agreed with Gloy’s position on equipment and land.

“How a producer manages fixed costs often decides whether they are profitable or not. It is a huge factor,” he said. “I think that’s where the most ground can be made for cutting costs.”

Although the cost of seed, fertilizer, fuel and pesticides may be larger than fixed costs, most producers know the prices and are good at managing operating costs.

As a result, potential savings on

that side of the ledger may be marginal, Bond said.

Manitoba Agriculture estimates show that land represents 18 percent of total costs on the average farm, while equipment is 12 percent.

However, there is no such thing as an “average farm,” and there’s tremendous variability from farm to farm in the amount of money tied up in land and equipment.

Producers with a new fleet of equipment will have substantially higher depreciation and debt than producers running 20-year-old tractors because equipment prices have jumped in the last five years.

“Four wheel drives to air drills, sprayers and combines have all seen prices increase,” Bond said.

“That’s where we see the fixed cost side has really gone up.”

Getting a handle on fixed costs doesn’t mean farmers should stop buying equipment or land, Gloy said.

However, more time should be dedicated to the economics of combines, tractors and far m expansion.

“Look at the people (U.S. farmers) who got themselves in trouble.

What did they do? They blew their working capital,” he said.

“Fixed costs are the hardest to get down. They take the most effort to figure out, in part because they’re hard to estimate…. If you have another hour of your time and you can spend it anywhere, spend it on this.” robert.arnason@producer.com

NAME CN Rail CPR

EXCH CLOSE LAST WK TSX TSX

96.31 199.55

92.36 194.07

List courtesy of Ian Morrison, financial adviser with the Calgary office of Raymond James Ltd., member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund. The listed equity prices included were obtained from Thomson Reuters.

The data listed in this list has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Within the last 12 months, Raymond James Ltd. has undertaken an underwriting liability or has provided advice for a fee with respect to the securities of AGT Food. For more information, Morrison can be reached at 403-221-0396 or 1-877-264-0333.

RENTED ACRES: CANADA, U.S. COMPARISON Fixed costs might be higher in the United States because farmland is more expensive and more land is rented. Statistics Canada figures show that about 22 percent of Canadian farmland was rented in 2011. That’s much lower than the U.S., where in 2014 there were 353.8 million acres of rented farmland, or 39 percent of the total 911 million acres used for agriculture. In certain states the percentage is much higher. In Iowa 16.3 million acres are rented, more than half of the state’s total acreage.

Acres of rented agricultural land in the U.S. (in millions)

Annual rent received for agricultural land (in billions)

Texas:

53.9

Illinois:

Kansas:

23.7

Iowa:

Nebraska:

20.1

Nebraska:

North Dakota: 19.6

Minnesota:

South Dakota: 17.3 Iowa:

16.3

Sources: Statistics Canada, Iowa State University and the USDA

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Tax changes you need to know for maximum deductions TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS

COLIN MILLER

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t is that time of year again when most people are getting close to taking their personal tax information to their accountant.

It is important to know the changes that have taken place in 2016 with personal taxes to ensure you provide the appropriate information and ask the right questions.

Let’s start with the changes that may affect you and your family:

$1,000 and will be eliminated after 2016. This is similar to the children’s art credit, which was reduced to $250 from $500 and will be eliminated after 2016.

If you have children in post-secondary education, 2016 will be the last year they can use the education tax credit and textbook tax credit.

However, they can still claim the amount paid for tuition, and any carry forward amounts can be claimed in future years.

Teachers should be aware of the Eligible Educator School Supply credit. To make a claim, they should keep their receipts on school supplies they bought but did not receive reimbursement. They can submit receipts totalling up to $1,000 and claim the 15 percent credit on the

tax form.

Other tips to keep in mind when taking information to your accountant: • Medical travel: You can claim this mileage if you are required to travel more than 40 kilometres for medical services. However, you should get a letter from your doctor stating that these services are not available in your community.

• Medical prescriptions: Rather than adding up all your receipts, you should ask your pharmacist for a summary. This saves you and your accountant time and ensures no receipts are missed.

• Registered Retirement Savings Plan: The government has started to crack down on people who

pay their RRSP fees from a nonregistered account and deduct them. This can lead to adding taxable income to previous tax returns and over-contributions.

You will want to consider talking to your investment adviser to ensure you are paying your RRSP fees from your RRSP account.

• Eligible Capital Property — This does not affect you until 2017, but if you have quota or water rights on your farm statement, the way this is depreciated will change starting Jan. 1, 2017. Talk to your accountant to determine if this will significantly affect your situation.

Riley Honess and Bailey O’Donnell of KPMG contributed to this article.

We will be watching the next federal budget to see if rumours were correct about raising the capital

Colin Miller is a chartered accountant and partner with KPMG’s tax practice in Lethbridge. Contact: colinmiller@kpmg.ca.

gains inclusion rate in 2017. This could increase taxes on land transactions.

Even if the change does not occur in this budget, you should be aware that it is something that federal tax officials have considered. As a result, you should keep this possibility in mind as you plan your retirement and succession.

Ensure you have a conversation with your accountant on major events that took place in the last year. You never know what changes may have tax implications.

Principle residence exemption Homeowners previously weren’t required to report the sale of their principle residence if claiming the entire exemption. However, in response to issues that occurred in the Vancouver housing market earlier this year, the federal government now requires individuals who sell their principal residence to report the sale on Schedule 3, Capital Gains, of the T1 Income Tax and Benefit Return. Therefore, you need to be more careful if you own more than one property on which may want to claim the exemption.

Tax credits The children’s fitness tax credit amount has dropped to $500 from POLICY DIVERGENCE

Loonie falls on U.S. rate outlook TORONTO, March 6 (Reuters) — The Canadian dollar fell more than two percent last week, as signs point to interest rate increases in the United States while Canada’s rate holds steady.

Last week’s losses for the loonie came as Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen cemented the view that the Fed will raise interest rates at its March 14-15 meeting.

Yellen noted that the U.S. is adding a strong average of 180,000 jobs a month and the goal of maximum employment has been reached, while inflation is rising towards the goal of two percent.

In contrast, the Bank of Canada held rates steady at its meeting March 1 as it stayed focused on the “significant uncertainties” facing the economy, including the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Policy divergence will pressure the loonie over the coming months, a Reuters poll predicted.

Canada’s economy grew at a faster pace than anticipated in the final quarter of 2016, lifted by consumer spending and a drop in imports, though the strong figures were seen as unlikely to prod the central bank to soon modify interest rates.

Gross domestic product grew at an annualized 2.6 percent rate in the fourth quarter, Statistics Canada, beating economists’ forecasts for two percent.

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CATTLE & SHEEP Grade A

Alberta

Live Feb 24 - Mar 3

Previous Feb 17 - Feb 23

Year ago

Rail Feb 24 - Mar 3

Previous Feb 17 - Feb 23

162.00 135.35-155.90

159.00 132.15-154.35

168.54 167.37

271.00-273.50 250.00-252.00

269.00-269.75 249.00-252.00

Heifers Alta. n/a n/a Ont. 138.34-153.44 133.76-151.65 *Live f.o.b. feedlot, rail f.o.b. plant.

167.69 166.37

270.50-274.50 249.00-251.00

n/a 248.00-251.00 Canfax

Steers Alta.

Ont.

$200 $195 $190 $185 2/3

2/10 2/17 2/24

3/3

Feeder Cattle ($/cwt)

$190 $185 $180 2/10 2/17 2/24

3/3

Manitoba $195 $190 $185 $180 $175 1/27

2/3

2/10 2/17 2/24

3/3

Heifers 500-600 lb. (average $/cwt)

Steers 900-1000 800-900 700-800 600-700 500-600 400-500 Heifers 800-900 700-800 600-700 500-600 400-500 300-400

Cattle Slaughter Fed. inspections only Canada U.S. To date 2017 380,497 4,630,500 To date 2016 269,774 4,421,514 % Change 17/16 +2.9 +4.7

Man.

Alta.

B.C.

151-158 154-162 160-177 178-196 192-215 207-225

147-158 151-164 158-179 175-198 190-214 200-225

152-162 157-166 163-179 179-199 197-216 210-231

no sales 148-163 162-174 173-194 188-206 196-225

142-152 146-160 154-171 162-181 170-190 170-191

138-147 142-155 150-168 164-184 170-195 169-200

145-156 149-163 156-172 164-185 174-197 179-202

130-148 141-161 153-166 161-180 174-192 176-195 Canfax

Chicago Futures ($US/cwt)

Average Carcass Weight

$185 $180 $175 $170 2/3

2/10 2/17 2/24

3/3

Saskatchewan

Canfax Steers Heifers Cows Bulls

Feb 25/17 911 832 767 1,150

$180

$170 $165 2/3

2/10 2/17 2/24

3/3

Manitoba $180

YTD 17 915 825 735 1,048

Slaughter cattle (35-65% choice) National Kansas Nebraska Nebraska (dressed)

Steers 124.40 124.89 124.91 124.00

YTD 16 940 852 780 1,041

Heifers 124.49 124.84 199.28 n/a

Feeders No. 1 (800-900 lb) Steers South Dakota 120.50-133.00 Billings 120.25-124.50 Dodge City 121.00-129.00

$175 $170 $165 $160 1/27

Feb 27/16 943 851 785 1,085

U.S. Cash cattle ($US/cwt)

$175

$160 1/27

2/3

$150 $145 $140

$130 1/30

2/6

2/13 2/17 2/27

3/6

2/10 2/17 2/24

Trend +1/+3 n/a steady/weak USDA

3/3

Cattle / Beef Trade

Canadian Beef Production million lb. YTD % change Fed 260.4 -2 Non-fed 63.1 +6 Total beef 323.6 -1 Canfax

Sltr. cattle to U.S. (head) Feeder C&C to U.S. (head) Total beef to U.S. (tonnes) Total beef, all nations (tonnes)

EXCHANGE RATE MARCH 6 $1 Cdn. = $0.7463 U.S. $1 U.S. = $1.3399 Cdn.

Sltr. cattle from U.S. (head) Feeder C&C from U.S. (head) Total beef from U.S. (tonnes) Total beef, all nations (tonnes)

$310

To Feb 25

Sask.

Alberta

$165 1/27

Barley (May)

Durum (May)

$195

2/3

Source: STAT Publishing, which solicits bids from AGT Inc., Canpulse Foods, CGF Brokerage, Maviga NA, Parrish and Heimbecker, Scoular Canada and Simpson Seeds. Prices for dressed product at plant.

$135

Saskatchewan

$175 1/27

Pulse and Special Crops

ICE Futures Canada

Slaughter Cattle ($/cwt)

Steers 600-700 lb. (average $/cwt)

$180 1/27

GRAINS

Exports % from 2016 61,703 (1) -24.7 9,379 (1) -9.5 269,842 (3) +17.2 359,602 (3) +11.8 Imports % from 2016 n/a (2) n/a 30,870 (2) -13.7 18,012 (4) +2.5 25,789 (4) -23.6

(1) to Feb 18/17 (2) to Dec 31/16 (3) to Dec 31/16 (4) to Feb 25/17

Agriculture Canada

Close Mar 3 Live Cattle Apr 115.98 Jun 106.75 Aug 102.28 Oct 102.35 Dec 103.58 Feeder Cattle Mar 124.23 Apr 122.95 May 122.40 Aug 124.35 Sep 124.18

Close Trend Feb 24

Year ago

$300 $290 $280 $270 1/30

2/6

2/13 2/17 2/27

3/6

Milling Wheat (May) $250 $245 $240

114.95 104.85 100.33 100.65 101.78

+1.03 +1.90 +1.95 +1.70 +1.80

136.35 126.48 121.93 122.08 121.53

121.70 121.55 121.08 122.65 121.85

+2.53 +1.40 +1.32 +1.70 +2.33

158.50 158.23 157.18 157.08 155.78

$235 $230 1/30

2/6

2/13 2/17 2/27

3/6

Mar 2 US Choice (US$) 208.35 Feb 17 Cdn AAA (C$) 261.50

Feb 23 196.19 Feb 10 256.64

Canola (cash - May)

Yr. ago 219.75 Yr. ago 288.73

$510 $500

$480 1/27

U.S. Grain Cash Prices ($US/bu.)

2/3

2/10 2/16 2/24

3/3

USDA

Canola (basis - May)

No. 1 DNS (14%) Montana elevator No. 1 DNS (13%) Montana elevator No. 1 Durum (13%) Montana elevator No. 1 Malt barley Montana elevator No. 2 Feed barley Montana elevator

$-15 $-20

Sheep ($/lb.) & Goats ($/head) Feb 27

Feb 13

Wool sheep 55-69 lb 2.35-2.53 2.35-2.53 70-85 lb 2.30-2.48 2.21-2.50 86-105 lb 2.00-2.30 1.90-2.25 > 106 lb 1.88-1.95 1.84-1.93 Beaver Hill Auction Services Ltd. Feb 27 Feb 21 New lambs 2.80-3.35 2.82-3.12 65-80 lb 2.75-3.17 2.48-3.00 80-95 lb 2.30-2.62 2.42-2.55 > 95 lb 2.26-2.36 2.29-2.38 > 110 lb 2.05-2.10 2.22-2.30 Feeder lambs 1.50-2.50 n/a Sheep 1.30-1.50 1.20-1.40 Rams 1.25-1.50 1.20-1.50 Kids 95-160 95-150 Ontario Stockyards Inc. Shipping March Wool lambs <80 lb 2.15 Wool lambs 81-95 lb 2.10 Wool lambs 96-115 lb 1.90 Hair lambs <95 lb 1.85 Sask. Sheep Dev. Bd.

$-25 $-30 $-35 1/27

2/3

2/10 2/16 2/24

Index 100 Hog Price Trends ($/ckg) Alberta $190 $180 $170 $160 $150 1/27

n/a 2/3

2/10 2/17 2/24

3/3

Fixed contract $/ckg

3/3

Grain Futures $185 $180 $175 $170 $165 1/27

2/3

2/10 2/16 2/24

3/3

Flax (elevator bid- S’toon) $500 $490 $480 $470 $460 1/27

n/a 2/3

2/10 2/16 2/24

3/3

Barley (cash - May) $170 $165

Basis: $38

$160

(Hams Marketing) Week ending Apr 08-Apr 15 Apr 22-Apr 29 May 06-May 13 May 20-May 27 Jun 03-Jun 10 Jun 17-Jun 24 Jul 01-Jul 08 Jul 15-Jul 22 Jul 29-Aug 05 Aug 12-Aug 19

Maple Leaf Thunder Sig 5 Creek Pork Mar 3 Mar 3 150.72-154.83 151.64-152.58 155.63-157.68 152.87-154.51 161.40-165.15 160.82-168.85 170.66-175.54 169.16-171.53 172.04-173.68 171.85-173.39 177.43-181.35 178.64-178.88 181.05-181.06 178.33-178.50 174.54-179.53 175.36-175.38 174.59-177.31 177.36-177.89 173.74-177.07 165.35-175.51

Export 124,182 (1) 407,308 (2) 1,246,276 (2)

$190

Sltr. hogs to/fm U.S. (head) Total pork to/fm U.S. (tonnes) Total pork, all nations (tonnes)

$180 $170 $160 2/3

2/10 2/17 2/24

3/3

(1) to Feb 18/17

(2) to Dec 31/16

Agriculture Canada

168.20 171.69

Alta. Index 100 Sask. Sig. 5

$175 $170 $165 2/10 2/17 2/24

3/3

Apr May Jun Jul

Close Mar 3 66.75 72.75 76.45 76.83

Close Feb 24 68.03 73.98 77.83 77.90

Trend -1.28 -1.23 -1.38 -1.07

Year ago 70.80 77.33 81.23 80.88

2/10 2/16 2/24

3/3

Chicago Nearby Futures ($US/100 bu.)

Corn (May) $400 $390

Hogs $/ckg

$380

Man. Index 100 Que. Index 100

173.00 185.00

$370 $360 1/30

2/6

2/13 2/17 2/27

3/6

*incl. wt. premiums

Soybeans (May) $1080

% from 2016 -19.7 -8.6 +6.1

Import n/a 22,191 (3) 24,322 (3)

% from 2016 n/a -7.2 -12.3 Agriculture Canada

Close Mar 3 76.90 67.48 63.08 65.93

Aug Oct Dec Feb

$1060 $1040 $1020 $1000 1/30

2/6

2/13 2/17 2/27

3/6

Oats (May)

Chicago Hogs Lean ($US/cwt)

$180

2/3

To date 2017 To date 2016 % change 17/16

(3) to Feb 25/17

Manitoba

$160 1/27

Fed. inspections only Canada U.S. 3,304,049 18,494,831 3,294,072 18,251,805 +0.3 +1.3

Hogs / Pork Trade

Saskatchewan Sig. 5

$150 1/27

To Feb 25

2/3

Canola and barley are basis par region. Feed wheat basis Lethbridge. Basis is best bid.

Hog Slaughter

Close Feb 24 77.70 66.98 62.10 64.90

Trend -0.80 +0.50 +0.98 +1.03

Year ago 80.15 68.48 63.68 65.98

$255 $250

$240 $235 1/30

2/13 2/17 2/27

3/6

$600

ELEVATOR SHIPMENTS

$580

Feb 19 280.2 383.5 95.5

YTD 8,370.6 13,240.3 4,632.5

Year Ago 7,998.3 13,305.8 4,637.8

Year ago 455.20 457.20 462.40 470.20 225.00 228.00 231.00 288.00 293.00 174.00 176.00 4.5775 4.6275 4.6900 4.7875 1.7625 1.8775 1.9775 8.7350 8.8175 8.8725 8.8950 30.95 31.17 31.41 268.5 271.1 273.6 3.5500 3.5900 3.6475 3.7050 5.0600 5.0075 5.0875 5.1850 4.5975 4.7075 4.8025

Canadian Exports & Crush 2/6

Spring Wheat (May) Feb 26 318.0 309.8 128.2

Mar 3 Feb 24 Trend Wpg ICE Canola ($/tonne) Mar 530.90 512.00 +18.90 May 531.90 514.40 +17.50 Jul 533.40 517.70 +15.70 Nov 511.30 495.20 +16.10 Wpg ICE Milling Wheat ($/tonne) Mar 230.00 228.00 +2.00 May 235.00 233.00 +2.00 Jul 238.00 235.00 +3.00 Wpg ICE Durum Wheat ($/tonne) Mar 279.00 279.00 0.00 May 282.00 282.00 0.00 Wpg ICE Barley ($/tonne) Mar 135.00 135.00 0.00 May 137.00 137.00 0.00 Chicago Wheat ($US/bu.)

Mar 4.3825 4.1875 +0.1950 May 4.5850 4.3875 +0.1975 Jul 4.7300 4.5325 +0.1975 Sep 4.8675 4.6850 +0.1825 Chicago Oats ($US/bu.)

Mar 2.6400 2.4950 +0.1450 May 2.4500 2.4300 +0.0200 Jul 2.3950 2.4175 -0.0225 Chicago Soybeans ($US/bu.)

Mar 10.2675 10.1100 +0.1575 May 10.3725 10.2200 +0.1525 Jul 10.4600 10.3100 +0.1500 Aug 10.4600 10.3050 +0.1550 Chicago Soy Oil (¢US/lb.)

Mar 34.02 32.35 +1.67 May 34.27 32.63 +1.64 Jul 34.54 32.91 +1.63 Chicago Soy Meal ($US/short ton) May 329.2 331.1 -1.9 May 333.7 335.6 -1.9 Jul 336.7 338.8 -2.1 Chicago Corn ($US/bu.)

Mar 3.7275 3.6025 +0.1250 May 3.7850 3.6825 +0.1025 Jul 3.8550 3.7575 +0.0975 Sep 3.9150 3.8200 +0.0950 Minneapolis Wheat ($US/bu.)

Mar 5.3125 5.3500 -0.0375 May 5.4225 5.4825 -0.0600 Jul 5.5000 5.5400 -0.0400 Sep 5.5775 5.6075 -0.0300 Kansas City Wheat ($US/bu.)

Mar 4.6425 4.4400 +0.2025 May 4.7400 4.5700 +0.1700 Jul 4.8575 4.6875 +0.1700

$245

Minneapolis Nearby Futures ($US/100bu.)

(000 tonnes) Alta.

Sask.

Man.

Mar 3 5.00 4.56 6.18 2.88 2.28

Feed Wheat (Lethbridge)

$150 1/27

HOGS

Feb 3 69.00 66.00 52.00 60.00 66.00 60.00 51.00 30.00 27.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 6.85 15.50 29.00 29.00 34.00 23.50 36.00 n/a n/a n/a

Mar 1 Feb 22 Year Ago No. 3 Oats Saskatoon ($/tonne) 165.36 174.53 111.87 Snflwr NuSun Enderlin ND (¢/lb) 15.35 15.30 15.90

$520

$490

Beef Cutout ($/cwt)

Feb 24 52.83 45.11 37.44 44.79 48.15 45.55 36.17 23.78 18.14 8.96 8.98 8.85 5.53 14.83 28.30 33.33 28.53 19.18 35.67 34.92 27.58 28.75

Cash Prices

Cash Prices

$155

Due to wide reporting and collection methods, it is misleading to compare hog prices between provinces.

Mar 3 55.06 Laird lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) Laird lentils, No. 2 (¢/lb) 45.33 Laird lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) 28.64 Richlea lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) 38.79 Eston lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) 44.95 Eston lentils, No. 2 (¢/lb) 41.65 Eston lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) 32.80 Sm. Red lentils, No. 2 (¢/lb) 21.97 Sm. Red lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) 17.83 Peas, green No. 1 ($/bu) 8.96 Peas, medium. yellow No. 1 ($/bu) 8.98 Peas, sm. yellow No. 2 ($/bu) 8.23 Feed peas ($/bu) 5.53 Maple peas ($/bu) 14.83 Mustard, yellow, No. 1 (¢/lb) 28.30 Mustard, Oriental, No. 1 (¢/lb) 33.33 Mustard, Brown, No. 1 (¢/lb) 28.53 Canaryseed (¢/lb) 20.32 Desi chickpeas (¢/lb) 35.67 Kabuli, 8mm, No. 1 (¢/lb) 34.92 Kabuli, 7mm, No. 1 (¢/lb) 27.58 B-90 ckpeas, No. 1 (¢/lb) 28.75

$560 $540 $520 1/30

2/6

2/13 2/17 2/27

3/6

To (1,000 MT) Feb 26 Wheat 362.3 Durum 118.2 Oats 31.6 Barley 75.0 Flax 0.7 Canola 332.4 Peas 43.1 Lentils 0.3 (1,000 MT) Mar 1 Canola crush 183.6

To Total Last Feb 19 to date year 94.0 7,614.2 9,510.6 27.6 2,432.6 2,864.4 23.1 773.2 583.0 20.8 619.4 587.2 0.8 190.6 190.3 158.6 6,254.2 5,659.4 92.6 2,191.4 1,747.9 0.6 595.0 554.7 Feb 22 To date Last year 201.4 5,441.9 4,780.2

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ALBERTA

Temperature last week High Low

Assiniboia Broadview Eastend Estevan Kindersley Maple Creek Meadow Lake Melfort Nipawin North Battleford Prince Albert Regina Rockglen Saskatoon Swift Current Val Marie Yorkton Wynyard

10.6 6.6 5.6 5.7 9.6 11.3 2.4 3.3 1.7 5.7 1.6 10.2 10.8 8.0 10.6 11.4 3.1 8.3

-20.0 -21.7 -20.1 -20.3 -20.4 -21.6 -28.4 -23.3 -27.3 -23.2 -25.5 -19.7 -18.4 -23.7 -22.5 -18.0 -22.4 -21.9

Precipitation since Nov. 1 mm mm %

2.9 3.9 3.1 1.8 3.9 5.0 1.1 3.2 6.9 1.5 12.1 1.2 5.8 9.0 0.7 2.6 1.3 1.1

36.8 57.7 51.3 76.3 40.6 49.6 36.0 45.5 58.6 46.5 69.2 26.3 52.9 44.0 27.4 37.7 37.1 40.4

66 72 68 101 82 76 52 70 82 76 100 42 89 75 48 68 46 59

MANITOBA Temperature last week High Low

Brooks Calgary Cold Lake Coronation Edmonton Grande Prairie High Level Lethbridge Lloydminster Medicine Hat Milk River Peace River Pincher Creek Red Deer Stavely Vegreville

10.8 9.6 4.8 7.6 8.3 -0.2 -11.9 10.0 6.8 11.0 10.2 -0.7 6.0 8.2 5.1 8.8

-17.2 -16.7 -20.8 -24.6 -21.8 -30.9 -34.0 -20.5 -20.9 -20.7 -19.8 -30.8 -22.4 -21.5 -17.6 -21.0

Precipitation since Nov. 1 mm mm %

0.6 1.6 5.3 0.0 3.1 9.1 1.1 3.4 0.3 2.2 5.7 4.2 6.7 1.7 2.3 1.1

43.7 54.9 50.3 32.6 53.1 84.2 30.6 31.9 29.7 46.2 53.0 55.1 102.5 55.2 67.3 31.2

91 108 72 60 71 86 33 53 46 85 73 61 93 82 94 50

Temperature last week High Low

Brandon Dauphin Gimli Melita Morden Portage la Prairie Swan River Winnipeg

3.7 6.1 4.1 2.7 4.0 2.9 3.7 6.5

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0.8 0.2 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.0 3.3 0.0

87.5 45.1 82.5 52.9 104.1 76.9 52.9 70.0

107 55 100 65 112 83 59 78

-18.3 -25.1 -9.4 -12.8 -21.6

6.2 9.0 5.0 2.8 6.6

179.9 111.5 96.7 84.6 153.8

109 108 93 60 80

BRITISH COLUMBIA Cranbrook Fort St. John Kamloops Kelowna Prince George

5.3 -3.5 12.8 7.3 5.9

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