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CWD is one of the most significant issues facing deer management in North America, but why? It is important because, similar to mad cow disease in cattle and scrapie in sheep, CWD is always fatal. There is no cure or prevention for disease. Battleford, It’s known to afThursday, September 24, 2015,the North fect all members of the deer family, a group collectively referred to as cervids, to include deer, elk, moose and caribou. Over time, the proportion of animals that will contract CWD will inevitably increase. As this occurs, experts predict a younger age structure, lower number of young born and, as a consequence, lower numbers of deer and elk. In short, as CWD spreads across the landscape, the disease may take a costly toll on deer and elk populations. Unlike the familiar viral or bacterial diseases that go through periods of “outbreaks” followed by a time frame where the disease goes dormant, CWD risk continues to increase in the environment over time. This is because CWD is not caused by a living organism, but instead is caused by an infectious protein referred to as a prion. Proteins are the compounds that make bodies work and a protein’s function and activity is depenBumper Crop dent on its three-dimensional shape. CWD prions have Harvesting and Threshing a 10,000 bushel crop on a farm about 10 miles an abnormal shape, rendereast of North Battleford in 1925. ing them useless. Normally cells in the body would de-
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stroy these abnormal proteins but this is not the case with prions. Once CWD prions get into an animal’s body they cause other normal proteins to mis-fold and take on an abnormal shape. These newly mis-folded, proteins convert other proteins, magnifying the cycle. Brain cells are particular targets for these prions and, as time progressSaskatchewan es, these abnormal prions build-up in the brain where they create microscopic holes, gradually destroying the animal’s ability to think and behave normally. Unable to feed themselves, they die of starvation or are taken by predators. Once an animal is infected it takes at least a year, often longer, for it to die. While the animal is still alive it continues to shed infectious prions from its saliva, feces, urine and blood, spreading the disease through direct contact with other deer species while, at the same time, contaminating the landscape. Research suggests CWD contaminated soil is very important in the spread of the disease. The disease can be spread by CWD contaminated feed, soil or shared water sources. Once established, CWD prions remain in the environment for a minimum of four years but likely longer, where these infectious prions serve as a reservoir of continuous disease transmission. Most alarming perhaps, is that once prions are released into the environment they bind to clay particles in
the soil where they become even more infectious (up to 680 times more infectious) than unbound forms. Recent research also confirms that infectious prions are contained and transported within dust particles and are naturally incorporated into the leaves of plants where it also remains infectious. This finding raises concerns for not only wildlife but may also have implications for agriculture. In Canada, CWD has been detected only in Saskatchewan and Alberta, with Saskatchewan having the largest distribution and prevalence. Without active management to reduce CWD, prevalence of the disease will inevitably continue to increase. Although there is no scientific evidence of human health impacts from CWD, the World Health Organization, Health Canada and Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Health recommends hunters not to eat animals known to be infected with CWD. Free CWD testing is available for harvested deer, elk, and moose during the 2015-16 hunting season. Hunters are encouraged to drop off deer and elk heads at ministry offices. Hunters are advised to drop moose heads directly to the Canadian Wildlife Health Co-operative (CWHC) Prairie Diagnostic Services 52 Campus Dr, Saskatoon. The results will provide information about the distribution of this disease. Continued on Page 3
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Monsoons not helping harvest progress OK, I usually write the view starting the week ahead of publication. Today is Thursday and I started gathering my thoughts. I will finish writing the View Friday or Saturday and email it out by Sunday night so it can be in the papers next week. For the past weekend and the beginning of the week it was, “Quack, quack, I’m in luck, quack, quack, I’m a duck.” I don’t know how much rain came down but it was significant as there is water laying in the highway ditches all the way from here to Lloydminster. It was nice to see the sun as I was having visions of a month of monsoon weather. We have had that in the past and I don’t want to see that again. It is nice if you can just
go forward and take your whole crop off but of course that doesn’t ever happen. There are always weather delays. It is the nature of the farming business. In the Waseca area there is very little wheat left not harvested. The weather was dry and the wheat ripened quickly. Guys are desiccating the wheat now and not swathing. As soon as it was ready the guys were straight cutting and most of it came off good grade and high protein. The canola was seeded after the wheat and didn’t get growing because of the dry weather and stayed green longer when it rained. Almost all of the canola is now swathed and waiting for warm dry weather to cure it out and get dry. Harvest is a third to
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Regular contributor to newsoptimist.ca half done, but many large acreages of canola left to combine. The dry year has showed up some deficiencies in the zero tillers system. When you don’t work the soil, things happen that you don’t want. As I drive around I see alkali creeping up on some parts of the field. The evidence is the foxtail and right beside it are the cattails in the wet spots. When
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Chronic wasting disease Continued from Front The Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation, Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, Saskatchewan Outfitters Association, Saskatchewan Bow Hunter’s Association, Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, Nature Saskatchewan and
Regina Fish and Game League are working closely with the Government of Saskatchewan and the Canadian Wildlife Health Co-operative to better understand CWD and its impacts to wild cervids in the province. Please look for the November issue of Big Game Illustrated for more details
about how the disease began. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) positives in Saskatchewan’s wild cervids (2000-2015). CWD positives include a total of 322 mule deer, 82 white-tailed deer, eight elk, and one moose.
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I used to put on anhydrous, I found down about four or five inches was a layer of hardpan. I knew if I wanted to get a good crop, I had to get down and rip that hardpan up. I know, right now, anyplace that is growing foxtail, I could dig down and find hardpan. When it gets dry, the salts come up and the water evaporates leaving a hardpan patch with alkali that only lets things like foxtail grow. In close proximity will be a wet spot full of cattails. If you want to farm the whole field, this fall you have to get in there, get rid of the cattails as they only trap snow, making the water problem worse. Rip the ground up deep enough so that the salts can go back down. Next year you should be able to seed right through. If you can’t, wait until later, then seed the wet spot to oats or barley for green feed. Continue to do that until you can farm right through the patch. It is just common sense, don’t waste the land. Grow something. We used to have 100 cows. One year, it was a wet spring and we went back after seeding and we double seeded the wet spots. We got enough green feed bales to keep the cows for the winter. It is not always peaches and cream, one year we went around and seeded all our sloughs and a big rain came. All we had left was a four-foot wide strip around every wet spot
and the rest drowned out. You know the saying “Best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go awry and must be started over again.” I have another question for all you zero tillers. If you worked all your trash down in the fall, do you think you would have to be spraying all these fungicides? I don’t know the answer, but you appear to be smarter than me. Is it possible that the dilemma you are in you caused by your own farming practice? In politics, with this election on, the leaders are running all over the country, doing what politicians do, kissing babies and promising amazing things. What they don’t tell you is they will bribe you to vote for them with “your” money. Truly an amazing system.
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Evaluating your grazing program By Allan Foster, PAg
Ministry of Agriculture
One question that often comes up when we speak about grazing systems is what type of system is the best. Unfortunately, there is no one best grazing system that can be incorporated onto all farms. Instead, to work well, a grazing system need only follow the principles of proper pasture management. A good grazing program reduces selective grazing, improves harvest efficiency, improves vegetative cover and maintains the health and longevity of the pasture. Here are a few questions you can use this fall to evaluate your grazing program. Was the pasture ready in the spring before cattle were turned out? Generally grasses need to reach at least the three leaf stage before they are ready for use. However, having said this, getting cattle out of wet, muddy corrals earlier in the spring improves herd health. Having an early spring or calving pasture of sod forming grasses, that can be managed specifically for feeding
on while the main pastures grow, works well. How heavily were pastures stocked? Do you have any grass stubble or carry over in your fields when the first fall frost came? Carry over is that portion of the current years growth that is left after the growing season is over. Carryover is not wasted feed it becomes litter which helps build and protect the soil. How well did livestock distribute themselves over the pasture? Good livestock distribution usually involves some fencing. Smaller fields provide for easier grass management. Cattle will utilize all acres better if not allowed to pick preferred areas. Were various types of pasture to their best advantage? Tame pastures should be fenced separately from the native or bush pastures. Fencing will allow natives species in bush and upland pastures to be used in summer or early fall when they are least affected by grazing. Fencing riparian areas will allow use after the soils have dried so cattle will have less impact on stream bank
vegetation and soils. Some tame grasses can tolerate earlier spring grazing better than others so having these fenced separately will allow the best use of each type of vegetation. Were all pastures given adequate periods of rest and recovery? Providing pasture species with adequate rest before they are grazed is the backbone of a good grazing program. Pasture plants are resilient, provided they can fully recover before being grazed again. Some plants such as alfalfa benefit from rest during the critical fall period, that four to six week period prior to the first killing frost. Are pastures monitored annually to identify any decline at an early stage? Keeping track of the level of use after each grazing, amount of carryover in the fall, the type and percent of desirable and invasive species, and where the cattle graze are some parameters that will help your grass
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management. Continually evaluating the grazing program ensures that if something isn’t working it will be identified and can be changed. For more
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their farm and where they could make improvements to avoid potential environmental risks. Lakeland students had completed EFP exercises in the past; however this was the first time they completed and submitted an EFP specific to the SMF. The SMF has five different units – crops, commercial beef, purebred beef, dairy and sheep. Animal science students collaborated with students in the crop technology program to complete the
EFP. “Lakeland has demonstrated their commitment to environmental stewardship and we commend them for their leadership in sustainable agriculture for the future,” said Paul Watson, AEFP director. “Students are the future of farming. If they learn about and adopt sound environmental practices now, they will likely incorporate those practices into their farming practices and careers.”
Agribition adds food pavilion Staff Canadian Western Agribition is expanding the annual show’s programming to include a food pavilion. According to a press release, this new component is expected to attract new visitors and improve the overall shopping experience shared by CWA’s 125,000 annual visitors. The food pavilion features a variety of exhibits including food products, kitchen products, workshops, cooking demonstra-
tions, As Seen On TV products and food sampling. “In recent years, CWA has become increasingly festive. The growth in our consumer shopping area has paved the way for the show to highlight the entire food story,” said CWA president, Stewart Stone. “We have all the best cattle here as well as exceptional grain and other livestock contributors. Creating a venue to highlight and market food from the prairies is a natural progression.” The food pavilion is pre-
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Use of cover crops increased diversity in pore sizes, organic matter Submitted As we walk along a forest path, the soil beneath our feet seems like a uniform substance. However, it is an intricate network of soil particles, pores, minerals, soil microbes and more. It is awash in variety. Soil is a living, dynamic substance, and the microbial life within it is crucial to providing plant life with the food needed for growth. The microbes can be bacteria or fungi, but both need space — the pores — for a good living environment. Soil particles that clump together are aggregates. These are the architectural building blocks of soil. Their presence has a major effect on the behavior of the soil as a community. Multiple processes form the aggregates: cycles of wetting drying, thawing freezing, earthworm activity, actions by fungi and interaction with plant roots. No matter what formed the aggregates, the pores are affected. So are the microbes living in them. Sasha Kravchenko, a soil scientist and professor at Michigan State University, studies soils and their pores in different agricultural systems. Her recent
work showed long-term differences in soil use and management influence not only the sizes and numbers of soil aggregates, but also what the pores inside them will look like. ”Pores influence the ability of bacteria to travel and access soil resources,” Kravchenko says. In return for this good home, the microbes help plants access essential nutrients. “The numbers of bacteria that live in the soil are enormous,” says Kravchenko. “However, if we think about the actual sizes of the individual bacteria and the distances in a gram of soil – that soil is actually very scarcely populated.” To give an idea of what bacterial communities might look like, Kravchenko gives this image: Imagine looking out an airplane window at night over the Midwest. “It’s mostly darkness with occasional bright specks of lone farms – those represent individual bacteria. Occasionally, you’ll see bright spots of small towns – those would be bacterial colonies. Rarely, you’ll see a larger town or city.” Kravchenko’s work compared two contrasting agricultural systems. The soil in one system, referred
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to as conventional in the study, grew crops such as corn in summers. Then the soil was barren from the time of main crop harvest through planting the following spring. The soil in the other system, the cover crop system, had live vegetation year round. “These systems have been in place since 1989, so there was plenty of time for the differences between the two systems … to develop,”
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Keep It Clean - Cereals program launched Staff Cereals Canada has announced the launch of the Keep it Clean – Cereals campaign. “There is a growing focus, both within Canada as well as in key export markets, on grain safety”, noted Cam Dahl, president of Cereals Canada. “Canadian farmers consistently deliver high quality safe food to consumers around the world. There are a few steps that producers can take to ensure that Canada preserves and builds on this brand reputation.” Keep it Clean – Cereals is an informational campaign aimed at reminding produc-
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After decades of neglect, it’s time to reinvest in rural Canada. That’s the finding of a new national report coauthored by University of Guelph professors. “Without question, we’ve been ignoring rural Canada,” said Al Lauzon, a professor in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, who
helped write the State of Rural Canada report. SEDRD professors Wayne Caldwell and David Douglas are also authors. The report was produced by the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation and the Rural Policy Learning Commons, an international network funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The study – issued dur-
ing the Building Community Resilience conference in Summerside, P.E.I. – is intended for policy-makers seeking to better understand and work with rural regions and people. “We also hope it will help get rural on the federal election agenda,” said Lauzon, who is the president of CRRF. Rural Canada is vital to the nation’s economy, the report says, citing food production, resource extraction,
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at all levels, if we want a sustainable future for rural Canada in the 21st century.” Challenges in rural Canada include an aging population, workforce shortages, and gaps in human and financial capital, says the report. But rural Canada responds in innovative ways to low-cost global competition, and is addressing such issues as sustainability, food security and balancing resource development and economic
diversification. Rural communities are re-imagining themselves to fit new aspirations and service needs, and they lead in reconciliation and wealth sharing with aboriginal communities. “There is a lot to learn from rural Canada,” Lauzon said. “People often forget how rural communities and regions contribute economically and culturally to Canada.”
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• CP supplied 87 per cent of the hopper cars that were ordered for Grain Week 5. • Boxcar shippers received 54 per cent of orders. • CN supplied 89 per cent of orders in non-bulk corridors including the USA/ Mexico. • CP supplied 59 per cent of orders in non-bulk corridors including the USA/ Mexico Grain year to date: • 89 per cent of hopper car orders have been delivered by CN and CP for the want week. • 7 per cent of hopper car orders have arrived 1 week late. • 4 per cent of hopper car orders are outstanding. • 623 cars supplied by railways have been rejected by shippers as unsuitable for loading due to mechanical or sanitary reasons. Past weekly reports can be found on the Ag Transport Coalition website at www.agtransportcoalition.com.
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The Ag Transport Coalition Grain Week 5 railway performance measurement report covers 90 per cent of grain movement originating in Western Canada. The weekly report details railway performance for the current grain year across a range of key indicators including rail car demand, railway car supply, timeliness of railway car supply in response to weekly customer orders, unfulfilled shipper demand, corridor performance, railway dwell times at origin and railway dwell times at destination. Key figures from Grain Week 5: • CN and CP supplied 6,436 (89 per cent) of the 7,189 hopper cars ordered for delivery in Grain Week 5 resulting in 751 hopper car orders remaining outstanding. • CN supplied 93 per cent of the hopper cars that were ordered for Grain Week 5.
energy generation, clean water and air and carbon sequestration. But Canada has run down capital invested earlier in rural regions and has allowed community development to erode, the report says. Rural areas have also taken a back seat in policy development. “Fundamentally, we have forgotten to invest in rural areas and small towns,” Lauzon said. “We have work to do,
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