Agri News - Nov. 18, 2011

Issue No. 144

November 18, 2011

A Supplement to the Southeast Trader Express

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Tim Bastable of Wauchope had the best stuck sprayer photo in this year’s Stuck in the Muck contest as voted on by the website visitors.

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SOUTHEAST AGRI NEWS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Stuck in the Muck II another big success The second super wet and muddy year in the Saskatchewan wheat fields and all other kinds of fields has produced the second-ever Stuck in the Muck contest sponsored by the Flaman Group of Companies.

Some Saskatchewan farmers with a sense of humour turned a second extra wet season into a winning situation, said Jennifer Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Flaman Group.

Nine winners were declared in this year’s contest that saw farmers and industrial workers sending in their favourite photos of equipment that simply got stuck in the muck as they tried to get their regular work done.

The public voted on their favourites and the winners received a new 50 foot tow rope ... what else could it be?

Shauna Perras of Montmartre sent in the photo that was judged to be

the best overall by the online voters. Tim Bastable of Wauchope had the best photo of a stuck sprayer while Dan VanBeselaere of Waskada, Manitoba displayed the best stuck tractor picture.

Eddy Kish from Cupar definitely had the best stuck combine photograph and Justin Brown from Prince Albert the best stuck industrial equipment.

There were sure-fire indications that the contest has spread out in interest and entries when it was noted that Travis Priest of Lethbridge captured the tow-rope prize for best stuck truck picture, and Evan Sauer of Edenwold provided the most comical photo and Cody Grasdale from Biggar provided the muddiest digger. Katherine Palaschak of Edmonton rounded out the winners’ circle with her photo that is simply entitled, How Did That Happen?

The contest began two years ago as a place

Shauna Perras of Montmartre submitted this photo for the Stuck in the Muck contest that was seen to be the best overall picture in this year’s entry list of over 350. for farmers to upload and share photos of their equipment stuck in the mud. The site has since evolved to

Eddy Kish from Cupar got his combine stuck pretty significantly and as a result, won a tow-rope from Flaman Group for submitting the best stuck combine photo in this year’s Stuck in the Muck contest.

a place where producers can help one another with problems they face while farming in wet fields by leaving a tip in the Getting Unstuck Tips forum.

After the success of last year, Flaman opened the online contest to entries from across Canada and the response was terrific with 358 people from Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta submitting 383 photos while over 1,200 people from around the world visiting the site to vote for their favourite pictures.

“Stuck in the Muck has really created a sense of community among producers,” said Thompson, who also serves and the contest’s manager when she isn’t busy with her duties as a member of the company’s marketing team. The company has representative offices in

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Bastable’s teenage sons decided to enter the photo for him and then they kept track of the votes and action while getting all their friends to vote for their picture. The stuck sprayer even received votes from as far away as England.

The winning entries will now be featured in a 2012 calendar that will be used as a fundraiser for local charities since giving back to the communities is part of the Flaman Foundation mandate, said Thompson.

“What started out as a simple idea from one of our salesmen has turned into this great online experience for producers across Canada,” Thompson said.

The company will make a draw for three random winners, who will also appear on the calendar and who will also receive an increasingly useful tow rope.

The winners and submitted photos may still be viewed at www.stuckinthemuck.com

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“We call it Facebook for farmers — a place where they can share common experiences and have some fun,” she added.

“We’re pleased with the success of this year’s contest. There were more than 50,000 visits to the website since it relaunched in May and over 155,300 visits since it was created a year ago.”

Thompson noted that Bastable’s photo received plenty of votes. His was the picture of the stuck sprayer. He reported that he was spraying on his grain farm near Wauchope when it simply started to sink and just got deeper and to the point where he needed a 100 foot tow rope, obtained from a neighbour, which he combined with another rope of his own, making it a 200 foot tow rope, before he was able to hook it up to a tractor that finally pulled it out. The whole process ate up four hours and

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Saluting 4-H Month The proven track record OPINION ies, the city kids are eligible too. An interest in how things are done is all that is required for membership. It can be all inclusive. Crops, beef, pork, equestrian industries are all beneficiaries of the 4-H movement, plus many more since so many skills may be covered by 4-H programs and leaders. If there is an opportunity to learn, 4-H is in there like the proverbial dirty shirts ... probably learning how to clean those shirts.

The public speaking mandate alone is well worth the price of membership since it teaches selfreliance, research techniques and public exposure.

The members share a common experience, again getting to work in groups as well as individually.

4-H teaches animal husbandry, scientific advancements in agriculture and its value-added industries. It teaches organizational and recording skills plus a big dose of economics and business acumen.

A graduate of a 4-H program will have a huge advantage when the times arrives to nab a good job in their selected fields of endeavour. With its fine reputation of teaching disciplines, economics, management and public team work, the 4-H program stands pretty well alone and its graduates can place that fact well up on their list of skills when it comes time to place their resumes out there.

Any prospective employer who sees 4-H involvement on a prospective employee’s resume and doesn’t give them at least one good look would be a foolish person.

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Even in an agricultural province like Saskatchewan, school children learn about farming from the fun, interactive television game show Where’d That Come From?

The puppet show, promoted by FACS and the Wide Open Theatrical Escapades touring theatre group, taught children from kindergarten to Grade 4 that food comes from the farm, not the fridge.

“Our puppet show tour (Oct. 16 to 29) opened school children’s eyes to the vital way their daily lives benefit from the work of dedicated Saskatchewan farm families,” said Adele Buettner, FACS executive director.

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One principal, whose students saw a previous Tales from the FACS Farm production, said the lively puppets delighted the children, who learned the realities of modern livestock and poultry production in an imaginative yet factual way.

Financial support for the tour was provided by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture and the Saskatchewan Beef Industry Development Fund.

The Tales from the FACS Farm characters living near Friendly, Saskatchewan also appear on a fun-filled website for children — www.farmanimalfun.ca — and in an activity book that was available at each stop on the fall tour.

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So why 4-H? Why is it deemed necessary to focus extra attention on the 4-H movement? Are they so special that they deserve additional recognition?

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Yes. There is a very good reason that 4-H has hung around for decades ... it works. The premise is solid and the activities are pure and therefore it continues to not only live, but also to thrive for all the right reasons.

We believe one of those right reasons is credibility since the program offers young people a solid early learning experience in a variety of agriculturally based sectors.

It is particularly interesting to note that the youngest members come aboard around the age of six as cloverbuds while the oldest senior members can be in their early 20s. For an organization that embraces teamwork, this is a huge advantage.

The age spreads seem to work to the advantage of all and the teamwork concept rolls out in a more natural process.

But while there is a strong team element, there is also a huge individual discipline factor programmed into the 4-H. In other words, participants learn by doing things together but then there are also occasions they have to learn just by going off somewhere by themselves to complete an assignment or activity.

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SOUTHEAST AGRI NEWS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This Tells The Whole Story

This photo pretty well tells it all when dealing with the farming community in Western Canada these past two years. This photo, submitted by Evan Sauer of Edenwold, was voted as the best comedy picture submitted in this year’s Stuck in the Muck photo contest promoted by the Flaman Group.

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Foodgrains Bank will spread their service with new funding agreement More assistance for more people in the developing world — that’s what a new five-year funding agreement for $125 million from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) means for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.

“We are grateful to the government of Canada for once again providing us with funding to help people who don’t have enough to eat,” said Foodgrains Bank executive director Jim Cornelius.

“Our member agencies, global partners, and supporters across the country are deeply appreciative of this continued support.”

The new agreement which was announced in late October in Ottawa by Beverley Oda, minister of International Co-operation, will provide the Foodgrains Bank — a partnership of 15 church agencies working together to end global hunger — with $25 million a year in matching funds for food assistance work in the developing world.

“We are proud to recognize the Canadian Foodgrains Bank as Canada’s biggest contributor to ending global hunger,” said Oda. “It reflects the values of hard work and

compassion shared by all Canadians. Thanks to the churches, community organizations, businesses and individuals who have made a commitment to CFGB. You are making a difference for millions of people suffering in emergency and chronic hunger situations worldwide.”

Funding provided by the new agreement will enable the Foodgrains Bank to help people like Jam Joseph whose farm in rural Pakistan was destroyed by recent severe flooding.

“Everything has been lost,” he said while pointing toward his submerged

village.

“Three acres of my crops have been submerged in water, and we have lost the wheat we were saving.”

For Joseph, his wife Mebhai, and their four children, things are bleak.

“We need help until we can go back to our normal life,” he said.

With the support of CIDA, the Foodgrains Bank is providing wheat flour, pulses, oil and salt for Joseph, his family and 16,000 other flood-affected people in Pakistan.

“Our response in Pakistan is a great example of how the Foodgrains Bank

and the Canadian government, through CIDA, are working together to help poor and vulnerable people in the developing world,” said Cornelius.

The funding will enable the Foodgrains Bank to reach many more people with food and other assistance and to do so in a timely way.

This includes continuing to respond in East Africa, where the organization’s long-standing partnership with CIDA “allowed us to respond to the food crisis long before it was in the news, and will enable us to continue providing assistance during the recovery

process long after the news cameras are turned off,” Cornelius said.

This year alone, Foodgrains Bank has committed to 64 projects in 26 countries with $21 million, including $8.8 million for people suffering from drought in East Africa.

Last year the Foodgrains Bank provided $38 million in assistance for 2.3 million people in 35 countries.

Since its beginning in 1983, the Foodgrains Bank has provided over $500 million of assistance for people in 80 countries including 1.1 million tonnes of food assistance.

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One horse was curious about the camera while the other was merely interested in the snacks at the Ross L-7 operations south of Estevan.

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CWB chairman Allen Oberg said the future is bleak for Churchill if the federal government succeeds in its plans to eliminate the CWB’s single-desk marketing system.

“The CWB uses Churchill to save farmers’ money on transportation costs,” said Oberg, a Forestburg, Alberta producer. “However, the economic equation changes if the CWB winds down and grain companies start exporting Prairie wheat. Their business models are less focused on transportation costs — which means they can simply pass these costs on to farmers — and more focused on maximizing grain flow through their own port facilities. It is difficult to imagine why they’d choose to use Churchill.”

In total 16 ocean vessels loaded wheat or durum at Churchill this season bound for Europe, Africa and Latin America.

The last ship to load, the MV Champion Bay, finished loading Oct. 31 with 26,000 tonnes of spring wheat en route to West Africa. The shipping season began Aug. 3 when the My Pacific Bulker arrived to take on Canada Western Red Spring wheat destined for Nigeria.

Churchill, located on Hudson Bay, 1,000 kilometres north of Winnipeg, is Canada’s only Arctic port. It has a limited shipping season during its icefree period that generally runs from the end of July to early November. Grain shipped through the port is drawn primarily from northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

In 2007, the CWB shipped 621,000 tonnes of wheat and durum through Churchill. That remains the largest amount of wheat through the port since 1977, when 710,000 tonnes of wheat and 19,000 tonnes of barley where shipped, mainly to the former Soviet Union.

Last year 600,000 tonnes of wheat moved through the port. This year all grain shipments through Churchill were Prairie wheat and durum except for 5,000 tonnes of grain screenings (dockage used as animal feed).

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Acres Of Corn

Corn as feed as well as for fuel, seems to be growing in popularity in southeastern Saskatchewan fields, at least in fields that could be seeded and weren’t inundated with water or mud.

Steaks for Soldiers campaign gaining momentum Canadian Cattlem e n ’s A s s o c i a t i o n (CCA) representatives were on hand at the Steaks for Soldiers event at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier in mid-October, where nearly 4,000 Canadian Triple-A wellaged strip loin steaks were served to the troops and their families.

Sponsor a Steak for a Returning Soldier campaign organizer Harvey Dann also attended the event, the largest of the four Steaks for Soldiers events held in apprecia-

tion of Canadian troops since 2007.

Representatives from Canada Beef Inc. and the Federation des Producteurs de Bovins du Quebec joined Dann and the CCA in assisting CFB Valcartier personnel in the preparation and serving.

CFB Valcartier is home to the largest Canadian regiment involved in the Canadian operation in Afghanistan.

Nearly twice as many steaks were served there than at each of the previ-

ous events, said Dann.

“I am thrilled that contributions to the campaign supported this event as well as upcoming events at CFB Gagetown and planned repeats at CFB Petawawa and CFB Edmonton,” he said.

The CCA has been a supporter of the Steaks for Soldiers event from the beginning. When the first troop rotation came back from Afghanistan in 2007, the CCA sponsored the 1,700 steaks served to the returning troops

of the Royal Canadian Regiment and their families at CFB Petawawa.

The CCA ensured the experience for the troops at Valcartier would be just as enjoyable said John Masswohl, CCA director of Government and International Relations.

“We are extremely proud of our Canadian soldiers and grateful for the work they do so we are making sure we thank them with one of the best steaks that they have ever eaten in their lives,” Masswohl said.

The Sponsor a Steak campaign was devised

by Dann in 2010 as a way for beef producers to extend their ongoing gratitude to the Canadian Forces. Dann has worked tirelessly to repeat and expand the original 2007 event in Petawawa, raising nearly $120,000 to attain his goal of bringing the campaign to all the major CFBs across Canada. In 2010 two events were held in CFB Shilo and CFB Edmonton.

The Valcartier steaks were supplied by St.

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Dann, a Manitoba businessman, reported that 650 people have donated to the campaign with 95 per cent of them being cattle producers.

Besides the 1,700 steaks served at Petawawa and the 4,000 served at Valcartier, the other two steak events saw 1,200 and 850 steaks being served to returning troops and their families.

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The cattle are contented in the pre-winter pasture lands south of Estevan, as they were able to get some solid nutrition from the grasslands until just recently, thanks to the later arrival of winter.

Two more free trade agreements applauded by cattlemen The legislation that was introduced in Parliament Nov. 15, setting up Canada-Panama and Canada-Jordan free trade agreements, was welcomed by the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.

The legislation was

tabled by International Trade minister Ed Fast.

“These may be small markets to our traditional beef exports, but they are markets where United States beef exporters already benefit from existing free trade agreements. The new

FTAs with Panama and Jordan will enable Canadian beef to regain parity of access, said CCA president Travis Toews.

Upon implementation, the Canada-Panama agreement will provide an immediate duty-free quota for up to

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The agreement with Jordan will provide immediate unlimited duty-free access for all Canadian beef.

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