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December 21, 2017

Commodity groups release merger report The next step is garnering enough support amongst the rank-and-file members

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Blessings from bargains Sales of donated items at the MCC Thrift Shop in Carman this year generate $240,000 for Mennonite Central Committee’s international relief, development and peace work

BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

ive Manitoba crop commodity groups have released a report detailing their plan to create one overarching association. The Dec. 14 report is full of details on how they will form one association by Aug. 1, 2019 — if members approve it at their annual meetings in February 2019. But right now the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers, Manitoba Flax Growers, the National Sunflower Association of Canada and Manitoba Corn Growers and Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers want their respective 8,000 members to respond to the proposal via email (rob@mbcrops.ca) or by contacting association directors. They also want farmers to attend presentations in January and to provide input during their annual meetings February 14 and 15 at the CropConnect meeting in Winnipeg. “Commodity groups need to be farmer driven,” Manitoba Corn Growers Association president Myron Krahn said in a news release. “This

It takes many pairs of hands to keep the bustling Carman MCC Thrift Shop operating. The non-profit enterprise’s success is due as much from generous time put in by volunteers as the plentiful donations and customers supporting it, says the organization’s president Frank Elias (front right). PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

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tella Wiebe has cut up about 4,000 pairs of blue jeans for quilt blocks over the years. But that’s certainly not the only thing she’s done during her long stint volunteering with Carman Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Thrift Shop. She’s been volunteering with the non-profit enterprise since its start, and today is still among its 100 others arranging, sorting, folding, fixing, cleaning and pricing thousands of donated items that keep this thrift shop thriving. The eagerness of customers streaming through its doors each day is matched only by the generous time given by volunteers to keep the store shipshape,

and raising mountains of money for Mennonite Central Committee’s international work. In 2017 sales of donated clothing, furniture, household items have raised $386,288 — the most money it’s ever generated. After expenses are paid, and a portion of the funds turned over to local causes, that’s $240,000 for MCC’s international work. They are rather pleased, in a modest sort of way, about it. “There are stores that are bigger than ours and they make more money than we do,” said Frank Elias, a retired school principal and current president for the organization. Places like Winkler and Steinbach occupy space several times larger than Carman’s. There are 16 MCC Thrift Stores in Manitoba.

“But in our 5,000 sq. feet we generate about $65 to $70 per square foot,” he said. “There’s no store in Manitoba that matches us for performance.” Those sales now add up to about $1,500 for every day the store is open. Not too shabby for a shop that had a humble start in a basement. It was 1975 when a few feisty local church women, inspired by the newly opened and original MCC Thrift Shop in Altona, decided to try selling donated goods here too. Anna Penner, who has also volunteered since its beginning, remembers the early days. They’d price everything in the basement under a single bare light bulb, hung from a ceiling so low some bumped their heads on it. See MCC Thrift Shop on page 7 »

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

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A new study shows acceptance, and even preference for, food made from waste

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CROPS Malt measures Malting barley production was down but quality good in 2017

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recent study has shown consumers won’t just accept food made from discarded ingredients — they’ll embrace it. Researchers from Philadel phia’s Drexel Univer s ity looked at products that were made from recovered ingredients that would otherwise have been destined for the waste stream. “There is an economic, environmental and cultural argument for keeping food, when possible, as food and not trash,” said report author Jonathan Deutsch, of the university’s Center for Food and Hospitality Management, who has created ‘upcycled’ products in the past. “Converting surplus foods into value-added products will feed people, create opportunities for employment, entrepreneurship and lower the environmental impact of wasted resources.” But the big question has been this: Will consumers accept products made from ingredients that were destined for the garbage? Would

Rescued Relish is an anything-goes condiment made from excess produce that Philabundance, a Philadelphia anti-hunger organization, can’t move. The relish is modelled on a Pennsylvania Dutch chow chow recipe — a tangy mix of sweet, spicy and sour flavours. PHOTO: DREXEL FOOD LAB

a person actually eat — and pay for — a granola bar made from spent brewing grains or a relish made from vegetables unfit for the supermarket? The researchers conducted a series of tests as a first attempt to understand a consumer’s decision-making process with respect to this new food category. Participants felt that valueadded surplus products were more helpful to the envi-

ronment than conventional foods, but less helpful when compared to organic foods. The results demonstrated that participants clearly identified these foods as a unique category. The researchers say this identification could pave the way for premiums for the products, similar to those seen in the organic sector, making creating and selling the products more lucrative.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

Complaints about Canadian grading of U.S. wheat justified: Gifford

NAFTA ag deal while keeping supply management possible Mike Gifford says the negotiations are unique because agriculture doesn’t top the agenda

BY ALLAN DAWSON

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American complaints that Canadian regulations unfairly block American wheat from entering Canadian elevators are justified, says Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator. “This is a classic issue of where the optics are awful,” Gifford told the 22nd annual Fields on Wheels conference in Winnipeg Dec. 15. “It seems to me it is an equity problem and it is an understandable problem that has got to be resolved.” American farmers can sell wheat to western Canadian elevators, but they can’t get an official Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) grade, even if the wheat is registered to grow in Canada. That means American wheat must receive the lowest grade for the intended class, which for Canada Western Red Spring is feed. It’s a trade irritant that St. Francois Xavier farmer and Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association director Gunter Jochum fears could lead to the U.S. blocking Canadian wheat imports. Canada exports around four million tonnes of wheat to the U.S., making it one of Canada’s most important markets. The U.S. only exports about 50,000 tonnes of wheat north, Jochum told the meeting. Access to the U.S. market is a valuable safety valve, Jochum said. Changes to the Canada Grain Act that would have allowed American wheat to be graded, died in Parliament a few years ago. The CGC, which administers the act, says there are no regulations preventing American wheat from being sold to Canadian elevators. Canadian buyers and American sellers can agree on price-based quality specifications, CGC spokesman Remi Gosselin has said in previous interviews. Colin Watters, executive vicepresident of the Montana Wheat and Barley Commission, agrees. However, he told the conference since Canadian exporters are required to declare shipments that contain foreign grain, Canadian elevators won’t buy American wheat because of added segregation costs and the risk of downgrading Canadian shipments accidentally mixed with American wheat. Watters said he’d be satisfied if American wheat, registered in Canada, could get a CGC grade. But he added some American farmers see Western Canada’s wheat variety registration system as a non-tariff trade barrier. The system requires new wheats intended for milling to meet specific end-use quality, agronomic and disease standards for the intended class. However, presumably the system is not a barrier because it applies equally to Canadian farmers. If a Canadian farmer delivers an unregistered wheat it’s only eligible for the lowest grade. “It seems to me that with goodwill on both sides you could probably come up with a system that accommodates that, but it requires impetus,” Gifford later told reporters.

n agreement on agricultural trade under a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is possible without gutting dairy supply management, says Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator. The United States is Canadian agriculture’s biggest customer generating more than $50 billion in annual revenues. Terminating NAFTA, as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to do, would be a shock, but overall not “particularly severe,” Gifford, who retired from the federal government in 2000, but still consults on trade, told the annual Fields on Wheels conference Dec. 15 in Winnipeg. That’s because Gifford expects the Canada-U.S. Trade Agreement (CUSTA) to kick in. It predates NAFTA and has the same agricultural trade rules. “So basically there would be no impact on Canadian agriculture for all intents and purposes,” Gifford said. “We revert basically to the status quo, not something worse than the status quo.” Moreover, it’s likely Canada and Mexico would continue to operate under NAFTA, giving Canada preference to the Mexican market over the U.S., he said. There’s no guarantee the U.S. won’t withdraw from CUSTA, but Gifford thinks it won’t, given the U.S. focus on getting concessions from Mexico. In the absence of NAFTA and CUSTA World Trade Organization rules, with most favoured nation tariffs, would apply. The Canadian dollar would weaken, adding to Canadian export competitiveness, he said. “For most (agricultural) sectors it is not going to be particularly severe because our tariffs are relatively low under the WTO and the same for the U.S.,” Gifford said. “But there are going to be some sectors and some products that are going to be adversely affected because they are a tariff peak.”

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Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator, says the elements for a deal on agriculture through NAFTA are there without scrapping supply management. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

Exports of fresh Canadian mushrooms would face American tariffs of more than 30 per cent, Gifford said. Canadian processing potatoes exports to the U.S. would also suffer. “Cattle, hogs and pork basically wouldn’t see much change in their treatment going into the U.S. because cattle and hogs are free (of duties) and (duties) on most pork products are relatively low,” Gifford said. “Pork carcasses I think are free.” However, beef trade could be a problem due to tariffs, but since there’s now two-way trade both countries have an incentive to work out a deal, he said. “I’ve got to stress the bulk of the Canadian and U.S. tariffs are something in the order of four per cent,” Gifford said. “They are not high. But there are examples in both countries where we’ve got tariff peaks both countries will have problems with.” Canada exports four million tonnes of wheat to the U.S., but overall Western Canada’s grain customer base is diversified, Gifford said. “I would argue western Can adian agriculture today is far better able to adjust to the shock of the termination of NAFTA and the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement because of what’s happened in the interim,” he said. “We have become a lot more efficient since those negotiations concluded. Whether it is in the red meat-processing sector or whether it is in the oilseed-processing sector, we have become world scale... it’s certainly not as bad as if we had

not made changes over the last years. Clearly, there is no question that the preferred outcome in the NAFTA renegotiation is to basically do no harm and add some improvements where we can.” While the Americans are pushing to end supply management, especially for dairy production, the U.S. is equally committed to protecting its sugar industry, Gifford said. What American dairy farmers really want is more access to Canada’s market and more secured access following recent Canadian rule changes that blocked imports of U.S. milk protein isolate. Tariff rate quotas are the solution, he said. They allow a fixed volume of imports, followed by higher tariffs to block further imports. Canadian milk production accounts for 90 per cent of the domestic market, Gifford said. The market has been growing so Canadian farmers can allow more American milk in, he said. “There are solutions to this short of destroying supply management,” Gifford said. Canadian supply management is valued at about $40 billion, which makes getting rid of it difficult, he later told reporters (see sidebar). Canada also wants more secured access to the U.S. cattle, beef, hog and pork markets, Gifford said. It doesn’t want country-of-origin labelling (COOL) to return. Gifford declined to speculate on the outcome of the NAFTA talks. Trump isn’t the only wild card either. These negotiations are unique in that agriculture is not “front and centre,” he said. “It’s not the issue that’s going to dominate the negotiation throughout.” The main issues are rules of origin, especially around autos and parts, dispute settlement, buy American provisions, and a clause to end NAFTA after five years unless signatories take action to continue it, he said.

Export-oriented farmers need to boost lobby effort Dairy farmers have done a great job influencing politicians, says a former Canadian ag trade negotiator BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

Export-oriented farmers should emulate dairy farmers if they want to get their policies implemented, says Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator. “If you want to influence politicians you basically have to spend money to lobby,” Gifford said during the Fields on Wheels conference Dec. 15 in Winnipeg. “That’s where the supply management sector, and the sugar sector in the U.S., have done a first-class job of lobbying their legislators. “Dairy is extremely powerful and has done a first-rate job influencing every provincial MP, every federal MP, every federal minister, about the importance and significance of protecting supply management.” During the Uruguay Round of World Trade Organization talks between 1986 and 1994 every provincial government, except for Alberta, favoured saving supply management at all costs, said Gifford, who negotiated for Canada. “Their interest wasn’t on improving access for western Canadian agriculture that is export oriented, but a complete preoccupation with dairy and poultry,” he said. “And today the only difference is even Alberta is part of the consensus in the Canadian political system that we have to protect supply management. Therefore, what you (export oriented farmers) have to do is lobby as well as the supply management guys lobby. Carlo Dade, director of the Canada West Foundation’s Trade & Investment Centre, agreed. He told the conference farmers need to take their message directly to MPs in their ridings because the message that agricultural exports are important is not reaching them. “Let’s make trade an issue,” Dade said. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

OPINION/EDITORIAL

Happy Christmas

ere in the heart of winter, those of us living north of the equator find our days drawing ever shorter until reaching their nadir; we must find comfort where we can. Societies through history have dealt with this by having a mid-winter celebration as a centrepiece of their calendars, be they written, celestial, lunar or solar. It was simply a way to mark the beginGord Gilmour ning of the annual resurrection of the Editor sun, the return of light and, eventually, warmth. One of the best-known early celebrations was the Roman Saturnalia, in honour of their god Saturn, celebrated from Dec. 17 to Dec. 23 (according to the Julian calendar) with a time of feasting, role reversals, free speech, gift giving and revelry. The tradition of celebrating the birth of Christ on Dec. 25 appears to date from the fourth century when Christianity was adopted as the official religion of the Roman Empire, biblical scholars say. The actual date of his birth is a topic of some controversy, with informed opinions setting the date anywhere from September to April. One thing most of these scholars agree on, however, is that it’s vanishingly unlikely the date was Dec. 25. It would seem that celebrating on this date is an expression of peculiarly Roman practicality. That empire is said to have survived and thrived as long as it did because it took a pragmatic view of local customs, language and religion in regions it conquered. In the case of Christmas, the Roman leadership apparently recognized fealty to this new religion would be more acceptable to the average citizen if it were somehow also combined with the familiar, and thus the holiday that’s celebrated today emerged. Today Christmas has come to mean many different things to many different people. Many continue to view it as the single most important annual event on their Christian calendars and work tirelessly to “keep Christ in Christmas,” as they say. Others take a more secular approach and concentrate on gift giving and gatherings to mark the passage of mid-winter and the end of one year and beginning of another. No doubt, during those first Christmases, more than one Roman parent thought longingly of a centurion son, standing guard on Hadrian’s Wall in northern Brittania, ever watchful for the hostile Celts. Our lives are immeasurably easier, yet more complex, than theirs. But over centuries we all share this desire for family and friends during the holidays. The importance of family is central to all at this time of year. Our popular culture is full of tales of friends and families gathering for the holidays — and their related adventures and misadventures — in trying to do so. “Home for the holidays” is a phrase that, for most of us, packs a lot of meaning into a few words. These gatherings can be exuberant or bittersweet, depending on the occasion and events of the past year. It could mean the introduction of a new family member, or the poignant absence of a loved one who is no longer with us. While most of us love and cherish our families while they’re still here, it’s in the absence of them we really understand all they have contributed to our existence. Nowhere in this issue of the Co-operator is that more evident than in our own Alexis Stockford’s feature article “Because I love you: Preparing for the worst” which you will find on page 25. It’s a detailed account of one farm family’s loss of a beloved husband and father and how they coped with that loss. One of the clearest themes that emerged in this article is the importance of having conversations one might not want to have. After all, none of us care to dwell on our own mortality. It’s not a very pleasant prospect, and besides, we’re all too busy with living. While that’s an understandable sentiment, we here at the Co-operator hope farm families across the province might take the opportunity, while the family is gathered, to at least begin this conversation. It won’t always be easy. At some point at a later date you’ll probably have to consult professionals to complete it all, and it’s not a conversation that can happen in a single sitting. But it is an important process to begin. After all, it’s only by having that conversation that we can be sure those nearest and dearest to us will be taken care of. So do take the time to enjoy your friends and family this Christmas season. Life is too short and too full of less-thanpleasant aspects. We should all seize the opportunity to revel in the more positive parts of life when we can. The management and staff of the Manitoba Co-operator would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and happy New Year. We’ll see you again in early 2018. gord.gilmour@fbcpublishing.com

Don’t bury globalization, resurrect it BY CONSTANTINE PASSARIS University of New Brunswick

conomic globalization faces a clear and present danger. The grumblings about the adverse consequences of globalization, the despair about not sharing in its economic benefits, and the disaffection with the global political and social tensions it has created are real. The cacophony of voices raised in anger against globalization have been getting louder every year. The disconnect in responding to those concerns may derail the future course of globalization. All these concerns should be addressed in a direct and purposeful manner. Asking the right questions is a good start toward solutions. The economic, social and political malaise that feeds the narrative for the globalization dissidents consists of a fairly long list of grievances and concerns. They start with the current slow or stagnant economic growth. The persistent downturn still lingers after the global financial crisis. In fact, globalization has revealed an international financial system that’s inadequate for the economy of the 21st century. It has spotlighted the fault lines and the structural weakness in the machinery of economic governance. One of globalization’s most pervasive consequences has been a tidal wave of unemployment. In great part, technology is to blame. These advances have replaced human labour and made whole occupations obsolete. Globalization has widened the chasm in income and wealth disparity. In great part, that’s because new technology has slowed the wage gains. Globalization has created a chain reaction of political and social polarization. The economic

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governance system has failed to deliver inclusive prosperity. Free trade agreements are under attack. This disaffection comes from both emerging economies and some developed economies. The critics feel they’ve been shortchanged. Even the world’s supreme economic powerhouse, the United States, has raised its voice against free trade. And we can’t forget climate change. Its causes are country specific but its consequences are global. Globalization has also unleashed the unprecedented movement of economic migrants and refugees. And that has resulted in dismay and despair among many people who feel pressured by newcomers. Look no further than the political tribulations of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She opened the door to almost a million Syrian refugees and is now suffering the political consequences. In such circumstances, many citizens feel they’re no longer masters of their own house and that government policies don’t reflect their desires. So globalization takes the blame for the world’s many failures. These include economic and political disruptions, government policies that are out of sync with citizens, high unemployment, unprotected borders, the failure of the middle class to improve its economic prospects and climate change. But the solution isn’t to dismantle globalization. Rather, we need to work together to improve globalization. Globalization carries great benefits. It can be the great economic equalizer. Globalization requires a course correction to fulfil its promise. Constantine Passaris is a professor of economics at the University of New Brunswick and a national research affiliate of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy at the University of Lethbridge.

December 1943

he image on the front page of our December 15, 1943 issue carried a Christmas message to take courage during the bleak time of the Second World War. Among the news on the front page was that Manitoba’s total Victory Bond sales had reached $99,641,400, just short of the $100-million objective and that the Manitoba Chinese War Relief Fund had reached $124,000. Elsewhere in the paper was a reminder that the Wartime Prices and Trade Board required all trucks to have the owner’s name and address on both sides in letters not less than an inch in height. There was also a regular update on expiry dates for ration books for sugar, butter, meat and preserves. There was extensive coverage of a controversy about Canada’s difficulty in producing enough bacon to meet its contract with Britain. Progressive Conservative Leader John Bracken had apparently suggested it would be necessary to supply hogs over 240 pounds, thereby sacrificing quality. However, Agriculture Minister J.G. Gardiner responded that the industry agreed it was necessary to supply the “long, lean streaked type” that Britain required. British Minister of Food J.J. LLewellin had said that if Canada could not supply 450 million pounds of bacon per year, “I may be put in the position where I have to cut the ration from four ounces a week to three.” However, he had also warned that when the war ended, “it will be well to look around to see if the time has come to grade bacon more carefully,” an apparent hint that Danish bacon would again be preferred. The editorial praised the “Let’s Eat” nutrition education program underway at 10 schools — topics included “The food colour chart,” “Hidden hunger and hollow hunger,” and “Grow your own and eat better.”

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

Blockchain could revolutionize food It’s an impressive and high-tech solution to the problem of sharing information from many parties quickly and easily BY SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS Dalhousie University

here has been a lot of noise on cryptocurrencies and bitcoin of late. While some suggest cryptocurrencies are a fraud, others believe them to be the next economic revolution. Bitcoin has brought to light the interesting concept of blockchain technology, which offers great potential for the agri-food sector. Yet it is far from being the panacea for diverse issues affecting the industry – at least not yet. Simply put, blockchain technology is a way of storing and sharing information across a network of users in an open virtual space. Blockchain technology allows for users to look at all transactions simultaneously and in real time. In food, for example, a retailer would know with whom his supplier has dealt. Additionally, since transactions are not stored in any single location, the information is almost impossible to hack. For consumers, blockchain technology could make a difference. By reading a simple QR code with a smartphone, data such as an animal’s date of birth, use of antibiotics, vaccinations, and where the livestock was harvested can easily be conveyed to the consumer. Blockchain could bring a new level of transparency to a supply chain. It also empowers the entire chain to be more responsive to any food-safety disasters. Large companies such as Nestle and Unilever are considering blockchain technologies for that reason. Walmart, which sells 20 per cent of all food in the U.S., has just completed two blockchain pilot projects.

Blockchain could bring a new level of transparency to a supply chain. It also empowers the entire chain to be more responsive to any food-safety disasters.

Before using the technology, Walmart conducted a traceback test on mangoes in one of its stores. It took six days, 18 hours, and 26 minutes to trace the fruit back to its original farm. By using blockchain, Walmart can provide all the information the consumer wants in 2.2 seconds. During an outbreak of a food-related health scare, six days is an eternity. A company can save lives by acting quickly. Blockchain also allows specific products to be traced at any given time, which would help in the reduction of food waste. For instance, contaminated products can be traced easily and quickly, while safe foods would remain on the shelves and not in landfills. Blockchain will allow everyone to be paid more quickly, from farm to plate. Farmers could sell more quickly and be properly compensated as market data would be readily available and validated. The technology could represent a legitimate option for farmers who feel compelled to rely on marketing boards to sell their commodities. The use of blockchain could prevent price coercion and retroactive payments, both of which we have seen across the foodsupply chain. Blockchain technologies could “Uberize” the agri-food sector by eliminating middlemen and lowering transaction fees. This can lead to fairer

pricing and even help smaller outfits desperate to get more market attention. However, it will work only if the data at the source is accurate, and current practices in the industry are still prone to human error. Much of the compliance data is audited by trusted third parties and stored either on paper or in a centralized database. These databases are highly vulnerable to informational inaccuracies, hacking, high operating costs and intentional errors motivated by corruption and fraudulent behaviour. Blockchain operates anonymously, so mistakes would be traceable to individual culprits. Considering recent food fraud scandals seen in Canada and elsewhere, this feature is not trivial. Blockchain technology provides a method with which records are kept permanently. Most importantly, though, it facilitates data sharing between disparate actors in a food value chain. Many retailers have sold fraudulent food products unknowingly. With the use of blockchain, those days could come to an end. Our current traceability systems need work, and blockchain technology could be the evolution they need. Given its architecture, blockchain offers an affordable solution to both small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and large organizations. However,

there are noteworthy limitations. The amount of information that can be processed is limited. Since everything is out there, several contracts between organizations would need to be secured for some level of confidentiality to be retained. A balance between confidentiality and transparency would need to be struck. The agri-food arena is filled with secrets. The manner in which blockchain technology is currently being deployed would be problematic for many food companies. For many, blockchain is just a solution looking for a problem. Nevertheless, the most important challenge remains participation. All parties must adopt the technology in order for it to work. In food distribution, not all companies are equal, and some can exercise their power more than others. A successful integration of the blockchain requires the engagement of all participating organizations. Walmart’s blockchain will likely be successful because it’s Walmart. But thousands of companies don’t have the same clout. Industry leaders should embrace blockchain as an opportunity and become part of the digitalization strategy currently affecting the entire food industry. As such, transparency, productivity, competitiveness and sustainability of the agri-food sector could be enhanced. Nonetheless, research should look at how to generate evidence-based blockchain solutions to democratize data for the entire system before we get too excited. Sylvain Charlebois is dean of Dalhousie University’s faculty of management and a researcher in food distribution and policy. He writes regularly about food and agriculture.

The input industry championed the three-decade push for all-out production Planned production reductions would eat into their bottom line, making them an unpopular policy topic BY HARWOOD D. SCHAFFER AND DARYLL E. RAY Policy Pennings

hy are supply management programs such an anathema to so many people? Part of the reason can be traced to events that took place 34 years ago. Between the 1981 crop year and the 1982 crop year, corn ending stocks increased 1.0 billion bushels (12.2 per cent of production) to 3.5 billion bushels with grain reserves growing to 3.0 billion bushels and prices falling to the loan rate of $2.55 per bushel (all figures U.S. funds). “On January 11, 1983, President Reagan announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture would implement a payment-in-kind (PIK) program to help reduce government grain surpluses and to improve farm income.” Secretary of Agriculture John Block explained, “PIK is basically simple. Farmers who take out of production additional acres over what they agree to take out under the current program will receive

as payment a certain amount of the commodity they would have grown on these acres. The commodity is theirs to do with as they wish. Commodities for the PIK program will come from farmerowned reserve, regular loan or CCC-owned stocks. “We have a threefold objective with PIK. Reduce production, reduce surplus stock holdings, and avoid increased budget outlays that would otherwise be necessary under price support programs.” Farmers responded positively to the program. Production problems during 1983 resulted in farmers taking more acres out of production than anticipated. In the end, 32.2 million corn acres were taken out of production and the harvest fell by nearly 50 per cent to 4.2 billion bushels. With reduced acreage, purchases of input supplies fell drastically, fewer machinery repairs were needed, and reduced production resulted in less grain going through the marketing channels. The impact on Main Street and the agribusiness sector was immediate as was the response.

The way to achieve that goal was to lay the groundwork for the elimination of farm programs, especially those that used acreage reduction programs.

At that point, the agribusiness sector began to pay more attention to agricultural policy and the design of commodity programs. Blame for reduced sales was directed toward supply management programs which used acreage reduction programs to keep from accumulating excessive stocks. Agribusiness wanted to see an agricultural sector which used all its capacity all the time so they would not have to deal with periodic government-induced reductions in demand for their products and services.

The way to achieve that goal was to lay the groundwork for the elimination of farm programs, especially those that used acreage reduction programs. That goal was achieved with the passage of the 1996 Farm Bill which eliminated “farm programs as we know them.” When it turned out that farm programs were needed, they favoured revenue support programs. Today, we are experiencing the fourth year of low crop prices. With crop prices below the full cost of production, farmers are looking for every way they can find to reduce production costs. That means they are shopping more carefully for seeds and farm chemicals, purchasing no more than they absolutely need. They are buying fewer new tractors, combines, and pickup trucks. As a result, the agribusiness sector is facing the same problem that it did in 1983. Demand for their products and services, except for repairs, has fallen and they have had to reduce their workforce. They have had to lower the price of inputs and profitability in the agribusiness sector has

fallen. Merger talks are in the air as they seek ways to survive in a tight market. Ironically, agribusiness is facing a similar set of problems (reduced demand for agricultural inputs) in a different farm policy environment. In 1983, it was low 1982 marketing year prices coupled with unforeseeable production difficulties that were the problem and not the government acreage reduction program per se. Without a wet spring in some parts of the country and a dry summer in other parts of the country, the 1983 acreage reduction under PIK would not have been nearly as large. The common underlying problem between 1983 and 2017 is low prices. The solution is to design a farm program that counteracts prices that are well below the full cost of production. Harwood D. Schaffer is director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center at the University of Tennessee. Daryll E. Ray is the centre’s retired director and an emeritus professor at the University of Tennessee.

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

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report shows how amalgamating would not only maintain our connection to farmers from across Manitoba, but also how it would improve it. From better research capability to a greater potential to leverage research investments, we’ll have more impact as an amalgamated group. Together we can be better.” The amalgamation report ( h t t p s : / / w w w. m b c r o p s. c a ) says the same mandate to focus on research, agronomy and market development would remain. The organization would be governed by a farmer board of 15 directors, elected at large, representing all farmers growing crops represented by the five organizations, Fred Greig, chair of the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association, said in a Dec. 14 interview. The headquarters will likely be in Carman where all the

groups, except flax, already work in a building owned by the Manitoba Corn Growers Association, he said. To ensure grassroots farmer involvement the new organization will hold annual regional farmer meetings. Consultant Rob Hannam of Synthesis Agri-Food Network will present the merger proposal at the following locations: • St. Jean Farm Days, Jan. 10, 1 p.m. • Dauphin, Jan. 11, 1 p.m. • Stonewall, Jan. 12, 10 a.m. • Brandon Ag Days, Jan. 16, 3 p.m. If farmers generally support merging, the steering committee will appoint an inaugural board of directors, the report says. That board will develop the new, not-for-profit corporation and ask the Manitoba Farm Products Marketing Council to grant it authority to collect levies. A final vote will be held at

“This report shows how amalgamating would not only maintain our connection to farmers from across Manitoba, but also how it would improve it.” Myron Krahn

each of the five organizations’ annual meetings in February 2019, or at a special meeting of members, the report says. “The goal, subject to approval by the Manitoba Farm Products Marketing Council (MFPMC) and Manitoba Agriculture, is that the regulation designating the new organization as the representative organization of producers of the named crops will be effective on August 1, 2019,” the report says. The report lists these benefits: research and • Improved agronomy;

• Increased return on research investments by combining resources, systems and staff; • Improved ability to leverage research investments with industry and government funding; • Greater ability to support crop diversity and sustainable crop rotations; • A stronger voice for Manitoba farmer members representing 60 per cent of the field crops produced by more than 8,000 farmers; • More unified and co-ordinated communications to grower members due to reduced overlap;

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• Greater ability to attract and develop highly skilled team members to work on behalf of farmers; • More dedicated, independent specialists to support farmers; • Increased support to farmer directors by having more specialized resources; • Support to Manitoba farmers to improve the sustainability and profitability of their farms; and • Opportunity for staff growth and professional development. The groups agreed electing directors, at large, to represent all farmers who grow crops included in the new organization’s mandate, was the most efficient, Greig said. Should one or more organization decide not to merge, those that want to can do so, the report says. Others will be able to join the new organization in the future. The checkoff amounts for each crop will remain the same, Greig said. However, funds collected will not be allocated strictly by crop. “We’re hoping if it’s the right research it gets done, and not go into this thinking that we’re all going to five individual organizations just operating under one office, because that really defeats the purpose,” Greig said. “We need to be thinking what’s best for Manitoba producers.” The new organization will not advocate on issues that are directly detrimental to other crop types, and will not promote one crop directly in opposition to the other, the report says. Some farmers worry merging will reduce their voice. Many organizations are struggling to get directors, especially as the farm population declines, Greig said in response. Many directors are also overworked, he added. “We are talking about moving to a governance board instead of a hands-on working board,” he said. The path to merger began two years ago, when the five groups, which were already co-operating, plus the Manitoba Canola Growers Association, agreed to explore the idea further. The Canola Growers opted out of the process, but the rest signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that took effect May 1 to investigate merging further. There are many advantages, but risks too, Hannam said in an interview Dec. 16. “We tried to be up front with those in the report too. Farmers make decisions about risk every day so it shouldn’t scare them off. They can see both sides of this and they can tell their boards if they should continue going or not. “I see a lot of potential here and I hope that members see that as well, but it’s really up to them.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

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“That first store was just a teeny little hole in the wall,” she said. Some didn’t think it would last either. But $13,000 raised that very first year quelled the skeptics, and in years to follow Carman’s MCC Thrift Shop would outgrow its location several times. The current location, purchased in 2004, occupies a former IGA grocery store. It’s a bright, spacious place, organized like a department store, with sections for household goods and furniture, tools, jewelry and clothing, a toy department, plus a library filled with books and magazines. Liz Moffatt began volunteering here about five years ago and said Carman’s store is extra special among all she’s visited. “I love thrifting, and I go across the country to visit thrift stores,” she said. “I always tell these ladies, ‘you have undoubtedly the best going as far as displays and merchandising.’ It really is remarkable.” The bustling store is more than a place just to shop too. Customers regularly chat and power visit here. Parents are comfortable with children in tow, because the toys in the toy department can be played with while they shop. “That’s the kind of store that we are. Everyone is given a friendly greeting. We have that kind of atmosphere,” said Elias. Longtime volunteers say donations to the store are increasingly generous. It’s astonishing how much comes in and it seems to be of higher and higher quality all the time. That’s a sign of how much stuff everyone has, of course, and how frequently upgrades of things like furniture and electronics happen nowadays. They take it all because that couch or radio goes happily out the door in to another home. There’s no question where a lot of this material would be ending up otherwise, says Penner. “The landfill.” The MCC team doesn’t throw away stuff either. They’ve devised a colour-coded price tag system that shows what’s been on the shelves awhile. Those items are gathered up for Union Gospel Mission in Winnipeg where they’re redistributed to those who need them. “The bulk of it is clothing,” said Elias. “They also take some shoes.” That’s been ver y helpful because Carman would otherwise run out of space mighty quick, he adds. “At one time we had a terrible time with where we put the excess. To put it in the garbage just didn’t seem right.” Evidently, some donors feel that way about nearly anything. They had a pair of false teeth given to them. “And we had a bag of dried tea bags come in once,” adds Wiebe. “Someone thought we could use them again.” Donors also turn over some very valuable items. “This just was handed to me and I don’t know if it’s gold but it’s very pretty,” said volunteer Laura Thielmann, holding up a lady’s locket. Items like these will be appraised.

“We do have gold given to us,” she adds. And many one-of-a-kind vintage items and antiques. Store volunteers started selling these through silent auctions a few years ago, seeing this as not only giving more people a chance to purchase something they really like, but a way to earn more money with these items too. Sales from silent auctions last year brought in $34,000, and these events definitely draw the customers. It’s commonplace on the final day of sales to have buyers milling about, bidding each other up to the last anxious minute, said Elias. All the cash through the register, minus store operating expenses is turned over to Mennonite Central Committee to support its international relief, development and peace programs in 55 countr ies. Those programs include providing food and other assistance in times of crisis around the world, and tools and education to support sustainable agricultural practices among the world’s farmers. MCC also does peace-building training in areas of conflict throughout the world. A portion of funds raised here also support the local community, of course. The thrift shop donates to the Handi-van service, the hospital auxiliary and many other organizations and projects. They’ve provided funds for refugee assistance and store credits for them to start their lives with household items from here. Families who lose homes to fire also come to begin rebuilding their lives. Volunteers tell heartfelt stories about what a difference the thrift store can make for individuals. “I remember this young boy who came in and said, ‘I can’t play soccer because I have no shoes and I can’t afford any,’” recalls Helen Kroeker. “They don’t let them play soccer unless they have the right shoes. I said, ‘well, come with me.’ We got him a pair of soccer shoes for $2. He was so happy.” It’s those kinds of moments t h a t a re e s p e c i a l l y g r a t i f y i n g . Vo l u n t e e r i n g h a s cemented lifelong friendships too of course. And it’s gratifying knowing the work they do supports important causes both locally and internationally. This store provides a place to put their faith in action, says Penner. She said she used to wish she could go overseas to do mission work. “So this is my long-term mission trip,” she said. She has also volunteered here since 1975. “Christ said, ‘When I was hungry you fed me. When I needed clothes you clothed me,’” said Elias. “While we’re working here we do exactly that. Someone picks up that pair of pants. That’s $3. That’s going to feed many people.” Tempted to visit Carman MCC Thrift Shop? Please note it is closed for the holidays December 24 until it opens again January 2. Regular store hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday.

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Board and CEO named for Smart Agri-Food Supercluster The organization is one of the nine shortlisted groups that could access the federal government’s $950-million innovation fund STAFF

wo agriculture industry veterans have been tapped to head up the Smart AgriFood Supercluster (SASC) as the group has announced its interim board of directors. The board will be chaired by Doug Beever from Agrium and consists of 10 agriculture industry leaders. The board has also appointed Rob Davies as its interim CEO. Davies is widely known in the agriculture sector for his longtime leadership as CEO of the Weyburn Inland Terminal. Superclusters are seen by the federal government as key to bringing together the right mix of industry players, post-secondary institutions and other sector players to drive collaboration and innovation. SASC is one of the nine groups shortlisted out of more than 100 applicants for access to the federal government’s $950-million innovation fund.

SASC has drawn together groups seeking to improve the ways Canada grows, raises and processes food while targeting key environmental goals. SASC expects to create more than 300,000 jobs, generate $30 billion in increased economic growth and reduce 40 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions. The solutions SASC proposes will have a meaningful impact domestically and reinforce Canada as a global agri-food leader, noted Beever. “SASC will provide a backbone to connect farmers and ranchers to consumers in a sustainable way that meets the business needs of all value chain participants,” Beever said in a prepared release. Davies noted the group is bringing together a lot of knowledge and intelligence within the sector. “SASC is building a network of contributing organizations that represent the entire value chain,” he said in the release. “This isn’t about individual win-

“This isn’t about individual winners and losers; it is about creating a structure that benefits all system participants.” Doug Beever SASC chair

ners and losers; it is about creating a structure that benefits all system participants.” SASC’s success will stem from how creatively and effectively it invests in the right innovations at the right time, with the right players for the right results, said Davies. That includes a key focus on how data is turned into useful information. “If you look back 20 years, auto steer in farm machinery was a novelty, like self-driving cars today. Now farm operations across Canada rely on this technology,” he said. “We see data

management and the connection to the consumer as another major step change in Canadian a g r i c u l t u re, a n d S A S C i s designed to facilitate a consistent, cost-effective way to allow the entire value chain to work together in building this future.” SASC’s organizing group established four “innovation communities” to undertake specific projects. Those communities focus on digital technologies, sustainable livestock, genetics and processing and the bioeconomy. More than 80 organizations, including some of the largest value chain and sustainability consortiums, and 17 post-secondary research and institution partners are already working within these communities to build on Canadian innovation strengths through anchor projects and working collaboratively to create “roads and bridges” between the silos that have historically resulted in stranded innovation and lost opportunities, SASC noted.

The interim board of SASC will be composed of: Doug Beever, Agrium, CEO Rob Saik, Agri-Trend/Trimble Andrea Brockelbank, Beef Cattle Research Council/CCA Stuart Cullum, Olds College Rod Snyder, Field to Market Mary Moran, Calgary Economic Development Joy Romero, Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN) Helle Bank Jorgensen, Global Compact Canada Bill Whitelaw, Weather Innovations & Glacier FarmMedia Laura Kilcrease, Alberta Innovates Bryan Walton, Alberta Cattle Feeders Association

Full funding announcements are expected from the federal government in early 2018.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

MAAS awards three lifetime memberships A lifetime of effort has earned the nominees this recognition STAFF

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he Manitoba Association of Agriculture Societies (MAAS) has honoured three Manitobans with lifetime memberships for their commitment to their local agriculture society and agriculture as a whole. Jim Knox and Huntley Knox, both of Miami, and Yvonne Jansen of Cypress River received the nod earlier this month.

Jim Knox was born and raised in Miami and has been a lifelong resident — and a longtime member of the Miami Agriculture Society. He currently sits as a member of the board and was president of the organization for more than 15 years. An active member of the cattle show circuit he’s also known for his devotion to the local beef club, which he also led for 15 years. He’s also been a community leader in other local community organizations. Knox says he considers agriculture to be his way of life as much as his occupation and he’s very proud to farm the land his grandfather George Knox settled on in 1919.

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Yvonne Jansen was raised on a small mixed farm northwest of Pilot Mound, attending a oneroom country school through Grade 8, then the collegiate in Pilot Mound. Following her Centennial Year project, as she describes her wedding to husband George, the couple farmed for several years. She’s been secretary, vice-president and then president of the Cypress River Agricultural Society, serving three years in each position. She’s also been active in other community groups and is noted as a community-oriented citizen. These days she’s busy operating her sewing business, Yvonne’s Designs, crafting, helping with grandchildren and travelling.

Huntley Knox farms in the Miami district at the top of the Manitoba Escarpment, just west of the village, with his brother Jim and son Dale. Growing up his parents taught their children that what you put into your community, you reap as benefits. He has been a member of the Miami Agricultural Society for the better part of his life, filling many positions including president. For the past several years he’s been director of the rodeo committee. He’s also been active in the Miami Beef Club, president of the Canadian Hereford Association and councillor and deputy reeve for the RM of Thompson, as well as many other boards and committees.

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Manitoba’s cannabis homegrow ban a mistake Consumer’s group compares the restriction to outdated home-brewing regulations that were phased out STAFF

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

LIVESTOCK MARKETS (Friday to Thursday) Winnipeg December 15, 2017 Slaughter Cattle Steers — Heifers — D1, 2 Cows 75.00 - 80.00 D3 Cows — Bulls 87.00 - 96.00 Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.) 150.00 - 188.50 (801-900 lbs.) 175.00 - 206.00 (701-800 lbs.) 188.00 - 208.00 (601-700 lbs.) 200.00 - 223.00 (501-600 lbs.) 210.00 - 242.00 (401-500 lbs.) 225.00 - 275.00 Heifers (901+ lbs.) 150.00 - 174.00 (801-900 lbs.) 155.00 - 188.00 (701-800 lbs.) 168.00 - 192.00 (601-700 lbs.) 178.00 - 204.00 (501-600 lbs.) 188.00 - 220.00 (401-500 lbs.) 190.00 - 235.00

Heifers

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

Alberta South $ 154.00 - 158.00 — 81.00 - 95.00 70.00 - 87.00 — $ 185.00 - 193.00 187.00 - 201.00 195.00 - 209.00 202.00 - 218.00 217.00 - 240.00 240.00 - 269.00 $ 166.00 - 181.00 173.00 - 186.00 176.00 - 190.00 180.00 - 199.00 188.00 - 210.00 200.00 - 226.00

(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.)

Futures (December 15, 2017) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change December 2017 116.28 0.65 February 2018 119.15 0.48 April 2018 120.30 0.20 June 2018 113.35 -0.08 August 2018 110.33 -0.72 October 2018 111.00 -0.25

Feeder Cattle January 2018 March 2018 April 2018 May 2018 August 2018 September 2018

Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

Ontario $ 116.59 - 145.78 123.48 - 142.75 51.78 - 72.36 51.78 - 72.36 70.53 - 96.41 $ 177.25 - 218.93 183.41 - 217.03 159.52 - 217.04 182.62 - 233.16 192.39 - 247.26 197.71 - 253.50 $ 142.31 - 178.05 148.50 - 185.60 164.29 - 185.04 152.80 - 204.55 161.44 - 214.74 154.39 - 210.53

Close 146.25 144.35 144.70 144.35 146.70 146.25

Change -0.07 -0.15 0.07 -0.10 0.50 0.43

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending Dec 9, 2017

Previous Year

59,252 12,988 46,264 NA 633,000

48,480 13,040 35,440 NA 608,000

Week Ending Dec 9, 2017

Previous Year

1,408 29,280 13,824 556 984 11,934 337

892 23,911 13,405 727 566 7,941 324

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

$1 Cdn: $0.7791 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.2834 Cdn.

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Cattle Prices

Slaughter Cattle Grade A Steers Grade A Heifers D1, 2 Cows D3 Cows Bulls Steers

EXCHANGES: December 15, 2017

Source: Manitoba Agriculture Current Week 164E 153E 150.32

Last Week 163.85 152.07 149.26

Last Year (Index 100) 149.82 139.92 136.14

154.26

150.47

135.06

PQ (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)

Cattle markets beginning to look a lot like Christmas Producers are cleaning out their pens ahead of year-end “Feedlots have had a good year feeding cattle in 2017 and have been paying up for calves and feeders here across Canada.”

DAVE SIMS CNSC

s the last few days of 2017 wind down, so too does activity at most auction marts in the province. Volumes were noticeably weaker during the week ended Dec. 15 as producers cleaned out their pens before the end of the year. Just over 5,000 animals made their way to Manitoba’s eight major outlets, compared to 7,300 the week before. Prices were a touch softer in some cases. Feeder steers in the 500- to 600-lb. class were down $10 per hundredweight while heifers (400-500 lbs.) dipped by roughly $5-$7. “Fed animals saw some seasonal pressure,” said Brian Perillat, senior analyst with the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. “Cull cows were at prices close to a year ago.” On the other side, good-fleshed cows and bulls were generally $5 higher than a week ago. Domestic demand is quite strong, he added, and Canada is exporting a steady amount of meat internationally. “The overall market has been pretty good and the spot cash market is looking strong for calves,” he noted. Demand has been better than many expected, Perillat said, even though cattle numbers are bigger. However, he said, feeder calves have been feeling some pressure in the futures despite interest in them from feedlots. “Prices are working to keep the premiums to where they were last year,” he said. There are some indications a further lull

Brian Perillat Canadian Cattlemen’s Association/Canfax

could be in store for Manitoba cattle prices, though, due to pressure in the U.S. market. F u t u re s o n t h e C h i c a g o Me rc a n t i l e Exchange fell last week as a glut of beef on the market dragged the market lower. Animals in large numbers have reached slaughter size and are ready to be processed. As a result, meat packers have been reducing their bids in an effort to get their hands on fresh carcasses. Typically the U.S. Christmas season sees a push on for choice cuts of beef but in this instance the amount of beef available outstripped the demand, creating a downward push on the charts. There are also some ideas cattle numbers in Canada will continue to grow in 2018. The market should be able to handle it, Perillat said. “Feedlots have had a good year feeding cattle in 2017 and have been paying up for calves and feeders here across Canada,” he noted. Feed costs are also higher than a year ago, which is making life tough for some producers. Dave Sims writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

Futures (December 15, 2017) in U.S. Hogs

December 2017

64.03

Change 0.45

February 2018

67.63

-0.85

April 2018

72.25

-0.15

May 2018 June 2018

77.60 81.63

-0.40 -0.67

Other Market Prices Choice (110+ lb.) (95 - 109 lb.) (80 - 94 lb.) (Under 80 lb.) (New crop)

Wendy’s moves to lower antibiotic use in beef BY TOM POLANSEK

Sheep and Lambs $/cwt Ewes Lambs

briefs

Winnipeg Wooled Fats — — Not Available This Week — —

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 November 12, 2017 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A .................................................$1.910 Undergrade ....................................... $1.820 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ............................................... $1.890 Undergrade ........................................$1.790 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ............................................... $1.890 Undergrade ........................................$1.790 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A................................................. $1.890 Undergrade......................................... $1.805 Prices are quoted f.o.b. producers premise.

Toronto 140.87 - 186.41 183.17 - 200.95 194.60 - 212.51 196.66 - 236.51 225.49 - 439.37 —

SunGold Specialty Meats —

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

Reuters

Hamburger chain Wendy’s has laid out plans to trim the use of antibiotics that are important to human medicine from its beef supply, the latest step by a food company to fight concerns about resistance to the drugs in people. Starting in 2018, the company will buy about 15 per cent of its beef from producers who have each pledged to reduce by 20 per cent their use of Tylosin, the one medically important antibiotic they routinely feed to cattle, according to Wendy’s.

Wendy’s, which says it is the world’s third-largest quick-service hamburger chain, plans to increase the amount of beef it purchases from these producers and others that raise cattle in similar ways. The company also said it finished removing antibiotics important to human medicine from its chicken supply, after pledging to do so last year. “Moving away from routine antibiotic use in their beef production is certainly welcome, and we’d urge them to move quicker,” said Matt Wellington, antibiotics program director for advocacy group U.S. PIRG. Scientists and public health experts for years have warned that the regular use of antibiotics to promote growth and pre-

vent illness in healthy farm animals contributes to the development and spread of drug-resistant superbugs that can infect people. Last month, the World Health Organization recommended that meat producers end such practices. There is “a growing public health concern about antibiotic resistance,” Wendy’s said, adding that the company believes it “could help by reducing or eliminating antibiotic use in our food supply.” In the United States, the sale and distribution of antibiotics approved for use in food-producing animals fell by 10 per cent from 2015 to 2016, in the first such decline since the Food and Drug Administration started tracking the data in 2009.

Goats Kids Billys Mature

Winnipeg ( Hd Fats) — — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 137.38 - 253.88 — 115.50 - 269.05

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

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 20.00 - 35.00 35.00 - 45.00

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

GRAIN MARKETS column

Manitoba Elevator Prices Average quotes as of December 18, 2017 ($/tonne)

Lack of export demand drags canola to multi-month lows

Future

Basis

Cash

E. Manitoba wheat

227.81

23.12

250.94

W. Manitoba wheat

227.81

6.02

233.83 478.94

E. Manitoba canola

494.00

-16.06

W. Manitoba canola

495.00

-23.42

Improved outlooks for South American soybeans aren’t helping Phil Franz-Warkentin CNSC

he thesaurus got a bit of a workout during the week ended Dec. 15 in an ongoing effort to come up with new words to describe the downtrend/slide/ drop/slip/fall/collapse/general sense of weakness in the canola market. Canola prices fell to their lowest levels in three months during the week, and while Friday saw a modest correction, there’s still room to the downside. The January contract finished the week at $495 per tonne, well below former psychological support at $500 and the 200-day moving average at roughly $503 per tonne. Fund traders had started the week holding net long positions, but were likely neutral to net short by Friday’s close. The next support comes in at around the September lows near $490 and then around $480 per tonne. A lack of fresh exporter buying interest is contributing to the weakness in canola, with Chinese demand said to be non-existent for the time being. The Canadian Grain Commission reported that farmers delivered 375,900 tonnes of canola during the week ended Dec. 10. Exports were up slightly on the week, with total exports to date of 3.8 million tonnes, running about 400,000 tonnes ahead of the year-ago pace.

While canola exports are running ahead of the year-ago pace, that business was already on the books and prices may need to head lower in order to uncover some more demand. Visible supplies in the commercial pipeline remain at relatively comfortable levels of about 1.5 million tonnes, limiting the need for end-users to bid up the market. Widening basis levels, despite the declining futures, were noted in many locations. Improving weather forecasts out of Argen tina were also having a bearish influence on the Canadian market, as the better soybean prospects in the South American country weighed on the Chicago futures. With the North American growing season all wrapped up for the year, production news out of South America could provide the spark for a corrective rally in the futures if any problems develop. Soybean and corn futures both trended lower over the course of the week, with bearish technical signals contributing to the softer tone. For wheat, ample world supplies remain a major bearish influence, but oversold price sentiment was enough to help the U.S. contracts see a bit of a recovery off of their lows. Mounting concerns over dryness in the southern U.S. Plains were also being watched, with the lack of moisture leaving winter wheat more susceptible to damage if the temperatures drop.

Port Prices

Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

Cash Prices Winnipeg

As of Friday, December 15, 2017 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

184.63

-0.18

U.S. hard red winter 12% Houston U.S. spring wheat 14% Portland

272.8

n/a

Canola Thunder Bay

515.10

-1.00

Canola Vancouver

530.10

-1.00

Closing Futures Prices

As of Thursday, December 14, 2017 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

495.00

-10.10

ICE milling wheat

n/a

ICE barley

n/a

ICE canola

Mpls. HRS wheat

227.81

8.18

Chicago SRW wheat

153.68

9.65

Kansas City HRW wheat

153.41

6.15

Corn

136.80

2.95

Oats

154.81

8.11

Soybeans

355.41

-8.27

Soymeal

353.30

-10.36

731.18

-8.38

Soyoil

As of Friday, December 15, 2017 ($/tonne) Last Week

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471.58 Source: pdqinfo.ca

Weekly Change

Feed wheat

n/a

Feed barley

165.35

-5.05

Rye Flaxseed Feed peas

n/a

473.99

-3.15

n/a

Oats

186.74

3.89

Soybeans

378.10

-9.92

Sunflower (NuSun) Fargo, ND ($U.S./CWT)

17.65

-0.05

Sunflower (Confection) Fargo, ND ($U.S./CWT)

Ask

Prairie wheat bids rise along with U.S. futures Minneapolis March 2018 spring wheat climbed 8.75 U.S. cents on the week BY ASHLEY ROBINSON CNS Canada

ard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada rose for the week ended Dec. 15, following the lead of U.S. futures contracts. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices rose by about $3-$4 per tonne in some areas of Western Canada, according to price quotes from a cross-section of deliver y points compiled by PDQ (Price and Data Quotes). Average prices ranged from about $234 per tonne in western Manitoba to as high as $256 in southern Alberta. Quoted basis levels varied from location to location, but fell slightly to range from about $6 to $28 per

Average (CWRS) prices ranged from about $234 per tonne in western Manitoba to as high as $256 in southern Alberta.

tonne above the futures when using the grain company methodology of quoting the basis as the difference between U.S. dollar-denominated futures and Canadian dollar cash bids. When accounting for currency exchange rates by adjusting Canadian prices to U.S. dollars, CWRS bids ranged from US$182 to US$199 per tonne, which was down on a U.S. dollar basis on the week. That would put the currency-adjusted basis levels at about US$29-$46 below the futures.

Looking at it the other way around, if the Minneapolis futures are converted to Canadian dollars, CWRS basis levels across Western Canada range from $37 to $59 below the futures. Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheat bids were anywhere from $4 to $7 higher. Prices across the Prairies ranged from C$172 per tonne in southwestern Saskatchewan to $190 per tonne in Alberta. Average durum prices were mostly unchanged across Western Canada,

with bids ranging from about $268 to $275 per tonne. The March spring wheat contract in Minneapolis, off of which most CWRS contracts Canada are based, was quoted Dec. 15 at US$6.20 per bushel, up 8.75 U.S. cents from the previous week. Kansas City hard red winter wheat futures, traded in Chicago, are more closely linked to CPSR in Canada. The March K.C. wheat contract was quoted at US$4.175 per bushel on Dec. 15, down by half a U.S. cent compared to the previous week. T h e Ma rc h C h i c a g o Bo a rd o f Trade soft wheat contract settled at US$4.1825 on Dec. 15, down threequarters of a U.S. cent on the week. The Canadian dollar settled Dec. 15 at 77.92 U.S. cents, down roughly one-sixth of a cent compared to the previous week.

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

LIVESTOCK h u s b a n d r y — t h e s c i e n c e , S K I L L O R ART O F F AR M IN G

MBFI tackles the ins and outs of winter pasturing From swath grazing to corn grazing, geothermal wells to motion sensor water pumps, farmers got a taste of their extended grazing options earlier this month BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff

eef producers should all consider some type of extended grazing, even if it only adds a few weeks to the season. That’s according to Manitoba Agriculture livestock extension Shawn Cabak, one of the speakers at the latest producer-focused workshop from Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives near Brookdale. Attendees took home the pros and cons of winter grazing and winter watering options Dec. 7. “There’s a number of different extended grazing practices that a producer can consider, whether it’s stockpiled storage, grazing a second-cut hayfield, corn grazing, swath grazing, bale grazing. It depends what kind of resources they have and what they’re interested in,” Cabak said. “They all work for different producers and some producers practise a number of different extended grazing options.” Winter feed costs are the largest expense for most beef producers and the more cattle can forage, the less feed m u s t b e p rovided, winter grazing advocates say. Others have pointed to fertility and nutrient benefits or a drop in manure-hauling costs as benefits. Winter grazing sites have exhibited nutrient jumps, since cattle drop manure and urine in the field. That reasoning makes marginal land a prime candidate for winter grazing, Cabak said, since the farmer will see more benefit than on already wellnourished soil.

Different approaches At MBFI, cattle spend all winter in the field through a mix of grazing styles. The herd is moved from summer grazing in September, spending a month in a hayfield after its second cut before being moved on to swath grazing in November. Corn grazing takes the herd through the first few months of winter, before finishing up with bale grazing from February until the end of May. In all cases, producers were warned to provide at least twoto-one mineral for the herd. Not all of those options come with the same cost impact. At MBFI last year, bale grazing cost the least, at $1.85 per head per day, compared to corn grazing at $2.02 and swath grazing at $2.95, although Cabak noted that swath grazing cost seemed inflated compared to previous experience.

Corn grazing gets a moment in the spotlight during a Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives extended grazing tour. PHOTOs: ALEXIS STOCKFORD

What’s the right system? Grazing second-cut hayfields, stubble or corn stover may be a starting point for winter grazing newcomers, Cabak said. While not robust enough for lactating cows, corn residue may contain three to five per cent protein and TDN in the low to mid-50 per cent range. “With a lot of those practices, whether it’s grazing second cut, stover or crop residue, there’s minimal cost. It’s the cost of a fence around the field, and then the cattle may get two to three weeks of extra grazing at very little cost,” he said. Swath grazing was tagged for the very end of the regular grazing season, since late season comes with nitrate risk and may be limited by fall weather, producers heard Dec. 7. Seed timing might add another hurdle, since swaths risk being spoiled by weather if cut too soon. Corn grazing has attracted producers with its high yield and nutritive value, although Cabak noted that the practice only makes economic sense if there are, in fact, high yields. Farmers were told to give cattle three to four days per field section, long enough that they will start eating stalks rather than gorging on cobs. That same grain overload concern has led experts to transition cattle with hay before letting them loose in the corn.

Bale grazing Co r n g ra z i n g i s s t i l l a n emerging practice in Manitoba, but bale grazing is nothing new. Bales can be placed all at once in the fall or moved in

one at a time every week to 10 days, presenters said Dec. 7. Fall placement is convenient, but has greater risk of wildlife loss and may catch snow. Cabak told producers to make sure bales are placed on their sides, not on their ends, to reduce loss from hay sheeting off the bale and being stamped into the ground. The provincial livestock expert favours a 30- to 40-baleper-acre concentration, spaced between 33-38 feet apart, for both economic and environmental reasons, he said. While producers have pointed to higher soil nutrients on bale grazing sites, the practice has also raised some environmental red flags. Nutrients cannot filter while the ground is frozen, Mitchell Timmerman, provincial agriecosystems specialist, said, and run-off might steal those nutrients from the field and lead to water quality issues. Bale grazing should be kept from creeks and low-laying areas for that reason, he said. At 30 alfalfa-grass bales per acre (1,250 pounds each with 14 per cent protein), Manitoba Agriculture estimates that 510 pounds of nitrogen, 51 pounds of phosphorus and 434 pounds of potassium will be returned to the field. More than that is pushing the envelope of environmental responsibility, Cabak said. Rolling out bales may spread nutrients better, although it also adds cost, he added. At the same time, a better spread may mean a better forage crop the following year. At MBFI, unrolled bale sites

returned 979 pounds of dry matter per acre the next year, an 81 per cent yield jump. Timmerman stressed that bale grazing sites should be moved from year to year to spread the nutrient load.

Avoiding Bambi Extended grazing will draw wildlife, producers heard Dec. 7, something that might impact which grazing practices are practical in high-wildlife areas. In particular, swath grazing and corn grazing might end up feeding the wildlife as much as the cattle. There is little that can be done to avoid the problem, Cabak said, although bale grazing might help producers dodge wildlife issues if bales are brought out as needed. The best winter grazing system will still run into problems if the waterer freezes. Ray Bittner, livestock specialist with Manitoba Agriculture was on hand Dec. 7 to run down winter watering options. Bittner had few good things to say about dugouts, whether in winter or summer. The water is not as clean, he said. Cattle risk foot rot, water may be unpalatable and cattle may fall through the ice and drown. “If you’re serious about the cattle business, you should be serious about getting good water to the cattle too,” he said. Producers may use an eightfoot-deep pipe system to source a thermo sink waterer, he said. The system stores water in three separately insulated columns, extending into the ground. The middle column acts as a reservoir and the

Ray Bittner, Manitoba Agriculture livestock specialist, takes participants through the ins and outs of a thermo sink winter watering system north of Brandon.

outside columns are topped by drinking bowls.

High turnover That system works best with large herds where there is more constant water disturbance, he said. “The more gallons of water you take out of it in a day — and the longer period of time over the day — leaves less hours for it to cool down and develop ice,” he said. “If you are going to put a thermo sink in, I encourage you to put it against a fence or in some place up against a natural obstacle rather than in the middle of the corridor,” he later added. “Cows can walk. They can walk half a mile.” Cattle who balk at the distance will often eat snow, he added. Smaller herds may prefer a pump-up system. The motion-activated system will pump water from a buried and insulated reservoir when a cow approaches, letting it drain back underground when the animal leaves. “It actually works better if you’re a little farther away from the cows, from the feed to the water, because then the cows drop so me of the stuff out of their mouth before they put it into your water,” Bittner said. Water sourced from a portable shed, geothermal waterers and solar or wind systems — which carry the advantage of being totally remote and needing no hydro or pipelines, but are less reliable and expensive to maintain — are also options, he said. astockford@farmmedia.com

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

Producers push for tighter bear-baiting rules Riding Mountain producer Teren Garlinski says baiting bears on Crown lands has contributed to his herd losses, and he wants something done Co-operator staff

eef producer Teren Garlinski wants to see a halt to bear baiting on Crown lands, or at least have meat taken out of the equation. Garlinski, who farms southwest of Grandview near the border of Riding Mountain National Park, says predation is a serious concern on his operation and claims bear baiting contributes to the problem. Garlinski runs his cattle largely on private land, although baiting occurs on the Crown lands surrounding his property through hunting season. Much of that bait is excess from nearby restaurants and contains meat or animal byproducts. “We’ve been seeing that when these guys finish their bear baiting and their hunting, that we have a big flood of bears moving out and mingling with our livestock. We’ve lost calves and we can’t find them,” he said, pointing to bears’ tendency to drag off their kills. Alberta’s Rancher’s Guide to Predator Attacks on Livestock notes that bears may prefer to feed on kills in a more protected area. Garlinski has taken up the issue with the Manitoba Beef Producers. The Grandviewarea producer sponsored a motion during the most recent round of beef producer membership meetings, asking MBP to push the government into banning the use of meat and animal fat as bait on agricultural Crown lands. What does the province say on bear baiting? Baiting is unique to hunting wolf and bear, and the Manitoba government requires all baits to be labelled with a hunter’s name and address. The 2017 Manitoba Hunting Guide allows up to 100 kilograms of meat or fish in baits,

“We’ve been seeing that when these guys finish their bear baiting and their hunting, that we have a big flood of bears moving out and mingling with our livestock. We’ve lost calves and we can’t find them.” Teren Garlinski

although none of that may be livestock heads, hooves, hides, mammary glands or internal organs. The same rules forbid baiting within 200 metres of a road or dwelling, 500 metres of a cottage development or Crown land picnic shelter or 100 metres of Riding Mountain National Park. In terms of Crown lands, baits in the Riding Mountain area can’t be put up sooner than two weeks before hunting season and must be gone within five days of the season’s end. Manitoba Sustainable Develop ment says hunting is one of the main means it controls bear populations and that, “desired harvest levels cannot be achieved without the ability of hunters to use bait.” “Most bear hunters like to hunt in secluded areas away from others, and where their activities cause little disturbance to other Crown land users,” a spokesperson said over email. “The department has no evidence to suggest that the use of bait in general, and specifically the use of meat for bait, with the restrictions that Manitoba has in place, increases black bear depredation on livestock.” Garlinski disagrees. Sur viving bears do not leave just because the baits are removed,

he said. Instead, he argues, baiting with animal fat or meat has signalled that there is meat in the area. While it’s difficult to say how many of their losses are bear kills (coyotes and wolves are also predation threats in the area), Garlinski estimates between 15-20 calves are killed by predators each year. “We have quite a few losses in the spring due to bears just for the simple fact that that’s about the time when the bears do come out and everything,” he said. “During the wintertime is when we find quite a bit of the wolf activities.” Cliff Trinder, another beef producer in the RM of Russell, agreed that bear baiting could make predation worse if done improperly. At the same time, he said, he has used bear baiting on his own land to draw bears away from cattle to reduce predation. “Done right, it can be very effective in controlling the location of the bears and it can be very effective in reducing the numbers, but it’s got to be done properly,” he said. Trinder brought in a licensed predator reduction outfit to control his bear problem several years ago. Since then, he said, his losses have dropped from upwards of 17 animals a year to one or two. “I don’t know how you’re going to regulate it because you’ve got to have co-operation with the landowner... that’s simple common sense and I guess what you could ask as part of the licensing system, you may ask the outfitters or the people doing the baiting to work actively with the landowners or the cattle operators.” Garlinski’s motion received broad support from beef producers gathered in Roblin at the beginning of November. It will join other member motions at this year’s Manitoba Beef Producers AGM Feb. 8-9 in Brandon. astockford@farmmedia.com

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Less water needed to produce beef today BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff

new study adds to a growing body of evidence that beef’s environmental footprint is lessening as time passes. Results released Dec. 14 by researchers at University of Manitoba and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) show it now takes less water to raise a kilogram of beef. The study is part of a larger project entitled Defining the Environmental Footprint of Canadian Beef Production which has also shown reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emitted by cattle as well as land required to raise them. The study looked at a time period between 1891 and 2011. These newest results reveal a 17 per cent decrease in the amount of water now needed to produce that same one kilogram of beef than 30 years ago. The improvements come from efficiency gains in feed production, how cattle are raised and from more beef now produced per animal, researchers say. “Our results show very clearly the water footprint per kilogram of beef produced has been reduced over the years and that the industry is operating at a high level of sustainability from a water use perspective,” said Dr. Tim McAllister, a research scientist at AAFC Lethbridge and one of the study’s principal investigators. Deemed unprecedented in its detail, the study looked at water used for feed and pasture crop production, water used by cattle for drinking, water used in feeding systems, and water used in processing. Notably, the amount of water cattle drink accounts for less than one per cent of total water related to beef production. Feed production, or the water required to grow pasture and crops or produce byproduct feed accounts for 99 per cent. University of Manitoba researcher and one of the study’s lead investigators Getahun Legesse Gizaw cites several factors driving the progress they found. “The improvements related to feed production were due primarily to improvements in crop pro-

ductivity, with feed crops yielding higher with less water use,” he said. “Additional improvements were due to beef production advances, in areas including increases in carcass weight, reproductive efficiency, and average daily gain. There has also been substantial investment in southern Alberta to improve the efficiency of irrigation infrastructure and lower evaporative water losses in an area where most of Canada’s feedlot cattle are finished.” The study examined both the use of surface and groundwater, defined in the study as “blue” water and precipitation or “green” water usage. Notably, while the overall reduction in total water use was found to be 17 per cent, the blue water usage decreased by 20 per cent. The study factored in potential evapotranspiration from lands used for beef production utilizing data from 679 weather stations across Canada. Regional differences in beef production and water use were also accounted for. Water use was compared to beef production output, using information on cattle populations and key performance metrics such as average daily gain and carcass weight. The researchers note there are more opportunities for further improvement, both in feeding efficiencies and in reducing water requirements for feed crop and pasture production. The research contributes to the efforts of the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB), including the CRSB’s National Beef Sustainability Assessment. “Water is a precious resource and Canadian beef producers are committed to supporting responsible water use across our production systems,” said Bryan Thiessen, manager of Namaka Farms near Strathmore, Alberta and chair of the Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC). The BCRC manages the Beef Cattle Industry Science Cluster which funded this research under the Growing Forward 2 framework. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Feeder Steers No. on offer

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

St. Rose

Winnipeg

Dec. 13

Dec. 12

Dec.12

Dec. 18

n/a

Dec. 11

Dec. 14

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1,300

n/a

243

667

n/a

1,052*

1,062

n/a

over 1,000 lbs.

n/a

900-1,000

n/a

180.00-192.00

n/a

800-900

199

n/a

125.00-160.00

185.00-200.00

n/a

200.00-215.00 (219.50)

191.00-200.00

n/a

700-800

216

190.00-210.50

130.00-162.00

195.00-215.00

n/a

210.00-225.00 (231.00)

200.00-215.00

n/a

600-700

180.00-235.00

200.00-223.00

140.00-185.00

217.00-235.00

n/a

215.00-238.00 (243.00)

212.00-232.00

n/a

500-600

185.00-253.50

210.00-233.00

160.00-224.00

225.00-240.00

n/a

235.00-252.00

225.00-249.00

n/a

400-500

263

235.00-261.00

170.00-225.00

230.00-245.00

n/a

225.00-285.00

n/a

300-400

n/a

235.00-262.50

180.00-245.00

n/a

150.00-171.00

110.00-145.00

170.00-182.00

n/a

Feeder heifers

n/a

900-1,000 lbs. 800-900

178

160.00-179.00

135.00-170.00

175.00-185.00

n/a

150.00-178.00

n/a

700-800

180

160.00-186.50

175.00-213.00

177.00-189.00

n/a

170.00-186.00

n/a

600-700

180.00-216.25

180.00-209.50

190.00-223.00

180.00-194.00

n/a

185.00-205.00

180.00-196.00

n/a

500-600

190.00-235.00

190.00-220.00

210.00-250.00

190.00-211.00

n/a

185.00-211.00

190.00-217.00

n/a

400-500

223

200.00-219.00

220.00-260.00

195.00-220.00

n/a

200.00-219.00

195.00-242.00

n/a

300-400

n/a

220.00-230.00

230.00-275.00

n/a

210.00-235.00

n/a

No. on offer

200

n/a

160

147

n/a

255

n/a

D1-D2 Cows

80.00-92.00

n/a

73.00-90.00

80.00-87.50

n/a

70.00-76.00 (80.00)

80.00-92.00

n/a

Slaughter Market

D3-D5 Cows

74.00-80.00

n/a

60.00-78.00

65.00-79.00

n/a

72.00-81.00

n/a

Age Verified

n/a

Mature Bulls

90.00-116.00

n/a

85.00-93.00

95.00-107.50

n/a

95.00-107.50

90.00-101.00

n/a

Butcher Steers

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

Lean Export Cows

n/a

100.00-158.00

n/a

120.00-142.00

n/a

90.00-135.00

n/a

Heiferettes * 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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4-H reports

anitoba 4-H clubs can submit their reports to us at news@fbcpublishing.com, by regular mail to 4-H Reports, c/o Manitoba Co-operator, 1666 Dublin Ave., Winnipeg, Man. R3H 0H1, or by fax to 204-954-1422.

Happy Rock Horseshoes The club held its first meeting of the year at Megan Hall’s house on Nov. 11. Seven members were present. Our leaders this year are Marti Davis, Heather Davey and Jackie Hanna. At the meeting we elected our new officers. I will be the club reporter this year. Megan Hall is now president, Kaitlyn Davey is vice-president, Jody Davis is secretary, Madison Teichroeb is treasurer and Landon Nelson is Banner scanner. We also discussed what we will be doing this year and which project books we will be working on. For our Christmas party we hope to go to Westbourne for skating, games and a potluck supper. Our communications night will be on Feb. 13, 2018 at the Gladstone United Church. Ev e r y o n e i s w e l c o m e t o attend. — Regan Teichroeb

Elm Creek Beef This year the club has 23 members and five leaders. The executive is made up of Justin deRuiter (president), Jesse Borst (vice-president), Mckenzie Enns (treasurer) and Seth Vandenbos (secretar y). Our photographers are Hannon Vandersluis and Char issa Vandenbos. The reporters are Harleigh Carlson and Taylor Carlson. We had our annual sponsors’ banquet on Nov. 16, along with our awards prese n t a t i o n f r o m l a s t y e a r. T h e w i n n e r s we re Ju s t i n deRuiter (steer, continu ation), Sheylyn Dooley ( re s e r ve s t e e r ) a n d Je s s e Borst (heifer). Most Valuable Me m b e r w e n t t o G e r r i n Vandersluis and Harleigh Carlson. The record book a w a rd s w e n t t o Q u i n l a n Enns and Taylor Carlson. Thank you to our sponsors: Elm Creek Co-op, the Fr o s t , S a v a g e a n d Ry r i e f a m i l i e s, Ca rg i l l a n d t h e Elm Creek Funraisers. Also, thank you to all our buyers who attended as well. At the banquet, Peter Penner from Manitoba Beef Producers came to speak about MBP and its role in the beef industry.

On Nov. 14, 10 of our members went to MBP’s Emerging Leaders meeting in Carman, put on by 4-H Manitoba, with a discussion about how youth will play a role in the upcoming years as beef producers. Weigh Day was held on Dec. 2. Thank you to Stanley Armstrong of Carman for allowing us to use your scale once again this year. Our skating and games Christmas party will be held on Saturday, December 30 at the Elm Creek Rink. — Harleigh Carlson and Taylor Carlson

Mountain View T h e Mo u n t a i n V i e w 4 - H Club will get a $2,500 share of $165,000 in grant money provided to 66 rural charities by Monsanto’s sixth annual C a n a d a’s Fa r m e r s G r o w Communities program. The program accepts proposals from Canadian farmers on how local groups in their communities could benefit from the grants. The club, which was nomin a t e d by p ro d u c e r Ja s o n O v e r s by o f O c h re R i v e r, said it would use the grant money to “further educate with kits and agricultural experiences.” “A gift of $2,500 doesn’t seem like a lot but from talking to some of the farmers and the charities themselves

it can make a huge difference in their communities,” Trish Jordan of Monsanto said in a release. T h e C a n a d a’s Fa r m e r s G r ow C o m m u n i t i e s p r o gram received more than 550 entries this year before its Sept. 30 deadline. Winners were drawn by board members of the independent administrator, Agriculture in the Classroom-Manitoba, on Oct. 12. According to Monsanto, farmers and rural residents can get more details about the 2018 program at winter trade shows, at www. CanadasFarmers.ca or on Twitter at @CanadasFarmers. — Staff

TD scholarships Naomi Best is the Manitoba recipient of the 2017 TD 4-H A g r i c u l t u re S c h o l a r s h i p. Twelve 4-H members were selected from across Canada, each receiving $2,500 to pursue post-secondary studies in the field of agriculture, agricultural science or agricultural business beginning in the fall of 2017. Application details and other information on 4-H Ca n a d a s c h o l a r s h i p p ro grams are available at 4-h-canada.ca. — Staff

North Dakota fees To maintain North Dakota’s 4-H program against budget

cuts, 4-H announced it would implement a US$20per-year state-level program fee for participation, starting Nov. 1, for the 2017-18 program year. A c c o rd i n g t o a re l e a s e f ro m No r t h Da k o t a St a t e University Extension S e r v i c e, t h e d e c i s i o n t o implement the fee followed a U S $ 4 . 1 - m i l l i o n re d u c tion in state funding for the Extension Ser vice for the c u r re n t t w o - y e a r b u d g e t period. The funds generated from the 4-H fee will be used to support the priorities of project and club organization mater ials and training; volunteer training and screening; high-priority project areas; measuring the effectiveness of programs; and maintaining 4-H’s presence at the North Dakota State Fair, NDSU said. Youth in the 4-H Cloverbud program, designed for youth from ages five to seven, will not be subject to the fee. A 4-H program fee is not a new concept to offset budget shortfalls, NDSU noted. A 2016 survey of 38 other states’ 4-H programs showed 25 have some type of fee in place, ranging from U S $ 3 t o U S $ 5 0 p e r ye a r. Some states also charge by the number of projects in which a youth participates. — Staff

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

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Product for reducing shrink worth considering A feed supplement that counteracts dehydration offers animal welfare benefits and an economic return ROY LEWIS DVM

If we can retain some of that shrink by feeding a nutritive supplement before shipping which replaces these lost nutrients, it will be a positive experience for the cattle and will return economically for the producer.

two to four per cent we are hoping for, that we recognize the significance. Some freshly weaned, transported and held overnight cattle at auction markets can shrink by 10 per cent or even higher. If this is not replenished quickly after the stressful event, cattle are more prone to get sick from other things — or in the case of slaughter animals, the number of dark cutters will increase. If we can retain some of that shrink by feeding a nutritive supplement before shipping which replaces these lost nutri ents, it will be a positive expe rience for the cattle and will return economically for the producer. DeStress came on the market a decade ago under the name Nutricharge, but then was released to the United States and lost to Canada for a long period of time. It is considered a nutritive supplement so has no slaughter withdrawal period and is not considered a phar maceutical in any way. It contains a combination of electrolytes, amino acids, and certain blood sugars. So it is similar to giving an electrolyte to counteract dehydration to a scouring calf or a stress diar rheic show bull. In this case though, it is given to healthy cattle to counteract the dehy dration that occurs during transport. It is easy to admin ister as it is a feed supplement and can be mixed into feed 24 hours before the stressful event. Dr. Schaefer and his research ers found it lessened shrink by about two per cent compared to control animals, which is statistically significant. Improvements in carcass yield and grade were also noticed. These all go hand in hand — two per cent less shrink would convert into 20-plus pounds (depending on the size of the cattle). With transportation coming under more public scrutiny, this should make cattle more comfortable — kind of like us having Gatorade after a period of intense exercise. While the focus has been transportation of cattle headed for sale or for slaughter, ben efits are found after weaning or when transporting show cattle. Severely shrunk cattle

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are much more stressed and definitely more likely to get BRD (bovine respiratory com plex) among other infectious diseases. We all need to get around the expectation that we want shrunk-out cattle. Stressful conditions such as parturition or recovery from illness will benefit from something like DeStress. Even shipping cull cows should benefit, (although to a lesser degree than feed lot cattle) as they are subject to potentially higher levels of stress because they are more fractious animals. With feeder cattle having more energy, they will need fewer treatments after arriving at their final des tination. This product is also formulated for swine, and dif ferent rates have been tried on other minor farmed species such as elk and bison. Reducing morbidity or mor tality with a non-prescription product that is a supplement is a win for the cattle industry. In the future, there may be more specific guidelines regarding type of cattle, temperament, distance travelled, and ambi ent temperature as to whether a nutritive supplement may be mandatory. Dr. Schaefer’s group even fine-tuned it to the extent to determine that the top and front of cattle liners cause more shrink on average in cattle. There was an average of more than eight per cent shrink on 900-pound feeders which con verts to over 70 pounds. The nutritive supplement will sig nificantly reduce some of these losses. Adoption of a nutritive sup plement program relies on ease of administration, and feeding this product fits this require ment. A dose is about a couple of pounds per 1,100 pounds of cattle. I would suggest going to the website www.destress-nutri tion.com for more complete information. This is one more tool to ensure healthy welltreated cattle are being raised on Canadian farms.

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e all know that when handling, transport ing and shipping ca tt le, st re ss is increased and weight loss and carcass changes occur. A new, or should I say rein troduced product, is back on the market after having been shelved by Agriculture Canada for many years. The product is called DeStress and is cur rently being marketed by a Wetaskiwin feed mill. In a way, it provides instant returns to the feedlot finisher through increased yield and reducing dark cutters in half. And it is simply the right thing to pro vide from an animal welfare perspective. It is a way to manage ante mortem stress. Dr. Al Schaefer of Lacombe Research Centre and others worked on deriva tives of this product, relying on 15 to 20 years of published research to get the formulation right. This article will provide an explanation of the product, how it benefits the cattle, and the expected financial bene fit. (There are probably other areas in cattle, swine or equine production and performance where feeding of this product could provide huge benefit.) There is no doubt that trans port of cattle (regardless of the distance) produces stress that causes shrinkage, dehydration, and the loss of electrolytes and amino acids. Some types of animals have this to lesser or greater degrees than others. Genetics of the cattle; weather conditions; and excitability or docility of the cattle method of handling will all determine what the final shrinkage and meat quality will be at the packing plant. Some of these thing are under our control and others simply are not. Once the cat tle leave the farm/feedlot, the owner has no control. Feeding a product before transport to replace the expected losses of these necessary nutrients means the cattle will arrive in better health with less shrink and less dark cutters, and potentially grade better. When transporting cattle either to a plant or auction market or home from pasture, we all have looked at the pro verbial shrink that occurs. We know there will be some weight loss (or shrink) because of fecal loss, urine loss, sweat, etc. It is when this amount gets exces sive and climbs well above the

Roy Lewis practised large-animal veterinary medicine for more than 30 years and now works part time as a technical services veterinarian for Merck Animal Health.

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Crown land administration to be overhauled The province says the process will become more open and transparent STAFF

he provincial govern ment is revamping its administration of Crown lands, something the provincial agriculture minister says will ensure compliance with the New West Partnership Agreement. Ralph Eichler announced the changes in a media release this week, saying they will make the process more transparent for farmers and ranchers. “Modernizing access to agricultural Crown lands helps fulfil our commitment to this agreement,” Eichler said in a release. “We look forward to refining these changes in con sultation with our producers.” The new Agricultural Crown Lands Leases and Permits Regulation will amalgam ate two separate regulations related to forage leases, hay and grazing permits, and cropping leases. It will change how producers will acquire Crown lands for grazing and haying from the current model to a new tendering system. This will be consistent with how agricultural Crown land is accessed for other uses, like growing crops, and will ensure prices paid by producers more accurately reflect the market value of these leases and per mits, the minister added. Industry consultations will be held in the coming year, with the shift to a tendering system for all agricultural Crown lands expected to be in place for fall 2018. One of the stakeholder groups most affected has applauded the change. Mani toba Beef Producers said most of the proposed changes were welcomed, but added full and open industry consultations are still an important part of the process. MBP president Ben Fox said the group looked forward to participation in the process

“The old system of allocation was often frustrating for producers and was also lacking in transparency, so the announcement of a more open process is very important to our membership.” Ben Fox Manitoba Beef Producers

and encouraged members to get involved too. “The old system of allo cation was often frustrating for producers and was also lacking in transparency, so the announcement of a more open process is very important to our member ship,” said Fox, who noted MBP is in favour of the gov ernment’s move to join the New West Partnership Trade Agreement. “However, we do have a number of concerns as we move forward and will ensure they are raised with the government.” MBP indicated it was most concerned with ensuring land remained available for cattle production and hay permits and that land access remained affordable. The opposition NDP e x p re s s e d c o n c e r n t h e changes could see land leases become more expen sive and shut out young producers. “Eliminating the points system will make it harder for new or younger produc ers to build their business, and could lead to the con solidation of land leases by big corporations,” said NDP Leader Wab Kinew, noting New West Partnership mem ber Saskatchewan continues to use a point system.

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Cold weather moving in for Christmas Issued: Monday, December 18, 2017 · Covering: December 20 – December 27, 2017 Daniel Bezte Weather Vane

he predicted switch in our weather pattern began to materialize over the last forecast period as the West Coast ridge began to break down. Over this forecast period it’s looking like we’ll begin to feel the effects of the switch as colder air builds into the region. To start off this forecast period, there will be an area of low pressure crossing the central U.S., spreading an area of snow ahead of it. Most of this snow should stay south of the border, but extreme southern and western regions may see a little light snow late Wednesday and into early Thursday morning. This low will deepen as it moves toward the East Coast, helping to draw down cold high pressure into our region by Friday. This arctic high will bring some of the coldest temperatures of the year, with overnight lows on the weekend and into Christmas Eve and Christmas Day looking to be in the -25 C range, with daytime highs in the -15 to -20 C range. The weather models show a small area of low pressure drop-

ping through the northwesterly flow sometime late on Christmas Eve or early Christmas Day. Currently, it looks like far western regions may see the odd flurry from this system, though I wouldn’t hold my breath if you were really hoping for a little Christmas snow. High pressure is then forecast to build back in by Boxing Day, keeping us in a predominantly northwesterly flow for the rest of next week. Expect mostly sunny skies on most days with fairly cold temperatures. The weather models show daytime highs remaining in the -15 to -20 C range, with overnight lows possibly dropping down toward the -30 C mark. Looking further ahead toward New Year’s Eve, the weather models continue to show seasonably cold temperatures with very few minor chances for snow as high pres# sure keeps any storm systems well to our south. # Usual temperature range for this period: Highs, -20 to -4 C; lows, -29 to -12 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

Per Cent of Average Precipitation

in past 30 days, as of December 14, 2017 < 40 40 to 60 60 to 85 85 to 115 115 to 150

Fort St. John

150 to 200 > 200

Edmonton

Kamloops

Saskatoon

Calgary Regina

Winnipeg

Copyright © 2017 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Prepared by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Science and Technology Branch. Data provided through partnership with Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Provincial and private agencies. Produced using near real-time data that has undergone some quality control. The accuracy of this map varies due to data availability and potential data errors.

Created: 2017-12-15 www.agr.gc.ca/drought

This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that has fallen across the Prairies as a percentage of average for the 30 days ending Dec. 14. You can quickly see it has been a dry start to winter for much of the Prairies, with many areas reporting less than 60 per cent of average. Across agricultural Manitoba, it has also been dry, with only the far eastern regions reporting near-average precipitation.

No weather records this holiday season The province’s record for the biggest holiday snowfall event has stood since 1916 BY DANIEL BEZTE Co-operator contributor

ast issue we took a look at Chr istmas weather records from across the Prairies, but for this issue I thought we would zoom in on Manitoba and expand our look to New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. I think the last time I did this was back in 2009, so I re-examined the data to see if any records have changed. I did find some very cold Christmas temperatures for Brandon in 2012, but I believe they are suspect, as the second Brandon station was 10 C warmer and I could find no other stations that were even close to the values recorded. As always, if you find an error or have different values, please feel free to let me know and I will update the numbers in the new year. As most of you already know, I like to go back as far as records go for each of our three main stations (Dauphin, Brandon and Winnipeg). Some people might argue that the really old records don’t count as conditions have changed significantly around these places, but I say what the heck, we just want to know what the all-time records are for these locations; we aren’t doing climate research here!

Table 1. Manitoba averages (°C)

Table 2. Holiday temperature and precipitation records Winnipeg (from 1872)

Average high

Average low

Average mean

Dec. 24-26

-10

-20

-15

Date

Maximum, °C

Minimum, °C

Precip (mm)

Dec. 31-Jan. 1

-12

-22

-17

Dec. 24

3.9 (1953)

-47.8 (1879)

15.2 (1929)

Now, b e f o re w e l o o k a t these values we need some kind of baseline to compare them to — that is, what are the average temperatures we should expect between Dec. 24 and 26, along with the 31st and Jan. 1? The averages for all three stations were pretty close, so we can pretty much just go with one set of numbers, shown here in Table 1. Those temperatures are not too bad, but remember, that’s the average, which means about half the time we are colder than that and, yes, half the time warmer! In Table 2 I’ve placed all the records for these dates, along with the length of record for each station. The precipitation data is the amount of liquid we would get if the snow was melted. Snowfall amounts are usually around 10:1, which means that for every 10 cm of snow we would get one cm (or 10 mm) of liquid water. Snowfall ratios can be as high as 20:1. From the data, we can see

the most significant snowf a l l e ve n t ove r C h r i s t m a s and New Year’s occurred in Winnipeg on Boxing Day back in 1916, when over 30 cm of snow fell (another five cm fell on the 27th). Dauphin had the next biggest dump of snow with over 20 cm falling on New Year’s Eve back in 1907. Environment Canada’s database does show 50 cm of snow falling on Dauphin on the 31st back in 1994, but I am not sure how much I can trust this data. Most of the data for that month is missing and it shows a high on that day of 0 C and a low of -30 C which is kind of suspect. I also checked stations around Dauphin and none of them recorded any snow. When we look at the temperature records a couple of things jump out at me. First of all, if you don’t like it getting colder than -40 C, then head to Dauphin, as none of the records there are below -40 C. The other thing that jumped out at me is that while

Dec. 25

5.4 (1999)

-40.0 (1873)

9.4 (1938)

Dec. 26

4.4 (2011)

-38.9 (1883)

30.5 (1916)

Dec. 31

2.8 (1896)

-38.8 (1884)

14.5 (1965)

Jan. 1

4.4 (1880)

-43.3 (1885)

14.0 (2005)

4.4 (1953)

-41.0 (1983)

5.1 (1938)

Brandon (from 1890) Dec. 24 Dec. 25

7.2 (1999)

-40.0 (1902)

15.2 (1938)

Dec. 26

4.8 (2005)

-39.4 (1891)

7.6 (1976)

Dec. 31

5.6 (1953)

-41.1 (1946)

10.2 (1940)

Jan. 1

5.0 (1927)

-40.0 (1901)

14.6 (2005)

Dec. 24

8.3 (1919)

-37.8 (1968)

12.7 (1911)

Dauphin (from 1890) Dec. 25

7.2 (1999)

-33.9 (1984)

4.6 (1963)

Dec. 26

8.3 (1919)

-37.2 (1960)

7.6 (1906)

Dec. 31

5.0 (1963)

-38.3 (1973)

20.3 (1907)

Jan. 1

4.4 (1959)

-37.4 (1989)

10.2 (1913)

Winnipeg has some extremely cold records over the holiday season, they are all very old records, dating back to the 1870s and 1880s. While this December appears to be shaping up to be a little on the cold side, I don’t think we’ll be challenging any of the weather records this holiday

season. The weather pattern looks to remain fairly quiet over the next couple of weeks, with no major storms forecast to be in our neighbourhood. No matter what the weather does bring this year, I hope everyone has the very best Christmas and I wish you all a very happy New Year!

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

CROPS Malting barley production down, quality up Western Canada’s barley acres continue to fall, but the Canadian Grain Commission says there were some bright spots BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff

here was less malt barley produced this year but what did come off looked good, according to the Canadian Grain Commission. The organization’s 2017 Quality of Western Canadian Malting Barley report noted lower production, less acres and a yield decrease, but high kernel weights and plumpness across the Prairies. Manitoba showed the highest production drop in the Prairies, with 19 per cent less barley taken off the field than last year, compared to a 10.2 per cent drop across Western Canada. Only 438,000 tonnes came off the field province-wide, compared to 540,000 in 2016. The CGC says that’s because of a decrease in yields as well as smaller-seeded acreage. Only 265,000 acres of the cereal went in the ground this year in Manitoba (250,000 of which was harvested), compared to 360,000 last year and 400,000 the year before, according to Statistics Canada. According to the recent CGC harvest report, seeded acres were less than half the 2007-16 average. Across Western Canada, the 5.4 million acres planted in 2017 were about 23 per cent less than the 10-year average and less than 2016 by about 600,000 acres. “We did see that barley acres were down this year in Manitoba and yields were, I think, definitely variable,” Pam de Rocquigny, general manager of the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers, said. “It was largely a function of moisture and whether producers got t i m e l y m o i s t u re o r w he t he r there was some lack of moisture throughout some areas of the province too.” De Rocquigny blames the downward trend on pressure from the feed market. Some barley has been shifted out for corn, a crop that jumped almost 19 per cent with 401,000 acres seeded this

A challenging production season meant less malt barley this year. Seen here is a handful of malted barley with the white sprouts visible. PHOTO: PETER SCHILL/Creative Commons

year, or other crops like soybeans. Soybeans reached 2.3 million acres for the first time this year, while corn has been on an upwards trend since 2014, according to Statistics Canada. David Van Deynze, MASC vicepresident of insurance operations, says the decline in barley acres has been ongoing over the last several years. “I’m of the mind that it’s likely a combination of a couple of things,” he said. “One is the economics of it for sure and there’s been a little bit of a struggle in the wetter years to grow good-quality barley. Fusarium hits barley fairly hard, generally speaking.” That lower quality may exclude Manitoba barley from both malting and feed selection, he said. De Rocquigny has also noted that challenge. Producers who have chosen to plant malt barley varieties have struggled to have their grain selected for malting. That was not a problem this year. Manitoba broke its wet cycle in 2017, with most of the province reporting far drier conditions than normal.

There has been no word yet on whether those dry conditions led to more Manitoba barley being selected. The association has not seen selection data yet, de Rocquigny said, although she hopes the drier conditions may have led to bigger selection numbers, taking some of the sting out of the overall production drop. While de Rocquigny pointed to variable yields in Manitoba, Van Deynze says MASC’s yield numbers are “as high as we’ve ever seen them.” “I would say that Manitoba’s probably different from the rest of Western Canada,” he said. Barley yield hit a five-year high provincially with an average 80.4 bushels per acre, according to Statistics Canada.

Yields down Across the west, yield hit only 69.8 bushels an acre, according to the CGC, down from 73.9 bushels per acre in 2016. The CGC blamed that drop on dry conditions. South-central Saskatchewan in particular was hit with drought this summer,

although subsoil moisture saved many of those yields, it said. “Overall, the dry growing season in 2017 resulted in ample supply of excellent malt-quality barley with slightly lower-thanaverage protein levels, and heavier and plumper kernels compared with the 10-year average values,” the CGC reported. “Barley exhibited very high germination energy and vigour with little evidence of water sensitivity.” CDC Copeland and CDC Metcalf, two of the most common malting varieties, both dropped protein in barley selected for malting this year. Province-wide, CDC Copeland dropped to 10.3 per cent protein, down from 11.1 per cent in 2016. CDC Metcalf dropped one per cent to 11.1 per cent protein. Manitoba’s protein fell below the Prairie average, which sat at 11.3 per cent for CDC Copeland and 11.7 per cent for CDC Metcalf. While that may have reflected drier growing conditions, de Rocquigny added high protein in barley isn’t a good thing for malting. “For malt selection, you don’t want too high of protein anyways, so that’s a good thing, I think, at the end of the day,” she said. Dry conditions did not stop a jump in kernel weight and plumpness. One thousand kernel weight for CDC Copeland was up 1.8 grams to 45.8 grams and plumpness was up 2.8 per cent, both near or exceeding the Prairie average. For CDC Metcalf, 1,000 kernel weight was up 1.3 grams to 44 grams and plumpness jumped to 92.7 per cent, up from 88.9. Both varieties met or exceeded the other Prairie provinces on intermediate grade. “I think so far we’re seeing very good-quality barley, absolutely,” Van Deynze said, noting that MASC gathers data on barley in general, rather than splitting between malting and feed barley.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

Harvestec owner Linamar set to buy MacDon Linamar will pay $1.2 billion for MacDon STAFF

anadian harvesting equipment company MacDon is set to join the agricultural arm of industrial equipment and parts manufacturer Linamar. Gu e l p h - b a s e d L i n a m a r Corp., which sells the Harvestec brand of corn-harvesting headers in North America, on Dec. 14 announced a “definitive” agreement to buy 100 per cent of Winnipeg-based MacDon and its group of companies for $1.2 billion. The deal, to be financed mainly through a new term loan facility, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2018 pending the usual regulatory approvals. The purchase price is about what MacDon was reported to be seeking as far back as 2013, when other media outlets quoted unnamed sources as saying the Winnipeg company had enlisted Goldman Sachs to look for potential buyers. Given its own “highly complementary” stake in harvesting equipment — which also includes the Oros brand of corn and sunflower headers it markets in Europe — Linamar said it expects to see “modest synergies” from the deal. Once the deal closes, MacDon, which makes wind rowers, draper headers, pulltype mowers and pickup headers, will merge with Linamar’s existing agriculture harvesting business, which is based in Hungary. MacDon, which also operates offices in the U.S., Australia, Russia and Brazil, set up its own European sales and distribution office in Wiesbaden, Germany in October and opened a major new parts distribution centre in Winnipeg last year. Linamar said the MacDon deal will allow it to offer a full lineup of grain and hayharvesting equipment and to

expand its ag platform in “new and underserviced markets” worldwide. “As it expands, MacDon will benefit from Linamar’s established manufacturing footprint in Asia and Europe, along with employing best practices from both Linamar and MacDon,” Linamar said in a release. MacDon’s sales network of about 1,400 dealers and distributors worldwide gives it a “major competitive advantage in the industry,” Linamar said. Linamar CEO Linda Hasen fratz described the deal Dec. 14 as “a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to move our agriculture business into a market-leading position while providing meaningful diversification to the end markets we serve.” Linamar, she said, sees the long-term growth fundamentals for the ag industry as “very strong given the growing and developing global population” with the market in its “early stages of cyclical recovery.” MacDon, she said, “will be the centrepiece of our agriculture business, which includes our existing European corn header business, highly complementary to MacDon products. We get diversification, innovation, growth and a solid deal; we couldn’t be happier.” Linamar’s businesses also include machining, assembly and forging, focused mainly on engine, transmission and driveline components, plus its Skyjack brand of scissor lifts, booms and telehandlers. MacDon started in 1949 as Killbery Industries, which made sprayers, grain augers, discer seeders, cultivators and manure spreaders. The company then launched one of the first self-propelled windrowers, in 1951. The company was renamed MacDon following its acquisition by the MacDonald family in 1971, and expanded into the U.S. market in 1986 through its own dealer network.

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Listen to your crops — the plants are talking to each other They’re also ‘foraging’ for nutrients, deciding where to put their roots, and calling for help when under attack BY ALEXIS KIENLEN FBC STAFF/EDMONTON

ou might think it’s crazy — but plants talk to each other and act in ways that are similar to animals and humans. “Step away from the idea of plants as factories and start to think of plants as individuals,” biological sciences professor, JC Cahill told attendees at the Western Canadian S o i l He a l t h a n d G r a z i n g Conference. Most people rely on assumptions that don’t reflect what’s actually happening in their fields or gardens, said the University of Alberta scientist, who works in a new field called evolutionary agro ecology. Take, for example, the act of applying fertilizers as evenly as possible. Plants don’t just grow roots randomly in the soil, said Cahill. Instead, they respond to where the food is located. “If you put it everywhere, they will put their roots everywhere. If you put it in one place, they will put their roots almost in one place,” he said. The bread and butter of Cahill’s work is about ‘foraging,’ and he has studied 100 different plant species to see how they seek out nutrients. What he found is that individual plants make decisions on where to put their roots, and that’s where they can get the most nourishment. “This is the norm of plants — that they make decisions on root growth if they live in a patchy environment,” he said. The only homogenous soils in the world are ones that are tilled, so no-till fields and ones utilizing cover crops are more similar to natural environments. If plants find a high-quality patch of nutrients, they will stop extending their root systems. This has significant implications when it comes to applying fertilizer. “ T h e y ’r e m a k i n g t h e s e very complicated decisions that you would never measure by just pulling up plants and looking at which roots are there,” he said. “These are about timing, not about the total amount.” Plants also share another common trait with humans a n d a n i m a l s — t h e y h a ve trouble making good decisions when stressed. In one experiment, Cahill and other researchers spiked soil with white particles and used algorithms to follow soil movement rather than root m ove m e n t , t ra c k i n g s m a l l movements of rocks within the soil. This allowed them to measure root growth over a matter of hours. “When we clipped them, they kept growing roots, but for the first 100 hours, their growth was random,” said Cahill.

Understanding how plants search out nutrients, and react to weeds and pests could have a huge impact on farming in the coming decades, says biologist JC Cahill. PHOTO: ALEXIS KIENLEN

“Step away from the ideas of plants as factories and start to think of plants as individuals.” JC Cahill

But around the 120-hour mark, they effectively started behaving rationally again and focused root development on where the biggest concentration of nutrients were. “This is crazy. This is exactly what you see in human psychology experiments when an external stressor stops rational decision-making,” he said. This suggests that the reaction of plants might change w h e n s t re s s e d , i n c l u d i n g how much fertilizer they utilize when put down during a stressful time. Most plants have a shade avoidance response, and get tall and thin in a bid to rise taller than their neighbours. Below ground, plants also compete. In Cahill’s lab, he chose 20 species and put them in a fight with other plants to see where they grew their roots. Some plants grew roots t ow a r d t h e i r n e i g h b o u r s , while others grew away. Every plant did something different. Again, this has implications for farmers. “If you have two plants of the same species, if they grow their roots to maximize combat, you’re having crop fight crop,” he said. “That’s not good for yield. “But if they run away from like plants, you’re minimizing the amount of fighting in what you’re going to harvest. That’s good for yield.” Conversely, when crops are attracted to the roots of other species, that results in weed suppression, he said. Cahill predicted this sort of research will have a huge impact on farms in 20 years — although scientists will have to know much more about the behaviour of individual plant species before they can make specific recommendations.

Another promising area is family relationships. A n d e ve n t h o u g h p l a n t s have no brain, no ner vous system and no visual recognition, they can recognize kin. Plants increase their root growth and competition with neighbours when they are unrelated. Plants also protect kin and attack strangers. “When there’s a stranger — a weed — we want them to fight hard for weed suppression,” said Cahill. “If we can harness this into a new generation of crop by having our breeders focus not just on height and the other things, but focus on the ability to detect kin, that’s huge.” Fostering this ability in a crop would reduce the need for herbicides while another, e q u a l l y i n t r i g u i n g a re a o f research, could do the same for insect control. Plants emit chemicals and researchers, including Cahill’s team, are looking at ones they emit when under attack. These chemical ‘odours’ lure natural predators of the bugs nibbling on their leaves or stems, and can even trigger a similar reaction in neighbour ing plants that aren’t yet under attack, effectively warning them that enemies are nearby. These sorts of behaviour form a plant ‘language’ and now scientists are taking it further. Current research is showing the language that plants are using is heritable, and even that local dialects are passed from parent plants to their offspring. Different families of plants use slightly different language, and individuals respond more to their own dialect. akienlen@fbcpublishing.com

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

Grain shippers in between legislation as rail service declines The Fair Rail for Farmers Act is dead and the Transportation Modernization Act hasn’t become law BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

ith rail service not meeting grain company demands, fears about a gap in remedies to deal with it have come to pass, says Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA). “What we predicted is exactly coming true,” Sobkowich said Dec. 14 in an interview. “We don’t have Bill C-49 (Transportation Modernization Act) and we no longer have Bill C-30 (Fair Rail for Farmers Act) so we are between bills and we find ourselves without really any tools in our tool box to hold the railways accountable or to bring them to provide better service to the grain industry.” The Fair Rail for Farmers Act expired July 31, even though the WGEA and many farm groups asked that it be extended. The legislation passed by the former Conservative government in 2014, and extended once by the current one, gave elevator companies access to extended interswitching, resulting in more rail competition between CN, CP and the American-based Burlington Northern Santa Fe. It also allowed the federal government to order CN and CP to move specific volumes of grain if it deemed it necessary. The government dismissed calls to extend the Fair Rail for Farmers Act because the Transportation Modernization Act was coming. It also said if there were rail service issues shippers could seek remedies under the current Canada Transportation Act. Grain shipper and farmer hopes that the bill before the Senate would be law before Christmas have been dashed. Meanwhile, CN, plagued by a series of derailments and caught off guard by unexpected demand from other shippers, hasn’t been able to keep up to grain car orders. “CN service is quite poor and its car fulfilment rate in the last week was 57 per cent, but over the last two months it has averaged about 62 per cent and that is just very poor,” Sobkowich said. “With the cold weather coming up we don’t see that number getting any better. We’ve given CN latitude. They said they were trying to bring on capacity to address this issue. They recognized they had an issue. So we let it go for two months, but now we need to start elevating the profile of the issue because we don’t see those percentages going up, at least not in a sustained way in the foreseeable future and that causes great, great concern.” If the Modernization Act was law shippers would be applying for long-haul interswitching to get CP and BN to move grain from CN lines, Sobkowich said. The new legislation will also allow the railways to seek penalties from the railways when they fail to live up to a service agreement, but that will take time to set up, he said. “But with long-haul interswitching we can put in an a p p l i c a t i o n a n d h a ve t h e (Canadian Transportation) agency make a decision within 30 days,” Sobkowich said.

David Pr zednowek, CN’s dire c t o r o f g ra i n m a rk e t i n g , s a y s t h e ra i l w a y h a s e n c o u n t e re d “e x c e p t i o n a l circumstances.” In the fall of 2016 CN was setting grain-shipping records moving 5,800 cars a week. Despite its problems CN averaged 5,000 cars a week this fall, Przednowek said on the sidelines of the Fields on Wheels conference Dec. 15 in Winnipeg. CN is also bringing on more locomotives and crews. “In terms of locomotives the 22 AC locomotives that we bought earlier this year came online I think at the end of October,” he said. “We brought another 40 locomotives since Nov. 1. Another 40 we expect to bring on by the end of the year and there’ll be some additions as well in the month of January. In terms of crews I think we will have hired over 3,500 people over the course of the year. We’re expecting to hire another couple thousand

Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association, says fears about a gap in remedies for shippers to use in the event of poor rail service have come true. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

in 2018 to handle even more growth.” Last year CP’s performance suffered, but CN’s stellar work resulted in above-average grain movement, overall, Canada’s grain monitor, Mark Hemmes, said in an interview Dec. 15.

Grain exports from Prince Rupert are suffering because it’s served only by CN, he said. “I think we’re probably in this for a little longer than what some people would hope for,” Hemmes said. “It’s going to go well past Christmas, but I’m sure

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that by the time we get into the early-spring months, late winter, things should pretty much normalize, much the same as happened with CP last year. The difference this year versus 2013-14 crop year when a major grain backlog occurred, is now CN was up front with its problems. One industry observer, who asked not to be named, said if CP encounters shipping problems this winter too, while CN continues to struggle, another grain-shipping crisis could occur. That’s why the WGEA and others are pushing the Senate to quickly pass the Transportation Modernization Act. Sobkowich took that message to the Senate last week. “We had about 10 different meetings with individual senators,” he said. “We think that they heard a pretty loud and clear message about the importance of C-49.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

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There will be two new faces around the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association (MWBGA) board table. MWBGA completed its election process through this fall and early winter and Boris Michaleski of Ashville and Rauri Qually of Dacotah join returning director and current chair Fred Greig of Reston. The three farmers were acclaimed. Michaleski and his wife, Karen, grow soybeans, canola, wheat, barley and ryegrass southwest of Dauphin. “Being involved in agricultural and community organizations is vital in order to make positive changes for a strong and healthy industry and community,” said Michaleski. He added he hopes to work towards making wheat and barley an increasingly profitable cropping choice. Rauri Qually works on his family’s grain farm, an operation he is in the process of taking over. Qually looks forward to listening, learning and voicing the questions and concerns of the farmers he represents. Greig remains committed to serving and representing Manitoba growers, ensuring the association’s efforts remain focused on delivering value to spring wheat and barley farmers. “Helping to direct research where it will be of most benefit to producers continues to be a priority for me,” Greig said. The three directors’ four-year terms will start following the MWBGA annual general meeting, to be held Thursday, Feb. 15 at the 2018 CropConnect Conference. The three will join the four existing directors Robert Misko (Roblin), Drew Baker (Beausejour), Dean Harder (Lowe Farm) and Cale Jefferies (Glenboro).

Give peas a chance — you soon may be growing a lot more of them Acreage may plummet in the coming year, but the new processing plants are laying the foundation for a surge in production BY ALEXIS KIENLEN AND GLENN CHEATER FBC STAFF

ere’s some counterintuitive advice: Think about growing peas in

2018. That’s a suggestion from Alan Hall, who has kept a close watch on the pulse sector in his role as ‘new initiatives and project hunter’ with the Alberta Crop Industry Development Fund. As such, Hall is well aware of the recent plunge in pea prices, and predictions that pea acreage on the Prairies could plummet by a million or more acres next year. But the future for the pulse crop is bright and if you haven’t grown them — or have limited experience with them — peas should have a spot in your rotation next year, said Hall. “I’d put a field or two (of peas) in as opposed to gambling too much — peas look very promising in the long term, as do lentils and fababeans,” he said. “For some, growing peas is a new exper i e n c e. T h e A l b e r t a Pu l s e Growers Commission had over 900 new growers in 2017. The bulk of those were new growers of peas.” And while anyone with peas in the bin will be concerned about the drop in pea prices that followed last month’s decision by India to impose a 50 per cent tariff on the crop, the long-term trend is farmers’ friend, said Hall. “There is some trending in global consumer markets that are really pushing demand for plant-based proteins,” he said. “There’s this kind of drive happening in North America, happening in Europe, happening in Asia. You’ve got a lot of world population pushing this. “The response to that has been the investment world saying, ‘Look at the Canadian Prairies and all these pulse pro-

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teins are pretty much desired because of their functionalities and how they fit into the food formulations, beverage formulations, those kinds of things.’” India has been the biggest market for Canadian dry peas, importing about one million tonnes annually over the last few years. It would take a huge amount of processing to equal that, but the signs are good, say both Hall and Pulse Canada CEO Gordon Bacon. “Non-traditional applications in food products are the reason why I’m very confident in the pulse industry long term,” said Bacon. A new plant being built by French pulse giant Roquette in Portage la Prairie, Man., will be the privately owned company’s biggest facility (it has 20 worldwide) and consume 125,000 tonnes annually. A Verdient Foods plant near Saskatoon ( p a r t l y ow n e d by f a m o u s director James Cameron) is being converted to organic and a series of expansions are planned that will bring production up to 160,000 tonnes annually. W.A. Grain and Pulse Solutions in Bowden has also SEC_WAB17_MB_Timchishen_SEC_WAB17_MB_Timchishen.qxd 2017-12-11 2:29 AM Page 1 announced plans for a twostage expansion that could increase production by 100,000 tonnes annually. There are also other facilities under consideration — including one at Moose Jaw involving German investors and another in Lethbridge. As well, there is speculation that Regina’s AGT Food and Ingredients, which has a pulse-processing plant at Minot, N.D. that has been repeatedly expanded, may build a sister facility north of the border. “If they all get built, we’ll be using a million-plus tonnes, 2350 HU CWRS Wheat which roughly equates to a million acres,” said Hall. “You’re talking about roughly 20 per 2350 HU CPS Wheat cent of the current pulse crop.” Processing of peas — called fractionation — yields a variety of products. Some methods produce isolates (a plant protein), others yield concentrates with a 40 to 45 per cent protein level, and another process creates pea flour, said Bacon. But the list of specific products and their uses is long and getting longer, he said.

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“So it looks like the Canadian Prairies will be a magnet for this type of processing. It’s looking pretty positive — similar to the canola story.” Alan Hall

“What we need to do is just get rid of the idea that you just grind it and it’s ready. We want to look at this continuum of whole peas, split peas, pea flour, pea concentrates, and pea isolates.” Milling is a dr y process, while the production of isolates is a wet process, and that’s where major dollars come in. The cost of a spray dryer in isolate production is about $25 million. “We have various levels of investment, various levels of the price of ingredients, but we have this continuum of demand that we’re looking to address for all the levels that we’ve talked about,” said Bacon. The demand is indeed varied. More and more consumers want the health benefits associated with plant protein w h i l e f o o d m a n u f a c t u re r s are increasingly interested in high-protein and high-fibre ingredients; protein sources free of allergens associated with soy, dairy, and wheat; and GMO-free ingredients. And this is not just a North American phenomenon, but a global one, said Bacon. O n a re c e n t t ra d e m i s sion to China, Alberta farmer and Pulse Canada director Allison Ammeter and Leanne Fischbuch, executive director of Alberta Pulse Growers, visited facilities that produce isolates and are developing new ways to incorporate pea flour into noodles, he said. “People are looking to reformulate and higher-protein and higher-fibre levels,” said Bacon. The Canadian Prairies will be

a “hot spot” for pulse processing, predicted Hall. Not only are farmers here able to produce both high quality and a consistent supply of pulses, but “Canada is a good place to invest in terms of security, political stability, those kinds of things,” he said. “So it looks like the Ca n a d i a n Pra i r i e s w i l l b e a magnet for this type of processing. It’s looking pretty positive — similar to the canola story. Go back over the last couple of decades when a first plant was built and then a second, and now half of the canola is crushed on the Prairies and the other half is exported bulk. “I think pulses are on the same journey, but it’s ramped up in terms of speed.” Eve n t h e p l a n t s a l re a d y being constructed will make a difference, said Bacon. “The key to price stability is a more diversified market base,” he said. “You can make an argument that even small improvements in a market base dampen price swings to a significant level.” If Prairie farmers can make a decent return, there’s no doubt they will grow more pulses because the crop works well in a rotation, breaking the disease and pest cycles in canola and wheat, said Hall. However, becoming adept at growing pulses comes with a learning curve too, he added, pointing to disease issues in particular. While root rot gets much of the attention, pulses can be attacked by a host of soil-borne fungi that are often described as ‘a complex of root pathogens.’ “Pulses are a funny animal,” noted Hall. “If you grow too much, you have diseases or pest pressures.” Bu t n e w p u l s e va r i e t i e s with better yield and harvestability continue to come out and when coupled with rising demand, any drop in acreage will be short lived, he said. “Overall, pulse crops are in that five- to six-million-acre range, and that could well go to 10 (million),” he said. akienlen@fbcpublishing.com glenn.cheater@fbcpublishing.com

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

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Brandon CPR yard a snapshot of history Close examination of this photo reveals much of early life in the Wheat City BY ALEX CAMPBELL Manitoba Agricultural Museum

n the photo collection of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum there are several photos of the CPR’s Brandon rail yards taken around 1912. The photo of the Brandon yard you see here appears to have been taken off the First Street Bridge looking to the west. On the left side of the photo, the first building is a coal shed used to store heating coal. Brandon had a number of coal sheds at the time. Coal was brought in by boxcar, shovelled by hand out of the cars and into the sheds through doors such as seen on the side of this building. The dark-coloured building beyond the coal shed is the Massey-Harris warehouse. In 1913, Massey-Harris purchased a newly built multi-storey concrete and brick warehouse farther to the west between Pacific and Rosser Avenue. The building to the west of the original Massey-Harris warehouse is one that is unidentified at this time. How e v e r, a c r o s s Pa c i f i c Avenue from the unidentified building is the Dominion of Canada Immigration Hall where new immigrants to the Brandon area could come, obtain housing for a few days and get organized before either moving to a homestead or obtaining work. Families and single women were accommodated in rooms, with single men being housed in a dormitory. Cooking facilities were provided, but in a separate building to reduce the threat of fire. While the facility was spartan, the Dominion of Canada provided it free of charge. The immigrant halls also served, to some extent, to protect immigrants from con artists and hucksters who preyed upon them. The Brandon Immigration Hall was built in 1904, to a standardized plan used by the government. The building had three floors, however, the dormers in the roof and a window in the peaked end wall indicate that the attic was also in use. The Dominion of Canada operated a system of immigrant halls across Canada. At the height of the system, 50 were in operation. Initially they were called immigration sheds and were located at ports such as Montreal and Quebec City. Sheds were also built at inland points such as Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto and Hamilton. In 1872, sheds were constructed at London, Ont. and Winnipeg.

This photo is one of several in the Manitoba Agricultural Museum collection taken of the CPR yard in Brandon. PHOTO: MANITOBA AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM

The initial Winnipeg shed was in the area of The Forks and had a capacity of 250 people, however, within a year a second shed was added, bringing capacity to 500 people. With the arrival of the CPR, a new immigration hall was built close to the Winnipeg CPR station. However, immigration was such that in the next 10 years, two more halls were built in Winnipeg close to the CPR station. In 1906, a brick and stone immigration hall was built beside the CPR station in Winnipeg with at least one of the earlier wooden halls being retained. At some point in time an immigration hall was built close to the CNR station in Winnipeg. The larger immigrant halls at major centres such as Winnipeg provided advice to immigrants to Western Canada about land and jobs and then the immigrants could travel on to halls in the smaller centres close to where they had determined they wanted to go to. On the right side of the photo is the Western Canada Flour Mills Company Brandon operation. There are a number of CPR boxcars visible beside the low warehouse next to the mill, which are probably loading bagged flour. The boxcars of the time were not suitable to load with bulk flour, as leakage would have been substantial with such fine material. Contaminant would have been another issue. In between the mill complex and the yard is the CPR’s ice house where ice for refrigerated cars was stored. When a car

needed icing the car was spotted beside the building and ice blocks were brought out onto the second-storey deck, which was at the height of the car roof. Often the ice blocks were broken up into chunks and salt was added before the entire mass was shovelled through the car’s roof hatches into the ice bunkers. Salt improved the ice’s ability to cool. On the immediate right of the photo is the ramp which accessed the side of the First Street Bridge in between the Assiniboine River and the CPR yards. It allowed traffic to more easily access the area north of the yards including the Western Canada Flour Mills operation, an important consideration for wheat being teamed in from north of the city. There is a tie-in between this photo and the photo used in the earlier Manitoba and North Western Railway article. That photo showed a steam shovel loading fill material onto several flatcars. In this photo we see the flatcars with fill material being brought into the Brandon yard. It is quite noticeable in the photo here that the yard is being redeveloped as the tracks to the right of the flatcars simply end a little further, there are stacks of ties and rails and there is an uncompleted switch in the bottom right-hand corner of the photo. It appears that the CPR was significantly altering the yard, probably to accommodate the significant increase in rail traffic the CPR was experiencing at the time. The tracks to the west of the

bridge comprised the passenger coach yard, where passenger coaches were stored when unneeded. The CPR station was beyond the Eighth Street Bridge, which can be seen spanning the passenger coach yard in the distance. Behind the photographer was the freight yard where freight cars were stored, sorted and assembled into trains. Also in this area was the CPR roundhouse where steam engines were serviced. Railways did not like to store the passenger equipment close to the roundhouses, as the smoke and cinders resulting from the engines dirtied everything in the area. The flatcars are transporting fill that was needed for the yard redevelopment. To dump the material off the cars the railways used a plow. At the head of the flatcars is another car and in front of this car is a steam locomotive which is running tender first. The car was equipped with a very large winch powered by a steam engine which is why the engine is running with the nose of the engine against the winch car. Steam was taken off the locomotive to power the winch so avoiding the need for a boiler and fireman on the winch car. One can see in the photo a heavy cable running on top of the piles of material on the cars. One end of the cable was wound around the winch drum and the other end fastened to a plow sitting on the last flatcar of the string. Iron plates were fastened with hinges to one end of each flatcar in the string and spanned the gap to the next car.

The plate just laid unfastened on the deck of this car so allowing lateral movement in a curve. These plates prevented material falling on the tracks between the cars which potentially could derail the cars. When the cars reached the area where fill was needed then the train was halted and the winch hauled the plow forward pushing the material off the cars. When you look at the left side of the photo you can see fill has been dumped to the right of the coal sheds. Given the volume of fill needed, it is likely flatcars were used to accomplish this. Given at times the railway would want to dump material off either side of the cars or both sides, the railways probably had left-handed plows, right-handed plows, and V plows, available to accomplish this. It is known that often when the rail line construction came to a ravine or similar depression, to speed construction they would build a trestle over the area rather than attempting to build an embankment using horses and fresno scrapers. At a later date they would fill the trestle in with fill using flatcars unloaded by a plow. So if you wonder how the high railway embankment over the ravine just south of Binscarth and similar embankments were constructed, you now know how they did this. Alex Campbell is executive director of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum, which is open year round and operates a website at http://ag-museum.mb.ca.

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

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Prairie fare Cut food waste this holiday season The first step is minimizing leftovers with proper planning and meal preparation BY JULIE GARDEN-ROBINSON NDSU Extension Service

s I peered in our refrigerator the other day, I noticed some small containers with dabs of leftovers that had just reached their “time to toss” phase. I always feel guilty when we throw away food in our home. To help use any extra servings, I eat left overs almost every day at work. Unfortunately, sometimes a few odds and ends of food hide behind the milk carton and eventually need to be discarded. Illness-causing micro-organisms such as bac teria and mould can grow and/or produce toxins in leftover food. Unfortunately, you cannot see, smell or taste most micro-organisms. We have to be guided by storage time and temperature to help avoid foodborne illness. I am sure we do not toss one-third of our food in my house. That’s the national average, accord ing to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In Canada, the numbers are similar. Unfortunately, we are now in the prime foodwasting season: the holiday season. During this time, the amount of food wasted increases by 25 per cent. We all can take steps to avoid food waste. During the holiday season, we might want to embark on some early resolutions that can pre vent excess food waste and save us some money in the process. We also might preserve our waist lines with some of the strategies. If you plan to have guests during the holidays, simplify your menu and the number of differ ent cookies, dips and side dishes that you make. Focus on your family’s favourite recipes instead of making a large number. Perhaps a full batch of casserole is too much. You might need to trim the size of your recipes. Many recipes are easy to cut in half. Think about potential food waste as you shop at the grocery store. You might be tempted to buy the bargain-size container of mayonnaise because it has a lower price per ounce. However, if you only need a cup of mayonnaise to make your famous artichoke dip, the remaining may onnaise eventually outlives its shelf life. It’s not a bargain after all.

A good way to minimize food waste this Christmas is concentrating on a few family favourites that always go over well. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

As you plan meals, spread the effort. Make holiday meals an opportunity for sharing food. Try a “theme potluck,” such as all healthy appetizers, build your own meal in a bowl or make a personalized pizza buffet. Everyone could bring a part of the menu. At the end of the meal, your guests can share the leftover food and have easy meal preparation the next day. You can help your guests maintain their weight with a few savvy serving ideas. Use smaller plates and provide smaller serving spoons in the containers. People take less food on a smaller plate, and they serve themselves less food with a smaller serving spoon, accord ing to researchers. You might even want to try a little trick someone mentioned to me recently: Put a stack of “tasting spoons” on the buffet (along with a container to discard the used ones). Allow people to try the food before serving themselves a full portion. Keep food temperature controlled during service, or replenish containers regularly. If the party will go on more than two hours, set out smaller amounts of food and keep the rest in the refrigerator. Replace the serving containers as needed. Keep salads, cut fruit and vegeta

Cranberry Turkey Wrap 4 (7-inch) whole wheat flour tortillas 8 slices turkey breast (about 1-1/2 oz. per serving) 4 slices cheddar cheese (4 oz.), cut into thirds 1/3 c. dried cranberries 8 leaves parsley or fresh basil (optional)

This cranberry turkey wrap is a good way to use leftover turkey. PHOTO: MIDWEST DAIRY COUNCIL

bles, and meat and cheese trays cold by nest ing the bowls or platters in containers of ice. Keep warm foods, such as hot wings and warm dips, in slow cookers. If you do not have small slow cookers, set out a smaller amount of food and keep the remaining food warm in the oven or on the stove. If you know you are not going to be able to use the refrigerated leftovers within three to four days, freeze immediately in meal-sized amounts. Be sure to use appropriate freezer containers and label with the contents and date. Keep an inventory of food that’s in your freezer so you do not forget that it’s there. If the idea of “leftovers” is not appetizing, create something completely new. How about using leftover turkey in soup, stir-fry, casseroles or sandwiches? Extra mashed potatoes can become potato soup. Learn to create your own casserole or soup with the “Pinchin’ Pennies in the Kitchen” handouts at https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/food. Click on “Food Preparation.” Also click on “The Family Table” for dozens of ways to savour family mealtimes during the holidays and any day. Here’s a tasty way to use leftover roasted tur key courtesy of the Midwest Dairy Association.

Alternate a slice of turkey, one-third of a slice of cheddar cheese and another slice of turkey breast down the centre. Sprinkle one-fourth of the dried cranberries on top of turkey and top with cheese. Fold tortilla into thirds. Place seam-side down on microwave-safe serving plate. Repeat with remaining tortillas. Place a piece of cheese on top of each sandwich and microwave each tortilla on high for 30 seconds to one minute (until cheese melts). Cool slightly and slice in half. Place two or three dried cranberries and a sprig of parsley or basil on both halves. Makes four servings. Each serving has 330 calories, 13 grams (g) fat, 18 g protein, 33 g carbohydrate, 3 g fibre and 750 milligrams sodium. Julie Garden-Robinson is a North Dakota State University Extension Service food and nutrition specialist and professor in the department of health, nutrition and exercise sciences.

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

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Moulson’s Welding proudly living up to vision of late founder Family business in Foxwarren successfully carries on after death in 2006 By Darrell Nesbitt

Over the past couple of years, Dustin and Cody have found there isn’t really any slow periods anymore, with the spring to fall being extra busy thanks to the farmers in the area served…

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urrounded by a close-knit community, the Moulson family has kept a business dream alive despite the tragic loss of founder Howard Moulson in 2006. Today, wife Georgi Moulson is the sole owner of Moulson’s Welding, started by her husband in 1994, but sons, Dustin and Cody, have special roles in the Foxwarren business, located just off Highway 16. “Upon Howard’s death there was never any thought of closing the welding shop, but it was a very trying time for all of us,” said Georgi. “We couldn’t have had any better community, many of Howard, Dustin and Cody’s friends, family and employees, Calvin Thacker, Graham Parkinson, and Gloria Tibbatts, helped during that emotional and difficult time.” Georgi also said Mike Gillon, who at the time was working full time for CP Rail, played a huge role in keeping the business going, dedicating his off time to working at the shop with the transition. At the time of their father’s passing, Dustin had just graduated from Assiniboine Community College (ACC) as a heavy-duty technician and was working at Mazergroup in Brandon, while his younger brother Cody was working for Boundary Autobody

Cody (l), mom Georgi, and Dustin, carry on the family business. PHOTO: DARRELL NESBITT

in Langenburg, Sask. Leaving Saskatchewan, Cody moved to Brandon and while working for Hamilton Iron he attended ACC, receiving his Red Seal in welding. Honouring their father, they both moved back home to not only run the business, but also put their stamp of approval — the Moulson way — on services offered. Farming needs is one aspect of the business, however, it also proudly stands for heavy equipment and industrial services, air conditioning repairs, hydraulic service and repairs, custom welding and fabricating, trailer sales and service. “Currently we have two additional full-time employees: Mike Gillon of Foxwarren (heavy-duty mechanic) and Trey Koroscil of Birtle (apprenticing as a heavy-

duty mechanic), and also Howard’s brother Derry,” said Georgi. “God bless Derry! He’s always around helping in any way he can — pricing and stocking shelves, running errands, decluttering and offering his services, advice and time.” Over the past couple of years, Dustin and Cody have found there isn’t really any slow periods anymore, with the spring to fall being extra busy thanks to the farmers in the area served, which is classified as a 50-km radius from a shop standpoint and as far as 100 kms for Moulson’s two mobile units. Along with the farming industry, picking up projects from the rural municipality, hydro, railroads, highways, snow removal, and cellphone towers, keeps everyone busy throughout the year.

While the shop no longer manufactures land rollers, molehill levellers or hay stackers, it manufactures anhydrous wagons, garbage bins, picnic tables (standard and custom), all-terrain vehicle wagons, ramps and railings, and other requests. “Everything which is fabricated here, is built from scratch, a passion shared by all behind the welding torch,” said Dustin. “Every job that comes in is also fixed from scratch; we take pride in our work.” Their father’s work ethic and passion for business dating back to the grand opening of Moulson’s Welding in April 1995, has been moulded into Dustin and Cody over the years thanks to love and support of a man who felt a welding shop in his hometown of Foxwarren would be the ideal

location to build his business, and give up farming. Twenty-two years later that same drive, determination and loyalty, seen through the leadership of a loving and caring man, remains a “guiding light” as the business ventures onwards. “Without a doubt, I feel that Howard has been watching over Dustin and Cody proudly, guiding them along the way and watching his legacy grow,” Georgi said. Both boys are fully involved in many aspects of life of which their father enjoyed: spending time in the outdoors hunting and fishing, snowmobiling and boating, or simply relaxing around the campfire at Seech Lake, with family and friends close by. Dustin (32), and wife Amber (32), have two daughters, Joey (four), and Thora (three), and are expecting their third child in February. Cody (30), and wife Ashley (29), have two sons, Kayden (three), and Carsen (one). Dustin and Cody agree that “Foxwarren is a great community, there’s no question about that. This is where we live, went to school, played hockey, took 4-H, and swimming lessons. Everyone knows everyone, watches out for everyone and their kids, and comes together in times of crisis. More and more of the younger generations are moving back and helping the community survive.” Darrell Nesbitt writes from Shoal Lake, Manitoba

Decorating the tree with natural materials Get the kids involved in these creative, cost-effective projects By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

enjoy creating holiday decorations and particularly like using natural materials — many of them from my own garden — to create these decorations. Visiting a gourd festival in Arizona one year rekindled my interest in using natural materials in this way as artists had used a variety of miniature dried gourds to create stunning Christmas tree decorations. While the art of drying and painting or carving gourds is a specialized skill, and one that I don’t think I’ll attempt, there are many other projects that will turn ordinary garden materials into attractive tree ornaments. One thing that is plentiful in the fall is acorns that drop from the oak trees, and both the acorns and their cups can be used. Glue acorn cups to a Styrofoam ball and either leave in the natural colour or use a red or green floral spray to make a festive ornament. Larger acorns can be used to create miniature Santa heads. The acorn is painted white and a face is painted on it. The cup — still attached — becomes Santa’s hat with a white brim and a red top. Whenever using acorns, put a bit of glue inside the cup and then replace the acorn into the cup and press the two together; this way they will not accidentally come apart. Make use of Chinese lanterns.

Painted gourds made for some interesting decorations. PHOTOS: ALBERT PARSONS

A l t h o u g h t h e b r i g h t o ra n g e o f these lovely objects does not evoke thoughts of Christmas, they are easily coloured with floral spray and can become attractive tree ornaments. Because they are so lightweight they would be perfect if you are decorating a Norfolk Island pine as your Christmas tree. Hung by a string, Chinese lanterns make simple yet delicate tree ornaments. I harvest poppy seed heads during the summer and fall. They are attractive when left their natural colour but could also be painted. An attractive tree decoration can be created by wrapping a few cinnamon sticks with a thin gold ribbon and then attaching a couple of poppy seed heads, perhaps painted dark brown or burgundy — some colour that would complement the colour of the cinnamon sticks. A few poppy seed heads could be used in such a design by themselves.

How about ordinary twigs and small branches found in the yard? Branches sprayed white, or black, or red, and added to containers of evergreen boughs can add some festive colour and interest. Small twigs can be cut into ever increasingly long lengths and then glued to a Popsicle stick to form a Christmas tree shape. A very short twig goes crossways at the top and more twigs are added below it, each one a bit longer than the one above it until a twig tree is formed. Although these twig trees look good left their natural colour, they too can be coloured — and tiny beads can be glued on to simulate tree decorations. The end of the Popsicle stick at the bottom acts as the tree trunk and a tiny tree top can be added for greater effect. Try dipping the ends of large pine cones into white paint, creating the effect of snow, and then tie the cones to the tree with bright-red yarn. Smaller cones can be used in this way

as well but might look better if used in groups of three. Other cones can be used to create simple yet lovely tree ornaments. Even small cones from cedar trees can be glued together into a circle — about six will form a nice circle. A small red bow of ribbon or yarn can be glued to the top of the circle of cones and a lovely wreath-like ornament is the result. The use of grain will create some unusual tree ornaments. A few stems of wheat (bearded looks best) or barley tied together with a piece of red or gold ribbon, with the stems cut off sharply and neatly so that the whole sheaf is about eight cm long looks great. Before tying the grain stems together the tips of the heads could be spray painted — black perhaps, to mimic what some varieties actually look like. Another ornament can be created by covering a small Styrofoam ball with white glue and while the glue is still wet, rolling the ball in wheat or some other grain. Pressing the ball firmly into the tray of grain as it is rolled will ensure that a good amount will adhere to the ball. Creating Christmas tree decorations from garden material is interesting, cost effective and gets the creative juices going. It is also a good way to spend quality time with children in this very family-oriented holiday season. I hope you enjoy creating some this year and have a great Christmas season. Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

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Area historian provides look at settlers of Olha region

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‘Stalwart peasant’ is focus of Ed Stozek’s new documentary By Darrell Nesbitt Freelance contributor

d Stozek’s latest documentary, “The Time That Once Was,” delves into past generations residing in the Olha area. So it was fitting that the Dauphin man with local roots shared the story of the documentary at the Olha Hall in October. Those in attendance learned that the film was inspired by a quote from a Canadian history course… “I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born on the soil whose forefathers had been farmers for 10 generations, with a stout wife and a half-dozen children is good quality.” (Clifford Sifton, minister of the interior, 1896-1905) Stozek himself is a descendant of “good quality,” inheriting a strong Polish-Ukrainian background from his parents and ancestors who came to Canada and settled in this area of the Parkland region. The retired teacher-turnedfilmmaker explained that back in 1899, one group of Galicians in sheepskin coats arrived in Halifax, travelled by rail to Strathclair, then made their way to their homesteads north of Oakburn where their humble beginnings laid a strong foundation for succeeding generations of Slavic heritage. By 1949 Ukrainians had established themselves and constituted 12.5 per cent of Manitoba’s population. Settlers faced harsh realities. Some survived an epidemic of

Storyteller Ed Stozek is passionate about local history. PHOTO: DARRELL NESBITT

scarlet fever. Others were the brunt of racial prejudice, with over 8,000 people of Ukrainian heritage labelled by the government as enemy aliens and did hard labour in 26 work camps scattered throughout Canada. However, not all was doom and gloom, as Stozek touched on the positives of being associated with small-town Manitoba and living on a small mixed farm, as a young boy, southeast of Olha. “Along with five general stores at Oakburn, within a short driving distance from my family’s farm there were also three country stores, five oneroom schools, and numerous churches,” said Stozek. “These memories, plus memories of settlers cherishing get-togethers at dances, weddings, and other social outings, are shared on my latest documentary.” His first two documentaries — “The Sawmill Boys and Alex Kippan,” and “The Ghosts From Whitewater Lake” (about German PoWs in Riding

Mountain National Park) — as well as his latest documentary, are included in the Bell MTS “Stories From Home” collection. In addition to films, Stozek has also penned several books. Clearly passionate about local history, Stozek says, “By stepping back in time, I can feel the heartbeat of a former way of life of myself and so many others. One of the best things about writing books and doing videos, is meeting people, hearing from families, and learning new information on people and places at outings,” said Stozek. Before picking up his guitar, and singing the words to his song “Just An Old House,” Stozek told the audience he had the pleasure of visiting the old family farm home with his grandson this summer. Brought to Olha by the Parkland Ukrainian Pioneer Association, Stozek, a former columnist in the South Mountain Press who continues to write for The Dauphin Herald, said it’s always a pleasure to take a drive from Dauphin back home. “A trip back in time has brought many renewed friendships.” Having spent over 30 years educating others, Stozek first attended the St. John one-room country school, and after Grade 6 he took many school bus rides to Oakburn and then to Elphinstone. He left the family farm in 1970 to attend Brandon University, and the rest, they say, is history. Enjoying the Christmas season! PHOTO: LILLIAN DEEDMAN Darrell Nesbitt writes from Shoal Lake, Manitoba

This Old Elevator

n the 1950s, there were over 700 grain elevators in Manitoba. Today, there are fewer than 200. You can help to preserve the legacy of these disappearing “Prairie sentinels.” The Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is gathering information about all elevators that ever stood in Manitoba, regardless of their present status. Collaborating with the Manitoba Co-operator it is supplying these images of a grain elevator each week in hopes readers will be able to tell the society more about it, or any other elevator they know of. MHS Gordon Goldsborough webmaster and Journal editor has developed a website to post your replies to a series of questions about elevators. The MHS is interested in all grain elevators that have served the farm community. Your contributions will help gather historical information such as present status of elevators, names of companies, owners and agents, rail lines, year elevators were built — and dates when they were torn down (if applicable). There is room on the website to post personal recollections and stories related to grain elevators. The MHS presently also has only a partial list of all elevators that have been demolished. You can help by updating that list if you know of one not included on that list. Your contributions are greatly appreciated and will help the MHS develop a comprehensive, searchable database to preserve the farm community's collective knowledge of what was once a vast network of grain elevators across Manitoba. Please contribute to This Old Grain Elevator website at: http://www. mhs.mb.ca/elevators. You will receive a response, by email or phone call, confirming that your submission was received. Goldsborough is interested in hearing all sorts of experiences about the elevators — funny, sad, or anything in between. Readers willing to share their stories can leave messages at 204-474-7469.

A 28,000-bushel grain elevator at Rossendale, 18 miles southwest of Portage la Prairie, was built in 1916 by the Grain Growers’ Grain Company, predecessor of United Grain Growers. Over the years, two annexes were built to increase its capacity, a 25,000-bushel balloon annex in 1951 (demolished around 1970) and a 30,000-bushel crib annex in 1954. Closed in 1975, the elevator was demolished three years later while the crib annex was moved to the Baker Hutterite Colony. Along the way, the annex had to be hauled up a 70-foot hill under muddy conditions. This photo was one of several taken by Eddie Maendel, now living at the Airport Hutterite Colony, who helped with the move. The annex is still in use.

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

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Because I love you: Preparing for the worst Angela Fox found herself running the family beef farm on her own after losing her husband in 2011. Now, she’s sharing some of those hard lessons BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff

ngela and Jay Fox thought they were well prepared for a worst-case scenario. They had braved the uncomfortable talk about last wishes — Jay wanted no part of a regular hearse. Instead, he wanted his coffin and family brought to the graveyard in an old farm truck. They had wills and life insurance. They knew where they wanted to be buried — a potential flashpoint, since they had broken away from their childhood homes in Saskatchewan to take over an Eddystone beef operation — and had decided a family friend, not a relative, would care for their kids in the case of an accident, until their oldest son turned 18, something that would keep their four children in the region. They even had plots at the local cemetery, although Angela thought Jay was being ridiculous when he bought them, since the pair was only 30 years old. On Dec. 23, 2011, all that planning was put to the test and that worst-case scenario became terrible reality. In the time it takes for a front-end loader bucket to drop, and the aftermath following, Fox lost her husband, became a single mother of children ranging from 14 to two years old and suddenly found herself the sole proprietor of their farm. “I think that lots of times people overlook the impact that it’s going to have on their operation to lose one person, because everybody’s grieving,” she said. “I think we overlook that. We think, ‘Well, the operation will go on. The operation will be fine,’ but nobody in that operation is fine, so it’s a big change.”

Angela Fox shares her story and advice on planning for the future with this year’s crop of Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference attendees. Photo: Alexis Stockford

Unexpected issues Fox has since found out that they were, in fact, comparatively well prepared for the worst, but it was not enough to avoid a laundry list of logistical, legal and financial problems in the wake of her husband’s death. She found herself cut off from the farm’s money, a joint account set up so that both partners were needed to approve transactions. “Ever ybody should have their own bank account and everybody should have their own credit card because if you run off of a business account, you have to be able to operate that next day,” she advised this year’s Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference.

If they do find themselves in the same situation, she added, stop any flow into the locked account until the issue is sorted out and give new money to a lawyer to hold in trust. Next, she ran into a possible will probate, a common course when someone might contest the will or its execution. Fox was furious at what she saw as an unnecessary measure and an extra cost for the farm and turned to her sisterin-law, a lawyer, for help. The looming probate was eventually dropped.

Probate taxes In Manitoba, probate fees claim $70 for the first $10,000 of an

estate, plus 0.7 per cent of every $1,000 value after that. On a farm, where a $1-million value is not uncommon, those fees can add up. Laura McDougald-Williams of Meighen Haddad LLP in Souris says there is little difference between selling an asset and transferring ownership due to death in terms of tax. The local lawyer says she has seen many clients run into that trap when it comes time to execute an estate. “Whatever goes into your estate at the time of your death would be any assets that you own in your name alone at the time of death,” she said. “Unfortunately, I’ve had a few estates where all the farmland was in the husband’s name.

The husband passes away and the wife is then left having to probate the husband’s will because land titles always require a probate order on the will to have it transfer over to the beneficiaries.” In one, memorable case, probate tax turned into a $20,000 price tag for a client, including $7,000 for the tax itself, plus $13,000 in administration fees, a number McDougaldWilliams says is also government mandated. “This is so preventable,” she said. “If the land had been owned in joint names, for less than $500 we can do a land transfer form, which adds the spouse on to the title. There’s no land transfer tax paid because, even if the spouse isn’t involved in farming, she’s the spouse of a farmer, so she’s exempt from land transfer tax.” Life insurance, which the Fox family put in place to help, actually turned into another obstacle. Jay Fox had passed away on farm, making the death a workplace accident. His wife relayed her difficulty in getting healthcare documentation as her husband was transported off the farm, to Dauphin and eventually flown to Winnipeg. “It takes a lot of money to die,” Fox said, urging conference-goers to keep contact with their family doctors to help with documentation. “We might think that we have insurance that will come, but it takes time. It takes a lot of time to get all the paperwork done and everything before money can start flowing back into your operation.”

‘Because I Love You’ Fox, along with another farming widow, Maggie Van Camp who is also an associate editor with Country Guide magazine, now See LOVE YOU on page 26 »

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

Cover crops ‘essential’ to in-field grazing Confined livestock do little to help build soil health By Shannon VanRaes Co-operator staff

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hopes her story can help others avoid those pitfalls. The pair has launched the “Because I Love You List,” a checklist of important information they urge farm partners to share while both are still whole and healthy. Some of those line items should come as no surprise — although Fox noted that some basic precautions, like having an up-to-date will or sharing contacts for family physicians, lawyers, bank accounts and funeral wishes, are often overlooked. Others may slip through the cracks, particularly if a partner is only casually involved with the farm, she said. Mechanics’ names and veterinarian contacts may fall by the wayside if another partner always takes care of those things, she said. Both partners might not be aware of rental agreements or landownership issues. How many payments are left on that combine? Are there investments or RRSPs? What kind of short-term or long-term help is available from neighbours and friends? What are the passwords to any online accounts? Those questions are just a taste of the information that should be shared freely on the farm, she said. “Rather than thinking about it as a burden, to go over this list and sit down, you need to think about it as a gift to your loved ones, to your family, because if anything ever happens and you have this list that has absolutely everything on it for them, it makes their life so, so much easier in a time where they’re going to need a lot of help,” Fox said. McDougald-Williams says she has added the list to all her estate planning sessions.

Grief, shock and decisions Shock and grief are near inevitable after a farm loss, particularly if, like the Fox family, the loss came without warning. But for many fighting through the aftermath, most of whom are not in the best frame of mind for lifechanging decisions, the death of a farm partner may also come with a surge of questions on the future of the operation. The first question, according to Jacqueline Gerrard, a consulting associate for agribusiness advisers Backswath Management, is whether the remaining partner will continue to farm at all. If so, to what degree will they farm? Can they maintain the farm at its current levels? “Pre-thinking” a loss may help smooth over that decision, she said. Another speaker at the 2017 Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference, she advised attendees to map out what they know about the operation, what they don’t know, and what kind of help they would need if they suddenly find themselves managing the farm alone. In some cases, like Fox, they might be an equal partner fully able to take over the farm. In other cases, she said, a partner may have a primary off-farm job and maintaining the farm would require a career change. “I think if you were thrown into a management role that you weren’t really prepared for, you would find out a whole bunch of stuff that you didn’t know that you didn’t know,” Gerrard said. If farming is not in the future, what happens to the land? Will it be sold or rented? Will the family have to move? Fox faced similar questions, despite being an active farm partner. Her family was in

“Everybody should have their own bank account and everybody should have their own credit card because if you run off of a business account, you have to be able to operate that next day.” Angela Fox

Saskatchewan, and few would blame her for wanting to move closer to that support. At the same time, Eddystone was home to her and home to the company she had built with her husband. If she was to stay, she was “all in,” she said. She would need to keep cattle, since the ranch depended heavily on their Crown land leases and livestock were part of the deal. Otherwise, she would significantly devalue their ranch. In the end, she opted to stay where she was. “My message will always be, ‘Preplanning gives you choices and choices give you time.’ So make sure you do your preplanning so that you can make good choices at the end,” she said.

Knowing where you sit All farm partners should be familiar with the operation’s value and there should be annual finance review with the farm’s banker and all partners, regardless of how involved they are on the farm, Gerrard said. The advantage of that is twofold, she added. First, that communication will familiarize a non-farming partner with the business financials. At the same time, that meeting ensures the banker is familiar with all farm partners. “Talk to your farming team about, ‘What is the vision?’” she said. “What are the things that have been put in place already for the future of the farm that I don’t want to mess up if something happened and I was to take over or that a new management team came in?” Likewise, she said, all parties should be aware of operating income, financing agreements, debt, tax situation and who the farm deals with for business. Land deeds, and which assets are in whose name, also warrant a second look, McDougaldWilliams said. An accountant might single out tax breaks and ways to defer or spread out capital gains taxes, she said. A will, she added, is also critical, and not having one may cause problems starting with disagreement on who will administer the estate and running through beneficiary designations and additional administration costs. “If you don’t have a will, your spouse, your children, your next of kin are your beneficiaries, but that can be problematic in the case of, say, a blended family,” she said. Additionally, fair does not always mean an equal split, Fox said. In the case of multiple children where some have moved away and others stayed on farm, she argued that it wouldn’t make sense to split the farm evenly, since the on-farm child has invested more in the operation and might count on it for his or her livelihood.

Farming won’t wait Fox became intimately acquainted with the flood of sudden decisions while still operating a farm. In the midst of mourning her husband and raising her children — who were also grieving — lambing started, chores had to be done and, being winter in Manitoba, the waterer froze. “We had a big ranch that also needed to be ran (sic) and it didn’t sit still the next morning,” she said. “At the time, we had about 400 momma cows. We had just shipped calves, so we had the feedlot pens full and every single morning when I would go out, I swear the waterer was frozen.” The loss of an able-bodied worker and half of her farming partnership has also meant some changes on the farm. Marketing was never Fox’s strength and was not something she enjoyed, but she has had little choice but to take it on if she wanted the farm to survive. Likewise, anything her husband once handled is now up to her to do or find help to accomplish. The farm now spends more on mechanics’ bills, she says, and the herd has downgraded from 400 cow-calf pairs to about 200 although the 11,000-acre land base has stayed the same. Not all days are good days, she says. She still breaks down, both emotionally and mechanically, in the tractor. Her family is still in Saskatchewan, although her father came to help right after the accident. She still gets help from her neighbours and speaks to her mother-in-law every day. “I would tell myself to take more help,” she said, in retrospect. “I wasn’t good at that and I think that I would definitely tell myself to take more help, to let other people help me and to be easy on myself, I think — that I don’t have to do it all right now. It takes time.” Looking back, she says she was fortunate that she and her husband had planned as much as they had, up to and including the grave plot that she didn’t want, but ended up filling that same year. At the same time, her husband’s death revealed a host of issues that she never thought might become a problem. She is still scaling a steep learning curve when it comes to farming alone. She is still chasing after her kids, although the oldest is now an adult. She still has to call the mechanic on a regular basis. At the same time, her family’s farm has survived. “Right from the moment it happened, I knew that I didn’t want this moment to define us,” she said. “I didn’t want this to be the only thing that people remembered about Jay, and I didn’t want it to be the only thing that people remembered about our family or what we had done with our lives. There’s more to us than that moment and there’s more to Jay than his death.” astockford@farmmedia.com

The Manitoba Co-operator | December 21, 2017

Behind the Bitcoin craze, blockchain in agriculture The system might look complex, but it promises to make tracking, information sharing and payment easier in agriculture “The problem with paper is that it got lost, or it could be tampered with. There was a lot of fraud in supply chains, so things could get changed.”

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cross the world Bitcoin has caused a flurry of excitement. But as analysts warn about the potential downfall of the cryptocurrency craze there is a part of it that could survive and change the business world – blockchain. “People are seeing potential here. They are seeing how (blockchain) can transform business and really introduce lots of business efficiencies,” said Victoria Lemieux, cluster lead for blockchain at the University of British Columbia research and education cluster. Double entry bookkeeping was invented in Italy in the 1400s and viewed as a revolution for the business world. Now blockchain is being heralded as the next step forward. Blockchain technology has been around for close to 10 years and first rose to prominence as the transaction software for the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. However, in recent years people began to see blockchain’s business potential. In the simplest of terms blockchain is a record keeper. It can be used to track transactions which are chained together with a public and private key paired together in an algorithm. These transactions are then distributed over a large network where there is a partial copy of every transaction kept at each location. The blockchain is transparent as all those involved see the same information. Changes can only be made when all parties using the blockchain agree. For centuries, transactions in business have been tracked on paper, but blockchain is set to change that. “The problem with paper is that it got lost, or it could be tampered with. There was a lot of fraud in supply chains, so things could get changed,” Lemieux said. There are three layers needed to use blockchain. The first is the interface, such as a website or phone application. The next layer is the blockchain, known as the trust layer, which handles and records the business part of transactions. The third layer is the communications layer, a.k.a. the internet.

Many uses Once you have a blockchain system in place it can be used in numerous ways. International Business Machines (IBM) has been using the technology to create more transparency in the food industry by constructing a centralized record-keeping system to track food along the supply chain. AgriDigital, in Australia, has been using blockchain to market grain, as it allows for direct and secure interactions between buyers and sellers. When IBM started developing blockchain technology it approached the business community for advice on where it could be used. From there IBM found there was an opportunity to use it to create transparency in the food industry. “Even though the different players (in the food industry) all have a view to the network they don’t have complete information... what the blockchain system allows us to do is to procure information between these different participants securely,” said Manav

Victoria Lemieux University of British Columbia

A crate of oranges being scanned with IBM’s blockchain phone app. PHOTO: IBM

Gupta, chief technology officer for Cloud, IBM Canada. In 2017, IBM launched a set of trials with Walmart, including tracking mangoes from Mexico. Walmart started by having employees manually track the origins of a bag of mangoes off the shelf of a store. It took the group six days, 18 hours and 26 minutes to track the mangoes. During a food safety scare in the time it took to track the fruit, Walmart would have already pulled all mangoes off of shelves across the country and other retailers would have followed suit. In the end it would cost retailers, processors and producers a lot of money. Walmart then completed the same experiment using IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric blockchain software. It scanned a code on the mangoes and was able to track the origins of the mangoes, from farm to shipment to store shelf, in seconds. Following the success of the Walmart trial other major companies (Dole, Driscoll’s, Nestle and etcetera) have reached out to IBM about using blockchain technology. To track food along the supply chain blockchain uses technology such as quick response (QR) codes, hash codes and radiofrequency identification (RFID) technology. These codes are in some cases printed off and stuck onto the food and scanned at each point in shipment process. In other cases with food products such as milk, blockchain is being used to track milk cartons back to the distribution centre where it was collected from. “What blockchain is going to allow (customers) to do is to have visibility into the absolute source of where that data came from and what type of transactions happened around that asset,” Gupta said. The companies IBM has partnered with so far all already have their own supply chain networks in place which used technology such as QR codes before. The only change is those scans are now being collected into one central record-keeping system, the blockchain. IBM as well is working on using blockchain technology to track a number of different commodities including grain. The details are still being finalized, but IBM is working on a project to help producers in Canada use blockchain for tracking grain.

Grain marketing In Australia one company saw the chance to change the way grain is marketed by using blockchain. In 2016, AgriDigital used blockchain to successfully sell grain — it was the first time a physical commodity was sold using the technology.

A load of wheat was delivered to a site in Dubbo, New South Wales. Information about the wheat, including quantity and quality, was entered into the AgriDigital system, including the blockchain layer. A digital token or cryptocurrency, called agricoin, was then created to digitally represent the wheat. “That all happened instantly. The farmer was paid at the point of delivery and they essentially walked away from the site having already been paid,” said Bridie Ohlsson, external relations manager for AgriDigital. T h e t o k e n s a re t i e d t o Australian currency and each represent A$1, and must be converted using a bank following

the transaction. AgriDigital is working with banking institutions to create its own cryptocurrency for transactions. This was a first for the world but AgriDigital had been working up to the day since 2015. The company was founded by a group of Australian agribusiness professionals who wanted to help farmers get paid sooner, rather than later. AgriDigital’s first piece of software was a cloud-based commodity management application. Rural Australia, like rural Canada, faces connectivity issues. To bypass that problem AgriDigital’s cloud-based system allows farmers to update information while not connected and then once connected update to the AgriDigital cloud system. Farmers and grain buyers subscribe to use it. Once the platform was developed and in use across Australia, AgriDigital set out to solve the payment issue by using blockchain technology, completing

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the first successful pilot project in 2016. AgriDigital then decided to get more technical for future transactions. The company wrote a seven-day escrow code into the agricoins. “Provided some conditions were met and that the payment was executed in seven days’ time the title token would move to the buyer and the payment would come from the buyer to the grower,” Ohlsson said. In August, AgriDigital completed its second successful blockchain transaction using the new coded agricoins with CBH Group, Australia’s largest grain exporter. After completing two successful trials AgriDigital is planning to make the blockchain-based service available for commercial use in Australia in 2018. As well, the company is currently working on expanding the platform to North America, and hopes to launch in Canada as soon as possible.

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WRECKING VOLVO TRUCKS: Misc. axles and parts. Also tandem trailer suspension axles. Call 306-539-4642, Regina, SK. SASKATOON TRUCK PARTS CENTRE Ltd. North Corman Industrial Park. New and used parts available for 3 ton trucks all the way up to highway tractors, for every make and model, no part too big or small. Our shop specializes in custom rebuilt differentials/transmissions and clutch installations. Engines are available, both gas and diesel. Re-sale units are on the lot ready to go. We buy wrecks for parts, and sell for wrecks! For more info. call 306-668-5675 or 1-800-667-3023. www.saskatoontruckparts.ca DL #914394

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2015 F-150 XLT 4x4, super cab, 51,000 2016 SUBARU IMPREZA consumer reports kms., balance warranty to 100,000 kms, as best small call starting at $23,360! Call EcoBoost, remote start, $28,900. Cam-Don for best price!! 1-877-373-2662 or Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077. 2013 RAM 3500 SLT, crew cab, 6.7L, auto, 4x4, dually, 99,900 kms., Sask tax paid, one owner, local trade, $41,995. Hendry’s Chrysler, 306-528-2171, Nokomis, SK. DL#907140

1979 MACK TANDEM, R600 21' grain box, 300 HP, 10 speed, 3rd axle air lift, safetied, NORMS SANDBLASTING & PAINT, 40 $20,000. 204-324-9300 or 204-324-7622, years body and paint experience. We do Altona, MB. E-mail: gpwiebe@sdnet.ca metal and fiberglass repairs and integral to daycab conversions. Sandblasting and ALLISON AUTOMATIC TRUCKS: Several paint to trailers, trucks and heavy equip. trucks with auto. trans. available with C&C Endura primers and topcoats. A one stop or grain or gravel box. Starting at $19,900; Call K&L Equipment, 306-795-7779, Itushop. Norm 306-272-4407, Foam Lake SK. na, SK. DL #910885. ladimer@sasktel.net 2014 LODE-KING PRESTIGE Super B grain bulkers, lift axles, chrome rounded fen- YEAR END GRAIN TRUCK CLEARANCE! ders, fresh paint, premium cond., $74,900 2007 Mack 400 HP, Mack eng., AutoShift, A/T/C, new 20’ BH&T, new RR tires, OBO. Call 306-874-7696, Quill Lake, SK. 716,000 kms., exc shape, was $67,500, PRAIRIE SANDBLASTING & PAINTING. NOW $63,500; 2007 IH 9200 ISX CumTrailer overhauls and repairs, alum. slopes mins, 430 HP, AutoShift, alum. wheels, and trailer repairs, tarps, insurance claims, new 20’ BH&T, fully loaded, 1M kms., real and trailer sales. Epoxy paint. Agriculture nice shape, was $67,500, NOW $63,500; and commercial. Satisfaction guaranteed. 2009 Mack CH613, 430HP Mack, 10 spd., 306-744-7930, Saltcoats, SK. 3 pedal AutoShift, new 20’ BH&T, alum. wheels, 1.4M kms. has eng. bearing roll 2006 DOEPKER SUPER B steel grain done, nice shape, was $69,500, NOW trailers, A/R, scales, 11R24.5, 2018 safety $65,500; 2007 Kenworth T600, C13 Cat $39,800. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit: 425 HP, 13 spd., AutoShift, new 20’ BH&T, www.combineworld.com alum. wheels, new paint, 1.0M kms., excellent truck, was $71,500, NOW $67,500; NEW WILSON and CASTLETON tridems 2005 IH 4400 tandem, w/570 IH eng., and Super B’s. 2014 Wilson Super B; 6 oth- 320 HP, 10 spd., new 20’ BH&T, alum. er used Super B’s; 2005 Lode-King lead wheels., 423,000 kms., very clean truck, trailer. Ron Brown Imp. 306-493-9393, excellent tires, was $54,500, NOW Delisle, SK., DL #905231. www.rbisk.ca $51,500; 1996 Midland 24’ tandem grain stiff pole, completely rebuilt, new CHRISTMAS SPECIAL! 1 left. New 2018 pup, new brakes, excellent tries, was Berg’s tri-axle 45’ trailer, air ride, $51,900; paint, $18,500, NOW $16,500; 1999 IH 4700 Save $10,000. 306-563-8765, Canora, SK. S/A w/17’ steel flat deck, 230,000 kms., IH 7.3 diesel, 10 spd., good tires, was $19,500, NOW $18,000; 2005 IH 9200 tractor, ISX 430 HP Cummins, 13 spd., al2016 EXISS 28' Stock Combo Trailer, (2) um. wheels, flat top sleeper, good rubber, 8000 lb. torsion axles, 8 yr. struct. & 3 yr. was $22,500, NOW $19,500. All trucks BTB warranty, $29,149. Call 780-974-9700, SK. safetied. Trades considered. Arborfield SK., Phone Merv at 306-276-7518 res., Tofield, AB., www.heritagetrailers.ca 306-767-2616 cell. DL #906768. 2017 EXISS 20' Stock Trailer, (2) 7000 lb. AUTOSHIFT TRUCKS AVAILABLE: Boxed torsion axles, 8 yr. struct. & 3 yr. BTB tandems and tractor units. Contact David warranty, $21,750. Tofield, AB. Call 306-887-2094, 306-864-7055, Kinistino, 780-974-9700 www.heritagetrailers.ca SK. DL #327784. www.davidstrucks.com 20’ TANDEM AXLE cattle trailer, lift-off top (converts to open trailer), $4500 OBO. Call 306-862-8460, 306-277-4503, Gronlid, SK. CALL GRASSLAND TRAILERS for your best deal on quality livestock trailers by Titan, Duralite (all aluminum riveted) and Circle D. Fall Special in stock- 25’ Duralite, $23,500; 20’ Titan smooth wall classic steel stock, $14,500. 306-640-8034 cell, 306-266-2016, Wood Mountain, SK. Email gm93@sasktel.net

24’ GOOSENECK 3-8,000 lb. axles, $7890; Bumper pull tandem lowboys: 18’, 16,000 lbs., $4750; 16’, 10,000 lbs., $3390; 16’, 7000 lbs., $2975, 8000 lb Skidsteer, $1990 Factory direct. 1-888-792-6283. www.monarchtrailers.com

SANDBLASTING AND PAINTING of heavy trucks, trailers and equipment. Please call for details. Can-Am Truck Export Ltd., 1-800-938-3323, Delisle, SK. 2009 Pete 388, 46 diffs., 18 spd., lockers; 2003 Pete 379, 6NZ Cat, 18 spd., wet kit; 2013 IH 5900i, 18 spd., full lockers, 46 diffs., 400,000 kms.; 2009 T660, new preemission, 525 ISX, new 18 spd. and clutch, 46 diff., lockers; 2008 Freightliner Cascadia, daycab, Detroit 515, 18 spd., lockers; 2007 IH 9900i, 525 ISX, 18 spd., 3-way lockers; 2005 Mack CH613, 18 spd., lockers, wet kit, 450,000 kms; 2- 1996 FLD 120 Freightliners, 425 Cat’s, 430 Detroit’s, lockers. Ron Brown Implements, Delisle, SK., 306-493-9393. DL 905231. www.rbisk.ca 2013 VOLVO VN630, D13 engine, 13 spd. Eaton trans., new tires, 660,000, 4-way lockers, safetied in June 2017, $55,000. Call 306-280-9571, Saskatoon, SK.

2013 KENWORTH T660, 550 Cummins ISX, 18 spd., Super 40’s, 804,630 kms.; 2016 Lode King Super B grain trailers, REMOTE CONTROL ENDGATE AND 205,301 kms. $145,000 for both. Will sell hoist systems can save you time, energy separate. 306-741-6297, Swift Current, SK and keep you safe this seeding season. Give Kramble Industries a call at 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or visit us online at: www.kramble.net 1986 DODGE 1 TON, duals, good 360 mo2007 MACK, 10 speed Eaton auto., new tor, rebuilt tranny (300 KM), rebuilt carbu20’ CIM B&H, 940,000 kms., fresh Sask. retor. New battery, newer fenders, cab safeties. Call 306-270-6399, Saskatoon, floor, w/Haul-All packer/dump box, $4,900. Call 204-889-1697, Winnipeg, MB. SK. www.78truxsales.com DL #316542. SWEEPRITE SR4400, 53,870 kms., S/A, 6’ rear broom, Cummins 5.9L, $7980. 2005 IH 4400 tandem, new motor, Allison 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com auto., gravel box; 16’ IH 9200 Detroit, 10 spd., 16’ gravel box; 2013 Decap tridem 1994 WESTERN STAR 4964F Crane belly dump; Used tridem end dump. Ron truck, 584,000 kms., T/A, Cat 3406, Eaton Brown Imp. 306-493-9393, Delisle, SK. DL 18 spd., Ferrari 8300 Kg crane, fresh safety, $19,800. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit: 905231. www.rbisk.ca www.combineworld.com

TANDEM AND TRIDEM CONTAINER Chassis, 40’ to 53’, $1950 and up; Fruehauf tandem axle high boy, 8 1/2 x 45’, $3750; Single axle low bed w/beaver tails, $1750. Call Roy at 204-385-2685, Gladstone, MB.

2011 ARNE’S END DUMP gravel trailer, with new cylinder, tires, brakes, drums and lifting axle. Job ready, electric tarp, new MB. safety, $45,000. Call 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

meDium DutY tRucKs 2014 kENWORTH T370 TANDEM GRAIN TRUCk Paccar PX-8 350hp 1000 lbft Torque Allison 6-Spd 3000RDS Air seat, dual pass. seat cloth interior ACT, P.W P.L. 22” Alum Wheels Front Tires 315/80R22.5 Rear tires 11R22.5 Power-Heated Aerodynamic Mirrors, AM/FM/CD/Bluetooth Radio Full Gauges 100 Gal. Alum Fuel tank 14,600F.Axle 40,000R.Axles with Air Suspension Jacobs brake, Cab Corner windows, Trailer Brake Controls, 8 1/2 X 16 X 65” CIM ULTRACEL BOX ELECTRIC TARP, TAILGATE & HOIST, Cloth Interior, Red, 33,579KM Stk #M7323A $140,395 2013 kENWORTH T370 TANDEM GRAIN TRUCk, Paccar PX-8, 350hp, 1000lb ft, Torque Allison, 6spd, 3000RDS Air seat, dual pass. seat cloth interior ACT P.W P.L 22” Alum Wheels, Front Tires 315/80R22.5 Rear tires 11R22.5 Power-Heated Aerodynamic Mirrors AM/FM/CD/ Radio Full Gauges 100 Gal. Alum Fuel Tank 14,600F. Axle 40,000R.Axles with Air Suspension Jacobs brake Trailer Brake Controls 8-1/2X20’X65” CIM ULTRACEL ELECTRIC TARP TAILGATE & HOIST, Cloth Interior, Red, 38,035km, Stk#M7368A $133,395 2009 GMC C8500 REGULAR CAB TANDEM 7.8L 300HP, Allison auto, Ultracel box, remote hoist & endgate, electric tarp, cloth, white, 68,234km, Stk#M7369B $79,995 2001 INTERNATIONAL 9100 sERIEs TANDEM GRAIN TRUCk C-12 CAT 375-450 HP, 10 speed fuller trans, air ride, CIM 20’x65” Grain Box, Michels electric roll tarp. Remote hoist, endgate and tarp, white with teal box, 531,158kms, Stk#G1440A $69,995 1992 GMC TOPkICk 3116 CAT, A/C 13 speed Eaton manual transmission, remote hoist & end gate, full tandem, roll top, new air ride drivers seat, clean 70,985km, Stk#M7346B $49,995

1995 DOEPKER 48’, 102”, tandem machinery trailer, single drop, hyd. tail/flip, alum. outriggers, 12,000 lb. winch, good cond., $30,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. PRECISION TRAILERS: Gooseneck and bumper hitch. You’ve seen the rest, now own the best. Hoffart Services, Odessa, SK. 306-957-2033 www.precisiontrailers.ca 130 MISC. SEMI TRAILERS, flatdecks, lowbeds, dump trailers, jeeps, tankers, etc. Check www.trailerguy.ca for pictures 2011 FREIGHTLINER DAY-CAB, Detroit DD15, 455 HP, 13 spd., 12 front, 40 rear, and prices. 306-222-2413, Saskatoon, SK. 175” WB, 715,800 kms., $44,900. DL# 3 TRIDEMS, 3 TANDEM stepdecks; tan- 1679. Norm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB. dem, tridem and Super B highboys; 28’ to 53’ van trailers. Tanker: tandem alum. 8000 gal.; 2012 Manac lowboy tridem, 10’ wide, beavertail and flip-up ramp; Single axle and tandem converters. Ron Brown Imp. 306-493-9393, Delisle, SK. DL #905231. www.rbisk.ca BEHNKE DROP DECK semi style and pintle hitch sprayer trailers. Air ride, tandem and tridems. Contact SK: 306-398-8000; AB: 403-350-0336. KNIGHT SCISSOR NECK lowbed, 24.5 2012 MACK CXU613 day-cab, Mack MP8, tires; Tridem belly dump. $22,000/ea. Call 455HP, Eaton 13 spd., $39,900. DL#1679. Norm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB. Danny Spence, 306-246-4632. Speers, SK.

2015 FORD F250 XLT, Super Duty 4x4 crew cab, 6.7L Diesel, auto., trailer tow package, backup camera, tailgate steps, bronze fire exterior, tan cloth interior. 6 1/2’ box with cover and chrome tube rails. 23,900 kms, balance of all factory 2010 IHC PROSTAR day cab, heavy spec., warranties, $47,500 firm plus GST. Call Bill 800,000 kms., 46R double locks, 18 spd., 485 Cummins, (0 hrs. on factory rebuilt 306-726-7977, Southey, SK. c/w warranty), new clutch (warranty), 10 2014 GMC SIERRA 1500 SLE, reg. cab, new 24.5’s, nice clean heavy spec Western short box, loaded, $26,995. Greenlight truck, $69,900. Will consider farm tractors Truck & Auto, 306-934-1455, Saskatoon, or trucks on trade. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., SK. DL #311430. www.GreenlightAuto.ca 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

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2008 IH 7600 tandem 24’ van body, power tailgate, 10 speed ISX; 2007 Freightliner auto. trans., 24’ flatdeck. Ron Brown Imp. 306-493-9393, Delisle, SK. DL #905231. www.rbisk.ca SPECIAL PURCHASE OF new and near new 2014-2015 Crosstrek XVs. Save up to $5000. Come in quickly!! 1-877-373-2662. www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

2006 CAT D6R LGP, Series III, c/w S dozer with tilt, A/C, cab & canopy, diff. steer, Packard PA56 hyd. winch, brand new UC, new 36” pads, new sandblast & paint job, $150,000. 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB.

FARM LAND INVESTORS WANTED for east central Alberta and west central Sask, Looking for investors to partner with or directly invest in good land. Land to be managed by a proven top producing 3rd generation farm business in a prime area for expansion. Area has multiple wind farms in the planning stages to be constructed in the next few years as well as oil and gas. Farmland is a safe place to invest with good returns and the time is now. Email: 2010 CAT D7R 2 LGP crawler tractor, Packfarmlandinvesting@hotmail.com ard winch, AC, cab, canopy, sweeps, Adozer 16.6”, 36” pads, UC as new, 6282 SELLING DUE TO HEALTH: Industry lead- hrs., very clean, $285,000; 2008 JD 850J ing header loss shield. Price includes exist- WLT crawler dozer, c/w ROP’S, 12’ 6-way ing inventory. Canadian and US patents blade, SBG pads, 8700 hrs., $95,000. good until 2032. Jig tables and templates. 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. Current owner will train in the manufacturing and marketing processes. This is a perfect diversification opportunity for a large family farm or a Hutterite colony. Call Bill at 306-726-7977, Southey, SK. SMALL BUSINESSES FOR SALE: $50,000 to $500,000. Land and buildings not included. SUITE Business Services. Ph/txt Bert 306-664-BERT(2378). BUSINESS FOR SALE, $120,000. Offers great growth opportunity in consumer and 2006 HITACHI ZX200-LC excavator c/w pet industry. Saskatoon, SK. Call Bert hyd. thumb quick change bucket, approx. 306-664-BERT(2378). 10,050 hrs., excellent working condition, SUITE Business Services: Helping small warranty. Machine can be viewed in Kambusinesses to grow, start and sell their sack, SK. on job site. Call deliver, $89,000. Call 204-743-2324, anytime. business. Ph/txt Bert 306-664-BERT(2378) PROVEN FARMING SKILLS but need land? Operator with growth to ownership opportunities available; May require relocation. Call 403-775-0536.

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2006 KOMATSU D65 EX-15. Approx. 5950 org. hrs., 24” pads, straight tilt blade, 3 tooth ripper, excellent working cond., very good UC, $139.500. Bush canopy available. Trades considered (warranty). Can deliver. FARM/CORPORATE PROJECTS. Call A.L. Call 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. Management Group for all your borrowing and lease requirements. 306-790-2020, Regina, SK.

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VACUUM SEPTIC TRUCK: 2006 M2 Freightliner, S/A, Cat 10 spd., 1800 gal. tank and pump (4 yrs. old), exc. cond., INTERNATIONAL single axle, hyd. brakes, $48,000. 306-547-7612, Preeceville, SK. 466 or 530 motor, auto or std., cab and chassis. 306-291-9658, Vanscoy, SK. VACUUM SEPTIC TRUCK: 1996 Mack tandem, 3000 gal. tank, hoist, rear open door, 1200 Fruitland pump, new tires, ready to work! $38,000. 306-961-8070.

SPECIAL PURCHASE OF new and nearnew 2014-2015 Crosstrek XVs. Save up to $5000. Come in quickly!! 1-877-373-2662. 2004 IH 7600 tandem truck, 670,000 kms, www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077. 13 spd., 425/65R22.5 front (20,000 lbs.), 11R22.5 rear (46,000 lbs.), $55,000. 2016 SUBARU FORESTER name top pick 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. for 2016. Starting from $29,360. Great selection to choose from!! 1-877-373-2662, www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

PRIME LOCATION - Industrial Shop and Yard: Endless opportunities and excellent location for commercial, agricultural & industrial use. Located on Railway Avenue of Nipawin, SK., directly across from the future Hanfood site. Featuring easy access for vehicles and heavy trucks, 12" thick concrete floor and a 4 point car hoist. Other upgrades within past 5 yrs include radiant tube heaters, 3 phase power, upgraded shop lighting, spray foam insulation and a new shop door large enough for heavy trucks & equipment. This spacious 6000 sq. ft. shop and +/- 0.74 acre lot offer endless opportunities for large or small businesses. Expand your business with the use of the newly renovated office space available for lease (conveniently located right next door), excellent condition, $325,000 OBO. 306-276-6840, 306-812-6841, Nipawin, SK. tc.accumark@outlook.com

ROUGH LUMBER: 2x6, 2x8, 2x10, 1” boards, windbreak slabs, 4x4, 6x6, 8x8, all in stock. Custom sizes and log siding on order. Call V&R Sawing 306-232-5488, Rosthern, SK.

CONTINUOUS METAL ROOFING, no exposed screws to leak or metal overlaps. Ideal for lower slope roofs, rinks, churches, pig barns, commercial, arch rib building and residential roofing; also available in Snap Lock. 306-435-8008, Wapella, SK.

CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place and finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any floor design. References available. Alexander, MB. 204-752-2069. www.windandweathershelters.com COMMERCIAL GRADE Wind and weather shelter buildings available in widths from 20’ to 90’. Prices starting at $2495. If you have bought an auction building and need to upgrade to more durable material or parts, we can help! Contact Paul 306-641-5464 or Ladimer 306-795-7779. Located in Yorkton, SK. Call our toll-free number to take advantage of our Prepayment Bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and we’ll run your ad 2 more weeks for free. That’s 5 weeks for the price of 3. Call 1-800-667-7770 today!

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GRAIN CLEANING SERVICES: Fully portable grain cleaning and crop upgrading services, c/w air and screen machine, 3 roll indents & gravity table. Lloydminster, SK. Please call 306-821-2380 or 780-205-5526. https://mckenziemobileseedcleaning.com Email: mckseed@outlook.com

2008 G940 TANDEM drive articulated, Volvo D7E eng., net 165 HP, HTE 1160, shuttle auto shift trans. (11 fwd, 6 rvs), 14’ mold board, 5688 hrs., $74,800. DL#1679. Norm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB. SKIDSTEER ATTACHMENTS: Buckets, rock buckets, grapples, weld-on plates, hyd. augers, brush cutters and more large stock. LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom Top quality equipment, quality welding hay hauling. 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK. and sales. Call Darcy at 306-731-3009, 306-731-8195, Craven, SK. CAT D8-14A WET deck angle dozer, not running; Hoover 12’ V-Cutter; Hoover 14’ JIM’S TUB GRINDING, H-1100 Haybuster Piler. 306-747-3674, Shellbrook, SK. with 400 HP, serving Saskatchewan. Call 2007 CAT D6N LGP Dozer, new under306-334-2232, 306-332-7332, Balcarres. carriage, 34” pads, diff. steer, 6-way blade, 16,131 hrs., $94,900. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com NEUFELD ENT. CORRAL CLEANING, 1978 CHAMPION 740 motor grader, Depayloader, Bobcat with rubber tracks and troit 6 cylinder, showing 2568 hours, 14’ vertical beater spreaders. Phone moldboard, scarifier, cab, new rear tires, 306-220-5013, 306-467-5013, Hague, SK. $16,900. Call 1-800-667-4515, or visit: www.combineworld.com BRUSH MULCHING. The fast, effective way to clear land. Four season service, ROAD GRADERS CONVERTED to pull competitive rates, 275 HP unit, also avail. behind large 4 WD tractors, 14’ and 16’ trackhoe with thumb, multiple bucket at- blade widths avail. 306-682-3367, CWK tachments. Bury rock and brush piles and Ent. Humboldt, SK. www.cwenterprises.ca fence line clearing. Borysiuk Contracting Inc., www.bcisk.ca Prince Albert, SK., HYDRAULIC SCRAPERS: LEVER 60, 70, 80, and 435, 4 to 30 yd. available. Rebuilt 306-960-3804. for years of trouble-free service. Lever MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. Holdings Inc. 306-682-3332 Muenster, SK. Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: www.maverickconstruction.ca REGULATION DUGOUTS: 120x60x14’, $2000; 160x60x14’, $2950; 180x60x14’, $3450; 200x60x14’, $3950. Larger sizes avail. Travel incl. in SK. See us at on FB at saskdugouts. 306-222-8054, Saskatoon SK

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4- 2006 JD 400D and 1- 2005 Cat 740 40 ton Art; Rock trucks; 3- 1996, 1997 and 1998 Cat 621F motor scrapers; Coming soon 1972 Cat; D6C LGP crawler. Many more items with prices. Robert Harris, 204-642-9959, 204-470-5493, Gimli, MB. Pics/info. at: robertharrisequipment.com EXCAVATOR BUCKETS, various shapes and sizes for different excavators. Call 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB.

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HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS 10 to 25 yds., exc. cond.; Loader and scraper tires, custom conversions available. Looking for Cat cable scrapers. Quick Drain Sales Ltd., 306-231-7318, 306-682-4520 Muenster SK 2014 L10 TAKEUCHI Skid Steer, 3500 hrs., good condition, comes with tooth bucket. 306-441-1684, Cut Knife, SK. 1980 D6D DOZER, wide pad, winch; 1993 D37 P6 6-way dozer, cab. 306-304-1959. Goodsoil, SK. 2002 JCB 214 SLP backhoe; Case 2870 w/Degelman dozer; Fassi hyd. arm & 10’ 1-ton steel deck. Call 306-240-8086. Stretch your advertising dollars! Place an ad in the classifieds. Our friendly staff is waiting for your call. 1-800-667-7770.

1986 CASE 450C dozer crawler, 6-way GREAT PRICES ON new, used and remanublade $9500. www.waltersequipment.com factured engines, parts and accessories for 204-525-4521. Minitonas, MB. diesel pickups. Large inventory, engines can be shipped or installed. Give us a call INTERNATIONAL CLOSED DOOR baler, or check: www.thickettenginerebuilding.ca model NA1450; 2 hydraulic pin presses; 1 Thickett Engine Rebuilding. 204-532-2187, portable hydraulic track press; 3 Goodman Russell, MB. battery locomotive carts w/hundreds of feet of track. Cambrian Equipment Sales, 3406B, N14, SERIES 60, running engines Winnipeg, MB. (Ph) 204-667-2867 or (Fax) and parts. Call Yellowhead Traders, 306-896-2882, Churchbridge, SK. 204-667-2932.

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WANTED DIESEL CORES: ISX and N14 GRAIN BIN INSTALLATION. Large diameCummins, C15 Cats, Detroits Ddec 3, 4, ter bin setup, concrete, and repairs. Now DD15. Can-Am Truck 1-800-938-3323. booking Spring 2018. Quadra Development Corp., 1-800-249-2708. 290 CUMMINS, 350 Detroit, 671 Detroit, Series 60 cores. 306-539-4642, Regina, SK FOR ALL YOUR grain storage, hopper cone and steel floor requirements contact: DIESEL ENGINES, OVERHAUL kits and Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipawin, SK. Toll parts for most makes. Cat, CIH, Cummins, free: 1-888-304-2837. Detroit, Mack. M&M Equipment Ltd., Parts and Service phone: 306-543-8377, fax: BOOK NOW, TAKE DELIVERY, DON’T 306-543-2111, Regina, SK. PAY UNTIL NOVEMBER, 2018. Top quality MERIDIAN bins. Price includes: skid, ladders to ground, manhole, set-up and delivery within set radius. Meridian BEAVER CONTAINER SYSTEMS, new Combo SPECIAL: 5000 bu., and used sea containers, all sizes. FARM AND INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL Hopper We manufacture superior quality 306-220-1278, Saskatoon and Regina, SK. motor sales, service and parts. Also sale $14,990. and steel floors for all makes and of, and repairs to, all makes and sizes of hoppers Know what you are investing in. Call pumps and phase converters, etc. Tisdale sizes. and find out why our product quality and Motor Rewinding 1984 Ltd., well exceeds the competition. We 306-873-2881, fax 306-873-4788, 1005A- price also stock lids for all makes & 111th Ave., Tisdale, SK. tmr@sasktel.net models of replacement bins. Leasing available. Hoffart Website: www.tismtrrewind.com Services Inc., 306-957-2033, Odessa, SK. KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD/ OPI STORMAX. BIN MOVING, all sizes up to 19’ diameter, For sales and service east central SK. and w/wo floors; Also move liquid fert. tanks. MB., call Gerald Shymko, Calder, SK., 306-742-4445 or toll free 1-888-674-5346. 306-629-3324, 306-741-9059, Morse, SK. KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD Aeration Sales SAVE FREIGHT! U-weld hopper cones for and Service. R.J. Electric, Avonlea, SK. Call all brands of bins up to 24’. Middle Lake 306-868-2199 or cell 306-868-7738. Steel, 306-367-4306 or 306-367-2408. www.middlelakesteel.com BUILD YOUR OWN conveyors, 6”, 7”, 8” and 10” end units available; Transfer conveyors and bag conveyors or will custom build. Call for prices. Master Industries Inc. www.masterindustries.ca Phone 1-866-567-3101, Loreburn, SK.

REMOTE CONTROL SWING AUGER movers, trailer chute openers, endgate and hoist systems, wireless full bin alarms, swing belt movers, wireless TractorCams, RM45 MERIDIAN, $35,000; RM55 Me- motorized utility carts. All shipped directly ridian, $36,500; 1645 TL Convey-All, to you. Safety, convenience, reliability. Kramble Industries at 306-933-2655, $29,500. Call 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg. Saskatoon, SK. or www.kramble.net

$83,900 NH H8040, Stk#60772, 416 hrs., WS36 header, U2 reel, roto-shears, double swath, double knife, Outback GPS. 403-783-3337, Ponoka, AB.

TORO-MASTER NH3 CADDY w/twin 2000 tanks, high flotation tires and big plumb- GRAVITY WAGONS: New 400 bu, $7,400; ing, like new condition, $65,000 OBO. 600 bu., $12,500; 750 bu., $18,250. Large 204-648-7085, Grandview, MB. selection of used gravity wagons, 250-750 bu. Used grain carts, 450 to 1110 bushel. USED FERTILIZER SPREADERS: 4-8T; New View at: www.zettlerfarmequipment.com Loftness 8T; and Wilmar 16T tender. Call 1-866-938-8537, Portage la Prairie, MB. 1-866-938-8537, Portage, MB. 2012 BRENT 882 Grain Cart, 850 bu., 1000 PTO, hydraulic spout, 500 bu./min., very good condition, $37,800 MERIDIAN GRAIN AUGERS available 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com with self-propelled mover kits and bin sweeps. Call Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipawin, SK. Toll free 1-888-304-2837.

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POLY GRAIN BINS, 40 to 150 bu. for grain cleaning, feed, fertilizer and left over treated seed. Booth C34 at the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon. Call 306-258-4422, Vonda, SK. www.buffervalley.com LIFETIME LID OPENERS. We are a stocking dealer for Boundary Trail Lifetime Lid Openers, 18” to 39”. Rosler Construction 2000 Inc., 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK. BROCK (BUTLER) GRAIN BIN PARTS and accessories available at Rosler Construction. 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK.

CONTAINERS FOR SALE OR RENT: All sizes. Now in stock: 53’ steel and insulated stainless steel. 306-861-1102 Radville, SK. SHIPPING CONTAINERS FOR SALE. 20’53’, delivery/ rental/ storage available. For inventory and prices call: 306-262-2899, Saskatoon, SK. www.thecontainerguy.ca

MERIDIAN AUGERS IN STOCK: swings, truck loading, Meridian SP movers. Call Hoffart Services Inc., Odessa, SK., 306-957-2033.

AFAB INDUSTRIES POST frame buildings. For the customer that prefers quality. 1-888-816-AFAB (2322), Rocanville, SK.

MERIDIAN TRUCKLOADING AUGERS TL10-39, loaded, $18,300 HD10-46, loaded, $19,500; HD10-59, loaded, $20,425; TL12-39, loaded with 37 EFI engine, $20,370. 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK.

STEEL FARM BUILDINGS On Sale: Prairie Steel Products is offering winter booking discounts on all steel farm buildings. Book now for spring delivery and save! Visit our booth at the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon Jan. 9-12 for more info. 1-888-398-7150, www.prairiesteel.com STEEL CLADDING: NEW Grade A, 3/4” high rib, 29 gauge Galvalume $0.82/SF or White-White $0.99/SF cut to your length! All accessories available. Prairie Steel, Clavet, SK. Call 1-888-398-7150, or email buildings@prairiesteel.com POLE BARNS, WOODSTEEL packages, hog, chicken and dairy barns. Construction and concrete crews available. Mel or Scott, MR Steel Construction, 306-978-0315, Hague, SK.

YEAR END CLEARANCE: New SLMD 1272 and HD10-53. Used augers: 2013 Sakundiak SLMD 1272, loaded, $14,800; SLMD 10x66, loaded, $11,500; Farm King 10x70 S/A, $6900; HD 8x39 w/20 HP Kohler and mover $6950. Also a dealer for Convey-All Conveyors. Leasing available! Call Dale at Mainway Farm Equipment, 306-567-3285 or 306-567-7299, Davidson. www.mainwayfarmequipment.ca

HORNOI LEASING NEW and used 20’ and 40’ sea cans for sale or rent. Call 306-757-2828, Regina, SK. 20’ and 40’ SHIPPING CONTAINERS and storage trailers. Large Sask. inventory. Phone 1-800-843-3984 or 306-781-2600. 20’ TO 53’ CONTAINERS. New, used and modified. Available Winnipeg, MB; Regina and Saskatoon, SK. www.g-airservices.ca 306-933-0436.

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2011 JD 9770 STS, Ser. # 743566, 1 owner, 1047 sep. hrs, 1415 eng., Good Year 520x42 factory duals, Greenlight every year since new (just done Nov. 2017), Sunnybrook concaves, always shedded, c/w JD 615 PU header, $220,000. Phone Randy, 204-734-8624, Swan River, MB. 2000 JD 9750-STS, 2980 sep. hrs., 3966 eng. hrs., $60,000 w/dual wheel kit or $53,000 w/out. 306-896-2311 Langenburg $139,000 2009 JD T670, Stk#81619, 2833 eng./ 2202 sep. hrs., fully reconditioned. New: rasp bars, concave, feeder chain, new PU. 403-854-3334, Hanna, AB. $300,000 2012 JD S670, Stk#79784, 1003 eng./677 sep. hrs., 615P, standard chopper, Powercast tailboard, 1800 monitor. 403-280-2200, Calgary, AB. $316,900 2013 JD S680, Stk#82134, 1447 eng./1011 sep. hrs., no PU, pre-urea eng., Powercast tailboard, 26’ auger, pwr. fold hopper. 403-362-3486, Brooks, AB.

2013 CHALLENGER 560C (Massey 9560) fully loaded, 587 sep. hrs., c/w PU header, duals. Retired, mint unit. $280,000 OBO. 306-345-2039, Pense, SK.

$299,000 2012 CLAAS 770TT, Stk# 91847, 825 sep./1374 eng. hrs., lateral tilt, P516 Lexion/MacDon PU, Maxflo 1200 40’ draper. 403-485-2231, Vulcan, AB.

2013 CASE 8230, duals, ext. auger, fine cut chopper, 640 sep. hrs. $299,000. Take offers, Trade, or financing. 306-563-8765. 2000 CIH 2388 w/1015 header, $55,000; 2004 2388 w/2015 PU header, $95,000; 2006 2388 w/2015 PU header, $110,000; 2002 2388 w/2015 PU header, $80,000; 2008 2588 w/2015 PU header, $135,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. $299,000 2014 CIH 8230, Stk#78841, 806 eng./595 sep. hrs., lat. tilt, Powerplus CVT rotor dr., standard chopper, AutoGuide ready. 403-625-4421 Claresholm AB

2010 HONEYBEE 88C 42’ flex draper, pea auger, vg cond., $25,000 Cdn OBO.; Also available late model Class/Lexion, MacDon, CIH, NH & JD flex heads and flex drapers. 218-779-1710. Delivery available. 2015 MACDON FD75, 40’, double knife drive, split PU reel, pea auger, slow spd. transport, w/Crary air bar, shedded, field ready, exc. cond., $84,900 terms available. Call Len, 204-324-6298, Altona, MB.

JD FLEX PLATFORMS: 922 - 925 w/wo air; 630F - 635F w/wo air reel. CIH Flex Platforms: 1020 25’ w/wo air reel - 30’ w/wo air reel; 2020 30’ w/wo air reel - 35’; 3020 30’ - 35’. NH Flex: 973 25’ - 30’; 74C 30’ 35’; 740CF 30’ air reel. Agco Flex Platforms: 500 25’ - 30’; 800 25’ w/air reel PRICED TO SELL! Multiple Lexion 700 & 30’; 8000 25’ - 30’; 8200 35’. After season 500 series combines. All in excellent con- specials including free delivery in spring dition. 218-779-1710. Delivery available. with deposit. We also have header transports starting at $3000 for new 30’ w/flex bar kit. Reimer Farm Equipment, #12 N, Steinbach, MB. Call Gary at 204-326-7000. 2013 JOHN DEERE 569 baler, net wrap & twine, mega wide plus pick-up, only 5500 bales, variable core, kicker, 1000 PTO, 2008 NH CR9060, 2120 eng. hrs., 1679 RECONDITIONED rigid and flex, most excellent condition, $41,000. 306-834-7204 thresh. hrs., $54,000 w/o March 2017. makes and sizes; also header transports. Completely redone from the feeder chain to Ed Lorenz, 306-344-4811, Paradise Hill, SK Kerrobert, SK. kissick.brent@gmail.com the chopper knives. Always shedded, very www.straightcutheaders.com good cond., $116,000 OBO. 780-975-4235, BALE SPEARS, high quality imported Thorhild, AB. toronchuk@mcsnet.ca $33,900 2009 JD 635D, Stk#79828, 35’ from Italy, 27” and 49”, free shipping, exdraper platform, poly-tine PU reel, road cellent pricing. Call now toll free transport w/lights, cutterbar w/skid LIKE NEW CR9090, CR9080 and CR8090, 1-866-443-7444, Stonewall, MB. all very low hours. Discounted prices, save shoes. 403-362-3486, Brooks, AB. $$$. Call 218-779-1710. Delivery available. BALE SPEAR ATTACHMENTS for all $17,000 2005 JD 936D, Stk#77338, 36’ loaders and skidsteers, excellent pricing. 2003 NH CR940, 2588 hrs., chopper, draper platform, poly-tine pickup reel, Call now 1-866-443-7444. spreader, unload auger ext., 900/ 60R32 road transport w/lights (sold as is). fronts, headers/PU’s available, $49,800. 403-485-2231, Vulcan, AB. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 2011 BRANDT 5200EX grain vacuum, 1000 PTO, new flighting, good condition, $16,900. Phone 1-800-667-4515 or visit: 2012 760TT, Terra Trac, 3000/1500 hrs., www.combineworld.com new tracks, $40,000 w/o, nice, $159,000 Cdn. OBO. 218-779-1710. Delivery avail.

MF 9430, 30’ header, 30’ table, low hours, 2-speed, PU reel, c/w header trailer, $65,000. 306-563-8765, Canora, SK. 2014 MF 9740 windrower, 30’ header, low hrs, GPS, Roto-Shear, PU reel, c/w header trailer $115,000. 306-563-8765, Canora SK $149,900 2015 JD W150, Stk#78697, 415 eng./292 cut hrs., 35’ draper header, swath roller, 1800 display, AutoTrak ready. 403-625-4421, Claresholm, AB.

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ARROWCORP PEGASUS PG, unused, 14 RH gravity table c/w motors & hood; Premier grain, two high unit, direct drive; Destoner, air flotation, model S-45. For information please call Lahora Brar 204-298-5737 BOOKING NORCAN SOYBEAN Common or Aman 204-697-9441, Winnipeg, MB. #1. Put the new big red in your shed, not the seed dealers! Buy a bigger Case/IH DUAL SCREEN ROTARY grain cleaners, combine! Early discounts. Call Norcan great for pulse crops, best selection in Seeds, 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch, MB. Western Canada, 306-946-7923 Young, SK 2004 CIH AFX 8010, 2016 PU, RWA, new CUSTOM COLOR SORTING chickpeas to tires, 3000 engine/2000 sep. hrs., PRO mustard. Cert. organic and conventional. 600 monitor, new sieves and grain pan, 306-741-3177, Swift Current, SK. field ready, good condition, $85,000 OBO. 204-648-7136, Ashville, MB.

USED AUGER: 2014 MERIDIAN HD853, loaded, in excellent condition, $10,995; SUPERB GRAIN DRYERS: Grant Service Meridian HD846, $7,500. Call Ltd. winter pricing has started. We have 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK. the largest single phase dryer- SQ28D, 30 NEVER CLIMB A BIN AGAIN! Full-bin Su- HP, quiet fan, 576 bu., 12,000,000 BTU. per Sensor, reliable hardwired with 2 year Call 306-272-4195, Foam Lake, SK. warranty; Magnetic Camera Pkg. - One man positioning of auger (even at night); CONT. FLOW BEHLEN M700, propane, sinHopper Dropper - Unload your hopper bins gle phase, good cond., Canola screens, without any mess; Wireless Magnetic LED $10,500. 306-690-8105, Moose Jaw, SK. Light - Position your swing auger at night from the comfort of your truck. Safety and convenience are the name of the game. www.brownlees.ca Brownlees Trucking Inc FEED BLOWER SYSTEMS, Sales and SerUnity, SK., 306-228-2971, 1-877-228-5598 vice. Piping, blower and airlock repairs. John Beukema 204-497-0029, Carman, MB

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DUAL STAGE ROTARY SCREENERS and Kwik Kleen 5-7 tube. Call 204-857-8403, Portage la Prairie, MB. or visit online: www.zettlerfarmequipment.com

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2009 JD 9770 STS, w/635 Hydra-Flex & air reel, header transport incl., 2134 sep./2853 eng. hrs., extended wear pkg., bullet rotor, 2 sets of concaves, green lighted & shedded every year, JD GPS included, Michel's elec. hopper topper, Contour Master, duals w/upgraded rims, very good condition, $205,000 OBO. 306-625-7130, Ponteix, SK. Email: lasypranch@gmail.com

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$209,000 2011 JD 4830, Stk#82768, 2010 MORRIS 8370 TBT variable rate air 2012 JD 6150R, MFWD, 380 FEL and grap2142 hrs., 100’ boom, 20” spacing, 1000 cart, vg cond., ran through shop, $75,900. ple, bought new in April 2013, 1775 hrs., shedded. Call 306-297-6404, Simmie, SK. gal. SS tank, 380R46 skinny/600R38 float- Cam-Don Motors 306-237-4212 Perdue SK ers. 403-854-3334, Hanna, AB. 2008 JD 7230 Premium, MFWD, 3 PTH, 3 hyds, w/JD 741 FEL, bucket, grapple, 2677 hrs vg. 306-625-7277, Stewart Valley, SK. 2010 FENDT 820, CVT, loader and grapple, SKINNY TIRES: Four (4) High Clearance 710’s, 4 hyds., dual PTO, 200 HP, 1992 JD 4255, 2WD, w/265 loader, 3800 sprayer tires off Patriot 4- 12.4x42, $3800. $137,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK. hrs., great shape, $52,000 OBO. Medicine Call 306-563-8765, Canora, SK. Hat, AB. 403-581-8269 or 306-628-7380. FLOATER TIRES: Factory rims & tires: JD $125,500 1997 JD 9400, Stk#89153, 4045, 710/60R46, $20,500; 800/55R46, $22,500; JD 4038, Case 4420, 650/65R38 2002 6420, FWA, CAH, 3PTH, 8000 Leon 8100 hrs., 425 HP, rebuilt trans., 710 duMichelin tires and rims. Sprayer duals loader w/QA 96” bucket & bale fork, new als, with Degelman two-way blade. clutch & block heater - $5000 this fall, new 403-280-2200, Calgary, AB. available. 306-697-2856, Grenfell, SK. PTO 1 year ago. Will trade on bred cows or bale truck. 306-386-2490, Cochin, SK. $134,900 2009 JD 7830, Stk#82122, 6906 hrs., 165 HP, IVT, new engine in May 2017, 520/R42 & 420R30 tires, AutoTrak ready. 403-362-3486, Brooks, AB. 2016 CIH FARMALL 75A, MFWD, 20 hrs., 8 forward gears/2 reverse, 3PTH, 540 PTO, $269,000 2015 JD 7230R, Stk#80127, 1924 hrs., 230 HP, IVT, IF600/70R30 & 2012 PILLAR OPENERS on Salford frame, $29,000 OBO. 204-648-7085, Grandview IF710/70R42 tires, 5 SCV, SF3000, 4600 floatation tires 10" spacing, blockage monitors, 2 sets of packer tires, Case 3380 DS 2001 MX120 w/loader; 2000 MX135; and display. 403-783-3337, Ponoka, AB. variable rate TBT air cart, good cond., 2008 Maxim 140 w/loader; 2001 MX170 $119,000. 204-534-7920, Boissevain, MB. w/loader. 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. Darren.e.peters@gmail.com 2003 CASE/IH STX 450, quad track, 7065 2012 M135X, loader and grapple, 3PTH, 2012 BOURGAULT 3320, 76’, 10” space, 2” hrs., Cummins, 16 spd. PS, 4 hyd. outlets, 16x16 PS trans., 2400 hrs., 20.8x38, 135 tips, 4.5” packers, DS dry, MRB #3’s; 2014 plus return line, 30” tracks, exc. cond. HP, $73,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK Bourgault 7950 air tank, 5 tank meter, sad- $125,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. dle, conveyor, scale, rear hitch. $340,000 LIZARD CREEK REPAIR and Tractor. We for both. 204-648-7085. Grandview, MB. buy 90 and 94 Series Case, 2 WD, FWA CIH ATX700, 60’, 12” sp., 5.5” rubber pack- tractors for parts and rebuilding. Also have 2014 MF 7615, Deluxe cab, cab susp., ers, Raven NH3, closers and single bar har- rebuilt tractors and parts for sale. loader & grapple, CVT, 150 HP, 2510 hrs., 306-784-7841, Herbert, SK. row. $28,000. 204-648-7085, Grandview. $139,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK 2008 SEEDMASTER 8012, 2004 NH 430 tank, 3 compartments with 5 rollers, Raven NH3, $89,000 OBO. 306-272-7225, Foam Lake, SK. 2010 NH/FLEXI-COIL 5500, 70’, 10” spacing, 3” paired row carbide atom jet knives, DS, full blockage; 2010 Flexi-Coil 430 bu. TBT cart, 3 tanks, var. rate metering, 20.8x 38 duals, 10” deluxe load-in auger. Both units shedded since new and in excellent cond., $85,000. 306-675-6136, Kelliher, SK 2010 SEED HAWK 60’ Toolbar, 12” sp., w/Seed Hawk 400 cart, 2 fans, seed & fertilizer distributing kit auger. Also NH kit & winch $175,000. 306-449-2255, A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment Ltd., Storthoaks SK.

2011 SEED HAWK 50’, 12” sp., tool bar with 600 cart dual wheels auger and bag lift. $229,000; 1997 39’ Morris Magnum air drill, 10” spacing, Atom openers w/Morris GOODS USED TRACTOR parts (always 180 cart, $18,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm buying tractors). David or Curtis, Roblin, Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. MB., 204-564-2528, 1-877-564-8734. 2010 BOURGAULT 3310 65’, Paralink, 12” G.S. TRACTOR SALVAGE, JD tractors spacing, mid row shank banding, double only. Call 306-497-3535, Blaine Lake, SK. shoot, rear hitch, tandem axles, low acres, SMITH’S TRACTOR WRECKING. Huge $135,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, inventory new and used tractor parts. 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 1-888-676-4847. 2007 SEEDMASTER TXB 66-12, 66’, 12” COMB-TRAC SALVAGE. We sell new and spacing, double shoot, all new manifold used parts for most makes of tractors, and new hoses, mint cond., w/wo JD 1910 combines, balers, mixmills and swathers. air tank. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. 306-997-2209, 1-877-318-2221, Borden, 8800 40’ BOURGAULT air seeder, $9500. SK. We buy machinery. Phone 306-395-2668 or 306-681-7610, LOEFFELHOLZ TRACTOR AND COMBINE Chaplin, SK. Salvage, Cudworth, SK., 306-256-7107. We sell new, used and remanufactured 2010 BOURGAULT 3310 66’ 12” spacing W/MRB, 6550 cart w/liquid kit. $190,000 parts for most farm tractors and combines. OBO. 306-552-4905, Eyebrow, SK. AGRA PARTS PLUS, parting older tractors, tillage, seeding, haying, along w/oth- 2010 JD 1830 drill, 61’ 10” spacing, w/430 er Ag equipment. 3 miles NW of Battle- bu. 1910 grain cart, duals, double shoot, ford, SK. off #16 Hwy. Ph: 306-445-6769. $79,000 OBO. 306-552-4905, Eyebrow, SK. TRIPLE B WRECKING, wrecking tractors, combines, cults., drills, swathers, mixmills. etc. We buy equipment. 306-246-4260, 306-441-0655, Richard, SK. Call our toll-free number to take advantage of our Prepayment Bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and we’ll run your ad 2 more weeks for free. That’s 5 weeks for the price of 3. Call 1-800-667-7770 today!

JD 1770 NT MaxEmerge, 16 row, 30” spacing, w/500 gal. liquid tank, Yetter row cleaners, always shedded, excellent cond., $53,000. 204-243-2453, High Bluff, MB.

2016 DEGELMAN speed blade, top screens c/w skid steer bracket, only used 10 hrs., $11,500. 306-495-7721, Kipling, SK. FARM-KING MODELS: 96”, $3900; 84”, $3450; 74”, $3200; 50”, $1900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK.

2011 ROGATOR 1396, 132’ alum. recirculating boom, 1300 SS tank, Raven Viper Pro, Raven SmarTrax steering, AccuBoom sec. control, AutoBoom height control, HID lighting, DeKoning air lift crop dividers, both sets of Michelin tires, one owner. 204-937-3429, 204-937-7047. Roblin, MB. 2011 CASE PATRIOT 3330, AccuGuide, AccuBoom, AutoBoom, Pro 600, 650 floaters, 5-way nozzle bodies, 1940 eng. hrs., always shedded, exc. cond., $180,000 OBO 306-338-8231, 306-327-4550, Kelvington. 2013 JD 4940, 120’, 1500 eng, 380 tires & duals on rear, 1200 gal. stainless, all options, $219,000. 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK 2014 NH SP 240F-XP, 275 HP, 120’, 1200 stainless, fully loaded incl. AIM Command, both sets tires, $219,000. 306-948-7223. $340,000 2014 CIH 4430, Stk#82674, 1625 hrs., 120’ boom, Air Command Pro, 1200 gal., float/skinny tires, crop dividers. 403-280-2200, Calgary, AB. $254,000 2013 JD 4830, Stk#83194, 100’/boom leveling, 20” spacing, SS tank, 420/80R46 float tires, SF3000, AMS activation. 403-641-3813, Bassano, AB. $145,500 2009 APACHE AS1010, Stk# 87261, 737 hrs., 100’/boom leveling, SS tank, 20” spacing, Triekon crop dividers, GPS. 403-823-8484, Drumheller, AB.

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2013 NEW HOLLAND TV6070 Bidirectional, 4100 hrs., bought new with loader/grapple and all the bells and whistles good reliable tractor. $110000. 306-263-3232, Tyvan, $440,000 2013 CHALLENGER MT965C, SK. youngslandc@gmail.com Stk#83676, 834 hrs., 525 HP, hi-flow hyds., 5 SCV, PTO, GPS, Degelman 7900 blade. 403-783-3337, Ponoka, AB. 1992 FORD/VERSATILE 946, JD AutoSteer, 6000 hrs., very nice, $44,500 Cdn. OBO. Delivery available. 218-779-1710.

www.penta.ca 1-800-587-4711 SUNFLOWER HARVEST SYSTEMS. Call for literature. 1-800-735-5848. Lucke Mfg., www.luckemanufacturing.com OUTDOOR WOODS BOILER, manufactured company in Roblin, MB. Approx 400,000 5 BUILDING JACKS, 15 ton mechanical by Will heat any size of house/shop lift; 605A Vermeer baler, good belts, $600; BTU/hr. and some additional outer buildings. SimiPortable fuel tank fits in half ton or bigger, lar model retails for $13,500 new from $125. 204-825-2784, Pilot Mound, MB. dealer. Very simple operation, no complicated devices/controls. $3800 OBO. For FEED MIX CARTS w/scales: Knight 280 bu., $5000; Gehl 500 bu.,$10,000; Kelly more information or viewing, please call 306-764-7214. Prince Albert, SK. Ryan and Roorda feeder cart, $2000; JD 785 spreader, $11,000; New Idea 362 spreader, $6500. 1-866-938-8537, Portage ODESSA ROCKPICKER SALES: New De- DRILL STEM FOR SALE: 300 2-7/8”. gelman equipment, land rollers, Straw- 306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK. master, rockpickers, protill, dozer blades. 306-957-4403, 306-536-5097, Odessa, SK. 2 & 7/8” OILFIELD TUBING, cement and plastic lined, $25. Call 306-861-1280, 2005 JD 6420 tractor w/JD loader, 3000 Weyburn, SK. hrs.; 2009 JD 568 baler w/net wrap, 8500 bales on it; 1998 NH 1475 14’ haybine; 649 Allis diesel motors with pump, all sizMorris 881 8-bale carrier. Southey, SK. es of alum. pipe. Call Dennis to discuss your needs! 403-308-1400, Taber, AB. Text 306-535-5908, or call 306-524-4551. 11’ ROTARY MOWER, $2000. Phone 306-395-2668 or 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK. 8” to 6” MAINLINE; 6 - 5”x5” wheelines; Bauer 1160’ w/4.5” hard hose reel; Also RETIRING - SMALLER FARM EQUIPMENT: Reinke 985’ pivot, refurbished. Call for 1999 MX220 Case/IH tractor; 27’ Flexi- pricing, 306-858-7351, Lucky Lake, SK. Coil air drill w/7120 tank; 1995 Ford S/A dsl., grain truck; Plus more! 306-842-5036, BLUE WATER IRRIGATION DEV. LTD. 306-861-6466, Weyburn, SK. Reinke pivots, lateral, minigators, pump and used mainline, new Bauer travelers dealer. 25 yrs. experience. 306-858-7351, Lucky Lake, SK. www.philsirrigation.ca

WANTED: USED, BURNT, old or ugly tractors. Newer models too! Smith’s Tractor Wrecking, 1-888-676-4847. LOOKING FOR CASE Magnum 7230, 7240, BISON WANTED - Canadian Prairie Bison or 7250 with FWA. Call 306-463-7627, is looking to contract grain finished bison, Wilkie, SK. as well as calves and yearlings for growing markets. Contact Roger Provencher at 306-468-2316, roger@cdnbison.com

SOLIDLOCK AND TREE ISLAND game wire and all accessories for installation. Heights from 26” to 120”. Ideal for elk, deer, bison, 1984 VERS. 875 4WD, w/Atom Jet hyd. sheep, swine, cattle, etc. Tom Jensen kit, $27,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equip- ph/fax: 306-426-2305, Smeaton, SK. ment Ltd., 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 2014 VERSATILE 2375, 710’s, PTO, 4 hyds., 12 spd. standard, 1 owner, $185,000. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK.

1990 JOHN DEERE 8560 4WD, 230 HP, PTO, new rubber, always shedded, with JD AutoSteer, $43,500 OBO. Phone/text 204-242-4332, Manitou, MB STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in rebuilding JD tractors. Want Series 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 7000s to rebuild or for parts. pay top $$. Now selling JD parts. 204-466-2927, 204-871-5170, Austin, MB. 2000 JD 7710, 5130 hrs; 2000 JD 8310; 2001 JD 7810; 2009 JD 7830, 3800 hrs. All MFWD, can be equipped with loaders. 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. UTILITY TRACTOR: JD 6200, 2 WD, open station with loader; JD 5520 MFWD w/ cab & air, 2700 hrs. 204-522-6333, Melita.

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2014 MT965C, 800’s, 5 hyds., GPS, 1025 hrs., 525 HP, loaded, $349,900; 2013 MT 545D, loader & grapple, 24 spd., dual PTO, 1512 hrs., cab susp., 155 HP, $139,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK.

1978 JD 4440 2WD, 9300 hrs., 1200 hrs. WANTED: JOHN DEERE 1910 air cart, in on complete rebuild, meticulously maindecent shape. Call 306-862-8518, Choice- tained, 134a A/C, Pioneer hyd. coupler conversion, 42" wheels, 50 series hood land, SK. lights, upgraded steps, fresh eng. & trans. FLEXI-COIL 5000 51’, 9”, w/2320, 4” rub- oils, $40,000. 306-577-9141, Wawota, SK. ber packers, in-row liquid phos. $18,500. 306-690-8105, Moose Jaw, SK. 1992 JD 4055 MFWD, 9032 hrs., great for baler or grain auger, exc. cond., $40,000 OBO. Kdranch@yahoo.com 306-846-4501, 306-846-7770, Dinsmore, SK. 2009 SEEDMASTER, 4 product VR, 50', 12" 8370XL 440 bu. Morris TBH, 1600 liq. cart, 2013 JD 9410R, 4WD, PS, 1480 hrs., 1000 Raven monitor, $165,000. For more info, PTO, high flow hyd. w/5 remotes, leather trim, premium HID lights, 620/70R42’s, call Arne at 306-335-7494. Lemberg, SK. $199,500 USD. www.ms-diversified.com WANTED: CONTROL BOX for 6180 Morris Call 320-848-2496 or 320-894-6560. air cart, part #N21062. 306-753-2667, or 2 JOHN DEERE 8970’s: 5400 hrs., power306-753-7244, Macklin, SK. shift, $79,000 Cdn OBO; 6800 hrs., 24 spd., $69,000 Cdn. OBO. Both have PTO WANTED: 42’ - 45’ air seeder with 7.5” and 3PTH. 218-779-1710. Delivery avail. spacing and 330+ lb. trips. Prefer 8810 Bourgault but will consider other makes BOOK NORCAN SOYBEANS Common #1 with 7.5” spacing. Call 306-867-8477 or so you keep more green. Buy a bigger JD 306-867-7381, Outlook, SK. with the savings! Early discounts. Norcan Seeds at 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch MB.

6 1/2” ALLIED 3 PTH snowblower, push or pull, 180 rotating chute. $500 OBO, Call 2012 BOURGAULT 70' 6000 mid harrow & Paul 306-233-7921, Wakaw, SK. 72' 7200 heavy harrow, vg cond., $22,000 OBO. 204-734-0144, Minitonas, MB. SCHULTE 9600FM SNOWBLOWER front mount, orig. cutting blade, JD mount, low 2015 DEGELMAN STRAWMASTER Plus, hrs. $8900 firm. 780-853-4888, Vermilion. 100', 30" carbide tines, $78,000. Please call 306-398-7688, Cut Knife, SK.

2011 ROGATOR 1194, 2085 hrs., 2 sets of tires, Raven Viper Pro, newer style wheel motors, $170,000 OBO. 204-723-0236, Rathwell, MB.

$175,000 2008 CIH 435 Quadtrac, Stk# 87499, 5212 hrs., 30” track, 4 SCV, guidance system, Degelman 7900 14’ blade w/silage ext. 403-854-3334, Hanna, AB. 2012 NEW HOLLAND T9.450, 2985 hrs., powershift, $150,000. 204-921-0233, $375,000 2013 CIH 550 Quadtrac, Stk# Rosenort, MB. www.equipmentpeople.com 85942, 2846 hrs., powershift, hi-flow hyds., PTO, full GPS, guidance ready. 403-625-4421, Claresholm, AB.

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BRED BISON HEIFERS for sale. 85 pasture raised, top cut. Ready to go Dec. 15. Call or text 306-495-8800, SE Sask. 215 - 2017 Bison Calves: Taking offers for December/January weaning, to be picked up. Started calving in March. Started finishing ration November 1st. 306-331-7563, Craik, SK. trewett.whbp@sasktel.net

WANTED ALL CLASSES of bison: calves, yearlings, cows, bulls. Willing to purchase any amount. dreyelts1@rap.midco.net 16’ PEELED RAILS, 2-3” $4.50/ea., 125 per Call 605-391-4646. bundle; 3-4” $9.50/ea, 100 per bundle; 4-5” $11.50/ea, 75 per bundle. Vermette BREEDING STOCK: BORN 2016 Breeder Wood Preservers, Spruce Home, SK., bulls available March 2018 and bred heifers 1-800-667-0094, email: info@vwpltd.com available for Nov 2018. Visit our website for pictures or call for pricing. 780-581-3025, website: www.vwpltd.com Vermilion, AB. irishcreekbison@gmail.com GUARANTEED PRESSURE TREATED fence irishcreekbison.com posts, lumber slabs and rails. Call Lehner Wood Preservers Ltd., ask for Ron NORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK. over 15 years, is looking for finished Bison, grain or grass fed. “If you have them, we MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. want them.” Make your final call with Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: Northfork for pricing! Guaranteed prompt www.maverickconstruction.ca payment! 514-643-4447, Winnipeg, MB. WANT TO PURCHASE cull bison bulls and cows, $5/lb. HHW. Finished beef steers and heifers for slaughter. We are also buying compromised cattle that can’t make a long trip. Oak Ridge Meats, McCreary, 204-835-2365, 204-476-0147.

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QUILL CREEK BISON is looking for finished, and all other types of bison. COD, paying market prices. “Producers working with Producers.” Delivery points in SK. and MB. Call 306-231-9110, Quill Lake, SK.

2008 JCB 541-70 Agra Plus telehandler, 1028 hrs., original owner, excellent condition, $89,000. 403-348-7251, Beaverlodge, AB. cdgrinde@gmail.com MULTIPLE HIGH HP track & 4WD tractors. Various options, various hours. All are in excellent condition and priced to sell! BLOCKED & SEASONED PINE FIREWOOD: Delivery available. Call 218-779-1710. Bags $90. Delivery available. Vermette Wood Preservers, Spruce Home, SK. 2005 MCCORMICK MTX120 with Quicke 1-800-667-0094, email: info@vwpltd.com loader, 3100 hours; 2006 MTX150; MTX Website: www.vwpltd.com 140. Call 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. SEASONED SPRUCE SLAB firewood, one ALLIS CHALMERS 8010 4WD tractor cord bundles, $99, half cord bundles, $65. w/FEL & 3PTH., $6500 OBO. Call Volume discounts. Call V&R Sawing, 306-232-5488, Rosthern, SK. 306-862-8460, 306-277-4503, Gronlid, SK.

2014 CHALLENGER MT765D, 620 hrs., 1997 JD 9400 4WD, 425 HP, 8562 hrs., 12 3502 HP, Trimble Autopilot, 18” tracks, spd., diff. lock, 4 hyds., 20.8x42 triples PTO, 3 PTH, $229,800. 1-800-667-4515. REPLACEMENT new 400 hrs. ago, does light duty work, www.combineworld.com mint condition, always shedded, $100,000. RUBBERS & BEARINGS 306-675-6136, Kelliher, SK. AVAILABLE FOR YOUR DISK DRILLS 1985 DEUTZ FAHR DX6.50, 135 HP, air 2000 JD 9400, 425 HP, 12 spd. powershift, cooled, 7018 hrs., 540 PTO & hyds., runs 4 hyd. outlets, plus return line, new hyd. good, great haying tractor, $8900. pump (48 GPM), 3 yr. old tires, 80% re- 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com maining, 710/70R38, mint cond., $215,000 2012 FENDT 933V, Stk#91880, $110,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. 3790 hrs., 330 HP, IVT, IF710/70R42 & 204-866-3558 2011 JD 9530T, 18 spd. PS, 36” tracks, 4 IF620/75R30 Michelins, 4 SCV, Trimble ridgemetal@hotmail.com • www.ridgelandmanufacturing.ca hyds. plus return line, front weights, end CFX750. 403-742-4427, Stettler, AB. 2009 BOURGAULT 9400, 60', 1/2" harrows, idler weights, AutoTrac ready, mint cond., tow hitch, 600 lb. trip, quick adapters, $195,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. $69,500 OBO. 204-734-0144, Minitonas, MB 2007 JD 9420, 4713 hrs., 1 owner, all CAT DOZER BLADE: 12’x3’, good shape, 42’ BOURGAULT 9800 chisel plow, HD dou- available options, 800 Firestone deep cutting edge never been turned, good ble spring, w/4-bar heavy harrow, $29,500 tread tires, weights, 15 spd. Powershift, bolts, C-frame for blade, $1200. climate control, Active Seat, extra lighting, Cdn OBO. 218-779-1710 Delivery available SN# RW9420P051184, excellent condi- 306-722-7770, Osage, SK. BREAKING DISCS: KEWANEE, 15’ and tion, $150,000. Charles Cattle Co., JOHN DEERE 36A FEL, 60” bucket, new lift 12’; Rome 12’; Towner 16-18’; Wishek 18’ 306-457-2935, Stoughton, SK. cylinder shafts (to be installed), $750 OBO. and 30’. 1-866-938-8537. 2015 6140R, MFWD, 150 HP, 1870 hrs, Phone Paul, 306-233-7921, Wakaw, SK. 2017 DEGELMAN 40’ Pro Till, 21 1/2” 20 spd, FEL, 3PTH, 540/1000 PTO, diff. blades; 2017 DEGELMAN 33’ Pro-Till, done lock, front axle susp., 50 KPH+, $149,000. NEW 16’ DEGELMAN dozer blade, for Case 620 Quad track or any wide frame Case, 1000 acres; 2017 DEGELMAN 26’ Pro-Till 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com $43,000. 306-441-1684, Cut Knife, SK. 500 acres. 306-441-1684, Cut Knife, SK. 1983 JD 4450 MFWD w/Ezee-On FEL 45- DUTCH 4” PAIR row low draft openers, 2130 grapple, 15 spd. PS, 3 hyds, 7925 hrs ALLIED 590 LOADER, Degelman 10’ blade approx. 700 ac., $70 each. 306-861-4355, showing, 14.9-26F, 20.8R32, duals avail. w/JD mounts, $3500/ea. Call Danny 306-456-2522, Weyburn, SK. Spence, 306-246-4632. Speers, SK. 306-283-4747, 306-291-9395 Langham SK

BISON CALVES WANTED. Harmony Natural bison. Call or text 306-736-3454, SE Sask.

NILSSON BROS INC. buying finished bison on the rail, also cull cows at Lacombe, AB. For winter delivery and beyond. Smaller groups welcome. Fair, competitive and assured payment. Contact Richard Bintner 306-873-3184. WANTED: BISON HANDLING equipment or system. 306-260-2433, Dalmeny, SK. 20 - 2016 PLAINS Bison females. Average weight December 13th, 749 lbs. $3750 each. Call 306-441-1408, Meota, SK.

BLOCKED SEASONED JACK Pine firewood and wood chips for sale. Lehner Wood Pre- COMPLETE BISON COW herd dispersal servers Ltd., 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, Productive herd, culled annually, 125 cows, 50 yearling heifers. Royal Black BiSK. Will deliver. Self-unloading trailer. son Ranch Inc. 306-441-7128, Paynton, SK 100 BISON COWS, $5000 each; 100 bison calves (50 heifers and 50 bulls), taking ofSAWMILL CUMMINS power unit & edger, fers. Call 250-263-3152, Melville, SK. $14,700; Forano feller buncher, $13,125; 1982 Tanga slasher 100, $17,250. All prices OBO. Call 204-222-0285, Winnipeg, MB.

NEW AND USED generators, all sizes from 5 kw to 3000 kw, gas, LPG or diesel. Phone DISPERSALS, BRED HEIFERS and more for availability and prices. Many used in Saturday, December 29th, 1:00PM at Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. stock. 204-643-5441, Fraserwood, MB. (2) Christmann dispersals, Grieve, Craig, ROTARY PHASE CONVERTERS, run 220V 3 Lanoie Bred heifers, Carlson reduction. phase motors, on single phase. 300+ altogether. View details and pics on204-800-1859, Winnipeg, MB. line www.johnstoneauction.ca PL#914447

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BRED HEIFERS: 125 black, Black Baldie heifers bred to easy calving Black Angus bulls for March 20 calving. Beautiful, Quiet, one iron heifers, $2500. 204-841-0605, Neepawa, MB. js.silage@gmail.com

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DAVIDSON GELBVIEH/ LONESOME DOVE RANCH 29th Annual Bull Sale, Saturday, March 3, 2018, 1:00 PM at their bull yards, Ponteix, SK. Complimentary lunch at 11:00 AM. Pre-sale viewing and hospitality, Friday, March 2nd. Selling 100+ purebred Gelbvieh yearling bulls, Red or Black. Performance and semen tested. Vernon and Eileen 306-625-3755, Ross and Tara 306-625-3513, Ponteix, SK. Bidding in person or on-line: www.dlms.com View catalog and video on our websites: www.davidsongelbvieh.com and www.lonesomedoveranch.ca

2002 JIFFY 920 Bale Processor, new rotor, flails, and bushings. Call 306-839-4708, Pierceland, SK. 2014 BALE UNROLLING deck off Chevy 3500, remote control, hyd. pump, good ARE YOU A GENTLEMAN, 55-65? Seeking companionship for occasional outings for condition. 204-381-1240, Woodmore, MB. lady busy with gardening, helping others, KELLN SOLAR SUMMER/WINTER WA- cooking, animal care, music, many other TERING System, provides water in remote interests. Reply to: Box 2010, c/o The areas, improves water quality, increases Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4 pasture productivity, extends dugout life. St. Claude/Portage, MB. 204-379-2763.

PUREBRED HEREFORD FEMALES: Bred heifers and 2 & 3 year olds, bred Hereford, to calve Feb./Mar. Call 204-759-2188, 204-365-7426 or 431-282-3030, Strathclair, MB.

SWAN HILLS RANCH Pure bred Angus\Simmental cows. AI for Feb/Mar calvFRESH AND SPRINGING heifers for sale. ing . 204-734-0210, Swan River, MB. Cows and quota needed. We buy all class- STALLIONS, GELDINGS, MARES. Phone: (10) 2 YEAR OLD BLACK ANGUS bulls, sees of slaughter cattle-beef and dairy. R&F 306-283-4495 (evenings), Langham, SK. men tested, guaranteed breeders. High Livestock Inc. Bryce Fisher, Warman, SK. www.livingwaterpaintsandquarters.com quality. Reasonably priced. B/B Duncan, Phone 306-239-2298, cell 306-221-2620. Cromer, MB. 204-556-2342, 204-556-2348 or 204-851-0306. REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS bull PUREBRED SALERS HERD DISPERSAL. calves, low birthweight, very quiet. We’ve Details at: www.sweetlandsalers.com Ken been in registered Blacks for over 50 yrs. Sweetland, Lundar, MB., 204-762-5512. Buy now and save! EPD’s & delivery avail. 204-843-2287 evenings, Amaranth, MB. SOUTH VIEW RANCH has Black and Red Angus coming 2-year-old bulls for sale. LWC RANCH SELLING Simmental bulls by Good selection. Call Shane 306-869-8074 private treaty. 2-year-old, yearling, and off-age bulls. Traditional, reds, blacks, or Keith 306-454-2730. Ceylon, SK. Simmental Cross Angus. Contact Scott at 100 BLACK ANGUS heifers, bred to regis- 780-214-1198, or Blaine at 306-821-0112. tered Black Angus bulls. Can winter and PB RED SIMMENTAL 2nd and 3rd calvers. calve out. 306-322-7905, Archerwill, SK. Also red heifer calves. Crocus Simmentals, 20 YOUNG PUREBRED Black & Red Angus Swift Current, SK. Call 306-773-7122. cows; 1 PB Black Angus bull. For more info. call 306-865-4168 Hudson Bay, SK. 60 BRED BLACK HEIFERS bred Black, bulls out June 27th. Call 306-629-7575 or 306-629-3594, Morse, SK. SELLING: BLACK ANGUS BULLS. Wayside Angus, Henry and Bernie Jungwirth, 306-256-3607, Cudworth, SK.

PUREBRED BLACK ANGUS long yearling bulls, replacement heifers, AI service. H. S. KNILL TRANSPORT, est. 1933, speMeadow Ridge Enterprises, 306-373-9140 cializing in purebred livestock transportation. Providing weekly pick up and delivery or 306-270-6628, Saskatoon, SK. service across Canada/USA and Mexico. Gooseneck service available in Ontario, Quebec and USA. US and Canada customs bonded carrier. Call 1-877-442-3106, fax SOUTH VIEW RANCH has Red and Black 519-442-1122, hsknill@pppoe.ca or Angus coming 2-year-old bulls for sale. www.hsknilltransport.com 155 King EdGood selection. Call Shane 306-869-8074 ward St., Paris, ON. N3L 0A1. or Keith 306-454-2730. Ceylon, SK. LAZY RAINBOW RIVER RANCH has 65 RED ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, se- mostly Simmental cross second calving men tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery cows, bred to start calving for March; 65 available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Simmental cross bred heifers, bred to start Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca to calving in March. Phone 204-372-6945, Fisher Branch, MB. BRED, REGISTERED RED Angus heifers for sale. RSL Red Angus, Battleford, SK. 180 BLACK & RED Angus cross cows, 3-5 years old, bred to top Black & Red Sim306-937-2880, 306-441-5010. mental bull. To start calving April 5th, vacREG. RED ANGUS bulls, calving ease, good cinated with Bovishield FP5, excellent weaning weights, no creep feed. Little de deep square cows; Also 35 Angus cross Ranch, 306-845-2406, Turtleford, SK. heifers bred to easy calving Angus bull. Call 204-851-0745, Elkhorn, MB. RED ANGUS CROSS Simmental Bred Heffiers, Bred Red Angus exposed June 12th. Call 306-458-7544, Midale, SK. 10 PB RA & 5 RA/Simm. bred heifers, bred RA July 14-Aug. 28. Kept these as own replacements out of 75 but must sell due to drought/feed shortage. Processed one month ago: RA 1017 lbs., Simm X 1068 lbs. Call Roger: 306-221-1558, Minton, SK. FOR SALE: 12 F1 POLLED Shorthorn Red Angus heifers, will make good brood cows. Call 306-277-4351, Gronlid, SK. REGISTERED PUREBRED CHAROLAIS bulls: 40+ yearling and 5 coming 2 year olds, for sale by private treaty. Belmont, MB. Brad 204-537-2367 or 204-523-0062 www.clinecattlecompany.ca

14 RED ANGUS bred heifers, to start calving March 25th. Ivomec’d and vaccinated. Call evenings, Garry Yeo, 306-873-9078 or 306-873-3788, Tisdale, SK.

12 SIMMENTAL & Simmental Angus cross PUREBRED CHAROLAIS BULLS for sale. bred heifers, red and black, bred easy calvPolled and horned. Some red. 40+ bulls to ing Simmental, for Feb and March calving. choose from. Over 30 yrs. in the Charolais Call Lee at 306-335-7553, Balcarres, SK. business. Wilf Neilson, Cougar Hill Ranch, 204-732-2663, Toutes Aides, MB. (North 50 SIMMENTAL & SIMMENTAL Cross bred cows and heifers, bred Simmental, start of Ste Rose). calving March 1st. 306-762-4723, Odessa. 15 PUREBRED CHAROLAIS cows & 10 65 YOUNG RED & Red cross bred cows, commercial cows, bred Charolais. Layne & bred to Charolais bulls, due April 1st; 65 Paula Evans, 306-252-2246, Kenaston, SK. young black and black/white face cows, to Black Angus bulls, due April 1st, TEN PUREBRED CHAROLAIS bred heifers. bred Layne and Paula Evans, 306-252-2246, $2100. Call 306-577-1996, Kipling, SK. Kenaston, SK. 110 BRED RED ANGUS Simmental cross heifers, bred Red Angus for 30 day calving 10 PUREBRED BRED Charolais heifers, period, bulls out July 1st. 306-355-2700, some are AI. Wood River Charolais 306-631-0997, Mortlach, SK. 306-478-2520 McCord, SK. 25 BLACK BRED heifers, bred Black Angus, easy calving bulls, bulls out 60 days, start calving May 1st, all vaccinations & Ivomec, $2300. 306-283-4105, Saskatoon, SK.

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RENN 12’ 10 HP rollermill, large rolls, new style, vg cond., half price of new, $6500, can deliver; FarmKing PTO rollermill vg cond, $2950. 204-729-5162, Brandon, MB.

GREG’S WELDING: Freestanding 24’ & 30’ corral panels and windbreaks; Also grain and silage troughs; as well as calf shelters. Call for pricing, 306-768-8555, delivery PUREBRED BORDER COLLIE Puppies, 3 available. Carrot River, SK. females. Microchipped, dewormed & vacciFOR A FREE DEMONSTRATION without ob- nated. $750. 403-575-5470, Brownfield, AB. ligation, of a Luther Cattle Brush and Oiler, give Cliff a call at 306-734-2997, Aylesbu- CHESAPEAKE BAY RETRIEVER puppies ry, SK. It’s the one they love to use! From great hunting parents, both health FREESTANDING PANELS: 30’ windbreak certified and titled in hunt tests. Regispanels; 6-bar 24’ and 30’ panels; 10’, 20’ tered, vaccinated, de-wormed and ready to go December 20th. Pedigrees available BOBSLEIGH, BUCKBOARD, BUGGY, and and 30’ feed troughs; Bale shredder bunks; upon request. Inquire to: 306-776-2510 or wagon for small ponies. All excellent con- Silage bunks; Feeder panels; HD bale feed- e-mail: flatrocktrucks@outlook.com ers; All metal 16’ and 24’ calf shelters. Will dition. 306-536-9210, Belle Plaine, SK. custom build. 306-424-2094, Kendal, SK. BOBSLEIGH w/HEAVY DUTY 2-1/2” cast runners, like new condition. Phone NH 357 MIX MILL, always shedded, excellent working condition, $4800. Willmott 306-237-4406, Perdue, SK. 10 YEAR OLD female Dalmatian, spayed, in Ranch, Pense, SK. Call 306-345-2046. good health, will take offers; 3 year old feFFS- FUCHS FARM SUPPLY are the Ca- male PB German Shorthaired Pointer, $600 nadian dealer for Farm Aid, parts and mix OBO. 204-322-5614, Warren, MB. wagons. 306-762-2125, Vibank, SK. www.fuchs.ca PUREBRED FOX RED Lab puppies, ready to go for Christmas, 4 males, 3 females. Will PAYSEN LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT INC. be vet checked, dewormed, and have first CANADIAN VERIFIED SHEEP Program We manufacture an extensive line of cattle shots. 306-368-2515, Lake Lenore, SK. (OFFS) workshop in conjunction with Sask. handling and feeding equipment including Sheep Development Board’s AGM and squeeze chutes, adj. width alleys, crowdSymposium will be held at Ramada Plaza ing tubs, calf tip tables, maternity pens, Hotel 1818 Victoria Ave, Regina, SK. Jan gates and panels, bale feeders, Bison 12-13, 2018. Please call: 306-933-5200 or equipment, Texas gates, steel water mail to: sheepdb@sasktel.net to register, troughs, rodeo equipment and garbage in- LARGE PUREBRED ALASKAN malapups. Born Oct 10, these please visit: www.sksheep.com for details. cinerators. Distributors for El-Toro electric mute/cross marked pups, possess strong stamina, branders and twine cutters. Our squeeze well and loyalty, reasonably priced at $327.50. chutes and headgates are now avail. with a Call 306-947-2190, Hepburn, SK. neck extender. Ph 306-796-4508, email: ple@sasktel.net Web: www.paysen.com

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

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THE CLUCK & QUACK Poultry Club Show and Prairie Invitational Pigeon Show. January 12th-13th, 2018. At the MNP exhibition building, Island Park Fairgrounds, Portage LaPrairie, MB. For more information call (Poultry) Jack at 204-843-2246 or (Pigeons) Clint 204-843-2986.

(2) 2007 HAGEDORN 2277 hydropush manure spreaders, 425 bu., always shedded. Phone 306-717-3297, Hafford, SK. CATTLE SHELTER PACKAGES or built on site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: SOOKE, BC.: 1 hour west of Victoria. 4200 sq. ft., 4 bdrm., 3 bath, 1/2 acre, www.warmanhomecentre.com ocean view; Plus adjoining 1/3 acre C3 STEEL VIEW MFG. Self-standing panels, commercial with buildings. MLS® 378889 windbreaks, silage/hay bunks, feeder pan- & MLS® 381189. Call 250-642-5172. els, sucker rod fence posts. Custom orders. Call Shane 306-493-2300, Delisle, SK. www.steelviewmfg.com SVEN ROLLER MILLS. Built for over 40 years. PTO/elec. drive, 40 to 1000 bu./hr. Example: 300 bu./hr. unit costs $1/hr. to run. Rolls peas and all grains. We regroove and repair all makes of mills. Call Apollo Machine 306-242-9884, 1-877-255-0187. www.apollomachineandproducts.com

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NORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for over 15 years, is looking for Elk. “If you have them, we want them.” Make your final call with Northfork for pricing! Guaran- Tel: 204-248-2110 Manitoba teed prompt payment! 514-643-4447, 60 BLACK BRED heifers, bred Black Angus, Winnipeg, MB. easy calving bulls, bulls out 60 days, start calving May 1st, all vaccinations & Ivomec, BUYING ELK for Meat, Hunting and Breeding. Call for options and prices, Ian $2300. 306-283-4388, Saskatoon, SK. 204-848-2498 or 204-867-0085. 100 BLACK ANGUS 3rd and 4th calvers; 250 Black & Red Angus 2nd calvers. Swift FOR SALE: Small closed young Elk herd, 10 bulls & 12 females. Call 306-839-7794 Current, SK. 306-773-1049, 306-741-6513. WANT THE ORGANIC ADVANTAGE? Contact an organic Agrologist at Pro-Cert for information on organic farming: prospects, transition, barriers, benefits, certifiWANTED: CULL COWS and bulls. For book- HERD REDUCTION SALE on PB Nubians, cation and marketing. Call 306-382-1299, ings call Kelly at Drake Meat Processors, does, bucks and bucklings, no CAE/CL. Saskatoon, SK. or info@pro-cert.org 306-363-2117 ext. 111, Drake, SK. Call 306-231-4036, Humboldt, SK.

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ORGANIC CO2 FERTILIZER: CropPlus. A 100% natural, organic, mineral based, foliar applied fertilizer. It contains carbon dioxide, which is very beneficial in plant health. Apply with any sprayer. $10/acre. Cory Wiebe 204-247-2142, Roblin, MB. WANTED: ORGANIC LENTILS, peas and chickpeas. Stonehenge Organics, Assiniboia, SK., 306-640-8600, 306-640-8437.

HOME HARDWARE RTM Homes and Cottages. Phone 1-800-663-3350 or go online for floor plans and specs at: www.northbattlefordhomehardware.com

VEGAS TIMESHARE: INT’L exchanges, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, full kitchen, laundry, fireplace, pools, selling due to health. 306-453-2958, Carlyle, SK.

LOOKING FOR YOUR piece of paradise? 21 ac. lots near Lac des Iles. Approx 140 ac. overlooking Lac des Iles. For more info: 306-238-7702, e.alexander@littleloon.ca

FARM LAND INVESTORS wanted for east central Alberta and West central Sask, Looking for investors to partner with or directly invest in good land. Land will be mangaged by a proven top producing 3rd generation farm business in a prime area for expansion. Area has multiple wind farms in the planning stages to be constructed in the next few years as well as oil and gas. Farmland is a safe place to invest with good returns and the time is now. E-mail: farmlandinvesting@hotmail.com

MOLE HILL DESTROYERS: Level those rough hay fields, speed up haying operations, less downtime. Save money. For more information phone 306-542-7325. Visit: www.molehilldestroyers.com

9 YEAR OLD flashy rope horse. Bo is a 15.2 HH finished head horse used at numerous jackpots. A well started heel horse, used on the ranch for every job under the sun. Doctored cows/yearlings, dragged thousands of calves, and hauled to AZ. one 25 BRED HEIFERS, Simmental cross Red winter but mainly hauled and used as a Angus. Bred to easy calving bull for Feb pickup horse across Western Canada the 20th. Call 204-476-6732, Plumas, MB. last 2 yrs. Flashy as they come and reliable. grassriverstock@gmail.com Videos available, serious inquires only please. Please call 306-263-3232, Tyvan, SK. Email: youngslandc@gmail.com

BLACK ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, semen tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca

HERD DISPERSAL SALE: Bred cows 96 FB registered Braunvieh cows, bred to FB Braunvieh bulls; PB black Braunvieh (homo polled & hetero black bulls). Exposed June 17th to Sept. 1st, $3200 OBO. Please call us at 403-243-5530, Huxley, AB., or e-mail: calvin@fieldstonebraunvieh.com Website: www.fieldstonebraunvieh.com

SUPREME 700TMR w/scale, 6’ unloading conveyor, dry hay recutter at back, dual ARE YOU SINGLE and would rather be wheels, always shedded, excellent cond., in love? Camelot Introductions has been $36,000. 204-758-3374, St. Jean, MB. successfully matching people for over 23 years. In-person interviews by Intuitive 2000 HIGHLINE 6800 bale processor, Matchmaker in MB and SK. Call 306-9781000 PTO. 204-525-4521, Minitonas, MB. LOVE (5683), 204-257-LOVE (5683) Website: www.waltersequipment.com www.camelotintroductions.com SVEN-APOLLO ROLLERMILLS, NEW and used, electric and PTO, all sizes, can deliver. Manitoba distributor direct. Call Randy 204-729-5162, Brandon, MB.

J&H RTM HOMES: Save up to $17,000 PLUS get a free trip of your choice! Expires Dec 31. www.jhhomes.com 306-652-5322

LAND FOR SALE: 505.18 ac. of cross fenced grass ready to be turned back into grain land. Land is beside busy airport in Central Alberta. $3600/acre. Call 780-385-0524, Killam, AB. kelndor@syban.net

ORGANIC LAND in MD of Mackenzie: 1200 seeded ac., 1800 sq.ft house w/garage, 6800 sq.ft. shop, 60x120 cold storage, 100,000+ bu. grain storage, on school bus route, power, phone, natural gas, dugout. 780-928-2538 or 780-841-1180. 1235 ACRE RANCH W/IRRIGATION: Includes 920 acres dry land, seeded into grass. 320 acres with 160 acres irrigation and 160 acres of River Valley and Coulee’s. 2 pivots and rain gun. This place is a great set up for 200-250 cow/calves. All is fenced and cross-fenced. Full cattle handling system. Corrals set up for 500-600 cows. Majestic views of the Rocky Mountains & River Valley SE of Calgary. Vulcan County, ID#1100622. Real Estate Centre, 1-866-345-3414. For all our listings visit: www.farmrealestate.com

LAND WANTED TO rent or purchase in RM #248 and RM #218. Call 306-726-8090, Cupar, SK. pjhart@sasktel.net QUARTER SECTION IN RM of Bjorkdale, SK. #426. SW 19-45-09 W2. 147 acres, approx. 100 cultivated. Phone 306-864-7922. FARMLAND NE SK (Clemenceau) 4 qtrs plus 36 acre riverside parcel with 5 bdrm. home. Featuring: bins on concrete with direct hit on railroad cars, 40 acres of mostly mature spruce timber, 2 farmyards- 1 bordering Etomami River and 50 miles of provincial forest, exc. elk hunting and other big game and goose. 580 acres wheat, mustard, barley and peas. Full line of farm and sawmill equipment also available. Will separate. Reg Hertz, 306-865-7469.

AFFORDABLE HOMES AND COTTAGES 1560 sq.ft. ready-to-move bungalows. 3 bdrm, 2 1/2 bath. Open concept plan with signature modern, rustic finishes. With or without covered porch. Optional dormers. $100,000 to $110,000. For photo tour, visit www.marvinhomes.ca Marvin Homes, Mitchell, MB., Phone: 204-326-1493, or Email: info.marvinhomes@gmail.com

GRAIN LAND TO RENT, 35 mile radius of Rouleau, SK. Call 306-776-2600 or email: kraussacres@sasktel.net

LOG SIDING, LOG cabin logs, Fir timbers, Fir flooring, Cedar. Special orders. Check out more info. at: rouckbros.com Lumby, BC., 1-800-960-3388.

TOM@SASKFARMLAND.COM Interested in the value of your farmland and considering selling? Up to date market evaluations done at your farm. Coldwell Banker Signature. Tom Neufeld 306-260-7838.

RM OF ROSEDALE #283 By Tender: SE 1/4 22-29-4 W3, 160 cult. ac. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Submit tenders to: Box 37, Hawarden, SK., S0H 1Y0. Tenders close February 1, 2018. For more info, call Larry at 306-229-9926.

RIVER RETREAT: Saskatoon South - 177 acres forested, organic river front land. 50 LOG AND TIMBER HOMES, Saskatoon, acres cultivated. $6500 per acre. Phone SK. Visit www.backcountryloghomes.ca or 306-382-1299 or 306-382-9024. call 306-222-6558. SASKATOON SOUTHWEST, River Valley View Estate, near golf course. Paved road and all services to site, $229,500. Phone 306-382-1299 or 306-382-9024. SECLUDED RIVER RETREAT: 80 acres on west bank, pt of 01-46-04 W3. Summer road and river access, $167,500. Phone WWW.MEDALLION-HOMES.CA modular 306-382-1299 or 306-382-9024. homes/lake houses/RTM’s. Visit our sales lot, or check online for stock, homes and all other plans. Factory direct orders built to your specs! Trade-ins welcome, buy and sell used homes. Hwy 2 South, Prince Albert, SK. Call 306-764-2121 or toll free 1-800-249-3969.

RTM CABIN, 22x32 FINISHED exterior, unfinished interior, 10’ walls, potential for loft. Well built. $35,000 OBO or trades of TO BE MOVED: 950 sq. ft. house, new windows and doors, 2” insulation, 3 bedroom, interest. 204-564-2540, Shellmouth, MB. newer cabinets, metal roof & vinyl siding. Must be moved by spring 2018. Asking AFFORDABLE HOMES AND COTTAGES $25,000. 306-227-0610, Saskatoon, SK. 1560 sq.ft. ready-to-move bungalows. 3 bdrm, 2 1/2 bath. Open concept plan with RM OF FOAM LAKE #276 for sale signature modern, rustic finishes. With or SE-35-28-12-W2, 160 acres (approx. 102 without covered porch. Optional dormers. cultivated). Call 780-724-3735 for info. $100,000 to $110,000. For photo tour, visit www.marvinhomes.ca Marvin Homes, WANTED: 1000 ACRE grain farm w/yard Mitchell, MB., Phone: 204-326-1493, or in northwest Saskatchewan. Call anytime: 780-205-4296 or email 3star@telus.net Email: info.marvinhomes@gmail.com

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RM MAPLE CREEK #111. For sale N 1/2 35-11-26-W3. 320 cult. acres, 60x100’ steel quonset on 2’ cement fdn, power, water for up to 100 head of cattle, 1 mile of Hwy #1 frontage. Call 403-866-2214. WANTED: Saskatchewan grainland, housing, and vacant lots. Will pay min. 10% premium on current pricing. Within 25 miles of Leader SK. Box 5001, c/o The Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4 PRIME FARMING LOCATION: Great opportunity for the start-up farmer who wants to be not too far out of a major city. This farm is perfect if you are in the market for a start-up farm or want to add more land to your existing land base. Property has a 1/4 section of good cultivated land and an older dairy with other outbuildings complete the package. ID#1100599 OSLER, SK. MLS® Real Estate Centre, 1-866-345-3414. For all listings, www.farmrealestate.com RM OF ELDON: SW 22-49-24 W3 Ext 24 and NE 09-49-24 W3 Ext 8. 298.88 acres. Surface lease revenue. For sale by Tender with bids closing Feb 1, 2018. Details at www.forrestlandtender.ca or contact Vern McClelland, RE/MAX of Lloydminster, 780-808-2700. RM OF FRENCHMAN BUTTE: SW 35-52-25 W3 Ext 5 and NW 35-52-25 W3 Ext 2. 207 acres. For sale by Tender with bids closing February 6, 2018. For details, visit www.moorelandtender.ca or contact Vern McClelland, RE/MAX of Lloydminster, 780-808-2700.

CANADIAN FARM REALTY GRAIN FARMS FOR SALE 1400 acre grain farm. 1000 acres workable. Excellent grain and beef operation in the RM of Riding Mountain.

3290 acre grain farm with seed plant near Killarney, MB. 200,000 bushel grain storage. Rented land available.

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204-371-5131 204-371-5930 204-745-0451 204-825-8378 204-573-5396 204-720-4779

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Maurice SMigelSki of The PaS is offering the

following private land for sale: SE 4-54-28 W (partial only) The successful purchaser will be considered by Manitoba Agriculture for possible transfer of the Crown land forage lease associated with this ranch unit. This forage lease currently consists of the following : NW 05-54-27 W

E 1/2 07 -54-27 W

N 1/2 29-53-28 W

SEC 31-53-28 W

W 1/2 33-53-28 W

S 1/2 04-54-28 W

S 1/2 05-54-28 W

S 1/2 07-54-28 W

NE 08-54-28 W

E 1/2 36-53-29 W

N 1/2 06-54-27 W

NW 28-53~28 W

N 1/2 30-53-28 W

SEC 32-53-28 W

NE 01-54-28 W

NW 05-54-28 W

SEC 06-54-28 W

S 1/2 08-54-28 W

NE 25-53-29 W

If you wish to purchase the private land contact the Lessee Maurice Smigelski at Box 83, ThePas, MB R9A 1 K3. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer write the Director, Manitoba Agriculture; Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB ROJ 1EO; or Fax: 204-867 ~6578 .

JERRY LAMY OF CRANE RIVER, MB. is offering the following private land for sale: NW 17-29-12 W. The successful purchaser will be considered by Manitoba Agriculture for possible transfer of the Crown land forage lease associated with this ranch unit. This forage lease currently consists of the following: SW 17-29-12 W; Sec 18-29-12 W; Sec 19-29-12 W; W1/2 20-29-12 W; W 1/2 29-29-12 W; Sec 30-29-12 W; N1/2 31-29-12 W; SW 31-29-12 W; SW 32-29-12 W; Sec 13-29-13 W; Sec 14-29-13 W; E1/2 15-29-13 W; E1/2 22-29-13 W; Sec 23-29-13 W; Sec 24-24-13 W;; Sec 25-29-13 W; Sec 26-29-13 W; Sec 35-29-13 W; Sec 36-29-13 W; Sec 01-30-13 W; E1/2 02-30-13 W; E1/2 11-30-13 W; Sec 12-30-13 W. If you wish to purchase the private land contact the Lessee Jerry Lamy at Box # 171, Crane River, MB., R0L 0M0. If you wish to comment on or object to eligibility of this Unit Transfer write the Director, Manitoba Agriculture, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa, MB., R0J 1E0, or fax 204-867-6578.

CUSTOM GRAZING AVAILABLE for 2018. Accepting cow/calf pairs, approx. 1000 acres, highly assessed cultivated land seeded to oats, plus 600 acres valley pasCHATFIELD/POPLARFIELD: Opportunity to ture with 1.5 miles of river exposure. Lorun your own cattle & grain farm. 1240 sq. cated North of Aylesbury, SK. Call Cliff Luft. bungalow. 800 ac. owned, 1920 leased. ther, 306-734-2997. 200 acres cult. balance hay & fenced pasture. Many outbuildings, $799,000. Call MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. Claudette: 1-888-629-6700. LJBaron.com Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: NOW IS THE TIME to list, give your farm www.maverickconstruction.ca the right exposure. Get your farm listed now for the early spring buying spree. Local and foreign buyers are looking for large and small grain and cattle operation, small holdings and just land. Call Harold DWEIN TASK REALTY INC. Saska204-253-7373, Delta Real Estate. toon/Conquest: Mint 1560 sq. ft. bungalow on 10 acres. Absolutely all the bells www.manitobafarms.ca and whistles! 40x60’ straight wall shed, EXCELLENT LIVESTOCK FARMS: 1) c/w 16’ wall. Mature yard. MLS SK. 709771 Horse ranch in Erickson, MB., Riding arena $599,900; Saskatoon/Asquith: Nicely up& buildings in fantastic condition. 2) 320 dated 1504 sq. ft. bungalow on 80 acres, acre farm, Carnduff, SK. Jim McLachlan 40x60’ dream shop and 32x100’ storage 204-724-7753, Re/Max Valleyview Realty building. MLS SK 707238. $549,900. Call Inc., Brandon, MB. Dwein 306-221-1035.

FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER The following farmland is hereby offered for sale by Tender: TITLE NO. 1541661/3 NE ¼ 29-12-8 WPM, EXC FIRSTLY: THE NLY 1320 FEET PERP SECONDLY: ALL MINES, MINERALS AND SPECIAL RESERVATIONS AS RESERVED IN THE ORIGINAL GRANT FROM THE CROWN

TITLE NO. 1875000/3 NW ¼ 29-12-8 WPM EXC ALL MINES, MINERALS AND SPECIAL RESERVATIONS AS RESERVED IN THE ORIGINAL GRANT FROM THE CROWN.

The Owner advises that there is approximately 230 cultivated acres. TERMS AND CONDITIONS: •

Prospective Purchasers must rely entirely on their own inspection of the property and shall be responsible for payment of the GST or shall self-assess for purposes of the GST.

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Bids will be accepted on any or all of the above noted lots.

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Closing of the sale and transfer of possession of the property shall be on March 1, 2018 or earlier by mutual agreement.

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Closing shall be subject to the conditional approval by the relevant authorities, and to the Vendor’s satisfaction with the terms of said conditional approval, of the Subdivision Application requesting a subdivision of the existing homesite from the NW ¼ 29-12-8 WPM.

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The Prospective Purchaser will agree to transfer the subdivided homesite back to the Vendor once the abovementioned subdivision is completed.

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The successful Bidder will enter into an Offer to Purchase with Owner confirming the details of the transaction.

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Tender must be delivered to D’Arcy & Deacon LLP by 3:00 p.m. on January 19, 2018. Please mark the package “Attention: Brent R. Kendall”.

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Tenders must include a deposit of 5.00% of the tendered price payable to “D’Arcy & Deacon LLP in Trust”.

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Highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. FURTHER INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM: D’Arcy & Deacon LLP 2200-One Lombard Place Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 0X7 Attention: Brent R. Kendall Email: bkendall@darcydeacon.com 1-204-318-2239

4 WHEEL BOMBARDIER Rotex, 250 hrs, like new, $4000; Wanted: 14’ bumper hitch dump trailer. 306-304-1959, Goodsoil, SK.

1995 POLARIS INDY Trail 2-Up seat, in good cond., orig. spare belt never used, $2500. 306-278-2542, Porcupine Plain, SK.

CERTIFIED CDC HAYMAKER. Hickseeds CERTIFIED CDC MARBLE, dark speckled; 306-354-7998 (Barry) or 306-229-9517 Certified CDC 4371-4, red. Call Grant, Semans, SK. 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, (Dale), Mossbank, SK. 306-746-8070. EXCELLENT QUALITY CERTIFIED #1 CS Camden, Summit, CDC Minstrel, CDC Ruf- CERTIFIED #1 CDC Impala (small red) fian, CDC Orrin. Frederick Seeds, Clearfield. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. Tisdale, SK. REGISTERED/CERTIFIED #1: Summit Leggett, CDC Haymaker (Forage). Ardell CERT. CDC PROCLAIM CL Reds, high germ. & 0% disease. Fast Seed Farm Ltd., Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK. 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. WANT TO FINISH combining in August? Grow an early variety! Grow Juniper oats CERT. CDC IMPULSE, CDC Proclaim, CDC and follow with Pintail winter wheat. Call Maxim, CDC Redmoon, CDC Greenstar. Mastin Seeds, Olds, AB., 403-556-2609, 98% germ, 0% disease. Fraser Farms, Pammastinseeds.com brun, SK. 306-741-0475. foc@sasktel.net

COVER CROPS. HICKSEED LTD., Mossbank, SK. Now has on the floor for organic plowdown: Daikon radish (zero till); Hairy Vetch; Austrian Winter peas; Buckwheat; Yellow Blossom sweet clover. Also, green feed blends available. For all your seed needs call Hickseed Ltd. Barry 306-354-7998 or Dale 306-229-9517

APARTMENTS FOR RENT, Langham, SK. Quiet, well maintained, close to schools. 1 CERT., FND, AND/OR REG. CDC Landmark and 2 bedrooms starting at $650. Contact VB, AAC Cameron VB, AAC Brandon 306-368-2602, 306-231-6454, Lake Lenore, Blaise at 306-349-9351. SK. kb.berscheid@sasktel.net SAWMILLS from only $4397 - Make Money and Save Money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock, ready to ship. Free info. and DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/168 or call 1-800-567-0404.

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Gregoire Seed Farms High germ. & 0% F.G., Fast Seed Farm Ltd., Ltd., North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. CERT. FDN, REG. Precision; CDC Alloy; AAC Spitfire; Transcend, all exc. germ., 0% fusarium. Fraser Farms 306-741-0475, Pambrun, SK. foc@sasktel.net CERTIFIED FABA BEANS: FB9-4 (normal tannin), and Snowbird (zero tannin) CERT., FDN. AND/OR REG. CS Camden, 306-368-2602, 306-231-6454, Lake Lenore, CDC Ruffian & CDC Minstrel. Call SK. kb.berscheid@sasktel.net 306-368-2602, 306-231-6454, Lake Lenore, SK. kb.berscheid@sasktel.net CERTIFIED CDC Blackstrap, earliest black bean, direct harvest, high yield, excellent CERTIFIED Camden, Morgan, Baler and disease pkg.; CDC Super Jet & CDC Jet Haymaker. Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, also available. Martens Charolais & Seed, Melfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca 204-534-8370, Boissevain, MB. CERTIFIED #1 CDC Ruffian, AC Leggett & CERTIFIED Snowbird fababeans & AmarilCDC Orrin. 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FULL-TIME FARM LABOURER HELP. Applicants should have previous farm experience and mechanical ability. Duties include operation of machinery, including tractors and other farm equipment, as well as general farm laborer duties. $25/hour depending on experience. Must be able to cross US border. Location: Pierson, MB. Feland Bros. Farms, Greg Feland and Wade Feland, Box 284, Pierson, MB. R0M 1S0. 701-756-6954.

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POST SHAVINGS: Cattle feedlot, horse & poultry bedding. Bulk pricing and delivery available; Landscaping Mulch: Available in 1 yard bulk bags for $45, delivery available; Colored Landscaping Mulch: NUVISION COMMODITIES is currently Available in 1 yard bulk bags for $115, depurchasing feed barley, wheat, peas and livery avail. Vermette Wood Preservers, milling oats. 204-758-3401, St. Jean, MB. Spruce Home, SK.. 1-800-667-0094. Email: WANTED: FEED BARLEY, 48 lbs. plus. info@vwpltd.com Visit: www.vwpltd.com Phone 306-345-2523, Stony Beach, SK. REASONABLY PRICED HAY in big 4000 BU. of Oats; 10,000 bu. of Rye & 50 squares. Variety of grades available, inbales of pea straw. 306-283-4747, cluding greenfeed from newly established alfalfa stands and horse hay; 65 bales of 306-220-0429, Langham, SK. 2015 crop at 10.2% protein. Can arrange WANTED: FEED GRAIN, barley, wheat, for trucking. 306-320-1041, Leroy, SK. peas, green or damaged canola. Phone Gary 306-823-4493, Neilburg, SK. NEW HAY FOR SALE; Round bale picking and hauling, small or large loads. Travel WANTED: FEED BARLEY Buffalo Plains anywhere. 306-291-9658, Vanscoy, SK. Cattle Company is looking to purchase barley. For pricing and delivery dates, call Kristen 306-624-2381, Bethune, SK. WANTED: OFF-GRADE PULSES, oil seeds and cereals. All organic cereals and specialty crops. Prairie Wide Grain, Saskatoon, SK., 306-230-8101, 306-716-2297.

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ROUND ALFALFA/ALFALFA GRASS solid core greenfeed 5x6 JD hay bales for sale. TARPCO, SHUR-LOK, MICHEL’S sales, Call 306-237-4582, Perdue, SK. service, installations, repairs. Canadian 1ST & 2ND CUT large round alfalfa bales. company. We carry aeration socks and Straight alfalfa & grass blend available, grain bags. Also electric chute openers for grain trailer hoppers. 1-866-663-0000. Norquay, SK. 306-594-4027 GOOD QUALITY 1st CUT small square Alfalfa bales, $3.75/bale. Can deliver. 204-326-3109, Steinbach, MB. GOOD USED TRUCK TIRES: 700/8.25/ 11R22.5/11R24.5; GRASS MIXED HAY BALES, from $22-45 900/1000/1100x20s; per bale. Also 2nd year second cut Alfalfa 9R17.5, matched sets available. Pricing from $90. K&L Equipment and Auto. Ph hay, all net wrapped. Call 204-372-6945, Ladimer, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK; Chris Fisher Branch, MB. at 306-537-2027, Regina, SK. 500 LARGE HEAVY Alfalfa/Timothy mix, large net wrapped bales, starting at 20.8x42 CLAMP-ON DUALS with rods and spacers, for triples, taken off 9370 Case .02/lbs; 204-642-7684, Gimli, MB. tractor, $8000. Call A.E. Chicoine Farm 1000 ROUND GRASS HAY bales, net Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. wrapped, avg. 1350 lbs., no rain, $40 per bale OBO. 204-642-2572, Riverton, MB. MR. TIRE CORP. For all your tire needs, 75 LARGE ROUND BALES, Timothy and call Mylo at 306-921-6555 or Jeremy at alfalfa, approx 1400 lbs, very good quality, 306-921-0068. Serving all Saskatchewan. shedded. Call 204-886-2960, Teulon, MB. TIRES, TIRES, TIRES, Radial, Bias, New, 100 MEDIUM SQUARE wheat straw Used. 20.8x42, 18.4x42, 20.8x38, 18.4x38, 18.4x34, 900/60R32, bales, 3x3x8, baled dry & clean with a con- 20.8R34, ventional combine, stored in hay shed, 800/65R32, 24.5x32, 18.4x30, 23.1x30, $20/bale; Some small square also avail. 16.9x28, 28Lx26, 18.4x26, 19.5Lx24, Delivery available. Phone 204-755-3416, 16.5x16.1, 18.4x16.1, and more! Semis, skid steers. Best price & value guaranteed! Hazelridge, MB. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com SMALL SQUARE OAT straw bales, $2.50/ea. 204-371-6404, Ste. Anne, MB. WANTED: ALFALFA 3x3 and 3x4 bales. LATHE, asking Will arrange for pickup at farm/field. LARGE 306-722-7770, Osage, SK. Phone Chris 204-746-0462, Brunkild, MB.

BRAZIL AG TOUR Jan. 27th - Feb. 9th. Amazon, Mato Grosso, Iguacu, Farm Show. Chile- Feb. 17 - 26. Santiago, Elqui Valley, Wineries and farms. Costs may be tax deductible. www.rwthomastours.com Phone: 1-833-AGTOURS (833-248-6877).

KORNUM WELL DRILLING, farm, cottage and acreage wells, test holes, well rehabilitation, witching. PVC/SS construction, expert workmanship and fair pricing. 50% government grant now available. Indian Head, SK., 306-541-7210 or 306-695-2061

35 TON WINCH, 2 speed reversible gearbox, 75’ of new cable still on the roll, $750. Call 306-722-7770, Osage, SK.

U-DRIVE TRACTOR TRAILER Training, 30 years experience. Day, 1 and 2 week upgrading programs for Class 1A, 3A and $1500. air brakes. One on one driving instructions. 306-786-6600, Yorkton, SK.

ALTHOUSE HONEY FARMS INC. 1/2 mile south Porcupine Plain, SK., 500 McAllister Avenue. 7 positions required for 2018 season, May to October. Wages $13-$18/hr. depending upon experience. Job duties: assisting in spring hive inspection, unwrapping, and splitting, supering, building supers and honey frames, honey removal and extracting, fall feeding, applying mite control and wrapping hives for winter. No education required. WCB coverage. Phone Ron Althouse 306-278-7345, DAIRY FARM MANAGER: Permanent full- Email: althousehoney@sasktel.net time position on robotic milk farm, experience required. hmvandersluijs@gmail.com SASKATCHEWAN CUSTOM FARMING operation seeking Full-time and Part-time FARM HAND REQUIRED for a cow/calf feed employees for 2018. Competitive wages lot. Must be able to operate equipment. and scheduled time off. Housing and meal Main duties will include feeding and care of plans supplied. Must be at least 18 and cattle. Wage will depend on experience. On have or be willing to acquire AZ/1A lifarm housing available. Call 780-524-9322. cense. Inquire by phone to: 306-776-2510, or e-mail: flatrocktrucks@outlook.com FARM LABOURER WANTED: Farm machinery operating experience required; Repeti- AGROLOGIST/ LABOURER: Permanent tive farm duties including cleaning and position on grain farm. Non-smoking. Apmaintance of farm equipment, dealing with plicants should have previous farm experilive stock. Plant, spray, harvest crops. Mini- ence, knowledge & mechanical ability. Dumum 1 year farming experience required, ties include operating tractors, combines, Aylesbury, SK. Email: rmengel@sasktel.net sprayers, floater, grain augers, climbing grain bins, know how to operate GPS on FULL-TIME FARM LABOURER: Year round equipment, variable rate applications as employment with house, including off farm well as general farm labour duties. Appliacreage supplied. Year round salary depen- cants must have Class 5 license, 1A lident on experience and level of involve- cense, like animals, be responsible, honest ment in operation. We run a family run and show initiative to take on any chalcow/calf operation, backgrounder feedlot, lenge that arises. Weyburn, SK. area. and grain farm. Non-smoking environment. Please call 306-861-3774. Class 1A license required. Families are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact LOOKING FOR PEOPLE interested in riding Raymond to leave a message 204-937-7371 feedlot pens in Strathmore or Lethbridge, AB. area, w/above average horsemanship MECHANIC/FARM WORKER WANTED for skills, willing to train. 2 positions available. PT(or FT) work on modern mixed farm from Wages depending on qualifications. Apr.-Nov. near Calgary, Must have mechan- 403-701-1548, Strathmore, AB. ics for modern equip., operating seeder, combine and tractors. Valid Class 3, prefer- LOOKING FOR PERSON(S) to live in newer ably Class 1. Housing negotiable, start dwelling on established farm yard close to now, good fit for semi-retired with flex. hrs. Drayton Valley, AB. Rent free in exchange Send resume to: lscattleco@xplornet.com for light chores (horses, dogs, cats) and fax 403-335-0086 or call between 9AM- some grass mowing. Must be reliable, trustworthy, non-drinker/smoker, v. clean 4PM 403-335-3694. in dwelling & like animals. Email resume to DUFFERIN MARKET GARDENS is ac- wyakin@telus.net or fax 780-542-6467. cepting applications for seasonal farm workers. Duties include: planting, weeding, harvesting and packing vegetables. Long hours, much bending & heavy lifting. Start: February 2018. Wage: $11.25/hr., FULL-TIME POSITION ON a cow/calf operPlease send resume with references to fax: ation. Must have knowledge of calving, AI, 204-745-6193. Or mail to: Box 1051, Car- general farm work, working with a show herd of Angus and Simmental cattle. One man, MB., R0G 0J0. bedroom apartment available. The RK farm RIVER VALLEY SPECIALTY FARMS: is located in Central Ontario. Contact Sandy Seeking seasonal workers for 2018. Posi- Reid at rkanimalsupplies@xplornet.com or tion will be seasonal full-time, 40+ call 519-588-7560. hrs/week. Wage $11.18/hour. Period of employment anticipated to be from April CLAYTON AIR SERVICE LTD is seeking 2 2018 until August 2018. Duties include: Professional Turbine Helicopter Ag Pilots Harvesting and packing of asparagus, for the 2018 spray season flying a Jet planting and weeding of pumpkins, squash Ranger, from June 1st - September 27th, and onions as well as weeding of organic completing aerial application on fields fields. Must be willing to work long hours across Sask & occasionally other provincand do repetitive tasks as well as bending es. Requirements: Must be committed to and some heavy lifting. Applicants must be entire season or make prior arrangements; able to work in a variety of conditions in Commercial helicopter licence; Provincial outdoor environments and must be able to pesticide licence; Current aviation mediwork well with others. Education require- cal; Endorsement on Jet Ranger considments not applicable, experience an asset. ered an asset and turbine experience preLocation of work is MacGregor and area, ferred. Turbine experienced pilots will be Manitoba. Please apply by e-mail to: given preference based on hours of experiadmin@rivervalleyfarms.ca or in writing ence, (500 hrs. Ag spraying required). If to: Box 33, Bagot, MB. R0H 0E0. no suitable candidate is found training, FARM LABOURER REQUIRED for livestock mentorship and/or apprentice program operation. Duties include: operating, main- will be considered for the right individual. taining seeding & harvesting equip. Smoke Strong ability to adapt to changing situafree enviro., $17/hr. Housing avail. Lyle tions and maintain a positive attitude with customers, co-workers, and supervisors. Lumax, 204-525-2263, Swan River, MB. Strong communication and problem solvMCDONALD CREEK PASTURE is accepting ing abilities, with quality service delivery tenders for Pasture Manager, 1640 head as the utmost priority. Proficiency in Engpasture, Tenders closes Dec. 31, 2017, for lish reading and writing. Capable of operinfo contact Allan 306-222-3915, Email: ating Satlock guidance systems or equivaa.lqutaerhorse@sasktel.net. Mail: Box 1, lent. Must be insurable. Accommodations and vehicle provided during employment. Grandora, SK, S0K 1V0. 2 SEASONAL FARM Machinery Operators Wage $60/hr. 40 hrs./week. Bonuses required. Must be able to operate grain based on performance. Workers compencart, tandem grain truck, FWA tractor sation provided. Contact Clayton Rempel, w/rockpicker, 4 WD tractor for harrowing. Clayton Air Service Ltd., Box 87, Leask, SK. Also manual labour for upkeep of leafcut- S0J 1M0. Phone 306-497-7401, Fax ter bees and general servicing of equip. 306-466-9994. Please e-mail resume to: May 1 to Nov. 15. $15-$18/hr. 101008187 applyclaytonairsk@gmail.com SK Ltd., 303 Frontier Trail, Box 372, Wadena, SK., S0A 4J0. Fax: 306-338-3733, ph Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds. Call our toll-free number and 306-338-7561 or cfehr9860@hotmail.com place your ad with our friendly staff, and Round up the cash! Advertise your un- don’t forget to ask about our prepayment wanted equipment in the Manitoba Co- bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks operator classifieds. free! 1-800-667-7770.

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CLAYTON AIR SERVICE LTD. is seeking 4 Professional Turbine Ag Pilots for the 2018 spraying season, using Air Tractor 502B’s. Requirements: All 5 positions from May 16 through to Sept. 11, completing aerial application on Sask fields & occasionally other provinces. Requirements: Must be committed to entire season or make prior arrangements. Provincial pesticide licenses required. Current aviation medical. 1000+ hrs. aerial application experience preferred. Training, mentorship and/or apprentice program will be considered for the right individual. Strong ability to adapt to changing situations and maintain a positive attitude with customers, co-workers, and supervisors. Strong communication and problem solving abilities, with quality service delivery as the utmost priority. Proficiency in English reading and writing. Capable of operating Satlock guidance systems or equivalent. Must be insurable. Accommodations and vehicle provided during employment. Wage $60/hr. 40 hrs./week. Bonuses based on performance. Workers compensation provided. Contact Clayton Rempel, Clayton Air Service Ltd., Box 87, Leask, SK. S0J 1M0. Phone 306-497-7401, Fax 306-466-9994. E-mail: applyclaytonairsk@gmail.com

FARM MANAGER: PAGE FARMS is seeking a Farm Manager for the 3000 ac. grain farm SW of Winnipeg. Candidate must have exp. in all aspects of grain farming, as well as plan and execute for all areas of the farm (inputs, supplies, marketing, relationship building, employee mgmt., maintenance of equip., building & facilities, record keeping, book keeping & more) in an efficient & cost effective manner. Must be mechanically inclined & have a class 1A license (or be willing to obtain one). The position is salaried (will depend on experience) and also includes housing, vehicle & cell phone. Great opportunity for a family, has a supportive community & schooling nearby. To apply, forward resume with references & cover letter to: pagefarm@mymts.net or mail to: PAGE Farms, Box 59, Starbuck, MB R0G 2P0. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2018.

HIRING SEASONAL CLASS 1 Drivers for Oilfield Cementing. Call 1-800-9SANJEL or email resumes to: recruit@sanjel.com

CLASS 1 DRIVER WANTED to haul livestock, MB., AB., SK. Great pay & benefits. Call Gerry 204-573-5352. No e-mails. FAVEL TRANSPORT is hiring Leased Operators. Livestock, Bulk, Reefer. Call us at 306-692-8488, Moose Jaw, SK. LOG TRUCK DRIVERS WANTED for winter run. Tractor/trailer experience a must. Will train for logs. Ph 780-836-2538. Send resume to: Albert Greschner Holdings Ltd., Box 447, Manning, AB. T0H 2M0

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2017 NH CR8.90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $450,000 2016 NH CR8.90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $399,000 2015 NH CX8080 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $357,000 2015 NH CX8080 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $357,000

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2014 Claas 740 Combine,

2008 Case IH 8010 Combine,

2940hrs, 900/60R32 DRIVES, DELUXE CAB, ELECTRIC SEIVE ADJ, LATERAL TILT 868380

131,000 2016 New Holland TS6.140 845TL Tractor, 139HP, 16X8 POWER SHUTTLE, 18.4X34 REAR TIRES FIRESTONE, 14.9-24 FRONT TIRES FIRES

409,000 $

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Grain Bag Loader, 2011 RICHG R10 . . . . . $18,396 Grain Vac, 2009 REM 2700. . . . . . . . . . . . $15,000 Heavy Harrow, 2015 ELMER Super 7 70FT $41,900 Mower/Zero Turn, 2013 CK RZT S54 . . . . $2,800 2011 FK POST HOLE DIGGER . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,900 Manure Spreader, 2014 LN 575H . . . . . . $27,321 Mower Conditioner, 2014 NH H7460 . . . $36,500 862907

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620/70R42 DUALS, 28L26 REARS, 402 HP, AUTO GUIDE READY, 16FT

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2015 New Holland CX8080 Combine,

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2013 JD 4730 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $249,000 2013 NH SP.365F-1600GAL-120FT. . . . $299,000 2013 NH SP.240F XP-1200GAL-100FT $235,000 2012 NH SP.240F XP-1000GAL-100FT $234,000 2006 ROGAT 874-800GAL SS-90FT . . . .$90,000

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1993 AH 565A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,500 2001 BUFK 2500. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22,000 2004 NH BR780 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,000

2013 NH 740CF-35F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$34,000 2013 NH 840CD-35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$49,900 2012 JD 635D-35FT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $47,000 2010 NH 74C-30F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,900 2010 NH 94C-42FT CR/CX . . . . . . . . . . . . $65,000 2003 JD 936 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,000 2000 CIH 1042-36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,200

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1585hrs, 900/60R32’s, REDKOP MAV CHOPPER, 14FT 76C SWATH MASTER

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2015 New Holland C232 Track Loader, 68HP, 68HP, 3200LBS LIFT CAPACITY, 2 SPEED MECHANICAL CONTROLS

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2014 NH P1060 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $71,000 2012 JD 1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $107,143 2012 JD 1910 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $74,286 2011 CIH 3430. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $59,900 2006 CIH ATX400 40-12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $39,000 2003 JD 1820 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $29,500 2003 MR MAXIM II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$38,000 1998 MR MAXIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,900

2014 CL 740. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $275,000 2013 NH CX8090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $327,000 2013 NH CR8090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $227,000 2013 NH CR8090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $237,000 2013 NH CR8090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $241,000 2013 NH CR9090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300,000 2012 NH CX8090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $279,000 2012 NH CX8080 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$228,000 2012 NH CR9090 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $277,000 2012 NH CX8080 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $216,000 2010 JD 9770STS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $192,000 2009 NH CX8080 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $179,000 2008 CIH 8010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $132,000 2007 NH CR9070 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $139,900 2006 NH CX840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $103,000 1999 JD 9610 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $59,000

2009 New Holland CX8080 Combine,

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520/85R46 DUALS, 16 SPEED PS, 55GPM, 4EH REMOTES, HID LIGHTS, DLX CAB, FM75

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132,000

2014 Versatile 550DT Tractor,

1870hrs, 590 PEAK HP, 30” TRACKS, 6 EH REMOTES, 110GPM 2 PUMPS, PTO

2015 Versatile 450DT Tractor,

858834

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500DT DeltaTrack with 30” Agricultural Tracks, Deluxe Cab

287hrs, 40FT, 600/65R28 DRIVES, 16.5L REAR TIRES, AIR BAGS, 6CYL

853315

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2015 New Holland SP200 Windrower / Swather,

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2013 John Deere 4730 Sprayer,

1065 HRS, 245 HP, 800 GALLON POLY TANK, 100FT BOOMS, 7 SECTIONS

103,000

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837638

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2015 New Holland T5.115 Tractor,

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