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A GrainsConnect inland terminal is currently under construction near Maymont. The company has announced a second terminal to be built near Wilkie. Photo by Vicky Clayton
GrainsConnect Canada has announced the location of its second independent, high-speed train-loading terminal. The $30m project will be built near Wilkie in the RM of Reford. Similar to the GrainsConnect Canada site under construction near Maymont, the site will have 35,000 tonnes of storage capacity with the ability to load 130 rail cars in 10 hours, according to a GransConnect press release. “We are excited to be able to confirm our second facility in Canada,” said GrainsConnect Canada president Warren Stow. “Our objective is to build the most efficient supply chain to the West Coast, bringing much needed choice to the region’s grain growers.” According to the release, GrainsConnect Canada will give an economic
boost to the broader region with at least 50 jobs created during construction as well as 12 to 15 full-time jobs once completed. “After the positive response to our first site at Maymont, we are confident of a successful project in the RM of Reford,” Stow said. “ G r a i n s C o n n e c t ’s high-throughput grain terminal and CN’s rail network will combine to deliver one of the most efficient grain networks in Western Canada.” Saskatchewan Economy Minister Jeremy Harrison said, “Saskatchewan combines the advantages of being Canada’s leading agricultural exporter with possessing one of the most competitive business environments in North America.” Construction on the site is expected to commence immediately, pending final development approvals with an expected completion date of July 2018.
Edam Fall Fair Edition See inside for Brenda Pollard’s comprehensive coverage of the Northwest’s premier cattle show and sale. The 26th annual fair drew entries from throughout the region. Turn to Page 2 for more. —Photo by submitted
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26th annual Edam Fall Fair results By Brenda Pollard Correspondent
The 26th annual Edam Fall Fair is in the books for another year. This year’s judge was Justin Muirhead of Shellbrook with Steven Seabrook acting as ring man. Henri Blaquiere and Gerald Latendresse were announcing the classes and placings again this year and manning the paperwork and prize station were Lisa Blaquiere and Karen McCaffrey. Kramer Auctions Ltd. conducted the sale. The event started with the people’s choice cow calf pair class on Friday evening with seven entries. The Friday appreciation night was sponsored by Valley Ford Sales and Carst Construction Ltd. Saturday morning a ranch style breakfast was hosted from 7 to 10
a.m. sponsored by the Saskatchewan Simmental Association, Kutz, Stoughton McIntosh and SAJ Simmental Bull Sale Group. Breakfast was prepared by the Edam/ Turtle River Firefighter Association. Also being served starting at 11 a.m. was beef on a bun sponsored by the Northwest Saskatchewan Hereford Club, the Saskatchewan Hereford Association, Harty Bale Hauling and Farm Credit Canada. The Edam First Responders prepared and served. Saturday night entertainment was comedian Sean Lecomber with the proceeds earmarked for the Edam Early Learning Centre.
Show and Sale Results
Class 1: Rancher’s Choice Steer (12 entries); grand champion - Andrew Russett, reserve - Brandon
Wall, third - Don Cole, fourth - Coyote Mountain Tarentaise (Bill LaClare) all of Edam. Average weight - 813.6 pounds, average price – $1,389.58 with the high at $2,300. Class 2: Prospect Steer (two entries); grand champion and reserve Coyote Mountain Tarentaise ( Bill LaClare) of Edam. Average weight - 734.5 pounds, average price - $1,250 with the high at $1,300. Class 3: Rancher’s Choice Heifer (19 entries); grand champion - Ryan Roach of Edam, reserve - Arch Holdings and Twisted Sisters (Ryan and Sara Archdekin) of Speers, third - John and Apryl Grant, fourth - Lone Spruce Ranching (Henri and Roger Blaquiere) of Edam. Average weight - 724.4 pounds, average price - $1,021 with the high at $1,600.
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Jeff Jamieson, representing Turtleford Ag Society Summer Cattle Show, presents the grand champion jacket for Rancher’s Choice Steer to Andrew Russett. Turn to Page 4 for more photos. Photo by Brenda Pollard
Class 4: Prospect Heifer (four entries); grand champion - Ella Grande, reserve - Bill LaClare, third - Bill LaClare and fourth Gory Farms (J. Gory and Son) St. Walburg. Average weight - 667.75 pounds, average price - $1,100, with the high at $1,350. Class 5: Pen of Three Open Heifers (15 entries); grand champion - Ryan Roach, reserve - Andrew Russett, third - Lone Spruce Ranching (Henri and Roger Blaquiere), fourth John and Apryl Grant all of Edam. Average weight - 638.4 pounds, average price - $1,000 with the high at $1,425. Class 6: Pen of Five Open Heifers (six entries); grand champion - Ryan Roach, reserve - Andrew Russett, third - Kobes Brothers, fourth - Dustin Harty all of Edam. Average weight - 687.1 pounds, average price - $1,133.33 with the high at $1,400. Class 7: Pen of Three Bred Heifers (seven entries); grand champion Silver Willow Ranch (John
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Roach) of Edam, reserve Craig’s Ranching (Gordy and Shelley Craig) of North Battleford, third - Three Star Farms Inc. (Bernard LaClare) of Edam, fourth - Scott Macnab of Mervin. Average weight – 1,147.4 pounds, average price $1,925 with the high at $2,300 Class 8: Pen of Five Bred Heifers (three entries); grand champion Silver Willow Ranch (John Roach), reserve - Three Star Farms Inc. (Bernard LaClare) both of Edam, third - Scott Macnab of Mervin. Average weight – 1,146.1 pounds, average price - $2,083.33 with the high at $2,350. Class 9: People’s Choice Cow/Calf Pair (seven entries); grand champion - Lone Spruce Ranching (Henri and Roger Blaquiere), reserve - Brent Blais. Average weight 706.9 pounds, average price - $935.71 with the high at $1,075. Class 10: Pen of Three Purebred Bulls (British); grand champion - Grant Lodge Farms (John and Apryl Grant), reserve - Stuart Cattle Station
(Mitch and Melissa Stuart), third - Stuart Cattle Station all of Edam, fourth - Gory Farms (J. Gory and Son) of St. Walburg. Class 11: Pen Of Three Purebred Bulls (exotic); grand champion - Red Willow Ranch (Darian and Josh Tyler) Cut Knife, reserve - Konrad Seabrook of Turtleford, third and fourth - Maxwell Simmentals (Ken and Glenn Maxwell) of Viking, Alta. The bull classes were judged by three of the producers who had entries in the show and placed in grand and reserve position. The names pulled to be judges this year were Bill LaClare and Brandon Wall of Edam and Ryan Archdekin of Speers. There was also a People’s Choice Bull Pen with the people choosing one of Maxwell Simmentals’ (Ken and Glenn Maxwell) entries with pen 11-5 being the choice. For filling out a ballot for the People’s Choice Bull Pen attendees received a chance to win a barbecue and the lucky winner was Guy St. Amant of Edam.
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Steven Seabrook presents the reserve jacket to Brandon Wall for Rancher’s Choice Steer. More photos on Page 6.
Steven Seabrook presents Brent LaClare, who leads the second entry for Coyote Mountain Tarentaise, with the reserve jacket for Prospect Steer.
Steven Seabrook presents the grand champion jacket to Bill LaClare of Coyote Mountain Tarentaise for Prospect Steer. Photos by Brenda Pollard
Don Nicholson, on behalf of Edam Credit Union Ltd., presents the grand champion jacket to Ryan Roach for Rancher’s Choice Open Heifer.
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Keith Lapoudre presents the reserve jacket for Rancher’s Choice Open Heifer to Ryan Archdekin of Arch Holdings and Twisted Sisters of Speers. Stephen Seabrook presents a reserve jacket to Bill LaClare for Prospect Open Heifer. Photos by Brenda Pollard
Stephen Seabrook presents the grand champion jacket to Ella Grande and her dad John for Prospect Open Heifer.
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Louis McCaffrey presents Andrew Russett the reserve jacket for the Pen of Three Open Heifers. Russett also won reserve in the Pen of Five Open Heifers class. Also pictured is Russett’s grandson Porter Fox.
Dallas Craig of Craig’s Ranching of North Battleford receives the reserve champion jacket for Pen of Three Bred Heifers from Stephen Seabrook. More photos on Page 8. Photos by Brenda Pollard
Brooke Roach accepts a grand champion jacket for both the Pen of Three Bred Heifers and the Pen of Five Bred Heifers on behalf of Silver Willow Ranch.
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Ryan Archdekin presents a reserve jacket to Steven Seabrook, who accepts for Konrad Seabrook for the Pen of Three Purebred Bulls Exotic.
Henry Blaquiere presents the jacket to Reese Maxwell of Maxwell Simmentals for the People’s Choice Pen of Three Bulls. Photos by Brenda Pollard
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Brad Cole presents the People’s Choice Cow/Calf Pair grand champion jacket to Henri Blaquiere of Lone Spruce Ranch (Henri and Roger Blaquiere). Photo submitted by Brenda Pollard
Apryl Grant of Grant Lodge Farms presents the reserve People’s Choice Cow/Calf Pair jacket to Brent Blais. Photo submitted by Brenda Pollard
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Commentary
Important to make fact-based healthy choices By Cam Dahl,
President of Cereals Canada
I was meeting with some friends a few days ago when one of them commented that snacks had been banned from their kid’s soccer games. My friend’s son is six years old. The team was forced to ban snacks because some overzealous parents had taken to social media to shame other families because their snacks did not measure up to their idea of social acceptability. It is a disgrace that we are inflicting this behavior on anyone, let alone children. Food shaming impacts almost all consumers. What about a family that can’t afford the latest gluten free, organically produced, GMO-free, locally grown, produced on a Tuesday afternoon yogurt? Are they raising unhealthy children by giving them ordinary yogurt as a snack? Of course not. What is the right choice for a family on a tight budget – purchase the extra expensive fruit and vegetables that conform to the social standard of the soccer field or buy regular produce and feed their kids the healthy servings that are outlined in the Canada Food Guide?
Choice is good. Everyone has the right to choose what they want to eat. Everyone has the right to include social factors important to them in their food choices. What we don’t have the right to do is claim these choices are healthier or better than the choices made by other families. We don’t have the right to impose our choices on others. This is an important issue for all of agriculture and we need to be part of the discussion. We need to ensure that our statements around health and food safety are based on solid research. We must ensure the moms and dads at the soccer game know where they can get the facts behind the healthy, nutritious choices provided by modern Canadian agriculture. That way they will be equipped to respond when someone tries to shame them into alternative lifestyle choices. If modern agriculture fails to provide this factual foundation, our choices in production methods will become limited by what people without the facts believe. “Healthy” is not an arbitrary word that can be loosely defined by what the latest celebrity is pushing on the Internet.
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A great deal of research goes into the definition of “healthy eating.” The Canada Food Guide, published by Health Canada is the right place to start on this definition. You will notice when reading through the guide that production practices – conventional agriculture,
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organic, GMO-free, etc. – are never mentioned. These are choices outside of the realm of “healthy.” The fact-based food guide does not talk about any of the latest Internet celebrity fads for a reason.
For example, let’s take the long-running (and thankfully waning) fad around gluten. Unless you have been diagnosed with celiac disease, a painful and debilitating condition, there are no health-based
reasons to avoid gluten in your diet. In fact, the reverse is true. Avoiding products like whole grain and pasta will deny you nutrients that are important to good health. Agriculture needs to lead the discussion that will help better articulate the difference between social choices and factbased healthy choices. We need to work to ensure the facts around “healthy” are readily available and not distorted by marketing campaigns designed to sell lifestyle choices. It is fair ball for social choices to be part of marketing campaigns from those who want you to buy their “stuff.” However, it is not acceptable to have food fads and marketing campaigns attempt to re-define the meaning of healthy. There is room on our grocery shelves for all different kinds of food choices. There is room on our farms for all different kinds of production practices. This variety is good. But we must remember the word “choice” for both the farm and the supermarket. This means differentiating between social choices and researched facts.
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The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association is congratulating Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland for successfully navigating European Union politics and signing the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. According to the CCA, the Canadian beef cattle sector has been a long-time champion of the CETA and the organization applauds the elimination of EU import tariffs on nearly 65,000 tonnes of Canadian beef. With this new access, says the CCA, the EU has the potential to become a
$600 million annual market for Canadian beef, up from current levels of approximately $6 to $10 million per year. CAA representatives travelled to Brussels earlier this week to highlight the immense potential of the CETA for the Canadian beef sector and to emphasize the need to resolve the outstanding technical barriers. “It was clear that the EU recognizes the value of the CETA and put their shoulders to the wheel to secure that recognition by all their member states,” said CCA director and Foreign Trade vice-chair Doug Sawyer in a statement. “Beef access to the EU
is a core expected benefit from Canada and we will expect a further effort to be put into removing the remaining technical barriers.” CCA president Dan Darling has discussed the CETA with Freeland on numerous occasions in recent months and is confident that the Minister fully appreciates the desire of the Canadian beef industry to gain real meaningful access to the EU, the release states. “With signing of the agreement now behind us, we will continue to work in close partnership with the government to get the remaining issues across the finish line,” Darling said.
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An intiative begun in 1990 is working to clean up Ireland’s polluted streams and lakes. Photo submitted
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and nutrients in runoff from fields. They included In 1990, many streams grants for better silage and in Northern Ireland were manure storage facilities, so polluted they couldn’t and limits on fertilizer use. sustain fish. In 2005, a European Union “Farmers said they policy denied farm subsiwere worried about their dies to farmers who didn’t cows drinking from them,” comply with environmensays water scientist Chris tal standards. Barry. “On one level they were But cows were part of tidying up the farms,” says the problem. The impacted Barry. streams drain a grassland Farmers have also been region that hosts mostmaking better use of nuly cattle farms. Streams trients from livestock mafeed into larger rivers, nures. Farm productivity and for much has held of Northern up despite Ireland these large reIt’s difficult to pull apart drain into two ductions large lakes, the data to identify a single in the use Loughs Neof chemsource of pollution. agh and Erne, ical ferChris Barry which are matilizers. jor drinking Phospho water sources. rus sales, The health for examof upriver ple, are streams, or down by prit was the discharge of headwaters, is vital to the 79 per cent and nitrogen by function and biodiversity silage effluent. Farmers in 37 per cent Northern Ireland use siof downstream waters. By Two decades of interlage made from fermented 1990, farm pollution had ventions have had positive grass as a winter cattle damaged over half of these feed. The effluent is rich in impacts on streams. But small tributaries. these results have been Over the next two de- organic acids and nutrients gradual and at times unand can be devastating to cades, the government even. Pollution caused by streams. This is especially enacted broad reforms to organic wastes from farmtrue in summer when river lower the amount of polluyard effluents was subtion leaking into streams. flows offer little dilution. A stantially reduced by the gradual shift in how silage Scientists from the Agrilate 1990s and was almost is harvested limited the Food and Biosciences Inabsent 10 years later. Niamount of liquid leaching stitute, where Barry works, trate concentrations have monitored the impact out. Tracking these scattered been in a long-term decline regional reforms had on sources of pollution from throughout the monitored stream health. streams. Starting in 1990, the farms can be tricky. It can In contrast, phosphorus trickle from leaky silage team regularly sampled 40 only began to decline apstreams split between two containers or percolate into preciably after 1998, but river basins. Researchers them from farmyards. by 2008 reductions were “It’s difficult to pull found two main problems. widespread. This was most apart the data to identify a The first was excess nutrients. Both phosphorus and single source of pollution,” apparent in the streams draining land of moderate nitrogen were disrupting says Barry. The reforms put in place farming intensity used for the ecological balance in streams. While nutrients by the government targeted beef production. It was less occur naturally in the soil, both farmyard effluents obvious in areas dominat-
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