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Issue No. 165

August 16, 2013

A Supplement to the Southeast Trader Express

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SOUTHEAST AGRI NEWS, FRIDAY, August 16, 2013

Dukarts end 4-H winning streak at 59

By Norm Park For Agri-news The streak began in 1954 and it ended this past summer.

After 59 years, the Dukarts no longer have a family member in the 4-H program.

The string began with Dennis Dukart, the oldest son of John and Jean Dukart, and ended when Marlee Dukart, Rod and Mona’s daughter, graduated out of the 4-H program this past summer at 21.

“When I think back on all this, I know Dad was a 4-H leader for years, but had never been a 4-H member,” said Rod, commenting on the fact that the 4-H program itself is celebrating its 100th anniversary.

“We all started when we were nine, that was the earliest you could get into 4-H back then,” he added. Now the Cloverbud category means youngsters can get going in the program as early as five or six years of age.

“Mom and Dad wanted us to learn, especially to pick up some values of life itself. You do that in 4-H for sure. It is a great way to learn values and also

The Dukart family ended its 4-H membership streak at 59 years this summer. Many members of the family attended this year’s annual show and sale at the Estevan Exhibition grounds. From the left: Darwin Dukart, Brenda Durr, Meghan, Mallory Dukart-Oleshko, Marlee, Jean, Mona and Rodney. you learn how to look after things. In the beef clubs you are responsible for raising animals. I know our sister

Brenda, when she joined they were teaching sewing and other useful skills. Now it’s pretty well focused on

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one thing, like a beef club or grain club,” he said.

Not only did 4-H events and duties take up a lot of their time as youngsters, the Dukart clan loved it for a variety of reasons. “ We h a d s e v e r a l Achievement Days at our farm, everybody would bring their baby calves, we’d learn how to feed them, treat them, work with them,” he said, recalling the family’s early years as members of the Kingsford 4-H Beef Club that is no longer operating. In more recent years, the Dukarts have been members of the Benson 4-H Beef Club.

Beginning with David, who is now 65, the membership in 4-H continued on with Darwin, Brenda, Brian, Rodney and Rhonda, and more recently the consecutive streak was kept alive

by Mallory, Meghan and Marlee. Mallory DukartOleshko has two-year-old Adeline, just a little too young for the program, but the expectations might be there that she’ll become a member, but as Rod quickly pointed out, “we were never pushed into 4-H, we were all very willing participants, same with our kids. We

took them to their original meeting and one rally and then just asked them after if they thought they’d like to stay with it, and it’s turned out they all wanted to finish the program right up to the graduation year when they hit 21,” he said.

Many good memories remain, one in particular for Rodney.

“I remember my first year I had the champion heifer, I beat my older brother Brian, I thought I was a pretty big, important guy that day,” he said with a laugh.

“Back then we sold our steers for between 42 and 48 cents a pound. This year the kids were getting $5.60 a pound for some of the good ones.”

Brian’s three children, Cory, Robbie and Jessica have been members of the Outram-Madigan 4-H Beef Club, they’re out of the program now too along with Rod and Mona’s offspring.

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of the immediate picture for now, but we’ll always be there, the kids’ uncle Darwin was and is always available to lend a hand. I expect you’ll continue to see us hanging around the barns,” Rod said.

When 4-H is so solidly embedded in your lifestyle, you can’t just walk away, not as long as you’re healthy and absorbed.

“For all of us, when we were kids, going to the Estevan fair in the summer and showing our calves and steers and heifers, that was our holiday, that was the biggest thing in our lives.

There were no computers, no cellphones, the Estevan Fair was the biggest thing on our calendar. It was as big to us as going to Hawaii is for kids today,” he added.

There are other fond recollections, like the years when Rodney was scouted and conscripted by a couple of dairy cattle breeders and exhibitors, Hartney Hastings and Percy Caswell, to show their cattle on the exhibition and fair circuit in Western Canada.

“They had these Jersey cows, real good milk cows and they hired me to take care of them and show them all over so I ended up going to Weyburn, Virden, Carmen, Portage la Prairie, Yorkton, Regina. I was on the go all summer from June to mid-August.”

Over the years the Dukarts have seen the Estevan Exhibition grounds moved three different times as civic growth and re-planning have necessitated the shifts.

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Shortline railways benefit from provincial infrastructure grants

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The Saskatchewan government announced recently they are injecting $900,000 in grants to be awarded to 13 shortline railways through the Shortline Railway Sustainability Program (SRSP). This constitutes a $200,000 increase in total grants compared with last year.

The grants include $35,000 for the Tribune-based Long Creek Railroad and $56,129 for the Stewart Southern Railway, which works out of Fillmore.

“We are happy to once again increase the amount of funding available for shortline railways,” said Highways and Infrastructure Minister and Minister responsible for the Saskatchewan Grain Car Corporation, Don McMorris said. “These railways support rural economic develop-

ment by providing grain producers, oil producers and other shippers with an effective transportation option that also lightens the load on our highways.”

The 50-50 cost-shared infrastructure grant program is funded provincially by the Saskatchewan Grain Car Corporation and is matched by privately-owned shortline railways that meet eligibility requirements. The program funding is used to maintain or upgrade rail lines through projects such as replacing ties, repairing bridges or stabilizing track.

‘Since 2008, we have added six new shortlines and more than 900 kilometres of track,” Saskatchewan Shortline Railway Association president Conrad Johnson

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⇠ Page 2 “Way back then, our uncle Leo was a jockey. They had horse races on the first exhibition ground set-up.

There was a race track. Uncle Victor rode the race horses too. There were grandstand shows right next to the Civic Auditorium.

The Kingsford 4-H food booth was right under the water tower. Then the shifting began, always to the southeast, but the grounds stayed in the general area, they just shifted them,” he said. He knows of some of those shifts since he has served on the Estevan Exhibition board of directors for years including several years as president.

Rod figures the way the 4-H program has evolved means it will probably survive even with the sea changes in communications and socializing.

The public speaking component, for instance, is one huge addition that didn’t exist when he was a member. He wished it had been.

“I remember Meghan and Mallory crying just before their first public speeches, and then they just blossomed after they realized they could do it and do it well. Being able to present yourself in public is a huge asset, a good confidence builder. Even if it’s just knowing how to act in a job interview or

speaking to a little group of people, it’s a game changer. The shyness just dissolves, it changes your character for the good.”

The need to learn lessons of responsibility will never grow old. “The sense of responsibility might be lacking in some kids today, what the heck, they make a phone call and something gets delivered to them.

So you can lose that sense of responsibility pretty easily, but 4-H won’t let you because you will always have a project that you have to take care of for a whole year.”

There are huge lessons to learn about the cycle of life, especially on the farm and ranch.

“Yep, there can be tears shed then too when a youngster sells the steer and has to see it off in the truck, especially if you have had a good one, a well behaved calf and you have to load it onto the trailer for the last time. It’s a lesson. Of course, every kid has had a stubborn or really bad steer too and you might even be glad to see them go,” he added with a chuckle. “So yes, you take care of them all year in all kinds of weather and conditions you grow attached to them, but it’s the reality game here guys.”

Yes, it is and as far as the Dukarts can see, there is no better reality show than 4-H.

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Big Sky Rail, headquartered in Regina, received the largest grant at $151,378. It, along with Long Creek, were first-time recipients of funds under the provincial grant program.

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This young calf was enjoying a mid-afternoon nap break during the 4-H achievement day activities in the barns located on the Exhibition grounds in Estevan this summer.

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Import levy applauded by cattle groups Canada Beef along with federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced an amendment to the Beef Cattle Research Market Development and Promotion Levies Order on July 30. The order will include an import levy on beef cattle, beef and beef products. The import levy will treat importers in the same way as Canadian cattle and beef purchasers, all paying the equivalent of $1 per head of cattle.

The move was applauded by the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA).

Canada Beef is mandated to promote the marketing the promotion of beef cattle, beef and beef products for the purposes of interprovincial, export and import trade. In order to support its business plan, Canada Beef is empowered by the Farm Products Agencies Act to impose levies or charges on persons engaged in the importation of beef cattle, beef or beef products into Canada.

“These regulations give Canada Beef the right to collect a levy on imports of beef and beef products, something that has not been done before on other agricultural products coming into Canada,” said Canada Beef chairman Church Maclean. “This is a significant step forward for not only the beef industry but for the Canaadian agriculture sector.”

The levy allows for an equitable treatment between domestic beef producers and beef importers. Agriculture and Agri-food Canada has worked very hard with Canada Beef to obtain the information from Canadian Border Services to enable collection of the levy. Collection of the levy is estimated to be worth between $600,000 and $800,000 annually, depending on market conditions, and the organization hopes to be collecting the levy as early as September of this year.

The funds that result from the levy can be further leveraged with industry investment and would create a significant increase to the funding of marketing, promotion and research for the beef industry. According to Evaluating the Economic Benefits from the

Canadian Beef Check-Off, a study completed in 2010 by Professor John Cranfield of the University of Guelph, dollars invested in research and marketing for the Canadian beef sector brought a return on investment of 9:1 for the beef industry.

“Throughout the process, the Farm Products Council of Canada and the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada have been supportive and of great assistance in helping to achieve Canada Beef’s goal of enacting the import levy,” said MacLean. “After many years of work, the industry has finally accomplished the goal of being able to collect the national levy on imports.”

“This is great news for the beef industry,” said CCA president Martin Unrau. “Marketing and research support and drive competitiveness in Canada’s beef industry.”

CCA said they had been on board with the project and had worked toward this outcome since 1999 when it began the groundwork to implement a national check-off and an import levy to level the playing field with the U.S., which placed an import levy on Canadian cattle in 1985.

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