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Report sounds alarm for food processing in Manitoba

Keeping this serious canola disease under control requires early detection, which can be revealed through soil testing

Trouble in the pork and potato industries could put a $100-million drag on food processing in Manitoba, a new report says

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

lubroot has been detected in 13 Manitoba fields since 2009, but all have been mild infections, says Anastasia Kubinec, oilseed specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD). “ W h a t w e’re f i n d i n g i n Manitoba right now is clubroot at very low levels,” Kubinec told the Westman Crop Talk webinar Aug. 20. M A F R D re l e a s e d a m a p Aug. 14 showing the 10 rural municipalities where clubroot, a potentially devastating soil-borne canola disease, has been detected, http://www.gov. mb.ca/agriculture/crops/plantdiseases/clubroot-distributionin-manitoba.html. But what the map doesn’t point out is that 11 of the 13 cases are based on soil samples, not visible symptoms in a canola crop, Kubinec said. “It has been only two fields where we have found symptoms in the field and those symptoms were extremely minor,” she said. “What we are finding in the field pretty much looks like a little pimple on the root of the canola plant. It’s very minor. In one case we actually tested a plant three times to make sure that it was positive.”

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anitoba’s food-processing sector could take a $100-million nose-dive by 2020 if challenges faced by two of its three biggest players — pork and potatoes — aren’t addressed soon. That’s the worst-case or “businessas-usual” scenario laid out in a recent study by the Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Brandon University. Researchers gathered data from Statistics Canada and perspectives from industry leaders on the current and future state of food and beverage processing in the province.

The best-case or “effective-action” scenario sees the entire food-processing sector grow by nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars over the same time frame. It can go either way, according to Food and Beverage Processing Industry – Growth Pathways to 2020 depending on what happens to “the big three” within the sector — pork, potatoes and canola. The three commodities together account for 55 per cent of all annual sales in Manitoba’s food- and beverageprocessing industry, or just over $2.58 billion in 2011. More than half those sales were exports. The outlook for canola processing looks good, although it’s not expected

to expand much beyond 2020, said Gillian Richards, RDI research associate and the lead researcher of the study. “Canola is trucking along fairly nicely, in terms of tonnage, and processing at 100 per cent more or less capacity, and they seem happy,” she said. “They don’t have a shortage of stuff to process or a shortage of people to sell to.” But pork and potatoes face significant challenges. Sales of pork alone are projected to decline by $260 million in annual sales if no solution is found to end processors’ problems associated with operating at undercapacity, the report says. See food processing on page 6 »

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utch biologist Ingrid van der Meer often meets with disbelief when she talks about her work on dandelions and how it could secure the future of road transport. The reaction is understandable, given most people regard the yellow flowers as pesky intruders in their gardens rather than a promising source of rubber for tires. “People just think of it as a horrible weed and ask, how can you get enough material for tires from just a small root?” she said. Her research team is competing with others across the world to breed a type of dandelion native to Kazakhstan whose taproot yields a milky fluid with tire-grade rubber particles in it. Global tire makers such as industry leader Bridgestone Corp. and No. 4 player Continental AG believe they are in for rich pickings and are backing such research to the tune of millions of dollars. Early signs are good. A smallscale trial by a U.S. research team found the dandelions delivered per-hectare rubber

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yields on a par with the best rubber tree plantations in tropical Asia. So within a decade, rather than being a backyard bane like their wild cousins, the new flowers might be seen in neat rows in hundreds of thousands of acres across Europe and the United States, where they can grow even in poor soil. The tire industry, which consumes about two-thirds of the world’s natural rubber, has long felt uneasy about its complete reliance on rubber tree tapping in a handful of Southeast Asian nations which account for most of the $25 billion in annual natural rubber output.

More than 100 years since the invention of synthetic rubber from petrochemicals, global road and air traffic still depends on the unique properties of plant-based rubber — which to date cannot be replicated by the man-made material. Tire makers’ worst fear is that an uncontrollable fungus that has choked all attempts to run plantations in Brazil — where the rubber tree originates — might one day wreak havoc in Southeast Asia. Tire makers took a lesson from history in the search for a homegrown feedstock. When trade with Asia collapsed during the Second World War, the Kazakh dandelion, also called Russian dandelion, was cultivated in the United States, Europe and Soviet Union for an emergency supply of rubber despite meagre yields. After the war, however, trade links were restored and companies returned to the more costefficient Asian plantations. It has only been in recent years that dandelions have been re-examined, given the fungus fears and price volatility and also advances in bioengineering that many believe have made the flowers an economically viable source of rubber.

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EMI payments close to $63 million on 985,000 acres too wet to seed The deadline for selecting fields for Excess Moisture Insurance coverage in 2015 is this Nov. 30 By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

anitoba farmers were paid almost $63 million under Excess Moisture Insurance (EMI) on 985,000 acres reported as too wet to seed this spring. “It’s a little less than what we were estimating before we had all the data keyed in and got the actual calculations done,” Craig Thomson, M a n i t o b a A g r i c u l t u r a l Se r v i c e s Corporation’s (MASC) vice-president of insurance operations said in an interview Aug. 22. “Pretty close to $60 million was in the mail by the end of July.” MASC received almost 2,400 EMI claims after excessive rains and flooding prevented many farmers, especially in western Manitoba, from seeding some of their fields before the June 20 crop insurance seeding deadline. Last year 219,241 insured acres were too wet to plant. In 2012, 117,623 acres weren’t seeded due to excessive moisture. A record 2.9 million acres were too wet to seed in 2011 triggering $162 million in payments on 5,800 claims under the EMI program. That year almost 3.1 million acres, including uninsured land, were too wet to seed. EMI was introduced in 2000 with a basic $50-an-acre coverage and deductible of five per cent of total acres available for seeding. All Manitoba farmers participating in AgriInsurance pay 46 cents

“Pretty close to $60 million was in the mail by the end of July.”

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an acre for basic $50-an-acre EMI coverage, which is 40 per cent of the total premium cost. Each year a farmer makes an EMI claim his or her deductible increases five per cent; each claim-free year the deductible drops five per cent. Fa r m e r s c a n b u y d ow n t h e i r deductible and/or buy up their coverage to either $75 or $100 an acre. Farmers pay 40 per cent of the $50-an-acre basic coverage and the first $25 for the $75-an-acre option, MASC’s website says. For the $100-an-acre option farmers pay 67 per cent of the premium for the extra $25-an-acre coverage in addition to 40 per cent of the first $75-an-acre coverage. The remainder of the premium is paid by the federal and provincial governments. Farmers pay all of the cost for buying down their EMI deductible. The deadline for selecting fields to be covered by EMI in 2015 is Nov. 30, 2014, which is also the deadline for filing harvest production reports to MASC, Thomson said. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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Farmer killed in RM of Strathclair A 68-year-old farmer died August 16 in the RM of Strathclair while operating a tractor pulling a bale stacker. An RCMP report said police responded to a call just before 6 p.m. on Provincial Road 97 North in the municipality. The man was found deceased, trapped under the bale stacker. Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health is assisting with the investigation.

Pigs perish in barn fire Eleven hundred hogs perished in a barn fire near La Broquerie Aug. 21. St. Pierre-Jolys RCMP say police were called to a site approximately 10 km southwest of La Broquerie at 6 p.m. and found the barn engulfed in flames. Three local fire departments were on the scene. The fire was extinguished by 11 p.m. but the barn was destroyed. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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Captain Mustard — the super spice And his sidekick Squirt have made their debut in Saskatchewan

he Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission has come up with a new super hero team to promote the condiment for hotdogs and other foods. Thanks to a federal-provincial Growing Forward grant, Captain Mustard and his sidekick, Squirt, have made their debut via an activity book called Team Mustard from Seed to Squirt! The activity book was distributed to children at the Great Saskatchewan Mustard Festival held in Regina Aug. 24 as well as at various Agriculture in the Classroom events. Full of information and activities to educate children about the growing of mustard in Saskatchewan and the commodity’s many uses, the book was prepared with assistance from Saskatchewan educators. Activities directly relate to the Saskatchewan Grades 3 and 4 curriculums.

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t’s easy to get a little giddy when things go much better than expected. For example, take last year’s bin buster of a crop. By any measure, it was an astounding production feat. Western Canadian farmers shattered all previous records on most major crops, growing a whopping 76 million tonnes, 50 per cent higher than the five-year average and 30 per cent above the previous year. Laura Rance It was like a runaway freight train and the Editor grain trade executives and politicians were quick to hop aboard. A senior industry official told the Canadian Global Crop Symposium last spring this is “the new normal,” a phrase also embraced by federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. Some suggested 90 million tonnes of production on the horizon. The push was on for new and expanded handling facilities, and perhaps more notably, more rail capacity for moving grain. The trade scoffed at the notion put forward by railway company officials that it would be imprudent to make major investments into expanded capacity just to handle infrequent surges. We’re not here to defend the railways’ performance. By our calculations, until the government brought in the threat of financial penalties, the system we have today was proving relatively less efficient than it was back in the days when men used shovels to fill boxcars. The reasons for that were multi-faceted, including the bitter winter weather and unexpected surge in production. But it was also clear the rail companies had perhaps been a bit too aggressive in streamlining their locomotive power. A similar scenario is unfolding in the U.S. this fall, which appears poised to harvest a bumper crop that far exceeds the available handling and storage capacity. It all underscores the insanity of focusing solely on production increases without considering the necessary handling and marketing infrastructure to accommodate it. Nor do we suggest the marketing system has a whole lot to do with what farmers choose to grow. In the years previous, we heard how changes to Western Canada’s grain-marketing system would result in a big jump in wheat production. The data would suggest that surge was short lived. They are driven by the economics, marketing opportunities and increasingly, crop rotations. Then the weather must co-operate. And, as of late, it hasn’t. The latest data from Statistics Canada points to an allwheat crop that is 26 per cent lower than last year, and a 23 per cent drop in canola production. One industry analyst suggests there might not be enough canola to meet the current demand for crushing and export, which would be great news for farmers, until you consider the domestic crushers and seed exporters tend to be owned by the same companies — making bidding wars unlikely. Western Canada still has a good crop. Despite the drop, this year’s wheat crop is the third largest in a decade and the canola harvest could be the third largest ever. Data provided by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada analysts last winter shows western Canadian production has been increasing, on average, by about three per cent annually over the past three decades — not the 50 per cent increase we saw in 2013 or the 23 to 32 per cent decrease in production we are seeing in 2014. As for carry-overs, it appears this year’s carry-over won’t be anywhere near as high as the threefold increase predicted last winter. We are left wondering whether farmers who couldn’t seed much of their land due to flooding last spring wouldn’t be happy to have a bit left in the bin from last year to even out their farm’s cash flow. So while last year’s harvest gave us a hint of the potential that is out there, it is far from being what the industry should expect year after year. It’s something farm lobbyists need to keep in mind when considering — or demanding — investments in grain handling and transportation infrastructure. After all, the cost of building and maintaining those investments ultimately flows back to farmers.

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t was encouraging to see some southwestern Manitoba farmers explain their new-found interest in growing soybeans as diversifying their crop rotation to become less dependent on canola. Clubroot is high up on the spectrum of expensive crop diseases that take advantage of tight rotations of a narrow

range of crops. A provincial survey shows clubroot now exists in 13 locations in Manitoba. Recent history has shown that any crop that is grown too often on the same land becomes vulnerable. Better to grow it less frequently, than not be able to grow it at all. laura@fbcpublishing.com

OMG GMOs Are we on the cusp of a reasoned discussion? By Alan Guebert

he cool summer heated up mid-month when a long-standing war of words reignited with three little matches labelled “GMO.” That this fire still burns hot 20 years after the introduction of GM crops is testament to both the public’s continuing unease and the immense political clout of Big Ag to keep that unease contained. It also points to the inability of our farm and food leaders to bring together these deeply divided sides to even hold a conversation on GMO-based food. That conversation, finally, might be right around the corner. Beginning Sept. 16, the National Research Council will begin to highlight its “broad review of available information on genetically engineered crops in the context of the contemporary global food and agricultural system,” it announced recently. The review, started last March and open to GMO proponents and opponents alike, “will assess whether initial concerns and promises (of GMO-based crops) were realized since the introduction… and will investigate new concerns and recent claims. That’s big — and long overdue. Each was spotlighted in an Aug. 13 column in the online Huffington Post by Robert Fraley, a codeveloper of GMOs who now serves as the chief technology officer of Monsanto Co., the global pioneer and leader in GMOs. Fraley begins his column on the right track and in the middle of the road with his title, “Let’s Use Organic and GMOs to Feed the World.” He’s right again when he notes that today’s GMO debate is “often as personal and bitter as the extremes in today’s partisan politics.” He moves quickly, however, to frame his argument in Big Ag’s most comfortable refrain: to feed billions more people we will surely need GMO

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technology. It’s a new sales pitch to an old argument. Yes, “(G)lobal climate change will make farming more difficult. And” — yes — “we will need to produce food more sustainably so that agriculture’s impact on the environment can be reduced.” But will each, as he suggests, lead farmers and consumers to GMOs in what he calls “sustainable intensification — the ability to grow more on the same amount of land, in a way… that preserves our environment?” He’s on firmer ground when he urges all “to stop wasting so much food” — up to one-third of global food production rots each year — and for everyone to “eat more sensible diets.” Hopefully, Fraley’s well-reasoned essay is seen by GMO-using farmers and GMO-worried consumers as fertile ground to sow a new understanding. The biggest disagreements today centre on whether GMOs, after 20 years of use, have “benefited society,” as Jonathan Foley discusses in his February 25 online essay, and Big Ag’s hardfought, so-far successful fight against GMO labelling. On the labelling front, Foley, now the executive director of the California Academy of Sciences, wonders why GMO proponents fight labelling as “unscientific” when the debate is really about “respecting people’s deep cultural connection to food and their right to know what’s in it.” After all, he explains, “no substantial biological difference” — the argument used by GMO proponents to ward off labelling — could also apply to “the meat in your grocery store.” Is it just biologically similar “animal,” he asks, or is it “beef, chicken, pork, horsemeat, dog or whatever?” OMG: point well made. The Farm and Food File is published weekly through the U.S. and Canada www.farmandfoodfile.com.

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f you were looking for a top-performing boar in 1983, you could drop by a Manitoba Agriculture office to check some out in Manitoba’s first ROP boar video sale. Among the stories in the August 25 issue was that the federal government was spending $30 million ($64.6 million today) on rehabilitating grain-dependent branch lines in 1983, including $12.6 million on the Carman and Miami lines, and $17 million on the Arborg, Glenboro and Napinka subdivisions. Premier Howard Pawley said his government was prepared to take action to keep Manitoba packers in the province, following reports that Canada Packers might close its St. Boniface plant, which employed 1,000 workers. Newly appointed Transport Minister Lloyd Axworthy said he would not delay consideration of a bill to overhaul the Crow rate. Other stories in the issue mentioned the contentious question of whether compensation should be paid to the railways (and therefore to grain shippers only) or to all farmers (which meant it would be shared with livestock producers). We also reported on a Ciba-Geigy crop tour near Morris, where 200 producers and industry personnel had viewed tests of a triazine-resistant canola.

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Sometimes cattle don’t displace trees — the trees displace cattle New non-cattle-ranching owners of U.S. rangeland are one reason for brush encroachment Arizona State University release

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alf of the Earth’s land mass is made up of rangelands, which include grasslands and savannas, yet they are being transformed at an alarming rate. Woody plants, such as trees and shrubs, are moving in and taking over, leading to a loss of critical habitat and causing a drastic change in the ability of ecosystems to produce food — specifically meat. Researchers with Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences led an investigation that quantified this loss in both the United States and Argentina. The study’s results are published in the Aug. 19 online issue of the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). “While the phenomenon of woody plant invasion has been occurring for decades, for the first time, we have quantified the losses in ecosystem services,” said Osvaldo Sala, Julie A. Wrigley chair and foundation professor with ASU’s School of Life Sciences and School of Sustainability. “We found that an increase in tree and shrub cover of one per cent leads to a two per cent loss in livestock production.” And, woody plant cover in North America increases at a rate between 0.5 and two per cent per year. In recent years, the U.S. government shelled out millions of dollars in an effort to stop the advance of trees and shrubs. The U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service spent $127 million from 2005-09 on herbicides and brush management, without a clear understanding of its economic benefit. The research team used census data from the U.S. and Argentina to find out how much livestock exists within the majority of the countries’ rangelands. In both countries, the team studied swaths of rangeland roughly the size of Texas — approximately 160 million acres each. These lands support roughly 40 million head of cattle. Researchers also used remote sensors to calculate the production of grasses and shrubs. And, to account for the effects of different socio-economic factors, researchers quantified the impact of tree cover on

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livestock production in two areas of the world that have similar environments, but different level of economic development. Surprisingly, the presence of trees explained a larger fraction of livestock production in Argentina than in the U.S. “What’s happening in Argentina seems to be a much narrower utilization of rangelands,” added Sala. “The land there is mostly privately owned and people who have ranches are producing predominantly meat to make a profit. But in the U.S., many people who own ranches don’t actually raise cattle. They are using the land for many other different purposes.” While ranchers clearly depend on grasslands to support healthy livestock, ecosystems also provide a range of other services to humans. Stakeholders such as conservationists, farmers, builders, government entities and private landowners,

How to make money from idle ships Lorne Jackson’s letter to the editor in the July 31 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator raised a question I had not seen addressed during the great post-single-desk grain transportation and marketing debacle (2013-14) following the Tory nationalization of the farmer-owned CWB system. Lurking in the rhetoric over deteriorating field-piled grain, plugged elevators, grain car, locomotive, train engineer shortages and empty port terminals, is the question of why up to 50 ships at a time were waiting for cargo at the Port of Vancouver. At a cost of $15,000 to $25,000 per vessel per day plus $20,000 (for pilot and

“We found that an increase in tree and shrub cover of one per cent leads to a two per cent loss in livestock production.” Osvaldo Sala Arizona State

depend on the land for a variety of reasons and each has different values and land use needs. Why are trees and shrubs taking over grasslands? There are several hypotheses as to why woody plant encroachment is happening. Fire reduction, grazing intensity, climate change, and increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are some widely held beliefs as to the cause. However, Sala’s study is focused not on the

tugs) each time a ship was moved, one can only shudder at the unnecessary extra charges which inevitably flow back to western farmers from the 2013-14 shipping season. A report (Manitoba Co-operator, July 24) by Phil Franz-Warkentin of Commodity News Service Canada quotes the Baltic Dry Index (London) assessment of the world ocean shipping situation as being “depressed,” an indication of surplus capacity which results in ships sitting idle. Thus, another nagging question overshadowing the 2013-14 Canadian grain market shipping persists. With most of the product sitting on Prairie farms and the 300 surviving Prairie delivery points plugged (with little prospect of immediate or even timely movement), why were so many ships

cause, but rather on the cost of this change to people. “For each piece of land, there are different people who have an interest in that land and they all have different values. And, they are all OK,” said Sala. “However, in order to negotiate how to use the land and to meet the needs of these different stakeholders, we need concrete information. We now know how much increase in tree cover is affecting the cattle ranchers.” Sala and his colleagues hope that the information found in their study will be used to inform discussions as policy-makers and other stakeholders negotiate changes in land use. Researchers who took part in the study include Sala and Billie Turner II with ASU, José Anadón with City University of New York, and Elena Bennett with McGill University. National Academies Keck Futures Initiative and the U.S. National Science Foundation funded the study.

dispatched in the first place, and by whom? This issue came up at a recent National Farmers Union gathering, at which time the meeting was reminded that some transnational grain companies own ocean-going cargo fleets. At any rate, connecting the Baltic Dry Index report and the “waiting ships” situation at Vancouver could cause one to question whether these company vessels were prematurely engaged to destination regardless of available cargo, in order to transfer company parking expense for idle ships from grain company costs to company income in the form of demurrage charges handed down on to Prairie farmers. Beverly Stow Graysville, Man.

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Richards said the problems facing the industry run deeper than the moratorium on new hog barn construction imposed by the province. “It’s more complicated than that,” Richards said, adding that lack of investor confidence and financial support for reinvestment in hog barns construction is part of the sector’s difficulties too. A business-as-usual scenario for potatoes is far more bleak, with sales declining of as much as 63 per cent anticipated between 2011 and 2020. The worst-case or “businessas-usual” scenario projected for potatoes is a drop in annual sales of $270 million per year to 2020, the report says. Potatoes problems relate to overall industry contraction from declining french fry consumption. Manitoba plants also are not as cost efficient as plants in other jurisdictions due to high cost of raw product compared to the U.S., the report said. “Leaders in this area are saying dramatic changes are afoot,” said Bill Ashton, director of the RDI. “The clock is ticking on this one.” Overall, it is this “less-thanoptimal” performance in these two sectors that will lead to the $100-million sales downturn by 2020. It would be far worse if Manitoba’s food-processing sector wasn’t diversified, Ashton said. Losses in pork and potatoes are offset by an uptick in growth in canola processing from $545 million in 2011 to $784 million by 2020, plus anticipated further growth of other types of food and beverage processing. “This economy is supported, as it has been in the past, because of its diversification,” he said. “That’s what’s saving

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it. Instead of a $100-million loss, it could potentially be a $400-million or $500-million loss.”

Potential turnaround

The flip side of it all is that effective industry-government collaboration could turn this right around. T h e r e ’s p o t e n t i a l f o r Manitoba’s food and beverage industry to be worth nearly $700 million more by 2020, if action is taken now, he said. “The good news is, effective action now can result in growth across the industry, from $4.7 billion in 2011 to $5.4 billion by 2020.” That means greater effort put into collaboration and common vision found between government and industry, the report says. “Effective action would also include greater effort to find growth potential in niche and specialty products for

both export and serving the Manitoba market. “We’re suggesting a strategic plan needs to work toward a solution,” Ashton said. “There’s a difference between finding a solution and working toward a solution, versus simply arguing about what the issue is, and what your positions are on issues.”

Other processing

Overall, Manitoba’s food- and beverage-processing industry sales were $4.7 billion in 2011, making a major contribution to the economy by accounting for 28 per cent of all manufacturing revenue in Manitoba, 15 per cent of all exports, and employing 12,000 people. The report also projects outlooks for all other aspects of Manitoba’s food-processing sector, including other meats, vegetables, dairy and grain processing, dividing these into

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two subcategories including bulk ingredients and finished processed products. Companies in these two categories generated 45 per cent of all food- and beverageprocessing sales in Manitoba in 2011, exporting 20 per cent of its production with the remaining sales serving the Manitoba market. About 35 per cent of sales were supply-managed sectors. The majority of these companies “target markets described by opinion leaders in terms of ‘Buy Local-Buy Manitoba,’ ‘made with natural ingredients’ and ‘specialty and niche markets,’” the report says. Startups in these types of businesses could add another $74 million in sales. But this area of food processing remains largely population dependent, the report cautions.

Staff/ The level of fusarium head blight infection affecting winter wheat crops in Manitoba was more than three times higher than the 10-year average, a survey by Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development has found. All of 39 fields surveyed by provincial extension staff showed fusarium infection, a report posted on the website Crop Chatter said. The average per cent of disease incidence based on nondestructive sampling of 100 plants per field was just under 33 per cent. The average severity of infection, based on the degree of infection observed in the plant spikes was 33.8 per cent. From those two measurements, researchers pegged the average FHB index at 11.6 per cent in central, eastern, Interlake and the southwest regions of the province. The 10-year average was 3.4 per cent. “High levels of fusarium head blight symptoms were measured in 2014 due to a number of factors, including favourable conditions for inoculum development and subsequent infection of the crop, variable crop staging resulting in difficulty timing a fungicide application for suppression of FHB, and the large number of acres grown to varieties that are rated susceptible (S) to FHB,” the report said. Samples of infected heads were also collected and sent to AAFC for further analysis of fusarium species responsible for infection. Results will be available in the fall/early winter.

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That’s in sharp contrast to the new infections found in Alberta and Saskatchewan from visible symptoms in canola fields.

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Canola plants with severe clubroot infections die prematurely because large galls form on the roots preventing water and nutrient uptake. Early detection is key to managing clubroot and swathing is a good time to be on the lookout for patches of prematurely ripened canola plants, which could be infected with clubroot. Other diseases, including blackleg and sclerotinia, could also cause such patches. Farmers should carefully dig up suspicious canola plants and examine the roots for clubroot galls. If a farmer suspects a clubroot infection he or she should contact the local MAFRD office, Kubinec said. Less than two per cent of Manitoba fields have been soil tested for clubroot spores so MAFRD recommends farmers assume clubroot is within 50 km of their farm. However, farmers in the 10 rural municipalities where the disease has been found should consider the disease to be closer yet, Kubinec said. Farmers in those areas should be asking service providers to clean their equipment before entering a field and farmers should also clean their equipment between fields.

around 100 new fields infected annually and has 1,400 infected fields, she said. And both Alberta and Saskatchewan base infections on visual symptoms in canola. When collecting soil for a clubroot test, Kubinec suggests farmers take samples at field e n t ra n c e s. T h i s i s w h e re contaminated soil can fall off machinery. Collect a trowelful of soil in a “W” pattern at five points every 10 feet and place the soil in a bag. Leave the bag open to dry and then send the soil to a laboratory for testing. Several provide the service, including Discovery Seed Labs in Saskatoon and 20/20 Seed Labs and BioVision Seed Labs, both in Alberta. This fall Manitoba’s new Plant Surveillance Lab, which is partly funded by the Manitoba Canola Growers Association, will open and will also do clubroot soil tests. Farmers who have attended an

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Instead of waiting for symptoms to show up in their canola, farmers are advised to have soil samples tested. Anything with 100 clubroot spores or more per gram of soil is considered clubroot positive, Kubinec said. Since clubroot is not a regulated pest in Manitoba, as it is in Alberta and Saskatchewan, the specific location of infected fields here remains confidential and is only reported as an infection in a specific municipality, she said. Discovering the pathogen at low levels allows farmers to take action to prevent spores from building to the point where crop yields are reduced. Remedial steps include growing canola less frequently on infected land, controlling canola volunteers and other plants and weeds in the brassica family such as camelina, cabbage, rutabagas, wild mustard, shepherd’s purse and stinkweed. The longer those plants and weeds are absent from an infected field, the more clubroot spores will die, reducing the risk to subsequent canola crops, Kubinec said. Other mitigation tools include growing clubroot-resistant canola varieties and cleaning equipment before moving between fields. To keep clubroot-resistant varieties useful, farmers should not grow canola on infected land anymore than once in three years for fear of a breakdown in the resistance, Kubinec said. The clubroot map is just a “snapshot in time,” and more positive cases will be discovered, Kubinec said. “On average we’ve been finding about three to five fields per year that have popped up as clubroot positive,” she said.

MAFRD biosecurity workshop are also eligible for a rebate on the cost of their clubroot soil tests, Kubinec said. Earlier this month what appears to be a severe case of clubroot was found near Langdon, North Dakota, in Cavalier Country just south of Darlingford, Man. Clubroot was first discovered to be damaging canola crops in the Edmonton area about 10 years ago and has been advancing by about 25 kms a year. Clubroot spores can persist in the soil for 20 years. In 2012, clubroot DNA was confirmed in two Manitoba fields sampled in 2011. MAFRD reported in 2013 plants from two unrelated fields showed symptoms of clubroot galls on their roots and tested positive for clubroot DNA.

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ussia’s farmers need 636 billion rubles ($17.6 billion) of extra state support in 2015 through 2020 to boost output, mainly of pork and poultry, after Russia banned western food imports, the agriculture minister said August 22. Russia banned food imports worth about $9 billion from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway in early August in response to trade sanctions over its role in the Ukraine crisis. Speaking at a government meeting, Minister Nikolai Fyodorov told Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev that the ministry had drafted a new plan for 2015-20. The current plan envisions 1.6 trillion rubles in investments from Russia’s federal and regional budgets. “Taking into account all the realities and all the changing conditions... we’ve prepared a moderate scenario of (the agriculture) industry development, which sees additional volume of resource support of... 636 billion rubles in 2015-20,” he said. The cash is required mainly to support animal breeding and crop farming, he added. “We can cover poultry and pork imports with our own production already in the short term,” Fyodorov said. “But here one will need... to decide to extend (state) subsidies for new projects in this sector until 2018.”

Ramsey Carpenter, Miss Kentucky 2014, holds the Kentucky State Fair’s Grand Champion ham, which earned a record-high $2 million at a charity auction Aug. 21. At 15.89 pounds, that equals $125,865 per pound. The auction is an annual event that started in 1964 when the Grand Champion ham went for $124. For the last 10 years the average is $739,000. The funds will be donated to institutes supporting health care and education. PHOTO: KENTUCKY STATE FAIR

Health-care priorities sought Five health regions in the province will be forming health involvement groups Manitoba Government release

anitobans will have a c h a n c e t o s h a re views and weigh in on health-care priorities to help health regions shape future goals by becoming part of a local health involvement group, Health Minister Erin Selby announced Aug. 22. “We all have personal experiences within the health-care system. It’s those experiences we can draw from to help shape and develop strong re g i o n a l p l a n s t o e n s u re health-care needs are being

met in communities across this province,” Selby said. “We want to hear from patients and families about ways to address community health issues and develop a stronger health-care system.” Effective Sept. 2, under the Regional Health Authorities Amendment Act, Manitoba’s five health regions will be responsible for developing health involvement groups and each region will have at least four groups made up of a minimum of 10 members. Group terms can vary in length from one to three years

and members can be reappointed for one or more additional terms. Groups will also be required to meet four times per year and provide reports back to the regional board. The findings will be shared annually with the minister. “It’s vital that Manitobans are involved with the health-care system to ensure safe, quality health care is available where and when it’s needed,” said Jan Currie, board chair, Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety. “These groups will involve the public in planning healthcare services which will help

improve the patient experience and enhance safety for patients throughout the health-care system.” “Patients are the centre of this initiative and I’m looking forward to discussion that helps individuals provide strategic advice to enhance services in their communities,” said the minister. Manitobans wanting to apply or get more information about the health involvement groups can visit: www.manitoba.ca/ health/lhig or contact your local regional health authority office.

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Agricultural Hall of Fame Five new members of the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame were inducted July 17 at a ceremony in Portage la Prairie. We’re featuring each in successive issues

Willie Jacob Siemens 1938 –

illie (Bill) Siemens was born in Kronsthal, Manitoba to David and Anna Siemens. In 1960 Bill married MaryAnne Dyck. They have two daughters, Beverly and Kelly. The family lived on the family farm in the Rural Municipality of Rhineland until 2000 when Bill and MaryAnne moved to Winkler. Bill began his farming career with his parents and bought his first 80 acres from them in 1959. That same year, he received his diploma in agriculture from the University of Manitoba and his first sugar beet contract from Manitoba Sugar Company. Bill went on to buy the farm and increased its acreage producing seed, process and table potatoes, plus corn, canola, cereal grain and beans. He incorporated the farm to a family-held corporation in 1976 as W.J. Siemens Farming Co. Ltd. In 1986 Bill and MaryAnne were honoured with the Rhineland Agricultural Society Farmer Achievement Award. The farm further

expanded becoming a shareholder in a farm near Bagot. In 2012 farming acreage and irrigation was again increased with the acquisition of a farm near Katrime. Ongoing initiatives have grown the operation to include the third generation. Bill provided leadership to the sugar beet and potato industries at the local, national and international level. He served terms as president of the World Association of Beet and Cane Growers and the Keystone Vegetable Producers’ Association, promoting growth in the industry, lobbying governments and negotiating contracts on behalf of the growers. He also served as a delegate to the Potato Marketing Association of North America and the Canadian Horticultural Council. In 1993, Bill received honorary membership in the Manitoba Institute of Agrologists in recognition of his contributions to the agriculture industry. Bill has also been recognized for his various activities in the community. As

a youth, he was involved in 4-H garden, beef, sugar beet and dairy projects winning the 1957 Manitoba Dair y Cattle Breeders Association award. For his continued involvement in 4-H as a leader, he was given the Canadian Council on 4-H Leadership Award in 1970. He received the Governor G e n e ra l’s Co m m e m o ra t i ve Me d a l in 1993 and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. Bill was also active in Community Economic Development organizations and was named Winkler Citizen of the Year in 2011. As members of the Winkler Heritage and Horticultural Society, Bill and MaryAnne led the development of the Bethel Heritage Park. They are also active members of their church. Bill’s ser vice to the agricultural industry and to his community is well respected by producers and fellow citizens. Nominated by the Siemens family, colleagues and friends — 2014.

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LIVESTOCK MARKETS Cattle Prices

Heifers

Alberta South — — 115.00 - 135.00 100.00 - 119.00 — $ 199.00 - 210.00 204.00 - 224.00 218.00 - 234.00 231.00 - 258.00 240.00 - 280.00 252.00 - 304.00 $ 180.00 - 196.00 191.00 - 205.00 200.00 - 216.00 210.00 - 234.00 225.00 - 250.00 237.00 - 276.00

($/cwt) (1,000+ lbs.) (850+ lbs.)

Futures (August 22, 2014) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change August 2014 149.65 -0.35 October 2014 145.55 -1.80 December 2014 148.60 -1.05 February 2015 149.80 -1.02 April 2015 149.80 -1.00 June 2015 143.10 -2.55

Feeder Cattle August 2014 September 2014 October 2014 November 2014 January 2015 March 2015

Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

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Strong prices lead to marked drop in Manitoba herd Beef values may start to settle as fall approaches Dave Sims

Ontario $ 149.38 - 173.06 145.26 - 168.48 82.27 - 119.56 82.27 - 119.56 98.36 - 134.85 $ 196.01 - 226.85 182.41 - 224.36 194.05 - 254.91 200.52 - 282.53 214.49 - 231.62 228.22 - 333.90 $ 181.85 - 195.76 181.84 - 215.40 190.35 - 231.92 186.44 - 235.91 186.38 - 255.33 196.97 - 269.08

(901+ lbs.) (801-900 lbs.) (701-800 lbs.) (601-700 lbs.) (501-600 lbs.) (401-500 lbs.) (901+ lbs.) (801-900 lbs.) (701-800 lbs.) (601-700 lbs.) (501-600 lbs.) (401-500 lbs.)

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Week Ending August 16, 2014 53,308 12,400 40,908 N/A 577,000

Previous Year 55,270 10,910 44,908 N/A 624,000

Week Ending August 16, 2014 627 24,528 20,387 1,132 1,346 4,756 128

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Hog Prices Source: Manitoba Agriculture

(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg) E - Estimation MB. ($/hog) MB (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.) MB (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.) ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.) PQ (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)

Current Week 230.00E 211.00E 216.15 224.97

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Futures (August 15, 2014) in U.S. Hogs August 2014 October 2014 December 2014 February 2015 April 2015

Close 93.62 87.55 86.45 87.70 89.75

Change -1.63 -0.20 -0.15 2.00 2.25

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Chickens Minimum broiler prices as of April 13, 2010 Under 1.2 kg................................... $1.5130 1.2 - 1.65 kg.................................... $1.3230 1.65 - 2.1 kg.................................... $1.3830 2.1 - 2.6 kg...................................... $1.3230

Turkeys Minimum prices as of August 19, 2014 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.960 Undergrade .............................. $1.870 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.945 Undergrade .............................. $1.845 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $1.945 Undergrade .............................. $1.845 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................... $1.875 Undergrade............................... $1.790 Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.

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or the second consecutive week, cattle volumes rose at auctions across Manitoba, as the doldrums of summer give way to increased market movement. Six auction marts held sales, with volumes ranging from 70 animals to 692. All told, around 1,850 animals made their way through the rings for the week ended Aug. 22, up 850 from the week before. Prices for feeder animals remain firm, with steers in the 500- to 600-pound class drawing top-end bids of $260 per hundredweight. Activity on the slaughter end was also busy, although some classes of animals drew slightly lower bids than the previous week. D1-D2 cows, D3-D4 cows and age-verified animals were fractionally lower. This year’s sky-high prices have caused a noticeable drop in the number of animals that reside in Manitoba. According to Statistics Canada, there were 2.8 per cent fewer cows in Manitoba as of July 1, 2014 compared to the previous year. The next highest provincial decline was in Saskatchewan, which recorded a drop of just 2.2 per cent during the same time period. Although the beef market is difficult to predict, Anne Wasko, a commodity analyst for Gateway Livestock Exchange at Taber, Alta., suspects certain values are starting to settle back as fall approaches. “There’s a feeling that, at some point, as consumers see other alternatives for proteins, whether it’s lower-priced pork or poultry, it could put a lid on the demand seen for beef.” Expectations are that the market will see increasing supplies of both pork and poultry in the months to come, said Wasko.

“What’s now becoming more apparent as we head toward 2015 is the expectation of more pork and poultry ahead of us.” anne wasko

That sentiment is backed up by Statistics Canada, which found a 1.3 per cent increase (12.9 million animals) in the number of hogs residing at Canadian farms as of July 1, 2014. Wasko said price reductions in beef will initially be felt at the processor level, before backing off at the feedlot level and, eventually, the retail level. Sizable reductions won’t happen overnight, she added, as many of the fundamentals that led to the record-high prices are still in effect. “Today more of the impact is on the slaughter side but depending on margins, that could infiltrate back to the feeder market as we go down the road. “What’s now becoming more apparent as we head toward 2015 is the expectation of more pork and poultry ahead of us,” she said. Hamburger continues to draw a lot of interest, she said, as record prices for lean trim dominated the spring and summer; strength was also seen in the end meats as well, “both rounds and chuck cuts.” The tightness of the market will continue to dictate healthy bids, she stressed; they just might not be as high as before. “There still will be great prices from a historical perspective but it probably won’t be at the levels we saw in July,” she said. Dave Sims writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

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$1 Cdn: $0.9165 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.0950 Cdn.

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(Friday to Thursday) Winnipeg Slaughter Cattle Steers & Heifers No sale D1, 2 Cows Aug.15th D3 Cows Next sale is Bulls Aug.22nd Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.) $ — (801-900 lbs.) — (701-800 lbs.) — (601-700 lbs.) — (501-600 lbs.) — (401-500 lbs.) — Heifers (901+ lbs.) — (801-900 lbs.) — (701-800 lbs.) — (601-700 lbs.) — (501-600 lbs.) — (401-500 lbs.) — Slaughter Cattle Grade A Steers Grade A Heifers D1, 2 Cows D3 Cows Bulls Steers

EXCHANGES: August 22, 2014

Toronto 75.74 - 102.52 153.04 - 175.99 183.84 - 198.71 176.61 - 202.65 175.52 - 216.49 —

SunGold Specialty Meats 50.00

Eggs Minimum prices to producers for ungraded eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board effective November 10, 2013. New Previous A Extra Large $2.00 $2.05 A Large 2.00 2.05 A Medium 1.82 1.87 A Small 1.40 1.45 A Pee Wee 0.3775 0.3775 Nest Run 24 + 1.8910 1.9390 B 0.45 0.45 C 0.15 0.15

High-priced calves drop U.S. July cattle placements The data is seen as mildly bearish for live cattle futures chicago / reuters / The number of cattle placed in U.S. feedlots in July dropped seven per cent from a year ago, which was less than the forecasted average, as pricey calves deterred some feedlots from purchasing them for fattening, a government report showed Aug. 22. There are fewer cattle available for feedlots to draw from after several years of drought-damaged crops, which reduced the herd to its lowest level in 63 years. Additionally, healthy pastures allowed ranchers to feed cattle longer outside of feed yards.

Many of the cattle that were placed in feeding pens in July will come to market beginning in December. Despite more cattle placed in July than some had anticipated, beef prices should remain high through 2015 given overall tight cattle supplies, said analysts. The U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed July placements at 1.560 million head, down 7.0 per cent from 1.684 million a year earlier. Analysts, on average, had expected a 9.1 per cent decrease. Nonetheless, July placements were the smallest for the month since USDA began the dataset in 1996. Sufficient grazing land, and feedlots struggling to fill pen space due to tight cattle numbers and expensive calves or feeder cattle, was partly behind last month’s placement drop, said University of Missouri economist Ron Plain.

Goats Kids Billys Mature

Winnipeg (Fats) — — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 135.27 - 239.50 — 90.12 - 213.12

Horses <1,000 lbs. 1,000 lbs.+

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 10.00 - 43.00 33.00 - 56.00

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StatsCan’s estimates point to tight canola stocks Estimates for Prairie wheat also support U.S. futures Phil Franz-Warkentin CNSC

CE Futures Canada canola futures hit fresh contract lows once again during the week ended Aug. 22, as any bullish news that came forward was quickly swept to the side and the bears held firm. The continued price slide came despite production estimates from Statistics Canada that should have been seen as supportive on the surface. Statistics Canada came out with its first survey-based production estimates of the year on Aug. 21. The immediate reaction to the report was subdued, but the canola number may still provide some support in the long run. The government agency pegged this year’s canola crop at 13.9 million tonnes, which was at the low end of trade estimates and compares with the record 2013 crop that came in at just under 18 million tonnes. Back in July, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada supply/demand tables were predicting that canola ending stocks would dwindle to 1.1 million tonnes by the close of the 2014-15 crop year, from an estimated carry-over of three million tonnes for 201314. That forecast was made while pencilling in canola at 14.5 million tonnes, but if production truly is 500,000 tonnes smaller the balance sheet starts to look much tighter. Typically, the one-million-tonne mark is seen as an important line for canola, with stocks below that point considered “tight.” However, the tightening canola supply situation still pales in comparison to the record-large U.S. soybean crop for which the market continues to brace itself. CBOT soybeans were mostly lower during the week, with only the nearby September contract posting gains as end-users were

Week Ago

Year Ago

Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)

200.71

197.41

231.65

Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)

226.25

222.58

264.25

Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)

142.61

142.51

191.93

Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)

243.97

232.94

248.02

Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)

417.50

449.93

455.46

Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)

722.80

740.88

255.07

Coarse Grains

oilseeds

being forced to pay up for delivery ahead of the big new crop. End-user demand may not have propped up the Canadian futures, but opportunities could still be found in the cash market for farmers with old-crop canola to sell. There is a much bigger question mark tied to the canola crop compared to soybeans, which has end-users looking to make sure they’re covered going forward. While canola should also be due for a bounce from a technical standpoint, the anchor of the U.S. soy market will likely limit the upside potential with any strength being relative to soybeans. In grain markets, CBOT wheat futures were slightly lower on the week, while Minneapolis and Kansas City futures showed some strength. Those two markets trade a higher-quality wheat than Chicago does, and the wheat markets are shaping up to provide large premiums for quality this year. Downgrades to the European crop were being reported during the week, accounting for some of the strength in U.S. wheat. Canada’s smaller spring wheat crop was also supportive. StatsCan pegged this year’s wheat crop (including durum) at 27.7 million tonnes, which would be nearly 10 million tonnes smaller than last year’s. Canada is a fair-size player in the international wheat export market, and while the number was not that surprising at home, it did make the bigger fish take notice. Corn futures moved down during the week, as the U.S. continues to brace for a huge corn crop. While some private forecasts were predicting yields at slightly below USDA’s latest prediction, the weather conditions remain close to ideal across most of the Midwest for the time being. Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

For three-times-daily market reports from Commodity News Service Canada, visit “Today in Markets” at www.manitobacooperator.ca.

Last Week

All prices close of business August 21, 2014

Winnipeg Futures ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business August 22, 2014 barley

Last Week

Week Ago

October 2014

135.00

December 2014

137.00

March 2015

138.00

Last Week

Week Ago

November 2014

Canola

418.30

429.50

January 2015

423.60

434.10

March 2015

428.40

436.10

Special Crops Report for August 25, 2014 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan Spot Market

Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)

Spot Market

Other ( Cdn. cents per pound unless otherwise specified)

Large Green 15/64

22.60 - 23.75

Canaryseed

Laird No. 1

21.50 - 23.75

Oil Sunflower Seed

Eston No. 2

15.00 - 19.00

Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

23.50 - 24.00 —

Desi Chickpeas

15.20 - 16.00

Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)

Green No. 1

8.80 - 9.00

Fababeans, large

—

Medium Yellow No. 1

5.75 - 6.50

Feed beans

—

Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans

33.00 - 33.00

Feed Pea (Rail)

No. 1 Great Northern

50.00 - 50.00

4.25 - 4.35

Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)

No. 1 Cranberry Beans

38.00 - 38.00

Yellow No. 1

No. 1 Light Red Kidney

54.00 - 54.00

38.00 - 39.00

Brown No. 1

32.30 - 34.00

No. 1 Dark Red Kidney

54.00 - 54.00

Oriental No. 1

29.50 - 31.00

No. 1 Black Beans

36.00 - 36.00

Source: Stat Publishing

No. 1 Pinto Beans

29.00 - 32.00

No. 1 Small Red

35.00 - 35.00

No. 1 Pink

SUNFLOWERS

35.00 - 35.00

Fargo, ND

Goodlands, KS

17.25

15.95

Report for August 22, 2014 in US$ cwt NuSun (oilseed)

32.00*

Confection

Call for details

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Source: National Sunflower Association

France forced to import wheat as rain hits crop quality Exporters may struggle to meet international demand By Valerie Parent paris / reuters

rance’s rain-hit wheat crop has delivered the first shock of the 2014-15 season: the EU’s top grower and exporter is buying Lithuanian and British milling wheat to mix with its unusually poor-grade crop to meet contracts signed before the harvest. French exports exceed those of Britain and Lithuania on the world market, but a wet summer has meant France is set to produce more wheat

for animal feed and less higher-grade bread-making grain this year. The imports are the latest signal that France might struggle to retain its market share of milling wheat exports this season because a large part of its crop is failing to live up to its traditional clients’ criteria. During the past 13 years for which Reuters has records, France has only once imported significant amounts of Lithuanian wheat. That was during the 2010-2011 season, which was also beset by quality problems.

France’s key markets in Nor th A f r i c a , p a r t i c u l a r l y t h e w o r l d’s fourth-largest wheat importer Algeria, are expected to look beyond their traditional supplier for future purchases but in the meantime, French exporters are meeting existing contracts by mixing in higherquality foreign wheat. “I think that France will certainly have a problem with high-volume sales to some of its traditional markets this year, especially Algeria and Morocco,” a German trader said. The main quality concer n has

been weak Hagberg falling numbers, a measure of the flour-making quality of wheat and one that is hard to remedy even by blending low-grade grain with superior wheat. Va r i e d re s u l t s i n Fra n c e h a ve often been well below the 230-240 Hagberg minimum required by top client Algeria, the 250 sought by Moroccan importers or the 200 set by the state grain buyer in Egypt, the world’s top wheat importer. Algeria also has high standards for other milling criteria, such as specific gravity and protein content.

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Feed shortages could push flooded farmers to sell cattle This year’s flood has created more uncertainty for Manitoba’s cattle sector By Meghan Mast CO-OPERATOR STAFF

he stress of extended flooding losses followed by a harsh winter prompted Scott Kolomaya to make a tough decision in the spring. He sold three-quarters of his cattle herd. His hayfields were flooded in 2011 and had not yet been returned to production. After a long and bitter winter, he was running short of feed. “I was basically forced to sell at that point,” he said. “I didn’t have the hay and the winter was so harsh I decided I’d better start moving them while I could. Decided to back off on the amount of work I had because I was under stress.” His hay and pasture was still starting to grow again this spring when this year’s flood hit, inundating several hundred acres on his farm. Kolomaya is not alone. The f l o o d w a t e r s a re re c e d i n g but cattle farmers in affected areas of Manitoba face possible feed shortages going into the next winter. If the frost comes early this year, cattlemen may need to choose between paying more for outsourced feed or selling part of their herd. Ted Artz, a cattleman from Pierson who ser ves on the board of directors for the Ma n i t o b a Be e f Producers, says the province’s beef industry has faced a lot of hardships in the decade since BSE — better known as mad cow disease — crippled the industry in 2003. According to a recent report by the University of Manitoba

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“If you are a cattle farmer there is a lot of talk about quitting.”

DEBBIE MCMECHAN

on the Manitoba cattle and beef industry, the province’s number of beef cows fell to 493,700 head in 2012 — the smallest count since 1993. Artz says less young people are entering the business. “The majority of producers in our areas have too much grey hair,” he said. “We are getting older. And the young people who might want to get in have got very good oil jobs, outside income. And it’s pretty hard to give that up.” This year Artz could also face feed shortages. A long winter meant he had to dip into his reserves. He was able to seed in mid-July, but his crops are still green. He’s hoping frost holds off until late September. If he doesn’t, he might be forced to sell 30 to 40 per cent of his herd. Artz said he wants to protect the business for his son who will eventually take over. “If we’re short of feed I will sell the cattle we need so my son can continue,” he said. Debbie McMechan, a grain and cattle farmer and councillor for the RM of Edward, said people are exhausted from the cleanup and repairs to fenceline following the flood. Her town, Pierson, declared a state of emergency on June 5 after overland flooding rushed over the small southwestern Manitoba town and nearby farmland. He r h u s b a n d b o u g h t a bale wrapper and a baler this year so he could collect the hay earlier than usual. Some neighbours are getting creative — baling wild oats that have taken over the fields once full of cash crops. “If you are a cattle farmer there is a lot of talk about quitting,” she said. “That is due in part to the prices are pretty good right now.” He r h u s b a n d w o n’t q u i t because they are lucky to have some high pasture that hasn’t been hit by flooding. But she’s not sure yet whether they’ll have enough feed to make it through the winter. The province as a whole isn’t facing feed shortages, according to Craig Thomson, vice-president of insurance operations at MASC, although he noted overall forage production numbers aren’t tallied until November. “Probably half the province looks like they have average to above-average forage,” he said. Whether flood-affected farmers decide to outsource their feed will depend on the price. Buddy Bergner, an auctioneer from Ashern, another flood-affected area, said cattle farmers he’s spoken to are getting creative with what they feed their cows this year. “So m e g u y s a re l o o k i n g

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at buying grain and looking at bringing in their cattle through that way,” he said, “with some grain and then roughage, like corn or barley.” He said older cattle farmers are considering retiring. “The market is good and they can see cash in their hand,” said Bergner. “No work and no risk.” Melinda German, general manager with the Manitoba Beef Producers, said she’s discouraged to hear people are thinking about quitting. Areas in Manitoba unsuitable for grain cultivation grow forage

successfully, making them ideal for cattle production. She said exciting new opportunities are also opening up in the industry. “A lot of international trade markets are coming available that we’ve never had before,” she said. “But if Manitoba is losing its farmers and we’re losing the number of beef cows we have here, we’re not able to capitalize on all those opportunities like the rest of the country.” Kolomaya is not ready to quit yet. This year the thirdgeneration farmer celebrates

his farm’s 100th anniversary. But this winter he may face more tough choices about whether to winter his cows or sell them. “I h a v e t o d e c i d e w h a t direction I want my life to take because I have done this my whole life. I haven’t done anything else,” he said. “There’s a lot of jobs I can do, but do I want to do them? I’ve been my own boss for so long now. It’s not the same when you’re not making that decision based on your own will to decide.” meghan.mast@fbcpublishing.com

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More horse owners seeking alternative therapies Veterinary and alternative therapies can be part of an integrated treatment plan Carol Shwetz, DVM Horse Health

eeking solutions to help horses heal and feel better outside of traditional and conventional veterinary medicine is becoming increasingly commonplace. Horse owners are not necessarily rejecting conventional medicine, rather they simply feel that alternative modalities offer complementary approaches. For example in addition to using anti-inflammatory drugs to ease muscle pain, they may also use chiropractic, acupuncture, or osteopathic manipulation. This practice of complementing conventional m ed i ci ne w it h alter native approaches has given rise to the term complementary medicine. Presently, alternative medicine is most commonly referred to as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). As conventional veterinary practitioners become familiar with alternative approaches, these approaches are being integrated into conventional medicine, which is giving rise to the term “integrative medicine,” in which a combination of therapies representing the best of conventional and alternative medicine is used. The concept of integrative medicine has been around for many years but only recently has it begun to receive more recognition as people are looking for other possibilities to heal the body and prevent disease. There are dozens of alternative therapies with chiropracty, acupuncture, and bodyworkers leading the way. One can readily expand

the definition of alternative therapies to include craniosacral therapy, osteopathy, essential oils, aromatherapy, Bach Flower remedies, kinesiology, herbology, magnot h e r a p y, h y d r o t h e r a p y, homeopathy, animal communication and even sound and colour therapy. The term is extremely broad in scope and in its simplest form refers to anything used in alternative to conventional medicine. Owned by neither alternative or conventional medicine, the discipline of nutrition, diet, and supplementation, is an emerging field which is unmistakably important to a well-balanced approach as well. Inappropriate or suboptimal nutrition will undermine the ultimate success of most therapies and medicine. There really isn’t a formal definition or category of this burgeoning discipline. Its best fit seems to be with integrative practices. When veterinarians and alternative therapists are well versed in the topics of diet, nutrition and supplement, it is of tremendous benefit to their patients and clients. The safety and efficacy of many of the alternative practices remains largely unknown, yet public demand for such practices is rapidly growing. Advising owners who seek alternative treatments presents a professional challenge. Pre s e n t l y, h o r s e ow n e r s will find veterinarians who are reluctant to recommend alternative therapies, as well as veterinarians who willingly embrace complementary therapies, even practising these therapies on horses themselves. Understandably this can present a confusing dilemma for well-meaning horse owners. It is important to remember that veterinary medicine is

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not to be excluded when alternative therapies are sought, rather it is even more important that veterinarians are included. Alternative therapies are in no way a replacement for conventional veterinary medicine, rather an adjunctive treatment procedure. Since there is no policing of alternative therapies, it is a buyer beware market. Unfortunately, a poorly chosen alternative therapy can b e h a r m f u l t o t h e h o r s e. Well-schooled, experienced and competent practitioners of alternative therapies will highly regard and include the veterinary community. The reverse is also true whereby a veterinarian will recognize the value of a competent and experienced practitioner of alternative therapies. As a result, the list of health-care providers for a high-level-performance horse may include a veterinarian, a chiropractor or bodyworker, and an acupuncturist. Many alternative therapies are sought when behavioural, training issues or chronic problems ensue and conventional veterinar y medicine fails to reveal a physical or metabolic cause. Oftentimes, the integrative practices will address the emotional and mental health of the horse. Surprisingly remarkable results can be experienced when a horse’s emotional patterns and state of mind are acknowledged and addressed appropriately. Common sense and some homework is best when considering alternative therapies. A knowledgeable client will understand the modality chosen, its intended and appropriate purpose, and educate and/ or familiarize themselves with the hallmarks of a qualified and competent practitioner. Carol Shwetz is a veterinarian specializing in equine practice at Westlock, Alta.

Acupuncture needles are placed on specific points along the coronary band for the treatment or prevention of disease. PHOTO: CAROL SHWETZ

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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Feeder Steers No. on offer Over 1,000 lbs.

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

Aug-20

n/a

Aug-19

Aug-20

n/a

Aug-21

Aug-22

183*

n/a

70*

225*

692*

n/a

275*

375*

n/a

900-1,000

n/a

185.00-205.00

180.00-202.00

n/a

800-900

n/a

190.00-215.00

208.00-222.00

n/a

700-800

225.00-226.00

n/a

215.00-239.00

217.00-238.00

n/a

600-700

225.00-234.50

n/a

235.00-255.00

226.00-250.00

n/a

500-600

n/a

240.00-260.00

230.00-263.00

n/a

400-500

n/a

240.00-275.00

n/a

300-400

n/a

250.00-300.00

n/a

900-1,000 lbs.

n/a

155.00-177.00

160.00-185.00

n/a

800-900

n/a

180.00-200.00

180.00-202.00

n/a

Feeder heifers

700-800

200.00-207.00

n/a

190.00-216.00

196.00-220.00

n/a

600-700

204.00-214.50

n/a

218.00-230.00

215.00-232.00

n/a

500-600

n/a

230.00-253.00

220.00-245.00

n/a

400-500

n/a

225.00-252.00

n/a

300-400

n/a

No. on offer

n/a

107

n/a

235

n/a

Slaughter Market

D1-D2 Cows

92.00-108.00

n/a

116.00-124.00

115.00-126.00

n/a

110.00-128.00

n/a

D3-D5 Cows

88.00-94.00

n/a

100.00-116.00

106.00-114.00

n/a

100.00-118.00

n/a

Age Verified

98.00-114.00

n/a

100.00-112.50

n/a

117.00-130.00

n/a

128.5

n/a

Good Bulls

109.00-136.00

n/a

115.00-130.00

136.00-155.00

137.00-155.00 (158.00)

n/a

118.00-128.00 (133.50)

n/a

Butcher Steers

n/a

148.00-158.00

150.00-155.75

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

145.00-156.00

148.00-153.00

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

112.00-118.00

n/a

125.00-139.00

n/a

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

112.00-116.00

n/a

Lean Export Cows

n/a

108.00-112.00

n/a

Heiferettes

n/a

110.00-126.00

n/a

* includes slaughter market

(Note all prices in CDN$ per cwt. These prices also generally represent the top one-third of sales reported by the auction yard.)

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Herd dispersal makes for huge auction

GOAT DOES meat

/ lb. $2.13 / $1.44

animal weight 75 lbs.

$1.60

78 lbs.

$1.83

63 lbs.

There were 1,200 sheep and goats on offer with good demand from buyers

$1.37

83 lbs.

$1.37

95 lbs.

$1.15

98 lbs.

By Mark Elliot

$1.37

100 lbs.

$1.14 - $1.73

55 lbs.

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he Winnipeg Livestock Auction on Aug. 6, had 1,200 sheep and goats delivered. A sheep herd dispersal represented a major portion of the ewe classification. The sale was well represented in all classifications. Prices remained steady. September is the start of two sales per month. With the large sale, the buyers could examine the ewes for high quality and clearly indicating the culls. The price bidding was not selective on the ewes, based upon wool or hair or even if sheared or extremely woolly. The price ranged from $0.60 to $0.80 per pound. An exception was e i g h t 1 9 7 - p o u n d s h e a re d ewes brought $147.75. There was a good selection of rams on offer. The price ranged from $0.62 to $0.87 per pound. The selection was very limited for the heavyweight lambs. The bidding created two divisions. The first price ranged from $0.89 to $0.94 per pound. The other price range was from $1.06 to $1.13 per pound. The exception was a 110-pound Cheviot-cross ram that brought $1.49 per pound. The demand on the market lambs was higher than the July 2 sale. The price ranged from $138.70 to $162.68 for lambs ranging from 95 to 100 pounds. Bids on feeder lambs were similar to the July 2 sale. The first bidding caused a range from $1.20 to $1.40 per pound. The second set of prices ranged from $1.49 to $1.75 per pound. The grainfed lambs showed more muscular development and noticeable quality that produced stronger bidding.

August 6, 2014 Ewes

$62.40 - $108.36

dairy

$1.71

70 lbs.

$2.13

75 lbs.

$1.37

83 lbs.

$1.05

95 lbs.

$1.22

123 lbs.

$2.12

65 lbs.

$2.59

70 lbs.

$2.00

80 lbs.

$1.75

90 lbs.

$1.65

100 lbs.

$2.32

65 lbs.

$2.11

76 lbs.

DAIRY

$1.61

75 lbs.

MEAT

$2.26

65 lbs.

DAIRY

$2.12

61 lbs.

$2.74

66 lbs.

$2.24

50 lbs.

$37.80 - $57 Lambs (lbs.) 110+

$130.38 - $163.90

95 - 110

$138.70 - $174.90

80 - 94

$126 - $157.17 $84.60 - $99.60

Under 80 70 - 79

$110.76 - $135.09

60 - 69

$100.17 - $114.92 $76.38 - $87.78

50 - 58

$67.50 - $85.26

40 - 46

$60.75 - $76.36

33 - 37

$35.13 - $56

Lightweight lambs attracted strong bidding and slightly higher prices than the feeder lambs. The price ranged from $1.66 to $1.73 per pound. A few groups of lambs created a price range from $1.24 to $1.42 per pound. The lambs in the 60-pluspound range showed two price ranges. The lower price bidding ranged from $1.14 to $1.34 per pound. Majority of the lambs ranged from $1.59 to $1.69 per pound. There appeared to be no differences between the wool and hair lambs. The lambs in the 50-pluspound range showed no differences between wool and hair lambs. The price ranged from $1.35 to $1.73 per pound. T h e re w a s a b i g d i f f e rence in the bidding of the 40-plus-pound lambs. Eleven 40-pound Suffolk-cross lambs b ro u g h t $ 1 . 6 1 p e r p o u n d . Eight 46-pound Cheviotcross lambs brought $1.66 p e r p o u n d . Tw e n t y - n i n e 43-pound lambs brought $0.94 per pound. A 45-pound Cheviot-cross lamb brought $1.35 per pound.

Once again, no bidding p a t t e r n w a s a p p a re n t f o r t h e 3 0 - p l u s - p o u n d l a m b s. A group of 37-pound lambs b ro u g h t $ 0 . 9 5 p e r p o u n d . A group of 35-pound lambs brought $1.60 per pound. A 35-pound Dorper-cross lamb brought $1.335 per pound and a 35-pound Cheviotcross lamb brought $1.45 per pound. The extremely lightweight lambs (in the 20-plus-pound range) did not reach the price ranges as the other lambs. The buyers were not interested in the small lambs. There was a good selection of quality goat does and bidding was higher than the July 2 sale. The dairy does were represented by a strong presence by Nubian- and Alpinecross does. The dair y goat does brought similar prices as the meat does. The buyers could choose between meat or dairy breeds bucks. Lightweight goats attracted higher bids. The goat kids continued the strong demand and interest. The extreme lightweight goat kids were in lower demand.

BUCKS meat

dairy KIDS - Under 80

MEAT

$1.96

52 lbs.

$2.14 / $2.27

56 lbs.

$2.53

57 lbs.

$2.32

59 lbs.

$2.02

55 lbs.

$2.53

57 lbs.

$1.80

40 lbs.

$2.00

43 lbs.

$2.00

45 lbs.

$2.02

46 lbs.

DAIRY

$2.21

40 lbs.

MEAT

$1.90

30 lbs.

$1.78

32 lbs.

$1.70

33 lbs.

$2.17

35 lbs.

$2.00

30 lbs.

$1.43

35 lbs.

MEAT

$0.55

20 lbs.

DAIRY

$1.43

28 lbs.

$0.84

19 lbs.

DAIRY MEAT

DAIRY

BRIEFS

Jamaica market access restored for beef Staff / The federal government has restored full access to Jamaica for Canadian beef 11 years after it was closed because of an Alberta cow found to have bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Minister of International Trade Ed Fast announced Aug. 25 that Jamaica has approved all imports of beef from Canada. Canada Beef Inc. estimates that the Jamaican market for Canadian beef is annually worth roughly $4.5 million, or 1.5 million pounds of beef. Jamaica is Canada’s second-larg-

est market for agricultural exports within the Caribbean region, only after Cuba. 2013 agricultural exports to Jamaica totalled $54 million. Canada’s top agricultural exports to the Jamaican market include non-durum wheat, frozen french fries, whey, pig fat and skim milk powder.

WTO rules against U.S. in meat label fight — again reuters / A World Trade Organization panel has ruled against the United States in a trade dispute over meat labels with Canada and Mex-

ico, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The newspaper, citing anonymous sources familiar with the findings, said on August 21 that the United States lost its case before a panel set up to determine whether its revised labelling rules complied with an earlier WTO ruling. Jeff English, a spokesman for C a n a d i a n A g r i c u l t u re M i n i s t e r Gerry Ritz, declined to confirm the WTO panel decision and said Canada will only speak about it once it becomes public. All three governments received the compliance panel’s confidential decision earlier this summer, but have not publicly commented on its contents. The U.S. r ule, which requires

retailers such as grocery stores to list the country of origin on meat, has resulted in fewer Canadian pigs and cattle being exported to the U.S. since 2009, according to the Canadian government. The WTO ruled in June 2012 that the U.S. labelling program, known as COOL, unfairly discriminated against Canada and Mexico because it gave less favourable treatment to beef and pork imported from those countries than to U.S. meat. The WTO said the U.S. must bring its labelling rules into compliance with the ruling by May 23, 2013. The U.S. government made changes, but Canadian officials said they only made the situation worse, and asked the WTO to form the compliance panel.

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Mixed bag for long weekend Issued: Monday, August 25, 2014 · Covering: August 27 – September 3, 2014 Daniel Bezte Co-operator contributor

hings definitely got interesting last weekend as we saw yet another unusually strong area of low pressure affect our region. The low moved a little slower than first forecast and it also tracked a little farther west, but all in all it made for a fairly wet weekend. This forecast period begins with a ridge of high pressure building across the region. The weather models aren’t in total agreement as to how strong this ridge will be; lately they’ve trended toward a weaker ridge. Even with a weak ridge we should still see plenty of sunshine along with slowly warming temperatures. Daytime highs on Wednesday should be in the low 20s, with the high warming by a couple of degrees for Thursday and Friday. To start the long weekend the weather models show a cool arctic high sliding by beginning late on Friday. This will bring cooler air into our region for Saturday. At the same time, an area of low pressure is forecast to develop to our west and begin tracking across the central Prairies on Sunday. This

means we’ll likely see increasing clouds Saturday with showers and thundershowers moving in on Sunday. The best chances for rain Sunday look to be over central regions. High temperatures under the cloud cover will struggle to reach the 20 C mark. This low will begin pulling off to the northeast Monday, leaving us in a cool, unsettled northerly flow. As a result, Monday will end up feeling fairly fall-like, with a mix of sun and clouds and the high only reaching the upper teens. Looking further ahead the weather models show a ridge of high pressure slowly rebuilding to our west and a trough of low pressure deepening to our east. This will place us in a predominantly northwesterly flow for most of next week and should result in partly cloudy skies most days, with temperatures running closer to the bottom end of the usual temperature range for this time of the year. Usual temperature range for this period: Highs, 17 to 28 C; lows, 6 to 13 C. Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession with a BA (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He operates a computerized weather station near Birds Hill Park. Contact him with your questions and comments at daniel@bezte.ca.

WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA

2 Month (60 Days) Accumulated Precipitation (Prairie Region) June 20, 2014 to August 18, 2014

23 - 38 mm 38 - 53 mm 53 - 67 mm 67 - 82 mm 82 - 96 mm 96 - 111 mm 111 - 126 mm 126 - 140 mm 140 - 155 mm 155 - 169 mm 169 - 184 mm 184 - 198 mm 198 - 213 mm 213 - 228 mm 228 - 242 mm 242 - 257 mm 257 - 271 mm 271 - 286 mm Extent of Agricultural Land Lakes and Rivers

Produced using near real-time data that has undergone initial quality control. The map may not be accurate for all regions due to data availability and data errors. Copyright © 2014 Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Prepared by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s National Agroclimate Information Service (NAIS). Data provided through partnership with Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and many Provincial agencies.

Created: 08/19/14 www.agr.gc.ca/drought

This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that has fallen across the Prairies during the 60 days ending Aug. 18. Southern and northern parts of Alberta have been fairly dry, with large areas seeing fewer than 50 mm of rain during this period. Northern and eastern parts of agricultural Saskatchewan and western Manitoba were fairly wet during this period, with a number of locations reporting 200 mm or more.

A break in the weather pattern before fall? Last Sunday’s storm system looked very much like a strong winter low By Daniel Bezte

summer upper lows are not that unusual; what has been unusual this year has been both the number and the intensity of these lows.

CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR

don’t know about you, but I’ve pretty much had it up to you know where when it comes to upper-level lows! Yes, the Canadian Prairies have once again been hit by an upper-level low. Oh, don’t get me wrong; as you’ve already heard from me this year, we are not unfamiliar with upper-level lows during the summer. The only thing is, we typically see just one or two of them, not five or six! If we had to put a defining point or influence on this summer’s weather across the Prairies, it would have to be the upper-level low. Since last June we’ve seen at least six large upper-level lows affect all or parts of the Prairies. I know I’ve already talked about this over the last couple of months, but I felt after this last system that we needed to revisit this, if only to understand them a little better. As I pointed out earlier this year, upper-level lows are not that unusual. What’s unusual are the size and strength of the systems that have been affecting us so far this summer. The latest moved out of the U.S. Midwest last weekend and brought showers, rain and thunderstorms to a large part of the southern Prairies.

Heavy rainfalls

Was this image from last winter or late last Sunday?

To see just how large this latest storm system was, I’ve included a satellite image of the storm as it gathered strength late last Sunday. You can see just how large it was, extending from southwestern Alberta all the way to northwestern Ontario. The low got wound up around the Montana-North Dakota border

region, then ejected northeastward during the first part of this week. If someone was to show me this image with no date on it, I would probably say it was from the winter rather than the late summer, as it looks very much like a strong winter low. As I’ve pointed out a couple of times over the last few months,

Take the last low as an example. This low, at its greatest extent, stretched from southeastern Alberta all the way to northwestern Ontario. Areas to the east of the low saw warm, moist air move in, bringing scattered heavy rainfalls and warm temperatures. Farther west, on the back side of the upper low, northerly winds brought the first taste of autumn to parts of northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. These cool winds, combined with the moisture from the low, brought significant rains to a good part of extreme southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Now the big question on a lot of people’s minds this summer has been, “Why have there been so many upper lows?” At first, my initial reply goes to persistence — that is, the weather we see today will be the same weather we see tomorrow. But that wouldn’t explain the pattern of dry and wet weather we’ve seen, unless we look at the bigger picture. So far we seem to be stuck in a pattern of colderthan-average temperatures to our east and warmer-than-aver-

age temperatures to our southwest. We have seen some warm air move into the Prairies so far this summer, but these intrusions have been weak, only lasting a week or so at the most. The culprit has been the upper-level low. The weather pattern over North America has been such that areas of low pressure coming in off the Pacific have been meeting what seems to be a semi-permanent trough of low pressure over the eastern part of North America. As these lows approach this trough, they move into an environment that allows them to strengthen. If everything plays out correctly, this low breaks off the main jet stream and ends up “cut off” from the upper-level flow. It then takes its time moving out, lasting upward of several days. Persistence allows atmospheric conditions to remain in place and this year this has resulted in Pacific systems moving in, intensifying, and finally becoming strong enough to influence upper-level winds. The next big question is whether this current long-term weather pattern will continue, or El Niño conditions will overcome our current pattern and bring us nice continuous warm winter weather. Eventually this pattern will change — it’s just a matter of time.

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CROPS Carberry, 5440 Invigor Manitoba’s most popular spring wheat, canola in 2014 The Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation has posted market share data based on 2014 seeded acreage reports filed by farmers By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

“But what may slow progress is if we get an average fall frost. An early fall frost will definitely set things back a bit.” Dennis Lange

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or the second year running, Manitoba farmers’ top pick for red spring wheat varieties was Carberry, the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) says. And they liked 5440 Invigor c a n o l a , 2 4 - 1 0 RY s o y b e a n s , Conlon barley, Souris oats and CDC Bethune flax, the list of crop varieties and their market share posted on the MASC website said. The data is based on seeded acreage reports filed by farmers enrolled in the crop insurance program. The data also includes the total number of acres of each crop seeded this year. Farmers enrolled in crop insurance are obliged to report all their seeded acres, including uninsured crops. MASC estimates 90 to 95 per cent of Manitoba’s major crops such as wheat and canola are insured. Carberry was seeded on 35 per cent of the 2.17 million acres sown to red spring wheat this spring. That’s up slightly from 32 per cent last year. Harvest and Glenn were the second and third most popular with market shares of almost 15 and 12 per cent, respectively. AC Domain, which is an older variety, ranked seventh with a market share of three per cent. AC Barrie, which is older yet,

Photo: Allan Dawson

ranked 13th and accounted for one per cent of the acres. While Manitoba farmers seeded 2.17 million acres of red spring wheat in 2014, down 17 per cent from 2013, they doubled their feed wheat plantings to 279,169 acres. The jump is no doubt due to the popularity of two Canada Western General Purpose wheats — Faller and Pasteur, which accounted for 90 per cent of the acres — 47 and 43 per cent. Faller acres tripled in 2014, while Pasteur acres doubled. In 2013 their rankings were reversed with Pasteur having the most acres, followed by Faller. Both are potentially high-yielding wheats. Faller is an American Dark Northern Spring wheat, typically

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used for bread making. It is grown under contract in Manitoba. Pasteur is a European milling wheat. Depending on its quality, Pasteur is sometimes sold in Manitoba for milling, but it’s also used to make ethanol. While feed acres increased the most of any crop in percentage terms, the crop with the biggest increase in acres was soybeans, up 22 per cent to almost 1.3 million. The variety 24-10RY, accounted for 10 per cent of those acres. It was No. 1 last year too with 12 per cent of the acres. Thunder 32004R2Y and 900Y61, which ranked second and third in 2014 and 2013, had almost seven and six per cent of the market this year. Soybeans, which were a minor crop 10 years ago, have doubled

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in acreage since 2005 and remain solidly in third place behind canola and wheat. Some analysts have predicted it could overtake canola within the next five years. Both canola and wheat acres dropped this year. Soybeans are popular because they provide good returns and tolerate wet conditions better than most other crops. Dennis Lange, a farm production adviser and pulse crop expert with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, said it’s possible soybean plantings could increase one million acres by 2019. “Growing earlier-season varieties is going to be key,” he said in an interview Aug. 7. “We’re going to see expansion on the western side of the province. That will help things along.

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“But what may slow progress is if we get an average fall frost. An early fall frost will definitely set things back a bit.” Last year almost 80 per cent of Manitoba’s soybeans were grown east of a line between Miami and Portage to the Ontario border and north to Beausejour. That means there’s room for expansion in the west, he said. Plantings of two other pulse crops — dry edible beans and field peas were also up, along with flax, sunflowers and perennial ryegrass. Canola plantings declined by seven per cent to 3.04 million acres. Again 5440 Invigor, which is an older variety, ranked No. 1 with 20 per cent of the acres. It was the most popular canola in 2013 with a 17 per cent market share. Invigor L130 and Invigor L252 were second and third this year with a 14 and nine per cent market share. Crop-insured farmers reported 985,000 acres were too wet toreclassification seed this spring. – [6”] Variety allan@fbcpublishing.com

Most popular varieties grown in Manitoba in 2014 Crop

2014 acres

2013 acres

% change

Red Spring wheat

2.17 million

2.63 million

-17

2014

2013

Ranking

Variety

Market share

Variety

Market share

Carberry

35%

Carberry

31.70%

Harvest

14.90%

Glenn

16.7

Glenn

12.10%

Harvest

137%

Crop

2014 acres

2013 acres

% change

279169

137838

102%

Feed Wheat

2014 Variety

Market share

Variety

Market share

Faller

47%

Pasteur

47%

Pasteur

43%

Faller

30.60%

Prosper

7.90%

Jenna

5.30%

Crop

2014 acres

2013 acres

% change

380041

614654

-38%

Winter wheat

2014 Ranking

2013

Variety

Market share

Variety

Flourish

55.40%

CDC Falcon

77.30%

CDC Falcon

30.50%

CDC Buteo

12.50%

CDC Buteo

6.20%

CDC Ptarmigan

2.90%

Crop

2014 acres

2013 acres

% change

Barley

321804

453869

-29%

2014

2013

Ranking

Variety

Market share

Variety

Market share

Conlon

29.40%

Conlon

27.30%

CDC Austenson

14.2

Newdale

11.50%

Newdale

10.2

Celebration

11%

IMPORTANT NOTICE Crop

2014 acres

Oats Ranking

A reminder from the Canadian Grain Commission DO YOU GROW THESE VARIETIES OF AMBER DURUM AND FLAXSEED?

2013 acres

% change

367834

-7.30%

314030 2014

Grain producers

Market share

Photo: Allan Dawson

2014

2013

Ranking

2013

Variety

Market share

Variety

Market share

Souris

Summit

39.60%

Souris

33.80%

19.10%

Summit

11.80%

Furlong

10.40%

Crop

2014 acres

2013 acres

% change

Argentine Canola

3.04 million

3.26 million

-6.60%

2014

2013

Ranking

Variety

Market share

Variety

The variety registration for the following Canada Western Amber Durum wheat varieties will be cancelled by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency as follows:

Market share

5440 Invigor

20.20%

5440 Invigor

16.80%

Invigor L130

14.40%

Invigor L130

13.80%

Invigor L252

9.40%

1012RR Nexera

12.40%

 Sceptre on October 24, 2014

Crop

2014 acres

2013 acres

% change

 Plenty on August 1, 2015

Flax

76567

72579

2014

2013

Both Plenty and Sceptre will be eligible for all grades of amber durum wheat until August 1, 2015. The variety registration for the following Canada Western flaxseed varieties will be cancelled by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency as follows:  CDC Valour on August 1, 2015  CDC Arras on August 1, 2017  Flanders on August 1, 2017

Ranking

Variety

Market share

Variety

Market share

CDC Bethune

28.60%

CDC Bethune

35.30%

CDC Sorrel

18.50%

CDC Sorrel

21.12%

Lightning

18.10%

Lightning

9.80%

Crop

2014 acres

2013 acres

% change

Soybeans

1.298 million

1.057 million

22%

2014

2013

Ranking

Variety

Market share

Variety

Market share

24-10 RY

9.90%

24-10 RY

11.60%

Thunder 32004R2Y

6.60%

Thunder 32004R2Y

8.90%

900Y61

6.10%

900Y61

7.80%

 Somme on August 1, 2017 As of these dates the flaxseed varieties listed above will be removed from the Canadian Grain Commission’s variety designation list.

Crop Grain Corn

2014 acres

2013 acres

% change

250401

334620

-25%

2014

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2013

Ranking

Variety

Market share

Variety

Market share

Pioneer P7443R

16.70%

Pioneer 39D95

22.40%

Pioneer 39D97

12.9

Pioneer 39D97

16%

Pioneer 39D95

11.60%

Pioneer P7443R

15.50%

Crop

2014 acres

2013 acres

% change

60104

41212

45.80%

Sunflowers (non-oil)

2014

2013

Ranking

Variety

Market share

Variety

Market share

Seeds 2000 Panther DMR

16.20%

Seeds 2000 Panther DMR

30.80%

Seeds 2000 6950

13.30%

Seeds 2000 6950

18.60%

Seeds 2000 Panther

11.70%

Seeds2000 Jaguar

11%

Source: Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation, 2014 Seeded Acreage Reports and necessary calculations

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Aphid risk to flax short lived

Canada producing less wheat, canola than expected

By mid-August, the potato aphids, which attack flax, migrate to overwintering plant hosts By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

The all-wheat crop is still the third largest in 10 years and the third-largest canola crop ever By Rod Nickel winnipeg / reuters

anadian farmers are on course to produce less wheat and canola than expected, according to Statistics Canada’s first report on this year’s harvest. StatsCan, using a farmer survey, pegged the 2014-15 all-wheat crop at 27.7 million tonnes, down 26 per cent from last year’s record harvest and below the average trade expectation of 28.5 million tonnes. Canada is projected to be the fourth-largest wheat exporter this year. Canola production in the biggest global exporting country looked set to reach 13.9 million tonnes, a drop of 23 per cent from last year and less than the average trade forecast of 14.5 million tonnes. “I think the trade is going to view this report as fairly friendly (to price),” said Dave Reimann, market analyst for Cargill Ltd.’s grain-marketing services division. “The canola number is going to jump out

a little bit because we’re looking at a tightening supply situation versus last year, and this turns the screw one more turn.” Despite the production drop, the all-wheat crop is Canada’s third largest in the last 10 years and the canola harvest would be the third biggest ever. StatsCan said yields look lower year over year at 43.6 bushels per acre for spring wheat, 39 bushels for durum and 32 bushels for canola. The smaller-than-expected canola crop raises questions about whether there is enough to supply domestic crushers and export sales, said John Duvenaud, analyst at Wild Oats Grain Market Advisory, on a conference call organized by Minneapolis Grain Exchange. Tighter supplies could give canola prices more upside later in the year than soybean oil, a competitor in the global vegetable oil market, he said. Expectations for a big U.S. soybean crop otherwise overhang canola prices.

Similarly, global wheat supplies looked to top 716 million tonnes, a record high, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report on Aug. 12. Canada might also have bigger-than-usual leftover supplies from last year’s bumper harvest. StatsCan will estimate on Sept. 5 stocks as of July 31. “In Western Canada, we’re moving from a huge glut of wheat to still a pretty big carry-over, but by no means the kind of oversupply we had in the last year,” Duvenaud said. The har vest is off to a slow start in Western Canada, with much of the crop developing more slowly than usual. Duvenaud said the quality of crops is still unclear. Fusarium head blight, a fungal disease, has downgraded some winter wheat and may damage spring wheat as well. Crops of oats, barley and durum also look sharply smaller year over year, and smaller than expected.

“We’re getting to the point where it will become a non-issue.”

ost Manitoba flax fields are, or soon will be, no longer susceptible to economic damage from potato aphid, says John Gavloski, an entomologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. “We’re getting to the point where it will become a nonissue,” he said in an interview Aug. 20. “Generally this time of year the aphids are emigrating outside the flax field so they become much less of an issue and the flax is getting beyond that green boll stage as well.” By mid-August potato aphids, which attack flax, migrate to overwintering plant hosts. Flax is susceptible to aphid damage at the green boll stage. Many

John Gavloski

flax crops are beyond that stage, although there are still later crops around because excessive moisture this spring delayed seeding. It only takes an average of eight potato aphids per flax plant to warrant applying an insecticide when the flax is at the vulnerable stage, Gavloski said. Counting aphids on a flax plant can be challenging. Gavloski suggests carefully cutting the plant and then shaking it in a white container to count aphids. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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CROP REPORT

Heavy rains bring harvest operations to a halt Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development GO Teams & Crops Knowledge Centre crop report of August 25, 2014 Weekly Provincial Summary

Strong weather systems passed through several areas of Manitoba throughout the week and into the weekend. Heavy rains and strong winds halted harvest operations and resulted in lodging of crops. The precipitation will benefit later-maturing crops, as well as hayfields and pastures.

Southwest Region

Thirty to 100 mm of rainfall was recorded, accompanied by high winds that resulted in severe lodging in the laterseeded, less-mature crop. The rain was welcome for the soybean and sunflower crops, and for crops that were seeded later in the spring. However, the rain would be of little benefit for many crops that were close to maturity. Disease and insects continue to be found at low levels. Fusarium head blight symptoms, although present in the spring wheat crop, appear to be somewhat reduced when compared to winter wheat. Ca n o l a s w a t h i n g i s j u s t beginning with average to above-average stands re p o r t e d . S c l e r o t i n i a a n d blackleg levels in canola also look to be at low to moderate levels due mainly to the shorter, less dense canopy. The soybean crop is in the very late R5 to early R6 stage of development. It is estimated maturity is approximately 20 to 30 days away, depending upon the variety. Most livestock producers have completed hay harvest, with only silage, native and ditch hay har vest remain-

ing. An excellent second cut of alfalfa is entering the early bud stage of development. The quality of this year’s crop continues to be well above average with overall first-cut yields at 75 to 80 per cent of normal. Native pastures have rebounded after the recent rains and cooler temperatures.

Northwest Region

Rainfall amounts over the week ranged from 19 to over 100 mm which brought all field operations to a halt. Pro d u c e r s b e g a n s w a t h ing and applying preharvest glyphosate to mature wheat stands before the rains began. Swathing operations in canola also began just prior to the rain. In soybeans, 95 per cent of the crop is podded with the remaining five per cent flowering. The field pea crop is 75 per cent podded and 25 per cent ripe. Some crops are showing multiple stages of growth, particularly canola. T h e re a re s y m p t o m s o f fusarium head blight and glume blotch appearing in wheat. Canola fields in some parts of the region are showing signs of sclerotinia, blackleg and root rot. Wild oats, barnyard grass, foxtail barley and Canada thistle are becoming more evident in fields where the crop is less competitive. Also, cleavers are visible in canola crops. Lygus bugs are confirmed in parts of the Swan Valley where some canola fields were sprayed. The presence of swede midge larva was confirmed in a canola field in the Swan Valley. Dry weather at the start of

the week allowed producers to continue with haying. However, rain stopped haying operations but provided much-needed moisture for continued growth of pastures.

Central Region

Much of the region received precipitation amounts ranging from 30 to 75 mm over the week, with isolated areas seeing upwards of 125 mm. Some crop lodging occurred in the areas of heaviest rain. Winter wheat har vest is wrapping up in eastern areas of the region with western areas reporting 80 per cent complete. Quality is disappointing for many fields, with fusarium-damaged kernels reported in the harvested sample at levels ranging from 0.5 to 20 per cent. Spring cereal harvest continued prior to the rain. Much of the barley in the eastern areas of the region is harvested, with yields ranging from 70 to 100 bu./acre. Spring wheat harvest is just getting started, with early yields in the 60 to 65 bu./acre range and good quality. Early protein reports range from 11 to 13.5 per cent. The impact of fusarium head blight is far less evident in the spring cereals compared to winter wheat. Some oats have been harvested, with early reports of average yields ranging from 100 to 130 bu./acre and good test weight. Higher levels of wild oats are noted. A few canola fields were harvested with yields reported in the 40 bu./acre range. Edible beans continue to mature; desiccation has begun. The

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earliest fields could see undercutting operations begin towards the end of the week. Corn is variable; the most advanced fields are in the dough stage. Late infections of rust are reported in oat fields in eastern parts of the region. Blackleg lesions are evident in many canola fields. Brown girdling root rot is reported in some fields, and other root rots are being found. Most lodging of prematurely ripened plants are caused by blackleg or root rots. Some sclerotinia infection is evident. Very low levels of soybean aphid continue to be found but nowhere near economic threshold. Beneficial predator insects are also being found at levels that should keep aphid numbers well in check, but scouting is still encouraged. Some spider mites were reported in the driest fields, in the headlands. Control measures continue for grasshoppers where numbers and feeding injury warrant. European corn borer numbers are low, but again, scouting is encouraged. Rainfall has stalled secondcut hay and greenfeed harvest. Roadway or ditch grass hay has been baled. Wild hay along Lake Manitoba will be unharvestable after the recent rains. Hay, pasture and some crop is flooded along Lake Manitoba.

Eastern Region

Recorded rainfall in the Eastern Region ranged from two to 58 mm. Most producers were pleased with the rainfall, except for those who had winter wheat or forage seed still not harvested. Once field conditions dry and spring cereals reach harvest moisture levels, harvesting will start in the region. Canola swathing will also get underway once fields dry. Some yield loss may occur in soybean and corn due to the drier conditions prior to

the recent rainfall. Sunflowers look good. Some insect activity and damage was observed in soybean, including green clover worm and aphids, but well below threshold levels. Some reports of grasshopper and associated feeding observed on various crops, and lygus in canola also reported, but again both are not at threshold levels. Cattle are doing well on pasture as recent rains have been of benefit. Winter feed supplies are estimated at adequate with a slight surplus in hay supplies.

Interlake Region

Total moisture accumulation ranged from 55 to 85 mm of rainfall. Wi n t e r w h e a t h a r ve s t i s still ongoing in parts of the region. Reports indicate average yields and poor crop quality. Fusarium-damaged kernel levels range from two to five per cent. Earlier-maturing winter wheat fields seem to have higher levels of fusariumdamaged kernels than the later-maturing fields. Prior to Thursday’s rainfall, spring wheat fields in the south Interlake received a preharvest glyphosate application. Soybeans continue to stay green and fill the remaining pods. Cor n still needs warm temperatures as it continues to grow and mature. Forage grass seed fields continue to be har vested with the majority of timothy acres being done; yields are average. The recent rainfall will help alfalfa-grass fields regrow from first cut and the earlier drier weather. Grasshoppers are causing damage in some grass hayfields and pastures. Flooding of lowland native hayfields occurred and may prohibit machinery travel for this growing season. Most pastures needed some rain; however, some lowland flooding has reoccurred.

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Assessing canola’s susceptibility to lygus bug damage The risk declines as seeds in the lower pods start to change colour By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

“People should be examining seeds in the lower pods and seeing what stage they are in.”

ygus bugs are still showing up in canola fields, but if seeds on the lower p o d s a re c h a n g i n g c o l o u r then spraying with an insecticide is probably uneconomic, says John Gavloski, an entomologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. “The plant can compensate well unless there’s very, very dry conditions,” he said in an interview Aug. 20. Once seeds in the lower pods start to get some mottling — green-brown colour — which is the 5.3 growth stage, lygus bugs can’t do much damage to canola seeds, Gavloski said. “People should be examining seeds in the lower pods and seeing what stage they are in,” he said. “If they’re still all green the plants could be susceptible to lygus if levels are high. If there is some mottling starting to happen in those lower pods then it’s too late to be worried about lygus bugs.” There are tables to help determine the economic threshold for lygus bugs in a susceptible crop. At current prices the guideline is 10 to 15 bugs in 10 sweeps, Gavloski said.

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“It’s t h e o l d e r j u v e n i l e s and adults that can do the most damage in canola,” he said. “The young juveniles of lygus have trouble piercing the pods. So when doing the counts it’s the older juveniles and adults that you look for, especially when the seed is closer to colour change.” Research is under way to reassess the economic threshold for controlling lygus bugs, Gavloski said. Scientists suspect modern canola varieties can tolerate higher numbers of the seed-sucking insect. The Canola Council of Canada says in its CANOLAWATCH newsletter a number of factors can affect a lygus infestation. One is rain, which knocks the insects to the ground where they can be eaten by other insects. allan@fbcpublishing.com

A lygus bug in canola. Once seeds in the lower pods start to change colour canola crops are less susceptible to lygus bug damage. photo: John Gavloski, mafrd

NOTICE OF INTERIM APPLICATION FOR NON-PRIMARY NATURAL GAS RATE RIDERS EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 1, 2014 APPLICANT:

BILL IMPACTS:

CENTRA GAS MANITOBA INC. (CENTRA)

APPLICATION: On July 31, 2014, Centra applied, on an interim basis, for Non-Primary Gas rate riders that would recover $46.7 million related to Supplemental Gas over a 24-month period starting on November 1, 2014 and refund $1 million related to other Non-Primary Gas costs over a 12-month period starting on November 1, 2014. Non-Primary Gas is Supplemental Gas required in addition to the “Primary” Gas Centra obtains for its customers in Manitoba and also includes costs associated with transporting natural gas supplies to Centra’s system. During the 2014 winter heating season, Centra faced extreme weather and unusual market circumstances which resulted in Non-Primary Gas costs of $46.7 million owing to Centra. Rate riders are added to Centra’s rates either on a volumetric basis or on a monthly demand basis. All customer classes would be subject to the rate riders, although those that utilize Centra’s Transportation Service would not be subject to the supplemental gas rate rider.

Parties seeking Intervener status should notify the Board of their intention in writing by Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Interveners may be entitled to financial assistance. The Board’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (Rules) provide guidelines which can be seen at the Board’s website at www.pub.gov.mb.ca or obtained on request to the Board, by either emailing (publicutilities@gov.mb.ca), writing or calling the Board Secretary (204-945-2638 or 1-866-854-3698, toll free). Parties wishing to make submissions without seeking formal Intervener status during the public review process should also contact the Board Secretary.

Current Centra rates can be found on Manitoba Hydro’s website at: http://www.hydro.mb.ca/regulatory_affairs/energy_ rates/natural_gas/current_rates.shtml

Any person who has a concern regarding Centra’s Application should write to the Board.

REVIEW PROCESS:

An electronic copy of Centra’s application can be downloaded at https://www.hydro.mb.ca/regulatory_ affairs/gas/interim_rates_application_2014/index.shtml Paper copies can be obtained by contacting: Centra c/o Manitoba Hydro’s Law Division at 360 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3C 2P4, Tel: (204) 360-3257.

Five days notice required.

PARTICIPATION:

If granted, for a typical residential customer the rate riders sought by Centra would amount to a 4.6% bill increase for a two-year period, or an additional $39 for the customer’s annual gas bill. For high-volume firm customers, the rate riders could amount to the equivalent of up to a 7-12% bill increase. If the amount sought were to be recovered through a one-year rate rider as opposed to a two-year rate rider, typical residential customers would see an approximate 9.4% bill increase, or an additional $80 on their annual gas bill. For high-volume firm customers, a one-year bill rate rider would amount to a rate increase of 14-19%.

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Centra’s Application will be reviewed by the Board through a written hearing process with one round of Information Requests followed by written submissions. However, if deemed necessary by the Board following the receipt of answers to Information Requests, the Board will hold a two-day oral hearing on October 2 and 3, 2014.

CONTACT INFORMATION: The Public Utilities Board 400 – 330 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3C 0C4 Website: www.pub@gov.mb.ca Telephone: (204) 945-2638 Toll-Free: (866) 854-3698 Email: publicutilities@gov.mb.ca DATED this 18th day of August, 2014. Hollis M. Singh Secretary The Public Utilities Board

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Extensions granted for cash advances

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Producers have until March 31, 2015 Staff

rairie grain and oilseed growers who took out c a s h a d va n c e s i n t h e 2013 crop year through the Manitoba Corn Growers Assoc i a t i o n ( M CG A ) n ow h a ve more time to repay. T h e f e d e ra l g ov e r n m e n t announced August 19 a stay of default on repayment of advances made through the MCGA for crops in 2013 — resetting the repayment deadline for that crop year at March 31, 2015. Prairie growers tr ying to ship a record-size 2013 Prairie crop of 76 million tonnes have run up against backlogs in the grain-handling system, due to the size of the crop and harsh winter shipping conditions. Some Prairie growers trying to move those crops have since been further hampered this summer by a shortage of trucks and limited access to roads and highways due to flooding across parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the government release said. That said, the stay applies to repayments on advances issued through the MCGA to growers in all four western provinces. Similar stays were announced in July, including one for grain and oilseed growers who took out APP advances through the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA) for the same reasons, and another for mink producers up against a recent major drop in mink fur prices. The MCGA administers the federal Advance Payment Program (APP) across Western Canada for growers of corn, alfalfa seed, Kentucky bluegrass and annual and perennial ryegrass. It’s also the APP administrator for all pulse crop growers in Manitoba, on behalf of the Manitoba Pulse Growers Association — and for all sunflower growers in Western Canada, on behalf of the National Sunflower Association of Canada. During the stay period, eligible producers will have the option to repay APP advances in cash, if they wish, without facing a “payment without proof of sale” penalty. Du r i n g a s t a y, a l l o t h e r APP rules and guidelines still apply. Participating growers must still make repayments on existing advances every time they sell crop associated with the given advance. The government reiterated that changes are also being set up in the APP, to allow producers until the end of a production period to provide proof of sale on any commodity covered by the program. The APP, a federally backed financial loan guarantee p r o g r a m , a l l ow s f o r c a s h advances to producers of up to $400,000 on the value of their product, with the first $100,000 interest free in each crop year.

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Shippers gain bargaining clout over extra railway fees The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a shipper’s right to appeal extra charges By Alex Binkley Co-operator contributor

reight customers have every right to object to additional service charges piled on them by the railways, says a Supreme Co u r t o f Ca n a d a d e c i s i o n being praised by a shipper organization and a transportation law expert. The court ruled unanimously against a CN appeal

of a cabinet ruling that the Peace River Coal Inc. had the right to take its complaints about unilateral charges imposed by the railway to t h e Ca n a d i a n Tra n s p o r t a tion Agency for adjudication. The charges were levied after a confidential transportation contract was reached between the shipper and carrier. While the decision will likely lead to other shipper complaints about similar charges

to the CTA, “it likely won’t trigger a great rush of them,” said Bob Ballantyne, president of the Freight Management Association of Canada, which intervened in support of the company in the appeal. “But it will have significant impact on future confidential contract negotiations between carriers and shippers.” The agency had originally sided with CN in the dispute, but was overruled by the cabi-

net in 2010, which led to CN’s appeal to the Supreme Court. The CTA has been able to mediate settlement in other customer-carrier disputes over extra charges, Ballantyne noted. Shippers have complained for years about CN and CP imposing supplementary charges under confidential contracts for services such as currency surcharges, fees for submitting paper bills-of-lading, weighing of cars, and pen-

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alty charges such as demurrage and overloaded cars. Ottawa-based transportation lawyer Ian MacKay of Conlin Bedard, said the decision was important because it upheld the 2008 Canada Transportation Act. The court noted the law intended “to rebalance the legislative framework in favour of shippers because rail services are not provided in a perfectly competitive marketplace. The railways are seen “to have superior market power to shippers.” MacKay said the decision “is a powerful recognition of the current state of the rail shipment industr y and provides a strong policy rationale for future shipper complaints.” The court also upheld the cabinet’s right to reverse CTA decisions. The ruling, as well as the passage of C30 the Fair Rail for Farmers Act and minimum shipping targets imposed on CN and CP by Ottawa “marks a new willingness on the part of government to curb excess railway market power,” he added. The onus now is clearly on shippers to “properly draft confidential contracts to ensure that they are able to take advantage of this favourable ruling,” he said. Shippers shouldn’t hesitate to seek CTA arbitration in any disputes with a railway during contract negotiations. The decision is expected to provide solace to the grain industry, despite a winter of delayed shipments, because its shipments move under government-controlled tariffs rather than negotiated contracts, Ballantyne said. Ballantyne said the court has confirmed that “all rail s h i p p e r s a re n ow a b l e t o challenge such charges and associated terms and conditions. These charges add significant costs to the movement of freight, are arbitrarily imposed by the railways and, for some shippers, measure in millions of dollars annually.” Vancouver lawyer Forrest Hume of Davis LLP, who handled the freight association’s case, said all shippers should benefit from the decision. “From this point forward, all shippers that have a complaint about the growing list of incidental and supplementary charges imposed by the railways will know that they have recourse to complain to the regulator, whether or not there is a confidential contract in effect.”

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Manitoba hops crop a growing concern A Manitoba hops grower is hoping to find a way of mechanizing her harvest By Lorraine Stevenson co-operator staff

ou’ll catch a fragrant whiff of potpourri if you stroll through Sandra Gowan’s hop yard during harvest. This is her sixth year growing the aromatic beer-making ingredient on her Rosser-area acreage, and in late August, their aroma hangs in the air. “When the hops are getting ready to be harvested, and you walk up and down the rows you can smell the aroma of each variety. Some are piney, some are citrusy, some are spicy,” says Gowan. “It’s heavenly.” And if they smell that good fresh, wait ’til they’re tumbling around in the dryer. Now retired from her job at the Canadian Grains Commission, the avid gardener launched Prairie Gem Hops in 2009 after her husband, Paul Ebbinghaus, pointed out an article he’d read on a continent-wide hops shortage. Poor crops had followed a major fire that destroyed a warehouse of hops in the North American hopsgrowing region of Washington, Oregon. “You should grow those,” he urged her. Why not? she thought. After all, she had earned a Prairie Horticultural Certificate (PHC), specializing in greenhouse and nursery crop production. She was running a custom plant production business at the time. “It looked like a really neat-looking plant,” she said. “And I like to push the boundaries and try growing plants that don’t normally grow here.” Local brewers, MAFRD staff, and other Canadian hops growers she consulted advised her about varieties in highest demand among home brewers, and hardiest for Canadian climates. In the spring of 2009, she planted 15 plants including three mid- to lateseason varieties — Cascade, Fuggle and Northern Brewer. They grew by leaps and bounds, quickly outgrowing the trellis they’d built. By fall, she was not only convinced hops did fine in Manitoba, but even had buyers for that first small harvest. “It wasn’t much, maybe a pound in total,” she says, but home brewers with a group calling themselves the Winnipeg Brew Bombers were happy to buy all of it. The following year she tried more plants and more varieties. Today she has a quarter of an acre under 225 plants including 18 different varieties. It’s a business that keeps her, well, hopping. About two-thirds of her revenues now come from sales of rhizomes to other would-be hops growers, mostly in Ontario and Quebec. Her har vested and dried hops are sold to brewers, brewing supply stores including Grape & Grain and Hop & Vine, and to Fort Garry Brewing Company. She’s also had requests for hops from Winnipeg-based craft brewer Half Pints and others.

Now in her sixth year growing hops on her Rosser-area acreage, Sandra Gowan’s 225 hops plants are now well established on their tall trellis. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

“Harvest is very labour intensive. We picked for 18 days straight last August.” Sandra Gowan

Owner of Prairie Gem Hops

Demand is high for locally grown hops and there’s definitely room for more suppliers, she said. “The amount I grow is kind of a drop in the bucket.”

Labour intensive

But her hops crop is no small affair either. It takes a mountain of lightas-a-feather hops to weigh a pound, and every one of her 225 plants is now producing, at minimum, a pound per plant. “Harvest is very labour intensive,” says Gowan. “We picked for 18 days straight last August.” ‘We’ includes the family and friends who volunteer to help. Harvest generally begins at the end of August. Each plant is cut down from its trellis, then hauled to the garage where the assembly of hand-pickers deposits the hops into pails lined with laundry bags. Labelled according to variety, the bags are then dried by ambiant air in either the dryer Gowan’s father custom built for them, or a grain dryer they’ve begun to use as volumes of hops rose. They also have a custom-built plug maker to compress hops into a puck-like pellet. But they’re so busy with picking and drying — all done as quickly as possible to ensure optimum freshness and quality — they

Sandra Gowan relies on volunteers among friends and family to help hand pick the annual hops harvest. PHOTO: SANDRA GOWAN

hardly have any time to make plugs, said Gowan. It’s the labour-intensive nature of it all that has her pinning her hopes on use of a mechanical harvester being built by another nearby local hops grower. If it works and they can mechanize some of the harvest, it will open up more opportunities for expansion, she said. So would devising new ways to pelletize hops, which is the form more desirable for brewers. “It’s hard when you’re doing this on a small scale because you don’t have the equipment for it. It makes it all really labour intensive,” she said. “I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t enjoy it. But it is getting to be a lot of work.”

Soon to start

That work begins any day now. Last year’s harvest began August 30. Hops maturity is triggered by change in day length, and isn’t weather dependent like other crops, explains Gowan. “It’s a pretty consistent thing from year to year and it doesn’t matter so much on the type of summer we have,” she said. “Even with a late spring they seem to catch up.” She doesn’t know how many other Manitobans may be growing hops in any quantity at this time. “I wish I knew,” she said. “I’d like to start a network so we could communicate more.” lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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Boil it. Grill it. You’re done cobs being served. He watched everyone else, of course, but confided his first thought was he’d have to slice it. We had to smile recently. Chatting about corncob eating habits with a young friend, we remarked how some eat corn rotating it round and round, others back and forth like a typewriter. She blinked for a moment, recalling what she’d seen in a museum once. A reminder of just how long we’ve been around — and eating corn. If I had a nickel for every cob I’ve eaten all these years, I’d be a rich girl. You can never get enough of fresh corn on the cob. I don’t think you can improve on the fresh boiled or grilled cob with any recipe either. I tried wrapping the first corn of the season in bacon last week, an idea from the recipe book Sweet Corn Spectacular by its author Marie Porter. It was actually quite tasty, but a bit fussy. I forgot to soak the toothpicks affixing the bacon to the corn, and they caught fire under the grill. The bacon, though, did adhere nicely to the cob and gave it an extra lick of salt

Lorraine Stevenson Crossroads Recipe Swap

s I wrote this, Morden’s Corn and Apple Festival was just about to begin. We go every year. It’s one of my favourite summer festivals, equal parts midway, farmers’ market, street sale, annual homecoming and for many, a chance for a rare taste of corn on the cob. If you’ve been to the Corn and Apple, you’ll know how people get in long lines for a free cob. You’ll hear many languages spoken around you as it snakes along and everyone waits cheerfully and patiently for their cob. Foods familiar to some are a real novelty to others. I remember an acquaintance from Hong Kong once telling me that, upon his arrival in Canada, and invited to a family home for dinner, he was uncertain how he was to eat the

Here are three easy recipes for cob off the corn from Peak of the Market. Peak’s website has a wealth of recipes for all sorts of vegetables now in season.

Cheddar Corn Pie 2 tbsp. dry bread crumbs 6 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled 1 c. old cheddar cheese, shredded 6 green onions, finely chopped 1/2 sweet red pepper, diced 1 c. corn kernels Pinch salt 1/4 tsp. pepper Pinch cayenne pepper 1/2 c. all-purpose flour 1 tsp. baking powder 2 tbsp. shortening 4 eggs 2 c. milk

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and fat. But no, nothing beats a fresh, plain cob with just a dab of butter. That said, a few days from now you may have had your fill of fresh corn, and may be looking to put some of it away for later. We always put away a few bags of corn cut from the cob for use in soups, stews, casseroles and other cornbased dishes over winter. Did I just use the word winter? Sorry about that. It’s still absolutely and definitively summer. The corn is high, sweet and plentiful. Get out there and enjoy it, no matter how you like to eat it. If you’re looking for an excellent recipe book filled with corn recipes ask for Sweet Corn Spectacular ($16.95) by author Marie Porter and published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. The book is part of the MHSP’s Northern Plate series of cookbooks focused on popular single ingredients of the American Midwest. Other books in the series are Rhubarb Renaisssance by Kim Ode and Modern Maple by Tersa Marrone. If your bookstore can’t bring it for any reason, you can order it online at http://shop.mnhs.org/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=3577.

Corn Fritters 3 large corncobs 2 egg yolks 4 tsp. all-purpose flour 4 tsp. cornstarch 1 tsp. sugar 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper 2 egg whites 3 tbsp. cooking oil

Remove husks and silk from corn. Rinse and pat dry. With a sharp knife, cut kernels from cobs. Beat egg yolks in small mixing bowl with electric mixer on high speed for about 5 minutes or until thick and lemon coloured. Stir in corn, flour, cornstarch, sugar, salt and pepper. Wash and dry beaters thoroughly. Beat egg whites in medium mixing bowl on high speed until stiff peaks form. Gently fold egg whites into corn mixture.

Grease 10-inch quiche pan or pie plate; sprinkle with bread crumbs. Combine bacon, cheddar cheese, onion, red pepper, corn, salt and pepper; sprinkle over bread crumbs. In bowl; stir together flour and baking powder; cut in shortening until in fine crumbs. Add eggs and milk; mix just until smooth. Pour over bacon mixture. Bake at 350 F oven for 45 to 50 minutes or until knife inserted near centre comes out clean. Let stand for five minutes. Serves 4. Source: Peak of the Market (www.peakmarket.com)

Heat oil in large frying pan; add batter by generous tablespoons. Fry fritters, a few at a time, over medium heat for five to six minutes, or until golden brown and crisp, turning once. Serves 4. Source: Peak of the Market (www.peakmarket.com)

Corn Casserole 2 c. fresh corn cut from cob 3 eggs, beaten 1/4 c. flour 1 tsp. salt Pepper to taste 2 c. light cream 2 tbsp. butter, melted

Recipe Swap If you have a recipe or a column suggestion please write to: Manitoba Co-operator Recipe Swap, Box 1794 Carman, Manitoba R0G 0J0 or email Lorraine Stevenson at: lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

Sprinkle flour and seasonings into uncooked corn. Stir cream and butter into floured corn mixture. Add to beaten eggs, mixing well. Pour mixture into greased casserole dish. Bake in 325 F for one hour or until knife tested comes out dry. Serves 2. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

Source: Peak of the Market (www.peakmarket.com)

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Use updated canning recipes Don’t give up safety for the sake of nostalgia By Julie Garden-Robinson NDSU Extension Service

he other day, I stopped at a convenience store to fill my vehicle with gas. A nationally produced canning book with a colourful, attractive cover beckoned me. I plucked a book from the shelf and quickly paged through it as I waited my turn in line. The author talked about “greatgrandma’s recipes” and provided recommendations for canning based on yesteryear. I am interested in food history, so that aspect caught my attention. Unfortunately, the processing times for several foods would not be considered safe by today’s standards. If my great-grandma were alive, she would not want me (or you) to be sickened for the sake of nostalgia. I should have bought all the books to take them out of circulation, but the books were fairly expensive, and buying them just prompts the publisher to reprint them. If you decide to preserve foods, be sure to use the most up-to-date resources for safety. Compare old recipes to new research-tested formulations; some might be OK. Other recipes have changed as more research in home canning is done. Let’s take a trip back in food preservation history. According to food historians, the earliest method used to decide if food was edible was trial and error. Let’s call it “Plan A.” Making a mistake about edibility had dire results. The survivors then developed “Plan B.” “Plan B” involved observing animals. If animals ate the food and survived, chances are you would, too. You could get quite hungry and tired observing animals before trying an unfamiliar food, so there was a need for “Plan C.” Because food wasn’t always available when you needed it, “Plan C” involved preserving familiar foods. Most food preservation techniques likely were discovered by accident. If you lived in the desert, the sun and wind naturally dried your food. Frigid areas of the world offered natural walk-in freezers. Fermentation was discovered somewhere along the historical line. Wild yeasts and other micro-organisms nat-

If you decide to preserve foods, be sure to use the most up-to-date resources for safety. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

urally present in the air fell on fruit, causing the sugars to ferment into alcohol. Someone tried it and liked it, maybe too much. Wine was the result. Sauerkraut and yogurt had similar beginnings. Pickling, curing with salt and preserving with sugar to make jams were other discoveries that extended the shelf life of foods throughout history. Canning foods had its beginnings in the 1790s when a Frenchman, Nicolas Appert, heated food in glass bottles and noted that the food didn’t spoil as quickly. Scientists, including Louis Pasteur, later learned much about micro-organisms and their relationship to food spoilage and developed other preservation techniques. Much of the research about home canning took place in the 1940s and continues today. Recommendations change as scientists learn more about

what is safe and what isn’t. Many of my great-grandma’s recipes probably are no longer considered safe, even though generations of relatives may have survived eating the food. Tomato varieties, for example, have been bred to be less acidic to appeal to our tastes. GreatGrandma’s famous canned stewed tomato recipe might have dire results using today’s tomato varieties. Preserve food safely with these general rules for safe canning: • Use a pressure canner and current Department of Agriculture processing guidelines to can low-acid foods, such as vegetables and meats. • A cidify tomatoes with the recommended amount of bottled lemon juice or citric acid prior to canning (1 tbsp. of bottled lemon juice per pint of tomatoes; 2 tbsp. per quart). Be sure to process the tomatoes for the recommended time.

• Use research-tested salsa recipes and don’t alter ingredient proportions. If you create your own salsa and want to preserve it, freezing it is the safest option. • Seal jams and jellies with a regular canning lid (not wax) and process in a boiling water bath for five to 10 minutes, depending on altitude. • F ree food preservation resources (canning, pickling, making jams and jellies, drying, freezing) are available at http://www.ag.ndsu. edu/food. If you are new to home food preservation, consider making jellies or refrigerator jams as a starting point. Julie Garden-Robinson, PhD, R.D., L.R.D., is a North Dakota State University Extension Service food and nutrition specialist and professor in the department of health, nutrition and exercise sciences.

Birtle beach area getting overhaul Developed in 1970s as a safe swimming alternative By Darrell Nesbitt Freelance contributor

un and a sandy beach are sure to bring smiles, laughter and families together at community parks in the summer. It’s no different in Birtle, Manitoba, where the beach developed in the 1970s as a safe alternative for swimmers apart from the Birdtail River, is undergoing a major facelift. “The beach is located in Riverside Park and Campground in the protected valley setting,” said Brenda McKay, Valley Recreation director. “It is registered with Manitoba Public Health Department as a non-conforming pool, and is inspected by Public Health, treated and tested for water quality.” McKay said the Bir tle Beach Revitalization Project’s total budget for the first phase is estimated to be $30,500, with improvements to raise the dike by 1.5 feet between the river and the beach on the south side to prohibit flooding, and replacing the aged wooden docks.

“Government grants equal half the budget,” McKay said. “Valley Recreation was successful in the application for a Manitoba Hometown Grant from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives for $5,000 and $10,000 from Community Places program from Manitoba Children and Youth Opportunities.” The swimming area gets water from a natural spring with additional water being added as required. The diving area is about 10 feet deep and the shallow side ranges from ankle deep to approximately six feet. Three new docks were purchased from Circle Cross Inc. of Roblin, and there is now more beach, sand and shallow play areas for children. In Phase 2 next year, a new large open picnic/shade shelter sponsored by the Birtle Lions Club, is planned for between the new playground and the beach. Red Cross Swim programs are held each summer, and numbers have ranged from 40 to 55 children over the

New floating docks are among the upgrades to the beach area. PHOTO: DARRELL NESBITT

past three years. There is no fee for using the playground and park swimming area, which compliments the town’s tennis courts, golf and recreational vehicle park, tent and cabin rentals.

Birtle really has a lot to offer for a natural play space for families — definitely worth a visit! Darrell Nesbitt writes from Shoal Lake, Manitoba

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Delicate looking but tough and resilient Queen Anne’s lace is an easy-to-grow biennial By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

ature is full of contradictions. It absolutely amazes me that some of the toughest and most enduring plants in our gardens produce some of the most delicate-looking flowers. We look at such a flower, so intricately formed that we wonder how it can survive, and yet we find that it is produced by a plant that is resilient beyond measure, able to survive very harsh conditions. Such is the case with Queen Anne’s lace. I grow this easy-to-grow biennial by simply sticking some seeds in the ground in the spring in my cutting garden, which is in the back corner of the yard where growing conditions are anything but ideal. The seeds germinate readily and during the summer I have what resembles a row of carrot foliage. Queen Anne’s lace is actually called wild carrot and is the genetic material from which ordinary garden carrots evolved. It is thought that way back over 1,000 years ago in the Middle East, through a process of natural hybridization and natural selection, the garden carrot was developed.

Since Queen Anne’s lace is a biennial, the plants do not produce flowers the first year. The year after, however, from the finely cut foliage emerge flower stems that are at least a metre tall and on which are produced umbels of bloom. The flowers are intricately formed and resemble crocheted lace — hence the plant’s name. Each umbel is composed of innumerable tiny white flowers that are arranged in a circular pattern that when viewed from above, look like lace creations. I use Queen Anne’s lace in flower arrangements and bouquets — the umbels act as a perfect filler in such compositions. The flower stems are produced over the course of the summer and if I am conscientious about deadheading, there will still be lots of Queen Anne’s lace to use in my creations for the local mid-August horticultural show. Although the flowers appear delicate, they actually are quite long lasting as a cut flower. The plants, in contrast to what one might expect given its name, are tough and easy to grow. They are exceedingly drought tolerant — no doubt due to their long taproots. Insect

pests are not a problem, in fact they are reputed to attract predator insects that will help to ward off insect pests in the rest of the garden. Some gardeners classify Queen Anne’s lace as a medicinal herb and parts of it are used for this purpose. Because it is a biennial, it flowers only in its second year. I grow my Queen Anne’s lace in a patch where I sow seed every year. I leave the one-year-old plants intact in the spring as these will be the ones that will produce bloom later in the season. I sow seed in the empty spaces previously occupied by two-year-old plants that I remove when I am cleaning off the flower bed. My Queen Anne’s lace also self-seeds to some extent so I am careful when digging around my “patch” so as not to disturb any young seedlings. Because it is a tough, resilient plant, Queen Anne’s lace has become a weed problem in some areas of the U.S. but I have not found its self-seeding to be particularly troublesome in my garden. Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

In spite of its delicate appearance, Queen Anne’s lace is tough and easy to grow. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

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Directions: Four miles east and one mile north of Neepawa. (Mile #83 W or Salisbury Rd.)

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AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Westman ACREAGE & TOOL AUCTION for Laurent & Ger-maine Goderis Sat., Sept. 6th at 9:30am at the farm 1-mi North of Swan Lake, MB. Tractors & Equipment Sells at 1:00PM: 2010 Kubota L3240 MFWD Hydostatic 32-HP DSL 3-PTH, PTO, Cab, A/C, Heat, only 79-hrs, w/Kubota LA514 Loader. Ford Jubilee, running; Farm King 84-in. Snow Blower like new Other Yard Equip; ATV’s & Leisure Equipment. Full line of Lawn & Garden Equipment sells at 12:30PM includes 3 Riding Mowers. Real Good Power Shop Tools. Good Selection of Power Hand Tools. Lots of Shop Supplies & Hand Tools. Much much more. Check our website for full list & pics For inquiries call Laurent at (204)836-2196 Sierens Auctions (204)526-5047 or (204)744-2364 www.sierensauction.com

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Property located at 502 1st St. 2500 sqr ft church converted to home w/double attached garage. Easily converted to apartments or kept as a church/wedding chapel. OPEN HOUSE FRIDAY AUGUST 29th 4pm to 8pm

• Large selection of antiques including quality antique furniture. • Extensive metal locomotive collection many metal & diecast toys including hot wheels • Comic con, star wars, star trek, collectibles • Advertising signs • Large dairy collection • Hockey memorabilia

3 COMMERCIAL LOTS LOCATED ON HWY #1A For details on these properties and locations visit our website.

FIRE TRUCK

• 1950 F135 Ford Fire Truck, running order, low mileage.

MANY LARGE COLLECTIONS TO NUMEROUS TO LIST VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR FULL LISTING

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FEATURED ITEMS: • 1975 IH 354 w/fel, 2) buckets, 3ph, pwr steering • JD R (restored) • 3) JD AR Tractors (restored) • 1942 JD B, styled • 1938 JD D • JD H (restored) • JD 70 w/fel (not running) • IH Farmall A • MH 44, row crop • 2) MH 44, standard • MH 33 • 1940 JD Model H, row crop • 1958 JD 420-U Standard, slant steering, 3ph, complete & running ser#: 133564 • IHC two Furrow Plow w/ kick back beams, 3ph • 2) Horse drawn gang plows • Cockshutt two Furrow walking plow (Stamped Brantford Canada) Nice shape • AND selection of mowers, stationary engines, granaries, antiques, plus a threshing machine with more consignments of running collectible tractors expected!

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SEP-20-14 @ 10AM FOR DUECK HOLDINGS LTD. ET AL LAC DU BONNET • 23 PARCELS PARCEL #1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

ACREAGE 160 148 160 145 160 160 27.6 159 31.2 142 160 160 160 160 160 148 159 128 159 0.49 0.04 160 159

LEGAL DESC. SW-24-17-10E SE-24-17-10E SW-17-17-11E NW-17-17-11E NE-17-17-11E SE-17-17-11E NW-18-17-11E NE-18-17-11E SW-18-17-11E SE-18-17-11E NW-8-17-11E SW-8-17-11E NE-8-17-11E NE-13-17-10E NW-13-17-10E NE-9-17-11E NW-9-17-11E SE-9-17-11E SW-9-17-11E NW-19-17-11E NE-19-17-11E SE-19-17-11E SW-20-17-11E

3,000 Acres of Farmland and Development property @ Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba.

TEULON • 28 PARCELS PARCEL #1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

ACREAGE 162 162 162 162 160 160 161 161 160 160 160 160 79.06 78.48 79.46 79.07 80 80 80 80 78.82 78.85 78.28 79.27 80 80 80 80

LEGAL DESC.. NE-05-16-01E NW-05-16-01E SE-05-16-01E SW-05-16-01E NE-07-16-01E NW-07-16-01E SE-07-16-01E SW-07-16-01E NE-08-16-01E NW-08-16-01E SE-08-16-01E SW-08-16-01E NE-17-16-01E/R--47845 NE-17-16-01E/Q--47845 NW-17-16-01E/J--47845 NW-17-16-01E/K--47845 SE-17-16-01E/N--47845 SE-17-16-01E/P--47845 SW-17-16-01E/L--47845 SW-17-16-01E/M--47845 NE-18-6-01E/G--47845 NE-18-16-01E/H--47845 NW-18-16-01E/A--47845 NW-18-16-01E/B--47845 SW-18-16-01E/C--47845 SW-18-16-01E/D--47845 SE-18-16-01E/E--47845 SE-18-16-01E/F--47845

3,200 Acres of Farmland and Development property with sub divisions on assorted parcels @ Teulon, Manitoba. Subject to Low Reserve

Auction located at Lac du Bonnet, MB VISIT WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION: WWW.KORNELSONAUCTION.COM

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BUSINESS SERVICES Crop Consulting

FARM CHEMICAL SEED COMPLAINTS We also specialize in: Crop Insurance appeals; Chemical drift; Residual herbicide; Custom operator issues; Equipment malfunction; Yield comparisons, Plus Private Investigations of any nature. With our assistance the majority of our clients have received compensation previously denied. Back-Track Investigations investigates, documents your loss and assists in settling your claim. Licensed Agrologist on Staff. For more information Please call 1-866-882-4779

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FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT 2008 KOMATSU HYD EXCAVATOR PC 308 zeroturn USLC-3 w/hyd quick attach clean up bucket, 13-ft. stick, A/C, plumbed for GPS, also has auxillary hyd for thumb, $60,000; JD 270 LC hyd exca-vator, quick attach, hyd thumb, 12-ft. stick, A/C, $55,000; 2001 Volvo 210 excavator, plumbed for hyd thumb w/quick attach, $40,000. Phone:(204)871-0925, MacGregor.

FARM MACHINERY

42-FT TANDEM ALUMINUM CORN husker trailer; 50-ft Cancade trailer w/roll tarp, good for livestock or hauling scrap iron; 30-ft John Deere straight header w/sunflower attachment; 8-in Farmking auger, 13-hp w/Honda motor; 7-in Sakundiak auger, w/Kawasaki motor; 13-inx85-ft Farm King auger ;13-inx71-ft Westfield auger; Hopper feed bins, assorted sizes; 42-ft Ezee-On chisel plow w/distributor fan for granular fertilizer. Call Mark Devloo (204)825-7655, Jamie Devloo (204)825-8765.

FARM MACHINERY Grain Bins

595 ALLIED FEL, COMPLETE w/controls, bucket, grapple & Universal Mounting brackets, VGC. Phone (204)348-7680 or cell (204)213-2628.

NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS NEW COMBINE PARTS Large Inventory of new and remanufactured parts

STEINBACH, MB. Ph. 326-2443

CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks. Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103 or E-mail Requests binmover50@gmail.com

Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727 Fax (204) 326-5878 Web site: farmparts.ca E-mail: roy@farmparts.ca

FOR SALE: 1,650-BU WESTEEL Rosco Grain bin with floor. Phone:(204)526-2810 or (204)526-2658. USED WESTEEL GRAIN BINS, 14-ft diameter, 7 tiers, & 2300-Bu. Ready to move. Phone (204)876-4637 WESTEEL GRAIN BIN EXTENSIONS, 14-ft & 19ft, galvanized & plastic culverts, 19-ft & 14-ft roof sheets, $35 & $25/each. Roofing & siding seconds, half price. Phone:(204)257-3634.

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

Cudmore Bros. Available at:

Twin Valley Co-op Ltd. Birtle, MB

(204) 842-5274

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Used Augers 13x70s and 13x95 60 gal Marshall Sprayer Spot, Tree or Fire, Honda Engine Meridian Hopper Bins Meridian (Sakundiak) Augers Farm King Augers Honda & Kohler Engines

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Tractors Combines Swathers

CRYSTAL CITY, MB

FARM MACHINERY Grain Carts M & W GRAIN carts, 500-bu, 1000 Rpm PTO, 18.4x26 tires, $10,000 OBO. Phone (204)864-2498

ALLAN DAIRY IS TAKING bookings for the 2014 silage season, trucks equipped with floatation tires, For more information call (204)371-1367 or (204)371-7302.

CURT’S GRAIN VAC SERVICES, parts & repair for all makes & models. Craik SK, (306)734-2228.

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MANITOBA BASED CUSTOM HARVESTING operation equipped w/Case IH & John Deere combines. Peas, cereals, canola, & soybeans. Flex heads, straight heads & PU headers. Professional operation fully insured. Phone:(204)371-9435 or (204)391-5491.

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1-866-729-9876 5150 Richmond Ave. East BRANDON, MB. www.harvestsalvage.ca New, Used & Re-man. Parts

CONTRACTING Custom Work

Fusarium Problems in Wheat Remove fusarium from your wheat sample. (204) 312-0726 schgrain@gmail.com

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FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528 or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB. MURPHY SALVAGE New & used parts for tractors, combines, swathers, square & round balers, tillage, press drills & other misc machinery. MURPHY SALVAGE (204)858-2727 or toll free 1-877-858-2728.

The Real Used FaRm PaRTs sUPeRsToRe Over 2700 Units for Salvage • TRACTORS • COMBINES • SWATHERS • DISCERS Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN (306) 946-2222 monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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CASE IH 1460 COMBINE 1982, no chopper spreaders, 3,900-hrs approx., good condition, $3,900 OBO; 810 straight-cut header, 24-ft, $1,900 OBO, no transport. Vers. 4400, gas, needs reel, cuts good, $1,400 OBO. Call Robert Soroka:(306)452-3956 after 8 p.m. or (306)452-8220. Redvers, SK. CUSTOM BUILT SWATHER CARRIER will handle swather up to 21-ft. header, very good; 5000 series DSL Intl 24.5-ft. swather, cab, A/C, PU reel, guage wheels, used on small acreage, very good. (306)597-4405.

(1) 600V 25-30HWP Square D frequency drive, $2,500; (2) 2,000-g fuel tanks, quarter inch steel, 10-in I-beam stands, $800; Sutton rod & tubing straightener from 1/2-in to 1-1/2-in, $8,000; 1-lot of bin sheets, 3-ft x 8-in around, wide & narrow core, $21/sheet; UII pick-up reel; 1-lot of SS hog feeders, from 25-80-lbs, $35/each. GrainLeg 7,200 bushels/hour 110-ft height, 12-in pockets, $9,000. HaulAll seed tender, 2 compartments, mount on a Manag trailer, $12,000. Arnies low-bed 24-ft, $12,000. Phone:(204)274-2502, x225.

DOWNSIZING: 2001 JD 7410 FWA 740 loader 6,870-hrs; MF 860 6 cyl 2,201-hrs, PU, $5,000; 20ft. straight cut PU reel; JD 2420 DSL 25-ft. UII reel; 21-ft. Hart Carter PU reel; New Quonset future steel 52x35x18 in crate; GMC 1981 7000 series 17-ft. factory grain box & hoist, A1; 1980 Chev 6500 tandem gravel box & hoist, propane, $3,800; 18-ft. Vac tank & pump, off Ford 750 truck, A1; MF 410 combine PU, runs good, $1,200; PWR parachute Rotex SR7, as is $3,000; Steel mounted skid mount cummins w/trans $2,200; 1999 Cat loader IT28G, A1; 2003 Hitachi ZX200LC, A1. (306)236-8023

1975 CASE 1070 TRACTOR: 3-PTH, 5566-hrs; 1981 3/4 Ton GMC 4x4 truck: brand new tires, 52,244-kms, 5th wheel ball in box; 1999 Bobcat 873 Loader: 6036-hrs, 3 attachments - bale fork, bucket, and grapple; New Idea haybine. Phone (204)571-1254, Brandon.

FOR SALE: 1979 2290 Case tractor, dual wheels, triple hyds; 4020 JD tractor w/cab, dual wheels, dual hyds; Artsway Grinder mixer w/20-in. hammermill. Phone (204)433-7475 or (204)746-0511.

1980 TR85 COMBINE, 378 Melrow pick-up, 960 20-ft straight cut header, 1986 2400 Versatile 24-ft swather header, fits Ver 256, 276, 9050 bi-directional; 1976 Dodge F700, new rubber, brake controller; 14-ft B&H wagon, hyd cyl for 7414 bidirectional loader. Call Mark:(204)861-2299. 1984 VERS. 4400 SWATHER, w/cab, large rubber, bat-reel, good condition, asking $4,000 OBO; 1982 Vers. 400 swather, 20-ft header, bat-reel, good condition, asking $1,200; 1982 20-ft double swath 400 Vers. asking $1,000 OBO. 24-ft Ocean container, can be delivered, asking $3,800. Phone: (204)728-1861. 1998 CASE IH 8825 25-ft. windrower DSL, w/rear mount, freeform swath roller (can sell separate), excellent condition, $23,000; 1996 NH 499 mower conditioner, VGC, $6,000; 2005 Hesston round baler w/net wrap, $8,000; NH 114 mower conditioner, $2,000. (204)383-5346, (204)793-7396. 1 AC 3400 TANDEM disc, 30-ft. wide. Phone Alfred (204)745-2784. 2006 HESSTON SOFT-CENTRE BALER, excellent shape, stored inside shed, $6500 OBO; Also crimper off 400 Versatile swather; Massey 750 combine w/ extension hopper; 2 Goodyear tires 16.9x28 off tractor, radials (no brakes) $300 for pair; Case IH small square baler $1700 OBO. (204)886-2083, Teulon.

FOR SALE: 25-FT. & 35-ft. Morris deep tillers w/3 row mulchers, includes spare parts, asking $2,750 OBO for both. (204)265-3365, Beausejour. FOR SALE: HIGH CLEARANCE Marflex sprayer 800-gal tank, good tires, hyd pump, 75-ft. or more booms w/windshields, $3,000 OBO; Canola shear cutters, $85; electronic hay preserver applicator, new, $1,500 OBO; 20-ft. Vers refurbished PU reel w/plastic fingers, $200. (204)866-2253 GRAIN CARTS LARGE SELECTION used carts JM 650, $10,500; EZ 675, $11,000; Brent 620 scales, $11,500; Brent 770, $14,000; JM 875, $18,000; Brent 976, $28,000; Bourgault 1100 $17,500. We have others. Disk rippers DMI 5 shank, $8,900; 7 shank, $10,900; Disks IH 490 25ft., $7,500; Bushog 25-ft., $7,500; JD 330 22-ft., $9,500; JD 30-ft., $10,500; Vers 36-ft., $25,000; Kewannee & Towner breaking discs. Phone (204)857-8403. GRAIN VACS BRANDT 4000, $7,000; REM 2500 HD, $9,500; Jump Auger, $500; 8x31 Westfield Auger, $1,800; Fertilizer Spreaders 4-9 Ton large selection conveyor grain carts for beans 4-ft. 750-bu. hyd drive, $17,000; Kinze 450 bean cart scales, $12,000; Flex heads JD 925 air reel, $8,500; JD 924, $6,000; Case IH 25-ft. 1020, $6,000; 30-ft., $8,000; IH 820, $2,000; Case IH straight header 25-ft., $4,000; 30-ft., $4,500; JD 930 Rigid, $2,500; Phone (204)857-8403.

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FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous GRAVITY WAGONS NEW 400-BU, $7,400; 600bu, $12,000; 750-bu, $17,750; Tarps available. Used 350-bu, $3,200; 500-bu, $6,000; 616-bu., $10,500; Large Selection 250-750 bu grain screeners Hutch #1500, $1,500; DMC 48-in., $2,500; DMC 54-in., $4,000; Kwik Kleen 5-7 Tube Screeners, $4,000 & up; V Drainage plow, $1,500; Scrapers 4-yd, $3,900; 6-yd Crown, $5,500; Eversman 6.5-yd., $6,000; 7.5-yd., $8,000; 10-ft. Landlevellers $2,250; 3-PH 9-ft. blade, $950. Phone (204)857-8403. HAYBINES GEHL 14-FT., $3,900; NH 116, $3,000; Hay Conditioners, $800 up; 14 Wheel Rake, $6,500; NH 166 Swath Turner, $3,500; NH 144 Swath Turner, $3,000; Bean Windrower, $5,000; Flexheads JD 925, $6,500; JD 930, $6,500; Case IH 1020 25-ft., $6,000; IH 1020 30-ft., $8,000; IH 820, $2,000; Artsway Mixmill, $1,500; Champion 20-in. Rollermill, $2,000; JD 780 Hydrapush Spreader, $9,000; JD 709 mower, $3,000; JD 15-ft. bat wing mower $6,000; Woods 315, $6,000; JD 9ft. #450 mower, $2,200. Phone (204)857-8403. JD 15-FT. AW TANDEM discer; Vers 6x36 gas auger; 2-Ton fertilizer spreader; 8-ft. Canola roller; Loader mt flax pusher; Ford 5 bottom plow. Call Brian (204)981-6480. JD 568 ROUND BALER w/net wrap; Heston 1375 15-ft. discbine; Kuhn 12 wheel v-rake. All in excellent condition. (204)828-3483 or (204)745-7168. JD 930 30-FT FLEX header, asking $4,200 OBO; Case IH 8570 baler, asking $16,000 OBO. Both in good condition. (204)882-2413. QUIT FARMING: 2008 STX 430 4WD, new tires, $160,000; 2008 CIH 8010 4WD combine, 30-ft flex draper, $200,000; 2011 Farm King Auger, 13x85, hyd. swing & hyd. lift on swing, $18,000; 2013 Ge-ringhoff corn chopping header, 8x30-in, w/row stompers, $80,000; (2) 105 White tractors, rebuilt eng., $7,000; Roadrunner header haul, $8,000; 30-ft Case IH MacDon draper header, $20,000; IH 4240 tractor w/15-ft mower, $12,000; 16x30 Westco cult., $1,500; 16x30 Band sprayer, $1,500; 32-ft Ezee-on tandem disc cushion spring loaded gangs, almost like new, $25,000. Call:(204)871-0925, Macgregor, MB. RETIRED FARMING. CALUMET 4500 manure tank, complete w/tandem 445-65-22.5 tires, parts only $1000; Friesen Hopper bottom bin, 1500-bu, $2500; Friesen Hopper bottom bin, 1000-bu, $2000; 6-ft Winkler pull-type swath roller, $300; 300/500 steel fuel tank stands, $200; Dempster Fertilizer pump SMD1 rebuilt, $300. Phone (204)388-4291 leave message. RETIRED SELLING: 7700 JD combine DSL, JD PU, chopper & chaff spreader, always shedded & field ready w/the duals it almost floats. Earl Cunningham (306)452-7245, Redvers, SK. TOWNER BREAKING DISC KEWANNEE 13-ft. & 16ft. Breaking Disc 36-in. Blades Row Crop Culti-vators 4-12R Lilliston 8R Richardton Hi-Dump Silage Wagons 12-ft. $3,000; New Style 12-ft. #700, $7,000; Richardton #770 1050 CF lifts to 15-ft., $21,000; Rex Forage Wagon Front Conveyor w/6 Wheel Wagon, $3,000; JD 3970 Harvester, $8,900; NH 890, $2,500; IH 781, $2,500; Danhauser Post Auger, $650; Degelman rock picker, $3,500; Degel-man 14-ft. rock rake, $9,500. Phone (204)857-8403. VERS 4700 30-FT. ALWAYS shedded, ready to go, $9,800 OBO; 4400 Valmar Airflow, always shedded, $6,000 OBO. (204)736-2941.

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COMBINES Case/IH

COMBINES Combines - Various

New Equinox black 1250-gal tank Retail Price $610 Special Price $440

1988 CASE IH 1682 combine w/Melroe PU, always shedded, in running condition, open to offers. Call (204)834-2187, Carberry, MB.

545 COCKSHUT COMBINE 1970S, no cab, 318 Chrysler motor, doesn’t burn oil, always shedded, $1000 OBO. (204)364-2252.

New GX 630 Honda motor, 24-hp electric start Retail Price $2395 Special Price $1750

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New GX 390 Honda 13-hp motor rope start Retail Price $1514 Special Price $800

1998 NH TR98, 914 header w/Swathmaster PU, has 900 Trelleberg on front, 600 Trellebergs on rear, Harvest services, wide spaced, wide wire cocaves, terrain tracer, long auger, hopper extensions, electronic stone trap, high-speed chopper, new chopper blades & flails, jewel chaff spreader, rotors balanced last week, recently re-built rotor boxes, tunnel covers & side covers replaced, c/w 994 30-ft Honeybee draper header, w/U2 PU reel. Well maintained machine, $47,500 OBO (204)632-4390, (204)797-4821.

New GX 690 Honda motor, electric start Retail Price $2765 Special Price $2165 New Sega scooters, 50cc, electric start Retail Price $2290 Special Price $1600 2-yrs warranty as above ** Must Sell**

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1983 GLEANER L3 COMBINE, gear drive, 2,969 engine hours, 12-ft Victory Super 8 pick-up, good condition, field ready, $8,500 OBO. Evenings: (204)367-8807.

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2004 JD 567 BALER, megawide PU, hyd PU, push bar, shedded, excellent condition, asking $19,900 OBO. Phone (204)535-2593, Baldur.

HAYING & HARVESTING Swathers 4750 VERSATILE SWATHER W/30-FT doubleknife drive & PU reel, w/canola roller mounted, 2,760-hrs, always shedded. Asking $10,000. (204)782-2846, (204)488-5030. FOR SALE: 1992 PRAIRIE Star Swather DSL 1,800-hrs, MacDon 960 25-ft. double swath table PU reel, new knife, new Trelleborg tires. Phone (204)773-2868, Russell. FOR SALE: CASE IH 8825 HP Swather, 25-ft double swath table, UII pick-up reel, 1,219-hrs, hyd. drive swath roller. Very good condition. $29,500. Phone:(204)248-2327. FOR SALE: VERSATILE #400 18-ft swather, 1974 model. New canvases, Honey Bee cutting system, new traction tires. Pick-up reel included. Also, 8-ft swath roller. Unit always shedded. Priced to sell at $2,600 for complete unit. Phone:(204)537-2455.

HAYING & HARVESTING Various 2002 JOHN DEERE 930R straight cut header w/PU reel & trailer. Price $12,500. Phone (204)522-5708 (204)649-2288, Pierson MB. 930 JD FLEX HEADER adapted to fit TX66 NH combine, $10,500; 2 sets crop lifters, $10 each; Ford 8000 tractor, $2,500; 390 motor & trans from 510 grain truck complete, runs good, $350; Quick attach for 3-PTH for 200+ HP tractor, $500. (204)378-2974 (204)641-3615. MK 100-61 WESTFIELD AUGER, VGC, $7,400. (204)824-2196 or (204)573-6723, Wawanesa.

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HAYING & HARVESTING Various NH 2355 DISCBINE HEADER, 2008, 15.5-ft., low hrs, excellent condition, was used on NH 806 swather, sold cows, $23,500. Call or text (204)378-0020 or (204)378-0030, Arborg, MB. Manitoba Co-operator classifieds, 1-800-782-0794.

Combines COMBINES Belarus 2 BELARUS DON 1500 combines, both in running, working condition, always shedded. One is 1988, the other 1989 model, low hrs, $4,000 each. Extra parts combine also avail. Phone (204)738-2251, evenings.

COMBINES Case/IH 1977 IHC 815 COMBINE, DSL, grain maize special, field ready, used in 2013, shedded, nice shape, $5,000 OBO. (204)736-4392 1980 IH 1480 COMBINE, 3600-hrs, specialty rotor, good condition. Phone (204)352-4249 1985 CASE IH 1480 combine, 3,980-hrs, specialty rotor, new rub bars, new elevator chains & cross augers, large drum pick-up header, 24-ft large drum straight head, new front tires, needs to be seen. Contact Clint:(204)362-4532. 1987 CASE IH 1680 combine w/3,800 engine hrs, 1015 head w/388 Westward PU, excellent condition, fully serviced, greased, oil changed, new chains, new drive belts, new straw chopper bearings, sharpened knives, ready for the field. (204)265-3363.

COMBINES John Deere

COMBINES Accessories

1974 MODEL 6601 always shedded, field ready. Phone (204)822-3855, Morden, MB. 1981 JD TURBO 6620 combine, w/hydrostatic trans, corn concaves, 216 pick-up w/reverser, 16-ft straight header, air design separator adjustment, 3,276-hrs. Repairs have been done as per green light inspection, always stored inside. Asking $10,000,OBO. Phone:(204)822-3387.

1997 HONEYBEE 30-FT HEADER w/gleaner adapter, single knife, UII PU reel, good condition $15,000. Phone:(204)874-2206 or (204)868-5504. 2001 CAT FLEX HEADER 30-ft., $10,000; 1997 30-ft. Cat Flex header $8,000. Both w/PU reels, always shedded, VGC. Phone (204)746-8851, Mor-ris.

1982 John Deere 7720. Great combine. DAM, chaff spreader, chopper, Fronts 24.5-32, Rears 11.25-24, heavy duty rear axle, 212 p/u, A/C, auger extension, 4955-hours, shedded. $12,500 (204)825-7880

2008 CAT F540 40-FT. Flex Platform, $26,500. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

1986 8820 CHOPPER CHAFF spreader, long auger, air foil, hopper topper, 2-SPD cyl, reverser, $10,500. 914 PU, 212, 224R, 2001 930 flex avail. (204)635-2600, Beausejour.

2010 MACDON FD70 35-FT. Flex Draper, $59,500. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

1997 JD 9600, 2131 sep. hrs, 914 PU, air foil sieve, fine cut chopper, chaff spreader, new precision rasp bars, auto steer ready (green star). Always shedded, field ready VGC, $55,000. Also, FarmKing 10x60 auger w/hyd. side feed, $1,200 OBO. Phone:(204)324-7999. 1998 9610 JD COMBINE, 914 header, 2,665-sep hours, 4WD, Sunnybrook cylinder, AHHC, DRS, fore & aft, yield moisture mapping monitor, Starfire receiver, chaff spreader, air-foil sieve, fine-cut chopper, mint condition, $78,000 OBO; Also 930 F header & trailer available. Sanford (204)782-3234, (204)793-3752. 204 JD 9860, 1390-SEP hrs, 15-ft precision header. New feeder chain, threshing elements & chopper blades 3-yrs ago. Excellent rubber, AHC, Y&M, DAS, 2nd owner, good condition, field ready. $145,000 OBO. (204)546-3233, (204)572-6576, (204)546-2021. JD 9600, 2600 SEP.HRS, hopper ext., chopper upgrade, new tires, chaff spreader, recent inspection, VGC. (204)386-2645, (204)476-0029.

2 971 NH RIGID straight-cut headers for sale. Both 25-ft & in excellent condition. One w/bat-reel, asking $3,500, one w/pick-up, asking $5,500. Also, 1997 rake-up pick-up header, $3,500 OBO. Phone: (204)376-5905 or (204)641-4175. Arborg, MB. AGCO GLEANER, R SERIES, 27-ft straight-cut header w/bat-reel, $2,950; 1992 Silverado ext cab, original paint, no rust, $4,950. East Selkirk, MB. Phone:(204)268-2853. CASE IH MACDON 30-FT. flex draper header fits 8010 combine, model 6220, $48,000. (204)871-0925. CASE PLATFORMS: 1995 CASE 1020 25-ft. Flex Platform, $12,900; 1997 Case 1020 30-ft. Flex Platform, $12,900; 2003 Case 2020 30-ft. Flex Platform, $17,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com FLEX PLATFORMS IN STOCK: JD 216, 920, 925, 930, 630, 635; CIH 1020, 25-ft. & 30-ft. 2020 30-ft. & 35-ft; NH 973, 30-ft. w/air & w/o air; Cat FL540, 40-ft. Have many w/Crary air systems. Corn heads JD843- CIH 1083 in stock. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

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FOR SALE: 1995 CASE IH 1020, 30-ft straight cut header; Also 35-ft header trailer. Phone (204)385-2753.

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Header Case 2162, 40-ft flex draper, 2011 w/wheel kit, $64,900. (204)746-2053, (204)746-5471 JD ADJUSTABLE REAR COMBINE axle for 6600 or 7700, $400; Also hard cover parts manual for 7700, $40. Phone (204)325-4474, Winkler. JD FLEX PLATFORMS: 2004 JD 630 30-ft. Hydra Flex Platform, $15,900; 2006 JD 630F 30-ft. Hydra Flex Platform, $18,900; 2006 JD 630F 30-ft. Hydra Flex Platform, $23,900; 2010 JD 635F 35-ft. Hydra Flex Platform, $25,900; 2011 JD 635F 35-ft. Hydra Flex Platform, $28,900; 1998 JD 930 30-ft. Flex Platform w/Crary Air Reel, $16,900; 2001 JD 930F 30-ft. Flex Platform, $12,900; 2002 JD 930F 30-ft. Flex Platform, $18,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

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TRACTORS John Deere

NH 973 FLEX HEADER 1996 25-ft. good condition, $7,500; JD 444 CORN HEADER 1990, 12 row, 20in. row spacing, poly dividers, excellent condition, will also fit on NH combines, $1,5000. Call or text (204)378-0020 or (204)378-0030, Arborg, MB.

1990 JD 2555 TRACTOR 65 PTO HP, 3-PTH, 3,781-hrs, loader, $19,500. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

NH FLEX PLATFORMS: 1998 NH 973 30-ft. Flex Platform, $6,900; 2004 NH 94C 25-ft. Draper Platform, $16,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

1996 JD 7800 MFWD w/740 JD loader 16-SPD PWR quad, triple hyds, 3-PTH, 6,800-hrs, $68,000; 1982 JD 4440 2WD, w/158 JD loader, quad range, 3-PTH, 7,200-hrs, $30,000. Both in excellent condition. Phone (204)886-7009 or (204)886-2245, Teulon.

UPGRADED COMBINE HAVE 30-FT. 960 Macdon draper header w/Bat reel, good canvasses, good knife w/TR & TX adapter, always shedded, in good condition, asking $14,000 OBO. Phone (204)427-2778 or (204)746-4084.

HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES. Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595 charles@arcfab.ca www.arcfab.ca

Tillage & Seeding TILLAGE & SEEDING Seeding Various FOR SALE: REAR MOUNTING Cancade hydraulic drill fills Phone:(204)526-2810 or (204)526-2658.

TILLAGE & SEEDING Tillage Equipment 2004 JD 2410 CHISEL plow 37-ft., can easily add 2 more shanks lengthen to 39-ft., JD heavy harrows, excellent tires, excellent condition, reasonable offer. (204)242-2784

TILLAGE & SEEDING Tillage Various IHC 300 DISCERS 16X2 SA FA, $1,000 OBO. Phone (204)864-2498.

TracTors TRACTORS Case/IH 08 STX 430 brand new 620-70-42 tires, delux cab, heated leather seat, $150,000. Phone (204)871-0925, McGregor. 1980 MODEL CASE 2590, 4 hydrs. P.S. 4 new put on 20.8x38 tires, 1,000 rpm, 185 hp. $17,000. Phone:(204)773-2835. 1981 IHC 1586 TRACTOR 135-HP, Duals, 184x38, Dual Hyd., Cab, Loader w/round bale fork, est. 10,000-hrs, $12,900. Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com 1995 5220 CIH MFWD, Cab, A/C, 2,700-hrs, Owl quickie loader, $42,500. Phone (204)427-3311.

TRACTORS John Deere 1982 JD 1840, 3-PTH, 146 loader, hi-lo, 5500-hrs; 1995 JD 6300, MFWD w/640 self-leveling loader, bucket, grapple, joystick controls, open station, 3-PTH, dual power take-off, quad transmission, right-hand reverser, 6100-hrs. Phone Vita MB (204)425-3820.

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TRACTORS 2-Wheel Drive

LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

LIVESTOCK

FENCING

SAVE THIS DATE! Rocking W Horse sale, Sat., Aug 30th, Keystone Centre, Brandon MB. Consignment forms available at www.rockingw.com or Phone (204)325-7237. In conj. w/Northern Lights Barrel Futurity.

LIVESTOCK Sheep – Katahdin KATAHDIN RAMS (204)378-2992.

FOR

SALE.

Call

Jake

LIVESTOCK Sheep For Sale Purebred Suffolk Rams for Sale. Yearling & February 2014 Rams. Neil Versavel, Stonewall MB. (204)2501944, sheepuy671@gmail.com

716-ACRES MIXED FARM, fenced elk, bison, cattle, 1064-sf bung, outbldgs, 2nd yard site, McCreary: 24-15-11W, RM of Lakeview, Section of pasture in block, fenced, 4 dugouts, MLS 1320985: SW 5-14-17W, RM of Odanah, 160-acres grainland, possession January 2015, MLS 1408620: SW 22-14-10W. Westbourne, 160-acres fenced pasture w/dugout, 1982 3-bdrm bung, MLS 1411329. Call Liz (204)476-6362, John (204)476-6719, Gill and Schmall Agencies 960-ACS RANCH IN MOOSEHORN area excellent house, barns, hay sheds, very well maintained property, endless possibilities. Contact Henry Kuhl Farm Specialist Royal Lepage Alliance (204)885-5500. EXCELLENT LIVESTOCK FARM EXTENDING to 1,732 deeded acres w/4,425-acres of Crown land. All the land is fenced & the farm has very good buildings & metal corral system. The farm can carry up to 400-450 cow/calf pairs. There is a small bungalow home. Tel: Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511 or Jim McLaughlan (204)724-7753. Homelife Home Professional Realty Inc. www.homelifepro.com FOR SALE: 500 HEAD goat dairy at Minto, MB. Also would consider a partner. Milk contracts for fluid milk & cheese. Complete operation w/land, livestock, & buildings or operation can be moved. Contact David (204)534-7531 or drsrourke@gmail.com GRANT TWEED Farm Specialist If you are Buying, Selling or Renting Farm Land You Can Benefit from my Experience & Expertise the Decisions you Make Can Have Long Lasting Impact, So Take the Time to Know your Options. Call (204)761-6884 to Arrange an Obligation Free Consultation. Visit: www.granttweed.com

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES

2000 CORSAIR 5TH WHEEL camper 28.5-ft. long, A/C, fridge, 3 pc bath, 1 slide out, well kept & priced for quick sell, $12,000. Phone (204)347-5203.

Specializing in: • Corn, wheat, sunflower, canola, soymeal, soybeans, soy oil, barley, rye, flax, oats (feed & milling) • Agents of the CWB • Licensed & bonded 5 LOCATIONS to serve you!

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES Motorcycles WANTED: 1973-1987 CAN-AM (Bombardier) motorcycles, or any other old motorcycles. Phone:(204)728-1861.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES Snowmobiles WANTED: WILDE ONE ROLLER-FLEX snowmobiles, 340 or 440. Also looking for 1972-1973 EXT Arctic cats. Phone:(204)728-1861.

RECYCLING

NOTRE DAME USED OIL & FILTER DEPOT

BuyUsed Used Oil Oil ••Buy •• Buy Buy Batteries Batteries ••Collect CollectUsed Used Filters Filters • Collect Oil • Collect OilContainers Containers • Antifreeze

“Naturally Better!” Soybean Crushing Facility (204) 331-3696 Head Office - Winkler (888) 974-7246 Jordan Elevator (204) 343-2323 Gladstone Elevator (204) 385-2292 Somerset Elevator (204) 744-2126 Sperling Elevator (204) 626-3261

Toll Free: 888-974-7246 SEED/ FEED/GRAIN Hay & Straw

Tel: 204-248-2110

CORN SILAGE FOR SALE can deliver, long term potential on 20+ Ton loads. Phone (204)427-3311, Woodmore. FIRST CUT ALFALFA & alfalfa grass hay in 3x3 medium square bales, can deliver. Phone (204)642-3259 or (204)642-3043, Gimli MB.

SCALES

CAREERS Help Wanted

FARMERS, RANCHERS, SEED PROCESSORS BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS

AGRICULTURAL TOURS

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Heated/Spring Threshed Lightweight/Green/Tough, Mixed Grain - Barley, Oats, Rye, Flax, Wheat, Durum, Lentils, Peas, Canola, Chickpeas, Triticale, Sunflowers, Screenings, Organics and By-Products √ ON-FARM PICKUP √ PROMPT PAYMENT √ LICENSED AND BONDED SASKATOON, LLOYDMINSTER, LETHBRIDGE, VANCOUVER, MINNEDOSA

1-204-724-6741

HORSE QUALITY 400 ROUND grass mixture bales, 1,100-lbs, green & dust free, $30; Oats Timothy 150 round bales, $25. Delivery avail. (204)635-2600, Beausejour, MB.

FARMING

IS ENOUGH OF A GAMBLE...

Pembina Consumers Co-op

Mail:

St. Leon, MB

(204) 836-2427

www.dseriescanola.ca

BUYERS OF:

• Rye (all grades) • Flaxseed

• Field Peas • CGC Bonded • Farm pickup

Call The Rye Guy - Cal Vandaele 204-522-5410 or 204-665-2384 Box 144 • Medora, MB • R0M 1K0

TIRES USED 18.4X34, 18.4X38, 20.8X34 Phone (204)730-3139.

used

tires.

Hit our readers where it counts… in the classifieds. Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifed section. 1-800-782-0794.

1-800-782-0794 SEED/ FEED/GRAIN Grain Wanted

TRAILERS Livestock Trailers

FOR SALE: CERTIFIED FLOURISH winter wheat. Phone James Farms Ltd. at 1-866-283-8785, (204)2228785 or email seed@jamesfarms.com for additional info.

Court Seeds Winter Wheat Available:

AC® Flourish

 Good disease resistance  Improved protein, early maturity  Good replacement for AC Falcon

Plumas, MB courtseeds@gmail.com courtseeds.ca 204-386-2354

1-800-661-4326

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GRAIN FARM NORTH OF Beausejour is looking for Class 1 truck drivers, full or part time. Salary negotiable. Fax resume to (204)265-3477 or for more info phone (204)268-0262 or (204)265-3494. HALARDA FARMS IS SEEKING a full-time/year round employee to work with dairy cattle & milking robots. The successful applicant will be self-motivated & a team player. No experience needed. Competitive wages & an extensive health & benefit package offered. Halarda Farms is a modern, large mixed farm located in the Elm Creek area. Email resume to office@halarda.ca or Fax to:(204)436-3034 or Call:(204)436-2032. HALARDA FARMS IS SEEKING full-time/year round mechanics helper/large equipment operator. Mechanically inclined a requirement. Class 5 drivers licence required. The successful applicant will be self-motivated & a team player. Competitive wages & an extensive health & benefit package offered. Halarda Farms is a modern, large mixed farm, located in the Elm Creek area. E-mail resume to: office@halarda.ca or Fax to:(204)436-3034 or Call:(204)436-2032. HELP WANTED: We are looking to hire a person to take responsibility for the feeding & care of our dairy cattle. The position requires the ability to work efficiently with a front end loader for feeding, bedding, & manure removal, close attention to detail, & reliability. Experience w/cattle an asset. If interested, please call (204)379-2640 or (204)745-7864. Do you want to target Manitoba farmers? Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator. Manitoba’s best-read farm publication.

WE BUY OATS Call us today for pricing Box 424, Emerson, MB R0A 0L0 204-373-2328

Vanderveen Commodity Services Ltd. Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers

37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0 Ph. (204) 745-6444 Email: vscltd@mts.net Andy Vanderveen · Brett Vanderveen Jesse Vanderveen

A Season to Grow… Only Days to Pay!

BUYING:

HEATED & GREEN CANOLA

Fall Rye

• Hazlet (Good quality, shorter straw, plump kernels)

Fall Triticale

Limited Supply Selling Fast Book Now!!

Experience in production, safety, agriculture, are definitely assets but is not necessary. Eligible employee would receive full training in operations, quality, food safety, and personal safety. Applicants can email resumes to Email: shawnz@zeghersseed.com Call: 1-204-526-2145

www.zeghersseed.com CAREERS Management We are looking for a senior plant manager to manage day to day production activities within the new Buffalo Creek Mills Plant so as to maintain efficient and profitable operation of this oat cleaning facility in a safe environment. rhpenner@me.com PH(204)770-9591, FX:(204)324-8020

AG DEALS TO GO!

Available at:

Paterson Global Foods Inc. Binscarth, MB

(204) 532-2121

www.dseriescanola.ca

PIECES OF A EQUIPMENT G !

*6-Row* 1-877-250-5252 MALT BARLEY

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2013 Malt Contracts Available 2014 AOG Malt Contracts Available Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 BoxPhone 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 204-737-2000 Phone 204-737-2000 2014Toll-Free AOG Malt Contracts Available 1-800-258-7434 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 BoxMalt 238 MB. R0G 1C0 Agent: M &Letellier, J Weber-Arcola, SK. 2013 Contracts Available Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK. Phone 204-737-2000 Phone 306-455-2509 Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 Phone 306-455-2509 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 Phone 204-737-2000 Agent: M & 1-800-258-7434 J Weber-Arcola, SK. Toll-Free Agent: Phone M & J 306-455-2509 Weber-Arcola, SK. Phone 306-455-2509

MALT BARLEY

Winter Wheat • Falcon (High yields, less straw, GP Class) • Flourish (New, short straw, Falcon Replacement) • Emerson (New, higher fusarium Tolerance)

PROCESSING AND PACKAGING PERSONNEL

30,000

MALT BARLEY “ON FARM PICK UP”

Phone: 204-526-2145 Visit www.zeghersseed.com Email: shawnz@zeghersseed.com

Zeghers Seed Inc. is a food grains Processing and Packaging facility. We are currently looking for

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Holland, MB

EXISS ALUMINUM LIVESTOCK TRAILERS 2014 Stock has arrived! 7-ft wide x 20-ft & 24-ft lengths. 10-Yr Warranty. SOKAL INDUSTRIES LTD. Phone: (204)334-6596, Email: sokalind@mymts.net

CERTIFIED SEED Cereal Seeds

DURAND SEEDS FOUNDATION, REGISTERED & Certified Flourish Winter Wheat. Phone (204)248-2268 or (204)745-7577, Notre Dame, MB.

1982 R600 MACK TANDEM Grain truck, 19-ft box, 8 1/2-ft wide, 60-in deep, w/roll tarp. $16,500. Phone:(204)871-0925. We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if you want to sell it fast place your ad in the Manitoba Cooperator classifieds. It’s a Sure Thing. Call our toll-free number today. We have friendly staff ready to help. 1-800-782-0794.

CERTIFIED SEED

CERT FLOURISH & CERT CDC Falcon Winter Wheat seed for sale, 2013 crop, cleaned, ready to seed, wholesale or retail. Jim Wilson (204)362-2449 Darlingford, MB.

Select Holidays

CAREERS Help Wanted

TRAILERS Grain Trailers

Advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator Classifieds, it’s a Sure Thing!

*Portion of tours may be Tax Deductible

Boldt Precision Const. Of Ponoka is looking for mature reliable workers. We install metal trusses & decking on roofs, so must be good with heights. Some heavy lifting involved. Wage depends on ability. bpcdavid@gmail.com

SEED/ FEED/GRAIN Seed Wanted

TRAILERS

Available at:

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CAREERS Construction

www.delmarcommodities.com

Southern,Southern Eastern, and Manitoba Western Western

Manitoba

TRAVEL

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nitoba

SEED/ FEED/GRAIN Feed Grain

HAMMOND REALTY: Shire Farm, RM 92 Walpole, near Moosomin, SK. 1,280-acs, featuring 610 cult. acs & 625 hay/pasture acs (300-acs could be cropped), $61,863 avg 2013 assessment. Grass carries 100 pair. Yard includes: 1,180-sq.ft. bungalow (1983), 4 bed, 2 bath, 12,850-bu. steel bin storage, exc. water & cattle facilities. MLS #501213. Reduced to $1,240,000. Alex Morrow (306)434-8780 http://Shire.HammondRealty.ca

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES Campers & Trailers

SEED/ FEED/GRAIN Grain Wanted

SEED / FEED / GRAIN

COME SEE US AT AG DAYS IN THE CONVENTION HALL BOOTH 1309

es Containers

REAL ESTATE Farms & Ranches – Saskatchewan

2013 Malt Contracts Available Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 Phone 204-737-2000 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK. Phone 306-455-2509

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